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Calbee, 2229.TO -1.5325670498084292% Calbee Inc. Japan: Tokyo JPY5140 -80 -1.5325670498084292% /Date(1427913788000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 20m) : 487400 P/E Ratio 50.620445144770535 Market Cap 702840131562.5 Dividend Yield 1.0116731517509727% Rev. per Employee 64548000 More quote details and news » Japan's largest potato-chip maker, made an inauspicious public debut on the day of Japan's devastating Tohoku quake in March 2011, and yet the stock has more than tripled since then, to about a $3 billion market value. In that time, one of the country's main benchmark indexes, the Topix, has tumbled 19.4%.
Investors could get another chance to participate in the stock's gains following an embarrassing recall announcement last week. Calbee said Tuesday that glass might have gotten into some bags of its chips because of an accident at a factory. The news sent the stock (ticker: 2229.Japan) down 8%, to 6,680 yen, by the close of trading last week, its lowest price in six weeks. But, barring some other disclosure, there's little reason to think the stock won't rebound.
Calbee is Japan's Frito-Lay. In fact, Frito-Lay's parent, PepsiCo PEP -0.9324492333195192% PepsiCo Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD95.62 -0.9 -0.9324492333195192% /Date(1427835631597-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4224853 AFTER HOURS USD95.62 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 172731 P/E Ratio 22.19849100406268 Market Cap 143076991996.486 Dividend Yield 2.7400125496758% Rev. per Employee 246063 More quote details and news » (PEP), owns 20% of Calbee, making it an equity affiliate of the U.S. snack-food and soft-drink behemoth, and in 2009 Frito-Lay Japan itself became a Calbee subsidiary. From its IPO, the stock has ridden the popularity of its snacks, including shrimp chips and snow-pea crisps, to a succession of new highs. But is it time for Calbee holders to walk away with their profits? No, for a variety of reasons.
Calbee's initial offering was priced so cheaply (less than five times its enterprise value divided by Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) in a weak market that the stock still has ample room to run.
Based on consensus forward estimates, Calbee trades at 25.6 times earnings and 2.6 times book, well above the 13 times forward earnings and 0.9 times book for the Topix. But snack-food and consumer-goods companies like China's Want Want China Holdings (151.Hong Kong) and Nestlé nesn.VX -1.1447811447811447% Nestle S.A. Switzerland: SWX Europe CHF73.4 -0.85 -1.1447811447811447% /Date(1427841021000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5977425 P/E Ratio 16.231004471123253 Market Cap 239441400000 Dividend Yield 2.997275204359673% Rev. per Employee 270242 More quote details and news » (NESN.Switzerland), command premium prices because they hold entrenched competitive positions, and thus high returns and resilient cash flows. So does Calbee.
The 63-year-old company's founding Matsuo family remains its biggest shareholder, but has ceded its management to professionals who have run Japanese units of big multinationals. The goal is to improve profitability by restructuring domestic costs to boost margins, to increase its share of Japan's snack-food market to 60% from 50%, and to push overseas. The company has made headway. Operating margins have risen over the past few years, from the low single digits to around 8.5%, still well below the roughly 15% that large global packaged-food operators boast.
Management is targeting 10% margins by 2014 as it streamlines production; thereafter, 15% is the objective. To meet this, Calbee plans to use its PepsiCo relationship to begin distributing products in the U.S., and to gain access to China's market via a recent joint-venture pact with Chinese beverage and instant-noodle maker Tingyi (322.Hong Kong).
Assuming 200 billion yen ($2.5 billion) in annual revenue by March 2015 with a 10.5% operating profit margin, attributable both to higher sales and better plant utilization, yields ¥21 billion in Ebit (earnings before interest and taxes), putting the stock at an enterprise value/Ebit multiple of around 10 times, or 1.0 times EV/sales. That's cheap versus Western packaged food and beverage companies' 12 times EV/Ebit, or 1.7 times EV/Sales. At these multiples Calbee shares would be worth ¥7,800, 17% above last week's level.
So, assuming that last week's mishap is an isolated event, the stock should resume its upward track.
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Hong Kong, India and Korea enjoyed their best week since mid-September.
JAMIE MIYAZAKI, a free-lance journalist covering Asia, previously reported for Dow Jones Newswires from Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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The Garden City Public Library has been serving the residents of Garden City (Michigan) as a resource of traditional and evolving library services for over 90 years.
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Every Good Friday, the monks adore our Savior upon the wood of the Cross of our redemption, during which the Reproaches are sung. It is at this Good Friday Liturgy, or Mass of the Presanctified, that the mystery and desolation of the Cross and the humanity of Christ in His Incarnation and Passion come to the fore. Here is an excerpt from a homily on the Passion by Pope St. Leo the Great:
"True reverence for the Lord's Passion means fixing the eyes of our heart on Jesus crucified and recognizing in Him our own humanity... No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the Cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. His prayer brought benefit to the multitude that raged against Him. How much more does it bring to thsoe who turn to Him in repentance...
"The Christian people are invited to share in the riches of paradise. All who have been reborn have the way open before them to return to their native land, from which they had been exiled. Unless indeed they close off forthemselves the path that could be opened before the faith of a thief. The business of this life should not preoccupy us with its anxiety and pride, so that we no longer strive with all the love of our heart to be life our Redeemer, and to follow His example. Everything that He did or suffered was for our salvation: He wanted His Body to share in the goodness of its head...
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"The body that lay lifeless in the tomb is ours. The body that rose agai on the third day is ours. The body that ascended above all the heights of heaven to the right hand of the Father's glory is ours.If then we walk in the way of His commandments, and are not ashamed to acknowledge the price He paid for our salvation in a lowly body, we too are to rise to share His glory. The promise He made will be fulfilled in the sight of all: Whoever acknowledges Me before men, I too will acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven."
