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The Broken Dream of Rene Levesque

An unprecedented electoral disaster for Quebec’s pro-independence Parti Quebecois this week. The governing party of the Canadian province had called early elections in hopes of getting a stronger majority, on the strength of a new anti-immigrant program it called a Charter of Quebec Values. Instead of returning the PQ to power, voters deserted in droves to the anti-independence Liberal party, in spite of a vast corruption scandal that continues to wrack the liberals. In this letter to his fellow ‘sovereignists,’ lifelong independence activist Simon DeLorme writes that the party’s abrupt tack to the right was a terrible and perhaps irreversible mistake, that by trampling on the francophone immigrants who are its future, the party may have written its own death sentence.

The worst popular-vote outcome since 1970. The worst outcome in terms of assembly seats since 1976. The first prime minister in the history of Quebec-despite her talents as a politician- to lose her own seat. A quarter of the cabinet wiped out as well, including such heavyweights as the Minister of Education, Immigration, Environment, and even Justice. A good half a dozen important bastions fallen into the hands of the federalists, with the sovereignists coming in a distant second, or even in third place. Among the survivors, their comfortable majorities have often melted like snow under the sun. Voters have fled in all directions, not only to the left and Quebec Solidaire, or to the right and Coalition Avenir Quebec, but even directly to the Liberal party, without even a ‘stopover’ somewhere in between. This despite the profound corruption alleged to be rotting the heart of the Liberal party, and its failure to clean house after only 18 months in opposition.

My dear friends in the Parti Quebecois, do you get the message? You must. It is the very existence of the PQ that is in the balance. Its survival. If the party does not reform, it will die. If the party does not change, the next election will be a fundamental realignment, and the PQ will share the fate of the defunct Union Nationale. Those who have been invoking the name of Rene Levesque since yesterday might well remember the man’s own words, and reflect on the meaning of the expression ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’:

“For me, any political party is nothing but a necessary evil, one of these instruments that a democratic society has need of when it delegates its collective interests to elected officials. But political parties that end up lasting for a long time generally age badly. They have a tendency to transform into something like secular churches, into frankly unbearable institutions that claim to have the only path to salvation. In the long term, ideas congeal and stiffen, and are replaced by petty political opportunism . Every new party should, I think, write into its statutes a clause for its own dissolution after a certain period. A generation? Not much more; after that, the plastic surgeries that try to restore some semblance of beauty will accomplish little, and the party will one day find itself a decrepit thing that is accomplishing nothing but blocking the electoral landscape, preventing the future from arriving.”

I have belonged to the clan of sovereignists since I was a teenager. I have always, from near or far, supported the Parti Quebecois. I have always felt at home there. Until this year. This year was too much. And believe me, I am not one of these delicate flowers who must turn their face away at the slightest compromise or the least tactical retreat. I understand the necessity for accommodation in parliamentary politics, and the heavy responsibilities that weigh on a governing party, which frequently demand sacrifices. When my mind is made up (which it has been for many years), it takes a lot to change it. But this year, the dam has burst. There are limits to what I can take. And a simple glance at yesterday’s results should be enough to show that I am not the only one to find myself at such a pass.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, did not leave the Parti Quebecois; the Party left me. You will never see me cheerleading for another party. In spite of all the anger and profound disappointment I feel toward the PQ, I do not wish death upon it, above all no long death that would injure not only the sovereignist movement, but the whole Quebec nation. The very real possibility of death is not something I can entirely accept, because the mission of the Parti Quebecois has still not been fulfilled. This year I have placed my vote elsewhere, not because I have suddenly been converted to the virtues of some rival party, but rather because of distress and disappointment. I have placed myself on the reserve lists for the Republic, as our [French] cousins say. And from the furthest depths of my heart, I hope that the signal will be heard, that something will be done to heal the wounds which have afflicted the party these last two decades. If not, if this present defeat is not stinging enough to impose a sense of urgency on the leadership of the Parti Quebecois, better then to simply unplug the life support and move on to something new. Because otherwise the voters will do it for us in 2018, and it will not be pretty.

Having always been a part of this great political clan, I am accustomed to losing elections. Every time is a blow that difficult blow to absorb. A punch that leaves the stomach clenched in knots. And this time once again, accepting the new configuration of the national assembly tears my heart out, leaves me desperate. But right up until this year I have always clung to the idealism that the rich progressive [in every sense of the term]history of the Parti Quebecois inspires in me. Now, this inspiration has died. Being above all a pragmatist, I can acknowledge that it is not impossible that I will one day return to the fold. But before I can do that, things must change. Deeply. I have no grocery list, no plan of action, no ready solutions. Not yet. We must take a long moment to reflect and digest yesterday’s outcome. But one thing is certain: for the Parti Quebecois, the status quo would be a death sentence.

Yes, the Charter. That indeed was a heavy weight. Not so much for its content (on which a vast majority of Quebecois would agree, with the exception of the arrangements regarding religious symbols), as for the perhaps irreparable harm it has caused for the tenor of our public debate, and above all for relations with minority groups. These are minorities with who we must be building relationships rather than burning bridges. To put it in simple terms, you do not attract flies with vinegar, but with honey. Rightly or wrongly, minorities saw the Charter as a frontal attack upon them. We will obtain our independence with the help of our minorities, not in spite of them. To throw this fragile and important relationship into the garbage in the hopes of winning a single election, even a majority government, is irresponsible as well as counterproductive. If, in order to put the Parti Quebecois back in office, we must undermine the very possibility of a real voting majority in favor of independence, what is the point? The impulse to win elections is natural, but it should never make us lose sight of the ultimate goal.

An utter absence of rational arguments in its favor, or evidence for its necessity accompanied the Charter. A nauseating rhetoric. It liberated the most repulsive tongues. This Charter, this is not the Parti Quebecois that I have known. This is not the party of Levesque, not the party of Parizeau, not the party of Bouchard or the party of Landry. Not for nothing that all of these last three [Levesque died in 1987], warned the present leadership of the party that this debate would harm the party. Say what you want about nosy old mothers-in-law, but today they were proven right. There is a way, and the PQ has shown it in the past, to uphold a civic ideal of nationhood and protect the French language and the culture of Quebec, all while avoiding the noisome waters in which Bernard Drainville has plunged us, for reasons which are still entirely inexplicable.

The question of sovereignty surely played a role yesterday as well. We can certainly blame Phillipe Couillard for his fearmongering about a new referendum (rightly, it was as if we were in 1980 again!) but when the PQ reacts by throwing out the baby with the bathwater (there will be no referendum!), that simply ends up chilling the enthusiasm of the party’s most ardent independence activists. If the choice is between one centrist party which will not launch a referendum, and another centrist party which will not launch a referendum, one begins to see why the motivation to join the voting lines was so weak. There are other issues (environment, energy, public services), where the differences between the principal political parties have become so tenuous that for those who find these issue important went elsewhere, or simply stayed at home. All of these factors together contributed to a voting turnout that was somewhat less than in 2012, and a drop is never a good sign for the Parti Quebecois.

