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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2005 Article IV Consultation with VietnamPublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 06/05
January 24, 2006
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case. The staff report (use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file) for the 2005 Article IV consultation with Vietnam is also available.
On October 7, 2005, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Vietnam.1
Vietnam's overall macroeconomic performance has remained strong since the conclusion of the 2004 Article IV consultation. Real GDP growth picked up to 7.7 percent in 2004, and it remained robust at about 7½ percent year-on-year (yoy) during the first half of 2005. With the abatement of the supply shocks that led to a spike in food prices in 2004, inflation has shown some signs of moderation, although it has remained high relative to recent years, at about 7½ percent (yoy) as of July 2005. Despite a recent slowdown of garment export growth from the very high rates recorded in the past two years, continued strong performance of other exports, and buoyant remittances and tourism receipts, mitigated the impact on the current account. With sustained inflows of ODA and FDI, the overall balance of payments has thus remained in comfortable surplus. Gross international reserves have risen from US$6.3 billion at end-2004 to US$7.1 billion as of end-June 2005, although the import cover of reserves has remained low, at about 8½ weeks of imports.
Credit growth surged to 42 percent in 2004, and remained high at 39 percent as of May 2005, despite some tightening measures taken by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV). Lending by the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) continued to expand rapidly in support of the government's official growth target. An announcement by the SBV in January 2005 that exchange rate depreciation would be limited to 1 percent in 2005 encouraged sustained growth in foreign-currency borrowing. Broad money growth rose to 30 percent in 2004, before edging down to a rate of 27 percent (yoy) in May 2005.
The fiscal position appears to have improved in 2004 and early 2005, but heavy reliance on off-budget operations and continued quasi-fiscal operations through the SOCBs make it difficult to assess the underlying strength of the public finances. The official budget deficit narrowed from about 2 percent of GDP in 2003 to less than 1½ percent of GDP in 2004. Surging net oil receipts contributed to continued favorable fiscal performance in the first half of 2005. The overall fiscal deficit (the sum of the official budget and off-budget investment expenditure) narrowed from 7.2 percent of GDP in 2003 to 4½ percent of GDP in 2004 leading to a slight decline in the debt stock to 41 percent of GDP. However, the improvement in the public finances is clouded by the recent augmentation of the government's off-budget investment program for 2005-2010 to 110 trillion dong (15½ percent of 2004 GDP). In addition, slow progress in SOCB reform, together with high credit growth, has likely led to a large build-up of bad loans and contingent government liabilities in the banking system.
The government has recently signaled its intention to speed up the pace of structural reform. In the important banking system, the SBV's loan classification, provisioning, and prudential standards were tightened in April 2005, and the government aims to develop plans for the SOCBs' reform and recapitalization during the latter part of the year. State-owned enterprise (SOE) reform appears to be moving forward through share auctions and a narrowing of the list of sectors reserved for the state, and the authorities continue to work diligently toward WTO accession.
The outlook for the rest of 2005 is broadly positive, provided that monetary and fiscal policies can be appropriately reined in. Real GDP growth is projected to be about 7½ percent, on strong consumption and a rebound in FDI in anticipation of Vietnam's WTO accession. However, inflation would remain higher than in recent years, at around 7 percent by end-2005, and reserve coverage would remain low. The main risk to the outlook would be continued reliance on a loose monetary policy, and an easing of the fiscal stance, which could increase short-term pressures on inflation and heighten external vulnerability. Over the medium-term prospects for sustained, higher-quality growth and poverty reduction remain broadly positive but hinge critically on macroeconomic discipline and market-oriented structural reforms. Assuming appropriate policies, growth is expected to remain robust in the range of 7 - 7½ percent, with inflation falling to around 3½ percent. However, the public debt stock could rise sharply over the next few years as the government covers the costs of the needed recapitalization and reform in the SOCB and SOE sectors.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors welcomed Vietnam's continuing transition toward a market economy, and commended the authorities for the robust growth and significant poverty reduction achieved in recent years despite a number of exogenous shocks. Directors noted that structural reforms and prudent macroeconomic policies have made Vietnam an increasingly attractive destination for foreign direct investment, and that the external current account deficit is comfortably financed by private and official capital inflows. At the same time, Directors observed that the reserve coverage is low and, while inflation has shown some signs of moderation since mid-2004, it has accelerated recently, and is now expected to reach 8 percent in 2005. Directors encouraged the authorities to adopt a more flexible, market-oriented policy framework under the new Five-Year Socio-Economic Development Plan, centered on promoting private sector-led growth, achieving macroeconomic stability, and improving the quality of public investment. They stressed the need for more prudent macroeconomic policies, improved public sector financial management, accelerated reform of state-owned enterprises, and fair and transparent laws and regulations.
Directors noted that the near-term economic outlook is favourable but subject to risks. They cautioned the authorities that pursuit of an ambitious short-term growth target will likely exacerbate inflationary pressures and weaken the external reserve position. In addition, given the uncertain loan quality and weak balance sheets of the state-owned commercial banks, continuing high credit growth could give rise to large quasi-fiscal liabilities that could threaten medium-term debt sustainability.
Directors welcomed the authorities' intention to slow credit growth. However, they noted that the recent policy actions by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) are unlikely to be sufficient for this purpose, and may be sending mixed signals to the market. They urged a more concerted effort to tighten liquidity, with a number of Directors calling for a discontinuation of the practice of encouraging state-owned banks to finance large state-owned enterprise projects in order to achieve the authorities' growth target. Directors stressed the need to strengthen the monetary policy framework, including through greater central bank independence and focus on the objective of price stability.
While recognizing that there is no evidence of significant exchange rate misalignment and that a fixed exchange rate regime may have helped to anchor inflation expectations in the last year, Directors welcomed the authorities' intention to explore in a forward-looking manner ways to introduce more flexible exchange rate management. Several Directors noted that greater exchange rate flexibility will facilitate adjustment to exogenous shocks, reduce external vulnerability, and create incentives for economic agents to improve their management of exchange rate risks. They advised that exchange market intervention be limited to addressing disorderly market conditions, and that full use be made of the flexibility embedded in the current exchange rate system. Directors welcomed the authorities' positive efforts to accept the obligations of Article VIII of the Fund's Articles of Agreement, and to remove all remaining exchange restrictions subject to approval under this Article.
Directors welcomed the strengthening of the fiscal position in 2004, while expressing concern about the government's continued reliance on off-budget operations. They urged continued fiscal consolidation to help curb inflation and ensure public debt sustainability. Given the projected gradual decline in oil-related receipts from 2007 onwards, Directors called for urgent action to reduce the non-oil fiscal deficit. To this end, they suggested that a good portion of the oil revenue windfall be saved and that, in light of the recent sharp increase in public wages, investment and domestically-financed on-lending be contained in the period ahead, including through a review of off-budget expenditures. Directors also stressed the importance of reforms to improve the tax system, strengthen tax administration, rationalize public expenditure, improve project selection, and better integrate the capital and recurrent budgets. They also encouraged the authorities to move toward the adoption of best practices in the area of fiscal transparency, including by adopting integrated systems of accounting and reporting for all budget and off-budget operations and for all public debt and contingent government liabilities.
