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Riding the Korean Wave
Hawaii's Korean business community hopes to make a big splash with a new bank
For James Son, it seems that everyone wants to talk about things Korean nowadays, especially South Korea's wildly popular soap operas, or K-dramas. Over the last year, non-Korean friends, business associates and even his doctor want to discuss the latest dramatic developments with the Coldwell Bankers Pacific Properties vice president. Son is gratified by all the attention, but he doesn't have much to say. He rarely watches the shows.
|SOAP FACTORY: South Korea's wildly popular soap operas have won many fans in Hawaii.
"Wherever I go, I get this feeling that the interest in these shows is really huge. I've heard that Korean television and movie DVD and pop music CD sales are very strong thanks to all these fans, and I've spoken to some Korean restaurant owners who see more and more local customers who want to order whatever they see their favorite characters eating on television," says the 44-year-old Son, who immigrated from Korea to Hawaii with his family 21 years ago. "I'm really excited that we have so much exposure now and happy that we've been embraced by the local community the way we have been."
The Korean Wave
From K-dramas to Michelle Wie to daikon kim chee, Islanders are eating up Korean culture (and frequenting Korean-owned businesses) like never before. Hardly a week goes by that an urban Islander doesn't visit a Korean-owned eatery or small business. Now, thanks to K-dramas, Korean exposure continues well into the night. This is on top of a profusion of South Korean-made electronics, appliances and automobiles that have been flooding the U.S. market in recent years.
The sudden exposure has been a stunning reversal for an ethnic group that for decades has been the Islands' "stealth Asians," assimilating and dispersing faster than any other ethnic group. Korean immigration began in 1903 but was abruptly stopped two-and-a-half years later by the Japanese, who began occupying and ruling the Korean peninsula in 1905. Without a homeland to return to, the approximately 4,000 Koreans got busy weaving themselves seamlessly into the Islands' cultural and social fabric. Two wars later, an influx of immigrants – mainly during the '60s and '70s – increase the state's tiny Korean population many times over. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are approximately 40,000 Hawaii residents who identify themselves as Korean, making it one of the smallest ethnic groups in the state.
According to Rex Kim, attorney and head of the Korean Chamber of Commerce, the recent community dynamism within the local Korean community is partly due to the overseas cultural wave but also the result of a local upwelling that occurred during the state's celebration of the centennial of Korean immigration in 2003.
"The Centennial made everyone [in the Korean community] very proud. It was a sort of a catalyst and as a result people have been opening up shops and trying different things," says Kim, a second-generation Korean American. "Today, there is a spirit of working together. Before the Centennial, the first generation and other Korean-speaking and non-speaking community members just didn't communicate."
Kim points out that Oahu's Korean Festival, which started five years ago in preparation of the Centennial, has grown wildly, from 15,000 people in attendance in 2002 to 50,000 in 2004.
But waxing on the new found enthusiasm and brotherhood is one thing and quantifying the resultant business activity is a different matter altogether. Kim admits that at this time there is no accurate economic barometer besides word-of-mouth reporting. His own organization's membership hasn't been a reliable gauge, remaining steady over the last several years. Moreover, since it is mainly made up of professionals, with very few first-generation Korean small business people as members, the chamber would be largely unaffected by any increase of start-up businesses.
Just a Culture Club?
Because of the lack of hard data, Duk Hee Murabayashi is wary of all the talk of an energized Korean business community. The retired city planner and unofficial historian and cultural expert of the Korean community believes that enthusiastic business leaders are confusing cultural exposure with economic power. Nationally, that power is quite formidable. According to the SBA, although Koreans make up only 0.4 percent of the U.S. population, they control 11 percent of the grocery stores and one third of all dry-cleaning stores. In addition, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Korean-owned businesses employ 333,000 people and generate more than $46 billion in sales.
|ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE: Opened in late 2004, on the corner of Kalakaua Avenue and Makaloa Street, the Palama Super Market services the growing and vibrant Korean community in the area. photo: Scott Kubo
However, Murabayashi points out that the surge in Korean immigration ended in Hawaii several decades ago, and the local Korean community is just too small to account for much of the ethnic group's economic success nationally.
"People don't realize just how small we are here in Hawaii, because of the popularity of the Korean dramas," says Murabayashi. "Counting 40,000 Korean residents is really a guesstimate. The population is probably more around 25,000, which includes fourth- and fifth-generation, English-speaking Koreans. We are the smallest of the Asian groups, and we continue to have a very small immigration."
Moreover, Murabayashi says that for many recent Korean immigrants, Hawaii is no more than a stepping stone to the Mainland and more opportunities in big cities such as Los Angeles and New York.
"The Centennial was a catalyst, but it was a cultural one. It's true that the Korean community is more united here than in other cities in the country, but again, that doesn't translate into economic power," says Murabayashi. "The Vietnamese are doing very well in Hawaii as are the Thais. But they don't get the kind of exposure that we Koreans do. I'm not sure why we get so much visibility. Maybe it's because we speak so loudly."
All in the Ohana
Whether Honolulu's Korean business community is experiencing an upsurge or not will remains a matter of debate. However, one thing is certain, the community will get a shot in the arm when the Ohana Pacific Bank opens it doors next month. Just the second new bank to open in the state in more than 15 years, and the first Korean-owned bank in the history of the Islands, Ohana Pacific Bank's branch is located on Kapiolani Blvd., near Keeaumoku Street, the epicenter of Korean business activity. Its location will make it easier to reach its target market: first-generation Korean small business people and residents.
According to Ohana Pacific's CEO and president Woon Seok Hyun, the necessity for a bank that specifically services the Korean community arose after last year's City Bank and Central Pacific Bank merger. Over the years, the now defunct City Bank had become the de facto bank of the Korean community.
Hyun acknowledges that Hawaii's Korean community is tiny in comparison to those found on the Mainland, especially Los Angeles' huge enclave, which has swelled to nearly 500,000 strong. But simple math makes him believe that his bank, with $12 million from mostly local investors, can start up fast and remain strong.
