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| Sender: Mollie Burns
Sender Location: Georgetown, KY
|Recipient: John J Haun
Recipient Location: Camp Chase, OH
At Home Oct 6th 1864
Dear Friend
Answering your letter of the 8th Sep which was received
in due time, was necessarily delaid, on acount of my being away
from home. I am not atall well this morning, after spending a restless night
do not think I would possibly feel like writing to any one excepting you
this morning feeling as indisposed as if I do I hope that these lines may
find you well that Prison walls may not deprive you of your health
as well as liberty. I have just gotten back from Lexington. A party of
youngsters was going down to Cin__ some my relations insisted on
me going of course I went. We attended Pike's Opera house which
I supose you have seen. We remained there two days and as
we came back I stoped in Paris all night and day, came on
to Lexington remained there severall days, and came on
to Lexington remained there several days, and am now at home
my loosing a great deal of sleep, and traversing those long streets to see
rights generaly, would not avail ourselves of the great acomodation,
(street cars) as we went to see. has almost laid me up. Mollie Crockett
Tom Long, marry next week at the Reform chruch Tuesday. I told
you in my last of Annie Barklies & Wells & Jim Samuell & Puggin
Patterson wedings. do not know whether they were torn off or not
you ask me, if Rube is not glad to hear of anything to
entertain you. I told them if I only had a permit to get in
prison I should go on to Columbus to see some of my friend there
would you not have been supprised. I have been as close as Cin__
any how. You say you would like to have somebodies photograph when
somebody has them taken you shall have one. I have just droped
a few lines to Mrs Well, and send you her reply. We have
no news. I should like to write you a longer letter, but must
obey rules. Write immediately, and I will respond as soon as received
Please axcept all, not divisions, or your words in your last just imagin I
make use of the same words, and dont forget Mollie C Burns
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Miss Mollie
Give him my kindest regards and say to him should I receive a letter from his
mother I will forward it to him immediately.
A.S Webb
Oct 6th 1864
Miss Mollie C Burns
Mr John Haun
Prison No 3 Barrocks No 7
Camp Chase Columbus
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China and Japan: A Study In Contrasts
China and Japan, Asia's two largest economies, offer a remarkable study in contrasts. Both countries play key roles in the global economy, but their current trajectories could not be more different. Despite ongoing turmoil in the global economy, China continues to enjoy strong overall growth relative to the rest of the world. Japan, meanwhile, remains mired in economic malaise that has persisted for over 20 years.
For an update on each country, OUTLOOK turned to two experts on Asia for their perspective.
Jeffrey Shafer is former vice chairman of global banking at Citigroup and a leading authority on China. Shafer expects China to successfully reduce its dependence on exports and transition to an economy with a significantly higher degree of internal consumption. William Tsutsui is dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University. A longtime student of the Japanese economy, he says Japan continues to face significant challenges as it grapples with low growth, high debt, an aging population and other intractable problems.
China's Economy In Transition
OUTLOOK: Give us an overview of what's happening in the Chinese economy today.
Jeffrey Shafer: China has been undertaking the most remarkable economic transformation in history, starting in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping started to dismantle the communist economic system. They have been growing at more than 10 percent a year for over three decades. Right now growth has slowed a bit, but it's still growing strongly. GDP in the first quarter of 2012 was up 8.1 percent over a year earlier. The government's official five-year plan has a growth rate of 7 percent, so it's built into their thinking that China is not going to grow the way it has been. But it is still growing strongly and should continue to do so.
Bank lending in China is picking up now. There had been a quick policy response to rising inflation last year with monetary policy tightening. With the inflation risk rescinding, the People's Bank of China has begun to ease and
this has helped to ensure that, while there's a slowdown, it's not an excessive one. Most people have forecast 8 percent GDP growth or a little more this year. If it drops below that and has a 7-handle on it, it would be no big thing. Their economy is still basically on course.
OUTLOOK: What are the primary risks they face to growth in the near term?
JS: There are some risks that they could have a bumpier landing, especially if the European downturn were to be even sharper than it now looks like it will be. Europe has gotten to be China's biggest export market – bigger even than the U.S. – so that would have an impact on them. I think it's less likely the U.S. has a real slowdown again this year, but if that happened that would have an adverse effect, too.
They face domestic risks as well. Housing had become extraordinarily strong in the Chinese economy – housing construction was 9.1 percent of GDP last year, which is 50 percent more than it was in the U.S. at the peak of the subprime bubble. If housing slows down very rapidly and they don't have the economic activity from building houses, it could become quite a drag on their economy.
OUTLOOK: What will the Chinese government do if their economic growth falls off too sharply?
JS: The government has already begun to respond with fiscal stimulus to signs of weakening growth. They both can and will do more if growth falters more. They've got a budget deficit of only 1.5 percent of GDP compared to 9.8 percent for the United States last year, so they've got lots of room to spend more and fill in for falling demand. It gives them the kind of flexibility that we just don't have. So if the downturn looks bigger than expected, there will be a response. It may be a little bit bumpier of a landing, but it won't be a hard landing.
OUTLOOK: What about inflation in China? Isn't that a major problem?
JS: It's last year's problem. The 11 percent-plus growth rates China had in 2010 and 2011 were overheating the economy, and inflation was becoming severe. It peaked in the summer of 2011, when it got up to between 6 and
6.5 percent. With the economy slowing more recently, inflation has been coming down – it was 3.0 percent over a year earlier for May, which for the Chinese is quite tolerable. The People's Bank is not under the kind of pressure that the Fed and the European Central Bank are to keep inflation at 2 percent or less. And that means their monetary policy has already begun to loosen and underpin their recovery.
OUTLOOK: Chinese growth has been built around cheap labor and exports. Is that changing?
JS: They got a wakeup call when the U.S. and almost every other part of the world went into recession in late 2008 and 2009, and their export markets dried up on them. They replaced the loss of export demand with domestic
demand through very massive infrastructure investment.
A key gauge of an economy's dependence on exports is the "current account surplus," which is the excess of exports over imports in the trade in services as well as in goods plus net receipts on foreign investment and transfer
payments. In China, the current account surplus has come down from over 10 percent of GDP in 2007, which was just a ridiculous number, to 2.8 percent last year. So they had somewhere between a quarter and a third asbig of an imbalance as they had four years ago, which is quite a shift toward domestic demand.
But that shift has been based on investment rather than consumption. A lot of it is investment in housing, and part of it is massive infrastructure projects. They're investing over 50 percent of GDP. In a normal economy, investment would be 25 or 30 percent of GDP. And they are getting a relatively low return on this investment so it is hard to see how it is sustainable.
