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Key victory for free internet but effort to implement government control continues
Steve Watson
January 20, 2012
Following the announcement by the Department of Justice that it had shuttered file sharing website Megaupload last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today declared that the Senate vote on the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), scheduled for Tuesday, has now been postponed indefinitely.
"In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday's vote on the PROTECT IP Act," Reid said in a statement, referring to this week's "blackout" protest against PIPA and the House version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Just two days ago, Reid had been adamant that the vote would go ahead in the Senate next week.
The two contrasting events highlight the ferocity of the battle that is currently raging over internet freedom in the US and the wider world.
Although forced to sideline the decision on PIPA indefinitely, Reid acknowledged the fact that the battle over the internet legislation is far from over.
"We made good progress through the discussions we've held in recent days, and I am optimistic that we can reach a compromise in the coming weeks," Reid said.
"There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved," he added. "Counterfeiting and piracy cost the American economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs each year, with the movie industry alone supporting over 2.2 million jobs. We must take action to stop these illegal practices." Reid's statement continued.
"I admire the work that Chairman Leahy has put into this bill. I encourage him to continue engaging with all stakeholders to forge a balance between protecting Americans' intellectual property, and maintaining openness and innovation on the internet." the statement read.
Following Wednesday's protest, several lawmakers who had previously supported the legislation began to backtrack away and reverse their stances.
In the House, the Judiciary Committee postponed a decision on SOPA earlier in the month, but is expected to bring it up again in February. House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that "it's pretty clear to many of us that there is a lack of consensus at this point."
As we have repeatedly pointed out, and as proven by the seizure of Megaupload yesterday, the bills are not legislating for anything that isn't already being carried out by the federal government, which routinely seizes and blacklists any website it wishes.
Furthermore, major online corporations like Google are already following government mandated procedures and even using SOPA-like censorship.
Although the backlash against PIPA/SOPA and the resulting postponement of the bills represents a key victory for the free internet, it is clear that the establishment war against the web will remain in full force.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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Two University of Sydney professors have been awarded top honours by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Professor Elizabeth Elliott and Professor Craig Mellis were both awarded a prestigious John Sands Medal for their outstanding service to Fellows of the College and its faculties.
In presenting the award to Professor Elizabeth Elliott, the College said she had made a substantial contribution to paediatrics through her clinical work, research and involvement with the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
A professor of paediatrics, Elizabeth Elliot's research work has covered a diverse range of topics including foetal alcohol, spectrum disorder, infectious disease, and gastroenterology and injury prevention.
She was acknowledged for her leadership role on a number of boards and committees - positions she has held at an international, national and state level. She is the current president of the Paediatric Research Society of Australia and New Zealand and director of the APSU.
Fellow recipient, Professor Craig Mellis was acknowledged for his outstanding and lengthy medical career in clinical care, teaching and research, and in the field of paediatric respiratory medicine.
The College cited Professor Mellis's excellence as a clinical epidemiologist and biostatistician in the broader field of respiratory medicine as a reason for his award. This work has earned him an international reputation in the adult respiratory medicine world the college said.
The College also stated that Professor Mellis had positively impacted generations of medical graduates and trainees, whether in paediatrics or adult training programs, and he was a great example of a leader among physicians.
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Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' Smashes World Record By Selling for $119 Million
A pastel version of Edvard Munch's masterpiece 'The Scream' sold for $119.9 million at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday night, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
The work was purchased by an anonymous buyer for $119,922,500. That tops the old record for auctioned art, set by Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust,' which sold for $106.5 million two years ago.
This version of 'The Scream' is one of four — two pastels and two oil paintings — created by the Norwegian expressionist Munch between 1893 and 1910. It's the only version that can be owned by a private collector. The other three are housed in the National Gallery of Norway and at the Munch Museum in Oslo.
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The Baker family discovered they needed safe-to-play-with action figures, so they created Action Saints, which debuted with St. Michael. To come: Sts. Maximilian Kolbe and Thérèse.
One day, Stephen Baker let his young son, Ben, play with a hard-plastic statuette of St. Michael the Archangel.
"He was playing with it like crazy, running out in the back yard," recalled Baker. "Sooner or later, he came back in crying."
Marthie Baker, a nurse, thought a dog might have bitten her son, judging from the puncture wound in his hand. But it was the spear of the St. Michael statuette that had done the damage; the figure sustained an injury too — a broken wing from the tumble.
The Bakers have other statues around the house, along with four kids, and other accidents have occurred: St. Joseph's head has been detached a couple of times, and the Baby Jesus is missing an arm.
"We're sitting here telling our kids, 'No, don't touch,' and that's not a message that we want to tell our kids with the saints," said Stephen Baker.
So the parents were inspired to create Action Saints (ActionSaints.com), which offers a safe-to-play-with figure of St. Michael for ages 4 and up, complete with sword and a prayer card.
Action Saints is an endeavor of the Kolbe Film School (KolbeFilmSchool.com). Created by the Bakers, it is a non-for-profit, online tutorial program where students can learn 3-D animation production, character animation, and work to design gaming environments. One of the school's instructors is Thom Falter, who spent time as a character animator with Veggie Tales, working on the videos and the feature-length movie Jonah.
Designing an action figure wasn't a stretch for Stephen Baker, a licensed architect in the state of Colorado, where the family lives. He has designed or envisioned more than 30 churches and cathedrals in the United States. Back in 1993, while he was in college, Baker was struck by the words of Blessed John Paul II during his trip to Denver. The late Holy Father specifically mentioned the media as an area in which Catholics should work.
"The way he said it — 'including the media' — kind of haunts me," said Baker.
So Baker taught himself animation software and eventually produced a cartoon called The Kings of Christmas that aired on PBS. He became proficient enough in his knowledge of 3-D animation software that he has been an instructor at the university level for the last eight years at area colleges.
The Kolbe Film School has a straightforward mission: "Train the next generation of artists who seek to create media that inspires a culture of life."
Getting the first saint ready for a wide market was a multi-step process. First, St. Michael was designed in a 3-D modeling program called ZBrush, which allows users to mold a model like clay, but on a computer screen.
