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The University of Alabama men's golf team broke out with its best season in the spring, finishing second in the NCAA tournament. Two players who helped the Crimson Tide to the brink of its first national championship will be in action this week at Berkeley Hall.
Bobby Wyatt and Corey Witsett lead a field featuring some of the nation's top amateur golfers at the 13th Players Amateur. The 19-year-old Wyatt is third in the latest Scratch Players World Amateur Rankings. Witsett, 20, is ranked ninth.
One of their star teammates is no longer in the field, however.
Justin Thomas, Golfweek's college player of the year who committed to the tournament last month, was not part of an updated field last week. Thomas played in the Greenbrier Classic, a PGA TOUR event, over the weekend.
The Players Am winner earns an exemption into the next RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island. Past champions include professionals Ben Curtis, Bill Haas, Camilo Villegas, Brian Harman, Rickie Fowler, Mark Anderson, Bud Cauley and Kevin Tway.
"It is tough, because you're giving an amateur a spot instead of a professional who's trying to make his livelihood," tournament director Steve Wilmot said. "But when you've had guys like that who have won, it shows some credibility to the strength of the field, and it's helped the strength of the field."
Last year's winner, Corbin Mills of Clemson, will not return to defend his title. Mills, who missed the cut at the 2012 RBC Heritage in April, turned pro following his junior season this summer.
Wilmot said that each year's field is determined in large part by two factors: Which college stars decide to turn pro after their seasons end, and scheduling.
This year's Players Am is being held the same week as the U.S. Amateur Public Links championship in Utah. The winner of that tournament, which Mills also won in 2011, receives an invitation to the Masters.
"That could affect some of their travel plans," Wilmot said. "And you never know the standpoint of players turning pro, like Patrick Cantlay from UCLA this year. But those things are out of our control."
The current field includes two other college All-Americans: Stanford's Andrew Yun and Virginia's Ben Kohles.
Matthew NeSmith of North Augusta, a South Carolina signee who won the 2011 Junior Heritage, provides some local flavor. The University of South Carolina Beaufort's Luke McClellan has qualified, as well as Matt Cheng, an International Junior Golf Academy student, and Mike Balzer, a former IJGA student.
This is Berkeley Hall's first year as host of the Players Am. General manager Adrian Morris said the club's South course, with its bermuda greens, is set up to withstand high July temperatures.
"We're just getting the golf course ready," he said. "The rough is cut at about 2 1/2 inches. The green speeds are at 13 or a little faster. The course is drying fast, so it will be a good test."


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The seductive art of the striptease is one that takes a lot of skill.
This woman has not learned that art. At all.
You could say her routine was so bad that she ended up with egg on her face, but that wouldn't be accurate because we can't tell what exactly is on the table.
Whatever the case, she may want to think about different ways of passing the time.

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17 comments:
- Libby said...
Quilting, the wool mill, antique shops and Starbucks - that's a week off I could get on board with *s*
- January 6, 2012 at 7:39 AM
- AnnieO said...
Candace, I picture you as one of those folks who is so busy in retirement you wonder how you had time to work! So glad your days are filled to the brim, especially with some sewing. Vinnie was getting lonely, right?
- January 6, 2012 at 8:54 AM
- Barb said...
Love your picture....have fun playing!!
- January 6, 2012 at 10:09 AM
- Lisa D. said...
Your blocks are beautiful! I love the branch, I think it looks artful. Have fun with Vinnie!
- January 6, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Ulla said...
Great job with the Christmas quilt. Taking some time for yourself is good!
- January 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM
- Linda said...
I just love your little blocks, Candace!! It's going to be a darling little quilt! I think the branch is fabulous. I noticed it right away!! Can't wait to see what you quilt up on Vinnie!!
- January 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM
- Kaaren said...
Isn't retirement grand?
Love the colors in your 12 Days of Christmas blocks. Weren't they fun to do? I'm thinking of doing another one in red and white.
Have fun playing with Vinnie. I'm looking forward to seeing your newest creation.
- January 6, 2012 at 2:18 PM
- Louise said...
I too am on board with Sheryl's little 12 days of Christmas quilt. Just the right project to work on following the holidays.
I am pulling from my collection of civil wars with mostly red,tans and cream. Like the fabrics you chose to go with.
Happy New Year! Thank you for your devotion to your blog!
- January 6, 2012 at 3:23 PM
- Stephanie said...
I do love the colors in your cute little blocks. The branch added just the right zing to the photo. :o) Sounds like you and Mr. Squash had a day filled with goodness.
- January 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Raewyn said...
It's neat to see how many people are doing the 12 days of Christmas - Your wee blocks are looking great :-) I've just come from Carrie's blog after seeing the lovely pincushion you made her - just wondering if you mind if I borrow that idea for some of my sewing gifts this year?
- January 6, 2012 at 5:40 PM
- Me and My Stitches said...
Sounds like a good week off! Can't wait to see your quilt when you and Vinnie get finished.
- January 6, 2012 at 6:28 PM
- Jackie said...
I'm glad to hear you took a week off. I like the branch which you used to stage your blocks. You know, I"m not sure I ever saw a dogwood tree. I'm looking forward to seeing your 12 Days after it spends some time with Vinnie.
- January 6, 2012 at 7:14 PM
- Mary said...
You need to take more weeks off. You deserve it!
- January 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM
- Anita said...
I love the red & neutral colors together. So beautiful! And some time off to just be without doing anything pressing or urgent is good. We did that over Christmas as well.
- January 8, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- Lynn said...
My friend just told me about the 12 days of Christmas project and then I went to your blog and saw your blocks. I love the colors you selected. It is going to be adorable.
- January 8, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- Carrie P. said...
I think those are perfect ways to take a break.
Sweet little blocks. I have been seeing them around on other blogs.
Looking forward to seeing your quilt when it is finished.
- January 10, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Carrie P. said...
Oh, forgot to tell you that I really like your version of the Anna bag. Great handles.
Didn't think I should enter the giveaway since I have so many bags myself.
- January 10, 2012 at 7:38 AM


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NEWPORT BEACH — David Frost has had a hot start on the Champions Tour this year with three top-10 finishes in as many events, but a win has eluded him.
He was able to stay loose despite cold temperatures at Newport Beach Country Club to finish as the first-round leader, carding an eight-under-par 63 Friday at the Toshiba Classic.
Fred Couples is one shot behind and Jim Gallagher Jr. is at 66 heading into the second of three rounds.
Frost's bogey-free round featured eight birdies, including five on the back nine.
"I'm not trying to be cocky but I feel a lot more relaxed," the 53-year-old South African said of his recent run. "I don't feel too much pressure in my game, and it allows me a lot more freedom. And so what if I hit one or two bad shots? I feel that things are quite in place and until things go wrong, then I'll start worrying."
Frost, a 10-time PGA Tour winner, closed out 2012 just as strong as he started this year with three top-10 finishes, including a victory at the AT&T; Championship in San Antonio for his third win on the Champions Tour.
The 56-degree cold didn't bother Couples, who said he's tight all the time, issues stemming from a troublesome back.
"I don't want to say it's an advantage for me," said Couples, the 2010 Toshiba champion. "I don't like feeling really cold and tight because I just came from the desert where it was 90 degrees and I practiced for a few days. I was never really loose. It was hot, but this is for me fine, great weather."
Couples, who has 15 wins on the PGA Tour and eight on the Champions Tour, birdied the par-four, 339-yard first hole, one of eight in his first round. He bogeyed the par-four 10th.
Gallagher was the early leader in the first round, at seven under through 16 holes, and he needed to be. His career-victories exemption status on the Champions Tour ends next week and he needs a win to stay on it.
