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Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Danish Growth Council
Copenhagen, Denmark
22 January 2007
Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to join with you today to discuss globalisation, and the importance of enabling all regions in Denmark to benefit from globalisation.
A successful society is one where all regions are equipped to share in the opportunities and prosperity that globalisation can bring. The role of the Danish Growth Council, as I understand it, is to achieve exactly that - not only to be concerned with the national performance of the economy but to create opportunity for all parts of Denmark.
I don't think I have to say too much about the challenges of globalisation to a Danish audience. Denmark is a leader among OECD countries in recognizing the need to adjust to a different kind of world - and to become an even more innovative economy and society.
Moreover, your Globalisation Council has set out an ambitious strategy, adopted by the government, to become one of the world's most innovative economies over the next 10 years. This Globalisation Council has muscle behind it, since it is chaired by the Prime Minister.
So Denmark has a game plan for the future, based on human resources, knowledge-building and knowledge-sharing, the widespread application of information and communications technologies, and entrepreneurship.
Denmark's long history as a global trader has helped create a culture that is accustomed to change. But as we all know, globalisation - the integration of economies around the world through trade and investment, as well as the flow of people and ideas - is just one dimension of the challenges we face.
Technological change is another critical driver. It is impossible to imagine our world today without the Internet, the computer chip, and the associated high levels of systems and software. So it is not just about hardware.
Technological change has led to radically new systems of production, management, logistics and networks - to global supply chains and outsourcing and offshoring. It has also led to the rapid growth of service industries and the knowledge-based economy where the production of information and knowledge is the critical source of comparative or competitive advantage.
Moreover, major new technological advances lie ahead. The information and communication technology revolution is far from over. Advances in life sciences, in new materials and in nanotechnology, for example, will also bring major change to the products and services we make and how they are produced and delivered.
So technological change will continue to be both a beneficial and a disruptive factor in the lives of individuals, communities and countries. Societies that are most adept at developing and commercializing new knowledge and utilizing it will be the most successful.
A third major challenge comes from the aging of populations and actual reduction of the size of the working age population.
This is why it is even more important to ensure that every young person comes into the labour market equipped to work in a highly competitive 21st century world, that lifelong learning is widely available for all individuals to refresh or change their skills, and that older workers, rather than being discriminated against when it comes to re-employment, are encouraged to remain in the labour force.
A country's ability - and the ability of its different regions -to create a high-quality population and to retain and attract talented people becomes ever more important.
Dealing with change, adjusting, and creating new opportunities happens at the local or regional level - in cities, towns and villages. Which is why it is so important to promote adjustment and change in all parts of a country.
National governments set many of the framework conditions that determine the environment and capacity for innovation, make strategic investments, and set tax, competition, social welfare and education policies which can inhibit or encourage innovation and adjustment. But it is also true that when it comes to innovation and adjustment, national governments cannot go it alone. Local initiative matters as well.
In our work at the OECD, we have paid a lot of attention to this issue, addressing not only the opportunities for major cities, but also looking at how smaller cities and towns, as well as rural areas, can participate in the global economy.
There is no doubt, of course, that a country's major city or cities are central to the country's success. This is where much of the talent gathers, where new knowledge is created, innovation occurs and the links to the rest of the world are established.
These major cities, and Copenhagen is one, are key drivers of economic growth. This is why, in our work in helping countries adjust to globalisation and technological change, we have put so much emphasis on the role of cities.
It would be hard to imagine a strong Denmark without a thriving and innovative Copenhagen. The competitiveness of its people, its businesses and its institutions really matter.
It is in a city such as Copenhagen that talented people, in universities and research institutes, in businesses large and small, in local organizations and networks, come together to generate new ideas and commercialise them, leading to new products, services and ways of doing things, as well as new businesses, all of which are essential for generating new jobs and the creation of wealth that sustains a high quality of life.
But for cities to be successful, they must also achieve equity and social cohesion, as well as environmental sustainability. They must be safe and friendly places in which to live, and to raise a family. And they must be inclusive as places where there is opportunity and fairness for all.
In many respects, Copenhagen is a successful city. It has undertaken important measures to reduce the use of the automobile while providing public transportation alternatives. It is clearly a creative city, in design and the arts. It is a bustling commercial city. It is a city of learning - and a knowledge-based city. In 2005, the Royal Institute of British Architects named Copenhagen its first ever European City of the Year based on the quality of the public realm, its housing and neighbourhood policy, cultural life, ease of transportation and promotion of the principles of good urbanism.
However, while the health and prosperity of Copenhagen is critical in providing a strong foundation for Denmark, we have to consider the other regions of the country, where 75 per cent of Danes live.
All of us at the OECD were impressed by the fairly smooth way in which Denmark reorganized and rationalized city and local government, reducing the number of municipalities from 270 to 98, allowing the new municipalities to reach a more productive size for the delivery of public services and the enhancement of their competitiveness.
But of course this is only the first step. This is where the Danish Growth Council, with its various regional bodies, has the critical role to play, pushing down to the local or regional level more of the responsibility to identify the best ways in which each region can become more competitive.
Regional planning and development is a challenge in most OECD member countries. Unfortunately, the examples of failure of policy probably outnumber the examples of success. That is one reason we in the OECD will be paying close attention to the initiatives of the Danish Growth Council and the work of its various fora.
One of the most useful roles of the OECD is to study the policies and institutions of member countries, eview their effectiveness, and develop benchmarks tied to policies that are the most effective.
Even countries with high overall rates of growth may have regions that lag and have not participated in the process of growth. So overall levels of growth do not necessarily lower regional disparities. More has to be done.
Underperforming regions represent a lost opportunity, as the human and other resources of the region are not being fully utilized. Moreover, one of the best ways to improve social cohesion in a country is by strengthening the competitiveness of regions.
In fact, experience shows that regional development policies based on subsidies to companies is not an effective way to pursue development in the regions. A much more effective approach is to help regions themselves become competitive, building on local strengths and capabilities and enhancing them.
Regional development must be about wealth creation, and upgrading regional assets, not just a redistribution policy. It is about building place-based assets and potential that will attract business investment and strengthen local firms already in the region. Where once we focussed on national systems of innovation, now we must focus on regional systems of innovation as well.
This doesn't mean a narrow approach based on so-called high-tech sectors. It means focusing on innovation in all sectors and spheres of activity. Tourism, crafts and food can all be successful activities which generate regional wealth. And they can all be innovative, state of the art.
To achieve regional innovation it is important to improve physical infrastructure, education and healthcare, the environment for start-ups and growth of small and midsize businesses, the sharing and spreading of knowledge, and the availability of support services.
The availability and quality of support services and finance are especially important. Accounting, consulting, legal, human resources, marketing and financing services are vital if a region is to have an entrepreneurial climate. The importance of specialized business services for small and midsize companies is too often overlooked.
If there is a university or technical institute, it also has an important role to play. Universities and technical institutes can help companies, especially small and midsize enterprises, solve technical, managerial or marketing problems, as well as helping to provide skilled people and access to lifelong learning. Moreover, local networks of entrepreneurs and supporting service industries represent an important means of knowledge-sharing in a community.