Then Baker had to find a firm to make the model; he eventually found one in China, as U.S. prices were high. The back-and-forth process between Baker's vision and the Chinese artists went from pictures of the computer model to a wax sculpture to a plaster mold and plastic prototype to a mold carved in stainless steel after final revisions. So far, a few thousand units have been ordered.
The cardboard backing with the figure's packaging features a history of the saint and the famous St. Michael prayer; the enclosed trading card also has the prayer.
The partnership has led to some evangelization opportunities. The prototype of St. Maximilian Kolbe includes a miraculous medal. One of the Chinese workers asked Baker about the "goddess" on the medal and what size it should be.
"Well no, she's the Mother of God," Baker told the worker.
Marthie's brother, Jim Moran, has moved 56 units of the St. Michael figure already. With a display model, he has informally pitched the action figure at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Kansas City, Kan. He has received positive feedback, with some families buying a number of the figures that start at $12, but are discounted for purchases of two units or more.
"People were just thrilled to have something like that," said Moran, a father of eight.
Moran said parents have been asking for other saints. If it were up to him, it would probably be St. Joan of Arc.
The patron saint of France is on the short list for additions to the "Action Saints" line, along with St. Augustine. Sts. Maximilian Kolbe and Thérèse are featured on the website as "coming soon."
But it takes capital to make the stainless-steel molds, and the Bakers are hoping St. Michael will sell well.
Want to see your favorite saint in action form? The Bakers said interested patrons could sponsor a saint, which would be a project for the Kolbe Film School. Interested parties can contact them via the website.
Said Marthie, "I hope it (sales) will grow, and that way we can make many more 'Action Saints,' because there's such a host of great saints."
Justin Bell writes from Boston.


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Analysis VMware boss Paul Maritz is rumoured to be exiting his virtualisation software powerhouse - and could be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, the head of storage products at parent company EMC.
You'd be forgiven for thinking this is a shock move, yet simple facts and observations from our sources point to this being a management tweak rather than a punishment for the VMware chief.
Maritz's speculated departure to the EMC board marks four years at the helm of the virtual machine-maker, which is recasting itself as a cloud infrastructure provider. Maritz was named VMware CEO in 2008 when EMC boss Joe Tucci fired then-chief exec Diane Greene.
VMware's rumoured new chief exec is Gelsinger, chief operating officer and president of EMC's information infrastructure products. His portfolio includes storage and backup gear. VMware was unable to comment on the changes when contacted by The Reg.
Maritz, however, dismissed gossip of his replacement by Gelsinger as "speculation", according to Bloomberg. Any changes are expected to be announced with the company's second quarter results on 23 July.
Hang on… speculation?
Maritz and VMware may officially dismiss the details, as you'd expect, but change is certainly approaching for the virtualisation giant. El Reg's sources close to VMware have told us the company is indeed planning a strategy change and that there's been a lot of internal talk of "fine-tuning things".
"The company has been working on a certain strategy and there's a lot of pressure on the business to maintain growth to maintain the high stock price," one mole said.
The goal of the change is to grow into "other areas", beyond virtualisation where the company remains the market leader. Maritz favours branching out into VMware's three layers – cloud, apps and virtualisation, the latter being its bedrock technology that allows multiple instances of an operating system and software to run on one or more computers, effectively sharing the hardware resources between systems as required.
The change comes after a number of top execs left from parts of VMware responsible for its middleware and cloud work - as well as some engineering brains VMware had brought in with its purchase of SpringSource.
Gone are Spring Framework creator Rod Johnson, who headed open-source Java and middleware; Peter Cooper-Ellis, VP of engineering at the SpringSource division; Mark Brewer, who was VMware's veep for business operations for its Cloud Application Platform; and Shaun Connelly, the SpringSource product strategy vice-president.
Meanwhile, as Reg storage watcher Chris Mellor reports, changes are washing through EMC, VMware's corporate parent. Top sales guys across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and global customer accounts and OEMS have been shifted.
What's behind the VMware changes?
VMware may be number-one in virtualisation, but there's growing pressure from Microsoft. Also, the love it longs from developers has eluded VMware. This is despite efforts to exploit cloud computing, dabble with open source, own its own apps and middleware, and bring in ex-Microsofties such as Maritz and ex-MSDN chief Tod Nielsen.
Tucci fired Green in July 2008 when VMware's stock price fell to $39.38 a share and the company missed its quarterly targets.
Four years in, and despite a double-dip recession that's hit markets, VMware stock is back up to $84.41 while revenue grew 25 per cent year-on-year in its fiscal first quarter of 2012 to $1.06bn.
This recovery suggests the rumoured Maritz move is not a punishment, and more that this is the structure tweak that our sources are telling us is happening.
Diversification is needed by VMware. Competition is growing, notably from Microsoft with its free Hyper-V offering for Windows Server.
Last week Redmond bragged to partners about IDC research that said for the first time its Hyper-V had gained market share on x86 while VMware's ESX lost share – Hyper-V was 26.6 percent, up from 22.5 percent in the year-ago quarter, while ESX fell to 52.4 percent from 53.6 percent a year earlier.
VMware has been successful in adding management capabilities to its vSphere and ESX products, and in positioning its virtualisation stack as a foundation for clouds. The company claims more than 125 "verified" vCloud public clouds in 26 countries.
But it's the diversification that's proving – and will continue to prove - to be EMC's challenge, no matter whether Martiz remains at the top or Gelsinger takes over.
VMware bought SpringSource and Zimbra supposedly to build apps and middleware tuned to its virtualisation layer and win a greater share of developers' new apps. The problem for VMware, is that developers don't really see VMware as their kind of company – it's still an infrastructure pitch for CIOs rather than a developer pick.
Meanwhile, sources tell The Reg of tension within the team running CloudFoundry, which was launched in April 2011 to provide an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building apps in the cloud.
CloudFoundry chief Derek Collison left in February this year to run his own cloud startup, Apcera. The pressure seems to revolve around the desire to iterate and release services fast as opposed to working slowly to a products company that is VMware.
CloudFoundry supports Java, Scala and Node.js but it's not the only PaaS offering out there: there's Microsoft's Azure, Red Hat's OpenShift, and Heroku, plus the Amazon and OpenStack clouds as the infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer. The challenge of any spin out will be differentiation against a crowed competitive field. GigaOM reports that VMware may spinout CloudFoundry and the big-data analytics company Greenplum it bought in 2010.
