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TiVo Plots A Future Beyond CableCARD & Tuning Adapters

Dave Zatz —  July 16, 2014

As TiVo turns the software corner, not only have they banished the poorly performing and ill-supported Adobe framework in favor of Haxe, but they’re leading the charge (as proposed by RCN and given the FCC’s apparent indifference) to replace unwieldy, antiquated cable hardware with a more sensible digital approach… with a little help from their cable allies. How TiVo hopes to evolve beyond the dastardly CableCARD and SDV tuning adapter:

Comcast, TiVo Working On Non-CableCARD Approach
TiVo and Comcast have agreed to collaborate on a two-way, non-CableCARD security platform that would enable TiVo boxes bought at retail to access Comcast’s full lineup of linear programming as well as the MSO’s video-on-demand service.

TiVo Crafts ‘Embedded’ Switched Digital Video Tech
the embedded SDV implementation uses a proxy in the network, enabling the TiVo box outfitted with the updated software client to communicate through an IP channel and access channels in the switched tier […] is initially in place to support TiVo devices deployed by the company’s MSO partners

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28 responses to TiVo Plots A Future Beyond CableCARD & Tuning Adapters

  1. William Aprea July 16, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    The question for us current CableCard customers is, will this solution be backwards-compatible with existing Premiere and Roamio hardware?

  2. hypothetically- Would you still need the cable card in existing retail Tivo devices or would a software download allow you to operate the old retail devices without cable cards?

  3. Yeah, I’d think the benefit of this sort of solution is that it’s all software-based with Roamio and Premiere models capable of being updated to communicate with Comcast’s also updated infrastructure (and whomever else licenses their tech). But there’s no telling how long development and integration could take…

  4. Will this solution be backwards-compatible with existing Premiere and Roamio hardware?

    Would you still need the cable card in existing retail Tivo devices or would a software download allow you to operate the old retail devices without cable cards?

    Excellent questions! I suspect the CableCard will still be needed for (decoding and) viewing of encrypted linear TV content in existing devices, but IP-based VOD should work without a CableCARD (as it presumably does today from non-CableCo sources like Amazon, Netflix, and others).

  5. Is this TiVo-Comcast collaboration open to others, and is it based on anything existing? I’m curious as to how TiVo is approaching the Charter downloadable security trial, for example. Charter is required to get at least one third-party retail device certified, and TiVo makes the most sense.

    As far as SDV goes, Charter is also minimizing SDV. Tom Rutledge has said more than once he doesn’t like SDV and wants to get out of it as much as possible (probably referring to switching to IP) and most reports on DSL Reports show that in newly all-digital Charter markets, only a very very tiny number of channels appear to remain on SDV.

  6. Steve, I don’t think so – the idea is to replace this million year old and pricey PCMCIA technology. Digital conditional access has been floated for years, but no one’s been motivated to do anything with it (other than that near miss with Boxee & Comcast).

    Joseph, based on the FCC filing it sounds like Comcast might want to license it out and/or maybe similar terms to the RDK platform. Who knows what the FCC will say or in regards to Charter’s experimentation – keep in mind Charter was/is a TiVo partner too…

  7. Right, and TiVo even hinted at still possibly being in talks with Charter. However, Charter has started rolling out their new “Spectrum Guide” which is the ActiveVideo-based interface. The idea that they are still interested in doing something with TiVo seems doubtful.

    The Charter downloadable security is based on the same stuff Cablevision is using, which is a Cisco “standard”. The Comcast thing sounds completely unrelated. I wonder how far along Charter is with their rollout, and whether or not the security Comcast is developing requires X1 as well. The FCC thing mentions IP video so it sounds like it may be rolled up into X1 infrastructure/architecture.

  8. Yeah, it’s possible TiVo could end up supporting multiple software standards. And who knows how or if the FCC will get involved. Or what TiVo will petition them to do.

  9. Comcast is not being forced to do this, thus they will not actually do it.

    This announcement is a smokescreen so TiVo doesn’t oppose their merger with TWC.

  10. Until TiVo’s timewarp patents expire, Comcast may be motivated to further collaborate with TiVo… But, yeah, I hear what you’re saying and even if they happen to be sincere, cable behemoths (and TiVo) generally move at the speed of dark. It’ll be the status quo for some time.

  11. Comcast would need to implement this across all their infrastructure. That’s tons of expense to support TiVo’s tiny userbase, all of whom are Comcast subscribers anyway since they’re a monopoly. That will never happen voluntarily.

    Comcast and TiVo have announced alliances before. How many TiVo-branded STBs did Comcast actually distribute to their customers?

    Time Warp and Trick Play expire in 4 years. Comcast will continue their winning strategy of publicly supporting TiVo while actually doing nothing whatsoever.

  12. The original Comcast TiVo was a debacle. But that was generations ago. The Xfinity On Demand required changes to all their headends, both Cisco and Motorola and they got it done across the footprint. But I agree TiVo has a relatively tiny user base… so if Comcast is serious I’d say it’s designed to ride on other things they’re working either IP simulcast and/or whatever feeds some of their apps. Let us have this small glimmer of hope for at least a day? ;)

  13. Did it, though? Comcast supports TV Anywhere for iOS, android, and browsers. Did the TiVo Xfinity app not plug into that same backend?

    Sorry for bumming you out!

  14. Rodalpho – Agreed, I’m also inclined to think Comcast wants to show examples of how their proposed merger would benefit consumers. Once they get past the hurdles this will die on the vine. I’d also guess the Comcast-TWC merger helped get the Xfinity On Demand deployment complete in all markets. It was only about this time last year when the deployment hit the pause button.

  15. I dunno about that one. Cable companies see TV Anywhere as countering an existential threat. They don’t do it to be “pro-consumer”, they do it because they need to offer a compelling reason for people growing increasingly accustomed to watching netflix on their ipad in bed not to cut the cord.

  16. Sorry, I was agreeing about this being a smokescreen. This type of announcement gives the illusion of being open heading into a merger which is different than pro-consumer. I doubt TiVo’s support of the merger has as much importance. The timing of this and On-Demand getting done raises my suspicions. TiVo’s numbers are just really tiny (like you said) in the big picture.

  17. So what you are really saying is that Tivo has caved and is now supporting proprietary/walled garden solutions. Ugh!!! More power to BigCable! Ugh :(

  18. HarryKerryJr. July 17, 2014 at 2:34 am

    TiVo could be a repeat of DirecTV TiVo that not only took way too long to bring to subscribers, but also has ADDITIONAL cost on the monthly bill to the subscriber. Good call that Comcast is all for it now with the merger still not approved, but MSO’s have never been eager to team with TiVo, and if some new ones do, we could look for them to make it a premium priced box/service over the MSO’s standard “FREE” equipment. That does nothing to truly bring a 3rd party to consumers as a real option. Too bad because TiVo does wipe the floor with MSO’s equipment, but be prepared to pay more for it.

