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"Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth?"
This question led journalist Frederick Kaufman on a journey from Domino's Pizza headquarters through Walmart's sustainability research center to university research labs nationwide, ultimately landing on Wall Street. Connecting global food and global markets, Kaufman forges a new way of thinking about food prices and food systems in his engaging, informative book Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food.
In it, Kaufman discusses how bankers monetized the world's food supply via soft commodities (wheat, soy, corn, sugar) markets, amassing enormous wealth ($400 million for Goldman Sachs in 2012) while doing so. Thus, food became no different than mortgage securities, just another thing an investor could bet for - or against - to make money.
The thing is, food is different than every other commodity in one way. We can delay buying a new car or television for a few months, but we just can't put off eating. Those who do, die. Annually, over 2.6 million children worldwide succumb to malnutrition. It certainly stands to reason that having a stable, predictable food supply is in our collective moral best interest. And by all accounts, the world's farms are currently producing enough food to feed everyone. So why do we still have millions of hungry people? Kaufman explains our systemic problem like so:
The difficulty the world faced was no longer a logistical matter of shipping and handling the actual edible stuff but rather a matter once removed from food, a matter of money. Everyone could agree that when the price of your daily bread tops your daily salary, all the international food aid, sustainability numbers, and biochemical breakthroughs in the world will not make much of a difference.
But Kaufman doesn't begin with the money; he begins by taking us through Domino's Michigan headquarters, where he parses the process that ingredients, such as tomatoes, go through to create a Domino's pizza. (As you know, we're fond of the pizza-as-case-study method here at Ecocentric.) As tomatoes go from field to processing plants in California to processing plants in Kentucky and ultimately atop the Domino's delivery pie, Kaufman reminds us that Unilever's goal is to create the biggest price gap possible between the lowest price they have to pay for a tomato and the highest price at which they can sell the tomato sauce. That gap creates their profit margin. Yet that goal, in and of itself, is not enough to explain the explosion in food prices. By following the money, Kaufman arrives at his problem: how we value soft commodities.
Let's hit pause for a second and talk futures markets, shall we? Kaufman does a great job telling this part of the story. Hundreds of years ago, farmers sold all of their crops at the same time of year, and super simply put, they were poor and food prices were seasonal and inherently unstable. The problem, then as now, was that everyone has to eat. Thus, everyone is always "in the market" for food. Our fancy economist pals like to say that the food market is one of low elasticity - no matter how much food (supply) farmers actually grow, our hunger (the demand) remains about the same.
But wait, you say, all of this trading is fine and good, except that the derivatives and money all represent real food. Which we all need, so perhaps should be thought of slightly differently than other kinds of derivatives.
To stabilize the market, nineteenth-century sellers began to make deals with farmers - they would set a price for wheat that while planted, had yet to be harvested and brought to market. This guaranteed future sale was usually priced slightly below that of the wheat that was physically on the market. Future wheat prices were derived from present ones. (Hence the term: derivatives). Grain futures helped stabilize and scale up the food market as trades were made by entities rather than individuals and helped birth Big Ag's ancestor companies. So the grain futures market is built on trades of virtual grain - it doesn't physically exist yet, remember? And as such, it behaves like any other derivative that speculators can buy and sell. Until the 1990s, commodity futures markets were strictly regulated, fairly sedate and the subject of little attention.
Cue our friends at Goldman Sachs, who took advantage of late 1990s deregulation fever and helped to reshape commodities futures into a much more volatile (therefore profitable - buy low, sell high, right?) market for investors. But wait, you say, all of this trading is fine and good, except that the derivatives and money all represent real food. Which we all need, so perhaps should be treated slightly differently than other kinds of derivatives. After all, if we didn't, then the implications could be calamitous for those not able to keep up with the skyrocketing prices needed to make the market more profitable.
Which, Kaufman says, is just what happened in 2008 and 2010. Two massive food price spikes were partly responsible for tremendous civil unrest and political upheaval in Egypt and many other already politically destabilized countries. He argues that those high food prices couldn't have been offset or changed one whit by donations from well-meaning hunger aid organizations or UN agencies.
Kaufman deftly maneuvers us through some of the intricacies of modern commodity markets and finance. For me, it's a terrific example demonstrating that how one identifies The Problem inherently shapes solutions or possible interventions. To wit: if the money is the problem, then we're not talking food quality. That doesn't mean sustainable food as such is not important, just that this is a different approach and conversation one can have about our food systems and hunger.
While you and I may opt-out of the industrial food system as much as possible by shopping locally at the farmers' market, the fact remains that the tremendous profits made in commodities drive up food prices at an astonishing rate. So those multinational food companies that have monopolized the food industry aren't entirely to blame (or even mostly) for price spikes. For all their faults, the ultimate villain is actually Goldman Sachs.
I strongly recommend Bet the Farm - it's an entertaining book about global finance that could prompt some new conversations about food and finance among audiences who, until now, haven't necessarily been collaborating on food work. You may never look at a slice the same way again!


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The faintest of smiles flickers across Christina Crawford's face at a mention of the 1981 movie "Mommie Dearest," today a campy cult classic.
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The grand poll on AJ about GuildWars 2 has gained a new dynamic and now more readers voted they would quit WoW than those not being interested in GW2. Actually more than 65% of the voters state they will buy and play GuildWars 2. Less than two weeks ago more than 80% of the voters did not care about GW2 at all. If you did not vote, yet, it's time now.
Interesting is the lack of rank one players among the GW2 enthusiasts. Do you think these are mainly monetary reasons or fear of losing e-peen or something completely different?
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36,000 Feet above central Iraq (John Baker)
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5:53 PM "I don't even know the name of the time zone" Time (SWA?)
Wow. I am writing this at the tail end of what has been an extremely long yet some how pleasant travel day. We were lucky enough to be upgraded to business class so my seat nearly fully reclined on the second flight. I am on a Boeing 777 and it is a huge plane. From the pictures you can see that it is quite comfortable. Amazingly, the seventeen hours of flying time has not seemed that long. It really hit me when I looked at the in flight monitor and watched the little computerized airplane fly directly over Baghdad and a region marked "Mesopotamia". It is not everyday that I get to be this close to the Cradle of Civilization.
The flights have been uneventful. I read on the first flight and listened to some music on my iPhone. On a side note, after having this iPhone for less than a week, I don't know how I lived without one. Currently I am reading Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory". It is the story of NFL Player turned Army Ranger, Pat Tillman. After 9/11 Pat turned down a 3.6 million dollar contract to enlist in the Army and was killed in action two years later in the Khost region of Afghanistan. He was a victim of friendly fire. I've only just started the book, and it is already a sad story.