Our largely two-party electoral system is such that Quebeckers ended up voting for a party which the vast majority of them consider corrupt to its marrow. Do not be offended: this says a lot more about the Parti Quebecois as an alternative than it says about Quebeckers. I well understand the impulse to look for scapegoats (parties like the QS, the CAQ and the PLQ, or the media, or immigrants, or students, or Ontario, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau, or the weather, general well being, indifference), but you must try to resist this reflex. If the Parti Quebecois wants to look for the guilty party, it need only look in the mirror. To solve a problem, we must first admit that we have a problem. A self examination must be carried out, and carried out now. No one wants to vote for a party of losers who do nothing but make excuses, in any case. This historic defeat is not a bump in the road, not a momentary aberration in our ordinary tendency to alternate holding power. The lines have begun to move. The sooner the PQ realize it the better for them (and Quebec in general). I am sending this message today because I know that there are many good people in the Parti Quebecois (I know them personally) who will hear it and understand it. I only hope that there are enough of them.

In closing, a word on Pauline Marois. She who made history by becoming the first woman premiere of Quebec did not perhaps deserve a punishment as severe as this, though her party certainly deserved to be punished. At the end of her long public career now, she has served Quebec with honor and we should thank her for the battles she has fought, and often won, in our name. The outcome is reminiscent of the case of Gilles Duceppe in 2011: we may have our regrets about how the rules of liberal governance dictated the fate that we dealt out for him. But the laws of politics are cruel and that is how they have been made: Marois is responsible for the outcome, like the electoral strategy that she pursued. She assumed that responsibility with dignity last night in announcing her resignation and opening the door for a renovation within her party. I sincerely hope that all members of the Parti Quebecois will equally assume their own responsibility.

Simon DeLorme Translated from French by International Boulevard


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October 31, 2014

How Hotels Can Boost Group Business During Good Times

By Howard Feiertag

It looks like this coming year will be one of the better years for hotel demand, occupancy and rates. At many properties, sales staff is working in other marketing activities: advertising, promotion, public relations, social media, etc. If they can spend an extra 20-25 percent in pro-active sales, hotel event teams would soon see better figures.

Here is how:

Develop an incentive program. Sales people should get rewarded for getting more group business on the books. Of course, many incentive compensation programs are already out there, but some do not really do the job. Some are based on budget: Meet your budget and you get this much compensation. But many are very complicated and are based on issues that should not concern a sales person, who is responsible for booking group business.

A simple rewarding program is to offer a 1 percent incentive to each sales person based on total revenue generated by group business. This is not a group program where all those in sales share on all the business booked. Further, it is not paid on bookings, but only after the group has met and all the bills have been paid. It should reflect group revenue on the master account, including room rates, group food and beverage, space rentals, recreation and other activities generating incremental revenue; everything excluding group gratuity, taxes and commissions or fees paid to outside entities. Revenue generated by individuals in the group who charge purchases to the room folio should also be included.

This is what all this would do for a hotel's event team.

  • Retention: By making incentive compensation payments only after a group has departed the property and paid all the bills, even if groups are booked one, two or three years more ahead, the well-performing sales associates will want to stick around until they collect, rather than hunting for other sales jobs or being recruited by another company.
  • Salary increases: Most expect a raise every year when it comes to an annual performance review. For some reason, a raise may not be due because of performance or budgeting situations. With this 1-percent incentive program, sales associates are really creating their own raises as they go along all year long. A decision about raises after an annual review is not necessary.
  • Increase group ADR and sales motivation: Sales associates will know they have control over their own income. The more revenue generated per group puts more in their pockets. Payments being paid on a monthly basis reflect that they can receive their incentive compensation at about the same time the groups make payment on their bills. This alone is terrific motivation

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How to Cook Catfish?

This is how I cook catfish. I first wash the catfish. Next i put a pan of vegetable oil in a pan and heat it up. Then i season some flour. Now that the oil is ready you need to flour the fish. You need to put the floured fish in the pan and fry on one side till it turns brown. And you need to repeat this step till the fish is a nice golden brown. I you follow these instructions your catfish should be very tender and moist.


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How to Grow An Avocado?

There are alot of home kits for growing avocado trees at home, they are easy and decorative too! But take your seed and rinse it, push three toothpicks in thickest part, put in glass of water so that round end is under water and pointed end is in the air. Put in bright window and watch it grow.


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Tygress Innerprize/Conscious Living OmniMedia Group is a multi-media, educational empowerment, and events firm owned and operated by Founder, Ahzjah Netjer Simons. We utilize multi-media and cutting edge technology to deliver educational empowerment and support in the areas of personal development, holistic health and wellness, life path awareness and development and indie music artistry. Partners and subsidiaries are Kismet Music, Conscious Living OmniMedia Group, A Conscious Affair Events, Living Dream Life Path Designs, The Children's Wellness Network, Life Path Academy. CLO Media Group is the vehicle through which we deliver our counter marketing and educational empowerment. Kismet Music offers artist consulting for independent artists navigating the new music landscape today. Living Dream Life Designs offers life path coaching, webinars for women and our Life Path Academy will offer life skills/planning workshops, coaching for teens and young adults beginning spring 2017. Past projects include Conscious Hueniversal Living Magazine, The Conscious Cafe' and The Children's Wellness Network offering summer day camps, family retreats, festivals and more. Our 2016 &2017 interns will assist and support us with our new women of music & mastery movement projects, Art of You Webinars, and preparing and filming for our 2017 project, iJourneyTV, a new online TV station, and life path academy in 2017.

Tygress/CLO Media Group rolls out a fresh stream of projects and programs each year, which has included magazines, online and terrestrial radio, events and most recently television programs,now filming. Each project serves as a unique catalyst for individual and community engagement. empowerment, and evolution and vibrant elevated living.

Founded in 2001, it is a world class educational empowerment media institution dedicated to inspiring personal development in self-awareness, self-discovery, self-expression, and self-mastery facilitating their work at a variety of satellite locations throughout Atlanta. Please visit www.consciouszone.us or musicmediamastery to learn more about some of our current and future work projects.

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 Research and develop a list of potential sponsors for each conference;
 Research and develop a list of potential exhibitors when required;
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 Keep precise records of conversations with all clients, sponsors and exhibitors;
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 Assist in preparing promotional material to advertise sales opportunities;
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JOB TITLE: Sponsorship Sales & Network Relations Rep
Sponsorship Sales & Network Relations Rep responsible for raising money through the sale of sponsorship packages for our media projects,(magazine,radio,tv) events, webinars, expo, etc. by targeting various companies, organizations and associations. The Sponsorship Relations Rep creates sponsorship and exhibitor packages according to client specification, attends weekly company meetings, sales update meetings and event/conference/project planning meetings as required. Builds and maintains relationships with sponsorship partners,exibitors,advertisers, etc. on behalf of Tygress/CLO Group headquarters. Sponsorships commissions are paid at 25% rate for each sponsorship secured.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in this job description are representative of the knowledge, continuous proactive skill and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. General qualification requirements include:
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Scotts - A postscript to building for victory

By James A. Pottinger

In George Moore's exhaustively researched book Building for Victory published by the WSS, there are a number of references to the Admiralty's stated concerns as to the apparent lack of progress in the construction of warships by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. of Greenock.

