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Can Am challenge

Friends, let me know if this ever happens to you.  You're sitting down to write the morning post on Eventing Nation, either at 2:30 in the morning or noon the next day and your plan is to write something serious.  I mean, you are SO committed to writing a serious post about an important issue, such as NSAIDs.  And then, right before you start writing the serious post, you look in your inbox and there is an email from Chelan with a funny story and hilarious pictures that you absolutely can't resist posting.  Does that ever happen to you?  No?  Nobody?  Well it happens to me all the time.  

The good news is that ridiculous FEI moments are more common these days than Chelan party stories--which is saying something.  Besides, we are giving most of our serious journalism responsibilities over to Hahahorses, and I think they will be posting some scandalous pictures of Princess Haya eating bute in the next couple of days.  Oh, where are my manners? -- Thanks for writing this Chelan and thank you for reading.
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From Chelan:

Previously on EN I wrote and article about eventing west coast style. This is a bit of a p.s. to that well received piece. 

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This past weekend there was an event in my backyard called Campbell Valley, in Langley BC. It is a competition up to preliminary level, and every other year the 'Can-Am challenge' is held here north of the 49th. The alternate site in the US is Whidbey Island in WA in July. I'd love to say I know exactly which teams in each divisions from each country won this year, but that would be a complete lie!  While it's fun to ride on a team, and have T shirts and matching saddle pads (or red coats when things get a little more serious and the jumps get bigger...) the REAL competition comes on Saturday night. 

The coveted 'golden boot is awarded to the team who excels at the unmounted games. Creative rule appreciation, aka blatant cheating, is the norm.  Last year my sister Shaye and I 'brought it home for Team Canada' with a combination of tequila shots and limbo. This year, the theme was a float parade using wheelbarrows.  Thinking that we could influence the judges with a slightly larger wheelbarrow, my 1989 VW cabriolet was pressed into service:

Truthfully, it is a barn car--it has transported hay, horse shit and plenty of dog hair. Sounds an awful lot like a wheelbarrow to me! Add to this mix my prom dress (circa 1986--just imagine the STYLE points, and obviously my Mother saves everything.) Actually, we provided a few prom dresses for the hotly anticipated event. One particularly sensational number was navy velvet, and it seems that it was exactly the same as the bridesmaid dresses from a client's first wedding probably 15 yeas ago. Fashion forward we are here in the West. You'll notice John Merriweather of Merriweather saddlery sporting that fancy number:

I did get one scandalous photo of John crossing and uncrossing his legs, a la basic instinct, but since EN strives to be PG, I left that one out. Let's just say Team USA #2 had thought of everything, and his garter was rather pretty. Leave the rest to the imagination, folks! Anyhow, the gist of the evening is that Team USA was victorious this year, and rightfully so. One of the two US teams had procured a pink dress involving considerable extra padding:

This rubinesque hottie entered the staging area (in the wheelbarrow of course) flinging corn husks (it was after dinner) into the adoring crowd. Team Canada admitted defeat mostly gracefully, but vowed to retrieve the golden boot next year in Whidbey Island by any means possible.

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Love to see Chelan's posts, but could someone clarify the pronunciation of her name? Is it "Cheelan" "Cheh-lan" "Keelan"?? Thanks.

Cheh - lan
is how you say it.
Used to joke with her a zillion years back about it cause we had a nasty little (totally awesome) pony by the same name. lol

I wanted to head to the Campbell Valley event to watch this year but it was soooooooooooo pecking hhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooootttttttttt there was no way I was going. I am pregnant and I hid in the basement with a book.

Next event in BC - THE BC CHAMPIONSHIPS at Island 22. We are organizing like crazy. only threeish more weeks to go. AUGH!!
I just scared myself. eek.

Me here it's phonetically shell, as in sea shell, and then ann.
There is a lake in WA called lake Chelan, that's where it comes from
:)

also admitted, in fact, that for decades China's economic growth is not real economic growth, because the central bank issued too much money to push up the whole of China.

In this case, people will see that 230,000 Chinese a year since the group event. However, scattered groups of 230,000 from the event, but also the maintenance of stability can cost 1 trillion to smooth out. Only when the Chinese economy to crash, especially when the real estate bubble burst, few Chinese people who, three generations of accumulation of zero, and the capacity of a sudden people will burst, no amount of stability maintenance fee will also help, Most of the crowd because it is the maintenance of stability in itself has become unstable elements.


However, people know everything there is a critical point. Developments to a certain extent, people had to bear. People can not always bear the standard in extreme poverty line. Mainland China's 900 million people below the poverty line at the United Nations, 2.5 million people in the United Nations poverty line. The government always pays to give, to give Russia the previous, now gave the United States. However, there is always emptied when.

