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Azealia Banks is cementing her place as an "It Girl" in the fashion and beauty realm at lightning speed. In fact, some feel the rapper is now more well-known for her fashion and beauty cred than her music. In the past year, she attended the 2012 MET Gala, appeared in the campaign for T by Alexander Wang and as previously reported, is slated to perform at Fashion's Night Out at MAC Cosmetics Soho.Banks' performance will coincide with the launch of her lipstick with the beauty company, according to Glamazons Blog:
The "Van Vogue" rapper, who also appears in a campaign for Alexander Wang, is fronting the lipstick, "Yung Rapunxel," which MAC describes as "a deep plum, cream Lipstick with an amplified, semi-matte finish."
Much like Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday" lipstick, Azealia's product will be limited-edition, available at MAC stores in the US only from September 6, 2012 through September 20, 2012 and online at maccosmetics.com a day early on September 5th.
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Update to this story: Woman was shot in the head during robbery near Natural Bridges
SANTA CRUZ — A woman was hit in the head with a gun and robbed of her backpack Monday night near Natural Bridges State Beach.
A man with a bandanna over his mouth approached the woman and demanded her bag near Natural Bridges Drive and Delaware Avenue about 7:30 p.m., according to emergency dispatches.
He took the bag — which contained a laptop computer and a wallet — then hit her on the head with the gun and fled, dispatchers said.
Authorities did not describe the woman"s injuries Monday night. Dispatchers said the man appeared white and in his mid- to late 20s. He appeared 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall with a medium build. He wore a gray sweater, jeans and sneakers, police said.
The man fled in a white Chrysler PT Cruiser. Police described the suspect on law enforcement radio but he was not caught as of 8 p.m.
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On Deadline: 'My sister's gift' column raises question of how best to 'reach' kids
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, on Sep 15, 2012
It was that I was important because how I presented myself affected everyone around me in positive or negative ways, some barely perceptible but others significant. The broader message is that we all of us -- young, old and in between -- are important.
I concluded the column (see www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=17592) by saying that it would be nice if that gift could be passed along to today's young persons, and outlined a program I and others developed in the early 1980s that might help accomplish that.
Among the responses were some relevant and thoughtful comments, in addition to basic thanks.
The thoughts of one resident in particular may be worth sharing, and thinking about.
"I just read your article about your sister's gift to you, and was very moved by your personal story and how well you told it. Thank you," she began.
"My take on what follows in your article is, however, different from yours.
"Consider: Would that same 13-year-old boy have responded the same way if being told what to do by a committee? If instead of one close and trusted person sitting on his bed and sharing her wisdom with him, he'd been the recipient of pages and pages of psychological materials explaining how he should think and feel and how his family should behave, would that have had the same salubrious effect?
"Sometimes in our zeal to do good, we may overdo."
Great question, well put. And as a teenager I doubt that I would have appreciated a committee coming into my room and sitting on the end of my bed. And official programs and materials and conferences may be something akin to that.
She continues:
"When I was in high school, we had nary a suicide, and plenty of families were doubtless what today has been categorized as dysfunctional.
"What was so different?
"No one came at us with psychological counseling, making us self-conscious about our attitudes or feelings. No one insisted we take drugs to change our moods, attention span, or behavior.
"Teenagers are already self-conscious enough. And shouldn't those who are closest to them and love them be the ones to speak wisdom to them? Shouldn't they be allowed, as we were, to find their way within the context of their own private worlds?
"Shouldn't school be about accumulating knowledge, learning math, history, literature and science, as well as how to think logically and critically, and to write cohesive, intelligent essays? After all, the lessons of history and of classic literature are replete with wisdom very likely surpassing anything psychologists may compile.
"Shouldn't the focus of attention be on that -- on education in the classic sense -- and off of the students' private thoughts and feelings? Mightn't that feel invasive to a child? "Parents typically know if and when their child needs special help. Why don't we trust each family to deal with its own private issues, as yours did."
I replied with a thanks for her thoughtful email and some thoughts:
"I do agree with the 'committee' not being an effective way to communicate with young persons at pivotal times in their lives." I invited her to look over the Family LifeSkills materials that a group of us developed in the early 1980s following a couple of teen suicides at Palo Alto High School, in response to a request from then Principal Jim Shroyer for help with an "anti-suicide" program.
Instead, we decided to do a series of informational mailings to each student covering ways families could communicate better and provide a stronger base of support for young persons feeling effective and their general well-being. The students were encouraged to share their ideas with their parents, even by leaving the four-page pieces lying around -- a kind of "trickle-up theory" of starting dialogue.
Several local family therapists have told me they used articles from the materials as homework assignments for teens and families they were counseling -- one therapist said she used them for more than 25 years. (They are still online at Web Link -- check the Acrobat versions on the left column for the actual mailers).
I continued my reply: "In developing those materials, we were acutely conscious about the 'committee' type approach, but there was virtually no intervention effort underway at the time, back in the early 1980s -- when there were a couple of teen suicides of Palo Alto High School students. This does not include the 'slow suicides' of self-destructive behavior that resulted in auto accidents or other means of risking (and sometimes ending) one's life."
"The repeated message in the LifeSkills materials is 'Take time to listen!' Take time to be a family, not just people who share a house in a frenetically busy culture.
In the early 1980s, the emphasis on academic achievement was just beginning its upward trajectory of emphasis on grades and advanced-placement classes.
In the 1970s each of the then-three high schools in Palo Alto had a 'special problems counselor,' and I knew each of them. Those were eliminated along the way for budget reasons. One of them, the late Phil Bliss, founded Midpeninsula High School in Palo Alto as a "safety net" for bright kids who didn't fit the academic mold of the primary high schools.
Today's interventions are often done through the Adolescent Counseling Service (ACS).
There is a continuing dialogue about the role of "school counselors" in Palo Alto -- namely whether their job is just to provide academic counseling on grades and target colleges/universities vs. dealing with emotional issues and family crises or negative patterns.
In terms of academic focus vs. private thoughts or emotions, clearly the family should be deeply involved in the latter (both, actually). Yet in reality not all families are well equipped to do that, and some are even toxic. Studies indicate a large percentage of young persons -- some say up to one in ten -- are subjected to some form of physical or emotional abuse by they time they reach high school.
Can a student's academic performance truly be separated from his or her emotional sense of well-being and effectiveness -- that feeling that if there's something they don't like they can do something a bout it?