As my first, and then later employer, I have a special interest in the company and it may be appropriate to try and put on record the circumstances pertaining to the company when extreme pressure was being exerted to meet the needs of war, a situation not unique to Scotts'. The company was given over wholly to naval construction and repair, and was possibly the smallest of the so called "Large Naval Yards", in comparison with other builders such as Vickers, Cammell Laird, John Brown, Fairfield etc. they did not have the spread of facilities or manpower levels. Reference was made by the Admiralty to the imbalance in berths in relation to fitting out and engineering capacity possibly the one factor above all which mitigated against a higher level of production was the sheer number of berths in operation. During the years 1939-1944 they were using the following number of building berths on Admiralty work: 7; 13; 14; 14; 13; 12 respectively aggregating 73 berths in total against the next highest Vickers (Barrow) with 80.

Only the much larger Vickers (Barrow) and Harland & Wolff exceeded this total. To increase production John Brown and Vickers Naval Yard respectively were able to build two destroyers and up to four submarines on each berth, the space available at Cartsburn shipyard would not allow this.

Two aerial photos taken on 11/7/1940 of the building berths and outfitting basins show the following vessels under construction, either on the stocks or being fitted out alongside: MILNE - M-class destroyer on the stocks; MARKSMAN - M-class destroyer on the stocks; TRAVELLER - T-class submarine on the stocks; TROOPER - T-class submarine on the stocks; LOYAL - L-class destroyer on the stocks; LOOKOUT - L-class destroyer on the stocks; ROYALIST - Modified Dido- class cruiser on the stocks; CHIDDINGFOLD - Hunt-class destroyer on the stocks; COWDRAY - Hunt-class destroyer on the stocks; SCYLLA - Dido-class cruiser on stocks; TYNE - depot ship fitting out afloat, PYTCHLEY - Hunt-class destroyer fitting out afloat; QUANTOCK - Hunt-class destroyer fitting out afloat; T- class submarine afloat (possibly TUNA) complete 1/8/1940.

The following gives dates of completion of above warships:

                                    Laid down        Launched        Completed

PYTCHLEY                   26/7/39          13/2/40          23/10/40

QUANTOCK                 26/7/39          22/4/40          6/2/41

CHIDDINGFOLD            1/3/40           10/3/41           16/10/41

COWDRAY                    3/4/40           22/7/41           29/7/42

MILNE #                       24/1/40          30/12/41         6/8/42

MARKSMAN*               21/1/40          28/7/42          8/4/43

LOOKOUT                  23/11/38         4/11/40          30/1/42

LOYAL                        23/11/38         8/10/41           31/10/42

TARPON                      5/10/37          17/10/39         8/3/40

TROOPER®                  7/5/40           5/3/42           29/8/42

TUNA                           13/6/38          10/5/40          1/8/40

TRAVELLER                17/1/40          27/8/41           10/4/42

SCYLLA                       19/4/39          24/7/40          12/6/42

ROYALIST                   21/3/40          30/5/42          10/9/43

TYNE                           15/7/39          28/2/40          28/2/41

LCM111                              21/11/40         23/11/40

LCM112                              21/11/40         23/11/40

LCM113                              17/12/40         18/12/40

LCM114                              17/12/40         18/12/40

TLC15                                9/12/40          11/12/40

TLC16                                11/12/40         16/12/40

* Renamed MAHRATTA, suffered bomb damage during air raids on nights of 6/7 May 1941 and had to be taken apart and rebuilt.

@ TROOPER was blown off the stocks during same raids

# Completed by John Brown at Clydebank due to disruption from above raids

Analysis of above shows that during 1940 the following ships were launched: LOOKOUT; SCYLLA; TYNE; PYTCHLEY; QUANTOCK; TUNA; 6 landing craft.

In 1941 CHIDD1NGFOLD; COWDRAY; MILNE; TRAVELLER and LOYAL were launched. The landing craft were possibly being fabricated in the plate or boiler shops, and do not show on the yard berths.

The result was that more or less all of the above were being fitted out during part of 1940 and during all of 1941, which on the face of it appears to be an almost impossible workload. It would seem from above that the most significant bottleneck was in outfitting, where in addition to the total workload as a whole the shortage of outfitting trades was a factor; a problem in warship yards on the Clyde as a whole. Whilst labour was being directed by the Government to work in the mines no such augmentation to the workforce of shipyards was apparently considered. The lack of available housing in Greenock especially mitigated against the recruitment of additional labour from outwith the area. A factor revealed after the end of the war was that many of the manual labour personnel •were suffering from what can only be regarded as malnutrition and exhaustion, not actually starving, but nevertheless were deficient in certain vital constituents, the incidence of TB possibly being a legacy of these conditions. Greenock, whose economy depended almost exclusively on shipbuilding and marine engineering, had only just come out of the debilitating depression of the thirties, with all its malign effects on the morale and well being of the labour force.

Additional constraints were due to fact that Scotts' engine works constructed the main propulsion plant for the majority of the surface and submarine warships built in their own shipyard, and also for other naval ships building in the Royal Dockyards and other private yards, see list below.

This restriction is highlighted a number of times in the volume, an additional and pertinent factor is the actual lack of berthing space for fitting out, given the sheer numbers of warships jostling for space alongside with suitable craneage available. Inevitably modifications and alterations to warships under construction  were being introduced by the Admiralty in the light of operating experience.

The air raid noted above did considerable damage to Scotts' workshops and offices in addition to disruption in the yard, the Head Office located adjacent to

the engine works was completely gutted with loss of many models, records, documents and archives, a more immediate problem was the destruction of the engine drawing office. A temporary drawing office was set up in a local school, and apprentice draughtsmen were sent to Glasgow to scour the shops for replacement drawing instruments etc. All electric power was lost for several days, but temporary supplies were provided to the yard by petrol driven generators and by hooking up to a submarine in the basin. It was six months before full production was restored, with no possibility of replacing damaged or destroyed machinery.

The overall impression, borne out by a number of visits to Scotts' by Admiralty staff was that they were in fact grossly overloaded for the facilities available, and as such was having a negative effect on the management, in the critical circumstances pertaining at this stage of the war this was hardly the fault of the company whilst critical of the management in some respects the output for the numbers employed was acknowledged as being fair. Nevertheless it was regrettable that some disruption to production was caused by some instances of inter-union and demarcation disputes. Another factor, which was claimed to be inhibiting production was the perception attributed to Sir Stanley Goodall in August 1943 was that on the Clyde the feeling was that the war was effectively over, and the employers were thinking more of merchant ship orders, and the employees were spinning out the work in hand. This comment is somewhat ironic in that shipbuilders were to be subsequently castigated post war in a number of surveys and reports for not taking a more commercial outlook, additionally many employees knew that as soon as the war shipping boom was over the hire and fire methods previously employed would return.