The second flight has actually been kind of fun despite it's length. Coghlan and I engaged in a spirited debate about life, faith, love, baseball and our motivations for heading out on this adventure. After that he slept, I seriously think he has been asleep for the better part of this flight…like ten hours!! I watched the Tarantino movie "Inglourious Basterds". I thought it was great, but like I do most of the time when I watch a Tarantino film, it ends and I feel like about half of it went right over my head.
I'll probably watch another movie in the hotel room tonight, maybe "Food Inc." or perhaps "Facing Ali", I feel like a documentary is somehow appropriate. Anyways, can't wait to get to the hotel, take some of my own photos and keep everyone updated.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current
Story by Benjamin F. Kuo
In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Jimmy Hendricks about where Deal Current fits into the industry, and how the company grew out of a need of a client.
What is Deal Current?
Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product. It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. We also have a partnership with Triton Digital Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We're also focused on expanding beyond deals, and recently re-launched our white label, contest engine under the brand ArtistHub. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We've got three core product centers; the online contests that drive traffic, the daily deals that drive revenue, and then we are also looking at a marketplace product for online communities that want to sell deals, but don't want them as daily deals. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together.
What's the story behind Deal Current?
Jimmy Hendricks: We actually started two and a half years ago. Our original company was Collar Free, kind of a Threadless for fashion. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. There were all of these artists selling clothing and apparel on our store. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. We were getting clients like Sports Illustrated Kids, the Oakland Raiders, and media clients like local newspapers, who were using our platform for photo contests and the like--things like the "cutest pet" and "cutest baby" contests. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them. That's where Deal Current was born. It ended up becoming our breakout product. There was also the opportunity to use our contest engine as a tool, because the challenge in daily deals is to build members and drive traffic. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current.
So it sounds like your move into daily deals it was really driven by a client request?
Jimmy Hendricks: One of the things we learned, is to ask clients what they want. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. Our media clients were telling us that they were losing revenues to Groupon. We realized that no one had built a Groupon-like platform, so we built one because our customer asked for it. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. People were calling us every week, and started getting probably 300 to 400 inbound requests a month for the software. That one client, plus a need in the market really drove the product.
When did you figure out this was the part of the business you wanted to focus on?
Jimmy Hendricks: We launched in April of 2010, and within 90 days we realized that it was much, much bigger than our contest software. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue. But, we had so many inbound requests for the deal software, we decided to focus on Deal Current and build a good core around the product. So we completely refocused. By August of last year, we had everyone completely focused on Deal Current, and nothing else.
How do clients license your software?
Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale. We provide the software platform, and if a client needs some custom design we can quote them on creative and setup, or they can handle it on their own. We then give them the platform, and we also provide the accounting and customer support on the back end. For example, if a customer has a question on a purchase, we answer that. We also mail checks to the advertisers every day, to make sure people get paid.
It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network?
Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. I was hired to run their tennis division, and I built our the sales division for their tennis team. As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active. Our project manager, a couple of our advisors, and a couple of our sales people, our head of business development--we're all from Active. We didn't recruit from Active, it just that there were lots of great people who had already left Active, who saw we'd built a good reputation and wanted to come on. Also, Active has a very similar model--we have a platform, provide customer support, and provide accounting. That's what Active did for marathons, tennis tournaments, and Little Leagues. So, it's been very easy for them to come on to our team. Before that, I ran direct sales for companies in college, including selling print advertising that went into about 80 markets.
It seems like there are only so many daily deals sites that could possibly survive in this market. How do you think the industry will shake out?
Jimmy Hendricks: What we really see, is lots of small entrepreneurs who will build lifestyle businesses. It's a lot like direct mail companies. You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like. Those entrepreneurs might make a six figure income, but never more than that. Then, there are a handful of players---online communities, agencies, newspapers--who will figure it out. I think daily deals are really going to take the role of display advertising for them. It will become an advertising product. There will be a few software vendors like us who end up serving the industry, but only a couple. And, I think there will only be one or two Groupons or LivingSocials, and maybe a couple of other medium sized companies. It will still be a big industry, but even for Deal Current, I think the key is not to just provide a daily deals platform, but a suite of products. In our case, that includes contests, marketplaces, and other social commerce products, that allow us to be diversified and allow us to serve the industry. There are some customer who will want to run daily deals, some that might need contests, some that might want a marketplace--that's how we are looking to diversify and build a bigger business.
What do those daily deals site find the most appealing about your platform?
Jimmy Hendricks: One, is we were one of the first to market. The second, is we provide Deal Current University. Our clients who work with us, have access to about 15 hours of webinar-based, daily deals training. What we found, is the key to success--like in most businesses--is following the program. It's similar to a franchise. We make that available to our clients, including sales training, how to compete against Groupon and LivingSocial, affiliate training, copyright training, how to write up good deals, marketing, and promotions. We provide all of this training, because what our clients are finding out is although there are many good technology platforms, what makes the difference is execution. By working with us, we give them the training to execute better.
Finally, where do you see your direction going?
Jimmy Hendricks: We want Deal Current to be a brand name as a social commerce suite. We have three or four products that can work in conjunction, all focused on two basics, which is driving traffic so that you can drive revenue from your local offers. It's very block and tackle. Lots of businesses want to run contests, and daily deals is a big industry. Merchants want not only to run daily deals, they also want to run offers 30 days long, which is why we plan to offer a marketplace that media companies or local directories can use. We want to be the technology tool kit for social commerce.


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Pepe Moreno's early comics appeared in his native Spain in horror magazine S.O.S in the 1970s. He also drew for the children's magazines Pumby and Pulgarcito and in Star. Then he worked for the Italian Bliz. In late 1977, he moved to the USA although he couldn't speak English at all. His reputation grew from his short stories in magazines Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. At the time he co-created the underground publication NART. Then he published in Epic, National Lampoon and Heavy Metal. His first graphic novel was 'Generation Zero' (although this serial wouldn't appear in that format until 1992) In the early 1980s he got the help of French publisher Albin Michel to produce his graphic novels 'Rebel' and 'Joe's Air Force'. Then followed his fourth one, 'Gene Kong'.
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So yeah. I think I've said about a dozen times now to anyone that would listen that I wanted to try to get away from restaurant reviews. No real reason other than that I was starting to feel obligated to say nice things, drag my camera everywhere, and annoy my friends and dates by getting pictures before anyone touched their meals. It's cumbersome you know!
But here's the thing. Sometimes restaurant adventures are definitely worth mentioning. If it's particularly delicious, or especially fun, or something a little different it might warrant dragging my bigass camera out for the night.
Case in point: a Tweetup of food loving Victorians at a newly reopened local BBQ joint. Smoken Bones Cookshack.
I'm pretty sure the rest of the world thinks Victoria is full of West Coast hippies that eat a lot of granola, and kale, and fresh fish…but oddly enough our little city has become home to a wide variety of barbecue these last few years. We have multiple places to get our hands on pulled pork sandwiches, coleslaw, and macaroni and cheese.
