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Bridging the Gap: An Interview with Artist Makoto Fujimura
December 2–6, 2013 | Vol. 117, Programs 66–70
This week on Home School Heartbeat, guest Makoto Fujimura explains the importance of artists and shares how you can bridge the gap between art and your church, community, and classroom.
"Artists have a responsibility to care for culture and to use things that are true and authentic that can help people to see through the darkness."—Makoto Fujimura
Do you have a budding artist at home, but are unsure how to encourage them? World-renowned artist Makoto Fujimura learned the beautiful Japanese-style painting called nihonga , and he now practices that form with a contemporary approach. Join host Mike Farris as he talks with the artist today, on Home School Heartbeat.
Mike Farris: Our guest today is Makoto Fujimura, who's an internationally renowned contemporary artist, author, and founder of the International Arts Movement . Makoto, welcome to the program.
Makoto Fujimura: Thank you; it's great to be here.
Mike: Would you please share with us how you decided to become an artist?
Makoto: I was an artist before I knew I was an artist, but it wasn't until college that I was really feeling called to the arts. After college, my wife and I got married, and we ended up going back to my roots. As far as my culture, I was born in Boston but brought up biculturally between Japan and the U.S. And we were back in Japan to study this very prestigious lineage program in the art form of nihonga, which is Japanese-style painting. And it was at that time that I had the time and my own search had gotten to the point where I really needed to find a paradigm that allowed me to explore beauty. And so I found myself creating beauty, and I had trouble justifying it in my own heart. And that's when I began my search for a paradigm that integrated beauty into who I was and even dealt with my brokenness. And so it was around that time that I became a Christian.
Mike: Mako, thank you for that beautiful testimony. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike Farris: History tells us that the role of the church in promoting art, both visual and musical, has been much greater in the past. How do you think the church and art intersect today?
Makoto Fujimura: Today it's very much disjointed. The church has become very much program-based and utilitarian-based. So artists who tend to dwell on the non-utilitarian realm of souls, we often don't fit, so we, maybe even leaders or pastors involved in congregation. But culturally we feel exiled from the context we worship in, and that's an unfortunate thing because God is an artist and we have this rich history of patronage from the church which gave birth to many great, not only great artworks, but I would say great civilizations that give thriving to the whole person and the whole community regardless of your faith background. So I think today there's a huge fragmentation.
Mike: Makoto, this is a fantastic insider analysis. I'm really grateful that our listeners get to hear it from you. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike Farris: Makoto, you started something that you called the International Arts Movement . Can you share with us what this is and how it addresses the need for interaction between the church and good art?
Makoto Fujimura: Yes, International Arts Movement began as my career group, and I realized that I was isolated from both the church and the art world. In the church, I am an artist, and many artists. So I found myself doubly exiled, as it were, and began this organization. There were other organizations like Christians in Visual Arts and other organizations at the time that really helped to bridge this gap. So what I began to do was to look for people who were very successful at the highest levels of different types of arts. So that means music, that means dance, that means writing, and eventually we invited entrepreneurs whose business practices were creative. And so we began to have those conversations about culture, and how to bridge that gap between the church and the art world.
Mike: Makoto, thank you so much for being our guest. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike Farris: Makoto, in a recent commencement speech you stated that "death spreads over all our lives," but that "beauty is a harbinger of hope." As we look at the results of sin in the world around us, how can artists remind us to hope in Christ for the future?
Makoto Fujimura: Yeah, artists have a great role in helping the culture lament and look toward the future. What we tend to do in this American culture in particular is that we basically move on without really deeply dealing with issues that we struggle with. So we end up with kind of superficial culture in which many people out there are wounded and hurt from our past experiences, and so art becomes a way to mediate that experience. So artists have a responsibility to care for culture and to use things that are true and authentic that can help people to see through the darkness. And often times, we find that when we do that, because of how God made the world, we end up in a place of hope rather than despair; in a place where you can start to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Mike: Thank you so much for sharing those profound ideas. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike Farris: For the budding artist, fear of failure may prevent them from developing their talent. What advice do you have for a young artist and their parents as they consider whether to pursue a career in art?
Makoto Fujimura: First of all, a lot of us begin as artists. If you ask a kindergarten class, "How many of you are artists?" most hands will go up, and what happens is that those who are called to be an artist, they get into this specialized track and they lose sight of the whole. And so what I encourage young, budding artists to do is to experience life, to read a lot. Travel and find their voice; we have a profoundly important role to play for our own communities. So don't lose touch of your own community; spend a lot of time studying its history; and it basically comes down to your love, love for people, your neighbors, love for God Who made us creative, Who is an artist Himself. And I always explore young ones to explore, and take a lot of different classes, not just in art, because art itself is changing and it is multi-faceted. And with the technology that we have, it's going to require a lot of synthesis.
Mike: Makoto, thank you so much for giving us inspiring work, and I fully agree with you: God is the greatest artist of all. I'm Mike Farris.
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Makoto Fujimura is an artist, writer, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. A presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003–09, Fujimura served as an international advocate for the arts, speaking with decision makers and advising governmental policies on the arts.
Fujimura's work is exhibited at galleries around the world, including Dillon Gallery in New York, Sato Museum in Tokyo, The Contemporary Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts Museum, Bentley Gallery in Arizona, Gallery Exit and Oxford House at Taikoo Place in Hong Kong, and Vienna's Belvedere Museum.
A popular speaker, he has lectured at numerous conferences, universities and museums, including the Aspen Institute, Yale, Princeton and other major universities.
Fujimura's book, Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture, is a collection of essays bringing together people of all backgrounds in a conversation and meditation on culture, art, and humanity. In celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible, Crossway Publishing commissioned and published The Four Holy Gospels, featuring Fujimura's illuminations of the sacred texts.
Fujimura is a recipient of two, doctor of arts honorary degrees; from Belhaven University in 2011, and Biola University in 2012.
You can visit Makoto Fujimura's website at makotofujimura.com. For more information on the International Arts Movement, visit internationalartsmovement.org.
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"Creative Mondays" take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Crescent Harbor Gallery, 140 Marine Way, Crescent City. Attendees may come for only part of the day if wished; a 3 p.m. critique is encouraged. This is not limited to painters, but for any artwork a person wants to work on. For more information, call 707-464-9133.
Tuesday, Oct. 16
Chetco Pelican Players will hold auditions for "A Christmas Carol" at 6:30 p.m. at the Chetco Playhouse, 1240 Chetco Ave., Brookings. Auditions will also be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17.
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Lighthouse Repertory Theatre presents "Little Shop of Horrors" at 7:30 p.m. at Crescent Elk Auditorium, 994 G St., Crescent City. Shows will also be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, as well as the following weekend. Tickets are $15 for adults and$10 for students and seniors and are available at Del Norte Office Supply and at the door.
