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Audra Kubat: Million Year Old Sand
Marc Hogan
Audra Kubat
Million Year Old Sand
Label: Times Beach
A million years ago, a glacier carved Lake Superior into the frozen Michigan landscape. Million Year Old Sand, the third album by folk singer Audra Kubat, is as timeless and true as its title image. Somewhere between a female Nick Drake and a Joni Mitchell for the Starbucks generation, Kubat should be the toast of the music press. Instead, the defiantly stripped-down sound of Million Year Old Sand distances it from the current pop-music discourse -- and in turn renders it trend-proof. The result is a record that should have many critics wishing they could revise their 2003 year-end lists.
Most songwriters trade in clichés. "All I really want is you / You to stick around," sings adult-contemporary troglodyte Gavin DeGraw in his radio hit "Follow Through", only the first example to come to mind. (When he adds "Oh, look what I'm holding here in my fire / This is for you", he crosses the line from triteness to near-Jabberwockian nonsense.)
Most great songwriters thrive on idiosyncrasies. Who but Tom Waits would dryly inform us, "I don't have a drinking problem / Except when I can't get a drink"? Who but Morrissey would lament, "And now I know how Joan of Arc felt / When the flames rose to her Roman nose / And her Walkman started to melt"?
A very few great songwriters eschew such specificity and nevertheless transcend cliché. Audra Kubat is one of them. The sweet-voiced folk singer's sophomore album operates in the rarified realm of archetype alongside such luminaries as Nick Drake.
Nick Drake comparisons should not be made lightly. Contrary to the press-kit-quoting hype of recent years, neither Beck's steadfastly ordinary Sea Change nor Teitur's weepy crash-landing of an album, Poetry & Airplanes, can stand up to the light of Drake's epochal Pink Moon.
From the instrumental opening track, "Intro", it's clear that Kubat aspires to the magic captured by the English folkie, whose propensity for complex acoustic guitar lines and gentle, ethereal melodies she shares. Song for song, Kubat lacks the consistently high quality that made Drake great. The album's gems -- and there are a lot of them -- stand up with the best songwriting of 2003.
As on Drake's three albums, the songs here blend together at first, each sharing the same basic feel and instrumentation. But after the compositions reveal themselves, the optimistic "Light of Hope", "Life Has Just Begun", and "My Love" leap out as highlights, along with the more melancholy "She Falls" and "Someone Like You". Were those too many songs to call "highlights"? Not if you've heard them.
Kubat's voice, always Joni Mitchell-like, draws the most parallels to the older folk legend on the most memorable song of them all, "Tomorrow Never Comes". With a wistful resignation and gentle strings, Kubat gives new life to another old archetype. The lyrics aren't particularly groundbreaking, but set to a gorgeous melody and accompanied by acoustic guitar, strings, and soft drums, they work: "Yesterday / You called to say you can't believe / The state of things / And how you can't go on, not another day."
Of course, there are weak spots; Kubat may sound like Drake, but she's not him. Track two, "Golden Sea", is a lovely folk song, but its riff at first makes it sound like a cover of "Polly" from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance. Now, I'm a Nirvana skeptic, but Kubat's song is nowhere near as good as its simulacrum, and it's one of the album's worst moments despite its elegance. The laughable album-closer, "Outro", essentially a six-minute exercise in New Age diarrhea of drone, may have seemed like a good idea on paper -- what better way to conclude a meditative album than music one might use while meditating? -- but to people who prefer (ahem) song-based music, it's patently unlistenable. (Volunteers to see if it's any better while blitzed out on peyote, or perhaps mescaline, please e-mail me.)
Although every song on the disc possesses a specific emotional setting, there's rarely a geographic sense of place -- probably a good thing, considering Kubat hails from Detroit. If you want to feel like you're in a post-industrial city of urban sprawl and racial tension, you can always get beaten up by Jack White or cussed at by Eminem.
One song does bring the listener to Kubat's home state, though. Apologies to Sufjan Stevens: Despite your Pitchfork-approved status (tantamount, as indie site Oebase.com has observed, to being picked for Oprah's Book Club) Kubat has written the year's best song about Michigan: the penultimate track, "Superior Sunsets". Kubat draws the album's title from this slow-building number: "I went to the lake / Where I'd gone as a child / Where I followed my first butterfly / And felt million-year-old sand." Kubat makes a state I've never had any desire to visit (despite the fact that my day job involves editing a Detroit online city guide) sound positively glorious. "I looked up at the fiery sky / And I knew that I had lived," she exults. "Superior sunsets still give me the chills."
Million Year Old Sand is unquestionably a fall and winter album, not a spring or summer album. But there are two kinds of cold-weather music, that which reflects and amplifies the bitter inhumanity outside (Radiohead) and that which crackles and glows in its humanity like a fire. Guess which one Kubat's album is -- and then warm your home with it.
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The Muppets Celebrate Earth Day (in 1990)
By Chris Higgins
YouTube / National Wildlife Federation / YouTube / National Wildlife Federation
On April 22, 1990, the Muppets marked Earth Day with a two-hour special jam-packed with guest stars. The list is absurdly long, but I'll give you a taste -- the cast included Neil Patrick Harris, Carl Sagan, Dustin Hoffman, Tone-Loc, Will Smith, Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Downtown Julie Brown, Candice Bergen, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Morgan Freeman, Queen Latifah, Jack Lemmon, Edward James Olmos, Christopher Lloyd, Rick Moranis, Martin Short, Meryl Streep, Alex Trebek, Robin Williams, and...wait for it...the casts of The Cosby Show, Cheers, Married With Children, and Golden Girls. Plus a bunch more. You get the point, though, right? Basically everybody was in this thing. Because the guest list was so long, there's relatively little Muppet material (though that material was directed by Jim Henson), but I'll take any Muppet-related Earth Day video I can get. And, shocker, the whole thing is on YouTube.
So, twenty-three years later, settle in and grab some popcorn, and enjoy this nugget from the past. Keep in mind that Jim Henson died on May 16, 1990, so this was among the last major works he lived to see on the air. Henson was a devoted environmentalist, so I can only assume that 23 years ago today, he was proud.
Robin Williams testifies.
Doogie Howser, M.D. tries to save Mother Earth while Murphy Brown reports, then we get into the Jeopardy! material.
Carl Sagan drops knowledge until Danny DeVito changes the channel in favor of Dennis Miller's Weekend Update segment on SNL. Around 3:50 into this segment is a sketch written by Henson featuring Kermit and fellow swamp animals. And then Dustin Hoffman argues with Robin Williams. Oh yeah...and then E.T. shows up. What?!
Let the 1990 TV-friendly rap number begin!
Michael Keaton apologizes for his polluting ways, then we eventually get into some Married With Children tomfoolery.
Meryl Streep! Kevin Costner with a ponytail! The cast of Cheers!
Murphy Brown wraps up her reporting as everybody realizes there's something they can do to help...and then Barbra Streisand performs, before a rapid-fire set of tips from celebrities including Morgan Freeman.
The PSAs
As a final treat, here are a series of 1991 spots promoting Earth Day (for the National Wildlife Federation) featuring Kermit and various other muppets working for Frog Frog & Frog Advertising, trying to develop a catchy slogan for Earth Day.
And these are a bit earlier (late 1980s):

