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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: what would you do to solve the current financial crisis?
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Lauren Conrad and Her Fiance's Family Just Got a Little Bigger
Lauren Conrad announced a new little addition to her ever-growing family with fiance William Tell over the weekend, and we're stoked for the cuteness that's about to ensue over Instagram.
The former Laguna Beach star adopted a third puppy into her family, and boy is it a cutie! (Still not sure if it's a boy or a girl, though).
LC captioned the photo, "Newest member of the Conrad clan stole me [sic] heart," and we can totally see why… There's no way to say no to face like that!
The Hills alum is known for adopting puppies, already owning two other cuties named Fitz and Chloe!
I mean… Can you even with this photo?
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But rising levels of debt are the price we knowingly decided to pay to avoid depression.
For the first time, what Heisenberg does, he does—knowingly, consciously—for himself.
Bill Campbell, former mayor of Atlanta, who knowingly owed the IRS more than $60,000.
Because of revelations that the Getty Museum had allegedly been knowingly buying looted art for decades.
knowingly or unknowingly, Berry seems to have gotten lost in Anistonland.
knowingly to order more than that, is to rob those out of whose pockets the poor rates are paid.
Or if he knowingly encourage his neighbor to do this, he is equally guilty.
To conclude: It is most certain, that I never took any creature (knowingly) into my coach, that had so much as a good thought.
They follow the equipage with interest; they eye it knowingly as they see it in the Park.
I have heard of you before, knowingly spoke the violinist, nodding his head sadly.
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audijam: i have the same conclusion for Vertax BG-11. well built but the feedback from the buttons aren't the same as Canon legit copy and yeah Vertax is of plastic so it does feel different. however....it is still great value for its price.
It works fine. But it feels like a plastic attachment, whereas the Nikon grip feels like its part of the body. If you plan to keep it permanently attached to the body the Nikon grip is a better choice.
If you just need a grip for vertical shooting the Vertax is a real good deal.
The small size and light weight of this gear should be an advantage.
Image quality should be fine. How well the focus captures action, we will see.
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Exactlly. A camera is a camera is a camera.
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Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2013
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to take "firm action" with US allies against North Korea and South Korea accelerated a planned upgrade to its offensive missiles after Pyongyang's third nuclear test.
China, North Korea's trade and financial lifeline, signed up to a UN Security Council declaration accusing the communist state of standing in "grave violation" of UN resolutions amid global condemnation of Tuesday's blast.
The Council highlighted its threat made last month -- after North Korea breached UN resolutions by firing a long-range rocket -- to take "significant action" if Pyongyang went ahead with the nuclear test.
But North Korea, which analysts say has closed ranks under the young leadership of Kim Jong-Un, remained defiant after saying the underground test was forced upon it by US "hostility."
"The DPRK (North Korea) will never be bound to any resolutions," said Jon Yong-Ryong, the first secretary of North Korea's mission in Geneva, berating the UN resolutions as "entirely unreasonable."
Any tougher UN action after years of sanctions against the recalcitrant North will depend on how far China is willing to push its ally. In his State of the Union address to Congress, Obama stepped up the rhetoric.
"America will continue to lead the effort to prevent the spread of the world's most dangerous weapons," the US president said.
"The regime in North Korea must know that they will only achieve security and prosperity by meeting their international obligations."
North Korea alarmed friends and foes alike less than a day before Obama's speech when it carried out its latest nuclear test, which US and South Korean monitors said was much more powerful than the previous tests in 2006 and 2009.
Pyongyang boasted it had tested a "miniaturized" device, a claim that will fuel concerns it has moved closer to fitting a warhead on a ballistic missile.
Experts are assessing whether the test involved uranium, giving Pyongyang a new, easier-to-sustain method for nuclear fission alongside its depleted stocks of plutonium.
Obama said: "Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defense and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats."
South Korea, which placed its US-backed military on alert after the test at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test, said it would fast-track the development of longer-range ballistic missiles that could cover the whole of North Korea.
"We will speed up the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers (500 miles)," Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters.
In October last year, South Korea reached a deal with the United States to almost triple the range of its missile systems -- with Seoul arguing it needed an upgrade to counter the North's missile and nuclear programs.
Kim said the South would also speed up the deployment of a "kill chain" system capable of detecting, targeting and destroying North Korean missiles.
"The military is closely watching the North in case of further provocative acts," he said.
Following North Korea's nuclear test, the head of South Korea's intelligence agency warned that Pyongyang may well carry out a further test or a ballistic missile launch in the coming days or weeks.
All 15 Council members including China backed Tuesday's UN statement and said they would "begin work immediately on appropriate measures."
Even China, which is keen to avoid the chaos that could ensue if the isolated North collapses, was stern in its condemnation of the test, summoning North Korea's ambassador in Beijing to protest the test.
The test ignited yet another round of tension on the Korean Peninsula, where peace has never been formally declared since a war split it between the authoritarian north and pro-Western south in the 1950s.
The North also appeared keen to broaden the conflict, insisting that any tightening of sanctions would trigger "even stronger second or third rounds of action."
The totalitarian country mobilized public opinion on its side, with state television showing footage of cheering, clapping citizens watching the test being announced on giant TV screens in the capital Pyongyang.
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Monica, who was the 2,000th person to like our Facebook page, has been teaching at Gimle Lower Secondary School in Kronstad, Norway since 2000. My colleague Mark and I visited her during English class to deliver a backpack full of prizes. We had a chat with her and her students about itslearning, which they use every day. Monica very generously took the time to show us some of her course dashboards and teaching materials while her students waited patiently. We were very impressed with both her teaching methods and the behavior of her students during our visit.
Monica told us that a large percentage of Gimle's student population is multicultural; representing 25 different nations. In her class there are students from Somalia, Iraq, Palestine and Turkey. This made me wonder – how can itslearning help take advantage of opportunities and overcome challenges presented at multicultural schools?
One of the challenges a multicultural school faces is communication. Gimle is making an effort to improve communication between the school and the parents of multicultural children. They want to make sure all parents feel welcome to participate in school activities, to attend parent meetings and to contact the school whenever they have questions. A platform like itslearning can be a big help with this because it lowers the threshold for communication. Parents can log in and easily email teachers and administrators. The platform even supports text message apps to remind parents of school meetings and events.
Monica told us she's a "contact teacher", which means that besides teaching, she is responsible for having regular meetings with students and their parents. At Gimle, parents log in to the itslearning Parent Portal to access important school news, their child's grades, behavior remarks, absentee records, etc. They can also review weekly study plans, resources, and homework assignments. This allows them to assist their child in understanding the subject matter presented in class. At schools like Gimle, students who are struggling with a topic presented in Norwegian might benefit from an explanation from their parents in their native language.