Smoken Bones has recently moved from their suburban home in a strip mall to a spacious new location downtown in The Hudson building…and has taken to social media in a grand fashion. All it took was a handful of tweets and overnight a Tweetup for Meat was born.
Here's a tip. You want great service and special attention at a local eatery? Arrange a party with 25 other food lovers who like to tweet and blog their faces off. Scott and his staff looked after us like we were rock stars.
He arranged a few pre-dinner snackies for us and brought us a round of bacon cocktail shots. Yep, bacon cocktails. They make their own bacon vodka, mix it with roasted pineapple puree and a weeeee bit of serrano pepper and call it a margarita. The C'moniwannaleia. And it's delicious.
He also took us for a tour of the rest of the construction zone under The Hudson and told us a lovely rumour that next to the new 2% Jazz Coffee there just might be a local bakery going in.
And then we dove into dinner.
This ain't no dainty dinner spot. Bring your short sleeved shirt, your ponytail, and your appetite. You are going to have BBQ sauce on your nose and meat stuck in your teeth. And you are going to love that. I opted for the pulled pork sandwich because that's my favourite barbecue joint meal to try…and for something completely different I ordered up the pan-fried cabbage as my side.
That sammich was LOADED. Pulled pork was falling out from every side…to the point where I was eating up the meat with a fork. Then I rolled up my sleeves and dove in for the first greasy bite and was whisked off to juicy, flavour heaven. I'd call it the second best pulled pork I've ever had.
And that cabbage. It created a mess of butter in my dish and made me feel guilty for eating my vegetable this way but it's a fun and tasty option for sure.
As for portion and pricing I thought this meal was just right. My basket was $10, it wasn't ridiculously overfilling, nor did I feel like I could eat more. Paired with a beer it's a good meal. Sure, it's not healthy but if your are heading to the Cookshack I suspect you weren't hoping for kale salad and quinoa now were ya?!
While we stuffed our faces we also kept our fingers clean and tweeting during a round of #Cookshack BBQ Trivia. Scott posted rounds of questions for us to answer and the player with the most points won a gift certificate to the restaurant. Second runner up got themselves a pair of tickets to a Victoria Royals hockey game.
Of course, no restaurant tasting would be complete without trying out dessert. Especially when the dessert is what got us all talking about going to Smoken Bones in the first place. Bacon Ice Cream. WHAT? You thought the Bacon Cocktail was the crazy item on the night's menu didn't you?
Caramelized bacon wrapped around vanilla based ice cream. I think my friend Jen described it best when she said the bacon reminded her of that almost-burnt-marshmallow-taste. You know, when it's thisclose to overcooked and damn near perfect? That was the bacon. Smoky, candied, super fun.
So yeah. Now you can see why I just had to haul James Dean with me and report back to you all on this particular restaurant. A great time was had by all, the staff looked after us well, the food was delicious, and the cocktail is worth a second visit.
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The primary aim of our program is to foster an understanding of government and politics in general and also to promote the development of analytic and other scholarly skills. Our view of the discipline is broad and, in some respects traditional. We encourage students first to acquire a good foundation in basic course work and the tradition of political discourse along with some exposure to the many subfields of political science before pursuing more specialized interests. Those interested in more specialized programs should consult the Master's in Public Policy and Administration, the Master's in Business Administration.
At the same time, we try to keep our program flexible enough to meet individual student needs. Our students come from a great variety of backgrounds (undergraduate majors have ranged from government to chemistry, ages from 21 to 65, occupations from lawyer to gardener). They have a variety of interests and a variety of goals. Our program is of special value to teachers of government in the public schools, to persons who contemplate public service or politics as a career, and to persons planning additional graduate study leading to the doctorate. To the extent we can, we try to tailor each program to each student. So while we encourage breadth, our structure is loose enough to allow room for specialization. In addition, we allow a student the opportunity partially to "create" his/her own program by taking up to six units of special study (Political Science 299), by taking up to six units in related disciplines (such as economics, history, business or psychology), and, of course, by doing his/her own research project in the form of a Master's Thesis. Another option we offer is the practical application of an internship work experience--in the state capital!
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- Open Championship
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The R&A announced on Tuesday that the Open Championship will be held at Royal Birkdale in 2017 and Carnoustie the following year.
Birkdale, in Southport, last hosted in 2008 and Carnoustie in 2007, where Ireland's Padraig Harrington won both.
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After this year's Open at Royal Liverpool, the Open goes back to St Andrews next year followed by Royal Troon in 2016. If various issues can be worked out, the Open is expected to go to Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland in 2019 - the first time since 1951.
If the R&A keeps its five-year schedule for St Andrews, the Old Course would again host the tournament in 2020.
Five-time Open Champion Tom Watson, who won The Open at Royal Birkdale in 1983 and at Carnoustie in 1975, said: "I am delighted to see the Open returning to these two great venues.
"I know both courses are held in high regard by the players and I certainly consider them to be wonderful tests of golf.
"When I first played in the Open at Carnoustie I still had a lot to learn about links golf but I quickly adapted to the challenge of playing in the wind and keeping the ball low. I played well that week and was thrilled to win the play-off."
Watson, who has been handed a one-year extension to his Open exemption so he can bow out at St Andrews, added: "Royal Birkdale is also a fine links course and I have always thoroughly enjoyed playing there. I think the players and the fans will be excited to see the top players playing these courses once again."


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Former USD third baseman Kris Bryant was named the winner of the Golden Spikes Award on Friday.
The award, given by USA Baseball, is the top honor in amateur baseball. It was announced at Dodger Stadium and broadcast on MLB.com.
Bryant capped his junior season at USD last spring by leading the nation in home runs (31), runs scored (80), walks (66), total bases (187) and slugging percentage (.820).
Bryant's latest accolade caps a remarkable season. He won another national honor last month (the Dick Howser Trophy), was selected second in baseball's amateur draft, then signed with the Chicago Cubs for a $6,708,400 bonus.
"My summer keeps getting better and better!" Bryant posted on Twitter. "It is a tremendous honor to win this award."
Of the Golden Spikes Award, USD coach Rich Hill said: "That's the Heisman Trophy of college baseball. He's a great representative, not only of our program, but the University of San Diego and San Diego in general."
Previous award winners include Bryce Harper, Buster Posey, San Diego State's Stephen Strasburg, Tim Lincecum, former Padres Khalil Greene and Phil Nevin, current Padre Mark Kotsay and another Aztec, Travis Lee.
Bryant is expected to report to the Cubs' short-season Single-A affiliate in Boise, Idaho next week.


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This is huge, technologically speaking. Bigger than the iPad2, bigger than Playbook, bigger than iCloud, maybe.
