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The current flagship of the Canon SD line is the Canon Powershot SD700 IS. It's their smallest camera to include the Canon Image Stabilization system -- a welcome addition to those people looking for better image quality and versatility in their sub-compact cameras. Read on for our full review.
In another sign that more megapixels is not always better, all of Canon's newest SD cameras (SD700 IS included) shoot at a resolution of 6 megapixels, which seems to be the current resolution sweet spot. The SD700 IS also has a 4x optical zoom, 2.5 inch LCD, and still includes the optical viewfinder. Fast operation, ease of use, and excellent image quality make the Powershot SD700 IS a top choice for a sub-compact camera, if you can afford it.
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Included in the box, along with the camera, you'll find the lithium-ion battery pack (NB-5L), batter charger, a 16 MB SD card, wrist strap, software CD, USB cable, and A/V cable.
Camera Design
The Canon SD/Digital ELPH ultra-compact line has been setting the bar for ultra-compacts for several years now. While not super-slim like the Sony T series, or the Casio Card cameras, the Canons are still very compact and pocketable. They're shaped more like a brick than a slim card. The lens retracts fully into the camera when powered off, but you should be a bit careful about the LCD when it's in a pocket.
The camera is very well built and feels solid and comfortable in your hand, especially for such a compact camera. The little plastic access door to access the AV jack is a little lame, but it seems like every Canon camera has a little plastic door. Also, most digital camera users don't use this door often, so no worries.
My one major gripe about the design of the camera is the mode dial. Sort of embedded on the right side of the back of the camera, it's positioned well for turning, but it can be hard to tell which mode is selected by look or by feel. A better dial/switch mechanism would be a huge improvement.
The front of the camera features the lens, flash, optical viewfinder port, microphone, and focus assist/red eye reduction / timer lamp.
The top of the camera has the shutter release, and zoom control (ring around the shutter).
The right side of the camera (when looking at the back) has the wrist strap anchor, flimsy plastic door to access the AV jack, and the mode dial is exposed to this side of the camera.
The bottom of the camera provides access to the battery/SD card compartment and has a tripod mount.
The back of the camera has the LCD, optical viewfinder with status LEDs next to it. The power button is also located on the back of the camera. Also on the back are a Disp button, DPOF button, 5-way directional pad (with Func. Set button in the middle), and the Menu button.
Camera Features
The Canon SD700 IS captures images a 6 megapixels with a 1/2.5 inch CCD. A 2.5 inch LCD with 173K pixels of resolution allows easy framing and review. If you don't want to use the LCD, the SD700 does include an increasingly rare optical viewfinder.
Images can be captured at resolutions of: 2,816 x 2,112 (Large), 2,272 x 1,704 (Medium 1), 1,600 x 1,200 (Medium 2), and 640 x 480. A Postcard with Date Imprint mode captures images at 1,600 x 1,200 and a Widescreen mode captures images of 2,816 x 1,584 pixels. There are three settings for quality: SuperFine, Fine, and Normal. Movies can be captured at 640x480 and 320x240 at 30 fps and 15 fps.
The SD700 lens has a focal length range of 5.8mm -- 23.2 mm (35mm equivalent of 35mm -- 140mm), giving the camera a 4x optical zoom. The lens has an aperture range of f/2.8 -- f/5.5. The other big news in the lens department is that it includes Canon's Image Stabilization (IS) system; Canon's first time in a camera this small. The IS allows you to shoot subjects at much slower shutter speeds without blur from hand shake.
There are three modes of image stabilization, in addition to just turning it off. It can be disabled completely or enabled in Continuous, Shoot Only, and Panning modes. In Continuous mode, the IS is enabled all the time, so the effects of the IS can be seen on the LCD. During shoot-only, the IS is enabled at the time of the image capture, saving a little bit of battery. In Panning mode, the IS is set to stabilize only vertical movement and is meant for horizontally moving subjects.
For storage media, the SD700 IS accepts SD and MMC memory cards.
The SD700 is powered by a lithium-ion battery pack (NB-5L). Following the CIPA standard, with the LCD on, the camera is good for 240 shots. With the LCD off, the camera can take 700 shots on a single charge. Charge time is right around 2 hours.
The SD line is not known for having any "manual" controls, like an aperture priority, shutter priority, or full manual mode and the SD700 is no different. On the mode dial, you can choose Auto, a "M" mode that is actually more of a Program Auto mode, Scene (SCN) mode, Movie Capture, and Image Playback.
Full Auto mode provides the least control over the camera, but is good for the person who doesn't want to mess with any of the camera's settings. In full Auto mode, you can adjust the capture resolution, and compression setting by using the Func. Set button in the middle of the directional pad. The directional pad allows you to access the Macro and Infinity focus modes, the flash modes, to change the ISO setting, and the timer or continuous shooting modes. You'll notice that some items in the Func menu are not available in full Auto mode. You can access these by using the M mode.
In the M or "manual" mode, you can access the settings that affect white balance, exposure compensation, the My Colors menu, and sensitivity (ISO) values. You are also able to change the metering method between evaluative, center-weighted, and spot metering.
The SCN (scene) mode on the dial lets you access the built-in scene modes. You can choose from Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Color Accent, Underwater, and Color Swap.
Other settings for the camera are available by pressing the Menu button. If you've used a Canon before, this menu looks like it always has. Here you can do things like adjust the IS mode, disable digital zoom, format the memory card, etc.
Camera Performance and Image Quality
Probably my favorite thing about the compact cameras from Canon is that they operate very quickly. Startup times are great, shot to shot times are excellent, and shutter lag is pretty much non-existent, as long as you've achieved focus and exposure lock with a partial press of the shutter.
The SD700 was a joy to use. The controls were comfortable and easy to use, especially for such a compact camera. The position of the shutter release and zoom ring make it pretty easy to use with one hand.
The Image Stabilization system worked well. Both shots below were taken with a shutter speed of 1/13th of a second. I did a 100% crop on some detail of a globe to make it easier for you to see the difference. While not the most dramatic demonstration, I think it works. I guess my hands are more stable than I thought.
