Overview of the integration
Organizations in the semiconductor industry are facing immense pressure from growing product complexity, escalating design costs, exponential growth in use of embedded software, and relentless pace of innovation. Very often, the product launch schedule, development budget, and quality target are not met. Organizations in electronics design and automation (EDA) recognize the need to collaborate and define a set of unified processes and tools for their hardware and software development teams. It is crucial to bring the two vital divisions together, because the success of any product in the systems and hardware industry is hugely dependent on how well the hardware and software divisions integrate and collaborate with each other during the product development lifecycle.
IBM® Rational® ClearCase® is an established configuration management solution with enterprise-level scalability and the flexibility to implement highly customizable process models within a wide range of supported environments. Cadence Design Framework II (DFII) is a widely used tool in EDA. ClearCase integration with Cadence DFII takes advantage of the key capabilities of ClearCase in the EDA domain.
This solution can be used by EDA engineers as a configuration management tool to manage design artifacts, such as the library, cellviews, cell folders, file assets (including XML databases), PSF, circuit design language (CDL), and other related artifacts. The integration supports both Open Access (OA) and Common Database (CDB) formats. Organizations can use ClearCase as the configuration management tool for managing both software and hardware artifacts for faster development, seamless system integration, increased productivity, and shorter time to market.
ClearCase for enterprise-level configuration and change management in EDA
Electronic design and automation (EDA) is a complex development activity, and hardware designers face several challenges during the engineering phase. Some of the key challenges are handling large design artifacts, collaborating with remote engineers, streamlining the development activity to avoid merging, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring traceability of changes. ClearCase is designed with these types of needs in mind and built with capabilities such as dynamic views and atomicity. Rational® ClearCase MultiSite® supports automatic replication and synchronization, maintains data integrity and enables collaboration across distributed development teams.
In addition, ClearCase integrates with IBM® Rational® ClearQuest®, an enhanced request management tool that includes an ALM schema and supports ClearQuest Application Lifecycle Management (ClearQuest ALM). A change management process built on top of ClearQuest ALM track and manages enhancements and changes for both hardware and software in the same tool. This is especially helpful because many times, when the change or enhancement is first created, people aren't sure whether it will be fixed in hardware or software.
This article highlights the key benefits and features of the ClearCase integration with Cadence DFII.
Key benefits and features of the integration
ClearCase Cadence DFII integration provides key capabilities that can be leveraged by the semiconductor industry to solve various challenges faced during the product development life cycle.
Rich user interface support
The Rational ClearCase integration with Cadence Design Framework II provides rich user interface capabilities, as well as operations from the command line interface. The integration points are available through the Cadence Library Manager, the ClearCase Work Area Manager, and the command line.
Cadence Design Framework II Library Manager
IBM Rational ClearCase integration with Cadence Design Framework II enables designers to perform design management operations on design artifacts through rich integrated menus and context menus from the Cadence Library Manager, which constitutes their design environment. Designers can manage design artifacts (check out, modify, and check in design files, category files, and so forth) without leaving their design and development environment. Figure 1 shows a screen view of Cadence Library Manager integrated with ClearCase.
Figure 1. Cadence Library Manager UI
Rich set of capabilities through ClearCase Work Area Manager
The ClearCase Work Area Manager is one of the key highlights of this integration, because it offers designers an interface that presents the information in a format most suitable with the workflow of designers. It allows users to perform design management operations besides displaying ClearCase-specific information. As Figure 1 shows, you can bring up the Work Area Manager from either the Design Manager menu or from the Browse Library sub-menu item in Properties (Design Manager > Properties). A snapshot of the ClearCase Work Area Manager UI is shown in Figure 2.
Salient features of ClearCase Work Area Manager:
- It provides an elaborated display for every design artifact, with status, user information, version identifier, replica name, and configuration specification selection rules.
- You can edit config spec rules to instantly change the configuration of the ClearCase view.
- The Flatten library feature gives a flattened view of all cellviews in the library so that cellviews can be sorted, based on attributes such as source control state, user, timestamp, replica, and version.
- You can select multiple library, cell or cellviews and perform design management operations.
- Operations on design artifacts listed in a specific category can be aggregated by selecting the Show Category filter (for example, all designs listed under the Pin category can be listed and checked out at once).
- The "Check in all checked out" option allows designers to check in all of the checked-out files in the workspace at once.
- In a ClearCase MultiSite environment, you can view the current mastered replica information and the checkout information across replicas.
- You can launch ClearCase native user interfaces, namely the Version Tree Browser and the History Browser for library, cell, and cellview.
- Labels can be created and applied on library, cell, and cellview.
- The "Browse hierarchy" sub-menu item in the Library Manager launches the Work Area Manager and shows all of the cellviews referenced from the selected cellview in a hierarchical manner.
To open a design, you must use the Library Manager.
Figure 2. ClearCase Work Area Manager UI
Command line interface
The integration provides a command line interface for the basic source control operations shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Basic source control operation commands
|Check in (includes add to source control) -||gdmci|
|Show file status||gdmstatus|
Figure 3 shows a snapshot of the command line interface where the outputs of
on a cellview are displayed.
Figure 3. ClearCase-Cadence integration command line interface
Instant-on workspace support access with ClearCase dynamic views
Design libraries are huge, vary in size, and can even extend to gigabytes. Designers mostly work on one cell or cellview at a time but need to load the whole library to set up their workspaces. This can create a bottleneck when the library is huge. With the dynamic view, the designers have instant access to the workspace. The cells or cellviews that designers are working on are loaded dynamically when they open them for read/write operations and, at the same time, they have a view of the entire library without the need to load it locally. There is no extra overhead involved in IP handoff and tapeout phases. These advantages lead to faster development.
Data integrity with atomic check-in
A designer works on a cellview, such as a schematic diagram or a physical layout, which is considered the lowest level entity in a Cadence design library. A cellview consists of multiple files on the file system called a co-managed set. The co-managed sets of a cellview should always be treated as a single entity. It is very important that the version number of all these files always remains the same to maintain system consistency and data integrity. The atomic check-in feature of ClearCase ensures that either all of the checked-out files are checked in or none are. This saves the effort and time needed to ensure system consistency, so it results in lower administrative cost.
Support for large design files
The integration supports the use of Rational ClearCase with Cadence Design Framework II running in either 32-bit or 64-bit modes. EDA engineers who are designing and developing complex systems on chips and want to leverage the power of computing provided by 64-bit operating systems get an edge by enabling the integration for 64-bit mode. Support for 64-bit mode is available in all the three interfaces: Cadence Library Manager, ClearCase Work Area Manager, and the command line. For supporting large 64-bit schematic and layout designs, the combination of ClearCase dynamic view and 64-bit execution mode of integration speeds design time and increases performance.
