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Log-related properties are described in Table 16–10.
Set the logging level.
Set the output channel (file, console, or both) for one or more logging categories.
If you log output to a file, configure the rollover criteria for the file.
You complete these steps by setting Logger properties. You can do this in one of two ways:
Change or add Logger properties in the config.properties file for a broker before you start the broker.
Specify Logger command line options in the imqbrokerd command that starts the broker. You can also use the broker option -D to change Logger properties (or any broker property).
Options passed on the command line override properties specified in the broker instance configuration files. The following imqbrokerd options affect logging:
Logging interval for broker metrics, in seconds
Logging level (ERROR, WARNING, INFO, or NONE)
Silent mode (no logging to console)
Log all messages to console
The following sections describe how you can change the default configuration in order to do the following:
Change the output channel (the destination of log messages)
Change rollover criteria
By default, error and warning messages are displayed on the terminal as well as being logged to a log file. (On Solaris, error messages are also written to the system's syslog daemon.)
You can change the output channel for log messages in the following ways:
To have all log categories (for a given level) output displayed on the screen, use the -tty option to the imqbrokerd command.
To prevent log output from being displayed on the screen, use the -silent option to the imqbrokerd command.
Use the imq.log.file.output property to specify which categories of logging information should be written to the log file. For example,
Use the imq.log.console.output property to specify which categories of logging information should be written to the console. For example,
On Solaris, use the imq.log.syslog.output property to specify which categories of logging information should be written to Solaris syslog. For example,
Before changing Logger output channels, you must make sure that logging is set at a level that supports the information you are mapping to the output channel. For example, if you set the logging level to ERROR and then set the imq.log.console.output property to WARNING, no messages will be logged because you have not enabled the logging of WARNING messages.
There are two criteria for rolling over log files: time and size. The default is to use a time criteria and roll over files every seven days.
To change the time interval, you need to change the property imq.log.file.rolloversecs. For example, the following property definition changes the time interval to ten days:
To change the rollover criteria to depend on file size, you need to set the imq.log.file.rolloverbytes property. For example, the following definition directs the broker to rollover files after they reach a limit of 500,000 bytes
If you set both the time-related and the size-related rollover properties, the first limit reached will trigger the rollover. As noted before, the broker maintains up to nine rollover files.
You can set or change the log file rollover properties when a broker is running. To set these properties, use the imqcmd update bkr command.
This section describes the procedure for using broker log files to report metrics information. For general information on configuring the Logger, see Configuring and Using Broker Logging.
Configure the broker's metrics generation capability:
Confirm imq.metrics.enabled=true
Generation of metrics for logging is turned on by default.
Set the metrics generation interval to a convenient number of seconds.
This value can be set in the config.properties file or using the -metrics interval command line option when starting up the broker.
Confirm that the Logger gathers metrics information:
This is the default value. This value can be set in the config.properties file or using the -loglevel level command line option when starting up the broker.
Confirm that the Logger is set to write metrics information to the log file:
This is the default value. It can be set in the config.properties file.
Start up the broker.
The following shows sample broker metrics output to the log file:
[21/Jul/2004:11:21:18 PDT] Connections: 0 JVM Heap: 8323072 bytes (7226576 free) Threads: 0 (14-1010) In: 0 msgs (0bytes) 0 pkts (0 bytes) Out: 0 msgs (0bytes) 0 pkts (0 bytes) Rate In: 0 msgs/sec (0 bytes/sec) 0 pkts/sec (0 bytes/sec) Rate Out: 0 msgs/sec (0 bytes/sec) 0 pkts/sec (0 bytes/sec)
For reference information about metrics data, see Chapter 20, Metrics Information Reference
You can monitor physical destinations by enabling dead message logging for a broker. You can log dead messages whether or not you are using a dead message queue.
If you enable dead message logging, the broker logs the following types of events:
A physical destination exceeded its maximum size.
The broker removed a message from a physical destination, for a reason such as the following:
The destination size limit has been reached.
The message time to live expired.
The message is too large.
An error occurred when the broker attempted to process the message.
If a dead message queue is in use, logging also includes the following types of events:
The broker moved a message to the dead message queue.
The broker removed a message from the dead message queue and discarded it.
The following is an example of the log format for dead messages:
[29/Mar/2006:15:35:39 PST] [B1147]: Message 8-188.8.131.52(e7:6b:dd:5d:98:aa)- 35251-1143675279400 from destination Q:q0 has been placed on the DMQ because [B0053]: Message on destination Q:q0 Expired: expiration time 1143675279402, arrival time 1143675279401, JMSTimestamp 1143675279400
Dead message logging is disabled by default. To enable it, set the broker attribute imq.destination.logDeadMsgs.


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I've mentioned before that I once had to get a special dispensation to work at a newspaper because my degree was not in journalism but, rather, in economics. Have you ever been in a newsroom with a bunch of journalism grads who don't know how to calculate anything meaningful about, say, the most recently released budget document because, well, their degrees are in journalism? I have. It's not pretty. If you think some reporters have trouble getting religion, let me assure you that many reporters also have trouble getting statistics. A perfect example of how those two things collide is the incessantly repeated statistic we've been subjected to this week. Here's NPR from last week:
But not all Catholics share that view when it comes to birth control. In fact, 98 percent of Catholic women use birth control at some point in their lifetimes.
Here's The Atlantic, just throwing a bunch of numbers up:
It's surely a fact that the Catholic Church's higher-ups don't want to hear, but it's one that the White House has heralded in his defense of the new (and today, amended) requirement for Catholic employers to offer insurance that covers contraceptives. "According to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception," the White House's blog wrote last week. They were referring to an April 2011 report from the organization that describes its mission as to "advance sexual and reproductive health and rights." The 98 percent was among all Catholic women who have had sex and did not include "natural family planning," i.e. the only officiallly Church-sanctioned method of preventing pregnancies. That number is nearly indistiguishable from the reported 99 percent of all American women who say they have used contraception. These are the key bits from Guttmacher Institute's "Countering Conventional Wisdom: New Evidence on Religion and Contraceptive Use"
The typos might suggest something about the accuracy of the general argument. It's fine, I suppose, to use White House talking points in a story or to cite the abortion rights supporting Guttmacher Institute without noting its relationship with Planned Parenthood. But in this case, Guttmacher erred in what it claimed were the results of its own study.
Guttmacher did say in its summary that "Among all women who have had sex, 99% have ever used a contraceptive method other than natural family planning. This figure is virtually the same, 98%, among sexually experienced Catholic women."