Here is the Abbey's Triddum schedule:
Maundy Thursday, 2 April: 7.30p - Mass of the Lord's Supper, followed by the watch at the Altar of Repose until Midnight
Good Friday, 3 April: 12.00p - Stations of the Cross
3.00p - Liturgy of the Lord's Passion/Mass of the Presanctified
8.00p - Office of Tenebrae
Holy Saturday, 4 April: 8.00p - The Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday, 5 April: 9.00a - Mass of the Lord's Resurrection
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our website and introduce you to our way of life as Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Louis. Over a millennium and a half ago, our Holy Father Benedict placed great attention on the reception of guests, and it is upon his instructions on the subject that I will base my introduction. He noted that "after the guests have been received, they should be invited to pray; then the superior or an appointed brother will sit with them" (Rule of Saint Benedict 53:8). I would like to fulfill the first precept by praying for your growth in holiness. May you grow each day in your knowledge and love for the Lord Jesus and may his Spirit guide you to what he wants you to be. I also request your prayers for our community, specifically that we may grow in numbers and holiness. As for the second precept, "to sit with you," I would like to fulfill it by giving you a word on the goal of monastic life. In a world that seeks freedom with an enthusiasm perhaps greater than ever before, we would like to describe our Benedictine way of life as a journey towards that freedom. It is our deep conviction that: To love God with all our being, to be abandoned to Him, possessed by Him, and so able, through His Spirit, to love our neighbor as ourselves is, as human beings, our greatest freedom. The apparently effortless freedom of the artist, the gymnast, or the dancer is the fruit of long hours of discipline and practice. So, too, the patience, gentleness, and wisdom of the mature monk are the fruit of quiet perseverance in a life that blends the structure of the Rule with a constant openness to the demands of the Spirit. Ours is a life of growth toward complete freedom, that freedom which will be ours as children of God when, in His mercy, we see Him face to face. But here and now we may grow daily in our union with Him and, as our union grows, so does our freedom. Everyone yearns for the freedom of holiness, and each has his unique path to it. It is my prayer and hope that by learning of our path you may find applications for your own journey into an ever-deeper union with God. Laus Tibi Domine,
Only four times throughout his Rule does Saint Benedict use the word "joy." It is striking, then, that two of those four instances are found in his chapter on the observance of Lent: "The life of a monk ought to be a continous Lent. Since few, however, have the strength for this, we urge the entire community during these days of Lent to keep its manner of life most pure and to wash away in this holy season the negligences of other times. This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial. During these days, therefore, we will add to the usual measure of our service something by way of private prayer and abstinence from food and drink, so that each of us will have something above the assigned measure to offer God of his own will with the joy of the Holy Spirit. In other words, let each one deny himself some food, drink, sleep, needless talking and idle jesting, and look forward to holy Easter with joy and spiritual longing."
May you have a blessed Lent, and may God make it fruitful by His grace.


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Carlos Ko has had a lifelong waltz with table tennis, a dance that has driven him, cheated him, beaten him and inspired and enlightened him.
And he loves it more now than ever.
It's a journey that began in the basement of a Korean church in Paraguay and wrapped its way halfway around the world and back again with stops in South America, New York, Colorado and the edge of 38th parallel — and has landed him here in the Good Life City, where Ko is finally tasting a bit of the good life.
After more than three decades of trying to find his place in a sport that seemed to tease and taunt him, leaving him feeling jilted and betrayed, Ko has arrived with a new-found confidence and a talent that has emerged from the last place he would have expected.
He will take all that and more this week to Virginia Beach, Va., where Ko will compete in the 2011 U.S. Nationals.
"My goal? I don't even know,'' said the 40-year-old Ko, who now lives and works in Albany as the owner of Homeboy Jewelery on West Gordon Avenue. "I have always wanted to be the best, the very best. And I'm playing like I have never played before.
"I have never felt this kind of confidence before.''
Winning the nationals this week would culminate a late and unexpected surge for Ko, who rediscovered his table tennis skills after discovering hardbat table tennis, a new and popular form of the sport that uses a non-padded, no-sponge hard paddle.
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master at hardbat — one of the best the sport has ever seen.
After competing in table tennis all his life, Ko was thrust into the world of hardbat a little more than a year ago when he entered the national hardbat tournament on a lark. He was competing in the U.S. Open Table Tennis Tournament in Grand Rapids, Mich., where they were also holding the nationals for hardbat table tennis.
Ko, who finished third in open singles over 30 nationals that weekend, had already entered a couple of table tennis events, and he discovered it would cost him only $10 to add the hardbat tournament. He had never played hardbat, but figured for $10 why not?
"I didn't even have a racquet,'' Ko said during an interview at his jewelry store with The Herald earlier this month. "My friend told me he would sell me his hardbat racquet for $130. I didn't have the $130, so he told me I could borrow it. He laughed and said I would be giving it back to him after the first round any way.''
Ko still has the racquet.
Ko dazzled the crowd that kept growing with every match he played as he upset one star player after another on his way to winning the hardbat national title.
"Everybody thought I would lose the first round,'' Ko said. "Everybody came to laugh at me. They were saying the (first) guy (I played) was going to crush me."
Instead, he crushed the competition — one by one.
"When I picked up the racquet it just felt like magic in my hand,'' said Ko who lost the first two games of his first match, then — as he began to learn the sport on the fly — came back to win the final three games to advance to the next round. "I beat the guy, and everyone was saying, 'Who is this guy from Georgia?' "
That tournament changed Ko's life.
"It's like hardbat was meant for me,'' he said. "I picked up the racquet and felt an energy. It was like Superman putting on his cape.
"It's different. It slows down everything. I have more time. You can't generate a lot of spin, so it's easier to manage, and my rallies are longer. That was always my weakness in table tennis. I had a great serve but my weakness was my rally.''
