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Could you post a picture... I am thinking of doing the same - a picture may well tip the balance.
I hope this is a before and after picture of my recent 7" conversion. I'm a little shakey on the tools.........LeonardWell, there is obvisouly something I don't understand about inserting a picture........Leonard
is it easy to do??
Non-sealed beams have a separate headlight assembly that takes a little bulb in the back of the reflector. Sealed beams are one big bulb; reflector, lens and all. I've heard that the non-sealed beams are more prone to failure due to vibration; don't know if it's true. I installed a 7" sealed-beam Wagner, and the difference is astounding; like I'd been riding around with a flashlight taped to my handlebars. I work a 3rd shift, so light's real important to me.As Robb said, it looks way better than the goofy stock lamp, too.
Emmet, I love those panniers. I wish I could get those in the UK!Tom
It's OK - I've found them..... in our hosts' accessories section!
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Engkoo is a linguistic technology stack that leverages the cloud, born from over a decade of cutting-edge natural language processing research, powering various Microsoft products and features.
Engkoo is developed in China and so the focus initially has been on providing technology for linguistic tasks relevant to the Chinese market, such as Chinese-English dictionary, machine translation, language learning, and now, input and writing assistance.
Engkoo Pinyin is an Input Method Editor (IME) that uniquely leverages the power of the cloud to help people input what is on their mind: it could be Chinese, English, a mix of both, and beyond just text, such as images, videos, and maps.
At a system level, Engkoo supports a multitude of NLP and Speech technologies such as cross language retrieval, alignment, sentence classification, statistical machine translation, text-to-speech, and phonetic search. The data set that supports this system is primarily built from mining a massive set of bilingual terms and sentences from across the web. Specifically, web pages that contain both Chinese and English are discovered and analyzed for parallelism, extracted and formulated into clear term definitions and sample sentences. This approach allows us to build the world's largest lexicon linking both Chinese and English together - at the same time covering the most up-to-date terms as captured by the net. In addition, our data set is intelligently merged with licensed data from sources including Microsoft Office and Encarta. Finally, the resulting vast, ranked, high quality composite data set is analyzed by a machine learning based classifier, allowing users to filter down sample sentences by combinable categories.
Demo Videos
- Keynote Demo: Engkoo Pinyin Cloud-Based Multimodal IME, 21st Century Computing Conference in Tianjin, China, Oct. 2012
- Computer-Assisted Audiovisual Language Learning, ieeeComputerSociety, May 23, 2012
- Engkoo: English Learning Vertical Search from Bing and MS Research, Channel9, April 2010
Microsoft Product Impact
- Microsoft Research Annual Featured Technology Transfers: 2010, 2011, 2012
- Bing: new Dictionary Vertical Search (phone, tablet and desktop versions, China Market). Bing Search Box Pinyin IME Auto Suggest (China Market), New Client Product Bing IME (China Market)
- MSN: Portal, 3G Mobile, and Messenger Dictionary / Translation (China Market)
- Office: Bing Dictionary (English) for Office 2013, Bing English Assistance in Office 2013 (built-in for Chinese users, but also downloadable as separate app)
- Microsoft Research Asia Team Collaboration Award, 2013
- Microsoft Research Asia Deployed Best Research Project of the Year Awards, 2009, 2011, 2012
- Bing Dictionary (Engkoo) won the "Most Trustworthy Product of 2011" award, China Internet Industry Annual Meeting, Jan. 2012
- Bing Dictionary (Engkoo) won the "2011 top apps" award from Baidu, ranked #5 of thousands
- The Engkoo project won the Wall Street Journal's 2010 Asian Innovation Readers' Choice Award
- The Text-to-Speech (TTS) used in Engkoo was rated as the best in intelligibility in the international TTS contest, Blizzard Challenge 2010, in both English and Chinese
- The Machine Translation (MT) was the top Chinese-English quality ranking in the 2008 National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Open MT evaluation series
Selected Press
Engkoo Pinyin Redefines Chinese Input, Microsoft Research Feature Story, May 13, 2013
The Story of Microsoft Engkoo Pinyin (in Chinese), Sina Technology, Jan. 25, 2013
- New Oriental School and Microsoft Collaboration on Bing Dictionary (in Chinese), ChinaByte, Jan. 11, 2013
- Big Data Just Ten Years Away (in Chinese), Sept. 26, 2012
- Review On Cloud Input 2.0: Engkoo Pinyin IME Beta, An IME That Understands YOU (in Chinese), Chip Magazine, Sept. 2012
- Engkoo featured in China's CCTV-2 Global Connection piece on Microsoft Asia innovation, December 13, 2011 (Chinese)
- Microsoft Uses Karaoke Feature on China's Bing Dictionary, PC World, January 24, 2011
- The Wall Street Journal's Asian Innovation Award Winners, Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2010
- Engkoo a 'Top Innovation' in Asia, Futures, October 20, 2010
- Microsoft Bing Partners With Alibaba's Taobao Search Engine, PC World, October 13, 2010
- Software Aids Language Learners, Microsoft Research News, September 27, 2010
- Microsoft Engkoo, Intelligent English to Chinese Translator, Softpedia, August 31, 2010
- Microsoft Engkoo Helps Teach English to Chinese Internet Users, Microsoft News Center, August 26, 2010
- Microsoft's Engkoo Scans the Web to Teach Itself How to Teach You Languages, Popular Science, August 4, 2010
- Microsoft's Experimental English-Chinese Dictionary Mines the Web for Data, Engadget, August 4, 2010
- Microsoft Mines Web to Hone Language Tool, Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2010
- Companies Compete for 2010 Prizes for Technological Advances in Asia, Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2010
- Replacing Google's Dictionary with Engkoo Learning Tools (English Translation), PC Pop, March 30, 2010
- How Cool is Engkoo? (English Translation), ZOL, January 8, 2010
- Microsoft Applications from China Mine the Web, Computer World, April 20, 2009
- Microsoft Teaches English Writing (English Translation), Sina, February 19, 2009
Related Publications
M. R. Scott, X. Liu, M. Zhou. Towards a Specialized Search Engine for Language Learners. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol.99, No.9, pp.1462-1465, Sept. 2011
D. Ding, X. Jiang, M. R. Scott, M. Zhou. Tulsa: Web Search for Writing Assistance. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. SIGIR 2011
- Matthew R. Scott, Xiaohua Liu, Ming Zhou. Microsoft Engkoo Team. Engkoo: Mining the Web for Language Learning. ACL 2011
- Y. Zhang, Z. J. Yan, F. K. Soong. Cross-validation based Decision Tree Clustering for HMM-based TTS. ICASSP 2010
- Q. Zhang, F. K. Soong, Y. Qian, Z. Yan, J. Pan and Y. Yan. Improved Modeling for F0 Generation and V/U Decision in HMM-based TTS. ICASSP 2010
