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Presumably the realization is just beginning to sink in now in Boston – and with the rumors that he'll be the next one out the door, it must be sinking in at levels higher than Theo Epstein – that the Red Sox are now faced with a task far more daunting, and far more likely to result in disaster, than even playing their games in September turned out to be: Finding somebody to manage the team in 2012 who can merely do as well as Terry Francona did last month.
The Yankees-Tigers meeting in soggy New York over the weekend was filled with baseball people trying just to come up with somebody – anybody – who could handle the pressures of ownership, an intense fan base now driven crazier by eight years of entitlement feelings their ancestors hadn't known since 1918, and the media. Throw in the startling recent comments by some Boston players and you can add in to the mix the fact that Tito apparently kept the lid on a team full of Prima Donnas and protected them against reality at every turn. Remember, in New York, if you are raised on the Yankees and you feel they have done you wrong, you can switch to the Mets (or more likely, vice versa). I know from my time living in Boston that there are people who proclaim themselves Red Sox fans who maintain a seething hatred – often kept below the surface – towards the franchise. I know of one who believes the team shortened the lives of many of his male relatives. There are Red Sox fans who gain as much satisfaction from when there is turmoil as when there are titles. These folks can get bent out of shape very, very easily, and a surprisingly large number of them wind up with the area's newspapers and radio stations.
After three days at Yankee Stadium, I didn't hear one managerial suggestion that wasn't fatally flawed. Worse yet, I didn't hear one baseball person nominate somebody without saying that the nomination was fatally flawed. Some of the names have shown up at the bottom of a column by my old friend Gordon Edes. He writes mostly about Epstein's future, but the last part focuses on five guys supposedly already kicked around inside the cramped offices of Yawkey Way:
Among the names that have surfaced in internal discussions are Indians coach Sandy Alomar Jr., Rays coach Dave Martinez, Phillies bench coach Pete Mackanin, minor league manager Ryne Sandberg and Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who has a mutual option to return to St. Louis.
There is also an assumption that DeMarlo Hale, the long-suffering bench coach for the Sox and the minor league manager of the year – in 1999 – will get an interview. The name "Joe Torre" has been thrown around, and despite the fact that he found his office job as dull as it sounded, I'm thinking this is highly unlikely. The name "Bobby Valentine" has been leaked, too – presumably by Bobby Valentine.
But let's go with the bold print name there first. Tony LaRussa? Seriously? This man went ballistic at least twice this year facing the scrutiny of the St. Louis media. The St. Louis media is three writers and a guy from KMOX Radio. It's hard to say for whom this would be a bigger disaster: the Red Sox, or LaRussa. As was agreed at Yankee Stadium when this name was floated (almost literally) there over the weekend: by June 1, a "Manager Tony LaRussa of the Boston Red Sox" would have fallen asleep at a traffic light in at least six different New England towns.
The next name would be Sandberg's. Now let's review what I wrote here last year at this time when Cubs fans were understandably clamoring for their old hero to assume the reins at Wrigley. The Cubs loved Ryno's work ethic, his willingness to go back to Peoria and fight his way up the chain, but they saw nothing in his managerial skill set that even made him a rival to Mike Quade. When you are beloved in a town – irrationally, gigantically, statue-sized beloved – and you're not a good enough candidate to edge out Mike Quade, you're probably not a good big league skipper in the making. The Red Sox interviewed him a year ago for their AAA job at Pawtucket but before they made up their minds, he took the equivalent post with the Phillies. They seem to have a higher opinion of Sandberg, given his high-profile roles with the big club in Spring Training and again in September, but they're not looking to retire Charlie Manuel any time soon, either. It could easily be that the Cub snub woke Sandberg up – and if that's the case, the Sox would presumably be challenged for his services by several teams, and maybe even the Cubs again, now that new ownership is in full control.
Speaking of which, David Martinez and Sandy Alomar, Jr. are the front-runners for the White Sox job. Martinez, the Rays' bench coach, was GM Kenny Williams' teammate in Montreal 20 years ago and seems a cinch for the Chicago job unless something goes wrong. If it does, Alomar is a fine baseball man and as a player was a great calming influence on the high-strung Indians of the '90s, and was just named bench coach for Cleveland. But each has a serious drawback: not only have they never managed in the majors, they've never even managed in the minors. How quickly would this start the Red Sox fans' verbal riots in the event of a 4-10 start? What credibility would they carry among Prima Donna players? If Martinez has a particularly inspirational effect on the terrified Carl Crawford, that might be reason enough to overlook the inexperience, but I'm thinking the Red Sox are still stinging from the well-intentioned but disastrous decision to promote Joe Kerrigan to manager without any previous experience at any level.
So then there's Mackanin. This is a solid baseball man who had two all-too brief stints as interim manager at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and never got the serious shot he deserved at either fulltime job. Mackanin knows his stuff, managed forever in the minors, and just turned 60 years old – which is a problem for the Boston position. Francona aged a century at the helm in Fenway, and he had already had an idea about the kind of media pressures he might face, from his unhappy years in Philadelphia.
So there are the problems. Terry Francona's successor has to be a young, respected man, with a major league track record, an ability to hurdle the media, the fans, and the Prima Donnas. He has to have enough personality to get the benefit of the doubt from the fans, media, and players going in – but not so much that any of them feels he is overshadowing them. And he has to be an improvement on Francona.
Now who would that be? I kinda see a Bob Melvin type in here, but as the Mariners and Diamondbacks each discovered to their chagrin, there aren't as many of him as they thought, either. The A's smartly locked him in long-term after he very quietly did a superior job stopping the Oakland ship from sinking to the bottom of the sea this summer.
Anybody else?
Wait – I got it. Give him a month to recuperate and then see if this Francona guy will take the job.
Update: As tweeter Mike Mendez reminded my rain-addled brain: On Halloween night, 2005, Epstein resigned from the Red Sox and sneaked out of Fenway Park in a holiday Gorilla costume. Less than three months later, on January 19th, Epstein's successor was named – and he got the added title of Vice President. Epstein's successor was…Theo Epstein.
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What about Bruce Bochy? Isn't his contract with the Giants up, has the big league experience both as a player and manager, plus world series hardware.
In regard to Sandberg, aren't you giving the vaunted Cubs front office just a little too-much credit for being able to recognize and evalulate managerial talent?
