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Are China's trade figures too good to be true?
April's extra-strong export data add to speculation that Beijing is cooking the books when it comes to official economic statistics.
Is China manipulating its economic data? There's been speculation for years that governmental and industry figures regarding trade, GDP and other market-influencing statistics might be skewed upward or even outright falsified.
And China's latest trade figures are setting off alarm bells among analysts.
The government reported that exports in April rose 14.7% year over year, up from a 10% gain in March -- well above expectations -- despite a drop in demand from both the U.S. and the eurozone. The jump was reported to be fueled partly by a huge rise in exports to Hong Kong. Beijing also said imports rose 16.8% in April, the fastest pace outside of a holiday sales season since November of 2011.
In a research note quoted by state-run China Daily, analysts at Lianxun Securities said that the results met their predictions and that "April trade figures basically reflected the real picture."
But Wednesday's data were met with skepticism by other observers who, according to Reuters, believe Chinese exporters "may have overstated their business to sneak funds into the country and avoid capital restrictions."
"I have no strong conviction whether the data reflects reality," Zhiwei Zhang, the chief China economist at Nomura Securities (NMR) in Hong Kong, told the news agency. And in a note to clients, quoted by Business Insider, Wei Yao at Societe Generale (SCGLY) said such practices are widespread.
"Our observation from the trips to the mainland led us to believe that there is indeed a large amount of speculative capital flows," Yao wrote. "Nearly all corporates we met admitted that they were conducting some forms of interest rate arbitrage on the expectation of further yuan appreciation."
China's April export figures also don't jibe with disappointing export data for the month from two other major East Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea.
Concerns over the reliability of official Chinese statistics are reportedly prompting many banks and research firms to develop their own metrics for China's economy.
"I think everyone doing business in China is skeptical of the data," analyst Alistair Thornton with IHS Global Insight recently told CTV News. He also notes many experts are looking closely at the nation's exports, real estate sales and credit information to get an overall picture of the actual economic landscape.
This isn't a new issue. "Since the 1990s, a number of commentators have expressed concern about the accuracy of Chinese statistics," notes an economic letter issued in March by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
The letter also acknowledges concerns that China's current economic slowdown may not be as mild as officially reported. But it also says a review of data from nonofficial Chinese sources, as well as non-Chinese sources, shows no evidence that the country's economic growth was slower than official data indicates.
Any country with economic numbers in the billions really have no idea what the true numbers are. Speculation/informed guesses are all that can be attained. Thus can be manipulated to whatever is advantagous for them.
Not unlike huge corporations that really have no idea what their bottom line is. It can be what they want it to be.
Sounds familiar to me..............
China's REAL economic growth is on par with the US. Add in the fact that they are destroying their environment and the costs associated with cleaning that up eventually and they in the hole. Also in another 20-30 years they will be having the same problem Japan is having with an aging workforce and the one child policy results will bear their fruits.
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Last month, researchers at University College London made public a database that describes in illuminating detail one of the largest government bailouts in modern history. In 1833, Britain paid 20 million pounds to compensate 3,000 Caribbean slaveholders for the emancipation of their slaves. The payments constituted about 40 percent of total governmental expenditures that year. Conversation about the database in Britain centered on the recipients of these reparations for slaveholders, among them the ancestors of George Orwell, Graham Greene and David Cameron.
Apart from a few hundred slaveholders in the District of Columbia, no one in the United States received such compensation for the loss of their human property. According to Abraham Lincoln, at least, the cost of emancipation in the United States was to be reckoned in blood. In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln said he feared God would will the war to continue "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword."
This reckoning of the value of slaves in blood and treasure raises an important, though too frequently overlooked, question. What was the role of slavery in American economic development?
The most familiar answer to that question is: not much. By most accounts, the triumph of freedom and the birth of capitalism are seen as the same thing. The victory of the North over the South in the Civil War represents the victory of capitalism over slavery, of the future over the past, of the factory over the plantation. In actual fact, however, in the years before the Civil War, there was no capitalism without slavery. The two were, in many ways, one and the same.

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"Fugard's examination of the effects of totalitarian repression on human relationships is a work of terrible sadness played with stifling desperation by the excellent ensemble." - Willamette Week
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What do you get when you combine Shakespeare's "Othello" and "Romeo and Juliet"? According to the theater department, the answer is "Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet." Opening day is September 30" and the show runs through October 4 in the Jones Theater.
Under the direction of Mark Pickell, this show is bound to be a hit at SU. Consisting of cross-dressing, swordplay, mistaken identities and playful tomfoolery, Ann-Marie MacDonald has written a show that takes a plucky academic back into the times of Desdemona and Juliet. Through an adventure of interaction and discovery, Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet is a good combination of Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Woody Allen.
The Washington Post said that "Goodnight Desdemona" is "delightful, often hilarious . . . MacDonald doesn't miss a trick, scattering satirical observations on love and sex, scholarship and the Bard like birdseed, while taking full advantage of the slapstick possibilities in Shakespearean cross-dressing."
Each crew is working hard to make this show come together by opening night. The stage manager, lighting crew, set crew, costume crew and of course, the actors and director are working hard to make "Goodnight Desdemona" a success.
Stage Manager
Cathrin Winsor, the stage manager of "Good Night Desdemona," has her hands full with tasks to make sure this show is a success. Although this is her first time managing a main stage show at SU, she has had experience with other shows in the past, including being an assistant stage manager for last year's "This is Not a Pipe Dream." She was also the stage manager for the Tal Lostraccoo Summer Theatre Camp held at SU this year.