Ko not only won the national hardbat title, but has since been consistently ranked in the Top 3 of hardbat players in the nation. He's also the defending hardbat champ at the Georgia Games, where his wife, Chelsea — who he taught the game to not long ago — finished second in the hardbat competition.
"I'm kind of disappointed he is not playing for the hardbat title (this week in Virginia Beach),'' said Alberto Prieto, chairman of the National Hardbat Committee of the fact Ko will now attempt to undertake a new challenge and become the best at table tennis' original form that uses a soft, padded racquet. "I think he can do well in both, but I think he could win the hardbat title. I think he wants to focus on the other (table tennis).
"He's one of the top hardbat players in the country,'' he added. "He won the U.S. Open title in 2010 when he beat (nationally renowned table tennis star) Trevor Runyan, and (Runyan) had won the title in '07, '08 and '09, and everyone thought he was unbeatable (before) Carlos beat him.''
New kid on the block
Ko's success in hardbat spilled over to table tennis, and that's one reason he feels he is playing better now than ever, and why he expects to make noise at Virginia Beach in the U.S. Nationals this week.
"After experiencing success in hardbat, I started believing in myself,'' Ko said. "Something was finally paying off. Instead of being nervous and stressed at tournaments, I enjoy the game much more than ever before. And the other thing that happened was I was just in the zone. I became enlightened.''
It's been a long road.
He was just a kid, a lonely kid who was trapped in a world where he didn't know the language and didn't care to learn it when he first discovered table tennis. Ko was born in South Korea, but when he was 12 his parents moved to Paraguay, where — even with a large Korean population that inhabited the South American country — Ko and his twin brother Edward felt like castaways on their own island.
"We would go to school and just sleep in school, because we didn't know Spanish. We had no idea what the teacher was saying so when the teacher started talking we just put our heads down and fell to sleep every day,'' Ko said. "We didn't know anyone, and we didn't know the language, and there were no bilingual programs.''
He found a sanctuary in the basement of a Korean church, where a table tennis table was set up. He and his brother slipped in and began playing the sport that would change Ko's life.
"I was crazy about it,'' Ko said. "I started playing, and played every day, 365 days a year. Then I joined the No. 1 club in Paraguay and I would take a bus an hour each way every day, and play three-to-four hours a day to get better.''
By the time Ko was 16, he was won the Junior National Championship in Paraguay, then traveled to Peru, where he was told he couldn't compete for the South American title because he wasn't a citizen of Paraguay.
The following year his family moved to New York, where Ko said he made up his mind he would become the best table tennis player in America. He and Edward became instant successes, winning local and region junior tournaments. As a result, both were invited to the nationally renowned Eastern Training Center in Maryland, where they went to school and trained day and night at table tennis for two years. Ko then spent his senior year in high school training at the U.S. Olympic Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and finished third in Junior Olympics that year.
"After I graduated from high school I was ranked 30th in the nation,'' said Ko, who is currently the No. 5-ranked hardbat player in the U.S., and No. 99 at table tennis. "I wanted to be the No. 1 player in America. That was my goal. Then I met Yoo Namkyu, who was the Korean national champ.
"That's when my miserable life began.''
Detour to despair
Ko said that he moved to South Korea on Namkyu's promise that Ko could train with the South Korean pro team.
"I had three choices at the time,'' Ko recalled. "I could have trained in Germany. I could have trained in China, or trained in Korea. I made the wrong turn. When I got to Korea, (I found that Namkyu) had lied to me. He could not face me. He had no power to get me on the team, and I had nothing.
"I then met Lisa Lee, who was one of the big names in Korea table tennis. She told me my level was about the same as a middle school player, and that I would be better off training with a high school team to raise my level. I played for Zion High School for one and a half years to improve.''
Then the government stepped in.
"I got a letter telling me that I would have to join the army in order to stay in South Korea,'' Ko said. "I spoke to the army table tennis coach and he promised me I would be in his division, and I thought I would join the army and keep improving my level of play while in the army.''
Ko could have returned to the U.S., but joined the army instead. He said when he graduated from boot camp he was certain he would be assigned to the division with the South Korean team where he have the opportunity to continue improving his table tennis skills.
That never happened. He was crushed.
"They sent me to the border patrol at the 38th parallel,'' Ko said. "My hope was always to be the No. 1 guy in the U.S., but at that point I gave up all hope. I had left the U.S. I had left my family behind.
"It was the worst moment in my life.''
Ko feared for his life daily and lived an isolated existence, serving six months at a time with no breaks for more than two years, walking a thin line every day along one of the most volatile strips of land in the world, knowing war could break out at any time.
"I cried out to God, 'Why did you do this to me,' " Ko said. "I hated everyone in Korea. I am over that now, thanks to the grace of God, but that's how I felt then.
"You were so alone there. There are only about 20 in (the platoon). You don't see anyone. No women, nothing. It was horrible. You could be killed any minute. I'm lucky I'm alive.''
When the nightmare ended 26 months later, Ko felt admitted he still felt lost. He got a job in a bookstore in South Korea and also taught English lessons for more than a year before finally returning to New York.
"When I got out I had no place to go, but in 1997 my exodus ended. I was 27 when I came back to New York. I still wanted to compete in table tennis, but I didn't want to embarrass myself. I was a much worse player than I was before," he said. "The kids I would beat early were all national team members (by now). The first time I played, I lost to a guy I would always beat all the time before. I could see him look down on me. My time was forgotten. I went to a tournament in Baltimore, and it was very embarrassing. I said (to myself), 'Table tennis is not for me. I put it behind me and went back to school at Hofstra.''
Good times in the Good Life City
After his graduation from Hofstra in early 2000, Ko said he needed to find a job, and that's when he discovered Albany.