"The Korean population in Honolulu is somewhere around 35,000. If the median income is $20,000, we're talking about $600 million to $700 million," says Hyun. "We're confident that we can capture 5 percent market share [of this population] in our first year and 5 percent each of our next two years of operation before reaching out to other ethnic groups."
|FAMILY MAN: With solid support from the local Korean community, CEO and president Woon Seok Hyun believes Ohana Pacific Bank can start up fast and remain strong. photo: Scott Kubo
Fortunately, Hyun has more than simple math behind him. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, Korean Americans have the highest rate of entrepreneurship of any ethnic group in the country – 28 percent for men and 20 percent for women. With 25 percent of the population self-employed, Korean Ameri-cans seem to be able to sustain what they start. They also finish the job, too, having one of the lowest loan failure rates in the country.
Maybe because of the presence of so many loan-hungry small businesses, U.S.-based banks catering to the Korean community are some of the strongest performing financial institutions around. According to the California state department of Financial Institutions, there are seven state-charted Korean-American banks headquartered in Los Angeles' Koreatown. (Hyun is the former CEO and president of the Los Angeles-based Pacific Union Bank, which boasts deposits of more than $1 billion.) The banks controlled $8.2 billion in total assets in 2005, 5 percent of total state-chartered bank assets and 3 percent of California bank assets overall. (Five are listed on the NASDAQ.) In addition, Korean banks regularly outearn similarly sized banks nationwide, sometimes as much as two to one.
But it's not just in the mega-enclaves like Los Angeles, where these financial institutions have grown and thrived. In less than a decade, U.S.-based Korean banks have opened in New York, Chicago and Atlanta. Most recently, the Pacific International Bank started doing business in Puget Sound in November 2004. Although the picturesque Washington town is home to just 20,000 Koreans, bank officials were able to raise $6.6 million in just a four-month long capital-raising campaign. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, only 200 Korean Americans invested into Pacific International, constituting almost 90 percent of the bank's shareholders.
But before all the high finance, Ohana Pacific will start with high touch. "Some of the bigger banks are too luxurious, and Koreans don't feel right," says Hyun. "We want to make a bank that is more comfortable like their home. Small-business people like that kind of service."
The Korean Chamber of Commerce's Kim, who also sits on Ohana Pacific's board of directors, says that some of the bank's Korean-sensitive touches will include safe deposit boxes on the premises, greeting customers in a respectful manner and using honorific language. "Most all of the banks in town have a Korean-speaking teller on staff, but we want to build a personal relationships with our customers based on a shared cultural identity," says Kim. "Korean businesspeople are extremely independent. They work very hard and don't give up. As a second generation Korean, I want to help the first generation wherever I can to understand and adapt to western business practices and rules."
Will the opening of the new bank lead to a real economic resurgence in Honolulu's Korean community and ignite South Korean investment in the state? It's hard to say. According to Murabayashi, the Hawaii's Korean community is just too small. And when it comes to overseas investment, the South Korean government still has strict controls on how much capital can leave the country. But economic success has happened in other parts of the country without large foreign investment. Will there be an upwelling of pride and enthusiasm similar to what happened following the Korean Centennial? Again, it is impossible to predict. But stay tuned. There might be a soap opera based on this storyline someday.
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I must be insane.
Captcha: secundum - comes after fristum
I have done that with constants before. For example timeouts or similar:
const int TWO_MINUTE_CONSTANT = 2 * 60;
Makes it easier to read for me later. Maybe it was something similar for those 2 values :)
const maxVolume = 10 + 1;
in my opinion it makes perfect sense to encapsulate something like a random-number generator in your own class, this way you can replace this component with one that returns a "random" number which you can control in your unit-tests.
At least you have the magic values in one place instead of spread out inside the class.
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 09:19 • by Other Nagesh (unregistered)
Or you could use multiple random number generators and randomly select the one to use for enhanced super-randomness.
Constants in a class may or may not be a WTF - I'd honestly rather deal with a constant defined at the class level (preferably, in a Constants region) where I can easily find, identify, and maintain it, than have to sift through a bunch of code to find a method-level constant.
The value of that constant though...I think that's TRWTF.
Captcha: enim - must be Eminem's little brother.
Would you mind giving an example where a non-random random number makes sense?
probably some serious backstory to that 199 + 6. I have some humorous (to me anyway) code like that for managers who are decidedly NOT developers and have weird ideas about what is right.
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 09:25 • by Testing Troll (unregistered)
Or... you could do the sane thing and seed the PRNG with a constant when you're unit testing, and let it be seeded with the system time for normal operations...
CAPTCHA: conventio... if you follow the conventio you won't produce WTF-ridden code.
Because that's the way it's done in Java? Yes, I know that this is probably .NET/C#, but the guy might not be thinking that way.
Captcha: veniam. That's the way we coded in Ve'niam.
Similar to this method for having a fake clock.
Here's a couple:
1) Using random numbers for a short wait time so a server doesn't get hit with a lot of requests (ala ethernet collsion algorithm) - You might want to have a non random number to see how the server behaves when it does get hit simultaneously
2) Boundary checking - you might expect random numbers to be in a certain range, but for testing purposes, you could simulate numbers at the boundary or across the boundary
I do things like 199+6 isntead of 205 on occasion.
2 reasons:
1) I am often doing math where I might look at the code one day and say, why the heck did I put 205 there? But looking around I see the numbers 195 and 6 somewhere else in the code.
2) 199+6 compiles to 205 so it should be equivilent to 205 in the binary file that is generated.
But which random number generator would you use to select which random number generator to use for your super random number generator?
If you walk the version control commit history might get something like:
[Source change 382]
const int expected_length = 199;
[Comment block]
Should be fine for all cases
[Source change 383]
const int expected_length = 199 + 1;
[Comment block]
I'm sure it was some zero based issue
[Source change 384]
const int expected_length = 199 + 2;
[Comment block]
Wierd. +1 should have worked
[Source change 385]
const int expected_length = 199 + 3;
[Comment block]
Makes sense now... it's 2 UNICODE char's -1 (since it's zero based)
[Source change 386]
const int expected_length = 199 + 4;
[Comment block]
Still didn't work... +4 should be OK I'm sure
[Source change 387]
const int expected_length = 199 + 5;
[Comment block]
Still crashing! We really need to look at this logic
[Source change 388]
const int expected_length = 199 + 6;
[Comment block]
Praying this will be enough for all cases
In java, ain't declared quite the seme. Writen like this:
Constant declared in class for purpose of scope. Concretion values being used for purpose of showing how result is being found. Unfortunate after meking us wating a day, Alex provide code semples that is not being WTF. :(
Looks like a normal thing to do. He has a fixed length string of 199 characters that has 6 chars appended to the end.
