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Back to which school?
Finally, the state is no longer the standard
In retrospect, I can't believe the argument lasted so long. But from the time my parents established a small Christian day school in rural Iowa in 1951 (I enrolled there that year for fifth grade) until well into my adulthood, the constant question from outside always was: Can such a school, so tiny, so modest, and with such limited resources, ever match the educational standards and output of state institutions? Note well that I never heard such doubts from my parents or the hardy band that joined them in launching that little school, which since then has produced well over its share of doctors, lawyers, and college professors. But the skepticism from outside was constant, palpable, and annoying. I wouldn't mention such cynicism here if I thought it had been directed only at the remote little school where I later received my high-school diploma. But Christian schools everywhere in the 1950s, 1960s, and well into the '70s all suffered the same libel. If you wanted your kids to love Jesus, the doubters seemed to say, send them to a Christian school. But if you wanted them to be educated, only state schools had the resources. What Christian schools suffered that way came also to be a way of life for homeschoolers in the 1980s and '90s. If 10 or 100 families banding together couldn't match the state's educational prowess, then wasn't it evident that a single family by itself shouldn't even pretend to be able to offer its children the education they would need for life? But as I say, I'm surprised as I look back that the debate continued for so long. For the state educators-those folks from the big teachers' colleges and the state departments of public instruction-have long since displayed their failure for all to see. Their insistence that we must all use their yardstick became increasingly embarrassing as the years passed. The golden standard by which religious schools and homeschools were supposed to be shown up as nothing more than shoddy imitators-that standard itself got a quick case of taint and tarnish. On at least three fronts where "education" is supposed to perform, the state's shortcomings became more and more blatantly obvious:
- At the most basic level-that of conveying elementary facts and skill sets-the state started stumbling badly. Debates rage on with reference to SAT scores, and whether they're rising or falling and whether they've been skewed along the way to cover up intrinsic educational failure at a national level. But you don't have to answer those questions to see the bigger problem. We have now inherited a nation that doesn't know how to read on a functional level, along with a population that also doesn't know how to do simple calculations either. We cover all that with spellchecking computers, pocket calculators, and cash registers with pictures on the keys instead of words and numbers. Meanwhile, we import tens of thousands of computer whizzes from third-world countries to construct the programs we have become too collectively dumb to do on our own.
- But schools are not just for passing on facts and figures. They are also to help the next generation discover what such facts and figures mean. It's the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Yet if state schools have dropped the ball on the first assignment, they've long since left the stadium on the second. If you've proved your incompetence at answering the "who" and "what" questions, you've got no business trying the "why" questions. State experts are right when they observe that it's pretty hard to teach biology without touching on sex education. But along the way, they've forfeited their rights in both subject areas.
- Finally, schools are supposed to prepare their students for the society in which they will live. Indeed, "socialization" was a primary goal of some of the earliest visionaries for statist education in America. As their techniques to bring about that end became increasingly clear, some parents applauded while others expressed their horror. But whatever their response, only a few still think the state systems have done a good job of creating well-socialized products. Respect? Tolerance? Manners? Self-sacrifice? Servanthood? Here and there, perhaps-but such are hardly the trademarks of the products of public schools these days.
Nor, we should note modestly, are they always the trademarks of the products of Christian schools and homeschools. We too have a lot to learn about the educational task. But at least we are free at last to concentrate on the task itself. No longer are we obligated to defend ourselves so constantly about not measuring up to our statist counterparts. Too bad for society it takes their downfall to make us look good.


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Slamming UPA policies, Narendra Modi today unveiled his vision for the country ahead of Lok Sabha election promising to develop 100 smart cities and set up IITs, IIMs and AIIMS in every state while projecting India as a brand worldwide.
From checking price rise and inflation, controlling poverty, ensuring security for women and empowering the poor to developing bullet trains and creating improved health infrastructure to focus on wellness, the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate unleashed a host of promises that the BJP would fulfil if it came to power.
To fight inflation, Modi suggested setting up of a "Price Stabilisation Fund" to help the common man neutralise the effect of rising prices and said the BJP's priority would be to provide a real-time databank for agri produce with the use of modern technology.
Wanting to build "brand India" to compete in the globalised world, he said it would focus on 5-Ts -- talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.
Taking up Atal Bihari Vajpayee's favourite project of interlinking the rivers, Modi promised to fulfil the unfinished dream of the former Prime Minister.
On party veteran L K Advani's pet project of bringing back the country's blackmoney stashed abroad, for which the former Deputy Prime Minister had launched a nation-wide campaign in the form of a yatra, the Gujarat Chief Minister said he will fulfil his dream and utilise the money for the welfare of the poor. "If need be, we will amend the law and also set up a task force for bringing back the money."
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A dog with two tails
Money | Speculation over Fed action, crisis in Syria, highlight a strange season in the stock markets
The summer ended not with a bang but with a whimper, at least on the stock market. The Dow was down more than 5 percent during August. For the three months between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the markets were essentially flat.
Of course, all three major indexes are still way up for the year, and they've more than doubled in the past four years. The question is: Was this summer a breather, or the beginning of a breakdown? It's too early to tell, but there's little question that concern over the actions of the Federal Reserve, and not economic fundamentals, caused the downward drift in the markets. For most of the summer, when the economic news was good, the markets would go down, as speculators did what speculators do: They speculated. They bet that the stronger the economy, the quicker the Fed would taper and end its $85 billion a month bond-buying scheme.
Then came Syria, and the market became the dog with two tails. Normally, when an international crisis breaks out, stocks retreat and gold and oil advance. And that happened for a day or two, but the rise in oil prices actually helped some energy companies. Wall Street traders, now back to full strength following summer vacation, flooded into the markets, turning the crisis into little more than a buying opportunity.
And if an economic dog with two tails isn't enough, consider this: Congress is now back in session. The national debt now exceeds the nation's gross domestic product, and—according to the Heritage Foundation—federal government spending is now 21.5 percent of GDP. That means K Street lobbyists now affect the economy as much as Wall Street traders, creating a mutt only Dr. Frankenstein could love.
Where are the jobs?
Despite some positive signs in the economy, the employment picture doesn't seem to be getting better. Weekly initial jobless claims have been below 350,000 for most of the summer. That's a number that most economists say will generate new jobs. But if that's true, where are they?
