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A fountain sparkles in the courtyard
Zahran Jagheb, the owner sitting in Dar Zahran
Indeed, 'Dar Zahran' means either 'the house of Zahran' or the 'family of Zahran.' In this case, both interpretations work. In fact, Jagheb emphasised that he is not just an employee here. He grew in Dar Zahran, and still lives there now: "I wanted to bring back life and family to this house."
By any measure, he has succeeded. Over twenty years, Jagheb has immaculately restored the building to its original state. This is especially impressive given the building was slated for demolition.
The basement, which once served as a stable, is now an art gallery.
A fountain sparkles in the courtyard, below a sagging Palestinian flag. The basement, which once served as a stable, is now an art gallery. Guests can buy local pottery and jewellery. Jagheb plans to add a café to the building. Meanwhile, an archive of stunning photographs, detailing Palestinian life during the 19th century, will be collated into a museum.
As these projects suggest, Jagheb is not willing to simply turn Dar Zahran into a shabby tourist joint. "When I brought friends to Ramallah," he explains, "I had nothing to show them about the history of Ramallah and Palestine. In Germany and France, there are museums. They have history. Not in Ramallah."
A map, pins marking the home of each visitor, is testament to Dar Zahran's international popularity.
Things are different now. During my visit, Jagheb explained the history of Ramallah, and the problems facing the town, to a rapt group of European backpackers. Dar Zahran sometimes get hundreds of visitors every week. A map, pins marking the home of each visitor, is testament to Dar Zahran's international popularity.
But if Dar Zahran has succeeded in luring foreigners to Ramallah, Jagheb is still struggling to convince his own people about the importance of their heritage.
Many Palestinians "don't care about their history," he begins. "This is dangerous and sad: if you have no history, it is bad for the future. It disconnects you from your own land." Without history, he asks rhetorically, "can you be sure that this land belongs to you?"
Before, when he was young, Ramallah was full of smart old houses like Dar Zahran. But 450 such buildings have been destroyed in the past fifteen years. Concrete apartment blocks and roads are lumped in their place. Jagheb has been fighting the municipality to save historical houses in Ramallah for years. The Old Town has been battered. Jagheb's gentle eyes flicker slightly. "I feel like a stranger in my own city."
Nonetheless, groups of school kids visit Dar Zahran: it creates an "amazing, positive energy," says Jagheb.
And some Palestinians still appreciate how vibrant their history is. Jawad Rar left Palestine in 1966, and settled in the United States. Now retired, with a slight American drawl, he is back in Ramallah. "In order to know where you're from, you have to know where you've been," he says.
Rar and Jagheb are cousins. They chuckle over about an ancient photograph of a shared relative. A sign says not to take photographs, but Rar is allowed to: "he's family, so it's fine."
"I am not old fashioned," Jagheb maintains. "We can make a modern city. But we must also respect our heritage. We must be proud of our history, not change it."
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Coffee with Joe – Debt Saturation
The articles that Joe refers to can be found at the following links, presented in the order in which they were written:
Velocity Zero
The Impossible Math of Debt Backed Money
THE Most Important Chart of the Century
Guest Post and More on THE Most Important Chart of the Century
CATO Institute Discussion - Is Obama Bankrupting America?
This is a not just an Obama problem, it is a systemic problem. The system has entered a parabolic growth phase in regards to government spending. This growth now must continue exponentially or the economy will suffer. It is simply not sustainable, and thus much suffering, more than is already occurring, is on the way. (ht Kevin)
Market Thread 4/9
Equity futures are higher again this morning, dollar down, Euro up. Gold is higher and running after the breakout I showed was occurring last week and is now straight up for more than a week. Bonds have been backfilling the past few days.
No economic reports today.
There was another small movement in the McClelland oscillator yesterday so look for a large movement today or Monday – gee, no surprise there.
The Transports closed at a new high yesterday with the other indices not, this produces yet another divergence. Keep an eye on the VIX, it is very near the bottom Bollinger, showing complacency and potentially setting up a market sell signal if it were to close below that band and then rise back above.
As I watch the events of the world, I can't help but think that there are meaningful events that are very close to rising to the forefront – far too much occurring, you can see the underlying tension in those events, they are happening all over the world. That tension is produced by the inequity of debt backed money that works to richen a few while enslaving the majority.
A common theme among current events is the reduction of American dominance. The overthrow in Kyrgyzstan, for example, has driven out a government friendly to the U.S. and placed in power one backed by Russia. The U.S. is being forced to withdraw from a base there from which we were conducting Afghani operations. Meanwhile Obama is taking pictures with the Russian President, wearing a huge grin over the nuclear reduction treaty, while being chased out of territory surrounding Russia.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
4/8 Market Comment Thread
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Weekly Jobless Claims jumped from 439,000 to 460,000. The consensus was for a drop to 436,000. Since it's higher, they simply wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't try to explain it away…
The Labor Department is citing special calendar factors for an unexpected jump in initial jobless claims to 460,000 in the April 3 week vs. the prior week's 442,000 (revised 3,000 higher). The Labor Department is not only citing Easter as a distortion but also the Cesar Chavez holiday in California, and it is further warning that seasonal volatility will shake up the numbers through the next several weeks. Otherwise, according to Market News International, the department reports "nothing unusual."
Special factors give special importance to the four-week average which is at 450,250, up 2,250 from the end of March but down more than 20,000 from the beginning of March. How this month-to-month comparison tracks in the weeks ahead will shape expectations for the April employment report.
Continuing claims, which are lagging data for the March 27 week, fell 131,000 to 4.550 million for the lowest level of the recovery. The four-week average, down 36,000 to 4.648 million, is also the best of the recovery. The unemployment rate for insured workers slipped 1 tenth to 3.5 percent. In unadjusted data for the March 20 week, claims for emergency compensation fell by just over 300,000. The picture on the continuing claims is favorable though there is noise as the improvement in part reflects discouraged workers falling out of the insured unemployment pool.
While initial claims are down from a year ago, the number of people moving onto the Emergency rolls jumped from 2.2 million one year ago, to 5.6 million near the end of March.
Yesterday the Petroleum report showed another large build in crude oil.
A surge in imports helped drive oil stocks 2.0 million barrels higher in the April 2 week to 356.2 million. Oil imports averaged 9.6 million barrels per day for the highest reading of the year and the third 9-million-plus reading in a row. OPEC output has been increasing well beyond quotas.
In contrast to oil stocks, gasoline stocks fell 2.5 million barrels reflecting steady demand that is now, at plus 1.7 percent, showing its strongest year-on-year rate of 2010. But refineries interestingly weren't concentrating on gasoline production but on distillate production, which jumped to its highest level of the year at 4.0 million barrels per day and made for a 1.1-million-barrel build in distillate inventories. Distillate demand, like that for gasoline, is steady but is also showing its best year-on-year rate at minus 0.2 percent. The rise in distillate production raises the possibility that refineries are ramping up production in anticipation of stronger industrial demand, perhaps in line with strength in factory orders and other manufacturing data.
I think the following chart of inventories says a lot about the real economy. Note that inventories peaked at the trough in March of last year, fell, but are now obviously building again.
The city of Los Angeles announced they are closing down city government two days a week. Two countries, Thailand and Kyrgyzstan had people attempt to overthrow their respective governments in one day yesterday. None of this was mentioned in the national evening news I watched last night.
Consumer Credit took a huge plunge in February, much larger than expected. There was a $9.5 billion decrease in revolving credit, plus another $2 billion decrease in non-revolving credit.
Please use this thread for daily comments, we cover a lot more information there including current market action…
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Open Your Eyes
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/7
Equity futures are down again this morning, below is a 60 minute chart of DOW futures on the left and a 5 minute chart of S&P futures on the right:
The dollar is up, the Euro is down again following a large decline yesterday, oil is down a little, and gold is up, rising above $1,140 per ounce.
This morning the (must preface with worthless) MBA Purchase Index rose .2 percent following last week's completely bogus 6.8% supposed rise. Today we return to the even more wild & crazy gyrations with their refinancing index falling 16.9%.
