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Monday, November 19, 2012
#Gaza : The Palestinians are coming the Palestinians are coming !!
That IDF ground offensive seems to be too close especially with the statements of Bibi's online that Israel will continue to escalate.The news coming from Cairo that the negotiations between Hamas and Israel have failed on Sunday makes the possibility of ground offensive very likely unfortunately.
In normal countries I do not find a reason why some people would be against having refugees camps just in case Palestinians escape from the hell of IDF invasion. But this is in normal countries not in Egypt especially now.
TV hosts like Lamis El Hadidy and Amr Adeeb are scaring millions of Egyptian viewers tonight claiming that these camps are actually future settlements for the Palestinians who will invade Sinai.
These TV hosts supported by a media machine that is either connected to the former regime in a way or another or can not stomach the Muslim brotherhood are playing the fear factor game in an excellent way. It is not a secret that Israel and some American administrations have spoke before about giving Sinai to the Palestinians as substitute land.
Already there are some reports saying that Qatar got another old plan , Egypt to restore the control on Gaza like in Pre1967 days still despite the Muslim brotherhood is ok with this suggestion , the army is standing against it.
The only way to stop this from happening is to develop Sinia for real and to facilitate the internal immigration of Egyptians for the valley to Sinai.
For human reasons these camps should be ready to receive any refugees , it is an obligation.
Now if you fear of Palestinian invasion , you have to express this fear not only to the president but to the army.
I am not afraid from Palestinian invasion because the Palestinians will not accept it nor will the Egyptians accept too. In fact if Morsi by any chance loses in anyway Sinai ,the Muslim brotherhood's end will be written by the hands of Egyptian people for real.
Let's leave that fear behind and pray that the situation does not escalate to that extent.
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- Anonymous11/19/2012 12:53:00 AM
In fact what you cite as the Qatar option is supported and advocated by big time Zionists and friends of Israel.This plan also is about annexing the "remains"of the West bank to Jordan!This way the world kisses Palestine good bye!!Agree with you on those opportunist anchors and their "fear game"strategists!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/19/2012 09:51:00 AM
i think this would shed light about who is really behind this...ReplyDelete
Qatar interventions: A visit & meeting with top officials followed by a selective bombing by the IDF and senior Hamas leaders assassinations ...!!ReplyDelete
"Palestinians will not take Sinai from Egypt ... It is Egypt who should take Gaza from Israel ..."
And the Muslim brotherhood will be united, And have their own big state,And end the suffering of Palestinians ,And begin real development for the poors living in one of the most populated areas,And end occupation lasting for more than 40 years , And money will flow from all the corners of the world to ease the sufferings of free Gaza, Egypt will not pay a dime just the opposite ...
This is what the devil is whispering in the ears of some Egyptian top officials...
I pray that I am wrong on this one ...
Nevertheless, one thing ya Zeinab : How can we stop Lamis - Amr & Emad from appearing on the screen ??? They are more dangerous than the guys from Al-Hafez channel who appear daily from midnight till ElFagr payer....
- Anonymous11/19/2012 01:40:00 PM
I'm so sick of this "wait and see" attitude here, why should we give Morsi the chance to lose the Sinai in the first place, it's only then that the future of the MB will be in our hands... Amr Adeeb and his colleagues can be very annoying at times, I tune out when it gets too much, however, I don't know about everyone else but I have to admit to being very apprehensive and scared about possible deals the MB are making with Hamas/Palestine etc, frankly if you're not a little frightened about it then I would go so far as to say you are foolish. Refugee camps, OK, no problems we can help them, but can you really be 100% sure that they will go home when it's over. Egypt belongs to EGYPTIANS... this is OUR land, not Hamas's not the Palestinians, not Israels, it's OURS and the Egyptian people should have a say in what happens to it.ReplyDelete
Oh and please stop the ridiculous "connected to the former regime conspiracy" rubbish .. for God's sake the MB are a carbon copy of the former regime, only much much worse. As for developing Sinai ... we've been saying that for ages .. Amr Adeeb has been saying that for ages .. where's the "former regime connections" there ... Wake up fellow Egyptians, look at the facts and hold on to your country, our countrymen died taking it back, it's time we looked after it properly.
- Anonymous11/20/2012 03:31:00 AM
Sometimes ago I commented that Hamas is an Israel tool created to help them play the plot of divide and conquer, same as MB and the british. The simplest feedback I got I am conspiracy minded. Wait and see.. The game is to divide Egypt at Sinai, make it controlled palestinian state, and create Muslims and Copts collision to split uper and lower Egypt. Then Egypt will be a benign neighbour. A ninety millions advancing neighbour is far more dangerous than war.ReplyDelete
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Man, he's got some brass ones- actually used the same name- maybe he thinks there has been enough time and people won't remember?Life At Zen wrote:serenassong wrote:Was just over on the TBC FB page- someone named Matthew Chang put up a post about TBC names and real names.
Not sure if this is the same guy or not, please be careful- I hope I'm wrong
Same guy. He's like Beetlejuice, we said his name too many times.
Situation under control on FB- too many made the connection and were smart enough not to reply

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The three points made in my previous post—that services particularly fail poor people, money is not the solution, and "the solution" is not the solution—can be explained by failures of accountability in the service delivery chain. This was the cornerstone of the 2004 World Development Report, Making Services Work for Poor People. In a private market—when I buy a sandwich, for example—there is a direct or "short route" of accountability between the client (me) and the sandwich provider. I pay him directly; I know whether I got a sandwich or not; and If I don't like the sandwich, I can go elsewhere—and the provider knows that.
For services such as education, health, water and sanitation, societies have eschewed private markets, and decided that they should be financed and/or provided by the state. The accountability then becomes an indirect one, where citizens influence politicians for the services they want, and the politicians or policymakers in turn have to influence service providers (teachers and doctors, for example) to deliver the services. There are now at least two places where accountability can break down. First, poor people may not have sufficient "voice" to influence politicians, so the lion's share of public health spending goes to urban hospitals which the non-poor demand. Secondly, policymakers may not be able to hold providers accountable; absentee teachers and doctors are the result. Frustrated by the failure of the "long route of accountability", poor people often resort to the short route, by sending their kids to private schools or private doctors, by buying water from tankers, etc.
Although the accountability triangle has become a workhorse in the service delivery field, ten years on, I see three shortcomings to the framework.
1. The two links of the long route are not symmetric. Since there are two places that accountability can break down—"voice" and the compact between policymakers and providers—it is tempting to work on both. From cameras in the classroom to bonus pay for showing up, people have proposed numerous ways to make providers accountable to policymakers. But if the underlying politics is dysfunctional, fixing the compact won't work. An experiment in Rajasthan that introduced time-stamp machines to reduce nurses' absenteeism failed when, the day before the program was to start, the machines were vandalized. A randomized control trial in Kenya had two groups—the government and an NGO—implement a program of contract teachers. Student learning outcomes improved for the NGO-run program only. The authors attribute the difference to the fact that the government-run program was captured by powerful teachers unions who delayed its implementation. On reflection, this point is not surprising. Why would we think that a politician who is not interested in delivering services to poor people would allow programs that strengthen provider accountability? Jim Robinson describes such programs as "politician-proof public policy."
The implication is that, before trying to fix the incentives for providers, we need to work on the incentives facing politicians.But how?There are no easy answers, but information campaigns and citizen engagement can play a role, as discussed in several sessions of the WDR2004 Tenth Anniversary conference.
2. The only short route is the market. The market is certainly an example of the short route, as mentioned above. But other instruments, such as vouchers or citizen report cards, have been referred to as cases of the short route, including in the 2004 WDR. But a voucher program still requires a politician to decide that students should receive vouchers (rather than teachers or schools receiving the money directly). Once the decision has been made, then vouchers in the hands of students or their parents act the way market instruments do. Citizen report cards, while they provide clients with information about the quality of providers, do not strengthen clients' ability to hold providers accountable unless the clients have a choice among providers, and a provider's remuneration depends on clients' choosing him (as with vouchers).