  19. Doesn’t the FCC’s All-Vid rule come up at the end of this year? Unless it’s extended again, of course.

  20. Waiver of IP Output rule was extended until June 2015 earlier this year.

  21. So with Tivo moving to the more efficient and easily portable HAXE, couldn’t they then update DirecTV’s Tivo solution to look like the new HD UI? We know the DirecTV box Tivo runs on is capeable of high resolution graphic output, as the same box can run DirecTV’s HDUI.

    With going to a software approach, why coudn’t Tivo put a software defined tuner with wideband capture in a retail box. Then allow it to work with not only cable, but DirecTV or Dish as well? If its software defined and controlled, just in the initial setup process when selecting the DBS or Cable provider of your choice, the system would know what drivers to load for tuning, and then subsequently where to look to download the conditional access module for that particular provider, once it obtains a lock and can find the rolling code download in that providers carousel.

  22. Dale, I’m not sure what other options they have. Their retail business loses subscribers every quarter with the FCC seemingly having bigger fish to fry and limited authority. Comcast is the largest US cable provider. So if they threw TiVo a lifeline, legit or lip service, they’d have to bite.

    In regards to the timing and TWC, based on conversations I’ve been privy to, it seems that TiVo supports the Comcast/TWC merger as they feel they do have an ally in Comcast and that Comcast better supports TiVo in retail. That’s my take anyway.

    cypher, regarding DirecTV, TiVo built exactly what they had commissioned them for… and, again, based on conversations I was privy to, it’s my belief that TiVo had been frustrated with how that product played out.

  23. Michael Burstin July 17, 2014 at 8:27 am

    A little late in the discussion here, but lets say that this is an IP based solution. Would this mean that recording things on the new Tivo solution ends up eating into my Comcast bandwidth cap or would this be some sort of “backchannel?” I don’t know how their X1/X2 platforms operate. I have assumed that using the xfinity app on iOS uses bandwidth (but maybe Comcast bandwidth monitors ignore data from certain IP address?).

    I was pretty sure that the xfinity on-demand access works by using minimal bandwidth because its just using TCP to tell the backend to play a video on a certain channel and that the Tivo just is tuning to the channel that the backend is transferring to.

  24. I’ve had my TiVo eight months now and I am on my fifth cable card- cable card suck. Comcast poorly supports them and All my issues with my Roamio have been cable card issues.

  25. Michael Banks July 17, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Tina, I doubt that all 5 cable card were the issue. There is a bug in the cisco/SA cablecard firmware v 1.5.2 that cause the Roamio 6 tuner to lose connection. They are rolling out v1.5.3 which fixes the bug. See this thread

    In the thread you can request and updated firmware. It also seems like (from the thread) that no one at comcast support knows about the firmware bug which is why they keep replacing them.

    You can drop to 4 tuners by going into channel selection screen and typing 88434 (4 channels) 88436 (to go back to 6 channels).

  26. Oh, i want to believe that TWC (Time Warner Cable) would implement this and let me get rid of that awful SDV device and all it’s wires and it’s power suck. Sadly, TWC has a very dismal record in terms of being TiVo friendly and consumer friendly. They never do anything to make consumers’ lives easier or more convenient.

  27. Why not just use SIM cards instead?

  28. I dont see WHY COMCAST would look to get rid of CABLECARDS for after the first they start to charge seemingly unlawful access prices; saying the digital feed any unit after #1 is something special…( a subetrfuge if ever there was one) THAT is why I removed TIVO #2 from my system even tho I am paying for it until the contract is over…then on to a 6 tuner TiVo device using ONE CABLECARD; no EXTRA fee!!!


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Zapatismo: The Art Of Building A New World

Quietly, away from the spotlight and cameras, the Zapatista communities have deepened their autonomous construction to the point that one can now speak of a different society, governed by rules, codes, and laws distinct from those of the mainstream world.

At his six-year-old height, Carlos Manuel hugs his father’s waist as if he’ll never let go. He looks up at the ceiling and smiles. Julián, his father, tries to escape. The child gives up, but stays close to his dad. Irma, his eight year-old sister, observes from the kitchen corner where their mother, Esther, is working over a wood stove, flipping the corn tortillas that are still the staple food of rural families. The three other children, including the oldest, 16 year-old Francisco, observe the scene that is repeated like a ritual at every meal.

The kitchen is a place for talking, for chats that spread slowly like the smoke that rises above the zinc rooftop. The words are as frugal and flavorful as the food: beans, corn, coffee, bananas and some vegetables, all planted without chemicals and harvested and processed by hand. Chicken raised out in the open countryside has a different flavor, like all of the food in this Tojolabal community.

Upon finishing, they all wash their own plates and spoons, even the father, who at times helps prepare the food. I ask if this is normal in these parts, and they tell me that it is customary in Zapatista communities. But not in the communities of the “bad government”, those they call the “PRI brothers” without sarcasm. These communities, adjacent to the ones that bear the black flag with a red star, receive food and vouchers from the government. The government builds brick houses with floors for them.

Throughout the week there wasn’t a single gesture of aggression between mother, father, and children. Not even a grumpy or reproachful one. It seems the prohibition of alcohol softens human relations. The women are the ones who most enjoy the changes. “I can tell the Zapatistas by the way they carry themselves, especially the women,” journalist Hermann Bellinghausen remarks.

The day the world ends

This new chapter in Zapatista history began on December 21, 2012, a day marked by the media as the end of the world, and by the Maya as the beginning of a new era. Tens of thousands of EZLN support bases amassed in the five Caracoles, or local government seats, in Chiapas, the same ones that were taken over on January 1, 1994. The reappearance of the Zapatistas shocked a large part of Mexican society. Not only had they not disappeared, but they had resurfaced with more force, showing they were able to mobilize a significant amount of people in military formation, albeit without weapons.

In a December 30 communiqué, Subcomandante Marcos assured that “over the years we have gotten stronger, and we have significantly improved our living conditions. Our standard of living is higher than those of indigenous communities who receive handouts from the government and waste them on alcohol and other useless things.” He adds that, unlike what happens in communities linked to the PRI, in Zapatista communities “women are not sold as merchandise,” and that “indigenous PRI members go to our hospitals, clinics and laboratories because there isn’t any medicine, equipment, doctors or qualified personnel in those run by the government.”

Some of this could be substantiated by those who attended the Little Zapatista School, or Escuelita, on August 12-16. Only “fellow travelers” were summoned to the school, which is a profound shift in Zapatista methods of relating to civil society. “From now on, our word will be selective in its destination, and, except on limited occasions, will only be able to be understood by those who have, and who continue to, walk without surrendering to current media trends,” the communiqué reads.

Subcomandante Marcos adds that “very few will have the privilege” of coming to know the other way of doing politics. In a series of communiqués titled “Us and Them”, the Zapatistas emphasized the differences between the culture of the political system and Zapatista “culture from below”, asserting that they are not proposing “to build a large organization with a governing center, a centralized command, or a boss, whether individual or group.”

