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Hsu Zi-qi has just moved into a new apartment. She opts for a more simplistic life by dedicating herself to the pet parrots she raises, as well as losing herself in her job. These actions help her forget her past and, in particular, her romantic desires. After helping her rescue one of her birds, a handyman named Feng catches the woman's interest. Hsu starts following the handyman while he completes his duties, and the two connect on a more personal level as they discuss their troubled pasts and current problems.
Missing Johnny is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
Underscoring the difficulties Hsu faces as a woman trying to find herself, "Finding Johnny" also explores the lives of the family that owns the building. With each member of the family dealing with their own daily pressures, they struggle to keep the family unit happy. By taking a grounded approach to the struggles of its subjects, "Finding Johnny" captures these moments in a unique style.
The most prominent artistic choice in "Finding Johnny" comes within the structure of the story. The narrative is driven by short vignettes of the character's interactions, intended to convey daily struggles. There is no deep sense of tragedy or profound character defining moments. The characters themselves could easily be neighbors, just going through their daily life and facing struggles that you would expect all families to go through. This means, of storytelling, while creating a sense of realism, requires a fair amount of patience to get through. Any plot synopsis of this film seems rather forced, including my own attempt, as this is really just about the small moments accumulating into a broader picture of the character's moment in life. The movie gives the impression that what transpires is not even necessarily an important moment in the protagonists' life. Although some deeper conclusions are drawn, if you were to look at the direction people are heading in life, even within their own daily narrative, these moments might just be a side note in their life story. This creative choice is something that needs to be embraced in order to enjoy the movie.
The visual style, like the script, is pretty minimalist and although complementary to the film's subject matter, it won't leave a strong impression. The score is also rather muted, with there only being a few scenes where I noted that there was one. However, when I did take note, it seemed fitting and did a good job of highlighting more poignant moments.
With most of the technical aspects being rather subdued, I feel that the film needed some strong performances in order to quell up some interest in the subject matter. Thankfully, Rima Zeidan gives an exceptional performance as Hsu Zi-Qi, that did win her the "Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer". She really nails the role and brings a sincerity to her character which some debuting actors seem to struggle with. Lawrence Ko, who plays handyman Feng, also gives a memorable performance. The interaction between the two actors is a real highlight, and the biggest take away from the production. Consequently, the interactions between the family that owns the building become rather tedious, despite the fact that they are still well acted and contain a few touching moments. These scenes act as more of a distraction from the romantic narrative. Given the film's runtime and subtle approach to drama, these family sequences ultimately drag down the production.
Missing Johnny, is an endearing story of finding love during moments of transition. The script succeeds in creating sincere and realistic interactions between its stars, by keeping the dialogue simple. The performances from Rima Zeidan and Lawrence Ko just add to a great foundation. The production seems to embody the "Slice of Life" genre, by giving glimpses into a certain period of the characters' life while not giving a complex narrative or a strong sense of conflict. The naturalistic approach to this drama is both its strongest and weakest point. "Missing Johnny" serves as a rewarding experience for those who embrace the formula and appreciate a more methodical pace.


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What You Need to Know Now about Digital Marketing
1. Digital and Traditional Marketing together
Digital Marketing is about having meaningful ongoing conversations using digital tools to engage your audience of choice. The ultimate goal is to start a two-way conversation that will build your brand and inspire your content to be shared, further expanding brand awareness. In the process of delving into using the tools of Digital Marketing, such as twitter, Facebook, blogs and website, traditional marketing should not be overlooked. Matt Kates a blogger for Econsultancy explains this well: "A good way to think about traditional marketing is that it presents a highly effective way to reach a broad consumer audience. On the other hand, digital marketing can be used to create a relationship with the consumer that has depth and relevancy. Marketers should use the wider reach traditional marketing channels present to generate broad awareness and drive consumers to the digital experience".
2. Why Storytelling
The reason that storytelling is currently such the hot topic is summed up by Michael Margolis in "Believe Me: a storytelling manifesto for change-makers and innovators". He says: "People don't really buy a product, service or idea, they buy the story that's attached to it".
3. Responsive Web Design
Making sure your website is responsive when you design it is critical. Responsiveness will ensure your customers and prospects have the same user experience regardless of whether they are on a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Today responsive web design replaces the trend in 2011 that dictated that you should design your website for mobile first. You actually have to design your website for all platforms, not just mobile.
4. Newsjacking gives you an edge
Newsjacking or inserting your brand or ideas into breaking news, in real-time, in order to become a news story yourself is something you should highly consider to give your digital marketing an edge. Monitor the news very closely and train yourself to think of how linking your brand to particular top stories could benefit your business. One of my favorite examples of newsjacking involves Taylor Guitars, a company that reacted in real-time with a YouTube video response to songwriter Dave Carroll's "United Breaks Guitars" song that was getting loads of media coverage.
5. Big data
The big thing you need to know about big data is that there is an incredible amount of irrelevant and unstructured data concealing what may actually be valuable to you. To use big data for your digital marketing purposes you will need a data scientist with expertise in filtering and processing the data to gain insights.
Engaging in the Digital Marketing space successfully requires you to be agile and eager to learn about the next up and coming tool or trend. What is the latest thing that you have heard whispers about in digital? Share with us.

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Rehabilitation programmes for older people with cognitive difficulties
He ara hou mō te hirikapo hihiri · New pathways for working minds
Cognitive ConnectioNZ's rehabilitation programmes can provide new hope for older people concerned about the effects of aging on their mind.
Finding new pathways for working minds
We offer Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) and reading groups, separately or in combination. These rehabilitation programmes can help participants make new connections. They provide mental stimulation and keep participants in touch socially and with the world around them.
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Grammy Award-winning comedy producer Dan Schlissel runs Stand Up! Records based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With a growing catalog and more than 180 releases, they have a 17-year history as an incubator for the comedy stars of tomorrow. Combining comedy and great art, curating a Roku Stand Up! Channel, discovering new talent, and producing comedy festivals, Stand Up Records is a true force in the comedy business. Learn more at standuprecords.com. This week on The 5, Dan shares is favorite top 5 places to eat after seeing a comedy show in the United States, with recommendations in Austin, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Minnesota!
When you are in comedy and you don't work a straight job, you keep fucked up hours. This keeps you in synch with your artists, and also gives you some of the only quiet time you will ever get. Since I edit audio for my record label, this quiet is crucial. These hours give you a unique problem though. Where to eat? This is an article about some of my favorite late night haunts around the US that you can go with your comic co-workers before heading home to work on unreleased records.
