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Those girls of Italy, take heed of them.
They say our French lack language to deny
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Before you serve. (2.1.21-24)
Before his young noblemen run off to join the foreign war, the king of France warns them to watch out for those dangerous "girls of Italy." This is weird, right? Especially given that we never see any Italian women trying to seduce French men. (It's actually the other way around.) So, what's going on here? Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom thinks this passage could be evidence that the king may have picked up an STD from an Italian woman and that the STD may have led to his mysterious illness. There's no direct evidence in the play for this but it's an interesting theory, don't you think?
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Ay, so you serve us
Till we serve you. But when you have our roses,
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And mock us with our bareness. (4.2.22-25)
Here, Diana uses a common metaphor to describe the loss of female virginity. She suggests that her virginity is like a rose to be plucked by men like Bertram, who, more often than not, turn out to be love-'em-and- leave-'em kinds of guys. We see something similar in Hamlet, when Laertes compares a guy having sex with a virgin to a "canker" worm invading a delicate flower before its buds, or "buttons," have had time to open (Hamlet, 1.3.39).
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When midnight comes, knock at my chamber
I'll order take my mother shall not hear.
Now will I charge you in the band of truth,
When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,
Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me.
My reasons are most strong, and you shall know them
When back again this ring shall be delivered. (4.2.65-72)
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This video of one of my lifters perfectly demonstrates how a slight change in balance can affect your lifts. If you observe the first pull, his hips get just a little higher faster than his shoulders. Although he can still scoop into the power position, the entire combined mass of the lifter and barbell are very slightly overbalanced forward. The pulling dynamic is excellent, but once the bar comes into the catch position, the body is slightly off balance forward and the weight is lost in front.
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Blogs You Should Read February 8, 2016Posted by dorigo in physics.
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As you can easily verify by checking the post date on the articles in this column, this blog is nearly inactive. It used to be the main site of my blogging activities from 2006 to 2009. In april that year I transfered my activities to www.science20.com , where I have been blogging since then. You can visit that site to keep informed of what is going on in the field of High-Energy Physics – you know, subatomic particles, fundamental physics, the Large Hadron Collider, and the like. All for laypersons, with some occasional plunges into more technical discussions.
Another blog I am contributing to since December 2015 is the one at amva4newphysics.wordpress.com, which is a collaborative column maintained by the participants to the AMVA4NewPhysics network, a Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission under the "Horizon 2020" program. The network members are 15 universities, research institutes, and industries united by the common goal of providing an innovative training structure for PhD students who want to learn cutting-edge statistical learning tools while doing research in particle physics with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC collider. The web page of the network is here. In the network blog you will find information on advanced classification and regression algorithms applied to particle physics problems, as well as discussions on science topics of the liking of the students enrolled in the network, who are the main contributors to the column.
Finally, if you can read Greek, there is another blog that I started five years ago, where I wrote a few posts about particle physics in that language. The blog has been maintained by a collaborator for a few more years, but I think the posting rate has significantly decreased recently. I will make an effort to keep that endeavour going, but it looks harder.
As for this blog, it will remain active with very scarce posting rate. As this site contains a lot of good reading material, much of it still valuable and not outdated, I think there is value in keeping it alive.
Tommaso Dorigo, February 2016
Searching for the A boson with CMS November 22, 2014Posted by dorigo in physics.
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I am quite happy to report today that the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has just published a new search which fills a gap in studies of extended Higgs boson sectors. It is a search for the decay of the A boson into Zh pairs, where the Z in turn decays to an electron-positron or a muon-antimuon pair, and the h is assumed to be the 125 GeV Higgs and is sought for in its decay to b-quark pairs.
If you are short of time, this is the bottomline: no A boson is found in Run 1 CMS data, and limits are set in the parameter space of the relevant theories. But if you have a bit more time to spend here, let's start with the beginning – What's the A boson, you might wonder for a start.
The A particle is one of the five physical states resulting from the breaking of the electroweak symmetry by the Higgs mechanism, when instead of the minimal insertion in the standard model Lagrangian of a single complex doublet of scalar fields, one inserts two such doublets. The Higgs mechanism works quite similarly: instead of having plugged in four degrees of freedom with the complex doublet, three of which get absorbed by the positive and negative charged W and the Z boson, which all get mass terms in the Lagrangian, and one remains as The higgs boson, we have inserted eight degrees of freedom, so we expect five higgs-like new states to appear.
Of the five higgses of two-doublet models, there are one positively and one negatively-charged one, two more scalars – the h and the H – and the pseudoscalar A. In the analysis it is assumed that h is the particle we found at 125 GeV two years ago. This typically makes the A heavy, although the space of parameters is quite complex and the phenomenology quite varied. As past searches of the A at lower energy have failed, the analysis concentrates on a mass range where the Zh final state is a possibility for the A disintegration: so the A is supposed to be heavier than 216 GeV -the total of Z and h masses.
CMS has collected 20 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV, and in that data sample there are tens of millions of Z boson decays to ee or μμ pairs. It is exactly there that the search starts. Then, two b-quark-tagged jets are sought in addition; the mass of the two b-jets is required to be close to 125 GeV; and a multi-variate algorithm is used to distinguish the selected data from backgrounds.
Data selection starts from millions of collision events and ends up with a sample of few thousands of them, where a possible A signal would be more easily seen. The initial selection includes two leptons from Z decay, then two jets events are kept, then only ones where the jets are b-tagged, and finally a cut is placed on the output of a multi-variate algorithm (a BDT, boosted-decision trees) which distinguishes data from backgrounds using the distinctive features of the A decay kinematics.
As the two leptons and the two b-jets are supposed to come from the decay of a single particle, the four-body mass is the most distinguishing variable to look at. However, if you just combine the mass of the two leptons and two jets your mass resolution will be good but not great: jet energies, in particular, suffer from a 10% relative resolution which smears a bit the resulting peak from a resonance decay. What is done in the analysis is to fit the four 4-momenta to the hypothesis that the leptons come from the Z and the b's come from the decay of the 125 GeV higgs. This "pulls" measured energies and momenta in the right direction and the final result is that the resolution on the four-body mass shrinks quite spectacularly, as you may check in the graph below.
You can see several mass peaks, relative to different mass hypotheses for the A boson, before (dashed curves) and after (full curves) the application of the kinematical fit. It is clear that this strongly improves the chance to observe a signal in the data, especially if there is a large background -mostly due to Z+bb production and top production.