Gallagher, who has his brother Jeff as his caddie, went bogey-bogey the final two holes. But he also had an eagle on the par-five third hole, helping him to his best round in his two years on the Champions Tour.
"You know, you can fight it like you did last year," Gallagher said, "or you can just play and take this as an opportunity, not as a death sentence."
He'll play on a sponsor's exemption next week at the Mississippi Golf Resort Classic.
Bernhard Langer, a two-time Masters champion who won the Toshiba Classic in 2008, is one of four who are four shots behind Frost, along with Chien Soon Lu, D.A. Weibring and Barry Lane.
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The most stinging indictment of contemporary trends in higher education came from Chicago political theorist Allan Bloom's surprising 1986 bestseller The Closing of the American Mind, provocatively subtitled How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Bloom had been a young professor during the 1960s at Cornell, the scene of some the decade's most egregious offenses against common academic decency. But although students had the wrong enthusiasms then, in the 1980s he found their minds were so dulled by popular culture—especially Dionysian rock and roll—that they were utterly incapable of experiencing the love of learning in what ought to be the "charmed years" of their education. Apathy had replaced fervency.
This was in part a consequence of the rise of multiculturalism, which explicitly denied the superiority of Western civilization, uncritically celebrated non-Western cultures, and promoted philosophical and moral relativism. Such relativism impoverished students' souls by fostering a kind of indifference, preventing the possibility of coming to love the search for wisdom. After all, if every culture has its own "truth," incommunicable to other cultures, then why spend any time in the quest for truth? True wisdom does not need to be sought if it does not objectively exist; that would be like setting out to hunt for unicorns. Bloom lamented the fragmentation of the academic disciplines—the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences lacked integration. It seemed that the only path to any resembling real knowledge lay exclusively through the natural sciences.
But Bloom did not call for a restoration of theology. Philosophy was his queen. Bloom claimed that the university was fundamentally a product of the Enlightenment, intended to be a safe haven for the unconstrained exercise of speculative reason by philosophers. Since he believed that America was also a product of the Enlightenment and founded on reason alone, the decline of Socratic philosophy in the university bode ill for the future of American democracy. As had many other thinkers before him, beginning with Plato in his Republic, Bloom affirmed an intimate connection between the quality of citizens' education and the health of a republic.
Though admitting shortcomings, Bloom recommended a Great Books curriculum (effectively meaning the Great Books of the Western tradition) as the best solution to the vacuity of contemporary higher education. The Great Books, he thought, would expose students to the best that has been thought and said in the world. By introducing students to the finest minds in Western history, and letting them have unmediated, open-ended dialogue with them, the Great Books would sharpen students' intellects for their own ongoing philosophic quest.
Bloom's book was a success because it exuded a love for the philosophic life and touched raw nerves in academia and in America more generally. Not surprisingly, Bloom was condemned as a reactionary crank by establishment liberals in universities and the media. But more traditional conservatives were also critical. They applauded his diagnosis of contemporary ills, but expressed strong reservations about his prescriptions. Students could not just pick up the Great Books and understand them without knowledge of the historical and intellectual context in which they were written. Many doubted that a Great Books approach would teach students anything beyond how to read and interpret texts. Simply reading and interpreting texts would not teach philosophic habits of mind. It would produce students who were oversophisticated, seeking sophistication for its own sake, but not believing that there was any real truth to grasp beyond the play of interpretations. These solitary philosophers would lack Newman's gentlemanly wisdom and the true love that gives rise to philosophy. Finally, conservatives rejected Bloom's claim that the United States, and the modern university, were fundamentally products of the Enlightenment and dedicated to perpetuating it. Instead of being a safe place for philosophers to exercise unconstrained reason, they pointed out that the university was a product of medieval Christendom, rightly concerned with training philosophic reason to function within a tradition of faith.
In spite of conservatives' penetrating criticisms of American higher education, the forces arrayed against defenders of the liberal arts—entrenched administrative bureaucracies and tenured radicals—have frustrated reform efforts. Just as when God and Man at Yale came out, university administrations still take money from alumni and use it to fund programs that subvert the religious and political beliefs alumni and the American people generally hold dear. A vast array of institutions have been established to expose the ideological imbalance of faculties and the sheer inanity of much that goes on in American institutions of higher education and to protect students against persecution motivated by political correctness. Another way conservatives have responded is by forming alternate institutions. New liberal arts colleges have been founded to transmit liberal learning, some with curricula based on the Great Books, others rooted the scholastic tradition. New institutes have also been founded within existing universities to carve out programs in which students may pursue a liberal education. Alternative associations of academics like the National Association of Scholars and the Historical Society were formed to promote free inquiry and genuine scholarship unprejudiced by ideology. Summer institutes offered by private educational organizations like ISI help students fill in the lacunae in their higher education. Guides for students in schools that have little or no core requirements have been written to help students cobble together a liberal arts curriculum for themselves.
All these conservative initiatives serve both William F. Buckley's and John Henry Newman's purposes. When a young person is able to imbibe deeply of the Western tradition, he is able practically to defend our civilization in the cultural and political realms, yet he is not a mere cadre for the culture wars. The current massive decline in students' civic literacy—knowledge of basic American principles, texts, and institutions—is a symptom of a larger loss of concern for objective, knowable, and valuable truth, the traditional end of a liberal education. The liberally educated man or woman has been formed by the pursuit of truth with the foundational texts of the West informing all his thinking, and so he possesses a natural allegiance to truth in all realms of human endeavor. The ordered course of a liberal education produces two fruit from the same tree: a love for truth itself, and a love for the ordered liberty that is our Western heritage.
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Welcome to Up the Creek, y'all! In honor of the 15th anniversary of Dawson's Creek – which premiered on Jan. 20, 1998, and which filmed here in Wilmington – we're revisiting season one, one episode at a time. I'm Kate Elizabeth Queram, the StarNews environment reporter/former weather blogger, which obviously makes me perfectly suited to be your guide here (I totally bet that creek has water quality issues). I've never watched the show – though I think I tuned in for the very last episode SO I DO KNOW WHO JOEY ENDS UP WITH OMG – so please join me as I see the first season for the first time. New posts will go up every Friday. Legal parameters force me to say that all screencaps, and the teenage angst contained therein, are the property of Sony Television. Let's hit the creek.
In the opening scene of episode 9 (real title: "Roadtrip"), Dawson laments his breakup with Jen by listening to Savage Garden (freakin' Savage Garden) and staring longingly out the window. Joey calls him an idiot and yells at him for being sad. Glad to see that this, the dysfunctional foundation of their weird friendship, remains intact.
In the next scene, someone other than Joey is climbing a ladder. AND HEY-O, IT'S BROODY MCCONVERTIBLE!
Never mind that he's never been inside Gram's house so it seems unlikely that he would know which window is Jen's. This is a great moment for everyone who was wondering if Gram had screens in her windows. She doesn't. If you were wondering, then, if she kept the windows closed to keep the bugs out, the answer to that is also no.
Anyway, Broody climbs into Jen's room and walks around snooping for a while, then lays on the bed (as you do) just in time for Gram to walk in and find him. She reacts pretty calmly, not pulling out a crucifix and waving it at him like you might expect, but just asking Jen to come upstairs and bring the phone.
Turns out that Broody somehow heard that Jen broke up with Dawson (seriously, how would he hear this?) and so he stuck around Capeside. Jen tells him she's not looking to replace Dawson, which makes Broody angry. "YOU'VE CHANGED," he says, and then he leaves, once again using the window, even though Gram knows he's there now and so he could, ostensibly, use the door.
Naturally, the first thing Broody does after leaving Jen's house is go stalk Dawson downtown, because sure, why not. He tells Dawson that Jen's not the only girl in the world and that he's willing to take Dawson to a club in Rhode Island where easy college girls hang out. Essentially what's happening here is that Broody is trying to get Dawson laid. Nothing in this scenario computes.
