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The staff of the Lower School includes 12 full-time and seven part-time teachers with backgrounds in education and child development.
Because the Lower School shares its campus with the CFS Upper School, Upper School students often serve as assistants in classes.
There is a balance of men and women on the staff, providing healthy adult models for the children in their care. Each teacher brings a variety of interests and experiences into the classroom. All CFS staff members are encouraged to attend workshops, conferences, and classes both in education and in other areas of personal interest.
The + denotation below links to a "Raising Healthy Children" article authored by the particular Lower School staff member. You can also access the entire collection of these Healthy and Healing magazine columns by CFS community members.
Abby Obando SnowSky and Spanish TeacherAbby began her involvement in the CFS community when she was in high school over 14 years ago through the Summer Camp program as an assistant counselor. She took over her own camps through her college years while earning Bachelor's Degrees in both Special Education and Spanish at Western Carolina University. While living in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, she developed her love of camping, hiking, and nature appreciation as well as working closely with a group of friends from Costa Rica to enhance her Spanish language skills and her awareness of Latin American culture.
After graduating from WCU, Abby moved to Florida and taught for four years in an elementary school, working with students with Learning Disabilities and Behavior Emotional Disorders and serving as the translator for the Spanish-speaking families in the school. She moved back to North Carolina in 2006 to be closer to her family after having son Sebastien, now a Friends School Middle Schooler. Abby taught in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools for two years, and then Durham Public Schools for two years, working with students with Autism. She is thrilled at the opportunity to serve in the Friends School community. Her hobbies include cooking, reading, dancing, singing, hiking, camping, traveling, painting, and welding.
Alex Gordon+P.E. Teacher, Athletic Director Alex is a graduate of Davidson College and holds a Master of Education from Duke University. He has been teaching for 39 years--and at CFS since 2000. All three of his children are graduates of CFS, and his wife (Ann) taught in Sky Class for five years. He regularly teaches PE to students in the Lower School. He also teaches PE electives and Exploratorium classes in the Middle School and helps coach the baseball team. Alex enjoys meeting the challenge of building an athletic program grounded in the School's philosophy. Finding opportunities to stretch beyond traditional athletic realms into the theater arts of dance, drama, and music is a special passion of his. Alex loves any time that he spends with his family, walking his dogs and working on the land around his house, traveling when he can, and jogging.
Caroline Hexdall+Early School/Lower School Learning SpecialistCaroline grew up in Lawrence, Kansas surrounded by books, a family of teachers, and big sky. After being a devoted Jayhawk at the University of Kansas, she moved to South Carolina and earned her Ph.D. in school psychology. During a fellowship at the Center for Development and Learning in Chapel Hill, she continued to specialize in serving individuals with developmental disabilities. She then worked as a clinical scientist at the now-named Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at UNC for nearly 10 years, while for much of that time also serving as the consultant for school psychology for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Wanting to return to the rewards of clinical work with all children and families, she went into independent practice in 2013 with an emphasis on the practice of mindfulness. Her professional interests include mindful parenting, mindfulness in children (particularly as it may benefit children with learning differences and disabilities), targeted assessment and intervention, and the development of reading. She is thrilled and honored to be working with inspirational teachers – children and adults - at CFS. At home with her husband and exuberant children, she is never far from a camera, paintbrush, spatula, piano, or book.
Charlie Layman+, +River Class Teacher, Staff ClerkCharlie Layman began his teaching career in the mountains of North Carolina in 1980. This is his 21st year at CFS. He taught full-time in Lower School for 10 years before moving into the dual role of teaching and serving as the CFS Staff Clerk. Presently, Charlie teaches language arts (beginning reading and writing) to first year Lower School students and creates the Design Technology classes for all first and second year students. Charlie has a Masters degree in Elementary Education. He is a life-long learner. Teaching children continues to inspire and motivate him.
Charlie's position as Staff Clerk provides support for all CFS staff. He's available as mediator, organizes care networks, and offers opportunities for confidential conversations. His on-going training in professional coaching allows him to offer one-on-one coaching sessions that help staff members design sustainable actions that serve their personal and professional goals. Charlie serves on the School Life Committee and is the staff liaison for the Parent-Staff Association Care Committee. CFS is his spiritual community, a place where he can follow his own spiritual leadings and nurture the Quaker character of the CFS Community. Check out our River Class blog at: River Class.