Monica recognizes the advantages of teaching at a multicultural school. "First and foremost, I think of a multicultural school as something positive," she says. Newcomers to Norway and Norwegian students provide great resources for each other. It's more interesting for teachers to teach, and students to learn about different subjects, like world religions, when there are students in class who practice religions other than Christianity. Students think it's easier and more exciting to learn about Islam and Hinduism, for example, when they can have discussions with fellow students who have prior knowledge of and experience with the subject material. A multicultural school teaches students tolerance and openness toward other cultures, languages, religions and lifestyles."
"On the other hand, because some of my students are in the process of learning Norwegian, I have to spend time explaining everyday words and expressions," Monica continues. "I also spend a lot of time rewriting and rephrasing teaching materials into simpler Norwegian so that students who are struggling with the language will understand what they are reading. These students need more help than their classmates, so there is less time to help others, as I'm the only teacher among 30 students. itslearning helps me a great deal with this. I upload help pages, vocabulary lists and various links to the platform for my international students to use both in class and at home."
"One of my greatest challenges is having enough time to adapt my teaching materials to each student according to their individual ability levels. There isn't enough time to teach what needs to be taught in each subject within the available teaching hours," Monica tells us. "itslearning helps me structure the students' school day."
Monica has lived in both England and New Zealand and teaches English, among other subjects. "I don't have enough time to listen to everyone read out loud each week," she mentions. To tackle this time constraint, she creates itslearning assignments in which she asks students to record themselves reading their English lessons out loud with the itslearning built-in audio recorder. Students embed their recordings into the assignments and return them to her online. Monica listens to them when she has time and writes individual feedback within each student's assignment file. She also records herself reading texts by Shakespeare, etc. so that students can hear proper English pronunciation.
Monica extends her classroom by administering tests and assignments online. She explains, "Students are used to taking tests on the platform and to delivering assignments that are then scanned by the itslearning plagiarism control app. I often have them start an assignment during class, save it to their itslearning sites and then continue it at home or in class the next day."
Monica shows us an assessment check list which she uses to evaluate English essays.
Monica provides students with assessment criteria so they understand how assignments will be evaluated and graded. She believes it's important for students to have an overview of their mastery of each subject, so she enters all their grades onto itslearning.
Although there are many challenges during the school day, Monica emphasises that she thoroughly enjoys her job. "The students are invaluable, and I care for every single one of them!" she says. It's no wonder she clicked "Like" on our Facebook page; she uses itslearning every day and it makes her teaching more efficient. "All in all, I'm pleased with itslearning. It's a revolution for schools," she beams.
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"The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a member of the waxwing family of passerines. A sleek bird, 18–21 cm long with a pointed crest, it travels in large, nomadic groups with a strong, direct flight. It breeds in coniferous forests throughout the most northern parts of Europe, Asia and western North America. As the Cedar Waxwing inhabits only North America and the Japanese Waxwing only Asia, the Bohemian Waxwing is the only member of this family whose range circumnavigates all the continents just below the sub-Arctic latitudes.
It is larger and greyer than the Cedar Waxwing and has bright yellow tips on its tail feathers and a yellow or white stripe along the wing feathers. Under tail coverts are a deep rust color. Both beak and feet are dark and the brown eyes are set in a narrow black mask underlined with white.
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By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – Judging by the media frenzy this week, the sequestration-induced budget reductions set for March 1 will destroy America as we know it.
Don't believe me? Google this line: "Sequestration will devastate." See what pops up on the screen.
Here's a short look of the apocalypse sure to come if lawmakers cut $85 billion out of the federal government's expected $3.55 trillion 2013 budget: The EPA won't be as transparent, the TSA won't frisk you as efficiently, the National Zoo may cut some planned projects and the USDA may have trouble ensuring your steak isn't horse meat.
The Daily Beast even suggests that the sequester cuts could ruin your life.
Sounds bad, huh?
Yet, silver lining exists in all this. One of the ripple effects of sequester might be that federal lawmakers lose a posh travel perk.
Here's the scoop from The Washington Post:
Members of Congress adore flying on Air Force jets, particularly for overseas trips — there are no security lines, check-in is a breeze, and the service couldn't be better.
But if the government-wide cuts aren't thwarted and the military has to pinch pennies, lawmakers might have to kiss those perks goodbye, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley told the crowd at the Air Force Association's winter conference in Orlando, Fla., we're told.
In short, members of Congress traveling on those notorious fact-finding missions would have to go through airport security, endure cramped seats amidst crying babies and deal with lost baggage like the rest of us?
Maybe this sequester thing isn't such a bad idea.
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- Your account information for Self-Service is e-mailed to your EGCC Student e-mail account. Once you login into your student e-mail you will find an e-mail from firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject of New Self-Service Account.
- Default Username will look like JDoe99 which is the first letter of your first name + first 17 characters of your last name + last 2 digits of your EGCC ID#. Your EGCC ID# appears on both the bill you receive from Eastern Gateway Community College and your acceptance letter.
- Your password is randomly generated by the system; the best way to make sure you can log in to Self-Service is to copy and paste the password into the password field of Self-Service.
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- Opinion: Leadership reform the right medicine
- Opinion: Direct ballots can end era of cutthroat leadership
Union boss Paul Howes is supporting Kevin Rudd's proposal to change the way the Labor Party picks its leaders to prevent a repeat of the 2010 coup.
Support from the Australian Workers' Union national secretary for the Prime Minister's leadership reforms is significant given he was a key player in the plot to replace Mr Rudd with Julia Gillard three years ago. In the most recent leadership tussle, Mr Howes continued to back Ms Gillard.
''I think the proposals that Kevin Rudd has put up are smart,'' Mr Howes told the Seven Network on Tuesday.
''I've always supported party reform and I think electing the leader through a different mechanism is something that has to happen.''
Mr Howes' backing comes as a new poll shows the gap between the parties has tightened further and Mr Rudd has increased his lead over Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister – 53 per cent to 31 per cent.
The latest Newspoll, published by News Ltd on Tuesday, shows the ALP and the Coalition tied at 50 per cent each on a two-party preferred basis. Labor's primary vote is up nine percentage points since Mr Rudd was restored as prime minister two weeks ago, giving the ALP 38 per cent, equal to its level at the August 2010 election.
Nielsen pollster John Stirton said the new polling suggested the reinstatement of Mr Rudd has given Labor a chance of winning back seats – especially in Queensland – that it was bound to lose.
Mr Rudd is proposing changes to make the parliamentary party leader directly elected, with half the vote coming from grass-roots members and half from the caucus. Other measures would make it almost impossible for a Labor prime minister to be removed before their term expired, as happened to Mr Rudd in 2010 and Julia Gillard a few weeks ago.
