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I never dreamed I would need to have a benefit in my own honor for a disease I never dreamed I would be facing at this time of my life.
My name is Renee' Luckett and I reside in Trimble County, Ky. with my husband and two beautiful children but I have always liked to work in Carrollton, Ky. I work for Insurance Associates as an Insurance Agent and absolutely love and miss my job.
Unfortunately, I was diagnosed in January of this year with Invasive Breast Cancer, Stage 3 at the young age of 34 years old.
It is hard to believe that Fourth of July is already behind us. Our summer vacation is about half over and the new school year will begin in about five weeks. For many this is a very exciting time. This is true at our house as our son, Tristan, prepares to leave for his freshman year at the University of Kentucky.
Did you know that 850 million people in the world are undernourished, and of them 153 million are children under age 5? As many as 13 million children in the United States go to bed hungry, and 24 percent of all the children in Kentucky live in poverty. In Trimble County, 18.6 percent live in poverty.
Volunteers from Trimble County fed an average of 90 children daily during the month of June. These children, who are sure to get lunch during the school year, are no less hungry when school lets out for the summer.
The Trimble County Emergency Search Unit would like to thank all the people who stopped by our booth and showed their support during the Trimble County Fair.
And a special thanks goes to the following people and businesses who helped make our booth possible: April Craig, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Carey, Bedford Loan and Deposit Bank, Rand Insurance, Bobby True Law Office, Bedford Stop N Go, Midway Stop N Go, the Country Store, Our House Restaurant, Kentucky Farm Bureau Trimble County, Bedford Volunteer Fire and Rescue and MicZee's Ice.
The year was 1959: Ron Musson enjoyed his first career win in unlimited hydroplane racing by capturing the Indiana Governor's Cup race in a boat named Hawaii Kai III.
That race stands out vividly in my mind because it was the first unlimited race I ever saw. Standing on the riverbank at the foot of Madison's Ferry Street I was overcome with excitement as the roar of the World War II-vintage fighter-plane engines rattled my bones and echoed through the hills and "hollers" of the Ohio River valley.
On June 27, we had our third End-of-the-Month Meal Ministry from noon to 1 p.m. at Carrollton Christian Church at 310 Fifth St., in Carrolton, Ky.
The purpose of this ministry is to provide a home cooked meal to an individual or family that is not able to provide for themselves for whatever circumstance and free of charge. The response was wonderful. We did have 33 visitors to this meal and we were very excited to be able to feed them. The weather was wonderful, the fellowship was spectacular and the people that came and ate with us were blessings.
Since March, readers may have noticed a shuffle in staffing at the The News-Democrat and The Trimble Banner.
Changes came about when Trimble Banner managing editor Lorrie Kinkade stepped down to pursue new ventures earlier this year. For a while, Brent Shanding, Landmark Community Newspapers Inc.'s roving editor, filled in at the Beford office. In April, News-Democrat editor Phyllis McLaughlin stepped in and took over the editor's job there. Additionally, she has continued to manage the special sections produced by the two newspapers each month.
Changes came about when Trimble Banner managing editor Lorrie Kinkade stepped down to pursue new ventures earlier this year. For a while, Brent Shanding, Landmark Community Newspapers Inc.'s roving editor, filled in at the Bedford office. In April, News-Democrat editor Phyllis McLaughlin stepped in and took over the editor's job there. Additionally, she has continued to manage the special sections produced by the two newspapers each month.
What a bargain. If you missed the meal of a fish sandwich, cole slaw, mac and cheese, fries, hush puppies and drink Saturday, June 27 at the Worthville Fire Department, you missed a mouth watering experience.
Those that were in charge know how to prepare a meal, only $6.
Thanks Worthville Fire Department — your service to the community is appreciated.
Ira Louden
Congratulations to everyone involved in making the 2009 Trimble County Fair a big success.
Though I've lived in the county for going on four years and in the area for more than seven, this was the first time I've attended the fair here.
To be quite honest, covering Carroll County's fair, which usually is held a week or so before Trimble's, was so exhausting that I seldom felt any desire to go to yet another fair – even just to have fun.
The Carrollton Main Street Program wishes to thank the volunteers and its sponsors for making the 2009 Carroll County River Sweep a success. The event drew more than 200 people to cleanup the banks of the Ohio River.
The Carrollton Branch of River Valley Financial Bank would like to say thank you to Cee Cee Downey and her Fun Zone Inflatables for making our first Relay for Life Carnival a big success.
The children enjoyed the time, the weather cooperated and our community came forth.
We would also like to thank all the businesses and individuals that helped make this event a success. There are too many to mention each one but you know who you are and may God Bless You.
Rita Power, Rita Crawford, Jennifer Hewitt
and Kathy Watts
The 2009 Trimble County Relay for Life is complete and was a huge success.
A big part of this success is the participation of the Trimble County community and the involvement of organizations and individuals who gave of their time and money to support a worthy cause.
A large part of this success belongs to the Relay team captains and the team participants, who spent hours raising money and setting up campsites to call awareness to this disease that touches everyone.
Recently, I was crowned your 2009 Miss Carroll County Fair and I cannot express my gratitude enough towards the local support that I have received. I would like to thank all of the individuals that have sent warm wishes my way. I would also like to thank pageant director Jill Sachleban and the entire fair board for their hard work and dedication every night of the fair and the events leading up to it. Thank you to all the local sponsors for making our fair a success. This year was great!
I have a son who will be going into the fifth grade at Cartmell Elementary next year. He currently enjoys playing for the school basketball, and for parks and rec. soccer and he also ran for the middle school track team. Although he has also played baseball in the past and enjoyed that as well. He has always been an excellent student. This was the first year for grades and he made honor roll all year. I am a very supportive parent who believes school and education comes first and sports later. My son has always been able to handle both.
My plans for the future, it seems, are all for naught.
I received in the mail a letter that says, basically, that the world will end in 2012. Of course, there is no return address or signature to identify the writer/sender. All I know is it was mailed from Louisville 40231.
But shoot. I had a lot of big plans for 2012.
The Worthville Volunteer Fire Department would like to express our thanks to everyone who helped make this years Turkey Dinner on May 16 a great success.
We had a wonderfully enjoyable time and we hope that all those that joined us can say the same. More than 500 members of our community came out to show their support and enjoy the day with our volunteers and their families.
Also, a very special thank you to our local businesses for their support and donations. Without which it would have been very difficult to accomplish.
While the Ohio River is such an important part of life in Carroll County, we often take it for granted.
The river is the reason we have many of the industries in our community that provide jobs for local residents and for those throughout the region. It is also one of the reasons that the county attracts so many tourists to the area each year.
On Saturday morning, the Ohio River will be the focus of a large group of volunteers who will hit the riverbanks to rid it of debris and garbage that collects through the year as the river levels rise and decline.
On May 14, my wife and I got the phone call no parent wants to get. Our daughter called screaming, "Help Me Mommy."
She was calling from inside her SUV that she had lost control of and overturned. We immediately called 911 and a state trooper was there within a minute of our call. Emily was taken to Carroll County Memorial Hospital where we were told that she had a broken back. She was transferred to Kosair Children's Hospital. She had surgery to repair her back, but will need extensive rehab for the next couple of months.
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Another way to decouple the effect of air conditioning is to look at so-called "high lows". That is how many record high lows there and how many record low lows there are. If there is AGW there should be more high lows and fewer low lows. Solar warming would effect only the highs and not the lows. Here's a graph of high lows and low lows:
On the top graph the red line is the percent of the U.S. where lows are much above normal. The blue line is percentage the U.S. where lows are much below normal. We are getting more and more high lows and almost no low lows.
Rich Blinne
Member ASA
P.S. I also sent this argument to Glenn years ago.
On Dec 16, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Bill Powers wrote:
> Don:
> I would presume that when making seismic measurements and "adjustments" are made to the data that these "adjustments" have been empirically confirmed in some manner. That is, these "adjustments" have been found to be reliable (e.g., they found oil).
> I can't say that I understand this "homogenization" process, except that it is an attempt to make the temperature measurements coherent. I suppose we need to be clear what measurements we are speaking of. Rich appears to be saying that since it is gradients that we are interested in, and not absolute temperatures, systematic errors at each site can be eliminated (assuming that the systematic errors are independent and produce constant effects, or at least that the systematic gradients are much less than the temperature gradients).
> The question would be whether such "homogenization" has proven to be reliable. No data set can be said to be measuring a single parameter (e.g., temperature). There will likely be many other influences that affect individual measurements. Assuming that these unmeasured and uncontrolled for influences are independent helps, as does that they are linear, and have a zero mean affect on the measured quantity. Whatever we are measuring, it appears essential to have some handle on the kinds of unmeasured and uncontrolled affects. This understanding (or at least presumption) will guide us in knowing how to massage the data and what kinds of useful data can be gleaned from the data set. So that perhaps absolute temperatures would not be unambiguous, but perhaps "trends" (as Rich) says might be. But in saying this I have either presumed something about the environment in which the data is taken or know from experience something about it.
