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BludgerTrack: 50.8-49.2 to Coalition
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Powered mostly by Nielsen, but with other stronger polling for Labor also in the mix, the weekly BludgerTrack poll aggregate records its first significant shift since the election.
Supplemented with a bumper crop of new results, from Newspoll, Nielsen, ReachTEL and Essential Research, plus a brace of new state-level data, this week's BludgerTrack poll aggregate records its first big move since the election. As shown on the sidebar, Labor is up nearly 2% on two-party preferred in just one week, driven by a significant increase in the their primary vote. The Nielsen poll of course has been a major contributor, but the 50.8-49.2 two-party split lands right on the ReachTEL result and isn't far different from Newspoll once accounting for its preference distribution method that was probably slightly unflattering to Labor. On the seat projection, Labor gains five seats in Queensland on last week together with three in New South Wales, one in Victoria, two in Western Australia and one in the territories, which can only mean Solomon. The odd man out is South Australia, where Labor's state-level data for this week was notably soft, although only small sample sizes were involved. Here Labor has actually gone from a projected gain of a seat to a projected loss.
Elsewhere around the site, there's updates on Queensland's two looming by-elections, at federal level in Griffith and state level in Redcliffe, and posts on new state polling in Victoria and Queensland. Further to which, two electoral reform news nuggets:
A package of electoral reforms before the Queensland parliament may offer a litmus test for the federal government's future plans, particularly after its position in the Senate strengthens in the middle of next year. Most pointedly, the bill contains a provision to require voter identification at the polling booth, having been foreshadowed by Liberal federal director Brian Loughnane's post-election complaint that you can't go and hire a video without a card that requires a photo ID, but you can turn up to present to vote and just assert who you are. This is perhaps the first entry into Australian politics of what has emerged as a flashpoint issue in the United States, where Republicans have invoked the ease with which malefactors can impersonate others in the absence of identity requirements, and Democrats have responded with complaints of voter suppression laws designed to create obstacles for the poor and minority groups in the name of a problem which appears barely to exist in practice.
Despite the Queensland government's penchant for radicalism, the measures proposed in its bill come with a very substantial safety net, in that voters who find themselves unable to provide identification can lodge a signed declaration vote. The vote is later admitted to the count if election officials deem the vote to be bona fide, which they can presumably do by checking the signature against the voter's enrolment form. The measure nonetheless promises to make life a lot more complicated on polling day, and to impose a further burden on the Electoral Commission as it conducts an already torturously cumbersome vote counting process. More on this from Peter Brent of Mumble, and a report on community radio current affairs program The Wire which features the redoubtable Graeme Orr.
Other measures in the Queensland bill include the abolition of caps on donations and campaign spending which the previous government introduced before the last election, setting the Newman government on a different course from the O'Farrell government which further tightened donation rules and spending caps in 2011. The bill likewise abolishes the increase in public funding which was introduced to compensate political parties for donation caps, and reinstates the old dollars-per-vote public funding model while setting the minimum vote threshold at 10% rather than the more familiar 4%. The threshold for disclosure of political donations, which Coalition governments would prefer be at least ten times the level favoured by Labor, will revert to the CPI-indexed $12,400 established at federal level by the Howard government, after the Bligh government slashed it to $1000. The bill has been referred to the parliament's legal affairs and community safety committee, which is scheduled to report by February 24.
As to what the new federal government might have planned, that should become clearer with the looming establishment of the new Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters and the commencement of its inquiry into the conduct of the recent election. The committee will consist of five government members including the chair, four opposition members including the deputy chair, and one from the Greens. Andrew Crook of Crikey reports the chair and deputy are likely to be Alex Hawke and Alan Griffin, while Lee Rhiannon will take the Greens' position.
1BKPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:06 am | Permalink
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
I just saw Mesma on the news trying to sound impressive but her stultified, faux posh talking sounded anything but. She is hopeless. As good at her job as Barnaby Joyce was at Finance.
No wonder O'Farrell is upset!
And school principals are less than impressed as well. The word "equity" is used a lot.
Close the door on the way out, Silvio!
"Abbott's boulevard of broken promises". Are we going to see the media push this theme?
How the precise comment from Pyne just before the election could be misconstrued is beyond belief. It simply was a cynical, calculated lie uttered in order to neutralise an issue that was hurting them electorally.
"It is unfortunate that this taping that took place several years ago has been made public," Mr Robb said. "But it's there, it's a fact of life, we've got to deal with it." How on earth is this not another clear statement that they are attempting to rewrite?
David Pope with some fun for the "adults".
Alan Moir gives it to Prissy! (And the government in general).
Oh dear! David Rowe really gives Abbott, Pyne and Rodd the treatment this morning. MUST SEE!
2BKPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:06 am | Permalink
And from the Land of the Free –
Look at this amazing spinning ice circle in a river in Wyoming.
Some cartoons on Thanksgiving Day.
This gun idiot reckons guns were in the bible.
The weekly upchuck round up.
FoxNews favourites are losing the plot.
FoxNews caught out lying.
"Justice" Alabama style.
3CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:08 am | Permalink
'Alan Griffin' – FMD. Clown Committee.
4OutsiderPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:10 am | Permalink
CTar1. I suspect my view might be an unpopular one!! But all tax systems need design features to protect the revenue base. In the case of online purchases from offshore, the current threshold in Australia is an incentive built into the system favouring offshore purchases at the expense of local purchases. The broader issue is the excessive prices charged by Australian retailers for many goods compared to offshore suppliers. So there is a counter argument favouring retention of the current GST import threshold because it forces local retailers to bring pricing into line with international pricing. I, for one, would probably buy local if the only price differential was 10% GST. That said, on the rare occasion I buy goods from offshore, it's only because I can't be bothered hunting them out locally eg, CDs and books. If I'm not in a rush, the incentive for online purchases is convenience, rather than pricing, and in a sense I'm largely indifferent as to whether the source is Australian or offshore. But as a semi rational consumer, once I have accepted there will be some delay in delivery of my purchase, I will buy the lowest cost item, which (surprise surprise!) is invariably from an offshore supplier!!