By not coming clean and saying in the 2004 WDR that the only short route is the market, we may be overlooking a host of distortions associated with markets—asymmetric information, oligopolies, etc.These could make the short route less attractive.Inasmuch as poor people are resorting to the market for services that government is failing to deliver, we should understand how these markets work and, if necessary, explore ways of regulating them to improve services.The work on education markets in Punjab, Pakistan is a fruitful step in this direction.
3. Changing incentives v. changing norms. The WDR accountability framework suggests that teachers and doctors are absent because (i) they get paid whether or not they show up for work; (ii) they have lucrative opportunities outside; and (iii) they have political power to maintain the status quo. But teachers and doctors in Sweden and France face the same incentives—and show up for work every day. The reason could be that providers in these countries behave according to a set of professional norms. Absenteeism hurts your reputation among your peers; and politicians will be blamed if teachers and doctors provide poor services. Meanwhile, in South Asia and Africa, provider absenteeism is accepted among peers, and even among the public. The question is: how do societies move from one set of professional norms to another? I am looking forward to this year's WDR, "Mind and Culture", for some answers to this question.
In sum, the 2004 WDR's main contribution was the accountability framework. But with each leg of the triangle, there are some shortcomings—which is a good reason to have had a conference.
"But teachers and doctors in
"But teachers and doctors in Sweden and France face the same incentives—and show up for work every day"
Very good post. Concerning this issue: we all respond to incentives (market), values (culture) and orders (hierarchy), or to any combination of these. This is an old idea, certainly not mine. Designing the right public policy in Africa requires to address specific elements of every society.
Jose, thanks for your comment
Jose, thanks for your comment. You're right that incentives, values and orders affect service delivery. The question is: which of these can you change in order to improve outcomes? We have traditionally thought that incentives are the easiest to change. But sometimes changing incentives without changes in culture and order has little impact. So perhaps we should start thinking about ways in which culture could be changed, as the experience with role models, soap operas and the like suggest. Shanta
Absolutely, that's also
Absolutely, that's also economic policy since it affects resource allocation. Let's remember the lessons from Nudge (Sunstein$Thaler).
For health the short route is
No short route for health
You are absolutely right Shanta, the short route is the market and over 50 years ago Kenneth Arrow showed that this is not the route to go for health. This is because of the fundamental market failure caused by huge asymmmetries in information between suppliers and consumers of services. Buying health services is definitely not like buying sandwiches where on viewing (and maybe squeezing) the product you can make a fairly reasonable judgment about its quality. You can also make rational decisions when asked: do you want brown or white bread, pickles, mayonnaise etc.
Now compare this when you visit a doctor selling services in a health market and you have a strange abdominal pain. When she insists on a bank of expensive tests how can you risk turning any of them down? Likewise how on earth can one judge the effectiveness of the range of little pills offered up as a cure? It's therefore very easy to get ripped off.
Given this vulnerability, sick and desperate people are often very bad purchasers of healthcare and this is why across the globe, states step in because they can do a better job. That's how we end up with the longer route. I am not saying by any means that states always perform will in this area and the WDR highlighted many examples of the long route failing for a variety of reasons. However at all income levels there are scores of examples of state governed agencies doing a great job in purchasing health services efficiently and equitably for their populations.
On the other hand I can't think of a single example, in health, of where the short route, ie the market, has worked. It's a pity that WDR 2004 didn't say this more clearly but it's great that, through the recent Lancet Commission, the authors of WDR 1993 are saying this loud and clear.
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Rob: Thanks for the comment.
Rob: Thanks for the comment. The problem of asymmetric information, which you highlight, is several market failures in health, especially in poor countries. The others are: (i) public goods and externalities, such as immunization and the draining of swamps to reduce malaria; and (ii) insurance market failures (Akerlof, Rothschild-Stiglitz, etc.) If governments can address these two, they can have huge impacts on the welfare of poor people. Unfortunately, they don't. The public goods portion of public health spending is appallingly low (usually about 10-20 percent). Most of the spending goes for hospitals in urban areas. Why? Because everybody--rich and poor--need catastrophic care. Lacking insurance markets, people lobby for having publicly-funded hospitals nearby. Not surprisingly, the non-poor, who have greater political power, are able to make sure that these hospitals are located where they live. So governments' failure to tackle the insurance market failure leads to under-spending on genuine public goods and poor people being left out of catastrophic insurance. These are the first-order problems in delivering health services to poor people. Regards, Shanta
Thanks Shanta for this post.
Thanks Shanta for this post. I'll contribute to the debate around the following statement:
"But a voucher program still requires a politician to decide that students should receive vouchers "
I think that even if the politicians want to decide in such a way, they should find a solution to the opposition of unions and there is a role of competition here. I propose that governments should launch a special 3-5 years program putting into competition three types of schools:
- 1st case (private school): give vouchers to poor people to access to a private school.
- 2nd case (public school): raise the wages of teachers and putting in place a control system for absenteeism.
- 3rd case (public school): normally managed public school with no special action.
At the end of each year, a selection of students from each school will pass the same exam and corrected by the same teacher. A final detailed evaluation of the results and the costs of each case should be done and published to the public. This evaluation should be the basis for discussion between the government, the unions and representatives from the civil society.
And here, the World Bank could play a role in supporting civil society (TA and Funding) to be able to supervise the efficiency of the reform and in helping the government to fund the program.
Mehdi: Thanks for the
Mehdi: Thanks for the suggestion. While I like the idea of running a controlled experiment to overcome the opposition of unions, I think the experiment should permit a true comparison. We can't give vouchers just for private schools. The point about vouchers is that students have a choice among schools, be they public or private, and the fact that schools receive the money only if students enroll there creates an incentive for the schools to improve the quality of service delivery. So we can have one experiment where we introduce vouchers in some (randomly chosen) districts and in others, continue to have government spending go directly to the school. And then compare student performance between the two sets of districts (this is similar to experiments done in Bogota,Colombia, Chile, Bangladesh, etc.) A second possibility is to put in place a control system for absenteeism (again, randomly, possibly combined with a bonus for teachers for being present, and compare the results with areas where this system was not in place. This is similar to the experiments with cameras in Rajasthan, or the time-stamp machines, or even contract teachers. Again, a pairwise comparison between the control and treatment groups could yield insights here. But, as I mentioned in the blog post, both the time-stamp machines and contract teachers experiments were undermined by politics. So we need to find experiments that we can implement successfully, and show the results of these to the unions. Shanta
Thanks Shanta for this good
Thanks Shanta for this good post. I would actually go with the last point on changing the mind set or culture. This for me is the most critical issue not just in terms of teachers and doctors but politicians as well. Transforming the culture of selfishness at the expense of the nation/the poor and so forth, into a culture of selflessness that benefits the nation/the poor, is the challenge of our time. Where do you start from? Have my views but I also look forward to WDRs mind and culture report. It will make for a fascinating reading!
Stuart: Thanks for the
Stuart: Thanks for the comment. While we wait for the 2015 WDR to come out, why don't you share your views on this blog? I would be happy to transmit them to the members of the WDR2015 team. Shanta
Your latest blog post (series
Your latest blog post (series) is an excellent one Shanta. I wonder though if there aren't more alternatives than the ones you list at the end of your post which may work even with poorly motivated politicians and poorly informed / disempowered citizenry which may be faster than seeking to modify the "culture/mindset":
1.Better design of the product / service so that price is a sufficient statistic (as it is for a sandwich). Perhaps in healthcare, Managed Care is an idea where the ⍊product" is: "insurance + healthcare" by a single / integrated provider – perhaps markets become better solutions then [Kaiser Permanente].
2.Independent regulators – may provide a route to "politician-proof⍊ public policy even with poorly motivated politicians. [financial sector, telecom sector, electricity sector, in India]
3.Purchaser-provider splits – so that market principles can be brought into government provision [Thailand, UK, India – RSBY/ RAS]
Would be eager to hear what you think about these ideas. My own sense is that in many of the sectors you list they could work with the possible exception of education because the "product" is very fuzzy and ill-defined.