"I needed money, needed to make a living,'' Ko said. "My brother-in-law owned a jewelry store in Albany. I knew absolutely nothing about Albany or the jewelry business, but I wanted to learn a business, so I told him I would come to work for him for six months.''
Eventually, Ko bought the store in 2003, met the woman of his dreams, got married and settled down in Albany, where he still owns the store. In 2006, Ko was at a rec center at Darton College and played a pick up game of table tennis. The man he played suggested Ko might make a great coach for Darton students, and from 2006 through 2008, Ko coached the Cavaliers' table tennis team.
"The coaching is what brought back my desire to play again,'' Ko said. "I felt all my time and energy had gone down the drain, and I wanted to get that feeling back again.''
It was a long road back for Ko, who admits, "I was performing poorly (at first),'' but that he stayed at it, became competitive again and played in the open singles over-30 category in tournaments around the country.
That's what he was doing when he discovered hardbat table tennis 20 months ago when his journey took a sweet turn for the better.
And he has yet to slow down.
These days, his life revolves around table tennis. He rises at 4:30 every Sunday morning, drives to Atlanta, competes with the best players he can find for four hours and drives back home. Ko also drives to Tallahassee, Fla., to compete.
"I'm driving 700 miles a week to play the best players I can find and train,'' Ko said.
Even Ko's jewelry store is a shrine to table tennis. There are tables in the back of the store and a workout table — complete with a state-of-the-art machine that feeds him balls — where Ko can volley, receive serves and work out on his own. He even hosts local tournaments at the store and just about everything comes back to his desire and drive to succeed.
"My husband loves table tennis,'' Chelsea gushed. "He has so much (drive and desire). He wants to be the best. I don't know anyone else (with this kind of drive). Even at night at home before he comes to bed he is holding his racquet in his hand, practicing.''
Ko does what he calls "shadow strokes" at home, always trying to fine tune his game, always trying to elevate himself to the next level.
Comeback almost complete
One of his biggest obstacles is finding competition.
"He is (one of the top players) but there are players ranked ahead of him in table tennis,'' Prieto said. "And it's hard for him to find the competition he needs to practice against in Georgia. He would have to go to Miami or New York or maybe the D.C. are to find that kind of competition.''
Still, as his wife points out, Ko's drive is unrelenting.
The journey, the setbacks and even the bitterness along the way brought Ko back — and he felt he came all the way back when he traveled to South Korea two months ago. He not only competed, but finished third in the Korean Olympic Festival event that seemed to define the journey itself.
"I was so happy I wanted to leap for joy,'' said Ko, who felt vindicated, while also simultaneously as if he had finally arrived. "People couldn't believe I was the same player. To go back to Korea and succeed like that. I felt so good I almost cried.''
Now the journey points to Virginia Beach and another tournament that could lift Ko to even greater heights.
"I don't know how I will do,'' Ko said. "In Korea, I felt like I was beginning to find the answer to being a really good player — now at the age of 40. I feel like I have everything in my game.
"I'm going (to the nationals) and I'm really expecting something to happen,'' he added. "But I still want to be humble. I've learned so many lessons in life (on this journey). I know to never give up on your dream, to keep believing ..."
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"I don't understand," he complained to God. "I devoted my entire life to my congregation.
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"This is what he loves to do," said Kim Van Deraa, Karl's longtime companion and mother of the couple's 10-year-old daughter, Kaci. "And we understand that. I'll never forget sitting in our living room in Denver that night, and George says, 'Kaci, I might have this opportunity to coach the Sacramento Kings. What do you think?' Her response was, 'Daddy, you need to coach. You love to coach.' We both understood how important it was for him to get back on the sidelines. When you're a coach, it becomes who you are." But George Karl isn't just any coach. His journey isn't just any journey. He knows all about sleepless nights and tortured dreams. Success, failure, second chances, doors opening, doors slamming; there isn't much he hasn't experienced. Sacramento Bee
During his first head-coaching job, when he was 33, Karl guided the modestly talented Cavaliers into the playoffs (1984-85), but he was fired a year later when the team slumped. He was hired the following offseason by former Golden State owner Jim Fitzgerald after being recommended by general manager Don Nelson, and he led the Warriors into the playoffs for the first time in nine seasons. But he lost the job during a tumultuous second season that included Chris Mullin's absence for alcohol rehabilitation, the trades of aging, veteran players, and Karl's erratic behavior that included thrashing Joe Barry Carroll's locker. "George was young and kind of crazy," Papa said, "but there was more to it than that. Fitz wanted Nellie to coach. The team wasn't very good. George wound up with a reputation and was banished to the CBA, then to Spain. But I always tell him, 'You should be the winningest coach in the NBA.' Just do the math over those four years when he was unfairly ostracized. I think he is every bit the coach Don Nelson is, and I think very highly of Don Nelson. Two of the greatest coaches I've ever seen. George is that caliber." Sacramento Bee
But along the way, the man once nicknamed "Furious George" learned a few lessons, too. He could charm with his charisma, his accessibility became an ally, and his increasingly tempered demeanor allowed him to become a better communicator. "I never really knew why Whitsitt brought me back," Karl said. "I was known as a volatile guy, which early in my career I probably was. Bob helped me control my ego, and he would mentor me, direct me, instead of yelling at me. He told me, 'You coach the team. I'll take care of your image.' "But it always bothers me when people say, 'Well, he didn't get along with' this person or, 'He's volatile.' They should also have to say, 'That was 25 years ago.' How many coaches have stayed seven years (Seattle), six years (Milwaukee) and eight years (Denver)? You can't last that long if you're volatile." Sacramento Bee