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Focus was achieved quickly, and accurately in most cases. If you're ok with the camera choosing a focus point and being wrong sometimes, then the AiAF focus system will work fine. This system chooses the focus point when you partially depress the shutter. It can be hard to predict though. If you want more control over the focus point, then just disable the AiAF and use the center AF point. The camera does have a focus assist light for those dimly lit situations that can challenge an AF system.
The flash range is pretty much always disappointing in small cameras. However, with the built in Image Stabilization, the flash is not needed as much, so turn it off! You will be surprised at how natural those former flash shots look.
The automatic white balance works well in almost all of the typical situations. The one place that I noticed some issues was in an Apple Store in a mall. The mixed, dramatic lighting in the store was really throwing things off. When a white MacBook is no longer white, it's pretty noticeable. However, it was very easy to set the custom white balance and get my whites whiter.
The image quality was excellent. Colors were accurate (unless you play around with the My Colors shooting mode), showed good dynamic range and exposure was excellent. Images were very sharp except for some shots taken at full telephoto where the focus might have been off just a tad.
Noise was very well controlled. In my opinion, it's acceptable up to ISO 200 but a little too much at ISO 400, but you could probably get away with a smaller print of ISO 400. The camera does sport an ISO 800 mode if you really need that extra sensitivity to capture a shot. Keep in mind that the camera does employ some on-board noise reduction when the shutter speed is slower than 1.3 seconds. See the image below for comparison.
Macro performance was quite awesome. The picture below of mortar between bricks actually reveals more detail than I can pick out with my naked eye.
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Specification Highlights
With several trade shows to attend each year, a couple of my colleagues ended up with the SD700 IS. They don't like to carry large cameras, but were getting increasingly disappointed with the images from their older, slim cameras that didn't do well in low light. With the SD700 IS, they get a camera that can take excellent shots of the latest and greatest electronics in the sometimes challenging light of trade show exhibits. All while still being small enough to easily pocket and not be too noticeable.
The above example is only one of many situations where the SD700 IS feature set will come in handy. It has excellent image quality, good battery life, and very fast operation. While it doesn't have any true manual modes, the person that buys this camera typically isn't looking for them. The included feature set, including the fun My Colors feature, is fun to use. While the camera is not cheap, it is worth it if it's in your budget.


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My final requirement at this stage was to have something more graphical: a nice chart to show the trend of fans over time. The report designer allows the creation of charts using the KDChart library from KDAB and is used in the KOffice program KChart. It is quite powerful, allowing you to join chart data to the main report data (called master-child links), but for now, all I needed was a simple, single chart. The chart object expects data in a certain format. There must be two or more columns of data. The first column is used for the labels on the X axis, and all other columns are used as a series in the chart. I started by creating a query with two columns, date in ascending order and total fans, then created a new report. The report itself is not based on any data, so its Data Source was left empty. An empty data source will produce a report with one detail section, providing an area to add a minimal set of items to a report.
In my detail section, I added a chart object from the report designer toolbar and set its data source to the query I had just produced (Figure 11).
As you can see, even at design time, the chart object is able to gather data and draw a preview of the chart. Switching to the data view shows the chart without any of the extra lines and text from the designer (Figure 12).
When printed, both the tabular report and chart report look as they do in the Data view. When printed using the PDF printer option in KDE, the chart even retains all its detail, as it is not converted to a bitmap, but saved as lines, which makes it completely zoomable!
Saving the tabular report as an HTML document produces two options: saving as a table or using CSS. The table option produces an HTML file where the text from each field in a report is saved as a table cell, and each section is a row. The CSS option uses the <div> tag and tries to create an HTML file that closely resembles the original, allowing text and images to be rendered at arbitrary positions.
The tabular report also exports nicely into an OpenDocument Spreadsheet file for use in either KSpread or OpenOffice.org (Figure 13).
As you can see from the image, one problem is that the report's title has taken a cell with the other field headings. This is because it is in the same section, but it easily can be fixed by putting the title into a separate section, such as a Page Header.
Kexi 2 is a powerful tool for developing database applications. Find out what else is possible by giving it a try, and if you can, please contribute more documentation at userbase.kde.org/Kexi, or join the team by dropping into #kexi or #koffice on Freenode IRC.
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Acai Elite is an acai supplement that claims to boost weight loss with the power of acai. There is no official website, but we found several reviews; some with ingredient lists for the product. The most important piece of information we found about Acai Elite was the auto-ship program. Customers can order a free trial of the product, but they must cancel the auto-ship program within 14 days to stop the next payment from being deducted from their bank account. Unfortunately, that 14 days starts the day you order the product and you may not receive the bottle before the time has lapsed. The charge for the bottle after the 14 days is $80. There are multiple reports about the company behind Acai Elite being a scam.
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Acai berry is a superfruit with strong antioxidant properties. There are no weight loss benefits to taking acai, but the antioxidant support is much needed for most dieters. Reducing calorie intake and exercising may cause an increase in free radical production. Antioxidants fight the effects of free radicals.
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Octopamine HCL is proven to release fat from fat cells, but this effect does not result in weight loss. Instead, the released fat is absorbed by surrounding cells, essentially moving the fat around not releasing the fat out of the body.
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The Brigantine Rams held their annual banquet Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Community Center.
Coaches Mike Morgan and Tim Branco flank players who have played all three levels of the Rams. Back row from left are Dillion Kott, Danny Shannon, Eric Grazziano, Tommy Bell and John Volpe; and, bottom row, John Readion, Jules Massello, Joey Pappora, Andrew Noble and Joey Hartman.


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What the party is finding, though, is that the electricity of 2008 is tough to recapture. Some Democratic candidates running for local office around the country call the phenomenon the "Obama Hangover.'' It is proving tougher to recruit volunteers and get people to vote.
"It's like the morning after the party,'' said Michael McGann, a Democrat running for clerk of courts in the Philadelphia suburbs. "The party was wonderful and exciting. The day after it's like, 'Gee, I don't want to do that again for a while.' ''


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Wynton Marsalis' Congo Square on USA TODAY
Wynton has been interviewed by the magazine USA TODAY about the premiere of his new composition: Congo Square.