It would be ideal if every family were equipped with the knowledge and understanding to be able to deal with serious situations or emotional crises of family members. But there's a real world to consider, and all too many families -- even without the seriously abusive elements -- just don't have the knowledge or capacity to provide that kind of safe environment.
Sometimes a committee is needed to help create a cultural environment where it's OK to ask for help, or find a supportive coach or guide to help them through some of the thorny thickets of life in today's world.
As for academics vs. emotional states, a physician once told me that he believed in dealing with the whole person rather than specific organs when diagnosing illness. He said when a group of organs come into his office and sit down he might reconsider that approach.
Similarly, it might be really difficult to separate a student's academic performance from his or her personal life and emotional state of being.
Note: I would be most interested in hearing more thoughtful ideas about the nature of life for young persons and their families in today's world in comments below.
Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be e-mailed at firstname.lastname@example.com with a copy to email@example.com. He also writes biweekly blogs at www.PaloAltoOnline.com (below Town Square).
Comments (6)
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Sep 15, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Jay this is very well said. I particularly appreciate your statement that "it might be really difficult to separate a student's academic performance from his or her personal life and emotional state of being." Teen suicide is not a new problem. Suicide happened before now and it will keep happening until we realize that we need to have more support for our kids. Absolutely we need to involve families -- but we need to understand that many people try to get help for their kids but the mental health system fails them or they are overwhelmed or -- as is often the case -- it is very hard to distinguish between ordinary teen moodiness and depression especially if it is a first child.
We need to move toward a whole community approach which includes acknowledging that social-emotional support is crucial, that mental health problems occur and are not the fault of the afflicted family, and that a humane and loving society cares for and nurtures all its members, including and most especially the sick and lonely.
We need to provide parents with resources to help their kids not blame for not knowing how. It's not so easy for parents to reach their unhappy teens. Sometimes it is better if it is another caring adult who is NOT the parent, such as a coach, guidance counselor, or a Teacher Advisor.
We also need to open our thinking up to implementing school-based health and well-being systems that can contact every child and provide multiple adults in caring roles for every kid. Our child attends Paly and we like the Teacher Advisor system. I hope that Gunn gets this system soon.
I am glad to see that school board candidate Ken Dauber is talking about social emotional support and reaching every child: Web Link. Many people are supporting him for this reason. We need better social emotional supports and mental health curriculum in our schools and we need to start in middle school not only high school.
a resident of Escondido School
on Sep 15, 2012 at 9:16 pm
I find it interesting that Mr. Thorwaldson makes no mention of the Developmental Assets framework that the community and district have been working on since it was recommended by Project Safety Net. It has been referenced several times by the Weekly and has focused on at many school board meetings. It is frustrating that this work has been going on and our community pays no attention to it. Ken Dauber is not certainly not the first member of this community who has focused on SEL for our kids.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Sep 16, 2012 at 8:49 am
Parent is a good example of what is wrong with some of the volunteers in our community. Instead of applauding Jay and Ken for caring about an issue that parent supposedly cares about and for publicizing it in the paper and in the school board race, parent wants credit for thinking of it "first." It's just immature and pathetic. Stop being so holier than thou and put kids first.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Sep 16, 2012 at 9:37 am
As a former teenager who seriously considered suicide, I would like to add my 2 cents.
My problem was my parents. At the time I thought it was me. My parents were having work related problems and financial problems, big time, but they decided that as "good parents" they should keep the problems to themselves. Instead, every little thing that I did became their problem that they could dump on me. From grades, to friends, to my messy bedroom, to what I wore, to my music choices, the problems with young people everywhere, drugs, sex, (which was warning me against something I had no intention of getting involved with), became big issues and things which they strongly disapproved and wanted me to improve. Their disapproval made me feel worthless.
There were two things which got me through this. The first was my best friend's parents. I was always welcomed there and treated as a valuable family member, nothing like my own home. In fact I could not even take my best friend home as the atmosphere when if my friends turned up there was like a knife edge of disapproval. The second was a church youth group where the love of God was shown to me in a very positive way. I was shown there that I was not judged by
them and was accepted for who I was. This was something I had never experienced in my family and I craved for this acceptance. It was what got me through my teens.
My relationship with my parents improved gradually over the years but was never really good. I kept in touch with them out of duty and because I didn't want to pass on family grudges to my own children. I have learned since some of the issues that my parents went through during the bad times and realise now it was their problems that caused them to behave that way towards me and nothing I could have done could have made them act any differently towards me. None of this was a good way to spend my teenage years, but without my effort to keep a relationship with them, I would never have learned the truth of why they treated me like they did.
So I am saying this because although a committee would never have helped me when my own parents were the real problem, a couple of caring adults who knew me well and treated me as an individual plus a weekly time of interaction in a very non-threatening environment were my life savers. And, none of them ever even knew it.
Church youth groups and individuals taking time with young people do make a big difference. TAs at school may help some, but they still have too many students and too little time with them to be the help that troubled teens need. Efforts to get teens outside of competitive environments of school, sports and other competitive activities are a "must" in my opinion. Some kids will thrive in these environments, others will feel more like losers when they don't make the grade, the team, the honors choir, or the plum role.
Helping them to find their niche in a group of peers, to have a complete couple of hours of fun, to forget all their stresses, to relax and just be themselves, must be a goal for anyone interested in helping our youth today.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Sep 16, 2012 at 7:59 pm
I am a teenager at Paly, and my dad told me that I should take a look at this article. Personally, I do not think that it is possible to separate academics and social-emotional stress. The fact that students interact with other people while they learn will inevitably lead to an emotional connection to their performance. Most students respect their teachers and care about their grades to some extent. Unfortunately, I've had a fair number of teachers who haven't given the slightest effort to support me or my classmates. Most parents expect their children to receive high grades in all of their classes, and if the teachers can't support the students then this becomes nearly impossible.
A few examples (I won't name names) - I had a science teacher who overloaded us with homework without any thought to our other classes, or workloads or schedules. She had us stay after school if our homework was late. She wouldn't give the instructions for labs until after they were graded.
I had a Social Studies teacher who berated the class repeatedly about late homework.
I had an English teacher who refused to tell us the due dates for assignments (after being asked on multiple occasions).
I have had disorganized teachers who lost my assignments and gave me zeros; who had no In-Box or any means of collecting homework.
I need a decent teacher who is willing to support me; school is about the students and our learning. The adults in this district need to wake up and give me a good teacher - that will lower my stress and improve my academics.
editor emeritus
on Sep 19, 2012 at 6:59 am
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Some really good and thoughtful comments above. As for the Developmental Assets that "parent" mentions, this is an excellent collection of 41 items that are considered important for young persons (or someone of any age) to have. But can anyone recite them?
