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The Pulp Parachute: How Louisiana-Pacific Got Paid To Destroy the Tongass
One of the most lucrative and environmentally destructive deals in the history of the forest products industry was closed recently with the unfurling of an enormous golden parachute for a $2 billion a year timber company courtesy of the federal treasury. On Feb. 21, the Clinton administration capitulated to the legal threats of the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation by agreeing to pay $250 million to settle a lawsuit over the federal government's cancellation last year of the company's long-term contract to log timber on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.
The buyout may have been linked to the confirmation of Federico Pena, Clinton's choice as Secretary of Energy. The nomination had been held up by Alaskan Sen. Frank Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and the Environment. Sources in the Senate say that Murkowski, who has been a virulent critic of the administration's environmental policies, threatened to block Pena's confirmation unless Clinton agreed to settle the Louisiana-Pacific lawsuit and guarantee higher levels of logging on the Tongass over the next five years. Pena's nomination was approved by Murkowski's committee the same week the Clinton administration announced the Louisiana-Pacific deal.
More than $140 million of the settlement will go directly into Louisiana-Pacific's corporate coffers. The remaining $110 million is scheduled to be distributed to local communities in Southeast Alaska for the retraining of nearly 400 workers laid off from the company's closed Ketchikan pulp mill, although this portion of the deal must await Congressional approval. In addition, the Forest Service agreed to provide Louisiana-Pacific with a steady flow of old-growth timber from the Tongass for the next three years. A large portion of that timber will come from ecologically significant stands of old-growth forest on Central Prince of Wales Island near Ketchikan, which the Forest Service's own biologists have said should not be logged because of adverse impacts on salmon and the rare marbled murrelet, a forest-nesting seabird.
The payoff caps a 40-year run in Southeast Alaska, where the company was granted exclusive rights to log off more than one million acres of temperate rain forest on the fog-enwrapped islands of the Tongass, America's largest national forest. The Ketchikan mill, owned for the past 25 years by Louisiana-Pacific, was the beneficiary of an extraordinary deal hatched by the Forest Service back in the late 1950s. As an inducement to create year-round jobs in remote Southeast Alaska, the Forest Service offered exclusive contracts to log old-growth timber off of the Tongass rain forest for minimal costs to any companies that would build pulp mills in Southeast Alaska and operate them year-round.
By 1954 two pulp mills had been built in the region, one in Ketchikan by the Ketchikan Pulp Company, formerly owned by the gold mining giant FMC, and one in Sitka, controlled by a consortium of Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, operating as the Alaska Pulp Company.
The Ketchikan mill produced a bizarre assortment of pulp products, including rayon, fiber for disposable diapers, nitrocellophane explosives, food fillers, and sponges. The Sitka mill mainly produced pulp for newsprint. After pulp prices took a nosedive in 1993, the Alaska Pulp Company closed its Sitka mill and the Forest Service terminated the company's contract. The Japanese-owned company then filed suit in federal claims court seeking nearly a billion dollars in damages. The Alaska Pulp Company suit remains unresolved.
According to informants inside the Portland, Oregon-based company, Louisiana-Pacific had been attempting to unload the Ketchikan pulp mill for at least the last two years. When Louisiana-Pacific could find no buyers, the company shut the mill down, blaming the closure on the Forest Service for failing to provide enough timber at cheap enough rates to keep the mill running. The company also repeatedly lashed out at environmentalists, charging that efforts to protect old-growth forest stand and wildlife on the 16-million acre Tongass forest had created "a climate of uncertainty" over future timber cut levels.
Yet most timber industry economists say that the real problem for Louisiana-Pacific had to do with the changing nature of the pulp market. Pulp prices, always erratic, have plunged to new lows over the past three years and, despite a few temporary spikes upward, have stayed depressed. Increased recycling, cheaper mills built in Mexico and China, and staggering environmental liabilities are only some of the factors undercutting the economic footing of aging pulps mills in the United States.
This situation was compounded for Louisiana-Pacific by the fact that the Ketchikan mill's equipment is outdated, inefficient to operate, and hazardous to workers and the environment. For nearly 40 years, the mill has flushed 5 million gallons of dioxin-laced wastewater into Ward Cove every day. Ward Cove, an inlet north of Ketchikan, was once a vibrant estuary filled with salmon, steelhead, humpback whales, and orca; now it's a toxic dead zone. The company has not had a valid air permit for the mill since 1990. In the last five years, the Ketchikan mill has been hit with more than $6 million in fines for violations of clean air and water laws. In 1994 FBI agents raided the company's offices and seized thousands of pages of documents. As a result of this investigation, Louisiana-Pacific was convicted on felony charges of falsifying pollution reporting data.
