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May 28 middle 90's for the high.....not going anywhere......day off for Pounce....did not eat
May 29 high of 90°F......another day off for Pounce unless we train really early....summer "schedule" is impacted by two "issues" 1) Lylah is not in school (except for four weeks of summer school in July) 2) she has to be with me between 8 am until 12 pm. Other training alternatives are up at sunrise or water in the afternoon heat. The summer is not going to be simple. Then there are the testing weekends........at the very least five. Training mornings are probable on Saturday and Sunday.
Up at 5PM and left to train at the Riverside Parks DTA. I did not know the gates are closed at night. Soooo....time was of the essence and Kelly Meyer baseball and soccer fields were near. The gate was open and the flip-flop triples setup was soon in place. With the short grass, putting out the "Faux
Shrubs" was rather obvious. With the "white" soccer goals quite visible, the setup was "busy". The idea that short grass is easy was soon labeled with "it depends." Almost any "new look" has a learning curve. We made the deadline of being home before 8 PM. At 2 pm it is 90°F (just as the forecast projected). This has been more like August.
Gallagher DTA - review one line and "worked" two new blind lines
May 3 Pounce trained late morning at the Thorson Pond DTA.Today she was introduced to "disciplined casting" in water ........"go as sent with bumper in mouth". This included swimming to wherever she was cast - to the shore and away, exits and entries, leaving a bumper and then casting to another, swimming long casts parallel to the shoreline plus long "overs" (from one side of the pond to the other) and always with a bumper in her mouth.
The entire 30X90 yard pond was utilized. Nothing was predictable except following directions. Every time she tried to make her own choice it was interrupted by a "No...that's not right." and a correcting cast with persistence. Periodically, excitement bumpers "up on land" maintained an excited, excellent Hillmann attitude. She never quit and seemed more focused on what she was asked to do as the session continued. She began to focus on "OK, what's next?" rather than simply seeking the land for a mentally imprinted shortcut habit. About half-way through the session, she began to look for direction as in "OK, what do you want me to do now?" This was NOT a brief session and her sensitive tendencies never did surface (no pun intended). The "WE" in this session replaced the "ME".
note: This is not part of Hillmann's program and a bit "outside of the box". She is
three years old (not a young pup) and a clear message was needed to alter
the unacceptable conditioned response "I see shorelines as quicker." The
"bumper in mouth" distraction altered the "picture" to make "Where do you
want me to go?" more likely. With practice and repetitions, this will make a
difference when I "ask" for a change in direction or need the "Go straight"
expectation. And with Pounce, I am assuming maintenance will be a given.
note: We did not go to the Thursday evening training group (thunderstorms).
May 4 The plan was to train at the Bong Recreation Area in the DTA. Left late morning and ran into rain on the way. There was no rain where we trained. As luck would have it, the Gravel Pond was available. With wind out of the west, a triple with two blinds was soon setup. Pounce was good with this challenging "down the shore" triple. The discipline casting work done yesterday "carried over" and was understood from that one lesson. She has always been a quick study when "explanations" are properly presented. With the middle mallard (where she came across the peninsula), Pounce was "asked to" do a complicated series of discipline casts over, back and around the tip of the peninsula so as to end up back on line for the repeat return on the same line she came across the first time. It was a" loop in the middle" of a retrieve (no "questions asked", "I can do this".)
After picking up equipment, the next setup was three challenging blinds in the "Stick Pond". The three mallards were used to "spice things up a bit". In one day, Pounce's "cheat
penchant" was noticeably altered and replaced with lining rather than cheating. Being a quick study seems to point out that I need to do a better job of explaining and teaching (rather than simply expecting things to always be easy). With plenty of time left in the afternoon, a quick stop at the rectangular pond just west of the technical pond had Pounce practicing more "disciplined casting" (bumper in mouth). We worked that pond east (with the wind) and west (into the wind) plus some crossing patterns....close to the shore and some down the middle. There were periodic exits with Hillmann excitement tosses and Pounce remained willingly engaged. It was a very productive day in the field and water.
May 21 rain in the morning with "window" in the afternoon and "temps" in the 50's.Trained close
at the Kelly Martin Park DTA (actually, a section off to the east of a baseball diamond). Pounce did a "12 Bumper Lining/Handling Drill" with eight orange bumpers and four Dokkens. With each "go" her momentum increased and finished "on fire"...sharp, effective "reps/practice",
May 15 around noon Pounce did the "gun drill" in the Thorson Pond DTA grassy area (very similar to the setup done yesterday at the W-Property except with two Dokkens and two bumpers). Then we moved to the pond and Pounce ran a solid session of disciplined casting. Both workouts provided a series of very precise "reps". After picking up the equipment, the five minute drive home got us there in time for Lylah's (our Granddaughter) afternoon swimming and exercise session. When that was completed, Pounce and I headed for the Four Lakes DTA for a group training session. Pounce ran a triple with a blind and honor (busy day and it went well). The group training session effort by Pounce revealed that a great deal of progress has been made. The "corner has been turned" and two more months of practice should make her first Master test very doable.
May 16 Wednesday....was going to train at the Harrison Road DTA in the morning, but a group was already there. Being in a "time crunch"....drove back to the Riverside Park DTA and ran two longer KRD's (single with concept blinds....behind the gun, under the arc, through the old fall and wide of the fall). The first KRD blinds were at about 125 yards toward the east and the second around 155 yards to the north. All blinds had the "across the gravel road" concept. The "total" was two singles and eight concept blinds......excellent precise, practice. Pounce trained at the the Sand Ponds DTA in the late afternoon around 5:30 pm. The southwest pond has doubled in size. Pounce swam five different angles to the new point blind. Two blinds were dropped on the opposite side so as to run them as reverse blinds (after walking back around the shoreline).
Attaining the status of a fully trained Labrador Retriever is somewhat analogous to a young child on a very long trip in an automobile. Are we there.....yet? Are we.......there........yet? How much longer is it going to take? Are we there.....yet??????...etc." We are getting closer." You said that a long time ago!"
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May 1 second spring day in the 70's Pounce ran a new, "7 Point Blind" at the Gallagher FT
property in the morning......plus one more (ten blinds total). This went well! Then "did" a late afternoon/evening group training session at the Harrison Road DTA......a "full plate" for Pounce.
May 24 The five weekdays' of training are now "complicated" in the morning because Lylah is out of school for the summer. With her autism, any training attempted with Pounce during the morning will need to be "modified" because Lylah will be with me. Adjusting for her autism will prove to be an additional challenge and it may be good for her. Since my wife must take care of her invalid mother (every morning, several miles away), the next three months will be "interesting". Keeping things simple will be the focus. Training nearby "at sunrise" may be a partial solution and her summer school session of three weeks will provide some relief. It is a bit after noon and 84°F...headed for some water training. The water setup was on Thorson Pond (five minutes away). The focus was on angle entry/exits and responsive handling. The wind was out of the south and tended to push her toward the shoreline which meant she had to "deal with that factor" to avoid being "pushed" to the shoreline while being "pulled" at the same time (both factors were additive. (Both factors had the same influence). Staying in the water on the return was "aided" by the wind. She swam five lines. When finished, a parallel to the shore "line" was done really well. This was a brief, fun session on a day that was getting warm very quickly. Once home, I did my "yard-work" (mowed front yard). Pounce will not be attending the evening group training session...too hot!
