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From overhang to hangover: consequences of protectionist responses to the global crisis for low-income countries
As the global economic crisis unfolds, policymakers around the world are faced with increasing pressures to resort to protectionist measures in support of domestic producers. While observable recent protectionist trends are certainly a far cry from the spiralling protectionism of the 1930s, and the trade restrictions implemented so far are limited in scope, it is widely expected that pressures on policymakers to adopt protectionist measures will intensify as the crisis deepens. Inspired by the approach proposed in Bouet and Laborde Debucquet (2009), this paper employs a global computable general equilibrium (CGE) trade model to contrast the outcomes of a successful Doha agreement with the consequences of a scenario in which countries raise their import duties to the maximum levels compatible with current WTO obligations. The study complements the earlier CGE analysis of Bouet and Laborde Debucquet by using a more differentiated regional disaggregation with a particular focus on low-income regions in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, by adopting alternative factor market closures that allow for unemployment and underutilization of capital in the short run, and by incorporating the most recent (December 2008) Doha Round draft modality revisions in the analysis. The illustrative simulation results presented hereconfirm that a widespread resort to WTO-rule-consistent protectionism in response to the crisis would have drastic adverse implications for developing country trade and welfare, especially if factor market imperfections are taken into account. A swift successful completion of a meaningful Doha Round – i.e. a Doha Round that is not hollowed out by a plethora of exemptions - would gradually reduce existing binding overhangs considerably and would thus reduce the threat of a WTO-compliant rise in global protection that is bound to impede a global economic recovery.
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- Hertel, Thomas & Hummels, David & Ivanic, Maros & Keeney, Roman, 2007.
"How confident can we be of CGE-based assessments of Free Trade Agreements?,"
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Elsevier, vol. 24(4), pages 611-635, July.
- Hertel, Thomas & David Hummels & Maros Ivanic & Roman Keeney, 2003. "How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?," GTAP Working Papers 1324, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University.
- Thomas Hertel & David Hummels & Maros Ivanic & Roman Keeney, 2004. "How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?," NBER Working Papers 10477, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Liu, Jing & Arndt, Channing, 2004. "Parameter Estimation and Measures of Fit in A Global, General Equilibrium Model," Journal of Economic Integration, Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University, vol. 19, pages 626-649.
- Liu, Jing & Channing Arndt & Thomas Hertel, 2003. "Parameter Estimation and Measures of Fit in A Global, General Equilibrium Model," GTAP Working Papers 1200, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University.
- Bouet, Antoine & Laborde, David, 2008. "The potential cost of a failed Doha Round:," Issue briefs 56, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- Bouet, Antoine & Debucquet, David Laborde, 2009. "The potential cost of a failed doha round:," IFPRI discussion papers 886, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- Antoine BOUËT & David LABORDE, 2009. "The potential cost of a Failed Doha Round," Working Papers 2, CATT - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, revised Jul 2009.
- Yongzheng Yang, 2005. "Africa in the Doha Round; Dealing with Preference Erosion and Beyond," IMF Policy Discussion Papers 05/8, International Monetary Fund. Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)
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2013 Steelers Draft Prospects: Florida safety Matt Elam shows two sides
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Reagan Maui'a Takes To Twitter To Clear The Name Of Steelers Safety Troy Polamalu
Wednesday night I alerted you that the name Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu had surfaced in a report about the Manti Te'o fake internet girlfriend hoax that is still trying to be solved. On Thursday, the player responsible for dragging his name into the story has taken to Twitter to make sure that everyone knows that Polamalu did not meet …
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Latest Manti Te'o Story Now Includes The Name Of Steelers Safety Troy Polamalu
"Bizarre". That is the only word I know how to describe the whole Manti Te'o alleged fake internet girlfriend hoax story right now. If you have been hiding underneath a rock, I am not even going to try to rewrite the story up until this point. If you need to be brought up to speed on it, I highly suggest you read the full story that Deadspin broke …
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Traumatic Encephalopathy Center's Co-Director Talks Junior Seau, Safety Issues In Football
Dr. Robert Cantu, the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at the Boston University School of Medicine, joined Starkey and Miller o…
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Last week, when the Steelers promoted offensive lineman John Malecki from the practice squad, it was a strong hint that center Maurkice Pouncey wouldn't be playing on Sunday night in Cincinnati. This week, with Pouncey listed as probable for Sunday's visit from the Redskins, John Malecki will once again have something in common with Joh…
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Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Mundy fined for hit on Darrius Heyward-Bey
A report on ESPN broke the news Wednesday that the NFL has fined Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Mundy $ 21,000 for his hit on Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey.This fine is monetarily on par with fines levied this season on players for player safety related hits, and should not have come as a surprise to either the fans or Mundy. Wh…
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During the course of training camp, we will be giving our readers a look inside the roster at the players that will attempt to make up the 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers. Today, we take a look at veteran safety Will Allen. PRO (114-26/5-0): Signed a three-year contract with the Steelers on March 8, 2010…standout special teams […]…
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Former Steelers safety Anthony Smith has announced at the age of 28 that he is retiring from the NFL. Some Steelers fans wish that he would have walked away before the 2007 game vs the Patriots. That's the day that he "guaranteed a victory" over the Pats, only to be burned for two scores in […]…
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Pittsburgh Steelers' Ryan Clark and Troy Polamalu Best Safety Combination in the NFL
If Seahawks fans were upset over our tongue-in-cheek evaluation of a recent Pro Football Weekly feature which pitted the Steelers defense against Seattle's in a vote-to-win contest (and believe me, they were), they'll get even more agitated about this.
SB Nation's Ryan Van Bibber ranked the Steelers' safety combination of Ryan Clark and Troy Polamalu as the league's best, edging out Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor of Seattle.
While I'm sure Steeler Nation won't raise the victory flag over this, both teams have excellent safeties heading into 2012.
All four made their respective Pro Bowl teams – Thomas and Polamalu were voted in and Clark and Chancellor were injury replacements.
While Polamalu and Clark represent an older guard among the league's best, Thomas and Chancellor are players on the rise. It just takes a lot to top the anchor points on the league's top scoring defense.
Van Bibber listed the Arizona Cardinals, Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills as third, fourth and fifth, respectively. It's interesting to note Pittsburgh has both the oldest safeties on the list, and was the only team in the top five to make the playoffs in 2011. The other four teams could surprise the league this season, though. The Chiefs get back several players lost to injury last year, Seattle looks to improve their quarterback play substantially by not starting Tarvaris Jackson and Buffalo's addition of DE Mario Williams and the return of stud RB Fred Jackson could help stave off a second-half collapse like they suffered in 2011.
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Long story short, Lucky Tower 2 is finally here! We're super glad it's finally out. Give it a spin and enjoy some crazy items available. It features voiceacting from cool people all over Newgrounds, some nice medals and all kinds of crazy things.
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Stephen Harper's chief spokesman is denying a report that he interfered in the efforts of the Montreal Port Authority's board to appoint a new president.
"There was no interference whatsoever," Dimitri Soudas said Tuesday, responding to a
Globe and Mailstory quoting former federal public works minister Michael Fortier saying he told the port board to ignore any political pressure coming from Soudas in 2007 to name Robert Abdallah as head of the port.
Mr. Fortier said he asked his office to assure port officials that "the prime minister did not have a preferred choice and that the selection of a new president was up to the board of directors and its members," according to the report.
"The federal government indicated its preference for Mr. Abdallah, former director general of the City of Montreal," Mr. Soudas told
Postmedia News. "We expressed a preference and made it crystal clear that the decision was ultimately for the Board of Directors of the Port of Montreal to take.
