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The Green Wave, seeded No. 10, score a 12-0 mercry-rule win over Canton on Saturday and will now play at Bishop Stang on Monday.
It was a simple case of scoring early and often for the Abington High School softball team on Saturday afternoon.
Abington scored four runs in both the first and second innings on the way way to a 12-0 Division 2 South Sectional preliminary-round victory over No. 23 Canton in a game called in the bottom of the sixth inning due to the mercy rule.
With the victory, 10th-seeded Abington (16-6) travels to Dartmouth on Monday for a first-round game against seventh-seeded and defending Division 2 South champion Bishop Stang (15-5) at 3:30 p.m.
"It was good to see us jump out early in the game with some runs,'' Abington coach Ernie Ortega said. "We knew it was going to be tough coming into the game because Canton plays in the Hockomock League, which is all Division 1 teams and tough teams.
"Their 4-16 record does not show what type of team they are. We hung with Franklin and Framingham, so I knew we could hang with just about anybody.''
Abington opened the scoring in the first, with the help of two Bulldogs errors.
Winning pitcher Hanna Rogers began the scoring with an RBI single and was followed by a bases-loaded single by Samantha Thompson.
Sarah Cochrane's two-run single scored two more runs for a 4-0 lead.
"Scoring early gave us confidence,'' said Ortega. "Since we lost to Franklin, we have won 11 of our last 12 games, so we're playing with confidence right now.''
Victoria Chiocchio (two hits) began the second inning for Abington with a single and she came around to score on an error.
Kate Donovan (two hits) doubled to score Colleen Kearns, who reached on an error, and Amanda Doherty scored Kearns with a single. Freshman Ashli Roberts scored the final run of the second for Abington on an error, making it 8-0.
Victoria Curtin had an RBI single in the fourth for a 9-0 Green Wave lead, before an RBI double from Donovan, followed by an RBI single from Doherty (4-for-4) increased Abington's lead to 11-0 after five.
Thompson singled to lead off the Green Wave sixth and scored when Curtin's bunt was thrown away by the Bulldogs for the 12th and final run of the game.
Rogers was the beneficiary of the Abington onslaught. The sophomore worked all six innings, scattering four hits, striking out seven and walking one.
"Hanna has been solid down the stretch for us,'' Ortega said. "Hanna is not bothered by anything. Umpires who don't give her a generous strike zone still doesn't bother her. It's nice to have someone who doesn't get rattled on the mound.
"Bishop Stang is going to be a tough one. The rest of the teams in this bracket are tough. Whoever comes out of this bracket will be ready for anyone.''

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Have you ever had an argument with a friend?
Sixteen-year-old Cynthia Siino has.
Lots of them.
That's not to say she's disagreeable – far from it: this popular Grade 11 student at Vincent Massey Collegiate is a senior member of her school's renowned debating team, which has competed at tournaments across the country and in the United States.
"My parents and my coach would say I'm very argumentative," she joked in a telephone interview from Toronto, where the VMC senior debaters were facing off against teams from all over the country. Her team didn't manage to bring home any championships, but they finished respectably against a mostly older group of debaters from well-funded private-school debating clubs.
"It went pretty well," said Siino, a four-and-a-half-year debating veteran. "We improved from last year, drastically."
The Toronto tournament was held last Friday and Saturday. The first day featured two rounds of debate for the team. Saturday saw a full 12 hours of debating action: four rounds in all plus quarter finals.
After debating topics that ranged from adoption to military invasions, VMC came in 14th overall at the tournament – a major improvement over VMC's 39th-place finish last year.
"We're happy. We really did improve," said Siino, who is one of 16 senior and junior debaters at VMC.
So why do students such as Siino sign up for debating?
For one thing, it's an exciting form of competition. Debaters also learn how to organize their thoughts and use mental strategies to defeat other debaters – some of whom are their friends. By preparing their research before a debate, they learn lots about the world around them. And, maybe best of all, they make friends with fellow debaters wherever they compete.
Grade 10 student Liana Usmano has been debating since Grade 7.
"It's definitely fun," she said. "It gets your heart pumping, your adrenaline rushing."
Extreme feelings like those can either help or harm your debating performance without experience and self-control, she pointed out.
"If you're really nervous, you might be inhibited. But if you're passionate about the topic, you can speak and be emphatic."
Usmano's debating coach at Vincent Massey Collegiate is just as passionate about the activity. Gregory Louden is a teacher at VMC. He's also the president of the Quebec Student Debating Association.
"Debating is a sport, but it's a sport of the mind," he said. "We prepare the same way that athletes do. The kids put in a lot of time preparing for the tournaments."
"We have practices once a week," added Siino. "You have to continuously train. Just as we train as a group, we have to train at home, too."
For his part, Louden puts in approximately 12 days of his own time every year, accompanying the VMC debaters to competitions as far away as Victoria, B.C., and Yale University in New England. And the students sacrifice personal time to improve their skills and bone up on world affairs, too.
That can mean lots of reading about world affairs. Grade 11 student Alex Izak regularly devours magazines like the Economist and Mother Jones, and newspapers – from all the local ones to the New York Times.
But the 16-year-old says all of that preparation pays off in terms of his ability to form arguments and having the substance to win a debate.
"You have to think on the spot," he said. "Sometimes, you're asked a question during a debate and the other person might have information to blow away your answer."
Grade 11 student Megan Gagliano is all too aware of the importance of general knowledge in debating.
"You're forced to learn about all these international problems," says the 16-year-old. "You have to read the newspaper. You have to watch the news. You're exposed to more. You learn more."
In the end, she figures that debating pays off in all kinds of ways.
"You learn to speak with proper grammar," she said. "You learn to express yourself more effectively than other people. It helps you get your point across. And you meet people from all kinds of places.
But like any other sport, debating has its rules and young debaters have to know them.
"You're taught to be fairly formal," said Gagliano. "No heckling. You can't mock. You have to be very tactical. You learn the tricks of how to win the debate itself. You have a limited time to speak. You have protected time when people can't interrupt you. And then, in the middle of the speech, people can interrupt (with so-called "points of information"), when you have to answer and comment."
Sure, there's a lot to learn. But then again, Gagliano has been doing it for the past five years.
For his part, Izak has been on the team for four years, which he describes as exciting. "It can sometimes get intense," he says. But it also pays off with lasting personal rewards.
"We've been traveling together for years now," he said. "We got to see Canada together. It really builds friendships."
It also helps students to get more from future learning, says coach Louden, who describes the activity as "a really excellent preparation for them to go on to university and CEGEP."
Meanwhile, Liana Usmano believes that debating helps students become more aware and sophisticated.
"Debating is something that boosts your public-speaking skills and helps you to make cohesive arguments. That's something important for interaction and to communicate at a higher level," she said. "And it teaches me not just to accept what I'm told or what I see in the media or daily life, but to think critically of what it all really means."
At the end of the day, coach Louden believes that debating is a great learning complement for students who participate.
"They're getting what is called a real-world education," he said. "They become well-rounded students. These kids now have informed opinions. Now they know what they're talking about. Just to see them improve and succeed is great."
The next big events on the debating calendar include a tournament at Marianopolis College in the new year. After that, Vincent Massey Collegiate hosts the Quebec Senior Championships on Feb. 4. The top five winners from that event will then go on to Halifax for the nationals in April.
For younger debaters, the Quebec Junior Finals will be held at Selwyn House School this coming April. The top debaters at that event will go to the national finals in Saskatchewan in May.
At the end of the 2011-2012 school year, Quebec will have the honour to host both the senior and national debating championships at VMC, Selwyn House and Lower Canada College.
For more information about debating in Quebec, visit the Quebec Student Debating Association online at www.qsda.net.