Nachiket: Thanks for the
Nachiket: Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I agree that we can make progress with better designed policies and institutions, such as pricing, independent regulators and separation of purchaser from provider. But if the underlying politics is dysfunctional, it is sometimes difficult to get these reforms implemented. Quite simply, people resist having to be more accountable than they are today (less politely, people don't like to lose their rents). If they are sufficiently organized, they can resist these reforms. Health insurance in Kenya was resisted by doctors. It's difficult to get truly independent water regulation in India (as a result, no city in India has 24x7 water). And the textbook example of purchaser-provider split is contract teachers. My sense is that all these reforms you propose are attempts to "trick" the people whose rents are going to be undermined into not noticing that this is the case. They are variants on "politician-proof public policy". They may still work, but you have to be lucky. Shanta
Shanta, While I agree that
Shanta, While I agree that there is often "asymmetry" in the accountability chain, I wonder if you can categorically say "if the underlying politics is dysfunctional, fixing the compact won't work. " While recognizing that the two links of the long route are not usually symmetric, the fact that they are "interconnected" gives reform a chance by engaging either on the voice or compact side if there is a tactical opening -- or in the words of the WDR "strategic incrementalism." For example, in Bangladesh, in response to the arsenic crisis, we supported a change in the compact by adding a small level of discretionary fiscal transfers from central to local government. The amount was too small to disturb the overall political structure of the way resources flowed between different tiers of government -- i.e. the underlying dysfunctional politics was preserved -- but this (very) incremental autonomy of local councils enabled the triggering of citizen engagement and information campaigns – the effectiveness of the latter being dependent on the former. This small window created by a crisis was self-reinforcing. Here the critical factor was not the asymmetry in the accountability chain, but the inter-connection between voice and compact – however weak the connection can be in practice.
As I look back at the WDR, however, I feel we underemphasized the nature of social failure. We recognized that if markets and the state fail poor people, we have supported the delivery of public and private services around communities, assuming that social relations within a community would preserve accountability. But, communities are a reflection of their societies and in this context the "gangs of New York" syndrome – capture by a particular social group -- is very likely. While we have often looked at delivery choices by making a judgment call of whether market or state failure is more costly, we have not assessed the relative cost of social failure.
Thank you for organizing a wonderful conference.
Junaid: Thanks for the
Junaid: Thanks for the insightful comment. Yes, it is possible to do something "small" with the compact when the politics is dysfunctional (and, when it works, scale it up), as your Bangladesh arsenic case shows. But I still think it's a case of "politician-proof public policy". The intervention was small enough that the politicians didn't notice, nor did they anticipate that it could grow to a scale that undermines their rents. Sometimes, the political system is so weak and chaotic that it is possible to introduce reforms in the compact. Contracting out secondary education to the non-state sector in Bangladesh is an example. When the government saw that the innovation was working, they decided to implement it nationwide. We should continue to look for such opportunities, but we should be clear about what we're doing (tricking the politicians into not noticing). Since such opportunities are rare, we should devote more attention to changing the incentives facing politicians. Shanta
Shanta, thanks for conducting
Shanta, thanks for conducting an important debate and interesting insights.
I have the following comment:
I am not convinced that all Poor have the 'opportunity' or 'capacity' to follow the shorter route. These are the two dimensions of poverty that one has to pay attention to - in order to push up 40% of the people that are below the poverty line. It is important to understand who are the poor who can resort to private schools for their kids. Yes, the Poor have been paying high price for water from tankers. On this basis, can we conclude that market channels are open to the private sector to meet all water supply needs? Due to the very characteristics of the water sector, even cost recovery from the Users other than the Poor has been difficult. The Poor pay high prices for 'drinking water' alone as they may be able to afford small quantities. Most water projects designed by the Bank have suffered with this optimism. The Poor will keep meeting their needs by employing their household labor - mostly girls fetching water and not going to schools. Yes public accountability plays a role here. Water supply, in most cases will be under public ownership due to the needs of economies of scale although some interventions of the private sector are warranted to promote efficiencies. The point is, should we not treat water supply different from education and health service delivery so as to develop clarity on what incentives would work for effective water service delivery? Water supply link with natural resource aspect and huge infrastructure investment needs against tthe 'urgent social need' adds complexity to the debate.
Dear Shaheena Nisar,
Dear Shaheena Nisar,
I realise this is Shanta's blog but I am taking the liberty of commenting on your post since it also relates to an earlier post of mine on this blog (I hope that is okay Shanta). I feel that use of "market mechanisms" and "private sector involvement" are different ideas from "cost recovery" and from each other. I meant that water (for example) is a "market friendly" product in sense that price is a sufficient statistic and that one could therefore allow the private sector to take charge of its delivery (or use purchaser-provider splits within government) and either allow them to recover costs directly from the entire population; pay them directly; or give poor people vouchers / direct cash-transfers to help them pay for the water. Health is a lot more complex but potentially if one could use a "managed care" type product design once could argue that price once again is a sufficient statistic and a similar approach could be adopted using conditional cash transfers / insurance arrangements of some type (this is very different from simply doing insurance for hospitalisation and paying hospitals on a fee for service or even a DRG basis). In both these examples therefore there just may be an alternative to the "long-path" and the "longest/impossible path" (changing cultures and mindsets) through the use of "market-like" structures (such as purchaser-provider splits) even with government provision.
From my limited understanding of it, education simply does not fit this neat structure and without "long path" interventions, instruments such as vouchers may produce very distorted supply and consumption patterns and tools such as purchaser-provider splits (contract teachers and such like) would also have the same effect.
I think this distinction is important because it may help sharpen "long" path efforts and focus them only on a few sectors like education and potentially make it easier to make change happen and in a shorter time frame while using other potentially shorter pathways to address accountability / delivery problems in other sectors. Otherwise I worry that we will make no progress at all and the poor (and the rich and the middle class in cases like health) will continue to experience denials of service until the day when all the developing countries acquire the cultures and mindsets of the Scandinavians.
Best regards,
Nachiket Mor
First, Nachiket, thanks for
First, Nachiket, thanks for replying to Shaeena's comment. This is exactly the kind of exchange I like to encourage on the blog. The only thing I would add is that we should not in general expect poor people to take the short route. Unfortunately, this is the route they are forced to take because of failures in the long route. Poor people are forced to buy water from private tankers at 5-16 times the meter rate. They take their sick children to (possibly unqualified) private sector doctors because there is no one at the public clinic. This is not a desirable outcome. But changing it requires making the long route work for the poor. In some cases, it may take market-like mechanisms, as Nachiket shows. But in other cases, it would require changing the "politics" leg of the long route. By the way, vouchers are unlikely to work not because of supply-demand mismatch, but because they undermine the rents of public school teachers (who now have to compete with private schools in order to get paid). But unless we are able to overcome this resistance, poor people will continue to be forced into the short route. Shanta
Thank you very much for this very informative post. I am very new to the debate on public services, so pls forgive me if my questions are the ones long answered in the experts circles. I do wonder, however, what are your views on more kind of structural macro-economic challenges for providing services for people. Bering in mind that money is not the golden thread or the SOLUTION it is still impossible to deliver services for poor people without the proper financing. I would be very interested to learn what are your views on the fiscal and monetary policies and the role they can play in supporting service delivery. Also within the context of the private sector, I do agree there is no 'either or', yet one should be careful about the 'straightforward' advocacy hence we have seen the biased results it can produce, for example when relying on the private sector to generate employment. Nevertheless, I would be very keen to learn more about the private sector in service delivery. Can anyone help me by pointing to good sources (but more global or regional rather than national) that illustrate the trends, private vs public ? Many thanks!
I really enjoyed reading this
I really enjoyed reading this, Dad. I even shared it with a friend at work with whom I often discuss failures in US government. I also like that I could understand it.