One of the nice things about the analysis is that in the final data sample all contributing backgrounds are tightly constrained in normalization from a global fit to a number of control regions simultaneously. There are control regions that specifically select top-rich events, Z+bb-rich events, Z+b-rich events, e.g.; so the fit is capable of correcting the simulation prediction for the yield of each of them. Below, for instance, is the missing ET distribution of the control region rich in top-pair decays: you can see that the yellow top contribution dominates the data, so a match of data and simulation in this control region strongly fixes the top contribution.
In the end, the search for the signal is performed in the two-dimensional plane of 4-body mass and BDT output. This makes less easy to display the fit result, but one can produce projections, e.g. in the mass distribution. As the search is performed in a wide mass range, and the kinematics of the decay is strongly dependent on the A mass, three different BDTs are trained to select the signal. For the central mass region this is the mass projection:
If you are wondering about the few high bins near 320 GeV, well, that's a 2-sigmaish fluctuation, an effect which is entirely expected given the number of mass points that are independently investigated by the search. The result of the search is that there is no A boson in the data. Upper limits are derived in the context of two-doublet higgs models, and a series of such limits are obtained in the parameter space of the models. I refrain from showing those, as you can only appreciate them if you are an expert, and in that case I strongly suggest that you download the public CMS document describing the analysis, by paying a visit to the public web page of the analysis.
Standard Model or Minimal SUSY ? April 6, 2014Posted by dorigo in physics.
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(I posted the text below in my current blog, which is at this link; I post it here as well as I would like to keep this blog active by writing something here now and then – TD).
If I look back at the first times I discussed the important graph of the top quark versus W boson mass, nine years ago, I am amazed at observing how much progress we have made since then. The top quark mass in 2005 was known with 2-3 GeV precision, the W boson mass with 35 MeV precision, and we did not know where the Higgs boson was, or if there was one.
Today, the top quark mass is measured with a 770 MeV uncertainty and the W boson mass with a 15 MeV uncertainty. That alone is a reduction of a factor of 10 in the allowed phase space of those two parameters; but crucially, we no also know the Higgs mass with a 0.5% accuracy. This leaves very little space for the true parameters of the standard model. On the other hand, if the SM were to be enlarged to a minimal version of Supersymmetry, then the theory predictions would blow up considerably, as the MSSM allows much more freedom to those parameters as others (like squark masses) are varied.
The summary of the experimental situation is shown in the graph below, which Sven Heinemeyer produced today for this blog (thanks Sven). The graph summarizes calculations produced by Heinemeyer and his colleagues Hollik, Stockinger, Weiglein and Zeune. In the graph the horizontal axis shows possible values of the top quark mass, in the very restricted range allowed by the latest world's best CMS measurement; the vertical axis shows values of the W boson mass, in an even narrower range in absolute terms, thanks to precise measurements of that quantity performed by LEP2 and the Tevatron experiments. The experimental determination of those two parameters is symbolized by a grey ellipse which encompasses 68% of their probable values.
Then if we stay within the standard model, the Higgs boson mass measurements by the CERN experiments (+-0.7 GeV) force the two parameters to be bound to lie within the very narrow red line; if instead we take the MSSM as the true underlying theory, the whole green area is possible; different points of this area correspond to different value of other parameters (here a more liberal variation of the Higgs mass is taken, to cover more possibilities). The downward arrow symbolizes that as one increases the "mass scale" of the MSSM the allowed region moves closer to the SM line.
Note that in this graph the grey ellipse and the red line are the only experimental inputs; there is no "LEP indirect" oval here, as this would be too wide for the graph. In other words, the precision electroweak information from the Z boson studies of the nineties has become largely irrelevant in this particular view (it remains a formidable input to verify the general agreement of SM and data, if one studies other parameters).
So, what should we carry home from this graph ? I believe at least two things. One, that the SM likes the W mass to be a bit lower than what is currently measured, and the top quark to be a bit higher; the tension is however only mild -we are talking about just a bit more than one standard deviation for the disagreement. Two, that the MSSM is not killed by these measurements – it would live on regardless of the precise values of W and top masses, as the breadth of the green area shows.
Oh, and a third thing – the experimental measurements of these quantities rock!
Other considerations can be made, but I will stop here for tonight. Tomorrow I will be on a train at 6 in the morning, to participate in a 2-day open discussion organized by INFN in Rome, called "WHAT NEXT". A very interesting discussion on the long term plans of italian research based on the current status of particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and other fundamental investigations. I will have something to report on that later on…
Devotion to the Tevatron October 2, 2011Posted by dorigo in physics.
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(This post first appeared on my current site, www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor . Please note that I post on this site quite rarely. Please visit me on the science20 site for updates on experimental particle physics and more!).
I'm nostalgic tonight. The reason ? The Tevatron has finally stopped running, for good.
It's strange to find out one can mourn the shutdown of a synchrotron just as the passing away of an old friend, but that's more or less how I feel like tonight. And I am not even among the ones who can claim to have been around for the full duration of the machine's lifetime, like Giorgio Chiarelli – as Giorgio recounted here, he was there in the CDF control room when the first proton-antiproton beams collided the first time, in 1985.
I started working in CDF in June 1992. In the course of these 19 years I have learned all I know about particle physics, and I have met a large number of extraordinary people. Not only ones from CDF: the Fermi laboratories are of course a place where you interact with the "competitors" from the other experiment, DZERO -you work elbow to elbow, go to the same parties, seminars, and events, and you share joys and frustrations as the machine which feeds data to both experiments outperforms or suffers technical stops. Plus of course technicians, machinists, administrative staff: a number of people who simply did their job there, but who all shared the pride of doing their part for the success of this remarkable human adventure.
As Gary Taubes explains in juicy details in his book "Nobel Dreams" (1987), it was Carlo Rubbia in the late seventies who first launched the idea of a proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab. Back then, he got severely beaten up by the lab director -he had a bad record of changing horses mid-race and keeping proposing new projects. But Rubbia was right: the technology was just getting mature enough for such a machine to be built. In the course of six months Rubbia learned all there was to know, and then some, about making antiprotons; and then CERN accepted his project. The W and Z bosons were discovered by the SppS experiments in 1983. By then, the Tevatron was already in place at Fermilab. Too late to challenge the discovery of the vector bosons, but timely to provide a precise measurement of their mass, and to search for the sixth quark, the top.
