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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Handicapping Simmons' Holy Cross Project
Few, if any, of those people fail to acknowledge Simmons' contribution to the kind of unconventional sports coverage that bloggers now engage in regularly: Writing somthing sportive in connection with television/music/movies/cars ... Posting diaries of live events ... Criticism of tv sportscasters. It's fair to say that blogging has unleashed the vast talent on the internet (and me - $1, Sheehan) to in effect out-Simmons the Sports Guy.
ESPN has allowed TSG to branch out from writing columns. They've sent him to the Super Bowl and various league all-star games. He's provided color commentary for a couple of minor college hoops games, and now he's formally blogging (Can one "formally" blog?). His latest basketball post listed the following as a dislike from the NCAA tourney:
"Holy Cross hoops: Honestly? I'm embarrassed. That was a disgrace. The Cross is now going on 30 years without an NCAA win. And you know what? I've had enough. Somebody needs to save our basketball program and it's going to have to be me. Details to come this spring."
The Sports Guy is foreshadowing this Holy Cross project on his Page 2 blog, thus it's likely he has the blessing of the Worldwide Leader to "fix" the 'Cross and write about it for ESPN. So, with apologies to The Cultural Oddsmaker and The Balls, AJ Daulerio...
I'm clicking over to Page 2, affecting my best Boston accent, and placing odds on exactly how Bill Simmons will save the Holy Cross men's basketball program.
Suiting up for the team: 25/1
Simmons is always writing about that one time, back in college, when he set a pick and then rolled to the basket while his teammate passed him the ball for an easy layup!!!!! Holy Cross is a "mid-major" school that plays in the Patriot League alongside noted basketball powers Colgate and American. The only Patriot League school ever to make a Final Four are your Holy Cross Crusaders, back in 1947. Simmons could easily make the varsity squad and contribute to a "whitewash" starting five. He could even borrow the #10 jersey of graduating senior Keith Simmons. The Sports Guy still has years of NCAA eligibility left, and you know he's been rehabbing his back for this very reason.
Writing for the Holy Cross student newspaper: 7/2
Don't call it "slumming." TSG would tell you himself, since he's started writing the ESPN column he's witnessed Patriots and Red Sox world championships. The collective karma of his thousands of readers rooting for Holy Cross would undoubtedly boost his alma mater's chances to bust everybody's 2008 NCAA bracket. Simmons himself admits that when he "started writing for the Crusader, everything fell into place..."
Becoming Holy Cross Athletic Director: 3-1
If Simmons has said it once, he's said it a thousand times: The Sports Guy would be one of the best general managers in the entire NBA, right now. And everybody knows college basketball is easier than the pros. He's even won the NBA Celebrity Fantasy League. You think he can't do better than Richard M. Regan, Jr.?
STFU: Even money
The Sports Guy adopted an EPL soccer team and has since written once about soccer, because he doesn't know jack about soccer. He has season tickets to the Clippers but only mentions the team to advise us that his farting friend Blueboy could repair the team's poor chemistry. When the first Holy Cross column appears on Page 2 later this Spring, expect perhaps one follow-up column and then radio silence, because Holy Cross does not need to be fixed, certainly not by Bill Simmons.
11 comments:
- March 21, 2007 at 7:28:00 PM EDT
what a doosh
- March 22, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM EDT
Why are so many people jealous of Simmons?
- March 22, 2007 at 1:49:00 PM EDT
there will always be haters.
- March 22, 2007 at 1:49:00 PM EDT
- Scott D. Simon said...
Everyone writing sports blogs (and probably all the commenters) is jealous of Simmons because he gets paid the big bucks to do what we're doing for free.
What does that have to do with Simmons being wrong about needing to "fix" Holy Cross, a school with a good academic reputation that's 109-47 since 2002?
- March 22, 2007 at 2:09:00 PM EDT
Because he's trite and hackneyed. He just makes easy jokes (the WNIT - hey I did the stats, and the WNIT was only about 10 TOTAL points per game under the NCAA tourney thus far - which means it's like 70-65 games instead of 75-70), references bad movies thqt only he and his friends enjoy ("ROUNDERS???"), and can't fathom why anyone would have differening opinions about things when he himself is of such narrow focus that when he tries to branch out and talk about college basketball, for example, he can't fathom the game and immediately picks on teams (like Butler) who are the antithesis of the NBA.
Other than that, no reason...
- March 22, 2007 at 2:10:00 PM EDT
How much do you guys think Simmons makes?
- March 22, 2007 at 3:54:00 PM EDT
Bill Simmons is a fine man and the quintessential example of someone who just knows sports inside and out.
I feel if Simmons gets involved coaching or recruiting at Holy Cross in any way, they will be a Final Four team by 2009.
I strongly encourage both fans and foes of Simmons work to seek out an online community dedicated to the works of Bill Simmons.
- March 22, 2007 at 3:58:00 PM EDT
- Scott D. Simon said...
I don't really know about Simmons.
To compare apples and oranges, it's public knowledge that Harold Reynolds was to earn $750,000 in 2006 for a minimum of 85 studio appearances.
It's been speculated that Jemele Hill will earn $200,000 for each of her two years under contract with ESPN.
I'd say Simmons makes somewhere in between. Say $400,000 per year.
- March 22, 2007 at 5:25:00 PM EDT
I have to qualify this by saying I'm not a HC alum. Clearly, it takes allot of hubris to personally claim that you are going to "fix" a D1 school's basketball program. Of course, that is not going to happen. But his overall frustration at HC hoops is understandable. The record is clear, HC has not done well in the tourney (or even won one game) in many, many, many years. HC has simply not played basketball at a nationally competitive level for a long time, and many hold an attitude of complacency that is satisfied with that. Yes HC has won the Patriot League, but I'm sorry, that is a small accomplishment at best. I think all would agree that academics come first, but that doesn't stop top tier universities (with more robust academic profiles than HC) from fielding nationally competitive sports teams: Berkeley, Stanford, UT, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Duke (to name a few). The tradeoff between sports competitiveness and academics is not automatic. HC could benefit from a higher level of competition in basketball. It could raise HC's profile, and attract a higher grade of students and faculty to the school.
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Re-mapping of the Muslim world is under the spotlight in the US and Pakistan's balkanization forms a part of this agenda. American strategists are propagating the need to redraw its borders along ethnic lines by creating new political entities in the name of justice long denied to "oppressed Muslim minorities". "Internal factors" are to be created and used, which they believe could lead to desired fragmentation. That this also reflects the mindset of the US administration can be seen by its efforts and actions to engineer grounds for military intervention, regime-change, or fragmentation in target countries.
