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Industry and Competitive Analysis
Dominant Economic Characteristics of the Industry Environment
Market size and growth rate, geographic scope, number and sizes of buyers and sellers, pace of technological change and innovation, scale economies, experience curve effects, capital requirements, and so on.

Competitive Analysis
Rivalry among competing sellers (a strong, moderate, or weak force; weapons that rivals are relying upon in their efforts to outcompete one another)
Threat of potential entry (a strong, moderate, or weak force; assessment of entry barriers)
Competition from substitutes (a strong, moderate, or weak force, and why)
Power of suppliers (a strong, moderate, or weak force, and why)
Power of customers (a strong, moderate, or weak force, and why)

Competitive Position of Major Companies/Strategic Groups
Those that are favorably positioned, and why?
Those that are unfavorably positioned, and why?

Competitor Analysis
Strategic approaches/predicated moves of key competitors
Whom to watch, and why

Industry Prospects and Overall Attractiveness
- Factors making the industry attractive
- Factors making the industry unattractive
- Special industry issues/problems
- Profit outlook (favorable/unfavorable)

Thinking Strategically About Industry And Competitive Conditions: The Key Questions

What are the industry's dominant economic features?
What is competition like and how strong are each of the competitive forces?
What is causing the industry?s competitive structure and business environment to change?
Which companies are in the strongest/weakest positions?
What strategic moves are rivals likely to make next?
What are the key factors for competitive success?
Is the industry attractive and what are the prospects for above-average profitability?

Thinking Strategically About A Company's Own Situation: The Key Questions

How well is the company's present strategy working?
What are the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?
Are the company's prices and costs competitive?
How strong is the company's competitive position?
What strategic issues does the company face?
What Strategic Options Does The Company Realistically Have? Is it locked in to improving the present strategy or is there room to make major strategy changes?
What is the best strategy? Does it have good fit with the company's situation? Will it help build a competitive advantage? Will it help improve company performance?

Source of Reference:
Arthur Thompson and Strickland, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, McGraw Hill. You can obtain this excellent book here

You can download excellent powerpoint slides on Marketing Strategy and Marketing Management HERE.

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ACC 3201

Semester II 2012/2013

Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty of Management and Economics

Course Outline

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Course coordinator/Lecturer: e-mail: Phone: Fax: Room number Consultation hours: Dr. Mohd Shaari Abd Rahman (09) 668 4157/3232 (09) 668 4237 Deputy Dean’s Office Monday 10am-12pm Wednesday 10am-11am

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Dr. Azwadi Ali (09) 668 3449 (09) 668 4237 A108 TBA

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Course description
This course introduces the basic concepts, terminologies, principles and methods of cost accounting at operational level. This includes introduction of cost elements, basic cost accumulation techniques and various costing methods, including contemporary approaches in arriving at the cost of products produced or services rendered. Code: ACC 3201 Status: Core (Major) Credit Hour(s): Three Pre-requisite: Introduction to Financial Accounting (ACC 3101) Student Learning Time F2F Independent 3 x 14 = 42 21 1 x 14 = 14 14 2 x 2=4 10 3 10

Lecture Tutorial Mid Term Final Exam

Total 63 28 14 13 118 2.95

Course Objectives
To provide an understanding on how organisations accumulate, assign and analyse cost and revenue data for use within the organization and its practical applications thereof.

Course Learning outcomes
1. Discuss the role of management accountants in providing relevant information for management use in planning, control and decision making (C2) 2. Explain and distinguish basic cost classifications, cost behaviour and appropriate accounting treatment of the three basic elements of cost; namely material, labour and overheads(C3) 3. Apply the various costing methods in product and service costing.(P3) 4. Apply the principles of variable costing, absorption costing, activity-based costing (ABC) in the ascertainment of costs (P3) 5. Develop their intellectual commitment to improve their knowledge through various sources of information (LL2, A3). 6. Engage in critical self-reflection and move into the world with curiosity, self motivation and entrepreneurial spirit (A3).

Soft Skills Addressed
The University has defined a set of MQF learning outcomes domain that can be expected of all graduates (see By undertaking this unit you should make progress in attaining the following skills: Knowledge (K) You will gain an in-depth knowledge of Management Accounting in the areas referred to in the Learning Outcomes. You will be assisted to develop requisite skills that will help you to apply and update this knowledge so you can comment upon, and give preliminary advice to businesses, in relation to Management Accounting issues. Oral and written communication (both formal and informal), leadership and team skills will be developed and enhanced by the completion of the assignment in groups, and participation in tutorial activities. These skills will be developed through the completion of the assignment, in-class test and final examination. Specifically, this will be achieved through the application of various costing methods such as specific order costing, variable costing, absorption costing and activity based costing (ABC). Able to independently seek, acquire and manage relevant information from a variety of sources for continuous selfdevelopment and life-long learning. The skills you might acquire from group project and problem-solving activities for your assignment.

Communication, Leadership & Team skills (CL) Problem Solving & Scientific skills (PS)

Information Management & Lifelong Learning skills (LL)

Learning resources required Requisite texts
It is essential that you have ready access to the following textbook: Garrison, R. H., Noreen, E. W., & Brewer, P. C., Cheng, N.S, Yuen, K.C.K. (2012) Managerial Accounting:...
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Does Ragging Develop Friendship ?

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Does ragging develope friendship?
Ragging is a term used for active, systematical human rights abuses, similar to hazing and fagging, the severest forms of which are found in engineering, medical and military colleges. Ragging is defined as –“ the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, psychological or physiological harm of apprehension or shame or embarrassment to a student, and includes– (a) Teasing or abusing of playing Practical joke on, or causing hurt to any student. or (b) Asking any student to do any act, or perform anything, which he/she would not, in the ordinary course, be willing to do or perform. The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India perhaps has given a more comprehensive meaning of ragging as under: “Ragging is any disorderly conduct, whether by words spoken or written, or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any student, indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities which cause or are likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the psyche of a fresher or a junior student.".

* Some of the most popular forms of ragging in colleges are: * Dress Code Ragging
* Formal Introduction
* Verbal Torture
* Playing The Fool
* Hostel Ragging
* Drug Abuse
How Ragging Affects The Victim:
1. An unpleasant incident of ragging may leave a permanent scar in the victim’s mind that may haunt him for years to come. 2. The victim declines into a shell, forcing himself into ignominy and alienation from the rest of the world. 3. It demoralizes the victim who joins college life with many hopes and expectations. The accurate meaning of the word 'ragging' is to 'tease', but even the dictionary says it is an archaic meaning.The main objective...
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Gender Equality

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“A woman is human.
She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less.
Equality is a given.
A woman is human.”
― Vera Nazarian

A woman is human. Isn’t that the summary of what all gender equality discussion is about. Women are not trying to prove anything nor are they asking for privileges. They just want what has been a given for men. Voting rights, right to work, right to education etc came about only after a fight and in some countries even the right to drive and travel alone is still not a given.

Gender equality does not imply that women and men are the same, but that they have equal value and should be accorded equal treatment. Throughout history the struggle of women for their rights has been brutal. Female infanticide, sati, dowry killings, domestic violence to name a few. Yes there are few areas where we can be proud of having moved ahead. Dowry is illegal as is sati, domestic violence and female infanticide. And yes our president is a woman.

But sadly, though the law has changed, the mentality of people hasn’t. Unfortunately in most developing nations women are told tolerance is a virtue and this tolerance extends to tolerance to abuse too. This makes many women an active participant in her own mistreatment. Societies also tend to look the other way when women are denied their rights probably because they are used to seeing women in a second class status for a long time.

Women getting lesser pay for the same work, Child upbringing being her sole responsibility, sacrificing her career for the sake of her family all these are some of the practical issues faced by women today. How can this be changed. I think it is only through sensitising the male members of our society to these inequalities that some change can be brought about.

