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May 15,2015 National Commentaries
A US Perspective
Larry A. Niksch, Center for Strategic and International Studies/Institute of Korean-American Studies/George Washington University
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"Reading Abe's Washington Visit"
A View from Washington
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's visit to Washington produced major developments in Japan-US relations, particularly security relations. A new set of defense guidelines was announced that opens the way for Japan to expand its defense role and capabilities in order to provide more direct military support to the United States under a Japanese doctrine of collective self-defense. Abe and President Barak Obama signaled a closer personal relationship and agreement on a range of key issues. The only dark cloud was the continuing issue of Japan's history. Abe made several statements about Japan's record during the Pacific War (1931-1945). Some drew positive US reactions, including his references to the sacrifice of Americans who died in World War II for the cause of "defending freedom," and his acknowledgement that "our actions brought suffering to the peoples in Asian countries." Abe also promised to "uphold" the Kono and Murayama statements. However, a number of American analysts reacted that Abe fell short on the "comfort women" issue—of acknowledging the responsibility of the Japanese government and military of that time and the historical accuracy of the Kono statement. These critical evaluations were mild compared to the South Korean reaction. ROK officials not only criticized Abe for not acknowledging the responsibility of the Japanese government and military for the "comfort women" system, they also reproached him for not issuing an apology to the survivors (several American critics also demanded an apology) and indicated that ROK-Japan relations would remain cool until Abe abided by their agenda. Another worrisome South Korean reaction was the publicized statement of four prominent civic groups, which warned that if Japan continued to evade acknowledging its "criminal" past, "US leadership may face corresponding challenges."1 Abe's visit was seen through a triangular prism, as ROK reactions were closely followed.
These reactions symbolized the US difficulty in promoting trilateral cooperation on East Asian security issues, especially North Korea. The key question is whether the dispute over history, especially "comfort women," will turn into a fundamental enmity between South Korea and Japan. Such an enmity could produce new challenges for both countries and for the United States: future military tensions between Japan and South Korea over their territorial dispute, especially if oil or natural gas should be found near the islets; future negative South Korean and Japanese reactions to US policies to increase defense cooperation with the other party; a South Korean drift into China's orbit on security issues; growing pressure on the United States by both Seoul and Tokyo to take positions against the other party; and a weakening of the US alliances with one or both. The United States, in short, faces potentially mounting challenges in relations with both allies.
The Challenge of Japanese History Revisionism
The movement to revise Japan's history during the Pacific War has long existed; however, two catalysts in the 1990s resulted in its growth: the emergence of the "comfort women" issue; and pressures on Japan, especially from the United States, to expand its defense capabilities and responsibilities. History revisionists seized on these pressures to argue that Japan needed to change the post-World War II pacifist public attitudes to become a "normal nation," including a normal defense policy no longer shackled by Article 9 of the postwar constitution, the so-called "no war" clause. One goal was to refute the perception of Japanese guilt in the operation of the "comfort women" system. This meant rescinding the initial steps of the Japanese government in the 1990s to assign responsibility for the system to the government and military of that time, describe the coercive nature of the system, and offer atonement to survivors. The government issued the Kono statement in 1993 and joined with private parties in 1995 to create the Asian Women's Fund to offer financial compensation to survivors. In 1995, Prime Minister Murayama issued a statement apologizing for Japan's aggression and colonial rule toward other East Asian peoples. Since then, a key revisionist goal has been to rescind the Kono statement, affirming instead that the system was not coercive and that the Japanese military was only indirectly involved in organizing and operating it.
The revisionists have broadened their agenda. They more openly criticize the war crimes trials, which the allied powers conducted after World War II. They challenge the predominant view of the 1937 "Nanking Massacre" of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops. They emphasize the need for Japanese political leaders to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, where Japan's war dead are enshrined but also where 13 of the Class A war criminals from the Tokyo War Crimes Trial are enshrined. The history revisionists also press hard for removal of Article 9 from the Constitution and have proposed other constitutional changes involving political and civil liberties and the status of the emperor. Another prime objective has been to change the accounts in history textbooks of Japan's policies and practices during the Pacific War. Finally, the revisionists publicize Japan's claims to "Takeshima" and call for a more assertive Japanese policy toward South Korea. All of this not only affects US confidence in Japan, it reverberates in US sympathy with South Korea's more visceral distrust of Japan and US concern over trilateral security ties.
Abe's relations with the history revisionists have intensified the challenges presented by this issue. He repeatedly expresses doubts about the accuracy of the Kono statement's description of the "comfort women" system as coercive. As shown by his recent statements in Washington, he is reluctant to assign responsibility for the system to the Japanese government and military of that time. He also has encouraged the revisionists by visiting Yasukuni Shrine and has given revisionist-leading officials in the Education Ministry room to modify history textbooks. Abe, however, stops short of endorsing their full agenda. His statements in Australia in 2014 and now in Washington display an unwillingness to challenge the allied view of abusive treatment of prisoners of war, the justice of the Allied cause, and the validity of the war crimes trials. But this reluctance applies mainly to the United States, Australia, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, less so to South Korea where the history issues reflect differences from the allied countries.
The Challenge of South Korea's Response of Rejection and Confrontation
South Korea's rejection of the Japanese history revisionists and of Abe's encouraging gestures to them has focused primarily on the "comfort women" issue, many of whom were Korean. It particularly criticizes the assertions that the system was not coercive, seen as symbolizing unwillingness to acknowledge the overall severity of Japanese colonial rule over Korea from 1905 to 1945. It is also, some South Koreans argue, a warning that there are forces that could turn Japan towards re-militarization and a repeat of its historic abuses of its neighbors. South Korea also uses its version of earlier history (the nineteenth century and 1904-1905) to support its claim and current control over "Dokdo," rejecting a longstanding Japanese proposal to take the dispute to the International Court of Justice. Rejection of Japanese history revisionism has gone beyond these substantive issues. President Park Geun-hye and Xi Jinping jointly have criticized Japan and may agree to a joint ceremony in August-September 2015 commemorating and celebrating Japan's surrender in 1945 and the collapse of the Japanese Empire. China does have legitimate concerns about claims made by the Japanese history revisionists, but China also appears to have a broader objective of gaining South Korea's support for China's positions toward Japan and the United States on current security issues.
There is a common view among American analysts that South Korean politicians have exploited the Japan history issue for internal political gain. Government and non-government institutions have an apparent policy of either ignoring Japanese measures that do acknowledge Japan's historic wrongdoings and seek to atone for them, or asserting that such measures are insufficient. This has included lukewarm (at best) support for the Kono statement; a rejection of Abe's 2014 investigative commission even though the commission found that the Kono statement is historically accurate;2 ignoring the Emperor's visit to Saipan in 2005 when he laid a wreath at a memorial for Koreans who died during the 1944 battle for Saipan; and rejecting and expelling the Asian Women's Fund from South Korea in the late 1990s. South Korea also has picked fights with Japan on other issues. One is an aggressive challenge to the general international recognition of "Sea of Japan," demanding recognition of the name "East Sea." Another is South Korean criticism of Abe's recent diplomatic initiatives toward North Korea in an effort to resolve the case of Japanese who have been kidnapped by North Korea.
