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South China Morning Post, January 21, 2015
The old automotive industry model – a way to provide mobility for middle-class consumers – no longer fits the China context, creating opportunities for innovation.
South China Morning Post, January 21, 2015
The old automotive industry model – a way to provide mobility for middle-class consumers – no longer fits the China context, creating opportunities for innovation.
Bloomberg News, January 22, 2015
(Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp., which fended off Volkswagen AG to remain the world's top automaker in 2014, may lose the sales crown as early as this year as it falls behind in China, the world's biggest auto market.
Toyota is predicting its global deliveries will decline 1 percent in 2015 to 10.15 million vehicles, or just 10,000 units more than what Volkswagen sold worldwide last year. A new factory the German company is opening this year in Changsha, China, will add capacity for another 300,000 vehicles annually.
As Volkswagen and General Motors Co. add factories to bolster their already-dominant position in China, Toyota President Akio Toyoda's strategy of foregoing new car plants until at least next year could result in the first shakeup in auto-sales leadership since 2011. Toyota ranks sixth among global automakers in China and sells less than one-third as many vehicles as its two main competitors in China.
"The difference is that Volkswagen has a jet engine strapped to its back called 'China'," said Bill Russo, Shanghai-based managing director at Gao Feng Advisory Co. "Toyota, unfortunately, is in a position of weakness when it comes to the China market. It would be almost impossible to hold on to a number one position without being in the lead in China, and Toyota's not even in that league."
Worldwide sales for Toyota, including at its Hino Motors Ltd. and Daihatsu Motor Co. units, climbed 3 percent to 10.23 million vehicles in 2014, according to a company statement. Volkswagen last week reported a 4.2 percent gain to 10.14 million vehicles, that included its two heavy-truck units. GM followed with sales of 9.92 million units, up 2.1 percent. Volkswagen and GM haven't announced projections for this year.
Toyota, which hasn't built an assembly plant in China since 2012 and faces a self-imposed moratorium on new factories until next year, will fall behind even further as Volkswagen and GM step up their expansion plans.
GM has announced plans to add five new plants in China by 2018 even though President Dan Ammann said the market is "maturing rapidly."
Volkswagen expects to raise its China plant capacity to more than 4 million vehicles by 2018 from 3.1 million at end 2013, according to the company. Mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for a record 3.67 million deliveries at Volkswagen group last year, up 12.4 percent and extending the country's lead as the German manufacturer's largest single market.
By comparison, Toyota missed its sales projection for 1.1 million units in China in 2014, even as the Corolla and the Levin compact cars helped boost sales 13 percent to 1.03 million units. The company kept its China sales target unchanged for this year.
Even though Toyota may cede the sales leadership, it still outearns Volkswagen. Analysts estimate Toyota earned a profit of 1.96 trillion yen ($16.7 billion) last calendar year, compared with 10.7 billion euros ($12.4 billion) at Volkswagen.
"Their focus is not No. 1," said Peggy Furusaka, a Tokyo-based auto-credit analyst at Moody's Investors Service. "Toyota is more concerned about keeping profitability than chasing numbers. So for coming years, I wouldn't be surprised to see Toyota selling fewer cars than Volkswagen."
Toyota's also-ran status in China is compounded by threats by its dealers to drop out of its network, citing poor sales and a lack of profit.
As many as 10 percent of dealers for one of Toyota's China ventures could abandon the brand, according to the China Automobile Dealers Association. Among the 523 distributors in the FAW-Toyota Motor Sales Co. group, 95 percent are losing money, with some dealers stopping sales or shutting down altogether because of the losses, the state-backed dealer's group said.
Vehicle sales growth slowed last year in China in tandem with the nation's weakest economic growth since 1990. Deliveries are forecast to gain 8 percent to about 21.3 million passenger vehicles this year, according to the state-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
"As long as China is growing rapidly, Toyota will need to build new factories there," said Yoshiaki Kawano, an analyst with IHS Automotive in Tokyo. "They are probably reserving some energy for growth in the longer term, as they are trying to improve the efficiency at their existing plants."
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Business Insider, January 15, 2015
Tesla got crushed on Wednesday, partially due to Elon Musk breaking the news that Tesla sales in China were "unexpectedly weak" in the fourth quarter.
Echoing Musk's explanation, Tesla communications chief Ricardo Reyes told Business Insider that "misperceptions about the ease of charging Model S were the main reason for the dip" in Chinese sales.
"To clear up those misperceptions, we are explaining the ease and convenience of charging and continue expanding the charging network in the country," he said in an email.
While Reyes said that "overall China constitutes a small percentage of our sales for now," the stakes for Tesla's venture into China look large. Already the world's biggest auto market, over 22 million cars were sold there in 2013 — accounting for over 25% of the global total.
Former Tesla China chief Veronica Wu said in January 2014 that China would account for 30 to 35% of Tesla's global sales in 2014. She resigned in December.
The number of charging stations is indeed increasing. Quartz reports that the Chinese government has built 19,000 charging sites across China, while Tesla has placed 23 of its Supercharger stations in 10 Chinese cities.
To ramp up that infrastructure, Musk has struck deals with telecom operator China Unicom and real estate developer Soho China to build over 700 charging stations in 70 Chinese cities, reportedly giving China the second-largest charging infrastructure after the US.
In talks with Chinese auto industry analysts, Business Insider has learned that Tesla has a host of commercial and cultural hurdles to overcome if it's going to succeed in the Chinese auto market.
They include:
The early adopters have already bought their cars. "In any new product intro, you get a lot of buzz early, where early adopters run out and put their money down, and then you have a period where it's not new anymore" explained analyst Bill Russo, who served as the VP of Northeast Asia for Chrysler before moving into consulting. "The numbers are always skewed — the easy sales are the ones you get early on."
The early adopter pool is comparatively small. "For the people in China who bought the Model S, it's not their first car," argued analyst Jochen Siebert. "It's their third or fourth car, the same set of people who would buy a Porsche 911 — there's only a certain percent of people who want to buy this car."
Early numbers may be inflated by "scalper" intermediaries. In the same way that scalpers re-sell football game tickets at a markup, Russo explained that a scalper economy persists for auto imports in China. "When you have a limited quantity available, scalpers run in an buy a quantity of cars early on, they flip them to end users or buyers," he said. "You see high numbers in the early stage, but you're not getting a clear run rate until the market reaches level of maturity."
There's still lots of electric car anxiety. Siebert says that with any electric vehicle in China, there's the anxiety of "when and where will I charge my vehicle." Plus it's harder to do personal charging stations in the China. Quartz reported that 74% of urbanized Chinese live in apartments instead of detached homes and "park their cars in shared garages where parking operators have deemed charging stations a fire hazard."
The consumption isn't conspicuous enough. While it seems strange, Siebert say that one of the biggest complaints about the Model S is that it's not sufficiently braggable. "When Chinese rich buy cars, they want to show off," he said. The Model S is 56.5 inches tall, so it's a fairly small vehicle. He said that "the car that Chinese love" is the muscular Porsche Cayenne SUV, which stands at 67.4 inches. Porsche sold 37,425 cars in China in 2013, and a full 26,666 of them were the Cayenne SUV — accounting for over 70% of sales.
