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That's less laziness and more wariness of flame wars.
See this is how you have a discussion about gender issues in the video game industry. Not "OMG it's a conspiracy by evil males to oppress women!!". No, you laid out an intelligent argument, identified the actual root of the problem, opened up a interesting debate that it might not be the fault of who we think.
And no, this was in no way a shot at 'Tropes vs. Women', which turned out to be surprisingly tame. This was a shot at every cluster-fuck thread I have seen on the internet since Tropes vs. Women was even mentioned. The utter asshattery I've seen from BOTH genders is truly legendary and will always remain as a shining example to how retarded we BOTH are.
Great video jim.
Funny thing is if every person who debated this topic on forums actually wrote to the publishers about wanting to see females on box cover and play female roles, we wouldn't have this situation.
Yes, because the problem with Mirror's Edge was the main character...
*eye roll*
All right then, how about you and I start a thread urging people to do so?
Um... What?
I think you need to reread my post, because that was the point I was making. The only big name games featuring female protagonists have failed due to reasons other than the lead. I outright said:
So unless I'm missing something, I don't understand why you seem to be refuting a stance I didn't take, and in fact, you reiterated what I said.
I feel like all these people vehemently decrying rampant sexism in videogames are just now waking up to realize that the industry is largely marketed towards the uninhibited, teen-to-college age male. It's like complaining that Playboy, Maxim or the latest spring break movie are sexist. Guess what? When the dominant demographic begin to ask for something more than scantly-clad women in their games, then that's what the industry will provide. As it stands, the product this demographic demands is one that enables them to act out their masculine fantasies. This whole thing just feels like much to-do about nothing.
Also, I think it makes perfect sense that a guy playing as a girl character would feel awkward when their character begins kissing a male character. The entire purpose of these games is to immerse you in the experience, meaning that I, a straight male, am projecting myself onto the main character that I control. The moment my character, me, regardless of whether the character is male or female, begins to kiss a guy, I lose some of that immersion. That's not sexist, that's just a natural result of immersing myself in a character. (I hope that makes sense)
No I'm sorry but remember halfway through Bioshock's Infinite production the fiasco of the female lead Elizabeth and how sexist she was? Yeah something like that is going to force a development studio to rethink their marketing strategy so that's not completely on the marketing but also on the constant complaining of a vocal minority who think that despite not being employed by the video game industry that they have some right to control the content.
I hadn't really thought about the female leads in games, mostly the sexualization of them by the industry. Very good points but the licking at the end caused me to shrink away from my screen just a bit...
Well would you look at that?
An ACTUAL issue regarding gender and video games.
Too bad that real problems like this inevitably get buried under the kind of horseshit that people like Anita try to present as "problems" in order to push their ideology.
Oh well.
Good episode.
Well you pretty much know what happens in those instances. They've got a check-list of risk factors. Based of some chart based of cold statistics. And they mechanically tick away in favour of aspects that are market proof and eliminating as much uncertainty as they can. It's creepy because it's not a human process to begin with.
I don't really mind what gender I play in games, although my preference is male because I relate to that obviously.
With that said, I have played quite a few games with female protagonists and I found them quite the same experience as when playing with male(Mass Effect, Dragon Age etc). I really enjoy having the option of going female actually.
I'm just interested in playing the game how the devs wanted to present it to me. If that means a female protagonist, then great. Because they wish to present their game and story with a female protagonist, and so I take it on faith that this has been decided that this way is the best possible way for this game to have been presented.
And if "getting intimate" is part of that story, then I have no problem with that character doing so. Hell, what gives me the right to be an IRL cock block?
Wasn't the female protagonist on the cover of FFVI? And it was mostly about her, Screw Lightning she sucks. What a lame woman indeed, she's like the anti-Tidus who also sucked :P
And i'm probably the only defender of samus's Zero Suit but do any of you remember how she looked before she had it?
or even further
But that's not what this is about, is it.
Anyway, i an as some of already said are guilty of often choosing male character in games if there's the option but if the playable character is female it never really stops me buying or playing, and from my perspective why would it stop anyone especially in this day and age?
Jim raises a very good point how females do have a habit of being relegated to the back in appearances and it's clearly wrong, it goes into other stuff like race. Funny thing is I wasn't even interested in BioShock till I read about Elizabeth. So kudos to the developer for getting me interested
I know...this is the reason I have a problem with EA.
I always wondered what it would be like if this was more of an open world game. A bit more like Assassins Creed. You are here, there's your goal. That being said, I don't think it would work to that extend.
Not....funny. :(
Well maybe this was less related to the sexism problem that's been discussed in the video, and more to the fact that the video reminded me of a game with a female protagonist that deserves a sequel. I cannot think of any EA game of the last years with this much potential. It was fresh, it was something new. However, it should have been made better and longer.
Great Video Jim, you can be my Big Daddy anytime ;D
Seriously I still cannot get the logic that having a female player character in romantic relationship can be considered awkward. Or have I missed something and actually all males my age think woman don't actually enjoy sex or romance because they think the world is actually like old sitcoms. I mean if someone is over the age of 10 and thought of playing as a female genuinely makes them feel uncomfortable, then all I can really say is that they need some sense slapped into them with a cold wet flannel.
For the record I'm a straight male and when given the choice between a male and female character in a game, I choose to play as a male. Mainly because I'm a little unimaginative when it comes to role-playing games and too many nexus mods I've seen *shudder* make be feel creepier for choosing a female character. If the game does not offer a choice then I'm not really bothered either way if I'm playing a male or a female. Then I'm just more concerned that the story and gameplay are good. Frankly though I get enough of looking through the first person perspective of a white man with short brown hair in my daily life, it nice when games mix it up a bit.
No, that's not objectification.
You seem to mistake "object" as in "physical thing without life" and the original use of the term, in Grammar.
Alex finds Jessie
"Alex" is the subject and "Jessie" is the object.
Sexual objectification is the sense of women being the objects in a sexual sense.
"David is dating Sarah"
David is the subject, Sarah is the object, the verb phrase is to do with sexual relations.
There can also be violent objectification.
"Captain Price shoots the platoon of Russian Soldier"
Price is the subject, russian platoon is the object, violence is the verb phrase.
Objectification CANNOT be at work when the playable character is a woman, they are de-facto the subject, everything is through their perspective.