> I am by no means an expert regarding this data set. My point here is only to emphasize that an explicit discussion of the various environments in which the data was taken and a characterization of the unmeasured and uncontrolled influences might be useful. Glenn has emphasized that some of the data was taken near "air conditioners" and similar "biasing" environments. Saying this is not sufficient to know how to treat the data. An attempt must be made to characterize what influence air conditioners will have on the data. Having taken a shot at this, one might be able to find "trends" reliable, but this is far from certain. Given that such biased data is consistent with independently biased data, we might be led to find the data and our manipulations more reliable.
> Well, I've said nothing that everyone doesn't already know. So I'll stop and go do something else.
> bill
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Don Winterstein wrote:
>> Glenn,
>> I appreciate your efforts here.
>> You wrote: "I learned that if you want to measure some quantity X you don't mess with the observed values when you average up all your measurments."
>> In at least two previous posts on this list I explained that there's often a need to apply adjustments to geoscience data in order to make a satisfactory interpretation. This need generally arises from unknown variations encountered during recording, and as a rule the recording can't be repeated to get a handle on the reason(s) for the variations. Data that you know from physical principles should be coherent frequently turn out instead to be incoherent, so you can't interpret without making adjustments. An example of a common kind of adjustment: in reflection seismology we always apply static corrections to land data; this process is done automatically with special-purpose computer programs. The programmer has built into these programs assumptions about many things, and there are usually several parameters the user can vary, depending on the level of sophistication. (I'm not telling you anything you don't know.) So oil company geophysicists also must "mess with the!
observed values" before they can interpret, and the way they do the messing can affect the interpretation.
>> The need for such adjustments of geoscience data sometimes gives the interpreter flexibility to make the outcome go in a desired direction without being unethical about it. So, although I've not "engaged with the climate data," I was sure that climate scientists were making such adjustments, and I have felt that, because their biases are so obvious, some of the adjustments they've made are sure to have moved their interpretations in the direction of their biases. You're effectively arguing that much of the effect they want to see is in fact not in the data but comes from their "homogeneity adjustments." Partly because of this expectation I made "a modest proposal" a week or two ago that a different set of geoscientists, such as oil company geophysicists, with a different set of biases, should completely reinterpret all the climate data to see whether different conclusions might be plausible from the same data. Before the world spends trillions on a possible goose chas!
e it might be good to get a second opinion.
>> Don
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Glenn Morton<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
>> To: email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [asa] Data doesn't support global warming
>> Replies for Rich Blinne, Michael Roberts, Rich Blinne again, Murray Hogg,
>> Randy Isaac, Murray Hogg again, Michael Roberts again, and Gordon Brown.
>> A comment on the 4 post limit. What difference does it make if one posts 29
>> small emails or 1 big one? Answer, doing the former gets you chastised on
>> the ASA, doing the latter doesn't.
>> Rich Blinne wrote:
>> >>>>
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Arctic isn't warming. This just shows you have zero
>> credibility. <<<<
>> I would like everyone sane on this list to note that Rich just ducked
>> dealing with the monthly raw data and refused to engage with the data. His
>> "scientific" reason for not paying attention to the discrepancy is "yeah
>> yeah yeah the arctic isn't warming". This is so laughably not engaging with
>> the data.
>> >>>>TIKSI, Russia - Freed by warming, waters once locked beneath ice are
>> >>>>gnawing at coastal settlements around the Arctic Circle.
>> In Bykovsky, a village of 457 on Russia's northeast coast, the shoreline is
>> collapsing, creeping closer and closer to houses and tanks of heating oil,
>> at a rate of 15 to 18 feet a year. Eventually, homes will be lost, and maybe
>> all of Bykovsky, too, under ever-longer periods of assault by open water.
>> "It is eating up the land," said Innokenty Koryakin, a member of the Evenk
>> tribe and the captain of a fishing boat. "You cannot do anything about
>> it."<<<<
>> And Have you considered that part of this might be, gasp, SUBSIDENCE? Of the
>> Timan-Pechora basin in which Tiksi lies, it is written
>> "The active rift stage of the West Siberian Basin terminated in the Late
>> Triassic and was followed by tectonic subsidence and deposition of
>> predominantly siliciclastic sedimentary rocks of Jurassic to Quaternary
>> age." Mann et al, "Tectonic Setting of the World's Giant Oil and Gas
>> Fields," in Michael T. Halbouty, Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade,
>> 1990-1999, Tulsa: AAPG, p. 48
>> Not all subsidence is caused by Global WARMING, Rich. Are you going to try
>> to prove that this subsidence is, or are you like the above going to say,
>> Yeah yeah yeah Tiksi isn't sinking because of subsidence... blah blah
>> blah???
>> ...
>> >>>Coastal erosion is a problem in Alaska as well, forcing the United States
>> >>>to prepare to relocate several Inuit villages at a projected cost of $100
>> >>>million or more for each one.
>> Across the Arctic, indigenous tribes with traditions shaped by centuries of
>> living in extremes of cold and ice are noticing changes in weather and
>> wildlife. They are trying to adapt, but it can be confounding.<<<<
>> I want everyone to note how Rich has ducked, dodged and evaded the questions
>> I asked him about why the monthly raw data doesn't show siberian warmth, how
>> one can correct the output of a thermometer next to an air conditioner, why
>> the satellite data has a step function in the middle of it, and why are
>> modern thermometers made to read warmer than those of 1900. So far in this
>> 'reply' of his, he is ignoring those questions. I will keep asking him to
>> explain.
>> Rich claims to be the expert on AGW here on this list but he can't or won't
>> answer a simple question about how a particular station is to be corrected
>> if it has a heat source next to it.
>> Now, since I will deal with issues, Building modern energy intensive
>> cities, even small ones, on top of permafrost, will melt the permafrost
>> below and cause them to sink into the ice. I used to work for ARCO and we
>> had this problem at Prudhoe Bay. So, once again you can't prove that your
>> sinking is due to warming from CO2. it might be because the huts now are not
>> igloos but homes with heaters emitting too much heat for the permafrost
>> below to remain solid.
>> >>>Take the Inuit word for June, qiqsuqqaqtuq. It refers to snow conditions,
>> >>>a strong crust at night. Only those traits now appear in May. Shari
>> >>>Gearheard, a climate researcher from Harvard, recalled the appeal of an
>> >>>Inuit hunter, James Qillaq, for a new word at a recent meeting in
>> >>>Canada.<<<<
>> Let's see, most AGW folk would now claim 'anecdotal'. Is this the best you
>> can do??
>> >>>One sentence stayed in her mind: "June isn't really June any more."<<<
>> Awwww.
>> >>>Even in this funny little island we have lost our winters in the last 15
>> >>>years . That I know from winter climbing. Before then you could guarantee
>> >>>some good snow and ice climbing in the mountains of England and Wales,
>> >>>and get many good days in. Today you are lucky to get one or two.<<<
>> Maybe you should look out the window at your country, Michael. Scotland's
>> Cairngorm ski resort has opened early. The article says it is an early
>> start.
>> http://www.fasttrackski.co.uk/ski-news/general-ski/scotlands-ski-season-begins-200911294879.php<http://www.fasttrackski.co.uk/ski-news/general-ski/scotlands-ski-season-begins-200911294879.php>
>> Rich Blinne wrote again:
>> >>>>Not only that but what about "cooling" Darwin? The following is from the
>> >>>>October 2009 NCDC global report:
>> Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia experienced warmer-than-average
>> temperatures during October 2009. The capital city recorded an average
>> maximum temperature of 34.8°C (94.6°F) on October 2009, the highest on
>> record for any month (Source: Australia's Bureau of Meteorology).
>> I guess the people at the Darwin Airport were firing up their air
>> conditioners. :-)<<<
>> Actually Rich, that wasn't what I asked you. I asked you to explain how one
>> could correct the bias in the temperature record caused by heat sources next
>> to air conditioners. Here is another picture.
>> http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=20757<http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=20757>
>> Rich, both the house and the air conditioner are heat sources. Siting
>> requirements say that the mmts should be 10 m away from a house. Do you
>> think that above picture fulfills that requirement? Don't duck weave and
>> evade this question.
>> And yes, if it was warm, and the Australians have air conditioners next to
>> thermometers, that will warm them. Do you deny that blowing hot air
>> conditioner exhaust on a thermometer will actually warm the thermometer?
>> Murray Hogg wrote:
>> >>>I suggest you relocate them away from the air-conditioner.<<<
>> I want everyone to note how cavalier these people are when there are
>> problems with measurments of the data upon which they depend. This is
>> certainly not a scientific attitude--it is an attitude of a politician who
>> doesn't really care about truth. Scientists are supposed to care about
>> truth--in the case of the thermometers, what is the TRUE temperature.
>> Frankly I want to cry when I see such abysmal sloppiness excused and
>> tolerated by people who are interested in science.
>> Christine Smith, I have a question for you. Do you think Murray's cavalier
>> uncaring attitude is what scientists should do?
