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Emerald Business Solutions
We're a business services company that offers bookkeeping, accounting, tax and business advice and other services to independent contractors. Our clients work hard in various construction-related fields. We emphasize simplicity, integrity and security.
Our clients are primarily contractors who work in construction-related fields. They are busy, discerning and demand value for money. They are no-nonsense types.
Our logo needs to suggest competence and security, as well as our Emerald theme.
The logo:
- needs to look just as good in black and white as it does in colour
- needs to be scalable (vector graphics only please)
- needs to incorporate some sort of emerald jewel element
- needs to stand out on a business card, website or brochure, even from a bit of a distance
- needs to be unique and recognizable
Other considerations:
- feel free to experiment with different shades of green. We're leaning toward a deeper shade, but are open to other ideas
- the typeface should be clear, simple, bold and elegant. Palatino Linotype good, Comic Sans bad
- please don't use any stock photos or clipart
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – No. 28 Georgia College baseball junior Steve Hazel (Kentwood, Mich.) was named Most Outstanding Business Management Student of the Year for Georgia College at the annual Atkinson Honors Ceremony April 17.
The awards at the Atkinson Honors Ceremony are given out based on grade point average, extra-curricular activities and class participation. As a student-athlete on the Bobcat academic honors list with a 3.0 GPA or higher, Hazel has excelled on and off the diamond in his four years at Georgia College.
On the field, he has a .389 batting average on the season, 50 RBI and leads the team with 12 home runs. In the 2013 season, he played 39 games with 34 starts as catcher, and was also named to the NCAA Southeast Regional All-Tournament Team. He has been crucial in the Bobcat's 33-14 record so far this season.
Each department within the school of business selects students that will win awards. Dr. Nick Beadles is the Interim Chair for the Department of Management, and he played a large role in selecting Hazel for the honor.
Hazel is just one example of the high-quality student athletes that are proud to be Bobcats.
Catch the Business Management Student of the Year in action Saturday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m. when the No. 4-seed Bobcats travel to Aiken, S.C. to start the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament against No. 5-seed UNC Pembroke.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.

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South Dakota Diabetes Rate More Than Doubles Since 1995
SIOUX FALLS, S.D (AP) - A new study has found that South Dakota's diabetes rate has more than doubled since 1995.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that the rate in South Dakota jumped 121.4 percent by 2010. Some 6.6 percent of South Dakotans say they have diabetes, just slightly below the national average of 7 percent.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body has trouble processing sugar.
It's the nation's seventh leading cause of death, and complications include poor circulation, heart and kidney problems and nerve damage.
The disease exploded in the United States in the last 50 years, with the vast majority from obesity-related Type 2 diabetes. In 1958, fewer than 1 in 100 Americans had been diagnosed with diabetes. In 2010, it was about 1 in 14.
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text: Ellis Wilson wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: >> Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: >>> Do you, by any chance, have any substantial performance figure to make >>> us drool? :) >> Intel has asked that no benchmarks be published by people with units. > > One wonders why they distributed them in the first place if they didn't > intend to excite people about their performance prior to releasing them. Heh, well they want to excited people... important people... who in exchange sign NDAs. Not to mention providing feedback on performance, stability, bios compatibility, operating system, drivers, compilers, applications etc that intel couldn't hope to replicate all the variations of in the lab. > With processors I don't think it's for "debugging" or stability checks > since that should be well simulated (owing to the high cost of CPU molds > costs millions itself). It's hard to predict when a show stopper will show. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel (and likely most everyone) has had learned hard lessons in this area. Indeed companies do spend big $$$ trying to make sure that each silicon revision is bug free... hardly a guarantee though. In any case if you google around there's a fair bit of performance information on nehalem chips. Stream performance has been mentioned, unlabeled charts with relative performance on Spec CPU among other benchmarks, and preproduction benchmarks on a variety of things. Public info and fuzzy IDF slides seem to conclude: * 2.6, 3.0, and 3.2 clock bins or so * slightly 5-25% higher IPC (per thread) on many workloads * Dramatically better memory system * 4 cores/8 threads first, more variations later. * 3 memory systems per socket. * On chip memory controller * lower memory latency than current intels or opterons. * slightly HIGHER power use per socket than current intel. So nothing really earth shattering for the single socket market, but very healthy competition (unlike the current CPUs) in the 2-4 socket market. Of course that leaves tons of interesting questions, pressure your favorite vendor if you can't wait. Although there is some info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Nehalem http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture-silicon/next-gen/index.htm http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326 Personally I'm most interested in when hyperthreading helps (hopefully it's a better implementation of SMT than the P4 had) and exactly how the memory system works. Things like how fast does 1,2,4,8,16 threads fetch a random cache line? Sequential? From L1, L2, L3, and main memory. Things like: http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~bill/numa3-smooth.png Current rumors claim the desktop chip (core i7) is due in week 46, but recent news claims week 47 around Nov 17th. No idea when the workstation/server version will be out, at least is should give a good idea where the server version should be performance wise.