Tesla needs to learn from that. "The Tesla is an advertisement, but it's not tall enough," Siebert said. "the showoff value is too low." Tesla has a better shot with the Model X SUV, slated to arrive in China in 2016, he said. With those upward-opening "Falcon" doors and a 64 inch height, it looks like a stronger bid to catch the eye of China's newly rich.
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The Financial Times, January 13, 2015
by Tom Mitchell
Multinational carmakers defied slowing economic growth in China last year, increasing their lead over Chinese rivals in the world's largest automotive market.
Sales of passenger cars, SUVs and minivans increased 9.9 per cent year-on-year to 19.7m units in 2014, the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on Monday. That was significantly below the 16 per cent annual growth recorded in 2013, when 10 times more cars were sold in China than in India.
Overall vehicle sales, including buses and trucks, increased 6.9 per cent to 23.5m units. CAAM projected the market would grow 7 per cent this year, to more than 25m vehicles.
Chinese carmakers have blamed a broader slowdown in the world's second-largest economy for their own poor sales performance last year. In October, the government reported its slowest quarterly economic growth figure — of 7.3 per cent — in more than five years.
Sales of Chinese passenger sedans fell more than 17 per cent last year, leaving domestic brands with a market share of just 22 per cent in the segment, compared with a 27 per cent share for German brands.
Dong Yang, CAAM secretary-general, said Chinese drivers did not appreciate the improvements made by domestic brands this year. "They improved their products and reduced their prices," Mr Dong said. "But Chinese people care too much about [the cache of foreign] brands. I think this trend will continue in 2015."
Dealers on the mainland for some of the world's most best-known car companies, such as BMW, have also cited slowing economic growth in their successful negotiations for bigger rebates and more modest sales targets.
But some analysts argue that their complaints are overdone as the overall sales figures mask a large and growing discrepancy between local and foreign brands, with the latter continuing to enjoy double-digit annual sales growth.
"We've got a market that's 24m units in size and is growing at 7 per cent — we should be celebrating not lamenting," said Bill Russo, a Shanghai-based automotive analyst. "The issue is that most of the growth is captured by foreign manufacturers while local players are fighting at the bottom of the pyramid."
"Five per cent growth anywhere else in the world is considered great," he added. "But here we complain about anything less than double-digit growth. In a market this big, that's crazy."
Volkswagen reported at the weekend that its sales in China increased 12.4 per cent to 3.67m units, accounting for almost 40 per cent of its global total.
On Monday, Jaguar Land Rover of the UK said that it had recorded a 28 per cent annual surge in China, its largest market, compared with a 9 per cent increase in overall sales. Owned by India's Tata Motors, JLR opened its first manufacturing facility in China in October as it races to catch up with VW unit Audi, BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, which together account for about 80 per cent of premium vehicle sales in China.
The Chinese government forces overseas car companies to operate joint ventures if they want to manufacture locally. Most have linked with large state-owned auto groups, which reap a steady flow of dividends from the partnerships but have failed to develop strong brands of their own.
Dow Jones Newswires, January 12, 2015
by Colum Murphy
DETROIT–China's auto industry faces a second straight year of weaker growth after a sharp 2014 slowdown, according to an industry association and analysts, as car makers continue to grapple with a cooling economy and rising inventories.
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Monday that it expects passenger-vehicle sales to rise 8% to 21.3 million vehicles this year, compared with 9.9% growth in 2014. While that pace is stronger than current outlooks for Europe and the U.S., it still marks a sharp slowdown from a 16% gain in 2013 and even higher rates in some previous years.
Jochen Siebert, managing director of consulting firm JSC Automotive, said Western auto makers get such a large share of profits from China, slower gains "could be a slap in their face as the market begins to stall and regulators put an end to extraordinary profits in the aftermarket business."
Consultant IHS Automotive estimates that in 2013 China contributed about 59% of net profit at Volkswagen AG, 45% at BMW AG and 37% at General Motors Co. The car makers don't separately disclose China profits.
BMW said China accounts for between 20% and 30% of its automotive-segment earnings, which excludes finance arm earnings. Ian Robertson, the German luxury-car maker's global sales and marketing chief, said in an interview at the Detroit auto show that he expects BMW sales in China to rise at a moderate single-digit-percentage rate this year. Mr. Robertson said growth also was shifting among car segments, for example, to smaller luxury cars from larger models.
Volvo Car Corp. Chief Executive Håkan Samuelsson said it is important not to "over exaggerate" the effects of China's slowdown. "It's going to be tougher," he said. "But there is still solid growth," he added.
Mr. Samuelsson said growth in China's premium-car market in 2015 of between 5% and 10% would be "more realistic." Volvo expects its growth would outperform, but wouldn't be as high as when its sales rose about 35% in 2014.
Analysts expect China's slowing growth will weigh on auto sales over the course of the year. China's gross domestic product is widely expected to rise 7.3% in 2014, the weakest since 1990, and further deceleration is likely, said economists.
"Sales growth of sedans has almost stalled in recent months because buyers of sedans are very vulnerable to the economic situation," said Yale Zhang, managing director of consulting firm Automotive Foresight. In 2014, China's sedan sales rose only 3% from a year earlier to 12.4 million cars.
Dealers including Xie Zongwei agree. "People are asking for greater discounts. I feel it's getting more difficult to sell cars," said Mr. Xie, who sells Chevrolet, Hyundai and Geely vehicles in Hebei province.
The China auto association offers a somewhat brighter outlook for commercial vehicles, which are more dependent on the property market. Overall, the group expects total sales of passenger and commercial vehicles to rise 7% to 25.13 million this year, compared with 6.9% last year.
The industry group's estimates are largely in line with those of analysts. Business Monitor International, a unit of information-services firm Fitch Group, expects growth in China's passenger-car sales to slow to 7% this year. LMC Automotive forecasts a 9% rise for the passenger-car market and IHS Automotive forecasts an 8% rise.
In addition to the economic deceleration, demand for cars is taking a hit from the increasing number of cities placing restrictions on car sales to tackle their worsening air-pollution and traffic problems.
In December, the affluent southern city of Shenzhen joined other urban centers in curbing car purchases. The city now caps the number of new cars at 100,000 vehicles a year, less than half of an estimated 250,000 new vehicles sold in 2014.
Cities that might follow suit this year include Chengdu, Suzhou, Nanjing and Xian, said Ways Consulting Co., a Guangzhou-based consulting firm focused on the Chinese automotive industry. Each of the cities has had more than 100 autos per kilometer on the road, said the consultancy, adding that the four cities sold more than 1.2 million new cars in the first 10 months of 2014.
The association's figures track vehicles shipped to dealers rather than sold to consumers, and rising inventories in dealer lots suggest more cars are going unsold.
Dealers for some foreign car brands, including BMW, have complained about what they called too-high sales targets and have demanded financial support from car makers to tide them through the slowdown.
Johan de Nysschen, president of General Motors' Cadillac unit, said dealers for the brand in China hadn't asked for such payments. "[But] we should anticipate it. Dealers for all franchises have taken note of this development," he said.
The latest data from the China Automobile Dealers Association show that stockpiles at China's more than 22,000 dealerships jumped to 55 days in November, up from 44 days in October and the highest level since June 2012.
Bill Russo, managing director of consulting firm Gao Feng Advisory, advised against car companies putting all of their eggs in the China basket. But he said there weren't too many options. "If you're a global auto maker, where else can you go for growth other than China?"