The impact of South Korea's responses has been to freeze Japan-South Korea relations. It opposes improving defense cooperation, although it agreed in December 2014 (no doubt under US pressure) to a tripartite agreement on intelligence exchanges with the United States acting as the conduit of information between Seoul and Tokyo. In effect, Seoul opposes Abe's defense policy of collective self-defense; but because of US support for Abe, it has modified its opposition into voicing specific concerns and suspicions. The government calls for assurances from Japan and the United States that Japanese troops will never set foot on the Korean Peninsula unless South Korea approves it. A recent three-party defense meeting issued such an assurance, but South Korean officials have indicated that future discussions of this issue will be necessary. Ignoring/downplaying positive Japanese acts and "picking fights" have worsened the situation. The history revisionists increasingly have defined the "comfort women" issue as a dispute only between Japan and South Korea, using South Korean policies to argue that Japan never will be able to satisfy it on the history issue and that it always will demand more regardless of what Japan does. Therefore, the revisionists say, Japan should make no concessions to Seoul. That argument has gained credibility with the public. The term "Korea fatigue" is used to describe the Japanese public's increasingly negative attitude toward South Korea.
The US Dilemma: Neutrality, Minimal Involvement, or Initiative
Since the Japan history issue gained prominence in the 1990s, successive US administrations have followed a policy of neutrality and minimal involvement in the substantive issues. Officials have confined public statements to urging Japan and South Korea to lower the importance of history and cooperate on current security issues. Publicly and privately, they have avoided interjecting US judgments on issues such as Dokdo-Takeshima and the coercion or non-coercion of "comfort women," remaining silent too in response to assertions of history revisionists regarding US-related history, such as the treatment of prisoners of war and the allied war crimes trials. The major exceptions have been reported private entreaties to the Abe government that it should not change the Kono statement and the Obama administration's expressed "disappointment" over Abe's visit to Yasukuni Shrine. There also have been a few statements deploring the "comfort women" system and hinting at unhappiness over South Korea's tactics.
The policy of neutrality and minimal involvement stems from a priority on current security issues, especially stressed by the Pentagon, but another factor appears to be fear, especially in the State Department, that greater US involvement would antagonize Seoul or Tokyo. Running through the US bureaucracy appears to be a bias against the importance of history in current state-to-state relations, indicated in repeated State Department and White House avoidance of dealing with other historical issues, such as President Putin's repeated historical justifications for his aggression towards Ukraine, the post-World I state boundaries in the Middle East, and the annihilation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Has this made the situation between South Korea and Japan worse or better? It seems to me that there is a strong case that it has made the situation worse. Administrations have failed to maximize US restraining influence on the Japanese and South Korean governments, history revisionists in Japan, and anti-Japanese groups in South Korea. In both countries, the discourse over the history issue has become one sided, nearly totally negative towards the other country. The US government has lost opportunities to develop openings for resolving historical issues and history-related territorial issues, even failing to address disputes whose history involves the United States, such as Dokdo-Takeshima and changes in Japanese history textbooks on the 1945 battle of Okinawa. The lack of clarity in the US policy of minimizing involvement often brings forth South Korean and Japanese sentiment that "the United States is taking the [other side]."
A US initiative would need to be intellectually and historically accurate. Firmer judgments on individual disputed issues would take sides between Japan and South Korea, but a credible policy would not take one side exclusively. Primarily, a balanced policy would strongly challenge the substantive agenda of Japanese historical revisionism but expand US security support for Japan, and it would challenge a number of the tactics employed by South Korea against Japan. Such a policy should involve not only the US government, including Congress, but also private "think tanks" with influence.
Towards Japan, the United States could:
– On comfort women, praise the measures of the Japanese government in the 1990s; state a US view that the Kono statement is "historically accurate," including its references to coercion; urge Abe to make a similar statement affirming its historic accuracy; acknowledge and praise other Japanese actions that support historic accuracy.
– If necessary, present an analytical US view of the coercion issue, defining the types of coercion (physical abduction, deception to lure women from their homes with offers of legitimate jobs or education, and forced confinement in "comfort stations" and Japanese military bases).
– If Abe again visits Yasukuni, do not flatly oppose such visits but call for Abe to affirm the legitimacy of the Tokyo War Crimes trial and reaffirm the clause in the 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty, acknowledging its legitimacy.
– Increase outreach to the Japanese public over US support for Japan adopting collective self-defense, pointing out that revising history is not necessary to support this.
– Continue affirming the defense commitment to Japan regarding the Senkaku islands. Urge Japan to propose taking the issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ); and praise Japan for its standing proposal to take the Dokdo-Takeshima dispute there. Warn China that if it continues aggressive actions in the East and South China seas and to reject third party involvement in these disputes (i.e, the ICJ and the Law of the Sea Tribunal), the United States will consider recognizing Japanese sovereignty over the Senkakus.
Towards South Korea, the United States could:
– State and demonstrate that the United States will support legitimate South Korean criticism of Japanese history revisionism, including comfort women coercion and the historic accuracy of the Kono statement.
– Propose that Park, either individually or jointly with Obama, issue an eight word statement: "I [We] believe the Kono statement is historically accurate."
– At least privately criticize South Korea for dismissing Japanese positive acts and remind it of past instances of ignoring or downplaying positive statements and actions, which plays into the hands of the Japanese history revisionists.
– Emphasize that it ought to ensure that any ROK-China declaration on the seventieth anniversary of Japan's surrender should contain a specific reference to the crucial US role in ending the Pacific War and liberating both South Korea and China.
– Initiate a report by the State Department Historical Office on why the United States did not include Dokdo among the islands whose sovereignty was designated in the Japanese Peace Treaty. Abrogate the Rusk statement of 1951 that Korea did not have a claim to Dokdo prior to 1905 in view of the recent discoveries of Japanese official documents from the 1870-1880s in which Japan's government stated that the islets belonged to Korea.
– Defend historically and intellectually the US government's policy of designating "Sea of Japan" on US maps, but have US officials use "East Sea" when in South Korea.
– Strongly defend South Korean support of Abe's policy of collective self-defense, but promote a process in which Japan will assure South Korea that no Japanese troops would be deployed on land in the Korean Peninsula without the consent of South Korea (realizing the need for discussions of other types of Japanese military power that could be directed into Korea).
The Abe visit to Washington raises the urgency of addressing these issues in the US government and influential think tanks, altering the one-sided discourse and bringing a balanced debate into being in both Japan and South Korea. This visit drew attention to the triangular challenge that is overshadowing US-Japan relations. Facing this squarely appears to be the necessary first step towards compromise and resolution of the Japan history issue and restoring normal relations between South Korea and Japan.
1. "Civic groups call for US action over Abe's speech," The Korea Herald, April 28, 2015.
2. Government and non-government institutions criticized the commission for revealing South Korean-Japanese discussions prior to the issuing of the Kono statement and ignored the positive finding of the commission that the statement is historically accurate.
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San Andrés de Montearados, es una localidad situada en la provincia de Burgos, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León (España), comarca Páramos , ayuntamiento de Sargentes de la Lora.

