John Jones, managing director of Caernarfon-based PPM Technology Ltd, has been doing business in Asia for over a decade. Here he shares his insights and experiences of managing distributors in China.
We are a small business of just nine full-time employees, based in North Wales. We develop and manufacture Toxic Gas and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Monitors. We're in a niche market, which is mainly governed by legislation, and as such we're exporting over 80% of our products. Over the last decade we have succeeded in finding markets throughout Asia, with many of our key markets now in the region.
We are doing business in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China, which collectively accounts for between 50-60% of our overall business. Establishing ourselves in Asia required a great deal of commitment, energy and patience, particularly in finding and managing distributors.
Traditionally, our instruments were used for industrial applications in the UK, Europe and the USA. But new legislation in a number of Far Eastern countries opened the market there for us in the last ten years.
Our breakthrough in Asia came in 2000 when Japan became the first Asian country to legislate for the monitoring of formaldehyde as an IAQ parameter. We soon found that we were getting enquiries from Japanese companies via our website and realised that we needed to find partners in this market to help us develop compliant products to meet local demand.
As other Asian countries followed Japan's lead, we began to work closely with distributors across Asia to improve our existing products and develop new instruments to obtain relevant government approvals and secure tenders. So it was essential we worked with distributors who had a good rapport with government departments responsible for legislation.
During our time working in Asia, our experience has taught us some salutary lessons, particularly around the appointment and management of distributors. You certainly have to select your distributors carefully and build trust and long-term relationships with them. It is also important to find the right strategy to manage them effectively. This can only come from regular face-to-face meetings in the market, as well as observing and monitoring their operational methods.
Despite China being one of our most important markets, it has taken years to get established there and involved a steep learning curve for us. We've had to overcome many obstacles and frustrations along the way. However, our ability to learn from mistakes and our determination has paid off. Over time we've found ways to manage our distributors in China effectively and we are now winning more business there than ever.
When we first moved into the market, upon initial advice, we appointed a large network of distributors to ensure we had this vast market covered. This was fine in the short-term when we were selling smaller quantities, mainly to local universities and private companies. However, we soon discovered that this approach was to our detriment when we tried to secure provincial government tenders.
We found out that our numerous distributors were competing against each other to win business. Before we realised it a price war had broken out. To secure orders, our distributors were lowering their prices so much that our profit margins were disappearing fast. We also lost out on a number of tenders as the same instrument was being offered by different distributors, and in some provinces this reflected badly on us. As a result, this opened the door for our competitors, especially those that had exclusive arrangements. In addition some of our distributors were also representing our competitors and this caused tensions all around.
The name PPM has been associated for many years with toxic gas detection technology ever since PPM Ltd was established by Dr Tom Parry Jones OBE in 1993. Previously, Dr. Jones was the founding owner of Lion Laboratories, a world leader in breath alcohol detection technology.
We needed to act fast to resolve these issues in order to restore our credibility and revive our margins. To tackle this, we streamlined our distribution network in China, focusing on just two exclusive distributors. We decided that one distributor should hold the exclusive rights for our Formaldemeter 400-st model, while the Formaldemeter htv model was to be distributed through trusted sub-distributors, managed by our main distributor.
By so doing, we have effectively taken back control of the tendering process. We now have a policy that the first company to advise us of a tender is the only one which can pitch for it. This has worked out well, as over the last six months we have won all tenders, including the most recent one in December 2012, when Science International, one of our distributors in China won a tender to supply 119 Formaldemeter htv instruments to the Government Procurement Office of Shan Xi Province.
Having fewer distributors also means that we can focus on building long-term and trusted relationships with them, a crucial element for growth in Asia. Another advantage of this model is the savings in freight and insurance cost, realised simply by sending products in bulk to our main distributor, who in turn can pass this to the customer.
My advice would be take time to find distributors that already import and have good and prior knowledge of your intended market, as well as good English.
You must also allocate time and money to visit the market and your distributors as often as you can. They expect regular visits from senior management. Over the last 10 years I have travelled extensively to most Far Eastern markets including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. We still regularly visit our distributors to discuss product development and provide technical advice.
We found out that a great way to meet existing and potential distributors and new customers is through government-sponsored trade missions, as well as at trade shows, such as Eco Expo Asia.
Taking part in missions organised by International Business Wales and UK Trade & Investment over the years gave us access to expert advice, in-depth market insights and invaluable contacts through mission briefings and consulate networking events. If you're looking to explore Asia I definitely recommend going on an organised mission, as visiting an unfamiliar market on your own in Asia can be daunting and costly.
Despite the many pitfalls and challenges we've faced on our journey in Asia, particularly in China, I still thoroughly enjoy visiting Asia, especially Hong Kong and China. There's always a warm welcome there from our distributors, as well as the British embassy. As other markets in the region open up and continue developing, we will go on looking for opportunities to grow our business there, no doubt learning from our experiences along the way.
Be careful of distributors who are just out for a quick gain and not interested in building long-term relationships. This becomes apparent when you detect signs of little or no after- sale service and customer support.
Also, stand up to distributors who push too soon for exclusivity. Only work with them on this basis once they have proved themselves and it feels right to you.
Give prices in sterling – it helps with actual sales figures and bank charges but also due to currency fluctuations it is important to have a clause in your agreement to cover this issue.
Find distributors that have good command of English. In addition, it is always a bonus if they have previous business links to the UK.


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Hall of Fame è il terzo album in studio del rapper statunitense Polo G, pubblicato l'11 giugno 2021 dalla Columbia Records.

Antefatti
Nel 2020, Polo G ha iniziato a registrare il suo nuovo album. Ad aprile 2021, Barlett ha accennato a un brano in collaborazione con Lil Durk e The Kid Laroi con un video musicale.  A maggio, ha confermato che il collega di Chicago G Herbo sarebbe apparso nell'album, e il produttore DJ Scheme ha mostrato uno snippet del brano durante una live su Instagram. Il 16 maggio 2021, Polo ha confermato su Twitter di aver finito la registrazione dell'album, e il 27 maggio ha reso disponibile un trailer dell'album che annunciava la data di pubblicazione dell'album, insieme a uno snippet di un brano coniato dai fan Lil Wooski (che si scoprì poi essere invece intitolata Painting Pictures) e all'opzione di prenotarlo su tutti i servizi di streaming. Il 2 giugno ha condiviso su Instagram uno snippet del brano Toxic, indicandone il titolo. Il 3 giugno 2021 ha annunciato via social la tracklist e le collaborazioni dell'album.

Il 9 novembre dello stesso anno, Bartlett ha annunciato che il seguente 3 dicembre avrebbe messo in commercio la versione deluxe dell'album, Hall of Fame 2.0, chiacchierata sin da prima della pubblicazione della versione standard dell'album e contenente quattordici tracce aggiuntive. Ha annunciato inoltre la pubblicazione del primo brano inedito tratto da Hall of Fame 2.0, Bad Man (Smooth Criminal), reso disponibile il 12 novembre.