Imagine you're shopping for jeans, something that is not fun if you are a male, and something you dread if you are a non-male. Finding a pair that fits is harder than finding something Sarah Palin says that makes sense.
The part where your bottom goes is always the issue. Too big, too small, too poochy. And we're talking about the jeans, not you.
The problem is unless they have one of those funhouse, eight-sided mirror things, you can't see what's happening back there. You twist, you turn, you bend, you twist some more. Nothing works.
Well, put down that coffee, sit up straight and get ready to make some calls. American Rag Cie in Fashion Island — a super-trendy, hip-and-happening vintage clothing sort of place — has cracked the code, solved the puzzle, moved the evolutionary process forward.
Here's how it works. When you visit American Rag's World Denim Bar, you pick out the 12 or 15 pairs of jeans you want to try on, head for the dressing room and step right into the 22nd century. You pull on the first pair, catch your breath, and while you check out the front view, American Rag's revolutionary butt-cam does the rest.
A small, discreet, wall-mounted camera streams a live view of your posterior part to a small screen behind the dressing room mirror. First your car has back-up video, now you do, too. How cool is that?
Don't thank me. Thank American Rag Cie. By the way, if your French is a little dusty, "cie" is the abbreviation for the French "compagnie" — i.e., American Rag Co.
The French connection is appropriate, because that's where "denim" gets its name. The fabric was first made in the French town of Nimes and was called "de Nimes," meaning "from Nimes." Isn't that interesting? OK, maybe not.
Wait, I have more.
Do you know who Jacob Davis was? He was the father of blue jeans. You thought it was Levi Strauss & Co. during the California Gold Rush, didn't you? Well it was, sort of.
Davis was a Russian tailor who left the borscht behind in 1868 and set up shop in Reno, Nev.
Levi Strauss had been selling denim fabric to miners in California and elsewhere for years, and Davis bought a lot of it. One day, a customer told Davis her husband liked his denim jeans, but they kept tearing in the seams because he was a little, umm, porky.
OK, he had his own ZIP code. Big deal.
Davis, who also whipped up a canvas tent for his miner customers now and then, got an idea. He made the woman a pair of 4-XL jeans for her husband but reinforced the seams and pockets with the same copper rivets he used on his tents.
The wife was thrilled. Sort of. And the husband went bonkers and so did the other miners. The modern blue jean was born.
But Davis wasn't just a good tailor. He was a smart tailor. He realized he didn't have the means to patent his idea, so he approached Levi Strauss and said let's do this together — you, me, partners. It's perfect. Levi Strauss said OK, secured the patent, and oddly for the time, was true to its word. Davis was now not only a good tailor and a smart tailor, but a really rich tailor.
So that's it. In Nevada, Davis and chubby miners. In Newport Beach, American Rag Cie and their tush-cam.
It's a breakthrough, but frankly, I'm not sure I'll be using it. There are some things better left unseen. I've seen what's back there, thank you, and it ain't pretty. I gotta go.
PETER BUFFA is a former Costa Mesa mayor. His column runs Sundays. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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When the storm hit, South Africa had been sitting on relatively strong fundamentals and emerging from a protracted period of economic expansion. The meltdown allowed "not-so-well-hidden" vulnerabilities to surface. Unemployment, inequality, poverty, crime, and HIV/AIDS still continue to plague the country. Agriculture, mining and manufacturing declined while the trade and current account deficit (CAD) widened. Household indebtedness reached worrying levels in a low-interest rate environment and inflationary pressures mounted. Moreover, severe energy shortages erupted (inducing blackouts) and a tense political climate resulted in President Mbeki's resignation.
In months ahead, the sustainability of the CAD and the impact of the crisis on the real economy will remain the key issues. The financial account has so far been sufficient to finance the CAD, but sudden stops of capital inflows are not unheard of in developing countries during hard times. While the free-floating exchange rate rules out insolvency issues, financing the CAD will be much more difficult and costly; on the other hand, lower global demand will hurt South Africa's export-sector and the falling rand is not expected to significantly counter the decline.
The crisis has also impacted the real economy. House prices have been declining, along with vehicle sales. Manufacturing production has slowed, the mining sector is shrinking further, and retrenchments are on the increase. Growth is expected to slow-down which is a risky proposition for South Africa and for Africa as a whole. Luckily, the sound fiscal position will somewhat cushion the economic slowdown.
Financial Impact on South Africa
Financial crises
Hi There Did you find out any
it's not surprising that an
Financial crisis
At the beginning of global
economic decline
financial crisis and south africa
financial crisis in south Africa
financial crisis in south Africa
I dont expect a quick impact
I dont expect a quick impact as so many people entered into arrangement with their mortgage bank to only pay the interest over this tough period so making available more disposable income is just going to mean that the homeowners can now start paying back their loan repayments in full and start decreasing the interest they have incurred over the bank helping period.
too big to fail
It is not surprising because
It is not surprising because the economy of SA is already struggling and as financial crisis all over the world effect the economy by larger means . So the economist should find some way and make immediate decisions for future happenings and to make economy stable.
Interesting read as it seems
Interesting read as it seems that SA might go into another dip with their deteriorating ZAR, making all imports ski high and a interest rate in crease looming in the next few months.
I understand that the MPC Has
I understand that the MPC Has decided to increase interest rate at the time when the exchange rate of South Africa is very weak compared to the rest of the world. what then is the impact coused by increased interest rate in RSA going to be.
In a society were there is
In a society were there is know good leader always has a price to pay south africa became the noticeable in the world today was becuase of the fight someone(Nelson Mandela) today south africa is going down economically and for it to stand again will need a help of a good president
yes we all are conserned
yes we all are conserned about the south african economy, just us. what is the present ruling party or government say about it.
hmmmmmmmm this is what it says "oh hoo let them complain or say as much as they can for as long as they dont do anything about it and i can still stand infront of them as their represensitive...then hey why should i worry.
mxm south africa today is in critical space,i fear for the future.


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Intel Discusses 22nm Xeon, Haswell Chips for Data Center
While much of the Intel Developer Forum focuses on client computing, Diane Bryant, general manager of the company's Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, had a number of data center announcements. She also discussed upcoming versions of the Ivy Bridge 22nm technology for Xeon servers in 2012 and an upcoming Haswell-based microserver processor. She said Intel is creating the next generation data center based on open standards.
Above: Diane Bryant, general manager of Intel's Datacenter and Connected Systems Group
Intel is now sampling 22nm versions of its Xeon E7 and E5 server processors, a server version of the Ivy Bridge technology, which will ship in 2013. The next generation of these processors will include a technology called APICv, designed to reduce the number of entrants and exits from virtual machines and thus improving performance.