As OECD research has found, the greater the capacity of a region to attract and retain skilled people, businesses, and outside investment, the more competitive it is.
Physical infrastructure, such as transportation and communications, as I have mentioned, clearly matters. But so do strengthening regional capacity for policy planning and implementation; involving civil society and the private sector in building regional strengths and setting priorities; and developing mechanisms of cooperation between national and local governments.
Building good governance capabilities at the regional level and enabling planning based on economic rather than administrative regions is particularly important. Local regions need the skills to evaluate projects, set priorities, build coalitions and develop strong negotiating and relational skills.
The Danish Growth Council will have an important role to play in examining the various regional business development strategies developed by regional growth fora and ensuring there is a good fit between regional and national policy initiatives.
The Danish Growth Council should also play a role in helping regions within Denmark develop relationships with regions in neighbouring states. Such a relationship is already well-established between Copenhagen and southern Sweden, the Oresund Region. This is an outstanding example of cross-border cooperation, in creative or knowledge-based industries ranging from life sciences and logistics to food and IT.
And there are other cross-border opportunities. Denmark is part of the Baltic Sea community, which includes Malmo, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Gdansk, Tallinn, and Riga. It is also part of the North Sea community, which includes the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Britain. And, of course, it borders on Germany to the south.
Regions should be encouraged to consider cross-border opportunities that make economic sense. The global economy is increasingly one of networks of cities and regions.
Building healthy and innovative regions across Denmark puts an onus on the national government as well, to ensure that regions have an input into national policies and that there is adequate coordination between different national government departments and agencies in dealing with regions.
Fortunately, this appears to be well understood in Denmark. The work of the Danish Growth Council will be judged by its success in helping to achieve this difficult task of ensuring that national and local policies and initiatives are well coordinated and mutually reinforcing.
We live in challenging times. But perhaps the biggest challenge is to give our societies the confidence that change is not the enemy and globalisation is not the threat. If a society has a shared vision of its future, based on trust and cohesion, along with policies that create opportunity for all and fairness in outcomes, its people should have no fear of the future and should be more open to change.
I congratulate Denmark on being one of these forward-looking countries. With its national project for an innovative society, and a recognition that all parts of the country must contribute to its future success and share in it, Denmark is almost certain to remain one of the world's most prosperous societies without compromising its social principles or the environment.
It is perhaps not surprising, then, that The Economist Intelligence Unit last year declared that the business climate in Denmark would be, for the next five years (2006-2010) the best in the world, an honour that Denmark also won for the last five years, 2001-2006.
Keep up the good work. Complacency is our only threat.
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Happy Earth Day! Bet you're not as committed to "sustainable living" as these 22 Portlanders.
By Adrienne So
It's 9 am on a Thursday, and the thermostat in my 1999 Volkswagen Bug registers 36 degrees. If I were going to work, I'd be shivering inside my parka and heels.
But this April morning, I'm snugly layered in thermals, flannel and fleece.
I lace my boots around two pairs of hiking socks as I get out of my car. Then I sling my pack on my back and start down the broad, winding trail toward Tryon Life Community Farm, where boots and flannels are pretty much everyday attire.
I'm here at the edge of Tryon Creek State Park in Southwest Portland to visit the 7-acre farm, a nonprofit that offers youth programs in the summer and holds other events year-round. I want to learn what life is like for the farm's residential worker collective, known as Cedar Moon—16 adults and six children ages 3 to 9 who live in two buildings directly off a long, pothole-speckled driveway.
Approached by car, the two buildings appear low-slung and nondescript, nestled under layers of verdant foliage. Ten residents live in one building, which has single rooms for them as well as a rec room and kitchen for the community. The other 12 live in a second building, which has been quartered into mini-apartments, complete with tiny kitchenettes.
Descending the wood-chip-carpeted trail into the farm, however, reveals a collection of small structures—a sauna, an outdoor stage, a composting toilet (don't worry; it doesn't smell) and something called the "T-Whale," where residents sip tea in the summer—clustered around an open pavilion, next to the skeleton of a huge outdoor kitchen that's under construction.
Elsewhere, partially shrouded by a gigantic blooming star magnolia, tidy trails wind through gardens, where bees buzz, chickens scratch and an occasional volunteer hoes the beds. Beyond the gardens, a pair of dog-sized sheep in a wire pen demand to have their chins scratched. A flock of 20 chickens fusses. Farther down the trail, there's a barn for goats, which shriek like children when hungry. On the farm, the sound of minivans whooshing by on Southwest Boones Ferry Road vanishes behind the the surrounding trees.
Each adult in this little piece of heaven pays for rent and food, most with money from their day jobs in Portland. They also share chores, like cooking, cleaning and tending community gardens, which grow everything from staples like leeks to rarer fare like exotic Asian greens.
Taken separately, each part of this setup is unlikely to turn heads. Many students and professionals live in shared housing. And many farms have residential workers.
Conspicuously absent, however, are commercial motives or convenience. People don't live at Cedar Moon because they answered a Craigslist ad. Moving here is akin to taking a second job, one in which your roommates are your best friends and also your co-workers.
It's an ancient idea, but one so modest it's practically un-American—that with effort, you can live with less, and be happier and healthier at the same time.
In the face of so much going awry on the planet—ice caps are melting, irreversible climate change is looming, and buying compact fluorescent light bulbs doesn't feel so empowering anymore—coming here is like the beginning of a religious conversion. There's got to be a better way to mark Earth Day each April than holding hands and singing songs.
Brenna Bell, co-president of TLC Farm's board of directors and spokeswoman for the farm and collective, says I'm not the only one with a sneaking suspicion that a better way can be found on the farm.
"The intersection of economic and environmental crises has led to more people actively questioning how they live their lives," says Bell, a 34-year-old environmental lawyer with slim glasses and coveralls over a hugely pregnant belly (her first daughter was born four years ago with a midwife's help in a maple grove on the farm, and Bell hopes to re-create that experience with this child when it's born in June).
Hmm. Is going off the grid indeed a workable model? To answer these questions, the community graciously allowed me to hang around for a few days. Here is what I learned about what the farm residents call their "intentional living" lifestyle:
Intentional living is sharing.
Before John Brush—a lean 33-year-old with a goatee and glasses—came to the farm five years ago, he worked in youth social services. Now he is a mediation and organizational consultant, as well as one of the farm's prominent resident nerds.
Brush says sharing is something most people learned in kindergarten and soon forgot. Sharing is the key to why the farm and collective works: By splitting up chores and food, residents can save both time and money.
Chad Dermann, who manages a farmers market in Portland, buys food for the community.
By buying in bulk and eating organic produce residents grow themselves, Dermann says they can serve meals more cheaply.
Residents also save money on child care. New mothers on the farm can go back to work as teachers, lawyers or accountants, while their children dig for worms or pick nettles under the watchful eyes of other farm residents.
The shared expertise of these 16 adults also means never having to go to a computer store or bike-repair shop again. Someone is bound to know how to troubleshoot a computer bug or change a flat.
And shared resources let the community slash its carbon footprint. None of the buildings has central heating, and the residents operate only one kitchen and one washer and dryer.