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On the third day of the trip, we drove from Lake Atitlan to Antigua.
It took a little over 2 hours to make the trip.
The most popular attraction in Antigua is hiking up Volcan Pacaya.
We decided to book a ticket last minute at our hotel. It cost $15 USD, but I know you can get a trip for $10 USD. There are other tours online that chart $60+, which is totally nuts. There is only one way up the mountain, and you should not be paying any extra.
Since we booked last minute, there was only 1 spot left on the bus. With this being my last day and my three other friends staying an extra day, I decided to go up the mountain on the 2:00 p.m. tour.
Tours leave in the morning (6:00 a.m.) and in the afternoon 1:00 or 2:00. You have the best views in the morning, but you do need to get up at 6:00 a.m. The shuttles that take you to the mountain hold 15 people, and this will likely be the maximum number of people that you would go up the Volcano with.
I ended up traveling with 13 Irish Med Students that just graduated. They were a lot of fun.
You could try to hike up Volcan Pacaya without a guide, but they will look at you like you are crazy. I would be the first to go independently, but I don't really think it is worth it. You would need to pay a lot for transportation to go back and forth to the Volcano. It is an hour away from Antigua.
There have been issues in the past on the Volcano with "bandits", but I don't think that as much of an issue today.
We didn't see any cars in the parking lot. In either case, it is only $10/$15 so just go with tour. In addition, you might really cool people.
When you first arrive, the kids will try to get you to purchase a walking stick and/or a hourse. After about 5 minutes of them trying to get you to get a walking stick, you begin your hike up the mountain.
You walk at a brisk pace and up a very steep hill. In addition, there will be four or five people with horses right behind the group. If you are in the pack, they will keep asking you whether you want a horse. After about 10 minutes, three people in the group decided to get on a horse because it was so exhausting. To rent a horse in Pacaya, it costs 100Q or $12.50. I think the cost is just for one way.
When we got to the top, the views were "amazing." I put it in quotes because it was raining and cloudy. We did see the lava flow. THE VOLCANO IS NOT ACTIVE AND YOU WILL NOT SEE LAVA.
It was an awesome experience. We did get soaking wet, but we did have a lot of fun.
Our guide did not bring marshmallows to roast them on the lava rock. My other friends, who went the next day, brought marshmallows to the volcano to roast. If you really want to roast marshmallows, I suggest bringing your own to the top.
Antigua is very different than the nightlife at Lake Atitlan. There are a lot more foreigners at the bars. Antigua is definitely a much more popular place to visit in Guatemala even in the low season.
Most of the bars were quiet on a Monday night, but we did find several places that had large crowds.
We were told by several people that O'Reileys is generally always crowded.
Mono-Loco is packed on Tuesday night when it is ladies night.
The bars also close at 1:00 a.m. in Antigua, but there are after-hours bars that are open past 1:00 a.m. The only catch is that you need to be in them before they close up.
One of the bars is Reds and I forget the name of the other bar.
We hung out with Irish friends and some Danes and had a good time.
I preferred the food in Lake Atitlan over Antigua as I thought it was more authentic.
With that said, the restaurants have a much nicer decor than in Lake Atitlan.
We did eat at Casa Santo Domingo, which was pretty amazing. It cost us about $35 USD with alcohol, which is expensive for Guatemala.
The restaurant is in an old convent and is amazing.
We also heard a place called Hector's also serves amazing food.
We stayed at Hotel Aurora for about $75 per night. This is pretty reasonable when splitting it between two people. With that said, you can probably stay in Hostel in Antigua for about $5 – $15 USD per night per person.
Hotel Aurora is located close to the square and was an amazing location.
I got a shuttle from there back to Guatemala at a cost of $10 USD.


