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Gold secular bull has a long way to run
Updated on Friday, May 6, 2011, 15:52
The year has seen the soaring of gold prices by over 30 percent, emerging as the hot favourite of the market in its good, bad and ugly phases. Needless to say, gold has held its value in times of inflation to times of stagflation. Now this escalation in the price of gold has not deterred buyers from amassing more and jewellers are gearing up to meet the demand from consumers on Akshaya Tritiya by introducing new offers and schemes.
Anurag Kataria, Vice President of ITI
, in an exclusive interview with
Ajeet Kumar of Zeebiz.com
explains extensively on gold's current rally, driving factors and price outlook.
What are the factors responsible for gold's current bullish rush?
From what we have seen in the markets since the beginning of the year, it appears both gold and silver have been given a green light because of the following reasons:
Investment in Gold Bars and Coins
The gold-backed exchange traded funds (ETFs) that the World Gold Council monitors, experienced net outflows during Q1 2011. However, that does not mean the investment demand in gold has come down as investors preferred to invest more in gold bars and coins rather than in ETF.
Investment activity in China remained high. Physical delivery at the Shanghai Gold Exchange totalled 278.5 tonnes in Q1 2011 compared to 236.6 tonnes delivered during Q4 2010.Gold investment in other parts of Asia remained at healthy levels. In Taiwan, bar imports reached 4.2 tonnes in the first quarter.
Inflation in emerging countries remains elevated. Headline CPI in both China and India exceeded expectations, jumping to +5.4% and +8.98 percent, respectively, in March. Inflationary pressures also heightened in advanced economies. In the US, headline CPI climbed +0.5% m/m in March, in line with market expectations and remained same as February`s increase. From a year ago, inflation rose +2.7% y/y (consensus: +2.6%), up from +2.1% rise in the prior month. In the Euro zone, inflation was revised higher at +2.7% in March, much above the ECB targets. The ECB raised the main refinancing rate at the April Meeting in an attempt to combat inflation. Rising inflation and inflationary expectations send gold rates up.
US and its budget deficit
Bolstered by rating agency Standard & Poor`s (S&P's) downgrade on outlook of US debt from stable to negative has pulled gold higher. Standard & Poor`s put US on warning that it has a one-in-three chance of losing its AAA debt rating. Some of the same fears that drove S&P`s move are driving the gold market; the idea that the US will not get its act together to agree budget reform and, in becoming a worse credit, sees the dollar weaken precipitously and supporting gold. Debt problems in the US resurface as President Obama pledged to reduce deficits by USD 4 trillion within 12 years, a plan less aggressive than some other policymakers suggested. Federal Reserve signalled on April 27 that borrowing costs will remain near zero percent for an extended period, paving way for weaker dollar, thereby supporting dollar.
Geo-political Problems
Unrest in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region (MENA) no more hold headlines in paper but the problems have not come to an end. Problems that began in Egypt are spreading to other Middle East countries. This will support gold.
China and Gold
China is out to have more gold than America. China, with more than $3 trillion in foreign-currency reserves, plans to set up new funds to invest in precious metals. As of April, China was the sixth-largest official holder of gold, with 1,054.1 tons, according to World Gold Council estimates. "A recent report from the Shanghai Gold Exchange showed that China's imports reached 209 tons in the first 10 months of the year and strong import demand was reported for late 2010.
In the first two months of 2011 alone, industry experts estimate that imports were between 150 and 200 tons. Indian imports have also rebounded, following a depressed year in 2009.
Worldwide economic plight has suddenly accelerated. The slight downside market action in precious metal prices is short and very brief Gold is under-valued, under-owned and under-appreciated. It is most assuredly not well understood by most investors. At the beginning of the 1970`s when gold was about to undertake its historic move from USD 35 to USD 800 per ounce in the succeeding ten years, the same observations would have been valid. The only difference this time is that the fundamentals for gold are actually better.
P.S. - It`s simple, really. Demand is soaring. Supplies are plummeting. And if you don`t buy gold now, you may not get the chance to later.
How sustainable is gold and silver's recent rally ?
To an extent, speculative rise seems to be in silver rather than gold. As a low interest rate regime continues, liquidly flow is towards consumption assets i.e. commodities & silver has been a leader into it. But gold has been larger in terms of ROI's meagre 6 percent compared to silver which is around 39 percent.