The Zapatistas emphasize that unity of action should respect diversity in ways of doing things. “Any attempt at homogeneity is nothing more than a fascist attempt at domination; in this way it’s concealed under revolutionary, esoteric, religious, or other language. When speaking of ‘unity’, they don’t tell you that that ‘unity’ is under the command of someone or something — individual or collective. At the fallacious altar of ‘unity’, differences are sacrificed and the persistence of all of the small worlds of tyranny and injustice we suffer is hidden.”

To understand this approach, which led the Zapatistas to pioneer the Escuelita in August, we have to understand the problems they came across in relation with the electoral Left, and also with people who, in their opinion, “appear when there are soapboxes and disappear when it’s time for the silent work.” The logic of the Escuelita is the opposite of that political culture. It is not a matter of going to listen to the comandantes or Subcomandante Marcos, but rather to share everyday life with ordinary people. It’s not a matter of a rational discursive transmission of codified knowledge. It’s something else: experiencing a reality that can only be accessed through the ritual of commitment, or being and sharing.

A new life

“We don’t have difficulties anymore,” says Julian, sitting on a rustic wood stool in his tin roofed house with wooden walls and an earthen floor. He says this casually, opposite someone who has been sleeping on wood panels, barely covered by a light blanket for four days. Julian joined the clandestine organization in 1989. Marcelino, my guardian, or Votán, joined earlier, in 1987. They speak with delight of the clandestine meetings in remote mountain caves, dozens of Zapatistas arriving by night, while the bosses and their capangas slept.

They would walk all night, barely returning at dawn to start the workday. Women would make them tortillas in the dark so that they wouldn’t arouse suspicion. All things considered, he’s right when he says that the worst is behind them — the hacendado’s whip, humiliation, hunger, violence, and the rape of daughters. On January 1, 1994, the hacendados fled, and the capangas ran behind them.

The 8 de Marzo community where I arrived with fourteen other student-outsiders (half of them Mexican, a 75 year old Yankee, one from France, one from Colombia, two Argentines and a Uruguayan) is on land that was one day occupied by Pepe Castellanos. His brother, Absalón, was Lieutenant Colonel, ex-Governor, and the owner of fourteen estates usurped from indigenous people. His abduction in that distant January was the spark that set off the flight of landowners.

The community has more than a thousand hectares of good land; they no longer have to farm the arid, stony hillsides. They grow traditional food as well as fruits and vegetables on the recommendations of the comandancia. Not only did they liberate themselves from the whip — they are better fed and are able to save in a very particular way. Julian harvests six sacks of coffee (some 300 kilos), leaves one for family consumption, and sells the rest. Depending on the price, he is able to buy between two and three cows per harvest. “The cows are the bank, and we sell them if there’s a necessity.”

By “necessity” they mean health problems. His oldest son had to undergo medical treatment, and to cover it, he sold a bull. The community applies the same logic. In communal lands, they carry out collective work in coffee plantations, and buy horses and cows with the harvest. Between the animals of the families and the communal ones, they have some 150 horses and 200 cattle.

Days before the students arrived, the water filter broke and to repair it they decided to sell a cow. They fund the health room, the school, and transportation and lodging-related expenses for the community members in the same way — all in order to perform the duties of the three levels of self-government: the local community, the autonomous municipalities, and the Council of Good Government. Women also have community projects. In 8 de Marzo, they had a coffee plantation, with which they bought six cows and a chicken coop with fifty birds. They use the savings from these for transportation and spending for women holding appointments or attending courses.

The few goods they don’t produce (salt, sugar, oil, and soap) are purchased by families in the municipal seats, in Zapatista stores installed on properties occupied after the 1994 uprising. There is no need to go to the market. Their entire economy remains within a circuit they control, self-sufficient, linked to the market, but not depending on it. Commune members tend the stores on a rotating basis.

Julian explains that every so often he has to spend a month in the store at Altamirano (located an hour away from his community), which requires him to be away from home. “In that case, the community keeps up your cornfield for fifteen days, and I help out those that have to go the store in the same way.” Esther held a position on the Board in the Morelia caracol a half hour away from the community, and her duties were covered in the same manner. We can call this reciprocity.

Health and education

Every community, however small as it may be, has a small school and a health post. In 8 de Marzo, there are 48 families, almost all Zapatistas. The assembly elects its authorities, half men and half women, the teachers, and those in charge of health. No one can turn these down, for it is a service to the community.

The school runs out of the living room of the mansions abandoned by the hacendado. The iron gate he used to pay his peons through still remains. They could barely see the hand that dropped the coins, as the boss’s face remained shrouded in darkness. Early in the morning, the children gather on the basketball court in front of the mansion. They march in military step, in line, guided by a young person of the community not over 25 years old.

Zapatista education suffers from a lack of infrastructure; the classrooms are rickety, as are the benches and the rest of the furniture. Teachers do not receive a salary, but are sustained by the community, the same as the health workers. This has enormous advantages for the students: the teachers are members of the community — they speak their language and are their equals — while in state schools (those of the Bad Government), the teachers aren’t indigenous, but mestizo. They don’t speak their language (and even look down on it), they live far from the community, and maintain their distance vertically from the students.

The climate of confidence in the autonomous schools enables more horizontal bonds and facilitates the participation of students and their parents in school management. Children participate in many of the community tasks, including supporting the school and their teachers. There is no gap between school and community here; they are part of the same network of social relations.

If government schools have a hidden curriculum through which they transmit values like individualism, competition, the vertical organization of the education system and the superiority of teachers over students, Zapatista education is the reverse. The curriculum is built collectively, and aims for the students to take ownership of their community’s history to reproduce and sustain it.

Since students typically work in teams, and much of school time is spent outside of the classroom in contact with the same elements that configure their daily lives, transformation and critique are permanent features of building collective knowledge. What in state schools is separation and hierarchy (teacher-student, classroom-playground, knowing-not knowing) is complementary integration in the autonomous schools.

In the small health post, medicines produced by large pharmaceutical companies coexist with a wide variety of medicinal plants. A very young girl is responsible for processing syrups and ointments from those plants. There is a bonesetter and a midwife, who together comprise the basic health team for all Zapatista communities. In general, they tend to deal with relatively simple situations. When it’s something more complicated, they move the patient to the caracol clinic. If the issue can still not be resolved, they go to the state hospital in Altamirano.

Health and education are divided on the same three levels as the autonomous power of the Zapatistas. The most advanced clinics, including one with a surgical unit for operating, are usually located in the caracoles. The caracoles, which house the Councils of Good Government, also tend to house the autonomous secondary schools.