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That's one of Keith's best posts. I can't think of anyone who could take Francona's place either. But Francona wasn't known as a great manager when the Red Sox hired him. It seems like they did it just to make their new acquisition Curt Schilling happy. Then Francona turned out to be better than any manager they ever had. So maybe it will be a completely unexpected name. Since Keith is friends with Francona maybe he knows if his friend really wanted to leave. It sounds like he did. I guess if he had been offered a contract extension and made to feel like he was wanted (as he should have been) he might have stayed.
They will have to go back to that Francona…because he is one-of-a-kind! "You don't know what you've got till it's gone." I can think of another Tito who would whip that team into shape, but he is dead. Good work, Keith.
About Sandberg: one of the problems with hiring someone as beloved as Sandberg is in Chicago is firing him. Bill Veeck told the story of how he wanted to remove Lou Boudreau as Indians manager but found him too popular among the fans to risk it, and even if Veeck exaggerated, I believe it. Once the Indians had won the World Series and slipped, and Boudreau's skills had begun to slip, THEN it was possible to fire him.
Now, I am not a Red Sox fan–I wanted them to win in 2004 and break the supposed curse, and I was happy for them in 2007. But Red Sox fans have, as you say, now developed a sense of entitlement. In this case, though, Francona may well have realized that he had lost the clubhouse–as good a guy as he is and as good a job as he has done of keeping the Sox alive and successful, there does come a tipping point. Even the supposedly beloved Tommy Lasorda stayed too long–for reasons similar to Joe Torre's point last year that he realized he was having trouble communicating with players who were so much younger than he is. How many times could Dodger players hear Lasorda's speeches, especially when they were younger players who hadn't come up under his tutelage? Francona may have run into a similar brick wall, and now will wind up with a good job in a city where the writers won't demand his firing for losing on opening day.
8 years managing the Red Sox is enough. … great run … 2 world series titles … lots of great teams. … The media pressure? Just don't read the newspapers, or listen to talk radio and it is all good.
I think the Astros will fire Brad Mills and the Red Sox will hire him. Meanwhile Francona is working for the Evil Empire– not the Yankees, but FOX. I wonder if Keith is giving him any pointers on the art of broadcasting. "If you run out of things to say, don't make noises with your hand in your armpit like Nelson Muntz."
After the Red Sox's September 2010 remake of "Apocalypse Now," heads were obviously going to roll, and Francona had the dubious honor of playing the role of "Chef." Next head to be liberated from its shoulders will be Wonderboy Epstein's. In my fifty years of spending way too much time watching and reading and thinking baseball, I've reached a few provisional and one certain conclusion. Every success sows the seeds of inevitable failure. Things work, right up to the point where they don't. Whatever Terry Francona was doing in 2004 worked, though I have a suspicion that Kevin Millar and Johnny Damon provided more leadership than he did. It was a spontaneously delicious cart of apples, and the manager's job was not to upset it, which Terry refrained from doing, a la Miller Huggins. The day after the Sox won that Series, I emailed my best friend, a New York Mess fan in South Bend, Indiana, saying simply, "Now they're just another team." The Red Sox lost something when they won in '04 that they can never recapture. No longer are they bred to a harder thing than triumph. In the last couple of weeks, the Boston Herald and Globe have "thrown the rat meat on the floor," in the unforgettable words of Gen. Joseph Stilwell, about what was going on in the Sox clubhouse this past season. Not training, getting fat, pitchers drinking on their non-start days. The Globe ran a great article on how the next generation of "Red Sox Nation," kids too young to remember anything but triumph, reacted with stunned disbelief to Las Medias Rojas getting bounced from the playoffs, which now starts so late that they ought to call it the Winter League. In sum, I think that Terry Francona was the placating Neville Chamberlain figure who won the war, twice, but then lost the peace.
If only the Red Sox had learned from the White Sox, who broke an even longer curse (and in sheer tragedy, the Black Sox scandal trumped any trade of Babe Ruth) without making a federal case of it for all those decades, nor rubbing people's noses in it once it was broken. But no, people in Boston have to be drama queens.
I hope Tito pulls a Theo and comes back.


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As first reported by TVLine.com, Wickersham will play Bishop, a focused and socially awkward new agent. Since Wickersham has the potential to appear in additional episodes, she seems like a likely candidate to replace Ziva when Cote de Pablo exits at the beginning of this season. She will first appear on the CBS series during November sweeps.
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If you know the name Harmonix, it's probably as the creator of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band mega-franchises that took the gaming world by storm in the later 2000s (before falling out of fashion incredibly quickly). But before those titles, the game design company was well known to a certain segment of rhythm-game obsessives (including yours truly) through 2001's Frequency and its 2003 sequel Amplitude—which set the standard for beat-matching gameplay that didn't involve dancing around on a mat.
Harmonix is now playing directly to those early fans with today's announcement of a Kickstarter effort focused on a new game, also called Amplitude, for the PS3 and PS4.
Get amped
If you weren't on the Amplitude train the first time around, the game is about creating music with a standard PlayStation controller. As three-note tracks scroll down from the top of the screen, you have to tap the appropriate buttons in time with the music to activate them. Hit all the notes in a track for two full measures and that instrument starts playing automatically, allowing you to shift over to another instrument and essentially create the song layer by layer. (This video should give you a good general idea.)
The simple concept seems like it should become boring after about 15 seconds, but the thrilling feeling of actually building a song with your well-timed actions should be familiar to anyone who's ever played an instrument (whether hooked up to a game console or not). At the most difficult levels, Amplitude makes it easy to enter a flow state where you're planning your next move many notes ahead of time and weaving a perfect path between the tracks.
The same general gameplay idea has been seen in other recent Harmonix games, from the Rock Band conversions on the Nintendo DS and PSP to the console downloadable Rock Band Blitz. So what's new this time around?
"The core differentiating factor between Amplitude and those games is that this one is going to be Amplitude," Harmonix Art Director Ryan Lesser told Ars. "There's an intensity in this game that the other games just didn't have. Of course we're going to have three difficulty levels for those who are new to the game, but the other [similar] games were quite a bit more casual. This one focuses more on the core, people who want a more challenging experience, who want to be challenged against their friends and be competing for score and using all the tactical decisions on the track and in the level to up their scores and therefore strive for better and better results in the game. It's a really different feel than a lot of other games."
Crowd funded
The original Frequency and Amplitude became cult classics following their release, so there's at least a small, devoted fan base ready for a follow-up. Using Kickstarter lets Harmonix gauge the size of that fan base before investing the money in full development, though this approach isn't without its downsides. More than half of the original Amplitude's soundtrack was made of licensed songs from well known pop and techno groups; the new game will instead rely on tracks created by in-house musicians unless "we end up with a significant amount of over-funding" beyond the $775,000 target, as the game's Kickstarter page puts it.