5sprocket_Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:11 am | Permalink
Tony Abbott pre-election said this
This statement is becoming Abbott's Albatross hanging off his government's neck.
"We will be a no-surprises, no-excuses government, because you are sick of nasty surprises and lame excuses from people that you have trusted with your future."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/abbotts-boulevard-of-broken-promises-20131127-2yac4.html#ixzz2lsWIDi8w
6badcatPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:14 am | Permalink
Pyne's broken promise set to haunt Abbott
The Prime Minister should remember how broken election pledges damaged Julia Gillard, as he reneges on Gonski.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/pynes-broken-promise-set-to-haunt-abbott-20131127-2ya8p.html#ixzz2lsYM1obc
7CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:21 am | Permalink
I agree when the differential is only the GST.
8mariPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:27 am | Permalink
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html also good cartoon from Cathy
like the way Bludgertrack heading and before Pyne I think now??
See robot sean now programmed to spit out slogans very very late at night and early mornings
9davePosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:29 am | Permalink
Ahh – the Ministry of Truth would be so proud of sheridan's dribble –
Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 6:57 am | Permalink
Greg Sheridan in the GG lauds Abbott's diplomatic triumph. We are in safe hands….
TONY Abbott's letter to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been successful. That judgment is inescapable and incontestable.
The President, in his formal statement responding to the Prime Minister's letter, has spoken warmly of the relationship with Australia.
He has been calm throughout.
He has stressed the key national interest that Australia has in its relationship with Indonesia. He has been warm and gracious towards the President.
He has also safeguarded Australia's key interests in maintaining its intelligence capabilities.
He has stayed away from the obvious political points he could have made against Labor.
He has responded to the President quickly, but with serious, indeed intense, deliberation at every stage.
10CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:31 am | Permalink
Sheridan well and truly a tout.
11frednkPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:33 am | Permalink
Started by the Liberals, continued by Labor and it hasn't worked:
Malcolm Fraser @MalcolmFraser12 43m
Wasted decade as indigenous health fails to show improvement. So much for Intervention policies? http://www.theage.com.au/national/-2yae1.html …
12Bushfire BillPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:33 am | Permalink
There may still be very challenging days in this relationship to come, but whatever happens, this has been a solid performance by the Abbott government. It should give our allies, and the Australian people, a good deal of reassurance that this is a competent, sensible government fully conscious of the grave responsibilities it must shoulder in national security.
Once again, Abbott gets out of a mess (if that is actually what has happened) of his own making, by ceasing to be a nerk, and not only gets a "Whew! That was close," from Sheridan, but added and resounding praise for being a diplomatic genius.
The relationship will have to be renegotiated, reset "not necessarily in our favour" (to quote another loser), and thenceforth we will need to be on our absolutely best behaviour.
Abbott placards are being burned in the streets in Jakarta. Much of the political class there is up in arms. The Indonesian newspapers are running an anti-Australian line, and other countries in the region are lining up for free kicks aimed at our head.
And we should be reassured?
Sheridan like to be a contrarian, making sweeping declarations against all evidence, but he should keep away from the bottle when he does it.
13frednkPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:36 am | Permalink
Hope we are all so proud!
Lesley Walker @LesleyWalk 5h
UN reports reveal slum like conditions on Nauru and Manus Island – http://sarah-hanson-young.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/un-reports-reveal-slum-conditions-nauru-and-manus-island …
14victoriaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:41 am | Permalink
morning all
BK did you notice the picture hanging in the David Rowe cartoon. It was JG hanging upside down.
Sheridan is furiously polishing the turd that is this Abbott govt, but I doubt it is going to help. They are proving to be incompetent buffoons
15davePosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:42 am | Permalink
Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:10 am | Permalink
CTar1. I suspect my view might be an unpopular one!!
This is what the issue is –
The Coalition ……again pledged to leave the GST untouched.
abbott said on numerous occassions the GST would not change. Period.
Now they want to change it.
Great going into the by election in Queensland and the Senate re-run in WA. Throw in Gonski and whatever else they bungle and back track on between now and the new polls.
Plus the Indonesian matter is not over yet – a swag of boats in the first quarter 2014 would go down well.
16CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:43 am | Permalink
If he succeeds, Obama may not only neutralize Iran, but also the neocons.
17CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:45 am | Permalink
dave – The Indonesian thing may bite in WA.
18victoriaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:47 am | Permalink
NSW education minister has his say on education policy
19frednkPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:48 am | Permalink
Abbott's done well i'm sure Aus beef farmers are impressed.
So this is what is going on.
Same as last
Didn't know there was an Australian War memorial in Kalimantan
Aussie students are saner than the children running the place.
SBY tining it down.
20confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:50 am | Permalink
The Narrowing!
21BoerwarPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:51 am | Permalink
I see from William's introductory piece that democracy thieves never sleep. They have stolen the truth with utterly cynical lies, and now they want to steal your vote as well.
I am sure that Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council will provide expert advice that the voter identification requirement will virtually guarantee that many Indignous people – particularly in remote locations – will be disenfranchised.
And that Abbott will duly listen.
22confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:54 am | Permalink
Amid the furore over allegations of spying on Indonesia's leaders, East Timor has repeated claims that Australia bugged its leaders during delicate negotiations on the Timor Sea resources treaty in 2004.
East Timor is pursuing international arbitration to have the 2006 treaty overturned, a process it launched last December after the Australian government failed to respond to the bugging claims.
But it says it would halt this process if the Australian government gave a detailed response to their spying allegations.
