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Riot police fought stone-throwing demonstrators in Guinea's capital, as it appears a long-time opposition leader has won last week's presidential election.
Supporters of former president Cellou Diallo burned tires in the street and threw stones at riot police just west of Conakry's Hamdallaye Mosque. Security forces responded with tear gas, chasing the demonstrators back into neighborhoods north of Route le Prince, where they fired more tear gas.
Conakry's military governor, Resco Camara, led his men up the street toward protesters massed behind pumps at a petrol station as firefighters put out burning tires behind him.
Camara says troublemakers are trying to disrupt the country's peace, so he says his first priority is to secure the capital so the democratic transition to civilian rule can continue.
This was the first major unrest since Guinea presidential elections more than one week ago. The electoral commission has still not announced a winner, but looking at results announced at polling stations that have not yet released by the electoral commission, it appears that long-time opposition leader Alpha Conde will beat Mr. Diallo.
Mr. Conde says he won four of five communes in the capital, all but one of the prefectures in lower Guinea, all of the prefectures in the forest region and all of the prefectures in upper Guinea. So he says everyone in Guinea knows who won this election.
Sunday, Mr. Diallo withdrew his party from the vote counting saying it has evidence of widespread fraud and will not accept the results if they include two districts where members of his ethnic group were driven from their homes by pre-election violence.
Mr. Diallo says he wants the electoral commission to delay the announcement of a winner in this race for at least two weeks because of what he says was massive fraud. Mr. Diallo says the country has already waited four months for this second-round run-off, so the electoral commission should take the time to ensure that its results are reliable.
The electoral commission says it will announce the results later Monday.
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Riot police fought stone-throwing demonstrators in Guinea's capital, as it appears a long-time opposition leader has won last week's presidential election.

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BLENDS OF PERFLUOROCARBON END-FUNCTIONALIZED AND TELECHELIC POLYSTYRENE/POLY n-BUTYL METHACRYLATE. SYNTHESIS AND MORPHOLOGY STUDIES by Victoria Piunova A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CHEMISTRY) December 2011 Copyright 2011 Victoria Piunova
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|Structurally well-defined C₄F₉, C₇F₁₅, C₁₀F₂₁ and C₁₃F₂₇ end-functionalized polystyrene (RF-PS) and polybutylmethacrylate (RF-PBMA) were prepared by Atom Transfer Polymerization using the RF–tagged initiators. Blends (1/1 wt/wt) of these polymers were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and optical transmittance (OT). The RF-PS/RF-PBMA blends having molecular weights of 20,000 and C₇F₁₅ or larger end groups, were optically transparent. The AFM micrographs show crater, necklace and other RF mediated morphologies typically at the submicron scale. TEMs of the PS and PBMA blends show the assembly of nm-sized lamellae and lamellar aggregates into domains with sizes in the micron or nanometer scales depending on MW and RF size. A semi-quantitative "phase diagram" the blends shows that lower MWs and longer RF groups improve phase compatibilities. In addition, telechelic C₇F₁₅ and C₁₃F₂₇ functionalized PS and the corresponding PBMA were synthesized by atom transfer polymerization, bromide substitution by sodium azide and click-coupling with propargyl ether. NMR, size exclusion chromatopgraphy and other characterization methods indicated high degrees of end functionalization (≥ 96%) and narrow MW distributions. The miscibility of (1/1 wt/wt) blends of these polymers was studied by TEM, AFM, DSC and optical transmittance. Blends of the telechelic C₇F₁₅ functionalized polymers with molecular weights of 15,000 showed no significant differences with blends of the 15k end- functionalized polymers. However, the AFM and TEM data for the blends of the 30k telechelic polymers showed formation of much smaller and relatively well defined surface and bulk domains. This confirms that beside perfluorocarbon content, the topology of these perfluorocarbon groups plays an important role in blend miscibility.
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text: The Sound Shore fund succeeds by picking companies with beaten down shares poised for a rebound. By Stacy Rapacon, Online Editor September 4, 2008 In the 30 years since they founded Sound Shore Management in Greenwich, Conn., Harry Burn and Gibbs Kane have seen all kinds of markets. Throughout, they've practiced being "greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy," says Burn, echoing Warren Buffett. Now, he says, is the time to nuzzle up against the bear and cull opportunity from its jaws. By adhering to this contrarian approach, Burn and Kane have delivered steady results at Sound Shore Fund (symbol SSHFX). Over the past year through September 3, Sound Shore lost 6%. That beat Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by six percentage points and the average large-company value fund by 14 points, according to Morningstar. Over the past ten years through August 29, the fund gained an annualized 8.5%, topping the S&P by an average of four percentage points per year and the average large-company value fund by three points a year. Sponsored Content Since the fund's inception in 1985, Burn and Kane have stuck with the same tried-and-true stock-picking strategy. Along with John DeGulis, who joined the firm in 1996 and became co-manager of the fund in 2003, they focus on digging up out-of-favor stocks. The managers start with a universe of 1,250 U.S.-listed companies with market capitalizations of at least $1 billion and rank them on the basis of price in relation to earnings and book value (assets minus liabilities). They look at companies with price-earnings ratios that are low on an absolute basis and relative to their historical norms and to those of similar stocks. They also take earnings growth into account. Advertisement The managers then subject the cheapest 250 stocks to further investigation, speaking with management, competitors, and customers. Then they invest in the stocks that they believe will perform best over a one- to three-year period. At last report, Sound Shore Fund held 39 stocks. One company that passed the test was Barr Pharmaceuticals (BRL). Burn says Sound Shore bought shares of the generic-drug manufacturer in 2007 and added more when their value dropped about 20% over the first six months of this year. By June 30, Barr was the fund's largest holding. And on July 18, Barr agreed to be acquired by Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic-drug maker. Barr's stock, which closed September 4 at $67.70, is up 71% from its 2008 low. "We used the opportunity to add to it and have been rewarded for it," says Burn. A more controversial name in Sound Shore's portfolio is Credit Suisse (CS), bought this year. The Zurich-based financial-services company avoided many risks other investment banks took, says Burn, and it's "not getting credit for its wealth-management and asset-management businesses." Putting aside the turmoil in financial markets, Burn thinks the stock is worth $70 to $75 a share. It closed at $44.93. Sound Shore Management controls assets worth $7.2 billion, $2.5 billion of which are in Sound Shore Fund. The fund requires a minimum $10,000 investment and charges a below-average 0.92% in annual expenses.


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Extension to KODAK Picture Maker G3 Kiosk Family and Kiosk Enhancements Help More Retailers Capitalize on Surging Global Digital Printing Market
ORLANDO, Fla., February 20 — Eastman Kodak Company today announced a new, lower cost digital printing kiosk product to make it easier for traditional and non-traditional retailers alike to gain entry into the rapidly growing digital printing space. The new KODAK Picture Kiosk is a pedestal-style digital system, which has a significantly smaller footprint and weight than current kiosks, and is ideal for retailers who have not traditionally been able to justify on-site digital printing services
In addition, new developments to the KODAK Picture Maker G3 family of kiosks will help more retailers harness the potential of the digital printing market. New kiosk features will enable connectivity for remote business management and remote service, and will also deliver real KODAK pictures through KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology.
"More and more consumers are using digital cameras, and in turn, we are seeing an incredible surge in the demand to print digital pictures," said Patrick King, general manager of Consumer Output, Digital & Film Imaging Systems; and vice president, Eastman Kodak Company. "By extending our kiosk line with the KODAK Picture Kiosk, and creating innovative features and tools for our current G3 kiosk family, we're generating new opportunities for retailers to leverage digital printing technology for increased sales."