Using ClearCase MultiSite in a globally distributed environment
Today, designing and developing a complex System-on-Chip (SoC) needs collaborative effort of several designers and developers with specific expertise and skill sets. Organizations are opting to work in geographically distributed teams to tap into the niche skill sets, contain the production cost, speed up the execution time, and gain a competitive edge in the electronics industry. This proliferation of globally distributed teams is becoming increasingly complex. Integration of Cadence Design Framework with Rational ClearCase as the enterprise source control management tool helps EDA organizations leverage the ClearCase MultiSite capability and counter the challenges of geographically distributed development.
Key benefits of ClearCase MultiSite for EDA organizations
- In geographically distributed development environments, design and development are distributed across multiple sites. Teams at each site have their own replica to work with, so that designers will work with local data, with latest changes synched across the multiple sites. This reduces network latency and makes development faster.
- EDA design artifacts cannot be merged. ClearCase uses the concepts of mastership and reserved checkout to avoid any conflicts and prevent changes being made at one site from being overwritten by someone at another site.
- To efficiently leverage the capability of ClearCase MultiSite and avoid any potential issues, the health of all replicas needs to be monitored. ClearCase provides ClearCase Global Monitoring, a web-based administration console, to simplify the administration of all replicas. It provides a powerful alert system that can be configured to send notifications as email or a text message when the system is in trouble.
Checkout design files instantly through Synchronous Request for Mastership in a replicated environment
As mentioned previously, Cadence design artifacts are binary files that cannot be merged. Therefore, designers mostly work on the same branch to avoid rework or loss of data. With ClearCase MultiSite, if the design files are mastered remotely, then you must request the mastership to be transferred locally and then wait for the synchronization cycle to finish before you can check out the file. But with synchronous request for mastership (SRFM), you can instantly check out a design file and start working on it, but you need to wait for synchronization to finish before you can check the design artifact in again. You can refresh the ClearCase Work Area Manager to check whether the mastership privilege has arrived to check in the artifact. By default, SRFM is enabled for checkout operations (if the VOB is enabled for SRFM), and you need not worry about the mastership of the artifacts. This reduces the waiting time, improves usability, and saves time in development.
Reduce integration work by standardizing configuration management tools
In the EDA domain, both hardware design and embedded software are equally important, so this mandates parallel development and seamless integration. Although various SCM tools used by the individual design and development teams fulfill local requirements, the system integration might fail, resulting in higher product development cost and delayed release. For the release engineers, it alleviates a lot of pain if the configuration management tool is same for both hardware design and software artifacts. The labeling and packaging of the artifacts becomes much easier. Also, backtracking the defect to a particular release or build is no longer a herculean task with ClearCase as the SCM software for all of the artifacts. This increases productivity and shortens time to market.
Manage projects more efficiently with unified processes and tools
The software and hardware teams in EDA often work in silos, using different tools for configuration and defect management and following different processes. Managing and coordinating projects in such scenarios becomes difficult, because the holistic view of the system is absent. With the ClearCase-Cadence integration, using ClearCase as the common SCM tool for both hardware and software and leveraging the ClearCase integration with ClearQuest results in standardization and unification of processes and tools across the product development lifecycle. This minimizes administrative overhead, and infrastructure costs, thus leading to lower TCO (total cost of ownership).
Provide traceability with change management
Base ClearCase and ClearQuest integration with Cadence Design Framework II can be used for better visibility and control of the EDA development lifecycle. Rational ClearQuest also provides capabilities of process automation and reporting. EDA organizations can enforce the process of associating the design changes with change requests.
Figure 4 shows Cadence Design Framework II integrated with base ClearCase and ClearQuest. When the design is checked out or checked in, the integration enforces the association of the operation with a ClearQuest change request.
Figure 4. ClearCase, Cadence, ClearQuest integrated view
Figure 5 shows the ClearCase versions associated with the ClearQuest record.
Figure 5. ClearQuest Web Interface
As we discussed in this article, the ClearCase and Cadence DFII integration provides key features and capabilities to stay competitive in rapidly changing market and enables tight coordination and collaboration between the software and hardware engineers, processes, tools, and terminology. The integration provided by ClearCase with Cadence and the ClearCase Work Area Manager offers a rich user experience to the designers. ClearCase dynamic views and 64-bit support fosters faster development and productivity. ClearCase MultiSite capability helps in managing the GDD challenges, and ClearQuest integration provides traceability with the change management system. Release and project management becomes easier as organizations can define a set of unified processes and tools for their hardware and software development teams.
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ERIC Number: ED023717
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1966
Reference Count: 0
Puerto Rico: An Essay in the Definition of a National Culture.
Mintz, Sidney W.
This extensive essay, part of a volume of studies on Puerto Rico, presents various views of Puerto Rican culture. Puerto Rico's role in the history of the Caribbean region and Puerto Rican attitudes and values are described, and in a survey of pertinent literature, works on the Puerto Rican family, community, race relations, and social change are discussed. (A bibliography is included.) An introduction to this essay defines the general concept of culture. (LB)
Publication Type: N/A
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Caribbean Islands; Puerto Rico
Note: Article published in "Status of Puerto Rico: Selected Background Studies." Washington, D.C., G.P.O., 1966.

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If you’re going to have a morning treat, why not take the opportunity to introduce a new superfood to your diet? Getting the whole family to eat their 5-a-day can be incredibly challenging. often the key is to present it in a form they’re already familiar with and will likely appeal. A blueberry muffin is a great way to add a nutrient-dense food to your families meal plan and encourage younger family members to start eating a food that has been shown to have health benefits including anti-aging and reduced risk of cancer?
This blueberry muffin recipe is really simple and REALLY tasty. The below quantities will make 12 muffins.
Blueberry Muffin – Ingredients
- 6 Medium Eggs
- 1 Teaspoon of salt
- 1 Cup of oil
- 2 3/4 Tablespoons of Baking Powder
- 1 3/4 Cups of Sugar
- 1 1/2 Cups of Milk
- 4 Cups of Flour
- 2 Cups of Blueberries
- Add the eggs, salt and oil to a bowl of mixer and mix slowly until completely blended.
- Add the sugar and baking powder and mix again slowly.
- Gradually add the milk and flour whilst mixing.
- Scrape all ingredients from edge of bowl into mixture and continue to mix until smooth.
- Remove bowl from mixer and add blueberries to mixture. Mix blueberries into the mixture by hand.
- Evenly distribute the mixture into 12 muffin cases on a baking tray.
- Put tray into oven pre-heated to 350 degrees fahrenheit and leave to bake for 20 minutes.
- Once cooked, remove from oven and leave to rest for 30 minutes.
Feel free to add cream or blueberries to your blueberry muffin for presentation and serve! We hope you enjoy this simple, tasty blueberry muffin recipe.

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Once on the moon, Apollo space travelers had two noteworthy objectives: get themselves and the moon rocks home safe.