A good while ago (September 2006), before Rick Shapiro relocated to LA, and then back to New York, I was in NYC going to as many comedy shows as I could pack in. I was hanging out with running buddy and eventual label act, Danny Lobell, and we got a call at about 1AM to have dinner with Rick, so we hopped in a cab and made our way to Chinatown institution Wo Hop. It is the basement at 17 Mott Street. Do not confuse it with the rest of the confusingly named Wo Hops at street level, they are not what you are looking for. It is tight, the tables are uncomfortable, and the waiters have put up with an eternity of drunken assholes, and do not have time for your shit, but it is open until 4:30AM nightly, and open again at 10:30 for you monsters that can get up before noon. They will feed you excellent and delicious Chinese food. Be warned, they are cash only.
On a normal day, The Wiener's Circle is a great place to get a Chicago style hot dog, which is basically a salad bar on a hot dog (all beef Vienna dog topped with mustard, neon green relish, chopped onion, tomato slice, pickle slice, sport peppers and celery salt on a poppy seed bun), or the venerable Italian beef, which no short description would ever do justice to, but should be tried by anyone who likes delicious things. At night, it becomes a hell-scape of drunkards and staff who take no shit from said customers. Insults go blasting back and forth loudly and with words that would make your mom blush. In other words, a great place to take a comic after a show or drinks. Do it on a clear night, as there is absolutely no indoor seating, and the standing counter space is taken up by said drunkards. They are angrily open until 4AM almost every night.
Over the years, Austin has become a home away from home for me. It has also grown like a weed that was caught in the same gamma ray blast that created the Incredible Hulk. The effects of the ray have been an aggressive growth that actually threatens all the cool things that exist in the city. Of course, this has been said by everyone who has gone to Austin since the mid-sixties. The Magnolia has been around since the late seventies, so it has seen plenty of changes as well, but it has weathered them by being frighteningly consistent with a super solid menu, which includes great breakfasts and baked goods as well as a solid Tex/Mex menu. My Austin buddies make fun of me for being a tourist for going there, but they have been solid to me for the fifteen years I have been going to Austin, nearly always in the company of at least one great comic who hasn't broken through to the mainstream (yet). Open 24 hours.
Suburban Minneapolis is a long way from Acme Comedy Company, the main room in town, but it is relatively close to The Joke Joint as well as Rick Bronson's House of Comedy, which are both solid, solid rooms as well, and often book acts on my label. Andale Taqueria has the added benefit of being open until 3AM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is on top of being absolutely authentic Mexican, and delicious as all get out. Everything is cooked to order, so there can be a little wait, and it certainly gets packed to the gills at times, but this gives you time to talk work to your friends before being drowned in waves of awesome. I usually go for a burrito, but the tortas and tacos are great, too. They also often times have my favorite Mexican soup, caldo de res. I always feel happy that I went there, and that I dragged other folks as well.
I know it has become somewhat of an LA comedy cliché to go to Canter's Deli, but I prefer Pink's by a long shot. Pink's has a many-storied history dating back to 1939. I first heard about it from David Lee Roth's autobiography, Crazy From the Heat. That was all the guidance I needed. You get to stand in line at Pink's, and that is A-OK by me because this gives you the time to read all the computer printouts taped to the front of the place to know what mishegas they are going to serve you – their menu changes a fair amount with all the names and trends in pop culture and the items named thereafter. I do not know if they originated the "California dog" epidemic, but they mastered it. Want two dogs in a flour tortilla? Want it as a reuben sandwich? Want it with relish, onions, tomato, sour cream and bacon? I mean *I* don't, but you might. Open until 2AM every night, 3AM on the weekends, which is good, because I can stop there after drinking at Tiki-Ti, but that, dear readers, is a whole other list…


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The Economics master's program provides students with the knowledge required for entry-level or mid-level positions conducting economic analysis and forecasting within industry or government. Courses are selected to allow students to be well prepared for these as well as related alternatives.
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EC 570 Introduction to Mathematical Economics should be completed prior to entry into the master's program in the fall. For students who have not completed this course or its equivalent, this class is usually offered during summer school and also as an intensive three-week course in August. The course is intended primarily for students entering the Ph.D. program in the fall, but it would serve the needs of master's students as well. Completing this course prior to the fall semester allows students to complete their degree program in a timely fashion. This program requires 27 hours of coursework.
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I love classic rock. I hate classic rock radio.
I spend about ten hours a week in my 2003 Civic. No MP3 jack, no satellite radio. Which means I listen to about nine hours a week of classic rock. (Thank goodness for WXRT, which only plays classic rock about a quarter of the time.) I don't want to hear talk or news, so like a smoker who curses his habit every time he lights up, I grimace through the endless repetition of the classic rock format as it ruins the music I love.
The magisterial guitar coda of "Comfortably Numb" … the unstoppable hook of "What I Like About You" … the depth-charge bass that detonates "Whole Lotta Love" … even the primal scream at the climax of "Won't Get Fooled Again" … all rendered mundane. I've just heard them way too many times.
One Chicago station even tags itself "The Soundtrack of Our Lives," suggesting that "our lives" ended when we grew up and had kids. Yet I listen on.
What does this have to do with entrepreneurship? It's about the power of comfort.
There is no progress without change, innovation, disruption and outside-the-box thinking—and that's where new fortunes are made. But at the same time, no one's going broke catering to those who eat the same food, shop at the same stores, visit the same websites and listen to the same music day after day after day.
The classic rock format succeeds because a hefty proportion of my generation is most comfortable hearing the music we listened to in high school.
You can call it inertia, or even laziness, but millions of buying decisions are made every day based on little more than the buyer's comfort—and moving people away from their comfort level is any marketer's greatest challenge.
But make a slight improvement to something people are already comfortable with? Back up the truck!
Toyota's hybrid Prius is a runaway success, but even with $4 gas, all-electric cars barely make a dent in the market. Why? Electric cars are weird, but the Prius is pretty much a "normal" car that happens to get great mileage.
Google didn't invent the search engine. Facebook didn't invent social networking. They just improved concepts people were already comfortable with.
Easier said than done, of course. I work closely with Chicago startup Kauzu, who recently launched three applications that connect jobseekers with employers. We didn't invent online job search, of course, but each application offers improvements—both conceptual and functional—over what the market is familiar with. Results? Check back with me in a few months.
I just hope we make enough money for me to get my Honda an XM receiver.


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Dan Vincelette (born August 1, 1967 in Verdun, Quebec) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.
Vincelette started his National Hockey League career with the Chicago Blackhawks in 1986. He also played for the Quebec Nordiques. He left the NHL after the 1992 season.