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Dead by Midnight
Contemporary heroines have been growing in sexual freedom, but still tend to be fairly traditional and face certain prejudices. This is why I was surprised when it was revealed that not only did our heroine pose for Playboy, she had a role in an iconic porn movie. The fallout from this and her struggle to redeem herself proved more interesting than the romance in Dead by Midnight.
Lorie Hammonds moved back to her hometown nine years ago after her failed attempts at stardom, and has been trying to hide from her past ever since. Now co-owner of an antique shop and living a quiet, respectable life, she doesn't expect too many active enemies—so when she starts getting death threats in the mail, she seeks help. Not from the police, as the local sheriff is her first true love and ex-fiancé, but from the Powell Agency, a private detection firm that is the focus of several previous Barton books. It comes out that several people have already been threatened and killed all Lorie's co-stars from that long-ago porno.
Mike Birkett, police chief and ex-fiancé, has to get involved, even though he's still extremely bitter about the fact that Lorie chose to pursue acting rather than stay in Alabama and marry him – and all the places Lorie's choice took her in the subsequent years. As the threats and murders escalate and the two are brought together, he must face his buried feelings for her and whether or not her past has prevented any future between them.
Chemistry between Lorie and Mike was unfortunately lacking. I just didn't feel it. Theirs is a typical return-to-small-town-and-marry-the-local-law-enforcement story. This usually works for me, but Mike didn't do anything for me. There wasn't anything wrong with him, per se, but he lacked any distinctive romantic qualities.
As I said, the issue of forgiveness and second chances, particularly in Mike's mind, was one of the most interesting parts of the book. Lorie has a questionable past to be certain; any one who cares to look can see her naked and having sex with two different guys. She faces a lot of criticism in her town, and the so-called "Midnight Killer" brings it all back up. Mike's attitudes are most relevant, and potentially controversial. He has his children to think about, and must consider the potential influence and community's reaction to any relationship between them. Is a former porn actress an acceptable stepmother? It's an interesting question and I enjoyed the development, but I felt the end took some steps backward in the evolution of Mike's acceptance and prejudices.
The Powell Agency is clearly a frequently visited company in Barton's world, but as a result there were so many characters and storylines and connections that it was hard to keep track, especially for a newcomer like me. We also visited the lives of all of the victims, which just presented more stories and characters, and even saw the beginnings of yet another serial killer's work against the Powell Agency. If you ask me, one serial killer is enough for one novel (and so is one villain, another problem with this story).
I guess saying that the book provides an interesting glimpse into the societal obstacles to redemption and acceptance isn't exactly highest praise for a romance novel. But that's what I did enjoy out of it.
The Virtuoso by Grace Burrowes
The Forbidden Rose (#62 on AAR's Top 100 Romances)
Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas
Tempted Into Danger by Melissa Cutler
Buy Dead by Midnight:
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Mr. Cox joined Memorial Hermann in 2009 as the first Health System Administration Resident in the newly formed collaboration with the University Of Houston College Of Pharmacy, affectionately known now as "the Houston Program". He has remained with the health system serving as Operations Manager, Director of Pharmacy for both the Woodlands Medical Center and Memorial City Medical Center campus. He is a graduate of Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and received his Masters of Pharmacy Administration at the University Of Houston College Of Pharmacy where he continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty for both universities.
Mr. Cox has been an active member of both local and state professional organizations, serving on the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists board for 5 years and former President of the Gulf Coast Society of Health System Pharmacy.
Mr. Cox has a special interest in strategic planning and advocates a systems approach to healthcare management.
Dr. Green received her Pharm.D. degree from Texas Southern University. She completed a PGY2 residency in Primary Care (now named Ambulatory Care) at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, TX. Post-residency, Dr. Green served as an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist for 4 years managing patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. She later served as Clinical Manager of Ambulatory Care Services, managing a team of 22 clinicians and serving as a preceptor to students and residents in both PGY1 Pharmacy Practice and PGY1/PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration programs.
Dr. Green is a Fellow of Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists, past president of Gulf Coast Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and Adjunct Faculty for Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. She joined Memorial Hermann in 2017.
Dr. Adkison earned her PharmD degree from the University of Houston. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency with the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and the University of Houston. She has been on the faculty of the Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program since 2002.
Preceptor of Emergency Medicine at Memorial City Medical Center Dr. Chau received his Pharm.D. degree from Purdue University. He completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and a PGY2 Critical Care Residency at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He joined the clinical pharmacy staff at Memorial Hermann - Memorial City Medical Center in 2011.
Dr. Narayanan received her Pharm.D. degree from The University of Houston. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy residency at Memorial Hermann, Texas Medical Center. She joined Memorial Hermann in 2007 and served as a critical care clinical specialist at Memorial Hermann Southwest for 10 years. She is now currently practicing as a critical care clinical specialist at Memorial Hermann Memorial City.
Dr. Peyton received her B.S. and Pharm.D. degrees from The University of South Carolina. She completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at West Virginia University Hospital and a Pediatrics specialty residency at Texas Children's Hospital. Dr. Peyton joined the clinical pharmacy staff at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in 2000.
Thomas Roduta received his Pharm.D. from Texas Southern University. He completed a combined PGY1/2 Health System Pharmacy Administration residency at Memorial Hermann and a Master of Science in Pharmacy Leadership and Administration at the University of Houston. He joined the Memorial Hermann Memorial City pharmacy operations team in 2018.
Joseph Rogers completed his Doctor of Pharmacy at The University of Kansas. He completed a combined PGY1/2 Health System Pharmacy Administration residency at Memorial Hermann and a Master of Science in Pharmacy Leadership and Administration at the University of Houston. He has published on the use of Big Data in health system pharmacy and the topic of inpatient drug distribution and administration. His professional interests include specialty disease state management, transitions of care, and demonstrating pharmacy's value in the environment of healthcare reform.
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Q: failed to lazily initialize a collection of role, could not initialize proxy - no Session I got the issue while lazyloading. This is working fine with eager loading.
Below is the code for applicationContext.xml
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans                             http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context                             http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc                             http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
    <!-- Root Context: includes all context file -->
    <import resource="applicationContext-data.xml" />
    <import resource="applicationContext-service.xml" />
    <import resource="applicationContext-security-rest.xml" />
    <import resource="applicationContext-security-admin.xml" />
    <import resource="applicationContext-security-parent.xml" />
    <import resource="applicationContext-dozer.xml" />
    <import resource="batch/batch-launch-context.xml" />
    <bean id="appProperties"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
        <property name="locations">
            <list>
                <!-- Order matters, last one to create a property wins! -->
                <value>classpath:application.properties</value>
                <value>classpath:cron.properties</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="false" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="propertyConfigurer"
        class="org.springframework.context.support.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="properties" ref="appProperties" />
    </bean>

