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I stopped at the library on my way to work last week and emerged with a yummy stack of new books. I've been a weekly library patron for about 44 years. I read in the bathtub, in bed before I go to sleep and often first thing in the morning, and on my 45 minute bus ride to and from work.
One of the books I got (and am more than halfway through) is one of those rare, self-affirming, possibly life-altering reads. Quiet by Susan Cain. The cover attracted me. Less is more. With its title and minimalist cover,
I expected the book to be thoughtful, well-researched and enlightening.
Shhhh. Listen
That's the sound of your thoughts.
If you are happy with what you hear,
you may be an introvert.
For too long, those who are naturally quiet,
serious or sensitive have been overlooked.
The loudest have taken over – even if they have nothing to say.
It's time for everyone to listen. It's time to harness the power of introverts.
It's time for Quiet.
I'm not necessarily learning anything new from this book. I've known that I'm an introvert for much of my life. Although it's been a painful journey at times, it has been an amazing voyage of self-discovery. I'm familiar with Carl Jung and the Meyers-Briggs and have read Elaine Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person. From my undergraduate coursework in Psychology and my graduate studies in Counseling Psychology, I am familiar with many of the research studies that Susan Cain cites. I've done several workshops on the Enneagram (I'm a Type 4 – the Artist/Romantic/Individualist) and feel comfortable with my natural tendency towards introversion.
What I am really enjoying is how Cain ties all of these strands together and keeps stating the value and power of introverts. It's bringing all of my insights and positive feelings about being deep and quiet to the fore. She also writes about blogging and online community/collaboration, how very much it suits us thoughtful, quiet types. Somehow, reading this book at this time in my life is enabling me to proudly carry the banner of 'I'm an introvert and I'm OK!'
I went to the gym yesterday morning to work out. (I like my Sunday morning weight lifting sessions, as I am usually one of the few people there!). I made sure to take my camera because I noticed on Friday some trees just outside covered with plump red berries being foraged by blackbirds. After my session, I lingered outside and took some photographs. There was a group of blokes shouting and playing some loud game with a ball, football or rugby, on the pitch outside the sports centre. A couple of people came out of the gym and looked at me curiously. I just waved and went back to observing the trees and birds. Sometimes I feel a bit odd, stopping to stare and dream about things. But yesterday I realised the ball players are a bunch of extroverts doing their thing and here I am, an introvert, doing my thing.
I thought about a design I love by William Morris called 'The Strawberry Thief'
and how the three birds who were squabbling in one of the 5 trees were the brash extroverts of the tribe, whilst the lone bird quietly going back and forth between hedgerow and another tree may well be an introvert blackbird. One of the things I learned in Quiet is that the introversion/extroversion spectrum spans animal groups too.
I was using my little Pentax Optio 40 which slips right into my pocket. Maybe if I had a bigger camera with a zoom lens I'd get a better photo, but I really don't want the hassle of carrying bulky camera equipment around and the fuss of changing lenses.
What I thought are berries are actually 'haws', the autumn fruit of the hawthorn tree. In Irish folklore the Hawthorn is sometimes referred to as the fairy bush, due to the belief that fairy spirits inhabit the tree as guardians, and since early times it has always been considered bad luck to cut or damage the tree in fear of offending them.
Some folks make jelly or wine from them. This recipe for Chili Hawthorn Dipping Sauce looks great, but I'm not really a jelly maker.
I thought about the coming of winter and stocking up the larder. One of my weekend plans is to make pomegranate liqueur which will be ready by the winter solstice. I heard the steady clip-clop of hooves and waited for a horse and rider to pass by before I set off home to have a hot bath, read some more of my book and then turn my attention to pomegranates.
This is very exciting! I met up with Bonnie McCaffery at the Festival of Quilts and she snapped a really nice photo of me and my bed.
Bonnie is a great friend of mine, whom I meet up with for a few hours at a time when she's here in the UK teaching or filming vidcasts. Bonnie was filming video of quilts at the show for Luana Rubin of eQuilter.com and I was interviewed by Luana!
After the Festival of Quilts, Steve and I broke down the bed, collected Bonnie and we all came down to Devon for a few days.
Some friends of ours let us use their property to photograph 'Enter the Forest of Dreams' in the woods. It was the perfect setting and a beautiful day with sunlight twinkling through the trees.
We got some fantastic photographs from the day. Here are a couple.
I commissioned Bonnie to make a short film of me telling the story of 'Enter the Forest of Dreams', from the making of the bed frame when I was a student at the Chippendale International School of Furniture through to all of the symbolism in the headboard and bed quilts. At the end, the secret of the hidden valance is revealed. Even though Bonnie lives in America, through the magic of the internet, we'll be able to keep in touch while she's producing the video. I'm really looking forward to seeing it sometime in 2013!
On day two, we turned my living room into a photography studio and Bonnie took some amazing portrait photographs of me. I'm saving those for another post.
The work on my commission is going really well. I've been working on it most days when I'm at home. I went on a walk 'around the block' on Monday, to have another look at hedgerow leaves before I stitched many more of them down. I especially wanted to find some hawthorn leaves and berries, just to be sure of them.
I live in a Dartmoor town which is surrounded by fields and moorland. One of my favourite walks begins by heading west out of the town and after about 5 minutes, I reach a public footpath. I always feel like Alice in Wonderland going down the rabbit hole!
There are some fantastic tree roots on either side.
The footpath opens up into a field which usually has livestock in it. Right now it's sheep.
A bit further on were some beautiful Devon Ruby cattle
Further on, I paused for a view of Moretonhampstead, my hometown.
Some of the fields are scattered with late summer daisies and clover.
The latter half of my circuit is along a paved single track road, with a few passing places. I usually meet at least one car, tractor or person on horseback. I love the stretches where the trees meet overhead, especially on a hot, sunny day!
Long before paved roads and signs, this granite cross has marked this intersection
One the last leg of my journey, the early evening sun lit the foliage from behind.
By the way, I've been looking into the Celtic meaning of the trees whose leaves I've used to frame my Green Woman — hawthorn is a symbol of union of opposites, and serves as a message for us to be more accepting of the unconventional.
I usually run along this circuit and enjoy each beautiful view,
but it's great to walk it with my camera and take the time to peer and notice all of the small, beautiful details.
Moretonhampstead all decked out with summer flowers and bunting for the annual Carnival.
Finally . . .
Over Lent, I went on an online retreat/journey with the Desert Mothers and Fathers. Along the way, I was invited to consider the three virtues or practices in my life right now which feel essential for cultivating my connection to Self and God.
For the past several weeks, I've been practising the virtues of Stability, Patience and Presence. As an EdgeDancer and someone who for many years sought Home over the next horizon, these don't come easily to me. But I am learning to trick my small self and 'just try them for a moment' and before I know what has happened, I am in the Eternal Now.
I'm playing with practising one or more of the three virtues, when I remember, at different times of my day. For instance, I can practise Patience if I'm working at a slow computer. Or Stability if I want change just for it's own sake; rather than begin a new activity, I can relax into what I am already doing and really focus on the task at hand. I find that these small awarenesses give me a different perception of time and a deeper connection to everything.
The apple orchard I walk through from my bike parking spot to my bus stop is a great teacher of many things, including these virtues. It is a grounding Presence in the spiral of changing seasons, embodying them and also remaining constant. In November and December, I stop to count the diamond stars shining through the bare lichen covered branches. Now, I find constellations in the blossom laden boughs.
And I know that in the Autumn, the orchard will give us an abundance of sweet and juicy cider, cooking and eating apples, each with a star in the centre.
And again in the Winter, a beautiful lattice through which to view the deep night sky and shining stars.
So please forgive my silence (not that there aren't hundreds of other diverting, deep, Muse-inducing blogs and things to keep you occupied!) while I've been finding a different point of view and new ground beneath my feet.
Momijigari (紅葉狩), from the Japanese momiji (紅葉), "red leaves" or "maple tree" and kari (狩り, "hunting", is the Japanese tradition of going to visit scenic areas where leaves have turned red in the autumn.
In the English language this phenomenon is known as 'leaf peeping'. According to Word Spy a leaf peeper (1980) is a tourist who visits New England in autumn to see the changing colours of the foliage. The quest is for the perfect moment — the exact time and location when a leaf peeper will encounter the height of foliage color and experience foliage ecstasy.