Cancer, he said, changes everything. Karl is approaching his five-year anniversary from bouts with prostate and throat cancers. His son, Coby, recovered from thyroid cancer and plays professionally in Germany. Karl's other daughter, Kelci, is the deputy chief financial officer in the Department of Social and Health Services in Washington state. "The cancer made George think about his mortality," Van Deraa said. "You're scared. He still thinks about it. When you feel normal aches and pains, your concerns are much deeper. But there is a reason he got this job. It was very difficult for him not to be on the sidelines. He wanted to do it one more time. So why not?" Sacramento Bee
Jared Zwerling: To clear things up, the Kings ask for George Karl's opinion on personnel decisions, but he's not involved in final say. Focus is coaching. Twitter @JaredZwerling
Ben McLemore: Kings honored Scot Pollard last night. Nice to see another Jayhawk in the building. #RCJH #KUtoKings Twitter @BenMcLemore
Sean Cunningham: Rudy Gay was very frustrated with the execution, the mental lapses and especially the turnovers. Said "A bad day at the office" a few times Twitter @News10Sean
Sean Cunningham: George Karl said DeMarcus Cousins was in a walking boot although feels he should be good for Sunday vs Portland #NBAkings Twitter @News10Sean
Cowbell Kingdom has confirmed that DeMarcus Cousins will miss tonight's game with a left ankle sprain and left hip contusion. The 24-year-old center took a beating in Wednesday's win over the Memphis Grizzlies and began the day as doubtful for tonight's contest against the Spurs. Cousins went down with a little over eight minutes remaining against the Grizzlies, but was able to stay in long enough to knock down a pair of free throws. He later returned to the game only to foul out with 46.3 seconds remaining. Cousins is day-to-day. - See more at: http://cowbellkingdom.com/injury-report-cousins-doubtful-collison-out/#sthash.6g5qsTfM.YtRmawP6.dpuf Cowbell Kingdom
Sacramento Kings All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins knows Sanders well. The two share an agent and have played together in the past as part of Team USA. Cousins, like Sanders, wears his heart on his sleeve and has a unique perspective on some of the issues "Support is exactly what he needs," Cousins said following the Kings win over Memphis on Wednesday. "I don't think a lot of people understand the mental abuse of this whole sport. It's not diamonds and gold everyday." Cowbell Kingdom
Sean Cunningham: George Karl talked about playing Nik Stauskas more. Opportunity with Collison down may have presented itself. Said not sure when, but soon. Twitter @News10Sean
DeMarcus Cousins: SALUTE G @Larry Sanders Twitter @boogiecousins
Sacramento Kings All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins knows Sanders well. The two share an agent and have played together in the past as part of Team USA. Cousins, like Sanders, wears his heart on his sleeve and has a unique perspective on some of the issues. "Support is exactly what he needs," Cousins said following the Kings win over Memphis on Wednesday. "I don't think a lot of people understand the mental abuse of this whole sport. It's not diamonds and gold everyday." Cowbell Kingdom
As for Sanders, Cousins hopes that his fellow big man can find his way back to the game. "That's his personal issue," Cousins said. "I respect him for being a man about it and admitting to to whatever his issue is. He has my full support. I hope he overcomes it and gets back to playing basketball." Cowbell Kingdom
Sacramento Kings guard Darren Collison is scheduled to have a consultation with Dr. William Meyers on Monday at the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia before undergoing surgery on Tuesday to repair a core muscle injury. Collison suffered the injury in the first half of Sacramento's contest against the Dallas Mavericks on Feb. 5 and has not played since. He is expected to be re-evaluated in three to six weeks, when more information will be made available. NBA.com
Marc J. Spears: Kings guard Darren Collison (hip flexor) will see Dr. William Myers on Monday in Philly & then have surgery there Tuesday, source told Yahoo Twitter @SpearsNBAYahoo
Marc J. Spears: Kings guard Darren Collison (hip flexor) will be re-evaluated in 3-to-6 weeks after hip surgery & his season is likely over, a source said. Twitter @SpearsNBAYahoo
Even DeMarcus Cousins, their franchise center, is not untouchable, according to a source with insight into Karl's thinking. "At the trade deadline, everyone was available," the person said. Including Cousins? "Every single person (on the Kings roster) was available." Although Karl does not hold a front office title, "he definitely has control" of future personnel decisions, the source said. Bleacher Report
George Karl's first power move as Sacramento Kings coach was to trade for Andre Miller, a trusted old hand from his Denver days. Expect more of the same this summer. Sources say Karl would love to acquire Ty Lawson—if the rebuilding Nuggets were to make him available—or any other members of his last Nuggets team, which won 57 games in 2012-13. Karl wants players who move the ball and push the tempo, and that could mean wild upheaval on the Kings roster. Bleacher Report
DeMarcus Cousins and Jason Thompson are the only current Kings in a list with more NBA royalty than you would expect.
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I do believe that living outside Mexico for a while does help to put things in perspective, and that it has helped my undertanding by being able to compare better.
I have noticed you have had discussions with differenct people about the numbers you mention. You state they are facts. There are not facts, they are just figures. It is important to make that distinction before entering any discussion.
Economists often try to portray their subject as a science. In science we need to place a lot of focus on the quality of our measurement systems and we need to know exactly what our level of uncertainty is. If you are a trained economists, then you should be more critical about the data you are reading and question the validity of that data and how is was obtained. You can write as many papers as you want, but if you do not base of on valid data what's the use?
I meant a 15 year mortgage.
@ Bertha Glez. 21% interest rate on your mortgage? With which bank, may I ask? I pay a 11% interest rate on a mortgage at 15 years. High by developed countries' standards, low by Mexico's historical rates and also current Latin American averages. In fact, according to the CONDUSEF (National Comission for the Protection of the Customers of Financial Services), interest rates on mortgages are right now between 10.5% and 16%, for a 15 mortgage with a 10% down payment. Averages seem to hover somewhere between 12% and 13%. The only explanation I find for your extortionate rate is that you are a foreign citizen buying property in Mexico through a "fideicomiso".
