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In the winter of 2009, Seattle was the center of a global maelstrom that has yet to bottom out: the collapse of the advertiser-supported business model that funded mainstream journalism. The Seattle P-I published its last printed edition that March after a flurry of town halls and salons where journalists, academics and news junkies tried to make sense of digital disruption.
This week, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School published the third in a series of reports on the future of journalism. The title? Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present.
The first half of the title acknowledges that today's news business is wedded to a process, an era, dependent upon atoms. In a post-industrial society, wealth comes not from goods but from ideas. In a post-industrial economy, manufacturing gives way to services and information. Producing a printed newspaper — and to a lesser extent producing a television newscast — is a case study in industrial production, where raw goods (news stories) are transformed into a finished good on a large scale.
And the second half of the title? It speaks quietly to those who know there's a problem but seem unable or unwilling to change.
The effect of the current changes in the news ecosystem has already been a reduction in the quality of news in the United States. On present evidence, we are convinced that journalism in this country will get worse before it gets better, and, in some places (principally midsize and small cities with no daily paper) it will get markedly worse. [p 2]
The authors — all part of the New York City academic journalism elite — do not focus on how to increase revenue, although they document its decline:
News has to become cheaper to produce, and cost reduction must be accompanied by a restructuring of organizational models and processes…
Though the most precipitate revenue collapse is over, we are nevertheless writing this in the 23rd consecutive quarter of year-on-year revenue decline. [p 11, emphasis added]
However, the essay, which the authors call part survey, part manifesto, lays out clearly and succinctly how American journalism "has always been subsidized," both directly and indirectly. What I did not know, and I bet most of you don't know either, is this: General Motors, unlike Apple or Dell, is legally prohibited from selling direct from the factory and is thus stuck with "brand advertising" as its means to persuade.
General Motors and Diageo spend significant sums annually on 30-second spots or full-page ads because they are legally stuck with brand advertising. GM might want to sell directly from the factory, as Dell does, and Diageo might be happy to offer a click-to-buy button, as Ghirardelli does, but state law forbids them to use direct marketing. Brand advertising for cars and trucks and beer and booze is propped up by government-mandated subsidy that prevents the affected businesses from investing in the alternatives. [p 6]
As manifestos go, there is nothing in this one that approaches the insights of the 1999 work Cluetrain Manifesto, also a multi-author work. In fact, one of those authors, Doc Searls, is credited with first using the phrase post-industrial journalism in 2001. Nevertheless, in what can only be construed as global irony, the day before the report was released The Columbia Journalism Review was arguing that the Washington Post should immediately erect a paywall, a portmanteau straight from an atoms-based world.
What struck me as a I skimmed the report on Tuesday and examined it more carefully on Wednesday was this: it's full of new anecdotes for old arguments. News quality? See the SCOTUSblog v CNN on the legality of the individual mandate in ObamaCare (p 19). Citizen journalism? Japan's tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (p 24). Journalists? Be willing to change, experiment like Andy Carvin (p 41). Successful non-journalist journalists? Nate Silver (p 42).
Food for thought, not for talk
Unless my search skills have suddenly rusted, the report has generated very little chatter. Less than 1,700 tweets with the phrase "post industrial journalism" since Tuesday. Less than a handful of analyses. Josh Benton (one of the individuals credited with helping develop an outline of the work) published a CliffNotes version of the report on the Nieman Journalism Lab blog. Jeff Sonderman summarized the report for Poynter. And Mathew Ingram, the insightful media analyst for Gigaom, concluded his summary thusly:
One of the problems with manifestos like the one the Tow report's authors have written (in the interests of full disclosure, I know and admire all three of them) is that they wind up preaching to the converted and have little or no effect on those who need to hear their advice the most.
One of the most get-right-to-the-point posts I read was on Google+. It's by the online marketing manager for the New Zealand Post:
One of my seven year old's favourite places in Auckland is MOTAT – The Museum Of Transport And Technology. He loves to look at the steam trains… and on Sundays, the print shop with the Gutenberg printing press… those in the industry that need to read [this report] will ignore it.
There's a place for work like this, even though most claims lack citations (academic) or sources (journalistic). One of those places is in academia. Here's PSU Daily Collegian editor Casey McDermot and NYU's Jay Rosen:
inching through #pijournalism and glued to each page so far. won't try to summarize; will implore you to read it, stat: bit.ly/QJ3rKl— Casey McDermott (@caseymcdermott) November 29, 2012
Also, that report I just tweeted, Post Industrial Journalism, is the one best URL I could send my students. And I will. bit.ly/VcbRLs— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) November 28, 2012
Certainly, for anyone who is new to the industry, this is a must-read essay that is comprehensive, contextual and well-written. The examples of success, while anecdotal, are important. But I find it hard to believe that anyone who has skin in this game — reporter, editor, producer, photographer, advertising manager — is unaware of the overarching issues outlined here. Willfully uninformed, perhaps. But not unaware.
Prescience isn't enough
In an age of disruption like the one we're in, how much pain can be foregone by simply being able to look far enough into the future?
Clayton Christensen argues that legacy organizations have rational, profit-maximizing reasons for ignoring disruptive technologies that, almost universally, initially perform poorly and cost more than whatever the current product might be. And that early adopter audience? It's unlikely to be in the legacy org's pocket because of unscratched itches.
I've often used a YouTube clip from KRON-TV dated 1981 to show students that news organizations knew disruptive change was coming. So one of the highlights of the report for me was learning that Robert Kaiser, then managing editor of the Washington Post, wrote a 2,700-word memo about "the idea of personal computers and digital networks as alternate methods of delivery for media businesses" after visiting Japan in 1992.
But CW Anderson, Emily Bell and Clay Shirky argue that knowledge alone is not enough:
When the full copy of Kaiser's memo circulated among the news cognoscenti in the summer of 2012, it kicked off a flurry of public discussion about how prescient Kaiser had been, and how unfortunate it was that this incredible preview of what was coming—written before the public launch of the web—didn't get acted on.
Much of that conversation about what might have been, however, missed a second, critical aspect of the memo: Even if the Post had executed swiftly on everything Kaiser had proposed, it wouldn't have worked. Despite Kaiser's brilliance in laying out the great forces then only barely visible, his memo also contains hints of the difficulties adapting to a world where the internet was normal. [p 104]
In fact, Kaiser's memo reinforces Christensen's theories on disruptive innovation. Regarding a proposal that the Post invest in R&D for electronic classified ads, Kaiser also said the Post should:
… reserve the right to postpone implementation until a moment when we're confident we'll make more money (or deter a competitor) by launching the electronic product. [p 104]
The news world of 2020
Perhaps with a nod at EPIC 2014 (a future history of the media which was produced in 2004), the report closes with a crystal ball view of 2020.