Yesterday, Steve and I went up to Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire (Old England) in search of foliage ecstacy. Westonbirt is a 600 acre arboretum in the Cotswolds, with 18,000 rare and beautiful trees. Started in 1839 by Robert Holford, at a time of great excitement in the plant world, with plant-hunters like David Douglas bringing new and exotic species from the farthest reaches of the British Empire. Although Robert Holford never went on expeditions, he probably financed some and the collection contains some of the original plants brought back. It seems likely that Robert, in keeping with wealthy Estate owners of his day created the arboretum for pleasure and as testament to his taste and wealth. Holford's son, George was responsible for planting many of the rhododendrons and maples for which Westonbirt is so famous today. The arboretum passed to the Forestry Commission in 1956 in lieu of death duties.
In the autumn, the stars of Westonbirt are in the world famous maple collection. After changing into our Wellies, we set off through the Silk Wood to visit the Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) trees.
I don't think I need to say much more than this: ' We found our red leaves.'
When I remarked that this bloke has some serious kit, he replied that his camera equipment cost him more than his first house. I personally don't like to shoot with an SLR because having to stop and change lenses takes me out of the moment and from what I'm experiencing in the world around me. I used Steve's Fuji Finepix bridge camera for most of these shots. It's a bit bulkier than my little Pentax Optio A40, but I like the range of settings I can tweak on it. Plus I love the optical viewfinder. Anyhow, I hope that guy got some good shots. Not sure how good a time he was having, because when someone's dog had the audacity to come up to him and say 'Hello' he got really narky.
In the whole universe of colour that I was immersed in, I felt the most deeply moved by the occasional, solitary one or two leaves. The ones who stayed for just that brief moment longer, so that I could stop and look and really see them in their unique and individual beauty.


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Experimental Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke Model Reveals Sex-specific Estrogen Signaling. | |
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PMID: 23349190 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Pediatric stroke, birth to 18 years, is a significant cause of long-term disability in the United States; however, there is currently little experimental data on the pathophysiology of childhood stroke owing to lack of animal models. We developed a novel mouse model of experimental childhood-onset arterial ischemic stroke to characterize the sex-specific response of the adolescent brain to cerebral ischemia and assess the neuroprotective effect of estrogen at this developmental stage. METHODS: Postnatal day 20 to 25 mice were subjected to 90 minutes experimental stroke via the intraluminal filament middle cerebral artery occlusion model and ischemic damage assessed 22 hours after reperfusion. Real-time quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed 22 hours after middle cerebral artery occlusion to determine the effects of ischemia and estrogen treatment on the proapoptotic gene Bax. RESULTS: Ischemic injury did not differ between male and female juvenile (postnatal day 20-25) mice after middle cerebral artery occlusion. However, estrogen reduced ischemic injury in female mice, whereas having no effect in juvenile males. No differences in estrogen receptor expression were observed on postnatal day between 20 males and females. In contrast, estrogen minimized the ischemia-induced increase in the proapoptotic gene Bax in female mice, whereas having no effect on Bax induction in the male brain. CONCLUSIONS: Focal ischemia has fundamentally different effects in the juvenile brain compared with the adult, as evidenced by the lack of sex difference in ischemic injury in the murine postnatal day 20 to 25 middle cerebral artery occlusion model and the sexually dimorphic response to estrogen neuroprotection. |
Paco S Herson; Chris G Bombardier; Susan M Parker; Takeru Shimizu; Jost Klawitter; Jelena Klawitter; Nidia Quillinan; Jennifer L Exo; Neil A Goldenberg; Richard J Traystman |
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Title: Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation Volume: - ISSN: 1524-4628 ISO Abbreviation: Stroke Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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[Mrs. Susan Dabney Smedes was born at Raymond, Mississippi, in 1840, and was the daughter of Thomas S. Dabney, a planter whose life forms the basis of her description of life on a Southern plantation, entitled "Memorials of a Southern Planter." She was married in 1860 to Lyell Smedes, but was in a few months left a widow. Her life has been largely devoted to philanthropic work. Her home at present is Sewanee, Tennessee.]
And now a great blow fell on Thomas Dabney. Shortly before the war he had been asked by a trusted friend to put his name as security on some papers for a good many thousand dollars. At the time he was assured that his name would only be wanted to tide over a crisis of two weeks, and that he would never hear of the papers again. It was a trap set, and his unsuspicious nature saw no danger, and he put his name to the papers. Loving this man, and confiding in his honor as in a son's, he thought no more of the transaction.
It was now the autumn of 1866. One night he walked up stairs to the room where his children were sitting, with a paper in his hand. "My children," he said, "I am a ruined man. The sheriff is downstairs. He has served this writ on me. It is for a security debt. I do not even know how many more such papers have my name to them." His face was white as- ↑ Reprinted from "Memorials of a Southern Planter," by permission of the holder of the copyright, James Pott & Company.


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Posted By Malcolm A. Kline On August 12, 2010 @ 12:40 pm In Faculty Lounge | No Comments
The same politicians set to lay federal largesse on public school teachers and deny the poor vouchers that would allow them to attend higher performing private schools in turn send their kids to…..private schools. "President Obama, who at age 10 used a scholarship to attend a private school in Hawaii, isn't the only one practicing school choice while taking others' opportunities away," Candi Cushman writes in the August/ September 2010 issue of Citizen [1] magazine. "According to an informal survey of Congress conducted by the Heritage Foundation, approximately 44 percent of senators and 36 percent of representatives with school-age children have at some point sent their kids to private school."
"Only about 11 percent of American students attend private school." Citizen magazine is published by Focus on the Family where Cushman works as an educational analyst.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia [2].
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The word "father" can be a noun. It can also be a verb. Becoming a father is the easy part. Just get a woman pregnant and contribute the necessary DNA. All children have a father. Being a father is the difficult part. That means being there for the child, getting up in the middle of the night when the child is sick, showing up and cheering them on in sporting events, hugging them when they are sad. In other words, being a father is something we do that is active, not passive. Not all children have a father who fathers.


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Seattle, WA (Sports Network) - Joe Mauer hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning on Friday and the Twins downed the Mariners, 3-2, in the opener of a three-game series.
Minnesota, which was no-hit by the Angels' Jered Weaver on Wednesday, trailed 2-0 entering the seventh before loading the bases with one out. Chris Parmelee then scored on a throwing error by reliever Tom Wilhelmsen (1-1), Alexi Casilla crossed the plate on a groundout and Mauer made it 3-2 with a base hit up the middle.
Carl Pavano (2-2) earned the win, allowing two runs on eight hits without issuing a walk over six innings. Matt Capps recorded his fifth save of the season for the Twins, who had been shut out in their previous two games.
Kyle Seager and Mike Carp both had an RBI double in the fifth inning for Seattle, which has lost seven straight.
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An iSpazio source has provided the site with pictures of the front frame and LCD for the iPhone 4G. These images are reportedly from a trustworthy source who receives components directly from Chinese factories. The front frame adds a hole for a camera.
The LCD connector is a different position suggesting a substantial redesign. The connector is larger providing an increase in the number of connections to the motherboard which indicates a higher resolution display. The glass looks identical to the 3G will only change the disposition of the connector, this suggests that there will be substantial revolution in appearance or in touchscreen technology.
While the LCD is radically different compared to 3G. The connector is bigger and this suggests an increase in the number of connections to the motherboard (short PIN) as a result there will be a clearer definition superior to its predecessors.
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Last Updated on Jan 2009 1) Installing Files for East Asian Languages 2) Installing Togainu no Chi 4) Mounting the files in Daemon Tools 4a) Installing the Game 5) Checking Your Version of DirectX 5a) How to Update DirectX 6) Running Togainu no Chi 7) Playing Togainu no Chi 8) How to Get My PC Back to English 9) How to Get My PC Back to Japanese 10) Running Togainu no Chi With AGTH 11) Troubleshooting This guide is what I personally had to do to get Togainu no Chi to work when it first came out--so it's an old tutorial and specialized to the files I used. If you're running anything pre Windows XP, don't expect Togainu to run. If you're using Vista there's a Vista patch on the official website that you'll need to run to get the game to work (I don't have the link or the patch.