Talking about other matters, for those seeking historical crime rates in Mexico, look at
They do not match Zerge's numbers, but show that there were years in the past where murder rates were higher. Zerge's figures for the homicide rate in the past probably account for both murder and manslaughter.
@ Zerge,
I like how you ignored my request for you to present your facts on Mexico's murder rate during the 90's.
So much for all that "I present facts..." nonsense!
Mexico has a Human Development Index rank of 58, which puts it in the category of "high human development".
China has a HDI rank of 91, which puts it in the category of "medium human development".
Any questions?
@bertha glez:
The funny thing Bertha, is that even though only 32% of Mexicans are classified as middle class, 81% of Mexicans believe to be middle class. That means they perceive that their lives are quite OK.
That doesn't quite match with the dire picture you bring to the discussion.
YES Mexico has problems, like any other country in the world. But Mexico's GDP per capita has been steadily rising, and it's higer than all the BRICS except Russia. And believe it or not, the level of inequality (Gini Index) is going down, while the US is going up, to the point that for the first time in history, this year Mexico's level of economic inequality is LOWER than the US. In my opinion that's big news, and a single media outlet has reported it.
And to all the other posters, YES Mexico has a violence problem right now. It is quite obvious. And YES Mexico has one of the highest murder rates in the world, the stats are right there.
And YES there is corruption in Mexico, but you that have not traveled enough think that Mexico is the most corrupt country in the world, when it is clearly not, but the myth persists.
In general terms, the problem is that the media is obssessed with Mexico's negative aspects, totally ignoring its positive side. So I will keep pointing out the positive side of my country, as futile as it may seem.
So, you no longer live in Mexico. And I'm a trained economist living and working in Mexico. I have written research papers on Mexico's economy.
Do you really think you have a better understanding of sucha complex system (the Mexican economy) than me?
I must confess that I don't understand statistics, and I don't trust them either, because they are either manipulated from the source that produces them, or they are manipulated by the person citing them. As an "average" citizen, I can tell you that living in Mexico is wonderful and bittersweet at the same time.
What are Mexico's problems, for the REAL people? Not government sycophants; not big business CEO's implanted in Mexico to run companies; not economic analysts… I mean the majority, the average citizen: factory workers, domestic employees, employees who work at PYMES, people who work in Non-governmental organizations, people who have to employ themselves; service providers, salespeople, etc? The ones who are exploited by Top Dogs to get themselves rich?
Turn your view around, start from the roots and take a look at the people, and then look your way up, guys.
1. Terrible Living Conditions. Are you aware that the Mexican Census Bureau (INEGI) uses the "number of lightbulbs" in a house as a measurement of the standard of living? And that there are MANY houses that cannot even met that criterion?
2. Housing offer: "Pies de casa" (basic housing) of no more than 100 mt2 for an average family of four. Unspeakably high mortgage rates: my own 21% annual interest for my mortgage contract is considered LOW!!!
3. Lack of basic services: potable water. Drainage. Electricity. Telephone access.
4. Medical attention: lack of health clinics, clinics with little or no supplies, a low number of doctors per capita. Lack of access to medicines. In the IMSS: lack of medications due to faulty supply. Waiting lists of months to get attention.
5. Schools: reduction in public school curricula: (Studies in Civics, Philosophy, History have been eliminated from middle and high school levels.) Teachers recieve unbelievably low salaries, and practically no follow-up training.
6. Transport, roads.
7. Exceedingly high prices for all goods and services.
8. Insecurity: the chances of regular citizens becoming victims of kidnapping, extorsion, or getting caught in the crossfire of violent bands is definitely muchhigher today than 5, 10, or 15 years ago.
Then go to the government's handling of issues:
1. Labor: Congress is pushing for a reform of the Ley Federal de Trabajo, to take away all the protections that the Constitution of 1917 ensures, as a result of the terrible social and economical conditions generated by the Porfiriato: as it was originally written, the Ley Federal de Trabajo protects the workers from injustified firing; ensures that all workers receive medical insurance (IMSS), pension fund, etc.
2. Taxes: ridiculous handling of fiscal matters. Adeudan 16 grandes empresas al fisco casi 105 mil millones de peso. (16 large companies owe the Mexican Tax Authority almost 105,000,000,000 pesos.)
3. PEMEX: and the privatization of Mexico's national resources (coasts, water, etc.), which are protected as national patrimony by the Constitution of 1917.
The author cites: "Pemex's output has stabilised in the past year, and this month it awarded its first performance-based contracts, a precursor to getting oil majors to explore the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But efforts to make the company more efficient have been vetoed by the oil workers' union. Refineries are poorly run; petrol stations forbid self-service." This "award" is anti-constitutional and illegal: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/09/03/ "Sin autorización, PEMEX concreta la compra de más acciones de REPSOL." (Without authorization, PEMEZ finalizes the purchase of more stock by REPSOL")
And by the way, "Petrol stations do not forbid self-service": they are run as "full service stations" to provide jobs!!!
4. Corruption.
5. Legal Protection: practically inexistant.
6. DEMOCRACY: a government that imposes a president rather than heed the electoral vote. My daughter counted ballots in a state area and found irregularities in 85% of the ballot boxes.
Legalizing the drug trade is not a bad idea; but, i am sure you readers will agree, from a CAPITALIST point of view, would you, as a cartel leader, want to share the inmense wealth with others, and pay taxes on it? Get real.
Oh, but since the Economist is a Neoliberalism appologist, of course they never would have mentioned these issues.
Look up these sites for a well-rounded offering of news. (These articles are old, but Jornada is always reporting on the real issues).
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/09/03/ "Sin autorización, PEMEX concreta la compra de más acciones de REPSOL." (Without authorization, PEMEZ finalizes the purchase of more stock by REPSOL")
Aumentaron 257% las ganancias de tres de los principales bancos.