    <!-- Quartz scheduler details -->
</beans>

Below is the code for applicationContext-data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa" xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">

    <jpa:repositories base-package="com.tappingpotentials.sms"
        repository-impl-postfix="CustomImpl" />

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
        <property name="jndiName" value="jdbc/tpSMSDS" />
        <property name="resourceRef" value="true" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="taskExecutor" class="org.springframework.core.task.SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor" />

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven />

    <bean id="entityManagerFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.tappingpotentials.sms" />

        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean id="jpaAdapter"
                class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
                <property name="database" value="MYSQL" />
                <property name="showSql" value="false" />
                <property name="generateDdl" value="true" />
            </bean>
        </property>

        <property name="jpaProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.listeners.envers.autoRegister">false</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>

                <!-- <prop key="hibernate.connection.provider_class"> org.hibernate.c3p0.internal.C3P0ConnectionProvider
                    </prop> -->
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">
                    1
                </prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">
                    19
                </prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">
                    120
                </prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">
                    10
                </prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

</beans>

I have tried every thing. I think the transactional annotation is not working. I have used the @Transactional annotation in my service class for the method.
Here is my service class
@Override
    @Transactional
    public SchoolSessionDetail saveSchoolSession(SchoolSessionDetail sessionDetail) {
        List<SmsSchoolSession> sessions = smsSchoolSessionRepository.findBySmsSchool_IdOrderByStartDateDesc(loggedInSchool().getId());
        sessions.forEach(session->{
            if(session.getIsCurrent() == (byte)1) {
                session.setIsCurrent((byte)0);
                saveStudentArchive(session.getSmsClassroom(), session.getSmsStudentArchives());
            }
        });
        SmsSchoolSession session = createNewSchoolSession(sessionDetail);
        sessions.add(session);
        if(smsSchoolSessionRepository.save(sessions) != null) {
            SmsSchoolSession currentSession = smsSchoolSessionRepository.findByIsCurrentAndSmsSchool((byte)1, loggedInSchool());
            updateSchoolSession(currentSession);
            return new SchoolSessionDetail(currentSession);
        }
        return null;
    }

Please suggest me a solution for that.