China really does need to move toward a more consumption-driven economy. And that is beginning to happen. Lots of people are buying cars, buying houses and buying furniture and appliances. They are going to restaurants and taking vacations, some abroad. Wages are rising very rapidly, which is not only shifting their export competitiveness but also equipping workers with the money to go out and buy things.
OUTLOOK: What advantages have they gotten from their heavy focus on exports?
JS: The big advantage is that they have been able to drive their economy with demand that comes from abroad and have their businesses compete in international markets, which means they have to meet international standards. If they were just producing for China behind closed trade walls they'd never learn to be world-class efficient. Some of the big Chinese companies, like Haier and Lenovo, really understand world-class competitiveness. What the Chinese need to do as they go through this rebalancing is not to stop exporting, but to import more. As consumption grows, consumers will want things from elsewhere, and tourism will also become more and more important to them. We are also seeing China seeking
to do what Japan and Korea have done before them – move up the value chain.
OUTLOOK: Culturally, are Chinese as oriented toward consumption as people in the West?
JS: I meet with a lot of Chinese groups that come to New York. People say that the Chinese aren't consumers, but I know they are because when they come here they book a bus to go to Woodbury Common, the big discount mall north of the city. And they will buy thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise, each of them, to take home. It's American and French brands, but it's mostly goods that were made in China. It would be a lot better for them if those goods just stayed there and people could buy them at home.
But they don't have the distribution systems set up, and there are lots of taxes and restrictions that limit availability. So I am told it can be three times as expensive for a Chinese person to buy some of these goods at home than to buy them in New York.
Obviously, this makes no sense. I think they will clean out some of the barriers. I know Hong Kong business people and others who are developing malls and big box stores in China. Some of the American stores are there too – Wal-Mart has a big presence.
I think it is a transition that will happen over several years. China will remain a big exporter, but they will buy more of their output at home and their imports will grow more rapidly. The driver of the economy will be domestic demand.
OUTLOOK: What barriers to change do they face?
JS: One handicap they have is one that we have, too, in dealing with our problems. Americans tend to think of China as a monolith – they don't have elections; it's ruled by the Communist Party as a top-down organization. But that's not really the case. The Communist Party has 30 million people within the party structure. Orders don't just flow from the top down. There is kind of a consensus that the top leaders have to reach to make changes, and there are lots of vested interests. For instance, there is an export lobby that is very powerful and it will continue to try to get a special treatment. There are other special interests as well, and those political factors may over time make it more difficult for the leadership to move as decisively as they have in the past.
OUTLOOK: How would you describe the economy today in terms of central planning vs. free market?
JS: It's not central planning in the old sense of the way they used to do it in Russia, where some guys sit down and they decide how much steel to produce and where the factories are going to be and send out the directions to meet the plan and profits be damned. China's is a market economy in that most prices are set in markets, wages are set in markets and firms are expected to be profitable.
That said, there are a lot of distortions that are generated by government policy – to keep the cost of retail distribution high, for instance, and to keep energy prices low. And many enterprises are still state-owned. They may have done IPOs and have some private shareholding, but they are still majority state-owned, and the CEOs of those organizations are put in place by the party leadership. On the other hand, these guys are motivated to make money for their company and they have to do so in an environment where they have to deal with labor markets and product markets. Their motivations
aren't that different from an American CEO.
OUTLOOK: What about their banking system?
JS: China is trying to build a system that looks more like ours, despite our recent problems, and they're part way there. One thing that is different is that securities markets are relatively small and play a minor role. They're trying to change that too, but the banks are much bigger in the economy than they are in the U.S. Credit is obtained mostly through loans, not by selling bonds.
The head of the Chinese central bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, is one of the smartest and best central bankers in the world. But he's not independent like Ben Bernanke. He doesn't really get to do what he wants, and you can see the political constraints on him from the party, from the Central Committee.
Interest rates are closely controlled; they're really not market rates. There's a tremendous demand for credit in China that doesn't always get satisfied at official lending rates of 5 or 6 percent. One of the distortions in the system has been that credit tends to go from the four major state-owned banks to the big state-owned enterprises, and there is a shortage of credit in the true private sector, which is the most dynamic part of the economy. Credit
demand there is partly satisfied through a gray market. The big companies and some others have got the money, and they lend it at much higher interest rates – 18 or 19 percent – to other businesses.
OUTLOOK: So you have non-bank enterprises in China serving as lenders?
JS: Yes. That's common and it's growing although I can't put numbers on it. This sort of shadow banking happens any place where you've got financial over-regulation. We're going to have more of it in the U.S. when we fully
absorb the impact of Dodd-Frank.
OUTLOOK: One hears a good deal about China investing abroad, especially in ways that secure their long-term access to oil and other resources. Is that something we should be concerned about?
JS: They are looking to move upstream or downstream from where they are in the production chain, either to get the raw materials or buy the distribution channels where their products can be sold. Right now, Europe doesn't look so interesting to them. But Latin America does, and so does Africa. They're also investing in Thailand, Vietnam and the other areas in southeast Asia. They are acquiring oil, bauxite, iron ore – all kinds of resources as well as manufacturing plants. They are small and the Chinese have been low key about it, but there have been a number of Chinese investments in U.S. manufacturing that preserve or create jobs here.
A lot of this activity is simply seeking a higher rate of return. China is sitting on more than $3 trillion of reserves, a large chunk of which is invested in U.S. Treasuries. That's a lousy investment for China. Interest rates are low, and the
dollar is going to depreciate against their currency, the renminbi, over time.
They have all this money that they have to place somewhere, and I think they're going to be pretty commercial about it. They're not going to bring their bauxite to China if it's more profitable to sell it to Alcoa.
OUTLOOK: So the focus on resources is not a grand scheme to bring the West to its knees by cornering the market on raw materials.
JS: No, that's fear mongering. The last thing in the world they want to do is bring the West to its knees. They still need our market. They're very concerned we continue to be a strong a trading partner. They are extremely concerned about the prospect of a European collapse.
OUTLOOK: Is China's appetite for U.S. sovereign debt declining?
JS: The guys who have to manage China's investments are very afraid that interest rates are going to go up in the U.S., which they will have to at some point. Of course, the immediate impact of that will be that the value of our bonds will go down. And so there is nervousness about that in China, and there's nervousness about the exchange rate. They don't give out the numbers, but I think there's a lot of evidence that they are investing more in secondary currencies – the Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, Swiss franc, and so forth.
But there's a limit to how much of that they can do. At the end of the day, there are only two places where they can put the scale of money that they have: U.S. dollars and Euros. And I think that's going to continue to be the situation the authorities face. But they would rather be in a position where they didn't have to accumulate so much of our debt. And they recognize it would be better for them to be buying more goods abroad rather than just pieces of paper: Doing so would improve people's standard of living in China, and help drive consumption to a more normal level in their economy.
