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| 07-Sep-2010 17:13 |
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TRADE FREELY & LiVE LONGER
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方是做人之本,
圆是处事之道.
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但决不平庸,
我总有一颗追求卓越的心........
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| 07-Sep-2010 17:08 |
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亚洲股神--胡立阳简介_宁德阳光品玉*绿可木总代理（福鼎专卖店）_百度空间
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| 07-Sep-2010 17:05 |
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亚洲股神--胡立阳简介_宁德阳光品玉*绿可木总代理（福鼎专卖店）_百度空间
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| 07-Sep-2010 16:45 |
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GENTING HK 2010 XO TRANSFORMATION 2010 XO Fundamental 2010 XO facts cannOt be CHANGED OVERNIGHT by market gIgs and market swIngs WHAT Is the wOrry ? nOthIng ? |
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| 07-Sep-2010 16:40 |
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XO market gIgs XO cherry wIndow at S$0.820 ~ S$1.00 XO swIngs OppOrtUnItIes XO rewards XO chEErs |
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| 07-Sep-2010 16:28 |
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| 07-Sep-2010 16:19 |
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Empower teachers so that tuition becomes unnecessary Letter from Ho Kong Loon THE debate raging on the proliferation of tuition centres and, concurrently, the almost compulsive need for the “fix” (tuition), are the culmination of the excesses of an unmitigated push for academic excellence. Extensive commentaries and viewpoints from opposing camps add to the confusion over the issue. At the centre of the vortex is the dynamics of classroom teaching and learning. Teachers make the definitive difference to make learning far more enjoyable, interesting and meaningful. Empower our teachers to do so. Trim the content and extent of the primary school syllabuses. Most pupils benefit from a more leisurely pace of learning, and slow learners are encouraged heaps if understanding a topic comes in digestible bits, rather than meaningless chunks. Extra lessons should specifically involve those who have learning difficulties, or those with a weak grasp of a topic. Exempt the faster learners. Diagnostic testing to identify areas of weaknesses, rather than piles of worksheets, is a more effective bridging tool. Patient and systematic follow up remedial teaching to iron out the crinkles would be more useful and effective. There must be a determined, concerted endeavour by both parents and teachers to dampen the over-dependence on extra lessons in the form of private tuition, or even countless supplementary lessons. The Ministry of Education can do much to rein in this crutch mentality with regard to tuition. It could rework the professional measurement tool of teachers: Give much more emphasis to good classroom teaching, score more on sound pupil management and reward the ability to jell with the children. The time spent interacting and bonding with the children must count more in teacher assessment. Teachers who make strenuous efforts to make learning more exciting, fun and enjoyable also deserve a higher premium in ranking. Teaching is a passion and commitment. Requisite character traits like love of children, patience, empathy, creativity and good verbal skills outweigh high academic qualifications hands down. Rushing to cover crammed syllabuses, burdening the pupils with worksheets galore (when their competency in the topics is less than satisfactory), mandatory supplementary and remedial lessons for all, even during school holidays: These are the factors that lead to under-performing and stressed-out children, whose over-anxious parents usually turn to tuition to ensure they can make it in the pressure cooker. |
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| 07-Sep-2010 16:17 |
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^ Productivity ^ [Effecacy Efficiency Economy]
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Empower teachers so that tuition becomes unnecessary Letter from Ho Kong Loon THE debate raging on the proliferation of tuition centres and, concurrently, the almost compulsive need for the “fix” (tuition), are the culmination of the excesses of an unmitigated push for academic excellence. Extensive commentaries and viewpoints from opposing camps add to the confusion over the issue. At the centre of the vortex is the dynamics of classroom teaching and learning. Teachers make the definitive difference to make learning far more enjoyable, interesting and meaningful. Empower our teachers to do so. Trim the content and extent of the primary school syllabuses. Most pupils benefit from a more leisurely pace of learning, and slow learners are encouraged heaps if understanding a topic comes in digestible bits, rather than meaningless chunks. Extra lessons should specifically involve those who have learning difficulties, or those with a weak grasp of a topic. Exempt