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As an aside...last Monday, Miles had a little work done on him "manhood" so that he could go to the bathroom better. It was just a minor outpatient procedure, but still. Then we had Sadie in the hospital for 4 days. And now Noah! So just in case you are the counting kind of person- yes, that is all three kids admitted into the hospital in 7 days. Oh yeah, and somewhere in the middle of that, we also found out about Miles' tuberculosis. Sadie and Noah sat on the couch tonight and compared IV bruises and that is just not normal! Kind of makes me feel like I need to cuss. *MOTHERFART*
So we got Noah to the ER and they got him hooked up to an IV and sent him off to get an ultrasound of his tummy. Then after waiting an eternity, they finally put him under and took him back to surgery. It was a twenty minute procedure that just went perfectly. They got the hernia repaired and stitched him back up and sent us on home. Within an hour, the boy was begging for McDonald's, so I think he's going to be okay. He's just on light activity for 3-4 weeks. (which for a 3 year old, sensory-seeking boy may be a difficult task!)
I am trying to count my blessings that none of the things that my kids have had to be hospitalized for this week were very major. But oh my Lord! I would so love a break! I feel like I am sooooo due for a lucky streak. Or just a normal streak. Well, hell. At this point I'd take any kind of streak other than the one we're on. However, I have learned over the last week the importance of asking for help. All of my poor kids have been shuffled around to the ends of the earth, just depending on which one was in the hospital at the time. And while it has been hard on them, I am so grateful for how many wonderful people we had helping us- whether it was taking care of the kids, or dropping off groceries, or coordinating emails and phone calls, or just calling to encourage us and pray for us. I am so appreciative of all of it.
So now- whichever one of you out there is torturing your little voodoo dolls that look like the Terry family- QUIT ALREADY. We can't take anymore! We are tired, doggone it! So now I'm off to bed to recuperate until the next drama, which hopefully won't happen until sometime in 2068.
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Wednesday grains started the day sharply lower only to reverse during the first part of the session and trade higher. March corn finished 12 ¾ higher, March Wheat ¾ lower, and January Soybeans 10 ½ higher.
The market remains choppy as traders continue to look at tight supplies and weather concerns as the support. Outside market forces and profit taking are seen as resistance. The ethanol subsidy extension is still unknown which may also play a major role in keeping the markets resisted in the short-run. The funds are still the major market movers as it was estimated they bought 7,000 contracts of corn, 1,000 contracts of Wheat, and 1,500 contracts of soybeans by mid-day. Ten cent moves have become the norm and it looks like volatility has only been increasing.
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For corn they are expected to drop the ending stocks from November's estimate of 827 million bu to the average analyst estimate of 806. The range is between 672-877.
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Wheat ending stocks are expected to drop from 848 million bu in November to 839. The range is between 764-938.
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The Skatalites 2005 tour line-up left to right: Devon James (guitar) Ken Stewart (keys & organ) Val Douglas (bass) Doreen Shaffer (Vocals) Kevin Batchelor (trumpet) Karl Bryan (tenor sax) Vin Gordon (trombone) Lloyd Knibb (drums) Lester Sterling (alto sax).
More than a band, the Skatalites were and are an institution, an aggregation of top-notch musicians who didn't merely define the sound of Jamaica, they were the sound of Jamaica across the '50s and '60s. Although the group existed in its original incarnation for less than 18 months, members brought their signature styles to hundreds upon hundreds of the island's releases. The Skatalites officially lined up as guitarist Jerome "Jah" Jerry" Hinds, bassist Lloyd Breyett, teenaged pianist Donat Roy "Jackie" Mittoo, drummer Lloyd Knibbs. Trumpeter Johnnie "Dizzie" Moore, Cuban-born tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook, alto saxophonists Lester Sterling and Cuban born Roland Alphonso, and trombonist Don Drummond.
Moore, McCook, Sterling and Drummond were all alumni of the Alpha Cottage School for Boys, an educational institution for troubled and troublesome boys in Kingston, run by the Catholic diocese. Besides the regular lashings of studies, the school was renowned for its music program, and over the years turned hundreds of wayward boys into performers of note. All four ended up playing the hotel circuit, churning out R&B and jazz covers for the tourists
Prior to the late '50s, this was Jamaica's only real music industry outside the mento scene, and as there were no local record labels, resorts were the only way for musicians to seriously ply their trade. The hotel bands were an ever-shifting conglomerate of players, but over time, they would crisscross each other's paths so often, that all became familiar with everyone else's style. Knibbs and Drummond, for example, had both once played with Eric Dean's Band. When Knibbs departed for the Sheiks he joined a lineup that included Mittoo and Moore. However, new career opportunities presented themselves when local businessmen Duke Reid and Clement "Coxsonne Dodd" both launched record labels and the era of the session men arrived in Jamaica.
Although both McCook and Alphonso had previously cut acetates, this was the first time any of the future Skatalites would appear on vinyl. Between 1959, when Reid released his first vinyl single, and 1962, most of the band's future members worked regularly at Reid's Treasure Isle studio, playing on a swathe of R&B, boogie, and ballad releases. The Heartbeat label's Ska After Ska After Ska bundles up an album's worth of this early material, as does the Dutch label Jamaica Gold, on Shuffle 'n'Ska Time.
In 1962, Coxsonne opened his own Studio One recording studio, and the future Skatalites now quickly gravitated in his direction as well. Joining them was McCook, who'd missed all the previous action, having left Jamaica in 1954 to join the house band at the Zanzibar Club in Nassau. The studio was inaugurated with the release of the album James Jamaica from the Workshop, which featured McCook, Alphonso Drummond and guitarist Ernest Ranglin, amongst others.
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With the growth of Dodd's Studio One label, the group soon found themselves with almost more gigs than they could handle, touring the island as the backing band for most of the label's artists, whilst also performing on-stage themselves. It must have been grueling, the constant driving to and from venues and playing a minimum of two sets a night, but in truth, the Skatalites were having a whale of a time. And in between the gigs, the band seems to have spent virtually all their waking hours recording.
Besides working for Dodd and Reid, the group also played on a multitude of records for Prince Buster and Duke & Justin Yap. The actual number of recordings they performed on is anyone's guess, an approximation made more difficult by the fact that the musicians normally went un-credited on the singles themselves. To add to the confusion, the Skatalites in the studio could be any of a number of musicians, not just the aforementioned lineup. Guitarist Ranglin, pianist Gladstone Anderson, trombonist Rico Rodriguez, and trumpeter Baba Brooks are just a few of the many men who took part in the Skatalites recording sessions.