In the original column about "my sister's greatest gift" there was this comment:
"Today Palo Alto parents, teachers, school officials, community organizations and students are engaged in an ambitious effort to increase the sense of well-being among the younger persons in our community. 'Project Safety Net' has evolved from primarily a crisis-intervention model into what is becoming a broad program designed to address elements of the local culture that cause distress among many young persons and their families.
"A key tool is 41 'Developmental Assets,' put together by a consortium of groups to list elements that are important for a young person to have. Translating that many assets into actionable steps to change behavior in a family or among friends is a major challenge -- but good people of all ages are working on it, breaking out key elements on which to focus."
The challenge I mention is "how to get from here to there" in helping young persons and their families foster those assets.
Conferences and workshops are important -- for those who attend them.
But here's a math problem: Let's say (to simplify the math) that there are about 2,000 students at each high school. If one holds a conference on parenting or building assets, typically about 100 to 200 people attend -- let's see, at most about 5 percent of the target population as I calculate it. That means that 95 percent, give or take, are getting little or no useful information on the topic at hand.
And I don't even include middle-school-age families -- when key decisions are being made and patterns developed by young persons.
Over several decades, my experience is that most of parenting-conference attendees are from families that already are doing very much right. Some families arrive early, sit up front, chat and listen.
But at one Saturday-morning conference a family arrived late. The mother took a seat and the teenage son sat next to her with arms crossed in a sullen-seeming silent slouch. The father, unshaven, spent the entire conference leaning against the back wall. I commented to a school official that it seemed that the father and son were dragged to the event in "psychological chains," and likely would get little or nothing from a three-hour conference. Maybe six months of psychotherapeutic intervention might help.
And there are families, as one commenter observed above, who are in deeply serious situations -- including domestic violence, sexual abuse, chronic hyper-critical parenting. A speaker at one conference, Sid Simon, wrote a book on the damage of over-criticism (with a chapter entitled "The Knives of Negative Criticism") outlining the proverbial "death by a thousand cuts."
So just doing conferences is missing the huge middle range of families who are doing a lot right but could perhaps do better, avoid some conflicts and negative interchanges if they had a few techniques known to improve communications and foster positive assets.
Overall, this clearly is not a simple matter. Many good people and community organizations -- from the YMCA to PTAs and others -- are trying hard to help families and young persons connect with each other. It's not something any one person or entity can do alone. -jay
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Last week, in the face of growing scrutiny from the city of New York, the five-year-old accommodation-sharing company Airbnb released some data designed to make its case as a good neighbor – even an economic catalyst – in the five boroughs.
In the previous year, according to numbers crunched by the consulting firm HR&A Advisors, Airbnb had helped generate $632 million in economic activity throughout town, supporting 4,580 "jobs." Its hosts – individuals often held up as direct competition to major hoteliers – were making on average $7,530 a year renting out their homes. And the visitors they welcomed stayed longer (6.4 nights on average) than the typical New York tourist, and spent more money in the process ($880 at New York businesses).
This was the sixth local impact study Airbnb has produced as part of its campaign to move beyond personal anecdotes about struggling renters to hard economic data. Specifically, that $632 million speaks to the question of Airbnb's footprint in New York City: Is it siphoning customers from Manhattan's Marriotts, or creating new customers – and economic activity – that never existed before? (Another data point: 82 percent of Airbnb's New York listings are outside of the tourist epicenter of Midtown Manhattan.)
But there's also a much larger question lurking behind early data of this sort that's starting to trickle out of "sharing economy" companies. Exactly what is this entire industry doing to the economy? When people share and rent things instead of buying them, does that mean we need to produce less stuff, requiring fewer jobs, ultimately creating less economic growth?
So far, the sharing economy's impact has been largely unseen because we (and the Bureau of Labor Statistics) are used to counting employment in whole jobs, or part-time jobs, not something-I-do-on-the-side-while-I-freelance jobs. Currently, companies like Airbnb, and Etsy, and Sidecar enable tens or hundreds of thousands of people who are even further down the food chain than "small businesses." They're micro-entrepreneurs doing something so nontraditional we don't even know how to measure it.
"It's like an invisible economy," says Molly Turner, Airbnb's director of public policy. And companies inside it need to get real sophisticated, real fast in figuring out how to measure this invisible economy, she says, because for many people this looks like an important part of the future of work. It could even be a big component in our understanding of why America's jobs numbers look so lethargic.
"That's not to say Airbnb advocates for counting this as work, or as a 'business,'" Turner says. "But it's a productive economic activity that has a really important impact."
So how do you measure that impact when the standard definitions of "work" and "jobs" don't even apply?
"The overarching question here is 'how much economic growth will be induced by the sharing economy?'" says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business who has been studying the question. "Contained in that is the possibility that the sharing economy may not lead to economic growth."
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It's notable that a company like Airbnb, at this stage in its evolution, is trying to put out data like this at all. Look back at Google circa 2003, Sundararajan says. The year before Google went public, the company was interested in trying to size up how large its market would be. It was interested in articulating its revenue model for the public. It was not all that interested in painting a picture of its broader impact on the world.
"Most entrepreneurs and firms are not out sharing their data, and I would even use the term, trying to justify their existence," says Lesa Mitchell, the vice president of innovation and networks at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which advocates for entrepreneurship. "You don't see that normally. They just do their stuff."
But that's not really an option for Airbnb or Uber, companies founded on tech platforms that are creating new, more efficient ways of doing what other people are already doing (and what regulators are already regulating). There's a creative destruction element to the sharing economy that theoretically threatens hotels or cab companies, or even the auto manufacturers who used to build and sell cars to 25-year-olds who'd now rather use Zipcar instead.
Back in August, Business Insider published a story warning that the sharing economy and the rise of renters could have "catastrophic ripple effects." A market strategy firm called the ConvergEX Group had been circulating a memo outlining how demand for new cars and houses would drop, with a potential effect on the consumer psyche "similar to that of the Depression."
That argument also neatly nests within wider fears that technology is now destroying jobs faster than it is creating them.
The innovation behind many sharing economy companies, however, is that they are making it more efficient to hail a cab, or rent a hotel, or order a wedding cake topper. On the supply side, they're making it more efficient to provide these services or sell these products. And an increase in efficiency generally leads to an increase in economic productivity, which, generally speaking, translates to economic growth.
