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Such great goals I had beginning with today, but of course, I set those goals yesterday and I set them when I was feeling motivated to make goals (but not quite motivated to carry them out!). Smiling - this is how goals are and thankfully I know I'm not a complete failure - just not as spectacularly successful as I'd like to be.
I did metitate last night and I did read my daily meditation newsletters on loving kindness this morning that I had conveniently ignored for the last week while sinking lower and lower into lousy eating and lousy feeling. I plan and intend to meditate today. It's a weird thing how nice it is in a very untangible kind of way.
I am scheduled to go to yoga this evening and, unless it's canceled, I will be there. It's Vinyasa yoga which doesn't mean a whole lot to me, but I know that I get a really good stretch and good workout and have sore muscles the next day.
The eating thing. This is where I don't shine at all. I made breakfast at home but then took the kids out and stopped at a bake sale and had....not just 1/4 of a cinnamon roll, but 1/4 of a large cinnamon roll, 1/3 of a small cinnamon roll, and an entire chocolate croissant all to myself. I know - not so good and exactly the kind of thing I was supposed to avoid according to the goals I set yesterday.
However, I did refrain from picking up a chocolate bar when I stopped at the store. Walking home, I felt myself hoping for something good in the bag and felt a twang of disappointment that all I had were carrots and bananas. So, a bit off track for the day, but not as off track as I could have been.
One thing I didn't set as a goal was sleep, but that's because I really work on getting 8-9 hours of sleep. I didn't appreciate before how much of a difference it makes, but now I do. I did not get that sleep the last three nights, but sometimes that is life with kids and neighbors. However, I do go to bed early every evening and I'm not setting any super early alarms.
In one of the daily meditation newsletters, the writer referred to our brain as a kludge. I love the reptilian sound of that word. Essentially he argues that our brains are not built smoothly with the grand scheme all mapped out. We learn things and then along the way we learn new things. As we grow, the different parts of our brain battle to keep us stable. I feel like this happens a lot in this weight loss and growing healthy process.
What feels normal is to be overweight, yet here and there I get snippets of a new way of being and it's so revitalizing and so wonderful, but it's not normal and the part of my brain associated with the old normal starts to yield control as it is now when I dine on cinnamon rolls and croissants against my better judgement!
So Day One back on Blogher and I feel more committed to the weight loss/healthy body plan than I did yesterday and certainly much more than two days ago. I'll get there, just never as fast as I envision when I'm thinking about the potential for tomorrow.


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: These Whereabouts Unknown by Chiibo
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Draco has better things to do than study for his upcoming school year;
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: The Girl Who Lived by masami
This is a post-Hogwarts fic, where OCs are very necesarry, so if you don't like them, don't read it. On with the summary...
It's set in the year 2012 (... ish) when Harry and the gang are 32, I believe. This is the story of Elizabeth Barkovsky, the girl who lived, a non-magical child who nearly died in horrific accident, only to be saved, through a twist of fate, by a man once known as 'The boy who lived'.
Genres: Humor, Mystery, AU Era: Post-Hogwarts Characters: Draco, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Luna, McGonagall, Neville, OC , Ron, Teddy Pairings: Bill/Fleur, Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, OC/OC
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence
Published: 2004.08.23 Latest Chapter: 2013.02.13 Updated: 2013.02.13 Status: WIP (30232 words)
: Harry Potter and The Secret Horcrux by LogicalRaven
Summary: Post HBP-- **SPOILERS**-- Every story must have an end. Harry Potter must now face the greatest adventure of his life. Lives will be lost and love will be found. The only difference between a muggle and a wizard is his ability to believe. Based on what could occur in book seven.
Genres: General, Romance, Action/Adventure Era: Hogwarts Characters: Cho, Draco, Ginny , Harry, Hermione, Lupin, Narcissa, Ron, Snape, Voldemort Pairings: Bill/Fleur, Harry/Ginny, Remus/Tonks, Ron/Hermione
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Substance Use or Abuse
Published: 2005.08.31 Latest Chapter: 2007.10.31 Updated: 2007.10.31 Status: WIP (95231 words)
: Stranded by Queen Sabreen
She was drowning, a damsel in distress, awaiting her knight in shining armor to come rescue her. It was then he came, her savior, but a villian in reality, an evil devilish boy by the name of Draco Malfoy. And now she's stranded with him, and leaving is not an option.
[HBP & DH not included]
New banner by me | Ch. 8: here | Ch. 9: soon
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Angst Era: Hogwarts Characters: Blaise (M) , Draco, Fred, Harry, Hermione, Neville, Pansy, Ron, Seamus Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Advisory: Strong Language, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature
Published: 2004.12.23 Latest Chapter: 2007.09.02 Updated: 2007.09.02 Status: WIP (33621 words)
: Titanic: A Love Story by Pixiegirl
Celtic, I love the banner!! It honestly made cry!! I LOVE IT!! Titanic was the greatest ship in the world. Draco and Pansy (along with Blaise), decide to spend their vacation in New York. Hermione and her friend, Sarah, decide to escape for a while. What happens when Draco and Hermione meet? Will they fall in love on this 'ship of dreams'? Please R&R!!!
Genres: Drama, Romance, Action/Adventure Era: Other Characters: Draco, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, OC, Pansy, Ron Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Advisory: Strong Language, Strong Violence, Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Published: 2005.10.04 Latest Chapter: 2007.06.23 Updated: 2007.06.24 Status: WIP (30985 words)
: Riddles in the Dark -Tom and I- by LostMaeblleshire
|| Lovely banner by fear me101 || - || Tom Riddle/OFC ||
I was no one special. Not really. I walked from class to class each day with my head down, clutching my precious books to my chest: the only friends I had in that stone fortress they called a school...
Danielle Parmellie has been asked to divulge the secrets of her past. A past which has been locked away for far too long and entwines her fate around that of Tom Riddle.