Ellensburg Theater Company presents "The Uninvited" at 7:30 p.m. at the Rogue Playhouse, 94196 Moore St., Gold Beach. Tickets for opening night are $20, adults only, and include wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres at 6:30. Additional performances are 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, as well as the following two weekends. Tickets for regular performances are $12 for adults, $8 for children 6 to 12 years old and free for children 5 and younger. For reservations, call 541-247-4ETC (4382).
Brookings Harbor Community Theater presents "The Woman in Black" at 7:30 p.m. at Harbor Performing Arts Center in the Brookings-Harbor Shopping Center. Shows will also be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, as well as the following weekend. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and are available at Wright's Custom Framing and Art Supplies in Brookings and New Wave Video in Harbor. For more information or reservations, call 541-469-4700 or 541-661-2473.
Chetco Pelican Players presents "Hotel Hell," its annual haunted house from 7 to 10 p.m., at the former West Coast Appliance warehouse, 16185 Highway 101, Harbor. Admission is $9. Shows will also be at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20 and 21, as well as the following weekend through Halloween night.
Saturday, Oct. 20
Lynn Anderson will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. at Lucky 7 Casino, 350 N. Indian Road, Smith River. Admission is $25 with a Privileges Card. For more information, call 707-487-7777
Tuesday, Oct. 23
Brookings Harbor Community Theater will hold auditions for the musical production of "The Secret Garden" at 6:30 p.m. at the Harbor Performing Arts Center in the Brookings-Harbor Shopping Center. For more information, call Dori Blodgett at 541-661-2473.
Thursday, Oct. 25
Audi Stanton of Brookings will present a watercolor demonstration at noon at Crescent Harbor Gallery, 140 Marine Way, Crescent City. A finger-food luncheon will precede the demonstration. For information, call 707-464-9133.
Art Exhibits
A Wild Bird and Backyard General Store, 1109 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Featuring artisans Kathy and Del Grant of Kiss J Company and their antique silver spoon jewelry, bracelets, rings, pendants and scarf rings. For information, call 541-412-9453.
Art Walk Alley Antiques, 519 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Tony Farcello, stained glass. For information, call 541-469-4466.
Brian Scott Gallery, 515 Chetco Ave., Brookings: The featured art is "Sea Stacks at Sunset," an oil painting by Shawnie Wells. Also on display are the works of Pete Chasar, Lorraine Filippone, Kathleen Kresa, Christina Olsen, Horst Wolf, Elio Camacho, Randall Tillery, Dale Wells, Donna Goss, Manuel Lopez, Nancy Tuttle, Jewell Johnson, Jane Opiat, Dan Sawyer and Craig Barnes. For information, call 541-412-8687.
Brookings City Hall, 898 Elk Drive, Brookings: Pete Chasar, acrylics.
Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings: Various artists. For information, call 541-469-6822.
Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings: Gallery – "Cherish the Chetco," sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and the South Coast Watershed Council; showcase – Stained glass creations by Lin Honigsberg. For information, call 541-469-7738.
Chetco Pharmacy and Gifts, 890 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Spencer Reynolds displays his eclectic surf art. For more information, call 541-469-2616.
Crescent Harbor Gallery, 140 Marine Way, Crescent City: Annual juried photo show. For information, call 707-464-9133.
Democrats of Curry County headquarters, 619 Chetco Ave., Brookings: 70 small, framed reproduction of posters created in the 1930s and '40s for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project. For information, call 541-412-DEMS (3367).
Del Norte County Courthouse, 450 H St., Crescent City: "Play As an Art Form," a variety of media by Crescent City artist BJ Clausen. For information, call DNACA at 707-464-1336.
Del Norte County Library, 190 Price Mall, Crescent City: Paintings by Nancy Chernak and Muriel Northrip. For information, call 707-464-9793.
Dewey's Digs, Curry Coastal Pilot conference room, 507 Chetco Ave., Brookings: An exhibit by the photographers chosen for the 2013 Lions calendar. For information, call Bill Schlichting at 541-251-1005 or 541-469-3123.
Dottie's Corner, 703 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Handmade Swarovski Santas and snowmen. For more information, call 541-469-0567.
Dr. William McDougall's office, 648 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Digital art and photography of Bob Pope.
Evermore Gallery, 330 H St., Crescent City: The works of 20 local artists and crafters. For information, call 707-465-6000.
Feather Your Nest, 703 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Dottie Schreiber, Halloween crows, and handcrafted jewelry by Tammie Tanner. For information, call 541-469-4300.
Gypsies, 549 Chetco Ave, Brookings: Featuring Lynn Benton's gourd creations and seagrass baskets. For more information, call 541-813-1882
Hawthorne Gallery, 518 Jefferson St., Port Orford: Danny White, glass sculptures. For information, call 541-366-2266.
Manley Art Center and Gallery, 433 Oak St., Brookings: A display of works by Pelican Bay Arts Association artists emeritus. "My Home" thematic art display, plus a myriad of additional member masterpieces. Classroom panels include the works of Don Christiano, Heike Domel, Mudslingers pottery group, Ralph Wolfe, Christina Olsen, Bonnie Loewen and Richard Leathers. For information, call 541-469-1807.
Salon Dolce, 509 Chetco Ave., Brookings: The classic black and white photography of David Twining, who was trained in the Ansel Adams Zone System of exposure. For information, call 541-661-3825.
Signatures Gallery and JTo Prints, 515 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Kevin Roekl (colored pencil), Drew Struzan (limited editions), Karon Walstad (sculpture), Thomas Sheets (assemblage), Duncan Regehr (mixed media), Sandy Bonney (pastels), Jan Kunz (watercolor), Albert Handell (pastels), Harry Lincoln (wood carving). For information, call 541-469-1085.
Sutter Coast Hospital, 800 E. Washington Blvd., Crescent City: Photography by Brookings photographer Bill Ferry.
The Gallery of Arts and Culture, 175 H St., Crescent City: Student Art Show displayed through May 25. The show will feature art in various media from students in preschool through high school. For information, call 707-464-4745.
Wright's Custom Frame Shop, 810 Chetco Ave., Brookings: Wendy Malone, pastels and pen and ink. In the private gallery are the works of Audi Stanton and Richard Hinger. Also works by Barbara Edmiston (watercolor); Warren Dowler, Vi Burton, Bill Harper and Steve Tadin (photos); Mike Tompkins and Gary Vickerman (woodwork); Gwen Childs (ceramics); Len Burton and Bonnie Loewen (prints); Dale Wells and Sara Broderick (watercolors and mixed media); Sharon Guinn and Gordon Marsters (acrylics); Wayne Bricco (pen and ink); Jane Opiat (scarves); and Christina Olsen (glass works). For information, call 541-469-7900.
Singing telegrams by Georgia Blank are being offered to lift spirits at no charge. To schedule a singing telegram, call 541-469-5625.