The following list of warships worked on, launched, and completed, by Scotts' from 1939 to the end of 1945 is impressive, and a credit on all who worked there, an endorsement which could be attributed to all of the shipyards and marine engineering works during these dark days. Warships worked on from 1939-1945, all machinery engines, boilers and gearing, built by Scotts' except where noted:

(engines by John Brown); TALENT+; SATYR; (engines by Davey Paxman)

SCEPTRE; SEA ROVER (engines by Davey Paxman, fitted out by Vickers Barrow);

SIRDAR (engines by Davey Paxman, fitted out by Vickers Barrow); SPITEFUL; STRONGBOW; SPARK; SCYTHIAN (engines by Davey Paxman); SCOTSMAN; SEA DEVIL; SENESCHAL (engines by Peter Brotherhood); SENTINEL; + Transferred to Scotts' from Vickers - TALENT cancelled ARTEMIS (started 2/44, completed 8/47); ARTFUL (started 6/44, completed 2/48, engines by Peter Brotherhood)

Destroyers: LOOKOUT; LOYAL; PYTCHLEY; QUANTOCK; MILNE (outfitted by John Brown); MAHRATTA; (damaged by bombs December 1941) CHIDDINGFOLD; COWDRAY; ROCKET; ROEBUCK (launched prematurely and salvaged, fitted out by John Brown); SERAPIS; SHARK; CAMBRIAN (machinery built and fitted out by John Brown); CARRON; CHEQUERS; CHIEFTAIN; CROMWELL; CROWN

Escort Vessels:   LAPWING; LARK (machinery supplied by Yarrows)

Depot Ship:  TYNE

Misc:   4 LCM Landing Craft. TLC 15; TLC16; LCT 420

The transport ferry TF 43, later LST 3043 (MESSINA) was ordered to be built

by Scotts'.

Conversion on three trawlers: LADY SHAHAZAD; COiLA; AARLA

Alterations to cruisers CLEOPATRA and NEWFOUNDLAND 1944/45

Launched cruiser DEFENCE on 2/9/44

Five weapon class destroyers were ordered from Scotts' in April 1943, these were CARRONADE, CLAYMORE, DIRK, GRENADE, HALBERD and POINARD; but the last three were cancelled by the Admiralty on 23rd December 1944 although they had been laid down, and incurred some cancellation cost for materials used and work carried out.

Work on HMS CARRONADE carried on, however, to bring her ready to launch on 5/4/46 and the next day she made her final and only journey to Troon for breaking up.

Machinery built for other shipyards:

1937 Cruiser GLOUCESTER- Devonport Dockyard

1942 Cruiser SIRIUS- Portsmouth Dockyard; Frigate PHEASANT- Yarrows

1943 Frigate REDPOLE- Yarrows

1946 Submarine ALARIC- Cammell Laird

The following warships were completed immediately before WWII:

Destroyers MATABELE 1/39 and PUNJAB 3/39

Cruiser GLASGOW 9/37

Submarine CACHALOT 8/38

Destroyers HOSTILE 9/36 and HOTSPUR 12/36

Submarine SEAWOLF 3/36

Cruiser GALATEA 8/35

Destroyers ESCAPADE 8/34 and ESCORT 10/34

Destroyer ECLIPSE 8/35

The Elder Dempster cargo ships SANSU and SANGARA, the last merchant vessels built until after end WWII, which were being completed in 1939.

Acknowledgements for help in preparation of above:

Mr G. Moore and Mrs J.F Robb


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FXStreet (Barcelona) - Analysts at Rabobank explained the upcoming key events.

Key Quotes:

“Today’s next focus is Aussie home loans, seen +0.6% MoM after a flat reading last month. The importance of this series is even greater than usual given that we know the trade picture is looking ugly, and the labour market is also flagging, apparently, which leaves the Australian economy with a lot of bricks and mortar all in one basket. We then get the RBA’s Statement on Monetary Policy (SoMP), where we will be looking to see if there is any subtle hawkish or dovish shift in its views relative to the previous release. Whether they knew unemployment was going to be 6.4% when they wrote it is a key question, of course”.

“China will release trade data at some point today (so no popping out for a cup of tea anyone). Exports are seen +7.0% YoY and imports +2.6% - there may still be question-marks over the data quality, but the ‘magic’ of currency depreciation likely also helps”.

“German trade data are also out, and a traditional enormous surplus (EUR18.9bn) is expected; that will be mirrored later by a big trade deficit in the UK (-GBP2,050m)”.

“Then the BOJ have their monetary policy statement. That is likely to remain upbeat, despite recent data, which will tell the markets not to expect any extra QE any time soon. (Note that almost none of this Japanese QE is leaking abroad anyway according to our research, but the prospect of it certainly seems to excite – and the prospect of not getting more of something - that one is not getting anyway – may have a dampening effect)”.

“In the US we see non-farm productivity and labour costsfor Q2. The latter are expected at 1.1%, down from a 5.7% leap in Q1 – any upside surprise will likely hit the markets hard given poor sentiment and the current focus on wage ‘inflation’. Have a happy (and safe) Friday!”

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Profile of a Unique Foundation

Written by Sandra Hurlong, PhD

January, 2016

The mission of Intercultural Open University Foundation (derived from the progressive thinkers in adult education in the USA, Mexico and Europe, and theorists on person centered graduate education) is grounded in the belief that education, research, and capacity building is a key element in resolving pressing global problems. In an intellectual setting where disciplinary boundaries are easily crossed and collaborative learning is emphasized, learners are encouraged to develop programs focusing on social relevance and the ways in which the world’s peoples, with their multiple and conflicting interests, are to live together peacefully and justly.

Our Vision

Intercultural Open University Foundation aspires to provide innovative, socially relevant educational programs of the highest quality to diverse adult populations and to actively seek to identify and reach those underserved by higher education.  IOU Foundation issues accredited dual PhD degrees, certificates, diplomas, fellowships, and also other academic awards and qualifications, as well as scholarships, awards, and other awards of academic accomplishments. In addition IOUF supports numerous social change projects in the USA, South America, Japan, Mexico, Asia and Europe.

The IOU Foundation operates as a charitable international educational foundation, and it maintains a registration as a charitable non-profit foundation in the United States. The Foundation is also registered as a non-profit charitable foundation in the Netherlands. IOU Foundation is an international partner with the Universidad Azteca and the Universidad Central de Nicaragua in offering accredited dual PhD degree programs. The Foundation is led by five administrative staff members and a faculty of fifteen members who serve as mentors to adult graduate learners seeking advanced degrees. IOU Foundation is staffed completely with volunteers with a sliding scale of modest tuition to cover operational costs and maintains offices in Spain and the United States.