OUTLOOK: A major complaint the U.S. has had is that China has kept its exchange rate with the dollar artificially high, which makes it very difficult to export our goods to the Chinese market. Talk about that issue.
JS: It has been a real issue, but it is receding. For most of the last decade, China was holding down its exchange rate. And you could see the effects in terms of very strong exports and not such strong imports. The U.S. was on
the other side of that, and we couldn't export much to them competitively; we were only importing their cheap goods.
That dynamic did a couple of things. It helped to keep inflation down in the U.S. The Chinese were buying our Treasury bills, and we were not having to buy those Treasury bills ourselves, so we had the room in our portfolio to buy
all the subprime mortgages instead. We fueled the U.S. economy by putting people to work in areas where we didn't have to compete with the Chinese, namely housing. And so we way overdid that and it all came apart. Now
we are getting back on track. There has been some renminbi appreciation, and rapid wage increases in China have contributed to a competitiveness rebalancing. As I noted earlier, the Chinese current account surplus has
shrunk a lot.
OUTLOOK: Do you believe China will continue to grow as an export market for U.S. goods?
JS: I have a Chinese friend in Beijing who said to me recently, "You know, we're going to buy all the pork the U.S. can produce." The Chinese public is losing confidence in its own pork suppliers, and one of the responses is they're going to buy pork from Iowa. Not just the soybeans to feed to their own pigs, but the pork itself. I think that same thing could happen too with chicken, milk and a lot of other products as well. There's real potential. If they're going to become a more consumption-based economy, it's going to mean moving up the food scale. Instead of eating rice, they're going to
eat meat. Part of that process is going to be to look to the U.S. for more agricultural goods.
OUTLOOK: What are some of the pressing problems in China?
JS: Many local governments have borrowed heavily for infrastructure investments, and they don't have the cash flows in those areas to make the debts good. There's a pretty sizeable cleanup that's going to have to take place there. What will probably happen is, in one form or another, the central government will just take over those debts. But even if it does, the total amount of debt of the government would not be that much more than their holdings of foreign exchange reserves. So they've got the latitude to deal with those problems.
Another very serious problem for them is pollution of both air and water. And as China becomes more of a middle-class society, public unhappiness with pollution is rising. There are environmental laws in place from the central
government, but the local governments still aren't implementing them. If you're a provincial governor, you're going to get rated by the people in Beijing on how fast your provincial economy grows. And so you cut corners, and you don't want to do anything to the big polluters because it may slow growth down. They're working very hard to try to change how people are evaluated, but it's a long slow process.
OUTLOOK: What about corruption?
JS: Corruption is a big problem – it's a problem in any emerging country.
And the leaders are concerned about it. Recent news about Bo Xilai and his family have highlighted how senior officials may be engaged in corruption. But it's not such a problem that it takes all the efficiency out of the economy,
the way it did in Indonesia in the 1990s. I think there's a view among global businessmen that a 10-percent "corruption tax" you can tolerate, and 20 percent you can't. China's level of corruption is tolerable, and in the range that you would expect for its level of development. Public tolerance seems to be declining. This will be good if it forces a higher standard of behavior.
But Chinese leadership fears of political instability may lead them to engage in cover-ups and allow corruption to grow. This would eventually put both economic growth and political stability at risk.
OUTLOOK: As China develops a wealthier and more independent middle class and business class, will the government come under pressure to grant citizens more liberty and freedom?
JS: There is already a lot of individual freedom, in terms of how you live your life. If you're entrepreneurial and want to go out in the private sector, you can. Yes, there isn't the political freedom to denounce the government. But the government doesn't weigh on people's personal lives in the way it did in Russia in the old Soviet days. And I think most Chinese are quite content with that.
But there is an underlying problem that's going to get sharper, which is that there is a two-class system. The Communist Party represents 30 million people out of a total population of 1.2 billion. If you're a member of the Party and you get in trouble you're tried in different courts. You have a lot of special privileges, you've got good jobs, and you make good money. There have been major public demonstrations when sons of party officials have been found to have been involved in hit-and-run accidents with their cars and have not been held responsible. And corruption scandals such as the one involving Bo Xilai can also raise public dissatisfaction with the political regime. Whether the leadership will solve this two-class problem by making everybody members of the Communist Party or finally adopting some kind of pluralistic
political system, I don't know. The most senior people in the government are very aware that the status quo isn't sustainable forever. But they don't know how they're going to get out of it yet either.
OUTLOOK: Fundamentally, though, you seem optimistic about the ability of the Chinese to manage these difficult problems and transitions.
JS: They're well-equipped to deal with problems as they arise. They have been masters of just-in-time policy making. They've got lots of problems that they can't solve immediately, but when one's about to overwhelm them they do respond effectively and deal with it. There is always a risk that they could lose this capacity. With a change in leadership over the coming year, we will see a test. But their record of economic management for more than 30 years of rapid change has been extremely good.
Stagnation In Japan
OUTLOOK: Japan built what seemed to be one of the strongest economies in the world in the decades after World War II. Since 1989, the country has been in a period of almost continuous economic malaise. Remind us of what happened to Japan and why its economy reversed course so sharply.
William Tsutsui: The origins of the bursting of the bubble really go back to the Plaza Accord of 1985, where a deal was hammered out in which the Japanese agreed to appreciate the yen vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar. The dollar had been strong, and there was a growing sense of crisis about the trade balance with Japan, so the Japanese agreed to pump up the yen.
The impact of that domestically in Japan was recessionary. The Bank of Japan responded by easing monetary policy, and easing it quite aggressively. This led to a speculative boom both in equities and in the real estate market. So we saw a bubble develop with a rapid run-up in asset prices in the late 1980s until everything blew apart in late 1989.
OUTLOOK: What specifically caused the bubble to burst?
WT: By 1989 it was clear to everyone that the Japanese economy was severely overheated. And probably the last people to notice this – and the people who should have been watching the closest – were the folks at the
Bank of Japan.
Japan's central bankers made two mistakes. One was waiting too long; they probably should have put on the brakes a year if not two years earlier. And then when they did put on the brakes, they put them on too hard. They jacked up interest rates too much. And that deflated the bubble far too quickly and led to a crisis that could and should have been averted. Real estate prices plummeted, the stock market plummeted. In the early 1990s something like $2.5 trillion in assets just disappeared in a matter of two and a half years.