Give people a more efficient, convenient, cost-effective way of getting something, and typically the demand for that thing actually goes up. "If something becomes better," Sundararajan says, "people want more of it, not less."
In other words, an expansion of consumption possibilities leads to an increase in consumption. This is essentially a story of economic progress, Sundararajan says: new technology leads to more efficiency, which leads to an expansion in production and consumption possibilities. There are substantially more hotel rooms in America today than there were 50 years ago, because people have accumulated more leisure time, more income, more need for business travel.
On the other hand, there are substantially fewer farmers than there were in America in 1900. But as farming became more efficient, people who once were farmers found other things to do instead (conveniently right around the same time as a massive expansion in secondary education).
"So to think about things in a really static way – we have a certain amount of stuff, and if people are using it more efficiently, we need less stuff – it's sort of myopic," Sundararajan says.
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The sharing economy, however, is not exactly like economic disruptions that came before it. More complex technology typically demands more complex skills. And, in the past, major technological change in the economy has been accompanied by a shift toward higher-skilled work. Initially, there's a shortage of those high-skilled people. Their wages go up, while wages go down for the people who are steeped in the old technology.
The sharing economy is fundamentally premised on new technology, and it's creating new jobs exactly like this for the developers and programmers on the back end of Etsy's platform or SideCar's app. But that's not the most interesting part of this story.
"eBay's impact hasn't been on the thousands of tech jobs it created for eBay," Sundararajan says, "but on the hundreds of thousands of sellers it created."
That's where the real economic impact here lies, and it's not actually clear if all of those people – Uber drivers, Etsy sellers, Airbnb hosts – need more complex skills than what was required of them a decade ago. If you sell furniture on Etsy that you built with a Makerbot 3D printer that you keep in your living room, your skills probably have grown more advanced.
But, for the most part, the sharing economy is not creating new machines that people must learn to use to produce more stuff. It's creating new marketplaces to access familiar things in better ways.
"There's something a little different going on with the sharing economy," Sundararajan says. And he doesn't yet know the broader implication of this.
He's wary of all the estimates he sees of the size of the sharing economy, or any projections for its future growth, because we also don't know how quickly this new kind of consumption will become "normal." This is a question of culture, not public policy. Everyone knows how to behave when you walk into a hotel. But most of us are still a little uncertain about what's supposed to happen when we arrive in someone's else apartment to rent a room for the night. That's a sign that an idea like Airbnb hasn't yet become legitimized. And the growth of the whole sharing economy – and its economic ripple effect – depends on the speed at which that happens.
Sundararajan also suspects that many of these platforms are quietly operating as "finishing schools" for tentative entrepreneurs, another effect that so far hasn't been measured. You can test out selling some of your crafts on Etsy, for example, without quitting your job and cashing in your 401K to open a brick-and-mortar store. Whole new companies will start this way, he predicts. And that would have an impact on the economy, too, that would be inarguably positive.
"I don't know how it can't be," Mitchell says, "simply because in using things like Daily Grommet, Etsy, these platform technologies that are out there, that's allowing people in small towns that have been impacted by business closures to actually make and sell things online to customers they're never going to meet or see."
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Sundararajan chuckles whenever New York City gets wound up about a new tech company relocating to town.
"Google comes, hundreds of tech jobs are created, and there's a lot of hoopla about these things," he says. "Meanwhile, Etsy is quietly creating massive amounts of employment, and they're not counted as jobs."
Pull back and consider this network of uncounted jobs, sort-of-income, and tentative entrepreneurs all across the country, and a larger possibility emerges: Maybe the economy is doing marginally better than we think. Those stagnant jobs numbers that come out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics the first Friday of every month don't account for much of this activity.
Earlier this summer, the MIT Technology Review published a startling article based on the work of MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee showing not only that technology was destroying jobs, but that productivity in America had recently become decoupled from employment. Traditionally, the two rise in tandem. As productivity increases, jobs increase, too. But amid the massive new wave of automation, starting around 2000, this has ceased to be true.
That chart, from McAfee, shows the widening gap between productivity and employment in America (the pink arrow inserted is ours). This is deeply troubling to economists. But it's possible – and this is what Sundararajan and others are hoping to measure – that the gap could contain all these people we are currently not counting. That's not to say that these unconventional workers fill up that entire gap, but they could be an important part of the picture.
And if that turns out to be true, it should change not only how we think of people like the part-time Airbnb host, but also how we create climates that enable them.
Update: A couple of readers have asked why elements of the sharing economy wouldn't be captured in existing government measures like the BLS Current Population Survey (or household survey), so here's a deeper dive into the weeds:
Take a person who was completely unemployed and now does some kind of work as a sharing economy supplier, maybe driving an Uber car, or providing services on TaskRabbit. If that person reports this new work for profit in a response on a BLS survey, they would be counted as an additional job. However, Sundararajan adds, unemployment (or employment) numbers reported by the BLS don't capture the additional "employment" or "work" generated by underemployed people who were already working at least an hour a week (like a software contractor who now also does Lyft on the side).
Additionally, that data isn't good at reflecting people who dip into the sharing economy while holding regular full-time jobs (a lawyer who rents out a room on Airbnb, a furniture supplier who creates and sells his own work on Etsy on the side). It can't capture the effect when a previously existing small business owner now receives substantially more employment thanks to Etsy. It also can't tell us anything about one of Sundararajan's key questions: Are these micro-entrepreneurship platforms enabling people to create more traditional new businesses that wouldn't have existed without the launching pad of the sharing economy?
Part of the challenge also lies in how people who do these activities think of them. Sundararajan worries that survey questions that ask about your "job," your "main job," your "other job," or your "business" may lead people in the sharing economy to under-report what they're up to simply because they don't think of their activities in those terms. A knitter on Etsy thinks she's selling the products of her "hobby." A driver on SideCar thinks he's taking gas money to drop people off while he's already on his way across town to his part-time job. And an Airbnb host doesn't quantify how many hours she spent last week "hosting" tourists from Chicago. Airbnb in particular leverages excess space, not excess time, making it difficult to measure that "work" in hours.
The underlying point here isn't necessarily a critique of official statistics. Sundararajan believes the only way you measure the impact on the economy of this kind of technological change is to go to the source of the technology itself: these companies. Only they can answer how many sellers use their platforms, or how much money the average vendor is earning, or how many people are served by their products, enabling ripple effects throughout the economy. Which brings us back to our starting point: It's time for companies in the sharing economy to begin rounding up their own data.