Datos generales
Situado 8 km al sur de la capital del municipio, Sargentes de la Lora, en el Espacio Natural de las Hoces del Alto Ebro y Rudrón.

Como lugares de interés hay que mencionar el Arroyo del Rebollar y Ermita de la Virgen de Brañosera.

Zona Turística: Páramos / Sedano y Las Loras
 "Sedano y las Loras"

Municipios: Basconcillos del Tozo, Humada, Los Altos, Rebolledo de la Torre, Sargentes de la Lora, Tubilla del Agua, Úrbel del Castillo, Valle de Sedano y Valle de Valdelucio.

 Divisoria de Cuencas Hidrográficas
Entre la comarca de Las Loras y de la Paramera de la Lora esta la divisoria de dos cuencas hidrográficas distintas, la del Duero, (río Urbel) y el (Odra) en el sector de Las Loras, y la del Ebro (río Rudrón) en el de la Paramera.

El río Rudrón, poco después de Basconcillos del Tozo se sumerge en un hundidero (fenómeno kárstico por disolución de la roca caliza) y vuelve a aparecer como nacedero en la Cueva del Moro en Barrio Panizares. Posteriormente se encajona en hoces y forma el Valle del Rudrón hasta afluir al río Ebro en Valdelateja, donde además se encuentra un manantial de aguas termales que ha dado lugar a un balneario. Poco antes de Valdelateja, en Covanera, está el Pozo Azul, un nacedero en forma de pozo cuyas aguas cristalinas son bellamente azuladas.

Sargentes de La Lora

TODO el Románico

 Ayoluengo: Iglesia de San Mamés
 Ceniceros: Iglesia de San Pedro
 Moradillo del Castillo: Iglesia De San Cristóbal
 San Andrés de Montearados: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Brañosera
 San Andrés de Montearados: Iglesia de San Andrés
 Valdeajos: Iglesia de San Cristóbal

 Relevancia histórica Páramos

En el año 860, el rey Ordoño I manda al conde Rodrigo repoblar la vieja ciudad cántabra de Amaya (conquistada por Augusto, Leovigildo, Tarik y Alfonso I). Su hijo Diego Porcelos fundaría Burgos en 884 y desde entonces Castilla no pararía de extender sus territorios.

La creación de los alfoces, es de capital importancia para comprender esta expansión.
La misión primordial fue desde el principio militar, participando además en la hueste regia, cuando se les requería para hacer frente a las grandes acometidas del Islam. De esta manera contribuían a la normalización del régimen aldeano y la protección a escala local.

La Comarca de la Lora, pertenecía al alfoz de Moradillo del Castillo, citado ya como tal en el año 1075; este alfoz comprendía además los lugares de Sargentes de La Lora, Ayoluengo, Valdeajos de La Lora, Lorilla, Tablada de Rudrón, San Andrés de Montearados, Ceniceros, La Rad, Santa Coloma de Rudrón, Bañuelos de Rudrón y Terradillos de Sedano, y al menos con otros 23 lugares, hoy DESPOBLADOS.

 Historia Lugar que formaba parte, del Valle de Sedano en el Partido de Burgos, uno de los catorce que formaban la Intendencia de Burgos, durante el periodo comprendido entre 1785 y 1833, en el Censo de Floridablanca de 1787, jurisdicción de señorío siendo su titular el Marqués de Aguilar, regidor pedáneo.

Antiguo municipio de Castilla la Vieja, código INE-095127 , que en 1843 pertenecía al partido de Sedano y contaba con 10 hogares y 38 habitantes. Entre el Censo de 1857 y el anterior, este municipio desaparece porque se integra en el municipio 09361 Sargentes de la Lora.

 Parroquia
 Románica'
 Párroco: D. Joaquín Cidad Pérez

 Bibliografía
 Junta de Castilla y León Excma. Diputación Provincial de Burgos Exmo. Ayuntamiento de Basconcillos del Tozo Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)
 Círculo Románico (Páramos)
 Enciclopedia del Románico (Burgos)
 Pascual Madoz, Diccionario Geográfico-Estadístico de España y sus posesiones de ultramar, Madrid, 1849.
 El petróleo de la Lora''. ISBN 9788496606128

Enlaces externos

 San Andrés de Montearados

Localidades de la provincia de Burgos
Sedano
Páramos
Municipios desaparecidos entre 1847 y 1857
La Lora

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Fragments d'un enracinement. Fragments d'un parcours.
What does it mean to put down roots, to inhabit and insert oneself in a space, to make it our own, to transform it to our liking, and, in return, change under its influence? In short, what does it mean to become a habitant?
The term habitant has long been considered pejorative in Quebec: a quasi-synonym of an uncultivated, uncouth person, a country bumpkin, the French hillbilly. But wrongly so. Becoming a habitant is quite the adventure, one our forefathers undertook successfully and in an exemplary manner by building this country. There is no greater destiny than to fully inhabit a place.
This short book bears witness to this. The author, an academic with rural leanings, shares a few excerpts from his diary that put forth, in a fragmented manner, his journey of putting down roots (if we can overlook the apparent contradiction of this wording). This long journey, which covers close to half a century, could in fact have representative value, bearing witness to a moment, an era, a generation.
Can we be rooted to a place? Admittedly, we all have a journey. But is rootedness possible? And if we can become rooted to a place, a time, a community, a family, kin, then it is inevitable that sooner or later we will also be sadly uprooted.
However, traces of our presence may remain. Fragments…