The move, announced in a press conference on Monday night, has received enthusiastic backing from many within the Labor Party.
Former trade minister Craig Emerson, who was a loyal supporter of Ms Gillard's leadership, praised the reforms. They would put a ''chock in the revolving door'' of Labor leadership, he said.
Labor cabinet minister Penny Wong also supported the changes.
''This hasn't been the best period in our history in terms of our internals,'' she told ABC radio. ''We have to move on from that.''
But Mr Rudd's announcement took one key player in the ALP by surprise, with NSW state secretary Sam Dastyari admitting he had no warning of the bombshell, which had left him ''flabbergasted''.
The changes appear to go further even than those advocated by the party's elder statesmen, Steve Bracks, John Faulkner and Bob Carr.
It is understood Mr Rudd honed the package on Sunday night with his leadership circle – Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a long-term backer of greater democracy, Treasurer Chris Bowen, Leader of the Senate Penny Wong, her deputy Jacinta Collins, and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten.
The changes received an enthusiastic reception from long-time Labor MP Daryl Melham who said that the reforms would bring greater stability to his party.
He likened the recent Labor leadership saga to the work of ruthless Renaissance plotter Niccolo Machiavelli.
''Rank-and-file preselections and participation is the way to go rather than backroom factional hacks trying to determine who is going to be prime minister, who's going to be leader of opposition or who's going to get a seat in Parliament,'' he told ABC radio on Tuesday.
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An Open Letter To Marilyn Manson
Dear Marilyn,
Hi. How are you? Well, clearly you're very angry. I'm not sure what possessed you to write "F**k You" on your face in eyeliner and flaunt it at LAX this past weekend. Well, right back at you. You seem to find it funny and so does your your girlfriend, Lindsay Usich. I think I have a pretty good sense of humor and I'm not laughing. Not funny. Just lame.
I don't get what you're so pissed about. That people judge you harshly for being different? Join the club. Such is the human experience. Are you mad that paps are taking your picture? Get over it. That's part of being famous. You get large ass paychecks for making your music, which I don't care for, but plenty of others do. That is a privilege in life, to get paid for your artistry. And the drawback is having your picture taken when you're in public. That's how it goes. And while paps and the haters may be an annoyance to you, it's a small price to pay to be able to exercise creative freedom for a living.
I'm sorry, I just don't feel bad for you. Show some gratitude. In my estimation you are incredibly lucky. To be able to manage such a successful career and always have a hot woman on your arm despite your crappy attitude and excessive effort to make yourself unattractive? That's the dream, buddy. And you're living it. So wipe your goddamn face off and stop trying to be subversive. We get it. You've got a lot of anger inside of you. Go to therapy and talk about it like the rest of us. Or go make an album we like. Or go make that baby you've been talking about. Whatever. Just stop carping and get over yourself. Because we're over you.
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Northwestern Oklahoma State University's Korey Williams, Richard Gunnels and Nate Guillory, swept the Central States Football League honors for the past weekend. They did so after the Rangers defeated Southern Nazarene University, 62-42, on Saturday.
Williams, a senior receiver from New Orleans, La., scored twice, once on the ground and one receiving, in the Rangers' win. He caught six passes for 108 yards and rushed twice for 30 yards. Currently, he ranks eighth in the NAIA in receptions per game with 6.8/game.
Gunnels, a senior linebacker from Lovelady, Texas, picked up eight tackles, including six solo stops in Northwestern's win over Southern Nazarene. He had a 28-yard interception return before halftime that set up a Northwestern field goal. Gunnels also had 1.5 tackles for loss and a pass break up.
A senior running back and kick returner, Guillory racked up 131 yards on two kickoff returns, including one returned for a 90-yard touchdown. He finished the day with 333 all-purpose yards (178 rushing, 24 receiving, and 131 on kick offs).
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posted 04-29-2003 02:20 AM
Only one of my six cats gets mats in her hair.
Upon close inspection it looks like dandruff is in the matted part of her fur.
What is getting stuck in her fur and how can I avoid this.
I brush her all the time and day to day she gets new matted hair (only on her back). She has 3 matted areas now and I have no idea what to do with this many.
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Sometimes stuff like that happens and its hard to tell where it came from.
One time my elderly cat got spots of matted hair that would not go away. So finally, we simply cut away those spots and the hair grew back fine. It looks unattractive for a while, but it grows....
good luck!
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posted 04-30-2003 04:06 AM
Yes, It's a very good idea to cut away the hair on the back, particularly to see if there's any skin infection there.
Is she scratching?
Is she free of fleas? Fleas can cause that too. If there is scale and/or redness under the mats then you may need to see the vet, as it could be a number of things.
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Thank you Butterfly2catch and Woofdoggy!
I snipped the matted areas away and found no redness, scratching or fleas. I brushed her remaining fur and she is all healthy.
The only thing I saw in the matted areas was a dandruff like substance that is not present on the rest of her fur. I still have no clue what that substance was in her matted fur?
They are all indoor cats, they have only had fleas once since they have been in my care and that is when my house was burglurized and they left my front door open and the cats got out
Thank you both again!
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I too have a cat that has the same problem. She has one patch on her back that is matted and has a dandruff type substance. No matter what I do it will not go away. I have cut it out, brushed it out, and got it out by hand. It just keeps coming back. It is sensitive to the touch but the skin is not red or does not have sores. I was wondering if you had found anything that has helped. Thanks..
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A 48-year-old Thibodaux man died after his vehicle crashed into the Des Allemands bridge rail, flipped over it and fell 28 feet to the ground below, according to Louisiana State Police.
According to the preliminary investigation, Garrett Russ was traveling west on Highway 90 in the right lane on Wednesday when his Ford Ranger struck the bridge rail for unknown reasons. The Ford continued along the bridge rail for 259 feet, then flipped over the rail and fell to the ground below.
Authorities said that Russ was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash and was partially ejected from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Impairment and speed do not seem to have caused the crash, but State Police are awaiting toxicology results from the autopsy.
"Seat belts are the most effective safety feature available in vehicles today. When a seat belt is worn correctly, it will apply most of the collision or stopping forces across the chest and pelvis, which are better able to withstand collision forces," Melissa Matey, State Police spokeswoman, said. "Wearing a seat belt loosely or placing the shoulder belt under the arm or behind your back could result in an injury-producing impact with the vehicle interior or ejection from the vehicle. Wearing a lap belt across the stomach, instead of low across the hips, allows collision forces to be applied to the soft tissue of the body, increasing the chance of injury.
"While not all crashes are survivable, the proper use of seat belts can greatly decrease an occupants chance of death and may greatly reduce the extent of injury."
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More than the government changed in Queensland last Saturday. The country lost another female premier (a year ago there were three, today there is one) and Queensland went from being the leading state for female political representation to being the worst.