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It has been a little over 5 years since the start of this blog, even though I has been a stereoscopic 3D enthusiasts for much longer, the reason for the existence of the blog was Nvidia's 3D Vision. I was really excited when they have announced it and when the first 3D Vision-ready monitors started appearing on the market I was eager to get one as I really did see the potential that the technology had for gaming. And back then since it was something really new and exciting I decided to share my experience, knowledge and other useful information with other users that were just starting and this is how this blog was born.
Now, five years later we are seeing a deja vu as the situation with 3D Vision is pretty much the same as with the Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D Drivers that were available before the birth of 3D Vision. Nvidia did create a market and strong demand for products at first, however they slowly start to neglect things and in a few years they kill the market. This is exactly what is happening with the 3D Vision now as Nvidia hasn't done almost anything new in many months. The latest bigger things were the announcement of the G-Sync monitors, some with 3D Vision support, that however were greatly delayed to market. The other more recent thing is the addition of "3D Compatibility Mode", but the more important thing – supporting and pushing game developers to integrate Stereo 3D support in games has been long gone. It is not about fixing games after they have been released, but integrating proper stereo 3D support while they are being developed.
The stereo 3D gaming community can do the fixing with the help of tools like Helixmod wrapper, however even the game modders are giving up on 3D Vision as instead of helping them Nvidia seems to be doing just the opposite. This is really discouraging and if Nvidia does plan to abandon 3D Vision like they did with their old Stereoscopic 3D Drivers, then they should at least open the project and not kill it completely. The people in different stereoscopic 3D gaming communities that are using 3D Vision have asked numerous times that Nvidia works on something or improves another thing in order for 3D Vision to become better and easier to be used, but we have not seen any results. This is really discouraging and many people have just decided that it is enough for them, some of you might of thing this for me as well due to the last few months with no updates here…
I have not given up on stereo 3D and 3D Vision, at least not yet. I was just busy with other things and have decided to get some rest from 3D, not that very much was happening with 3D Vision anyway, and the Facebook and Oculus deal was a bit of surprise and I wanted to see what will come out of it. So far it seems that things are still good and I'm about to get my hands on the pre-order of the DK2 hopefully next week, so all is not lost. However Oculus Rift is not something that can replace 3D Vision, these are two different things, and even though some of their features and functionality do overlap they are still not the same thing. VR with 3D support is an interesting new concept, but for really good results you need content developed especially for the device, meaning that you not only need a good hardware, but good software support as well. At least here Oculus is doing much, much, much better than Nvidia as Oculus Rift is their only product, unlike Nvidia that has many products and technologies and cannot focus solely on 3D Vision. So interesting times could still lay ahead of stereo 3D technology, so we'll have to wait and see..


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Elizabeth Economy, CFR's director of Asian Studies, says that although China had, just a few months ago, thought it could escape the worst of the global recession, China is now being "hit hard." She says that China's economy is now "losing steam very quickly," and that "this global economic crisis is going to make it much harder for China to address its own domestic economic problems." Economy notes that even though over the past thirty years, there has been a great improvement in the ability of Chinese people "to say what they think," in more recent years, the Chinese leadership has retrenched on this. She says there has been "a contraction of some significance in terms of the ability of people to talk openly about political change."
It's been thirty years since Deng Xiaoping launched the economic reforms after the Communist Party Congress in 1978 and China's been on an economic roll ever since with incredible growth rates in gross national product, as well as in its exports and imports. But is the global recession beginning to catch up with China now?
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You're right that China has had extraordinary growth over the past three decades of economic reform, with the average somewhere between 9 and 10 percent for almost twenty of those thirty years. And I think there was a sense in China about four months ago that the country would be able to escape the worst of the global economic recession. And, this feeling was not unique to China. I think a number of other countries didn't quite understand just how interconnected our world has become, despite the fact that we talk about our "globalized world" all the time. But China's clearly being hit, and being hit hard. Exports are down more than 2 percent from this same time last year. And everyone's predicting a steep downturn in the growth rate for next year-in the neighborhood of 5 and 7 percent rather than the traditional 9-to-10 percent. There are even forecasters that are predicting zero percent growth in China for next year. I do think it's important to note that even before the United States' financial crisis precipitated this global crisis, the Chinese economy had been having some problems. The stock market had lost about two thirds of its value over the first nine months of the year, and the real estate market was in trouble. No doubt, however, this global economic crisis is going to make it much harder for China to address its own domestic economic problems.
Is China facing an unemployment problem now? They don't publish statistics, do they?
"There are small signs that there is going to be some kind of greater control exerted over the economy, which suggests that greater openness is not in the cards for the time being."
They do publish unemployment statistics, but it's hard to know what's real and what's not. Officially, the Chinese government says unemployment stands at about 4 percent. Unofficially, unemployment reports are as high as 10 to 12 percent. Of course, over the past few months, the media have been filled with reports of thousands of factories closing and tens of thousands of workers being laid off. By now, some provinces such as Jiangxi and Hubei, are reporting that hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have returned to their provinces jobless. This is probably true for a number of other provinces as well. In a few provinces, they are passing regulations that require factory managers to get the approval of the government if they want to lay off a certain number of workers. The government is extremely concerned about unemployment and unrest, so it is trying to take preemptive action by insisting that factories not lay off workers. In response, the owners say "well we can either lay off some workers or we're going to have to close down because we can't compete." So there is a clear tension here, and I don't know how the government is going to resolve it.
The government owns about what percentage of the industry?
It's difficult to know. One statistic that is out there is that 70 percent of the top 500 companies in China, which account for about 83 percent of the country's GDP [gross domestic product], are state-owned or state-controlled.
It was Human Rights Day the other day, and again there were, as you might expect, articles here about some of the leading Chinese dissidents still under detention. Have political liberties at all increased with the economic boom? How would you describe the situation?
As many people have noted, over the past thirty years there's been an enormous expansion in the ability of the Chinese people to say what they think, and think what they say. And there's been the development of civil society-non-governmental organizations, that take on all sorts of social challenges, and can move about with a much greater degree of freedom than ever before. Nonetheless, I think in the past several years, during the tenure of President Hu Jintao, there has been a contraction of some significance in terms of the ability of people to talk openly about political change. What we saw on Human Rights Day was a group of one hundred prominent activists, setting forth a human rights charter that called very explicitly for political change-calling on Beijing to hold direct elections, and to remove the Communist party from the court system, and from managing virtually every aspect of political life. Now this list of signatories has expanded to as many as 400 people from all across the country and from all walks of life-farmers, workers, professors, and others. Four hundred out of 1.3 billion, of course, doesn't sound that significant. Nonetheless, it was a bold move with a well-articulated set of demands. Of course, several of the people that signed on to the charter were arrested or brought in for questioning. This is likely to be a very interesting year coming up for China. It's not only the thirtieth anniversary of the normalization of relations with the United States but also the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations.
