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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (June 9, 2014) – Outfielder Jason Coats has been named the Carolina League Player of the Week for his efforts during the week of June 2-8, the league office announced Monday. It's the first time a Dash player has earned the award this season.
In seven games last week, Coats batted .464 (13-for-28) with three doubles, three home runs, 11 RBI and eight runs scored. The 24-year-old is also in the midst of a 10-game hitting streak, the second-longest active stretch in the Carolina League.
Coats' largest output came in the finale of a three-game series against Carolina Sunday afternoon, slugging two homers and matching a career-high with five RBI. He finished 2-for-4 in the contest.
On the year, Coats is tied for second in the Carolina League with 10 home runs. The Texas native ranks near the circuit's top-five in extra-base hits and slugging percentage.
This is the third straight weekly honor for a member of the Dash this season. Myles Jaye won the Carolina League Pitcher of the Week award for May 26-June 1, while Frank Montas earned the Pitcher of the Week distinction for May 19-25.
Last season, Winston-Salem captured Carolina League Player of the Week honors once. Courtney Hawkins accomplished the feat for games played during the week of June 3-10, 2013.
• Dash shortstop Tim Anderson has been added to the Carolina League All-Star team, the league announced Tuesday.
The 20-year-old joins teammate Hawkins in the California-Carolina League All-Star Game, which will take place next Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. in Wilmington, Delaware.
Anderson, an Alabama native, is hitting .306 with four home runs and 19 RBI. Anderson's batting average currently ranks fourth in the Carolina League and second to Birmingham catcher Kevan Smith among White Sox qualifiers. Anderson also places in the top five within the CL in hits (66, T-4th), slugging percentage (.491, 3rd), triples (7, 3rd), total bases (106, T-3rd) and extra-base hits (25, 4th).
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The next morning -that's Tuesday, I think- we packed up and rode into Hadley for gas and water. The GPS pointed us to the north end of town, which had nothing but houses. Gas was on the south end right next to the airport and the general store. They only had 87 Octane, but sold octane booster. We skipped it as we already had half a tank of 91.
At 9:00, the general store opened and we stocked up on water and forgotten sundries. We were now ready for the long strech- 210 miles to the next town. We would cross seven mountain passes, one of which was marked as being the most difficult of the trip. We had no idea what to expect, but there was only one way to find out.
The first road after leaving town was a powerline track. We went through the first of many gates to get on it:
The steps in the background are an open mine.
After riding around some fences we made it to the powerline road. It was rough sandy doubletrack with valleys cutting across it every quarter mile or so. The valleys were gentle until about the tenth one, which had a suprise wheel trap washed out of the bottom of it. I bounced over it, stopped and thought about waiting for Tom. "Nah, he's going slower than I am, it won't be a problem at all"
I headed off to the end of the powerline road, and now every valley had a cutout in the bottom. When I got to the end, I turned around, got my camera out and waited for Tom. 30 seconds go by, no Tom. Hmmm. 1 minute, no Tom. Uh oh. I put my camera away, and then notice that I'm missing a saddlebag. My luggage rack had a left saddle bag and a few torn straps that used to belong to the right bag. Dammit. I strapped up the left bag and headed back down the road to find Tom and my other bag.
I was quite relieved, though, as I knew Tom hadn't wrecked- he had just stopped to pick up the dropped bag.
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Friday-night dinner with the machers in Switzerland
Shabbat observance is something I prefer to do at home, with my family and friends. While traveling, I don't seek a Chabad house for a Shabbat dinner, or blast out an email to see if a friend of a third cousin is in Beijing, or Tokyo, and wants to play host to a wandering Jew. But last week, while in Switzerland, I agreed to a last-minute Shabbat dinner in a hotel dining room with a few friends, a bunch of acquaintances, and some strangers whom I recognized. When Elie Wiesel began singing a slow, full-throated "Shalom Aleichem," I knew this was would not be a usual Friday night.