People called the early 1990s the era of Japan's "disappearing wealth" because Japan, which had seemed like an economic juggernaut headed for global economic domination, all of the sudden was bleeding red ink. The peak of the Nikkei index was the last trading day in 1989. If you look at the Nikkei you'll see it's only a small fraction of that even today.
OUTLOOK: What was the policy response following the crash?
WT: It was very much a textbook response for dealing with a situation like this, where all of a sudden the carpet is yanked out from underneath an economy. In terms of fiscal policy the Japanese government was pumping money strongly into the economy through much of the 1990s. This was especially true in public works spending. For the better part of the decade, the central government was essentially writing blank checks to build infrastructure. By the turn of the millennium Japan's highways were gorgeous, every city seemed to have a new train station, there were new airports all over the country, new dams out in the countryside. Of course all this led to huge increases in public debt.
OUTLOOK: Why wasn't the stimulus more effective?
WT: It kept the economy from keeling over, but the fact of the matter is the Japanese government did not address fundamental problems, including the bad loans on the books of Japan's major banks. They were carrying a huge load of bad debt, and rather than clearing off that debt and recapitalizing the banks, the government chose a less drastic (and ultimately less effective) policy of economic life support. It kept money flowing into the system through easy monetary policy, it kept fiscal spending going to keep employment up and the people happy, and there was no real adjustment. Those bad loans were not written off. So-called "zombie corporations" that no longer were doing business were kept at least nominally functioning by money flowing through the system. And the reckoning that needed to take place from the
bubble was delayed by a good 15 years. It was only really in the early part of the 21st century – in 2004 and 2005 – that the Japanese government really became serious about pumping cash into the banking system and getting
those bad loans scrubbed from the books.
OUTLOOK: Why was Japan so hesitant to deal with bad debt?
WT: Japan has never had the kind of faith in market mechanisms that we have in the United States. The "creative destruction" that we associate with capitalism is not part of Japanese business culture. The idea of institutions going out of business, especially large institutions that would be the equivalent of Lehman Brothers, simply was not conceivable to people in the Japanese business world. And frankly through most of the 1990s, people in Japan at all levels just couldn't believe that things weren't eventually going to right themselves. It was taken almost as an article of faith that real
estate in Japan was so valuable that even though the bottom had fallen out from underneath the market, it was going to come back and be as strong as it once was. And almost everyone bought into the mythology of the great
Japanese corporations – that Toyota would always be Toyota and Sony would always be Sony. And it really took them a long time to get around to the idea that, "Boy, you know this thing isn't going to come back like we thought, and
we're going to have to drink that harsh medicine."
OUTLOOK: Talk about the Japanese economy and where it stands today.
WT: The Japanese economy has been more or less treading water for over 20 years now. There have been some more promising moments and some more desperate moments during that time.
Just before the financial crisis in 2008, Japan was on a roll and I think a lot of people thought Japan was beginning really to pull out of this long dry period.
And much of the optimism at that time was due to the increasing integration of the Japanese economy and the Chinese economy. As China was doing better, Japan was doing much better as well. But the financial crisis shook Japan badly, and Japan slipped into deflation in late 2008 into 2009. So that was hit number one.
Hit number two was the earthquake last year. The earthquake arguably solved the deflation problem for the time being, just because the amount of money that's been going into relief efforts has tended to buoy the economy. Nonetheless, from quarter to quarter, Japan is right around zero growth. I don't see too much change in that in the near term future.
OUTLOOK: What about the Japanese trade balance?
WT: For a very long time Japan had a strongly positive balance of trade. But after the earthquake, with the need to import more gas and oil because so many nuclear plants are offline, Japan's trade balance has sunk badly into the red. If those nuclear plants don't get started again, this is a very worrisome development for the long term.
OUTLOOK: What about employment?
WT: Unemployment by our standards doesn't look very bad. Officially it's something like 4.5 percent in Japan right now. But that hides a lot of underemployment and discouraged workers. The real unemployment rate in Japan is probably closer to 9 percent or 10 percent.
By historic standards that's just huge. For most of the post-World War II period, Japan essentially was a full-employment economy. So the situation since 1989, where there has been substantial and sustained unemployment in Japan, has been a shocking change to many Japanese, especially to youth.
OUTLOOK: Has Japan been able to hold onto its manufacturing base?
WT: Wages have been stagnant, or have perhaps even fallen slightly, in Japan over the past 20 years. So as China's labor costs have gotten higher, Japan's become a more competitive place for manufacturing again. In the 1980s one saw a lot of what the Japanese called "hollowing out" – the movement of manufacturing industries into China and Southeast Asia. But that process has largely stopped now because in a number of sectors, especially in more capital intensive industries, Japan can compete pretty well against its Asian neighbors.
The question is how long this is going to continue. Many of the prominent Japanese brands that powered the nation's spectacular post-war growth, especially in electronics – Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba – are in severe crisis right now. These big companies have been completely outstripped by Samsung and increasingly by Chinese competitors as well. There's been a lack of innovation, a lack of risk taking, and a curious kind of complacency in those firms. And there's the real worry now that they've simply fallen too far back to compete successfully.
OUTLOOK: What is the reason for that complacency?
WT: People in Japan talk about something called the "Galapagos Syndrome," as in the Galapagos Islands of the South Pacific. It refers to an inward-looking tendency, in Japanese society at large but particularly among Japanese
corporations. Japan, it is said, is evolving independently of the rest of the world (like the animals of the Galapagos Islands) and the Japanese seem satisfied with their growing isolation.
A great example of this Galapagos Syndrome is cell phones. The Japanese were true innovators in developing cell phone technology, and the first Internet-enabled cell phones were available in Japan. They were out in front of the curve on so many of the innovations we now take for granted internationally. But they didn't manage to sell these anywhere beyond Japan.
The Japanese have been able to be complacent, at least in part, because the domestic market has been of significant size. They use different engineering standards, different networks, and so forth. And so the Japanese, despite their head start in cell phone technology, have allowed manufacturers elsewhere – in Asia, Europe and North America – to dominate the world market. Firms in a place like South Korea have a relatively much smaller home market, so they've had to think in global terms.
People are familiar with the image of Japanese tourists in Waikiki or Manhattan. But the reality is the Japanese are traveling much, much less. Study abroad from Japan to the outside world, and especially the United States, has declined substantially. The number of students in Japan studying English has also shrunk considerably. It really does seem that with this ongoing economic downturn the Japanese are very much turning inwards.
OUTLOOK: What policies is the government implementing today to lift Japan out of the doldrums?