For microservers, the company now has 45-watt and 17-watt low-power Xeon E3 processors, and these will be replaced in 2013 with a 22nm Haswell version. Even smaller, the company will be shipping an Atom SoC server version—a 6-watt processor called the S-series and known as Centerton—later this year. It will be replaced with a 22nm version known as Avoton next year with a fabric designed for placing multiple processors.
Bryant also announced SeaCliff Trail, an open platform for software-defined networking, including a reference board based on a Core processor, data acceleration chips, and recently acquired Fulcrum's Ethernet switch technology.
On security, she announced that the company is bringing its Deep Defender platform (developed with Intel acquisition McAfee) to the server, combining server virtual containers at the hardware level with security applications. The company will offer more details next month.
With Xeon E5, Intel announced its Trusted Execution Technology to ensure that virtual machines have not been compromised. Now, many more companies including VMware and Citrix are supporting it.
Bryant spent a lot of time talking about high-performance computing. HPC needs were doubling every year, but silicon technology is only doubling every two years (known as Moore's Law), she said, so it needs technology that does "more than Moore."
Since 1997, the performance of high-performance computers has gone up 10,000 times at ten times the power. One-thousand times more computing per watt over the next decade will enable new applications.
She talked about the Xeon Phi co-processor, known as Knights Corner, and said a pre-release version rated it in the top 150 on the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers. It was rated number two on the Green500 list of the most-energy efficient ones. Bryant talked about Intel's range of HPC capabilities, spanning the Xeon E5 and Phi processors, as well as recent acquisitions of Whamcloud's Cluster software and the fabric teams from Cray and QLogic.
Bryant said high performance cluster fabrics will be the limiting factor in moving to exascale computing, so Intel is very focused on innovating and then integrating fabrics, based on the Cray and Qlogic teams as well as the Fulcrum low-latency Ethernet switch technology.
Jay Boisseau, director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) described the organization's Stampede project, which will be the first large-scale deployment of Xeon Phi using pre-release versions of the processor.
Launching on January 7, this system is planned to deliver 10 petaflops of computing power using Xeon E5 processors and Xeon Phi coprocessors, plus massive memory and disk. It has a lot of empty slots for future generations of the Xeon Phi. By next June, he expects Stampede will be in the top five or so systems on the TOP500 list. This is designed to run hundreds of projects by thousands of researchers. Funded by the National Science Foundation and built by Dell and Intel, it will run projects such as hurricane prediction, deal with turbulence simulation for more efficient planes and cars, and simulate molecules for medical weather research. The problems researchers have don't fit on any systems today and they will continue to want more processing power. E5 works with the applications that are around today for general purpose microprocessors, while Xeon Phi offers tremendous potential performance for highly parallel applications while being easier to port to than GPU computing options.
On big data, Bryant talked about how Intel is focusing on real-time analytics, both using distributed file systems such as Hadoop and in-memory analytics. Intel makes contributions to Hadoop and is now distributing Hadoop in China for telecom operators. In addition, she said, the company provides solid state drives and just acquired the makers of CacheWorks, designed to help SSDs in big data.
To talk about utility supercomputing, she brought up Ariel Kelman, head of worldwide marketing for Amazon Web Services, which introduced infrastructure as a service back in 2006. Last November, the company introduced Custom Compute Instances, based on Xeon E5, with the ability to reach number 42 on the TOP500 list. Kelman said you can make the TOP500 list today with 290 instances, costing $73 per hour.
He explained how NASA's Mars Curiosity rover uses telemetry data; how Yelp uses more than 200 nodes to optimize ad placements through clickstream analytics; and how Schrodinger is working with Cycle Computing on drug research, analyzing 21 million potential drug compounds against a single target cancer protein. Schrodinger would have had to spend $20 million on hardware before cloud computing, but now it can use 50,000 Xeon E5 cores, enabling the company to do 12.5 years of research in three hours at under $5,000 an hour.
Bryant also talked about Intel's commitment to open standards, bringing up BMW's Mario Muller of the Open Data Center Alliance to talk about open standards. He said that BMW will be introducing a new data center in Iceland for HPC based on ODCA standards that will be carbon-free, using 100 percent renewable energy. Bryant discussed Intel Cloud Finder www.intelcloudfinder.com designed to match enterprises with cloud infrastructure service providers.
Finally, Bryant announced Intel's Intelligent Systems Framework 1.0—a technical specification for working with the "Internet of things." She talked about how there are so many devices gathering information these days and the challenges companies face working with all of the data that is now available. Intel has worked with Six Flags to handle data from its surveillance cameras to improve security in real time, and to integrate point of sale systems with inventory systems so stores can be restocked before they run out of product.


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Ten Years On We Remember Steve Irwin's Legacy
Ten years ago on Sunday Australians shared a moment of collective shock.
Ask around and most people can tell you what they were doing, and where they were, when the news broke.
Steve Irwin. Dead. A stingray. A barb through the heart.
The man who'd wheedled his way into the nation's affections, with his wide smile and penchant for cuddling crocs, was gone and no one could quite believe it.
The 10th anniversary of the Crocodile Hunter's death falls on Father's Day.
His daughter Bindi was just eight years old when a stingray killed her celebrity father in the warm waters off Port Douglas, as he filed a segment for a new series called Ocean's Deadliest.
Her brother, Robert, was not yet three.
In the years since, the Crocodile Hunter's wife and children have taken up where Irwin left off, as loud voices for the protection of Australian wildlife and the habitats that sustain them.
Bindi, now 18, says she's proud of that work and of being able to build on her dad's legacy.
Standing on the banks of the Wenlock River, in the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula, Bindi talks about a world-first satellite tracking project that's keeping tabs on crocs inside the protected area.
The research has uncovered previously unknown facts about the fearsome species, including the fact they can travel up to 60km in a single day.
"We can still feel him around us, and we hope he would be proud of us," she told the Nine Network this week.
Robert, now 12 and looking like a carbon copy of his dad, is also along to help catch crocs for scientific study, and adds:
"It is incredible that we get to carry on where he left off."
The family hasn't said how they'll mark the 10-year anniversary of Irwin's death on Sunday.
They have always kept the details of their grieving process private.
Irwin's father Bob has also chosen not to speak publicly about how he'll mark the day, but back in 2011 he shared a glimpse of the rituals he relies on to keep his son close.
He told of his walks, each evening, along a well-worn track from the back of his farmhouse to a fire pit where he thinks and talks to Steve.
"It's something I do privately. I get messages from Steve and I don't mind admitting I talk to him," he told AAP.
"If people think I'm crazy, that's fine. I talk to the animals too."
He spoke too of the enormous sense of loss that's always with him.
"It's something I'll never completely get over. I don't think you do. But what you do is learn to live with it. I know Steve's out there and he helps me do what I've got to do."