But that's not in any way an accurate statement of what its own survey found.
On the very same page, it explains that its survey was restricted to women aged 15-44, so that cuts out all women who were older than 44 at the time of the survey. And a footnote explains that a rather significant chunk of women were excluded from this figure of "all women" -- namely, women who are pregnant, post-partum or trying to get pregnant." A later footnote says that the only women who had sex in the last three months were included in this group. Finally, included in this 98 percent figure of current contraceptive users are the 11 percent who report no method.
So I guess we could say that among women aged 15-44 who had sex in the last three months but aren't pregnant, post-partum or trying to get pregnant, 87 percent of women who identify as Catholic used contraception. It's worth pondering just who is left out of this 87 percent, other than, you know, everyone who doesn't use contraception. Great stat, team journalist! I mean, the study was designed to find only women who would be most likely to use contraception. And it did.
So let that statistic die. Or accurately summarize it. (Hint: "Every woman who ever lived used 18 forms of birth control. For fun." is not going to cut it.) Also, it's shameful how many people just cited that stat without any reference to where it was found. You might remember I had to post a note asking for help tracking it down after I'd seen it repeated for the thousandth time. That's not even OK for opinion pieces, much less news articles.
NPR ran a story yesterday morning that a few of you submitted. Reporter Allison Keyes told listeners that she couldn't find a single Catholic who supports the bishops (although she did find the false stat!):
KEYES: No one who agreed to talk took the bishop's side. Like Burger, those who did talk think people are selectively following the bishop's rules. She quotes recent studies which say that 98 percent of Catholic women have used contraceptives.
BURGER: The edicts are not being followed and I think the public is doing what it will.
KEYES: Berber says she doesn't like the way the church injects itself into political debates.
Keyes only went to the 10 a.m. mass at Shrine of the Sacred Heart church in northwest Washington. She only found people who oppose the bishops. Do you think she would have had a similar result if she'd gone to a parish outside of DC? What if she'd gone to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception? (On this note, I rather like this Friday NPR story from Morning Edition that found a Catholic student who opposes the bishops. Except she isn't Catholic. She's actually a Unitarian Universalist.)
Here's how host Steve Inskeep wraps it up:
INSKEEP: So, it wasn't hard to find Catholics -- at least at that one church -- who differ with the bishops. The bishops, as a group, say they are still concerned despite the wider exception for religious employers, which allows health insurance companies who favor contraception directly. The bishops say they're still studying the details of the Obama administration mandate, which they say may still affect some people who object to contraception. The bishops call that, quote, "unacceptable, raising serious moral concerns."
It's NPR News.
Yes, it is NPR News, isn't it. Of course, if you're going to frame your story completely from the side of "everyone I talked to wants the government to mandate 'free' birth control coverage," you miss out on any meaningful discussion of religious liberty, much less any of the other opposition to HHS mandates. It also treats a story that affects a wide swath of religious adherents as a "Catholic" story. That may be a line advanced by some of the loudest players in the fight, but is it accurate?
Image of woman excluded from Guttmacher survey via Shutterstock.


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Factor Ten Engineering (10xE) aims to help engineers, architects and their clients attack resource-intensive design problems, such as manufacturing processes, buildings and vehicles, using RMI's whole-system principles in order to produce fundamentally better results.
10xE currently offers design principles and a growing set of case studies—many of them derived from RMI's experience base. Rather than a rigid formula, 10xE is a set of ideas for shaping the design space and design approaches within it. These ideas will be used by those purchasing or approving design services, as well as design practitioners.
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Engineering student and inventor Jim Poss loved devices. And he had an idea for a clever one: the solar-powered trash compactor pictured here.
But, before he attempted to design it, he looked far beyond his idea to understand the workings of the whole trash system.
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Each principle stands on its own, as well as being part of a powerful whole, which can be adapted to any engineering or architecture practice—whether solo, in-house department, or major EPC firm.
Based on experience, we know that engineers and architects can achieve radical resource-efficiency and save their clients' money by leveraging 10xE principles. In doing so, they play a stronger part in developing solutions to some of the planet's most challenging problems—energy and climate. They also help adapt their professions to meet the challenges of the future.
10xE was initiated by RMI to strengthen both design pedagogy and design practice. Although an outstanding gain in resource productivity—say, a 5x-to-10x improvement—will always be uncommon, it has been achieved. More common gains of 2x-to-4x are achievable in a high percentage of design situations, though we must emphasize that such results are not for the faint hearted.
Rather, they require bold and gutsy designers and owners willing to question familiar practice and work closely with people from other disciplines.
Real examples and real experience are the foundation for this transformation. In recent years, RMI has used whole-system thinking in the redesign of a significant and diverse set of industrial facilities and buildings—some of which were built, and others not.
Tellingly, many of the engineers and architects with whom we worked were frustrated. They had seen many of the same design issues over and again, a situation Amory Lovins calls "infectious repititis." We all know that avoiding design errors during the design process is cheaper and easier than correcting such errors after the fact
So, RMI began to seek ways to support creative engineers in bringing their innovations to engineering practice and pedagogy.
Collaborating with the engineering and other design professions to develop design principles and a collection of case studies on high-performance integrative design, we plan to support both the current and the next generation of engineers with tools for integrative design.
We hope that these new, whole-system thinkers will stand out in their profession and that each in their own way will develop far more sustainable and profitable solutions than today's typical practice.
Autodesk's Headquarters building was a "triple win": design and construction costs were below target (benefiting both the design/build team and owner); designer and contractor profits exceeded targets; and the building achieved LEED-CI Platinum and all other goals. Also, the building demonstrates several principles of Factor-Ten Engineering. Read More
Amory Lovins's state-of-the-art green home and indoor growing space at 7,100 feet is remarkably energy efficient, includes several renewable technologies, and has no conventional heating and cooling system. Also, it demonstrates several principles of Factor-Ten Engineering. Read More
This story of Interface Inc.'s Shanghai plant illustrates the pitfalls of the conventional design process—and the remarkable gains that are possible by rethinking basic assumptions. This paper describes how the lead designer Jan Schilham created a radical new layout with shorter, fatter pipes and smaller pumps to save nearly 90 percent of the energy—with lower capital costs. Several Factor Ten Engineering principles are highlighted in Schilham's design process. Read More
In 2002, the Carnegie Institution began planning a facility, called the Global Ecology Center (GEC), which would become known as one of the most energy-efficient laboratories in the nation. Located on the Stanford University campus, the 11,000-square-foot building was built to house the university's new Department of Global Ecology, a place for students and researchers to work at the cutting edge of their fields. Read More
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This product is based on Landscape with Houses, 1890 by Vincent van Gogh.