Like BB said, Australia has become the pinata of Asia.
23porotiPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:54 am | Permalink
After the triumph in Jakarta Beijing looks like being another pushover.
Beijing furious over Julie Bishop's 'irresponsible' remarks
The fall-out threatens to sour the mood for Ms Bishop's imminent visit to China – her first as foreign minister – and comes as the Abbott government pushes aggressively to seal a much-vaunted free trade deal with its largest trading partner within a year.
Mr Abbott's public declaration last month that Japan was Australia's "best friend" in Asia had already raised eyebrows in Beijing
24CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 7:59 am | Permalink
Give a Gonski
25Bushfire BillPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:00 am | Permalink
It's been an instant fix, according to Sheridan. Problem solved in a neat 90 minute episode of "The West Wing".
A few words scribbled on a letterhead, a day or two's effort, have fixed the whole relationship. No hard work required. We've put one over SBY once again. All you have to do is use the right mix of oily obsequiousness and grovelling capitulation and you can get these darkies to do anything They're like children, really. Heap praise on them, promise them anything, and they gurgle like babies. Give 'em another lollie, Tony.
That is exactly what got us into trouble in the first place.
We revealed our hand far too early in the game we're playing with Indonesia. Over the last three years, we told them what the aim and the result of negotiations would be – stop the boats – and then went in hamfistedly first to demand it, then to plead, then to beg.
Sheridan's thesis seems to be that three years spent slagging-off Indonesia, our declarations that they were irrelevant to our ambitions in their home waters and in their villages, all that guff about how their boats had to be stopped, the rudeness in turing up late to meetings twice, the universal declarations of love and affection, have all been ignored by the simple pampong folk of Jakarta, in exchange for a few beads and trinkets, mere words.
In Sheridan World major diplomatic problems are solved at the stroke of a pen. Overseas potentates just need a little flattery, and they roll over to let us scratch their tummies. What was a dire, new low in the relationship just a week ago is suddenly a new high. Victory must be declared pronto, lest the domestic audience gets it into their heads that Abbott has stuffed up big-time. While SBY plays in the bath with his new toys, the huddled masses of Australia can be reassured their rulers are the adults in the room.
Sheridan alludes to a few problems coming up… like the bit where we have to negotiate and conclude an agreement on spying (one where we don't do any of it) before there's even a hope of relations being restored.
He doesn't actually set out what the new relationship will be like. I guess maybe he wants us to assume it'll be business-as-usual, but on what evidence?
The only evidence we have is the Indonesians insistence that the old colonial days are gone – That was then, this is now – and that a country of 23 million people should take its rightful place (and no more) beside a country of 250 million or more.
Instant fixes, declarations of overnight success, bragging that we "won" this or that against the hapless Indonesians, are exactly what got us into the shit in the first place.
And they're doing it again.
26confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:04 am | Permalink
I think this just about sums it up:
Possum Comitatus @Pollytics 10h
Grown up government http://bit.ly/186K8xE Playing checkers while others play chess
27victoriaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:06 am | Permalink
Bingo from Possum!!
28victoriaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:08 am | Permalink
Sheridan is merely spruiking for dear leqder. Surely he sees the reality of this as nothing less than a diplomatic disaster
29davePosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:08 am | Permalink
So – Our car industry will be closed on abbott's watch, Gonski gutted – (remember the same level of funding won't even be delivered after the first year) – yet hockey is looking at business welfare for Qantas which is also looks like being majority owned by foreigners pretty soon.
Slash reforms to education and give the money to business.
Govt mulls ways to boost Qantas
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has hinted that the Abbott government may be open to lifting the foreign ownership cap on Qantas Airways, which would allow the airline to be majority owned by offshore investors, according to The Australian Financial Review.
Mr Hockey said the coalition is considering a variety of options, which could include government subsidies, to acknowledge that Qantas is not fighting against rival Virgin Australia Holdings on a level playing field.
30liyanaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:09 am | Permalink
This so called government is an incompetent joke.
I was interested to read yesterday that they were proposing rewarding state governments if they sold off public assets. Cynical people in NSW may link this to the fact that there were real estate agents valuing Ultimo TAFE recently…
One wonders what else may be flogged off? Opera house? Harbour Bridge?
31CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:13 am | Permalink
Govt mulls ways to boost Qantas
I'm not. The last time I used Qantas internationally was about 25 yrs ago!
32confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:13 am | Permalink
WA's two desalination plants and its network of sewage treatment plants could be soon put up for a multibillion-dollar sale as part of Troy Buswell's plan to regain the State's AAA credit rating.
The West Australian understands these State-owned utilities will join ports infrastructure as prime candidates for privatisation when the Treasurer releases his pre-Christmas mid-year economic review.
Questions that arise, among others:
1. Should we be selling these assets?
2. If so, is now the right time, and is restoration of the AAA credit rating a sufficiently justifiable reason for selling?
33confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:15 am | Permalink
Slash reforms to education and give the money to business.
It's in the Liberal DNA.
34Bushfire BillPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:17 am | Permalink
Scene from "The Week Of Living Dangerously"
SBY TO AIDE: "Who is this 'Greg Sheridan'?"
AIDE to SBY: "Oh, he is an Australian journalist."
SBY: "I KNOW that. But WHO is he?"
AIDE: "I see what you mean… He's Tony Abbott's best friend. They have private dinners together. Some say he has Abbott's ear, and is one of his trusted political advisors."
SBY: "So more than just 'a journalist', eh?"
AIDE: "I'm afraid so."
SBY: "We'll see about that. Get my megaphone."
Sheridan's advice to Abbott three years ago was to go hard, go early, go aggro on Indonesia. He told them they would fold.
When it all blew up in Abbott's face, Sheridan repeated his advice.
"Don't give an inch. It's just their inferiority complex writ large. They like to think they're important in the region. Show them who's boss."