The term "sexual objectification" has been carried over whole from film criticism and applied to games with no understanding of what it actually means.
The problem is in fact sexual SUBJECTIVITY, because where the player character is female then they are the subject and the player is identifying with them in sexual preference. It's not that they don't like the idea of a woman being in love with a man...
... it's that they are imagining they are that woman.
How can we damn this as regressive, that men are wholley considering themselves in the role of a woman. They are not passive observers, they are living this avatar.
This is why where there is romance it is in RPGs where you pick the player-character's gender and pick what relationships they are in.
As to marketing:
Were women excluded from the cover art of Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite "just beceause they were women"... or because they weren't the action hero protagonists? The devil is in the detail, of their reaction to various cover arts.
Because these are action games, they need to market themselves as such.
In which case the problem is with the developers for AGAIN choosing a male lead. I get it once or twice, but of all the new action heroes that have been created new in gaming since Tomb Raider... what proportion of them have been women?
Naughty Dog wasn't pressured to have a male lead, that was ther decision. Nor was Irrational Games coerced to have a male lead.
It's not sexism to chose any particular gender, no single act changed this... the problem is the trend.
I don't know what retard publisher categorically forbade a female lead but knowing publishers they are retards. Seriously, they are idiots of the games industry. Their expertise is fiddling numbers on stock markets and hedge funds, they suddenly think they know how to make video games.
They don't represent the industry.
They represent a nasty corporate minority who are only in it for the money, don't understand what they are dealing with, and want size of profits above all else and are ham fisted idiots about achieving it.
I don't know what the hell this thread has already turned into and can't read 5 pages, but:
I'm straight, and married to a woman. I roll female every time a game gives me the opportunity, and my femshep romanced her some dudes, you can bet that. I would love to see more prominence by default, and I plan on getting Remember Me for practically this reason, and to hopefully support a trend. You'd think, even looking at a homophobic male standpoint, that someone would want to look at the back of a woman for 6-12 hours (or forever in an MMO) as opposed to a man's hairy ass all that time.
I swear, that's not the reason I roll female (I'll divulge if someone asks), but I'd imagine that standpoint still makes sense.
different Genre's you can't compare the 2 plus are there options to play as Women in those games you've list? Don't think so.
You may want to quote whomever you are replying to so people actually know what your reply is in relation to. Otherwise it makes it somewhat difficult to understand who exactly you are disagreeing with.
What can I say about game sexism that hasn't been said before already? Jim hit it on the head where games with female protagonists aren't marketed nearly as much as games with male player characters and player-created characters. Good on Ken Levine for creating Elizabeth and making her so compelling. But the thing about Last of Us is phenomenally creepy, more so that she looks 14 years old. And I cannot remember a thing about Remember Me.
Personally, I feel uncomfortable with any romantic relationship. But I'm asexual, and I don't feel like I should be forced to make a dission in a game I wouldn't do in real life. This is why I never play games with romantic relationship that are more than hinted.
That stuff said and kind of irrelavant. All this white male being the hero in everything is BS. I mean how many black leads did you have when you don't have a choise on creation. I seem to play female when I have a choice but no one asked me about the covers. Also, one thing who the hell did they ask anyway. I mean I could ask 3000 drunk frat boys what they think and most likely get the same answer. I just believe things are skeiwed.
This might be sexist (in the sense that it's shaped solely by the character's gender), but I found playing as FemShep to be slightly more interesting than playing as MaleShep, because it subverts the stereotype of a male figure in a position of military authority. It's especially cool with Hale's no-nonsense Honor-Harrington-like demeanour and even better that I made mine look like a more gruff & scarred version of Captain Janeway.
What I mean to say is, "Without a warped perception of women as weak and passive, my Femshep would be boring" - Seneschal, 2013
Ok, in all seriousness, I have to cast a little shadow of doubt over all the supposedly wronged studios that were championing women's rights and getting rejected by patriarchal publishers - it strikes me as a bit too hard to verify, as no publishing house is ever named, no fingers are pointed, and it's the devs who get to wear the egalitarian crown for defending rights that, as far as we know, weren't even contested in the first place. Just saying. They wouldn't lose anything if they invented the whole thing, it would only net them +PR points.
But I do admit that this might be, unfortunately, true. And regardless of whether devs are fishing for attention, publishers are alienating women and minorities. Helping their case are the hordes of gamers out there fighting to maintain this illusion that gaming is a perfect egalitarian hobby, that everybody's welcomed with open arms, and anyone implying introspection or discussion is necessary is a traitor. It doesn't matter how many EEDAR stats you throw at them.
I just want to put this out there.
I am going to leave names out of this, mainly because of NDA and the fact that if I name anyone - I might spend the next 14 lifetimes skooping reindeer poop in Siberia...
I thought this was a good spot to get this out of my mind and get past the anger I have towards that particular development house.
Challenge accepted!
Which condom flavour would you like Mr. Sterling?
Though I disagree with the homophobic angle. It has way more to do with objectification, desire, sexual interest and a man stepping into the arena to claim all that was previously yours. In other words the cave man effect.
Woman on screen hot. Woman on screen hot for me. Woman on screen engage with other man. KILL OTHER MAN!
I have no problems with gay relationships or women engaging in relationships with men in my games, however where I draw the line is where I am asked to BE the character. Then given no choice but to engage a man sexually. I am that character now, I have no sexual interest in that man so why can't we just be friends? To dichotomize female-male relationships to Sex Partners or Complete Strangers is just as equally narrowminded as the stance that a teenage girl standing 4 feet closer to the camera on the box art will somehow reduce sales.
Oh and better start oiling them jaw joints, it's a big one.
To be honest samus only really started zero suiting frequently in recent years (however weirdly, they showed pin up shots of her as 'rewards'). Before 99.999999% of any of her games saw only her armour (and occasionally the glare of her face in the visor).
Samus is interesting though. A few years back came the 25th anniversary of zelda and mario, In 2011 it was the 25th anniversary of metroid. It's not as if these games were bad, they're not, they're fantastic, metroid prime is without a shadow of a doubt my favourite game of all time. But I don't know of why they didn't send this one through into a 25th anniversary celebration. I think other m may have been available fresh round then though. That may have something to do with it.
edited for a small addition.