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Finals to take place on 25th April at Institute of Engineering Technology, London
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Texas Teachers Are Basically Prison Wardens
Sure, bleeding heart PC types killed a bill earlier this year that would have allowed guns on college campuses in Texas. Consolation prize: Texas is "close to enacting" a new bill that will give school teachers detailed criminal histories of all their students. Because you never know when the next six-year-old will shoot up the school, or which kid's birthday party is actually cover for a cockfighting ring. Down in Texas, the legislators are armed, the merest whiff of lawbreaking gets you jailed, and prisoners get put down like dogs. You never know when one of these public school kids might get brainwashed by a Muslim textbook and start some serious jee-had. If our teachers can't have guns, well, at least we can "arm" them with the precise knowledge of just how evil these felons-to-be lurking in their classroom are. And also, maybe arm them with a knife?
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WEBBER — The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Lovewell Marina at Lovewell State Park are sponsoring the annual Lovewell Fun Day on Saturday, Aug. 6. A new addition to the day's events is the first ever Disc Golf Singles Tournament. Eighteen holes will be played beginning at 9 a.m. Competitors need to register at the park office by 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. The tournament will have two divisions: youth (15 and younger) and adult (16 and older). A $5 entry fee is due at time of registration, fully refunded to the first three places in each age division.
The Co-ed Mud Volleyball Tournament begins at 10 a.m. This event is double-elimination with a $20 entry fee per team and a 10-team limit. Pre-registration for the mud volleyball tournament is requested at the Lovewell State Park Office by August 4.
Other events scheduled for the Fun Day include minnow races at 10 a.m. at the marina, log races at noon at the Pioneer Day use Area (playground), water balloon toss at 2 p.m., waterslide contest at 3 p.m., and a Frisbee-throwing contest at 4 p.m. These events are for all ages.
In addition, an Outdoor Cook-off Contest will be held at the Pioneer Day Use area. Pre-registration is required by August 4 at 6 p.m. at the park office. Each cooker must cook 100 1-ounce servings for the judges. Judges will be chosen from the first 100 people who contribute $5 for a taste-testing ticket. Donations are used for prizes at Lovewell State Park's special events throughout the year. Judging tickets will be available at the cook-off area beginning at 5 p.m., and judging will start at 6 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. Additional samples will be available, depending on availability of food entries. (If too few entrants register, this event may be cancelled.)
To check on the status of any of these events or for more information, phone Lovewell State Park at 785-753-4971. A vehicle permit is required to enter the park. Daily permits are $4.20, annual permits $24.70.


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July Match Results Are in!
About the Match
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Scoring goes through a couple of revision, changes in division or class almost aways happens we get the sence that this has setteled down the scores will also apper here, this make take a day or so, untill then you can visit the links above for the scores.
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Perhaps you've read Part I. (located here.)
But perhaps the answer still eludes you.
You've received a clue:
The Winemaker's Ring is not ALL that happens twice …
But still, the mystery unsolved.
The wines:
2009 Ridge Vineyards Estate Merlot
2010 Ridge Vineyards Pagani Ranch Zinfandel
2010 Ridge Vineyards Ponzo Zinfandel
2010 Ridge Vineyards Lytton Springs
2004 Ridge Vineyards Oltranti Zinfandel
2006 Ridge Vineyards Nervo Zinfandel
2003 Ridge Vineyards Independence School Zinfandel
The clue:
The Winemaker's Ring is not ALL that happens twice …
But WHAT is the connection?
Perhaps another clue?
You're on The Hunt for an October Red …
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It worked so well the last time and provided one of the best threads we have seen in cricket chat. The Ashes sub forum isn't really seeing that much activity. Most of the threads which have been created - would work well in an official tour thread. A few threads like predictions etc can of course be created (again, like last time).
Most people don't visit the Ashes sub forum and thus the lower levels of activity there. Jason raised the issue as well a few days back and it is a divided opinion on this from the polls.
Another aspect would be cricket chat becoming almost dormant during the Ashes with Champions Trophy before it and then Ashes getting centre stage despite a couple of series on then.


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A couple of
Canadians Texans on supermotos are plowing down a rural road when an F-150 inattentively pulls out in front of them. The first rider barely pulls up short, hitting the Ford. What follows isn't what an American would expect.
In America, surely the Yamaha rider and the truck driver would be vigorously breaking each other's noses, but in
the North Texas, we get polite conversation, transcribed here in full:
Trucker: Are you alright?
Biker: Yeah dude, it's all good.
Trucker: Damn, dude.
Biker: Ahh, no damage.
Trucker: I didn't see y'all behind me.
Biker: Oh, it's no problem.
Trucker: You good?
Biker: Yeah, we're good man. It's a dirt bike. [The trucker begins to turn.] Go for it.
Trucker: Sorry about that.
Biker: No problem.
Biker's Friend: That was a good stop, dude!
Biker: Ahaha, I know! (waits for truck) Uh, I'll go across.
Trucker: A'ight. [They part ways without killing each other.]
Canadians: Texans: they're even polite at road rage.
UPDATE: As many of you pointed out, this is clearly a Texas truck and probably Texas. As a native Texan I'm not surprised. I must now go curb Raphael of his yankee bias without discouraging his Canadian stereotyping. — Ed.
(Hat tip to TheCroatianGuy!)


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Hello All,
Kathi and I have just finished our summer guiding season here in Alaska with back to back trips, rafting the Marsh Fork of the Canning River on the north slope of the Brooks Range and paddling the Savonoski Loop in Katmai National Park. Seems like summer was gone in a flash. Now we go south for a fall MTB guiding season in Utah. Before we know it it will be time to switch from dust and slickrock to ice and snow back in Alaska.
After two years of near perfect conditions I wonder what surprises the Trail holds for 2012. This is year 15 on the Trail for me either competing or breaking trail on a machine. I have been asked why I don't get tired of the same trail. I probably couldn't explain it to someone who has to ask. I have never seen the same Trail twice anyway and that includeds years I rode machines from Knik to McGrath and back to Knik. Something for racers who have only experienced the smiling face of the Iditarod Trail to keep in mind when trimming gear etc. for this years race is ," It ain't always that way!" You never know when we will be wading knee deep river wide over flow at -30 ( had to throw that one in for you Mr.O) pushing bikes over half the way to McGrath in soft snow, rain turning to wet snow with temps dropping to -35 overnight, I could go on and on but I am sure all of you have done your homework and read the reports from past years. Being prepared for a "What if???" can save fingers and toes or even your life. All that said the best stories come out of overcoming adversity not relaxing on blue bird days. Here's hoping this year's race leaves us with a lot of stories to tell and on the right side of the grass to tell them afterwards. We look forward to seeing all of you on the Iditarod Trail.
Bill and Kathi
Saturday, September 3, 2011
September 2 Iditarod Trail Invitational updates
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text: Dance companies in Albertson are one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers, and have changed the way one thinks about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever. They have paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form- physically integrated dance. Their mission is to create and perform contemporary dance that is developed through the collaboration of dancers with and without disabilities, to teach dance and to educate about collaboration and disability through community education and outreach programs, to promote and support physically integrated dance locally, nationally and internationally.


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The Land Use Law Center provides access to a wealth of resources designed to assist students, municipal officials and community groups in several areas of land use concern. Here you can access a wide range of materials related to Development Law, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Housing, Intermunicipal Cooperation, Local Environmental Law, and Mediation. Students developed this site as part of the Center's first year orientation program. The students spent the semester researching available resources in the six topics listed above and designed web pages that provide comprehensive coverage of each topic.
Clicking on the above links will allow you to access resources available at the Land Use Law Center, Pace Gerber Glass Law Library, and state and local government offices. You will also find links to various professional organizations and advocacy groups. A summary of relevant case law and statutes for each of the six topics is also included.
This site is the product of student research and is designed only as a starting point for those seeking information related to these topics. The Land Use Law Center is not responsible for the content of the linked sites, nor does it specifically embrace the policy of any particular site.