Lower Price Points Offer Easier Entry into Digital Printing Kodak has expanded its KODAK Picture Maker G3 family of kiosks to include a new digital system that will give retailers an opportunity to enter the digital printing market at a lower cost, providing customers with a broader selection of locations at which to print their digital pictures.
The self-service KODAK Picture Kiosk features a pedestal monitor connected to a KODAK Picture Maker G3 Print Station with Photo Printer 6800, which allows people to preview, edit, select and print their digital images in just a few minutes. This new digital system offers a much smaller footprint on the retailer's counter along with easy set-up and lower investment, while maintaining the most popular image editing features and print sizes.
People will be able to order prints from just about any digital camera memory card, including SECUREDIGITAL (SD) cards, MultiMedia Cards (MMC), COMPACTFLASH, SMARTMEDIA, MEMORY STICK, MEMORY STICK PRO and xD-PICTURE cards. Similar to the KODAK Picture Maker G3 family of kiosks, the consumer-friendly touch screen lets people zoom, crop, reduce red eye and print the sizes and quantities of the exact pictures they want up to 6 x 8 inches.
KODAK Picture Kiosks will begin shipping to select markets worldwide in July 2005.
New Kiosk Software Delivers Improved Image Processing and Enhanced Marketing Support Kodak is launching version 5.0 software for its family of Picture Maker G3 kiosks. Prominent within the v5.0 software is Kodak's proprietary image science technology, which delivers KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology. Photos printed from KODAK Picture Makers with KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology reveals more vibrant colors, richer detail, and fewer dark shadows. This improvement comes on the heels of a 2004 Good Housekeeping Institute report stating that print quality from the KODAK Picture Maker digital print kiosks was superior to that of its chief competitor.
The new software version also includes new capabilities that will help to drive incremental sales of Picture Maker services. Based on the consumer's editing and ordering choices, the KODAK Picture Maker intelligently presents information for additional photo services available and allows them to add an additional service to their order with just one touch. Retailers benefit from this new feature as it promotes consumer awareness and trial of new photo services, as well as helping drive incremental profitability through premium services.
New Kiosk Enhancements Drive Additional Offerings and Revenue Opportunities Kodak recently announced their selection of TouchPoint Solutions, Inc.'s CATAPULT platform as a primary component of its retail digital photo-printing infrastructure. The agreement will allow for the installation of TouchPoint's remote management software, CATAPULT, on thousands of new and existing KODAK Picture Maker kiosks worldwide.
Kodak will use this new, networked infrastructure to further drive efficiency and profitability for retailers who own and operate KODAK equipment. By using a centralized remote management system, Kodak can provide flexible business management services allowing deployment of a variety of marketing, sales, and advertising programs via the KODAK Picture Maker kiosk. In addition, it delivers centralized daily collection of production data with ready access to reports all within a secure, proven environment. And, retailers benefit from proactive service and support that monitors and controls in-store equipment, even performing diagnostics and repair. Devices will automatically communicate with Kodak technicians and store personnel when attention is needed, thus minimizing equipment downtime.
This new capability provides retailers with valuable business and service information to optimize performance and profitability.
Enhanced Photo Printers Provide Increased Print Speed and Print Size Flexibility Kodak has also announced enhancements to its photo printers for the KODAK Picture Maker family of kiosks. The new KODAK Photo Printer 6850 will replace the 6800 model beginning in the third quarter of 2005. The main benefit of the 6850 is faster printing speeds – eight seconds for a 4 x 6-inch print. The 6850 will maintain the award winning print quality of the 6800, which won the Digital Imaging Marketing Association (DIMA) printer shootout and Technical Imaging Press Association (TIPA) awards in 2004. The 6850 model will also continue to offer the same high print capacity (750 prints per roll) and print size flexibility (up to 6 x 8-inch borderless prints) benefits as the current 6800 model.
Additionally, beginning in the third quarter of 2005, the KODAK Photo Printer 8800 will be available for KODAK Picture Maker kiosks, offering increased speed and labor savings. Key benefits include borderless printing, the ability to print 8 x 10-inch prints in 45 seconds, and higher print-per-roll capacity of 300 8 x 10-inch prints.
Both new printer models support fast enlargement printing, ideal for consumer gifting and increased retailer profitability.
About Eastman Kodak Company Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images – for memories, for information, for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on the following businesses: Health - supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Graphic Communications - offering on-demand color and black and white printing, wide-format inkjet printing, high-speed, high-volume continuous inkjet printing, as well as document scanning, archiving and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems - providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components - which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers. More information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) is available at www.kodak.com.
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South Africa's new rich are living it up, and unapologetic. The old white elite, they argue, were far more extravagant—"Why is owning four or five cars considered bling and owning four or five houses not?" Michela Wrong reports from Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg on the big national debate about class and money
Last June, a crowd outside Durban's Regional court was treated to a moment that illuminates an era. It involved none of the ingredients usually recognized as newsworthy in Africa's Rainbow Nation. No Mandelas attended, President Jacob Zuma was absent, and neither AIDS nor apartheid got a mention. Yet, curiously, it touched on almost all these elements.
The crowd had gathered for the arrival of local businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane, who is facing multiple charges of tax evasion on the state contracts won by her cleaning and housing company. The flamboyant lifestyle of Shauwn and S'bu, her husband, features regularly in South Africa's tabloid press, so some sort of show was expected. As she strode toward the courtroom, all eyes immediately zeroed in on her heel-less, gravity-defying platform shoes, deconstructionist follies in a startling shade of turquoise. Lady Gaga, the media reported, has an identical pair, and they cost a cool $3,750.
I drove past the couple's villa in the northern suburb of La Lucia shortly before that fashion parade—and can testify that it is in keeping with her shoes. Dwarfing its neighbors in Durban's version of Beverly Hills, the villa is an idiosyncratic, tusked construction that had leapt from drawing board to street, the architect's vision unclouded by any "Hang on, couldn't we go for something a bit cheaper?" queries. Black-clad security guards, semiautomatics at the ready, were perched at the front gate and at the back. One had to assume that the white Maserati Shauwn had given S'bu on his fortieth birthday—license plate sbu—was parked safely inside, with the pair of matching Lamborghinis South Africa's revenue service had seized but later returned.
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In the days of apartheid, travelers to South Africa tended to stick to certain well-worn grooves—the Kruger National Park, the Garden Route, the Blue Train. Today visitors, like the locals, enjoy the freedom to wander more widely and to ponder questions that transcend race. Such as: How does a society whose revolutionary heroes championed economic redistribution as they shivered in Robben Island's gray prison cells cope with the new elite's flamboyant displays of wealth?
My trip to Durban, part of a three-city tour of the country, was prompted by curiosity at the flashy hedonism I'd seen portrayed on South African Web sites. The designer-suited former comrades, the soap opera stars showing off their Louboutins, the guests flown in by private jet for champagne receptions—coupled with constant exposés of financial scandals—call to mind another Socialist system grappling with the temptations of unfettered capitalism: Putin's Russia.
Government critics—not only press and opposition politicians but longstanding members of the ANC—blame Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), a post-apartheid affirmative action policy that obliges South African companies to offer equity stakes to members of the country's black majority. It was vital to draw the excluded into an economy dominated by whites and Indians, they agree. But BEE also created a class of parasitic operators whose wealth is leveraged on political connections, and who neither create nor innovate but certainly know how to party.