2011 year January 12, China Bureau of Statistics chief economist Yao Jingyuan also released a data. He accepted an interview with Xinhua News Agency, and we should not fear inflation, because inflation in China is not high. He said that according to history, China's reform and opening up 30 years of inflation rate was 5.6%; For example, in 1988, with China's inflation in 1994 reached 18%, respectively, with 24%, while in 2010 inflation has not reached the average. However, according to economics, international standards, a national inflation if more than 4% of the time, it means that this country into a hyperinflation. Yao announced this data means what? Means that China's reform and opening up, has been the case in a hyperinflation development, his 30 years of China's inflation rate was 5.6%, has been described.


eyes of the Government in the United States, American interests are far higher than China's interests. This human nature is understandable. Although human rights, political change in the system is the most Chinese people's long-term interests and the interests of China. But for the United States, how to improve the interests of the American people, is the first place. U.S. interest in improving the people, the second step is to improve China's interests, China's human rights. The Chinese government is using this frame of mind the U.S. government to do business, to induce the U.S. government to abandon human rights requirements, and let the U.S. government on its advantage in economy and enjoy huge profits.


According to United Nations standards, United Nations provides a daily income of less than $ 1.25 people are in extreme poverty; poor United Nations standards, is less than $ 2 a day income. Chinese mainland announced in December 2010 a Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that to improve the standard of China's poverty line, that is, income per person 1,100 80. Also said that mainland China's poverty line is less than 1 month 1 million yuan, more than ten dollars. Why not in China designated by the United Nations poverty line, poverty standards? The results of the Chinese government spokesman's explanation: According to the Chinese-style poverty (ie, annual income per person 1,100 80), only 40 million of the continent. However, if the mainland to the poverty line income $ 15 one hundred yuan, 80 million poor people is. Once income increased to $ 1.25 a day when the standard line, there are 250 million in mainland China living in extreme poverty! If calculated according to two dollars of income, the whole of China has 900 million people are poor under the United Nations.


Imagine, for example, the world's only $ 1 million dollars, the Chinese mainland took the three one thousand; take the more necessary to the appreciation of the renminbi relative to the hands up. Therefore, China is very obvious to know the Western countries to force revaluation of the Chinese government channels to earn money. However, the Chinese government has deliberately let it go to make, in fact, since 2007, has risen from 26% of. 26% What is the concept? 2010, 20004 in accordance with billions of reserves calculation, equivalent to 26 percent appreciation of the Chinese lost a $ 500 billion. What is the concept 500 billion? China's foreign trade in 1997 net profit of 14 billion, by 2009, when net profit of nearly $ 14 billion, 500 billion would mean a loss of at least five years, China's exports of profits, that is five years, China's exports of dry white . Why should the U.S. government to the Chinese government appreciation of the renminbi? On the one hand the Chinese government to buy more U.S. treasury bonds, while forcing the RMB appreciation as 1 million to buy U.S. dollar bonds, one year after the United States as long as $ 94. It's that simple.

recently, the Chinese central bank vice governor Ma Delun wrote an article saying that the RMB five difficulties encountered, the biggest dilemma is RMB cash supply and printing capabilities of the severe contradictions. He now has six Chinese counterpart, the three Mint. Bill factory 6, a total of 30,000 people, is the world's largest counterpart. But he said that because of the unpredictability of the circulation of RMB in cash, due to financial reasons, policy reasons and unpredictable, with the result except for a few years since the founding of other, each year, growing at a rate of 20% cash supply, causing the Chinese yuan The printing of the whole project as fast as issuing building speed, resulting in printing are now experiencing a serious lack of capacity. It created a market RMB cash shortage caused people to panic. This words of two problems: first, the central bank said the yuan with the central government's printing volume is unpredictable, they can not control, difficult to control, it can just print money; second through 20 % of the printing speed of increase, and this rate of increase is still growing, resulting in production capacity, the ability to print money is not enough. He explained there are many reasons of course, the training of technical personnel, as well as factory-installed, factory construction period is required, with the result it is difficult to meet. But this description of the problem? Shows a large number of printing money causes inflation in China.


It is reported that in December 2010, some experts and scholars, including government officials opened a meeting of the domestic economy, after a conclusion that China's economy has embarked on the most difficult stage in the next two to three years will encounter a lot of trouble. Peking University professor Zhang Weiying and even make recommendations, foreign exchange reserves are divided between people, or farmers' split into two, a sub-urban; poor split into two, a rich points, otherwise China will be a big problem. Some scholars have also raised other issues, said real estate can not solve the problem now,dr dre beats, but they can not solve; develop long-term real estate crash, you had better resolved on China's financial collapse, not so early settlement, later to solve does not work; No quick solution, not slow to resolve, and they admit that the local forces are very strong, the central Government can not control. Discussion of the exchange rate regime, also said the Government appreciated too fast, then collapsed, a look at China as hot money will be withdrawn to earn money, the withdrawal of foreign hot money opinions on the light left the yuan, the only significant devaluation of the RMB, China's economy crashed. The way to prevent the slow withdrawal of foreign capital appreciation, is expected to have a foreigner so that he can make money, have to overseas hot money into our money to China. This time the United States are running hot money to China, the U.S. is no money to build, so the slow U.S. economy, China has become Western capital would rather make money, Therefore, the final consensus is this: How long can drag on the long delay. ... ...