Joey's walking to school when a jock driving a Jeep slows down to hit on her and offer her a ride, so I guess he never heard about that other jock who she punched in the lunch line. The jock is played by this guy:
who's been in basically everything, including What Women Want, which is ironic because in this scene he doesn't really know anything about women want. He basically spends his screen-time alternately hitting on Joey and then bashing her relationship with Dawson and her virginity. She tells him, haughtily, that she is totally a virgin by choice and mostly it seems like this ride was a mistake for everyone involved.
At school, Dawson tells Pacey about his impending trip with Broody and Pacey immediately declares that he's coming. They're skipping school to do this but I guess they had to come to school beforehand so that Dawson could turn in his math homework, so, you know, facepalm. Broody shows up in the hallway and he and Pacey run into Jen, so Broody immediately tells her that he's taking Dawson to Rhode Island for a sweet bachelors' night out. Jen says the last thing Dawson needs is to be hanging out with Broody McConvertible, and Broody
responds by saying that Dawson was complaining about how it was hard to get laid in Capeside so now he's taking him to Providence, where apparently everyone gets laid all the time. This is clearly a slam on Jen, and I feel sort of bad for her because we can't go one episode without someone either slut-shaming her for her sexual past, or virgin-shaming her for her celibate life now.
She never really stands up for herself, though, she just makes that face, so maybe she's fine with it. Anyway, Joey somehow comes to think that Broody is taking Dawson to a whorehouse (literally, she uses the word "whorehouse"), an assumption that Broody doesn't correct. The boys leave for the promise land, and Jen immediately corners Joey and asks if she had sex with Warren, the jock with the Jeep. Joey is all, "I AM A VIRGIN BY CHOICE," and Jen says, "Well, good for you, but he's telling everyone you did the deed with him." This is Joey's reaction:
She confronts Warren in the lunchroom and he doesn't deny spreading the rumor, but tells her she should just go with it because it'll be great for both of their reputations – his as a jock with venereal disease, and hers as a girl that maybe someone would ever want to date, ever. Joey is not pleased, and as she turns to leave Warren says, loudly, "LOOK, I NEVER SAID I'D BE YOUR BOYFRIEND." Everyone in the cafeteria laughs and starts whispering. This is Joey's reaction:
Then she flounces out of the cafeteria in a flounce that would make Dawson proud. Jen, probably accustomed to trailing after the Dawson flounce, follows her and says she has a way they can get revenge on Warren.
Meanwhile, the boys are taking a ferry to Rhode Island. Pacey tells Dawson it's so weird that he's skipping school 'cause he's normally such a well-behaved guy. Dawson gets angry, the way he does whenever Pacey pokes him verbally, so a few minutes later when they notice some drunk guys harassing an old lady on the ferry's lower deck
Dawson decides to prove his manhood by doing something stupid to teach the men a lesson.
Joey's making copies when 34-year-old Abby bursts in to confront her about the sex with Warren.
Joey starts crying and tells the 34-year-old that she had an entire relationship with Warren and that he was really sweet, "until the pee strip turned blue," at which point he told her that their impending lovechild was "her problem and her problem only." The 34-year-old is appropriately shocked, calls Warren "a little puke" and leaves the office. Once she's gone Joey immediately drops the sad face and returns to making copies. This, I guess, is Jen's brilliant plan for revenge – taking one untrue rumor and extrapolating it into a more harmful and ridiculous rumor. DID TAMARA AND PACEY TEACH US NOTHING, LADIES?
Dawson's revenge plan consists of chaining the drunk guys' car to the ferry.
The drunk guys don't notice because they're busy pouring beer on the old lady's windshield.
I mean this ferry ride is clearly like seven hours long so who knows why that woman is even still in her car, she's gonna suffocate. Maybe they were just worried about her health. When the ferry pulls in, Pacey moons the drunk guys and they get mad, gun their engine and their truck, chained to the ferry, falls apart. Honestly, the drunk guys don't even seem that upset, probably because they're all drunk
but Dawson is really proud of himself.
When they get to the bar it's suddenly nighttime so I guess it was a long ferry ride and then a long drive from the bridge. Broody is doing his best to educate Dawson and Pacey about how to find a girl at a bar. Quantity over quality, y'all, you just hit on them relentlessly until you find one who bites. Dawson scans the crowd and, of course, spies a girl wearing a shirt with some movie reference I don't understand, so he goes to hit on her. His pickup line is, "Hi. My name is Dawson." She is unimpressed. She is also in her mid-30s.
Eventually he wears her down, though, as is his wont, so we learn that her name is Nina. She fishes for compliments, but Dawson doesn't understand anything and tells her that it was really just her shirt that attracted him to her. Instead of ending the conversation there like a sane human, she says, "Are you a film buff?" and ugh, this girl sucks.
After a teacher encourages her to enroll in a family-planning class, Joey goes to Jen's and suggests they call off their weird revenge plan. Jen says that Warren deserves what he's getting, and somehow the conversation devolves into a fight about Dawson (probably just because he ruins everything). Jen tells Joey that ever since she broke up with Dawson, Joey's been scared, because now she has no reason not to go after Dawson, and when he rejects her – AND HE WILL – she'll have no one to blame but herself. This is Joey's reaction:
Broody comes over and tries to swoop in on Dawson and Nina, but Nina isn't into it and asks Dawson if he wants to leave with her. Outside Dawson acts all squirrelly, and Nina tells him that it's kind of obvious that he and his friends were just trying to score with girls. He says that he just got dumped and so he was kinda sorta looking for some breakup sympathy sex, and Nina kind of agrees to give it to him but at the least second he says he kind of still wants Jen back so he shouldn't sleep with Nina. They kiss, and then Nina leaves. Dodged a bullet, girl.
At a college fair at school, the 34-year-old tells Jen that she knows Joey made up the whole pregnancy rumor to try to land Warren as her boyfriend. She knows this because her friend dated Warren and he was, shall we say, unable to perform during sex, which of course means that he must always be unable to perform all the time with anyone and thus would be unable to impregnate Joey.
Dawson comes back into the bar and Broody tells him that it's pretty clear how he blew things with Jen, since he was unable to seal the deal with Nina. Dawson says he knows that Broody just wanted Dawson to get laid so that Broody could tell Jen about it, thus destroying any chance of them reuniting. Broody gets hella pissed and ditches Dawson and Pacey at the bar. In Rhode Island.
Joey confronts Warren in the hallway and tells him she knows that he's incapable of having sex, and that if he doesn't clear this whole thing up she's going to tell everyone. Warren says fine, but that he only picked her up that morning because "I thought it would be nice" and then he proceeds to ask her out on a date. I mean, they just spent an entire day destroying each others' reputations by claiming to have had sex and a love child, but sure, I could see how that could blossom into a loving and healthy relationship. This is Joey's reaction:
Jen's reading by the light of six tapered candles.
She'll be wearing glasses before she's 20 if she keeps that up. Joey comes in with a bag of ice cream and they dig in, and then, because she's apparently incapable of talking about anything else, Jen asks if it's possible to keep Dawson from coming between them. Joey says, "Yeah, he's only in love with one of us, so," and Jen says, "You're right." She gives Joey meaningful eyes, so I suppose that means it's Joey.
Joey changes the subject by asking if Jen thinks Dawson has had sex with a hooker yet. Smooth!
It's morning and more Savage Garden is playing, great! Joey's waiting in Dawson's room when he gets back and asks him if he got "everything you went there for." She asks him to tell her about the trip and he says he wants to, but he's too tired. "But for a while, nothing reminded me of Jen," he says, then gives an extremely fake yawn to remind us that he's tired.