"A stage manager's job is to facilitate and coordinate both the artistic and practical processes of theater," Winsor said. "Stage managers run production meetings, record actors' blocking, aid communication between designers, director, actors, crew, etc., and run the show once it opens."
Winsor is excited about "Good Night Desdemona" because of the amount of true comedy in the show as opposed to dark comedy or comedy with some type of hidden message.
"The play is perfect for people who love Shakespeare as well as those who hated reading it for class because it pulls directly from the original text of the two famous tragedies and turns them into outrageous comedies," Winsor said.
Lighting Crew
The lighting crew also has a lot to do during this show because it consists of numerous special effects and several time warps that require the designers to be creative with the illumination.
Crew member Kristi Brawner explained that the primary job is to follow the light plot and hang and focus the lights for the show.
"We work for three hours twice a week to make sure we are on schedule providing a specific and lovely illumination for the actors onstage," Brawner said.
The challenges of the show allow each member of the team to contribute and problem solve.
"'Desdemona' involves numerous special effects that are going to pose a challenge, but not an unconquerable one, to each lighting student," Brawner said. "The designers have worked out clever patterns and colors, and fun visual treats that I think will be enjoyed by the audience."
Set Crew
The play is going to take place in the Jones Theater. The shape and arrangement of this theater allow designers to create many interesting and surprising sets.
Junior Tyler King has worked on sets for this theatre in the past.
"The design uses multiple levels of perspective and allows for a lot of movement and at times 'surprises'," King said. "I feel the design itself does a good job of capturing both the real world and the theatrical world of Shakespeare as MacDonald writes it."
Costume Crew
The costume lab students and those on wardrobe crew have a lot of fun costumes and situations to deal with during the show. Students working on the costumes are busy making pleated skirts, puffed sleeve jackets, britches and other unique clothing pieces.
"'Desdemona' has a lot of gender switching going on throughout the show," sophomore Rachel Hoovler said. "Michael Balagia will not only be playing the male role of Othello, but he is also playing the Nurse."
These role changes call for many different costumes on top of characters needing assistance on costume changes during the show. Assisting during these quick changes is another role of the wardrobe crew.
"Good Night Desdemona" consists of five main characters and several supporting characters played by Michael Balagia, Jessica Hughes, Alexis Armstrong, Jayne Furlong and Zac Carr. There five actors play all 16 roles.
Senior theater major Michael Balagia commented that the three act play, consisting of Shakespearean verse, has been a challenge with only three weeks to memorize lines.
"When I first read the plot overview, the story of an assistant professor of English falling into the world of Shakespeare, it sounded a bit ridiculous," Balagia said. "After I read the script, though, I absolutely fell in love with the play."
Balagia said that the show is full of clever Shakespeare references that can relate to the Shakespeare lovers as well as those who are just in it for fun and humor.
Rehearsals have been demanding and have consisted of different training.
"My favorite part of the rehearsal process was definitely the sword fighting," Balagia said. "We had to come in on Saturdays for fights choreography, but if I have to be in the theater on the weekend, learning to sword fight is definitely not something I mind."
With all of the effort that has been put into this show it is sure to be another entertaining and exhilarating production.


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The Labor Department's Inspector General has released its Audit Workplan
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Stopping by after work and always enjoy reading peoples recomendations. Any new cheap wines worth exploring?
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Stopping by after work and always enjoy reading peoples recomendations. Any new cheap wines worth exploring?
Can't go wrong with the bullfights in TJ. Don't have to worry about PETA there. Speaking of which, it cracks me up how people love to see a bullfight, but wet their pants when they come across a chupacabra.
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Their whole wheat lavash bread has become an everyday breakfast thing for me. TJ's wasabi mayo, TJ's pepper jack cheese, some TJ's organic baby spinach, julienned red peppers and sliced chicken or turkey and wrap it up in the lavash bread. You can even make it the previous evening and the bread doesn't get mushy.
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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association surprised watchers by announcing a 72-hour hiatus in their negotiations so that the union could deal with unrelated talks in the Pacific Northwest, and by extending the expired coastwide contract during the suspension of negotiations.
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Hermon Dog Park is an off-leash park adjacent to the historic Arroyo Seco of Northeast Los Angeles. The dog park is supported by the Friends of Hermon Dog Park, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization comprised entirely of volunteers and dependent on donations.
The park has two fenced areas, one for large dogs and one for small, elderly and disabled dogs. Facilities include a double-gated entrance, trees, benches, and water dispensers for the dogs. The surface is decomposed granite, for mud free, easy clean up. Biodegradable doggie waste bags are available in dispensers. Hermon Dog Park is open every day from dawn until dusk.
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At our June Yappy Hour and Dog and Cat Vaccine Clinic (June 29), Pets First Foundation partnered with FHDP to offer low cost vaccines to dogs and cats, and even microchipping. The first 25 pet owners in line received one free vaccine. 80 pets were vaccinated, and Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council had a booth with plenty of fun freebies and dog treats. One person received a year supply of dog food from Wellness by entering their name in the opportunity drawing. A great time inside and outside the dog park was had by all.
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"Are You Prepared With Your Pets When Disaster Strikes?" Friends of Hermon Dog Park sponsored a free Pet Education seminar at the Hermon Dog Park on February 23.