When Abbott did this, it blew up in his face even more.
The advice changed…
"Grovel. Kow-tow. Apologize if you have to. We're in the shit if you don't. A bit of flattery might work. Pretend you agree with everything they say."
Sheridan declares his advice has succeeded, the day after. It only took 24 hours, just like he told his mate Tony.
OK, so it's only one possible scenario, but could Sheridan's op-ed today be designed to get him out of the shit with Abbott, for giving such lousy advice in the past? That it was not so much a declaration that Abbott was right, but that Sheridan was right, and will Tony please start taking is calls again?
After all, we've got China to fix up now, then East Timor, and God help us if the Papua New Guineans decide they want a better deal.
35BKPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:27 am | Permalink
Sheridan doesn't need a porn centrefold to get off on. All he needs is a picture of Abbott.
36victoriaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:28 am | Permalink
the same goes for Prissy Pine. Have you seen the way he gazes at dear leader.?
37BKPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:29 am | Permalink
Yes. It's unhealthy.
Also I agree with you about David Rowe. One should spend a lot of time looking at the small details in his cartoons.
38OutsiderPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:30 am | Permalink
Folks my post on GST was not meant to be a political comment! just a musing on some of the underlying policy issues and to point out the contrast between the Australian and UK approaches.
I wish Abbott nothing but the worst and whatever might be coming his way he richly deserves.
And fair enough that a change to GST will be just another broken promise….
My main concern with Labor's performance at the moment is that they are not hammering the broken promise message. Media bias, whatever, but the message is not getting out as clearly as Abbott managed to do. The libs have a wonderful ability to fabricate a crisis out of nothing. Very effective in opposition! The same ability, in government, is disturbing….
39confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:33 am | Permalink
Also I agree with you about David Rowe. One should spend a lot of time looking at the small details in his cartoons.
The 'mandate' logs burning away in the fire was another detail easily missed.
40victoriaPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:33 am | Permalink
My concern with compliance on GST being imposed on online overseas purchases is the compliance costs. If the reports are correct, it will cost the govt 2b to collect 500 m.
CTar1 – Our family decided after that grounding and lockout that we would never use them again.
We either use another airline or car or public transport or don't go.
We have all stuck to it.
Latika Bourke @latikambourke 24m
Why was Christopher Pyne MIA when it first emerged they were reneging on Gonski? PMO control writes Niki Savva: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/echo-chamber-needs-fresh-air/story-fnahw9xv-1226769963862 …
The libs have a wonderful ability to fabricate a crisis out of nothing.
You just said it. Patience my friend.
Kenny in the Age has laid it all out very nicely.
My only fear is that the Libs will grow a brain and learn from their mistakes. Other than that, they will, as ever, toss money around to "fix" things.
Rowe cartoons most definitely require detailed attention.
45CTar1Posted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:35 am | Permalink
China continues to try to copy or steal Russian engine technology because of a strong preference for building systems itself.
46Bushfire BillPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:36 am | Permalink
The libs have a wonderful ability to fabricate a crisis out of nothing. Very effective in opposition! The same ability, in government, is disturbing….
Brilliantly put, Outsider.
47lizziePosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:36 am | Permalink
The cartoon of Pyne on the toilet is not for the faint-hearted.
48confessionsPosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:39 am | Permalink
Biden is essentially making the same comments as JBishop, yet the Chinese appear to let him off the hook.
49davePosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:41 am | Permalink
My main concern with Labor's performance at the moment is that they are not hammering the broken promise message.
No. Shorten & Co are just getting started and it will build.
Voters are about to chill out for summer which is why abbott, pyne & co are slipping the nasty stuff out.
But they have elections coming up – in Qld and far more importantly Senate in WA.
abbott is damaging himself almost daily and its stuff that won't go away. Shorten will be fire it all back when it will do the most damage.
50lizziePosted Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 8:41 am | Permalink
Mr Denmore
Pyne is like a kid playing with Uncle Johnny's toys left over from the 90s culture wars. "Hey, what does this button do?"


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The Council's intention is to prevent Uber from being a viable alternative to taxis by enacting a price floor to set Uber's minimum fare at today's rates and no less than 5 times a taxi's minimum fare. Consequently they are handicapping a reliable, high quality transportation alternative so that Uber cannot offer a high quality service at the best possible price. It was hard for us to believe that an elected body would choose to keep prices of a transportation service artificially high – but the goal is essentially to protect a taxi industry that has significant experience in influencing local politicians. They want to make sure there is no viable alternative to a taxi in Washington DC, and so on Tuesday (tomorrow!), the DC City Council is going to formalize that principle into law."
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Find out who will be handing out the coveted statuettes!
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Reuters - Sat, 22 May 13:33:00 2010
Although James Morrison played in England's youth cricket teams with Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara and Tim Bresnan, he has no regrets about giving up cricket as a teenager for golf.
"I haven't played cricket since I left school at 18," the 25-year-old Briton told Reuters after missing the halfway cut on nine-over-par 151 in the PGA Championship at Wentworth.
"I thought I'd be better at golf than cricket and I get more enjoyment out of golf. What's more enjoyable, standing in a field for four days or playing golf?
"I've got zero regrets. I'm going to pick up my new BMW in 10 minutes. If I was still playing cricket I'd probably be going round in a Vauxhall Corsa," added Morrison.
Morrison said he had not seen his former youth team-mates, who all went on to senior careers in English cricket, for years. "It wasn't as if we were friends. We just happened to play cricket together."
This is the young Englishman's first full year on the European Tour and he has been touted as a candidate for the Ryder Cup team in October after climbing to number 18 in the money list with earnings of 404,000 euros (£351,000).
Morrison has already had four top-10 finishes this season and achieved a breakthrough victory at the Madeira Islands Open last month.