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Should I forgive him? Please help!
My boyfriend and I are expecting our first child. We are both 21. He has always had a habit of going out, even before we found out I was pregnant and now that I am 9 months pregnant I expected that to change but it hasn't. He will go out, tell me he will be back soon and come home 4 to 5 hours later. I've talked to him about how it makes me feel and he always promises me that it will change and yet it doesn't. Yesterday I broke up with him because it was out anniversary and he still went out. He didn't come home all day. I love him with all my heart but I am tired of having to deal with his constant going out specially so close to my due date. Some one please give me an idea on what I should do. I know ultimately it will be my choice but I need opinions. My moms opinion is biased seeing as she doesn't like my boyfriend.
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I would be annoyed too if my significant other was constantly going out instead of spending time at home with me. Especially being pregnant. Seems like he needs to grow up. He's behavior is very normal since he's only 21. He might not be ready to be a father yet. Until he's ready to settle down and stop going out, sorry to say but he wont change. Especially if he made promises before. After the baby comes, you will need him a lot more than he thinks. And his empty promises will probably just end up hurting or stressing you out. If I was in your situation, I would let him go. He obviously isn't ready for fatherhood and doesn't seem to want to settle down. Good Luckposted 08/12/2013 by imShadz
I don't see the question as "should I forgive him" so much as "should I take him back." Yes, you should forgive him, when you feel ready; NO, you should not take him back, until he's proven he's ready to be an adult and be there for his family! If he wants to go out with his friends all the time, fine - but don't let him think you'll be hanging around waiting for him when he gets back. You have a baby to take care of. (And so does he. I hope he'll realize that very soon, and make an effort to prove to you that he's ready to make a commitment to his child and its mother.) Stand strong; don't let him sweet-talk you back into a relationship that works real well for him but not at all for you. Good luck ~posted 08/13/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
Women come on this site for advice and support. You shouldn't feel alone whether the advice comes from a caring stranger, family or friend. If he's been acting strange now, even after giving him so many chances, then sounds like he has been hiding something for a while. Texting other girls? Wow, this guy sounds like an immature child. So Sorry you have to deal with this. You don't need this kind of behavior in your life right now. You will have a baby soon and it's better if you don't have extra stress from him. He's obviously not ready to be tied down. And until he truly wants too, he'll keep behaving the way he has been. Move on......Good Luckposted 08/20/2013 by imShadz
I forgave him and gave him another chance. He promised he would stop, promised that it wouldn't happen again and yet it did. I have no more energy in me to fight, Now he's been acting weird and changed the password on his phone and is texting some girl. I'm sorry that I am unloading all of this on a page that is meant for baby stuff but I honestly have no one to talk to. I feel so lost and alone.posted 08/20/2013 by lil_anita_09
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This summer it is back with a vengeance. For the first few weeks I have been digging out what I can and RoundUp-ing the rest. Now it is growing up under my other plants and spreading into a patch of lawn. It Just. Keeps. Growing. Back.
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HOW MIGHT A POLLUTING factory and a neighbor negatively affected by this pollution settle their differences? According to Ronald Coase, the solution is deceptively simple: negotiate.
Ronald Coase, an economist at the Universit)' of Chicago, proposed a groundbreaking yet highly counterintuitive idea in a 1960 paper that is now known as the "Coase Theorem." The theorem presented a radical idea: it said that if initial property rights are well defined and transaction costs are low, private bargaining will tend to produce socially efficient outcomes no matter where liability is assigned. That is, externalities can be settled by straightforward free market negotiations between parties!
This statement can be parsed by considering a simple example. Consider, as Coase did, the situation of a doctor and a confectioner both operating their businesses next door to each other. Suppose that the confectioner uses noisy equipment that disrupts the doctor's ability to care for his patients. Common sense might suggest that because the confectioner is causing the external disruption on the doctor's services, the law should dictate that the confectioner be held liable. But what if the confectioner had established his business long before the doctor, who was unaware of the noisy equipment, had moved in? Is the confectioner's noise still considered a negative externality'? Would it stiM make sense to force the confectioner to compensate the doctor? These considerations make the picture far from clear cut.
The Coase Theorem suggests a simple solution: no matter who is assigned liability, the doctor and the confectioner can come to a mutual agreement that will leave them both better off. To better understand this, now suppose that the doctor can move his business for $1000, and that the confectioner can buy quieter machinery for S500. If the law dictates that the confectioner is liable for the noise he makes, then the confectioner would, just spend the $500 to buy quiet machinery; otherwise, he would have to stop producing altogether. However, if the law says that the confectioner can make as much noise as he wants, the doctor still would not have to spend the full $1000 to move his business. Why? The doctor could simply pay the confectioner $500 to buy quieter machinery and eliminate its effects. In fact, he could compensate the confectioner with any value between $500 and $1000 in order to reduce noise and end up better off than paying the $1,000 fee to move.
In this case, the doctor would be made better off since it would have cost him more money to move altogether, and the confectioner would be made better off since he can still continue his operation and received $500 or more out of the bargain. Both parties benefit from trade, and the efficiency of the system increases since both the doctor and confectioner can continue to produce output.
Of course, the Coase theorem is not always applicable: sometimes negotiating is so pricey that it is not feasible. But Professor Coase recognized these costs. In his 1937 article "The Nature of the Firm," Ronald Coase introduced the concept of transaction costsy i.e. costs to using the market. For example, convincing the confectioner to accept quieter equipment, finding this equipment, and then installing it requires both time and mone\'. Such costs can often make bilateral transactions implicitly more expensive than the value of the actual products or services involved. As a result, the theoretical outcome predicted by Coase is not always possible.
Nevertheless, one normative conclusion drawn from Coase's theorem is diat the government should work to reduce transaction costs so that private bargaining can achieve efficient outcomes. Even while recognizing that in most real world cases transaction costs are nonzero, Coase argued that there are ways to minimize these costs. For instance, excessive regulation and bureaucracy and poorly defined property rights laws iare often responsible for high transaction costs. Coase asserted that the government should not meddle in the complex process of adjudicating "fairness" and "liability"; rather, the government should try to assign property rights in a simple way that minimizes transaction costs, allowing collective bargaining to create the best outcome.
Although initially poorly received, substantial evidence eventually supported the theorem, and people began to realize its broad implications in law and government. The theorem caused many economists and legal scholars to reexamine a myriad of issues, such as divorce, and the theorem has been influential in shaping how many legal decisions are made. Coase eventually received the Nobel Prize for his work in 1991.
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A central New York prosecutor says drug charges against Jon Bon Jovi's 19-year-old daughter have been dropped.
Stephanie Bongiovi was found unresponsive by medics after she apparently overdosed on heroin in a Hamilton College dorm early Wednesday.