- Z.J. Yan, Y. Qian, F. K. Soong. Rich Context Unit Selection (RUS) Approach to High Quality TTS. ICASSP 2010
- L. Jiang, S. Yang, M. Zhou, X. Liu and Q. Zhu. Mining Bilingual Data from the Web with Adaptively Learnt Patterns. ACL 2009
- G. Jiang, C. Zhao, M. R. Scott and F. Zou. Combinable Tabs: An Interactive Method of Information Comparison using a Combinable Tabbed Document Interface. Interact 2009
- M. Li, N. Duan, D. Zhang, C. Li, M. Zhou. Collaborative Decoding: Partial Hypothesis Re-ranking Using Translation Consensus between Decoders. ACL 2009
- Y. Qian, F.K Soong. A Multi-space Distribution (MSD) and Two-stream Tone Modeling Approach to Mandarin Speech Cognition. Speech Communication, Volume 51, Issue 12, Pages 1169-1179, 2009
- Y. Qian, L. Hui, F.K. Soong. A Cross-Language State Sharing and Mapping Approach to Bilingual (Mandarin–English) TTS. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, VOL. 17, NO. 6, pp.1231-1239, 2009
- D. Zhang, M. Li, N. Duan, C. Li, M. Zhou. Measure Word Generation for English-Chinese SMT Systems. ACL 2008
- C. Li, X. He, Y. Liu, N. Xi, Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination. Accepted by ACL 2008
- W. Gao, C. Niu, M. Zhou, K. Wong: Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search. ECIR 2009: 114-125
- G. Sun, G. Cong, X. Liu, C. Lin, M. Zhou: Mining Sequential Patterns and Tree Patterns to Detect Erroneous Sentences. AAAI 2007: 925-930
- C. Li, M. Li, D. Zhang, M. Li, M. Zhou, Y. Guan: A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL 2007
- G. Sun, X. Liu, G. Cong, M. Zhou, Z. Xiong, J. Lee, C. Lin: Detecting Erroneous Sentences using Automatically Mined Sequential Patterns. ACL 2007
- J. Lee, M. Zhou, X. Liu: Detection of Non-Native Sentences Using Machine-Translated Training Data. HLT-NAACL (Short Papers) 2007: 93-96
- L. Jiang, M. Zhou, L. Chien, C. Niu: Named Entity Translation with Web Mining and Transliteration. IJCAI 2007: 1629-1634
- S. Zhao, M. Zhou, T. Liu: Learning Question Paraphrases for QA from Encarta Logs. IJCAI 2007: 1795-1801
- J. Huang, M. Zhou, D. Yang: Extracting Chatbot Knowledge from Online Discussion Forums. IJCAI 2007: 423-428
- W. Gao, C. Niu, J. Nie, M. Zhou, J. Hu, K. Wong, H. Hon: Cross-lingual query suggestion using query logs of different languages. SIGIR 2007: 463-470
Related Projects
World Expo 2010 Shanghai - 'Chinglish' Data Collection/Correction
- Matthew R. Scott, Xiaohua Liu, and Ming Zhou, Towards a Specialized Search Engine for Language Learners, in Proceedings of the IEEE, Proceedings of the IEEE, September 2011.
Try It!
- Engkoo Pinyin IME
- Bing Dictionary Online
- Bing Dictionary (English) for Office 2013
- Bing English Assistance in Office 2013 (built-in for Chinese users, but also downloadable as separate app)
- Windows 8 Store App
- Windows Phone App
- Windows Desktop App
- Windows Gadget
- Windows Live Messenger China

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A controversial new book fingers video games, television, and digital communications as culprits in the author's indictment of modern youth culture.
The book is The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) by Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein. Canada.com has a lengthy interview with the author:
Something insidious is happening inside their heads. Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.
What then, Canada.com asks, does Bauerlein make of the widespread involvement of young people in the Barack Obama campaign?
…if it turns out that we have 75 per cent of young people voting in this election, then I will be happy to say that my comments about civic apathy were wrong. But if inspiration proves to be their only motive and their participation falls in later elections when an Obama is absent, then my initial suspicion will be correct. We need a diligent citizenry, and not merely a momentarily inspired one.
The book's description on Amazon says, in part:
The Internet, e-mail, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children… we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era.
That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn't happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map…


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Well this challenge really intrigued me and I decided I would try my hand at it.
The idea behind it is that the poor souls who have been judged to spend the rest of eternity in torment arrive through a portal (not yet depicted) in the southwest section of the land mass. once they enter they are immediately met with the smell of sulfur and boiling blood, intense heat, and hideous demons as far as the eye can see who are wielding whips and various jagged and unsanitary devices. These demons herd the poor unfortunates toward the center of the land where they will face yet another judgement. Where in Hell do we put you? There are different levels of evil deeds one can commit in their lifetime so there are different levels of torture you will face for the rest of eternity. after what seems like years of being whipped and chopped and slashed and pulled out of line to let a group of demons have their way with you, you arrive at the base of a giant volcano. this volcano doesn't spew molten lava, Oh no, after you are judged you are forced to enter where your soul is ripped to pieces and mixed with all the pieces of souls from every other miscreant that committed evil in their lifetime. after stewing in this filth for years you are reassembled and you flow down the side of the mountain into your place of torture for the rest of eternity where you are plucked out of the rivers by demons with giant meat hooks. The volcano (i've yet to come up with a nice name for it yet) supplies a steady flow of hot blood to the four rivers that empty into the crimson red ocean. The land itself spins slowly counter clockwise keeping the blood ocean from scabbing over.
Now that i've thoroughly scared myself heres what i plan to do next. i plan on finishing the mountains, labeling the areas, and adding some depictions of the demons and what not in the corners as well as some flavor text in the space between the circular border.


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New Sign Marks GRRL~Upsala - complete with QR code!
Friends of the Upsala Public Library, together with Sytek Communications, hung new building signs for Great River Regional Library (GRRL) - Upsala on Dec. 8, 2011. Graphic designer Bernadette Stephenson from GRRL's communications and fund development department designed the signage including a QR code on the street level sign. The code is intended to aid patrons in their search for library resources. Patrons with smart phones can scan the QR code and connect to GRRL's website.
"Painting the signs was an interesting job," commented Diane Rohde, Sytek customer care team leader. She worked with Upsala branch manager Wanda Erickson to choose the correct colors matching GRRL's logo and the layout and design elements. Rohde also created new signs for the Upsala Cooperative Telephone Association that were hung the same day.