>> Randy Isaac wrote:
>> >>>>I think you're on the right path, doing what good scientists would and
>> should do. Whenever a complex primary analysis leads to a result with
>> significant impact, the first thing to do is a sanity check, or a "sniff
>> test" to see if the result holds true. In essence, you've done that for the
>> global warming case. Instead of taking all the data for all the earth and
>> all the time periods, you've done a sanity check on specific areas for
>> certain periods and found it didn't hold up.<<<<
>> Thank you Randy, you don't know how much I appreciate your attitude. It
>> seems that few on this list care to do a sniff test on the data (look at the
>> shameful answers and evasions above).
>> >>>When a sanity check of data isn't consistent with the primary analysis,
>> there is one more critical step that must be taken before conclusions can be
>> drawn. There are four logical possibilities:
>> a. The primary analysis is wrong
>> b. The sanity check is wrong
>> c. Both are wrong
>> d. Inconclusive--more investigation is needed.<<<
>> Agreed. I would make one observation, Randy, I have probably downloaded more
>> raw data here than anyone else on this list, yet almost none of them care to
>> follow your sense checks. Of course my data could be wrong, but one isn't
>> going to show my data wrong by saying " Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Arctic isn't
>> warming. This just shows you have zero credibility" as Rich says. To show
>> how I might be wrong, one must repeat my work and show where I made the
>> error. Unthinking parroting of GISS sites is merely an excersise in mantra
>> spouting. Thus I really really appreciate your attitude. At least you are
>> willing to look at the data and possible problems
>> >>>The key point is that until the source of the discrepancy between the two
>> points is identified and verified, the answer is d. I have experienced many
>> situations of this kind and the story isn't over until the understanding of
>> why the two approaches differ has been confirmed. It doesn't matter how each
>> approach can have its strong advocates. There must be an explanation of the
>> difference.<<<
>> That is fine, more investigation is always needed. But I will tell you from
>> my experience in debating YECs that they too will say more investigation is
>> needed and then ignore the problems presented. Some go so far as to say we
>> should draw no conclusions until all knowledge is known. So, since I don't
>> think you are a person like that, what exactly would convince you that
>> global warming is false. Please be specific about what steps one should
>> take. And then assure me that if I did that herculean task (which I am not
>> sure I can do whatever it is) that it would actually change your mind. I
>> have met far too many people in this world who say they will change in the
>> face of evidence but who never will. Which kind are you Randy?
>> >>>You provide eloquent descriptions of why and how various subsets ought to
>> >>>be
>> a good substitute for the full blown analysis and I'm not arguing with any
>> of it. We still have a discrepancy to resolve. To do that, we have to try
>> all sorts of different approaches before the matter is settled. Until we
>> know the difference between the two techniques that leads to the different
>> results, we will remain inconclusive.
>> May I suggest an approach that could test some of the possible sources of
>> discrepancy? First, instead of tackling the full global trend, one might
>> focus on a more regional observation analyzed with the same techniques. So,
>> for example, the GISS data which was used for global trend analysis, was
>> also used for assessing the geographical distribution. Chart number 11 in
>> this presentation http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2009/Trinity_20090605.ppt<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2009/Trinity_20090605.ppt> is
>> an example. Here we can see that their data indicates a 0.5 to 1.0C
>> difference (except for Texas) in temperature for the US during the period
>> 2001-2007 compared with 1951-1980. This is a specific result for a specific
>> region. (By the way, that chart shows what I was referring to about
>> variations in geographical regions.<<<<
>> Let me ask this. If that trend shown in the above slide 11 is to be
>> believed, don't you think that the monthly temperature record should show
>> it? Do you think the RAW temperature should show SOME rise in temperature?
>> Answer this question before we continue along this path.
>> >>>>As you point out, the variations in CO2
>> concentration are small, though not zero, and the physics is the same,
>> though the radiation intensity is different. <<<<
>> Given that the atmosphere is so thoroughly mixed that in every breath we
>> take we inhale molecules that had been in the lungs of every famous
>> historical person, I would challenge the idea that a stationary deficit of
>> CO2 can hang around Texas or any other location for a long time (or hover
>> over Brookhaven MS). So please provide a reference to a scientific paper
>> saying that the CO2 content can vary for decades over a given spot. I would
>> be very interested in learning that I am wrong about my view in that regard.
>> >>>>However, several ocean and wind
>> circulation patterns with decadal oscillations can influence the analysis
>> for specific regions) For your analysis, to avoid any possibility of skewing
>> data by month, it should be possible to take all 12 months for the period
>> from 2001 to 2007 and derive the average anomaly, taking care to blend the
>> data from the various states by accounting for the geographical area
>> represented. If the error bars from that work have an overlap with the error
>> bars of the GISS data, then the discrepancy disappears for this particular
>> situation. <<<<
>> How about I do it for the 18 cities I have spread from one end of Siberia to
>> the other since you all seem to be fixated on Siberia and I see no warming
>> there?
>> Murray Hogg wrote:
>> >>>>That the homogeneity adjustments (i.e. "editing") are responsible for
>> >>>>the difference between the raw and adjusted data is quite clear. The
>> >>>>real question is whether those adjustments are reliable.<<<<
>> I would agree with you. I would point out that when I learned my physics
>> (something Michael Roberts did not learn and isn't qualified to comment on),
>> I learned that if you want to measure some quantity X you don't mess with
>> the observed values when you average up all your measurments. If I am
>> measuring the speed of light, I must measure the distance, and I must
>> measure the time, and I might also have to measure rotation of a toothed
>> wheel etc. Now, all those measurements have error in them. If I know that
>> the previously measured speed of light is 299,792,458 m per second, and I
>> adjust my distance measurement to make my result come out to match the
>> previous value, you could rightly accuse me of cheating, of scientific
>> fraud.
>> But, somehow that doesn't seem to apply when we are trying to measure the
>> TREND of the temperature. Remember, we want to observe the TREND. The
>> homogeneity filter CHANGES THE TREND, THE VERY THING WE ARE TRYING TO
>> MEASURE. And when you change the trend at hundreds of stations, the average
>> trend output by this process is not an observed trend but something else.
>> That is why the homogeneity filter is so bad.
>> Here for the benefit of the lurkers are some examples, all taken from data
>> downloaded at
>> http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/<http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/>
>> Note that the above is a NOAA site. I am merely reporting what they have
>> there.
>> Here are some examples of changing the trend, the very thing we are trying
>> to MEASURE.
>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/SyUEbfok3RI/AAAAAAAAA4w/ytWE0uFWkrw/s400/weatherNZChristchurcheditedRaw.jpg<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/SyUEbfok3RI/AAAAAAAAA4w/ytWE0uFWkrw/s400/weatherNZChristchurcheditedRaw.jpg>
>> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/SyUEJAYmlzI/AAAAAAAAA4o/seB6cG0G0-k/s400/Picture1weatherNZWellingtonall.jpg<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/SyUEJAYmlzI/AAAAAAAAA4o/seB6cG0G0-k/s400/Picture1weatherNZWellingtonall.jpg>
>> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/SyUGXiktDYI/AAAAAAAAA44/8LY-0X2-QPc/s400/weatherSAKimberlyHomogVSRaw.jpg<http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Lxqre8hMG3M/SyUGXiktDYI/AAAAAAAAA44/8LY-0X2-QPc/s400/weatherSAKimberlyHomogVSRaw.jpg>
>> I have verified these but a friend did the work and he deserves the credit.
>> These pictures are from
>> http://diggingintheclay.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-would-you-like-your-climate-trends.html<http://diggingintheclay.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-would-you-like-your-climate-trends.html>
>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vYBt7hixAMU/Sv30AvBD0_I/AAAAAAAAAFs/ggaNCmPziQA/s1600-h/Tokyo.png<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vYBt7hixAMU/Sv30AvBD0_I/AAAAAAAAAFs/ggaNCmPziQA/s1600-h/Tokyo.png>
>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vYBt7hixAMU/Sv30XSvMcjI/AAAAAAAAAF8/l441BUWy8uw/s1600-h/Blindern.png<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vYBt7hixAMU/Sv30XSvMcjI/AAAAAAAAAF8/l441BUWy8uw/s1600-h/Blindern.png>
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>> >>>>As you are no doubt aware, there is an extensive literature addressing
>> >>>>that question, and the Peterson article from which you derived the graph
>> >>>>is a part of that literature.
>> Now, I regret that this particular subject is so far outside my area of
>> expertise such that there is doubtless an enormous amount of background
>> knowledge one needs in order to make sense of Peterson's article. But I will
>> venture on the following brief observation; <<<
>> Yes, but there are lots of people who think the homogeneity issue is where
>> the fraud is perpetrated. I am one of those. Scientifically one should not
>> alter the measurement of what one wants to determine.
>> >>>Peterson's methodology is essentially to compare the trends of adjusted
>> >>>data (for stations with known siting issues) and non-adjusted data (for
>> >>>stations with no known siting issues) by way of running a cross-check on
>> >>>the adjustments.<<<
>> It is a subjective judgement that the cooling stations in his study are the
>> badly sited stations. I looked into those stations and the cooling stations
>> looked better sited according to the rules but he thought they needed to be
>> warmed.