Directors considered reform of the state-owned commercial banks to be crucial to efforts to improve growth prospects and maintain fiscal sustainability in the medium term. They therefore supported the authorities' actions and plans to strengthen banking supervision, liberalize the banking sector, and improve the governance of banks. In this regard, Directors welcomed the recent tightening of prudential standards, including the adoption of regulations to bring loan classification and provisioning in line with international standards, and plans for development of a financial sector reform roadmap. They encouraged the authorities to ensure that the planned resolution of the nonperforming loans of the state-owned banks is based on accurate and reliable estimates of capital shortfalls. Furthermore, while supporting the authorities' plans to equitize the main state-owned banks, Directors emphasized that this should be accompanied by the elimination of residual policy lending, the improvement of banks' incentives to operate on a commercial basis, and the strengthening of the SBV's supervisory authority. A few Directors also encouraged the authorities to allow strategic investors to take over bank management to improve governance and increase efficiency.
Directors welcomed the recently-issued anti-money-laundering decree and encouraged the authorities to pursue full membership in the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering. They stressed the importance of strengthening the regime for combating the financing of terrorism, including by amending the criminal code so as to criminalize terrorism financing.
Directors urged the authorities to step up the restructuring of other state-owned enterprises as well, particularly the larger ones. Important needed reforms include equitization, the curbing of government interference in management and investment decision-making, and the provision of incentives to operate on a commercial basis.
Directors appreciated the authorities' commitment to international economic integration, and stressed that an open trade and investment regime and fair and transparent laws and regulations are key to promoting private-sector-led growth. In this regard, they supported Vietnam's objective of achieving WTO membership, and urged the authorities to pass and implement the legislation aimed at creating a level playing field and a more liberal and transparent investment regime. Liberalization of administered prices will be essential to remove distortions and production bottlenecks, and, together with reform of state-owned enterprises, including banks, should serve to support the government's fight against corruption.
Directors urged the authorities to improve the reliability, timeliness and dissemination of economic data. This is especially important with respect to money and banking statistics, off-budget fiscal activities, and public debt and contingent liabilities.


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Our Naturalist will narrate while you sit back and relax. If a group is to have a guide, it is absolutely necessary to make a reservation at least two weeks ahead of time!
Bus Tour
For a group arriving on its own bus, our naturalist/guide can step aboard to give a tour.
Cost for either of the above (admission and tour combined):
$5 members of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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$6 seniors (age 65+)
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There is a minimum charge of $80 for either of the guided tours.
Download more information about scheduling a tour.
Contact Helen McCallie in the Visitor Center
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THE deadline is looming to get a free delivery for a blue or brown recycling bin from the council.
The council has already taken 29,000 orders for new or bigger bins from residents - and there are 2,500 scheduled for delivery over the next three weeks.
The last orders for free deliveries of blue or brown bins will be taken on Thursday 31July.
I rang them in march wanting bins delivered and I am still waiting! I phone every week to be told theres still an 8 weeks wait?!
I didint no it was a free bluee bin we havent got one
I too put in an order in march not heard anything.
We ordered a couple back in Feb still no sign. Waste of time o
Ordered ours in march. Still aint got it !!!!
Still waiting for an order put in since January. 6 months....right farce.
Still waiting, ordered my bigger bins as soon as leaflet came out, fed up of hearing that Barnsley Council can't cope with the backlog. Why change something if they can't actually cope with the changes themselves? Collections missed and bins over flowing.....Well Done Barnsley Council
We order a upgrade on our blue and brown bins back in Dec were still waiting and we have rerung them and they said it will be here in a few weeks and we are still WAITING
It'd be ok if you delivered them! I ordered 3 new bins on 10th February and have been in touch with waste management at the council and the manager, Graham Smith. I was promised by Graham, only after complaining that I've been waiting nearly 24 weeks to have them delivered 'tomorrow' his email said. That was 2 weeks ago and still have not got them! And they wonder why people fly tip! Waste management?? Waste of space!!
Ive phoned 3 times and am still waitin 3 months later and got no bigger brown bin or bigger blue bin that they have promised me
We ordered ours ages ago still waiting for a new large brown bin also a new large green bin.
II ordered ours via e mail in April and still waiting, we wer told to put it in he back of our car where my two children sit, and take it to the yard to swap!!
We ordered ours in march and still not got them, I'm sick of seeing them overflowing
I was probably one of the first to order a blue and a brown bin in January , as I'd never had one .The rest of the street had theirs delivered months ago , I'm still waiting ! ? I put all my cardboard in the grey bin , as when you put it in sacks .. they leave rubbish all over the street ! New re-cycling ? Its a total disaster !
I ordered a large brown bin in February and am still waiting , I got my large blue one last month, why couldn't they deliver them both at same time
I ordered mine in January I'm still waiting for brown and blue Big Bins
Its ok having the bins delivered, but what about having them emptied on schedule?
We need a blue and browm bin we beem waiting 3months
Please can you deliver me a large brown and blue bin.
Trouble is they take up so much space. We've got a black, blue, green and a white bin, then a white bag!
I ordered them
On feb 25th and kept chasing it but still not arrived
I emailed twice and never got a reply....waste if time and effort
what a load of trash and i don't mean the waste i actually mean the council as in a waste of time ordered in febuary and here we are back end of july still waiting and told 6 weeks LETS NOT BOTHER RECYCLING just throw it in any bin you can that may then be a lesson learnt RESIDENTS ARE FED UP
as prob most ppl been waiting a looooong time. ive been waiting march for brown bin and when I phoned up to check progress the had me down as blue. got told several times would be with us on next brown collection date only now to be told it will be by end of july. wont hold my breath… may delay paying my council tax and see how long before I get summons
Why bother just to be fobbed offoi ordered in Feb/march time rang a number of times and was told would be delivered in the next 10 working days.....nor told its on way ha ha joke o what,,this is obviously a major issue so wen is it going to be rectified
They should have thought about this and delivered
All bina before this new delivery system got put in place
I've been waiting since January for a brown bin.keep been told anytime now.its ridiculous
ordered all new when I moved in my new house in febuary. so far they have delivered a brown bin withought taking the old burned one! I ring nearly every week to place a new order and to be told they will be with me within 10 days!!
I have ordered but haven't received can you confirm I am getting a large brown bin and a small blue one


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Using Atom with the RESTful API in R2 of SWDP
By sandoz on May 29, 2007
The RESTful API in R2 of SWDP has an example of how to use Atom (more purcolation) in a sort of Atom publication protocol manner (i.e. it is not fully conforming to the specification).
The following table presents the URI templates, the Java classes that map to those templates and the HTTP methods supported by those Java classes;
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I am somewhat embarrassed by the implementation! (it was hacked together rather quickly) but the example is instructive of how easy it is to get something functional working with Atom and how the API features are utilized (how Java classes relate to the URI path hierarchy and inheritance of HTTP methods). The application supports the create, read, update and delete of Atom entires and Atom media entires.