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Informational Interview

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For my informational interview I spoke with a gentleman with the title of Business Development Specialist for a company that does franchise sales. What is your job like? The first thing he said to me about his position is to get comfortable on the phone. He spends a lot of time everyday on the phone with his customers. One thing that he mentioned is that you have to choose your own mood to make for a successful day, he doesn’t let the people he talks to that have an attitude get to him, he simply passes by those that aren’t worth his time. What do you do? The company that he is with does franchise sales for plumbing. Their goal is to find independent plumbing businesses with 3 to 50 trucks in their fleet and franchise them. They take these small businesses, some being second and third generation plumbers, and teach them to grow their business. This company provides the call center, bookkeeping, technology, infrastructure and business process. He compared some of these clients to cavemen hitting two rocks together in the dark, all they know is they are hitting the rocks together, they don’t know if they are even hitting the right two rocks together or why they are hitting them together. This is where his marketing skills come in with up-selling these clients, not to mention he gets bonuses and incentives for up-selling. Part of what they teach is a new business model beyond traditional plumbing. Word of mouth has always been a big part of the business and still is; however, they also go beyond in their advertising by having a highly recognizable phone number, one that would easily come to mind when you need a plumber. This company works closely with their clients to enhance their business model, most of the clients’ highest level of technology usage is a cell phone, so they provide most of the technology that is beyond the realm of the average plumber. What kinds of problems do you deal with? As far as issues are concerned, his main...
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Optimal Knowledge Sharing in Multinational Corporations and Their Subsidiaries

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Key Problems4
Björkman & Barner-Rasmussen, 2004: Managing knowledge transfer in MNCs: the impact of headquarters control mechanisms (article 1)4 Minbaeva et. al. (2003): MNC knowledge transfer, subsidiary absorptive capacity, and HRM (article 2)5 Mudambi (2002): Knowledge management in multinational firms (article 3)6 Foss & Pedersen (2002): Transferring knowledge in MNC’s: The role of sources of subsidiary knowledge and organizational context (article 4)7 Gupta & Govindarajan (2000): Knowledge flows within multinational corporations (article 5)7 Knowledge sharing within MNCs’8

Articles 2 & 3 – analysis and comparison8
Article 5 – analysis & comparison9
Articles 1 & 4 – analysis and comparison10
Articles 1 & 4 – Synthesis11
Articles 2 & 3 – Synthesis12
Article 5 – Synthesis12
Articles in journals13
Contributions of the students14

Optimal knowledge sharing in multinational corporations and their subsidiaries Abstract
In this scientific paper we present five theoretical perspectives that each contribute to the theory of optimal knowledge sharing between multinationals and their subsidiaries. Specifically, we identify a number of factors that positively contribute to knowledge sharing. Further, these factors such as absorptive capacity, communication channels, autonomy, interdependence and external environments are compared and discussed. We identify a divergence in the five theoretical perspectives because the factors they put forward represent different angles on the topic: Decentralised or centralized organizational structure, external or internal environments and principal/agent-theory. In our conclusion we choose to synthesise our findings, indicating that there seems to be a number of determinants for effective knowledge transfer. Introduction

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Rastafarian is not just a religion but a way of life. When most people think of a Rastafarian they think of a pot-head or a dirty dread. Rastafarian is just as much of a religion as any other religion. Rastafarians have very strong beliefs in many aspects of life they go further than just religious beliefs. “A man without knowing of his past is like a tree without roots” (Marcus Garvey). “Rastafarians do not believe Haile Selassie is Jah God and that the Rastas are the chosen people. They claim to know these things and would never admit to believing them” (Robert Nesta Marley). Many people throughout the world have a hard time understanding what it means to be a Rasta. For many they look at Rastafari as only a religion and not as a way of life.

Rastafarians, Rastafaris, Rastas, or Ras Tafarians originated from the followers of the Rastafari movement. The movement is named for Ras Tafari Makonnen, who was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1930. Rastafaris dislike the term “Rastafarianism” because they reject the “isms and schisms” that characterize oppressive and corrupt white society. The Rastafarian movement began with the teachings of Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) a black Jamaican who led a “Back to Africa” movement. He taught that Africans are the true Israelites and have been exiled to Jamaica and other parts of the world as divine punishment. Garvey encouraged pride in being black and worked to reverse the mindset of inferiority that centuries of enslavement and ingrained on the minds of blacks. Garvey was regarded as a second John the Baptist and famously prophesied in 1927, “Look to Africa, for there a king shall be crowned.” On November 2, 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned emperor of Ethiopia (He ruled until 1974). At his coronation he took the name Haile Selassie, meaning “Might of the Trinity.” Selassie also took the titles, “Conquering Lions if the Tribe of Judah, Elect...
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Red Bull

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Overview about Red Bull
Red Bull is an energy drink. Red Bull is an adaptation of the Thai energy drink Krating Daeng, which translates as "Red Bull". Based on market share, it is the most popular energy drink in the world. The company was founded by Thai national Chaleo Yoovidhya and Austrian national Dietrich Mateschitz. Red Bull's slogan is "it gives you wings" and the product is aggressively marketed through advertising, tournament sponsorship sports team ownerships (Red Bull Racing, Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull NewYork) and celebrity endorsements. In 2009 it was discovered that RedBull Cola exported from Austria contained trace amounts of cocaine. Mateschitz adapted the product to Western tastes by diluting it, lowering the caffeine content, and adding carbonation. Red Bull essentially invented the functional energy´ beverage category in Western markets, named thus because the beverages were meant to be consumed for energy, not enjoyment purposes. Both the Thai version and Mateschitz’s version of Red Bull contained the following energy-enhancing ingredients: caffeine, taurine, and glucuronolactone. These three ingredients, along with a variety of sugars and vitamins, contributed to the following properties claimed by Red Bull: Improves physical endurance, Stimulates metabolism and helps eliminates waste substances, Improves overall feeling of well-being, Improves reaction speed and concentration, Increases mental alertness. Red Bull did not define a specific demographic or psychographic segment as its target market. Rather, the company sought to reach a broad range of consumers based on their need for a stimulating drink. By not defining a narrow consumer target, Red Bull ensured that it could grow into numerous market segments. In mature markets, Red Bull achieved its highest penetration in the 14±19 age range, followed by the 20±29 range. On Product review, Red Bull is a sweet, caffeinated drink aimed to give consumers the high energy kick. Available only in rather expensive 250ml cans, 350ml bottles, with 4 packs and only two flavours (original or sugar-free). It contains caffeine, taurine, glucuronolactone, and B vitamins. Founded in 1984 by Austrian businessman Dietrich Mateschitz, Red Bull has become the world’s leading energy drink, a staple in many young and active people’s lives. For Competitors, big global companies such as Coca Cola and Pepsi have introduced their own energy drink versions to their product base. Mother (by Coca Cola), Amp (Pepsi), V, Battery, Red Eye and Bennu being just some in the ever-growing energy drink market. Competition also presents itself in original sports drinks, such as Gatorade (Pepsi) and Powerade (Coca Cola). Furthermore, premixed alcoholic drinks like the Smirnoff range form part of the competition. Red Bull has becoming hugely successful and operates within the global soft drink market place. Within the soft drink industry its niche is the energy drink market, of which Mateschitz was largely responsible for creating. Red Bull currently is the leading energy drink across the entire globe. It holds 70% of the market worldwide. Once the drink was passed by health ministries, Red Bull entered the Austrian market, soon thereafter then moved into Germany, United Kingdom and the USA by 1997.

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What created Red Bull’s success? Where is the core franchise and benefit? Has the product’s positioning changed over time?

The launch of Red Bull has been the most successful beverage launch of the last decade. It´s success is due to partnering a quality product with well-thought out original communication strategy. Which resulted in establishes Red Bull, not as fashion phenomenon, but as premium brand with continues growth. Red Bull´s real product benefits justified a premium price. It is by far the most expensive non-alcoholic drink on the market. Red Bull is 3 to 6 times more expensive than Coke. Word of mouth (WOM) promotion is based on the principle of pull...
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Memory is a powerful concept. Often when an individual undergoes a traumatic situation, the ramifications of these actions seep into an individualfs psyche unknowingly. In effect this passes through memory and becomes sub-consciously buried within a personfs behavioural patterns generally. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink explores the concept of a young mans subconscious desire for a woman whom he gcanft remember to forgeth (1Memento) as she is so deeply inlaid within his soul.