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The "plus one more point blind" was run from the west to the same mound as #1. After running/retrieving the first of three mallards placeed on the far mound, it was tossed down in front of the van rather than carrying it to the next two blinds. Ponce was unusually animated when lining her up for the second blind line. It quickly became obvious that she remembered and wanted to go back and pickup the mallard I dropped in front of the van. A simple "no here" and she quickly adjusted. For brief moment before running the third there was a "quick" body language of "Can I go get that one now?".....answer, "No!" After, delivering the lined, third, longer blind she lined up looking directly back toward the van. OK, It was a fun, bonus reward for having such a persistent memory.
May 8 Pounce trained in the morning at the Thorson Pond DTA. Since the evening group
session was to include diversions, a land setup was designed with two sets of mallard singles each with a diversion bird thrown on the way back. Using an HRC line with a shot gun (using primer only shells) and an Avery Ultra-Low dog hide, the two sets on land went well. After moving the wingers to the shoreline, two more sets of mallard singles each with a diversion mallard (all in the water) were done again with an HRC line format (plus hide). Pounce marked "from the hide" and remained there until called to heel for the initial retrieves. All four "sets" were easy/fun for Pounce and has done this many times. Today was simply review/practice.
Pounce went to the Tuesday, late afternoon/evening training group session - ran three mallard singles from completely hidden wingers with all marks being angle backs....then two blinds
note: the marks were not easy for Pounce....one blind was easy, the other was not
May 23 trained at the W Property with pro trainer Corry Zandonai The setup was a flyer double
with two blinds. Once again, the focus on Pounce was at the line and this focus is showing
good progress. She "stepped on" both marks and ran the water blind really well. The blind in front of the flyer station holding blind (after the flyer) resulted in a bit of a "ping-ponging" However, that did not have any impact on the memory. The water blind was very good.
The analysis of Pounce's group training session was a bit different than the usual. There were "unique" choices. The initial "idea" was to run a double where the go bird was planted before coming to the line. This was to be treated as if "I did not see the mark!" (the dog) even though there was a shot. You could "opt out" of this by simply having the hidden gunner (behind a pine tree) throw a duck. A few did that. One or two wanted to "win the training session" and ran it as a blind by releasing with "back" and handling immediately. My decision to "go with the the flow" was based on "I would prefer to see what would happen in a training session....first." 1) Will she go as sent....even though she saw nothing? She fired fast......that question was answered. In a test the "not seeing it" is very much less likely.....but it does happen. 2) The second answer was "supplied" when she fogged out, kept going and began a wild hunt. A quick whistle in a hunt test would be the obvious solution (If I "have" a handle). The memory was not a problem. Then, the second "trick" presentation was a cold blind placed directly in front of a large holding blind. No problem. ..with a good initial line and a couple of quick whistles BEFORE heading past the blind. The second part of the setup was a single with a blind down a very narrow corridor of pine trees...no problem with that, either. The session was fun and interesting for a "change of pace". However, once was enough. The highlight of the session occurred as Pounce was waiting for her turn at the line. There was no holding blind and people/dogs were walking back and forth nearby. The ATV left to re-bird and the honor was "in place" and visible. During this longer that usual pause, the trainer who was running the line walked over and commented. "She sure looks relaxed and calm." Nine months of working on this issue is beginning to reveal progress.
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May 27 at 1 pm it is HOT.....94°F feels like 95° Pounce trained earlier (this morning) and we finished at about 8 AM,,,,,it was humid and warm then. Pounce had the "cooling dunk" in the Rock River right after finishing a repeat of yesterday's session in a different location. The van air conditioner and Endless Breeze fan for Pounce were going "full blast" on the way home. Tomorrow is supposed to be worse. The only solution is to go earlier or not at all. At my age this is becoming a serious issue. This session went well with Pounce. She is showing more willingness to work with blinds in front of a holding blind. They are still not a "gimme".
May 25 Friday....day off....Pounce's days off this month were the 6th, 17th and 18th and she trained the other twenty- three days. The next five days will be very warm. During this "heat wave", she will be only doing brief, early morning sessions plus a couple of days off.
May 26 Saturday hot....93°F (cool early).....Pounce will do an early morning session of working around holding blinds. The recent running of an unusual concept "out of the blue" was not very fair or efficient. This training/teaching provides some exposure to the actions of running lines to or past holding blinds.....a variation in the "Organized Chaos" marking drill. It is the "Focus Drill".
May 5 It is Saturday morning after yesterday's longer than usual day in the field (plus the normal work around the house and yard). Getting old is often more obvious when first waking. However, once all plans for the day are reviewed, aches and pain tend to become pushed out of the picture. There is too much good stuff to do and no time for bemoaning the obvious. Lots to do...starting off with killing the hordes of tiny ants that have invaded the kitchen. "Honey do" list is first. Around noon, Pounce visited Thorson Pond for another round of "disciplined casting". "Round" means fun, precise, repetitious practice working towards establishing reliable conditioned responses......"The Hillmann mantra".
note: With not a lot of time available, the pond is only a five minute drive. Yesterday, the indoor swimming pool (closed down for the winter) was prepared for another eight months of swimming....every day. This morning, the temperature was finally up to 84°F and the chemicals have completed their work. Jacuzzi water therapy and swimming are absolutely wonderful for my "old knees" and our autistic granddaughter.
The "setup" was in an area on the north side of the W-Property - Madison Retriever Club.
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May 18 day off for Pounce.....no training - bird freezer unloaded, defrosted and cleaned plus the kitchen refrigerator has had the blower fan/compressor duct cleaned, air filter replaced, was totally defrosted and finally plugged back in......not exactly a day off.
note: in the "bottom" of the bird freezer, I "unearthed" a dozen pheasants from a tower
shoot that was several years ago
May19 Saturday - day off for the trainer.....except the lawn HAD TO BE MOWED!!!
May 20 Sunday...rained in the morning with afternoon "temps" in the 50's...needed to exercise Daisy and Pounce a bit - set up four blinds for Pounce at the Roscoe Riverside Park DTA where mowing has been at a standstill....grass is knee high and of value for training. After Pounce ran the blinds, Daisy walked with me to remove the blind stakes and fetch a few fun bumpers (for a little exercise). After the blind work, Pounce did a pin-point marking drill in another "high grass" area. (It is a very large park.) Four holding blinds were set out in the same pattern that will be used in the "soon to be taught" delay quad presentation. Ten singles were thrown using the "stand alone/send back" mode. Pounce was very accurate and fast the entire session. As usual, she was looking for more when we finished.