Joey tucks him in, whispers, "Yeah. I can wait." And then. She just sits there. And watches him sleep. Ostensibly for the next eight hours.
I just. Can't.


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From time to time, countries experience rapid economic growth without a significant decline in poverty. India's GDP growth rate accelerated in the 1990s and 2000s, but poverty continued to fall at the same pace as before, about one percentage point a year. Despite 6-7 percent GDP growth, Tanzania and Zambia saw only a mild decline in the poverty rate. In the first decade of the 21st century, Egypt's GDP grew at 5-7 percent a year, but the proportion of people living on $5 a day—and therefore vulnerable to falling into poverty—stagnated at 85 percent.
In light of this evidence, the World Bank has set as its goals the elimination of extreme poverty and promotion of shared prosperity. While the focus on poverty and distribution as targets is appropriate, the public actions required to achieve these goals are not very different from those required to achieve rapid economic growth. This is not trickle-down economics. Nor does it negate the need for redistributive transfers. Rather, it is due to the fact that economic growth is typically constrained by policies and institutions that have been captured by the non-poor (sometimes called the rich), who have greater political power. Public actions that relax these constraints, therefore, will both accelerate growth and transfer rents from the rich to the poor.
Some examples illustrate the point.
Macroeconomic stabilization. Macroeconomic instability undermines growth and hurts poor people. A particular type of instability is when countries run significant current account deficits. In these cases, the real exchange rate is overvalued. But a devaluation is resisted because an overvalued exchange rate makes imports—something the rich consume—cheaper. Meanwhile, the poor, many of whom rely on tradable agriculture for their incomes, suffer. When the currency is finally devalued, as was the case with the CFA Franc in West and Central Africa in 1994, exports and overall growth accelerates, and poverty falls. To be sure, the higher domestic price of imports may hurt the urban poor, but this should be addressed with targeted safety nets, not by persisting with the overvalued exchange rate.
Trade reform. Based on the "infant-industry" argument, many countries protected their industries from import competition with tariffs. Unfortunately, the "infants" never grew up: they were captured by politically powerful people who demanded subsidies to remain in business, without any increase in productivity (the Morogoro shoe factory in Tanzania, for instance, never exported a single pair of shoes). Trade reform raised wages of relatively unskilled workers (who were abundant in poor countries) and lowered returns to capital (owned by the rich) in protected industries. It also stimulated growth because the economy was producing to its comparative advantage (low-skilled labor). The resulting employment creation and cheaper imports led to a decline in poverty. This was the experience of Latin America and East Asia. In Africa, the first wave of trade liberalization ran into difficulty because governments were not prepared for the loss in tariff revenues. Following the introduction of broad-based tax instruments, such as the value added tax, subsequent reforms have had a favorable effect on poverty and growth in Africa. In North African countries like Tunisia and Egypt, trade liberalization was accompanied by the capture of a number of non-tradable industries, such as banking, telecommunications and transport, by the firms connected to the political leaders. The resulting high monopoly prices of non-tradable inputs to the exporting sector meant that exports, and therefore employment, never took off. In this case, the reforms needed to stimulate employment—increased competition in the non-tradable sectors—are the same as those needed to accelerate growth.
Agriculture. In low-income countries, most of the poor earn their living from agriculture. To reduce poverty, we need to increase agricultural productivity, which not only increases poor people's incomes but also permits some of them to move to higher-productivity occupations in urban areas. The resulting structural transformation leads to higher growth and lower poverty—the pattern that all successful developing countries have followed.
Public action therefore should be aimed at increasing agricultural productivity and facilitating labor's moving to higher-productivity occupations. Unfortunately, many policies are captured by the non-poor before they can have these effects. For instance, fertilizer subsidies typically go to the largest farmers with only marginal productivity effects. Even when the fertilizer is distributed through the market using a voucher system, a study in Tanzania found that 60 percent of the vouchers went to families of elected officials.
Infrastructure. It is now well-established that infrastructure (bridges, roads, electricity grids, water networks) is important for economic growth. It is also a fact that poor people have the least access to infrastructure. So as a first cut, public action that increases poor people's access to infrastructure will increase the quantity of infrastructure and generate growth.
But there is a more subtle way infrastructure, growth and poverty interact. Infrastructure services are extremely inefficiently delivered in most countries. Except for South Africa and Kenya, no country in Africa has a solvent electric utility. The reason is that electricity tariffs are considerably below costs. Not only does this underpricing lead to power cuts and dilapidated grids, but it contributes to excluding poor people from the grid. Politicians, who control the utility, make sure the cheap electricity goes to neighborhoods of their political clients. Poor people resort to candlepower, which costs about four times the meter rate. Ironically, increasing tariffs to costs may increase poor people's access to electricity, because the utility is now accountable to the customer and not the politician. Needless to say, this is also the reason why politicians resist tariff increases.
Education and Health. Another well-established result is that human capital drives a country's long-term economic growth. And it is the poor, rather than the rich, who lack human capital. The rich have both the incentives and the means to educate their children and keep them healthy. So an increase in the stock of human capital will mean that more poor people get educated and healthy.
The situation is more complicated when we realize that the rich have already captured public resources in both education and health. Governments spend about 200 times as much per student on higher education as they do on primary education. Yet about 60 percent of students at universities come from the richest quintile of the population. Public spending in health is overwhelmingly skewed towards hospitals, the lion's share of which goes to the richest quintiles. As a consequence, governments under-spend on public goods such as immunization, which are likely to benefit the poor (the rich will immunize their kids without government assistance). Worse still, the quality of primary education and primary health care—which is what matters for poor people's human capital—is appalling. Teachers in public primary schools in India, Tanzania, Kenya and Senegal are absent about 25 percent of the time; doctors in primary clinics are absent about 40 percent of the time. The people earning these rents—the absentee teachers and doctors—come from the richest 10 percent in their countries. In sum, by rationalizing public spending in health and education towards public goods, and by restructuring incentives to deliver quality services, governments can both enhance growth and reduce poverty.
Almost a century ago, Charles Wilson said, "What is good for the country is good for General Motors—and vice versa." The present-day equivalent is, "What is good for the poor is good for economic growth—and vice versa."
Dear Mr. Devarajan,
Dear Mr. Devarajan,
Thank you for a well written and simply stated article on growth and poverty reduction. However, I have a comment on your statement on India's rate of poverty reduction in para 1. You state that "India's GDP growth rate accelerated in the 1990s and 2000s, but poverty continued to fall at the same pace as before, about one percentage point a year." This statement is not true for the decade starting from 2000. The World Bank website on its India page has published the following data. Poverty headcount ratio went down from 37.2% in 2005 to 21.9% in 2012. That means in 7 years poverty went down by 15.3%, making the annual rate of poverty reduction to be 2.18%. You are aware the Indian economy grew at 8 to 9 % during most of this period. India's performance in poverty reduction cannot be compared with Tanzania and Zambia, which have seen commodity led growth with very low growth elasticity of poverty.
L K Atheeq
Dear Mr. Atheeq: Thank you
Dear Mr. Atheeq: Thank you for your comment. I was using an earlier estimate (also from the World Bank) of India's poverty rate during the 1990s and early 2000s. During this period, growth was over 7 percent and poverty was declining at about one percent a year. You are right that, after 2005, the pace of poverty reduction has picked up. Perhaps this means that poverty reduction accelerates with a lag of about 10 years. Incidentally, while Zambia's growth was commodity-led, Tanzania's was not. It is only recently that Tanzania has become a major mineral producer. Shanta
Well written article. It
Well written article. It underpins my argument i had with a friend regarding high GDP growth not necessarily benefitting the entire population of a country. Agreed, a lot more needs to be done on redistribution of the nstional cake.