But here's what no one can admit without feeling like a horrible person: Sharing is hard, psychologically as well as logistically. In order to maintain large common areas, personal space is sacrificed.
Bell estimates each farm resident has an average of 265 square feet of personal space, less than one-third the national average of about 845 square feet, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Navigating the farm's common spaces requires exceptional conflict management skills, and conflict can range anywhere from annoying to agonizing.
For example, 22 people—including toddlers—place a huge burden on one washing machine. "People weren't putting other people's loads into the dryer in winter," Bell says. "So, we created a series of signs indicating whether something should be spun-dried. And we set up specific mornings that were diaper-priority times."
Relationship skills are just that—skills. You must learn them.
Resident Jenny Leis—a small, sprightly woman with thick gray hair and an animated face—has a habit of occasionally wiggling her fingers at me, a sort of small-scale jazz hands. I incorrectly attribute this finger-wiggling to a past life as a concert pianist. "Oh, whoops," she says. "That's how we signify agreement in meetings without disturbing your flow. Like, 'I agree!'" she sings, wiggling her fingers once more.
I do not think I will pick up this habit.
Another point about sharing: The farm is within the urban growth boundary to provide an accessible demonstration of sustainable living. Before being accepted into the collective, community members must acknowledge their willingness to teach any outsider the intricacies of everyday life at the farm. That means even more communication. I consider myself a voluble person. But if talking were baseball, I am barely a decent community-league pitcher compared to these folks, who could pitch Game 7 in the World Series of Talk.
After the goats have been milked and the chickens tended at 8:30 Saturday morning, one of these teaching sessions starts when volunteers begin arriving for the weekly work party to renovate the barn, part of which is slated to become a public space and office. I take my turn sifting clay and sand for plaster, while Brush explains earthen building techniques. It involves electron strength. I think.
I then head straight to Leis' farm tour, which today has about a dozen visitors—a mixture of students, curious older women, and one visitor from a similar community in Oaxaca, Mexico. Then there's a mushroom workshop and a wild foraging expedition, and more talking, more demonstrating and more learning. By 5 pm on Saturday, I am a beaten woman. I can't process another word.
But as exhausting as the constant sharing and learning and communicating is, the benefits are worth the effort. As much as my cynical, dried-up heart would like for me to stop talking RIGHT NOW, I do conclude after my three-day stay that caring for the earth means first caring about each other.
Here's an example: Earlier in my visit, I helped Bernhard Bach prepare dinner on a Thursday afternoon. A barrel-chested, stern-looking German man, Bach didn't fit the profile of a typical farm resident, most of whom are in their 20s and 30s with an academic background in sustainability. Bach is 49 and works as a nurse in Portland. While I peeled and cut up Jerusalem artichokes, he chopped and sautéed leeks we had dug up from the garden.
I asked what had drawn him to the community a year and a half ago. "I went through de-WAHRS," he said.
"The wars?" I asked. "You were in the military?"
"No, de-WAHRS. You know, after marriage."
"Oh, divorce!"
"It's different in Germany," he said. "In a small village, you can't escape everyone's expectations. It's difficult for you to become better than people expect you to be. Here in America, you can become anything you want to be. I believed in that, and I liked it.... Then my wife left me after 20 years.
"I was alone, and I realized this American way of life is not everything I expected it to be,'' he continued. "I started looking for a village. I came here and volunteered a few times, and I liked it. When I applied, you know, I was not expecting to get in. Everyone here is so young. But I did, and I was glad."
Most other residents had a similar story as to what attracted them. Yes, all had a common interest in sustainability. But most were aching for human connection in a world that is becoming increasingly devoid of it.
"Most people come home to their separate apartments after work, turn on a movie, go on the Internet, and don't speak to anyone for the rest of the day," says Brush. "City life can be isolating. We want to support people in making communities, without telling them what to do."
It's one solution to the "tragedy of the commons," the theory that when individuals act in their own self-interest, they will destroy a common resource that is in everyone's best interest to protect. It is now possible to add to that statement after visiting the farm: Individuals will continue to act in their own self-interest, unless they're friends. The less connection we have to our resources, the less interest we have in protecting them—and by extension, each other.
Intentional living is holistic.
At first, "intentional living" looks like "intentional chaos." On Thursday at 9:30 am, I can't find a single student, let alone anything that looks like a classroom at the Mother Earth School, where I'm scheduled to help with the two dozen or so children who come here for classes five days a week. Finally, Bell catches me heading toward the barn and the farm's three goats—I am obsessed with the goats—and shoos me uphill.
Another resident, Kelly Hogan, has allowed me to observe the year-round Waldorf-based kindergarten and preschool where the 3- to 6-year-olds eat, learn and play. All profits from the school, which charges $360 a month for tuition, go toward the TLC nonprofit.
Up on the hill, a "yome" (combination yurt and geodesic dome) huddles under the cover of trees. One of the teachers, Trent Price, tends a fire under a pot of water. Another, April Blair, assembles a grain mill on a picnic table. Inside the yome, Elena Wood, another teacher, is cutting vegetables at a table set with some of the tiniest cutting boards I have ever seen. The children arrive with vegetables to make their own midmorning snack—vegetable soup with dumplings.
The holistic part for the schoolchildren—and the full-time farm residents as well—is summed up in the phrase "plerk," a word used by Blair and others to describe how play and work merge.
"I was tired of having my work and my downtime and my values out of sync with each other," Brush says, regarding the farm's adoption of plerk.
Tending a fire and collecting nettles are indeed more entertaining and educational than the coloring books I remember from kindergarten, though during the day we must rescue one girl from the advances of an ornery rooster and another from a blackberry bramble. We eat the soup and dumplings and wash our hands in a basin. Then we listen to a story in front of the honeybee hive before tromping off for free play in the woods.
Growing up on the farm means renouncing boundaries. Grinding a mill is more fun than recess, and learning about trilliums in a story is both entertaining and educational. School isn't dreary work and useless play. It's just...plerk. For the rest of my stay, I repeatedly talk about plerk, just because I like the way the word sounds.
Later, Bonsai Matt—a 34-year-old landscaper and gardener with thick black dreads—unconsciously illustrates the benefits of plerk. I find out he used to snowboard and rock-climb for fun. "Why did you stop?" I ask.
He gestures broadly at the vista before us—the greenhouse, the garden, the blackberry brambles and the adorable sheep pair. "I had enough to do here," he says. "I just stopped thinking about it."
Intentional living is questioning.
On Friday morning, I sit with Bell on the porch swing on the deck behind the community building, waiting to join Bonsai Matt in the garden. Two of the collective's children climb onto Bell's lap, and one carefully arranges my arms around a bald doll. Later, after I've started raking rows in the garden, Bonsai calls me to help him water the lettuces in the greenhouse. I follow him on his examination of the beds. While a lot of people like working in the kitchen gardens, Bonsai has a kind of de facto authority, just by virtue of knowing more than most about plants.
To me, the garden beds are about as indecipherable as The New York Times to a blind person. Every few minutes, Bonsai kneels down to pluck and hand me another bunch of fresh, succulent greenery. "This is lovage," he says. Or, "You want some chives?" Pretty soon, I've taken a more active role in my own feeding. "What's that?" I say. "Can I eat that?"