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For the most current version of this Note, see Background Notes A-Z.
Republic of Paraguay
Area: 406,752 sq. km. (157,047 sq. mi.); about the size of California.
Cities: Capital--Asuncion (pop. 539,000). Other cities--Ciudad del Este, Concepci�n, Encarnaci�n, Pedro Juan Caballero, Coronel Oviedo.
Terrain: East of the Paraguay River--grassy plains, wooded hills, tropical forests; west of the Paraguay River (Chaco region)--low, flat, marshy plain.
Climate: Temperate east of the Paraguay River, semiarid to the west.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Paraguayan(s).
Population (2004 est.): 6,191,368.
Annual population growth rate: 2.3% (projected 1999-2015, UNDP).
Ethnic groups: Mixed Spanish and Indian descent (mestizo) 95%.
Religions: Roman Catholic 90%; Mennonite and other Protestant denominations.
Languages: Spanish (language of business and government), Guarani (spoken and understood by 90% of the population).
Education: Years compulsory--9. Attendance--92%. Literacy--94%. (UNICEF)
Health: Infant mortality rate--27/1,000. Life expectancy--72 years male; 77 years female.
Work force (2002, 2.5 million): Agriculture--45%; industry and commerce--31%; services--19%; government--4%.
Type: Constitutional Republic.
Independence: May 1811.
Constitution: June 1992.
Branches: Executive--President. Legislative--Senate and Chamber of Deputies. Judicial--Supreme Court of Justice.
Administrative subdivisions: 17 departments, 1 capital city.
Political parties: National Republican Association/Colorado Party (ANR), Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), Beloved Fatherland (PQ), National Union of Ethical Citizens (UNACE), National Encounter Party (PEN), The Country in Solidarity Party (PPS), and numerous small parties not represented in Congress.
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory by law up to age 75.
Economy (2004 Central Bank data)
GDP: $7.98 billion.
Annual growth rate (2004): 3.9%.
Per capita GDP: $1,173.
Natural resources: Hydroelectric sites, forests.
Agriculture (24.1% of GDP): Products--soybeans, cotton, beef, cereals, sugarcane.
Arable land: 9 million hectares, of which 30% is in production.
Manufacturing (14.5% of GDP): Types--sugar, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products.
Trade (2004): Exports--$1.62 billion: soybeans, soybean flour, cotton, meat, wood, animal hides, vegetable oil, tobacco, and sugar. Major markets--Uruguay (27.75%), Brazil (19.22%). Imports--$2.65 billion: fuels and lubricants, machinery, electric materials, transportation and accessories, industrial chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and manufactures, paper and manufactures. Major suppliers--Brazil (30.97%), Argentina (23.38%).
Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly throughout the country. The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within 160 kilometers (100 mi.) of Asuncion, the capital and largest city. The Chaco, which accounts for about 60% of the territory, is home to less than 2% of the population. Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America. About 95% of the people are of mixed Spanish and Guarani Indian descent. Little trace is left of the original Guarani culture except the language, which is understood by 90% of the population. About 75% of all Paraguayans speak Spanish. Guarani and Spanish are official languages. Brazilians, Argentines, Germans, Arabs, Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese are among those who have settled in Paraguay with Brazilians representing the largest number.
Pre-Columbian civilization in the fertile, wooded region that is now Paraguay consisted of numerous seminomadic, Guarani-speaking tribes, who were recognized for their fierce warrior traditions. They practiced a mythical polytheistic religion, which later blended with Christianity. Spanish explorer Juan de Salazar founded Asuncion on the Feast Day of the Assumption, August 15, 1537. The city eventually became the center of a Spanish colonial province. Paraguay declared its independence by overthrowing the local Spanish authorities in May 1811.
The country's formative years saw three strong leaders who established the tradition of personal rule that lasted until 1989: Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, Carlos Antonio Lopez, and his son, Francisco Solano Lopez. The younger Lopez waged a war against Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil (War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-70) in which Paraguay lost half its population; afterward, Brazilian troops occupied the country until 1874. A succession of presidents governed Paraguay under the banner of the Colorado Party from 1880 until 1904, when the Liberal party seized control, ruling with only a brief interruption until 1940.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Paraguayan politics were defined by the Chaco war against Bolivia, a civil war, dictatorships, and periods of extreme political instability. Gen. Alfredo Stroessner took power in May 1954. Elected to complete the unexpired term of his predecessor, he was re-elected president seven times, ruling almost continuously under the state-of-siege provision of the constitution with support from the military and the Colorado Party. During Stroessner's 35-year reign, political freedoms were severely limited, and opponents of the regime were systematically harassed and persecuted in the name of national security and anticommunism. Though a 1967 constitution gave dubious legitimacy to Stroessner's control, Paraguay became progressively isolated from the world community.
On February 3, 1989, Stroessner was overthrown in a military coup headed by Gen. Andres Rodriguez. Rodriguez, as the Colorado Party candidate, easily won the presidency in elections held that May, and the Colorado Party dominated the Congress. In 1991 municipal elections, however, opposition candidates won several major urban centers, including Asuncion. As president, Rodriguez instituted political, legal, and economic reforms and initiated a rapprochement with the international community.
The June 1992 constitution established a democratic system of government and dramatically improved protection of fundamental rights. In May 1993, Colorado Party candidate Juan Carlos Wasmosy was elected as Paraguay's first civilian president in almost 40 years in what international observers deemed fair and free elections. The newly elected majority-opposition Congress quickly demonstrated its independence from the executive by rescinding legislation passed by the previous Colorado-dominated Congress. With support from the United States, the Organization of American States, and other countries in the region, the Paraguayan people rejected an April 1996 attempt by then-Army Chief Gen. Lino Oviedo to oust President Wasmosy, taking an important step to strengthen democracy.
Oviedo became the Colorado candidate for president in the 1998 election, but when the Supreme Court upheld in April his conviction on charges related to the 1996 coup attempt, he was not allowed to run and remained in confinement. His running mate, Raul Cubas Grau, became the Colorado Party's candidate and was elected in May. The assassination of Vice-President Luis Maria Argana and the killing of eight student anti-government demonstrators, allegedly carried out by Oviedo supporters, led to Cubas' resignation in March 1999. The President of the Senate, Luis Gonzalez Macchi, assumed the presidency and completed Cubas' term. Gonzalez Macchi offered cabinet positions in his government to senior representatives of all three political parties in an attempt to create a coalition government that proved short-lived. Gonzalez Macchi's government suffered many allegations of corruption, and Gonzalez himself was found not guilty in a Senate impeachment trial involving corruption and mismanagement charges in February 2003.