He played junior for the Drummondville Voltigeurs from 1984 to 1987 and was chosen 74th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. In 1986-87 he played in three playoff games for the Hawks and then played two full seasons. In 1989-90 he was sent down to the minors and just after that was traded to the Quebec Nordiques. Vincelette only played 27 games for the Nords before being traded back to the Hawks in 1991. He played his last NHL games in 1991-92 for the Hawks.
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Player: LayZ Style Subject: Chess Trap #16 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence, Hedgehog variation
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As we have seen in the two previous traps (Chess Traps #14 & 15), 7...0-0 loses for Black.
Relatively best is 9...Nxd4.
Of course 10...Qxe7 or 10...Nxe7 loses by 11.Rxe4.
12.Bxc3! is an important move. If instead 12.Raxd1 Raxd8(or Rfxd8), and Black is a pawn ahead.
No better is 12...Bxc6 13.Nxc6 bxc6 14.Be7. Or if 12...Raxd8 13.Bxd7.
Or 13...Rfe8 14.Raxd1 winning a piece.
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The need for more sophisticated simulations of urbanization has prompted the development of interdisciplinary land-use models. Integrated land-use models feature distinct yet related submodels requiring substantial data input representing the broad range of elements that drive land-use patterns. Further, the relationships between and among the submodels can be treated as dynamic with multiple pathways of influence. Dynamic models are linked to a database which manages and updates source data during model runs. While data constraints may force a static representation of certain parameters or processes, dynamic interactions between individual agents, grid cells, and model components more realistically simulate land-use changes. Like other system models, feedbacks can be positive or negative, lead to growth, decline, or stability, and establish steady states or devolve into chaos.
Although several large-scale integrated models have been developed for specific locations, a growing number are intentionally flexible and can be applied to multiple locations across a range of spatial scales. The use of open source software and programming languages for model development eliminates proprietary constraints on model and source code distribution while facilitating a cooperative development environment. This has greatly enhanced the ability of integrated land-use models in not only addressing problems specific to particular locations but also in the formation of modeling scenarios with the cooperation of stakeholders. Further, it allows the development of modular utilities that add functions based on planning needs (e.g., water allocation or air quality modules). However, as such models become increasingly complex, it is imperative that they be well documented so as to ensure maximum transparency for stakeholders who rely on the outputs. While it is beyond the scope of this article to provide detailed descriptions of an exhaustive list of land-use models, Table 2 characterizes several
Table 2 Land-use models and their characteristics8
Land-use model
Model characteristics
Pautuxent landscape model
CUF&CUF II Clarke UGM SLEUTH
Huff model
Model type: agent-based, CAs, statistical
Model description: dynamic, highly complex, modular, spatially explicit, open source Internet reference: http://www.urbansim.org
Model type: CAs
Model description: dynamic, intermediate complexity, interdisciplinary, combination of open-source and proprietary tools Internet reference: http://www.uvm.edu/giee/
Model type: agent-based, statistical
Model description: spatially explicit, intermediate complexity, proprietary Model type: CAs, statistical
Model description: dynamic, spatially explicit, low complexity, open source Model type: CAs, statistical
Model description: dynamic, spatially explicit, low complexity, modular, open source Internet reference: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/gig/
Model type: CAs, statistical
Model description: dynamic, spatially explicit, low to medium complexity, modular, proprietary Internet reference: http://www.clarklabs.org/
Model type: agent-based, statistical, gravity model Model description: spatially explicit, low complexity aThis list of land-use models is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, the model characteristics are provided only for those land-use models referenced in the text.
land-use models according to the terminology presented in this paper.
One recent example of an integrated model is UrbanSim, an agent-based behavioral simulation model that allows for prediction of land-market responses to policy alternatives. UrbanSim predicts the spatial distribution of urban residential and commercial development based on its own models of household and employer behavior and through the integration of an external four-step travel-demand model. Predictions are based on statistically derived coefficients estimated from empirical data. It operates under dynamic disequilibrium in which supply-demand imbalances are addressed at each time step but are never fully satisfied, as they would be in a model assuming full equilibrium (e.g., DRAM/EMPAL, Disaggregated Residential Allocation Model/Employment Allocation Model). The disequilibrium approach accounts for process-specific timescales of change such as daily transport decisions (short-term process) or real estate development (long-term process).
UrbanSim can endogenize factors that other models take as exogenous, such as employment location or land values. Model features include the ability to simulate the mobility and location choices of households and businesses, developer choices for quantity, location, and type of development, fluxes and short-term imbalances in supply and demand at explicit locations, and housing price adjustments as a function of those imbalances. Because it is open source, other modular capabilities can be freely added based on model outputs.
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Politics Of Government Formation And Trajectory Of Violence In Province 2
Govinda Bhattarai
Madhesi nationalism is very high in Province 2. Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) Nepal in its election manifesto presented the Madhesis (mostly the people who reside in Province 2 and speak Maithili, Bhojpuri, or Vajjika languages) as a separate nation. Such a proclamation has provided much needed energy to the separatist movements launched by the likes of C. K. Raut and Jay Krishna Goit. Province 2 is the most volatile in terms of political stability. It is not just one of the poorest provinces in terms of per capita income but also houses some of the highly underprivileged communities. Both poverty and social discrimination fuel social unrest, which provides a fertile ground for the extremist forces.
No single party won an outright majority in Province 2 Assembly, triggering a wave of political maneuvering to form a coalition government. But the politics of government formation at the provincial level is directly affected by the same efforts at the national level because the two largest parties in the province, the RJP and the Federal Socialist Forum (FSF) Nepal, might also play a crucial role in coalition formation in Kathmandu. This article attempts to shed light on the likely effect of the politics of government formation on the trajectory of violence unleashed by some extremist groups. As stated earlier, political coalition at the national level will directly influence government formation in Province 2, which will eventually determine how these extremist groups will operate.
But, first, let us take stock of the issues raised by the Madhes Movement which failed to reach its definitive conclusion. The Movement now appears to be dormant, if not completely dead, because it lost its legitimacy on several grounds. But the Madhesi issues linger on. Among other things, Madhesi demands include creation of two provinces in the Terai, the southern plains stretching from the east to west surrounded by India on all three sides; a constitutional amendment that would recognize as citizens the children of Nepali women married to foreigners; and provisions that electoral districts be based on population size rather than geography.
The politics of government formation hit a gridlock with parties disagreeing over the national assembly elections. Now that an ordinance from the President has cleared the way, the drama of governmental politics will unfold over the next couple of weeks. Nepal has a history of dramatic shifts on political positions overnight, and political parties are known to set aside their ethics and ideology for power.