The news ecosystem of 2020 will be a study in expansion, with heightened contrasts between extremes. More people will consume more news from more sources. More of these sources will have a clear sense of their audience, their particular beats or their core capabilities. Fewer of these sources will be "general interest;" even when an organization aims to produce an omnibus collection of news of the day, the readers, viewers and listeners will disassemble it and distribute the parts that interest them to their various networks. An increasing amount of news will arrive via these ad hoc networks than via audiences loyal to any particular publication. [p 107]
Perhaps the most salient change in the next seven years will be the continued weakening of the very idea of what constitutes news, and thus what constitutes a news organization. This change, long since begun by Jon Stewart and MTV election coverage, is still at work today; to the question "Is Facebook a news organization?" neither "yes" nor "no" is a satisfactory answer. (A better reply is "Mu," programmer-speak for "The question as asked has no sensible answer.") [p 116]
What's a journalist to do? A news organization? A news consumer?
Learn to adapt. Not once. Not twice. Maybe even more than three times.
Change is still coming; "the end is not even in sight."
Do more than hang on.
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NEW YORK — Director James Lapine's much-anticipated revival of "Annie," which opened here Thursday night, was supposed to freshen up (and apply some new grit) to the famous red-headed orphan with the pooch and the parent problem.
This is "Annie's" first Broadway outing of the 21st century (it was first seen on Broadway in 1977), and it comes at a moment when this justly beloved musical's Depression-era setting has a certain resonance. But this blustery, miscast and internally inconsistent new production ends up missing most of the charm, warmth and, above all, comedy of a traditional musical that's so big-hearted and so gorgeously put to music by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, it usually can withstand all manner of incursions and still come out on top. On one unforgettable night years ago, I even saw half a touring "Annie" set collapse around a deadpan Jo Anne Worley's ankles. Even then, the orphans and the constant wit, charm and intelligence of Thomas Meehan's book easily won the night.
But not this time. At the Palace Theatre, it feels very much like "Annie" has gotten lost.
It has some successful, even emotional, moments, especially involving Anthony Warlow's Daddy Warbucks, one of the few roles here that does not feel miscast. And the brilliant scene where we watch Annie tell FDR (Merwin Foard) how to run the country survives in its ebullient optimism. But that doesn't assuage one's overall disappointment in a production that needed to consider the mantra, first do no harm to every little girl's favorite Broadway show — including those former little girls who now have little girls of their own. Alas, some of them will be heading home telling their charges how "Annie" used to be. (A necessary disclosure: Tribune Media Services, part of Chicago Tribune Media Group, has owned the "Little Orphan Annie" and "Annie" trademarks and copyrights since 1924 and has licensed them for use in this production.)
The new set design is a huge part of the problem. Nothing physically collapsed during the show, but David Korins' cluttered new concept felt like a mess from the start, switching styles with nearly every scene. The orphanage, generally a sleazy, cramped locale with a row of beds, is here rendered as a faded but quite expansive place to lay your head (not so different in tone, really, than Warbucks' joint). The crucial New York street scenes are skeletal and disappointingly downscaled and monochromatic. Hooverville is a bust. The Warbucks mansion is conceived as giant storybook pages, which Annie and her new servants turn as they walk from room to room. That's fair enough, but it's the kind of conceit one has to keep in play all night. All in all, the show's romanticization of the city of New York is rendered with a dizzyingly inconsistent visual pallet, and — as when a chandelier becomes the famous Christmas Tree — the big numbers are weirdly over-thought.
Andy Blankenbuehler's halting choreography, it feels, is fit into a hundred nooks and crannies and never catches fire, or even makes much sense.
The human problems are similarly legion, beginning with the miscast Katie Finneran, who, along with her director, makes the mistake of mostly isolating her Miss Hannigan from her mischievous orphan charges instead of reacting to their tricks. The keeper of the orphanage is a tricky character, of course, the driver of the plot against Annie (Lilla Crawford) and Daddy Warbucks and his love-interest, Grace (Brynn O'Malley). But she's also a striving, decent-underneath-it-all character, far from Cruella de Vil. Finneran mostly looks lost and flailing here, trapped somewhere in the wastelands between traditional musical comedy stylings and some kind of new realism. And this hugely talented actress' constant dithering in no place in particular cuts her crucial connection with the audience. To get that back, she'll need to engage with the kids, all of whom are ready to play with her.
Warlow, who has a fine voice, is more honest and thus more successful as Warbucks, although you might say that Crawford's Annie has him pretty much at hello, or, more accurately, at "gee." That diminishes the dramatic tension of the piece and reduces the eventual payoff in the last scene. Crawford, no question, has a lot more real, complex girl inside her than the typical spunky, bewigged moppets who've played this role on stage and screen, but there's a certain invulnerability throughout that proves problematic. Crawford is a capable kid; that was a directing problem.
Even the typically sure-fire scene in the radio studio feels ill at ease, as does all of the Rooster (Clarke Thorell) and Lily (J. Elaine Marcos) shtick, which belongs in a different version of the show. All in all, Lapine and his producers seem to have struggled to find the sweet spot between eschewing the overt sentiment of days gone by without killing off the charm of one of the most endearing musicals ever penned. One sympathizes. "Annie" has some old-fashioned elements that resist any and all reworking. She is, after all, a character in a classic comic strip and she must, above all else, be aspirational.
But children don't worry about such stuff. They naturally reinvent themselves. The main problem with this "Annie" is that it did not do enough with the kids.
"Annie" plays at the Palace Theatre on Broadway and 47th St. Call 877-250-2929 or visit anniethemusical.com.


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Trampus — King of Waffles
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Just arrived at Chain of Lakes Park here in the terribly named Winter Haven. On the way here, Wilner and I stopped off at a Waffle House to get some breakfast. Our waiter's name? Trampus. I can't make this stuff up.
At least I ran four miles this a.m., so I don't feel so bad about eating at the House. Wilner insists we stop there every year on the way to Winter Haven, so I guess this makes it our last installment of the pseudo-annual event. The Tribe is skipping out on Florida in favor of Arizona for Spring Training next year.
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (5-9) at CLEVELAND (6-8-1)
at 1:05 p.m. ET at Chain of Lakes Park
Reed Johnson, RF
Gregg Zaun, DH
Joe Inglett, 2B
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Adam Lind, LF
John McDonald, SS
Buck Coats, CF
Hector Luna, 3B
Sal Fasano, C
PITCHING: RHP Shaun Marcum
Josh Barfield, 2B
David Dellucci, LF
Travis Hafner, DH
Victor Martinez, C
Casey Blake, 1B
Ben Francisco, RF
Jamey Carroll, SS
Danny Sandoval, 3B
Jason Tyner, CF
PITCHING: RHP Fausto Carmona
More later…internet connection permitting. It's reeeaaaal shaky here.
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Heres the way I see the Blue Jays starting pitching and how I think they should break camp.
1st – Roy Halladay….enough said.
2nd – Burnett, we know is only going to give us 26-28 starts. So why not have someone like Parrish, who has already been stretched out and can do five innings start every fifth game for him or something, you know, to kinda give him an extra week off here or there.