I was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the annual gathering of the world's great and good. It's hard to think of a more godless gathering than the WEF. It's in Switzerland, which generally frowns upon public displays of religiosity, and frowns upon non-Christian displays of religiosity in particular. (Its citizens recently approved a referendum banning the construction of minarets, thus forestalling any efforts to add to the four already there.) Davos is a resort devoted to sybaritic pursuits—skiing, eating, drinking. Walk up and down the main street, Promenade, and you'll notice far more chocolatiers and luxury retailers than churches. As an ecumenical gathering devoted to reason, free trade, and the pursuit of profits and earthly improvement, the WEF is, if not hostile to religion, aggressively indifferent to it. In the Congress Center, the main hub of activity, signs point to a Prayer Room—a small chamber with an arrow pointing to Mecca. In three years I've never seen anybody go in or out of it. Davos Man doesn't read the bible; he reads the Financial Times. Of course, religion and religious figures always occupy a few slots on the program—there's always a panel involving a rabbi, a priest, and an imam. But religious figures come for the express purpose of breaking bread with people who don't adhere to their faith.
Up there in the mountains at Davos, even the most deeply held clashes are set aside for a few days. Because there are few places to sit in the Congress Center, one day I found myself across from an Israeli industrialist, wearing blue jeans and blazer, who was sitting knee-to-knee with a correspondent from Lebanese media company An-Nahar, tapping on his laptop. This conviviality has limits, as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan demonstrated last year when he stomped out of a session with Shimon Peres. This year, normal order was restored. I attended one lunch where Peres, an echt Davos Man, sat at the same table with Palestinian Prime Minister Salem Fayyed, whom Peres later called "the Palestinians' first Ben-Gurionist."
In other words, the idea of segregating yourself along with coreligionists is contrary to the spirit of Davos. But it was Friday night, I was exhausted after three days of listening and writing, and a friend suggested I tag along to the Davos Shabbat dinner. The thought of institutional Swiss glatt kosher—a kind of harmonic convergence of dubious cuisines—wasn't appealing. But as my eyes scanned from Elie Wiesel, his hands swaying gently, to Shimon Peres, to the 20-something social-media executive who led us in "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav," to the other 15-odd tables filled with many faces I recognized, the food turned out to be secondary to the experience.
My table represented something of a cross section of Davos: the editor of Foreign Policy, two venture capitalists, a London-based executive at Google, the head of a large French industrial concern, a young management consultant. One table over was what I called the adult table—the head of one of the world's largest private equity firms, an undersecretary of state, one of the best-known Jewish philanthropists. In many ways, it was a typical Davos event—high-level chattering, the exchanging of business cards.
But it was also highly atypical. Amid the ecumenicism, it was a bit jarring to see signs not just of sectarianism, but of my peculiar sectarianism. Black suits are common in Davos. Black yarmulkes are not. After the singing, and a Kiddush led by Jacob Frenkel, Israel's former central banker, the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv and chairman of Yad Vashem, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, gave a fiery, impassioned davar torah on the week's portion, B'shalach. It tells the story of Amalek, who rose up to harry the stateless, friendless Jews on their way out of Egypt. (I can say with some certainty that this is probably the first time the story of Amalek has been told at Davos.) Sitting on European soil, in the German-speaking portion of Switzerland, amid Holocaust survivors, the story has its own resonance. Lau, the only member of his family to survive the camps, spoke of being liberated from Buchenwald on the same day Elie Wiesel was, in 1945. And he spoke with amazement at the fact that, within three years of that date, Israel rose as an independent state.
Of course, the tale of Amalek has a certain timeless aspect to it. In every generation, there are those who rise up and seek to destroy Israel. And in certain precincts—the United Nations, for example—Jews and Israel are intentionally marginalized. But at this gathering of the world's economic and business powers, that wasn't the case. To the contrary. Across the room was Stanley Fischer, the Zambian-born economist who is now in charge of Israel's central bank. He's been lionized for helping guide Israel's economy has come through the global financial crisis largely unscathed. Many Fortune 500 companies have outposts in Israel, which sports its own roster of highly respected international firms in hot areas like technology and alternative energy. In the realms of business, economics, technology, diplomacy—the core strengths of Davos Man—Jews are thoroughly integrated into the establishment. Time was, to make it in the fields that were most highly represented here—the Fortune 500, academia, diplomacy, blue-chip investment, haute banking, economics departments of top universities—Jews had to downplay their Jewishness. Part of getting into the establishment meant leaving behind the challah and the songs sung in minor keys. It meant going to the cocktail party or client meeting on Friday night instead of eating chicken. No longer.
I'm extremely glad I went. The dinner broke up at about 10, and most of the crowd filtered over to the central event of the week—the Google party. My one regret is that I left the yarmulke with the World Economic Forum inscription on it behind.