So what actually defines a Skatalites record? Many of their recordings were understandably released under the vocalist's name, not theirs. But what of Prince Buster's U.K. smash "Al Capone"? Buster may have intoned the title across the track, but wasn't it the Skatalites who truly made the song? Even amongst the group's own repertoire, the records were credited to the composer, not the band. Thus, the seminal "Guns of Navarone" was originally released under Roland Alphonso's name, not the Skatalites'. Modern archivists have attempted to address these injustices with compilations featuring the band, regardless of original accreditation. The West Side label's Skaravan - Top Sounds From The Top Deck, for example, is currently into the eighth CD of their Skatalites' compilations, all taken from their sessions for the Yap brothers, while Heartbeat's Foundation Ska bundles up a batch of Studio One cuts. Thankfully, the members' styles are so unique, as to be instantly recognizable within a few notes. In truth, most ska compilations are awash in the members' music, credited or not. That bouncy swing tempo, the jazzy brass, and the steady, skanking beat, all shout the Skatalites louder than any written credit, as easily heard on the vocal releases as on their own instrumentals. But the instrumentals were the group's glory. Songs like "Guns of Navarone," "Phoenix City," "Addis Ababa," "Silver Dollar," "Corner Stone," and "Blackberry Brandy," to name just a small handful of their most seminal cuts, not only defined the island's sound, but created a whole new genre of music — ska. The group have often been quoted as saying their invention of ska was never intentional, but merely the byproduct of their flawed attempts at American R&B. But this self-deprecating explanation neglects the jazz and big band swing sound that was also crucial to ska in its original form. And anyone good enough to play in those styles would have little problem mastering R&B. What the Skatalites actually did was drag these older styles into the contemporary scene, merge it with modern R&B, and propel it into the mainstream via a faster syncopated island beat. And with it, the group's musical legacy spread around the world and across generations.
But that must have seemed ridiculous at the very end of 1964. The Skatalites were playing at the La Parisienne club in Harbour View for New Year's Eve, a show that went on without Drummond. The trombonist had a history of mental illness and late that night, in a fit of rage, he stabbed his common-law wife and band vocalist, Marguerita, to death. Drummond was arrested and sent to Bellevue Sanitarium, where he died in 1969. The Skatalites continued on for six more months after this tragedy, but the spark was dying with it, and finally in July 1965, the members called it quits.
Several from the group continued playing together. Alphonso, Moore, Mitton and Brevett eventually formed the Soul Brothers, which later become the Soul Vendors. McCook formed the Supersonics, which was virtually Reid's house band at Treasure Isle Studio, and Sterling went off to work with producer Sir Clancy Collins. As their session work continued apace, inevitably many of the former members found themselves back working together. Then in 1975, most of the Skatalites reunited to record Brevett's solo album, African Roots. McCook, Alphonso, Sterling, Ranglin, Mittoo and Knibbs all took part in the proceedings. Two years later, the Hot Lava album appeared, credited to Tommy McCook & the Skatalites, but in contrast to Brevett's "solo" album, this really was one. 1978's Jackie Mittoo may sound like a solo outing by the pianist, but actually features a clutch of former Skatalites. That same year, Island head Chris Blackwell convinced the members to reconvene again and recorded the Big Guns album. However, due to discord between the label man and McCook, the record sat on the shelf until 1984, when it was finally released as Return of The Big Guns. The previous year, the group had again reunited under the aegis of producer Bunny Lee for the Skatalites with Sly and Robbie and the Taxi Gang.
It took a few more years for the members to finally agree they were a band again; in 1986 they made it official and began gigging regularly. In 1989, they toured the world as Bunny Wailer's backing band, and the next year performed the same service for Prince Buster. In 1993, an album of new material, Skayooyee, finally appeared. Now boasting a core lineup of McCook, Brevett, Sterling and Knibbs, the album was highly acclaimed. Their timing was perfect as the U.S. was in the grips of ska fever, and the band's constant touring abroad had cemented a worldwide following. Over the intervening years the Skatalites had returned to their jazz roots. Alphonso now permanently rejoined the Skatalites for 1994's Hi- Bop Ska: The 30th Anniversary Recording, which also featured such illustrious guests as former vocalist Doreen Schaeffer, Prince Buster and Toots Hibbert, and an all-star gathering of jazz musicians. The album deservedly earned the band their first Grammy nomination.
Even McCook's heart attack in 1995 barely slowed the group down. The band continued their hectic touring schedule without him until the tenor saxophonist rejoined them early the next year. However, even though he was forced off the road for good due to health problems a few weeks later, he was still able to record, and 1996's excellent Greetins From Skamania remains a tribute to his determination, and earned the group a second Grammy nomination. On May 5, 1998, the legendary saxophonist passed away; he was 71. Later that year, the Skatalites released Ball of Fire, on which the band re-created many of their old ska hits in their newer jazz style. That autumn, Alphonso collapsed on-stage at Hollywood's Key Club. He slipped into a coma soon after, and on November 20, he, too, died. But no matter how great the contributions of individual members, the Skatalites were always greater than the sum of their parts, and thus the band carried on. In 2000, they released Bashaka and their touring schedule continues unabated. Each year brings another slew of compilations of their recordings from labels around the world. Decades on, their music remains timeless.
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What did we get when we combined MakerPlace and its rock star makers along with Westfield Mission Valley's DIY fest this past month? A DIY masterpiece, that was a filled with creative minds and maker enthusiasts that came out and showed their support.
MakerPlace and its members, their family and friends, made a hard hitting impact on the fest as a whole. The success of our amazing participants and members who sold their creations brought an outpour of inventors and curious mall-goers, ready to dive into the unique and inventive products available for purchase.
Vendors from MakerPlace displayed unique products at booths that inevitably dominated an entire wing of the Fest and were the obvious highlight of the event. Undeniably it was a great opportunity for MakerPlace and our members to gain a lot of exposure to a broad crowd; creating the perfect environment for selling their wares to anyone with an eye for creativity and a needs for all things DIY.