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Is there any possibility of having token opposition parties running for government office? Or are there now only Communist Party people running?
In village elections and local district elections, independents do run. There are no organized political parties that are permitted to challenge the Communist Party, although technically speaking there are other political parties in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, but they don't mean anything in any real sense of political organization or power. I think the big disappointment for many people in and outside China is that after twenty years of such grassroots elections, there hasn't been any progress in direct elections up the political hierarchy. We haven't seen any real advance or expansion in direct elections in China since 1989. There have been a few rogue experiments, but the government has not recognized the legitimacy of these elections.
Is the economy tanking?
I'd say it's losing steam very quickly.
Could the Chinese leaders pull back on any reforms they had in mind? Does this concern you at all? Is there a possibility of a real setback?
It depends on what kind of reforms you're talking about. The overall approach of the Chinese government, at least initially, is to evaluate everything in terms of how to stabilize the economy, and prevent greater job loss and more social unrest. For example, I mentioned the new labor regulations in a few provinces. There was also an announcement that the Chinese government has been telling the Chinese aviation industry not to purchase any more planes. They appear now to be devaluing the renminbi in order to boost exports. From the U.S. perspective, of course, that is a move in the wrong direction. So I think that there are small signs that there is going to be some kind of greater control exerted over the economy, which suggests that greater openness is not in the cards for the time being. Still, the Chinese leadership keeps saying the right things about not moving into a protectionist mode. In terms of policy reform, my guess is that everything is going to come up for a second look. If it seems to serve the immediate economic and political Chinese interests, then yes. And if it doesn't, if there is going to be political opposition, then it's not going to move forward. It doesn't seem to be a time for advancing bold new economic reform initiatives.
China's been criticized, along with India, for blocking process at the Doha round on world trade. Are they not going to change?
They're not going to change their position. China is worried about protecting its agricultural base and wants to maintain a strong safeguard to protect itself from agricultural import surges. Nonetheless, it was apparently quite a surprise when China reversed its decision to support a compromise on the issue.
Any inklings from the Obama administration, how it wants to view China?
"Everyone's predicting a steep downturn in the growth rate for next year—in the neighborhood of 5 and 7 percent rather than the traditional 9-to-10 percent. There are even forecasters that are predicting 0 percent growth in China for next year."
China was not a major issue in the campaign. From the perspective of China watchers, that's a good thing, because it means that the issue doesn't become politicized, and people aren't trying to lay claims or put stakes in the ground that will be difficult to back away from further down the line. I think that we've had a good run for the past thirty years in terms of maintaining stability in the relationship and not allowing our many differences both in policy substance and in values derail the relationship. Nonetheless, given the sharp economic downturn here in the United States, I think that the relationship will be tested in ways that it hasn't been previously. China's imports, for example, dropped by 17 percent in October. This will do nothing to help out the U.S. economy; and if the Chinese government is, in fact, telling Chinese companies not to buy products, like airplanes, which are a big ticket item in our trade relationship, that will be a problem. Negotiating a deal on climate change will also become more difficult--not that it has been easy--unless both sides decide independently that really pushing forward on a green economy is an essential component of their respective economic recoveries. Overall, I don't think anyone on either side is going to be looking for a fight, but it will be difficult to avoid a blame game unless each side considers the global ramifications of its policies.
I guess on the issue of North Korea's nuclear program, which is now back to square one again, the Obama administration can pick it up again with the Chinese and the others.
The North Koreans have been pulling back and making things more difficult, but the rest of the players are largely going to be the same. Obviously we'll have new people in the key positions here in the United States, but I haven't seen much from the Obama team that suggests that their policy is going to be strikingly different from that of the Bush administration.


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"After careful consideration, I will need to postpone the taping of the Oprah Winfrey interview scheduled for February 22. I admire and respect Oprah and hope to be able to participate in an interview in the future."
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Associated concepts: abandoned child, abortive child, adopted child, afterborn child, child born out of wedlock, child by future marriage, child custody, child labor, child support, childbirth, childcare, childhood, en ventre sa mere, foster child, illegitimate child, legitimate child, minor child, natural child, neglected child, orphan, posthumous child, pretermitted child, stepchild
See also: dependent, descendant, infant, issue, juvenile, minor, offspring, progeny
CHILD, CHILDREN, domestic relations. A child is the son or daughter in
relation to the father or mother.
2. We will here consider the law, in general terms, as it relates to the condition, duties, and rights of children; and, afterwards, the extent which has been given to the word child or children by dispositions in wills and testaments.
3.-1. Children born in lawful wedlock, or within a competent time afterwards, are presumed to be the issue of the father, and follow his condition; those born out of lawful wedlock, follow the condition of the mother. The father is bound to maintain his children and to educate them, and to protect them from injuries. Children are, on their part, bound to maintain their fathers and mothers, when in need, and they are of ability so to do. Poth. Du Marriage, n. 384, 389. The father in general is entitled to the custody of minor children, but, under certain circumstances, the mother will be entitled to them, when the father and mother have separated. 5 Binn. 520. Children are liable to the reasonable correction of their parents. Vide Correction
4.-2. The term children does not ordinarily and properly speaking comprehend grandchildren, or issue generally; yet sometimes that meaning is, affixed to it, in cases of necessity; 6 Co. 16; and it has been held to signify the same as issue, in cases where the testator, by using the terms children and issue indiscriminately, showed his intention to use the former term in the sense of issue, so as to entitle grandchildren, & c., to take under it. 1 Ves. sen. 196; Ambl. 555; 3 Ves. 258; Ambl. 661; 3 Ves. & Bea. 69. When legally construed, the term children is confined to legitimate children. 7 Ves. 458. The civil code of Louisiana, art. 2522, n. 14, enacts, that "under the, name of children are comprehended, not only children of the first degree, but the grandchildren, great-grand-children, and all other descendants in the direct line."