the faster learners. Diagnostic testing to identify areas of weaknesses, rather than piles of worksheets, is a more effective bridging tool. Patient and systematic follow up remedial teaching to iron out the crinkles would be more useful and effective. There must be a determined, concerted endeavour by both parents and teachers to dampen the over-dependence on extra lessons in the form of private tuition, or even countless supplementary lessons. The Ministry of Education can do much to rein in this crutch mentality with regard to tuition. It could rework the professional measurement tool of teachers: Give much more emphasis to good classroom teaching, score more on sound pupil management and reward the ability to jell with the children. The time spent interacting and bonding with the children must count more in teacher assessment. Teachers who make strenuous efforts to make learning more exciting, fun and enjoyable also deserve a higher premium in ranking. Teaching is a passion and commitment. Requisite character traits like love of children, patience, empathy, creativity and good verbal skills outweigh high academic qualifications hands down. Rushing to cover crammed syllabuses, burdening the pupils with worksheets galore (when their competency in the topics is less than satisfactory), mandatory supplementary and remedial lessons for all, even during school holidays: These are the factors that lead to under-performing and stressed-out children, whose over-anxious parents usually turn to tuition to ensure they can make it in the pressure cooker. |
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| 07-Sep-2010 16:07 |
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1938 in 2010 Obama’s economists are repeating the mistakes of the past by pulling back financial stimulus too soon Paul Krugman Here’s the situation: The United States economy has been crippled by a financial crisis. The President’s policies have limited the damage, but they were too cautious, and unemployment remains disastrously high.see anything like the miracle of the 1940s happening again.
THE NEW YORK TIMES The writer is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. More action is clearly needed. Yet the public has soured on government activism, and seems poised to deal Democrats a severe defeat in the mid-term elections. The President in question is Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the year is 1938. Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at the state of America circa 1938 — instructive because the nature of the recovery that followed refutes the arguments dominating today’s public debate, discouraging because it’s hard to Now, we weren’t supposed to find ourselves replaying the late 1930s. President Barack Obama’s economists promised not to repeat the mistakes of 1937, when FDR pulled back fiscal stimulus too soon. But by making his programme too small and too short-lived, Mr Obama did just that: The stimulus raised growth while it lasted, but it made only a small dent in unemployment — and now it’s fading out. And just as some of us feared, the inadequacy of the administration’s initial economic plan has landed it — and the nation — in a political trap. More stimulus is desperately needed, but in the public’s eyes the failure of the initial programme to deliver a convincing recovery has discredited government action to create jobs. In short, welcome to 1938. The story of 1937, of FDR’s disastrous decision to heed those who said that it was time to slash the deficit, is well-known. What’s less well-known is the extent to which the public drew the wrong conclusions from the recession that followed: Far from calling for a resumption of New Deal programmes, voters lost faith in fiscal expansion. Consider Gallup polling from March 1938. Asked whether government spending should be increased to fight the slump, 63 per cent of those polled said “no”. Asked whether it would be better to increase spending or to cut business taxes, only 15 per cent favoured spending; 63 per cent favoured tax cuts. And the 1938 election was a disaster for the Democrats, who lost 70 seats in the House and seven in the Senate. Then came the war. From an economic point of view World War II was, above all, a burst of deficit financed government spending, on a scale that would never have been approved otherwise. Over the course of the war the federal government borrowed an amount equal to roughly twice the value of GDP in 1940 — the equivalent of roughly US$30 trillion ($40.3 trillion) today. Had anyone proposed spending even a fraction of that much before the war, people would have said the same things they’re saying today. They would have warned about crushing debt and runaway inflation. They would also have said, rightly, that the Depression was in large part caused by excess debt — and then have declared that it was impossible to fix this problem by issuing even more debt. But guess what? Deficit spending created an economic boom — and the boom laid the foundation for long-run prosperity. Overall debt in the economy — public plus private — actually fell as a percentage of gross domestic product, thanks to economic growth and, yes, some inflation, which reduced the real value of outstanding debts. And after the war, thanks to the improved financial position of the private sector, the economy was able to thrive without continuing deficits. The economic moral is clear: When the economy is deeply depressed, the usual rules don’t apply. Austerity is self-defeating: When everyone tries to pay down debt at the same time, the result is depression and deflation, and debt problems grow even worse. And, conversely, it is possible — indeed, necessary — for the nation as a whole to spend its way out of debt: A temporary surge of deficit spending, on a sufficient scale, can cure problems brought on by past excesses. But the story of 1938 also shows how hard it is to apply these insights. Even under FDR, there was never the political will to do what was needed to end the Great Depression; its eventual resolution came essentially by accident. I had hoped that we would do better this time. But it turns out that politicians and economists alike have spent decades unlearning the lessons of the 1930s, and are determined to repeat all the old mistakes. And it’s slightly sickening to realise that the big winners in the midterm elections are likely to be the very people who first got us into this mess, then did everything in their power to block action to get us out. But always remember: This slump can be cured. All it will take is a little bit of intellectual clarity, and a lot of political will. Here’s hoping we find those virtues in the not too distant future. |
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| 07-Sep-2010 15:56 |
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Superbroke, Superfrugal, Superpower?
In recent years, I have often said to European friends: So, you didn’t like a world of too much American power?not going to look to save money on foreign policy and foreign wars.
The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era
“In 2008,” Mr Mandelbaum notes, “all forms of government-supplied pensions and health care (including Medicaid) constituted about 4 per cent of total American output.”
At present rates, and with the baby boomers soon starting to draw on Social Security and Medicare, by 2050 “they will account for a full 18 per cent of everything the United States produces”.
This — in addition to all the costs of bailing ourselves out of this recession — “will fundamentally transform the public life of the United States and therefore the country’s foreign policy”. EVERYONE WILL FEEL IT For the past seven decades, in both foreign affairs and domestic policy, our defining watchword was “more”, argues Mr Mandelbaum.
“The defining fact of foreign policy in the second decade of the 21st century and beyond will be ‘less’”.
When the world’s only superpower gets weighed down with this much debt — to itself and other nations — everyone will feel it.
How? Hard to predict.
But all I know is that the most unique and important feature of US foreign policy over the last century has been the degree to which America’s diplomats and naval, air and ground forces provided global public goods — from open seas to open trade and from containment to counter terrorism — that benefited many others besides us.
US power has been the key force maintaining global stability, and providing global governance, for the last 70 years.
That role will not disappear, but it will almost certainly shrink.
Great powers have retrenched before: Britain for instance.
But, as Mr Mandelbaum notes: “When Britain could no longer provide global governance, the United States stepped in to replace it. No country now stands ready to replace the United States, so the loss to international peace and prosperity has the potential to be greater as America pulls back than when Britain did”.
After all, Europe is rich but wimpy.
China is rich nationally but still dirt poor on a per capita basis and, therefore, will be compelled to remain focused inwardly and regionally.
Russia, drunk on oil, can cause trouble but not project power.
“Therefore, the world will be a more disorderly and dangerous place,” Mr Mandelbaum predicts.
How to mitigate this trend?
Mr Mandelbaum argues for three things:
First, we need to get ourselves back on a sustainable path to economic growth and re-industrialisation, with whatever sacrifices, hard work and political consensus that requires.
Second, we need to set priorities. We have enjoyed a century in which we could have, in foreign policy terms, both what is vital and what is desirable. For instance, I presume that with infinite men and money we can succeed in Afghanistan.
But is it vital? I am sure it is desirable, but vital?
Finally, we need to shore up our balance sheet and weaken that of our enemies, and the best way to do that in one move is with a much higher gasoline tax.
America is about to learn a very hard lesson: You can borrow your way to prosperity over the short run but not to geopolitical power over the long run.