A big congratulations goes out to Pat Downing for landing a large commission sculpture, the Lucero's for their success with the Back Sedator, and Dan Gunn for taking his laser skills to the next level and turning out an entire booth of productless than 2 weeks
If you missed out on this event, don't worry, there are still more DIY opportunities to be had! Make sure to find us creating a buzz at the MakerPlace pop-up store in the UTC mall located in La Jolla the week after Thanksgiving where we will be exhibiting more self-made products by our members, just in time for the holidays! And be sure to keep your eyes and ears open for another DIY fest in early 2013.
We will be holding another "Open House" (a.k.a. the Maker Meet and Greet) for the general public on June 9 and 10 from 10a.m. to 4p.m. This is an opportunity to introduce prospective members to the extensive MakerPlace facility (many of our current members found MakerPlace through our previous open house events) and the many creative projects being developed by our members. We encourage anyone with a project–completed or not– to display, sell and/or explain it during the event. We are hoping for more media coverage, so have your TV face on. Many of the big tools will be periodically demoed throughout the day. Members are welcome to work regular hours (9a.m. - 9p.m.) but, during the open house, the use of power tools will be restricted and be used for demonstrations. We appreciate your understanding and patience. Upon request, we will offer extended hours those days for anyone who absolutely, positively needs to get some work done … just contact the front desk, Brian, Michael or Steve.
Refreshments will be available during the Open House. This includes free beverages for all our members and, as a small token of our appreciation, free lunch for all Pioneers who flash their badges and for those individuals who conduct the tool demonstrations. Lunch will be available from the renowned MIHO Gastrotruck.
We will be also offering membership specials during the event:
(1) New member will save 10% off membership list prices during the weekend event only
(2) If a member brings a buddy and the buddy signs up for a month or more, both will get a $50 credit AND both get lunch. We appreciate any and all referrals.
(3) If a member upgrades to a Pioneer or Volume12 level, in addition to a great deal, we will also throw in a $50 credit as well as a free lunch. We appreciate the confidence and support of all our members and we hope to close admittance to the Pioneer program at this event.
Rocket Scientist Holder's Dad and MakerPlace member, Wayne Holder is competing
June 15th in Sparkfun's (sparkfun.com/products/11069) autonomous vehicle competition in Boulder, CO with his GPS guided
remote control car.
Happy Owl Studios successfully demonstrated their integrated iPad controlled cash drawer and has offered it for sale on http://www.happyowlstudio.com/ . Check it out! If your business (or someone you know) needs a classy way to handle retail transactions (cash and/or credit cards), this is a totally cool solution
MakerPlace partner FabLab San Diego was awarded an "Editor's Choice" award for their exhibit in the "The Future of Education" area at the Bay Area Maker Faire last month. The MakerPlace staff visited their area and it was packed with enthusiastic young students interacting with the many educational exhibits. Well Done!
Chris Schaie (MakerPlace Pioneer and CNC instructor) demonstrated his
Our thanks to all the MakerPlace members who turned out at 5:30am to meet the KUSI News Team. We know the publicity will be good for us and we hope it benefits your companies as well. If you didn't catch us on TV we've shared links for the segments on our Facebook page, so be sure and check it out.
Give the Gift of MakerPlace
By popular request, the front desk is offering MakerPlace Gift Certificates in any amount. They are the perfect gift for Father's Day, important teachers, new graduates, students looking for a productive summer or anyone interested in learning a new skill such as embroidery, quilting, welding, arduino or 3D modeling.
Up for a Challenge?
Steve has launched The Instructables Challenge! A $150 MakerPlace Gift Certificate goes to the FIRST MakerPlace member who successfully publishes an "instructable" that references MakerPlace on instructables.com and a $50 gift certificate goes to EVERY additional instructable referencing MakerPlace for all of 2012. Just document your work with a few pictures and claim your
reward and bragging rights. See instructables.com for submission details. This challenge is open to MakerPlace staff too, so get it into gear!
New Classes
Starting in June, we are pleased to announce two new classes …
Pat Downing, an award winning artist and MakerPlace Member, is going to deliver a unique course entitled "Introduction to BandSaw Boxes." This two-part course will give you the basic techniques to make unique, beautiful and functional boxes using just a bandsaw and a sander. During the first part of the course, Pat demonstrates a variety of techniques and results. The second part makes Pat available for one-on-one consultation and resolution of issues. During the two parts, students have the opportunity to select unique materials and create a design. Due to the need to practice between class sessions this course is open to members only unless they have a bandsaw at home.
Rick Schnieder will be delivering a course teaching the safe use of an oxy-acetylene welding torch. Major techniques of welding, cutting and brazing will be demonstrated then performed by students. Students will become proficient in the safe use of the welding apparatus and become knowledgeable of the various techniques available using a welding torch. Methods to be explored will be oxy-acetylene welding of mild steel, using the cutting torch to cut shapes from mild steel and brazing mild steel and copper. During a follow-up advanced course, Rick will teach the use of the torch in artistic efforts.
Additionally, FabLab San Diego has rescheduled their Printed Circuit Board (PCB) milling class for the June 23. If you need a fast, cheap way to fabricate single or double sided PCBs using the K2 precision CNC mill, sign up while slots are available. Bring your own circuit on EagleCad or Fritzing or use our Real Bare Bones Board (RBBB) Arduino template (see http://shop.moderndevice.com/products/rbbb-kit for a public domain schematic).
Thanks agin for all the support and we look forward to seeing you around.


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The Muslim American Society is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, out of which the genocidal terrorist group Hamas emerged. The Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society has been the source of local controversies involving the purported observance of Sharia in public facilities such as taxis based at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society also houses a Minnesota charter school in the Twin Cities suburb Inver Grover Heights. The school is Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy — named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain. As a charter school, Minnesota taxpayers foot the bill for it. Star Tribune metro columnist Katherine Kersten first wrote about the school after attending the MAS Minnesota convention:
At its 2007 convention, MAS-MN featured the notorious Shayk Khalid Yasin, who is well-known in Britain and Australia for teaching that husbands can beat disobedient wives, that gays should be executed and that the United States spreads the AIDS virus in Africa through vaccines for tropical diseases.
Yasin's topic? "Building a Successful Muslim Community in Minnesota."