"Well, that's a weed," Bonsai says. He picks something else. "This is the most delicious thing in our garden," he says, and hands me four or five wide, 3-inch-long leaves. When I chew them, a bright, sunshiny taste fills my mouth. "That's lemon sorrel," he says. "The tart taste comes from oxalic acid."
Questioning everything is a key point of living intentionally. And, not coincidentally, a lot of people on the farm identify themselves as scientists, like Brush, who blows my mind by trying to explain the van der Waals forces between molecules.
"No one ever thinks about most things," Bonsai says. "It's like when someone asks, 'How are you?' Most people just say, 'I'm good,' and move on. Very few people take the time to say, 'This is what's going on in my life, and this is how I feel about it.'
"A lot of what's wrong in the world," he continues after a few minutes, "could be solved if people were more open, honest and humble."
That's definitely the approach at the farm. But constant questioning can be a humiliating, exhausting process. When you're surrounded by relentlessly inquisitive minds, your basic assumptions are constantly being upended.
"Why do you like fashion?" Leis asks me later that day. We had spent the afternoon unloading salvaged wood for the sauna, and now we're having tea sweetened with honey and goat's milk.
I start to answer, then pause. Then start to answer, and stop again. "I don't really know," I say. "I've never asked myself that question."
"When it seems that you can't make sustainable choices, I like to break down the question," Leis responds. "Is it because you like new things? Is it the primping? You can do that with handmade beauty products. Lena makes all sorts of natural shampoos. You should ask her about it."
While I'm trying to break down why I like shopping (I like pretty things. Are flowers pretty?), I think back to earlier that morning. Before I went up to the community kitchen for lunch, I asked Bonsai for one simple tip to be more sustainable in everyday life. Without hesitation, he said, "Pee on your plants."
"I always thought pee killed plants," I say.
"Nope," he says. "When diluted by rain, it's some of the best fertilizer out there. And do you know how much water we waste by flushing all that fertilizer away? It's crazy, once you think about it."
Maybe it is crazy. When contemplating a multiple-member commune hidden in the woods, it's terrifyingly easy to reduce the concept—and the residents—to a bunch of delusional pinko commies and trustafarians.
Certainly their anti-technology, (mostly) anti-convenience stance doesn't help. No one wants to feel like a bad person because they occasionally enjoy the many fruits of modernization, like Popeye's buttermilk biscuits or Netflix.
But if there was anything weird or strange about life on the farm, it was how utterly strange it wasn't. Cooking in common and shared child care are hardly revolutionary innovations. Life on the farm was surprisingly familiar, a return to a way of life that vanished after the Industrial Revolution. Technological advances in the 20th century brought a lot of positive change—vaccines and clean drinking water come to mind—but a lot of social alienation and environmental destruction as well.
Standing under the blooming star magnolia, with the taste of fresh goat's milk lingering in my mouth, the exigencies of modern life—with student loans and the like—seemed very far away. It was hard not to fantasize about setting up a similarly idyllic arrangement. Maybe on the coast. My boyfriend and I would live with several other friends and share childcare, cooking and gardening duties, but also have a widescreen television and a wireless Internet connection.
Leis has a routine greeting for strangers like me. "Congratulations!" she says whenever she starts a tour; most curious visitors come because they want to change something about their lives, and making the decision to do so is the hardest step.
When I got home, I started researching supper clubs to integrate more sharing into my life. But only after a hot shower, takeout pizza and Quantum of Solace in my blissfully empty apartment, of course.
TLC Farms organizes grassroots efforts for legislation promoting sustainability. One bill would make it easier to reuse graywater, or water already used for laundry or bathing. A measure to make graywater use legal in Oregon has passed the state House and is currently in the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee.
Three years after Cedar Moon began, eight of its original 14 inhabitants still live on the farm. One original member who left is Matt Gordon. A 29-year-old musician, Gordon says he returned last September to Northeast Portland to be nearer to the bands he plays and practices with. "It was a hard decision," he says.
Brush estimates each farm resident has a carbon footprint of about 0.06 tons a year, compared with the average Portlander's load, which varies from 2.1 to 3.2 tons.
April 22 marks the 39th Earth Day. The first Earth Day, coincidentally, marked the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin.

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Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week: Miu Miu
As Miu Miu Continues to Grow Into Its Own, Miuccia Explores "Fame" with Spring 2011 Collection
>> Sales at Miu Miu — which makes most of its money with shoes and bags — have doubled in the past four years. And Prada executives are doing everything they can to fight the perception that Miu Miu is a more affordable little sister to Prada — in some cases, Miu Miu's shoe prices are now higher than Prada's, and Prada Chief Operating Officer Sebastian Suhl looks at the two as "friendly competitors."
In light of the brand's upwards movement, Miuccia Prada unveiled her Spring 2011 Miu Miu collection in its largest venue yet — a specially erected stage in the Palais Royal, painted red in a nod to red carpets and the collection's exploration of "fame and everyone wanting it," according to Prada.
It was surely no coincidence that young rising stars Rihanna, Dakota Fanning, and Mia Wasikowska were front row for the star-spangled show, which also featured samples of the American Idol theme song on the soundtrack.


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I held my son's graduation party this past Sunday and my wife wanted it catered. I told her " I was the caterer" and I smoked 40 pounds of baby backs, 35 pounds of pork butts, 20 pounds of wings. We also served 10 pounds of sliced turkey and 10 pounds of sliced ham. Let me tell ya, it was a great success. I had raves from the 100 plus guests non stop. People said it was the best they've ever had, or I should open a restaurant and/or catering service. Some were even trying to get me to smoke for their graduation event.
I apologize for not getting pictures. I intended to take pictures, but everything was happening too fast to stop serving the guests. I actually intended to do a Q-Video.
Thanks to my 1400 smoker and Smokin Tex,
Btw, I put 40 pounds of ribs into the smoker and it worked out well.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — J.J. Barea scored 22 points, Kevin Love added 19 and the Minnesota Timberwolves cruised past the Philadelphia 76ers 125-102 in a preseason game Wednesday night.
Kevin Martin added 13 points and A.J. Price had 10 for the Timberwolves, who improved to 4-2 in the preseason with one game remaining, Thursday at Detroit.
Minnesota will open the regular season Oct. 30 against the Orlando Magic.
James Anderson scored 23 points for the struggling Sixers (2-5), while point guard Michael Carter-Williams, the team's 11th overall pick in the 2013 draft, added 15. Evan Turner had 11 points and 10 rebounds.
The play was chippy and two players were ejected at separate times in the third quarter: Minnesota forward Dante Cunningham and Sixers guard Tony Wroten.
The Sixers will begin the regular season at home on Oct. 30 against the two-time defending champion Miami Heat.
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The Muppets have done it again. Their brand new, hotly-anticipated, viral YouTube video, "American Woman" has been posted just in time for Memorial Day Weekend! The new video stars Sam the Eagle as he... oh, forget it, just watch for yourself!
Sam the American Eagle, ladies and gentlemen! And how about Kermit there at the end? Excellent! Now... excuse me while I watch again and gasp at the word "Canadian."
