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By: Corinne DeLucenay, My New Journey with Prayer
"For me prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look towards Heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."
-St. Therese of Lisieux
College years are the years that "you find yourself." You figure out who you are, and what you stand for. At least, that is we what think and are told. In reality, it is just the beginning of getting to know yourself. After graduating in May, I found myself learning more and more things about myself daily that I didn't realize before. As I am transitioning in this new stage in my life, my eyes are open to a new perspective of seeing myself and others.
One of the things I thought I would have figured out in a more graceful manner is my prayer life. I thought, "Yay! I actually have more time now, it won't be difficult like college sometimes was." This is so very wrong. Even though, I, at times, struggled with my prayer life during undergrad, it was still easy to take a walk across campus to a chapel, or somewhere serene. Now, I have realized, that I have to make more of an effort. Not only do I have to find have a place, but my bigger issue: find the time. Somehow, during my time at Marian I could find some time. Even during my crazy hectic semesters or when I needed to have my little revamp on my prayer life, I found the time for prayer.
Now, there seems like there is not enough time in the day to fit everything. This is not a new feeling, but it is felt in a new way. Not only do I have to pay attention to my own time, but I also have to pay attention to the time to those around me in my community. I live with four others, and it is such a beautiful experience. I learn something new every day. Living with four others, now I have new challenges. Along with balancing my work schedule, I have to balance community time and personal time. I admit, I am definitely still learning, and I tend to choose community time after a day at work. This leaves me with little time to be intentional about prayer and other things. I do not get too bent out of shape because, I see community time as a time to grow in my faith, and I know the Lord is speaking to me through them. I see it as one form of my prayer life that is prominent.
I take my "difficulty" in truly setting time for intentional prayer throughout my week, besides Mass, as the Lord letting me know that is a choice. It is a choice to follow Jesus Christ. How humbling is that? The omniscient God has given me the opportunity to choose Him, each and every day. This not only means that I say "Amen, I believe," but that I make sure I foster our relationship, by coming to Him in prayer.
I see it as a privilege that the Lord has called me to live a life of holiness. Since it is my choice to have a prayer life, I must work at it. Like many choices or decisions in life, it is not always easy. It takes time and effort, and you truly have to be committed. I have chosen to follow through with this commitment, allowing myself to falter.
In this new time in my life, there is so much room for growth and adventure, this includes my prayer life. In choosing to work on my prayer life, I feel the Lord calling me to be creative, to find new ways to encounter him each and every day. This call has had me to take initiative to find a Spiritual Director in my area. I have only had a couple of meetings with my new Spiritual Director, but I have already experienced the fruits of it. I find this particular part of my Spiritual life to be crucial. I am in such a searching time in my life, so to have someone mediating the Holy Spirit is such a blessing. I try to take time a few times a week to reflect on Scripture, pondering on the Lord's Word in Lectio Divina. I do this to try to take time to truly listen to the Lord, and try to drown out my controlling thoughts on my life.
A new devotion to Mary has been brought to the surface, and I give Marian some credit to this. Many things led up to this, and looking back, it is quite obvious. Mary has been a prominent presence in my whole life, not only due to my Catholic faith, but in so many other ways. Because of this, I have chosen to consecrate myself to Mary, and have new found appreciation devotion to Our Mother. Through this I have become closer to Jesus, and learn more about her. It has added a new dimension to my prayer life that is beautiful, and challenges me as a daughter of God.
In the ways I am trying to enrich my prayer life, I am constantly fumbling. I either miss my opportunity for a good prayer time choosing something else instead, or I rush through my prayer like it is a chore. When these moments happen, I try to pause and take time to talk with the Lord. I try not to worry how short or long my prayer time is, and let him know that I am in this relationship for the long haul. I am still learning. When I stumble, I often remember the words of St. Therese: speak to the Lord from the depths of my heart, even the simplest of cry, whether sorrow or joy, is showing God you love him. That is what I am attempting to do: showing God that I truly do love him.
By:Sr. Jeanne Hagelskamp, S.P.
Associate Professor, Academy for Teaching and Learning Leadership
"When through one person, a little more love and goodness, a little more light and truth come into the world, then that one's life has had meaning." This quote, which we used on our parents' memorial cards, embodies the essence of Christian leadership. This may sound soupy or mushy, but my siblings and I did, indeed, consider our parents quiet, ordinary Christian leaders. No, they were not famous, they never attended college, they struggled their entire lives to put food on the table and clothes on our backs, and to give us the very best education we could want for ourselves. They were faithful to prayer, they gave of themselves unconditionally to us and to those in need, and they taught us to stand up for what is right and just. They lived the words of Micah 6:8: "What does God require of you? Nothing more than this: To act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with Your God."
Another way of thinking about Christian leadership is to consider the words of our very own Indiana Saint Mother Theodore Guerin: What must we do to become saints? Nothing extraordinary, only that which we do every day—only do it for his love. This challenge seems easy enough—in fact, if we aren't careful, we might tend to "let ourselves off the hook" if we ignore the last phrase. Now I'm not one who often puts words into Mother Theodore's mouth, but I confess that I have taken a particular liking to changing one solitary word—so that it reads "What must we do to become saints? Nothing extraordinary, only that which we do every day—only do it with his love." To say we do it "for his love" is challenge enough, making God's love our sole motivation. However, to do it "with his love" sets forth a challenge or imperative to aspire to love as God loves and to allow our lives to be driven by that same call to love. In a very powerful way, it is the call to leadership that is expressed by the prophet Micah. We are called to live our everyday lives, always aspiring to do it with God's steadfast love—God's Providence—empowering us.
What would it mean to walk through our day, doing all that we do with God's love? It seems to me that that is precisely the mission that Jesus undertook when he walked this earth. As he went about his work (and play!), in many ways he lived an ordinary life—but he lived it "to the max," always seeking to understand what God was calling him to do in any situation. He lived each day, always seeking to share with others God's passionate/compassionate love. Time after time, as he went about his business, he went out of his way to be with the most vulnerable. He didn't just "help them." It wasn't a one-sided thing. Rather, he invited them into relationship with him -- he rubbed elbows with them, invited them to the table to share a meal, and let his compassion and love overflow when they were hurting. This "loving tenderly" wasn't just about "doing for," but rather about "walking with"—and staying in relationship with—the most vulnerable. And that, for me, is a part of Christian leadership.
But Jesus didn't stop there. And honestly, this is the part that I believe that I personally (and many of us) struggle with as I try to be a Christian leader. Jesus was not afraid to "throw the zingers" that would challenge the status quo or "call out" injustice. He was, indeed, an unrelenting voice for the voiceless—and not just when it was convenient… not just when the price was right. He was a champion for those oppressed by unjust systems—and he clearly knew the cost of speaking up and challenging wrong. Yet he did it, time and time again, and never did he stop to measure his words because of fear of the price it might cost him. Over time, he knew that others had had enough of his "revolution" and were seeking for a way to kill him. Nonetheless, he continued to reach out to those shunned by others and to stand up for the rights of those most oppressed by the system.
I think all of us would probably agree that Jesus was an extraordinary Christian leader. He is the model for us of doing ordinary things in an extraordinary way with God's love as his driving force. No doubt, none of us will ever be able to love so unconditionally, inspire so passionately, and challenge so intensely…but we ought to aspire to it. In the meantime, if each of us could choose our very ordinary path of Christian leadership, doing nothing extraordinary, but rather acting justly, loving tenderly, and walking humbly with God's love each day, then, indeed, a little more love and goodness, and little more light and truth will come into the world… and our lives will certainly have meaning.
By: Jimmy Cox,
Everyone has those sins that they struggle with and I am no different. Recently as I was quietly pondering over a retreat reflection I am giving, I came across two pieces of scripture that related well to my reflection story. I decided writing about this for the blog made the most sense. In addition, for a long time I have felt God was helping me to work on this particular sin; judgement.
Luke 6: 31-33, 35
Do to others as you would have them do to you. For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and give, expecting nothing back.
I am a quick decision and impatient person. In addition, the love for my family and friends can make me irrational as I imagine it can for a lot of us. The situation involved my family and one person in particular who I felt had wronged my family and I multiple times. The challenge was this person cannot exactly remove themselves from our lives. In this scripture, he would be my enemy. While I have tried to pray for him and pray to God that I am going to change, I would be lying if I said my attitudes toward him had shifted. Every time I feel like I am making progress, something happens that makes me revert.