A spiritual,historical, festive,rythmnic,musical event I was so proud to be able to participate. I am so proud of the song wynton wrote and sung.
Only those who are a native of New Orleans like Wynton is able to convey such a spiritual interview as this. Its touches my heart and gave me a history I was unaware of.
whitNow what about the 9th ward obtaining electricity and the levee to be restrored by next months hurricane season????
Totally Amazing…!!
Caught Wynton and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra along with Yacub Addy and Odadaa! (from Ghana)at the Eastman Theatre, Rochester NY (Rochester International Jazz Festival) last night…took my two teenagers. My kids are both musicians and my 18 year old was really impressed. He is in a post hardcore/metalcore band and awakening to jazz and other genres all the time. My daughter is 15 and has ambitions in opera and/or contemporary so they take their music seriously. I am a poet/writer/single mom.
And as if exploring the roots of jazz in its new orleans/African roots weren't enough; to hear, feel and witness the transitions between the two and wonder how they were so masterfully accomplish truly boggles the mind in retrospect, even if the two side by side now seem like the most natural thing in the world to me. My epiphany was seeing the fusion actually take place.
Never in my years have I ever been quite this impressed……
I caught the Congo Square show here in Detroit,Michigan on friday night.I had my concerns as to how the two art forms would intermingle……In my estimation this artistic presentation was the best I had ever seen.Everyone who attended this concert came away very enlightened.Please check it out if you can and take someone with you.
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Yes, Yacub was not present in Rochester. It was, thankfully, the only performance that he missed. Actually, I found it very interesting to be able to attend that show. Many of the musicians in Odadaa had assumed different roles in the instrumentation of the pieces as a result of Yacub's absence (and also due to absence of the one and only Ricky Gordon). Also, the Odadaa drummers received a standing ovation in the Eastman Theater for their performance in "Logo Talk". The audience loved it and they carried the show extremely well.
I want to thank Wynton and Yacub for this uplifting contribution to the canon of Jazz. There is a beauty in this piece that touches the audience in a deep way, on a spiritual level. This music further esteems the value of African culture, particularly Ghanaian culture, and exemplifies the West African roots of American musical forms. This is so critically important at this time in our global development. It is through music and dance that we can most readily celebrate each other. Jazz has its collective essence and it is truly beautiful to witness this collective cultural phenomenon and its impact on our citizens.
I was at the Original concert in New Orleans last year and it was "awesome" and uplifited the spirits of all New Orleans residents who attended. I would like to know when is the CD coming out of that performance?
Dear Larry,
the Congo Square album will be in stores this fall. -
I first saw the Congo Square at one of our local stores (Kloppers in Bloemfontein – South Africa) in December 2009, bought it. I have never regretted doing that. It is not that I am mad about the father and son's (Brandford and Wynton)music, but spirituality role that their artistic work delivers to my soul makes me buy anything from them without even listening or view. If it is possible all those who got spiritually cought by the concert or the DVD will agree with mr when I say the composition of the two have much to do with healing,connectio with Africa and spiritual uplifment. I am encouraging fellow friends to also go an extra mile to buy the following artistic works of this and other artists –
Brandford Marsalis 1. Eternal (CD) Wynton Marsalis 1. In this house, On this morning (DVD) – ,the song "Benediction" 2. The Majesty of the blues (CD), the song "Premature Autopsies" Pharoah Sanders 1. Save Our Children (CD), the song "Jewels of love" Miles Davis 1. Kind of Blue, the songs "Flaming Sketches 5 and 6" Live Culture (RSA)
1. A man, A boy and A Girl, the song "Kraal Blues"
John Coltrane
1. The very best of …(CD), the song "My favorite things"
Charles Lloyd
1. Forest Flower, the song "Forest Floer Sunset"
How to interact with the Marsalis family?
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That's a wrap for this financial year. We'll see you bright and early Monday morning for another edition of Markets Live.
Have a safe and happy weekend.
And finally for this financial year:
Best performers of the financial year.
We've got a bonanza of charts coming up. First, here are the best perfomers on the ASX200 today:
Best performers for June 28 2013.
For the week the ASX200 added 63.8 points, or 1.4 per cent.
For the financial year it added 707.96 points, or 17.3 per cent.
The market has closed down modestly after trading flat for most of the day. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 lost 8.7 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 4802.6, while the broader All Ords slipped 9.4 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 4775.4.
The mood of financial markets has been more settled in recent days, with investors cheering both good and bad data from the US, CMC Markets Tim Waterer notes:
- We have seen a low US GDP print evoke a positive reaction on thoughts that it will reduce the need for early QE tapering. We have also seen solid US data such as consumer sentiment and new home sales numbers met with applause due to signs of life in the US economy.
- Adding to the feelgood vibe of the market lately has been what appears to be a concerted effort by Fed officials to talk down the prospects of imminent QE tapering.
- Australian equities posted a more modest performance than that of neighbouring markets, with the ASX200 showing signs of running out of gas following bumper gains in the prior two trading days.
It's almost official: superannuation returns are reaching those heady days before the financial crisis.
Balanced super funds are expected to return 15 per cent in the year to June 30, said Mano Mohankumar, investment research manager at super researcher Chant West.
This is a touch off the 15.6 per cent return recorded in the 2007 financial year, and the second highest return since the late 1990s, he said.
Balanced funds are the most common super category, mostly invested in growth assets such as equities.
Most of the returns can be attributed to the rally in sharemarkets over the eight months to February. Despite recent troubles, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 looks set to close up 19 per cent, 27 per cent including dividends.
Alex Dunnin, research director at super researcher Rainmaker, agreed double-digit returns were likely.
"The post GFC period has been a good one for super investors as in 09-10 funds returned 10 per cent, in 10-11 they returned 9 per cent, in 11-12 they returned 1 per cent and this year they should do 10 to 11 per cent," Mr Dunnin said.
"That's a cumulative return of 33 per cent since the GFC ... This is not bad in anyone's language."
China's central bank has vowed to keep cash flowing, saying it will ''adjust'' liquidity to ensure stability after a week-long squeeze that has rattled financial markets.