The Labor Department's August report, released Sept. 6, said the economy had created an underwhelming 170,000 new jobs. The same report revised downward—dramatically—both the June and July numbers, so we don't know how much confidence we can have in the August number.
The bottom line is that the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged. The latest report does, however, show plainly that—despite some punditry to the contrary—education matters. The unemployment rate for college-educated adults over the age of 25 is a miniscule 3.5 percent. —W.C.S.
Showroom traffic
There's a boom in the auto industry. Ford posted August sales 12 percent above a year ago for its best month since August 2006. GM did even better, reporting a sales jump of almost 15 percent. Nissan sales were up 22 percent, for that company's best August ever. Toyota beat them all, surging nearly 23 percent. LMC Automotive, an industry consulting firm, said total U.S. sales last month were close to 1.5 million, about 12 percent higher than a year ago.
It's not unusual for August sales to be strong. Dealerships cut prices to clear their lots for next year's models, and construction companies and their employees, flush with summer cash, boost the truck market. Adding to the boom this year: The Great Recession motivated many of us to hold on to our cars longer than normal. The average age of a vehicle on the road today is now about 11 years, a record high, but many of these cars need replacing. And interest rates are historically low, but creeping upward, causing some to think that the time to buy is now.
Given these special circumstances, will this showroom traffic jam last? Analysts think so, predicting total U.S. sales this year to top 16 million. —W.C.S.


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Now, this industry is a lapdog corporate crony, getting huge tax breaks from the crooked Party in power...toeing the Party line, doing its duty for the Democratic party.
Zero Dark Thirty wins no awards...not politically correct.
Usual Oscar ceremony jokes about the "Christian Right".
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Hot on the heels of the recent Android 4.2 release, a minor follow up has begun rolling out to Nexus tablet owners.
Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 owners are waking up to an OTA update to Android 4.2.1.
If you haven't got yours already, you'll be seeing an update notification pop up in the next day or two.
What's fixed in Android 4.2.1?
As with all minor updates we shouldn't expect anything revolutionary to be pushed out. So unless you have a lot of friends with birthdays in December you'll not be getting too excited by this one.
As far as we know the headline fix is the birthday bug introduced in 4.2.
That said, I am hoping that there's something in there to help the performance problems many of us are still suffering from. Some early feedback on Twitter indicates that owners have seen an improvement but it's always so difficult to tell. Personally the performance of my Nexus 7 varies from day to day so it's not clear what may or may not be affecting it's speediness.
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When Vermont's emergency response community switched to a new Internet protocol (IP)-based 911 telecommunications system in two data centers in February 2007, it put the state on the leading edge of the nationwide transition to next-generation 911 (NG 911) call centers.
Across the country, regional and state officials are working on standards and funding mechanisms to shift from legacy systems to IP-based networks - gaining the flexibility to handle emergencies and bringing the country's 6,500 call centers into the 21st century.
In essence, 911 centers are working to catch up with the profusion of consumer devices that send and receive text, data and digital images.
In a few years, most call centers should be able to exchange and disseminate text messages to the public alerting them of emergencies, as well as stream videos of bank robberies and transfer those images to police squad cars. And when a tanker truck flips over on the highway, a passerby will be able to take a photo with his or her cell phone and send a picture to 911 of the truck's hazardous material symbols.
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Many states have several regional 911 networks that can't communicate with one another and are tied to specialized 911 routing equipment and software used by landline telephone service providers. In addition, disparate emergency service agencies that are typically part of a metropolitan area are likely to have different types of software systems, making transferring callers and their information difficult.
That's not the case in Vermont.
"All incoming calls go to one of the two data centers and are converted to voice over IP [VoIP]," explained Jim Lipinski, IT manager of the Vermont Enhanced 911 Board in Montpelier.
From there, the calls are routed to one of nine call centers (also known as public safety answering points, or PSAPs) around the state. If one PSAP is busy with calls or knocked out of service by a storm, calls can instantly be routed to a second tier of nearby PSAPs.
"We can add flexibility while shrinking our whole system," Lipinski said. "We were able to decommission a PSAP that was taking less than 1 percent of calls statewide. The transition was no big deal - they just logged off."
Flash Forward
Experts working on next-generation systems realize the current architecture is outdated, and that wireless and VoIP technologies were added piecemeal to systems that weren't designed for it.
"The system we have is built on an analog platform," said Thera Bradshaw, principal with TKC Consulting Group in Los Angeles. "It served the country well for 40 years and was a public policy success, but the infrastructure that is in place is outdated in a mobile, digital world," said Bradshaw, who's a member of a Washington, D.C., trade group called the 911 Industry Alliance, and former president of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials.
For instance, during the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32, students tried to send text messages to 911, Bradshaw said, not realizing that 911 call centers aren't equipped to receive text messages. They also can't handle cell phone photos or streaming video from closed-circuit TV cameras or devices used by the hearing-impaired.
All that will change, but not for another two to three years. "At the rate we're going, we'll be lucky to have the first fully featured, standards-based NG 911 system in place by 2010," said Roger Hixson, technical issues director of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), a group that fosters the technological advancement of 911 systems.
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"This project originally started when Councilman Marc Harris approached our volunteers two years ago. Since then, we have taken responsibility for the flags and have added this display as an annual service project for our troop," states Adina Knight, Committee Chair for the troop. "We are happy to support the community of Clarksville and Fort Campbell and look forward to continuing this service project in the future."
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Tichborne was commended by judge Tim Dooley for her brilliant poetry collection, in the 2012 international Melita Hume Poetry Prize competition, which Eyewear runs. Apparently, in this instance of activism, she was seeking to get near enough the prime minister, a believer in press freedom, so she could read out the names of those on "Calum's List" who have died due to the severe budget cuts imposed by the Coalition. Apparently these will continue for some time.
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Updated 7:30 p.m. April 23: The Department of Music announced new times and venues for Philharmonia, the symposium being held Saturday (May 3) in D. Kern Holoman's honor.
By Dateline staff
A musical tribute and a symposium are in store next week for D. Kern Holoman, who led the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra for 30 years until stepping down in 2008, is now taking emeritus status as a professor in the Department of Music.
Separately, the department's Keyboard Festival will run from Thursday to Sunday, May 1-4, featuring the three evening concerts (including one by the symphony), two free concerts and a forum.