To make space on the confined lunar modules for the several kilograms of moon tests, the space travelers needed to go full Marie Kondo. Anything that wasn't basic for the ride home got hurled: cameras, loungers, boots and refuse. Scaling down additionally implied relinquishing enormous stuff, similar to moon carriages and the plummet arrange that filled in as a launchpad for a module's lunar liftoff.
In any case, the space explorers left more than castoffs. Beginning with the Apollo 11 mission, which contacted down on July 20, 1969, space explorers left six American banners and a lot of individual and political keepsakes.
These gadgets "were extremely significant pieces of Apollo," says Noah Petro, venture researcher for the Lunar Observation Orbiter mission. In those days, the examinations didn't get much time in the spotlight, "since people superficially are clearly the issue on everyone's mind," says Petro, who is based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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US 5020921 A
A paperboard partition having particular utility as a partition for spacing and supporting items in a paper bag or any suitable holder is formed from a unitary blank of paperboard. The blank is die cut and provided with a plurality of fold lines. The die cuts define a plurality of locking tabs and also define apertures for receiving the locking tabs when the partition is erected. Two of the panels defined by the fold lines and die cuts are each provided with a spot of glue or other adhesive. Upon initial folding of the blank those panels, termed adhesive panels, which have been provided with glue spots, are attached to corresponding panels. The partition is formed in such a manner that it is collapsed to flat configuration for shipment and/or storage. For use, the user erects the folded partition by unfolding, i.e., spreading several of the panels apart from each other, with the partition then being placed into a paper bag or other holder. The partition defines two diagonally located cells, with each cell having a bottom shelf of at least partial double thickness. Upon erection, the uppermost of each bottom shelf panel becomes latched or locked, by virtue of a locking tab carried thereby becoming engaged with a respective locking aperture.
1. A unitary paperboard blank for forming a paperboard partition, such as a partition for use in spacing and supporting items in a paper bag or the like, the blank being generally rectangular, the blank having a pair of spaced apart, colinear, central vertical cut lines, a central, vertical fold line between and colinear with said central vertical cut lines, said central, vertical fold and cut lines dividing the blank into left and right halves, the right blank half having a cut line extending slantingly upwardly from the upper end of the lower central cut line and terminating adjacent a horizontal fold line on said right blank half, a pair of colinear, vertically disposed fold lines in said right blank half, a horizontal cut line commencing, at its left and, adjacent to the right end of said horizontal fold line on said right blank half and having a cut at its right end which terminates at an edge of the blank, the left blank half having a cut line extending slantingly downward from the lower end of the upper central cut line and terminating adjacent a horizontal fold line on said left blank half, the latter terminating of its left and adjacent a plurality of left blank half, vertically disposed, colinear, spaced fold lines, a pair of vertically disposed, vertically spaced cut lines substantially colinear with vertically disposed fold lines on said left blank half, a horizontally disposed cutout of substantially uniform width colinear with said horizontal fold line on said left blank half, and an upper left panel above said cutout and a lower left panel below said cutout, said upper left panel having a leftward and upward slanting fold line commencing at the right end of said cutout and extending to the edge of the blank, said lower left panel having a leftward and downward slanting fold line commencing at the right end of said cutout and extending to the edge of the blank.
2. The blank of claim 1 wherein said left and right blank half horizontal fold lines are colinear.
3. The blank of claim 1 wherein said plurality of left blank half vertically disposed fold lines is defined by four fold lines, two of said latter four fold lines being above a horizontal line which contains said left blank half horizontal fold line and being spaced apart by one of said left blank half, vertically disposed cut lines, the other two of said left blank half, colinear, vertically disposed fold lines being below said horizontal line and being separated by the other of said left blank half vertically disposed cut lines.
4. A paperboard partition for spacing and supporting items in a paper bag or the like, the partition formed of a single blank of paperboard and erectable from a flattened storage or shipping configuration, the partition including two at least substantially identical, diagonal supporting cells each of which is defined by two vertical panels meeting along a common vertical axis and a bottom shelf, the bottom shelf comprising two at least partially overlapping panels integral with a respective said vertical panel, said bottom shelf being orthogonal to each of said vertical panels, one of said bottom shelf overlapping panels carrying a locking tab which is received in a slot at the bottom of one of said vertical panels, the lowermost of said bottom shelf overlapping panels having a fold line therein which extends in a direction radially outwardly from said common vertical axis, that portion of said lowermost bottom shelf panel on that side of said glue fold line which is remote from the junction of said lowermost bottom shelf panel with its respective vertical panel provided with a glue spot to secure it to the uppermost of said bottom shelf panels.
5. The blank of claim 4 wherein said vertical panels are orthogonal to each other.
6. The blank of claim 4 wherein at least two vertical panels at the two diagonal cells are at least substantially coplanar.
7. The blank of claim 5 wherein one vertical panel of one cell is joined along a fold line at its upper edge to the upper edge of a vertical panel at the other of the cells.
This invention relates to a paperboard partition of unitary construction which is adapted to be placed inside a paper bag for the purpose of spacing and supporting items within the bag. It may also be used as a partition in any type of container, such as a paperboard carton or other suitable holder.
This art is already aware of similar constructions, such as shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,869,599 issued to Allen, 3,963,171 issued to Lindsay, and also 1,849,083 issued to Grimes. While operative for spacing elements such as beverage containers within a paper bag, these prior constructions do not exhibit the simplicity of construction or of operation of the partition of this invention. In Allen, for example, his holder (termed a drink cup support) is erected by unfolding from a flat, folded configuration, as shown at his FIG. 3. While the present invention also erects from a flat, folded configuration, it is formed from a single paperboard blank, while Allen requires several separate panels which must be assembled to form his support.
According to the practice of this invention, a paperboard partition, such as for spacing and supporting items in a paper bag or the like, is fashioned from a unitary blank of paperboard which is die cut, glued and shipped in a collapsed condition. The partition is erected from its flattened or collapsed form by unfolding it, whereupon tabs engage complementary slots to automatically lock the partition in the erected configuration.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a unitary blank of paperboard or other stiff, resilient and foldable sheet material from which the partition partition of this invention is fashioned.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the assembled partition of this invention.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing how the partition is erected from a collapsed form.
FIG. 4 is a partially broken perspective view illustrating the partition inside a paper bag, with items being separated and supported thereby indicated in phantom lines.
FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along 5--5 of FIG. 4.
Referring now to FIG. 1, the numeral 12 denotes generally the right half and the numeral 14 the left half of a generally rectangular unitary blank of paperboard. A pair of central, vertically disposed, colinear upper and lower cut lines 16 is interrupted by a central, colinear fold line 18. The lower end of an upwardly slanting cut line 20 runs from the upper end of lower cut line 16, with cut line 20 terminating adjacent the left end of a horizontally disposed fold line 22 in the right blank half. A pair of vertical colinear fold lines 24 are separated slightly near the middle of the blank, adjacent the right end of fold line 22. A horizontal and centrally located cut line 26 extends, at its left end, from a region adjacent the right end of fold line 22 to the right and terminates in a generally U shaped cut 27, the right hand portion of the later defining locking tabs 28 and 30.