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The work embodies the massive socio-economic changes that have taken place in the last forty years. It thus understands itself as the product of an economy in which privacy and immateriality have been fully commodified… For many a consumer, art is expected to operate according to the principles of the service economy rather than following humanist ideals of intellectual or moral stimulus and education.
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Session 2: Manufacturing and sustainable development: South African experiences
Session 3: Manufacturing and sustainable development: International experiences
Session 5: Mining and Economic Growth
The 2007 launch of the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) and the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) could not have anticipated the impact that the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 and subsequent recession would wreak on South Africa's economy. With its strong focus on the manufacturing sector as a key driver of balanced development, the NIPF set a framework and an implementation mechanism – in the form of IPAP – for addressing cross-cutting and sector-specific constraints (and optimising opportunities) to put South Africa on a stronger growth path. As it turned out, it also assisted in shoring up the South African industrial sector against the worst effects of the recession, particularly through support for industrial upgrading, local procurement designations and export facilitation. This policy brief explores the intended outcomes of the NIPF and assesses some of the progress (and unintended consequences) achieved in implementing IPAP since 2008. It concludes with some recommendations on the need to do a full review of the impact and implementation of IPAP.
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In 2014, South Africa remained one of the most unequal countries in the world, an outlier by global standards in terms of both overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient and levels of joblessness. For proponents of industrialisation as central to long-term development, this situation raises two questions. First, how does manufacturing as presently constituted affect employment and the distribution of income and assets directly and indirectly? Second, is the traditional industrial-policy paradigm sufficiently geared to supporting inclusive growth?
These questions are explored in this working paper by Neva Makgetla, TIPS Trade and Industrial Policy Programme Manager.
Promoting exports to develop manufacturing remains a key growth strategy in the National Development Plan. Super-exporters dominate almost all South Africa's export sectors. They are the main drivers of export growth and they define the country's export structure. However, despite their dominance, super-exporters have been losing dynamism and competitiveness, with 93% of these firms not creating sufficient new high-value exports to replace those that died out during the global financial crisis. According to the World Bank, South Africa is exploiting only about 20% of its potential export relationships compared to China's and Germany's 70%. Smaller South African exporters are more experimental but are not yet large enough to drive aggregate exports.
This paper examines the pattern of trade between IBSA countries for the period 2001-2008. We find that trade between the countries has been on the increase. After the IBSA initiative was established in 2003, each country recorded a significant growth in its trade with other IBSA countries in 2004, leading to a large intra-IBSA trade increase of 43.45%. Intra-IBSA trade continued to rise thereafter peaking at US$26 497.7million in 2008, a 40.97% growth from the previous year.
With regards to South Africa's exports with Brazil, we find that the mining sector dominates. In the manufacturing sector, high-technology followed by medium-technology manufactures dominates. South Africa's chief imports from Brazil are largely with manufactures, particularly of high-technology goods followed by medium-technology imports. The agricultural sector is the second most significant sector after manufacturing.
Significant reforms of the services sector have been conducted in Uganda since 1987, motivated, in part, by the common notion that efficiency in the provision of services can deliver productivity growth in all sectors of the economy, which in turn stimulates overall economic growth and development. Given that the demand for services is often highly income elastic, as incomes grow, the demand for services also tends to expand accordingly. In another respect, services are widely used as intermediate inputs in various production activities, while the proportion of labor utilization in services production has tended to grow larger than that of capital. This paper applies a cross sectional panel estimation approach to discern the effects of services liberalization on downstream manufacturing productivity in Uganda. The results show that the average coefficient (average returns to scale of 0.6251 is less than constant while the respective coefficients of capital and labour are 0.1420 and 0.4831, respectively. The relative coefficient on the composite services reform index is positive, suggesting that services liberalization have had a marked positive impact on manufacturing and its productivity. When individual sector reform indices are accounted for in the regression, the results also confirm that when prudent reform measures were undertaken in different services sub sectors, they imparted strong and significant improvements in the productivity of firms across the board.
Since the mid-1990s, South Africa has made considerable progress in opening ups its trade regime. In 1994 South Africa committed itself to reducing and simplifying its tariff levels and structure in accordance with it offer under the GATT Uruguay Round. As a consequence tariffs have fallen, although the number of tariff rates and types remains high. Some estimates suggest that average tariffs in manufacturing have fallen from close to 30% in 1990 to around 10% in 2002. However, the extent of the decline is highly dependent on the calculation of ad valorem equivalents for non-ad valorem tariffs (specific, mixed, compound and formula duties) and the choice of tariff measure (scheduled tariff or collection duties). The difficulty in measuring protection is reflected in the continuing debate on the extent to which the economy has liberalised its trade (Fedderke and Vase, 2001; Rangasamy and Harmse, 2003).
This study advances existing empirical work in a number of ways. Firstly, we use detailed sector level tariff data as one of our indicators of changes in openness. We calculate tariff levels for 26 manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2002 using both scheduled tariff rates and collection duties. We thus test the robustness of the relationship between tariff liberalisation and mark-ups to different measures of tariff protection.
The barrier model of productivity growth suggests that individual country productivity is related to the world technology frontier disturbed by national barriers. We offer a country study of the barrier model, exploiting the dramatic changes in the linkages to the world economy in South Africa (SA).
The productivity growth in the manufacturing sector panel for 1970-2003 covers a period of political and economic turbulence and international sanctions. The econometric analysis uses tariffs as a measure of barrier and fixed effects estimation to concentrate inference to time-series properties. The model shows how productivity growth can be understood as a combination of world frontier growth and the tariff barrier to international spill-overs. The estimates establish a long-run relationship where domestic productivity follows the world frontier, with change of barrier affecting transitional growth.
This paper investigates whether African manufacturing exporters are more productive than non-exporters and whether these productivity differences precede entry into the export market. We find at expoters are more productive but that productivity does not matter for entry into t export market - suggesting that learning by exporting is important. We investigate the nature this relationship and find that exporters donot have higher rates of productiity growth than non-exporters.