Cyrise DavisAfterHours CoordinatorCyrise holds a B.A. in Art Education from North Carolina Central University and a B.S. in Commercial Art and Photography from Alamance Community College. In addition to her freelance photography, she's worked as an art and photography teacher at The Hawbridge School in Saxapahaw, a site coordinator and lead teacher for a middle school afterhours program, a YMCA summer camp counselor, and a display ad designer for the News and Observer. Cyrise is excited to employ her child-centered style of teaching (and passion for art) to help CFS Lower and Middle Schoolers learn, explore, and create in our AfterHours program.
Deloise Dudley-MayfieldRiver Class TeacherDeloise has worked at CFS for 35 years! She graduated from North Carolina Central University with a Bachelors and Masters in Education. She enjoys singing and drama, occasionally offering those as choices for interest groups. Deloise is married to Silas, and together they founded RHEMA, a Baptist church in Durham. Check out our River Class blog at River Class.
Emi grew up traveling and living around the world. Having called Hawaii and Okinawa home for many years this island girl loves playing on the beach with her husband David and her two boys Duncan and Evan. Emi loves singing, baking, and crafting and will enthusiastically pursue these activities whenever the opportunity arises. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with her degree in Psychology and minor in Art History. Emi has years of experience in early childhood, elementary, and exceptional children education. Prior to joining the CFS Lower School Staff in 2015, she worked in the exceptional children's department at Central Park School For Children. Emi is thrilled to be a part of the peaceful and nurturing environment of Carolina Friends School.
Jenni ScogginForest Class TeacherJenni joined the Lower School after teaching elementary school in Wake County Public Schools from 2005 to 2010. She holds a masters in early childhood education from Belmont University (Nashville, Tennessee) and is a National Board Certified teacher. Prior to teaching, Jenni worked in the music industry in web marketing. She incorporates her love of technology, music, and the arts into her teaching. In her free time Jenni enjoys cooking, singing, reading, and drinking coffee. Please visit the Forest Class website.
Joan Walker+Sky Class TeacherJoan was born and raised in southern Kentucky. She came to this area to attend Duke and met her husband Henry there. After completing her degree in psychology, she decided to take her deep interest in child development and apply it to a teaching career. She took coursework in Early Childhood Education (K-3) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Early in her career she taught in public school in Stokes County, in a church run school in Durham, and at what was then Duke Preschool and Primary Program. Then she found the school she was seeking in Carolina Friends School. Over the years she has taught in two of the Early Schools and the Lower School. After some time in administration, she returned full-time to her main love–classroom teaching. Henry and she have two sons, both of whom attended CFS. She now dotes on their two granddaughters and one grandson. She splits vacation time between family and wilderness, both of which nurture her spirit.
Joanna Sisk-PurvisMusic TeacherJoanna has been teaching music in the Lower and Middle School since 2008. Her diverse musical career has included solo and ensemble performance as a professional flutist, musically directing for youth and community theaters, conducting the Piedmont Youth and Family Orchestra, composing for film, teaching private music lessons and the Music Together early childhood music program, playing in a rock band, and exploring her passion for the music (and flutes) of other cultures. She holds degrees from the University of Southern California (D.MA), Northwestern (M.M.), and UNC-CH (B.M.). Joanna incorporates mindfulness practices, world music, and technology in her teaching, and blogs about the CFS music program at motleymuse.blogspot.com. She has two children at CFS ('23 and '28), another on his way there ('31), a husband, far too many pets, and a habit of writing novels in her spare time.
Kathy SchenleyShared Resource TeacherKathy found her way to CFS in the fall of 1976, first as a substitute teacher. She joined the staff full time as Lower School librarian in February of 1977. Seventeen years as librarian were followed by thirteen years as a Mountain Class teacher. Kathy now serves as a shared resource teacher working with all the classes and providing math and language arts enrichment. She delights in her "grandstudents" (children of former students). When not at school, Kathy may be found with her nose in a book or playing Renaissance music with friends. She has two daughters, Alexis and Jessica ('00).
Laura Lamberson+Mountain Class TeacherLaura has been a teacher in Mountain Class since January of 2007. She was a part-time teacher at Durham Early School for four years prior to her move to the Lower School. She began her teaching career in 1997 in the Orange County School system where she developed her skills as a special education and literacy teacher. She has been a lifelong runner and enjoys reading and gardening. Laura is the mother of three children, all of whom attend CFS.