Two experts, Cynthia Sanchez, Red Cross Pet First Aid Instructor and Level 3 CERT trained, as well as Thea Martin, Pet Disaster Planning Instructor, provided hand-outs, emergency checklists and answers to your questions. Topics covered included: What to do if the shelters won't take pets? How do we keep our pets safe? How to approach injured pets. What supplies are really needed?We had a drawing for prizes and the usual doggie snacks and information at our booth. Seating was provided by Councilmember Jose Huizar of CD-14.
Download the flyer here and check out photos on our FaceBook page.
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Especially in the winter months, people ask why the dog park can't have lights so that dogs can romp when owners get home from work. Aside from the budgetary and logistical issues, we also have an agreement with our neighbors who would be affected by the light and noise. In order to get the park built in the first place, we agreed to honor our neighbors' request for daylight hours only. Those of you who need a place to take your dogs after dusk are encouraged to visit Silver Lake Dog Park which is open until 10pm. Thank you for your understanding.
Friends of Hermon Dog Park Co-President, Kat Spofford, and her talented dog Spencer, are members of Therapy Dogs International. TDI is a volunteer organization dedicated to regulating, testing and registration of therapy dogs and their volunteer handlers for the purpose of visiting nursing homes, hospitals, other institutions and wherever else therapy dogs are needed. Read Kat's story of how Spencer became a therapy dog.
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Goerges Reaches QFs, Martínez Sánchez Next
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SEOUL, South Korea - Julia Goerges led the final charge for quarterfinal spots at the Hansol Korea Open on Thursday, as the last four second round matches of the International-level event took the Olympic Tennis Courts.
Goerges, the No.3 seed, had all she could handle from Eleni Daniilidou but managed to get past the tournament's 2006 champion in two close sets, 64 75. Daniilidou led 3-1 in the first set and 5-2 in the second set but Goerges was able to rebound each time to score the one-hour, 38-minute victory.
Awaiting Goerges in the quarterfinals is No.6 seed María José Martínez Sánchez, who was twice two points from losing the first set but closed it out and rolled to a 76(5) 62 win over Czech qualifier Kristyna Pliskova.
"She was serving well. It was hard to break her but in the second set I really focused and gave myself a better chance to win," Martínez Sánchez said. "Normally I win three or four games with serve and volley, and that was working today. My style is different and I like taking risks when I'm playing."
Martínez Sánchez beat Goerges in their only previous meeting, although that was three years ago and neither player was even ranked in the Top 80 at the time. "I played with her three or four years ago in the US," the Spaniard said. "She's really good and competitive. It will be a difficult match."
An all-unseeded quarterfinal match-up between Vera Dushevina and Galina Voskoboeva was also set. Dushevina beat Alexandra Dulgheru, 63 61, while Voskoboeva had a closer victory against Iveta Benesova, 64 64.
"The games were very close today. Not everything was perfect but I fought very well," Voskoboeva said. "I played well during the important moments."
Voskoboeva is coached by recently-retired player Alina Jidkova. "Everyone thought she was playing here but she's not," Voskoboeva smiled. "She's an ex-player. We've been working together since the beginning of the year."
Dushevina leads Voskoboeva in their head-to-head series, 4-1.
The other two quarterfinals were set Wednesday, with No.4 seed Dominika Cibulkova to face No.5 seed Polona Hercog and Klara Zakopalova to play Vania King. All four quarterfinal matches will take place on Friday.


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MOORHEAD (KFGO-AM) -- A portable propane torch caused an explosion last month at the Sanford Clinic under construction in Moorhead.
Assistant Fire Marshal Chad Stangeland says gas from the torch accumulated near an elevator shaft where a worker was using it to dry concrete.
No one was hurt, but the explosion caused enough damage to postpone the clinic's grand opening until next month. Sanford originally planned to open the clinic last week.


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A college freshman studying in New York City died at a home in the Poconos over the weekend during an apparent fraternity initiation ceremony.
Michael Deng, 19, of Oakland Gardens, Queens, attended Bronx High School of Science. He was a freshman at Baruch College in New York City and died while participating in an unsanctioned fraternity pledging event, ABC reported.
There were reportedly 30 members of the Pi Delta Psi fraternity and four new "pledges" at a rented Poconos home on Candlewood Drive in Tunkhannock Township during the event that, according to police, included a ritual initiation where pledges endured verbal insults and physical abuse in the backyard.Monroe County District Attorney E. David Christine, Jr. told The New York Times that frat pledges were engaging in an initiation called the "glass ceiling," where a blindfolded pledge with a heavy object on their back must navigate their way to a person calling their name as other participants try to tackle and knock them down.
Deng reportedly was unresponsive after sustaining a traumatic injury, and fraternity members brought him inside, according to the Monroe County District Attorney's Office. An unspecified amount of time later they brought him to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital early Sunday morning, where he was found unresponsive and in critical condition, and quickly placed on life support. Pocono Mountain Regional Police Officers were advised of the situation at 8:15 a.m. that morning.
Deng died early Monday.
"Baruch College is saddened to confirm the recent death of Chun Hsien (Michael) Deng, a Baruch freshman, as reported to us by the president of the national fraternity Pi Delta Psi," says a statement released by Baruch College. "The preliminary reports indicate that Michael died over the weekend while participating in an unsanctioned fraternity pledging event."
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Outside the kitchen doors on the Carroll County 4-H and FFA fairgrounds, the smell of turkey being cooked evoked thoughts of Thanksgiving rather than an upcoming summer fair. While the fair wasn't even open yet, the kitchen staff of volunteers arrived a week earlier to prepare.
"We serve about 300 [people] a day, more than 1,500 a week," said Katie Bryan, kitchen manager. "This is all volunteer-run. All proceeds go straight back to the fair."