(The three major banks increased their earning by 257%)
In general a well written article. The author does place too much importance on figures and statistics that just cannot be trusted on their quality. For instance the 5.4% unemployment mentioned cannot be taken seriously. I grew up in Mexico and later went on to live in the Netherlands. At some point I might have had opinions similar to @Zerge's. By now I know that if their is no incentive for people to register as unemployed, then it is almost impossible to ever obtain a figure that can be trusted. Here in the Netherlands my employer pays part of my medical insurance. If I am fired that means I need to register right away as being unemployed because at that moment the government will step in with insuracne and benefits. So the unemployment figure of about 5.6% from the Netherlands can be trusted very well. Mexico's 5.6% is a fantasy.
Likewise roughly 10% of the friends I have in Mexico have been robbed at gunpoint at some point in their lives. Report of a robbery at the police is very seldom done. As a consequence there is not really a way to accurately know how unsafe Mexico is.
The official murder rate is just another sad figure that I would call a joke under other circumstances. Too many people get killed and their deaths are not even reported to the police because the police cannot be trusted.
To Zerge: I hope that you get the chance to observe other countries well when you travel. Your statements about China being behind Mexico in development are too much a fantasy to even start discussion. (I travel there regularly for my work). Here in Europe, China is seen every time more as an advanced economy. They have very well functioning customs and laws that help them develop quickly. Their government funded research institutes are excellent at working with their companies. In Europe only Germany matches such efficiency. If the situation in Mexico was even comparable to China I would have moved back many years ago.
Mexico is a big country, with a big population and abundant natural resources - it has every ingredient it needs to be a wealthy country. That it isn't is a damn shame.
I think central and south american countries need to stop pandering to the United States, and implement drug policy which fits their own interests: they need to decriminalize the production and sale of drugs.
Drug production and sale is simply too profitable to stamp out. It is so profitable, governments litterally duke it out over a monopoly on violence (in theory, the basic definition of a government is an institution which has a monopoly on the use of violence). The drug cartels are so rich, they can challenge the government's monopoly on violence, going so far as taking over control, behind the scenes, of entire police forces!
How to end this? Simple. Legalize production of drugs, but control it - only the central government can legally produce and distribute drugs. Violently enforce the rule. In short order, all cocaine and marijuana production would be in the hands of the government. Cartel crime would diminish drastically.
Let mules buy as much cocaine/marijuana as they want, and board whatever plane they want. What happens to them upon their arrival in another country, well, that's for the other country to decide...
@ Zerge,
You say "I present facts and you present opinions"
You have constantly posted that Mexico's murder rate was 100 per 100,000 in the 90's. WERE ARE YOUR FACTS?
Yes, the rural areas might have seen that high of a murder rate.
In a village of 1000 people, a single murder per year will make the murder rate 100 per 100,000. Now many rural villages in Mexico have much lower populations, so a single murder per year will mean an even higher murder rate PER CAPITA.
However I doubt that was the NATIONAL murder rate.
Please present the source of your FACTS, or stop posting that asinine claim!
Your condescension results from your inability to admit that:
(1) You lied about Mexico having had at some point a homicide rate of 100 per 100 thousand people.
(2) You lied about Mexico's corruption levels being "average" and decreasing. In the last Corruption Perception' Index Mexico placed 98 of 178, with a lower score than Guatemala and the same as Burkina Faso. Mexico's score has decreased in the last decade from 3.6 to 3.1 out of 10.
So who needs to check out the facts, then?
As many people have previously commented, Mexico has dug itself into a hole that will be difficult to get out of. This of course is due to the recently uprisings among cartels, corruption among the police force which sometimes aids drug cartels, and the monopolized market.
It is interesting that this article points out that deaths resulting from drug wars are "highly concentrated…in 3% of the country's municipalities". It seems important that the rest of the world becomes fully aware of the fact that travelling to certain parts of México is no less dangerous than it was in the past. However, there is no denying that the world's general impression of México is one of insecurity. This may stem from the fact that the cartel wars are a relatively recent event, so people may consider México's cities to have a higher crime rate than some American cities, which the article points out is not the case. The result of this somewhat overgeneralized world view is that people are afraid of investing in and entering any part of México due to the drug wars. Thus the cartel wars are creating an economic problem for México as a whole because many businesses don't want to invest in, or start new businesses there due the insecurity surrounding the wars.
Concerning México's market
Not only are the wards impeding the country's economic potential but so is its existing system. México's economic situation slightly reminds me of a period in the history of the United States (about 100 years ago) where there were many corrupt politicians and monopolies in our markets. That being said, México is much less of a democratic nation that the US but passing laws that forbid monopolies, and making a strong effort to enforce these laws, would be a positive step for México. As the article points out, many citizens are having to go into poverty because they can't (a) find jobs due to a high unemployment rate and (b) afford increasing costs of every-day living. Examples of a higher cost of every-day living delineated in this article include the prices of medicine, transportation, and food. If there were more than two banks controlling credit, if Pemex didn't have a monopoly over México's gasoline, and if bus routes were controlled by more than four firms nationwide, prices would be more affordable for lower class citizens who have perhaps already dropped into poverty or are on the brink of doing so.
Furthermore, a more competitive market could lead to more foreign investment. Until this happens, the gap between upper and lower class may increase and the unemployment rate may not improve.
All in all, drastic changes need to start happening now in order for México's economic situation and reputation (on safety) to improve, and yes, México has potential to improve its socioeconomic situation.
You wrote: "We can say that Mexico is now a young adult, whereas Brazil and China are economic teenagers."
I jocked "What if the 15-year old is an MIT-bound straight A honors student while the 18-year old works for McDonald´s?"
You replied: "Please, don't extend the metaphor."