The current implementation of a free trade area in SADC has given rise to concerns that the present location of industry in the region will be adversely affected. Specifically, many of the smaller and less-developed countries fear that this change will result in a loss of their industry towards the more developed members, and particularly towards South Africa. The paper conducts a review of the spatial distribution of industry within SADC from 1970 to 1999. This is achieved through the calculation and examination of industrial locational Gini coefficients, measuring the relative degree of concentration of 28 ISIC (rev 2) industries for the years 1970, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 1999. The analysis, however, is focused on the most recent two decades.
The average level of concentration within SADC is found to increase steadily from 1970 to 1990. Between 1990 and 1995, the level of concentration increases further, but at a lower rate, and, by 1999 industry begins to disperse. The Gini coefficient is a relative measure, and thus does not measure the absolute level of concentration. Thus, much of the increase in concentration seen is towards peripheral countries. To further interpret the Gini, the changes in concentration are compared to the absolute changes in manufacturing employment in South Africa. From this analysis there appears to be a distinct advantage for industry as a whole to locate in South Africa versus SADC as a whole. However, this is not the case for all industries as eight of the 28 industries analysed show particular tendencies to concentrate in the periphery (i.e. SADC excluding South Africa). Additionally, there are individual countries in addition to South Africa that appear to have a revealed comparative advantage in many of the other industries. Two main policy recommendations result from the paper. Firstly, individual countries in SADC need to promote those industries that show concentration tendencies in their country, and investigate further reasons as to why other industries tend to locate in South Africa. Secondly, further study should be undertaken on the effect of reducing transport costs on specific industries.
Between January 2002 and July 2005, the South African exchange rate has appreciated by more than 30 per cent. At the same time, there has been widespread news coverage of the decline in several manufacturing sectors, notably clothing and textiles. Over the same period, commodity prices have risen substantially. The gold price rose from an average of $310 per ounce in 2002 to an average of $436 in 2005. The platinum price rose from an average of $541 per ounce to $887 over the same period.
This has led some commentators to speculate that high commodity prices have led to the appreciation of the rand, and the subsequent lacklustre growth in output and decline in employment in the manufacturing sector, along the lines of a classic case of the 'Dutch disease', where an economy is harmed by commodity abundance. These commentators are concerned that once our manufacturing sectors are lost, we may not be able to rebuild them, and we will lose the dynamic benefits of having a manufacturing sector, which include skills accumulation and economies of agglomeration.
In this paper, we begin with a definition of what is meant by a commodity and what is meant by a manufactured good, and we describe the commodity price time series we use. We then provide an overview of the literature on the 'Dutch disease' effect, followed by an analysis of the impact of the commodity price boom on South Africa. Finally we present our conclusions, and some potential policy interventions emanating from the literature on Dutch Disease.
This paper examines growth patterns in the Western Cape over the 1970-1996 period by means of primal growth accounting decompositions. Evidence by magisterial district, by statistical region and by SIC 3-digit manufacturing sector is presented. We find that the Western Cape differs from national growth patterns. Manufacturing in the Western Cape has relied consistently relied on capital accumulation for growth, while labour has contributed more to manufacturing growth than natioanlly. TFP growth has not been an important contributor to growth in Western Cape manufacturing, with a relatively minor exception in the 1980's.
This paper advances on previous work on the effects of trade and technical change on labour markets within the framework of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. First, we employ dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation techniques not previously used in this
context, which separate Heckscher-Ohlin-based long run relationships from short run dynamics that are heterogeneous across sectors. Second, we provide evidence for an unskilled labor abundant developing country that allows comparison of the results
against developed country evidence. Third, we consider the appropriateness of alternative approaches and examine endogeneity issues in the impact of technology and price changes on factor returns. For South African manufacturing we find that output prices
increase most strongly in sectors that are labor intensive. Our results further suggest that trade-mandated earnings increases are positive for labor, and negative for capital.
By contrast technology has mandated negative earnings increases for both factors. We also find that separation of different demand side factors collectively constituting globalization is useful in understanding the impact of trade, and taking account of
endogeneity is important in isolating factor and sector bias of technological change.
Ryan Hawthorne, Reena Das Nair and Keith Bowen of Johannesburg Economics presented this paper at the TIPS/DPRU/UNU-WIDER Forum 2005. It finds that there may be reasons other than high commodity prices for the general lacklustre growth in manufacturing output, the decline in manufacturing employment and the increase in employment in the skills-intensive sectors in South Africa. Factors such as capital, labour, trade and output market distortions and a lack of physical and human capital accumulation may be far more important sources of these trends.
We begin by presenting an overview of manufacturing in the Durban area and report on the GDMA survey, highlighting the methodology and key objectives and findings of the survey. We then focus on the international trade issues, reporting on how firms in the GDMA are responding to trade liberalisation. We report here on three sets of issues: the export orientation of firms, the effects of volatility in exchange rates, and on a set of trade policy issues. Finally, we present some concluding remarks.
This paper examines the impact of national developments and policies on the development of industry in Ekurhuleni. It assesses role of local government in industrial development in light of recent literature addressing agglomeration effects, industrial districts, and the development of local economic competencies and institutions. The analysis draws on recent work on the manufacturing sector in Ekurhuleni and a case study of the foundry industry in particular, focusing on its performance and recent development in terms of firm capabilities, orientation, and the institutional framework


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INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Busch would like to tell you he's going to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup title this year, but he can't.
"It boils down to having things go your way in the Chase," he said, referring to NASCAR's 10-race championship playoff that begins in seven weeks. "It's all circumstances."
And therein lies the evidence that Busch, one of NASCAR's most controversial and polarizing drivers, has learned that even talented, aggressive racers need their share of breaks and a steady disposition to become champions.
Busch hopes the circumstances fall his way Sunday, when he tries to earn his first Brickyard 400 win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and his third win overall this season.
The Las Vegas native, who starts 19th in the 43-car field, came close last year when he finished second behind four-time Brickyard 400 winner Jimmie Johnson.
Now in his ninth full Cup season, Busch, 28, drives the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. One of stock-car racing's most versatile drivers, he has 26 career wins on 17 different tracks.
Yet he has fallen well short when it comes to title contention. Busch has failed to qualify for the 12-driver Chase in two of the last four years, including last year, and in the other two years his highest point finish was eighth in 2010.
In some years Busch's title hopes were dashed when his car suffered mechanical problems in the Chase. In others, Busch's short fuse proved costly, such as in 2011, when he was parked by NASCAR for one race after intentionally wrecking a rival.