Rising Jihadi movements, serious challenges to American hegemony, the economic meltdown in the US, declining limits of American power, and shifting of the economic epicenter to Asia all point to the emerging new political realities, wherein America stands to lose much of its power and glory by mid-century, if not sooner. This is forcing it to redefine its strategic global policy framework and pursue all options to subdue opponents and prevent its slide from power.
American strategists believe that fracturing and weakening the national unity of Islamic states could prevent militant Islam from gaining strongholds and choke their financial resources. They want oil rich territories like Kurdistan, the Eastern Arabian Peninsula, and Balochistan to be carved out, unified, and controlled by puppet regimes to secure energy resources and splinter other Muslim countries for easier micro-management. Iraq is already going through the motions and US invasion of a hostile Iran remains on the cards.
As for Pakistan, the US considers it unstable due to "political and economic mismanagement, divisive politics, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction" [Editor's note: quote from a CIA report] and cites these as causes for growing Talibanization. Hence it argues that this might bring Islamic radicals to power and give them control over the nukes – which can threaten Israel's security.
The US is also uncomfortable because Pakistan's army controls the nukes and remains an important player in the country's political dispensation. The US is conscious that the army resents American pressure to engage in a war against Taliban along the western border, firstly, because this creates bad blood with Pashtuns on both sides of the border, turning the population of a very sensitive border belt hostile to Pakistan which is not in its interest and, secondly, this distracts it from its major task of guarding the eastern border with India – a greater threat for Pakistan. For these reasons and also because having moved from the liberal British colonial mentality to a more conservative religious mindset, it has maintained close links with Jihadi groups and the Taliban during and after the failed Soviet invasion, until the US forced General Musharraf to abandon them after 9/11. The US believes that pro-Taliban officers still call the shots within the army and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and hence has been pressurizing the Pakistan Government for a purge of both institutions. But the attempt of the Zardari government to move ISI from the Army control to civil control in order to appease its American benefactors backfired.
The US fears that Pakistan army might eventually cause the balance of war to tilt in Taliban's favor, which NATO forces have no chance of winning in any event, and drive out the US and Indian lackeys currently governing Kabul. Therefore to the US, to the Israelis and to their new partners in this region – the Indians, a weaker military in Pakistan with lesser geographical spread (confined to Punjab and perhaps Sindh), devoid of an effective intelligence agency and without nuclear fangs, is critical.
Of late, Balochistan has been the target in the Indian scheme of Pakistan's further dismemberment. India and the US were disturbed by Gen. Musharraf's overtures towards China, seeking Chinese strategic economic interests and presence in Balochistan. Motivated by the prospects of Balochistan's development and economic uplift and to checkmate foreign aided secessionist moves in the province, he was keen for China to use Gawadar-Sinkiang land corridor for its imports through Gawadar port and transportation of oil refined at a proposed Chinese owned Gawadar based refinery. China also showed interest in joining Pak-Iran gas pipeline project transiting through Balochistan. China's presence in Gawadar would bring it right up to the Indian Ocean, a sensitive spot both for Indians and Americans – the former seeing this as a threat to its control of the ocean with its upcoming blue water navy and the latter upset with its proximity to the Straits of Hormuz.
Now these are grounds enough to justify balkanization of Pakistan.
Col. Ralph Peters, supposedly Pentagon's military scholar and former intelligence official, writing in June 2006 issue of Armed Forces Journal on balkanization of the Middle East (Blood Borders), advocates the incorporation of NWFP into Afghanistan and creation of a sovereign Free Balochistan, carved out of Baloch areas of Pakistan and Iran. His grounds: ethnic affinity. Pakistani Balochistan is estimated to hold 25.1 trillion cft. of gas and 6 trillion barrels of oil.
In an article "Drawn and Quartered" Selig Harrison of the Center of International Policy, Washington, DC, concludes that Pakistan's balkanization is imminent owing to the rising nationalist sentiment in the Pashtun belt and growing disillusionment of the Pashtuns, Balochis and Sindhis with Punjab and Pakistan. He says that ethnic diversity threatens Pakistan's unity.
Both Col. Peters and Harrison are essentially singing the same tune and seem to be presenting a doctrine that broadly reflects US foreign policy.
General Aslam Beg, Pakistan's former Army Chief, notes in an article that to pursue certain common interests with regard to Pakistan and the region, India and the US have signed the Strategic Partnership Deal the declared objective of which is "to contain and curb the rising military and economic power of China and the increasing threat of Islamic extremism in the region". Gen. Beg says this deal has led to the creation of a joint espionage network of CIA, Mosad, MI-6, Raw and others in Afghanistan, which is engaged in activities aimed at destabilizing Pakistan, Iran, China, Russia and other Central Asian states. He claims that dissidents from Pakistan are being trained at Sarobi and Kandahar for missions inside NWFP, whereas bases at Lashkargah and Nawah are being used to train dissidents from Balochistan for missions inside that province and also in support of the so called Balochistan Liberation Army.
In this backdrop, recent calls by some Afghan leaders to 'liberate Pakistani Pashtuns', the departure of Gen. Musharraf and the cozy relationship between his successor and President Karazai assume significance. Deadly attacks by US drones and troops inside Pakistan's tribal territory, reportedly with the tacit consent of the Zardari Government, could draw a wedge between Pakistan and its independent tribes, who are angry at Pakistan's inability to protect them. And if the Pakistan Army is forced to move the bulk of its 100,000 troops from FATA to the eastern border in the event of Indian military build up in the wake of the Bombay incident, this would leave a vacuum for the US to redeploy its troops from Iraq to deep inside the Pakistani territory, virtually occupying the tribal Pashtun belt. This may be the first step towards splintering Pakistan.
Michel Chossudovsky, Director of Montreal based Center for Research on Globalization (author of America's "War on Terrorism") in his article "The Destabilization of Pakistan" says: "Washington's foreign policy course is to actively promote the political fragmentation and balkanization of Pakistan as a nation". He states: "The US course consists in fomenting social, ethnic and factional divisions and political fragmentation, including the territorial breakup of Pakistan. This course of action is also dictated by US war plans in relation to both Iran and Afghanistan. This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region."
Chossudovsky points out that "the US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government."
The US initiatives to fragment the Muslim world are misguided and would be a grave miscalculation, promising an extremely volatile and unstable geopolitical scenario. Given the economic and political constraints that the US now faces and the ability of Jehadis to challenge and even defeat US imperialism, which is a very plausible scenario, this could cause the situation to easily spiral out of control, proving counterproductive to US interests worldwide and seriously undermining the regional and international security environment. The US has failed to deal with insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq and has neither the capacity nor the stomach for a wider, longer and more serious conflict.