I have struggled to love those that are my enemies, who do wrong to my friends and family. I believe in terms of sin, this is the most challenging. However, it relates to one of the most fundamental principles that Christ taught us. Christ endured pain and suffering from so many people, but while he was dying on the cross he asked his father to forgive them. It was the ultimate sacrifice and the ultimate expression of love. If Christ can forgive and love those that wronged him and give us salvation, then we must work in our lives to love those that are our enemy and that would see us suffer. Then we are truly living as God called us to live.
Just think what would happen if the world practiced love more? We have so much war, hate, jealousy, and anger out there. We try to fix it while failing to realize that the only thing that fixes it, is loving one another the way God wants us to. My challenge to you is to practice love more. Ask for forgiveness for those times you have failed to do so. Sit down with those who have wronged you. Talk to those whom you would rather not. Most importantly, work to forgive these people and yourself. I know I still am.
By: Andrew Thomas '15, Seminarian at Bishop Simon Brute College Seminary
As people living in a community we love special days! Especially days to commend or draw attention to events, people, or objects. To name a few: Feral Cat Day, Superhero Day, Friendship Day, Groundhog's Day, and Square Dancing Day. I know you might not think these are real days, but check out this website. So wouldn't it make sense that of all these days we ought to have a day to celebrate the people that followed Christ with such passion and love that their whole life glorified God? For all of those who said "yes" keep reading. For all of those who said "no" keep reading.
It just so happens that we have a day to celebrate the people that glorified God through their lives; we call it All saints Day. All saints Day is November 1 (November 1 also happens to be "Go Cook For Your Pets Day"). While the date has moved several times throughout the tradition a day dedicated to saints has been around since 411 [1] . So why…?
Well for all of those grammar gurus reading this blog post I bet you noticed that I did not capitalize the word "saint" in the paragraph above. And I promise I did that on purpose. Because there are two different types of saints; Uppercase 'S' Saints and lowercase 's' saints. The distinction is that Saints have been Canonized, which means that Catholic Church as affirmed that these people exemplify living for Christ. The Church holds them up to say, "hey look these women and men are role models in holiness." Lowercase "saints" are all those in heaven. The Church knows that they cannot possibly hold up all the holy dead in the world, so they take a select few. Now that a distinction has been made we need to look at why.
The Church respects that fact that Saints have exhibited "heroic virtue." Canonized Saints have lived in total fidelity to God's grace and lived out God's will in their lives to the highest of standards.[2] The best way I have ever heard it explained was by my Grandma. She told me one time, "how do we live this life of holiness if we don't have someone to look up to?" Saints are there for the purpose of praying for us, for our holiness and the holiness of the Church in the world.
Just as I have a picture of my great grandma Rose I have a picture of Saint Joseph. I ask both to pray for me in the tough times because they lived seeking Christ and found him. They are my teachers and I can't give them an apple, so I give them November 1. I hope that they accept this one day as a way to thank them for all the days they look out for me. Both Saints and saints are there for you and the whole Church, so what saint do you thank on November 1?
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I tested it with Astro A40's and it works great
A bit of extra info
How hard is this to do?
If you can solder this is pretty simple. If you can't, well it's still simple.
**********For those who originally tied the black and bare wire, please desolder the black wire and tape it up. It should not be used in this configuration. It's providing 1V and I was essentially shorting it to ground, which caused my battery to drain rather fast.
thanks to turbotboz for this info.
Step 1: Items Needed
- Official Xbox One Headset
- 2.5mm Stereo Inline Jack (Mode Electronics 24-271-1 or similar) It cost about $2 from my local electronics parts store
- Soldering Iron
- Solder
- Torx T5 or T6 screwdriver depending on headset. Some were installed with T5 and others T6
- Hot Glue Gun (optional)
Step 2: Headset Teardown
You can follow the pictures, they should be in order
1) Remove the foam from the earpiece (it's like a sock that slips over the earpiece)
2) Remove the 3 T6 screws from the earpiece and pull off the black plastic piece that the screws were holding
3) Remove the heat shrink that is on the exposed bare wire, and the heat shrink in the white wire
4) Carefully desolder the blue, black, white and bare wire.
5) Remove the 4 T6 screws holding the green plastic piece, and remove the green plastic piece.
6) Gently Pull/Pry the strain relief/wire out of the headset (this may take a bit of pressure, also if you are prying it be careful not to cut through the strain relief).
7) Done go take a break
Hey Skegatron, follow up and let us know if you managed to get them to work on the Siberian V2's. I have the Siberian V2's that are Xbox 360, PC, and PS3 compatible. I did a quick first run and didn't get them to work. I plan to spend some time on them to figure it out.
One thing to note, I have been able to get game audio through my headset just working on the mic. I connected some RCA cables (red and white) to the audio output of my t.v. and thats how I got game audio. If anyone has any other methods please share.
For those of you who are too squeamish to do this, Microsoft is releasing an adapter in March:
I assume that this process will work with the Siberian V2's. Considering they use a 2.5mm jack. Theoretically it is the same, will let you know how it goes.
Anyone know how to do this with Astro A50 Chat Cord? I was gonna follow this tutorial but the Astro A50 cord only has a Thick Copper Wire, and a Thin Blue Wire
i did this mod and found you for my turtle beach headsets x41s the mic (white) goes on the left and speaker (blue) goes on the right side. After doing it your way and not working I tested with a multimeter and found it goes the the opposite way.
There are two bare wires (ground) at the beginning when the headset is disassembled. Are those connected together or what happened to one of the grounding wires when soldering took place?
Thanks for the great guide, BTW.
OK well I know how to ground it, but I don't get which wire that is. Is it the black one?
You either didn't solder the bare wire (ground) correctly or the blue wire isn't soldered correctly to the plug.
I am now using a male 3.5mm plug, which goes into a stereo adapter, which goes into the plug from my turtle beach headset. I am 100% certain the ground is soldered properly, and the blue and white wires seem totally fine, but now the problem is reversed. I can hear the other people, but the xbox doesn't hear me talking at all now. I assume this should mean there's a problem with the white wire, so I touched it up a few times, but each time I still got no response from the xbox. I am usually good with this kind of thing but right now, I am simply stumped...
Something has to be wrong with the connection or maybe even a bad connector. Do you have a multimeter to test out the continuity of the plug?
Also, I've taken to burning the coating off the wires as they're too small for any wirestripper I have, but the only way I can get it to seemingly work is to plug it in almost all the way. If I push it until it "clicks" the microphone won't pick up. But if I pull it out just a bit, both Mic and Speakers work, but the headset also outputs what I'm hearing through my microphone as well. I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble as everyone else seems to say "It's just 3 quick solders," so maybe it is the fact that I'm using a 3.5 instead of a 2.5. If I can find one, I suppose I'll try that, but as of right now, I'm slowly running out of cable.
My apologies, as most things electrical are not my forte, but could you explain what you mean by this? Should I connect the two wires at some point?
Thanks again to octanechicken (and many, many others) who contributed their know how.
The red is ring and right, screen to ground, and the tip is what's left.
Originally I wired a 2.5 socket which did not work using the original a40 chat cable. I can provide pics if needed. Thanks.


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So I brewed a bunch of beer for my brother and we are driving cross country for 4 days before we get home. Should I be worried about temp and possible scunk beer from it getting warm in the car. For most the time car will be air conditioned, but one of the days we are going hiking and it will be sitting in the car
What stage is this beer in? Fermentation? bottles?
Ring ding dong. Ring a ding-ding-ding dong
"We have invented the world's largest laser system" -Ahnold
If it was chilled, keep it chilled and do not let it sit in a hot car ever as that is a sure way to skunk it. Keep out of light as well.
It is bottled, and it is covered and out of sunlight, but not sure how I can keep it from getting hot in the car during the day when we are hiking


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|Feb 18, 2008, 09:43 AM
The flair in the ply is not a problem. That will correct itself when the rear tab on the crutch is fit into the slot in the fuse sides. When you put the sides on make sure the rear portion of the two sides match exactly and the top edges are even. That should take care of any slight twist.
|Feb 18, 2008, 11:20 AM
Thanks for the advice.