Town of Kirkland police charged Bongiovi, of Red Bank, N.J., and another student with possession of a small amount of heroin and marijuana.
Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara said Thursday he was dismissing the charges against both students. Under state law, someone having a drug overdose or seeking help for an overdose victim can't be prosecuted for having a small amount of heroin or any amount of marijuana.
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May 2, 2016
Brown Sugar-Glazed Salmon
If you want a great meal with less mess and fewer ingredients, our Brown Sugar-Glazed Salmon is just the recipe! Put away the chicken and tell the gang you're grillin' fish tonight!
Serves: 4
Cooking Time: 20 min
What You'll Need:
1 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups light brown sugar
4 (4-ounce) salmon fillets
1 (12-ounce) package broccoli slaw
3 scallions, chopped
1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
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1. Preheat grill to medium-high heat. In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine soy sauce, oil, vinegar, ginger, and garlic; stir in sugar. Cook 10 minutes, or until sugar dissolves, stirring occasionally; remove from heat. (Mixture will thicken.) Reserve 1/2 cup soy sauce mixture; set aside.
2. Brush both sides of salmon evenly with remaining soy sauce mixture; cover and let stand 10 minutes.
3. Place salmon on grill. Cook 4 to 6 minutes on each side, or until fish flakes easily with a fork, brushing occasionally with marinade during cooking.
4. In a large bowl, toss together broccoli slaw, scallions, sesame seeds, and 1/4 cup of the reserved soy sauce mixture; top with grilled salmon. Serve with remaining soy sauce mixture.
• The dipping sauce will keep in the refrigerator, covered, for several weeks. Warm sauce over medium-low heat on cooktop before serving. You can use it as a marinade for steak or shrimp, too.
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Anyway, here are some clips from the game; sorry in advance for the graphics Though some people have said they add to the scariness, tell me what you think.
I was given 3-4 weeks to complete a scary game for a Halloween competition on 64Digits and this was the result. If you like weeping angels from Dr. Who then you'll be able to figure out Slendy's AI pretty fast, but I still find it difficult to make it through without blacking out at least once. So give it a play, tell me what you think!
Slender Man game page on my site
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Controls are WASD, left mouse button, and right mouse button. Use them on stuff
Hitting escape will cause you to exit the game immediately.
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On this particular late-July day, it was typically hot and humid across most of Iowa, including our fair city of Cedar Rapids. Who doesn't love 95 degrees Fahrenheit and 90% humidity, where your shirt sticks to your body like Saran Wrap as soon as you walk out of air-conditioned paradise?
Our family made the four and a half hour trek back to our hometown of Omaha, to visit grandparents and other assorted relatives, every couple of months.
Fortunately, to start this trip, we now had a brand-spanking-new 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate Station Wagon.
What a sweet ride it was: Power everything, before everyone had power everything; an eight-track player (wow!); a REAR facing third seat in the "way back" as it was known by our family; and a luggage rack that could hold the carrier so we didn't have to take valuable people-space away from those inside the vehicle.
This might not seem so special, but consider packing seven children, two parents, and approximately five large suitcases into one conveyance … before the advent of the mini-van.
Think level 100 on Tetris and you get a rough idea of how difficult it was to shoehorn our lot in to the wagon prior to hitting the road!
As we embarked on this particular trip, we popped in the Dean Martin's Greatest Hits eight-track tape, and quickly struck up the familiar:
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie,
That's amore.
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine,
That's amore.
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling,
And you'll sing "Vita bella."
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay,
Like a gay tarantella."
I'm sure we could have passed for the Von Trapp Family Singers of Sound of Music fame (at least in our minds)! Hey there were seven of them, as well, and we had that eight-track we could sing along to as good as the next 70's family.
As we over-listened to all three eight-track tapes (Dean Martin, Sound of Music, and the Chevrolet Variety Hits that came with the car), completely played-out the "license plate" game, the "I'm going on a safari and I'm taking a …" game, and started bickering and outright fighting with each other, dad decided it was time to stop for food.
Getting food for a family of nine, back in those days, was an adventure of epic proportions. You didn't have an exit full of fast food choices every 20 miles or so. You got food – and gas for that matter – when you had the opportunity. If not, you might have kids gnawing off each other's arms just for sustenance. You know, only the strong survive!
Dad spotted an A&W Drive-In restaurant where we would be eating, and turned off at the exit. We pulled up to one of the ordering stalls – one that was not under the protection of a an overhead roof. As we placed the order
from hell for twelve hot dogs, three hamburgers, eight orders of french fries, and seven root beer floats, the weather began to take a turn for the worse.
If you've lived in the midwest, you know it can be sunny and hot, and then suddenly the temperature drops … and BAM: thunderclaps, lightning, and torrential downpour.
It was at this point, that all eyes turned to the head of the household. Drops, and then what seemed like puddles, of rain began to plop on us inside the brand new car, and we wondered why dad wasn't getting our new "power windows" rolled up with the flick of a switch.
You see, we didn't question the old guy. That's just the way it was back then. So we waited, getting wetter by the second.
As the silence – the most unusual of occurrences for our passel of children – stifled the vehicle, we realized something was seriously wrong. It appeared that somehow the battery had died during our A&W pit-stop, and our "power windows" were now as powerless as Superman around kryptonite.
After much finagling, asking for help, getting a new battery, and trying to dry ourselves and the inside of the car off, we were back on the road. We had gained yet another memory-arrow to store in our quiver called "childhood."
How much did this incident stay with me? Let's put it this way: I was so afraid that a vehicle with power windows would have the battery die, that when I purchased my first four cars, I insisted that the windows had manual-crank mechanisms to roll them up – couldn't afford to be stuck at an A&W with a dead battery in the rain!
Did you ever have anything like this happen to you?
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About First Congregational Church of San Francisco
FCC is spiritually and socially diverse, accepting and open minded. We are single and married, straight and gay, come in many colors and ages. Some folks might call us "little funny," but we comfortable with our uniqueness.
We have a vision of our life together:
- to grow spiritually & grow together in faith
- to bear witness to the loving character of God through the person of Jesus
- to give voice to Christ's progressive message of justice, hospitality, peace & compassion.
When we worship together, we start with the teachings of Jesus. But, we might also integrate teachers from other wisdom traditions: poets, activists, prophets, storytellers. We love music and believe that it deepens our connection with God.
FCC celebrates an open table. On the first Sunday of the month, we invite everyone who is present for worship to celebrate in the blessings and covenants of God. You don't have to be a member of our church. Heck, you don't have to be a member of any church! We just want to invite you to share in the radical hospitality of our teacher, Jesus Christ, and know that there is always a place at the table for you.
In Jesus we find hope for the renewal of creation, of humanity, and our own lives. All of us live in a complex world. All of us experience personal challenges, and are made anxious by social turmoil. We are often frustrated by a world fragmented by prejudice, indifference, war, division and environmental destruction.