3rd – Marcum and Mcgowan should only both pitch 150-160 innings, just because they are young, and marcum is coming off an injury, even though it was minor. They could be spelled, or brought out early, early in the season, by Brian Wolfe or Brian Tallet.
fourth – Litsch can be included with that group abovem except he will have fewer innings.
This is why I think the pitching lineup should look like this
Starting 5 are obvious then
Parrish (to spell AJ and pitch some long relief)
Wolfe (same reason)
Tallet (because hes death against righties)
Downs (who just rocks)
League (7 and 8th inning man)
Accardo and Ryan (who have gotta split closing duties especially in the early going)
This is how i see the pitching staff and how i think it should be coached.
One more week and the jays will start to show us what they are made of,The roster should be cut down to where the reg.players will play everyday.
Dave what about Frasor????
I hope parish pitches okay today.
And now for the good news gsumner will be backkkk.
Hey, Any chance Lind bumps ahead of both Reed and Stewart to steal the left field platoon spot?
I'm pretty sure Lind's out of the picture this season, unless there's a big trade or a bunch of injuries. I think the Jays want him to get consistent at bats in AAA, while if he was with the big club there's a good chance he'd be on the bench a bunch.
Also, it wouldn't make much sense to have a lefty-lefty platoon of Stairs and Lind.
As for the bullpen, I'm also wondering where Randy Wells fits in. He's a Rule 5 pickup, so if he doesn't make the team, the Jays have to sell him back to the Cubs at half price.
Seems like he's done a decent job this spring, but the pen's getting pretty crowded, even if Ryan starts the year on the DL.
My biggest problem with Jason Frasor is that he always seems to be able to pitch well when there is no pressure on him. In high pressure situations he can pretty much be relied on to give up a home run, or at least a double. This is just me, but i dont really like Frasor at all.
Also, one of the reasons i talked about Tallet and Wolfe is because they can eat up two or three innings in mid relief. Frasor cant do this, he get hit too hard.
Hem is right about Randy Wells, on both accounts, its too bad we didnt have him last year, what with Ohka and Zambrano, but this year it looks like we might have to send him back. I dont think he was very expensive, was he?
Maybe theres no need for concern but is anyone at all wondering why Rios is having a terrible spring training. He should be right up there with Hill. What up.
Dave: If a team takes a player in the Rule 5 draft, it'll cost them $50,000. If the player doesn't stick with the big league club, the team has to offer the player back to the original club for half of the 50 grand.
So, if Wells doesn't make the cut, the Cubs can get him back for $25,000. All in all, that kind of money is peanuts to guys like Ted Rogers….
I really don't think it's time to hit the panic button about Rios. A lot of big name players have pretty lousy or mediocre springs — it is, after all, just a time to warm up and work on new stuff.
You survived the "Awful House, very impressed. The other night you went to P.F. Chang's, talking about total opposites, Chang's and the "Awful House", lol….
PF Chang's was glorious. Waffle House? Not so much. But that was all Wilner's call. What can ya do?
Is nobody concerned about the fact that we are in last place in the standings? Everybody else is playing with non-starting day lineups, so that is no excuse. Once again the teams that are suppose to be good are, and the Jays who hope to be good are not, at least not yet.
Chill pills, everyone. Spring stats and standings don't matter. If the Jays are struggling deep into April and into May, start worrying. Don't worry yet. The pitchers aren't going as long as they will in the season and the regulars — those that make the trips — are only getting a handful of ABs and working on things as well. Wins and losses are a non-issue in Spring Training. It's what's accomplished in between the stats in the box score that matter.
Burt: I don't think everyone is "where there supposed to be". I mean, check out Boston: they're 5-8 and only a game ahead of the Jays in the cellar. I'm also not too sure that Tampa (as good and young as they are) can maintain their current winning percentage of .750….


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Great American Bites: NYC's Carnegie Deli, popular for a reason
The scene: From the outside, the world's most famous delicatessen is unremarkable. Carnegie Deli looks like countless other Big Apple neighborhood eateries except for the huge line out the door, often stretching down the block, especially at midday on weekends. Named for its location near Carnegie Hall, this venerable eatery has occupied the same storefront on Seventh Avenue, between 54th and 55th streets, since 1937. The line moves surprising quickly, both because service is brisk and efficient, and also because inside it is much larger than it appears, going back with multiple dining rooms. Ordering to go is another option and a way to beat the wait.
You enter and are led past the deli counter itself (and the cash register where you settle up), back into the inner sanctum of food frenzy. The vast expanse of wall space is covered with a stunning assortment of celebrity photos of diners from over the last eight decades, representing the worlds of sports, politics and entertainment. Currently, President Obama's photo enjoys the spot of honor, while above our table was famously erratic Yankees manager Billy Martin. The best known regular local patron, Woody Allen, is the only one with a sandwich named after him.
Eating at the Carnegie Deli is a prototypical New York experience: loud, harried, very professional, a bit rushed and everyone elbow to elbow with not nearly enough room on the small tables for the vast groaning plates of food. Simplicity is everything here, from the classic diner coffee mugs to the never-miss-a beat-staff. The Carnegie Deli is a very popular tourist experience, yet beloved by locals as well, creating an incredibly diverse customer base.
Reason to visit: Pastrami, "combo" sandwiches, cheesecake, chicken soup, pickles, Jewish specialties, egg cream.
The food: If you haven't been before, you probably should start with the two staples, pastrami or corned beef - or both. And you shouldn't go alone -- while it can take longer to get seated with a bigger party, the dining experience is best suited to a group of 6 or so, because the portions are monstrously big and there are so many things worth trying. The menu is what's known as Kosher-style, since it is packed with traditional Jewish specialties, but it is most definitely not Kosher, with ham and bacon served and cheese gladly mixed with meats.
The Carnegie Deli smokes its own meats and cures its own corned beef and pickles at a facility across the river in New Jersey, making it one of the very few remaining delis to do all this work itself. While New York pastrami devotees will argue whether or not this is the city's very best, it is doubtless among the best, and thus better than the pastrami you will find almost anywhere in the world. Don't even compare it to the sad stuff you buy at a supermarket deli.
The basic sandwiches — a choice of pastrami, corned beef, roast beef, brisket, tongue, chopped liver, turkey, salami or bologna — typically pack in about a pound of meat, several inches high between slices of rye bread. They are a challenge for even the hungry. The more famous "Carnegie Gargantuan Combos," are basically impossible to finish — let alone pick up — unless you are on some sort of Man vs. Food challenge. Many are triple deckers with several inches of meat and accompaniments between each layer, like the corned beef, tongue and turkey with cole slaw and Russian dressing. Easily the most popular choice — and great for sharing ($3 surcharge!) — is the classic Woody Allen: a half pastrami, half corned beef monstrosity stacked with nearly 8-inches of meat. It's normal to ask for extra bread and break this down into several merely large sandwiches.