I took another look this morning and dry-fitted the sides. I wasn't really happy with how it looked, and didn't relish the though of trying to straighten out the fuse when gluing the sides on.
Looking down the crutch at the long ply pieces, I noticed that right at the last depron piece, the ply bulged up slightly on one side. Still no idea what happened, but I slid my knife under the depron, squeezed it together again, and reglued. I ended up doing the same sort of thing with the tail to straighten that a little. It looks much better now. Pics in a few minutes.
|Feb 18, 2008, 11:22 AM
i made mine out of the wood scraps after building the extra (little triangles from the side frame) but i later moved on to a fuller SFG, cut out from $1 foam at dollartree, it's simple, just a triangle that extends from the leading edge of the wing to the root of the wing (aileron) on the tip. mine is about 3.5 inches high and it worked so well, you could go big with it, but i think it's gonna ruin the look of the extra
|Feb 18, 2008, 01:23 PM
FuryFlyer2 (Paul?)
On the front page of your website you have this picture that shows a stick mount motor attached to the firewall.
I've googled. I've looked......where did they get this motor mount from?
[EDIT - found them here http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products...rodID=EFLM1916
it would be cool if you carried these to cater for more motor options, although I'm sure you cant carry everything everyone wants..]
|Feb 18, 2008, 02:27 PM
Don't tell the man what he can and can't do
Just kidding bud...
It's amazing the progress Paul's business has made in the past 2 years, started from scratch now he has a HUUUUGE array of products and it's growing all the time.
|Feb 18, 2008, 02:30 PM
I am going to try one of these mounts on one of my Foilz...just have to figure out which one!
|Feb 18, 2008, 04:45 PM
This looks better.
More dumb questions from the newbie, if you don't mind.
Step 11 has me "glue the crutch to one skin assembly from the nose to just behind the wing opening". Then, "glue the skin to the lower crutch member from the wing opening to the rear tab".
Then I repeat steps 10 and 11.
Step 12 is, "Glue the top rear edges of the fuselage together..."
When do I glue the skin to the top crutch member? And to the depron support piece?
Oh, and I've run out of kicker. I'm going to look it up, but I think I can use baking soda in water.
|Feb 18, 2008, 04:58 PM
|Feb 18, 2008, 05:37 PM
<When do I glue the skin to the top crutch member? And to the depron support piece?>
No need to glue the rear of the top crutch to the skin.
|Feb 18, 2008, 05:42 PM
I forgot...jfv is right...one you apply the top of the fuse...the depron support pieces are just that....support!
|Feb 18, 2008, 06:10 PM
I've run a bead of CA along most of the edges between the upper and lower crutch pieces and the fuse skin from the wing forward.
From the wing back, I've glued the lower crutch to the skin similarly, with a bead of CA (should I do top and bottom?). You're saying I don't need to glue the top crutch piece to the skin? Or to the depron support? Wow. I don't think I would have realized that.
Though No need to glue the rear of the top crutch to the skin. is pretty clear.
If the rearmost part of the upper crutch is not even with the horizontal stab hole, should I try to align it to the top of the hole? Of course, if I'm not gluing it, it doesn't matter.
|Feb 18, 2008, 08:52 PM
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By the way...was out flying again today and I am confident in saying that the Extra 260 is the best all around Airfoilz Plane (heck all around plane that I have ever flown ) that has come out so far...I was pulling off high alpha knife edges at less that a foot off the ground...spins like my Edge...hovers like my Bipe...harriers are rock solid once you get it all balanced out. We are working on video still...coming soon!!
|Feb 19, 2008, 02:44 PM
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took awhile, but i got mine today!
Everything looks nice and minty
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|Feb 19, 2008, 03:52 PM
<If the rearmost part of the upper crutch is not even with the horizontal stab hole, should I try to align it to the top of the hole? Of course, if I'm not gluing it, it doesn't matter.>
As long as it doesn't interfere with the stab you can leave it alone. If it protrudes down into the slot for the stab, push it up, out of the way. You can tack it in place with some CA if you want.
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I halved the recipe, added some salt since I only had I salted butter, and used KAF glazing sugar instead of confectioner's...no cornstarch in the glazing sugar. Next time, will try using einkorn flour to make them wheat-free and double up on the vanilla.
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The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Marc Faber
Daily Bell: Hello, again. Since last we spoke, in June 2011, things have grown worse in some cases and better in other ways. How do you see the world today? What pleases you the most economically and what are you most concerned about?
Marc Faber: Economically, there is not much that pleases me because I think we are in an economy that is on steroids – in other words, the money printing – and the money printing goes essentially to wealthy people. Of course, they spend and as a result of the asset bubbles, temporarily the economy improves worldwide but it's not sustainable growth. We have to realize that. So economically, I'm actually more pessimistic today than I have been in a long time. That does not imply that asset markets cannot go higher. That is a possibility and, in fact, I hope the US market goes ballistic and creates a gigantic bubble, which will then embarrass the Federal Reserve because every bubble eventually gets deflated.
Daily Bell: What are you most concerned about in regard to the bubble, then – that it won't happen?
Marc Faber: We have a two-tier economy. We have an economy of well-to-do people from which I have benefited because I'm in the financial sector. My asset value has gone up, I benefit from rising asset prices because I own shares and I'm on the board of companies that own shares, fund management companies and so forth, but I'm not happy about the fact that the typical household and the working class worldwide is not doing well. And what will eventually happen and has begun to happen – and I have written about this already five, six years ago – when you have rising wealth inequality, eventually you have politicians that will not assume personal responsibility for the rising wealth inequality that is largely fostered by monetary policies by central banks, notably the Federal Reserve. They will then go to the public, like Bill de Blasio, and say, "Look, if you are not doing well it's the fault of the rich people. The rich people are ripping you off."
The rich people aren't ripping off anyone. They just took advantage of a situation that was given to them by the Federal Reserve. And so these politicians will go to the people and say, "What we have to do is to punish the rich and let's introduce a massive wealth tax," like this clown, Piketty, who has studied – and I do not disagree that he's done serious work; it's not exactly correct but he's done serious work about wealth inequality. When wealth inequality grows too much you have either significant social reforms, social strife or revolutions. And in Europe and everywhere I hear more and more talk about taxing the rich and that is going to happen. It's not going to help. Redistribution of wealth eventually ends up in redistributing poverty.
Daily Bell: This seems to be what we're seeing with the recent resurgence of Occupy Wall Street-type resistance and the "1%" meme. What do you think of OWS, generally?
Marc Faber: Basically, I don't think they should occupy Wall Street. They should go and burn down the Federal Reserve in Washington and hang up the ultra-dovish Fed governors that advocate even more money printing. That they should do.
Daily Bell: You are known as Dr. Doom because of your crash predictions. We think stock markets are being pushed higher and then will crash radically, giving rise to suggestions for a more global marketplace. Any truth to this?
Marc Faber: Well, all markets are correlated. If the S&P drops 20% I don't see many markets going up. If you print money you will get symptoms of inflation and one of the symptoms of inflation is rising asset markets. It can also be rising consumer prices, rising wages and so on. Because we have an absence of foreign exchange controls and we have a globalized economy, the US may print money and there is more inflation in the US in terms of consumer price increases than what the Fed is suggesting. But at the same time, the larger inflation has been in emerging economies and even larger bubbles have occurred there. My view is that to boost economic activity by boosting asset prices is a horrendous – and I repeat, horrendous – mistake because it's been established by numerous economies starting with Copernicus and David Hume and Irving Fisher that asset bubbles impoverished the majority to the benefit of the few.
Daily Bell: There are some exciting new investment prospects, specifically as regards cannabis. What do you think about the legalization of marijuana? Is it an investment opportunity?
Marc Faber: In general, I believe that any kind of drug should be legalized and there would be less crime and probably less usage. I'm all in favor of legalizing drugs because all I see, and I've looked at it very carefully when I was in Mexico – the drug business is so incredibly profitable that there is widespread corruption, at the CIA, at the FBI, at the police force, in the military, and that is not a very desirable outcome. If it was legalized, we would have far less crime and far less corruption. It's like during the Prohibition time – alcohol consumption if anything rose and there was much more crime and much more corruption.