Evening training group at the Harrison Road DTA - Pounce ran a wide triple with a middle, short "wiper' (right longest was the memory, left, then middle "go") with hidden wingers (behind pine trees). After the triple were two blinds. A "wide swing" at line was challenging and the wiper did its job. Short middle (wiper) was picked up quickly. Pounce had a brief hunt on the far right mark and a larger one on the far left. Both blinds were done well.
note: things to work on 1) more experience with triples, 2) continue the focus on
"cheaty stuff" (water) and 3) tighten up "things" at the line (slow down).
note: target date for first Master test....the middle of July- 9 weeks of practice
note: regular flyers starting Monday the 14th (next week)
May 11 The extended "rainy" forecast for the next two days did not look good. However,
there appeared to be a window around noon at the Bong Rec Area DTA. We arrived on time and it was sprinkling. It was not warm 43°F....with the wind out of the southeast. The choice to train on the "Bluff" was rather obvious. Two setups similar to last night's group session were run. They were different triples with the middle, short marks as the "wiper go" birds. The "presentation at the line" was noticeably slowed down. After each triple, there were two cold blinds. Most of all, I was reminded of how much I hate training in a cold rain. Actually, it was more of a persistent drizzle. Pounce did not seem to care and got in some excellent, slow practice "reps".
note: ordered chemicals and sprayer for the Thorson Pond "duckweed" treatment
May 12 with rain beginning in the early afternoon...Pounce trained in the morning at the Thorson DTA "Grassy" Area. The setup was an improved version of a line drill idea from April 18th (see April journal link below). With three Dogtra remotes, Pounce practiced the "look" (head movement and butt on the ground not moving) as cued by an AKC fake gun on a wide, three bumper setup. The cues ("out there") for each retrieve were the sounds from three Dogtra electronics. With no "bird in the air" this reduced the distraction level so as to isolate/focus/practice the mechanics of body positioning and the "look" for each of three retrieves. It is basically providing an incremental phase before the more exciting and final expectation of mallards in the air. The rationale..."It is inefficient to initially practice challenging, advanced multiple skills in combination at full speed in the beginning."
note: There is no Hillmann video dealing with an AKC gun distraction at the
line. Therefore, a sequence that fits that philosophy was designed......
....."teach, practice and incrementally introduce distractions."
note: This setup was run three times "left to right" and twice "right to left".
Pounce was "put up" between each "go". Another layer of training was
the "van to the holding blind to the line" routine was practiced five times.
note: This "drill" will be a regular "yard work" warm-up for several weeks
(once to the right and then to the left).
May 13 Mother's Day......Pounce had the day off.
May 14 Rain was forecast until around noon. Four mallards were thawed out and the plan was to train at the W-Property. Arriving at noon, it was apparent that rainfall was heavy. Therefore, the decision to keep the van on the gravel made for a lot of walking to move all the equipment into the field - four remote wingers........each with a holding blind plus electronics and mallards. Also, there was a holding blind at the line.
However, first up was a session of the "Gun Drill" described above. This time there were four Dogtra remotes on stakes were fanned out (mallards at each one in calf high cover). The ducks could not be seen (just the short orange stakes with remotes). The first run was "one at a time". The second was run as a "schooled quad".
Next up was a "schooled quad" with remote wingers and mallards. The four singles were picked up with no issues. Then they were thrown as a "quad" with the retrieves done as described on the photo/diagram. Pounce needed some handling on the short, "inside" mark to the right (good line...just ran by it). Lastly, a blind was run "past the old fall" of the longest mark on the left (#4). Pounce was not nearly as tired as I was when we finished.
note: After a quick inventory, the #2 Dogtra electronics was missing. Walking
behind the van, it was almost totally submerged in a puddle of muddy water.
Tapping the "horn" opening on a white, paper towel produced several drops
of water. When home it was opened and moisture was obvious, but not in
a large amount. After "ricing" overnight, it is dry and working.
May 6 Sunday - day off from training
May 7 Monday high of 70 degrees - decided to train at the W-Property in Wisconsin. The "east section" was empty with a few FT trainers running blinds toward the west using the recently re-designed water area. Got the "OK" for what I was going to do off to the east (not going to impact their training). The setup was four remote wingers with mallards. Pounce ran four singles and then ran again (reversing the order) from another line fifty yards to the west. This was not a flip-flop setup (same AOFs, but altered "views" from a different line in the second set). Marking was fast and accurate.
note: The "other" yard work began this morning......mowed the lawn.
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May 10 Thursday around 11 am, Pounce ran a four bumper lining drill "down the shore" on
the north shore of Thorson Pond and then another "up the" on the south side. Several geese were not particularly thrilled about our training interruption. Pounce went about her work without paying any attention to them. This was another good session of working on becoming more "watery" and less "cheaty".....very good.
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May 30 rain and cooler, the Madison Retriever Club has a training day for members at 3:30 PM. It will
be run by pro trainer Corey Zandonai (Wobbly Retrievers). We did not train this morning and the rain is suppose to "let up" at about the right time. Pounce is almost ready to run her first AKC Master test and large training groups (like this) are a huge plus. The long range weather forecast is for cooler weather.
The toll road on the way up (north into Wisconsin came to a standstill just before Edgerton, WI. Luckily, we did not miss the "get off" and took the back roads. It was not a huge group (probably because of the weather), but the Stoughton DTA "gnats" were in full bloom. The setup was a basic triple (wide left to right) with two blinds. To be brief, the performance wasn't very pretty. Neither of us did much to make it work. Her marking and memory has been a consistent strong point. Not today.....I was a bit sloppy on lining her up.....plus she was a bit distressed by the heat.......did not run the short second blind. Later when it cooled of she had another go at......better, but "no cigar". my thoughts on the drive home were
mostly on this was not normal......but that was not very convincing.
May 31 Up early (5 pm because it was cool) and had to be home by 8 am. Setup three wingers to run three poison bird singles. The marks were mallards and the blinds were pheasants. The first two poison singles went well and she was "amped" with the pheasants. On the third single, she blew right by the AOF and a quick whistle brought her back to reality. The next step in this session was to run the singles as a schooled triple (with no blinds). The order was reversed to make the last single (1st set) the memory. What she remembered was "I ran this mark long the first time." She has been out of heat for a few weeks. However, she is still "herding" Daisy (my thirteen year old spayed female) and continues to follow her around while aggressively "marking" every spot where Daisy "pees" .Last spring when she went into heat, I scratched her from a test. When she went out of heat, the next twp tests had her "wilder than a March hare". Based on this, when to run her first Master test is not perfectly clear.
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Due to fact that it was warming up rather quickly, only three holding blinds were used. However, four "Faux Shrubs" were planted in front of the setup to "clutter things up a bit". The grass in the Roscoe Riverside Park DTA has not been mowed and is now almost knee high. When the four blinds past the holding blinds were completed, the three right in front were run. After a brief break, three "angle backs" and an "angled in" singles were thrown from the holding blinds (in the "stand alone/send back" mode).
note: Pounce is not the only one that needs to focus when running this drill.