The Little School

It takes seven hours to traverse the 100 kilometers that separate San Cristóbal and the Morelia caracol. The caravan (containing thirty cars and trucks) left late and advanced at a tortoise pace. Around 2:00am, we arrived at the caracol and a maze of buildings that house the institutions of the autonomous region, made up of three municipalities, twelve regions, and dozens of communities governed by the Council of Good Government. There is also a secondary school, a hospital under construction, clinics, amphitheaters, stores, dining halls, a shoe store, and other productive enterprises.

Despite the late hour, a long line of men and another of women await us, all wearing their paliacates. We divide up by gender and, one by one, we get to know our Votán. Marcelino extends his hand and asks me to accompany him. We go straight to the enormous assembly room, and fall asleep on the hard benches.

In the morning: coffee, beans, and tortillas. The members of the Council then speak, explaining how the Escuelita will work. In the afternoon, almost evening, we leave for the community. Among the students were Nora Cortinas of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, and Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian peasant leader and ex-guerrilla, both nearing eighty.

We arrive at the community around midnight after a half hour of jolts on the back of a small truck. The whole community, organized in lines of masked men, women and children, receives us with fists in the air. They welcome us, presenting students to their host family. Julián introduces himself, and once everyone has a family, we are off to bed.

First surprise. They divided the house up with a partition, leaving one room for the guest with its own door, and the seven family members piled up on the other side. They wake us at first light for breakfast. Then we head off to work clearing the family coffee plantation, machetes in hand, until mealtime. On the second day, we lasso cattle to be vaccinated. On the third, we clear the communal coffee plantation. So it went each day, work combined with detailed explanations of community life. In the afternoons, we read the four notebooks handed out on Autonomous Government, Autonomous Resistance and the Participation of Women in Autonomous Government, all with stories by indigenous people and the authorities.

Students could ask the most varied questions, which does not mean they were always answered. We could live alongside a political culture different than the one we know — when a question was asked, they would look at each other, quietly converse, and finally, one would answer for everyone. It was a wonderful experience of learning by doing, sharing, and savoring the daily lives of people who are building a new world.

Raúl Zibechi is the international relations editor at Brecha magazine in Montevideo, an adviser to grassroots organizations, and writer of the monthly Zibechi Report for the CIP Americas Program, which originally published this piece here (translation into English by Paige Patchin).

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Beyond the Sea: Mexico’s Biggest Fish Market

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Assorted fish at Mercado de la Nueva Viga. Credit: Nicholas Gilman

Entering by foot through the main gate, the aura here is clean, fresh, like the docks of a Spanish port. But the sea is hundreds of miles away, and airplanes buzz overhead in this flat, nondescript part of the megalopolis that is Mexico’s capital. This is one of the biggest fish markets in the world, larger than Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji, and it satisfies the oceanic cravings of all of central Mexico. It’s the Mercado de la Nueva Viga, Mexico City’s central wholesale/retail fish market.

The interminably long parallel aisles, at least 10 of them, present about 150,000 tons a year of the fish and seafood, proffered by small vendors whose wares lie in a seemingly disorderly array of size and type.

Central de Pescados y Mariscos la Nueva Viga

Location: Prol. Eje 6 Sur No. 560 Piso 1, San José Aculco, Iztapalapa Mexico City

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The smell is lightly aquatic, salty, sea-weedy. Only on occasion does a breeze molest with a “bad fish” stench. The market, which caters to 25,000 visitors daily, opens about 4 a.m. and starts winding down by 10 a.m., but some vendors stay open into the early afternoon to serve latecomers.

Noble silvery blue tuna come in all sizes and lie neatly stacked. Next to them are gigantic glowing warm red snappers, the king of Mexican fish, from little gold-striped jewel-sized ones that can fit in the palm of a child’s hand to enormous mammas the size of a seal. Silver mackerel, here called sierra, are long and fat: Their black eyes, which appear to stare in a fixed, knowing gaze, are crystal clear as if they just jumped out of the sea. And then there are squid and prawns and octopus and cuttlefish. The purplish calamari comes from cold waters afar; it’s been thawed, but smells clean and fresh. Mounds of deep magenta octopi have been boiled and are waiting to be sliced into ceviche de pulpo by the vendor. For those who want to take them on, slimy, grey blue fresh pulpos — all eight legs attached — are available as well.

The hazy morning rays of sun enhance the translucent red of the big fishes’ flesh. That light highlights the silvery glitter of the smaller ones’ skins, in varying shades of cool metallic blues. Long narrow cintilla are an astonishingly brilliant chrome, as shiny as the bumper of a restored ’57 Chevy. There are trout, fresh and from the sea; besugo; bonito; ferocious sharks called cazón; and innocuous whitebait named charal. Sting ray are splayed out, their dangerous tails now stilled. Velvety gray pámpano tempt almost as much as the lenguado (aka sole) whose skin is luminescent like a natural pearl.

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Vendor shows off fish. Credit: Nicholas Gilman

The aisles become congested with shoppers and vendors. A portly, besmocked porter beseeches the crowd to part so he can wheel his barrow of gigantic whiskered catfish. Another swarthy monger, bare arms muscled and tattooed, holds up a fat 10-kilo (22-pound) extraviado (a type of bass), whose scales glimmer like a set of polished medieval armor.

The eye passes more rapidly over the heaps of severed fish heads with melancholy deep eyes — good for broth. There are low-cost oysters, barrels, sacks and piles of them, big ones and small. They can be shucked on request. Unattractive dirty grey clams, ostensibly for soup, and beautiful rust-colored large ones, called chocolates, for ceviche. Giant white Pismo clams, rare in these parts, weigh upward of a pound, and should be eaten raw, or as a simple ceviche. Blue-black mussels come in neat mesh bags. Live crabs, also scarce, are sold by one proud purveyor. Almost anything that swims in the sea can be found at the Viga, although the best is fresh and comes from the warm waters of the Caribbean or the cooler Pacific.

Seafood empanadas near Mexico’s biggest fish market

Around the corner and along the sides, dozens of merchants prepare seafood empanadas to eat here or take away. They roll out dough, fill it with crab, fish, octopus or shrimp and deep-fry to a flaky golden crisp. Bought by the dozen by hungry shoppers and sellers alike, they can be eaten at the stand: the warm pastry is pried open and filled with avocado and salsa, cream or mayo for those who need.

Meanwhile, in a large open area, workers will patiently and expertly clean, carve and fillet anything for a small gratuity. The slam of cleavers on block, the whoosh of scales being stripped and the murmur of instructions being offered are set to a background of old-fashioned Cuban son emanating from someone’s transistor radio. This is a serious place; nobody has time to fool around or loiter. But proud vendors will pose jauntily with a marlin, offer a taste of smoked sierra, pull some flash-frozen sardines out of the cooler to show them off.

At mid-morning closing time, unsold fish are tossed into ice-filled bins and trucks, buckets of water are emptied onto floors and swept off with large wide brooms, trails of ruby fish blood running off in every direction. The tables, stands, counters and tubs are cleaned and refreshed for this never-ending bounty, always and forever to be replenished.