HighlightsRidiculous. Go ahead and keep track of what's occurring without knowing the base, good luck. And that is as heavy as the "economic reporting" for the week gets. Interest rates rising? Yes, watch the long end of the curve, rates have definitely broken out and are signaling higher. Below is a 5 minute chart of the long bond futures showing that it formed a triangle over the past couple of days. It was entered from above and thus we would expect it to break lower producing even higher rates:
The Mortgage Bankers' purchase index, up 0.2 percent in the Easter week, added slightly to prior gains. But mortgage rates are the report's big headline, jumping 27 basis points in the week for 30-year loans to 5.31 percent in what the report blames on the end to Fed purchases of mortgage-backed securities. The jump in rates dried up demand for refinancing with the index down 16.9 percent.
The jump in rates will hurt more than refinancing and is certain to limit demand for home purchases at a critical time for the housing sector which is trying to recover from a deep drop following November's expiration of first-round stimulus.
The number of people using food stamps increased for the 14th consecutive month with the number of people receiving them at a record 39,430,000! That's equal to 12.8% of our entire population! No pictures of people in soup lines that extend around the block? There they are.
Yet Lord Blankfein at Goldman Sachs continues to maintain that they are doing "God's work" and that they are simply doing what's in their client's best interest:
Not to mention their own best interests. The question, of course, is who is looking out for everyone else's best interest? This is exactly where the game went bad. Government is supposed to look after the people's best interest and is supposed to keep rogues under control. Obviously they have allowed Goldman unprecedented access to run government and thus all representation for the people has been usurped. A story that's getting old already, I know. Yet nothing has changed, and that is why we are going to pay dearly.
Goldman Sachs: No apologies
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Goldman Sachs defended its controversial employee bonuses and multi-billion dollar relationship with AIG in its annual report released Wednesday, while downplaying its short-selling in the mortgage market.
Much of the letter was devoted to describing Goldman's (GS, Fortune 500) role in the financial crisis and the recession, praising its own "strong performance" in 2009, which it referred to as a "year of resiliency.
The letter, co-signed by CEO Lloyd Blankfein and President Gary Cohn, also mentioned that Goldman repaid its $10 billion debt to the government in June 2009, as a U.S. Treasury recipient of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
The letter came after Blankfein and other Wall Street chief executives were subjected to intense scrutiny in a hearing before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in January, when they were blamed for contributing to the economic crisis.
Goldman's (GS, Fortune 500) letter is peppered with the word "client," as the Wall Street firm continuously reiterated its role in serving its investors amid troubling economic times.
"Our first priority is and always has been to serve our clients' interests," read the letter, in one of its opening lines.
And in Europe it was reported that their overall growth for the fourth quarter was stagnant:
April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Europe's economy unexpectedly stagnated in the fourth quarter as companies cut spending more than previously estimated.Obviously debt saturated, the union there will have difficulty generating real growth until the debts are cleared. What growth is occuring here in the U.S. is nothing more than accounting fraud, government stimulus, and the effects of destroying one's own currency.
Gross domestic product in the 16-nation euro region remained unchanged compared with the third quarter, when it rose 0.4 percent, the European Union's statistics office in Luxembourg said today. It had previously reported a fourth- quarter expansion of 0.1 percent. Corporate investment dropped 1.3 percent instead of the 0.8 percent estimated earlier.
We are about to enter another earnings season. I'm sure that we'll see numbers with terrific year over year comparisons. Keep in mind when you see those comparisons what was occurring in the first quarter of '09. Since that time stocks have zoomed to the moon, and while trailing P/E's are coming down, they are still at historic levels.
What's priced into the market, however, might not be as important as the crush of dollars flowing out of debt instruments. We're likely to see some wild things occurring. One thing's for certain, the underlying problems were never taken care of, the levels of debt and leverage in the financial system are still at extremes. Proper accounting alone would still bring down the system, and so it festers.
Yesterday's down then up action produced a small change in the McClelland oscillator, expect a large price move either today or tomorrow. Today is the best fit for a turn date, and the major indices are carving out another potential rising wedge. Obviously those who keep trying to front-run any decline keep getting run over, once again proof that patience is a virtue. Waiting for broken trend lines is always a smart idea.
The VIX set a new low and is just above the bottom Bollinger Band. Call buying is reaching levels that normally produce turns.
You have probably noticed that as I got more active with the SwarmUSA site that my postings have diminished here at Economic Edge. I have been attempting to get volunteers to pick that up more and more, and have had some success there, but it still requires a great deal of attention. Thank you to all who volunteer! On Monday I posted a link here for the first time and ask for people to please join the recurring donation program - $3.50 per month to "Fire the Fed!" No one from here did. The only people to sign up for it so far are the same people who already volunteer their time.
What I do here I do for free and I do it with pleasure, my satisfaction is knowing that I may be helping people understand reality a little better. No high pressure marketing here, I consider that to be a part of the problem. I am disappointed in the response to my subtle requests for help, and even though the size of the Swarms has grown rapidly, I am also disappointed in the number of people who were actually participating in the Swarms.
And so we're going to talk a little bit about BE-DO-HAVE one more time.
As previously mentioned, in order to HAVE and to maintain wealth, you must first BE and DO. This is why the lotto winner seldom holds onto their winnings over time – they skipped right to have.
Everyone's seen the movie of the spoiled rich kid, right? People who inherit large sums of money often are not good stewards of it, and again, it's because they didn't go through the process of BE and DO. Not all are that way, of course, there are self-starters and many had parents who wisely forced their children to build the BE and DO foundation so that their wealth is not squandered.
Freedom works the same way. When born into it, it's difficult to appreciate the base of how it was obtained and why it is. Most people in the U.S. have not truly had to BE and DO when it comes to freedom, we have just assumed it was a right. We stopped talking about it. We stopped teaching our children about it. Most importantly, we stopped taking the necessary actions to maintain it, and thus we are losing it.
As any parent with teenagers can tell you, you can tell them repeatedly what's going to happen, but inevitably they won't really get what you say until they make the mistake for themselves. Perhaps that's just human nature and perhaps that's a part of the psychology of economic cycles – I'm sure it is.
The game of reading bloggers write about the problems in the economy has grown very old to me. They either simply report, or they complain. If we're lucky, we get a new angle on what we already know. Few talk about the real roots of the problems and even fewer still get at workable solutions. We all play the blame game, left/right, union/corporate raider, it's all their fault and thus the answer must lie over there.
Imagine the power we would have if we all could get together and work on common ground instead. It was Gandhi who said, "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
Those people do exist, they are growing in numbers all the time. However, for the majority with regard to freedom we have become a nation of spoiled teens. We fail to realize that freedom begins with us.
I have been working on a concept for what I think will be an important book. I have been contemplating how I devote the time I have been to SwarmUSA, continue to write for the blog, and spend the necessary long hours required to get that done? Something has to give. The lack of response from my blog has made that choice easy. I will be making fewer posts here, and when I do post they will be more meaningful articles, not just playing the role of daily reporter.
My best writing time is early in the morning. Therefore I am temporarily going to only produce the morning updates when there are special circumstances that warrant it. I will return to them on occasion and certainly once the work on the book is done. Again, I feel that this book is important and that I can be most effective concentrating on it for awhile.
Rolling Stones - Time Waits For No One:
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/6
Equity futures are down this morning. Below is a 60 minute chart of the DOW futures on the left and 5 minute chart of the S&P futures on the right that show the overnight action:
The dollar is up sharply, while the Euro is down sharply on concerns that Greece's bailout may be falling apart. Of course it's falling apart, that's because it makes no sense and the math is impossible. You cannot save a drowning person by throwing water on them, and you cannot save a person unwilling to help save themselves – more on that concept later. Bonds are higher, both oil and gold were lower overnight but just turned positive again.
Yesterday's advance to new highs was on the lowest volume of the year. The divergence between price and volume has been in place all year, it is historic in nature, as in there has never been such a large and sustained divergence in modern history. Then again, we are witnessing the collapse of the largest debt bubble in history too and we need to be cognizant of the flow of funds.
The move down in bond prices, up in yields was huge yesterday and left large gaps in the charts. Today's action indicates that we may get some backfilling. The move did break the very large necklines and long term trendlines on the longer duration charts.
