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The lurking gay menace stalks her prey, circa Halloween 2005.
I've never been to Anoka, Minnesota. I'm sure that just like any other place, it's simultaneously full of perfectly nice people and people I'd want to punch in the mouth. But really, ever since I cried all over my computer at this Rolling Stone article about Michele Bachmann's home district, where gay kids are routinely driven to self-harm, depression and suicide due to their unsupportive teachers and desperately cruel peers, it's hard for me to imagine Anoka as a place whose leaders are anything but terrible.
And frankly, the latest news out of Anoka hasn't exactly changed my mind. Just eight months after Rolling Stone made the tragedy of Anoka' "suicide cluster" of LGBT teens a national issue, the town's event organizers have declared that a gay youth group cannot walk in this year's Halloween parade.
I know that when compared with the sheer awfulness of teen suicide and self-harm, not being able to walk in a Halloween parade might seem like kind of small potatoes. But Anoka calls itself the "Halloween Capital of the World" -- its parades are a tradition dating back to the 1920s. Excluding a gay youth group doesn't just tell the group that they're not wanted; it tells the rest of the town that such bigoted, exclusionary behavior is a completely acceptable course of action from adults.
Unsurprisingly, it's a little hard for me to view these events through an unbiased lens. When I was a queermo high schooler, joining a gay youth group in the first place would have felt stomach-sickeningly thrilling. At my Catholic high school, we weren't even allowed to have a Gay-Straight Alliance. Instead, my loose-knit group of gay-ish friends and I jokingly called our ragtag band "The Conversion Club" during our senior year. Translation: We were kids the Church couldn't wait to convert back to heterosexuality as soon as we ventured two steps away from all our yaoi DVDs and David Leviathan novels.
When it came to stuff like, "Parents are so square!" and, "Help me find lesbian porn," the Conversion Club offered some measure of peer-to-peer support. When more serious issues arose, though, we were all so knee-deep in our own emotionally abusive relationships and scary brain-places that we often just fed off of each other's negative emotions. From what I can remember, I spent most of those days covertly clutching at my friends' hands underneath lunch tables and trembling like a baby bird from anxiety, sleeplessness and about seven Diet Cokes a day.
It's the kind of thing that makes me want to build a time machine and go give my former self a hug and/or a slap. Needless to say, it could have really used a helpful adult in the mix, preferably one who was LGBT-identified herself.
LGBT youth will often half-assedly disguise themselves as lady knights in order to infiltrate Catholic high schools. Tell your children!
Much like in Anoka, though, school policy expressly forbade our teachers and staff from allying themselves with pro-gay messaging. Naturally, this included any explicit encouragement for the merry band of queers who were busy working out our sexual tensions with each other through impassioned discussions of "The Yellow Wallpaper." Though we had Very Special Assemblies every other week discussing how to deal with depression and stress, I can't remember a single authority figure mentioning any possible resources for LGBT kids.
It wasn't an environment of homophobia, exactly; instead, it felt like misdirection. If the administration didn't acknowledge that we were all tongue-kissing each other in our basements and spewing our outcast guts on our Xangas, then they didn't have to take any responsibility for our emotional needs. Not the healthiest plan, but certainly a way to keep the Bishop of Sacramento Diocese from yanking funding from the entire establishment.
My friends and I spent much of our teen years consumed by paranoia and helplessness largely because of strategies like these, which left us with nowhere trusted to turn in times of crisis. Even so, I think it could have been way worse. After all, despite the administration officially discouraging the "Day of Silence," our teachers still looked the other way as a third of my class went to class with duct tape over their mouths.
My English teacher still slipped us a list of books at the beginning of the summer that he wasn't allowed to teach us during the year, which included such LGBT-themed titles as Jamie O'Neill's "At Swim, Two Boys" and Anais Nin's completed works. The adults in our schools may have largely ignored our experiences, but they didn't go out of their way to revile them; we acknowledged their silences as a necessary evil and went back to our own personal mini-tragedies.
By contrast, many of the prominent adults in Anoka have gone out of their way to ensure that gay kids feel as doomed to damnation as possible. Up until 2009, thanks to the frosted-curl efforts of local anti-gay crusaders, teachers couldn't acknowledge the existence of homosexuality without facing the possibility of getting fired. As LGBT kids cringed in the faces of kids wearing "Be Happy, Not Gay" T-shirts in honor of Focus on the Family's "Day of Dialogue," their teachers kept mum on the subject.
I can't imagine what that would feel like: being 15 and feeling constantly sick with a secret you can't fix, facing an entire day dedicated to your own failure to thrive as a healthy human being. In an environment like that, I imagine that teachers' silence seems a lot more like a sign of anti-gay sentiment than it did in my high school.
As far as I can tell, many adults in Anoka truly must fear LGBT children. How else would you explain the unnecessary exclusion of gay kids from their Halloween celebration this year? The gay youth group, named Justin's Gift in honor of a gay teenager who committed suicide in 2011, wrote on their website:
"We had hoped by walking in the Anoka Halloween Parade that we would not only be showing our youth that they were a welcome part of the Anoka Community but was to also be a public step towards the healing of a community that went through a very public and very ugly situation in regards to our LGBT youth."
But leaving out Justin's Gift doesn't just affect the kids in the group, or even the LGBT kids in the crowd too afraid or otherwise unable to march alongside them. It also affects the town bullies: the kids who play an integral role in driving their peers to dark places.
Like it or not, kids pick up what adults teach them about how to treat human beings. Had the Anoka Halloween Parade included Justin's Gift in their party, maybe the kids of the district who made their LGBT classmates miserable would have cottoned on to the town's gradually changing attitude. Maybe in five or ten Octobers, they wouldn't have had a problem with including the next decade's LGBT youth group in the Halloween festivities.
At this point, though, Justin's Gift will have to throw itself a separate Halloween dance while the rest of the town holds its celebration safe and sound from the lurking teenage gay menace. Thank goodness, right?
Kate is on Twitter at @katchatters.


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All Disney theme parks in the U.S., including Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park, will soon require that youngsters entering the parks be accompanied by someone at least 14 years old.