There is every reason for gold to outperform for rest of the year, in my opinion, gold should give a return of +5 percent after inflation is adjusted, which can be around 10 percent in real terms. So we are looking at 15 percent ROI in a year's time & absolute terms. It should be USD 1650+.
Key down side risk should be capped at USD 1482 – USD 1492.
Do you see seasonality in prices of gold as demand appears to be firm, especially during the Apr-June quarter?
Yes, historically for past several years but in recent times, spot markets are also booking their orders in advance for the season.
Is gold future a better investment product compared with physical gold and ETF products?
It is a case sensitive question, as it entirely depends on one's risk appetite. Leveraged products' investors should always avoid if they are not educated enough. My answer to ETF & Physical gold will be buying through Spot Exchanges. It gives investor both options of delivery or D-Mat, depending on one's convenience.
How do the returns from gold futures compare with gold ETF products and physical gold?
On absolute terms (ROI) Futures will always give better returns as the very nature of the product itself is leverage. But it comes with a catch of Mark to Market which can be dampener as it requires proper knowledge of Futures concept itself.
But usually for all these three types investments, underlying the price differential is almost NIL. So it really doesn't matter and is a matter of choice only.
Will gold face major pull back in future?
Not really, as today's IMF data for Feb & March 2011 on gold holding from Central Banks of Mexico, Thailand & Russia have added more than 100 MT or USD 6 Billion plus in their reserves.
If this is to go by, I think in gold, we are in for long & secular Bull Run.
What should an average investor do?
Systematic investment plan (SIP) will be an excellent option for an average investor wherein he can buy from ETF, Spot Exchange or physical gold, irrespective of prices in disciplined manner.
According to our study from Jan 2010 till March 2011, if one would have bought one gram gold every month he would have had 11 percent returns on his/her total investment.
Wouldn't a high price put pressure on demand especially during Akshaya Tritiya?
As I said, it might be a minor reason but there are always retailers who will come for recycling & some addition. Also given the investment options there will be a lot of Paper Purchasing of gold through ETF or Spot Exchanges.
How much higher do you think the price of gold could go?
As suggested earlier I am looking for a Price target of USD 1650+ for this financial year.
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anurag is soo good! brilliant stuff, this.
sir want tips on crude & copper. how to det them?
Very informative. Hopefully will give achieve the target as predicted. should I buy at xurrent levels? Please guide!
grat insight for future
Very Precise and compact. It covers mostly all international aspects of gold fundas. The best part is ``how can various classes of people opt for several investment options available to them, bearing in mind the risk appetite
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Gr8 info....
Very Informative..covers almost all fundamentals and the bets part is its professional and still understandable to layman
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|How the proposed CBA affects the Celtics: Free agency
|11.28.11 at 12:01 am ET
While we wait for the players and owners to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement, we'll be taking a look at how various parts of the proposal could affect the Celtics. If you'd like to check out the full proposal, SI's Sam Amick obtained a copy and posted it here.
First up: Free agency
Let's establish a couple of realities for the Celtics this season. 1. They will be over the cap. 2. They will be at or near the luxury tax.
This is important because there are new realities for tax teams in the proposed CBA, the biggest being the use of the mid-level exception. Under the old agreement any team could use the full MLE amount on one or more players. That's how the Celtics were able to sign James Posey and Eddie House in 2007 and Rasheed Wallace (2009) and Jermaine O'Neal (2010) even though they were over the cap. They also used what's known as the bi-annual exception to sign Marquis Daniels in 2009.
Here's what's different (quoted directly from the proposal).
- Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception: Set at $5M in years 1 and 2, growing 3% annually thereafter; maximum contract length of 4 years; can be used every year.
- Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception: Set at $3M in year 1, growing 3% annually thereafter; maximum contract length of 3 years; can be used every year.
- Bi-Annual Exception can only be used by non-taxpayers. Amount set at $1.9M in year 1, growing 3% annually thereafter. Exception cannot be used in 2 consecutive years and has maximum contract length of 2 years (same as under 2005 CBA).
Assuming the Celtics will be a tax team, they would have to use the smaller MLE and would lose the ability to use the bi-annual exception. There's another wrinkle here as reported by SI's Zach Lowe:
"Every team can use the full mid-level exception, provided doing so does not take the team more than $4 million over the tax line. If you use the full mid-level to get to or approach that barrier looming $4 million over the tax line, you cannot cross it by re-signing your own free agents via Larry Bird Rights."