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Cheese Quest
By Beth Kracklauer, Deputy Editor
I've always loved Munster cheese, and since revisiting Alsace last summer to report a story about choucroute garnie, I've been craving it. If, like me, you grew up on the American deli variety, with its brazenly artificial orange rind and its texture like soft silicone, discovering Alsatian Munster is like finally tasting fresh-squeezed orange juice after a lifetime of Tang. A good, ripe one will have a pungent, briny exterior and an oozy interior that's sweet as fresh milk and heady as a barnyard all at once. The pale-apricot-colored rind will have been washed repeatedly in salt water throughout the aging process to inhibit the growth of unwanted molds and encourage the proliferation of the helpful bacteria that give the cheese its supercharged flavor. Some say it's the high protein content of the milk produced by the Vosgienne cows raised in the region that makes Alsatian Munster so much better than the cheeses called Muenster in Germany and the U.S.; others insist they detect the distinctive flowers and wild grasses of Vosges Mountain pastures in the cheese's sweet, grassy notes. In Alsace, at restaurants like Auberge de l'Ill, near Colmar, a nice, ripe hunk of Munster will often come to the table along with a little bowl of toasted caraway seeds and a glass of racy Alsatian gewurztraminer. The combination of the bittersweet caraway, the wild honeysuckle perfume of the gewurztraminer, and the luscious, odiferous Munster seems perfectly calibrated to take you right to the brink of sensory overload, a pretty exciting place to be. I've been trying to get back there for months.
Problem is, I haven't been able to get my hands on a good Alsatian Munster in the States. The ones sold here—the ones sold legally, anyway—must be made from pasteurized milk. I don't know if that's what makes them so bitter and rubbery, or if they haven't ripened properly, or if they're just too delicate to survive the journey with their gorgeousness intact. Anyway, I've tracked down a few locally available substitutes that come about as close as it seems possible to get outside of Alsace. For example, Cowgirl Creamery's Red Hawk, a washed-rind, triple-creme cows' milk cheese made in California, will do very nicely in a pinch. Think of it as Munster's beefy, extroverted American cousin. I'm also enjoying Gres des Vosges (pictured at right), a mouthwatering, very Munster-like Alsatian cheese that seems to be pretty widely available on this side of the Atlantic; when you're scanning the cheese case, look for the tiny ferns embedded in the rind. Why Gres des Vosges is able to make the transatlantic journey more successfully than Munster, I don't know, but I'm grateful. And then there's Edwin's Munster, a relative newcomer from upstart Austrian cheese maker Edwin Berchtold. This cheese has serious funk, George Clinton-Detroit-circa 1974 funk. It's more like Alsatian Munster than it is like the milder Muenster that typically comes out of Germany.
And yet, you know, I've still got a place in my heart, or at least in my kitchen, for the stretchy stuff with the traffic-cone-orange exterior that you can buy in any American supermarket. Alsatian Munster it's not—not even close—but it makes an incomparably stringy and salty grilled cheese sandwich, and sometimes that's exactly what you want. Occasionally I'll even layer a number of thin slices of deli Muenster in a macaroni and cheese made with more flavorful cheeses, to up the gooeyness factor of the finished casserole. Besides, though I pine for it, I'm kind of okay with the fact that in order to recapture that authentic Munster experience, you have to go back to the source. It's as good a reason as any to visit Alsace.
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Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Although it was first inaugurated to complement Mother's Day to celebrate male parenting and fatherhood, it is one of the important days for fathers and for children to express their love. Not only does a mom needs to hear nice things on mother's day, a dad also needs to know how much his love and care is appreciated. Here are the nicest Father's Day quotes and sayings.
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
Perpetual summer in your heart.
When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back.
There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.
Wishing you a special Father's Day filled with all the things that give you a warm and happy feeling and leave you with bright memories to look back through the year.
The love of father is like sky. You cannot touch it, but it exists all the time. The sky is like an eye, you can never escape from it. Happy Father's Day!
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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES SERIES FEATURING BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR
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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IS EXHIBITING "PROJECTS: GABRIELLE L'HIRONDELLE HILL" THROUGH AUGUST 15
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"NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE: STRUCTURES FOR LIFE" ON VIEW AT THE MOMA UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2021
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THE MOMA REVEALS FRESH MUSEUM EXPERIENCE WITH REOPENING
New York's Museum of Modern Art reopened on October 20th after being closed for nearly four months. The $400 million put into the renovation went towards more extensive galleries, live performance spaces, more dining options, and a fresh new store. The extra 40,000 square feet of space means more room for the three million visitors…
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'LOUISE BOURGEOIS: AN UNFOLDING PORTRAIT' TO OPEN AT THE MOMA SEPTEMBER 24TH
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Matenia Altikatis September 14, 2017
MOMA TAKES A STANCE ON TRUMP'S TRAVEL BAN
In the first week of his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order that banned immigration and travel from seven majority Muslim countries – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia. The move led to outrage from human rights groups and the eruption of protests across the country. Last Thursday, February 2nd, the Museum…
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PEDRO ALMODÓVAR: RETROSPECTIVE TRIBUTE @ MOMA
Pedro Almodóvar Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019 Nov 29-Dec 17 Spanish film director, Pedro Almodóvar's twenty most iconic films are currently on display atMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) through December 17th. The retrospective exhibit will display Almodóvar's groundbreaking cinematic work. Over his lifetime, Almodóvar has established himself as one of…
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NAN GOLDIN @ MOMA – NYC – JUNE 11 – FEB 12
Nan Goldin "Ballad of Sexual Dependency" The Museum of Modern Art, NYC June 11 - February 12, 2017 The MoMA has reinstalled Nan Goldin's 700 snapshot slideshow. The portraits are sequenced in unison with a soundtrack that correlates to the photographs. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a personal narrative taken from Nan Goldin's experiences…
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MOMA PRESENTATION HONORS THE WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE ART WORLD
Andrea Geyer Revolt, They Said (October 15–November 29, 2015) Insistence (October 15–November 15, 2015) MoMA 11 West 53rd Street, New York This month the MoMA continues a two-part presentation by artist Andrea Geyer. Comprising of the video projection Insistence (2013) and the large-scale wall drawing Revolt, They Said (2012–ongoing), the presentation is the culmination of her…
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On April 18th, 2015; the journal Protein & Cell published a paper, authored by researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guanghzou, China, that detailed the results of experiments conducted by the researchers on gene editing – modifying the DNA of human embryos. The academic report went viral in the mainstream media, coupled with the ideas of designed people and manufactured DNA. However, it was really just a confirmation of rumours that genomic/genetic engineering is being experimented with in China; a practice strictly banned in a number of countries. It hass added fuel to the ongoing debate about gene editing: the safety, and whether we can really have an idea of the impact of permanently altering a person's genetic code? And the ethics: if we have the power to design the humans of the next generation, should we? Pioneering geneticist Jennifer Doudna says, a little alarmingly, that "most of the public does not know what is coming." This could be the most important moment in the field of biomedicine, according to another eminent scientist. But what is gene editing? Can we really rewrite our genome, the one unchangeable part of our identity?
The ability to modify an organism's DNA has existed since the 1970s in fact; in 1986 Nobel prize winner Mario Capechhi showed that we could suppress certain genes in the cells of mice. However, techniques were primitive and unreliable – we may have been messing with nature's blueprint, but in an unspecific, unusable way. Other the fact that the genome was not sequenced at the time (we didn't know which gene caused what effect), the suppression didn't always work, and in the end it was just suppression. Through the late 1990s and the dawn of the millennium, chemicals were found by which we could edit DNA with both freedom and precision. The new technology, a programmable protein called Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFN), allowed scientists to select specific sequences of DNA and cut them out, like a pair of DNA scissors. Not just that, they were able to delete, replace and add genes to the genomes of animals: true 'gene editing'. They could create white blood cells that behaved like red blood cells, remove/add unnatural mutations, and even modify the genes of one animal to resemble another. Another huge breakthrough came when, in 2010, Fyodor Urnov and other geneticists applied the gene editing techniques to human cells; the five years since have been a flurry of activity and advance in the field.