Referring now to the left half 14 of the blank, a cut line 32 commences at the lower portion of the upper, vertically extending cut line 16 and extends slantingly leftwardly downwardly to a region adjacent the right end of horizontal fold line 34. The left end of 34 is located adjacent separated portions of a middle pair of colinear vertical fold lines 36, with upper pairs of fold lines 36 being interrupted, in both the upper and lower portions of the left half 14, by cut lines 38a and 38b. It will be observed that cut lines 38a and 38b are themselves colinear and are slightly laterally displaced, towards the right, from colinear fold lines 36. A slot 40 extends from a left free edge portion of the blank to a region adjacent the left end of fold line 34. The peripheral edges of the blank are referred to as free edges.
The above described fold and cut lines define panels 50, 52, 54 and 56 in the right blank half, and also define panels 58, 60, 62 and 64 in the left blank half, with 45 degree fold lines 70 and 72 defining generally triangular glue flaps or panels 74 and 78 in respective panels 60 and 64.
Referring now to FIGS. 2 and 3, these views illustrate the manner of erection of the blank to form the completed partition. Panels 50 and 52 are folded about one line 24, and 54 and 56 about another fold line 24. Panels 58 and 60 are folded about lower lines 36, while panels 62 and 64 are folded about upper fold lines 36. Adhesive flaps 74 and 76 are each provided with a dab of glue, 80 and 82 respectively, then bent back 180 degrees and glued to respective panels 56 and 52. The partition is now in a collapsed form and, upon opening by swinging panels 54 and 62 (as well as 50 and 58) apart, assumes the erected configuration or form of FIG. 2. At FIG. 2, a vertical axis 19 is substantially common to the fold line which joins panels 58 and 62 and also to the fold line which joins panels 50 and 54. The radially innermost (nearest axis 19) edges of panels 54 and 62 abut, as do the radially innermost edges of panels 58 and 50. These fold lines and abutment edges are substantially coincident with common vertical axis 19. It will be observed that fold line 70 of panel 60 extends radially outwardly from axis 19, as does fold line 72 on the opposite cell. It will further be observed that the adhesive panel 74 of lowermost bottom shelf panel 64 is on that part of panel 64 which is remote from fold line 36, which join panels 62 and 64. This is also seen at FIG. 5. The construction defines two cells, diagonally related, defined by substantially coplanar panels 50 and 62, and also substantially coplanar panels 54 and 58. The bottom shelf of each cell is defined by at least partially overlapping uppermost and lowermost panels.
FIG. 3 illustrates the configuration after panels 50 and 58 have been fully swung apart and panels 56 and 64 are swinging down (see curved arrows) just prior to locking tab 30 entering slot 38b. As shown at FIG. 5, the locking tabs enter their respective slots. From FIG. 3, it is easily visualized that prior to unfolding or erection, adhesive panel 74 is bent back against the bottom surface of panel 64 in the shipping or flattened form of the partition. The erected partition provides two diagonally opposite cells, each having a shelf. Each cell can be erected independently of the other.
Referring now to FIGS. 4 and 5, the relationship between the sides of a typical paper bag 71 and the paperboard partition of this invention is shown. The phantom lines in FIG. 4 indicate items placed on the shelves of the partition, each shelf defined, respectively, by panels 52, 60, 76 and 56, 64, 74.
FIG. 5 shows the adhesive panels 74 and 76 having glue spots or dabs 80 and 82 which secure them to the bottom of respective panels 56 and 52. Panels 64 and 74 (and panels 60 and 76) are coplanar in erected form, and are bent 90 degrees relative to each other in the partition flattened or shipping configuration. The partition is erected and then placed in any suitable holder.
The terms horizontal, vertical and the like are employed to assist the reader to an understanding of the invention and are not intended as terms of limitation.


DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Controversial Bureau of Customs broker Mark Taguba II cleared Davao Vice Mayor Paolo “Pulong” Duterte and lawyer Manases “Mans” Carpio from the alleged P6.4-billion shabu shipment from China.
“I am making this statement to clear Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and Atty. Mans Carpio from any involvement in the shipment of illegal drugs into the country, and any anomalies in the Bureau of Customs,” he said in a statement on Friday.
The embattled customer broker was tagged as the one who facilitated the shipment of drugs from Xiamen, China. He, however, denied any knowledge that the container had shabu inside it.
Taguba’s statement came after news has circulated that presidential son, Paolo and Carpio, the husband of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, were tagged in the BOC mess.
Taguba clarified that he never testified against them. He asked an apology after the two personalities were dragged in the controversy.
“I also hereby apologize to Vice Mayor Duterte, Atty. Carpio and to the first family for the proliferation of fake news arising out of my testimony at the Senate yesterday,” he said in a statement through his legal counsel laywer Raymond Fortun.
“I wish to categorically make it clear that: 1. I had never testified, nor will I ever testify that Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and/or Atty. Mans Carpio were involved in the shipment of illegal drugs into the country. Neither have I testified, nor will I ever testify that the aforementioned individuals were involved in the ‘Tara System’ that was in place at the Bureau of Customs,” he said.
But Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said that Taguba was “pressured” to retract his earlier statement linking the younger Duterte and lCarpio and their supposed linked with the “Davao group” in the Customs mess.
“I can only imagine the pressure being applied on Mr. Taguba right now. But the hearing yesterday was seen on national TV so the public knows what he said or did not say,” Trillanes said.
“The text messages he read aloud which named Paolo Duterte and Mans Carpio were never forced on him and neither were they fabricated,” he said, who is a staunch critic of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Meanwhile, President Duterte on Friday said called Trillanes’ evidence as “trash”.
Speaking before the military officers at the 11th Founding Anniversary of the Eastern Mindanao Command in Panacan here, he said even before he was President, his son has already been dragged in corruption allegations.
He said he will not tolerate his children if they are proven to be involved in corruption and reiterated he will step down as President if they get into the mess.
“I’m ready to step down. I told you before, I will step down… if I or my children are involved in corruption,” he said.(davaotoday.com)


If tighter credit standards and weakening loan demand recently reported by banks were a harbinger of recession, from lenders point of view this downturn continues to be a particularly selective one.
Amid the signs of slipping demand for commercial and real estate loans is plenty of anecdotal evidence that a falloff in business conditions is sparing many pockets of the country, and many bankers report good conditions for their lending operations.
Some of this evidence is in the Federal Reserve Boards report, released last week, from its latest quarterly survey of senior loan officers at 57 large domestic banks and 24 U.S. branches of foreign banks. Included in the poll was a question meant to gauge how businesses were reacting to a general tightening of lending terms.
The findings: About half of the executives from domestic banks said demand for commercial and industrial loans from large and middle-market borrowers had declined during the quarter. About 30% said demand from smaller business customers, those with yearly sales of less than $50 million, had fallen.
Observers said these findings are not all that surprising.