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Here's why you should opt for herbal bouquets:
1. Instant wedding memories at every Sunday roast.
Imagine this. If you have herbal bouquets, then every time for the rest of your life tha you have a nice roast lamb stuffed with sage or a juicy roast chicken stuffed with rosemary and thyme, you'll be transported back to dizzy wonderfulness of your wedding day.
2. Unbreakability.
Herbs are easy to play with if you're doing a DIY bouquet, and set off roses nicely. However bad you are a floristry, they still wont wilt or snap.
3. You can make the boys buttonholes herbal too.
Leave your ushers smelling sweetly with rosemary and rose buttonholes like these:
4. Herbs symbolise all manner of positive things.
Rosemary symbolises remembrance, love, loyalty and fidelity. And apparently it can improve the memory.
Sage symbolises wisdom, long life and immortality.
Thyme symbolises activity, bravery, courage and strength.
Sedum symbolises welcome and traquility. Technically it is a herb, not an edible one, but still a herb, and a good filler.
See more herb symbolism here.
5. Herbs are cheaper than flowers. Innit.
You can get a huge two-handed bunch of mixed herbs from New Covent Garden Market for a tenner (if you're prepared to get up at 5am two days before your wedding).
So normally I don't like to show my mug on my blog, but here's a once-in-a-blogtime exception, so I can show you my bouquet. It's a mix of pink tipped roses, hot pink roses with green tips, ivory roses and pink roses mixed with sage, thyme and rosemary. I felt like a walking bouquet garni (in a good way).
These are my lovely flowergirls and best woman – each has a different colour rose and a different type of herb (except the sedum, which is technically a herb, but not the sort you'd put in a dressing). The ribbons are all different colours, matching with their mismatching outfits. But more about this in subsequent posts…


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We don't know what Nuggets general manager Tim Connelly and head coach Brian Shaw ultimately have in store in putting their stamp on reworking the Nuggets roster.
But we have clues.
Those clues came in the first few weeks after both were hired in 2014. Shaw talked about playing inside, out. He talked about playing smashmouth basketball. Yet those are things his teams have never been able to get to, in either year of his coaching tenure.
But that won't be the case for long. The Nuggets will get to work on constructing a team that plays that way, because if Shaw is going to go down he's going to go down playing the type of basketball he wants to play.
There's not one surefire way to makeover a roster. In this case, using what little we know we've blended free agency and the draft in a way that checks off many of the boxes.
So, for entertainment purposes only, this is how the Nuggets can get from here — 20-33 at the All Star break — to something different, and better, in the future.


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Poitier, Sidney
(born February 20, 1927?, , Miami, Florida, U.S.) Bahamian American actor and motion-picture director and producer. Poitier is recognized as the actor who broke the colour barrier in the U.S. motion-picture industry and made the careers of other black actors possible.
Poitier was born prematurely in the United States while his parents were visiting from The Bahamas. He grew up on Cat Island, Bahamas, and returned as a teenager to the United States, where he enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II and served a brief stint in an army medical unit. Upon his discharge, he applied to the American Negro Theatre (ANT) in New York City. Refused a place because of his accent, he practiced American enunciation while listening to the accents of radio voices and reapplied to the ANT six months later. This time he was accepted, and he began studying acting while appearing in a series of ANT productions. He made his feature-length movie debut as Dr. Luther Brooks, a black doctor who treats a bigoted white criminal, in No Way Out (1950). This film established a significant pattern both for Poitier himself and for the black actors who followed him; by refusing roles that played to a racial stereotype, Poitier pushed the restrictive boundaries set by Hollywood and made inroads into the American mainstream. Another of his notable early roles was Gregory Miller, an alienated high school student in the film adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel The Blackboard Jungle (1955). Despite his budding film career, Poitier continued to perform in live theatre and won critical acclaim on Broadway in 1959 with his starring role in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. He also starred in the 1961 film adaptation of the drama.
Among his other early notable film roles were Noah Cullen in The Defiant Ones (1958), which earned him an Academy Award nomination as best actor, Porgy in Porgy and Bess (1959), Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963)for which he received the Academy Award for best actorand Gordon Raife in A Patch of Blue (1965). He was the second black actor to win an Academy Award (Hattie McDaniel had won a best supporting actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind in 1939) and the first to insist that productions upon which he worked have a certain percentage of black crew members. Poitier also starred in three popular movies in 1967In the Heat of the Night, To Sir with Love, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
In 1969 Poitier founded the First Artists Production Company, and in 1972 he made his directorial debut with Buck and the Preacher. Among other films he directed are Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). After a long absence from the screen, Poitier appeared in Shoot to Kill (1988) and continued to act in feature films and made-for-television movies into the 21st century. In 2001, Poitier, the recipient of many prestigious acting awards, was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being. A dual citizen of the United States and The Bahamas, he was appointed ambassador to Japan for The Bahamas in 1997.
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The heavy syllables of the victims' names boomed out along the streets around Ground Zero. The public were patted down, then allowed up a cramped side road to peer at a distant video screen of the memorial. They filmed the video screen on their mobile phones, filmed each other filming, and film crews filmed them filming.
It was hardly fertile ground for grief, you'd think. And yet, the weird detachment of the moment was severed by the chanting of the names and the brief tributes of the readers. It was the daughter who said her father's friends tell her that she reminds them of him that did it for me. That, and the list of victims called Jones. Jones after Jones after Jones. Too many Joneses. I took my sniffles back up the street to Starbucks.
And from Starbucks, I went down the rabbit hole. I found myself at a conference on Walker Street called 'How The World Changed After 9/11'. It was packed, but I managed to slide in at the back, to hear a guy called Webster Tarpley chant his own list of names. The names of the 46 military exercises and hijack drills (called things like 'Vigilant Guardian') that were actually taking place on the morning of September 11. "The greatest density of drills in US military history," Tarpley said.
Fake radar blips, dummy hijacks, dummy attacks, fighter jets sent off to Turkey, the skies left unprotected, with the FBI's top anti-terror experts stuck on a training exercise in California. The drills, said Tarpley, were important, because not only did they weaken and confuse US air defence, but there was also a military drill for each major component of the 9/11 attacks. The drills were cover, and the dummy threats were made real.
September 11, he argues, was a coup carried out by a rogue network within the US military and government. A cabal of fascists, working with (and for) a banking oligarchy, "the old boys of Wall Street".
"You want to blame Saudi Arabia, or Israel, or Pakistan? You can't. There isn't the evidence." The evidence, Tarpley says, points towards 9/11 as a false flag attack, carried out by a high level clique, that forced a shocked and awestruck US public into a vast and still ongoing war. It was America's very own Reichstag fire. And the official version of the event? "A racist, militaristic, and fascist myth that we must reject."
What I heard, from speaker after speaker, was a heartfelt desire to turn away from the path of destruction, militarism and lies that America has been set upon after 9/11. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, mourned for Iraq: "One million dead, 4m displaced, and that's a victory?" He sees the failure of Americans to comprehend the scale of the destruction wrought under their flag as nothing less than racist. "In America, we are very good at segregating our tears. Racism is our original sin."
McGovern quoted from Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail: "Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up, but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." And 9/11, for McGovern, is a "big boil" that needs lancing.
He drew attention to an extraordinary story, barely touched by the mainstream press, that Richard Clarke, who was the White House counter-terrorism czar at the time of the attacks, has recently accused the CIA of deliberately suppressing information be..., information that might have prevented the attacks. Clarke claimed: "There was a high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share information." And who made this decision? "I would think it would have been made by the director".
So that would be George Tenet. Director of the CIA from 1997-2004, now a managing director of an investment bank. The former CIA man, McGovern, ends his speech by saying: "Of all the people who should be put in prison, he'd be top of my list."
Another speaker, Mike Rivero, addressed the outrage, which he often felt when the "false flag" analysis of 9/11 is presented. The idea that "we would never do such a thing" or "it's not the sort of thing governments do." He gave a whistlestop tour of state-sponsored attacks and hoodwinkings: the Lusitania, the Maine, the Dodgy Dossier, Saddam's nuclear weapons, the staged burning of the Reichstag, and the notorious Gleiwitz incident in which the Nazis faked an attack on a German radio station to justify the invasion of Poland. His point being that 9/11 was "not unique". There's a historical context.
History, documentation, facts. A respect for life, and a respect for truth. This is what I heard, over and over again, at this remarkable conference. Wayne Madsen – a former naval officer and NSA operative – spoke of the atmosphere of "hype and fear" that still grips America, 10 years after 9/11. A fear that's pumped into us, relentlessly, through our flatscreen HD Orwellian "telescreens".
Madsen called for the release of the commission findings that Ludkowski told me about last night: "Let's get those documents out of the National Archives!" But he noted that the man whose job it is to decide what gets released, the administrator of the White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is one Cass Sunstein. The same Cass Sunstein that in 2008 urged the government to "cognitively infiltrate" alternative groups like the 9/11 Truth Movement. So releasing those documents probably isn't top of his to-do list.
He's also the same Cass Sunstein that wrote the first op-ed about Julian Assange – the CIA asset and "child of MK Ultra", as Tarpley dubs him. But that's a whole other can of worms …
I found myself blinking back tears for the second time when McGovern read out a poem – in his polished CIA Russian – about a mother mourning the loss of her child. This thread of grieving ran throughout the conference. Wayne Madsen grieved for the loss of "shoeleather journalism", McGovern mourned the death of the fourth estate, while Tarpley spoke of the hollow memorial at Ground Zero – the two "abysses": the reflecting pools, or "voids", as they're often called. He sees these memorials as an appropriately empty vision of "nothingness. Nihil. No ideals, nothing." A nothingness at the heart of America. "But we have to do something."
We have to do something. Even if that something is simply to Google 'Cass Sunstein' and start from there. Begin your own cognitive infiltration. Google 'Vigilant Guardian' or 'Able Danger'. Crosscheck 'Abdel Hakim Belhadj' and 'Al-Qaida'. Begin digging. Begin thinking. And stop believing.