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- Helium-filled balloons will cost a little more this Valentine's Day.There's a helium shortage. And some florists are worried about their store's biggest shopping day of the year. Forth Floral Owner Ruth Hempel has seen helium prices rise over the past year. But her store is doing all they can to keep prices low. "We've tried to do a better job on finding better deals on the actual balloons themselves to offset the increase. At this time of the year though, because it's Valentine's Day, the little bit extra they might have to pay usually isn't a big deal. For most, especially guys, if they want that balloon they're going to buy it." Some parts of the country are out completely. Hempel said her business could deal without, but having balloons is an added perk. "It's just that added exclamation point on the bouquet so as long as we can continue to do it we're going to hope we can. But if it gets to that point we're just going to have to find some other thing that gives that little punch."Helium is also used for welding, medical devices, and some computer parts.
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Tesco is developing its own private cloud run in UK data centres to aid its expansion into overseas markets.
Speaking at the DatacenterDynamics Intelligence event in London yesterday, Tomas Kadlec IT director for infrastructure and operations at Tesco, said that the company is attempting to simplify its global infrastructure in order to support.the delivery of its range of retail, online and banking services.
Tesco is currently undergoing a project to consolidate its data centre operations in the UK, as well as growing its business and increasing the services it is offering overseas.
"The challenge we had was that there were plenty of data centre environments, but they were completely discrete and were not integrated, they were also loosely connected," said Kadlec.
"Whenever we wanted to come up with a product that was consistently delivered for the customers, it was quite complicated," he added. "So to actually do operations between Tesco.com and retail, from an IT perspective they were completely different systems - two different data centres, two different management structures, two different networks."
Kadlec said that by centering its data centre operations in the UK, Tesco has already been able to support its e-commerce business in a number of other countries. This means that Tesco.com services in Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey, China, Thailand and Malaysia are supported from its UK data centres.
Kadlec added that as part of its ongoing data centre strategy, centralising more operations within the UK is under discussion. This has opened up business possibilities for the management of integral processes from within the UK, he said, such as logistic management for Malaysia, or ClubCard for China being run from UK data centres.
He added that setting up a private cloud this year would enable Tesco more freedom to establish new overseas businesses with less consideration towards hardware requirements.
"This year we would like to start to build a private cloud, allowing us to move from the world where infrastructure is driving the business projects and dictating the timeline, to pushing these accountabilities to the development teams," he said.
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Just note I am no expert at this...so take it for what it is worth.dwhite468 wrote:tautologies, cheers for the tips.
When you say heels should be off the side of the board, roughly how far? One thing I often struggle with is my heels dragging in the water and pulling the board round (usually end up in near crash moment!)
Is this just because I'm not riding the fins enough or are my feet two far out? I have a feeling it's that I'm just not pushing hard enough on the fins, I see videos of the top boys going hard and their heels are off the side like you say but the board is riding slightly out of the water. I can do this but not very consistently.... I guess it more practise, practise, practise!
There are a lot of variables at play here. Good fins will definitely make a difference. They will get you a much stabler ride for sure and the only time I would have problem with feet in the water was when the board came unbalanced. I have ridden my board with some proto fins that made the board feel crazy..they were too soft and it made the board jump.
how wide is your board? The wide ones I have ridden have been sitting a lot better down..and so riding flat becomes easier. I imagine trying to ride the opposite fin. On earlier boards I have had the center of my foot on the rail..and just toes in the footstrap. Now with the fins and the toe pads I don't have to and it makes a lot of difference.