Promozione

Singoli
Il 25 settembre 2020, Polo G ha pubblicato il primo singolo dell'album, Epidemic, insieme ad un video musicale di accompagnamento.

Il secondo singolo, GNF (OKOKOK), è stato presentato insieme ad un video musicale diretto da Cole Bennett il 5 febbraio 2021.

Rapstar, il terzo singolo, è stato pubblicato il 9 aprile 2021, quasi un anno dopo la condivisione di uno snippet della versione acustica suonata da Einer Bankz. Il video, diretto da Arrad, è uscito in concomitanza con il singolo, e mostra Polo G accettare di entrare nella hall of fame dell'hip-hop. Il singolo ha raggiunto la prima posizione della Billboard Hot 100, rimanendoci per due settimane, e diventando così la prima number one di Polo G.

Il quarto e ultimo singolo, Gang Gang, è stato pubblicato il 21 maggio 2021, in collaborazione con Lil Wayne, l'idolo di Polo G.

Il video di No Return con The Kid Laroi e Lil Durk è stato pubblicato sul canale YouTube di Polo G il 12 giugno 2021. Il 18 giugno dello stesso anno, No Return è stato mandato alle radio italiane.

Il 17 giugno 2021 ha pubblicato il video della collaborazione con DaBaby Party Lyfe. La traccia è stata mandata alle radio italiane il 9 luglio 2021.

Video musicali per altri brani
Il video di Painting Pictures, l'intro dell'album, è stato pubblicato su YouTube il 15 giugno 2021 ed è stato girato al Marshall Field Garden Apartments (o 1300 Block), l'isolato dove il rapper ha trascorso l'infanzia.

Il 14 luglio 2021 ha divulgato il video del brano Toxic, girato da Ryan Lynch e diretto da CounterPoint 2.0.

La première del video di Black Hearted è stata resa disponibile su YouTube venerdi 20 luglio 2021.

Copertina
La copertina è stata annunciata il 26 maggio 2021, assieme alla data di pubblicazione dell'album. È stata creata dal direttore artistico Zanic e presenta Polo G in un abito in piedi su uno stand con i suoi premi alle spalle, e un busto raffigurante Polo.

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Successo commerciale
L'album ha debuttato al vertice della Billboard 200 con  unità equivalenti, divenendo la prima numero uno del rapper in madrepatria. Durante la settimana di debutto ha totalizzato  stream-equivalent units risultanti di 181,9 milioni di riproduzioni in streaming, mentre ha venduto  copie pure. Ha infine accumulato  track-equivalent units risultanti da  vendite digitali delle singole tracce. Il 1º luglio 2021 l'album è stato certificato oro dalla Recording Industry Association of America in seguito alle 500 000 copie vendute.