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Every few months or so, my fabulous friend Alison throws a Stitch and Bitch. For those of you that aren't in the know, a Stitch and Bitch is a gathering of women that involves food, drink, handiwork, and lively conversation. My grandmother attends a Stitch and Bitch. My mother attends a Stitch and Bitch. And now I, too, attend a Stitch and Bitch. I love Alison's Stitch and Bitch get togethers. We all eat, talk, and sometimes even get around to working on our projects. Last time, which was just before Christmas, I was an embroidery fanatic and managed to complete an entire design on a dish towel in one evening. It was a pattern of a devil head, for my devilishly handsome and equally fabulous friend Derek.
Anyway, one of the best things about Stitch and Bitch is eating. Alison always provides some food, and guests always bring more. Unfortunately for me, most of the food at Stitch and Bitch, like most party fare, is primarily wheat or dairy based. Lots of crackers, crusty breads, fancy cheeses, tasty dips and tapenades, or little baked confections. Basically, lots of things on my naughty list. So, it is up to me to bring something I can eat that will also please the other ladies. Last time I brought some crazy Black Bean Carob brownies, a vegan variation of the recipe from 101 Cookbooks. They were pretty good, and went over fairly well, all things considered. Sure, the baguette and brie definitely stole people's hearts before my black bean brownies did, but by the end of the evening, a fair portion of those brownies had vanished off the plate. People liked them.
Or at least, people were curious enough about trying to figure out if they liked them or not to keep eating them.
This time around, I decided I wanted something more substantial. Something that would make a meal. I wanted a pasta salad. A pasta salad that was doused in pesto.
I totally adore pesto, but since most pre-made pesto includes ingredients that are no longer on my "yes" list, I now have to make it myself every time I want it. Thankfully, it is marvelously easy and takes about 5 minutes. So, I stopped at my favorite Asian market and bought a huge bunch of basil to make my sauce. Hot tip - basil is ALWAYS cheap at the Asian market. Way cheaper than buying it your average grocer or natural food store. And generally fresher, becuase basil is very commonly used in SE Asian cooking, and the turnover rate is pretty high.
Since I'm on a break from most nuts and seeds right now, running a little allergy experiment, I decided to make the pesto with sprouted chickpeas instead of pinenuts. Brilliant! I've had a batch of chickpeas sprouting away on my kitchen counter the last few days, and this was the perfect opportunity to use 'em up. Since sprouted chickpeas are still crunchy, they make a great substitute for the pine nuts and grated cheese traditionally used in pesto, providing that grainy texture. If you don't sprout, go ahead and try using regular chickpeas, but be forewarned - it may create a more creamy pesto sauce since cooked chickpeas blend up to be very smooth. Or, if you'd like, use pine nuts, or some other nut or seed. Pumpkin seeds make great pesto, as do macadamia nuts. After my sophomore year of college, I worked in Hawaii for a summer, and basically lived on vegan cheese, macadamia nut pesto, and sprouted grain bagel sandwiches. Macadamias + basil = awesome. In fact, I think vegan cheese is really only acceptable to eat when covered in pesto.
Or, for the most simple variation, just make your pesto with basil and olive oil - it is just as delicious. This recipe makes more than enough pesto for the pasta salad, so you'll have plenty of leftovers. Use over cooked veggies or grains, mix with beans, serve on turkey burgers or chicken breasts, or stir in with yogurt or kefir to make a tasty, creamy dressing. Or, just eat with a spoon and get your olive oil intake for the day. Pesto freezes like a dream - I use ice cube trays and those little bendy oven/freezer/fridge safe plastic candy molds to freeze just about everything - so make a big batch and freeze some for later!
In the end, this pasta salad was a total hit at Stitch and Bitch, and got just as much actions as the creamy spinach dip, crusty bread, and ham and cheese galettes. Brimming with Mediterranean-inspired flavors, this pasta salad combines caramelized onions, blanched broccoli, sprouted chickpeas, oil-cured olives, and fresh pesto into something wonderfully vibrant green, ultra flavorful, and very satisfying. People will never guess it is gluten-free and vegan! And it makes a ton - perfect for potlucks, parties, and leftovers.
I did not include cheese when I made the pesto or salad, but I listed it below as an option for those that tolerate dairy. A freshly grated, hard, salty Italian cheese, like parmiggiano reggiano (cow) or pecorino romano (sheep) would be delicious, and add a traditional twist.
SPROUTED CHICKPEA PESTO AND BROCCOLI PASTA SALAD (vegan, dairy free, gluten free)
yield: 8-10 servings
4 c dry brown rice rotini (or other gluten free pasta), cooked and cooled
3-4 c finely chopped broccoli florets (about 1 bunch)
1 1/2 c sprouted chickpeas (or canned, prepared chickpeas)
1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
1/3 c oil cured black olives, sliced
1/2-2/3 c pesto, to taste (see ingredients and recipe below)
sea salt and fresh cracked pepper, to taste
1 T olive oil
optional, if dairy tolerant: grated parmigianno reggiano (cow) or pecorino romano (sheep)
Sprouted Chickpea Pesto:
2 c packed fresh basil leaves
3/4 - 1 c good quality extra virgin olive oil
2-3 cloves fresh garlic or 1 bulb roasted garlic
1/4 c sprouted chickpeas or 2-3 T pine nuts or other nut/seed
optional, if dairy tolerant: 2-3 T parmiggiano reggiano (cow) or pecorino romano (sheep)
pinch sea salt
PREPARE PESTO (yields approx 1 - 1 1/2 c):
- Remove leaves from basil, wash, and spin dry/pat dry.
- Put basil leaves, garlic (fresh, roasted, or mix), and sprouted chickpeas/nuts in food processor.
- Add oil slowly while pulsing food processor until sauce has reached desired consistency. It shoudl be grainy and well mixed.
- Add pinch of sea salt to taste, as desired.
- Store in refrigerator for up to one week, or freeze leftovers for later use.
- In large stockpot, add water, pinch of salt, and 1 T of olive oil to boil. Add dry pasta, bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook 8-10 minutes or until pasta is al dente. DO NOT OVER COOK! Remove from heat immediately, pour pasta through strainer, and rinse with cool water. Set aside, and let it drain thoroughly while cooling.
- Thinly slice onion, and place in oiled heavy bottom pan that has a tightly fitting cover. Saute at medium heat until coated with oil, then reduce heat to low, cover and let sweat for 4-5 minutes. Remove cover, stir, cover, and let cook another 5-6 minutes. Remove cover, stir, cover and let cook another few minutes. Repeat until onions have become sweet, sticky, and carmelized. Turn off heat, and leave covered for a few minutes. Remove cover, and set aside.
- While onions are caramelizing, boil 4-5 cups of water. Wash broccoli, and remove florets from stems. Chop broccoli finely - you want to make it look like lots of very tiny little trees. Place in a large bowl, then dump boiling water over the florets. Cover bowl with a plate, and let sit for about 1-2 minutes, or until broccoli is just lightly cooked. Remove plate, and strain broccoli. This is a fast and easy way to quickly cook very small broccoli pieces!
- Slice olives in quarters vertically, and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together cooled pasta, broccoli, caramelized onion, olives, and chickpeas. Spoon pesto sauce over mixture, and gently mix into pasta until well combined. Add salt, pepper, and additional pesto sauce to taste, as desired.
- Cover salad, place in refrigerator, and let sit for 3-4 hours to let flavors develop.
- Serve chilled or at room temperature. Garnish with freshly grated cheese, as desired/tolerated.
Buon appetito! Per favore, mangia, mangia!