No party won an absolute majority at the national parliament. If we could consider the Left Alliance as a single political entity (the UML and the Maoists forged a pre-election agreement to merge and form a new party), they may form a majority government, which would bring to an end any possibility of political instability as a result of a hung parliament. But given the current political development, it is not as straightforward as it sounds.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is reported to have offered Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to lead a new coalition government. The Maoist leader may not accept the offer outright. But he may use this as a leverage to bargain power sharing with the UML. He has already floated the idea of rotating the leadership with UML chief K. P. Oli and is also reported to have claimed leadership of either the government or the new party after merger.
The question is not whether Prachanda will accept Deuba's offer. The question is what would be the likely scenario if he did. The current political maneuvering is likely to give rise to three scenarios of coalition formation: UML-Maoist alliance, UML-Maoist alliance with the FSF, and Congress-Maoist alliance with other smaller parties. The three scenarios will yield three possibilities of provincial government formation.
One, if the UML-Maoist alliance formed a government in Kathmandu, the RJP and the FSF might seek to form a coalition in Province 2 because both parties have similar agenda and have worked together during the Madhes Movement. But how would Raut and Goit react to the coalition?
The extremists want to 'liberate' the southern plains by 'reclaiming' it from the 'Pahadiyas', the hill people. Goit's Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha has launched many violent attacks against the people of hill origin. Though relatively peaceful, Raut's campaign is more vitriolic than the armed group, as he has been spreading hatred against the hill people who he blames to be responsible for all ills in the Terai. There are reports that he has been providing armed training to Madhesi youths.
The extremists believe that the Madhesi parties' preoccupation with power will take them away from the genuine Madhesi issues and that their coalition is doomed to fail as evidenced by their checkered history. In order to prove their point, they are likely to intensify their violent activities.
Two, in order to vindicate their position on Madhesi issues, the UML-Maoist alliance may invite one of the Madhesi parties to join their government. The FSF is the most likely candidate in this regard because it is a party formed by former communists. This coalition will reflect in the provincial government as well. The three parties have enough seats in the provincial assembly to form a coalition government. How will the extremists react to the entry of a party branded as 'anti-Madhesi' (in this regard, the UML) into the state government? Their reaction will definitely be violent, in fact, more violent than if RJP-FSF alliance formed a coalition.
Three, as stated above, the Nepali Congress is trying to keep the UML from power by forging ties with the Maoists. To materialize this, they need support from all other smaller parties and independent members of parliament. This means both of the Madhesi parties will join the Congress-Maoist coalition. As a result, a similar coalition will form at the provincial level as well. The extremists' response to such a coalition is likely to be no different from their reaction to RJP-FSF coalition. Even though the NC performed well during the local elections, the "Pahadiyas' party" is unlikely to be accepted by the extremists as a Madhes-friendly party.
This article predicts that Raut and Goit will intensify their extremist campaigns once the election euphoria is over. They will use the politics of government formation as a pretext to launch their activities. From the analysis above, it is obvious that the level of violence may differ with various coalition configurations. They are likely to be more violent when a party they deem 'anti-Madhesi' is in power.
(Bhattarai, a former TRN Associate Editor, teaches politics at State University of New York at Geneseo.)


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Starting with the basics of clinical child neuropsychology and functional anatomy, the authors present a transactional framework for assessment, diagnosis, and intervention. The book carefully links structure and function—and behavioral and biological science—for a more nuanced understanding of brain development and of pathologies as varied as pervasive developmental disorders, learning disabilities, neuromotor dysfunction, seizure disorders, and childhood cancers.
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Dr. Semrud-Clikeman received her Ph.D. in school psychology with specialization in neuropsychology and psychopathology from the University of Georgia in 1990. She holds an M.S. degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1974) and completed her undergraduate degree at Concordia College, Moorhead MN (1972). Currently, Dr. Semrud-Clikeman is also authoring a neuropsychological screening test for school psychologists for ProEd. In addition, she has presented at numerous national international conferences (including NASP and APA 2004 meetings) as well as an invited speaker for the Neuropsychology Group of the New York Academy of Sciences. She has published 3 books, is working on a book on social competence as well as one on childhood psychopathology. Moreover, Margaret has published over 60 articles and chapters. She has also developed several workshops for school psychologists, including Introduction to Neuropsychology and Traumatic Brain Injury. She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Learning Disabilities (Sage Publications; quarterly), Journal of Attention Disorder, and School Psychology Quarterly (Guilford Publications for APA Division 16).
Anne Teeter Ellison teaches courses on assessment and interventions for personality, social, and emotional functioning; pediatric psychology in urban settings; and professional and historical issues in school psychology. Ellison has published several books on neuropsychiatry and neurodevelopment disorders of childhood, developmental interventions for ADHD, and adults with ADHD. Presently, she serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Learning Disabilities, as chair for the editorial board of Attention, and as secretary for the executive board of Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders (ChADD).
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"Investigating the Ways of Overcoming Takfir Crisis and modelling the Ideal Islamic Society" is the theme of a speech to be presented at the event by Dr. Mohammad Hassan Zamani, Lecturer and Researcher of Al-Mustafa University.
"Combating Extremism and Terrorism: The Islamic Approach" by Datuk Wira Abdul Ghani Samsudin, Director of SHURA Malaysia, and "Threat of Violent Extremism in the Digital Age" by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danial bin Mohd. Yusof, Principal Researcher of Extremism Analytical Research Unit (EARU), ISTAC-IIUM will be the themes of some other speeches at the seminar in the morning.
The second part of the program will start with a speech titled "Terrorizing Islam – The Islamophobic Agenda of the West" by Haj Mohd. Azim bin Abdul Hamid, president of Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization (MAPIM), according to iais.org.
The seminar will continue with speeches on "The Palestinian Struggle and the Challenge of Israeli-Sponsored Extremist Groups" by Dr. Muslim Imran, Director of Palestinian Cultural organization Malaysia (PCOM), "The Reality of Takfirism in Contemporary Malaysia" by Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Professor of Political Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and "Imperialism and Extremism in the Division of the Muslim Ummah" by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President of JUST World.


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Georgia O'Keeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria, 1939
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sam Rose and Julie Walters, 2004.30.6, © 2018 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
"My idea of the world — nature, things that grow, the fantastic things mountains can do," Georgia O'Keeffe wrote to her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, from Hawai'i in 1939, "has not been beautiful enough."
Traveling to lush Hawai'i from her home in snowy New York, O'Keeffe was, at 51, an established artist, and one accustomed to digging deeply into new landscapes. Her New Mexico sojourns had begun a decade earlier. Known already for her desert scenes and her flower paintings, too, she was commissioned to help sell pineapple juice.