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January 9, 2013 Missouri Credit Union Statewide CDFI Grant Webinar
Event Info
January 9th, 2013 10:00 AM through 11:00 AM
You are invited to learn about the Missouri Credit Union Statewide CDFI Grant Project. With many changes at the MCUA, we are excited to announce that all credit unions interested in participating will be given access to evaluate the opportunity. This is the project that gives your credit union the chance to apply for U.S. Treasury grants ranging in size from $100,000 to $2 million. A portion of the grants will be allocated to benefit ALL Missouri credit unions, funding training and cooperative advertising.
The 1 hour informational webinar will include:
-An overview of the Missouri CDFI project
-Benefits of participating
-Steps if you are interested in participating
-and a follow-up assessment of your eligibility to participate
An additional 30 minutes following the presentation is available for any participants with in-depth questions. There are limited slots available in 2013 for the certification and grant application. Of the interested credit unions, the candidates with the best qualifications will be chosen for the available slots. The webinar dates and times are:
Jan 7th - 10am CST
Jan 8th - 2pm CST
Jan 9th - 10am CST
Once you register, you will be sent additional information regarding logging on to the webinar.
Registration Deadline for the January 9th webinar is January 8th by noon.


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Bepharmacy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 202 designs submitted by 68 freelance designers.
OKM is short for OK Mart (http://www.okmart.com.au) OK Mart is a pure-play online health and beauty store in Australia.
We are re-branding OKMart to OKM series of stores to better serve different vertical markets.
We currently require a logo for:
OKM Essentials (okme.com.au) : this will be our first re-branded site.
The design for OKM must be suited to be used in combination with future potential vertical market keywords such hobby, fishing...etc
Online shoppers aged 20-40.
70% women, 30% men.
Living in Australia
Logo should include full color and black/white version. 72 and 300 dpi files should be supplied for all iterations of logo design in the following formats: .ai and .psd
Logo should be simple & design in design with consideration to allow combination of words into the main logo of OKM.
The first logo OKM Essentials http://www.okme.com.au is to be used with the attached website design mock-up.
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FreeTeams.net needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 28 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
We're looking for a new logo for our brand, as well as a one-page redesign for our site to help us appeal to more users and create more conversions.
We are a 1 1/2 year old service that provides free, full-featured websites to sports teams, from youth to adult leagues. We are developers, not designers, and our website is somewhat plain, old looking and utilitarian. We are looking for a new identity; something new to grab the attention of new visitors and convince them to take look and sign up for a site. We have more than 4,000 users and 2,000 teams signed up and had more than 2.3 million page views last year, and we are growing at a steady rate, so your work will be getting a decent amount of attention.
Please check out our website - freeteams.net - to see our current layout, logo, and what content we currently show on our front page. Our original idea for our logo was rotating sports equipment with the FreeTeams.net logo on there. We are looking for a more permanent, single logo that we can use in other areas as well, such as business cards. The logo is the more important of the two designs.
We are looking for a logo that really gives us an identity. Preferably a vector format or of very high resolution to use on multiple items of varying size (shirts, business cards, vinyl banners).
The second thing we're looking for is a one page re-design that can be used as a basis for the rest of our website. We prefer a width of 960px, but that can also degrade gracefully to 760px ( an un-ignorable portion of our users are not terribly web or computer savvy and still use IE6 and 800px wide monitors.) We are looking for something that will show the same info we currently present: our logo, a statement and call to action to sign up, a page menu, a login area (which we replace with 3 links when logged in), a featured team, sports we support, the most recent 4-5 blogs) recent team photos (2-3 photos out of the most recent 4-5 photo albums, including team name), and recent team news (a list of 10-15 team names and news headlines). Other than that, we don't have much in the way of colors or graphics that we're looking for. Feel free to flex your creativity on this. File format isn't much of a concern, but a .PSD is preferred.
Keep in mind that our users are very varied, from older parents running youth sites to college kids with a lot of web knowledge running their club's site, so please keep simplicity and usability in mind. Our users are mostly in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia.
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'Breaking Dawn Part 2' Premiere Best Dressed Poll!
This is a historic moment in our best dressed polls — it's the first time we're including the guys!
We just couldn't ignore how sharp Robert Pattinson, Kellan Lutz, Taylor Lautner, Jackson Rathbone and even Jake Abel and Max Irons looked on the black carpet premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 earlier this week.
We've chosen our faves who walked the carpet (check out the banner above!) but now we want to know yours.
Check out all those in attendance and cast your vote and then head to the theater to see the movie, out NOW!
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Although selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
are most often used to treat
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), there are other
medicines that may be used or added to SSRI medicines for OCD.
Risperidone (Risperdal) is one such medicine that sometimes is added to SSRI
treatment of OCD. Risperidone has been shown to reduce depression and anxiety
symptoms in people with OCD whose symptoms have not responded to an SSRI
alone.footnote 1 Risperidone is an antipsychotic drug that can
cause some negative side effects, such as:
The makers of Risperdal (risperidone) have recently issued a
warning that there may be an increased risk of stroke among older adults who take
this medicine. Discuss this risk with your doctor before trying Risperdal
Another medicine that might be added to SSRI
treatment of OCD is clonazepam. Clonazepam is considered both an anticonvulsant
and a
benzodiazepine medicine. It sometimes is used to treat
anxiety disorders as well as
Tourette's disorder (a tic disorder). Research is
ongoing to find out how effective it is to add clonazepam to an SSRI to treat
If other mental health disorders (such as
depression) are present along with OCD, it may be
necessary to treat the disorders at the same time with additional medicines
that may include:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a
warning on anticonvulsant and mood stabilizer medicines and the risk of suicide
and suicidal thoughts. The FDA does not recommend that people stop using these
medicines. Instead, people who take anticonvulsant or mood stabilizer medicine
should be watched closely for
warning signs of suicide. People who take
anticonvulsant or mood stabilizer medicine and who are worried about this side
effect should talk to a doctor.
See Drug Reference for more
information about these medicines. (Drug Reference is not available on all
CitationsKing RA, et al. (1998). Practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37(10, Suppl): 27S-45S.
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The strongest evidence that perhaps Israel is not overreacting to the Iran nuclear threat and the inadequacies of the deal signed in Geneva this week is the fact that many Arab states are equally concerned.
America's "rush" to cozy up to Iran is "incomprehensible," said Saudi Ambassador to London Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, as Western powers were hammering out the final details of the Iran nuclear deal.
"Appeasement hasn't worked in the past, and I don't think it will work in the 21st century," continued the prince, insisting that should Iran fail to uphold its end of the agreement, America and its Western cohorts "will share also the blame...they are responsible for it."