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When I pick up my camera...when I compose the subjects in the frame...and, when I plan and set up my lighting, I have one thing in mind: To take a better photograph than the last time.
I have been using a camera as a hobbyist since I was 12 years old, and then as a freelance professional (starting in 1998). I have had a camera in my hands, designing art photography, or working for clients, for 41 years.


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The SVS International Liturgical Symposium took place on January 29-31, 2009. It featured preeminent theologians from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant traditions from major universities, and was held in honor of The Rt. Rev. Alexander Schmemann (d. 1983), who served as dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary for more than twenty years. Fr. Schmemann is best known for his writings on liturgy and sacramental life, which have influenced all branches of Christianity, in the practice of worship as well as in the academic realm.
The keynote speaker was Robert F. Taft, S.J.
Other speakers include:
Read more about the Symposium here.
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Last-minute early votes trend Dem
An independent analysis of early voting states indicates that late arriving ballots are trending Democratic, adding to President Barack Obama's desperately needed early vote advantage in critical battleground states.
In 2008, Obama won four battleground states because he dramatically outpaced John McCain in early voting. While Obama has maintained a lead in early voting in most states this year, Mitt Romney and the Republican Party made early voting a high priority and have cut into his margins.
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But Obama may have gained early voting momentum in recent days. "For whatever reasons, Democrats seem to be mailing in their ballots later which is boosting the president's numbers," says early voting expert Michael McDonald, director of the United States Elections Project at George Mason University.
All indicators last week pointed to scenarios in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina where Romney was well situated to overtake Obama in Election Day voting — possibly offsetting any of the president's early vote advantage.
But McDonald says that there are too many complicated variables still in play to predict what will happen. Chief among them is how many voters actually show up today.
"It looks like Romney may have an edge in North Carolina — if we look at what happened in 2008," says McDonald. "Obama's early vote margin is narrower today. But I think North Carolina could be much closer than people think because we don't know how many Democrats are going to vote today."
( Also on POLITICO: 5 things to watch on election night)
In 2008, Obama was 21 percentage points ahead of John McCain in North Carolina early voting, and so even though McCain won the balloting on Election Day, he narrowly lost the state. Today, Obama's early lead is down to 16 percentage points, leaving him less wiggle room.
Early voting is also playing a role in what is shaping up as 2012's biggest prize and biggest potential nightmare: Ohio. Nearly one-third of Ohio's electorate has already voted — 1.8 million ballots have been cast — with a recent CNN-ORC poll showing the president with a hefty advantage, 63 percent to 35 percent.
( Also on POLITICO: The best stories of 2012)


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Toddler Cozy Crochet Boots
These crocheted child sized boot slippers are the epitome of comfort and coziness. They are made using basic crochet stitches and techniques, so as long as you've mastered single and double crochet and can follow a pattern, this one's for you!
These are perfect for lounging and snuggling. They are incredibly warm and have a double crocheted sole for a cushy pad. They have elastic bands crocheted into the material so they fit snugly and are never sloppy. They can be worn up tall or scrunched, but either way, they stay put and don't fall down. They make the perfect gift for all the children in your life.
Pattern includes suggestions for making your own outsoles as well.
Main image shows girl version; additional images show boy version, which requires 4 skeins of Wool of the Andes Thyme for the main color and one skein of Almond for the contrast color.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Sizes Included: Sm (4-5), M (6-7), L (8-9)
Yarn Weight: Worsted
Yarn Line: Wool of the Andes Worsted Yarn
Yardage: 770
Fiber Type: Wool


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Miami-Dade High Schools
Booker T. Washington shows pride in rout over Jackson
Booker T. Washington loves looking at the No. 1 next to its name in the national rankings.
The only number the Tornadoes are as proud to look at is when there's a zero on the scoreboard next to the opposing team's name.
So when Jackson scored its lone touchdown on the game's final play Thursday night, it didn't sit well with Booker T.'s defensive leaders.
"That's pride for us because when you score on us, it makes us feel like all that hard work we put in all week was for nothing," said senior defensive end Demetrius Jackson. "We'll get those things corrected."
The Tornadoes barely missed what would have been their third shutout this season, beating Jackson 35-6 at Traz Powell Stadium.
Demetrius Jackson's perfectionist attitude is a reflection of the entire Booker T. defense and what's helped it dominate multiple high-quality opponents like the Generals (2-1), who entered the game ranked No. 1 in Class 5A, so far this season.
"This is one of those games people thought we might slip because Jackson is a very good and talented team," Booker T. coach Tim "Ice" Harris said. "But it's very hard in one week to put it together when you face the tempo at which we run this type of team."
Booker T., the top-ranked team in the nation in every poll, has allowed only 23 points in four games. Jackson had three of the Tornadoes' seven sacks in Thursday's game as they once again frustrated one of the state's best quarterbacks into an uncharacteristically bad game.
Jackson senior quarterback Quinton Flowers threw three interceptions and finished 3 of 18 passing for only 56 yards.
Flowers threw his lone touchdown pass on the game's final play when he lobbed a 3-yarder into the corner of the end zone to Jovon Durante. He also completed a 44-yard pass to Xavier Bailey on a fake punt.
Take away those two plays and Booker T. limited Flowers to 1 of 16 passing for nine yards. In two games against the Tornadoes the past two seasons, Flowers has gone a combined 7 for 36 passing for 91 yards and four interceptions.
"The D-line comes to play every game," senior defensive end Chad Thomas said. "We're trying to shut out everybody in every game. We face the best offense down here every day in practice and I feel like that's making us better and better every week."
Junior La'Darius Crump, who transferred from Jackson in the offseason, had one of the interceptions. Brandon Boyd and Nigel Bethel II followed with one each later in the game.
With its defense dominant once again, Booker T. took control early behind another solid performance by its own quarterback, Treon Harris, who finished 10 of 14 for 160 yards, two touchdowns and one interception (only his first of the season).
Sophomore running back Mark Walton gave the Tornadoes a boost with solid rushing. Walton scored two touchdowns including a 44-yarder that gave Booker T. a 35-0 third quarter lead capping a drive in which Walton picked up 63 yards on two carries. Walton finished with 100 yards on eight carries.
Harris connected with Vaquan Smalls and Lamar Parker for touchdown passes of 21 and 26 yards. Harris also ran for a touchdown.
"A lot of guys can sit around and talk about stopping us and watch our team on video, but when you go against it, in one week I don't think you can get it done with the type of tempo we practice and we play," Tim Harris said. "It should have been the third shutout in four weeks, but we don't want to be the team to put the first team back in just to preserve a shutout. We need our second team guys to be ready to face situations like that."