I answered: "If you check PISA results 2009 for Shanghai, China, and compare them with those of Mexico,DF (which are the best in Mexico by far) you will see the scores of Shanghai are the best in the world, number one,quite on top of everybody else, while those of Mexico DF are,if it was a country, around the position number 40 (and pretty much last of the OECD)."
And somehow you replied: "@jvictor1789:
The other gentleman extended the metaphor, but you extended to another level. "
What other gentleman, I wonder?
Then you added: "Bringing it back to its proper place would be a tiresome and very likely futile exercise."
You may want to check PISA results here: http://www.oecd.org/document/61/0,3746,en_32252351_32235731_46567613_1_1...
and here:
Indeed to try to change the grade on an exam once the exam has finished would be metaphysically futile.
Netzahualcoyotl wrote to you: "The truth is that Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries in the last 4 years"
If you check:
you will see he is right, since depending on the sources (and you know homicides in Mexico are above official body count numbers because of "desapariciones"(missing, like the Jack Lemmon movie) and "narcofosas" (clandestine mass burials by cartels), Mexico is the nation with the 28th or 44th higest homicide rate in the world.
Out of 190 nations and territories that would be in the top 1.4% (98.6% of all countries have lower murder rate than Mexico) to the top 2.3%(97.7% of all nations have a lower murder rate than Mexico)
You claim murder rates in Mexico in the 1990s were ten times higher than today.But if you check the comprehensive numbers offered at
you will realize rhe murder rate in Mexico in 1997 was 16 victims per 100,000 people.In 1998 it was 14. In 1999 it was 13. In 2000 it was 13 again. It kept declining gently (as it did at the time in other OECD nations) until it reached 10 victims in 2007.
Then in 2008 it shot up 30% to 13 victims per 100,000 people.In 2009 it increased yet again to 16. Finally in 2010 it reached 19.77 victims per 100,000 people.
This means that under President Calderon´s War on Drugs policy, murder rates in Mexico have increased 100% and are 23% higher than in the bloody 1997 you were apparently referring to.
As for corruption, The Economist often uses Transparency International as a source. We may want to check the figures:
As you can see, out of 180 countries researched, Mexico has the position number 89, with a flunk grade of 3.3(10=no corruption to speak of).Indeed New Zealand scores a 9.4 Denmark a 9.3 Sweden and Singapore a 9.2
You could claim that Mexico is right on the median (not the average)
but you see, I believe a 3.3 grade is just a disaster.There are other more corrupt nations than Mexico, but we would be comparing the country with the likes of Somalia, Laos, Congo or Papua(where not long ago you were liable to encounter cannibal tribes)
A more reasonable point of reference would be, if not the OECD nations of which Mexico is one, all of which are light-years ahead of Mexico in absence of corruption(Finland 9, Canada 8.7) at least with the brother latin republics of Southern and Central America.
But you see, where Mexico is in the 89th slot with its 3.3 grade, Chile and Uruguay are at par in the 25th with a 6.7 grade, Costa Rica in the 43rd, Cuba 61st, Brazil 75th... Colombia, Peru, even El Salvador and Guatemala are all less corrupt than Mexico, even though the last four have lower per capita income and lower education levels.
Finally, you wrote: "zerge wrote: Aug 30th 2011 11:30 GMT
You should read and travel more; the world is bigger than your neighborhood Neza."
Perhaps you would agree this is not a very polite comment that lowers the standards you seem to aspire to share.
Im guessing the recent video of the major of Monterrey's brother is an isolated incident and the only person in Mexico that is corrupt?
The man was in an extortion scheme that is not an outlier but rather the norm in Mexico, this is a major hinder spread around all aspects and levels of Mexican culture and society.
Face it...the "this too shall pass" attitude is inherent of Mexican culture and you have represented it well...no matter number and statistic you throw at a problem, it will linger on an on.
I like how he points out that the 'cartels' are actually quite competitive. That's one place where Mexico could start--a new industry. Legalize marijuana and cocaine in-country.
Getting goods to the USA--the biggest market--would still be an expensive issue (unless the US decides to kickstart its own economy) but Mexico itself would become a destination for partiers and the growers/importers would be competing in a normal Adam Smith-like way to bring safer product at lower prices to the market.
And they'd all still get filthy rich.
America Movil has no presence in Venezuela. Consequently, this statement is not true: "...América Móvil,the biggest or second-biggest mobile-phone operator everywhere in Latin America except Chile (where it is third)."
And I forgot to mention, CLEARLY the government's fight against the cartels is an absolute failure. I favor legalization.
You should read and travel more; the world is bigger than your neighborhood Neza.
The murder rate was indeed that high in the past, and it was caused by land disputes in the ejidos. You just didn't know about it because it happened in isolated rural areas. That violence went down as the government fixed the land laws. Look it up, read, and educate yourself. I have seen statistics from primary sources in my research. Have you?
And your opinion on the level of corruption is irrelevant. Only statistics are relevant, and you have the Corruption Perceptions Index to guide you. Go check it out, understand how the index is built, read about the corruption situation in other countries.
You have opinions, I present facts.
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Thefts were reported from three vehicles parked at homes on Lambert Road, St. Marys, during the weekend.
Bradley Keller, 40, 15238 Lambert Road, reported having a $50 pair of binoculars, $30 in cash, $5 in change, and four boxes of ammunition valued at $28 taken from his vehicle.
According to a report from a deputy with the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office, the items were taken from a 2005 Chevrolet parked in a detached garage. No force was used to gain entry to the vehicle.
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GM Tyranius Skulls and Shackles,
Curse of the Crimson Throne,
[PFS] 02-19 Shades of Ice part III: Keep of the Huscarl King,
Arneste's Second Darkness Discussion,
Arrule Homebrew - Emerald Sky,
Interest Check for "Lost Mine of Phandelver" (5e),
Dragon's Demand Discussion,
Last Rites (Inactive)
Game Master drawesome1111
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