I remember as a teen in a suburb of Los Angeles that when my English class read fiction out-loud (especially if they were cross-reading lines, like a script) there was tension and tittering if one character professed to love another. Regardless of the sexes of persons and characters involved, at that. But between this, what is nothing short of self-censorship in the name of profit, and the ESRB's fear of games nudging us into our panic zones, I find myself ashamed of the cowardice of our industry. Maybe, as Extra Credits suggests, we need our version of the Oscars to drive us back to artistic visions.
I suspect that every constructed tower of censorship has their Behind the Green Door. Ours may take a few such titles to topple, but we have the indie community willing to do that.
Suddenly, I have a strange urge to, next time you're in San Francisco, buy you a beer...Daddy[1]
[1] Myself, I'll probably be having a milquetoast latte, so...or whatever.
I'll play as a woman in games, and I project, too. I'll inhabit the character and give it a voice because I have this thing called an imagination that makes me want to play these games in the first place. Give me some credit, publishers. We play as aliens and robots all the time. Would I be creeped out by such a makeout session in my game? Very possibly, if I'm pretty immersed. But how do I know that? Who is confronting me with that difficult question but Jim and lonely Bioware? Meanwhile, if I want mass murders of innocent virtual people, I have choices, so many choices in the market.
What if Bioshock was a series of charming trysts and hookups, and then you get to Ryan, and he's like, "Would you kindly...". And you're like, "Woah, what is agency in the games!?". Would that game be the "Highest rated shooter of all time" or just not able to be sold anywhere?
"You can't make a dude like the player kiss another dude in the game, that's going to feel awkward."
Yeah, that just made me pause the video and grimace for a minute. That's just downright creepy. *sigh* Watch out kids, vidja games gon' make you gay.
Well, to be fair, the kissing scene in Dreamfall is actually quite awkward. But that is more due to 2006's computer hardware having shortcomings when it comes to rendering animated faces.
Sometimes... emotions are polygons. :david cage smirking evilly:
Here's a thought; the sailor moon manga has been reissued since the arse end of 2011 and, predominantly, has women in non sexualised poses (YMMV on that) on the covers. I can tell you here and now that every time a volume has been issued, it's hit the top of whatever book chart ANN cares to report about it.
Every, last, One.
The AAA games industry needs to grow a fucking pair already. Though I might exposit that it might just be too late for it by and large.
Well I'm one of those apparently homophobic insecure fucks who think that yea, having my female character kissing a guy would be awkward. Look, I wouldn't like it for two reasons:
1) Romance subplots in games are already awkward, stupid and pointless
So combine the two and you get an overcompensating female character in a pointless romance plot with a bland guy NPC.
Maybe someone could pull it off well, but I don't believe it much.
We live in a patriarchal society. Deal with it!
Made we wonder if they'd heard of the Mass Effect series at all.
Anyway, I blame it on Call of Duty. It got too ridiculously successful and now all the suits in the video game industry think every gamer is an American, male, homophobic teenager.
I... don't play games for the romantic interactions of anyone... Like I think the only game I can recall participating in romantic relationships would have been Vampires The Masquerade Bloodlines, and even calling that romance is a stretch. It's also dualistic as you can play as either a man or a woman, and the beginning scene is your lover being executed.
Mirror's Edge... it was alright... It contained 2 things I feel were ahead of it's time. Gameplay based around something other than killing enemies in droves and a non-sexualized woman as the lead. (I had to stop playing halfway through because my computer hates PhysX...
In RPG's I usually play a mix, but like a few gamers I create my own back stories for my characters.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The MIT women's fencing team ended its season on Sunday at the NCAA Northeast Regional Fencing Championships hosted by Brown University. Despite their efforts, none of the eight competing Engineers were able to post scores high enough to advance to the national tournament.
Senior Cordelia Link paced the Cardinal and Gray with her 14th-place finish in foil. Junior Jenna Caldwell, also competing in foil, had a solid performance and ended 20th.
In epee, Sophie Monahan (24th) led the Engineers, while Kirsten Hessler (31st) and senior Stephanie Shin (38th) struggled against their tough preliminary competition. At sabre, sophomore Molly Kozminsky (25th) had MIT's best finish, and Elena Tatarchenko (36th) and AnnaBeth Gellman (41st) rounded out Tech's competitors.
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Hi again. ^___^I have a feeling that the bluetooth module is broken because after following pretty much every tutorial out there, I can't seem to get a piece of software to detect it so I've given up on that for the time being. Just another question - how would I go about programming the ATmega328 using a wired connection? Could I simply just connect the RX and TX from a serial port in reverse to the RX and TX on the ATmega328 (i.e. RX/TX and TX/RX)? Or is there something more detailed that requires to be done?That would work for the data, but the Arduino IDE/AVRDUE activates the DTR control signal (through a series cap to the avr reset pin) to cause a auto-reset that starts the AVR bootloader at the correct time that AVRDUDE is expecting it to be active to start the upload process. One can use a manual reset button to reset the chip at the correct time, but the timing can be tricky for some to perform.LeftyThanks again in advance! XDAKdaBAOUS
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|• Let's start with your favourite decade, the 1970s. In 1970 you came from this extremely rich family and by 1971, they were paupers. How did this happen?
I was five years old in 1970 when my dad (actor-producer Kamran Khan) had a spate of hits. The films were not A-grade movies but he was doing very well in his own right. I remember we had the first Impala car. Sajid had just been born and I was this absolutely spoilt child. Then in 1971 he made a film called Aisa Bhi Hota Hai into which he put all his personal money and the film bombed on the opening Friday. I remember it because I had gone to the theatre on Friday very excitedly with my grandmother and the theatre was empty. By Monday people stopped coming to our house. It was like a funeral. Our house usually used to be full of people. But by Monday, it was empty. And then there were bad times for 15 years till 1985, when he died. It was a very hard time, especially for him.
• What are the good things you remember?
There are too many! I remember that everyday I had to go and buy a new record, by which I mean EPs or LPs. I was a spoilt child, so everyday, I was taken in the Impala car to Linking road, where there was this shop Twist and I would buy one. There used to be big parties in our house. Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Kalyanji bhai, Anandji bhai and people like that would attend.
• And the bad times?