Louisiana-Pacific's decision to permanently close the pulp mill forced the Forest Service to terminate the long-term contract, since the timber purchasing agreement was predicated on the year-round operation of the mill. When the Forest Service voided the contract, Louisiana-Pacific rushed to the federal claims court in Anchorage, where it filed suit against the government. In court papers, the company alleged that the termination of the contract resulted in a governmental "taking" of the economic value of the pulp mill. The suit sought $400 million in damages.
"This settlement is a tremendous victory for the cause of property rights," says Ron Arnold, director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a Bellevue, Washington-based Wise Use group. "The Clinton administration has validated our contention that the environmental regulations imposed on Louisiana-Pacific clearly damaged the company economically. The lesson is that the government can impose the regulations on companies, but they cannot escape paying just compensation for doing so, plus damages for bad-faith dealing."
But most legal observers believe that Louisiana-Pacific's suit had little merit. Indeed, the suit sounds nearly frivolous on its face. It almost seems as if there was some prior arrangement between Louisiana-Pacific and the administration, and the suit itself was just a pretext to a financial bailout of a troubled company. The objective of Louisiana-Pacific for several years has been to shift toward the logging of lucrative old-growth trees without being burdened by the costly pulp mill operations.
Ironically, Alaska--where the logging scheme on the Tongass has been underwritten by Congress mainly as a rural jobs program--was exempted from the nationwide ban on the exportation of raw logs cut from federal lands. For the past 10 years, Louisiana-Pacific's biggest money-making enterprise in Alaska has come from exporting yellow cedar to Japan. The company pays the Forest Service about $1.50 per thousand board feet for the right to log the cedar off the Tongass. Then it sells the cedar logs to Japanese timber merchants for as much as $1,500 per thousand board feet, all without running a single cedar log through an Alaskan mill. The Japanese are willing to pay such high prices because the Tongass cedar closely resembles Hinoyki cedar, which is considered sacred.
"The Ketchikan Pulp Mill 50-year contract thus ends up as the most expensive timber sale in Forest Service history," according to forest economist Randal O'Toole. "The net loss from this one sale was close to a quarter billion dollars."
The infusion of federal cash couldn't have come at a better time for Louisiana-Pacific. It had been a turbulent three years for the timber giant. After experiencing record-setting profits in the early 1990s, Louisiana-Pacific was riding high, becoming a favorite of mutual fund managers and institutional investors. Then in 1993 the company was suddenly confronted with allegations that its executive offices resembled a kind of white-collar brothel. A long-time executive assistant to LP CEO Harry Merlo filed suit against the company charging widespread sexual harassment of female employees. According to the complaint, the company only hired top female assistants if "they were young, blond, strikingly attractive, and likely to acquiesce to sexual advances from the CEO."
The suit was largely ignored by Merlo and his hand-picked board, which that very same year rewarded him with a salary of $5 million and $48 million in company stock. But things were starting to fall apart in the company's Portland headquarters. The problems centered on one of Louisiana-Pacific's signature products, Oriented Strand Board, known as OSB. The company marketed the siding as an environmentally friendly replacement for plywood decking and siding for houses and apartments. According to LP's marketing, OSB is a "green product" because its manufacture does not require the logging of old growth. Instead, OSB can be constructed by chipping small diameter trees, including species that were previously considered to have little commercial value. The chips are then cooked up in a kind of toxic stew and pressed into siding panels.
The problem is that when exposed to moderate levels of moisture and humidity, OSB tends to disintegrate within two years. Moreover, as the OSB panels begin to break apart they release dangerous fumes from the glue used to hold the fiberboard together. This toxic phenomenon is known as out-gassing. It causes the insidious poisoning of people residing in houses sheathed in OSB. The ailments suffered by victims of Louisiana-Pacific's deteriorating siding range from headaches and nausea to seizures and partial paralysis. The company recently paid out nearly $500 million to settle class-action suits brought by homeowners who had purchased OSB products. Several states, including Oregon, Washington, and Florida, are pursuing criminal investigations against the company for fraudulent testing and marketing of OSB. Two former employees have alleged that the company falsified testing results on the durability and safety of the OSB from 1990 through 1994.