This gets a little complicated but the takeaway is the Celtics probably couldn't use the full MLE and re-sign Jeff Green and/or Glen Davis.
So, it seems likely that team president Danny Ainge will be looking for free agent help armed with only the $3 million exception and the veterans minimum to attract free agents. That's not the worst thing in the world because Ainge would like to keep the books clean for next summer and the last thing he needs is a $5 million contract hanging out on their balance sheet. There will also be lots of veteran players looking for contracts on Dec. 9 who might be willing to sign on for one year with a contender.
- Maximum contract length of 5 years for Bird players and 4 years for other free agents.
- Maximum annual increases of 7.5% for Bird and Early Bird players, and 4.5% for other players.
- Period for a player's prior team to match an Offer Sheet that a Restricted Free Agent receives from a new team shortened from 7 to 3 days. (NOTE: The last bullet point affects Green as a restricted free agent.)
As before, players can get the best return by re-signing with their teams when they hit free agency. Of the Celtics' free agents, three have the most value: Green, Davis and Delonte West.
The question for Ainge is how much value do they represent to the Celtics, not just for this year but beyond? One of the late tweaks to the proposal was keeping the sign-and-trade option. Beyond that, teams can use the sign-and-trade mechanism for the next two years regardless of their cap and tax situation. Here's the language:
- Except during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons, teams are prohibited from acquiring a free agent in a sign-and-trade if their team salary post-transaction would exceed the tax level by more than $4 million. The maximum contract length for a sign-and-trade is 4 years, and maximum annual increases are 4.5%.
Davis, in particular, could have value in a sign-and-trade.
This is a big one to watch because there could be a handful of players hitting the open market who might be willing to go to a team like the Celtics — or the Lakers, Heat, etc.
Here's the rule:
- Each team permitted to waive 1 player prior to any season of the CBA (only for contracts in place at the inception of the CBA) and have 100% of the player's salary removed from team salary for Cap and Tax purposes.
The only Celtic who could potentially fit in this scenario would be Jermaine O'Neal who has one year and $6.2 million left on his deal. That could potentially allow them to use the full MLE, but seems unlikely considering the short time he has left under contract and the reality that cutting the only legitimate center on a team that needs at least one, if not two more centers would be a major risk.
Here's the potentially crazy part:
- A modified waiver process will be utilized for players waived pursuant to the Amnesty rule, under which teams with Room under the Cap can submit competing offers to assume some but not all of the player's remaining contract. If a player's contract is claimed in this manner, the remaining portion of the player's salary will continue to be paid by the team that waived him.
In other words, teams that are under the cap would get first crack at Amnesty players via waivers. That adds a whole other layer of intrigue to the process, but if the player passes through waivers he'd become an unrestricted free agent and you can bet the Celtics will be watching this list intently for unexpected bargains.
Free agency is tentatively scheduled to begin on Dec. 9, the same date as training camps will open. It will make for a hectic period of player movement and with so many roster spots available, the Celtics will be scrambling to fill those vacancies. If form holds, it seems likely Ainge will be looking to fill the roster gaps with a mix of veterans on short-term contracts.
|10 questions post-NBA lockout Celtics must answer
|11.26.11 at 4:34 pm ET
Now that the NBA lockout is all but over, we can talk actual basketball again. No more exhibition games. No more Paul Pierce sightings at the World Series of Poker. No more overseas discussions. Should lawyers on both sides approve the tentative agreement as expected in the next three days to a week, both training camp and free agency are scheduled to begin on Dec. 9, leading up to a Celtics at Knicks season opener on Christmas Day.
Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge, head coach Doc Rivers and the rest of the C's brass face a ton of questions over the next month. Here are 10 of the biggest ones they'll have to answer.
10. How will the Celtics fill out the remainder of the roster?
The C's currently have just six players under contract: The Big Four of Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen as well as center Jermaine O'Neal and second-year guard Avery Bradley. That leaves nine open spots on the 15-man roster.
Jeff Green has received a $5.9 million qualifying offer that makes him a restricted free agent, and the remaining eight players from the team that lost a five-game Eastern Conference semifinal series to the Heat are free agents. Only Nenad Krstic, who signed a two-year deal with CSKA Moscow that did not include an NBA out clause for this season, is off limits.