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May 17 With a change in plans, Pounce was taken to the Madison Retriever Club Hook Lake DTA with the focus on "flyers". First was a double using a Gunners Up remote winger and a remote Zinger Uplander for the flyer. The remote winger threw a long splashing Dokken. The flyer was shot from the line....close, exciting and with a big splash in the water plus a follow-up sluice shot. That went as planned and Pounce was steady. The second double (with a flyer thrown in a different arc) was shot closer and sluiced. The memory was a long mallard (shot in the first double) thrown down the shoreline out into the water. This setup had a blind behind the winger station. Again no issues and went off as planned. On the way home we were driving past the Gallagher FT property. No one was there and plenty of time left before needing to get home. Pounce ran the first three "legs" of a challenging, water point blind that was designed last fall. She has run only the first "leg" a few times. Today, she did the second and third....really well. The third was her first "across two points" blind. The drive home went by fast. This was not an easy day. After arriving home there was just enough time to mow the lawn. Then there was just enough time to supervise Lylah's (our granddaughter) swimming session. Then there was just enough time to make it to the Thursday evening group training. Then when arriving home, the refrigerator was not working...had to clean out the filter and begin a defrosting process.
I need a day off.
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May 9 Wednesday....Pounce trained at Bong Rec Area. Rain was falling on the way there, However, it was supposed to fade away around 11:20 am. The wind was out of the south west. The setup was to run three singles "down the shore" which "schooled" a "down the shore" triple. The "Gravel Pond" is gradually recovering from the "clearing" that was done mistakenly a few years ago. When the marking presentation was completed, Pounce ran two cold blinds south of the "triple work". The session went by quickly and the "little over an hour long" drive home has us there by 2:30 pm.
May 22 mid-morning...Pounce trained at the Roscoe Riverside Park DTA. With no recent mowing the lush, grassy cover was almost knee high (and full of little, irritating knats). The plan was to the "delayed quad" by "schooling" it first before running the full setup. Each of the four marks were thrown as singles first ("schooling").
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May 2 trained at the Gallagher FT property with pro trainer Corey Zandonai (long day)...Pounce ran a triple and two blinds plus some much needed "clarification" work in the swim-by pond (the issue of cheating). Marking/line expectations were good......water blinds.....not so good.
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After picking-up the setup, a Rock River "dunk" for Daisy and Pounce was definitely a cool way to end a "warm" session.
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Posted by Don Larkin on April 26, 2016
Archaeology is the study of anatomically modern human beings through the acquisition and analysis of physical artifacts and remains. One of the most useful tools that our ancient ancestors have provided to archaeologists is their teeth.
Archaeologists are very fond of teeth. This is because teeth are often the only well preserved body part on many of the specimens that they deal with. Teeth convey an impressive range of information about the individual that they belonged to as well as the environmental challenges that the individual had to live with and overcome.
When dealing with human remains that can be thousands of years old one of the primary sources of indicators about how the subject lived his or her life is the condition of their teeth.
Teeth are protected by enamel. The enamel on our teeth is remarkably hard. In fact, tooth enamel is the hardest part of the human body. As such, when a human being perishes their teeth are very resilient to decay and retain lots of information. This information can be observed from the condition of the teeth. Well preserved teeth indicate an affluent and easygoing lifestyle. Teeth with a high degree of decay indicate a hard life.
It is very common for the fossilized remains of our ancestors to show indicators of bad health through the condition of their teeth. It is exceptional to find humans who maintained optimal dental health throughout the course of their lifetime. Such a find indicates that the person was on the high end of the socioeconomic stratum.
During our formative years (from birth through adulthood) our teeth are hardened for the rugged tasks of converting our food into soluble form. This is a job that they will have from the time that baby teething begins until the end of life (or the end of the ability of the teeth to function properly).
Teeth are an excellent indicator of the overall health of the subject being examined. They can tell if the person had access to good nutrition or if they were plagued with hunger or bad dietary options throughout their lifetime. If the subject was unhealthy their teeth will reflect that very obviously.
Teeth can also clue an archaeologist in on the type of culture that people lived in.
For example, in many parts of modern day Africa that lie south of the Sahara Desert it has been well documented that women with gaps in their teeth are considered to be very attractive. Many women from this area of the world undergo surgery to create
a gap in their teeth to achieve this aesthetic. Archaeologists in the distant future may find remains from modern day Nigeria and derive that a gap in the 2 front teeth was indeed a symbol of beauty in parts of Nigerian culture. This is because the incidence of gaps in the 2 front teeth in the women of Nigeria would be noted to be much higher than would normally be expected.
Another example of this would be the higher incidence of healthy and perfectly straight teeth in more affluent regions of the world. Generations from now, archaeologists will be able to discern that the remains of people that come from the more affluent countries of present day had the resources to invest in making their teeth look as perfectly aligned as possible.
The types of food that were consumed can be uncovered by examining teeth. Using Carbon-14 dating along with a thorough examination of the plaque on teeth an archaeologist can gain a fairly accurate picture of the diet of the subject. Lasers are used on the teeth to release the carbon from the surface. The carbon removal process releases quantities of the plant, animal and other environmental residue that make up the plaque on the subject's teeth.
A jawline with a wide gait is indicative of a person who primarily ate soft foods such as grass. A thin jawline and teeth that are riddled with abrasions are indicative of a person that ate a lot of grainy foods.
Evidence has also been found of ancient dentistry practices from evaluating our ancient ancestors.
Egyptians were performing surgical dental procedures such as pulling teeth and drilling out cavities as far back in time as 5,000 years ago. Egyptians wrote extensive manuals on oral emergency care. As the ever-industrious Egyptians accumulated knowledge they even wrote prescriptions for pain killers dating back to 3,500 years ago.
The Etruscans of Ancient Italy added a flair for design to their dentistry practices. They have been found to be the first civilization to apply gold to teeth in an attempt to preserve them. The Etruscans were also the first known civilization to use prosthetic replacements for teeth. These prosthetics were other human or animal teeth and their position was solidified with bands made of gold. Their innovative approaches to using prosthetics in their dentistry practices date back to 1,700 years ago.
Interestingly, the Ancient Greeks are not held in high regard when it comes to their ancient dentistry practices. Evidence shows that the Ancient Egyptian and Etruscan civilizations were far more advanced in their approach to treating dental issues.
The ability to endure pain was considered a high character trait in Ancient Greece. As such, toothaches and other dental maladies were more likely to be endured than to be alleviated.
It should be noted that until very recently, going to the dentist was always a painful experience. Most of the amenities that we enjoy today simply did not exist. Even as recently as the past 100 years a trip to the dentist was almost guaranteed to be an arduous process.