I've been to the Carnegie Deli many times over the past few decades, so I often try to range further afield, since the menu is as vast as the food. There are also hot sandwiches with gravy, open- and closed-face sandwich platters; plates of smoked fish, salads of chicken, tuna, egg and shrimp served every imaginable way; entrée platters like a half roast chicken or beef short ribs; many hot dogs and wurst offerings; humongous pot meal soups; a full breakfast menu; burgers; seafood fried or broiled, and even potato skins. But the things to get here are things that are hard to get elsewhere. That would be the deli meats, starting with pastrami, which is the best, while the corned beef is good but not great. The other unique offerings are the Jewish traditional foods, including matzoh ball soup, knishes, blintzes, borscht, stuffed cabbage, kasha, gefilte fish, kreplach and potato pancakes, to name just a few. One worthy flavor combo worth considering in lieu of a sandwich is Chef Jeff's Favorite, an enormous knish butterflied and covered with pastrami or corned beef.
Among the expansive menu are some standouts, including the excellent pastrami and the superlative chicken soup, an awesomely rich broth that may be the best ever, poured over a bowlful of your choice of matzoh balls, noodles or kreplach (meat-filled Jewish wontons). The pickles are fantastic: sour and half-sour versions served whole (the sour are very sour). So are the egg creams, a nearly extinct and very old-school New York beverage treat that has nothing to do with egg. Rather it's chocolate syrup (Fox's U-Bet) mixed with milk and seltzer for a sort of lightly carbonated chocolate milk, very refreshing (they also serve vanilla egg creams).
Otherwise, expect that almost anything you order will be oversized, simple and across the board good but not great. Huge knishes (a bit too dry and crunchy outside), mounds of boiled perogen and dumplings stuffed with meat (sort of Jewish ravioli) are all hearty but bland. The potato pancakes come as a trio, each as big as a slab of veal parmesan. The knish is a meal in itself. The chicken soup left over in the tin pot after filling your first bowl is enough for a whole second meal. We went with six hungry adults and shared a combo sandwich, a regular sandwich and some Jewish specialties, and had plenty of food to spare.
Do leave room for the simply awesome cheesecake. The Carnegie Deli is famous for this and ships its cakes all over the world to satisfy cravings. Like the pastrami, this is a real New York specialty and serious fans may have a preferred competitor (S&S or Junior's) but for 99% of the visitors who walk through the door, this is the best they will ever have. The cheesecake with fresh strawberries is the best option, but make sure they have fresh berries, as the plain is better than the version with jarred strawberry goo.
What regulars say: "You go there for lunch and then you have your leftovers for dinner, so it's two meals in one. Before I moved to New York, I had never tasted anything like this pastrami," said Claire Hunter, who works in a midtown law firm.
Pilgrimage-worthy?: Yes – for an ultra-authentic and quintessentially New York experience you won't get at one of the city's many gourmet palaces.
Rating: Yum! (Scale: Blah, OK, Mmmm, Yum!, OMG!)
Price: $$ ($ cheap, $$ moderate, $$$ expensive)
Details: 854 Seventh Avenue, New York City; 212-757-2245; carnegiedeli.com/home.php
Larry Olmsted has been writing about food and travel for more than 15 years. An avid eater and cook, he has attended cooking classes in Italy, judged a BBQ contest and once dined with Julia Child. Follow him on Twitter, @TravelFoodGuy, and if there's a unique American eatery you think he should visit, send him an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Some of the venues reviewed by this column provided complimentary services.


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The single freestyle elimination was underway and the second round for the men began.
And without question the heat of the second round was Peter Tyushkevich (RU, FLEXIFOIL) and Michael Shitzhoffer (AUS, JN) who set a very high standard for the rest of the field. Leander Vyvey (BEL, JN) was in top form today and gave the crowd a super show, performing his "JESUS WALK" trick and progressing into the final to meet Mike Blomvall (SWE, NOBIL).
In the women's heat we had a huge semi-final match up between last year's KPWT champion, Ania Grezlinska (POL, NORTH) and 5x World Champion Gisela Pulido (SPA, MOVISTAR).
A skippers meeting was then held at 17h00 and the junior freestyle competition started.
What a great finish to the day watching the kids give their best! Look out for the party to be held at Tangana later tonight for a beach bash to remember!
Single Elimination Men:
1. Mike Blomvall (SWE, NOBILE)
2. Leander Vyvey (BEL, JN)
3. Alex Pastor (SPA, NAISH)
Single Elimination Women:
1. Ania Grezlinska (POL, NORTH)
2. Noelia Nunez (SPA, NAISH)
3. Kriss Kin (USA, BEST)


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Do I really have to leave? It's not that I don't want to come back, It's just that I don't want to leave. I don't even mind the rain. Thank goodness it is only Tuesday. I just hope I have enough polaroid to last me the week. I miss you guys.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Not Enough Polaroid in the World
10 comments:
- hrsj said...
i hope you have enough polaroid too; and we miss you
- April 29, 2008 at 5:23 PM
- jen said...
thanks for this little glimpse. hope you are having a wonderful time. miss you!
- April 29, 2008 at 6:01 PM
- Molly said...
Oh hello, Paris! Love seeing it through your eyes, Jen.
- April 29, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Golightly said...
My husband thought all Polaroids were horrible pictures - until he saw your work. He's a changed man.
Love the peek into your week. Travel safe.
- April 29, 2008 at 9:02 PM
- Lola Is Beauty said...
have a lovely time! Oh Paris on a rainy day...ooh Le Fumoir is a perfect place to go on a rainy day. (rue Admiral Coligny? It's a side street running down the side of the Louvre building - to the left of it if you're facing it from rue de rivoli anyway) looking forward to more polaroids...
- April 30, 2008 at 1:24 AM
- quaint handmade said...
love seeing paris through your photos. be sure to eat and shop too much!
- April 30, 2008 at 5:12 AM
- Elements of Style said...
tres, tres jealous. :) enjoy!
- May 1, 2008 at 11:56 AM
- boxfotos said...
It is great seeing Paris through your creative eye!
- May 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM
i just saw some of your pictures on flickr. heartbreakingly beautiful. hope you had a wonderful time. can't wait to see more polaroids.
- May 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- babelfish said...
Stunning collection of polaroids.
- May 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM


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Michigan State Protests Focus on Columnist George Will's Rape Stance, Women's Dignity
An honorary doctorate being awarded by Michigan State University to Washington Post columnist George Will at MSU's fall commencement ceremonies is the focal point of protests in East Lansing today.
More than 800 people had RSVP'd and were expected this morning for protests that were also held earlier this week, according to organizers.
The ignitor is that the protests organizers say Will, who taught at MSU briefly the 1970s. They claim Will has a history of provocative statements and writings compromising and discrediting the severity of rape.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon has released a statement saying that while the conservative Will's "visit will be painful for many, ... it does not mean the university wishes to cause survivors of sexual assault distress. And it does not mean we are backing away from our commitment to continuously improving our response to sexual assault."