I'm hoping to get a session in the morning and can try to pay better attention to where my feet are.
Ronnie interesting set up. Do you feel you get enough pressure on the fins that way? Your back straps are way in there, but that build up under the toes looks awesome.
On my old board I considered moving the straps all the way out, and create a bump under my feet. ..but I ended up selling it and getting the one with the new nose rocker.


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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the court entered final judgments against Lance Poulsen, the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc. (NCFE); Donald Ayers, NCFE's former Chief Operating Officer and a former member of its board of directors; Randolph Speer, NCFE's former Chief Financial Officer; and Rebecca Parrett, NCFE's former Director of Accounts Receivable and also a member of the board of directors, resolving the Commission's charges that they orchestrated a fraud on institutional investors in securities issued by subsidiaries of NCFE.
The final judgments, issued by Judge James L. Graham of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on January 8, 2010, permanently enjoin Poulsen, Ayers, Parrett and Speer from future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and permanently bar each of them from serving as an officer or director of a public company. The court further orders Parrett to pay a civil penalty of $120,000. Poulsen, formerly of Port Charlotte, Florida; Ayers, formerly of Ft. Myers, Florida; and Speer, formerly of Fayetteville, Georgia, consented to entry of final judgments without admitting or denying the allegations in the complaint. The court entered the final judgment against Parrett, formerly of Carefree, Florida, in absentia, because she is a fugitive from justice.
On December 21, 2005, the Commission filed its civil action against Poulsen, Ayers, Parrett and Speer, alleging that they participated in a scheme to defraud investors in securities issued by subsidiaries of NCFE. See Litigation Release No. 19509 (December 21, 2005). The complaint alleges NCFE subsidiaries, known as "programs," purchased medical accounts receivable from healthcare providers and issued notes that securitized those receivables. From at least February 1999 through October 2002, the programs raised at least $3.25 billion from the offer and sale of notes through private placements that were exempt from registration. Under the pertinent agreements, the programs were required to maintain specified reserve account balances and certain balances of medical accounts receivable as collateral to secure the notes. NCFE directors and officers depleted the programs' reserve accounts and collateral base by advancing at least $1.2 billion from the programs' funds to healthcare providers without receiving eligible receivables in return. These advances were essentially unsecured loans by the programs to distressed or defunct healthcare providers-many of which were wholly or partly owned by NCFE or its principals. The complaint further alleges NCFE officials misrepresented the status of the programs' reserve accounts and collateral base to investors and concealed the reserve account and collateral shortfalls by creating or allowing the creation of false offering documents, monthly investor reports, and accounting records. When investors discovered the reserve account transfers and collateral shortfalls in late 2002, NCFE and the programs stopped providing funding to healthcare providers and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As a result, approximately 275 healthcare providers were also forced to file for bankruptcy protection. NCFE and its programs have subsequently been liquidated.
In a related criminal matter, a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio had earlier convicted Poulsen, Ayers, Parrett and Speer for criminal violations, including securities fraud, based on the same facts underlying the Commission's civil action. On August 6, 2008, the court sentenced Ayers to 15 years in prison and Speer to 12 years in prison. On March 27, 2009, the court sentenced Poulsen to 30 years in prison and sentenced Parrett in absentia to 25 years in prison. Poulsen, Ayers, Parrett and Speer were also held jointly and severally liable to pay $2.38 billion in restitution to the victim investors.
The Commission thanks the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their assistance in this significant securities fraud investigation.


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Commission consults on how to put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0
Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags. The report shows that Europe is well placed to exploit these trends because of its policies to support open and pro-competitive telecom networks as well as privacy and security. A public consultation has been launched today by the Commission on the policy and private sector responses to these opportunities. The Commission report also unveils a new Broadband Performance Index (BPI) that compares national performance on key measures such as broadband speed, price, competition and coverage. Sweden and the Netherlands top this European broadband league, which complements the more traditional broadband penetration index used so far by telecoms regulators.
"The Internet of the future will radically change our society," said Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media. "Web 3.0 means seamless 'anytime, anywhere' business, entertainment and social networking over fast reliable and secure networks. It means the end of the divide between mobile and fixed lines. It signals a tenfold quantum leap in the scale of the digital universe by 2015. Europe has the know-how and the network capacity to lead this transformation. We must make sure that Web 3.0 is made and used in Europe."