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'Malawi would have exploded had I not let go' – Joyce Banda speaks out
According to Joyce Banda who lost the election at the 30 May poll, in the year the country celebrates 50 years of independence, political violence would have been raised to an unprecedented level in the normally peaceful Malawi if she had not conceded. Mabvuto Banda reports.
Supporters of former president Joyce Banda's People's Party, and others, had been angered by the lengthy delay in the counting and announcement of results from the southern African nation's May 20 election. They armed themselves with petrol bombs and machetes, seemingly ready to take to the streets and die in protest.
"When I heard what was being planned, I made the decision to concede to help stop an escalation of violence because my supporters and others were arming themselves and preparing for a bloodbath … I didn't want that to happen on my watch, I had to stop it although I knew that the vote was stolen," said Banda in an exclusive interview with New African.
The 64-year-old Banda, southern Africa's first woman president, conceded defeat even when two powerful opposition parties – the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) backed her not to do so. They wanted a voting recount of the over six million votes cast across the country because of "fraudulent and rampant irregularities".
Reports included hackers allegedly breaking in to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) computers, and ballot tallies exceeding the number of registered voters in some constituencies. The MEC admitted that it had problems and abandoned its digital results platform, fuelling suspicions of skullduggery after a catalogue of mishaps surrounding the poll.
Both MCP, the rejuvenated party of late dictator Kamuzu Banda, who ruled the southern African nation for 30 years after independence from Britain and the UDF, a party headed by Atupele Muluzi, son to former President Bakili Muluzi, had earlier backed Joyce Banda's decision to scrap the election.
She went ahead and called for a fresh election within 90 days. But the courts stopped that after the MEC and Mutharika got a court order and dismissed Banda's declaration as unconstitutional.
"President Banda had no legal basis for stopping the election and that is why the High Court stopped her … no election is ever perfect and this one was no exception, but we never stole the election and therefore a recount was not warranted," Mutharika told a news conference hours before he was declared winner.
Mutharika said police and soldiers had been sent to his residence in the capital, Lilongwe, to search for a "hacking machine" but were refused entry because they had no warrant. Before Banda made the proclamation, the MEC had released the first results, four days after the vote, showing Mutharika leading with 42%, with 30% of the vote counted from over 4,000 polling centres across the country. This was very close to the pre-election Afrobarometer poll which predicted a Mutharika win.
"We knew that Joyce Banda was losing and she was trying to intimidate me by sending the army and making claims of rigging, demanding a vote recount," Mutharika told New African. But after a few days, the MEC made a U-turn and announced that it wanted to perform a recount because of numerous voting irregularities notified by all political parties except for the DPP. The election body sought a court order to extend the constitutionally-mandated eight-day counting period to 30 days.
This vindicated Banda's claims that the election was fraudulent and spurred other opposition parties into action, challenging the MEC in court and pushing for a manual recount of the vote. As the country waited for the court ruling, a coalition march of pro-recount parties in the lakeside town of Mangochi on the morning of 30 May clashed with police, leaving one protester dead.
"I knew that the violence was going to escalate and spread to other towns and I had to do something even if it meant me losing the presidency … I was ready to obey the court ruling."
Banda said Malawi's tripartite elections had been plagued by problems right from the start, with voting materials turning up hours late and ballot papers being sent to the wrong end of the country, infuriating voters who went on the rampage, burning ballot papers in the commercial city of Blantyre.
The elections commission had to extend voting in some urban areas into a second or third day, and initial counting was held up by a lack of lighting and generators at polling stations.
The security detail for the chairman of the elections commission, Judge Maxon Mbendera, was increased. His Commissioners also had to be protected round the clock because of the numerous threats they were receiving.
Thirty minutes before midnight on 30 May, the eighth day following the closure of voting, tension in the country's major cities was high. The government deployed armed police and the military patrolled the most volatile townships ready to move in and quell any violent protests.
Under her presidency, the economy's rate of growth accelerated from 1.8% to over 6%
High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda was expected to make a ruling in a few hours on whether to allow the elections commission to recount individual ballots across the country or order the authorities to announce the winner.
At 10:30pm the next day, his ruling finally came. He initially announced that the MEC was entitled to perform a recount, giving hope to those who opposed a Mutharika victory.
But Nyirenda added that any such recount would have to be performed within the commission's eight-day counting period. In other words, if the MEC wanted to manually recount around six million votes, it had an hour and a half to do so.
The MEC had no time to do a recount and behold Mutharika, a law professor, was announced the winner just before midnight and quickly sworn in the following day. While Banda clearly would have wanted to win the elections, it seems she was more anxious to ensure Mutharika did not. After all, it was her government that arrested him and charged him with treason for trying to stop her from ascending to power after Bingu wa Muntharika died in office.
A prominent woman rights activist and philanthropist, Joyce Banda came to power with a groundswell of support. But by the time the country went to the polls, she had lost most of it, especially the urban vote, mainly because of the infamous Cashgate – the alleged looting of over $15m from public coffers, which many believe may have contributed to her losing the election.
Banda perhaps fears that Mutharika will return the favour, although he has stated publicly that he will not seek revenge for his ill-treatment under Banda.
But Mutharika's new government will rule a divided country because he only won with 36% of the vote – meaning that over 60% of the voters did not vote for him.
Banda was hailed by the international community for repealing repressive laws, restoring relations with the diplomatic community, and she will also be remembered for empowering women among her other achievements.
Under her presidency, the economy's rate of growth accelerated from 1.8% to over 6%, and the foreign reserves position improved markedly for the country, which was in dire straits before she took over, experiencing shortages of fuel and other commodities.
But Onandi Banda, a rights activist, sums up Banda's legacy when he says that she will be remembered more for her last act in the last eight days of her presidency. "Many of us will never forget Joyce Banda and [her] quickly conceding defeat when all of us knew that there was overwhelming evidence of rigging … her decision swiftly stopped anyone who was planning violence in protest against the MEC and the High Court and facilitated a peaceful transition," he said.
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Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, Thursday, July 18, 2019, at the U.S. State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Pompeo takes aim at China at religious freedom conference
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said that China was responsible for the "stain of the century" of human rights abuses, citing mass detentions of Muslims and other minorities. Pompeo denounced China for its large-scale detentions in the western Xinjiang region , where an...
Supreme Court to review Montana school choice program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider reviving a Montana program that gives tax credits to people who donate to private-school scholarships. The state's highest court had struck down the program because it violated the Montana constitution's ban on state aid to religious organizations...
President Donald Trump, right, greets Ralph Reed, left, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, before speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Evangelical group to spend $50M on get-out-the-vote efforts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran conservative activist Ralph Reed says the faith-based group he leads plans to spend at least $50 million on get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020. That investment is part of a large-scale marshaling of evangelical resources that's poised to benefit President Donald Trump's...
FILE - In this March 27, 2019 file photo, a woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., north of New York City. On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, federal health officials updated the U.S. measles case count, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York ends religious exemption to vaccine mandates
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York eliminated a religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, following a trend of states trying to clamp down on opt-outs in the face of its worst measles outbreak in decades . The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly voted Thursday to repeal the...
In this photo taken May 23, 2019, and released by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad, left, speaks with a monk at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The U.S. ambassador to China urged Beijing to engage in substantive dialogue with exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama during a visit to the Himalayan region over the past week, the Embassy said Saturday. (U.S. Mission to China via AP)
US ambassador raises concerns during rare Tibet visit
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China urged Beijing to engage in substantive dialogue with exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama during a visit to the Himalayan region over the past week, the U.S. Embassy said Saturday. Terry Branstad also "expressed concerns regarding the Chinese...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, right, and Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arrive for a religious freedom round table event at Lambeth Palace in central London, Wednesday May 8, 2019. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in London for talks with British officials on the status of the special relationship between the nations amid heightened tensions with Iran and uncertainty over Britain's exit from the European Union. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
Pompeo in London to discuss the UK-US 'special relationship'
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in London for talks with British officials on the status of the special relationship between the two nations amid heightened tensions with Iran and uncertainty over Britain's exit from the European Union. Pompeo will meet Wednesday with British...
In this Thursday, April 4, 2019, photo, kindergarten teacher Haniyfa Scott gives a lesson during class in Montreal. The Quebec government's recently tabled Bill 21 bans the wearing of religious symbols for new government placed employees within schools, the courts and law enforcement. Bill 21 is Quebec's fourth legislative attempt since 2011 to regulate the wearing of religious symbols for people working in the public sphere, and for the first time it invokes a constitutional clause allowing local governments to override some constitutional rights. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP)
Quebec proposes ban on religious clothing for public workers
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Patrick Murphy. Texas prisons will no longer allow clergy in the death chamber after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution of Murphy who argued his religious freedom would be violated if his Buddhist spiritual adviser couldn't accompany him. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Wednesday, April 3, 2019, effective immediately it will only permit security staff into the death chamber because of the high court's ruling staying the execution of Murphy, a member of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)
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Pope: Catholics in Morocco should talk with Muslim neighbors
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The early 1990's new wave of American cinema set in motion the highly successful careers of Quentin Tarantino, Rick Linklater and Robert Rodriguez among others. Yet it was Alexandre Rockwell's offbeat comic take on moviemaking, 'In the Soup', that won the coveted Grand Jury Prize at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. The Tirana Film Festival will screen a print of this unjustly forgotten gem on its closing night.
The 5th edition of TIIF is very pleased to welcome in-person director Alexandre Rockwell as well as 'In the Soup's original cinematographer, Phil Parmet (he recently shot Tarantino's segment of 'Grindhouse').