Linda DixonMountain Class TeacherLinda joined the CFS staff in 1996 after eight years of teaching in other Friends Schools. After serving as Lower School Head Teacher for her first 11 years here, she is delighted to be back in the classroom full time. She has degrees in Psychology and Elementary Education from Earlham College and The University of Iowa, respectively. Linda has spent her life in Friends Schools beginning with pre-school at Goshen Friends School, which her mother founded. She then spent 13 years as a "lifer" at Westtown School. Her greatest joy is her daughter Lucy, who was born in 2001 in Guatemala and joined her here in North Carolina the following spring.
Lisa Wilson Carboni+Head Teacher, Forest Class TeacherLisa joined the Lower School as Head Teacher in 2007. Lisa taught elementary school for many years before earning her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in elementary mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After working as the Director of Teacher Education at Duke University, she was called back to being with children every day and is thrilled to be here at CFS! In her spare time, she voraciously reads books on her Kindle. Please visit the Forest Class website.
Michael BonsignoreForest Class TeacherMichael found Carolina Friends School after student teaching in a primary school in Bristol, England. He has worked in the Lower School for the past 37 years, taking breaks to attend graduate school, where he received an M.Ed. in Early Childhood, and a sabbatical to live and teach in the Grand Canyon. His two sons attended CFS from age three and both graduated from the school. His interests in the outdoors and in making things have helped inform the direction of his teaching. With colleague Jenni Scoggin, he's authored Maker Elementary: A Guide to Designing and Teaching in a Maker Classroom for Children in Upper Elementary Grades. Michael is a builder, a maker, and a tinkerer who enjoys playing music, gardening, rafting, and traveling. Please visit the Forest Class website.
Ruth GaskinRiver Class TeacherRuth grew up in England and received a B.Ed. in Modern Languages from the University of Wolverhampton. She lived in Naples, Italy for a year and taught at an International School. Ruth has taught at CFS since 2000. Her daughter, Leia, is a CFS graduate, and her son, Mac, is currently a Freshman at UNC Asheville. Ruth loves music and dance. She also has a passion for photography and technology and recently founded the Interest Group known as the Website Wizards. She loves the outdoors and you will often find her kayaking, hiking, or biking with her family. Check out the River Class blog at River Class.
Tom SheweySky Class TeacherTom is in his 30th year at CFS. Growing up in California, he attended UC Davis earning a BS in Zoology and spent an additional year there earning his elementary teaching credential. After teaching four years in public school in California, Tom moved to North Carolina. He went on to earn a Masters in Education specializing in learning disabilities and emotional handicaps from UNC. He is married to Annie Dwyer, who teaches dance at CFS. His two children are graduates of CFS. His daughter, Blake, graduated in 2002 and his son, Banks, graduated in 2005. Tom enjoys cooking, reading, gardening and spending as much time as he can at the beach.
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Hartnung's career night pushes Texas Women in win
AUSTIN, Texas - Anne Marie Hartung scored a career-high 17 points to headline three Texas players in double-digit scoring, as the Texas Women's Basketball team ended a four-game losing streak with a 69-53 victory against Oklahoma State on Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center.
Hartung, who earned her third-straight start, was 8-of-12 from the floor and pulled down a team-high eight rebounds in 34 minutes of play. Chassidy Fussell led all scorers with 20 points, and point guard Yvonne Anderson scored 18 while also contributing a game-high five assists.
The Longhorns led by seven at halftime, but hit six of their first seven shots of the second half to stake a 47-30 lead with 16:01 stillremaining. OSU pulled within nine at the 5:18 mark, but UT responded with an 8-2 run to maintain control of the game.
The Cowgirls (13-8, 5-17 Big 12) were limited to 30 percent shooting. Kendra Suttles led OSU with 16 points, while point guard Tiffany Bias added 12.
UT shot 7-of-18 from 3-point range, and Fussell was 4-of-9 from beyond the arc.