Once hailed as "black diamonds," the emerging black elite are now labeled "tenderpreneurs"—a less respectful pun on the tenders, or state contracts, that have enriched so many. When Willie Hofmeyr, former head of the Special Investigating Unit, revealed in 2011 that $3.4 billion goes missing each year from the government's procurement budget, many considered it an indictment of tenderpreneurs, although bureaucratic incompetence was also cited as a factor.
The president is widely seen as the phenomenon's personification. It isn't only that Zuma was facing major corruption charges until shortly before he took the job in 2009. "Six wives, more than twenty children—that's self-indulgence," snorted Moeletsi Mbeki, businessman and political economist. "Zuma is the acme of bling, and the message he sends out is one of total excess."
Some South Africans take the long view, seeing the flash and cash as a stage a young society must inevitably go through. "Look, every country has its nouveau riche— just look at British footballers," says Thebe Ikalafeng, the founder of Brand Africa and many other prominent marketing initiatives. Others sense an administration that has lost its way. For them, the August showdown at a platinum mine in Marikana—where police killed thirty-four miners striking for better pay—was an inevitable explosion, a warning of what will come if the divide between this new group of black haves and the perennial have-nots continues to widen.
Durban, the chief port and largest city of KwaZulu-Natal Province, seemed a natural place to start my trip. While South Africa's first two black presidents belonged to the Xhosa aristocracy, Zuma, a former goatherd, is a Zulu. I was curious to see what reward the province had claimed in exchange for the political support that powered its local hero to the summit. My arrival coincided with a newspaper feature detailing just how many government contracts were being channeled Durban's way.
King Shaka International Airport sits in a wind-ruffled green sea of cane, the sugar plantations Mahatma Gandhi's Indian ancestors were brought in by the British colonialists to harvest. It seemed strangely empty. This, I was told, is normal. Locals regard the airport as one of several white elephant projects approved ahead of the World Cup South Africa hosted in 2010. Another was Durban's stunning sports stadium, which resembles, with its unfurled white sails, a schooner about to set off across the Indian Ocean.
Benedict Xolani Dube—who runs Xubera, a local think tank—had offered to show me around. But when I said my mission was to watch Durbanites at play, he was dismayed. "Zulu culture is conservative, very churchgoing and family-oriented. Durban is a sleepy city. People who make it big here go to Jozi"—Johannesburg—"to play."
Dube had a habit I have learned to associate with South African drivers. Braced for possible carjackers, they never come to a complete stop at traffic lights, slowing instead to an imperceptible crawl—creating a sense of hovering indecision. The tactic may be warranted. Vibrant in daytime, downtown Durban turns as threatening as Gotham City at night. In the morning, I wove my way through schoolchildren and students flirting and chatting on the baroque steps of City Hall as I headed into the museum, which tracks the history of local resistance to colonial rule. There was no sign of them come sunset. Light streamed from the occasional metal-barred liquor shop, but it did nothing to dispel the skittering shadows. Once-chic hotels and apartments were peeling and shuttered; the clothes in shop windows were reminiscent of the 1970s. With the exception of one hatchet-faced white woman, the only people on the litter-strewn street were black.
"It used to be so nice here," said Dube, sighing. "But since the end of apartheid, thousands of blacks flock to the public beach each December, and there's a lot of sleeping rough. The white businesses abandoned their premises for the mall in Umhlanga and luxury suburbs like Ballito." Congestion and a shortage of parking probably played a part in the exodus, but locals complain bitterly about the broken bottles and the crime that come with the surge of Christmas revelers.
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We fled in our turn—to Florida Road in the Morningside suburb, which has some of Durban's oldest colonial buildings, their delicate white wooden verandas framed by palms. The bars were heaving, and refreshingly, it was a mixed crowd. "This is where people who don't think of themselves as black, just as members of the elite, hang out," said Dube. A bevy of white girls tottered down the street in the familiar crouch caused by a combination of nine-inch heels and skintight minidresses. At the Spiga d'Oro, famously patronized by Zuma's jailed business partner Schabir Shaik, every table was taken.
But any sense of aspirational integration ended here. That night, Dube drove me to my hotel at the Zimbali Resort. Whenever a Durban party makes it into the tabloids, it always seems to have been thrown at the Zimbali, which has also served as the setting for many a controversial business deal. Hence my choice. The grounds are so extensive that after negotiating the most rigorous checkpoint I'd encountered outside a war zone, we immediately got lost. As Dube sought directions from a passing deliveryman, I sat in the car, breathing in a bouquet garni of scents from the bushes, rustling with night creatures.
I had expected the resort to be plush. The Zimbali's cathedral-tall front hall was no surprise, nor was a bedroom so large I actually needed its miniature flashlight to locate the bathroom. What I hadn't anticipated was how aseptically distant this five-story pile, forty minutes from Durban, keeps residents of the hotel and golf course villas from the hoi polloi. Apartheid established a topography of inequality—and here it was again, only this time founded on class rather than skin color, which seemed to mean it needed no apology or explanation.
The following morning was more cheering. I got an uplifting sense of just how hard many South Africans are working to prevent this divide from becoming ever more ingrained. Linda Mbonambi, a local government planner, drove me away from the coast and up into KwaMashu, a 250,000-strong township that sprawls across the breezy hills above central Durban. Named after Marshall Campell, a nineteenth-century sugar planter, KwaMashu ("Marshall's place") is where blacks from the working class district of Cato Manor were forced to settle in the 1950s and '60s.
Accustomed to the grim ghettos of east Africa, I was surprised at how pleasant KwaMashu felt. Most of that impression boiled down to the greenery. The houses are tiny, but most have a mango tree or a lawn or a back garden bursting with flowers, and that made all the difference.
Articulate and impassioned, Mbonambi pointed out a freshly paved highway linking previously marginalized areas, a new minivan taxi stand, new houses with running water and electricity, and a shopping center, part of a planned hub that offers blacks with only modest savings a chance to try their hand at running a retail business.
Back down in the valley, Mbonambi told me—gesturing across the billowing sugarcane, a pelt of emerald fur—that this stretch is destined to become a $2.7 billion mixed-income residential and industrial area dubbed Cornubia. A public-private partnership between the local municipality and agri-processor Tongaat Hulett, it will be an experiment in eliminating class difference. "It will be the only area in Africa where you'll get middle-, low-, and high-income people living side by side," he said. If the authorities can pull this off, they will have defied what is surely one of the most fundamental human tendencies: the instinct to self-segregate. In fifteen years' time, I told myself, I will return to see if it worked.
My next stop was Johannesburg. Born of the gold industry, it is South Africa's biggest, pushiest, and most dynamic city, where anyone on the move feels he or she has a decent chance of making it big. Landing in the morning, I shivered as I registered the temperature difference between the muggy Indian Ocean and the crisp chill of this scrubby, scraped plateau. The air on the Highveld, 5,700 feet above sea level, is so thin and dry that my skin immediately started to flake, lips to chap.
I remembered when it was best to be met on arrival at this airport: One BBC colleague who had waived the precaution found herself deposited by a "taxi" on the side of the freeway, minus laptop and wallet. This time, the information desk pointed me to the entrance for the new Gautrain, another World Cup innovation, and I sailed painlessly over the multi-lane frenzy, gazing down on the snaking tarmac ribbons with a sense of superiority—how smart of me!—and relief.