Mississippi's fisheries managers say speckled trout in the Magnolia State are receiving too much fishing pressure, and regulations need to be changed to rebuild the stock. Biologists with the state's Department of Marine Fisheries presented their findings to the commission that manages the agency Tuesday.
Currently, anglers are restricted to 15 fish per day that must measure at least 13 inches. Mississippi also has a 50,000-pound commercial quota.
At the Commission on Marine Resources meeting Tuesday, Jamie Miller, executive director of the department, said all regulations were fair game for tightening.
"Is bag limit on the table? Yes. Is minimum size on the table? Yes. Is slot limit on the table? Yes," he said.
Current spawning potential ratio of Mississippi's speckled trout population is 10.2 percent, according to Melissa Scallan, media relations director for the department. SPR is a measurement scientists use to determine the health of a particular species of fish. It is basically a comparison of spawning productivity compared to what would exist in an unfished fishery.
During a commission debate on raising the SPR of speckled trout to 20 percent, biologist Matt Hill said it could be done, but some significant changes would have to be made.
"It would then be considered a population that is overfished," he said. "To stop that, we would basically have to cut the harvest in half."
The only way to do that would be to change regulations, biologist Paul Mickle said. Mississippi's 15-fish creel limit was established in 1996, and its size limit was relaxed from 14 to 13 inches in 2007.
"We can change our fishing mortality -- fish that are being removed from fishing," Mickle said. "As managers, we can control this."
The commission ultimately approved setting the SPR at 20 percent, but exactly how the state gets there hasn't yet been settled, Scallan said.
"What they've asked our staff to do is to come up with some recommendations for the best way to get that done," she said. "They don't want to do too many (changes) at once because then they won't know which one worked."
Some anglers are pushing for similar regulation changes in Louisiana.
Between 1981 and 2013, Louisiana's SPR value ranged between 8 and 20 percent, with a median value of 11 percent. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries fisheries biologist Jason Adriance told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in July the current SPR is 10 percent.
Is it time for Louisiana to lower its speckled trout limits?
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In January/February, Arnold Donald, CEO of global leader Carnival Corporation, shared his life story from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans to the pinnacle of the leisure travel industry. The accompanying case study focused on Carnival Corporation and Ted Arison, a founding father of the industry.
In March/April, Michael Kasbar, co-founder and CEO of global giant World Fuel Services, tackled the question of what the future of fuel will be. "The whole world has changed with low oil and gas prices and the emergence of alternative fuels," he says. "Now i'ts a new world order with low demand and too much supply and lots of new energy choices. We need to adjust to this new environment and once again reinvent ourselves." And that's exactly what he's doing.
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Thank you guys for this interview and congrats for this cool website.
1. What does 3D represent for you?
3D in Italy has for years reached a very good level. This is also confirmed by many artists who work for the most varied productions, both here in Italy and abroad.
The Italian artist has, in my opinion, extra skills and companies know it.
It would help a lot if the community were a little more coherent and compact enough to consolidate our value.
Working on the awareness and disclosing our strength would be important as a message for young people.
2. What do you think an artist should do to be professional?
As I always say, everyone is on their way, there is not just one way. I can only answer this question by sharing my personal experience, hoping to help people who want to live doing 3D or in general in the CG industry. I come from a neighborhood in the city of Naples not famous for the CG "Pallonetto di Santa Lucia" (Spanish Quarter).
I never thought to make money doing digital art. I discovered 3D very late in 2009.
I did a course in Naples and after I started following the first online courses, those that were available at that time. I was already 28 years old and needed my time to get better, experiment and work on it. So I chose the only path I could, and I decided to do Modeling. Compared to many of my colleagues, I may be less "encyclopedic" as far as the CG is concerned, but at the end I have found my way.
3. What is the plus you need to have over the technique?
To have solid skills, if you have it there are no problem. This means having good knowledge of 2D.
As I always say, software is a "useless" script box and means nothing if the artist who handles it is not aware of what he has to do.
Today more than ever it is important to develop your own personal branding to attract appeal to your professional profile.
Competition in these years has become increasingly hard.
4. Tell us about Digital Shark Academy?
Digital Shark is a long-term project that aims to consolidate solid bases in the 3D Italian community.
We work on training courses that give the student a clear picture, have a real vision of the market and the opportunities that this industry offers.
We allow our students to interact with the Italians who work in the most influential productions, both in our country and abroad.
We work on mentorship-driven paths rather than focusing all resources on software and tools.
Working on consolidating a solid background I believe can be the plus of our project.
This will be the future of training in the coming years.
There are so many online and offline tutorials, that sometimes students can get confuse.
The idea of investing in Naples in this project was mine, a beautiful and crazy idea.
Soon our courses will also start online so everybody can study on our courses.
5. You had many experience, which one impact on your career?
Well, I'm working at MPC right now and I think is the best job I had so far.
Working on a big project like the Lion King for Disney, doesn't happen every day.
6. What do you think are the advantages and lack of the international CG industry ?
There are no advantages or lack.
If you know what you want sooner or later you get it, you just have to be convinced of your possibilities and "demonstrate" with the facts that you can reach that goal.
More facts and less words, if you are in Italy or abroad doesn't make any difference.
Paradoxically in Italy you may have more chance to emerge, today there is much more competition abroad and believe me, it is not easy at all.
7. What exactly does a Senior Modeler TD?
Modeling 24H on 24H hahahah.
By the way, it is necessary to have a strong attitude to the volumes, to the design.
You need to have the eye of a photographer to capture details, have human and animal anatomy skills and above all have so much patience.
Knowing the correct polygon management (topology) is the plus that all companies are looking for. Our tasks are mainly Hard surface and organic modeling, unwrap and sometimes texturing, if required.
I reveal a secret to you, I'm so in love with this job that while I'm doing UV make me feel relaxed.
8. What about the pipeline?
Modelers are the first to work on the actual production of CG (building) content. Modelers are right after the concept and layout phase (pre-production). We have the responsibility of working models ready for all other departments, texturing, lighting and rigging / animation.
9. Which 3D Italian artists have inspired you more?
They inspired me and after all encouraged me to pursue my Italian target artists who now hold roles of responsibility in foreign companies. Giuseppe Improta is my mentor and also Cristian Spagnuolo.
I had the pleasure to know so many Italian artists along the way like Giuseppe Bufalo and Carmine Napolitano.
Here, they are the 3D artists to have on the list of artists to follow if you really want to start opening your mind on CG made in Italy.
There are a lot Italian 3D artists, and many in this site, but now you know more.
10. What is your greatest dream?
My greatest dream is to continue doing what I do and see my daughter grow healthy and happy.
I will continue to push until my eyes and hands allow me to do so, in the meantime I will continue to believe in my projects and the Italian community, helping them with all my resources available.
I thank you for having contacted me, and I hope so much to see this project grow and hope that my interview can be helpful.