WT: Right now the Japanese government is out of tools. They've tried just about everything and they have, at least, kept the Japanese economy from slipping into a truly profound crisis. Japan is not Greece. But the economy has not responded positively to any of the standard tools for inducing recovery. At this point I think the biggest handicap the government is working under is the huge debt burden. Japan has the heaviest debt burden as a proportion of GDP of any nation in the world. It is stunning, much higher than in any of the places that have recently caught the world's attention – Iceland
or Greece or Spain or Italy. The Japanese have been able to hold it together, so far. But the party can't continue much longer.
OUTLOOK: How high is public debt as a percentage of GDP?
WT: It's over 200 percent – perhaps as high as 225 percent. And rising. And the reason it is rising is because of the earthquake relief. The government has said that they have to get this under control. Of course austerity is relatively easy as lip service but difficult in reality. It's unclear to me how they're going to accomplish that, but essentially the political
authorities have said that Tokyo has got to turn off its taps of money. There has been discussion of increasing the consumption tax pretty substantially in Japan. The current prime minister has proposed doubling it over a period of
several years.
Of course last time the Japanese did this was in the mid-1990s: They increased the consumption tax to get the debt burden under control and promptly sent the economy into a tailspin. That almost triggered a deflationary spiral. So I have to say I'm pretty concerned about too much belt tightening right now.
But if fiscal policy no longer becomes an option for stimulating the economy, that leaves it up to monetary policy, and frankly at this point there's not much more the Bank of Japan can do. They've opened the taps to the extent they can. It's been zero discount rates for as long as anyone can remember, and that's just essentially just staved off crisis.
OUTLOOK: What about the Japanese consumer?
WT: Japanese consumers aren't spending. Japanese citizens have always been prodigious savers. One of the important outcomes of the bursting of the bubble was that the Japanese became even more miserly in their spending. And they stuff increasingly large parts of their paychecks under their mattresses or into their savings accounts. As easy as money is in Japan, consumers aren't interested in using it, and companies don't seem eager to
invest it.
OUTLOOK: How did they get to public debt at 225 percent of GDP?
WT: Japan is not a big place, but it's terrifying to see how much of those islands are coated in concrete. The construction industry has been Japan's biggest boondoggle for a very, very long time. There's been an incredible amount of money spent on infrastructure, and a lot of government funding has also gone to protect and assist rural areas. Since World War II, wealth has been generated in the cities, and agriculture has been in quite steep decline.
It really doesn't pay to be a farmer anymore, but to keep rural income levels at least close to the national average the government has had to invest heavily in providing services to the countryside, and in creating jobs there through
construction projects.
It's discouraging to think about where alternate investments could have been made. The Japanese educational system has been highly vaunted internationally, and honestly Japanese high-schoolers do have great skills in math and science and reading and so forth. But Japan has not made the investments in its university system and, in particular, in research activities in higher education that we see in the United States and in Europe. Japanese universities tend not to be competing at the very highest level, and all the spending over the past 20 years that's gone into concrete could have been much better spent on building the educational foundations of innovation in Japan.
OUTLOOK: Japan's population is aging rapidly. Talk about the country's demographic trends.
WT: This is the ticking time bomb for Japan. I was just reading a quotation from the governor of the Bank of Japan and he said, "You know, the central bank can't solve structural problems." And the main structural problem he was talking about was demographic change in Japan. The Japanese population is now declining and is going to keep declining for the foreseeable future. It's already a very old population, but the number of people in the workforce supporting the number of retirees is truly sobering going forward.
One estimate that I've seen from the United Nations suggests that Japan would have to add 700,000 new immigrants a year for the next 50 years just to compensate for the natural decline of its population.
OUTLOOK: How much immigration is there today?
WT: Right now there are about 15,000 new naturalized Japanese citizens every year. To go up to 700,000 is just inconceivable for Japan. That is just not a part of the culture or the political discourse.
The government has been caught flat footed on the nation's demographic problems and policy has been inconsistent so far. Japanese women have been caught in the middle. On the one hand the government has been saying to women, "Stay home and have children." On the other hand, because the labor force has been getting smaller, Tokyo has been advising women, "Get educated, stay in the labor force and work." And considering that social support mechanisms like child care really aren't in place in Japan, it's made it impossible for young women to negotiate a family and career. Consequently many of them are opting out. The average age at which women get married in Japan has been increasing extremely rapidly. More and more women are simply concluding, "I don't want to get married. I'm just going to stay at
OUTLOOK: How have the Japanese responded to all this, psychically?
WT: It has been very difficult to watch Japan over the past 20 years, not least because I have such huge respect for the Japanese people and their culture. The world gained some sense of the fortitude of the Japanese spirit in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami last year: the Japanese are, without doubt, some of the most resilient, patient, cohesive people in the world. It's a remarkable society, built for stability, built for coming together in tough times.
Japan's tenacious economic downturn has not led to anger, unrest and activism, but instead to a kind of passivity among the Japanese people and a pattern of widespread social withdrawal. This is particularly obvious among the younger generation, who in most countries are the people on the front lines, who are out there pushing for change.
In the decades after World War II, the "Japanese dream" was to go out, get a good education, land a job in a big company or the government, work as a "salaryman," have a family with two kids, and perhaps ultimately aspire to
a home of one's own. In many ways it was similar to the American dream.
After 1989, however, that dream just evaporated. Education was no longer a guarantee of stable employment. Jobs were hard to find, even for the most highly qualified. Homeownership was increasingly out of reach for most young people. But rather than protesting, rather than going to the streets, rather than demanding more from the politicians and business interests, the Japanese people have tended to look inwards. One sees more and more Japanese youth choosing to detach themselves from the economy, from politics and from social life.
The most famous manifestation of this is something called hikikomori. These are people who essentially live as hermits. They mainly live with their parents, but they go into their rooms and they simply don't come out, often for years
at a time. There may be a million of such hikikomori in Japan today who don't have jobs, who don't interact with the world except perhaps through the Internet, who are fed and cared for by their parents and whose future is entirely unclear. And unfortunately they are a good metaphor for society as a whole. At time when the Japanese people might well be on the streets demanding better from their leadership, most have chosen instead just to suck it up, do the best they can, not complain loudly, and try to ride the hard times out.
Japan's tenacious economic downturn has not led to anger, unrest and activism, but instead to a kind of passivity
among the Japanese people and a pattern of widespread social withdrawal.
OUTLOOK: The same characteristics that are their strength may also be a weakness.
WT: That's it exactly. And, as much as anything, if I look back over the past 20 years, I am struck by just how badly the Japanese people have been let down by their political leadership. There have been 17 prime ministers since
1989, which means the average term in office has been just over a year.
There have been very few inspiring politicians who can speak to the Japanese people and provide anything like a vision for what Japan could do to get its arms around its economic and social problems.
OUTLOOK: What do you see as possible scenarios for Japan looking ahead over the next five to 10 years?