In case of Pakistan, the plan will not be easy to accomplish either. While no preventive role is expected of the imbecile political leadership, Pakistan's military – as guarantor of national security, supported by pro-Pakistan population, will fight off such moves. Having the benefit of East Pakistan experience behind it and physical limitations no more a handicap, the army would stand a much better chance at successfully maintaining national integrity.


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A Century Mark
Finding an open window on the nearly empty third floor of M & N Cigar's headquarters in Tampa, Florida, isn't an easy task. Company president Eric Newman keeps moving boxes aside, shifting old packing crates around a floor that once throbbed with the pulse of cigar-making machines and pushing on rickety, old frames that won't budge as he searches for an exit onto the roof. Finally, he finds a window that opens and steps out into an unseasonably warm afternoon.
"That U-Haul building over there. That was the Gold Label cigar factory," Eric says, pointing above the treetops across Interstate 75. "Over there, in Ybor Square, is the former American Cigar Company. And, there, that's the old Hav-A-Tampa factory; the Ybor Gold microbrewery is in it today. And back over on the other side is the old Perfecto Garcia factory." The litany of competitors, now long gone from the Tampa area, echoes off the boarded-up face of the M & N clock tower and across the rough, rocky, tarred-roof surface just below a large neon sign: home of cuesta-rey cigars. Despite the bleak implications of the checklist of shuttered factories, the outlook inside the Newmans' building is upbeat: they're still here and still making cigars.
Stanford Newman, the 78-year-old patriarch and company chairman, proudly repeats the same theme: "How many businesses are still going after 100 years?" He answers his own question, with a wry smile, more than once during two days of interviews and conversations. In fact, the family business, started by J. C. Newman in Cleveland in 1895, is thriving today, riding the crest of the cigar-industry boom. Stanford's sons Eric, 47, and Bobby, 44, the executive vice president in charge of sales, are committed to building the family business, and there is already talk about the next generation joining the company by the turn of the millennium.
In many ways, Tampa is home in name only to M & N's flagship Cuesta-Rey brand; the premium hand-rolled cigar is now made exclusively by Tabacalera A. Fuente, owned by the Carlos Fuente family in Santiago, Dominican Republic. La Unica, a bundle brand, is also hand rolled at the Fuente factories, and the other M & N cigars are hand rolled at Nestor Placencia's factory in Honduras. Of course the company's machine-made cigars, Rigoletto and Luis Martinez, still churn out of the Tampa factory at a rate of about 75,000 a day.
Evidence of a long business history, and of much change, is plentiful in the Tampa factory. There are empty rolling galleries and unused spaces on the third floor; there's a room stacked with burlap-covered bales of short-filler tobacco--waste from Tabacalera Fuente in Santiago, Dominican Republic, that will go into M & N's machine-made brands here. In other rooms, sunlight filters through windows, which age and dirt have stained yellow. Crates of packing material sit around, waiting for use. In other rooms, ancient cigar-making machines--some more than 50 years old--clank away monotonously under the watchful eyes of veteran operators. Only about 12 machines are working on any given day, a far cry from the 1950s, when the factory rolled out tens of millions of cigars a year. Deep in a far corner of the basement, Andrew Gordon still "cases" or dampens aged tobacco leaves, which he sways to the sound of rhythm and blues pounding from a boom box and readies for use.
Despite the shuttered factories nearby in the decaying Tampa neighborhood surrounding it, there is a palpable vibrancy in the building. About 150 employees, many of whom have been with the Newmans since they opened the factory in 1953, occupy the premises; most are involved in administration and distribution. The three-story, blocklong building also houses Fanco, M & N's five-year-old joint venture with the Fuente family. Fanco distributes all of M & N's cigars and a good percentage of Arturo Fuente's in the United States. The Newmans recently invested $250,000 in a state-of-the-art computer for the distribution warehouse. In 1994, the distribution division company shipped between 35 million and 40 million cigars to the marketplace: more than 13 million machine-made items from M & N and more than 23 million to 25 million imported cigars from Arturo Fuente, including all the M & N hand-rolled brands. Stanford Newman, citing the competitive nature of the information and the privately held status of both M & N and Arturo Fuente, Inc., refuses to divulge gross revenues.
Bobby Newman, who oversees all the company's sales and manages a national sales team of 20 people, says the Fanco alliance is the best thing that has ever happened to the Newman family. "We think they are just the best manufacturers in the world, and they think we're pretty good at what we do on the sales and marketing end." The partnership, in conjunction with the sales boom, has meant endless hours of work. Bobby can't remember a weekend since 1986 when he hasn't worked at least one day. In the beginning when the debt service from the buyout was a heavy financial burden, "it was like having a gun at our heads." Bobby talks about working the equivalent of two or three jobs, which is one reason the venture with the Fuentes has gone so smoothly: they share the same work ethic. They even share a joke about it, which is "that when we shave and cut ourselves, we bleed tobacco juice, not blood," Bobby says.
For Stanford, the elder Newman, today's successes are sweet vindication. Nine years ago, he was ready to sell out. There simply wasn't a big enough pie for his brother Millard's son, plus his own two sons. No one was happy. They set a mutually acceptable sales price, and Stanford gave Millard six weeks to come up with the money; if Millard couldn't, Stanford would buy the company. Six weeks passed, and Millard said the only way he could get financing was to put his rare collection of 15 antique Rolls-Royces up as collateral, which he wouldn't do. Stanford quickly put together the financing, bought his brother's third of the company and, with some more financial wrangling, bought out his two sisters' one-third share. He won't reveal the purchase price, but admits, "it was several millions of dollars."
At the time of the buyout, the Newmans' business needed a new direction, according to Stanford. The company was selling machine-made cigars almost exclusively, including the highly successful Cuesta-Rey 95, but he saw premium hand-rolled cigars from the Dominican Republic entering the market at a price that was not much higher. "There was no way we could compete," he says. The alternative, Stanford says, was to go head to head with machine-made cigars like Hav-A-Tampa. "I knew how to do that, too. But, as my father was always telling me, you stay in the quality business and learn to stay in your niche. You can't be all things to all people. So we stayed on [the quality] track."
While Stanford had explored several options before 1986, he still wasn't sure whether he should opt for Honduras or the Dominican Republic. Then he ran across Carlos Fuente Sr., the owner and patriarch of Tabacalera A. Fuente. Fuente wanted the Newmans to manufacture machine-made cigars for him, and Stanford agreed, but asked the Fuentes to make a hand-rolled cigar for him. Over the next six years, the Newmans transferred all Cuesta-Rey sizes to hand-rolled production in the Dominican Republic. "I went down there and saw what kind of a person he was, an extremely honest person with a lot of integrity. I've told him 'if I only had two dollars left in the world, I'd give you one of them.' " It didn't take long before the Newman-Fuente alliance grew closer. The Fuentes started making most of the Newmans' hand-rolled cigars, and the Newmans integrated the Fuente brands into their existing national sales and distribution network through the Fanco operation.