Daily Bell: How do you see it from an investment perspective?
Marc Faber: I really have no idea. I'm not interested to invest in any kind of drugs because I don't use them. I have smoked a joint from time to time and I may still do it once in a while but it's not an investment destination that interests me.
Daily Bell: Let's look at precious metals. Is the dollar due to drop against gold? How about silver?
Marc Faber: My inclination is to believe that the central banks eventually will have to make a choice. They have created asset bubbles. At the same time, the economy has hardly recovered. What will happen when the asset bubbles burst again, say the stock market goes down 20%, the property market goes down and so forth? What will be in the mind of the Federal Reserve and other central banks? What will be in their minds is more money printing will do less damage than no money printing. And so the asset purchases, the QE I, II, III, IV will go on to what I predicted in 2009: It will go to QE 99. And as a result of that, not only the US dollar but all currencies will lose in value against some assets, irregularly at times. Real estate will go up at times. At times commodities will go up at times. Stocks and bonds will go up at times. Buy my inclination is to think that when this all happens and even before – because the market is a discounting mechanism – is that gold and silver will again appreciate against the US dollar.
And don't forget – and I have to stress this – the media is all over the fact that gold hasn't performed well, in September of this year, for the past three years and silver equally. But they never mention that between '99 and 2001, all precious metals significantly outperformed stocks and even today, precious metals between 2000 and today have significantly outperformed stocks. But the media paints people that own gold as kind of out of this world, out of touch. In my view, the recent gold rally has occurred amidst very negative sentiment. I get so many research reports from all over the world, from banks, investment advisers, gold bugs and so forth. By and large in this rally the mood has stayed negative. I think we made a major low over the last two years around $1180 to $1200 on the gold price and around $20 on the silver price, and I don't recommend people to put all their money into gold – but maybe they should; the question is, where would they keep it? Certainly not in the US – but in general I would say now is probably quite a good time to buy some gold and silver, and I believe that from here on gold and silver will outperform the S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000. It's my view.
Now, if we have a complete breakdown of the monetary system then maybe everything goes down and then stocks may go down 80% and gold only 40% or 50%. I'm just saying, relatively speaking in my view, gold and silver, platinum, palladium are quite attractive and I recommend people to have at least some exposure to precious metals in physical form.
Daily Bell: That is a question – where to store it.
Marc Faber: I wouldn't store it in the US. I would rather store it in Singapore or in Hong Kong or maybe you bury it somewhere. But as I mentioned earlier, I think the tendency is going to be for politicians that have completely failed and utterly failed to essentially blame rich people for wealth inequality and then they will go to the people, to the masses, and say, "You know what? What we have to do is take away their gold. These are the people who damaged your economy. Let's take away their gold." And in the US they may do that, and in the ECB in Europe. The horrible politicians in Brussels and the US government are one in the same. They will go to the Europeans and say, "If we do it, why don't you also do it?" and Draghi and all these characters will say, "Yeah, good idea." And then they'll knock on the door of the Swiss and the Swiss, who have no background anymore – except their soccer team, who consists of foreigners, not Swiss, all born overseas or children of foreigners in Switzerland – the politicians and the Greens and the Socialists will say, "Yeah, good idea. Take the gold from the rich people." So my view is it's probably best to hold gold in Asia and Singapore and Hong Kong where there is a culture of private poverty and a culture of gold.
Daily Bell: What's going to happen to US Treasuries in the near future? You've been positive about them.
Marc Faber: Yes, I still hold 10-year Treasuries notes. I'm not of the view that it's a good investment. They are yielding 2.6% at the present time for 10 years so the maximum you can earn is 2.6% for the next ten years. I think it's a disastrous investment but maybe other investments like the S&P, the NASDAQ, the Russell 2000 are even worse and so I hold some 10-year Treasury notes as a hedge against the market decline. I've been predicting – wrongly so, I admit – a correction for a long time. But now I don't believe there will be a correction. Next train station is a collapse.
Daily Bell: What will the collapse look like? Ron Paul suggested in an interview here a few weeks ago that it would not be gradual or gentle but sudden. Your thought?
Marc Faber: I was recently asked by some commentator, why would the market go down? And I was at a meeting of economists and, whereas in 2009 all of them were very bearish, S&P 400 and this and that – I have to say, at the time I said the market is so incredibly oversold, in my view it will go up. Then in 2012, March to June, when the European markets were at the low and the euro was very weak – some European markets in March to May 2012 were lower than they had been in March 2009. But between March 2009 and March 2012, the S&P had more than doubled but the European markets had gone up and then collapsed somewhere lower than in 2009, such as Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy, France. I told them, now is the time to put some money in Europe. All of them were very bearish.
So this group of economists, very intelligent, all academics who know much more about economics – or at least the Keynesian economics theories – than I do, and now they're suddenly all very bullish. That tells me something. I agree with Jeremy Grantham and John Hussman: Statistically seen and from an evaluation point of view, the market will have low returns over the next ten years.
Now, can the market go up another 30% before it falls 80%? Yes. Possible. But it can also start to go down relatively soon. I think the second half of this year will be a big disappointment for many people.
Daily Bell: Are we still in a bull market for commodities?
Marc Faber: This is a difficult question. In my view, the long commodities cycle, the so-called Kondratiev, lasts 45 to 60 years. There's no precise date. Now, if we assume that the commodities cycle peaked out in 1980, then we had a bear market until '99 – so in other words, an almost 20-years bear market. And after "99 I think the Kondratiev cycle started to move up. We're now 2014 so we're essentially 14 years in the upward wave that usually on average lasts something like 22 years – sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. The commodities cycle from '99 to 2007, 2008 was driven by incremental demand from China. That is a big factor. The demand from China may weaken somewhat and for sure it will not grow at the same rate but it will not collapse. It may not go up a lot and in the face of industrialization first commodities demand goes up a lot but then it starts to level off.
But in my view, what can also drive commodity prices, because I'm on the board of some mining companies, and I can tell you that nobody will drill for oil if oil is less than, say, $70 a barrel. Nobody. And the copper price in 1998 was 68 cents a pound, precisely 58 cents a pound at its low. Nobody will look for a new copper mine and produce below, say $2 a pound. The costs today of exploration and bringing the commodities to the markets are astronomical and you can also thank the Federal Reserve for that. So if people think that oil will be significantly lower than what oil is now, they're dreaming. It may drop one day to $60 for a few months, but on a long-term basis, in my view, with all the geopolitical problems, with the problems of finding new oil, with many oil fields having less and less production, in my view, the risk for oil is rather on the upside than the downside.
Daily Bell: Is the era of king dollar over? Is the petrodollar finished?
Marc Faber: The dollar is still going to be for some time the most important currency because I can travel with $1000 in cash or as I do, usually $10,000, and I can go into any shop, nightclub, bar, anywhere in the world, and pay with dollars. So it's still the accepted currency.
But increasingly, as world trade is more and more between emerging economies with each other. The world trade used to be, say 50 years ago, between the poor world, the emerging economies, the Europe and the US, and then it went up somewhere else. But nowadays more and more countries say – trade of China with Africa is now $200 billion. It's twice the size of trade between Africa and America. So over time, all this trade will be carried in other currencies than the US dollar. And the US policy makers and the incompetent people at the State Department managed to antagonize Mr. Putin with the Ukrainian uprising, which they supported. Now, this has backfired. Mr. Putin went and made a gas pipeline deal with China and the payments will not be settled in US dollars.
So gradually, yes, the importance of the US dollar is going to diminish as gradually the importance of the US economy – and I'm stressing this, relative to the rest of the world – is diminishing. In the '50s and the '60s the US was the dominant economy. It is still, according to their accounting methods, the largest economy but say car sales in China are as large as in the US and you have, of course, many more Internet users in China than in the US and there are many more computers in China than the US and so on. So in many sectors the US economy is no longer the largest. But all I'm saying is relative to the rest of the world, the US, in terms of military power and in terms of economic power, has lost out.
Daily Bell: Is Janet Yellen a good replacement for Ben Bernanke? What will history say about Ben Bernanke?