On Tuesday, 16 volunteers helped cook 16 turkeys, chop vegetables, bake and measure containers of pudding and gelatin. Some, like Wilson Arbaugh, have been helping in the kitchen for almost 40 years.
"All of them are favorites," Arbaugh said of the lunches and dinners the kitchen will serve throughout the week. "We have something different every day."
Youth from around the county also spent the past weeks preparing for the 117th annual Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair, which opens July 27.
This week's event, which runs through Aug. 2, showcases more than raising livestock, baking or growing vegetables.
"The public can really come out and see that 4-H is not really just about livestock or the crafts," said Becky Ridgeway, who is with the University of Maryland Extension Service who is in charge of the county's 4-H program. "We have other programs."
Throughout the fair, for example, the county robotics 4-H club will be building a T-shirt cannon. The Carroll County Hot Shots 4-H Club will host an expo on archery.
"There is just about anything you can think of," said Debbie Weishaar, fair manager, on the 4-H projects. "Name it and there's probably a display of it somewhere."
There are 35 4-H clubs in Carroll County with a total of about 1,000 youth members, according to Ridgeway. Members range in age from 8 to 18, while youth ages 5 to 7 are considered Clovers.
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ATHENS – For as much as Mark Richt prefers his Georgia players focus on opponents (Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech) and not acronyms (SEC, BCS) in these final two weeks of the regular season, it was difficult not to notice what was scrolling on the Sanford Stadium video board before Saturday's game.
First came the screen shot with large bold letters screaming: "BCS STANDINGS." Then came the screen shot listing the nation's top ranked teams, from No. 1 Kansas State to No. 5 Georgia.
The topic is impossible to ignore. It's why, even in games with seemingly foregone conclusions like Saturday's against Georgia Southern, some will look at the way things started for the Bulldogs on this day and think, "Uh-oh."
But don't overthink this.
Did Georgia come out a little flat, a bit sloppy and probably unfocused against an FCS opponent? Clearly. When a team is one of the nation's top ranked clubs and just before halftime it is clinging to a 10-7 lead over an inferior opponent — which resides in a full neighborhood to the south of college football's power structure — it's a problem.
But after what the Bulldogs have overcome in the past few weeks, a letdown should not have come as a surprise. Most importantly, they recovered. Aaron Murray's touchdown pass to Malcolm Mitchell with four seconds left in the first half keyed a 31-0 string and Georgia went on to bury Georgia Southern, 45-14.
And who could've expected this scenario? Hours after the Bulldogs' win, the BCS's No. 1 ranked team, Kansas State, was hammered by Baylor 52-24, and No. 2 Oregon lost at home in overtime to Stanford 17-14. This means No. 3 Notre Dame is certain to take over the No. 1 spot when the new BCS rankings come out Sunday night and, more importantly, the door to a potential seventh straight national title has swung back open for the SEC.
Simplifying this from Georgia's viewpoint: If the Dogs win their next two games over Georgia Tech next week and Alabama in the SEC championship game, they likely will wind up in their first BCS championship game. Entering the week, Alabama ranked fourth in the BCS and Georgia was fifth.
ESPN's Brad Edwards projects that the top five in the new BCS rankings will be: 1) Notre Dame; 2.) Alabama; 3.) Georgia, 4.) Florida, 5.) Oregon
After Stanford's win in overtime, several Georgia players celebrated on Twitter, with Murray sending out the message: "Yesssssssssssss!!!!!! The Murray household just went crazyyyyy!!!!!!"
Richt has tried his best to steer the talk away from the BCS. Most of the first half of the Georgia Southern game showed us why. As Richt said of the first half, "We were fortunate to come out of there even with the lead."
No kidding. With Georgia leading 10-7, a personal foul/chop block penalty by an Eagles' lineman negated a first-and-goal situation from the Dogs' five-yard-line. That set up a 39-yard field goal attempt that Georgia Southern missed. It set the backdrop for a touchdown drive going in the
other direction. Instead of facing a potent halftime deficit of 14-10, Georgia led 17-7.
"I feel like that swung the mood in the stadium and on the sideline," wide receiver Tavarres King said.
From that point on, it was Aaron Murray-to-anybody. He threw touchdown passes on four straight possessions.
Should Georgia have let an FCS opponent hang around that long? No.
But in the end, poll voters and BCS computers will see the lopsided final score. This certainly isn't the first time the Dogs have played to the level of their competition. But the objectives Saturday were to win and use the Eagles' option offense as a scout team for next week's game against Georgia Tech. In that sense, mission accomplished.
"I don't know how the BCS does things," nose guard John Jenkins said. "But if that (45-14) looks good on style points, hey, we're styling."
There was no stylin' early. After an opening touchdown drive, Georgia scored three points on the next possessions (fumbling once) against a Georgia Southern defense that had given up 88 points to your basic non-BCS outfits: UT-Chattanooga, Appalachian State and Howard.
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"We were shooting ourselves in the foot," Murray said.
"Self-inflicted wounds," offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.
Georgia defensive linemen were getting upset by what they perceived as Georgia Southern's intentional chop blocking. They were penalized only once, knocking down Georgia's Kwame Geathers, but Jenkins said, "I felt like I was sliced and diced that game."
But both the defense endured and Murray began shredding the Eagles' secondary.
Actually, Murray has torn everybody apart lately. Since the fourth quarter of the Florida game, he has completed 62 of 88 for 1,005 yards, 12 touchdowns and zero interceptions. "Is he eating Wheaties or something?" King said.