Practical applications have emerged almost instantaneously: the DNA of blood cells and other body cells are being modified as a possible cure for cancer, AIDS and thalassemia. If the genome of enough mutated cancerous cells can be edited to resemble the normal genome, it could kill the cancer. The use of the gene editing in the search for the cure for HIV/AIDS has begun to look especially promising after the discovery of a new gene editing technique called CRISPR/Cas9. "It was gift from nature," says Harvard researcher George Church, describing the technology which emerged from a widespread natural phenomenon seen in bacteria. The new technique was cheaper, easier, quicker and far more efficient: and its emergence in 2013 made the far-off seeming practical usage of gene editing a reality. Any scientist with basic molecular biology skills is will able to use it according to Doudna, one of the scientists responsible for discovering the CRISPR editing technique. In the two years since; hundreds of papers have been published all over the world by scientists studying its various possibilities and applications.
If gene editing was already such an established field of research, it's difficult for people outside the science to understand the controversy around the most recent study. The debate is actually about the cells' whose DNA is being modified: all the research and possibilities described above in gene editing in humans involve modification of the genome in somatic cells. Somatic cells comprise of all the body cells except two: the reproductive sperm and egg cells, which combine to give birth (also known as germ cells). Editing the genes of sperms, eggs or the zygote formed by the fusion is either banned or strictly regulated in most nations, excepting of course China. The reasons are manifold: some of the concerns are biological, and others are ethical. There is not yet a consensus on this, however, many are performing experiments on animal germ cells, and hope to enhance the procedure till it can be used in humans. In March, there were already rumours such research was being conducted in China; while a company, OvaScience was cashing in on gene edited egg cells, and Church's lab at Harvard was testing the limits of the technology. At this time when germ line research seemed to be finally breaking out, several pioneers and scientists (including Fyodor Urnov) in the field wrote a piece, available on Nature.com that asked explicitly "not to edit the human germ line." A number of other leading geneticists and biomedical experts, including Jennifer Doudna and George Church, met in January to discuss this very issue; and conclude, according to Doudna (the main organizer) that research in human germ line editing needs to be slowed down, until editing techniques are improved and made safer, and so that the general public can be involved in a debate that has momentous consequences according to her. The attendees of the meeting wrote an editorial in the journal Science on the prudent path forward in the field; which does recommend that the non-scientific general public be informed of the problems and possibilities of the field but is, ironically, available only to Science subscribers and members of the academic community. It can be read here, though. Although the recommendations put forth by the two groups do differ, their concerns are the same. And the alarm at the fact that such research is already taking place unregulated is universal.
The key difference between editing the "germ line" and modifying any other cells is that germ line editing is hereditarily permanent: if you edit the DNA of a person's reproductive cells, any child that person has will possess the modified genome. The child's reproductive cells will also be genetically modified, so his kids will be genetically modified, and so on. Aside from the ethical implications, scientists including Doudna are concerned about the use of such a new, experimental technology to affect a permanent change. Some say that much is still unknown about the genome, and development of characters in human beings – scientists would really have no idea what the impact of such genetic tampering could be generations later. Even considering short term implications, Edward Lanphier and colleagues proclaim adamantly that the use of CRISPR and other gene editing tools on embryos is still a field in its infancy – and according to them, we could not really tell the "precise effects of the modification until after birth", i.e., when the embryo has developed into a human being. So far genomic modification tests in animal germ lines have not yielded good results: possibly contributed to by the fact that the zygote/early embryo is unique cell that is constantly dividing. Guoping Feng, who is applying CRISPR to monkey embryos at MIT, says the desired edit works only 20% of the time: sometimes the subjects die, and sometimes completely unwanted results are obtained. With such a low success rate, Feng believes that experiments on human embryos are "scientifically trivial" and sensationalist; until the technology is improved, they can have no practical use. Not everyone agrees: Church, whose lab at Harvard is engaging in the equally path-breaking research on unextinction with the help of gene editing and modifying animal organs so they can be used in humans, believes that recent (April 2015) advancements in the CRISPR editing technique could bring germ line editing far closer. Feng agrees that in the long run, "improving health" and "correcting diseases" should "definitely be supported": but that it's still 10-20 years away.
Of course there are ethical issues. As MIT Technology Review puts it, we can now (or will be able to soon) engineer the human race. We can modify the DNA of our children; choose the attributes they will be born with, and even influence their destinies. As the experiment showed, and as researchers already knew: that's not here yet – the technical glitches are far from resolved – but it isn't far away now. So when it comes – the first question is of consent; when the body's other cells are modified – they affect a single adult and no one else, his/her consent is all that is required. But if we are modifying the genome of unborn baby – its most fundamental aspect – do we have the right: do its parents have the right? It is a bit like the questions raised by Eragon and Elva in the eponymous fantasy novel, especially if the modification goes wrong – it is a great power, but should it be used? Some feel the question will be answered in a similar way as 3 parent babies were legalized in the UK recently. That too involved a kind of genetic selection – of the two mothers, the one with the healthier mitochondrial DNA was selected during in vitrio fertilization – mDNA being the DNA in a different part of the cell, that affects only health and not characteristics. Which brings us to one of the most important words in this debate: "therapeutic". It means a medicinal technology is used to help defeat or prevent disease, instead of any other use. Modifying the DNA of a still unborn baby to ensure it is never afflicted with thalassemia is one thing, but programming its eye colour based on parental preference is a "non-therapeutic" use. Not just that: with the addition of new genes – not seen in humans – now a possibility; we could realistically engineer babies with superhuman capabilities. Some enthusiastic scientists call genetically engineered or enhanced children the future of the human race; but others fear "a dystopia of superpeople and designer babies for those who can afford it", in the words of journalist Antonio Regalado, who wrote presciently about this two months ago. It can be argued that non-therapeutic uses are those that will generate large monetary returns, and these maybe prioritized/endorsed in a big way in an unregulated environment. It has also been argued that there are no obvious therapeutic uses of germ line editing, as of now, that couldn't be satisfied by current methods, likeselection of healthy embryos in IVF. This might not always be true: say, if gene editing provided a cure for hereditary blindness in the near future. The distinction isn't always clear either: you'd probably call a modification that prevents the baby from ever having Alzheimer's disease therapeutic. But what about a gene that decreases the likelihood of it catching a cold? Or one that prevents it from becoming fat? It's "a slippery slope", in the eyes of some, and clarity is required to prevent researchers from doing something rash.
In defence of Chinese geneticist Jinjiu Huang and his colleagues, they sidestepped the first few ethical concerns by using "unviable" embryos, i.e., defective embryos which cannot result in a birth, from an IVF clinic. They tried to induce specific mutations in the DNA of the embryos using CRISPR/Cas9: the result was a failure, in their own words. They describe that the successful modifications were very rare, at a lower rate than expected even from the experiments on animal embryos, while the incidence of other undesired mutations being caused was very high. Their paper was rejected by the two biggest journals Nature and Science for both ethical reasons and complaints against thoroughness. The editor of the journal that published the research wrote an impassioned defence explaining that they published it to "provide evidence of the safety concerns" with germ line editing; the paper too declares its conclusion to be that the CRISPR/Cas9 system must be improved before any practical application on human embryos. However, the paper also comes as evidence that the meetings and pleas of scientists a few months back were not scaremongering; far from it – the controversial research they were speaking of is already taking place. It may only be for academic reasons and therapeutic uses, but the fact remains that 4 more Chinese labs are rumoured to be doing similar experiments: without preventive rules and legislation, anyone could take advantage. Not every excited researcher sees the concerns: some liken it to IVF – controversial at first, but universal by the end; the thought of editing out the aging gene, or adding a little bit of super-intelligence has made some dismiss ethical issues.
There was the subtle difference between the Nature essay, and the Science editorial: in that the former postulated that there was not yet a compelling argument for the therapeutic benefits of germ line editing, and research on it in humans should be suspended until one emerges; while the latter advocated research on animal germ line editing and other human gene editing to evaluate whether human germ line editing may have future applications. Both asked that this controversial moral and ethical issue be discussed inside and outside the scientific community. The cover of George Church's book Regenesis is a painting of god creating the world. Make no mistake, we will soon obtain the power of the gods: the question of whether we should use it is probably one of the hardest we will face? It is not the choice of the scientists – it is a decision for all of humanity. Though that is kind of hard if most people do not know – or do not care.