That requires a real and growing economic engine. And, for us, the short run is now over.
There was a time when thinking seriously about American foreign policy did not require thinking seriously about economic policy.
That time is also over. An America in hock will have no hawks — or at least none that anyone will take seriously. THE NEW YORK TIMES The writer has won the Pulitzer Prize three times, most recently in 2002 for commentary. See how you like a world of too little American power — because it is coming to a geopolitical theatre near you. Yes, America has gone from being the supreme victor of World War II, with guns and butter for all, to one of two superpowers during the Cold War, to the indispensable nation after winning the Cold War, to “The Frugal Superpower” of today. Get used to it. That’s our new nickname. American pacifists need not worry any more about “wars of choice”. We are not doing that again. We cannot afford to invade Grenada today. Ever since the onset of the Great Recession of 2008, it has been clear that the nature of being a leader — political or corporate — was changing in America. During most of the post-World War II era, being a leader meant, on balance, giving things away to people. Today, and for the next decade at least, being a leader in America will mean, on balance, taking things away from people. And there is simply no way that America’s leaders, as they have to take more things away from their own voters, are Foreign and defence policy is a lagging indicator. A lot of other things get cut first. But the cuts are coming — you can already hear the warnings from Secretary of Defence Robert Gates. And a frugal United States superpower is sure to have ripple effects around the globe. |
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| 07-Sep-2010 15:30 |
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The roots of America’s white anxiety Study shows eight top US colleges, varsities discriminate against rural, lower-class whites ROSS DOUT HAT In March this year, Mr Pat Buchanan came to speak at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. While the assembled Ivy Leaguers accused him of homophobia and racism and anti-Semitism, he accused Harvard — and by extension, the entire American elite — of discriminating against white Christians.
Right-wing? You’re out But cultural biases seem to be at work aswell. Mr Nieli highlights one of the study’s more remarkable findings: While most extracurricular activities increase your odds of admission to an elite school, holding a leadership role or winning awards in organisations like high school ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) and Future Farmers of America actually works against your chances.
Consciously or unconsciously, the gatekeepers of elite education seem to incline against candidates who seem too stereotypically rural or right-wing or “Red America”.
This provides statistical confirmation for what alumni of highly selective universities already know. The most underrepresented groups on elite campuses often are not racial minorities. They are working-class whites (and white Christians, in particular) from conservative states and regions. Inevitably, the same under representation persists in the elite professional ranks these campuses feed into: In law and philanthropy, finance and academia, the media and the arts.
This breeds paranoia, among elite and non-elites alike. Among the white working class, increasingly the most reliable Republican constituency, alienation from the American meritocracy fuels the kind of racially-tinged conspiracy theories that Mr Beck and others have exploited — that Mr Obama is a foreign-born Marxist handpicked by a shadowy liberal cabal, that a Wall Street-Washington axis wants to flood the country with Third World immigrants, and so forth.
Among the highly-educated and liberal, meanwhile, the lack of contact with rural, working-class America generates all sorts of wild anxieties about what is being plotted in the heartland. In the George Bush years, liberals fretted about a looming evangelical theocracy. In the age of the Tea Parties, they see crypto-Klansmen and budding Timothy McVeighs everywhere they look.
This cultural divide has been widening for years, and bridging it is beyond any institution’s power. But it’s a problem admissions officers at top-tier colleges might want to keep in mind when they are assembling their freshman classes.