"[Licensed music] costs significant money, and as you multiply it across many songs, if you want a game to ship with 16 or 20 songs, all licensed, it increases your overhead for that game," Lesser said. "Depending on the game you're making, licensed music can really make or break it. Rock Band really needed famous rock songs—that's really what it was all about. Amplitude is different.
"While I would love to have some licensed tracks in there, the requirements for a track in Amplitude are quite high. The action needs to be amped up all the time. You really want six tracks of musical data and you want them to be interesting to play."
Lesser also cited that need for carefully crafted tracks in explaining why the game would not allow players to load their own music into the game, unlike recent rhythm games such as Audiosurf.
Some might find it odd that Harmonix is going with a Kickstarter effort this time around, given that none of its previous or current projects (such as Fantasia: Music Evolved) have required reaching out to fans for funding. Lesser said the move reflects a broadening of development options in the industry and within Harmonix, and he acknowledged that the market may have changed since Amplitude first put Harmonix on the map.
"We do in fact want to see if people are as psyched about it as we are and as the critics were back then," he said. "It's dangerous to make a game blindly. We know that as well as anybody else does. Now we have this amazing new way of doing it, so this is our experiment. This is our way of entering Kickstarter and crowdfunded development practice and seeing how it goes for us."
That said, Lesser thinks a game like Amplitude is an easier sell these days than it was when rhythm games were in their infancy.
"Just the fact that things like Guitar Hero and Rock Band exist make this game make a lot more sense now than it did back when it originally came out," he said. "I think we've made it pretty clear to the world that when you see a game from Harmonix that has some dots on a track, you know that's a music game and you know what a music game is. So we're not fighting that uphill battle that we did with [the original] Amplitude where no one really knew what that thing was."


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Community in Moore, Okla. vows to rebuild
Community leaders hold prayer service to remember those lost in tornado
Prayers, songs and silence.
The Moore community gathered together Sunday night at First Baptist Church to remember those who lost their lives in Monday's EF 5 tornado.
"Oklahoma will be Oklahoma strong," said Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin.
Fallin and several religious leaders from the area lead the community in prayer at a memorial service Sunday night.
"I know that's God's working," said Tiffany Batacao, who lives in Moore. "We'll be down, but we can build ourselves back up again."
The memorial service lasted about an hour and a half.
"It was pretty amazing celebrating all of the people that died and that lived," said Ally Keepers.
Keepers is a third-grade student at Plaza Towers Elementary School, the school destroyed by the tornado.
She went to the service with her mom and dad.
"This is a time where friends and family come together," Keepers said.
She was in the classroom where seven of her classmates died.
"Some of my friends died," Keeper said. "I was so sad that Kyle Davis died. I was crying I went to the cemetery and I put some flowers out there for him."
Keepers said even though she is sad, she knows the community will help her get through this tough time.
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A recent article in JAMA reviews an updated report from a trial called the SELECT trial looking at the effects of Vitamin E on prostate cancer. The study began in 2001 looking at the effects of prostate cancer in three groups of men: men taking just Vitamin E, Vitamin E plus Selenium and just Selenium. The results published in 2008 revealed there was no decrease in the number of men who developed prostate cancer in any of the three groups. In fact, there was a trend toward an increase in the number of people who developed prostate cancer. This was studied further over the past three years and now the results are out…there is a 17% increase in the incidence of prostate cancer in men taking Vitamin E (400 IU per day).
Just a reminder that just because something is "natural" or over the counter does not mean it is without the risk of side effects. Make sure your doctor knows what supplements and over the counter medications you are taking.
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Estimate of Technical Potential for Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in 13 Major World Economies. 2012..
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Potential Savings for Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal from BUENAS modeling. Berkeley, 2013. LBNL-6511E..
Design of Standards and Labeling programs in Chile: Techno-Economic Analysis for Refrigerators. 2013. LBNL-6295E..
Estimate of Cost-Effective Potential for Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in 13 Major World Economies Energy Savings, Environmental and Financial Impacts. 2012..
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Technical Potential of Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards: A Global Analysis of Best Available Technology. 2012..
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MMORPG Panel From Pax East
MMORPG.com have the full hour of the MMO panel from PAX East up over here. There's some interesting stuff in there, but the first question kind of wrong-foots the whole thing and makes the panel seem out of touch: "Why are there no sports MMOs?" asks one of the audience. The panel come up with a few reasons, and says that stuff will happen "in the future", but the truth is there are already some sports MMOs: Empire Of Sports, Football Superstars, Freestyle Street Basketball, Project Powder, then there's the inevitable browser-based stuff like Football Manager Online, or the American Football management MMO, Goal Line Blitz.
I can't really blame the panel for not knowing about this stuff because I think it's illustrative of how wide the MMO space is now. That the traditional subs-based fantasy-MMO teams aren't in touch with the rest of the material out there just goes to show that there's more information whirling around the "MMO" now than anyone is able to process. Hell, most MMO developers have never played Eve (of the ones I have met, anyway.)


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The last two month I mostly worked on porting the UI from gtk+2 and gnome-canvas to gtk+3 and clutter. First I ported our own widgets (vumeter, waveform-viewer and pattern-editor). This was relative straight forward. One issue were the colors. I was using GtkStyle->bg[state] to draw the background, but the color there is simply wrong. Will have to see if things look better if I use GtkStyleContext.
I also wrote a prototype for a gnome-canvas replacement using clutter. This looks nice now and I am quite excited about the potential for adding nice stuff in the future. Clutter is a lot more powerful than gnome-canvas.
Right now I am in the middle of porting buzztrax-edit to gtk3. The application already compiles and starts. Getting it back to compile was about two evenings. Biggest work was to replace the v/h widgets with the orientable variants. After that came a lot of soft-breaks, e.g. "expose-event" signal -> "draw" signal. Some of the things are documented, but e.g. what to do as an application if you where using the "size-request" to provide a sane natural size to scrolled windows is left as an exercise to the reader :/ Next came attacking all the layout changes. I've figured solutions/hacks for many of them, but I guess this will keep me busy for a while.
On the machine view, I'll also need to do a lot more work. The basics work, but there is quite a few things commented out still. Many thanks to the folks in the clutter irc channel for their help so far.