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|Vestibular Effects on Cerebral Blood Flow
Schlegel, Todd T; Black, F Owen; Wood, Scott J; Serrador, Jorge Manuel
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|Background: Humans demonstrate a number of unique adaptations that allow for the maintenance of blood pressure and brain blood flow when upright. While several physiological systems, including cerebral autoregulation, are involved in this adaptation the unique role the vestibular system plays in helping to maintain brain blood flow is just beginning to be elucidated. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that stimulation of the vestibular system, specifically the otoliths organs, would result in changes in cerebral blood flow. Results: To test our hypothesis, we stimulated the vestibular organs of 25 healthy subjects by pitch tilt (stimulates both canals and otoliths) and by translation on a centrifuge (stimulates otoliths and not the canals) at five frequencies: 0.5, 0.25, 0.125 and 0.0625 Hz for 80 sec and 0.03125 Hz for 160 sec. Changes in cerebral flow velocity (by transcranial Doppler) and blood pressure (by Finapres) were similar during both stimuli and dependent on frequency of stimulation (P < 0.01). However, changes in cerebral blood flow were in opposition to changes in blood pressure and not fully dependent on changes in end tidal CO2. Conclusion: The experimental results support our hypothesis and provide evidence that activation of the vestibular apparatus, specifically the otolith organs, directly affects cerebral blood flow regulation, independent of blood pressure and end tidal CO2 changes.
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Sen. Craig Guilty of Lewd Behavior– 1982 Video Added
A Pattern of Lewd Behavior?
Senator Larry Craig was arrested in June in a Minnesota airport restroom by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct Roll Call reported today.
HotAir has a lewd roundup including this…
Free Republic had this on the senator's arrest today:
"At one point during the interview, Craig handed the plainclothes sergeant who arrested him a business card that identified him as a U.S. Senator and said, 'What do you think about that?' the report states."
In an ABC News report back in 1982, then US House Rep. Larry Craig issued a preemptive denial regarding any involvement in a congressional sex and drug scandal.
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There were also rumors during last year's elections that Senator Craig had approached a male in the men's room at the Washington DC Union Station.
Today we see that Senator Craig was powerless over this lewd behavior.
Jeff Goldstein sings "Wham!"… No doubt a Freudian slip on George Michaels' own problems in 1988.
Free in Idaho writes:
If he had pled guilty to punching out some guy who came on to him in a restroom, I might feel otherwise, but that isn't the story.
Sadly, it isn't.
Goodbye, Larry.
Gay Patriot thinks Craig should step down.
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Leveraging Techonology to Better Serve A Community
Mike Mcdowell, Kootenai County Assessor
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Kootenai County, is located in the panhandle of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene is the county seat. The county has 20 lakes, 2 rivers, over 235 miles of water frontage, mountain ranges and a national forest. The county population in 1996 was 95,535 and in 2013 about 145,000 with the city of Coeur d'Alene having about 47,000. The parcel count is close to 91,000 with an assessed total taxable value of over 12 billion dollars—the second highest net taxable value of all 44 counties in the state. Idaho is one of a handful of nondisclosure states (Sale price disclosure is not mandatory) and we assess property at "market value".
The assessor's office currently has a staff of 60 employees down from 64 five years ago broken down into 5 divisions:
10 Administrative positions
16 Motor Vehicle positions
7 Mapping positions
22 Appraiser position (3 commercial, 1, forester, 1 mobile home, 1 personal property, 16 residential)
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The County's Assessor, Treasurer and Recorder offices were using antiquated stand alone legacy systems to record, value properties and manage their tax billing and collection processes. Being a recreational and retirement location, Kootenai County has a very diverse residential property type mix—we have everything from 500 square foot bungalow style homes to multimillion dollar estate type properties. The same is true for our commercial properties which include several large resorts and golf course communities. In addition, Idaho State law requires that we physically inspect each property in the county at least once within each five year cycle. With our old legacy system we were working harder, but not smarter.
In 1995 we realized that our old system could not keep up with the county's increasing growth and State mandates. After a long search in 1996 the county selected and installed ProVal which is now a product of Thomson Reuters. ProVal's selection was based on the system's ability to provide many features the county's old system did not, including a flexible valuation engine that would allow appraisers to use various approaches to discover market value. We calculated the value of the property in ProVal then placed that value into the legacy system.
In 2003 the Assessor, Treasurer and Recorder started searching for a fully integrated appraisal and tax system. This was done in conjunction with two other Idaho counties that had similar needs (Tri County Group) A national search was conducted along with site visits and interviews with users of each product and in 2004 the Thomson Reuters Aumentum was selected to be the vendor of choice.
The conversion from an antiquated stand alone legacy system to implementation of Thomson Reuters new systems presented many hurdles. The Thomson Reuters team worked side by side with us from the beginning to understand our process, work flows, and all of our ultimate needs. They asked a lot of questions and over several months reached the point where they understood what we needed and how we needed it to work. In 2006 we went live with a fully integrated tax & assessment system.
At that same time we deployed Aumentum public access which provides our constituents with the ability to access property information and pay taxes via the Internet.
Beyond the benefits that ProVal has brought to the county's appraisal process, once we capture building characteristic and value data we can then build uniform and reliable value sets. This allows us to analyze properties by type, by neighborhood and other various characteristics to determine what model adjustments are needed to provide the best value which reflects market conditions. We can consistently produce reliable assessments, which are the basis for the property tax system within the county.
For example we use current sales data to extract our Local Cost Modifier, this measure the cost of construction. We can then apply these extractions to our general sales and develop market adjustments by neighborhood and by building grade etc, and develop current depreciation tables.
We have also realized an increase in productivity. Under State law, the county conducts re-appraisals for twenty percent (20%) of properties every year. "We're now conducting more appraisals on an annual basis with four fewer appraisers than we've had before. With the old system, we were appraising between 8 and 12 parcels per day per person, now using our value sets and process we can appraise up to 25 to 30 parcels a day per person. That is a significant increase in output and, equates to a seven percent (7.5%) annual savings to county tax payers.