The bad times lasted longer than the good times. And also I was much older then. I know it sounds very filmi, but like you saw in the 1970s' films that things are being sold from the house… it was literally like that. The one time I was really upset was when my gramophone had to be sold. But that had to be done because there was no source of income. My father was a very proud man. The Impala was sold and he obviously wouldn't travel by bus to go anywhere. So he would just be home, and then he started drinking. I think those were really bad times.
• Does your confidence stem from an 'I will show the world' attitude?
I am still very insecure if I have not made a particular amount of money in a month. After a point, our house was run day-to-day. The people in our building would use our flat to play cards in. They would remove a kitty, and it would be some 30 bucks for the entire day. And that would be used to buy the milk and the grocery. And if for some reason they didn't play that day, then those 30 bucks were not there. I remember we used to run the house on 30 bucks a day.
If all this had not happened to me I would not be who I am today. Maybe I would not have that determination to do something and be something in life. I remember in college I didn't know what I wanted to do but I wanted to be somebody. There had to be something different about me. So I would probably go out of my way to make friends and please people. Maybe I took to dance because it made me feel special. I would go to a party or a social event and do my Michael Jackson moves and everybody would look at me. And I used to like that attention.
• How has all this experience and wisdom helped you in the show?
When I was approached to do the show I knew it had to be a slice of life show. And it could not have been just another show where the stars come and plug their films or say all sorts of things that they themselves don't believe in. It had to be something about their lives and which is very personal to them, something that nobody knows about them. Like do you know that the sexy glamourous Bipasha is the ghar ka beta. Some of her childhood experiences are quite amazing and she had tears in her eyes when she was speaking about it.
• Having said that, tell me something about you that nobody knows.
(Laughs) There are a lot of things that nobody knows and shouldn't even know! I am a very domesticated housewife at heart. I listen to what my husband tells me. Not all the time, but I do respect what he says. Everyone thinks that I am this dominating creature and my poor husband must be henpecked but it's completely the opposite. Whatever he says happens in the house, and how! I go outside and I shout and scream at people, but not in the house. In the house I'm a bheegi billi.
• Give me an example of one thing he has said…
• Is SRK the most important man in your life?
He is one of the most important people in my life, regardless of man or woman. I think when you have babies; no one else stands a chance, not even the husband. The most important people in my life right now are Diva, Anya and Czar, then of course Shirish, Shah Rukh, Sajid.
• How has Shirish (Kunder) influenced your style of filmmaking?
I have become far more aesthetic. Even in editing. He is far more a visual director than I can ever hope to be. I am little boring on that front, I am a little straightforward.
Jaanemann was far ahead of its time. I think if it would release today, the audience would be ready for it. Like a Kaminey today that you either love or hate. There is a certain audience today that has seen world cinema and is ready for this new age cinema. I think the story was a bit old fashioned but it was presented in a snazzy way. He learnt a lot from it. His new scripts are just fabulous. The way he thinks of constructing a scene is something I can't think of. He just thinks out of the box.
• You share a home and three kids, how much of your movies do you share.
• Any surprises on the show?
Lots. I didn't know that Hrithik still does one hour of speech exercises every day. He is afraid that the stammer will come back if he doesn't do it. Or the things he went through as a child. As a 10-year-old boy he would sit in his room for 36 hours and practice one line to tell his cook, that I want to eat this, without stammering. You get goose bumps when you hear all this.


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The agricultural products industry consists of the production of Cereals (such as wheat, rice, barley etc.), Nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios etc.), Oilcrops (cottonseed, groundnuts, olives etc.), Spices & Stimulants (coffee, hops, dry chilies etc.), Sugar (sugar cane, sugar beet etc.), Pulses (beans, peas, lentils etc.), Roots & Tubers (Potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava etc.), Vegetables (cabbages, tomatoes, onions etc.), and Fruit (bananas, citrus fruits, berries etc.). All volumes are provided in tonnes and all values are calculated at producer prices.
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Grant Funds Business Leaders Programby Jim Amidon • December 8, 2008 Share:
Wabash College has received a $375,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., which will help to fund the establishment of the Wabash College Business Leadership Program.
Wabash President Patrick E. White announced the grant from Lilly Endowment, which will be matched with $1.52 million in institutional funds to develop and sustain the various elements of the Business Leadership Program for a period of five years.
"The excellent liberal arts education of Wabash College has long provided students a valuable springboard for distinguished careers in every walk of life," said President White. With this generous new grant from Lilly Endowment, Wabash will be even more effective in preparing students for exciting and meaningful business careers in a global economy."
The Business Leadership Program will knit together a number of programs that were developed in an earlier Lilly Endowment Initiative to Promote Opportunities through Educational Collaborations grant. The Business Leadership Program consolidates six current academic courses (the Business Sequence) with co-curricular and career development experiences to create a permanent, marketable, coherent, liberal arts approach to developing graduates with business and leadership skills.
"The liberal arts are the artes liberalis, the arts of freedom, the arts that make for free persons, that educate for life," said Gary Phillips, the Dean of the College at Wabash. "Our engagement with these young men is to shape them for a life lived freely to chose a path and a place and a community in which to make a difference. The Endowment grant is recognition of Wabash's effectiveness in preparing and enabling such engagement, one that lasts a lifetime. We are grateful to Lilly Endowment for its confidence in carrying forward that mission."
The program has been developed based on research conducted through the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash that determined what characteristics businesses were seeking in their leaders, and how a liberal arts campus might enhance the development of those characteristics in Wabash graduates.
"Through the innovative programs supported by this grant, Wabash men will continue to have an enormous positive impact as leaders in the Indiana economy," said President White.
The Business Leadership Program will be administered by the Schroeder Center for Career Development, working closely with faculty and the Advancement Office, and overseen by an Advisory Committee that admits students to the program and tracks their progress.
Kealoha Widdows, who holds the John H. Schroeder Interdisciplinary Chair in Economics, has been involved in the development of many of Wabash's programs designed to prepare graduates for careers in business.
"I see this Business Leadership Program as working along with Scott Crawford in the Schroeder Center to administer existing programs like the Summer Business Immersion (photo right) and Marketing Immersion programs, as well as the internships, and to develop creative new programs and workshops that will complement the students' academic work," said Widdows. "Our goal is to make sure that Wabash students are at least as attractive to employers as students coming out of undergraduate business programs."