However, the former Surrey U17 opening batsman and spin bowler said it was premature to talk about the Ryder Cup.
"I've made a great start to the season and, yeah, I do believe I'm good enough but it's far too early," said Morrison.
"At the same time that (media speculation) is part of dealing with success, it's a learning curve for me talking about those sorts of things and I feel I've dealt with it pretty well."
Morrison played alongside captain Colin Montgomerie in the opening two rounds of the tour's flagship event at Wentworth but said he blocked all Ryder Cup thoughts from his mind.
"Playing with Colin here I had no thoughts about trying to impress," he said. "I was just trying to play golf and whether I played well or bad I wasn't thinking about the Ryder Cup at all.
"A top position in the order of merit, that's my real goal. It's not about playing golf now, it's about (still) playing golf in 10 years.
"Every year I have to make an improvement. My stats are improving every week so if that happens the results will take care of themselves."
Asked if he ever missed playing cricket, Morrison replied: "Definitely not - I couldn't think of anything worse. I don't even really watch it any more."


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Grey Days by lilysmaurader
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 1]
Summary: If war is the darkest days, and the future worth fighting for is the lightest days, then what are the days between? The war ends but the wounds are left unhealed. People die and people are hurt. The healing process is slow, and until it is over everyone is stuck in the grey days between victory and healing.
This is a collection of short stories about how different characters deal with issues created by the war.
Green Tinted Hufflepuff by mgle_teacher
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 9]
Summary: Draco gets sorted into Hufflepuff, very much to his dismay.
Growing Pains by starscribe
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 30]
Summary: It is the Marauders' fifth year at Hogwarts, and friendships are being tested. Sirius has run away from his family and is struggling with the consequences. Severus desperately tries to hold on to Lily's affection as James attempts to gain it. Then Sirius plays a dangerous prank on Severus, and everyone must decide where their loyalties lie…and how much friendship really means to them.
Giving In by Rhi for HP
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 1]
Summary: Recovering from his recent breakup, Draco finds himself enchanted. Giving into temptation is easy, especially when temptation comes in the form of a seductress...
Goodbye by Treacle_Heart
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 2]
Summary: Regulus Black looks back on his too-short life as he prepares for his final moments.
Ginny's Battle by MarauderWannabe
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 30]
Summary: He was there. She didnt know how it was possible, but there he was.
It is Ginnys sixth year at Hogwarts and she is being haunted by dreams, some bringing up happy memories, others are her worst nightmares. Ginny feels helpless as her family and friends battle You-Know-Who and she is being left at school like a good little girl. Well she is tired of being useless, so why not restart Dumbledores Army?
Ginnys love for Harry will drive her rebellion but what happens when a new member of the Army, threatens to tear it apart?
Set during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this is Ginnys tale of love, loss, rebellion, and fear as she has her own battle with the Dark side, while shes awake and while she dreams.
Green Eyes by DontCallMeNymphadora
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 4]
Summary: He never knew
How compelling,
How overpowering
Her green eyes were
JKR owns everything.
Gratification and Justification by Cinderella Angelina
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 26]
Summary: Victoire Weasley can hardly believe it herself. How is it that she's suddenly developed feelings for her best friend, Teddy Lupin, and in his last year of Hogwarts too? Now she must spend her sixth year not only adjusting her long-held sensibilities of how their relationship should work, but his as well.
There's not always a reason for everything that happens, and sometimes the reward for action looks more like a consequence. But that's just how life goes sometimes.
Great Expectations by Cassandras Cross
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 505]
Summary: A weekend trip to the mysterious Rose Cottage leads to Ginny's second pregnancy and Hermione's first. The Potters and Weasleys take on "The Next Great Adventure" as they anticipate the births of Albus Potter and Rose Weasley.
Good Night, Princess by MissyQuill
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 25]
Summary: Night time has once again taken its toll on a child who needs to hear a story before bed.
"I don't want any of those books, Daddy. I want a real story. Please."
"All right, what real story would you like?"
"I dunno, something with a prince and a princess in it."
"Would a Half-Blood Prince suffice?"
I am MissyQuill of Gryffindor enterring the May One Shot Challange .
Great Lady of Magic by lucilla_pauie
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 3]
Summary: Astoria goes on a quest to Egypt to banish a hurdle to her and Draco's happiness... As in all instances when we defy obstacles, Astoria gains victory... and wisdom.
First Place in the Colours of the Spectrum Series Part II, The Four Elements Challenge: Fire
Ginny's Music by Sunny_Rainbow
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 3]
Summary: A poem about Arthur Weasley accepting that even though his only daughter has grown up, she still loves him.
Golden Lucifer by Stubbornly_appeared
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 3]
Summary: His eyes sparkled in the light, and Albus knew they could do great things together.
Disillusionment flies on swift, silent wings, though, and soon the gold fades.
I am Stubbornly_appeared of Gryffindor writing for the Colours of Love Challenge.
Golden Couple by The Salt Lake Queen
Rated: Professors [Reviews - 13]
Summary: I should have realised what our lives would become. I knew he was broken, even then. I guess I was arrogant enough to think I could fix him.
Ginny knows he doesn't mean it. She knows that deep down, he still loves her. And she'll cling to that knowledge until the end.
Greyback's Daughter by clumsywerewolf2438
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 25]
Summary: When Remus Lupin went to spy on Voldemorts werewolves, he left behind his friends and the woman he loved. But when he got there, he found the last thing he expected to find: a friend.
Gone Fishing by Kerichi
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 17]
Instead of a romantic sail along the coast of Zanzibar with his fiancée, George got a fishing trip with a Slytherin.
*A "honeymoon" missing moment from For Bitter or for Worse.*
Summary: Minerva McGonagall feels anything but lucky when she is sent back in time by Dumbledore on a mission meant to test her stamina, morality and Animagus skills.