Surfacing in the Melrose Arch mall, I was immediately sure I had come to the right place. When apartheid ended, Johannesburg's central business district was transformed—but not in a good way. An onion rotting from its core, the city saw its moneyed folk flee to the periphery, where they lived in gated communities and shopped in malls like the Rosebank and Sandton City. There the parking was safe and the street hawkers and prostitutes could be kept at bay. But Melrose Arch, where the scaffolding had only just come down, takes this mall phenomenon to a whole new level.
With its cobbled alleys, redbrick buildings, and open-air cafés, Melrose Arch has something self-consciously Mediterranean about it—as long as you ignore the giant plasma screens. The impression is heightened by the fact that in a city designed around cars, the pedestrian is king here. I checked into the eponymous hotel and sank into a deep armchair in the bar. The decor is old-fashioned men's club, complete with snooker table and shelves of leather-bound books. At the low tables, contracts were being examined and terms hammered out. I once interviewed the late Zairean kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko's son-in-law, who always traveled in first class—not for the extra comfort but because that was where you met people with money and power. He would have loved it here, in this altar to BEE.
The stores on the alleys that radiate off the piazza sell Italian shirts and Swedish designer jackets, Chanel eyewear and Estée Lauder cosmetics. Outside a jewelry shop with a $114,000 diamond-studded Piaget ladies' watch in the window, I spotted three security guards in long black coats, earpieces, and sunglasses. "Is Melrose Arch a good place to be based?" I asked the saleswoman. "Oh, yes," she said, nodding energetically. "This is definitely the right venue for us."
She seemed friendly, so I asked her the price of a men's Breitling. A Breitling features prominently in An Inconvenient Youth, Irish journalist Fiona Forde's recent biography of Julius Malema, the former ANC youth leader whose denunciations of the ruling establishment have won him a big following among the poor. Malema sees no contradiction between his self-appointed role as firebrand revolutionary, a burgeoning personal business empire, and a designer wardrobe. The kind of chunky Breitling I'd expect him to favor cost $15,358.
A day later, I was looking at another Breitling, this one on the wrist of a Malema pal: Kenny Kunene, convicted-fraudster-made-good, the King of Bling, a.k.a. Sushi King, a man who stands for everything the old intellectual elite, both black and white, hates about the new South Africa.
A doorman in top hat and tails showed me into the apartment block Kunene uses as his Sandton base. He wore jeans bought at Harrods, Lamborghini shoes (and there I was thinking they only made cars), a Versace blouson. His T-shirt read the mind is a wonderful thing to waste. Not prone to understatement, he's a two-watch man: the Breitling on one wrist, a Rolex Oyster on the other. "It's my signature."
Kunene came to fame thanks to Zar, a string of nightclubs named after the national currency. Johannesburg's Zar recently closed, but Kunene, who now stars in his own reality TV show ("You know, like Kim Kardashian"), said this was part of the plan. Use the nightclubs to build the brand, then move on to more interesting things, including events management.
A man who claims to relish a contest, he has a face nicked with scars from knife fights in the Zulu township where he grew up. Like many controversial figures, Kunene proved surprisingly thin-skinned. He kept returning to his denunciation by Zwelinzima Vavi, the leader of the COSATU trade union federation, who accused him of "spitting in the face of the poor" after the infamous 2010 birthday party he threw at which guests ate sushi off models' bodies.
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"There's this view that if you make money you have to be discreet, you have to be understated. But I did not fight [for] freedom to hide my money under the table. These people are the worst kind of hypocrites," he said, then slammed individuals like mining magnate Patrice Motsepe and trade unionist turned businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, early beneficiaries of BEE, for maintaining the outward appearance of moderation while drinking the same whiskey and driving the same luxury German cars as he. "I was brought up dead poor, and I know that the one thing poor people don't want to talk about is poverty. They want to talk about where they want to be. BEE, affirmative action, land redistribution, were all very necessary because they gave people hope, and the absence of hope is the most dangerous thing."
The argument that ostentatious spending offers those at the bottom role models may seem shockingly self-serving, but when I asked taxi drivers and hotel staff whom they most admired, Kunene's name kept coming up. "Why?" I asked one assistant manager. "Because he's encouraging."
It's not a view Moeletsi Mbeki—who has been a consistent critic of post-apartheid government, including the one led by his brother, Thabo—shares. He keeps warning South Africans that one of the most unequal societies in the world cannot afford its consumerist splurge, either economically or politically—a violent uprising is a real possibility.
Isn't a "robber baron" phase a common characteristic of developing economies? I asked. Don't those robber barons go on to be regarded as founding fathers of successful economies, pillars of respectable communities? Mbeki rejects the comparison. "The difference with America's robber barons was that they were actually producers. Ford and his assembly lines, Carnegie with his steel. In nineteenth-century Britain, success was first tied to becoming an industrialist or an investor; later it meant becoming a scientist or an engineer. That is not what's happening here."
But as in Durban, it would be misleading to suggest that ANC officials are simply content to knock away the ladder they climbed. Feeling in need of some grounding after my Melrose Arch experience, I arranged to spend the night in Soweto.
"We're in Africa now," my Tanzanian taxi driver said with a chuckle as we drove into the township, his adopted home, to a hotel that overlooks the vegetable hawkers of Kliptown on one side and the stretch of land where the famous Freedom Charter was signed on the other.
Despite its status as a symbol of gritty black resistance, Soweto, if truth be told, was never Johannesburg's most desperate township. Now much of it feels positively bourgeois. The houses may be single-story, but many are trimmed with Ionic columns and decorative sculptures, and their metal gates suggest there's something worth stealing inside. The iconic Vilakazi Street, the only road in the world to claim not one but two Nobel Prize winners (Mandela and Tutu) is dotted with memorial artwork, benches, and trees. And then there's the stadium where the World Cup kicked off, a state-of-the-art hospital, the new Maponya mall ("Soweto's it place," as one resident excitedly described it), and the even newer, funky Soweto Theatre, whose main auditorium was sold out the night I visited.
Soweto not only throws annual wine-tasting festivals, but it now boasts its first fitness club, complete with Internet café, pool, and beauty spa. The giant Virgin Active Health Club sits at the junction of Chris Hani and Mohoka streets, and its parking lot was full. "We opened in 2011 and have four thousand members," said acting manager Phumzile Ngema. Persuading staff to take up posts can be a problem, she acknowledged. "They have these preconceptions. But Soweto has changed." So much so that Virgin is considering opening a second gym in Soweto this year.
The Corner Lounge had everything you'd expect to find in a slick urban drinking spot: eyelash-batting girls sipping fizzy rosé, giant plasma screens showing football, and a selection of Scottish single malts that would put Balmoral to shame. There was even an attendant in white Wellingtons, handing out towels—well, okay, sheets of toilet paper—at the lavatory door. What was remarkable was that it was all squeezed into a container soldered onto a four-room house in the heart of Gugulethu, a black township on the outskirts of Cape Town, the third stop on my trip.
The area is so confined it feels packed if everyone stands up at once. It was beginning to look crowded this Sunday afternoon as a stream of well-dressed young men—one was sporting winklepickers and a striped pink jacket I rather envied—flooded in. Each had a bottle under his arm, which was deposited on the table with a flourish: Chivas Regal, Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Johnnie Walker. The sleek branded boxes were clearly as important as the liquor inside. "This is called 'making the table black,'" my companion explained, "as in 'black with alcohol.'"