The FeedResource class, that corresponds to the Atom collection resource, is declared as follows:
@SubResources({EntryResource.class, EditEntryResource.class})
public class FeedResource {
The UriTemplate annotation declares that the URI template of the Atom feed is an absolute URI of "/collection". The ProduceMime annotation declares that, by default, all HTTP methods implemented by the FeedResource class will produce content of the MIME media type "application/atom+xml". The SubResources annotation statically declares Java classes that are subordinate resources of the collection resource, which essentially means that the URI templates declared on the subordinate Java classes are relative to the URI template of the FeedResource class (but only when referenced in the context of the collection resource as those Java classes could be referenced as subordinate resources in other contexts).
The EntryResource class, that corresponds to the read-only Atom entry resource, is declared as follows:
public class EntryResource {
The UriTemplate annotation declares that URI template of the Atom entry is a template variable "{entry}" and when this class is referenced from the FeedResource class the absolute URI template of this resource will be "/collection/{entry}". (The value of the {entry} will be a UUID, which corresponds to that in the atom:id element.) The ProduceMime and ConsumeMime annotations declare that, by default, all HTTP methods implemented by the EntryResource class will produce and consume content of the MIME media type "application/atom+xml".
The EntryResource also supports access to the media of the entry if that entry corresponds to an Atom media entry. The media is a subordinate resource of the entry and is implemented by the following Java method (on EntryResource):
public Representation<InputStream> getMedia(@UriParam("entry") String entryId) {
The UriTemplate annotation declares a subordinate resource relative to that of the entry resource (so the absolute URI template would be "/collection/{entry}/media"). The ProduceMime annotation overrides that declared on the class and states the method may produce any MIME media type (since the client can choose the type of media that may be published). The HttpMethod annotation declares this to be an Java method that is capable of processing an HTTP request for the HTTP GET method. This is a good example of how a Java class can encapsulate one or more resources that are closely related.
The EditEntryResource class, that corresponds to the read-write Atom entry resource, is declared as follows:
public class EditEntryResource extends EntryResource {
Notice that EditEntryResource inherits from EntryResource and thus inherits the read-only HTTP methods for the entry and media resources. The UriTemplate annotation overrides that declared on EntryResource and declares a different URI for editing an entry (so the absolute URI template would be "/collection/edit/{entry}"). It is common for some APP implementations to provide different URIs for editing Atom entries. The subordinate media resource implemented by EntryResource.getMedia method will be relative to the overridden URI template. The ConsumeMime and ProduceMime annotations are actually unnecessary since these can be inherited as well so the class could be declared as follows:
public class EditEntryResource extends EntryResource {
The EditEntryResource supports the update to the media of the entry as follows:
public void putMedia(@UriParam("entry") String entryId,
Entity<byte[]> update) {
Hopefully the annotations on the method should be self-explanatory by now :-) and hopefully you can see how to construct a set of Java classes that map to a URI path hierarchy.
The Google GData API supports optimistic concurrency of Atom entries by encapsulating a version ID in the URI. Thus we could change the implementation of EditEntryResource to be as follows:
public class EditEntryResource extends EntryResource {
so that a "{version}" template variable is included. Of course the method parameters would need to change to obtain the version and it starts to affect the implementation of the EntryResource, not good! However, there are ways to avoid such problems while retaining good encapsulation and DRYness by using dynamic resources and class constructors. Hopefully the lessons learned from building such applications and how to improve on them will feed back into JSR-311.


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Home > Mercedes > Mercedes at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012
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Mercedes at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012
Mercedes-Benz will present exciting new models from racing to sporting road cars at theGoodwood Festival of Speed to be held this summer. More than 150,000 visitors are expected to visit the function where Mercedes will be showcase the SLS AMG Roadster, C 63 AMG Coupé Black Series, CLS 63 AMG, SLK 55 AMG and the ML 63 AMG along with the legendary W194 300 SL. Mercedes is holding a couple of surprises for the occasion, which we will know about as the time nears in!


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The satellite TV provider and AMC have entered into a war over costs.
Perhaps until Apple unveils its own HDTV, we're all subjected to the nightmare that is browsing the web on your TV.
The purveyors of furniture and frustrated assembly are field-testing their own TVs.
Despite the pleas of many would-be pirates, HBO denies us simple and legal online access to its programming.
Providers met at an annual conference to showcase revolutionary innovations to the clunky cable box. Are they too late?
Some say there are better uses for Apple's cash hoard than just paying off stockholders.
Given 90% of users want a larger screen, Apple needs to "upgrade" the iPhone screen like it did for the iPad.
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek stakes his reputation on Apple releasing an HDTV by the end of this year.


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MTV's 'Skins' Made Me Wish More Teens Had Tiger Moms
Even if you don't have kids, the depiction of modern teen life on MTV's new drama, "Skins," may make you worry, Boomer-like, what's going on with the under-20 set today. Where's the Tiger Mom when you need her?
In the first episode, which premiered last night, a girl sneaks home after a debauched night of partying. A boy has decorated his bedroom with porno magazines (and not Playboy, the hardcore kind). Another girl is willing to trade sexual favors for drugs. Later, that same girl pops too many pills and has to be rushed to the hospital. In a later episode, another boy takes sexual performance pills and spends the entire hour with a visible erection.
What's more, as many reviewers have pointed out, on "Skins," unlike typical teen shows, there's seemingly no negative consequences to all this reckless behavior. At one point, the "Skins" gang drives a luxury SUV into a lake — and laughs about it. As the Parents Television Council said in one of the advocacy group's famously tsk-tsking statements: ""Skins may well be the most dangerous show for children that we have ever seen."
Reader, you have no idea how depressing it feels to actually agree with the Parents Television Council.
Do you think the show is too risque for teens? Let us know in the comments.


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I downloaded 4 DLC regions which are already unlocked on the world map: Hellfire Grotto, Oblivion Ruins, Way of Saburai and Trinity Steppe. Upon visiting one I found giant murderous dragon monsters and immediately ran as they looked 5000x more powerful than anything I've seen before.
What level should I be before trying the DLC areas? Do they each have their own levels?


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Here is a spice blend that is good on so many things. I like to mix it up, place it in a jar and keep it in the cupboard. It's good on pasta, in olive oil ( for dipping bread), sprinkled on eggs, freshly baked bread, potatoes or on a roast before it goes into the oven…
It also makes a nice gift! Put it in a cute little jar with a bow and then attach a little card with your favorite recipe using the spice blend!
LaVae! Seasoning
6 T garlic flavored Ms. Dash
3 T basil
3 T oregano flakes
3 T parsley
3 T chives
1 teas thyme
4 teas salt
2 T onion powder
1 teas garlic powder
Combine and store in an airtight container.


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m.Zuiko 14-150 review
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Thanks for the review. I have the same camera - lens combination and I'm very satisfied with it.