The framework of VMware's next chapter might be in place with cloud and also with apps. But, as our sources tell us, VMware has realised it must do more to stand out against a number of PaaS and IaaS rivals. ®


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Ever since she discovered dancing at the age of 4 when she would always get up and move every time her piano teacher played a number, she knew she had to make it her life. Since those early days. she decided after college to study the Flamenco.
"You have to embrace it because it is a lifestyle," she said. "You have to love what you do and be realistic about your ability to compete."
After studying the dance in Spain, Granados moved back to the U.S where she had first immigrated to from Peru. In 2002, after working at a ballet company in the city, she decided to open the American Bolero Dance Company.
The school, located in Astoria, offers classes for children and adults. It teaches ballet and different styles of flamenco including the folkloric dances.
"The purpose of our classes is to create and give students a vocabulary that we use to interpret the Escuela Bolera," she said. The Escuela Bolera is a type of dance that began in Castile Spain in the 18th Century and evolved. From the waist down it's ballet. From the waist up it's flamenco. And Granados notes it's a dying art form.
The classes are offered in a very laid-back and encouraging environment.
"The adults need to forget everything and have a moment for themselves when they come into my class," Granados said. "That helps them to learn to move gracefully, with rhythm."
In between the adults learning the art of the Flamenco, Granados puts on a show each spring showcasing the local and international talent. Modeled after the Tablaos clubs in Spain, Granados created Tablao Flamenco a few years ago.
The show is a one-of-a-kind display where the audience enjoys a table seat while the dancers, Granados included, perform. This Friday, April 1, the next showing will include two numbers by her.
Each Tablao Flamenco show is structured by four pillars. First the dancers: On April 1st, the La Argentinita dancers, who possess elements of the Tango infused with the Flamenco, will perform along with singers Alfonzo Cid and Aurora Reyes, and guitarists Basilio Georges and Cristian Puig. One anticipated dancer, Juan Siddi, is set to perform in the June showing.
Audiences should never expect the same show twice, notes Granados.
She is proud to have a show like it in Queens, in the heart of Astoria.
But Granados has plans to take the show to different boroughs soon, even though she is glad to have made her start in Queens.
"Queens is a good place to be. A lot of people here support what I do," she said.
This spring's Tablao Flamenco has already begun on March 5th.
The next showing is April 1st at 8:30 p.m. In case that show is sold out - as is normally the case - you can catch upcoming performances on May 6 and June 3.
For more information about the dance company, visit www.ambolero.com


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Veteran IT executive Rino Bergonzi's Rule No. 1: Fit the technology to the operation, not vice versa. Rules 2, 3 and 4: Secure wide support.
Too many chief information officers devote too much of their time to understanding new technology. It's a comfort zone for a lot of usit's something that's easy. You can just go to these conferences and spend time with Microsoft or Sun. If you want to hide, this is the place to do it. I realize this will probably not go over big with a lot of CIOsmy saying they're hiding behind their technology. But that's exactly what happens.
You can have the opposite problem too, of course. There are plenty of CIOs who get promoted from business positions. That was historically the case at United Parcel Service (UPS), which I joined in 1985 from Western Union, where I'd been responsible for all application development.
Before I joined UPS, the technology executives there all came from the finance department. It was obvious they didn't know a darned thing about technology. They didn't think they needed to. The package was king at UPSthey were experts at getting a package from Point A to Point B. It was all done manually, using industrial engineering methods. But as a business grows, you can't do everything manually. And we had something to remind us of that: Federal Express. Though far smaller than us, FedEx was eating our lunch in technologyand taking a lot of our business away.
UPS had one important thing going for it as a company: the level of commitment to any kind of initiative deemed critical to the company's future. And that quickly became the status of the package-tracking system we were developing in the mid-1980s.
As a leader of that project, I was particularly fortunate for the support I got from one UPS management committee member, Frank Erbrick. Frank didn't understand technology and didn't want to. But he knew when technology was needed. And it was certainly needed in the mid-1980s to improve UPS's system for tracking packages.
For projects like this that cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to complete, you often spend a lot of time trying to get approvals. But Frank was able to clear a lot of the hurdles. I knew the battles he had to fight and I had great respect for what he was doing.
And what a project it was! At the time, UPS had 129,000 vehicles on the roads; it was delivering an average of 12 million packages a day. To overlay a system on that operationwhich couldn't be brought down for a few hours, let alone a few weekswas incredibly complex.
The UPS drivers were used to a clipboard; we didn't want to change that too radically. So we developed an electronic clipboard. All you needed were two thumbs to work the whole thing.
Another thing that was a huge challenge was building a centralized database. Nowadays, it's not a problem, but back in 1985, off-the-shelf databases couldn't handle the kinds of volumes we had. Oh, there were certain customized databasesthe ones used by the airlines, for instancebut they were typically very expensive to maintain and manageand frankly, somewhat antiquated. We had to structure the database design to take advantage of available products without going into customized database design. That's exactly what we did, on IBM's DB2 platform, and it worked very well.
The third challenge was building the wireless network. We had to negotiate separate contracts with forty or fifty wireless companies. You could do it through one company today, but you couldn't then.
Hard as this project was, it would have been much harder to implement if we hadn't had the full support of everyone in the company. Everyone was accountable. Had we failed, the whole company would have failed. That's a different philosophy from a lot of other firms out therebut it's the philosophy you need to make huge technology projects pay off.