A: I assume you would need Hibernate.initialize(session.getSmsStudentArchives()) right before accessing the lazy child elements.
But this would result in an extra query for each session. You could use NamedEntityGraph to reduce database access:

    @NamedEntityGraph(
        name = "smsSchoolSessionWithStudentArchives",
        attributeNodes = { @NamedAttributeNode("smsStudentArchives") })
    public class SmsSchoolSession {

    @EntityGraph("smsSchoolSessionWithStudentArchives")
    List<SmsSchoolSession> findBySmsSchool_IdOrderByStartDateDesc(whatever id);

With this all session elements would have the archive elements available with out using Hibernate.initialize.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 9, 2016 - Banco Macro S.A. (NYSE: BMA; BCBA: BMA) ("Banco Macro" or "BMA" or the "Bank") announced today its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016 ("2Q16"). All figures are in Argentine pesos (Ps.) and have been prepared in accordance with Argentine GAAP.
. The Bank's net income totaled Ps.1.8 billion in 2Q16. This result was 28% higher than the Ps.1.4 billion posted in the first quarter of 2016 ("1Q16") and 119% higher than the Ps.824.2 million posted in the second quarter of 2015 ("2Q15"). In 2Q16, the accumulated annualized return on average equity ("ROAE") and the accumulated annualized return on average assets ("ROAA") were 36.7% and 5.7%, respectively.
. In 2Q16, Banco Macro's financing to the private sector grew 13% or Ps.8.0 billion quarter over quarter ("QoQ") totaling Ps.70.7 billion, and grew 37% or 19.2 billion, year over year ("YoY"). In the quarter, commercial lines stand out, among which, Overdrafts and Documents grew 71% and 38% QoQ, respectively. Among consumer loans, growth was driven by credit cards and personal loans which grew 8% and 5% QoQ, respectively. As of June 2016, Banco Macro has granted Ps.2.1 billion loans, regarding the "Credit Line for Productive Financing and Financial Inclusion" program.
. In 2Q16, Banco Macro's total deposits grew 9% QoQ, totaling Ps.90.9 billion and representing 83% of the Bank's total liabilities. Private sector deposits grew 8% QoQ.
. Banco Macro continued showing a strong solvency ratio, with an excess capital of Ps.9.0 billion (22.5% capitalization ratio/ 16.2% regulatory capital - Basel III). In addition, the Bank's liquid assets remained at an adequate level, reaching 41% of its total deposits in 2Q16.
. In 2Q16, the Bank's non-performing to total financing ratio was 1.52% and the coverage ratio reached 150.51%.


Mr. Jiawei Liu, Ms. Alexis Rosado and Ms. Andrea Medina (a word from one of the editors at the bottom of blog), reveal a drizzle here and there of spectacular sights and a slice of sound that connects America with Africa in synchronization. Add to that, a slice of history that was served by everyone you met….all of the ingredients needed to really experience a Taste of Gullah….Please pardon and excuse some of the shaky shots, etc…what started off as simply a recording for myself seemed to be a bit selfish…so I wanted to spread the history and put this together. I hope you enjoy it….
At the end of each clip, you can find contact information to connect to the individuals profiled and their work.
Episode 6: Queen Quet of the Gullah Geechee Nation-Enough Said!
I really enjoy editing the project "Feeling Gullah". I want to thank Prof. Collins for her detailed instructions during my editing and my teammates Alexis Rosado and Andrea Medina for the ideas and materials they share with me. Looking back on where I started and where I am now, I am proud of my final work.
Editing a documentary is both a challenging and rewarding experience for me. Each episode of this web series is based on hours of raw footage. I have to decide what visual and audio elements should be included to tell a coherent and interesting story. A good lesson learned from this process is to be creative and at the same time respect the vision of the producer. It is very different from working alone. I consistently informed my producer (Prof. Collins) of the progress, challenges and successes and revised the project after she critiqued it.
Teamwork is also essential. As each person in the team is responsible for different episodes, we have to make sure that the format used for editing is consistent. It means that everyone should be at the same stage of progress while editing. Either starting too early or lagging behind adversely affects the teamwork and therefore the project as a whole. We have to share issues, challenges and ideas with the entire group to facilitate the progress.
I am happy to be involved in the production of this web series, to tell the history of Gullah Geechee people, "a people who have been so resilient, who have gone through so much, but yet have withstood all the test of time and have come out victoriously". They have a unique culture that is embodied in their crafts, language, arts and music and all these elements can be found in this documentary, "Feeling Gullah".
People in the documentary consistently mention an important belief that they have shared for generations, and that is the importance of "knowing their heritage". As they said, "if you don't know where you come from, you definitely don't know where you are going".
So, what is the heritage of the Gullah Geechee culture and its people? While I have learned a lot about it through editing this web series and I hope you may also find it amazing by watching it. Thanks!
Editing my first documentary, what a journey it was. Deadlines change, your ideas change, and most importantly you change. The visions you first see when you are logging in tape, seeing raw unedited video are just the glimpses of what could be. But as time progresses you amaze yourself with every detail, transition, and smile you edit in. Amaze yourself. I am still amazed that episode 3 "Sweetly Weaving" is something I edited.
Working on "Feeling Gullah" with Dr. Janice Collins, Andrea Medina and Jiawei Liu, has truly been a blessing. The ability to sew together material and make a beautiful final project come to life is amazing. I learned what a perfectionist I am. I learned about the importance of patience and detail. And learned about all the details I don't think about in the mist of things. Audio, video, images, stills, documents, even footage of library books all have so much significance in sending a message to your viewer, and depicting a story.
I learned how to view things from another's lens. What I mean by that is no matter how much I edited, I had to learn to see it from my audiences lens. One has to adapt if a viewer doesn't understand, or if the director doesn't like it. So you learn to be an adaptive, chameleon, who starts to predict the future and see mistakes before someone else catches them.
I wanted to make the Gullah people feel honor with my work, in addition have the public understand, empathize, and connect with whom was on the screen.
They say you don't know how strong you are until you are challenged. That is true for me. The process revealed my passion. I didn't realize how invested I was until all I wanted to do in my free time was edit. I was listening to music tracks in my car, and my passion for leadership in a team kept getting revealed at every meeting. Passion, work ethic, accuracy, consistency, I surpassed my thoughts on what I was capable of, and my strengths came out.
I gained so much yes for myself in terms of skill set, experience , and confidence, but I also gained respect for my professor. Seeing Dr. Janice Collins' talents with interviewing, scripting, narrating, directing, and teaching meanwhile continuing to be professional and understanding with us was commendable. I was impressed, and taking notes for how I wanted to conduct my future projects.