In April 2003, Colorado candidate Nicanor Duarte Frutos was elected president. He was inaugurated on August 15. Duarte's administration has focused upon attacking corruption and improving the quality of management, in the wake of the Gonzalez administration, widely considered the most corrupt in the post-Stroessner era. Duarte has been successful at working constructively with an opposition-controlled Congress, and in his first year of office, six Supreme Court justices suspected of corruption were removed from office, and major tax reforms were enacted. Macroeconomic performance has improved significantly under the Duarte administration, with inflation falling significantly, and the government clearing its arrears with international creditors. Unemployment remains stubbornly high and the living standard of most households has not improved. The administration has placed a strong emphasis on participating in international institutions and has used diplomacy to promote the opening of international markets to Paraguayan products. In June 2004, Oviedo returned to Paraguay from exile in Brazil and was imprisoned for his 1996 coup-plotting conviction.
Paraguay's highly centralized government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which provides for a division of powers. The president, popularly elected for a 5-year term, appoints a cabinet. The bicameral Congress consists of an 80-member Chamber of Deputies and a 45-member Senate, elected concurrently with the president through a proportional representation system. Deputies are elected by department and senators are elected nationwide. Paraguay's highest judicial body is the Supreme Court. A popularly elected governor heads each of Paraguay's 17 departments.
Principal Government Officials
President--Nicanor Duarte Frutos
Vice-President--Luis Castiglioni Soria
Minister of Foreign Affairs--Leila Rachid de Cowles
Ambassador to the U.S.--James Spalding Hellmers
Ambassador to the OAS--Manuel Maria Caceres
Ambassador to the UN--Eladio Loizaga Caballero
Paraguay maintains an embassy in the United States at 2400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel. 202-483-6960). Consulates are in Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.
Paraguay has a predominantly agricultural economy, with a struggling commercial sector. There is a large subsistence sector, including sizable urban unemployment and underemployment, and a large underground re-export sector. The country has vast hydroelectric resources, including the world's largest hydroelectric generation facility built and operated jointly with Brazil (Itaip� Dam), but it lacks significant mineral or petroleum resources. The government welcomes foreign investment in principle and accords national treatment to foreign investors, but widespread corruption is a deterrent. The economy is dependent on exports of soybeans, cotton, grains, cattle, timber, and sugar; electricity generation, and to a decreasing degree on re-exporting to Brazil and Argentina products made elsewhere. It is, therefore, vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and to the fortunes of the Argentine and Brazilian economies.
According to Paraguayan Central Bank (BCP) data, Paraguay's real GDP in 2004 of $7.98 billion (in 1994 dollars) represented an increase of 3.9% from 2003. Data with the new base year was released in 2005. IMF data using the prior base year of 1982 shows real GDP growth of 2.9% in 2004. The per capita GDP rose to $1,173 in current U.S. dollar terms in 2004, but has fallen by more than a third since the peak of $1,793 in 1996. Given the importance of the informal sector, accurate economic measures are difficult to obtain. Paraguay presently maintains a balance-of-payments surplus. It runs a deficit in the trade of goods, but a large surplus in services, reflecting large exports of electricity from Paraguay's two large hydroelectric dams shared with Brazil and Argentina. In 2004, official foreign exchange reserves rose to $1.17 billion, an increase of $184.2 million over 2003, and an increase of almost 50% from 2002 ($582.8 million). Foreign official debt rose slightly to $2.35 billion. Inflation in 2004 dropped to 2.8%, down from 9.3% in 2003 and the lowest rate since 1970.
Agriculture and Commerce
Agricultural activities, most of which are for export, represent about 21.1% of GDP. More than 200,000 families depend on subsistence farming activities and maintain marginal ties to the larger productive sector of the economy. The commercial sector is primarily engaged in the import of goods from Asia and the United States for re-export to neighboring countries. The recorded activities of this sector have declined significantly in recent years, placing a strain on government finances, which depend heavily on taxes on this trade. In general, Paraguayans prefer imported goods, and local industry relies on imported capital goods. The underground economy, which is not included in the national accounts, may equal the formal economy in size. The bulk of underground activity centers on the unregistered sale of imported goods--including computers, sound equipment, cameras, liquor, and cigarettes--to Argentina and Brazil.
The constitution designates the president as commander in chief of the armed forces. Military service is compulsory, and all 18-year-old males--and 17 year olds in the year of their 18th birthday--are eligible to serve for one year on active duty. However, the 1992 constitution allows for conscientious objection. Of the three services, the army has the majority of personnel, resources, and influence. With about 7,000 personnel, it is organized into three corps, with six infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions. The military has two primary functions: national defense (including internal order) and engaging in civic action programs as directed by the president. The navy consists of approximately 2,000 personnel and in addition to its fleet, has an aviation section, a prefecture (river police), and a contingent of marines (naval infantry). The air force, the newest and smallest of the services, has approximately 1,200 personnel.
Paraguay is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies. It also belongs to the Organization of American States, the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), the Rio Group, INTERPOL, and MERCOSUR (the Southern Cone Common Market). Paraguay is closely aligned with its MERCOSUR partners on many political, economic, and social issues.
U.S. Interests in Paraguay
The United States and Paraguay have an extensive relationship at the government, business, and personal level. Paraguay is a partner in hemispheric initiatives to improve counternarcotics cooperation, combat money laundering, trafficking in persons, and other illicit cross-border activities, and adequately protect intellectual property rights. The United States looks to Paraguay, which has substantial rainforest and riverine resources, to engage in hemispheric efforts to ensure sustainable development. In early 2005, Paraguay was deemed eligible to participate in the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) Threshold Country Program (TCP), which helps countries improve their governance, levels of investment in their citizens, and economic freedom, so they can qualify for the MCC's principal program. Paraguay has submitted a formal TCP proposal. The United States and Paraguay also cooperate in a variety of international organizations.
Paraguay has taken significant steps to combat terrorism-financing activity in the tri-border area it shares with Argentina and Brazil. It participates in antiterrorism programs and fora, including the Three Plus One process, with its neighbors and the United States.
The United States strongly supports consolidation of Paraguay's democracy and continued economic reform, the cornerstones of cooperation among countries in the hemisphere. The United States has played important roles in defending Paraguay's democratic institutions, in helping resolve the April 1996 crisis, and in ensuring that the March 1999 change of government took place without further bloodshed.