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Wynonna Judd
The Other Side
Original Release Date: October 21, 1997
Track Listing
1. When Love Starts Talkin'
2. The Other Side
3. Love Like That
4. Kind of Fool Love Makes
5. Troubled Heart and a Troubled Mind
6. Don't You Throw That Mojo on Me
7. Come Some Rainy Day
8. Love's Funny That Way
9. The Wyld Unknown
10. Why Now
11. We Can't Unmake Love
12. Always Will
Matt Rollings: Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Wurlitzer
Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Guitar (Electric), Performer
John Berry: Vocals, Producer, Performer, Duet
Eddie Bayers: Drums, Foot Stomping, Knee Slaps
Lisa Bevill: ?, Vocal Harmony
Bruce Bouton: Pedal Steel
Larry Byrom: Guitar (Acoustic)
Terry Christian: Mixing
Don Cobb: ?, Digital Editing
Cliff Downs: Clapping
Kim Fleming: Vocals (Background)
Paul Franklin: Pedal Steel, ?
Carl Gorodetzky: Conductor
Kenny Greenberg: Dobro, Guitar (Electric)
Carlos Grier: ?, Digital Editing
John Guess: Mixing
Vicki Hampton: Vocals (Background), Vocal Harmony
Brian Hardin: Assistant Engineer
Tom Hemby: Guitar (12 String)
Dann Huff: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
John Jarvis: Keyboards
Naomi Judd: Performer, Vocal Harmony
Wynonna Judd: Guitar, Vocals
Mills Logan: Engineer, Assistant Engineer
Brent Maher: Vocals (Background), Producer, Engineer
Brent Mason: Guitar (Electric)
Terry McMillan: Percussion, Washboard, Screams
The Nashville String Machine: ?
Justin Niebank: Engineer
Michael Omartian: Clapping
Bobby Ogdin: Keyboards
David Pack: Guitar (Acoustic), Producer, Harmony
Al Perkins: Slide Guitar
Denny Purcell: Mastering
Ron Reynolds: Mixing
Michael Rhodes: Bass
Tom Roady: Percussion
Chris Rodriguez: ?, Vocal Harmony
Tammy Rogers: Fiddle
Chris Rowe: Mixing Assistant
Ed Seay: Assistant Engineer, Mixing
Steuart Smith: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Steve Tillisch: Engineer
Billy Joe Walker, Jr.: Producer
Biff Watson: Guitar (Acoustic)
Willie Weeks: Bass
Bergen White: Arranger
Marty Williams: Engineer
Nicol Sponberg: ?, Vocal Harmony
Jack Sundrud: Vocals (Background)
John Berry, Jr.: Producer
Chuck Ainlay: Mixing
Billy Joe Walker: Producer
Dean Jamison: Assistant Engineer, Mixing
Bridgett Evans O'Lannerghty: Clapping, Production Coordination
Audrey Haney: Fiddle
Claudia McConnell-Fowler: Stylist
Paul Skaife: Assistant Engineer
Ginny Johnson: Production Coordination
Eric Barnard: Make-Up, Hair Stylist
Billy Kirsch: Piano
Jan Greenfield: Production Coordination
Robert Bailey, Jr.: Vocals (Background)
Kithe Brewster: Stylist
Dean Factor: Photography


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Gregory K. Palm
Wall Street Sits Courtside for a Marathon Match
A number of bankers and financiers were at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday to witness tennis history as Andy Murray defeated Novak Djokovic in the men's singles final. But as the night wore on, some turned to unconventional means to stay warm.
Supreme Connection: First Street to Wall Street
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Masonic Temple
Weekly Calendar
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lloiiuliilii Struml lltgrcc,
lliiivall.in-Third III trie.
Honolulu ( haplrr, II. . M
I'lituliir, .1 p. in.
Oceanic J hlul IH uric,
7:110 p. in.
ATURDAY: -r
llnriiiiiii (Imptir Nil I. 0.
L. N. Ilipul.ir.
IK TUItlog meratitirs ol uo
Order tre cordially invited to
attend meetings ot local least
Mcit oil I ho
'.'ml iiml llli
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flIARINE ENGINEER?
tfKEFICIAL AJCHTIUS.
Iiinii) imiiiii.
Members of
ot lit r Atvu
i iiitliini ror
m. Mihivi.n loiiiii:, .no. 8,
It. of I'.
fix Meets every 2nd nnd 4th Satur
jd.n i-M nliip nt 7 JO o'clock In
n K ol I' Hull, cur. Kurt and
' lion i niln Visiting brother
Meets every 2nd unci 4th Satur-
oirrl in 1 1 invited lo attend
a f u:itiK, : c.
r. k. Kii.nnr, k n s
niiMii.iii.ir i.itiicr, i;ii;, it. p. o. 1:.
Honolulu Unlr.o No CIO,
II I O i:ikn. mcutn In
their Ii ill. cm King St,
near I'm i, every 1'rld.ij
evening Visiting Druth
ers tiro lordlally Invited
to attend
a r mi tti'iiv, 1: ii
u it ssiitn: Sic
iiAiiir i.oim.-i: mi. i, h. or i'.
Meets every tlrst and tlilril Frl-
day at 7 HO unlock, Pjthlun
' Hall, cornei Herotunla and
Kort shoots VUitlng InotherH
rordl.illy Invited to attend.
O 1II3INI3, K. nf 11. & S.
Hawaiian 'i mm: .no. i, i. . i:. .u
Meets every llrst and third
Tuesday of each innntli In
Fraternity Hall. 10 0 1'
building Vi.dliiR brothers
(ordlally Invited to attend
1113X111 A ASCII, Sadiem
Louis a. i'i:miY. c of it
iio.noi.i'u: Ai.iiii: no, r. o. i:.
Meets nn roi nnil and fourth
ftV Wediiei-day evening of each
W7 i. .. .... .. . i... i. i..
iW"1 lll.lllill .it I ..' lltllflK, 111
San Antonio Hall. Viuujurd
street, near lhnni.t Visiting brothers
aro Invited to title ml
VM lONFS, V I'.
J ASCII. Stcy
HONOI.I I.I' I.IIIMir NO. 8110,
I.. 0. 0. Mm
will moot In Odd Follows' building,
Fort street, ne.ir King, every Friday
ewnlng.nt. 7 oil oclock.
Visiting brothers undlally Invited
to attend
AMDItOSF. J WlltTZ. Dictator.
13. A JACOIISON, Secretur)
Importer Fort St
Pantheon Dltlij.
Spring Hats
Miss Power,
MIMinery Parlors, Boston Block
Up-to-date Millinery and Men's Hats
Received ex Lurline, the very latest
In WHITE SERGE TAILORED
SUITS) also LINGERIE and LINEN
TAILORED SUITS. Now on display.
Club Stables Block
MRS. E. E. DAVIS. Proprietor
(Additional Shipping on Page 6)
Eight Suspected Cases of Smallpox Cause Pacific Mail Liner
to Go Into Quarantine on Arrival from the Far East
Hall and Claudlnc Arrive With Sugar and Passengers
Schooner Johnson Ready for Sea Helcnc to the Local
Marine Railway.
A vonng llrltlshor, nlleRod to hao
rcteiith liicn cmploMd with the lint
IkIi Anuritiin Tobacco Ciiiniiativ at
Hue of Its Korenu branches, who Is
ihnrgtil wild tho embezzlement of .1
I irge Hutu of monev, wns believed to
Iiiim- loiiteulod lilmsidr on bouiil thu
Inn r Persia while that wsfcel toiirlietl
din- of I he Innanere ntirls.
Catitalii Hill nntl bis, ollleerB inatlo points, ninl !M for Central Alnerlcn. In
diligent search for the wanted in.in1""' cnbln weto ten for Honolulu,
and a limn following the descrlp-' aiuongst whom nro A. W. Schiultt, n
Hon forwnrilptl bv the indite Is reitirl-!"'l"eiitnllve of a large New York
etl to havo been seen tin board aIiIIim 'ximrlhiK house; JaB. Cralk. tho se
.be Persia rode at anchor off tikn-l,,an "' ,,ll Hongkoiig Club, who
hmnn. I f nines In lslt n sister, Mm. Mnrdlil
As no further cnble hns lit en reiei- "' H " his wnv homo for a vncatlou.
ed ol Honolulu i inn ..riilnif tli uuu.' -Mr. Ciaik was ftninorlv n resident of
pen, nothing further has hi en iltino
aliuiit It
As foretold in the columns of the
lt ii I let in last .Mmiila the IYria
arilved heie late lasl evening Willi
elvlit suspected rases of smallpox on
board. The maladv, upon caieful In )
vtsllgatlon In the tiuaiantlne niotllinl
iillliera. Iiiinetl nut lo be clilckonntix.