As for "within a class" sounds good, better than global, I've even done such things as:
int bPtr=0,ePtr=0;
(No if statement/while block etc. to set off the block).
199 - clearly they are zero based arrays, and the max line length is 200 chars.
Now if that line is sent elsewhere, then it is going to be bundled into a buffer. You will need an overhead for the message type, and the length of the text being sent. I would suggest that is 2 bytes for the message, and 4 bytes for the length. Or 4 and 2.
Hence the 6.
Would be better if that was a constant in its own right.
max_line = 199
protocol_size = 6
message_size = max_line + protocolsize
// We need to give 110% here...
TRWTF is that there isn't a comment on the magic numbers there. Not that there is anything wrong with something like this, but it should be documented. For instance, this is one of my commits to Samba :
+ /* domain/username%password */
+ const int max = MAX_DOMAIN_SIZE +
If you want to write a test where you need predictable results, then you'll need to know the "random" inputs in advance.
Agreed. TOS ain't understanding scope is TRWTF.
Repeatability testing.
If I'm testing a simulation program, I may want to run the simulation under the same set of constraints repeatedly for testing, but use random numbers in production.
You don't get it. This is like an encounter in a Cthulhu mythos RPG, where you have to roll a dice to know if you are staying sane. Same here, the original coder put an unfathomable expression to force any future reader of the code into insanity if he wasn't sane enough already, thus avoiding borderline cases from going any further - and he helpfully documented he was doing this. Think of it as an assert on the maintenance programmer, forcing him to exit with insanity if he fails the check.
Yeah, I gotta say, I don't see a WTF here except for maybe not having a comment explaining where the 199 and 6 came from. And like hell if I'm going to throw stones in that glass house!! :p
[Insert xkcd random number thing here.]
199+6? Simple explanation time?
Expected length used to be 199. There was some reason deep in the logic or spec that said "We need it to be 6 longer".
They did 199 + 6 rather than 205, expecting it to be respecced and it being easier that way.
(I've got code that is now sadly barely maintainable because the spec and calculation to use was being changed hourly, so it has loads of commented versions littered all over the place, "Change it to this. It should be *2 not *3. Change it back to the original. *3 again. No, wait. *2)
I tend to agree, but that's a very different case to that mentioned in the article:
University all over again. :(
Cogo, I had fun in the Cogo line today.
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 10:46 • by Not sure if Fry or just Philip (unregistered)
Really guys, use the fucking comments if you want to explain magic numbers.
// length is 199 (because of foo) + 6 (because of bar)
public final static or whatever length = 205;
Even better, use javadoc.
Oh, now that makes perfect sense, thanks!
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 10:57 • by Playoffs? (unregistered)
Magic Number = T - W - L
T is the total number of games in the season
A is the number of games won by the team for which you are trying to calculate the magic number.
B is the number of games lost by the team for which you are trying to calculate the magic number against.
Source 1
Source 2
That being said, it's way to early to start talking playoffs
I am not a real programmer, so I don't work in C/C++ and didn't realize that this was legal in any languages. The last time I tried this it wouldn't compile. It was probably something esoteric like DEC BASIC.
You beat me to it, I was just thinking that's probably how I would see it appear in my code if it were to appear at all.
But a better approach would be to declare a struct for the particular message type including the header block (message type, message length) and then do a sizeof() to calculate the size instead of hard-coding it to 205.
Which reminds me of a MatLab WTF: everybody, including me, uses _foo_ and _bar_ as throwaway variables. Well, just try that in MatLab, and then try to call their function to draw a bar plot, which is named, you guessed it, "bar" . Hilarious subscript errors ensue.
C'mon guys it is staring you right in the face! How come nobody got it yet?
// Sanity check
If you are a sane person, when you look at the next line of code you will immediately delete it. Nobody has yet, therefore you and all your peers are insane.
Almost got there snoofle.
Everyone should know the answer to this question. If you don't, you're Doing It Wrong. (Or never worked with random numbers.)
Think about your workflow. You write software. You test it. It goes live. Someone finds a bug. You fix it. You test it again.
What is the goal of that last test?
Are you sure?
If you answered "to confirm the bug is fixed" you lose. Well you get half points, which is 50%, which is an F in most classes.
The answer is "to confirm the bug is fixed and to ensure no new bug is introduced, or other old bug came back".
How do you do that? You save the results of the "before fix" test and compare them with the "after fix" test. Only one thing should have changed. The badness should now be goodness. No other new badness.
Now, if you have random numbers in the mix, most likely every run will be different. So how can you compare the output? Huh??
See, if you'd ever done proper testing against random numbers, you'd know you have to generate a known repeatable random number (or sequence) during this type of testing.
Good stuff. Here's your next one:
Oh, don't bother, I see someone already caught it for you. Heh.
(I also see it's not directly used to size a buffer anyway.)
Yup. I've declared plenty of constants in classes. They're not applicable outside the class but a constant is much better than a magic number in the code.
Agreed. If the reason for the math isn't self-evident you should do something like this.
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 11:56 • by Not sure if Fry or just Philip (unregistered)
Since there seems to be a misunderstanding, here's my point: Don't rely on the compiler to do your math. Show what you meant in the comment, and store the calculated result in the const.
On the other hand, generic variables like "foo" and "bar" are the most evil variable names ever. While they're perfectly acceptable in short and meaningless examples, they should never, ever appear in production code. Except when they mean something, like spacebar or meter bar.
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 12:08 • by WordCrawler (unregistered)
Oh yeah, and don't forget to maintain that comment when you change the number from 205 to 206!
CAPTCHA: damnum = damn number
FIFY (if history is any indicator)
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 12:10 • by Calli Arcale (unregistered)
Well, that's what you *hope* to do. More often, you'll find that although the bug was fixed, it has now broken something else. Or it is only fixed in condition A, but in condition B it remains broken. Or the bug didn't break anything else at all, but you've stumbled upon something broken that nobody had noticed yet, possibly because the bug you fixed was concealing it.
I actually get a little worried when regression testing always passes. I find myself wondering whether or not the testing is adequate.