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier
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New Muppets Video: AMERICAN WOMAN
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Our Women's group is meeting and we have a patriotic theme, and wanted to show this youtube clip. Since there are like 60+ women in this group, we wanted to make sure we were okay copyright-wise to show it. Who do we get permission from, or where can we purchase a downloadable legal version? Thanks so much! We are meeting Monday, July 19, 2010 so anyone who can help is greatly appreciated. Otherwise we just won't be able to include this perfect intro to our meeting:(ReplyDelete
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Coverage options for the Affordable Care Act's online state marketplaces vary from sate to state to state, even town to town and among age groups.
Use the tool below to help estimate what it may cost you.
Each coverage option will include the same basic set of benefits.They'll be ranked according to premium levels -- bronze being the lowest and platinum being the highest. Those at the lower end will ask higher deductibles and co-pays, and those at the higher end will ask lower out-of-pocket costs at the time of treatment.
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Low-income Americans who can't afford care on the private market will generally have two potential choices, depending on their circumstances. Those whose earnings fall under 138 percent of the poverty level will be directed to the newly expanded Medicaid programs (if their states choose to take part). Those who come in above that line will be directed to the online exchanges, where they may be eligible for tax credits and other subsidies.
The Affordable Care Act's goal is to slash the ranks of the uninsured by making it easier for people to find reasonably priced coverage. The major provision -- that most Americans must have health insurance -- goes into effect Jan. 1. To make that happen, the law provides for the creation of online marketplaces, where consumers can shop for insurance that meets their needs and budget. Those exchanges began operating Oct. 1.


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The month of July has come and gone and we featured over 600 posts on Freshly Pressed. So here is a look back at ten of these stories: those we thought were the most interesting and those the WordPress.com community loved and engaged with the most.
• Torridon
Photographer Fraser McAlister shares the shots he took on a trip to Scotland: photos of hills, lochs, insects, and more spotlight the country's beauty. The unique green/gray palette made this photo series feel visceral.
• Crocheting to Change the Planet
We get a glimpse at the Crochet Coral Reef project in St. Petersburg, Florida and learn about climate change's effect on the biodiversity of the ocean. And how could you not love jellyfish made of yarn?
• Why Blogging Scares Me
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By now it's been well reported that Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, Moveon and the Cheezburger network of sites are going dark for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate companion, the PROTECT IP Act.
But many others have been registering their intent to speak out in various ways tomorrow as well. Among them:
- Local tech groups including Designers and Geeks, Hacks & Hackers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are staging a noon protest at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco.
- A similar event is being planned for outside the New York offices of Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
Google said it will highlight its opposition in some manner on its homepage.
"Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," the company said in a statement. "So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our US home page."
- Stanford's Center for Internet and Society said it will join the blackout.
- There are uncomfirmed reports that blogging platform WordPress will also be going dark.
The bills aimed at online copyright infringement have sparked outrage throughout the tech industry, which argues they undermine critical legal protections that foster online innovation.
By now it's clear the bills won't become law in anything like their current form. The Obama Administration came out strongly against the piracy measures over the weekend, telegraphing the strong likelihood of a veto should they move forward as is. But the issue remains very much alive, as legislators work on revisions and compromise measures.
We'll update this list as other protest plans are confirmed.
Prominent angel investor Ron Conway confirmed to the Chronicle that he'll be speaking at the Civic Center event on Wednesday.
Firefox maker Mozilla confirmed it will: "join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). PIPA/SOPA protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging online capabilities for all of us. Mozilla stands with this opposition and we hope the blackout of our US sites will educate people about this important issue."
Former Senator Chris Dodd, chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America, has called the Blackout Day a dangerous stunt.
It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.
A so-called "blackout" is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to stage this "blackout" to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy.


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Business cooperation
If you are looking to penetrate the European and German markets there are various different ways you can go about it. Foreign companies frequently choose business cooperation as the first stage in the process, i.e. foreign companies look for local companies as partners for the joint implementation of sales targets, production, or research and development of products.
Various organisations exist in Stuttgart to support both foreign and German companies in their search for suitable partner companies.
1. Baden-Württemberg International (bw-i)
The bw-i is the State of Baden-Württemberg's business development fund. It is responsible for marketing Baden-Württemberg as a business and science location, and it will help you to find suitable companies for your proposed cooperation, among other things. Please send all enquiries either to Mr Werner Vogel (e-mail: email@example.com, phone +49-711-22787-55) or to the Stuttgart Economic Development Department.
In addition, you can enter your company in the bw-i business exchange, or use it yourself to search for partners.
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2. Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the Stuttgart region
The Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the Stuttgart region helps foreign companies in the search for suitable business cooperation partners, particularly in the trade and services sectors. It checks whether the existing database contains suitable companies and sends you the addresses of potential companies that might also be interested in cooperation. It is then up to you to approach these companies directly. Enquiries should be addressed directly to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (e-mail: email@example.com, phone +49-711-2005-257).
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Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (2 December 1802–15 September 1896), antislavery leader, was born in Fredericksburg, the only daughter and second or third of eight children of John Minor and his second wife, Lucy Landon Carter Minor. John Minor died when his daughter was thirteen, and she remained very close to her mother for the rest of her mother's long life. Mary Minor received an unusually fine education for a girl of her generation, though whether at home, from private tutors, or at a local school for girls is not known. She matured into an eloquent, determined, and formidable woman who exerted a powerful influence within her large circle of family and friends.
On 12 October 1825 Minor married William Mathews Blackford, a Fredericksburg attorney, in Caroline County. She suffered for virtually her entire adult life from a debilitating back problem and often spent long intervals in bed. Nonetheless, during her first fifteen years of marriage she had six sons and two daughters, all but one of whom lived to maturity under her watchful eye. Although she descended from prominent Virginia landed families and married the son of a prosperous iron manufacturer, Blackford was never wealthy. She inherited relatively little from her father, and her husband, an able, hard-working man, never made much money. Until 1846 they lived in Fredericksburg, where William Blackford edited and published a Whig newspaper, although he spent the period from 1842 to 1845 in Bogotá as chargé d'affaires to New Granada, leaving her to care for the children and supervise the household. After his return to the United States they moved to Lynchburg, where he edited another Whig newspaper for several years and then served as cashier of the Exchange Bank of Lynchburg.
Blackford and her husband were both deeply religious people determined to translate their beliefs into social reform. They belonged to the Episcopal Church and she was a lifelong temperance advocate, but she felt constrained by the conventions of the time from playing a public role too prominent for a lady of her social standing. She wielded influence principally through her personal example and her ever-active pen. Blackford was profoundly affected by the tragedies she saw every day as a member of a slaveholding society, and like several of her close relatives she developed antislavery opinions. William Blackford shared his wife's enthusiasm for the colonization cause, but not her antislavery views. For Mary Blackford colonization paved the way for emancipation, but her husband saw it only as a means to rid the state of its free black population.
