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MinutesPage address: https://www.mnsu.edu/mssa/docs/minutes_years/minutes/2000-2001/minutes_10_25_00.html
68th MSSA Senate
October 25, 2000 Minutes
Meeting called to order at 4:03 P.M. by Speaker Andy Welti
Roll Call (present-absent-proxy)
Senators Present
Lori Fick 2-0-0. Joe Muggli 2-0-0. Rhys Gaffer 2-0-0. Samuel Eddy Ankrah 2-0-0, Matt Lairmore 6-4-0, Courtney Powell 9-1-0, Nayoki Cormier 8-2-0, Eric Kroiss 7-2-1 Jack Rector 10-0-0, Michael Groenewold 10-0-0, Zach Biesanz 8-2-0, Stacy Wiech 9-0-1, Karly Klein 10-0-0, Mikel Akers 10-0-0, Ian Radtke 10-0-0, Craig Shub 8-2-0, Amy Bicek 7-2-1, Roger White Owl 8-2-0, Rachel D. Noah 1-0-0, LaRonne Prtichett 1-0-0
Senators Absent
Tonya Hebeler 0-2-0, Md Mosharof Hossain 0-2-0, Yolanda Buchanan 2-7-1, Christina Ische 8-2-0, Derek Short 6-3-0,
Officers Present
President Chris Boyce Vice President Tim Huebsch
Induction of new senators: Social & Behavioral Science- Rachel D. Noah, Crawford Hall-LaRonne Pritchett.
Student Forum-
*Senator Rector-be it noted of the heat problem in the room
Approval of Minutes 10/18/00 Minutes approved
Anne Latsch-Career Development Center
Appreciate time to talk to Senate. Giving information today regarding CDC-Counseling Center. Would like students to be aware of Career Week, next week. Very delighted that the Chamber of Commerce made signs for Career Week. Inform your constituents about Career Week. Internet access informing students of jobs and employers. Business Career Day, Nov. 1, includes not only College of Business but SET, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, employers from many areas. Social & Behavioral Science Career Day, Graduate School Day Nov. 2. For more information check out www.mnsu.edu/csocbeh/WEB/CSBS/advisingu/careerd. Many job fairs will be coming up. Also workshop calendar-how to start a credential file, resume building, check out web site. www.mnsu.edu/cdc
Apple Computers-Jean Mickelson
Apple really does want to be a partner with MSU in all campus events. They want to be part of campus life. If you have an event, notify them and they may be able to provide the digital camera. Partner Up with Apple.
Dean Trauger, Vice President Finance & Administration
Talk today about university budget and how it is put together. FY 2000 proposed tuition rates-Minnesota State Board has made a change in approach to budget development process and how tuition rates are derived. The appropriation is usually determined in May and we would get allocation from board in late May or early June-whatever difference in what we had appropriated we would try to cover with tuition. Now board wants to develop tuition and then make a pitch for what is needed to balance budget. This is a move in the right direction but concerned that it may work or it may not. Would like a focus work group and help with lobbying-providing information on our budget situation and how we compare with similar institutions around the country. We need to create awareness to help keep costs down.
Legislative Appropriation
Bargaining Unit Negotiations (employee salaries 83%)
Tuition (41-42% of budget)
Enrollment is an unknown factor that can have influence on bottom line budget. Would like to think that a new approach would be positive but need to change bargaining unit negotiations.
(See handout) Not proposing a large tuition increase. This would cause difficulties in terms of enrollment. We might have to cut expenditures. Proposal must be submitted in Nov. regarding tuition. Right now $75-100 increase in tuition is being looked at. $2500 band for tuition for two years then $2700. We are currently $302.00 below in national average. This may not be a proper comparison. Will give more specific information next week.
Senator Rector-Do not see data for increase of graduate tuition.
Vice President Trauger-we are looking at an 8% increase. We are 4% lower then other state institutions.
Senator Gaffer-What is the reserve currently at?
VicePresident Trauger-right around 3 million, we will be bringing this down to 2 million. Minnesota State will pressure us to build that back up. We have not wanted to make budget cuts, so we are holding up hope until the next biennium. We did receive extra funding of about $500,000 without that we would have had a deficit of 1.5 million.
Senator Rector-Why is there an increase because of the Andreas and Taylor Center? My understanding is that resident Trauger-Talking more of utilities etc. not programming use. Revenue is for student development or athletics.
Vice President Trauger will be giving more information next Wed.
Officer Reports
President Chris Boyce
Thank you for debates and tenant forum.
Student Technology Roundtable-Chris Schmidt, Josh Casper, Holly Hangsleben, Jennifer Hopp, Tom Higgins, Timothy Huebsch Legislative Affairs Committee-Joseph Muggli, Samuel Eddy Ankrah Student Affairs-Joseph Muggli, Samuel Eddy Ankrah Alcohol & Drug Educator Search Committee-Dee Marrero Academic Affairs-Lori Fick Newspaper Committee-Lori Fick Judicial Board-Ian Radtke, William Roll, Jesse Hokeness, Bob Monahan, Karen Borressen, Fang Fang Han, Joshua Jackson, Michele Koppinger, Joshua Ward, Rhonda Jacobson Personal Safety Committee-Craig Olson
Mass Transit concerns-first proposal was to increase costs, now the city of Mankato is locating at getting out of the business of bussing. We have a proposed hearing on the transit.
Senator Bicek-No one seems to think that students should even have this meeting, bureaucracy going on.
President Boyce-Three weeks ago City of Mankato brought in a new contract at a much higher cost. We did not sign this. Now they are looking at discontinuing the service. Mass Transit system should be a service not in the business to make money.
MSU votes-we now have over 3,000 people registered. Now in phase 2, we will make people aware of where they can vote, when they can vote etc. We have a table downstairs. Many organizations helping us. We will be putting posters in Res Halls on where to vote etc. MSUSA took a grant to basically help students registered, they now want to take our efforts and publish them as their own efforts to justify receiving this grant. Taking position-we will not allow that to happen. Someone else should not take credit for what we have done on this campus. All most all the other presidents have taken this same position.
Senator Gaffer-how do you feel about a motion coming from this body regarding our stance.
President Boyce-That would be a good idea.
Senator Biesanz-If we do not let someone else use this information, are we going to try to get a grant?
President Boyce-MSUSA accepted this grant when they were not in a position to accept. The money should have gone to some other group that should have used in more like the Technical Colleges.
Senator Groenewold-Who accepted the grant?
President Boyce-The Ex. Director, Frank Viggiano, sought out the grant and accepted it.
Vice President Tim Huebsch
Again Thank you to Apple for the computer. We have also had a digital on loan-view tenant forum and parade. We are also looking at more pairing and sharing with Apple. They have been so good to supply us with tapes that are needed. Again thank Apple and Jean for working with us.
Alumni Office-Offering four programs (see handout)
SET is having their SET fest. Tents outside Trafton, check out the solar car. Technology Roundtable will be starting Monday.
Recommendation-Senator Gaffer/Senator Wiech
MSSA requests that MSUSA staff provide a budget breakdown of their efforts in spending their portion of grant money awarded to them from Youthvote2000 for the voter education of students for the 2000 election year cycle; to be sent to MSUM, MSSA by November 15,2000.
President Boyce-tried to get this $10,000 to be broken up. Was told this was not possible, it had to go to a position or used by travel .
Motion Passes unanimously
Motion-Senator Gaffer/Senator Rector
Get on record that we need a larger fan. Recommendation Fails
Speaker Andy Welti
Correspondence from Assistant Vice President Malcolm O'Sullivan
R#10.11.00A Clock settings.