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Angst Era: Pre-Hogwarts Characters: Dumbledore, Hagrid, OC, OtherCanon, Voldemort Pairings: Other Pairing
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme,
Published: 2005.04.10 Latest Chapter: 2007.01.05 Updated: 2007.02.18 Status: COMPLETED (77421 words)
: Mon Amour by Wierd_Sisters
[Banner by Llamia] 'Alright, for starters, you don't want to read this. Sure, me saying "you don't want to read this" you might think me using reverse psychology, in an attempt to get you to read it, however, at the moment, this is most defiantly not the case. ' [Dedication: Silver Phoenix]
Genres: Drama, Humor, Romance Era: Marauders Characters: Dumbledore, James, Lily, Lupin, McGonagall, OC, Pettigrew, Sirius, Snape Pairings: Other Pairing
Advisory: Strong Language
Published: 2005.07.25 Latest Chapter: 2006.08.12 Updated: 2006.08.12 Status: WIP (1117 words)
: Peanut by Wierd_Sisters
Short story
Baner by the awsome UMBlueMusic 'You know, Peanut, sometimes I want a peanut. And I want one now. And have you ever realized that they have no spell that I have heard of to conjure up a peanut?! Scandalous! They should have one you know, for peanut-craving peoples like myself. '
Genres: Humor, Romance, Angst Era: Marauders Characters: Dumbledore, James, Lily, Lupin, McGonagall, OC, Pettigrew, Sirius, Snape
Advisory: Strong Language
Published: 2005.08.01 Latest Chapter: 2006.08.12 Updated: 2006.08.12 Status: WIP (1994 words)
: Silent Screams by Darkheart
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Sixth year, Morgan Mysie had no idea what was in store for her. She thought it would be another lonesome year, but after befriending Tom Riddle, her life slowly begins to change for the better and for the worse. Ch.19 Validated!
Genres: Drama, Romance, Angst Era: Other Characters: OC, OtherCanon, Voldemort Pairings: Other Pairing
Advisory: Strong Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature,
Published: 2005.06.01 Latest Chapter: 2006.04.25 Updated: 2006.04.30 Status: WIP (31305 words)
: A Maid in the Malfoy Manor by LostMaeblleshire
|| Banner by the lovely fear me101 ||
She related the helpless leaf to her own life, reminded by the burst of green of her past and what it had held. Likewise to the leaf, she had been hurled from one place to another, never knowing where she would end up... Her life was torn asunder by a sinister plot with which fate had no hand. Everything was to change that summerthe summer he would rather meet his own demise than forget.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Angst Era: Hogwarts Characters: Draco, Lucius, Lupin, Narcissa, OC, Pettigrew, Tonks, Voldemort Pairings: Draco/OC
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme,
Published: 2005.05.12 Latest Chapter: 2006.03.08 Updated: 2006.11.21 Status: COMPLETED (35997 words)
: Welcome to my Hell by Kitastrophy
Short story
Beatutiful banner by Belle_moi, thanks heaps! Charlie's life is like hell, and she blames it on one person, Harry Potter. She's given up on all hope of having a good life. But what she doesn't count on is having dreams, dreams the show the unthinkable. But what if her dreams come true.....?
Genres: General Characters: Harry, Hermione, M. McGonagall, OC, Ron Pairings: Others
Advisory: Mild Language
Published: 2005.09.16 Latest Chapter: 2005.12.28 Updated: 2005.12.28 Status: WIP (4403 words)
: Headfirst For Halos by Machiaveli
Short story
And we'll fly home, You and I, We'll fly home. Now honestly that's what I said to her, what I said to her, Just think happy thoughs.... Fabulas Banner=SwallowedInDreams
Genres: Romance, Humor, Angst, Fluff, AU Characters: Fred/George, Harry, Hermione, OC, Ron Pairings: Others
Advisory: Mild Language, Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Published: 2005.12.18 Latest Chapter: 2005.12.27 Updated: 2005.12.27 Status: WIP (3992 words)
: Our Final Years by BlackPirates
Thanks to Andegora for this great banner!
A story about the Marauders and their seventh year. How will James and Lily get together? Will Sirius find a love interest, or is he fighting a losing battle? What leads to Peter's betrayal? Read to find out! Chapter 6: Validated Over 800 reads!
Genres: Romance, Action, Angst, Drama Characters: James, Lily, OC, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence
Published: 2005.08.04 Latest Chapter: 2005.10.09 Updated: 2005.11.19 Status: WIP (15270 words)
: Dance of the Werewolf by serena_lilian_snape
Short story
Hello, my name is Tala Channing, and I'm a werewolf. This is the story of my life, and how I met a werewolf that would change it forever.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Action/Adventure Era: Pre-Hogwarts Characters: Bellatrix, James, Lily, Lucius, Lupin, Narcissa, OC , Sirius, Snape, Voldemort Pairings: Remus/OC, Other Pairing
Advisory: Mild Language, Strong Violence, Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Published: 2005.10.02 Latest Chapter: 2005.10.02 Updated: 2005.12.17 Status: Abandoned (2799 words)
: Nightmarish Dreams by haylie_lupin
***Banner by me!*** A one-shot fanfiction about Harry's feelings after Voldemort is gone. Inspired by kira_riddle - thanks, Kira!
Genres: General Characters: Harry
Published: 2005.10.02 Latest Chapter: 2005.10.02 Updated: 2005.10.02 Status: COMPLETED (867 words)
: Demise by LostMaeblleshire
Beautiful banner by my friend Valerie
He could hear her breathing. Curt gasps amidst choked sobs. Exhileration coursed through his veins and mingled with his blood, the light of the full moon capturing him in its spell. It shone upon him and bathed his coarse fur. With each passing minute, its luminescence seeped further in to his flesh.
Genres: Angst Era: Post-Hogwarts Characters: Lupin, Tonks Pairings: Remus/Tonks
Advisory: Strong Violence, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme
Published: 2005.09.12 Latest Chapter: 2005.09.12 Updated: 2007.01.07 Status: COMPLETED (1311 words)
: My Story by Wierd_Sisters
Short story
AWSOME BANNER BY ANSWR42! 'My name is Mary-Katharine and my life is hell. Why do you ask my life it hell? Ok, so, you most likely didnt ask that and are wondering where in the world did I meet this girl who obviously crazy. But, Ill tell you anyway.'! *WRITTEN PRE-HBP* CH11 VALIDATED!
Genres: Romance, Action, Humor, General, Angst, Mystery, Drama Characters: Draco, Fred/George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, James, Lucius, M. McGonagall, OC, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Ron, Snape, Voldemort
Advisory: Strong Language
Published: 2005.05.02 Latest Chapter: 2005.09.05 Updated: 2005.11.08 Status: WIP (1440 words)
: Peppermint by Wierd_Sisters
Short story
[Banner by Llamia] 'I turned over so my face was now smushed against his pillow. I could smell his scent—peppermint. I laughed in spite of myself. He had always adored them, peppermints. Ever since I had known him.'