Kersten discovered that TIZA is an intergral part of the Muslim community MAS is building in Minnesota. All or almost all of its students are Muslim, its principal is an imam, its sponsor is Islamic Relief-USA, and it sits in a building owned by, and shared with, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota as well as its Al-Aman Mosque.
TIZA's calendar and days are set up to accommodate Muslim students. School breaks for prayers at 1:00 in the carpeted prayer area in the middle of the school. TIZA's cafeteria is halal. Arabic as a second language is mandatory. According to a document filed by TIZA with the Minnesota Department of Education, it provides after-school (religious) instruction "conducted by various non-profit organizations" that is the main reason given by 77 percent of parents for sending their children to TIZA. The after-school instruction is overwhelmingly the primary reason given by parents for sending their children to TIZA.
The school's principal declined to meet with Kersten for an interview or allow her to visit the school in connection with her March 8 column. In today's column, Kersten reports from inside the madrassa courtesy of the eyewitness testimony of a substitute teacher:
Amanda Getz of Bloomington is a substitute teacher. She worked as a substitute in two fifth-grade classrooms at TIZA on Friday, March 14. Her experience suggests that school-sponsored religious activity plays an integral role at TIZA.
Arriving on a Friday, the Muslim holy day, she says she was told that the day's schedule included a "school assembly" in the gym after lunch.
Before the assembly, she says she was told, her duties would include taking her fifth-grade students to the bathroom, four at a time, to perform "their ritual washing."
Afterward, Getz said, "teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap, who had been at the school all day," was preparing to lead prayer. Beside him, another man "was prostrating himself in prayer on a carpet as the students entered."
"The prayer I saw was not voluntary," Getz said. "The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred."
Islamic Studies was also incorporated into the school day. "When I arrived, I was told 'after school we have Islamic Studies,' and I might have to stay for hall duty," Getz said. "The teachers had written assignments on the blackboard for classes like math and social studies. Islamic Studies was the last one — the board said the kids were studying the Qu'ran. The students were told to copy it into their planner, along with everything else. That gave me the impression that Islamic Studies was a subject like any other."
After school, Getz's fifth-graders stayed in their classroom and the man in white who had led prayer in the gym came in to teach Islamic Studies. TIZA has in effect extended the school day — buses leave only after Islamic Studies is over. Getz did not see evidence of other extra-curricular activity, except for a group of small children playing outside.
Relying on the same school report I obtained from the Minnesota Department of Education when I was working on "What is to be done?," Kersten notes:
Significantly, 77 percent of TIZA parents say that their "main reason for choosing TIZA … was because of after-school programs conducted by various non-profit organizations at the end of the school period in the school building," according to a TIZA report. TIZA may be the only school in Minnesota with this distinction.
Kersten's column strongly suggests that this public school's wildly popular religious instruction is not the school's only distinction, or even its most troubling. Muslim activists have found a workable seam in the purported separation of church and state in Minnesota. One does not need to engage in much speculation to foresee the day when Minnesota's burgeoning Muslim population will be educated in separate charter schools like TIZA at taxpayers' expense, where they will receive religious instruction courtesy of the likes of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.
What is an opponent of the phenomenon represented by TIZA to do? If TIZA's arrangement passes muster with state authorities — who are both asleep at the switch and unequipped to police an institution such as TIZA for legal comliance — an opponent is left with two options. One must either await judicial intervention at the behest of some party with standing to bring a lawsuit raising the obvious First Amendment issues, or one must work for the demise of charter schools.


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Honey, Stanley - 2012 Hall of Fame
Stanley Kohnen
"Stan" Honey
"In the stands at an NFL game I've heard a kid ask his father, 'Where's the yellow line?'"
April 8, 1955 —
Birthplace: Pasadena, California
Stan Honey is indelibly associated with the yellow first down line one sees on televised NFL games. But there's so much more. Honey's greatest achievement has been his ability to merge his electrical engineering genius that includes innovative breakthroughs in moving-map vehicle navigation, remote sensoring, and tracking and highlighting systems for sports, with his love of sailing.
Honey's sailing record is almost as impressive as his electronics breakthroughs that include the red and blue tails he attached to streaking hockey pucks, the tracking of NASCAR and IRL cars, and the strike zone showing pitch location in televised baseball games. He was a top sailor at Yale in the Class of '78. As navigator, he's won 11 of 22 Transpac races. He's held single- and double-handed as well as fully crewed Transpac records; won the Volvo Ocean Race ( ABN AMRO ONE , 2005-06); and broken the Jules Verne Circumnavigation record ( Groupama 3 , 2010) -- highlighting a score of other notable victories. In 2010, he was voted Rolex Yachtsman of the Year.
Most recently, Honey has come up with the impressive set of on-screen television graphics that has illuminated the complexities of the fleet and match racing by 45-foot catamarans competing in the 34th America's Cup World Series. For years, race promoters have tried and failed to make sailboat racing a spectator-friendly sport. With his creative use of a heady array of electronic tools, Stan Honey is on the verge of success. The key element in his display is a visual presentation of the boundaries that keep the fleet centered which adds an important tactical element.
Honey says his work in technology has a lot in common with a successful ocean racing team. "You have to trust one another to take on different bits, and trust everyone to ask for help when they need it. You're not cold and wet all the time, but in terms of team dynamics, it's all the same."
Honey's advice to Transpac sailors: "Pick your strategy and stick to it. Then whatever happens, make up your story for the Kaneohe Bar and stick to it."
- Roger Vaughan
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Links of Interest:
Interview with Stan Honey for YachtPals.com
Stan Honey - What is the America's Cup? - YouTube video
The Race to Modernize Sailing - Article in June 29, 2012 Wall Street Journal


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Contributing Author: Sean O'Shea
There is a lot of discussion in a range of national publications, right now, to acknowledge that we may be in a new era for Investors. The 10-Year Treasury Rates have moved past 3.0% for the first time since 2013. The yield curve of 2 Year and 10 Year has rarely been this close.
So, we ask, "What are the implications for the net lease niche?"
I confess that I am one of the observers who can remember how 'the music stopped' in 2008-2009, when Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, AIG and other august financial institutions stopped trusting each other and the overnight lending mechanisms of the Repo Market which had come to a halt. Scary times that required the triage of QE by the Federal Reserve and forced mergers of a number of banks and financial institutions to attempt to salvage our economy. As seasoned Net Lease Advisors we not only witnessed this, but were in the middle of it.