The return to hand-rolled cigars was filled with irony for Stanford: it brought the company full circle, back to its roots. "To go from a hand industry to machines, and pay a lot of money for those machines and then go back into hand rolling, well..." his voice trails off. "But we were always pushing for quality." As if to emphasize his dedication to the concept, just behind Stanford's desk in his office, on a wall by itself, not crowded next to the family photographs and framed articles about M & N on the other walls, is a framed poster that reads: The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
Themes of quality and innovation run through the family history, dating back to Cleveland and Julius C. Newman. Newman emigrated as a 14-year-old from a small village in the Austria-Hungary area in 1889 and received his middle name when he showed up to vote and told the registrar that he had no middle name. The bureaucrat gave him the name Caesar, and he quickly became known as J. C. His brothers arranged an apprenticeship with a "buckeye," or small cigar maker, in Cleveland; for $20, he received four months of training. After training, J. C. got a job rolling cigars for $6 to $8 a week and, with the exception of a brief two-month stint in a New York cigar factory, was still at work at the same factory in 1894.
But 1895 brought a nationwide financial panic, and J. C. Newman was suddenly unemployed. He decided to start a cigar factory in the barn on the family's property and went out to find buyers. He received orders for 2,500 cigars, for which he figured he needed $50 worth of tobacco. In his memoirs, J. C. wrote, "...since my total capitalization was $65, I was in business." J.C. Newman Cigar Manufacturers had been born.
By 1903, J. C. Newman owned the largest cigar factory in Cleveland. His brands included A-B-C and Dr. Nichol, which used combinations of domestic and imported tobacco with a wrapper from Sumatra. But Sumatran prices jumped, and Newman began experimenting with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper for a cigar called Judge Wright. This became Cleveland's best-selling five-cent cigar, according to J. C. Newman's autobiography. The company expanded quickly, opening two new factories outside of Cleveland and jumping in ahead of the crowd into cigar-making machines, even though they had not been perfected and cost $4,000--a large amount of money for the day. According to J. C.'s written record, everything went well until 1921, when a recession hit the cigar business and he ended up closing all the factories except the Cleveland one. That period eventually led to a merger with Mendelsohn cigar factory, the other main Cleveland manufacturer. That merger, in turn, created M & N Cigar Manufacturers.
"The name was originally Mendelsohn and Newman Cigar Manufacturing, which my father had agreed to, but as long as they were going to call it Mendelsohn and Newman, he was going to be president, and Grover Mendelsohn would be vice president," says Stanford, who was already involved in the business at the time. The company weathered the Depression. During the 1920s, M & N was the first cigar maker to wrap cigars in cellophane; before that time most cigar makers used foil. J. C. had also started a very successful little cigar called Little Cameo, which had 100 percent Havana filler, Connecticut binder and a Connecticut wrapper. With these successes, J. C. accumulated the resources to buy out his partner by the late 1930s. At that time, Stanford had graduated from Case Western Reserve University, which he attended while selling cigars, and had gone to work for a year at Hartman Tobacco Company in Connecticut. The Second World War interrupted Stanford's service at the company, but when the war ended, he was back on the job.
In 1946, M & N Cigar was making 250,000 cigars a day in two shifts at the Cleveland factory. J. C. Newman was getting more and more interested in Cuban tobacco, but he was concerned that it lost some of its character when shipped north in winter. In 1953, returning from a trip to Havana, J. C. stopped in Tampa to see a cigar-making colleague. Before he left the city, he found a building, called Stanford to come look at it and, against his son's advice, leased part of it to begin making cigars there. By 1954, Stanford had started up operations there with the understanding that if it didn't work they'd move back to Cleveland. But later that year the family's entire operation moved to Tampa and set up shop--originally as the Standard Cigar Company.
The company purchased the Cuesta-Rey brand in 1958, shortly after J. C. Newman's death. The brand became a huge seller in supermarkets and drugstores. Cuesta-Rey also led the family to dream up some unique packaging: when Walgreen's announced it was discontinuing its humidified cigar cases, Stanford came up with a polyethylene bag that held the cellophaned cigars. The bag kept the cigars moist and fresh for up to a year and was a key factor in making Cuesta-Rey a top-selling premium cigar. Stanford also bested his competition by buying Cameroon wrapper for his cigars shortly after the Cuban trade embargo affected supplies of Cuban wrapper leaf. He began attending the now defunct auction of Cameroon tobacco in Paris in 1963, about the same time that Consolidated Cigar started buying Cameroon and almost 15 years before General Cigar launched its Partagas brand.
"You have to be innovative in this business," Stanford Newman says. "Don't copy. Do something that's different. I mean, the worst thing you can do is copy somebody else." Even at this stage, Stanford isn't resting on the company's laurels. He offers a Diamond Crown as an afternoon smoke, a cigar that will be out sometime this year to commemorate the company's 100th anniversary. It is full flavored with a robust finish. "We've wanted to do something different, and this is different for us," says Stanford, who describes the flagship Cuesta-Rey brand as a milder cigar.
Bobby Newman explains that the Diamond Crown is a direct response to the growing demand for full-flavored cigars. The cigars will come in 54 ring gauge from four-and-a-half to eight-and-a-half-inches long and will range in price from $4 to $10. Bobby's other new project at this point is developing the Asian market for Cuesta-Rey cigars. The program is in its early stages, but he expects to establish a presence soon in Tokyo, Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong, with the latter serving as a base for moving into China.
The Asian project means more travel, and Bobby is already traveling 40 weeks a year. If he's not visiting a smoke shop, then he's headed to a cigar dinner where Cuesta-Rey cigars are featured. "It's not Monday through Friday, but maybe a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or a convention on the weekend," Bobby says. "And when I'm in the office, I'll make and receive 20 to 30 calls a day, whether it's about cigar dinners, or problems with export sales or new opportunities with retail shops. I cover sales to smoke shops, chain stores and military sales. I do the duty-free business, too. It's an eight-day-a-week job, 24 hours a day." But there's an upside for Bobby in his schedule, even though he knows it will get tougher. With the birth of his son earlier this year, he now says, "I'm doing it for myself [and] for the family. I'm not sure I could do that if I was doing it for someone else." He also notes, "It's not that I'm a better salesman out there, but I'm an owner, and I can do different things. You have to see the customer today."