Rino Bergonzi is a co-founder of The CIO Group, a new consulting company. He previously served as chief information officer of AT&T and United Parcel Service.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering a free hunter safety course in Okaloosa County.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Iran nuclear weapon Suspicion Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Iran nuclear weapon Suspicion Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SNJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 61Location: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ii4n-sky/ Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:53 pm Post subject: Iran nuclear weapon Suspicion Iran nuclear weapon Suspicion ----- the execution of the joint statement is important The suspicion of developing nuclear weapon by Iran is being resolved. Iran government announced on 21st that it would suspend its uranium enrichment plan and respond to the demand by IAEA to sign and ratify the additional protocol after its talks with diplomats from England,France and Germany. Since the suspicion was discovered last Summer, some dubious facts have been brought to light, such as unregistered nuclear facilities or imported centrifugal separators which enriched uranium was detected in. It was natural that in the IAEA council last month, adopted was the resolution to call for complete disclosure of information about the suspicion with the time limit "by the end of October" and to call for early signning the additional protocol Less than 10 days are left by the time limit of the resolution. US are pressing to discuss the sunction in the UN security council. It should be positively evaluated that Iran government responded voluntarily to the implementatin of the resolution instead of turning his back on the international society in the midst of increasing diplomatic isolation. Certainly the additional protocol including sever rules such as surprise inspection partly intervenes the sovereignty. Nuclear nonproliferation treaty(NPT) guarantees each country a right of peace use of nuclear energy. It is related to this point that Iran had resisted to the resolution despite it has denied the suspicion. But the world security and peace is dependent on the NPT system. In order to prevent nuclearweapons spreading, it is serious obligation for member nations to accept fare and square inspection. Iran government is still reluctant to announce the schedule to sign the protocol and the terms to suspend the nuclear enrichment plan. Till everything in the joint statement will implemented, the international society have to keep to pay attention to Iran. Anyway,it can be said to be important diplomatic result for every country that the nuclear suspicion began to go toward the settlement in this way. Diplomatic ministers of UK,France and Germany visited Iran, declaring the diplomacy of persuasion and dialog, backed by the intensified diplomatic encircling net including US. They explained that the protocol and inspection wouldn't intervene Iran's sovereignty, dignity and security. The joint statement stipulates that Iran will implement the duties called for by IAEA and US standing on the spirit of cooperation and harmoney, so that Iran won't lose its face. If Iran keeps doing these duties sincerely, it will find the way of gaining technical cooperation for peace use of nuclear power which it has asked. It is the biggest issue for the leader of Iran to persuade the resistance power in the country. He should explain to the people this time that the Iran's national benefit will come from the cooperation with international society. The thing that the world worried most was that Iran following North Korea would turn its back on the NPT system and begin risky nuclear development. But Iran chosed the way to solve the pending-problems through the diplomacy and cooperation. North Korea which has tried to isolate only has to follow this example. It is said that under the water the talks with US was being proceeded in regard with the visit to Iran by the diplomatic ministers of UK,France,Germany. US and EU had a crack about the Iraq issue. But if they can allocate their rolls in the cooperation and harmony diplomacy with Iran, it is possible that they can do that in the Iraq issue. 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[M.I.G] I'll beat yo' azz
[Princess] I'll beat yo' azz
[M.I.G] I'll beat yo' azz my nigga
[Verse 1- M.I.G]
I'll beat da brakes off a nigga,
If he thinkin' dat he realer,
then dis 6 feet 4, I'm da giant out da river,
I deliver all da hitz,
teach u how to talk dat shit,
I'm da one who got theze niggaz screamin ellenwood bitch,
chrome to ya face, everlastin' like a yate,
Put them hands on dat nigga,
gon' and get him out my way,
It's okay, you can stay
In yo place where you'll be found,
from da club to da lot, see how M.I.G get down.
[Verse 2- Killa C]
Stop all dat yappin' bitch,
back da fuck up off of me,
U gon' b da 1 to fire up my fuckin' killin' spree,
favorite numba 7, them them dayz dat I be stackin cheese,
Callin' me da leader of dis crucial last army,
My nigga u swearin u hoein talkin shit
I'm maintaini' da ana,
look at my muthafuckin gun, it looks like Tony Matana's,
Bag back nigga and give me 50 feet,
M.O.B off in dis bitch and we beat dat azz 2 sleep.
[Verse 3- Lil' Jay]
Wassup wit ya? fuck nigga
bag da fuck up fo' I swing wit my fist,
U want it come get it, I got it you know it
so stop when I pop I ain't takin no shit,
I stay wit my niggaz so grimy
and don't try to dime me or climb me or talkin trash,
off in da club fuck nigga wat?
I swing ya myself and I'll beat yo lil' azz,
Come wit da click and we get da shit,
and we beat them niggaz at don't give a fuck
Stop all dat hatin bitch u be fakin,
step on dat station and get yo azz stuck,
ready to buck, ready to ride
crunk in da club and my crew be outside,
Yo head Ima bash, I stood up and thrash,
so let it be known dat lil Jay beat yo azz.
[Verse 4- Phsyco B]
U don't want no problems
cuzz I'll have to solve 'em,
U don't wanna dance wit theze hands
cuzz I'll drop 'em,
Phsyco B gon rock ya and crush ya like heavy weight,
I'll stray ya off like master hit yo azz when u violate,
Cuzz this here ain't no game, ya'll ain't ready we too buck,
theze cowards are too crucial and too brutal for you bro'ah,
so if u got some ana and u feel u stand a chance,
u met da right nigga dat will knock u out ya stash.
[Verse 5- Princess]
Watch yo back when I hit da door,
U think dat Im playin gamez,
Man I'm here to take out u hoez and bust shots dat pist. through yo brain,
we carrying deadly thangs, I'm known for correctin lamez,
Come test me Im ready, Its gon be hectic off in dis cage,
M.O.B dat be my click, knock down hoez for talkin shit,
Now know yo' azz gon' get hit,
Thats da price for poppin quick,
don't hate me for makin cash,
Im da best would u want surpass?
Don't think dat Im scared to blast,
cuzz I'll bust and beat all ya'll azz.
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Friday, January 01, 2010
The Purpose of Myth
Myths tell stories; not with a moral or a message, but with a purpose. Rather than instructional or cautionary tales, myths are closer to being a kind of "user's manual" for the psyche. Myths are collective blueprints, maps not of outer terrain but of the inner landscape of the psyche. At the same time, since they are narratives, these maps are moving, dynamic, in constant flux and change. They chart a process within the psyche, a process by which that internal landscape is both revealed and transformed: transformed by being revealed. This is evident in the most traditional and familiar of mythic narratives, that of the quest for forbidden (or promised) lands, the hunt for magikal treasures, and suchlike.