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Posted on June 12, 2014 by Gearoid O'Neary
As the 20th staging of the FIFA Word Cup international football tournament finals gets underway today in Brazil, I thought it appropriate to combine my interest in genealogy with the great sport of [Association] Football – or soccer as it is known in countries such as America and Ireland where native team game players of old stole the football name before it could be copyrighted (yet perversely all other versions of football involve moving the ball by hand, mainly).
Even Football Clubs have birth certificates, strange as it seems – and some clubs are "getting on a bit." Most established English clubs are now older than the oldest living Englishman. The FC birth cert below shows that one of England's most successful teams, Liverpool Football Club, celebrated its 122nd birthday just last week. As with traditional vital records, this particular birth cert records the name of the proud father of the new arrival. In a bizarre twist which amuses football fanatics on Merseyside, Liverpool FC was spawned by its long-time arch-rival, Everton FC. In 1892, Everton was a popular and strapping 14 year-old. As genealogists know, in Victorian times it was quite common for teenagers to enter fatherhood or motherhood. Amazingly, LFC's father, Everton is still going strong and rather cheekily keeps making comeback appearances which threaten to destabilize the red team's recent domination of the soccer-mad city of Liverpool in terms of on-field success.
As a consequence of sharing my life with a Red Scouser, Liverpool FC have become my second favourite domestic side. I will never abandon my "first team" though, after my father dragged me along to become a spectator of my first professional football match as a schoolboy. Ancestrally, my family developed an unbreakable affinity with Blackburn Rovers Football Club which is even older than Liverpool FC and its daddy, Everton. As the club badge shows, Blackburn Rovers was baptized as a club in 1875, although this was a delayed christening after other nicknames had been adopted and rejected by the new kid on the 1870's football scene.
Even BRFC was a relative youngster when it came into formal existence. The honour of elder statesman in English professional football ranks goes to Notts County FC. In November this year, Notts County will be 152 years-old having played about 4,750 Football League matches. County is still capable of showing some young upstarts a thing or two about the beautiful game, although the old man has not been fit enough to compete in the top division for 20 years. "At the end of the day, the legs have gone, late in the game," as a semi-literate TV pundit will probably say more than once during the next glorious month of World Cup highlights.
The first FIFA World Cup Final tournament was held in South America in 1930, so it's appropriate that the same continent hosts the finale of the 20th competition. My beloved BRFC was already in late middle age by then, and County had even become a pensioner. It's a funny OLD game.
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Statistics Canada reports that following a record $9.5 billion in April, the value of permits issued by Canadian municipalities declined 13.0% to $8.2 billion in May. Increases in six provinces and all three territories were not enough to offset the decrease in British Columbia.
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The national decrease was largely the result of the value of permits for multi-family dwellings in British Columbia returning to recent levels, following a significant rise the previous month in response to Metro Vancouver's impending increases in development costs introduced in May.
Residential permits return to previous levels after surge in April
The value of residential permits was down 17.2% to $5.0 billion in May, following a 26.6% increase in April.
Despite the overall decline in the multi-family dwelling component, seven provinces reported increases, with record highs in Prince Edward Island ($34 million) and New Brunswick ($30 million).
Meanwhile, the value of single-family dwelling permits rose 1.8% to $2.3 billion, led by Ontario (+$47 million).
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Roadnet Finland Oy is a full subsidiary of Hämeen Kuljetus Oy and a major Finnish provider of logistics services for industrial and commercial companies. Hämeen Kuljetus Oy is one of Finland's biggest rock material sellers and transportation companies.
On behalf of Vaasan bakery, Roadnet Finland has opened a 3PL operation in Tampere, where Vaasan is delivering fresh product in bulk from a number of their bakeries. In the terminal, orders for regional stores are picked and then delivered in time before shops open. This process fits in Vaasan's network redesign which has been a focus for 2017 and which includes outsourcing operations in specific locations.
The cooperation between Vaasan, a leading Finnish bakery company, and Pcdata already dates back to 2004, when a national rollout of the Distrib Pick to Light solution was conducted to 14 bakeries. These systems have been up and running ever since.
The company has built-on previous experience by Vaasan through their terminal-operation in Jyväskylä, where a Distrib Put to Light system was installed earlier this year. Company representatives visited the site in Jyväskylä and very quickly were ascertained that this same process would suit their operation perfectly. In the terminal in Tampere, there are several deliveries of product during the late afternoon and evening.
Orders are broken down to more than 200 store orders, using overhead installed LED-displays for each individual store. The process is controlled by Pcdata's industrial, touch-screen workstations that are configured as so-called Pre- and End-dispatchers; Pre-dispatch stations receive product inbound, validate and verify actual quantities received and then pre-dispatch the required quantities to a number of End-dispatch sections. These End-dispatch sections are built in such a way, that workload can be evenly divided between a number of employees, without interfering with each other. The system keeps track of Inventory and Dispatch status and pro-actively informs operators on progress with the use of the Distrib Performance Dashboard tool; a large TV-screen in the warehouse keeps operators informed about their own and their team's actual performance.
In order to optimise floor space utilization, special rack-locations have been designed, where small customer orders are assigned to multi-level racks or benches. Due to this set-up, less floor space is occupied by small customer orders, and walking distances for operators are reduced since these orders are grouped together on a small area.
The system has been installed in cooperation between Roadnet Finland, Vaasan and Pcdata employees and has been up-and-running since. After a couple of days of getting familiar with the system, operators are now consistently meeting the performance targets set.
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Inevitable Assimilation Will Extinct the Tamil Diaspora in another Fifty Years
Tamil Diaspora put up another rowdy and third class show of Tamil culture in London. Inability of sane sections of the Tamil community to counter these moves inevitably lands them into the same lot. It is this silence of good people that encourage the bad lot to carry on. Unfortunately for them, they and their culture are judged by fellow Londoners by their public conduct which is despicable to say the least. No other London community displays such dastardly behaviour in public with flags of a banned terrorist organisation, disruption of roads, inconvenience to commuters, occupation of airports and other public places and inability to show respect to visiting dignitaries. This is in addition to widespread criminal activity the word Tamil is associated with in western countries including human smuggling, terrorism, weapons procurement, street fighting, drug dealings, credit card scams, robberies, extortion, prostitution, gang warfare, extremism, illegal migration, money laundering, stock marker related crimes, piracy and many other spectacular felonies.
However, there is a bigger movement of which they are a part of. Unknown to them they are going extinct. In another fifty years time, the entire Tamil Diaspora will go extinct without much of a trace. A few Tamil Nadu cultural leftovers and places of worship will remain as monuments to what was once a boisterous group of people displaced from their Asian habitats over the years. From generation to generation, Tamil cultural and traditional values erode drastically. Second generation Tamils are less fluent, literate and conversant in Tamil than the first generation. The third generation is even less acquainted than the second generation. Tamil nationalism is also dying in the second and third generations. First generation Tamils struggle hard to sustain their hate campaign alive with lukewarm support from the second generation. For the second generation the driving forces of getting into Tamil activities are to get popular within the community and to resist the various forms of discrimination including colour discrimination they face in western nations. At this rate the Tamil identity will be dead in another fifty years' time at most.
Over the past few decades there was a steady flow of Tamils into western countries that always renewed the Tamil communities in these countries. That is the reason for the vociferous conduct of Tamils. When the influx reduces, so does the Tamilness of the community. Following the end of the war, Tamil migration has collapsed depriving worldwide Tamil communities any new impetus from the influx of additional South Indian culture.
In UK, Canada, Australia or any other greener pasture, Tamils are a smaller minority than many Asian minorities. Various Indian ethnic groups, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Arabs, Chinese and many others outnumber Tamils, individually. African and Latin American minorities are also higher in number. In this context, there is absolutely nothing special about the Tamil minority in western nations. As each ethnic group's success is measured by its rate of integration, the Tamil community has two options ""…" to integrate which will eventually bury the Tamil identity or be left behind.
Unlike Sri Lanka, UK, Canada, USA, Australia, Germany or any other country where Tamils are in large numbers don't recognise the Tamil language as an official or national language; Tamil cultural or religious holidays are not recognized at all; Tamil grievances and aspirations are not given any regard and Tamil enclaves are not allowed. They work to accelerate the demise of the Tamil identity. In another fifty years' time, melting pots in western countries would have swallowed the Tamil community into it. It has a lesson for Sri Lanka. When other countries force Tamils into assimilation into their language, culture, majority values and laws, Sri Lanka goes in the reverse gear in pandering into Tamils. Other countries will be peaceful as a result whereas Sri Lanka will continue to haggle with Tamil demands and enclaves. Instead of pandering into language and other demands, had Sri Lanka stood firm, Tamils would have peacefully integrated into the majority community in Lanka as well. Myopic leaders prioritised short term convenience over long term assimilation in the island whereas in western nations Tamils are forced to assimilate. Certain Tamil groups call it "ƒ"¹…"structural genocide' of Tamils. So be it.