But when she runs into a young red-haired boy with familiar twinkling blue eyes, she soon discovers there might be a lot more to her task than previously thought.
A Gauntlet 5 Entry by Pondering of Ravenclaw.
Good Things by Cinderella Angelina
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 17]
Summary: It's Lily Evan's sixth year. She's pretty busy with school, prefect duties, and spying. You see, she doesn't believe that Regulus Black is as bad as Potter and Sirius say he is. She's determined to find out for herself.
Things get out of hand....
Gray by bluexroses
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 2]
Summary: James reflects on thoughts and memories at a funeral.
Goodbyes Aren't Forever by R_Ravenclaw
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 6]
Summary: Padma is happily married and has three children (and another on the way!), but when her twin sister reappears fourteen years after they've last spoken, she realizes that she has been missing something after all.


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What: Davis High School Hall of Fame induction dinner for Doug Arnold, Rachel Moore, Paul Ochs, Marcy Place Sheehan and Wanda Winton
When: 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13
Where: ARC Ballroom, UC Davis
Tickets: $65 per person, or a table of 10 may be reserved for a $1,000 sponsorship; in addition, locals are asked to thank a teacher by donating the cost of a ticket
RSVPs: Due Sept. 6; visit www.dhsblueandwhite.org or call 530-681-5020
* Editor's note: This is the third in a five-part series of stories profiling the 2014 inductees into the Davis High School Hall of Fame.
Back in The Day — by his own admission — Doug Arnold wasn't the best student.
But Arnold knew people. He knew how to organize, plan a good time and help folks.
Davis High School's legacy has been built by myriad people in all walks of life, many of whom have moved on. Fortunately for Davis, though, Doug Arnold decided to stay home — where his heart is — becoming an integral part of everything that is right about this community.
For his contributions, dating back to before his 1965 DHS graduation, Arnold joins former counselor/coach Paul Ochs, American Theatre Ballet CEO Rachel Moore, Olympic athlete Marcy Place Sheehan and dedicated volunteer Wanda Winton as members of the seventh class of the Blue & White Foundation's Davis High School Hall of Fame.
The induction ceremony begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at the ARC Ballroom on the UC Davis campus.
Arnold, 66, sat with his daughter Cary to talk about what the honor means to him and to share some early stories.
Arnold has been struggling with his health (memory loss) and was happy to have the eldest of his three "kids" by his side while reminiscing.
Arnold's parents (mom Nan and the late Bill) began teaching Doug about the importance of giving back before their son even got to high school.
Arnold Pontiac on Olive Drive was steeped in customer service — and young Doug got the hang of it early.
"Dad says he wasn't the best student," laughs Cary, while getting a chuckle from Pops. "But he was happy and lucky that many of his teachers owned Pontiacs because when they needed a car serviced … he'd take their car down during class, have someone look at it quickly and run it back."
Arnold would make sure the car was washed and its tank full before returning it to his teachers.
"Whoever didn't own a Pontiac, he'd be sure to mow their lawns on the weekends," Cary reports.
… And those C's and B's just kept on coming.
Doug Arnold joked at a Davis Chamber of Commerce luncheon some years ago that his dad's dealership was "helpful in getting me through school," but he added that Bill — and time spent working at the auto store — taught him people skills and that "relationships can help get you through most things."
At Davis High, Arnold played football, was class president, organized dances, established The Rear Ends Car Club and was Homecoming king.
Immediately upon graduation, the free-spirited Arnold and his good friend Kenny Whitehouse ventured across the United States. Upon returning home, Arnold waited tables, drove a tomato truck and did this and that.
When it was time for a real job, Arnold became a San Francisco police officer. In the Bay Area, he earned the Medal of Valor Award (1973) and worked some Candlestick Park duty. A fast friend of his was Davis High grad and San Francisco Giants pitcher Ron Bryant. Not a pair to shy from the night life, Arnold once said it was his duty to wake Bryant up and let him know, "Hey, you're pitching today."
Returning to Davis, son joined dad at Arnold Real Estate. "It was great to get a paycheck without somebody shooting at you," Arnold told Cary a few years ago.
Over the years, the Arnolds' business evolved. Dave Taormino is a partner in Coldwell Banker-Doug Arnold Real Estate, and the realty firm continues its work in supporting dozens of community groups.
Arnold's daughter estimates he's donated more than $1 million to local projects. A donation to the DHS Blue & White Foundation was instrumental in the rebuilding of Ron & Mary Brown Stadium at the high school. Friends of Allied Non-Profits and the Davis Schools Foundation also have received generous donations, but hundreds of other projects over the years have benefited from Arnold's give-back philosophy.
A veteran of countless area organization boards, Arnold has volunteered with the Chamber, Davis Rotary Club, FamiliesFirst Volunteer Santa program, Yolo County Housing Authority, Yolo County Association of Realtors and others.
He was voted Davis Citizen of the Year (C.A. Covell Award) in 1994, became the city's Honorary Mayor in 1991 and was the 1977 Realtor of the Year.
When Cary broke the Hall of Fame induction news to her father, she says they both "stood there and cried."
"He's received lots of awards, but they were mostly business awards," Cary says. "This is more of a personal honor … it's about how he is as a man. He's a true Blue Devil for life.
"His love for the community started at Davis High — so this (award) seems extra-special."
Notes: Arnold's three offspring are Cameron Jenness and Will and Cary Arnold. He has 10 grandchildren and one great-grandson. With Great-Great-Grandma Nan, 90, that makes five generations of Arnolds still in Davis. …Doug had been active in orchestrating several Class of '65 reunions. …Bryant, who won 24 games for the Giants in 1973, helped out at Arnold's old sporting goods and shoe store on F Street south of Fifth. …As a cop, Arnold's one-time partner was Dan White, the San Francisco supervisor who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and colleague Harvey Milk in 1978.