Below is a 2 year chart of TLT, the 20 year bond fund. You can see the smaller Head & Shoulders pattern and the larger H&S pattern, BOTH are now confirmed, doesn't matter if prices rise back up above the neckline. The green trendline you see is a long term uptrend line that is now clearly broken as well:
Below is a 6 month version of TLT, you can see that prices closed below the lower Bollinger Band and that the move came on very heavy volume. Unlike equities, here volume is confirming price:
The chart of the TNX (10 year Treasuries) is telling the same story. Yields went over 4% yesterday and closed just below. The large inverted H&S pattern is now confirmed, the target is now 6%, but it may take anywhere from a few months to a year or even two to get there, this is a very large pattern, it will take a while to play out:
What will 6%, a 50% increase in interest rates do? It will make houses about 20% less affordable. It will mean that all the people who have Adjustable Rate Mortgages that are rolling over soon, and there is a giant wave of them coming, are facing the prospect of attempting roll-over into higher rates with homes that are likely underwater already. This wave will put them even deeper underwater.
Yesterday equities rose, the dollar rose, oil rose, and gold rose. Bonds (DEBT) lost. That is all about the asset wheel. The supply of debt is a tsunami that has already crested and is now landing on shore. The government is but a sponge placed upon the beach, they cannot stop it, they cannot buy up all the debt.
No word on the emergency meeting on rates yesterday. That's a weird one, only Market Watch carried it, there has been no release or otherwise mention about the meeting that supposedly occurred yesterday. If anyone sees anything on it, please forward to me, thank you.
Here's a report on Office Vacancy rates that came out yesterday, the highest in 16 years:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Office vacancy rates are now at their highest level in 16 years, according to a report published Monday, as elevated unemployment levels across the country continue to temper the demand for space.
Roughly 700 million square feet, or 17.2%, of the more than 4 billion of available office space nationwide was unoccupied as of the end of March, according to the real estate research firm Reis. The last time office vacancies were this high was in 1994.
And we are learning more about the stupendous Jobs Report that showed 162,000 jobs were created. More than 48,000 were temporary Census workers, there were 81,000 phantom jobs supposedly created by new businesses using their "birth/death" model (that doesn't work), and there where another 40,000 temporary jobs, meaning that in reality no meaningful jobs were created at all. And we require 150,000 to 250,000 new jobs each month just to stay even with population growth (depending upon who you ask).
We are now marking the one year anniversary of the return of Mark-to-Fantasy accounting standards. Stock market's been going up ever since. Imagine that, letting the bankers who own the quant computers, operate "dark pools," and run the "Federal Reserve" mark their debt portfolios to their own models. And stocks have been going up the entire time. Just wait and see what happens next, it's what happens when you turn over the money power to private interests. The fact that we allowed it, and the fact that the people have done nothing to stop it means that we deserve what's coming to us.
Those who think that gold and silver are honest money are going to get what's coming to them too. They in fact are the opposite of "honest" money, they are the most manipulated commodities on the planet. Today it is very likely that there has been many times the amount of gold and silver sold on paper than exist in reality. My caution to you is that there could easily be a run on the metal should that fact be fully realized. If you are "hedging" via the metals, we are at the stage of the game where taking physical possession is simply the smart thing to do.
Using only precious metals to back our money? Utter catastrophe. The central bankers are the ones who hold the vast majority of it now, the private bankers have stolen and swapped away a large portion of our reserves from us and from the entire world. The IMF, for example, is now the world's third largest holder of gold. If you create a gold money system, you are simply giving control right back to the same people who already control it via debt. Debt, gold, they don't really care, they own you either way. If you are tired of being owned and you seek true freedom, you will find it, it is there waiting for you to take it if you dare.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/5
Equity futures are higher than they were on Thursday's close, but lower than the Friday morning employment situation ramp. Below is a 60 minute chart of the DOW futures on the left and a 5 minute chart of S&P futures on the right:
The dollar is higher, bonds plummeted on Friday and are sitting right on support once again, oil is now pushing $86 a barrel and gold is higher as well.
The Senate went on recess again without approving another extension to the Emergency Unemployment benefits:
(CNN) -- Extended unemployment benefits will temporarily expire for thousands of Americans on Monday because the Senate went on its spring recess without approving a one-month deadline extension.This, after reading even more horror stories over the weekend about the condition of real Americans. Matt Taibbi wrote another good piece, Looting Main Street, well worth a read.
The extension, which had bipartisan support, would have cost about $10 billion, but a lone Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn, said no until the costs are offset.
The Oklahoma senator objected to a commonly used unanimous-consent agreement to pass the bill under emergency conditions, even if it increases the federal deficit. Coburn wants to eliminate additional government spending to pay for the bill.
"The legitimate debate is whether we borrow and steal from our kids or we get out of town and send the bill to our kids for something that we're going to consume today," Coburn said on the Senate floor.
It's the second time a Republican has blocked a so-called "emergency extension" of jobless benefits.
Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning objected to adding to the deficit back in February.
On Saturday the "Federal" Reserve announced an emergency meeting of the Board of Governors to be held today at 11:30 Eastern. Here is their meeting notice: Advance Notice of a Meeting under Expedited Procedures
This meeting is to, "Review and determination by the Board of Governors of the advance and discount rates to be charged by Federal Reserve Banks."
That is different. They are going to consider raising rates because the employment situation report was so "good?" LOL, I can feel a huge mistake coming on. Real unemployment is over 20% according to Gallop, it is 22% according to John Williams and it's over 17% according to the U6 data from our own government. Taxes are going up in spades, oil is rising to new recovery highs, both of which are anchors to the velocity of debt, rising interest rates will be another anchor to debt. Of course they never should have lowered them in the first place, but now that we're saturated and rates have hit zero, ending the interest rate support programs AND actually raising rates will produce results that I think are going to be very, very interesting indeed.
We'll have to see what comes out of this meeting. I note that the general and even business media did not pick this up over the weekend. Holding emergency meetings and performing intermeeting rate hikes is a sure fire way to keep the market skittish, it is not a confidence builder. However, investors need to be careful in thinking that it will produce an instant downfall in equities. Rising rates will mean falling prices for bonds. Many of the insiders are already gone. As more people begin to flee debt, they are forced to evaluate other asset classes to put their capital to work. If you go back and look at times of rising interest rates you will find that in general stocks RISE or are flat during rate raising campaigns. Stocks are falling generally during rate lowering campaigns. Below is a 3 year chart of the 10 year Treasury, TNX, with the SPX the black line in the background:
The correlation is clear over the past three years, however, if you go back further in time you will find that the correlation is not always so clear. And remember, we hit ZERO after rates descending for the past 30 years. During those 30 years, we blew the biggest credit bubble in the history of mankind and saturated the globe with debt and derivatives. Meaningfully higher rates will eventually produce negative results. Since all money is debt, if people flee from debt, this can cause our supply of money to decrease and could force governments into taking measures that are even farther outside the rule of law.
There is a turn date on April 7th according to McHugh. He is rightfully cautious about timing here, however. Obviously the markets are still dramatically overbought. There are new divergences setting in on the daily charts with prices drifting higher while RSI drifts lower. All the prior divergences remain and are historic in nature.
The economic data will be light this week. At 10 Eastern today is Pending home sales and non manufacturing ISM, it only gets lighter from there.
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Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town:
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Jeremy Rifkin: More Empathy in the Global Economy?
Terrific food for thought, those who are into sustainability should appreciate what he has to say. Don't get hung up on the details of global warming, focus on the larger picture that he is saying and stand back and look at the progression of mankind. We are at a crossroads. Are we going to slip backwards, or are we going to march forward? I say forward is possible, but we need to get busy. There are solutions out there, Freedom's Vision is a very large part of progressing to those solutions.

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Why God's Ways Give Joy to the Heart
User's Guide to Sunday, Sept. 30.
Sunday, Sept. 30, is the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year B, Cycle II).
Feast Days
There are great saints' days in October.
Oct. 1 is the memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus. St. Thérèse is a favorite of many Catholics who long to imitate her childlike love of Christ and others. Get to know her better through Benedict and St. Thérèse by Father Dwight Longenecker and I Believe in Love by Jean C.J. d'Elbée.