Genres: Romance, Action/Adventure, Angst Era: Marauders Characters: Bellatrix, Dumbledore, Lucius, OC, Pettigrew, R. Lestrange, Regulus, Snape, Voldemort Pairings: Other Pairing
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature
Published: 2005.08.19 Latest Chapter: 2005.08.28 Updated: 2005.09.01 Status: WIP (3260 words)
: Thoughtless by padfootwalks4eva
Short story
Extension of TRT and Thanks to melihobbit for the banner! |BEING EDITED| You are Charesse Lupin, yes the daughter of Remus and Bloom Lupin. You are the new Generation of Hogwarts and a Slytherin at that... life is becoming hard for youwhat with friends, school work and ever present boysbut when a few of Voldie's fans come looking for revenge there going to find out that youre not to be messed with.
Genres: Action, Angst, Drama Characters: Dumbledore, OC, Remus Lupin, Snape Pairings: Others
Advisory: Strong Language, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Strong Violence
Published: 2005.03.29 Latest Chapter: 2005.08.04 Updated: 2006.03.11 Status: WIP (1069 words)
: A New Fate by daqu
Short story
Banner by Vivi
Voldemort kidnaps a 17-year-old Ginny, and now after three years Ginny is starting to realize that she wants to go home more than ever. During the war everyone's been waiting for, Ginny makes a decision to show everyone where her true loyalties lie.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Angst Era: Post-Hogwarts Characters: Draco, Dumbledore, Ginny , Harry, Ron, Voldemort Pairings: Other Pairing
Advisory: Mild Language
Published: 2005.05.10 Latest Chapter: 2005.05.15 Updated: 2006.02.13 Status: COMPLETED (15923 words)


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grid reference TM 336 898
opened 17th century
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- Mon-Sat: 1100-0000
- Sun: 1200-2330
guest beers
3 changing beers, mainly local
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Bungay is Waveney district
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last updated 15/01/2018
Bungay Three Tuns
previously known as: Tunns inn
Real Ale is available here
2 Earsham St, NR35 1EG
01986 893404
Built on the site of an older building (possibly dating from 1540) that was destroyed by a fire in 1688. Walls in the cellar bar are believed to have been part of Bungay castle.
The pub is often claimed to be the most haunted building in Bungay, supposedly with over 20 ghosts, including a maid who was caught stealing beer and was chained to the wall until she starved to death. In 1969 the pub hired a professional exorcist, Canon Pearce Higgins, who claimed to have got rid of all the ghosts. But allegedly he failed. However, nobody asked by comedian Mark Steel, who recorded a Radio Four programme in Bungay in 2011, had ever seen a ghost in the Three Tuns. But as Canon Higgins was blind, neither did he.
Real draught cider available
Function room available to hire
Dog friendly
Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for details)
live music
Sport TV
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)


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Accession no: LL 9544
Object type: Jade, Hardstone and Glass
Name: Ornament
Materials: Rock crystal
Place made: China
Date made: Qing Dynasty, 19th Century
Measurements: H. 5.5 cm, W. 4 cm
Description: Ornament. Rock crystal Geometric formation.
Provenance A Lady of Title Collection; her sale, Christie's, 14 March, 1916, lot 57; purchased by Frank Partridge for Lever; £8 (for the whole lot: LL 9535, LL 9541, LL 9542, LL 9543, LL 9544 and LL 9545); by whom gifted to the Lady Lever Art Gallery, 1922.
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On an unrelated note, WHY is this show so long??? The editors could do to "cut the fat" themselves. An hour would be plenty, and then I wouldn't have the miss the end to watch TAR :o)
Glad Dave is gone. And I'm glad they showed the footage from the first weigh-in against their weigh-ins this show- it really made the fat loss evident. How awesome does Andrea look now? I heart her.


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A mallard duck flies with her mate in Soldotna last weekend. Migratory birds are arriving as the summer approaches.
Photo by M. Scott Moon
Waterfowl watchers may want flock to see the thousands of ducks and geese that are stopping in briefly, or returning for the summer, to the Kenai Peninsula.
"Now is a good time for waterfowl spotting," said Todd Eskelin, a biological technician at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
While there are numerous areas to search for ducks and geese, Eskelin said one of the best places to see a diversity of species, some of which come in large numbers, is the Kenai Flats area.
Birds can be seen off of Cannery Road, the Port of Kenai Road, or from the viewing platforms on pulloffs along Bridge Access Road. It doesn't take high-powered equipment to get a good peek at the birds, either.
"Typically, you don't need a big spotting scope to see them from there," Eskelin said. Binoculars or the naked eyes work just find in most cases.
"This area supports some nice wetlands," he said, which is what draws birds to the area.
"I saw good numbers of snow geese this year. I got a peak count of roughly 1,200 one morning, which is higher than the last couple of years," Eskelin said.
Being almost entirely white, these snow geese stick out against the grass of the flats, which is still dry and brown from winter.
"We also saw tons of Canada geese. Roughly 5,500 or so at least one morning," he said.
While this species may seem common, Eskelin said they are still worth noting because of the numerous subspecies which, although rare, can occur.
"This year we saw three different subspecies of Canada geese," he said. These included Taverner's (Alaska) Canada goose, Lesser Canada goose, and cackling goose.
Eskelin said he observed the cackling goose at the marshy area at the mouth of Kasilof River another prolific area for spring waterfowl viewing.
"(Cackling goose) is a new one for me. I only saw four or five, but they were distinctly different. They were noticeably smaller, had a really short bill and a blueish-gray sheen as opposed to the usual chocolate-gray color," he said.
Eskelin said he also saw large numbers of white-fronted geese at the flats and in Kasilof. This is a medium to large species that is grayish-brown in color, but distinguishable from other geese by its pink beak and orange legs.
Another rare species Eskelin has observed this year is a compact cousin to Canada geese a nearly all-black species with a white collar commonly called a Brant (or Brent) goose.
"These are a longer-distance migrant headed toward Western Alaska and the Yukon Delta, but we saw two on the Kenai and a high of five on the Kasilof," Eskelin said.
In addition to geese, Eskelin said there are numerous species of ducks to be seen in Kenai and Kasilof, including mallards, northern pintails, gadwalls, American wigeons and Eurasian wigeons.
This latter species can be distinguished by the rich chestnut-red head color of drakes, as opposed to the drakes of its American counterpart which have a bright, creamy-white strip on the forehead and a broad, iridescent green band extending from eye to behind the neck.
A bachelor group of harlequin ducks takes flight from their rock refuge in some fast flowing water.
Clarion file photo by Joseph Rob
"I've also been seeing green-wing teals and Eurasian teals," Eskelin said.
These two can be distinguished from each other in that green-wing teal drakes have a vertical white band on the side of their breast that is absent. Eurasian drakes also have a more defined white border to their green eye patch.