With the economic expansion in jeopardy for the first time in seven years, it is natural for any business to cover itself in the event the worst occurs, said Carl L. Tannenbaum, chief economist for ABN Amro/LaSalle Bank.
But interviews with executives at banks of all sizes pointed to continued steady loan demand from their mainly middle-market, commercial borrowers. All the bankers interviewed for this article said they have been on the lookout for reduced growth and lighter borrowing by their business customers, but most said they have yet to experience an alarming falloff.
Take Hibernia National Bank, the flagship of $16.7 billion-asset Hibernia Corp., New Orleans. Randall E. Howard, chief commercial banking executive, said there has not been a noticeable drop in demand among the banks commercial borrowers, most of which have sales of more than $10 million.
Im seeing less volume, but I think that speaks a bit to a tightening of credit standards, Mr. Howard said.
Likewise, at Southwest Bancorp of Texas, president and chief executive officer Paul Murphy says the Houston companys loan demand has been steady.
Behind the two banks healthy demand for loans is the surge in energy prices, which for their local markets spells flush economic times. Hibernias borrowers in the oil/gas and related maritime industries have benefited from a boom in energy prices, which may be what is keeping loan requests up. Six months ago, Hibernias Mr. Howard said, we thought we might have seen something more severe.
In the last 30 to 60 days demand for credit facilities from commercial customers of $3.3 billion-asset Southwest has actually risen, as many local gas companies exploration budgets have expanded.
Obviously, for every booming energy company one can find flailing in areas such as manufacturing, retailing, technology, and telecommunications; the beleaguered movie theater industry is a good example now. Expansion plans in hard-hit segments probably will stay on hold for some time.
Borrowing to fund mergers, plants, and equipment really requires some confidence that the economy is going to be strong for some time, said James H. Chessen, chief economist at the American Bankers Association. I dont think loan demand in those sectors is going to pick up until there is strong evidence that the lull is over.
Still, the energy sector isnt the only one with positive signs. Mark Hershey, an executive vice president of middle-market commercial banking at $87 billion-asset HSBC Bank USA, said demand overall is up at the London companys subsidiary without any help from good oil and gas prices and despite some slowdowns, notably among apparel and jewelry business clients that were hurt by sluggish Christmas sales.
In the greater New York City area, weve seen demand for loans remain strong, Mr. Hershey said.
Mark Howell, head of commercial banking for Wells Fargo & Co.s Intermountain region, said Wells had lowered its expectations about six months ago in anticipation of a slowdown. Even so, he said, in Idaho and Utah states he knows well from his time at First Security Corp. of Salt Lake City, which Wells bought last year theres still good growth.
I think loan demand has still been steady, both with old customers and new business, Mr. Howell said. Its not as hot as it was a few years ago, but business is still good it definitely hasnt dried up.
The lending activity detailed in the Feds survey report is most apparent in large, syndicated credit facilities. It was this product, once embraced by many regional banks eager for revenue growth and looking to diversify their portfolios geographically, that has wounded Hibernia and many others over the last year, after they reported rising nonperforming loans in their syndicated portfolios.
Greg Belanger, executive vice president for Northern California middle-market lending at Comerica Inc. in San Jose, echoed other bankers in saying that loan demand had remained strong. But he said he has noticed a changing environment among larger credits.
I do agree with the Feds survey that credit conditions have really tightened across the country, Mr. Belanger said. In the syndicated market there has been a dramatic increase in credit standards, and we see that every day.
One result is the recent boom in junk-bond issuance, which shows that the biggest companies have opted for nonbank financing. Smaller companies, less able to tap capital markets, continue to reach out to banks for financing.
In its quarterly Trendsetter Barometer survey borrowing by 425 of what it considers the countrys fastest-growing product and services companies, PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 25% applied for new loans in the fourth quarter of 2000, the same as the year-earlier level.
Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers private equity and venture capital division, in San Jose, said the survey focuses on companies with revenues of less than $50 million. Because large companies can access the debt markets, to get a profile of true bank borrowing you have to look at these kinds of companies, she said.
The faster-growing companies surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers did show more concern about their expansion prospects than in previous surveys. Twenty-six percent of the CEOs said they were worried that a lack of capital for expansion would hinder their growth this year, against 20% in the poll a year earlier.
One interesting finding in the PricewaterhouseCoopers study suggested that much of the Feds first 50-basis-point rate cut probably helped banks more than borrowers. Banks had been discounting their loan pricing fairly aggressively in recent quarters, according to the study, and were likely to revert to a more traditional profit margin given the opportunity.
Its still too early to know whether this downturn is the start of something more ominous to banks. But for now just about everyone agrees: While the lending environment bears little resemblance to the salad days of the late 1990s, it could be worse much worse.
Were not talking about credit-crunch conditions a la 1991-92, when banks virtually closed their doors, said Wayne M. Ayers, chief economist at FleetBoston Financial Corp. Credit is still available, albeit with tighter conditions.


If you're a follower of innovative leadership or management practices, you'll no doubt have seen some of the breathless statements about Zappos' planned (or impending) move to Holacracy. What's a Holacracy? I won't spend your precious time recounting what others have covered except to say it is being hailed in the press as an innovation in management that aims to get rid of managers and hierarchy.
Let me address that last sentence I just wrote. Firstly, the press - in particular the tech press - lives off the "new" and "innovative" but has collective amnesia when the same things are "discovered" over and over again. Secondly, the press doesn't have it quite right, as usual. Holacracy doesn't really get rid of hierarchy, as it is being reported, it just distributes it. These aren't really new ideas at all. The packaging is good though.
This quest for newness extends from the press into companies where jumping from fad to fad does nothing but demoralize, disinterest and frustrate people who have to go through it. In truth, there is very little that is new in the management and leadership realm that isn't known. The problem is, people don't publish their sources of where the ideas actually come from because...well, I'll refrain from speculating on that.
Stanford's James March's quote is particularly applicable in this case:
"Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris."
I love the fact that Zappos is being experimental as an organization. And I'm impressed that they are making a bold move to further empower their people to be freed from constraints so they can perform to their potential. I would be lying if I said I wasn't a skeptic, however.
For those intrepid souls willing to investigate, there are many well-known, longstanding management practices and approaches that create the conditions for high performance. Most organizations will disregard these for the "flavour of the month," and that can be costly to everyone.
Give me the boring old ideas that have been proven to work.
P.S. Have a look at Bob Sutton's post at LinkedIn for further discussion and enlightenment.


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Imagion Biosystems enters agreement to develop nanocrystals for treating breast cancer
Imagion Biosystems is pleased to announce it has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (Agreement) with Global Cancer Technology (GCT), to develop GCT’s novel nanoscintillator technology for the treatment of breast cancer (see Nanoscintillator description below). Under the terms of the Agreement, Imagion will be paid for certain R&D services while gaining an ownership interest in the arising GCT nanoscintillator product.