European Internet users are increasingly accessing faster and better value Internet: half of them had access to broadband at more than 2 megabits per second (MBps) at the end of 2007, a speed which is twice as fast as one year ago and supports TV over the Internet. Broadband covers 70% of rural population of the 27 EU Member States, closing the gap with total coverage (93%). In the last year, broadband rural coverage in the EU-25 has risen 8 percentage points.
This means that a new generation of Internet use is already on its way, and the potential for Europe's economy is clear. While a quarter of Europeans used web 2.0 sites in 2007, business applications of social networking are on their way. Internet based enterprise software is also expected to grow by 15% from 2006-2011 worldwide.
New technology applications will need ubiquitous Internet coverage. The Internet of Things means that wireless interaction between machines, vehicles, appliances, sensors and many other devices will take place using the Internet. It already makes electronic travel cards possible, and will allow mobile devices to exchange information to pay for things or get information from billboards. It is predicted that such technology will be in more than one billion phones by 2015.
These will be major opportunities for EU businesses as long as there is enough investment in high-speed broadband access and support for innovation and research. The Commission Communication adopted today said that the EU should stimulate investment in next generation broadband access, for example strengthening the involvement of local authorities who may facilitate the access to ducts (or digging of new ones) for faster broadband fibre cables during civil works, keep the Internet open to competition, prevent unfair restrictions in consumers' choice, safeguard consumer confidence in using the Internet and fund research in the Internet of the future.
The Communication is accompanied by a new Broadband Performance Index that compares competition, coverage, speed and quality of Internet access across Europe (see Annex). It shows that the EU is already well placed to exploit these broadband opportunities, thanks to an open and competitive environment for investments. The index ranks EU countries' achievements in high speed Internet by the main factors affecting the development of faster broadband to highlight priorities for improvement.
The index shows that Sweden and the Netherlands are clear leaders in the EU, thanks to a competition-friendly environment and skilled citizens and businesses that can use advanced services. On the other hand, poor competition may hold back investment in advanced technologies and result in high prices. Social factors such as the lack of digital skills, limited PC penetration and a poor spending in ICT also appear to be important barriers to further developments.
The Commission Communication on Future networks and the Internet is available at:
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I think a better question, dear reader, is why NOT all the cake.
Seriously, though: you may have noticed posts in which I bake something, take photos and talk about it. They're not my recipes (though I try to include links where I can), so why bother?
The answer is Self-Improvement Through the Medium of Cake.
I started my Cakery Bakery project in September 2010. I was feeling particularly catastrophic in the kitchen and particularly useless all round. September always suckers me into starting a project, anyway: it's the new-term instinct. Usually I buy pencils. This time, I started making cake.
Dear reader,
If you stumbled across this blog hoping for tips on creating the finest in cakery cuisine, I'm afraid I must disappoint. The things I am not good at include, to my sorrow, almost anything that goes on in the kitchen. The best meals in my repertoire include potatoes and Yorkshire puddings, thanks to a solid Bradfordian upbringing. Washing up horrifies me. And cleaning the oven is a task exclusively reserved for my stalwart Other Half, who also heroically takes on the role of Chief Eater of Experimental Cooking.
However, here is what I know. Desserts make everyone happy, especially me. People are less likely to be underwhelmed by my stone-faced lasagne if I whip a sticky chocolatey something out of the oven immediately afterwards. And, crucially, practise makes perfect. Or at least better. Or edible, even; I'd settle for that.
Come with me on a journey through sugars, vanilla essence, and with any luck, not blowing up the kitchen. If it works or if it doesn't, I'll put it on here. In my rosy-visioned future I am hailed by all as Queen of Desserts, although on reflection this seems a little ambitious, so I'm going for Countess instead (this also raises the interesting possibility of wearing a cloak, which I will not dismiss at the moment).
I baked once a week, and posted about it whether it went right or (often) hideously wrong. Then I cooked up a baby instead, and slacked off a bit. I still try to find something new a couple of times a month. I'm not much better than I was, but there's something about flour and sugar and vanilla essence. It's very soothing.