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Heather Sullivan | KF17 | Indonesia
Chris Paci | KF16 & KF17 | Ukraine
When not sampling local delicacies or fording swollen rivers to visit borrowers, Kiva Fellows occasionally find themselves stuck in the office, chatting on Skype and sharing experiences (both raucous and ruminative) from the field. In one recent conversation, the two of us, Heather and Chris, discovered that we were facing nearly opposite sets of problems surrounding the issue of borrower privacy. While Chris's field partner in Ukraine was finding it hard to convince suspicious borrowers that sharing their photos and stories on Kiva would cause them no harm, Heather was struggling to convey to her Indonesian MFI's clients that perhaps they shouldn't be so nonchalant about how their information might be shared. What follows is a joint blog exploring some of the roots of those cultural differences—and their consequences for Kiva and its partner MFIs.
I'm Ready for my Close-Up! Heather Sullivan | KF17 | Indonesia
During my three-plus months as a Kiva Fellow in Indonesia, I have been struck by borrowers' consistently blasé attitude toward privacy. Whereas most Americans, I think, would balk if their bank or mortgage lender proposed to post their photo and profile on the internet for all the world to see, Indonesian microfinance clients hardly bat an eyelash. Borrowers here don't seem fussed about Kiva and, indeed, some enthusiastically embrace the chance to publicize their ventures. Clients rarely hesitate to sign the Kiva waiver and not a single Kiva borrower I've met has expressed concern about the use of their personal information on the Kiva website.
Intrigued, I have tried to probe clients' understanding of what protections exist to prevent improper use of personal information and photos. Might the MFI circulate photos of clients on flyers? How about billboards? What if the MFI were to publicize an individual client's delinquency? Feeling particularly bold on one recent visit, I pressed a client to imagine abuses of trust by the MFI, posing a scenario in which the MFI used client photos for commercial uses unrelated to microfinance. She indicated that the MFI could use her photo for any purpose, provided it was being used for the good. So cigarettes? No, she demurred, not for cigarettes. How about shampoo? "Sure. Why not?" (I admit that the lawyer in me may have gotten carried away with the hypotheticals…) The client's trust in the MFI was broad and explicit.
So, if Indonesians are especially relaxed about privacy, what cultural and historical factors may be at work? It's hard not to notice that Indonesians are quite sociable and accustomed to living in tight, communal spaces. That said, there are many places in the world where people, by choice or necessity, live in close quarters and where the whole village is constantly aware of your comings-and-goings. The fact that individuals are not afforded much privacy in their personal lives does not necessarily imply that they don't value privacy. It also does not mean that they would be comfortable sharing their personal stories with a broad audience.
Indonesia is famously diverse—religiously, linguistically, and ethnically—so "Indonesian culture" is hardly a monolithic concept. Traits and norms vary significantly across the archipelago; it's risky to generalize about Indonesians—including their attitudes towards privacy issues. The openness of borrowers could reflect entrenched cultural norms and an appetite for connectivity—Indonesian are WILD about Facebook and seem to post photos with abandon. (These may include photos taken with the random foreigner on the street. Being photographed with total strangers is a near-daily occurrence for "bules" in these parts…)
The apparently relaxed (or indifferent) attitude toward privacy might also reflect more broadly on the limitations to Indonesians' attention and access to individual rights. As I observed in a previous post, the legal obstacles to recognizing individual rights may be both formal and practical. Without strong institutional mechanisms for safeguarding individual rights—that is, without effective rule of law—the value of formal rights is compromised. Rights may exist in theory, but if there is no will or institutional structure for vindicating rights, it's no surprise that the average citizen is unaware of, or indifferent to, such protections.
While the "why" may be interesting to ponder, the more practical concern for Kiva and its MFI partners relates to consent and client protection. In order to appear on the Kiva website, a borrower must provide written consent in the form of a "client waiver." The sophistication of borrowers varies tremendously. Borrowers need not acquire a deep and thorough understanding of Kiva, but they should be provided with adequate information to support informed and meaningful consent. In obtaining client consent, MFIs should explain to borrowers how Kiva works and how the borrower's personal information will be used by Kiva. The MFI should also explain that appearing on Kiva is not a condition of obtaining the loan (a borrower may "opt out" and still receive a non-Kiva loan).
Additionally, informed consent implies some understanding of what constraints burden Kiva and the MFI in their use of client photos and personal information. Some uses are impermissible, waiver or no waiver. Returning to my goofy hypothetical, neither Kiva nor the MFI can use client photos to sell shampoo. An MFI may not disseminate client images or date in a manner intended to shame or intimidate a borrower. Ideally, a borrower will understand the limited nature of the client waiver and realize what rights she retains against Kiva and the MFI.
While some universal principles concerning client protection apply within the microfinance industry, MFIs are also, of course, subject to the specific laws and regulations governing the jurisdictions in which they operate. Without addressing the substance of those principles and restrictions—particularly the murky contours of Indonesian law—I would ask readers to consider what affirmative obligations MFIs should bear in terms of educating their borrowers about their rights. If a borrower seems content to waive her rights (including her right to receive a non-Kiva loan should she decline to sign the waiver), should the MFI expend any effort to press the issue and explain the limitations of that waiver? If a borrower is keen to take on a loan without fully understanding the product or the consequences of delinquency/default, what disclosures or explanations are adequate?
The MFIs I have worked with in Indonesia, VisionFund Indonesia and TLM, benefit from the openness and trust of their clients. Although I am convinced there are broader societal factors at work, I also think that the clients' trust reflects positively on the culture of my MFIs and the warm relationships that they have fostered with their clients. That trust is a great asset for the MFIs but it also creates a particularly fertile opportunity to educate clients about client protection principles. I'm not suggesting that MFIs proselytize to their clients about legal rights and ethical protections surrounding privacy. However, achieving "informed consent" may actually require more deliberate effort in an environment where borrowers practically queue up to have their pictures taken.
Unless borrowers are educated about the ethical and legal standards governing MFIs (and other institutions), it is unlikely that they will insist that such standards are followed. This raises difficult practical questions about the role and responsibilities of an MFI. As an organization committed to social impact, does an MFI bear a greater onus to educate and inform clients of rights, rules, and consequences? If so, is that brand of paternalism desirable or patronizing? These are difficult questions in practice, and the goal is not to fetishize privacy, particularly if doing so increases the already-high operating expenses of an MFI (resulting in increased interest rates). Each MFI must treat a client's private information responsibly and sensitively, but what that entails "on the ground" might look very different in Indonesia than it does for an MFI operating in the shadow of the former Soviet Union….
Get That Camera Away from Me! Chris Paci | KF16 & KF17 | Ukraine
For the past two months, I've been pinballing all over the country of Ukraine as part of my work with one of Kiva's oldest field partners, the faith-based MFI HOPE Ukraine. My two main projects here have been 1) to train HOPE Ukraine's loan officers on Kiva policies and procedures, and 2) to help it refine its processes for collecting the borrower information it posts on Kiva.org. Pretty simple, right? Yet there's a snag, one that has turned a straightforward set of deliverables into a perplexing cultural conundrum. Due to their discomfort with the concept of the Internet, with sharing personal information about themselves, and even with simply posing for a borrower photo, quite a few HOPE Ukraine clients are frankly scared of Kiva and reluctant to be featured on our website at all.
The reasons behind Ukrainian microfinance clients' discomfort with Kiva are many-layered and have sparked some of my most fascinating discussions with branch managers, loan officers, and ordinary Ukrainians. Foremost among them is the fact that most HOPE Ukraine borrowers are older market vendors who have never used the Internet, don't understand what it is, and distrust what they don't understand. Ukrainian society in general has an odd relationship with the Internet; Ukraine is, sadly, a center for sex tourism, trafficking in women, and the mail-order bride industry, so many people see the Internet primarily as a venue for shady activities. It is understandable, then, that many HOPE Ukraine clients are hesitant to have their photographs and personal stories posted on Kiva.
There's also the fact that Ukrainian culture ascribes a certain degree of shame to taking out a loan. Due to the country's Soviet history, the roots of entrepreneurship here are still shallow. Many people understand a loan to be an admission that your family can't support itself, or, worse, that you lack the famed Ukrainian resourcefulness and stolidity that helped this beleaguered people pull themselves through every awful trial the 20th century threw at them. I'd presume the bulk of HOPE Ukraine's clients disagree with this view, understanding that a well-timed boost to their working capital can help them develop their businesses and permanently raise themselves up. But the social stigma can be so strong that many HOPE Ukraine borrowers want to keep their status a secret. They don't want their loan officers visiting them at their stall in the market where everyone can see – and they especially don't want them snapping a Kiva photo and asking awkward personal questions about their family and future goals – and they especially don't want their picture posted for all to see on "the Internet," an entity that many Ukrainian borrowers mistrust. For these reasons and more, some clients categorically refuse to participate in Kiva, making it difficult for HOPE Ukraine to hit its Kiva fundraising limit in certain months.
Even the simple process of collecting information for a Kiva borrower profile can be a challenge – perhaps the most fascinating one yet, and the one that reveals the most about the Ukrainian mindset. Ukrainians are a famously superstitious people who live on a thin boundary between day-to-day rationality and the extranatural forces that truly shape their lives. As part of this mentality, many Ukrainians feel that expressing too much satisfaction with the present, or too much hope for the future, is a way to ensure that everything will go awfully wrong. "If someone tells you you have a beautiful child," my translator told me matter-of-factly, "watch out! Because that means tomorrow, she'll fall down on the ground and cut her face. And then she won't be beautiful anymore." This same superstition rears its head in connection with the Kiva borrower profile, which calls upon clients to share their fondest dreams for their businesses, families, and personal lives. These are the details that really help Kiva borrowers to forge connections with the lenders who support them – but they're also the sorts of questions that make HOPE Ukraine clients intensely uncomfortable. Dreams should be kept secret. That way, nobody can take them away from you.
While in the field, I posed the same question to every loan officer I met: How can we overcome these challenges? What can Kiva do to help you convince your clients that their presence on our website will cause them no harm? Yura, the young loan officer in the far western town of Uzhhorod, provided a blunt summation of every response I received. "Wait 23 years!" he laughed. "Maybe then we'll have a generation that isn't so scared of the modern world!"
A few weeks ago, I visited one of the most successful loan officers at HOPE Ukraine, Valentina, who hails from Khust on the Romanian border. As one of HOPE Ukraine's few women loan officers, Valentina – Valya – is especially responsive to female borrowers' concerns about having their photos taken and posted on the Internet, and goes to impressive lengths to make her clients more comfortable with the process. She told me about one of her recent Kiva clients, a clothes vendor in the local market, who was extremely nervous about having her photo taken at her business where everyone could see her. Valya worked with this borrower to come up with an honest-to-goodness play-act in which she would pose as a customer interested in buying some of her wares. "My niece would love this blouse!" she would exclaim. "But I'm not sure, she might already have one just like it…. Is it all right if I take a picture so I can show her when I get home? Can you just hold it up so she can see the patterns – that's right –" Click. Another Kiva photo procured.
Here on Kiva Stories from the Field, we Kiva Fellows frequently write about how impressed we are by our loan officers' deep commitment to their clients. Now, I'm proud to jump on that bandwagon. Every time you see a HOPE Ukraine borrower on Kiva.org, reflect for a moment on the unusual obstacles our Ukrainian field partner had to overcome to get them there – and on the dedicated loan officers who daily challenge Ukraine's prevailing societal mentality to connect their clients with the lenders who want to help them succeed.
Heather Sullivan (KF17) is enjoying the final month of her "Extreme Indonesia" placement—two months in urban Jakarta with VisionFund Indonesia, followed by two months in wild West Timor with Tanaoba Lais Manekat Foundation (TLM). She has appreciated all the hugs and kisses that borrowers have bestowed upon her, but even after four months in Indonesia, she's still shy in front of the camera.
Chris Paci is a roaming Kiva Fellow (KF16 and KF17) who is wrapping up his final Kiva placement, a two-month stint with the Ukrainian faith-based MFI HOPE Ukraine. He is now quietly reeling at the depth and complexity of Ukraine's history, society, and national character, and will probably need a few weeks to get his thoughts sorted out. Join the lending team Supporters of Ukraine and make a Kiva loan to a HOPE Ukraine borrower today!