The sickness wns confined to I'llllllno
passengers, of whom there wero sev.l
cnlv four for this port. I
I he Persia Is scheduled to sail for missionaries Of theao arc Dr. Mac
San Fnint istn nt .1 o'clock this even I Kellai'. a latlv who ha spent (irieeii
lug. taking on a few lay-over passen-' jenrs in India, nnd at tho recent Our-
gets. The liner wns brought nlotig-l
side the Walklkl Bide of Alakea 'wharf
early this morning and the work of
tlisfhaiglng 431! tons Oriental cargo
ii Honolulu was rushed to comple-
1'urt.or Mael'herRon reiiorts a do-
i -i i f
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY will
be the last three days of our $2.50 Sale of
Ladies' Footwear.
There are numbers of good bargains left.
The way to have money is to save it to
save it by just such an elegant opportunity as
we offer you.
We cannot tell yov more than the shoes
themselveshave a look.
Open Saturday Evening
Manufacturers' Shoe Co.,
The Big Shoe House
1051 Fort Street Tel. 1782
lllihtful oynni from Hongkong mid
tho Inpatient1 portH of call. Rome
liunvy nialher ns met with us tho
M'sscl ale limed away from Yokohnmu
The Hlilp broiiKlit 77 bags nt mall, I.
XMH) balOH of rnw Hllk, S7 cnliln iiasaen
KeiH, 8 second claim nntl 2iS Bleernw.
CnrKo, iM totiH for Honolulu, 2217 for
S.i ii
rraiicisto. 117 for t. H. Interior
a ntnl ll r.i fT.inlrnl Aiimrtini T..I
tho Islands. A (iermaii UaronesB, who
Ib touring the world, slopped over tot
WP "'e beautleB of Oaliu nntl tho sur-
roimdliig IsIiiiiiIh. Thlrtj -three "lc-
lure lirltles Tor Honolulu nntl seven-tv-tvvo
rillidiios weio In the steerage,
lliirlng the vovngo inan pleasant
dn.vs nntl social evenings were spent
b.v all the passengers In a sorlcB of
llet k snorts, cnnei.rlu ninl ,lnii...i
Amongst the through cabin iinssen-
gers nre a number of distinguished
bar was pleseliletl with n medal by
King (ienigo for her long and dlstln.
gulslicd service. MIsh A. 13dinonds is
another doctor who has been In Chi-
na on similar work nnd has left behind
an enviable record. Dr. D. W. Rich-
artlsou, who is accompanied by his
(Jat. II. Love)
3 Days
ramlly, combined the tonclilnB of
Bchool with the urnctlce of metllclno
in uiiinn K..S, Lntoiirctte, who wna
Bent out by (lie Ynlo University nils'
slon, Is also on lionril. I'lvo t'hlncso
Btixlaiita ro BoltiB oer to tho Gener
al Kleclrlc Company to lenrn mmlcrn
tnetlitNlR in electricity I). V. Clark,
who i in tiio employ of tho Interna
tional Hnnklnn Corporation, and who
hns been ntntloned nt Hnitkow diitliiK
tljo recent Ji;)itliiK, ii en route to Kiir
land for a ncallon. W. A. Youiir, Jr,
a I'nclflc Mall passencer nKent, In te
tuinlns from tellef duty In the Oilcnt.
K. Noshklti utitl family of thirteen,
Russians, nre Kolni; lo the StnleH to
uettle. 13, O Slrachler. a slik btier
from New York, fs returning from
.lapnn. (1. W. Collon la n large bus!
lIcHsmnn from Yokohama going homo
on a (.otublne'd pleasuro and buslnesM
British "Embellishment".
When tho time honored harkcntlne
S. N. Castlo 'failed to gain a auto ills
tnnco to the coral barred adores of
Waihltigtoli Island, and thereby ne
cessitated tho leaving behind of a
score of Japaueso employed there on
the Island copra estntes, (ho train wns
laid for the explosion of n series of
foiiKntloiial yams, echoes from from
which conttniiu to radiate to tho four
cornerB of tho globe.
Vancouver, II. 0, hns learned with
tho arrival of the staid old Zcnlnmlln
Hint tho fast mid trim llrltlsh steamer
Jlakura hail been lushed to I'mining
Island to pick tin n party of shipwreck
id sailors who had sought rcfugo from
n sinking ulilp. The Inferenco was
gained that the vessel was n llrltlsh
windjammer which lint! encountered a
Tho "wreck", howoer, hIIII adds to
tlm irnletv nf tin. Ifiumlnlil unlt.ifmnf
The 'shipwrecked sallm-H" weie. pio
iiniaiiiy, weeKs ago saro aiuong their
(ountrytiien on I'aiinlng and nothing
loinnlns but to aihl a fiirtbt-r touch to
tlm romntitle tales save n veiled hint
of n cnuiilhaltstlc orgle.
Maul Returns to Hawaii for Sugar.
Inking a general cargo Including
lumber, fertilizer ami Bimilrles,
Intcr-lslaiid aleainer .Maul was
patched this afternoon for Hawaii
ports. Including Kuk.ilau. Kohtilnlele,
l'aatilln, Ookala, I.aiiiabotboe ami I'a
psuloa. The Maul was given mnlii
Innd mnlls for these portB that arrlv
etl In tho liners Wllbeluilnn mid .Moll
golla, Tho vessel cnirled no passen
gers. n
Johnson Prepares for Sea.
Tho American schoonor A. II. .Icilm
son is prepailug for sea and that vcj
sol Is expected to proceed to Sound
ports today or tomorrow morning. The
ship baa been lng at the Qunrnntlno
wharf undergoing general fumigation.
Tho schooner may ho obliged to glvo
way to tho llrltlsh steamer Harpallon
with her huiidietlH of Spanish nnd
l'cirtiiguoso Immigrants.
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3 10
into r. i? on
not r,2ti, csilsi
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n in
10 31 uia tni 0S3I S,V
10..M1 i.n r:u cuiioui
II 2 3JH f.Tll n.5Ttliilt
New lllotiu April 17 lit 1 09 u
Teinperattircs C n lit, 71; 8 n in,
3; 111 ii. in., "".; noon, 7f; nilnliiium
last night, fi'.l.
Ilniotnutcr nt S u in , .10 10; dew
point at H ii in, R2; relatho hiiuilillty
nt 8 a m, ti'l; ubsoliito hiiuilillty at
8 n til , K Hull.
Wind 6 ii. in., velocity C, direction
N 13 ; 8 a. m., velocity i, direction N
13; 10 ii in, velocity S, direction N
13 ; noon, eloclty 'J, direction S. 1-3
Total wind movement for n.ist 24
hours, 122 miles.
Kiilnfull for 24 hours ending 8 n.
m , .04 Inch.
(iSpcrl.iI Cnblo to .Merchant'
Wednesday, April 17.
SAN I'ltANCISCt) Hailed, April 1
12 30 p. in.. S. S. Hoiiolulan, for Ho
Hulled, April 17. 1 30 p. in., S. 3.
Nippon Mnrii, for Honolulu.
IIII.O - Arilvttl, April 1.5, ship John
l'3nn, from San Train 1st o.
HAN I'lIHItO Snlletl, April 17, S. H.
Crown of Arragon, for San Francis
co. NI3U'CASTI.I3 Arrlvotl, April II,
ship Klfrietla, henco March 0.
"Smith Plllkla" a Stuold Hoax.
Indignation vvus freelj oxpiessed by
Federal ciiRtonismeu this mornlni; ov
er the stunltl nnd malic Inns attempt
upon tho part of n morning pniKir to
establish tho blnnie for the mlHluvIng
of Dr. and Mrs. Smith's steamship
tickets to that department.
Tho btaloment Is mado that tho
Smiths' I'acinc Mall transportation to
tho Orient wns available to the Inter
ested parlies iijion application to tho
Collector of Customs. Whllo It Is ail
milled that the Federal regulations,
retpilre tho deposit of t.tenmshlp t Idi
otic belonging t" passengers entering
this port in foreign vessels nnd re
ceipts for tho saint' aro Issued. In tho
rasa or Dr. and Mrs. Smith there was
not tlm slightest dllllciilly hail they
sought Die proper soiirco for the truns
porlntlou. Tlm customs olHcern cliarnelcrlrp" n
tnle In which cniclcssncsH is alleged,
ns eniuuntlng from an Irreapouniblo
Consular Confirmation Received.