Marc Faber: I think that in general, future historians will have a very negative view about the great experiment to boost economic activity with monetary measures via creating asset inflation. I think this view will be very badly discredited. Now, we have to understand it will take some time for this to happen because you have the neo-Keynesians, these are the people like Martin Wolf at the Financial Times and Mr. Paul Krugman at the New York Times and Mr. Rosengren at the Boston Fed and Larry Summers, who, if there is a failure in the asset markets or in the economy and so forth, will say the reason the policies didn't work is because we didn't do enough. That may go on for quite some time but I can tell you that I see more and more people, young people, who no longer consider the Austrian economic theory to be heresy. And it isn't heresy. It's essentially common sense, a historical approach to economics. I think that eventually, future economic history books will condemn Mr. Greenspan, Mr. Bernanke and Ms. Yellen very badly.
And I will make sure it will happen during my lifetime. I'm not saying this because of any animosity in terms of my having suffered from their system. As I told you, I'm in the financial system. I'm an asset owner. I would never have had the assets I have today without money printing. I just look at the world as an economist and from the point of view of fairness, and I don't think the present system is in the long run desirable. We have a new aristocracy, largely a smart aristocracy – the hedge fund managers and so forth – but in terms of culture, a lot to be desired.
Daily Bell: The BIS warned about coming asset bubbles. Did they have a point?
Marc Faber: Yes but understand, in 1927, '28 a lot of people, including Paul Warburg and Bernard Baruch, warned of a bubble and it went on another two years. It can go on for quite some time. When I compare the prices people paid for homes for Rothko, Warhol and Picassos in the 1970s and early 1980s, for Hampton properties, for Greenwich Village in New York properties and what they pay today, there has been colossal asset inflation. Now, for the people that inherit these things it's all well and good, and for the people who own them. But if you are 20 years old and you went to college and you have student debt, I think a lot of these things are less affordable than when I was a trainee in 1970 at White Weld in New York.
So I think this has contributed to a lot of misgivings. I just read a report that a very high proportion of New York high-end properties are empty 70% of the time. So the foreigners that come here can loan their money because through the property market and through the arts market you can get a loan for anything you want – not through bank accounts where you have to as a client prove that you're honest – which is a joke because the banks should prove to you that they are honest, which would be very difficult, as we have seen from the many fines they've had to pay. But anyway, a lot of the properties are empty. So the people who live in London and New York who have been driven out by high prices now have to go and live somewhere else and have to travel a long way to work, pay the transportation costs and so forth. For the majority of people the standards of living are going down not up.
Daily Bell: What do you think of frontier market investing, specifically in Africa? Is Africa the new China?
Marc Faber: Africa has no chance to be the new China, not in a million years. You just have to look at how Chinese work, and their work ethics and the work ethics of black people. This is not a racist observation; it's a common sense observation. I love Africa. It's the most beautiful continent and the fact that people are easy-going is rather a plus than a negative. But I wouldn't want to live in Africa for security reasons. There's a lot of crime and theft and so forth, and number two, wealth that comes from resources usually – there are exceptions – usually does not lead to lasting wealth. And the upturn in Africa is largely from the resource price increase.
So whereas I believe that there is some value in some African markets and whereas I believe that what I called in the late '70s and early '80s, along with other people like Barton Biggs and Antoine van Agtmael, what we call emerging markets now, many emerging markets are no longer emerging; they're advanced economies, like South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore. Now we have new emerging economies like Kazakhstan, parts of the former Soviet Union, African countries, Mongolia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and so forth. So I'm sure there is some merit of investing in these regions. There is also what I have experienced, a significant execution risk. In other words, people go in there and they buy stuff and then they don't take much money because they're being cheated out or promoters of the projects make the money and not the investors. But in general, the concept appeals to me.
I would also say, we have to broaden the concept of emerging markets to emerging industries. You make much more money in investing in biotech and in the Internet and social media stocks in the last few years. It's not a recommendation to do it at the current level of stock prices. But I'm saying in the last three or four years you made much more money in emerging sectors of the economy than investing in Laos and Cambodia and Mongolia.
Daily Bell: What emerging industries do you recommend people watch?
Marc Faber: It seems to me, all of them are valued at very high levels so I'm not recommending to go into any of these sectors at the present time.
Daily Bell: Are there other emerging industries that you do think may be interesting?
Marc Faber: I think there is an opportunity in real estate in some emerging markets because they are depressed and so forth. But in terms of industries, I tend to stay away from the new industries until they've gone through a bubble stage and then the bubble bursts and then they become cheap. At the present time, I want to be rather in liquid investments than in these kind of sectors. I think an underappreciated sector is probably water and food. I think this will be a big issue in the future.
Daily Bell: Why is it taking so long for unemployment to go down in the US? What about in Britain and Europe?
Marc Faber: This is a very good question and different economists have different views about this. My opinion is that the more unemployment benefits and disability benefits you give to people, the more people will make a choice between working and actually collecting benefits. And say a family, a husband and wife, two children – if one of the couple loses the job, he or she will become eligible for benefits and she or he can then take care of the children and the household and garden and this and that and get the benefits. So for him to actually go back into the workforce is only an option if the salary he will get is very high. Otherwise, by going back into the labor force he loses all the benefits, has to hire someone to look after the children or the house and so forth, so it may be actually a benefit for him not to work.
I think we have today in the world an entire generation who no longer wants to wake up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work at 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning and then come home at 5:00 or 6:00 in the evening and be pushed around by a boss. There's a generation of people who would rather do relatively little. They may opt to live with their parents in the basement or wherever that may be, so they have no responsibility to pay the rent for a house or to buy a house. They may drive around daddy or mommy's car and so forth. So I believe we have a structural change where people actually prefer to not do very much.
It's interesting. I just read today a survey of the army. Apparently, 70% of the people who apply to join the army in the US are rejected because they're useless. They're useless. You can imagine – the army doesn't have the highest standards, they're not the standards of Goldman Sachs. If 70% of the people there are rejected you can imagine how many useless people there are. I'm not singling out the US in this respect; this also happens in other countries.
We have an entitlement society. Milton Friedman wrote about this – the more you give to people, essentially the more poverty you create.
Daily Bell: Do you have a vision of how that could turn around?
Marc Faber: I believe that the idea of democracy that came up, say, more prevalently in the 18th century and then was implemented with the American Constitution and so forth – I think that in 500 years or so people will look back and say, how could people have been so stupid to think that a democracy would work? Because everybody wants to take as much as he can from the cake and through the voting machine and through all kinds of tricks and so forth, the politicians always promise more than they can deliver. If they tell the people the truth they're not going to be elected. So I'm very pessimistic about the present system.
Daily Bell: Is the Internet still a great sociopolitical and economic force or is it being lessened by government censorship?
Marc Faber: I'm not so worried about government censorship but I believe that the media, in other words, texting and the Internet, has opened the eyes of many people because the media basically is controlled by powerful groups like News Corp and the Wall Street Journal, etc., and I think that blogs and so forth, and also people like Julian Assange and Snowden, have done a great service to the world by essentially exposing the viciousness of governments, like George Orwell described in 1984. I don't think this will go away, but we have to realize that if a government is really obnoxious they can just switch off the Internet and they can block sites, like in China you can't watch YouTube. It can be controlled.
And then in the space of the Internet there is also a lot of disinformation. If I was a vicious government I would hire some people to attack me without any reason and then I would go after these people to show that I'm actually the good person. So there's a lot of information and disinformation.
Daily Bell: Any other thoughts, in closing?
Marc Faber: My final thought is we are in a world that is driven by money printing and, in general, I believe the standards of living for many people in the Western world will continue to decline as they have declined over the last 20 years, if we look at median income in real terms. How the world will look in 5 or 10 you and I and nobody knows, although some people think they know. So my advice is to be diversified. Hold some real estate, stocks, bonds and gold and you have to also diversify your assets geographically – don't hold everything in the US. Hold some outside the US as well; hold some outside Germany, outside Switzerland. You have to be diversified. Then you have to hope for the best.
Daily Bell: Thanks for sitting down with us again.
Marc Faber: It was my pleasure.
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Re: [latam] BRAZIL - COUNTRY BRIEF AM
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Have I read this right? Ghana will acquire two aircraft carriers from
Brazil?? I think we've had two in our entire history, both outdated models
we purchased from France and Britain. Do we even have what it takes to
build one? Does Ghana even have the money to buy one?
This news is puzzling. Maybe the article meant aircraft instead?