Myths are populated—we might even say "configured"—by archetypes. Just as a car is constructed around various parts that together make a vessel, myths are built upon, with, and through the arrangement of archetypes. You could say a mythic narrative is akin to the tracks left in the dust by the movement of archetypes; yet at the same time, it is more than that. A myth is a strange attractor, a morphogenetic field created by archetypes, one that draws us into a sympathetic relationship with them. This relationship allows us not merely to experience the tale second-hand, but to embody it. By matching our psyches with the process being revealed, they are transformed by it and become one with it. Since archetypes are essentially synonymous with the myths they inhabit, or "drive," if we align ourselves with a mythic narrative through our actions, we become identified with the archetypes. This is the alchemical process described by Jung as individuation, by which the various unrefined aspects of the personal self are integrated and transformed, into a holistic, transpersonal Self, just as the alchemists of old transmuted lead into gold.
Individuation & the Archetypes
The process of individuation described by Jung is the goal of psychological development; in metaphysical terms, it amounts to "God's incarnation." The first step to individuation is "differentiation." This entails distinguishing and separating each part, or psychological function, of the psyche, in order to consciously access and understand them. According Jung, the psyche is divided into three major parts. Firstly there is the ego or conscious mind, which equates with the personal self (including the constructed identity). Then there is the individual unconscious, which includes forgotten or suppressed memories from our lives, from birth to present (including our dream life), and equates with the impersonal or authentic self. Finally, there is the collective unconscious, shared by the species, the combined memory of human thought and experience from ancient to modern times, including the basic human instincts as well as the archetypes. This last amounts to a transpersonal or archetypal Self—i.e., "God's incarnation."
Individuation, then, is the transformational process of integrating the conscious with both the individual and collective unconscious. Integrating the conscious with the collective unconscious is the means of harmonizing and realizing the archetypes. As in the ancient mythic tales of men transformed into heroes, and sometimes into gods, this is achieved by embodying the forces of Nature and of the Universe.
Jung wrote: "I use the term 'individuation' to denote the process by which a person becomes a psychological 'in-dividual,' that is, a separate, indivisible unity or 'whole.' . . . The persona is an obstacle to the individual's development. The dissolution of the persona is therefore an indispensable condition for individuation. . . . It is the task of the conscious mind to understand these hints. If this does not happen, the process of individuation will nevertheless continue. The only difference is that we become its victims and are dragged along by fate towards that inescapable goal which we might have reached walking upright, if only we had taken the trouble and been patient enough to understand the meaning of what crosses our path."
Archetypes (the gods and demons of ancient myth) are universal principles with nothing personal about them. And yet, they can be embodied by individual characters and so become anchored in the personal, temporal realm of mortal men and women. Without such anchorage, archetypes have neither form nor identity, being rather functions, types of motion, "processes." So it is fair to say that the gods can only become real, whole, through men. Like gravity or electricity, putrefaction or blossoming, these divine processes pertain to the Universe at large, but also to the inner universe of the psyche. So, although the archetypal powers embodied in myth as "gods" stand for elemental forces such as wind, rain, Sun, and so forth, they also correspond with aspects of our being every bit as vital to the smooth functioning of our inner world, as the planets and stars are to that of the Universe.
In simple terms, myths are populated by certain basic types—the Hero, villain, sidekick or second-in-command, the evil feminine (temptress), the good feminine, and so forth. Jung described how these romantic tales can be interpreted psychologically in terms of anima, animus, Shadow, Other, and so forth. Just as the various aspects together make up the totality of the psyche, or Self, so the many gods and devils of ancient myth made up a Pantheon—a collective—which was not a static museum of idols but a living, moving process (much as are the Psyche, and the Universe), described and mapped via the narratives we call "myths."
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Aeolus -- this is good but the problem with Sheldrake is he just talks about resonance habits without looking at the actual structure of resonance itself.
Consider Jung -- the myth archetype guru -- he had the Secret of the Golden Flower as the ideal alchemy book. But it's only MIND YOGA.
Not until later was "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" translated by Charles Luk.
Guess what -- MUSIC is not a myth but it's what causes the sympathetic resonance -- and it's NONWESTERN music.
The Muses were the original myth -- the rainbow snake from the mother flute of Pan....
The small universe microcosmic orbit alchemy is the 12 notes of the music scale as the original mythic alchemy.
There is a method to the madness of pan and it's the Taoist Tetrad.
- 3:38 pm, January 02, 2010
- Jasun said...
Hi Drew
you are coming in with some very deep/complex points, sort of ironic as I was/will be attempting to strip the subject down to its bare bones, as I know a lot of folk in the APC don't know their archetypes from their elbow, ha ha.
Myths are stories, and means to psychological insight without any (need for) esoterica. My hope is that these pieces I will be posting will be of interest both to the adepts such as yourself as well as to complete novices.
- 5:40 pm, January 02, 2010
- JSteveKane said...
i think im one of those that doesn't really understand archetypes and i feel for that reason don't know what to do when particular archetypes keep resonating sometimes i think i react the wrong way eg with the dark goddess archetype, but i love this peice , i really must get one of your boooks
- 12:19 pm, January 03, 2010
- Vipera Kernewes said...
I wish I could add something to the intellectual discussion, but I just have to ask - what are those b&w myth cards? I´d like to see some more.
- 12:44 pm, January 03, 2010
hi folks, found this cool:
- 2:00 pm, January 03, 2010
- Jasun said...
Grail Maiden, image just something I found on the Net, no idea where it's from.
Steve: the idea of 'reacting wrongly to archetypes' is an intriguing one, worth looking into in more depth, I'd say.
Any reaction is 'wrong,' just as any response is 'right.'
Reaction is pattern-driven, response is a movement of being; this is why 'reactive' types are the norm, where 'responsible' people are rare.
To 'react to an archetype' would be to superimpose our patterns upon a formless energy field, and turn, say, the impersonal Pan-energy of Earth into the Christian, personalized Devil of fire and brimstone.
The pattern of powerlessness and distorted sexuality (and fear of the female) is what drives this reaction.
Something similar going on between you and the 'dark goddess'?
- 6:09 pm, January 03, 2010


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Tony Davidow's role at the Schwab Center for Financial Research is not to build products or sell them, or to dogmatically argue for passive or active strategies, but to research investment strategies, especially "smart beta" ones, and educate advisors about their role in client portfolios.