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Ward's Auto, January 5, 2015
Chinese automaker Geely will sell about 3,000 units online in China in 2014, five years after launching Internet sales on the country's leading e-commerce site.
"The impact of Internet firms has been a major success for the company," Geely spokesman Ashley Sutcliffe says.
Consumers have embraced e-commerce in China, the world's most networked country. They are willing to buy just about anything online, including cars, and thus a new distribution model is being created.
But don't count traditional dealerships out. They still play a crucial role.
"E-commerce in the automotive market is taking off," says Paul Hu, chief marketing officer for Greater China and ASEAN at Volkswagen Group China. "In my personal opinion, online sales in the total car market in China will account for 10% in the near future."
Shanghai Volkswagen, one of VW's joint ventures in China, sells cars online in China though a handful of sites. Customers place orders online, but pick up the vehicle at a dealership.
"We do believe that there is some disruption to come to the distribution model, but it is not imminent," says Kyle Dickie, CEO of Sewells Group, a dealership best-practices consultancy. "In China, there is an unusually high level of trust still placed in the sales consultant. In other words, consumers still want to interact face to face."
Smartphones are the disruptive agent. By the end of 2014 China was to have more than 500 million smartphone users, says Wang Xiangrong, an official with China's State Internet Information Office.
Those phones are kept busy buying stuff. Beijing-based iResearch predicts 2014 online retail sales in China will surge 45.8% to RMB2.76 trillion ($444 billion).
The explosion of online commerce in China is aided by e-commerce giants such as Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. All are playing a role in changing the vehicle-distribution model in China.
Alibaba owns Tmall, the country's leading e-commerce site. Formerly called Taobao, it is the site where Geely launched Internet sales. Last year, Alibaba partnered with another Chinese automaker, SAIC, to create an Internet-enabled car.
Though consumers can buy a Geely car online, dealers still close the deal. "Consumers can pay a deposit or pay for cars outright online, (but) the official sale will be handled by the nearest dealer," says Sutcliffe.
That allows the dealer to sell additional products to the buyer and also gives the customer a point of contact for aftersales service, he says. Geely has some 800 dealerships in China.
Demise of Dealerships From Ride Sharing?
Online sales aren't what will cut dealers out of the sales loop, argues Bill Russo, managing director at consultancy Gao Feng in Shanghai. Business-to-consumer connected-transportation applications might, however. These basically are ride-sharing applications but in China taxi drivers are used.
"Empowered with technology, consumers of mobility services are likely to make choices other than what the automakers and their dealers are offering today," says Russo.
China's Internet giants are deeply involved in mobility services.
Alibaba is an investor in Kuaidi Dache, a taxi application that sometimes tops 6 million daily orders. Tencent offers the taxi app Didi Dache, which claims more than 100 million registered users and says it processes more than 5.2 million orders daily.
The Baidu search engine has 500 million monthly mobile users and offers Baidu Maps and Total View, which uses satellites to show actual locations. It is a Chinese version of Google Maps' Street View; Google is blocked in China.
The U.S. ride-sharing service Uber has just entered the China market and will use Baidu's maps and Street View.
Internet-savvy young Chinese increasingly are becoming accustomed to using such services, says Russo. They "are increasingly likely to opt out of traditional car-ownership hassles," he says.
Geely is one automaker that is playing both sides. It owns London Taxi, a famous brand in the U.K. A few months ago it introduced a fleet of the vehicles in Shanghai.
The iconic taxis – which in Shanghai are gold, rather than black – are larger than regular taxis and equipped to accommodate wheelchair users or others with special needs, says Sutcliffe. Right now they can only be summoned using a phone.
"There are plans for an app," Sutcliffe adds.
Source: wardsauto
Gao Feng Insights Paper, January 2015
As we know, China's economy has been growing dramatically for more than two decades. China is now the world's second largest economy. Recently, we see rising concerns over the impact of a deceleration in overall economic growth, especially on the automotive sector.
China's economic growth is likely to continue over the next decade, driven by a mix of continued (albeit more selective) fixed-asset investment and growth in consumption. Continued investment in infrastructure to support a more than 60% urbanized population is anticipated. Household consumption levels will rise as a result of the growth in the population of middle-class wage earners and overall rising incomes. A broad transformation is expected to continue and will present an environment that is characterized by a long term and sustained shift towards a middle-income, consumption-based economy. This trend would lead to a profoundly different economic landscape.
We believe discontinuities in the political, social and economic landscape have the potential to reshape China dramatically in the next decade. While the outlook is positive, there will likely be discontinuities – some upward and some downward – along the way. We believe that the key to sustainable success for businesses in China will depend on their ability to anticipate those trends and challenges that are in the "blind spots" today – but which can create disruptive threats or discontinuous opportunities for those who are able to respond rapidly. In essence, an "early warning system" is needed which leverages unique insights that can be brought to bear on the question of how the market, the regulatory system, and business models may develop over the next decade in China.
In this analysis, we will apply such a thought process to anticipate plausible scenarios for the China auto industry in 2025.
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Building the Internet if Vehicles and Related Smart Car Technologies in China
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China is the world's largest auto market and also has highest number of internet and smart phone users which will likely make it an innovator and incubator of smart car technologies. China's urban transportation challenges, the high rate of adoption of connected mobile devices, combined with the rapid and aggressive introduction of alternative mobility and vehicle ownership concepts will ultimately compress the time needed to commercialize smart, connected car technologies and services. Investors, automakers and dealers are optimistic that these developments will dramatically revolutionize the Chinese auto market. As a result, OEMs are investing rapidly in the marketplace to gain first mover advantage in the most promising auto market in the world.
Bill Russo is Managing Director and Automotive Practice Leader with Gao Feng Advisory Company, Ltd a China-based consultancy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the industry. Prior to this, he was VP of Chrysler Northeast Asia, where he successfully negotiated and secured government approval for six vehicle programs with three different Asian partners. In this time period, he launched a regional holding company as well as two distribution companies and oversaw the industrialization of the first Chrysler and Dodge-branded vehicles in Asia. He holds a U.S. patent for his innovative efforts towards reducing automotive new product development cycle time and is a published author and opinion leader whose viewpoints have appeared throughout several media outlets.
SHANGHAI—An executive at Warren Buffett -backed BYD Co. defended its business prospects after shares in the Chinese electric-car maker fell as much as 47% on Thursday.
In a conference call late Thursday, company secretary Qian Li said BYD's operations were normal despite the share plunge and sought to dispel what he called rumors about the company. BYD's Hong Kong-traded shares regained some ground later Thursday and finished at 25.05 Hong Kong dollars (US$3.23), down 29%.
Mr. Li described rumors circulating in the market about BYD—including suggestions that its founder and chairman had been arrested—as "ridiculous" and urged investors to ignore them.
He also dismissed talk of BYD having large exposure to the troubled Russia market, describing the company's investment in that country as "very small."
BYD also produces mobile-phone components and solar panels.
Asked whether the price movement could be related to a selloff in shares by Mr. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle, Mr. Li said BYD had been in recent contact with Mr. Buffett but there was no sign that Mr. Buffett was considering a sale. He added BYD didn't reach Mr. Buffett on Thursday due to the time difference between China and the U.S.