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Letter, S. C. Pomeroy to Mr. [Amos Adams] Lawrence
Author: Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
Date: September 22, 1854
Transcription of a letter from the Amos Adams Lawrence Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society. Samuel Pomeroy wrote from a settlement, which would come to be called Lawrence, in Kansas Territory, to Amos A. Lawrence in Massachusetts. Lawrence was an investor who sponsored the emigrant group who would settle the town of Lawrence. Pomeroy reported that Charles Robinson had been elected President of the Lawrence Association, the first governing body of the town. He was enthusiastic about the abundance of timber resources in the area, which, once secured from the Indians, would make for a good business enterprise. Emigrants were arriving in droves, filling the hotels and increasing demand for land claims. Though he remained positive, Pomeroy warned "Don't make yourselves believe that the slave holders have given up Kansas!" and anticipated a political battle during the upcoming Territorial Legislature election.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: History, University of Kansas, #651, Box 1, Folder 1
Item Number: 102481 Number of images: 3
Keywords: American Indians (see also Native Americans); Branscomb, Charles H.; Business enterprises; Elections; Emigration and immigration; Hotels; Illness; Indian lands; Land acquisition; Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891; Proslavery supporters; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Timber; Town development
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And it's so easy.
And colorful.
And festive.
And beauty full.
I found a big bag of seedless oranges for $2.50.
I sliced the ends off, then sliced them into 1/4 inch slices. You want to do your best to keep the widths consistent, so they bake evenly.
After slicing, place them on a dishtowel, which helps to blot off excess juice.
I would advise against placing them on a white towel, unless you are hankering for an orange/white tie-dyed effect. Who knew OJ stains??
When they're all sliced up, lay them on a metal baking sheet and put them in the oven, on its lowest setting. (Mine was 175 degrees.)*
Here's where the...discrepancy comes in.
The guide I worked from stated that it would take "about four hours" to dry them out.
I think mine took 7 and a half hours, causing me much consternation and angst.
The trick is to make sure that they dry entirely, so they don't get moldy.
When I removed mine, the bottom pan was over-cooked and too brown looking. I shed a tear and tossed that batch.
The top pan was lovely.
They still seemed kind of soft - a little like the texture of a gummy candy. They were pliable, but not at all juicy.
After they were completely cooled, I put them in a pile and forgot about them for the next few days.
Then I remembered them again and took a wooden shishkabob skewer to them, poking two holes in each one (see photo). Try to space the holes evenly.
I then threaded my lovely $0.10 seam binding tape through them, making sure, in typical OCD fashion, that the "ribbon" was smooth all the way through.
After that, I strung them up.
(The original idea in the book was to just poke a single hole and hang each one as a Christmas tree ornament, which would also be pretty.)
The book says that they will "retain their delicious citrus fragrance", but that is a lie.
However, they smell quite lovely while they are cooking and they look gorgeous when they catch the light.
And they are cheap. Especially if you conveniently forget to factor in the EIGHT hours that your oven is on.
*I think it would also work to use a dehydrator, although you would want to keep a close eye on them and make sure that they didn't dry out too much.


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On this page you will find all of ACB's publications. To the right are the search categories that will help you navigate around the ACB's extensive work.
Mega-mergers: 3 giant corporations controlling South Africa's food and farming systems
This briefing deals with the three mega mergers taking place in the agriculture sector as Dow Chemical and DuPont are set to merge, China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is to acquire Syngenta and Bayer is to acquire Monsanto.
ACB Submission to Competition Commission on Bayer Monsanto merger
This submission is made by the ABC because of serious public interest concerns about the proposed merger between Bayer and Monsanto. This merger is occurring in the context of other related mergers in agricultural input supply, between ChemChina-Syngenta and Dow-Du Pont.
N2 Africa, the Gates Foundation and Legume commercialisation in Africa
This report considers the N2Africa programme, which aims to develop and distribute improved, certified legume varieties (soya, common bean, groundnut and cow pea); promote and distribute inoculants and synthetic fertiliser; and develop commercial legume markets for smallholder integration in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Tanzania, Uganda,
Declaration on Plant Variety Protection and Seed Laws from the South-South Dialogue
We, participants at the South-South Dialogue, are members of peasant and civil society organisations and concerned individuals from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe working on issues of food and seed sovereignty, peasants' control of seed production and exchange, and biodiversity.
The expansion of the commercial seed sector in sub-Saharan Africa: Major players, key issues and trends
Sub Saharan Africa's seed systems are undergoing a profound transition, with the private sector leading the way.
Training materials on fertilizer, seed, seed laws and FISPs
Training Materials produced by the ACB for smallholder farmers in Africa in several languages on a range of topics dealing with seed and plant variety protection laws, including on: the value of farmer managed seed systems; UPOV 1991 and farmers' rights; the Arusha PVP Protocol; women as custodians of seed, what is a seed law, harmonis
ARIPO sells out African Farmers, seals Secret Deal on Plant Variety Protection
Statement issued by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) On 06 July 2015, in Arusha, Tanzania, a Diplomatic Conference held under the auspices of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) adopted a harmonised regional legal framework for the protection of plant breeders' rights—the Arusha Prot
AFSA calls on African governments at Arusha meeting to shun Protoco, that undermines sovereignty & farmers' rights to seed
Grabbing Africa's seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation back agribusiness seed takeover
The latest salvo in the battle over Africa's seed systems has been fired, writes Stephen Greenberg, with the Gates Foundation and USAID playing puppet-masters to Africa's governments - now meeting in Addis Ababa - as they drive forward corporation-friendly seed regulations that exclude and marginalize the small farmers whose seeds and labour fee
Railroading African governments into adopting ARIPO PVP Protocol based on UPOV 1991: AFSA appeals to ARIPO member states for postponement of diplomatic conference and for urgent consultations with smallholder farmers
AFSA attended a Regional Workshop on the ARIPO PVP Protocol, 29-31 October 2014, in Harare Zimbabwe, where numerous technical and administrative flaws continue to characterise the process.
AFSA strongly condemns sleight of hand moves by ARIPO to join UPOV 1991, bypass national laws and outlaw farmers' rights
PRESS RELEASE FROM ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA Addis Ababa, Accra 3 April 2014 The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)1 strongly condemns the move by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) to join UPOV 1991, which will effectively outlaw the centuries-old African f
Giving With One Hand and Taking With Two: A Critique of AGRA's African Agriculture Status Report 2013
The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has released a comprehensive critique of a report published by the African Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
ARIPO'S Plant Variety Pprotection law based on UPOV 1991 criminalises farmers' rights and undermines seed systems in Africa
African farm analysts demand answers from UK over DfID funding Is the UK setting up a poverty trap for African farmers?