Bilateral trade with the United States has increased over the last three years, after a steady decline over several years due to a long-term recession of the Paraguayan economy. Although U.S. imports from Paraguay were only $58.6 million in 2004, up from $53.3 million the previous year, U.S. exports to Paraguay in 2004 were $622.9 million, up from $483.6 million in 2003, according to U.S. Customs data. (Not all exports and imports are reflected in Paraguayan government data.) More than a dozen U.S. multinational firms have subsidiaries in Paraguay. These include firms in the computer, agro-industrial, telecom, banking, and other service industries. Some 75 U.S. businesses have agents or representatives in Paraguay, and more than 3,000 U.S. citizens reside in the country.
U.S. Assistance
The U.S. Government has assisted Paraguayan development since 1942. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) currently supports a variety of programs to strengthen Paraguay's democratic institutions in the areas of civil society, local government and decentralization, national reform of the state, rule-of-law, and anti-corruption. Other important areas of intervention are economic growth, the environment and public health. The total amount of the program is approximately $8 million in fiscal year 2005.
The U.S. Department of State, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury provide technical assistance, equipment, and training to strengthen counter narcotics enforcement, combat trafficking in persons, promote respect for intellectual property rights, and to assist in the development and implementation of money laundering legislation and counter terrorism legislation.
- On December 19, 2003, U.S. and Paraguayan officials signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the legal protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in Paraguay.
- Since 2003 the U.S. Government has a Resident Enforcement Advisor and Resident Justice Advisor in Paraguay working on money laundering and terrorist financing and other financial crimes, the fight against organized crime and corruption, and the administrative reorganization of the financial institutions related to money and products laundering.
- In 2005, the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) provided Paraguay with $600,000 in assistance to support its efforts to combat narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and violations of intellectual property rights.
- Starting in 2004, a Resident Public Debt Advisor, a Resident Budget Advisor, and a Resident Tax Advisor from the Department of Treasury have been working with Paraguayan counterparts to implement essential reforms.
The U.S. Department of Defense provides technical assistance and training to help modernize, professionalize, and democratize the military.
The Peace Corps has about 160 volunteers working throughout Paraguay on projects ranging from agriculture and natural resources to education, rural health, and urban youth development.
The Office of Public Diplomacy also is active in Paraguay, providing information on the United States to the press and public, as well as helping to arrange educational and citizen exchanges to promote democracy.
Principal U.S. Officials
Ambassador--John F. Keane
Deputy Chief of Mission--Kevin M. Johnson
Political Officer--James P. Merz
Economic/Commercial Officer--Patrick R. O'Reilly
Consul--Sharon Weber
Management Officer--Graham Webster
USAID Director--Wayne Nilsestuen
Public Affairs Officer--Bruce Kleiner
Defense Attache--LTC Dennis Fiemeyer
Office of Defense Cooperation--COL Arie Bogaard
The U.S. Embassy in Paraguay is located at 1776 Avenida Mariscal Lopez, Asuncion (tel. (595) (21) 213-715, fax (595) (21) 213-728). The embassy's home page address on the World Wide Web is: http://paraguay.usembassy.gov/
Other Contact Information
U.S. Department of Commerce
International Trade Administration
Office of Latin America and the Caribbean
14th and Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20230
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PADEN CITY - Heading into the 2012-13 season, Paden City boys' Fred King wanted to get back to an aggressive, hard-nosed type of play that he referred to as ''Wildcats'' basketball.
Friday night his young, but experienced unit did just that and it paid off with a second victory in as many outings.
Sophomore standout Kennedy Cain had game highs of 25 points and eight rebounds while classmate Zach Heasley added 14 points as Paden City built an eight-point halftime lead and pulled away with a big second half to post a 60-33 victory against rival Valley in the first night of the Bob and Sharon Burton Christmas Classic.
King's crew will be looking for three in a row tonight when they take on a much improved Tyler Consolidated (2-2) team in the tournament's championship game, which will follow the consolation game between the Lumberjacks (0-2) and Hundred (0-2). The Silver Knights blasted the Hornets by a 64-32 margin in Friday's first game.
Cain and Heasley got the Wildcats off on the right foot, combining for 14 first-quarter points as they grabbed a 17-14 advantage. Coach John Kocher's Jacks managed to stick around following a second quarter in which neither team managed to get much going and Paden City settled for a 29-21 edge at the break.
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For riding I've been listening to lots of new deep house tracks. Got a few DJ gigs coming up and I find it a great way to get to know new material because everything plays all the way through uninterrupted.
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I have a chance to see Hank III within a week up here in NorCal. Still on the fence about it as I'm not much of a country guy, although I do enjoy listening to old Hank I, Merle Haggard and "My hair isn't long enough to cover up my redneck" if I'm out at the bar.
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I saw Hank a few yrs back. He put on a good show. I like old (real) country, and he sounds just like his grandpa.
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cycling is like baseball ~ it doesn't take much to make it interesting
Yes, although not all that often. I am required to know a lot of pop music for some gigs.
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The music that goes on in my head is pretty much non-stop. I can go for many days without listening to anything. Of course, since I practice every day, I suppose I am listening to that.
The last time I drove from CA to NY I didn't bother to turn on the radio.
What instrument(s) do you play, Grumpy?
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And just in case anybody is concerned, all the LP's posted are deleted or out of print so rest easy that I'm not stealing anybody's meal ticket.