The demise of beer will lead to a loss of British jobs.
SIR – Reports that the Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted a fall in the consumption of beer in favour of wine are cause for serious concern (Business, January 14).
Most beer consumed in Britain is produced here, in contrast to many other products. Beer is a drink predominantly sold in the labour-intensive pub sector, rather than through supermarkets for consumption at home. Far more British jobs, therefore, depend on it.
Research for the British Beer and Pub Association has shown that the Treasury's policies on beer taxation will cost around 5,000 British jobs a year, and that is before considering the damaging social effects of pub closures.
The Government must rethink its damaging tax policy for beer, which has seen the duty rise by an unsustainable 42 per cent since March 2008.


Very fine and rare hepplewhite carved mahogany shield back side chair, the back with cove molded and beaded surround, with three intersecting vertical slats with leaf carving, above an upholstered seat raised on square tapering front legs and raking outflaring rear legs. Retains an old, perhaps orignal finish. Carving attributed to Samuel McIntyre, Salem, Mass., circa 1800.


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Q: unable to connect to flask running on pycharm on a windows 11 laptop when the firewall is up (connects fine when turned off) From my Android phone, I am trying to connect to my Windows 11 Pro laptop that is running a Flask application in PyCharm 2022.1 (Professional Edition).  I am using this URL:
10.13.0.111:8080

The Flask application is running fine on port 8080 on that IP address: when I turn off the firewall on the laptop, the page loads fine on the phone.  When the firewall is turned on, the phone times out.
I have run these commands to open the port:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Flask 8080"
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Flask 8080 TCP Port 8080" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8080
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Flask 8080 TCP Port 8080" dir=out action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8080

I have added PyCharm 2022.1 (Professional Edition) to the list of allowed applications and turned on both public and private networks (FWIW, my home network is connecting as a "public" network for some reason.)
I'd appreciate any help you can offer.


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During the Opening a small Thesmophoria fiest will take place alongside a low-fi basket binding textile related workshop at Yellow Brick. When the seeds have grown, colored the garment, and been served for tea. What sort of pace and rhythm does a material give you? 'Syjunta' is a combination of the two words sewing and guerrilla in Swedish. It is a soft word for craft related circles for conviviality in which participants, often women, meet regularly to sew, to knit, to quilt, to weave and to embroidery. It is a place that holds idle conversations as well as political discussions. In Greek the word Πλέξιμο can be used for craft but also for social misunderstandings. The English expressions 'chew the rag' is connected to the exchange of gossip some of these gatherings might hold as a weekly newspaper. During her stay at Yellow Brick, Angelica Falkeling will conduct a series of workshops (closed to the public) in the tone, energy and atmosphere of sewing circles as a place for convivial learning, connected to her interest in intersectional feminist practices and cross-generational dialogues. The workshops will contain embroideries, textile dying and braids. In collaboration with the local pharmacy a workshop will be organised as a form of exchanging knowledge and techniques with senior women. Also as part of the project will be the making of braids at the local hairdressers in the area of Kipseli, finalizing by an invitation to Yellow Brick for basket binding and Thesmophoria feast.


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President Obama: "We Must Rethink Solitary Confinement"
Written by FEDagent on 28 January 2016 .
Under reforms announced by President Obama this week for federal prisons, juvenile offenders cannot be placed in solitary confinement, and the use of the punishment for first-time offenders will be reduced from a maximum of 365 days to 60 days.
The President announced the federal solitary confinement reforms in a Facebook message and an op-ed for The Washington Post.
The President used the example of Kalief Browder, who in 2010 as a 16-year-old was sent to Rikers Island after being accused of stealing a backpack. Browder was held at Rikers until 2013, having never stood a trial prior to his release, two of which were in solitary confinement.
"Life was a constant struggle to recover from the trauma of being locked up alone for 23 hours a day," the President wrote, stating that Browder committed suicide at home at the age of 22.
The President cites a growing body of research that demonstrates the negative psychological impact that solitary confinement has on individuals, both during their time in prison as well as afterwards.
In August 2013, Scientific American opined that "solitary confinement is cruel and ineffective."
Last summer, the Attorney General and the Justice Department were directed by the President to review the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and to produce recommendations for best practices and potential reform.
The Justice Department review determined in some cases solitary is a necessary tool, such as when prisoners need to be isolated for their own protection or that of staff and other inmates, but urged judicious and limited use of the practice.
The President announced in his op-ed that he was adopting the Justice Department's recommendations to reform the federal prison system, including banning solitary confinement for juveniles, expanding treatment for the mentally-ill in response to low-level infractions, and increasing the amount of time inmates in solitary can spend outside of their cells.
According to the President, 10,000 federal prisoners held in solitary could be affected by the decision.
Agencies are being directed to review the principles contained in the Justice Department's recommendations and to develop a plan to address their own use of solitary confinement.
Amy Fettig, senior staff counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the group's Stop Solitary Campaign was quoted in The Washington Post as calling the President's action on solitary confinement "absolutely huge."
"We rarely have presidents take notice of prison conditions," Fettig noted.


Reading 100 books in 10 months sure was an experience. Since I live in the Dominican Republic, I had to read most of the books on my Kindle, which isn't my favorite way to read books but I'm super grateful that ebooks are things because libraries are hard to come by around these parts. Plus it made getting to the States and to a library that much more of a treat. "Real books?!" I literally stuck my nose in those suckers and breathed in deep that glorious book smell.
My old roommate used to love when I'd read Harry Potter because I'd laugh right out loud while reading. (You'll notice that although five of the Harry Potter books are named among the Best Children's Chapter Books of All time, none of them appear of any of my Superlative lists. That's because I trust that you all know how much I love JK Rowling and the HP series and I thought it best to leave those spots to other books I'm less obsessed with.) Oftentimes I'd rather be alone when I'm reading because it's not uncommon for me to cry real tears (and sob real sobs) because of a book.
During this Book Challenge I did a bit of both laughing and crying. And here's why.
What about you? To whom do you turn when you need a good literary laugh? Which characters life events never fail to jerk a tear from your eye?


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Q: How to make a list as searchable list and make a selection onclick I have a requirement where I need to search for list of items in a lwc and make a selection when clicked on a row.
Below is the thing that I've achieved so far.
Apex Class:
public with sharing class LwcMapIterationController {
    @AuraEnabled(cacheable=true)
    public static map<string, string> getAllObjects(){
        map<string, string> objectList = new map<string, string>();
        for ( Schema.SObjectType o : Schema.getGlobalDescribe().values() )
        {
            Schema.DescribeSObjectResult objResult = o.getDescribe();
            objectList.put(objResult.getName(), objResult.getLabel());
        }
        return objectList;
    }
}

LWC HTML:
<template>

Operation

            <lightning-radio-group name="Operation"

                                   options={options}
                                   value={value}
                                   type="radio"></lightning-radio-group>

Objects

Object Name (Key)

                    <template for:each={mapData} for:item="mapKey">

{mapKey.key}

                    </template>

</template>

LWC .js:
import { LightningElement, wire, track } from 'lwc';
import fetchMapData from '@salesforce/apex/LwcMapIterationController.getAllObjects';

export default class LwcMapIteration extends LightningElement {
    value = '';

    get options() {
        return [
            { label: 'Insert', value: 'option1' },
            { label: 'Update', value: 'option2' },
        ];
    }
    @track mapData= [];

    @wire(fetchMapData)
    wiredResult(result) {
        if (result.data) {
            //mapData = [];
            var conts = result.data;
            for(var key in conts){
                this.mapData.push({value:conts[key], key:key}); //Here we are creating the array to show on UI.
            }
        }
    }
}

Below is the screenshot of my output:

Now in my objects section, i need to wrap the list in a small list along with a search box. When any object name is searched in the search area/box, the related object needs to be displayed below and onclick,  a selection has to be made.
Can anyone please suggest me the possible solution here.