In our Treasurer's office, the results have been significant. In 2007, we had a full time staff of 11, augmented by three part-timers. Due to retirements and natural attrition, this staff decreased and as it did, we did not fill these positions. Today, we have a full time staff of seven with one part timer for two weeks—a 37 percent reduction in staff. Yet, in spite of those reductions, in each of the last seven years, our office has reached higher levels of efficiency than the previous year. During that time we've been able to make the right day-to-day decisions based on real-time, up to the minute, verified information, while at the same time making long-range plans using our system's forecasting tools.
We've also been able to do more with less. With our full complement of 11 staff and part-timers it used to take us three weeks, working days and nights to get the tax bills out. Now, it takes our smaller staff of seven less than a week to do so. And while we would previously work from the second week in December to the end of January in order to acknowledge, "chase", and deposit all payments, now we are done by December 31, with the county receiving additional revenues in record time from accrued interest.
We are also very pleased with the benefits provided by Aumentum public access. The system has allowed the county to provide an excellent level of service to constituents. In 2011 the assessor's office had 663 assessment review inquiries in 2013 we had 385 and in 2014 it dropped to 323. This shows a fifty percent (50%) reduction in the numbers of individuals coming into our Assessor's office to inquire about their assessments from 2011 to 2014. We attribute that to our citizen's ability to look at those assessments online and understand how the values were produced.
Providing taxpayers the ability to view and pay their tax bills online has helped to reduce traffic in our Treasurer's office by over 30 percent, while enhancing our personalized one-on-one customer service, providing immediate access to information, and improving our levels of staff productivity.
Our Assessment & Tax information is available at no charge to the general public, while for 'professional users' such as title companies, banks, attorneys and others, we provide a monthly subscription service which helps Kootenai cover the cost of public access maintenance fees."
By working to integrate our databases and making them basically different segments of the same database we have eliminated a lot of the duplicated, redundant types of data entry throughout the organization, increasing our accuracy and efficiency.
As we move forward, we can take full advantage of all of the efficiencies that come with the systems This integration has also led to greater levels of cooperation among all three county offices, which in turn has increased our ability to provide quality services to our constituents."
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Furman alums try to save golf team from death sentence
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Shocked and saddened at the news that Furman University is planning to kill off its storied men's golf program at the end of the school year, a number of prominent alumni have begun exploring ways to keep the team alive.
More than 50 former golfers – including Brad Faxon, the team's most prominent graduate – held a teleconference on Monday with Athletic Director Gary Clark and Interim President Karl Kohrt, according to The Chattanooga Times Free Press newspaper. Among the topics of discussion were ways to salvage the program for at least one more season and secure its long-term future.
Kohrt suggested that the group create an outline and send it to him immediately because the time available to reverse the decision is short, according to the newspaper. He also explained the thought process that went into the Feb. 7 decision to kill the men's golf team as part of a schoolwide plan to save $2 million in costs.
And while the situation is dire, a successful rescue isn't unprecedented. The University of California at Berkeley dropped its men's golf team a few years ago, but its alumni banded together and raised enough money to keep the program alive. And now the team's entire budget – for scholarships, coaching salaries, travel and recruiting – is funded entirely through private fundraising efforts.
Furman's Board of Trustees made the decision to end the program after concluding that its money and athletic department resources could be better used elsewhere. They said several factors – including public visibility, attendance, competitiveness and overall costs – figured in the decision.
"Our Board deliberated at great length over this decision, and it was made after considerable discussion and analysis of our university resources and our priorities in Division I athletics," Kohrt said in a statement posted on the Furman men's golf team page. "It is always difficult to limit opportunities, especially for young men who want to compete in a sport about which they are passionate, but just like every enterprise we have to constantly evaluate where to strategically allocate our resources."
No other sports will be discontinued, school officials said, adding that any money saved won't go to other sports. Furman will honor scholarship commitments to current players and those who've signed to play starting next year.
The Furman golf program dates back to 1930, and the Paladins own 13 Southern Conference titles. Faxon was a two-time All-America player for the school in the early 1980s, and has gone on to earn eight PGA Tour victories and two Champions Tour titles.
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The AfB is a set of initiatives, across the spectrum of government and society, which BPAC believes will enhance the quality of life for all citizens in Bangalore. As the objectives are reached, or based on review from time to time, BPAC may include new initiatives that reflect the changing needs of the city.
- Proper governance structure for the city – The policy, planning and administrative efforts of government are inter-twined, as a result of which there is inadequate clarity of roles and responsibilities of the BBMP, state government and Parliament for the city.• Reforms and policies that would have greatly improved the quality of life in the city are mandated by the 74th Amendment, the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, and the BBMP Act, but are not being fully implemented.Therefore, the focus of B.PAC is …
1. SEPARATION OF PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION – Create a statutory planning approach for all aspects of economic and social development, through the formation of a regional planning authority for Bangalore city.
2. ACCOUNTABLE CITY GOVERNMENT – Establish a meaningful term of office for the Mayor of the city, the Corporation Commissioner and key civic officials, such that they have adequate time to develop a vision for the city and implement it. Ensure that the mandates of the 74th Amendment, and the recommendations of the Kasturirangan Committee, are implemented.
3. SPECIAL STATUTE FOR BANGALORE – Introduce legislation as proposed in the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Governance Bill to strengthen public administration, to facilitate citizen participation in governance, and to enhance the powers of city government.
4. CITY GOVERNMENT AS AN IMPORTANT THIRD TIER OF GOVERNMENT – All parastatals that provide civic services should be brought under a common authority for the city; to ensure that BBMP has capacity to administrate the areas of the city. Ensure that the key officials in the BBMP (and the parastatals, e.g. BWSSB, BMRTC, BESCOM) are appointed in time so that there is adequate leadership to meet the city's needs for development. A municipal cadre should be established for the state, and officials in city government appointed from this cadre only.
5. EXPERTISE – Appoint technical members in the Boards of the civic agencies, and technical advisory groups in each agency that bring in the expertise of private citizens into the regular functioning of service providers.