First-round draft pick JaJuan Johnson is a lock to land one of those nine open slots, while second-round selection E'Twaun Moore is a strong candidate to make the roster. Johnson has been working out in his hometown of Indianapolis during the offseason, and Moore has averaged 9.5 points in six appearances for Italy's Benetton Treviso over the past two months.
Prior to the lockout, undrafted Pitt swingman Gilbert Brown was on the team's radar, so he has a chance to join the Purdue pair on the bench as well.
Assuming Green remains in Boston, Ainge will at the very least have to find veteran players capable of playing significant backup minutes at center, power forward and the two guard positions. Re-signing combo guard Delonte West would go a long way in cementing the latter, and we'll be examining the free-agent options at each position throughout this week.
9. Is the annual mid-level exception still available to the Celtics? Read the rest of this entry »
|Irish Coffee: Rajon Rondo 'frustrating,' says Shaq
|11.08.11 at 12:45 pm ET
Jackie MacMullan's latest, "Shaq Uncut: My Story," co-written with Shaquille O'Neal, hits bookstores on Nov. 15. Excerpts about Shaq's tenures in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Miami and Boston have already leaked.
We know about his claims that he told Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge he would never return from the Achilles injury, that he almost punched Glen "Big Baby" Davis for being selfish and that he believed Nate Robinson's obsession with Twitter put him in Doc Rivers' doghouse.
We also know that everything Shaq claims should be taken with a grain of salt, so keep that in mind when you read the following revelations, as relayed by the Herald's Dan Duggan on Twitter.
- Shaq said he was really interested in [Rajon] Rondo. Said Rondo was always a topic of convos. Very stubborn and won't change.
- Vets told Shaq how important but frustrating Rondo was. Vets liked when Rondo would get put in his place b/c he ticked them off at times.
- Shaq did say Rondo earned the respect of the Big 3 by his defense and passing. Rondo and Doc had "respectful beefs" over plays/decisions.
- Shaq said Baby drove Doc crazy. No surprise there. Said KG [Kevin Garnett] wouldn't confront Baby; KG has mellowed later in his career.
- Shaq said practices were very competitive. [Von] Wafer–Delonte [West] wasn't the only skirmish.
- Shaq said he told Danny not to do Perk [Kendrick Perkins] trade b/c he didn't know if he'd be back. Said trade was strictly biz. C's weren't going to pay Perk.
- Shaq said KG's legs/knees were all screwed up last season. Said Ray [Allen] is a future GM, already like a front office guy. [Paul] Pierce is the leader.
- Shaq had very high praise for Doc, positive memories of Boston.
- Shaq also blatantly admits to manipulating the media/public. Says he made up a story about Bill Russell brokering peace w/ Kobe [Bryant] in 2006.
- Shaq shook Kobe's hand before the game and when asked said Russell told him to do it. Said he made that up to boost Russell's legacy.
- One last thing from Shaq's chapter on Boston is how misleading the Celtics were on his injury.
|Irish Coffee: Paul Pierce to the NBA rescue!
|10.04.11 at 12:20 pm ET
Wake up with the Celtics and your daily dose of Irish Coffee '¦
Only two players attended Monday's NBA collective bargaining session with commissioner David Stern and the NBA brass. One was National Basketball Players Association president Derek Fisher. The other? Paul Pierce.
Pierce isn't a member of the union's executive committee, although CBS Sports columnist Ken Berger suggested the Celtics captain and player representative has expressed interest in becoming the Joe Biden to Fisher's Barack Obama. Regardless, NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver cited Pierce as someone who actually brought tangible ideas to the table during labor discussions in New York City over the weekend.
Not only is Pierce expected to join Fisher again on Tuesday, but Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett have reportedly been invited to join a small group of players in what might be the final negotiating window before the NBA starts canceling regular-season games. Imagine that. Lakers and Celtics on the same side of the ball.
Pierce's presence is only magnified by the fact that his agent, Jeff Schwartz, is among a handful who encourage union decertification and drafted a letter urging the players not to accept a revenue share less than 52 percent — six points higher than Stern's current offer and two points above what some believe could seal a deal.
Are those final two percentage points — a total of $80 or so million — worth destroying the momentum that two Celtics-Lakers finals and a Heat firestorm created over the last few seasons? It's hard to imagine Pierce & Co. allowing these negotiations to devolve into decertification, as that could cost the league the 2011-12 NBA season. These are the issues that Pierce, Fisher, Garnett, Bryant and their colleagues face.