"The president of the board, Marc Bruneau, refused to call it political interference at the time. The Board ultimately chose someone else who resigned a few months later. The port made its decision, and our government accepted and supported it."
The board ultimately chose for the job Patrice Pelletier, a former executive with Bombardier Inc., SNC- Lavalin Group Inc., and L-3 Communications Spar Aerospace Ltd. He left the post quite suddenly in 2009 following a dispute with the board over an ambitious $2.5-billion port redevelopment plan.


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While some of their albums were released on the all-but-dead DVD-Audio format years ago, Queen has yet to dip their toes into high definition audio for the new generation, but that's changed today. Universal Music Japan in cooperation with Onkyo, has unleashed 96khz/24-bit versions of Queen's Greatest Hits 1 and 2 to the masses. Each album runs a fairly typical Japanese price of 3000 yen ($35), or you can pick up individual tracks for 300 or 350 yen each ($3.50-$4).
Anyone is free to download the Windows Media Player DRM'd files, but when you play them, you'll be taken to the all-Japanese site to process payment. While I didn't go through the purchase process, it may or may not be region locked after you put in your card. Translation of the purchase page is as follows:
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Tech Connect Magazine has come up with something interesting for Operating System junkies to play with while they wait for the ever delayed release of MicroSoft Vista. With their guide in hand, try converting Windows Server 2003 into a home OS. They talk about the good and improved parts, and those services best skipped for non-server machines.
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Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, the late Armenian international oil tycoon, was a born collector. He began at seven in a Constantinople bazaar, buying Greek coins with a Turkish five-shilling note his father had given him, went on to accumulate one of the world's most prestigious art collections, valued at up to $20 million. His scouts scoured the international art market for him. If they liked anything, Gulbenkian sent an expert; if the expert approved. Gulbenkian went himself. He bought only what he liked, purchasing for pleasure, never for investment or speculation, and he allowed...
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Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the April 1, 2002 issue of QuintZine.
In this period of downsizing and recession, it may behoove workers to be flexible and willing to be reassigned, reported Stephanie Armour recently in USA Today. Lack of flexibility may mean getting laid off. "Employees are being thrust into new jobs as companies reassign workers rather than lay them off," Armour writes. "The changes can be dramatic. Airline ticket takers are taking security positions, factory workers are handling desk jobs, and marketing employees are doing customer service work."
Willingness to undergo cross training and learn new skills can be key to job retention. "The tactic is being used as employers respond to fluctuating market demands by shuffling staffers around. They're also seeking to retain skilled employees rather than recruiting again when the economy rebounds," Armour reports.
- Hold back on your brilliance. Don't describe stellar accomplishments that go beyond the scope of the job you're interviewing for.
- Launch a pre-emptive strike. Be the first one in the interview to bring up the overqualification issue. Assure the interviewer that you want to work for the company and won't be in a big hurry to move on.
- Ease up on salary demands. Realize that you probably won't earn the same salary as in your last job and prepare to be flexible.
"After a decade in which 'the workplace' has almost exclusively meant the office, the skilled trades have quietly enjoyed a renaissance — attracting renewed public appreciation for their craftsmanship and quality, as well as a new generation of workers eager for the hands-on satisfaction of creating work that is meant to last generations.
"The skilled trades actually began to make a comeback in the 1970s with the growth of the historic-preservation movement, the Monitor reports. But the trend accelerated in recent years, as consumer and commercial tastes have continued to swing back toward more historical and traditional building styles.
"Today, craftsmen (and women) can be found making everything from dry stone walls, to architectural ironwork, to ornate terra-cotta figurines and cornices."
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TORONTO - After a big win at home to wipe away the taste of a nasty drubbing earlier in the week, the Leafs get some reinforcements for their next assignment.
High-energy forwards Mike Brown, who missed three games due to suspension, and Freddie Sjostrom who has missed five games over the past few weeks due to injury, both are expected to return for Saturdays high-profile visitors to the Air Canada Centre, the Washington Capitals.
It felt good in practice, Im ready, said Sjostrom, who has been bothered by a leg injury that has limited his skating power. Its what I needed to see today.
To make room for the additions, the Leafs sent forward Marcel Mueller back to the Marlies following his first three-game taste of NHL play.
Also its uncertain whether enforcer Colton Orr will be back in the lineup after banging his head on the ice in Thursdays 5-2 win over the Ducks. Wilson said Orr had a nasty bump on his forehead.
Were just being cautious, Wilson said. Were not even sure if he has any injuries but we want to make sure hes all right. Every ones attuned to concussions these days, but we want to make sure hes all right.
The Leafs rebounded nicely on Thursday night with a solid team effort to record a 5-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks in a performance that looked nothing like the 7-0 pounding they suffered to the Rangers in New York the previous night.
Saturday's contest will be the third meeting between the Caps and the Leafs this season, with each team winning once in a shootout.
Washington hasnt scored more than three goals in a game in its last 12 outings (6-2-4, 2.17 goals per game).
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Battlestar Galactica's television run may have ended but the series will live on in a new MMO. Bigpoint announced today that they will be publishing a browser-based MMO called Battlestar Galactica Online.
"Players will be able to choose to play as cylons or humans in a constant struggle to control the universe or just survive its perils," states the press release. "A blend of tactical space combat, exploration, and mission-based gameplay will provide a diverse experience. The dramatic missions will define the game's overall storyline, enabling the player to delve into mysteries of the Battlestar universe."
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"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself" – Andy Warhol
Have you ever been advised that all you need is some time? Definitely this advice is handed out when your heart is broken or you are grieving the loss of someone you love. The idea is that when there is enough time between you and your loss, you will heal.
Is it really time that does the healing or is it how you change as time passes that does the healing?
As a leader you know that there are situations when it makes sense to avoid conflict. An appropriate time to avoid conflict is when you can sense that everyone needs time to cool down. If you are observing a situation where the discussion is becoming unreasonably heated and participants are becoming too emotional and are at risk of damaging their professional relationships with one another, step in and prescribe a cool down period.
What happens during the cool down period? Does the issue magically resolve itself? Do unreasonable people become reasonable? The issue may be resolved during the cool down period and unreasonable people may become reasonable. Time helped to make these changes possible, but time alone did not make the changes. The issue was resolved because the parties involved were able to calm down and think clearly. The unreasonable person became reasonable because she used the time to think about her actions and to think about how she really wants to behave. Perhaps you used the cool down period to speak with each party individually to help them express their concerns and to help them see beyond the emotional aspect of the conflict.
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Usually you have to wait for the DVD to come out before you get a gag reel or outtakes from a movie. But that's now how the makes of "Bad Teacher" roll. Check out a mildly amusing 2-minute outtake clip and a hilarious (and quite NSFW) gag reel from Jake Kasdan's "Bad Teacher", opening everywhere next week.
Some teachers just don't give an F. For example, there's Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz). She's foul-mouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate. She drinks, she gets high, and she can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiancé, she sets her plan in motion to win over a rich, handsome substitute (Justin Timberlake) – competing for his affections with an overly energetic colleague, Amy (Lucy Punch). When Elizabeth also finds herself fighting off the advances of a sarcastic, irreverent gym teacher (Jason Segel), the consequences of her wild and outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers, and even herself an education like no other.
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Financial Analysis of Implementing an Anaerobic Digester and Free Stall Barn System on a Mississippi Dairy Farm
The installation of an anaerobic digestion system and a free stall barn on a Mississippi dairy farm is only feasible with the presence of a cost-share plan. A 60% cost-share plan is the minimum amount of support a farmer must receive in order to install both facilities.
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Look, we kinda dig Rhymefest. His "Angry Black Man On the Elevator" with Lil' Jon was the jumpoff. Amazingly. And, "Jeff N Fess" from Return of the Magnificent? Bad-ass!