Through it all Busch has remained NASCAR's lightning rod, a driver many fans love to hate and one who, in turn, revels in the fans' backlash.
Brash, confident and sometimes petulant, Busch collected nicknames such as "Rowdy" and "Wild Thing" and amazed NASCAR Nation with daring maneuvers on the track and barbed comments after he climbed from his car.
The impulsive part of Busch hasn't disappeared. He recently called driver Ryan Newman "the biggest stupid idiot out here," prompting Newman to counter that Busch is "a heck of a talent but not very bright."
But others said Busch continues to mature as a driver.
"The way he handles stress and the way he handles adverse situations during the course of a race has drastically improved," said David Wilson, president of Toyota Racing Development, the automaker's racing arm.
"In his earlier, less mature days, if he had something go wrong during the race he would melt down and he would end up destroying the car or wrecking," Wilson said. "He still gets emotional, but he's able to channel that and finish out the race and collect those points."
Indeed, Busch has nine top-five finishes through the first 19 races this season, the most of any Cup driver, which included his wins at Fontana and Texas Motor Speedway.
He has also been dominant in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series. He won Saturday's race at Indianapolis, his eighth Nationwide victory of the season.
Busch acknowledged he's a different racer than in past years.
"Every weekend you learn something different," he said. "You become a better driver, a better person, being more meticulous about your race car and being able to figure things out and help your team."
Michael Waltrip, who co-owns another Toyota team, has noticed the difference.
"Kyle has amazing talent, but I haven't always seen the same level of trying to bring the others around him up and motivate his team and be there until the end" as some other top-tier drivers have, Waltrip said. "He's as good as there is now with staying within himself."
Make no mistake, Busch remains as passionate as ever. Recapping his season to date, Busch's voice grew more intense as he ticked off the problems he has faced, including an aerial-camera rope that snapped and struck his car during the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte.
"Daytona [500], we blew up," he said of his engine failure. "Phoenix, we blew up before the race even started, had to change engines, went to the back, [then] I was passing the eventual winner on the outside and I spun myself out and crashed.
"Charlotte, we had a rope fall out of the sky and kill our race car and yet we were still fast [after repairs] but then the motor blows up," Busch continued. "It's stuff like that. Tell me how I'm supposed to win a championship when those things are happening? I'm out front leading laps, doing my job, and yet it happens."
So when Busch was asked if he can finally can win the Cup title this year, he replied: "Is it going to happen? Who knows?"
Newman sets pole record
Newman smashed the track qualifying record Saturday to win the pole position for the Brickyard 400.
The Indiana native turned a lap of 187.531 mph around the 2.5-mile speedway in his No. 39 Chevrolet, edging Johnson's 187.438 mph. The previous record was 186.293 mph, set by Casey Mears nine years ago.
Carl Edwards qualified third, Denny Hamlin fourth and Tony Stewart fifth.


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Illinois Man Loses Foot in Farm Accident
A southern Illinois farmer says he's doing OK after a farming accident that severed one of his feet.
Kent Elmore of Dieterich said he was injured Wednesday afternoon when his right foot became caught in an auger while he farmed near the small town. Dieterich is about 80 miles south of Champaign.
Elmore told the Effingham Daily News that a truck driver who was at the farm applied a tourniquet to his foot. But Elmore said he lost the foot in spite of the driver's effort.
Elmore was taken to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis where a hospital spokesman said Thursday he was in stable condition.


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Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
Monday, October 31, 2011
Goodbye October
Haven't been blogging too much in October for a few reasons....work at my job has been very busy, there's that tinge of carpal tunnel problems the longer I stay at the keypad, autumn has been too beautiful to stay indoors and finally, my affectionate cat is back on my lap every time I sit down to write. I don't want to leave FrancoAmerican Gravy empty for the month of October, so here are photos taken in the past two days in the Lake George and Champlain Valley of New York. Here they are...some taken before the snow dusting and some afterwards...
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How To Remove Sliding Glass Door
Replacing a sliding glass door can seem like a challenge, but you don't need to call a professional just yet. In many cases, savvy homeowners can handle the task themselves, which can be a great money saver.
Whether your current sliding glass door is damaged or just doesn't reflect your personal aesthetics, the first step in the larger replacement process is to get the existing glass doors out of the way. Here's what you need to do if you want to tackle this project DIY-style.
If your current glass door is broken or cracked, make sure to put on gloves and safety glasses before beginning any part of the removal process. This ensures you are better protected from glass shards that may come loose as you manipulate the door.


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firstoyster necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
I have recently started a food blog. I am a cook, gardener, and frequent visitor of local farmer's markets. My blog is about bringing all of those things together and helping people to explore with me. It is about expanding culinary horizons, whether it be through trying new varieties of the same old thing, or trying something new altogether, or learning more about where our food comes from. It is also about making this all seem accessible. And finally, it is about capturing how something as simple as food plays a central role in all of our lives and, as a result, our richest memories. Please see the About section of my blog, the firstoyster.com, for more background on the reason for the name. This would be central to the logo that is developed.
- People with an interest in cooking, gardening
- People who have taken an interest in local/organic foods
- People who are trying to find out what's fresh at the markets
- People who are seeking recipes
- People who just like to read about the experience aspect of all of this (to my surprise)
- Primarily people located in Charlotte, NC, but it doesn't have to be limited to this region
- The farmers that we support
- Logo should work for both the header portion of the website and also translate into a black and white business card
- Would like for the oyster to be involved. Initial thoughts were either:
1) a woman (please avoid anything too "cute") opening up an oyster with a pearl in it. Or perhaps holding/offering an oyster, somehow. Reaction should be one of discovery/delight/surprise. The attachment is somewhat close, but too detailed and also too...demure. If you go this route and it's necessary to know, I am dark-haired, green-eyed, and half-Asian.
2) Just a highly stylized oyster. In other words, somewhat realistic looking and not cartoonish). See a couple of examples of the style in attachments below. Just don't want the oyster to have eyeballs and be smiling :).
- Please use an oyster, and not a scallop or clam, etc. When I search through stock footage, there seems to be confusion. My audience would likely catch this error.
- Would like for color to either complement or be agnostic to the colors on the website.
- Other ideas for a logo welcome, but want it to fit with the theme of the blog. But please be creative if you think there is a better direction to go.