Berkshire Hathaway owns a roughly 9% stake in BYD, according to previous company filings, including about one-quarter of its Hong Kong-traded shares. In the Chinese city of Shenzhen, BYD's shares fell about 10% on Thursday, the daily limit.
In October, BYD reported a third-quarter profit drop of 26% and said it expects this year's profit to fall by up to 22%. Auto-sales growth in China has slowed in recent months amid a broader drop in China's economic momentum.
Overall in the first 11 months of 2014, BYD has sold 384,977 vehicles, down from 458,042 vehicles sold in the same period the year before—a 16% drop, according to data from research firm IHS Automotive.
While the company frequently touts its line of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids—vehicles that can run on both gasoline and electricity—it relies heavily on sales of traditional gasoline engine cars for the lion's share of its automotive revenue.
Bill Russo, managing director of consulting firm Gao Feng Advisory, said BYD, like many other Chinese car brands, need to create a brand that appeals to Chinese consumers. "It has to go beyond just being a cheap car," he said.
Mr. Li said BYD faces "hot competition" and decreasing margins in the traditional car market in China but said it was transforming into a manufacturer of new-energy vehicles.
China has a long-stated goal of reducing its dependency on imported oil by promoting new-energy vehicles, including passenger cars and buses. China wants half a million such vehicles on the road by next year and 10 times that by the end of the decade.
But in the first nine months of this year, fewer than 40,000 electric vehicles were sold in China, according to data from the government-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Around three quarters of these were passenger cars. By comparison, around 14.2 million conventional passenger cars were sold in the period.
IHS Automotive researcher Namrita Chow said the high cost of replacing batteries, lack of adequate charging infrastructure and range anxiety—where buyers worry about how far they can travel on a single charge—are all obstacles in the path to high sales growth rates.
She said that BYD had doubled sales of its pure electric e6 car to 2,203 vehicles in the first 10 months of this year compared with the same period last year. Sales for the hybrid Qin had so far reached just over 11,000 vehicles in its first year on sale.
Mr. Li dismissed talk that the Chinese government could be reducing its support of new-energy vehicles, including buses, saying BYD continued to see good order flow for them. "We're confident on the future of electric buses," Mr. Li said.
A nearly 50% drop in oil prices over the past six months has pressured green stocks in a number of areas.
"With the oil price down, the global outlook for electric vehicles looks very different from just a couple of months ago," said Jochen Siebert, a Shanghai-based managing director at JSC Automotive Consulting. "BYD's electric and hybrid car business will likely be impacted," he added.
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Foreclosure Prevention Assistance Available to Homeowners at Department of Financial Services' Mobile Command Center 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5 at Albany Community Development Agency, 200 Henry Johnson Blvd.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the Department of Financial Services is reaching out to help Albany area homeowners struggling to save their homes from foreclosure.
Foreclosure prevention specialists will be available to meet homeowners from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5 in the Department of Financial Services' Mobile Command Center (MCC) which will be located at the Albany Community Development Agency, 200 Henry Johnson Blvd., Albany.
Governor Cuomo said "It is essential that we provide as much help as possible to financially-troubled homeowners. The objective is to provide direct help to homeowners and get the word out to others that it's important to ask for help as quickly as possible. The longer a homeowner waits, the harder it may be to save a home."
Governor Cuomo directed the Department of Financial Services (DFS) to launch the foreclosure prevention program in January as a means of extending help to homeowners in foreclosure or at risk of foreclosure. Since then, the program has visited more than a dozen sites with high foreclosure rates throughout the state.
Benjamin M. Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services, said: "It's important that homeowners who start to see financial problems know that there are more options available to them if they act sooner, rather than later. The foreclosure prevention program allows homeowners to meet one-on-one with foreclosure prevention specialists who are knowledgeable and can offer practical guidance."
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Dexter Spoilers, Clips: What's Ahead?Matt Richenthal at . Comments
"The last [few] episodes are a freight train when all of those pieces start interlocking."
So says executive producer Sara Colleton of the conclusion to this season of Dexter, as the most recent episode of this Showtime hit made it clear that the walls are closing in around both Dexter and Lumen.
How will it all end? We can't say for certain. But we can post a couple of clips from this Sunday's "In the Beginning," as well as a few teases from Colleton, courtesy of an interview with TV Guide. First, a sneak peek at Batista and Deb questioning Jordan Chase:Quinn vs. Dexter... and Deb? After seeing Liddy's photos of Dexter, Lumen and a few garbage bags, Quinn will make a decision that sends him down "a big collision course" between his feelings for Deb and his suspicions of Dexter.
What's in a title? The season's penultimate installment is titled "Hop a Freighter" and will ask the question: "Wouldn't it be nice if you could escape from your life?"
The finale has been been retitled "The Big One." Why? Says Colleton: "When you see the episode, you'll realize what a great title it is."
Is there any chance Dexter asks Lumen to marry him?!? Just throwing that out there.
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(This post is part of the Audience (R)Evolution online salon curated by Caridad Svich for the TCG Audience (R)Evolution Convening in Kansas City, MO in 2015.)
For me, there is a very distinct difference between evolution and revolution and I am not entirely sure what re-evolution is. A revolution orbits the same dynamics. What changes is positioning — who's in power, who's on top. It's like a revolving door — the door doesn't move, it's just a cycle of people in and out of that door. In evolution the entire being, the entire system, changes; it's a move not just in positioning but in purpose. For me, an evolution marks that you've learned something and you've graduated to a different level. Sometimes that means that you are starting over, shifting the entire dynamic and your understanding of something completely. The evolutionary practice is one in which we're constantly seeking transformation, not just transition.
Organizational Evolution > Audience Development
Some of the questions this blog salon asks are really important ones: "When making work, who is it for? Who is making decisions? Who is impacted? How is the audience invited into a process, a work, a building over time?" It's always about the audience — how can we shift the audience, re-educate the audience, how can we cultivate a new audience? But I think that the emphasis on audience is misplaced because this blog series is not directed towards the audience, it is directed towards the arts leaders. And as leaders I think we need less focus on the audience and more on understanding how organizations can shift their practices to be more relevant to changing times, changing demographics, to all of the shifts that are happening as our communities and our world are evolving. We need to ask: how is the organization evolving? How does the mission evolve? How does the purpose of your organization and the work that you're creating, presenting, producing evolve to match the need of an audience at this particular moment in history?
In February, I sat on a panel at the DanceNYC symposium and one of my fellow panelists, Denise Saunders Thompson of the International Association of Blacks in Dance offered this quote from the article, "What is Inclusion?" by Shafik Asante:
No one has the right to invite others in! It definitely becomes our responsibility as a society to remove all barriers which uphold exclusion since none of us have the authority to "invite" others "in"! So what is inclusion? Inclusion is recognizing our universal "oneness" and interdependence. Inclusion is recognizing that we are "one" even though we are not the "same". The act of inclusion means fighting against exclusion and all of the social diseases exclusion gives birth to — i.e. racism, sexism, handicapism, etc. Fighting for inclusion also involves assuring that all support systems are available to those who need such support. Providing and maintaining support systems is a civic responsibility, not a favor. We were all born "in". Society will immediately improve at the point we honor this truth!!
Asante speaks a powerful truth: No one has permission to invite anyone. That just by being human beings, we are invited. That we're here. We're all part of this. When questions of audience development arise, these words challenges us to examine ourselves and our organizations. The problem is that we've created opportunities for exclusion. The problem is not in the invitation, its in the exclusion.