In a couple of days he's dropping the Michael Jackson "Dedication" mixtape Man In the Mirror. [SIDEBAR: Which is worse? Looking in the mirror and seeing Michael Jackson? Or seeing Rhymefest? You only have one choice.] According to a boasting Myspace bulletin, don't go thinking he "did some cheesy sh*t; you know...just rapping over Thriller, Billie Jean, the standard classics. Oh no, my brothers and sisters: we dug in the archives for this one."
Which is exemplified in "Never Can Say Goodbye" featuring Talib Kweli, which I suppose is based on a song called "Never Can Say Goodbye," which must surely be the most obscure Michael Jackson track ever.
His boastfulness doesn't end there:
Let it be known: This is the first dedication album ever made like this. Anybody else who attempts to do it is a f*ckin' biter.
Ruh-ruh. Looks like someone hasn't heard The ARE's joint with Oh No and Kay. I'd venture to guess a lot of people haven't. So hop on over to FWMJ to download it. Then login to Myspace and send Rhymefest the link. He'll thank you, and the rest of us at Card-Pullers, Inc™.
Not for nothing, but I also want to point out JJ Brown's Re-Release Therapy, which took the vocals from Ludacris' Release Therapy and paired them with Jackson 5 beats. It's a mash album, not a "dedication", but it's flawless, superior to the original, and worth a mention. Some of us at SBHQ are feeling a little apathetic towards what we've heard from Man in the Mirror, but we understand Fest's game. He's a rapper; the boasting is par for the course.
Either way, I'm looking forward to it, because anything that uses old MJ beats can't be that bad. And also, Mark Ronson! Hello?
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A project to identify a viable business within a failed European airline operator and then secure agreement with stakeholders for the implementation of that plan
Sabena, the Belgian airline, went into liquidation in November 2001 following the effects on the airline industry of the September 2001 terrorist attacks. A consortium of banks and financial investors asked Arthur D. Little to develop a viable business plan for Sabena's regional airline business, Delta Air Transport.
Working with the management team we identified options for the business. Having quantified and documented the chosen option we then supported negotiations with the numerous stakeholders.
The stakeholders were able to agree the plan and services recommenced. We were subsequently asked to support the successful negotiations between DAT and Virgin Express, helping to define the strategic and organizational shape of the merged entity and acting as 'honest broker' during negotiations. We have subsequently assisted with the post-merger integration process.
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With the new Lexus GS on sale and the company keen on refreshingmost of its models this year, it was about time to meet an updated 2013 RX. Thankfully, Lexus has delivered a teaser photo of the new RX and promised the model will be revealed at the Geneva Motor Show.
The RX is finished with Lexus' signature hourglass/spindle grille, which will likely continue to all of the company's other refreshed models this year. The front end will also feature the company's signature LED running lights – which happen to be shaped like the letter L, of course. The rest of the RX might not be visible in Lexus' teaser photo, but full shots of the crossover, which were previously available through a leaked promotional brochure, suggest little else has changed.
There will be two models that will premiere at the Geneva Motor Show: the facelifted Lexus RX450h, and a new RX450h F Sport spin-off. Lexus hasn't shown exactly what the F Sport RX will feature, but if it fall in line with other F Sport models, we'd expect to see some sportier exterior styling touches, a few suspension changes, and unique different interior trim.
We've little reason to believe there's much new underhood. If so, the RX450h will continue to utilize a 3.5-liter V-6 and a pair of electric motors (three, if fitted with all-wheel drive). Presently, that system delivers a net 295 hp, although there is a chance that figure could grow, especially for the F Sport package. A similar system employed in the 2013 GS450h sedan cranks out nearly 338 hp; we think that extra power would be perfect for the sportier F Sport package.
We'll hear more about this model next week when it hits the floor in Geneva. For more on the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, including videos, the latest photos, and more information, click here to visit our 2012 Geneva Motor Show homepage.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police say an impaired pedestrian was hit by a car Monday afternoon near 17th and Wooster Streets.
Police say the pedestrian walked into traffic and was hit.
She fell to the ground but only suffered a scraped knuckle according to police.
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PHILADELPHIA, April 16 (UPI) -- The brother of a woman who died in the Philadelphia abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell described the chaos in the clinic at Gosnell's murder trial Tuesday.
Damber Ghalley told the court he brought his sister Karamaya Mongar to the clinic for an abortion in 2009, and was informed afterward, "He (Gosnell) said the procedure was done but your sister's heart stopped."
Ghalley then explained the chaos at the clinic as firefighters and paramedics arrived to transport Mongar, 41, to a hospital, noting firefighters needed bolt cutters to open an emergency exit.
Gosnell, 72, is on trial for one count of third-degree murder in Mongar's death, and seven counts of first-degree murder of infants allegedly born alive during abortion procedures and allegedly killed by Gosnell, using scissors to cut their spinal chords, the news website philly.com reported.
Mongar died at University of Pennsylvania Hospital the day after the procedure, and prosecutors allege she died when Gosnell's untrained staff gave her an overdose of Demerol to anesthetize her.


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South Park - Preview @ Venturebeat
Venturebeat previews the soon to released South Park: The Stick of Truth about the Jew class. Apparently the Jew class is a cleric you play in-game.
I expected more off-color jokes as a Jew, and if what I saw during the preview is representative of the full game, playing one is full of laughs and not particularly offensive. No Jew gold around my neck. No Moses-as-MCP Cone. You sometimes hear faint echoes of "Jews, Jews are lame" in the background (a line from the South Park Christmas Special's Hanukkuh song). But I didn't see anything that pushed the edge of decency.
The Jew, says Ubisoft rep Jon Miller, is essentially South Park's cleric class. So it — and the Jewish humor the cartoon's known for — could draw a lot of players; a lot of role-playing fans enjoy the mix of combat and healing powers that come with priest classes. And I wouldn't be surprised if they, too, find the Jew to be pretty innocuous overall.
And this is stunning. South Park is known for its offensiveness — Ubisoft's even censoring scenes featuring abortions and anal probes for some overseas markets. But when it comes to the Jew, I didn't see anything that I would consider offensive at all. It may come later in the game.
Information aboutSP: The Stick of Truth
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Modern
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
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So these are the chords that I based off the music video from the episode 'A Song For Europe'.
G C G Am
(My lovely, lovely, lovely horse) My lovely horse (My lovely horse)
Running through the field
C G Am F
Where are you going with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?
I want to shower you with sugar lumps
Am F
And ride you over fences
Polish your hooves every single day
Am D G
And bring you to the horse dentist
C G Am
(My lovely, lovely, lovely horse) My lovely horse (My lovey horse)
You're a pony no more
Running around with a man in your back
Am F C
Like a train in the night, yeah, like a train in the night...
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Damage From Likely Tornadoes in Iowa Recently [VIDEO]
Obviously, last night was a very stormy one in Iowa. Across Iowa Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, KCCI reports 32 possible tornadoes were reported. In one particular Iowa town, there was a great deal of damage left behind.
In Seymour, in south central Iowa (mapped below), the damage is very visible from the air in the video at bottom.
A 90 mile-per-hour straight line gust of wind was reported in Benton County, just outside Belle Plaine. Trees down were a common sight around eastern Iowa last night, as was building damage. Here's a destroyed chicken coop from Buchanan county. Thankfully, there were no chickens inside.
The damage reports and confirmation of tornadoes continue to come in today.
EF-2 #Tornado Rating in Centerville (Appanoose Co). Estimated peak wind: 115-125 MPH from Monday evening storms. #iawx
— KWWL (@KWWL) March 7, 2017
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With a season cancellation deadline of 5 p.m. today looming at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is asking players to take another look at management's latest offer.