In the aftermath of the First World War, Woodrow Wilson tried to push a comprehensive and enlightened peace plan.
In January 1918, less than one year after the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points to try to ensure permanent peace and to make the world safe for democracy. Wilson's aims included freedom of the seas, free trade, and, most important, an international organization dedicated to collective security and the spreading of democracy. The other Allied powers tacitly and cautiously accepted Wilson's plan as a template for a postwar treaty; however, numerous obstacles lay in the path of the Fourteen Points at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Wilson reluctantly made several concessions, yet he successfully protected the Fourteenth Point, the League of Nations, which was written into the Versailles Treaty. After enduring months of bruising, frustrating negotiations, Wilson finally returned to the United States. Despite obvious Senate reservations about the League of Nations, Wilson was certain the Versailles Treaty would be ratified. He was wrong.
Through the use of primary source documents and maps, this lesson will introduce students to Wilson's Fourteen Points, as well as his efforts to have them incorporated into the final peace treaties.
In January 1918, Woodrow Wilson unveiled his Fourteen Points to the U.S. Congress. The speech was a natural extension of the proposals he had offered in his "Peace without Victory" address and his request for a declaration of war. Presuming an Allied victory, the President proposed freedom of the seas and of trade, arms reductions, and fair settlement of colonial claims and possessions. He insisted that "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at," must be the benchmark of postwar negotiations. He suggested that a repentant and reformed Germany would not be oppressed, but rather welcomed into the international community. That community, Wilson concluded, would be bound together in a league of nations devoted to collective security and spreading democracy.
Although the Allied powers cautiously agreed to use the Fourteen Points as a treaty template, the circumstances of the war and the specific postwar aims of numerous nations combined to make a formidable obstacle. In 1915, the secret London agreements had proposed ceding the German territory of the Saar (rich in coal) to France, and South Tyrol, controlled by Austria-Hungary, to Italy. Japan hoped to take German claims in the North Pacific and China, while Great Britain hoped to secure claims in Africa and south of the equator in the Pacific.
By the war's end, in November 1918, these tensions had mounted. France and Great Britain both wanted Germany to pay extensive war reparations. Great Britain, with an eye toward protecting its far-flung empire, also resisted freedom of the seas. Wilson hammered out a compromise. Together, the Allies would precisely define "freedom of the seas," and Germany would have to pay some reparations. Meanwhile domestic political tensions were rising. In the midterm elections, Republicans gained control of Congress. Nevertheless, Wilson opted only for token Republican representation on the U.S. delegation headed to Paris, the site of the postwar peace proceedings, which began in January 1919. This snub did not pass unnoticed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass.), who now chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The proceedings were raucous and confusing. Wilson, who had rejected advice that he might better fulfill his Fourteen Points by remaining in Washington, immersed himself in the day-to-day negotiations. His greatest challenge was the spirit of vengeance that animated the other Allied leaders. Not only did they want to punish Germany, they also wanted to use victory to obtain new territory in Europe and to divvy up Germany's colonial possessions. Wilson struggled to balance pragmatism and idealism. On the colonial question, he agreed to substitute the "mandate system" for full and fair self-determination. Under this system, the Allied powers assumed governing control over the colonies of Germany and areas such as Syria and Lebanon that had belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The expectation was that the Allied powers would eventually free their "mandates." He also accepted the transfer of some one million square miles of territory between nations; in return, the covenant of the League of Nations was embedded into the Versailles Treaty.
In June 1919, Germany's defiant representatives, who had been excluded from the proceedings, grudgingly signed the Versailles Treaty. Wilson's decision to now present the Versailles Treaty to the Senate as a fait accompli was quite risky. Republican doubts about the League had hardened; indeed, a group of Senators known as the "Irreconcilables," led by William Borah of Idaho, had proclaimed they would not support American membership in the League. Much opposition resulted from Article Ten of the League's covenant, which committed nations to the protection of the territorial integrity of all other members. This seemed to undermine Congressional authority to declare war, though the precise obligations of the United States were not clear. Lodge and the "Reservationists" were, at least initially, ready to act on the Versailles Treaty if Wilson separated the covenant. They also seemed willing to accept U.S. membership provided Congress kept the power to decide whether or not the United States would intervene militarily on behalf of the League. But Wilson refused to yield, as did Lodge and his allies. The debate over the League spilled over onto the 1920 presidential campaign, and while the election of Republican Warren G. Harding, who declared his opposition to the League, cannot be assessed only as a referendum on Wilsonian diplomacy, it was clear that the American public had grown weary of crusades, domestic and international. The United States never joined the League, finally ending the official state of war with Germany in the summer of 1921 through the Treaty of Berlin.
For an overview of the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, visit From Revolution to Reconstruction, accessible via the EDSITEment-reviewed Internet Public Library). For another EDSITEment lesson plan on this subject, see The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of Nations Basics.
This lesson may be used in sequence with the other plans in this unit on Wilsonian foreign policy, or it may be used in conjunction with the lessons in the EDSITEment curriculum unit The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations. While this lesson concentrates on Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Paris Peace Proceedings, and the Versailles Treaty, the other lessons focus on domestic political and public reaction to the League of Nations. See The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles.
Bookmark or print out the referenced websites. You should also bookmark or print the Text Document that accompanies this lesson and distribute the relevant pages to your students as handouts. The Text Document provides excerpts of the online documents used in this lesson, thus allowing your students to read only the pertinent portions of the source.