As the OSB scandal reached its climax, the Louisiana-Pacific board called an emergency meeting in Chicago. There Merlo was confronted with evidence that he had ordered the doctoring of proxy statements and SEC documents in an effort to conceal the extent of financial liabilities facing the company. After a hostile exchange, the board voted to remove Merlo from his position. The executive was escorted out of the meeting by armed security guards. Meanwhile, the locks on the doors of his penthouse office back in Portland, Oregon, were changed and his files seized by company investigators and outside auditors.
Merlo was replaced as CEO of Louisiana-Pacific by former International Paper Company executive Mark Suwyn, an old friend of Louisiana-Pacific board member Pierre DuPont. But the problems for LP didn't end with Merlo's ouster. Earlier this year, its stock price plunged after the company was forced to make a $300 million charge against its income. This announcement was followed by a new criminal investigation by the FBI into allegations of timber theft by the company on the Tongass National Forest. Forest Service whistleblowers had alleged that over the past 10 years Louisiana-Pacific has stolen more than $24 million worth of federal timber.
Assigned the extraordinarily challenging task of running the public relations campaign over the past few years for the embattled company is a man called Thomas Hoog, general manager of the super-firm of Hill & Knowlton. Like many of the partners at Hill & Knowlton, Hoog's political ties are to the Democratic Party. He served as chief of staff for former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart. Another Democratic powerbroker at Hill & Knowlton is the firm's CEO, Howard Paster, a golfing partner of President Clinton who served for a year as director of legislative affairs in the Clinton White House. Hoog, who attended two of those White House coffee sessions, played a key role in persuading the administration to settle the Louisiana-Pacific case in Alaska.
Sen. Frank Murkowski, the Republican from Alaska who now heads the powerful Energy and Environment Committee, has been a key player in defending Louisiana-Pacific's reign of terror on the Tongass for nearly two decades. During the 104th Congress, Murkowski authored legislative initiatives aimed at overturning environmental regulations on the Tongass in order to accelerate logging in areas under contract to Louisiana-Pacific. In the spring of 1995 it was revealed that Sen. Murkowski owned more than $25,000 worth of stock in Louisiana-Pacific and that he was a major shareholder in the Ketchikan State Bank, one of the pulp mill's largest creditors.
It now seems that Murkowski used his clout as head of the committee responsible for reviewing Federico Pena's nomination as Secretary of Energy to extract concessions on the Tongass. "Murkowski threw his weight around and the administration quickly caved in," said a Democratic staffer. "Everyone thought the fight on Pena's nomination was over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. In reality, all the discussions had to do with logging levels on the Tongass and whether or not LP was going to be compensated for closing down the pulp mill."
The reaction of Alaskan environmentalists to the bailout of Louisiana-Pacific has been strangely supportive. "We are grateful that the contract is voided," said Tim Driscoll of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council in Juneau. "Now the challenge for the Tongass is to shift toward a sustainable economy in the region. That means a smaller harvest which independent sawmills use to make value-added products."
The problem with this rosy scenario is that there are few independent timber companies left in the region and almost no capital available to build new mills. Louisiana-Pacific is largely responsible for this situation. Native companies were hit the hardest by Louisiana-Pacific's near-hegemony over the regional timber market. In 1979 the Reid Brothers, a small logging company owned by members of the Tlingit tribe, filed a civil suit against both Louisiana-Pacific and the Alaska Pulp Company. Among other things, the Reid Brothers alleged that the timber giants had rigged bids on Tongass timber sales, had conspired with local banks to manipulate the financing of small mill owners, and had overestimated stumpage and logging costs to extract more subsidies from the feds. As a result of these predatory activities, more than 100 small sawmills were driven out of business between 1970 and 1979. The district court ruled in favor of the Reid Brothers and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the opinion that Louisiana-Pacific had violated anti-trust laws.
In the wake of the Reid Brothers case, the Forest Service began its own investigation of the pulp company. It determined that Louisiana-Pacific had defrauded the government out of more than $80 million. Yet no action was taken against the corporation. Forest Service sources say that is because Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John Crowell had quashed the investigation before it reached the Justice Department. Previously Crowell had served as general counsel for Louisiana-Pacific.