Students graduating from the Wabash Business Leadership Program will:
• Complete a liberal arts major and minor, along with six courses currently comprising the Business Sequence (three in economics, two in accounting, and one in English);
• Study the fundamentals of rhetoric composition and delivery; the research, composition, and delivery of ceremonial and persuasive speeches; introductory principles of reasoning, argumentation, and rhetorical criticism; and the use of electronic media in public presentations;
• Participate in an eight-week summer, non-credit Introduction to Entrepreneurism course (photo left), co-taught by staff and alumni, using case studies and team projects to learn about the spirit of entrepreneurism, leadership qualities, project management, opportunity analysis, business plans, legal issues, marketing, presentation skills, networking, preparation of financial statements, and financing;
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The secretariat of IPBES, a global platform on biodiversity and its benefits, will be located in Bonn, Germany. The German offer won the voting which took place during the second plenary session to build IPBES, in Panama City, Panama.
France, Germany, India, Kenya and the Republic of Korea proposed to host the IPBES secretariat and the voting took four rounds to be completed.
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Today, Tibetan exiles swore in their new head of government, Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay, who will take over official political leadership duties for the half-century-long Free Tibet movement.
The Harvard University-trained law fellow is the first secular man to hold a higher political authority than the Dalai Lama, and his inauguration highlights what the Dalai Lama has indicated he hopes will represent the new democratic face of the Tibetan exiles.
For years the Dalai Lama has indicated he wanted Tibetans to elect a political leader and to reduce his role to merely that of a religious head, but it wasn't until March that elections were held.
"The vision of passing on my political power onto the democratically elected prime minister has been fulfilled. I feel that the devolution of power onto Lobsang Sangay is appropriate, and I have full confidence he will carry out the responsibilities and continue to uphold strong democratic ideas," the Dalai Lama said of the new appointment.
Though much of the exile community also appears confident Dr. Sangay can fill the big political boots of the Dalai Lama, he still faces a host of challenges.
"This new man could make a significant difference if he is able to improve the education system in exile and rejuvenate the administration there," says Robert Barnett, director of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University. He adds that though Sangay's skills for this position are a bit up in the air, they may emerge.
Sangay, who beat out two rival candidates with about 59 percent of the vote, won the March election among 89,000 eligible Tibetan exiles.
Observers say Sangay, who has lived in the United States for the past 15 years, likely won't shy away from raising the issues of human rights, identity, religion, and the usage of natural resources inside Tibet.
"There is no 'socialism' in Tibet. There is colonialism. Chinese rule in Tibet is clearly unjust and untenable," Sangay said, pledging to fulfill the Dalai Lama's vision to create a secular democratic society in his inauguration speech.
Sangay calls himself an activist scholar. While on a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard, he met thousands of Chinese students and organized round table meetings for the Dalai Lama with the Chinese scholars. In 2007 he was named one of the Asia Society's 24 Young Leaders of Asia.
In a brief interview with The Christian Science Monitor ahead of his swearing in, Sangay said he would negotiate with China even though Beijing does not recognize his exile government.
Pointing to his 16 years of experience reaching out to Chinese people, scholars, and students, Sangay says he believes in dialogue. "I have a track record," he says, "and if Beijing is interested and wishing to negotiate and resolve the issue of Tibet, I am willing to extend my hands, which I have always done."
Beijing on the other hand, has made a series of allegations against Sangay and even ruled out any talks with him as a new representative of the Tibetan exiles.
A top priority, says Sangay, is to form a team of capable and dedicated professionals to serve as ministers to his new cabinet. Together they will focus on professional changes in the system, improving the education system, and hopefully implementation of new policies.
Still, experts worry that Sangay's name, which is obviously less familiar than the Dalai Lama's, could affect how much he can actually influence international policy.
"It's unlikely that Lobsang Sangay can take up the political role of the Dalai Lama, as much of the world views the latter as both a religious and political figure and many Tibetans view him as akin to a god, even if he doesn't see himself that way," said Barry Sautman, an expert on Tibet and an associate professor at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, in an e-mail.
He said that, at least at first, the Dalai Lama's role won't actually be reduced as much as he claims. "In fact, the Dalai Lama continues to travel to meet important national leaders, where he inevitably discusses political matters and it would be very surprising if he doesn't continue to do so within the Tibetan exile community and administration," says Dr. Sautman.
With a special nod to Chinese tradition, Sangay was sworn in on a significant day at a significant time: Aug. 8, at 9:09 (and 9 seconds). In Chinese numerology, the number nine symbolizes longevity. China held the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:08 p.m., (and 8 seconds), because the number eight symbolizes prosperity. With such attention to detail, "how could the Chinese be bad to me?" asked Sangay.


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CA Man Sues Doctor For Listing Him As "Chronically Homosexual"
An openly-gay Torrance, California man has filed a lawsuit against his doctor and her related health group after he stumbled upon his health records and learned that he's been listed as suffering from "chronic homosexuality."
Matthew Moore, 46, who is openly gay, said he was shocked to see his sexual orientation still described as a chronic condition more than a year after he complained about the use of the archaic medical classification. "It was infuriating. It was painful," he said of his decision to sue. "It was another attempt by this doctor and this medical group to impose their agenda of discrimination and hate onto a gay patient." As reported in September by NBC4, Moore discovered the description in his medical records after undergoing a routine physical in April 2013 by Dr. Elaine Jones of the Torrance Health Association. Moore wrote a letter complaining about the designation to the Torrance Memorial Health Association and received a prompt apology:
"We would like to unequivocally state that the Torrance Memorial Physician Network does not view homosexuality as a disease or a chronic condition, and we do not endorse or approve of the use of Code 302.0 as a diagnosis for homosexuality," Torrance Health Association Senior Director Heidi Assigal wrote to Moore. The association also issued a media statement saying the designation had been used as a result of "human error" and claiming that "upon notification by the patient the record was corrected." Moore said he let the issue go, thinking the problem had been solved. But when he obtained a copy of his medical records in May, he said he was stunned to see that while the 302.0 code had been removed, "homosexual behavior" was still listed under "chronic problems."
But why the lawsuit?
"I don't want any gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual ever to hear from a doctor that their normal and healthy sexuality is anything other than that," said Moore, noting that suicides among LGBT youth is higher than other groups. "Maybe we all just saved a life today."