The Hawaiian Pineapple Company, now Dole Food Company, wanted art for a few print advertisements, and ad agency N.W. Ayer & Son asked O'Keeffe to create paintings for said print pieces. O'Keeffe, who by her own admission needed time to absorb the idea of a new place, was determined to delve into as much of Hawai'i as time allowed.
First, on a cross-country train ride — New York to California — she observed the changeable American countryside. "I'm doing nothing but looking," she wrote in a letter while the train chugged along. In California, she boarded a boat to Hawai'i, where she spent nine weeks. Landing first on Waikiki, then exploring outer islands, the landscape struck her as new, beautiful, even unbelievable.
The paintings that resulted from this long, revelatory journey — along with sketches and other mementoes — were exhibited at Stieglitz's gallery in New York upon O'Keeffe's return. And they are on view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art now, and through February 24th, in a show titled "Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i." The exhibit, which was organized by The New York Botanical Garden and curated by Theresa Papanikolas, arrives in Memphis midwinter with the warmth and brightness of a sudden summer breeze.
All a New Color
O'Keeffe's paintings fall into certain predictable categories — or so you may think. After seeing her Hawai'i paintings, you might just rethink. She herself seems to have been in the process of rethinking, during her island time — in the process, that is, of finding new inspiration, new revelation; new colors, new forms, head-spinning wonder. It's fun to watch the creative evolutions traced along the gallery walls as O'Keeffe's photographs turn into sketches, sketches into paintings; every iteration, a new discovery.
"It is all a new color for me," she wrote shortly after disembarking, "and I think it is going to be very good for working. I hope that I can put it into form, as well as enthusiasm."
A series of works shows O'Keeffe feeling her way along the wild edges of a black lava bridge off the coast of the island of Maui, in Wai'ānapanapa State Park. A photo she took of the lava bridge is printed so large you consider walking into it; nearby, a sketch, the bridge here all zig-zagged black lines above pointed wavelets and the idea of water; finally, the resultant oil painting, or one of them: Black Lava Bridge, Hāna Coast, No. 1.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Black Lava Bridge, Hána Coast, No. 1, 1939
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in., © Honolulu Museum of Art, Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1994 (7892.1)
The painting comes alive with shape and line, with the variegated colors of the water; it's abstracted in a sense — the waves are graceful, upturned V-shapes, each one a slightly different hue, the paint applied in chubby lines — yet all the truer for the abstraction. If you were to stand on the coast yourself, look at waves pulsing and lurching against rock, then shut your eyes, this is what you might see flashed in the darkness against your closed lids.
A Luscious Big Pineapple
A digression, that isn't: Magazines — like this one, right here — depend on print advertisers. Always have, and always, we hope, will. Ours is a symbiotic relationship: The more ads we run, the more stories we can place near or next to them. And the more readers like you are reached by the ads, the happier are our advertisers. But we think of ads, nowadays, as a separate beast from the creative content of the magazine.
Almost 80 years ago, when O'Keeffe traveled to Hawai'i on a contract with Dole, things were different. She produced paintings that would be translated into two full-page print ads, one showing a heliconia flower, the other, fittingly, a pineapple bud. She spent time while in Hawai'i visiting Dole's pineapple plantation; the pineapple bud resulted from this visit.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Heliconia, Crab's Claw Ginger, 1939
Oil on canvas, 19 x 16 in., Collection of Sharon Twigg-Smith, © 2018 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The painting occupies most of the full-page ad; it's made to appear framed, with a brass placard drawn onto the bottom of the frame, "inscribed" to read, "A pineapple bud from the Dole plantation in Hawaii — Painted by Georgia O'Keeffe." Below the frame, a much smaller, Rockwell-ish family gathers around a patio breakfast table, deep green leaves behind them mimicking the long green lines of O'Keeffe's unfolding pineapple plant. The father figure, in a double-breasted suit, stands holding his goblet of pineapple juice aloft while the mother and well-groomed children sit smiling around the table.
The ad copy is wonderfully dated. Excerpting it simply wouldn't do. All ellipses original:
"Perhaps you have never seen a pineapple bud — and words cannot describe this glowing crater of color which on the Dole plantations grows and ripens into a luscious big pineapple … Perhaps you have never tasted Dole Pineapple Juice — and there is no other way to discover the fragrant, zestful goodness of this pure juice. Try it for breakfast … after shopping or exercise … with the children when they come from school … whenever you and your family crave refreshment."
Impossible That It Is Real
The primary-color language of the ad copy stands in almost comedic contrast to the nuance and wonder of O'Keeffe's Hawai'ian sojourn, expressed in both her paintings and her written descriptions, in the letters to Stieglitz. She had found herself in a bit of a rut, it seems, before the trip, and the relationship with Stieglitz somewhat strained. ("Mr. Stieglitz, you said in your letter you had no idea what I am thinking," she wrote, going on to tell him, "One of the things I find myself thinking most often is that there is something so perfect about the climate here." Probably not exactly the sort of "thinking" about which he had no idea?)
Georgia O'Keeffe, Waterfall, No. I, 'I−ao Valley, Maui, 1939
Oil on canvas, 19 1/8 x 16 in., Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, Gift of Art Today 76.7, © 2018 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The pineapple-company advertisement promises refreshment. O'Keeffe, one senses, found refreshment of a different order — creative refreshment, in the form of surprise, and the delight it can bring. This extends from a description of eating raw fish for the first time ("You will be disgusted when I tell you that I ate raw fish for lunch … a special fish that they eat raw, and it doesn't even taste like fish"), to the material that found its way into her paintings. A certain unreality winds throughout her letters, from first arrival to departure.
At a party just after she stepped ashore, "A man walked up to me and handed me a pink camellia with a very large, handsome bud," she observed. "It seems impossible that it is real."
Later, in a different letter: "So many of the flowers just simply seem unbelievable." Then, of a white paradise flower: "It is a mad sort of flower."
She noted of the shoreline lava that it "makes a crazy coast … queer formations, born in the lava, bridges, gateways, holes through which it seems solvent where the air comes up and sprays, hissing, blowing …"
"I will be off in the faraway somewhere," she writes before setting sail for Hawai'i's remoter islands, "but everyone says this is the good place."
This unreality appears in her paintings, too: fantastical visions that flummox a straight-ahead point of view. A papaya tree rises up, tall and cartoonish, seemingly above the tops of mountains in the background — the perspective is wonderfully odd. A bella donna flower, flanked by a pink ginger flower, seems to float, giant and billowing and free, with the blue ocean and horizon line behind. A heliconia flower rises up not from earth but from seafoam, in O'Keeffe's vision of it, all green-tipped and salmon-flushed, bracts (leaves that shield blossoms) like steps up the ladder of its stem. A plumy, orchid-hued fishing lure with a round glass attached seems to hover at the horizon line, the ocean and sky stacked against each other within and without the glass.