Affirming hope can be hard. But our community holds fast to a vision of renewal. We remember that we are a resurrection people. In resurrection we find hope, peace, and connection with others. We also find the strength to speak truth to power as Progressive Christians (we think this is long past due!)
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At Teak Me Home we strive to provide our customers the highest quality handmade reclaimed Teak furniture at wholesale prices.
When structures constructed out of virgin Teak wood come to the end of their working life and are torn down, beautifully seasoned and air dried reclaimed wood is rediscovered and is ready to be recycled into something new and useful.
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The Mideast's Science Revolution?
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It's perhaps inevitable that violence in Iraq, Syria's civil war, and ongoing unrest in Libya grabs international headlines. But in a part of the world so often associated with strife, significant progress is being made in areas that might come as a surprise to some. Indeed, even as conflict rages, a wave of research and innovation in Arabian Gulf countries is bringing with it significant investment in science and research infrastructure – and even U.S.-style universities.
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She conducts AAC evaluations, assists with device selection and funding requests, and provides guidance for implementation of AAC strategies throughout an individual's daily life. She has published studies on her work in Communication Disorders Quarterly and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. She is a certified member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and holds licensure as a speech-language pathologist in the state of Connecticut.
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Theodore (Ted) Edward Albertin
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Obituaries Published in March 23 California Democrat
ALBERTIN Theodore (Ted) Edward Albertin, age 84, of Atlanta, Illinois died December 3, 2010. He was born at California, Missouri on May 21, 1926, the son of Theodore H. and Lydia Albertin. Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife Judy; one son, Scott; and three sisters, Anna Cook and Frieda McKee both of California, Mo., and Lydia Reischauer of St. Louis, Mo. Survivors are his sons, Marc (and wife Jeanne) and Anthony (Tony) of Atlanta, Illinois; two grandchildren, Trenton Albertin and Tara Shane; four great-granddaughters; one sister Emma and husband Cliff Wrenfrow of Thayer, Missouri; and Elwood Cook (husband of Anna Cook). Memorial service will be held Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church followed by burial service at Immanuel Cemetery, California, Mo.
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Never heard of "Gangnam Style"? It's a music video by a South Korean pop star, Psy, and it recently became the most watched thing on YouTube, with over 800 million views. (Watch it here, but click only if you're prepared to have the song stuck in your head for days.)
The song pokes fun at the wealthy inhabitants of the Gangnam District of Seoul, and now the Seoul Tourism Organization wants to cash in on all the attention. The organization has created its own video, called "What is Gangnam Style", to showcase the attractions in district, hoping that it will lure PSY-loving tourists to the area.
To sweeten the deal, they are also giving away a trip to two to Seoul. Visit the Seoul Tourism Organization's Facebook page to watch the video and get details on how to enter. The grand prize is two round-trip tickets to Seoul, but there's also 30 $50 iTunes gift cards up for grabs!
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Excel and Numbers Templates for Attorney Billing Timesheets
I do a fair amount of billable hour work in my practice. Over the years, I've developed a fairly simple but flexible spreadsheet for tracking my billable time. For our firm, this represents the ideal solution at present. I have taken a liking to a few different Mac billing apps out there (like Billings, Involer, Invoice, GrandTotal, and iRatchet) but each of them falls short in one way or another for our purposes. I would encourage you to give them a try, however, as your needs might be different than ours.
Early on, I would write my time down here and there, and at the end of the month, I would be gathering my snippets of billing information from all over my office and my computer - even going back over my recent emails and documents to forensically reconstruct my billable time for the month. As you can imagine, you lose a fair amount of billable time that way - both for time it takes to recreate the month, and for the work that ultimately never gets billed for because it was missed in the reconstruction.
Obviously, I needed to find a system for capturing my time contemporaneously with the work I was billing for. For a while, my solution was to keep a legal pad next to my computer and jot down my work as I was doing it. That's not a terrible solution, but it left me at the end of the month with a good bit of work still to do. I would go over the pages of chicken scratch (yes, surprise, my handwriting is horrific), and try to give a client-by-client report to our secretary who creates and sends out our billing invoices.
Eventually, I realized that by using a spreadsheet, I could capture my time as I do the work, and, at the end of the month, we can manipulate the data in any way we want. Specifically, the data can be arranged by client or matter to give our billing secretary easy access to copy and paste the relevant information.
As most firms do, our firm bills by the tenth of an hour.
It is easy to type in the start time and end time for your tasks in the spreadsheet. The hard(er) part is to do math with the time, convert it to tenths and round it up to the next tenth. Of course, this can be done manually, which is how I used to do it, but the with power of Numbers and Excel, it can easily be done automatically - if you know the right formulas.
First, you need to make sure your start and end time columns are set to the Date and Time format. The next step is intuitive enough: subtract the start time from the end time. If that is all you do, however, your result will be something like "0.0" because the spreadsheet doesn't fully understand what you're up to. Multiplying the whole answer by 24 will give you a decimal representation of the time. But, you're not done yet. At this point, you may get an answer like 0.717. You could just set the decimal places to 1 in the cell format settings, but that would round to the nearest tenth, rather than rounding up. The solution is to add the ROUNDUP operator to the beginning of the formula. To tell the spreadsheet what decimal place to round up to, add a ",1" to the end of the formula.
In the end, your formula for calculating time to the tenth of an hour, rounding up, is "=ROUNDUP((B1-A1)*24,1)" where B1 is your end time and A1 is your start time.
So, without further ado, here are two templates for tracking your billable time:
One final tip: I have found that in order for me to practically capture my time as I do the work, I need to have the spreadsheet very quickly accessible. The way I accomplished this was to put the billing document in my dock. Just drag the document from where ever you keep it to the right side of the dock (where your "stacks" folders are kept), and it will stay in the dock for one click access to your timesheet.


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Minutes of Proceedings
Session: 2012/2013
Date: 29 October 2012
Venue: Room 29
The meeting opened in public session at 10:06am.
1. Apologies
Apologies were as indicated above.
2. Welfare Reform Bill – Briefing by the Churches
The following representatives from the Churches joined the meeting at 10.07am
- Rev Dr Roy Patton, Presbyterian Church in Ireland;
- Rev Donald Ker, Methodist Church;
- Fr. Tim Bartlett, Catholic Church; and
- Rev Adrian Dorrian, Church of Ireland.
Mr Michael Copeland joined the meeting at 10.09am
The representatives briefed the Committee on the impact the Welfare Reform Bill will have on their members and the wider community.
This was followed by a question and answer session which covered a number of issues in relation to the Bill including; the anxiety already created amongst claimants before the Bill has been introduced; lone parents having to return to work and the impact that will have on child care; the lack of appropriate child care provision in Northern Ireland; carers of the elderly, disabled or a sibling having to come off benefit to return to work; the need for the reassessment process of claimants to be tailored to Northern Ireland; and the inadequate amount of housing stock in Northern Ireland to deal with those seeking single accommodation as a result of under-occupancy.