Now Louisiana-Pacific, a company with one of the longest eco-rap sheets in the nation, has finally achieved its goal of being the sole player in the lucrative Tongass timber market. And, as a surprise bonus, it has been handed by the Clinton administration $140 million in cash, which it will most likely use to expand its operations in Mexico, China, and Bolivia.
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Curious as to why he wasn't drafted, since he fared okay last weekend. SI had him graded at 2.1(rates as practice squad). Link to SI draft bio: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/draft-2012/players/70931.htmlHide replies
not an exact science. didn't he play in a spread offense at wvu?
CM III wasn't thought highly of in the draft and AR went on the 27th pick and they sort of turned out ok.
The thing is about a lot of these journalists...if they're so good at judging talent, wouldn't they make a heck of a lot more money as GMs? TT might be wrong on occasion, but I think he's right more often than pretty much anyone else I can think of in the NFL, or writing about it, etc. Like OLD66 mentions, CMIII and AR weren't highly thought of, for 1st round picks, anyway, and look how fantastic they are. Also, show me a GM that wouldn't take Jennings in the 1st round, or Jordy, or Cobb, yet every team passed on them at least once.
Because the draft is a crap shoot, always has been, always will be...still cant believe MMs argument is whether or not Bark will play at RT for Lang...I would rather the article stated that Bark will be our starting RT and the decision that needs to be made is whether Lang lines up or EDS lines up at LG...just dont get the reluctance by MM to make the switch at RT and just run with it, certainly cannot be any worse than watching EDS struggle out there, he does not have half of the Nasty that Bark does, and that is a 3 year man vs an UDFA...boggling...Hide replies
Allen Barbre looked like he had some nasty to him, too. It doesn't necessarily mean he'll play well during the game. And how would MM know that Barclay would be such a gamer? I don't think these decisions are nearly as obvious as many fans would like to think. Also, EDS was an UDFA, too. So was Saturday.
If Lang can't go is there another o-lineman on the 53? I suppose I could look it up.
If Lang can't go is there another o-lineman on the 53? I suppose I could look it up.Hide replies
Greg vanRoten is the only one left that i know of.We only had 7 and if Lang cant go,we have 6.
I dont know if there is time to find someone to play the offensive line effectively,so hopefully we get out of the Detroit game healthy and Lang is ready for Chicago
and hes a guard ( i wonder if he can play Center though)
EDS is a center
Lets home Graham Harrell is not a "next man up". To reduce that from happening, Pack needs to keep running the quick flow office with short to intermediate passes, role out Rodgers more and keep moving the chains. Try some "pistal formation" where in shotgun RB lines up behind QB-at least could be a run either way or a toss sweep or a cut back-at present, in shotgun with RB at side of QB-defense knows what runs are possible-and RB is starting from a slow position as he gets the draw handoff with no momentum-Hide replies
The pistol could work with Cobb(has played QB) lining up there but don't think MM would ever take Rodgers off the field.
Someone has RG3 fever
I'm starting to wonder about Sitton. He just doesn't look like the same player he was during 2010. Iknow last year he had some injuries but hopefully this isn't a contract and coast thing. I'm sure TT will try to fortify the interior psoitions in the draft but I really hope they look for a replacement for Saturday too. He must've saw something in Konz he didn't like but a guy with his skill set would improve the run game immediately.
BTW-Has anybody heard from the monkey or minkey lately? Little guy probably ODed by now!Hide replies
Center may have to wait a year.
There are less quality guys this year than last.
Another reason TT could've grabbed one last year.
I agree, last year seemed ideal... but I understand why they grabbed a pass rusher.
Actually, even though it's early days and there will be a flood of juniors coming out, there are two Cs most sites have rated in their top 32
Khaled Holmes USC 6-4 305
Barrett Jones Alabama 6-5 302
Neither have the size of Konz though(starting at G for the Falcons BTW). One guy who might be intriguing is
Ryan Turnley Pitt 6-6 320
who had a year running Cryst's pro-style offenseand has the size to help with guys like Suh and Fairley
If Holmes = Kalil, great! Sign me up!!
Jones is better suited for G from what I've read.
Barlay likes to run block, and the Packers ran as well as they have all season after Barclay replaced Lang. This could be just what we need to get Detroit out of the two-deep shell and open up some deep stuff.Hide replies
100% agree. I don't think Bulaga is all that bad, either, he played at Iowa, after all, but I think he was really hampered by the tendonitis in his right knee this year.