The story of human innovation, culture and evolution can be told with great specificity through the archaeological study of teeth. Archaeologists will continue to use teeth to gain further insights into our ancient ancestors for some time to come.


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There is a pejorative, negative, air that hangs around the word "amateur". And to be "professional" implies, these days, high quality and coldly efficient. Doing something for the love of it, and doing it really well, can't be all that bad can it? The 200 musicians of EMG Symphony Orchestra and Singers did just this on Saturday 5th April. I have been to professional concerts that were not as good as this amateur performance.
I turned up for this concert about 10 minutes early. The queue outside the cathedral that snaked across The Close demonstrated that the audience for slightly niche compositions is strong and healthy in Devon and that EMG has a loyal and large following. Packed audience rows filled the nave and the side aisles were very full too.
This was an ambitious choice of purely Vaughan Williams' music in the programme. The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is understandably popular. I was interested to see how conductor Marion Wood would handle the acoustic, which is so difficult for orchestras. Within a minute I realised that the tempo and balance had been carefully thought out. The overall effect sounded gorgeous. The second, smaller, string orchestra, positioned behind the main string section, created a sort of linear stereo effect, slightly distant, which was very atmospheric. The four section leaders have wonderful solo end ensemble moments, and these were expertly performed, a delight to hear in this setting. Rich pizzicati and the gentle rhythmic interplay between the polyphonic lines was clear and resonant, the players clearly relishing the sound.
The Sea Symphony, less often heard, has a spectacular start, a brass fanfare, which succumbed to the cathedral acoustic; sounding warm and mellow, but not as pointed and accented as I anticipated. The orchestra sounded magnificent as it then built to the big climax before baritone soloist Julian Rippon's second entry, and the next appearance of the fanfare, before soprano Catherine Hamilton's first entry, was played with the attack I had hoped for.
The chorus were well balanced and well drilled. Their position, so far away from the conductor, made it particularly difficult for clarity of diction and ensemble, yet they seemed to glide over these obstacles effortlessly. There were many instrumental highlights in Sea Symphony; Leader Clare Smith's sweetest violin solo in the quartet with the vocal soloists and Richard Wood, principal viola; the woodwind shining in passages such as before "wandering, yearning" in the final movement; the brass and percussion making a full, warm and technically impressive sound in many sections, such as after "Hoist instantly the anchor! … Steer for the deep waters".
The opening of the second movement is difficult, when ensembles lapses can be quite glaring, and yet EMG sounded like a well drilled, experienced orchestra, handling the tempo changes in "On the Beach at Night" effortlessly. The movement dipped, rhythmically, when, with "all nations and all identities", the exposed chorus lacked the vigour of the first movement. Some indiscipline with the placing of consonants revealed themselves during the unaccompanied passages in the last movement, too, but overall this choir made a terrific sound, most obvious in short exposed passages such as "greater than stars or suns". Combined with the orchestra, it was a fantastic sound; the musicians and audience particularly enjoyed a blazing end to the scherzo, with over 200 performers going full tilt. This was a most impressive concert. High quality, efficient, performed with sophistication and a clear affection and enthusiasm for the music. Very amateur.


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Looking set to spend a third week at number one with 'Black Magic', the Little Mix ladies have been hanging around BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge celebrating with a performance of the single as well as covering Jason Derulo's smash hit 'Want To Want Me' and it's got us all like…
Just like all the other acoustic versions of 'Black Magic' that we've been treated to over the past few weeks, it's truly magical (see what we did there?)
Then there was the Jason Derulo cover which the LM ladies mashed up with Whitney Houston's party classic 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' and even a little spell of Natalie La Rose's 'Somebody' which had up whooping and yaaaaaasing all over the office.
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Merovingian King Dagobert II, rescued from obscurity by the mythtorical The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and The DaVinci Code, was murdered today (679). Also, James II fled England for France, having been deposed by William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution (1688), George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (1783), Clement Clarke Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas was published anonymously (1823), Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel premiered (1893), Britain's Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act allowed women to enter professions and civil service and serve on juries regardless of marital status (1919), India's Visva-Bharati University was founded (1921), museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer found the first modern coelacanth among the catch of a South African fisherman (1938), J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray performed the first successful human kidney transplant (1954), the Tokyo Tower was dedicated (1958), the 82 sailors of the USS Pueblo were released after 11 months confinement in North Korea (1968), 10,000 people died as a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Managua, Nicaragua, on the same day the 16 survivors of the Andes Flight Disaster were rescued after a harrowing 73-day ordeal (1972), the EPA announced having found dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil at Times Beach, Missouri (1982), Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager landed the Voyager in California, having made the first non-stop flight around the world without refueling (1986), citizens of Slovenia overwhelmingly voted for independence (1990), 234 people died when PetroChina's Chuandongbei natural gas field exploded (2003), Nepalese officials reached an agreement to abolish replace the monarchy with a federal republic (2007), torrential rains triggered floods that would inundate Queensland, Australia for the next four weeks (2010), and a cleaning worker was killed when a bomb exploded on an airliner at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey (2015). And the United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 2334, condemning Israeli settlements encroaching on Palestinian lands in the West Bank (2016).
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Serious delinquencies decreased across all sectors in July. Prime decreased by 4 basis point to 4.63%; Alt-A delinquencies decreased by 7 basis points
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In Puerto Rico, serious delinquencies spiked after hurricane Maria to 27.6% in Prime mortgages, 47.2% in Alt-A mortgages, and 58.3% in Subprime
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to 1.11%; Alt-A CDRs decreased by 36 basis points to 3.02%; Option Arm CDRs decreased by 15 basis points to 4.70%, and Subprime CDRs
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Case-Shiller futures indicate a continuation of slow gains in residential home prices, predicting home prices will rise one to two percent annually
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RNIB Computer Course, Final DayPosted: March 29, 2009 Filed under: RNIB computer course Leave a comment
Well this week was the last of
That Computer Course
That i've been on. The other person was back again this week.
We were first going to show the other person how to use
The KNFB Reader
That I had used last week, but the battery was low.
We just talked about general things after that, and the other person on the course was saying about how hard it was to book flights on
And we tried it out. It is better than the last time I went on to it. We were able to navigate around most parts of it.
While we were on the subject of websites, I decided to see how accessible the new
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It was pure class. It was all legal too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can listen to a preview of each track too. They also do albums from under £4!!!!!
Since it was our first time using Amazon, we had to download
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Windows Media Player
Next we went over burning a CD for the other persons' benifit.
Finally we learnt how to use
Microsoft Outlook
I found it easy to use, but when I tried to use it when I was at home, I couldn't send emails. I got to show the other person how to use
The KNFB Reader
I love that thing!!!!
It was a great three weeks!!!! I don't know why I had doubts about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would just like to say Thanks.
It's back to
The Cedar Foundation
On Thursday. Hopefully I can pass on some of the information I got from this course!!