The bottles are a form of fine. Nkuleleko Tuntubele, the reformed petty criminal who owns the Corner Lounge, presides over a system of macho community justice. Slap your girlfriend around, disrespect your elders, and a fine is levied, to be paid in top-shelf spirits.
As the serious drinking got under way, expensive cars cruised past, gleaming attention-seekers on a street as drab as the coats of roaming mongrels. Mercedes Benzes, Jaguars, Audis, a Wrangler, and several "matchboxes," the too-big-for-its-boots BMW 325. Some drivers parked to allow Corner Lounge's army of washers, each in branded T-shirt, to go into action. Others kept on going, pulsating with music and testosterone.
The show has something in common with izikhothane, a phenomenon that recently surfaced in the townships. The izikhothane—adolescent boys who have begged, borrowed, and stolen to afford their Italian jeans, floral designer shirts, and patent-leather loafers—stage a fashion face-off. A gasping female audience is vital. Rival dandies preen like cockerels, strut and shimmy, hurl insults at one another, and then, in a final destiny-defying act of machismo, tear off their treasured brands and set fire to them.
Unathi Kondile, who teaches media studies at the University of Cape Town and blogs on topical issues, thinks the drive-by display is not as brutally tactless as you might think. "It may seem shocking that someone can go and park a Maserati where there's real poverty," he said. "But townships are all about community. These are guys who have moved out and are going home. They want to demonstrate to the neighborhood, the extended family, 'Look, I did good, I made a success of myself.'"
The irony, he admitted, is that in many cases, the wearers cannot afford the gesture—Mummy and Daddy have paid for it all. "There's a strong element of children being spoiled by parents who felt they suffered during apartheid and now want their kids to have a good time," he said.
But the Gugulethu drive-by also highlights how hard it is to heal a society once segregated, to cleave together what was brutally put asunder. Aspirational blacks routinely mark success by moving to the suburbs. But when they want to be themselves, to have fun, the new districts suddenly seem staid and constricting, and they head back to the township.
Cape Town has always felt like the least African of the country's cities. When I first visited, nearly twenty years ago, I marveled at the way the mountains dropped into the sea, enjoyed visiting the vineyards and their old Dutch homesteads and strolling the surf-pounded beaches. There was something magical about the speed with which the weather changed, soft sea mists giving way to wave-lashing rain, followed by sudden sunbursts and dramatically intense rainbows. But this famously laid-back, bohemian province always seemed far closer to California than Kinshasa.
I had wondered whether this time, things would feel different. I was well aware that the Western Cape represents a "rebel" province in many eyes, thanks to the support it gave Helen Zille's Democratic Alliance party in the last elections—the rest of the country had stayed ANC. But surely the presence of hundreds of black lawmakers attending South Africa's parliament, on top of years of affirmative action, would have had an inevitable effect.
Strolling Long Street in the daytime, you might think so. It's a medley of faces and races. But come sundown things change. I'd been told that the Taj Cape Town, lying directly opposite the parliament building, is a favorite with local movers and shakers, so I booked a table at its Bombay Brasserie. But the only black faces I spotted all evening were the bobbing heads of a small crowd of protesters heading purposefully to a demonstration.
I checked into the One&Only resort, on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Owned by magnate Sol Kerzner, it was built on an old quarry, with two artificial islands created from scratch. I'd been told that it is one of the hippest venues in town, a favorite not only of the Hollywood actors who are increasingly drawn to Cape Town's expanding film industry, but also of the likes of Kunene, Malema, and ANC politician and business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale. But I managed a sighting only of Fat Joe, a local DJ, dining alone. Most of the tables were occupied by young Americans and Eurotrash, comparing nightclubs.
Quinton Mtyala, a local parliamentary reporter, joined me in one of the One&Only's restaurants, Africa's sole Nobu outpost. But his almost physical distress at finding himself, a lone black man, in a venue of this sort rendered the meal more ordeal than pleasure. "Oh, man," he said, shaking his head. "Me, eating sushi, with a white woman, in Nobu. Oh, man."
His unease was, it seems, characteristic of his home city. "Cape Town was where apartheid was perfected," he said. "People were moved out of the city center in the 1960s, and it became very sterile. Black people rush to leave it at the end of the working day—they can't wait to get out."
If Cape Town is represented as a playground in the tourist guidebooks, to local blacks, he explained, that playground still comes with a "whites only" stamp, regardless of what the law now stipulates. "In Johannesburg, black people feel they own the space. Here, they feel they're in a fake Disney World, a city that doesn't acknowledge its own racism."
A night stroll across a few blocks of city center confirmed his impression of a stubbornly polarized urban landscape. There were so many guards in fluorescent bibs—many of them Zimbabweans and Congolese who migrated here in search of work—that theoretically I should have felt safe and protected. But if Cape Town's black population feels ill at ease, so did I. Casual strollers are in short supply on the dark and gusty pavements. As a young beggar began to follow me, a homeless woman flung a beseeching hand out from the gutter.
A sudden roaring startled me. There was so little traffic about that a group of teenage skateboarders were taking their chances in the middle of the street. In contrast with so much of the rest of Cape Town, this bunch was a thoroughly variegated mix of black, white, and colored.
The trip left me hovering like South Africa's drivers at the traffic lights, undecided. I'd heard upbeat assessments and apocalyptic predictions. Analysts whose opinions I respect had told me that the country, whose townships had already been hit by periodic protests over delays in the installation of water pipes and electrical lines, could experience an Arab Spring if it fails to narrow its widening inequalities.
When Cyril Ramaphosa apologized last fall for bidding $2.3 million at auction for a pedigreed buffalo, acknowledging it was an "excessive" gesture in a sea of poverty, one sensed an elite belatedly waking up to its dislocation from reality. The rash of miners strikes that followed the Marikana debacle are unlikely to impact visitors, but South Africans, aware that their nation was built on mineral extraction, see them as a signal that excess can be pushed only so far.
But what I do know—as a journalist who covered the fall of Mobutu's gilded regime—is what a society looks like when a government stops trying. Anyone who has walked through the slums of Lagos and Nairobi knows the smell of ingrained cynicism. Today's South Africa, with its burgeoning road and rail links, newly painted four-room houses, and government obsession with "service delivery," does not have that aroma.
Many blacks I spoke with during my trip feel bitter at a white-dominated media's denunciations of bling and its steady focus on corruption, saying that below the genuine alarm they detect a patronizing, racist message: "You see what happens when you let them run the country?"
Mamphela Ramphele, former managing director of the World Bank and veteran anti-apartheid activist, surely has a point when she too questions underlying assumptions. "The opulence of white wealth in this country far outstripped that of today's nouveau riche, but it was seen as 'old money' and therefore okay. But why is owning four or five cars considered bling and owning four or five houses not?"
Somewhat to my surprise, I find myself agreeing with Thebe Ikalafeng, one of South Africa's foremost marketing experts. When I interviewed him in London, I told myself it was hardly surprising if a man whose career was founded on buffing up images chose to look on the bright side.
"Of course, we all want South Africa to be this global example of diversity and harmony, a font of enterprise," he said. "In practice, it's going through your typical teenage rebellion. We're only eighteen years old, and we're jostling for position, testing boundaries, trying to find ourselves. The tensions aren't only racial, they're generational. We're boiling over in every sense. But out of this boiling will come a South Africa we have all helped define, and for which we can take responsibility."