The assurance from Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China (PBoC), today helped Chinese share prices perk up after a recent sell-off that rippled across Asia and and around the world.
Anxiety about tightening credit has been spreading into the broader economy with some Chinese companies reportedly running short of cash to settle suppliers' bills.
But addressing a financial forum in Shanghai, Zhou said: ''The PBoC will use all sorts of instruments and measures to adjust the overall liquidity level, so as to ensure the overall stability of the market.''
The Shanghai Composite is up 0.85 per cent.
Now that we've done a bit of a look back at the past financial year on the ASX50, ASX200 and the All Ords, what should we expect going forward?
Platypus Asset Management chief investment officer Don Williams says although most of healthcare was fully valued, "there were earnings upgrades to come through just based on currency alone".
- The consumer sector has come back into focus in the last three or four months and even though a lot of those companies have been re-rated and are looking a little expensive now, if the economy does improve in the next six months, there's potential for further gains there.
- The way we characterised fiscal year 2013 is it's a transition year where there were the first potential signs in a turn around in the earnings outlook. But haven't said that, we're not expecting earnings to start growing for another six months.
Alex Moffatt, director at stockbrokers Joseph Palmer & Sons, says that for the financial services sector, a modest rally in the markets could see stocks like Challenger perform well.
- I like some of the smaller service providers like M2 Telecommunications, McMillan Shakespeare. I think Telstra is still very keenly priced and has got room to move.
- The healthcare sector has had a good run, but I think there is potential for companies like Cochlear and Invocare to perhaps participant more in the coming year."
RBS Morgans director of equities Tony Dennis says the recent correction on the market has re-introduced the yield theme:
- In an environment where cash is 2.75 per cent, it's a no brainer to re-look at the good yield stories.
- One sector I'm particularly drawn to is the thematic around the massive use of data. Companies like NEXTDC and iiNet will continue to florish. They've had terrific years and that's only going to get better.
- The other thing that we should be doing is looking for the winners that can grow independent of the overall economic growth.
- If you look at some of the success stories of the last year, it's not been because there's been organic growth in their particular area, it's because they've been going out and doing things that are ensuring their company grows independent of the cycle. So that's the challenge to find things like that.
Heavy machinery dealer WesTrac is cutting 350 jobs in NSW and the ACT as part of a restructure, because of ''challenging market conditions''.
The company, a division of Seven Group Holdings, which is chaired by Kerry Stokes, provides Caterpillar machinery such as bulldozers and trucks to miners and builders.
WesTrac said it had already introduced a series of efficiency and productivity initiatives over the past eight months in an effort to streamline its costs. ''But these measures alone have not been sufficient in view of continuing challenging market conditions.''
WesTrac Australia employs more than 3500 employees across 30 branches in Western Australia, NSW and the ACT.
Seven Group Holding's shares were down 14 cents, or 1.8 per cent, at $7.00.
The long-serving chief executive of blood products and vaccine supplier CSL will take home $4.9 million in one-off payments when he severs ties with the company in October.
Brian McNamee could also be awarded shares worth in excess of $18 million in coming years under long-term incentive plans.
McNamee's 23-year career as chief executive of CSL ends today, and his contract with the company expires on October 15. Under his leadership, CSL has grown from a small government enterprise to a publicly-listed company worth more than $30 billion.
Overnight in the US, Nike, the world's largest sporting-goods company, posted fiscal fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates as running shoes propelled revenue gains in the US.
Net income in the quarter ended May 31 rose 22 per cent to $668 million, or 73 cents a share, from $549 million, or 59 cents, a year earlier, Oregon-based Nike said. Excluding units sold, profit of 76 cents a share exceeded the 74-cent average projection compiled by Bloomberg.
Nike has been benefiting from increasing demand for running and basketball gear in North America as revenue in its largest market surged 12 per cent. In China, by contrast, consumers have shunned apparel that didn't have the proper sophistication or fit, forcing Nike to use discounts. Still, worldwide sales gained 7.4 per cent to $6.7 billion, topping estimates.
Chinese fund managers lowered their suggested exposure to stocks and bonds in June amid fears that a cash squeeze in the money market could weigh on economic growth, the latest Reuters fund poll showed on Friday.
The average recommended equity weighting in a fund portfolio fell to 83.5 per cent in June, down slightly from 83.7 per cent a month earlier, according to the monthly poll of eight China-based fund managers conducted this week.
Money managers also slashed suggested bond holdings to 5.75 per cent from 8.4 per cent a month ago, while raising recommended cash holdings to 10.8 per cent from 7.9 per cent.
"If the liquidity shortage spreads to the real economy, lending rates will rise, thus increasing costs for companies and impacting their earnings," said one fund manager.
Heavy machinery dealer WesTrac is cutting 350 jobs as part of a restructure.
The company provides Caterpillar machinery such as bulldozers and trucks to miners and builders.
It is a division of Seven Group Holdings, which is chaired by Kerry Stokes.
WesTrac has announced plans to restructure its NSW and ACT operations because of ''challenging market conditions''.
''It is anticipated that the restructure will result in approximately 350 redundancies across WesTrac's NSW-ACT business which will be implemented in the next month at an approximate cost of $10 million,'' the company said in a statement.
Amid the usual fear and loathing of the past month's correction, never mind the constant growling of our perma-bears, you might have missed the fact that it has been an extremely good financial year for Australia's favourite stocks, writes BusinessDay's Michael Pascoe.
throughout the year, it's been easy to find the usual Doomsday brigade – some with political motives, some just trying to flog newsletters – wanting to tell you that everything Australian was cactus and would get worse.
The extreme outperformance of the top 20, a massive divergence from the rest of the market, is highlighted by Bell Potter's super bull, Charlie Aitken, in his latest note to clients. (Mind you, the top 20 represent 74 per cent of the ASX200 benchmark – giving index huggers an easy ride this financial year.)
Aitken resisted the temptation to use today's note to boast how right he was with his big call back at the start of August that the bear market was over. He said then he would be happy to be judged on that in six and 12 months – we're about five weeks short of the 12-month mark and Charlie has indeed won, while all those hugging gold bars and the half million Australians who had exited equities altogether have lost.