Comparison with older Diaspora communities makes no sense. These communities were in Europe for thousands of years. At the time they arrived in Europe, there were no larger migrant communities in these nations. They had a close connection with places of Christ's birth and life which was important for Europeans. Western countries, USA in particular, recognize cultural and religious holidays and events of these communities with state sponsorship. Tamil community can never hope to have any of this. It is better to recognize the Chinese, Arabic, Hindi or Sudanese community interests than Tamil interests as the former group commands a larger number of people in their respective communities.
Best approach to the Tamil Diaspora is to ignore its antics (except for criminal acts). As the saying goes, crabs "ƒ"¹…"dance' in a cooking pot only until the water boils. This is the inevitable fate of the Tamil Diaspora in western melting pots that don't recognize the Tamil language or culture let alone grievances and aspirations.
22 Responses to "Inevitable Assimilation Will Extinct the Tamil Diaspora in another Fifty Years"
Vis8 Says:
Shhhhhhhhhhhh. Let these megalomanics make fools of themselves… Canada has finally realized who these 'innocent refugees' are: terrorists in sheeps' clothing, receiving their sympathy and tax money, while continuing to fabricate stories to protect their refugee status.
Western politicians who cuddled these terrorists in the UK will realize soon, that they cannot fool the British public for much longer.
Susantha Wijesinghe Says:
LOW CASTE TAMIL TERRORISTS MEN AND WOMEN OF DIASPORA FAME, ARE PORTRAYING THEIR INNATE TRUE INSTINTCS AND CHARACTER AS GLOBAL HOOLIGANS. THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRIES, HOSTING THIS TAMIL SCUM, ARE GRADUALLY COMING TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE. IT WILL BE THY KINGDOM COME SOONER OR LATER.
Nalliah Thayabharan Says:
Diaspora's current breadwinners are the original immigrant population. These are people who grew up in Sri Lanka, who have shared memories and relationships with the remaining Tamil population. Relationships are the ties that bind. Much of the upcoming Diaspora generation has had no direct contact with Sri Lanka's Tamil population. A large portion of this generation does not speak Tamil and would be unable to have anything but the most basic of conversations with their Sri Lankan counterparts. For others, their connection to Sri Lanka is romantic and genetic – the way many Americans refer to their long-forgotten German or English ancestry.Tamil Diaspora risks losing itself within their host country identities. If Diaspora parents do not bring their children to visit, connection to Sri Lanka will be further diluted as upcoming generations settle deeper into their host nations.With the possibility of Tamil Eelam gone, much of the Tamil Diaspora has lost all desire to return to Sri Lanka.
Dilrook !
By 2025 85% will be settled deeper into their host nation. By 2035, 98%will be settled too deep into their host nation.
Dham Says:
How about Diaspora Sinhalas. Much the same and even worse.
Nimal Says:
I would like to disagree a bit.They seems to be introverted by nature will not assimilate easily with the host community there for likelihood of they being together is great and that goes to the new generation as well.But there's a bit of hope with the third generation.but this hope of they fading away will be diminished by a new crop of young people who will be smuggled or travel to the west in a legitimate route thus keep the diaspora active.Only way to stop this is to bring good governance and economic prosperity in the country just as in Singapore and equal rights and privileges to the minorities must be paramount.Politicians must not get involved in religious affairs as it sends a wrong message to the minorities that would alienate them further.Bias towards one religion is highly divisive and even impede well being of the communities in SL.We must get our house in order that would prevent the diaspora staying active.
myopinion24 Says:
Shared vision, equal opportunity, economic prosperity etc are the ingredients that will make the discussion regarding minorities and majorities largely irrelevant. The problem now is that we have too many self-appointed, conservative factions steeped in historical logic trying to preserve something that is not controllable in a meaninful manner. A successful economic agenda is possibly the only way to create common ground. An economic agenda has the ability to lift itself above all of the other issues to provide a framework for gradual and meaningful tolerance of various cultural/historical issues
Nimal,
I too agree with you.
Reaseach done in Austrlia shows it is the Sinhalese who marry ourside teir race more than any other migrant race.
While the stupid Sinhalas first to give up even Buddhism to become fasionable Athiest, Tamils hang on to their language and so on. Look at Ben Silva for example. Look at the nonsence he wrote in Lanka Web. I hople he is well and has realised the insluts he made to Buddhism.
Dilrook Says:
Much the same for the Sinhala Diaspora too. However, it has little impact on Sri Lanka because the Sinhala Diaspora (about 2% of the Sinhala population) is very much smaller than the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora (more than 20%). Tamils from South India in the Diaspora are not really active against Lankan leaders. So the impact is astronomically high for the Tamil Diaspora and immaterial for the Sinhala Diaspora.
Agree with Nalliah Thayabharan. However, I took a more conservative estimation.
Disagree with Nimal. This 'introvertness' of Tamils could be sustained in Sri Lanka because of Tamil gaining national and official language status and many other concessions not there for minorities elsewhere (public holidays and state patronage). This is not there in foreign countries. Tamils who migrated soon after 1972 are now dormant. They have grown old and their children take very little interest. Technically Tamils in Sri Lanka are also part of the Tamil Diaspora. They still depend on Tamil Nadu for their entire (emphasised) cultural survival. As a result there is no need to retain Tamils in Sri Lanka. Tamil Nadu may want to retain them for its continued cultural productions and Tamil cultural hub sustenance but not Sri Lanka.
The whole point is the Tamil Diaspora is totally (emphasised) irrelevant to Sri Lankan decision making and its little voice or noise will also die down in a maximum 50 years' time.
If the close to a million Tamil Diaspora remained in Sri Lanka, TNA would be getting many times more votes and many more seats than now. This is the stark reality. Depletion of the Tamil population in the north and east has given a golden opportunity to the government to create a multi ethnic north through settling people other than Tamils there. This opportunity must not be missed. It is the other side of the coin.
Tamil assimilation is very fast that from 2009 to 2012 there is a remarkable reduction in their support for the 'Tamil struggle'.
During the last stages of the war, there was a very large number of them protesting, etc. It fell down after the war when the Vadukoddai resolution series were held.
It further reduced thereafter when the TGTE elections were held.
Now it is very smaller than any of the above.
Actually 50 years may be stretching it too far.
Today Tamil children are more into western music than Tamil music; western drama than Tamil drama and western way of life than Tamil way of life. Good on them to assimilate as they have little choice in the west. Sri Lanka must follow suit.
AnuD Says:
There are studies here that immigrant never feel truly home here but the first generation is well adapted. On the other hand, when it's come to the next generation they will look for their roots.
May182009 Says:
"Depletion of the Tamil population in the north and east has given a golden opportunity to the government to create a multi ethnic north through settling people other than Tamils there. This opportunity must not be missed."
Exactly! We have been harping on this for a long time.
What needs to happen is what DS Senanayake (Father of the nation) did – colonization. People will make their own relationships at their own pace. Thanks to colonization, we are now able to weaken Tamil racist political parties. I hope the government will do the same as Father of the nation did.
lingamAndy Says:
Nimal/ Dham – too agree with you
We must get our house in order that would prevent the diaspora staying active- If We done it , We will be better than Singapore over night !!!
dhane Says:
Our first prime minister Late DS Senanayake (Father of the nation, who had experience working with racist people like GGP etc) did – colonization knowing what is going to happened established separate Land Development Department to colonize North & East. But unfortunately subsequent Governments dissolved LDD and abandon the whole idea. If LDD continued to developed and more people from south were settled in those areas people would have their own relationships at their own new settlements. Today SL is faced Tamil racist political parties Home Land concept because of this grave mistake.
dhane
LDD and abandon the whole idea- Not agrred they did not abandon but they went for sort cut ???
kicked out Tamil from south to NEP ( 1952 to 1983) & to out side world ! now We all paying for this mistake!
Naram Says:
In reply to Dhane, I have to say what many may consider a stupid remark. In my travelsin the dry zone, I have yet to see real prosperity among the folks occupying the irrigated dry zone lands- Polonnaruwa Anuradhapura, Padaviya etc despite the greener look. Accepting that Some change has taken place in the last 5 years the rural economy is still too fragile diseases, under norishment, attacks by wild beasts, a hard struggle to earn the basic necessities of lifeis still a factof life. Perhaps the rest of the population do not understand the problems of absence of infrastructure and social services and are not ready to make the sort of subsidies that make agriculture an attractive investment.
Why do we still import apples and grapes .
[Why do we still import apples and grapes . ]
All the journalists and those who scream loud are in cities. so the "development" is for urbanized voters.
We can not write those things here. Posts will hold for moderation.
Fran Diaz Says:
Tamil Economic Refugees (TERs) is a better term than "Diaspora" which was a word to describe the Jewish people scattered throughout the world. Dilrook's article is probably correct : TERs will settle down abroad and learn foreign languages and life styles. In looking for Roots, they will likely look to a more progressive Tamil Nadu as their main homeland, rather than Lanka.