We have just completed a decade of historically low interest rates. The impact on the net lease sector has been profound. Immediately after the great recession, many retailers due to lack of credit access, had to restrain whatever may have been their prior expansion plans. So, in the net lease sector, there was a real-life "Supply Issue" with a more limited availability versus demand for net lease product.
But, slowly, gradually, a modest recovery began to take shape.
While many complained about the governmental monetary policies, in fact, the Federal Reserve had, effectively, subsidized the real estate industry with this extended period of low debt rates. Lenders were chastened, to a degree, in their underwriting. As access to debt began to take shape, a new era of 'shadow banking' debt sources began to fill some of the void.
A new generation of 'Build-to-Suit' developers appeared. In many cases, historical "For profit" developers and builders were reduced to functioning as 'Merchant Builders', working for mere fees, rather than a risk adjusted profit of old; but they were able to keep their construction crews working again.
With a deleveraging of outstanding credit by consumers and corporations, alike, we saw the dramatic expansion of the Dollar Stores and other retailers with funding by private equity and hedge fund players.
So, this set of market conditions, made net lease assets, closer to a 'Bond-equivalent" investment. There was a time when we would suggest that an acceptable net lease return was 10 Year T-Bill + 3.0%+/- as a risk-adjusted return.
As the economy began to limp back, limited supply was met with increased Capital Sources "chasing yields" and corresponding deals. This conspired with the IRC 1031 Tax-motivated investors, willing to swallow hard with these compressed cap rates to defer (avoid) their capital gain liability; in addition, US-based hard assets were increasingly viewed as a safe haven by Cross Border Investors who accepted modest returns for their invested capital…all of these factors have allowed the compressed cap rates to be sustained for almost 10 full years.
There was a recent interview with legendary investor, Jack Bogle of Vanguard, who was acknowledging the historic return cycle in the Equity Markets, during this same period, approaching 10% on average returns; but he cautioned it unlikely that these returns can be sustained in the next ten year period with increased interest rates and huge deficits on the horizon. His suggestion, tempered by the wisdom of his decades of experience in both good and more challenging times, was to expect returns closer to 3+ % going forward.
This might suggest that with the threat of exogenous events, whether generated from China Trade concerns; Middle East madness and conflict; Korean Peninsula challenges. U.S. mounting deficits will have a new importance as the euphoria and actual impact of the Tax and Jobs Act fades in our memory, NNN assets will serve as they always have, to produce predictable, stable income streams.
As we have stated in prior blogs, "Not all Net Lease are the same",so reviewing investment goals of acceptable income streams, Lease structure and terms, tenant credit and Location must all be evaluated to produce a fixed income alternative for high net worth investors in 2018 and beyond.
Sean O'Shea, Managing Director
The O'Shea Net Lease Advisory
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No. 16 Oregon beats Washington
Huskies commit season high 21 turnovers
Sat., Jan. 26, 2013
EUGENE — After a lackluster performance three days earlier against Oregon State, Washington coach Lorenzo Romar was pleased with the effort from his team on Saturday.
It just didn't lead to a different result.
The Huskies dropped their third straight Pac-12 game with an 81-76 loss to No. 16 Oregon, the top team in the conference.
"We did a lot of positive things and we had a heartbeat," Romar said. "I thought we brought more effort tonight."
Andrew Andrews scored 15, C.J. Wilcox added 14 points and Abdul Gaddy and Scott Suggs had 13 each for Washington (12-8, 4-3 Pac-12), which had a season-high 21 turnovers.
E.J. Singler had 18 points, Arsalan Kazemi added 11 points and 11 rebounds, and Carlos Emory also scored 11 for Oregon (18-2, 7-0), which won its 20th straight at Matthew Knight Arena in front of the first sellout (12,364) in two seasons.
The win, coupled with UCLA's loss to Arizona State on Saturday, gives the Ducks a two-game lead atop the Pac-12 standings.
"That's pretty good," Singler said. "We're just focused on winning each game especially at home."
Oregon was without point guard Dominic Artis, who is out indefinitely with a left foot injury. The freshman had started Oregon's first 19 games and averaged 10.2 points and a team-high 3.8 assists. He was also leading the team with 26 3-pointers before Saturday's game.
Junior Johnathan Loyd started in place of Artis and finished with nine points and five assists, including a half-court alley-oop pass to Emory for a dunk midway through the first half that put Oregon up 20-19.
Loyd also had five of the Ducks' 23 turnovers, including seven by Singler. But the Ducks outrebounded the Huskies 30-24 and scored 44 points in the paint to offset their season-low tying two 3-pointers on eight attempts.
"They drove us to the middle too much and that's something we talked about," Romar said. "We didn't want that to happen."
The Ducks also scored 27 points off turnovers, and had 10 on the fast break.
"The press really gave us a big boost there," Oregon coach Dana Altman said. "We didn't want to use it too much. I was a little worried about it, but it was very effective for us. No doubt it changed the momentum in the building."
Oregon led 37-33 at halftime but took control with a 7-0 run early in the second half.
Up 43-40, Willie Moore converted a three-point play after a layup in transition off a steal and assist from Singler, who then stole the inbounds pass and scored to make it 48-40.
Another Washington turnover led to a jumper by Singler and the Ducks took the first double-digit lead of the game with 14:22 to play.
Oregon would extend its lead to as many as 14 points, including 70-56 with 4:23 to play.
But the Ducks, who shot 57.8 percent, scored their final 11 points from the free-throw line to keep the Huskies at bay.
"The turnovers really took away from the performance," Altman said. "We made a lot of bad decisions, but I liked our effort. I thought the guys played hard. . They're a confident bunch. That's part of the reason we had 23 turnovers. We need to curb some of that optimism at times."
The first half featured six lead changes and four ties before Emory streaked to the basket for a one-handed slam dunk to put Oregon up 30-28 with 4:12 to play.
Emory followed with a 3-pointer from the top of the circle right before the shot clock expired and then scored on a layup for his seventh straight point to keep Oregon ahead 35-31.
"They were the better team tonight," Romar said. "They're not the 316th team in the country, they're 16th and maybe better than that after this week. They're a good basketball team. We knew we had a challenge."