One of the things that's bothering me the most can be seen in your pictures as well - yellowish/brownish tones that dominate images taken in bright sunlight with auto white balance, for example A+14.jpg and P9104416.jpg from your review. I correct that a bit by putting white balance on auto. Have you found some other solution for that?
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Cybill Shepherd Gets Engaged!
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Cybill Shepherd is engaged!
The actress is set to wed Serbian psychologist and former jeweler Andrei Nikolajevic.
Nikolajevic, who was introduced to Shepherd through friends, recently proposed in New York.
"It was very romantic and on one knee," she told the New York Daily News.
The "Cybill" star, who has wed twice before, added, "I never thought I'd get married again."
No wedding plans have been announced.
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Halloween release of PPCBoot: 2.0.0 - the Final Release.
Wolfgang Denk <wd <at> denx.de>
A new version of PPCBoot, labeled as PPCBOOT_2_0_0, is available on the CVS and FTP servers. Changes: - mostly bug fixes This release is special: It is the last, ultimate, final release of PPCBoot! The PPCBoot project will not be continued any more. But: Don't Panic! Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Over time, the name PPCBoot has become inappropriate: there was a time when all we supported was the MPC8xx CPU. Later support for other PowerPC CPUs was added. And the name PPCBoot was OK. But this is not true any more. Now there is also support for ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM and XScale based boards. Ports for the ColdFire and even for x86 CPUs are in the planning or already under way. Thus it's time to acknowledge that this project has become a universal bootloader - we will continue development under the new flag "Das U-Boot" - the Universal Boot Loader The new project is again hosted at SourceForge, you can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/(Continue reading)


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Although you may have a great resume, your cover letter is important too. Since most hiring managers request a cover letter via email or regular mail, you want to make sure that your cover letter is strong and provides key details about your background.
Write a Creative Intro
A cover letter is the first document hiring managers review to find out more about your skills and background. Therefore, you want to have an intro that is not boring but still highlights your skills for the position. For example, you can say, "My passion is using my extensive accounting skills to work for a leading company as an accountant. I am interested in your accountant position." These sentences say that you have experience working in the accounting field and you are also interested in the position. Don't be afraid to be creative and have fun with your intro, especially if you work in the fashion or advertising fields.
Why Should I Hire You?
After your intro, focus on your background and skills. This paragraph should include information about your education, a summary of recent positions and your skills. If you are not sure of your professional skills, ask family and friends for assistance. For example, are you detail-oriented or have experience using different software programs? You may also want to share information about why this particular job interests you and how you can be an asset for the employer.
Request a Meeting
In your last paragraph, you want to tell the employer again that the position interests you and request a meeting or phone conversation. Requesting a meeting is a good way to show your professionalism and put the ball in the employer's court to respond back to you. Also, this paragraph should also mention that your resume and any other documents are included along with the cover letter. For example, if you are applying for a writing position, a hiring manager may request writing samples along with your resume and cover letter. You can end this section by thanking the employer in advance for considering you for the position.
Remember, you don't want to write a long letter. One page is great to summarize your professional background and skills. Also, prepare different cover letters for different employers. For example, a cover letter working in retail should be different than writing a cover letter in the advertising field. Most importantly, be clear about why you are the best candidate for the job.


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Selling your home in the current real estate market can be tough. However, there are many home improvements you can make to improve the chances of your home selling.
Paint- Giving your home a face lift through paint is one of these easiest home improvements to do to help sell your home. Have bright pink or green walls in your kid's room? Paint over the bright colors and stick with neutral colors. While you're at it, touch up pin holes and areas where paint may be worn. Want to take it further? Hire a professional to paint the exterior of your home. New paint inside and out can make your home look new all over again. For neutral paint color ideas click here.
Roof- If you don't have the money to get a whole new roof before selling your home, do some simple repairs like replacing missing shingles and getting rid of anything growing on your roof. Someone looking to buy a home doesn't want to have to replace a roof shortly after buying, so if you can afford to put a new roof on, doing so will be a major selling point for your home.
Organize- A cluttered unorganized home can be a huge turnoff to potential buyers. Throw out items you no longer need or put non-essentials in storage while trying to sell your home. Diving into organizing an entire home can be overwhelming; click here for a place to start and get some ideas. You also want to take family photos and art projects off the walls and fridge. Buyers want to walk into a clean organized home they can picture there family in, not look at yours. So depersonalize the space.
Landscape- Selling your home isn't all about the inside of the home. Curb appeal is very important. Keep your lawn trimmed, weeds tamed, and your flowers looking fresh. You may even want to consider hiring someone to landscape your home. Want to do it on your own? Try these easy landscaping projects.
Hide pets and kids- This may be a given if selling your home through an agent, but if your selling your home yourself, you may not have thought about where the pets and kids should be when someone comes to look at your house. Plan for your animals and children to be somewhere other than your house when someone comes to look. Buyers don't want to be bombarded with animals and kids while looking at their new potential home. Along these same lines, make sure you air out your house and/or strategically place air fresheners throughout the house to get rid of any unwanted pet odors.
These five simple home improvements will get you off to a great start in selling your home. They don't require a lot of time or money, making them perfect weekend projects!


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TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE; 24 June 1824; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18240624-TC-JAC-01; CL 3:88-92.
Kew-Green, 24th June, 1824—
My dear Jack,
It is long since I had a right trustful confabulation with thee in the way of letter; yet I need scarcely say how much of late I have hungered and thirsted after it. I wrote a hurried letter to our Father the day before yesterday, meaning that it should be franked: but Charlie Buller is a man whose purposes are as air; he disappointed me, and again disappointed me; still seeing no end to it, I scribbled three or four unintelligible words to the end of the letter in extreme haste, the Postman waiting all the while, and sent it off, imagining at least that it would save you from anxieties about my health and general welfare, tho' vague in itself, and intended originally to accompany another more special narrative. To-night I have got an hour of leisure to collect my scattered and dissipated thoughts: Buller is over at his Uncle's,1 and I write to you undisturbed. He is to procure me a frank: if not, we can do without it.