If such universities are trying to create an elite as diverse as the nation it inhabits, they should remember that there is more to diversity than skin colour — and that both their school and their country might be better off if they admitted a few more ROTC cadets, and a few more aspiring farmers. The New York Times The writer is an Op-Ed columnist with the New York Times and the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. A decade later, the note of white grievance that Mr Buchanan, the Reform Party’s presidential nominee in 2000, struck that night is part of the conservative melody. You can hear it when Mr Glenn Beck accuses President Barack Obama of racism, or when Mr Rush Limbaugh casts liberal policies as an exercise in “reparations”. It was sounded last year during the backlash against Ms Sonia Sotomayor’s suggestion that a “wise Latina” jurist might have advantages over a white male judge and again last week when conservatives attacked the Justice Department for supposedly going easy on members of the New Black Panther Party accused of voter intimidation. To liberals, these grievances seem at once noxious and ridiculous. (Is there any group with less to complain about, they often wonder, than white Christian Americans?) But to understand the country’s present polarisation, it is worth recognising what Mr Buchanan got right. Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Mr Thomas Espenshade and Ms Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to favour black and Hispanic applicants, while whites and Asians needed higher grades and SAT scores to get in. But what was striking, as Mr Russell K Nieli pointed out last week on the conservative website Minding the Campus, was which whites were most disadvantaged by the process: The downscale, the rural and the working-class. This was particularly pronounced among the private colleges in the study. For minority applicants, the lower a family’s socioeconomic position, the more likely the student was to be admitted. For whites, though, it was the reverse. An upper middle-class white applicant was three times more likely to be admitted than a lowerclass white with similar qualifications. This may be a money-saving tactic. In a footnote, Mr Espenshade and Ms Radford suggest that these institutions, conscious of their mandate to be multi-ethnic, may reserve their financial aid dollars “for students who will help them look good on their numbers of minority students”, leaving little room to admit financiallystrapped whites. |
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When you feel it in your fingers Seek EARLY treatment for rheumatoid arthritis to prevent permanent damage Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg MOST of us take daily activities such as getting out of bed and getting dressed in adults worldwide, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States. There are no official figures on the prevalence of the disease in Singapore. However, a recent local survey on 89 sufferers of this form of arthritis found that the condition can severely affect a person’s life. Commissioned by the National Arthritis Foundation (NAF) of Singapore and supported by Abbott, the survey found that 63 per cent of RA sufferers have been forced to leave work, and more than a third (34 per cent) felt that they have suffered from depression as a result of their illness. Almost half (49 per cent) of the respondents find it difficult to explain their condition to others, highlighting the need for greater awareness of RA. Normally, the body’s immune system helps fight off harmful infections. In RA sufferers, their immune system starts to attack the ligaments and tendons around the joints as well as the cartilage and bones, explained Dr Koh Wei Howe, a rheumatologist and physician at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. “This causes inflammation and swelling in the joints, leading to damage to the bone and joint,” he said. It is not fully understood what exactly causes the condition, which is most common among those in their 40s and 50s. However, Dr Koh said genes, infections and smoking are possible triggers. Symptoms of RA vary among individuals — some include fatigue, fever, weight loss and depression. One of the tell-tale signs of RA, which Mdm Tan experienced, is a lasting stiffness and discomfort in the joints, especially in the morning. |
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| 07-Sep-2010 14:49 |
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HEARD: thOse whO ? want fOur wIves ? be MUSLIM ? LEGAL and OFFICIAL ?
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| 07-Sep-2010 14:18 |
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INVESTMENT UNIVERSE INVESTMENT REFUGEE - dOes nOt defend Investment regardless Of plan - rUn rUn rUn rUn rUn rUn rUn rUn - as thOUgh there Is nO tOmOrrOw - keeps On rUnnIng tOmOrrOw after tOmOrrOw INVESTMENT CHALLENGER + defends Investment as PLANNED + cOmmIts tO TARGET + belIeves tOmOrrOw Is always there + tOmOrrOw's tOmOrrOw eVen beTTer + neVer rUn away frOm Investment PLAN |
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| 07-Sep-2010 13:58 |
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| 07-Sep-2010 13:35 |
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GENTING HK 3Q 2010 ? mUch mUch mUch mOre mOre mOre SPECTACULAR In % Term ? than GENTING SP ? |
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| 07-Sep-2010 13:30 |
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| 07-Sep-2010 13:25 |
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| 07-Sep-2010 13:24 |
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