Mr Michael Copeland left the meeting at 11.04am
Ms Paula Bradley left the meeting at 11.04am
The Committee considered a number of proposed recommendations from the Churches and agreed to consider these going forward.
This session was recorded by Hansard.
The Chairperson thanked the representatives for their attendance.
Ms Paula Bradley re-joined the meeting at 11.17am
The representatives left the meeting 11.19am.
The Chairperson suspended the meeting at 11.21am.
The Committee reconvened at 11.23am.
3. Welfare Reform Bill – Briefing by Trade Union Representatives
The following representatives joined the meeting at 11.25am:
Ms Alison Millar, NIPSA;
Ms Maria Morgan, NIPSA/ICTU;
Ms Pauline Buchanan, ICTU; and
Mr Derek Thompson, PCS
Mr Michael Copeland re-joined the meeting at 11.27am
The Chairperson drew attention to a comment in NIPSA's paper which stated that the paper was prepared within the unacceptable constraints imposed by the Social Development Committee.
The Chairperson put on record that the Committee did not accept that statement.
The Chairperson gave assurance that the committee will give line-by-line scrutiny of the Bill and that is why the Committee asked stakeholders, where possible, to focus on the clauses in the Bill rather than make general comment in their submissions.
The Chairperson highlighted that the Committee had received approximately 40 written submissions and it will have taken oral evidence from over 20 organisations by the time this stage of its consideration is over.
The Chairperson also highlighted that the Committee has had 8 pre-legislative briefings from the department over the last year on this Bill and has consulted with a wide range of key stakeholders, including the trade union movement.
The representatives briefed the Committee on the Welfare Reform Bill. A detailed question and answer session followed covering a range of issues including; concerns that the Universal Credit application is an online application and how this might impact those with learning difficulties and those who are disabled or not IT literate; the need for the Bill to accommodate the large amount of people in Northern Ireland who claim DLA as a result of the post-conflict situation and segregated housing; how the benefit cap will impact families with multiple roles i.e., carers, parents and those with disabilities; how families will be impacted by the under-occupancy proposals; and concerns relating to Conditionality and Sanctions given the current economic climate and the high unemployment and low vacancies rate.
Mr David McClarty left the meeting at 12.24pm
The Chairperson left the meeting at 12.32pm
The Deputy Chairperson replaced the Chairperson at 12.32pm
The Chairperson re-joined the meeting at 12.35pm
Mr Michael Copeland left the meeting at 12.38pm
The Committee considered a number of proposed recommendations from the trade unions and agreed to consider these going forward.
At 13.29pm Mr Fra McCann declared an interest as a Member of SIPTU
This session was recorded by Hansard.
The Chairperson thanked the representatives for their attendance.
The representatives left the meeting 13.42pm
Agreed: The Committee agreed to write to the Department to ask the following:
- confirmation of potential job losses contained in the outline Business Case for Universal Credit;
- confirmation and details of a communication plan/strategy; and
- confirmation on whether Work Capability Assessment decision makers' guidelines set out targets.
4. Any Other Business
There was no other business
5. Date, time and place of next meeting
The next meeting will take place at 10:00am on Tuesday 30 October 2012 in Room 29 Parliament Buildings.
The Chairperson adjourned the meeting at 13.50pm.
Mr Alex Maskey
Chairperson, Committee for Social Development.
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I am pretty sure that it is my vitamins that are causing me to throw up... I'm on swisse pregnancy ultivite am thinking of changing to elevit... Thoughts? Does anyone else experience a similar thing?
My vitamins make me vomit?
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Elivit doesn't have a coating and also has a very strong smell. Black mores is coated and doesn't smell. I personally found black mores easier to stomach
Maybe try taking your tablet at a different time. I took elevit with my first and now with this pregnancy however if I take it early in the morning I get sick but if I take it at lunch with food I'm fine.
I had this problem with all 3 pregnancies & only recently discovered that the supermarket / chemist brand supplements are synthetic & not as easily absorbed & can cause nausea. I went to the health food shop & I am now on natural iron supps which has helped. I did a bit of googling on the topic as not many people believed it would be the supps making me ill but there is a lot of literature on the topic!
I take Elevit, it doesn't make me vomit as such but after taking it, about 10mins later I get THE WORST nausea EVER - I'm already a bit nauseous however this just makes it worse. I was taking it during the day with my meal, with no difference, and I have now resorted to taking it at dinner time, so that then I don't have as long to wait and can go to bed, but it still kicks in.
May need to try out the Blackmore's or Nature's Own formula's, just have to compare how they stack up to Elevit.
I know Elevit has ALOT of Iron & Iodine in it, so it could be that that is causing the sickness. Although I've heard the Blackmore's tablets are HUGE and you need to take 2 per day...
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Standard Chartered Does Not See A "Quick Move To Further Loosening" In China, Despite Property Correction
There were two reasons for today's big initial market move: one was the realization that the next LTRO could be massive to quite massive (further confirmed by a report that the ECB is now seeking a "Plan B"), the second one was that, somehow, even though China's economy came in quite better than expected, and much better than whispered, the market made up its mind that the PBoC is now well on its way to significant easing even though inflation actually came in hotter than expected, and virtually every sector of the economy, except for housing, is still reeling from Bernanke's inflationary exports. While we already discussed the first matter extensively earlier, we now present some thoughts from Standard Chartered, one of the most China-focused banks, to debunk the second, which in a note to clients earlier summarized "what the economy is really doing and where it is going" as follows: "If anything, today's data is another reason not to expect a quick move to further loosening. The economy is slowing, but not dramatically – so far." This was subsequently validated by an editorial in the China Securities Journal which said there was no reason to cut interest rates in Q1, thereby once again confirming that the market, which in its global Bernanke put pursuit of interpreting every piece of news as good news, and as evidence of imminent Central Bank intervention, has once again gotten ahead of itself. And as the Fed will be the first to admit, this type of "monetary frontrunning" ironically make the very intervention far less likely, due to a weaker political basis to justify market intervention, while risking another surge in inflation for which it is the politicians, not the "independent" central banks, who are held accountable.
So how does Standard Chartered rate the Chinese economy overall? As it stands, everything, except for housing, which just recorded a drop in 52 out of 70 cities in December, is doing quite well.
From the report:
Officially, China's GDP grew by 8.9% y/y in Q4, better than the market consensus of 8.7%. According to our estimated q/q seasonally adjusted annualised rate (SAAR), growth accelerated to 9.3% in Q4 from 8.5% in Q3, as we show in Chart 1. We cannot square this with the official q/q growth numbers: 2.0% in Q4, down from 2.3% in Q2 and Q3.