Critically acclaimed as gA formally beautiful, disturbing, and finally morally devastating novel. From the first pagec [it] ensnares both heart and mindh ( Los Angeles Times), the novel tells the story of a young boy, 15, Michael Berg, through his own interior narration. He finds himself emotionally and sexually attached to a woman of over twice his age, Hanna Schmitz. She then breaks his heart by deserting him. Michael is emotionally torn by this incident and consequently develops a subconscious obsession with her.

Years after the mysterious disappearance of Hanna, Michael marries a woman named Gertrude. gGertrude was smart, efficient, and loyalh (3p 171) yet she never fulfilled Michael in the same way as Hanna had previously. Unknowingly he drove her away through his constant comparisons and dissatisfaction that Gertrude could not be the woman he wanted. gI could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrude and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrude and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong.h (p 171) In his relationship with Gertrude, Michael cannot remember to forget Hanna as, at the time, he doesnft realise but subconsciously he is comparing the two and sabotaging his relationship.

In the unconscious state, dreams are the purest form of truth into a personfs subconscious. In Michaelfs dreams he physically yearns for Hannafs...
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Standing tall and proud

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STANDING TALL: Leader of the Year award winners, from left: Teisa Semisi, 13, Aurora Amani, 14, and Linda Su’a, 14, say the StandTall programme has opened doors and given them new confidence.

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Aurora Amani would probably still be "that shy girl in the corner" if it wasn't for the StandTall programme.

She was introduced to the initiative in year 7 as a quiet, introverted 11-year-old.

Just two years later she was named its Leader of the Year for 2011 and graduated as dux from Manurewa's Randwick Park School.

It's a transformation the now 14-year-old credits largely to StandTall.

"I came into the programme as a shy girl who kept to herself but StandTall helped me to come out of my comfort zone and be more confident," she says.

"If I hadn't done the programme I'd probably not be social and still keep to myself."

Aurora is one of more than 140 young people from seven South Auckland schools who have benefited from the StandTall programme since it began in 2009.

And registered runners in this year's Ports of Auckland Round the Bays fun run and walk will be helping it spread its message to even more young people.

The Choice Foundation, which delivers the programme, is one of six charities that will benefit from proceeds raised at the annual event.

The foundation is set to get $20,000 which will help take the initiative to some of the 15 schools on its waiting list.

That's great news for general manager Carl Sunderland. He says the programme makes a "massive" difference to young people's confidence in their abilities.

"We teach them over the two years so they know what opportunities are out there but the thing they get from the programme is they realise that these opportunities are for them and they can do it," Mr Sunderland says. "These are things that were pie in the sky before but now these are things that are for them too."

StandTall targets intermediate-age children and aims to increase their opportunities and grow their potential. It includes workshops, community projects and career expos, as well as trips to tertiary institutions and a five-night camp.

The programme is unique in that it is the only one for "good kids" at low-decile schools, rewarding young people who have the right attitude and the motivation to succeed, Mr Sunderland says.

The 2012 Leader of the Year, Teisa Semisi, says StandTall helped her develop new skills and choose a future career path in public speaking.

Like Aurora, the 13-year-old began the programme lacking the confidence to speak in front of a crowd.

Two years later she beat hundreds of contestants from around the region to win the Auckland Primary Principals Association speech competition.

"I don't think I'd have the knowledge of what I want to be and what can help me without the programme," she says.

And 2010 StandTall Leader of the Year Linda Su'a, from Mangere, says the programme was a key factor in her winning Robertson Road School's literacy award.

"We had to do a lot of journal work and it taught me to work hard and put all of my effort into it," she says.

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The Truth was out there

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NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH: A ferocious, campaigning, beast of a newspaper unafraid to editorialise on its front page about an attack on its offices (February 1970).
END OF THE LINE: The final edition of Truth newspaper, which closed last week.

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John Norton may have invented the word "wowser". There's evidence to suggest the Australian's brand of journalism may have been the inspiration for the Dirty Digger himself, Rupert Murdoch. A judge once described Norton as a "habitual drunkard of the worst type" and he was also before the bench for sedition and libel.

The perfect chap, then, to found that unique newspaper The Truth, which this week breathed its last after 118 years of publication.

"It was the most powerful paper of the 20th century," claims historian and former Truth hack Redmer Yska. It was, for a long time, also our best-selling - at one stage claiming to be read in every second household in New Zealand. While the latter-day Truth was a lightly regarded collection of smut, drugs and gangs, it was once a ferocious, campaigning, snarling beast of a newspaper - founded on divorce cases, politics, championing the working-man and yes, sex.

Truth began life in 1905 demanding better salaries for teachers, policemen and the introduction of a "tote" at the racecourses; along the way it revealed tarring-and-feathering in Opunake, unmasked the wartime conman Sydney Ross (subject of TV film Spies and Lies) and accused 1952 police commissioner Eric Compton of illegal phone-tapping.

All the while, circulation grew. By the mid-50s, says Yska, who wrote Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People's Paper, they had a million readers.

Then, in 1958, came the first, telling blow to begin a half-century decline: a law change preventing Truth reporting every salacious detail of divorce cases, one of their staples. "It was like the sun had gone out," says Yska.

Under the editorship of Russell Gault, who took over in 1966 at the age of 23, Truth lurched rightward, including a campaign, spurred by assaults on two reporters, to bring back corporal punishment for violent offenders, headlined "Birch the Bashers". By then, Truth staff were already earning an infamous 12.5 per cent extra for "danger money" and covering "odium".

Perhaps the extra cash attracted them, for some remarkable names began their careers in this unlikely setting: the political cartoonist David Low, celebrated sports photographer Peter Bush, Radio Hauraki founder David Gapes (who hid in the roof of an Exclusive Brethren church for a story), parliamentary reporter Barry Soper and even the late film-maker Bruno Lawrence (Goodbye Pork Pie), who in 1960 was filing racy stories about cannabis gangs but, so he said in his autobiography, quit when he was fronted about his sources by detectives and admitted: "The whole thing's bullshit anyway, I was told to write an article so I wrote one." One reporter of the time, Kevin Sinclair, quoted in Yska's book, said it was a "training ground for generations of journalistic hoodlums, practised evaders of the truth".

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Truth was certainly a regular visitor to court. It managed to libel pianist Jimmy Montecino twice, 55 years apart, by reprinting its original story from 1924 but forgetting the first payout. Among others who made money from Truth were singer Ray Columbus ($675,000 in 1997) and Labour ministers Phillip Holloway ($11,000 in 1957) and Martyn Finlay ($15,000 in 1969). The broadcaster Brian Edwards was paid $6000 in 1964 (after presenting a repentant Truth reporter as a prosecution witness), then had to repay much of it when he lost a second action two years later. Edwards admitted a reluctant admiration for Truth: "They were somewhere you went for a fair go in the days before [the TV show] Fair Go, they were the consumer champion."

Yska joined the paper in 1977 as a university-educated rookie. "It was pretty harrowing, actually," he says. "It was basically Muldoon's attack dog, running agendas, taking people out every week . . . it was anti-union, anti-Maori, anti-protester. A conservative megaphone."

Edwards agrees. "People were fearful of being exposed by the Truth; it was one of the worst things that could happen to you, suddenly finding a Truth reporter on the phone. Your knees started to tremble because they could destroy people."

Little surprise, then, that in 1970 ball-bearings were fired through the windows of the Auckland office, accompanied by a note from the "Auckland Liberation Front" calling Truth "the most bigoted right-wing press in the country. This is only a warning. Print the real truth".

Gault campaigned against abortion (reportedly waving a foetus in a jar around the office) and in support of sporting contacts with South Africa, prompting playwright Mervyn Thompson to stage a drama involving actors playing masked Truth writers giving Nazi salutes.

Veteran activist John Minto remembers: "It was a dreadful rag. The Truth was just awful." But it had its benefits. When Minto's Halt All Racist Tours (Hart) ran short of funds, Truth found out. "They had this headline, ‘HART in thered, Reds are in Hart', the idea that we were all f----ng communists," says Minto. "They published this story and we got huge donations from the public. Whenever they savagely attacked us, the donations would roll in. They were a great fundraiser for us."

There was a cosy relationship between Truth and the intelligence service, Yska's book detailing SIS men drinking in the office on Friday nights. A celebrated 1975 story "The Plot", claiming a cabal of civil servants were trying to nationalise the entire finance sector, probably leaked from within SIS.