2. Promoting citizen inclusion in governance – The city is growing in size every day, and the scale of the problems we face is also increasing. Also, there is a growing disconnect between citizens and governance. To address these deficits, BPAC will push for formal inclusion of citizens in public decision-making and in solving problems at the neighbourhood levels. This can be done by:
1. Appointing citizens with necessary expertise in tackling urban problems as nominated corporates in BBMP.
2. Including citizen experts in each of the Standing Committees of BBMP.
3. Forming ward committees in each neighbourhood, thereby involving citizens in routine works at the ward level.
3. Strengthening the finances of the local body and other city agencies – Bangalore faces a serious shortage of finances to maintain infrastructure, support economic activity and sustain public services. Given the importance of the city to the economy of the state, it is important that we should keep this 'engine' of the state running smoothly. A number of proposals for increasing revenue are needed. For instance:
1. The profession tax collected in the city should be earmarked by the State government for the city.
2. 50% of the stamp duties collected on property transactions in BBMP limits should be given to the city.
3. 50% of the road tax collected in the BBMP limits should be given to the city.
Such funds can be given either to BBMP, or to the BDA, for infrastructure development. The principle of such use of funds can be applied in all cities in the state, and they would all benefit from the infusion of funds.
4. Ensuring accountability of civic agencies – To most citizens, it is not clear what the civic agencies are doing, or how well they are doing it. It is important to set measures of success for each of the agencies, and to also have public disclosure of their work, whether in small projects or at the level of achieving an overall vision for the city. BPAC will work for:
1. Public disclosure of expenditure on all projects.
2. Public information on all tenders for works executed in the city.
3. Regular progress reports on all projects.
4. Performance audits of projects undertaken by the officials of BBMP and other parastatals, with scope for citizen feedback.
5. CAG audit of the municipal body each year.
6. A public accounts committee to be created in BBMP to provide continuous improvement in standards for project execution.
5. Developing strong infrastructure – We need world class infrastructure, if we are to have a world class city. At the moment there are serious deficits in physical infrastructure, knowledge infrastructure, social infrastructure and financial infrastructure, and we must overcome these swiftly. A comprehensive proposal for infrastructure development across all sectors has been drawn up by the Karnataka Information Technology and Communication (ICT) Group, which was presented to the government on January 8, 2013. BPAC will advocate that each piece of this proposal be taken up by the government and instituted over the next 10 years.
6. Strengthening the foundations of urban politics –STRENGTHENING URBAN
1.REPRESENTATION – Despite the growing urbanisation in the country, the number of seats in State legislatures and Parliament from urban areas has not grown. Explore legal and political processes to make representations that continuously reflect changing demographic trends.
2. CAMPAIGN FINANCE – The permissible amounts of expenditure for election campaigns is currently too low, and needs to be set realistically. Also, regulation of campaign expenditure is weak. Take up necessary interventions in courts as well as with the Election Commission to set realistic limits for expenditure, and ensure that these are regulated well, so that the public gets a good view of all candidates before election day.


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The Chinese government, amidst a crackdown on shady websites, has declared that virtual currency cannot be traded for real goods or services. It could, if fully enforced, bring an end to the practice of "gold farming" in online games.
Gold farming is particularly prevalent in World of Warcraft, Blizzard's smash hit massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game with more than 11.5 million subscribers worldwide, but it affects almost all online games in some form or another.
Buying the in-game currency from an external website is, in most MMOs, banned by the company behind it, but it still occurs, with the trade in China exceeding several billion Yuan each year (about 1% of the country's economy). 1 billion Yuan is worth $146 million at current exchange rates.
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SUMMIT – On Saturday, Sept. 29, the Summit Police & Fire departments may face one of their toughest challenges at the 2012 Plane Pull benefiting Special Olympics New Jersey. The fundraiser begins at 8 a.m. and challenges teams to pull a Boeing 737 weighing over 93,000 lbs. across the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The Summit Police & Fire team is led by Sergeant Peter Frank, whose team has participated in this event for the past 15 years. Frank says, "We support Special Olympics New Jersey because it's important to all members of PBA Local 55 and FMBA 54." In addition to the Plane Pull, he says the Summit Police Department participates in the annual Torch Run and Polar Bear Plunges.
At the Plane Pull, each team will compete in two events: Fastest Pull, in which the teams attempt to pull the aircraft 12 feet in the least amount of time; and Lowest Combined Weight Pull, in which the team with the lowest team weight to pull the aircraft 12 feet (two-minute limit) wins. There is also a category for highest fundraiser. The minimum team donation to participate is $1,000.
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Middlebury Language Schools 2013 Convocation Remarks
In this excerpt from his 2013 Convocation remarks, delivered on June 23 and July 3, Michael Geisler, vice president for Language Schools, Schools Abroad, and Graduate Programs, reflects on the importance of language study in a global society.
In Michael Frayn's 1966 novel The Russian Interpreter, one of the protagonists, a businessman by the name of Gordon Proctor-Gould, makes his living as a kind of go-between for academic and government institutions in the (then) Soviet Union and the West to advance better understanding between the two sides of the Cold War. However, Proctor-Gould specializes not in finding the usual suspects (artists, officially recognized authors, or journalists) but ordinary people with a knack for communication and an interesting story to tell. As he explains to Paul Manning, the novel's other principal character:
"There's a tremendous demand for ordinary people. The press and television in Britain and America are crying out for good human material. You might think it's strange at first sight, but producers and editors find it very difficult to meet people outside the entertainment industry. They simply don't come across them.
"It's easy enough for them to get hold of professional personalities, of course—novelists, pop singers, beauty queens, politicians, that kind of person. But they want to get away from the professionals. They want to get at the real flesh-and-blood people who make up the other 99 percent of the world. There's a market all right. And of course there's a plentiful source of supply. All you need is a middleman to bring the two together."
And Proctor-Gould then outlines his revolutionary idea: "You see, Paul, I think professional personalities aren't the only interesting people around. I believe that everyone is of interest to the public. I believe that everyone has a story to tell, a point of view that's worth putting across, a personality that the public would be interested to explore."