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TOKYO–The yen edged up against the dollar in Asia Friday morning as investors adjusted their positions ahead of Japan's upper house election.
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One provision makes it a felony for an unauthorized immigrant to enter into a business transaction with the state of Alabama. Another makes certain contracts invalid between undocumented immigrants and other people, such as rental agreements. That means a domestic abuse victim escaping her abuser could be limited in her ability to be independent.
"The law hasn't been fully implemented or interpreted by Alabama officials, which leaves us without clear answers regarding the risks that immigrants families may be subject to," Broder said. Broder and Gundlach also stress that not only domestic violence victims who are undocumented will be affected.
"If the perpetrator is undocumented, many people would assume the victim wants them deported, but that's often not true," Gundlach said. "They want him to stop being violent, they don't want to lose child support or see him deported and have the children go into the child welfare system. That's a pretty strong deterrent to calling law enforcement."
Anyone who lives with undocumented immigrants may also be hesitant to call police, even if he or she is a U.S. citizen. Someone who is in the application process for legal status might also be concerned about creating problems for their application by calling police. The list of possible manifestations goes on and on.
"It's so complicated," Broder said. "The kinds of decisions they have to make—what's safe for them to do and when it's safe for them to do it—it's a delicate balance. We have worked with many police officers who know the importance of working with these communities to build trust, to work with immigrant communities in particular and domestic violence survivors in general. They can't do that if people are afraid to call on them. But the idea of calling the police to help when the police could put you in detention, your children or your partner, those are impossible decisions."
There are special visas available for domestic abuse survivors. The Violence Against Women Act includes provisions to help women married to a green card holding spouse to get on a path to lawful permanent residence if they are escaping an abusive relationship. The U visa also helps crime victims, including domestic violence victims, to get temporary legal status, work eligibility and a pathway to lawful permanent residence.
"Domestic violence survivors should know that there's a network of people who are there to help and support them," Broder said. "They are not alone."
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Each year, U.S. women experience 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-five percent of U.S. women will report being physically assaulted or raped by an intimate partner in their lifetime. The National Domestic Violence Hotline can be reached at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). The Southern Poverty Law Center has also created a hotline, which can be reached at 1-800-982-1620, to educate Alabama residents on their rights.
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Domestic violence, machismo and resulting poverty is very prevalent in the countries where the majority of the illegal persons who make up this group come from. As is shown, this ads another dimension to the already overburdened social services that are stretched to their limits, and clearly is another reason for moving towards a solution to immigration reform. No one should be scared into not reporting domestic violence for fear of deportation, but how does a country enforce its laws? Are we a sovereign nation with laws...or not? People come here because they see a way to a better life, and they know even before coming here that having children is a ticket to free health care, housing, and other social benefits afforded to citizens. If the US extends these benefits a person would have to be crazy not to take advantage of them. Hospitals in high immigrant communities reveal upwards of 70% of maternity births are children being born to parents illegally in the country. Who's fault is that? Certainly not the immigrant. The US is at fault for automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, most European countries do not have automatic citizenship, and not focusing on immigration reform and trade acts that have killed working opportunities in countries of origin. I can guarantee that if a living wage and work was available in many countries where immigrants come from, they would never leave because life there is much more pleasant with family and thei
Elaine wrote: Call it what it is-MALE violence against women. Timid terms like "domestic violence" "gender violence" or sexual violence dont NAME the perpetrators- MEN. To abolish an injustice the perpetrators must be named.
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"You cannot currently send a star to Emma because you have done so within the last week." (stars for you anyway!)
a LACK of compassion seems to be considered strength for some on care2. Some of us who show any signs of compassion for the poor or desperately poor are sarcastically labeled "bleeding hearts" or "do-gooders" but its actually an unintended complement.
I'd much rather err on the side of generosity than greed.
I'm amazed at the "if its illegal it's wrong" attitude that exists. But i'll bet for many of these holding these views it doesn't apply to THEIR OWN lives...(example: driving over the speed limit or getting behind the wheel after drinking the legal limit.)
It seems to be a tactic used against the poor who don't have the luxury to share their stories. Too many americans have NO IDEA what it is to be truly poor.
Women should be allowed to seek help from domestic abuse without fear of being deported for doing so. We need to do some rethinking about our entire imigration system.