Gault went further. The edition of August 24, 1976, outed the then 24-year-old National MP Marilyn Waring as a lesbian. The cover words were stark: "Marilyn Waring, National Member of Parliament for Raglan, is a lesbian. Her lover is a former Hamilton housewife and mother of three, who left her husband and children about three months ago to share a Wellington love nest."

Truth, which defended the story on the basis people had a right to know, received a highly critical mailbag. Waring, now a prominent academic, politely declined comment when approached last week. Edwards said the outing caused a "tremendous stir" among fellow journalists. "Most of us felt pretty cross about it at the time."

But gay Green MP Kevin Hague, in his final year of high school when it happened, says: "In 1976, good role models were few and far between . . . Truth was a far from reliable source but we became experts in latching on to thinner straws than that, and it was powerful. Marilyn has been a hero of mine ever since."

Truth congratulated itself on its 75th anniversary in 1980 by declaring contemporary rivals "predicted an early demise - but they were wrong. New Zealand needed a controversial newspaper". But its slow, steady, neglected decline now began in earnest with a shift to Auckland from its Wellington base. Soon, it was all about sex and where once page three updated housewives on vegetable prices, topless girls now greeted readers.

Jim Mahoney joined the paper in 2001 and by 2004 was editor. "My children were ashamed of me," he laughs. "Was it fun? Yes it was." Yet when he wrote a billboard slogan "Fat, boozy sluts: Kiwi girls are easy" to sell a story about Kiwi backpackers in London having a reputation for promiscuity and weight gain, his daughter was among those wanting copies as ironic bedroom posters. Mahoney presided over yarns claiming Osama bin Laden resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Arctic Circle (not simultaneously), and headlines including "Aliens ate my undies".

"I wasn't too proud of that one," he says. "But I liked ‘Aliens gave me an orgasm'." The edition that led on that headline, sharing the front page with "Smile, you're on Brothelcam" (with page three following up with "Bonkfest in the Bush") enjoyed a 12.5 per cent sales spike. Research told them readers wanted gangs, drugs, hookers and crime.

While circulation continued to fall, the paper remained profitable, if a poor image fit for owners Fairfax, particularly, the prostitutes arriving at the front counter to pay cash for advertisements. The Headhunters visited once to complain about coverage, staff hiding in the mailroom with cricket bats, just in case.

But for similar reasons it remained popular in some quarters. Prison authorities banned Truth in 2011, upsetting Arthur Taylor, a long-term guest of Her Majesty. "For all their shock-horror reputation, they have been the only newspaper for many years giving much coverage to events inside prisons," Taylor wrote to the Star-Times last week. He has several hundred copies in prison storage, confiscated after the ban.

Fairfax finally sold up in February 2007 to Hawke's Bay entrepreneur and rally driver Dermott Malley and former Herald publisher Matthew Horton. Truth declared "the cheeky weekly still has plenty of fizz".

One tradition definitely continued: described in the 1920s as the "electric chair", the editor's post remained an uncertain seat. There were five in the final six years, concluding with acerbic blogger Cameron Slater. Ex-Sunday News man Joe Lose was perhaps Truth's shortest-serving editor, lasting five months as caretaker. "We'd always looked at it and had a laugh. It had always been the people's paper, and it had lost its way." Ambitions were now more modest. "The main thing at Truth was to make sure you didn't get sued," Lose said. "I didn't. That's my claim to fame."

Lose says it's always sad when a newspaper closes. But few seem to be mourning Truth, even its own historian: Yska says it had "been on life support" for three decades. "Papers do have their lifecycle," says Yska. "And Truth has had a very, very interesting lifecycle."

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A CHANGE IS AFOOT: The high winds which caused the drought are breaking down and moving north.

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It is an ironic twist of the meteorological world that the biggest systems that don't bring severe weather actually determine our day-to-day weather.

The tracks of the rain, snow and wind-bearing low-pressure features that whizz across the country causing chaos are generally ordained by the position of the large, slower-moving high-pressure systems, which contain little in the way of cloud or rain.

It was the dominance of those anticyclones that parked themselves over the country and refused to move on that caused this summer's crippling drought.

The highs fended off all possible sources of rain.

In fact, their influence was so strong that not only did they "block" horizontally across New Zealand and the Tasman Sea but they extended vertically all the way to the top of the weather-containing layer of the atmosphere, about 12,000 metres up.

MetService spokesman Dan Corbett said the blocking highs at all levels were the architects of the drought.

"It was their size and prevalence. The upper ridge sat in place for much of February, and any other weather systems didn't have a chance and were squeezed to death by it. The surface anticyclonic ridge was massive, it was huge, and the upper ridge was in place for weeks and weeks supporting that. If the upper levels don't support it, it will be a bag of bones and fizzle out.

"The other interesting point is we didn't get the easterlies and the subtropical lows that creep down from the north. A few came down from the southern Cooks or the tropics but they tended to develop east of New Zealand and because of that they missed us."

The location of the "block" was crucial. In this case it had been on top of the country, but a blocking high a bit further east over New Year 2011-12 brought a persistent mild northerly flow and flooding in Nelson.

"Blocking happens as a thing of nature. It can be temperature differences that cause it, can be sea temperature differences, subtle differences that can affect how a low deepens or a high moves."

The block was now breaking down as the nights lengthened and the days shortened, altering the temperature balance.

"We're past the equinox.

"What was this big jewelled necklace of anticyclones that was the ridge axis, strung across through southern Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, is now starting to shift northwards as it always does at this time of year.

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"That opens us up to the Roaring Forties."

Victoria University school of geography, environment and earth sciences Associate Professor James Renwick said it was not yet clear how much influence climate change would have on the frequency and severity of future drought.

"We're not sure exactly yet how it will play out. The devil is in the detail, as it often is."

People should not expect that with climate change what had been experienced this summer would automatically be replayed again next year or suddenly become the norm.

But more extreme weather would become a way of life.

"It's pretty clear that climate change means heavier rains when it does rain, but the flipside is longer intervals between the rains.

"The chance of what we've had this summer goes up, and the background level of dryness will probably go up as well - the land is warming up faster than the oceans, so moisture is tending to get sucked out faster.

"It's easier to get to severe soil-moisture deficit conditions if you are starting from a lower base."

The "wild card" in the climate change-drought debate was the future strength and position of the westerly wind belt, measured by the Southern Annular Mode (Sam) index, he said.

Sam had been positive in the past couple of months with westerly winds further south than average, allowing the slow-moving subtropical high pressure systems to also move south on to New Zealand. There had been a trend in the past 40 years towards that pattern and that "looked to continue into the future", Renwick said.

However, the recovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica could act to counter that.

Warmer temperatures in the atmosphere over the Antarctic under that scenario would push back the westerlies further north.

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research principal climate scientist Dr Brett Mullan said predicting the drought last spring would have been "exceptionally" difficult. The general outlook for summer had been for "average" conditions - with neither an El Nino or La Nina phenomenon - meaning there would be a mixture of weather. The eight global and three local computer models used as the basis for the institute's seasonal outlooks did not . . . allow them to pick the extended dry spell.

"In October we had been looking at fairly normal conditions, but by November and December we were going for normal or below normal [rainfall] in the North Island.

"So we were seeing some signal there but when the models don't agree, you can't just say there is going to be a drought. I don't know that we could have foreseen the drought any better."

He believed it was the worst drought for many places since 1946.

"Of course it is not the worst everywhere in the country for 60-odd years, but is so particularly over the North Island. There are different factors for drought.

"In the east it's the strong westerly winds, which are very prominent in El Nino seasons, but the other factor is the high pressure belt across the country, which has been the dominant factor with this one," Mullan said.

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New site, Urban Sketchers, hitting the airwaves from November - courtesy of Seattle's Gabi Campanario. We appear to have someone in every continent - bookmark it today for your drawing fix!

Posted by stupot at 09:36 PM Monday 20 Oct

Today I took a wee reminder in bike maintenance. The bike co-op does day training for few shekels and despite it taking up a full day of your weekend, I'd recommend to anyone. I was a bit concerned when we started by repairing a tyre - a well trodden area for me - but comfort zones were soon being challenged. Even in sections I did know about there was always one new thing I learned - be it adjusting the springs on cantilever brakes or tricks for tweaking gears. And some interesting technical terminology. Flange didn't even get a chuckle compared to some of the jargon.
Now I just need all the tools. And a stand. And patience.