Until last Saturday women comprised 36 per cent of the Queensland Parliament, a statistic bettered only by the ACT, where 41 per cent of its 17 members are women. Now, although the count continues, it appears that women will make up just 20 per cent of the sunshine state's assembly.
Before the election the ALP had 25 women including, of course, the premier
Whether what happened in Queensland has any ramifications for women in politics generally, and for the electoral fortunes of Prime Minister
Is there a connection between the electoral annihilation in Queensland of a party led by a woman and the electoral prospects in late 2013 of a federal party led by a woman?
Very little, according to political aficionados I spoke to this week.
"They are very different performers," scoffed a former federal Labor minister. "Anna worked her way up in the party. She did not have to fight anyone, or knife anyone. She was mentored by
It is no longer rare for women to head governments in this country so this ought to be immaterial. While Gillard is Australia's first female prime minister, she is one of 10 women leaders to date. Starting with Rosemary Follett as Chief Minister in the ACT in 1989 and followed swiftly by
There was once the perception that women leaders were akin to "political housewives", installed by factional powerbrokers to clean up the mess left by their (male) predecessors and try to save as much as possible of the political furniture of doomed governments. This was certainly the case with Lawrence and Kirner. But it certainly wasn't true of Bligh, who was groomed for the job and who in 2009 won an election in her own right. Nor was it true of
So the fact that both Bligh and Gillard are women ought to be merely incidental.
Yet gender is indisputably a factor.
Female political leaders are subjected to scrutiny of their clothes, their hair, and in the case of Gillard, their ear lobes, and at times even their emotional demeanour attracts comment. This was notably the case in early 2011 when Gillard was compared unfavourably to Bligh as the two women stood side by side trying to reassure and manage a frightened population facing devastation from raging floodwaters.
Both Kirner and Lawrence have remarked to me that today's women leaders face much more vitriolic commentary than occurred in their day. When the worst that was said was "Lawrence of suburbia" or, in a reference to her clothes, "Spot On, Joan", we can see how much the political conversation has deteriorated over the past 20 years.
Women leaders today face at times hysterical criticism of their political conduct. All politicians break promises but it seems that women leaders attract particular venom when they do so.
In Gillard's case the charge that she is a "liar" – rather than merely a pragmatist or an opportunist – has been successful and, for her catastrophically, embedded into the current political narrative. Beginning with broadcaster
To repudiate and change this characterisation is Gillard's toughest challenge.
She is not helped in this when men who are supposedly on her side of politics not only reinforce this portrayal but ratchet it up. Former federal ALP minister and now commentator
And, he said, both leaders were unpopular with men. "Labor's private polling suggests male voters in particular have a problem with female leaders," he wrote. "Especially those who fail to keep their word."
"The blokes here just don't like women, especially women in charge,'' he said in a breathtaking display of misogyny. "The federal election is a long way off, it's different circumstances, but I don't think the blokes like Julia either. The men of Queensland are just very negative towards women."
If this were the case, you'd wonder how Queensland managed to elect so many women in the past. You might also wonder why Ludwig is so seemingly intent on bringing down the government in which his son Joe serves as a cabinet minister.
Nor are these men seemingly aware that it is not just women political leaders that (many) men don't like. The British Journal of Management published a study recently reporting that sharemarkets responded more negatively to female than to male CEO appointments.
The path for women leaders is strewn with obstacles, including the attitudes of many of the men whose support they need in order to do their jobs.
Former West Australian premier
But Gallop thinks the new balance of power could work in Gillard's favour.
"It's a huge risk, but it's also a huge opportunity," says Gallop, who is a professor and director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney. He argues Abbott is likely to encourage the Liberal premiers – who now reign over the four biggest states – to be "rabid" in their opposition to and undermining of the federal government. "There is room for Gillard to rise above it and say, 'We want to work with the states on economic reform and social justice, on the reform agenda and COAG'," he says.
Gallop considers Gillard to be politically "very smart" and capable of turning this situation to her advantage. Australian political history bears out that voters often decide to balance a concentration of one party at state level with a different political hue federally.
Gallop, speaking as a former champion for a mining state, thinks Gillard's greatest challenge is to sort out the mining royalties issue in relation to the mining tax. If she can do that, and rein in her cabinet from rising to Abbott's bait, Gallop thinks she may turn the political tide.
She will, however, have to somehow persuade her erstwhile colleagues to desist from repeating the mantra that her fate is inextricably linked to Bligh's.
"I think people just wanted to get rid of Anna Bligh," Richardson said the day after the Queensland election. "But I think they want to get rid of Julia Gillard as violently as possible."
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One of the most common songs played at funerals is Frank Sinatra's "I Did it My Way". In many ways, that aptly summarizes the nature of sin. Sin represents the displacement of God and the deification of self. Humans defy their Creator, shake their puny little fists at the heavens, usurp the prerogatives of deity, act with impunity, and demand immunity from consequences. Their musical motif is, "I Did it My Way," meaning that their moral reasoning and tier of values demands to exist over and above what God values. Recently, Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, made some similar comments in the SMH. Of course, the other popular song played at funerals is AC/DC's "Highway to Hell." While meant ironically and even blasphemously, in many ways, is more appropriate!
Sin as Frank Sinatra Syndrome
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- Allen Browne
"I did it my way" is certainly a catchcry of Western
individualism, submitting to no one (including God).
Conversely, the atomised individualism of our worldview also
skews our understanding of sin. In the NT, sin rarely refers to an item on a list of an
individual's misdemeanours. ἁμαρτωλός (sinner)
occurs 47 times. Only 15 of those are singular: the focus is more on the human
state than the individual.
33 of the 47 occurrences are in the gospels, and in most of
those I think the word should be in quotes. It's a term of insult that the religious
use to exclude those who don't meet their standard. When Jesus does use the
word, it's usually as a retort (or at least in picking up the insulting language of the
For example, in Mt 9:11-13, the Pharisees see it as their
job to call people to do better, so that YHWH's favour may return. So they call
Jesus to task for breaking the wisdom tradition, sitting with sinners. They
want to pull back from sinners, literally to 'sacrifice' sinners so Israel can
have God's forgiveness, the return from exile.
how to I change my theology from labelling people in ways that rejects and
insults them, to learn the kind of inclusive mercy Jesus lived?
- Coleen Toews
Sinatra did not write thr lyrics to My Way. Paul Anka did and Sinatra recorded it as a favor to him. Sinatra himself despised the lyrics and eventually said so. In Sinatra's words the lyrics were "too self-aggrandizing" . Why do so many Christians get their facts wrong?? I am a Christian, and I hope and pray the best for people. I hope that Frank Sinatra is now in heaven. You have no right to publicly attack someone as "sinful" when you do not know them personally and do not know their heart.