The Longhorns (14-10, 4-8) return to action on Wednesday, Feb. 15 against Texas Tech at the Frank Erwin Center. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
-Texas now holds a 25-11 advantage in its all-time series against Oklahoma State
Yvonne Anderson
-Reached double figures in scoring (18 points) for the 15th game this season and 41st game of her career
Chassidy Fussell
-Scored 20 points or more (20 points) for the 10th game this season and 21st game of her career
-Reached double figures in scoring for the 21st game this season and 49th time of her career
Anne Marie Hartung
-Set career highs in points (17 points) and field goals made (eight)
-Reached double figures in scoring for the fourth game this season and seventh game of her career
-Pulled down a game-high five offensive rebounds
HEAD COACH Gail Goestenkors
Opening Statement: I am really proud of the team. We felt we had our backs against the wall, and we talked about the fact that this game would show how tough we were. This team has been tough and resilient all year long. We had to fight. Oklahoma State is an excellent team, so I was proud of the way we came out. I thought we set the tone early. I thought this was one of our best games as far as game movement, working the ball into our post and then kicking the ball out. It was a great team win for us.
On how much pressure she feels looking `big picture': We have looked big picture just to put it on the table, then after that we broke it down game-by-game. There were a lot of games we felt like we could win, if we played the kind of basketball we are capable of playing. Tonight was the first night we were determined that we were going to show how good we could be. This is one down, but we have the next one coming up with Texas Tech. We know the next one will be a battle as well. We are going to fight for everything, and we feel like we're in control of our destiny.
SOPHOMORE FORWARD Anne Marie Hartung
On ending the losing streak: I think it feels good to win tonight and I think we want to continue this feeling. There is still pressure on us, but not as much now that we have won.
On her responsibility as a starter: I am still playing my same role as when I come off the bench. I am just in a starting spot now.
SENIOR GUARD Yvonne Anderson
On whether she felt Texas won the game in the first few minutes of the second half: I think we came out of this game with a different intensity. Shots were not following as much in the first half, but you could feel the intensity level was different. It was kind of a confidence. I felt we had enough that we could make a run even when we were down.
Opening Statement: I credit Texas for playing very well tonight. We knew that we had to do a good job on Chassidy (Fussell). We did at home (earlier this season) and she struggled a bit there. She showed up ready to play tonight. She played extremely well. Anne Marie (Hartung) obviously played very well. We've got a habit of somebody having a career high on us every night out. Credit her for that. She played extremely well. We've got a group that has got to get better on the offensive end as well as the defensive end. Texas had us playing a frantic pace in the first half. I thought we took a lot of hurried and rushed shots and it put them in the automatic transition, which they're very good at when they get going. For us, when you take a bad shot, it's like a turnover and it automatically puts people in an advantage going the other way. I thought was that pretty much the case all night long. They were physical on the boards. They did a good job taking some of our scorers out of the game. And credit them for playing well.
On the difference between playing Texas earlier this season and tonight: They made shots. I don't want to be trite about it, but they shot the ball pretty well. They shot almost 40% from the three(-point) line. Chassidy (Fussell) made shots. Ann Marie (Hartung) stepped up. I don't remember how much she made against us up there (at home), but I know she didn't get 17. I thought we played at a better pace offensively at home and were a lot better offensively. We regressed tonight and I thought they made great strides tonight. You've got to give them great credit for taking us out of what we do offensively.
On the first five minutes of the second half: They hit some tough shots and they have some tough matchups. We're just inexperienced in some spots. Some seniors were making us look like freshmen at times, which we are. They just ran good offensive plays tonight. I thought they screened well and got their shooters open. They came off screens and hit shots. You look at the shooting percentage and that tells you what the big difference was in this game. We cut it (the UT lead) to 10 or 12 in the second half. Then we gave up three consecutive offensive boards and Texas got up to 16 or 18 points again. We don't have a large enough margin of error that we can miss layups and we missed about five or six layups that would have kept us in the ballgame.


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We absolutely loved Galley Bay and the beachfront rooms. Stayed for tens days and still did not want to leave. We thought the food was very good and fell in love with their signature Galley Bay special drink. Was perfect setting for honeymoon as we wanted quiet romantic setting.
The bugs on the beach were very annoying. We used an entire bottle of bug spray! It was just gnats but I would think fogging the areas would help.
Room is clean and quite. Good internet to get business completed. Cost was very reasonable.
20 min drive from the job I was working on but well worth it for the nice room.
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Beautiful and relaxing resort and amazing calm beach
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It was quiet,clean and well laid out.The staff were always friendly and helpful.
I was not always sure about booking for dinner because some nights- buffet and some not.