Posted by stupot at 05:37 PM Sunday 19 Oct

the back streets

I like weaving between back streets in a city - as well as seeing how the place is serviced they are also a calm within the madness. Atholl crescent lane sits behind Shandwick place and the road mimics the curve of the more grand frontage. The lane looks a lot more like how the city would have looked a hundred years ago - few cars, few signs, little noise - at one point during rush hour all I could hear was a church bell. visually, the down pipes are just as prominent as the repetition of the gable ends - cobbles camber down to large stones which act like a gutter - I like the function.

Posted by stupot at 05:26 PM Sunday 19 Oct

the crawl

"Their bodies were obliterated. but the spirit held firm!"
I dare you not to laugh.

Posted by stupot at 08:30 PM Tuesday 14 Oct

arthur's seat

I think the reason Edinburgh is such a good place to live in is because it isn't really a city. Now the nights are drawing in, the 3 mile loop around Arthurs seat is becoming more and more of a useful route after work. 4 times round including getting to and from home allows for a good wind down. When you reach the top of the short, but sharp, climb you feel completely out of the city despite being at its centre. The views from the top are cracking - The city sits behind you as you climb - the moon was rising over the North sea and Denmark to my east tonight - beyond the Pentland hills to the south lies England and finally as you finish the plateau the ever present castle with sunset faces you to the west. There's greenery everywhere - or sea. It's why Edinburgh is known as a town despite being the capital city. At the weekends it only takes 20 minutes to be surrounded by fields and cattle. It's not a bad gaff.

Posted by stupot at 10:53 PM Monday 13 Oct

credit crunch

Have a bowl every morning!

Posted by stupot at 10:49 PM Sunday 12 Oct

haud me back

I'm beginning to put together a list of things I want to buy in Japan. Eye glasses were what started the list and now I seem to be thinking of anything vaguely needing updating. I've always bought cyber-shots as my camera of choice but they're really only good for short distance and macro especially. I've been thinking about switching brand. And then I saw the new design released in Japan. Aye Chawawa!

Posted by stupot at 08:59 PM Sunday 5 Oct

Go West

Magic weather the last few days. With snow up in the Highlands it's been pretty much winter clothes even in the central belt - out on the bike. No gloves today though and it was pretty warm with the gilet on. I left my camera at the folks - thus the lack of photos recently - this landscape is not bad from my cheap phone. Trying to get into West Lothian a bit more - I need to extend my ride options and leaving west would cut out a lot of the city.

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Autumn on cue

Bang on the first of October we hit Autumn. I sat out drawing this with a coffee and jacket / jumper / cap but still walked away with the feeling a cold was coming my way. I have escaped so far. George street is a typically middle-class shopping area - I listened to the incredible diction of 4 year olds with mothers in pink shirts with upturned collars. I think if I'd put my cap on the pavement I would have got offerings.

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June 24, 2012 Posted by suefairview

How about some Sagat Champagne to celebrate Pride this year? Any speculations on the taste? LOL!

Alexsander Freitas at the Celebration of Daddy Day for Tom of Finland with Xander Woods.

Junior Stellano showing off his perfect body in a hoodie.

Dave Mason dresses sexy in a velvet collar with rhinestones for a Summer weekend upstate with pals.

D.O. plays on the fire escape.

Adam Champ takes Champito to the aquarium! Champito is dressed for Pride! Too cute!

Adam in the bath house, but we sweat! LOL!

Chase on a roof top posing for a photographer. Don’t fall Chase!!!

Pedro Andreas with attitude.

Nick Moretti tying up a costar. Nick is having his right shoulder evaluated for surgery. He has already had surgery on this left shoulder. Yikes! At least he has a good gig as Director now!

Steve and Bruno driving someplace! I’m glad that Bruno is driving!

Dean Monroe is quite happy with his body the way it is at 40, thank you. Uh huh!

Francesco and Damien pose together.

Vito Gallo shows off a new tattoo.

I am in love with this photo of Lucio Saints in an elevator.

Angelo Petheryotis and Colton Ford celebrate Gay Pride in Denver.

Paul Wagner with wombats at the Taronga Zoo in Australia.

I’d say that bird is eating right out of Paul’s hand! Which of course I would do too! LOL!

Très photogenic Harry Louis in Paris.

Would you give this guy a ride?

A fabulous photo of my favorite ginger, Kennedy Carter.

Pavel Petel models for Timoteo.

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A close up of the the chest of Slick It Up facebook fan Ian Jopson. All I can say is “YUM!”

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Friday Fantasy – Amazon Discovery, The Young Explorer Part 1

February 23, 2007 Posted by fairviewsue

The young explorer was deep in the Amazon jungle looking for a rare variant of the blue morpho butterfly. He held his net aloft. He thought he had seen one flitting up ahead and then he lost it in the dense foliage. He treaded carefully in that general direction.

He had separated from his research group on purpose, because he felt they scared his precious Lepidoptera away with all of their camp noise. Now he was all alone and could finally hear himself think. He remembered the last explorer in the area who was researching orchids, Sue Fairview, who ran into the Tender One, who got a bit “friendly” with her. No chance of that happening to him though. Like he would ever be so lucky. He chuckled to himself. Then he caught sight of his prey again and was off running through the jungle.

Suddenly he tripped over a log he had not seen and fell head long into a stream. He got up, soaking wet to the skin and there he was. The Tender One, standing there completely naked. He was enormous. The young explorer had not believed Sue’s description of his size. It was hard to tell from the photo she took. This man was huge, everywhere. And uncut! Well naturally he would be. The explorer stood stock still so as not to frighten the man and softly said his own name. The Tender One came forward slowly to touch the explorer’s face and gaze into his eyes, the same as he had done with Sue. Then the wild man laughed noiselessly when he noticed the explorer’s wet clothes. The explorer laughed with him and said out loud that he ought to take them off to dry. He took his clothes off and laid them on a rock to dry.

Then he turned and saw the Tender One was watching him undress the whole time. What a specimen of a man he was. Perfect in every way. His skin was beautiful and evenly toned; this musculature was balanced and large, blackish-brown eyes and hair complemented everything. The explorer found himself breathing deeply and then realized that he was getting an erection. He turned his back quickly to hide it from the Tender One. But it was too late; the Tender One had noticed it and his curiosity was aroused.

He walked to where the explorer was and placed his hand on the explorer’s shoulder to turn him back to face him. The Tender One looked down at the explorer’s erection and put his hand on it very gently, as if to cradle it. Then he moved in to kiss the explorer. They kissed deeply and the explorer wondered if he had died and gone to heaven to have this dreamy man kissing him and holding his genitals. The explorer’s hands moved to the Tender One’s ample chest and back and held on for balance as he moaned into the kiss. When he opened his eyes, the explorer could see that the Tender One’s eyes were closed and he was echoing the explorer’s erection with an even larger one.

The explorer couldn’t wait to touch that raging boner, and so he did. He grabbed the Tender One’s penis and began to masturbate it using the foreskin while gauging the man’s reaction to that. The Tender One’s head rolled back in ecstasy in response and the explorer was relieved. Slowly, the Tender One went to his knees, and then sat down. The explorer moved with him, keeping up the motion. Then the explorer really decided to give the native a treat, and put his mouth on the man’s hard on and sucked it in gently, guarding it with his lips and tongue. The explorer had to open really wide to take all of the native’s member into his mouth, so large it was. A loud deep groan filled the jungle, as if an animal like a lion was being satisfied, when the explorer did that. At this point the wild man lay prone, helpless, lost deep in pleasure the likes of which he had never experienced before. The explorer took care to do all of the fellatio tricks he knew as it seemed that it was the first time for this poor man. It didn’t take long at all for the Tender One’s breathing to begin to quicken and his hips to involuntarily rise to meet the explorer’s mouth’s descent as if he was getting close to cumming. The explorer thought, that’s okay, let him cum like this, after all, it is his first ever blow job. And cum he did. Oh boy! How long had it been wondered the explorer? Jets of thick white cum spurted into the explorer’s mouth and he swallowed as much as he could, but there was too much. It went into the explorer’s hair and onto his face. The peaceful look on the Tender One’s face as he lay there after was priceless. But the explorer had not yet cum, but he was close too as he was so excited by the Tender One. He put his own hand lubed with spit and cum on his own cock and began to masturbate while the native watched. The wild man propped his head up with one arm and used his right hand to help the explorer. He wrapped his massive hand over the explorer’s smaller one and moved both hands up and down rhythmically while gazing directly into the explorer’s eyes. It didn’t take too long for the explorer to cum this way.