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Have you run into Doug Furlong at the boat dock or fishing banks? Since February, he has been one of our park rangers at Rifle Gap State Park Complex. Doug's home town is Prescott, Ariz., but he now calls Rifle Gap home. Doug loves hunting and fishing and the outdoors. He grew up in a small town and does not like the hustle and bustle of the larger cities. He finds Rifle has the perfect small town feel and atmosphere.Doug told me the best part of his job is he works where people pay to vacation. It is never the same work day, with different tasks at hand, along with different people always coming and going. Some of the really fun parts of his job are being in a boat, riding snowmobiles and ATVs. He also knows where some of the best fishing is and what they are biting on. Sounds like a pretty good job to me.Doug tells me his funniest story is from his previous ranger position at Chatfield State Park in Littleton. "One fall day, I was stopped by a woman while out on patrol," he wrote. "She wanted to let me know that one of the horses was out from the stables. This was not anything out of the norm and I really didn't think much of it. I asked the woman to take me to the horse. I followed her in my vehicle and she pointed to the animal grazing in the grass. I stopped, looked, and with the best straight face as I could, explained to the woman that she was not looking at a horse but a cow elk! As she drove away, I noticed the California license plates." Doug's best piece of advice, if you are heading to Rifle Falls State Park, is make sure to bring a flashlight. There are a few caves you can explore while hiking around the falls. One of the caves goes back far enough to block out all sunlight. Doug likes to go all the way back with a light, then turn all lights off and use his other senses to find his way out. Doug thinks this is really fun and challenging, but he advises to try not to bump your head on the rocks above.On a side note, when I have a small group of kids on a school field trip, I bring the kids into this cave Doug was talking about. And we do turn off the lights, as long as every kid is good with this. We experience total darkness. The only difference is we turn our flashlights back on to climb out of the cave.If you are up at Rifle Falls on a Saturday, stop me or a ranger and ask which cave we are talking about. I will give you spot-on directions. Just bring your flashlight, like Doug suggested. Come on out and "chat up" a ranger.Become a skull detectiveJoin our special guest, Colorado Parks and Wildlife District Wildlife Manager Brian Gray, as he explores the adaptations animals make to live in their environment at our Skulls and Adaptations program at the Rifle Falls' Mountain Mist Amphitheatre on Saturday, June 30 at 7 p.m.Is the animal a carnivore, a herbivore or an omnivore? Skulls give clues about how the animal is adapted for survival in its environment. Many interesting and unusual relationships between animals are revealed by their skulls. You can also learn about predator and prey species. This interactive program includes skulls of various mammals found in Colorado. Brian worked for the Colorado Division of Wildlife for 19 years. He said the best part of his job is fisheries management. Brian recommends a hike up East Elk Creek or Main Elk Creek as things to put on your radar. Come on out and have some fun using your detective skills to identify skulls of various mammals found in Colorado. Rifle Gap, Rifle Falls and Harvey Gap are managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, created with the merger of Colorado State Parks and Division of Wildlife. The agency manages 42 state parks, all of Colorado's wildlife, more than 300 state wildlife areas and a host of recreational programs. For more, go online to www.parks.state.co.us and http://wildlife.state.co.us.- Terry Wise is the summer season park naturalist and volunteer coordinator for the Rifle Gap State Park Complex. Reach her at 625-1607.
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- Ana Ivanovic on her second consecutive loss to Zheng Jie in Beijing
You probably "should have been more aggressive"? You didn't realize you were "running a lot"?? Seriously???
Oh Ana - get a grip.
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Maybe she didnt realize it was a "tennis" game too? : )
I like Ana, until later find out that she is the type player with no "plan b" in strategies.
Thats why I miss Justin Henin, she try so many different things on court.
You know who I miss? Chrissie and Martina. Nobody worked harder to beat the other's, and their opponents, brains out.
Ana, grow a pair, will you?
uvijek: I'm with you on both points. She really seems like a sweet girl but sweet ain't gonna cut it on-court. She says she can be really nice off and a tigress on, but she's yet to show that fire even against ballers OUTSIDE the top 100 (Coin ring a bell?) Justine was in a class all by herself - a bit too standoffish for my taste but an incredible strategist with amazing groundies.
natch: ...and could still be friendly towards each other and the other lady ballers on tour. what a different time.
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I was talking to a coworker this week (ISU grad) and asked him what he thought of the new FB coach. His response shocked me.
"I've never heard of him. I'm kinda dissapointed that we grabbed the first guy that showed interest in the job."
I know that Coach Rhoads has gotten pretty good reviews around here, but does the rest of the Cyclone Nation feel the same way?
Has anyone else heard any similar comments from those who may be a bit less informed?
No not really, everyone who I've talked to are excited and think its a good hire.
Your coworker probably watches Sex in the City and wears an apron when he cooks tofu fajitas.
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I was talking to a coworker this week (ISU grad) and asked him what he thought of the new FB coach. His response shocked me.
Tell your coworker he is a moroon and that he should do his homework.
Ya he is pumped to be here and loves ISU I hope he can get it done
Judging by the staff he is putting together, I am honestly thinking he will be better for us than chiz would of.
Yea I'm excited about Rhoads being here. I'm just sick of people who don't think he should be the one and that Pollard should be fired.
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Your coworker probably watches Sex in the City and wears an apron when he cooks tofu fajitas.
This MAY be the funniest thing that I have ever heard.
Now that MBB is back, do we still have to pretend that WBB matters?
The general public just doesn't know that much about him. I remember the same thing going on with Ferenz. Actually probably more dissappointment as most Hawks thought Stoops should be the coach and they were wondering who the heck is this Ferenz guy?
All that matters to me is what professionals in that field think(and from what I've heard it's almost universally been postive from the coaching ranks) and my impression of the guy and I like what I've been hearing so far..
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Some feel that way. Do your own homework and make up your own mind and tell other to do the same. From day 1 I thought he was a guy to go after, his name came up 2 years ago and I have kept an eye on him. He isnt the flashy hire, not the guy to go out and say look at me when he was an asst, he hasnt coached at a true FB power, but he is the guy that does a good job quitely and doesnt want a big deal made when he does a good job. IMO he has a solid resume and putting together a good staff. He has also reached out to Iowa HS coaches more than Chizik every did, has reached out to the fans more than Chizik, and reached out to the local media in ways Chizik would never do. When he talks there isnt that voice in your head always wondering about what he is saying.
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I know a few people that are disappointed because we didn't hire someone with head coaching experience. They seem to think that we're headed down the same road as w/ Mac and Chizik, as in having to learn on the job.
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Judging by the staff he is putting together, I am honestly thinking he will be better for us than chiz would of.
I have to admit that I was not enamored by the hire of PR, although I wasn't a huge fan of a lot of the options this time around. But, I like what I'm seeing so far as Rhoads assembles his staff and suspect we will be just fine. It will be interesting to see who is hired as defensive coordinator.
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I don't really care what anyone thinks of him. All I care about is Winning!!!!
I can't wait for his DC to board a northwest bound plane Friday morning.
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the problem may be his name is hard to spell.
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - United States Soccer president Sunil Gulati
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This has been a constant issue for the Asian/Asian-American community in the Entertainment Industry. As Wong Fu Productions points out, the movie 21 took a real-life story about Asian MIT students, but casted only two Asian actors. Cloud Atlas took non-Asian actors and thought make-up would be enough to pass them off as Asian (because apparently the more appropriate decision of just casting Asian actors was impossible for them). A number of Asian films are remade to be "more fit for an American audience". The main difference? Casting Caucasian actors instead of Asian actors.
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The North Central College Women's Chorale travels to Ireland June 12-19 on second tour abroad, along with music faculty and Chorale alumnae.
Some 36 members of the North Central College Women's Chorale embarked on the ensemble's second trip abroad, to Ireland, June 12-19. The women traveled to Dublin, Galway, Killarney and Bray and gave performances in historic cathedrals like St. Patrick's in Dublin and enjoyed seeing the spectacular Cliffs of Moher, Aran Islands and the Ring of Kerry.