My how far Pierce has come since he got ejected from Game 6 of a first-round series loss to the Pacers in the 2005 NBA Playoffs, swung his Celtics jersey over his head at the Conseco Fieldhouse crowd and showed up to the post-game press conference with his head wrapped in a faux bandage.
If the 2008 NBA Finals MVP was Pierce's defining moment on the court, this could be his moment of Truth off it. He could cement his legacy as not only a Hall of Famer but a power player in the NBA's future for years to come.
For more on Tuesday's pivotal NBA labor negotiations, WEEI.com's Paul Flannery sets the stage perfectly.
|Celtics on eBay: Danny Ainge's Blue Jays bat
|09.02.11 at 4:17 pm ET
It's time to take you into the weekend with the sixth edition of Celtics on eBay. We ask, "Would you pay [a pretty penny] for [current or former member of the Celtics]' [eBay item]?" Confusing enough? Good. Let's get started.
Last week I actually bid three months of a blogger's salary (or $20) for Tommy Heinsohn's handwritten thoughts from his Hall of Fame enshrinement day in 1986, but someone out-bid me by 50 cents about five minutes before the auction ended. Oh, well. I guess that's the price you don't pay. At least I know now that I have a nemesis out there — a Kurt Rambis to my Kevin McHale, if you will.
Anyhow, this week's item is a game-used bat from Danny Ainge's storied career as a member of the Blue Jays from 1979-81 — for the low, low price of $350. A brief rundown of Ainge's time in Toronto: .220 batting average, .264 on-base percentage and .269 slugging percentage. A modern-day Fritz Knothe if I ever did see one.
Want to waste more time this weekend? Vote on these overpriced/awesome Celtics items from previous weeks:
|Celtics sign-and-trade options for Glen Davis
|08.08.11 at 4:46 pm ET
There has been plenty of discussion about sign-and-trade opportunities for the Celtics concerning unrestricted free agent Glen Davis, which leads to a number of questions:
- How does a sign-and-trade work?
- Who could the Celtics get in return for Davis?
- What are the odds of a sign-and-trade after the NBA lockout?
Here, we'll attempt to answer all three of those issues.
Under the now expired collective bargaining agreement, the sign-and-trade option benefited all three parties involved. Ideally, the player got a better contract than he would have on the open market, his new team got a player coveted by its opponents and his old team got a a player, picks or some kind of trade exception in return.
For example, the Celtics own "Bird rights" to Davis and could sign him for more dollars than another team at or above the salary cap. I'm guessing Big Baby wouldn't turn down the extra cash. So, let's say the Magic and Hawks both want Davis, the Celtics could shop him to the highest bidder in exchange for acting as the middle man.
Recent history of sign-and-trades involving players of Big Baby's caliber haven't garnered too much in return. I think we can agree that Davis falls somewhere in between 2010 C.J. Watson and 2006 Al Harrington. Watson signed a three-year, $10.2 million deal with the Warriors, and then got shipped to the Bulls for a second-round draft pick. Harrington inked a four-year, $35.3 million deal with the Hawks, and then got traded to the Pacers for a first-round draft pick. The Harrington deal turned into the No. 11 overall pick in a fairly deep draft — which Atlanta wasted on Acie Law — so there is some value there.
|Rajon Rondo and his Celtics teammates let the Kendrick Perkins trade get into their heads
|07.26.11 at 1:27 pm ET
Time often puts things into proper perspective.
In the weeks following the Kendrick Perkins trade in late February, Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge dismissed the notion that any professional athlete would let the trade of a friend off the court affect his play between the lines.