The Dogs continued attacking to the final minutes, even after putting in the second-string defense. The last touchdown pass came by Parker Welch with 3:13 left. The thought occurred that they were trying to impress voters and computers. But Richt and Bobo both denied that.
"We had three runs called but they kept bringing both safeties on blitzes," Bobo said. "On third down I was like, 'OK, we've got to throw it. We have to protect our backs, too.'"
Richt never has been a pour-it-on coach. If anything, he has been accused of being just the opposite. So nobody is going to complain. And by next week people will only remember the score.
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November 17th, 2012
7:39 pm
November 17th, 2012
7:43 pm
Dawgs blow the gnats away next week 48-12
November 17th, 2012
7:49 pm
I'm staying wishing by some miracle a rematch of the 1980 National Champonship occurs.
November 17th, 2012
7:53 pm
Go Stanford! Go Baylor!
November 17th, 2012
7:56 pm
Ga. Tech's football team doesn't deserve anymore humiliation, but their crappy fans deserve much, much worse…
November 17th, 2012
8:01 pm
UGA is the most balanced offense in the nation, and today it showed.
Georgia Southern scored 21 points on Bama, but only 14 points on UGA.
Georgia Southern committed to trying to stop the run, so UGA went to the air for 5 td's.
Like Bobo & Grantham's adjustments at halftime too, both dominated the 3rd quarter, and after the 3rd it was as usual now, game over.
UGA will be favored for the Bama game, and being the most balanced offense in the nation, and really, the best offense + defense in the nation combo, UGA should get invited to Miami.
November 17th, 2012
8:01 pm
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November 17th, 2012
8:04 pm
LOL @CeCe… UGA will be favored against Bama?? I don't think so. Keep ridin' high on your soft schedule. It's gonna hurt after Bama crushes those hopes/dreams
November 17th, 2012
8:06 pm
Touchdown Baylor!
November 17th, 2012
8:10 pm
Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor Baylor
November 17th, 2012
8:11 pm
murray might throw for 500 yards next week,,,techs pass defense in pathetic.
November 17th, 2012
8:12 pm
We got the perfect tune up for GT. just show the team a compilation of GTBob posts and uga will win 56-0. Never mind, we'll score 56 anyways
November 17th, 2012
8:13 pm
If Baylor had any kind of defense they would beat K-state! Come on Baylor! Come on Stanford!
November 17th, 2012
8:17 pm
Didn't watch the game. Any reports of any major injuries?
November 17th, 2012
8:17 pm
I ain't so sure Georgia will be favored over Bama CeCe. They've been there, done that. We're trying to get there.
November 17th, 2012
8:19 pm
Jeff, I know the "thought" crossed your mind that UGA was running up the score even though the second string was in…are you serious??? You can accuse UGA of a lot of things…but that is one thing Richt has never done. I can't believe you would suggest it.
"And by next week people will only remember the score."
Well, ha…maybe you can tweet the link for this column to all voters in the coaches and harris polls and ensure that they know UGA struggled against GSU. It would be a shame if they only saw the final score and actually thought UGA took care of business you know?
Say what you want, but Alabama only had a 10 pt lead at halftime vs this same team last year. I'm not disappointed at all with UGA.
November 17th, 2012
8:27 pm
I was at the game today. I don't know what game Jeff was watching but Georgia came out sharp, marched down the field and scored a touchdown. They never trailed in the game. Nobody in the stands was complaining. Noboby was ever worried. Georgia Southern is a good team. They are 8-2 (now 8-3) and will likely go far in the playoffs. Sure, the game was close but Kansas State is actually trailing Baylor. Anybody who complains about the game today is being silly and should not be taken seriously.
November 17th, 2012
8:29 pm
UGA should have scored Style Points all year long. It gets attention whether you wanna believe it or not Kool Aid Drinkers. Mark Richt isnt a hard nosed football coach and will never win the big prize at UGA.
November 17th, 2012
8:40 pm
We lost a beatdown to South Carolina. It still stinks. We start slow and all the pundits know this too.
November 17th, 2012
8:45 pm
Richt conceded afterward, "In the first half, we were fortunate to come out of there even with the lead."
UGA wont be so lucky against Bama. They will make the Dawgs pay. Being fortunate aint gonna cut it.
November 17th, 2012
8:48 pm
Let's go Baylor & Stanford!
November 17th, 2012
8:50 pm
First half Dawgs looked like my dogs excrement's. But 2nd half looked like a polished diamond. Keep the diamond outta the doo doo.
November 17th, 2012
8:54 pm
I'm waiting for the Tech fans to come on here and pound there chest and point to their mediocre record and declare they're the best. This team would give Tech all they want and i think Southern has a better offense. As far as the negative slant by Schultz, its par for the course. We're told countless time that our defense sucks, (it doesn't) or offense starts slow, (it hasn't) and our coaching is terrible, (it isn't). This is the best offense in this schools history and our defense has finally clicked. UGA will shock the world in atlanta. Till then expect more columns like this.
November 17th, 2012
9:10 pm
Touchdown Baylor! SEC! SEC! SEC!
November 17th, 2012
9:11 pm
Baylor beating K State and Stanford beat Oegreon. This setting up perfect with Dawgs winning BCS champs. And we get to shut the Bammer pie holes and that dirty Saban in process. Winning SEC means best team in SEC that's is deserving of national champs. Dawgs first get chance to beatdown on pestky bugs. We showed today what happens when the gimickey high schooler offense play against a real team with talents. We displays dominants that goning to happen worse next week to now with extra week prepping and scrimmages it today. Now we unload the whooping can on nerds when we we expose talents. But the final score blow out is 48-13 cause that Al Grobe designs Defensive got holes that is swiss cheese.