Dear Mungai: Thanks for your
Dear Mungai: Thanks for your comment. High GDP growth does not necessarily benefit the entire population usually because of high commodity prices (for commodity exporters). These high prices enable the rich to capture the rents, so the poor don't share in the nation's wealth. My point though was that, if you wanted to achieve high growth through public policies (as opposed to waiting for high commodity prices), those policies are the same as those that help the poor.
This articles make me see the
This articles make me see the world!
Thank you for those nice
Thank you for those nice words. This is what we aim to do.
What about the link between
What about the link between economic growth and democracy? Is there a direct correlation? And how does that affect poverty?
Sabira, thanks for your
Sabira, thanks for your question. The overall correlation between democracy and growth (across countries) is not very strong, although it's mildly positive. The relationship with poverty is similarly weak but negative, because of growth's strong effect on poverty reduction. Even at the micro level, the existence of democracy does not guarantee against the capture of rents by elites. The reason is that elections are not a fool-proof way of citizens' holding their leaders accountable. People may vote along ethnic lines, for instance, in which case politicians don't need to deliver results to the poor in order to be elected. Democracy is probably necessary for pro-poor growth, but is clearly not sufficient.
Many thanks for the reply
Many thanks for the reply Shanta. Totally agree that democracy is about accountability. Is there any data from countries with strong accountability mechanisms?
Sabira, the World Governance
Sabira, the World Governance Indicators measures accountability for some 140 countries over about 10 years, this should give you some cross country data to look at accountability and democracy. Shanta
Thanks again Shanta.
Thanks again Shanta.
This article sheds so much
This article sheds so much light on the exact topic being discussed in my undergraduate economics class, 'Economic growth and structural change in Nigeria'. The fact that Nigeria is also a developing country makes its growth pattern very similar to the countries mentioned above. Currently, the growth rate is about 6.5% on the average, yet resources are very poorly distributed, with a widening gap between the rich and poor and Agriculture employing a very large percentage of the labor force, and so on. Thanks a lot for this article. Was doing some research on my class work and I stumbled on this via my email. I hope to see more of such helpful articles.
All these points resonate and
All these points resonate and reflect what I have seen myself with people we knew well.
India decades ago had very strong incentives for small scale industry development - plots of land in the industrial areas at favorable prices, licenses (in the days of the license raj), electric connections and loans. Rather than benefit the meritorious, what happened was exactly what Shanta described - the well connected and their families got these benefits.
In many cases, these beneficiaries simply resold the land, licenses etc. to actual businessmen at significant profits, sometimes staying on as paper owners.
Where they did try to run these businesses themselves, they generally did not do that well as they had no expertise in that area.
I will attend your coming
I will attend your coming lecture at Wellesley College. I am a Davis Scholar graduating on 2015 on Environmental Studies and would be grateful for your thoughts on economic models tat are planned specifically to accelerate economic growth that rely on extraction of mineral and natural resources. This is the case in my native country (Brasil) for the past three administrations. Indeed, the focus on the economic model for accelerated economic growth works, but at the expense of the environment and with great harm to the most vulnerable groups of our societies. I would be grateful if you share some thoughts on this. Best. Cristina
Cristina: Thanks for your
Cristina: Thanks for your question, and I look forward to meeting you at Wellesley. An economic model based on mineral extraction has proved to be difficult to implement, not only for the reasons you suggest, namely the effect on the environment and harm to vulnerable groups, but also because mineral rents accrue directly to the government, so there is less scrutiny over how governments spend these rents (as opposed to taxes, which citizens pay to government, and therefore demand accountability). This is why we see poor human-development outcomes, for instance, in oil-rich countries in Africa, such as Gabon or Equatorial Guinea. There are solutions to this problem, however, such as transferring mineral rents as direct dividend payments to citizens, and then taxing them. Regards, Shanta


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I often, as you might guess, struggle to feel positive about stuff. Any small knock can send me spiralling into an unwashed, disconsolate, uninspired, make-up free bundle of nerves. In recent times, Kitty being ill has been a sure-fire way of me plummeting into despair. A tiny cough, a bout of teething, a sticky eye and I'm moping round the house with eye bags and dirty hair, snapping at my husband and refusing to do any washing up or laundry.
But recently, I've been fighting back. Kitty's been ill for about a week now. Started with a hacking cough, graduated to full-on fever, dull eyes, sporadic weeping (mainly at 3am) etc. It's been pretty tough. Our new plan of action is to have dinner eaten by 8pm and be in bed asleep by 9pm so that when 2/3am comes around and with it an hour or so of analgesic administration, cooing and soothing, we are prepared for it and not utterly fucked by 7am the next morning because we stayed up until 11pm watching Borgen.
My other plan of action is to get up the next morning, have a shower, wash my hair, put on fresh clothes and put my old ones in the wash. I make an effort to keep the house tidy, I try to make dinner every night, rather than barking "Let's just get a takeaway" at my husband.
It helps, it works. This illness, although with its persistent blubbery hacking cough, feverishness, sleeplessness and general horror, has been the longest and worst illness Kitty has had to date, hasn't sent me quite into the depths of despair that it would have done 6 months ago.
And so when the sun came out yesterday and I had a rush of blood to the head having smelled spring on the breeze, (like a demented Carwash in Will o' the Wisp), I decided to bake something.
I have been meaning for a long time to make a lot of things out of the Leon 2 cookbook, which is about baking and puddings. Recipe Rifle's very own pork pie is in there - with a picture and everything - on pages 284/5. And Henry, a friend of my husband's, who runs Leon, remarked the other day that I hadn't mentioned the cookbook once here. That's because I can't see what good it would do them and I'm staggered that he noticed, but still I took the hint.
And then Henry and his wife Jemima, who as coincidence would have it was my first ever boss, went and had a(nother) baby! Little Dorothy "Dory" Dilys Dimbleby. What a little peach she is. And my husband Giles is her godfather, which really means that I get to go absolutely bonkers with his credit card twice a year.
Let me tell you a story about my godfather. His name is Sir Douglass Wass and he was, I think, my dad's boss when dad
But it didn't stop me from thinking that it was something about me, something I'd done, that made him not especially interested in fulfilling his godfatherly duties. It left me feeling really quite shit about myself, seeing as my other sisters had perfectly normally functioning godparents. And next-eldest didn't have a wretched christening either.
So I can now, at last, lay a bad godparenting ghost to rest by being, via Giles, the world's best, most extravagant and mad godparent ever to Dory. I have started by purchasing a new hat for the christening.
And I am following this up with a banana bread baked in her honour. Yes I know it's more bananas, but I need the potassium, okay? And this banana bread is absolutely outstanding - much better than the other banana bread recipe on here. It is very banana-y, it's basically a lot of bananas held together with eggs and flour.
One of my favourite readers, Oraleek, just made the other banana bread, I note via my comments, and I feel very bad that she's been diddled out of making this one because I didn't post in time. But what can I say - life stinks.
Banana bread from the Leon 2 cookbook
50g pecan nuts
150 veg oil
200g dark brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
350g ripe skinned bananas
75g natural yoghurt
1 tsp bicarb of soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
225g wholemeal spelt flour (yes they sell this in Waitrose)
1 extra banana, peeled
2 tbs caster sugar
1 Pre-heat your oven to 170C and butter a 2lb loaf tin and line it (YES you must do this, don't be lazy) and line a baking sheet, too.
2 Spread the pecans out over the baking sheet and toast in the oven for about 5 mins until golden and smelling yummy. you could probably also do this in a dry frying pan
3 In a bowl whisk together the oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs
4 In another bowl, roughly mash the bananas. I do mean roughly - you are going to stir them a lot later, so don't worry if there are very big lumps at this stage. Add the youghurt and mix together. Sprinkle over the bicarb of soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and stir again.