Honoring Holoman
The department's Empyrean Ensemble, specializing in new music, will present Tribute to D. Kern Holoman, Monday (April 28), 7 p.m., in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
"D. Kern Holoman has been an outstanding scholar, conductor and member of UC Davis for over three decades," reads the Empyrean Ensemble's concert description. "As he retires from the music department faculty, the Empyrean Ensemble pays tribute to one of the most valued and respected members of the UC Davis community."
The program includes works written especially for Holoman, by several of his faculty colleagues:
- Ross Bauer — Vignette
- Laurie San Martin — HDKH (Homage to D. Kern Holoman) for vibraphone and four clarinets
- Christian Baldini — senza rallentare
- Kurt Rohde — final lecture for percussion and electronics
- Sam Nichols — disjecta membra no. 1a for amplified percussion and amplified string trio
- Mika Pelo — Holoman Variations for violin, viola, cello and percussion
- Pablo Ortiz — Harold in Davis
And three other works, written especially for Holoman:
- Yu-Hui Chang (former UC Davis faculty, 1999-2006) — On the Podium
- Steven Mackey '78 — It's Equals It Is for clarinet, viola and piano
- Darin Wilson '88 and M.A., '88 — Four Sketches for violin, cello, piano and percussion
The program also includes:
- David Lang — These Broken Wings for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion
- Georg F. Haas — tria ex uno for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion
The following Saturday (May 3), the music department presents Philharmonia: The Orchestra, Past and Future, a symposium in Holoman's honor. Admission is free and open to the public.
Many of the times listed below are different than what the music department announced previously; in addition, the entire symposium will be held at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
The program includes the presentation of papers as follows:
- 10:30 a.m.-noon — Beverly Wilcox (UC Davis), "From the Salle des Cent Suisses to the Salle des Concerts du Conservatoire," and Nicholas Matthew (UC Berkeley), "Wagner's Eroica, and After"
- 1:30-3 p.m. — Christopher Reynolds (UC Davis), "Programming Beethoven in the Year after His Death"; and Mark Clague (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "The Atlanta School of Composers: Using History to Bring New Music to New Audiences"
- 3:15-4:45 p.m. — Carol Oja (Harvard University), "Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestra as Sites of Racial Activism in the 1940s"; and John Spitzer (San Francisco Conservatory of Music), "The Death and Transfiguration of American Orchestras in the 20th Century"
A roundtable discussion on the future of the symphony orchestra is scheduled from 5 to 6:15 p.m., with Clague, Spitzer, Susan Key (executive director, Star-Spangled Music Foundation, and formerly the special projects director, San Francisco Symphony) and Michael Morgan (music director, Sacramento Philharmonic and the Oakland East Bay Symphony).
The symposium will conclude with a reception in the Mondavi Center's Yoche Dehe Grand Lobby, just as people are arriving for the center's next event: the symphony orchestra, as part of the Keyboard Festival (see below).
Keyboard Festival
Thursday, May 1 — Bach Harpsichord Concerti, featuring current and former members of the UC Davis and Davis High School Baroque ensembles. The program features J.S. Bach's concertos for two and four harpsichords. 12:05-1 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Free. (Another free concert by the same baroque ensembles: 3-5 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Richard Brunelle Performance Hall, Davis High School, 315 W. 14th St.)
Friday, May 2 — Chamber Music with Early Keyboards, with Belle Bulwinkle (Mills College), Phebe Craig (UC Davis) and Katherine Westine, early keyboard instruments. Works by J.S. and W.F. Bach, Beethoven, Castello, Couperin, Haydn, Mozart, Rameau and Richter. 7 p.m. Jackson Hall. Tickets.
Saturday, May 3 — Symphony Orchestra: Berlin, Leipzig and Stockholm, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Jackson Hall. Tickets.
- Weber — Overture to Der Freischütz
- Mika Pelo (UC Davis professor) — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (world premiere), with Eric Zivian, piano (artist in residence)
- Mahler — Symphony No. 1 (Titan)
Sunday, May 4 — Forum, moderated by Professor Carol Hess (musicologist, UC Davis), with Belle Bulwinkle (pianoforte player, Mills College) and Phebe Craig (harpsichord player, UC Davis). The fascinating musical developments that took place in the 18th century prompted a great evolution in keyboard instruments and, in turn, significant changes in keyboard technique. Enjoy a fun and informative discussion of what happens when Sturm und Drang, Empfindsamkeit and Galant find themselves in the same sentence in a book on music history and have to "duke it out." Noon-1:30 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Free.
Sunday, May 4 — Works for Piano, with Lois Brandwynne, Michael Seth Orland and Marilyn Swan. Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Messiaen, Rachmaninov and more. 3-4 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Free.
Sunday, May 4 — Artist-in-Residence Eric Zivian, Piano and Pianoforte, with Tanya Tomkins, cello. 7 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Tickets.
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The Biggest Challenge of Being a Startup Founder
Everyone knows that startups are sexy. You make the rules, you get the money, glory and fame, press coverage, you name it. And while you have to work hard for this to happen—even harder than you ever thought you would—all is good in the end.
Until it's not.
The challenge lies not in creating a new company, or a new product. It's actually pretty easy. The challenge is not in raising money; that's a fairly straightforward process, even if it is, at times, mundane or hard.
What's the biggest challenge of a startup founder? It's to keep his (or rarely her) people happy.
Happiness is a very fragile state. You cannot measure it. You cannot simply build a web dashboard with the metrics of happiness. You cannot increase it with bonuses or salaries (arguably, you can, but for a short term, and even still, I'd find increase in happiness rather questionable).
There's simply no way to methodically measure happiness level.
Happiness of your employees is built upon simple things—communication, openness, and personal touch. Being able to connect with your employees. To know and care about their needs, hobbies, desires, wishes.
If you are entrepreneur, just close your eyes for a second and ask yourself: do you know what's your every employee favorite colour is, or what bike or car they drive (or do they walk?), or what their hobbies are? If you struggle with your answers, you may be in trouble.
Of course, not knowing the colour your employees like wouldn't necessitate lack of their happiness per se, but it might mean that what you are wishing for them might not necessarily be what they would wish for themselves.
Almost every startup has salary as a number one expense line. It trumps technology (it's so cheap now to run hundreds of servers), it trumps office space, travel, or any other startup expense. Because people are the key. They are key to the startup success—or it's failure—and they are the most valuable and fragile resource that you have.