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Slovenian Prime Minister Launches 1001 Inventions In Ljubljana
VIP Audience Celebrates Central European Premiere of Muslim Heritage Exhibition
Ljubljana, 1st April 2015: The Slovenian Prime Minister, Dr. Miro Cerar, was guest of honour at a VIP gala event celebrating the launch of the award-winning 1001 Inventions exhibition at the GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre (Gospodarsko razstavišče) today. More than 400 guests were in attendance to hear Dr. Cerar officially welcome the exhibition for its central European premiere in the heart of his nation's capital.
Visitors to this exhibition will be introduced to an exciting, but under-appreciated, era in the history of science known as "The Golden Age of Muslim Civilization". It was a time when men and women of different faiths, of different cultures, worked together to better understand the world around them, and to improve the quality of life for others in their society.
The blockbuster 1001 Inventions interactive exhibition has more than sixty exhibits, spread across seven zones, which highlight many different areas of our modern life that are connected to the achievements of scientists and scholars from the historic Muslim Civilization.
Speaking at the launch event, the Slovenian Prime Minister, Dr. Miro Cerar said:
There is a common belief that the 20th century was so far the one when science prospered the most. Never in the history of humankind has the development of science, technologies, and inventions been so rapid. Man invented the car, the plane, penicillin, a heart was transplanted for the first time, astronauts travelled to the Moon and back.
We developed a social state and strengthened democracy and human rights. Not everywhere, of course, and in many places not enough. But there is a big progress. Unfortunately, the 20th century also witnessed inventions which brought humankind during two world wars and many local wars and conflicts in an era of deep darkness. But even in the worst darkness, there is germ of new light, and this very big ambivalence is a call that all ideas, inventions and human activities must be monitored by our hearts.
A long time ago, our hearts invented or discovered love and humanity, which should be the fundamental motif of every true researcher. And when the mind and the heart are united in the best sense, their inventions serve the good and noble in each of us - and this is what we need to strive for, individually and together, in the 21st century.
So may the beginning of the 21st century be a special challenge for humankind. Let's pave the road to this century with a great measure of hope and striving for peace, knowledge, respect to everything living, and a sustainable development of human society. May we be inspired, encouraged and helped also by the golden era of Islam civilization and all its inventions and other achievements which keepexciting our spirit, awakening a desire for the new, the good and the best in us. "
Dr. Miro Cerar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia
(From left) Dr. Miro Cerar, Prime Minister of Slovenia,
and Ahmed Salim, Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions
(From left) Dr. Miro Cerar, Prime Minister of Slovenia,
and Zoran Janković, Mayor of the City of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
and Ahmed Salim, Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions
Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions, Ahmed Salim said:
We are delighted to be bringing our award-winning exhibition to this beautiful and historic city, in a nation that sits at the cross-roads of civilizations.
1001 Inventions began more than 10 years ago in the United Kingdom, and since then has championed a global educational campaign that's engaged over 150 million people around the world, through films, blockbuster exhibitions, schools programmes and educational materials.
Our objective is to inspire our future generations of scientists to rise up to modern challenges and make a positive and beneficial impact on our world."
Ahmed Salim, Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions
The GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre has previously played host to numerous science and culture exhibitions from around the world, and will be home to 1001 Inventions for the next three months.
Since it launched at the renowned London Science Museum in 2010, the multi-lingual 1001 Inventions exhibitions have welcomed more than six million visitors across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. More than 150 million have engaged with its global educational campaign, and it was recognized as the world's best touring exhibition at the Museum and Heritage Awards 2011.
1001 Inventions is also a founding partner of the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL2015), and is working with UNESCO to celebrate the achievements of the brilliant polymath Ibn al-Haytham, whose achievements in optics, astronomy, mathematics and many other areas were hugely influential for Renaissance scientists.
1001 Inventions will be open daily, from the 2nd of April to the 2nd of July, at the GR –Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre from 9am to 8pm. Further information can be found at www.1001izum.si including ticket prices, location and details of special events taking place to complement the exhibition.
1001 Inventions is an award-winning, British based organization that creates international educational campaigns and engaging transmedia productions aiming to raise awareness of the contributions to science, technology and culture from the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization.
For one thousand years from the 7th century onwards, inspirational men and women, of different faiths and cultures built upon knowledge of ancient civilizations, making discoveries that have had a huge and often underappreciated impact on our world. In an area that spread from Spain to China, this Golden Age of Muslim Civilization saw fascinating advancements in science and technology that helped pave the way for the European Renaissance.
Over the last decade, 1001 Inventions has engaged with over 150 million people across the globe, with educational campaigns in cities such as in London, Istanbul, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur, Sao Paulo, Abu Dhabi and Jeddah.
1001 Inventions works with a network of international partners and its academic partner FSTC (UK) to produce world-class experiences, blockbuster interactive exhibits, short feature films, live shows, books and classroom learning materials that are being used by hundreds of thousands of educators around the world.


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November 13, 2017
Vermont Village, a small-batch producer of premium applesauce, apple butter, apple cider vinegar, and apple cider vinegar beverages, located in the heart of Vermont�s Green Mountains, is pleased to introduce its new line of organic Raw Apple Cider Drinking Vinegars to the market.
Sold in single-serving 14 oz. bottles, Vermont Village�s Raw Apple Cider Drinking Vinegars were developed to bring healthy-lifestyle connoisseurs a highly-portable, easy-to-drink, and palatable way to enjoy the health benefits of raw apple cider vinegar. To create their new line of Drinking Vinegars, Vermont Village utilizes a hybrid brewing process that captures the full flavor of each hand-selected ingredient included in every batch. The result is a delicious drinking vinegar that is ready-to-drink when purchased and still maintains the health benefits sought by shoppers.Available in two delicious flavors, Lemon Mint and Lime Ginger, Vermont Village�s Raw Apple Drinking Vinegars are crafted in small batches as a way of enhancing the naturally occurring flavors present in the carefully sourced organic and clean ingredients, a combination of flavorful purees and all-natural extracts, which are blended with crisp spring water, raw apple cider vinegar and organic unsweetened apple juice.�Our goal in developing the Lemon Mint and Lime Ginger drinking vinegars was to offer a ready-to-drink apple cider beverage that�s not only good for you, great tasting,� said Andrew Lawrence, VP of Marketing & Sales of Vermont Village. �More than ever, consumers are paying attention to what they�re putting into their bodies, and we�re very excited to introduce another delicious product that helps them enjoy living a healthy lifestyle.�Priced at $2.49 per bottle or $14.50 for a pack of six, Vermont Village�s Raw Apple Cider Drinking Vinegars are available at Walmart retail stores nationwide and can be ordered at www.vermontvillage.com .