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lifes a bitch and then you die thats why i stay high. you are all annoying and i hate you. sometimes i think about forcing myself to eat food i dont like just because i hate myself that much. my hamster died yesterday and guess what i killed it too. when my dog died i was not even sweatin it in fact i was kind of diggin not havin to pick up its shit and feed it and stuff. worthless mutt. every day i go to work at the local dump, get chased by stray dogs, then come home and immediately sniff duster and masturbate until i fall asleep. i then wake up around 10 pm, microwave an individual frozen pizza, and then sit and watch dancing with the stars hoping that they fuck up and fall down so that i can laugh at them which makes me feel a little better about myself. i take a couple bites of my pizza but i never can finish the whole thing as it is disgusting fro all the anchovies. i then get on ex box live and try to find little kids to talk to play against so i can destroy them and tell them all the shitty things about the world thta they dont know yet. shit like: did you know that with modern technology you will likely be able to live until 120 years old, however you will never save enough money to retire and eventually you will become useless and be layed off and won't be able to find another job and so you will live in poverty from the age 70 until you die and you you will either be a huge burden on your family or they will just forget you and stick you in some aids infested hellhole of a retirement home for 50 years until you die.


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City's new boss Manuel Pellegrini held his first official press conference on Wednesday afternoon and vowed to help the club progress in next season's Champions League and also usurp rivals Manchester United as Premier League champions.
And, in what would be a huge statement of intent, the Daily Star is claiming the club will look to get Portuguese international Ronaldo back to the Premier League with the promise of a mega £300,000-a-week contract.
United have already been heavily linked with a move to try and re-sign Ronaldo, who they sold to Real Madrid for £80million in 2009, while the Spanish giants insist he is not for sale.
Ronaldo recently suggested that he was happy to stay put at the Santiago Bernabeu, where he still has two years remaining on his current contract.
But the lure of such a massive offer could be difficult for him to resist regardless of how much his club's president Florentino Perez has vowed to hold on to him.
However, one big obstacle to a deal, apart from Madrid's reluctance to sell, is Ronaldo's affection for United which he would not want to tarnish by moving across the city to the Etihad Stadium.
Therefore, despite City's financial ability to pull off such a coup, it is more than likely they will settle for signing either Sevilla hitman Alvaro Negredo or Fiorentina's Stevan Jovetic ahead of the new season.


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Pallone found this unconscionable, particularly in an abbreviated two-month campaign.
Peter Morvyn in 1558 translated an abbreviated version into English, and edition after edition was called for.
Many of the words were abbreviated, and there were some arbitrary signs.
Besides, no one of them ever spoke to Tory without using her abbreviated title.
His diary was within reach, and he thought over his abbreviated week-end.
The overnight visitor's wife appeared from the house in abbreviated skirts, and wearing formidable shin-guards.
The headings of Table 18 have been abbreviated for clarity on small screens.
He was a big man, with a big face, clean shaven except for a pair of abbreviated side whiskers.
In subsequent editions the title was abbreviated to Kreuter Bch.
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La Señora Research Institute
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Gone with the Wind (GWTW) is an American Epic with behind the scenes stories and photos almost as interesting as the film itself....After converting to today's dollars, GWTW is the largest grossing film of all time. 1400 actresses were interviewed to play Scarlett. The first Director had a nervous breakdown; the supposed screenwriter's script was completely rewritten (sometimes on a daily basis) by seven other writers; production was delayed two years while Selznick convinced Clark Gable (or any actor) to play Rhett Butlet. The film is 233 minutes long!! And yet we can all quote lines from it!
Marc Wanamaker kicks off the first of three Tribute events for the 75th anniversary of this film for which our Hacienda's former resident, Lyle Wheeler took home on of his many Oscars for Art Direction. Marc's archives contain never before seen stills from the shooting of the film. He's bringing them to share with us, and any talk b Marc is always a great talk.
Refreshments will be served in La Senora's theater.
Note that your donation to this event is tax deductible. La Senora is a 501[c]3. The donations raised from this event will be used to help with La Senora's education programming of all three events celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Gone With the Wind.
If you prefer to pay by check, please ensure your check reaches La Senora's office mailing address no later than July 10th to ensure your seat is available and that your name appears on the Gate Admittance List.
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La Senora Research Institute
565 Dryad Rd
Santa Monica,
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
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La Señora reconnects our community to its history via interactive, historically accurate and intriguing educational programs designed to encompass all age and demographic groups. La Senora enticies the diverse elements of the historical community into collaborative endeavors.
Exploring pur cultural heritage layers unearths the changes each Era has brought to one small Mexican Rancho. From Alta California as we move into the early 19th Century our focus narrows to an artistic and social mecca--a single Hacienda built on what was once Rancho land designed by one of Edison's Three Tenors. The perfect acoustics of Jose Mojica's Music Salon enhances our chamber music, and the 1930-40's brought the room Anita Loos' eclectic salons filled with the creative, intellectual and famous people from around the world; until Lyle Wheeler (David Selznick's Art Director) made the hacienda his home. The over 600 films produced by these "Old Hollywood" Legends are screened along with those of their friends in our 50-seat theater.


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Now that we've all had a chance to take in and digest the saga of Dr. Horrible, one of the big questions is "Did it work?" It certainly seemed to work for the viewers. In our poll, an astounding 74.2% of you gave it 5 out of 5. Another 22.5% went with 4 out of 5. The bigger question though, is did it work out for everybody on the money end? And I ask that rather selfishly. Sure, I'd like to see Whedon, Fillion, Harris, Day, and the whole crew make a few bucks. But really, I'm more concerned with getting to see more of the story. If the numbers worked out for all involved, the chances of that happening increase greatly.
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Movie Plot : 21 is the story of a number of MIT-students who train themselves in counting cards. Thanks to these counting methods they win millions in the Las Vegas casinos.
Genre : Drama
Also starring : Aaron Yoo, Jacob Pitts, Jim Sturgess, Josh Gad, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Kieu Chinh, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Kelly, Steve Flynn, ...
Movie Plot : Across The Universe is the love story about the English boy Max (Joe Anderson) who comes to the United States and falls in love with the American girl Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) during the sixties, this all against the background of the growing problems between the U.S. and Vietnam.
Genre : Music - Romance
Also starring : Bono, Dana Fuchs, Eddie Izzard, Evan Rachel Wood, Jacob Pitts, James Urbaniak, Joe Anderson, Nicole Berger, Salma Hayek, Abigail Gustafson, ...