On 5/31/11 8:52 AM, Paulo Gregoire wrote:
1) Uruguay and Brazil pledged Monday to continue strengthening the
bilateral relation and regional integration through Mercosur and Unasur.
In a joint declaration following two hours meeting the two leaders
ratified their firm commitment to strengthena** Unasur and their
a**priority commitment to the consolidation of Mercosur as an instrument
for the improvement of living conditions of their peoples and for the
international insertion of the blocka**.
2) Patriota will hold a working meeting with U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton today to discuss bilateral ties and economic and trade
cooperation, as well as regional and global issues, including the
situations in the Middle East and North Africa.
3) Argentina and Brazil each agree to free up USD 40 million worth of
imports to help facilitate trade talks. Brazil will free up USD 40
million in cars that are still waiting on the border to enter Brazil
while Argentina hasnA't decided which Brazilian products they will free.
4)Brazila**s industrial production fell in April by the most since 2008.
Industrial production fell 2.1 percent from March, the national
statistics agency said.
5) Brazil will post a trade deficit in manufactured goods
of $100 billion this year, up from $71 billion in 2010, the Sao
Paulo Industrial Federation estimates. In order to increase the
production of manufactured goods, Brazil may expand tax cuts on books to
electronic book readers according to a bill approved May 17 by a Senate
committee. Also, the govt is trying o attract foreign companies to start
expanding their productions in Brazil. Foxconn Technology is holding
talks with the government to expand their manufacturing in Brazil. In
addition to Foxconn, Motorola, Samsung, and ZTE are among the companies
that can benefit from tax breaks that the govt is implementing in order
for manufacturers to increase their production.
6) Brazila** president of the Economic and Development Bank, BNDES,
Luciano Coutinho said that the countrya**s investment rate in the coming
four years will be equivalent to 23% of GDP, sufficient to ensure a
sustained robust long term growth of Latin Americaa**s largest economy.
Coutinho said that such a percentage of GDP invested will be equivalent
to 2 trillion US dollars which is to be allocated in industrial
projects, infrastructure and other plans mapped out by BNDES. The
president of the bank also identified some of the relevant sectors that
will experience the sustained investment expansion in the next years.
Coutinho specifically named the oil and gas production chain
(development of the pre-salt hydrocarbon reserves); electricity and
power logistics plus building new ports, expanding existing ones and
recovering the railways system.
7) Brazil Central Bank head of Monetary Policy Aldo Mendes
anticipated Monday that inflation in the coming two/three months will be
almost flat, close to zero and supported his forecast on the food prices
inflexion tendency. a**The tendency of food prices, the most volatile
component, is accommodativea**, said Mendes who blamed food prices for
the surge of inflation since the end of 2010 because of soaring
commodities international prices. Therea**s a different dynamics now
and this a**has already blended with future expectations on inflation
and analysts are anticipating lower rates than in previous monthsa**.
8) The first Asian factory of industrial and residential lifts in Brazil
will be built in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The news was
released during the visit to Korea of Rio Grande do Sul governor Tarso
Genro. The president of the group, Hyun Jeong Eun and Governor Genro
signed the protocol of understanding. Details of the type of plant,
estimated production and investment involved have yet to be worked out.
Nevertheless in forty days time the location for building the factory
will be revealed and construction is forecasted to begin in the first
quarter of 2012. Victor Park one of Hyundai Group director said that
production will evolve according to market demand and that the whole
investment is expected to create anywhere between 5.000 to 15.000 jobs.
9) Brazil, Uruguay agree to construct joint power line, bridge, waterway
and railway. The power line will be 500 km long and the waterway will be
1.200 km long.
10)Vale is gearing up to move into rare earth mining as Brazil tries to
compete with China to supply some of the worlda**s most sought-after
metallic elements, says Brazila**s science and technology minister,
Aloizio Mercadante. Brazil has large reserves of rare earths, allowing
it to become a key exporter in the future as well as a supplier to its
nascent technology industry, Mercadante said. a**We will gain
competitiveness in wind energy and the production of electric cars.a**
He added that the elements would be fundamental to Brazila**s plans to
develop a complete production chain for goods such as smartphones and
tablet computers.
11) President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday announced that Ghana was
in the process of acquiring two aircraft carriers from Brazil that could
work in inclement weather and better ensure the safety of passengers.
Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:43 UTC
Uruguay and Brazil pledge full support for Mercosur and Unasur
Uruguay and Brazil pledged Monday to continue strengthening the
bilateral relation and regional integration through Mercosur and Unasur,
after presidents Jose Mujica and Dilma Rousseff delegations signed
fifteen cooperation agreements in Montevideo.
In a joint declaration following two hours meeting the two leaders
ratified their firm commitment to strengthena** Unasur and their
a**priority commitment to the consolidation of Mercosur as an instrument
for the improvement of living conditions of their peoples and for the
international insertion of the blocka**.
Rousseff and Mujica also coincided in the need to reform the United
Nations, particularly the Security Council with the purpose of making it
a**more representative, legitimate and efficienta** as well as ensuring
that concrete results can be achieved during the coming UN General
The Brazilian president arrived in Montevideo at mid-day and was taken
directly to the Digital television development centre located in
Uruguaya**s technological Laboratory, and which was mounted in
cooperation with Brazil.
Last December Uruguay adopted the Japanese/Brazilian digital television
norm and on Monday signed a Complementary Accord to the Basic Accord for
Scientific and Technical Cooperation for the implementation of digital
television and for expanding broad band to all homes.
Dilma Rousseffa**s delegation was made up of eight ministers who signed
fifteen agreements with their Uruguayan peers, mainly in physical and
energy integration.
This was Ms Rousseffa**s first visit to Uruguay since taking office as
President, a visit that was delayed several times for different reasons.
However Mujica and First Lady Lucia Topolansky met last January with the
Brazilian leader when she took office.
Brazilian FM to visit Washington
2011-05-31 10:22:19
- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/31/c_13902962.htm
BRASILIA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota
will travel to Washington Tuesday to attend the second Brazil-U.S.
Global Partnership Dialogue (GDP), the Brazilian Foreign Ministry
said Monday.
The two-day visit is aimed at following up the results of U.S. President
Barack Obama's visit to Brazil in March this year, the ministry said in
a statement released here.
Patriota will hold a working meeting with U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton to discuss bilateral ties and economic and trade
cooperation, as well as regional and global issues, including the
situations in the Middle East and North Africa.
According to statistics, the United States is the largest foreign
investor in Brazil, the second largest importer of Brazilian products
and Brazil's second largest trading partner after China.
The total trade value between the United States and Brazil was over 46
billion U.S. dollars in 2010.
Liberan importaciones para facilitar la cumbre con Brasil
Los dos gobiernos se comprometieron a destrabar productos por 40
millones de dA^3lares de cada lado
Martes 31 de mayo de 2011
- http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1377623-liberan-importaciones-para-facilitar-la-cumbre-con-brasil
El gesto pA-oblico fue elevar a rango de ministros la reuniA^3n
bilateral que habAa sido programada para maA+-ana entre los negociadores
de ambos paAses. Pero fue el gesto privado el que permitiA^3 correr
algunos de los nubarrones en la relaciA^3n: la Argentina y Brasil se
comprometieron a liberar, en el transcurso de esta semana, importaciones
por un valor total de 40 millones de dA^3lares cada uno.
El dato sobre los "gestos de buena voluntad" fue confirmado ayer a La
Nacion por fuentes oficiales de Brasilia. Horas antes, el gobierno
argentino habAa difundido que el encuentro que originalmente estaba
pautado entre los secretarios del A!rea industrial serAa encabezado por
los ministros DA(c)bora Giorgi y Fernando Pimentel.
"En nuestro caso, los productos a ser liberados son los autos. En el
caso argentino, aA-on no han sido definidos", precisaron las fuentes
brasileA+-as. Uno de los productos sobre los que Brasil estA! haciendo
mA!s presiA^3n es el de la maquinaria agrAcola, aunque tambiA(c)n
podrAan liberarse otros rubros alcanzados por las licencias no
automA!ticas (LNA) argentinas, como electrodomA(c)sticos, neumA!ticos,
baterAas o calzado.