5 Mix the banana mixture and the sugar/egg mixture together. Chop the pecans and chuck those in too. Then sprinkle over the flour and stir until things are only just combined. Over-mixing is disastrous here so I actually left about 15% of dried flour still visible, which resulted in some seams of flour left running through the cake. So be brave, but not too brave. Spoon the batter into your smugly lined tin.
6 Slice your spare banana down the middle and place one half on top of the batter, then sprinkle over the caster sugar. The banana half will sink into the mixture during cooking and look terrific. I advise you to eat the other half to get in the mood.
7 Bake for 45-50 mins.


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With only two natural sites added to the World Heritage List in 15 years there is a need to review the process of nominating natural World Heritage Sites in Arab States, a new IUCN report has found.
The regional study builds on the findings of last year's Periodic Report coordinated by UNESCO and concentrates on getting nature specialists more involved. IUCN examined the current state of conservation for the existing natural and mixed World Heritage sites in the Arab region and analyzed its tentative lists – lists that include areas that each country considers suitable for inscription.
"The Arab States are home to an exceptional natural wealth and diversity, with striking desert landscapes and marine areas," says Haifaa Abdulhalim, IUCN's World Heritage Officer in the Arab States. "But the number of natural sites currently on the World Heritage List is by far the smallest of any region. The process of nominating natural sites in the Arab region needs a major overhaul if we want to see more of them on the World Heritage List."
There are currently four natural and one mixed site from the Arab States on the World Heritage List. Only two sites have been added to the list in the last 15 years while the region's tentative lists have grown and currently include 35 sites.
According to the report, Arab States should revise their World Heritage plans to give priority to natural sites that are most likely to meet World Heritage requirements and provide rigorous justification for this potential.
The report also reviewed management of natural sites that are already on the World Heritage List in the Arab States. Although significant progress has been made in the way these sites are managed, some are facing serious challenges.
In Banc d'Arguin, for example, more effective measures are needed to control the risk of accidental oil spills which may threaten the park's wintering waterbirds and mammals, including the critically endangered Monk Seal. In Socotra, often referred to as the 'Galapagos of the East', the unique vegetation and ecosystems have been under increasing pressure due to the development of infrastructure and tourism.
"By continuing to improve the management of these sites and by increasing cooperation between countries to support them, World Heritage Sites in Arab States can greatly contribute to conservation and sustainable development in the region," says Mariam Kenza Ali, IUCN World Heritage Conservation Officer.
To view the report, please go to:
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
Haifaa Abdulhalim, World Heritage Officer, IUCN Regional Office for West Asia, e [email protected]
Borjana Pervan, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 857 4072, e [email protected]
Brian Thomson, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 721 8326, e [email protected]
About IUCN's work on World Heritage
Each year IUCN, the independent advisory body on nature to UNESCO, reports to the World Heritage Centre on the conservation status of certain natural and mixed World Heritage sites under threat. IUCN's assessments on what is happening in World Heritage sites are derived from a variety of sources: IUCN members, indigenous peoples groups, the scientific community, experts from IUCN commissions and concerned individuals and organizations. www.iucn.org


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Baseball back in the news in Montreal
There's baseball in the air again in Montreal.
First there was the Expos reunion in June, organized by the Montreal Baseball Project, which is headed by former player Warren Cromartie. Then the Conference Board of Canada reported in August that the economic and demographic trends suggest Montreal could support a major-league team.
"The professional sports scene in Canada will continue to expand over the next 25 years," wrote Glen Hodgson and Mario Lefebvre, adding Montreal "already possesses the basic market conditions required to support a MLB franchise and will strengthen its position over our forecast horizon."
And on Aug. 29 ESPN.com published an article by Jim Caple under the headline: Let's bring baseball back to Montreal.
Wrote Caple: "The shame of it is that the Expos once were the best team in baseball, and they also were well supported. They outdrew the Yankees in the early '80s and the Mets in the early '90s. But the 1994 strike put an end to the World Series hopes of a first-place team that had Pedro Martinez, Larry Walker, Moises Alou and Marquis Grissom on the roster. The Expos never recovered, thanks in large part to (owner Jeffrey) Loria. After he salted the earth, poisoned the water and released radiation in Montreal, baseball finally moved the franchise to Washington in 2005."
Cromartie is hoping to hold a press conference in Montreal before the end of the major-league season to update the progress of the Montreal Baseball Project as it works at trying to bring a major-league team back to the city. He also promises that the MBP website (mbp2012.com) will be working again soon after improvements and additions to the site are completed.
Cromartie said his personal highlight of this summer's Expos reunion – which included a sold-out dinner and auction, a golf tournament and a fan fair and kids' clinics – was reuniting with former teammates Andre Dawson and Ellis Valentine, who once formed what was known as "the best outfield in baseball".
"I was happy to see Ellis Valentine because we hadn't seen each other going on 30 years," Cromartie said. "It was nice to be on stage with Andre Dawson and him … the best outfield in baseball that they're still talking about today. That was a big treat for all three of us because we hadn't stood by each others' side since we took the picture for the cover of The Sporting News in 1978 or '79. That was a real proud moment for myself to be with Ellis and Dawson."
Cromartie added: "This past summer, spending it in Montreal, has been the most gratifying and fulfilling experience since I retired in '91."
You can read my column on Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project by clicking here.
You can read the ESPN.com article on the Expos by clicking here.
You can read about the Conference Board of Canada report by clicking here.
(Photo by Tim Snow/The Gazette)


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On Wednesday, May 5, 2010, MIGA convened a panel discussion on the state of political risk in the world economy, which proposed to answer the pregnant question: "Are we moving into a riskier world?"
MIGA Chief Operating Officer, James Bond, moderated a panel that included:
- Mansoor Dailami, Manager of the International Finance Development Prospects Group of the World Bank;
- Uri Dadush, Senior Associate and Director of the International Economics Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and
- Julie Martin, Senior Vice President of the Political Risk and Structured Credit Practice of Marsh USA.
The panelists brought to the table a diverse range of experience in foreign direct investment (FDI) and political risk insurance (PRI), but all tended to agree on one core point – political risks exposed by the global financial crisis of 2008-10 remain formidable, and "we are not out of the woods yet". Among the greatest concerns, not surprisingly, were the risks relating to excessive sovereign debt and the specter of possible sovereign defaults. With headlines full of concerns over bail-out packages for comparatively well-off Euro-area members, it perhaps goes without saying that emerging market economies face even greater challenges.
On the other hand, one theme that developed was the apparent resilience of emerging markets in the global financial crisis, at least in a relative sense. The panelists agreed that FDI into emerging markets did not decline as steeply as might have been expected as a result of the crisis; this, combined with investors' greater sensitivity to political risk indentified in MIGA's report World Investment and Political Risk 2009, drove the conclusion that higher demand for PRI products may be around the corner. This begs the question of whether the industry is ready and able to adapt to investors' changing needs.
Finally, the panelists noted that a more multipolar world was emerging for FDI, whereby many key, high-profile investments were being made from "south to south" and even "south to north" – i.e., out of emerging markets to other emerging markets and even into developed countries.
Watch the entire event here (requires RealPlayer)


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The following announcement was made by the Southern California Genealogical Society regarding their new free online webinars.
February 22, 2011
The Southern California Genealogical Society is proud to announce a new program, the Jamboree Extension Series,that provides family history and genealogy educational webinar (web-based seminar) sessions for genealogists around the world. The program will offer Jamboree-style seminars for up to 1000 attendees per session, at no charge. The Jamboree Extension Series is offered as a service to the genealogical community as part of the Society's mission "to foster interest in family history and genealogy, preserve genealogical materials, and provide instruction in accepted and effective research techniques."