Japan's economy strengthened in May as factory output rose the most since December 2011, retail sales climbed and consumer prices halted a six-month slide, bolstering Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to end deflation.
Consumer prices excluding fresh food were unchanged from a year before as a weakening yen sent utility costs up at the fastest pace in almost five years. Prices excluding fresh food and energy fell 0.4 per cent in May from a year earlier, the statistics bureau in Tokyo reported today. Industrial production advanced 2 per cent from April driven by demand from power companies. Retail sales gained 1.5 per cent from the previous month.
The data offer Abe evidence that his reflationary strategy is paying off as he campaigns to strengthen his political position before next month's upper house election. They may also ease pressure on Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to add monetary stimulus after a sell-off in stocks.
The White House has assembled a short list of candidates to succeed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is running the search, Reuters quotes a source familiar with the process.
Bernanke is expected to leave when his second term as head of the central bank ends on January 31, after an eventful eight years in helping the US economy recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Lew has assembled a short list with help from several senior White House officials, the source said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
There was no information on who is on the list, although Fed vice-chair Janet Yellen, former Obama adviser Lawrence Summers and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are considered to be likely leading choices.
In a Reuters poll of economists earlier this month, the vast majority said Obama was likely to tap Yellen to take over.
Yellen, who has served as Fed vice chair since October 2010, is considered a forceful advocate of aggressive action to lift unemployment. If nominated and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first woman to lead the central bank.
Looking at the broader All Ordinaries Index over this past financial year:
Top five
Sirius Resources: 3596.08 per cent
Megellan Financial Group: 384.32 per cent
Altium: 268.42 per cent
Bluescope Steel: 162.78 per cent
G8 Education: 152.58 per cent
Bottom five
Lachlan Star: -89.6 per cent
Discovery Metals: -91.32 per cent
Tanami Gold: -91.36 per cent
Straits Resources: -95.66 per cent
Australian Infrastructure Fund: -99.54 per cent
"There were a couple of travel-related companies. Flight Centre and Corporate Travel - have done really well," RBS Morgans director of equities Tony Dennis says:
- There were a couple of business consolidation stories - Greencross Vets and G8 Education. The similarity in the model is buying essentially private businesses and rolling them up into a corporate entity. And it's proven to be fairly successful.
- The appearance of Altium and Infomedia in the All Ords top 10 shows that they are unsung Aussie success stories.
Strong last day of the quarter around the region (except on the local market):
- Japan (Nikkei): +3.3%
- Hong Kong: +1.1%
- Shanghai: +1.5%
- Taiwan: +0.5%
- Korea: +1.4%
- Singapore: +1%
- New Zealand: +0.5%
Asian stocks are rising as concerns recede about US and Chinese monetary policies.
The founder of Opes Prime, Julian Smith, will face a 10-week trial on July 22 almost two years after two other founders were jailed for their role in the $680 million collapse of the failed broker.
Laurie Emini and Anthony Blumberg were jailed in 2011 after entering a plea bargain. Part of that deal included giving evidence against Smith, who has pleaded not guilty to two charges laid against him.
At the Supreme Court of Victoria today, Justice Lasry said the court would extend Smith's bail and set the trial date after a series of delays. Smith did not attend the hearing.
Opes Prime's collapse created havoc on the sharemarket when ANZ Bank and Opes Prime's other financiers, including Merrill Lynch, began selling down the broker's $1.4 billion securities lending portfolio to recover secured loans.
Creditors received 37 cents in the dollar after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission struck with ANZ and Merrill Lynch. In return, the regulator agreed to wipe the slate clean on all pending and future litigation against ANZ and Merrill Lynch.
Next up, we take a look at the worst performing sector on the ASX200 for the financial year. Not surprisingly - it's the materials sector.
While the sector as a whole fell 8.1 per cent over the past 12 months, there are a couple of winners:
Sirius Resources: 3553.85 per cent
Bluescope Steel: 188.27 per cent
Fletcher Building: 54 per cent
That also makes Sirius the best performing stock of the ASX200. Here are the three worst performers:
Sundance Resources: -79.71 per cent
Perseus Mining: -80.91 per cent
Discovery Metals: -91.08 per cent
"Mining and mining services have been hit pretty hard," Deutsche Bank's head of research sales, Glenn Morgan, says:
- We think it's not terminal, certainly for the mining companies. Mining services might still be in for a tough time.
- For mining companies, we think there's just a little hiatus before the new Chinese leadership gets its feet under the desk and starts its new reform program towards the end of the year.
- We think leading into the end of the year, some of those resources companies might start turning around. But it'll be a pretty difficult next couple of months for them.
China's one-week cash rate has dropped to its lowest since before last week's sharp credit squeeze, with banks having little trouble securing funds to meet their end-of-quarter requirements.
The improvement in short-term funding conditions propped up stocks, which have trailed its Asian peers so far this week, weighed down by concerns that even after the crunch blows over funding conditions would remain tougher than before.
The CSI300 index of the largest Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks is up 1.6 per cent, while the Shanghai Composite has risen 0.7 per cent. Both indices are still down sharply since the middle of last week.
The central bank allowed short-term borrowing costs spike up to record highs last week to send a message to banks that they could no longer count on cheap cash to fund riskier operations. Earlier this week it moved to allay fears the crunch could escalate into a financial crisis, bringing a measure of calm to markets after days of turbulence and heavy stock market losses.
"Banks have nearly all finished attracting new deposits for the end of this quarter, so we expect money rates should have relatively big room to fall today," says a trader at a state-owned bank in Beijing. "But overall market liquidity is expected to remain relatively tight over the next two weeks, partly because it takes time for the market to digest the aftermath of the recent acute squeeze."
The market is trading flat as investors take profits on the last trading day of the financial year after a two-day bounce.
Investors have been adjusting their portfolio for the last couple of days, pushing the market higher, says Biyi Cheng, head of dealing Asia Pacific at City Index.
"But they seem to come back to the normal mood today, as they have mostly finished that portfolio adjustment," Cheng says.