A story told by .Iniiatieso'ciincers on
trans-Pacific liners whllo at Honolulu
lo tho effect that one of tho big .lap
aiieso steamship companies would,
with the opening of the Panama Ca
nal, Inaugurate u fast passenger and
freight service between tho Orient
nnd New York. Is continued In n dec
laration coming fitim Americnii Con
mil Anderson ut Hongkong, China.
AndeiBiui Jidvlaos that n .Inpnucso
steamship line Is lo bo established be
tween okohnniu nnd New Yin If
through the Panama Canal. The vui
Bids will bet Kiibsitllretl by the Tnmn
i'ko Ciivcrumciit. The Bervlce Is to
consist of four Kleainii'H of StltlO to 10..
Duo Ioiih each. Japan, so It Is asserletl
by Consul AudoiHtiii, is dominating
moio ami inoi o the shipping In tho Fur
Hall from Kauai.
Arilvlng from Knual ports this
morning with n Biunll list of passeu-
gtirs, the V (I. Hall docked at her
berth and tllschaigetl the following
cuigo 1.1 empty gas ilriims, 21 emu-
ly vvlno bairels, 2 empty beer keys.
r,.riOu bags sugar. 10 packages suiulilci,
and I Ii.il: colli!
The Wallele Returns.
Tho Inler-lslatid fielghter Wnllelo
ictiirned lotlny from her legular polls
of call along tho Hamakua roast of
lliiwnll with 7513 hags sugar fioni Ho
nokaa and 'J!i7 bags from Kukiilhnele,
Him will leave again for those porlu
Ihlu afternoon.
Sugar Shipment.
Purser iviilpo of tho slenmer V (I.
Hall, which arilvcd this inoinlng, i o-1
lioriB tlm following Biignr awnilliigl
shlpiiii'iit on Knual K'l' ll.tiSO, l.l't
2U.Il'i. (IF 70UU, MAK4ri,12.1. Uicll 3,
lir.0. JIull r.llt!. VK 82.10, KSCo -1100
and KHM 7.10 bags.
Inter-Island Departures Today.
Tho Inter-Island steamer Wnllelo In
being loaded with n general riugii pro
paraltiry to Bulling for Pnauhaii, Ku
kiilhaelo nnd llouoknu on or iibnut Ii
o'clock this ovening. Tho Wnllelo
will enrry later mulls to Hawaii purls
but no passengers.
Schooner Helenc for Drydock.
Tho Arnold tin schooner Helcnc. nn
urrlvnl In pott boiiio iI.ivh ago Willi u
niiipuieiii in io.ibi iiimiKr, will go on
the lot al marine railway for n general
cleaning ami nvoiliuiillui: hefotu nro
ceetllng to i,cn.
Hall for Kauai Ports Tomorrow.
I ho steamer W. (1. Hall Is being
preiiarod for u letiirn trip to Knual
porta the vobsoI sailing for tho (iar
den Island at Ii o'clock tomorrow eve
ning, taking fiulcht, piiBsengorH ami
later inull.
mm today
Tho next mall from tho mnlnland In
duo on Tuc nlny next In tho Nlnnoii
A Imlf-dorcn Inter-lDlond steamers
look departuro with passengers nntl
general cargo yesterday.
A search instituted on bonrd tho
Mongolia for opium csterday by cus
toms men proved fruitless.
Thorp Is but small booking of lay
over passengers for tho Persia to sal!
for the Coast this afternoon.
Tho Pacific Mall strainer Korea, duo
hero next Tuesday, wl bring tho lat
est Oilonlal mall, ns well ns freight.
Pineapples wero included In shl
nicnls of Hawaiian products leaving
for tho Coasl Inst night In tho steam
er I.urllne.
Tho Knual delegation of politicians
who participated In recent conventions
returned to tho Harden Islnnd lasl
evening in tho Klnnii.
Tho Konn ami Knu liner Kllnuen
pwariiietl with politicians ami their
lesser snttQlIles on departure for wind
ward Hawaii esterdny.
The Mlknhnla, sailing last evening
for Maul nntl Moloknl ports, cnrrdtl
rovernl delegates returning home from
recent political conventions.
A close 3tirvelllniice upon n score or
more deported Chinese was maintain
ed on hoard tho Mongolia during tho
Htny or that vessel nt Honolulu. Whllo
trouble wns expected It was hnmillv
Tlin leport Hint Purser Hnrry Jer-
own or tho Pacific Mall liner Mongolln
wns lo resign his, position upon thu
return or tho rteamer at San Frnn
risen was yesterday dcclnrcd ns tin
After lenvlng f.00 tons nitrates nne
five tnbln passengers, brought fiom
t eiitrnl nnd South American ports,
tho Japanese liner Hongkong Mnrii
sailed Bluntly nller I o'clock last night
tor .in pan unit China.
Tho Inler-lslnnd steamer Claudlnc
which nrrlvetl rrom llilo ami Muul
pmlH nils morning, brought the rol
lowing cargo 20 hogs. 10 cords wood,
i,i.: leel tiinilier, l'.MI lings empty hot
ties, 07 bides, I 111 pneknges sundries,
j innri.eu incieaso in tralllc over
the Tehiinntepec rnllwnv Is roportetl
tor ttie nscai yenr. Total tranship
ments nro estimated at l.nuo.ooo met.
rie tons. The bulk f this tralllc was
leieived from Amcileaivllawnllnn
It Is repot led that the transnorl
Thomas, on routo from .llnnlla o the
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.....iiiit.ii.i, .nn- iii,.t-L'ii iii i oriiaiut,
wre., upon tleparluie from llonolu u
on or about Jlny -llli. Tho vessel Is
bearing Hoops for Vancouver bin
I neks, Washington Hlnlo.
Wetlnestlny, Airlj ,17.
Maul ports Stmr. Claud
Hllo nnd
lie, a.m.
Hnmnkiia nnd Hawaii noils -Stmr.
Wllllele. a.m.
Kauai ports Stmr. W. U. Hall, a.m.
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Bill Gross To Ben Bernanke: "It's Your Policies That Are Now Part Of The Problem Rather Than The Solution"
On practically every day of the past four years, we have said that it was the Fed's own policies that are causing the ever-deeper systemic weakness in the US (and now global with all central banks going "all in") economy, which in turn forces the Fed to intervene even more aggressively in an attempt to counteract, in turn generating ever more economic weakness, leading to even more intervention, which is why every incremental episode of QE is larger and longer, and why the economic baseline is ever lower in the most perverse feedback loop of the New Normal. Now, it is once again Bill Gross to catch up to Zero Hedge and conclude just this in his latest monthly letter: "It's been five years Mr. Chairman and the real economy has not once over a 12-month period of time grown faster than 2.5%. Perhaps, in addition to a fiscally confused Washington, it's your policies that may be now part of the problem rather than the solution. Perhaps the beating heart is pumping anemic, even destructively leukemic blood through the system. Perhaps zero-bound interest rates and quantitative easing programs are becoming as much of the problem as the solution." Which is why there simply is no way out as long as Bernanke stays in.
From Bill Gross of PIMCO
Wounded Heart
- Zero-bound yields deprive savers of their ability to generate income which in turn limits consumption and economic growth.
- Reduced carry via duration extension or spread actually destroys business models and real economic growth. If banks, insurance and investment management companies can no longer generate sufficient "carry" to support employment infrastructures, then personnel layoffs quickly follow. With banks, net interest margins (NIM) are lowered because of "carry" compression, and then nationwide retail branches previously serving as depository magnets are closed one by one. In the U.K. for instance, Britain's four biggest banks will have eliminated 189,000 jobs by the end of this year compared to peak staffing levels, reports Bloomberg News. Investment banking, insurance, indeed the entire financial industry is now similarly threatened, which is leading to layoffs and the obsolescence of real estate office structures as well which housed a surfeit of employees.
- Zombie corporations are allowed to survive. Reminiscent of the zero-bound carry-less Japanese economy over the past few decades, low interest rates, compressed risk spreads, historically low volatility and ultra-liquidity allow marginal corporations to keep on living. Schumpeter would be shocked at this perversion of capitalism, which is allowing profits to be more than "temporary" at zombie institutions. Real growth is stunted in the process.