From my Father's letter you would gather that Mrs Buller's settlement of our affairs was not by any means entirely according to my heart. In fact this wandering wayfaring mode of life is altogether unsatisfactory to me: you never once can say what is to be done with you; no measures for the future; you live from day to day, and are perplexed with a thousand inconveniences, which in my case, unhealthy as I am, are greatly aggravated. The Bullers also are essentially a cold race of people; they live in the midst of fashion and external show; they love no living creature. Our connection therefore has to sit a little loosely: I attach no portion of my hopes or thoughts of affection to them, they none to me. Nevertheless I have engaged to go with them whithersoever they list for the next three months: after that, with regard to their France project I shall pause before deciding. Indeed so fitful and weathercock-like in their proceedings are they, that it is very possible the whole scheme of Boulogne sur mer may be abandoned long before the time for trying it comes round. Meanwhile Mrs B. has settled us here (for a fortnight only!) in lodgings, and we have begun our studies. It is a pleasant village; we are within a bowshot of a royal palace, close by the south bank of the Thames about six miles to the westward of London. A village here is not what it is with you. Here it is a quantity of houses scattered over a whole parish; each cluster connected with the rest by lanes of trees, with meadows and beautiful greens interspersed; sometimes ponds and lakes and hedges of roses, and commons with sheep and cuddies grazing on them. Many of the houses belong to rich people, and the whole has a very smart and pleasing air. Such is the village of Kew, especially the Green—the part of it which lies on the south side of the river, connected by a bridge with Kew proper. We form part of the periphery of an irregular square measuring perhaps 2 furlongs in diagonal, intersected with one large and many foot roads; cut into portions by thick low painted wooden paling, with breaks in it to admit the freest ingress and egress. The parish Church with its cluster of gravestones stands a little to the right of our windows: beyond it, the northwest corner of the square is occupied by the palace and the barracks of soldiers. This with the many barges and lighters of the river, and the shady woods and green places all around makes the place very pretty. What is better our lodging seems to be very respectable: I have a good clean quiet bed, and the landlady Mrs Page and her pretty grandaughter ("sweet Ann Page!")2 almost become as dead women every time we speak to them—so reverential are they and so prompt to help. Charlie too is laying or has laid aside his vanities, and is very attentive and respectful considering his usual humour. On the whole I could be content to stay here till october, rather than shift about again: but I bow beneath the potent will of Mrs B. for these three months, and go withersoever she listeth[.] It is true I shall be solitary here; yet not altogether so. Allan Cunningham has promised to introduce me to Carey3 the Translator of Dante, a parson of a parish in this neighbourhood; Irving has already introduced me to a Mr Kirkpatrick, two miles off, whom I intend to visit one of these days. Besides for a shilling I can be conveyed to London every half hour; and we shall not want for books. So it may be made to do.
Of London the great Nineveh of modern Europe, I will tell you more minutely when we meet. The chief things in it that strike me are its vastness and expensiveness. You cannot stir in it without money, money, at every hand. Here for instance we have two little bedrooms and a parlour, considerably less, and not much better furnished than Wilkie's—for which Mrs B. is to pay for us two at the easy rate of 2 guieneas per week! In winter it will be twelve shillings more for fuel: this excluding perquisites for brushing shoes, going errands &c &c!!! A man had need to be provided with cash that takes up his quarters here: I am told one need not try to live in any thing like what they call respectability for less than £ 150 a year—in lodgings: boarding they say is considerably cheaper. So much for the cost of London—a matter not to me of absolute indifference, at least in prospect.
Yet in prospect only—for as yet I have felt but little of it. Irving's hospitable mansion was mine; he received me with as warm a welcome as ever. I think him much more pleasant than when we last met: he has begun to see that there is nothing supernatural in his situation; he is leaner and in weaker health, so his spirits are less ebullient, and the honest practical substantial expressions of his intellect and heart have again got uppermost. His popularity without being furious as it once was is still great, long rows of coaches crowd daily to his sooty-looking meagre chapel; nor are ladies of rank wanting among the weekly applicants for tickets of admission. However he is ceasing to be a Lion—and I trust becoming something humbler and more abiding. I still reckon him one way and another about the worthiest man I have ever seen. To me he has certainly been friendly as few men are to any but a brother. I also like his wife; who, at present in the family way, looks very plain, but is certainly a very model of a wife. Submissive, helpful, ever good-humoured, her sole object seems to be her husband's comfort, and that of his friends.
Besides Irving I have seen many other curiosities. Not the least of these I reckon Coleridge, the Kantean metaphysician and quondam Lake poet. I will tell you all about our interview when we meet. Figure a fat flabby incurvated personage, at once short, rotund and relaxed, with a watery mouth, a snuffy nose, a pair of strange brown timid yet earnest looking eyes, a high tapering brow, and a great bush of grey hair—you will have some faint idea of Coleridge. He is a kind, good soul, full of religion and affection, and poetry and animal magnetism. His cardinal sin is that he wants will; he has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens his knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide—my father would call it skluiffing.4 He is also always busied to keep by strong and frequent inhalations the water of his mouth from overflowing; and his eyes have a look of anxious impotence; he would do with all his heart, but he knows he dare not. The conversation of the man is much as I anticipated. A forest of thoughts; some true, many false, most part dubious, all of them ingenious in some degree, often in a high degree. But there is no method in his talk; he wanders like a man sailing among many currents, whithersoever his lazy mind directs him—; and what is more unpleasant he preaches, or rather soliloquizes: he cannot speak; he can only "tal-k" (so he names it). Hence I found him unprofitable, even tedious: but we parted very good friends I promising to go back and see him some other evening—a promise I fully intend to keep. I sent him a copy of Meister about which we had some friendly talk. I reckon him a man of great and useless genius—a strange not at all a great man.
I have also seen Procter (Barry Cornwall), and even begun a kind of friendship (!) with him. He is connected with the celebrated Mrs Montagu—whom also I have seen, and liked tho' not too highly or even so highly as she seemed to wish. Procter is an ingenious gentle little fellow: a poet or rather poety, for he is small in his dimensions mental & bodily. Allan Cunningham is my greatest favourite; not the cleverest, but the simplest, frankest, most modest. He speaks with the Nithsdale accent as true as our Uncle John, whom he knows and once worked with. We have exchanged books, and seem to take to one another. Thomas Campbell also I have seen, but far from liked. He is a dapper little black-bearded, brown-wi[gged,] blue-frocked, smart-speaking, whisking [brisk] gentleman—a poor lite[rary] dandy—with the air and manner of a pert Scotch Advocate, heartless conceited, shallow, sneering, pragmatical. There is no mystery in his looks; his eye glances, but it is with the empty vivacity of a Cockney Shopman. Poor Campbell! Suffering & poverty have wasted his feelings, and made him callous and dissociable as those old Nags, which I once heard a Natural Historian describe, as animals that cared not for other horses. Campbell promised to invite me to what he called his "next literary dejeuner"—where I suppose will be collected many of the hacks that live by ink in this busy city. I know not whether I shall go. I wish to see the base Phrygian Turks;5 but farther—"my soul come not into their secret, mine honour be not united to them!"6
Now I presume, my bonny boy, thou art sated with my prattle: my paper is done, tho' my subject is but beginning. However I must pause for a time. Doubt not, my dear Jack, that I long earnestly to hear from home after this long silence. Send the Newspaper; and above all, write, write. Tell me how every thing goes on, how my Mother is, how they all are. How do you prosper in your studies—and of what sort are they? Take an immense sheet, and write as close as close can be. Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers—there was a kind of notice of it in the Examiner7 (wherein my performance was called admirable!) and lately in the Scotsman8 (wherein it was able). The Stot is rather favourable[.]9 I sent a copy off to Goethe with a little letter the day before yesterday—thro' the hands of old Dr Noehden.10 Schiller's Life is coming out, partly in July partly in August: I will send it whenever it is all ready.— Now write immediately, will you? Have you been at Kirkchrist yet? or when are you going? Ask me questions, give me answers. I will write again at large. James Buller lives here for a season at least, he will supply me with franks. Tell me about all Annandale! Mind your studies my dear boy, and we shall both prosper in spite of every thing. Adieu! Vale et me ama [Farewell and love me]! Your Brother,
Th: Carlyle


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Damn it. I forgot my own bump advice and it cost me big yesterday.