Without somebody helping chip block he might not give Rodgers enough time for the deep stuff. Avril is a decent rusher. I hope MM gives Barclay a chance and puts Lang back at LG though. It is easier to give Barclay help and for Rodgers to evade rushers from the outside than to let teams get great pushes up the middle.
He will definitely need some help with pass protection. I was just hoping that he could open up the run game. That would make all the difference in the world with the offense. If the Lions can't get by with seven in the box, the passing game will dominate.
We have all winter to speculate on the draft. Right now, Barclay is one of the most important guys on the team. IF, he can provide solid play at right tackle, the Packers have a chance in the playoffs. IF, he can't, the Packers can't get too far. Plain and simple.Hide replies
Never too early for draft talk..
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3. True to Yourself
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5. ...And this above all to thine own self be true.
6. Dream Come True / Enjoy Success
7. True Heart
8. My True Love
9. True Friend
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17. Shin Buddhism
真 is a simple way to express the idea that something is real, true, truth or genuine.
Occasionally, this character is used to refer to a Buddhist sect that originated in the 13th century.
真 is commonly used as a compound with other characters to create ideas like "true love." It's also used like the English "really" or "truly," to say "really good" or "He is really knowledgeable." Those phrases start with "他真的是..." (note second character is this one).
There are two ways to write this character, shown here is the most common way in China; however, a slight stroke variation is used in Korean Hanja. If you want that version, just let us know when you place your order.
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This is the true essence of sincerity. It takes strength of personality to be truly sincere without over-doing it. Speaking of strength, this is probably the strongest way to convey the idea of sincerity in the Chinese language without over-doing it.
The first character literally means true, real, and genuine. While the second character means sincere and honest.
This means, "true to yourself" in Chinese.
This is just a one-word difference from "be true to yourself."
Note: This is more a western-style phrase or idea, so it's not that common to see this in Chinese.
This is "...to thine own self be true" in Japanese.
This is a small portion of the classic line from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Note: Because this selection contains some special Japanese Hiragana characters, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
This is the classic translation of a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet into Chinese.
This Chinese word means to accomplish one's ambition, a dream come true, or to enjoy your success.
While these two characters literally read as "true heart" or "genuine heart," the understood meaning is sincerity, devotion, sincere, or heartfelt. Some will extend the meaning to be like, "true love." Basically, it's the idea of doing something or treating someone with genuine feelings.
This is valid and has the same meaning in both Chinese characters and Japanese Kanji.
Note: While not too common, this can be the female given name "Mami" in Japanese.
This is a slightly poetic way to express this sentiment to someone.
The meaning is "My True Love" but the characters directly translate as "I/Me/My Heart/Mind True/Real Love."
Note that Chinese grammar and construction are different, so this sounds very eloquent and artsy in Chinese.
In Korean Hanja, the third character should be written differently, just let me know when you place your order if you want that version - it will still make sense in Chinese. This phrase makes sense in Korean but not commonly used.
This means "true love" or "genuine affection" in Japanese.
The first two Kanji mean true, real, genuine, or authentic.
The third Kanji is a connecting possessive article.
The last character is love or affection.
This is literally "True Love" in Chinese.
The first character means "real," "true" and "genuine." The second character means "love" and "affection."
During the customization of your calligraphy wall scroll, there is a place to add an inscription. You might want that inscription to be your names in Chinese down the side of your wall scroll, or perhaps just below these two main characters (just $9 extra). A nice gift to celebrate an anniversary or marriage!
This proverb is often translated as, "True victory is victory over oneself."
However, literally, Kanji by Kanji, it means, "True victory [is] my/self victory."
My Japanese friends rate this very highly for a wall scroll.
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This Buddhist title means, "The true way," "The true religion," "The way of the truth," or "The absolute Buddha-truth."
This means, "be true to yourself" in Chinese.
Note: This is more a western-style phrase or idea, so it's not that common to see this in Chinese.
This is, "be true to yourself" in Japanese.
You could also translate this as "be true to oneself."
Note: Because this selection contains some special Japanese Hiragana characters, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
According to Soothill 眞空妙有 means:
The true void is the mysteriously existing; truly void, or immaterial, yet transcendentally existing.
This is the state of being absolutely nonexistent after removing all errant worldly influences. This is achieved when all forms of existence is seen for their real nature.
This is a complex Buddhist concept. Feel free to add to the conversation about this concept here: Asian Forum: Shinku Myou
This is another character that expresses the idea of honesty. It can also mean truth, faith, believe in, fidelity, sincerity, trust and/or confidence.