Musicians rejected the management offer made Friday because it does not address their concerns over compensation and electronic media rights. Instead players called on management to make a counter-offer to a proposal they made April 2. Both proposals arose from the intervention in the dispute by Mayor Chris Coleman
However, in a letter this morning, Coleman told musicians he believes the management offer resolves their outstanding issues.
He concludes: "None of your remaining concerns ... rise to the level of importance that would be worth jeopardizing the long-term viability of this orchestra. I urge all the musicians to work together to save this Saint Paul treasure."
Management also responded that the musicians proposal adds hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of the contract which the orchestra can't afford.
SPCO Interim President Dobson West said cancelling the season would have huge implications for the orchestra, which is already behind schedule for next season.
"We would be in a position where we really can't sell tickets unless we are really sure we are going to have an orchestra, and we won't be able to raise money if we don't have a season and that would put us in a very bad position. And put us in a position where we would really seriously need to look at suspending operations," West said.
Musician negotiator Lynn Erickson said she's not sure what may happen today.
"I would hope that we could come to an agreement by the end of the day. We really want to be back on the stage playing concerts. But it is up to management. They need to address our concerns and respond to our proposal," Erickson said.


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Putting MyAlerts to Work
Below are a few sites that are using MyAlerts to power their Customer Driven Marketing strategy, solving some of their top shopper issues and to help capture and cultivate higher engagement from their online shoppers.
Client Examples & Results
Neiman Marcus Last Call uses MyAlerts intent marketing platform to allow their site visitors to setup personalized designer alerts. When new items are added MyAlerts sends personalized alerts to customers driving them back to the site sometimes several times per day and providing the highest relevancy marketing possible.
One of the nations largest home retailers uses MyAlerts to capture the previously lost revenue for out-of-stock products. They capture nearly $1 million a day in future purchase potential with 50% of their customers opting in to get alerted when products are available.
BJ's Wholesale Clubs are always adding new products and quickly clearing out products on their site. Using MyAlerts they allow their online shoppers to get new item alerts for the categories they want, and shoppers can favorite products to get price alerts on items they intend to buy when they go on sale, which minimizes margin erosion at the end of any product life.
See how True Religion increased sales by 400% in the first month by allowing their customers to track the sizes and colors of their premium designer jeans. This not only delighted their customers but now also gives them visibility to the unmet demand of their clients.
"In our very competitive retail category, outdoor sporting, MyAlerts allows us to differentiate our customer experience by capturing intent and then converting active shoppers to buyers."
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Elizabeth Henderson: A CSA Mission to Taiwan
Farmer and author Elizabeth Henderson, whose book is Sharing The Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, recently took a trip to Taiwan to share her knowledge and expertise related to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). She wrote the following essay about her experience.
In their headlong rush to development, the people of Taiwan lost most of their connections to their farming traditions and the rural skills and wisdom of Hakka farmers or the island's indigenous tribes. But a rediscovery may be underway. Early in the summer of this year, the government proposed to change the country's laws on farmland, eliminating the protections for small-scale family holdings. The proposal precipitated a visceral response. Within ten days, citizens organized and thousands of people turned out on July 17 when the Taiwan Rural Front planted a rice field in front of the Presidential Palace in Taipei. It was, in the words of a Tao-Yuan planner, "a watershed moment". Rural organizers invited me to crisscross the island giving talks and visiting farms in the hope that Community Supported Agriculture will contribute to a "rural renaissance."
|Yi-Zih in the hoop house Community Center at the future Eco Farmpark at Tucheng Farm
Sponsored by the Urban and Rural Development Department of Tao-Yuan County and Chi-Mei Community University, Kaohsiung, from October 18 through 26, 2010, I gave seven talks and led discussions about Community Supported Agriculture in four different areas of Taiwan. Yi-Zih Liou, from the Chi-Mei staff, served as my guide and translator. Two summers ago, Yi-Zih spent a month on a CSA farm near mine in New York State, speaks English well and has a solid grasp of farm realities in both countries. On this tour, I spoke with engineers on the verge of retiring, farmers, community planners and rural-urban organizers. Despite a raging typhoon, over 100 students and teachers came to my talk at the Hsin-Yang-Pin Community College. The practical questions asked at all these sessions revealed that Taiwaners are thinking seriously about how CSA might be adapted to their culture: Why are you doing CSA instead of farmers markets? How big an area do you farm? How much do you charge for shares? How does your price compare with organic vegetables in a supermarket? Why are people willing to do farm work? Do you hire workers, how much do you pay them, how many hours do they work? A farmer who currently grows rice and sweet potatoes asked how we managed 70 crops, how far the members had to travel to the farm and to distribution, how much we spent on equipment, and how much land it would take to do a year round CSA.
At the Nature Farming Club at the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu, Chientai Chen, an engineer, shared his determination to change the condescending view the technical people he knows have of farmers. Chientai has a vision of providing training in farming skills for engineers so that they can retire to farms and give opportunities to the younger people who will help out and eventually take over. The Club holds potluck dinners and plans to start a CSA. He led a tour of their cooperative Rainbow Farm, shared by 20 families. They rent three small fields with heavy clay soils tucked in next to an 8-lane highway. I saw a bed of Asian greens and lettuces that a member of the group watered with a hose before getting down to hand weeding, a carefully trellised field of not yet ripe tomatoes in double rows on gray plastic, and a shed for shelter and storage. Nearby, a skilled farmer who teaches Chientai's group, was growing sweet potatoes in rotation with rice.
From Hsinchu, Yi-zih and I took the high speed train to Meinung in the south. The train station area in Hsinchu was farmland until recently. There are massive new apartment buildings with many empty apartments. Amidst the new buildings the open areas look neglected and weedy, marking time till the developers come. The train was on time, clean and fast with spacious seats. Whizzing past, I glimpsed the countryside – in mountainous areas, little villages with intense plantings of palms, tea, rice paddies. On the plains and wide river basins – more rice paddies, onions, fruit. Large areas of shaded crops – Yi-zih said it was papaya. No wasted space. Houses and factories with rice fields right up next to them. A few small corn fields. A dairy – animals under sheds. A man with no protective clothing spraying a crop. A lone person hoeing. A crew harvesting. Plastic greenhouses, a field of uncovered hoops. Low tunnels. A cemetery. Poultry – also entirely under sheds. In the Meinung area – large plantings of bananas and papayas and what I thought were palm trees, but Yi-zih explained were beetle nut trees.
The visit to Meinung was intense. We met up with Tseniong (Cheng-yang Chang) the director of the Chi-Mei Community College who had made contact with me in the first place three years ago and arranged for me to give seminars via skype for people in his community. It was his idea to translate Sharing the Harvest into Chinese. He was having a meeting with college staff at a pottery that had been a tobacco drying house. The potter-chef prepared a wonderful meal of local produce for us including sweet potato greens and a dish of green tender stems that looked like thin green scallions, but tasted like a leafy green that I was told is a specialty of the area. After the meal, Sen-lan Huang, a colleague of Tseniong's, whom everyone calls Poppy, gave us a guided tour. First he took us to his family's house – a traditional Hakka home with a central hall where ancesters are honored. He told us that his village area had 880 inhabitants, 150 over 65. Sen-lan and others agreed that Taiwan is only 30% self-sufficient in food and most of the farms are very small with O.72 acres the average size. Sen-lan was one of the first in the area to convert to organic. When his father died, he and 2 brothers divided his land – each got 1/3 acre. The yard looked like a farm-homestead – food drying projects underway, tools, boxes, a new Taiwan-made walk-behind tractor, banana trees, Red Dragon cactuses, weeds, a small compost pile.