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January 29, 2009
By Roey Gilberg
LOS ANGELES -- Five UCLA Anderson students took home the first prize at the 16th annual Deloitte Consulting Case Competition, held Saturday, January 10th. Matthew Smith, Mark Arban, Charles McNally, Justin Huppe, and Jorge Notni, who together comprised the A-Team, each won a $500 American Express gift card and an iPod Touch, along with a copy of "The Strategy Paradox," by Michael Raynor. Twenty-five teams of Anderson students entered the competition, which began on Thursday evening, January 8 and culminated on Saturday January 10 with presentations throughout the day and an awards ceremony in the evening.
This year's case asked the students to come up with a strategy to propose to a venture capital firm looking to invest in social networking companies. Given that the case allotted the students $400 million with which to formulate their investment scheme, along with the seemingly endless number of social networking companies around the globe, the assignment was very open-ended in its scope. "The most difficult part was the depth of the case," said Charles McNally, a member of the A-Team. "It felt very light at first but it was deceptive."
He noted that his team started by looking at over 250 different companies worldwide as potential investments. "There was an incredible amount of research," he said, with the team ultimately offering an array of investments in Russian, Chinese, German, and Indian companies.
Teams were given 20 minutes to present their proposals in the initial rounds, after which they were questioned by several judges for another 10 minutes. The competition was then trimmed down to five finalist teams, who presented once again, this time in front of a larger group of judges, who questioned them further. It was the A-Team's abilities during this stressful round of probing that helped set them apart in the eyes of the judges. "They were strong presenters," said Ely Dahan, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Anderson. "They displayed lots of poise and clarity."
McNally agreed with this assessment. "We were well balanced," he said. "Everyone spoke well publicly, and spoke intelligently and to the topic."
Judges were also impressed with the overall ability of all the teams to deal with such a complex case. "We're obviously doing something right when students can take so much data and so much uncertainty, and synthesize it all into something credible and clear," said Dahan. On the other hand, judges were critical of groups who seemed to gloss over or leave out key steps in their decision-making processes.
Students received the case on Thursday evening, and most worked more or less continuously until presentations began early Saturday. Although the pressure is great in such a short period of time, the process is also enjoyable. "We were basically just a group of friends," said McNally. "We got along well, so it wasn't unpleasant staying up late."


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There have been concerns that Apple would miss its November and December release dates for its new iMac computers, after a stream of rumors linked them to production delays, perhaps stretching into next year. These concerns seem to have been unwarranted however, as today Apple has provided the launch date for the 21.5-inch model, and it will go on sale this Friday, November 30. The company has also confirmed that it will be joined by the 27-inch iMac in December, although no specific date has been provided yet.
These official dates don't quite match the most recent guesses as to when Apple would put the computers on sale, with one source saying they would launch either today or tomorrow. This followed a report from earlier this month, which said Apple had already started sending out new iMac computers to its distribution centers. Apple may have met its own target, but it's only just, so there may be at least some truth to rumors the new design makes construction a pain.
Apple's press release says the 21.5-inch iMac will be available through its own stores, both online and on the high street, plus selected Apple resellers too. If you're set on owning one of the new, beautiful, computers, it will be wise to get your order in early; as while there has been no launch delay, Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned stock would be limited for at least the first three months.
At the time of writing, the Apple Store still shows a November and December date for the two iMac computers, with no option to pre-order or buy the systems yet. You'll need deep pockets when they're ready though, as the standard 21.5-inch iMac with a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive costs $1,300. Spec it with a 2.9GHz Intel Core i5 and an improved graphics card, and you'll need $1,500.
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Closing out with a home run — an endorsement from Poland's national hero, Lech Walesa — Mitt Romney ended his high-profile foreign road trip at least 2 for 3.
The journey to three well-targeted world spots was meant to show some world-savvy, hint at a foreign-policy philosophy and capture votes in swing states. And, despite critical commentary from media types (whom he wasn't trying to impress), it did just that.
Of course, the value of Romney's trip to London, Jerusalem and Warsaw will ultimately be measured in November, by the effect it has on, say, Jewish voters in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. And so-far unenthusiastic Evangelical Republicans down south. And on Catholics, and especially Polish-Americans, in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Romney was careful not to overtly violate the Cold War dictum that "politics stops at the water's edge" — a line then-Sen. Barack Obama blatantly crossed in Berlin during a similar trip in 2008.
But these days all politics are, to a degree, global. The foreign press takes sides with or against US candidates. And politicians abroad indicate preference — British Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and President Shimon Peres, to name a few, for President Obama.
So, too, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plainly leans toward Romney, while Walesa outright endorsed him.
Yet the Republican candidate wasn't just looking at scattered constituencies when he picked Britain, Israel and Poland for his maiden foray into world affairs. He was also highlighting Obama's perceived slights of these US allies — appealing to voters angered by a foreign policy they see as based on coddling America's adversaries while neglecting its friends.
Voters appalled when the then-new president returned to the Brits a Churchill bust that had graced the White House since 9/11. Or angered when Washington remained neutral (at best) as Britain's dispute with Argentina over the Falklands reignited.
Or shocked by Obama's chilly relations with Netanyahu, and his abrupt cancelation of deals to build missile-defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic — because those deals angered the Russians, whom the Poles and Czechs understandably distrust.
Yes, the British press went to town on the Republican guest. London Mayor Boris Johnson ridiculed him, and Cameron referred to one of Romney's proudest achievements — saving the 2002 Utah Olympics from disaster — as some obscure event "in the middle of nowhere."
Yet the trip turned up after that, as he won cheers in Jerusalem.
Fine: Peres and Barak vouched for Obama's friendship to Israel, and some of the Israeli press went after him. But Romney publicly touched on everything that has infuriated Israel supporters here for nearly four years: He fullly supported the Jewish state on Iran (as opposed to Obama's "we know what's best for you" stance); he clearly recognized Jerusalem as the capital; he admired Israel's achievements.
You'll see Romney's Jerusalem speech in plenty of campaign ads — along with Walesa's embrace.
As he left Israel, critics were crying "racism" over the candidate's remarks condemning the economically-destructive Palestinian "culture." But then he landed in Poland — a country that has managed to revolutionize its political and economic culture, and is doing fantastically well.
Saluting Pope John Paul II and getting Walesa's endorsement, Romney said, "I, and my fellow Americans, are inspired by the path of freedom tread by the people of Poland."
Surely, Romney will hark back to that theme in the foreign-policy segment of his debates with Obama.
His fiercest critics will insist he stumbled awfully at every stop, but Romney's trip should help him win the confidence of several yet-unconvinced Republicans, swing a few disappointed former Obama fans his way and perhaps even gain some undecided votes.
It won't win him the election, which (barring a major foreign crisis) will turn on economic issues. But from a purely political point of view this trip was quite successful, contrary to the media chorus.
And that's not bad for a candidate who vowed, when abroad, to leave politics behind.
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Yesterday, I drove down to the Clara Barton Parkway near Washington DC, and parked my car near Lock 7 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. From there I bicycled about 7 miles to the Lincoln Memorial, rounded it and continued to the eastern end of the Reflecting Pool. Here is situated the Nation's WW II memorial to Veterans. Behind me in the picture below is the registration building where one can contribute information on the veterans in their family who served in WW II (or apparently, other military engagements). The information is on computer and indexed by name, and is also available on the internet at http://www.wwiimemorial.com/. Contributors are individuals or organizations such as the American Legion. On the computer, I typed in our family's Gailliot surname and the following data was provided. The information was contributed by my Uncle Edward A. Gailliot:
Charles [Anthony] Gailliot. Worked as a Pattern Maker at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC. Deceased 1948.
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Taste Test: We Try All the Flavors of Tillamook's New Tillabars
We taste the leading brands to find the distinct differences and rate them with tasting scores.
My Oregon childhood tasted like Tillamook ice cream. Scoops on family outings to our suburb's "downtown," long after-school walks to buy cones at the now-defunct soda fountain/candy shop, birthday parties with more sundae toppings than we were ever allowed at home. There were other brands available back then, sure, but Tillamook was the local standard, sold by the half-gallon since 1972.