Beneath this strong figure, an investment-led slowdown is in play. Fixed asset investment (FAI) fell sharply in Q4. In nominal terms, y/y FAI growth dropped to 20.4% in Q4 (from 29.5% in Q3), and in real terms it slid to 12.3% from 20.6% prior (see Chart 3). This is where the slowdown is concentrated as both infrastructure and the property sector suffer a continuing credit crunch.
Industrial production (IP), however, remains robust, growing 12.8% y/y in December (against 12.4% in November). The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) even claims that IP grew by some 1% m/m in each month of Q4, even while the PMI index for manufacturing flatlined around 50. It is possible that the unweighted PMI is not capturing growth at larger firms.
Consumption growth remained robust. Retail sales growth accelerated to 18.1% y/y in December in nominal terms (from 17.3% in November), and to 13.8% y/y in real terms (12.8% prior). The urban household survey found disposable incomes up 9.1% y/y in real terms in Q4, compared to 7.1% y/y in Q1. Household spending also accelerated to 7.6% y/y in Q4, from 6.2% in Q3 and 5.5% in Q2 (see Chart 2). If accurate, these numbers indicate that the negative effects of inflation are fading and that China's consumers are continuing to spend. One multinational client we spoke to recently, who sells clothes across China, also saw no signs of a slowdown. But other domestic retailers, both high- and low-end, reported an obvious slowdown in sales in Q4-2011, which they feared would continue into Q1-2012.
Upward wage pressure looks set to continue in 2012, though not to the same extent as in 2011. We expect manufacturing wages to rise another 10% on average this year; this, along with our forecast of 2% CPI inflation for 2012, will mean households should continue to benefit from real income growth.
Here are the specific "growth proxies" which Standard Chartered tracks:
Freight traffic: Pretty solid
The advantage of looking at freight traffic is that there is little reason to fake the data. The disadvantage is that, unlike GDP, it is not a value-added measure. The air freight market has collapsed, but it is a volatile business. Other freight sectors suggest much more stable growth through November 2011, as Chart 4 shows. Carriage of goods on roads is particularly important, and it grew a robust 20% y/y in October-November 2011.
Energy production: Softening a bit
Electricity growth is soft, as Chart 5 shows, suggesting that IP growth will also weaken in the coming months.
Air travel: Below average but steady
Domestic air travel, measured in person trips, is running at around 10% y/y and has even strengthened a bit in recent months. Chart 6 shows the varying fates of the Chinese, Asian and global economies in the last few years. International arrivals to China cratered during the global financial crisis and dipped sharply in early 2011. Regional arrivals, from Hong Kong for instance, also weakened more than local travel during the crisis and have been fairly steady in recent months. Local air travel did not decline as sharply as international or regional travel in 2008-09, and has glided to a below-average but steady path.
Cement and steel: Weakening, in line with FAI
Proxies for infrastructure and property are weaker, reflecting the slowdown in FAI growth. As Chart 7 shows, crude steel production growth hit 0% y/y in November, though it seems to have bounced back a little in December. Cement production growth is weakening too, and is running below the 12% average rate of the last decade.
That said, not everything is good: as has been long telegraphed, China real estate is crashing. But for now, it is still a slow motion collapse. And with inflation still hot in most non-residential sectors, China risks being exposed to the same monetary "intervention" that happened in the US in the past 18 months, which did nothing for housing, yet managed to get food prices in the US and around the world to quite revolutionary levels. Naturally, China differs from the US in two key aspects: food inflation there is real, without hedonic adjustments, and comprises over 30% of the CPI basket, unlike just 7% in the US; and there is no social safety net, and thus the opportunity cost for people to get violently angry is far less than in the US where everyone is an involuntary member of the pension/retirement/401(k) and thus stock market ponzi.
On the property sector:
The correction has begun. Residential housing investment hit a 30-month low of 10.8% y/y in December (19.6% y/y in Q4), compared to 35.7% in the first three quarters of 2011. Floor space under construction fell 25% y/y in December (Chart 8 shows the 3-month moving average, which softens the decline); this suggests that investment in this sector has much further to contract.
Sales volumes declined substantially in Q4. Residential floor space sold fell 8.4% y/y in December (following average growth of 12.9% in Q3-2011). Completed residential floor space is still growing, up 9.3% y/y in December. This is resulting in rising apartment inventories. Expectations of price rises in Tier 1-3 cities appear to be reversing, and developers have been cutting prices since October in an attempt to shift inventory.
Prices will likely continue to fall. In Q2-2012, we expect the central government to begin signalling a policy shift to stabilise the sector. At the March National People's Congress meetings, local officials will be lobbying aggressively for relief. Once prices have come down, we expect Beijing to start gradually easing some of the property market restrictions imposed in the past year in order to encourage first-time buyers into the market. This sector, though, remains the biggest risk to China's economy.
What does all this mean from the PBOC's perspective.
If anything, today's data is another reason not to expect a quick move to further loosening (see On the Ground, 11 January 2011, 'China – China is loosening, but there is really no rush'). The economy is slowing, but not dramatically – so far.
The failure of the expected required reserve ratio (RRR) cut to materialise before the Lunar New Year is a disappointment (there are four more working days to go before the markets close). The People's Bank of China (PBoC) instead engaged in an open reverse repo transaction with banks today in order to provide liquidity before the holiday – and there are reports of at least two other liquidity-providing actions between the central bank and large local banks. Liquidity is tight, but the PBoC has been actively managing liquidity, and we do not expect it to get tighter. Deposits should come back into the banks after the holiday, which will boost interbank liquidity, so we might have to wait a while for the next RRR cut.
And if not now, then when? Those hoping for an imminent response from the PBOC will be disappointed.
We look for more 'interesting times' ahead – and 6% q/q SAAR GDP growth. Under these circumstances, more monetary loosening will come, but only slowly. We still look for Q1 to be the bottom of growth momentum – but these numbers, though strong, raise the possibility that the coming slowdown will push into Q2 as well.
So is it time for a timeout on the race to the inflationary bottom, at least from the Chinese perspective?
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There is no analysis that can prove any of what is happening. None of the NUMBer logic holds true. Every day, more NUMBers, more back-pedaling, mea culpas.
Chinese people are bound to suffer, China was not en-riched for them, it will be gutted from them. Chindia are under the eugenics gun.
Now that is worth pondering. 2/3rds of th eworld's population is being poisoned in every way.
So, who and what the crap is this 8% growth for?
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Good thing they have more disposable income.
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Cement and Steel chart is where it is at + China's FX reserves taking a beating + oil bid = they are going down in a messy stagflation meltdown.
The real tell was the FX reserves change.
Which would also mean QE3 is just a matter of time, someone needs to buy those Ts
In the meantime there would be another leg down and cry on the streets for government to do something. Ben will arrive in his helicopter to save us all. Then I woke up.