When ROIs or carry in the real economy are too low, corporations resort to financial engineering as opposed to R&D and productive investment. This idea is far too complicated for an Investment Outlook footnote – it deserves expansion in future editions – but in the meantime, look at it this way: Apple has hundreds of billions of cash that is not being invested in future production, but returned via dividends and stock buybacks. Apple is not unique as shown in Chart 1. Western corporations seem focused more on returning capital as opposed to investing it. Low ROIs fostered by central bank policies in financial markets seem to have increasingly negative influences on investment and real growth.- Credit expansion in the private economy is restricted by an expanding Fed balance sheet and the limits on Treasury "repo." Again, too complicated for a sidebar Investment Outlook discussion, but the ability of private credit markets to deliver oxygen to the real economy is being hampered because most new Treasuries wind up in the dungeon of the Fed's balance sheet where they cannot be expanded, lent out and rehypothecated to foster private credit growth. I have previously suggested that the Fed (and other central banks) are where bad bonds go to die. Low yielding Treasuries fit that description and once there, they expire, being no longer available for credit expansion in the private economy.
Well, there is my still incomplete thesis which when summed up would be this: Low yields, low carry, future low expected returns have increasingly negative effects on the real economy. Granted, Chairman Bernanke has frequently admitted as much but cites the hopeful conclusion that once real growth has been restored to "old normal", then the financial markets can return to those historical levels of yields, carry, volatility and liquidity premiums that investors yearn for. Sacrifice now, he lectures investors, in order to prosper later. Well it's been five years Mr. Chairman and the real economy has not once over a 12-month period of time grown faster than 2.5%. Perhaps, in addition to a fiscally confused Washington, it's your policies that may be now part of the problem rather than the solution. Perhaps the beating heart is pumping anemic, even destructively leukemic blood through the system. Perhaps zero-bound interest rates and quantitative easing programs are becoming as much of the problem as the solution. Perhaps when yields, carry and expected returns on financial and real assets become so low, then risk-taking investors turn inward and more conservative as opposed to outward and more risk seeking. Perhaps financial markets and real economic growth are more at risk than your calm demeanor would convey.
Wounded heart you cannot save … you from yourself. More and more debt cannot cure a debt crisis unless it generates real growth. Your beating heart is now arrhythmic and pumping deoxygenated blood. Investors should look for a pacemaker to follow a less risky, lower returning, but more life sustaining path.
The Wounded Heart Speed Read
1) Financial markets require "carry" to pump oxygen to the real economy.
2) Carry is compressed – yields, spreads and volatility are near or at
historical lows.
3) The Fed's QE plan assumes higher asset prices will revigorate growth.
4) It doesn't seem to be working.
5) Reduce risk/carry related assets.
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Gross says that alot, but is he actually "hedging Bernanke" or speculating on him?
I must have missed something... When were his "policies" ever part of the "solution"?...
Poor Ben Shalom.....from hero.....to zero.
Maybe we could bring back Andrea Mitchell's husband.
Which is why there simply is no way out as long as Bernanke stays in.
Ben does as he's told. As will his replacement.
Ben is a hero, to a handful of crooks in TBTF boardrooms.
They control him with their private government email accounts.
So where are the treason trials?
Let the games begin.
Look, the guy (Bernanke) is going to pretend he doesn't hear all these rational arguments. He knows he has fucked up the economy and wants to get the fuck out as soon as possible even if it has caused irreparable damage. He doesn't want to displease the DC Mafia in anyway before his exit. He knows that the Media will turn against him if the DC Mafia is ticked off.
Bennie will be OK.
He is not going to prison, and he and Corzine have a bunker stocked with hookers and blow in the South Pacific with Dish Network and a generator.
Bill isn't talking to Ben Bernanke. He's talking to Ben Bernanke's replacement at the end of this year.
Benny boy will go down in history as the world's greatest counterfeiter. An unblemished record from start to finish of never letting the printing presses cool down. He said a long time ago he was going to go hammer-down for as long as it took and leave the mess for the next guy to clean up. We should take him at his word on that statement at least.
Bernanke not the first military leader to counterfeit to pay for his war expeditions.
Obviously, Mr. Gross does not understand..
The Fed's Policies are working quite well.
Once you understand that the goals are to reduce the power and strength of the United Sates in order facilitate a single global currency (and ultimately global governance), redistribute the wealth the of a (temporarily) free middle class until it no longer exists, make the uber-rich even uber-richer and create a global totalitarian state and economy that is centrally controlled by enlightened elite and their technocrat and bureaucrat vassals, you have to admit that the Fed's policy is solving the elite's societal liberty and free market problem very effectively.
… and thus the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAf0QnLFS7Q (only 10 seconds)
Bens hands are tied. If they had let the market sort out the debt they would have revolution on their hands. A few years back while pondering the japenese situation, and reading older reports of their crisis it struck me that the Americans were telling them to liquidate and blah blah blah. Then we have the same problem and we do the exact same thing, then it struck me, if japan had let the debt liquidate the government would have fallen and so much more. The US was just making noise, prob really telling the japanese to ease to keep their best ally in the east from falling out of the fold. The same applies to the US now, without this program of life support for many major corps and the government, they would fall. Power would be up for grabs, and those in power never ever want that.
"Throughout periodic depressions, the Bank of England in the 20th, 19th and even 18th century never dropped short rates below 2%."
When you allow a small biz to make this shitty little 2 %, in an adverse environment, their chance of survival increases by 50%.
Oh well America, you don't have small business to kick around anymore..
That's Andrea Twitchell...she of the pocked marked liberal wing of the douchebag MSM....
Imagine sleeping with the prune.
The Prune and Scarface...
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit
Just be thankful they never produced any little Scarred Prunes...
Let us be honest. The FED, ECB, and BOE policy is very simple. Their purpose is to save, protect, and strengthen the Zionist Banking Mafia who owns them regardless of everything else.
If the USA has to be thrown "under a bus" then let it be. America is not even Turkey where people are expressing themselves politically. Americans are just brainwashed parasites looking for government giveaways.
Gross does both for his clients.
Don't think he likes what happened to Agency MBS the last month.
The Bernank is not trying to solve anything. Just doing what he is paid to do while Bankstas make a killing by fleecing unwitting muppets.
There is something the Bernank can do and thats find the tallest building he can find and jump.
"Which is why there simply is no way out as long as Bernanke stays in."
Bernanke is just a place holder...a front man to be childishly villified. Does anyone on here with a functioning brain think that Larry Summers, or Janet Yellen, or whomever is next, would be doing any different? FFS!!!
Anyone who thinks he is doing other than what he is told to do by the [private] owners of the Fed is not fit to comment on here...or anywhere else.
Correct, and so long as it takes a lot of clownbux to get elected, those same owners will own your "representation".
i-dog agree that he is just a yes man, but the Bernank is deserved of the ridicule due to the fact that he knowlingly accepted a position as a snake oil salesman/conman in return for fame and adulation of his peers and sheeple. Give him hell.
"fame and adulation of his peers and sheeple"
That "fame and adulation" is purely because of brain-washing of the sheeple by both the mainstream media and the captive "alternative" media (like this stupid article!). Otherwise, nobody would have heard of him ... and they certainly wouldn't be laying all the blame on him, but rather on those for whom he acts.
We'll never solve "the problem" while the puppet masters keep the audience boo-ing at Punch and Judy.
It's a fucking joke ...and the joke's on us!
He doesn't give a fuck about your kabuki theater...flame away
pay no attention...
(someone needs to watch the wizard of oz again)
+100 idog
If Congress said stop printing, they'd stop printing.
Fortunately, Congress will never say that since they are the primary beneficiaries of that printing. At 0% interest, debts really don't matter because they don't cost you anything to service. Congress and the administration are overjoyed at the current state of monetary affairs. From their point of view, things are just fine. Sure, they argue about the debt and deficits now and then, but it's just a dog-and-pony-show. Neither side has any real reason or desire to take action, so they don't.
Ben Bernanke - The Distributor of Pain
He's not what you'd call a glamorous man.
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood.
Let me be clear, that which cannot be sustained, won't be (no matter how many clownbux you create).
I remain long black markets and sharecropping.
Ha! Ha!... That's a good one... I get it... As if to represent that in the realm of money printing... The shareholder families of the [non]Federal [non] Reserve share the commonality that they are descendent from a long lineage of 'clowns'...
Kind of makes you feel 'better' to say it that way doesn't it?... Very civic minded & all... It's all fun & games until the 'CLOWN ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE' comes after your antics...