Computer Problems…Posted: March 27, 2009 Filed under: computer problems Leave a comment
I've got a problem with my CD drive. Last Thursday i was playing a CD, and i moved the laptop onto the bed. Well now the drive won't work.
When i try to play a CD, it makes the normal sounds like it's preparing to play it, but then it just stops. The "DVD" drive doesn't show up in the Computer area.
Can anyone help? I don't want to reboot unless i really really have to. Would moving the laptop from my knee to the bed when I was playing a CD affect it?
For your information, I'm using a Vijitsu Seamens laptop.
RNIB Computer Course, Day 2Posted: March 26, 2009 Filed under: RNIB computer course Leave a comment
Here's the second part of
The Computer Course
I told you about. This was for the 19th March.
Well this week it was only me and the tutors, as the other person couldn't make it.
First, I showed them my
Olympus Dictaphone
Which they had asked me to bring in. They were impressed at how good the design was.
We decided to use the
Olympus Voice Recorder
Which i had looked at last week. This time though, we recorded with it!!!
Next, they let me have a look at
The KNFB Reader
wich is cool!!!!!! I scanned in loads of things with that thing, and couldn't believe how good the
After this, we just talked, then I looked at
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From Humanwear. We were going to use this last week, but we couldn't get it working, because an
SD Card
had to be used for it to work.
Finally, after lunch, we looked at copying CDS using
Windows Media Player
And a programme called
Record Now!!
which is the best. Unfortunately it doesn't work on my Laptop!!!!!!!!
I just wish tomorrow wasn't the last day of this course. I really enjoyed it!!!!
Oh and by the way, i have been asked to possibly teach an I T class with the
i Matter
Group. That'll be cool!!! I'll find out more info and post it when i get it.
RNIB Computer Course, Day 1Posted: March 23, 2009 Filed under: RNIB computer course Leave a comment
As I've said earlier, I should have posted this on the 12th and 19th March, rather than the 23rd!!!! I'll just post for the 12th, then i'll do another entry for the 19th. This course is run by the
Well On the 11th of March, I was contacted by a woman
The Cedar Foundation
I didn't really want to go, because i didn't know if it would benifit me, and because i'm not that keen on the organisation. I just thought that i'd give it a shot, at least for the experience. I'm so glad I did!!!!!!!
On the Thursday, the course started at about half 10. While I was waiting for the other tutor to get there, I was introduced to the only other person on the course. He was also from the
Cedar Foundation
Only he was a trainee.
Once the other tutor arrived, we had a chat about general issues, then we got some work done on the computers!!!
We were going to start off with learning how to use
Windows Live Messenger
But we knew how to use that. So we used
We went through how to create an account, and how to add people, call them, and answer calls. The tutors wanted me to basically teach everything, cause they didn't know as much as me apparently.
I told them that there were
Scripts Available
That would make JAWS work better with Skype. I took them through where to get them, from
And told them to type in "JAWS Scripts For Skype", and look for the first result after the "Search Results" heading.
There was a bit of a problem installing them though, as we needed adminastrative rights. It's a good job that we didn't download them, because when I tried them at home, they weren't as good as the previous versions. I thought I had installed them in the wrong location, but I hadn't.
Anyway, since we couldn't get the scripts installed, we looked at how to download audio described movies, all legally of course.
We went to a website called
Blind Mice
To download
The Movies
They are MP3s, so you just have to click on them and save them just like a normal file. Or you can open them directly. I downloaded
Walk The Line
Just to see what it was like. It was cool!!!
After lunch, we just did stuff on
As well as doing that stuff on the computers, we got to look at a few bits of technology too!!!! First we looked at
The Olympus digital voice recorder DS40
Which has voice navigation. Then it was the
Mile Stone
MP3 player which is also a voice recorder.
It was really good. It feels as if there was more i didn't mention, but I think cause of this weeks' activities i'm getting the two confused.
I wish this week wasn't the last of it!!!! I'll post the info on the 19th, hopefully before Thursday!!!
I've Got Alot To Post, But For Now….Posted: March 22, 2009 Filed under: general Leave a comment
I'm sorry I haven't actually posted properly for a bit, but I can never be bothered. I've got a course I have to post about that I was on with the
But it seems so long to write. I'll do it later though. This week is the last week of it.
By the way, i'm thinking of cutting my Links List. I never really read those blogs any more. Please comment if you want me to keep your blog linked here.
I promise i'll post later!!!
I Never Thought I'd Long For A Capcha!Posted: March 17, 2009 Filed under: Web Visum Leave a comment
I was on MSN about a week ago with
And she told me about something that will read the majority of
So I decided to try it out. I had to download
Though. I was a bit cautious about downloading it, since the last time I downloaded it, there were a lot of toolbars that were installed too. This time though, it seems alright. It's much faster too!!!!!!!!!! I've still kept Internet explorer though.
So anyway, once I had firefox installed, I had to get
Web Visum
Which is the add on for the Capchas.
Invited me to join Web visum. Then I registered. I had to enter an activation code in the box which is provided in the invite email. If you don't know anyone using Web Visum, you can
For a request.
It is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again
If you need help using it, just comment.
Second GCSE Maths ExamPosted: March 3, 2009 Filed under: GCSE Exams Leave a comment
Today I had my second GCSE maths exam.
I started at about half 9. It was alright, but some of the questions were real bummers!!!!!!! I left those ones to the end though.
The only bad thing was that I didn't get notified that I was going to have a new scribe. Also, a collumn was missing out of my table in braille!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!! It was only 1time, but that's not the point. My teacher is going to bring it up, so that the board are aware of it.
Hopefully this exam will get me on a C again like the last one. Although i think i left some of the working out that I should have done. I got my point aross though.
My scribe was coming in just as I had finished. It's a good job that the person I got today was able to do it.
By the way, I got 67 out of 75 in that last exam. Sorry I didn't let you all know.
Hard to believe it's the last module now. At least now I can focous on it.


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JPRI Critique Vol. V No. 2: February 1998
Accessing the Japanese Agricultural Market: Still an International Issue?
by Aurelia George Mulgan
The Korean Economic Crisis: The Result of Under-regulation
by Ha-Joon Chang
Accessing the Japanese Agricultural Market: Still an International Issue?
by Aurelia George Mulgan
Japan's accession to the GATT Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Agriculture appeared to close the final chapter on Japanese agricultural protection as an international issue. With the benefit of hindsight, however, this assessment is now seen as somewhat premature. The UR Agreement did not mark the demise of the agricultural support and protection regime in Japan. Many of the supports and controls remain in place such as production subsidies, price support and stabilization schemes, state trading, relatively high import tariffs and last but not least, import quotas for rice in a trade controlled and administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF).