Yahoo Ex CEO Jerry " who flung dung" Yang to be Obamas new Chinese Internet expert watchdog!
Jerry Yang is an American....
So if things get really bad then China, the Fed, the ECB etc etc will just print on a massive scale (more massive than the massive printing they already did).
Problem solved. Oh wait a minute....did I hear someone saying that perhaps the concept of modern fiat money is being trashed before our very eyes? WWIII here we come baby!
even though China's economy came in quite better than expected, and much better than whispered, the market made up its mind that the PBoC is now well on its way to significant easing even though inflation actually came in hotter than expected, and virtually every sector of the economy,
I know everyone wants a number to hang his hat on.....BUT NUMBERS OUT OF BEIJING ARE ALL FALSE.
The fact that every news agency in the world pays them lip service doesn't make them any more true -
Overnight SHIBOR is over 8% now, 1 month SHIBOR is over 9% as Chinese going to cash for New Year's. PBOC had to inject liquidity to deal with the crunch.
Where does all this LTRO and ECB money come from? I thought the Germans were prohibiting the printing of Euros. (real question)


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The Catholic Bishops and Religious Liberty: The Big Picture
Boston Globe columnist, religious historian and Catholic progressive James Carroll offers some important context to a story we've tracked closely – Catholic bishops' increasingly tense relationship with the Obama administration over what the Catholic hierarchy has broadly defined as an assault on "religious liberty."
Carroll isn't buying it and steps back to offer some perspective about the shifting institutional priorities now driving the Church:
With the bishops' new "liberty" initiative, the political partnership between the Catholic hierarchy and the largely Protestant religious right is more solid than ever. Such salvos echo those of far-right Christian groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council – self-appointed advocates of public prayer, Christian supremacy, family autonomy, and "a culture of life." Traditional values are, in a favorite phrase, "increasingly belittled" by secular society. Religion is striking back.
But Catholic participation in this extremist counter-culture is uniquely risky. The Roman Catholic Church is the largest nongovernmental organization in the world, carrying out tremendous works of charity and justice across the globe. In the United States, church agencies like Catholic Charities, and institutions like hospitals and schools, are essential to the common good. A narrowly politicized American episcopate can gravely weaken the integrity of such outreach.
Catholic and Protestant evangelical leaders didn't always sing from the same hymn book. When the religious right was first empowered during the Reagan era, Catholic bishops hummed a very different tune. In numerous declarations, they blasted the economic injustice of the unfettered market, defended the social safety net, criticized prevailing assumptions about the nation's nuclear arsenal, and mustered decisive opposition to the wars in Central America. They did all this without launching partisan electoral campaigns. Those were different days, and different bishops.
As I've noted before, Catholic leaders are asking legitimate questions when it comes to a grant denied to the bishops' Migration and Refugee Services. And many Catholics who have supported a range of Obama administration policies are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to broaden a proposed religious exemption to include Catholic hospitals and charities that are morally opposed to covering contraception in employee insurance plans.
But Carroll is widening the lens on this "religious liberty" story in a fashion that most reporters can't because of daily deadline pressure or their own lack of knowledge regarding the tectonic changes that the Church has experienced since Vatican II. As an acclaimed writer and former Catholic priest who has explored both the power of the Catholic Church and the military in a way that blends deep reporting with an intriguing personal narrative, Carroll is well positioned to not miss the forest through the trees.
Catholic bishops' current fights with the Obama administration can't be fully understood in isolation from the broader institutional dynamics shaping the U.S Church. This includes the growing influence wielded by a well-oiled Catholic Right lobbying machine – led by groups like the American Life League, CatholicVote.org and the Cardinal Newman Society – that challenge the bishops to toe a harder line in their political engagement.
The American Life League blasted Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston for participating in the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral, attack the bishops' national anti-poverty initiative and even sought to blacklist a longtime social justice staffer at the bishops' conference. Catholic conservatives also helped derail the candidacy of Bishop Gerald Kicanas, a moderate bishop from Tucson, who was widely expected to be elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last year.
Archbishop Dolan of New York, the USCCB president, unwittingly proved the point that largely conservative thinkers and right-wing grassroots activists have the ears of bishops these days when he told reporter John Allen that he gets "far more criticism from people who feel we bishops are much too soft on the Democrats, who feel that we are actually in the pocket of the Democrats." This is a stunning and revealing statement about the conservative bubble many Catholic bishops live in.
Stepping back for an even wider view of what's driving the U.S. Church today, one can't discount the significant impact of the late Pope John Paul II and his appointment of bishops. His nearly 27 year pontificate included a strong critique of unfettered capitalism. But the gravitational center of his papacy was often defined by staunch opposition to abortion, contraception, women's leadership and a "theology of the body" widely embraced by a new generation of priests and bishops.
Many conservatives, including Protestants aligned with the Republican Party, were quick to cheer this worldview. Conservative Catholics like Deal Hudson, former outreach coordinator for George W. Bush, sought to make political hay by aligning Catholics and evangelicals to vote for Republicans.
While in past decades leaders like Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago sought to find some common ground amid the conservative-liberal tensions roiling the American Catholic community, these days Catholic progressives, religious sisters and Catholic social justice leaders who supported the health care reform law are demonized as dissidents. George Weigel cheers the End of the Bernardin Era and today's Church leaders are getting an earful from Catholic Right bloggers, conservative intellectuals like Robert George of Princeton University and culture warriors like Bill Donohue.
Most bishops are unlikely to heed Carroll's warnings, but that's a missed opportunity for some needed self-reflection.
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Jean Cooper, age 81, of Murfreesboro, passed away Oct. 7, 2011 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center.
She was a native of Dekalb County but lived most of her life in Rutherford County. Jean was a member of New Vision Baptist Church, a homemaker and a servant to the majority of her family and friends.
Jean was preceded in death by her parents, Ewin Pack and Sally Mai Smithson Pack; husband, Jack Cooper; daughter, Deborah Lynn Miller; son, Rudy V. Miller; and brother, Auburn Pack. She is survived by her son, Russ Donivan Miller of Murfreesboro; daughter, Sherry Holsted of Murfreesboro; brother, Buford Allen Pack; three grandchildren, Kathy Cantrell, Valerie Lewis and Adam Holsted; six great-grandchildren, Lydia Saunders, Jackson Lewis, Parker Lewis, Simon Lewis, Sophie Holsted, Max Holsted; and one great-great-grandchild, Bentlee Saunders.
A chapel service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 at Jennings and Ayers Chapel with Rev. Phillip Robinson and Rev. David Goins officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens with family and friends serving as active pallbearers.
Visitation with the family will be held from 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011 at Jennings & Ayers Funeral Home; 820 South Church St., Murfreesboro, TN 37130. 615-893-2422. Please leave condolences at www.jenningsandayers.com.