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Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936
This powerful portrait depicts the weariness of a hard existence in poverty. Florence Owens, the migrant mother of the title, crouches in the foreground flanked by two of her children, their faces hidden. One's attention is directed to her eyes, which seem not to be looking at the camera but to be directed outward, perhaps contemplating a very uncertain future with little hope.
The photographer, Dorothea Lange, was born in 1895 and contracted polio in childhood, leaving her with a lasting limp. Ever after, she believed that this impairment increased her empathy for those down on their luck. Her photographic career began at a New York portrait studio in 1914, and she studied at Columbia University under Clarence White. She then moved to San Francisco to do freelance photography, until 1919, when she opened her own portrait studio. During the Great Depression, however, fewer people had money to spend on portraits, and Lange moved to Taos, New Mexico where she began work with several of the New Deal projects.
Owens lived a very different life. Of Cherokee descent, she worked as a pea picker in California. She had six children by 1932, and on remarriage, three more arrived. In 1935, however, the pea crop failed, and the family was forced to sell their tent to get food. In the following year, when Owens was 32, Dorothea Lange arrived on assignment for the Federal Resettlement Administration and met the family. She took six photographs of Owens, of which Migrant Mother is the best. It was published in a number of magazines, including as a striking full-page image in the September 1936 issue of Survey Graphic.
Despite fame of the image, Owens never profited personally from her portraits. In middle age, she often acted as the straw boss—the one who negotiated wages—for her fellow migrant workers, and she continued to work in the fields until the age of about 50. She married again and settled down with her new husband in Modesto, California. Despite the difficulty of much of her life, she lived to the age of 80; she died of cancer and heart problems in September 1983, survived by many of her children.
The Ransom Center's photography collection holds the work of important early-twentieth-century documentary photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, as well as the more recent work of the Magnum Photos agency. —Alan HerbertMagnum Photos


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Thanksgiving Leftovers Eggs Benedict Recipe
How to make the best meal of the week even better.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:20 minutes
- 3 cups leftover bread stuffing
- 10 eggs
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons juice from 1/2 lemon
- 1 pound leftover sliced turkey, warmed
- 1 cup leftover cranberry sauce
- 1 cup leftover gravy
- Any leftover side dishes
In a medium bowl, mix together bread stuffing and 2 eggs until well combined. Using your hands gently press into 8 cakes about 3 inches wide and 1/2-inch thick. Place breadcrumbs in a medium bowl. Dredge each cake and transfer to a plate. Heat 1/4 cup vegetable oil over medium-high heat until shimmering. Place 4 stuffing cakes in oil and cook until deep golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Turn and cook second side until golden brown, about 2 minutes longer. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and repeat with remaining 4 cakes.
Heat a large skillet filled with water over medium high heat. Add lemon juice. When it begins to simmer add eggs and poach until whites are set but yolk are runny, about 4 minutes.
Place two cakes on each plate. Divide turkey evenly between cakes, followed by poached egg, a drizzle of gravy, and a dollop of cranberry sauce. Serve with warmed leftover side dishes.


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These four clubs have earned their stripes in the fight to overcome obesity.
We pick up doughnuts at the drivethru on the way to work, order in pizza in the office so we don't have to walk to the deli, and pick up Chinese on the way home. At the movies, we snack on jumbo popcorn and gigantic boxes of licorice while we stare motionless at the screen for two hours. It's never been so easy to eat so much - or to exercise so little.
It's no wonder that so many Americans are fighting a losing battle of the bulge: According to a July 21 news story on CNN.com, 97 million American adults, or 55 percent, are considered overweight or obese. But fitness facilities have the power to turn things around with weight-management programs that teach members how to live thin in a fat world. As a bonus, such programs can serve as profit centers or member-retention tools for clubs.
Read on to learn how four facilities help their members manage their weight in an increasingly fitness-unfriendly environment.
Tilton Athletic Club: Making Connections
Credibility. If you don't have it, even the best weight-management program in the world won't fly. And when it comes to health issues such as weight management, what has more credibility than a hospital?
That was the thought which motivated Sam Young, owner of Tilton Athletic Club and president of the Tilton Shore Fitness Network in Egg Harbor, N.J., when he approached a local hospital in 1992 with the concept of a hospital-affiliated weight-management program. "They were very receptive," Young recalls. "We divided the responsibilities of the program: We did exercise, and they did nutrition education." At first, the hospital and the club split costs and revenue, but the hospital eventually did away with the wellness program that complemented Tilton's program, so now the hospital just charges the club a set fee for the services of its nutritionists.
In the Tilton program, members keep food logs and meet as a group with a nutritionist every week to learn how to decipher menus, read food labels and more. Because the program focuses on counting fat calories, every week one member brings a low-fat treat for everyone to enjoy.
For the exercise portion of the program, members receive a personal exercise program devised by the lead trainer, a Tilton fitness professional with a degree in exercise physiology or exercise science. Members meet with a personal trainer once per week for an individual session. The program works around the members' fitness levels, their likes and dislikes, and their medical restrictions - but always incorporates weight training.
"Recent data shows overwhelming evidence that strength training is at least as effective, and often more effective, than cardiovascular training for effective weight loss," Young says.
Young guarantees members that the 12-week program will work - that they will achieve the reasonable goals which they establish with the trainer at the beginning of the program. "In eight years, I have never had a graduate call me on the guarantee," he says.
Young recalls one inspiring success story: Bob, a 40-year-old deconditioned man, who always felt tired and wanted to be more active with his children. In 1994, he took Tilton's 12-week program and made lifestyle changes that he has maintained to this day. In the past six years, Bob has lost 30 pounds and 30 percent of his body fat, lowered his blood pressure and cholesterol into the normal range, and significantly increased his overall strength. He's now a full-time member of the club, and coaches and participates in his children's sports teams.
"That is why this program is so effective: It shows the clients how to live a healthy lifestyle that is maintainable - vs. other programs that offer fast results through methods that are impossible to maintain," Young says.
How does Young turn Tilton Ath-letic Club's weight-management program into a profit center? It's easy.
"You just have to generate more revenue than you spend in expenses," he chuckles. Young knows how much he can charge before encountering resistance from members, and he knows his break-even point. But what he always keeps in mind is that the program helps Tilton make members for life. "Eighty percent become members and stay members for a long time," Young says. "They're walking billboards for the club."
Westerville Athletic Club: Teaming Up With a Weight-loss Winner
Why reinvent the wheel when there are plenty of effective weight-management programs already out there? That's the prevailing attitude at Westerville Athletic Club, located in Westerville, Ohio, where the local Weight Watchers chapter meets every Wednesday.