Re: Sanity Check
2012-05-17 12:12 • by Dan Minjoc (unregistered)
Disagree. The compiler will automatically evaluate the expressions. Why decrease code readability for no benefit?
Which would you rather have?
const uint32 NUM_SEC_IN_DAY = 60 * 60 * 24;
const unit32 NUM_SEC_IN_DAY = 86400;
Both are correct, but the first one shows exactly where the calculation is coming from.
I tend to disagree. I trust the compiler's math way more than most developers'.
Ah yes, I recall whiling away many happy hours writing DEC BASIC. In fact, I give DEC BASIC full credit for making me the person I have become today. I would explain more but Doctor says I'm not supposed to even use the computer at all while I'm in here.
Wow, ground-breaking stuff you got there... So, you're telling me that when I fix a bug, I need to make sure I don't break everything else? Thank goodness you were here to tell everyone in such a condescending tone...
You run the test 10 billion times so that you know you're testing every random 32-bit number (to within 5%) that might come up in production.
This also gives the advantage of never finding another problem during your career, and/or inflating the "number of tests passed" metric that you get a bonus on.
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Tonight Feels So Right..Original by Neil Swanson.cp 2010 .( B.M.I)
Lyrics & Chords
I wanted to create and compose a slow 60s ballad
type of song. with more modern technology. and
the organ which is called an itallion organ
just fit so right for this kind of music……
The oldies in america will always b an influence
in my composing. as i grew up with so much of
it. when i compose music . im not even sure
where it will lead. i just start playing and
let god . bring the ideas to me. as i play.
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transpire . Well hope all is liked and with
writing or doing Easter song s is not my
forte. but christmas music is . so god bless
Deepesh A k(indefinitely on and off) said
A very nice one neil….Happy easter to you and all ya dear ones…:D
Kal Mukabi said
Appropriate for the holiday. I say happy Resurrection, The term Easter is dirived from the ancient ESHTAR, the Phonecian god of fertility. The resurrection of Christ should be surrounded by beautiful music.
Deepa kumar said
Nice one…. Enjoyed on this special day…. Happy Easter :-)
My uploads:
Happy Birthday Ajay
Happy Birthday Raj
Kaadhodu Dhan-V-Day Special
Thanking Lord Shiva on Maha Sivarathri 2010
Karigalan with Vishnu Mohan
Dedication to my daughter
Poove Poochooda Vaa
Yeh Ishq Hai
Neil did you modify the Love only once tune?
Both looks similar.
Any way loved it.
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Rajeev Onv(away on a long break) said
Neil, you have captured the nuances of the golden sixties. hope you come up with a vocal version later. Congrats!
Pamala said
nice feel to it
Saqib Javed said
great music neil
My Recent song
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The use of clay as a fine art medium has deep roots in Northern California. Once considered a form of craft, it took the ingenuity, creativity, and vision of artists like Robert Arneson and Peter Voulkos to look beyond the medium's utilitarian properties to its expressive qualities. In the decades following, their successors—artists such as Stephen DeStaebler, David Gilhooly, Ron Nagle, and Richard Shaw—continued to stretch the creative boundaries of clay sculpture. Today, the use of the medium as a respected art form continues to thrive.
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Images, left to right: Stan Welsh, Surrender, 2010, from the series On Land-On Water, photograph, plywood, silk, and terracotta clay, 34 x 36 x 6 in., Courtesy of the artist. Francisco "Pancho" Jiménez, Cara a Cara, 2012, 21 x 21 x 7 in., ceramic, Courtesy of the artist.
Image captions, Clay in the Bay exhibition announcement: Stan Welsh, Surrender, 2010, from the series On Land-On Water, photograph, plywood, silk, and terracotta clay, 34 x 36 x 6 in., Courtesy of the artist. Spring Montes, Blossom (detail), 2011, porcelain, wire, foam, wax, plastic, tea lights, 12 x 12 in., Courtesy of the artist. Francisco "Pancho" Jiménez, Cara a Cara, 2012, 21 x 21 x 7 in., ceramic, Courtesy of the artist. Monica Van den Dool, Swans (detail), 2011, 44 x 30 x 8 in., ceramic, Courtesy of the artist. Nancy Selvin, Findings: #017 (detail), 2012, terracotta, underglaze, screened underglaze image and text, underglaze pencil, 12 x 12 x 1 in., Courtesy of the artist. Matthew Scheatzle, Cask (detail), 2006, ceramic, wood, and steel, approx. 10 x 15 ft., Courtesy of the artist.
Sonic Responses to Clay in the Bay
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The Trickle Down Economics of Cap and Trade
Aug 30, 2011
By Matt Bogard
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
- Frederick Hayek
What I used to think about climate economics:
What economists must do then is take consensus science into account, and approximate what the price of carbon should be to limit economic damages from CO2. This level will be achieved where the marginal cost of reducing carbon emissions is equal to the benefits of decreased damages from climate change in the future.
What I used to believe to be the current state of the art of climate economics:
Nordhaus ( Using the DICE-2007 model, and based on the science of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report) prices carbon at about $30/ ton, with the average person in the US generating about 5tons/yr, for a total of about $150/year, or .09 /gallon of gas and .01/kwh for electricity. However, the Stern Proposal(proposed by another economist in the U.K) estimates the damage from global warming to be closer to $300/ton carbon for the next two decades. In this case we are looking at increasing gas prices by about $1.20/gallon.
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I used to ponder, who is right, and how can economics narrow the gap between these approaches. Now I question the idea of even 'pricing carbon' and the assumption that the impacts of climate change (manmade or not) are not captured in market interactions.
Carbon Taxes
The idea of pricing carbon is that given the assumption that CO2 production has a negative impact on climate change and so many goods and services are carbon intensive, if we can put a price on carbon (paid by corporations that trade carbon permits or a carbon tax) to capture the value of the negative externality, this will 'trickle down' to the mirco level, such that when you buy an ice cream cone, gasoline, or a pencil, the impact of your choice on the climate will be captured in the price you pay for it.
This is the climate change knowledge problem. We have to get the initial price of CO2 correct so that the 'trickle down' economics works at the micro level and we ward off catastrophic climate change.
The correct price for carbon will balance the marginal cost of reducing carbon emissions with benefits of decreased damages from climate change in the future.