It's a very nice place, silent, not so far away from the Town, wonderfull sea view ( we had an apartament with the kitchen), huge terace and restaurant serving breakfast, lunch. The owner is very friendly, helpfull and knows a lot about the island.
This place is perfect for families, there is enough place for ca 30 persons. Around the Inn La Galleria are beautiful Five Islands beaches, we recomennd this place. Best- Marcin.
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Today the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously in favor of one-time Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith. She's been fighting a long-running battle to secure a portion of her late husband's billion dollar estate. As NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, this case isn't over 'til it's over.
NINA TOTENBERG: The case of Marshall versus Marshall is better than a Danielle Steel potboiler. It's part Knot's Landing, part Desperate Housewives and part Shakespearean filial betrayal. And this soap opera hasn't been cancelled yet, even by the Supreme Court. The plot centers on the estate of the late J. Howard Marshall, an estate valued by Forbes Magazine at 1.6 billion dollars. The protagonists are, shall we say, not without flaws. First there is, or was, J. Howard Marshall, a one-time Wills and Trust's Yale law professor who moved to the Southwest, made billions in oil and land investments and spent a lifetime at loggerheads with the IRS over contested tax loopholes and deductions, including his claim of a mistress as a consultant. At age 86, J. Howard met a 24-year-old stripper and future Playboy centerfold named Vickie Lynn, a.k.a. Anna Nicole Smith. After a three year courtship the pair married and Marshall allegedly created a trust to provide her money after his death. Enter Pierce Marshall, J. Howard's youngest son, 32 years older than his new stepmother and not a happy camper. Just 14 months after the marriage, 90-year-old J. Howard died and his son and young widow quickly came to legal blows. First Anna Nicole filed for bankruptcy and claimed that the son had cut off her money in violation of the trust she said J. Howard had left her. A federal bankruptcy judge in California concluded that J. Howard had in fact promised his wife half his estate, some 488 million dollars. But back in Texas, a state probate court reached the opposite conclusion and ruled Anna Nicole was entitled to nothing.
She then appealed to the federal courts to resolve the conflict, and a federal judge concluded that Pierce Marshall had conspired to destroy the trust his father left for Anna Nicole. The judge said son Pierce had conspired to strip J. Howard of his assets by backdating, altering and forging documents, and presenting documents to J. Howard to sign under false pretenses. In short, to loot the estate so there'd be nothing there to give the widow. Nonetheless, the federal judge lowered the amount the widow was owed to 44 million dollars plus punitive damages. But a federal appeals court later reversed that ruling, declaring that the Texas probate court had sole jurisdiction and that Anna Nicole's claim against Pierce could not be brought in bankruptcy court or any other federal court.
Anna Nicole then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and today she won, unanimously. Writing for the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that Anna Nicole's claim against Pierce Marshall is a widely recognized claim of wrongful interference with an inheritance or gift that is within the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The Justices, however, sent the case back to the lower courts for further proceedings on a number of questions, meaning that after 11 years the litigation is still nowhere near an end. Indeed, within minutes of the announcement of today's Supreme Court opinion, Pierce Marshall released a statement saying that the ruling was on a technical issue and proclaiming that he would fight on to disprove what he called Anna Nicole Smith's false claims and libelous accusations. Fight on as well to keep all the money for himself. So tune in next time, as they say, for the next episode of Marshall vs. Marshall. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
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China Called On as Emergency Lender as Italy Faces Crisis
China's status as the fastest-growing major economy and holder of the largest foreign-exchange reserves lured another bailout candidate as Italy struggles to avoid a collapse in investor confidence.
Italian officials held talks in the past few weeks with Chinese counterparts about potential investments in the country, an Italian government official said yesterday, adding that bonds weren't the focus. Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti met with Chinese officials in Rome earlier this month, his spokesman Filippo Pepe said by phone today.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu, asked about buying Italian assets, said Europe is one of her nation's main investment destinations, without specifically mentioning Italy.
Italy joins Spain, Greece, Portugal and investment bank Morgan Stanley among distressed borrowers that turned to China since the 2007 collapse in U.S. mortgage securities set off a crisis that widened to engulf euro-region sovereign debtors. Stocks rose on the potential Chinese investment in Italy even as previous commitments failed to have a lasting impact.
"It's a clear pattern of China's intention to help stabilize the euro area," said Nicholas Zhu, head of macro-commodity research for Asia at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group in Shanghai and a former World Bank economist. "The benefit to China is that it will help in the perception of host countries if China is viewed as a responsible stakeholder in the global community."