>> >>>I short, am I not correct in thinking that Peterson's evaluation of the
>> >>>reliability of homogenity adjustments on data from poorly sited stations
>> >>>is somewhat at odds with your own?<<<
>> Darn tootin' I differ from Peterson. I have tried to engage climatologists
>> on the issue of stations next to air conditioners and they are all quite
>> blaise about them. That is not consistent with a group of people who care
>> about getting the data right, so I am not ashamed to go against Peterson on
>> his changing the trend. Truth is determined by data, nothing else.
>> >>>I wonder if you have taken the time to bring your analysis to Peterson's
>> >>>attention, and what his response (if any) may have been?<<
>> I have brought it to the attention of others. they all say what I am doing
>> is well known and not newsworthy!!! Gordon Simons was witness to two of
>> these instances if anyone wants to ask him for verification.
>> MICHAEL ROBERTS said:
>> >>>There are more than two options. There are those who don't want GW to be
>> >>>true and throw up red herrings, those who are just bloody-minded for a
>> >>>start<<
>> How scientific of you Michael. Yep, that is a grand scientific reason.
>> Anyone who has an ounce of skepticism is just bloody minded. Christine
>> Smith, is this the kind of answer you think is a good one?
>> >>>It is not true that trees don't live in permafrost. Much of the boreal
>> >>>forest
>> is located on permafrost. The lower elevations of Alaska's interior are
>> taiga,
>> not tundra. However the trees' roots cannot go deep because they encounter
>> permafrost. I recall once that a tour guide pointed out an area of forest
>> which
>> he called a "drunken forest" in which the trees did not stand up straight
>> due
>> to the permafrost underneath them. The existence of forest in these
>> latitudes
>> is apparently determined by whether the average summer temperatures are high
>> enough.
>> Gordon Brown (ASA member)<<<
>> Not so fast Gordon. Tree roots in permanently (as in year round) frozen
>> ground can't take up water. Permanentely frozen ground is the definition of
>> permafrost--the perma short for permanent. Trees live ABOVE permafrost, not
>> IN permafrost. Please acknowledge that I am correct on this.
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Was a founding member of one of the biggest and oldest cycling organizations in the Port City
In early May, Terry Benjey posted on CapeFearCyclists.org a bit about the upcoming Ride of Silence, an annual silent procession to honor cyclists who died or were injured on the road. Now, next year, participants will be honoring Benjey.
The 69-year-old died Monday night at New Hanover Regional Medical Center from injuries suffered the week before during a ride around Wilmington's Greenfield Lake. As a founding member of one of the biggest and oldest cycling organizations in the Port City, Cape Fear Cyclists, his death shocked many who knew him as an experienced rider, and upset the area's tight-knit cycling community.
"It's devastating because he taught so much of us how to ride. He taught me how to ride," said Eileen McConville, the club's president.
The death prompted an outpouring of love and support, with cyclists taking to Facebook to express their sympathies.
It also served also as a reminder about the unfortunate accidents that can befall them. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 677 bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles in 2011 (Benjey's death did not involve a motor vehicle), and that 38,000 were injured. While both those figures are trending downward, the number of bicycle injuries may be much higher considering that fewer than 10 percent of them are ever recorded by police, according to the Pedestrian Bicycle and Safety Information Center.
The sad series of events involving Benjey began Wednesday evening, after 30 or so riders had amassed for their weekly wheel around Greenfield Lake. A group of about a dozen of those formed what is known as a paceline – the formation commonly seen during televised cycling races, where riders stay close to the wheel of the bike in front of them to reap the benefits of the wind draft.
At some point, a member of that paceline hit something in the road, setting off a chain reaction that sent four riders flying off their bikes. One of them was Benjey, who landed on his head, McConville said. All the riders were wearing helmets in accordance with club rules.
Benjey, the oldest of 10 children, had been listed in critical condition over the weekend but succumbed about 11:30 p.m. Monday.
The fact that Benjey's father died in March, with a memorial and interment for his ashes scheduled in July, made Benjey's death all the more jarring for the family, said his sister, Kathleen Boyer.
"We haven't even actually buried Dad and now we've lost Terry," she said. "It's devastating."
Benjey attended grade school in Dorchester, Ill., "a country town in the middle of no place" that then boasted a population of about 150, Boyer said. He started riding bicycles as a kid, once falling after the road had been newly tarred, covering him with black from "head to toe."
By 15 he knew the mechanics of bicycles, and opened up a makeshift shop in his family's garage. A year or two later, he opened Terry's Bike Shop in an actual storefront.
After high school, Boyer said, Benjey served four years in the Air Force, a good chunk of his service spent servicing computer systems at the Pentagon.
The skills he honed there laid the groundwork for life to come. Once service ended, Benjey accepted a job installing computer systems at James Walker Memorial Hospital, the predecessor to New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
Even after he left the hospital, he never left Wilmington. And he died the owner of a computer consulting firm, helping small businesses with their computer needs.
Also injured in Wednesday's crash was Robbie Driver, who by Monday had been discharged but was scheduled to undergo shoulder surgery, McConville said.
Benjey's death was particularly surprising given his emphasis on safety. For example, McConville said before Wednesday's ride, Benjey reviewed club's paceline rules with the group.
The accident led a few members to question whether the club should forbid pacelines. McConville said the board will broach the issue in future discussions, but acknowledged that a ban would be difficult to enforce.
"It's like anything else," she said, "accidents happen."
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Blenheim brouhaha: She Sherwood like her name back
Making a stink and taking names: Millionaire develops farmettes... and pigpen
A Wall Street Journal ad announcing the sale of a "4,000 acre planned equestrian plantation" caught JoAnn McGrath's eye. The ad, offering tracts ranging from 22 to 400+ acres, seemed to answer the burning question in her Scottsville-area neighborhood: Why has telecom magnate Thomas Sullivan– despite a 150-signature petition against it– been so determined to widen and pave historic Blenheim Road?
Sullivan told the public in March that he was simply stitching together some farms in the Scottsville area– and that he's not a developer.
"The land in front of us has been broken into four 20-some acre lots, and one to the east has been broken off," says McGrath's daughter, Paige. "How is that not development?"
But it was another aspect of Sullivan's marketing pitch that really piqued the McGraths. It wasn't the "lovely estate location near Thomas Jefferson's Monticello." And it wasn't the promised "concierge" facilities. (What on earth, she wondered, does a concierge do in Keene?) And it wasn't the planned equine center.
It was the bold headline that advertised the land Sullivan is selling as "Farms at Lower Sherwood."
Her farm.
Long before Sullivan or the McGraths moved in, their current properties were part of an old estate called "Sherwood." In 1969, an owner sold part of that land as "Lower Sherwood."
That was the name on the glossy brochure produced by a real estate firm marketing the 94-acre farm in the mid-1980s when the McGraths bought it.
McLean Faulconer was that firm, the same one now marketing Sullivan's farms. Company principal Jim Faulconer says Sullivan has a right to the name and downplays any confusion. "We don't call it Lower Sherwood," Faulconer explains. "We call it The Farms at Lower Sherwood."
Since 1986, the McGraths at Lower Sherwood have been raising and selling llamas to fanciers of the exotic beasts from New York to New Zealand. In addition, their 100+ herd at Lower Sherwood attracts visits from school groups and other animal lovers.
Who would confuse a llama farm with an equestrian farm? The possibilities, it seems, are endless.
"We've had cement mixers, delivery trucks, potential buyers, everyone coming to our house," says Paige McGrath.
From Route 20 to the McGraths' driveway, three separate signs point the way to "Lower Sherwood Llama Farm," or just "Lower Sherwood." The McGraths say they saw no similar markers on the land that's for sale– until Thursday, December 9. On or before that day, a large sign suddenly appeared near the entrance to Sullivan's development.
The McGraths worry that any legal challenge they might mount to use of the name would be futile because of Sullivan's money.
"I can't fight this," says JoAnn McGrath, acknowledging that the waters have been muddied by the parceling that's happened over the years. "But the fact that he has appropriated it when there's already a farm doing business as Lower Sherwood seems a little high-handed."
Thomas Sullivan is the McGraths' neighbor, although JoAnn McGrath describes the acquaintanceship more ominously: "We're surrounded by him on three sides."
While she estimates the distance to Sullivan's home, "Mt. Pleasant," as three to five miles, the McGraths feel that space has steadily compressed since the former telecom magnate began his buying spree in late 2003.
Sullivan was once one of the two top executives at Telecorp PCS, a wireless phone company that went public in 1999. Two years later, when the company was sold to AT&T Wireless, Sullivan pocketed about $45 million. While he keeps his primary residence in Maryland, Sullivan now controls some 5,500 acres of land in Keene, a bucolic burg that's also home to rock star Dave Matthews and vintner Patricia Kluge.
As reported in the Hook's August 12, 2004, cover story, "Highway man," Sullivan– over the objections of many neighbors– has widened and paved the last gravel stretch of historic Blenheim Road, aka Route 795. Besides destroying the canopy of trees that once characterized the rural lane, Sullivan's effort– which he financed himself– has provoked a lawsuit by a neighbor whose trees he uprooted, and has raised fears of development in this rural retreat.