A younger farmer, Ku-wen Ching, who rents Sen-lan's land, showed us two rice fields where the rice was almost ready to harvest but had been damaged by the heavy rains from a recent typhoon. I also saw raised beds with assorted bak choi, Chinese cabbages, trellised tomatoes and beans. Ku-wen rotates rice, rice, then sweet potatoes and other root crops followed by 2 years of bananas. Their land abuts huge fields owned by the Taiwan Sugar Co, now governmental, where they grow sugar cane and soy beans. The government wants to use 100 acres for a dam, bermed water storage for use by industry. Sen-lan is leading a protest.
We drove to nearby land that Ku-wen and 7 other organic farmers rent from Taiwan Sugar. They have a big roofed-over packing area with walk-in cooler, space for washing veggies, storage, tables. Their lease, just renewed, is for 2 ½ years. This farm is certified organic by one of four organizations accredited by the Taiwan government. Yi-zih said a Meinung researcher compared Taiwan standards with the US and the European Union and found the Taiwan standards higher, prohibiting copper and other common organic materials.
Ku-wen showed me an "ecological" pond, dug to provide a breeding area for dragon flies, frogs, and toads with a small pen of poultry on the bank. He complained of snails in their rice. There were 200 foot long beds with young sweet corn – transplanted 8" apart in double rows 3' apart. In six large hoophouses (about 30' by 150') were beds of Asian greens. Ku-wen said that is the only way they can grow vegetables in the summer when it is very hot with torrential rains. One house had cherry tomatoes that were badly diseased – septoria? – and infested with white worms. Then more beds of sweet corn with a wire super-structure to allow the entire area to be covered with netting for the squash and melons they grow in the winter. In addition to the rice, bananas and vegetables, Ku-wen also dries daikon radishes and grows bean sprouts. He sells to local schools, at farmers markets and stores. Taiwan government policy requires that schools purchase organic vegetables for lunches once a week or at least once a month! I asked him how many hours he works – he said he makes a living, working 6 days a week, 10 – 12 hours a day, doing both growing and distribution. The farm has its own delivery truck and attractive packaging for the organic rice.
Ku-wen hires some workers: he pays long term workers 800 Taiwan dollars (TD)/day for harvesting and planting work, and 1000 – 1200 TD/day for heavier lifting. (The exchange rate fluctuates at around 30 TD per US dollar.) He said the workers belong to a laborers union and the union covers their health insurance and workers compensation. The national minimum wage is 97 TD/hour, just raised from 95. Retail workers usually earn 1200 TD/hour I learned.
Our final stop for the day was the field where the rice from the July 17 demonstration is growing. They plan to harvest it November 14 and take it back to spread out to dry on the road in front of the Presidential Palace in Taipei.
That evening, my talk – "CSA in Era of High Oil Prices"– took place at the elementary school attended by Tseniong's children. The school has an attractive garden area and a rice paddy where the teachers and children produce enough organic rice for the lunches of the 90 children who attend. They also grow vegetables. About 60 people came to the talk, including Hsi-Yin Chen, the editor of the translated edition of Sharing the Harvest.* She announced at the gathering that Business Weekly Publications, one of the biggest publishers in Taiwan, would have the book ready in January 2011.
The next morning, Tseniong saw me off on a quick train back to the north to Tao-Yuan for a formal luncheon with the top brass of the Urban and Rural Development Department followed by a 3-hour seminar on CSA for county planners. The department struggles with planning and trying to save farmland in a rapidly developing area. Factories spring up without official permits. During the question period, a tiny woman, an active member of the Homemakers Union Consumers' Cooperative, gave a passionate speech about the dangers of chemical residues in food and the need to buy local farm products. Like the Japanese coop on which it is modeled, the cooperative sells a wide range of products from local organic farms.
Despite the pounding rain (I later learned that mudslides from this typhoon washed a bus-load of mainland Chinese tourists over a cliff), after my talk we drove to a community center where they have services for elderly people. The neighborhood is exposed to a lot of industrial pollution, so it is not a good place to grow food. In their garden, they grow flowers. On the roof top, they are doing hydroponics, and worry that the fertilizer may contain chemicals. They serve meals cooked using the vegetables in a community kitchen in the basement and they have planted vining plants that grow up the side of the building to provide window screens.
On Friday, we drove to Hsin-Yang-Pin Community College. The storm was at its wildest, with gusts of wind and rain. Defying the storm, many people crowded the paths through the new gardens where they are teaching organic gardening, nutrition and cooking. I have never had my photo taken so many times. The head teacher was a few steps ahead of me wherever I went, snapping photos in the rain! In their very attractive community hall, I gave another version of my intro to CSA talk, emphasizing what community organizations can do to provide support. The Director General of the Urban and Rural Planning Dept, Yung-Taan Lee, explained that he is hosting a series of speakers with hands-on experience. His department is working on a ten-year plan for Tao Yuan. The water supply is critical: there are 3000 ponds, built during the Japanese Colonial period (1895-1945). Each pond can irrigate 100 hectares, so the county is funding a series of projects to save them. The 2000 ponds in private hands are at risk of development for other purposes. He mentioned that Taiwan is not a member of the UN so must find other ways to be involved in the effort to stop global warming. The world knows about the Taiwan economic "miracle," but it is urgent that the island also address issues of wind, water and soil.
|In the greenhouse at Power Farm
Director Lee accompanied us on a tour of the Power Farm, the creation of Te Kueimr Huang. Located in a village in a more rural part of Tao Yuan County, the Power Farm is a remarkable project. Mr. Huang grows rice, involving the 600 children at the nearby school in planting, weeding and harvesting. They sell the 20,000 kilos of organic rice for 5 TD a kilo. Huang makes compost tea using bacillus subtilus, vermicompost, and his own soil mix of minerals, compost, and some sort of fiber. From the appearance of his plants, he has an excellent formula. He uses yellow sticky traps for pest control. He designed and constructed an original greenhouse – the cost is an affordable 10,000 TD (approx. $350 USD) enclosing 1000 square meters, space to produce enough food for a family. His land is next to one of the ponds, 10 hectares in size, 2 – 3 meters high, where he raises fish using natural methods with a harvest only every other year. He says renting the pond for commercial fish production results in pollution. A Water Association, a committee of local villagers, owns and maintains the pond and the path around it as a park and uses the farm as a center. Huang has a vision for an eco-village with a small income for each household. He and his wife served us Northern Hakka food – roselle (hibiscus family) red flowers, sticky rice balls stuffed with shrimp/onions/pork/mushrooms in soup with greens, bitter melon, and pickled pumpkin and plums. Meeting Huang, I felt I had finally encountered a representative of the great Chinese agricultural tradition I first read about in F.H. King's Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China (1911).
My guides drove me to Taipei where on Saturday, a young woman named Zhi-Han, who is on the staff of the Community Empowering Society of Taiwan, picked me up at 9 am to take me to Fang-He Junior High School to give a talk to a class of people of various ages who are studying community organizing. The Community Empowering Society of Taiwan is a small ngo headed by Chih-Pen Yang with the mission of helping citizens organize to have a say in environmental issues and local development. Zhi-Han is in charge of typhoon recovery, working with 41 communities including the community college in Meinung and several indigenous groups in the East.
Greening the city is the main topic this year for the community organizing class that meets Saturday mornings. The instructor is an energetic man, Tung-Jye Wu, who seems to be one of the main instigators of the July 17 action I described earlier. TJ, as he is called, has a great sense of humor and greets the absurdities of life with a loud, spontaneous laugh that gets everyone laughing with him. He is the Executive Director of a small not-for profit named the Green Formosa Front. Their focus is the WTO, and climate change. I talked for half the class and the students asked questions for the rest of the time, a lively bunch. We ended with the obligatory group photo opportunity.