Which other archaic and discredited health practices does Dr. Jones apply to her patients? Mercury treatment? Morphine/cocaine cough syrup for toddlers?


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How can you tell the difference between the iraqi tumblers and the turkish takla? I read in some of your topic's you say that the turkish tumbler in Australian have the iraqi bloodline.
A year ago i brought 5 pairs of turkish tumbler to be honest the birds are not very good at all they do not fly or tumble if they do they only tumble once or twice. In that lot of there was only 1 good bird but it kept landing in the tree close to the coop and wouldn't come down for 2-3 days not even for food or water. And then went it finally got down it wouldn't fly down it would just jump from one brunch to another till it go to the top of the coop but when he was flying he would fly for 3-4 hours every 2-3 days. But unfortunately one day when he went for a fly we never saw him again.
Recently i have brought 5 pairs from a well known turkish breeder in a different state from me in australia he shipped the birds and when i received them i flew them in our garage some tumbled up to five times they are very light and look longer than the once i previously purchased. Four days later i flew one hen to see how it flew in the sky. It started to fly low between houses and trees and then then went it went to tumble it climbed up and the tumbled 4-5 times. I flew a couple birds up so it would come down but it didn't it continued flying for another 20 minutes before it decided to fly away for around 20 minutes then it came back again then started flying around the house about 10 times then flew away again it kept doing the same thing until it started to get dark then it came back and got down?
How can i get good performance birds from these birds ? when i breed them but i cant fly them at the moment because there is two many hawks in this area and i want to breed from them 1st because its taken me a long time to find good birds like this in Australia
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text: Procurement Pulse - March 2017 Procurement Pulse Series Share this 1 MAR 2017 By: Gavin Deeprose Dr Sharon Fitzgerald Louise Huson This month's issue looks at some recent case law on evaluation methodologies, perhaps the highest risk area when it comes to running a procurement process. The Energy Solutions case (first reported in Procurement Pulse in September 2016) is one of few cases where a court has pronounced that a contracting authority made a number of manifest errors in evaluating submitted bids. A contracting authority has a broad discretion in designing and managing its procurement process, and a court will only intervene where things have gone obviously wrong. To that end, the Dimarso case held that a contracting authority is not obliged to disclose its evaluation methodology to bidders. The lawfulness of the method used to evaluate bids is of increasing concern to bidders, but the European Dynamics case below shows that even where the methodology has been disclosed, further information is often required to facilitate a real understanding of whether an authority has complied with its obligation to identify the most economically advantageous bid. We also report on the statutory review of the Single Source Regulations for defence contracts, and the EU Commission's review of the effectiveness of the Remedies Directive. Failing to properly apply "pass/fail" evaluation criteria: Judgement no. 3 of the dispute between Energy Solutions (ES) and NDA was published on 20 December 2016. The ultimate issue (expected to be heard by the Supreme Court in May 2017), is whether ES is entitled to damages for NDA's manifest errors in operating the evaluation methodology for award of certain decommissioning contracts. The Supreme Court will be asked to rule on whether the so-called "Francovich conditions" apply to determine whether damages should be paid out. One of those conditions is that the breach must be "sufficiently serious". In preparation for the Supreme Court proceedings, the High Court considered whether manifest errors identified in earlier proceedings, might be considered "sufficiently serious". It held that taken as a whole, they constituted breach of the Evaluation Framework set out in the procurement documents, and of regulation 18(27) of the Public Contracts Regulations, 2006 which required the NDA to "… assess the tenders received on the basis of the award criteria specified in the contract notice or descriptive document and … award the contract to the participant which submits the most economically advantageous tender…" The court acknowledged that a single manifest error in operating the evaluation methodology or a number of manifest errors could lead to the same conclusion. The court commented that: Breach of an obligation to apply a threshold requirement (ie a scored answer, which could lead to a bidder's disqualification from the procurement process, if it scored below a defined threshold) would constitute a "sufficiently serious" breach Breach of an obligation to properly apply a "pass/fail" score, where failure to meet certain requirements should have lead to elimination of a tenderer from the process, was a "sufficiently serious" breach Any other breach of the NDA evaluation methodology would be "sufficiently serious" to warrant an award of damages if it would have affected, either individually or cumulatively, the outcome of the competition, and the decision as to which tenderer had submitted the most economically advantageous tender Energy Solutions EU Limited v Nuclear Decommissioning Authority [2016] EWHC 3326 When should an evaluation methodology be disclosed?: During the award phase of a procurement process, a contracting authority must determine which is the most economically advantageous tender, using award criteria and weightings which offer a sufficient degree of precision and certainty. Art 53(2) Dir 2004/18 does not explicitly impose an obligation to disclose the evaluation method in addition to disclosure of award criteria and their weightings, and in the context of a competitive dialogue procedure, the courts have held that an evaluation committee must have some leeway in the way in which it carries out its tasks; provided that contract award criteria set out in the tender specifications or the contract notice are not affected, it can structure its approach to examining and analysing submitted tenders as it sees fit. In this case, the court held, that to eliminate favouritism, the methodology should not be developed after opening of tenders, unless there are "demonstrable reasons" for doing so, and the subsequently developed rules do not alter award criteria and weightings set out in the contract notice. It further held that, an authority is not required to bring to the attention of potential tenderers, in the contract notice or the tender specifications the method of evaluation it intends to use to evaluate and rank the tenders. This judgement was made pursuant to Directive 2004/18/EC. Would a court approaching the same issues in connection with a procurement let pursuant to Directive 2014/24/EU take into account the new logic in article 53 - that all procurement documents should be available electronically by the date of the Contract Notice - and require the evaluation methodology to be disclosed at the same time? Case C-6/15 TNS Dimarso Impact of abnormally low tenders on scoring methodologies: In this case the evaluation methodology was set out in a technical annex to the procurement documents. The annex provided a formula to determine the most economically advantageous tender "taking as a basis the lowest tender that had not been rejected after the technical evaluation". In its debriefing, European Dynamics (ED) asked for the rank of its tender after the technical evaluation, as well as its final ranking. It also complained that the successful tenderer's bid was too low to satisfy the contract technical requirements. Whilst the Commission provided ED rankings, ED complained that it did not adequately answer their request for information relating to the successful abnormally low tender. The court reiterated the principle that a contracting authority must provide