"Speculation has run rampant," says Jeff Werner of the Piedmont Environmental Council, who witnessed the controversy at three Board of Supervisors meetings. While Sullivan has announced his intention to put land into conservation easement, no portion of the 4,000 acres now on the market has been so designated, according to another PEC executive.
Whether easement or development, no one really knows, because Sullivan communicates with neighbors (and the media) only through a spokesperson, Kim Atkins. According to Atkins, Peter D. Nielsen, a previous owner, had already chopped Sherwood into pieces, and Sullivan is "putting it back together." He describes the parcels he's selling as a "community farm concept."
With his total land holdings of over 6,000 acres– 4,000 of which are currently for sale– the emerging picture seems to be what skeptical residents have long suspected.
Considering the "concierge" and full farm services promised in the ad, the McGraths wonder if they'll soon be surrounded by a gated community. But Sullivan's spokesperson Atkins says "The Farms" won't be. While Blenheim Road neighbors are, technically, part of the new "community farm concept" unfolding around them, the anti-growthers aren't the only ones who feel left out.
Even some folks who signed a pro-paving petition that Sullivan circulated say residents have been largely excluded from the process that could permanently alter, if not totally redefine, their neighborhood.
"I honestly don't know how we can be in favor of it when we don't know what he's going to do," says Robert Fulcher, who signed the petition in support of the paving as part of an agreement that prevented Sullivan from further destroying trees in Fulcher's viewshed. "We've not had a direct communication with this man," he says.
What Sullivan did to one neighbor's views (and her nose) has yet to be resolved.
Debbie and Mike Donley live on an 11-acre parcel adjacent to Sullivan's cattle farm. Like the McGraths, their land is surrounded by Sullivan's on three sides. While the lowing of cows at the nearby feedlot isn't always music to their ears, it's Sullivan's most recent addition that has them steamed.
It was less than a year ago, the Donleys say, when they noticed workers building what appeared to be some sort of large animal enclosure less than 100 yards from their house.
A big pen. A pig pen.
When Debbie Donley asked, the two workers laughed and told her they were putting up a shelter for a pair of soon-to-arrive pot-bellied pigs. The Donleys protested, pointing out the proximity to their home.
The pen was right along their fence line and far nearer their house than to Sullivan's own barn.
"'We thought it was pretty close to your house," Debbie Donley recalls one of the workers saying, "but that's where we were told to put it."
The pen is about 15 feet from where the Donleys park their car, and lined up "dead center" with their home. "You couldn't line it up any closer," she says. She believes the pen is retaliation for their "making a stink about saving that road."
Angry, she confronted Sullivan about the pigs at a county board of supervisors meeting in early 2004. Donley says Sullivan replied that his daughter wanted to keep pot-bellied pigs– sometimes called "miniature" pigs– which can weigh up to 175 pounds when full-grown.
Why, Donley asked, when Sullivan had thousands of acres, did he place the pigs right next to their house? Why not move the pen closer to Mt. Pleasant so his daughter wouldn't have to travel two miles to visit her new pets?
Donley she says she wouldn't have complained about the arrangement "if he had only 30 acres." Her husband, meanwhile, "called everybody he could," but found that the local authorities were unable to intervene.
Atkins says that the pig pen was located to be near the Sullivans' existing barn and feedlot– and denies that retaliation played any role in the location.
The Donleys say their main concern is the family drinking water, which experts advise should be at least 100 feet from any animal enclosure. They measured and found that the distance between the pen and their well was only 82 feet. If they're worried about contamination, the Donleys say they were told by officials, they'll have to keep testing the water themselves. But what about that 100-foot buffer?
Under Virginia law, the only question to be asked in such cases is which came first, the pigpen or the well? If the well is already in place, no rules govern the space between them. If the pigs came first, however, a minimum 50-foot separation is required. That is, a margin of safety applies only to the construction of new wells– not new pigpens.
"We don't enforce pigpen regulation," says Michele Napper of the regional health department, adding, "There isn't any regulation as to where you can place a pigpen." Of course, the department "strongly recommends" the pigs be housed at a greater distance from the well.
Mike Farish, a veteran farm manager, says he sold the "pig equipment" to Sullivan over a year ago. Farish seems surprised by the conflict over a few pigs since Sullivan's cattle also roam near the Donleys' property. Other neighbors, he says, keep livestock near their wells without any drinking water contamination. Besides, says Farish, "They're just novelty pigs."
Now that the leaves are off the trees, the Donleys have an unobstructed view of the novel creatures. "It's enough to make me move," says Mike Donley. "I let the weeds grow up and try not to look over there."
Such scenery might not be so unusual for country residents, but the Donleys can only wonder why Sullivan didn't opt to enjoy the barnyard view from his own living room window. And the McGraths wonder what they'll next learn about their neighborhood in the Wall Street Journal.
Just before press time, Sullivan called the Hook office.
"I'm not going to move the pigs," he says, repeating several of the defenses offered by his spokesperson. "You can't please everyone. People don't like change."
As for the claim that he has become a developer, Sullivan points out that at least two of his neighbors have recently subdivided their properties, and then deadpans, "You mean I have to hold onto the 4,000 acres for the rest of my life?"
Even as they watch Sullivan's changes redefine the hamlet of Keene, the McGraths, the Donleys, and others might be forced to admit that their neighbor is operating within his rights.
JoAnn McGrath acknowledges this. "But just because you can do something," she says, "it doesn't mean you should."
As seen from the property of Mike and Debbie Donley, Thomas Sullivan's pigpen is just a few footsteps away.
This ran in the October 29 edition of the Wall Street Journal .
On Tuesday, December 14, the day this story went to press, JoAnn McGrath got a surprise phone call from Kim Atkins demanding the removal of the sign that has directed visitors to McGrath's llama farm since 1986. "The arrogance is just unbelievable," says McGrath.
When McLean Faulconer was selling what became the McGrath's farm in the mid-'80s, they produced this glossy brochure for "Lower Sherwood Farm." Now, that same firm is helping Sullivan market his equestrian properties as "The Farms at Lower Sherwood."
For 18 years, the McGraths, JoAnn and Paige (shown here) have raised llamas as Lower Sherwood Farm.
Paige McGrath has the right to walk and drive on the shared half-mile driveway over Sullivan's land. "They have not only taken the name of our farm– now they're threatening to take the sign down," says her mother.
Sullivan joins Dave Matthews and Patricia Kluge in calling the Keene area home.
After dealing with a year-ago "stop work" order from the County, Sullivan's paving and widening near his horse farms has reshaped Blenheim Road.
Buy a horse farm– get a concierge! (Sullivan declined to be photographed for this story.)
"Raising champion llamas since 1986," says the McGrath's site, llamalife.com


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When John Berglund was growing up around his father's hardware shop in Chicago in 1960s, it wasn't the power tools or jingling cash register that caught his eye.
"I always was impressed when men would walk in with a suit and tie," said Berglund, now 57. "At that point, I was chasing the money."
He found it.
After flirting with the idea of a career in chemistry after college, Berglund traded in his lab coat for a shot in the legal world. He started out as a county prosecutor and spent some time as a lobbyist before carving out a niche representing major trade associations across the country.
For the next two decades, he bounced from one six-figure paycheck to the next. But it wasn't enough.
In his upcoming book, " A Beach Less Traveled," Berglund describes the 10-year plan he hatched to ditch his briefcase and tie for sand, sweat and life as a small business owner in the Caribbean.
He spoke with BI by phone early this week to discuss the ups and downs along the way.
The turning point
"I always thought it would be fun -- instead of arguing and fighting at work -- to be creating something," he told Business Insider. Fascinated by different fragrances, the idea to launch his own perfume business began to form.
All roads were leading him back to the science lab, where he had abandoned his passion for chemistry so many years before. But he wanted more than just a change in career.
"We wanted to live and work where people vacationed," he said. As he and his wife were nearing retirement, and his children were already on their own, Berglund knew this was his shot to make it all happen.
They eventually set their sights on St. Martins, a tiny Caribbean island with a booming tourism market.
It was a painstaking process
To shore up their savings account and finance their new venture on his own, Berglund continued clocking into his nine-to-five.
"It made it tougher to leave because the money kept getting better," he said. "We also found creating my formulas for the perfumes was very expensive."
Berglund "dedicated a large fortune" to set up a temporary chemistry lab at home, and it was there that he tutored himself, tinkering with fragrances, devouring books on the subject, and meeting with industry experts around the world whenever he could. It was painstaking work. Each new fragrance took at least a year to develop, he said.
"But we did have the best smelling trash in the neighborhood."
The small business transition
With the creative side of the business slowly underway, Berglund and his wife soon found navigating the business side was no easier.
"We bought two pieces of property in 2004, one on a corner we'd convert into a business, and another for our home," he said. "We totally remodeled them, and as so often happens, it went over budget significantly."
In fact, they were so far in the red that Berglund was forced to stay in the U.S. for another two years to generate enough income to meet their expenses. Taking out a loan was out of the question.
"We really wanted to be debt-free and not have to answer to anyone other than ourselves," he explained. In all, they eventually invested $1 million into the business and their move.