Marker assisted selection (MAS): Key issues for Africa
'Marker Assisted Selection' uses molecular markers as tools in a plant or animal breeding programme to select for important agricultural traits, such as nutritional quality, drought tolerance, disease and pest resistance.
A Green Revolution for Africa: Disaster in the making
When world leaders hastily gathered at the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation's (FAO) high level conference to respond to the global food crisis the three Rome based UN organizations (the FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural development and the World Food Programme) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Alliance for a
New Green Revolution for Africa: Trojan Horse for GMOs
After more than 10 years of genetically modified (GM) crop plants being grown in the world, only South Africa out of 53 countries on the African continent have commercial plantings of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).


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Stretching almost 30,000 acres, the Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica is at the heart of an expansive ecological reserve in the Southern Peruvian rainforest. Set along the Madre de Dios River, thirty-five picturesque thatched-roof cabanas give guests a rustic but comfortable stay. Boardwalks made from fallen tree trunks connect the cabanas to the gorgeous lantern-lit main building and dining room, while lounges and balconies are available to watch the colorful tropical birds, monkeys and other animals in the area.
Guests of the lodge also have a unique stomping ground to explore the rainforest – up in the trees! An elevated canopy walkway connects a path of trees, the wood and rope suspension bridges connecting tree-top observation rooms built high above the rainforest floor.
Two lucky guests can spend the night in the Canopy Treehouse. Complete with two twin beds, the structure has three sides of screened in walls, giving guests a truly unique experience of sleeping amongst the branches, and creatures, of the rainforest.
Surrounded by incredible trails, rivers, local plants and native animals, the Ikaterra Reserva Amazonica offers an incomparable rainforest experience.
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The Sugar Warehouse (convserion)
Cool! I didn't know they were converting this one. This is great! This one is going to have alot of units.
234 West 20th Street
The Sugar Warehouse (conversion)
The Sugar Warehouse (convserion)
Cool! I didn't know they were converting this one. This is great! This one is going to have alot of units.
Million Dollar Apartments Sell Out on the Bowery
57 Bond Street, which developer Alchemy Properties says is the first new resdiential condo development in the area in more than 50 years, has sold out.
The development includes 10 loft-style apartments ranging in size from 1,470 to 2,512 square feet, and priced from $1.34 million to $1.97 million.
The project is reaching completion as other bigger developers are starting to see the promise of the area, said Kenneth Horn, president of Alchemy.
"Now, big players like Avalon and Related Properties are constructing large-scale luxury residential projects nearby at the Bowery and at Houston Street to build upon the success," he said.
The 57 Bond Street apartments feature 11-foot ceilings and marble and Pietra Cardosa stone living rooms with oversized full-height glass walls, among other amenities. Each residence also features a private balcony or terrace.
The building was designed by Meltzer/Mandl Architects.
Copyright 2003-2004 The Real Deal.
By LOIS WEISS
June 21, 2004
Vikram Chatwal's Hampshire Hotel Group has scooped up SIR Studios' mid-block building at 310 W. 52nd St. to create a development site that can hold a 37-story residential tower.
Hampshire Hotels already owns the Howard Johnson's next door, and would have moved forward with its plans with or without SIR, said Michael Johnson, president of Studio Instrument Rental New York.
In order to keep the studio from becoming "landlocked" which would reduce the value of the property SIR's partners decided to sell for what sources said is approximately $9 million.
Chatwal has already hired Eric Anton and Ron Solarz of Eastern Consolidated Properties to sell the site which could hold up to a 250,000-square-foot tower for as much as $50 million to $60 million.
Anton and Solarz declined to comment.
As the Post previously reported, the SIR business already leased space at 475 Tenth Ave. and on 25th Street, where it will continue its traditional instrument and high-tech musical computer rental operations. It is also opening a new studio.
"We will be giving peace and harmony to the studio clients," said Johnson.
The West 52nd Street site has become legendary for hosting pre-tour practice sessions for such bands as the Rolling Stones. It also frequently hosts showcase sessions for new bands and album releases.
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That one has already been completed
202 Spring Street
84-90 Sullivan Street
7 stories 75 feet
Andrew Caracciolo Architect
Dev-Robert and Berry Goldoff
Completed Mid 2002
Also, in reference to that Bond Street Apartments article, that building was completed awhile ago already.
Bond Street Apartments
57 Bond Street
6 stories
Meltzer Mandl Architects
Completed 2002-April 2003
NYPOST Real Estate News
June 29, 2004
New Jersey-based Garden Homes Development has emerged as the winning bidder for Beth Israel Hospital's coveted Singer Division property at 170 East End Ave. and two adjacent apartment buildings. Garden Homes is also busy converting 37 Wall St. to rental apartments and recently converted 75 West St. as well.
On the Singer site, Garden affiliate Skyline Developers plans to create luxury condos that will take advantage of East River views.
Beth Israel was repped by CB Richard Ellis's Darcy Stacom and Bill Shanahan, who declined comment. Other sources told my colleague Lois Weiss that the property fetched a staggering $185 million, or $770 per buildable square foot believed to be a record price for a residential site.
RFR Realty head Aby Rosen, one of the disappointed under-bidders, told Weiss: "I hope they choose a great architect because the city needs great architecture and this is a one-time opportunity."
Meanwhile, Garden Homes is eying a prime development site on Sixth Avenue in the 20s, where luxury apartment towers are fast replacing grimy old structures and parking lots. Sources say Garden Homes is buying the small corner building at 100 W. 25th St. now occupied by a deli and antique galleries.
It's also bidding on the much larger property next door: a 17,600 square-foot, Con Ed-owned parking lot. Cushman & Wakefield's Andrew Behymer is fielding bids for Con Ed but would not comment.
However, sources say bids may top $300 per buildable square foot. Under new zoning, a 177,000 square-foot building can go up as of right.
Copyright 2004 NYP Holdings, Inc.
oh what is going on here....Jumping in the building wagon of chelsea. :PMeanwhile, Garden Homes is eying a prime development site on Sixth Avenue in the 20s, where luxury apartment towers are fast replacing grimy old structures and parking lots. Sources say Garden Homes is buying the small corner building at 100 W. 25th St. now occupied by a deli and antique galleries.
It's also bidding on the much larger property next door: a 17,600 square-foot, Con Ed-owned parking lot.