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My son just bridged up in February of this year. I decided again to be an assistant leader.
Since i have already done and updated the required Y.P.T. and other online training, in order to be an effective assistant leader i need to get my IOLS - Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills (S11).
I'm really am disappointed that the opportunities to take this course only happens at the first part of the new year and not at any other time it seems like. My council(Greater Yosemite) did the course before I became an assistant scout master (paperwork). I was willing to go to another council within a reasonable driving distance of my home (100 miles) Pretty much, either the course was already completed or I had just missed the date by 2 days. In a nut shell, IOLS courses are done pretty much at the same time.
Me not being a certified/trained leader hit home last night. Our camp out this weekend got cancelled because there wasn't a "trained" leader able to go.
I wish this course was offered at least a couple times a year.
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Greater Yosemite Council


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MONTREAL — Before he became a Mohawk chief, Serge Simon sold cigarettes. He won't say who supplied him with native tobacco and insists it isn't his business to know what customers did with the product once he sold it to them. During his time in an industry where police raids, lawsuits and jail are par for the course, Simon came to value discretion.
Tobacco trade lights fire in Mohawk economy
MONTREAL — Before he became a Mohawk chief, Serge Simon sold cigarettes.
He won't say who supplied him with native tobacco and insists it isn't his business to know what customers did with the product once he sold it to them. During his time in an industry where police raids, lawsuits and jail are par for the course, Simon came to value discretion.
Despite the potentially disastrous consequences of selling tax-free cigarettes to non-natives, Simon persisted, turning a roadside shack in the Kanesatake territory into two thriving stores.
Tobacco gave Simon's family a middle-class life in a settlement where poverty is rampant. It allowed him to pay for a speech therapist to help treat his son's learning disability, to lend friends money and not worry about having them pay him back. The money he earned selling cigarettes paid for a new roof on the Kanesatake elders centre. It helped him expand his business and hire seven local employees.
Simon is grand chief of the Mohawk territory, which sits on the shore of Lake of Two Mountains 45 kilometres west of Montreal, and said he's ceded the day-to-day operation of his shops to his daughter and son-in-law. Now the chief is among the growing chorus of aboriginal leaders calling for the billion-dollar native tobacco industry to be regulated by band councils.
"I think there needs to be a way for us, not the RCMP, to take the criminal element out of the native cigarette business," Simon told The Gazette. "As long as people are dealing drugs on the side or selling weapons or what have you, the RCMP has an excuse to stick its nose in our business."
Police said it's a well-known fact that many of the cigarettes sold in native smoke shops were smuggled across the Canada-U.S. border from factories on a Mohawk reserve in upstate New York — which is illegal. And it's almost certain that most smoke shop clients are non-natives looking to circumvent costly provincial and federal tax laws by buying them from an aboriginal vendor who isn't subject to taxation.
Regardless of the legal grey area in which vendors operate, the native tobacco industry is an economic juggernaut, employing thousands of aboriginals and accounting for nearly one-third of the 28 billion cigarettes sold in Canada every year, according to recent studies and Statistics Canada data.
But a series of laws introduced by the Conservative government in March are taking aim at the tobacco trade.
The laws will impose mandatory minimum sentences on people caught smuggling 50 or more cartons of contraband cigarettes, or 10 kilograms of other tobacco products, into Canada. Second-time offenders will receive a minimum of 90 days in jail, people convicted a third time will be sentenced to at least six months in prison and any further conviction will result in a two-year sentence.
Stronger policing is just the latest step taken in the RCMP's decades-long struggle to stop the flow of illicit tobacco throughout Canada. The Mounties seized nearly 4 million cartons of native cigarettes between 2007 and 2011 — about $80 million in retail value. In many of the raids, cocaine, amphetamines and firearms were smuggled into Canada alongside tobacco. Many of the cigarettes are transported off-reserve by non-natives and, in some cases, by members of biker gangs like the Hells Angels.
On the South Shore Kahnawake reserve, where cigarette shacks line the highway that links Montreal to many of its bedroom communities, an estimated 2,000 of the 8,000 residents are employed by the tobacco trade.
Smoke shops range from glorified trailers to steel warehouses with freshly paved parking lots. They're adorned with flashing lights, bright colours and neon-lit marquees advertising brands like Play Fares, Golden Leaf and Wolf Pack.
The industry provides jobs at every level of cigarette production and distribution. There are labourers tilling away in tobacco fields, truck drivers who deliver the raw material to a factory where workers finish and package the cigarettes on assembly lines. Then there's more distribution and, finally, the hundreds of retail stores that dot the landscape in aboriginal towns across Quebec and Ontario.
"For most people involved, it's honest pay for an honest day's work," Simon said. "These aren't welfare cases, these aren't crooks. They're mothers and fathers; they're students with part-time jobs."
Tom earned about $700 a week smuggling cigarettes into Canada.
Six to eight times each month, he would drive his rusty Pontiac Tempest across the border at Akwesasne, Ont., and into a garage in upstate New York. After parking his car in the building and out of plain view, Tom and a supplier loaded the car with box after box of contraband cigarettes.
"By the time we were done, the car reeked of tobacco," said Tom, who did not want his real name published. "The trunk would almost be overflowing with cigarettes. We had to be careful when we were closing the hatch."
No matter how many times Tom made the trip, he'd start sweating when he pulled up to the crossing at Akwesasne, which straddles the Ontario, Quebec and New York borders on the St. Lawrence River.
He always told Canada Customs agents that he was visiting friends on the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve — a half-truth, because he usually ran into his pals when he was stateside.
Despite his worst fears, he was never stopped or interrogated by the Customs agents. But even when he was in Canada, navigating the 150 kilometres of farmland and urban sprawl that separate Akwesasne from his final destination in Kahnawake, he couldn't help but remain on edge.
"You're always looking over your shoulder, driving the speed limit, praying you don't break down or crash your car," Tom said. "Because if you do get caught off-reserve with native cigarettes, you're on your own. Your car gets impounded, you eat the fine and maybe you go to jail. The suppliers won't help you out, that's just how the deal works."