Then they took me to a small, but entirely organic farmers market tucked between two sky scrapers. We tasted some exquisite oolong tea – I am bringing some home. They introduced me to the male co-convener of the Taiwan Green Party. The organizer of this market, Zhi-Han later told me, is the "Rice Bomber." In protest against Taiwan joining the WTO, 15 years ago, he placed little bombs with rice in them in a few government buildings. Someone later told me that these bombs were not even as powerful as a small fire cracker, but the Rice Bomber did 5 years in prison.
Next, we drove across the city – Taipei is truly impressive with a broad river down the middle- and up into the hills to another community college at Bei-tou, famous for its sulphur springs. For a smaller group that included 6 organic farmers, I gave another talk on CSA, this one more focused on how-to. There were fewer questions as the day was getting late and they wanted to show me the Bei-tou Farm – a spectacular series of terraces nestled among dense woods with a view of the city below. On terraces ranging in size from maybe 40 square feet to several hundred, they are growing vegetables and citrus trees. Amidst a swarm of mosquitoes (which luckily preferred Zhi-Han to me), the two women farmers led us up their winding path and told about their struggle to make enough money from their work. They are able to sell all their fruit at a stand below the farm where many tourists come to the national park and hot springs. They also deliver 5 weekly baskets of 7- 8 vegetables and fruit to people who pick up at the Community College. Their customers, mainly old ladies, pay at the end of each month. To communicate with these customers, they use the phone instead of the Internet. The value of the contents adds up to 400 TD based on market prices. A few other customers have asked for home delivery, but cannot pay more for it. The two farmers say they have limited production capacity so cannot supply many more shares. Both of these women married into the family that owned all this land for a century or so before it became a national park. They are allowed to continue living there and farming. Their husbands work at the farm part time and also work in construction.
Sunday was supposed to be my day of rest with a trip to the National Museum. Instead, Zhi-Han took me back up to Bei-tou to a class in tie dying organized by the Farmers Association. About 20 people, women, children and a couple of men were learning the art of tie-dying. The class met at a Buddhist temple built by the Japanese. The teachers were staff from the Farmers Association, a former farmer and a woman who still grows and sells vegetables and flowers, as well as teaching traditional crafts. The Farmers Association, which has 4 divisions – training, certification, promotion and insurance – includes 99% of the island's farmers, and is organized by geographical area. The Taipei region has 9 sections. Zhi-Han did not know whether there is a unifying national leadership. Mr. Yang told me the staff person teaching this class is more liberal than most of the Association, which sounds like the Taiwanese version of the American Farm Bureau.
For my last day, we headed out earlier than usual to Tucheng Farm on the site of a former military base, a small rural oasis just beyond a highway and a busy metro stop. The base encompasses 96 hectares. There had been a plan to build a prison and a church wants to develop housing. Ren-Ji, a would-be farmer and organizer, hopes to save it as an eco-farm park. His vision is to recreate a village with organic farmers, using solar power and modern innovations – the opposite of a modern city – with an after school program for children. With the prison out of the picture, Ren-Ji and friends plan to reopen the farmers market although the ground is low and wet.
Within the boundaries of the base, the army still holds 27 hectares. 20 families also live there, with several well-developed market farms and a no-permit factory. Ren-Ji said 1/3 of the resident families like his idea for an eco-farm park, 1/3 want to sell out to developers and 1/3 are undecided. He wants to take it slowly and have a democratic process. Helen, a Taiwanese woman who has lived in Oregon for 30 years, and an American lawyer named Robin Winkler are among the volunteers involved in this project. Robin and the other members of his firm get weekly baskets of vegetables from the farm at the modest price of 250 TD a week, paying by the month after receipt of the produce. The farm also sells to assorted neighbors and has a booth at a traditional market where both farmers and hucksters sell. I saw a pond with geese, skillfully planted beds – about an acre – and 2 very well managed hoop houses with greens guarded by many fine spiders and pheromone traps. This land passed the government test as chemical free. They have not tried for organic certification yet. The heavy rains and wind of the typhoon, followed by high temperatures with continuing humidity, destroyed a lot of the uncovered greens and turnips.
We walked through an area where they are growing coffee and tasted some – strong, French style. On land that belongs to the family of Li-Lan Liu, a teacher who is running for the office of village chief in the November elections (she is co-convenor of the Green Party with the man I met at the organic farmers market) they have started their cooperative eco-farm park – it is 3 months old. They have built a stage, gardens with herbs, and a hoop house with attached kitchen as a social center. I saw flowers, bananas, and roselle flowers growing. They served me another great meal of food mainly from this farm – 2 dishes with bamboo shoots, 2 plates of different greens – sweet potato greens, spinach, rice, fish, pomelos. In one of the abandoned army bunkers, they plan to put a museum. The two farm women from Bei-Tou arrived and I gave my intro to CSA talk again. We had a long discussion about how to get started with CSA. Robin and Helen declared they would relaunch their CSA with payment up front and a work requirement.
Yi-Zih, who had stayed in Meinung to attend classes, joined us at Tucheng. With Zhi-Han, we went to a traditional tea house in the oldest section of Taipei where they process and sell tea. After a brisk walk down the oldest streets, TJ and Yang took us to dinner in Bei-tou where they had arranged for Yi-Zih and me to spend my last night in a hotel so I could experience the sulfur springs. (I did not tell them that my every shower in Wayne County is in sulphur water…) At dinner, I asked about their two ngos. Each has members (only 60 – 100) and a board. Funding comes from very small dues and from projects, many funded by the government. Things were better under the previous administration which was less enamoured of the WTO and development. The Green Formosa Front is an IFOAM member. The two men, slightly older, seasoned activists, and the two young women, their paths not yet clear but with an instinct for things natural, treated me as an honored guest. I hope Taiwan agricultural history will repay richly their generosity to me.
|The assembled at Hsin Pin Community College Farm
Traveling from Rochester to Taiwan and back gave me a lot to think about. From a city struggling with population loss due to the flight of industry, I flew to an island that has developed faster than almost anywhere in the world. People with deep rural traditions are reawakening to the urgency of protecting their land, a struggle we share. The CSAs I observed are hesitant beginnings, but the time appears ripe for a full flowering. Tiki (Chinese for cooperation, close to "Teikei," the Japanese term for CSA) could sweep the island as an antidote to the excesses of industrialization and globally sourced food. The Taiwan Rural Front plans to return after the elections in late November with the rice grown from the plants of their July 17 protest. They will use the streets in front of the Presidential Palace to dry the rice and then sell it to raise money to continue their efforts. At 6 am, as I was about to step on the bus for the airport for the 25-hour trip home, Mr. Yang, of the Community Empowering Society, suddenly appeared bringing me a Taiwan Rural Front t-shirt. With that kind of energy and dedication, rural organizing in Taiwan has a promising future!
*The publisher of the Chinese edition of Sharing the Harvest is Business Weekly Publications, Inc. It's a branch of Cite Publishing Ltd., which is one of the most biggest publishers in Taiwan.
The editor is Hsi-Yin, Chen. Her e-mail add: [email protected]
The translating group:
李宜澤 Yi-Tze, Lee:Foreword、Acknowledgment、Introduction、CH1、2、6、 Afterword許敏鳳 Min-Fong, Hsu:CH9、10
林震洋 Huck, Chen-Yang, Lin: CH3、4、5、11蔡晏霖 Yen-ling, Tsai:CH7、8、12呂欣怡 Hsin-Yi, Lu:CH13、14、15、16、17、18
劉逸姿 Yi-Zih, Liu:CH19、22
林大有 Ta-Yu, Lin:CH21、23、24
All photos courtesy of Elizabeth Henderson.