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Namaste - supporting Child Rescue Nepal for almost 20 years.
About Child Rescue Nepal
Child Rescue Nepal frees children from slavery. In Nepal it is estimated that there are almost 100,000 children working in hazardous situations. These children are extremely vulnerable and suffer frequent physical, emotional and often sexual abuse.
In order to combat this, Child Rescue Nepal focuses on rescuing children from slavery as well as working hard to prevent the children of Nepal entering into slavery in the first place. The charity works with local police to raid factories, restaurants and hotels where children are being held captive. They take children to their safe house where they receive medical attention and counselling. Child Rescue Nepal provides food, clothing, education and a safe home until the children can be safely reunited with their families.
The charity believes that investing in ways to keep children in education is a crucial way of preventing children entering the slave trade. By providing bursaries, midday meals, taps and classrooms they ensure that schools are safe spaces where children want to be. In total, the charity have rescued 700 children and ensured that thousands more children have been kept in education. However their work is far from over. Their aim is to end child slavery in Nepal and they won't stop until every child is free.
Our Work
Namaste has been supporting and working closely with Child Rescue Nepal for more than 10 years. We regularly donate and raise money for the charity and in addition each time we pay our suppliers in Nepal, we donate 2% of the invoice total to Child Rescue Nepal.
We are currently sponsoring two children who were rescued by Child Rescue Nepal and are being looked after in a care home in Nepal that is run by the charity.
This year we are helping to support Rotary Srijan Primary School by raising money to provide midday meals where attendance in the afternoons is low, to encourage children to stay on for the afternoon sessions. As well as providing midday meals, Child Rescue Nepal will work with parents to encourage them to see the importance of a midday meal to their children's health and learning. It is a little known fact but children who are attending school are much less likely to be trafficked and end up in slavery. Providing midday school meals not only helps better children educationally, it keeps them safe from the tricks and tactics of traffickers.
If you would like to make a donation please visit our justgiving page:
We are so grateful for your continued support that enables us to help keep children safe in Nepal.
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Windows 8.1 For Dummies Cheat Sheet
The new tile-filled Start screen and apps in Windows 8 presented a huge shock to upgraders. Windows 8.1, by contrast, merely polishes many of the roughest edges found in Windows 8. Here are the biggest changes in Windows 8.1, the ways to find its hidden hotspots, and the tricks for using it on a touchscreen device (instead of the old familiar mouse and keyboard).
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5 Big Changes in Windows 8.1
Windows 8 created two separate worlds: the touch-oriented Start screen and the mouse-bound desktop. Windows 8.1 tries to blend those two worlds a little more evenly. Here are some of the biggest changes and improvements in Windows 8.1:
Windows 8.1 brings back the Start button. Windows 8 dropped the Start button, a mainstay of Windows for a decade. To eliminate one source of confusion, Windows 8.1 puts the Start button back in the screen's bottom-left corner. However, clicking it doesn't fetch the familiar desktop Start menu. No, the Start button simply returns you to the Start screen, that tile-filled launching pad for programs.
It's easier to stay on the Desktop. To stay on the desktop, right-click the desktop's Taskbar, choose Properties, and click the Navigation tab. There, you can choose to head straight for the desktop when signing in. You can also disable the top-corner pop-ups and show desktop programs first on the Start screen.
SkyDrive offers easy online storage. When you first sign in with a Microsoft account, Windows asks permission to begin storing your documents on SkyDrive, the Microsoft storage space in the cloud. SkyDrive, your new storage cubbyhole on the Internet, now appears in every folder's Navigation pane, making it easier to manage your files in the cloud.
Searching is more convenient. The Charms bar's Search icon no longer searches through your currently viewed app. Instead, it searches everywhere: your computer's files and settings, as well as the Internet itself.
Libraries have gone poof. Windows 8.1 drops libraries from the Navigation pane, although they can be turned back on by right-clicking a blank portion of the pane and choosing Show Libraries from the pop-up menu.
Finding Hidden Hotspots in Windows 8.1
Most apps in Windows 8.1 fill the entire screen. The full-screen view lets you concentrate on the information in front of you. But that also means you can't see any menus. When you need those menus — to switch between apps, close them, or change their settings — you need to find the hotspots in Windows 8.1. Each hotspot triggers a different reaction.
Windows 8.1 adds some quick pop-up tutorials to help you find the hotspots. (You must complete the tutorial to make it go away.)
The following three tables explain three methods of finding hidden hotspots in Windows 8.1: using a mouse, using a keyboard, or using your fingers on a touchscreen tablet or monitor.
For many people, the new Windows 8.1 Start screen is a distraction to be avoided. The sooner they move onto the desktop, the better. For moving quickly to the desktop, reposition the Desktop tile to the Start screen's top-left corner so it's the first app listed. Then, whenever you see the Start screen, just press Enter to head straight for the desktop.
|To Perform This Action . . .
|. . . Point the Mouse Here
|Return to the Start screen.
|Lower-left corner and then click the Start button.
|Choose from currently running apps.
|Upper- or lower-left corner and then slide the mouse pointer up
or down along the screen's left edge. Click an app's
thumbnail to return to it.
|Open the Charms bar.
|Lower- or upper-right corners.
|See options for current app.
|Right-click a blank part of the app's screen.
|To Perform This Action . . .
|. . . Press These Keys
|Open the Start screen.
|Windows key.
|Choose from currently running apps.
|Hold down Alt and press Tab repeatedly until you've
highlighted the desired app. Then release both keys.
|Open the Charms bar.
|Windows key and C.
|See the currently viewed app's menus.
|Windows key and Z.
|To Perform This Action . . .
|. . . Do This
|Open the Charms bar.
|Swipe from the right.
|Open the Start screen.
|Open the Charms bar and then tap the Windows icon.
|Cycle through last-used apps.
|Swipe from left and then tap the desired app.
|See options for current program.
|Swipe from bottom.
Windows 8.1 Touch and Mouse Commands
Windows 8.1 brings users into a new era of touchscreens, whether they're built into tablets, laptops, or even desktop monitors. When you're faced with a touchscreen device, these commands help you maneuver through Windows 8.1. (The term swipe simply means to slide your finger along the screen.)
Swipe from the right edge to see system commands: Swiping from the right side of the screen reveals the Charms bar. The Charms bar contains five icons that let you choose how to deal with what you're seeing onscreen. You can Search its material, Share it with others, return to the Start screen, send it to a Device (a second monitor or a printer), or see Settings for that particular item.
Mouse equivalent: Place the mouse pointer in the upper- or lower-right corner of the screen to summon the Charms bar and then click the desired icon: Search, Share, Start, Device, or Settings.
Swipe from the left edge: Swiping from the left brings up your last-used app. Also, swipe in from the left and then slide your finger back slightly to the edge; your previously used apps cling to the left edge as a strip, letting you tap the one you want to revisit.