Prince Mohammed concluded by issuing a thinly-veiled threat directly to Iran, stating that "we are not going to sit idly by" should Iran go nuclear. There is already talk that Saudi Arabia is set to purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan the moment Iran performs a nuclear test.
Likely under pressure from Washington, the Saudi cabinet released an official statement on Monday tacitly welcoming the Iran deal.
"If there was goodwill, this agreement could represent a preliminary step towards a comprehensive solution to the Iranian nuclear program," read the statement.
But reports across the region indicate that Riyadh is furious with the Obama Administration over the reckless nature of the deal.
Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, told The Jerusalem Post that Iran's Arab neighbors see Obama's celebratory attitude over the nuclear deal as further evidence of his lack of understanding when dealing with the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas were among the few Arab entities to praise the Iran nuclear deal, as both view it as an opportunity to put increased pressure on Israel.
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Wednesday, 05 June 2013 10:39 PM
The Massachusetts seat is one of two at play in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats now have a majority of 54 seats, including two independents who caucus with the Democrats. Republicans hold 45 seats.
Markey rebuffed a volley of criticism from former Navy SEAL Gomez who sought to paint the veteran lawmaker as out of touch with voters while tapping into public frustration with a federal government bogged down by controversies.
"You are basically Washington, D.C.," Gomez told Markey, who has spent 37 years in Congress. "I'm sorry sir, but you are."
Issues dogging the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama include reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the seizure of reporters' records by the Department of Justice, and the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
Markey accused Gomez of politicizing the Benghazi attack - in which militants killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens - as part of a broader Republican effort to hurt former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's chances for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
Obama and Clinton were criticized for failing to ensure the security of diplomatic staff overseas and for delays in the subsequent investigation.
The Massachusetts Senate seat became available when President Obama named then-Senator John Kerry as Clinton's replacement as secretary of state.
Markey was seen as having the most to lose in the debate, the first of three ahead of a June 25 special election. A New England College poll on Wednesday showed 52 percent of registered voters backing Markey, compared with 40 percent for Gomez.
The split largely reflected the state's overwhelmingly Democratic electorate, said Ben Tafoya, who ran the poll.
"The clock is running out for Gomez, but it's not inconceivable that something could happen in the debates to change things," Tafoya said.
Jeffrey Berry, a professor of American politics at Tufts University, said he believed Markey may have come out of the debate stronger than when he went in.
"Markey's strategy was to reinforce his appeal to liberal democrats because he believes they are the most likely to come out on election day, which is a sound strategy," he said.
"For Gomez, this was a lost opportunity," adding he did not seize on the Republican's perceived advantage on the issue of the flagging U.S. economy.
The death of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg earlier this week leaves open a second seat in the Senate.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, has called an Oct. 16 special election to fill that seat. Christie has said he will pick someone to fill the seat on an interim basis until the special election.
In Massachusetts, Democrat William Cowan is serving as interim senator until the Massachusetts special election.
Markey and Gomez have made the national Republican Party an issue in the Massachusetts race, with Markey's campaign trying to tie Gomez to a party that tacks more conservative than many Massachusetts voters, while Gomez has stressed his independence.
In the New England College poll, roughly three-quarters of registered voters in each party backed their party's candidate, with Gomez enjoying a slight lead among independents. The poll surveyed 734 voters on June 1 and 2.
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Moderator: sent to email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com ----- Original Message ----- From: email@example.com To: firstname.lastname@example.com ; firstname.lastname@example.com ; email@example.com ; firstname.lastname@example.com ; email@example.com Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: [Moderator Action] Re: src attribute on xforms:instance - link or inclusion? I had asked: > In thinking further about the src attribute on xforms:instance I wonder > whether this is not a "link" but rather should be an include. Steven Pemberton replied (somewhat snipped): XInclude is not a REC by the way. It is only at CR at the moment. Correction accepted. Even worse, it normatively references an out-of-date XPointer. We are not even allowed to normatively refer to a specification more than one step behind us. But that notwithstanding, XInclude would be rather heavyweight for the role it would have to play, and would be a tough requirement for handheld devices. Surely the first question to address here is whether or not what is being done is an include or a link? I notice you don't address that question. If the process is an include rather than a link don't you agree that expressing it as a link is a little bit of a kludge? (And by the way, XInclude has an href attribute which is also not an xlink:href, so what would be the win from your point of view? And if it's OK for them, why is it not OK for XForms?) Well, if my suggestion is correct, that the process may be an include not a link then there would be no reason to think of XLink in this context. I appreciate that your responses, at this stage, are informal but I would be interested to know if you consider that this is genuinely a "link" with "embed". If it's not then might it not be sensible to revisit the issue? Regards Andrew WattReceived on Tuesday, 3 September 2002 12:10:27 UTC
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24 Oras Weekend (24 Hours) is the flagship national network news broadcast of GMA Network. A nightly national newscast which airs in thePhilippines and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. It is aired Weeknights at 18:30−19:40, Saturdays and Sundays 17:30−18:00 (PST). The newscast is simulcasted on radio through Super Radyo DZBB 594 kHz in Mega Manila and several of its regional Super Radyo stations nationwide
24 Oras premiered on March 15, 2004 at 6:15pm, replacing Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco as the network's answer to longest-running newscast. Frontpage anchor Mel Tiangco was joined by Saksi's Mike Enriquez, rejoining them in one newscast since they co-anchored Saksi from 1996 to 1998. Special weekend editions are also being aired when it deemed necessary (See below).
On June 2004, along with Saksi, the show relaunched its studio set,[1] and graphics packages, and later in September 2004, the show was listed top 10. from the AGB Nielsen Ratings where, during that time, GMA Network gained the top ratings.
On December 1, 2005, the coverage by 24 Oras of a siege of Camp Bagong Diwa was mentioned in the best news program category in the Asian Television Awards inSingapore.[2]
The show relaunched in April 17, 2006 with a new graphics package, and a new set with floating large rear projection screens that allow the anchors to virtually "talk" to correspondents in live feeds, also the anchors are doing stand-up news delivery. The studio set was shared by Saksi during that time. PAGASA's Nathaniel Cruz anchors weather news during severe weather conditions.
On August 11, 2008, the show was relaunched again with a new set using LED, a new desk which is identical to the desk used byCBS Evening News, new graphics and titles; during that time, 24 Oras earned a new slogan "Tahanan ng Katotohanan", since it was the most-watched and critically acclaimed newscast. On April 2010, the show became the home of Vizrt Touchscreen system a real-time broadcast solutions system which is use in the YouScoop segment designed and developed by GMA New Media.