Interculural Open University Foundation faculty volunteer their services as mentors to graduate learners because they are committed to the IOU Foundation pedagogy. Each faculty member has over 25 years experience in distributed education and in learner centered adult education and have accredited doctorates in their respective fields of study.

Intercultural Open University Foundation is not a conventional educational institution. In collaboration with a faculty mentor, each learner creates an individualized curriculum of proficiency areas relevant to his or her chosen specializations. Again, with faculty mentors, each learner identifies a research area and how he or she will develop the skills needed to carry out the research.

IOU Foundation encourages the "scholar-practioner" model which is based on best practices in the field supported by the scholarly literature. Learners inquire about and reflect upon their own work and its social relevance. They are mentored by faculty to investigate important practical problems, to disseminate their research results to varied audiences, and to work with practitioners to implement and test research findings in their fields. IOU Foundation supports clearly defined learner and institutional quality assurance methods. Learners perform important and socially relevant work as they undertake their studies and develop their professions.

Our Values

Social Relevance

Intercultural Open University Foundation requires that the programs of its learners reflect their awareness of the social implications of their studies and of their obligation to share knowledge with integrity in uplifting the communities in which they serve.

Scholar-practitioner Model

Intercultural Open University Foundation advocates an educational process whereby scholarship and theory are connected and applied to real-world action and practice.

Collaborative and Experiential Learning

Intercultural Open University Foundation considers the process of learning is as important as the content of learning and stresses self-direction, collaborative learning with peers and faculty, and the importance of experiential learning.

Accredited Dual PhD Degrees Offered:

PhD Degrees, certificates, diplomas, fellowships, and other awards of academic accomplishment

Areas of Study:

Environmental Studies

Health Sciences

International Business Management

Peace and Conflict Resolution

Political Science

Social Change

Social Sciences

Education for Sustainable Development

IOUF Information:

President: Sandra Hurlong, PhD, Anthropology
President Emeritus Fay A.C. de Jonge, M.Ed., PhD, Anthropology
Founder: Jan R. Hakemulder, D. Ed., Psy.D, PhD, D.Litt (hon)

The Foundation Model

Intercultural Open University Foundation's founders were innovators and realized 30 years ago the benefits of establishing a university as a charitable foundation. Many contemporay universities around the world are now moving to the foundation model of organization.

"A university foundation, generally speaking, can be thought of as a not-for-profit independent legal entity established in pursuit of a specified public purpose. More formally, it has four defining features:

(i) it is an independent legal entitity;

(ii) it has a mission (or charter or mandate) to serve defined public (or national and societal) interest in higher education and research;

(iii) as a not-for-profit public interest legal entity, it has favourable tax treatment on its incomes, assets, and trading activities undertaken in pursuit of its foundation goals; and

(iv) it has the autonomy to raise funds and manage its assets in pursuit of the foundation goals, for which it receives favourable tax treatment."

See the following for more details : INDEPENDENT LEGAL STATUS AND UNIVERSITIES AS FOUNDATIONS by Abrar Hasan Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Educational Planning UNESCO, A paper prepared for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Government of Portugal, Paris 4 July, 2007.

Dr. John M. Toothman is a noted scholar on the small group experience. He has studied with the most distinguished professors of humanistic psychology and has offered his group dynamics seminars throughout the world. Dr. Toothman holds over twenty certificates in psychology and psychotherapy. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and development of social change programs. Presently, he holds the rank of Professor of Psychology at Goldey Beacom College (USA) and serves as an external scholar to IOU Foundation. Dr. Toothman has published numerous books and research articles.

Dr. Sandra Hurlong is a noted educator and scholar in learner centered adult education. She is passionate about self-directed education and has devoted her academic career to implementing non-traditional approaches to learning. She is an internationally recognized scholar in culture and continuity and the anthropology of religion. She lives in Oaxaca Mexico when not in Europe or the USA.

Dr. Muneo Yoshikawa is a native of Japan and presently resides in Japan after he lived in Honolulu for about 35 years. He is an internationally recognized scholar and specialist in intercultural business communication with the people of different cultures. Muneo’s current professional activities include: Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, President of International Mentorship Graduate School in Osaka, Lecturer at the Japan-America Institute of Management Science in Hawaii, Adjunct professor at the Pacific University in California, Adjunct professor for the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication at Reed College in Oregon, Associate of Ken Blanchard Companies, Director of Holonic Paradigm Research Institute in Osaka.
He actively conducts various kinds of seminars in Leadership, mentoring, management for executives and middle management for many multinational companies primarily in Japan. He also conducts FD programs for faculty members of many colleges and universities in Japan.
Dr. Yoshikawa was originally involved as a mentor and international advisor to the Intercultural Open University Foundation since its inception in 1981. In 2012 Dr. Yoshikawa was presented the IOUF Peace Award for his life long dedication to peace and social change.

Dr. S. L. Gandhi serves as the President of the Anuvrat Global Organizations, an international NGO associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations. The Anuvrat Movement is a peace movement that inspires individuals to work for universal peace. Dr. Gandhi is one of the leading peace studies educator in India and over the past five years he has organized numerous seminars on peace and non-violence with delegates from over forty countries. He has dedicated his life to the moral and spiritual rejunevation of life and has been recognized worldwide with awards and honors for his work for the betterment of humankind. IOUF presented the 2000 Peace Award to Dr. Gandhi.

Dr. Rudi Jansma has studied neotropical ecology in The Netherlands and South America, but later specialized in intercultural philosophy relating to the attitude towards nature and views on ecology and evolution with several non-western cultures. Though a westerner, his lifestyle is mostly Jain. He is a noted scholar in consciousness and religion. He lectures internationally and has numerous publications, among which are, Introduction to Jainism; Karma and Compassion; Karma in the Oglala Indian Tradition; The Power of Ideas: Changing Human Consciousness; Evolution in the Vishnu Purana. He now resides in India where he is in close contact with the Jain community.

Anton Pieters has had a long and valued history with the IOU Foundation. He was instrumental in establishing and directing IOU Foundation's web presence in adult distance education. His ICT skills and creativity has enabled the Intercultural Open University Foundation to remain one of the leaders in developing learners that dedicate their lives working for global social change.

Sandra Hurlong, PhD, President (USA)
Anton Pieters, Registrar (NL)
Roxanne Toothman, M.S., Advisor to the President and Director of Education for Sustainable Development (USA)

Janae Weinhold, PhD,LPC, Dean of Partnership Program, Universidad Azteca/Universidad Central de Nicaragua

Gulab Kothari, PhD, Honorary International Advisor (India)
Muneo Yoshikawa, PhD, Resident Representative (Japan)
Michael Curtis, M.A., International Advisor on Social Responsibility (USA)

Susan Crossman, M.A., Director of Communications (Canada)

Himanshu Gupta, B.Tech, MBA, Director of Marketing/Technology (India)

Intercultural Open University Foundation is an international partner with the Universidad Azteca (UAzteca) and the Universidad Central de Nicaragua (UCN) that awards accredited dual PhD degrees. The UAzteca and UCN validates the IOUF doctorate programs in line with the academic requirements of the inter-university doctoral programs. The Universidad Azteca is recognized and accredited by the Federal Secretary of Public Education (SEP) of the United States of Mexico. Universidad Azteca dual doctorate programs have the Recognition of the Official Validity of Studies (RVOE) from the Federal Ministry of Education of the United States of Mexico. UAzteca is listed with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) and the International Association of Universities (IAU). The Universidad Central de Nicaragua is accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Nicaragua. UCN is listed with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO), International Association of Universities (IAU), and International Handbook of Accredited Universities published by the United Nations.