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Bad time to start a war...during Spring planting (and mobilizing the reserves who are necessary for this)....the country will starve during harvest season without huge food inputs from China...and since the NK food distribution system is miserable during "normal" times...how could you feed the populace AND the Army during a conflict? Impossible.


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"Senate's ESEA Challenge: Strengthen Accountability to Help Schools Improve, Not Perpetuate Test-driven Accountability," Article, Huffington Post (July 7, 2015).
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"Principled, Sound Middle Way to Education Reauthorization," Article, Huffington Post (November 4, 2013).
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"After NCLB? Emerging Strategy Shift," Article, Huffington Post (September 9, 2013).
While widely overlooked, a shift in the federal school reform debate is emerging - away from NCLB's tests and sanctions strategy. Describes emerging policy changes in five critical areas - leadership, instructional improvement, standards/curriculum level, school climate and parent and community involvement and support - especially as embodied in the Senate education committee's 2013 ESEA reauthorization bill.


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Tom Barrett
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Three in a row on the page... very cool how the "water" flows through all the frames! ;-) Aces, Angelo!
Thank you so so much for your beautiful comments Wayne, yes... these look pretty good together... the way they were meant to be seen! :-)
I enjoy the "speed" of this one the most. It's as if they build to this moment.
Thank you so much Rebecca for the wonderful observation! They are in fact supposed to be three different "frames" of the same subject seen at different moments and distances. :-)
very cool series.... all great!
Wow. I love this!! Stunning abstract Angelo!!!
it is look great on device !
Thank you Kimberley and Sharon for your great encouragement... these have been sitting in my folders for months, I thought they'd be too abstract for S6, I'm glad to be proven wrong!! :-)
Big thank you Ammar!! :-)
so cool!!! :D
Cool abstraction!
Thank you so much Justart, Carina and renata, very kind of you! :-)
Wow..looks awesome on the skin!
this messes up my eyes in the best possible way! love it!
Thank you so much Debbie and Louise, really pleased you like it! :-)
This reminds me a style in marbling. Really gives a water feeling! Love it!
So cool, Angelo!
Big thank you Süyümbike, Gréta and Lisa, you're great! :-)
great work. I love how the three show a progression of speed at which the water is falling!
thank you so much Angela for your wonderful insight! :-)
very cool, Angelo!
Thank you so much Laura!! :-)
Great work Angelo!
gwenola thank you for your kind comment! :-)
I love the movement and color, Angelo! Great work!
Thank you for the lovely comment Shawn!! :-)
I didn't see this one before... I was offline or slept. I love it, the movement, it is very strong in its composition and the colors are perfect.
Óscar: I'm very thankful for your wonderful appreciation of this series! :-)
This is such a great image that I'm pinning it to my Pinterest public S6 favorites board with the hope that it will drive more traffic to your wonderful art!
Grazie mille Wayne!! :-)
Thank you so much VIAINA!! :-)
Love this so much, color combo is stellar
Thank you for your wonderful comment, Angela! :-)
LOve these!
Thank you so much Bruce!! :-)
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Our much loved Lyra pencils get a LOT of use and I'd like to replace a few of the special colors. Anyone know of a source that sells them individually? I don't mind calling a shop if they don't have a web presence. Our local natural/waldorf store sells them but are picked over.
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Excellent. Thanks very much. The gold pencil was the highlight of this summer so I can only imagine what the silver pencil will inspire!
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Many employers in Scotland, businessmen and women, hoteliers and restauranteurs, B&B landladies and landlords, the whisky industry and farmers, despair at the thought of breaking up the United Kingdom.
Increasingly their counterparts outwith Scotland are feeling the same.
It is legitimate to wonder why. If we take it as a given that they want Scotland to succeed and that they want their businesses to flourish, why would they perversely reject a proposition if they thought it might help them prosper? For employers, it is the bottom line that counts and, if the bottom line shows signs of weakness, it will be employees who first suffer the consequences. No profit, no business, no jobs. It is almost as simple as that.
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Sir Mike Rake, president of the Confederation British Industry, has stepped back into the fray with a stark warning that even the possibility of Scotland breaking away from the UK is one of the critical factors determining business risks; as, too, is the prospect of a British exit from Europe.
The UK's internal market comprises more than 60 million people and Scotland's biggest export market, constituting 65% of all exports, is the rest of the UK. Why take a punt on divorce when the only certainty is uncertainty and no cast iron guarantee of stability and prosperity? Sir Mike and the majority of people with business and financial interests in Scotland appear to be asking the same question. To date, no answer has been forthcoming.
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Instead of tackling Sir Mike's arguments head on, those who support independence will question the CBI's role in the debate, challenge its impartiality and concentrate on the process rather than the substance.
Recently, the CBI sparked controversy when it voluntarily and unnecessarily registered as an official supporter of Better Together, no doubt on the advice of ever cautious lawyers. In the wake of complaints from mostly public funded institutions (why were they members of the CBI in the first place?) and a small handful of pro-separation businesses the CBI withdrew. But that debacle should not discredit the employers' voice. We might not always like what the CBI says but we should be able to call it to account and to challenge its way of working. But we need the CBI. It has never been a neutral voice. Its reason for being is to speak up in favour of business interests. When Sir Mike Rake worries about investment and jobs and dismisses the prospect of a cross-Border currency allowing Scotland to remain as a member of the sterling area, we ignore him at our peril if we believe the economic future of Scotland is important.
Why would an experienced business leader, of standing around the world, argue that the economic case for separation has not been made if he thought it had? In my experience, business leaders are pretty hard-headed and don't let sentiment get in the way if it boosts profit margins.