Five months later, Rajon Rondo admitted to Yahoo! Sports that The Trade influenced the team "more than it should have" — and that was a mistake. Here's what the C's point guard said Tuesday of the deal that sent Perkins along with Nate Robinson to Oklahoma City for Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic:
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Death: 1905
Assunta Maria Liberata Pallotta 1878-1905 Italy-China Died Age 26 Sister Assunta was the first non-martyr missionary sister to be beatified in the history of the Church. Maria Assunta Pallotta was born on August 20, 1878 in the little town of Force, Italy. She was baptized the day after she was born and was confirmed at the age of two. Assunta's father was a common laborer who was chronically out of work. Her mother often had a hard struggle to feed her five children. By the time Assunta was eleven, her father left home to seek his fortune. Assunta, the dutiful older sister, helped her mother to keep house, raise the younger brothers and go out to work to help support the family. In the testimony for Assunta's beatification, a number of people remembered that as a child she was animated only when she was given the opportunity to teach others about religion. They recalled that she was always solemn and that she practiced penances far advanced for one her age. They noted that her rosary was always with her, and they remembered her joy at age 12 when she was allowed to make her First Communion. While other girls were laughing and visiting, Maria perferred to be at the foot of the tabernacle. Although Assunta's family was poor, she was filled with the spirit of Christian charity so pleasing to Our Lord. In her late teens Assunta finally spoke of her desire to be a sister, and the parish priest made arrangements for Assunta to enter the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She left for Rome with a joyful heart. As a postulant, Sister Assunta worked in the kitchen and there, was a model of humility and exact observance of the Rule. On October 9, 1898, she entered the Novitiate. At her request, Assunta was allowed to keep her baptismal name. The celebrant intoned: "My daughter, you will no longer be called Assunta Maria Pallotta, but Sister Maria Assunta." Assunta was sent to Grottaferrata to make her novitiate. There she was assigned to various farm tasks, such as the care of the animals and the harvesting of the olives. She expressed her appreciation of the life at Grottaferrata to one of the other sisters. "One is very well cared for at Grottaferrata and the life is truly Franciscan; it is a real Paradise. Though they work in the fields, the solitude is a great incentive to recollection and prayer." After her two years of novitiate were completed, Assunta was admitted for profession in December of 1900. She returned to her farm work after profession. Her mission was still the humble mission of good example. Her life was characterized by her practice of fraternal charity in a marked degree. All her sisters remember her self-sacrificing ways, her gentleness and her willing helpfulness. Sister Assunta lived in the presence of God, often saying such things as,"For the love of God," or "All for Jesus," or "What God wills, as He wills, and may His Will be done." Sister Assunta was extremely solicitous for the conversion of sinners, and she was eager to offer herself for the conversion of infidels. She wasalso very devoted to the Poor Souls in Purgatory. every day she recited the "Eternal Rest" 100 times and she gained indulgences for the Poor Souls. Assunta practiced an exemplary obedience, never showing the slightest hesitation in obeying an order. In January of 1904 Assunta wrote to her parents and spelled out for them what was to become, in truth, one of the main parts of her mission. She wrote: "I ask the Lord for the grace to make known to the world, purity of intention - which consists in doing everything for the love of God, even the most ordinary actions." Little did she suspect that one day the world would call her "blessed" for her heroic purity of intention. Sister Maria Assunta took her final vows in February of 1904. Shortly afterwards, she received the joyful news that she was to be assigned to the missions in China, in the same province where the seven protomartyrs of the Order had died. The winter months were extremely severe, and in February one of the children in the orphanage fell dangerously ill. The dread diagnosis of typhus was made. On March 19, just one year since she had left Italy, Sister Assunta herself was stricken with typhus. On March 25th, she asked for Holy Viaticum and Extreme Unction, the last Sacraments. Although her Superior did not think she was very ill, it was felt best to accede to her request. She responded to the prayers, received Holy Viaticum and renewed her vows. On the 7th of April, the sisters, the confessor of the community, and a few Chinese girls gathered around the bed of the dying Assunta. Suddenly, those in the room began to notice a delightful fragrance which resembled a mixture of violets and incense. That night Sister Assunta's body remained in the infirmary. The following morning a crowd of Chinese Christians invaded the mission compound, asking to experience the miracle. News of the fragrant odor had spread. For three days the mysterious perfume remained in the house, then it ceased on the day of her burial, April 9, at the hour at which she had died two evenings before. The Chinese Christians began to ask Assunta for favors, and they becameconvinced that she had answered their requests. Eight years after Assunta's death, the Community was transferred from Tong Eul Koo to Tai Yuan Foo, and the bishop wished that the body of Sister Assunta also be transferred. Disinterment revealed that the body was incorrupt. It remained in the chapel of the cemetery for a month without being affected. In 1932, the decree of the heroic virtues of Sister Maria Assunta was read. She was beatified in 1954.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. missionary being held in North Korea was moved from a hospital back to a labor camp last month on the same day he made a public appeal for Washington to help get him home, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, citing Swedish diplomats who met with the prisoner.