My itinerary was Traverse City to Chicago to San Francisco to Denver and then reverse. I had checked my flights a day or so earlier and nothing looked promising although I remember reminding myself the Chicago to San Francisco flight had some potential for a bump.
I had my boarding passes in hand when I arrived at the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City. The United counter had about 8 people in line, but no one in the First Class or Elite line. Mistake #1. Why was I sheepish about walking up to the elite line and asking to volunteer for all my segments? It was a dumb move on my part.
The flight to Chicago went out close to full. (I had asked at the gate). Mistake #2. Why didn't I ask about my later segments? This time, it never even crossed my mind.
We got to Chicago and pulled into gate F2 early and I deplaned at 7:10 AM, missed the next shuttle to the C gates and hoofed it over taking 8 to 10 minutes. I went immediately to the gate agent and offered to volunteer. Her response was she had all the volunteers she needed. I was stunned. I blew it.
In a move of desperation, I asked if the policy was not to accommodate elite flyers that volunteer first. Her reply was curt and I was informed that she takes the volunteers in order when she asked for them a few minutes ago. I looked up at the board and the monitor showed that at that time 179 of 182 had checked in. A few minutes later the board posted that both economy and first class had checked in full and we were still 20+ minutes to boarding.
I sheepishly asked the other gate agent to put me on the list anyway and to add me to the volunteer list for SFO to Denver, but I knew I had blown my chance. If I had gone to the ticket counter at TVC or the gate at TVC and volunteered I'd be braggin' about another $400 voucher in my pocket instead of singing this sad old song.
In the true character of "me", I justified the mistake by convincing myself that I had to be at my 4:30 appointment in Denver. The justification is extremely hollow though. My mistakes never allowed me the opportunity to negotiate another routing as a volunteer. I'll never know if I could have got the voucher and still made my appointment.
Live and Learn.
Damn it.
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I'm still holding out hope that this spring will be like most, and we will have some big storms before the lifts close. We need the water supply in the worst way. It could be a rough, dusty summer. More to the point, I still want a couple of huge powder days this ski season, and it's not looking good. There are only three weeks to go.
So while I'm still skiing and hoping for more, something happened the other day. I was driving home from what had been a pretty nice day of skiing and, without warning, and for no good reason, the idea of taking the snowblower off the back of the tractor got lodged in my brain. It was as if some mechanical device had tripped. The gears advanced a notch and there was no turning back. I got home and started looking around the yard to figure out where I could put the snowblower.
The fact that I had to think about where to put it was proof positive that it was too early to be taking it off, and that it belonged right on the back of the tractor for the time being. This is not your residential Toro.
During the summer months, the snowblower gets stashed in an old barn across the street from the house. That barn isn't used for much other than storage and gets completely snowed in for the winter. So if I take the snowblower off the tractor, it can't go in the normal storage spot because there is a big snowdrift/iceberg blocking the doors and access to the barn.
Taking the blower off isn't terribly difficult, but it's big and heavy and generally results in a pinched finger before I'm done. There is nothing I need to do with the tractor this time of year that can't be done with the snowblower in place. It doesn't make sense to drop it in the yard, where it's in the way, and then have to mount it up again (another finger mashed) to move it into the barn when the glacier blocking the door melts. The odds are pretty good that I'm not finished blowing snow, either. Patience.
Dismounting the blower won't affect the weather one way or another. I've already tried that experiment. The change of seasons is not connected to the status of my snowblower in any way. On the other hand, it will always snow when there is a broken hydraulic-hose fitting requiring special-order parts. Always.
I'm fixated on it. The whole time I was skiing the other day, the idea of where to temporarily stash the snowblower was rattling around in my head. Neither the iPod nor the noisy powder conditions could drown it out. As a partial diversion, I managed to plow the back of the barn open. It took a few days, plowing the glacier down in layers, then letting it melt some before hitting it again. Now if, just by chance, some fool decided to take the snowblower off a month early, it would be possible to properly store it for summer in the barn. Except that there is another tractor parked in that spot, and it has a dead battery.
Another sign that it's too early to be doing this.
I let it rest a couple of days before driving the truck out to the barn and pulling the battery out of the dead Farmall. It's a 6-volt, and while I've seen people jump-start a 6-volt from the 12-volt in their trucks, it seems like a sure way to blow something up. I took the dead battery home to the garage put it on the charger.
As things now stand, the snowblower is still on the tractor where it belongs, and it is ready to roll if there is some serious snow. The battery for the old Farmall is fully charged, but still on the workbench rather than back in the tractor. Like spring, this project is happening in fits and starts, in small incremental steps.
It will probably dump nonstop in May, right after I've put the snowblower in the barn.
Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986.


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Does the media care about unemployment?
Brad DeLong asks a good question:
The most astonishing and surprising thing I find about Washington DC today is the contrast in mood between DC today and what DC was thinking a generation ago, in 1983, the last time the unemployment rate was kissing 10%. Back then it was a genuine national emergency that unemployment was so high — real policies like massive monetary ease and the eruption of the Reagan deficits were put in place to reduce unemployment quickly, and everybody whose policies wouldn't have much of an effect on jobs was nevertheless claiming that their projects were the magic unemployment-reducing bullet.
Today…. nobody much in DC seems to care. A decade of widening wealth inequality that has created a chattering class of reporters, pundits, and lobbyists who have no connection with mainstream America? The collapse of the union movement and thus of the political voice of America's sellers of labor power? I don't know what the cause is. But it does astonish me.
And Kevin Drum follows up with his take:
I think there are two distinct issues here. The first is the government response to high unemployment, and on that score I think we're doing as much as (or more than) we did in 1983. Interest rates are at zero, the Fed has vastly expanded its balance sheet, a $700 billion stimulus bill has been passed, and federal deficits are around 10% of GDP. That's a stronger response than we had in 1983, when real interest rates were around 5% (and rising) and the federal government was running a deficit of around 6% of GDP.
But it's true — or at least, it's my impression that it's true — that the media focused way more on economic hard luck stories in the early 80s than they do now. I have a strong memory of being practically bombarded with this stuff back then. Today, though, not so much. It's not that coverage of unemployment is absent, just that it strikes me as much less urgent than it was in the early 80s.
If I had to offer a conjectural and fact-free guess, it would be that today's journalists are less likely to encounter unemployed and low-income workers than their counterparts in the 1980s. Or, in other words, social distance might explain the difference between today's economic coverage and the economic coverage of thirty years ago. And to make a slightly more founded claim, that social distance seems to stem from the relative "elite-ness" of journalism, at least compared to how it was a generation prior. From what I understand, journalism has changed dramatically over the last few decades, and has become less of a trade, and more of an elite profession with fairly high barriers to entry.