Ikalafeng might relish a conversation I had on the day I flew out of Cape Town, when a duvet of cloud draped neatly over Table Mountain, individual flocks falling lazily toward the city. In the harbor, Cape Town's historic raison d'être, the cranes glinted in the sun. It is considered shockingly uncool for journalists to quote taxi drivers, but Trevor Beukes—part-time taxi driver, part-time graphic artist, would-be tour guide—surely merits his mention. Speeding along the freeway, he pointed out the township built for Cape coloreds like him on our left, its congested black equivalent on our right. It doesn't matter how many times you read about this topographical segregation, its on-the-ground crudeness always takes your breath away.
Beukes recounted his own circular itinerary from township to suburb and back again. "What happened when apartheid ended was that we all moved out of the townships and started living like whites. One day I realized everything I owned actually belonged to someone else. I had to sit my youngest boy down and tell him I couldn't afford to send him to college. That was my wake-up call."
"So what did you do?"
"I got rid of my debts, cleared my mortgage, changed my spending habits. And I moved. My house now is the size of what my servants' quarters used to be."
"And are you happy?"
"Yes. Now I know my neighbors. In the old days, we used to just wave at one another in the Pick n Pay."
It was perhaps the first time in my three-city tour that I talked to someone who knew exactly where he wanted to be. Nice to have met you, Trevor—the man who dipped his toe in the consumerist pool and said, "Actually, no."


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Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album. Throughout the years the band has been established, they have had little radio or television exposure, although a cult following began to build behind the group with the release of albums such as 1991's Butchered at Birth and 1992's Tomb of the Mutilated which both reached over one million in worldwide sales by 2003, including 558,929 in the United States, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time in the US, and second worldwide.
The members of Cannibal Corpse were originally inspired by thrash metal bands like Slayer, Kreator, and Sodom, as well as other death metal bands such as Morbid Angel and Death. The band's lyrics and its album art (most often done by Vincent Locke), which draw heavily on horror fiction and horror films, are highly controversial. At different times, several countries have banned Cannibal Corpse from performing within their borders, or have banned the sale and display of original Cannibal Corpse album covers.


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Major League Baseball is merciful enough to not force its annual three-day draft onto us in the form of a television package deal with weeping grandmothers and incarcerated fathers. For that, we are grateful. But we'll admit that it would have made for great television to see Scott Boras react to Bud Selig's old club taking his son Trent in the draft today.
The Milwaukee Brewers picked Trent, a high school third basemen, in the 30th round (which presents that awkward moment when your new teammate is one of the many reasons you grew up filthy rich). The younger Boras will likely play for USC next year (quoth Barry: "Of course it's USC."), and according to Brewers scouting director Bruce Seid, he is a "good player":
...he's a left-handed hitter who makes contact, he's pretty good with the glove at third base. Just like any high school kid, he's got to develop. Trent will be playing professional baseball — if not this year, definitely in years to come.
That's very nice, but can he do this?
Another young Boras, the elder Shane, is a current player for USC and has not yet been selected in this year's draft. But we do anticipate eventually being treated to that awkward moment when father Boras will have to negotiate deals for his boys ("but Shane always gets the bigger signing bonus!"). But take a Don Draper pro tip: In the team presentations, just include baby pictures and wax about the importance of family and the American Dream. Should be a breeze.


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News Archives - 2010
Martha E. Stortz to be inaugurated as Christensen Chair
Shortly after she settled into her new home in Minneapolis, Martha (she prefers Marty) Stortz did four things: she became a member of the Seward Co-op, she joined the Midtown YWCA, she took her bicycle in for "retooling" at the Hub Bike Shop, and she took herself on walking tours of the Seward, Longfellow, and Downtown East neighborhoods.
And those activities, along with a genuine love for the city and an infectious enthusiasm for Augsburg's mission, are what make her a true Auggie.
Stortz came to Augsburg this summer as the second Bernhard M. Christensen Professor in Religion and Vocation. She succeeds David Tiede, who has taken an interim position as president of Wartburg Theological Seminary.
Stortz says she is honored to be at Augsburg and excited about her role in the College's work. "I was quite taken with everything that you're doing," she says. "I love this city. This is a college in and for and with the city."
Though some might question her move from California to Minnesota, from theological education to higher education, and from seminary to college, Stortz feels as though she's called to be here and to bring her connections, an eagerness to share Augsburg's vision, and a commitment to her position.
She believes that her experience in circles of theological education and religion and education will bring some meaningful connections to Augsburg. "I'm very enthusiastic about what's going on here, and I think my key role is to make sure everyone knows what is going on."
"I'm eager to communicate Augsburg's vision and its sense of a living and lively tradition that is engaged with the city, the community, and the world. I've been a writer, speaker, and teacher, and I would now harness those gifts in service of the College's vocation."
When questioned about her decision, Stortz says, "You don't know the Twin Cities, you don't know how exciting it is to have colleagues in other disciplines and how vibrant those multidisciplinary conversations can be, and you don't know Augsburg."
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Coming events
The Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium
Gracia Grindal '65
Composer, Luther Seminary professor of rhetoric
Sunday, October 3, 4 p.m
Gracia Grindal '65 is a professor of rhetoric at Luther Seminary. She is a poet, translator, noted hymnodist, and creator of Luther Seminary's annual Reformation Festival, which grew from the "Singing the Faith" Reformation Day services. She received her BA from Augsburg College, MFA from University of Arkansas, and MA from Luther Seminary.
Inauguration of Martha E. Stortz
Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation
Monday, October 4, 10 a.m. The morning class schedule will be amended; see the Registrar's website for information.
Martha E. Stortz is a distinguished theologian whose scholarship includes work in historical and systematic theology, ethics, and biblical studies. She received her BA from Carleton College and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.


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A message from President Obama about the final Dinner with Barack of his campaign:
My favorite campaign tradition started five years ago—check out the email below.
It's just incredible how much we've grown—from 100,000 individual donors at that time to more than 3 million in this campaign alone—and how much we've accomplished together.
Tomorrow night, we're selecting the guests for the last dinner of my last campaign. I'm looking forward to closing out this tradition the way it started: with supporters like you.
Will you be there?
Make a donation, and you'll be automatically entered.
It's bittersweet, but this is the last time we'll do this on this campaign. I'd love for you and your guest to be there. As always, your flight and hotel are on us.
————Original Message—————
From: Barack Obama
Date: Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 6:23 p.m.
Subject: Re: Dinner with Barack?
Dear friend,
When we launched this campaign, we decided not to take the easy money offered by Washington lobbyists and special interest political action committees.
Instead, we put our faith in you, and we couldn't have made a better choice.
I'll be meeting four of you for dinner sometime soon, but what's happening across this country is bigger than me, or my candidacy.
Together we're re-shaping the political process based on the idea that a movement of people who care about the common future of all Americans can be more powerful than any special interest.
I hope you'll take a minute to make a donation, and perhaps we'll be seeing each other soon.
Thank you,
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Bacon and Egg Sandwich Recipe 2010-12-30 11:25:23
The Stanwich
The Stanwich
From the Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Cookbook
- 2 slices of bacon
1 large ciabatta loaf, halved horizontally and cut crosswise into quarters
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 red onion, sliced 1/4-inch thick
8 large eggs
Several dashes of hot sauce
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup (4 ounces) grated aged cheddar cheese
- In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, cook the bacon until crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer the bacon to a paper-towel-lined plate. Reserve the pan fat.
- Preheat the broiler.