Tribeca project
June 30, 2004
It's been a parking lot for as long as anybody can remember. Now, developers Hunter Lipton and Edmond Li want to construct a nine-story apartment building on the site at 51-53 Walker St. But they won't be getting started just yet.
At a hearing yesterday, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission sent architect John Cetra back to the drawing board to change the design of their proposed 15-unit condo building so it will fit better with the streetscape of the Tribeca East historic district.
Commissioners' criticism focused particularly on the top floors of the building, which they said looks more like a rooftop addition than an integral part of the structure.
All contents © 2004 Daily News, L.P.
By LOIS WEISS
June 30, 2004
TREVOR Davis is tak ing a break from joint venturing with the German-born duo of Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs.
"We are finishing what we have done. We are doing other things, and he is doing other things," Rosen said.
Davis brought in Rosen and Fuchs and their RFR Holdings as joint partners into their first city development at 300 E. 64th St., and they remained loyal. Of course, they made a ton of money while maintaining a good guys/bad guy routine.
Davis, the South African-born construction kingpin and head of Davis & Partners, has a penchant for big guns, big-game safaris and big residential buildings that carry names like the Impala and the Empire.
With him at the helm of the joint residential projects, the team butted heads with community leaders, renters, subcontractors, luxury condo buyers and the New York Attorney General's office.
The salvos skimmed off the back of the 6-foot-plus Davis. But privately, even as preservationists hailed Rosen and Fuchs for their restoration work on their own commercial projects including the Seagram Building and Lever House the duo were affected by the slash-and-trash style of their residential partner.
Rosen said he and Fuchs are completing the development of Park Avenue Place, at 60 E. 55th St. next to Heron Tower, and have about two dozen units left to sell at 425 Fifth Ave., along with some at the Seville.
Meanwhile, he noted, Davis has found a new partner in the Chetrit brothers. He is working with them to convert the Empire Hotel by Lincoln Center into luxe condos and to create another luxury residential tower over the commercial offices buildings at 400 and 404 Fifth Ave. similar to the one he created with RFR at 425 Fifth.
"They have chosen to partner up on exciting and successful developments in the past, and will continue to do so in the future," said spokesman Steve Solomon on behalf of both Davis and RFR. "They have options of working with other partners as well. They remain friends and will continue to share office space at 400 Park Ave."
Rosen and Fuchs have most recently teamed up with Ian Schrager to convert the Gramercy Hotel into luxury condos and will develop other luxury condos on the former Richard Born-owned site on Bond Street.
"All the approvals are in place," added Rosen.
Copyright 2004 NYP Holdings, Inc.
Suite deal for Chelsea investors
By Shira Boss-Bicak
When the Maidman family and Pine Equity NY bought a Chelsea apartment building three years ago, they expected to hold on to the property for years.
But after renovating it and turning it into corporate housing, leased to Marriott ExecuStay, the owners received several bids from suitors wanting to buy the property. Eventually, they got one that was too good to refuse.
We generally buy and hold properties, but when we analyzed the potential profit from a sale versus the stream of income from the Marriott lease, it made sense to sell, says Mitchel Maidman, president of Townhouse Management.
Townhouse and Pine Equity bought the building in June 2001 for $63 million. After nearly three years and $10 million in upgrades, they recently sold to London-based Berkshire Capital Group and Lend Lease Real Estate Investments for $93 million.
The buildings residential units were converted to corporate housing as leases came due during the first two years of ownership, and Marriott took them over on a rolling basis. Marriotts 15-year lease is in place until 2017.
The property includes a 50-car garage, which is leased to an operator, and 150 feet of retail fronting Seventh Avenue, with spaces occupied by a deli, a linen shop, a clothing store, a barber, a newsstand and Mullens Pub restaurant. Except for the restaurants, the tenants leases expire in the coming year or can be terminated by the landlord. Rents for the retail spaces average $50 per square foot, well below market rate.
I assume the new owners game plan would be to consolidate some of the spaces and get a name-brand tenant, Mr. Maidman says. Such tenants have shown interest in the location in the past.
The sale also included a neighboring three-story building at 167 W. 23rd St., which is leased to a liquor store. When the Maidmans bought the adjacent properties, they separated them legally so that they could be sold individually in the future, but the buyers took them as a package.
Townhouse is continuing to invest in apartment buildings in Manhattan.
What: Sale of Chelsea apartment building
Where: 160 W. 24th St., at Seventh Avenue
How big: 204 units, plus retail shops and garage
How much: $93 million, including 167 W. 23rd St.
Sellers: Townhouse Management and Pine Equity NY
Buyers: Berkshire Capital Group and Lend Lease Real Estate Investments
Notice how 1 New York Place isn't even mentioned in the Trevor Davis article. Further evidence that it's dead-I doubt that it was even a serious proposal, just a vision.
By DAKOTA SMITH
High-rise rentals abound in Chelsea, but how do you know which apartment building is right for you? From snobby to classy to downright suburban, all these high-rises have their own personality, so pick the one that best suits your own.
Chelsea Towers: SWF
You find many "single, rich young women" lounging in bikinis and Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses on the 2,500-square-foot terrace at Chelsea Towers, according to one resident. Lots of lovely ladies, as well as gym, valet and maid service to be found, but you won't find families. "Never seen a baby," says the resident. "Unless it was visiting."
And it's pretty straight, despite being in Chelsea. Others characterize it as a friendly place, where the staff knows everyone by name. One resident recently moved to California and left the building sobbing, according to one doorman. "She didn't want to leave the building," he says. "She really liked it here."
Prices start at $2,170 for a studio (463 square feet) and $4,495 for a two-bedroom (986 square feet).
100 W. 26th St. (southwest corner of Sixth Avenue), (212) 463-0100
Vanguard Chelsea: Diversity rules
It's "almost suburban," claims one resident. Indeed, there are a number of big-chain retail shops housed in the bottom of the Vanguard Chelsea (see sidebar). And if critics slam the building as a bit bland-looking on the outside, the Vanguard Chelsea offers the greatest diversity of residents, most of whom say it is a "very friendly place."
"There are investment bankers, but then there are also artists," says one resident. "Not snobby at all."
Meanwhile, amenities include a 4,000-square-foot terrace, 24-hour garage and storage units.
A 700-square-foot one-bedroom is $3,100, and a 1,100-square-foot two-bedroom is $4,795.
77 W. 24th St. (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue), (212) 784-7700
The Capitol at Chelsea: Oh, boys!