Top photo: The assortment is endless at Mexico City’s la Nueva Viga fish market. Credit: Nicholas Gilman

Zester Daily contributor Nicholas Gilman is a founding member of a Mexican chapter of Slow Food International, the author of "Good Food in Mexico City: A Guide to Food Stalls, Fondas and Fine Dining" and served as editor and photographer for the book "Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler." He has a website,, and has appeared extensively on radio and TV in the U.S. and Mexico. He lives in Mexico City.

Jorge Canavati
on: 4/24/13
excellent article

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A clever phrase to describe the jackpot of hallucinogenic drugs. Compare with a trip.
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On Baseball Announcers

Earlier this season, baseball lost announcing legend Charlie Kalas and Philly fans lost a longstanding voice and face of the franchise. His passing got me thinking about the many personalities occupying the broadcasting booth.

Life-long fans of a team or at least long-time residents know the trust and admiration we have for our announcers. On the down side, we don’t know the other great announcing traditions in other cities.

Whether it their homerun call, a tagline, or any other ism, baseball announcers give us many trademarks, so here’s just a smidgeon.

Charlie Kalas (Phillies) – Swing…and a long drive, and this ball is, outta here! Home run <insert player’s name here>

Harry Caray (Cubs, Cardinals) – It might be, it could be, it is!

Tom Hamilton (Indians) – Swing and a drive…Way back…GONE!

Ken Harrelson (White Sox) – You can put it on the board!

Dave Niehaus (Mariners) – And it will fly away … my oh my!

Rick Rizz (Mariners) – Goodbye baseball!

Michael Reghi (Orioles) – Oh, did he tag that one! It’s a bomb!

Bob Carpenter (Nationals) – See…You…Later

Dave VanHorn (Marlins) – It’s up … up and away!

Ernie Harwell (Tigers) – It’s lonnnnnnnng gone!

Bob Eucker (Brewers) – Get up… Get Outta Here… Gone

Jerry Coleman (Padres) ¬– You can hang a star on that baby!

Mark Scott (TV) – It’s a home run or nothing here on Home Run Derby.

Lon Simmons (A’s) – Tell it goodbye!

Ned Martin (Red Sox) – Mercy

Mike Shannon (Cardinals) – Get up baby, get up

Graham McNamee – Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience,

Marty Brenamann (Reds) – And this one belongs to the Reds.

John Sterling (Yankees) – THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Yankees Win!

Jack Brickhouse (Cubs) – Hey hey

Red Barber (Reds, Dodgers) – They’re tearin’ up the pea patch

Vince Scully (Dodgers) –  Forget it.

Mel Allen (Yankees) – And how about that.

Bob Murphy (Mets) – Fasten your seatbelts, here we go!

Dave Niehaus (Mariners) – Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is GRAND SALAMI TIME!

Duane Kuiper (Giants) – He hits it hiiiiigh, he hits it DEEEEEP, OUTTA HERE!”

Joe Nuxhall (Reds) – This is the old lefthander, rounding third and heading for home

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  1. You forgot long time philly great By Saam. Hall of Fame Annoucner.. Bobby Gee Check out my blog.
    By Saam’s openning statement Houston Astro dome. Not a cloud in the sky… Richie Asburn laughed so hard he couldn’t go into the broadcast booth until the second inning.

    • Bobby,
      Now that’s a good one … thanks.

      FYI: Stories involving baseball announcers are endless, so thanks for sharing. However, I focused this post on the classic, repeatable lines … thus not the memorable moments.

      Thanks for visiting.

    • Lester,
      Jack Buck was a classic and had many great calls. I recall listening to him on my transistor radio at KMOX way long ago.
      Thanks for the visit.

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    “Light up the Halo.” Terry Smith-Angels

    “She is gone.” (Home Run call) Vin Scully-Dodgers

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Flip The Frog - Fiddlesticks

Published 1930

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Flip the Frog was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first sound cartoon. It is about a happy-go-lucky, needy frog, named Flip the Frog.

This cartoon was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930. He had drawn a frog and his girlfriend in "Night'", one of the last Silly Symphonies short films he drew while working for Walt Disney.

After leaving Disney, Ub Iwerks began the Flip cartoon series with the help of Pat Powers. The first cartoon that Ub Iwerks made for the series was called Fiddlesticks (released on August 16, 1930), and it was also the first color sound cartoon ever made. Fiddlesticks was made in two-color Technicolor. The rest of the Flip series were made in black and white, except for Techno-Cracked (1933).

FIDDLESTICKS is perhaps the least funny and entertaining of the FLIP cartoons, many of which have surprisingly adult gags.

Run time 6:12
Producer UB IWERKS
Production Company UB IWERKS
Audio/Visual sound, color

Reviewer: CrossReach - - December 2, 2014
Subject: Donald Markstein
Love the cartoon. Or more precisely I live the historicity of it.

Anyway, Donald. Your review is ugly, narcissistic, egotistical. You should have gone to Archive privately first. Your website is the last place I would now want to visit for information on cartoons. But hey, you can't read this. You died in 2012.

Apparently done was known in certain animation circles too:
Reviewer: IdolTrailblazer - - April 2, 2014
Subject: Quack, Quack?
I'm amazed that no one seems to have pointed out that Flip quacks like a duck. Yes, the mouse does appear to resemble a certain Disney mouse. While this is not a great cartoon, it's moderately entertaining.
Reviewer: Tearable_Paperdoll - - June 16, 2013
Subject: Aw shucks
YOOOOOOOooooOOOOoooooOOOU LIKE iiiiiiiit!!! :))
Reviewer: angroid - - December 28, 2010
Subject: GREAT HISTORY Screw Donald Markstein-berg
Great historically important cartoon.

Marky Marksteinbrennerberg, You should consider it a compliment that your "Markinally"-informed review snippet was ever included here to begin with.

Yes it's true they should have asked. But you were "raped" over this, you say? Comic books, your life?
Stop cheapening both you sniveling mama's boy, maybe create something instead of thinking yourself and expert on the creations of others.

Did I say...

Reviewer: IanKoro - - August 27, 2010
Subject: Dear Donald Markstein...
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you're around 50ish, possibly older, and completely unfamiliar with how the internet works.

You see, people submit content to, the content is checked as best it can be, to ensure it is public domain, and then put on with the provided description. It is not up to to ensure that someone didn't steal the description from someones cartoon fanpage, that, however large, contains far less information than what is available on wikipedia. does not make money from your silly little description of Flip the Frog, and only a complete jerk would really think of someone lifting a brief description like that as "stealing".