Sharing the Harvest is available now.


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University of Georgia junior wide receiver A.J. Green said Sunday he has decided to pass up his senior season and declare for the NFL draft.
Green, a native of Summerville, S.C., played in 32 games over the past three years as a Bulldog, starting 27 of them. He recorded 166 receptions for 2,619 yards and 23 touchdowns.
"While it was a difficult decision, it came down to the opportunity of pursuing a dream I've had since early childhood," said Green. "But Georgia is a great place and I'm so appreciative of the opportunity to be a Georgia Bulldog. I want to thank the coaches, my teammates and the fans who have supported me and helped me grow not only as a player but as a man."
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Green also indicated he has only two semesters of school left to graduate and intends to work on that as well.
"A.J. has made an immeasurable impact on our team over the past three seasons and we wish him nothing but the best," said UGA head coach Mark Richt. "I've enjoyed the blessing of working with him and getting to know his family and we wish him all the success in professional football. Once a Bulldog always a Bulldog."


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We are planning an 18 day trip along the coast of SC, Georgia, and Florida as far south as Cape Canaveral. What places do you recommend we stay along that route? Each place we stay we would like to spend 3-4 nights.
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What time of year?
What are your interests?
What kind of budget - moderate, "it depends", splurge?
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starrs is right. We can give you best recs with more information.
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Most any time of year it would be Charleston, Savannah and then......
If they wanted they could start a bit north of Charleston and take in Litchfield/Pawley's Island/Georgetown for a day or so and see Brookgreen and the charming Georgetown as an addendum to the history of Charleston, since that is where the rice planters spent their summers. Brookgreen is a more "modern" treat with the incredible art and sculptures of Anna Huntington. Their home Atalanta is worth a look just for sheer wonder of the strange layout/architecture!
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You should definitely visit Charleston & Savannah. Have you looked into the islands just off the Georgia coast? Also recommend St. Augustine's.
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The obvious choices have been mentioned. This is a VERY leisurely trip with each driving leg ranging from 2 to 2-1/2 hours.
Not sure where you are starting but assuming it's from the northern SC coast:
Myrle Beach SC - 3 nights
Drive 2 hours to Charleston
Charleston SC - 3 nights
Drive 2-1/2 hours to Savannah GA
Savannah GA - 3 nights
Drive 2 hours to Jekyll Island GA
Jekyll Island GA - 3 nights
Drive to St. Augustin FL
St. Augustin FL - 3 nights
Drive 2 hours to Cape Canaveral FL
Cape Canaveral FL - 3 nights
Total of 18 nights - this is a good framework that hits the best of the coast. Check Fodor's "Destinations" for ideas of what to do/eat/stay in each place.
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I agree with bardo, although I'd probably choose a quiet SC island over Myrtle Beach.
If you want to do something very different, take a day trip to Cumberland Island out of St Mary's GA.
If you have $$$ to splurge, take the ferry from Fernandina Beach and stay at the Greyfield on Cumberland.
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Cumberland is wonderful. An (almost deserted) island, with miles and miles of beaches, wild horses, nature at its best.
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Thanks for all the recommendations. We'll be traveling in March. Moderate budget. Interests are history, nature, architecture, scenic hikes, good restaurants.
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I'm most familiar with the Charleston area. I agree with Gretchen re Pawley's and Brookgreen. The azaleas will be blooming in March and Brookgreen will be stunning.
While visiting Charleston, decide if you want to stay at the beach or in the Historic District. The nice thing about the HD is that it's easy to walk most of it. I recommend you take a carriage ride first thing. it's a great way to see the city for the first time. The guides for all companies have to pass history tests. The plantations will also be i bloom and worth visiting.
On your way from Charleston to Savannah stop by Beaufort, SC. The Old Sheldon Church ruins (off 17) and Hunting Island are both worth a visit.
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Please please don't do MB, and especially for 3 days.
down around Charleston (SueWoo can tell you where) there is Bird Island or Hunting Island that would be WONderful for hiking and bird watching.
On the road between Georgetown and Charleston there are also a number of smaller plantations. I'd need to look up the names, but they could be interesting. The orginal plantation house for Litchfield is also "there"--now a b*B and just wonderful just to drive up the oak lined drive to see it.
Agree about Beaufort, of course. The SC/Georgia coast is rich rich. Plus the cuisine.
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Given your interests and that you are traveling in March, try to be in Savannah during the home and garden tour -
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I did a similar trip a few years ago - Charleston, Savannah, Amelia Island & St. Augustine. It would also be nice to know who 'we' is ? A couple in their 90's ? A couple in their 20's ? A couple w/17 kids ? You get the idea....
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I'm with the "drop Myrtle Beach" crowd. Simply too, too, commercial. It seems now to be a town built for teenagers.
I'd do a couple of days in the Litchfield/Pawleys area. Hit Brookgreen, Huntington Park, Georgetown, Eat at Lee's Inlet Kitchen in Murrells Inlet at least once. Try the crab cakes at the Rice Paddy in Georgetown. Perhaps stay at the Litchfield Inn, or if you are a beach person, and want to stay in an old Inn going back more than 50 years, try the Pelican Inn on Pawleys itself. Rudimentary but quaint. One the only two commercial places on the entire island.
On the way to Charleston, I'd take a left at McClellandville and drive thru the community that was hit hardest by Hurricane Hugo and see how they have built back a beautiful little town after being under 12 feet of water. Only one restaurant but they know how to fry shrimp and fish. Another lunch alternative on the way to Charleston is the SeeWee restaurant in Awendaw. On your right. Down home.
I'd opt for staying in downtown Charleston simply to avoid driving to dinner at night and avoiding the parking problem during the day.
I'd do a couple of nights in Beaufort. Do the town, Hunting Island, Sheldon Church. Take Jon Sharpe's walking tour or a buggy ride. Eat at Plums, Breakwater, Emily's, Blackstones, and maybe Dockside. Stay downtown at Beaufort Inn, City Lofts, or Rhett House Inn. Outside of the downtown area are Hilton, Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn, all new and nice.
Don't know where you are from but if serious oyster picking and shucking has any interest for you, on your way to Savannah stop by the Bluffton Oyster Company and watch them in action. The family has been in the oyster business for over 100 years.
I'll leave Savannah and south to those who know it better.
A few years ago I had great couple of weeks just starting in North Carolina and driving south on Hwy 17, I took every road that went to left all the way to Jacksonville. I found many neat and interesting places at the end of those roads. Shallote and Sneads Ferry in North Carolina, Bennetts Point and Edisto in South Carolina. Darien in Georgia.
I'd encourage you to get off the beaten path, step back a bit in time, and get a feel for the lives of the people who make their living off the marshes and the rivers.
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Thanks for all the great advice.
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The Litchfield Inn has been renovated and it is RIGHT on the ocean--the only "hotel" that is. It should be available at pretty good prices that time of year. The hotel at Litchfield by the Sea is nicer, not on the beach. Litchfield Inn also has a restaurant that is being run by a chef who used to run Austin's. It could be a pretty good place to stay.
Lee's is not our favorite place but is good. There are a multitude of just wonderful restaurants in Pawley's/Murrell's Inlet. Probably the best seafood north of Charleston, and better than most IN charleston!!
That part of the coast really is worth a few days of such a nice long trip. It is also a good shoulder season for prices.