A: You can use a custom lookup component for that, I used below component several times and it worked perfectly well for me.
https://github.com/pozil/sfdc-ui-lookup-lwc


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How the Early-Stage Startup Waku Is Creating Investor Ambassadors and Scaling Growth with a COVID Pivot
Waku is a food and beverage brand of natural and ethically sourced ingredients from Ecuador. They're aim is to help their customers around the world eat healthy and deliciously, while helping to improve the livelihoods of thousands of farmers in Ecuador.
Waku's two founders are Juan Giraldo and Nico Estrella. As a retail-focused consumer beverage, Waku, like many startups, faced tremendous challenges as a result of the 2020 global pandemic. Waku went from just graduating from an accelerator and landing a regional retailer, to having to re-think their brand and distribution approach. However, maintaining an agile mindset, Juan and Nico were able to find new advantages to the market disruptions.
We talked with Juan Giraldo recently to discuss their approach to market in the COVID era, and about their new funding partnership with Republic, a private investor platform.
Tell us about where Waku was at the start of the 2019 early-stage accelerator? What were your goals going into the program?
When we joined MassChallenge, we had only one year in the market and our whole distribution strategy at that point was to solidify our regional presence in the New England region. The goal for MassChallenge was to work on our value proposition, messaging, and then work on a go-to-market strategy that would get us the regional retailers (i.e. the Market Baskets of the world). By the end of MassChallenge we hit one of those targets, launching with Market Basket in October 2019. We got the opportunity to go to the business segment of NECN to talk about our experience at MassChallenge, and during the talk we spotlighted Market Basket, who we'd been in talks with already. After, I sent Market Basket's buyer the link on how we were promoting Market Basket on TV, which made our relationship even stronger. That's just one example on how we were able to leverage the MassChallenge network to grow.
During your time at MassChallenge, which parts of the accelerator did Waku find the most advantageous?
One of the biggest was mentorship. Not only did we meet regularly with our main mentor who helped us identify our pitch and our value proposition in our messaging, but we also met with several others who have had experience in our industry and with companies in similar stages. These are mentors we leaned for specific questions on distribution or retails partnering, and we're still in touch with many of them to this day.
I think the most wonderful component, however, was the network of entrepreneurs. We're still very good friends with a dozen or so of them. We have a mastermind call every month where we share wins and struggles. We are all in the same industry, so there's a lot of commonalities.
Like many startups, Waku had to do a pretty big pivot in 2020 with effects of the global pandemic. How did your team approach the difficulties the pandemic created for the retail industry? The changes in consumer behavior?
In addition to the mental health and isolation struggles that everyone was experiencing, our industry and supply chains got very disrupted. It was impossible to import, export things. It was kind of a mess. The way we sold our products changed overnight. We had developed a food service channel in the New England region, which, in one day, went to zero revenue. The retail channel also changed because consumers stopped going to supermarkets to explore new items; they just went on a mission to get things and get out.
For early-stage food and beverage brands, a lot of learnings come from the ability to do field marketing activations. Things like sharing samples, discussing the product either at a store or at events. We lost the ability to do that. So, we basically lost our distribution channels, and we lost the ability to activate the brand.
We had to make the hard decision of pulling back from food service and retail because we had no idea when things were going to get back to normal. In June 2020, we decided to focus on ecommerce, and it felt as if we had to launch the business from scratch again because we had to develop an entire distribution channel from nothing.
Very quickly, however, we started to see double digit growth month over month. We realized what we had developed was a very powerful new channel. It's one that can scale, but also gives a feedback loop that we didn't have before. Now we have immediate feedback and interactions with thousands of consumers all throughout the US which has helped us define new attributes of our brand that are important to our customers. Now we see this channel as a big advantage against bigger companies. We test very fast, iterate, and improve our product and our marketing messaging. Whenever we're ready to go back to retail, we have a lot more confidence and a lot more data than before.
So you kind of took advantage of the changes in consumer behavior to focus on R&D phase?
Yes, it's been somewhat of an R&D phase, but it's also a scale up channel because ecommerce is so prevalent. In 2020, we made a 10-year leap in one year. Our sales have increased more than 9x since our first year. It's also a lab where we can test much more effectively. We're going to start launching limited edition flavors every month, and strategies like that. When we go back to retail, we'll have enough data to support new campaigns and decision making.
Going forward, how are you planning on prioritizing future initiatives? Say, 2022 – are you going to balance both ecommerce and retail or focus more on one?
I think the future of all consumer brands is omnichannel, so you need to be present everywhere. Customers will find you in different places on different occasions. Sometimes they might be scrolling down their social media and want to make a purchase, other times they'll be shopping at a supermarket.
We will go back to retail very strategically. We've learned that, for consumer brands that are fighting shelf space against huge companies, it's very important to have your product super optimized to win. Your pricing must be right, messaging must be right, packaging must be right.
Next summer, we'll be focusing again on regional chains in the northeast, like Whole Foods and Wegmans, to develop an omnichannel strategy. One thing we want to be careful about, however, is recognizing that the capabilities in a direct-to-consumer business and a retail-facing business are two different things. Quite literally two different teams, with different skills and capabilities. So funding wise, we need to be ready to fund that expansion and to go at retail with enough capital to actually succeed.
Waku recently partnered with Republic, private investment platform. Tell us more about your funding campaign with Republic and what you see as the future with them?
It's interesting how innovation is becoming increasingly democratized — the access to private investing in the U.S. I think is wonderful. Before platforms like Republic, the possibility of investing in early-stage private companies was closed to only accredited investors. I think this democratization brings a lot of opportunities for founders, but also for investors and people around the world.
Republic has been launching more and more consumer brands in the platform and, when you think about, it makes so much sense because as a consumer brand it's all about brand awareness and distribution.
So, what happens when you have 2000 investors that become your evangelists that are sharing about your product with everyone in their network? They are quite literally invested in your brand and in the success. We thought that it could be a great opportunity to create a splash and to have an army of brand ambassadors that are genuinely interested in talking about us and our products to their peers.
That was the number one reason. The number two reason was that both my co-founder and I are immigrant founders. We came from Ecuador and had experiences living abroad before and we figured this could be a great opportunity to allow these friends and family from other countries to have a chance to invest in us, give them that opportunity to get a piece of the success here in the United States.
From a funding standpoint, as we're experiencing rapid growth, there's a lot of plans ahead in terms of new product development, a brand refresh, new formulations, and new packaging. We're planning the come back to retail which requires capital. We look at Republic also as a source of funding that will provide enough runway to get us to the next stage where we will be able to raise early-stage venture capital.
What would be your advice to early-stage startups that are in the retail space right now?
Pick the right distribution channel for your brand, especially when you have limited marketing dollars. After you finally get authorized in a retail chain, stay focused. Make sure your launch at that retail chain is a success and use this success story to continue to penetrate the channel you are targeting.
Also, get your product right – formulation, packaging, pricing, messaging – make sure your product is ready to compete on the shelf. If your product is not ready, go back to the drawing board, improve it, and only then start scaling.
And finally make sure you have the infrastructure/ resources to support the retailer.