In the past, it wasn't uncommon for a smarter writer from a good — but not great — school to enter journalism by way of a local or regional paper, work for a few years (or decades) covering a particular beat, and eventually graduate to the national news circuit. In this system, journalists were more likely to interact and cultivate relationships with people of lesser means — people more likely to live in public housing or face unemployment on a regular and persistent basis. And when these journalists were finally in a position to report on national matters, they carried those relationships with them, which influenced the tone and tenor of their stories.
By contrast, today's journalism has taken on more of an elite character. Journalists working for publications like the New York Times or Washington Post are likely to have attended elite or Ivy League universities, are likely to have worked unpaid or low-paying internships (which tend to only attract higher-income students), and are likely to have spent their lives at a distance from the economically vulnerable. As a result, while they may care about unemployment and economic distress, their reporting on the subject might not have the same force or "urgency" that earlier reporting contained.
Of course, this is all conjecture drawn from limited information; I really don't know that much about journalism as a profession, and this is a pretty sweeping assessment. However, it does seem like a plausible explanation, at least on the face of it. But if you have your own thoughts, differing or otherwise, I'd be interested to hear them.
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text: Heuristic and exact solutions to the inverse power index problem for small voting bodies Volume 6 Jena Economic Research Papers 2012-07-23 2012 2007 2012-045 electoral systems simple games weighted voting games square root rule Penrose limit theorem Penrose-Banzhaf index institutional design Power indices are mappings that quantify the influence of the members of a voting body on collective decisions a priori. Their nonlinearity and discontinuity makes it difficult to compute inverse images, i.e., to determine a voting system which induces a power distribution as close as possible to a desired one. The paper considers approximations to this inverse problem for the Penrose-Banzhaf index by hill-climbing algorithms and exact solutions which are obtained by enumeration and integer linear programming techniques. They are compared to the results of three simple solution heuristics. The heuristics perform well in absolute terms but can be improved upon very considerably in relative terms. The findings complement known asymptotic results for large voting bodies and may improve termination criteria for local search algorithms. jportal_jpjournal_00000016 2012-07-23T06:32:33.923Z 2012-07-23T06:32:20.872Z


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Rios talks trash, but backs it up, unlike Haye and Klitschko, both of whom showed straw-weight hearts and cajones last weekend.
One of the beautiful things about boxing is that the stench of a bad fight – no matter how odorous - doesn't often linger because soon a more stirring example of the sweet side of The Sweet Science comes along.
Fortunately for anyone who laid their eyes on David Haye's pathetically pacifistic "effort'' to unify the heavyweight title last weekend in Hamburg, Germany that sorry vision should be wiped out this weekend by Brandon Rios and Urbano Antillon, two lightweight brawlers who are squaring off on SHOWTIME and seem sure to be everything Haye and Wladimir Klitschko are not.
First off they both come to fight, not to feint or faint. Secondly, neither is likely to remove his shoe to claim a broken toe undid them, as Haye tried after losing a 12-round decision in one-sided fashion to the ever cautious Klitschko.
Lastly, and most importantly, Rios and Antillon dislike each other in a way that is not a con job. Haye ran such a con on the public and the media, claiming he found both Klitschkos so abhorrent he would decapitate them. As he found out, it's easier to wear a T-shirt with a picture of a decapitation than to actually carry one out. The former only requires a few dollars. The latter requires a few cojones, which he clearly lacked. Haye's problem against Klitschko (who himself will never be mistaken for Braveheart) was not a broken toe. It was a broken heart.
Now maybe he and Klitschko did dislike each other but neither was prepared to do much about it. Rios and Antillon, on the other hand, are far more prone to act upon their distaste for the other when they square off over the WBA lightweight title Rios presently holds.
Each is a come forward brawler, two free swingers who care more about taking you out than the risk involved to do so. That has made Rios a rising star and it's what has brought Antillon a most unusual thing – a third shot at a world title after two unsuccessful tries.
Antillon (28-2, 20 KO) came up short against Miguel Acosta in 2009 (he was stopped in the 9th round of a quite entertaining fight) and lost by a hair to Humberto Soto last December. The latter was a fight so closely contested a rematch was set for earlier this year but Soto pulled out with a late injury.
That landed him a date with the trash-talking Rios, who thus far is most famous for making disparaging remarks about Manny Pacquiao' s trainer, Freddie Roach. Rios later claimed he was not mocking Roach's on-going battle with Parkinson's even though an HBO camera caught it all on tape in the days leading up to Pacquiao's destruction of Rios' stablemate, Antonio Margarito, last November. Rightly or wrongly it was written off as the mindless act of a 25-year-old who at times acts before he thinks.
Saturday night Antillon is hoping that repeats itself and Rios seems game after having convinced himself that Antillon is not only trying to take away his livelihood but also insulted his wife. When the fight was first being hyped several months ago, Rios stood at a podium and claimed, "He's opening his big f------ mouth and taking about my wife. You don't mention my family. He made it personal.''
Frankly, with these two guys it was personal from the outset even though Antillon is still trying to figure out what he said about Rios' wife. That will be of little import on Saturday however because he knows the more important fact for him is that unless he wins there will be no fourth world title fight in his future.
"I know you don't get this many opportunities in boxing,'' Antillon has conceded. "I've put in the time. I've put in the work. I'm ready to become a world champion. I hope Rios is prepared to bring his best because that's what he's going to get from me.''
Antillon will have to be at his best to hold back Rios (27-0-1, 19 KO), who won his portion of the fractured title with a sixth round knockout of Acosta in February. That's the same Acosta who stopped Antillon, a fact likely to make Rios bolder than normal – which is a difficult concept to imagine.
"It's not like I hate him but I don't think we like each other,'' Rios joked. "I don't like him. He says he is going to test me and that I'm not ready for what he is going to bring to the table. I hope he tests me, but he had better be bringing a really big table. If it's a small table, he is definitely getting knocked out.
"I worked very hard to win the belt. No way I'm giving it up in my first defense. Not against this guy!''
"This guy'' is one of the most dangerous uncrowned lightweights in the world, a fighter who will try to pressure Rios and take advantage of his youthful inexperience and the flaws in his sometimes wild style.
The difference between Rios and Haye is that while Haye makes threats he does not intend to follow through on, Rios comes to the arena with only one set of intentions: bad ones.
"This is a great fight for television and the fans,'' Rios promised. "We are both going to be getting after each other.''
After being subjected to watching Klitschko paw at Haye with his jab for 12 rounds and then jumping straight back and grab him behind the neck every time Haye moved toward him, Rios-Antillon promises to give fight fans what they pay for and what they deserve – a real fight.
While neither is the most skillful practitioner of the sweet science both are emotionally invested in what someone who steps between the ropes is supposed to be invested in: they are fighters who take things personally even when there's nothing to be taken personally but the presence of the other anywhere near them.
"He's an idiot for continuing to still talk about what he says I said about his wife, and I'm surprised he's still talking about it,'' Antillon said several days ago. "He's an immature kid who is going to get taken to school. I am totally confident and ready and deep down know I am going to win this fight. Rios is a strong guy but he leaves himself wide open a lot.