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Intellectual Capital of the European Union 2008: Measuring the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs pp489-500
© Aug 2009 Volume 7 Issue 4, ECIC 2009, Editor: Christiaan Stam, Daan Andriessen, pp397 - 534
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In 2004 we published the report Intellectual capital of the European Union (Andriessen & Stam, 2004). In this report we provided insight in the value of the intellectual capital of the 15 countries of the European Union, in relationship to the goals set by the European Council in March 2000. The main Lisbon goal was to become "the most competitive and knowledge‑based economy in the world" in 2010. Since our previous report, the EU grew from 15 to 27 countries and the Lisbon goals were reformulated in 2005. The aim of this paper is to measure the IC of the competitive and dynamic knowledge‑based economy, the EU decided to focus on "delivering stronger, lasting growth and creating more and better jobs" (CEC, 2005d, p.7). In this paper we translate this overall goal in 38 indicators. As the data was not available for all the new member states, we decided to limit our paper to the so‑ called EU‑19. Based on our measurements we conclude that the EU‑19 is still behind Japan and far behind the USA, however the EU is catching up as both Japan and the USA have considerably lower growth figures than the EU‑19. From an IC perspective, the EU is geographically divided. The Nordic countries are still the best performing countries. The southern European countries and the new member states stay behind. However, as the new member states invest more in their IC, it might be expected that their positions will improve in the future. Of all the new member states the Czech Republic has the best potential. The aim of our paper was to measure the progress of the Lisbon Agenda for growth and jobs. Based on our measurements we conclude that the EU‑19 is successful in terms of creating more and better jobs, but not successful in terms of delivering stronger, lasting growth. In order to further close the competitiveness gap, the EU should primarily focus on strengthening its SC and RC.
Keywords: Intellectual capital, intellectual capital of nations, European Union, Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs, Lisbon goals, IC monitor, measurement, multidimensional value measurement
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European Conference on Intellectual CapitalIntroduction
Today, almost 80% of economic value creation is based on intellectual resources. However, most organisations still do not know how to reveal the value of these resources and how to give direction to future value creation. The concept of intellectual capital gives intangible reources 'a body' and therefore makes it possible to measure, communicate and interpret them.
In June 1999 The Netherlands hosted the OECD international symposium on: "Measuring and reporting intellectual capital; experiences, issues, and prospects". This symposium turned out to be a milestone in the development of the intellectual capital movement. For the first time in history researchers and practitioners from all over the world joined together to discuss the progress made in the field of measurement and reporting of intellectual capital. Many of today's IC initiatives are rooted in this OECD symposium (e.g. Danish Guideline, the MERITUM project and others). In 2009 it is ten years since this groundbreaking symposium took place and it is time to take stock of the developments over the last ten years. What progress did we make in raising awareness, developing robust measurement and reporting methods, and helping organisations to better manage their IC?
In April 2009 our Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital (CRIC) hosted the International Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC) in collaboration with Academic Conferences Ltd. The aim of this conference was to give a state‑of‑the‑art overview of intellectual capital measurement and management and contribute to the further advancement of IC theory and practice. The congress – which took place in Haarlem, The Netherlands – was attended by 150 participants from 37 countries. Based on almost 70 papers, we designed a conference program that consisted of more than 90 sessions. This special issue is based on a selection of the best papers of our conference.
Main programme
In our call for papers we invited researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in the field of intellectual capital (IC) measurement and management.
From the main program of the conference we included two papers in this special issue. First, the paper by Durst and Gueldenberg, The meaning of intangible assets: new insights into company succession in SME's. This paper was selected as best paper. This paper sheds an important new light on a growing problem within the European Union. It is based on the state of the art in IC theory, it uses a well describes mixed‑method methodology, contains a good discussion section that shows the importance but also some of the limitations of the research. The European Commission estimates that one third of all EU entrepreneurs will leave within the next ten years and the changing demography of the EU will reduce the pool of potential successors. This paper shows intangible assets have a remarkable influence on the external successor's decision making, in particular brand, partners, key‑employees, knowledge retention and corporate culture. The second paper is a by Van Winkelen and McKenzie, Using scenarios to explore the potential for shifts in the relative priority of human, structural and relational capital in generating value. [samenvatten]
Special trends in the field
In addition to the general papers, the conference included papers on the following trends that we see in intellectual capital theory:
1. Benefits and limitations of the intellectual capital metaphor
2. Intellectual capital of nations, regions and cities
3. Social capital
4. The dynamics of intellectual capital
5. Intellectual capital for universities and research organisations
6. Measuring the effect of knowledge management
7. Measuring and reporting intellectual capital
8. IC centres across the globe
The mini track on the benefits and limitations of the IC metaphor resulted in five papers. The starting point of this mini track was that the concept of intellectual capital (IC) is based on the metaphor "Knowledge as Capital" (Andriessen, 2008). The way this works is that characteristics of the source domain of capital are used to describe the target domain of knowledge. These characteristics of capital include: capital is valuable and important, capital is an asset for the future and not an expenditure, capital can be capitalized, capital allows for a return and capital resonates with managers and CFO's. In this track we explored the benefits and the limitations of capital as a metaphor for knowledge and other intangibles. From this track we included three papers: Andriessen et al., Pictures of Knowledge Management, developing a method for analyzing knowledge metaphors in visuals; Andriessen and Van den Boom, In search of alternative metaphors for knowledge: inspiration from symbolism; and Bratianu, The frontier of linearity in the intellectual capital metaphor.
The second mini track about IC of nations, regions and cities also generated five papers. Intellectual capital of nations is the concept that applies the principles of intellectual capital measurement on a macro‑economic level (Bonfour and Edvinsson, 2005). The main motivation for measuring the IC of nations is to get insight into the relative advantage of countries or regions. This insight should help to develop policy in order to give direction to future economic developments. From this track we included two papers in this special issue: Stam and Andriessen, Intellectual capital of the European Union 2008; and Yodmongkon and Chakpitak, Applying intellectual capital process model for creating a defensive protection system to local traditional knowledge: the case of Mea‑hiya community.
The third mini track about social capital included seven papers. Social capital in the form of networks of trust has value for individuals, teams and organizations. It is an indicator for economic success, measurable through constructs like trust, reciprocity, shared norms and values. Social capital is a popular paradigm in organizational studies. The use of social capital theory in the fields of business studies has increased exponentially in recent times. It offers new insight in explaining organisational dynamics, knowledge sharing, learning processes and innovation. While there is an extensive body of knowledge on the benefits of social capital, less attention has been paid to understanding how and why social capital evolves within organisational settings. It is interesting to gain insights into why social capital changes and what the effect is on knowledge sharing, knowledge productivity, learning processes and innovation. From this track we included one paper in this special issue: Tamilina, The impact of welfare state development on social trust formation: an empirical investigation.