The history of the Tevatron and its many successes will no doubt be told by people who have participated more actively and deeply in it than myself, so there is no point for me to try and do that here tonight. I only choose to tell a personal story here. One where I take the part of the moron, incidentally, but that's beside the point (and not that uncommon after all).
I was in charge as Scientific Coordinator in the CDF control room a few years ago, leading a crew of physicists in the task of taking data as smoothly as possible during my seven-night shift. It was not the first time on that job, but I was eager to see data coming in -you get that kind of feeling when you sit during long nights waiting for something to happen. For a few times in a row during the past nights the sequence of injection of beams in the Tevatron had been started, and then aborted, for a string of reasons which were not immediately clear, and in some cases possibly caused by human errors. In a moment of scorn, I let go with a sarcastic sentence in the CDF E-log: "Injecting protons again. Let's see where they screw up this time".
Now I should explain that, since English is not my native language, I have often trouble gauging how strong words are in a sentence I say or write. To me it sounded a bit like saying "let's see where they find the trouble this time", or not too much worse than that. But it was by far too careless.
So I was not intending to insult anybody's competence, but the sentence was indeed inflamatory, plus of course unfit to an E-log. Worse than that, and not considered by me at the moment, the CDF E-log was readable by anybody, Main Control Room Machinists included. Heck, you too could read it in real time.
The following morning I was not even reproached too much for my stupid sentence, but from the feedback I got in a number of ways, that one time I learned quite something. I learned that out there, reading the CDF E-log, there were not just us in the control room, plus the other people on shift in the Main Control Room and in the DZERO CR, plus a handful of people on call for any problem the hardware or software could be facing. There was a whole community of colleagues who read the E-log as frequently as an addicted user reads his or her Facebook homepage. People who cared for the machine, for the data taking, for the success of the experiment. People who had devoted their life to make this as good Science as it could possible be. People who were ready to provide help to solve problems even when they were not on call, and who woke up in the middle of the night just to see whether a new store was in. All of these people had felt outraged by the lack of respect I had shown to the Tevatron machinists.
I have always said I appreciate men and women who regardless how serious their job is do not neglect to take it with a grain of irony; and yet I saw a flaw in that line of reasoning, confronted with the devotion of so many brilliant minds to the common good -the advancement of Science at the hands of the machine they had contributed building and operating for many years.
So the Tevatron has been turned off today, and many people are sad, each in their own private way. To many, the Tevatron was their life. To all, it was the machine that created the opportunity of getting together to work in a friendly, stimulating environment, growing professionally and intellectually. It was a fascinating machine, which deserves a whole chapter in a history of particle physics. 28 years old, with its glitchs and hiccups, by now old and patched up, the Tevatron was still incredibly performant until the very end. Farewell, Tevatron!
Greek Blog November 1, 2010Posted by dorigo in Blogroll, internet, language, news, personal, physics, science.
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I had forgotten to link it from here, but the internet always provides a chance for redemption. So here I go. A couple of months ago I have opened another wordpress blog, where I write on particle physics – in Greek. This is a rather extravagant choice, and I think I need to spend a few words explaining it.
First of all, there is my love of the language, which I have been studying for two years. It is a difficult language to master, due to the interplay of several factors: the different alphabet, the enormous wealth of words, and the rather quick evolution of rules and uses. Maybe because of these challenges, I have found it quite entertaining to get on top of it.
The second reason for writing in Greek is, in fact, that I have yet a lot to learn, and I think that writing about science is a very good exercise, allowing me to find a solution to the translation problems I may encounter if I discuss about my job – physics – in that language.
The third reason is that I think there is no offer whatsoever in the web for a blog about particle physics in Greek (if you know any, let me know). So I might just try to fill that hole myself.
In short, the new blog is an experiment. I do not know, nor can predict, how long it will last; for now, if you know modern Greek please stop by. Below is a list of my recent efforts:
ICHEP blog July 12, 2010Posted by dorigo in astronomy, Blogroll, cosmology, internet, news, physics, science.
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Just one line here to mention that since May there is a new blog out there – a temporary blog that will cover the end of July event in Paris – the International Conference on High Energy Physics -, how we get there, and the aftermath. The effort includes several well-known bloggers in high-energy physics, and is definitely worth following.
You can visit it here.
Some recent posts you might want to read March 6, 2010Posted by dorigo in Blogroll, internet, news, physics, science.
Tags: B decays, CDF, CMS, Higgs boson, particle physics, quark, top quark, W boson, weak interactions
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As the less distracted among you know, I have moved my blogging activities to scientific blogging last April. I wish to report here a list of interesting posts I have produced there in the course of the last few months (precisely, since the start of 2010). They are given in reverse chronological order and with zero commentary – come see if you are curious.
- Understanding muon decay
- CDF on Higgs decays to diphotons
- Bose-Einstein interferences: the collider view
- Are quarks and leptons elementary or composite?
- Constraints on the Higgs mass from the muon anomaly
- Tevatron Higgs searches: past and future
- Exotic hadrons: there is the rub
- The fascinating search for rare W decays
- Three papers on the muon anomaly
- Particle physics in 2020
- Triggering: the subtle art of being picky
- New rare B decays nailed by CDF: a door to new physics?
- The approved CMS Phi signal with 900 GeV data
- Three top quarks: a door to new physics ?
- Luminosity, Michel Parameter, Phase space: what a lousy title for a great post
A reminder for the distracted October 5, 2009Posted by dorigo in physics.
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This blog is now inactive since April 15th, 2009, and although I will try to keep it active, by posting links every once in a while to my most relevant articles on the Scientific Blogging site which now hosts my main activities, you should update your bookmarks if you have not done so yet. I keep getting about 500 daily hits here, mostly from google searches of the few good posts among the thousand and more that I have put together in over three years of activity.
So please visit my other blog at Scientific Blogging! You will not be disappointed.
One million hits June 29, 2009Posted by dorigo in Blogroll, internet, news, personal, physics.
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While this site has been basically inactive for over two months, it still draws some residual traffic due to google searches and links; so the hit counter has continued to click after April 15th, although at a rate of roughly a third of what it did before.
Today's news is that we got past the millionth click. Thanks to everybody for your interest in particle physics and in my reports. Please visit www.scientificblogging.com/quantum_diaries_survivor to keep up-to-date with particle physics!