Bond Auction
Italy today sold 3.9 billion euros of a new benchmark five-year bond at an average yield of 5.6 percent, compared with 4.93 percent the last time securities of a similar maturity were sold on July 14. Demand was 1.28 times the amount on offer, compared with 1.93 times at the previous sale.
The yield on Italy's 10-year bond rose to 5.73 percent after the auction, pushing the spread with the equivalent German securities up 17 basis points to 400 basis points. The MSCI Asia Pacific index of stocks advanced 0.3 percent after the Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.7 percent overnight.
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Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said today that he would meet with finance officials from Russia, India, China and South Africa at the International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington next week to discuss ways the so-called BRIC nations can help Europe overcome its debt crisis.
His comments to reporters came after Sao Paulo-based Valor Economico newspaper said that BRIC governments are considering using part of their international reserves to increase purchases of German or U.K.-issued debt.
For China, any purchases of European debt may allow the world's largest exporter to be seen as helpful as it rebuffs calls to allow its exchange rate to appreciate at a faster pace. The world's second largest economy has amassed record currency reserves of $3.2 trillion by selling yuan to limit gains.
Chinese policy makers are thinking in a "global context" and about the need to prevent a "domino effect" in the European debt crisis, Zhang Yansheng, a researcher affiliated with the nation's top economic planning agency, said today.
China's central bank referred questions to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which didn't respond to a request for comment. China Investment Corp., the nation's sovereign-wealth fund, also didn't respond.
Italy's bond-yields rose to a euro-era record last month as the region's sovereign debt crisis spread from Greece, the first to receive a European Union-led bailout. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government rushed a 54 billion-euro austerity package to convince the European Central Bank to buy its debt.
Even so, the size of Italy's debt -- at 1.9 trillion euros more than Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined -- leaves it vulnerable to any rise in borrowing costs as it refinances maturing securities. The country still needs to sell about 70 billion euros of debt this year to cover its deficit and finance redemptions.
"We have heard this story before with regard to the likes of Spanish and Portuguese bonds, and in the end it was ECB buying and EU bailouts that seemed to have taken place rather than anything with a Chinese influence," Gary Jenkins, a strategist at Evolution Securities in London, wrote in a research note.
Any Chinese purchases of euro-region debt to date haven't produced a lasting cut in yield premiums for Greece, Portugal or Spain.
The extra yield investors demand to buy Greek 10-year debt over German bunds is about 23 percentage points, up from 14 percentage points three months ago. The equivalent spread for Portugal over Germany is 9.5 percentage points, up from 7.7 points over that period. Spain's gap rose to 3.6 points from 2.5 points.
Too Big
"The issue with Europe is bigger than China alone can help with," said Ju Wang, a fixed-income strategist at Barclays Capital in Singapore, adding that Italy's debt load alone is a sum exceeding half the Chinese foreign-exchange reserves. "China probably will continue to help to shore up the euro, but its involvement in direct purchases of troubled Europe debt is unlikely to be too aggressive."
If Italy "falls" it may drag down Europe, the world and China's economy, said Zhang, a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Economic Research affiliated to the National Development and Reform Commission.
Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said today that European policy makers should decide themselves whether they need fiscal assistance from Japan. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will travel to Poland on Sept. 16 to participate in a meeting of European government finance officials trying to contain the region's debt crisis.
'Helping Hand'
Premier Wen Jiabao said in June that China can offer "a helping hand" to Europe by buying a limited volume of sovereign bonds. The Asian nation pledged that month to buy Hungarian government bonds and agreed to extend a 1 billion euro loan for the financing of development projects in the European country that needed an International Monetary Fund-led bailout in 2008.
Spain's prime minister secured a Chinese pledge to invest in his nation's faltering savings banks and in government debt on an April visit to Beijing.
In October, Wen said China will buy Greek bonds to support Greece's shipping industry, while Chinese state-run banks agreed to $267.8 million in loans to three Greek shippers. President Hu Jintao visited Portugal in November and said China is "available to support, through concrete measures, Portuguese efforts to face the impacts caused by the international financial crisis."
Investors may get a chance to hear Jiabao speak on Europe's crisis tomorrow, when he delivers remarks at the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.