It's also fattening, and this is why we are fatter than in September 2010. Hey, you can't have everything.
The older Cakery Bakery posts are here.
Now it's more sporadic, I just label them here.
Wishing you the cake of your dreams, my dears,
The Pageboy of Dessert.
(I have not yet earned my cloak.)


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Online Classes Mean No Dorm, Gym or Debt
Numerous articles and commentaries from inside and outside of academia are raising the alarm that American public higher education faces an unprecedented financial crisis.
For years, state legislatures have been disinvesting in public colleges and universities, leaving campus administrators to struggle with how to make do with less. The result: rising debt, deferred maintenance for aging facilities, reductions in programs and course offerings, dismissals, elimination of many student and faculty services, and loss of talented faculty -- many of whom haven't received pay increases in years -- to private universities.
To try to offset some of these challenges, universities are raising tuition and fees to historically high levels. The cost of tuition alone has soared from 23 percent of median annual earnings in 2001 to 38 percent in 2010.
Given the pressing demands on state budgets, it is unlikely that funding for higher education will return to pre-2007 levels anytime soon. In fact, analysts predict just the opposite: Financing levels will continue to decrease in the years ahead to the point where a number of colleges and universities may be forced to close.
In some states, campuses are being consolidated. In others, enrollments have been capped. With the average cost of providing one year of on-campus education at a public university now topping $32,000 and the average tuition covering only 20 percent of that, the problem is real and it isn't going away.
Enrollment Shift
In addition, enrollments are declining for the first time in 15 years, student debt is topping a trillion dollars, parents are questioning why their children are struggling to find jobs, and employers are complaining about the costs of retraining college graduates. Such conditions cannot continue.
Some universities are finding a way out of this morass through online classes. Growth in online education is now outpacing traditional enrollments by a wide margin. Why? Because it is well-suited to the needs of an increasing number of learners, extending access and allowing students to both work and study.
In addition, learning measures for online students have matched or exceeded those for on-campus students. Although graduate programs have seen the largest growth in online learning, significant increases in online undergraduate programs are expected over the next decade. Unfortunately, many universities remain averse to such change and hold to tradition and a classical notion of education.
In a recent hearing before state legislators, university officials questioned the value of moving online, testifying that there would be little, if any, savings from such a shift. These conclusions simply don't hold up. For example, traditional university costs and services for students that a quality online education doesn't require include:
-- Sports teams, playing fields, gyms and training facilities
-- Dormitories, student lounges and food courts
-- Building maintenance, personnel and service vehicles
-- Utilities including phones, air conditioning and plumbing
-- Landscaping and campus beautification projects
-- Mail service, supplies and procurement services
Such facilities and services consume as much as half of what it takes to send a student to college. Including such costs for online students in this type of comparison only serves to cloud the huge value proposition that Web-based learning represents. The real numbers tell a drastically different story: Online education holds the promise for universities to not only shrink their deficits but also extend their programs to a vast number of students, all at significantly lower costs.
Significant Savings
So what is the true incremental cost of serving an online student at a state university today? A study carried out by the University of Texas, comparing online versus on-campus instruction across 15 institutions serving more than 150,000 students, demonstrated a 30 percent to 50 percent cost savings for the Web-based approach. Given that students are asked to shoulder debt for services and amenities that are, objectively, nonessential to their education, people should take notice.
On-campus tuition will continue to rise to cover increasing costs for services and facilities. This, in turn, will further reduce enrollments, and campuses will become less diverse, accessible only to students from affluent families. Online education presents a huge opportunity to reverse these trends and improve the economic health of public colleges and universities.
Those institutions that recognize this and move their programs online will be successful and flourish. They will ensure job security for their faculty, find themselves able to reduce tuition, and extend access to underserved and under- represented students who need education to advance in their jobs, raise a family and provide a quality education for their own children.
Online education isn't a solution for all that ails our public universities, but it must be a major component in solving the financial crisis facing higher education.
(Jeb Bush was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Randy Best is founder and chairman of Academic Partnerships LLC, a company that designs online courses. The opinions expressed are their own.)