Physics Highlights – May 2009 June 2, 2009Posted by dorigo in news, physics, science.
Tags: CDF, DZERO, Fermi, heavy quarks, Hess, QCD, Randall, standard model
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Here is a list of noteworthy pieces I published on my new blog site in May. Those of you who have not yet updated their links to point there might benefit from it…
Four things about four generations -the three families of fermions in the Standard Model could be complemented by a fourth: a recent preprint discusses the possibility.
Fermi and Hess do not confirm a dark matter signal: a discussion of recent measurements of the electron and positron cosmic ray fluxes.
Nit-picking on the Omega_b Discovery: A discussion of the significance of the signal found by DZERO, attributed to a Omega_b particle.
Nit-picking on the Omega_b Baryon -part II: A pseudoexperiments approach to the assessment of the significance of the signal found by DZERO.
The real discovery of the Omega_b released by CDF today: Announcing the observation of the Omega_b by CDF.
CDF versus DZERO: and the winner is…: A comparison of the two "discoveries" of the Omega_b particle.
The Tevatron Higgs limits strenghtened by a new theoretical study: a discussion of a new calculation of Higgs cross sections, showing an increase in the predictions with respect to numbers used by Tevatron experiments.
Citizen Randall: a report of the giving of honorary citizenship in Padova to Lisa Randall.
Hadronic Dibosons seen -next stop: the Higgs: A report of the new observation of WW/WZ/ZZ decays where one of the bosons decays to jet pairs.


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Votorantim's Looming IPO a Test of Sentiment About Brazil, Emerging Markets
Brazilian cement and concrete producer Votorantim Cimentos is plowing ahead with its multi-billion initial public offering this week. The offering will be the second-largest in the world this year, becoming a key test of investors' perceptions of Brazil and the broader emerging markets.
"The (IPO) plan is on track. Of course, this time investors are more concerned, not so much about the company, but with the country's economic conditions," said a banker with knowledge of the deal, who declined to be named for this article. The person declined to discuss investor demand for the company's shares so far.
Votorantim Cimentos, Brazil's largest producer of heavy building materials such as cement and concrete, wants to raise up to 10.26 billion Brazilian reais ($4.8 billion), and the deal is expected to be priced on Wednesday. If it goes through, it will be the world's second largest IPO this year, behind the 11.5 billion reais raised from another Brazilian deal, the spinoff of BB Seguridade, the pensions and insurance unit of Banco do Brasil, in April.
In its way is the rapid decline in enthusiasm for all things emerging markets, and Brazil in particular. The prospect of slightly slower growth in China, combined with the possibility that the U.S. Federal Reserve may begin "tapering" its easy-money policies, has led many money managers to pull back from their exposure in emerging markets, mostly because they have to pay down the cheap dollar loans before rates start to go up.
At the same time, investors have become frustrated with Brazil. Economic growth has been muted over the last two years, and looks set to disappoint again this year, with latest forecasts pointing to sub-2.5% GDP expansion. Government policy has been roundly criticized, for too much intervention, either directly or indirectly, as well as mixed signals on interest rates, inflation, public spending and the currency. Last week, Standard & Poor's changed its outlook on Brazil's sovereign rating to negative, raising the possibility of a downgrade, after years of upward momentum.
Votorantim will be hoping that investors can distinguish between the immediate problems facing the broad economy, and the longer-term growth prospects for companies that manage to navigate these difficult times successfully.
"I think that they [companies] are doing a good job operating in a difficult environment, and there are very good opportunities for continued economic growth in Brazil," said Geoffrey Pazzanese, a portfolio manager at Federated Investors, who oversees $636 million in equities with 9% of its assets in Brazilian stocks. Pazzanese bought shares in BB Seguridade, but said he won't buy Votorantim's shares, as he's not interested in the cement industry. "I believe much of the investor pessimism for Brazil has to do with the government's policies, which have attempted to engineer certain solutions rather than letting the free market work."
Votorantim Cimentos — controlled by local billionaire family Ermirio de Moraes – plans to offer a total of 540 million units, including an overallotment, with each unit expected to price between BRL16 and BRL19.00. Each unit consists of one common share and two preferred shares. Investors can reserve shares in Votorantim until Tuesday. Trading is expected to begin on Thursday.
Of the total offer, around 70% will be new shares and 30% will be sold by the Moraes family through a secondary offering. The company did not reveal what the offering will represent as a percentage of the company's total ownership.
Votorantim plans to use the proceeds to expand and add more products in Brazil, as well as for potential acquisitions of heavy building materials companies or assets outside Brazil. It already has operations in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere in Latin America.
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Good and Evil, Not Black and White
Those Who Go Before Us in Faith
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With the seventh and final of the books
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and the fifth of the movies (Order of the
Phoenix) both released last July, how
can anyone deny that J.K. Rowling's
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I was not introduced to Harry, as
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but by a professor at a Catholic university.
She sees these books in the tradition
of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien,
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I immediately fell under the spell of
the boy with the lightning-shaped scar
on his forehead and Hogwarts School
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volume sold just in the United
States within a day of its release. The
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million the first month.
So when a telephone poll conducted
by a local TV station showed that 58
percent of viewers consider Harry
Potter "dangerous" rather than "harmless,"
I was shocked.
Good and Evil, Not Black and White
Most people who think Harry Potter is
dangerous probably do so because they
connect magic with Satan. But the
Harry Potter series is not built on the
demonic sorcery that the Bible forbids.
No spell taught by Hogwarts ever starts
by invoking the devil.
Rowling's world is divided into wizards
and Muggles (non-magical folks).
The villain of her series, Voldemort, is
promoting the purity of the wizard
"race." The ultimate of this kind of
racism shows up in Deathly Hallows,
with scary echoes of Nazism and ethnic
cleansing. Christians should applaud
making prejudice, racism and arrogance
the cardinal sins in this universe.
Admittedly, the series is sophisticated
in its depictions of characters.
Rowling moves her readers from seeing
her characters as all-good or all-bad to
having bits of light and dark in each of
them. As Harry's godfather, Sirius Black,
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Eaters (supporters of Voldemort).
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in his youth and discovering his weakness
for power; even Rowling's "wisdom
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We are what we become by our
choices in life. What more Christian
idea is there than this?