Some have included this in the list for the Bushido, although "makoto" is probably more common/popular.
Note: In some context, this character can mean letter; news or envoy. However, alone, it will generally be read with the honesty-meaning.
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Known in the west as "Shin Buddhism," this is a school of Japanese "Pure Land Buddhism." This form is also known as "True Pure Land Buddhism" or "Jodoshinshu" (jōdoshinshū).
If you are looking for this title, you probably already know the rest of the story.
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The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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|Romaji(Romanized Japanese)
|Various forms of Romanized Chinese
|True / Real / Genuine
|真 or 眞
|shin / makoto
|zhēn / zhen1 / zhen
|Sincere / True Sincerity
|zhēn chéng
zhen1 cheng2
zhen cheng
|chen ch`eng
chen cheng
|True to Yourself
|zuò zhēn shí de zì jǐ
zhen1 shi2 de zi4 ji3
zhen shi de zi ji
|chen shih te tzu chi
|To thine own self be true
|onore ni chuujitsu nare
onore ni chujitsu nare
|...And this above all to thine own self be true.
|yóu qí yào jǐn de nǐ bì xū duì nǐ zì jǐ zhōng shí
you2 qi2 yao4 jin3 de ni3 bi4 xu1 dui4 ni3 zi4 ji3 zhong1 shi2
you qi yao jin de ni bi xu dui ni zi ji zhong shi
|yu ch`i yao chin te ni pi hsü tui ni tzu chi chung shih
yu chi yao chin te ni pi hsü tui ni tzu chi chung shih
|Dream Come True / Enjoy Success
|dé zhì / de2 zhi4 / de zhi / dezhi
|te chih / techih
|True Heart
|mago koro / magokoro
|zhēn xīn / zhen1 xin1 / zhen xin / zhenxin
|chen hsin / chenhsin
|My True Love
|wǒ xīn zhēn ài
wo3 xin1 zhen1 ai4
wo xin zhen ai
|wo hsin chen ai
|My True Love
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|True Friend
|gòu péng you
gou4 peng2 you5
gou peng you
|kou p`eng yu
kou peng yu
|True Friend
|True Love
|zhēn ài / zhen1 ai4 / zhen ai / zhenai
|chen ai / chenai
|True Victory is Victory Over Oneself
|masa katsu a gatsu
|True Religion / Buddha Truth
|jitsu dou / jitsudou / jitsu do / jitsudo
|shí dào / shi2 dao4 / shi dao / shidao
|shih tao / shihtao
|Be True to Yourself
|zuò zhēn shí de zì jǐ
zuo4 zhen1 shi2 de zi4 ji3
zuo zhen shi de zi ji
|tso chen shih te tzu chi
|Be True to Yourself
|jibun jishin ni chuujitsu de aru
jibun jishin ni chujitsu de aru
|True Emptiness Yields Transcendent Existence
|shin kuu myou u
shin ku myo u
|zhēn kōng miào yǒu
zhen1 kong1 miao4 you3
zhen kong miao you
|chen k`ung miao yu
chen kung miao yu
|shí / shi2 / shi
|Honesty / Fidelity
|xìn / xin4 / xin
|Shin Buddhism
|jou do shin shuu
jo do shin shu
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Manawa Rakete-Shea (12) has certainly been offering glimpses
of an exciting future.
He won the South Island primary and intermediate tennis
championship in Blenheim last year, and reached the final of
the national 12 and under tournament in Hamilton a week ago.
Manawa moved to Queenstown from Dunedin at the start of 2012
to further his training at the Queenstown Tennis Academy.
Coach Lan Bale, a former ATP professional, said Manawa had a
very bright future.
''He's a very gifted player. The way he plays is a step above
other kids.''
Bale, who has coached other rising New Zealand players like
Riki and Ben McLachlan, said Manawa had as much potential as
those players, if not more, at his age.
''As it stands, he is one of the best prospects in the
country. He's as gifted as the best 12-year-olds in the
Manawa was barely troubled in the South Island tournament, as
his strong backhand took apart his opponents.
He breezed through the first stages of the tournament, won
his semifinal against the third-ranked player in New Zealand,
and won the final 6-1, 6-2.
Bale was full of praise for how his young charge performed.