"Very gay and very snobby," notes one resident, of The Capitol at Chelsea. "If we see a straight person in the elevator, it's like, 'What are you doing here?'"
In addition to young professionals, The Capitol at Chelsea claims a number of celebrities as residents (you'll have to do your own stalking to find out). Amenities include a roof deck (home to a weekly movie night), gym and Zen lounge with yoga studio.
Maid service and tailoring are available. And downstairs, a nail and day spa is about to move into one of the building's many retail spaces.
But its prices won't attract everyone. "There's no way you can afford it if you're right out of college," notes one recent visitor.
Prices range from $1,900 for a studio (486 square feet) to $6,000 for a two-bedroom (1,231 square feet).
55 W. 26th St. (between Broadway and Sixth Ave.), (212) 447-4477
THEASTON: New kid on the block
Only a few months old, this 38-story building's claim to fame may be its expansive terrace with view of the water and a misting sprinkler that cools off residents. Amenities include a gym with Pilates equipment, events lounge (complete with a wet bar) and garage.
Some argue that this building is "young and hip," but others claim it is still figuring out its personality. "It's brand-new, so it's a bit sterile," says one resident. "And the staff is still working out the kinks of running the place."
Alcove studios range from $2,150 to $2,605., and lofts are $3,195 to $4,450.
800 Sixth Ave. (southeast corner of 27th Street), (212) CHELSEA
Copyright 2004 NYP Holdings, Inc.
Seeing Red Over Blue Bricks
After a two-year court battle, workers are moving ahead to strip the signature blue bricks off the facade of the co-op apartment house at 27 East 65th Street, at the corner of Madison Avenue.
A panel of the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court ruled this month in favor of the co-op board in its long-running dispute with Elliott E. Sutton, 62, a real estate investor who controls the building's ground-floor commercial space as an equal partner with the co-op board.
The ruling cleared the way for the co-op board to get a $6.8 million mortgage that will refinance an existing loan and provide some $3 million to replace the blue bricks with ordinary red ones, according to Gil Feder, a lawyer for the firm Reed Smith, which represents the board.
The wrangling began in early 2002, when city inspectors said the facade of the 17-story building, which was built in 1963, was in danger of crumbling and ordered a scaffold erected.
Because they are glazed, the blue bricks retain water, which freezes in the winter, causing cracks and leaks. The co-op had brought in engineers, who recommended removing all the bricks and replacing them.
Mr. Sutton worried that his ground-floor restaurant, Ferrier, and other tenants including a Citibank branch, would lose business the longer the project took and he argued for a quick job that would merely replace bad bricks in patchwork fashion. The two sides landed in court, and both the blue bricks and the scaffold stayed, and stayed and stayed.
The co-op applied for a mortgage to finance the brickwork, but Mr. Sutton, as joint owner of the property, refused to sign the loan papers. After a series of arbitration and court decisions, a judge finally ruled that the co-op could sign on behalf of its unwilling partner. That decision was upheld by the appellate panel.
Mr. Sutton, however, says he will ask the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany, the state's highest court, to take up the case.
Work initially began in March after the 55 or so co-op owners agreed to a maintenance increase. The money is to be reimbursed when the loan goes through.
Meanwhile, Mr. Sutton said he would soon close Ferrier because of poor business. Mr. Feder, the board's lawyer, said the work would have been done by now, and the scaffolding gone, if Mr. Sutton had not put up a fight.
in a court hearing last January, Justice Jane S. Solomon of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan wondered aloud about the long-running feud. "Does your client have an emotional connection to blue brick?" she asked one of Mr. Sutton's lawyers.
The judge's question was repeated to Mr. Sutton last week. "I don't care if it's blue, black, green or orange," he said. "I only own the ground floor. I don't look up."
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
The rendering is by Sven Johnson Illustration.Originally Posted by krulltime
Yea I'm hoping it wil look better in reality. The previous version that was killed by NIMBY's will hopefully be built on some other lot.


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The Jokers Fancy Brigade are known not only for their performances in the Fancy Brigade, but also for keeping tradition alive- both in the city and in their brigade. Each year (since 1972) a member is honored as Joker of the Year and it is presented to whoever has made significant contributions that benefit both the membership and the overall success of the organization.


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Helen Clark: Statement on Global Launch of the 2013 Human Development ReportMar 14, 2013
I am delighted to be in Mexico City for the launch of the 2013 global Human Development Report, "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" - the 22nd report in this global series.
The development landscape is very different today from when the first Human Development Report was launched 23 years ago. A significant number of developing countries have transformed themselves into dynamic emerging economies with growing geopolitical influence. In turn, these countries are having a significant positive impact on human development progress around the world.
Mexico is one of these dynamic nations. It has also long been a committed multilateralist, playing a key role at the United Nations and in other global structures. It is a strong proponent of sustainable and inclusive development, and of South-South co-operation and experience-sharing.
As such, Mexico is a highly appropriate country in which to launch the 2013 Human Development Report. UNDP greatly values the presence today of the President of Mexico, His Excellency Enrique Peña Nieto.
The rise of the South
For the first time in recent history, the South as a whole is driving global economic growth and societal change. Around the world, the living conditions and prospects of hundreds of millions of people have already been lifted by transformation in the South. By 2020, according to projections developed for this Human Development Report, the combined economic output in 1990 purchasing power parity dollars, of three key emerging economies alone– China, India, and Brazil – will surpass that of the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada combined.
Much of the dynamism of the emerging economies is being driven by trade, foreign direct investment, and technology partnerships within the South itself.
Developing countries nearly doubled their share of world merchandise trade from 25 per cent to 47 per cent between 1980 and 2010. Trade within the South was the biggest factor in that expansion, increasing from less than ten per cent to more than 25 per cent in the last thirty years.
Innovation and entrepreneurship is impressive, and solutions to development challenges are increasingly being found within the South itself. The rapid spread and take up of technologies, including information and communication technologies, is enabling greater numbers of people to interact across borders, and providing them with a means to influence decisions which impact on their lives. Mobile phones, for example, are now found in a great many households across Asia and Latin America, and in much of Africa as well. India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico each have more Facebook users than any country other than the United States of America.
Understanding trends to accelerate progress across countries
Yet it is not enough simply to describe the rise of the South and observe its emergence. The challenge is to understand what drives the acceleration of economic and human development, and to share insights into what has succeeded.