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- 3/4 cup rum
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- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen sweetened sliced strawberries
- 1 to 1-1/2 cups ice cubes
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- 1. In a blender, combine the rum, limeade concentrate, strawberries and ice. Cover and process until smooth and thickened (use more ice for thicker daiquiris). Pour into cocktail glasses.
- 2. To garnish each daiquiri, cut a 1/2-in. slit into the tip of a strawberry; position berry on rim of glass. Yield: 4 servings.
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He hasn't signed anywhere yet. I heard he may walk-on next year to the ISU football program. I've also heard may play baseball somewhere too. Anyone heard what he is doing?
I dont know him personally, but he attends my old high school. So I dont have an answer to his decisions on what sport or school.
He was a pretty good football player though. He was QB and the leading rusher and scorer on the team.
"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace." -- Ernie Banks
Originally Posted by guitarchitect7
I dont know him personally, but he attends my old high school.
You definately go to a bigger high school than I did. Then again, that doesn't take much.....
I believe UNI offered and that was where he was planning to go. They then took away his offer and then tried to offer again. Snead said no thanks. From what I am hearing, he is going to try and walk on at ISU. Solid walk-on that could contribute down the road.
What position would he play here?
Originally Posted by cyrocksmypants
CG. No one knows what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by cowgirl836
Scout team qb?
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
He wouldn't play QB.
I've heard LB or FB.
I dont thin he is that big for those two positions, but i could be wrong. I was thinking Saftey myself, but am unsure of his awareness and coverage ability. He was only QB and P for last years state runner up team.
Iowa was recruiting him for Safety early, then backed off because of his size I think. He would play safety if he walked on at ISU i'm guessing.
Perhaps he could step in immediately as the "local boy special teams stud"?
I work with Nate's dad I'll ask him if i see him.
Where did he go to HS at?
I coached against Nate and he could literally play any position in HS football and excel...He's that athletic. If he did walk on I could see him as a SAM or a SS. I think he could someday see the field. Not immediately though.
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
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Where did he go to HS at?
went to SE Polk
Originally Posted by wartknight
went to SE Polk
The one and only.
Hey wartknight, since you coach against Polk, what do you think about his brother? He seemed like a guy that could do something as well.
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As more and more brands start to adopt content marketing strategies, digital publishers will find it harder to cut through the noise and reach target audiences. Content marketers need to be clear on which content is meeting their objectives and where the highest returns on investment can be gained.
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Working on my blog, I serendipitously wrote a post today about the Fish
Crow. ( http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com ) Come to discover that
Fish Crows are found up the Mississippi Valley to St. Louis and
accidentally into southern Ontario! Fish Crows are moving north. Twice
this fall I saw or heard odd crows. One was noticeably small but not
obviously young. Another time I heard crows call like a Fish Crow--this
was in Updown near 47th street or so. At the time, not knowing that a Fish
Crow was remotely possible, I wrote the calls off as off-pitch American
No way I am listing these! But we should be on the alert. The two species
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Film critic Ty Burr to present program
The 90-minute program plus book-signing will cover the history of film from the late 1890s to the present day instant social media platforms of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
"Gods Like Us" was released nationally by Random House this past September. Burr has been the film critic for the Boston Globe since 2002. Born in 1957 he studied at Dartmouth College and New York University and has written three other books, "The Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time," "The Hundred Greatest Stars of All Time" and "The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together."
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The Trailblazer kids at Salem had a very meaningful time at Pilgrim Pines this past January.
Colleen and Al Kim led us in worship and speaking at the event. Colleen is beginning her sixth year of service as the Director of Children's Ministries at Bethany Covenant Church in Berlin, Ct. Her husband Al joined her in leading the Trailblazers for this weekend. Both have answered God's call to serve children, youth and families for 25 years in a variety of churches and settings. Their sons Andrew and Aaron also joined them this weekend: Andrew is in 7th grade and plays violin in their worship band "Red Letter Day" and Aaron attends as a 5th grade camper.
Joining Al and Colleen in leading worship this weekend was: Allie Juchniewicz (their niece) on guitar, Chris Savage (who has teamed in ministry with Al and Colleen for 20 years), Ann Sharnick on vocals (with the band for 8 years), and Kevin Snyder on drums (Andrew's classmate and friend).
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2012-13 (SOPHOMORE): Saw action in all 27 of the Cougars games and also started three times…averaged 16.4 minutes per game and also averaged 7.7 points and 1.8 rebounds per game during the 2012-13 season…scored 18 points against Southwest Minnesota State.
2011-12 (FRESHMAN): Saw action in 19 contests in a reserve guard role... made the best of her time played, averaging 3.1 points in 8.3 minutes per game... had a breakout game at Dakota State (2/4/12) where she filled the stat sheet, posting a game and career-high 17 points on 6-7 shooting from the field and 4-5 accuracy at the line, while adding four assists, three steals, two rebounds, and one block... finished with 59 points, 14 rebounds, 13 steals, eight assists, and two blocks
HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at Canton... enjoyed a very decorated prep career, earning all-state and all-conference nods over three seasons for the C-Hawks...school's current record holder in scoring, rebounding, assist and steals...named all region and Argus Leader Athlete of the Week...also particpated in volleyball, where she was an all-conference selection and holds school records for kills in a single season and track, where Ulmer finished fourth in the State Triple Jump...honor roll recipient.
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Just a quick update to a game that is confirming the Sixers status as the most frightening possible first-round opponent. The Celtics are shooting 56 percent, the Sixers 35 percent, and yet Philly is down only one. Why? Three reasons:
What I'll note now is that almost all of this happened when Tony DiLeo took Elton Brand out of the game with the C's up 42-29 and just over six minutes to go in the quarter. Brand's only played a half dozen game since returning from a shoulder injury, so it's too early to jump to the tempting conclusion that Elton doesn't fit into the Sixers frenetic style. But the early evidence isn't promising. Celtics Hub has the numbers a click away.
I watched the two most recent Sixers games to get a flavor for how they look with Brand, and I used ESPN's play-by-play logs to track how long each Sixers offensive possession took with and without Brand on the floor. Here's what I found:
With Brand: 74 total possessions, average length of possession: 15.17 seconds.