Colonization and Antislavery Activism
Blackford became the most prominent female colonizationist in Virginia. She participated in the American Colonization Society from early adulthood until the outbreak of the Civil War and corresponded with its national officers for thirty years. During her years in Fredericksburg she raised funds and assisted both free blacks and recently freed slaves in immigrating to Liberia. In 1829 she founded the Fredericksburg and Falmouth Female Auxiliary to the American Colonization Society. The auxiliary distributed tracts and by May 1830 had raised $500 and recruited eighteen women as ACS life members, including Dolley Payne Todd Madison. The Fredericksburg society was the best-publicized female auxiliary in Virginia. Its first annual "Report of the Board of Managers," written by Blackford, was published as a broadside and in the Methodist Christian Sentinel. In the fall of 1832 she began a journal, "Notes Illustrative of the Wrongs of Slavery," in which she cataloged the horrors of slavery, recorded her personal feelings, and detailed her activities.
Blackford's brother Launcelot Byrd Minor became a missionary in Liberia, and Blackford corresponded with him and with several of her family's former slaves and others whom she had assisted in emigrating there from Virginia. She never retreated from her moral position. In 1834, however, frustrated with the "unaccountable apathy . . . Benumbing the public mind," she announced that the auxiliary was reinventing itself as the Ladies' Society of Fredericksburg and Falmouth, for the Promotion of Female Education in Africa. By 1837 it was helping to fund a girls' academy in Liberia run by Presbyterian missionaries. When Blackford and her family moved to Lynchburg in 1846, her public work for the ACS ended.
Despite Blackford's antipathy to slavery, the family owned a few household slaves purchased by William Blackford to assist his wife, who grew increasingly infirm with each succeeding pregnancy. As sectional tensions worsened Blackford felt increasingly alienated from her family. Her husband, who had stressed the degradation of the free black population instead of the possibility of ending slavery, grew more sectional in his attitude after 1850. Mary Blackford lamented that secessionism was unpatriotic. "To see my sons arrayed against one part of their country, our own 'Star Spangled Banner,' and in such a cause," she wrote to her brother in January 1861, "is a sorrow that makes me feel the grave is the only place for me." After her husband's death on 14 or 15 April 1864, she spent most of the remainder of her long life living quietly in the Alexandria home of her son Launcelot Minor Blackford. Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford died there on 15 September 1896 and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg.
Contributed by Brent Tarter
Quotations in African Repository and Colonial Journal 10 (1834): 252–253 (first quotation); L. Minor Blackford, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Story of a Virginia Lady, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802–1896 (1954), 147–148 (second quotation).
This biography, with a bibliographical note, appears in John T. Kneebone et al., eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 1998– ), 1:523–524.
Copyright 1998 by the Library of Virginia. All rights reserved.


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Implementing Partition with Prefix Scan
In my last post, I sketched out the algorithm for the
Partition operation within a Quicksort algorithm using Prefix Scan to reduce the span of the parallel execution when executing on a manycore processor. In this post, I present one implementation of that algorithm using OpenMP for the first level of task parallelism and Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) to give me manycore parallel operations.
As you see my code, you will soon realize that this is an initial implementation. My goal was to write more of a "proof of concept" than a well-tuned effort. While it is convenient for having the parallel algorithms that I need, TBB may not be the most efficient means of putting into practice those parallel parts that can utilize many cores. Something more SIMD-like (e.g., CUDA, Intel Array Building Blocks) could be more effective. I'm sure you will see many different improvements to be made to my code. Please take what I've shown here and feel free to make improvements on it.
Overall, the
Quicksort() function is called from within an OpenMP parallel region using some subset of all possible threads. The distribution of partitions to be sorted by these threads is done via a shared TBB
concurrent_queue container,
Q. The indices of the subarray to be sorted are held in the
struct type
tbb::concurrent_queue<qSortIndex> Q;
Before getting to the
Quicksort() code, the first thing to examine is the TBB class for the
parallel_scan() function. The code here is really nothing special. The addition operation is almost the default operation, so I simply took the sample code from the TBB documentation. I did modify the pointer names for the input array (
idata) and output array (
odata), but the rest is just the same.
// Prefix Scan class class pScan { int sum; int* const odata; const int* const idata; public: pScan(int *odata_, const int *idata_) : sum(0), idata(idata_), odata(odata_) {} template<typename Tag> void operator()(const blocked_range<int> &r, Tag) { int temp = sum; for (int i = r.begin(); i < r.end(); ++i) { temp = temp + idata[i]; if(Tag::is_final_scan()) odata[i] = temp; } sum = temp; } pScan(pScan& b, split) : sum(0), idata(b.idata), odata(b.odata) {} void reverse_join(pScan& a) {sum = a.sum + sum;} void assign(pScan& b) {sum = b.sum;} };
The next six code blocks all come from the
Quicksort() function. I've broken them out into separate segments to discuss each one without making you flip back to a monolithic block of code, trying to figure out what lines I'm writing about. I've used an iterative version of Quicksort, so there are no recursive calls to be implemented as new tasks for threads. As subsets are partitioned, the new subset indices are put into the queue,
Q. Threads that are executing in the parallel region that is the
Quicksort() function will pull an index pair from the queue, partition that subset, and place the indices of the two new subpartitions into the queue until the count of sorted elements equals the total number of original items to be sorted.
First up is the function header and local declarations.
void QuickSort(int *A, int N) { int p, r, q; qSortIndex d, d1, d2; int *LT = new int[N]; int *GT = new int[N]; int *B = new int[N]; int *C = new int[N]; int *Ld = new int[N]; int *Gd = new int[N];
The function takes in an array (
A) and the number of items to be sorted (
N) within the array. This array will hold the sorted elements when the function completes. The first two lines of declarations are for the index bounds of the partitioned subsets found and the
structs that will hold these index values in and out of the shared queue.
The six arrays, each the same size as the original array, will hold the mask vector for less-than (
LT) and greater-than (
GT) elements compared to the pivot value, the results of the less-than prefix scan (
B) and greater-than prefix scan (
C), and the subset of elements less than (
Ld) and greater than (
Gd) the pivot value after the data is moved from
while (1) { while (!Q.try_pop(d)) { if (Done) return; // if Done, no more need to process anything } p = d.lo; r = d.hi;
The iterative Quicksort algorithm uses an infinite loop, via the outer
while-loop, to keep threads busy. The first thing to be done in an iteration of this outer loop is to attempt to pull something from the queue of index pairs. If the queue is empty, the shared
Done flag is checked to determine if the sort has been completed. If the queue holds at least one thing, the thread that retrieves an index pair will know the indices of the next subset within
A to be partitioned.
if (p < r) { int *At = &A[p]; int pivot = At[0]; int n = r-p+1; parallel_for(blocked_range<int>(1, n), [&](const blocked_range<int>& r){ for (int i = r.begin(); i < r.end(); ++i) { if (At[i] < pivot) { LT[i] = 1; GT[i] = 0; } else { LT[i] = 0; GT[i] = 1; } } } ); LT[0] = GT[0] = -1;


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For the first time in more than five years, Mineta San Jose International will once again have a direct flight connecting the Bay Area to Asia.
Today, All Nippon Airways or ANA announced it will have five flights to and from San Jose to Tokyo's Narita Airport starting January 11th.
And it's bringing the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to the Bay Area.