Steve R. you look like you have some darker skin. And you tend to be pretty macho in your responses to articles - rather abusive at times from what I have read. Perhaps you need to "go home" to wherever your family was from and take those attitudes with you. Even if you have white skin from a British Isles or European heritage, maybe you should take your ancestral stealing, raping and pillaging a$$ back to where it came from. So much of this land we are occupying belonged to the Mexicans before we got here, so maybe we are the ones who need to leave.
We all need to get a bigger perspective on humanity, and land ownership, and compassion and get over this fighting "mine" and "us vs. them" mentality. The planet is getting to small for this closed hearted fear and BS.
And Richard and Immigrant would get second stars for their posts if I could give them.
I love how people want to sacrifice compassion on the altar of an arbitrary law. Such heartlessness.
It does not matter what the "rules" are, or what language a person speaks or what color their skin or what laws they broke to try to make a better lives for themselves and their children - human beings are human beings and are deserving of ALL of our compassion and help in times of crisis and despair.
Some people's willingness on this thread to say "well f---k them, they broke the law" is just downright sad. I wonder what kind of thoughts you bombard onto your own being. Not very kind I am sure. I do hope your hearts open up and change.
Are you comparing someone who has commited the ALL MIGHTY CRIME of crossing the border in search of a better life to say someone who is selling drugs out of their house or maybe pimping a few girls as the same "ILLEGAL THINGS" or "RISKY CRIME" where they dont want to give themselves away????????? Oh yeah im sure those two are exactly the same.. ppfffff
JANE and BARNEY.... oops I mean Berny
Come on Jane... I thought we were friends... I didnt know you were soo full of hate towards immigrants... what if I told you I was an immigrant..?? would you still want me to dail your number then?? Its soo easy for people to hate and be angry towards a group of people or a class of people when you cant even for a second have the empathy to put yourselves in that persons shoes. Immigrants didnt ask for themselves to be born, especially in a poor country. If they have to RISK their LIVES to cross a desser to come to a country that hates them and cares more about a damn dog than a immigrant HUMAN and to be paid crap and have no rights do you ACTUALLY THINK that they LOVE it here and would want to be here if their stomachs werent growling and they REALLY needed to come if that was their best chance of surviving???? I really dont understand what some of you wierd ass people think...
Considering US laws are written by rich white people to benefit themselves and keep the "riff raff" appeased, I care less about what is illegal than what is right or wrong. Most people break the law constantly, because there are so darn many of them nobody can remember them all, and many of the laws are stupid. Illegal immigration is a complicated issue both morally and legally, but domestic violence is clearly wrong. We should not lose all compassion for people because they didn't obey all the laws.
A person's immigration status has NOTHING to do with being brutalized. We are our sister's keepers. Most of the abuse is targeted toward women and children and they MUST be protected!!! Our government and big business have created this "immigration" situation and are sitting back and laughing while we fight each other over someone's "status." Don't let their manipulation hinder your capacity for humanity and compassion.
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Excellent idea, wonder if other cities will follow...
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Panagbenga: Youth on parade
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Let a hundred flowers bloom. Let a hundred schools of thought, este, schools of festival floats, contend.
It is the time of year for Panagbenga— Baguio City's annual flower festival—when the city's officials, civic leaders, residents and students link up, forget the problems of urban decay, informal settlers and eroded mountains, and produce a rousing show which has become a bestseller of the summer capital.
"You're going to Panagbenga," chuckled a friend who resides in Baguio. "All the hotels are full. Natives and residents of the city flee farther north or to the lowlands to escape the traffic, congestion, and the hordes of visitors on Session Road."
Well, that sentiment may be understandable for Baguio denizens, but us visitors and domestic tourists want to see the much-hyped Panagbenga and what else Baguio has to offer. An invitation to media from The Manor and The Forest Lodge, A-listed hotels in Camp John Hay, Baguio's leading tourist destination, made this possible.
Near the entrance to Camp John Hay, the bus carrying the national media was set upon by boisterous, unsmiling Kankana-ey youths, caparisoned in battle regalia and brandishing spears. The conniving driver opened the door and the braves entered single file, chanting and singing in the Kankana-ey language, the only familiar phrase being "ay ay Salidumay…" One youth played the flute.
The "warriors" escorted us to the entrance or The Forest Lodge, where they were joined by Kankana-ey maidens in a celebratory war dance. Two braves dueled "to the death," with the victor hoisting the vanquished on his shoulders.
It was a unique welcome to the Cordillera Administrative Region, land of the indigenous peoples.