"We didn't make the move until we felt we had everything in place."
They weren't completely oblivious to the risk they were taking either. The year was 2007, and the U.S. was spiraling toward a crippling recession. They were lucky to sell their Dallas home before the housing market caved.
"We were almost wondering if this was the right move," he said. "But when we bought property in 2004, we were already committed. Now there's no turning back."
"All I own are flip-flops now"
They named their new shop "Tijon" after their son and have been steadily growing their business in the town. The couple's eldest daughter is working on opening a second shop in San Diego later this year.
While Berglund admits some friends and family weren't entirely on board with their decision, like any good lawyer, he's quick with a counterargument.
"We sleep in until about 7:30 and walk next door to work. We have no commute. The weather is always nice," he said. "My suits are all in storage, and I'll probably never see them again. All I own are flip flops."
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Al Brown enters his 13th season alongside Joanne P. McCallie and 10th on the Duke University staff after being hired on May 2, 2007. Since arriving in the coaching world 38 years ago, Brown has produced numerous winning teams and is widely considered one of the best basketball minds in the game today.
Brown has been a part of three NCAA Championships, four NCAA runner-up teams, eight NCAA Final Four squads and 24 NCAA Tournaments. He has coached men's and women's basketball at 11 different schools including Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Western Michigan, Ball State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Cleveland State, Michigan State and Duke since taking his first assistant coaching position at Purdue in 1967.
His record in women's basketball speaks for itself as his squads have won 80 percent of their games, advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 19 of 22 years, and won three NCAA titles. Brown has led three teams to the NCAA Championship game a total of seven times and won 80 percent of league contests.
In his nine years with the Blue Devils, Brown coached Chante Black, Krystal Thomas, Kathleen Scheer, Elizabeth Williams and Carrem Gay, who are currently playing professionally. In 2015, Williams was the No. 4 overall selection by the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA Draft. Black was taken with the 10th overall pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft by the Connecticut Sun, Gay signed with professional teams in Israel and Switzerland in 2009-10, Scheer was signed by the Bendigo Bank Spirit of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in Australia and Thomas was selected by the Seattle Storm in 2011. He also coached Joy Cheek, who was drafted by the Indiana Fever in 2010 and is now an assistant coach at Ohio State. Brown has helped guide Duke to a 225-53 record in eight years with the Blue Devils, while advancing to the NCAA Tournament all eight years and winning the ACC Championship in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
Since Brown and head coach Joanne P. McCallie have arrived at Duke, 10 Blue Devils have been drafted in the WNBA, which is the second-most by any Division I institution.
Brown is known for his video breakdowns and opponent analysis, as well as his on-court teaching expertise, which has proven to be a valuable contribution to the success of every basketball team he has coached. He was recognized for his coaching expertise when he was named one of the top assistant coaches in the country in a poll conducted by the Women's Basketball Journal.
He has had an interesting and unique career as he is the only coach in the history of intercollegiate athletics to have played an active role in national championship games in three different sports, including five appearances as a coach in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game. Brown is also the only coach to coach men's and women's basketball in the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten Conference at two different schools in each conference. Also, he is the only coach in college basketball history to coach in the men's (1969, Purdue vs. UCLA) and women's national championship game (Tennessee, 1996-98, 2000; Michigan State, 2005).
Brown has 22 years of college coaching experience in the women's game and 16 years in the men's game. On the men's side, he has coached five teams at two schools in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the Sweet 16 three times, the Elite Eight twice and the final game once.
Brown was the motivational speaker for the Tennessee football team throughout the 1998 season. Coach Phillip Fulmer, the former head coach at Tennessee, asked him to speak to the team in Tempe, Ariz., before the Fiesta Bowl National Championship game. Brown was on the field in the coaching box during the Vols' victory over Florida State in the title game.
During his seven years in the women's program at Tennessee (1995-2002), the Lady Vols went to the NCAA Final Four five times, playing in the national title game four times, and won an NCAA record three consecutive national championships (1996-98). Over that seven-year period, the Lady Vols went 224-29, good for an 89 percent winning percentage. He was a part of five consecutive Southeastern Conference championship teams, during which time Tennessee posted a league record of 67-3.
During his first year at Michigan State, the Spartans won the Big Ten regular season and tournament championships, went to the NCAA Championship game for the first time in school history and won a school-record 33 games. During his three years at Michigan State, the squad produced an 81-23 record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament each of those three years. In the Big Ten, the Spartans notched a 38-10 mark and finished no lower than third each year.
A 1964 graduate of Purdue, Brown was a three-year letterwinner on the Boilermaker basketball team before making the switch to the coaching ranks as an assistant coach with his alma mater in 1967. Brown served three seasons at Purdue before moving to Ball State, where he was an assistant for five seasons (1977-1982).
He then spent five years (1982-87) as the head coach at Ball State. His 1986 Cardinal team had a record-setting year, posting 21 wins en route to the Mid-American Conference tournament championship and the school's second berth in the NCAA Tournament. The first time Ball State advanced to the NCAA Tournament was when Coach Brown was an assistant.
After spending the 1987-88 season assisting at Western Michigan, Brown served on the staff at Minnesota for three years (1988-1991), where the Gophers advanced to two NCAA Sweet 16's and one NCAA Elite Eight, before moving on to the men's program at Tennessee for the 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons.
Coach Brown has recruited and coached some outstanding players. The first Walter Byers Scholarship winner and the 1984 Naismith Award winner, an award given to the best player in the nation under six feet, were two of Brown's recruits. He has coached 10 NBA players and 12 women who are playing in the WNBA, plus numerous players who have played overseas.
Brown and his wife, Karen, have one son, Edwin. Edwin and his wife, Erica, reside in Hopkinton, Mass., with their son, Simon, and daughter, Fiona.
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Michigan State: 2004-07
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Cleveland State: 2003-04
Wisconsin: 2002-03
Tennessee: 1995-2002
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Tennessee: 1991-93
Minnesota: 1988-91
Western Michigan: 1987-88
Ball State: 1977-82
Purdue: 1967-70
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The Nicholls State University softball team needed an extra inning to earn a split with Houston Baptist in Thursday's Southland Conference doubleheader.
The Nicholls State University softball team needed an extra inning to earn a split with Houston Baptist in Thursday's Southland Conference doubleheader.
In the Thursday's second game, the Colonels had to rally for a run in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game and send it to extra innings. In the top of the eighth inning, Houston Baptist scored three runs and seemed poised to sweep the doubleheader.
Nicholls answered in the bottom of the eighth with four runs as Leah Andrus' bases-loaded single scored Alaina Guidry with the game-winning run in a 7-6 comeback win splitting the doubleheader at the Colonels Softball Complex.
The final game of the three-game series is at 3 today.
The Colonels (14-18 overall, 5-6 in Southland) lost the first game, 8-0, in six innings, and Nicholls coach Angel Santiago said once his players stop overlooking Houston Baptist (13-12, 6-5), they started to compete.
"The first game was basically, in my opinion, we took them for granted, and we didn't do what we were supposed to do," Santiago said. "They took what we gave them, and they earned some of the other things they needed to get. It was a big pill to swallow for some of our players and in Game 2 we got the lead from the start. We gave them back the lead, but for us to comeback it is another step for this program in learning how to compete and win games. We are doing it more often than in the past and we are making swing changes and adjustments. We still are getting in bad positions, but with more maturity we should get better."
In Game 2, Nicholls did take a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on Brittany Marcet's RBI single but after the Huskies scored once in the fourth inning and twice in the fifth, the Colonels trailed 3-1.
Nicholls scored a run in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI double by Andrus and added another run in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie it at 3.
Colonels' pinch-hitter Collen Levy led off the sixth with a double and scored on a Maggie Bryan's single for the 3-3 score.
After the teams went scoreless in the seventh, the game went into extra innings with the Huskies scoring three runs in the top of the eighth.
Holly Webb started the inning for the Huskies with a walk, and Lauren Schwirtlich (2-for-4, walk, run) followed with a bunt single.
A sacrifice bunt by Lauren Powers moved the runners over a base bringing Kirsten Schwirtlich to the plate and she drew a one-out walk to load the bases.
Melissa Herman was next and her sacrifice fly scored pinch-runner Callie Herrington giving Houston Baptist a 4-3 lead.
Victoria Granchelli (2-for-5, run, two RBIs) came to the plate and extended the Huskies lead to 6-3 with a two-run single. Daniella Rodarte (2-for-4) followed with a single, but Mac Christensen grounded out to second base to end the inning.
In the bottom of the eighth, Nicholls got an immediate spark when Marcet (2-for-4, RBI) stroked a lead-off double.
After Levy walked and Danielle Phillips reached on an error, the Colonels had the bases loaded.
With one out, Bryan (3-for-4, two RBIs) hit a shallow fly ball that bounced off the glove of the Huskies' right fielder. The single scored pinch-runner Cheyenne Naquin for a 6-4 score.
With the bases loaded, Guidry (2-for-4, double, run, two RBIs) was next and she crushed a 0-1 pitch to the center-field fence. The double scored two runs tying the game at 6.