WT: The best case scenario is that we begin to see some change in Japan. And looking out five to 10 years I don't think one can see more than the beginning of reform over that time, because the society and the political system are generally so resistant to change.
I would hope we start to see some real loosening on immigration in Japan. And to see more political leadership. That we begin to see some people with vision really stepping up and inspiring the people. We need to see youth brought back into the equation, and the active empowerment of youth to take a place on the public stage. Right now Japan is very much run by and for the gray hairs; the elderly and their interests have largely set the national agenda.
But we really need to see the young step forward.
And, as much as anything, what I would like to see is a new entrepreneurial energy in Japan. Traditionally Japan has been dominated by large corporations and the government, and it has been a tough place for entrepreneurs to make a start. "Risk" is a dirty word in Japan. Going it alone is not something most Japanese feel comfortable with. But we see some glimmers of entrepreneurship in Japanese industries like video games and animation, where there is real creativity and daring. If society would ease up a little bit, and if the government would back off a little bit, I really think we
could see more dynamism from the grass roots of the Japanese economy.
OUTLOOK: What's the worst case scenario?
WT: The worst case is pretty nasty, I'm afraid. The ultimate worst case is a sovereign debt crisis in Japan, which would make Greece look like nothing. I don't think it's going to get that bad, however. I suspect the realistic worst
case scenario is that Japan continues to tread water like it has for two decades. That Japan five years from now looks very little different from Japan today. That the population continues to decline. That GDP growth keeps fluctuating around zero. And that all the fundamental problems in Japanese society, Japanese politics and the Japanese economy just don't get dealt with. What would be particularly devastating in such a scenario would be that those companies that have remained in Japan and been fairly successful in Japan finally decide that the Japanese labor market and political situation
and educational system are really not good bets for the long term. And those companies begin to pull out. In that case, Japan's slow descent could accelerate quickly.
OUTLOOK: What lessons does the Japanese experience hold for the United States and the rest of the developed world?
WT: Some of the same demographic and economic problems that Japan is facing – an aging population, increasing welfare demands on government and so forth – are global realities right now. Japan's demographic situation is not that different from South Korea's or Italy's or Germany's. Japan today looks a lot like what other developed economies are going to in the not-too distant future.
What's interesting is that Japan now has a chance to be the pioneer. The Japanese have always been marvelous followers. They've been great at emulating Europe and the United States – taking the best from abroad and
then really perfecting it. But the Japanese really haven't been in this situation before, where it's up to them to chart a course for the rest of the world. I hope Japan will rise to the challenge and set the example for what a 21st-century
capitalist liberal democracy can be.
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Tim Ayro
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What kind of courses to take?
I am looking at schools to teach me lots about 3d modeling, animation, rendering etc. I feel like I want to eventually work on visual effects for movies. I don't know what courses I would look for though. I am a huge beginner. 2 weeks modeling so far, but I feel I am really blowing through stuff quickly. Grabbing concepts easily and being able to recreate lots of things.
My hand drawn artwork isn't that good, but I can draw a point across. I am studying anatomy on my free time to improve my art talents.
I am looking for a school that can introduce me to the basics to some advanced work. Preferably a college in southern California.
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Here is one of my recent models I am working on. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr...p?f=43&t=822902
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UCLA, USC, CalArts.
Take a look at the programs at those schools. I think Gnomon is also in the area.
|11 November 2009
Tim Ayro
Traveling across the, USA
I looked at UCLA, couldn't find a course. Looked at USC, couldn't find a course. I spent at least an hour looking on each website for a course, but couldn't find one. USC's website is sort of confusing. As well as CalArts. I don't see anything like Visual Effect Design, or 3D Animation/Modeling. I don't know exactly the title of the programs.
As for Gnomon, I am definitely doing workshops there, but not school. I'm looking for a college with dorms (since Cali was way expensive).
[Edit] Found some stuff in UCLA, but I don't have a portfolio. I think I'll take some art classes over the summer, make me a portfolio of traditional art to some 3D models/animations, and then apply for Gnomon and get a roommate somewhere. Sounds like a workable plan.
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Enjoy a leisurely walking tour of Maboneng Precinct, browsing around the arts and craft shops, sampling artisan food and produce.
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Cape Town Food Markets Experience
Explore the typical farmers' markets of Cape Town. Your first stop is the Oranjezicht City Farm Market in Granger Bay in the V&A Waterfront area. Then continue to the Neighbourgoods Market at The Old Biscuit Mill (a former biscuit mill converted into a quaint little village in the heart of Woodstock). Take in the fresh Cape Town air as you enjoy a leisurely stroll and delight in fresh farmers' produce and delectable artisanal goods.
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Franschhoek Wine Tram Experience
Experience a unique and leisurely journey through the rolling vineyards of Franschhoek in an open-side tram and open-air tram-bus.
± 8.5 Hours
Authentic Cape Town Dinner & Show Experience
Enjoy an authentic Cape Town dinner and show experience. Your evening will be filled with humour, rhythm, songs and cuisine unique to Cape Town.
± 3.5 Hours
Vintage Sidecar Whale & Dolphin Route Experience
Relax in the sidecar of a classic 750cc motorcycle and take in the spectacular scenic beauty of the False Bay coastline, whilst travelling through picturesque seaside villages. You'll have the opportunity to visit the Harold Porter Botanical Gardens and watch the African Penguin Colony at Stony Point.
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Tour of the Victoria Falls
Enjoy an awe inspiring tour of the majestic Victoria Falls, also known as "The Smoke that Thunders". Accompanied by your nature loving guide, you'll be taken on a guided walking safari that takes you through the magnificent spray-drenched rainforest.
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Full Day Marine Big 5 Safari Experience
Get up early, leave Cape Town behind and travel to Gansbaai for the marine safari experience of a lifetime! Expert guides will show you the best of this amazing South African marine wilderness, including Great White sharks, African penguins, Cape fur seals and a variety of seabirds.