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On Upper Fairview Road, Quezon Hill, lies Mother's Garden (74-424-3702), a kind of hideaway which is a minibiodynamic farm, art gallery, café and zoo all rolled into one.
There are flower gardens, culinary and medicinal herbs, salad vegetables and fresh vegetables daily (one pig sits down when commanded to do so), and they have fancy names like Michelle (mother swine) and Hansel & Gretel (resident goats).
The resident wood carver, Jonny, an Ifugao, has been practicing his trade since the age of 11. And a Kankana-ey woman (Igorota) will demonstrate the traditional art of hand weaving. The topside café serves delicious pasta, sandwiches, roast pork and beef, soup and salad. At night you are treated to a fine view of Baguio with its lights, and you forget the houses constructed helter-skelter upon the mountainside.
Street dancing, floats
The street dancing took place that morning, with the sun mercifully shining after an overcast day with drizzles (it was raining heavily in Metro Manila). Contingent after contingent sashayed through, with drums, lyres and bamboo instruments.
There were representatives from schools and civic organizations, sister cities from Korea and China, and tribes from the Cordilleras as well as Cagayan Valley (Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino). It was, by and large, a heady celebration of indigenous culture.
Children and young adults, from elementary to college level, often smiling but sometimes tense, prancing around in measured, precision steps (well, almost).
The main event the following day, the "Grand Float Parade," was even more spectacular and extravagant, attracting mammoth crowds along the way. Police estimated that more than two million people lined the route.
Despite the presence of some mature persons (and celebrities like Robin Padilla, Bong Revilla, Daniel Matsunaga and Gary V. who, as usual, all stole the show), Panagbenga 2013, "the blooming odyssey," was a showcase of youth in parade.
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AIM-listed Produce highlighted improved potato quality and yield as it hiked operating profits to £5.38 million in the 26 weeks to December 28.
Profits were more than four times higher than the £1.24m booked last year, when the industry endured its lowest yields and poorest quality crops since 1976.
The poor harvest in 2012 led to a sharp rise in potato prices, with the firm having to import produce to meet UK market requirements.
Interim results show turnover remained broadly flat, falling by 0.1% to £89.6m, as the company signalled it was on track to meet expectations for the full year. House broker Shore Capital has forecast pre-tax profits of £10.1m.
But the company said its continuing pursuit of operational efficiencies has led to a proposal to close its packing site at Tern Hill in Shropshire. The firm has entered into 45-day consultation with employees over the closure, which could lead to 190 job losses.
Chief executive Angus Armstrong said improvements made at its packing sites in Duns in the Scottish Borders and Floods Ferry in Cambridgeshire has given the opportunity to "rationalise the number of sites" the firm operates. He explained the age of the Tern Hill site meant it required "significantly" more investment than the other two.
Mr Armstrong said: "No change to how the company procures potatoes in the west of England is envisaged as a result of this potential capacity re-alignment and therefore growers will not see any adverse change.
"A significant proportion of potatoes that are currently packed at the Tern Hill site are sourced from Scotland and the east of England, so this fits with the business and customer strategy to reduce food miles."
Shore Capital said the planned closure could deliver £1m in annual cost savings, with Produce Investments stating that the job losses could be offset by creating 50 posts at the two other sites.
The company, which said the consultation would end on May 12, said it would support the transfer of Tern Hill employees to Scotland and Cambridgeshire.
Meanwhile, Produce Investments said talks were continuing over its proposed takeover of The Jersey Royal Company. The company revealed in January it had made an approach to buy the Channel Islands business, which employs 500 staff at peak times and produces 25,000 of the famed potatoes a year. It is understood to have bid £12m for the company.
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TEMECULA ---- Plein Air artists can win cash prizes during the fifth annual Ralph Love Plein Air Festival set for June 18-23, according to a press release. The Arts Council of Temecula Valley has secured a $1,000 Best of Show Sponsor Purchase award of $1,000 in addition to the Mayor's Purchase Award prize of $500. First prize is $200 and a weekend stay at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Second prize is $100.
An event within the event, the Plein Air Festival is part of the larger Temecula Festival of the Arts, which includes the 12th Annual Old Town Temecula Street Painting Festival June 22-24. Temecula's Street Painting Festival has joined the Arts Council of Temecula Valley to create a week of activities celebrating the Temecula Festival of the Arts starting June 18.
Volunteers are also needed to assist with the event. Call 951-678-1456.