President has reviewed this and would like further discussion with Vice President Trauger and some members of the committee before this can be approved. .
College of Business seat held by Paul Menne is now open, Allied Health & Nursing seat held by Yolanda Buchanan is now open. Also-Mav Hall, Undeclared. Elections will be held every Wed. beginning Nov. 8
Recognized Student Organizations
Initial Recognition
Beta Sigma Lambda
Recognition Renewal
Campus Crusade for Christ, Minnesota State Rugby Club, MSU Shokokan Karate Club, Construction Management Student Association, Men's Club Volleyball, Council of Student Business Organizations
President Boyce-abstain from vote on Beta Sigma Lambda
Coordinator Reports
Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator-Rhys Gaffer
(written report)
Have attended last two city council meetings; the special DM&E meeting and one city council work session. Primary issues that have come up are the Mass transit/busing issue and rental units on Pohl/Balcerzak-this issue seems to be resolved. In Union Board presently reviewing the budget; will vote at the next meeting, there is a discrepancy in Minnesota State funds. This will be reviewed. MSU staff are interested in what students would like in regards to art on the walls of Phase III. Master planning for the CSU is also happening. I encourage all to ask any questions about this process and/or attend the meetings on Thursdays at 3:30. Please sign up to work the MSSA table.
Student Advocacy Coordinator Nequra Campbell
Have not had to address advocacy yet, will be putting up posters in offices etc. if students do not feel they are getting the service they deserve. Will also be putting up posters and add in reporter of all coordinators. Will be working with Student Events Team for leadership training for all coordinators. . Talked to Mary Dowd regarding my role as advocacy coordinator, she is giving me information on how better to assist students.
Senator Noah-Advocacy in terms of what?
Coordinator Campbell-Any issues that may come up, grade appeals, working on any issue.
Senator Groenewold-Aren't grade appeals handled by the Academic Affairs Coordinator?
Senator Noah-I am not sure what senators do then.
President Boyce-Job descriptions are available in the office.
President Boyce-Tomorrow night-MSU Cheer Team-spaghetti feed at The Still. MSSA Meet and Confer next week.
Speaker Welti-judging comedy show at Indigo. Come down.
Senator Gaffer-Leg. Affairs meet after meeting.
Senator Wiech-If anyone is going to MSUSA and want to go to the Media Conference-let her know.
Senator Biesanz-Nov 2-Ralph Nader will be in the Twin Cities
Senator Noah-Tomorrow-visiting faculty, first and only Fullbright scholar will be speaking
Senator Bicek-Talked to Rich Wheeler-we will still have a bus hearing on campus, Nov 6 3:00
Roll Call
Senators Present
Michael Groenewold, Lori Fick, Zach Biesanz, Eric Kroiss, Nayoki Cormier, Jack Rector, Craig Shub, Courtney Powell, Rachel D. Noah, Stacy Wiech, LaRonne Pritchett, Karly Klein, Mikel Akers, Amy Bicek, Joe Muggli, Ian Radtke, Roger White Owl, C. Rhys Gaffer
Senators Absent
Yolanda Buchanan, Christina Ische, Tonya Hebeler, Md Mosharof Hossain, Derek Short, Matt Lairmore
Executive Staff Present
President Chris Boyce, Vice President Tim Huebsch
Adjournment 5:27 PM


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Money makes the world go round. So the saying goes. Yes, money can buy one a few friends; it can even get one out of a pickle with the SAPS or the Metro Police. Never been popular with the ladies? Relax son, 'nothing that a few millions can't fix! As Mandla "the King Don father" Spikiri once sang, "Fak' imali Uzobona!" Sadly, no amount of money can buy one class or style. It is one of those things that one either has or not.
I realized after two similar incidents my problem with individuals who have an acute deficiency of modesty. These are people who are prone to unnecessarily, and without much provocation, go on boasting sprees about their material possessions. These are also people who like to hear themselves talk and rubbing other people's noses in how much their Jimmy Choos, Burberrys, Tom Fords, Breitlings, etc. cost.
Anyway, the first of the incidents referred to was a social media hook-up with a home-boy of mine, someone I met during my high school years. The reunion was filled with the relevant pleasantries and catching up; it was wonderful to hear that life was going well and his personal successes testimony of that.
Well, it was hunky-dory until the constant posting of photos showing high-end time pieces with a shameless exhibition of the cost. Then it was a Gucci sweater with the price tag still on (for effect). The last straw was when the guy candidly posted about the amount he spent on petrol in one week and "record" mileage during the same period (just in case we didn't know; just in case we were curious about his out-of-this-world travelling habits). Thankfully, social media has its advantages…DELETE!
The second incident involves a TV reality series. I can only say that the actions of the groom on last week's episode of Our Perfect Wedding left a foul taste in my mouth. Described by his gushing, er, bride as a well-heeled tenderpreneur; his good looks seemed to fade with every opportunity he used to remind his service providers, including wedding guests that he was paying for it all. "Play me that song; I want it at my wedding (I paid for it)." Is it not similar to someone taking you to a restaurant and treating the staff with disdain in an attempt to impress you? WTF?
I have no qualms with moneyed people, let alone how they choose to spend their money. They are well within their rights to spend their (I assume) hard earned capital however they wish to. However, I do have a problem with some in the "New Money" league regarding their apparent lack of money etiquette. One would have to go back into the history of previously disadvantaged groups to gain insight into the impact of poverty on people's relationship with money.
The results vary, if you consider how inconsequential material possessions are to some wealthy individuals with humble backgrounds as opposed to the value they add to society. Individuals with an exaggerated sense of self-importance are especially off-putting: There is such tragedy in people acting like they have never smelled crisp bank notes; in behaviour that suggests that one had no idea they'd possess whatever material they have in their lifetime. What usually lies behind all the bravado is nothing more than insecurities and fledgling egos. Surely there is some growing up that needs to happen here?
Unfortunately, some of us could really care less how much you spent on your Moët, we'd much rather you sip on it quietly.

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Peter Lynn Fury V3 Kitesurfing Kite 2016
Peter Lynn Fury V3 Kitesurfing Kite 2016
The new definition of performance. The 2016 Fury is built for those who go big and ride hard. But most of all it is built to provide you with everything you need to have mind blowing sessions every time you go out to play.
Peter Lynn Fury Kitesurfing Kite 2016
The Fury is built with maximum performance in mind. This fantastic piece of engineering will maximise your jumps, provide you with massive airtime, have you screaming upwind and makes you ride at teeth grinding speeds. All of this insane performance is delivered in an easy, predictable and reliable way so that you will always feel in total control.
The extremely rigid 5-strut frame combined with its high Aspect Ratio and high performance profile, make it the perfect tool for boosting big air.
If you want to look good on the water, get the right equipment and treat yourself to the Fury!
Boosting & hangtime
The Fury Boosts big and keeps you up there.
The Fury is designed with pure performance in mind. We have created a kite that allows you to easily boost huge jumps and enjoy an amazing amount of hangtime unheard of with LEI kites.
Direct control & stability
The kite is super stable and it's handling is fast and direct
The Fury flies fast and has a very direct steering and power up response due to the new pulley-less bridle. This short 5-point cascading bridle keeps the arc of the kite stable no matter how overpowered you are and even if you push out the bar all the way the kite remains responsive and quick to turn. Add to this Peter Lynn's renowned kite stabilty and you will feel safe and in control even in the most demanding conditions.
Lightwind & upwind performance
The Fury is designed to go fast and scream upwind.
The larger Fury's are amazing in light winds. The kites are light and well balanced so that they will fly in even the lightest breezes. Thanks to the high Aspect Ratio the Fury blasts upwind making it a serious contender in racing.