If you want to find ordinary people with interesting life stories to share, you actually need to talk to ordinary people. A lot of them.
The idea that perfectly ordinary people have an interesting story to share or have led far more interesting lives than we might otherwise believe, is a philosophy that I believe many of us would sign on to—if for no other reason than the fact that each one of us knows how incredibly fascinating our own life experiences would be for others if only we could get them to be interested in listening to our stories!
Obviously, the potentially very significant over-supply of ordinary people who believe they have a story that must be shared with the world requires a certain amount of filtering, not unlike the early stages of American Idol or America's Funniest Home Videos. That is how Proctor-Gould earns his living. As he himself modestly confesses to Paul, he has a knack for finding people who not only think they have an interesting story to tell (that's pretty much everybody), but whose interesting story will actually be considered entertaining by others, in part because these relatively rare individuals are also great communicators.
So, in his business travels through the 1960s Soviet Union, Gordon Proctor-Gould seeks to meet as many ordinary Russians with interesting stories to share and an innate ability to communicate them as he can find.
There is only one handicap Proctor-Gould has to overcome in his pursuit of this praiseworthy and (as we know from the success of American Idol) lucrative scheme. Unfortunately, if you want to find ordinary people with interesting life stories to share, you actually need to talk to ordinary people. A lot of them.
Even if we set aside the question of how successful a member of the educated British elite, like Gordon Proctor-Gould, will actually be at interacting with ordinary people under any circumstances, there is still one major hurdle he has to take: Gordon Proctor-Gould does not speak a word of Russian! And it is exceedingly difficult to find ordinary people with interesting stories to tell if you can't talk to them.
This is where Paul Manning comes in, the other protagonist of the novel, and the Russian interpreter alluded to in the book's title. Paul is doing research towards his PhD at Moscow University. He is himself an ordinary man, but apparently one without an interesting story to tell (at least as of the beginning of the book), since Proctor-Gould makes it clear to him that somebody like Paul would never be selected to "dance with the stars" of British or American talk shows. However, he does have two attributes that make him a very valuable employee in Proctor-Gould's eyes: He is completely fluent in Russian—and he is British.
For somewhere along the line Proctor-Gould has realized that, if he is to converse with ordinary Russians, attempting to do so in English will radically and artificially reduce the available pool of ordinary people—in other words he needs an interpreter. However, he doesn't want to avail himself of the local supply of Russian interpreters who speak English, because he fears that their own cultural perceptions and the resultant translations will somehow pollute the purity of the sample of ordinary people, so that the representatives of the "real Russia" he might present to audiences in England or America might be skewed towards some indigenous Russian concept of "the Russian soul."
Proctor-Gould (or Michael Frayn, the author, who is fluent in Russian and worked as an interpreter himself before becoming a journalist and award-winning writer) actually makes a very important point here. When you rely on local interpreters, even assuming that they know what they are doing and don't have an agenda of their own, they will bring their own cultural perceptions to the table about what is and what is not relevant, and that will inevitably skew the information you will glean from native informants.
On the other hand, it never seems to occur to Proctor-Gould that a British translator might come with his own cultural blind spots and filters and would thus also pollute the sample of ordinary Russians.
Despite the good services of his interpreter, Proctor-Gould blunders on, falling head over heels in love with a manipulative Russian woman. Just as Proctor-Gould does not speak any Russian, the Russian woman does not speak any English. The results, while certainly hilarious, are not exactly of the "me Tarzan—you Jane" variety we know from Hollywood romances.
First, there is the complicating factor that Raya, the Russian woman, originally started an affair with Paul Manning, the interpreter, only to drop him promptly once she meets Proctor-Gould. This leads to some very painful translation exercises for the interpreter in the early stages of the new relationship, until he finally decides to leave the two lovebirds to themselves, without the benefit of his linguistic mediation.
Once that happens, Proctor-Gould is helpless in the face of Raya's strange demonstrations of her affections for him, which manifest themselves primarily in stealing any and all items of value she can find in his hotel room, from little trinkets given to him by official Russian hosts to his beloved tins of Nescafé, to the gift books he carries back and forth between his British and Russian contacts. It turns out that the frantic sign language he resorts to doesn't get at the complexity of Raya's motives for walking off with Proctor-Gould's possessions each morning only to return at night as if robbing one's lover blind were the most natural form of intercultural communication.
Proctor-Gould's attempts to recover some of the things Raya has stolen eventually takes the novel down the path of a classic Cold War spy thriller, but that is not the point I am interested in today. Rather, I want to draw your attention to the deftness with which the award-winning author of Copenhagen and Noises Off zeroes in on a problem which, nearly half a century after this book was written and more than 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, has lost none of its urgency, even—and I would argue especially—in a global economy.
You cannot understand what ordinary people who live in another country care about, what their needs are, what their values are, unless you understand how they think. And you will not understand how they think unless you have access to their networks, and for the vast majority of us, the most powerful network that shapes our thoughts is not Facebook or Twitter, but the medium that powers not only Facebook and Twitter but the overwhelming majority of all of our transactions with others, day in and day out—and that is the language we speak.
To be sure, there are many people out there who would like to skip that step because, as Proctor-Gould says about himself, they are "just no linguists." Others, like former Secretary of the Treasury and former president of Harvard University Larry Summers, would have us believe that there is no need to study other peoples' languages, that we don't need to engage them or converse with them, unless they can speak to us in English.
Therefore, as Summers suggests in a January 20, 2012, New York Times article, there is no need for Americans to study other people's languages. Presumably, in the world that Professor Summers envisions, all those billions of people around the globe who do not speak English, or who speak it only imperfectly, are not worth our time and attention.
Well, the world Professor Summers lives in is not a world I recognize, and it is certainly not a world I inhabit and I would hazard a guess that it is also not the world you live in, or you would not be here today!