"Although not so common, one or two redheads and canvasbacks can also be seen at the flats, as well as Northern shoveler, but never in high densities, just 10 to 20 typically," Eskelin said.
The latter species is easily identifiable by its strikingly spatula-like bill that is uses to skim the water in search of food.
"It's a real showy bird," Eskelin said.
For those who enjoy hiking there are numerous species of ducks that can be seen away from Kenai and Kasilof.
Anyone making their way near turbulent water should look for the small, but richly colored harlequin duck.
"They're pretty sharp," Eskelin said of this sea duck that is primarily blueish-gray with patches of rose-coloring on their flanks and bold white markings with black borders over the ear, around and on the sides of the neck, and from the shoulder to the breast.
"Harlequins prefer clean, fast-flowing waters, so the upper Kenai is probably the best spot to see them, but there are also five or six pairs on the Russian River.
"Now's a good time to see them before people start fishing or before they start making their way back to sea," Eskelin said. They usually head back to salt water in early June after breeding is complete.
"Engineer Lake is another great place for waterfowl, maybe one of the best lakes I've seen," Eskelin said.
This is a good place to see other sea ducks, such as surf scoters and black scoters, according to Eskelin. Common and red-breasted mergansers are also not uncommon, and the same is true for loons and grebes.
Several other lakes in the Skilak Loop Wildlife Management area are good for waterfowl watching. The deep water of Hidden Lake draws in scaups while the tiny Rock Lake along Skilak Loop Road occasionally draws ringneck ducks, according to Eskelin.
"They're not there every year, but that's a good place to look for them," he said.
Another lake outside this area that annually draws ducks is Lower Fuller Lake. This area, with its numerous cottonwoods and other trees, draws in cavity-nesting sucks like goldeneyes.
"That's a nice area for them," Eskelin said.
There are two species of goldeneyes that make the peninsula their home the common and Barrow's goldeneye.
These two are identifiable from each other by the larger size, shorter bill, steeper forehead, longer mane and crescent-shaped (rather than round) white cheek-patch of the Barrow's goldeneye.
For anyone interested in learning more about waterfowl and bird watching, Eskelin suggested calling the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's birding hotline at 907-262-2300.
Message are posted regularly on the hotline notifying callers of any recent rare or unusual bird sightings, with directions to the last known location these birds were spotted at.
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Yankees banking on Roberts
He'll be at second base, but he must stay healthy
Published 10:12 pm, Monday, February 17, 2014
Tampa, Fla.
Brian Roberts remembered back a decade ago, when he was standing on second base and Derek Jeter approached.
"He just said, 'You can hit .300 in this league,'" Roberts recalled Monday. "To hear it from somebody like that, it kind of opened your eyes."
Not that he took Jeter's analysis too literally.
"I don't think it's just me. I think he does it to everybody," Roberts said. "But for some reason when he tells it to you, you think you're the most important person in the world."
Now they're teammates, and Roberts has a locker next to Jeter's in the New York Yankees' spring training clubhouse.
With a void at second base following the departure of Robinson Cano, who signed with the Seattle Mariners, the Yankees have given the position to the 36-year-old Roberts, a two-time All-Star who made five trips to the disabled list totaling 481 days over the past four seasons.
His many maladies included a strained abdominal muscle, pneumonia, two concussions (one self-inflicted), a groin strain, hip tear and hamstring strain.
"I know he hasn't played a full season in the last few years and he's obviously a guy that has some age on him, too, but my plan is to run him out there almost every day," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
Red Sox: Second baseman Dustin Pedroia says his left thumb feels fine three months after surgery. Pedroia had an operation to repair the ulnar collateral ligament he tore in last year's season opener when he slid into first base in the ninth inning of an 8-2 win at Yankee Stadium. But he missed just two games all season, hit .301 and led the American League in plate appearances. Pedroia had a cast for about four weeks after the surgery on Nov. 13 and then worked on regaining the strength in his thumb. He says the injury bothered him a little bit last season but that it's been fixed and he feels fine. The Red Sox are scheduled to hold their first official full-squad workout on Thursday.
Orioles: Baltimore signed South Korean right-hander Suk-min Yoon to a three-year contract. The 27-year-old Yoon had a 73-59 record with a 3.19 ERA in nine seasons with the KIA Tigers in the Korean Baseball Organization. Yoon is expected to compete for a spot in Baltimore's starting rotation. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Orioles waived outfielder Jimmy Paredes, who was claimed by Kansas City. Baltimore claimed Paredes on Saturday.


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I found this trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie over on dailymotion.com and nearly messed myself. You can see high definition versions over at Apple trailers.
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The Jabba the Hutt storyline came at me out of nowhere. But I love all the Shaak Ti action this movie promises. I never really appreciated her until I started playing SW Mini's, then realized her character got overlooked by the movies. I think she is one of the most underused characters from the first three episodes.
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You can allow users in a group to read or run applications in directories, and its subdirectories and files, that are controlled by the owner of a group. For example, a project manager might update status information for a project team to review.
To limit access to a directory on the server, using the steps described for setting access control for a server instance, perform the following task:
Use the Server Manager to select the server instance.
Choose the Preferences tab.
Click the Restrict Access link.
Choose the ACL File to edit.
Browse the Pick a Resource section and select the directory you want to restrict.
The directories in the server's document root are displayed. Once selected, the Editing drop-down list displays the absolute path to the directory.
If you want to view all files in your server root, click Options and then List files as well as directories.
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Create a new rule and leave the defaults to deny access to everyone from everywhere.
Create another new rule allowing users in a specific group to have read and execute rights only.
Create a third rule to allow a specific user to have all rights.
Deselect Continue for the second and third lines and click Update.
Submit and Apply your changes.
An absolute path to the file or directory is created in the docrootdirectory. The entry in the ACL file would appear as: acl "path=d:\sun\suitespot\docroot1\sales/";


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Our Company aim to change tourism by promoting and campaigning for more real travel experiences that also benefit conservation and local people. We encourage our Bhutan, Tibet and India operators and accommodation providers to minimize their negative impacts on economic, environmental and social requirements where as possible. We guide and help our customers how to trek gently, and minimize their negative effects at culture and environmental conservation. We inform each and every client that our mission is to protect fragile environment and indigenous cultures of the Himalayan Countries including Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan.
Nature Trail's employees range from well-qualified and competent office staff to trekking and climbing guides with years of experience. All of our agents, guides, porters and drivers are hard-working, reliable and experienced, with an enthusiasm for working in the travel industry. Our staffs are well paid compare to Nepal normal industry standards. They are insured and had medical facilities. Within year they have 2 months extra paid, one month during their holiday, and the other month during Dashain Festival as Dashain allowance. Company has a policy of providing superannuation and provident fund for every staffs.