''He didn't just win it, he won easily. He was definitely a
In the national tournament, the Queenstown boy was the fourth
seed but knocked out three other seeds on his path to the
final. His conqueror in the final was Macsen Sisam
(Auckland), who recently won the Australian junior title for
his age.
Manawa, who trains up to 25 hours a week, said he was
uncertain about his goals and what he wanted to achieve in
the future with tennis.
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A family preparing to build a home on their rural South
Auckland block of land are grieving over the death of a
5-year-old boy who fell from the back of a trailer at the
The little boy was riding on the back of the trailer at the
McGill Rd, Pokeno, property with a sibling on Tuesday when he
slipped off and was killed.
The trailer was being towed by a 4x4 vehicle and was carrying
a small digger.
The Herald has learned that the boy's family own the
property, but do not live there. It is understood they are
preparing to build a house there soon.
Yesterday, they said it was too soon to speak about their
The Counties Manukau police serious crash unit is
The boy is the second to be killed by a vehicle on a private
driveway in South Auckland this month. He is also the second
child to fall from a moving trailer in the area.
Counties Manukau road policing manager Inspector Neil Fisher
said the Pokeno death was a "tragic scene for everyone
He pleaded with parents to be vigilant about safety when
children were around any sort of vehicle.
"Driveways and carparks are just as dangerous as a road - a
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Mr Fisher added that a small child had no chance against a
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Yuan Recovery Seen Fading as Elliott Wave Hits: Market Reversal
China's yuan, already the worst performing Asian currency this year, can't seem to catch a break.
Technical indicators suggest a climb that took the offshore yuan to the strongest level against the dollar in two months on June 13 is temporary and the currency is weakening again, according to Bank of America Corp. The yuan has retreated in a series of weaker and weaker intraday lows, forming the fifth and final phase of an Elliott Wave chart pattern that confirms a long-term decline.
"There's an impulsive sequence, series of higher highs and lower lows with few overlaps, and it unfolds in a multiple of fives," MacNeil Curry, a Bank of America technical strategist in New York, said in a phone interview yesterday.
For more than a decade, the People's Bank of China has bought dollars to slow the appreciation of the yuan in an effort to protect exporters.
After appreciating more than 30 percent since 2005 to touch a two-decade high of 6.0406 per dollar on Jan. 14, the yuan has retreated 2.9 percent this year as the PBOC warned it may take measures to discourage one-way appreciation bets.
From the end of April, the offshore yuan, which is traded in Hong Kong, strengthened 1.1 percent to 6.2045 on June 13 as data showed the nation's trade surplus widened and manufacturing improved.
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Since then, the currency has weakened 0.4 percent to 6.2290 per dollar today as investors' demand for riskier assets waned amid conflict in Iraq. Depreciating beyond 6.2412 will confirm the bearish trend, and the yuan may slide another 1.6 percent to as weak as 6.3395, Curry said. That would be the weakest level since September 2012.
Elliott Wave theory, created by the American accountant and author Ralph Nelson Elliott in the 1930s, seeks to predict moves in financial markets by dividing past trends into five phases, or waves. The theory proposes that a five-wave gain or decline is followed by a three-wave corrective move in the opposite direction.
To Citigroup Inc., now is a good time for investors to bet on yuan appreciation by moving back into carry trades that buy offshore yuan with borrowed U.S. dollars and invest in higher-returning assets.
"Real money inflows continued to be strong into the yuan," Citigroup strategists led by Richard Cochinos wrote in a report on June 23. "We recommend investors to be long CNH, where positioning is light." Long positions are bets a currency will increase in value.
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The dollar-yuan carry trade gained more than 18 percent between 2005 and the end of 2013 before losing 2.4 percent in the first five months of this year.
While the strategy has returned 0.4 percent this month, that may not signal a resumption of steady gains. The Chinese government's 10-year bond yields have declined about 50 basis points, or 0.50 percentage point, this year to 4.1 percent.
The PBOC's daily fixing of the yuan reference rate also signals the currency may be weakening again. The rate has fallen 0.2 percent versus the dollar since reaching the highest in more than two months on June 10. The yuan's spot rate traded in Shanghai is allowed to fluctuate 2 percent above or below the official quote.
"We don't see nearly as much as we've seen in the past," Marc Chandler, the chief currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York, said of the yuan carry trade in a phone interview yesterday. "The yield pickup isn't all that great. Before, I'd be willing to take a lower yield if you had a currency appreciation. The depreciation earlier this year has broken the back of that game."