After a brief rest, the explorer rose and rinsed his face in the stream, and went to get his clothes and leave. While passing the Tender One, a strong arm shot out and grabbed his ankle and pulled him down to the ground. The native man was very strong. The explorer’s mind raced. He had just given this wild man who cannot speak an amazing orgasmic blow job and now he expected the wild man to just let him walk away? What had he done? Would the wild man ever let him leave? He glanced back at the wild man trying to see what was in his eyes. He saw lust. Raw lust.

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February 9, 2007 Posted by fairviewsue

On my last trip to the darkest reaches of the Amazon I was searching for rare wild epiphytic orchids. Suddenly, I came across the most astounding thing, a male bipedal mammal hiding in the pristine mud of the undergrowth. It was a human, and a gorgeous specimen at that. His skin was a lovely shade of light cocoa brown and his hair was black. He was perfectly muscled.

Shy at first, he stood up and proceeded to act as if he had never seen a Caucasian woman. Perhaps he hadn’t living here in the remote Amazon. He touched my hair, my face, peered into my green eyes. He never spoke, though I told him my name was Sue in English, Spanish and Portuguese all to no avail. So I named him Tender One since he touched me so tenderly. He was completely naked as you can see in the photo I took.

He began to tug at my clothing and I wondered exactly what he was trying to do. Then I understood he wanted to see the rest of my body, since he had never seen a white woman. He did not know how to remove clothing with modern fasteners like zippers and buttons since he had never been exposed to them either. Okay, I thought. This was for science. So I helped his unsure fingers undo the buttons on my shirt, then the zipper on my shorts. In no time I was as naked as he. He stared for quite sometime and then the touching began. His fingers gently stroked my body, testing it like fruits of the jungle to see if it was ripe.

But his body but was ripening too. My breathing quickened seeing his body respond to mine. Plus his innocent touch had turned me on too. Quickly he just lunged and grabbed me. I gasped. He forced his tongue into my mouth roughly and I struggled to breathe. He was so big and strong and there was nothing I could do. He took me with one strong arm over to a moss covered place in the forest, put me on my back spread my legs and pushed himself into me. Oh god, it felt so good. I moaned with pleasure and he became an animal in his lust grunting and groaning while wildly thrusting in and out of me while holding my ass in the air with his hands. I lost track of how many times I came with him. They all kind of blended together; each one occurring on the cusp of the other. He came in one final explosive thrust and then the beast in him was sated and became tender once again. He gave me gentle kisses and then a last longing look and took off through the thick rain forest for parts unknown, never to be seen again.

I discovered no rare orchids on my trip, but do have some interesting memories, don’t you think?


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Some of you may already know that I'm an Amazon marketplace seller. I sell used books--and a few new ones--on Amazon through my seller account. I'm not making a ton of money but I enjoy it. I started doing this because I 'd often look on Amazon when a book interested me to see if I could get it for less from one of their used book sellers (who also sell new books and books in excellent but "used" condition). During a conversation with my sister, Amy, we talked about books and she mentioned that she was selling books and a few CDs on Amazon, and told me it was easy to set up an account. I decided to give it a try. Ten minutes later I became a bookseller! It has been a real joy to sell books online. Amazon has a terrific system and after over a year as a seller, I haven't had any problems (knock on wood, even though I'm not superstitious). I love packaging up the books neatly and sending them all over the country. When I received notice of my first sale by email, I was excited. The first book I sold went to a customer named Tina Turner. I don't think she was the famous singer, but who knows? Probably not, though. Some people share names with celebrities. I actually know a Janet Jackson and a Ricki Martin who live nearby. I'm not kidding. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

  1. I'm not sure if I'd like to get into selling stuff on Amazon. I despise putting things in packages and mailing them. To each his own, because I do love receiving packages.

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  2. Morgan, I actually enjoy sending out the book packages! :)

  3. My cousin married Michael Jordan. Only he's short and white and never had a basketball career. But he does take a little ribbing when he calls to order pizza. (Great post!)

  4. How fun! Maybe it really was Tina Turner. I know people who have sold things to celebrities on eBay or Amazon.

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February 15th, 2010 - In order to bypass the gendarmes on the ridge, we traversed onto the east side of the ridge before eventually cutting back over to the west side. These slopes were steeper than expected, but perfect snow made for fast and solid climbing. It stays steep throughout, which makes for a very long traverse.

Guy Bresler is entering the traverse on 50 degree slopes that stayed steep for a long ways down. Thrilling!

The second, more distinct snow crest from the left in the photo is where you exit the traverse and climb to a notch in the ridge. In my topo photo the snow ridge extends down to the 2nd Buttress.

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Lawsuit: Baseball coach coerced college player into sex

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A  former Concordia University Chicago student has filed a lawsuit against the university and its former baseball coach alleging the coach coerced him into performing sexual acts more than a dozen times in exchange for helping him get drafted to a major league baseball team.

Anthony Collaro alleges that while he was a sophomore and junior at the University, his former coach, Spiro Lempesis, said that he would promote Collaro to baseball scouts if he performed sexual acts on video, which he said he would later sell to a pornography company, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court names both the university and Lempesis as defendants. Neither the University nor Lempesis could immediately be reached for comment.

The two met in 2000 when Collaro was 10 and participating in a baseball pitcher’s summer camp that Lempesis was coaching. Seven years later, Collaro began pitching for Concordia University’s baseball team, which Lempesis was also coaching, according to the lawsuit.

Around August of 2007,  Collaro told Lempesis that he wanted to become a professional baseball player. The lawsuit alleges Lempesis told him he would contact baseball team recruiters in the major, minor and independent leagues in order to induce him to perform sexual acts.

According to the lawsuit, Collaro performed sexual acts between 20 and 30 times in Lempesis’s office in the school gym between June 2008 and June 2009.

Lempesis told him he would edit the video footage and sell it to a porn company in California in exchange for profit. He also said that he formed a similar arrangement with two other former Concordia baseball players who later secured jobs with professional baseball teams, the lawsuit alleges.

Lempesis said he was in contact with The Pittsburg Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cincinnati Reds. But Collaro claims he was never contacted by any recruiters or saw any scouts at his games, the lawsuit says.

“This has had a profound effect on his life, because he has lost an opportunity at fulfilling one of his dreams,” said Collaro’s lawyer Antonio Romanucci, partner at Romanucci and Blandin.

In July 2009, Lempesis asked Collaro to perform a sexual act, but he refused. Later, Lempesis began restricting Collaro’s playing time, the lawsuit alleges.

Lempesis was fired from Concordia in September of 2010, according to the lawsuit.

Romanucci said Collaro was inspired to file the lawsuit after seeing athletes come forward in the wake of the Maine West hazing scandal.

“I really do think Maine West has been a protagonist,” said Romanucci. “People are realizing that it’s not a crime for the victim to come forward and talk about what happened to them.”

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Children and Proposition 8 | The law and Proposition 8 | Mormons and Proposition 8 | Ann Landers and Proposition 8 | 'Biology, not bigotry'

Children and Proposition 8At school and on sports practice fields, it's become the No. 1 topic of conversation among kids.
By Alexandra Cole

Carpooling home after soccer practice, we approached an intersection where 15 or so people were standing on all four corners waving "Yes on 8" signs. "What does 'Yes on 8' mean?" asked my 8-year-old daughter, Francesca.

I hesitated. I needed to figure out an answer in a way that would be sensitive to her teammate, who I'll call Amy, in the back seat. I've dropped the girl off many times before, and her house has a huge "Yes on 8" banner visible from the street.

Proposition 8, I said, would change the state Constitution so only certain people could get married in California. I said it in a matter-of-fact way, and I hoped that we would get to Amy's house before the inevitable follow-up questions started. But the light at the intersection had turned red. "What do you mean by certain people?" my daughter asked.