After Ashley Bertot (2-for-5, two runs) reached on a fielder's choice, Haley Parkerson drew a walk to load the bases again and bringing Andrus to the plate.
Andrus (2-for-5, two RBIs) hit a bouncing single past the Huskies' infield scoring Guidry for the 7-6 win. Andrus said several players had clutch hits in the eighth-inning rally.
"In between games our coaches told us that we needed to be there more for each other and fight for our pitchers. We were down, but we had a bunch of clutch hits in that last innings. It wasn't just the top or the bottom of the lineup, it was everyone," Andrus said. "In the first game we just let them do what they wanted. But the big thing for this team is we came back. We don't ever say die, and we learned from our mistakes."
Houston Baptist coach Mary-Ellen Hall argued a couple of calls on the bases during the eighth inning, but Hall wouldn't comment on her arguments after the game.
"I give them credit for coming back to beat us in the second game. I thought we had a couple of force plays (in the eighth inning), but that is how it goes. We are all bunched up in the standings, so it is important to win this series, and we will come back and be ready (today)," Hall said.
Hannah Haydel (6-6) got the complete-game win for Nicholls giving up six runs, four earned, on nine hits with five walks and six strikeouts.
Keely Shuler started for Houston Baptist and got a no decision after pitching seven innings and giving up five runs, all earned, on nine hits with a walk and four strikeouts. Kendall Stiefel got the loss pitching the eighth inning and giving up two runs on three hits with a strikeout.
Houston Baptist scored four runs in the second inning in an 8-0 win over Nicholls in the first game of Thursday's doubleheader.
The Huskies also scored two runs in the third inning and two more in the sixth inning for the eight-run lead. The game ended after the sixth inning due to the 8-run mercy rule.
Lauren Schwirtlich and Melissa Herman each had two hits for Houston Baptist, while Sarah Shotton picked up a complete game win.
Shotton gave up no runs on four hits with a walk and seven strikeouts. Marcet, Phillips, Parkerson and Paige Miller each had a hit for Nicholls as Ashton Bennett took the loss in the circle.
Bennett lasted just 2 1/3 innings giving up six runs, four earned on six hits with a walk and no strikeouts. Katie Moulder finished the game for Nicholls pitching 3 2/3 innings and giving up two runs on three hits with a walk and a strikeout.
At Hammond, down by three runs in the seventh inning Thursday night, the Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team rallied for seven runs in a 9-6 comeback Southland Conference victory against Nicholls at Pat Kenelly Diamond at Alumni Field in Hammond.
Southeastern (19-8, 4-0 in the SLC) stayed undefeated in Southland Conference play with the win, knocking off Nicholls (14-13, 1-3 in the SLC) in the first game of a conference series for the first time since 2009.
Having scored their first two runs of the game in the sixth, the Lions sent 10 batters to the plate in the seventh.
Brett Hoffman drew a lead-off walk from Colonels starting pitcher Mike Suk and moved to second base on Gabe Woods' single to left. A walk to Ladd Rhodes loaded the bases and forced Nicholls into its bullpen.
After striking out Ben Hernandez for the first out of the inning and jumping ahead of Harry Slade with a pair of strikes, Colonels reliever Marc Picciola (0-2) snapped off a pair of wild pitches that scored Hoffman and Woods. Slade then singled up the middle to score Rhodes and tie the game at 5.
Aaron Haag followed with a single through the left side of the Colonels infield. After Jameson Fisher's ground out to short moved both runners into scoring position with two outs, Sam Roberson drove in Slade and Haag with a single up the middle.
Roberson, who earlier in the game extended his hitting streak to 17 games, scored on Jesse Buratt's double to left and Buratt scored on Hoffman's single to left-center field. The seven runs are the most Southeastern has scored in a single inning this season.
Nicholls loaded the bases in the ninth, bringing the potential tying run to the plate with no outs. But Lions freshman Mason Klotz caught Colonels second baseman Philip Lyons looking at a called third strike for the first out. Brandon Jackson drove in the game's final run with a sacrifice fly to left and left fielder Keith Cormier grounded out to second for the final out.
Klotz earned his third save of the season, nailing it down for left-hander Kyle Cedotal (4-3). The freshman southpaw from Denham Springs earned his second-straight win in long relief. Picciola suffered the loss.
The Colonels produced 10 hits on the night as Cormier went 2-for-5 with two RBIs and Lyons going 2-for-4 with an RBI and run scored, and six other Colonels registering one. Five different Lions had multiple hits on Thursday.
Southeastern and Nicholls will play in Thibodaux today where the Colonels will host the middle game of the series at Ray E. Didier Field. Lion freshman right-hander Tate Scioneaux (3-0, 3.18) draws senior right-hander Kory Delange (4-2, 2.97) on the mound.
On Saturday, the series finale returns to Southeastern's campus at 2 p.m.
— Southeastern Louisiana and Nicholls Sports Information Departments.


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
* "All About Me" Personalized Eye Spy Rice Bottle
The girls and I love to make our own
So, as one of our
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we decided to make personalized
All About Me Eye Spy rice bottles.
"C" loves pink and all things girly.
So we made a little batch of
pink and purple rice for her bottle.
To make the colored rice,
we mixed white rice with
liquid food coloring and a few pumps
of alcohol-based hand sanitizer
in some zip-lock bags.
To get nice strong colors, we used
A LOT of food coloring!
We let it dry on a paper towel lined dish.
We collected things that represent her personality....
lots of little kitty buttons and toys,
tiny pink flowers,
pink glittery beads and pink jewels,
a couple of tiny pink butterflies,
and her name in pink and purple letter beads
strung on a piece of pink cord.
After everything's in the bottle,
add a dab of glue to the lid and twist on.
I wish we had tiny photos of the girls to put inside
or mini shrinky-dink "portraits" of them!
How fun would that be?!
"E" went with a blue and green theme.
She had frogs, snails,
turquoise and lime green buttons,
cool beads, and bug buttons in hers
since she's my nature girl.
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It was a snake.
Barnaby Grathier screamed, adjusted his grip on the shovel to something much more aggressive and attacked it. The narrow trench limited him to overhead swings but he brought the edge of the tool-turned-weapon down five times, ten, fifteen. Every time he hit it, it moved, scattering clumps of dirt. Whatever it was, it refused to die.
By the time Crawford had arrived, he was franticly trying to scramble out of the chest-height trench to escape.
"What in the Light's name is going on here?!"
"There's a snake in there, sir!" Private Winfield replied, who had fetched the sergeant. Barnaby was on his hands and knees shaking at their feet.
"Can't kill it, sarge!" Barnaby wailed. "It's just... A demon maybe - I don't know!"
Nearby work had stopped curiously. Sergeant Crawford peered into the trench.
"Can't see a bloody thing, Grathier." the sergeant said, smacking him over the back of the head. "Get back to bloody work."
No. It was a snake. A demonic snake.
Barnaby saw the churned and frozen patch of dirt he had been attacking. There was no snake. Some of the nearby diggers began laughing and after a short moment, Barnaby laughed with them. It had been two days since he had slept and they had been warned about the effects of sleep deprivation. Disorientation. Hallucinations. Earlier that day, a rifleman had fired at the sky and fled for his life, claiming Deathwing himself was bearing down upon them.
With a self-depreciating chuckle, he jumped back in the trench. Wintergrasp was a terrible place to dig - all of Northrend would be a terrible place to dig a trench now that he thought about it. What made Wintergrasp worse was that nothing stood still. They'd man this trench for five minutes before they withdrew or attacked some Horde force somewhere. Currently, the Alliance held the fortress. They were just outside the walls helping with frantic fortifications before the Horde returned. They had been driven off twice and twice they had come back to reclaim this stupid place.
The 'why' of it never made itself known to Barnaby. The important thing was they keep that fortress, and if they lost it they threw their bodies upon it's walls until it was retaken.
"My turn, man." Winfield said. "Take a break."
Barnaby tossed him the shovel and hoisted himself out of the trench. Winfield attacked the frozen dirt with a vengeance, making good time. He was a hard worker, Barnaby thought. Every part of his body screamed sleep and he fought it. If he slept, it'd be the sleep of the dead and they'd need to kick him awake. Besides, when he slept he saw Marcus clutching at his throat, vomiting something indescribable in that unending sea of plague.
Marcus was dead now. Karl was dead. Bort the surly prick was dead. Part of him knew he should have died back at the Wrathgate with them. The gassing had been followed by two weeks of agony at a field hospital - out of thirty patients in his wing, only one other had survived - and then it was back to the 9th, who were now ankle deep in blood at Wintergrasp. Sometimes it still hurt to cough. And since returning, another four weeks had come and gone. He supposed he was lucky that--
Something hard connected with his ribs. Barnaby found himself looking up at Crawford.
"Get up, Grathier." he snapped. "We sleep when this trench is done."
Fuck. He had dozed off again. Barnaby rubbed his eyes and shook his head vigorously. He motioned for the shovel from Winfield, who shook his head and asked for five more minutes of work. Suit yourself, he thought. But if I'm idle any longer than that, I'll drift off again.