Without Brand: 98 total possessions, average length of possession: 12.2 seconds.
That's a significant difference. I should note this: I only tracked single possessions that resulted directly from an opponent basket, miss, turnover, free throw or timeout and ended with a Sixers basket, miss, drawn foul or turnover. I did not include bonus Philly possessions — i.e. second chances after offensive rebounds or non-shooting fouls. I wanted to measure only the length of possessions in which the Sixers would have full court transition opportunities.
In the two games, Philly had 36 possessions which lasted ten seconds or less and ended with something positive — a basket or a drawn foul. Brand was on the court for only 11 of those possessions. Brand played 26 minutes in one game, 18 minutes in the other, so you can't chalk up the discrepancy in "ten seconds or less" possessions entirely to Brand's limited playing time.
Is this a limited sample size? Yes, of course. But these numbers, combined with Philly's Brand-less push today his negative plus/minus numbers in the last two games, are beginning to suggest something.


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Obama to sign into law drones to spy on and more easily target innocent journalists and other human rights defenders
Wednesday, February 8, Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is advising the European Parliament how to combat one of the most troubling problems human rights defenders face globally, European and American companies providing key surveillance technology to authoritarian governments, including Western nations, to aid repression, a five billion dollar industry. Spying on rights workers will be even easier with more drones in the skies over the United States if the bill Congress passed last week is signed into law by President Obama, as expected, especially since drones are his "weapon of choice."
"Ordinary citizens, journalists, human rights campaigners and democracy advocates have all been targeted, eviscerating privacy rights and chilling free speech," Trevor Timm of EFF said in a written statement Wednesday.
"There are serious policy questions on the horizon about privacy and surveillance, by both government agencies and commercial entities," Steven Aftergood, head of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told Newsroom America about the drone law Obama is about to sign.
The FAA projects that 30,000 drones could be in U.S. skies by 2020, according to Newsroom America. 2020 is the year scheduled for the Pentagon to have achieved its "Full Spectrum Dominance," control of land, air and sea as laid out in its blueprint, its report, "Joint Vision 2020."
In November, after numerous similar reports by self-identified targeted individuals, Deborah Dupré reported that drone aircraft, known for human rights violations of killing innocent children and other civilians in "terrorist" hideouts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, might be spotted in American neighborhoods soon, and some people might have already seen one of the 266 drones already employed for U.S. skies.
One innocent targeted individual had given his account to the Examiner of not only seeing a drone over New York, but also zapped with what seemed to be the drone's high-tech "less-than-lethal" directed energy weaponry.
Seattle Times reported in November that the FAA had issued 266 active testing permits for U.S. "civilian-drone applications" but hadn't permitted drones in U.S. airspace "on a wide scale" out of concern they didn't have adequate 'detect, sense and avoid' technology to prevent midair collisions.
Obama's drones kill hundreds of children daily in U.S. "imperial wars," according to Veterans For Peace spokespersons, Mike Ferner and Tarak Kauff.
Spying, not just passive act, includes targeting
As EFF and other rights groups campaign against Obama making drones legal in the United States, setting the stage to more easily target human rights defenders and journalists, EFF is also working to halt spy technology already used to harass, intimidate and even financially ruin rights workers.
"Ample evidence suggests information acquired through this spy gear appears has played a role in the harassment, threats, and even torture of journalists, human rights campaigners, and democracy activists," Timm stated.
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News have exposed the shadowy but growing industry selling electronic spy gear to governments known for violating human rights.
EFF says that the technology's reach into the lives of rights workers is very broad.
"Governments can listen in on cell phone calls, use voice recognition to scan mobile networks, read emails and text messages, censor web pages, track one's every movement using GPS, and can even change email contents while en route to a recipient."
Some installed tools use similar malicious malware and spyware that online criminals use to steal credit card and banking information, according to EFF, also highlightingthe same technology can be used to target everyone.
"They can secretly turn on webcams built into personal laptops and microphones in unused cell phones. And all of this information is filtered and organized on such a massive scale that it can be used to spy on every person in an entire country," EFF said.
Dozens of companies in the U.S. and E.U are selling this technology, including to authoritarian regimes plus to Western governments.
"Critics say the market represents a new sort of arms trade supplying Western governments and repressive nations alike," the Wall Street Journal reported in November.
The surveillance equipment market has grown to a staggering $5 billion a year, according Jerry Lucas, president of TeleStrategies Inc, the man WSJ called "the show's operator."
As hundreds of other targeted individuals report to Deborah Dupré, Asma Hedi Nairi, a former Amnesty International youth coordinator, said that e-mails she and her friends exchanged "were replaced by messages ranging from random symbols to ads for rental cars, according to Bloomberg.
"Opponents of the regime toppled in January's revolution received threatening messages such as 'you can run but you can't hide,' while people with no role in politics found their correspondence snagged if it inadvertently included words flagged as critical of the government.
Ammar 404 damaged reputations by inserting pornographic images in work e-mails and routing intimate photos onto Facebook, Nairi, 23, said.
"Ammar 404 was seeing everything," said Nairi in Tunis, studying for a master's degree in criminal sciences.
Technology can be used to hack internet reports, such as number of views online journalists get on their website articles. When the Gawker system is used, a pay-per-view-based compensation system, such hacking cuts compensation that can result in self-censorship. The writer censors self, since it appears few people are reading the articles and there is little to no compensation.
A 2000 Pew poll showed about one-quarter of the local and national journalists said they purposely avoided newsworthy stories, while nearly as many acknowledge they softened the tone of stories to benefit interests of their news organizations. Four-in-ten (41%) admitted they engaging in either or both of these self-censorship practices.
In September, the EU Parliament passed a resolution proposed by EU Parliament's Ms. Schaake that called on European countries to regulate sales of this dangerous surveillance tools if they can be used in human rights violations. She has asked the European Commission to investigate sales by these companies to the governments of Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt.
Wednesday, EFF will testify at a workshop for the Committee of International Trade and Committee on Foreign Affairs, co-chaired by Ms. Schaake.
The following is part of what EFF we will say:
First, transparency is key. The mass surveillance industry as a whole has been notoriously secretive and that has, in turn, allowed it to proliferate without meaningful safeguards. But we know that just having this information in the public eye can, by itself, force change. Companies have pulled out of countries and created official human rights policies thanks to news reports. The world program director of I.S.S. Tatiana Lucas even complained that shining a spotlight on these practices "makes U.S. manufacturers gun shy about developing, and eventually exporting, anything that can remotely be used to support government surveillance." We want to turn up the heat on these companies even more to be accountable for selling to authoritarian regimes.