Input subsidies, for example, still consume enormous budgetary sums in the form of agricultural public works allocations. Alongside these are substantial disbursements for upgrading rural infrastructure. In 1996, more than 50 per cent of the total central government's agricultural budget (or ¥1.6 trillion) was allocated to projects for agricultural productivity improvement and consolidation of the rural environment'. Such projects are attractive to the MAFF because they are very costly at the same time as they suit the political purposes of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
In the wake of the UR agreement, the MAFF and LDP worked out a comprehensive package of subsidies amounting to ¥6.01 trillion in order to facilitate the passage of legislation necessitated by Japan's obligations under the agreement. The package was scheduled for implementation over a six-year period beginning in 1995. Its main contents were ¥3.55 trillion for agricultural public works projects and ¥2.46 trillion for non-public works projects. Not only did the package boost government spending on agriculture and the MAFF's budgetary share, but it also enabled the LDP to position itself well in rural and semi-rural constituencies in the lead-up to the 1995 and 1996 general elections.
In addition to these very generous subsidies for agricultural and rural infrastructure, a check of the post-UR situation for the main agricultural products reveals that administrative pricing systems have remained substantially the same, in spite of some new arrangements for imports. The agreement has not had a dramatic impact on either Japan's agricultural price support and stabilisation schemes or the levels of these prices. Most prices were frozen between 1991 and 1996; incremental reductions have only begun in 1997. The newly amalgamated Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation (ALIC) retains some state trading rights for wheat and barley, designated dairy products and silk imports. For a commodity like beef, stabilization price intervention plus high tariffs continue to protect producers, while quantitative limits remain on rice imports in a state trade administered by the Food Agency of the MAFF.
Although the current minimum access arrangement for rice will expire in the year 2000, Japan has not agreed to liberalize rice beyond that date. It has merely agreed to negotiate the matter in 1999-2000 under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Japan will have two options beyond 2000: accept tariffication at a rate which is 15 per cent lower than at the time the UR agreement was signed or insist on reviewing the exceptional arrangement for rice and possibly expanding the minimum quota for rice imports. In the meantime, the Food Agency's continuing controls on the marketing of both domestic and imported rice enables it to frustrate the sale of foreign rice.
If Japan's position on agriculture during recent APEC summit meetings is indicative of its stance, the future looks problematic for the rice liberalization option. In the preparatory negotiations leading up to the November 1995 APEC forum in Osaka, Japan insisted on the exclusion of agriculture from the ambitious goal of liberalization of trade in goods and services "without exception" by 2010 for developed economies in the APEC group. In the event, the outcome of the summit was less than unambiguous, with agriculture subsumed within terminology referring to "sectoral flexibility" in achieving APEC's free trade goals. At the 1996 APEC summit in Manila, Japan restricted its concessions on agriculture to pledging that all remaining non-conforming Japanese Agricultural Standards would be aligned "wherever possible" with international standards and to speed up its quarantine control procedures for animal and plant product imports. The recent Vancouver summit produced little of interest on the agricultural trade front. Japanese officials rejected the option of putting agricultural commodity sectors on the priority list for early sectoral liberalization, asserting that Japan would not accept tariff reductions beyond the commitments made at the UR and that the government was not ready to start negotiations on farm products before 2000 at the WTO. It is significant, however, that the MAFF's latest "Long-Range Outlook for the Demand and Supply of Agricultural Products" incorporates long-term supply and demand projections through to 2005 which are predicated on border and other measures stabilized at levels reached in the final year (i.e., 2000) of the UR agreement.
Agriculture remains one of the most politically powerful and institutionally entrenched interests in Japan. Complementing the power of organised farm voters and their dominant electoral connection with the LDP are the substantial bureaucratic, organizational and public interest stakes in a highly regulated and protected agricultural economy. An important part of the story of agricultural reform in the future will be tackling the regulatory and subsidy powers of the MAFF and its associated auxiliary organs. Agricultural trade liberalization and deregulation of controls on the domestic agricultural economy are two sides of the same coin.
AURELIA GEORGE MULGAN teaches in the School of Politics, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. She is the author of The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection (Allen & Unwin, 1986) and is presently working on a new book entitled Interest Politics in Japan: The Agricultural Sector in Transition.
When the Korean crisis first broke out, many commentators argued that it was the result of an intrusive state forcing banks to lend to unprofitable firms. The medicine to cure the country's economic ills, it was argued, was to ditch the now-defunct state-directed economic system, which some people likened to those of the Soviet Union or East Germany, and to create in its place a "genuine" market economy through an extensive liberalization of finance, international trade, and the labor market. But is this a valid approach?
The current Korean crisis is essentially a financial problem, rather than a crisis of the "real economy." Most of the country's manufacturing firms make products that sell even in the most demanding markets, if the exchange rate is right. During the last couple of years the won was clearly overvalued by 10-20%; but even then, on the eve of the crisis, the current account deficit was just over 3% of gross domestic product and is now falling after the recent devaluation. Yet we saw current account deficits of 8% to 10% in Thailand and Mexico before their recent crises, and in previous downturns Korea itself had current account deficits approaching 9% of GDP. Furthermore most, if not all, foreign loans financed investments in export sectors, rather than real estate development or imports of consumer goods, as was the case in Mexico and Southeast Asia. The Korean budget is largely in balance and gross public debt amounts to only 3% of GDP. Finally, there has been little significant inflationary pressure in the economy. Then why did Korea crash?
The current crisis is largely the result of a policy failure by the outgoing government of Kim Young Sam. It is a failure of underregulation, rather than of overregulation as the popular view holds. Deregulation had been the proclaimed policy objective of Kim's government, and although no radical deregulation occurred, state control relaxed enough to make important differences. The government abandoned its traditional role of coordinating investments in large scale industries, thus allowing excess capacities to emerge in industries like automobiles, shipbuilding, steel, petrochemicals, and semiconductors, which eventually led to the fall in export prices and the accumulation of non-performing loans.
In the name of financial liberalization the government also failed to monitor properly foreign borrowing activities, especially by inexperienced merchant banks. This resulted in a rapid build-up of debts totaling $100 billion with a very poor maturity structure; 70% of these debts carry less than a year's maturity. Finally, Kim's advisers were sold on the monetarist idea that inflation control is the most important objective of government policy and that the exchange rate should be an "anchor" in inflation control. This caused a significant over-valuation of the currency, hurting export performance.
The Kim government was also confused and incompetent as the economic troubles began. It dithered over the fate of the third largest car manufacturer, Kia, unnecessarily undermining confidence in the economy. As the currency crisis grew, it wasted $10 billion (more than one-third of its dwindling foreign exchange reserve) trying to defend an indefensible exchange rate, thus exacerbating the foreign exchange shortage. External causes also came into play. Southeast Asia's doldrums reduced demand for Korean exports and dealt a blow to some Korean financial companies that had been speculating in Southeast Asian financial markets. The entrance of new Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers drove down the prices of memory chips, which accounted for nearly 20% of Korean exports when their prices were high. Chip prices fell to a critical point, from nearly $50 to $4. But the main problem was precisely a failure of oversight by a government priding itself on deregulation.