November 17th, 2012
9:15 pm
2SEC teams should play for the title…top 3 are crap
November 17th, 2012
9:19 pm
Like I said, anybody who complains about the game today is being silly and should not be taken seriously. We WERE fortunate to be ahead at half time but we were not fortunate to drive the field for a touchdown in 56 seconds with no time outs. We were dang sharp. 56 seconds and no time outs. Ttouchdown. 'Nuff said.
November 17th, 2012
9:19 pm
That right. SEC is best and that means SEC champ is BCS champ. We just needs get rid others and make SEC always own BCS champs cause we always winning that BCS.
November 17th, 2012
9:20 pm
Honey Boo Boo says FIRE RICHT !!!
November 17th, 2012
9:23 pm
@UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986… What are you boasting about ? The Blind Academy football team could beat Georgia Southern…. 'Nuff said.
November 17th, 2012
9:25 pm
Give 'em hell, Hairy!
November 17th, 2012
9:26 pm
You should never be fortunate against a mickey mouse team at any point….sorry Im not drinking that Kool Aid.
November 17th, 2012
9:28 pm
Baylor…k state looking very very good boys..
November 17th, 2012
9:34 pm
K State just scored 28 – 14 Baylor choking like Dawgs
November 17th, 2012
9:35 pm
We need to fire our coaches and get somebody like Saban who will yell at people and get in their face. Anybody, like us blog geniuses knows that even though UGA set a school record for touchdowns this year, Bobo sucks and doesn't know as much as we do. We'll see what happens when the choir boys play a real team with a coach that doesn't mind publicly embarrassing his players. If we had an a-hole like that for a coach, then we would be winners too. Anyone with sense can see that Richt and his loser staff doesn't know how to coach.
November 17th, 2012
9:40 pm
28 – 17 K state coming back….
November 17th, 2012
9:42 pm
The season consists of one game: UGA vs GT. GATA, TCB and it's all good
November 17th, 2012
9:42 pm
Who woudnt set records playing against the sisters of the poor….. Please Get off the kool Aid….this is too funny…
November 17th, 2012
9:53 pm
That chop block and cut blocking is dirty business. The player should be thrown out of the game, the team penalized and the coach reprimanded. That type of blocking is meant to inflick permanent inury. That play against the Georgia player was scary.
November 17th, 2012
10:01 pm
Hmmm – ducks and K state games going well for SEC – we will see what happens – still need to beat GT and Bama – it can be done.
November 17th, 2012
10:06 pm
Ga Southern has run the option for 30 years and just now ppl start complaining about "chop blocks." Luckily it worked with the refs and uga didn't end up down at the half. No matter, had a good time in Athens Go Eagles and yes, Go Dawgs
November 17th, 2012
10:10 pm
GT is going to get a motivated Georgia team next week because their national title goals are likely to be on the line. Even more reason for UGA to crush the gnats.
November 17th, 2012
10:10 pm
Yes sir! K State getting the spanking those sorry Big 12 teams deserves. And Pope goning be sad next week also with Notre Dumb losing to Lame Kitten.
November 17th, 2012
10:12 pm
What happens if everyone has a loss ? Will it be ALA/UGA vs. UF in the NC? BCS will be exposed for what it is – a complete disaster..
November 17th, 2012
10:15 pm
Why they ever think that Calvin Klein at K State be in Heisman race. He looking real stinky to me with Baylor blowing them out. None of the top rank 3 teams is as good as Dawgs. And we better than Bammer to.
November 17th, 2012
10:24 pm
Dang! All the Big 12 teams stinkys. They play that bad defense to give other teams int for short field and easy scoring.
November 17th, 2012
10:40 pm
ND Irish
November 17th, 2012
10:12 pm
What happens if everyone has a loss ? Will it be ALA/UGA vs. UF in the NC? BCS will be exposed for what it is – a complete disaster.
Yes, that is how it should be. No, it proves that the SEC is where real college football is played and the rest of the nation sucks.
November 17th, 2012
10:40 pm
Baylor will not be denied boys…get this fraud k st outta here…nd..getem outta here…overrated. Not impressed with oregon either!
November 17th, 2012
10:41 pm
Stanford offense just giving the game to Oregon. Looking more and more like an Oregon vs. ND national championship…gross.
November 17th, 2012
10:44 pm
That Big 12 needs being known as Sorry Defense 12. They play D like embarrassing themselves. The Dawgs in SEC play D like real mens.


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Skip the double-decker tour buses stuck in traffic and the huge tour groups following a guide with a flag and a microphone down 42nd street. On this 3-hour tour of Midtown, we will take you on a fun, intimate, and informative exploration of some of the most beautiful and important buildings and landmarks in the commercial heart of New York City. You are likely to walk away knowing more about Midtown than the millions of the daily commuters who take it for granted.