Movie Plot : In February and March of 1945 the volcano island Iwo Jima near Japan was the centre of a battle between the United States and Japan, where in a month time 22,000 Japanese and 26,000 Americans died. The fight provided one of the most well known pictures of the Second World War: the photograph of six soldiers who hoist the American Flag on the Suribachi, the highest mountain of the island. One of those six was marine John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe). He never told this piece of heroism to his family and only after his dead in 1994, his son James (Thomas McCarthy) discovered this history.
Genre : Action - Drama - History - War
Also starring : Adam Beach, Barry Pepper, Jacob Pitts, Jamie Bell, Jayma Mays, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Polito, Judith Ivey, Ken Watanabe, ...
Movie Plot : The American teenager Scott has an online-girlfriend in Germany. Her name is Mieke, which Scott pronounces as Mike. Since he considers Mieke to be a boy, he is shocked when she asks if she can come along. If he doesnt accept this, Mieke doesnt want to have anything to do with him anymore. But then Scott finds out that Mieke in fact is a stunning girl. Together with three friends he goes on a holiday to Europe.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
New Blog Location
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Succulents & Air Plants.
About a year ago I took over the responsibility of the house gardener. Sarah and our plants really weren't getting along and the relationship was a strain on everyone (especially the plants.) I began watering the plants weekly and rotating them around the house to make sure they got enough light.
I stumbled across a blog where I learned how to grow my own succulents, all I needed to do was pluck off a leaf or cut off a branch and the both parts would keep on growing! Imagine Sarah's face when she saw me plucking off leaves and cutting off branches! To her (and my) surprise, in a week or so, my new little plants started growing leaves and roots of their own!
I also grow air plants, which are very different but equally easy to care for. Air plants are unique because they do not need dirt to flourish. Natural growing air plants attach themselves to an object and get their nutrients from the air and rain water. They may grow roots but the roots only secure them in place and do not gather water like a traditional plant.
I occasionally put some of my plants in Pastiche at Main to sell and I also will custom make you a plant/box if you are interested :)
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Wedding Exits. What's right for your wedding!?
Now that the holidays are here you may have some time off work or will be spending a lot of time in the car traveling to one place or another you may be able to settle down and start making decisions for your big day! Whether small or big there are a lot of things to think about when it comes to planning a wedding. One of those things is your exit. In my opinion the exit can be some of the most fun pictures of the entire day! When choosing an exit consider what time of day your exit will take place. If you are doing your exit before dark you more than likely want to choose something besides sparklers since they won't be as noticeable in pictures before dark.
With that being said there are plenty of different types of exits you can choose from. Below are a few examples to get some ideas flowing for you!
Balloons are a perfect choice for a mid-day exit!
Birdseed is classic and timeless.
LOVE the flower petal exit! This may be one of my favorites from 2014!
I will never tire of a good sparkler exit. The trick is to make sure you purchase the 3ft. sparklers. If not they burn out too quickly and don't make as great of an impact in photos {the small ones are often very smoky too}. And if you give us an extra 5 minutes we can get some super magical shots like the one above! Doesn't that remind you of Cinderella!?
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Adam Mullins Photography and Pastiche at Main
Sarah and I started our business taking professional pictures of people when we got married in 2009; but my photography journey started way before that with a Nikon Coolpix. I have always taken pictures of nature and have enjoyed getting out in God's creation and just marveling at His work. At least half of all Saturdays in a year Sarah and I are off shooting a wedding and a couple days a week we take pictures of families or high-school seniors. Our work is comprised of people, which I love, but there has always been something special to me about sitting silently with my camera and just waiting for God to show me something.
A year ago this Saturday, some of my best friends opened an incredibly unique shop here in Lynchburg and they allowed me to put some of my work on their walls. Before then, my "hobby" work had only been hung on my walls and seen by my own family. I was nervous because it was my private work, my hobby, my creative outlet, now being displayed for all to judge and look at.
To my surprise, people bought my images, people hung my work on their walls. They saw in my images what I saw the moment I originally captured it. My images are very special to me and so are the frames I make to go with them. I will often make a frame with a specific picture in mind. I handmake all of the frames out of repurposed wood found here in Lynchburg. Most all of my images are taken here locally as well.
Over the past year, I have sold many of my images and frames at Pastiche at Main. I have learned a lot since the grand opening of Pastiche. For one, I learned how to properly make a picture frame. My first frame was made entirely with a circular saw and an antique drill in my basement. Now my frames are handmade in a shed dedicated just to building them. I now use about 10 tools to make every frame and they are much more precise and sturdy.
I am forever grateful for Haley and Adam Pavao and the leap of faith they took opening a small business and allowing me to play a small part in it. If it were not for Pastiche at Main, my images would still be hiding in a folder on my hard-drive. Selling frames and images has allowed me to meet and collaborate with dozens of other local creatives and it has become much more than just a hobby.
This Saturday, Aug 6th, I encourage you to go to Pastiche at Main and see not just my work, but the work of several other local creatives who have similar stories to mine.
Too see some of my work that will be for sale at Pastiche at their One Year Celebration, click this link.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Jax's Room
So I feel a little funny posting this. Like "hey look at my house!" but I love Jax's room so much that I thought it would be OK to share with you all!
It's no secret that Adam and I love to shop small and support small businesses, especially local ones, so we really tried to do that with his room. I'm hoping to do the same thing with Aubri and Deitrich's room.
I have waited a long time to have this room. Before we moved we just had two bedrooms so Jax bunked with us. I knew I wanted it clean and simple and I didn't want it to look like a typical nursery. Peter Pan has always been one of my favorite stories so I knew I wanted touches of that in his room.
It's no secret that Adam and I love to shop small and support small businesses, especially local ones, so we really tried to do that with his room. I'm hoping to do the same thing with Aubri and Deitrich's room.
I have waited a long time to have this room. Before we moved we just had two bedrooms so Jax bunked with us. I knew I wanted it clean and simple and I didn't want it to look like a typical nursery. Peter Pan has always been one of my favorite stories so I knew I wanted touches of that in his room.
|Let's play, can you find the baby!?
|Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Michael Darling
|I know these aren't Peter Pan but I couldn't resist these "Where the Wild Things Are" Pegs!
Wall Decals - Urban Wall Decals
Teepee and Neverland Sign - Made by my hubby
Pallet Piece - Made by Adam and painted by Cultivate Design
Pillows - Bear pillow by Gingiber and imagination pillow by Chic Renovations
Lavender Filled Bunny - Lisa Mary Jonas
Shelf - made by Adam
Peter Pan Silhouettes - made by Adam {he's super talented! ;) }
White "J" on Wooden piece - Regeneration
Where the Wild Things Are pegs - Pegged By Grace
Moccasins - Lisa Mary Jonas
A lot of the vendors can be found at Pastiche at Main and also at Vintage Lynchburg coming up in a few weeks!!