However, in the present and also future years, Sri Lankans will have to be vigilante for illegal migrants especially from Tamil Nadu. Tamil peoples' Caste/poverty problems come mainly from Tamil Nadu. That problem must be solved in Tamil Nadu but it will take quite a while (we reckon about 20-50 yrs) before it is completely sorted out in a peaceful manner. Till then, Lanka be aware ! Do not allow illegal migrants.
The other troubled spot is the tea sector. The Tamil workers earlier brought in by the British still live in poor and secluded conditions. Line rooms are still in existence with repetitive type of hard labor with poor pay. Sri Lanka authorities must resolve this problem before it becomes yet another international HR issue. Mechanisation with small tea plucking machines which can operate even on slopes and larger machines for flat areas should be used. Modernisation of accommodation with quarters outside of the tea estates would be much more suitable to enable this community to integrate into mainstream society.
Naram
That is because governments didn't invest enough.
For the past 3 years alone government spent 1 million rupees each for every person living in the north in investments. If such investments were made in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa areas, there will be as prosperous like Jaffna.
In addition, look at the education and hospital (non military) allocation for Jaffna. At least 10 times that of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. Why can't they make that investment in NCP and not NP?
Infrastructure development must happen with colonization. Both should go hand in hand.
This is 100% true. This is the main root cause.
DSS knew extremely well the likes of GGP and Chelva. And what they were planning to do. More importantly he did something about it.
SWRDB stopped colonization schemes after the 1956 Gal Oya riot. Gal Oya riot was started by ITAK to disrupt the colonization scheme. It worked very well as SWRDB feared violence and foolishly stopped the good work. He should have pushed on.
Similarly he did nothing to stop Chelva putting tar on Sinhala letters allowing it to become a national riot.
General Janaka Perera also identified the importance of colonization and thanks to his vision, Weli Oya was created which separated the north from the east.
Prioritise infrastructure development, education and hospital allocation to these areas and do colonization again. We won't be talking about TNA thereafter.
Curiously, some writers NEVER use the words "Sinhala Diaspora" when referring to Sinhala people abroad, or the words "Tamil Colonization" of the South when referring to Tamil people coming to settle in South of Lanka and other parts of Lanka. Instead, they say "Tamil Diaspora" & "Sinhala Colonisation" much to the advantage of Tamil Separatists !
For Sinhala people, who needs enemies when we have friends among us doing the needful, quite inadvertently, to discredit us,
Naturalization of Tamils is urgent now. Tamils are ours. We should organise naturalization ceremonies sialnd wide to assimilate them. In the cerenmony videos shold be played to prove the bad behaviour of Tamil politicans and what happened, followed by singing of national anthem in Sinhala and then taking an oath.
Lingam Ayya what do you think ?
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IRS Cover-Up Continues
Two days ago, Lois Lerner, the director of the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations division, told the House committee investigating the IRS scandal that she didn't do anything wrong. She then refused to answer any questions and invoked her Constitutional right against self-incrimination. In other words, she pleaded the 5th.
So far, both Congressmen and reporters trying to find out who knew what and when they knew it are having a mighty hard time getting anyone to tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" about this spreading scandal.
We now know that White House officials were told of the accusations and a resulting internal investigation long before the news became public. But we're supposed to believe that no one told President Barack Obama about it. Just like the rest of us, he didn't know anything until the story made national TV. Sure.
Turns out that several other things we have been told are simply not true, either — like the fairy tale that Obama fired the acting commissioner of the IRS. Acting Commissioner Steven Miller's appointment was going to end early next month anyway.
Nor did the commissioner in charge of the tax-exempt division get the ax. James Grant, a veteran IRS bureaucrat, quietly announced his retirement as of June 3. The IRS issued a very respectful statement about Grant's departure, without any hint of a problem or that he had had suffered any sort of punishment or disgrace.
In other words, despite all of the claims to the contrary, not a single person in the IRS has lost his job over the scandal. In fact, the one person who was supervising those so-called "rogue" IRS employees when the infractions occurred not only wasn't dismissed or demoted, she actually received a promotion.
In fact, Grant was made commissioner of the tax-exempt department only a little while ago. For the past three years, his boss was a woman named Sara Hall Ingram. And she didn't get fired or demoted over the abuses by her staff; she got promoted.
That's right. Ingram is now the director of the IRS's Affordable Care Office. As hard as it may be to believe, the person in charge of the division at the IRS that singled out patriotic groups for special scrutiny is now the chief enforcer of Obamacare. Doesn't that make you feel warm and cozy?
Oh, by the way, Ingram was handsomely rewarded for all of her efforts on behalf of the regime. Check out the loot that a grateful government awarded her while her employees were putting the squeeze on Tea Party types: In addition to a six-figure salary, Ingram collected bonuses of $34,400 in 2010, $35,400 in 2011, and $26,550 in 2012.
Who says crime doesn't pay?
When The Media Turn On Obama
Yes, I know, it's probably too much to hope that most of the mainstream press will put down their rose-colored glasses long enough to take a hard, unvarnished look at their liberal hero, Obama.
But it doesn't take many cracks in the dyke for the truth to start leaking out. And in the past few days, there have been several encouraging signs that many in the media are starting to look past the White House spinmeisters. When they do, no wonder they're deeply disturbed by what they see.
I call as my first witness Bob Woodward. Along with his partner, Carl Bernstein, Woodward helped expose the Watergate scandal back in the 1970s that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Woodward says he sees a similarity between those events and the scandals that are now embroiling the Obama Administration over events in Benghazi, Libya.
"I have to go back 40 years to Watergate, when Nixon put out his edited transcripts of the conversations," Woodward said. "He personally went through them and said, 'Let's not tell this, let's not show this.'"
The famed reporter says the controversy is not going to go away any time soon. "I would not dismiss Benghazi," he said, "It's a very serious issue. As people keep saying, four people were killed."
Meanwhile, Bernstein said the actions of Obama Administration officials who seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters were "outrageous." He added that even if Obama did not know about the details of the action, he was certainly aware of the policy.
Now we've learned that three years ago, the Justice Department labeled FOX News correspondent James Rosen as a possible co-conspirator in a criminal case involving leaked classified information. The government lawyers did so to justify going through Rosen's personal emails. But at no time was Rosen notified that he was a target of the probe, as the law requires.
This obvious violation of Rosen's 1st Amendment rights should alarm every reporter and editor in the country. Heck, it should make all of us furious at the Administration's callous disregard of our Constitutional guarantees. But, then again, when has the Obama Administration paid more than lip service to the U.S. Constitution anyway?
As more and more reporters refuse to accept the White House's absurd explanations for events and start digging for the truth themselves, much of what they find will alarm them. Who knows what could happen as more of this Administration's deceit is revealed?
Consider, for example, what happened when a reporter from The Washington Post talked with an IRS worker in the Cincinnati office — you know, one of those "rogue employees" who allegedly decided on their own to target conservative groups with extra scrutiny.
"We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do," The Post quoted the indignant staffer as saying. "Everything comes from the top. We don't have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive."
And even when aides do come to the Administration's defense, sometimes they just dig the hole deeper. That's what happened when Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to Obama, made the rounds of the Sunday morning talk shows five days ago. Instead of defusing questions about the three crises that have engulfed the White House, Pfeiffer only made matters worse.
His first miscalculation came when he appeared on "Fox Sunday Morning"with Chris Wallace. The reporter wanted to know where the President was, and what he was doing, the night of the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi. Was he monitoring events from the Situation Room? "That's a largely irrelevant fact," Pfeiffer replied.
The aide seemed to like that dodge so much that he tried it again when he appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. The host pressed him about the growing IRS scandal: "What does the president believe," he asked. "Does the president believe that [targeting conservative groups] would be illegal?"
Pfeiffer replied, "The law is irrelevant." A visibly astonished Stephanopoulos replied, "You don't really mean the law is irrelevant, do you?"
Yes, George, they really do. The truth is whatever they say it is. And how dare anyone question them about it.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) put it well when he said, "The president's entire program is based on giving more and more power to the same executive branch agencies demonstrating themselves this week to either be criminally incompetent or tyrannically corrupt."
And Lee concluded, "This is what always happens when government gets too big. The Founders knew that over time, either the people would control the government or the government would control the people. That's why they bequeathed us a constitutionally limited government — a republic, if we could keep it."
We've seen other Presidents try desperately to sweep a growing controversy under the rug. But the truth can defeat them every time, if sufficient pains are taken to bring it to light.
Let's do our part to continue shining the spotlight where it's needed the most. And watch the cockroaches scurry for cover.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
–Chip Wood
http://personalliberty.com/2013/05/2...-up-continues/