San Jose Director of Aviation Bill Sherry says that's one of many perks that the new deal with ANA is bringing to the South Bay.
It fills a void that was left behind when American Airlines canceled its 16-year old direct flight to Tokyo in 2007.
One of the differences here is that American operated a daily flight, seven days a week. Sherry says the goal is to eventually double the number of ANA flights from five a week, if the demand is there.
When we lost a lot of service, we went around to businesses and did a lot of survey and Tokyo just came out number one in terms of desirability for connecting." The benefits go beyond a San Jose-Tokyo route.
ANA says it has timed out the flight so that people can connect with other flights headed to the top Asian destinations: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, and Bangkok.
The Hu Family of Cupertino agrees the new route is exciting, especially because it travels so much.
"I think that's a great idea go straight to Tokyo, that's very convenient for people here. There's a lot of Japanese people living here and it'd be great for more people to visit," says Athena Hu. You can begin booking the new route on August 30.
The first flight goes out January 11, leaving at the same time at 11:45 a.m., for five days a week excluding Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sherry says the talks with ANA began four years ago, the same time he and other city and business leaders started talking to other airlines about adding more international direct flights.
The goal is to get one to London and maybe Frankfurt sometime at the end of 2013.


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ah, well, thank you!!! Really!!!Ratty wrote:Misa blue, Don't think that way. Decide what style you would like to dress-up in. It will happen. You have stuff in your closet that can be accessorized, cut up, re-made into something you'll love. Take a look at the re-designed outfits on this costume board. It doesn't require time, money or anything fancy. Just an idea. (Well, maybe a tiny bit of time.)
Yep, may be I will have a day fo doing that when I am in SF


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Covering both resilient Nangroe Aceh Darussalam and antique North Sumatra Province, most parts of the national park rest in the lush South East Aceh region, blessed with tropical fruits like mango, rambutan, durian, avocado, orange, papaya, and guava. The other parts are situated in the east Aceh, south Aceh, and Langkat of North Sumatra, known to produce world-class coffee and tobacco. Most visitors normally start their adventures in the national park through Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra, where you can always find the gentle giants of the jungle, the orangutans. Discover the gentleness of these sociable primates as your discovery of Sumatra begins right here.
Mount Leuser National Park, named after its highest peak, Mount Leuser (3,381 m), is one of the largest and the most diverse national parks in Indonesia, covering an area of 7,927 square kilometer in the northern tip of Sumatera, Indonesia. Embracing various ecosystems, the national park is in fact a cluster of various nature reserves and forests: Gunung Leuser Nature Reserve, Kappi Nature Reserve, Kluet Nature Reserve, Sikundur-Langkat Wildlife Reserve, Ketambe Research Station, Singkil Barat, and Dolok Sembilin.
The park is so extensive, it covers mangroves, beach and swamp forest, lowland rainforest, moss forest, and up to subalpine forest. When traversing its extraordinary landscape, enthusiastic adventurer like you will not be disappointed.
The Mount Leuser National Park, which is Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser in Bahasa, encompasses more than 100 kilometers of the Bukit Barisan Mountains, known for its steep, almost inaccessible mountainous terrains. The altitude ranges from beach area in Kluet (South Aceh), to 3,381 meter on top of the Gunung Leuser (Southeast Aceh). The breathtaking Alas River cuts the park into an eastern and western half, where your tropical thirst for adrenaline will be captivatingly fulfilled.
Around 130 species are identified in this park only. The mysterious Sumatran tigers, elephants, rhinos, Siamang monkeys, macaques, clouded leopards, reptiles, fish, and around 325 species of birds are among the endemic wildlife known to inhibit the park. Surely the trek to the inner park is more than just a great adventure to the last zoo you visited. Come and take in the experience living in a small friendly village, Ketambe, where the locals are naturally knowledgeable and ecologically hospitable.
Source: indonesia.travel
Photo: tripadvisorindonesia.com
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Checking in on… the WCCPosted by Brian Goodman on February 10th, 2011
Michael Vernetti is the RTC correspondent for the West Coast Conference
A Look Back
The budding Battle Royale for second place in the conference standings – and the valuable bye to the WCC tournament semifinals that goes with it – was joined last week with San Francisco's 68-62 win over Santa Clara on the Dons' court. The win moved San Francisco (6-2) into sole possession of second and dropped the Broncos into a tie for third with Gonzaga at 5-3. It also gave San Francisco a series sweep over Santa Clara, which will help if tie-breaking rules are invoked at season's end. In a signal that conference games are tightening up, all six last week were decided by nine points or fewer.
Gonzaga, which appeared to right itself with two straight conference wins after dropping a rare home court game to Saint Mary's on January 27, stumbled at home against Memphis 62-58 last Saturday. The loss dropped the Zags to 15-9 for the season and dimmed their hopes for an at-large NCAA Tournament bid if they don't secure the WCC's automatic invite that comes with winning the conference tournament in Las Vegas in March.
Saint Mary's (8-1) held its place atop the league with home wins over Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine, but neither win came easily. In a rematch with up-and-down Loyola Marymount, whom the Gaels routed 98-75 in Los Angeles in early January, the Gaels eked out a 79-70 win even though Loyola Marymount was without leading scorer and rebounder Drew Viney, who was sidelined with problems stemming from migraine.
Player of the Week: Rashad Green, the 6'4 Long Island native who transferred to San Francisco last year, won the honors with his performance in the Dons' win over Santa Clara: 18 points on 7-12 shooting and a stellar defensive effort against Santa Clara's high-scoring guard Kevin Foster. Green, brother of former North Carolina star Danny Green, helped the Dons to their best start since 1981.
Power Rankings
1. Saint Mary's (20-4, 8-1) has not scared anyone with its last three conference outings – an 85-70 pasting by Portland following the inspirational upset of Gonzaga in Spokane and lackluster wins over Pepperdine (79-71) and Loyola Marymount last week. Maybe it's just February blahs, but the Gaels will have to shake them off to get through this week's games against traditional foes Santa Clara and San Francisco. It is not a long journey from Moraga to Santa Clara and San Francisco, but it is one fraught with peril for Randy Bennett's crew. A stumble or two while its foes sweep their games would knock the Gaels out of first place for the first time this season.
2. The excitement is building in San Francisco (12-11, 6-2), as the Dons remind their fans of the glory days of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Rex Walters has worked out a solid rotation featuring the improving Cody Doolin at point, high-scoring Mikey Williams at shooting guard, Anthony Caloiaro at one forward spot, Green at the other and the formidable Perris Blackwell in the post. He is getting solid minutes off the bench from 6-3 freshman guard Avery Johnson from Huntington Beach, California, and 6'10 senior Moustapha Diarra. The rotation is tight and is working well together as the Dons prepare for the home stretch and their first shot at a significant role in the conference race in a long time.
3. Santa Clara (15-10, 5-3) faces a moment of truth this week, as the promise created by its 85-71 upset of Gonzaga on January 20 fades into the memory of last week's loss to San Francisco. A loss to Saint Mary's on Thursday would give the Broncos four league losses and make its attempt at a second-place finish extremely difficult.