Get a life.
Reviewer: somebodyatthedoor - - July 24, 2010
Subject: Quite poor
Very few particularly creative ideas. Doesn't feel as though they tried particularly hard and just relied on the fact that it had sound. Disappointing.
Reviewer: Freebmovies - - July 17, 2009
Subject: the theme song
Doesnt the theme song sound JUST LIKE Alfred Hitchcock Presents???
Reviewer: LeGrande - - March 11, 2009
Subject: Why does this stay in the top 10 downloads?
It's an okay cartoon ... a classic period piece where cartoons were used to promote music ... think early MTV...but 11,000 downloads last week? Someone must be hot-linking to it. There is better animation than this one in the archive: the Fleischer Superman cartoons, for starters.
Reviewer: Meester_Fonnyboy - - July 18, 2008
Subject: Seen it...okay, what's the fuss?
1930 kids were probably highly entertained by this one - sound, color and animation on film were all pretty much in its infant stages, and the whole spectacle of the thing must have been delightful.
As for us 21st-century jaded types, all we can say is, "Isn't anyone going to SAY anything?"
This film plods along even in comparison to a Silly Symphony, and adding the presence of a too-familiar-looking rodent (one that surely raised Iwerks' ex-boss' eyebrow) doesn't add anything.
Historically, it's a keeper; aesthetically, you're better off with "The Skeleton Dance".
Reviewer: -js. - - December 11, 2006
Subject: Flip The Frog
Reviewer: Da'Judge - - November 2, 2006
Subject: What Article Don?
I enjoy original, but simple animations from "back in the day". They really show how far toons have come ... from simple hand drawn - frame-by-frame ... to today's use of computers and creation engines.

As far as Don and this being stolen from your site? Well I went to his site and found that the article (written words) are so differant that Don really needs to stop being jealous and realize that the I'Net has enough room for everybody...
Reviewer: samrees - - March 18, 2006
Subject: ditto christine H
Reviewer: kickstand - - January 23, 2006
Subject: Cute but dull
The frog is cute, but there's not much plot. A lot of the appeal of the cartoon seems to be "hey look, we can make a frog dance" kind of stuff.
Reviewer: James D Man - - November 24, 2005
Subject: Great Traditional Animation
From what I have been able to figure out Ub Iwerks started off with Walt back at the Micky Mouse era. I find his works to be insperational.

I enjoyed these Animations as I do most of the old traditional animation.

I don't see "micky mouse" in this animation at all. Just a mouse that shares a simmilar apperance, But then how else would you draw a mouse?

As for the Donald Duck and his NASTY temper (scroll through the reviews. You'll find the guy) His site is not very interesting.

Never once did see the animations, or any document (html) linking to ANY animations he claims was skillfully aquired from him.

Another thing that I find hard to understand is his arrogance. Especially when he appears to LACK the understanding Public Domain. Sure he may claim to OWN the works, however once it is in Public Domain it is there WITHOUT copyright. IE: Night of the Living Dead (horror movie) is PUBLIC DOMAIN. YET it is still pressed to DVDs and sold in the Dollar bins at various stores.

(NOTE: I do not claim to understand all the implementations on Public Domain)

So Donald, Watch Out I'll ask my firend Micky Mouse to pull cards from your mouth as you stomp up and down with that flamboyant temper!

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this amazing clip as much as I do.
Reviewer: LindaTeedotcom - - November 20, 2005
Subject: Phenomenal Punch Line for Classical Musicians
The one thing I've not seen mentioned with regard to this animated gem is its hilarious punch line.

"MICKEY MOUSE" is PLAYING SECOND FIDDLE at the end of the cartoon.

Gosh, you "grown-ups" can be exasperating sometimes...what with all the anger and spite and for heaven's sake...MISSING the joke and the enjoyment that this bit of celluloid was intended to bring to the planet.

Put on your play clothes and go outside.

You're all driving me nuts.
Reviewer: Danial - - November 11, 2005
Subject: Fiddlesticks
Like many old cartoons, this one has its merits. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. However, I did not enjoy the rant from Donald below. A previous reviewer said it well...did he get permission to show the copyrighted material at his site??
Reviewer: Landscaper - - November 1, 2005
Subject: 5 stars for the cartoon
FLIP is a great one. It's not funny like a lot of the classic stuff but it has that weird old-timey atmosphere by the ton. It's fun to have playing in the background.

As for Maksen's review below, who knows what crawled up his butt. His web site was credited on the description. What is the difference if someone reads a few words here or at his place? is nice, but it's all based on the work of others. Does he pay Warner Bros and Disny to use all those pictures of their cartoons?
Reviewer: Donald D. Markstein - - November 1, 2005
Subject: Theft
Did you think you could sweep your theft under the carpet by simply censoring mention of it? Below is the review that was deleted by
Did the people who copied this article from and pasted it here happen to notice the article is COPYRIGHTED?

Did they care?

It's been my experience they don't. (This is not the first time they've stolen from me.) has no apparent respect for property rights. My page about unauthorized use of my copyrighted intellectual property ( was inspired by an earlier encounter with this den of thieves.

Interestingly, this page does not appear findable through Google. A friend happened to run across it. This makes me wonder how many other articles these people have stolen from me.

Thieves of this sort often feign surprise that anyone would object to their predatory practices. I should feel complimented that they thought my work was worth stealing. Yes, of course, just like a man should feel his taste in women complimented when someone demonstrates that his wife is worth raping.

The ultimate result of this attitude is to discourage excellence. I know very well my work is worth stealing -- I constantly have to deal with thieves like It would be a lot easier to simply do a half-assed job, and hope the people who steal because they're unable to create aren't so badly tempted.

Remove my property from this immediately. If you want your readers to have the benefit of my hard-won expertise and my hard work in applying it to this topic, LINK TO ME. Let them go to MY site, which is AUTHORIZED to carry my work. You may not simply take it for yourself.

I will check back in a few days, to make sure this article has been removed.

And while you're at it, remove everything else you may have stolen from me. Next time I catch you stealing my work, I will prosecute.

Donald D. Markstein
Sole owner
"Don Markstein's Toonopedia"
Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - October 30, 2005
Subject: Meet Flip the Frot
Flip the Frog sings and dances his way into our hearts in this, his first cartoon. That's all, really, but he does it in such a cute and engaging way, surrounded by other cute characters such as an insect band and a piano that plays itself with its front legs. Engaging and cartoony.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ****.
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The State Opposition attempted to win over young voters today with a promise to spend $1 million installing free Wi-Fi on Perth trains.

Labor leader Mark McGowan said the funding commitment would be in preparation for METRONET, the Opposition's plan for a rail network across the metropolitan area.

Over three years, $1 million would be spent to deck out 10 trains with free internet.

"Any new trains ordered would also be installed with Wi-Fi capability with the intention of improving or expanding it throughout the entire METRONET rail network," Mr McGowan said.

He said free Wi-Fi was one way of tackling congestion by luring people out of cars and on to the public transport system.

Mr McGowan hoped the announcement would appeal to young voters after new figures from the WA Electoral Commission showed WA was among the nation's worst youth voter rates.

At 65.8 per cent, it is sitting about 10 per cent below the national average of 76.9 per cent.