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The Story of the Lost Son
11 Jesus continued, "There was a man who had two sons.
12 The younger son spoke to his father. He said, 'Father, give me my share of the family property.' So the father divided his property between his two sons.
13 "Not long after that, the younger son packed up all he had. Then he left for a country far away. There he wasted his money on wild living.
14 He spent everything he had. "Then the whole country ran low on food. So the son didn't have what he needed.
15 He went to work for someone who lived in that country, who sent him to the fields to feed the pigs.
16 The son wanted to fill his stomach with the food the pigs were eating. But no one gave him anything.
17 "Then he began to think clearly again. He said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have more than enough food! But here I am dying from hunger!
18 I will get up and go back to my father. I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven. And I have sinned against you.
19 I am no longer fit to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired workers." '
20 So he got up and went to his father. "While the son was still a long way off, his father saw him. He was filled with tender love for his son. He ran to him. He threw his arms around him and kissed him.
21 "The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.'
22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
23 Bring the fattest calf and kill it. Let's have a big dinner and celebrate.
24 This son of mine was dead. And now he is alive again. He was lost. And now he is found.' "So they began to celebrate.
25 "The older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 So he called one of the servants. He asked him what was going on.
27 " 'Your brother has come home,' the servant replied. 'Your father has killed the fattest calf. He has done this because your brother is back safe and sound.'
28 "The older brother became angry. He refused to go in. So his father went out and begged him.
29 "But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I have always obeyed your orders. You never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
30 But this son of yours wasted your money with some prostitutes. Now he comes home. And for him you kill the fattest calf!'
31 " 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me. Everything I have is yours.
32 But we had to celebrate and be glad. This brother of yours was dead. And now he is alive again. He was lost. And now he is found.' "
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Jane woke up and remembered it was Thanksgiving Day. So, she ran down stairs, and asked her mom, "Is Grandma and Grandpa here yet?" "No," Mom screamed. "Mom is upset because she can't find the turkey. So now we are going to have our Thanksgiving meal without turkey," Aaron whispered. Aaron was Jane's younger brother.
"Grandma and Grandpa are here," yelled Aaron. "Hi, Grandma and Grandpa," Jane said, "Mom lost the turkey so now we are going to have our meal without turkey." Jane's mom was frantically looking for the turkey. "Aaron go look in the car for the turkey," she yelled at Aaron. Then Grandma said "Honey I have the turkey, don't you remember at the grocery store. I told you I would take the turkey and cook it." The mystery was solved but best of all Jane would have her turkey to eat.
"Are you ready to watch the parade on TV?" Jane asked Grandpa. The parade had a lot of really good floats this year but it was to long it lasted for two hours. After the parade, Grandma and me played cards and as usual, she won most of the time. Then Aaron played her and she beat him too. After we played several more games, I finally beat her.
Then it was time for the Thanksgiving feast. We had potatoes, broccoli, green beans, salad, turkey, and dressing. For dessert, there was pumpkin pie.
Jane and Grandma began to put a jigsaw puzzle together. Grandpa and Aaron watched several hours of football. Then we had leftovers for dinner. After dinner was over Grandma and Grandpa went back home.