Off in the Faraway
I don't get ahold of a new thing so quickly," O'Keeffe noted near the end of her time in Hawai'i. "It doesn't happen in a minute." After nine weeks in the islands of Hawai'i, O'Keeffe packed up her paintings and sketches (many of which you can flip through on a small touchscreen, at the Brooks), and began the long journey home. The reenergizing element of the trip, and the productive destabilizing effect, inspired a series of far-flung trips in the years that followed.
For now, as at the end of every worthy trip, O'Keeffe was glad to be returning home, to solid ground, where things are recognizable, where she trusts she is waking and not dreaming. "You know from what I wrote you that the islands were lovely," she observed. "But I had to laugh to feel how glad I was to be nearing what I call real land. Out there was a sort of dreamland, one of those perfect places nature arranges once in a very long time."


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Racing on towpaths at 'average' of 19mph
IT IS official—the upgraded towpaths are being used for cycle racing, with speeds of an average of 19mph, meaning much higher speeds are obviously being reached.
Not just a few but a staggering total of 1,102 attempts were made by 542 speeding cyclists along the upgraded towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal from Bradford on Avon to Bath, reaching a recorded average of 19mph, writes Ralph Freeman.
Time trials
Anyone who has watched the Tour de France or other such bike races will know what a time trial is. It's a race against the clock over a given route; the person with the shortest time wins. Simple. But how many of you know there is now a variation on this form of competition using the latest communications technology to create 'virtual time trials'. There are apps to run on smartphones which connect to web sites such as Strava where you can post your time and compare it to other riders to claim top bragging rights for a particular route.
The cyclist wishing to monitor his performance i.e. speed along a given route can carry a small GPS device or a smartphone for that matter, which will log their position/speed/time so enabling a very accurate journey time and speed to be recorded. Also the GPS tracking proves the correct course was travelled with no short cuts!
Encourage faster cycling
Having completed your personal 'time trial' you can then upload it to sites like the Strava one for storage. So you could, if you wish, record your daily commute to work and see what your best time is and if your fitness is improving. However, things become better or worse, depending on your point of view, because routes are now being made public on the Strava web site that you can ride and then compare your time with others to create a league table, and of course encourage faster cycling. Hence the 'virtual time trial' label.
A renovated, metalled towpath makes an ideal, vehicle free route to carry out such a virtual time trial and test speed against others.
On the Strava site you will find a route along a canal towpath which includes in the header the following information:
1,102 attempts
Bradford on Avon to Bath via canal towpath. Ride Segment Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
12.9km (8m) distance, 1,102 attempts by 542 people
The top three in the male rankings have times for the 'course' in the region of 24 to 27 minutes at an average speed of 27kmh (16mph) to 31km/h (19mph).
Canal side race tracks
So, many dog walkers and boaters who have described upgraded towpaths as becoming 'race tracks' are not far off the mark. These virtual time trials would explain why some of the Lycra brigade will not slow down for anything and just bawl at other towpath users to 'get out of the way'. Do you realise, you selfish person mooring your boat up to set a lock, that you could be ruining some rider's best time ever and their chance to go number one on Strava? Shame on you!
Expanding at a pace
With Sustrans and councils aided and abetted by CaRT, bent of transforming our peaceful towpaths into time trial courses for a small minority to commandeer, then all I can say is well done! Your plan is working.
Where is English Nature when you need it? I bet the local wildlife, herons in particular are not amused by these so-called improvements. Another peaceful haven for contemplation destroyed, but for what purpose?


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Estero Beach & Tennis 507C, 1 Bedroom, Sleeps 2, Heated Pool, 5th Floor, Ele...
Visitors from all around the world come to Fort Myers Beach for the white sand beaches and sparkling turquoise waters and that is in abundance when you stay at Estero Beach & Tennis 507C. Your balcony looks directly out on the beach and incredible Gulf waters. It's a million dollar view you'll enjoy every day you stay at Estero Beach & Tennis 507C.
Visitors from all around the world come to Fort Myers Beach for the white sand beaches and sparkling turquoise waters and that is in abundance when you stay at Estero Beach & Tennis 507C. Your balcony looks directly out on the beach and incredible Gulf waters. It's a million dollar view you'll enjoy every day you stay at Estero Beach & Tennis 507C.
Estero Beach & Tennis 507C is an air-conditioned, efficiency condo that's perfect for a couple wanting to get away from it all and enjoy the pleasures of Fort Myers Beach. The condo sleeps four in all, so if two additional guests drop in, you can put them up on the sleeper sofa in the main living room. Your condo combines your living room, dining room, and kitchen in one inviting space.
Your living room is outfitted with a comfortable couch and rocking chair, along with a TV with a DVD player. After a day of golfing, beach-combing, or kayaking in Lovers Key State Park, it's fun to relax with a good movie and dinner at home around your glass-topped dining table.
You'll probably dine out on many evenings, since there are so many possibilities near your condo. Santini Marina Plaza is just a short ways from Estero Beach & Tennis 507C. There you'll find many restaurants, interesting shops, and entertainment. You may want to make arrangements to join a fishing charter while you're at the Plaza.
You also have a kitchen within Estero Beach & Tennis 507C that is equipped with what you need to prepare snacks and tasty meals for you and your guests. There's even a community grilling area in case you want to serve steaks, burgers, or that fish you caught on your fishing charter.
One of the things you'll like most about Estero Beach & Tennis 507C is its location toward the quieter southern end of the Island. You are close to Lovers Key State Park where you can beach comb, rent bikes, kayaks, or canoes and see native creatures in their unspoiled natural habitat. There are also hiking trails and sandy coves where you can enjoy a picnic along the shore. What a wonderful vacation memory!
Estero Beach & Tennis resort itself has a large and inviting pool with plenty of lounge chairs on the pool deck. Bring a good book and read a bit while you dry off in the Florida sunshine. There are also tennis courts available at the resort, so be sure to bring your racquet if you are a player.
After you've watched the glorious Gulf sunset from your lanai, your thoughts will begin to turn to rest and a good night's sleep. Your master bedroom is just the escape you need. There's a king-sized bed and nightstands with reading lamps awaiting you. Just close the folding doors, if you want, and create a completely private retreat. As the ceiling fan turns above you, you'll quickly slip into sweet dreams.
Just steps from your king-sized bed is the Estero Beach & Tennis 507C bathroom, complete with a shower/tub combination and vanity with large mirror. Before you know it you'll be showered and out on the balcony enjoying your first cup of coffee.