Exceptional windrange
The Fury has great low end power and a huge useable windrange.
Thanks to the specially constructed leading edge and the fixed bridle, the Fury has an exceptionally large and effective windrange. The Fury has great low end power, without sacrificing any of the high end performance. The Fury will get you going earlier and will let you stay out longer.
Sizes + recommended bar:
Fury 6m2 – Navigator SL bar Small - 52cm
Fury 8m2 – Navigator SL bar Small - 52cm
Fury 10m2 – Navigator SL bar Small - 52cm
Fury 13m2 – Navigator SL bar Small - 52cm
Fury 15m2 – Navigator SL bar Large - 62cm
Fury 17m2 – Navigator SL bar Large - 62cm
Fury colour combinations:
Yellow (6, 8, 10, 13m)
Red (6, 8, 10, 13m)
Blue – yellow (15 & 17m light versions only)
The Fury is delivered 'kite only' or complete, containing:
Fury kite
Fury backpack
Fury inner bag
Repair kit
Peter Lynn 4-line LEI Instruction manual
Navigator SL (complete version only)
350/350daN Dyneema® flying lines (complete version only)
Safety leash (complete version only)
Please note that kite pumps are sold separately.
The Fury is built for those who want to boost big, ride fast and scream upwind.
The Fury rocks a state of the art, 5-strut, high Aspect Ratio design which offers a highly rigid and efficiënt shape for total control.
A stiffer leading edge and cleaner camber within the profile give the kite a major advantage when it comes to windrange and power delivery. The characteristics and performance can't be matched by any other kite in it's class.
The short 5-point, pulley-less bridle provides you with fast and direct handling, great feedback through the bar and a very progressive power/depower stroke. The amazing float of this high performance kite will make every landing silky smooth.
The Fury is a high performance Big air / freeride / race kite designed for extreme boosting and high speeds.
The stiff, 5-strut frame and high Aspect Ratio make it the perfect tool for massive jumps!
Its incredible hangtime will give you plenty of time to show of your most stylish old school moves.
The Fury's high lift to drag ratio makes the kite also very much at home performing on a race course. It is guaranteed to be very competitive with its sheer speed and incredible upwind capabilities.
The 2016 Fury is considerably lighter than its predecessor and will remain stable as change even in the lightest breezes. Even though the kite is made as light weight as possible it still retains all the key-point reinforcements you can expect from a high-end production kite.
The 5-point cascading bridle is tuned for optimum usage in all winds, this in combination with the elimination of all excessive weight results in a kite with an unprecedented windrange.
With the 17m Fury, light winds are no longer just RAM air foilkite territory. If you are looking for absolute lightwind performance with LEI ease of use, the Fury should be on top of your demo list.
Peter Lynn Navigator Control Bar
Peter Lynn's years of experience with the Twinskin control bars materialised into the Navigator Bar. The complete Navigator bar is designed to be as clean as possible without making any compromise in safety, user comfort or the possibility of tuning your bar to your personal liking. Whether you're kiteboarding, landboarding or snowkiting the Navigator is your safe connection to a world of power.
Supplied flying lines are of the highest quality coated dyneema and are the best lines on the market and hands down the best value for money you'll find out there.
Main design characteristics
Strong and durable – all connections are extra durable, no heavy loads on plastic materials & little amount of sliding parts.
Smooth – all connections are made as smooth as possible flying lines are free of extra parts that can get caught or tangle.
Simplicity – no excessive parts, no complicated systems & easy to replace parts when needed.
Navigator bar sizes & line lengths
The Navigator is available in four packages, each offering the best bar length combination and corresponding line length of the supplied flying lines. Those riders wanting just one bar for different sizes of kites can find the most suitable setup. By making use of the line extension set the bar can be adjusted to handle a larger windrange.


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Hi All Snowsport lovers!
Been a bit lazy in updating this so thought I better get on to it right now.
Well we are right in the thick of it now with The Snow Centre just entering our Super peak season ( December to March) however to be honest winter never really went away. The centre has seen phenomenal success over the last winter ( partly due to the great buzz coming off the winter Olympics). It never really got quiet which is great as I often look out on to the slope and see so many young people engaged in snowsports. This has become for many a lifestyle, just like it is with our Alpine or Scandinavian cousins.
First Alpine trip for me was back in October when I was part of the training team running our annual team training. This trip takes place on the Soelden glacier. Snow was not so good this year but adequate for training purposes. We had a great and I look forwards to getting back out there end of April 2015.
The week later I found myself in Dubai! This was to take a look at the big indoor slope operating over there. There is so much they do well ( low skilled activities) but the actually Alpine skiing was quiet and mainly expat Europeans. Great slope though I must say. Our senior management team travelled out in search or " inspiration"! We did find it to be honest.
December saw me back out with the ALPINECOACHING team in our homeland Hintertux, Austria! 5 coaches along with around 30 guests enjoyed great early season conditions on the glacier. Snow on piste was some of the best I have skied at this time of year which is amazing considering most of Europe was suffering a snow drought. We look forwards to getting back to Hinteryux in April 2015. Our team included Dan Gillespie, Guy Nason and Penny Chapman ( All ISIA qualified coaches)
Me on the Glacier December 2014 ( not bad for an old git)
So as I write this im packing in preparation for my trip to Finland tomorrow. I went to Finland back on May 2014 for the ISIA conference and fell in love with the place. Clean, vast and so different from the Alps. I just had to organise a trip back so that me at 3am tomorrow on my way to Gatwick.
Up and coming we have a Norway trip planned and then it's back to the wilds of Macedonia for more adventure.
I will check out now but will update soon.


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Want to join the Green Things team?
Green Things is always looking for motivated individuals to join our team! If you have plant knowledge, customer service or labor experience, or simply are willing to learn, please come by to fill out an application.
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Flora, named after the Roman Goddess of flowering plants. She expresses the attributes of fertility, blossoming, and feminine energy. Carved in Calacatta marble from Carrara, this stone is known for its golden to peach colored crystals, and inclusions of pyrite.
15 x 8 x 13 inches, 38 x 20.3 x 30.5 cm with base. Circa 44lbs / 20kg.
Carrara Calacatta Marble, base is Grey Bardiglio. Unique Piece


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Failure is the key to success. Failure is an event, it's not a person and it should never define you. Those who learn from failure, their own and the failures of others, are best equipped for success and even greatness. We're all familiar with the statistics of Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan – the number of strike-outs and missed shots; yet they are Hall Of Fame legends. We all know that you have to be willing to fail to succeed. They also knew it but they went beyond the ten thousand hours it takes to become 'unconsciously competent' at something to be committed to a winning attitude. They hard-wiring successful habits to break though losing streaks, ignoring the doubters, believing in themselves and earning the success they so passionately pursued.
But I'm not a big fan of sporting metaphors for business. I instead believe that the military and political spheres are more relevant domains for inspiration in professional selling and leadership. Winning in business is about strategy and execution, people and numbers, attitude and skill, EQ and IQ, work ethic and effectiveness. Allow me to share three true stories – two of politicians with Lazarus style resurrections and one of the richest man in China. There are great lessons here in the role of failure in creating success.
This first leader came for humble beginnings, born into poverty with his family forced out of their home. At a young age he had to work to support them and his mother died. Plans to take over the family store went nowhere and the business disappeared. He studied and worked to improve himself as best he could before deciding to run for State Legislature and lost. He then lost his job and applied for law school but was rejected. He borrowed money from a friend to start a business which failed within a year. He was a bankrupt and spent seventeen years repaying debt.