I still like the stuff, and it's not just the nostalgia factor. Tillamook ice cream is fluffy in texture and while the flavors tend toward classic, not surprising or 'gourmet', they're all good. A few years back, I convinced Erin Zimmer that we needed to try every single flavor Tillamook makes, and while that was a little more ice cream than I'd like to consume on a daily basis, it didn't dull my enthusiasm.
So I was excited to hear that Tillamook has recently released Tillabars, a new line of ice cream bars, each, as they say, "wrapped in a chocolate hug." Since the bars are primarily available on the West Coast and I live in San Francisco, I decided it was my duty to Serious Eats to try them all (admittedly, a pretty easy task compared to my prior Tillamook Ice Cream Adventure). Here's what I thought of each one.
Salted Caramel Swirl
Delicate ribbons of sweet caramel melt into the mellow, creamy vanilla ice cream in this bar—you won't really experience the caramel and vanilla separately. It's sweet but not beyond-the-realm-of-classic-sundae-sweet, and the filling is nicely accented by the milk-chocolate shell, which has its own heavy dose of vanilla. The flavor is more textbook than trendy: there's no hint of burnt sugar here, and the salt is pretty under the radar, but it's a really tasty combination of creamy ice cream and creamy chocolate coating in classic style, and a crowd-pleaser. This was the first box to empty chez Hoffman.
Old-Fashioned Vanilla
Tillamook makes a number of different vanilla ice creams, and the Old-Fashioned Vanilla stands out as the best of the bunch. So I was glad to see it here in ice cream-bar form. The ice cream is mellow and light, almost airy, kind of like the vanilla side of the orange-sherbet-and-vanilla-ice-cream cups I remember loving as a kid. The milk chocolate shell hits just the right sweet note. This isn't a fancy-pants gourmet dessert; it's the perfect evocation of summers gone by, and the flavor I'd buy when introducing people to the brand.
Mooocha Latte
The creamy sections of this bar are delicately coffee-flavored, with just enough java punch to cut the sweetness. In the center: chocolate ice cream, which has an old-school milk-chocolate-and-cocoa-powder flavor. Unfortunately, the chocolate stripe was a little icy, and the dark chocolate shell doesn't work quite as well as the milk chocolate found in the other bars. Still, I liked the bar's very creamy coffee ice cream.
I was a little wary of the white-chocolate wrapped Lemonilla Bar, but it grew on us. The white chocolate is impressively creamy, not waxy, with a vanilla-laced flavor and frosting-like sweetness. The mellow Old Fashioned Vanilla ice cream is nicely brightened by the stripe of sweet-tart lemon sorbet running through the center of the bar, and while I wished for a touch more fresh-lemon flavor, the two ice creams work well in tandem. If you've ever fantasized about putting a scoop of vanilla ice cream in your icy lemonade, this may be the next best thing.
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Daniel's Birthday/Daniel's Picnic" Daniel's Birthday - It's Daniel's Birthday! Daniel is very excited to go to Baker Aker's Bakery with his mom to pick out a cake for his party. When they arrive home after a bumpy ride on Trolley, Daniel is disappointed to find that his cake is smushed. It turns out. D
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Martha Speaks "Martha Bakes/Martha Makes Scents" Martha Bakes - Helen is sad when her drawing doesn't win the art competition, so Mom decides to bake her a cake to cheer her up. Martha Makes Scents - Always on the lookout for a way to avoid bathing, Martha decides TD's dad OG should invent a perfume that will cover up her doggy scent.G
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NOVA "Making Stuff Stronger" Technology reporter David Pogue brings his off-beat humor and high-energy style to his role as host for this mini-series. Pogue examines everything from mollusks to a toucan's beak and reviews tests for the world's strongest materials. He travels from the deck of a U.S. naval aircraft carrier to a demolition derby. He checks in with experts who are re-engineering what nature has provided to create strong "stuff." Part 1 of 4G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Norway's West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen" Rick sails under towering fjord cliffs, hikes on glaciers and finds surviving traditions in remote farm hamlets. He delves into Hanseatic heritage and takes in the salty hospitality of Norway's historic capitol, Bergen.G
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Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Alpine Christmas" Hot-spiced cider and strains of "O Tannenbaum" warm our hearts as we head to Europe for Christmas. Switzerland has a special glow this time of year and we find plenty of good cheer in the bright Christmas markets and toasty ski lodges. We begin in the magical atmosphere of Zurich, with its glittering trees and festive music. D
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The Desert Speaks "Living Traditions of the Tohono O'Odham" The Tohono O'Odham ("Desert People") live on the second-largest reservation in the United States, located southwest of Tucson, Arizona and share hundreds of miles with the Mexico border, across which some still live. Although many O'Odham live off the reservation and don't grow traditional crops, among the older members their language is still very much alive, as are many of the cultural traditions and beliefs. Learn how a concerned group of tribal members knowledgeable in these traditions are taking an active part in passing down practices of saguaro fruit harvesting and basket weaving to their children and grandchildren. D
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Ciao Italia "Classic Tuscan Dishes/I Piatti Classici Toscani" Mary Ann takes her Tuscany tour students under her wing to teach them the fine are of Tuscan cooking, starting with the all-time favorite, Fresh Pappardelle with Rabbit, Mushrooms, and Wine. No Tuscan meal would be complete without its unique, Bird-Style Beans. And to whet the appetite, Salted Pizza Bites. D
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Taste of History "Betsy Ross Sews A Legend" Betsy Ross is one the most celebrated woman in American history. Although there is still controversy around her story and whether she sewed our country's first flag, the details appear to support a woman of great courage who was asked by Gen. Washington to defy the British and secretly give our nation its identity. D
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Simply Ming "The Pallotta Sisters & Infusing Flavor Into Pasta" Chefs from Asia to Italy agree the best way to infuse noodles with flavor is to saute them. It's a critical step many home cooks skip. On this episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming and his guests, The Pallotta Sisters, focus on that technique. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Rise and Shine Breakfast" Host Christopher Kimball discusses the science behind scrambled eggs with science expert Guy Crosby. Then, test cook Becky Hays uncovers the secrets to perfect Scrambled Eggs. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews the best toaster ovens in the Equipment Corner. D
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Around The House with Matt and Shari "Crafts for the Whole Family" Crafting is a family activity for all ages. Our first project is making pom poms into flowers or as an accent on pillows and other crafts. Next, make a pet pillow - sewn and no sew versions. D
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Austin City Limits "Wilco" Modern rock band Wilco returns to the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage with tunes from its album The Whole Love.G
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Sesame Street "Camping Show" Chris and Elmo are excited to be camping in the woods! They unpack their camping supplies and take out two sleeping bags and two canteens. One sleeping bag and canteen for each of them. Next, they take out four hotdogs and marshmallows. D
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Dinosaur Train "Dinosaur Camouflage/Family Scavenger Hunt" Dinosaur Camouflage - Buddy and Tiny meet a shy dinosaur, Leslie Lesothosaurus, who is very good at hiding. The kids end up persuading Leslie to stop hiding, and come out to play with them. Scavenger Hunt - The Pteranodon family travels to the Big Pond for a Scavenger Hunt. D
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Super Why! "The Three Little Pigs: The Return of the Wolf" Pig and his brothers are trying to make a picnic table for their yard, but it all goes terribly wrong! So Super Why and his friends visit the tale of The Three Little Pigs, hoping to find out a little bit about building from the young Poppa Pig. Will they learn how to construct something sturdy, or will the Big Bad Wolf huff, puff and ruin their plans? Educational Objectives: To learn the importance of following instructions. Kids will sing the alphabet, rhyme with ICKS words, and use the power to read to change the story. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "A Sweet Deal/King of Swing" A Sweet Deal - Sally and Nick are having a hard time getting customers to come to their "cafe". What can they do? The Cat takes them to meet Eddy the honeyguide bird. Eddy shows them how he guides humans to bees' nests by making noise and putting on a show. D
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Wild Kratts "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus" Chris and Martin are on a mission to discover why walrus look so weird, but discover that Zach Varmitech has kidnapped a herd to mine precious pearls for Donita Donata's fashion line. The Wild Kratts team must use the walrus features against Zach to save the creatures and return them to their Arctic domain. Science Concepts: Suction. D