Basic Tour Info:
• Schedule: Saturdays at 10am
• Length and Distance: 3 to 3.5 hours; 2 miles on foot (3 kilometers)
• Cost: $45 for adults, $25 for kids 12 and under
• Size: Maximum group size is 12 adults
• Break: There will be 1 bathroom break
• Language: Our tours are currently offered only in English
• Private Option: This tour is also offered privately
• Location: Starts near Grand Central Terminal (you will receive detailed info after booking), ends near Rockefeller Center (directions can be provided upon request)
The CityRover Promise:
• An interactive, informative, and fun tour, with memorable stories and great photo opportunities
• No more than 12 adults, no flags, no microphones, no memorized scripts, no canned jokes, no notes
• An engaging, knowledgeable and licensed CityRover guide
Tour Highlights:
• Explore the one-of-a-kind Grand Central Terminal and learn about its vaulted Milky Way ceiling, the Whispering Gallery, and its dramatic ups and downs over the last century
• Discover the flagship NY Public Library, a world-renowned research library and one of the most beautiful buildings in America. Learn about its priceless possessions and find out why it was dubbed the "People's Palace"
• Learn about the evolution of Times Square and Bryant Park and the interesting (and sometimes sordid) pasts of both famous places
• Enjoy an eye-opening tour of Rockefeller Center, with its spectacular Art-Deco artwork, unique history, and famous sites and sculptures, including 30 Rock, the Plaza, Prometheus and Atlas
• And in between all the sights, sounds, and interesting tidbits, get better acquainted with some of the most powerful and iconic names in American history, including Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Chrysler
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- Grand Central Terminal
- Chrysler Building
- New York Public Library
- Bryant Park
- Times Square
- Rockefeller Center
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"Saw this rated very high on Trip Advisor and my husband and I wanted something different to do in NYC. We saw the Landmark Tour hosted by Rodney. So informative! There didn't seem to be a question asked that Rodney did not know the answer too. Great pace. My husband and I came away learning so much about NYC. Worth every penny!"
"In addition [to the Brooklyn Bridge Tour], I took the Landmark Explorer tour with Rodney…It was equally outstanding. Rodney was terrific and also had such a friendly rapport. We really felt transported during the tour….I think one of his best attributes is his storytelling. He is a wealth of information and is a true intellectual – not to mention he's got some quick wit! The tour was a good length, the buildings stunning, and the history behind them engrossing. I will definitely be booking future tours with CityRover."
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We visit several landmark buildings on this tour, and one of them — Grand Central Terminal — just turned 100! It is without question one of the most beautiful and important buildings in New York City (some might even say, the most). And we, as New Yorkers and tour guides, are truly lucky to be able to visit this building often and admire its architectural splendor and civic importance. It is likely that a sizable percentage of the millions of the commuters who pass through the Terminal each week don't bother to slow down and look around, as they rush from their train track to the exit en route to the office and reverse their path for the evening commute back to the suburbs. However, anyone who is a student of NY history and an admirer of great architecture knows not to take its existence and current condition for granted.
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Council grudgingly approves Seagrass project
Blaine City Council has approved the Seagrass II development for Semiahmoo spit by the same 4 – 3 split that the planning commission recommended denying the project.
At their July 10 meeting council members Bruce Wolf, Ken Ely and Charlie Hawkins voted against the project, saying it would take more concessions from the developer, specifically fewer units near the neck of the spit, to earn their vote.
Bonnie Onyon, Jason Overstreet, John Liebert and Mike Myers voted in favor of the 68-unit development, accepting a non-binding commitment from developer Trillium Corporation to look at shifting density closer to the tip of the spit at the end of a nine-month review of the area master plan.
In Onyon's case, the vote to approve the project was not enthusiastic. "If we're willing to accept there's going to be something here, we have to decide what we can live with," she said. In an effort to find a solution the majority of council members could live with, Trillium vice-president Wayne Schwandt came to a work session prior to the regular council meeting ready to deal.
In a June 26 work session Wolf had indicated he would support the project if some of the density could be moved away from the neck of the spit, which he felt was necessary to bring the current proposal in line with the 1985 master plan for the development of the Semiahmoo Resort.
Schwandt came back with an offer to remove two of the eight duplexes proposed for the area adjacent to the county park, but only if, following a review of the master plan, the city and the developer can agree to "opportunities for transferring density out of the Seagrass Cottages II development area."
such an agreement were not reached by the beginning of
next year the developer would proceed with the plan for
eight duplexes.
"I don't want it to be contingent on an agreement down the road," Ely said, holding up the diagram of the proposal for six-duplex clusters. "I say build this and we'll talk."
Recognizing the project needed to make economic sense for the developer, Ely asked if the project would "pencil" with the lowered number of duplexes next to the park. "It will pencil depending on what happens with the rest of the spit," Schwandt said.
Wolf also wanted a commitment to limiting the duplexes to six, citing the planning commission's concern that the amount of building footprint at the neck of the spit was not consistent with the vision of lower density in the 1985 master plan.
"The building footprint was too big with eight units and I won't vote for it," he said. "Six units is not too big."
Less intractable about the number of units, Onyon still wanted a more solid deal. "I feel a little queasy about the uncertainty," she said. "Would we be able to hold Trillium to a more measurable thing?" She suggested a commitment to the six duplexes as part of Seagrass in exchange for a commitment from the city to allow four additional units as part of the development at the end of the spit.
Hawkins, who has expressed the strongest opposition to the project as a whole, said he was not inclined to simply trust the developer to limit density on what Schwandt described as their highest value property in the project. "Holding it over our heads like a sugar plum almost seems like extortion," Hawkins said.
regular session audience members calling for a building
moratorium echoed Hawkins' statement.
Lois Franco suggested that a revised
master plan should come prior to
any planned unit developments being
approved, including Seagrass.
"Developers are shoving forward with their plans without considering the interests of the community as a whole," she said.