As Armstrong points out
, there are few scientific forecasts related to these future damages. And technological change allows us to continually respond the volatile effects of climate change. Advances in biotechnology are allowing us to produce more climate resilient crops, all the while reducing our carbon footprint in agriculture. How can we incorporate this knowledge into our calculus? When it comes to the costs of reducing carbon emissions, it isn't any easier. What are the opportunity costs of resources invested in emissions mitigation (voluntarily vs. those mandated or incentivised by government administered prices for carbon)?
Tradeable Permits
Some will argue that instead of a tax, you can get similar or superior results by defining property rights in the form of carbon credits or tradeable permits. Then markets can solve the information problem via the price mechanism that manifests in the trading of permits. The problem still stands. Someone has to initially assign some quantity of permits to 'polluters.' This quantity has to be based on some determination of an 'optimal' quantity of CO2 emissions. This also requires the information necessary for determining the marginal benefits and costs of each associated unit if CO2.
The knowledge problem has not been solved, just reformulated in a way that is equivalently intractable for planners to solve.
Unless planners get this quantity right, the price that 'trickles down' at the micro level for all goods and services will be too high or too low, based on the artificial scarcity or excess created by the planners' miscalculation. The classic example
of the Coase Theorem solves the externality of pollution of common property like a lake by clearly assigning property rights. The optimal level or quantity of pollution is a separate problem solved by the price mechanism via subsequent exchanges of property rights or contracting.
In the case of CO2, the assignment of property rights and the optimal quantity of pollution both have to simultaneously be determined. You have to determine some initial quantity of pollution in order to create the permits (which a are then traded to establish a price).
From the Capitalism Today Blog at Western Kentucky University there was recently a
regarding macroeconomic equilibrium and the difficulties of knowing the micro-level equilibrium for something (seemingly) as simple as ice cream:
"They act as if not only there is equilibrium, but that they know where it is. If anyone knows exactly how many ice cream cones the US needs to produce tomorrow, please raise your hands. What no hands? No one can know the "appropriate" amount of ice cream cone production for today let alone for tomorrow. The $15 trillion US economy makes a lot more than just ice cream cones."
I think this analogy may also apply to pricing carbon. Ice cream comes in lots of varieties and flavors, produced and marketed various ways (natural, conventional, biotech, hormone free, organic, home made, store bought, ice cream trucks, retail outlets). Ice cream is pretty differentiated when you think about it. What about carbon?
Noone knows how to set a 'national' or even a 'local' price for pencils, or the correct quantity of pencils that our complex world requires. Why do we expect carbon to be any different than ice cream or pencils? Even if economists like Nordhous and Stern were in agreement, their solutions would not sufficiently deal with climate change's knowledge problem.
Some will agree that planners are no match for markets in determining prices and quantities, but because we currently have no established property rights to the atmosphere there is no 'price' for carbon. As such, there are going to be consequences if we do nothing, and the next best solution is an attempt, even if not perfect, to price carbon because it is not considered in market transactions.
Is that really the next best solution and is it true that the price mechanism totally ignores CO2?
What is carbon really? 'Carbon' in an economy manifests itself in how we heat and cool our homes, how we manufacture goods and services, how we respond to emergencies, how we travel and transport goods, how we store and retrieve information. Leonard E. Read's essay
I, Pencil
demonstrates the complexity involved in an economy that thrives on disaggregated information and processes with numerous feedback loops and interactions.
In a complex society, carbon is no different, and while it may not be explicitly and directly priced, it is hard to believe that its role is not part of the pool of knowledge characterized by the partial bits of information held by all individuals in society.
In fact, while politicians and special interests argue over the politically optimal arrangement of regulatory protections and subsidies to 'combat climate change' markets have responded in much more meaningful ways without any bureaucratically administered price of carbon or cap on CO2.
As Dr. Don Boudreaux of George Mason University points out in a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, in response to climate alarmists' connecting violent storms and climate change (and obviously calling for centralized solutons to combat it): (
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"...because of modern industrial and technological advances—radar, stronger yet lighter building materials, more reliable electronic warning devices, and longer-lasting packaged foods—we are better protected from nature's fury today than at any other time in human history."
Perhaps the innovations in green technologies in agriculture provide the greatest example of mitigating climate change:
Total decreases in carbon dioxide as a result of using biotech crops was equivalent to removing 6 million cars from the road in 2007. The carbon footprint for a gallon of milk produced in 2007 was only 37 percent of that produced in 1944. For every 1 million cows, the reduction in global warming potential from rBST supplemented cows is equivalent to removing 400K cars from the roadways or planting 300 million trees. The use of grain and pharmaceutical technology in beef production has resulted in a nearly 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gases (GHGs) per pound of beef compared to grass feeding. Intensive agriculture has actually has a mitigating effect on climate change with a reduction of 68 kgC (249 kgCO2e) emissions relative to 1961 technology. (
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We are not really sure how to price carbon, and what we observe in all of these instances is that despite the absence of a centrally planned price or quantity of carbon, people are making choices that optimize its use or production. Because we don't have the knowledge to price carbon, we don't know that the resources expended in 1)
lobbying lawmakers to tweak the proposed rules and regulations
2) mitigating the costs of a centrally planned price or quantity, would not have higher valued uses mitigating climate change in other ways (like investment in green technologies like biotech). T
he best approach for dealing with climate change or any environmental problem is to develop resilient market based economies that are able to invest in the technology necessary to adapt to ever changing resource constraints.