“We are very interested in the unique potential of the nanoscintillator technology and the prospect of leveraging our nanoparticle expertise to develop cancer therapies,” said Bob Proulx, Executive Chairman of Imagion Biosystems. “We have been working with GCT for this past year and have progressed to the point where we now see a path to product development. This project is value adding to our mission of developing nanoparticle-based imaging agents and therapies. As we continue to develop the MagSense® imaging technology, the nanoscintillators provides Imagion with a foothold to a unique high value therapeutic product.”
“Imagion has demonstrated they have expertise in developing nanoparticle technologies”, said John Clark, CEO of Global Cancer Technology. “It was important for us to find a partner that understood the complexities of working with nanoparticles for human use and we are excited to get started with the development of this promising new technology.”
Key terms of the Agreement
Statement of Works
The Agreement is staged into phases with the first two phases being defined.
Phase 1 relates to ‘Nanoscintillator Synthesis’ and is expected to have a duration of between 9-12 months with estimated costs of US$450,000-US$500,000. Phase 1 will involve Imagion developing a protocol for synthesizing the yttrium aluminum garnet nanocrystals doped with a praseodymium scintillator.
Phase 2 relates to ‘Coating and Linker Chemistries’ and is expected to have a duration of between 9-12 months with estimated costs of US$450,000-US$500,000. Phase 2 will involve Imagion developing surface chemistry to enable a linker (holding a therapeutic payload) to be attached to the nanoscintillator crystals.
The estimated costs above include material, labor and any third party or subcontracted costs and will be invoiced by Imagion to GCT. Neither the estimated timing or costs are binding on either party and are included within the Agreement as a guide only and are subject to change.
Preliminary works have commenced in relation to Phase 1 of the Agreement. Any further phases are to be defined by mutual agreement in the future.
Given the nature of the works in Phase 1 and Phase 2 being R&D in nature it is too early to estimate the potential or significance of this Agreement to Imagion.
Any intellectual property (or product) created as a result of the Agreement will be considered jointly owned by Imagion and GCT. Both parties shall own the patent rights and know-how collaboratively regardless of inventorship.
The Agreement can be terminated by either party upon six months prior notice. Imagion has the right to terminate the agreement within six months should GCT breach any material obligations and fails to remedy any breach within 45 days.
The nanoscintillator technology, also known as scintillating nanocrystals, has been licensed by GCT from the University of California San Diego. Scintillators are nontoxic minerals and rare earth elements that emit photons (light) when activated by a low dose of gamma radiation. Photocleavable linkers release a drug payload when exposed to the small burst of light from the scintillating photons. Since the drug molecules are inactive while linked to the nanoparticle, the nanoscintillator technology enables a controlled release of the therapeutic agent. This next generation approach, known as x-ray induced photodynamic therapy, has the potential to deliver a more localized and effective dose of drug product to treat cancers because x-rays can penetrate deep tissue. There are more than 400 dedicated stereotactic radiosurgery systems in the US that could be used in combination with the nanoscintillator therapy.
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A FLAME GOES OUT – A story by Precious Emmanuel
The father peers at the sheet of paper in disbelief. On it is written, in his son’s chaotic scrawl, the words “I stare down into the abyss. Satan welcomes me with open arms. I walk into his wide embrace. Where has God been all this while?” As he reads the verse over and over again, the words bouncing around in his skull like a table tennis ball, the disbelief changes very swiftly into anger. He stomps to his room and selects a thick, black, sturdy leather belt. Small, decorative metal balls are embedded in the leather. Demola would see. That boy would see. Writing this kind of rubbish in his house. An SS2 boy. He would see today. Whatever was making him do nonsense like this would jump out today.
No answer. This boy. He had always been stubborn, but not like this. And now the boy was deliberately ignoring his calls, because wasn’t that him laughing in the kitchen?
The sound of shuffling feet reaches his ears and angers him further.
“Sir”, Demola says again as he peers into the room. His father is standing in the middle of the room, in the brown jellabia that he liked to wear around the house. The jellabia only reached around his knees because the man was so tall, and it made him appear comical. There is nothing comical about the man now though. He is standing, chest thrust out, feet apart, hands behind his back. Demola glimpses the end of the belt through the space between his father’s legs and starts to backpedal.
“Come here”, his father says, pointing at the floor to a spot directly in front of him, voice low. He always used that low voice whenever he was angry. It masked the anger superbly, washing over the red-hot atmosphere his anger generally created like cold water in a parched throat. The voice would vanish soon though, and a snarling, rumbling baritone would replace it as he lost control of himself and his temper.
“Sir?” Demola tries to stall.
“I said come here my friend!”, his father screams, the low voice and every semblance of control gone.
Demola rushes forward. He knows better than to let the man come after him.
“What is this nonsense?”, his father says, thrusting a sheet of paper under his nose. He reads it and instantly regrets leaving it out. He doesn’t get annoyed that his father entered his room without his knowledge. In many Nigerian homes, such ideas of privacy do not exist, especially if the child is a teenager in SS2.
“I said what is this you are writing in my house!”
“I… I… It’s… It’s…”. The belt is in full view now and it swings gently like a pendulum, drawing Demola’s eyes with the threat of its presence and making him stutter, all words forgotten.
“Answer me. Now!”, his father screams in Yoruba. A very bad sign.
“Sir. It’s… It’s just something I wrote.”
“Just something you wrote abi? The other day I heard you telling your sister that the creation story was a lie…Don’t say a word.” Demola’s defence dies in his throat.
“Then all this your dozing off during morning devotion…Shut up! And now you’re writing about embracing Satan in hell? Demola! Are you possessed?!”
“It was just a metaphor sir…”
The belt begins to whoosh through the air, landing on Demola’s body before flying off again, the lashings punctuated by the father’s angry muttering and Demola’s agonizing screams.
“You’ll not…” Whoosh, thwap! “…go to hell…” Whoosh, thwap! “…I trained…” Whoosh, thwap! “…you well…”
The lashing and muttering and screaming goes on for what seems like forever to Demola. The devil will not have you. I will flog that demon out of you.
Demola keeps screaming until the lashings stop. He’s on the floor, sprawled out. Some parts of his skin are already swelling up. His face feels hot. He opens his eyes and sees his mom taking the belt out of his father’s arms, rubbing his chest gently and telling him it is ok. Calm down please, ejoo. I’m sure he has learned. His father’s body still quivers with rage but he sits down on the bed, wiping his sweat with his arm.
Demola still remains on the floor, trying to stop the tears that keep streaming down his face and trying to keep from wincing too loudly.
“You see Demola. The reason I just beat you is that…”
His father always did this. After his floggings, he did not just let you leave to nurse your wounds. He explained to you why he beat you, supporting his points with Bible verses which he told whoever he just flogged to open and read. Whenever they read, their voices always broke and stuttered and stopped and started, unshed tears struggling to flow out, spirited efforts made to keep them in. Then he always told them that he flogged them out of love, repeating it constantly as if trying to convince himself.