Since 1995, company founder, Bishnu Subedi, has steadily built Nature Trail and its reputation from humble beginnings to what it is today. He has extensive experience in trekking and tourism in Nepal; is a keen environmentalist and a firm believer of responsible tourism. He is actively involved in all aspects of the company and occasionally leads treks to keep in touch with ground operations. Being a proud Nepali, Bishnu supports his local culture and traditions by expending his personal time, funds and energy on various local projects. He has also studied abroad and traveled to many western countries so is able to identify with his client base, seeing things from both the western and Nepalese perspectives. Thus, we do have excellent record of customer satisfaction and high level of returning customers.
Our commitment to provide prompt and quality services exceeding guest satisfaction, and continued effort in maintaining the trend has won us the prestigious title of the being first Trekking Company of Nepal to be awarded the Certificate of Registration " ISO 9001:2000 in recognition of the Company's Quality System, on 6th October 2005. We hire and train local staff, use local products (food, vegetables, dairy products etc.). We are committed on providing services best available in the industry and make no compromise when it comes to guest's preferences. Apart from the conventional promotional campaigns, we take pride in our return business that comes through word of mouth.
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Basic move: Thigh Trimmer
Holding a pair of weights at your sides, stand with feet hip-width apart. Bend knees and push your hips back until your thighs are almost parallel to the floor, as if you're about to sit in a chair. Keep your chest raised and your shoulders back. Slowly straighten legs and repeat 8 to 10 times.


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Line on July 2, 2002
Hong Kong was built on a compradore economy under British
imperialism. A few months ago, Hong Kong's acting director general of
investment promotion told delegates to the World Services Congress 2001
that Hong Kong would further enhance its role as a "Compradore City"
with China's accession to the World Trade Organization. "Upon China's
entry to the WTO, this role is going to get bigger, making it more
profitable for those who seize Hong Kong's compradore spirit and who
base their businesses in Asia's world city," the official stressed.
A compradore was a native servant employed as head of the
native staff and, as agent, by foreign trading houses in China during
its shameful semi-colonial history. Imperialist interests in colonial
markets mediated through compradores. As a class, the compradore
bourgeoisie is despised by socialist revolutionaries as well as by
members of the national bourgeoisie. The compradore has no positive
economic function in a regime of free and fair trade. Ideology and
national pride aside, in the era of globalization and e-commerce
through instant communication, where efficiency is achieved through the
elimination of intermediaries, a compradore economy is a dying breed.
Economic nationalism will put the final nail in the compardore's
The future of Hong Kong as a compradore economy can be summed
up quite simply: non-existent. This is not nit-picking, for it
illustrates a basic flaw in Hong Kong's image of its future.
Monday, July 1, marked the fifth anniversary of Hong Kong's
return to Chinese sovereignty from British rule. On that day, Tung
Chee-hwa, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Autonomous
Region (SAR), began his second and final five-year term with a newly
appointed cabinet in a reformed government structure of political
accountability riding herd over an apolitical civil service. Five years
earlier, many in Hong Kong, infested with the compradore spirit,
exemplified by the madame chief secretary (Anson Chan) of the holdover
colonial civil service at that time, echoing US neo-liberal propaganda,
openly worried about undue Chinese interference on Hong Kong's "free
market" success, harping on the importance of human rights, democracy
and rule of law, none of which had been particularly inherent under
British colonialism as indispensable ingredients of Hong Kong's freak
prosperity, all in which China was pictured as being deficient.
On July 2, 1997, the day after the historic return of Hong
Kong to China, the Asian financial crises began in Thailand. Those in
the new SAR government in charge of economic policy complacently
proclaimed that the "fundamentals" of the Hong Kong economy were sound
and that all that was needed was to maintain Hong Kong's
free-enterprise tradition to ride through the passing storm. Oblivious
to the structural and systemic nature of the developing financial
crises, Hong Kong even contributed US$1 billion from its
foreign-exchange reserves to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to
help contain the unfolding crisis within Thailand. The uninformed
hubris was answered by devastating contagion hitting the Hong Kong
economy by October 1997.
The irony is that Hong Kong, which tirelessly flaunts its
"freedom", religiously chanting neo-liberal slogans by rote, is now
looking to China as the hope of its economic future, never questioning
why China, which has been labeled derisively as less "free" and with an
underdeveloped regime of commercial law by many in self-satisfied Hong
Kong, is the only growth economy in East Asia in the midst of global
recession, while "free" Hong Kong has been stuck in economic decline
for half a decade. All the condescending accolades of "freedom" Hong
Kong received from foreign conservative organizations such as the
Heritage Foundation, Freedom House and the American Enterprise
Institute have not been of much help in convincing global capital
heading for China to bypass Shanghai in favor of Hong Kong or
transnational corporations in search of the China market to locate
their regional headquarters in Hong Kong instead of Shanghai.
GE, the world largest conglomerate, has just announced that
it will move the regional headquarters of its plastics division from
Tokyo to Shanghai, at the same time downsizing its operation in Hong
Kong. All transnational corporations now have localization programs in
China, staffed with mainlanders with masters of business administration
(MBAs) from US universities who speak better Mandarin than most
graduates from Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the preferred Chinese
language. These corporations have no need for Hong Kong compradores.
Hong Kong recognizes that it must restructure its economy,
but it is not clear that the SAR government is prepared to accept that
economic restructure can only be achieved through strong government
policy. Hong Kong continues to cling to the myth of an anti-statist
past, for fear that any hint of industrial policy or government
interference with the market would displease US neo-liberals and bring
down their political wrath of reduced access to US markets.
Yet it is undeniable that Hong Kong's current
dysfunctionalities had been caused by British colonial policy disguised
as free-market forces. For one and a half centuries, the British ruled
Hong Kong for the benefit of the British Empire, not to promote human
rights, nor democracy, nor free markets, all of which were slogans
recently co-opted as Cold War rhetoric to justify continuing colonial
rule in an era of national liberation. To correct these
dysfunctionalities, bold government leadership with political courage
is needed.
The performance of the SAR government has not enjoyed
overwhelming popular approval because the public expects strong
political leadership and bold policies and programs to deal with Hong
Kong's economic woes, while the government is fixated in its passive
role as faithful defender of free-market fundamentalism.