He then ran for state legislature again and won. Life seemed on the up and he fell in love and became engaged but his fiancée died tragically. He was broken-hearted, suffered from depression and had a breakdown. He barely lived – existing with deep dark depression – 'the black dog' as Winston Churchill later described. Luckily at that time there was no Fox News or social media to 'out him' as wasting tax payer money and he recovered to emerge after six months and later sought to become speaker of the State Legislature but was defeated. He then sought to become Elector and was defeated again. He then ran for Congress and lost. Undeterred, and despite advice not to, he ran for Congress again and this time he won.
He went to Washington and performed well enough – but not in the minds of voters. He lost as a sitting congressman but was committed to public service. He sought the job of Land Officer in his home state but his application was rejected. A few years later he ran for The Senate and lost. But his passion for politics remained – he wanted to make a difference. A few years later he sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party's national convention and attracted less than 100 votes. He then ran for Senate again and lost.
Many would have looked at him and said: 'Washed-up has-been, mediocre life, failure.' If you were his friend at the time you could have easily given him some salient advice: "If the horse is dead, get off. Go find another one – maybe you should go back to business. You'd be pretty unlucky to go bankrupt twice in your life."
But he knew that he could never make the kind of difference America needed running a store. He ran for public office again. Failure had not worn him down – it had not blunted his resolve. Instead it had shaped his character and made him more determined than ever. He was stoic and surrounded himself with people he trusted – positive, solid, reliable, insightful, supportive, true believers in his cause to rid the world of self-destructive ideology and evil. He faced the awful truth head-on and had a vision to unite a broken people. Abraham Lincoln became 16th President Of The United States, leading through to the end of the Civil War and abolishing the blight of slavery on the soul of a great nation. He never gave up and was committed to his vision for a just and moral America, and his mission to lead and heal a nation.
The second leader will be less known to most of my readers. He was called 'the Lazarus of Australian politics'. His father owned a small gas station in the suburbs of Sydney and he was the youngest of four sons. He grew up to go to university and graduate in law before becoming solicitor. He joined a political party in university and eventually ran for public office winning a Federal Parliament seat and rose to the position of Treasurer of Australia. His party then lost the next election and he unsuccessfully contested the party's leadership but lost. He contested again before the next election and won the role of Opposition Leader but led his party to defeat at the poles. He was challenged following the defeat in the general election and then lost the leadership within his party when challenged in the fall-out.
He served as a low level shadow minister under three successive Opposition Leaders but he never lost his aspiration to lead. Six years after being dethroned as Opposition Leader within his party he won the leadership again – he was back. In March 1996 he won a sweeping election victory and John Howard became Australia's 25th Prime Minister. His Government was returned at three consecutive elections; he became the second longest-serving Australian Prime Minister, after Robert Menzies. His prime ministership achieved a long period of economic prosperity, historically low interest rates and unemployment levels, huge budget surpluses and significant economic reforms that positioned the country to sail through the GFC when it hit being one of the strongest economies in the world.
He is the first international leader to pledge support to the USA after the 9/11 attacks. He was in America at the time and spoke in congress just days later to a standing ovation. He led through terrorism attacks of Australian and other country's citizens in Bali. He took the initiative following the Port Arthur massacre, the biggest in Australian history, to successfully pass gun laws that prohibited citizens owning semi-automatic weapons at all or hand-guns without strict controls. It's rare for a political leader to lose their position but come back to win at the highest levels. Normally, once you've had your go you get tipped on the scrap heap – been there, done that, tried him – didn't work… 'next!' Howard made a difference and left a positive legacy. He was no Abraham Lincoln or Mandela but he came back, won and made a positive difference.
Just like John Howard, Mitt Romney can come back as well – it will be a very interesting Presidential race and then election. Bill Clinton was the nicknamed 'the comeback kid' and maybe Hilary can come back too? The 2016 election could be a Lazarus battle of Biblical proportions!
My third example is Jack Ma, the Executive Chairman of Alibaba. He is the richest man in China and personally made more money in 90 days than Amazon Corporation made in 20 years. Alibaba was the biggest IPO in Wall Street history. Yet Jack Ma was trained to be a teacher and he is not a technology geek. Instead he is focused on what technology can do for people, what problems it can solve, what markets it can create.
Alibaba is staggering and here are some of the numbers: 100 million buyers shopping on their site every day and 60 million actual transactions every day. They've created 14 million jobs in China and have gown from 18 people to 30,000 staff in just 15 years. Yahoo invested $1 billion in the business. 800 million people use Alipay; the sister financial transaction system. Alibaba has a bigger market capitalization than Wallmart and IBM… wow! The average age of their staff is 28.
Jack's life is however one of overcoming rejection. He applied to 3 colleges to study teaching and he was rejected by all of them. He then gained acceptance on his fourth choice and secured his teaching qualifications. He applied for school teaching roles and failed the exams. He applied for a job with KFC and 24 people applied for roles and 23 were accepted…except Jack. He applied for job with the police with 5 other people and 4 were accepted but not Jack. After he began to be successful in business he applied for Harvard and has been rejected ten times.
He learned English by offering to be a guide to Westerners for free. This became the education that changed his life. His Chinese name was too difficult to pronounce and a tourist gave him the name 'Jack' – he adopted it.
Jack Ma is genuinely humble and here is some of Jack's advice:
- "The most important thing in commerce is TRUST. Everything I've done is to build up trust."
- "Leadership is about responsibility." He is absolutely committed to integrity, ethically and legally.
- "Never rely on the government for eCommerce."
- "If we want to change the world, change yourself first."
- "My job is making sure my team is happy. If the team is happy, it makes my customers happy."
- "The secret sauce for Alibaba's success is that we have a lot of women."
- "If someone says no, it's just the beginning."
- "Be inspired and work as a team. It's all about how you see the world – find Inspiration in movies such as Forest Gump. Life really is like a box of chocolates."
Here is an amazing and masterful interview with Jack Ma. Enjoy and learn – you're watching the world's commercial future.
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First official SSI dive center in Fuvahmulah!
April was also the month we were able to welcome the latest SSI partner to the fold here in the Maldives. Fuvahmulah Dive officially opened in mid April, and is a special dive center for a special place. Located on the equator in the very south of the Maldives, the stunning island of Fuvahmulah offers a lot of local history, as well as two fresh water lakes!
However it is the saltwater that we are interested in. Thanks to the unique location, and strong oceanic currents many large pelagics visit the areas, even by Maldives standards. Regular sightings of thresher sharks, oceanic mantas, schooling hammerheads and mola molas mean we are sure this island will soon be topping every divers must do list.
As part of the opening celebrations some of our team from Mare Scuba Concept went down to help out, and of course take in a few phenomenal dives. Tatiana and Panda from Fuvahmulah Dive were able to not only show us what the island was all about, but also bring us face to face with a tigershark! For that reason, and for trusting SSI with their new dive shop, we want to extend our deepest gratitude to Tatiana, Panda and their team.


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Her Again Is a Fascinating Portrait of a Very Young Meryl Streep
I was wandering around Chelsea a few weekends ago when I passed the Empire Diner, a retro dining car installed on the corner of 10th Avenue and 22nd Street. Founded in the mid-'40s as a greasy spoon, reborn in the '70s as an art-world hangout, the building has lately housed the Highliner, a dismally reviewed tourist trap and, most recently, a short-lived farm-to-table concept from the restaurateur Amanda Freitag. Freitag left the kitchen last summer, and now the diner appears abandoned: Windows covered in grime, a forlorn sofa parked on the sidewalk out front, it's another casualty of New York City's relentless appetite for the new and trendy.