In January, a Quebec judge fined Oka resident Daniel Pominville $45,000 for hauling 111,000 native cigarettes off the Kanesatake territory — roughly the same size shipment Tom was accustomed to handling. Should Pominville be unable to come up with the money, he'll be jailed for six months.
Tom said he would only settle down when he finally crossed the Mercier Bridge from Montreal into Mohawk land. In Kahnawake, he unloaded the shipment at a prearranged meeting point and collected his cut: $350, minus personal expenses.
Considering the risks Tom took, he wasn't exactly cashing in during his year as a cigarette runner in the early 1990s. Despite carrying a payload that could retail for $8,000 in today's market, Tom earned around the same wages an ironworker or welder might expect to take home after a week's work.
Even so, he was grateful to be working at all after being out of a job for months.
"It paid the bills, it put food on the table and I didn't have to take a handout," Tom said. "And who knows, maybe I was a little crazy back then, a little reckless. But when you need that money, when you have people counting on you, when your back's against the wall, what do you do?"
Since the border crossing at Akwesasne was moved to Cornwall in 2009, fewer and fewer people chose to sneak tobacco into Canada by land. The majority of smugglers have taken to bootlegging their product across the St. Lawrence River in small boats under the cover of darkness.
They buy their cigarettes at a cost of about $2 to $3 per carton directly from one of the 10 native factories in New York. From there, the shipment is loaded onto an aluminum fishing boat in a marsh along the U.S. side of the St. Lawrence.
When the cigarettes reach the northern bank of the river, they're stacked into the back of an idling SUV and driven to a retailer in Ontario or Quebec. The retailer buys each carton at $10 apiece and sells them for twice that amount.
It may seem simple, but the typical cigarette run is a well-crafted, elaborate operation. According to one former smuggler, who refused to be quoted for this article, the river crossing into Canada is fraught with danger.
The boat captain has to be skilled enough to navigate the islands, shallows and buoys that line the St. Lawrence River while travelling at full speed. He has to be so familiar with that 2.5-kilometre stretch of water, that he can power through its strong currents in the dead of night without the help of lights or navigational equipment.
Because the RMCP uses a speedy Zodiac propelled by two 250 horsepower motors, it's usually advisable to just double back to the U.S. shoreline if a spotter catches a glimpse of the black police boat. The only other option is to try to lose the cops in a shallow part of the river, where the larger Zodiac is too clumsy to navigate.
Three former smugglers told The Gazette that at the height of the tobacco trade a few years ago, a good courier could earn up to $5,000 a week sneaking cigarettes into Canada.
With the looming threat of mandatory minimum sentences and the creation of a new 50-person RCMP task force to fight illicit tobacco, the earning potential may grow even higher for smugglers.
The Mounties declined multiple interview requests from The Gazette but in past media reports, RCMP agents characterize the cigarette trade as a breeding ground for illegal activity.
A 2009 drug raid that resulted in the arrest of 33 people, including several full patch members of the Hells Angels, also yielded thousands of crates of native smokes and cigarette manufacturing machinery. One police source spoke of AK-47 assault rifles and Glock 9mm pistols being seized alongside contraband tobacco in the roundup — which took place in Montreal, Laval and parts of Kahnawake.
Later that year, police found that the Hells Angels were heavily involved in trafficking native cigarettes off-reserve. The bikers used the profits from selling cigarettes to finance the construction of meth labs, according to the Sûreté du Québec.
Mary works upwards of 80 hours a week producing aboriginal crafts.
Until very recently, the longtime Kahnawake resident supplemented that income by renting out her garage to a tobacco retailer. She said there were more than 100 crates of cigarette cartons in her home — a stash that would exceed $100,000 at market.
"People came and went, dropped things off and picked them up, and I earned enough to pay my mortgage," said Mary, who wished to remain anonymous.
"I was just a middle man like so many of the people involved in this business. People look at the tobacco industry and they think about gangsters and criminals. I don't even own a BB gun, not even a pea shooter. Like most of the people who make money from cigarettes, I'm a worker."
The cigarette trade is held together by working-class Mohawks like Mary and Tom, according to Kahnawake band council chief Lloyd Phillips.
"When we talk about the revenue generated by the cigarette industry, it's not just those little stores by the side of the highway," Phillips said. "And it isn't just all of the people who work at every level of production and distribution. It's the other businesses. The locally owned gas station that was bought with cigarette money, the grocery stores, the convenience market, the catering service."
"In Akwesasne, you're starting to see problems where kids don't see the value in an education because there's so much money to be made selling smokes," said Karl Hele, director of the First Peoples Studies program at Concordia University. "The real question is, what do you do the day people stop smoking? What if your only experience was working in an industry that's now obsolete. It's a serious problem."
Unlike many observers, Hele doesn't think tougher laws or more policing will prevent the flow of native cigarettes into Canada.
"You might see more people go to jail and you might see the price of a carton go up a bit, but there's no stopping it," he said. "Police can barely put a dent in the industry now, the only way they'll stop it is if they form a blockade between Cornwall and Akwesasne, (N.Y.)."
Still, Phillips fears that if native tobacco isn't regulated the consequences could be dire for Kahnawake.
Phillips wants to see the town's tobacco vendors get together with band council and iron out a system that would establish industry standards. He speaks of ridding the trade of drug and weapon smuggling, of making native cigarettes 100-per-cent legitimate and ensuring that the revenues from sales are all reinvested locally.
Without regulation, it's impossible to know how many cigarette factories operate on the South Shore Mohawk reserve — although estimates place the number of local manufacturers at about 10 to 12. The factories are often hidden in plain sight, operating in nondescript warehouses and dimly lit buildings.
Owners pay their employees upwards of $800 each week and can hand out yearly bonuses that number in the thousands of dollars. But because there are no industry standards in place, they can also be fired or laid off at the drop of a hat.
Historically, there's been resistance from vendors, who fear band council control will lead to taxation. But without immediate action, Phillips and Simon fear the worst.
"If the RCMP completely shuts down the trade, and puts thousands out of work, what do you think will happen?" Simon asked. "People don't just accept poverty, they fight back. So you'll see people opening marijuana grow operations, you'll see people committing other crimes or maybe you'll see a new, poorer generation of Mohawks. Is that really the solution?"
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