Professor Summers's brave new world of "global English" is not the world the more than 1.2 billion people live in who speak Mandarin Chinese. It is not the world that the 416 million people around the globe live in who speak Spanish (far more people, by the way, than native speakers of English, who clock in at a distant third, with 328 million!). It is not the world bestselling authors like John Le Carré or Michael Frayn live in, since many of their novels and plays draw on their personal experiences in Russia or Germany, countries whose languages they speak. It is not the world inhabited by American actors Kevin Kline (who recently acted in his first film shot entirely in French), Jodie Foster (who is fluent in French), or Sandra Bullock (who is fluent in German).
It is not the world of foreign news correspondents like Richard Engel (NBC), who is fluent in Arabic, French, and Spanish, or Clarissa Ward (CBS), who speaks French and Italian and also has some command of Russian and Arabic. They rely on their language and cultural skills to bring home to American television viewers, night after night, the excitement of the Arab Spring and the horrors of the Syrian civil war.
Professor Summers's world of global English is also not the world that people who are serious about international commerce live in, because these people realize that, if you want to sell American cars in Germany, for instance, you need to understand what Germans want in a car, because Germans know a thing or two about making good automobiles. ... And most Germans I know don't talk about the features of their BMWs or Mercedes Benzes or VWs in English.
In a recent Schumpeter column, "Davos Man and his defects," The Economist's management editor Adrian Wooldridge takes issue with a particular brand of globalization represented by many participants in the annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, pointing to the foggy radar screens of many of the "global leaders" trekking to Davos year after year, reminding readers that "many of the bankers and politicians caught dozing by the financial crisis were regulars at Davos." Why were they caught by surprise? Because in their fixation with global dimensions the entire world has become one large and undifferentiated flyover country in their minds:
"People whose jobs require constant whizzing through airports often overestimate the extent of globalisation. Most other folk live in the same country all their lives. Most trade occurs within national borders. Nearly all politics is local. Company bosses who fail to notice this may underestimate political risks or ignore cultural differences, and such errors may prove disastrous. The best global leaders need to immerse themselves in local cultures."
And it seems that the business community is at long last waking up to the need for combining global bandwidth with local knowledge and cross-cultural negotiating skills. As Wooldridge wrote in his Schumpeter column, "Harvard Business School obliges its students to spend time in other countries. Companies increasingly expect their high-flyers to spend time running far-flung subsidiaries. Henkel, a German chemical-maker, insists that executives live in at least two different countries before being considered for promotion. Nestlé, a Swiss food company, boasts executive board members from eight different countries."
Why did eBay and the NSA decide to site these facilities in Utah? According to NPR, it happened for one simple reason: Utah has the highest percentage of foreign language speakers in the nation.
None of this is possible without speaking the language. Gordon Proctor-Gould shipwrecks with his ambitious project to bring ordinary Russian people to the attention of Western media audiences because he does not understand that he has no access to their minds, to the way they think and dream and plan their lives, without first understanding their language.
But let's give the man a break. At least he realized that you don't "get" Russia if you don't "get" ordinary Russian citizens. And you don't get ordinary Russian citizens, or ordinary Brazilian citizens, or ordinary Italian citizens unless you speak their language!
On March 12 of last year NPR's All Tech Considered featured a report about the booming economy in the state of Utah. At the end of the piece, under the heading "Utah's Secret Economic Weapon," All Tech Considered reported that eBay had just moved a big call center from the Philippines back to Salt Lake City, creating 350 jobs in the process. At the same time, the National Security Agency decided to build a $1.2 billion data center there.
Why did eBay and the NSA decide to site these facilities in Utah? According to NPR, it happened for one simple reason: Utah has the highest percentage of foreign language speakers in the nation.
In one of his satirical essays, the German writer Erich Kästner once wrote about people who, at the end of the Stone Age, put their foot down and declared: "No, we don't want to go into the Bronze Age!" Similarly today, there are many people like Larry Summers out there, who seem to be saying: "No, I don't want to live in a global society!" History will move on without them, as it always has.


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Entrepreneur Identifies Need for Practical Small Business Academy: St. Petersburg College Turns Idea into a Reality
Business case analysis addresses how an entrepreneurial academy was created and the technology used to support it
Minneapolis, MN – June 8, 2010 – Augusoft®, Inc. and the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) have partnered to provide community colleges with the latest entrepreneurship program resources and tools while serving as advocates for entrepreneurial change. One of the many benefits this partnership provides is the sharing of leading entrepreneurial community colleges successes via case studies and business case analysis. Augusoft and NACCE are proud to partner with St. Petersburg College to showcase how a practical entrepreneurship program was created to benefit people interested in starting businesses in Florida's Pinellas County.
Genesis of an Idea
In 2007, a local entrepreneur approached James Olliver, provost of SPC's Seminole/eCampus, with a new idea. The entrepreneur saw a need for a practical entrepreneurship program that would help people in Pinellas County who were interested in starting businesses.
Olliver was intrigued. "He wanted a hands-on, nuts and bolts program that would connect people who have business ideas with people with business expertise. He wanted us to act quickly because he felt there was a need for quick action."
Olliver soon brought together a group from the Seminole Chamber of Commerce and SPC's Corporate Training Department for a meeting with the entrepreneur about his vision of an entrepreneurship academy. "We ultimately decided we could fit this program into our Corporate Training Department in terms of logistical support, and we'd be able to do that faster than we could if we tried to create something on the credit side," Olliver says.
Making the Numbers Work
Knowing that many would-be participants are out of work and may not have a lot of funds, the program team worked to make the Academy free or nearly free by offering scholarships paid for by the original program funding. The cost for the Academy is just $280. "We are able to offer a quality program at an affordable price, but still have it be revenue generating for the Corporate Training Department," says SPC's Corporate Training Director James Connolly.
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The first Small Business Practical Entrepreneurship Academy was run using the campus wide ERP solution, Oracle's PeopleSoft® but in January 2009 SPC was able to take advantage of its new capability to enroll participants using Lumens®, Augusoft's web-hosted Lifelong Learning Management System.
"Bottom line, we now have a seamless system that has allowed us to average 75 percent monthly online enrollments. Previously we did no online enrollment. This has freed up the staff to complete other tasks, limited the number of staff needed to answer phones, except for answering questions, and shows us daily our cash flow status," says Connolly.