Hong Kong set up a Commission on Strategic Development in
1998 to look decades beyond 1997 to see what sort of community and
economy Hong Kong should be working toward. The commission report, with
a title sounding like a second-rate Madison Avenue ad campaign
("Bringing the Vision to Life - Hong Kong's Long-Term Development Needs
and Goals") identified four strategic themes. One theme is to
strengthen links with mainland China, in particular the prosperous
economies of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Macau, Hong Kong's
neighbors in the Pearl River Delta. The other three are to enhance
competitiveness, improve the quality of life and to reinforce Hong
Kong's identity and image to create a world-class business and living
environment in Hong Kong. The vision is to make Hong Kong a leading
world city, on par with New York and London, as well as to strengthen
its unique position as a major international city in China.
Yet the former madame chief secretary of the civil service,
well trained by the last British governor of Hong Kong (Chris Patten -
now of European Commission fame), repeatedly and forcefully warned
against turning Hong Kong into a Chinese city. It is a peculiar
posture, because New York or London do not feel the need to renounce
their national identity in order to be international centers. Typical
of her compradore spirit, Anson Chan was bent on being more Western
than her British masters. To attract tourists, a Hong Kong Disneyland
is to open in 2005. Surely very few Westerners would come to Hong Kong
to visit Disneyland. Thus the target tourist population would be mainly
Asians, mostly Chinese, an irony that apparently escaped the lady.
Hong Kong has merged its exchanges and clearing houses to
make them more efficient and competitive. The new exchange is forging
strategic alliances with other stock exchanges to capitalize on its
location in the East Asian time zone. Hong Kong opened a growth
enterprise market that is modeled on the Nasdaq to help new companies
with a promising future to raise capital. Hong Kong's
telecommunications sector has been liberalized, following global
trends, with similar controversial outcomes. The unfolding global
telecom debt crisis will not spare Hong Kong, as the Internet and
dotcom bubble burst did not spare Hong Kong. The ill-conceived
CyberPort will be a white elephant memorial to Hong Kong's high-tech
fantasy. No economy can develop a high-tech sector without a research
and development program supported by national defense. Hong Kong's
market culture has been focused on property development and
labor-intensive manufacturing as a result of government policy.
Much talk is heard about offering high-value-added services,
and building a forward-looking community that utilizes innovation and
technology. Yet Hong Kong has the highest concentration of family-owned
and family-run enterprises anywhere, and they are not particularly
known for innovation. In corporate governance, Hong Kong remains a
developing region. With all the fanfare about being a mecca for free
markets, Hong Kong does not have a rule-based competition policy.
To its credit, the SAR government has committed an enormous
amount of resources to the education sector, aiming to create the
best-educated and most well-rounded generation of youth in the history
of Hong Kong. Yet Hong Kong tolerates a protracted and serious brain
drain to the West, mostly to the US, where many of Hong Kong's
brightest have gone for university education and stayed on because they
were not interested in a career in real estate or in joining a family
business. Every week, some recruitment delegation from various regions
of China visits the United States to entice Chinese students,
scientists and professionals with promising opportunities in China.
Few, if any, delegations ever came from Hong Kong. Moreover, a massive
brain drain from Hong Kong to China is currently in process.
Hong Kong commits enormous resources to infrastructure
building. Yet much of the infrastructure serves merely to manage the
overcrowding caused by exorbitant land costs. Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong's
$20-billion airport, Britain's parting gift to Anglo-American
contractors, has great aspirations to be a regional logistics hub, and
the government has said that it will invest even more toward that goal.
But foreign air-cargo companies are put off by the inability to do
onward shipping from the airport. The problem stems from the
government's attempts to protect Cathay Pacific, the airline owned by
one of Hong Kong's oldest conglomerates. Hong Kong needs to liberalize
its air-cargo aviation regime if it wants to be a logistics center for
the modern high-tech and high-value-added world. Also, the
over-investment has produced world-class facilities that must also
charge world-class rates, leaving Hong Kong with a disadvantaged price
Hong Kong cannot independently improve its environmental
standards without close regional cooperation. There are signs that the
whole region has not faced up to the real cost of environmental cleanup
and protection.
The chief executive has proposed to the central government to
devise specific policies in support of Hong Kong's position as an
international financial center, a trade and logistic center, and
tourism center. Specifically, Hong Kong has asked Beijing to recognize
and utilize Hong Kong's established competitive advantages fully when
it makes overall planning for economic development, infrastructure and
other large-scale investments. Hong Kong has it backward. It is Hong
Kong that must adjust to China's developmental needs, not the other way
The chief executive also has proposed the establishment of a
free-trade-area arrangement between Hong Kong and the mainland that
will provide greater opportunity to Hong Kong businesses and
professionals. With this arrangement, Hong Kong hopes to explore fully
the potential for greater economic cooperation within the Pearl River
Delta area. This is of course a logical move. Yet Article 114 of the
Basic Law sets Hong Kong as a free port without tariffs unless
otherwise prescribed by law, and Article 115 sets a policy of free
trade, while Article 116 defines Hong Kong as a separate customs
territory. These articles, so vigorously fought for before 1997, are
now impeding Hong Kong's development.
Still, the most serious challenge facing Hong Kong as an
international finance center is to find its proper place in the global
financial system. The global financial crises caused by US dollar
hegemony that hit Asia on July 2, 1997, is far from over. The
fundamentals behind the crises, developed over a decade of unregulated
finance globalization, have not been addressed at their roots. Most of
the measures adopted so far by the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized
nations, of which the US is the leader, pulling the G22 nations by
their reluctant noses, have to do with bailing out G7 transnational
banks on their foreign loans, and pushing down interest rates to keep
global stock markets artificially high, indicators of fleeting
financial robustness but usually mis-indicators of fundamental economic
health. Wall Street called it the Goldilocks economy, where bad news
was interpreted as good and visa versa by naive investors led by
unprincipled analysts in collusion with fraudulent chief executive
officers. Well, Goldilocks has been abruptly awakened by the bears
demanding to know who has been eating their porridge and sleeping in
their beds.
Asia has experienced sudden financial collapse not because
the goods produced in Asia are suddenly unmarketable worldwide, or
Asian management has suddenly become so inept as to incur unforeseen
losses in Asian companies. It is certainly not the inevitable outcome
of alleged inherent defects in Asian values, as Western analysts claim.
Rather, the collapse is the result of abrupt and recurring ruptures in
the unregulated global system of financial markets.
Beginning in the early 1960s, with the growth of Euromarkets
where banks in one European country could take deposits and make loans
in currencies of other countries, the tight controls of the
international flow of capital set up by the Bretton Woods system of
fixed exchange rates after World War II were in effect bypassed.