I thought of this while reading Her Again, the journalist Michael Schulman's new biography of Meryl Streep's early career. It was to Empire Diner that Streep sneaked off with her costar John Cazale on opening night of their 1976 Shakespeare in the Park production of Measure for Measure. And, per Schulman, it was there that the two actors talked till the early hours of the morning, and began to fall in love.
That era in the life of Empire Diner is now long gone, and so is Cazale, who passed away from lung cancer in 1978, less than two years into his whirlwind romance with Streep. Six months after his death, Streep would marry her next boyfriend, the sculptor Don Gummer, now her husband of nearly four decades and the father of her four children. And shortly after that, she would get the first of her 19 Oscar nominations: a best supporting actress nod for her role as Linda, a grocery store checkout girl in Michael Cimino's controversial 1978 Vietnam-era epic, The Deer Hunter. (She wouldn't win an Academy Award until the next year, when she took home a statue for Kramer vs. Kramer.)
But Schulman is mainly interested in everything leading up to that point: how Meryl Streep became Meryl Streep, arguably the best actress of her generation and certainly among Hollywood's most beloved and rare creatures. And Empire Diner is a fitting symbol, both of Streep's capacity for reinvention and of the trendiness she's spent her career vociferously resisting. In Schulman's biography, we meet an actress who, from the outset, strove for seriousness, steadiness, and longevity, who implicitly understood that to be typecast as a Hollywood ingenue was to receive the kiss of death. And in Cazale, we see her perfect foil: a brilliant, beautiful, sensitive, and funny-faced character actor, albeit one whose career was as tragically short as Streep's has been remarkably long.
Schulman takes us through Streep's early life in chapters named for the roles she's played, both onstage and off. In "Mary," we meet Mary Louise Streep, the eldest of three, born to middle-class parents in suburban New Jersey. From childhood, Streep was annoyingly competent and talented, but it wasn't until high school that she was beautiful. Before that, Schulman writes, she looked "like a middle-aged secretary," with "cat-eye glasses" and "a brown, neck-length perm."
As a teenager, Streep scoured the pages of fashion magazines and, with a little help from peroxide and lemon juice, remade herself in the image of the sunny blondes she saw therein. It was her first great act of acting. "She studied what boys liked and what girls would accept, and memorized where the two overlapped," Schulman writes. "She found that she could mimic other people's behavior with faultless precision." It wasn't long before Streep had fashioned herself a cheerleader and a homecoming queen.
She studied voice as a child—check out last year's Ricki and the Flash for evidence—but Streep didn't develop an interest in theater until she was an undergraduate at Vassar, when, at her drama teacher's insistence, she took on the title role in Strindberg's Miss Julie. Her talent was undeniable, and it led her, at age 23, to the pressure cooker of Yale School of Drama—"Yale School of Trauma," joked her classmate, the late, great playwright Wendy Wasserstein—and after graduation, to the stage in New York.
Streep distinguished herself in various ways: a willingness to make herself ugly for roles, to disappear completely into character, and an inventiveness born from her resistance to method acting, then very much in vogue. "She was skeptical about the concept of mining her own pain, believing that misery was irrelevant to artistry," writes Schulman of Streep's Yale years. "What her instructors saw as laziness or evasion was a growing intellectual revolt against the orthodoxy of method acting, which had shaped the previous generation of actors." Streep, Schulman asserts, "preferred imagination."
She was, by then, beautiful. But Streep's looks were also unconventional, enough so that when she met with the legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis about the lead in King Kong, he called her ugly to her face. (Well, sort of: De Laurentiis was speaking in Italian, a language he was surprised to learn that the actress knew.) But in Schulman's telling, Streep's strange beauty was almost a liability for the sort of parts she wanted: challenging, boundary-pushing, avant-garde theatrical roles.
And though Hollywood eventually came calling, she had no use for fame or its trappings. "She hated parties," writes Schulman. "The most boring thing in the world was a night at Studio 54." Her first film role was in the Jane Fonda vehicle Julia, but it was Fonda's brand of stardom that made Streep most uncomfortable. "It seemed as if half of what Jane Fonda did was maintain the machinery of being Jane Fonda, as opposed to acting," Streep once said. "I admire Jane Fonda, but I also don't want to spend all my time immersing myself . . . in the business of myself . . ."
It was for love of Cazale that Streep took on one of her most conventional roles, the one that arguably landed her solidly on the Hollywood map. The Deer Hunter starred Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, and Cazale, then already quite sick, as childhood friends from the rust-belt town of Clairton, Pennsylvania, negotiating the trauma of Vietnam. Streep played Linda, the girlfriend of Walken's character, but the secret object of De Niro's character's affections. "In essence," writes Schulman, "she was playing the character she'd perfected in high school: the giggling, pliably boy-snatching cheerleader."
That role, Streep has lamented, is the one that men remember. "Of all of her characters," Schulman notes, "men her age—Bill Clinton among them—always told her that their favorite was Linda, the pliant checkout girl from The Deer Hunter. No wonder she had taken the role with such trepidation; she knew how easily the world could turn a woman into an ingenue."
The Deer Hunter took her dangerously close to Hollywood It-girl territory, but she would soon do her best to unplant those seeds. After Cazale's death, Streep threw herself into three projects simultaneously. She played the tell-all–writing ex-wife in Woody Allen's Manhattan. In Kramer vs. Kramer, she was Joanna, locked in a reckless custody battle for her son with her ex-husband, Dustin Hoffman's Ted. And she played Katherine, the lead in a Shakespeare in the Park production of The Taming of the Shrew. "Her life was like a one-woman repertory theater," Schulman writes. "Uptown, she was Joanna, the mother who leaves her son. Downtown, she was Jill, the wife who humiliates her husband. By night, in Central Park, she was Kate, the shrew to be tamed. Joanna, Jill, and Kate: three women who break the rules, leaving the men around them befuddled, cowed, and furious."
In the story of the filming of Kramer vs. Kramer, Schulman has his most salacious material. (To say that Streep and Hoffman didn't quite see eye to eye is an understatement: At one point, Schulman writes, Hoffman, very much in the camp of method acting, slapped Streep to rouse her ire; in other scenes, he would taunt her about the very recent death of Cazale.) But for the most part, Her Again is a measured, insightful, and quietly fascinating portrait, not only of Streep, but of her entire milieu.
Schulman occasionally regards his subject with a breathless reverence, painting her as a sort of magical, unknowable unicorn of a person. At Yale she's "a burst of color amid the ersatz Gothic facades"; to Cazale she was "like a color TV, only better, because her colors were so infinite you couldn't possibly tune them all"; in the prologue she's "everything and nothing—a chameleon."
But it's hard to fault Schulman when his telling is informed by wonderful, strange anecdotes like these: On March 12, 1978, a doctor sitting at Cazale's hospital bedside declared him dead. Streep, unwilling to accept it, wept and pounded on her lover's chest.
And momentarily, she seemed to bring him back: Cazale's eyes fluttered open for a second, and his last words were a reassurance. "It's all right, Meryl," he said. "It's all right . . ."


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Ka'Vyea Tyson witnessed the shooting that killed his father at a gas station last Friday and family members say it was their worst fear that he would get out of the hospital and have to look over his shoulder, wondering if the shooter would come back.
The fourth grader has a long road ahead of him, but now family says this is one less thing he will have to worry about.
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Ka'Vyea is heavily sedated Thursday night and said to be making little progress, but when he wakes up his family can tell him Thursday's good news.