Registered as a Foundation (not-for-profit, non-government) 1982 and 1988, (Notary Mulder, Drachten; KvK number 41003178). The Intercultural Open University Foundation is a international educational foundation for social change.  Foundation universities are public legal entities and enjoy financial and adminstrative autonomy.

Registered as a Foundation (Not-for-profit organization) 2009, (file number 4750897)

In April 2011, the Government of the United States of America declared Intercultural Open University Foundation a foundation for public charity (DLN 17053271336040).

In 2010, Intercultural Open University Foundation was peer reviewed by Hextlearn for quality in the innovative and creative use of ICT in higher education. The institutions composing the consortium include the following: Budapest University of Technology, University of Granada, EUROPACE, EFQUEL (European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning), EDEN (European Distance E-Learning Network), EIFEL (European Institute for E-Learning), EUN (European Schoolnet), EENet (European Education Experts Network), EUCEN, and EUA.

Intercultural Open University Foundation Offices

Seco de Lucena 11, Granada, Spain 18009

2401 Woodland Lane, Arden, Wilmington, DE 19810 USA

Telephone: (302) 352-1733

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National Marks: Who Owns the Trademarks to America’s Famous Landmarks

National Park Concessionaires

In September 2015, a seemingly innocuous contract dispute was filed in the United States Court of Federal Claims (“CFC”) that could lead to the United States losing the trademark rights to some of its most popular national attractions.1 Though the suit is ostensibly based on failed contract negotiations between private national park concessionaire DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc. (“Delaware North”) and the United States Department of Interior (“National Park Service”), the damages claimed by Delaware North directly implicate whether a private entity should—or even can—own trademark protection for national landmarks like The Ahwahnee Hotel and even Yosemite National Park itself.

The National Park Service regularly administers guest services operations within its national parks through private companies, awarding “concession contracts” to these various entities. Delaware North was selected as Yosemite National Park’s official concessionaire in 1993, and came to operate over 1,500 hotel rooms, 25 food and beverage stands, and nearly 20 retail establishments.2 During its tenure, Delaware North also registered several trademarks for places traditionally associated with Yosemite National Park, including THE AWAHNEE, CURRY VILLAGE, WAWONA, BADGER PASS, and YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK.3

As part of the concession contract renewal process, the National Park Service agreed that any successor concessionaire would be required to pay Delaware North “fair value” for its Yosemite-related property. In the dispute, Delaware North argues this should include at least $44 million in compensation for the Yosemite trademarks. The National Park Service, however, contends the trademarks are likely invalid and, thus, “fair value” is more accurately estimated at $3.5 million. In fact, in response to this lawsuit, the National Park Service filed a Consolidated Petition for Cancellation before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) in an attempt to cancel Delaware North’s various Yosemite-related trademarks.4 That TTAB proceeding was suspended, however, because of the action already pending at the CFC. Accordingly, the court will likely be forced to wrestle with whether Delaware North’s trademarks are valid as the civil action seeks to determine if Delaware North was properly compensated though the parties vehemently dispute the value of the relevant intellectual property.

Of note, another concessionaire giant, Xanterra, filed a series of similar trademark applications in October and November 2014, for landmarks related to Grand Canyon National Park—EL TOVAR, HERMITS REST, LOOKOUT STUDIO, BRIGHT ANGEL LODGE, and PHANTOM RANCH.5 These applications came during a similar contract dispute with the National Park Service, though each was expressly abandoned in March 2015 after Xanterra was awarded a temporary, one-year contract.

Arguments for Cancellation

As part of the cancellation analysis, it is important to remember a trademark is entitled to protection only where it is functions as “a source identifier.”6 Through this lens, the U.S. Government argues that Delaware North’s trademarks should be cancelled because they falsely suggest a connection to the National Park Service. Delaware North counters that some of these marks have been in use by Yosemite’s concessionaires for nearly 100 years, with The Ahwahnee Hotel, for example, having been established by Delaware North’s predecessor in 1927. The PTO Examiner agreed with the National Park Service, initially, denying Delaware North’s original application for YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK because of its false suggestion of a connection and descriptiveness.7 That office action was traversed, however, when Delaware North submitted a heavily redacted version of its 1993 concessionaire contract, allegedly establishing the necessary connection, and a declaration of acquired distinctiveness.

Legislative Efforts

In response to this high profile case, legislatures have taken to banning the registration of trademarks related to popular outdoor destinations. At the federal level, for example, Congress recently enacted a statute intended to prevent similar disputes.8 54 U.S.C. § 302106 prevents the trademark registration of a name historically associated with “buildings and structures on or eligible for inclusion on the National Register (either individually or as part of a historic district), or designated as an individual landmark or as a contributing building in a historic district by a unit of State or local government.” This language would have precluded almost all of Delaware North’s registrations and may prohibit any future attempt to register Xanterra’s presently-abandoned applications.

At the state level, California (home to the most national parks) recently adopted a similar bill that prohibits state park concessionaires from registering or obtaining any ownership interests in “the name or names associated with a state park venue.”9

Overall, these statutory proscriptions appear to embody the notion that parks—national, state, and regional—are held in the public trust, for all people, and thus, their associated property (including trademarks) should be part of that trust, too.10

Moving Forward

The future of this dispute is unclear. In its Opposition to suspend the TTAB proceeding, the National Park Service argues that Delaware North’s CFC complaint intentionally avoids mentioning issues of trademark validity or infringement, though such issues are arguably implicated by Delaware North’s claim for damages. Thus, the Government contends, these issues may not even be addressed.

The National Park Service has also argued the CFC is an inappropriate venue for the trademark dispute because it does not have jurisdiction to either (a) hear Lanham Act claims, or (b) cancel trademark registrations.11 The National Park Service specifically noted cases in which the CFC, itself, proclaimed “we have no jurisdiction over claims for trademark infringement”12 and “this court does not have jurisdiction over plaintiff’s claim for [trademark] cancellation.”13 Delaware North responded to these claims by asserting the CFC has jurisdiction by virtue of its “authority to decide incidental legal issues that arise in the course of deciding a claim within its Tucker Act jurisdiction, even if those issues would be outside the Court’s jurisdiction if asserted as standalone claims.”14 Thus, the issues of trademark validity and infringement may or may not be appropriately raised before the CFC.