Oct. 2 is the memorial of the Guardian Angels. Google "Pope Benedict XVI guardian angels" to find the Pope's words about guardian angels and his explanation of the time his guardian angel let him break his wrist.
Oct. 4 is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. You probably already have your own favorite St. Francis resource. We own the quiet, subtle classic Italian movie The Flowers of St. Francis. We find that it gives our children a new view of the saint.
Numbers 11:25-29; Psalms 19:8, 10, 12-14; James 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
Our Take
Catholics often emphasize the importance of being an "orthodox Catholic," one who believes what the Church believes. That is absolutely right. What you believe is extremely important. As Pope Benedict XVI put it, friendship with Jesus means idem velle, idem nolle (same desires, same dislikes). As Jesus put it, "Amen, amen, I say to you: Whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life."
But that's not the full story of what Jesus expects. Jesus also said, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven."
In the great story of the Last Judgment, he doesn't separate the sheep and goats according to their beliefs, but according to their deeds.
A Catholic who knows his apologetics backward and forward and can defend Catholic doctrines against Protestants, pagans and dissenters can be right 100% of the time and still be headed to eternal perdition if he doesn't act according to his beliefs.
If you do Catholic volunteer work, it won't take you long to meet people who struggle with one teaching or another but who quietly and consistently live upright lives that avoid sin and embrace service. There's nothing wrong with struggling with a teaching — but don't promote that the Church is wrong.
In the first reading, the 70 elders of Israel get a dose of the spirit that allows Moses to speak the Lord's truth, to prophesy. But two elders, Eldad and Medad, weren't where they were supposed to be. They weren't being orthodox in their religion. Nonetheless, "the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp."
When Joshua objects, Moses rebukes him: "Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets!"
The same thing happens in the Gospel, when someone is driving out demons in Jesus' name. One of the apostles tells Jesus he tried to stop him. "Do not prevent him," says Jesus. "There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me."
Then Jesus broadens the definition of what "a mighty deed" is: "Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward."
He doesn't just define right behavior by good deeds. He defines it by avoiding sin. Jesus is so radically opposed to sin that he says it would be better to be maimed than to be a sinner. Worst of all, he says, is to cause "one of these little ones who believe in me to sin."
"It would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea."
Here orthopraxy and orthodoxy meet. There are two ways to cause little ones to sin: One is to lead them into sin by example; the other is to teach them error or — what amounts to the same thing — to fail to teach them truth.
True orthodoxy is at one with orthopraxy. As the Psalm puts it: "The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart." Both your heart and Christ's.
Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas,
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I don't know where to start.
There's just so much that jumps out at you that's egregious, hilariously improbable and, in the context of a social welfare agency the efforts of which should be entirely concentrated on the poor and marginalized, obscene.
Almost $9,000 in limousine charges. In one year.
Stays at the best hotel rooms — some of them approaching $900 a night — in Paris, Istanbul, Ottawa, Vienna, Los Angeles, New York City. (Personally, I can't afford to stay at the Plaza.)
Almost $70,000 in restaurant bills! Charges for flowers! A trip to freaking Disneyland! A $900 baby shower! A $7,024.72 Celebration of Life for a deceased employee! Monthly expenses of $1,600 charged by the executive directors for use of office space within their personal residence! I am running out of exclamation marks and italics and I'm beginning to hyperventilate!
Appalling. Indefensible. And all of it conducted within a corporate culture where the accounting was seemingly written on a napkin. The audit and financial review of the Portland Housing Society by Vancouver Coastal Health and BC Housing make for the best reading of the year, if you like horror stories.
For instance:
"We found no evidence that the PHS Board is monitoring or authorizing PHS executive management expenses and payroll advance."
"We also identified approximately $9,600 in apparent cash advances over the three-year period of our review for which we were unable to obtain any supporting receipts and documentation."
"We found there to be insufficient recognition of the risks, potential contractual issues, governance and oversight considerations associated with the various non-arms length relationships that exist with the Affiliates (of the Portland Hotel Society) and other organizations."
"In numerous instances, interviewees seemed unwilling to provide details (attendees, dates of travel) regarding expenses and other matters they believed were unrelated to the operation of BC Housing funded buildings."
It goes on. And on. I could fill up the paper with quotes that inspire reactions ranging from mildly eye-raising to you-have-got-to-be-effing-kidding-me.
The shame of it is, the PHS hasn't just destroyed its own reputation — which is a pity in some respects because even the auditors allowed that its work was often exceptional — but it has put into question the government's entire system of the contracting out of work to the province's other taxpayer-funded social welfare projects, some 700 in total.
If the province's largest and most visible such agency can botch its bookkeeping so badly, then what of the others, most of which haven't the organizational resources at their disposal that the Portland Hotel Society did?
Further, it casts doubt, and maybe lasting damage, on the experiment in social engineering in the Downtown Eastside that our three levels of government have been conducting for the last several decades.
Tax dollars were funding baby showers as well as social housing? Were the babies minding the cash box? The PHS just confirmed every smirking comment ever made by critics carping about poverty pimps and the poverty industry.
Finally, where was the government all this time?
Why slam the door on the PHS now, so late in the day? The rumours of questionable finances have followed the PHS for years. This is not its first audit to look at those finances, either. The government did one in 2002, and despite a Freedom of Information request and a court challenge, BC Housing and the PHS refused to release it. Presumably, BC Housing told PHS to clean up its act then.
So why now? Hadn't the government been concerned about PHS long before this? And if it had, why hadn't something been done sooner?
At Thursday's press conference at Canada Place, where the audits were made public, BC Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay and provincial Health Minister Terry Lake assured reporters that the government required social welfare agencies to submit annual financial reviews, and if they showed anything untoward they would be investigated further.
But this year's audit examined the PHS's finances as far back as 2010. Which begs the question: Why did it take BC Housing and Vancouver Coastal Health three years, or, for that matter, 12 years since its last audit, to notice there was a problem? And is the public supposed to be reassured by this, given the tens of millions of tax dollars that pour into the Downtown Eastside each year to myriad social agencies?
The government should be careful if it tries to lay blame solely on the PHS.
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Austin "Jack" DeCoster's egg business has brought hundreds of jobs to this flat corn-and-soybean country of north central Iowa. Mr. DeCoster has personally contributed generously to many civic causes – an aquatic center, a retirement community, a parking lot downtown. Each year he serves townspeople a free meal in the town park for his "Appreciation Day." When the Clarion Public Library reopened last year after extensive renovation and expansion, the beautiful new children's corner was thanks to DeCoster.
But many residents of this little county seat of 3,000 people still strain to speak well of him.
"I think he's done a lot of good in the county," says Scott Etter, owner of the New Home Cafe, where DeCoster occasionally dines. "On the other hand, why is he doing all this good? To calm the waters, or out of the goodness of his heart?"
The mixed views of DeCoster reflect the ambivalence over how the egg business has changed Clarion and surrounding Wright County during the past two decades. Indeed, few people were surprised when DeCoster's company, Wright County Egg, was found this year to have shipped salmonella-tainted eggs, launching a recall last month of 380 million eggs. In the eyes of Clarion, it's been trouble from the start. Federal inspectors this week found mice and other sanitation lapses at the Wright County Egg chicken sheds.
The egg industry has brought clear economic benefits to Wright County – and not just jobs in the chicken sheds. The chickens consume semitrailers full of corn and soybeans grown by local farmers, which fetch higher prices than if the farmers had to ship their grain to a distant river port. There are also less obvious benefits, such as more than 100 jobs at a new company that makes packaging for eggs, a development that has helped ease the sting of other companies in the area shutting down or moving operations to Mexico. And schools are fuller because of the children of egg company workers.
Without the industry, say local officials, both Clarion and Wright County would have seen more of the decline that afflicts scores of rural communities across Iowa.
"A lot of people disagree with me, but our county would have been a lot lower if we didn't have them," says Larry Maasdam, a county supervisor and building contractor.
But with the chickens have also come environmental and labor problems, occasional immigration raids, and a wave of new Hispanic residents that the town is struggling to absorb.