"People know what they are going to get in our fight. Fans want action, and that's what they are going to get from the opening bell -- non-stop action.''
Antillon's trainer, long-time southern California fixture Abel Sanchez, believes Rios' fixation on what Antillon may or may not have said about his wife will lead him right into the spots they most want him to be – inside the hurt locker.
The ring is no place for wild emotion. It is a place for precision, aggression and a well-thought out plan. Sanchez is sure Antillon has one. As for young Rios? Not so much.
"This is going to be a great fight for as long as it lasts,'' Sanchez said. "If he needs to come in with a big chip on his shoulder, if that's what is motivating himself for this fight, then I think he's making a mistake.
"I definitely think that's been a distraction for him. He better be totally prepared because Urbano has never been more confident.''
Neither has Rios but then again when has he ever not been? While Sanchez cautions fighters to rein in their emotions, the man who knows Rios best believes it is that emotion which has brought him to this moment and it is what will get him through it.
"I know Brandon and it is not a big deal for him to be mad at an opponent going into a fight,'' trainer Robert Garcia said. "Actually, it's a good thing for him. If it wasn't, I would worry about it, or say something but Brandon needs it. It won't affect how he performs. I would be more concerned if he wasn't on edge before a fight.
"Brandon is a true fighter who is 100 percent healthy and fit. He's ready for 12 hard rounds if that's how long it lasts. We're all looking forward to Saturday night.''
So is promoter Bob Arum, who believes the antidote for the dyspepsia fight fans felt after Klitschko-Haye is a night at the fights with Brandon Rios and Urbano Antillon.
The truth of that will be revealed Saturday night on SHOWTIME but I wouldn't bet against it. I also wouldn't bet against Antillon this time, either.
WOW! These guys won't have to do much to make REAL know-their-syet boxing fans forget about the Doc WK-Haye bum-and-chump fest from what I heard. Antillion is coming to fight -- and hopefully without anymore of Footgate's broken toe or blisters. [Wow! How things have changed. Just imagine a Yank and a Brit coming up with foot excuses in a game where you'd expect hand ones. Wow! Maybe I'm missed something. Isn't boksing HAND-TO-HAND combat?]
Because Antillion has some cojones and will bypass the foot-excuse jive, Bam Bam is going to spank his arse HARD. Bam Bam is going to bust him up and beat him down like a goldminer blowin' up _____ to collect that gold. That's RIGHT! Let it be told that Bam Bam is quite young and bold and will make this sucka fold. And, unlike in the Doc WK/Haye Bout, no jive-turkey ____ needs to be sold. YUP! A severe arse thrashing Antillion is gonna take. He is in dat squared jungle with a dangerous young lion, not a fruitcake. Bam Bam has warned him like the noisy rattling of a rattle snake. But some people just don't believe and won't listen for heaven's sake. Holla!
Better watch some of Rio while you can... cause I don't know how long he can keep this up... (I hope forever but you know how that goes).... Also Paul lays it on the line the same night against that's done 2 or 3 times as many rounds in the amateurs as Paul has fought in his entire boxing career. Paul is busy, but Lara is sharp and quick. To Paul.... respect is everything... he's so stubborn he'll still take risks just to prove he's the baddest.... and Lara wants to show his complacent effort against the surprisingly resourceful Molina...was a fluke... Some serious televised violence on tap tomorrow nite... can't wait!!! WHERES THE PREDICTION PAGE EM?
This is going to be a barn burner, for as long as it lasts.
Wlad and Haye fought? See, I already forgot!
Hehehehehehe! The Roast is such a wise guy. Hey fly guy, you are one funny dude. I bet it is hard for sadness to survive around you. You ROAST that jive ashes. Holla!
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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A powerful storm system is set to impact the Capital Region's weather through at least Thursday morning. The low pressure area associated with the storm system was beginning to intensify over the Ohio Valley this morning, and is forecast to track north of east to a position off the New Jersey coast by this evening, and then to the Gulf of Maine and Canadian Maritimes during the day on Thursday.
The Capital Region will be located to the south of a rather impressive surface temperature contrast zone that will be one of the driving factors for precipitation production with this system. As such, temperatures will start the day today above freezing, but gradually decrease during the course of the day. Near freezing temperatures are forecast to be over the region by sunset as northerly winds drive colder air into the area at the surface. Meanwhile, temperatures in the mid levels of the atmosphere will remain above freezing through at least the early evening hours across the Capital Region, which implies that precipitation may take the form of a wintry mix of rain, freezing rain, and/or snow. The evening commute may be a bit difficult across the region.
Overnight, as the storm moves to our east, colder air will infiltrate all levels of the atmosphere, allowing for a changeover to snow in all areas. Some accumulations are forecast for the overnight period, especially over areas to the north and west of the Capital Region, and in interior New England, where significant snow accumulations are forecast.
Winds will also increase markedly across the region tonight, with gusty conditions expected through the day Thursday as the low pressure system will have become quite strong and deep by this point, and will be 'doing battle' with an area of high pressure attempting to build in from the upper Midwest. Temperatures will become quite cold in the wake of this system during the day on Thursday, and the forecast gusty winds may bring wind chills down to dangerous levels at times, especially during the overnight hours Thursday.
High pressure builds into the region to close out the work week, and as we head into the weekend, some temperature moderation is expected. A weak system looks to graze the area on Saturday, and may bring with it a slight chance for some rain and/or snow showers.
...Below is the official forecast for the Capital Region and vicinity...
**National Weather Service WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY In Effect From 2 PM Wednesday Afternoon Through 11 AM EDT Thursday**
Today: Rain showers, mixing with freezing rain, sleet and snow at times. Early high in the upper 30's with temperatures slowly falling to near 30 late in the day. Northerly winds 5 to 10 MPH. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent. An inch or less of snow, along with minor icing accumulation, possible by dark.
Tonight: Freezing rain and sleet mixing with and changing to all snow during the evening. Periods of snow overnight. Becoming windy and turning sharply colder. Low 10 to 15. Northwest winds increasing to 15 to 30 MPH with some higher gusts to near 35 MPH possible. Wind chill temperatures of 5 to 15 below zero. Snowfall accumulations of 3 to 5 inches possible overnight.
Thursday: Snow tapering to snow showers during the morning. Intervals of clouds and sunshine by afternoon. Windy and cold. High near 20. Northwest winds 15 to 30 MPH with some higher gusts to near 35 MPH possible at times. Wind chill temperatures zero to 10 below zero. Additional snowfall accumulations of an inch or so possible.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear and cold. Low near 5 above zero. Northwest winds 5 to 15 MPH. Wind chill temperatures of 10 to 20 below zero.
Friday: Mostly sunny. High near 35. South winds 5 to 10 MPH.
Saturday: Intervals of clouds and sunshine with a 30 percent chance of rain and/or snow showers. High near 45 and low near 30.
Sunday: Mostly sunny and windy. High near 35 and low near 15.
Monday: Mostly sunny and windy. High near 30 and low near 10.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny. High near 35 and low near 10.
Useful links...
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Current Surface Weather Map
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