So, those initial questions in reverse would be: why doesn't the audience member feel engaged? Why do they feel like this work isn't for them? Why are the barriers for them to participate in the decision making process? And what put the culture or the artistic process so far out of reach of the audience that they feel like they need to be invited back into the process? Because, from a cultural position, the art belongs to the community — it belongs to the culture, not to the artist. The artist is there in service of the culture they are representing. And we've shifted that dynamic to where the audience is there in service of the artist or the institution, rather than the institution being in service to the audience.
Thinking about this in terms of evolution: the process of evolving responds to the environment around you. The problem that we're facing as an arts sector, as a performing arts sector specifically, is we've disconnected ourselves from the natural and social environment and created a very insular space in which to make and show art. We see this happening with institutions in the ethereal sense — an organization, a 501(c)(3) — and in the physical sense, a bricks and mortar building that is so tied to programming that it's hard for people to think outside of that structure. We see this happening with institutions that weren't necessarily created in response to a demand from the community, but as a way to pay homage to an artist or group, or a particular discipline. And so many of the buildings are constructed as a monument to the ego. However, the work that needs to happen in community is driven by need and necessity and the spirit of the people.
Looking at Alternate ROOTS as an example, it's an organization that came out of a very specific space, time, and need. The space being the south in general and the Highlander Research and Education Center specifically, the time being post Civil Rights and anti-war movements, and the need was to understand how the performing arts are implicated in supporting the struggle for human dignity. ROOTS' founders were asking a question about how to continue, as artists, as citizens, to be engaged in a process of transforming the society around them. If we look back 40 years to the organization's founding, or if we look back 3-4 years in the recent history, we see the attempts to answer those questions forming the legacy of the organization.
In the beginning, ROOTS created an aspirational mission: to strive for the elimination of all forms of oppression. As a collective, they were trying to embody those words they articulated at the beginning of their existence together. They didn't quite live those words when they first uttered them to each other. But they, through time, and years of being together began to actually live and be those principals that they put out as the foundation of their relationship to one another. In the words of Linda Parris-Bailey, one of ROOTS' founding members, "We hung in there because people had that vision. What we did was agree to struggle together." Those original members chose to make that journey together and to walk with one another throughout that process and to hold each other accountable over time.
Reciprocity > Ministry
In addition to challenging a focus on audience development, I also want to push back against the idea of art as ministry and arts institutions as ministering to communities. Like many southerners, I also come from a religious community. The church was literally in the front yard of my grandmother's house. So, growing up, I spent a lot of time in church and dealing with ministers and I saw many of them as disconnected from the people. Even though they were supposed to be the connective tissue between the people and a higher power, that often they came across like pretentious gatekeepers.
This idea of ministry doesn't feel like an authentic practice for what the work in performing arts actually is. It's not necessarily ministering to anyone because people know, they come into the world knowing, and ministering to me indicates that someone is providing a more spiritual path or a more right path or a more righteous way of doing or being and they need to share that or spread that to other people. And to think that's what the theater is considering itself is a really dangerous idea.
I do feel there is an aspect of ministry that is relevant to this conversation: that people are coming because they feel they are being fed. And that the space you are creating — again, whether it be a virtual, ephemeral space of the ritual you're creating through theater or the physical space of the bricks and mortar building — is one that people feel comfortable to come, to share, to be fed, and to be of service to others. There's a reciprocal process where they're coming to be fed and to feed others. The best work that I've experienced has been in that vein where there's an exchange whether that's an exchange of energies or an exchange of support or an exchange of vision or creativity or even laughter — that there is an exchange that happens. And the audience comes to participate in that exchange. You go to the sacred space knowing that you're going to get something from it and you're going to give something. And that's part of this balance that we should be creating with any type of cultural or artistic engagement.
Holistic Spaces > Art Centers
The concept of arts institutions as holistic community centers sits better with me. I think that's what they should be striving for all together — any place that is a public facility should be dedicated to holistic community wellness. The arts is just one place that we can model that in a way that is very rooted and connected to our traditions and our spirit.
We also need to recognize that in order to truly create holistic spaces, you may have to drop the arts from the center. Holistic means the whole being and art is merely an identifier. It is not the source, it is not the center. Art is a representation of the wholeness that you're creating, that you're fostering, a visual illustration of the culture that you come from and/or are trying to create. A performing arts space is is not considered holistic just because the offering is art.
The best example of an organization operating in this spirit would be Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans. During Hurricane Katrina their space did not flood and so after the storm, when people came to Ashé, the space was filled with cleaning materials. Mops and buckets and bleach and Lysol and ammonia — whatever you needed. And people came in and were like, "When are you gonna get back to producing art?" And Carol Bebelle, Ashe's executive director, was like, "Baby, this is the art." This is what the people need at this moment and that's what we are going to provide."
There's something about that approach, that their space is open to multiple forms of engagement that are in support of the community. They're not trying to create something that the community might one day learn to love or understand. Everything they create is in response to the community. This week it may be cleaning supplies, next week it may be HIV testing, the following week it may be a performance around the seven Kwanza principles. It can be whatever it needs to be based on the needs of the community. That doesn't lessen the artistic practice, but it does strengthen the rigor of being in service to the community.
Reimaging Power > Shifting Power
Ultimately, the question I would ask is: to what end? At the end of the day, when you get a new audience, a different audience into your space to see your work — what do you hope to shift as a result of that audience witnessing what you're providing? What do you hope to shift in the world as a result of that work, both short term impact and long term legacy building? Are we waiting on a revolution in our sector, in our society, a shift in who has the power? Or are we looking to model the evolution of practice and reimagine the entire designation of power?
Carlton Turner is the Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS, a regional non-profit arts organization based in the south supporting artists working at the intersection of arts and social justice and co-founder and co-artistic director, along with his brother Maurice Turner, of the group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction), a Mississippi-based performing arts group that blends of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music together with non-traditional storytelling.
1st image: Progress Theatre's The Burnin'
2nd image: ROOTS founding members John O'Neal, front, and Dudley Cocke, back.
Credit: Melisa Cardona
Audience (R)Evolution is a four-stage program to study, promote and support successful audience engagement and community development models across the country. The Audience (R)Evolution grant program was designed by TCG and is funded by Doris Duke.


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Mini Quilt - Independent Reading Project
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Objective: SWBAT demonstrate their understanding of an assigned novel by creating a "Mini – Quilt" focusing upon literary elements.
Prior Knowledge
Recently the class studied literary elements. Now is the time for students to reveal their complete understanding and ability to apply their knowledge to their independent reading. Using a Literary Elements PP, I reviewed the terms and encouraged students to add Literary Elements Reference notes if necessary.
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Independent Reading Project
As I passed out the "Mini-Quilt" assignment, I explained to the class that they needed to choose one of the District Approved books for seventh grade to read for this Independent Reading Assignment. The reading and project would be completed outside of class. The due date was four weeks from today.
This project demonstrates the students' comprehension of literary elements through the creation of a "Mini-Quilt". This is not a real quilt but a paper one. It consists of eight squares (4" x 4") in which students incorporate visual as well as written components; a border is also included. The squares include the following elements: protagonist, antagonist; setting, personality traits of the protagonist, universal theme, symbol representing the protagonist, student's favorite quote from the novel, and major conflict.