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Trails Segment Mileage & Terrain
Boulder Junction
Boulder Junction to Nichols Lake Road
2.2 miles, flat terrain
Boulder Junction to Manitowish Waters
15.8 miles, flat terrain, several bridges crossing wet land
Boulder Junction to Manitowish Waters Chamber
17 miles, flat terrain crossing Hwy 51
Boulder Junction North on Hwy M to Dairyman's Road
2.5 miles, flat terrain
Boulder Junction to North Trout Lake
3.1 miles, rolling terrain with some steep hills
Boulder Junction to Cathedral Point Lane
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9 miles, rolling terrain with some steep hills
Hwy N to Crystal Lake Campground
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Sayner – Star Lake
Sayner to Crystal Lake Campground
4 miles, flat to rolling terrain
Sayner to St. Germain Chamber
8.5 miles, rolling terrain with some steep hills
St. Germain
St. Germain Chamber to Sayner
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5.5 miles, flat terrain
Manitowish Waters
Manitowish Waters to Boulder Junction
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Manitowish Waters Chamber to Boulder Junction
17 miles, flat terrain crossing Hwy 51
Mercer to Manitowish Waters
7 miles on paved trails and lightly used roads
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The Corner Store
3109 Razorback Road, Sayner WI
Just off Highway N on the Sayner Bike Trail
Big Cal's Borrow-A-Bike
Big Cal's Borrow a Bike is an endeavor taken on by the LaPorte family to place bikes to borrow for transportation or leisure around Manitowish Water. They are free to use and are located at the Chamber and Koller Park.
Need to add a little more air to your bike tires? Need to do a little tune up while you are on the trail but forgot your tools? The Heart of Vilas Bike Trail System's Fixtation is an outdoor bike stand with several bike tools and a tire pump built into it. There are Fixtations along the trail at the following locations:
- Intersection of Hwy M & Hwy N in Boulder Junction
- Intersection of Hwy K & Hwy H in Boulder Junction
- Hwy 51 at the Manitowish Waters Chamber of Commerce
- The Mobil Station, 277 Main St, Sayner
- The Corner Store, 3109 Razorback Rd, Sayner
- Intersection of Hwy 70 & Hwy 155 at the St. Germain Chamber of Commerce
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Lately I've been enjoying long walks around my neighbourhood -Poble Sec-.
My favourite walk is to get up to the Montjuic mountain to after lay in the grass near some ponds full of water lilies and tadpoles.
Soon I'll select some places to eat and visit on Poble Sec in case you are visiting Barcelona for your vacations. ;)
Below are some pics I took last week...
Flower fields at the Montjuic mountain.
My cat with the organic tiny tomatoes at our balcony :)
Did you knew that Barcelona's trees are full of pigeons and parrots? These three were so funny eating rice left on the sidewalk!
(In Spain is an antique tradition to throw grains of uncooked rice to the wedding couples when they get out of the church.)
Trees at Montjuic.
These are two passifloras at my balcony. I adore these plants, they seem to have come from outer space.
Gardens at Montjuic.
More gardens at Montjuic.
Water lilies!
Plants at the Montjuic mountain.
Ohh... I love these trees.


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I always get choked up if I have to say the Blessing, its hard for me, because I really mean what I say, and love my family more than life itself. So ... I make my husband say it :) But I certainly can type what I would say, and what I am thinking every moment, of each and every day~
Dear Father, thankyou for this life you have given me. Thankyou for my family, and for letting me be a Mother. Thankyou for my husband and for his company, Pioneer Natural Gas, and for giving me the oppertunity to share what I love, thru art & history, with all who will listen. Help me to be a better person, more loving and giving, more compassionate and more patient with others. Amen
I hope each & every one of you has a Happy & Safe Thanksgiving, with Loved ones and their Memory to keep you company. Thankyou for stopping in to say hello~ know that the dollys & I are thinking of you!
xoxoxo rachael
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Posted by Rachael Kinnison at 1:42 PM
Labels: family
3 comments:
- JDConwell said...
Well said.
- Anita said...
I saw a simple prayer on Pinterest that read Dear God, I wanna take a minute, not to ask you for anything, but simply to say thank-you, for all I have.
- Rachael Kinnison said...
Thankyou JD~ and Anita, I SO AGREE with that. It sounds so simple, but means so much, "THANKYOU, THANKYOU for Everything".
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving :)
xoxoxo rachael
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Written by Andrew Capitelli (SJC-LI Sports Information)
Purchase, NY| The St. Joseph's College (L.I.) women's volleyball team swept Skyline Conference rival SUNY Purchase, 3-0, to win its fourth-straight game on Tuesday evening.
The road victory sees the Golden Eagles improve to 6-9 on the year and 2-1 in conference play as the Panthers, who remain winless this season, drop to 0-12 (0-4 Skyline).
SJC's offense was powered by freshman Jessica Young, who boasted a .421 attacking percentage and collected a game-high 11 kills.
Senior Claire Urizzo contributed seven kills and 10 digs, and junior Danielle Senecal was credited with a game-best 16 digs.
Senior Morgan Tiska hit .312 and put down seven kills.
St. Joseph's cruised to a comfortable 25-10 victory in the first set but was met with stiffer competition in the second as the hosts took 17 points off the Golden Eagles.
Tiska's set-winning kill (25-17) would eventually see the guests go up 2-0 in the match, and a 25-15 result in the third set clinched the three-game sweep for SJC.
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For six years, the Johns Hopkins community has been engaged in a truly monumental enterprise: our Rising to the Challenge campaign.
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I need two things to write a successful screenplay -- a good idea and Dave Warfield, story solver. Warfield's masterful knowledge of screen story craft, his keen insight into structure, and his creative solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems have been invaluable to me in my process. Dave Warfield knows how to make a story GO!
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It's hard to discern a comment from Chino Amobi and Rabit's "Izlämic Europe" other than that it's not all good right now. Listen to other recent joints from the NON crew below, if you have the temerity. Spoiler: "Live Today" samples the Water Temple theme from Ocarina of Time as a reminder that this music reflects claustrophobia and confusion.
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Mrs Shelley England - Head Teacher
Fr Tim Lewis – Parish Priest and Foundation Governor
Mrs Brooke Morrison-Hill - Parent Governor
I am a recent addition to the Governing Body and I have three children, two of whom attend Keyham Barton. I am a fully qualified Teaching Assistant and I am currently employed at Peter Pan Playgroup as a Playgroup Assistant. I have experience as a volunteer with many organisations and I am actively involved in the community with 1st Keyham Scout Group and the Friends of Keyham Barton fundraising group. As a parent and a practising Catholic I believe it is important that our school should look after the social, emotional and spiritual welfare of our children as well as providing the best academic education possible. I look forward to working with the Governing Body of Keyham Barton to achieve the best educational experience for all our children during their time at the school.
Mrs Anne-Marie Sowden - Community Governor
Mrs Gemma Burns – Teaching Governor
The Role of the Governing Body
From 1st April 2014 all the Catholic Schools in the Plymouth Diocese became part of the Catholic Multi Academy Trust, known as 'Plymouth CAST'.
Who are Governors?
School Governors are people from the school's local community who wish to make a positive contribution to children's education. They MUST be over eighteen years at the date of their appointment, but there is NO upper age limit. Each term of office lasts for four years.