WA Electoral Commissioner Warwick Gately said research showed just over 1.6 million West Australians will be eligible to vote at the March 9 election but 225,000 are not on the electoral roll.

"Elections stimulate enrolment but with census figures suggesting 1,800 people are moving into the State every week, it remains a big challenge."

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Canada Allows Sikh Students To Carry Daggers

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled unanimously that a Sikh elementary school student may carry a ceremonial dagger while at school.

In early March, the high court held that a Sikh boy’s religious liberty was violated when Montreal school officials barred him from wearing a ceremonial dagger called a kirpan.  School board attorney arguments that the kirpan could be used as a weapon were rejected, reported the Religion News Service.

The Supreme Court said suggestions that the kirpan was intended to be a weapon is “disrespectful to believers in the Sikh religion and does not take into account Canadian values based on multiculturalism.” The high court concluded that the boy’s rights under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been violated.

“A total prohibition against wearing a kirpan to school undermines the value of this religious symbol and sends students the message that some religious practices do not merit the same protection as others,” the court wrote in Balvir Singh Multani v. Commission scolaire Marquerite-Bourgeoys.

The judges also noted that there were many other objects in the public schools that could be easily obtained and used as weapons, “such as scissors, pencils and baseball bats.”


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Undervalued stock of the week - Seek

December 7, 2012, 11:55 am John Abernethy Yahoo7

They are in a difficult market with some serious competitors, but Seek has potential upside at their current price.

GOOD value shares are becoming hard to find on the Australian market. Fund managers are constantly looking for undervalued shares to boost their portfolios and many of the stocks that we have been recommending to subscribers of our Myclime stock valuation service have risen in price in recent weeks and months as other investors have cottoned on. So much so that many of those shares are now fully valued.

However, there are always some that are overlooked, and we believe that Seek (ASX:SEK), the job website, is among them. The one caveat here is that it is facing some fairly strong headwinds in terms of a weakening domestic job market. And of course, fewer jobs being listed is bad news for a company that makes its money from the recruitment sector.

However, given Australia’s incredible resilience during the height of the global financial crisis - when our unemployment rate stayed far lower than anybody predicted - our ongoing skills shortage, and Seek’s growing international diversification (particularly in the emerging markets), we think this is a decent bet for those prepared to take a little short-term risk.

Seek is the leading online classified jobs site in Australia and New Zealand with a market capitalisation of $2.2billion. Although there are other challengers in this space, such as Linkedin, we think Seek is best placed to appeal to the mass employment market. If it can maintain its dominant position, it will be able to leverage this in the form of higher advertising rates which could help to offset any downturn in the domestic jobs market.

However, if we do see further softening in the job ads market, the share price may well fall further in the short term, a fact which we think would represent an even better buying opportunity for patient investors.

More importantly, in the longer term, Seek’s international expansion will prove crucial. It has bought significant stakes in numerous employment sites in fast-growing developing markets where jobs are being created at a rapid rate, and internet penetration is also increasing fast. Both factors will help boost these foreign online job operations, increasing revenues from overseas.

Seek now owns 56 per cent of zhaopin.com, the second biggest employment website in China; 55 per cent of jobsdb.com, a leading south-east Asian employment website; 22 per cent of Jobstreet, a Malaysian listed SE Asian recruitment operation and 51 per cent of Brasil Online Holdings, the owner of the first and second-ranked jobs sites in Brazil.

Finally it owns 57 per cent of Online Career Center, the top career site in Mexico.

While these operations contribute a relatively small percentage of Seek’s earnings today, these fast-growing economies will provide a much greater proportion of earnings in years to come – a key reason why Seek is a good bet for investors with a longer-term outlook.

We have a valuation of $7.90 for 2013 which represents a gain of around 20 per cent on current prices, but we forecast impressive future growth beyond that as its foreign operations gain momentum.

Company: Seek
Current price: $6.53 (7th December)
Forecast value: $7.90 and above ++
Potential upside: 20%

Readers of Yahoo7 Finance can obtain a free 14-day trial offer of the MyClime online share valuation and research service at www.clime.com.au.

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++Fair or forecast value is the price placed on the share after calculating a range of factors including profitability, assets, debt and, most importantly, Return on Equity – the same measure used by Warren Buffett to assess long-term value.

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September 4, 2010

Memphis preview

Mississippi State will usher in year two of the Dan Mullen era today as the Bulldogs welcome Memphis to town to get the 2010 season underway.

The Bulldogs finished six-inches shy of going bowling last year and hope to get off to a successful start at 6 p.m. so their postseason aspirations can be realized.

Today will be the 43rd meeting between the two programs with MSU holding a 31-11 edge in the series. The Bulldogs have won the last 10 meetings in the series and hold a 14-4 advantage in Starkville.

The last time out, State walked away with a 35-27 victory at Davis Wade Stadium for homecoming in 2003. The Bulldogs got two touchdown performances from quarterback Kevin Fant and running back Nick Turner as well as a 100-yard kickoff return from Fred Reid to help carry them to victory.

Mississippi State finished 2009 with a 5-7 record averaging 25.6 points and 371.9 yards of total offense. The Bulldogs led the Southeastern Conference with 227.6 yards rushing per game and added 144.3 yards through the air last season.

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August 17, 2011

Practice report: Freshmen push

MADISON - If the stress level surrounding Mike Taylor and the three consecutive practices he's missed was at a six on a 10-point scale, head coach Bret Bielema instantly grounded that concern with his announcement following the second of Wednesday's two practices.

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February 9, 2006

Bedlam Blowout

The Oklahoma Sooners withstood a late rally and finally protected a big lead on the road to outlast Oklahoma State 73-65 in Gallagher-Iba Arena. The Sooners were led by Terrell Everett's 23 points and solid free throw shooting down the stretch which helped Kelvin Sampson win his first game in Gallagher-Iba Arena since the 2000 season..

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“Mission Statement”: the most important posting yet/ever?

Fresh from helping Lilou with I Lost My Job and I Liked It, I feel inspired by her to make a public declaration – a statement of values and intent – which you might call “a mission statement”. This isn’t, perhaps, quite worded in the way that she would do it, but it’s a form of words with which I feel comfortable.  It might prove to be my most important piece of writing to date.

Myself in front of Edinburgh Castle on a sunny day in April 2009.

Myself in front of Edinburgh Castle on a sunny day in April 2009.

I declare:

  • I wish to contribute significantly to a new world order, one in which the long-term wellbeing of people is assured (to the extent that this lies within our power).
  • I believe that fundamental to this world order will be the virtual elimination, by peaceful means, of socio-economic disparity and materialism.