adequate reasons for its decisions. ED had provided calculations which raised doubts as to the trustworthiness of the successful tenderer at an early stage in the procurement process , and the court held that in those circumstances it was not acceptable for the Commission simply to state that the tender was not abnormally low. The court stated that "requiring the contracting authority to present the grounds on the basis of which an offer was not considered to be abnormally low does not require it to disclose precise information on the technical and financial aspects of that tender, such as the prices offered or the resources that the successful bidder proposes to use in order to provide the services that it offers. In order to provide a sufficient statement of reasons for that aspect of the selected tender, the contracting authority must set out the reasoning on the basis of which, on the one hand, it concluded that, because of its principally financial characteristics, such an offer complied with the national legislation of the country in which the services were to be carried out in respect of the remuneration of staff, contribution to the social security scheme and compliance with occupational safety and health standards and, on the other, it determined that the proposed price included all the costs arising from the technical aspects of the selected tender (see, to that effect, European Dynamics Belgium and Others v EMA, T-638/11, not published)." Whilst the facts are not set out explicitly in the court's decision, ED's information requests indicate that it was aware of the effect that abnormally low tenders can have on relative scoring formulae, and how they can effect a tenderer's ranking in a contracting authority's final decision. Some (not all) formulae have the effect that the outcome turns on the price of the lowest bid - an irrelevant factor not related to the subject matter of the contract - which directly affects the scores and potentially the ranking of other tenderers, with the impact that it may be argued that the Authority has failed to comply with its obligation to determine which is the most economically advantageous bid. This effect/impact will be greater on procurements where price forms a higher proportion of the overall evaluation and also on procurements where the lowest price is notably lower than the other bids. This may place particular pressure on a contracting authority's ability to: (i) spot and eliminate abnormally low tenders and (ii) (as demonstrated in the European Dynamics case) provide adeuqtae reasons for any decision taken not to disqualify a tender for being abnormally low when chellenged to do so by an unsuccessful tenderer. European Dynamics Luxembourg v European Commission T-74/15 Single Source Regulations Office publishes consultation on recommendations for review of single source defence contracts regulatory framework - 30 January 2017: The Single Source Contract Regulations 2014 aim to ensure that in the absence of competition, the government obtains good value for money in its expenditure on qualifying defence contracts; and contractors are paid a fair and reasonable price under those contracts. The Secretary of State is required to complete periodic reviews of the framework, with the first review to be completed by December 2017. Remedies Directive review: After evaluation of the performance of the Remedies Directive, the EU Commission has concluded that it meets its objectives in an effective and efficient way in its current form, and therefore does not propose any amendments subject to certain weaknesses which should be further investigated: There is currently no EU-wide monitoring and evaluation system of remedies available in each Member State. The Commission therefore intends to collect information on key indicators such as number of successful complaints, costs and length of procedures, and publish them on the Single Market Scoreboard to enable a direct comparison of the efficiency of the remedies system across Member States First instance administrative review bodies tend to be more effective than the courts at determining applicable remedies oin public procurement and the Commission will encourage sharing of best practices from such administrative review bodies across Member States The Commission will issue guidance on the interplay between the Remedies Directive and the 2014 Procurement Directives, as well as on the criteria to be applied to lift automatic suspension to concluding a contract, following legal challenge. Report on the effectiveness of Directive 89/665/EEC and public procurement review procedures


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Publisher Appeals Ruling Against Harry Potter Lexicon
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A bunch of folks have been submitting the fact that RDR Books has, in fact, decided to appeal the ruling and to argue that publishing such a guidebook is, indeed, fair use. Hopefully the Appeals Court recognizes the problems of the lower court ruling and protects fair use for such guidebooks. Of course, some of us are still hopeful that even J.K. Rowling realizes that pursuing this case only serves to damage her reputation, and that she realizes (as she did when the Lexicon was just a website) that allowing fans to help explain and expand the universe she created only increases the value of her works.


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A young woman was assaulted and robbed on the University of Montana Campus at about midnight Wednesday.
Sergeant Scott Pastian with the Missoula Police Department says the woman was assaulted near the tennis courts on campus and robbed. The suspect fled on foot and was last seen running across the UM footbridge.
Anyone with information is asked to call Missoula Crimestoppers at 721-44-44.
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Officials hope to deploy oil-soaking booms near grounded Alaskan drill ship
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Responders on Saturday prepared to hook a main tow line to an oil-drilling ship grounded on rocks near a remote Alaska island.
Officials overseeing the response to the grounding of Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk barge said they could use the line to "test capabilities" as they prepare to recover the ship.
But the plans were subject to tides and weather, which can be fierce in the North Pacific during winter.
Officials also hoped to deploy oil-soaking booms around nearby Kodiak Island, especially near any salmon streams. They say there's no sign the hull has been breached or that oil has spilled from the vessel.
The Kulluk ran aground during a fierce year-end storm, and more than 600 people are working on its recovery.
Dan Magone, who has worked on other major groundings in Alaska, said he'd be surprised if they can remove it any time soon.
"I'd really be shocked if this thing is so lightly aground and so lightly damaged that they can just go pull this thing off right away," said Magone, president of Magone Marine, in a telephone interview from his headquarters in Dutch Harbor.
The Kulluk is a circular barge 266 feet in diameter with a funnel-shaped, reinforced steel hull that allows it to operate in ice. One of two Shell ships that drilled last year in the Arctic Ocean, it has a 160-foot derrick rising from its center and no propulsion system of its own.
The vessel was being towed to Seattle last week when a line broke in heavy seas. Re-attached lines broke four more times, and it ran aground New Year's Eve on Sitkalidak Island, less than a mile from Kodiak Island.
Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation said Saturday that crews had found no sign that the vessel's hull had been breached or that oil had been spilled.
Smit Salvage, the Dutch company hired to salvage the Kulluk, referred calls to Shell, which has said it's too early to predict when the barge might be moved.
Magone is not working on the salvage of the Kulluk but has experience with other major groundings, including the Selendang Ayu, a cargo ship wrecked in December 2004 on Unalaska Island.
Magone's company is under contract for two other wrecks -- fishing boats from which fuel has been removed -- but he's waiting until spring to finish the job.