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Back to Analog
Since I am now working full time with Sarah, I have had time to do things that I forgot I loved. Yesterday I spent about 3 hours in our basement in the dark, however creepy that may sound, it was nice to get back to pure analog, no batteries, no computers, just film, paper, and developer.
I had rolls of film that were over one year old that I hadn't developed yet, or even remembered how to. After gathering all my chemicals (and stealing tupperware from the kitchen) I looked up my development times and locked myself downstairs.
I carefully measured my developer and fixer, memorized the times, and then proceeded to sit in the bathtub for the next hour... After nervously turning on the lights, I saw my success, my film developed correctly. I hung it up to dry and went to bed.
Yesterday I spent my work day attempting to get a usable image out of my now dry film. After blowing a fuse and having to rewire my antique enlarger with a lamp wiring kit, I was ready to attempt developing and enlarging my film (something I hadn't done in 10 years) I quickly remembered that the difference in 3 seconds and 7 seconds is enormous in photography talk. After 3 failed attempts at getting the proper exposure, I settled on 4 seconds for the exposure time, 1.25 minutes for the developing time, and I fixed it for about 5 minutes and rinsed.
This has to be the most rewarding part of this whole process. Going from a strictly mechanical camera built of metal, springs, and gears - developing the film - now finally enlarging it and getting a usable image. While it is much cheaper and easier to shoot digital, this whole process really makes me stop and take my time, rather than just firing off 7 frames a second and instantly seeing my results. This is much more rewarding.
I am so thankful that God has allowed me to stay home and work with my wife and little man every day. I hope that through my photography I can show just a tiny piece of how beautiful God's creation and his people really are.
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Labels: Adam Mullins Photography, analog, camera, enlarger, film, light, Nikon, photography
Monday, January 6, 2014
Big News... Round Two!
It's been one week since we launched our new brand and we have been overwhelmed with the response! We are almost to 5000 likes on our Facebook page and the hundreds of shares, comments, retweets, reposts, etc… have been unlike anything we have seen! We can do nothing but thank you all for your support of us and our growing business! While our business is booming, we have some other really exciting news.
As many of you know, Adam has been working at The Masters Inn summer camp since 2007. The Masters Inn is where many of our shoots have taken place and it has played a huge role in our business and our personal lives. We met there, got engaged there, and lived there. Through The Masters Inn, we have seen hundreds of lives changed and we have seen God move in big ways. We are nothing but thankful for how camp has influenced our lives. In 2013, with a new family of five and a growing business; our house quickly became small, our free time quickly diminished, and we realized we had to make a change. After many months of prayers and thoughts, we have decided that Adam is going to leave The Masters Inn and devote more time to our business and our family. This week we moved into our new four bedroom house and we plan on finishing our basement with a family room and an office in the next year :)
2013 was a year of rapid growth and nonstop going. This year we are going to focus more on simplifying our lives and spending time enjoying life. With Adam no longer at The Masters Inn, our turn-around time for photos is going to be quicker, the dates we have available will increase, our social media and blogs will be updated more frequently, Adam will be teaching photography classes through Pastiche at Main, we will design and sell more albums , Adam will build more picture frames and sell more prints online and at Pastiche. Hopefully the many changes will benefit you all and our business will be able to grow even more! There is much to look forward to in 2014 and we cant wait to share it with you all!
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Liquidity Crisis? A Currency Perspective
Axel Merk, Portfolio Manager, Merk Funds
September 21, 2011
In 2008, the global financial system faced a potential meltdown when funding seized up for investment banks, ultimately leading to the failure of Lehmann Brothers. Three years on, we have got plenty of problems, but – as we shall argue - investors may want to differentiate between a financial meltdown and insolvency. While complaining about policy makers and bankers may generate animated water cooler discussions, let's take their human (and fallible) nature as a given, and discuss implications for investors. In this context, we assess the U.S. dollar, currencies and equities.
In recent months, various observers pointed to strains in the inter-bank funding markets. Headlines warning of financial calamity resurfaced. We have a laundry list of complaints ourselves. Remember, though, that Al Capone was convicted for tax evasion, not for his activity as a mobster. Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on Greece may be triggered not by Greece's inability to pay, but because of Finland's insistence that collateral be posted in return for the next tranche of European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) payment. Along similar lines, select banks may have funding strains, but don't count on a lack of liquidity breaking their backs.
Anyone who has read a basic accounting book recalls the equation Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity. While specifics might get a bit complex (they shouldn't, but when regulators and lobbyists collaborate, the result is not necessarily the most obvious), banks face the same accounting realities. A customer's loan shows up as an asset on a bank's balance sheet. Equity may be paid-in capital by shareholders. And liabilities are the loans the bank itself takes out in order to pay for (fund) its loan portfolio (assets). Unlike non-financial corporations, banks are highly leveraged institutions (low equity compared to liabilities); moreover, banks have an inherent maturity mismatch. A maturity mismatch means that banks tend to borrow short-term money, while financing long-term projects. Some of the key risks banks face are interest risk (the risk of rising short-term interest rates may create problems for institutions with a maturity mismatch) and credit risk (the risk of creditors not paying back their loans). By promising to keep interest rates low until at least the middle of 2013, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has substantially reduced interest risk for banks. The risk of creditors (think Greece's sovereign debt; think sub-prime mortgage-backed securities, to name two of the more obvious risks), however, persists.
In order to finance their loan portfolios (a bank asset), banks have substantial funding risk. Funded can be sourced through customer deposits (a fairly stable source of funding; a customer deposit shows up as a liability on a bank's balance sheet), by issuing various forms of debt (e.g. including longer term bonds or shorter term commercial paper) or by obtaining a loan from another financial institutions, the inter-bank lending market.
The obvious challenge in the interbank lending market is that if a bank does not trust another institution's financial health, they are unlikely to give that institution a loan, even if it is just overnight. The financial institution seeking to secure financing may have its funding costs soar as a result. The important thing to remember, though, is that banks have access to funding from their respective central banks. The days are over when investment banks had neither customer deposits, nor access to a central bank window. Goldman Sachs, as well as the other remaining large investment banks, have converted to commercial banking charters. As such, they can tap into the same unlimited piggy bank as other banks. Importantly, the European Central Bank (ECB) has been providing unlimited liquidity to the European banking system. That's unlimited, as in no limits. The banks are depositing part of their loan portfolio as collateral; in return, they receive cash. That cash may literally be printed out of thin air; central banks don't need to find that money somewhere, they just need to enter a credit into the account that bank holds at the central bank.