But always keep in mind... They're NOT clowns!... Instead ~ They're [insert disambiguation du jour here]...
so good to see you francis_sawyer...............
Excellent moniker.
Lighten up Francis. Best line ever...
Hard to know who to hate more, the U.S. congress or the Fed. Fiscal Policy vs. monetary policy. The oligarchy wins no matter what. But wait, isn't this country led by lawyers? Then isn't that where the problem lies? the first thing we'll do after the Evolution is........
Congress has the power to stop the Fed and alter monetary policy. They dont feel pressure cause the anger is directed at the bankers.
And the Fed has power to stop Congress by buying their votes via commercial banks' campaign contributions.
Quite a thorny problem, no? For us, at least.
Reminds me of Biddle vs Jackson.
"Quite a thorny problem, no? For us, at least. " - not really, I know many who have the tools to drop a congressman or banker several hundred yards out, without them hearing/seeing a thing.
Ah, an Alexandrian approach to this era's Ghordian Knot.
Just wake me up when someone starts actually doing it.
Problem is getting the info in time to set up the 'dropping' of whomever.
Also, with the ubiquitousness of security cameras, there is a good chance that you will be videoed and not know it.
I can get 1" groups at 100 meters, and I am no sniper. there are thousands of people in this country who are in the ignorant happiness zone for now, but when the proverbial fodder hits the fan, a great number of them will be willing to go to prison if they can just take out one or two of the people they think responnsible for their impoverishment.
I dont know how many that would be, but I can promise you its a hell of a lot more than 1000.
The administration has proposed a new solution for the lack of jobs.
"It puts the lotion on its skin."
..... or else it gets the QE hose again.
If you think that any other white house appointed puppet at the FED will do anything else than print money for the spenders to aquander, you might need to get your head checked. His purpose is to come up with excuses to give the rulers money to spend. To tax the next generation of unborn.
and congress is ok with all of it
Congress is pretty irrelevant at this point.....heard much talk of the debt ceiling lately?
I thought Dick O had outlawed Congress last year.
I know it's in one of those hundreds of EOs he signed.
How would anyone be able to tell?
The sequester trumped it, and they moved on to bigger and better things.
Must you refer to the interns' breasts in such crass terms? ;-)
Agreed Congress is irrelevant. The funny part is they still think they are. All the hearings and back-biting is very entertaining, but ultimately maningless- nothing will come from it. They're the Greatest Circus on Earth. Or perhaps just mixing the Red ants and the Blue ants and watching them fight eachother.
I wrote against it since Paulsson wanted the blank checkque over 750 Mrd, otherweise the world would come to an end. Well since then more than 3 Billions of new debts were added, the world still turns and stumbles around. It's the insanity to believe to solve the problems with too much debts whith even more debts. Can not work ever!
They are not trying to solve our problems. They do things that benefit them, they are not insane, just evil people living of the plunder of the productive. And they are very good at it.
Somehow each civilization in turn ends up being seized and controlled by a small group of power hungry sociopaths. Each time there is a different excuse and a different method used. This time it is money.
"give us control of everything as well as all your wealth and future labour or there will be tanks in the streets"
Will the end of this latest scheme be the last one or will some new group think up yet a new system of repression?
I'm not saying Ben isn't a bag of shit .... exactly .... but, the problem .... of believing in socialist fantasia .... has been around along time ! The only tough love solution .... there is .... or ever was .... is the gift of Capitalism .... a gift which does keep on giving .... we have strayed so far .... and look at what we've reaped .... SOCIALISM ON CRACK .... there's plenty of blame to go around !
Ben has done his job incredibly well.......... Break it so badly that it cant be fixed. That was his purpose and his mission, he has an admiralable job. The MRAPs and Ammo are in place. The german people have likewise been conditioned, tests in Cyprus have been done... Cue the Second Act.....................
maybe it's time for the Fed to instruct it's co-dependent (JPM) to sell paper oil. After all, if it works for gold,why not oil?
O.K. let's paraphrase and simply another insider: "blah, blah, blah ... it's all about the 'carry' blah, blah, blah ... the world ends without the 'carry' blah, blah, blah ..." In short, the solution to too much debt isn't less debt, it's the need to jack up the rate I get on my 'carry' trades; which, BTW, is what 'the king of bonds' has always been about, and not market timing. Instead of going on about 'carry' he should have just left it at: "More and more debt cannot cure a debt crisis unless it generates real growth." I suspect he will soon get his 'carry' and it will crush the economy. One more time, the solution to too much debt is not more debt, it is less debt; and it would be nice that bond prices and their associated yields actually served a pricing function as opposed to the wishes of elite a__holes who don't care about the average American.
If you ain't going to pay me for my capital I ain't going to give it to you.
The problem is that Bernanke's "capital" is imaginary aka fiat,devaluing ones and zeros in his excel sheet in ths sky is sound and fury signafying nothing
Arkansa: "The problem is that Bernanke's "capital" is imaginary aka fiat,..."
Nailed it brother!
Capitalism. LMFAO!
The joke's on you !
There is no capitalism. Fascism or socialism. The maggots get the benefit from both, the poor get one but not the other. The middle class get the knife edge of both. Capitalism is a myth and always has been.
Oh, and the very poor get grinding poverty at the point of a gun. Capitalism? Don't make me laugh.
No, Buzzsaw - this is Capitalism with a capital C. This socialism business is in the interests of profiteering Capitalists to sate their lust for money and power. What it ISN'T is a FREE MARKET of FREE MEN. And nobody ever said Capitalism has to be. Anarchy ends in the tyranny of the powerful; Liberty needs to be defended from the powerful at the point of a gun.
So the oil wars are all part of the capitalist system? The war on terra? Don't think so. It is naked fascism and always has been.
Just how stupid to you have to be not to comprehend what I just wrote? Or to understand the distinction between 'Capitalism' and the free market? The warmongers have lined their pockets with the bloodshed they have instigated. There is no 'capitalist system' as opposed to some political ideology like socialism or 'Fascism'. Capitalism is a social state in which the rich and powerful make use of whatever means are perceived by the rich and powerful to be most propitious themselves. If socialism serves the interests of Capitalists, then Capitalists will be socialists. That is what you are seeing. That is the nature of maximising profits. That is the nature of dog-eats-dog. That is the nature of a society that sees life as a means to an economic end.
now you are sounding like a marxist; it makes a change from being a rabid anglo supremacist.
Those of us who are neither attracted to statist monopoly, racist/religious or secular, nor to capitalist oligarchy + imperial exploitation of world resources; to the detriment of people and planet; have to find a balance between these two extremes.
We have not attained the potential that the Enlightenment released as social philosophy based on a holistic model of society; liberty/justice/social rights all integrated thru balanced compromise; into political practice; working institutions that attain this complex balance over time without inciting global conflicts with others outside nation state.
The two countries that epitomised this enlightenment age thru revolutionary renewal both failed : France in "absolutist nation statism" cum colonial imperial sway and the USA in this combination of Big Business Oligarchy cum Big State security mantra, now combined with colonial world imperialism built on guns, oil and monetary control. Explosive elitist minded paranoia that is ultimately self destructive as history proves time and again as it loses the people confined to ghetto living. The Brits, a middle road construct between all out capitalism à la City/ROthschild strain and restrained elitist statism à la constitutional monarchy, didn't achieve any better.
We only learn in dire psychodrama time and again; cathartic paroxysm.
Man has to evolve bigtime once again as the enlightenment dies.
Mr. Bill talks a lot about the price of credit. But he misses the big picture of what meddling has done to the supply of credit. There is a market bassed optimal supply of credit. And there is an optimal market based financial sector size. But why would the king manager of financialization not see that?
"It's been five years Mr. Chairman and the real economy has not once over a 12-month period of time grown faster than 2.5%.
It's hard to take an article seriously when it presupposes 'growth' of 2.5% when that 'growth' is achieved by borrowing a trillion dollars, or about 6% of GDP.
CARRY = LEECH and Gross is just complaining that he can't leech as much as he is used to or wants to.
He doesn't want a real solution, just one that works better....for him.
enough with the "growth" meme. You need expendible energy to do anything, more importantantly the energy available also needs to grow. Sorry, this finite world does not work like that. This is about maintaining power and control over resources, period.
Gross is just complaining that he can't leech as much as he is used to or wants to.
You got that right!