The Report explores the achievements of more than forty high achieving countries which performed better than predicted between 1990 and 2012 based on previous trends, both in terms of the income and non-income dimensions of human development. It then reviews the policies of eighteen countries for which detailed information was available to ascertain what enabled them to perform particularly well.
The Report identifies three key factors or 'drivers' contributing to the fast progress of these countries – namely that most:
• have had a strong, proactive, developmental state;
• have both successfully tapped global markets and pursued inclusive growth; and
• have benefited from innovative social policies.
The analysis of the success of these high-achievers presented in the Report, confirms a key message found across past Human Development Reports: that economic growth does not automatically translate into human development progress. Significant investments in people's capabilities – including in education and skills, and nutrition and health, are vital. Pragmatic policies, focused on job creation, gradual integration into global markets, and improving service delivery are also important.
Sustaining the Momentum into the Future
Looking to the future, the Report warns that if global human development is to continue to rise, emerging challenges related to demographic shifts, environmental degradation, and political and social exclusion, will need to be tackled. It argues that an inclusive and sustainable path must be followed.
The Report suggests four key areas to help sustain the pace of progress in human development in the South, namely:
- enhancing equity, including between men and women;
- enabling greater participation of citizens, including youth;
- confronting environmental pressures; and
- managing demographic change,
Let me comment further on two of these: enhancing equity and confronting environmental pressures.
Promoting greater equity is not only an important goal in its own right: it is also central to lifting human development. One of the most powerful policy instruments for promoting equity lies in education. The Report projects that targeted investments in girls' education in particular, will have significant impacts on human development, including in the reduction of future child mortality which has a relationship to the level of education women have received.
Innovative social protection programmes in the South, including the cash transfer programs of Mexico and Brazil, have helped improve conditions for poor and marginalized groups, and narrowed gaps in income, health, and education.
Slow global action on the major environmental threat of climate change, however, has the potential to halt or even reverse human development gains which have been made in the countries of the South with the least capacity to adapt, and for the poorest people within them.
The Report calls for greater global ambition on and commitment to tackling environmental degradation. Innovative policies and programmes for achieving environmental sustainability, including new climate-friendly technologies developed in the South, can help ensure that the development paths of the future are sustainable.
The rise of the South and global structures and development
Moving beyond policy recommendations at the country level, a clear message of the Report is that the rise of the South has implications for global governance and decision making, as well as for how development is financed.
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected – through trade, migration, information and communications technologies, more co-ordinated action and greater co-operation between North and South is required.
For this to happen, global governance arrangements are needed which are more legitimate, accountable, and transparent, and which recognize the changing geopolitics of our times by giving greater voice to countries of the South.
The Report argues that the South itself will be an increasingly powerful force in global development. Countries in the developing world are not only major trade and investment partners for other developing countries, but are also significant partners in development co-operation. The South also has substantial capital reserves, holding up to two-thirds of the world's $10.2 trillion foreign exchange reserves and some three-quarters of the $4.3 trillion in assets controlled by sovereign wealth funds.
In conclusion, much can be learned from the success of the emerging economies of the South, which have used their growing economic strength to lift human development.
The challenge now is to carry that progress forward, share the experiences, and enlist the growing influence of the South to move our world onto a sustainable and inclusive development path for all. The balance of influence in our world is visibly changing. The contribution of the South – intellectual, economic, social, environmental, and political – will play a significant part in building a better future for us all.


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Junior Girl Scouts of the USA (4th and 5th graders) Gables Elementary Troop 1320 visited the Cartoon Library yesterday afternoon to learn about comics, self-publishing, and to earn their Drawing Badge! We love the Girl Scouts, and some of you may remember our work with Troop 1214 for their Cadette Comic Artist Badge this summer.
These fabulous girls arrived at the Cartoon Library yesterday, equipped with pencils, paper, scissors and more ideas than they could get down on the page during our one-hour session. We went over an abridged history of women in comics, and then took a look at some great works by female cartoonists including Megan Kelso, Tarpe Mills, Raina Telgemeier, Vera Brosgol, Colleen Coover, Sara Varon and many more.
The girls were also given a selection of items to study from The Dylan Williams Collection; all hand-made, uniquely bound, self-published and widely varying formats of mini-comics. We figured out how each one was made, and explored the beauty of re-purposing materials for your artwork (floss! potato stamps! cereal boxes! cigarette cartons! and more), and took some time to read our favorites.
They went wild over the potential that self-publishing holds, making this session another of many that drove home the importance of collecting and archiving self-published and small press works. These items are often the most inspirational–especially to youths–by their ability to capture the possibility, accessibility, and fun in DIY projects. Kids are empowered by the freedom that self-publishing offers, are unintimidated by the comics and cartoon format, and always attracted to the craftiness of hand-binding. Here at the Cartoon Library, we are finding boundless benefits from starting this collection of mini-comics, and strongly encourage other libraries to do the same.
Let the cartooning begin! After studying and sharing these works with each other, the girls then set out to make their own comics. Some stuck to the one-sheet-workshop format and others pushed their pieces to a whole new level, folding folds where folds have never been folded before! Some made multiple finished booklets, others took time to detail 9 panels onto each 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 page.
Thanks for visiting, Troop 1320!
For information about starting a small-press collection at your library, or bringing a Girl Scout troop into our library, please contact Caitlin McGurk at email@example.com


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Fairy Tale unit is wrapped! I know I have a lot of favorites, but there is nothing I don't like about exploring fairy tales with my students.
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Fairy Tale unit is wrapped! I know I have a lot of favorites, but there is nothing I don't like about exploring fairy tales with my students.
"The Three Billy Goats Gruff" was the story we heard last week. I used storytelling with this one again and utilized magnetic story board pieces with my storytelling. The kids love the story board pieces! It's always fun because there's usually at least one or two students that express some disappointment at the start of the story because I'm not reading from a book with pictures. But once I pull out the troll story piece and use my funny troll voice, they are sold!
My favorite thing about this story is making the students jump in surprise when I use the troll voice for the first time. That switch from the sweet voice I use for the goats to the harsh voice I use for the troll always gives them a startle. And then they all laugh at the fact that they got so startled!
When I finished telling this story all my students immediately wanted to act it out like they did with "The Three Little Pigs." I thought that was great! So I of course let them do that. They all took dibs on parts (we had multiple children playing each role, but it worked), and we had a blast with it.
The kids also got their own story board pieces to color and take home and use to tell the story! It's always tough to make sure each student keeps track of all their pieces. Hopefully they all made it home with their complete set of pieces... but I'm not sure.
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