We encourage the EU commission to act on Ms. Schaake's request for an investigation into these companies and have them answer questions on the record. The EU Parliament should also consider disclosure requirements, requiring companies to publicize which governments they are selling to (either a full list or a limited list of based on troubling regimes or portions of regimes) and descriptions of the capabilities of their technologies, so an investigative body could follow the money trail to find out exactly whose equipment ends up where and how it is being used.
"Know Your Customer"
As EFF has highlighted before, legal terms defining harmful technology can often encompass basic technology, like web browsers and email servers.
"We can see this problem in the U.S., where overbroad regulations keep Syrian activists from accessing Google Chrome and Earth, Java, and or hosting services like Rackspace or SuperGreenHosting. It can also harm network security efforts.
Instead of focusing on the technology sold, EFF recommends that any formal or informal effort to address the problem of misuse of surveillance technologies look at government customers as the ultimate chokepoint.
"To that end, EFF has proposed a 'know your customer' framework, based on already existing legal frameworks in the U.S. that can be implemented without significant overhead cost to government or businesses.
If EFF has its way, companies selling surveillance technologies to governments or government providers would need to affirmatively investigate affirmatively and 'know their customer' before and during a sale.
EFF has detailed an extensive framework for such regulations including questions, definitions, and procedures for how to accomplish it.
"It would require companies to comprehensively review everything about a sale of surveillance technology from negotiations, discussions, background of the buyer, contractual specifications, technical support requests, to State Department and U.N human rights reports and the capability for abuse. Companies would refrain from participating in transactions where their investigations reveal either objective evidence or credible concerns that the technologies provided by the company will be used to facilitate human rights violations."
EFF's full, detailed "know your customer" framework is online here.
"We hope the EU moves quickly on this problem, as recent reports show it is only getting worse. We also hope the U.S. Congress is listening because with U.S companies sell the same equipment, they are not only undermining own foreign policy in these countries, but destroying the human rights the State Department claims it supports around the world.
When the Guardian asked Lucas if he'd be comfortable knowing that regimes in North Korea and Zimbabwe were purchasing technology from companies he does business with, he said, "That's just not my job to determine who's a bad country and who's a good country. That's not our business."
"By instituting EFF's 'know our customer' standards, we can make it their business.
Suggested Links
- Drone zaps Man in New York
- Drones Kill Kids: Occupy D.C. rights defenders shut museum with drone exhibit
- CIA drones intolerable says Pakistan, despite Obama's 'weapon of choice'
- US drones kill 100's children daily. Former US military personnel resistance
- CIA human rights abuse impunity, kills 16-year-old photographing drones (video)


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Spring 2014: Understanding Student Meetings on Campus
- Ignacio and I are working on an extensive student meetings project.
Spring 2014: Student Meetings Undergraduate Research Team
Spring 2014: Student Meetings Undergraduate Research Team
In the past few weeks, people have scheduled meetings with me and when it came time to "meet," I got Skype calls. Meeting through Skype or teleconferencing is not a new phenomenon, but the way we use the word "meet" seems to be shifting. In the past we clarified our meeting location in addition to the time. I wonder if there is an assumption made of knowledge workers that they will have computer or mobile access when the meeting time happens? As a professor, I am still required to hold office hours, and I often assume that people will come in person to "meet" with me. But this is changing. I want to meet my students, but face-to-face is not always their preference or priority. Sometimes the students are out of town and or permanently geographically distant, and meetings mediated by a device seem to be nice option.
I'm not a linguist, but since I study meetings, I find this shift fascinating. I wonder if this word will become the conversation equivalent of a Southerner's use of the word "coke" (the equivalent of soda or soft drink.) In the South, we often follow the request for a "coke" with the phrase, "what kind." To which I always reply, "a diet coke or a sparkling water." Perhaps in the future people will ask for a meeting and we will need to ask what kind. Then we will know to plug in our desktop video camera and be ready to Skype away when the meeting starts.
I just fininish my 10th focus group on communication technology use and emergency communication. I had amazing groups of business owners, business managers, government managers, and nonprofit organizations who participated in one set of focus groups. I also got the perspective from staff, night shift workers, and students. There are obviously some similarities between the groups, but I am amazed at how many different types of work and school environments people experience. Several work enviroments cut off internet access during work hours to help their employees focus on their job. Other work environments make internet access and the latest social media tools an integral part of work. This is not suprising because jobs vary in how much workers need to connect with the outside world. It is important to remember that emergency communicator cannot assume that people have mobile devices and they are always connected. Many people do not have smart phones, and some have lost them. Just because we see and hear so much about apps, social media, and mobile tools, we cannot forget that access is not universal.
While I was attending the 2013 International Communication Association Conference in London, I got to meet with the London Metropolitan Police Department and learn about their stakeholder approach to emergency communication. They have a great philosophy about including the community and business owners in the communication path for urgent situations. They really worked with this philosophy during the Olympics and their strategies of incorporating social media into the communication process are solid best practices. I look forward to continuing the conversation and conducting some research on my own concerning a stakeholder approach to emergency communication. This resonates well with my organizational communication research. I appreciate Trevor Wheatley-Perry of Vocal in the UK for helping arrange the visit and my college Cindy Posey also traveled from Texas to attend the meeting.
I was preparing to teach interviewing for my internship class and I've updated my content substantially this year. For example, this recent article suggests that some companies might use tweets in addition to or in place of resumes. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/02/15/twitterviews-resumes/1919305/ While this might be an isolated case, I think it is a useful exercise to summarize "you" in 140 characters and in as few as 6. I was recently asked to summarize my work life in 6 words and it was really hard. I finally came up with: Biochemist turned social scientist, loves learning. Try it and see if it helps you crystalize what is important to you.
There are many trends in interviewing and hiring today. In my class we will also talk about Skype interviews, current trends of being interviewed by a computer through the Web, phone interviews, and making a substantial first impression.