Estero Beach & Tennis 507C is a popular property. Once you visit, you'll want to return again and again. We encourage you to book your preferred dates in this charming condo as soon as possible.
Town of Fort Myers Beach Short Term Rental Registration Number 19-0341
ATM on site: yes
Air conditioning: yes
Available for letting for a longer period: yes
Balcony: yes
Barbecue: yes
Bed Linen provided: yes
Bicycle routes: yes
Blender: yes
Boat (for rent): yes
Canoeing: yes
Coffee maker: on request
Cooking basics (pots and pans): yes
DVD player: yes
Dining room: yes
Dishwasher: yes
Elevator: yes
Fan: yes
Fitness: yes
Fridge: yes
Garage or parking place: P
Golf: yes
Heated swimming pool, can be inside or outside: yes
Heating: S
House has a romantic appearance: yes
House is suitable for children: yes
House is well suited to go fishing: yes
House is well suited to go surfing: yes
House with sea view: yes
House with water view: yes
Kitchen utensils: yes
Kitchen: yes
Microwave oven: yes
Minigolf: yes
Number of King beds: 1
Number of bathrooms: 1
Number of bedrooms: 1
Number of single sofa beds (1 person): 1
Oven: yes
Patio: yes
Satellite TV: yes
Shared tennis court: yes
Smoking allowed: no
Snorkeling: yes
Spa: yes
Surface area of house (in sqft): 521
Swimming pool: yes
Telephone: yes
Television: yes
Toaster: yes
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Country risk: Hot Chile leaves the region trailing
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Brazil, Colombia and Chile receive their highest ever scores in Euromoney's Country Risk survey, benefiting from improved macroeconomic policies and the region's robust economic growth. But Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela are riskier than a decade ago.
The latest rankings from Euromoney Country Risk (ECR) show that Latin American sovereigns receive higher ratings from economists than ever before, with improved scores for the regions top borrowers across a range of political, economic and structural risk indicators.
The ratings indicate a convergence trend between the scores of the regions highest-rated sovereigns and their counterparts in Europe and North America.
However, the results also confirm the widely held view that some of the regions largest economies are heading backwards and are now considered riskier than they were 10 years ago.
The ECR survey evaluates investment risks by asking experts to rate countries across a range of political, economic and structural criteria. More than 400 economists participate in the survey, which assigns a country risk score to 186 markets globally.
As Euromoneys heat map of country risk illustrates, there is a large disparity between economists perceptions of risk in Latin America.
|Country risk: Latin America heat map
|Source: Euromoney Country Risk
Chile, the top-rated sovereign in the region and the only country included in the green second tier of ECRs five-tier system, has a country risk score of 75 out of a possible 100, the 18th highest score in the world.
Chiles rating puts it alongside developed economies such as France, the UK and the US, whose ratings have each deteriorated in recent years.
In contrast, Guyana, the riskiest sovereign in the region, has a country risk score of 28 out of 100. With low survey scores for corruption, government interference/non-repatriation and access to capital markets, Guyanas risk ranking is more than 100 places below Chiles, placing it near the bottom, in ECRs tier five.
A further six sovereigns in the region are included in the fifth tier (red in Euromoneys heat map), essentially cut off from global capital markets due to high levels of transfer, business and political risk.
However, bounded by these two extremes, a group of seven sovereigns have a moderate country risk outlook, placing them in ECRs third tier. Typically consistent with an investment-grade rating, tier-three countries are usually emerging but underdeveloped economies with stable political systems.
The performance of many of these sovereigns in ECRs survey during the past decade illustrates the improving risk outlook of the region as a whole.
Latin Americas largest economies have had mixed fortunes over the past decade. Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile are considered much less risky than they were in 2000. The four sovereigns have risen by more than 20 places each in the ECR rankings during this period. Perus risk rating improved the most, climbing 37 places. Colombia made the next biggest gains, rising 29 places.
Chile, the regions pace-setter, retains its long-standing position as the safest economy in Latin America, rising 21 places. But Venezuela and Argentina have both tumbled since 2000 to become the riskiest of the regions leading economies.
A main driver behind Latin Americas improvement has been rising scores in the surveys economic assessment. They have risen in each of the regions leading economies, including Argentina, which defaulted in 2002.
In part, this is a story about economic growth. Colombia, which saw the largest score gain in this period, has benefited from the post-conflict improvement in its domestic security in the last decade that has enabled large foreign-direct-investment flows to its energy and resources sectors, spurring growth.
Rising global commodities prices have also driven economic growth in Peru, Chile and Argentina during the past decade, with a concomitant improvement in per capita GDP and government debt ratios.
The trend is reflected in ECRs economic outlook indicator, one of five economic variables within the survey, where three Latin American sovereigns Chile, Peru and Colombia score highly enough to be included in the global top 20.
Similarly, high global oil prices have enabled Venezuelas policymakers to persevere with the isolationist policies of its president, despite the countrys deteriorating economic and fiscal outlook. Its economic outlook score, though falling, remains a supportive factor in its overall country risk score.
However, the high scores awarded to Latin American sovereigns by ECR economists also reflect the improved macroeconomic policy framework adopted by the regions most successful countries.
Latin Americas new generation of policymakers appears to have grasped the lessons of the sovereign debt crises of past decades, enacting legislation to ensure sustainable government debt levels, while taking effective measures to tackle inflation.
For example, Colombias leaders won plaudits from the IMF and other commentators last summer after the enactment of legislation placing a legal limit on the budget deficit and mandating the creation of a stabilization fund using oil revenues.
Rafael Amiel, an analyst at IHS Global Insight, says: "We have a more optimistic view of the governments ability to manage its deficit and allocate resources effectively now that the budget legislation has been passed."
Colombia rose nine places in the ECR rankings last year, with an improved score in the government finances indicator.
A similar story has taken place in Peru, whose fiscal framework was praised by the IMF in a recent country note for helping reduce gross government debt from 44% of GDP in 2004 to 24% in 2010. Its no coincidence that Perus overall economic score has improved by 36 points since 2000, more than any other Latin American sovereign.
These and similar efforts have registered in ECRs macroeconomic indicators, where scores for selected Latin American sovereigns are now on a par with European and North American sovereigns.
In the surveys monetary policy/currency stability assessment essentially a measure of economists confidence in a countrys central bank Chile, Colombia and Peru feature in the global top 30. Each of these sovereigns now receives higher scores in this category than the UK, US and Italy.