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i've finally got this installed on my mail server so can use it in anger. it takes a while to get used to the very different interface and philosophy that zimbra takes, but its very impressive so far! a few observations:
1) the interface works beautifully on 1280x1024 desktop. however its very difficult to use on widescreen laptop @ 1280x768 (fairly common for road warriors using webmail). the vertical segments are too high and don't resize well, so the actual contents of the email at the bottom of the screen only get a few lines of reading space. a lot of this space is taken up by dark(er) gray subject box with tag optionally underneath, and the message header box. it would be nice to either eliminate or merge these boxes, or have them collapseable, ala thunderbird. also, in conversation view there's a limit to the amount you can drag the message window up at the expense of message fragments. hope this makes sense.
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Why video games and pharma?For years now, many pharmaceutical companies have used cutting-edge 3-D animation to draw physicians to their booths on the convention floor. As animation became the norm, pharma companies began looking at new ways to make an impact at shows. With gaming technology, companies can display immersive animation that allows doctors to explore inside an interactive environment pertaining to a particular drug's mechanism of action (MOA).
How can marketers use this technology at a convention?
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Could you give an example of a game?
In one case, doctors controlled a white blood cell. The goal was to collect adhesion molecule inhibitors because that's what the client was promoting. The game is kind of like Defender, where the user controls a ship and tries to pick objects up without hitting the walls. Once they picked up enough inhibitors, the cell became "immune" and would no longer go through the wall. The game showcased a drug for an autoimmune disease that involved diapedesis, which is when a white blood cell migrates through the wall of the vessel out into tissue and causes inflammation. So the doctors were essentially stopping that white blood cell from exiting the blood vessel. And as they collected these inhibitors, fewer cells would penetrate the wall, hence less inflammation. Doctors were waiting in line for the opportunity to compete against each other—and at the same time, they were educated about the drug's MOA.
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The Delaware Healthcare Association and Gift of Life Donor Program announced that the Medical Society of Delaware and Delaware Health and Social Services have joined Delaware's Statewide Organ Donor Designation Campaign.
The Delaware's Statewide Organ Donor Designation Campaign is a targeted effort to increase the number of registered organ and tissue donors in Delaware by 28,000 by the end of April 2013. The website, DonateLife-De.org, allows Delawareans to register to become organ donors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Today I committed the cardinal sin. I cloned my Zimbra server with the intention of easily putting up a second box. All went well until I changed the hostname on the new machine. Somehow it's also stuffed up the hostname on the production unit. I have users screaming from all angles and a boss who is about to chop my head off.
I've tried shutting down the new box and running:
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Then, I noticed that the problem is that the ZimbraLogHostname is wrong - it's the name of the new machine...
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Renaming mx1.domain.co.uk to mx1.domain.co.uk
Shutting down zimbra...done.
If I try to go to the server on the web, I get nothing.
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Nearly 20 million children receive free or reduced-priced lunches at school each year. However, during the summer months fewer than 3 million children partake in free summer lunch. This is a gap of more than 16 million kids who can receive a free healthy lunch each day school is out, but don't. Why is this? Read this moving blog by NRPA's Jimmy O'Connor on how park and recreation agencies are serving to fill this gap this summer, helping improve lives and communities.
Wondering what is going on with Surface Transportation on Capitol Hill this week? VP of Government Affairs Stacey Pine breaks it all down and outlines what another extension may mean and how the current debate between the House and Senate could have implications for park and recreation agencies.
Read why one Young Professional recommends that young park and recreation professionals should apply for the NRPA Young Professional Fellowship and other scholarship opportunities to further their professional development and career.
Park and recreation agencies, like many other local government agencies, have benefitted from federal earmarks. But the federal earmark ban that took effect two years ago has made it difficult local governments to fund many local projects, such as park and recreation projects. Discussions on the Hill, now have many wondering whether earmarks are truly dead. Read the latest from NRPA's Public Policy team to learn more about this issue.
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Thousands of people piled into Minges Coliseum at ECU to hear the first lady speak. She discussed issues like healthcare, employment, and education, and was pretty motivational to at least one swing voter.
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The speech started at 5:30 p.m. and lasted just under half an hour. Swing voters we spoke with say their next step in the decision making process will be to watch the first presidential debate on October 3rd.
The First Lady was in Greenville Wednesday afternoon at ECU speaking to 6,000 people at Minges Coliseum.
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Obama earlier spoke at a campaign stop at North Carolina Central University in Durham. She was about 50 minutes behind schedule when she left the Bull City.
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CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — He may be 91, but unlike most men his age, Bill Harris is not taking it easy in his retirement years — instead, he's still an active, practicing dentist. Now in his 65th year of dentistry, Harris may be the only man alive who can say he knows every mouth in Carlsbad — "once or twice." He claims to be the oldest practicing dentist in the state of New Mexico, and most wouldn't doubt him.
Harris said the U.S. Army sent him to Creighton University School of Dentistry in Omaha, Neb., during World War II, where he eventually graduated with a doctor of dental surgery degree in 1947. After completing his education, he returned to his hometown of Carlsbad, where he opened Harris Dental Association with his brother Dale, also a World War II veteran who was practicing dentistry in China at the time.
A lot has changed in dentistry since Harris first started in the late 1940s, but even with the evolution of materials and procedures, Harris said instruments haven't changed much at all. In fact, he still has several instruments that are more than 50 years old that he uses on a daily basis. When pointing out one upper third molar forceps made in the 1960s, Harris said, "Of course, it still works. It's just not as pretty as it used to be." Harris said he has done everything a dentist can possibly do since he began practicing over half a century ago, such as wiring fractured jaws together and extracting teeth for dentures. However, he recently cut back on "the cases that keep you up at night," he said, like impactions and tough surgery cases. And though he doesn't feel any less capable, he said he just doesn't want to spend time on them anymore.
He also cut back on his hours and only practices two and a half days a week rather than five. He said he usually sees three to eight patients a day and still performs minor oral surgeries at his office. But while his days have become pretty routine, he said there is always room for emergencies.
As the oldest practicing member of the American Dental Association, Harris said he is required to attend 60 hours of conferences, seminars and classes every three years to maintain his license. This also helps him to stay updated with the times and new procedures in dentistry.
At one time, Harris was licensed in three states — Nebraska, Texas and New Mexico - but said he never wanted to practice anywhere but Carlsbad. It's where he grew up, met his wife, raised his children and practiced alongside his younger brother for 58 years.