“…The Bible says ‘Spare the rod and spoil the…’”
Demola pushes himself up and begins walking out of the room.
“Where are you going?”
Demola keeps walking, to the front door, then outside towards the gate.
“Demola!”, his father screams. “Demola come back here! Now!”
“Demola!” His mother shouts too, her tone fearful. She jogs after him. The father does not move. His voice just keeps getting louder.
“Demola come back here now!”
His mother grabs his arm. “Demola my child, where are you going? Please stop. Come back.”
Demola tugs his arm away and runs out of the compound at full speed.
His mother makes a feeble attempt to run after him, but she is hampered by age and arthritis. The father sinks into the bed, features frozen in disbelief.
Demola hobbles back into the compound at 9:30pm. His face is bruised and he is limping. His mother is sitting down on the veranda, legs spread out and hair in disarray, moaning softly, dusty headtie forgotten on the floor. The father is pacing, like a caged wild animal, angry at no one, regretting that he beat Demola so hard, convincing himself that the beating was crucial to his soul. Even though the night is cool, rivulets of sweat flow in channels down his body.
His mother sees him first and gives a short scream, the jumps up and runs towards him at full speed, arthritis forgotten. By the time the father sees him, his mother has encased him in a choking bear hug that screams relief. The father walks towards him and hugs him tightly too, saying nothing.
Demola thinks of nothing except that he should have picked up that big branch he saw on the ground and fought back when those guys beat him and took his money. He also promises himself that he’ll never write again.
“Thank God you’re home. Thank God.”

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Col.Dr. Kiiza Besigye the four-time presidential candidate who doubles as the People’s Front for Transition (PFT) chairperson on Sunday launched their pressure group’s transition agenda in the Kabale district.
The Peoples Front for Transition was launched at Hilltop Hotel in Kabale district during a meeting with front leaders and local leaders. Besigye said the front that is also known as the Red Card seeks to procure and manage a transition from the military and quasi-military rule to a democratic one.
The pressure group agenda is a 12 point agenda that includes the end of fear-mongering, the police state, propaganda, and media control, institutional capture for state and non-state, patronage and ‘official’ corruption, and commercialized politics.
Others are persecution and human rights abuse of the opposition leaders, destruction of the constitutional safeguard, the overthrow of the people’s will during elections, failure to enact crucial electoral reforms, absence of the rule of law and acts of impunity, and construction of a presidential monarchy.
Patrick Oboi Amuriat, the forum for Democratic Change President said that the transition that Uganda needs is not from father to son but back to the people of Uganda.
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“She was an amazingly sensitive, supremely intuitive, loving, caring, funny, childlike superstar, but she was my very own Shashi” – that’s how director Gauri Shinde described Sridevi, as she struggled to choose words that could define the superstar. “It is very difficult to describe a person, an actor like Sridevi, in a few words,” added Gauri, who was speaking at a session at Times LitFest, which saw the unveiling of the book ‘Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess’ by Satyarth Nayak. Gauri was a part of the session on Sridevi, which was also attended by Boney Kapoor with Deepika Padukone joining them on stage towards the end of the conversation.
Meeting Sridevi for the first time was like going on a blind date: Gauri Shinde
Reminiscing about her first meeting with Sridevi, Gauri said that it was like going on a blind date. She shared with the audience, “My meeting with Sridevi for the first time was like going on a blind date as I had never met her before. I was nervous and I looked at myself in the mirror to check whether I was looking decent. When I met her, I was strangely at ease. There was something so warm about her. She was just so normal, lovely and something connected immediately. I had this positive feeling that this date might go well. When I started narrating her the script, throughout the narration, she was so instinctive, genuine and everything that I would have liked her to be. By the end of that first date, I had a feeling that both of us would want to go on our second date. There was instant chemistry, instant love and it is rare and it was too special.”
Talking about the time when she was shooting ‘English Vinglish’, the movie in which Sridevi played the lead character of Shashi, Gauri said she fell in love with the way the actress would transform when in front of a camera. “I enjoyed the whole process of working with her. We got along so well, we understood each other so well. I think what connected us was our ability to express ourselves through anything but work. She had such a great sense of humour, which was why she could be so funny on screen. Through the working of this film, we had so many amusing moments that we laughed like little girls and when it was time for work, she would change so effortlessly and she was in her character. So it was so fascinating to watch someone just transform in a few minutes from this smiling person in private to this diva on screen.”
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When Gauri was asked about her favourite Sridevi film, she said that it would definitely be ‘English Vinglish’. “At the risk of sounding selfish, I would say that my favourite will always be Shashi from ‘English Vinglish’… for me that role has been special. Before that there have been so many of her films that I have liked, but when I miss her, I miss Shashi,” she said, adding, that she has been a huge fan of her movies like ‘Sadma’, ‘Lamhe’, ‘Chandni’, ‘ChaalBaaz’ and ‘Mr India’. “She was the only female superstar and it makes me so happy that I could work with a woman who was a superstar,” said Gauri.
The filmmaker also said that she was planning another film with Sridevi. “I would have loved to make a film with her every month or every year, if it was possible, but for someone like her, you had to have an amazing subject, you had to do justice to a star that she was. Yes, I was planning something with her. In my head, she was always like a parallel track and I was always thinking what can I do with her and there was a plan, but before I could say pack up, she left and that’s unfortunate,” she said.
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Author Satyarth Nayak said, “Sridevi started acting when she was only four. The actress said in an interview that before every act, the director of her first film, would break a coconut and do aarti because she was playing Lord Murugan in it. So that stayed with her, the fact that the ground was like a temple, very sacred. So when Sridevi would enter a film set, she would touch the ground.”
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I just read my first Neil Gaiman novel. It was really good. And this does look like Nightmare Before Christmas. But it is directed by the same guy that directed Nightmare Before Christmas. Go figure.
No, I have. And that's the only one of his books anyone needs to read. Cause then they've read the best iteration of Neil Gaiman's single story.
Besides the Sandman series
Anything would be better than Monkeybone.
I know this will indeed become the new fucking hot topic shit, but I am still looking forward to it. Henry Selick is awesome (except, yeah, Monkeybone) and this looks great.
|Rape Ape |
Aren't Hot Topic and hipster mutually exclusive? Most hipsters wouldn't be caught dead in a mall, just sayin'.
seriously, this has been the most annoying thing since the internet learned the word chav, and applied it to every British person under the age of thirty.
Fuck christ goddamn, this books sells to 14 year old emo girls at the store where I work.
Yeah, and I'll probably be wearing one too.
Yes, why thank you for noticing.
Cory Doctorow is gonna love this.
I've always hated Neil Gaiman.
Who the hell crushes bugs with their bare hands? (Or writes scripts where characters do?)
|Binro the Heretic |
Gaiman can be a pretentious twat, like Clive Barker.
He can also be inexplicably brilliant, like Clive Barker.