For the card game in Activity 3, cut out the cards found on pages 12-20 of the Text Document and place them in two decks—one called "Wilson's Fourteen Points" (consisting of the cards on pages 12-16 of the Text Document) and the other called "Versailles Treaty" (consisting of the cards on pages 17-20 of the Text Document).
To provide your students with the skills needed to examine primary sources, you may find it helpful to visit the Learning Page from the Library of Congress. In particular, students may find the Mindwalk activity useful in preparing to work with primary sources. At the National Archives website, the Digital Classroom provides worksheets to practice analysis of various primary sources, including photographs.
To help students identify the locations mentioned in the document, they should be directed to the following map of Europe in 1914, accessible via the EDSITEment-reviewed site History Matters. Either photocopy and distribute the map to the students, or project an image onto a screen in the classroom.
In the second activity, students will divide into two teams, A and B. Each team will further divide into small groups (depending on class size). Team A groups will study documents 1–3; Team B groups will read documents 4–6. In presentations to the rest of the class, the groups for both teams will answer this question: how supportive of the Fourteen Points were the other Allied nations? All groups will be required to use historical evidence from their sources to support their answer.
Excerpts of the documents, and specific questions to be answered, may be found on pages 6–9 of the Text Document. Team A groups should receive pages 5–6, while Team B groups get pages 7–9.
The third and final activity is a card-based game in which students attempt to match up Wilson's Fourteen Points to specific terms of the Versailles Treaty. Complete rules of the game may be found on pages 10–11 of the Text Document—these should be handed out to students. In addition, students should have access to maps showing the boundaries of Europe both before and after World War I. Such maps may be found at the site of the United States Military Academy at West Point, accessible via History Matters. Copies of the map may be distributed to the students, or they may be projected onto a screen for the class to view.
Pages 12–20 of the Text Document contain a total of 26 cards—15 marked "Wilson's Fourteen Points," and 12 marked "Versailles Treaty." Divide the students into two teams; give each member of the first team a card from the "Wilson's Fourteen Points" deck, and give each member of the second a card from the "Versailles Treaty" deck.
Begin by asking a student holding the lowest-numbered "Versailles Treaty" card to stand and read his or her card aloud. At that point any member of the "Fourteen Points" team who believes that his or her card pertains to that particular clause of the Versailles Treaty should also stand and read the contents of his or her card, and explain why it fits. If more than one student from the "Fourteen Points" team responds, the teacher should lead a brief discussion (no more than five minutes) before asking the class to decide which of the cardholders has the closest connection to the Versailles peace term. If a geographic location is mentioned on any of the cards, ask the students to note that location on the map.
Each time that a member of the "Fourteen Points" team is matched up with a member of the "Versailles" team, that pair should write the contents of their cards on the board. The game continues until each member of the "Versailles" team has read his or her card, and has been matched with a member of the "Fourteen Points" team. At this point there should still be three members of the latter team who have not read aloud the contents of their cards. They should do so now.
Which parts of the Fourteen Points were represented in the Versailles Treaty?
Which parts of the Fourteen Points were dealt with only partially in the Treaty?
What parts of the Fourteen Points were ignored completely in the Treaty?
If you were a believer in Wilsonian foreign policy, would you support the Treaty of Versailles? Why or why not?
How did the Fourteen Points promote Wilsonian ideas?
How did the Versailles Treaty affect the boundaries of Europe?
How well did the Versailles Treaty represent the Fourteen Points?
The most common criticism of the Treaty of Versailles was that it was overly harsh, and that it therefore violated the spirit of Wilson's Fourteen Points. Two examples of this may be found at the EDSITEment-reviewed resource First World War.com. One is the official German protest to the terms of Versailles, while the other is an editorial from a Dutch newspaper critical of the treaty. Students might be asked whether or not they agree with these assessments.
The influence of Wilson's Fourteen Points can be traced using the National Archives Teaching with Documents unit on Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill; it outlines the similarities between the 1941 Atlantic Charter and the Fourteen Points.
Using primary sources available at the Truman Presidential Library, students could research the influence of the Fourteen Points and Wilsonian foreign policy (especially an active role for the United States) on the formation of the United Nations in 1945.
Was the Treaty of Versailles, which formally concluded World War I, a legitimate attempt by the victorious powers to prevent further conflict, or did it place an unfair burden on Germany? This lesson helps students respond to the question in an informed manner. Activities involve primary sources, maps, and other supporting documents related to the peace process and its reception by the German public and German politicians.
Lesson 1: The Origins of "Wilsonianism"
The influence of President Woodrow Wilson on American foreign policy has been profound and lasting. Using a variety of primary sources, students analyze the origins of the ambitious foreign policy that came to be known as Wilsonianism and compare it with important alternative traditions in American foreign policy.
President Woodrow Wilson and his first Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, rejected the Dollar Diplomacy that had guided U.S. relations with Latin America during the administration of William Taft. Wilson resolved that the United States would only recognize Latin American governments founded upon law and order, "not upon arbitrary or irregular force. In this lesson, students analyze Wilson's attempts to carry out this "missionary diplomacy" in Haiti and Mexico as well as the responses of selected Haitians and Mexicans.
In August 1914, President Woodrow Wilson asked Americans to remain impartial in thought and deed toward the war that had just broken out in Europe. For almost three years, the President presided over a difficult, deteriorating neutrality, until finally the provocations could no longer be ignored or negotiated. In this lesson, students analyze one of the most significant moments in twentieth century U.S. foreign relations: Wilson's decision to enter World War I in order to make the world "safe for democracy."
Did the Versailles Treaty represent the fulfillment of Wilson's Fourteen Points, or their betrayal?