More than 100 muralists and visual artists create giant pastel murals on Main Street and Mercedes in Old Town Temecula during the event. Families, children, and beginners join in the creative endeavor in the family section where more than 500 smaller squares are blocked out for spectators to paint with pastels on the asphalt.
Town Square Park will become a giant exhibit hall for visual artists. The Arts Council will install a 40-by-80-foot enclosed tent, with an air-cooling system and lights, that will house more than 20 artists. Another 25 booths will be at the Civic Center through June 24.
Street Painter Best of Show winners receive a $500 cash prize and are honored the next year as the featured artist. Additional prizes are awarded for People's Choice, Best Monochromatic, and Best Youth. The Ralph Love Plein Air Festival offers a $500 purchase award from the city of Temecula. Applications for both Plein Air artists and Street Painters are available at temeculacalifornia.com or by calling 951-678-1456.
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TEMECULA ---- The Temecula Valley Faerie Society is seeking faeries to join the Secret Guild of Enchanted Faeries to play, dance and cavort with other Fae of the realm in Fairy Ballet classes held at Inland Valley Conservatory. This class will introduce children to this enchanted world through the use of story, music, dancing, acting, crafts and costumes.
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Big Chill stifles Cebuana Lhuiller; Jr Powerade trips Cagayan
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MANILA, Philippines—Big Chill stiffled Cebuana Lhuillier in the fourth period and got away with a 68-52 rout Monday in the second game of 2012 PBA D-League Foundation Cup at the Arena in San Juan.
The Superchargers held the Gems scoreless for six minutes then scattered 13 unanswered points to seal their third victory of the conference under the new head coach Robert Sison.
"The boys responded to my call. We started with defense and the offense followed," said Sison, who took over the coaching reins after the squad's first loss.
Mac Montilla and Mar Villahermosa kickstarted the rout with back-to-back triples before Jewel Ponferrada piled on points down the stretch to widen Big Chill's lead.
Mallari and Keith Jensen led the Superchangers, who drew at least a point from most of the roster expect one, with nine points apiece.
Cebuana Lhuillier was dealt its first loss of the conference, failing to find the groove and fluidity in offense all game long.
In the curtain raiser, Jr Powerade clawed back from a 10-point halftime deficit to trounce still-winless Cagayan, 67-61.
Trailing by 26-36 at the half, the Tigers—whose core is made up of the UP Fighting Maroons—doubled their effort in the third quarter and snatched the lead away for good.
Alvin Padilla took over the second half by pouring down all but one of his 19 points while Mark Lopez registered a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds.
It was Jr Powerade's second victory while the Rising Suns drop to 0-3.
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With sovereign debt yields in most of Europe stabilizing, and the euro on the rise vs. the US dollar there is a growing sense of complacency in the eurozone. Such complacency is not warranted.I sense another storm in Southern Europe and huge problems ahead for the core of Europe, including Germany and France. The focus of this article is France. Young French Losing Hope as Prospects FadeFrench president Francois Hollande has not delivered on his promise to create jobs so Young French Lose Hope as Prospects Fade.
Youth unemployment in France has been high for some time, but it has now climbed to 26 percent. For decades, regardless of their political affiliation, lawmakers have been promising to create a better situation for young people. But exactly the opposite has happened. Labor laws protect those who already enjoy steady jobs, while the economic crisis and recession have limited the number of new jobs created. Meanwhile, housing has become both scarcer and pricier. Some 23 percent of the country's 18- to 24-year-olds live in poverty, according to a study by the National Institute for Youth and Community Education (INJEP). These are mainly high school or university dropouts who have little to no access to health care and limited chances of improving their situations.