Jamboree Extension Series presentations will be scheduled on the first Saturday and third Wednesday of each month. Saturday sessions will be held at 10am Pacific time / 1pm Eastern time; Wednesday sessions will be scheduled at 6pm Pacific time / 9pm Eastern time.
While the original webcasts are available to all genealogists, SCGS members will be able to review archived sessions at any time by accessing the SCGS members-only section of this website. Archive sessions will be available approximately three days following the webinar.
See the Southern California Genealogical Society's website for more details and registration information.


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I groggily answer my cell phone. MFM is on the other line: "I'm not coming."
I quickly went into panic mode and started listing all the reasons why he needed to come. "Dude, we're gonna do a story based around your movie. Our guide set up a full party in your name in Andorra that you're supposed to DJ. Who wouldn't want to go to Spain and experience a new country and culture? Snowboarders around the world would die to be in your shoes."
MFM was, as always, quick with a comeback. "They don't have any fresh snow, so I know you guys will only be hittin' jibs. I don't want to go, man—I'm heading to Alaska instead. Traveling in a packed van for hours and hours just to hit jibs when you're surrounded by dope mountains isn't for me." Just like that, his mind was made up and he was out. I had been planning this trip for months, so to lose a crucial member was hard. But there was no time to dwell on it; my flight was leaving in just over an hour and I was still at my house. I was meeting up with a crew that was spread throughout North America, and if one of us missed a flight, then everyone had to hang out in Madrid an extra day. MFM was out, but Lucas Magoon, Travis Kennedy, Jake Devine, Yan Dofin, and longtime friend and filmer Cole Taylor were still in. I grabbed my luggage and took off, bound for the streets of Europe.
"Gooner is like a wild animal."
It's always crazy when you go to a foreign country. You have no clue what to expect when you land and you put a lot of trust into a guide you may have never met. On this trip, though, we got lucky—our good friend José from Fresh Snow Distribution not only set everything up for us, but was also down to hang out with us for over a week and act as our guide. José had just added Technine and Sound to his distribution company in Spain, so he was stoked to get to know the crew and help us get footage for the MFM/FODT movie Hard to Earn. He was hyped at the thought of having Spain represented in the movie and in a full feature for SNOWBOARDER. The fact is, many people don't think of Spain as being a winter destination, but in truth, the Pyrenees Mountains are home to some world-class snowboarding terrain. The Pyrenees are a range of peaks in southwest Europe that form a natural border between Spain and France, separating the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe. Deep in these mountains is a tiny country called Andorra. We would be traveling from Madrid up into the Spanish Pyrenees, then into Andorra.
Gooner, Cole, and I touched down in Spain and made it through customs with ease. We had a few hours until the rest of the crew landed, so we headed out to look for José. Gooner is like a wild animal: After eighteen hours of travel, he needed to let off some steam or else explode, so he took off to skate a curb in front of the airport. In America, you would be busted in seconds, but things in Europe are a bit more relaxed, and Gooner was able to skate for a couple of hours with no stress. As we watched Goon pop ollies over a security gate, the rest of the crew showed up, including our Spanish cohorts. José, Guille, and Daniel met us with a large passenger van and a few cars packed with everything we would need for our journey. As we piled into the van, José jumped behind the wheel and told us to get comfortable. It was a seven-hour drive to Baqueira, Spain.
As we left Madrid, we all took notice of the silver and black graffiti that seemed to cover every wall, fence and bridge we passed. It seemed that the whole city had been painted with the same style of art. José, knowing how we all must have felt after traveling for twenty hours and then hearing we had another seven to go, treated us all to a nice meal of paella and other traditional Spanish tapas, as well as some Spanish beer. We took off into the flat plains that looked much like a desert, and we all wondered how we were going to find snow in the sixty-degree weather, but José just kept telling us to be patient and that there would be plenty of snow.
As we pulled into the village of Bagergue, we got the feeling we were in a whole different time period. This small village looked straight out of the fifteenth century, but on the inside, all of the houses had been remodeled and brought up to date. After we got settled, we all were feeling wide awake from sleeping a bit on the ride up. Against our better judgment, José and his cronies convinced us that we needed to head straight to the disco for a beer. Heading to the bar on day one of a trip is never a good idea; most people would sleep and work on adjusting to the time change. It looked like it was going to be a long ten days… After hours of wild Spanish music and watching the locals dance, it was finally time for sleep.
The next few days in Spain were sick. Gooner, being twenty years old, was stoked to be able to drink legally, so not only was he hammering down banger shots, but also hammering down all sorts of liquor. From Bailey's in his coffee to forties for lunch, he was making the best of Spain. Every day we were very focused on getting work done, and we would always ask our guide where we could get something fast to eat so we could stay focused on riding. He would laugh and say, "We do not have McDonald's here. We like to drink wine and enjoy our food." It seemed like every meal involved two hours of hanging out; Cole and I would drink wine and talk shit with our new Spanish friends while the riders eagerly awaited the next opportunity to ride. This was a great place, and we were bummed to leave. Six hours to Andorra!
After we crossed the border, we entered Andorra la Vella, the capital and the largest town in Andorra, nestled deep in a mountain valley. Andorra is a very small country—you can drive the length of it in only an hour. It's basically a resort community that's home to nine ski resorts. As we got familiar with the town, it was obvious they had a cool snowboard community and tons of terrain—I hope to make it back there someday to experience the powder this place has to offer. In true José style, our guide once again had everything all set up for us. His good friend Merlin's family owned a cool hotel with a full club attached. Merlin hooked us up with some dope rates and kept us entertained at his nightclub most nights of our stay. We also hooked up with a local snowboarder and DJ by the name of Chino. Chino was the shit. He took us in, showed us around, and instantly became part of our crew. Everywhere we went we attracted a huge crowd of onlookers; every jib session would end up with tons of people cheering on the riders. At one session in the town of Pas de la Casa, Jake Devine had at least fifty spectators cheering him on.
On one of our last days in Andorra, Chino and his crew took us to some abandoned buildings right in town where we were able to find some cool stuff to hit. He was also a graffiti artist, so he got busy painting on one of the features Yan and Jake wanted to session. We were all expecting some small, easy art; instead, Chino spent about four hours putting up a full Hard to Earn burner on the wall. Yan and Jake both were able to get dope shots with Chino's art in the background.
Merlin, Chino, José, and Danny Boy had set up a Technine party at the hotel's bar with a showing of Familia. We were able to hang with a few of the local snowboard shop owners as well as meet all sorts of local riders. Marco, of course, was not there to DJ, but Travis Kennedy (AKA "Skrilla the Kid") ripped the mic for an eager crowd.
After we packed up in the morning with deep hangovers, telling stories of the antics from the previous night, we hit up one more jib session before we said farewell to Andorra. I may have puked on the sidelines while Yan and T.K. sessioned a pole jam, but was still able to get the shot. After the hangover subsided and the shoot was done, it was time to head home.
The journey took over ten hours because of weather and our slow van, but we eventually made it to the airport and headed home. I will not soon forget Spain and Andorra. As I reflect back on the trip, the thing that stands out in my mind the most is that as different as our cultures are, the riders are just like us. They live for the sport, and do everything they can to snowboard as much as possible. Snowboarding is a worldwide community, and I take comfort in knowing that I have brothers and sisters all over the world that share my passion.
Special thanks to José, Danny Boy, Gizmo, Merlin, Chino, Peter and Samé from Loaded, and Brice and Niko from Sector.
This content was originally published in the December 2009 issue.