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Shuffle Master Of The Universe
"Ready?" my father asks, his voice booming, cutting through the din of the hospital room. He bends toward my grandfather, Ye Ye, who is sitting on the edge of the bed, and grabs him by the armpits. I touch Ye Ye on the shoulder, and even though I can feel all the way to the bone, I get the sensation of dredging through mud with a wet paper towel. His skin stretches and responds, but not his body.
"Okay. Up we go! Stand up!"
Ye Ye groans as he is pulled off the bed. He looks down and giggles as if we're playing a game where he's supposed to move around the room without touching the floor and he's clearly winning. "Hee hee!"
The male nurse says to me, "I'll take the other side. His legs are buckling again. Here, set him down."
My father and I lower my grandfather on the bed. His white hair floats up, then down as he makes contact with the mattress.
"Can you move that thing closer?" the nurse asks, kicking out a foot to hook one of the wheels of the portable toilet.
I let go of my grandfather's arm to reposition the toilet. Viewed from the back, the toilet and my grandfather, who once stood almost six feet tall, look similar in size and posture.
The nurse says, "On the count of three."
I brace the back wheel of the toilet with my foot.
"Two," my father and the nurse each take a lunchmeat-colored forearm.
"Three!" My father and the nurse hoist Ye Ye into the air. He's so light they overshoot the seat by about two feet. Ye Ye is giggling again as he levitates. Before they land him the nurse adjusts his gown so that the fabric is respectfully piled up on his lap.
"There you are," the nurse says.
"Okay," my father commands. "Now poop."
It comes. Like a rainy night in Georgia, a torrent long and wide hits the hard bucket. The plastic is tough and opaque but there's enough force in the dark matter to cast shadows of craggy trees and eerie horsemen against its white walls. The odor comes next, cutting into the smiles of relief on everyone's faces.
"It's the medication," my father tries to explain to my grandfather, who is madly sniffing in search of "who dealt it." Except for his yellow toenails, he looks like a child, swinging his feet and whizzing his head back and forth. Suddenly he spots the nurse and greets him with a lift of his hand. Ye Ye bows his head and smiles politely, signaling that he was finished and the gentleman's turn was next.
The nurse, toilet paper at the ready, cannot help smiling.
"Tomorrow," my grandfather says, sitting back with a bemused look on his face, "tomorrow I'm going to buy this place a door."
In 1999 at the age of 85, my grandfather complained of a headache, took two Tylenols, lost his mind and never got it back. He was living with my father in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where my grandparents had moved to in 1985, after 70-plus years living in China and Taiwan. Since it wasn't Alzheimer's technically, just good old regular dementia, after several weeks in the hospital my father felt he would be more comfortable – for a number of cultural and linguistic reasons – if he returned to live at home.
My father was working as a physicist for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and couldn't be home during the day to be with my grandfather. Luckily, Los Alamos is home to an eclectic community of scientists, and my father was soon introduced to an out-of-work Chinese mathematician. The mathematician offered to take care of my grandfather during working hours – not because he needed the money but because he felt it was his fate to do so. He told my father that he had not been allowed to go back to China to care for his parents before they died, and looking after my grandfather would restore the imbalance in his mind.
Besides, my demented grandfather, who had always been so cold and laconic, had suddenly become "fun." He was chatty. He giggled. He returned to a time where his memory was still vivid, where he enjoyed imaginary cigarettes with co-workers and worried about where to get lunch.
Every few months, I flew out from Los Angeles to take care of him, and watched his sanity flow in and out. He had regained some of his physical strength but often had no idea who I was. If I called out "Ye Ye," he'd respond with a jerk of the head that was almost Pavlovian, and if I told him I was the daughter of his only son, he'd often laugh and say he didn't have a son. If I asked him if he could tell me what my name was, he'd laugh even harder and say, "Such an easy question. As if I didn't know!"
He'd tell me about people I have never heard of, old pals, and then he'd say, "Call a taxi! Let's get out of here and get noodles on such-and-such street," referring to his old neighborhood in Taiwan. When I asked if he was going to get the beef or the lamb, he'd look at me suspiciously as if I were about to steal his lunch money. Other times, he was profoundly lucid, calling my father by his childhood nickname and reading newspaper headlines out loud in English, a language he had studied long ago but never actually spoken. The doctors said his reading comprehension was probably part of his long-term memory, the part of the brain the dementia didn't zap.
On one of my visits, I asked Ye Ye, "What do you think about making dumplings today?" My grandfather had never been a talker, so one way of testing the waters of his sanity was to see his response to things he used to love to do. Today he paused, almost saddened by the thought. After a few seconds his face lit up, having just scanned the refrigerator of his mind. "Yes! We have those Chinese chive buds!" It was true, though how he knew that was beyond me.
"Okay!" I started to get excited. "What do we do?"
"Oh, we have plenty of time."
"What time do you think it is?" I asked cautiously.
"Ha ha ha," he replied.
"Shouldn't I start the dough?"
"Oh," he said, rubbing his chin. "It might be too far to walk."
"I can drive," I said, hoping to steer the conversation back.
He waved me off and went to lie down on the couch.
Real Chinese food in America is rare enough but Chinese food in Los Alamos is on par with the yeti. My grandparents had succeeded not only in growing Chinese vegetables that were more accustomed to the humid climate of Taiwan than New Mexico, they mixed their own red bean paste, wrapped their own sticky rice zongzi and brewed their own rice wine. When they moved to the US, they left behind my grandmother's jewelry but brought with them the wok used for smoking duck and a particular cheesecloth ideal for squeezing soybeans into milk. Apparently, when they were fleeing the Japanese invasion of China, my grandmother wept as she ditched her giant soup pot on the side of the road.
My grandmother had passed away several years before Ye Ye's illness. Like typical grandparents they had very little of their history written down. The recipes they did have were old and vague, with a lot of missing steps, or there were several versions, paper-clipped together with the most recent iteration on top, seduced onto paper by my father.
For example, the recipe for my grandparents' Wind Chicken (风鸡 fengji) changed from "2 spoons" salt to "4T" and then "roughly 1½-2T" over a period of five years. The modification reads more like my grandparents trying to appease my father's nagging about their salt intake rather than any type of real direction.
The recipe itself is simple. Take a whole chicken, pat dry, rub it inside and out with some amount of salt and Sichuan peppercorns and hang it up using two chopsticks in an "old home" (老家 laojia) technique for 2-3 days in a "cool and windy yet sunny place" – a place like Taiwan in winter, or a backyard overlooking White Rock Canyon in New Mexico. Let the chicken rest in the fridge for a couple of days. Cut it into large pieces and steam to serve.
Neither of my grandparents had been trained as chefs – they were an engineer and nurse-turned-housewife – but cooking to them was all about living in the present. They didn't bog themselves down with how they did it last time, or how they would do it in the future. They just cared about this piece of meat, this one carrot, this can of broth.
Improvising as they went along, they relied on years of experience and intuition to determine how long to soak or boil things. Sure, they lamented the lack of Yunnan ham or whole black chickens in America, but they were able to adapt on the spot. It's called the zone – being able to feel one's way toward a solution rather than think. Thinking leads to overthinking. We've all seen it happen. In sports it's called choking. In restaurants it's known as overcooked meat. The body has to overtake the mind.
My father, the consummate physicist, has never understood this. He thrives on precision. He makes the same meals the same way every time, since that's the way he likes it and that's the way he does it. To his credit, he makes a lot of different dishes, and they all taste good and distinct from each other. But each dish satisfies the rigorous scientific test of repeatability.