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The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) fosters economic development by serving as the hub for the dissemination and integration of knowledge and successful practices regarding entrepreneurship education and student business incubation. As a membership association, NACCE helps community colleges nationwide link their traditional role of workforce development with entrepreneurial development. The results are innovative programs and courses that advance economic growth and prosperity in the communities served by the colleges. To learn more about becoming a member or to make a tax deductible donation to this important work, visit www.nacce.com
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Welcome to Pickering Crossing, Southdown Homes' delightful new community in convenient Charlestown Township, Malvern. Each of the 76 luxury Carriage and Twin Homes features 3 or 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 baths and a 2-car attached garage with rear access.
Charming features abound throughout, such as spacious fireside gathering rooms, 9 foot ceilings on both first and second floors, and 9 foot foundation walls in basement. Some plans have a finished third floor loft, two master suites, a separate study and wraparound porch.
Pickering Crossing is located at the intersection of Route 29 and Charlestown Road, and is in the acclaimed Great Valley School District. The location is ideal for commuting on major routes and is close to corporate centers, restaurants and shopping. And, residents will enjoy a low-maintenance lifestyle here. Stop by! We are open daily from 11 am - 5 pm. Contact the sales office at 484-341-8813 for more information.
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IndiaMART.com to Represent Indian SMEs in the US
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NEW DELHI, October 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
- To Participate in AAPEX 2010, Las Vegas and Fabtech 2010, Atlanta
- To Provide Global Platform to Indian Buyers and Suppliers at the Two Leading International Trade Shows for 'Automotive' and 'Metal Forming, Fabricating and Welding' Industries Respectively
With the United States being seen as a promising market for Indian buyers and suppliers in the automotive and metal forming, fabricating and welding industries, IndiaMART.com, India's largest online B2B marketplace, has decided to participate in two highly acclaimed trade shows namely 'Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) 2010' and 'Fabtech Expo 2010' scheduled from November 2-4, 2010 in the country. While AAPEX 2010 will be held in Las Vegas; Fabtech Expo will take place in Atlanta, Georgia. Both the premier trade shows will facilitate a first hand knowledge on latest technologies and products alongwith networking amongst the industry professionals and prospective business partners. At these recognised platforms, IndiaMART.com will strive to forge a closer connection between the global buyers and the Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the respective industries.
Commenting on the same, Mr. Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, IndiaMART.com, said, "Each participation in a trade show outside India is an attempt to gain global exposure for our SMEs. The aim is to scale up business opportunities for them in key international markets such as the United States of America apart from national. To achieve this, we have decided to participate in AAPEX 2010 and Fabtech Expo."
Introducing the suppliers from the domestic sector to the international buyers, IndiaMART.com will represent a broad spectrum of products manufactured in the country viz. automobile spare parts and accessories including automotive body coach building, body and chassis parts et al as well as metal forming and welding solutions. All the visitors to the IndiaMART.com at AAPEX 2010 (Stall no. 481) and Fabtech Expo (Stall no. 1023 - Hall B) will be handed over sourcing guides that will entail information of the Indian suppliers from these sectors.
Representing the $395 billion global motor vehicle aftermarket, AAPEX, organised by Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association and the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association, is the most sought after trade show. More than 100 thousand professionals from around the world participate in Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week. It offers the visitors a chance to connect with key decision makers from different target markets in one place.
Fabtech Expo, an annual event cosponsored by the American Welding Society; the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, International; the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Precision Metalforming Association; and the Chemical Coaters Association International, anticipates 22,000 visitors and over 1,000 exhibiting companies covering more than 350,000 net square feet of floor space.
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IndiaMART.com is India's largest online B2B marketplace connecting global buyers with suppliers through business directories, online product catalogs, buy-sell offers, industry specific marketplaces, printed media and trade shows participation.
Founded in 1996 by Mr. Dinesh Agarwal (CEO), the company has a pan-India presence in over 100 cities. With over 2400 employees located across 55 offices in the country, IndiaMART.com offers an extensive range of value- added products and services to its 1 million registered members and nearly 5 million global buyers across various industries and verticals.
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A neighborhood that birthed hip-hop heavyweights like Q -Tip, Doug E Fresh and Mase will soon be the backdrop of a massive museum.
The first phase of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum, projected to cost $150 million, will open in Harlem next February, according to Newsweek. Hip Hop Hall Fame, a nonprofit that aims to preserve and conduct research on the socioeconomic and cultural impact of hip-hop music, announced the plans for the museum last week.
The first phase of the new project is slated to include a cafe, a gallery, a visitors bureau and a gift store on the ground floor, and on the second floor, a museum, event space, offices and a multimedia studio, according to a news release.
The second phase will expand to 20 stories and include a hotel, mall, gift shop, an arcade, concert lounge and restaurant.
»RELATED: Study: Hip-hop has fewer drug references than any other music genre
James "JT" Thompson, who founded the Hip Hop Hall of Fame in 1996, has been working to bring the hip-hop museum and complex to life for several years, according to the New York Post.
"This has been a labor of love. It's had its valleys, mountains, peaks and falloffs," Thompson told the Post in reference to museum plans halting following the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.
Pending the successful fundraising campaign for the museum, Thompson will see the fruits of his labor after 20 years.
"Hip-hop is about empowering yourself, moving beyond the music," he told the Post. "The HHHOF and I have a duty and responsibility to preserve this rich history of music and culture."
Four months after she was prematurely born, the media will be able to watch Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden's Fiona the baby hippo in her outside habitat and pool, according to WCPO.
>> Fiona goes for a swim, internet goes crazy
The Cincinnati-based television station reports that Fiona, along with swimmers, will explore the Hippo Cove exhibit after the zoo closes.
>> Fiona the hippo turns 3 months old
Until now, the zoo has guarded Fiona's access because of her weakened immune system and safety concerns.
Members of the media will be able to shoot photos and videos of the baby hippo during a time when keepers report that they have heard occasional vocalizations from Fiona, including grunts around meal time.