"Our view is that there's a role for active and passive strategies; we haven't given up on active managers," said Davidow in a Nov. 5 interview leading up to Schwab's annual Impact conference, being held in Washington from Nov. 10-13.
"Not all alternatives are created equal," Davidow said, and while he says there are many smart beta strategies available to advisors, those strategies yield "very different results over time." Moreover, in looking at passive strategies, both traditional index investing and smart beta strategies, such as the fundamental indexing approach pioneered at Research Affiliates by Rob Arnott and Jason Hus, "both market cap and fundamental strategies are complementary."
For example, under some market conditions, market-cap weighted strategies will perform better, he pointed out, such as what he calls the 'Apple effect.'
"If you're overweighting the biggest companies in the index, sometimes you're rewarded, like Apple in the first three quarters of 2012." However, over the last quarter of 2012 and the first of 2013, when Apple's share price declined, so too did the underlying S&P and the market-cap weighted mutual funds and ETFs based on that index. "Much of the return differential is explained by the Apple effect," Davidow said.
There's another benefit to advisors in using both passive and active approaches: keeping clients invested in the market. "There are some advisors who can and will make tactical calls" as market conditions change, but Davidow says "most advisors want to keep their clients engaged," and using smart beta can reduce a portfolio's volatility over time, so its more likely advisors' clients will "stay committed to the plan."
So that's why "there's a role for market cap and fundamental" index investing, and also a role for advisors to identify "those strong active managers who can play defense in troubled market times. If you believe there will be shocks to the market, wouldn't you want a manager who can play defense?"
So what's the value of smart beta strategies, and are advisors interested in those strategies, especially in ETFs based on fundamental indexing? "There's so much interest in this because it shows excess return; it stacks up well from an alpha perspective relative to market cap and active managers." But it's not just "excellent returns but also risk-adjusted returns" that smart beta can provide, and if they're "delivered in an ETF or mutual fund, they tend to be cost effective."
That interest is reflected in the "roughly $156 billion in assets following RAFI strategies," referring to Arnott's Research Affiliates Fundamental Indexes. Now that RAFI-based strategies have not just strong academic research but "now a track record" of performance, the demand for those strategies has been particularly strong, expecially among institutional investors.
Davidow says that BlackRock's latest research shows that the total number in smart beta—which includes fundamental, equal weight and low volatility indexing—has reached $180 billion, with $45 billion attracted to those strategies in 2013 alone.
As vice president for alternative beta and asset allocation strategist at the Schwab Center for Financial Research, Davidow says his educational efforts among advisors has had a "warm reception" that is "overwhelmingly positive." That's not only because many advisors are thinking about the overall cost of investing strategies and re-exploring the active versus passive debate, but more important, looking at "how to improve the client experience" with these lower volatility strategies.
Turning to the broader universe of exchange-traded funds, Davidow said that "we believe there's more room for innovation," including in fixed income and alternatives, an opinion he says is shared throughout the industry. "It's clearly a different environment than the early days" of ETF investing, before returning to his theme of benefiting the end investor.
"In the next wave" of ETF introductions, he said, "if we can improve the experience of the end client, that client will be enriched and will invest further. We're still in the early innings of ETF innovation."
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It's Fashion Week in NY. Did you know? I only found out this Thursday under peculiar circumstances...
My closet ate two of my skirts and countless number of tops. It's true and it can happen to you if you are not vigilant and stuff your closet with everything: from bags of old clothes prepared but never quite given to donations to ill fitting shoes you are not ready to part with to confiscated toys. Somewhere in between the bag of unmatched children's socks and an old pillow are my missing clothes. But to find them, I would need to organize my closet, so for now I am doing without.
The absence of skirts coupled with the fact that quite a few of my other skirts have salt and snot stains on them - winter, I know you are here! - resulted in having nothing to wear one fine Thursday morning. Frantically going through every piece of clothing I own and rejecting them one by one - snot, too small, too summery, too dressy, salt, snot, yogurt, snot, too small, wore just yesterday, damn it, I should've left 5 minutes ago!!!!- I finally came to a piece that resulted in a "maybe". It was kind of summery, somewhat ill-fitting (yes, I gained weight like I do every winter
Despite my unseasonal garb, the entire day went just fine. Going back to work, the subway was overflowing with people, but I don't think that it's fair to blame my jumper for it. As I squeezed myself between two people who insisted on standing close to the doorways, I came standing right in front of a seated guy about my age. "Asian," I thought, so I figured that I had about 50% chance of getting his seat at Delancey, only three stations away. Yes, racial profiling in NY subway system is so rampant, it's appalling. As I was shamelessly calculating my chances to get his seat, our eyes met and he uttered the unicorn of subway phrases, only few of the riders claim to have heard and scientifically proven to be non-existent. "Would you like a seat?"
I was caught a bit off-guard. I was not pregnant - did he know something I didn't? - or sick or elderly. But then my instincts kicked in and I said, "Sure! You are being awfully nice. Thank you." "He must be getting off next stop," I told myself. He did not. I stubbornly pushed away the obvious. "He must be a REALLY nice guy," I thought. We passed Delancey, and my benefactor was still standing only a few inches away from me. I looked at my jumper, my protruding stomach and remembered slightly greenish tint on my face from watching Interny till wee hours the night before; all the dots connected and I could no longer deny it. "The nice SOB thinks I'm pregnant." As this thought entered my mind, I glanced to the left and saw my neighbor studying pictures from the Fashion Week shows. "Is it Fashion Week? Again? (Sigh.) I am so out of vogue. (Deep sigh.) I bet this fashionista would never wear a jumper that made her look pregnant, " I sulked.
And then another thought entered my mind. "Too bad for her." I got a seat in an over-crowded subway car. Half of those well dressed fashionable women were getting killed by their high heels and poked in the ribs by neighbors' elbows. And frumpy and pregnant looking me was comfortably sitting. Right then and there I made a decision to upgrade the jumper to an all-season regular. With that thought I peacefully drifted off to dream about fashion, jumpers and Interny.


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Joe Wojceichowski and the Widener defense will try to shut down Delaware Valley.
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The intensity of rivalries is virtually unmatched. The players become more focused, the crowd more vibrant. Alumni flood to stadiums, and memories are dredged up. A win against a rival opponent can rescue an otherwise sour season. And it makes Saturday night celebrations so much sweeter.