Mouse equivalent: Place mouse pointer in upper-left corner to see last used program or app; slide the mouse down the left edge to see other recently used programs. Click the app or program to bring it to the forefront.
Press and hold: You can see detailed information without having to commit to an action. In some cases, pressing and holding opens a menu with more options.
Mouse equivalent: Hover the pointer over an item to see more options; if that doesn't work, click the mouse's right button.
Tap to perform an action: Tapping something causes an action, such as launching an app, following a link, or performing a command.
Mouse equivalent: Click an item to perform an action.
Slide to drag: This is mostly used to pan or scroll through lists and pages, but you can use it for other interactions, too, such as moving an object or for drawing and writing.
Mouse equivalent: Click, hold, and drag the item. A scroll bar often appears at a screen's edge, letting you shift your view by dragging the box embedded in the scroll bar.
Pinch or stretch: Place two fingers on the screen and then move them as if you were pinching or stretching a sheet of paper. The onscreen image expands or shrinks accordingly.
Mouse and keyboard equivalent: Hold down the control key on the keyboard while using the mouse wheel to grow or shrink an item on the screen.
Rotate to turn: Hold down two fingers onscreen and rotate them, just as if you were moving a sheet of paper on your desktop. As your fingers move, so does the onscreen object.
Mouse equivalent: None.
Swipe from the bottom or top edge for app commands: App commands are revealed by swiping inward about an inch from the bottom or top edge. Swiping from the very top to the very bottom of the screen lets you close the current app.
Mouse equivalent: Right-click a blank portion of the app to see the app's commands.


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Scores of residents of the northeastern Syrian city of Hassakeh took advantage Friday of a lull in fighting between Kurdish forces and Syrian government troops to flee to safer areas nearby, after fighting intensified the previous day with government warplanes bombing Kurdish-controlled positions in the city for the first time, activists and others said.
Also Friday, the Russian military said two of its ships launched cruise missiles at militant targets in Syria from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The development came after Russia this week began using Iranian territory to launch airstrikes in Syria, with Moscow's bombers flying out of the Islamic Republic for three straight days to hit targets in the war-ravaged country.
The missiles add an extra dimension to the aerial campaign Russia has conducted since September in support of President Bashar Assad's military.
Russia's Defense Ministry said that the Serpukhov and the Zeleny Dol corvettes launched three long-range Kalibr cruise missiles on Friday at the al-Qaida-linked militant group of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front. The ministry said that the missiles destroyed a command facility and a militant camp near Daret Azzeh along with a mine-making facility and a weapons facility in the province of Aleppo.
Russian warships have in the past launched cruise missiles at targets in Syria from both the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean, a show of the navy's long-range precision strike capability. Cruise missiles launched from Russian navy ships in the Caspian in October and November struck targets in Syria while in December, a Russian submarine also launched cruise missiles at Syrian militants.
In Hassakeh, after dozens of townspeople fled, clashes broke out anew later on Friday, a Kurdish official said. An activist group said Syrian government warplanes launched more air raids on areas controlled by Kurdish fighters on Friday. Kurdish official did not immediately respond for questions about the air raids.
The fighting between the Kurdish troops and government forces could potentially open a new front in the Syrian civil war, now in its sixth year.
The area around Hassakeh had witnessed battles between the two sides in the past but this week's violence has been among the worst since Kurdish fighters took control of wide, predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria in 2012.
The main Kurdish force in Syria known as the People's Protection Units, or YPG, has been the main U.S.-backed force in Syria and the most effective force in fighting the Islamic State group.
Last week, the Syria Democratic Forces, a coalition led by the YPG, captured the former ISIS stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria under the cover airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that tracks the conflict, said the fighting first began Wednesday. So far, 16 people, including six women and children, have been killed on the Kurdish side. Five pro-government gunmen of the National Defense Force were killed as well, the Observatory said.
The Observatory said that Syrian warplanes struck areas under control of Kurdish fighters in Hassakeh, adding that there was no immediate word on casualties.
SDF official Nasser Haj Mansour told The Associated Press on Friday that the YPG fighters captured several areas, including the wheat silos and the economics college, and that the Kurdish troops were advancing in the central neighborhoods of Ghweiran and Nashwa.
"We are fighting mercenaries," he said, referring to pro-government gunmen fighting alongside Assad's forces.
Recently, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif travelled to Turkey for talks with Turkish officials while Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Tehran on Thursday. Both countries pledged greater cooperation on resolving the Syria crisis, despite the fact they support opposing sides in the war — Iran is a staunch Assad ally while Ankara backs Syria's rebels and Asad's rivals.
However, Turkey and Iran have large Kurdish communities and both appear to be concerned about Syria's Kurds gaining more areas under their control on the border with Turkey. Ankara also considers the YPG a terrorist organization because of its links to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
Jwan Mohammed, a former Kurdish official, said there was intense fighting overnight. A relative calm on Friday morning prompted scores to flee, mostly to nearby towns of Qamishli and Amouda. Speaking from Qamishli, he said that there were calls through mosques loudspeakers for the evacuation of civilians stuck in the areas of fighting.
The Observatory also reported residents were fleeing the city before clashes picked up again in the afternoon.
YPG spokesman Redur Khalil denounced Thursday's government air raids on Hassakeh as an act of "suicide," adding that Assad's forces would be held accountable for these "brutal, blatant attacks against our people."
Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report from Moscow.


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If you think that you have to have Visual Studio .NET in order to develop in .NET, you are in for a pleasant surprise. Mono - in Spanish the word means monkey, in geek-speak it means choice. Either way, it is most assuredly a good thing. Mono is an open source, free implementation of the .NET Framework. On May 4, 2004, the Mono project released the first public beta of their work.
A few days after I completed my previous article - hello, world - a primitive view of the state of the art, the Mono Beta 1 was released, and I wanted so badly to include a HelloMono example in my article. The only problem was that I absolutely couldn't get Mono to work on my system. Now, I am about as tech savvy as they come. I run Windows XP, Windows 2000, Solaris 10 (Software Express), Libranet, FreeBSD, and Whitebox (basically Redhat Enterprise), and occasionally a half dozen other OSes, all on the same box. When in Windows, I have Cygwin with XFree86 available and in constant use. I thought Mono would be a breeze to setup, after all it has a windows installer. Not so, I am afraid. However, all hope is not lost - it is a few days later and I have figured out how to make Mono purr, and it runs fine. Thanks to the open source community, I was able to add a bug report to the project and while the bug is still open, some kind soul posted a reasonable workaround that got me up and running.
First, here is what got me started on the whole hello, world kick again after all of these years. Kernighan and Ritchie's ubiquitous "The C Programming Language" is considered by many to be the most influential programming book of our time. Written in 1978, it immortalized the now well known phrase - "hello, world". The book states that "hello, world" is the basic hurdle to learning all languages: "to leap over it you have to be able to create the program text somewhere, compile it successfully, load it, run it, and find out where your output went. With these mechanical details mastered, everything else is comparatively easy."