May 28 marks a year since a child fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, causing zoo officials to shoot and kill Harambe, one of the apes.
Soon, fans of Harambe other gorillas will again be able to visit the famous ape's former enclosure at the zoo's Gorilla World.
Gorilla World has been revamped with new safety precautions and is set to reopen to the public in June. A second phase of renovations will be complete and opened in November.
Changes include new landscaping, an energy-efficient stream and waterfall and a resurfaced outdoor habitat.
A new indoor area will also allow guests to see the gorillas year-round.
"We launched a fundraising campaign to expand Gorilla World in 2015 and have come a long way since we broke ground on the project last fall," zoo director Thane Maynard said in a news release. "We're on track to complete the new indoor environment this fall and excited to get gorillas outside in a few weeks.
According to Cincinnati.com, fundraising for the project raised $12 million.
Maynard said Gorilla World, which opened in 1978, had been well-maintained over the years, but the zoo's "involvement in international gorilla conservation and concern for gorilla well-being at our zoo and everywhere influenced (the) decision to expand and revitalize."
"We wanted to make it better," Maynard said.
The zoo installed new barriers at the exhibit after a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure. The Cincinnati Zoo is home to at least 10 gorillas.
Zoo officials say the new barriers include wooden beams and knotted rope netting.
Read more here.
Brianna Chambers contributed to this report.
Millions of people around the world followed April the Giraffe and the birth of her calf, Tajiri, from afar by monitoring Animal Adventure Park's social media posts and livestreams of the pregnant animal.
But now animal lovers can see the mother-and-son duo up close because Animal Adventure Park, which is in Harpursville, New York, has opened for the season.
According to Spectrum News, the line was lengthy to get into the wildlife park on Monday, which was opening day.
Tajiri, whose name was chosen by his keeper and means "hope" in Swahili, has already grown to 6 feet, 4 inches and weighs 180 pounds, according to the park.
Time is of the essence for fans of the giraffes, because according to People magazine, Tajiri will be moved to another zoo once he matures in order to prevent inbreeding.
SeaWorld has welcomed its last baby killer whale.
The company announced in a news release that 25-year-old orca Takara gave birth to a calf at 2:33 p.m. CT Wednesday at SeaWorld San Antonio in Texas. Its gender "will be confirmed at a later date," the park said.
"This is an exciting and emotional day for us at SeaWorld, and we are all so proud to share this new killer whale calf with the world after a year and a half of planning and observing and providing all the special care," Chris Bellows, vice president of zoological operations, said in a statement. "Takara is a great mom and immediately began bonding with and caring for her new baby. Every day, she inspires SeaWorld's guests to learn more about and do more to protect animals in the wild. She is a true ambassador."
Visitors soon will be able to see the calf with its mother "during select times," the park said.
Last year, SeaWorld said it would stop breeding killer whales and halt its orca shows by 2019 following protests by animal-rights groups, The Associated Press reported.
April the giraffe's long-awaited calf is finally here – but he doesn't have a name.
That's where her throngs of fans come in.
>> World rejoices as April the giraffe finally gives birth
The home of the proud mama, Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York, is holding a contest to name the new baby boy, born Saturday morning as 1.2 million viewers watched via livestream after months of anticipation.
>> You can watch the birth here
To enter the contest, visit NameAprilsCalf.com. Votes are $1 each for a minimum of five votes.
"For about 10 days, you can vote on any name or names you choose for April's new calf," the website says. "You even get to decide your own spelling. Come back and vote as many times as you'd like."
>> How long are giraffes pregnant?
After the initial voting period, the park will reveal the top 10 names and hold another vote to determine the winner.
The money will benefit giraffe conservation efforts, Ava's Little Heroes and Animal Adventure Park, the site says. Learn more here.
The park said it will livestream April and her calf through Thursday.
An iconic landmark featured on HBO's "Game of Thrones" is no more.
According to The Associated Press, Malta's Azure Window, a rock formation on the coast of Gozo, collapsed Wednesday amid storms and rough waters following years of erosion.
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Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called the loss "heartbreaking."
"Reports commissioned over the years indicated that this landmark would be hard hit by unavoidable natural corrosion," he tweeted. "That sad day arrived."
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The wait is over, April the giraffe fans. April has finally given birth.
>>Watch the livestream of the birth
The impending birth of a baby giraffe has had the internet waiting with bated breath since late February.
With the new year comes a new baby at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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On Wednesday, the park announced the birth of Stella, a female elephant calf born to 28-year-old Donna.
This is the third calf for Donna, and Stella's birth brings the total number of elephants at the park to 10.
According to the Disney Parks Blog, Donna became pregnant through natural breeding in January 2015 and received extensive prenatal care throughout her pregnancy. Elephant pregnancies last 18-22 months -- nearly two years and the longest known pregnancy for a mammal.
Both mom and baby spent some time backstage to give Stella a chance to nurse and bond with some of the other elephants in her family.
The new baby elephant is currently frolicking and exploring the savanna at Animal Kingdom's Kilimanjaro Safari.
Read more at the Disney Parks Blog.

The Toronto Zoo's giant panda bear, Da Mao, had a little winter fun this week, frolicking, wrestling, eventually destroying a giant snowman his keeper built inside his habitat.
The whole escapade was caught on camera by a zoo researcher and has gone viral.
Da Mao VS da snow man.🐼 Da Mao VS da snow man ⛄. Da Mao at is it again! Watch our security camera footage as he plays with, or rather disassembles, a snowman his Keepers made for him this morning.Posted by The Toronto Zoo on Tuesday, December 20, 2016
The panda is seen rolling in the snow and clawing at the snowman before ripping its head off. Da Mao then tumbles to the ground, snowman head in tow, before eventually climbing up and sprawling atop what's left of the snowman.
The bear is one of two pandas from China that arrived in Toronto in 2013 for a 10-year stay, according to the zoo.
Both Da Mao and his partner, Er Shun, will remain at the Toronto Zoo until the spring of 2018, when the pair will move to the Calgary Zoo.
The giant pandas have become a favorite sight for visitors, the zoo said.


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