In 1995, the general manager of Westerville Athletic Club began looking into established weight-loss programs to bring to the club's members. She was impressed with Weight Watchers' attitude that no food is forbidden. Rather than limiting, say, cookies or french fries, the program assigns points to different types of foods, and allows members to use only a certain number of points per day. The instructors also teach members how to create life-long healthy habits.
The general manager spoke with a Weight Watchers representative and learned that the organization normally rents space to hold its meetings. Westerville Athletic Club and the rep struck a deal - free space at the club in exchange for the right to use the Weight Watchers name in advertising and promotions.
Weight Watchers' initial fee is waived for Westerville Athletic Club members, though nonmembers can also participate in the sessions. Jim Matuska, the current general manager, looks at the Weight Watchers program as a retention tool and a service for members - not as a profit center. "We're not interested in creating a separate profit center," he says. "Getting members into a successful program is the biggest motivation for us." In addition, since Weight Watchers stresses exercise as part of a successful weight-loss program, participants are encouraged to join and work out at the club.
And it works. Take Beverly, who joined Westerville Athletic Club and the Weight Watchers program in 1995. She lost 25 pounds on the program and went from couch potato to fitness devotee. Beverly now works on Westerville Athletic Club's membership staff and is the club's Spinning coordinator. "She still maintains Weight Watchers' philosophy of eating normal foods, counting points and reading labels," says Matuska.
Final Results Fitness: Changing for Good
Don't be afraid to change - that's the idea behind the successful weight-management program at Final Results Fitness in Gilbertsville, Pa.
In 1986, the program was based on Dr. Ellington Darden's 10-week Nautilus diet program, one of the first to incorporate weight training and reduced calorie intake. "We started out by the book, but he had a rigid diet program," says John Wood, president of Final Results Fitness. "It's not particularly user-friendly; it has a `hold your nose and eat it' attitude toward food." So Wood and two registered dietitians of his acquaintance came up with a more flexible plan where members select the foods they like from a list of choices. The staff then prints a diet for the member with the foods he or she chose.
Besides loosening up the diet restrictions, Wood reduced the program from 10 to six weeks, which is easier to manage and makes the price more attractive. He also incorporated glycemic index values into the menu. "The glycemic index is a comparative rating system for carbohydrates based on their effect on blood sugar levels," Wood explains. "The faster and higher a particular food increases blood sugar levels, the higher the glycemic index rating." Using glycemic index tables, Final Results has chosen foods with low glycemic index levels for the program.
In addition to proper nutrition, the club's program emphasizes super-slow weight training for participants, where an interactive fitness system monitors the members' lift and drop speed. "Because super-slow exercise has standardized guidelines, it keeps participants focused on a safe, efficient, effective protocol," Wood ex-plains. "Super slow was originally designed for research on patients with osteoporosis so almost anyone can do it. Super slow is much more than simply lifting slowly. It provides a complete protocol and framework from which instructors and participants can intelligently monitor progress and modify workout variables as they progress. It makes record-keeping infinitely more accurate. It leaves nothing to question, nothing to chance. All of these factors make it ideal for the non-exerciser."
Combining these nutrition and exercise components, the weight-management program works like this: The member undergoes an evaluation and receives a personalized diet plan. The following few visits consist of one-on-one sessions with a trainer; the member engages in cardio and weight training three hours per week. Whenever the member visits the club, a staff person weighs him or her and identifies any potential roadblocks. At the end of the program, the member undergoes a post-evaluation and receives a maintenance sheet.
Wood can relate many success stories from his program, but the one that stands out the most is the story of a woman in her 70s who had been diabetic her entire life. She lost 75 pounds on Final Results Fitness's program and decreased the amount of insulin she needed by a full three-quarters - proving that for people and fitness facilities, success comes to those who change.
Wolff Health and Fitness: Teaching Basic Skills
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Hey i got a few questions
#1Who are the new people working on season 4?
#2Is there anybody who already voices characters that will be voiceing a new one for the new season?
and most important......
#3Is Zeke coming back to normal???????????????
- April 06, 2011 5:51 PM
- goten435 said...
When is Total Drama World Tour reunion special suppose to air?
- April 06, 2011 10:34 PM
- April 08, 2011 12:47 PM
Is the script written before the drawings are done?
- April 08, 2011 9:53 PM
Can't wait.
- April 09, 2011 3:21 PM
- Mary said...
Well, maybe it's not the sort of question you were asking for, idk.
Um, how do you get to be an intern? I don't mean an animated one, I mean for real. Is it for certain majors in college or something?
- April 12, 2011 11:44 AM
- cbaby167 said...
Three times in Total Drama World Tour, the characters were seen from below. (E.G. Gwen's rap) How do they create perspective?
- April 16, 2011 1:28 PM
When is Total Drama Reloaded airing (in Australia)and who are the new charactors?
- April 22, 2011 8:01 PM
i have a question for you guys.
How do to decide who competes in each season and why?
- April 25, 2011 1:13 AM
I have just one question to ask (mostly cause you answered a question of mine before with the add lib... Hi!)
Have the fans influenced the show in anyway? (besides well ratings and such) Because I heard the Trent doll was based off a Cody doll that a fan made. Also does this mean that the interns name is Billy (I ask cause I remember sumbiting that to the Total Drama Wiki and getting yelled at by an editor :( ... and I just contradicted what I said at the top of this comment didn't I? Whoops...)
- April 25, 2011 11:24 PM
Could you, please, post some scenes from season 4 (whether in picture or video form) ?
- April 26, 2011 2:07 AM
I'm sure you've been asked already, but I'm curious to know if you could tell us where you got the ideas for the other characters' designs. Leshawna's is Queen Latifah, and Gwen's is Tibby, but what about everyone else?
- April 27, 2011 11:51 AM
After each elimination of Total Drama Revenge of the Island, Could you do us a favor and upload a picture of the character that was eliminated without a background? It Doesn't have to be a full rotation. ONLY IF YOU WANT TOO
- April 27, 2011 10:47 PM
- u813247 said...
Greetings, guys. I've just watched a couple of videos on Youtube and I'm SHOCKED.
First of all, there seems to be an alternate ending of "Celebrity Manhunt" with the contestants DYING when their bus fell off the cliff! Is that official, that ending really existed?!