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It was the self-sacrificing love of Harry's
mother that saved him as a baby. Lily
Evans Potter tried to protect Harry
rather than save herself. That kind of
love is reminiscent of Jesus' death on
the cross. Love, says Dumbledore, is
the one thing Voldemort does not
understand and always underestimates.
Rowling is a practicing Christian
(Church of Scotland-Presbyterian). She
relies on Christian symbols (unicorn,
phoenix, serpent) and allusions (veil
of death, hallows, King's Cross). Specific
lines of Rowling's text echo the Bible.
For example, Dumbledore tells Harry
that help will always be given at Hogwarts
to those who ask ("Ask and you
will receive"—Luke 11:9).
Two of Rowling's biggest themes are
essential Christian dogma: Death is not
the end of our lives and the communion
of saints surrounds us.
Dumbledore tells Harry that death is
the "last great adventure." His pet
phoenix, Fawkes, dies and rises again
and again (Books 2 and 5).
In real life, Rowling endured the lingering
death of her mother from multiple
sclerosis and admits she struggled
to keep her faith. But in her books, she
puts forth a shining Christian affirmation
of the afterlife.
And she draws strength from the
communion of saints—not that she
calls them saints. The "saints" in
Harry's life (his parents and parents'
friends) intervene in his world, giving
him protection in the duel with
Voldemort in Goblet of Fire and reassurance
and company in his "death
scene" in Deathly Hallows. I don't think
there's ever been such a comforting
portrayal of the communion of saints
as this last. In Rowling's scene, I see
my grandmothers standing beside me.
The Real Magic of the Series
Harry Potter's magic "draws on the
forces of love, redemption and forgiveness
to conquer Voldemort at last,"
writes Teresa Malcolm in National
Catholic Reporter (August 3, 2007).
According to John Granger, author of
Looking for God in Harry Potter, Rowling's
series employs "magic that shows—in
story form—our human thirst for a
reality beyond the physical world
around us."
Professor Granger, who is Greek
Orthodox, took some convincing to
appreciate Harry Potter. At first he tried
to keep the Harry Potter books out of
the hands of his seven homeschooled
children. But then he read them.
Now he says, "I am convinced that
the fundamental reason for the astonishing
popularity of the Harry Potter
novels is their ability to meet a spiritual
longing for some experience of the
truths of life, love, and death taught by
Christianity but denied by secular culture."
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Now I know this is only an anime, but seeing how stupid everyone in a class can be is kind of ridiculous. I have some friends who were pretty stupid during high school but not to the point of where they couldn't understand anything of a math problem. And my impression of a Japanese schooling system should be of a pretty high standard in terms of quality to ensure most people can see some kind of logic in the problem. That aside, the stupidity of the class did bring about some laughs. Especially stuff like Jinko's little outburst and the whole class begging Kotoko to ask Naoki to tutor them.
Still I'm rather surprised that Naoki decided to tutor the class anyway. I'd seriously thought he'd be a prick and turn them all down, but with so many people begging him he couldn't refuse. Though if Kotoko wasn't around I guess he would've refused without a second thought. Although I'm not sure what kind of problems they were studying, but to solve them in 2 seconds is damn impressive, but being able to tutor a whole group is rather impressive upon itself. He'd make a pretty good teacher.
This episode I find a little underwhelmed since the pacing has gone by so fast where everyone was on final exams, and in the last 1/3 of the episode it covered pretty much Christmas. I'd thought we'd at least see an episode covering both Christmas and New Years as holiday events usually produce some pretty good story and character development. Next episode the start will probably cover New Years but I'm guessing we won't see much development as next episode seems to focus on Naoki and Kotoko applying for university. At this pacing, I'm estimating they'll be out of high school by episode 9 or 10. Hopefully we'll see some major development before then.


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With jury selection in his criminal bank fraud trial set to kick off next week, former Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. leader Lee Farkas's lawyers are busy trying to bar testimony from a group of the government's key witnesses to keep the accused mortgage lender off the stand.
Federal prosecutors claim Farkas, the Florida businessman who built Taylor Bean from a small Florida mortgage company into the nation's largest mortgage lender not owned by a bank, engineered a massive multibillion-dollar bank fraud that brought down Taylor Bean and its main lender, Colonial Bank.
He has pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of bank, wire and securities fraud. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Jury selection in his trial is set to start Monday in Alexandria, Va.
Farkas's legal team wants to exclude the testimony of several potential government witnesses, among them three senior managers from Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. Taylor Bean bundled mortgages into securities and sold them to investors such as Freddie Mac. Many of those mortgages were guaranteed by Ginnie Mae.
William Cummings, Farkas's defense lawyer, says the government is attempting to "disguise" these expert witnesses as "lay" witnesses in order to circumvent heightened disclosure standards. In criminal trials, expert witnesses have greater latitude to testify to their opinions on subject areas of their expertise.
Cummings, a white-collar defense attorney based in Alexandria who also once represented "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, says if the witnesses can testify unchallenged, Farkas will be denied his constitutional right to confrontation, as he will not have the information necessary for an effective cross-examination.
"In addition, because of this reality, he will be forced to take the stand in his defense thus infringing on his constitutional right against self-incrimination," Cummings said in court papers.
All things being equal, Cummings said, he'd prefer that Farkas not testify.
"As a criminal defense lawyer, the general rule of the thumb is to keep the client off the stand," Cummings said in an interview Thursday.
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria scheduled a hearing for Friday on the expert testimony dispute.
Cummings has repeatedly sought to slow down the pace of the proceedings to little avail. In recent weeks, a number of defendants—Taylor Bean's former president and treasurer, as well as the former head of Colonial Bank's mortgage warehouse lending division—have pleaded guilty to criminal charges connected to the scheme. Colonial, an Alabama bank that collapsed in 2009, was Taylor Bean's main lender and provided the company with $3 billion in mortgage financing.
According to court filings, executives at Taylor Bean and Colonial contrived to double- and even triple-pledge loans held for sale. In this way, Taylor Bean masked its financial problems and maintained its licenses as mortgage lender, seller and, importantly, issuer of mortgage-backed securities.
In 2009, as Colonial teetered near collapse, prosecutors say Farkas also engaged in fraud in connection with an attempt to convince the U.S. government to bail out Colonial Bank with $553 million in TARP funds.