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Cook Islands, self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand, located in the South Pacific Ocean. Its 15 small atolls and islands have a total land area comparable to that of a medium-sized city, but they are spread over about 770,000 square miles (2,000,000 square km) of sea—an area nearly as large as Greenland. Niue, the westernmost of the islands, is an administratively separate state. The administrative seat is Avarua, on the island of Rarotonga. Area (land only) 91.4 square miles (236.7 square km). Pop. (2011) 14,974.
Relief and drainage
Each island is the top of one or more volcanoes, but only on the largest islands do the plugs and craters of now-extinct volcanoes still dominate the skyline; the highest of these rises to 2,139 feet (652 metres) at Te Manga, on Rarotonga, an island only 4 miles (6 km) wide. Many of the other islands of the southern group (Aitutaki, Atiu, Mangaia, Manuae, Mauke, Mitiaro, Palmerston, and Takutea) show various combinations of atoll and high-island formation. In the northern group (Manihiki, Nassau, Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Rakahanga, and Suwarrow), all except Nassau are atolls, narrow and low-lying sandbanks resting on circular reefs around lagoons rich in marine life.
Because the land areas are so small, there are no rivers, and only the largest islands have even small streams. There are small freshwater lakes on the high islands of Mangaia, Atiu, and Mitiaro; saltwater lagoons inside all the atolls; and fringing lagoons between most islands and their outer reefs. The rain that falls on the atolls permeates the island coral and is naturally stored in a lens-shaped layer above the heavier salt water. The islanders must rely on wells and rainwater storage tanks to conserve their limited sources of water.
Soils on the low-lying atolls are very limited in depth and quality. Most of the high island of Rarotonga is ruggedly mountainous, with narrow valleys having small but fertile pockets of soil. The coast consists of makatea, or upraised coral reef, of limited fertility. Between the mountains and the coast, however, is a ring of fertile volcanic soil. On the other high islands, much of the area is likewise taken up by eroded central slopes encircled by makatea, but again there are areas of fertile soil between. The problem of erosion has been greatly accentuated by the planting of pineapples and other export crops on soils that, in the long term, are too fragile for plantation farming.
All the islands lie within the tropics, though the southernmost just barely so. Because the Cook Islands are small, mid-ocean islands swept by the southeast trade winds, temperatures are generally moderate. Mean annual temperatures on the southern island of Rarotonga are in the mid-70s F (about 24 °C), but on the northernmost island of Penrhyn they are in the low 80s F (about 28 °C).
Seasons are not clearly differentiated. The English terms summer, winter, spring, and autumn are used, but Cook Islanders also recognize the traditional local patterns of prevailing winds, rainfall, and temperature. Precipitation, though erratic over the years, tends to be uniform across the various islands. It averages about 80 inches (2,000 mm) on Rarotonga, though with considerable difference between the windward and leeward sides of the central mountains; precipitation is slightly lower on Aitutaki and slightly higher on Penrhyn.
A spectacular climatic hazard is the occurrence of tropical cyclones (locally called typhoons), which strike with destructive force between December and March about once or twice every 10 years. Less spectacular but at times equally destructive of agriculture are droughts, to which the northern group of islands is more vulnerable than the southern.
Plant and animal life
Only a limited range of plant life thrives in the north, with coconuts and pandanus being predominant. On the fertile areas of the southern islands, a wide range of tropical fruits and vegetables flourishes. Indigenous species include taro, yams, bananas, breadfruit, and sweet potatoes. Introduced species—in many cases grown for export—include citrus fruits, tomatoes, pineapples, papayas, beans, and zucchini.
The original Polynesian settlers brought with them pigs, dogs, chickens, and a type of small rat. Those are still the main fauna, though a few goats, horses, and other animals have also been introduced. Some native birds became extinct in the 19th century after Europeans introduced cats. The kakerori, or Rarotongan flycatcher, an attractive tiny bird unique to Rarotonga, had been reduced by the early 1990s to about 30 breeding pairs. By the early 21st century, however, efforts by a small group of conservationists and landowners had succeeded in increasing the kakerori population to a viable level again. In 2012 the government announced plans to create a protected marine park encompassing the area around the southern islands, with an area of more than 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 square km).