"I don't expect him to say that China will underwrite the euro zone, hopes for which have episodically boosted prices of risk assets this year," said Tim Condon, head of Asia research at ING Groep NV in Singapore. "I expect he will utter comforting generalities about underlying economic strength and ability to resolve the debt problems."
Any Chinese purchases of euro-denominated debt may help it diversify its reserves away from dollars. The biggest foreign owner of U.S. government debt has doubled its holdings of Treasuries in the three years through June to about $1.17 trillion.
China is playing a "white knight" role in assisting Europe and buying itself goodwill that will enable it to purchase more sensitive European assets such as technology companies, according to Stamford, Connecticut-based Faros Trading in a June report. The European Union still has an arms embargo on China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
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A reformulation of the continuum concept is presented after considering the implications of the community/continuum controversy and current niche theory. Community is a spatial concept dependent on landscape pattern while the continuum is an environmental concept referring to an abstract space. When applying niche theory to plants, the mechanisms of competition are ill-defined and the assumption of bell-shaped response curves for species unrealistic.
Eight testable propositions on the pattern of response of vegetation to environmental gradients are presented 1. Environmental gradients are of two types. a) resource gradients or b) direct physiological gradients. 2. The fundamental niche response of species to resource gradients is a series of similar nested response curves. 3. The fundamental niche response of species to direct gradients is a series of separate, independent, overlapping response curves. 4. Species fundamental response curves are such that they have a relative performance advantage in some part of the environmental space. 5. The shape of the realized niche is variable even bimodal but predictable from the fundamental response given the other species present. Propositions 6–8 describe the response shapes of emergent community properties to environmental gradient; species richness is bimodal, dominance trimodal and standing crop unimodal. Detailed comparisons of these propositions are made with the alternative theories of Ellenberg, Gauch and Whittaker, Grime, and Tilman. These theories are incomplete lacking several generally accepted properties of plants and vegetation.
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- Environmental gradient
- Fundamental niche
- Niche theory
- Realized niche
- Species response curve
- Authors
- M. P. Austin (1)
- T. M. Smith (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Division of Wildlife & Ecology, CSIRO, Lyneham, P.O. Box 84, 2602, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
- 2. Ecosystems Dynamics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia


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Think Lynn Swann's celeb status and name recognition would give him a huge boost in his bid for governor of Pennsylvania? Maybe. But maybe not. You've heard all about the athletes-turned-politicians who win -- Jim Ryun, Jim Bunning, Jack Kemp, Bill Bradley. But being a former big-name sports celebrity is no guarantee of success in the political arena.
For example:
Largent, elected four times to the House, raised much more money than any of his opponents, but lost to Democrat Brad Henry by a few thousand votes. Two possible difference makers: 1) Henry was endorsed by former Sooners head coach Barry Switzer, who also actively campaigned for the candidate; and 2) a big get-out-the-vote drive on Indian reservations.
Largent is now the CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, a D.C. lobbying group.
Jeff Merron is a staff writer for ESPN.com. This story originally ran in July of 2004.


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I'd be interested to know where that number came from. Murder stats are usually from the FBI report, but if a justifiable shooting happens and doesn't make it past the grand jury, I wonder who keeps a record of it?
Maybe it is based off of cases that made it to trial and were found to be justifiable homicide? No basis for that, just thinkin out loud.
Besides, one doesn't need to kill a BG to use a firearm in self defense


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A large consignment of cocaine bound for New Zealand streets
has been intercepted by authorities in Auckland.
Four Brazilian men were arrested yesterday over the haul.
Three appeared at Christchurch District Court today and were
remanded in custody.
A fourth man is due to appear at Auckland District Court.
Charge sheets allege that Marcos Andre Barbosa, 35, Josue Da
Conceicao, 36, and another jointly charged co-offender, tried
to import the class A controlled drug into New Zealand on
Two days later, they were allegedly caught in possession of
the drug, along with 31-year-old Thiago Augusto De Oliveira.
De Oliveira, a factory hand of Riccarton, was today remanded
in custody until Thursday for a bail application to be made.
Barbosa, a labourer whose address was given as being in the
Linwood area of Christchurch, and Da Conceicao of the same
address, have been charged with importing and possession.
Judge Jane Farish remanded both in custody to March 20.
The haul comes after a $1 million stash of cocaine was found
by chance in a shipping container in Christchurch in
Police say it was likely intended for European consumption.
- Kurt Bayer of APNZ
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