I've never read the comic this is based on, though.
The director is the same guy who gave us "Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions."
Of course, he also directed "Monkeybone."
Tough to call.
Binro the Heretic
Ah, it was a BOOK-book first, then they made a comic book out of it.
This seems a lot less dark than the actual book.
Even though this will undoubtedly be Hot Topic wank material, I can't wait. The book was awesome and this looks not half bad.
Appropriate Jones Soda/Emily the Strange promo ad at the top of the page.
I guess if I'm gonna whine about Astro Boy, I should go easy on this thing.
|Michael Houser |
Wow, that did not remind me in any way of my experience with the source material. Weird.
By the way, can someone articulate for me the reasons for hating Neal Gaiman? I mean, I DO, but I can't really explain why. Basically he really gets on my nerves -- but what is the source of this almost blind distaste?!
|Rodents of Unusual Size |
Starring Sharon Stone as The Other Mother.
So does it make me totally uncool if I'm kind of fond of Neil Gaiman.
mountain dew insimination
I thought you just had to grow a large mustache for the purpouse of being ironic and base your worldview on Pitchfork Media and obscure bands.
|Johnny Madhouse |
I do like this animation style, so I'll enjoy this movie for that at least.
I also like Neil Gaiman, so I fully plan on enjoying this movie in general.
|Spastic Avenger |
Still can't see the point of making Stop motion look like CGI. Corpse Bride suffered from the same problem.
Also the design is quite lazy.
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- From an estimated 6,400 species of useful indigenous plants, about 300 are traditional vegetables and about 126 species are widely known and used throughout the continent.
- Traditional vegetables support nutrition-sensitive agriculture under climate change because they generally are more nutrient-dense than most commercial vegetable crops, they have lower water requirements, are adapted to poor quality soils, and have higher resistance to pests and diseases.
- The biodiversity of traditional vegetables is endangered by displacement with high energy staple crops, the fact that most traditional vegetables are not registered in national catalogues, lack of promotion and support for their use, lack of human resources capacity focusing on traditional vegetables, and lack of conservation infrastructure.
- Because of their relatively low commercial value, no significant research investmenthas been made for traditional vegetables; crop improvement options have not been fully explored and genetic resources are poorly conserved.
- Only a very few African traditional vegetables have become widely adopted across the continent. African eggplant and okra are now grown on large areas and improved varieties are successfully commercialized. In some regions, amaranth is about to turn from an underutilized vegetable to a mainstream grain and vegetable crop. These success stories show that research and breeding can convert underutilized traditional vegetables into commercially successful crops.
- Other traditional vegetables could take a similar path if research would help to unlock their potential for income generation and nutrition for the benefit of local resource-poor populations.
- Exploiting the diversity of African vegetables for improved nutrition: action plan for stakeholders with specific agenda for plant breeders – Enoch G. Achigan-Dako, Laboratory of Genetics, Horticulture and Seed Sciences, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, BP 2549 Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin
- Impacts and sustainability of farmer seed production activities: a case of the Good Seed Initiative (GSI) project in Tanzania – Monica K. Kansiime, CABI
- Seed is the natural entry point to agroecology for small scale vegetable farmers in Africa – Remi Kahane CIRAD, France.
- Agrobiodiversity, nutrition, and policies: Where are we with the conservation and utilization of African vegetable biodiversity? – Sognigbe N’Danikou World Vegetable Center, Tanzania
- Catalysing strengthening of vegetable value chains in Africa – Elijah Mwashayenyi, East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer
East-West Knowledge Transfer (EWS-KT) supports smallholder farmers in the vegetable sector with extension services. By providing long-term technical support, EWS-KT catalyses the uptake of improved production practices in communities struggling with low yields. Over the past few years East-West Seed and its partners went into Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to support smallholder farmers with training to increase their knowledge and skills. Over 90,000 farmers have been reached in three countries and EWS-KT plans to train a further 100,000 farmers in Africa by the year 2022.
In Tanzania, the project SEVIA (Seeds of Expertse for the vegetable sector in Africa) ran from
2014 till 2020 in Tanzania. SEVIA reached 48,000 farmers. It will continue to publish SEVIA-like experiences in Tanzania and different parts of Africa, like Nigeria and Uganda.
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The opportunity comes from the private sector and more specifically from the international vegetable seed industry. Improved varieties and high quality seeds bring high yields per hectare, have built-in resistance for diseases and may be more tolerant to droughts. They therefore bring the potential for climate resilient and income secure production. Only when the farmers are making money, the seed sector can build its markets. From this philosophy, SEVIA sprouted.
- Value addition of vegetables for increased access and consumption by urban consumers – Jane Ambuko, Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, Kenya
- Traditional vegetable value chains: A gendered analysis of perceptions of labour, income and expenditure in producers’ and traders’ households – Gundula Fischer, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Tanzania
- A Renaissance on the Plate: A look back at Bioversity International’s research and promotion of African leafy vegetables – Danny Hunter Bioversity International
- Bronwen PowellThe Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Pathways to improved food and nutrition security of the poor: the promise of African indigenous foods and technologies – Sijmen Schoustra NWO-WOTRO, Netherlands
- A sustainable food systems approach to integrate traditional African vegetables in Nakuru, Kenya and Arusha, Tanzania – Koen Dekeyser, Policy Officer Agricultural Transformation for Food Security-Sustainable Food Systems Programme, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
- From royalty to pauper, and back again? How food preferences evolve over time, the role of prices and of marketing. Traditional vegetables have gone from being at the heart of the African table, to totally devalued, but we could change that – Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), UK
- Providing year-round affordable, nutritious foods for low income consumers through commercialization of dried African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) – Mercy Mwende, Sweet and Dried Enterprises Limited, Kenya
- Identifying culturally specific nutrition interventions in Kenya to increase consumption of African indigenous vegetables – Emily Merchant, Rutgers University
- African Traditional Vegetables: From Health and Nutrition to Income Generation – James E. Simon, Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New York, USA
- Diversification and tackling malnutrition in cocoa communities in Cameroon through traditional African vegetable home gardening – Regine Tchientche Kamga, World Vegetable Center
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- Prof. Siza Tumbo Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania
- Mr. Arvin Takadi Manager, Food Lovers supermarket chain Malawi/South Africa
- Mr. James Mwangi Group Managing Director, Equity Bank, Kenya
- Ms. Ediltruda Temba Marketing Manager, East West Seed, Tanzania
- Dr. Morris Akiri Regional Director, CABI, Kenya
- Ms. Mboka MwanituPrincipal Business Development Officer, Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank, Tanzania
- Ms. Judy MatuNational Chairlady, Association of Women in Agriculture in Kenya (AWAK)
- Amb. Peter Mutuku Mathuki Executive Director, East African Business Council
- Mr. Abdulmajid Nsekela CEO, CRDB and Chairman, Tanzania Bankers Association
- Dr. Lawrence Haddad Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), UK


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