Drawing lessons from the 1930s Depression, economic thinking prevalent
immediately after the war had deemed international capital flow
undesirable or unnecessary. When the fixed-exchange-rate system finally
broke down in the early 1970s, the developed countries abandoned
capital controls officially. In the late 1980s, many developing
countries followed suit.
By the end of the last decade, daily turnover of foreign
exchange grew more than 100-fold to over $2 trillion from $190 billion
at the beginning of the decade. By 1996, some $350 billion of private
capital flowed into emerging markets, a sevenfold increase in six
years. For the past two decades, technical imbalances between interest
rates set by different central banks for funds in different currencies
distorted capital flow around the world. The resultant inflow of
capital into Asia through inter-linked financial markets around the
globe outstripped the region's viable absorption rate. Financial
institutions took advantage of low cost funds denominated in currencies
of select countries, namely Japan, Germany and the United States, to
make loans at higher interest rates denominated in local Asian
currencies. These institutions sought to strategically profit from
recurring technical imbalances in global finance by assuming currency
risks. Economists name this development as international arbitrage on
the principle of open interest parity. In banking parlance, this type
of activity is known as "carry trade".
This manipulative speculation was by no means limited to
emerging economies. Corporations based in developed economies routinely
engaged in global financial and stock-market speculation at the expense
of sound production strategies. The public announcement of plans to
open new factories in Asia predictably lifted share values in home
markets, regardless that such factories risked being loss-makers, for
the loss would be more than covered by the increase in market
capitalization. Corporate borrowers in Asia, attracted by low rates in
some foreign currency loans, have also assumed currency risks, at times
even bypassing local banks to borrow directly in debt markets overseas.
Borrowers, anticipating asset inflation brought by run-away growth,
also succumbed to the irresistible temptation of borrowing short-term
to finance long-term projects, thus adding to the risk they assumed.
Simultaneously, many Asian banks have taken local-currency deposits at
low saving rates (in Hong Kong at times at negative interest rates) to
invest overseas in risky foreign-currency instruments yielding higher
returns, engaging in carry trade. Local banks in turn replenished the
depleted local capital pool with low-cost foreign-currency loans from
international banks, taking on both economic and currency risks.
Borrowing low and lending high is the basic business of
banks, and there is nothing wrong with it if the activities occur
within a well-regulated market of a bank's domicile community. With the
advent of global banking, however, the unregulated internationalization
of finance has created perilous systemic stress. Banks began to act as
international loan brokers, profiting from interest-rate spreads
between local and foreign funds, often booking the risk premium added
to weak currency interest rates as legitimate loan profits. These banks
also began to maximize their profits by maximizing loan volume,
abrogating their traditional economic function as responsible financial
pillars of local economies to ensure the productive allocation of
capital. In time, local banks de-coupled their business self-interest
from the economic impacts of their loans on the local economies,
because they hedged the risk in such loans by passing it to overseas
hedge funds which became the real loan originators. Western and
Japanese international banks in turn provided funds to the local broker
banks in Asia whose credit ratings were considered acceptable because
the borrowers' exposures were hedged by instruments designed to
transfer risk to other international institutions. The global
overcapacity in manufacturing is the direct result of this unregulated
financial market.
In effect, the widespread transfer of business risks into
currency risks forced the governments of the affected currencies to
become involuntary lenders of last resort. This is the real effect of
Hong Kong's and other Asian currency pegs to the US dollar. China is
relatively insulated from the financial crisis mainly because the yuan
is not fully and freely convertible.
Hedging does not eliminate risk, it merely passes risk along
to other parties. In fact, complex hedging schemes, with the effect of
reducing the risk exposure of individual lenders and inflating the
credit worthiness of the hedged individual borrowers, when widely
practiced, actually increase systemic risk exposure, initially of
regional financial systems and ultimately of the global system. Yet the
soundness of financial institutions continues to be assessed singularly
within national borders, while financial markets have become
intricately linked globally. A poor credit rating seldom means the
denial of credit. It only means a higher interest rate, which actually
attracts more eager lenders who rationalize that the high risk has been
compensated for by the increased rate.
Through extensive hedging, private financial risks have been
largely socialized globally. The ingenious layering of protection
against risk, while providing comfort to individual players, buys such
comfort at the expense of the security of the total global system. At
some point, the strained circular chain breaks at the weakest link and
panic sets in. For Asia, that break occurred in Thailand on July 1,
Because of this circular system of global hedging, the
economic crises in Asia inevitably spread worldwide. The regional
crises, each with unique local characteristics, are merely early
symptoms of a ticking global time bomb constructed out of the complex
calculus of interlinked financial markets in which countless individual
credit risks are legally masked as sound transactions through
sophisticated hedging. Derivatives, financial instruments which derive
their value from other underlying financial instruments or benchmarks
such as stock indexes or exchange rates, are the cards in the fragile
house of cards built by a financial specialty known as structured
International finance in recent years has been saturated with
disastrous and scandalous abuses that clearly and repeatedly epitomize
the deficiencies of the unregulated global interlinking of financial
markets. Speculators have been blamed for precipitating the run on
currencies that started the financial crises. Yet speculation and risk
management are two sides of the same coin. At the opposite end of a
prudent hedge, a speculator is required. Structured finance enables the
unbundling of risk for marketing to different levels of risk takers,
creating the illusion that risk is neutralized when it is merely
distributed imperceptibly throughout the financial system. In a
structurally flawed system, perfectly honorable businessmen or
institutions, individually normally true to high ethical and financial
standards, can unwittingly participate in systemic games of dubious
Data on the initial six months of the Asian financial crises
show that currency hedging individually by sophisticated businesses and
alert government bodies, domestic and foreign, as protective measures
against foreign-exchange exposures in both debt and revenue, had been
mostly responsible for the sudden currency turmoil in the region. In
international finance, a game of musical chairs in financial risk is in
full force in which the players are handcuffed together through
interlinking hedges between parties unknown to each other. This game
can cause serious systemic rupture when the music stops. Yet world
leaders continue to deny its danger.
A good part of the responsibility of the Asian financial
crises is attributable to international banks not facing up to their
lender liability, a legal concept holding lenders liable for damages if
they knowingly lend beyond any borrower's capacity to handle the loan.
It is convenient for Western creditors to point fingers at Asian crony
capitalism and lack of transparency, but such practices, albeit
undesirable, are not unique to Asia and were certainly not unknown to
lenders when the bad loans were made. Having been permanent cultural
features in many parts of the world, including Asia, such practices
cannot be the direct cause of the region's sudden financial collapse,
any more than its economic success in the recent past.