In the midst of the economic crisis, France's Socialists are denying reality. The minister of industrial renewal is calling for nationalization of some industries, while the president shies away from necessary structural reforms. Business leaders fear the clock has been turned back 30 years. France's business leaders felt as if they had been set back 30 years, to a time when the first Socialist president of the Fifth Republic, François Mitterrand, began his term with a wave of nationalizations and, after two years, was forced to reverse his policy. Some even drew a comparison with 1945, when the government nationalized automaker Renault after accusing it of having collaborated with the enemy. Wasn't Montebourg, who had always been an eloquent preacher of deglobalization, dividing business owners into different camps, good and evil, patriotic and unpatriotic?"Has the government forgotten that nationalization means expropriation?" asked Laurence Parisot, the appalled head of MEDEF, the employers' union.The liberal economist Nicolas Baverez, who predicted "France's downfall" 10 years ago and has just written a book titled "Réveillez-Vous" ("Wake Up"), saw the wrangling over Florange as proof that the French left still hasn't accepted globalization, and acts as if the country were an economic and cultural preserve. "The idea of nationalization sends an ominous message to all investors," Baverez said.Even Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici carefully distanced himself from Montebourg, saying: "Our policy differs from the past experiences of leftists in power."But the workers at the Florange site and their unions were thrilled with Montebourg's threat. According to a snap poll, a majority of the French people and, in particular, leftist voters, appreciate such showdowns with the patrons, or business owners. It's no accident that France's young people see working in the public sector as the ideal professional career. The government promises protection and security.A Plethora of Public Servants"Whenever a new problem popped up in the last 25 years, our country reacted by increasing spending," says banker Michel Pébereau.Public sector spending now accounts for almost 57 percent of GDP, more than in Sweden or Germany. For every 1,000 residents, there are 90 public servants (compared with only about 50 in Germany). The public sector employs 22 percent of all workers.La douce France is a sleepy country of bureaucrats and government officials who want their peace and quiet. But the bad news is beginning to pile up for Hollande.There are many indications that time is running out for Hollande, that Prime Minister Ayrault's days could already be numbered, and that the valiant knight Montebourg, who had initially aspired to be Ayrault's successor, is more likely waging a tragic battle against the windmills of globalization.
France's national pension system is sliding deeper into deficit despite bitterly contested reforms pushed through by Nicolas Sarkozy, former president, adding to the tough economic challenges facing François Hollande's socialist government.An official report published on Wednesday forecast the pension system deficit would rise to €18.8bn in 2017 from €14bn last year and would be likely to exceed €20bn in 2020. The annual cost of pension payments has risen to 14 per cent of gross domestic product.The issue is a big headache for the government, already battling to reduce public debt rising above 90 per cent of GDP. It has run into strong opposition from business over its hefty increases in taxes and has yet to detail where the burden will fall from €60bn of spending curbs planned over the next five years.Mr Hollande's Socialist party opposed reforms enacted by Mr Sarkozy's right-of-centre government in 2010 which raised the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60. Although relatively modest by the standard of reforms in other European countries, they provoked weeks of mass street protests led by trade unionsThe scenarios set out by COR, the pensions' council, showed that unemployment would have to be more than halved from its present level to 4.5 per cent and productivity growth increased to 1.8 per cent to bring the pension system back into surplus by 2060; if unemployment averaged 7 per cent and productivity growth 1.3 per cent, the deficit would widen to more than €60bn in the same period.
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Governor Rendell: Pennsylvania Sees Significant Improvements in Medical Malpractice Climate
Mcare Payouts Drop 61 Percent; Serious Cases Fall 44 Percent since 2003
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced significant improvements in Pennsylvania's medical malpractice climate, as evidenced by a 61-percent decrease in Mcare fund pay-outs since 2003 – now at the lowest level in 19 years – and the number of Mcare claims dropping 44 percent since 2003.
Mcare, the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Fund, provides the catastrophic level of insurance coverage to medical providers.
"We have great news for doctors, patients, insurers and our health care systems," Governor Rendell said. "The number of catastrophic malpractice cases being filed for more than a half a million dollars in damages has nearly been cut in half in the past eight years. And the amount of the money paid out for these expensive lawsuits has dropped by 61 percent, and is now at the lowest point in 19 years.
"And the best news of all is that it means that our doctors will pay 18 percent less, on average, for Mcare coverage in 2011 than they paid this year, which is 64 percent less than they paid in 2002.
"This tells me that all of the key players — the courts, health care systems and doctors — have done a terrific job implementing the reforms we proposed when I took office in 2003."
Eight years ago, Pennsylvania, like many states, was facing a medical liability insurance crisis. Insurance premiums had risen sharply and physicians and hospitals said the challenge of finding and paying for med mal insurance coverage would compromise patient's access to care since medical providers and specialists would no longer practice.
The Governor pointed to several positive signs that the medical malpractice crisis was stemmed:
- The drop in the cost for Mcare coverage mirrors the drop in the primary level of coverage doctors must purchase in the private market. Those rates have dropped by more than 20 percent since 2003.