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I recently featured the creative party invites we made for Leah's mermaid party, but now I want to show you something else we created that was a hit with the little swimmers- mermaid tails made from beach towels.
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- Place a beach towel around her waist with the long part hanging down like a train of a dress.
- Tie your ribbon in a bow around her waist and then fold the top of the towel over to cover the ribbon and better secure the towel from slipping down.
- Wrap a rubber band around the end of the towel, leaving about a foot at the end. The last time you wrap it around, don't pull the entire towel through- leave the rubber band in the center to split the towel and make your mermaid tail.
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Due to one man's quick thinking, a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl has lived to see another day.
Yesterday, 7-year-old Keyla McCree (who is autistic) climbed out of a window in her mother's apartment and onto an air conditioning unit. Her mother was inside the apartment, but was momentarily occupied with another child and did not notice her daughter push her way out the window.
Witnesses noticed the girl standing perilously atop the air conditioner – one of whom was 52-year-old Steven St. Bernard, a local bus driver. Quickly, Steven rushed over and made it to the scene, just seconds before Keyla lost her footing and tumbled off the unit, which was three storeys off the ground.
Luckily, Steven awaited below with outstretched arms and caught her. He suffered a torn tendon in his bicep, but Keyla walked away without a scratch.
"Not a scratch on her," said Keyla's mom, Shaleema. "The man caught her, thank God. It's a miracle."
Jessica Aleman, a neighbour of St. Bernard's, had this to say about the city bus driver:
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Tribeca Festival Thinks Big, and Globally
by Anthony Kaufman
Well, you can't fault the Tribeca Film Festival for thinking too small. The 250 films from 44 countries announced in the festival's 11 main sections just weren't enough. Last week, the program was still swelling like an overripe tomato: late additions included "Tickets," an omnibus film from Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Paul Laverty, Shane Meadow's "Dead Man's Shoes" and the world premiere of Iranian-American director Amir Naderi's "Sound Barrier." Still, it's difficult to get too excited about Tribeca's international films when the Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup of heavy-hitters from the likes of Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke the very same day that the TFF began. Call it bad timing, but then again, is it fair to compare a 4-year-old event with the 58-year-old granddaddy of world cinema?
A better comparison might be the Sundance Film Festival's newly revamped World Cinema competition. Striving for relevancy on the international scene, Sundance's world selection is a mix of also-rans, occasional crowd-pleasers, and one or two gems. Under the continued guidance of worldly Festival Director Peter Scarlet, Tribeca is similarly trying to keep a focus on foreign titles, although pesky premieres of studio schlock and mediocre American-indies often steal their thunder (as they do each year in Park City).
But even the festival's glitzy sections skew foreign-tongued: in the Spotlight and Special Screening sections, distributors like Sony Pictures Classics, Fox Searchlight, and Wellspring have handed over their most anticipated subtitled releases, Wong Kar-wai's re-cut "2046," the Russian supernatural-gothic blockbuster "Night Watch" and Jacques Audiard's "Fingers" remake "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" for their North American premieres. Also on tap, Italian master Ermanno Olmi's "Singing Behind Screens," which Miramax was at one time associated with but is now back on the market, and well-received Berlin entries, Costa-Gavras' white-collar black comedy "The Axe" and Robert Guediguian's bio-pic "The Last Mitterrand," both still available for U.S. distribution.
While indie film execs still see the event as more of a pre-Cannes nuisance (ever after moving its dates earlier this year to avoid clashing with the French giant), the TFF does offer the opportunity to catch-up on worthy films that have shown already at prior fests. (As one biz insider says, "There's nothing I feel like I have to see.") But Tribeca fest organizers say only about 20-25% of titles are culled from other fests like Toronto, Rotterdam and Berlin. Some standouts this year include surreal Rotterdam cine-poem "4," Venice FIPRESCI critics winner "Vento Di Terra," indieWIRE undistributed favorite "Days and Hours" from Bosnian filmmaker Pjer Zalica, Belgian handicapped comedy "Aaltra" and "Czech Dream," an arch documentary about a heavily marketed super-mall in Prague that is a complete fabrication by the filmmakers.
The festival's commitment to foreign fare can also be seen in the Competition programs, both narrative and documentary, where only about a third of the films hail from the U.S. and the rest come from as far and wide as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Burkino Faso to Switzerland and Syria.
Recently bumped from the Wide Angle section into the Narrative Competition, TFF programmers are high on "Play," the pop-fueled feature debut of Chilean filmmaker Alicia Scherson (shorts "The Last Olive," "Crying Underwater") about a couple searching for love in Santiago and "My Brother's Summer," another world premiere feature debut, from Roman critic and filmmaker Pietro Reggiani ("The Book Junkie") about a young boy's imagined relationship with his soon to-be-born brother. Other lauded tyro efforts include Sebastian Festival entry "The Wandering Shadows," by 23-year-old Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra, about two offbeat outsiders in Bogota, and from Rotterdam, "Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds," Turkish newcomer Ahmet Uluçay's portrait of two teenage cinephiles set in the 1960s.
And if previous festivals are any indication, the world premiere of the Chinese film "Stolen Life" (aka "Life and Death Plunder") by acclaimed female melodramatist Li Shaohong ("Blush") will be one to watch: the highlights of TFFs 2 and 3 were Chinese films, Li Yang's "Blind Shaft" and Liu Fen Dou's "Green Hat," both top victors in the main competition. Anticipated Asian titles are also in the Midnight section with Thailand's homegrown horror hit "Shutter," and two recent J-horror pick-ups from Lions Gate, "Premonition" and "Infection." Sounds like an excellent drive-in double feature.
The presence of more intriguing world cinema entries may be a growing sign of foreign sales agents taking Tribeca more seriously as a place to launch pictures available for U.S. distribution. "People are turning their heads internationally," says one acquisitions exec. "I keep hearing, 'What do you think of Tribeca?'"
Last year's TFF was also good to documentaries (the fest's big Audience Award winner was "Every Mother's Son," a tearjerker about mothers of kids killed by the NYPD). And this year's event features a number of overseas nonfiction notables, from artist profiles like UK doc "George Michael: A Different Story," which played in Berlin to much buzz, Locarno favorite "Touch the Sound" about a deaf percussionist, and French auteur Claire Denis' "Towards Mathilde," a look at modern dance luminary Mathilde Monnier, to more political documentaries like UK filmmaker Adam Curtis' 3-hour epic "The Power of Nightmares," about the parallel and inextricably linked fear-mongering of Islamic extremism and U.S. neo-conservatism.
In this year's documentary competition, look out for "A State of Mind," a look at gymnasts in North Korea already acquired by Kino International; "A Flood in Baath Country," Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay's controversial indictment of the Baathist ruling party in Damascus; "Favela Rising," a world premiere about Rio's slums and Afro-reggae music; and "The Devil's Miner," a gorgeously photographed and harrowing portrait of a fatherless indigenous 14-year-old working as a silver minor in "the mountain that eats men," Bolivia's famous Cerro Rico. Both a fascinating human rights expose and a touching coming-of-age document, "The Devil's Miner" is the kind of subtle, cultural study that is easily lost amidst the hype of a big film festival. Of course, the best Tribeca can do is program such films; it's up to the audience — and the press — to seek them out.