It's been a fantastic birthday week! I'm appreciative of all the love received! I feel blessed to have another year of life and most especially to have a little life growing inside me. In fact, one week ago today, Ralph and I celebrated at our baby shower. Along with the help of Mom, my sisters and friend Tina we organized a cloud theme party. I say "party," because it was more mingling and music than a typical shower. It was a hug-filled reunion with our beloved family and friends! It was sweet day for Pretty Parties and Fancy Favors!
THE LOCATION: The shower was held in this super cute historic blue rowhouse owned by the organization M.O.M.I.E.S TLC (ironic, name isn't it?), which tutors at risk kids in Washington, DC. It was the perfect venue with downstairs for our shower and an upstairs play area for anyone who brought their children.
WHAT WAS CUTE: We ordered a personalized notebook with our photo from the amazing stationary company Tiny Prints, so that guests could write their baby advice. It has also helped us organize our thank you card list, as we have begun using the notebook to write who gave us what. We also ordered a personalized baby scramble game with the title "Baby Talk." I loved how the game matched the entire theme and we were able to ask our own special questions like: (1) Name Baby Jack's 4 legged big brother (2) Where was our honeymoon?
For prizes we gave white and gold friendship bracelets from Juicy Couture. Congrats to the three winners: Carlita, Erin and Erika!
THE DESSERTS: Buttercream Bakeshop made an amazing blue watercolor cake with white fondant clouds! It tasted as good as it looked – the flavor was chai tea with vanilla and cinnamon buttercream. Sweet Naomi Cookies made custom cloud and cherub sugar cookies, which were indeed works of art! Mini vanilla cupcakes were loving baked by Grassroots Gourmet. The assorted cookies in a jar were from our favorite stop – Trader Joes. The lemon tart bore white flowers, which were actually made from stone. A little something I picked up for that bridal shoot two weeks ago from BHLDN.
THE FOOD: We delighted in quiches from Dangerously Delicious Pies in the flavors of: crab & cheddar, Gruyere & bacon, and spinach & goat cheese . At any of my "tea-like" events I must have scones. My go to is Bakeshop DC, which provided us with blueberry almond and strawberry lemon scones with sausage cheddar biscuits. We also used their yummy housemade granola to top organic yogurt with fresh berries. The White cheddar and kettle corn by Popcorn Indiana was a hit – especially with the kids. My dear friend Tina, whose an outstanding cook, made chicken salad on mini croissants paired with macaroni salad.
THE DRINKS: Perhaps, the biggest hit of the entire shower (besides the coming of baby Jack) were the mango cocktail smoothies (I will share this recipe in an upcoming post), along with lavender sweet tea and lemonade. Everything, of course, was served in tea and punch cups. They were a perfect refreshment for the 80 degree afternoon!
DECOR: Topper and Twine made us custom cloud toppers that said "Jack" in gold glitter! The darling wooden forks were personalized with saying such as: "On Cloud 9" and "Baby Jack" by Mod Party. The whimsical cocktails napkins were from party supplier Meri Meri and the table cloths were from CV Linens (I just adore the crushed white table dressing).
FUN: We hired a caricaturist from Sketchfaces DC to draw our guests! What's more fun than having a cartoon rendition made of yourself?
FAVORS: Our favors were truly a labor of love. Hello Darling Gift Co! out of Raleigh, NC, made us custom sewn cloud shaped tea bags each stuffed with Lavender English Westminster (Assam, Java, and Ceylon black teas, lavender flowers). The tea tags were handstamped with "Love, K and R." Also, we threw in cloud shaped earrings as favors for good measure. We ordered gift tag stickers from the awesome stationary site Tiny Prints with a baby onsie and Jack's due date of June 13th.
DIAPER CAKE: A special shout goes to darling Stacey who made us a diaper cake for our favor table. It was a wonderful gift and centerpiece all in one!
MENU SIGNANGE: We commissioned my talented cousin Kameron Jones to design food signs with fat baby angels and lots of clouds. His work went perfectly with the caricaturist. After the shower he toured an art school here in DC. This kid has a beautiful future!
INVITATION: Our pale blue sky with white cloud invites that you see framed in gold came from Minted.
This shower was tons of fun to plan! Again – a big thanks to my wonderful family and friends who helped us pull it all together. We are grateful for all of the shared excitement for Baby Jack's arrival. I've got one more month to go! Stay tuned friends….


Discussion in 'Deck Help and Strategy' started by Banette EX, Jul 28, 2008.
Strategy: Its to Spread Spread Spread Spread until you cant spread anymore. The main attacker is Froslass,he does 40/10/10/10/10/10 and auto sleep. He has to be one of the best spreaders were getting from Legend Awakening. Also,his first attack can OHKO anything if its Koed,thats a great stall technique and can force them think twice about their moves. Spritbomb is liek the auto damage placement we needed with powers. It helps since Froslass hits everything,only downfall you can use its power more than once a turn. Giratina is a tech spread and is for his first attack,and if you can build his last one,can be very game breaking if they cant OHKO it. Kyogre is the starter and can spread 60/20/20/20/20/20 thats better than Froslass and can self accel it,only downfall is you have to discard the energy from it. Its still good since people still need time to setup and KO it.
[P][C] Shadow Force: Does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokemon. Flip a coin, if heads prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Giratina during your opponent's next turn.
[P][P][C][C] Cruel Blade: Does 50 damage plus an additional 10 damage for every damage counter on the Defending Pokemon.
I don't really like spiritomb because it helps your opponents spread too.
but it helps more than hurts,especially early game when you just outspeed them and let it build.
When you kindly sent me the list, i was very happy. I Like Spread decks, but straight away i wanted to try prinplup DP or bronzong MD just for the spread aspect of this deck.
Do you realize that the name of psychic spoiler you listed is Spiritomb NOT Spiritbomb!
I am not to sure Kyogre should be so big in this deck.
t2 60 and 20 to all bench.. OMG!
Something about this list just isn't right.
I like the Kyogre in here, maybe too much Spiritomb?
Perhaps the Zapdos is just out of place.
What about Snowpoint Temple? All of your Pokemons are basics except Froslass, and it makes Kyogre more difficult to beat.
How about taking out a spiritomb or zapdos for a ditto. Also take out 4 psychic energy for multi energy because giritina only needs one psychic energy for it's first attack and it's second attack is really slow to use. plus if you do use it you do have the 2 psychic energy. Ditto is really good in here with multis because it can give you an extra turn. Water and psychic will be good probaly and there are cards that have attack costs like the eevee lutions with a type of energy and 2 other colorless energys so you can use a lot of attacks with ditto and a multi.
I think the point of Giratina is for it's second attack.
mario1: I call it spritBOMB because his power hits everything,making it a bomb,thats I used it,I know the difference,I know how to read and type.
Tried Bronzong,but Froslass is the main focus since it auto sleeps.
IMO, if the deck is based on Kyogre starting, -1 Zapdos +1 Kyogre =4 Kyogre, you want have the highest possible chance of getting him as your starter. The rest can be used as recycle with cosmic/bebe's/etc or even attackers later in the game. Also have you considered Forretress? With froslass being your main attack, Forretress can sit on the bench and still use it's body to do spread, even tho its flip, it may be better than spiritomb's 1 shot then useless.
i dont remember the trainers and energies. I played against it and i have to say that starmie kicked my claydol every time. Starmie helps a bit against Leafeon and eeveelutions. You should take out zapdos and 1-2 spiritomb(you dont need 3. if u have to start with spiritomb, then gg) and add in starmie.
the only maybe about this deck is cresselia lv x?
Looks like a good list. I would also say that you should lose the calls and a devolutionater for a 2-2 line of Starmie.
I dunno about those changes.
The Giratina truly would do wonders in this deck, and the Spiritomb is GREAT in this deck.
However i do agree with the +1 Kyogre, probably -1 Zapdos though.
Fraginito:You know I got it in my personal teched list,but this is more of a base for this deck tho.
Giranita does doe wonders,its possible to use his attack more than once and spread and then big damage. The IFDS will be the better choose tho since it does damage to defending and spread for up to 20 to each benched.
this sounds really cool, and i have most of the stuff for it. one question, why the girtina.


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