Across the country, rivalries will be taking place Saturday as the regular season comes to a close and the playoff prowess in a few remaining conferences shakes out.
Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan and Ryan Tipps walk you through the action, with Selection Sunday right on the horizon.
Game of the Week.
Ryan's take: Huntingdon at No. 7 Wesley. It's been a couple of years now since the Wolverines were in a position in which losing the regular season finale would likely mean no playoff performance. But there are question marks for Saturday. Wesley's loss to Kean earlier in the year made perfection necessary for the final eight games of the season. And Huntingdon won't be a pushover. The Hawks have already dealt losses to teams that currently stand at 8-1 and 7-2. Could a team like Wesley, which has been to the national semifinals each of the past two seasons, get left out in the cold entirely? Their performance Saturday will be telling.
Keith's take: Wherever you're headed. The other guys nail the games with the farthest-rippling playoff implications. So I'll go ahead and cop out, under the premise that there's no need to single out a game when we have five conference championships decided (NEFC, NJAC, MAC, LL and NWC), rivalry games from Indiana to Massachusetts to Virginia — and Iowa and Pennsylvania — that make or break seasons. And beyond that, it's Week 11 — the last game of the season for all but 32 playoff teams and 14 ECAC bowl-bound squads. Hundreds of seniors will hang it up after this. Parents will see their son play one last time, and tailgate grills will make a final appearance before heading into the garage for offseason storage. So I'll play the Jon Gruden "everything's awesome" role. Because, you know, it is.
Pat's take: Widener at No. 11 Delaware Valley. Literally, you can't do a playoff projection without the result of this game, and there are a lot of factors. Let's see, Delaware Valley has this tremendously backloaded schedule, with Lycoming and Widener at the end. The Aggies haven't looked very much like the young team that they are this season. Widener surprised Delaware Valley last year and sent them on a course for Mount Union in the second round, so the rivalry got amped up a little higher and Delaware Valley has even more motivation. But what could be more motivating than the only chance Widener has to get a playoff bid?
Surprisingly close game.
Ryan's take: No. 12 Johns Hopkins at McDaniel. Part of the motivation here is seeing JHU almost drop their matchup against Franklin and Marshall last week, a team that should have been handled easily by the high-powered Blue Jays. However, what makes McDaniel a thinker in this situation is its track record this year: of the Green Terror's seven losses, five were by eight points or less. McDaniel hasn't really been able to bring all the pieces together to get wins, but the team has been able to hang around long enough to make it interesting. This Saturday's game will be interesting, too.
Keith's take: Trine at Albion. Maybe surprising only in the sense that the Britons are playoff-bound no matter the outcome, and Trine — the dominant MIAA program of the past few seasons picked up two conferences losses by mid-October. But I'm not sure I expect Albion to win, observing from afar. After an impressive five-game stretch, the Britons outgained DePauw 380-126 last week but managed just three points. Trine is the MIAA's top rush offense (179 yards/game) and Albion is the top rush defense (96 yards). Should be a fun one.
Pat's take: UW-La Crosse at No. 1 UW-Whitewater. UW-La Crosse gave UW-Whitewater a decent game in the season opener. It's not likely to be the same close game it was in September, but it will be interesting to see how the teams have grown since Week 1 … not to mention how Whitewater might do if it needed to use Levell Coppage in the fourth quarter.
Most likely Top 25 team to get upset.
Ryan's take: No. 18 Franklin. Over the past four weeks, the Grizzlies have progressively played their way through the bottom four teams in the HCAC, starting with 4-5 Rose-Hulman and ending with 0-9 Earlham. So how will they react to all of sudden having to play a more competitive team again? Franklin is unquestionably the better team in this matchup, but Hanover's advantage is being able to push Franklin enough to throw the Grizzlies off their game. This is a rivalry game, too, played for the Victory Bell. Hanover will be well aware of the fact that this is the last game of their season, win or lose. The Panthers will surely want to win.
Keith's take: No. 9 Wabash. Just kidding Little Giants fans. Admit it, you got mad there for a second. No. 22 Bethel is my real pick. And with the 10th best rushing offense in the country at 279 yards a game, and with the No. 14 total defense, the Royals probably are just an unfortunate version of the team that played in a national semifinal last season. That said, it's not easy to force yourself to play just for pride, and that appears to be all the Royals have left when they face 6-3 Augsburg in the Metrodome. Bethel and Augsburg had similar results against St. Thomas and St. Olaf, but only the Royals have to realize there's no long playoff run ahead this year, just a long football-free December like most of are used to, and turning that into positive motivation.
Pat's take: No. 13 Redlands. Last year, Redlands barely beat Chapman, finishing 8-1. The previous two years, Redlands lost in Week 11 to finish 7-2 each season and miss out on any shot at the playoffs. Not going to say any more.
They'll be on your radar.
Ryan's take: Muhlenberg. A win in the Mules' crosstown rivalry game against Moravian would position them well for an ECAC postseason game. Muhlenberg stumbled a couple of times during the season but showed they could compete with the likes of Delaware Valley and Johns Hopkins. The team's seniors certainly remember the special run the Mules had during their freshman year, and they'll certainly be eager to channel that energy again.
Keith's take: UW-Platteville. If the Pioneers can beat UW-Stevens Point for a second time, they'll finish 7-3 and go down as the best team not to beat anybody great, but to only lose to really good teams. The three losses are to Wheaton, UW-Whitewater and UW-Oshkosh, which are 22-5 combined. A seventh win would also eclipse the best record of the D3football.com era, a 6-4 mark in 2004.
Pat's take: UW-River Falls. The Falcons started the season 0-8, but had two close losses at home, then won at UW-La Crosse last week to snap the losing streak. River Falls returns home this week to face UW-Eau Claire.
Rivalry game you're most interested in (alma maters excluded).
Ryan's take: Amherst at Williams. No matter what, this is the end of the road for both of these teams, which opt not to compete in the playoffs. So at stake is pride: the Ephs' pride in keeping Amherst from an undefeated 2011 season; the Lord Jeffs' pride in avenging last year's loss. If you don't know the history between these two schools, look it up. It's unlikely that any two institutions have claim to a more natural rivalry than these two. And it's rare for them to produce anything but a captivating game.