You need to have some perspective to truly appreciate this statement or you might be tempted to consider it overreaching. Dennis Ritchie designed the C programming language and it was the C language that made portability possible for the Unix operating system. Unix and Linux, Minix, BSD, OSX, YouNameItOS and even Windows owe a great debt of gratitude to the language. Even the language C# is a derivative of Ritchie's C. So when in his book, it says that "hello, world" is important, we should listen.
So it is that I have taken my inspiration from K&R's work. I can think of no better method to expose the foundations of the development environment even in the year 2004 than the old, "hello, world" approach.
This article is a "hello, world" tutorial for Mono running on Windows XP:
A basic understanding of .NET, the command-line, and working in Windows is assumed. Here are some good resources to help you get up to speed on these topics:
There are basically three required pieces to doing .NET development using Mono on Windows XP:
More information is available at: http:www.go-mono.com
Install Mono:
@echo off
set MONO_PATH=d:\mono\lib
set PATH=d:\mono\bin;d:\mono\lib;d:\ikvm\bin;d:\windows;
d:\j2sdk1.4.2_03\bin
echo mono environment established
mono environment established
error CS2008: No files to compile were specified
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
If the testing fails because of a System Assembly not found error - Using Explorer find all .dll files in the mono\lib\mono\gac directory and below and copy them to mono\lib
Usage is: mono [options] assembly
Runtime and JIT debugging:
--compile METHOD Just compile METHOD in assembly
--ncompile N Number of times to compile METHOD
 (default: 1)
--regression Runs the regression test contained
 in the assembly
Well, ok, it is not a requirement, but it will sure make things easier. Get it at http://ultraedit.com/. If you do not have a decent text editor, Notepad will work ok.
You should now be set up to develop with the Mono on the command-line.
This is a very simple tutorial and does not pretend to exercise Mono to its fullest.
OK, let's get started. What are the goals? Borrowing directly from Kernighan and Ritchie, these will be our goals for this tutorial:
In order to create the program text, you will need to use a text editor of some sort. I prefer using UltraEdit, although Textpad or Notepad will work as well. Do not even bother with Word or Wordpad, these are arguably word processors and they tend to do funny things to text files. Fire up the editor and you will be ready to begin.
Here is K&R's "hello, world" C program in all its splendor, it is the model I am replicating, so I feel it is fitting to include it here:
// reader Ryan Beesley noticed that the original quote lacked an include
// needed to compile so I added the following include - it is not part
// of the original K&R hello, world program
#include "stdio.h"
printf("hello, world\n");
The C#.NET code that is required to print "hello, world" to the console is similarly simple:
1 using System;
3 namespace mynamespace {
4 public class HelloWorld {
5 public static void Main(string [] args) {
6 Console.WriteLine("hello, world");
7 }
8 }
9 }
Line 1 This is a using directive that tells the compiler that we will be referencing objects that are included in the System namespace. According to Microsoft, "The System namespace contains fundamental classes and base classes that define commonly-used value and reference data types, events and event handlers, interfaces, attributes, and processing exceptions." For our purposes, the System namespace provides the handy, dandy Console object that will allow us to print "hello, world" to the console.
Line 2 This is an empty line :) White-space, space, tab, carriage return, etc. in code (not strings) is generally considered insignificant, I tend to think of white-space as condensing to a single space or blank line.
Line 3 This is a namespace directive that tells the compiler to segregate our code in its own namespace semantically. This is not really required here, but it is good form. If you put any classes that you create in your own namespace, you will not be bitten by namespace collisions down the road. A namespace collision is what happens when there exist two semantic elements that have the same name. For instance, let's say that I create a class called Car and somewhere else within the same project someone else also creates a Car class. If I include both classes in my project, their names will collide unless they are in their own namespaces.
Line 4 This is the class declaration, our class is publicly accessible and is called HelloWorld
Line 5 The Main method. Console applications are required to have a Main method. The Main method is the method that will be executed by the operating system when the program is loaded and run. Main is public and static, it does not return anything and it takes an array of strings as arguments. static basically means that the method can be called without instantiating a HelloWorld object. The arguments are include by convention, we will not be passing in any arguments.
Line 6 "hello, world" gets printed by this call to the Console object's WriteLine method which writes the argument to the console followed by a carriage return.
Line 7 End of the Main method.
Line 8 End of the HelloWorld class definition
Line 9 End of the namespace
Save the file to your hard drive as HelloMono.cs and open a command prompt.
Compile the application using the Mono C# compiler:
mcs HelloMono.cs
This should produce output similar to the following, without error.
Compilation succeeded
Compiling the application will generate an executable named HelloMono.exe
Loading and running the program are accomplished in a single step.
mono HelloMono.exe
Console output is incredibly easy to find. Generally, it appears on the line immediately following the command itself. Running the program should produce the following output:
hello, world
Congratulations, you have completed the HelloMono tutorial. Now I know what some of you are thinking, "It took nine lines to produce the same output K&R did in four? Ha! Gotcha, I knew .NET was lame." Well, it is not that simple. Here is a minimalist C#.NET HelloWorld console example for the purist:
1 class HelloWorld {
2 public static void Main(string [] args) {
3 System.Console.WriteLine("hello, world");
4 }
5 }
It is still bigger than the K&R version, but not by much.
That's it, really - not radically different than the same example using the .NET Framework. Give Mono a shot, it is worth a little investment of time to have a choice.