- Place the 8 pieces of bread cut side up on a baking sheet. Drizzle with bacon fat and season lightly.
- Heat the oil in a grill pan or skillet over high heat until hot, but not smoking. Grill or sear the onions with a pinch of salt and pepper until charred and tender, 5 to 7 minutes, turning once. Crumble in the bacon.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, salt and pepper, and the hot sauce until slightly frothy. Melt the butter in a nonstick or other skillet. Add the eggs and sprinkle with cheese. Once the eggs have begun to very lightly set, begin to stir them gently, using a heat-proof rubber spatula. Make sure to scrape all edges of the pan. Continue this process until the eggs are creamy and just cooked through, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and cover.
- Broil the bread until lightly toasted, about 1 minute (watch closely to see that it does not burn). Divide 4 slices of bread among 4 serving plates. Place some of the scrambled eggs on each slice. Spoon the onion-bacon mixture over the eggs. Top with the remaining slices of bread.
Serves 4.
- Category
- Eggs, Breakfast/Brunch
- Cuisine
- North American


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Can it really be 10 years since Snowboarding in Argentina – Swayzak's debut long player – was named album of the year by Mixer magazine?
It is indeed, but in that time James Taylor and David Brown have been keeping themselves busy both live and in the studio, all the while building a global reputation that's as organic as the deep, home-grown dub-house they've become synonymous with.
Few artists straddle the thin divide between underground and mainstream quite like Swayzak. Their music, like their production style, almost relies on the haphazard, lo-fi ethic that's been a constant mainstay of their back catalogue. Yet despite being five albums in (as well as two mix compilations), they're as keen to follow their own path as they always have been – re-releasing Snowboarding, ambitions to make an album featuring 80s vocalists, David's perennial obsession with vinyl…
"James and I have been buddies since 1989 when we worked at a record label together," David begins, "but it wasn't until 1992 that we actually started making music together."
"I'd been into music since I was very young. The first thing I had was a Bontempi organ, and by the time I was 12 I was a young punk. I was lucky enough to see Joy Division as my first live band, and I guess that set the tone! I got my first synth – a Yamaha CS01 – when I was about 15, I think. Then I got a Boss drum machine, a Roland MC-202 – can you believe the guy in the store actually talked me out of getting a TB-303! But overall what I discovered was that the sound was better without guitars."
Despite this penchant for a retro minimalism that pervades their music, they recently adopted Yamaha's uber-futuristic Tenori-on as a way of exploring new directions with their music. David first heard about the Tenori-on from a friend who'd emailed him some details on this brushed magnesium frame.
"At first I didn't really understand it and thought it was nothing more than a toy. But then one day I was looking for a new machine for our live show and by chance I heard the Tenori-on in a London store and thought it would be just perfect for our sound."
"To begin with it was the bleepy sounds and the lights that drew me to it, but we've now incorporated it into our live show in a number of ways. We'll process it with some tape delay and reverb, sync it to a laptop running Ableton Live… and just for fun last weekend we used a 1960s WEM Copicat to make some strange live sounds. Studio-wise, I've been recording it through various effects. The one that's giving the best results is Korg's KP3 – these two together are sounding very cool!
"Tenori-on helps us to make a more improvised sound when we're playing live. Sometimes the laptops can be a bit boring, which is why we always have real outboard effects such as delay and reverb to hand. This way we can play with the sounds on the desk. And now the Tenori-on can throw in extra bleeps and clicks."
"For the live set we're running it with Ableton Live, two laptops and various outboard FX, and we'll just jam with the Tenori-on to add bleeps and beats. Essentially I like the simplicity of the sequencing… and that it's always in tune!"
"We used Tenori-on in Tokyo recently, and people were freaking out. They'd never seen it before, which is pretty unreal for Japan. Occasionally I'll use it on a flight, and people are always wondering what sort of game it is I'm playing!"
The Tenori-on fits perfectly with the simplicity of the Swayzak sound, as David explains.
"Our philosophy to making music is quite simple, I guess. Do what you feel, not what you think will make you money. Many people follow trends – and to a certain extent we're all guilty of that – but we've always experimented with our sound and taken risks. Some good, some bad, but we like to try to be different. There aren't many electronic acts like us. We released on Minus Records in 1999 and Sony in 2000, and since 2002 K7 has been a good home for us. Like us, they are somewhere between underground and major label. And as an electronic outfit we're big in the underground but small in the mainstream."
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chiroexcellence necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Health Defence
Health Defence is a Self Defence and general health and well- being fitness studio. Our image is of strength, vitality, fitness and self-defence. We will be teaching karate as well as a tailor made fitness programs to make people healthy and able to defend themselves. Our company is more than just fitness, we will be embracing total well-being and health motivating people to be happy, healthy and strong.
Whilst our target demographic is for the corporate market we do want to appeal to the general public. We want to appear strong and competent. There are also possibilities of doing fitness workshops. Therefore our symbol needs to be fairly gender neutral, embracing a strong, powerful image that conveys the notion of fitness and self defence.
What we require is a logo of a red heart (as in a love heart shape) on a white background with a white punching fist in the middle. An example of the type of fist we want can be seen here. The main colours of our company will be red and white.
We would not want it as chunky as this fist, we would want the lines all of a similar width & for all the lines of the picture to join up to create a more clean clear simple image. Having said this, we are open to suggestions. The aspect view should be same though.
We want this fist to appear in the middle of a clean bright red love heart, combining the elements of health (heart) & defence (fist)
On the bottom, on either side of the bottom point of the love heart we want the words Health Defence written in a font that is bold, clean, simple and strong. The wording can appear wherever you see fit and we're open to the idea of having the heading incorporating ".com" on the end.
Attached are some rough sketches of how we envisage it to look. We also want the logo to eventually appear on merchandise, webpages and training gear so there also are some sketches of how we envisage the logo to appear on tracksuit tops etc...
Alternatively if you have another idea which you feel would work well feel free to try something different!
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This microcontroller board features a Texas Instruments MSP430F449 with 60k Bytes Program Flash, 256 Bytes Data Flash, 2k Bytes RAM. A JTAG connector allows for easy programming of the uC's memory in-circuit. In addition you can use it as an in-circuit debugging platform for your own code developement by using the optional MSP-JTAG cable.
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When strong storms hit the city early Wednesday afternoon, it caused flooding across Queens and Brooklyn, with the hardest hit areas including Austin Street in Forest Hills, Cooper Avenue in Glendale, and Palmetto Street in Bushwick.
In Glendale, three people almost died when a car became trapped in rising water. Let us repeat that: They almost died.
While no government should necessarily be held accountable for acts of nature, a summer afternoon thunderstorm also shouldn't create havoc and mayhem and put lives in danger.
That is unacceptable.
But that is what continues to happen in Queens and Brooklyn whenever the city experiences a strong storm. There has to be a way to solve this issue.
Every year, it seems, the city hikes the water rates for home and business owners. But instead of investing that money back into the system, the city uses it to cover budget shortfalls.
In other words, the money we all paid to the city all these years that should have been reinvested back into water and sewer infrastructure was instead spent in other areas.
Now that bill is coming due.
The problem is that the issue at this point seems overwhelming. We realize that the city has been doing more to address flooding over the past few years, but it's nearly impossible for it to keep up.
The issue of flooding needs to be top priority for this administration and the next mayor of New York City, and residents of Queens and Brooklyn, along with the local press, should make it a big issue in the next year's elections.