Keith's take: Coe at Cornell. Okay, you can get Curt Menefee to pose in a "beat Cornell" shirt. Probably could get Fred Jackson too. But as long as I've been writing rivalry stories, I've never been able to say anything about this game but that they've played it for a long time (121 and counting). Am I just not talking to the right people? The two teams have followed each other from the MWC to the IIAC and are going their separate ways as Cornell heads back to the MWC, but I'm interested in whether fans in Iowa really care about this rivalry.
Pat's take: No. 14 Kean at No. 15 Montclair State. Okay, so it won't appear on too many lists of great rivalries but I'm going to go ahead and pick it here because there should be plenty of bad blood … or blood, anyway … to go with what's on the line in this game, for the NJAC title. Kean coach Dan Garrett and both of his coordinators played at Montclair, which is just 18 miles from Kean, in northern New Jersey.
Who will have the least momentum going into the playoffs?
Ryan's take: Albion. The Britons have to be scratching their heads after last weekend's loss to DePauw and should have spent this week learning how to once again become in tune with their offensive mojo. Even though Trine doesn't have the luster of the last couple of seasons, the team still knows how to force turnovers and run the ball down its opponent's throat. Albion knows how to handle the run — usually — and the ability to stop that will help them with their confidence going into the playoffs. However, it won't be a surprise if Albion is an eighth seed in the region, which wouldn't be doing them any favors. The mental hurdle will be as tough as the physical one.
Keith's take: St. Thomas. They're 10-0, sure. But they don't have a game this Saturday. So I guess it depends how you define momentum.
Pat's take: Thomas More. Regardless of whether Thomas More wins this week or not, the Saints are already back on their heels after the loss to Waynesburg. Thomas More went solely from being a heavy favorite to being a favorite against Mount St. Joseph in their local rivalry game, but either way, the damage has been done.
Which team can alter its fortunes the most?
Ryan's take: Lewis and Clark. The question isn't which team "will," but rather which team "can." And the Pioneers certainly can. A win at Linfield puts L&C — a team just three seasons removed from a long string of 0- and 1-win seasons — in the playoffs. On the flip side, a loss for the Pioneers means they'll be sitting at home next week.
Keith's take: Hampden-Sydney. Besides Widener and the other teams that can play their way into the playoffs with wins, H-SC could change course the most on Saturday. A win over 7-2 Randolph-Macon continues the Tigers' dominance in the series and gives them an advantage in recruiting. A loss could mean the difference between a home playoff game against somebody like Christopher Newport, Centre or Thomas More, or a road game at Salisbury, Wesley or Johns Hopkins.
Pat's take: Trinity (Texas). Not sure it's in a positive way, however. Austin has to be motivated to not finish the season 0-10. The Kangaroos have been fairly decent at home while the Tigers have struggled a little bit on the road.


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America's emergency food assistance system has tended to distribute a high amount of unhealthy food to citizens that need help. The Lowcountry Food Bank is like most in the United States. Unless someone is paying attention to nutrition and actively seeking healthy food items, a lot of the food items distributed are often unhealthy, if consumed on a routine basis or in large portions. Obesity and its related health conditions (e.g. strokes, heart disease) are very high among minorities, African Americans and Hispanics in particular, and low-income residents in the Lowcountry, as well as all across the United States. People reliant on emergency food assistance through churches, community-based human service organizations and food banks may not have a choice about eating healthy. They eat what they can access. If we are to make a dent in the obesity issues that low income residents have, we must alter what is done through the emergency food assistance system in America.
The Growing Foods Locally project seeks to change the traditional way one thinks about community food assistance and experiments with clustering small-scale farm operations with a selected group of emergency food assistance providers (i.e., called a micro-economic agricultural clustering approach) with the goal of enhancing the amount of nutritional food items available to the poor. It also seeks to alter the food handling, preparation and consumption behaviors of emergency food assistance providers and consumers.
The project sought a partnership with ten small-scale farms in Beaufort Country that were willing to work with the Lowcountry Food Bank and 25 nonprofits that are affiliated with the Food Bank. Farmers have committed between 0.25 to 4 acres of their land to producing fresh vegetables and some fruit for the Food Bank's use. The Food Bank distributes the produce to its affiliating nonprofits. These non-profits are mostly church-based food pantries, food distribution and feeding programs, but also include a group home, the area foster parents association and a regional human service agency that works with families affiliated by HIV/AIDs and other related health conditions. The non-profits are upgrading their food safety routines and distributing the fresh produce to their consumers. The Food Bank, the 25 non-profits and consumers are all receiving additional nutrition education and food safety training. Farmers are receiving technical assistance to make their yields higher, their distribution more efficient, and enhancing their marketing channels. Consumers are receiving food demonstrations, nutrition education and nutrition information resources in addition to the fresh produce and other food items.
During the second year of the project and as yields from the small-scale farms become reliable and of consistently even quality, the Food Bank is assisting farmers in marketing and distributing their produce to commercial markets. A marketing plan is being developed. Thus the emergency food assistance system is also becoming a player in micro-economic development within the region. Starting with one local restaurant in Beaufort, the project is experimenting with having some of the farmers' produce used and identified as locally grown. Additional retailers include the BiLo and Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. They have agreed to market the farmers' produce in a special display. Farmers markets and road side stands are also part of the growing marketing channels used.
Several other partnerships are being tried to see what the success is in enhancing the amount of nutritious food that is available to low income residents. These partnerships include working with interested schools to start gardens and having the kids commit to growing a set number of pounds of food which is then distributed through the Food Bank system. Another partnership involves working with the local technical college's culinary arts program to learn to prepare nutritious meals for distribution through the Kids Café program (a low income children's before and after school feeding program run by the Food Bank and some of its affiliates).
What we learn from this project that was successful will be spread eventually to all 10 counties that the Lowcountry Food Bank services.
Co-Principal Investigators: Robert Strickland, Director of Operations, Lowcountry Food Bank and Dr. Kathleen Robinson, Research Professor, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University
This project is currently funded through grants from the USDA's Community Food Program ($225,000), the Donnelly Foundation ($90,000), the Sisters of Charity Foundation ($202,970), and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation ($100,000).