Social justice can be delivered only when there is funding to make it happen. However well-intentioned, progressive politics cannot be delivered without wealth creation and that is a vitally important reason why Sir Mike Rake and his business colleagues are so important. We need a flourishing economy, more jobs, more opportunities, better health and education policies framed and delivered in Scotland.
If only Kevin Pringle, the SNP's admirable director of strategy, was right when he says the present debate is about the extent of self government in Scotland.
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If the debate was only about self-government, the SNP would have taken their place in the Scottish Constitutional Convention of the 1980s and 90s. They would have participated in the Calman Commission underpinning the recent Scotland Act, and they would have said what they planned to do if the Scottish electorate did not support independence. A new era of equality, responsibility and modernity is attainable in Scotland without fracturing the UK.
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Genomics has been touted as a major step toward personalized medicine as an understanding of the effects of genetic factors may enable physicians to provide patients with the best medicines for them, without needing to adjust and change medications.
Kaiser Permanente's RPGEH teamed with the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of California-San Francisco for the study. The National Institutes of Health provided $24.8 million in grant funding.
RPGEH was set up to facilitate epidemiologic studies of genetic and environmental influences on common health conditions, such as asthma cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and mental health disorders.
Researchers hope to build the data base to 500,000 participants. Risch said Kaiser has invested millions of dollars to generate and store the information, and to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of participants' personal information.
Risch explained that information collected from participants, including saliva samples, self-reported health surveys, and clinical data will be combined in environmental databases that will allow researchers to study the health effects of environmental factors such as air pollution and water quality as well as neighborhood characteristics, such as proximity to parks, grocery stores, and healthy foods.
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A rare opportunity, I don't often put dolls up for auction. The listing will be available via this link: cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl…
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i saw the bid, by the detail and cuteness of this doll it was worth far more then $100
Thank you, that's really lovely to hear that you think so It was £100 so more like $160 but they do go for more on my Etsy.
Is that how much the jackleopes are? Do you think you'll be making more this is very cute.
Jackalopes are £130, I make them every now and again but I am always open for custom jackalope orders. Customs are an additional 20%. I have one Halloween themed one for sale at the moment (it's a bit gorey! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/165477…
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New Zealand's milk industry shows how commodity-producing countries across the world are struggling after having overestimated demand from China's fast-growing economy. Read More »
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New Zealand's milk industry shows how commodity-producing countries across the world are struggling after having overestimated demand from China's fast-growing economy. Read More »
Global milk prices are falling sharply as producers in New Zealand, Europe and the U.S. ramp up exports to feed the Chinese market. Read More »
China's domestic stock market recorded another disappointing year in 2013, with Shanghai clocking in as Asia's worst-performing market.
But investors shouldn't be disheartened looking ahead to 2014, fund managers say.
They note that the nation's demographic changes, consumption potential and reform plans will open up plenty of opportunities to make money this year. So which sectors should investors watch? Read More »
It's rare for Chinese citizens to laugh outwardly at their president. But when Xi Jinping appeared to scold his New Zealand counterpart over food safety during a face-to-face meeting in Bali on Sunday, the irony proved too delicious to ignore.
During a short get-together ahead of this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Mr. Xi reminded New Zealand Prime Minister John Key that food safety mattered to people's health, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Xinhua said Mr. Xi "urged New Zealand to take tough measures to ensure food quality and thus maintain the sound momentum of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries."
Chinese social media users, inundated on a monthly basis with reports of domestic food scandals, responded with a collective face-palm. Read More »
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key plans to visit China to apologize to parents for an infant formula scare caused by the country's dairy giant Fonterra Cooperative Group.
Mr. Key said that the New Zealand government would announce next week its own inquiry into how three batches of whey protein concentrate came to be contaminated and exported. Once he has some answers, Mr. Key said, he would be traveling to China. Read More »
Hong Kong is a city festooned with wall-to-wall milk-formula ads, with demand so high that the government recently had to slap a quota on purchases to keep from running out.
But behind the formula frenzy, official statistics show, the number of women breastfeeding their children is also quietly on the rise as the city tries everything from comic books to proposing a new voluntary code regulating milk-formula advertisements to encourage mothers to breastfeed. Read More »
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Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has a big statement for new moms. His latest piece is an 80-square-meter map of China made out of 1,800 cans of baby formula. Read More »
China's scandal-tainted dairy industry took another step toward consolidation on Wednesday when its largest milk producer raised bought a bigger stake in the country's biggest dairy farming company.
Milk producer China Mengniu Dairy Co., involved in a 2008 melamine scandal, said it had increased its stake in China Modern Dairy Holdings Ltd. from 1% to 28%. It did so to "secure both quality and quantity of raw milk sources," Mengniu Chief Executive Sun Yiping said. Read More »
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THE NEA BRIDGE by Phillip Alder
James Carville, a political commentator, said, "The best time to plant an oak tree was 25 years ago. The second best time is today."
In yesterday's deal, East used the bidding and early play to place the missing high cards and to work out the best defense against four hearts.
Here is a second deal along the same lines. South is in four hearts. West leads the spade queen. South wins with his ace and plays a trump to dummy's queen. What should East do?
South rebid three no-trump because North might have raised hearts with only three-card support if he had a minimum opening bid with, for example, 1-3-5-4 distribution. Here, though, North corrected to the heart game because he had two unstopped suits and four strong hearts.
East should wonder which four tricks his side might win. Since West's opening lead marks South with the spade ace and king, there are no spade winners available. East has one heart trick. There are no diamond winners, because even if South is missing the king, the finesse is working. So the defenders need three club tricks, or two clubs and a club ruff.
This should make East's path clear. He must win with his heart ace and shift to the club five.
Now the spotlight falls on South. If he rises with his club king, he will make the contract (with an overtrick if he draws trumps, cashes his spade and diamond winners, and endplays West with his club queen). But if South finesses his jack, West wins with his queen, returns the club two and receives a club ruff for down one.
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