Liebert and Overstreet, on the other hand, felt Trillium had done more than enough to accommodate council and citizen concerns. "What I hear is 'thank you very much, can we have more?' And that carrot keeps moving forward," Overstreet said.
More delays and more demands could put the city in an actionable position, he added. "We're not acting in good faith if we keep moving that carrot."
While he shared the view of many in the audience that the ideal was to preserve the spit rather than develop it, "this is private property," Overstreet emphasized, and a 20-year-old plan gave those who owned it the right to build on it.
In regular session Onyon made a motion to approve the project with six-units in the cluster of duplexes, holding approval of the remaining two in abeyance until the master plan update is complete, as had been suggested by city attorney Jon Sitkin earlier. Schwandt had indicated that Trillium was opposed to that avenue.
"We do not want to prolong Seagrass," he said. "We want to put Seagrass away.
Following a discussion with Schwandt prior to the regular meeting, Blaine community development director Terry Galvin said both the community and the developer could benefit from more flexibility, and suggested approving the project as-is with a condition that no construction begin on the duplexes until the updated master plan sets forth the options for density transfer to other areas.
"If you create a really different scenario there's
more potential alternatives
than just the elimination of two duplexes," he said.
The deadline for the update to the plan would be March 30, 2006. "Come April 1 if they didn't like what was in the master plan they could pull the trigger on the eight units," Sitkin explained. "Or they could potentially trade some or all for some extra height. That would be part of the master plan."
Onyon changed her motion to reflect the new approach, and city manager Gary Tomsic cautioned that the non-binding nature of the agreement was a de facto approval of the project with the eight duplexes.
"It seems to me like you're just approving the plan and they move forward," Tomsic said. "You can put higher density somewhere else and they can still move forward."
"That's what it is," said a resigned Onyon tipping the split vote in the applicant's favor. "I just think we need to move ahead. This could be a never ending story."


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2014-2015 Schedule
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|Sat. Sept. 13
|Marinette Invitational
|9:00 am
|Mon. Sept. 15
|@ UW-Fox Valley Valley
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|Fri. Sept. 19
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Dan Porath
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This is Dan's tenth year as Head Volleyball Coach after a two-year stint as assistant coach. He was also assistant volleyball coach at Gladstone and at Rapid River High Schools. He works at Enterprise Engineering Consultants in Peshtigo and resides in Menominee.
Ashley Henry
Assistant Coach
Former lady Buccaneer, this is Ashley's third year as assistant coach. She played four years of volleyball in high school and two years at UW-Marinette. She plays on a club team that travels to the US Adult Open National Tournament and is active in some leagues in the area. Aside from volleyball she works fulltime at North Reach Healthcare and enjoys being a mom.
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Fidel Castro's Warning to the World: Iran & WW3
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Fidel Castro is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011. Politically a Marxist-Leninist, under his administration the Republic of Cuba was converted into a one-party socialist state, with industry and business being nationalized under state ownership and socialist reforms implemented in all areas of society. On the international stage, he also served as the Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and 2006 to 2008.
Born the illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer, Castro became involved in leftist anti-imperialist politics while studying law at the University of Havana. Involving himself in armed rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he concluded that the U.S.-backed Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, who was widely seen as a dictator, had to be overthrown; to this end he led a failed armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. Imprisoned for a year, he traveled to Mexico, and with the aid of his brother Raúl Castro and friend Che Guevara, assembled a group of revolutionaries, the 26th of July Movement. Returning with them to Cuba, he took a key role in the Cuban Revolution, leading a successful guerrilla war against Batista's forces, overthrowing him in 1959. Castro subsequently became Commander in Chief of the armed forces and shortly thereafter became Prime Minister. The United States was alarmed by his involvement in the overthrow of Batista and relationship with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, implementing an economic blockade of the island. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. To counter this threat, Castro forged an economic and military alliance with the Soviet Union and allowed them to place nuclear weapons on the island, leading to the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Adopting Marxism-Leninism as his guiding ideology, in 1961 Castro proclaimed the socialist nature of the Cuban revolution, and in 1965 became First Secretary of the newly founded Communist Party. He then led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic, nationalizing industry, embarking on the large-scale construction of housing and infrastructure and introducing free healthcare and education; the administration also halted the freedom of the press and suppressed internal dissidents considered to be counter-revolutionaries. A keen internationalist, Castro introduced Cuban medical brigades who worked throughout the developing world, and aided foreign revolutionary socialist groups in the hope of toppling world capitalism, thereby involving Cuba in the Yom Kippur War, Angolan Civil War and the Ogaden War. In 1976 he stepped down as Prime Minister to become President of both the Council of State and Council of Ministers. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Castro led Cuba into its economic "Special Period", before taking the country into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in 2006 and forging alliances with other nations in the Latin American "Pink Tide". Amidst failing health, in 2006 Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice-President Raúl Castro, who then became President when Fidel stepped down in 2008.
Castro is a controversial and highly divisive world figure, being lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but his critics have accused him of being a dictator whose authoritarian administration has overseen multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad. A prolific author on various topics, he has had a significant influence on the politics of various individuals and groups across the world, including senior leaders like Nelson Mandela, Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and others.
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BBWulf August 27, 2012 3:12:56 PM CEST
I guess he shouldn't have let the Russians move Nuclear Missiles into Cuba in January of 2012 then.
The US media won't even report this.
G4cee August 26, 2012 9:47:14 PM CEST
Uploaded Aug 26th my ass ! This is an old video from Sept 2010.
Respect the video - but this site has become to misleading - should change its name to disinfotv.com
I'm outta here