4. The same can be said for Gonzaga (15-9, 5-3), which goes on the road against Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine in its attempt to hold its league loss total to three. The Zags looked anything but road-ready in their contest with Memphis in the Spokane Arena, and must put that disappointment behind them as they head to Los Angeles.
5. Portland (17-7, 4-4) lost a chance to end Gonzaga's league hopes and vault itself back into contention with a 67-64 loss to the Zags at home on Feb. 3. The Pilots now must win out and hope the leaders stumble down the stretch to get back in the hunt.
6. Pepperdine (10-16, 4-5) racked up its fourth league win by topping San Diego 70-63 in overtime on the road, then gave Saint Mary's all it could handle before succumbing 79-71. The Waves suspended high-scoring but high-maintenance guard Keion Bell after the Saint Mary's game and will finish out the season without him.
7. Loyola Marymount (9-15, 1-8) continued to be the team no one can figure out, losing to San Diego and Saint Mary's and causing observers to wonder if they will win another game this season.
8. San Diego (5-19, 1-8) picked up its first conference win with the 66-63 home victory over Loyola Marymount and hopes to leap over the Lions and get out of the WCC cellar.
A Look Ahead
Push comes to shove Thursday at the Leavey Center on the Santa Clara campus, when Saint Mary's and Santa Clara square off at 8 p.m. Pacific in an ESPNU featured game. The Gaels smacked down the Broncos 84-59 in Moraga on Jan. 15, but no one expects the rematch to be so one-sided. Santa Clara can fall back on its upset of Gonzaga five days after the Saint Mary's loss and its rise to third place in the standings for inspiration. Backed by a big and vocal student body, Kerry Keating's team will go all out to remain in contention by upsetting the Gaels.
If Saint Mary's survives the Leavey Center snake pit it will find itself in another one, the venerable War Memorial Gymnasium on the San Francisco campus, two nights later. The resurgent Dons will have more on the line in this game than for any other contest in recent memory, as beating the Gaels following a victory over San Diego on Thursday night could propel them into a tie or sole possession of first place.
Another potentially dramatic showdown will take place in Los Angeles on Thursday night when Gonzaga takes on Loyola Marymount at 8 p.m. Pacific on ESPN2. Despite their disappointing season, Loyola Marymount still possesses the horsepower to stun somebody this year and the Lions faithful hope it's the Zags. In their 79-70 loss to Saint Mary's last week, the Lions without Viney closed to within four points of the Gaels with a few minutes left. They got solid performances from their Big Three of Ashley Hamilton, Edgar Garibay and Godwin Okonji and their Little One of Anthony Ireland to hammer the Gaels inside and out. If Viney is healthy enough to play against the Zags, Loyola Marymount has more than enough firepower to pull off the upset.


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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's president-in-waiting Xi Jinping has praised his predecessor Hu Jintao for voluntarily stepping down from both his party and military posts, promising to uphold his legacy of defence modernisation, state media said on Saturday.
Hu, who remains China's president until March's parliament session, relinquished the much more powerful post of Communist Party boss on Thursday at the close of the once-every-five-year congress that selects the party's new leadership line-up.
The question had loomed whether Hu would stay on as head of the powerful Central Military Commission, thereby preventing a full takeover of the party and armed forces by Vice President Xi.
Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin remained chief of the military commission for two years after Hu took over as president and party boss.
"Chairman Hu, giving full consideration to the development of the party, country and military, voluntarily proposed no longer holding the positions of party general secretary or chairman of the military commission," the official Xinhua news agency cited Xi as saying.
"The entire 18th Party Congress respected Chairman Hu's willingness (to step down), and agreed to his request," Xi said at a military commission meeting held on Friday.
"Chairman Hu's very important decision fully showed his deep consideration toward the development of the Party, the country and military, and fully showed his foresight as a Marxist statesman and strategist, and his broad mind and noble character," Xi added, using typically turgid communist phraseology.
Hu had made modernising China's outdated, massive armed forces a key platform of his time in office, overseeing the launch of the country's first aircraft carrier and development of stealth fighters.
Xi said the military must "work hard to promote its revolutionary modernisation".
He added that the party must "unswervingly" remain in control of military, reflecting the leadership's determination to ensure that the People's Liberation Army remains the ultimate shield of their authority.
"Ensuring the absolute leadership of the party over the military ... concerns the lasting stability of the party and the country," Xi said.
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- Patrick Willis is really good. As the MLB, it's difficult to run plays away from him. He's all over the place but in a role-responsible way (unlike Junior Seau years ago for SD – who apparently had zero assignment-awareness but managed to go to the Pro Bowl constantly).
- Big match-up will be Vernon Davis vs the Pack's safeties and LBs (and hopefully Charles Woodson). Davis and Alex Smith have developed a decent rapport already and Davis is a quality athlete who can make plays. I wouldn't be surprised if Capers has Woodson mark Davis like Woodson did against Witten and Kellen Winslow. I believe Davis is their leading receiver so it would be smart to stick Woodson on him.
- I could be misguided here, but I'm not as worried re Frank Gore as others seem to be. He's a good back and Singletary and company like to stick with the running game (due most likely to their suspect passing game). But in the games I've seen, Gore tends to start fast and have a good game or start slow and vanish quickly. For some reason, maybe due to Capers' recent statements re gearing our defense weekly to stop the run, I believe Gore may start slow and fizzle.
- McCarthy needs to be aggressive on offense. If there is a 4th and 2 or 4th and 5 even in SF territory early, McCarthy should go for it. We need to be aggressive in the early part of the game and not just settle for FGs.
- McCarthy needs to stick with running plays even if they're not overly successful to keep the balance right. Aubrayo Franklin is a beast in the middle (with P Willis right behind him) so running Grant on the edges might be advisable in this game. But as tempting as it may be if it's not working, McCarthy can't abandon the run like he has before.
- Greg Jennings has to earn his new, huge paycheck and the Packers need to do a better job of putting him in positions to succeed. At this point in the season, McCarthy and staff have done a good job making it difficult for defenses to know which guy to key on: Driver or Jennings. Taking advantage of that, I think it's time Jennings has a huge, breakout game where he reminds us all why we shelled out tons of cash for him.
- Capers needs to take his chances. Yes, there is the risk of picking the wrong time to blitz and getting burned by a smart call by SF to Gore (draw, screen, etc). But it's worth taking the risk because blitzes will most likely yield a couple key turnovers.
- Alex Smith is no Aaron Rodgers. Make Smith pay for simply not being that good.
- Get the ball to Jermichael Finley early. Get him back in the mix and make SF remember that he's yet another weapon they need to account for.
Pre-game thoughts SF @ GB
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Ron La Canne Says:
November 21, 2009 at 7:21 pm |
Cantrol the ball through a balanced run/paa attack. Play with a reckless abandon on offense for a change. Stop the th run and then pressure Smith and he can't handle it. If the Packers sit back and try to finese they will lose.
Also it's about time the ST's showed up and played. I'm sick of their poor play!
Ron La Canne Says:
November 21, 2009 at 7:22 pm |
paa attack? What is that? P-A-S-S
nick Says:
November 22, 2009 at 3:06 pm |
Jennings is earning his game check so far…


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