Ethnic groups and languages
With the exception of the inhabitants of isolated Pukapuka, who are of predominantly Samoan and Tongan descent, almost all Cook Islanders have mixed Polynesian ancestry. Intermarriage with European, Chinese, and African settlers was common in the early 19th century. There are two main indigenous Polynesian languages, one for the island of Pukapuka and the other (with dialectal variations) for all other islands. The latter, known as Cook Islands Maori, is an official language, as is English.
Christian denominations account for nearly all religious affiliation. Just over half of the population belongs to the Cook Islands Christian (Congregational) Church. Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Seventh-day Adventism, and Bahāʾī have smaller numbers of adherents.
Settlement patterns
Most Cook Islanders live in villages, though some people (on Rarotonga particularly) live on their farms. The largest settlement is Avarua. The former indigenous houses of thatch and timber have been almost totally replaced by homes of cement and timber with iron roofs.
Demographic trends
Life expectancy at birth is above 70 years for males and about 75 years for females. Natural increase is offset by emigration to New Zealand and Australia, though expatriates are counted among the Cook Islands' official population, of which they constitute almost half. Today more than twice as many persons of Cook Islands ancestry live in New Zealand than in the islands themselves.
More than nine-tenths of the Cook Islands' population is native-born. The main nonindigenous population is of European origin by way of New Zealand. There is considerable internal migration from the smaller islands to Rarotonga, the most populous island, where there is generally full employment.
Agriculture and fishing
Agricultural production consists primarily of small farming, either for domestic consumption or for shipment to New Zealand. Cassava, sweet potatoes, and other roots and tubers are the principal crops. Most commercial fishing is done by Taiwanese, South Korean, and Japanese vessels operating out of American Samoa, but there is widespread fishing for domestic consumption. Several species of tuna make up the primary catch.
Resources and power
Phosphate is present on the floor of the Manihiki lagoon, and there are vast deposits of manganese and cobalt and some other metals on the seabed near Manihiki. Exploratory mining operations began there in 1999. Imported fuels are utilized for energy production, though there is some use of solar and wind power.
Manufacturing and trade
The small industrial sector includes clothing and shoe manufacturing and food processing, mainly for export to New Zealand. Cultured pearls and fish are by far the major exports. Machinery of various kinds, minerals and fuels, and food and live animals are significant imports. New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji are the leading sources of imports; major export destinations are Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.
Services, finance, and taxation
The service sector dominates the economy, with tourism the largest single contributor. Visitors come mainly from New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Europe. The second largest economic sector is international finance, as the Cook Islands are a major offshore tax haven. Government plays a significant part in the economy and is the largest employer. Taxes are moderate, foreign investment is encouraged, and foreign aid—largely from New Zealand—makes a significant contribution to the economy. The New Zealand dollar is the monetary unit of the Cook Islands.
Each island has a network of roads; a paved road encircles Rarotonga and is served by public buses. Regular service by small aircraft connects all the larger islands. There are ports at Rarotonga (Avatiu), Penrhyn, Mangaia, and Aitutaki, but shipping schedules can be erratic. There is an international airport on Rarotonga.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
The Cook Islands is a self-governing state. Although New Zealand is nominally responsible for defense and for external affairs, the Cook Islands has nevertheless independently established diplomatic relations and entered into international treaties. The formal head of state is the British monarch, represented by an appointed delegate to the islands; the government of New Zealand also appoints a representative, known as the high commissioner. Day-to-day executive power is vested in a cabinet headed by the prime minister and appointed by the islands' unicameral Parliament. Parliamentary elections, with universal adult suffrage, are held every four years. The constitution, adopted in 1965, has been amended several times. A council of hereditary leaders, the House of Ariki (High Chiefs), advises the government on traditional matters of landownership, custom, and the like. The two main political parties are the Cook Islands Party and the Democratic Party.
Health and welfare
Free medical services are available from government-owned hospitals or dispensaries on each island. Dental treatment is also free for schoolchildren. Diseases more commonly found in developed countries—diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, cirrhosis of the liver—are becoming more widespread.
Education is free in government schools and compulsory between ages 5 and 15; some church schools operate in addition to those run by the government. Higher education is provided by a national teachers college and a nursing school, through apprenticeship programs, and through an extension centre of the University of the South Pacific at Avarua. Many overseas scholarships are provided by the government and by overseas donors. The vast majority of the people are literate.