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The S&P Credit Downgrade
Aug 13, 2011
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"the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011"
One of the main reasons that the 'multiplier' effects of the stimulus have not taken hold, and the reason that the economy is recovering so sluggishly is the uncertainty in the regulatory environment. Last fall, NCBA president Steve Fogelsong put this quite well in an interview on Agritalk where he discusses the regulatory zeal including cap and trade, the takeover of the financial and auto industry, the student loan industry, dust regulation, inheritance taxes, failure of pending free trade agreements, as well as livestock marketing regulations to name a few (at 9:23 on the clip you can find
A very similar argument is also well put in a post on the economics blog
Café Hayek
"But if the decline in GDP growth and in the rate of employment are caused, not by a taste-driven increase in the demand for money but, instead, by a large enough disruption in what Arnold Kling calls "patterns of sustainable specialization and trade," then kicking up aggregate demand won't solve the problem. Neither kicking it up, or trying to, through monetary policy or through fiscal policy will work. The problem is not originally one of widespread inadequate demand…. it is clearly the result of distorting government policies, regulatory and monetary, leading up to 2008 as well as of the symptom-treating policies since then that only worsen matters. (And not to mention yet other actual and threatened policies)"
The issue of regulatory uncertainty is not unique to our current economic challenges, we had a very similar situation following the Great Depression, which lasted for over a decade. According to Robert Higgs, this was largely the result of New Deal Policies that created regulatory uncertainty prolonging the depression. You can find his paper
You can also find a good discussion of this work on the EconTalk podcast
I've shared a lot of the following research in the past discussing the prediction that the stimulus probably would not work, but given the recent downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, it seems like it is worth a review:
"The Keynesians had it all wrong. In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies changed in a way that lowered normal employment."
--Edward C. Prescott Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review Winter 1999, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 25–31
"We find that New Deal cartelization policies are an important factor in accounting for the failure of the economy to recover back to trend."
-Journal of Political Economy, 2004, vol. 112, no. 4 New Deal Policies and the Persistance of the Great Depression : A General Equilibrium Analysis. Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanion.
"We conclude that a new shock is needed to account for the Depression's weak recovery. A likely culprit is New Deal policies toward monopoly and the distribution of income."
---The Great Depression in the United States From A Neoclassical Perspective Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review Winter 1999, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 2–24
"Businessmen came to ask themseleves whether Roosevelt really understood a system where the hope of profit sparks expansion and investment. Or did he believe simply in centralizing decision and authority in boards and "planners" along the Patomac?"
---The Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS TYLER, TEXAS
Until we can start thinking outside the box of Keynesian economic policies as well as get a handle on the uncertain regulatory environment, we won't likely see a strong recovery. That means higher budget deficits and downward pressure on future credit ratings.
For a more entertaining look at policy alternatives, I highly recommend the following youtube videos:
Fear the Boom and Bust
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Book review
"Life After Death"
by Damien Echols
Blue Rider Press, 399 pages, $26.95
By Steve Weinberg
Youngsters like Damien Echols are depressingly common in the United States, lost within perhaps the richest nation that has ever existed. The difference is that even the most neglected and abused youngsters rarely end up convicted of murder as teenagers and sent to Death Row for crimes they never committed.
Also rare is a wrongful conviction book by an alleged perpetrator who is now back in society, released from prison. As knowledge of wrongful convictions becomes increasingly widespread, books about individual cases and about the overall phenomenon arrive, one after the other. (As a journalist who investigates and sometimes writes about wrongful convictions, I own several hundred such books.) Fewer than a dozen of those carry the name of the exonerated individual as author. To be candid, most of the wrongfully convicted lack the tools to read and write well, if at all.
Oops — the previous paragraph uses the term "exonerated individual." It turns out, according to the state of Arkansas, Echols and his two alleged killing companions are not exonerated. They have been released from prison and everybody "knows" they are innocent of the 1993 brutal triple slayings of eight-year-old boys. But technically, under Arkansas law, Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. are still killers. The case that has come to be known as that of the "West Memphis Three" is complicated, you see, and perhaps the most shameful of the thousands of shameful wrongful convictions across the United States.
Oh, and did I mention that the same Arkansas police, juvenile officers, prosecutors and judges who ought to be banned from their professions for their willful misconduct have never caught the actual killer or killers of those three boys? The incompetent defense lawyers from the trial ought to have lost their licenses. A large percentage of wrongful conviction cases involve those same elements.
Complicating a review of Echols' book "Life After Death" is deciding how to categorize it.
The book never would have happened, of course, without the accompanying killing saga. But "Life After Death" is not really a wrongful conviction book per se because that saga is not mentioned prominently until page 218. Even after that page, much of the book does not mention the homicide case.
In its later stages, the book is even a celebrity chronicle, as famous individuals adopt the cause of the West Memphis Three and stay the course. The celebrities include musician Eddie Vedder and actor Johnny Depp. Their financial contributions to Echols' appellate defense fund and their concern deserve praise, even from readers who do not care for the artistry of Vedder and Depp. "Life After Death" is a grim, grim book. That is not a criticism, but a fact. Reader, beware of pervasive depression while absorbed.
Steve Weinberg is a freelance investigative reporter based in Columbia, Mo.
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I am not so sure these guys are innocent. Not to say that the case was handled fairly AT ALL. I give them that. However, I just can't sit and say that just because it wasn't handled fairly, they are innocent. I have watched each and every documentary on this case and to me, something isn't right, especially with Damien.


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Hard to imagine, but there was a time when a suntan was the opposite of chic. Back then, fashionable women kept their skin as pale as possible—and not from a fear of skin cancer. Ironically, now that we know how much damage the sun can do, the fashion police have deemed a tan de rigeur. They call it a "healthy glow" or a "sun-kissed" look, and thankfully, beauty companies have devised dozens of ways to bronze without ever having to expose your skin to the damage of ultraviolet (UV) rays.
But chemical tans may be a slippery slope—controversy abounds over whether the popularity of fake tans keeps people out of the sun, or actually encourages them to seek out the real thing. A study published last year in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that fair-skinned individuals who used sunless tanning lotions in the previous 12 months were also more likely to have gotten a sunburn or used a tanning bed in that same time period.
Still, fake tanning lotions and bronzing powders are a safe substitute for the sun. "Tanning was popularized decades ago, and you can't change cultural ideals overnight," reasons Sue Ellen Cox, MD, a dermatologist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "Topical self-tanners provide a safe way to give the appearance of a tan without the UV radiation."
Whichever method you choose—self-tanners, bronzing powders, or glow lotions, the trick to making your "tan" look real, according to New York-based makeup artist Bret Miedel is "to key the shade you use to your natural skin tone."
Here's how faux glow products work:
Self-tanners. Slather on one of these lotions (gels, mousses, or sprays) and within a few hours your skin will start to develop a "tan." Dihydroxyacetone (DHA), an ingredient common to all self tanners (including those by natural beauty companies), causes this reaction. Basically a simple sugar, DHA combines with the outer layer of skin to make it turn brown. "It temporarily stains the skin and then fades—just like a suntan—as the dead skin cells are shed," explains Cox. The color (and the chemical) doesn't penetrate beneath the stratum corneum (the outermost layer of skin). The ingredients watchdogs at the Environmental Working Group consider DHA nontoxic and safe as long as it isn't used near the eyes.