El compromiso entre ambos gobiernos, aclararon en el gobierno de Dilma
Rousseff, implica que los productos serA!n liberados de aquA al viernes,
pero deberAan registrarse los primeros avances entre hoy y maA+-ana.
En el Ministerio de Industria argentino seA+-alaron que las partes
todavAa estA!n discutiendo sobre los rubros alcanzados por estos gestos
de buena voluntad. "Pero estA! claro que polAticamente hay una sintonAa
de que esto no tiene que escalar mA!s y llegar al jueves con un
principio de acuerdo", indicA^3 un funcionario de la cartera que dirige
La reuniA^3n de pasado maA+-ana tendrA! lugar en el Ministerio de
Desarrollo, Industria y Comercio Exterior, con sede en Brasilia. AdemA!s
de los ministros, participarA!n los secretarios Eduardo Bianchi y
Alessandro Teixeira, que la semana pasada no lograron una salida al
conflicto desatado en el A-oltimo mes por la escalada de trabas al
comercio bilateral.
"He recibido una llamada de Pimentel esta maA+-ana y ambos coincidimos
en las buenas perspectivas para el prA^3ximo encuentro", dijo Giorgi,
segA-on un comunicado oficial. "Somos optimistas en la soluciA^3n de los
diferendos comerciales."
La disputa entre la Argentina y Brasil fue mencionada indirectamente en
el encuentro que mantuvieron ayer en Montevideo Rousseff y el presidente
uruguayo, JosA(c) Mujica. "Nunca estaremos integrados en AmA(c)rica
latina si no logramos la integraciA^3n con inteligencia", dijo Mujica,
luego de firmar con su par brasileA+-a un compromiso de obras de
interconexiA^3n para mejorar el comercio.
La decisiA^3n de elevar a nivel ministerial el encuentro de negociadores
fue celebrada ayer puertas adentro por los miembros de la industria
automotriz. Los empresarios reunidos en la AsociaciA^3n de FA!bricas de
Automotores (Adefa) habAan lamentado en los dAas previos que, pese a la
gravedad de las medidas (Brasil bloqueA^3 el ingreso de la principal
exportaciA^3n industrial argentina), los ministros no se habAan reunido.
Fuentes de la industria estimaron que hay unos 4000 vehAculos de
fabricaciA^3n nacional trabados por las LNA brasileA+-as (sin contar los
que deberAan ingresar esta semana). Su valor de mercado estarAa cerca de
los 50 millones de dA^3lares, con lo que la mayorAa de esas unidades
deberAan ser liberadas por Brasil en el transcurso de esta semana.
En la reuniA^3n de la semana pasada entre Bianchi y Teixeira, uno de los
puntos de discordia fue el plazo que se tomarAa Brasil para liberar las
licencias de los autos argentinos. El plazo mA!ximo previsto por la
OrganizaciA^3n Mundial del Comercio (OMC) es de 60 dAas. Brasil
ofreciA^3 acelerar el trA!mite a 10 dAas para los autos argentinos (las
LNA alcanzan a todos los orAgenes) y la Argentina solicitA^3 un plazo
mA!ximo de 4 dAas.
Ayer, un ejecutivo de la industria automotriz seA+-alA^3 que estA!n
dispuestos a aceptar los 10 dAas si les pueden garantizar que ese serA!
el plazo final. "Queremos tener la tranquilidad de que, si te dicen 10
dAas, podamos planificar la producciA^3n y en 10 dAas tener una
licencia. Hoy hay incertidumbre y no se sabe cuA!nto tiempo les va a
llevar otorgar la licencia. Diez dAas no es un gran problema si tenA(c)s
la certeza", explicA^3.
La empresa BMW Group Argentina acordA^3 con el gobierno nacional un plan
de reducciA^3n de importaciones que le permitirA! volver a ingresar
motocicletas en el mercado argentino. "La liberaciA^3n de la aduana
argentina se realiza a partir de un pedido del gobierno nacional
aceptado por BMW Group Argentina para reducir durante 2011 el volumen de
sus importaciones de motocicletas en un 40% en valores absolutos en
comparaciA^3n con el aA+-o 2010", informA^3 la empresa en un comunicado.
El acuerdo, sin embargo, no incluye a los automA^3viles BMW y Mini, cuyo
ingreso al paAs sigue trabado hasta que la empresa presente un plan para
exportar por un monto similar al de sus importaciones, segA-on la
exigencia planteada por la ministra de Industria, DA(c)bora Giorgi.
Imports released to facilitate the summit with Brazil
The two governments pledged to unlock products by $ 40 million on each
The public act was to elevate to the rank of Ministers of the bilateral
meeting was scheduled for tomorrow between the negotiators of both
countries. But it was a private act that allowed running some of the
clouds in the relationship: Argentina and Brazil pledged to free, over
the course of this week, imports totaling $ 40 million each.
The data on the "goodwill gestures" was confirmed yesterday to the
Nation by officials in Brasilia. Earlier, the Argentine government had
spread that the meeting originally was scheduled between the secretaries
of the industrial area would be headed by ministers Debora Giorgi,
Fernando Pimentel.
"In our case, the products to be released are the cars. In the case of
Argentina, have not yet been defined," the sources said Brazil.One of
the products for which Brazil is making more pressure is that of
agricultural machinery, but could also released other items made by
non-automatic licensing (LNA) in Argentina, such as appliances, tires,
batteries and shoes.
The commitment of both governments, the government clarified Dilma
Rousseff, implies that the products will be released between now and
Friday, but initial progress should be recorded today and tomorrow.
In the Argentine Ministry of Industry said that the parties are still
discussing the items made by these gestures of goodwill. "But it is
clear that politically there is a line that does not have to climb over
and get to Thursday with an agreement in principle", said an official
who heads portfolio Giorgi.
After tomorrow's meeting will be held at the Ministry of Development,
Industry and Foreign Trade, based in Brasilia. Besides the ministers,
secretaries participate Eduardo Bianchi and Alessandro Teixeira, who
last week failed a solution to conflict in the past month about the
escalation of bilateral trade barriers.
"I received a call from Pimentel this morning and we both agree are good
prospects for the next meeting," said Giorgi, according to a
statement. "We are optimistic the settlement of trade disputes."
The dispute between Argentina and Brazil was mentioned indirectly in
their meeting yesterday in Montevideo Rousseff and Uruguayan President
JosA(c) Mujica. "We will never be built in Latin America if we fail to
integrate with intelligence," said Mujica, after its Brazilian sign a
commitment interconnection works to improve trade.
The decision to raise the level ministerial negotiating meeting was
held yesterday behind closed doors by members of the automotive
industry. Entrepreneurs gathered at the Automotive Manufacturers
Association (Adefa) had complained in previous days, despite the
severity of the measures (Brazil blocked the entrance of the main
industrial exports in Argentina), ministers had not been met.
Industry sources estimated that there are about 4000 vehicles locked
locally manufactured by Brazilian LNA (not counting those who should be
going into this week). Its market value would be around 50 million
dollars, with most of these units should be released by Brazil in the
course of the week.
At the meeting last week between Bianchi and Teixeira, one of the points
of contention was the term he would take Brazil to release the licenses
of Argentine cars. The maximum time allowed by the World Trade
Organization (WTO) is 60 days. Brazil offered to expedite the process to
10 days for Argentine cars (the LNA reach all sources) and Argentina
called for a maximum period of 4 days.
Yesterday, an auto industry executive said they are willing to accept
the 10 days if they can guarantee that this will be the final
deadline. "We feel confident that if you say 10 days, we can plan
production and 10 days to get a license. Today there is uncertainty and
it is not known how long it will take to license. Ten days is not a big
problem if you have the certainty, "he said.
The company BMW Group Argentina agreed with the national government a
plan to reduce imports that will allow you to enter motorcycle market in
Argentina. "The release of the customs Argentina is made from a national
government's request accepted by BMW Group Argentina during 2011 to
reduce the volume of imports of motorcycles by 40% in absolute terms
compared with 2010," the in a statement. The agreement, however, does
not include BMW and Mini cars, whose entry into the country remains
locked until the company submits a plan to export an amount similar to
that of its imports, according to the demand made by the Minister of
Industry, Deborah Giorgi.