Taylor Bean and a group of other investors had sought to pump $300 million into the company, which would have enabled it to become eligible for federal bailout funds. But the two sides failed to get regulatory approvals, and that plan was scuttled.
Taylor Bean filed for bankruptcy protection in August 2009 after federal regulators froze its accounts and suspended its authority to make loans insured by the government agencies. Taylor Bean was forced to shut its doors after federal regulators and the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided its Ocala, Fla., offices at a time of reports that the company's accounting firm halted an audit after uncovering evidence of massive fraud.


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Robert, Kristen spotted kissing canoodling
According to the sources, Robert and Kristen spent some off-screen romantic moments during the concert. They exchanged some cute smiles and laughter as they get close. "Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were snapped looking pretty cozy at a Kings of Leon concert in Canada Saturday night," reports E! online.
Many of Eclipse cast like Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, and Jackson Rathbone were present on the concert. High School Music star Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were also spotted at the concert but they were not pictured, reports justjaredjr.buzznet.com.
However, earlier many ardent fans of Robstein had denied the budding romance between Rob and Kristen. They had even condemned the reports of their affair. Now will they agree that they are in love or not?


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Marietta High School was the Division I first-place winner at the eighth annual Ohio State Fair Cheerleading Contest. Cheerleaders from high schools all over Ohio competed in the competition.
Williamstown residents will pay 50 cents more per month to have their trash picked up every week after the city council renewed an agreement with the company that previously held the city contract. Washington County Disposal CO. Inc. of Williamstown was awarded the three-year contract.
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Marietta's new harbor is one reason owners of the adjacent Historic Harmar Railroad Bridge have decided to keep the 19th-century structure open after vandalism nearly forced its closure two months ago. 24-hour security at the marina will allow the walkway between the city's east and west sides to stay open. About $500 in damages has been done since the beginning of summer.
Preregistration was held in Civitan Park for girls looking to become Girl Scouts. It was a day of games and workshops for around 150 girls.
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Dr. F.G. Rohss, eye refractionist, just received the latest up-to-date electric eye testing instrument that readily detects and corrects all refractive errors.
A meeting was held by the Marietta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the decision was unanimous to hold a protest against the erection of the new public library building on the Mound Cemetery or upon either of the Elevated Squares.


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A Deluge of Legal Claims Hit UBS' Puerto Rico Unit Over Closed End Bond Funds
Another wave of legal claims regarding Puerto Rico bond funds could soon wash over the island's brokers.
Some lawyers say they are preparing dozens of new claims against UBS Financial Services Inc. of Puerto Rico, the Swiss bank's Puerto Rico brokerage unit, and that ultimately hundreds of new cases could still be filed. And as Puerto Rico's bonds continue to fall in price, more investors are likely to take legal action, attorneys say.
About 400 cases have been filed so far against UBS and other brokers, according to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which will adjudicate the disputes. At issue are about two dozen Puerto Rico bond funds, which buyers believed were safe and secure but instead plummeted in value last year. Investors filing the claims include retirees and widowers.
"As the news keeps getting worse and worse down there, more and more clients who otherwise were standing on the sidelines are finally realizing that this problem isn't going away for them," said Jeff Kaplan, an attorney at Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein PA. "A lot of clients get convinced that the market will storm back and their losses will be recovered. That's a pipe dream in my view."
In statement, UBS said that investors in the funds received returns that frequently exceeded what was available through other investments. It also said that the concentration of the funds in Puerto Rico securities was well documented in prospectuses and quarterly reports.
Puerto Rico bonds sold off last year amid worries that the island's financial problems were growing and that it could be downgraded to junk status, which ultimately occurred earlier this year. After recovering somewhat, bond prices have fallen again this year as investors fear defaults after the island commonwealth passed a law that would allow it to restructure certain of its debts.
Mr. Kaplan says he has signed up more than 100 clients but hasn't filed all of his cases yet. Sam Edwards, an attorney at Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas LTD LLP, said his firm has filed about 20 to 30 cases but has between 60 and 70 clients signed up. Another lawyer, Andrew Stoltmann, of Stoltmann Law Offices, said he has filed 10 cases with another 20 pending.
Finra, which will appoint arbitrators to adjudicate the cases, plans to hear most of the cases in Puerto Rico because many of the investors live on the island. That's typically how the group decides the location of its hearings. It is flying in arbitrators from Texas and elsewhere in the southeast to help out, given that there are few arbitrators based in Puerto Rico. Arbitrators can make as much as $475 a day.
Some lawyers were hoping other venues would be made available. They argue these traveling arbitrators—who they say are often retired and have the time needed to travel to other venues—tend to be biased against individual investors because they want to curry favor from defense lawyers, who handle more cases than plaintiffs' attorneys and could try to blacklist arbitrators they don't like. Finra says its arbitrators are neutral and qualified.
The first hearings are expected to be held later this year, though decisions could take longer, lawyers say.
Mr. Stoltmann says he plans to argue that the Puerto Rico bond funds were not suitable investments for his clients, given their age, net worth or investment objective. He will also argue that meaningful risks regarding the funds weren't adequately disclosed.
"We want our day in court," Mr. Stoltmann said. "Damn the torpedoes and let's try this thing, and let the arbitrators decide."


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This is not a weak class of linebackers, but it's not a particularly strong one, either. The real value will be between picks No. 10 and No. 32, where most of the quality names will start coming off the board.
Like defensive line, this group is defined largely by potential. If some of these players — like Alabama's Courtney Upshaw and Dont'a Hightower — can live up to their size, speed and highlight tapes, then this will be a much better year for the position than expected. By our count, there's at least four or five teams looking to upgrade at the linebacker position in the first and second rounds.
There is also a good deal of in-between players, some who could end up as rush ends and others who could mold into more traditional linebackers. Versatility, though, especially with the variety of fronts being used by defenses, is key and this class is certainly not lacking there.
Based on the vast array of defensive packages teams use, a linebacker that can stay on the field and be just as valuable in coverage, as he is standing in against the run, is key.
Names like Dallas' Sean Lee (a second-rounder out of Penn State in 2010) come to mind as someone who could play both middle linebacker positions in the 3-4 and drop back against some of the better intermediate passers. His name resonates especially given the complexity of Rob Ryan's 3-4 defense and how many different ways he's been able to show his effectiveness.
Obviously, if you're looking for more of a pure rusher, Von Miller set the standard last year when he registered 11½ sacks in his first season with the Broncos. He forced a fumble on his first-ever pro play and broke up four passes on the year, while remaining a solid presence against the run, too.