A piece of baked tofu is cut in half, then each half is sliced into three slices, and then cut into strips. God forbid you do it any other way. The same is true for watering fruit trees. Turn on the hose so that the stream of water is one half the width of your pinky. Let drip for 45 minutes. The line to fill the water to in the rice cooker is 1/8th inch above a particular ding in the metal pot. To boil eight ounces of water, place the cup in the microwave for exactly one minute and 50 seconds on high. Measurements for slicing vegetables are given in 1/16th-inch increments or in percentages. Both my brother and I are extremely adept at dividing a pie into five equal pieces. Anything that has to do with dough, or variable percentages of ingredients baffles him; those dishes have never made it into his repertoire. Dad's always been frustrated by the phrase "add as needed."
Obviously, he'd be ecstatic if the dumpling master found an apprentice.
After Ye Ye's nap I heard a toilet flush near his bedroom. When he emerged he had a big smile on his face and a long wet stain on his pants. Sometimes his fingers fumbled too long with his zipper. Sometimes he lost his balance in the bathroom and leaned backwards as he peed. In any case, he never heard of a man who peed sitting down, and he definitely refused to wear a diaper.
"Do you know who I am?" I asked.
He smiled.
"Who am I?"
"Ready?" he said with a goofy grin.
I pointed to his crotch. "Let's change your pants first."
"Nah," he said, dismissing me very curtly.
I made a hand motion urging him back to his room.
"We're making dumplings," he blurted.
"Pants first?"
"Please?" I said, looking sad.
"Okay," he said, dropping his pants right there and shuffling to the kitchen in his baby blue boxers.
After finding a clean pair of pants and threading his belt, I joined him at the table, reunited with the yellow Tupperware flour container and the red measuring cup I had known all my life.
"Did you wash your hands?" he asked, elbowing me away from the stainless steel bowl. He clearly didn't believe me.
"Yeah, yeah." I handed him clean pants. I don't know if mise-en-place applies to being dressed appropriately in the kitchen, but I do know there isn't an equivalent phrase for such nonsense in Chinese. You are allowed to make dumplings in your underwear, as long as the dumplings are good.
"If you washed them, then you washed them."
What about you, buddy? I smiled and said nothing.
"So what's the ratio?" I asked, taking the lid off the tub of flour.
He cocked his head to one side. "Three to one."
"Three what?"
"Three cups water to one cup flour."
"Maybe it's four."
"Are you sure it's not three cups flour one cup water?"
"No. It's four."
"One – two – three." He poured three cups of flour into the bowl and then sat there, staring at the bowl. Slowly, he added one cup of water. "Four. See?"
Using chopsticks to work the dough in tight little circles, he added a little more flour, a little more water and then a little more flour. He kept mixing until the water and flour came together, leaving the sides of the bowl almost clean. Then he emptied the bowl onto the counter and started to knead.
After several minutes the dough formed a smooth ball. He pinched it several times and nodded. It looked pretty good to him and it looked pretty good to me. He dropped the ball back into its bowl, battled a stubborn piece of plastic wrap and took a seat at the table. As soon as he turned his back I copped a feel of the dough so that I would remember the texture the next time I made it.
Behind me erupted a delightful slurping sound. I looked over to see his arms extended across the table, his hands clenched as if cradling a small egg. "Can you pour me some more tea?" he asked.
"Sure," I said, walking over and making a pouring movement into his fist.
"Ah," he said as he slurped again. "This tea is so sweet. It must be the fresh tea you brought from Los Angeles."
He waited for me to take a sip. I hesitated. He assured me it wasn't too hot.
After he finished his "tea," Ye Ye slapped his hand on the table with excitement. He motioned me to stay seated and went to take out a package of ground pork from the freezer and the Chinese chive buds from the fridge. The pork was defrosted at exactly one notch above LOW on the microwave dial for exactly eight minutes. I washed the chive buds and cut them into precise 3/8th-inch pieces while my grandfather rummaged through the cabinet and came up with a bottle of soy sauce. Grappling with the fancy new pour spout, he mumbled my grandmother's name like a Hail Mary. Then he started pouring.
And he poured.
And poured.
"Whee!!!" he giggled, flooding my chives into little islands.
Hello Mr. High Blood Pressure? I envisioned my father's face after taking a bite of these dumplings. His face would go red. Steam would whistle out his ears and then he'd pull out that thing – the sphygmomanometer – to measure his blood pressure.
"Fish sauce!" Ye Ye said, ducking back into the cabinet.
"Isn't that a lot of soy sauce?"
My grandfather laughed again, squirting fish sauce out of the bottle with sharp jabs.
"Shouldn't we dump some out?" I asked, tilting the bowl back and forth to accentuate the sloshing.
"No no," he said, wrapping his arm around the bowl and giving me a big smile. He turned his back to me, cradling the bowl, and began stirring the filling, using chopsticks in a controlled manner so the great sea didn't spill.
After a few minutes he stiffened and looked at the contents of the bowl over the tops of his glasses. His hair stood straight up and his mouth opened. Very carefully, he balanced some meat on his chopsticks. He looked at the bowl, he looked at me, and then he stuck the chopsticks in his mouth.
"That's raw!" I screamed, lunging for the chopsticks. Bad news, Dad. Ye Ye's got trichinosis.
My grandfather ran. Ran. This guy, the Shuffle Master of the Universe, took a lap around the stove island, paused for a breather at the table, then sprinted for the sink, hugging the bowl the whole time. He rolled his eyes for a second before he spit the pork out. With drool running down his chin he turned and laughed at me. His eyes teared up with joy. He laughed so hard I could see my own reflection in his fillings. I stood there, dumbfounded, watching his tongue waggle, him laughing so hard he had to rest both elbows on the counter, until it occurred to me that he had just tasted the meat to see if it was seasoned properly in the same manner he and my grandmother had done for over 50 years.
This method was something they had hid from my father, who probably had lunged and screamed at them the first time he saw them do it and scolded them never to do it again. My father, who could go off to work and come home to perfectly seasoned dumplings, had made it clear that bacteria was not welcome in his house. After our breathing returned to normal, Ye Ye and I looked at each other and laughed again, one last terrific laugh, each one eyeing the other for a sign of sanity.
Needless to say the dumplings were delicious, and my grandfather, as was his norm, ate two and a half platefuls of them. By my father's quick calculation, using tableware specs and the size of an average dumpling, that makes for fifty dumplings, plus-minus one.
text and illustrations by Angie Lee
Angie Lee is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Her work has been published in Witness, Diagram, Airshipdaily and Entropy. She sells Chinese tea and teapots at 1001plateaus.com and offers tastings with Linda Louie from Bana Tea Company at Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. Angie blogs about tea, coffee and dogs at moonquake.org. Technically she eats Chinese food every day.


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The bucket hat has dethroned the fedora as the chapeau du jour.
Forget about "Gilligan's Island" and the Kangol caps of the '90s: The bucket hat has dethroned the fedora as the chapeau du jour.
Spotted these days on megastars including Pharrell and Justin Bieber, the floppy topper has also showed up on fashion runways, most notably Prada and Lacoste. Here are seven updated versions to choose from:
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We'll observe the birthdays of two giants in black history—Rosa Parks, born February 5 102 years ago and Abe Lincoln. We'll feature a long interview with Rosa Parks done during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in which she describes what led to her refusal to give up her seat.
And to honor Abe, we present a rare recording of the classic radio cantata 'Lonesome Train', a once famous but now forgotten portrayal of Lincoln as populist icon. Done on national network radio during World War II by Earl Robinson and Millard Lampell, the work was obscured when its authors were blacklisted in the 50s. "You couldn't quite tell where the people left off and where Abe Lincoln began."