Dealing with his primary customer, the retailer, has become one of Bobby's biggest challenges and the most difficult problem for his staff of 20 regional sales managers because of the consistent shortages of cigars. "We have the best sales force in the country, and they're used to going around making placements. They are used to pounding the pavement. We're concerned they may lose their edge. They were welcome in smoke shops until six months ago, but now all they get are complaints [about shortages]. They are our first line of defense." Talking to retailers has occupied a major part of Bobby's time, too. "There will be a time when we can get more product, and the retailer is one of our biggest assets. What we've been trying to do is explain how the Fuentes work in the Dominican Republic, that they are in the factory until nine o'clock, three and four nights a week, trying to fill orders."
The Newmans have no plans to expand their sales staff because that would necessitate opening new accounts and providing more product. "It wouldn't be fair to our old accounts who supported us all these years. It's a good problem to have. If you ask the smoke-shop owners, they'll complain about the shortages, but they'd rather have [shortages] than an oversupply."
The shortage is, of course, one of the biggest question marks in the cigar industry. The Newmans and other manufacturers wonder whether many retailers aren't overordering in hopes of getting at least some product for their shelves. But the cigars are vanishing from stores as soon as they arrive. "A retailer may get 20 boxes, but he's got 20 customers waiting for [them]," says Bobby Newman. "And we're losing our displays--our billboards, in effect--because [the cigars are] not there. And with our product not there, new brands are getting the opportunity to find customers." But that kind of demand still prompts the question: How big is the shortage? "We know we need a lot more than 10 million handmade cigars a year," Bobby Newman states. "But we don't know what the limit is. Is it 30 million? Forty million? You don't know, when you're short a product, whether you are one day short or a week short. And it starts at the retail level. If a guy walks in and wants one box, but sees a supply, he may buy two boxes and hoard them. So no one in the industry knows how short the shortage really is." Or what exactly it means for the industry.
For Eric Newman, it means more work than he has time to accomplish. When asked about his typical day, he pulls out an electronic date book and begins scrolling through his "to do" list. "I often am putting out fires," he says, admitting that his organizational skills are not what they should be. Fifteen minutes later, he finally finishes the list, after a recitation punctuated by "oh, that's got to be done right away" and "I haven't had time to get to that yet." He admits that he still signs every invoice and probably gets involved in a level of detail that he shouldn't. But in fact, 20 or 30 of the items he has mentioned are indeed things that have to be done right away, and he is the person who has to do them. At one point, he checks on the back-order list. It is 1,000 pages long with up to three orders per page, many pages of Arturo Fuente brands but more than 400 pages of it just M & N brands. When Eric checks with the distribution manager, he finds that orders going out the door in early December had been received five weeks earlier; it has taken that long to get to them on the company's first-in-first-out delivery policy.
Eric isn't worried, however. "Our business is growing by leaps and bounds," he says, citing the advent of Cigar Aficionado as the driving force behind the surge. But, he says, the company commitment to quality is a formula that is working and that it is shifting the drugstore image of a brand like Cuesta-Rey into its current position as a premium hand-rolled product.
As in conversations with every other member of the Newman family, the ghost of J. C.'s commitment to quality appears. Eric Newman quotes his father, "if you pay too much for good tobacco, you only lose money. Pay too much for bad tobacco and you lose customers. My dad was always committed to buying the best tobacco" and making the best cigars. Eric also says there is a deep satisfaction in the business for him right now because "we are going back to the basics."
The present success and promising future of the company are sweet for Eric, just as they are for his father. He remembers the buyout from the family in 1986 as a decision "made with the heart, not the head." Given the debt load and the state of the cigar industry, business was extremely tough in the late 1980s. "At one time, I thought we hadn't used our heads at all. I used to wake in the middle of the night wondering. We did a lot of soul-searching. But [having] been dragged through the mud like we were for a couple of years, we feel [as if] we've earned our stripes. We'll never forget where we came from."
Eric isn't someone who believes that hard work is the only way to success. "In this business, timing is everything, and there's a lot of luck [involved]. Carlos Fuente says, rightly, that we caught the last train to imported cigarland for hand-rolled cigars." Eric also says timing has played a role in the mu-tual success of the Fuentes and the Newmans. "We are [his] biggest customer, and now we're selling his product. It could be tricky, but his demand exceeds supply so he's happy with the job we're doing for him." Mutual respect, Eric adds, is important to the entire enterprise.
The M & N formula, in fact, depends heavily on just that sort of mutual respect, both for their partners and for each member of the family. Eric explains that as a small, family-owned company, the principals can make quick decisions about matters that might take a bigger corporation weeks or days to resolve. "We often just run into each other in the hallway and start discussing a problem. If it needs a decision, we can do it right here." That level of coordination demands fundamental agreement, which, fortunately, exists among the Newmans. It's not uncommon to hear the same idea or business philosophy expressed by all three of the Newmans. Perhaps they each adopt a slightly different manner or choose different words, but they leave no doubt that they share a common vision and common goals for the future.
Both Bobby and Eric are quick to say how glad they are that Stanford has witnessed a resurgence in the cigar market. "He could have missed all this hoopla," Bobby says. "We thank God every day." It's a genuine sentiment that traces back to the brothers' true love of their business and their acknowledgement that their father has been not just a parent, but a mentor and teacher. Bobby says, "[Stanford] didn't ask my brother and me to come into the business. We asked to come into it. He didn't force us." Bobby hopes his son, who is 10 months old, will also want to come into the business. And Eric is already having a hard time keeping his 13-year-old son, Drew, out of the business. He shows off a picture from the Retail Tobacco Dealers' of America, Inc., trade show last August in Chicago: Drew is talking to a retailer, explaining the company's ci-gars. "He's already one of the best salesmen we've got," Eric, the proud daddy, says. "He wishes he could start working for us full-time right now. He thinks he is the reincarnation of J. C."
Stanford also can't help but play the proud father. "I'm not making the same mistakes my dad made with me...we didn't always get along. So I try to bend over backward and not tell them that I have the experience and they don't. They have to get their own experience."
The patriarch is clearly pleased that his sons are enjoying a period of success. "For all my life, there was a ceiling on what people would pay for a cigar. The big volume for so many years was in 25-cent cigars; the consumer didn't want to pay any more for a product. You couldn't make a better product because you couldn't sell it. You couldn't put much more money in packaging because [the consumer] wouldn't be receptive. This is the first time in my lifetime that I have seen young people taking an interest in our business. It was mainly old men, even though like my dad told me, there were new old men every year. But today there are lots of young men. That's what is different today. That's our future."
With a gleam in his eye, he starts talking about the company's 200th anniversary, in 2095.


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For a project using RC4, the output is to be mapped to values of 0 to 35. Thus, only 36 unique output values representing the letters A to Z and 0 to 9.
To avoid bias, the RC4 byte output (with a range of 0 to 255) is discarded if the value is greater than 251. The output is then mod 36, which then maps the output into the range of 0 to 35.