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Arts & Events
Review: Mort Sahl on the Debates & the State of Things
Minutes after the third and last Presidential debate- the one on foreign policy--was over on TV, Mort Sahl came onstage at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley and opened his show by quipping: "What was the argument? Who is the best friend of the Jewish people! ... Either one of them would make a splendid prime minister of Israel. ... When he visited Israel, Obama went to the Holocaust Museum first. And Romney claims to be an intimate of Netanyahu. Romney wants to do what? Buy those countries in the Middle East--and consolidate them!"
Ribbing the audience as if he were a wayward anchorman, Sahl commented, "If you tuned in late, Obama's from Chicago [a dry chortle] where he was a community worker who quickly moved up to the White House. And Romney's from the Caymans--last seen making a deposit!"
Sahl, now 85, won his spurs as America's premier political satirist in stand-up in 1953, when he hit the stage at the hungry i in San Francisco's North Beach, wearing a red V-neck sweater in an age of "charcoal grey suits, because modern science has been searching for a color more somber than black," and carrying a newspaper, talking familiarly to an audience about the headlines. He became the first comedian to record a live comedy album--and win a Grammy--the first to make the cover of Time magazine, the first to appear on college campuses.
Sahl's lived in Mill Valley for the last couple of years, after a lifetime in the Los Angeles area, declaring the Bay Area has always brought him luck. His show at the Throckmorton, where he presents movies and comments on them or drops in when younger comedians host showcases, seemed to be his only performance during the final heat of the campaign.
Performing for well over an hour, easing fast observations about the current state of affairs in with longer stories, intercut with his signature asides, Sahl demonstrated his classic style, what could have been seen almost anytime over the past three or four decades with a few names and references switched around, leavened with a wry gag or two about not being able to jump around the stage so much anymore--or how a stroke he had a few years back "made me more kindly!"
Joking about the role of religion in Presidential campaigns, Sahl recalled JFK's line: "It's not the Hereafter that bothers me, it's November 6th!" A little bit later, JFK was replaced as "the only Catholic ... by Jerry Brown--still a novitiate!" Speaking of Romney's pioneer Mormon lineage, he mentioned Brigham Young, declaring from the lead of the wagon train when it came to Salt Lake, " 'This Is the Place!'--and a couple dissidents a few wagons back said, 'But we're only an hour from LA!' " Denying Mormonism to be a cult, Sahl said Scientology was one, and that he was "so lonely at night, I'd join it--like guilt on the installment plan!"
A few of Sahl's stories recalled his abrupt switch in career, when his participation in New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's independent investigation into the JFK assassination led to a drop-off in club and theatrical bookings--Sahl, who Variety had named top paid solo performer, saw his income fall in one year from $400,000 to under $20,000. He then became a Hollywood script consultant and ghost and additional dialogue writer. But even these tales of the glitter business quickly came back around to social comment: "I'm still a writer at heart. And I have an idea for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Bruce Willis--an 'Expendables' kind of thing--they're not going to wait for Social Security, but work for a living instead! A heist, where they break into Fort Knox--and Ron Paul is there, saying, 'I told you there was no gold here!' "
And hearkening back to speech writing jobs he took, from JFK to Reagan, Sahl quipped that Obama's staff had called him for ideas when the President went to Cairo--and Sahl suggested "Have him say Moses was an Egyptian!"
(Lifting a jibe he used on Reagan and redirecting it to the current Republican candidate, Sahl declared lately: "Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth--and Romney can't tell the difference!")
At one point during the show, Sahl jibed: "Obabma's trying to pass himself off as a liberal because he thinks it sells!"
At an appearance a few years back, Sahl was asked where he fit in on the political spectrum. He answered immediately: "I'm an old Berkeley radical, not a Social Democrat, with avarice in their heart, talking about loving Humanity, unless it's from Haiti or someplace else that's unfashionable."
That "obstinate rigor," as Leonardo Da Vinci called it, informed every quip Sahl tossed off during the genial and fluent course of his show.
As he said, "Everything I tell you is true. But this is actual!"
(142throckmortontheatre.com --For more Mort Sahl oneliners: twitter.com/mortsahlsays ... For the Planet's interview with Sahl three years ago: berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-07-23/article/33402headline+Mort-Sahl-and-Dick-Gregory-at SF-s-Rrazz-Room-By-Ken Bullock-Special-to-the-Planet )


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We are in the middle of the Holiday Season. Some are getting ready to travel afar and visit loved ones for the festivities. Some are staying home and celebrating. Many will be attending Posadas. Unfortunately, where we live there is no one I know of that celebrates Las Posadas, something I loved doing as a child.
It is perfect! It is small enough that they can take it where ever they choose to, even travel with it on a plane, or a car, if need be.
Want to learn how to make it?
This is what you need to do:
To begin, start by painting all the faces. Let them dry completely before you begin to paint another layer.
Next work on Maria (Mary). I find her to be the easiest to paint. After painting the face (and letting dry), paint her blue dress and head scarf. It is very simple, just paint it all blue. Once you've done that and it has completely dried, add some details with a deeper blue (or you can leave it as it is.) Finally, with a black permanent marker, add some hair locks around the face and also add the eyes, mouth, and nose.
Continue with the Angel.
1. Paint face and body. 2. Paint hair. 3. Add dress details with a gold permanent marker. 4. Cut out wings out of wool felt. 5. Glue with hot glue (or any other strong adhesive). 6. Front view. 7. Back view.
For José (Joseph) and the Reyes (Wise Men) you are going to follow similar steps.
After the faces have dried, add the hair, mustache, and beard following the steps below. To make them each a little different, I colored their hair in different shades.
Again don't forget to...
Now you'll add the finishing touches to José (Joseph):
After painting the face and body and letting it dry completely, add the head scarf following the steps above.
Those wise Reyes:
Add details to each garment with a gold permanent marker. Make each crown a bit different.
For the Niñito Jesus (Baby Jesus) you will need two tiny pieces of felt. One in off-white the other in tan.
Cut your off-white piece of felt about an 1 inch square. Then a tiny oval piece using the tan color. Glue the tan piece in the center of the 1 inch square (see above), then start to fold each side and keep in place with a dab of glue. (Follow steps above). Finally, round the tip of the corner about the baby's head. You now have a swaddled Niñito Jesus.
Lastly, decorate your box however you like. I wanted to leave some of the natural wood showing, so I just added color in certain areas. I also added small "x" details with a gold permanent marker.
Once everything is completely dry (about an hour or so), then:
Listo! You are done.
Now give it to a little someone you love and let them:
Have fun crafting!
Lisa Renata is a US-born Latina who experienced Mexican culture first-hand when she lived there as a child. A book lover, a mama raising her two kids bilingual, and a crafter- with a camera always in her hands. You can often find her interpreting and testing for the local school district ESOL program, working on her blog Sabor a Cajeta, or making new items for her Etsy shop SaborCajeta.


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This handsome, eco-friendly, plug-in LED wall sconce is designed as a right hand model.
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Bring contemporary LED style into your bedroom or next to your favorite chair with this solid walnut, LED plug-in wall sconce. This right hand model is designed to install to the right side of your bed or chair. Rectangle solid wood body with a rectangle polymer shade on top. Sleek aluminum arms with full arm and light head articulation. Due to the natural walnut body, wood grain will vary from piece to piece. Eco-friendly construction and energy-saving, dimmable LED technology. This hand-made wall light is designed by Nick Sheridan.