"It's not the town I moved away from," says Mr. Etter, who left Clarion for a dozen years before returning in 1995. "The town has changed."
DeCoster came to Wright County in 1990. The county had plenty of corn, and it made sense to raise chickens amid so much feed. And although the county seems remote, it's close to Interstate 35, which whisks traffic quickly north to Minneapolis and south to Des Moines, Iowa.
Wright County Egg isn't the only egg business in the county, but it was the first and is by far the largest. The company has five facilities, each a huddle of long, low-roofed metal buildings. These five facilities house an average of more than 1 million chickens each. The chickens lay 1.4 billion eggs a year, about 1.5 percent of the total US production. Wright County ranks first in Iowa in eggs, and Iowa, with 14.4 billion a year, produces more eggs than any other state.
DeCoster's egg business was controversial from the start, with residents worrying about the nuisance and environmental implications.
"There were numerous community meetings and everything else trying to keep him out," says Barbara Mussman, publisher and editor of the Wright County Monitor, published weekly in Clarion. "But there was really no legitimate way to do that as long as farmers would sell land to him, which they did. And he paid good prices for land."
Many people say DeCoster, who was from Maine, created bad feelings from the start by bringing to town a hard-nosed attitude toward business that offended the town's Midwestern values. He earned a reputation for not paying people who worked for him, especially contractors who built his facilities.
"DeCoster wasn't the nicest guy to work for when he first came here," acknowledges Mr. Maasdam, who did excavation work many years ago for DeCoster. "He was slow paying in the beginning. Now I couldn't ask for a better guy."
Others are less forgiving. John and Joe Haugen, brothers from the nearby town of Dows, say they turned down a small construction job from DeCoster a few years ago. "I'd seen how he dealt with other contractors," says John Haugen. Mr. Haugen says he worked for contractors who struggled to extract full payment from DeCoster for work they did.
DeCoster's operations, especially hog barns he built at the same time as the chicken sheds, also accrued a long list of environmental violations. In 2000, the state's Department of Natural Resources declared him a "habitual violator" for mishandling pig manure and polluting local waters. That status has expired, but around Clarion, people still complain about heaps of chicken manure in the fields, the stench of dead hogs, and infestations of flies.
Sidney Baker, a teacher at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, recalls how his mother, who lived outside town, was part of a group that sued DeCoster over the stench from a hog farm. She eventually received a $40,000 settlement, but Mr. Baker says DeCoster has done little to solve problems until forced to. "I have very little faith in what [DeCoster says] they are going to do versus what they actually do," he says.
Both Wright County Egg and DeCoster declined to comment for this story. DeCoster, who is rarely seen in Clarion, even at his own "Appreciation Day," has not spoken publicly since his business came under the scrutiny of the US Food and Drug Administration this summer.
The egg business brought about another big change. Few whites wanted low-paying jobs in the chicken sheds, and so DeCoster brought in workers from Latin America. Once virtually all-white, Wright County has become almost 10 percent Hispanic.
"At the beginning, when they came, they were not accepted well because they were outsiders," says JoAnn Kramer, a pastoral associate at St. John's Catholic Church, where some of the Hispanic families worship. "I think it's gotten better, but it's got a long ways to go." St. John's itself has tried to become more welcoming. Five years ago it began offering masses in Spanish; two years ago it got a new pastor, a native of Nicaragua.
"To me it don't make no difference," says Wilson Soesbe, owner of Little Willie's, a bar on South Main Street. On Monday night, a white couple was sitting in a booth while three Hispanic men sat on wooden benches in the bar's "smoke shack" out back, watching Spanish language television. "There are a lot of good ones," Mr. Soesbe goes on. "I've gotten to know some of them. But there are troubled ones that make a bad name for the rest of them."
For the workers, the egg business has brought difficulties, too. Wright County Egg has been the target of immigration raids, and in 2002, DeCoster's company agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging that supervisors harassed and sexually assaulted Hispanic female workers.
And the work is hard.
"A lot of people come and don't like it," says Angel Chavez, who runs a grocery on Main Street and often wires money back home for foreign workers. "They don't like the wintertime. And they don't like the job. It's hard work. And it's nasty. The smell is bad." He says he insisted that his children finish high school to avoid having to work there.
But a job in the chicken shed can also lead to a better life. Ramiro Salgado came into the United States illegally in the 1980s, walking across the border in California. He worked as a field laborer until, 15 years ago, he heard about steady work in the egg business. "We did everything there," he says, including cleaning sheds and packing eggs. "I liked it," he says.
Eventually Mr. Salgado quit and started a restaurant. With a child in school and a sister running another restaurant down the block, he says he feels comfortable in Clarion. Standing outside his restaurant, El Morelence, on South Main Street, he says, "It's my home now."


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A sister of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects is facing a drug charge in New Jersey.
Bella Tsarnaeva pleaded not guilty Tuesday to possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Attorney Mario Blanch says Tsarnaeva was arrested in December when police responded to a domestic violence report at her Fairview, N.J., apartment.
Her boyfriend, Ahmad Khalil, faces the same charge and also pleaded not guilty.
Tsarnaeva has applied to a program that would enable her to avoid a criminal record.
Her brother Dzhokhar is charged with carrying out the April 15 Boston attack with older brother Tamerlan, who died in a police shootout.
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Lately, I've been completely overwhelmed with the discovery that nearly everything in my very American pantry is loaded with MSG. If it's not MSG, it's another additive such as an undisclosed artificial or natural flavoring, coloring or preservative. These additives are causing millions of people to suffer needlessly every year from serious health problems, even death. But the manufactures who use these ingredients to improve the taste of their food continue to ignore this. Not only do they ignore the significant health hazard of these ingredients, they are determined to increase their volume by covering up the familiar labels of MSG and monosodium glutamate with a host of other benign sounding names, many of which are much more sinister.
I've been so overwhelmed that I have done nothing for the past half month but research, read and ransack my pantry and beauty supplies desperately trying to rid my house of this damaging neurotoxin.
Now, I'm no health nut, but the more I experience the results of a life on an endless feeding tube of these "excitotoxins", the more I'm convinced that MSG and it's sweet cousin aspartame have got to go.
Every time I think I've gotten rid of the nasty stuff, someone will have another reaction. I then sleuth out the ingredients and find the broth claiming to have "No MSG" has instead "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" or "autolyzed yeast" or "yeast extract". These contain "free glutamate" with the added pleasure of carcinogens to boot - a result of the processing method.
So… I ransack some more and in utter frustration throw out perfectly good cans of tuna, chicken broth, canned items, and the bouillon cubes I was so sure were MSG free. What I have discovered about the tenacity of food manufactures to disguise their increased amounts of MSG in "cleaned up labels" but not cleaned up food is enough to make me literally sick on my stomach.
I am basically in toxic food shock. I know I need to do something with the research and information I'm discovering, but the magnitude of the whole thing is really more than I could have imagined.
And if the emaciated pantry is not enough, the total wipeout of bathroom supplies is. Who would know all those innocent looking bottles of hair gel, shampoos, lotions and even toothpaste are killing us. Of course I've spent a fortune on those luxurious bubble assassins; and it's killing me to know they have to go.
You know, you read about such things, but think it could never happen to you….I could never give up my Chanel Allure to smell like Shea butter and baking soda. You have for years smugly looked down your nose at the "greenies" secretly thinking, "why don't they get a life, buck up a little." Only after it may be too late do you realize - that is precisely what they have been trying to do. What's more, they tried to tell you about it so you could save yours as well.
You can feel like a real heel about this. And I can tell you the amount of mommy guilt felt from thinking of the pounds of neurotoxins I fed my children, is enough to make this mother hang her head in shame.
But, I ignored their warnings and did the same thing I had always done – continued to make my great-aunt's "famous chicken casserole supreme" (the one everyone always raves about, yeah that one with MSG in every ingredient). I continued to don the same cosmetics my mother and her mother used. I continued to eat out at the same fast food restaurants I grew up with. If ignorance is bliss, then I was blissfully stupid. Nostalgia is so strong it can make us think we own the world and think we have all the right answers simply because our mamas did.