Does this effectively reduce the strength of RC4 by taking this mapping step, or does the security remain unchanged? How does one measure the amount of decrease in the security? Does it relate to the loss of the values 252, 253, 254 and 255? Or, would it also be a factor of doing the mod 36 step because of reducing the possible output values to 1/7th of the original.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) Left-hander Chris Narveson and the Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to an $840,000, one-year contract.
Narveson was 1-1 with a 7.00 ERA in two starts last April, then had season-ending surgery on his left rotator cuff. He made $500,000.
Four Brewers remain eligible for arbitration: right-handers John Axford, Burke Badenhop and Marco Estrada, and outfielder Carlos Gomez.
Milwaukee also agreed to a minor league contract with right-hander Kelvim Escobar, who is pitching for Lara in the Venezuelan Winter League. The 36-year-old has pitched one game in the major leagues since 2007, for the Los Angeles Angels in June 2009.


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Rep. Tom Suozzi has spoken of the importance of working across the aisle for a long time. After he was elected to Congress in 2016, he joined the Problem Solvers Caucus — 48 members of both parties who are committed to promoting bipartisan initiatives — and became its co-chair.
Asked what the group had accomplished, he candidly answered, "Nothing — yet." But, he added, relationships have formed and trust among caucus members has grown. We believe this effort is needed now more than ever.
With immigration a white-hot issue, the Herald Gazette asked Suozzi about the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency. He said that although as Nassau County executive he "kicked ICE out" because its officers were behaving like "cowboys," he does not believe the agency should be eliminated. Law enforcement and the county should work with ICE when someone commits a felony, he said.
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Ryne Sandberg has been named interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, effective with tonight's 7:05 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Senior Vice President & General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. announced today.
Sandberg, 53, has spent the 2013 season as the Phillies third base coach, his first major league coaching position. This year is his third in the Phillies organization, having served the first two as the manager for triple-A Lehigh Valley, where he went 155-132 (.540) and led the team to their first playoff appearance.
Before joining the Phillies, Sandberg managed four years in the Chicago Cubs minor league system, leading his clubs to two first-place finishes. He has an overall managerial record of 439-409-1 (.517) in the minor leagues.
A 2005 inductee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Sandberg was originally drafted by the Phillies in 1978 and made his major league debut with the team in September of 1981 before being traded to the Cubs. He played 15 years for Chicago and finished his career with a .285 batting average, 282 home runs and 1,061 RBI in 2,164 games.
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Hey Group 10, I really liked your project page. I found it very informative and learnt quite a lot about somatic cell nuclear transfer. It is clear that you have all put in a lot of effort and it has been reflected in the quality of your work.
Hey Group 10, I really liked your project page. I found it very informative and learnt quite a lot about somatic cell nuclear transfer. It is clear that you have all put in a lot of effort and it has been reflected in the quality of your work.
* I liked the student drawn diagram - it was very simple but brought across the point effectively. however you may want to copyright your drawing.
* I liked the student drawn diagram - it was very simple but brought across the point effectively. however you may want to copyright your drawing.
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--Katiana Shaw 03:51, 10 May 2010 (UTC) Hi Group 10 - I think you have done really well and have produced a really great project. There is very little to fault. Here are a couple thoughts:
- The intro may be a bit too long (some of that information may be able to fall into other sections) and I think the Variations of SCNT technique should go after the methodology.
- The student diagram is really good and I think you have used pictures and the table well.
- I like how you have looked at the individual people who have historically contributed to this technique as well as giving a brief overview of the history.
- The steps are very clearly outlined which makes it easy to understand and I particularly like the inclusion of the ethics and links to Australia sections.
This project is very well researched and presents the information in a way that is interesting and is easy to understand. Only really needs a change or two to the structure and then a final edit for spelling and grammar. Well done!
Hey Group 10, I really liked your project page. I found it very informative and learnt quite a lot about somatic cell nuclear transfer. It is clear that you have all put in a lot of effort and it has been reflected in the quality of your work.
- I liked the student drawn diagram - it was very simple but brought across the point effectively. however you may want to copyright your drawing.
- Perhaps try to reduce the length of the introduction.
- the history section is the right length - i felt it gave me just the right amount of information on the history of SCNT without going to overboard and overloading my brain with unnecessary information.
- The Method is quite long but it is evident that there must be quite a lot of detail in the method so you have done well to summarise that into a smaller amount writing.
- I especially like the Ethics section - I felt it was an excellent idea seeing as the topic is so new and an alternative to stem cell research.
--Emily Wong 23:12, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Group 10! First of all, great choice of topic and good work on the project so far. Your project is easy to follow, informative and interesting- you've obviously put in quite a bit of work. There are a few things I'd swap around order wise to make to flow a bite better (but only in my opinion obviously)- i think the Variations of the SCNT Technique section should go after the Methodology (so we know what you are varying first!), the "Brief History of Stem Cell Research" and "Historical Development of SCNT" could perhaps be merged or at least altered so that they follow on from each other better and/or use the same format (i.e. use dates or research groups but not a mix of both). A few of the sections, particularly the "Ethics" and "History", but also sections of the "Applications", lack sufficient referencing to make them seem objective and not like broad sweeping statements. Also, I noticed that the reference to the paper for Fulka et al in the "Future Directions" section is from 1998- in my opinion this is way too old to still be completely relevant, particularly in this section! If you do want to use information taken from this paper you need to address the fact that a lot of it (presumably) would no longer be completely accurate- just my take on it though. There are a few sentences which probably need restructuring, but nothing a proof read won't fix. With a little bit of tweaking you'll have a great piece of work- well done! --Louisa Frew 11:48, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
--Begum Sonmez 10:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC) Hello Group 10
- Introduction is too long. If you still want to keep the information, put the information on the developing embryo under its own heading.
- 'Stem cells are progenitor cells that can undergo continual self-renewal whilst remaining undifferentiated in function'
- I don't know what the image Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) Video is showing. I think it is inessential. The student-drawn image is sufficient enough.
- The video under intro was helpful although this could go under methodology.
- The Variations of the SCNT Technique section could be placed after or before the Methodology. They seem separated and unrelated as it is.
- The 'Brief History' section was not relective of its title. I like the information given, I'd say just change the title.
- The image 'Stem cells from IVF' is, to me, irrelevant at its present location.
- It felt like there was too much information under Methodology, especially under Step 2 and 6. For example, under Step 6, the author wrote: 'Due to ethical issues, the transplantation of human blastocysts in reproductive cloning has not occurred to date.' This could be put under the Ethics section. Little changes like this could really make a difference.
- Is the application of SCNT restricted to Veterinary and Human Med. If it isn't a brief mention of other applications would be nice.