1. Luke Kuechly, Boston College
6-3¼, 242. 40 Time: 4.55
He's your prototypical NFL middle linebacker and did a nice job standing out on a less-than-perfect Boston College defense that often left him having to shed his fair share of blocks. The ACC's all-time leading tackler, he exploded at the combine. He proved that he could measure up to any of the SEC guys, including Dont'a Hightower, who he managed to outrun in the 40. Although Kuechly still needs work in pass coverage, we see him as the first linebacker off the board and someone that can shore up the middle of a 4-3 scheme.
2. Courtney Upshaw, Alabama
6-1½, 275. 40 Time: 4.75
We saw all we needed to see regarding Upshaw when watching the BCS National Championship game this year. There's a play in the first quarter where he's the lone man up the field facing the option. Not only does he force the quarterback to pitch out, but he chases the running back down for no gain. He can fit in as a 3-4 rush end or outside linebacker, but has enough coverage skills to survive pretty much anywhere on the front seven. A great, versatile pick and likely the second linebacker off the board.
3. Shea McClellin, Boise State
6-3½, 259. 40 Time: 4.63
Like Upshaw, McClellin is everywhere on tape. He's never out of a play and has closing speed as good as anyone else listed here. He can play with his hand on the ground and can rush from the outside, and held his own against a higher batch of talent at the Senior Bowl. He will be graded much higher for 3-4 teams, though, and his stock could depend on what certain teams have in mind for their first-round pick already. But don't be surprised to see him get snatched up in the late first or early second round.
4. Dont'a Hightower, Alabama
6-2¼, 265. 40 Time: 4.65
He's consistently in the quarterback's face and may be the best pressure inside linebacker in the draft. Though he'll likely be drafted late first round, early second round, Hightower comes in with the experience of playing an NFL-ready 3-4 scheme in Alabama coach Nick Saban's multiple front. He had a knee injury in 2010, but not one significant enough to slow him down for the remainder of his college career. Plus, he has about 20 pounds on most other linebackers at his position but doesn't lose much in the way of speed, clocking in at 4.65 at the NFL combine.
5. Lavonte David, Nebraska
6-0½, 233. 40 Time: 4.59
He is a little small, yes, but David shined the brightest against the best talent in football last year. Consider the following: Against Michigan, 17 tackles, 2½ for a loss. Against Wisconsin, three tackles for loss and two sacks. Against Ohio State, 13 tackles and a forced fumble. David is tough to pin down and although he will be glazed over completely by some teams schematically, he will be a steal in the second round for a team needing a solid weak side linebacker.
Terrell Manning;;North Carolina State;;6-2¼;;237;;4.67
Ronnell Lewis;;Oklahoma;;6-2;;254;;4.66
Mychal Kendricks;;California;;5-11½;;240;;4.45
Demario Davis;;Arkansas State;;6-2;;235;;4.57
Zach Brown;;North Carolina;;6-1½;;243;;4.47
Kuechly and Upshaw will likely have the most significant roles for their respective teams next year. Look for both to be Week 1 starters. Beyond that, this draft will be more about the steal than the big-time name. There is no Von Miller in this class, but it doesn't mean there won't be someone capable of putting up his numbers that's available in the second or third rounds.
This position ranks among the Jets' greatest needs. Don't be surprised if they come out of the first round with a difference-making outside linebacker, albeit one who may have played defensive end in college (senior personnel consultant Terry Bradway said last week that seven of the eight OLBs on the Jets' board were college DEs). Among the best options: South Carolina's Melvin Ingram, North Carolina's Quinton Coples and Alabama's Courtney Upshaw. The position desperately needs an infusion of young talent: Calvin Pace is 31 and hasn't been as productive as hoped, and Bryan Thomas is almost 33 and coming off Achilles surgery. The Jets could also stand to add at inside linebacker. David Harris isn't going anywhere, but trading Bart Scott was a possibility this offseason and the team could use another option.
—Jenny Vrentas
This is a need for the Giants — as it seems to be every April. They added former Bengal Keith Rivers via trade and re-signed Chase Blackburn, plus they continue to expect big things from last year's sixth-round pick Jacquian Williams. Still, a young run stopper wouldn't be a bad thing. Alabama's Dont'a Hightower visited but he'll likely be gone by the Giants' pick at No. 32.
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2004 - David Rakowski
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Dallas attorney Adelfa Callejo may have cancer surgery next week
Dallas attorney Adelfa Callejo may have brain surgery next Tuesday for two cancerous tumors.
The surgery was scheduled for Thursday but fluctuating blood pressure resulted in the cancellation, her nephew J.D. Gonzales said. Even next week's surgery date could change, Gonzales added.
This is Callejo's third bout with cancer. She is 89 years old. She is the first Mexican-American woman to graduate from law school at Southern Methodist University.


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The Eurozone on Life Support
Are the eurozone leaders close to resolving their debt crisis? Probably not, said Columbia Business School professors at a panel discussion on February 2, 2012, titled "Understanding the Euro Crisis" that was sponsored by the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business. Powerful economic trends will continue putting stress on the eurozone — so much so that one speaker predicted the exit of one or more countries from the euro in the next 12 months.
Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, moderated the discussion. Panelists were Shang-Jin Wei, director of the Chazen Institute; David Beim, professor of professional practice; Michael Johannes, professor of finance and economics; and Emi Nakamura, David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business.
Beim said that euro member countries never should have formed a currency union. "Germany and Greece are so incredibly different that they have no business being in the same currency together," he said. Before the euro was launched in 1999, Germany had long had strong productivity growth, while Greece, Portugal, and other countries in southern Europe had low productivity, he said. As a result, the German currency was strong, while currencies in the south were devalued. In the 1990s, the weak currencies made products from southern Europe cheaper, enabling Greece and Portugal to export their goods.
But after they adopted the euro, the southern countries no longer received a boost from falling currencies. While German exports boomed, sales of southern goods sagged. The southern countries borrowed heavily to pay for imports. "Suddenly an enormous payment imbalance developed between the north and south," he said, adding, "When I first looked at this picture, I was amazed. I thought this is doomed. It can't last."