Despite the overnight rise in Wall Street, overarching concerns over stimulus reduction continued to weigh on market sentiment, Rivkin's global analyst Tim Radford writes in a note.
Here's an interesting question for all those following the forex markets, specifically AUD/USD:
Does anyone know if Algos play silly buggers around the turn of the hour??? been noticing it for weeks on #AUD and other pairs #forex
— Greg McKenna (@gregorymckenna) June 28, 2013
The Australian dollar has come under renewed pressure as a modest bounce shows signs of tiring into month- and quarter-end, even after Federal Reserve officials tried to calm worries about an end to easy money.
The dollar is down 0.5 per cent at 92.48 US cents, bringing in view the 33-month trough of 91.48 US cents plumbed at the start of the week.
Traders cite selling from Japanese banks and month-end flows, which are catching the market off guard. The latest fall has whittled down weekly gains to almost nothing.
A further drop in gold to a three-year trough under $US1200 an ounce is also hurting the Aussie. The precious metal, which is a major export earner for Australia, is on course for its worst weekly fall since 1983 and worst quarterly performance since at least 1968.
We've looked at some of the best and worst performing members on the ASX50 and ASX200 in previous posts. So what about the sectors that performed, or didn't perform, over the past year?
Healthcare was the strongest performing sector on the ASX200, growing 42.64 per cent over the past year.
"People have valued the earnings certainty they've given," Deutsche Bank's head of research sales, Glenn Morgan, says of healthcare stocks. "A lot of them are very sensitive to currency, and so that's given them a kick towards the end of the period."
Morgan says healthcare stocks will continue to strengthen in the next financial year, despite having to improve on an already strong performance.
"If you think the Australian dollar is headed lower, it is one of the most sensitive sectors and there are stocks that had been left behind. They've started to move now, like Sonic," he says.
Here's the top three and bottom three healthcare stocks for the year:
Sirtex Medical: 99.18 per cent
Resmed: 65.79 per cent
Primary Health: 62.46 per cent
Cochlear: -3.75 per cent
Mesoblast: -9.18 per cent
Acrux: -16.31 per cent
Here's a cracking lunchtime read that's getting a lot of traction: Australia has been called many things: Oz, the land Down Under, the lucky country. But the equivalent of a collateralised-debt obligation? William Pesek writes:
Canberra can't be happy to hear its AAA-rated economy likened to one of the reviled investment vehicles that blew up amid the 2008 global crisis. Yet the comparison is being made by some economists, who see the asset underlying Australia - demand from China - beginning to evaporate.
Australia is a microcosm of what awaits the world. How officials respond will offer clues to policy makers everywhere.
No country is more vulnerable to the much-dreaded slowdown in China than resource-rich Australia. The mining boom that fuelled nearly all of its recent growth is nearing a cliff of economic risk.
"Australia is a leveraged time bomb waiting to blow," says Albert Edwards, Societe Generale's London-based global strategist. "It is not just a CDO, but a CDO squared. All we have in Australia is, at its simplest, a credit bubble built upon a commodity boom dependent for its sustenance on an even greater credit bubble in China."
There's a bit of hyperbole in this view. But highly-advanced Australia is about to pay the price for growing so addicted to a developing nation. Exporting natural resources led to the neglect and atrophying of other critical sectors.
'The key for Australia is to return to the liberalising instincts of the 1980s and 1990s, when there was no behemoth gobbling up resources,' Pesek says. Photo: Bloomberg
Niall King at CMC Markets reckons we're set for a weak end to the week. In a recent note he writes:
While the main focus appears to be shifting back to fundamentals, recent moves suggest that equity markets are still reliant on the notion that sufficient easy money will continue to be drip-fed to keep growth ticking over. Consumer spending data from the US was the latest sentiment sweetener to accompany market comforting comments from the Fed on QE.
Following yesterday's brief revival, the Aussie dollar has lapsed back into its recent comfort range in mid-92 US cent territory, as continuing strong data from the world's largest economy induces confidence in the US unit. Looking ahead, Monday's manufacturing data from China is likely to be a key directional intersection for the Aussie.
Resources writer Peter Ker reports that Woodside Petroleum has taken another step toward internationalising its business after buying into acreage off the west coast of Ireland.
The Perth-based oil and gas company has struck deals with two companies to take a majority stake in multiple offshore blocks in an area known as the Porcupine Basin.
The acquisitions follow Woodside's recent move into Israel, and attempts to buy acreage in Cypriot waters, as chief executive Peter Coleman continues his strategy to diversify the company away from just the North-West of Australia.
Investors appear to like the strategy, with Woodside shares rising higher than the broader market this morning.
The stock was 65 cents higher at $35.35 shortly before 11am.
Some more on the gold price, which has slumped another 1.2 per cent this morning to $US1184.94 an ounce, its lowest since August 2010.
Gold has slid nearly $US200 in 10 days. It is down more than 28 per cent for the year and is headed for a 25 per cent loss for the second quarter, its biggest quarterly decline since at least 1968.
Gold has declined sharply since Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said last week the US central bank plans to start scaling back its $US85 billion monthly bond purchases in the next few months.
But analysts overnight also cited forced liquidations of gold unrelated to market fundamentals, and quarter-end selling by funds polishing portfolios through the time-honoured practice of window dressing.
"You don't want to catch a falling knife, so people who might be buyers are stepping aside and don't want to show gold at their quarter-end statement," said Axel Merk, chief investment officer at Merk Funds.
Some more on gold via the Twitterverse:
It's time to get out the ol' gold helmet pic.twitter.com/WcDeo1XH6P
— Chris Adams (@chrisadamsmkts) June 27, 2013
The word is goldenfreude. RT @Peston: The Twitter schadenfreude about gold's descent is truly magnificent to behold - almost glistering
— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June 27, 2013
As the end of the financial year looms, here's a look at the ASX's top 50 companies which reveals an interesting picture. The bottom five are miners or mining-related:
- Iluka Resources: -10.51%
- Orica: -16.16%
- WorleyParsons: -17.26%
- Fortescue Metals: -36.48%
- Newcrest Mining: -54.9%
Meanwhile, the top five performer for the financial year are a mixed bag:
- Macquarie Group: 62.95%
- Insurance Australia: 61.58%
- New Corp - CDI B: 57.23%
- Suncorp Group: 53.56%
If we cast our net wider and take in the ASX200, Sirius Resources is by far and away the best performing member over this financial year with growth of 3553.85%.