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Dialogue for Kids "Galaxies" Galaxies are systems of stars, dust and gas held together by gravity. Joan Cartan-Hansaen and her guest scientist Dr. Amber Straughn, Research Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, answer students' questions about galaxies.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Barcelona and Catalunya" The creative spirit of Spain's Catalunya, the land of Picasso, Gaudi and Salvador Dali is on a roll. Rick gets caught up in the festivity of Barcelona, enjoying the vibrant street scenes, tasty tapas and pedestrian-friendly Gothic Quarter. Then he takes a scenic side trip to mountaintop Montserrat, and finishes with an artist's pilgrimage along the Costa Brava to Salvador Dali country. In seaside Cadaques he visits his home and in nearby Figueres experiences his playfully surreal mausoleum/museum.G
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Song of the Mountains Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers. D
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My Hero "The Family Way" George is pregnant with a surrogate baby for a childless couple on Ultron. He and Janet yearn to keep the child until they see it.G
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Are You Being Served? "Strong Stuff This Insurance" Grace Brothers' new group insurance scheme requires the staff to become fit before medical examinations.G
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As Time Goes By "Surprising News" Jean's sister-in-law and husband raise envy by announcing they will retire to Spain to live on their pension plans.G
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Ladies of Letters Irene writes to Vera to help spring her from the mental hospital and indeed help arrives, in the form of Karen and Damon who rescue her. The three of them head for the outback where they are living rough.G
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The Red Green Show "The Beaver Dam" Possum Lake is rising thanks to industrious beavers and their dam. Red uses empty duct tape rolls to make a beer cellar.G
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Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "A Celebrity for the Barbecue" Hyacinth volunteers Richard's services at the Church Hall where there is a problem with the lights. However, he is less than successful in his chore.G
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The Thin Blue Line "Fire and Terror" Grim and the CID initiate a counter-terrorism operation. Fowler deals with mythomaniacs, and Habib becomes attracted to a fireman.G
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Outnumbered Mum finds an inappropriate image on the family computer. Karen, convinced she has won a large amount of money, starts to spend it. Ben brings his special talents to the ancient game of chess.G
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My Family "Let's Not Be Heisty" Ben's attempt to pay money into his bank account is thwarted when someone else tries to take some out - with the aid of sawed-off shotguns. Ben and Susan, along with others, are held as hostages. Ben decides to act as a negotiator.G
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My Hero "The Family Way" George is pregnant with a surrogate baby for a childless couple on Ultron. He and Janet yearn to keep the child until they see it.G
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Are You Being Served? "Strong Stuff This Insurance" Grace Brothers' new group insurance scheme requires the staff to become fit before medical examinations.G
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As Time Goes By "Surprising News" Jean's sister-in-law and husband raise envy by announcing they will retire to Spain to live on their pension plans.G


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How to Enter recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7
Here is a Dedicated post for you all showing how to enter Recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7. Recovery mode is one of the best powerful hidden parts of your Samsung Galaxy C7. There are two types of recovery mode – "Stock Recovery and Custom Recovery". You can use Recovery mode for, deleting the cache partition, factory reset the phone, applying updates from ADB, boot to bootloader, Installing Stock Rom, Installing Custom Rom.
Note – Flash Stock Rom without Recovery mode
If you are searching how to enter Recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7 then you are on right web site and below we mentioned 3 methods for entering to the recovery mode. If you have a problem entering the recovery mode then we can help you to fix that too.
Enter recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7 (Method 1)
This is the standard method for booting to recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7. In this method, Just pressing few buttons will help you to go to the recovery mode.
- First, Turn off your Device. (by pressing power button)
- After the Turn off, Press and Hold Volume Up + Home + Power buttons together.
- Press these buttons until you see the recovery mode.
Boot recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7 (Method 2)
If you are a beginner to android OS then you can use this app. If you have any problem with entering the recovery mode by pressing above combination then you can use below third party application.
This is a convenient way to boot Recovery mode. But this app required root access. If you have root access then Download and boot to recovery.
Go recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy C7 Using PC
This is our third method of entering Recovery mode. You can use this app if you can't do above two methods. You don't need root access for this but you will need a Computer. If your Volume button, Power button don't work then this will help you more.
- Download Drivers and Fasboot to your computer.
- Extract them to your computer.
- After that, Connect Samsung Galaxy C7 to your PC or Laptop.
- Enable USB Debugging, developer mode.
- Now click the "ADB.exe and fastboot.exe and install them.
- Now, click the Runme.bat then it will open on CMD window. type this.
adb reboot recovery
6. Then you can see that your phone will reboot to recovery mode.
I can't enter to recovery because phone restart itself
A : It may be your phone case is pressing on some keys. So, first remove the case and Clean around Volume key. If not, you can use CMD method. If not work, Flash Stock Rom
Recovery Mode NO COMMAND
A : If you see "NO COMMAND" on Samsung Galaxy C7 recovery menu, then your recovery image was damaged. this happen after OTA update and some other reasons. Now you have to Flash Stock Recovery again. If you have CWM or twrp then Flash whole Stock Rom.
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True blue: Jeans' color doesn't go deep
Q. Vast riches would come to anyone paid a royalty of a penny for every pair of blue jeans sold in the world. But the riches would disappear if these pants were truly sold as "blue" jeans instead of the "half-blue" or "quarter-blue" jeans that they are. Know the story here? L. Strauss
A. The partly blue happens because real denim has blue warp yarns interwoven with white filling, and the dyed threads are only blue on the surface where the color penetrates, says Iowa State University textiles and clothing expert Grace Kunz. Yet the twill weave allows the blue yarns to be more exposed on the outside of the garment.
If the filling yarns were also dyed, the garment would feel scratchier and less comfortable, and more importantly, your legs and underwear would become decidedly blue from color transfer, at least until after several washings, she says. The surface-only blue dye explains why wear to the knees and seat mutes the color, as will commercial sand papering by hand or sand blasting for fashion styling.
Enough of this will shift the garment from blue to light blue to white, toning down brightness, subtling the appearance, and helping make "blue" jeans the hit they are worldwide. For a true hit on the wilder side, adding to pre-washed, sand-washed, acid-washed, stone-washed, etc., notes Ohio State University consumer and textile scientist Charles Noel, one manufacturer years ago offered a "distressed" version, done by shipping the jeans to Tennessee where the "finisher" spread them on the ground and riddled them with buckshot. Holey smokes!
Q. When it is noon in New York City, Winnipeg, Amsterdam, or Greenwich, what time is it at the North Pole? S. Claus
A. It can be any time you want! The concept of time zones, which are based on longitude, falls apart at the poles, where all longitudinal lines intersect, says New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology geophysicist Rick Aster. Here the sun simply spirals around the sky, moving from 23.5 degrees below the horizon at the winter solstice to 23.5 degrees above in mid-summer.
Local noon for anywhere is defined as when the sun is at its maximum elevation, adds University of Alaska- Fairbanks geophysicist Paul Layer. At the poles, the sun does not rise in the morning and set in the evening but is at approximately a constant elevation for all of a 24-hour day. "Exactly at the North Pole, sunrise is on the Spring equinox and sunset on the Fall equinox: So a year and a 'day' are the same thing!" Layer notes.
Scientists doing work at the South Pole (little happens at the North Pole), say Aster and Layer, need to synchronize their clocks to an agreed-upon time zone, possibly based on clocks of the nation of origin or maybe Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is the standard time at the prime (Greenwich) meridian at 0 degrees longitude.
Q. For males, tall is always "in." Are taller men more likely to win a mate and have kids? Is this why each new generation seems to be getting taller? S. O'Neal
A. Yes to the first question, says Daniel Nettle, lecturer in biological psychology at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England. The average height for men in Britain at the moment is 5'10", but the optimum height in terms of marriage success is 6'. For women, it's the other way around. The average height is 5'4", but the optimum height in terms of finding a husband is more like 5'1" or 5'2".