Before I could answer, Amy spoke up. "That means girls marrying girls and boys marrying boys." It had never occurred to my daughter, or her 5-year-old twin brother and sister who also were in the car, that this was a possibility. Their response was to giggle.

Over the next several days, I followed Francesca's conversations with her friends with great interest. Walking home from school, she pointed out a "Yes on 8" sign on someone's lawn and told her classmate that she was "voting" no on 8 because it would keep some people from getting married. Her classmate agreed, and introduced a new term, "gay people."

Francesca later told me that she'd asked everyone on her soccer team how she would vote. My burgeoning pollster reported a majority favoring Proposition 8. But what amazed me was that every girl -- none of them older than 10 -- could articulate a position on the ballot measure. Other parents have recounted similar observations: This one ballot measure has become the topic of conversation among their children. My eighth-grader reports brisk politicking on his middle school campus, and it has not been unusual in our part of Orange County to see teens alongside their activist parents at the intersections waving pro- and con- Proposition 8 signs.

Out of respect to Amy's parents and their beliefs -- they belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- I had not expressed my opposition to Proposition 8 in front of their daughter. Francesca, however, had no such inhibitions. When Amy said her family would have to leave their church if they voted against Proposition 8, Francesca replied, "In our church, we can vote the way we want to." When it was Amy's mom's turn to deliver the girls to soccer practice recently, Francesca also apparently explained that our family was against Proposition 8 because "people should be able to do what they want in California."

After again picking up my kids from their soccer and swim practices on a recent evening, I arrived home to find an election mailer from in my mailbox. In big bold letters it proclaimed that "teaching about 'gay marriage' will happen in our public schools unless we vote yes on Proposition 8."

The irony is that gay marriage has become the No. 1 topic of discussion on school playgrounds and sports practice fields precisely because of Proposition 8. The political battle has done far and away more to raise awareness of same-sex marriage among schoolchildren than the state Supreme Court's ruling in May ever would have. This last month has been a giant teachable moment on gay marriage -- which is probably not what Proposition 8's backers intended.

Alexandra Cole is an associate professor of political science at Cal State Northridge.

The law and Proposition 8Voters are being asked to reinstate the people's will, not make a decision about morality.
By Richard Peterson

Proposition 8 is not about the morality of homosexual lifestyles. It is not designed to diminish comprehensive rights already guaranteed to same-sex couples by law in California. It is not motivated by bigotry, discrimination or intolerance.

Proposition 8 is a reinstatement of the people's will as expressed by the passage of Proposition 22 in 2000 by 61% of California voters. That measure was cast aside in May by a vote of 4 to 3 on the California Supreme Court. In a dissenting opinion, state Supreme Court Justice Marvin Baxter wrote:

"A bare majority of this court, not satisfied with the pace of democratic change, now abruptly forestalls that process and substitutes, by judicial fiat, its own social policy views for those expressed by the people themselves. Undeterred by the strong weight of state and federal law and authority, the majority invents a new constitutional right, immune from the ordinary process of legislative consideration. The majority finds that our Constitution suddenly demands no less than a permanent redefinition of marriage, regardless of the popular will."

Proposition 8 in no way diminishes the legal protections or status already granted to same-sex couples. As California Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan wrote in her dissenting opinion:

"Domestic partnerships and marriages have the same legal standing, granting to both heterosexual and homosexual couples a societal recognition of their lifelong commitment."

Most important, Proposition 8 seeks to protect the crucial role traditional marriage has played in society for more than 1,200 years. In 2004, a group of distinguished scholars from many of the nation's leading universities, including Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, convened to share their research on why marriage -- "understood as the union of one man with one woman as husband and wife" -- is important to society. In their 2006 consensus report, "Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles," they warned that same-sex marriage was one of four major threats to the institution of marriage.

"Marriage cannot survive or flourish when the ideal of marriage is eviscerated. Radically different understandings of marriage, when given legal status, threaten to create a culture in which it is no longer possible for men and women to understand the unique goods that marriage embodies, the fidelity between men and women, united as potential mothers and fathers, bound to the children that the marital union might produce."

Dignity and respect for all individuals, including same-sex couples, is most likely to flourish in a society built on the foundation of traditional marriage: the enduring union of husband and wife.

Richard Peterson is an assistant professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law and director of its Special Education Advocacy Clinic. He has appeared in ads for the "Yes on 8" campaign.

Mormons and Proposition 8Of all people, Mormons should be sensitive to those seeking nontraditional unions.
By Lola Van Wagenen

Reports that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a big supporter of Proposition 8 should sadden all Mormons. Based on the unique history of Mormons, there is no religious group in our country that should be more tolerant of "nontraditional" forms of marriage than those of us whose ancestors were polygamist Mormons, who were persecuted because of theirtheir "nontraditional" marriages.

Have today's Latter-day Saints forgotten that in the 19th century, our ancestors were violently and relentlessly attacked for their "peculiar institution"? Have they forgotten that they pleaded for understanding and tried in vain to prove that they were good parents? Have they forgotten that Utah territory gave our great-great-grandmothers the right to vote in part to prove that they were not downtrodden, and that these ancestors prayed to the Lord for the protection of "celestial marriage" against the hatred directed at Mormons?

Our polygamous ancestors were accused of being incapable of providing loving homes for their children. Who knows better than we do that this was untrue? Who can deny that our "nontraditional" ancestors left a heritage of hardworking, high-achieving progeny. And yet the fallacy that "nontraditional" marriages erode and destroy family values is one of the main attacks being used against gay and lesbian couples by LDS proponents of Proposition 8.

Most Mormons today would concede that much of the continuing prejudice against the LDS church persists because of our history of "nontraditional" marriage, even though 118 years have passed since the church abandoned polygamy. Still, what religious group has known more hatred and persecution in America than our families? And it lingers. Have today's Mormons not learned to fight against prejudice and the vilification of people who happen to be different?

Returning to my Mormon roots as a historian has deepened my appreciation for, and gratitude to, my ancestors -- for their struggles and their sacrifices that living in "nontraditional" marriages demanded. My great-great-grandfather was jailed for his marriage, a history that I share with so many practicing Mormons. Given the Mormon experience, why are today's Latter-day Saints not in the vanguard of pleading for acceptance, equal rights and compassion for all Americans? They should be standing up in opposition to Proposition 8, knowing that loving homes and good parenting can come equally from "nontraditional" or "traditional" marriages.

Lola Van Wagenen is a member of the Mormon History Assn. and the author of "Sister-Wives and Suffragists: Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870 to 1896."

Ann Landers and Proposition 8Watch it, bubs! Ann Landers would have told you it's all about fairness and tolerance.
By Margo Howard

Proposition 8 aims to eliminate marriage rights for same-sex couples. Is it right to do so?

Three weeks ago, I came to Los Angeles from the East Coast to attend the wedding of two men for whom I have great affection.

It was not my first gay marriage. Four years earlier, I was the very elderly "flower girl" at the wedding of two gay male friends in Boston. I preceded them down the aisle, scattering petals from a basket, the works.

My one wish about both these events is that my late mother, Ann Landers, was still here so that I could talk to her about them. The old girl would have been thrilled because she really was what Time magazine called her in its obituary: "the stealth subversive."

It was she, the trusted friend welcomed daily into tens of millions of middle-class homes, who from early on fought for gay rights. She said homosexuality was not an illness or an aberration or that looniest of definitions, "an alternative lifestyle choice." Rather, she was convinced homosexuality was determined by genetics and dead certain that people were hard-wired in their sexuality. And to those straight people who believed that homosexuals could be "brought around," she always suggested that they give it a go being gay. She put her not inconsiderable clout behind the (ultimately successful) effort to get homosexuality removed from the official diagnostic manual as an "illness."

While I seldom try to speak for her, I know for a certainty that she would have encouraged all the people who ever wrote to her looking for guidance to vote no on Proposition 8. I know this because she was all about equality, dignity and rights. While she would have respected those who took the Bible literally, she also would have invited them to live according to their principles, and allow others to do the same. So if, per chance, before you vote you might wonder what your old friend Ann Landers would advise, remember her lifelong devotion to fairness, open-mindedness and love.