Bronzing powders. Designed mostly for use on the face (and possibly down to the neck and chest), bronzing powder offers a low-commitment method for giving the skin a sun-kissed boost. Many of the versions from natural beauty companies will contain mineral pigments to impart a glow to the skin.
Glow lotions. Somewhere between self-tanners and body makeup, these lotions can give bare arms, legs, and décolletage a temporary tan (sometimes with a hint of shimmer) that washes right off. A perfect solution for times when you don't want to wait for self tanner to take effect, or when you want to experiment with color.
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Separate tales reveal the backgrounds of four terrifying witches, including Alice and the Spook's love, Meg.
A collection of familiar tales twisted just a bit and told comic book style.
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These retellings of familiar fairy tales feature animals in the place of people (Hamster and Gerbil) and are sure to make readers and listeners laugh.
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The 2013 GHSA lacrosse championships will see several past champions looking for even more hardware. The Milton girls have won seven titles over the last eight years while Westminster has won a combined five titles in boys and girls lacrosse. Lambert has claimed the past two Class A-AAAA boys' titles.
Earlier this season, Lambert's (15-6) three-year, 43-game winning streak came to a close, but the Longhorns are back in the Class AAAAAA finals. Junior Sean Carruthers scored five goals in Lambert's first-round victory.
Lambert will face Centennial (18-3), a team that lost just once during the regular season to a Georgia opponent. The Knights have defeated East Coweta, Lassiter and Harrison for a chance at the state title. Nathan Solomon and Brendan Spence have proven to be quite potent on the attack.
Westminster (17-4) has entered the postseason with just four losses during the regular season, and the Wildcats have already avenged one of those losses with a 6-5 win over Decatur in the A-AAAAA semifinals. Northview (19-2) defeated Westminster in March and now awaits the Wildcats in the finals. The Titans eliminated McIntosh, Pope and Lovett this postseason.
The Westminster girls (17-2-2) have won the last three A-AAAA state titles and now seek to take out a McIntosh program they defeated last year in the championship match and two years ago in the semifinals. Westminster is paced by seniors Caroline Heys and Ansley Walker as well as freshman Cabel Zakas. McIntosh (14-3-1), which took out Northview in the semifinals, is seeking its first GHSA state title.
Tim Godby's Milton Eagles (17-3) have only lost four games to opponents from Georgia since 2005. Seniors Caroline Youngs and Lydia Cassada lead the No. 1 team in the latest laxpower.com national poll. Lassiter (15-5-1) should prove to be a tough matchup as the Trojans can score at will. The offense averaged 16.5 goals per game this year and blasted previously-undefeated Centennial 18-2 in the quarterfinals.
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In a loss, Larry Sanders touches a mile-high milestone: Nuggets 110 — Bucks 100
Category: Recaps
|Ersan Ilyasova, PF Shot Chart 21 MIN | 4-16 FG | 0-0 FT | 11 REB | 2 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 8 PTS | +2
He did a lot of Ersan things: drawing charges, missing shots from point-blank range, hustling on defense, getting blocked by Randy Foye, grabbing a lot of rebounds. If he shoots better, it's a valuable performance, but he didn't.
|Khris Middleton, PF Shot Chart 44 MIN | 10-21 FG | 0-0 FT | 6 REB | 3 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 25 PTS | +5
Middleton is a profession shot maker. Give him space and he'll do his thing. He was busy on defense, too, making the right rotations and getting his long arms on a few balls. He gets bonus points for playing 44 minutes at high altitude and never showing signs of slowing down. Other than getting bowled over when he stepped in front of a fast-breaking Kenneth Faried, I don't recall him getting shortchanged on any calls. Seems hard to take 21 shots without getting to the free throw line at least once.
|Larry Sanders, C Shot Chart 34 MIN | 12-19 FG | 1-5 FT | 15 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 2 TO | 25 PTS | +3
Best player on the floor for either team, although Wilson Chandler finished in a strong way for Denver. After a season-long bout with yips and ball-stopping on offense, Sanders decisively took well-chosen shots, crashed the offensive glass and moved the ball when it wasn't time to shoot. His touch inside was uncanny.
It didn't happen in any appreciable way in this game, but if he maintains this knack for scoring, he'll gain even more confidence to defend well at the other end. After two no-calls on first quarter misses, he did something unnoticeable to earn a technical foul, but regrouped (while staying out of foul trouble) to notch a career-high in points. He just needs to make his free throws.
|Brandon Knight, PG Shot Chart 38 MIN | 4-17 FG | 6-8 FT | 2 REB | 8 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 16 PTS | -17
Lots of hustle, didn't make many mistakes, didn't make enough shots. Guarding Ty Lawson is no small task and he did a reasonable job of it. He's the only one of the Bucks starters who can routinely get to the free throw line. He looked a little winded in the second half.
|Nate Wolters, PG Shot Chart 28 MIN | 2-7 FG | 0-0 FT | 2 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 4 PTS | -6
Wolters got a lot of good looks near the rim and missed all of them, though one looked like a sure Anthony Randolph goaltend. Larry Sanders looks like a better player when Wolters is putting him in the right spots with passes. On defense, he contested jump shots well and got a piece of one Randy Foye's.
|John Henson, C Shot Chart 17 MIN | 1-5 FG | 0-0 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 2 PTS | -18
The rare air of Denver probably isn't the best spot to try to get back into optimal playing rhythm after a few games missed to injury. His low-post shots and putbacks weren't falling and he took the most indecisive 18-footer you'll ever see. He was a step slow rotating all game long, and his defensive miscues were ending in J.J. Hickson and Kenneth Faried dunks (see below).
|Zaza Pachulia, C Shot Chart 22 MIN | 2-6 FG | 11-12 FT | 4 REB | 2 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 15 PTS | -10
He was on the court for a lot of the Bucks' defensive implosions this game. In one condensed stretch he had: a bad pass, a forced post move miss, some sloppy help defense, and a dumb offensive foul that took a Knight layup off the board. On the other hand, he makes the Bucks a better rebounding team when he's out there, he passes the ball to the right spot 9 times out of ten, and he creates AND makes free throws.
|Luke Ridnour, PG Shot Chart 4 MIN | 0-0 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 0 PTS | -8
The Nuggets' barrage of three-pointers began when he was in the game. He tried to drive between three Nuggets and turned the ball over. On the other end, he went under a screen and Foye hit a wide-open three. He left in the first half with a back issue and did not return.
|Giannis Antetokounmpo, SG Shot Chart 33 MIN | 1-4 FG | 3-6 FT | 4 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 4 TO | 5 PTS | -1
He turned the ball over four times and only scoring five points. But the good news is that when he attacks the rim and doesn't turn the ball over, he gets fouled. Almost always. He also hit a confident 18-footer in the final minutes when the game was close.