5. Children are divided into legitimate children, or those born in lawful wedlock; and natural or illegitimate children, who are born bastards. (q.v.) Vide Natural Children. Illegitimate children are incestuous bastards, or those which are not incestuous.
6. Posthumous children are those who are born after the death of their fathers. Domat, Lois Civ. liv. prel. t. 2, s. 1, Sec. 7 L. 3, Sec. 1, ff de inj. rupt.
7. In Pennsylvania, the will of their fathers, in, which no provision is made for them, is revoked, as far as regards them, by operation of law. 3 Binn. R. 498. See, as to the law of Virginia on this subject, 3 Munf. 20, and article In ventre sa mere. Vide, generally, 8 Vin. Ab. 318; 8 Com. Dig. 470; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; 2 Kent, Com. 172; 4 Kent, Com. 408, 9; 1 Rop. on Leg. 45 to 76; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 442 Id. 158; Natural children.


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20-year-old Andy Yates (AUS, Slingshot) only started competing on the PKRA tour in 2009. In 2010 he already wins his first Freestyle World Championship title and brings the crown to "Down Under" for the first time in kite boarding history.
16-year-old Gisela Pulido (ESP, Airush) wins the freestyle world championship title for the 3rd time and shows that she has fully recovered from her knee injury that threw her back in 2009.
Read on for an interview with the two new world champions !
Q: Andy, being world champion in your second year is an amazing achievement. How do you feel about it?
Andy Yates: I was so over the moon when they announced me as the world champion and I feel so lucky and fortunate to have achieved that in my second year. When I started this year I had set the goal for a top three finish and now tie it up in 9 events out of 10 to be the world champion I just would not have thought in my wildest dreams that I would be able to do that so I am so, so happy about it and so relieved.
Q: Gisela, how do you feel about securing the Freestyle World Championship title 2010 after the drawbacks of last season ?
Gisela Pulido: It is really good especially because I thought I was not going to win this year. All the other girls had a really high level and I was not 100% good and coming out of an injury. I started in Thailand hoping to end up on the podium and then I actually won the event. That is when I realized that maybe there is a chance for me to win this year. I am very, very happy about this season.
Q: You have won so many events, you are very dominant in the female freestyle competitions. Does this become boring and how do you keep motivated when you are on the top?
Gisela Pulido: No, it is not boring. Karolina (Winkowska) is a very, very strong rider and just won in New Caledonia. It is very difficult to keep winning and you have to be motivated all the time. This year I started really good and then got a bit too relaxed and only got 3rd in Fuerteventura which made me focus more again. It is never boring and this year has been the most difficult one so far.
Q: Andy, you have only been kiting for 5 years and have improved incredibly fast. When did you realize that a World Title would be achievable for you?
Andy Yates: It was my dream and I looked up to it and thought that I would definitely want to achieve that sometime in the future. I always felt it was in my reach to do it and I worked hard and put all my afford into achieving my dream. Really only at the first event this year (in Thailand), when I beat Kevin Langeree who was the 2009 World Champion, I thought – o.k. I can definitely be a world champion at some point.
Q: When you started kiteboaring did you already think – I want to be good at this?
Andy Yates: When I started I did not really think to take it any further but after a few months I started to pursue the Australian scene and competitions and did pretty well. That is when I thought, "hang on, maybe this is something I should think about". So ever since I started to compete this is what I wanted to do.
Q: Gisela, how do you keep motivated to go at it over and over again, train hard and stay focused on competitions and are you motivated to keep going for many more years to come?
Gisela Pulido: My dad helps me a lot because when I am not motivated he sends me out and keeps me focused. On the other side I do the same thing with him and so we are a great team. It is good to have a father and a friend at the same time that travels with you all the time and that can coach you during the competitions. Luckily I don't get very unmotivated because kiting is just a lot of fun for me.
And sure, yes, I like competing a lot and am really motivated to keep going for many years.
Q: Do you have a routine that you go through in your heats and that helps you to win against the other girls?
Gisela Pulido: Yes, in a way. I start with the easier tricks and go to the more difficult ones and then rotate back and forth between easier and more difficult ones. I also write down the tricks I want to do so I can memorize them and don't forget what to do during the heat.
Q: Andy, what about you, do you do any training outside of kiteboarding when there is no wind and how do you prepare for the competitions?
Andy Yates: I occasionally go for a bikeride or maybe I swim the pool but I find that if I am having fun I train way better and so I just surf, paddleboard or kitesurf whenever it is windy– that's perfect for me.
Every session at home is a serious session for me and I got to do this and every session I want to improve. Sometimes I feel like I have to do this and feel really funny if I don't do it. When all my friends are out doing one footers and stuff and I am on the other side just focusing on my tricks then sometimes it takes a little bit away from the fun maybe. But it is fine and it is much better than working in another way.
Q: And do you actually get nervous before your heats and if yes, does that help you to focus better?
Gisela Pulido: I get nervous, especially in the finals. You need to do as good as possible and that makes you nervous. But I listen to some music and I just motivate myself and then I go full power in the heat. If you are not nervous you are too relaxed and might not show the judges what they want to see in the heat so I think it is good to be a bit nervous.
Q: Do you do any physical exercise other than kiting that helps you to perform at your best during the season?
Gisela Pulido: Yes, I do a lot of physical training, it is very important for me. Running keeps me fit and helps me especially in light wind competitions. I also do some gymnastics, yoga and stretching that keeps me fit.
Q: In addition to physical training, do you have a special diet?
Gisela Pulido: I try to keep a healthy diet but it is really difficult when I am traveling around the world. Wherever I am they have all those nice things to eat and I love to eat "picanas" (big steak) when I am in Brazil and to go to Hungry Jacks when I am here in Australia for example. But when I am back home in Spain then I eat really healthy.
Q: Finally, when you are not competing on the tour, where do you train?
Gisela Pulido: I was going to school in Tarifa until now and was training there every day after school. Now I just started online school and can travel and do my school and homework when there is no wind. It is great and this winter I might actually go to the Philippines or Australia to train.
Andy and Gisela, thank you very much for this interview and congratulations again to your 2010 freestyle world titles !
Interview held by Kristin Boese


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KimT wrote:You don't have cancer. You have much to be thankful for. Don't borrow trouble by consulting Dr Google. A repeat colonoscopy in 3 years is a very reasonable follow up.
Maggie Nell wrote:Receiving a health-scare like you have brings you face-to-face with your own mortality
and does your head in as we say in Australia. You now have a 'before' polyp and 'after'
polyp divide down the middle of your life and it's a Big. Bloody. Deal. to you - it's your body.