It turns out the ECB model is rather flexible: when the crisis flares up, banks require more liquidity; when the crisis ebbs down, those facilities are wound down. The ECB has been adamant that their measures are temporary by design and independent of its broader monetary policy. While one can argue about the severity of the crisis or the quality of the collateral, it is correct that the ECB approach is more robust than that of the Federal Reserve (Fed). By buying trillions in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and government bonds, the Fed has a bloated balance sheet that is cumbersome to manage. In contrast, the ECB has only printed a fraction of the money and could phase out its facilities within months (one year for the longest facility). The ECB is also providing unlimited U.S. dollar liquidity to European banks through swap arrangements with the Fed in cooperation with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and Bank of England (BoE). Importantly, these facilities are designed to carry financial institutions through the New Year. Towards the end of the year, a lot of window dressing takes place, where financial institutions like to show "good" securities on their books. As a result, every year, there is concern that those issuing less desirable securities might get squeezed from the funding markets. While not without political risks in the U.S., it shows the determination of central banks to keep plenty of liquidity in the markets, and is a key reason why we believe a liquidity driven financial meltdown is off the table.
In the 1990s, the Bank of Japan showed that even a technically insolvent banking system could be kept afloat. Similarly, there may be solvency issues at some institutions, but central banks can keep them afloat.
When funding costs are too high, financial institutions have to de-leverage or raise more capital. The former can be expensive; indeed, banks have great leeway with regards to keeping securities at cost on their books, rather than adjusting them to market value. Part of the rational behind such regulation is that the maturity mismatch inherent to the banking industry means banks should be able to take a longer-term view. The markets have shown they have little sympathy for such twisted logic. The trouble is that, if indeed banks de-leveraged, they would have to recognize their losses, possibly wiping out substantial portions of their capital.
The latest round of European stress tests did something fabulous: the stress tests provided unprecedented transparency, listing the sovereign debt holdings of financial institutions. The market doesn't need the regulator to tell them what's good or bad; the market needs transparency. The market is now able to target what are deemed weaker institutions and "encourage" them to raise more capital or de-leverage. That 'encouragement' by the market is what has been driving both policy makers and bank executives. In many ways, it's a wonderful dialogue. Policy makers and CEOs may be able to influence the timing of when governments and banks clean up their books / get their act together, but the action is firmly driven by the bond markets. However, there is one region where this "reform process" is sorely lacking with regards to sustainable fiscal policy: the U.S. It's not a coincidence: the bond markets in the U.S. have not forced policy makers into action. Obviously it would be preferred to have policy makers and bank CEOs be ahead of the curve.
When it comes to financial institutions, the inherent design of bank regulation carries much of the blame. It's not just the fact that banks are not required to mark down assets to market value; it's also that national regulators typically consider their own government debt risk free. In the U.S., Treasures are risk free by regulation. Similarly, European banks ought to carry much of their capital in sovereigns, as those securities are acceptable to comply with capitalization rules; in contrast, corporate securities must be heavily discounted. In a world where some corporations may be less risky than their governments, those rules are outdated. Indeed, at times, there is a risk that inter-bank lending of corporate (financial institution) paper dries up, because regulation discourages taking on the counter-party risk of a bank and incentivizes more risky government securities instead. In Europe, where each Eurozone government regulates its own banking system, it's urgently necessarily to centralize bank regulation, so that each member country's bank is not ex-ante over-exposed to their own government paper. Naturally, the respective governments are opposed to such moves, as it may increase the cost of government funding if banks actually had to evaluate (and take seriously) the creditworthiness of their own governments.
What does it mean to investors?
Manager of the Merk Hard, Asian and Absolute Currency Funds, www.merkfunds.com
Axel Merk, President & CIO of Merk Investments, LLC, is an expert on hard money, macro trends and international investing. He is considered an authority on currencies.
Since the Funds primarily invest in foreign currencies, changes in currency exchange rates affect the value of what the Funds own and the price of the Funds' shares. Investing in foreign instruments bears a greater risk than investing in domestic instruments for reasons such as volatility of currency exchange rates and, in some cases, limited geographic focus, political and economic instability, emerging market risk, and relatively illiquid markets. The Funds are subject to interest rate risk, which is the risk that debt securities in the Funds' portfolio will decline in value because of increases in market interest rates. The Funds may also invest in derivative securities, such as for- ward contracts, which can be volatile and involve various types and degrees of risk. If the U.S. dollar fluctuates in value against currencies the Funds are exposed to, your investment may also fluctuate in value. The Merk Currency Enhanced U.S. Equity Fund may invest in exchange traded funds ("ETFs"). Like stocks, ETFs are subject to fluctuations in market value, may trade at prices above or below net asset value and are subject to direct, as well as indirect fees and expenses. As a non-diversified fund, the Merk Hard Currency Fund will be subject to more investment risk and potential for volatility than a diversified fund because its portfolio may, at times, focus on a limited number of issuers. For a more complete discussion of these and other Fund risks please refer to the Funds' prospectuses.


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Alicia Keys…Or Is That Your Real Name? Plus Her HOT New Single!
I actually had no clue that Alicia Keys wasn't her real name. I know it sounded too perfect because she sure does know how to play the keys. She has a name totally off the wall. Read more and find out what it is!
Alicia Augello Cook, known by her stage name Alicia Keys. Now that we are talking of the wonderful Mrs. Keys, have you heard her new song "Girl on Fire"? You can now catch it on Kiss Future Hits on 93.1 Kiss fm that airs every Sunday!
She is an amazing talent ans after having her baby boy she is ready to get the albums out! Here is audio of her latest single, "Girl On Fire" along with Nicki Minaj. And make sure to click the button below to listen live to Kiss fm so you can tune in to Kiss Future Hits!
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Crying over the Lance Armstrong doping confession? Or maybe gloating over a fake hero being taken down by his own greed and lies? A Manly, Australia, library is reportedly planning to move Armstrong's biographical books to the fiction section. Ouch. That makes it the second Manly, Australia, reference I've heard in my life, with the first being Kristen Bjorn's porn classic Manly Beach. Though no books were used in Manly Beach.
So who will save the day? German track cyclist world and Olympic medalist Robert Förstemann, that's who! At 5'9" and 200 pounds, he sports 34" thighs(!), which have been cited in the press as "freakishly large vein-laden muscles". And cited in the minds of muscle fetishists as an ejaculation trigger.
As for actual sexual contact with this jock beast, go down on him at your own risk. Unless you also have a fetish for vises.


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Toilet Roll Cover: Walk in the Woods by Woolly Thoughts
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Toilet Roll Cover: Walk in the Woods
This cover is best for the more experienced knitter because of the number of different colours used.
Toilet Roll Covers is a book of 30 knit and crochet covers. Our original vision for the book was that all the covers would have silly titles including the words 'roll', 'paper', 'tissue', etc. Somehow the titles disappeared on the way (as did some of the covers).
Walk in the Woods was originally Toilet-trees.