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Oman to increase Oil production between 50,000-100,000 barrels per day
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New oil discoveries in Oman is expected to increase the production by 50,000 to 100,000 barrels in the next two or three years.
According to Oman's Minister of Energy and Minerals Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Rumhi, his ministry will continue exploration efforts so the country's crude oil production remains as it is current rate or increases according to the market situation in the coming period.
The Minister was optimistic about the improvement of conditions in the gas sector in the coming years, adding Oman's crude oil reserves currently stand at 5.2 billion barrels, while gas reserves at about 24 trillion cubic feet.
Oman is seeking to boost its oil and gas output with the help of international oil companies, with Shell and BP being among the biggest operators in the country.
Al-Rumhi said that Oman has also signed a number of agreements with Iran to develop two gas pipeline projects linking the two countries and the Hengam oil field.
The announcement of the deals comes less than two weeks after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited the sultanate and met with the country's leaders.
Al-Rumhi said that the two sides agreed to form a technical team to review the gas pipeline project, whose agreement was signed in 2013. The pipeline is 400 sq km long and is expected to pump about 28 million cubic meters of gas for 15 years from Iran to Oman.
He stressed that the two countries agreed upon developing the field that there would be a common roadmap that would benefit both parties by extracting more of it and reducing damage to the field.
With regard to oil prices, the Minister said it was difficult to predict prices during the coming period due to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.
"Oil prices may remain at what they are now at the same level at least until the end of this year and may return to their levels before the outbreak of the war," he added.
He expressed hope that the global economy will see further development and several factors that may help stabilize prices. adding the situation is expected to improve by the end of the year or early next year.
Oman is the biggest Middle East oil producer outside OPEC and has pumped 840,000 b/d in April, slightly above its 837,000 b/d OPEC+ quota, according to the latest Platts survey by S&P Global Commodity Insights.
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