Cultural life
The government plays an active role in cultural life, particularly in the sponsorship of song and dance festivals for which the islands are renowned. A small library and museum in Avarua provide additional cultural attractions. Owing to tourism and intensive interaction with neighbouring industrialized nations, much international (generally Western) culture has been incorporated into daily life. Nevertheless, traditional ceremonies, such as that celebrating the first haircut of the favourite son in a family, are as vibrant as ever. The islands' distinctive cuisine draws on the traditions of Europe, China, Fiji, and Tahiti. Christian tradition, some of it a legacy of the English Victorian era, is strongly manifest, and modern American-derived evangelistic services and rituals are common. The major national holiday is Constitution Day, which usually gives rise to a 10-day celebration. A Tiare ("Gardenia") Festival, a parade of floats, and a series of song and dance competitions fill the annual calendar of festivities.
The broadcast media are privately owned, although the government issues licenses. Radio programming is available in English and Maori. Much of the television programming comes from New Zealand. The only daily newspaper, formerly government-owned, was privatized in 1989; other newspapers are published weekly or fortnightly.
Polynesians, mainly from the area now known as French Polynesia, were the only inhabitants of the Cook Islands until the 19th century. With only minor exceptions, each island was autonomous, and within each of the larger islands there were several competing ethnic communities. Spanish explorers visited several islands in the northern group in the late 1500s and early 1600s but did not stay. Capt. James Cook was the first European to call at most of the islands in the southern group, in 1773, 1774, and 1777.
English and Tahitian missionaries of the London Missionary Society began arriving in 1821 and were the first foreigners to settle. A number of important ariki (chiefs) were converted to Christianity early on. The missionaries established a theological college on Rarotonga and exerted a strong influence on the form of government that evolved in each of the islands over the next half century.
Fear of a French takeover, such as that which had occurred in nearby Tahiti and some of the other Society Islands, prompted some chiefs to petition the United Kingdom to declare a protectorate over the Cook Islands. The British government eventually complied in 1888, and a single federal parliament was established. This was the first time that these scattered islands had come under a united government.
New Zealand was keen to annex the Cook Islands, but the United Kingdom would not agree to this except on certain conditions, one of which was that the request for annexation must come from the Cook Islands. With some persuasion from New Zealand, chiefs of the largest islands petitioned for annexation, which was undertaken in 1901. After 1912 the federal parliament was allowed to lapse, and no direct representation at the national level occurred again until 1946, when a Legislative Council was organized. In 1957 its powers were extended and its name changed to the Legislative Assembly (a 1981 constitutional amendment changed the name again, to Parliament). In 1965 the Cook Islands moved to self-government but retained a relationship of free association with New Zealand.
In the second half of the 20th century, the Cook Islands, with the help of New Zealand, worked on improving infrastructure and social conditions and developing the economy, including tourism. The change in status in 1965 brought greater autonomy, and the Cook Islands began developing relationships with the countries of the region. The islands entered into treaties as an independent political entity, became a founding member of the South Pacific Forum (from 2000, the Pacific Islands Forum) in 1971, and joined other international organizations, including UNESCO and the Asian Development Bank.Ronald G. Crocombe Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe Sophie Foster
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Oceanic art and architecture: The Cook IslandsThe Cook Islands group includes Aitutaki, Atiu, Mitiaro, Rarotonga, and Mangaia, among others. Religious effigies are the main surviving works from the area, and both abstract and semirepresentational sculptural styles can be found on all the islands.…
Richard John Seddon…but he successfully annexed the Cook Islands (1901). He also bought vast amounts of land from the native Maoris and was opposed to Oriental immigration. Ardently pro-British, he supported England with troops in the South African War (1899–1902) and sponsored preferential tariffs for trade with the mother country.…
flag of Cook Islands…earliest flag identified with the Cook Islands was in use on the island of Rarotonga in the 1850s. It had three horizontal stripes of red, white, and red, with three blue stars in the central white stripe. A Union Jack canton was added in 1888 after Britain established a protectorate…
Sir Maui PomareAs minister for the Cook Islands (1916–28), Pomare helped to improve the islands' educational and legal systems and fought monopoly trading interests. After his health declined in 1928, he collaborated with James Cowan in writing
The Legends of the Maori.…
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