Alternatively, the parties may simply come to a settlement, similar to that seen in the National Park Service’s dispute with Xanterra, though the Yosemite contract-at-issue has already been awarded to a different concessionaire. We await further developments.

1 See DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc. v. United States of America, No. 1:15-cv-01034-PEC (Fed. Cl. 2015).
2 Another popular concessionaire, Xanterra Parks & Resorts, controls operations at Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Zion National Park.
3 See U.S. Trademark Reg. Nos. 2772512, 2685968, 2739708, 2720778, and 2715307.
4 United States Dept. of Interior v. DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., Cancellation No. 92063225 (T.T.A.B. 2016).
5 See U.S. Trademark App. Serial Nos. 86446998, 86444313, 86444295, 86434643, and 86444229.
6 Boston Duck Tours, LP v. Super Duck Tours, LLC, 531 F.3d 1, 12 (1st Cir. 2008) (citing Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc., 505 U.S. 763, 769 (1992)).
7 See DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., Cancellation No. 92063225, at 1 TTABVUE 12-15.
8 See 54 U.S.C. § 302106 (2016).
9 AB 2249, 2015-2016 Leg. (Cal. 2015).
10 See AB 2249 §§ 2(a), (f).
11 See DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., Cancellation No. 92063225, at 9 TTABVUE 9-11.
12 Id. at 10 (quoting Lockridge v. United States, 218 Ct. Cl. 687, 690 (1978)).
13 Id. at 10-11 (quoting Boyle v. United States, 44 Fed. Cl. 60, 65 (1999)).
14 DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., Cancellation No. 92063225, at 15 TTABVUE 10.

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Is the Enfish Case “A New Hope” For Software Patents?

Since the Supreme Court’s Alice¹ decision in 2014, the courts have found many software patents to be invalid as simply being “abstract ideas.” The Patent Office has also been rejecting many new software patent applications as being abstract ideas. Such Patent Office rejections are coming both at the initial examination stage and under various post-grant review systems. Many software patent owners have been feeling rather defeated and frustrated at the odds they have been facing.

A new hope may have arisen. On May 12, 2016, a three-judge Federal Circuit panel offered much needed good news for software patent holders in the case of Enfish LLC v. Microsoft². The issue (as seemingly always for software patents) was whether the claims were patent eligible subject matter under S.101.

The Court held the claims to be patentable subject matter, and this was particularly important since Enfish, the patent applicant, simply claimed a “self-referential” database. There was no physical structure claimed. However, the Court held that this non-physical structure was not simply an abstract idea. The Court in Enfish stated: “[w]e do not read Alice to broadly hold that all improvements in computer-related technology are inherently abstract…”

To date, a common strategy among patent practitioners when writing software patent applications has been to try to claim a physical component of the surrounding computer system or otherwise try to make the claims look as “physical” or as “structural” as possible in an attempt to slip through Alice’s fingers.

Importantly, the Court found that the claims were directed to an improvement to computer functionality versus being directed to an abstract idea. The Court was both influenced by claim language and evidence in the patent’s detailed description that the claimed self-referential table functions differently than a conventional database. The specification described the specific advantages of faster search times, smaller memory requirements and improved flexibility in database configuration. Basically, the Court was convinced that the claimed database structure functioned differently from existing database structures. Moreover, the advantages all related to solving longstanding software problems. Notably, the described advantages were all technical solutions to computer problems.

Therefore, the takeaway from Enfish for patent drafters is that the specification can be as important as the claims. To the greatest degree possible, the specification should explain how the software invention improves the functioning of the overall computer system in which it operates.

The Court also noted that “fundamental economic and business practices are often found to be abstract ideas.” Therefore, it appears to be important to patentablility to not present claims where a general purpose computer is simply being added to a fundamental economic practice or a mathematical equation. The Court had no appetite for these sorts of claims.

Two days later, the Court in TLI Communications LLC v. AV Automotive³ invalidated software claims to a system of organizing digital images. The Enfish case was distinguished with the Court stating that the claims in TLI were not directed to a specific improvement in computer functionality. The Court pointed out that the “specification fails to provide any technical details for the tangible components”. In addition, the Court held that the claims were not directed to a “solution to a technical problem”. Instead, the claims simply described “physical components [that] behave exactly as expected according to their ordinary use.”

On May 19, 2016, the Patent Office issued a Memo4 to its examiners discussing both the Enfish and TLI cases. The Memo stated that the Enfish decision did not change the framework for determining subject matter eligibility, but instead provided “additional clarity” for identifying abstract ideas.

The Memo seemed to raise the bar for discarding software patents as simple abstract ideas. Specifically, it instructed examiners to first identify the abstract idea in the claim and then why it is considered to be abstract. Examiners should also explain their reasoning by reference to previous judicial decisions. The Memo also warned examiners against making sweeping, overbroad statements and requested that they consider the Applicants’ rebuttals.

The Memo urges examiners to look at “the character as a whole” of the claims, as opposed to dissecting the claims. As such, a claim is not doomed simply because it runs on a general-purpose computer. The Memo specifically notes that software can improve computer technology just as much as hardware can. Therefore, an examiner can determine that a claim is not an abstract idea without having to look at additional elements that would confer patentability in the two-part Alice test5. Importantly, the Memo urged examiners to look at the teachings of the specification. It also reminded them that an improvement does not need to be defined by “physical” components. The Memo stated that TLI only referred to “generalized steps to be performed on a computer”, and that is why it was not patentable.

So where does this leave us now?

When writing patent applications, one should focus the claims on the improvements to the computer functionality itself. Both the claims and the specification should preferably be directed to specific improvements to the way computers operate.

Patentable claims are not required to have a physical hardware component. A data structure may be all the “structure” that is required for patentability. That is the good news. However, one should always avoid claims of undue breadth. Also, the writing of the specification was very important in Enfish. A minimalistic specification that merely describes how the claims are enabled, or simply describes what the claims mean is to be avoided. Instead, the specification should be drafted to list advantages of the invention and show how the claimed software structure makes a computer system operate better. The specification is the place to tell a story. Tell a story about the benefits of the invention. Simple claims to business methods performed on computers with the computer operating in an ordinary capacity are still likely to be rejected.

5 The Alice case which established a two-step test for patent eligibility, being: (1) determine if a patent-ineligible concept (i.e., law of nature, natural phenomena, or abstract idea) is claimed; and if so, (2) determine whether additional claim elements transform the claim into a patent-eligible application.


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The more I post in this blog, the more I find myself split between posting pictures and stories of the crazy people I see, and relevant news regarding the Harlem Line. I think that I have come to a compromise of doing half and half. However, today is certainly a pictures of crazy people day. Oh, and remember, if you see some crazy people around the MTA trains, subways or buses be sure to take a picture and send it to me. :D

This funny guy kept trying to read, failing, and then falling asleep. I seriously thought he was going to fall out of his seat and onto the floor. There were a lot of sleepy people today, that is until one of the other crazies came upstairs and started shouting at them, “WAKE UP!”