"The insurance company doesn't want to pay any more money than they have to to get the wrecks out of there, so why risk our equipment and our crew and spend a thousand percent more money playing around in the wintertime when you can just wait until the weather's good and do it then?" Magone said.
"That's pretty normal. Of course with a big fiasco like this, there's all kinds of pressure and everything. But there's a limit to what you can do," he said.
The first salvage crew boarded the vessel Wednesday and assessments continue.
Shell has reported superficial damage above the deck and seawater within that entered through open hatches. Water has knocked out regular and emergency generators, but portable generators were put on board Friday.
The condition of the hull will be key in determining whether the Kulluk can be refloated.
The Coast Guard must review and sign off on a salvage plan. Brian Thomas of the Coast Guard's salvage engineering response team in Washington, D.C., said the team's marine engineers give technical advice and assess risks.


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House Democratic Leader Sam Singh is serving his third term representing Michigan's 69th House District, which includes East Lansing, Haslett, Okemos, Williamstown Township and Locke Township. He also served as the Democratic Floor Leader in his second term.
Singh's story is one of civic engagement. Singh's parents immigrated to Michigan from India in the 1960s for a better life and an opportunity for the American Dream. From an early age, Singh's parents taught him the value of giving back to his community. Singh took those lessons to heart, knowing how hard his parents worked to provide a good life for him and his brother.
Before serving in the Legislature, Singh was elected to the East Lansing City Council at age 24. During his 10 years on council and one term as mayor, Singh worked to strengthen ties with MSU, promote regional cooperation and support economic development. Singh also served as the president and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association and, before being elected, worked on the New Economy Initiative, which supports moving Michigan to a knowledge-based economy with education and job training to ensure worker competitiveness, and helping new businesses and entrepreneurs create thousands of jobs. Singh is the first Indian-American state representative in Michigan. Singh and his wife, Kerry, live in East Lansing.
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My Room: EJ
We're guessing EJ is as bright and memorable as her very cool room! Her mother Krissy shares: Early on we knew we wanted a modern. bright and unique space for our little lady. We fell for an orange and brown color scheme with pops of green- no pastels for our kid!
We opted to decorate with posters from a few of our favorite bands. Finding a budget-friendly crib and chair that could accommodate our style as well as a very petite momma proved to be the biggest challenge of all but in the end we found the perfect pieces.
Thanks Krissy!
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Goya Foods President Robert Unanue gives New Jersey state officials credit for clearing the way for his company to remain in New Jersey when it had a chance to leave.
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and "the whole administration from top to bottom have been very cooperative," particularly in helping the company locate at a Jersey City site with a rail siding, Unanue said.
Goya is one of the several Latino-owned businesses being highlighted by state officials, including Guadagno, as New Jersey marks Hispanic Heritage Month, which lasts from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
The state has hired bilingual business advocates to answer calls from Spanish-speaking business owners at its Business Action Center, which includes a one-stop call center for accessing state services for businesses. The state also is providing assistance at the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce annual convention and expo on Oct. 30, at which Guadagno is scheduled to give the keynote address.
Unanue listed the combination of incentives — Goya received an $81.9 million Urban Transit Hub tax credit — and assistance with rail as being crucial. He added that the state is a good location for a company with wide distribution.
"In our business, it's all about logistics — and New Jersey represents just a terrific logistics point," Unanue said.
In particular, state officials helped Norfolk Southern contact NJ Transit to buy some land owned by the transit authority adjacent to the Goya property.
Guadagno said her office serves as an advocate for companies as large as Goya to much smaller businesses. She added that the state's roughly 68,000 Latino-owned businesses can put a large dent in the state's unemployment numbers.
"We feel it's important, like any other business in New Jersey, the Hispanic small businesses feel they're welcome here, and get all of the support they're entitled to," from advocacy to technical assistance to incentives, Guadagno said.
Statewide Hispanic chamber Chairman Carlos A. Medina said he has had a positive impression of state outreach since he started in his position in June.
Medina, owner of Robinson Aerial Surveys Inc., in Hackettstown, noted that the state invited a group of Latino business owners to a roundtable to share their thoughts about state business services.
"They wanted feedback from us," he said. "It was a pretty frank discussion, and it was right after I become chairman."
The annual convention will feature representatives from 10 to 12 state departments, discussing services from financing to procurement, "to help start a business, grow a business and get work for a business," Medina said. "They are expending a pretty large amount of resources to be a major presence."
Guadagno said the state is working with the chamber "to bring Trenton to these small businesses, that wouldn't otherwise reach out to Trenton."
Timothy Lizura, president and chief operating officer of the Economic Development Authority, said the agency offers its full range of business financing services to Latino-owned businesses. It relies on partnerships with the Cranford-based UCEDC and the Camden-based Latin American Economic Development Association to reach out to smaller Latino-owned businesses.
"We actually recognized years ago that, while the EDA provided technical assistance to very small companies as they developed business plans — including the Hispanic businesses — we realized that we could do a better job of leveraging with other organizations," Lizura said.
Low-interest loans through these smaller agencies have averaged $25,000 to $40,000 in recent years, reaching a niche that isn't served by larger EDA programs.


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Magali's "Confetti Pop" Room
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- Inspiration for my palette:
- The whole colour scheme actually comes from a purple Fat Boy cushion (not on the pics, sorry!)I bought when I first moved in and was waiting for the sofa to be delivered. It gave me the idea of using lime green and pink. Those colours give me energy. A few weeks after creating the confetti wall, I found the polka dot rug on line and just had to buy it!
- Colors used in my room:
- I first used light colours (white and a very light shade of grey) to make sure the room remained full of light, as light is actually what I prefer about this room. One wall remained very dark so I thought might as well try a darker colour and opted for a deep purple. I then was inspired by a "confetti wall" spotted on line and just went for it. The books on the shelves also contribute to the decoration of the room. My friends thought I was crazy when I organised my books by colour (again, I found the idea on line) but now admit the effect is quite striking and fun. As I grew bolder, I added colourful stools and painted the coffee table.
- Tips for using color successfully:
- I'd say start with something neutral and then add splashes of colour with your accessories (rugs, pillows, trays, stools, wall art, etc.). It also makes it a lot easier to change the atmosphere depending on your mood or the season!
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