The fourth mini track about The Dynamics of IC included four papers. Value in organizations is not created by intellectual assets as such, but by combining intellectual assets in a dynamic process (Andriessen, 2004). According to Kianto (Kianto, 2007), the dynamic dimension of IC relates mainly to three issues: 1) practice‑based approach to IC; 2) dynamics of IC‑based value creation; and 3) renewal, change and innovation of IC.
The fifth mini track about IC for universities and research organizations generated seven papers. In recent years, IC management and reporting have gained importance for research organisations and universities across Europe. Some university departments and research organisations have implemented IC reports and Austrian universities are even obliged by law to publish IC reports. IC management systems provide comparable information for the universities' management but also for external stakeholders such as industrial partners or science and education policy. However, to exploit its potential in this sector, the specific characteristics of the science, research and innovation process should be addressed. IC management systems should enhance strategic development, innovativeness and knowledge sharing within research institutions and have to be linked to other instruments and tools for management and governance such as evaluation, performance measurement, and benchmarking.
The sixth mini track about measuring the effect of knowledge management included eight papers. A large variety of methods, models and practices for managing an organization's knowledge assets have been produced by academics and practitioners. There are even different fields of research, e.g. knowledge management, intellectual capital and business intelligence, focusing on different types of knowledge and information management tasks. It seems clear that there is a need for many of these managerial tools. Also, it seems likely that the utilization of these tools would result in concrete business benefits. However, there is so far limited evidence of the actual impacts of knowledge management activities. In addition, it is not clear which management approach would provide the best results in a specific case. From this track we included the paper by Kujansivu and Lonnqvist, Measuring the effects of an IC development service: Case Pietari Business Campus.
The seventh mini track about measuring IC generated 13 papers. The measurement and assessment of intellectual capital and intangible assets is one of the most important and challenging issues for research and practice today. Many argue that without measures we can know nothing and understand nothing. Without measures we can't do any research, organizations can't manage their intangibles and they can't produce meaningful IC statements. However, when it comes to measurement we are facing a real dilemma: we can't really measure our intangibles in the same way we can measure tangible aspects of performance. When it comes to intangibles we often have to rely on proxy measures or need to find new ways of measuring performance (Marr, 2005). This in turn has important implications of how we can use those measures. From this track we included the paper by Cabrilo, IC‑based inter‑industry variety in Serbia. During the conference this paper received an honourable mention. The author of this paper comes from a research group that is very actively promoting intellectual capital within their developing country. She has produces some important contributions in the past. This paper gives us important new insights into the differences between industries regarding the importance of several intellectual capital components. The author was able to collect data from 642 managers from 80 firms with a response rate of 90% (!) making full use of her teams' relational capital.
The eight mini track about IC centres across the globe included five papers. In more and more countries organisations are set up to stimulate intellectual capital management. Examples are The Arab Knowledge Economy Association, The developing China IC Support Network, CIP Gothenburg, The Hong Kong based Asia Pacific IC Centre, The IA Centre Scotland, The Indonesia IC Research Centre, InHolland University Centre for Research in IC (CRIC), Lund University IC Centre, The Taiwan IC Research Centre, The Croatian IC Research Centre, The Finland Futures Research Centre, The IP Academy of Singapore, and The Syrian Economic Business Centre. These organisations are driven in some cases predominantly by the desire to create new knowledge and in others by the desire to apply knowledge and IC to foster economic development. This track was set up to facilitate learning between people from all over the world who are involved with IC Centres. From this track we included the paper by Russel, Business model evolution in IA/IC support centres and their role in market making.
Finally, in addition to the academic mini tracks, we also organized a Doctoral Consortium. From this consortium we selected two papers for this special issue: Jaaskelainen, Identifying a suitable approach for measuring and managing public service productivity; and Kot, How to conduct the audit of intellectual capital in Polish tourism business?
Design‑based research as a promising methodology
We noticed an increase of papers that use a so called design‑based research as their research methodology (Andriessen, 2004; Van Aken, 2005; Stam, 2007). Design‑based research is a type of research methodology in which practical managerial tolls are designed and tested for their effect in real life cases. This is a powerful type of research as it addresses both the practical needs of organizations and the academic search for underlying theory. For example, the paper by Kot, included in this special issue, on How to conduct the audit of intellectual capital in polish tourism business, aims at designing an algorithm for an IC audit for Polish tourism companies that they can use to specify the IC structure and diagnose IC assets of their business. Other papers that use this methodology and that are included in this issue are the paper by Kujansivu and Lonnqvist on Measuring the effects of an IC development service: Case Pietari Business Campus, and the paper by Jaaskelainen, on Identifying a suitable approach for measuring and managing public service productivity. All three papers are good examples of how research in the field of IC can both benefit practice and academia when a Design‑Based Research methodology is used.
Andriessen, D. G. (2004), Making sense of intellectual capital, Elsevier Butterworth‑Heinemann, Amsterdam.
Andriessen, D. (2008) Stuff or Love, How metaphors direct our efforts to manage knowledge in organizations, Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2008) 6, 5–12
Bonfour, A. and Edvinsson, L. (2005), Intellectual capital for communities, Butterworth‑Heinemann. Elsevier, Oxford.
Kianto, A. (2007), ""What do we really mean by dynamic intellectual capital?"" International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Vol.4, No.4, pp.342‑356.
Marr, B. (2005), Perspectives on intellectual capital, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, Burlington, MA.
Stam, C. D. (2007), ""Knowledge productivity. Designing and testing a method to diagnose knowledge productivity and plan for enhancement"", Ph.D. thesis, Universiteit Twente, Enschede.
Van Aken, J. E. (2005), ""Management research as a design science: articulating the research products of mode 2 knowledge production"", British Journal of Management, Vol.16, No.1, pp.19‑36.
Keywords: analysis, business models, capital, commercialisation, community, company succession, crowding-out, de-commodification, effect, European Union, IC audit, IC monitor, Indicator, intangible assets, intangibles, intellectual assets, intellectual capital, intellectual capital development, intellectual capital of nations, intellectual capital reporting, intellectual capital value driver, inter-industry variety, knowledge, linear space, linear thinking, linearity, Lisbon goals, Lisbon strategy for growth and job, market-making, measurement, metaphors, multidimensional value measurement, nonlinearity, performance measurement, Poland, productivity management, psychological contract, public services, scenarios, Serbia, small and medium-sized enterprises, strategic management, stratification, symbolism, Thailand, tourism, traditional knowledge, trust, visuals, welfare states


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