It's grown something nasty and can you ever trust your body again. Finding out one's body can pull this sort of
ninja shit is discombobulating. It's easy for your husband, PCP and GI doctor to be chilled - AINT THEIR BODY
and are they all males........might be a bit of gender stereotyping that is stressing, but don't you worry your
pretty little head about that.
The reality is that you DID have a colonoscopy and the funny-looking-growth was removed. Focusing on
alternate outcomes is trippy and the realm of sci-fi fantasy, being an exercise in pure speculation. However, you
might imaginate a scenario that happens to somebody else and that comes in handy as you'll be already prepared
in how to deal. Ruminating does have it's benefits. It can detract from being truly engaged with
the wonderful outcome that do you have. However, you've had the bejebus scared out of you and you don't have cancer and
there's no one you can talk to about that because you don't have cancer and you are expected to get on with it
because you don't have cancer. Don't miss a beat, shrug it off, count your lucky stars, rock up for a colonoscopy
in 3 years and you know, get on with it because you don't have cancer and there are others out there (and in here)
who are in far diarrhoea straits.
So the way I see it, which is an Aussie way (upside down), is that you are seeking to know how to move on from this
Major-Health-Scare which is akin to being the person in a Blitz who lives in the one house left standing in the street that
wasn't demolished....miraculous! There's the relief and then the realization that you don't quite belong, but you are
traumatized all the same. My suggestion would be that you connect with a counsellor and work through it with a person who
isn't emotionally invested in what-could-have-happened. I reckon your husband received a pretty darn good scare as well and
talking about what could have happened is probably scaring him more. You're like Jason with the chainsaw...
Have you had a good howl of relief yet? Crying is highly underrated as a coping mechanism. Tears of joy, let em rip!
Pemba wrote:First of all yes a polyp can both be tubular and sessile, tubular is the "look" and Sessile is the "type". Sessile just means it's flat and not on a stalk, both are perfectly normal.
Here is a link to understand the report.
https://www.cancer.org/treatment/unders ... nomas.html
3 yers wait is fine, the polyp was so great looking and so small. And when your original in the 5 year wait, 3 is nothing to stress about.
I understand the stress and anxiety I had/have the same, i lost around 6 kilos, was afraid to eat anything remotely unhealthy, was afraid of doing anything that could trigger a new polyp, then ended up eating nothing! it's becoming better now around 4 months after my last check up, but I needed therapy, and tears, no shame in that. I proudly ate some pizza yesterday
Ps try to stay away from Dr Google, he/she is a drama queen and like my therapist says it's only keep on confirming your brain that it's something to fear and stress about.
Rarely have I felt like I'm in the presence of greatness, but Sir Edmund Hillary was an exception. Interviewing him in 1997 in his Auckland home, I was struck by the part of his story where, still 300 metres from the summit, they come face-to-face with a seemingly insurmountable cliff-face. He and Tenzing Norgay had every reason to turn back. They didn't.
Instead of focusing on the goal, of getting to the top of Everest – which now seemed crushingly unattainable – Sir Edmund told me he focused every fibre of his being on getting his left foot into one crag and, that accomplished, doubled up to focus on getting his right foot into a small cleft. And so on. I know, I know, twee and trite, perhaps, but thus was Everest conquered and I have used it ever since – put your energy into what can be done and keep moving.
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Pollard century fails to prevent easy Austalian win
Australia maintained their dominance over the West Indies cruising to a five-wicket victory to lead their one-day international series 4-0 at the Sydney Cricket Ground today.cricket Updated: Feb 08, 2013 17:36 IST
Australia maintained their dominance over the West Indies cruising to a five-wicket victory to lead their one-day international series 4-0 at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.
Only a belligerent unbeaten century from man-of-the-match Kieron Pollard gave the West Indies a respectable score of 220 after they were 55 for six at one stage.
But it was easily run down by the Australians, who secured victory with 31 balls to spare and will now go after a series clean sweep in Melbourne on Sunday.
If not for Pollard's 109 off 136 balls it would have been an even more emphatic victory for Michael Clarke's team who always had control of the run chase under lights.
Shane Watson followed up his 122 in Wednesday's 39-run series-clinching win in Canberra with 76 off 84 balls and skipper Clarke hit 37 off 65 balls before he was out gloving down the leg-side to express bowler Tino Best with the scores level.
Glen Maxwell came in and hit the winning run with Matthew Wade not out 13.
Yet despite Australia's dominance the towering Pollard was named man-of-the-match for preventing his team's innings from falling apart after it had tottered at 55 for six before a series of late partnerships gave his side something to defend.
It was Pollard's third ODI century and his second against Australia and he had to curb his usual aggressive batting style as the West Indies threatened to repeat their total of 70 in the first ODI of the series in Perth.
Mitchell Johnson ripped into the West Indies top order removing Johnson Charles (0) Kieran Powell (9) and Darren Bravo (4) to have the tourists wobbling at 17 for three.
Bravo's brother, Dwayne, lasted eight balls for his three before he was given out leg before wicket to Maxwell on review.
Narsingh Deonarine, in for injured Chris Gayle, got a thick edge off Ben Cutting to Aaron Finch at second slip for 10. Wicketkeeper Devon Thomas went for seven after a long review concluded that the ball carried to Finch at slip for Cutting's second wicket.
Andre Russell put on 35 runs with Pollard for the eighth wicket before he holed out to Maxwell at long-off off James Faulkner for 18 off 17 balls.
Sunil Narine joined in the best partnership of the innings of 64 before he was caught behind off Clint McKay for 23.
Best was run out for one in a mix-up with Pollard in the final over.
Johnson finished with three for 36 off his 10 overs and Cutting captured three for 45 off 10.
Finch made 25 before he was dismissed in the 10th over of the Australian innings leg before wicket to spinner Narine.
Watson and Phillip Hughes put on 62 for the second wicket before Hughes was caught at slip off the back of his glove for 23 as he tried to lap sweep Narine.
Watson had a bit of luck along the way when he was dropped on 32 by wicketkeeper Devon Thomas and Narine botched a run out with the Australian opener well out of his ground when on 51.
He was finally out when he could not get out of the way of a rearing Best delivery and was caught behind.
Adam Voges, in the team for injured George Bailey, made 28 off 39 balls before he holed out to Darren Sammy off Russell and Clarke was the last man out with the scores tied.
Best finished with two for 38 and Narine two for 34.
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