[ indieWIRE's coverage of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival continues daily in a special Tribeca blog on indieWIRE.com. ]
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have got mild problems and, in fact, somepatients are pretty desperate and even suicidal because they've been sent from one to another and given some vaginal cream or some stupid treatment, which generallydon't resolve anything at all. If you're a guy watching this now and havegot a men's yeast infection, I can help you. I've helped many men, so you'll find a lotmore in Chapter 4 in my book on some quick solutions and also yeastinfection hasgot some good ideas on it. So what are you going to do if you've gota yeast infection and you're a guy? You just going to use Vagisil or something like that?Don't laugh, but this is something that many
men have told me that's been recommended tothem by their general practitioner. It's quite a stupid treatment. Yeast infection requires internal treatmentas well as external treatment. It's very important you tackle this area on a couple of differentfronts if you want to get a good resolution. Internal treatment, I mean you need to cutout alcohol for some time. So if you're a guy watching this now and you've got a yeastinfection of the penis or the rectal area driving you crazy, it's itchy, and you'redrinking beer or wine or spirits and you think you can cure it with some cream, well, you'rewasting your time. You need to make some changes.
You really need to make some changes to yourdiet and lifestyle long term to stop feeding this yeast infection, to reduce the food supply. It's very important that you consider thispoint that 'm making here. I've seen all too many people who just consider it an externalproblem that needs a cream. So you can read more of my writings on ericbakker as wellregarding diet and lifestyle. You need to need make changes. So what kind of changesdo you need to make? What I think is one of the better diet approachesfor the guy is the MEVY diet, so meat, eggs, vegetables, and yogurt. So a kind of Paleoapproach is going to work well, but I don't
want you just eating a whole bunch of meat,barbeques and foods like that and ribs. You need to have plenty of vegetable matter aswell, green leafy vegetables. The fermented and cultured foods are important,too, to put good bacteria back into the body, so good quality yogurt and kefir is also good.Kefir is quite an important food to eat to put lots of beneficial bacteria there. Changeof pH of the gut. But probably by far the biggest one for males is cutting out alcoholfor some time. I'll tell you now, guys, if this problem is really driving you crazy,and you are really at your wit's end and want to get rid of this problem, you need to listenup. You need to make those changes because
treating this thing purely on the externalis a waste of time. Okay. It really is a waste of time. You can cure this thing completely.I had really bad jock itch in my 20s to the point where it drove me nuts. I was itchingand scratching the skin. It was bleeding. Having a shower or going swimming was justa nightmare. It was pain. It stopped me from wanting to have relationships. I got verydepressed over the whole thing, so if this is you right now, I've been where you are. You can cure this thing completely, right?But you need to make those changes for at least three to six months, and you need todo the external treatment. And you can read
How To Tell If You Have A Male Yeast Infection
Have you checked out my website yet, yeastinfection ,and done the quiz? There's a really good male quiz you can do on there. I'd like you togo and do that one to see if you've got mild, moderate or severe yeast infection. The quizhas been completed by lots of people from around the world. It's the world's best onlineyeast infection quiz. It's cost me a lot of money and a lot of time to make this quiz.I guarantee you, you won't find a better quiz, and so make sure you complete that one. How to tell if you have a male yeast infection.A question I get asked from time to time. It's not hard to tell. There are certain peculiarsigns and symptoms on how to tell. I've covered
this in some other tutorials, but not with thisparticular question. The typical symptoms are itching, redness,and with continued scratching, there will be burning of the skin as well. Some peopleare driven crazy by this condition. I've seen guys from all around the world email me orSkype me with this condition. Some of them just don't even want to live anymore; theyhave the condition so bad. Some people think they've got a sexually transmitted diseaseand don't want to sleep with their partner. They're very embarrassed with it. Others thinkthat they're going to give it to their partner. I cover these questions in other tutorials.
But how to tell if you have a male yeast infectionis not hard. You don't usually need a to tell you this because the most characteristicsymptom is itching and redness and wanting to scratch that area. And a key area to lookat often for guys will be the inner thigh region, in and around here, these are keysort of areas, if you're scratching in and around there. It'll often start on one sideand it can sometimes cover both sides. It can cover that whole sort of region, so thewhole private part could be affected. The penis could be affected. The scrotum couldbe affected. And this little bug, it likes moisture. Itlikes darkness and it likes sugar. These are
things that it feeds on, so ask yourself thisquestion. Are you drinking a lot of beer? Are you eating a lot of sweet foods? Whatis your diet like? Are you into hygiene? Are you having showers or baths quite regularly?If you've got these symptoms, the key thing is to have a shower twice per day, in themorning and in the evening, and I want you to put on clean cotton undergarments eachtime. That's number one. Number two, diet change. You need to lookcarefully at what you're eating to stop feeding this yeast. My father had this problem fora long time. Dad would eat all the wrong foods. He'd have lots of ice cream. He'd have lotsof cookies. He'd have lots of endless cups
of coffee with two or three sugars in them,so these are the sort of things that feed up the Candida, so you need to stop doingthese things. Hygiene, dietary change, lifestyle change. Another thing you can do in the summer isto swim a lot in the seawater, particularly, and when you can, wear little or no underclothingand get sun exposure on the area. So these are the sort of things that are going to helperadicate the condition. In other tutorials I've talked more about thestress and the lifestyle responses that you need to look at if you want to eradicate this.You can get rid of it. It can take between
three to six months. Check out my other tutorialsand they'll explain a lot more about the eradication. Thanks for tuning in.


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Landers will appear on NECN's "Sidebar" segment at 4:15 p.m. Monday, March 22, a day after the expected Sunday vote.
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A man was driving down a country road one day at 45 miles per hour when suddenly he noticed a 3-legged turkey running at the same speed beside his truck. Though he thought this odd, the man decided to speed up so he wouldn't cause an accident with the turkey.
The man sped up to 55 miles per hour, but low and behold, so did the 3-legged turkey.
The man then sped up to 65 miles per hour only to again be equaled in speed by the 3-legged turkey.
As the man watched in amazement, the turkey suddenly made a sharp left turn and took off down a side road toward a small farm.
The man quickly also made the left turn and followed the turkey to the small farm, parking out front.
Looking around the man found the farmer around back in the midst of many 3-legged turkeys.
After greeting the farmer, the man asked him why he was raising 3-legged turkeys.
"Well we figure," said the farmer, "that with an average family of 3 people, only 2 can have a turkey leg with an average turkey. But with a three legged turkey, each member of the family can enjoy a turkey leg for of their own on Thanksgiving."
"That's pretty wise," said the man, who then asked "Well how do your 3-legged turkeys taste?"
"I don't know," said the farmer. "We've never been able to catch one."
if the pilgrams ate cats unstead of turkey we would all be eating pussy on thanksgiving-0+
The pro football team had just finished their daily practice session when a large turkey came strutting onto the field. While the players gazed in amazement, the turkey walked up to the head coach and demanded a tryout. Everyone stared in silence as the turkey caught pass after pass and ran right through the defensive line. When the turkey returned to the sidelines, the coach shouted, "You're terrific!!! Sign up for the season, and I'll see to it that you get a huge bonus." "Forget the bonus," the turkey said, "All I want to know is, does the season go past Thanksgiving Day?"-0+
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?"
The stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead."