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Aloha and Welcome to Ala Kai, a bed & breakfast by the sea. We are located at Kaloli Point on the rugged Puna Peninsula. Off Highway 130 between Kea'au and Pahoa, Ala Kai Bed & Breakfast is a scenic 17 mile drive south of the Big Island of Hawaii's Hilo airport and 25 miles northeast of Volcanoes National Park.
This is a perfect time to volcano watch. The Halema`uma`u crater with its active lava lake may be viewed from the overlook at the Jagger Museum in Volcanoes National Park. Nighttime viewing can be spectacular.
Ala Kai, in Hawaiian, means by the sea or road by the sea. Once you see our beautiful home, you will understand why we chose that name.
For the early risers, we invite you to start your day with the often-spectacular sunrise on the ocean. Then enjoy a leisurely breakfast featuring local fruits, Hawaiian coffee, teas, juice and much more. If you would like to check your emails, wireless internet connection is available. Then stroll along the oceanfront, hike over lava fields, wander through the rainforest or observe the active volcanoes. Be sure to frolic in our ocean view pool, relax on the lanai, enjoy the ocean breeze, read your favorite book or watch the whales from December through April.
Then allow the tranquil sounds of the ocean and palm trees lull you to sleep in one of our guestrooms in the main house. If you desire more seclusion, The Ohana Cottage is a fully equipped, two bedroom cottage with its own lanai.


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Four couples were featured this month on "Room with a View", the popular home makeover TV show. The couples were from all over the United States and each had one "problem" room in their home. The problem room was typically a room that they just couldn't utilize well, either due to its location within the house or how the couple had it set up. The "Room with a View" cast redesigned each room, explaining why they were redesigning it. Then they actually made the changes and presented the new rooms to the owners. Determine the full name of each couple, where each couple lived, and what room in their homes "Room with a View" planned to makeover.
1. The show did a makeover on Ted's kitchen. Ed wasn't married to Sara but he lived in Chicago. Ned's last name wasn't Mann.
2. The couple who remade their living room lived in Atlanta.
3. Fred, whose last name wasn't Sharp, was married to Patty.
4. The Watch couple lived in Phoenix but didn't makeover their family room.
5. Ted wasn't married to Maria. Alicia Baker didn't have her living room remade.
6. The Sharp couple had their bedroom redone, but they weren't located in Indianapolis.
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Welterweight Douglas Lima and middleweight Alexander Shlemenko both have staked claim to Bellator tournament titles.
At Saturday's Bellator 57 event, both fighters won their respective season-five eight-man tournaments, and both have now earned guaranteed title shots with their division's champions.
Bellator 57 took place Saturday at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, Canada, and the main card aired on MTV2 and EPIX following the Spike.com prelims.
After a close first round in which the fighters traded kicks and knees, Lima won the tournament in decisive fashion with a brutal second-round barrage. Saunders moved in for a punch, but Lima countered the UFC vet with a right hand that dropped him. Saunders was dazed, and Lima poured on punches and hammerfists to force the TKO stoppage at the 1:21 mark of the round.
Lima (21-4 MMA, 3-0 BFC) now has won nine straight fights and gets the next shot at Ben Askren's 170-pound championship.
In the night's co-headliner, Russian fighter Shlemenko dominated jiu-jitsu ace Vitor Vianna for a unanimous-decision victory. It also earned him his second tournament title and a rematch with Bellator champ Hector Lombard.
Shlemenko stalked his opponent, pressed the action, easily avoided takedowns and unloaded a steady stream of punches to the head and body to shut down Vianna's offense. Shlemenko was never in any real damage and even showboated a bit toward the end of the fight.
In the end, the judges awarded him the unanimous decision via 30-27, 29-28 and 30-27 scores.
Shlemenko (43-7 MMA, 7-1 BFC) is now 12-1 over his past 13 fights, and the lone defeat came to Lombard in his first title shot. Vianna (12-2-1 MMA, 2-1 BFC) halts a five-fight win streak.
Hollett edges Hawk, "Popo" Bezerra continues streak
In a light-heavyweight bout, former MFC light-heavyweight champion Roger Hottell (13-3 MMA, 1-0 BFC) made a successful promotional debut and edged John Hawk (6-4 MMA, 1-1 BFC) via split decision.
Hollett took the first round with solid striking, and Hawk took the third after fighting through fatigue to land some damaging shots. The fight essentially was decided by a close second round, one in which few power shots landed and the action stalled with the fighters tied up in the clinch.
In the end, the judges were split and awarded the bout to Hollett via 28-29, 29-28, 29-28 scores.
Hollett now has won four straight fights while Hawk falls to 2-4 over his past six.
Former UFC and Shark Fights fighter Doug Evans, meanwhile, was no match for top featherweight prospect Alexandre "Popo" Bezerra, who ultimately continued his Bellator win streak and earned first-round submission victory.
In the night's first televised fight, Bezerra immediately fired off submission attempt after submission attempt. After avoiding a guillotine choke and armbar attempts, Evans ended up in his opponent's guard. But with one wrong move, Bezerra latched onto a leg and forced a quick tap-out at the 4:04 mark of the opening round.
Bezerra (12-1 MMA, 4-0 BFC) now owns a seven-fight win streak, and seven wins have come via stoppage. Evans (13-10 MMA, 0-1 BFC) drops his third straight.
- Douglas Lima def. Ben Saunders via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 1:21 – wins welterweight tournament
- Alexander Shlemenko def. Vitor Vianna via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27) – wins middleweight tournament
- Roger Hollett def. John Hawk via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)
- Alexandre Bezerra def. Doug Evans via submission (heel hook) – Round 1, 4:04
- Matt Van Buren def. Shawn Levesque via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 4:38
- Chris Horodecki vs. Mike Corey declared majority draw (29-28 Horodecki, 28-28, 28-28)
- Dave Jansen def. Ashkar Morvari via submission (rear-naked choke) Round 2, 2:47
- Denis Puric def. Chuck Mady via TKO (injury) – Round 2, 5:00
- Eric Moon def. Josh Shockley via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 0:35
- Taylor Solomon def. Mike Sledzion via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:10
For more on Bellator 57, stay tuned to the MMA Events section of the site.
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Helga and Kristi (right)
Viru Str, Tallinn
Helga: "Today most of my clothes come from the States and the jacket is from Zara. I think people have started to think more about fashion. I don't think I dress by my mood, but my mood depends on what I am wearing. If I end up thinking that my outfit isn't the best it could be, I will feel awful for the rest of the day. It will sound cliché, but I think Kate Moss has the best style. "
Kristi: " My style is based on colours- they have to match. I have my red and pink colour days and so on. I loved Carrie Bradshaw's style in the Sex and the City. I think her personality made everything work for her. I think Estonian street style desperately needs to improve – I would like get inspired by other's styles, but here it is rarely possible."
Laur and Hanna (left)
Tammsaare's Park,Tallinn
Laur :"My style is sort of Le Coq Sportif. I am influenced by the 80's, David Bowie and my friends. You can sometimes find cool pieces from Tallinn's second hands, but if you want something particular, you have to go abroad. There are so many cool Scandinavian labels out there, for example Tiger. I am planning to go and study design."
Hanna: "I do not like the idea of having style icons. You can be influenced by someone, but there is too much copying out there. At the moment you can see Kate Moss wannabes everywhere and it is awful. I like to go shopping in Stockholm or Helsinki. My favourite high fashion label is Gucci, but out of more affordable companies I prefer Diesel."


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Tell us how you've saved the company a few dollars (or perhaps a few thousand…), saved your co-workers a few hours, or saved your customers, clients, or partners from a few sleepless nights. These can be stories retold around the engineering water cooler and plant-floor control engineering legends that actually are true.
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