Having met the crisis, is the IMF program the best medicine for Korea? The second bailout at the end of December underlines a number of important problems with the basic IMF package. First, its strong deflationary bias made the credit crunch that firms are facing even worse, leading to a chain of bankruptcies and possibly driving the economy toward depression. The IMF's 5% inflation target was already too deflationary, given that the economy has to deal with a big rise in import prices due to devaluation; with the excess liquidity released by financial sector bailouts and the further fall of the currency since the signing of the agreement, this target now seems indefensible.
More worrying than the deflationary bias of the IMF is its insistence on financial liberalization and opening-up the economy. Korea needs better, not less, financial regulation. Bad debts in the financial system need to be cleaned up before the banks can be granted more freedom. Moreover, more time is needed to determine which are the really viable financial institutions and which ones need to be closed down. All of this requires time, which the IMF program does not allow. Worse, the IMF wants a quick opening up of financial markets to foreign participation, which exposes the economy to high volatility in the future. What such volatility can do to an economy is clearly shown by Chile in the late 1970s and recent experiences in Mexico and Southeast Asia.
Finally, the IMF acted precipitately and without consulting the Korean people, leading to widespread talk of "national humiliation" and "foreign trusteeship." The likely result is that the IMF program, with its heavy deflationary bias, will result in a sharp rise in unemployment and will be met by massive political resistance. The IMF's way of meeting these dangers was to say that the country needs to strengthen its unemployment insurance systemas if this can be achieved at a time of fiscal retrenchment. If the political backlash materializes, the entire IMF program will be jeopardized.
The new government of Kim Dae Jung, with its more consensual approach to politics and stronger ties to the small firms and trade unions that are going to be hurt most in the process, may be in a better position than most to pull the country through a period of deflation and job losses and put the economy back on the path toward robust growth. But it must also find new ways to reinvigorate the coordinating and regulatory mechanisms of previous Korean governments without the negative features of the old system such as corruption, nepotism, and excessive bureaucratic rigidity.
HA-JOON CHANG is a member of the Faculty of Economics and Politics in the University of Cambridge, England. His latest book is The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (St. Martin's Press, 1994). This article first appeared in The Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1997.


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Disney World photographers take between 100,000 and 200,000 photos of guests at their theme parks every day. Everyone in these photos is all smiles. (The sticker shock of buying the photos must not have sunk in yet). But Disney ain't always "The Happiest Place on Earth." The photo you won't see from the parks is one of a tiny, angry human trying to launch herself out of a jumbo-sized moving seashell. This would be my toddler.
We had decided to go to the Magic Kingdom to celebrate all 3 of our birthdays. We had a pretty good time: it rained shortly in the afternoon but was dry most of the day, and very few meltdowns occurred. The teacups and Philharmagic 4D show were a hit. But then we tried Epcot, and this was a completely different experience.
Turns out, the birthday girl had a major previously undiagnosed Epcot allergy. The same allergy she has to the Hanna Anderrson outlet store (and only that particular outlet store. Does it smell weird? Does she hate the Scandinavian aesthetic of the clothes? Is she sick of stripes? I may never know). Epcot was not as enjoyable as a result. An epic downpour of rain didn't help much either. So, was it a loss?
I don't think so. If we don't try to do new or different things, we end up sitting at home, watching Netflix for the 453rd time and wondering where the week (month? Year?) went. It will all go by in a blur because nothing truly noteworthy stands out. When friends ask what we've been up to, all we can say is, "not much, really…"
When we choose experiences over things, the outcome isn't as predictable: it may rain, our children may have a meltdown, we may get stuck in a long line or in traffic. But as cliche as it sounds, creating memories is worth it. There is still value to be found in experiences, even when they don't go as you imagined. Perhaps, as Erin Loechner put it, "The easy things are never good and the good things are never easy."
We all have finite resources. When thinking about what to put them towards when it comes to our kids, think about what they will remember when they're older. They'll remember the activities they did with their families and how they felt as a result. Going to look at holiday lights on Christmas Eve, game nights, trips, playing in soccer games, picnics, pitching tents in the back yard, dance parties in the kitchen, beach days, learning to bake– those are the things they'll tell their own children about some day, and try to recreate with them. When asked what their favorite childhood memory is, no child is going to say, "man, let me tell you about my really impressive Barbie collection."
I can remember maybe my 6-7 favorite toys I had as a kid, but the rest is a blur. What I do remember is the night we stayed up late assembling sundaes with our friends, the little dishes of colorful sprinkles and Oreos. I remember how tired I felt shaking a mason jar and thinking "this is never going to work," but being so delighted at the homemade butter that formed inside. I remember being in awe of the tiny sandwiches and cookies at a tea party, and the brightly colored whirl of activity at a 4th of July parade.
I wondered if other people's favorite memories centered around experiences rather than things. So I asked a few friends, "what were some of your favorite childhood memories"? "The first thing that comes to mind," one said, "is that we used to go to the beach a lot every summer. We would go to Detroit in the summer to visit our cousins and it was always so fun. These were two of my favorite things as a kid. We'd eat at the White Castle there since they didn't have it where we lived. Their hamburgers were 25 cents back then, so my dad would buy 50 of them for us and our cousins."
Another friend said when she was 13, she loved wrapping up a box and putting her younger brother inside (leaving it partially open) and pretending that he was a Christmas present as she opened the box. Her favorite birthday memory was going to a "Spice Girl themed sleepover party at a family friend's house. There were 6 of us girls. We danced, sang, did our make up, and had a super fun fashion show," she said.
A third friend mentioned baking with her mother and grandmother, and playing with her cousins in the snow as two of her favorite memories. The final person I asked was my husband. He said going to Space Camp was one of his favorite memories. "What was cool about that?" I asked. "What wasn't?" He replied. "They had a space shuttle where we could run shuttle simulations. They had a 'zero gravity wall' and a chair that would spin you in all different directions. I liked camp because I was really interested in space and being there for a week was the longest time I'd been away; I enjoyed being independent."
So if you're panicking trying to find the perfect gift for your child's birthday, perhaps think of a place you could enjoy together vs. something that they open. Or, if you feel guilty that you can't give your child "enough" things, remember that their favorite "things" are probably the activities that you do with them, not the items that they have sitting on their bookshelves. When you choose experiences over stuff, you create lasting memories that your children will talk about long after the experience is over.
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Am having a ball trawling through new-old history books I picked up for a song at the Prahran Mechanic's Institute, plus the library books I borrowed from them, too.
1984 Tina Turner was at the top of the Oz charts for one whole week with "What's Love Got To Do With It?"
1994 Vancouver-designed fantastically wonderfully all-things-geeky, fabulous ( yes we all loved it to bits and pieces in this house) cartoon series ReBoot debuted on American ABC
2006 Tongas King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV passed away in Auckland.
The Nylex Clock is still busted.
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Orange = Canada
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Italics, bold and coloured blue are links to further info.
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