Instead of focusing on correcting the structural defects of
the unregulated globalization of financial markets, IMF rescue packages
have been devious vehicles for wholesale foreign control of wounded
Asian economies. IMF "off the shelf" rescue approaches have exacerbated
the financial crises in Asia. Moreover, the austerity measures demanded
by IMF economists who are insensitive to local political realities have
turned the economic turmoil into detonators of political instability
throughout the region.
A fundamental problem in world trade finance is the excessive
weight foreign-exchange markets assign to the size of a country's
foreign-exchange reserves as an indicator of economic health and credit
worthiness, despite general recognition by economists that the validity
of this yardstick ended with the age of mercantilism a century ago.
Yet, despite claims of scientific determinism, financial markets are
not free of political bias. And this residual focus on foreign-exchange
reserves is not applied evenly to all economies. Curiously, the United
States, the world's largest debtor nation (carrying $20,000 of
sovereign debt per capita), with two-thirds of all US currency being
held overseas, with severe budget deficits and a history of volatile
fluctuations in the floating exchange rates of its fiat currency, is
considered the safest haven from economic turmoil because of its
perceived political stability and the size of its domestic economy. On
the opposite end, Hong Kong, with its huge foreign-exchange reserves,
perennial budgetary surpluses prior to the Asian financial crises, and
zero sovereign debt, has repeatedly seen its solidly backed currency
under relentless attack in a market artificially fixed by a peg to the
US dollar.
The reason for this is simple. Hong Kong's
linked-exchange-rate mechanism is itself an open admission of no
confidence in its own currency. With a linked-exchange-rate mechanism,
Hong Kong pledges to exchange Hong Kong dollars at a fixed rate to the
US dollar and holds 110 percent equivalent US dollars in reserve for
each Hong Kong dollar in circulation. This currency peg requires local
interest rates to track US rates, plus a country risk premium that is
determined in part by the market's view of the economic viability of
the peg rate. That viability has no economic basis. It is based
entirely on arbitrary political will. Thus, the wider the gap between
the official exchange rate and the market's judgment of the economic
value of the HK dollar, the higher would be the cost of maintaining the
peg. The Hong Kong government also holds most of its foreign exchange
reserves in US dollar denominated instruments, in excess of its
trade-weighted needs.
These arrangements represent a loud and clear declaration
that the US dollar is a sounder currency than the Hong Kong dollar. One
can expect such a discriminatory attitude from the former British
colonial government, but one is at a loss to understand why a new Hong
Kong SAR under Chinese sovereignty would feel the need to hang on to
such a self-defacing political posture. Hong Kong should be reminded
that the US dollar, despite unjustified perceptions of its soundness,
is only as solid as the true state of the US economy at any given time,
and at this moment it is not very sound.
In 1995, after the US Federal Reserve started to increase
interest rates in 1994 and sharply curtailed its own purchase of
treasury bills, triggering the Mexico peso crisis and a subsequent US
slowdown, the Bank of Japan initiated a program to buy $100 billion of
US treasuries. China bought $80 billion. Hong Kong and Singapore bought
$22 billion each. South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the
Philippines together bought $30 billion. The Asian purchase totaled
$260 billion from 1994 to 1997, the entire increase in foreign-held US
dollar reserves. These recycled dollars pushed up stock prices in the
US, forming part of what Fed chairman Alan Greenspan referred to as
"irrational exuberance".
A sharp correction of the stock markets accompanied by an
abrupt slowdown of the US economy was a matter of when and not if, and
it began in late 2000 with the bottom nowhere in sight. Also, the euro
will pose a direct challenge to the US dollar as the preferred currency
for international trade. The financial world is in the process of
shifting from a dollar-centered system to a bipolar dollar-euro system.
Just like the postwar corrections in US markets in 1971-73, 1978-79,
1985-87, which critically stalled the US economy because the
contributing currency overvaluations were permitted to go too far and
for too long, the coming correction which has apparently finally begun
after much delay, will have equally if not more severe adverse economic
This means that when the Asian economies finally are working
themselves out from the damages of the crises that began in 1997, the
US economy stalls and the US dollar falls in value, ending the US as a
market of last resort and the dollar as a safe haven investment. Five
years after the 1929 crash, US president Franklin D Roosevelt was
forced in 1934 to ease monetary policy through a 59 percent devaluation
of the US dollar against gold.
The global financial crises that began in Mexico in 1995 and
hit Asia in 1997 were not mere passing storms or cyclical phases. They
are the opening acts of a historic restructuring of the global economic
system in which the stakes are very high. Economic globalization
requires enlightened nationalism to keep it fair and just. China has
shown signs that it is becoming aware of this fact. Hong Kong as part
of China, despite the peculiar "one country, two systems" arrangement,
cannot be independent of Chinese national interests.
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The New York Giants are 6-2 once again, but head coach Tom Coughlin wasn't interested in that as he took the podium for his weekly press conference. Instead, he was first focused on the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, wishing all well. Then, as you might expect, it was down to business. The pre-practice injury report included a variety of new faces: David Baas (ankle), Antrel Rolle (concussion), Victor Cruz (calf), Rocky Bernard (quad), Chase Blackburn (hamstring), Ahmad Bradshaw (foot), Bear Pascoe (ankle), Kenny Phillips (knee), Keith Rivers (calf) and Jacquian Williams (knee). Of the players listed, Bradshaw, Pascoe, and Rolle will not practice. The good news is that Phillips, Bernard, Cruz and Baas will. And in the event that Phillips is able to return this Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, what does that mean for safety Stevie Brown, who won NFC Player of the Week honors? "Stevie Brown has had an outstanding run here. We'll find ways to involve all [safeties]," Coughlin said. Meanwhile, Coughlin hopes that will be a concern come this weekend, because as of now, Rolle has yet to pass his concussion exams and is not cleared to play. However, the coach doesn't foresee that being a long-lasting issue. Finally, Coughlin praised the Steelers as an all-around tough, physical and versatile team. And in terms of NFL tradition, it really doesn't get any better than this weekend. "It doesn't get anymore traditional than the Steelers and Giants," Coughlin said. And although he wouldn't go into any great detail, one thing will obviously be of significant focus for the defensive front seven this week: put pressure on Ben Roethlisberger. Photo Credit: Mike Gannon Also… Be sure to like Giants 101 on Facebook, follow Giants 101 on Twitter & +1 Giants 101 on Google+ Check out the latest line of GMENShirts, including the new pink version which supports the fight against Breast Cancer Listen to Gameface with The Frattman every Sunday morning at 9 AM EST on 940 ESPN Radio Check out other great articles at Sports Media 101. var switchTo5x=true; stLight.options({publisher:''});
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