Margo Howard, an advice columnist for Yahoo News and Creators Syndicate, is the only daughter of Esther "Eppie" Lederer, who wrote the Ann Landers advice column from 1955 until her death in 2002.

Why 'yes' on Proposition 8?'Biology, not bigotry' is the foundation for the traditional form of marriage.
By Maggie Gallagher

As I travel across California and the country making the case for Proposition 8, I'm often asked, "Why do you care about restoring marriage?"

It's a good question, and not just for me. Why are so many Californians rushing to street corners to hold up "Yes on 8" signs, enduring petty vandalism, and even pettier insults, to make the case for voting yes on Proposition 8?

It's simple: Government did not create marriage. Marriage is older than the U.S. Constitution, older even than the Bible or the Koran. Marriage's deepest roots are in human nature and human experience. Marriage, as a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court wrote in his compelling dissent to that court's recent ruling allowing gays to wed, is rooted "in biology, not bigotry."

Marriage is a virtually universal human social institution with a certain recognizable shape: It is a public union, not just a private union; it's a sexual union and not some other kind of union; it's a union in which the rights and responsibilities of men and women toward each other -- and toward the children of their union -- are publicly defined and supported, not merely left up to individuals to figure out privately.

Why do so many diverse societies arrive at this core marriage idea? There is something special about unions of husband and wife.

The answer is not hard to see. When a baby is born, a mother is bound to be somewhere close by. But if we want fathers to be there for children, and the mothers of their children, biology alone will not take us very far. We need a cultural mechanism to connect fathers to the mother-child bond. We also need an institution that communicates to the next generation -- in the throes of its own erotic and romantic dramas -- how seriously society takes the need to discipline those dramas so that children do not get hurt.

The word for the way society makes this connection, not only in California but in virtually every known human society, is "marriage." Marriage is a union of husband and wife because these kinds of unions are distinctive and necessary to the whole society.

If Californians vote no on Proposition 8, the great historical cross-cultural meaning of marriage will be replaced by the new government dogma on which gay marriage is based: There is no difference between same-sex unions and opposite-sex unions; anyone who thinks otherwise is just a bigot.

Our children will imbibe this new dogma in hundreds of ways, and the old marriage idea -- marriage matters because children need a mother and a father, long for a mother and a father, deserve a mother and a father -- will be publicly discredited as discriminatory.

A victory for Proposition 8 will not deprive same-sex couples of a single practical right or benefit under California state laws. Civil unions will continue to provide legal protections for same-sex families. But the people of California will reclaim from four state Supreme Court justices the right to define marriage as a union of husband and wife, for generations to come.

Maggie Gallagher is president of the National Organization for Marriage, which is a major contributor to the "Yes on 8" campaign.

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Orlando Fringe review: 'Macbeth'

The three weird sisters slither their way through Sisyphus Productions' stripped-down "Macbeth." Shakespeare's murderous tale of "vaulting ambition" is told in 90 minutes as quick scene follows quick scene. Creepy sound effects, amped-up acting and the pace put one in mind of Shakespeare adapted for the CW television network — an overall effect that has both pluses and minuses.

To the good, with its straightforward and otherworldly plot, Macbeth is suited to a slick treatment. And the sound cues add significantly to the foreboding, occult atmosphere. Also effective: the decision by directors Jimmy Moore and Michelle Krause to highlight those witches, who creep about between scenes, hissing key words from the text in an echo effect.

To the negative, not all the actors are up to the task and some doubling of parts is certainly confusing to newbies. Dim lighting left actors less in gloom and more in obscurity. The necessary paring of the text makes some moments — such as the scene with the comic porter — pointless. Trimming the monologues also challenge Jason Skinner, who is forced to depict Macbeth's fall to the dark side more abruptly, which is a struggle.

But Skinner is an imposing Macbeth and his climactic swordfight with Macduff, which he choreographed, is thrilling. As Macduff, Scott Browning spits his lines out so fast, many are lost.

As bloody Lady M, however, co-director-turned-actress Krause hits just the right tone for this take on the Scottish play. She's sexy and seductive as she huskily advises her husband, "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it."

The real star of the show might be the large pieces of blanket-like fabric used with great effect to create the play's various ghosts and apparitions. There's certainly creativity at work here, especially with such atypical Fringe material, and that's always welcome.

90 mins. Rated M. Gold venue.

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5-25, 7 p.m.

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The search has begun for a team to run Wearside’s new FabLab.

A manager, two technicians and a host of volunteers are needed to make sure the region is plugged into the global network of FabLabs, when the University of Sunderland opens its new creative learning-and-making workspace in Shackleton House in the city centre this September.

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At its heart FabLab is a technical hub for innovation and invention.

Offering a diverse range of specialist digital and design fabrication equipment, FabLab Sunderland will be a creative space where anyone can make almost anything.

The FabLab concept, which started in America, combines a workspace, community-maker space and learning zone, encouraging people from all walks of life to collaborate, exchange ideas and make things using the specialist equipment on site.

Each FabLab is a unique space, but linked to a global network of 350 other FabLabs across the world.

Tony Ikwue, director of enterprise and innovation at the university, said: “Sunderland has a history and a passion for enterprise and innovation, so bringing the first FabLab to the North East demonstrates our commitment to build on this.

“At its heart, FabLab is a technical hub for innovation and invention, stimulating entrepreneurship and a culture of learning and creativity.”

Jason Legget, project lead for FabLab Sunderland, said, “FabLabs have become an important aspect of truly innovative cities across the world.

“The North East has such a brilliant heritage of creative enterprise.

“Who knows, someone out there right now could be the next Sir Joseph Swan and have their own ‘lightbulb moment’ in FabLab Sunderland. We envisage the FabLab offering easy-access support to SMEs, connecting regional businesses with a global community of learners, educators, technologists, researchers, makers and innovators and creating new innovative jobs for people across the region.”

At FabLab Sunderland, equipment will allow users to sketch their ideas, learn how materials work and test the movement of objects in practice.

FabLab users can develop their ideas using the latest software, digital fabrication equipment and tools to create functional prototypes and parts from many materials.

Full job descriptions and how to apply for the FabLab posts are available on the University of Sunderland’s careers website


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Facing one of Geneva's most beautiful lakes, the Eden Hotel is situated a few steps from the Lake de Geneve, close to the old town, Botanical gardens, Geneva Conference Centre and just 5 kilometres from Geneva Airport. The hotel offers comfortable guest rooms, all with modern amenities including satellite TV, minibar, free wireless connection and air-conditioning. Modern facilities combined with friendly staff, will ensure that your stay here is pleasant and memorable.

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UPDATE: Mark Hamill Directing The Black Pearl

UPDATE: Variety has confirmed that Hamill is indeed directing the adaptation from a script by Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson. He says the project is a "dark, edgy thriller" that they hope will receive an R rating.

The Wrap reports that Mark Hamill may be directing a feature version of his comic "The Black Pearl." Participating in the Los Angeles Comedy Shorts Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, Hamill hinted at the project:

Then Hamill dropped numerous hints about the film: it’s based on a comic book that Hamill wrote, it’s set in the real world, and "at first glance it’s a drama, but it has dark humor."

"My two co-writers wrote a David O. Russell film for Paramount," he said, "and now they’ve very hot. So now there are people who are willing to give us $30 million to make the movie. But if we took that deal, I wouldn’t get to direct.

"If you go over about $8 million, you have to start getting foreign sales before you start shooting. But if you stay in the $5-to-$7 million range, you don’t have to do presales and you can maintain much more creative control."

Published by Dark Horse Comics in 1996, the five-part comic was co-written by Hamill and Eric Johnson, illustrated by H. M. Baker, and inked by Bruce Patterson and Dan Schaeffer. The story focuses on Luther Drake, a troubled man who becomes a costumed vigilante "hero" by accident and media pressure.

An official announcement is expected at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

NASA commissioned a rap about astrobiology

NASA commissioned Jonathan Chase, aka Oort Kuiper, to rap about life in the universe. You can learn a little bit more about the project here and here. Here's the video (he starts rapping about 45 seconds in):

In other science news, the Large Hadron Collider is out for two months, having already sprung a leak. (Or, it's just being used for the next two months to conduct the secret military experiments that led to its funding in the first place.)

*Previously: Silicon Valley's secret military history.

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