Second, I can't believe that there's extra material with Duncan throwing a sandal to Courtney and knocking her out! Seriously, I respect the DxG shipping and its followers but making their relationship official by betraying someone and basing their moments on making Courtney suffer wasn't the best way to develop it, not to mention it isn't helping with the tension between fans at all. I have to say that the changes in Duncan's behavior in this last season have really dissapointed me: In the previous ones he was far from being nice but he was a likeable antihero, now he's simply despicable. The only reason why I still like him is because I can't relate the Duncan we used to know in TDI and TDA with the TDWT one and want to remember him that way.
- April 29, 2011 10:06 AM
Alright...but remember you asked for it Thorny! :D
Here's what the Ezzy girl wants to know. :)
1. Ezekiel is MISSING from the promo Season 3 flier, IS seen on top of the Statue of Liberty, BUT he NEVER visits there. Was Ezekiel part of Season 3 originally or was he added as an afterthought?
2. After the Bus Of Doom fell off the cliff, Ezekiel was missing from all of the remaining group shots including the big tent announcement. The only one in fact. Where did Zeke go?
3. Who decides on the cast for the season? :)
And who the heck came up with the awful idea of kicking Zeke off the show REPEATEDLY (Zeke slamming to the ground in the title) AND the Zombie/Gollum Zeke?! X(
Sorry to say...but you really upset the Zeke fans with that one...we had had such high hopes for this season...thought he would be on for a couple of episodes...show off his intellect...shock people...make friends..Ezzy...:(
4. Will Jasmine from LeShawna's letter from home EVER become part of the Total Drama cast? I had originally thought she was the new girl on Season 3 instead of Stalkerra!
5. Was the cast of TDA and TDWT set in stone from the beginning? And if not WHO was in the original cast?
6. My mouth dropped open seeing Heather with the Gwen wig and hearing Blainley announcing Total Drama Comeback on the special...
For a second I could have sworn you read my fanfic story 23 presents and Kobold Necromancer's Total Drama Comeback! :)
So naturally I HAVE to ask..When it comes to TDI stories written by the fans of the show...Thorny and Mark...have you read any of them? :)
7. Does it surprise you how popular Ezekiel and the others are despite the little screen time?
8. Have you ever looked back at a season and said wow…I really should have done this instead of…
9. Out of all the seasons which is your favorite episode and why?
10. On Season FIVE will Ezekiel be back to normal and competing for a LONG TIME? And after four seasons will he finally get his well overdue positive karma?
You said you wanted questions. :D
- April 29, 2011 11:51 AM
- Omokisei said...
Can you tell me about camp TV? Like, how would Bridgette have been like? Maybe photos or more information on Camp TV?
- April 30, 2011 9:16 PM
- The Zobe said...
How are the characters layered up, and could you show the characters pieced apart?
How do you animate the characters without outlines from body parts kind of going through the colour. Like the headline going through the next. and if its just a colour block, how come its never on top of the outline?
- May 04, 2011 9:48 AM
Who created the characters, in personality and look? And how the voice actors are choosed?
And I just want to say, I'm a GREAT fan of the show, I'm brazilian and I watch both the original and the brazilian version. Total Drama is my favorite TV show.
- May 05, 2011 12:30 AM
I hope for two things: That this doesn't count as a spoiler (so that you can answer it), and that it isn't too late to ask this question.
We've received the trailer for Total Drama: Revenfe of the Island by now, and there's been a huge debate on a certain aspect. There are three girls in the new cast (one being a pale blonde with a green outfit; one being a redhead, and one being a blonde girl with pink clothes and sunglasses), and we still have no confirmation as to which girl is which. Like I said, it's been a huge deal, and some people are actually losing their tempers over it. Do you think you could please confirm which girl is which?
Oh, and P.S.: I can't WAIT for TDR to premiere! :D
- May 08, 2011 5:37 PM
Just the basics:
1. What happens to Zeke?
2. Was there ever an ending where Cody wins, or were you just going to stiff the Cody fans?
3. How did you go about getting the voice actors for the parts?
Can't wait for Season 4!
- May 10, 2011 2:21 PM
Can you please ask us if we will ever find out what happened to the contestants after the events of total drama?
It's just a yes or no question.
- May 13, 2011 10:22 PM
- Aaron said...
1.What were you guys doing at the time when ya'll came up with the idea of Total Drama Island?
2.Who do you guys think is the most popular charater in the Total Dram Series?
3.Why are you guys letting Total Drama Revenge of The Island air in America first and not in Canada?
4.Is there going to be a fifth season of Total Drama?
5.Have you guy ever thought about making a show where the cast of 6teen meets the cast of Total Drama?
- May 17, 2011 2:50 PM
How do you choose who came back in the seasons and the elimination order????
- May 19, 2011 1:55 AM
- Alex Hernandez said...
Hey Mark, I have another question that I forgot to post in another publication:
Is it true that there will a season 5 TD? or TDRI is the final season of the show?
- May 22, 2011 11:03 AM
Q.Will TDWT special be a one-hour musical?
Q.Will be there any new line ups(of TDWT or TDRI)?
Q.Are there more deleted scenes on Total Drama?
Q.If Total Drama is a flash animation(or any other)could you post some tutorials?
P.S. Sorry for my bad English;)
- May 22, 2011 5:45 PM
Hi! So I've been dieing to know...will there EVER be total drama action figures?
- May 28, 2011 1:35 PM
I have a question for you, Mark. Will the "Fifth Season" feature the 2007 TDI cast competing with the 2007 TDI cast? I'm dying to know.
- July 02, 2011 2:13 AM
was izzy going to be in Camp TV at all or was she just added to TDI?
and if any of the voice actors can answer what is the weirdest line you had to record?
- August 07, 2011 6:56 AM


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Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama's health care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the potential impact of a little-noted provision in the massive legislation.
The Affordable Care Act - "Obamacare" to its detractors - allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1.
For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly $4,250 a year. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.
Younger smokers could be charged lower penalties under rules proposed last fall by the Obama administration. But older smokers could face a heavy hit on their household budgets at a time in life when smoking-related illnesses tend to emerge.
Workers covered on the job would be able to avoid tobacco penalties by joining smoking cessation programs, because employer plans operate under different rules. But experts say that option is not guaranteed to smokers trying to purchase coverage individually.
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"We don't want to create barriers for people to get health care coverage," said California state Assemblyman Richard Pan, who is working on a law in his state that would limit insurers' ability to charge smokers more. The federal law allows states to limit or change the smoking penalty.
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