Governors are the largest volunteer force in the country!
They have a very important part to play in raising school standards through three key roles which are –
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This is for the short, medium and long term. It involves setting aims and objectives and setting policies and targets for achieving those aims and objectives. There needs to be clarity of vision, ethos and direction.
2. Ensuring Accountability
Contributing to the school self-evaluation, understanding strengths and weaknesses, reporting to stakeholders i.e. young people, parents and staff
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Measuring and challenging progress and reviewing School Improvement Plans by holding the Head Teacher and Leadership Team to account for improving the quality of teaching, achievement and behaviour and safety.
What do Governors do?
Our Governing Body normally meet in full once a term with smaller committees such as Premises or Finance & Personnel meeting in between.
Our Governing Body
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The Head Teacher is responsible for the overall management of the school and for day-to-day management.
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Langhorne Named MVP
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Maryland's Crystal Langhorne was named Most Valuable Player of the 2005 U19 FIBA World Championship in Tunis, Tunisia, as she helped the USA win the gold medal on Sunday, July 24, with a 97-76 win over Serbia and Montenegro.
It is the second gold medal of the summer for Langhorne (Willingboro, N.J./Willingboro), teammate Marissa Coleman (Cheltenham, Md./St. John's College [D.C.]), who will be a freshman at Maryland in the fall, and the United States. The Americans won the gold medal at the International Sports Invitational in San Diego in June.
"This means a lot (winning the MVP award), I feel honored. There were so many great players in this tournament and on our team, to be named MVP is overwhelming," said team tri-captain Langhorne in a USA Basketball press release.
The 2005 ACC Rookie of the Year, Langhorne started all eight games of the tournament and led the team in scoring with 16.6 points per game and was second in rebounding with 6.4 rebounds. Making her debut on the U19 World Championship game, she also shot a team-best .775 from the field (55-71).
A two-time Gatorade Player of the Year for the District of Columbia and a high school All-American, Coleman average 8.1 ppg and 4.4 rpg, playing in every game of the championship. In her second summer with the U19 squad, she was instrumental in helping the USA qualify for this summer's U19 FIBA World Championship.
In the gold medal game, Langhorne was 7-for-7 from the field for 14 points, while adding three rebounds. She had dominated the Chinese in Americans' win over the China (99-68), netting 23 points on 9-for-10 shooting to put the U.S. in the gold medal game.
Coleman added eight points in the team's gold-medal victory, while adding three rebounds and two steals.
Formerly known as the FIBA Women's Junior World Championship and held every four years since 1985, the USA's capturing of gold in 2005 marks just the second time the American women have claimed gold in the six U19 World Championships. The U.S. now boasts of a 32-10 overall record and has captured two gold (2005, 1997) and one bronze medal (2001).
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Cabin John Ice Rink is a great place to have a birthday, office or holiday party! The NHL, Olympic, and Studio rinks are all available to rent for private parties. Or, you can rent one or more party rooms and have your guests skate during a public session.
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At this point, just about every horse we own is for sale, except for Toby, Harley and Ziggy. So please look through the Mare, Stallion and Gelding pages.
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To curb the number of geese in West Orange, the township contracted Goose Control Technology of NJ earlier this year. This week, volunteers & members of Essex GeesePeace organization,) along with Councilman Joe Krakoviak and a handful of other residents, helped, too.
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Alvarez sees a knockout and a great fight
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Canelo Alvarez was just Saul Alvarez back then, a red-haired 15-year-old who wanted nothing more than to make some money boxing.
He got his chance on a summer night in 2005 in a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico, where he grew up. His opponent was another teenager named Abraham Gonzalez, but he could have been anyone.
Alvarez showed some potential by stopping Gonzalez in fourth round. Afterward he collected his first real payday.
"Eighty pesos," Alvarez recalled this week. "I think it was like $6."
A dozen years later, the pay has gotten a lot better. On Sat- urday night Alvarez will make millions as he meets knockout specialist Gennady Golovkin in a middleweight showdown that boxing purists are comparing to some of the division's great fights of years past .
Some 40 million of his countrymen are expected to be watching on television as the fighter who is arguably Mexico's biggest sports hero takes on the fearsome Golovkin in a fight that could define the career of both fighters. The fight will be televised on HBO pay-per-view in the U.S.
"This is for my country and my people," Alvarez said. "Simply put, the people wanted this fight."
It won't be a fight for the faint of heart. Golovkin had a 23-fight knockout streak before going the distance in his last fight, while Alvarez is a masterful counterpuncher who is not afraid to mix it up.
Between them they have only one loss in 88 fights. Alvarez suffered it in 2013 against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a fight he admitted he took too early in his career.
By contrast, he may have waited until just the right time to fight Golovkin. Alvarez and his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, were widely criticized for avoiding Golovkin for the last two years, but now Alvarez has grown into a full-fledged middleweight and both fighters seem to be in their prime.
There shouldn't be many surprises. And there will certainly be no excuses.
"My mentality is 100 percent to win," Alvarez said. "Every night before I go to bed I visualize a knockout."
Alvarez has been on the big stage before. He and Mayweather delivered more than 2 million pay-per-view buys in their fight, and he has consistently drawn big crowds and big television numbers over the last five years.


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|Operation Hellfish
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Operation Hellfish is the fourth mission from the third level of Simpsons hit and Run.
Summary Edit
- Purchase the School Bus from Otto (Or phone booth).
- Collect the red hat.
- Chase after and destroy the first sedan.
- Drive to the Aztec Theatre and destroy the next one.
- Go to Planet Hype and destroy the last one.
Notes Edit
- The one hit wreck cheat can make this very easy.
Lisa: Grandpa, can you help me find Bart, he's missing.
Abe: Maybe I'm just a senile old man, but Bart's lucky red hat fell out of that black car.
Lisa: Wow, Grandpa, what a great clue! You showed why senior citizens are valuable members of the community.
Abe: I think my baby teeth are growing back, that's why I had to punch that nurse!
Lisa: I better get something big if I want to take that car out, like that School Bus.
(Lisa sees Otto at the Kamp Krusty)
Lisa: Otto, I know I'm a little young to be asking this...
Otto: Look, I don't have any special brownies left, I ate them all.
Lisa: But do you think I can use your school bus?
Otto: Oh, right, cool. Meet my price and she's all yours, little lady!
(Lisa destroys all of the government agent cars to find any clues but all of them were empty)
Lisa: (gasps) It's empty! What's going on in this town?
- This is the first mission where Grampa has a story role, as in Level 1, he only appears walking around the Retirement Castle and in Level 2, he appears as the character who gives the player the bonus mission which doesn't affect the actual plot in any way.