- The reforms have stimulated a more competitive private insurance market. There are 21 more insurance carriers writing coverage today than there were in 2002 and most of them are taking on new clients, opposed to 2002 when few of them were taking on new risk.
- According to Mcare, the number of physicians who purchased med mal coverage increased from 2000 through 2009. More than 38,000 physicians are currently reporting that they have medical malpractice coverage, which is a reliable indicator of the number of physicians practicing in Pennsylvania.
Since 2002, the administration has worked with the General Assembly and the court system to implement reforms.
The first change required attorneys to obtain from a medical professional a certificate of merit that establishes that the medical procedures in a case fell below applicable standards of care. The second change required medical malpractice actions to be brought only in the county where the cause of action took place – a move aimed at eliminating so-called "venue shopping." Additionally, the courts have improved data gathering and the speed of legal resolutions.
Also, the Patient Safety Authority was established in 2002 and focuses on instructing patients and consumers on what they can do to prevent medical errors.
"At the end of the day, working with a Republican-controlled House and Senate, we passed reforms that augmented the good work of Act 13. This good news today is a reminder to our citizens that working together – across parties – is the only way we can solve problems. The Democrats and Republicans in this building took that exact approach and together, we solved this problem," the Governor added.
Media contacts: Rosanne Placey or Melissa Fox, Insurance; 717-787-3289 Gary Tuma, Governor's Office; 717-783-1116
Editor's Note – Below is a historical comparison of Mcare claim payments:
Number of Claims Year Payment Amounts Paid 2000 $341,344,227 699 2001 $321,669,132 692 2002 $348,047,730 674 2003 $378,720,770 701 2004 $320,339,689 620 2005 $232,588,740 471 2006 $209,522,349 423 2007 $191,365,811 422 2008 $173,892,874 377 2009 $178,236,910 396 2010 $146,484,944 329
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Hemudu culture
The Hemudu culture (河姆渡文化) (5000 BC to 4500 BC[1]) was a Neolithic culture that flourished just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China. The site at Hemudu, 22 km north-west of Ningbo, was discovered in 1973. Hemudu sites were also discovered on the islands of Zhoushan. Scholars view the Hemudu Culture as a source of the proto-Austronesian cultures.[2]
Material culture[edit]
The Hemudu culture co-existed with the Majiabang culture as two separate and distinct cultures, with cultural transmissions between the two. Two major floods caused the nearby Yaojiang River to change its course and inundated the soil with salt, forcing the people of Hemudu to abandon its settlements. The Hemudu people lived in long, stilt houses.
The Hemudu culture was one of the earliest cultures to cultivate rice. Recent excavations at the Hemudu period site of Tianluoshan has demonstrated rice was undergoing evolutionary changes recognized as domestication.[3] Most of the artifacts discovered at Hemudu consist of animal bones, exemplified by hoes made of shoulder bones used for cultivating rice.
The culture also produced lacquer wood. The remains of various plants, including water caltrop, Nelumbo nucifera, acorns, melon, wild kiwifruit, blackberries, peach, the foxnut or Gorgon euryale and bottle gourd, were found at Hemudu and Tianluoshan.[4] The Hemudu people likely domesticated pigs, and dogs but practiced extensive hunting of deer and some wild water buffalo. Fishing was also carried out on a large scale, with a particular focus on crucian carp.[5] The practices of fishing and hunting are evidenced by the remains of bone harpoons and bows and arrowheads. Music instruments, such as bone whistles and wooden drums, were also found at Hemudu.
The culture produced a thick, porous pottery. The distinct pottery was typically black and made with charcoal powder. Plant and geometric designs were commonly painted onto the pottery; the pottery was sometimes also cord-marked. The culture also produced carved jade ornaments, carved ivory artifacts and small, clay figurines.
Fossilized amoeboids and pollen suggests Hemudu culture emerged and developed in the middle of the Holocene Climatic Optimum. A study of a sea-level highstand in the Ningshao Plain from 7000 – 5000 BP shows that there may have been stabilized lower sea levels at this time followed by, from 5000 to 3900 BP, frequent flooding.
Craniofacial analysis[edit]
Based on morphological observation and cranial measurements, skulls of Hemudu have features of both Mongoloid and Australoid. Some Mongoloid characters of them are more obvious than late paleolithic human skull of Liujiang, which was still thought to be predominately Mongoloid. Examples of neolithic human skulls from southern China have characteristics of both East Asian and Oceanian.[6][7]
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