In ECRs bank-stability indicator, which measures the strength of national financial systems, experts now rate Chile as the ninth safest in the world, with a higher score than many triple-A rated sovereigns. Brazil and Colombia also make the bank stability global top 30, with both sovereigns receiving a score of seven or higher out of 10 from economists.
André Loes, chief economist at HSBC Brazil and a member of ECRs expert panel, says: "Important reforms of the institutional framework took place in Brazil during the 1990s, along with the strengthening of macro-prudential oversight and regulation. The next phase must bring about increased efficiency in the public and private sectors, and further investment in hard and soft infrastructure. This will lead to productivity gains that will lead to increased GDP growth without an increase in inflation."
Unlike the widespread improvement in Latin Americas economic assessment, political risk scores in the region sharply diverged during the decade. Political risks have moderated in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile since 2000, but Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico are now riskier than they were 10 years ago, according to ECR economists.
Political risks are rising fastest in Venezuela, which has the lowest political score of the three countries. Venezuelas political score fell by 3.4 points last year, with warning signals flashing red across a range of indicators.
Scores for corruption, information access/transparency, institutional risk, regulatory and policy environment, and government stability deteriorated during 2011. Venezuela now has one of the lowest scores in the world in ECRs government non-payments/non-repatriation category (GNP), the surveys most explicit indicator of transfer risk.
Argentinas political scores in other indicators are marginally better than Venezuelas, but its overall political risk score (35.5 out of 100) remains poor in comparison with regional and international standards. Economists consider Argentine transfer risk to be as pronounced as in Venezuela, with both countries receiving the same GNP score (2.8 out of 10).
The unreliability of Argentinas official government statistics is indicated by low scores for information access/transparency, while survey scores of four or less in business environment indicators reflect the hurdles facing international investors.
Mexicos country risk score has stagnated during the past decade. It is now rated a point lower than in 2000, although it remains far above Venezuela or Argentina in the rankings. The country, the fourth-safest economy in the region, continues to perform well in the surveys macroeconomic indicators, but its political risk score has declined by eight points during the past decade.
Mexico receives poor scores for corruption, government stability and institutional risk. The business environment deteriorated again in 2011, with Mexicos overall political score falling by a point during the year. Many blame Mexicos political system for its low growth rate relative to other emerging economies in recent decades. The recent spate of drug-related violence is also having a negative effect on FDI flows.
Neil Pyper, Oxford Analytica
Structural deficiencies remain the main factor impeding Latin American sovereigns from rising further in ECRs rankings. Latin American scores in Euromoneys four structural indicators hard and soft infrastructure, labour market/industrial relations and demographics trail the European and North American averages by 30 points out of 100, reflecting the emerging status of the regions economies.
If Chile whose policymakers pursued market-oriented reforms much earlier than elsewhere in the region is removed from the average, the deficit becomes even larger.
The biggest weakness throughout Latin America is hard infrastructure. Brazil, which receives a score of 4.8 out of 10, is below average for the region. Colombia, where infrastructure development was delayed longer than elsewhere on the continent by internal security issues, receives an infrastructure score of just 4.1.
However, this is beginning to change. Medellín-based construction firm Condor recently proposed a $111 million IPO to fund domestic highway and airport development projects. The new National Infrastructure Agency, created in November, should also help streamline public bidding processes for infrastructure projects.
"Improved security is opening up swathes of the country for infrastructure developments," says Amiel at IHS Global Insight.
Average scores for soft infrastructure are also low. Peru and Venezuela are the regions worst performers, and only Chile receives a score of seven or more. The same is true in the labour market/industrial relations indicator, in which the Latin American average is three points lower than the European average. Chile, Mexico and Brazil receive the highest scores in the region for demographics.
Latin American country risk scores weathered the crisis in the eurozone in the fourth quarter of 2011. Average scores for political, economic and structural risk improved across the region during the quarter Latin America was the only region in the world to achieve this.
In addition, Latin America was the only region to receive higher average-bank-stability scores during the quarter. The performance mirrored the robustness of Latin Americas country risk scores after the global financial crisis in 2008, where few countries registered weighty declines.
However, external shocks remain a threat. Growth forecasts across the region have been slashed as the crisis in the eurozone has escalated. The regions largest commodities exporters could also be hit hard in the event of a GDP shock in China. In Colombia, commodity exports accounted for about 65% of export revenue in 2010 up from 50% in 2007. Brazil would also be affected by a slowdown in China through its iron ore and coal exports.
"Brazil is largely insulated from a eurozone shock," says Loes at HSBC Brazil. "The obvious transmission channels portfolio flows are less significant for Brazilian institutions than they were in 2008. But Brazil is exposed to a slowdown in China, as China is the buyer of last resort for global commodities, which dominate Brazils trade balance."
ECR uses expert opinion to create a live indicator of country risk, rating 186 markets worldwide.


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Sweet Candies is a free online bejeweled game in which you get to match 3 or more matching candies in order to remove them from the board. This is an exciting game and will have you wishing you could have all that candy. However, you are tasked with removing the candies, and as you remove every set, the brown boxes behind them are cleared. The challenge in the game is getting all the boxes to be removed reason being the fact that you have a limited time to do so. If you do not complete all the boxes within the given time, the game will shut down. Many people play free online jewel games without having a strategy on how to get such boxes out of the game. You have to think a few moves ahead and see which the better option is when it comes to selecting certain sets. You nay see and opportunity to make three different sets, but the one that you select will greatly affect your strategy. This is a great puzzle game which helps people learn how to think on their feet. It only takes a split second to decide which the better set is in order to have a good strategy. This will help you in future when you have to make a really quick decision. Once you are through with the first level, you will move on to the next which will have a grid with a different shape. The new shape will throw a spanner in your method of creating a strategy and you need to adapt. This is a great game which will have you clearing the gems for a while. You can get some refreshments and play the game; you can either get some beverages, some potato chips, or you may also get a candy to suck on as you play. Have Fun!
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Everybody loves candy and it is one of the most timeless treats that you will ever find. People were probably eating candy before any other artificial tasty treat was ever discovered. That is something that can be brought to debate. However, it is undisputed, children and candy are joined at the hip. This is a fun online game where you are mining for candy; perhaps your mouth is watering as you play the game, wishing that you could have all that candy in your grasp. You probably would call your best friends and share it out, and you would sit and talk about how great candy is. You must remember that too much candy is not good for you. You must remember that too much candy is not good for your teeth and if you do have some, you should try and brush your teeth soonest possible. Take care of your teeth even as you eat all the candy that you would want. Alternatively, play this lovely free online bejeweled game and enjoy seeing many types of candy flowing down as you keep matching them in groups of 3 or more. Get the combos and see how much you score within the given time.
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