Now don't get me wrong, my mama did have a lot of the right answers and I am still learning the depth and breadth of that statement even into my 40's. But she never knew how much MSG was in our food and she, as I, didn't have a clue how damaging it was to our health. My mother was a nurse and an excellent cook. She also smoked, as did her mother. And while we all knew something wasn't quite right with that, we didn't say anything because you just don't tell your mama what to do.
That is perhaps the hardest part. Realizing that much of what you believe about the world must now be reformulated. Realizing that you've got to go to a place your mother and her mother didn't have the opportunity to go. And knowing you are up against some very unscrupulous players, players with household names you use to trust. Those who continue to poison your food do so while insisting there is nothing wrong with them. Yet millions of people suffer from what is not an allergy to the ingredients but the reaction of the body to a toxic substance. And while this substance makes even poor quality food taste good, it is also highly addictive.
But this post is not about this unsavory topic. This post is about cherries – a lovely bowl full of cherries to be exact.
After all this searching for what is bad in our food, I woke this morning and wondered what we have left that is good in it. This led me to conduct a search on magnesium and then zinc and then selenium, three nutrients that I had no clue as to what food sources provided them. After that, I began to wonder what exactly was in the cherries I found in my refrigerator – the same expensive ones that manage to make it home with anyone who goes to the store these days.
Cherries. What exactly was in cherries? Why are we craving them, why do we love them so? When my husband was in college, he worked in the produce department of a large and well-run grocery store. It was here that he fell in love with cherries and it is he who is the first to bring home a big bag of them when they start to appear in the stores. The children love them because he loves them. And I think they all love them because they can spend many a happy moment sitting around spitting out pits.
But this morning I wanted to know why. To my pleasant surprise I learned they are considered a "super food" because of their many health benefits. In addition to Vitamin C, potassium and beta-carotene, cherries contain some very powerful antioxidants; one in particular is quercetin, and cancer blocking agents like perillyl alcohol.
Now I have to be perfectly honest, those last two names mean very little to me because I am just beginning to understand the value of these nutrients in our food. But having come through over two weeks of reading about the muck added to our food that causes brain lesions, cancer, hypothalamus destruction, the worsening of degenerative diseases and neuron destruction that is irreversible after only 2 hours of eating a typical Chinese dinner (or an American one made with cream of chicken soups, packaged stuffing mixes or any flavored items such as dip mix, gelatin, puddings or seasoned crackers) I was ecstatic to find out something in my refrigerator was actually good for us.
Cherries are wonderfully simple and lovely to look at. Their sweet-tart taste betrays the complexity of their numerous health benefits. We use the expression, "Life is a bowl full of cherries" to mean life is simple and pleasant. Or we use it inversely to be facetious and imply the opposite. A bowl full of cherries is enough to make me thankful for the simple and nutritious things we have instead of mourning the scads of items I've pitched recently.
Life is more often not a bowl full of cherries but that is what makes having one, a real one, all the sweeter. I love the fact that I have to do absolutely nothing to them except wash them well and put them on the table. And if you're really serious about the health benefits, find a grower who is truly organic and doesn't spray with an "organic fertilizer/growth enhancer" and "organic pesticide" which contains none other than – yep you guessed it MSG!!! Aaaauuuuuggghhhh!!!
Enough cannot be said about the damaging effects of neurotoxins in our food. If you are not aware of the dangers you can learn more at www.truthinlabeling.org and www.msgmyth.com.
Dr. Russell Blaylock is one who has spoken out many times on this and other healthful subjects. He has spent years reviewing the research on the degenerative effects of neurotoxins and explaining this to others. I highly recommend his two books, Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills and Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life, Revised Edition, for understanding the correlation between continual use of excitotoxins like MSG (monosodium glutamate) and aspartame (the main ingredient in NutraSweet) with neurodegenerative diseases, heart disease, cancer and obesity.
There are others who have written on the connection between these neurotoxins and other damaging additives in our food that are affecting the whole population, especially our children. The link between MSG and autism, ADHD, obesity and degenerative diseases is too strong to ignore.
Look for future posts that will compile other resources on this topic.
I will also include a running list of current ingredient names that manufactures use to hide MSG in their products.
If you have faced this issue or have experienced negative reactions from these additives; or if you have identified a "new name" for the hidden flavor enhancer MSG, I would love to hear about it.
Once you are aware of this issue, you will never see your food in the same way again. Perhaps a bowl full of cherries will look divine to you as well.


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In recent years there has been a growing obsession with the so-called 'summer anthem'. You know the records I mean. Really upbeat, catchy, and just downright excellent pop songs that everyone seems to like. _The Rockafeller Skank_ is one such example. The reason people attach such faith to these songs is because the charts during the summer are a depressing wasteland of imported Ibiza club 'choons' and manufactured pop acts' abysmal cover versions.
With a little bit of help from Radio 1 and other radio stations, **Mint Royale's** latest single could have been this year's big summer anthem, for it possesses all the qualities listed above, plus one other monumental plus point in the form of vocals provided by mighty hip-hop legends **De La Soul's** Poz.
This is the type of record that really makes you want to put the stereo on rather too loud, flop back, and just sing away to your heart's content. Or maybe it's just me. I'm a soppy sod after all. With gorgeous floaty instrumentals, it's left to Poz to provide some gentle vocals that make you pine for the days of_The Magic Number_ and _Me, Myself & I_.
In some ways it's an odd combination. Upcoming Manchester dance duo responsible for tracks on their debut album (_On The Ropes_) that were remixes of a tune they heard once in an Indian restaurant in Rusholme, combined with a member of one of the most famous, pioneering and successful hip-hop acts of all time. But the sheer quality of the talent involved makes it work, and is proof that any good musicians can work together regardless of their generic backgrounds.
Whilst this is unlikely to equal the top 20 success of their **Lauren Laverne** collaboration _Don't Falter_, it is an even lovelier song than even that was, and is deserving of greater success. Radio 1's decision not to playlist this is infuriating, but not surprising, as Radio 1 is crap after all. But it will deny millions of people the chance to hear something special. It's one of the singles of the year so far, in my opinion.
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Norway is finally off Apple's back now that the company has decided to ditch its FairPlay DRM on all of its music tracks. The DRM-free tracks (iTunes Plus) are now compatible with any music player that can play AAC files and are therefore free of the restrictive iPod tie-in that has annoyed so many customers. "We have no reason to pursue them anymore," Norway's consumer mediator Bj�rn Erik Thon told AFP.
Norway's consumer watchdog group had been pursuing Apple over the DRM on iTunes Store music since early 2006, when the Consumer Council of Norway filed a complaint with the Consumer Ombudsman of Norway alleging violations of the country's Marketing Control Act. In its complaint, the consumer group pointed to Apple's terms and conditions that prohibit buyers from compromising the copy protection so that the tracks can be played on portable devices other than the iPod.
Since then, EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva has spoken out against the tie-in between the iPod and the iTunes Store, and consumer groups in both France and Germany joined Norway's push to get Apple to ditch its DRM. When Apple first announced that it was rolling out DRM-free tracks from EMI in 2007, the Norwegian Consumer Council was pleased, but wanted more. As did we all, of course.
That brings us to today. Thon had threatened to take Apple to court in late 2008 if the company didn't do something about its restrictions soon, but as most Apple fans know, Phil Schiller announced this January at the 2009 Macworld Expo that DRM would be completely banished from the music side of the iTunes Store by April of this year. At that time, Apple expects all 10 million of its songs to be DRM-free and released at the higher-quality 256kbps iTunes Plus bitrate. This policy change applies across the board to all four major music labels (Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI) as well as thousands of independent labels.
With such a significant change, Norway and the gang apparently have no more complaints. Thon told the AFP that he planned to inform Apple of the decision this week, but something tells us that if it's in the media, Apple already knows.