Key factors will be:

  • the education and empowerment of, in particular, women
  • convincing people that their “leaders” ultimately only govern with their consent (Margaret Mead said: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.)
  • the wide adoption of evidence-based policies, notably with regard to such issues as alcohol, drugs and the criminal justice system
  • the exposure and elimination of the links between “elites”, organised crime, the arms industry etc.
  • the elimination of the arms industry
  • the democratisation of the media (already underway)
  • massive concerted action to prevent climate change (by, for example, Tradable Energy Quotas, as discussed by Shaun Chamberlin in the March/April 2009 issue of my favourite magazine, Resurgence)
  • the ongoing reform of economics to take into account factors previously regarded as externalities, in particular long-term socio-economic and environmental impacts (I have already written, on several occasions, about alternatives to GDP.  Here’s one example.)
  • the universal recognition of the contribution of the arts to wellbeing (the visual arts, dance, music, theatre, literature…).

(Detailed ideas for how several of the above might be achieved may be found in my novel, Saving the World and Being Happy.  See below for my plans regarding this book!)

In order to contribute significantly to the new world I describe, I shall:

  • build a reputation for “empowering empowerers”, i.e. use my skills as a writer and my broad background and experience to help those whose aims and values are aligned with mine to put across their ideas
  • refuse to work with those whose integrity, values and ambitions I do not respect (In fact I have already turned down a potentially very lucrative contract to help write the biography of an Iraqi who made a fortune from the oil business in Iraq through collaborating with foreign interests after the illegal invasion of the country by the USA and UK.)
  • learn from everyone I work with, expanding my knowledge of the world and the number of contacts I have with wonderful and inspiring people
  • My novel, Saving the World and Being Happy, a book I intend to have re-published.

    My novel, Saving the World and Being Happy, a book I intend to have re-published.

  • revise Saving the World and Being Happy once my reputation is established, and seek a new publisher for it, and write further such works.

My work will be inseparable from my:

  • being happy and fulfilled
  • living free of debt
  • being able to contribute directly to good causes, especially the education of girls in the developing world and the offering of enhanced assistance (beyond writing) to individuals whose work/potential I admire and respect
  • always being able to buy my friends a drink!
  • continuing to meet wonderful people
  • having a pleasant home in Edinburgh and a nice little appartement in Paris!
October 2008.  Myself in Paris, a city I love!

October 2008. Myself in Paris, a city I love!

I believe that I deserve the above, and that I am in the process of achieving these goals. I express gratitude for all I have experienced and shall experience.  If I were to put this in the way that Lilou advises, I would say that I declare that I am attracting all these things into my life right now, that I visualise them and feel them to be real, and that I am very grateful for my life and for having these things!

Best wishes

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I am a writer specialising in non-fiction, particularly in assisting people with their biographies.
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6 Responses to “Mission Statement”: the most important posting yet/ever?

  1. Dear Eric

    I stumbled into your site when I googled for a Scottish Early Day Motion on seizing the assets of economic terrorists!… :)

    Just in case you’d like to study what I have been up to – as a mathematician and software woman alwasy in the minority among men – do click on http://tinyurl.com/666rwd which will take you further.

    With best wishes for your writing elbows,
    Organiser, Forum for Stable Currencies

    • biowrite says:

      Dear Sabine

      Your comment is greatly appreciated! Good luck with your excellent work. Bill Wilson (the MSP for whom I work) and myself are very much of the opinion that ethical/green investing is not only the morally correct thing to do, but also pays off in the long term. Triodos, for example, has weathered the economic storm wonderfully well!

      Warm regards

  2. You work for Bill Wilson who put that motion down!?

    Well, in that case, I wonder whether you’d like to look at our EDM 1297 on the Enforcement of Bank of England Act 1694!
    :) :) :)

    • biowrite says:

      Good stuff! I’ll bring it to Bill’s attention, although, being in the Scottish Parliament, he won’t be able to sign it of course.

  3. That is as wonderful and inspiring a mission statement as I’ve ever read! I admire your vision and have always believed that honesty and integrity are the most important things in the world, for without them, we are lost. The fact that you want to help women so much simply makes my heart skip a beat. Women need male advocates who truly believe in them and we are capable of changing the world…a world, may I add, that really needs to change! The arts have always been what have sustained me throughout a most challenging life journey and I couldn’t agree more about the need to eliminate the arms industry.

    I wish you nothing but the best for being able to make your dreams come true because you do deserve it, as we all do.

    I hope we become good friends because I’ve always wanted to visit Edinburgh and Paris too!

    Wishing for you the complete visualization and realization of everything you ever wanted,

  4. biowrite says:

    Thanks for your very kind comments, Christine! Much appreciated! :-)

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CJ Pony Parts at SEMA 2013

CJ Pony Parts at SEMA 2013

This year's SEMA event was one for the ages, and the CJ Pony Parts crew was there to capture the action! With dozens of automotive industry leaders and thousands of new parts introduced at the show, Bill and the rest of us here at CJ's are certainly excited for the new year! Check out a selection of our SEMA 2013 videos below, as Bill meets with some of our leading vendors, allowing you to see some of the newest products that are coming for 2014.

Scott Drake

Scott Drake is one of the most iconic brands for Mustang reproduction and aftermarket parts, so if you're a Mustang enthusiast, it's likely you've added some Scott Drake parts to your car. Mr. Scott Drake, himself, was at his SEMA this year and was happy to meet with Bill to let us preview some of their new 2014 products, including a reproduction '66 Shelby steering wheel and "Cobra" and "Shelby" stamped 14-inch high performance air cleaners.

Magnaflow, like Scott Drake, is another automotive parts leader, specializing in high quality exhausts. With Magnaflow, your Mustang will emit a smooth, deep exhaust tone, while at the same time increasing horsepower and torque for performance benefits. As Bill stops by the Magnaflow booth, he learns they're going to be introducing a whole new line of high performance headers in 2014, featuring a titanium ceramic coating.

In a very special SEMA 2013 interview, Bill gets to talk Mustang parts with Mr. Vic Edelbrock. If you're unfamiliar with the Edelbrock brand, although we find that hard to believe, you're definitely missing out. Edelbrock superchargers, carburetors, and intake manifolds are some of the best on the market, and even better, the majority of their products are made right here in the United States! New for 2014, Edelbrock will be rolling out some new accessories for their E-Force Supercharger.

Our SEMA 2013 coverage included interviews spanning leaders in exhausts, interior accessories, and engine performance, and we weren't about to miss another large area for restoration: upholstery! TMI Products specializes in upholstery, seat foam, headliners and other interior parts, and they've become a go-to for any enthusiast looking to  freshen the inside of their Mustang. As Bill meets with Waylon from TMI, he learns about their new high-back sport bucket seat foam and upholstery for 2005-2009 Mustangs!

For more SEMA 2013 videos, including some interviews with some new vendors we'll be adding in a few months, make sure to check out our YouTube channel's SEMA playlist. And while meeting with our vendors was definitely a highlight of our time at SEMA 2013, the CJ crew also got to see a TON of awesome Mustangs, and we're excited to bring you some footage of the coolest ones!

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