About 15% of the world's population .... are an idle, evil cancer of socialist bureaucrats .... bone marrow cancer .... sucking life at it's source .... well protected in it's bone pleasure dome !
Sometimes ... believe it or not ... you don't need more stuff.
Supply exceeding demand happens.
Applies to labor as well. I see 7+ billion people all competing for a better quality of life. How competitive are you? Are you willing to sleep on the factory floor? You're hired!
"Profit is temporary ?" .... so is applause in a theatre .... so what .... is it any less real ?
the only thing constant is change
dead ends exist
You really shouldn't talk about the boomers like that.
Profit isn't a dirty word .... poverty is !
Bill I've searched high and low , but I can't find this "capitalism" that you speak of. I see plenty of fascism, but no capitalism.
Sure Bill. Keep jaw-jacking. That'll help.
The "federal reserve note" what a great idea, value from nothing, debt for free. jews like it , we are all jewish now.
I am long veggie garden, ammo, gold and silver. Keep stacking.
Clearly this mean Ben has purchased Bill's last toxic asset.
Gross did a fricking QE rain dance in Febuary of 2009.....by June of 2009 he gave his first and second born to Bernanke in thanks.
Now he gets religion over Bernankes policies. Color me highly skeptical.
Dave Mason / Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave
Jeanette MacDonald - Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (1950)
Steve Winwood // Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must Die)
Watch "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" video
Lyrics to John Barleycorn (Must Die) :
There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn oath
John Barleycorn must die
They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in
Threw clods upon his head
And these three men made a solemn oath
John Barleycorn was dead
They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all
They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan
And these three men made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the waist, serving him most barbarously
They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that
For he's bound him to the cart
They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came onto a barn
And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone
And the miller he has served him worse than that
For he's ground him between two stones
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his brandy in the glass
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last
The huntsman he can't hunt the fox nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle nor pots, without a little barleycorn
This song by this band is one of the very very best. Six sigma at least. Thank you for sharing it.
it fulfills the potential of the art form,
brilliant and genius, I agree.
I search for these and post them when I find
them or remember them.
to say so much and on so many levels with
so little ....the creator
must be in the presence of the truth.
speakin' of sigma ..
Townes van Zandt - 04 No Place To Fall (A Private Concert)
and here the lady in red gets it by the monkeys in black / authorities.
Meet lady in red who started ?stanbul protests
A decent-looking and brave Turkish woman in red. And a police officer spraying pepper directly on her face. This is how it all started.
Success has for far too long been measured by what happens to those at the top end. It's about time success of economic policies was measured by how the bottom 10% have fared.
We now know that 90% of income gains have been flowing through to the top 10%, therefore general measures of increases in GDP are totally misleading and dangerous as GDP movements largely reflect the wealth accretions of those well up the food chain.
It is too late for the Fed as the market and society are now conditioned that the markets only go up. Any significant drop that isn't firewalled by Ctrl-P will truly cause panic and the whole thing goes to zero. The Fed will continue until Ctrl-P infinity is unable to provide "confidence" and it all goes to zero.
ain't worth the paper it's printed on, when that hits the people like a two x four, your wealth is gone. so believe believe in paper, in nothing. with eyes wide shut we march to the bankers flute ..
LOL, Bubble Bernanke, Evans, Dudley and Yellen are trapped printing until the US dollar crashes.
They will buy up everything in an effort to save their financialzation scheme.
Inflation ramping will be covered up by cooked CPI numbers.
Then it's on to SDRs
Perhaps, in addition to a fiscally confused Washington, it's your policies that may be now part of the problem rather than the solution. Perhaps the beating heart is pumping anemic, even destructively leukemic blood through the system. Perhaps zero-bound interest rates and quantitative easing programs are becoming as much of the problem as the solution."
Why are we reading this now, maybe because Gross lost 2.9% in his flagship fund last quarter? Of course that is the reason.
If Bill ran for the exits, it would be all over. This man could use a little sympathy. He stands right in the middle, right next to the bomb. That he will even speak of it, is amazing to me. I can see no profit for him, even though or mostly because, he is Mr. Bond, shaken and stirred in this time of chaos. This ends so badly that it already hurts. Here is a little sympathy for all of us. Seeing how the new growth will be good in the long run, is no comfort in the short run while the old growth dies
when Ben slinks away from the FED helicopter of Qe he created, the Pax Americana reverses gear to go to higher interest rates; as does every other CB institution; and then the WS stock bubble comes crumbling down. We don't know how far as the contagion is unknown but should be around 30% lower; at least. Free fall without Qe will be that or its meaningless. It could be much worse.
Watch out then for peripheral fall out in higher resonance on the risky edges of world economy. As in the upcoming recession oil prices will unwind leaving a lot of oil rich countries stuck naked as the tide turns and their overinvested butts burn in the noon-day sun.
Mad dogs and englishmen wading in the illusory wages of sin gone fizzy frazzled in sterile shrinkage. A baloon that goes pssssst.
Along with the Japs and all those other oligarchy chaps who ride the winds of labour arbitrage export model. A day of reckoning a beckoning.
Recession, attrition and WS blues...you can the spell the future according to your gut feeling, to decide where this financialised world then heads....
invest in startups and u will get your "carry". or leave your money out of the real economy and in your financial world.
Good news from your government. Suck em in.
We won't kick the smack. We will OD and die.
Sums it up. lol
Dow up 10. NASDAQ up 8.
Another fucked up day.
Ready? Go!!!!
And here we get to the heart of the problem. Having a couple percent inflation is NOT what is important like Bernanke professes, at least from a real economy point of view. What is important for the real economy is having a couple percent nominal interest rate which makes people feel like their savings have value, makes bond holders feel like they are earning something spendable and makes them more willing to invest some funds in equities and business startups if they feel they have some safety money that earns something.
But, I think Bernanke knows this. Rates are at zero to prevent asset prices from deflating to save the levered fractional reserve financial system even though zero rates and QE actually have a negative cost to the real economy.
"Which is why there simply is no way out as long as Bernanke stays in."
Fixed it: Which is why there simply is no way out.
It's not about saving the economy, it's about saving bankers.
Not that hard to understand, people.
Everybody goes around saying "Bernanke this, Bernanke that, Bernanke is destroying the economy, Bernanke is helping the economy, blah blah blah"
Bernanke's only role is to save the big banking institutions. He is a banker!
Do not look for any central bank to ever, ever do anything other than save the big banks. That's what they are designed to do.
I see Gross on CNBC and he is such a conflicted Keynesian. Money-printing and credit expansion are fine with him, except when the consequences are too dire. So debasing the currency is fine as long as it is not too debased? Thus Keynesian Economics is shown to be morally corrupt for it is based on the fraud and theft that when government has the power to "regulate" the currency, that justifies the power to destroy the value of money in private hands. Even Gross gets a tinge of doubt, even if he is the "bond king".
Gross is an idiot.
"Gross is a self serving idiot."
Fixed it for you.
Interesting article. I see one major flaw however. The author appears to be taking the position that Benny is attempting to save the US economy. Pretty funny actually. Benny is obviously primarily concerned with enabling the US government to continue borrowing money to fund itself. Hence the ZIRP policy. If rates rise the US goes bust. Therefore, Benny will do whatever he can to keep rates as low as possible.
Benny says: " Fuck the savers and the grandmothers they rode in on!"
Quite ironic that the real economy, the one that produces things, is unwilling to take the risk bait by betting on expansion. It is only the financial speculators who are chasing risk investments. What we have is a two-track economy, where paper assets appreciate while goods and services languish.
My understanding is that the government has usurped The Fed and have been using it for their own agenda for a very long time. The primary dealers and big banks are protected by the government and in turn they buy the bonds that keep the whole circular flow going.
Martin Armstrong wrote that the original Fed was only supposed to buy corporate bonds in times of severe economic downturns so that they could make payroll, keep unemployment down and allow US companies to get back on their feet again. They were never supposed to buy government bonds or anything else. Interesting.
It is unlawful for the Federal Reserve to purchase bonds that are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government, pursuant to sections 14(b) and 13(2) of the Federal Reserve Act.
Dr Bernanke and his Frankenmarket
Put enough monkeys in front of a printing press and eventually they print more.
They keep using that word, Capitalism, as if it actually describes the U.S. economic system. In the end, I suppose that's why the left seems to care only about the narrative of things rather than reality. They've successfully redefined capitalism to describe the essentially facist economic structure we have.
Ben's policies?
Ben is a tool.


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