Kenneth Bae, 45, has been held for more than a year in North Korea after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to overthrow the state. From last summer until January 20, he had been kept at Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, his family said.
"The Department of State has learned that the DPRK transferred Mr. Bae from a hospital to a labor camp, a development with which we are deeply concerned," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
"We also remain gravely concerned about Mr. Bae's health, and we continue to urge DPRK authorities to grant Mr. Bae special amnesty and immediate release on humanitarian grounds," she said, referring to North Korea by the acronym of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Psaki said Swedish Embassy representatives had met with Bae 10 times since his detention, most recently on Friday in a labor camp.
"We continue to work actively to secure Mr. Bae's release," Psaki said, adding that Washington remained prepared to send its human rights envoy for North Korea, Robert King, to Pyongyang for that purpose.
North Korea has rejected this offer in the past and withdrew an invitation for King to visit Pyongyang last August.
A State Department official said Bae was moved back to the labor camp on January 20.
Bae's sister, Terri Chung, told Reuters Bae had been held in a labor camp from May 14 last year until August 5, when he was moved to the hospital.
She said the family did not know where the camp was, except that it was far from Pyongyang and Bae was working eight hours a day, six days a week.
Chung said her brother suffered from a variety of health issues, including diabetes, an enlarged heart, kidney stones and severe back pain.
"We are very concerned about his health," she said.
Bae, a Korean American, last appeared in public at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital on January 20 when he was paraded in front of a group of foreign and local reporters and asked Washington to help him get home.
Bae's media appearance was his second since his arrest in 2012 when he led a tour group into the country. North Korea's state KCNA news agency reported Bae himself had asked to hold the news conference.
Bae has acknowledged being a missionary and has said he conducted religious services in the North, one of the most isolated states on earth and long hostile to Westerners advocating religious causes.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama offered prayers for Bae and U.S. prisoners held in other countries during remarks at an annual prayer breakfast that highlighted his Christian faith.
"His family wants him home. And the United States will continue to do everything in our power to secure his release," Obama said.
On Tuesday, the last surviving members of the U.S. Congress to have served in the Korean War sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un asking him to release Bae.
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After Hung-Wu threw the Mongols out in 1368 AD, he established the Ming Dynasty. But Hung-Wu's power was still pretty weak after the Mongol invasion. He only ruled China from the Great Wall to the east of Tibet - smaller borders than modern China or than T'ang Dynasty China. Hung-Wu modelled his government on the T'ang Dynasty, trying to keep as much power as possible in the central government and especially in his own hands. To deal with the extra work this made for him, he created a council of his advisers to help him. Examinations came back as a way to select governors and judges.
But the collapse of the Mongol Empire meant that the Silk Road wasn't so safe anymore, and didn't carry so much trade. China was often fighting with the Uighurs to their west instead of trading with them, and Chinese merchants had a harder time getting silver, steel, sugar, wool carpets, and spices than they had before. More Chinese traders began to sail around to India by ocean, and the emperors turned their attention to Southeast Asia instead of Central Asia.
Hung-Wu lived a long time, longer than his son, so when he died his teenaged grandson became the Jianwen emperor. He only lasted four years before his uncle Zhu Di killed him and became emperor himself in 1402. Only about ten years later, the first European explorers arrived in China by ship - the first one was Christopher Columbus' cousin! - and the Ming emperors saw a way to get silver directly from the Europeans, without using the Silk Road anymore.
In 1451 AD, after a civil war, the emperor Yung-Lo moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing (bay-ZING), where he began work on the imperial palace, which still stands today.
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The Examination, by Malcolm Bosse (1994). A young adult novel about a young man taking the government examinations, and his more adventurous brother. The writing's not great, but it's a good introduction to medieval China under the Ming Dynasty.
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China, by Timothy Brook (1999). The best available survey of Ming Dynasty China for adults.
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1, edited by Frederick W. Mote, Denis Twitchett, and John K. Fairbank (1988). Everything anyone knows about the Ming Dynasty.
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Black Swan State Theatre Company has announced its 25th anniversary season, revealing the hidden places and secret spaces of where they make their work, celebrate theirr past and look to the future. The 2016 Season will deliver three world premieres, five new Australian plays, three WA premieres, two co-productions, a French classic, a modern German classic, a multi-award winning American play and three Malcolm Robertson award-winning plays.