- There is no in-text citations under 'Cell Therapy using dedifferentiated stem cells' (Applications). Just make sure that you include where you got the information from.
- I always love tables (good use of a table was made for Adv. And Diadv.).
- I think there is a slight grammatical problem with: 'According to Fulka et al.[38],describes about questions not yet fully solved but must be solved for Nuclear Transfer technique in future.' It should read something like 'Fulka et al.[38] described aspects of SCNT (I'm guessing the 'questions' are about SCNT, it wasn't mentioned in the original sentence) that is not yet solved. These problems must be addresses for the future use of the Nuclear Transfer Technique.'
- I think the SCNT Research in Australia part was a great way to end the page.
- It would be nice to have 'Links to Research Lab…' straight after 'SCNT Research in Australia'.
Sorry, didn't mean to write so much. Overall, this seemed to me a very well researched technique. It seems that all the major facts and problems were covered. Most of the images and the first video aided my learning process. Just some changes and some little ones could do the trick! Well done.
Hey guys. You're project looks very solid. It has many different sections which really gives you a comprehensive look at stem cells. It looks well referenced but I would look at some of the images' copyrights as some of them look like you have just sourced where you have gotten them from without any copyright disclosures. The other area which may need looking at is the explanation of terms. The glossary is a good method of doing this, but linking it with the text or including more would be a good option. When you read the page, there are terms which i am unfamiliar with (such as progenitor cells or pluripotent potential) and while some of these are explained later, it is difficult to follow the text without an immediate definition, if that makes sense. However, it's a small thing and the rest of the page is excellent. --z3253199 04:05, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
--Jae Choi 11:34, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, Juliana and Ozgur
You guys have done really well for the project.
Well organised structure, clearly described, lots of interesting pictures including a links to video (this is a really good idea!). You got a good introduction with a clear idea of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer technique and nicely organised history part with the major issues. The method of SCNT is well explained step by step.
Honestly, it is really hard for me to point out the mistakes or the things that I would like to comment on. However, if I have to pick up something, I would like to comment on the "Advantages and Disadvantages" part. Compared to other parts, it is too short and less likely explained and no references are provided for the last two points of "Advantage" part.
Overall, you guys have done a great job. Cheers.
Hi Andrew
I have added picture next to your video file link, but not sure about copyright issue here...but if you think it will be a problem just get rid of it. and thanks for fixing "technique"part. I was gonna reference it yesterday but I was half asleep and half awake all day. I have added few more words in glossary part and gonna finish it this weekend (hopefully!) or anyone can volunteer!haha. With Ian Wilmut's image copyright, I haven't heard anything yet, so I might look for aother image T.T Everyone have a good weekend and Our page look owesome! :)
Hey Juliana,
Hope you get well soon! no worries about the project though - apparently Dr Hill has decided to extend the peer review start date to next week and so it won't be this week. yay time to iron out stuff!
i might edit the roslin/hononolu bit cos that is meant to be in our own words, and if we just use it without paraphrasing, we might get the plagiarism thing ahhh, but we're still editing so it's not a big problem yet.
Hi guys, I'm so sorry I've uploaded so late...Forgive me if you guys were worried about project. I was fever last night, just coundln't sit down on the desk... and plus I uploaded and there was webpage conflict!(took me more time to do it all again) I won't be able to attend the lab class today (I don't wanna spread germs to you guys! )
Hi Andrew~ that was quick~!!!kk I like your drawing!! Jules
and Ozgar, this is for you [[1]] it will link you to last year's embryology project. if you look at section8. current research part, it might be helpful
I can't save picture in the lib computer;;;;;;;;;; I gotta do it at home dr. Hwang's image: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5252449 dR.thompson: http://www.biotechlearn.org.nz/themes/biotech_therapies/images/stem_cells_from_ivf
Hi Everyone,
I've added some pictures to make it less boring - yeah the text was getting a bit overwhelming i agree.
To Jules, sorry I don't think I was clear before - I liked the future directions/cytoplast age bit cos I could kinda elaborate on it, but you deleted it (^-^ he he) so I added it back in, but the extra bit I added was for karyoplast age instead. But it's been fixed now so yeah - so sorry for any misunderstanding cos it's very related and helpful.
Yeah a lot of my previous post was done before my computer froze so I didn't do some of the stuff i said i would.
i've removed the current results section and integrated it into the methods bit - mainly cos i seemed to be repeating myself in methods and current results so yeah.
the adv/disadv has been correctly formatted (removed the blaa bits).
a note about cystic fibrosis has been added to the applications bit - just to elaborate on it a bit clearer - no problems there!
with glossary, i've placed links next to words in the methods bit that link to wikipedia pages. i've gone through methods and intro and added words/definitions to the glossary. Some words i haven't added cos i've explained their usage in their same sentence so don't want to repeat again.
apart from that, i think everything is good so far. yay have a good night and see you tomorrow!
Hi guys, hope you all enjoyed long weekend~! ^^* Well, I think the web page looks nice and if we can upload some more pictures, it will be even better.Because it looks bit boring... and Andrew I deleted what you mentioned. 'What are Cloning Techniques?' bit 'SCNT' yeah, I also found it's repeative. with Future directions section, I kind da helping Ozgar, but you guys can delete it if it's unrelated. I've checked methods section and it looks totally fine! may be some images?? to visualise? and with Current results part, Can you put some more current research/journals?
and please start to put some glossary and reference as well..... C you all tomorrow then~! ^^
Hi Everybody again,
I've pretty much finished the methods bit now - please read and check.
I've revised the intro a bit ie. make it sound simpler and easier to read (i think? ^-^) A link to the Stem Cell Controversy wikipedia page has been placed here as well.
With the 'What are Cloning Techniques?' bit - I've renamed that to 'Variations of the SCNT Technique'. Also in that same section, I'm not sure whether we should keep the Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer section cos I've kinda mentioned it already in the intro (???help). The diagram is definitely a keeper though! yay.
I've also kinda intruded a bit in the future directions section especially the note for 'cytoplast age' - sorry to whoever did that bit.
In regards to the comment in future directions that reads "may be we can also mention about what are the good and bad things can occur from advanced clononing techniques" - i've mentioned the premature deaths of cloned offspring, abnormalities, obese offspring etc.. in the disadvantages of SCNT section. Also, I've mentioned the c-Myc factor can lead to fatal cancers in the future directions as well. Apart from that i'm not so sure...
In terms of advantages and disadvantages of SCNT, what you see is all I could kinda come up with. sorry.
Apart from that, at the moment, i'm still double checking the methods just to be sure, but I think that's it.
Hi Everybody,
I'm going to do the methods bit now. I've added in Current Results section as to indicate where current researchers are at.