text: Wellness Health & Well-being Top 5 Ways to Heal With Tea Tree Oil By Jennifer Nelson Writer University of North Florida Jennifer Nelson is a health and wellness writer with more than two decades of experience. She is the author of Airbrushed Nation: The Lure and Loathing of Women's Magazines. our editorial process Twitter Twitter Jennifer Nelson Updated June 05, 2017 Tea tree oil is believed to have some antiseptic and healing properties. AmyLv/Shutterstock Share Twitter Pinterest Email Wellness Health & Well-being Clean Beauty Tea tree oil is derived from the tea tree plant, Melaleuca alternifolia, and is native to Australia. Indigenous Australian people have used the oil to treat skin infections and wounds since they first made a poultice of the leaves and covered their skin with the homeopathic remedy. "The oil (and even rubbing natural leaves on the skin) has been shown to have several different useful antiseptic, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties, some proven better than others," says Jessica Krant, M.D., M.P.H., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City. Today the undiluted oil is light yellow with a nutmeg-like scent and is hailed for its healing properties. It's commonly used in soaps, cosmetics and cleaning products. You may be surprised to know that tea tree oil is not only prescribed by aromatherapists and herbalists but is widely used in Western medicine as well. Here are some of the more unusual uses for this inexpensive vial of Australian gold. Colds and Sore Throats "One of the best things I use tea tree oil for is when I feel a sore throat or anything else cold-like, coming on, I start to take a couple of drops of tea tree oil on my tongue every hour or so," says Ingrid Perri, an aromatherapist in Melbourne, Australia. "More often than not, after two or three doses, the symptoms disappear." You can also try gargling with a few drops of tea tree oil in a glass of warm water, then spit. Heads up: the taste is not pleasant. Generally tea tree oil is not for oral consumption as it can be toxic to the central nervous system. Use sparingly and never swallow. During Waxing Renee Gilanshah, a master esthetician and co-owner of Amir Salon in Vienna, Va., found that tea tree oil is a superior way to prep the skin for waxing procedures. It removes excess oil, which minimizes wax adhesion and eliminates bacteria, leading to a healthy waxing experience. "Post-wax, tea tree oil calms skin irritation," says Gilanshah. Plus, the oil can minimize redness, stinging, itching and bumps. Plantar Warts Put tea tree oil directly on the wart, rub it in, and let dry before putting on footwear/socks. It's best to do this at night before you go to bed. Rub it on, read for 15-20 minutes, and let it dry. "But don't wear socks to bed, as that adds moisture, which fungus thrives in," says Krista Moyer, N.D., a naturopath doctor at Broadway Wellness in Vancouver, British Columbia. For sensitive skin, you can add tea tree oil to a carrier oil like almond. Presto: The wart(s) will disappear. Skin Conditions Tea tree oil can be effective against dandruff or psoriasis, acne and toenail infections. "The key is that the concentration of essential tea tree oil has to be high enough to have an effect, but low enough not to cause too much irritation to the skin," says Krant, the dermatology professor. For example, 5 percent tea tree oil in a gel is probably helpful for acne without being too irritating, but only 100 percent tea tree oil, used twice daily, for six months, has been shown to be effective on toenail fungus. "If your tea tree treatment is not working in a timely manner, do see a board-certified dermatologist to make sure of the diagnosis and to get some helpful relief faster," says Krant. Sinus Infections "Tea tree oil is antibacterial and antiviral, making it great for any sort of infection of the nasal and respiratory system," says Moyer. Place a few drops of tea tree oil in small saucepan of boiling water. Remove from heat and tent with a towel over your head. Breathe in for 10-15 minutes. This inhalation will loosen phlegm when you're congested. Tea tree oil also has many uses for cleaning and disinfecting.


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Change the Climate of Your Marriage: Prayer
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When I pray for my wife, three things are happening at once (and probably more). The first is that I'm inviting God's involvement and intervention with regard to whatever I'm praying for her about. The second is that it makes me feel closer to her as I'm joining her in whatever is going on in her life. Third, my wife says it makes her feel covered and protected.
All of these have the power to affect the climate of our marriage.
Heaven's Intervention
Whether I'm praying for healing, for peace, for our marriage or for God's blessing on my wife and children, I'm inviting God to intervene on her behalf. I'm agreeing with heaven.
God is a good Father. He longs to give good gifts to His children. Jesus is also an excellent Bridegroom, who gave us the example of going to the Father on behalf of His bride. Prayer is just our way of agreeing with God's goodness and inviting His participation with us.
Heavens Atmosphere
Prayer also helps me to see things from God's perspective. It's always amazing how my thinking shifts from an earthly to a heavenly perspective when I start to offer things up in prayer.
By shifting my thinking, I am actually changing my mindset and thereby helping to shift the atmosphere in my life, marriage and home to line up the the Kingdom of Heaven.
Prayer As Conversation
You don't need a bunch of theological training to pray. You don't have to jump through any spiritual hoops or even clean up all the sin in your life. God invites us to come to him as we are.
I think sometime the most powerful prayers are the simplest ones; when we come to God and pour out our hearts in sincere conversation. God really likes that.
Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.So don't disqualify yourself from praying. Jesus has qualified you to approach Him with confidence. You don't have to do anything but come.
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
So come to God freely and frequently, and pray for your spouse. Just watch as the climate in your heart and in marriage change for the better.
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Change of water rights cases often drag on until all parties come to agreement and stipulate out. In many cases objectors raise issues with the proposed change that can only be settled at trial in water court. It looks like a change case by Pitkin County — to leave agricultural water in the stream for riparian purposes — is heading to court because Colorado Springs wants to make sure that the change won't leave them water short at Twin Lakes if there is a rebound call from downstream seniors or a Colorado River Compact call. Here's an in-depth look at the issue from Brent Gardner-Smith writing for Aspen Journalism. Click through and read the whole article for the great detail and analysis along with graphics that help illustrate the issues at hand. Here's an excerpt:
Pitkin County and the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) are finding it's not easy to leave water in a river for environmental purposes.
The two entities have been working since mid-2010 to reach agreements with various opponents to a plan that would leave 4.3 cubic feet per second (cfs) of county water in lower Maroon Creek and the Roaring Fork River, instead of diverting it for irrigation purposes to the Stapleton Brothers Ditch near the base of Tiehack.
They've reached agreements with 10 opponents so far, but the 11th, an entity controlled by the city of Colorado Springs called the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Co., is proving to be challenging.
On Thursday, attorneys for Pitkin County asked a judge in Division 5 Water Court in Glenwood Springs to set a trial date as the parties have not yet resolved their differences. Judge James Boyd set the five-day trial for Feb. 3, 2014. The case number is 10CW-184.
The trial results from an agreement between Pitkin County and the Colorado Water Conservation Board that was announced in 2009.
Mr. Gardner-Smith has published a shorter version of the story in conjunction with the Aspen Daily News. Here's an excerpt:
"We have been in active settlement discussions with the applicants and have every intention of reaching agreement prior to trial," said Kevin Lusk, a principal with Colorado Springs Utilities, the city's water utility that controls Twin Lakes. "We believe that we have made significant progress and do not feel that the remaining issues are in any way insurmountable."
Lusk also serves as president of the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Co., which diverts significant amounts of water off the top of the Roaring Fork River basin each year, sending it in tunnels underneath the Continental Divide to Twin Lakes and eventually the Front Range.
"Twin Lakes has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to protect its interests," Lusk said. "Because of this, Twin Lakes routinely objects to water rights cases on the Roaring Fork when they are of significant size or if there is significant precedent involved."
Lusk said Twin Lakes is concerned that a change to the county's water right from irrigation to an instream-flow right may indirectly lead to a situation where Twin Lakes is allowed to divert less water off the top of the Roaring Fork River basin.
But the county and state say there will be no injury to Colorado Springs' water rights if the 4.3 cfs is left in the river instead of being used for irrigation, especially as monthly flow limits have been placed on the water right consistent with its historic use.
"The maximum and average uses proposed … will prevent any expansion of use of the Stapleton Brothers Ditch water right," stated engineers from Bishop-Brogden Associates, Inc., the firm working with the county and the CWCB, in a report submitted to the court.
The county owns a total of 8 cfs of water in the Stapleton Brothers Ditch, which diverts that amount and more from Maroon Creek near the base of Tiehack and takes it some 3 miles across the base of Buttermilk Mountain to Owl Creek.