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Indonesian Accounting <t4Vifc**i$ ISKVM By HENDRA DARMAWAN/Managing Partner, Darmawan & Co., Jakarta, Indonesia and DANIEL D O R I A N / Supervisor, TRI, Jakarta It's not all "debet" and "kredit" when an "akuntan" computes the "amortisasi" in accordance with "Prinsip- Prinsip Akuntansi Indonesia." Even the "konsolidasi" or "kas" (cash) and "bursa" (bourse) still rings with a familiar tone. It's only when we get to the "laporan keuangan" (financial statements) and the "aktiva tetap" (fixed assets) that we come to a realization that somehow Indonesian accounting and auditing is not directed from Stamford, New York City, or Washington,D.C. Three Influences Indonesian accounting and auditing practices reflect indigenous, Dutch, and American influences. The ten basic Indonesian auditing standards, for example, are almost a direct translation of the ten basic American standards. Similarly, Indonesian accounting principles list six key sources, four of which were published by the AICPA. The others are Australian and Dutch. The Dutch influence is based on the colonial era, which officially ended with independence being declared on August 17,1945, but in practice continued into the 1950's and beyond—much as British influence in the United States carried forward well beyond July 4, 1776. The indigenous influence, which is the most important, is not the product of a separate stream of accounting and auditing theory but is based on an adaptation of borrowed business traditions to the economic and cultural realities of Indonesia. Due to these factors, most of the major public accounting firms in Indonesia have expatriate advisors—from their international associates—working with them. With most of these advisors being Australian, American, or from the Philippines, the so-called "Anglo-Saxon" system is, as a practical matter, the major external influence on the scene today. The Indonesian Influence Another way of evaluating these influences is to categorize them in terms of time—that is, historical, colonial, and modern. The historic principles are those time-honored beliefs imbedded in the cultural habits of Indonesia: the desire to please, an oriental approach to defining truth, and respect for position and hierarchies. The colonial concepts are those surviving from the first prolonged exposure of Indonesia to European commerce, although many of these concepts have since been discarded or updated. One example of a concept which remains, is an emphasis on accuracy, which shows up in financial statements, bank statements, and tax assessments carried out to the hundredth of a Rupiah, a unit (U.S. $.0024) which is no longer circulated. The stress on legal form over substance is another such concept, although it has since been modified in western economies. As for modern concepts, they are readily seen in the direct borrowing of U.S. audit standards, the existence of computers, and the use of U.S. accounting textbooks. Essentially, trying to understand a third world economy means grasping how the latest in modern technology has been blended with local cultural patterns and the preexisting infrastructure. For example, the pace of change, as modern ideas impact the existing fabric, is necessarily uneven. It is at once too fast and too slow, since the slow pace at which foreign business methods can be fitted into the existing environment often makes even new ideas out of date. Finding a successful middle way that does not settle for a poor copy, but creates a new and better version, is the main task of technology transfer. The American Influence The influence of American accounting in Indonesia became significant in 1958, when Indonesia was having difficulties with the Dutch government and expelled Dutch nationals from within its borders. The University of Indonesia replaced the Dutch accounting faculty with Americans, who brought along their GAAP and GAAS to teach what they knew best. Although the Americans were gradually replaced by Indonesian faculty, the American concepts took hold and grew in influence,sothat by 1973 Indonesian Prinsip-Prinsip Akuntansi and Norma-Norma Pemeriksaan (pemeriksaan means "examination") were heavily based on the American system. By 1977 most of the major Indonesian universities teaching accounting were following the American system. Banners posted over streets to advertise private bookkeeping courses now exclaim "Akuntansi-Sistim Amerika." The newsletter of the Indonesian Accountants Institute (restricted to registered public accountants) borrows heavily today from the Journal of Accountancy of the AICPA. Most 26
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Oh gosh, I think I'm in trouble.
It's been several months since I last posted. I've been a bit busy in life sorting things out and forging in new directions. Over the time I've been away, I've traveled a little and even managed to win the first-ever 2012 United States AeroPress Championship (I'll post more on that later), but for the most part, I've been home focusing on Spro and honing our skills. That means I've been home now for over three months and not only am I just starting to feel the call of The Road, I'm noticing that my soap supply is starting to get alarmingly low.
For the last seven years or so now, I've been mainly supporting my soap habit (and I do bathe regularly, just in case you were wondering) through my travels. I've amassed a nice collection of soaps from luxury hotels to cheap motels that continually remind me of fond memories from past trips. It's interesting to see the kind of toiletries a hotel chooses to provide for their guests and I find equally interesting to compare them. Of course, one of my favorite soap makers is L'Occitane, but I've been saving those for when my supply of hotel soap has been depleted and it's getting dangerously close.
What does that mean? It means I need to hit the road - and soon. Home is nice but it's best framed from afar and I can't wait to get back out there next month and get back to the life!


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Imperial Summer Villa is located in the city of Chengde in northeastern Hebei Province. It is China"s largest imperial garden. The Summer Villa can be divided into two parts: the palace area and garden area. The former was located in the southeast part of the Mountain Resort.
Hebei located at Beijing, the Tianjin two city's periphery, was the national capital important place since old times. As the Qing Dynasty imperial family "the picnic" the place, northeast Hebei Province's Chengde is one which of historical cities our country names most early, here has the Qing Dynasty biggest imperial family historic garden Chengde summer resort, the Chinese biggest imperial family temple group - - "Waibamiao", Qing Dynasty imperial family You Lie place - - Lily magnolia yard. Hebei is China's cultural relic big province, has country key Cultural relic preservation organ 58, is the national first place, famous also has Handan Zhao Wangcheng the ruins, the She County Wa imperial palace, the sound hall mountain rock cave, Baoding Chihli governor bureau, the ancient lotus pond, clear Xiling, Tangshan clear Dongling, the Cangzhou iron lion, the Dingzhou tower, Zhaozhou Bridge, the Zhengding Longxing Temple and so on. In the long historic monuments' behind, Hebei Province also many have the scenery beauty the natural landscape: Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao Nadaihe and the Tangshan coast's natural seashore scenery, on the vast sublime dam the prairie, the rural feeling day becomes the Laishui Yesanpo, precipitous does not lose elegant Zhangshiyan ......The mountain, the water, prairie each kind of view serve as contrast to become, was "Land of Yan and Zhao" has increased many colors. Some areas ancient are Jizhou, therefore is called Hebei. Hebei is situated at shore of North China, the Bohai Sea, around capital Beijing, suburb Tianjin. When Spring and Autumn Period Warring States for swallow, the Zhao place, when Chinese, Jin sets at Hebei, quiet two states, Tang Shuhe the Beidao, the Yuan is the secretariat, clearly is the national capital, clear is Chihli, in 1928 the beginning called Hebei Province. Presently governs 11 locally administered levels, 22 county-level cities, 109 counties, 6 autonomous counties. more than 60 city county opening to the outside world. Entire province area 187693 square kilometers. Has nationalities and so on Han Nationality, Hui tribe, Manchu nationality.


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The Phillies threw Cole Hamels a nice bone yesterday as they announced a one year, $15 million dollar deal with him. Considering that Cole made $20.5M over the last three seasons from 09-11 in total, you can believe that Hamels is a very happy guy this morning.
Hamels is a good pitcher, but is he a great pitcher? At 28 years old, he is certainly the youngest of the Phillies aces currently on the team. He is also a World Series MVP, from the 2008 World Series. Cole Hamels isn't on the sure road to the Hall of Fame though yet, and he does have his weaknesses.
The most amount of games that Cole Hamels has ever won in his 6 year career so far is 15 games in 2007. His average record for all years of his career is 14-10 per season. His average ERA is 3.39 over six years as well.
Hamels doesn't give up on the mound, he has been seen as improving. He had trouble with keeping his emotions in check in key moments on the mound, you can see his face change and then usually it won't be long until he is taken out of the game. He's worked on that, and has gotten a little better but it's still there.
This year should be interesting to see how Cole pitches, he can write his own check with a great year for his next contract. Has he been awesomely lights out when he pitches for the Phillies? At times he has, and at times he hasn't. A pitcher that hasn't won more than 15 games in a season is just that, you can't read too much more into the fact that Hamels is an extremely good pitcher but is he great?