Brazila**s Industrial Output Fell By Most Since 2008, Surprising
By Alexander Ragir - May 31, 2011 9:22 AM GMT-0300
Brazila**s industrial production fell in April by the most since 2008,
surprising analysts who had expected output to expand in Latin
Americaa**s biggest economy.
Industrial production fell 2.1 percent from March, the national
statistics agency said today, beating all 35 analysts in a Bloomberg
survey whose median estimate for a 0.2 percent increase. Output fell 1.3
percent from a year ago.
Thirteen of 27 industries surveyed saw output shrink in April.
Production of machinery fell 5.4 percent in April, reversing four
consecutive months of growth, while assembly lines churned out 10.1
percent fewer white goods. Production of capital goods, a barometer of
investment, fell 2.9 percent after expanding 7.7 percent in the first
President Dilma Rousseff is fighting inflation by relying on a mix of
higher interest rates, spending cuts and measures to curb credit growth.
Policy makers will push the overnight rate up 50 basis points to 12.50
percent by year-end to slow inflation that in mid-May reached 6.51
percent, above the upper limit of the banka**s target range for the
first time since 2005.
The yield on the interest rate futures contract maturing in January
2013 slipped two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 12.51
percent at 8:14 a.m. New York time. The real strengthened 0.9 percent to
1.5810 per U.S. dollar.
Aprila**s decline in production was the biggest since production plunged
12.2 percent in December 2008, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc. The statistics agency raised to 1.1 percent from 0.5
percent its estimate of output growth in March.
Trade Deficit
While attempting to cool the economy, Rousseffa**s administration is
also trying to prevent manufacturers from losing competitiveness as a
stronger real makes it cheaper to import cars, electronics and other
Brazil will post a trade deficit in manufactured goods of $100 billion
this year, up from $71 billion in 2010, the Sao Paulo Industrial
Federation estimates. The real has rallied 46 percent since the start of
2009, more than 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg
except Australiaa**s dollar. Brazil may expand tax cuts on books to
electronic book readers according to a bill approved May 17 by a Senate
Foxconn Investment
The government is also providing incentives for technology firms to
establish operations here.
Foxconn Technology Group, which makes Apple Inc.a**s iPhone and Dell
Inc. computers, is holding talks with the government to expand their
manufacturing in Brazil, Rousseff said during her trip to China in
In addition to Foxconn, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., Samsung
Eletronics Co Ltd, and ZTE Corp (763) are among the companies that can
benefit from tax breaks, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo said May
The fastest economic growth in two decades last year, a 20 percent
expansion in credit and near-full employment is prompting carmakers to
increase production as demand surges.
Volkswagen AG plans to boost production and add models in Brazil to
challenge Fiat SpA for the leading position in the country. Auto sales
rose 29 percent to 148,900 in the first half of May, Brazila**s National
Federation of Automotive Vehicle Distributors said in Sao Paulo on May
17. For the year, sales are up 5 percent.
a**Competition in Brazil is intense and we expect it will become even
more intense in the future,a** Thomas Schmall, head of VWa**s Brazilian
operations, said in a March 24 interview.
Auto sales in the country will advance 40 percent by the end of 2016 to
3.6 million vehicles annually, according to industry researcher IHS
To contact the reporter on this story: Alexander Ragir in Rio de
Janeiro at email@example.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at
Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 07:47 UTC
Brazil plans massive infrastructure investment in next four years
Brazila** president of the Economic and Development Bank, BNDES, Luciano
Coutinho said that the countrya**s investment rate in the coming four
years will be equivalent to 23% of GDP, sufficient to ensure a sustained
robust long term growth of Latin Americaa**s largest economy
Coutinho said that such a percentage of GDP invested will be equivalent
to 2 trillion US dollars which is to be allocated in industrial
projects, infrastructure and other plans mapped out by BNDES.
The president of the bank also identified some of the relevant sectors
that will experience the sustained investment expansion in the next
years. Coutinho specifically named the oil and gas production chain
(development of the pre-salt hydrocarbon reserves); electricity and
power logistics plus building new ports, expanding existing ones and
recovering the railways system.
Coutinho also revealed that so far this year a significant percentage of
funds demand normally served by BNDES have been provided by private
banks, which has meant that the banka**s outlays will be in the range of
145 billion Real (90 billion USD) below the original estimate of 170
billion Real (106bn USD).
Brazil since the implementation of the Real stabilization plan has been
growing sustainedly, has become one of the worlda**s seven leading
economies and is hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.
However investment in infrastructure has lagged and the country faces
serious bottlenecks in highways, storage capacity, ports, railways and
communication systems. This has become particularly evident in
preparations for the World Cup which demands refurbished stadiums,
airports and service facilities
Paulo Gregoire
Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:06 UTC
Strong tendency to lower inflation in coming months is forecasted in
Brazil Central Bank head of Monetary Policy Aldo Mendes
anticipated Monday that inflation in the coming two/three months will be
almost flat, close to zero and supported his forecast on the food prices
inflexion tendency.
a**The tendency of food prices, the most volatile component, is
accommodativea**, said Mendes who blamed food prices for the surge of
inflation since the end of 2010 because of soaring commodities
international prices.
Therea**s a different dynamics now and this a**has already blended with
future expectations on inflation and analysts are anticipating lower
rates than in previous monthsa**.
Mendes argued that the main instruments to contain inflation are
precisely inflation and interest rates. The so called macro-prudential
measures are additional tools and have the prime purpose of
a**controlling the credit marketa** with higher compulsory mechanisms.
a**These measure also help to contain inflationa**, added Mendes who
said that another target of the Central bank is a**to limit families
indebtednessa** with measures such as making compulsory first instalment
down payments with credit cards of 15% that will be elevated to 20% at
the end of the yeara**.
Confirming Mendes forecast the IGP-M inflation index, which is 60%
weighted in raw materials, rose 0.43% in May, the Getulio Vargas
Foundation announced Monday. That's the slowest since July, when prices
rose 0.15%.
The IGP-M reading bolsters policy makers' claims that inflation may slow
in the coming months to a level in line with the Central bank's 4.5%
annual target, added the release. Wholesale prices, which have jumped
11.35% over the past year, rose 0.03% in May, led by a 28% decline in
cotton prices.
Processed food prices slipped 0.74% in May, from an increase of 0.38% in
April, according to the IGP-M report. The prices of oranges plunged 25%,
cotton fell 28% and ethanol declined 3.6% in the month.
Still, demand pressures fuelled by near-full employment and rising wages
continue to be a concern to economists.
Consumer prices rose 0.9% in May according to the IGP-M index, more than
0.78% gain in April, as fuel prices jumped 4.08%. Construction prices,
which account for 10% of the index, jumped 2.03% on higher costs for
bricklayers and engineers.
From a year ago, the IGP-M index rose 9.77%, less than the 10.60% posted
in the year through April.
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Many organic luminphores and dyes are polynuclear aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds, including pyrene and its heterocyclic analogs. Effective medicines, (e.g., the antitumor compound AG 311) and luminescent intercalators have been discovered on the basis of 4,9-diazapyrenes [1–3].
At this time the majority of azapyrenes are unavailable. Primarily this is due to the absence of efficient methods for the peri-annelation of heterocyclic rings. In this study, we propose a method for the peri-annelation of an [ab]pyridine ring to perimidines, which is based on a previously unknown intramolecular variant of our recently discovered acetamidation of aromatic compounds using nitroalkanes in polyphosphoric acid (PPA) [4,5].
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- Title
- A novel method for the synthesis of 1,8-dihydropyrido[2,3,4-gh]perimidin-7(6H)-ones
- Journal
Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
Volume 48, Issue 8 , pp 1269-1271
- Cover Date
- 2012-11-01
- 10.1007/s10593-012-1131-y
- Print ISSN
- 0009-3122
- Online ISSN
- 1573-8353
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- 1,8-dihydropyrido[2,3,4-gh]perimidin-7(6H)-ones
- β-nitrostyrene
- perimidines
- polyphosphoric acid
- 1,3,6-triazapyrenes
- amination
- peri-annelation
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- A. V. Aksenov (1)
- N. A. Aksenov (1)
- A. B. Kumshaeva (1)
- A. N. Smirnov (1)
- S. N. Ovcharov (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. North Caucasus Federal University, 1a Pushkin St., Stavropol, 355009, Russia