On the other end, he got lost on a couple of possessions per half, but he often forces opponents to move the ball away from his man. As soon as he stops falling for pump fakes — which he did plenty in this game — he'll be a beast of a defender.
Five Things We Saw
- Tabulating the numbers above, Knight, Ilyasova, and Wolters hit a combined 10-of-40 shots. To make matters worse, the trio of starters made just 1-of-15 shots inside of 6 feet. That's soft finishing at its finest.
- Wilson Chandler played phenomenally at the end. When the Bucks pulled within three points with 2:13 left, Chandler followed with three clutch baskets: two strong moves to the rim and one lucky bounce jump shot that hit the top of the glass before falling through.
- John Henson wore purple shoes.
- John Henson didn't have a good game and this is a reasonable one-play summary.
- When the notion of tanking the 2013-14 season was first breached, this is what I had in mind: a well-contested, perfectly respectable loss. The Bucks played much better here than anything they threw up in late January.
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A few of the bucks players have been wearing purple shoes the past few games. I think it is in honor of black history month. The NBA wore purple shoes on mlk Jr. day, so it seems some bucks players may just be continuing the tribute.
After a bad 3rd-quarter, it was fun to see the Bucks close the deficit to only 5 late in the game. Even though they weren't playing great basketball, it seemed like they were really hustling on defense, and scrambling as best they could on offense.
With Larry, Khris, Giannis and Brandon out there much of the second half — along with John and Nate to a lesser extent — I feel like maybe I was watching the nucleus of a future team developing, and possibly a promising one. After that horrible sequence from Zaza noted above, he really hung in there, scrapped for some nice plays, and showed how a veteran presence can complement the young guys.
Like KL wrote, this is the kind of loss I can live with, at least to some degree, at least for now, especially with the focus on the young guys. It is hard having both of our point guards learning that role, but I wouldn't make any rash trades to bring in another point.
I might be way off on this, and it might be wishful thinking, but I sense that maybe Khris is becoming a leader on this team: with hustle, intensity, calm, positivity, unselfishness, an improving all-around game, and that sweet outside shot. He got a foul guarding his man closely out near half-court early in the 4th-quarter, protested a little, then continued the tough defense when the Nuggets inbounded the ball. I wonder if that helped to motivate his teammates for their comeback.
I think KL, and the other Bucksketball guys, as well as other fans on this site, pick up some of the nuances in a game that I miss (being distractable and more of an impressionist), so I'm very interested to read about what others saw.
P.S. I really think Larry has the skills to be at least a solid offensive player, shooting face-up 15-footers and making short drives to the hoop using the glass. I wonder if he might be lifting his head up a bit on his free throws rather than keeping his eyes focused on the rim through the shot.
D- is generous for Henson. Such a lousy game, I was shocked to see that he only played 17 min because he seemed to have such a negative impact on the game.
But its nice to see Lary be strong offensively when everyone else seemed to be shooting the basketball into a solo cup.
"When the notion of tanking the 2013-14 season was first breached, this is what I had in mind: a well-contested, perfectly respectable loss."
My sentiments precisely. I want to see potential, which they haven't shown much of for the better part of the season. A few new high profile players, an improved Sanders, and a growing Giannis is something we all want to see in 2014-15.


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but in the contrary the saga that brought my innocence in the adventurous journey of bella and edward in this world, will end this November maybe in theaters but not in my heart, it will always shine here like a new moon in the sun,a midnight sun,a twilight before the dawn breaks and the part of me(eclipse rise)-me being a moon whose going to cover my life and back again in a world where another opportunity to grab.
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i mean being adventurous is not my forte but the fantasy that Meyer brought me is out of this world
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Join TED Speakers John Bohannon and Carl Flink Monday, 12/17 to delve into the super-awkward world of "The Facts of Life"!
When you were a kid, did your parents ever sit you down for THAT conversation? As in, the "facts of life", "the birds & the bees"? Or was it all just too awkward? If you're a parent now, have you talked with your kids?
Join TED speakers John Bohannon and Carl Flink of Black Label Movement to delve into the super-awkward: Monday, December 17th at 4:30 pm Eastern, here on TED Conversations.
Watch their TED-ED video here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/let-s-talk-about-sex-john-bohannon-and-black-label-movement
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John and I thank everyone for tuning into the conversation about our Talk. I think we all quickly revealed the humor and seriousness of this critical subject and the broad range of experiences around it. We hope that our presentation continues to catalyze conversations around talking about sex and also thinking about how TED talks can incorporate different elements such as live performers beyond the tried and true powerpoint structure.
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A big THANKS to everyone who took part in my survey. Here are the results:
1. When you were young, did your parents or another adult talk to you about "the facts of life"?
Yes, I got the low-down on both sex and drugs.
Yes, but only about sex.
Yes, but only about drugs.
No, I had to learn things the hard way.
2. If you have teenage kids (or older), did you (or someone) tell them about "the facts of life" yet?
Yes, they received the wisdom about sex and drugs.
Yes, but so far only about sex.
Yes, but so far only about drugs.
No, that conversation never happened. Awkward!
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Dec 17 2012: As a kid I'm sure we had specific conversations about it, but my truly memorable sex-ed moment was, in fact, an overnight campout at the local abortion clinic with the local girls from my very progressive 70s neighborhood. In one room, there was an endless videotape loop of an internal exam, and plenty of helpful 70s ladies who were eager to explain it to me.
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