The worst performing member is Discovery Metals with -91.08%.
This pretty much sums it up:
Gold $1,183... Crash! Bang! Pow!
— Stephen Koukoulas (@TheKouk) June 28, 2013
We're set to take stock of the stocks on the local share market this financial year.
Bell Potter analyst Charlie Aitken has taken a look at the ASX20 and the data is pretty stark.
The bottom five are all resources stocks - Woodside, Origin Energy, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Newcrest Mining.
At the other end of the table, CSL took out the top spot with a 58.84 per cent gain for the year. In second place was Macquarie Group with 55.41 per cent. Third was Brambles with 51.14 per cent growth in the past 12 months.
Mr Aitken writes in his research note:
The total return divergence of the ASX20 Accumulation Index, which itself delivered a +26.3 per cent total return, is stunning. In fact, I can never remember anything like this level of total return divergence over a 12 month period in our largest stocks in my 20 year career. The ASX20 represents 74 per cent of the benchmark ASX200.
The most glaring aspect of this table is the bottom five performers in the ASX20 in FY13 are all resource stocks, pretty much confirming the equity market is of the view the commodity boom is over.
The 9 stocks that all beat the ASX20 Accumulation Index are all industrials, confirming P/E taken away from resources was given to industrials that face the USA or East Coast of Australia.
And now for the sliders on the ASX50:
- Orica: -3.89%
- WorleyParsons: -2.10%
- Newcrest: -1.62%
- Crown: -1.3%
- Amcor: -1.12%
A look now at the best performed companies among the ASX top 50:
- Mirvac: +2%
- Dexus: +1.91%
- Goodman: +1.87%
- Woodside: +1.79%
- Stockland: +1.73%
- Coca-Cola Amatil: +1.27%
Here are the early gainers on the ASX200:
- Medusa Mining: +4.35%
- FKP Property: +4.07%
- Premier Investments: +3.93%
- Drillsearch: +3.52%
- Horizon Oil: +3.08%
- Virgin: +2.93%
- JB Hi-Fi: +2.57%
Now for the sector-by-sector sliders on the ASX200:
- Materials: -0.56%
- Health: -0.5%
- Utilities: -0.5%
- Info tech: -0.46%
Sector-by-sector on the ASX200 now, here are the early gainers:
- Telecoms: +0.64%
- Financials: +0.59%
- Industrials: +0.33%
- Consumer disc.: +0.32%
- Consumer staples: +0.3%
- Energy: +0.24%
Following that last post, Kingsgate shares are down 1.5 per cent to $1.34 on write-down, but gold price slump is probably also helping to depress the price.
Gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated is to take a $300 million write-off against its Challenger gold mine in South Australia - nearly equal to the price it paid for the miner - as it slashes output at the mine to cope with the slumping gold price.
Kingsgate acquired Challenger for $376 million, with operations at the mine hit by a series of operating issues subsequently, which has restricted output and earnings from the mine.
Now, with the sharp decline in the gold price, Kingsgate said it will cut output at the mine to 70,000-80,000 ounces of gold annually, down from output which had been targetted at around 100,000 ounces annually once recent production difficulties had been resolved.
The cut in output comes as it has decided to focus on mining higher grades at the mine.
The Australian share market has opened a quarter of a per cent higher.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.1 points, or .027 per cent, at 4,824.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 10.6 points, or 0.22 per cent, at 4,795.4.
On the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was up 18 points at 4,792, with 6,405 contracts traded.
Lots of data out in Japan today, as CommSec tweeters note:
Big day in Japan: Household spending, unemployment, industrial production, retail sales & manufacturing all out. ^SD
— CommSec (@CommSec) June 28, 2013
Early take - stocks have risen modestly in opening trade. Up about 0.3 per cent.
The Aussie dollar has drifted back down to the middle of its recent range in early trade today.
After trading as high as 93.45 US cents yesterday, the Aussie was down to 92.55 US cents a short time ago.
OM Financial senior client adviser Stuart Ive said the selloff of precious metals, along with the strong US economic data, would have weighed on the Australian dollar.
''It's been a fairly hectic week with everyone trying to gather their thoughts on what the Fed are actually saying and where the US economy is relative to the Australian economy,'' Mr Ive said.
''The consolidation that the Fed has sought, they've achieved that now in slowing down this freefall that we saw in all global markets, which was partly to do with the Fed and partly to do with concerns about China.
''Now, we'll be looking for fundamental economic data to really direct where we are going to go to next.''
Some analyst rating changes for today:
- Toll raised to buy at Deutsche Bank
- Toll cut to neutral cut to neutral at CIMB
- Chorus raised to hold at Deutsche Bank
- Western Areas raised to neutral vs sell at Goldman
- Sandfire Resources rated new neutral at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch
Gold has fallen below $US1200 for the first time in nearly three years, as month-end book squaring and relentless liquidation by institutional investors sent bullion prices sharply lower.
Gold reversed early gains in New York trade, and the slide accelerated with stop-loss orders triggered after the price fell below $US1225 an ounce to $US1199.51, down 2.1 per cent. Its session low of $US1197.1 an ounce was its lowest since August 12, 2010.
Gold has slid nearly $US200 an ounce in 10 days. It is down more than 28 per cent for the year and is headed for a 25 per cent loss for the second quarter, its biggest quarterly decline since at least 1968.
Steep fall ... the gold price over the past three years.
Aussie stocks are set to open higher after world markets posted another night of gains. The optimism wasd riven by fresh signs of a strengthening US economy and as Federal Reserve officials downplayed investor speculation they will curb stimulus soon. Crude oil surged while gold sank below $US1200 an ounce.
US stocks also got a lift from economic data showing a decline in weekly jobless claims and improvements in consumer spending and income.
On the Fed, William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said the US central bank's masset purchases would be more aggressive than the timeline Bernanke had outlined if US economic growth and the labor market prove weaker than expected.