The county's water right in the Stapleton Brothers Ditch of 4.3 cfs has a 1904 priority date and was used by the Stapleton family to irrigate 163 acres of hay and alfalfa fields on land along Owl Creek.
Most of that land is now occupied by the lower half of the runway at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport. And since the county no longer uses all of the water for irrigation, it wants to leave about half of it — or 4.3 cfs — in the river for the benefit of the riparian ecosystem.
If successful, Pitkin County would become the first entity in the state to legally leave its water in a river for environmental purposes via a long-term trust agreement with the CWCB, as allowed by a state law enacted in 200 via House Bill 08-1280.
"It is significant because it is the first long-term agreement since HB 1280," said [Linda] Bassi of the CWCB.
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A week is made by many small exchanges but here is one that has colored all my thoughts. It came when, arriving back home after an appointment, I opened an email from someone I had offended with my words.
The offense occurred in a column I wrote the week before last about life's many surprises. In it I had joked, at the end of a string of short humorous anecdotes, that the meds, which I called 'feel-good pills', given to my friend's cat after some oral surgery, sounded pretty good to me and, as I heard it, could be had for ten bucks a pop on the street.
It was a quip. It was a throwaway line. And it wasn't at all funny, as this reader made clear.
"While I enjoyed the intent of the above column," she wrote, "I was very disappointed in the ending line about the cost of a 'feel-good pill' on the street. Seven weeks and three days ago, my 35-year-old daughter passed away after buying such a pill on the street. I don't know if it cost 10 dollars or 10 cents, but what I do know is that it ended her life. Your ending was a less than sensitive attempt at humor."
I felt sick reading this, and hit 'reply.'
"I am so sorry," I wrote to her. "You know, when I first typed that last sentence I felt a little tingling on my arms and thought THAT'S not what you want to say. But then a day passed and I had a houseful of people and when, just before my deadline on Friday afternoon, I went back to look for any typos, I somehow failed to read for meaning. Anyway, I never cut that part out."
I knew even as I wrote this, that it was no kind of excuse This person's child had lost her life doing something I had made a foolish and irresponsible joke about.
Somehow though, the lady appeared to be forgiving me, as an immediately following email showed.
"Terry, thank you for your kind response," she wrote. "I prayed you would take my remarks in the heartfelt way I intended. My daughter helped so many people in her three-and-a-half years of sobriety. Her viewing was attended by nearly 1,000 people who waited almost two hours to pay their respects. We were blessed to have had her. She fought a really good fight but eventually made a bad decision that cost her her life. Our hearts are broken yet I believe she is whole, once again."
"If you are interested and you have a free moment, take a look at the funeral home's website – she included the link – "and see the endless comments made about her and the impact she had on so many lives. She truly mattered and for that we are grateful."
Then she thanked me for allowing her to share. Thanked me, after my offense. Thanked and forgave me both.
I can't recall ever having been the beneficiary of such generosity of spirit.
Nor can I recall having ever been offered such a clear lesson of how careful we must always be about how our words 'land' on the people within our hearing.
And talking of things learned, here's another truth that this exchange helped me remember: namely that those people who have lost most are often the most compassionate people. Suffering scrapes the heart raw, and at first seems to hollow it out entirely. But then, by some grace beyond our understanding, it can somehow, sometimes, fill again, fuller than it was before.


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Video game characters have been with us for decades, and many have become household names. Pac-Man, Mario, Samus, Sonic the Hedgehog—the list goes on. But what does it take to create a memorable character? Before graphics chips could support photorealism and sophisticated animation, how did game designers breathe life into a handful of pixels?
Ars Technica Gaming Editor Kyle Orland joins host Social Editor Cesar Torres and Ars Contributor Casey Johnston on this game-themed episode of the Ars Technicast. We revisit a time when a single square stood in as a character on the Atari 2600; we also look back at the 1990s, discussing characters from games like Metroid Prime, Final Fantasy VII, and Pokemon. We talk about how some characters disappointed us when the technology finally allowed them to speak in a game. We packed so many characters into this episode that we're already working on a future episode of the podcast dedicated entirely to video game villains.
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I first saw Cows with Guns at the BeyondTV International Film Festival in Swansea. I never did discover why I got an invite, I actually got three, but I went and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was well worth going to. Not quite Cannes, but then Cannes is not about films.
I became a regularly and it was something I looked forward to. 2008 I did not go as I did not like the programme. 2009 I did not go as I was broke.
– BeyondTV 5th International Film Festival
– BeyondTV International Film Festival 2005
– BeyondTV International Film Festival 2006
– BeyondTV International Film Festival 2007
It was held around this time of year (usually end of November, early December), so I thought I would go this year. It looks like it no longer takes place, 2008 was the last one, which explains why I got no invite for 2009.
It is easy to see why it is no more. Although the last couple I attended had full feature length films and trailers for others, this was never what it was about. It was short documentaries, often of only a few minutes long, or animations like Cows with guns. The point was that you do not have to rely on the mainstream media, you too can be the media, all you need is the internet and a decent video camera and editing facilities.
Look at the success of Story of Stuff and the follow ons.
In many ways if BeyondTV has died, it is because of the success of its own message. People are making their own videos. One only has to look at the success of YouTube. If I want to see a video, I can do so with my laptop connected to the internet. Many of these short videos you can find on this blog, and once you have found one, you will find there are many similar videos closely linked. Sometimes I go looking for them, but mainly I do not have to, I receive them through twitter and facebook, and those I think worth watching I re-tweet, share on facebook and the very best get a mention here.
Synchronicity: It is strange, I was thinking of Cows with guns and was going to look for it. I did not have to. Checking out BeyondTV on the Undercurrents website (who were the organisers of BeyondTV) I stumbled upon Cows with guns.
I did though, and I do not know where, come across something that looked remarkably similar to BeyondTV down in Brighton in February. When I saw saw it I thought at the time it looked similar to BeyondTV. But I do not know where I saw it. If anyone has any details, please let me know and/or write the details in comments below.
If same weekend as Seedy Sunday Brighton maybe worth making a weekend of it! Though sadly the last time I went it had gone downhill.
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Fourth Ranked Maryland Defeats ODU, 19-7
By ODU Athletics
March 18, 2006
COLLEGE PARK, MD--Fourth ranked Maryland (5-3) defeated the Lady Monarchs of Old Dominion, 19-7 in a women's lacrosse match Saturday afternoon. Melody Shotwell(Fairfax Statin, VA.) led the Lady Monarchs (2-2) with three goals and Ashley Stanwick (Annapolis, MD.)added two goals.
Trailing, 5-3 with 10:15 left in the first half, ODU midfielder Melody Shotwell Converted a free-position shot to pull the Lady Monarchs to within a goal. However, the Terps then scored four straight goals over the next nine minutes to take a 9-4 lead until Shotwell added her third goal of the afternoon with 22 seconds left in the half to cut the Terps lead to 9-5 for halftime.
In the second half Ashley Stanwick scored with 4:30 left and Sarah Lautenbach (West Chester, PA.) scored with 36 seconds to play to close out the scoring for ODU.
ODU returns to action on Saturday, March 25 when they host Temple at 1 p.m. in Foreman Field.
ODU Goal scoring: Shotwell, Melody 3; Stanwick, Ashley 2; Jacobs, Caroline 1; Lautenbach, Sarah 1. Assists: Jacobs 1, Lautenbach 1.
Maryland goal scoring: Katie Doolittle 5; Kelly Kasper 4; Delia Cox 3; Brooke Richards 2; Casey Magor 1; Krista Pellizzi 1; Kate McWilliams 1; Katie Princiotto 1; Alex Mavris 1. Assists: Kasper 3; Magor 3; Pellizzi 3; McWilliams 1; Richards 1.
Ground Balls: UM-23 ODU-22 Turnovers Caused: UM -9 ODU -6
Shot- ODU 24, UM 40 SHots on Goal- ODU 20, UM 15 Clears: ODU 11-19, UM 13-13
Goalies: ODU-Gannon (37:31) 7 saves, 12 Goals Sara Larson (22:29) 2 saves 7 goals UM: Allie Boute 6 goals, 11 saves; Lynne Cooper 1 goal, 2 saves.