Who Did It Right, Who's Doing It Wrong
Emi Nakamura cautioned that it would be costly for Greece or any other country to abandon the euro. Under the European Union treaties, there is no plan for how customers can pay their bills outside of the eurozone system. "The euro was designed intentionally to make it difficult to leave," she said. "Banks would have to be closed in Greece. This could cause major disruption, and it would be very hard to have any kind of economic activity in the short run."
Instead of dissolving the monetary union, member states could strengthen it by following the model of the United States, where individual states belong to both a fiscal and monetary union, Nakamura said. "We share the same currency, and the federal government has powers to tax and spend."
The fiscal legacy of the United States could prove instructive for EU leaders, she noted. When states ran up debts in the 1800s, the US federal government refused to bail them out. Officials in Washington decided that states should be responsible for their own fiscal discipline. The emphasis on discipline has worked well over the years, said Nakamura, and states have been forced to run balanced budgets.
The same kind of approach could work in Europe, she said. "The United States decided that it is hard to have a monetary union without a fiscal union," she said. "The question for Europe is whether it wants to become more integrated and move in the direction of the US model."
Michael Johannes, meanwhile, focused on the strategy of the European Central Bank (ECB), which recently relaxed the collateral requirements of banks and bought bonds of Greece, Portugal, and other troubled governments. He held out little hope that the move would stop the bleeding, noting that similar approaches had been tried in Japan and other countries that faced debt problems. "We have learned over the last few crises that central bank interventions actually make the problems worse," he said. The interventions "give us a false sense of relief that the problems will be fixed. That delays solving the problems and allows them to compound."
Johannes said that a default by Greece could lead to a resolution of the crisis. Seeing the economic downturn that Greece would experience after a default, other countries would raise taxes and trim benefits, and the crisis would dissipate, he said.
The Big Winner: China?
While Asian countries are known as prominent exporters to the eurozone, the euro crisis may be less harmful for China than it first appears, said Shang-Jin Wei. "The raw trade numbers can be misleading," Wei said. "They exaggerate how much China is dependent on foreign markets."
He said that exports account for 32 percent of China's GDP. But only half of that figure is from domestic content. The rest is foreign products that are incorporated in Chinese goods and then shipped overseas. As a result, the domestic content of exports to Europe is only 5 percent of China's GDP. "Declining trade will not translate into a terrible outcome for China," he said.
One Asian country that might not fare is well is Korea, because it relies heavily on foreign bank loans. If financing is cut off, then the economy could suffer. However, China is not as vulnerable because it obtains heavy financing through foreign direct investment. Those investments could continue, even if European banks struggle. "Perhaps China will emerge from this crisis in a relatively strong position," Wei said.


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By By Larry Stevens, FORSCOM Public AffairsJuly 22, 2009
FORT McPHERSON, Ga. -- The Army Ground Forces Band will return to the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City, Ga., to perform a free concert Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. The concert entitled, "To the Colors: Tribute to the Stars & Stripes," will feature rousing, patriotic music fit for an audience of all ages. Led by commander and conductor Maj. Domingos Robinson, the band's repertoire for the evening performance will include Dudley Buck's "Festival Overture on the Star Spangled Banner," the "Fort McHenry Suite by Julie Giroux," "Carolyn Bremer's Early Light," "Star in the Field of Blue" by Paul Whear, and several pieces composed by "The King of March," John Philip Sousa. The band performed a special concert at "The Fred" in August last year in honor of opera's great lyric tenor Luciano Pavarotti. As one of only three Army bands with a national touring mission, the Army Ground Forces Band has traveled throughout the country, performing at local, regional and national events. The Army Soldier/musicians also teach "master classes" and clinics at high schools and colleges, while on tour. The Army Ground Forces Band is an outreach asset for U.S. Army Forces Command, headquartered at Fort McPherson. The 58 Soldiers assigned to the band have passed a highly selective audition and are among the finest musicians in the U.S. Army Band Program. The majority of the band's Soldiers have also studied music at some of the finest universities and conservatories in the United States and abroad. The concert is free, and no tickets are required. To learn more about the band, visit the band's Web site www.armygroundforcesband.com.


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Don Boucher of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest claimed (July 27) that the U.S. Court of Appeals "didn't rule" that logging in Ashland's watershed "is out of compliance with the National Forest Management Act." In fact, the court held that logging exceeds standards for soil cover in the local forest management plan. Defying a forest plan violates the law.
Citizens should be concerned about use of logging slash to cover exposed soils because it increases fire hazard, contrary to the purpose of Ashland Forest Resiliency.
A common misperception is that logging will protect Ashland from fire. It should help to reintroduce fire on our terms. Excluding fire from the watershed is not realistic or desirable. — Jay Lininger, Ashland , senior scientist, Center for Biological Diversity
Southern Oregon has an opportunity to vote for a gubernatorial candidate who will listen to the needs of our communities. Rep. Dennis Richardson is such a man. He is from our area, he has shown great leadership as state representative, he has moral fiber, he has raised his family in Southern Oregon, he knows and listens to Southern Oregon needs and problems, and gets things done by choosing the highest caliber of staff.
If you are tired of Salem seemingly looking toward the metropolitan areas of our state as the base with all the clout, vote for a voice from our valley. Rep. Dennis Richardson has my vote of confidence and my vote for a more responsive government. Here's to our next Oregon governor, Dennis Richardson! — Ruth De Vore, Medford
Almost every weekend, my husband and I hike five to 15 miles somewhere in the Applegate. We appreciate the benefits to our fitness, and we enjoy the wildlife we glimpse, the spectacular vistas and the magnificent trees.
That's why I'm concerned about BLM's proposed Nedsbar sale. It will conspicuously denigrate numerous patches of the Applegate macro-environment with dusty road incursions, logging waste and scarred slopes. What harm it will do the micro-environment of water, air and soil we will all assuredly suffer later.
Some years back, BLM worked with local groups to create a program for selling log-able parcels in a way that worked for logging companies and their workers, regulators, environmental groups and the environment. Parcels actually sold in a way that didn't desecrate the environment. Can we please use that model again? — Kate Morse, Jacksonville
Please tell me I didn't hear on TV news that a grandmother was honored for being the first to buy recreational marijuana in Washington state.
I thought we honored people for acts of bravery and other great accomplishments. But being honored for buying marijuana, plus donating the clothing she wore at the time for posterity like it was the space suit worn on the moon? Just how crazy is this! — Mary Ann Johnson, Central Point
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