These two forces– the taller man advantage and the shorter woman advantage– roughly balance out, so there is probably no genetic change from generation to generation. "The increase in stature we see is instead the result of improved nutrition and reductions in infectious disease," Nettle says.
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I am proud to say that I had a little taste of every entry and have never had my taste buds dazzled and delighted in such a satisfying way. The only tough part was picking which three to vote for!
Everyone attending is given a voting slip on which they can vote for their favourite three cupcakes. Voting duties are (rightly) taken seriously and the results are always close. But winners there must always be (as Yoda probably didn't ever say) and here are our top three:
1st place – Eloise's Eton mess cupcakes
This was a stunner and richly deserved being the winner on the night. Before we even get to the taste I want you to look at the dinky little strawberry and pretty flower on the top. Aren't they cute? Eloise made them! The cupcake was topped with crushed crisp meringue mixed with an almost jam-like strawberry sauce – it had so many flavours and textures that it practically danced around your mouth!
Here's our winner Eloise:
2nd place – Heather's Pumpkin pie cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting
This cupcake is as American as Heather, its creator i.e. very! The pumpkin gave the cupcake a beautifully rich and moist texture. The buttercream was a perfect match for the pumpkin; I'm not usually a fan of cream cheese frostings but I loved the way the cinnamon took the acidic edge off the cream cheese so you had a heavenly smooth texture teamed with the warmth of spice.
3rd place – Amanda's Lemon meringue pie cupcakes
The winner of Challenge II continued her rich vein of form placing third this time. Amanda made her own lemon curd for this cupcake and it had that intensely zingy flavour that only good lemon curd has. The meringue was crisp and light and I could've eaten a ton of it!
I'm sure Amanda won't mind me telling you a little story…she arrived with her cupcakes in the cupcake courier she won in Challenge II but I was concerned to see the container done up with sellotape and knotted ribbons. Hoping that her prize was ok I asked her about it and she told me why she had bound it up so. The night before, she had dreamed that she was transporting her cupcakes to ICL and accidentally kicked the fastenings and all her cupcakes had fallen out. Sensing that this may be some terrible omen she decided to ensure that no disasters would befall her creations, hence the sellotape, ribbons etc! ICL competitors all take cupcakes and their welfare VERY seriously…….
Here are our top three bakers of the night - from left to right - Heather, Eloise and Amanda:
So, those were our "podium places", now feast your eyes on all our other gorgeous entries:
Emma's Tiramisu cupcakes
Emma's sponge was so light with a subtle but unmistakable tiramisu flavour. The topping was whipped and airy and I would happily fall face first into it! My comments perhaps mean more when I add that I don't actually like coffee, but I could have eaten lots of these (it's not just me being odd – another coffee-hating Eater on the night said exactly the same!). It's one of the things I love so much about ICL – in order to do a proper summary I have to taste everything and that sometimes means trying flavours I would normally avoid; it's surprising just how often these flavours delight me!
Elaine's Profiterole cupcakes
Elaine's entry was a cupcake with soft, light and creamy profiteroles on top…what's not to love? The chocolate sauce was sinfully dark and rich and had that glossiness that just screams "eat me"! Beautiful presentation and executed perfectly. I would happily eat one (more like three!) of these every day for the rest of my life!
Elaine's Banoffi cupcakes
I adore cake – I think you might have realised that – but don't really have the skills for dainty decorations and sugarcraft. I'm always in awe of people who do – just look at the pretty little chocolate flower on the top of the cupcake; made by Elaine, of course! The banana flavour was subtle rather than overpowering and left a lovely taste in the mouth; the sort of taste that makes you think, "I need more of that". The buttercream was light and smooth and complimented the little disc of banana on top perfectly.
Karen's Caramel apple cupcakes with custard buttercream
Apple always makes a cupcake deliciously moist and flavoursome; when teamed up with a smooth custard buttercream, as Karen did here, it's always going to be a hit with me! I particularly love the clean lines of the piped buttercream and that inviting custard colour. The cupcake was soft and so comforting to eat.
Alisha's Cinnamon roll cupcakes
Now these were a revelation to me! A cupcake that tasted like a cinnamon roll. The texture was midway between cupcake and roll and the strong cinnamon flavour was heavenly. The sweet stickiness that any good bun needs was present and I can see myself making these if someone (Alisha, hint hint?) was kind enough to share the recipe.
Kayla's Vanilla ice cream cone cupcakes
These were a huge hit on the night – the cupcake was baked into an ice cream cone then topped with light vanilla buttercream that tasted EXACTLY like ice cream. It messed with my mind because I was looking at buttercream but my mouth was tasting ice cream. Such beautiful presentation and perfect for a summertime dessert competition!
Katy's Rhubarb crumble and custard cupcakes
Rhubarb crumble and custard – it doesn't get any more English than that! I adore rhubarb so was delighted that we had an entry showcasing it. The crumble was delicate and gave a lovely bit of crunch to the cupcake. The rhubarb was sweet and tangy – often people serve rhubarb either too tart or too sweet but Katy judged it perfectly.
Kelly's Caramel apple cupcakes
Kelly brought in these beautiful caramel apple cupcakes and I commented "ooh, they look just like toffee apples", only to be told that's exactly what they were! Seems like the old "two countries divided by a common language" situation reared it's head. So, if you're from North America these are caramel apple, if you're a Brit they're toffee apple! What I loved about these was the way that the crunched M&M topping gave the crispy sensation you get on biting into a toffee apple. The sweet, sticky caramel was quite delightful too.
Karen's Chocolate and vanilla cheesecake cupcakes
I think you can probably just make it out in the photo but the vanilla cheesecake is sandwiched between two layers of chocolate cupcake sponge creating a beautiful stripy look. I love it when you eat something and it almost confuses you because it's not what you expect – the look was pure cupcake but the taste was soft, smooth, creamy cheesecake. It was the sort of cupcake that, on having your first taste, you just have to say, "mmmmm cupcake", Homer-style!
Helen's Lemon meringue pie with ginger crunch cupcakes
This wasn't a flavour combination I'd tried before. I've seen ginger cake recipes with lemon icing but Helen's cupcakes combined the flavours in a novel way. The flavours, while complimenting each other, managed to stay distinct. The clean zing of lemon hit first and was then replaced by a lovely gingery warmth.
Anna's Banoffi cupcakes
The combination of rich bananas and soft creamy buttercream is always a winner and I loved the caramel drizzled over the top – as if any more luxury was needed! The presentation was beautiful; Anna took the 'butterfly top' style of cupcake but made it elegant and chic looking.
Abi's Tiramisu cupcakes
Abi's cupcakes were certainly the daintiest of the night and nestled seductively in their little paper cases! The 'double casing' was very effective as they gently rustled as you ate the cupcake. These tasted like coffee Revels which, I'm sure you will agree, is a wonderful achievement!
Fiona's Croquembouche cupcakes with vanilla custard and almonds
What can you do other than gasp when you set eyes on Fiona's stunning concoction? Each one of the tiny profiteroles was hand piped, then filled with vanilla custard, then carefully stacked to form this amazing dome of delights. The choux pastry was soft and covered with crunchy caramel which created lovely textures in your mouth. All I can say is that I would happily let these 'croque' in my 'bouche' anytime!
Fiona's Banana split cupcakes
Banana and chocolate is such a comforting combination. Fiona's banana and chocolate chip cupcake was lovely on its own but topped with soft buttercream and foam bananas it was elevated to an even loftier height! Ahhh, foam bananas – people should put these on cakes far more often!
Amanda's Banoffi pie cupcakes
Amanda really went to town on these and I almost ran out of space to write down everything they contain! But here goes: banoffi pie filled with pastry cream and banana, topped with cream cheese frosting, dulce de leche, white chocolate and caramel Ganache. Are you starting to sense just how delicious these might be? I hope so! The overriding texture was softness and it worked perfectly with the flavours, which complimented each other so well that it was like eating a cuddle.