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One hotel I do like in the area is the Hampton Inn Oceanfront. It's a lovely Hampton Inn, south of the craziness of Myrtle Beach and closer to the restaurants that Gretchen refers to at Murrell's Inlet. The Myrtle Beach airport is very easy to fly into, and you could get a "touch" of MB if you want.
The tripadvisor reviews came up when I googled for the link and the average is pretty much 5 stars (out of 5)
It's a short, easy drive from there to Murrell's Inlet for dinner.
GoTravel recommended several restaurants to me and I enjoyed Creek Ratz. Especially nice is the chance to stroll the wooden Marsh Walk after dinner -
Click on the video here to get a preview of the marsh walk -
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Id stay in titusville if you go the Cape--the new Holiday Inn is great---visit Kenndey Space Center and do the shuttle ride and Imax.Also do the bus ride to the shuttle building.Astronaut Hall of Fame is very nice, as is Merrit Island Preserve.Id check NASA.gov to see if there are ANY laiunches while youre there. Pumpernickels has good food, and theres a very good Italian On 1A--cant recall name.Theres a seafood spot at the base of the bridge as well--of course cant recall name either,sorry.If you have time, its a good spot to do a airboat ride--theres a spot a few miles East of the hotel--try for a smaller boat
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Is Daytona Beach a good place to stay for beaches and swimming in North Florida? Is it currently a spring break destination?
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OOHHHHH yeah, it is.
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Definitely Jekyll Island, GA. Midway between Savannah and Jacksonville, stay the the Jekyll Island Club Hotel or choose the new Hampton Inn that is on the beach. Bring your bike or rent some so you can enjoy the miles of trails. Golf, dolphon excursions, birding, etc., etc. Safe and friendly. Enjoy!
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The Hampton Inn is VERY nice, but if I were coming to the coast I would go to the Litchfield Inn, even though it isn't as new or "fresh" as the Hampton. You are ON the beachfront--walk outside for a nice beach walk.
In Murrell's Inlet we like Russell's, Creek Ratz (for lunch), Inlet Crab House--you can make reservations. It is a funny funky little house painted turquoise and pink. GOOD food. There are fine dining places also--Wahoo's, Divine, Lee's (in a way). I think the Divine group is over priced and don't use a lot of local seafood. We've stopped going to them.
In Pawley's Island is Frank's--real fine dining, maybe the best on the coast. Bistro 217 on the highway is excellent as is the Island Cafe and Deli.
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"Is Daytona Beach a good place to stay for beaches and swimming in North Florida? Is it currently a spring break destination?"
Is it a good place...?
It's not high on my list. The sand is hared-packed and cars are always driving by. This is not the best way to relax, IMO. There are people who like it, but I don't and have avoided going there for most of the 23 years I have lived in Central FL. Ditto with New Smyrna Beach. You can do better at Crescent Beach to the north of Palm Coast.
Is it a spring break destination?
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I agree with Vic. It's interesting to experience but it's not the location I'd choose, especially during spring break.
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I would start at the Outer Banks. The Sanderling Inn at Duck, NC is outstanding. You can drive to Pawley's Island in about 8 hours or so. Litchfield Plantation is very nice. I would spend at least 3 nights in Charleston. Charleston Place Hotel and The French Quarter Inn are both very nice. I would take the coastal route to Savannah, GA and have lunch at Beaufort, SC. Stay at least 2 nights in Savannah, GA at Planters Inn. I would stop at Jekyll Island and stay at Jeklyll Island Club 2 nights. I would stop at Amelia Island, FL for two nights. There's a great Ritz Carlton there.
The Sanderling Inn and Spa @ 1461 Duck Road, Duck, NC 800 - 701 - 4111.
Litchfield Plantation @ 96 Gathering Ln., Pawleys Island, SC 843 - 237 - 5300.
Planter's Inn @ 29 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 912 - 232 - 5678.
Jekyll Island Club Hotel @ 371 Riverview Drive, GA 912 - 635 - 2600.
If you stay 2 nights in the Outer Banks, 2 at Pawley's Island, 3 in Charleston, 2 in Savannah, 2 in Jekyll Island and 2 at Amelia Island you will have 7 days left for FL. Have a great trip.
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The Ledge Route is the best Scottish II route on Ben Nevis. In fact, it's one of the best Scottish II routes anywhere in Scotland. Whatever grade you climb, on a clear winter's day you'll enjoy this one for the scenery alone. It totals 450m of vertical climbing. The route is not difficult and some regard it as a Scottish I route.
The route is located on the Carn Dearg Buttress on the Northern side of Ben Nevis and is accessed via Gully No. 5. The lower half of the route constitutes easy ice climbing whilst the upper half opens out onto a ridge with fantastic vistas that leads to the summit of Carn Dearg Buttress.
The route offers plenty of rock and ice protection and can easily be soloed for people adept at climbing higher grades. The route can even be used as a more interesting descent than down Gully No.5
The route was first climbed by an SMC party during Easter 1897 (two years after Gully No.5 was climbed).
Getting ThereTo reach the route you first need to park your car in the North Side of Ben Nevis car park. This is located a short distance North-West of Fort William and can be reached on foot with extra time.
Next, walk for around 90 minutes (give or take depending on snow conditions) to the CIC hut beneath the North side of Ben Nevis. The trail initially climbs though a lovely pine forest, reaching an upper car park in around 20-30 minutes. A number of years ago, the upper car park was reached by way of a steep and terribly eroded, often muddy, path but fortunately things have improved.
From the upper car park, climb over the style and follow the trail along the Allt a'Mhuilinn stream south-west to the CIC hut. The CIC hut is largely invisible until within close proximity of it. From here take in the wonderful views of Coire Na Ciste. The start of the Ledge Route is invisible from the hut. Look for the Curtain (a famous and prominent ice route) of Carn Dearg Buttress and the climb ascends from left to right along a ramp above this. It then climbs the ridge immediately right of Gully No. 5
By Ben Nevis standards, the Ledge route is easy to reach from the CIC hut. Climb West towards Gully No. 5, located left of Carn Dearg Buttress and right of Trident Buttress. Climb Gully No. 5 a short distance (around 100m) to the base of the route of the right hand side.
Route DescriptionThere are two starting points for the Ledge Route. A more interesting ice ramp ascends from a lower point out above the top of the Curtain onto a broad, flat ledge which fades out right. Before the ledge narrows, leave it by a left slanting gully, which leads out onto a broad sloping snow shelf. Be careful here as there can be avalanche risk if significant fresh snow has accumulated.
A second starting point begins 20m higher and follows an easier but less interesting shelf to the snow shelf described above.
The route now follows the ridge to the summit of Carn Dearg. For the large part, the ridge is a winter scramble although there is a moderately tricky move immediately above the snow shelf that is fairly exposed. On a Clear day the vistas from the ridge are awesome with Tower Ridge and North-East Buttress to the South-East and Castle Ridge to the North. There are also lovely views to the peaks to the West beyond Fort William
Views from Ledge Route
The quickest descent is down Gully No.5 provided it is same to do so (check avalanche conditions). Another easy option is to descend down the gental North-Western slopes of Ben Nevis in a bee-line towards the upper car park. Once you're off Ben Nevis's slopes follow a broken metal fence and it'll lead you directly to the car park (although you'll need to cross the Allt a'Mhuilinn stream immediately before.
Essential GearThe amount of hardware you bring for the climb largely depends on how confident you are on Scottish II terrain. There are plenty of cracks for good rock protection and likely enough ice build-up to sink some screws. Slings are also very useful for any route on Ben Nevis.
External LinksWest Coast Mountain Guides Avalanche information, climbing conditions and weather forecasts.
Abacus Mountaineering Climbing conditions
The Scottish avalanche information service (SAIS)
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