RANmagazine Issue 8 November / December 2010

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hoa. The year is almost over. Already. Nagoya hasn’tyet gotten hit by the big one, but a few smaller oneshave rocked our city. Sometimes seems like we’regoing backwards and forwards simultaneously, both in ourpersonal lives and in our social lives. Nagoya is alive. RockThis Town.Summer ended one day in September, me and the crewblasted down Nagara River one final time and only J7’s asshit the surf a few times. Suddenly it was October for a quickminute, windy, cold and wet-and now winter stares us down.Oktoberfest at Tsurumai exceeded everyone’s expectations.The day was the most perfect day all season, and the bandsand people and the food of Dennis Salmon made the day oneof our most unforgettable. I Love October.Absolute Halloween brought together a thousand Nagoyasouls and a crew of Nagoya’s Finest DJs emerged. Find ThemHere.October also saw the COP 10 take a shot at makingour city of Nagoya a player in the global sweeptstakes forrescuing mankind from itself. Biodiversity is on the table allover the planet, and several hundred of the top delegatesand leading scientists from everywhere on earth stopped intoNagoya to make their case. Even Han Solo flew in on hisMillenium Falcon and wielded his light saber in defense of the animals and the land. It was luminary. From this meeting,a certain percentage of biodiversity in the form of animals,lands, marshes, oceans, etc, will be roped off from mankind’sdestructive tendencies. Things Need To Live And Grow, let’sleave them be, shall we?COP 10 didn’t meet all of it’s goals, indigenous peoplesaren’t satisfied with what they’ll get when the next miraclemedicine is found on their farmlands, but they got a betterdeal than they had-the so-called “access and benet sharing”protocols predictably went more in favor of the corporate,but at least the indigenous people had the opportunity to putthemselves in the running for the riches---strike a blow tothe phat pharmaceuticals all over the world, from right herein Nagville. I sort of think we’re all indigenous in some way,aren’t we?Sick.A Nagoya radio institution shut down it’s signal on the lastday of September, and now another radio innovator standspoised to take Nagoya radio, and radio in general, to a wholenew level, www.nagoyaradio.com, check on it.Another institution, Hard Rock Café, will be sayingsayonara at the end of this year, we’ve had 3 successful rockshows on that HRC stage, we’ll say goodbye with year’s endHARD ROCK CAFÉ SAYONARA PARTY on Friday, December10th. Our parties at The Rock are major events in Nagoya,check your calendar.Dive In Five. That’s how a friend recently characterizedwhat’s going to happen with the Yen, currently a globalcurrencly powerhouse. He thinks by next spring, the yen won’tbe as powerful worldwide, good thing maybe, the imbalanceis wrecking havoc on Japan’s economy, but allowing thoseof us who work here to be able to travel with a lot moreimpunity. Do you think the yen will take a dive on the world’smarkets? Hope not, at least until I get my travel plans together.Dive In Ten. Please? Next Spring: Thailand.Year’s end, how is it going with you and the goals you’veset for yourself? The SUCCESS ISSUE we did was aimed to getthe entrepreneur in you going a bit. We’re reporting on what’shappening in the streets of Nagoya, and we’d like you to bewhat’s happening. Get Your Art On, however you do it. MakeIt Happen.Big Ups to our newest sponsors,--ENGLISH TEACHERSSERIES—is posting giant numbers on YOUTUBE, have youcommented yet? The webisode is a star attraction on the netright now, perfectly timed and placed, and made here inNagoya. We Run This Town.Christmas and New Years are around the corner, we’ll beout in the streets wanting to know what you’re up to. Smile forthe camera.tdh

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