Claire's Lemon meringue pie cupcakes
Our third lemon meringue pie entrant and I loved how they all looked so different. Claire's meringue topping was crisp and sweet, balancing perfectly with the subtly tart lemon. Your mouth felt fresh and tingly after eating these cupcakes – like you'd done something healthy! Alas, I don't think eating cupcakes has been acknowledged – yet - as part of a good dental hygiene routine by the British Dental Association. Perhaps if we got a petition going?
Trisha's Death by chocolate
Trisha's gooey, soft, rich chocolate cupcakes were out of this world! They were so dark and moreish and the shard of white chocolate created a beautiful visual contrast. The first thing that everyone did on picking up one of these was to remove the shard and eat it, closely followed by the little hat of sponge sitting on top of the buttercream filling. Death by chocolate…what a nice way to go!
Amal's Pineapple upside down cupcakes
Third challenge in and Amal remains our sole male entrant! He titled these cupcakes "The Cupcakes of Dorian Gray" but when I asked if they were Dorian or the picture in the attic I only got an enigmatic smile in response! I adore pineapple in cakes – it makes the sponge positively juicy and tastes tropical. Juicy sponge, tangy sweet pineapple and soft icing…three things that make me very happy!
Molly's Eton mess cupcakes
These really 'popped' in your mouth. The combination of little chunks of fresh strawberry nestled amongst the crushed meringue was both a triumph of taste and texture. I also loved Molly's presentation of topping each cupcake with the top of a strawberry.
Shazia's 'Inspired by Trifle' cupcakes
Poor Shazia only just made it to the competition as she was held up in traffic. Everyone was delighted that she persevered, otherwise we would have had a dessert competition without any trifle! The soft jammy sponge and hundreds and thousands topping conjured up every trifle ever enjoyed at birthday parties – I thought it was a very clever interpretation of a classic!
So there you have it – all twenty three cupcakes! I'm sure you'll agree it was an amazing selection of goodies. I have to echo my nephew's sentiments. When we all sat down at a table with one of each cupcake to try, he looked at me and said, "this is all of my dreams come true"!
It was such a busy night and there were so many cupcakes to taste….it all got a bit much for some….
As always I need to say a HUGE thank you to my helpers on the night, without whom the event simply could not happen. So thanks to Paul, Max, Dave, Nola and Soo – you are all stars!
Thanks must also go to all the bakers who spend such a lot of time producing beautiful cupcakes, and thanks to the eaters. Bakers and eaters need each other – each would be miserable without the other!
All photos are the property of the very lovely and talented Dave Shipman and are reproduced here with his kind permission.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The EMS Energy Institute is hosting the International Conference on Coal Science and Technology (ICCS&T) at Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. On-site and one-day registrations are welcome.
The 14th ICCS&T has attracted a large global interest with more than 200 technical papers from 29 countries. There will be more than 230 attendees from academia, research centers, industry and national laboratories. The presentation topics cover combustion, gasification, ash chemistry, trace elements, coal structure and chemistry, coal tar, coke, spontaneous combustion, coalbed methane, CO2 sequestration, carbon capture and coal-to-liquids.
ICCS&T is held every two years in different international settings. Thirteen previous conferences have taken place under the auspices of ICCS, while the last four conferences were organized under the auspices of ICCS&T: Spain (2011), Cape Town (2009), Nottingham (2007), and Okinawa (2005). The goal of the conference is to bring together the academic, industrial and government communities to exchange ideas, concepts and innovations for the shared purpose of facilitating coal research advances.
This year's conference includes three notable keynote speakers: Jack Pashin, Oklahoma State University; Harold Schobert, Penn State; and Michael Klein, University of Delaware.
To view the conference program or for more information on attending this event, visit www.iccst.info. If you are interested in attending, you may register online or visit the conference registration desk at The Penn Stater.


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Archive for the 'traditional arts' tag
Key Concepts : Art is Ordinary
The United Kingdom's Department of Culture, Media and Sport, defines culture as an economic resource. Their position is that human creativity is essential, in contrast to the old world view that science, industry and culture are considered distinct. In fact, continuing to categorize human creativity is considered a serious barrier to progress in business, social regeneration and in the arts. "In the era of creative economy, art is ordinary, and there is essentially no difference between the creativity of the entrepreneur, the scientist and the artist" (creativeclusters.com). This means that creative individuals must work to unleash their creative pursuits by rejecting existing categories and paradigms to pursue new ways of thinking and working. In this model, entrepreneurial and technical skills become essential in the arts and traditional arts skills become critical in business.
"All this means that the role of the artist is changing. The artist is no longer a peculiar outsider, with a magical gift that the state or the rich must protect. Artistic creativity is an ordinary human activity. Playing a musical instrument, writing, making a film—these are specialisms and as with any specialism it's hard work and some people will be better than others. But creative skill is not magic. It can be taught and learnt."
Do you think art is ordinary? Right now in Fort Collins (through September 25), you have a great opportunity to contemplate this question! In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, CSU's University Art Museum received a gift of photographs by the legendary Pop artist Andy Warhol and you can see them along with borrowed examples of his Flower paintings (based on photographs of hibiscus blossoms). Andy Warhol's art has become such a big part of US visual culture, that today it is easy to ignore how "out of the ordinary" it would have looked when he first created it. Did you know that Warhol used commercial fluorescent paints—not the oil paints that artists were "supposed" to use? His images and ways of making ordinary objects into graphic statements have become so much a part of our visual language that knock-off examples surround us in stores, advertising and interiors. For example, for a price online, you can upload your own photo image, have it transformed into a punchy, brightly colored, Warhol-like canvas, and hang it in your home.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was born "Andrew Warhola," to Slovakian immigrant parents. He was good at drawing and painting when he was young and later studied at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, continuing onto a career in magazine illustration and advertising. His sensibility for repetition and photo images grew out of mimicking mass advertising.
In the 1960s, when "fine art" and "commercial art" were still considered absolutely distinct categories in a hierarchy of creative expression, Warhol made paintings of famous American products like Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles. Later, he made silkscreen prints of products in order to not only make art about mass produced items but to actually mass produce art. He hired and supervised "art workers" to make prints, shoes, films, and other items at his studio, The Factory in New York City, which became the meeting place for a wide range of artists. Think Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Truman Capote, Debbie Harry and The Velvet Underground for example. Warhol and other Pop artists challenged established ideas of art—including whether "fine art" could be mechanically reproduced. Ironically, Warhol's work is now housed in established museums and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is the largest American art museum dedicated to a single artist! Do you think that debate has been won?
Moreover, long before the "Superstar," reality television and internet fame possibilities of today, Warhol believed that the media could make any person famous in a cycle of disposable celebrity. He was especially drawn to the images of people in publicity stills and newspapers and to their stories of personal tragedy. He modified photo images to create iconic paintings of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and others. However, when he "sampled" a photograph from Modern Photography Magazine, the photographer sued. After that, Warhol took thousands of his own photographs, becoming a prolific photographer to create his own source material, although evidence of this process has not been widely exhibited. Did you know that Warhol often used an ordinary Polaroid camera to photograph friends, who like him, were also celebrities? Don't miss your opportunity to see examples of how art is ordinary and learn more about Warhol right here in Fort Collins, at CSU's University Art Museum.
While you are there, think about the relationships between photographer, model, and image. Our understandings of these 3 components of photography reveal much about our cultural definitions of art, artist, and creativity. Is art really ordinary? If art is ordinary, is art education basic to being educated? Where do art and process connect/disconnect? Should art be integrated into life, and everyday life into art?
Who gets to make art? What do you think? We look forward to hearing from you!
Read about Denver-based photographer Mark Sink's relationship to Warhol—Andy Warhol was his hero.
Read about Warhol's visit to Fort Collins in 1981.
Read memories of Warhol's visit to Fort Collins.
The Fort Collins Museum and More Meetup Group
Thanks for the photo estaticist!
Art for all!
Deborah Lombard