When I was a young turkey, new to the coop,
My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop,
Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
And he told me there was something I had to know;
His look and his tone I will always remember,
When he told me of the horrors of..... Black November;
"Come about August, now listen to me,
Each day you'll get six meals instead of just three,
And soon you'll be thick, where once you were thin,
And you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin."
"And then one morning, when you're warm in your bed,
In'll burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head.
Then she'll pluck out your feathers so you're bald 'n pink,
And scoop out your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink."
"And then comes the worst part," he said not bluffing,
"She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear end with stuffing."
Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat,
I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat.
I decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked.
I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked.
I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
High-roughage salads, juice and diet cola.
And as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes.
I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half,
And tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed.
But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath,
As they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death.
And sure enough when Black November rolled around,
I was the last turkey left in the whole compound.
So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap;
I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap.
She held me today, while sewing and humming,
And smiled at me and said, "Christmas is coming...."


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I am excited and honored to have a new essay up at PROXIMITY: A QUARTERLY COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES.
Tianjin Daughter is one of nine pieces in issue 14, all on the theme of INHERITANCE. It's a beautifully, thoughtfully edited and produced publication and I'm proud to be amongst the featured authors.
In the words of issue Editor Shasta Grant:
""In this issue, our fourteenth collection of true stories, you'll find nine nonfiction storytellers grappling with questions of inheritance. Some have inherited physical items, others cultural legacies."
Tianjin Daughter was difficult to write, in that very little is known about my paternal grandmother, born in Tianjin, China in 1898. It entailed piecing together bits and pieces gleaned from conversations with family members, old photographs and letters and from my own distant memories (she died when I was eleven).
Given what isn't known about her, what I imagine can't ever be known, I also took liberties--making it clear when I was doing so--such as fictionalizing how I imagine she came to meet my grandfather, who was, at that time, a soldier with US Expeditionary Forces.
Here is how Tianjin Daughter begins:
"Family lore has it that my grandmother was often at her window, waiting, when the soldier with bold, silvery-blue eyes rode past her father's house each day on his travels to and from his post. One evening, the soldier paused longer than usual beside her open window.
"Come with me," he may have said, speaking to the girl in her dialect, as his horse fidgeted beneath him, its hooves striking the cobbled carriage road.
Perhaps she laughed at his accent and audacity, one small, pale hand covering her mouth.
"There's room," he said, patting the triangle of saddle between his thighs.
With a mischievous backwards glance, lithe and slender as a boy in silk pants and high-collared tunic, she crept onto the stone windowsill. Joseph clasped her beneath the armpits, swung her up and onto the horse as easily as if she were a child, then held her close, one arm a firm brace beneath small, bound breasts. He goaded the horse forward, jabbing its ribs with the heels of his dusty boots."
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I am constantly looking for inspiration in New York City. Some days, the little things that make our life go round inspire me. Others days, I need a little more than the regular everyday things.
The Neighbors
Pawel Althemer's The Neighbors Exhibit at the New Museum has given me the inspiration to do exactly what I love to do. The Neighbors exhibit was created with the idea that all artists are everyday men and that anyone can create a work of art, all we have to do is dig deeper. In fact, the third floor is dedicated to the audience.
Anyone can come in and incorporate his or her own piece of art to the exhibit. I drew an orange sun in the middle of the floor because I was feeling bright that day. When I spoke to Pawel, he explained to me that he himself is still a student. He says his mentor taught him that we are all students; the primary difference between us is experience but we are all learning while we teach and practice our art. The exhibit is open until April 13th and on that day, the third floor will be broken down and pieces of the artwork will be given to the people, by the people.
Off Broadway Shows
Off Broadway shows are not only easy on your pockets, but they are rich with galvanization. "The Year I Was Gifted" by Monica Bauer at the Stage Left studio is a play about finding your way and your place in the world. The writing is funny and filled with rich style and relatable characters.
This one-woman-show is well executed and well developed with references to great literature. I was inspired to read a few classics and most of all, to find my tribe in this world. I totally recommend this show to all people looking to find their way through this thing we call life. The show is running every Friday now through April 2nd – its the perfect Friday night activity.
The Women of Social Justice
The women of the Xi Alpha Chapter of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority Inc. have been celebrating woman's history month by raising awareness and inspiring our communities to advocate for women's rights.
The International Woman's Day Rally held on March 8th brought together women from all over NYC to STAND UP for ALL Women and women's equality. The Xi Alpha Chapter will bring the month to a close with a panel discussion on Thursday March 27th at Columbia University's Barnard College. Join this panel of inspirational women conversing about Women's Empowerment: A Celebration of Strength and Struggle. Feel free to RSVP with Habiba Braimah at [email protected]
I have been converted to a Yogi. Yoga to the People is dedicated to bringing Yoga to all of us with multiple studios around the city at ridiculously affordable prices ($5 a class, anyone?) The staff is super friendly and welcoming, too.
Inspire yourself through the fire sequence. The challenge of each pose – to try and fail and try again – can only prove to you how strong and determined you truly are. I've been pushing myself 2 to 3 times per week and I've learned good and bad things about myself. Most importantly, I've realized that there is no real inspiration other than the one that lies in me.
It's OK To Talk To Strangers
NYC is home to diverse, interesting, and unique people. You may be sitting next to the city's best underground designer and you don't even know it. I challenge you to have a conversation with a complete stranger. A simple smile and an act of kindness can brighten up that person's day, including yours as well. You may come across a few people who think you're weird but that's OK, keep trying until you find some new inspiration!
What has inspired you this week?


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Water problems in the home can come from myriad sources—poorly functioning gutters, a high "false" water table, or bad landscaping that directs water runoff towards the home, just to name a few possible culprits—but when water problems do arise, it's best to contact a qualified and well-reviewed waterproofing company. A Maryland waterproofing firm can offer homeowners expert advice on how to fix their moisture problems and avoid future run-ins with dampness and mold.
Many Maryland waterproofing companies offer a variety of solutions for moisture problems, including paint-on sealers and crawlspace barriers, to block the wet and damp from invading the foundation of the home and causing future problems with mold and mildew. If the problem is more complex, the waterproofing specialist may suggest a drainage solution to ferry water and moisture away from the home. A reputable Maryland waterproofing company can assess the severity of the threat, and they'll be able to offer custom solutions for the homeowner.
EBSCO Research talked to hundreds of homeowners, all prior customers of waterproofing businesses in Maryland, to find the Best Pick™ companies that specialize in moisture and mold reduction and waterproofing services. Choosing a Best Pick™ waterproofer means you're using a company with a well-established reputation for high-quality work and exceptional customer service.


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Devcon Utility
Enabling or disabling wireless networking or any connection can be done using a batch file and the devcon utility in Windows XP.
Batch Files and Command Line
Below is a summary of the posts that provide information on how to enable/disable wireless networking using batch files.
- Enable/Disable Wireless Cards Using Command Line
- Disabling Wireless Connection On Startup/Shutdown Using Batch Files
Another option is to use software like out BridgeChecker application to enable and disable adapters
BridgeChecker is a windows utility that can automatically disable/enable wireless interfaces. Whenever your computer is connected to an Ethernet port and the link state is good, the utility can automatically turns off the IEEE 802.11 wireless network interface. This conserves IP address allocation, reduces security risks, resolves dual interface routing issues, and prolongs battery life.


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