I just thought this woman was funny, she was carrying this small rocking horse around on the platform, and then onto the train.

The other day I mentioned a girl with crazy hair carrying a mannequin torso… apparently she visited the train station again last night, this time she chose to carry a halloween pumpkin bucket. But this time I did take her picture. My coworker that saw her said that the tattoo on her face is probably real as well.

Also for amusement, here are some of the pictures that I was mailed today from the Christmas Carol Train Tour that was in Grand Central two weekends ago. On the train they took your photo, and then did a few “face morphs” to make you look like some of the characters from the movie.


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Ikegami PhotoProfessor Koichi Ikegami has been elected President of IRSA for 2016-2020. Professor Ikegami is based in the Faculty of Agriculture at Kindai University, Nara, Japan. His scholarly work embraces the areas of food, agriculture, fair trade and community sustainability. He has held many important and influential roles over the past few decades including President of the Asian Rural Sociology Association and President of the Japanese Association for Rural Studies. He has also been a regional representative on the Council of IRSA. He has outlined his vision for IRSA which can read here.

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In the early 2000's, St. John's east side service area experienced low water pressure problems and during peak demands, the pressure fell below acceptable levels. The Town had to decide between installing multiple booster pump stations, six pressure-reducing stations and managing three independent pressure zones or change the hydraulic grade line (HGL) of the distribution system by adding 35 feet to each elevated tank. The Town choose to raise the high water level of both pre-existing elevated tanks by adding an additional 35 feet. The increased HGL would increase the pressure by approximately 15 psi. The highest pressure in the service area would be 85 psi and the lowest would be 40 psi. The cost for raising both tanks was approximately $1,100,000 (2006 dollars).

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Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne yesterday scotched rumours that he was planning to quit. He said he intended to remain in that post as long as he could.

Premier Jayaratne was responding to a query at a special meeting with editors of several national newspapers at ‘Visumpaya’ yesterday. He said it was President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s prerogative to appoint and remove the Prime Minister and the latter had not suggested that he resign as Prime Minister.

Yesterday’s meeting was the first with the media since the Premier returned to the country having undergone medical treatment abroad.

Recently, Transport Minister Kumara Welgama declared that the majority of SLFP parliamentary group wanted Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa as Jayaratne’s successor.

Commenting on the collective responsibility of ministers, the premier emphasized that the people had the right to know decisions taken at the Cabinet. However, ministers should never discuss what was going on in the Cabinet as it would be detrimental to the government in power and the national interest, the premier said. In fact, such public disclosure could affect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, he said, warning his colleagues not to make statements contrary to whatever the position taken by the Cabinet.

The premier said that ministers should be cautious in issuing statements pertaining to contentious issues, as their pronouncement could affect both the government and wellbeing of the people. In the absence of the President at the Cabinet it would be the prerogative of the PM to run it, he said.

President Rajapaksa appointed Jayaratne on the UPFA National List to Parliament after he opted not to contest the last parliamentary poll in April 2010.

Justifying his decision not to quit active politics, the Premier pointed out that some of those top people in the public sector had joined the private sector for a much better package after retirement. He insisted that it would be the responsibility of one and all to serve the country in whatever capacity as long as they could. He said that it was his philosophy.

Asked for his opinion on the next presidential election, the Premier declared that there was no one in the Opposition, who could challenge President Rajapaksa at the next election. The Premier asserted that the Opposition would never be able to deprive the President of public appreciation for giving political leadership to the country’s successful war on terror.

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Governmental sources report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is behind the European boycott threats on Israeli products and companies operating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

The EU published its guidelines last July, boycotting Israeli companies operating over the 1949 Armistice lines.

At the moment, Kerry is making sure the threats stay in check, but as soon as the peace talks fail he intends to open the floodgates and spur on full-blown international boycotts on Israel, reports Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio).

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials reported last September that Kerry was putting pressure on the EU to delay boycotts so as to give him an opportunity to push Israel into peace talks. That report also appears to support the new revelations regarding Kerry's manipulation of anti-Israel boycotts.

Defense Secretary Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday that Israel was trying to extend the peace talks beyond the determined 9 months.

"It is clear to us that there are large gaps [between us] - and this is not new - but it is certainly in our interest to continue negotiations and to continue to work to stabilize the situation in the relationship between us and the Palestinians," remarked Ya'alon.

Meanwhile for the PA's part, a senior official recently was interviewed on Syrian TV admitting that any agreement will simply be the "first stage" in wiping Israel out completely.

Israel has not been consistent in confronting the threat of boycotts.

While Israel initially warned it might boycott the EU Horizons 2020 research program over the boycotts, eventually the government compromised by attaching a section to the program agreement saying the declared boycott guidelines are not recognized by Israel as legal precedent.

Former MK Aryeh Eldad, head of Professors for a Strong Israel, accused the government in mid December of inviting more boycotts, such as that of the American Studies Association (ASA), by caving in on Horizons 2020.

"Do they expect that if we continue to give in, then the boycotts will stop?" remarked Eldad, noting that leftist professors in Israel have been active in encouraging international academic boycotts.

"Israel has been negligent up until now and dragged its feet when the first signs of a boycott of products from Judea and Samaria emerged. It declined to indict those factors who called for the boycotts, and now we are paying the price," charged Eldad.


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At the Munich Security Conference last week, chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat told attendees that his government simply can not recognize Israel as the "Jewish state" because the Palestinians have been in the region longer than the Jews.

Erekat asserted that his ancestors had lived in the land for "5,500 years before Joshua Bin-Nun," the biblical leader of Israel's entry into the Promised Land.

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has issued a strong responseto Erekat's fanciful retelling of history.

"Since the Muslim Arab conquest of Palestine occurred only in 634CE, the credibility of this Palestinian claim is questionable, to say the least," the JCPR noted.

On the other hand, mountains of written and archaeological evidence point to a Jewish presence going back thousands of years. Even Muslim sources acknowledged the ancient Jewish connection to the land.

"The Jewish presence in the land can be documented as dating back for millennia, while the politically-motivated claims made up by Palestinian leaders in an attempt to refute the long-standing history of the Jews in the region lack any such proof," the JCPR concluded.

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Meridian Line, Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli

Back in the day of Pope Clement XI, this larger than life sundial was constructed in the Basilica on the property where the southern facing Roman baths were already in place. Part of the reason was to have a Meridian line in Rome that was as important as the one already constructed in the Bologna's San Petronia Cathedral by Cassini. (Nothing like following the Joneses.)

Francesco Bianchini completed the task in 1702 and the Meridian was used to accurately predict Easter as well as to check the accuracy of the Gregorian reformation calendar.

Up high in one corner, sunlight enters through a small hole and falls along a line of bronze embedded in the marble floor that runs diagonally for about 147 feet. Figures of the zodiac decorate its edges.

I walked out of this place marvelling at how some minds work. My rusty little head can't get the grasp of some very simple mathematics...far less to think of measuring something abstract like time or for things that don't yet exist!

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