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Bloomington police cited a 29-year-old man for disorderly conduct for tossing 1,000 dollar bills over an upper floor railing at the Mall of America.
Serge Vorobyov, of Apple Valley, admitted throwing the money Friday as a choir performed "Let it Snow." He was cited and released at the scene. Vorobyov said he also was ordered not to go into the mall for a year.
He said he's going through a divorce and lost his car-hauling business and hoped the positivity of throwing the money would come back to him. He argues he was just spreading holiday cheer.
"I wanted to do some sort of pay-it-forward kind of thing," he said Sunday.
He invited his estranged wife to try to win her back but she didn't show up, he said.
Vorobyov said he started tossing his "last $1,000" from the fourth floor and continued while going down the escalator.
He had stamped the bills with his YouTube address, and on his Facebook page he called the event a publicity stunt. When asked why he wanted the publicity, he said he wanted his cat back from his estranged wife.
Mall of America spokeswoman Sarah Schmidt said it's the first time anyone has ever done something like that in the mall. She said Vorobyov disrupted the performance and could have caused a serious situation.


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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. While some Japanese data were released this morning, the biggest market cues may be from news out over the weekend: strong U.S. payrolls and a more mixed Chinese trade report.
4:12 am | Markets check -- 4:11 p.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.3% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) flat (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.3% (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.3% (closed)
1:51 am | China's real-estate market sees land sales plunge | by Laura He
As mentioned earlier in today's blog, China's property market is cooling off dramatically despite the onset of the sector's traditionally "hot season," as both land sales and transaction values plunged in May across 300 major Chinese cities.
Total land sales fell to 1,767 transactions in May in 300 Chinese cities, down 45% from a year ago and 19% lower than in the previous month, according to a survey published Friday on China's leading real estate website Soufun.com.
In the same month, the total transaction value for land sales dropped 38% year-on-year.
Read more about the very weak land-sale data (and the market reaction) in this MarketWatch report.
1:04 am | Markets check -- 1:04 p.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.4%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.5%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.7%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.3%
11:57 pm | Hong Kong and the 'Piketty backlash' | by Mike Kitchen
The duty-free-shopping bastion of Hong Kong may be witnessing a reversal in the fortunes of its richest residents and the companies that cater to them, writes Craig Stephen in this week's column.
And this, Stephen says, is making the territory a test kitchen for the outcomes of theories advanced by economist Thomas Piketty, and in particular, what happens if Piketty's inexorably widening wealth gap sparks a backlash.
Read more of Stephen's look at "Capital in 21st Century Hong Kong," so to speak, in MarketWatch's This Week in China.
11:47 pm | Markets check -- 12:47 p.m. in Tokyo
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.4%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.8%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4% (at break)
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.6%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.3%
10:24 pm | Hong Kong stocks: Techs wax, as real estate wanes | by Laura He
Hong Kong stocks are rising this morning on a strong cue from the U.S., with the Hang Seng Index adding 0.8%.
However, Shanghai is suffering under the weight of falling property shares, amid further signs of a slowdown in China's housing market. The Shanghai Composite Index is seesawing between small gains and losses, currently up 0.1%.
Land sales in 300 Chinese cities plunged 45% in May from a year ago, with the land-transaction fees also plummeting 38% year-on-year, according to data published Friday by China's leading real-estate website Soufun.com.
Several major developers are suffering losses on the Chinese markets, with Poly Property Group down 7.7%, Shimao Property Holdings down 2.8%, Sunac China Holdings off 1.7%, and Fantasia Holding Group lower by 1.1% in Hong Kong. In Shanghai, Metro Land Corp. is down 4.2%, Huayuan Property Co. is down 1%, and Beijing Dalong Weiye Real Estatte Development is moving lower by 0.7%.
However, techs are rising across the board after their counterparts rallied in the U.S. Hang Seng Index heavyweight Tencent Holdings is advancing 1.2%, and computer maker Lenovo Group, also on the benchmark index, is up 0.8%.
Other gainers include onlin
9:52 pm | Markets check -- 9:52 a.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.6%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) flat
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.1%
9:20 pm | Australia stocks: Happy belated birthday, Queen! | by Mike Kitchen
If you're wondering, the Australian markets are closed today to mark the Queen's Birthday.
And this is interesting because the queen in question — Queen Elizabeth II of the House of Windsor — was born on April 21.
It turns out that the Commonwealth nations which choose to fete the Queen do on their own timetables. In Australia's case, the British monarch's birthday was originally celebrated on that particular monarch's actual birthday, but when George V died in 1936, they decided to hold the birthday party on the first Monday of June, no matter what.
So even though Elizabeth II is a Taurus, Australia has her as a Gemini, just like her grandfather.
Of course, it's not just Australia which does this: Even the U.K. itself opts for a June celebration, perhaps in hope the weather will be a little better than in late April.
In fact, it seems that the Falkland Islands (population 3,000) is one of the few places outside Buckingham Palace that celebrate's Elizabeth's birthday on her birthday.
Anyway, just something to think about if you're planning on sending Her Britannic Majesty a Starbucks gift card.
8:54 pm | Markets check -- 9:54 a.m. in Tokyo
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.6%
Seoul (Kospi) 0.4%
8:44 pm | Japan stocks dig the data | by Mike Kitchen
Tokyo is off to a strong start, with the blue chips climbing across most sectors after a series of good macro news.
A few minutes in, and the Nikkei Average is 0.7% higher, just off its opening high, while the broader Topix is up 0.4%.
A weaker yen is once again the keystone in the arch upward for the stock market. After some brief volatility following the release of Japanese data just ahead of the open (more on this in a moment), the dollar is back at ¥102.60, solidly higher than its ¥102.29 level last Friday when the Nikkei Average closed flat.
The forex action is translating into some sparkling gains for the big tech and industrial names, including Panasonic (up 3.2%), Alps Electric (up 4.1%), Renesas Electronics (up 3.7%), Komatsu (up 1.4%), and Hitachi Construction Machinery (up 2.3%, though parent Hitachi Ltd. is down 0.4%).
Sony is up 1.5%, and Nintendo is up 1.4%. In a report out Sunday, The Wall Street Journal details how Sony is beating its U.S. videogame rival Microsoft, with the former's PlayStation 4 selling 7 million units since its latest console release, compared with sales of 5 million consoles for the latter's Xbox One.
Meanwhile, part of the story behind this morning's gains appears to be the (mostly) upbeat economic numbers out of both Japan and the U.S.
While the U.S. jobs numbers (see earlier post on today's blog) helped Wall Street finish higher on Friday, Japan has added a little to the global cheer this morning with a decent upward revision to its economic growth for the first calendar quarter.
It turns out Japan's gross domestic product rose by 6.7% in January-March compared to a year earlier, not the originally reported 5.9%. On a quarterly basis, GDP growth was revised to 1.6% from 1.5%. A key driver in the mark-up was private non-residential investment, which increased by a full 7.6%, as opposed to the initially estimated gain of 4.9%.
All the same, the robust growth was for the period before Japan's second-ever hike to the national consumption tax, and the real question — some economists say — is how badly growth will suffer in the current quarter, as the economy reacts to the higher sales tax.
Besides the GDP read from the Cabinet Office, the Finance Ministry offered markets the April results for Japan's current account. Here, the numbers were less cheery, with the current-account surplus coming in at ¥187.4 billion ($1.83 billion), which although wider than March's ¥116.4 billion, trailed a consensus estimate of ¥320 billion, as reported by Dow Jones Newswires.
7:58 pm | China & U.S. data digest: The great, the good, and the not-so-good | by Mike Kitchen
Over the past several days, Asian markets have been given two important data sets to trade off of: The U.S. jobs report and Chinese trade statistics.
The U.S. May employment data received broadly positive reaction across much of the economist community. To quote RBC Capital Markets: "It is a rarity that the jobs report checks off all of the positive boxes, and it has been a further rarity that we get a strong read on payroll growth following a robust and near-300,000 [net-job-gain] result in the previous month. So from that standpoint, this number could hardly have been better."
The Chinese report was more of a mixed bag, with export growth puffing up, but import growth shriveling.
Barclays says the 7% increase for May exports, compared to a year earlier, was not too far above a consensus forecast for 6.7% growth. But more importantly, it showed a sharp acceleration from April's 0.9% rise and a major rebound from March's 6.6% drop in exports.
"We think the year-on-year improvement reflects both a recovery in export momentum and a low base of comparison, and we believe such favorable factors will continue and will support exports [growth] of approximately 8% in 2014," Barclays economists write.
On the other hand, May's 1.6% fall in imports points to weak investment growth, they write, noting the consensus projection was for a rise of 6%.
"The slowdown appears to be broad-based, suggesting still-soft domestic investment demand at this early stage of growth recovery," Barclays says.
When taken together, the export and import prints suggest trade may become a positive contribution to the gross domestic product this quarter, "but more easing remains necessary" from the People's Bank of China, according to Barclays.
The bank says it still sees "a recovery in growth momentum" in the April-June period, although "the recovery remains at its early stage."