My research on how people used combinations of technologies to receive emergency response notifications will appear in Human Communication Research in April 2013 (but an early version is on their website now). If you want to hear me describe this research and provide some of the background, feel free to check this out. My team found that multiple messages matter when we are trying to help people realize the urgency of the situation. There are differences between whether people receive the notification through an asynchronous communication channel like a text message or through synchronous channels like an in-person conversation. Those differences are discussed in detail in the article.
I am excited about the work that my undergraduate research team is conducting. We are examining student leadership and meetings. We will be reviewing the academic literature on this topic, but we hope to create content that is readable, but grounded in research.
Are you worried that you can't multitask like today's employers expect? Perhaps you get many projects completed, but you don't do them all at the exact same time. The term "multitasking" has become a catchall for getting more done in less time, and further exploring this topic is why my colleagues and I conducted this research that appears in Human Communication Research in January 2012. The ideas for this study originated several years ago when I realized that my students (primarily juniors and seniors), were really worried about how jobs were being advertised and described. It is very common for the actual job ad to say they want a "multitasker." My students would come to me privately and speak openly in class about their fear that employers thought they were technology experts and they were not. Furthermore, many of them did not enjoy what they perceived as the pressure they feel when others push them to work fast and juggle many projects and conversations. Now don't get me wrong, I always have a few students who claim that they get an adrenaline rush from seeing how many chat or IM windows they can have open simultaneously while talking on the phone and updating Facebook and Twitter. But many of my students do not desire this highly externally-focused deliberately overstimulated environment. They might text constantly (even during class), but when they stop and think about how they prefer to work, it is different.
This study provides evidence that 'juggling many projects in a sequence' can also be considered multitasking. The pace might appear slower, but I'd like to see more research on which type of multitasker (simultaneous or sequential) is actually more productive over time. Our research found that millennials (people born between 1980 and 1995) perceive work environments to be faster paced and have an increased workload when those companies expect multiple tasks to be completed at the same time—simultaneously as opposed to allowing work tasks to be completed sequentially. These multitasking distinctions also influence people's perceptions of how much they will need to be available outside of work hours. These findings support other claims that millennials are more aware of how their work and personal life blend, but in this study, women had a more nuanced view (they could tell differences between simultaneous, sequential, and monochonic cultures) than men of how organizational multitasking cultures could influence the expectations for availability outside of work.
I'd like to thank my students who have helped me realize that we needed a way to measure these different types of multitaskers. I am also grateful for the help of my co-authors, Dr. Jaehee Cho now at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Dr. Dawna Ballard, a communication and time scholar at UT Austin.
I just returned from the National Communication Association conference in New Orleans. I presented research on using text messaging to notify people of emergencies, the use of Twitter for technical communication, organizational meetings, and training and development. It is so interesting to get to see the diversity of research being presented that focuses on communication! I got several ideas for my graduate class on Organizational Technology that I will present in the Spring of 2012. I also talked with many people about my new undergraduate class beginning the fall of 2012 on organizational meetings.
I have been working on analyzing the data from the UT Sept. 28, 2010 active shooter emergency and text messaging really played an important notification role. I will be presenting the findings from the first study out of this data during the National Communication Association Meeting in New Orleans in November 2011. With all the fires in the Austin, Tx area it has me thinking about how people were notified. Sometimes you can smell smoke or see flames, but in the early stages of a fire, how did people know to evacuate? I suspect that much of this notification occurs by going door-to-door, the same way that my family learned to evacuate during the 1978 flood in central Texas. Yet some things are very different because during the recent fires, people started Tweeting, posting notifications on their Facebook pages, and the local news participated as well. This is such an important area of research because hopefully we can find ways to use communication tools to save lives.


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Chinese Goldilocks Goalseekulator Spews Forth A Random Inflation Number And It Is...
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Right now, all over the globe, there are economists, some in the politiboro, some in academia, some even heading central banks, not understanding the following basic, fundamental and absolute equation:
For each unit of purchasing power destroyed via inflation, there is at least one less unit, at a minimum (I'd argue more than one unit of purchasing power destroyed given compounding effects, but I digress), available to be allocated towards the purchase of goods and services.
Stated differently, technocratic economic theorists don't grasp that inflation often represents a far greater and more destructive threat than deflation, from the perspective of real economic activity and growth, and that that inflationary inputs (especially at a time when wages/labor and credit-dependent assets such as homes, formerly comprising the bulk of what was the middle class's savings, are deflating and will continue to deflate due to automation, technology, a borderless trading world pitting slave against slave in the race to the bottom, and a contraction of credit available to middle class and working class individuals as well as small businesses).
This is precisely why someone like The Bernank should never be allowed to go near any lever or instrument of monetary policy.
We're all witnessing the highly destructive, sickening consequences of allowing such a person to have his hand on these levers as I write these words.
What's even more frightening and alarming is that it's quite possible (and even likely) that The Bernank would be more than happy and willing to double the cost of living, as purchasing power and consumption is cut in half, and tell the world that "at least economic activity is not contracting."
All propaganda is just right. R eality is just plain wrong. But, two Wongs can make one wight, you wascawily widdle wabbits!
I sense a great disturbance in the force !
I think that's just the dingleberries from the space-turd messin' with your mojo....
There you go me insighter
Wing wang wung, who flung the cow dung at the Chinamon!
Chinese inflation is 15% right now.
Food inflation only 11.9%
Good thing they don't need any of that stuff.
ONJ was spot on ages ago - get physical! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA
OK, then. Everybody back in the pool.
We need the billion price index to open a branch in China
Pork is too expensive and they've started eating baby girls now.
There is already a huge vagina shortage in china cause they prefer to kill baby girls.
If they start eating them again (seems to happen every 500 years or so) then it will just get worse.
Why use a goalseekulator when you can just punch in the target.
Bang Dae Ho
So, with that denominator in mind. When does " Goldielocks Go into Self preservation mode?"
Those " divergent" bull shit cyn numbers were farcical! It's all good they will just revise next week, through some non-event, past -tense confirmation of regulation. Written with LEAD PENCILS!
Better yet ! The pending #'s in a couple of , Hong Kong- Shanghai ( lunch time) hours will fill the voids.
hang seng = 19,999.99
WS needs them 8% or it's lights out, bonuses are also to be disbursed and plenty please!!!
And all of this at already hugely overbought levels, hehehehe!
I still can't believe that Communism was going to be the end of America. Now they're makin our stuff. Guess the commie scum arent bad if they have money and can balloon your bottom line.