24 Oras became instrumental and controversial on covering the 2010 Manila hostage crisis, during that time, no one even the media knew that the bus was equipped with a TV set, more worse, the hostage-taker was monitoring the said coverage, where he witness his brother's arrest, that started the situation until his death.[3] The coverage almost ate up its primetime block, from 6:30-9pm, giving 19.7% of its audience share. The network eventually released some guideline when a future crisis coverage comes.[4]
On December 6, 2010, the news program updated its graphics. A day later, it updated its OBB and title card. On February 21, 2011, along with Unang Hirit, Saksi, and GMA Flash Report, the newscast introduced a new studio set, new graphics, new theme, and new OBB. The new theme music is a remix of 24 Oras 2008-2011 theme music & an element of an opera voice, eventually it was developed in 2010.
On October 10, 24 Oras updated only its graphics. The logo on the bottom left corner is now square and features: 24 Oras current logo, Facebook page, Twitter account and GMA News Online URL. The news ticker became shorter than February 2011 24 Oras news ticker. The news ticker of the late 2011 24 Oras shows the return of the time shown on the news ticker (the former is 2006-2011). The headlines at the right of the 24 oras logo is rectangular with the red line at the right of the headlines. This also use a new font Antique Olive on their graphics, replacing Myriad font (which has been reused on Nov. 10, 2014), which use on other GMA newscast.
On June 4, 2012, 24 Oras launched its new weather segment titled I.M. Ready: GMA Weather (based on the advisory advertisement of the said title, and the branding of I.M. Ready). On June 2013, 24 Oras introduce its augmented reality graphics, it was used only on the beginning of the show, however it was used only for presentation/demonstration. A notable coverage of GMA News called "Super Typhoon Yolanda", covering the devastating Typhoon Haiyan (international name), won its 4th George Foster's Peabody Awards in 2014.
On November 10, 2014, As part of GMA News' shakeup, Vicky Morales joined the 24 Oras team as it's third anchor, while Pia Arcangel leaves GMA News TV's Balitanghali to replace her (Archangel remains on Weekend edition of 24 Oras). Also, GMA Regional newscasts for Bicol, GMA Cebu, Davao, Northern Mindanao, Iloilo, Dagupan and Ilocosadopted the 24 Oras branding. Along with Saksi and Balitanghali, the graphic package went flat, also their title cards, and the OBB, along with its energetic theme music. All of this changes are answers to competition of its long-time rival,On April 25, 2015, with GMA Network's plans of streamlining regional operations, seven regional newscasts were reduced to four, with the Ilokano, Bikol and Northern Mindanao editions having their final broadcast.[5][6]
After 11 years of delivering showbiz news on Chika Minute, Pia Guanio tearfully bid farewell to 24 Oras, her reason was to concentrate on her family. Pia became notable for 24 Oras in 2004, for her "Chika Minute" catchphrase, and most of all she was also the reason the program went no.1, during that time.
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Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene poet and novelist, was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He received his BA in American studies from Washington State University in Pullman.
His books of poetry include Face (Hanging Loose, 2009), One Stick Song (2000), The Man Who Loves Salmon (1998), The Summer of Black Widows (1996), Water Flowing Home (1995), Old Shirts & New Skins (1993), First Indian on the Moon (1993), I Would Steal Horses (1992), and The Business of Fancydancing (1992).
He is also the author of several novels and collections of short fiction, including a young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; Flight (Grove Press, 2007); Ten Little Indians (2003); The Toughest Indian in the World (2000); Indian Killer (1996); Reservation Blues (1994), which won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award; and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), which received a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Among his other honors and awards are poetry fellowships from the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He has also received the Stranger Genius Award, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, and a citation as "One of 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40" from Granta magazine.
Alexie and Chris Eyre wrote the screenplay for the movie Smoke Signals, which was based on Alexie's short story "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." The movie won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 and was released internationally by Miramax Films. He is also a three-time world heavyweight poetry slam champion. Alexie lives with his wife and son in Seattle, Washington.


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It was a FAST and not-so-easy labor and delivery. But we are all healthy and recovering well. If you are interested, you can read the full birth story here.
Jill says
What a beautiful little boy. What a blessing you have been given!
Monica says
Oh, so glad he has joined your family safely! What a sweet face – enjoy the snuggling!
Linda says
Congrats! He's a beautiful baby. You are very blessed 🙂
Susie's Homemade says
Congratulations!! Just precious:-)
Congratulations, he is so cute!
So sweet…and 7-11 is a lucky number! 🙂
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Congratulations! He is handsome. Thank you for sharing the picture.
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A little Sweetie Pie — congratulations. Hope you're doing well.
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OMG! Congrats! Beautiful, just beautiful..Just curious what was your first meal, after birth?? After labor, I can say I was starving, so just curious on what you had.
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Pucheu, who has been farming since 1966, is co-owner of Pucheu Brothers Ranch and a director of the Westside Farmers Co-op Gin.
Pucheu has been very active in state, regional and national cotton organizations. He previously served as chairman of the NCC's American Cotton Producers (ACP) and as a director of the NCC and of its export promotions arm, Cotton Council International. He is a director and former chairman of both Supima and the Cotton Board. He also has served as president of the California Cotton Growers Association and as board chairman of Calcot, Ltd. Pucheu holds a degree in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis, and is a graduate of the California Ag Leadership Program.
The NCC's vice chairman for 2007 is Larry McClendon, a Marianna, Ark., ginner.
Elected an NCC vice president was Shane Stephens, a Greenwood, Miss., warehouseman. Re-elected as NCC vice presidents were: Robert Norris, a Bakersfield, Calif., cooperative official; Charles Owen, a Pima, Ariz. ginner; Gail Kring, a Lubbock, Texas, crusher; Robert Weil, II, a Montgomery, Ala., merchant; and Harding Stowe, a Belmont, N.C., textile manufacturer. Craig Shook, a Corpus Christi, Texas, producer, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.
NCC staff officers for 2007 include: Mark Lange, NCC president/chief executive officer; John Maguire, senior vice president, Washington Operations; Allen Terhaar, vice president, Foreign Affairs; Gary Adams, vice president, Economics and Policy Analysis; Craig Brown, vice president, Producer Affairs; Bill Norman, vice president, Technical Services; Harrison Ashley, vice president, Ginner Services; and Fred Johnson, vice president, Administration and Program Coordination.


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'Solid, rigid construction. '
'Despite this, the Moto E remains an impressive phone that puts rival low-cost smartphones well and truly in the shade. '
'Basically, Motorola still hasn't figured out how to make good cameras for low-end smartphones. '
'Like its predecessor, camera quality disappoints.'
'The surface is very reflective though and the pixel density isn't helping for sharp images.'
'It looks great, has class-leading battery life and we love its light, bloatware-free approach to Android.'
'And with the new Moto E, Motorola has crafted one of the most compelling budget smartphones yet. '
'The new Motorola Moto E is proof that a cheap phone can be good, too; you're getting reasonable performance, a sharp display and LTE connectivity for $150, unlocked.'
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