China's economy looks good


ago China's economy to rise, because there are resources available to sell. But now with the speed of printing money to build counterpart do not match the speed, and increasing the speed of printing money to inflate. Those in power knows inflation, do not want to control, because a lot of government bonds, can be disguised by inflation and debt dilution. U.S. government moves towards the Chinese government was in power applied to the Chinese people intact.

now, because the wealth of the people across the country are concentrated in the hands of the government; but in fact rely on inflation to maintain the internal, the people of the country debt. And the government's money printing more and more, less and less material, has long been a vicious circle. In this case, it is now seen U.S. prices cheaper than in China the opposite. Many materials are cheap Chinese exports, the products in the same hand, China's prices are very high; whether a pair of shoes in China, what clothes to buy expensive than the United States.

Chinese government certainly saw the problem, so afraid to let the yuan appreciate faster. Instead of hot money from overseas is also expected to go to China. When the 6% appreciation of the RMB, U.S. dollars into China to do anything, there are six dollars 1 million dollar profit. The Chinese government afraid of dollars coming out, and the deliberate creation of a revaluation expectations: But the dollar to make money in China, who earned the money? Benefits created by the Chinese people, China's labor interests, the Chinese people's taxes. Therefore, the Chinese government used virtually the Chinese people's wealth to support Western countries, so people can buy very cheap in the West of Chinese products.

very simple terms, but as Americans, hope that an appreciation of the yuan, rise after the government's liabilities on its dilution, and an appreciation of 20%, 1.4 trillion of U.S. Treasury bonds dropped by 300 billion on. . 300 billion, how much to tax the people? ! But the Chinese government afraid of this, to

economy in China maintained the previous trick is to let the laid-off workers and then sell it to state-owned enterprise, after selling mine, sell the land. Now mine, almost sold the land, we must levy property tax. In the way of plunder is gradually changing the time, people's anger will be detonated. The past for workers laid off, the government can make Liu Huan shouting a; If you think he sold the mine to sell state-owned; now sell the land, forcing people on the higher price of the house not a house, than when the rebound was laid-off workers, selling to corporate mining to much more violent; buy expensive place to live if later, have to pay high real estate taxes per month, when people could no longer endure no longer. There is no way people live.


according to the Western point of view, a government-owned foreign exchange reserves are truly owned by the Government finances. For example, people with the dollars for yen, the time for NT, not with the government change, is changing with the Bank; Bank only one intermediate transactions, the bank sold dollars to buy NT, NT is not issuing in the transaction, no additional dollars. But not the same as mainland China, mainland China is a foreign exchange system among the People's Bank, when people enter the Chinese mainland when the dollar is sold to the People's Bank of China, People's Bank of China sent people to print money in RMB. In other words, China's exports more things, the more the Bank of China's foreign exchange reserves, but also money is printed yuan more. As a family, wife and children to earn money for each person to the U.S. dollar are the father, his father wrote a note to them at home to eat with a piece of paper, all the money is concentrated in the hands of his father, his father became one of the richest rich. Chinese government as the autocratic father, to disguise the use of foreign exchange system on all of China's production of wealth, especially in the export of wealth are concentrated in the hands, it holds the world's largest, highest foreign exchange reserves. But when the U.S. dollar by the government to get the hand when any of this money was used to spending the government. The dollar, equivalent to the last gold reserves when the gold standard. However, once sent out after the RMB is no way to recover. Once the withdrawal of foreign capital will return to the RMB, China to the payment of dollars, so when the time to withdraw foreign investment, China will be in the hands of fewer and fewer dollars, that is equal to the gold reserves decreased. Therefore, the trap of the Chinese economy, economic growth is faster when it exports more time, more and more of China's foreign exchange reserves (foreign exchange the country's exports are concentrated in the hands of government); the same time, China exports a lot of material due to overseas, fewer and fewer resources, but are more and more printed money, causing consequent development of China's economy, inflation will be more severe.

overseas, China is very rich. China now has 20 008 billions of foreign exchange reserves, will soon break through the 3 trillion. The world's foreign exchange reserves will add up just like China, China is the world's foreign exchange reserves. However, China's foreign exchange reserves is not the Chinese government's revenue, nor is the wealth owned by the Chinese government, it is actually a pen liabilities.

Chinese central bank vice governor Wu Xiaoling

problem is that Chinese economic collapse near the critical point has been getting closer. The capacity of the public economy, it is increasingly difficult to sustain. China's economic problems after the conflicts end, it will turn into a political issue. The political issues will require system changes.

this data is an official published data, this data is very frightening. Scary is that, if we follow the official release of 1.3 billion people, there are 900 million people are actually under the United Nations global poverty. Only 4 million people in the well-off and very wealthy. Moreover, according to the data, that is, mainland China accounts for the world's poor in the proportion of 85%. Chinese people often imagine that the African poor, the control of this ratio, found in Africa less than 2 dollars of the poor is very small.

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