Dudley stressed that slowing the pace of the Fed's bond buying would depend not on calendar dates but on the economic outlook, which remained unclear.
Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart echoed Dudley's comments, saying the pace of the Fed's purchases remained contingent on evolving economic conditions.
In news this morning, the new Rudd government will stand by the budget handed down by former treasurer Wayne Swan in May, his successor Chris Bowen says.
''That remains the government's budget; those forecasts remain the government's forecasts,'' he told the Nine Network on Friday.
Mr Bowen, who his receiving Treasury briefings and going through the state of the economy, said he could not rule out any changes to policies in the future.
''But the budget's out there, it remains the government's budget and we stand by it.''
Chris Bowen will be Treasurer in a new Kevin Rudd government. Photo: Andrew Meares
For a comprehensive look at this morning's business news, check today's need2know. Here are this morning's key markets numbers:
- SPI futures are 22 points higher at 4796
- The $A is lower at 92.57 US cents
- In New York, the S&P500 was 0.67% higher at 1614.01
- In Europe, the FTSE100 added 1.26% to 6243.4
- China iron ore added to $US1.50 to $US115.30 a metric tonne
- Gold fell 1.79% to $1204.10 an ounce
- WTI crude oil added 1.6% to $US97.05 a barrel
- Reuters/Jefferies CRB index 0.2% higher at 277.35
Hi folks. Welcome to the Markets Live blog for Friday.
Contributors: Thomas Hunter, Jens Meyer, Max Mason
This blog is not intended as investment advice
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Dave Crawford, design lead at Microsoft, recently sat down with several independent Windows Phone app developers in the UK to offer guidance about ways to improve the functionality and overall user experience of their apps.
Dave is a proven expert in refining mobile applications; he has worked with the Windows Phone User Interface since its initial release and has reviewed more than 2,000 Windows Phone applications. Through these design reviews Dave helps developers to distill the most common issues in application design, providing guidance for steps that can be taken to make a great app even better.
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This seems to be a real threat from the Greenpeace blog:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.What is next? "We know where your children go to school"? It is such a small step.
And we be many, but you be few.
The context:
Now, the response is the author, Gene, is non-violent, and that these are not threats of violence. I have issues with that. I personally have never heard the words "We know where you live" an not believed them to be a threat. Nor it seems have the commenters to this post.
Emerging battle-bruised from the disaster zone of Copenhagen, but ever-hopeful, a rider on horseback brought news of darkness and light: "The politicians have failed. Now it's up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws."
The proper channels have failed. It's time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.
If you're one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let's talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.
If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
And we be many, but you be few.
I expect, and indeed hope, that Greenpeace will lose a lot of donation because of this. Vote with your wallets, people, and stop supporting any organisation that refuses to condemn such language.


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Allen Verhey William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Paper, $35.00 Reviewed by Andrew Lustig
Allen Verhey is perhaps unique among today's theological bioethicists in his combination of scholarly skills. He is well versed in Scripture studies and nuanced in his exegetical readings. He is rigorous and wide-ranging in his command of the literature of theological, philosophical, and clinical bioethics. And, along with William May, Verhey is surely one of the most eloquent writers in current bioethics—always a joy to read, judicious in his insights, probing and prophetic in his analysis.
Verhey's most recent book reconfirms his status as today's foremost expositor of the ways that a nuanced reading of Scripture can illuminate the dilemmas posed by modern medicine. The shaping power of the Christian story is at the core of Verhey's discussion. The church, formed by the power and promise of the Spirit, is faithful to its mission by "remembering Jesus" in its rituals and in its communal reflections. It is faithful by always considering particular moral questions in light of the person and saving acts of Jesus and the central themes of the ongoing tradition—by telling and retelling the "story Christians love to tell and long to live."
Verhey eschews any tendency to read Scripture simplistically, or to confuse Christian allegiance with literalism or fundamentalism. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of extending the conversation beyond the church; the theologian's task is also to "talk ... of God with those who would rather not." What Verhey insists upon throughout the book is a commitment to theological candor, to an expressly theological conversation as a two-fold form of service. Moral deliberation and discernment is of obvious service to the Christian community, as it grapples with bioethical issues in light of its central convictions. But theological candor is also a service to the larger public. Because secular bioethics too often settles for moral minimalism, theological candor in Christians "may at least remind the public of richer accounts of morality" and "of neglected wisdom."
Verhey considers both broad themes and specific issues. The book addresses the full range of controversial topics in bioethics: genetic interventions, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, neonatal decision-making, end-of-life decisions, assisted suicide, and the allocation of health care resources. In each chapter, particular reflections proceed from and return to the task of "remembering Jesus." Thus one chapter focuses on "Mapping the Human Genome ... Biblically." Another is entitled "Judas, Jesus, and Physician Assisted Suicide." A final chapter considers "The Good Samaritan and Scarce Medical Resources."
More broadly, the title of the book itself captures the power and prophetic edge of Verhey's discussion.Verhey reads the Bible in what he calls the "strange" world of medicine. Why is medicine strange? In contrast to the richness of the Christian story, much of modern medicine emerges bereft of substantive moral moorings. In an age dominated by the language of individual rights, today's medicine emphasizes the procedural minutiae of informed consent rather than the substance of what is chosen.
In its seeming obsession with personal choice, modern medicine tends to reinforce an unbiblical dualism between the naked power to choose and the limiting conditions of our embodiment. Moreover, medicine often distorts the virtue of compassion by reducing patients to their pathologies, thus confusing the virtue of compassion with the wielding of mere technique. By so doing, medicine further alienates patients by treating them as objects of medical manipulation rather than as suffering subjects of far more complex stories, requiring more of caregivers than a merely technical competence.
In brief compass, I cannot do justice to the excellence of this book. It deserves a wide readership. And it prompts in me a deep sense of gratitude to Verhey for his faithfulness to Christian scholarship as a vocation.
Andrew Lustig, Ph.D., is a member of the Religious Studies Department at Rice University and Director of the Rice Program on Biotechnology, Religion, and Ethics.
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