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In Time, My Brother, In Time
Xala is the Wolof word for a form of impotence caused by a magic spell. I suffered a something like Xala last year because of a certain pretty filmmaker/artist who cast a spell on everyone at Sundance. I will not get into the nature of this spell. But I will point the readers of this blog to the present issue of the leading American film journal, Film Comment, whose editor, Gavin Smith, picked Police Beat to be in his top 10 films of 2005. That pretty lady who stole my thunder failed to make any of the critical lists in the preeminent journal of American film criticism. I will not bring this up again, Annie. Time was on my side.
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DALLAS -- Maybe Jason Kidd just gets better with age. He certainly celebrated his 37th birthday with a bang.
Kidd simply carried the Dallas Mavericks to a 106-96 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night, when fellow All-Star Dirk Nowitzki watched almost all of the second half from the locker room after getting ejected.
The point guard and future Hall of Famer stuffed the box score with a season-high 26 points, 12 assists and six rebounds. However, it wouldn't be accurate to describe the all-around display as a vintage Kidd performance. The guy couldn't shoot the ball like this until the gray crept into his close-cropped hair.
While some of his athletic skills have diminished over the years, Kidd has worked to turn his biggest weakness into a strength. The proof is in his 3-point percentage, which is a career-best .418 this season.
Kidd's perimeter shooting -- a season-high six made 3-pointers on 11 attempts -- played a major role in slamming the door on the pesky Clippers. He knocked down three long-distance jumpers during a 22-3 run to open the fourth quarter, a span in which Dallas turned a one-point deficit into a lopsided lead.
"I was out there gunning," Kidd said, cracking a smile. "Since Dirk was gone, I thought I'd play Dirk today. I didn't want a bad birthday. I was going to take the blame if we lost this game."
During that run, Kidd absolutely dominated while playing point forward in a small-ball lineup that also featured guards Jason Terry and Rodrigue Beaubois, scoring 11 points on 4-of-4 shooting; he had three assists -- highlighted by a beautiful backdoor lob to Beaubois on the opening possession -- and three rebounds during the stretch of 5:40. He also had one steal and a few deflections, pumping energy into the Mavs' zone defense.
It was a classic case of Kidd taking over to change the course of a game.
"What more can you say about Jason Kidd?" coach Rick Carlisle said. "He again, I thought, willed the team with just his energy, his enthusiasm."
Added big man Brendan Haywood with a sense of awe: "He's just the ageless wonder."
Actually, Kidd's age is discussed much more often than his other statistics these days, even though Kidd joins Utah Jazz legend John Stockton as the only player to rank among the top five in NBA history in assists and steals. (More evidence that Kidd hasn't slowed down too much: Boston's Rajon Rondo and Kidd are the only two players to rank among the top five in those categories this season.)
When Mark Cuban pulled the trigger on the blockbuster trade to bring Kidd back to Dallas more than a decade after Kidd's original stint with the Mavs ended, folks bemoaned the fact that Devin Harris was a decade younger. The criticism intensified when the Mavs failed to win a playoff series that season, and became even louder when Harris developed into an All-Star the following year.
Funny, but you don't hear much about Harris around these parts now that his New Jersey Nets are trying to avoid NBA infamy and Kidd's Mavs are tied for second in the Western Conference.
"You can't teach what he brings to the game," Terry said. "It's just phenomenal. It comes from within. Guys like us feed off it, and we kind of just bow down and praise him. He's great. Not good, but great."
Kidd's age was an issue to a lot of people again last summer, when the Mavs re-signed him to a three-year deal.
That looks like a wise move at the moment. Kidd's calm, cool presence in the clutch has allowed the Mavs to be an elite team in tight games, with their 9-2 record in contests decided by five or fewer points representing the NBA's best winning percentage in such situations. His fingerprints were all over the Mavs' 13-game winning streak, when he played his best basketball since returning to Dallas while running a team that is fitting in two major new pieces on the fly.
Like the rest of the Mavs, Kidd didn't play so well while they lost three of the next four games. But his performance against the Clippers ought to hush any questions about whether his old legs have enough juice left in them to finish the season strong.
"He's tireless," Cuban said. "People talk about age, but it's not like he's a high flyer. He uses his brain. He's more of a chess master. Those guys can play until they're 80."
NBA rules prevent Cuban from offering Kidd a 40-year contract extension, which would have been a heck of a birthday present for the old guy.
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