I see your point Sarah. Hop Singh has some " Hot Plates " , for sale. Contact 101 " Tiananmen Square" , and tell them Yen Cross sent ya.
Never forget.
If China is the end of America, it is only because we paid for it.
If you look at the Shanghai market, people are a lot less exicited than the government had hoped.
My personal take is that this better than expected number and the triliion yuan printer job will proven to be another mistake down the road.
What's the point of popping up the stocks. It is a bullshit market anyway. I can't either buy or sell at this level.
"Trillion yen"?
Trillion Yuan, dayo.
Wow ! Amazing how quickly theyearned from us to put out just the right numbers to achieve their desired results.
I think the tightnening measure from the government really took some effect. They don't have to lie about inflation at the point since the past months were pretty bad. What's the point of faking it now?
The Goldilocks curse, silly China, the US tried to pull that in 2007...and you what happened after that.
China will crash so hard it will be like a asteroid hitting the Earth.
just want to add about the fudge heads in China, is to keep a lid on the USD buying ala cross boader Yuan settlements. Won't work, there is just too much BS in the market as the moment. No one is buying BS anymore.
also wanted to add the dumb ass Chinese commie 'officals' just sent oil bid. y'know China being a net importer. We look forward in hearing about the major China banks/councils being bailed in the very near future.
It's still 5.5%. Right when the global economy is slowing. Too perfect.
Chinese crash or Euro print-fest first? I'm taking bets with your little arrows... Up for Euro, Down for China
Always remember China backs Iran, if Israel starts war with Iran then China will participate. Then we have the End of the World, cause Israel will push the button if she is about to go down. This is the true 'End Game', because China wants Iran'a OIL. ! Can't trust China-Ever.
a bullshit bull's eye, BiCheZ!
Slewie? Did ya junk the thread? You are such a meanie! My Black and Decker hot /pot stopped working.
Now I need eat over boiled lead/ hot pot -= Fish heads.
i just arrived
haven't junked anybody
Inflation does not equal 'inflation'. It is inflation PLUS 'Inflation' in China.
China GDP includes f/x factor which is interest rate spread between official and underground economies in China. That amounts to two-thirds of China's 9% GDP ... and this is all inflation.
'Inflation' can be seen by the amount of interest charged by loan sharks who have dollars to swap for yuan. Their exchange rate relative to 'official' exchange rate determines their vig or what they must charge to earn a profit.
Official rate is six + yuan/dollar, the 'unofficial' rate is twelve yuan per dollar so loan shark must charge more than 100% interest per year to cover f/x cost.
The greater the yuan discount to dollars the more interest the loan sharks must charge. Yuan borrowers must borrow much more than what they need so they can relend balance at an even greater interest rate.
Loan shark rates are 120-189% so the 'inflation' rate as determined by f/x to be much greater than the 5%, maybe 10% per month at a minimum.
PBOC is doing its best to stabilize the country while 'free market' is driving China into hyperinflation on dollar arbitrage! Yet PBOC allows this trade as otherwise all exporters will go out of business on rising yuan! By shifting f/x to loan sharks the PBOC can claim to not be manipulating currency while letting the crazy underground make yuan policy!
Pretty funny not for Chinese.
Good to see the central banks everywhere see deflation. Just in time to start firing up the printing presses. I smell a break out coming up in precious metals.
Made in China - this statistical subterfuge sucks 'em in every time. For all the so called sophistication of data collection and measurement that is picked over by the squillions of DM economists from JPM to ANZ, couldn't hit the side of a slow moving bus... So how on earth can the ram-shackled Bureau of Statistics collecting (?) data bits the length of breadth of China get within even coo-eeee of even something close to the truth, let alone bang smack on the number nearly every time, unless of course policy dictates. The truth? Forget-about-it. Dont argue A FREE BMW with each apartment. RUFFR?


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November 20, 2012
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March 23, 2014
Alabama vs. TroyMarch 25, 2014 - 6:37 p.m. CTWhibbs Maritime ParkCST
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Alabama baseball team was held to four hits and dropped the final game of a three-game Southeastern Conference series to the Arkansas Razorbacks, 1-0, on Sunday afternoon from Baum Stadium. With the loss, the Crimson Tide drops the conference series to the Razorbacks, falling to 15-8 overall and 3-3 in SEC play.
Arkansas (13-8, 3-3 SEC) starting pitcher Chris Oliver (2-2) made a second-inning Razorbacks run stand up as he blanked Alabama for seven innings, allowing four hits with a walk and a career-high six strikeouts to earn the win. Reliever Michael Gunn retired all six batters he faced to close the game, earning his third save of the season.
"Oliver threw really well today," Alabama head coach Mitch Gaspard said. "His velocity was up and we had a hard time getting good swings on him today. Keller did a nice job as he worked around a couple of tough spots and Castillo pitched good as well. Both teams competed really hard and it was a good clean series, especially after Friday."
Crimson Tide starting pitcher Jon Keller went 5.1 innings, allowing one earned run on four hits with two strikeouts. In three starts this season, it was the first time Keller did not throw at least six innings. Ray Castillo threw the final 2.2 innings for the Tide, allowing no runs on one hit with two walks and one strikeout, as Castillo and Keller allowed just five hits.
Arkansas scored the only run of the game in the second inning, when Krisjon Wilkerson scored in a groundout off the bat of Bobby Wernes. Wilkerson tripled off the left centerfield wall with one out to set up the eventual game-winning run.
Offensively, Alabama got singles by Georgie Salem, Mikey White, Kyle Overstreet and Wade Wass.
"We knew coming in their strength was their arms," Gaspard said. "It's early in the SEC season but if you want to be there in the end, those are the kind of arms you have to beat. This weekend we weren't quite ready for that and when you face arms like that it's tough to generate offense."
Alabama returns to action on Tuesday, March 25 when it plays the Troy Trojans at the Vince J. Whibbs Maritime Community Park in Pensacola, Fla. The game between the Crimson Tide and Trojans will begin at 6:37 p.m. CT and will be televised on CST with Mike Morgan and Tommy Thrall calling the game.
Get all the latest information on the team by following AlabamaBSB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. General athletic news can also be found at UA_Athletics on Twitter and Instagram and AlabamaAthletics on Facebook.