Harris claims to have a lot of achievements under his belt as the oldest dentist in the state, including having performed surgeries in every hospital in Carlsbad, maintaining the largest practice in New Mexico at one time and having been invited, along with his brother, to the Mayo Clinic Dental Reviews. Harris said they were the first dentists ever invited to attend from south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
But even with all his accomplishments, Harris said there are two things he's most proud of in dentistry — how he's never hurt a patient and that he's been able to keep costs down for the five generations of people that he's worked on. Harris said he has the best patients in Carlsbad, but while his mind is still sharp enough to perform intricate dental procedures, he can no longer remember his patients' names. "I just go by the chart," he said with a smile, and no one is the wiser.
When asked if he has any plans to retire, Harris gave a firm, "no."
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And even though it's not looking like retirement has a place in Harris' near future, he does have plans to possibly make himself even busier. His practice is for sale, he said, and when someone buys it, he wants to go to work with his daughter, Peggy Hyden, who will soon start working as a dental hygienist in Carlsbad schools. Harris said he's just not ready to quit - "I like dentistry," he said.
And even with all that's changed in dentistry and in the world since Harris started examining teeth 65 years ago, there's one basic truth that has remained the same: "A clean tooth will never decay," he said.
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Berkeley, CA (Sports Network) - Coming off a record-setting win over a tough
conference rival, the second-ranked Oregon Ducks get right back to action as
they fly into Berkeley for this Saturday's Pac-12 showdown with the California
Golden Bears.
Oregon posted its 12th consecutive win last weekend at No. 18 USC, outlasting
the Trojans in a 62-51 final. The two teams combined for the third-highest
scoring game involving ranked teams in the 76-year history of the AP poll. The
two ahead of it also came this year -- West Virginia def. Baylor 70-63, and
Texas A&M def. Louisiana Tech 59-57. The Ducks got revenge for last year's
38-35 loss to USC in Eugene, which snapped UO's 21-game home winning streak
and 19-game conference streak. Oregon has won 13 straight road games, last
losing on enemy turf on Nov. 7, 2009.
Oregon is 9-0 for the second time in three years, but only the third time in
117 seasons. The school record for most consecutive victories to start a
season is 12 (2010).
California hopes to put an end to a three-game slide this week, although doing
so against one of the top teams in the country isn't going to be easy. The
Golden Bears dropped a 21-13 decision at home to Washington last weekend,
saddling the team with a 2-5 conference mark and a 2-4 ledger in Berkeley.
Cal, which won't be going to a bowl game for just the second time since 2003,
will close out its regular season next week at Oregon State.
Cal coach Jeff Tedford spoke recently about not being eligible for the
postseason this year.
"The bowl game situation is obviously disappointing. It is not something we
are used to. You work very hard -- the players and staff invest a lot of time
and energy -- so it is always disappointing to not be able to play in the
postseason. It does not happen to us often, and it is not a good feeling."
Cal leads the all-time series with Oregon, 39-33-2, and has won three of the
last four meetings at home. However, the Ducks have won the last three
encounters overall.
The Oregon offense was firing on all cylinders from the outset last week
against USC, gaining 460 yards in the first half alone. When all was said and
done, the Ducks had racked up 730 total yards and scored 62 points -- the most
ever allowed by the Trojans. Kenjon Barner ran for a school-record 321 yards
and five TDs, while Marcus Mariota, who rushed for 96 yards of his own, threw
four TD passes in completing a near-perfect 20-of-23 passes for 304 yards.
Josh Huff was the team's leading receiver with six grabs for 125 yards and two
The Oregon defense allowed USC QB Matt Barkley to throw for 484 yards and four
TDs, but picked him off twice, sacked him once and held the Trojans to 131 net
rushing yards for the game. Kiko Alonso paced the Ducks with 10 tackles, and
he also added an interception and a fumble recovery to his stat line.
Oregon has scored 42 or more points in 12 straight games, and 30 or more in 21
straight -- both the longest active streaks in the country. Mariota has played
well above his status as a freshman, hitting the mark on 70.5 percent of his
passes for 1,787 yards, 22 TDs and only five interceptions, while adding 474
yards and three scores on the ground. Barner has clearly been the team's
workhorse out of the backfield, rumbling his way to 1,295 yards and scoring 19
TDs, averaging 7.2 ypc -- the team churning out 6.3 ypc and more than 341 ypg
via the run.
The Ducks are giving up 22.9 ppg, with their effort against the run (137.1
ypg, 10 TDs) and versus the pass (243.8 ypg, 15 TDs) resulting in a total
yield of 380.9 ypg. They rank among the national leaders in red-zone defense,
allowing only 16 TDs in 38 trips by the opposition inside the 20-yard line,
and only 22 scores total (.580). Conversely, UO has turned 50 of its 55 trips
to the red zone into points, including 46 TDs. Alonso sits atop the team's
tackles list with 52, and he has 10 TFL, three interceptions and a pair of
fumble recoveries to his credit as well.
California amassed 249 yards on the ground, 411 in all, but still failed to
score the victory in last week's home tilt with Washington. C.J. Anderson
certainly did his part, rushing for 160 yards on 22 carries, but Zach Maynard
was less-than-efficient in completing 15-of-29 passes for 175 yards with an
interception and no TDs. Despite his QB missing the mark on nearly half of his
total throws, Chris Harper had a solid outing in logging seven catches for 101
yards. Maynard had to leave the game in the fourth quarter with a left knee
injury, and his status for this contest is up in the air.
The California defense recorded three sacks and four turnovers last week, but
allowed Washington RB Bishop Sankey to set a new personal best with 189
rushing yards, and he scored two TDs as the Huskies rolled up 411 yards of
total offense. Nick Forbes led the Cal stand with 11 tackles, and he also had
two fumble recoveries and an interception to round an exceptional all-around
Not only is Maynard now banged up, but the Golden Bears are also missing star
WR Keenan Allen (knee), meaning Harper (36 rec., 481 yards, two TDs) is now
the team's go-to guy in the passing game. Maynard is a 60.8 percent passer for
the year, and he averages 221.4 ypg while throwing a dozen TDs against 10
interceptions, while Anderson spearheads the rushing attack with 673 yards and
four scores. Cal is putting up just 24.5 ppg while allowing 27.6 ppg, and the
team is generating nearly as many yards per outing as it permits (402.4 to
416.1). The Bears have surrendered a whopping 39 sacks this season.
Opponents are running the ball for 165.2 ypg while throwing it for 250.9 ypg
against the Bears, and they have scored a total of 33 TDs against them. Still,
the defense has logged 64 TFL, 26 sacks and 22 takeaways. Forbes has 74 stops
and three fumble recoveries, while Steve Williams, Michael Lowe and Kameron
Jackson have three picks each.
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