Juliana, I haven't checked the 'cloning by SCNT' article yet, but I will do so after the methods is up (so at least I have something up for you guys to check).
Thanks ^-^ A.
Guys~ I have done the application and some of future direction part, hopefully it was helpful :) and you guys can add any historic event in History section. of course I don't mind! :) Jules~
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9819572 Cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Fulka J Jr, First NL, Loi P, Moor RM. Bioessays 1999 Sep;21(9):804. PMID: 9819572 This is good resource i guess. -Juliana-
Have a good long weekend~~
Hey Andrew, What have u found for methods ...etc? I have searched for the applciations and found a few articles about the uses of SCNT. We also should think about future directions. Anyways we can chat more in the lab. Cheers... --Ozgur Tuna 05:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
--- Hey Juliana & Oz,
Don't worry about yesterday ^-^ Yeah, best way to contact me is my zmail (z3256682@...) cos I cancelled my mobile a few weeks ago so yeah (sorry!)
I've done a bit of the intro, but there's bits we might need to add later..
I'm happy to do the methodology and something else as well - I'll wait to see what Oz wants to do (not in rush cos lots of methods to keep me busy!!!!)
About the reference bit, I agree. Also I kinda vaguely remember Mark saying how he would show the class how to reference or something like that in the later labs.
Have fun!
with reference part, how about we number them and when we reference it, just write down the number from reference list.
for example,
SCNT (Somatic cell nuclear transfer), also known as therapeutic cloning, is the transplanting of a patient's DNA into an unfertilized egg in order to grow stem cells that could cure devastating diseases. (3)
reference 1.E.Patrick Essential Biology 2.Tim, Cell Biology 3.The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
Let me know~
Hi Andrew, This is Juliana, so sorry about yesterday. I tried to call you but you won't answer the phone (I got number from Jay,Korean guy) I actually planed sub topics as well which is very similar to what you wrote down. I guess it's better to dicide whose going to do what sub topics. I'm happy to do Timeline of SCNT and also History part. I will do some research during Easter and hopefully comes up with something when we see next time. If anyone wants to discuss about the project during easter holiday, I'm leaving my contact details in case 0433 039 707 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0433 039 707 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email@example.com
Hi Everyone,
Just added a basic plan of our project to our page so we have something to look at, and can work with. Have comments under the sections.
Happy Easter!
z3256682 (31st March 2010)
What exactly is SCNT?
SCNT (Somatic cell nuclear transfer), also known as therapeutic cloning, is the transplanting of a patient's DNA into an unfertilized egg in order to grow stem cells that could cure devastating diseases. The promise of SCNT is that the patient's body would accept these cells after transplantation.
How can therapeutic cloning, or SCNT, help cure disease?
Many of the most debilitating diseases and conditions are caused by damage to cells and tissue. When combined with stem cell research, SCNT could be used to develop new and innovative treatments — such as replacement cells and tissue — that allow organs to function again and restore hope to millions of families. SCNT is also integral to improving scientists' understanding of how stem cells develop. This new knowledge could speed the search for new treatments —and possibly cures — for some of the most complex diseases that plague our society. In particular, SCNT could allow researchers to move stem cell research to a new level, developing stem cell therapies that are specifically tailored to an individual's medical condition. Moreover, SCNT could help scientists develop stem cells that will not be attacked and destroyed by the body's immune system. This holds particular promise for patients who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and spinal cord injuries.
From the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR)
Juliana Lee
A few links from pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19934592 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19812298 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305985 --Ozgur Tuna 06:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Everyone,
About the overall structure, i think we should have the Brief Ideas bit, which explores Stem cell therapy generally, and then have a following section specific to Somatic cell nuclear transfer. So the stem cell therapy overview should be fairly brief (not sure exactly how brief), and then we should concentrate on SCNT...
Anyway...Early days still.. --z3256682 06:25, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Guyz we can dig in a bit in http://www.stemcellchannel.com.au/ to get ideas/information.
I had a look at it. Gives information about how the stemcell research ahs started, what is stemcel...etc.
--Ozgur Tuna 06:17, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
how to upload picture!
and don't forget to include PMID!
Researches in new uses of stem cells, stems cells in future. --Ozgur Tuna 06:09, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Brief Ideas,,,just my thinking
1. what is stem cells?
- stem cell
- somatic stem cell
2.How do you make stem cells? where is it derived from?
3. use of stem cell (in broad term) --Jin Lee 06:56, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
project guidelines (Mark Hill's speech)
changes with technique
review articles and cite
research articles using technique and application to cell bio
images of cells (requires original captions, citation and PMID)
min 1 diagram that group has drawn itself (as ppt file) to show how technique is carried out or something out.
reference list for all (bibliography) not JUST wikipedia! --z3256682 06:54, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia Link for SCNT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_nuclear_transfer --z3256682 06:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
http://cellbiology.med.unsw.edu.au/cellbiology/index.php?title=2009_Lecture_21 --z3251370 06:35, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
--z3251370 06:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC)


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Laura thinks I'll have enough of that Woolarina yarn for two Endpaper Mitts so I think that might be my Christmas project. We'll see. It sounds promising to me!
OK, stash expansion. Here goes. Five 100-gram balls of Regia sock yarn purchased from Wollsucht. Each ball will make one pair of socks. It's much cheaper to buy Regia from Germany – I couldn't believe the price difference! From left to right, Regia India Cotton 4301, India Cotton 4302, Canadian Colors 4732 (Toronto), Canadian Colors 4730 (Alberta), and Rellana Flotte Socke Jubiläum 3 4410. I'm not much for variegated yarn but I've never tried self-striping (mostly because I've never found a self-striping sock yarn that I liked). These seem nice in the sample poster so we'll see how they turn out. The last is a bit loud for my taste but I thought I'd experiment. After shipping, it came out to about $8/ball – not bad for a full pair of socks, eh? OK, that's it for the stash expansion… sort of. Does something count as a stash expansion purchase if you've already used it up??? I present the Traditional Bea Ellis hat in Black and Cream Heilo. As it turns out, I'm not the only one who has recently found a Bea Ellis kit to knit. The cotton headband liner is what is rolling up on the brim. I hope to sew it inside the hat this weekend. I'm still debating about putting some tassels on this hat. This is another hat for Aaron and he's not really all that keen on tassels but because so many stitches are drawn up at the top, the hole at the top is larger than I'd prefer for a tassel-free hat.
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Next, here's Aaron modeling that gray hat I worked up last weekend. I'm thinking about felting a knitted flower to add to it to make the effect less "meuh". It's not my favorite but I now have one less skein of yarn in my stash so that's OK. Those of you who are making some snide remark about how I just added 17 new skeins to stash? Shut it. 🙂
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