Highlights of Artistic Director David Sefton's fourth and final Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2016 include an epic theatrical spectacle among its 32 theatre, music, dance and visual arts events. The line-up includes 8 world premieres, 20 Australian premieres and 18 events exclusive to Adelaide over 18 days from 26 February to 14 March 2016.
The latest round of cast announcements for big musicals have been long on natural talent and short on celebrity. Has the tide turned away from casting stars from outside the established theatre world? David Spicer reports.
A quarter of a century after Patrick White's death the author's prose undergoes additional creative process as Brink Productions unlocks the theatre in one of his short story texts, creating a brutally funny and profound new play. Lesley Reed reports.
How does one acknowledge, through a theatrical work, the 25th anniversary of the death of Australian writer and Nobel Prize recipient Patrick White?
After all, White's works were essentially brilliant prose, not drama.
A new rock and roll musical brings to life the incredible story of an Australian immortal - Victoria Cross recipient Albert Jacka. Jackson McInerney spoke to the director, writer and star William James Smith.
Sydney Dance Company has announced their 2016 Artistic Program, comprising two new works from Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela alongside acclaimed choreographies from Sweden's Alexander Ekman and Adelaide based Australian choreographer Gabrielle Nankivell, in addition to newly commissioned dance works from four up and coming Australian choreographers, yet to be revealed.
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Eighteen Sydney children are set bring the hills alive in The Sound of Music at Sydney's Capitol Theatre from December 2015.
Producers Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, John Frost and the Really Useful Group have announced the 18 children who have been cast in The Sound of Music. There will be three different casts alternating in the roles of the six youngest von Trapp children during the Sydney season.
The Australian Ballet has announced its 2016 season, blending timeless classics and contemporary works, including the Australian premiere of the Nijinsky masterpiece, the return of much-loved classics Coppélia, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and world premiere works by rising ballet stars.
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CRANSTON — A Rhode Island schools superintendent has ended the district's father-daughter dances and mother-son ballgames to comply with a state gender discrimination law, prompting some to complain that the move is an example of political correctness gone awry.
Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung said Tuesday he was "utterly disappointed" that the Cranston schools superintendent nixed the events in what the mayor called "the name of political correctness" after the state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union complained last spring.
The ACLU complaint in May came on behalf of a single mother whose daughter had no father in her life but was precluded from attending the father-daughter dance, ACLU Executive Director Steven Brown said Tuesday.
In a letter to school organizations last month, Superintendent Judith Lundsten said that school district attorneys reviewing the complaint found that, while federal gender discrimination laws exempt such events, Rhode Island law does not.
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DALLAS — A Dallas suburb's long, expensive fight to ban illegal immigrants from renting homes will get perhaps its most important hearing Wednesday before a largely conservative group of judges with the power to influence the national immigration debate.
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PHILADELPHIA — Eight new civil lawsuits allege the Archdiocese of Philadelphia covered up child sex assault allegations made against seven Roman Catholic priests.
The lawsuits were filed Tuesday by a total of nine plaintiffs.
Michael McDonnell and Andrew Druding said the abuse they suffered as children still haunts them. They said they wanted to go public to help other victims.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said their clients decided to come forward when former archdiocesan official Monsignor William Lynn was found guilty of child endangerment and received a three- to six-year prison sentence. The 61-year-old is the first U.S. church official convicted of endangering children by keeping predator priests in ministry.
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HARTFORD — Navy investigators say the commanding officer of a Connecticut-based nuclear submarine faked his own death to end an affair with a woman.
Navy Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II was relieved as commanding officer of the USS Pittsburgh last month. He had taken command of the submarine a week earlier.
Investigators found Mr. Ward sent his mistress an email from a fictitious person named "Bob" stating Mr. Ward had died. The report was obtained Tuesday by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg, a submarine group spokeswoman in Groton, Conn., said Mr. Ward was found guilty of Uniform Code of Military Justice violations including dereliction of duty. He received a letter of reprimand.
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The attorney for Curtis Mitchell's family told the Associated Press on Tuesday that terms of the settlement won't be disclosed until city and county officials can approve the deal in the next few days.
The lawsuit was thrown out of federal court last year, but remaining claims under state law were scheduled to go to trial Friday in Common Pleas Court.
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