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Iranian-state media have been defending Iraj Masjedi, Tehran's new ambassador to Baghdad. Masjedi is a member of the Qods Force, the external branch of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. Al-Alam, the Iranian-sponsored media outlet that is aimed at the Arabic-speaking world, quoted Iraq's National Security Advisor, Falih al-Fayyad, to say that Masjedi is welcome in Baghdad and that "he is someone [Iraqis] know and appreciate for his past record in Iraq."
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No balls, no blue chips--James J. Roberts
One of the reasons why my late husband was so very dear. And far more curmudgeonly than I. This was one of his favorite sayings to me whenever I dithered.
Having read Joe's entry today about the snitblogger who bashed him back in May, I simply had to go and read her entry for myself. As Joe noted, her band of merry morons were far more amusing to read than the blogger's rant about Joe's fiber snobbery.
Hear this: There is absolutely NO reason whatsoever to use shit yarn, especially now that KnitPicks offers good stuff at low prices. If you can't afford decent yarn, try plastic canvas needlework. Why bother putting hours of work using materials that are crummy and will fall apart after a year? I never did see the rationale behind this and I guess I really don't care to understand it either.
I am an elitist knitter and I've never made any bones about it. Bite me.
On a Roll
I'm feeling particularly petulant today, I suppose from the stress of moving. However, I finally picked up the latest Interweave Knits at Borders, after flipping through the other bad and hideous knitting magazines. Besides a batch of feh-to-fugly designs in IK, I really did love the felted intarsia carpetbag. Absolutely the best felted bag I've ever seen, and God knows there's a shitload of mediocre ones out there. I'm sorely tempted to make this, even though I don't care for intarsia. The article on shiburi was interesting, as was Deborah Newton's article on edgings (although I didn't always agree with her). Which leads me to another burr that's been irritating me.
Knitting Does NOT Act Like Cloth Fabric
While going through the knitting magazines at Borders the other day, it struck me that more and more designers are trying to force knitted fabric to act as woven fabric. Square or sweetheart necklines? Never in knitting. Instant failure. Knitted applied pockets? Watch it, they may be too heavy and clunky for the lines of the design (see the aforementioned Deborah Newton's jacket in IK for a fine example of this).
You want to re-create a Chanel suit? Do it in cloth. Coco knew what she was doing.
Le Mess
Ten days to go before we move. I hate the disorder but at least I truly understand that it's finite.
The blue bag, a birthday present from Joe last year, holds the ripped-out Slainte. The Flow Blue porcelain formerly in the china cabinet is all packed.
However, you can see at the lower right some skeins of yarn.
Stubborn to the last minute. I have no doubt the new owners will find errant skeins that were stuffed in small spaces. Nice housewarming giftie, eh?
Still spinning, though. Another two full bobbins of the Starry Night done, with plying done on the QT this weekend during breaks from packing. And the Estonian scarf/shawl has been an excellent stress reliever. I'm looking forward to Nancy Bush's new book on Estonian knitting.
Now THAT's elitist knitting for ya, in a good way. Estonian knitting. These Fun-Fur babes don't know how rare and handy knitting can be. Too bad for them.


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On thinging things and serving services: technological mediation and inseparable goods. Ethics and information technology. 15:195–208.. 2013.
Socio-Technical Security Metrics (Dagstuhl Seminar 14491). Dagstuhl Reports. 4:1–28.. 2015.
Security-by-Experiment: Lessons from Responsible Deployment in Cyberspace. Science and Engineering Ethics. N/A. 2015.
Security-by-Experiment: Lessons from Responsible Deployment in Cyberspace. Science and Engineering Ethics. N/A. 2016.
Security analysis of socio-technical physical systems. Computers & Electrical Engineering. online. 2015.
Reconciling Malicious and Accidental Risk in Cyber Security. Journal of Internet Services and Information Security. 4:4–26.. 2014.
Reachability-based impact as a measure for insiderness. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications. 4:38–48.. 2013.
Quantitative Penetration Testing with Item Response Theory. Journal of Information Assurance and Security. 9:118–127.. 2014.
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Priming and warnings are not effective to prevent social engineering attacks. Computers in Human Behavior. 66:75–87.. 2017.
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We all know how important exercise is to our overall health, but finding a way to fit in a trip to the gym – let alone finding the money to cover the expense of a personal trainer – is a challenge too great for many of us to overcome. That doesn't mean you have to hang up your sneakers though! With a bit of thinking about your own personal goals, and some planning, you'll be well on your way to having a weekly fitness strategy that fits you and your busy schedule! At Home Improvement Leads, we want to help everyone take care of themselves as well as the environment. Here are our tips for how to create a weekly workout plan that works for you.
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I use my gym time for things I can't do at home: free weights and resistance machines, and in the winter the treadmill. At home I have a yoga mat and 2 pads for the elbows or feet, and use these to do various planks and other calisthenics. And luckily for me there is a big dirt lot at the bottom of my driveway so I can "trail run" laps a few times a week. Recently started doing that with 30-minute sessions of high-intensity interval training (sprinting for a minute then running for a minute or 2 then sprinting...) to get what feels like a better workout in less time than my previous cardio routine of long "leisurely" runs for over an hour.
I still workout at home sometimes. I've been slowly buying weights so I can have a little home gym. Saves a lot of time
Home workouts are great, especially for the weekends. The hardest thing for me is getting in the right mindset. When I am home, I just want to chill! I find it helps me by getting outside and doing the workout in the sun!


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text: Researchers have linked genetic changes in the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) gene, which affects the regulation of the body's stress system, to suicide risk and psychiatric illness. The study of epigenetic changes in the body's hormone-based stress system has shown that stress-related changes in the CRH gene are linked to both serious suicide attempts in adults and psychiatric illness in adolescents. The research study, which is a collaboration among researchers at Umeå University, Karolinska Institutet, and Uppsala University in Sweden, was published online on December 18, 2017 in EBioMedicine. The open-access article is titled "Epigenetic Changes in the CRH Gene Are Related to Severity of Suicide Attempt and a General Psychiatric Risk Score in Adolescents." Previous studies have indicated an overactive stress system in individuals with increased suicide risk. In the current study, researchers report that epigenetic changes in the CRH gene, which are linked to serious suicide attempts in adults, could also be found in adolescents with high risk of psychiatric illness. Recently published research output shows that serious suicide attempts lead to a heavily reduced lifespan with an increased suicide risk and risk of mortality from natural causes, particularly in adolescents. In the last ten years, it has become twice as common for Swedish adolescents between the ages of 10 and 17 to suffer from psychiatric illness. An alarming increase also in young adults can be seen. This is according to a recently published report from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. In the current study described in EBioMedicine, researchers examined 88 individuals who had attempted suicide. The participants were divided into high- and low-risk groups based upon the severity of their suicidal behavior. Through blood samples of the participants, epigenetic markers in the form of DNA methylation in the stress system-related genes were analyzed. In the next step, the discovered epigenetic changes in the CRH gene were studied in blood samples from two other cohort studies including 129 and 93 adolescents respectively in the age span of 14 to 17. The adolescents were divided into high- and low-risk groups based upon assessments of their psychiatric symptoms. The results show that epigenetic changes in the CRH gene were more prevalent in the group of adolescents with an increased risk of psychiatric illness. "Because psychiatric illness is a serious and growing public health problem, it's important that we take early signs of psychiatric illness and suicidal behavior into consideration in suicide prevention," says Dr. Jussi Jokinen, Professor in Psychiatry at Umeå University who led the current study. "Our environment affects our genetic expression, which is usually referred to as epigenetic change. Even if we aren't able to draw distinct parallels between the findings in these cohort studies, our results still point towards the importance of an optimal regulation of the stress system for psychiatric illness." The image here was originally painted by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).