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So happy for you! Welcome to the wide world of awesomeness that is food. It's really good. Of course, never having had an eating disorder, I don't know how it feels, but I do know how wonderful a giant plate of beefy nachos is.
Hey, we're all going to die anyway, so what's up with the health obsession of so many people?! Moderation in everything...including moderation :)
Good luck to you! Very interesting article.
I am looking forward to it as well. I had beef and cheese this past week. Very different than my usual eating habits. Should be an interesting journey.
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for opening up and telling your story on here. Your story really resonated with me. I've never really 'labelled' my eating habits but basically this is how I eat and behave and I get anxious if my 'ordered' eating and exercise regime is disrupted. Plus I have the addition of allergies (to soya and other beans) which along with the fear of putting on weight all adds to the reason I think I behave like I do. I've studied Nutrition in the past and worked in the food industry mostly within Marketing for over 12 years now. Being surrounded by food isn't a problem for me as I have, what I believe, strong will power and determination. I do think I have an addictive personality and I'm 'all or nothing' - for example I only have to do something once and if I believe it's good for me then it becomes a habit such as eating an avocado - might sound silly but I now do this everyday and pretty much at the same time everyday even though I'm not hungry. I also measure all of my complex carbohydrate foods making sure I stick to a set daily amount. However, I do believe I have a very healthy and varied diet compared to most people although perhaps I do actually eat too much fruit and vegetables (I fill myself up with lots of these foods plus protein)and not enough complex carbs. I guess I need to ask myself if this is a problem for me and if it's making me unhappy and unhealthy, and if so then I would need to make some changes. However at this moment in time I don't think it's making me unhealthy but probably if I'm honest making me unhappy as I'm restricting my life at times. More thought processing needed I think. Thank you again for this though provoking read :-)
I thought I had the healthiest diet in the world - vegan and gluten-free. People always praised me on how healthy I ate. The problem was... I was doing it because of food allergies, yes, but also to subconsciously calorie restrict. Good luck to you!
I like reading stories of what it used to be like and how it is now. It gives me a glimmer of hope. I have battled the monster of my eating disorder for 14 yrs now and I am scared to let it go. It is my enemy as well as serves as my best friend to fill the voids of fear and feelings. It's very easy to allow the thought of "just one" wont take me back to isolation, shame and self humiliation among other self destructive thoughts as it always seems to do.
I also struggled with an alcohol addiction of 10 yrs and am now sober 2 yrs thanks to the gift if desperation and utter defeat that my way wasn't working, so I filled that void of adopting another way.
Food is different. I have to eat to survive. I know that I am only living to eat and the obsessive thoughts and beliefs of my own "food rules" are governing the way I live my days.
I have looked into many Eating Disordered help places but they are all too expensive and due to the "high risk" factor of death help from any Insurance Co. wont assist in treatment. (Hello, if I get some treatment maybe I wont die!) I have not been able to get any profession help pertaining to this addiction. Frustrated and very discouraged with how to get some help.
Honestly, I've thought about seeing if Dr. Phil could help me out.
I've seen him help others when there's no money to get treatment.
Thank you Dr. Mary for opening your story for those of us who need it:)
Hi Sara,
Thank you for opening up. Most cities have low cost community clinics. Have you considered reaching out to a community clinic for therapy? There may also be therapists in your area that might agree to see you on a sliding scale fee... You shouldn't have to suffer through this alone.
Thank you replying back. I will do some research of finding a community clinic or out-reach place that has some help for a person like myself. The thought just occurred to me that I live in the recovery capitol of the world so there's GOT to be something.
Thank you so much...
Keep me posted on your success!
Thank you so much for opening up about your struggles, as as you know, secrets can help keep you sick. We have very similar stories, and I often feel like I'm to intellectually aware for my own good. I see the signs, I dispense the healing advice to others, yet I continue to ignore my own issues and simply brush them off as "how I am" instead of "how I have forced myself now to be."
My rambling is to say that your personal call to action is inspiring and I wish you good luck in your journey.
Good luck to you in your journey. It may not be easy, but with each step we take, we more forward in our path to healing. :)
Hi Mary,
I resonated with your story. I am a personal trainer and nutrition coach who finally admitted after 25 , that I had a major obsession and addiction to food and was exercising bulimically.. It has been difficult and humbling to go through this process, especially when you are considered the expert and role model for healthy habits
Thank you for your story. It has been a great inspiration to me.
My exercise addiction started 23 years ago. For me, that one's tougher to beat than the food issues... Good luck!
People often don't recognize or know about orthorexia--thanks for bringing it up. Eating disorders of all kinds run in my family and many of the men in the exhibit what I would consider orthorexia. I'm glad you were able to recognize and get help for your problem. My only problem with the article is that it sort of presents vegetarianism/veganism/etc as actual eating disorders (in my opinion). You certainly aren't the first, when I was finishing nursing school both vegetarianism and veganism were lumped in the textbook under the eating disorder section. As a vegan, I get it all the time as well, where people accuse me of having an eating disorder because I don't eat meat/dairy/eggs. I was bulimic for 13 years and actually going vegan is what helped me recovery when 10 years of counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy failed, because I was able to see food differently than in the past. Yes, often times eating disordered individuals will use the label vegan or vegetarian as masks, but being vegan or vegetarian is not an eating disorder of itself. Being in recovery, I find it mildly insulting when it is insinuated that how I eat now is disordered (that being vegan or vegetarian is on a checklist of eating disorder symptoms), when before when I ate a normal diet but threw it all up no one had any problems with what I ate. I just think it's unfair to perpetuate the myth of them being eating disorders when in fact the large majority of people who follow those lifestyles legitimately are concerned with health, ethics, and environmental concerns.
Hi Anne,
Thank you for your feedback. I wasn't trying to say that all vegans and vegetarians have eating disorders - certainly most of them do not. I was pointing out that some individuals who suffer from eating disorders turn to veganism/vegetarianism as a way to lose weight. Thus, it's more about your motive for your dietary choices. I told everyone when I decided to become first vegetarian and then vegan that I was doing it because it was healthy and better for the environment. In reality, while those things may be true, my real motivation had more to do with weight loss (and avoiding weight gain) than moral or environmental reasons.
Does that make sense?
I believe Veganism is the only way forward. There are many misconceptions about it, e.g. lack of protein, but they are all proved wrong very easily.
Veganism is both kind to your body and other animals too.
I have a blog over @ www.veganbreakfast.co.uk - if you wish to see what I've written
Hi Aasim,
I agree. I prefer eating vegan, but from an eating disorder perspective, we see many young girls adopting veganism as a way to calorie restrict and lose weight. There is a wrong way and a right way to do veganism - like any 'diet.' If all you eat on a vegan diet is vegetables and fruit, you won't get the nutrient content you need. Adopting a healthy vegan lifestyle, on the other hand, including seeds, nuts, legumes, whole grains, etc., is a perfectly healthy way to live.
Hi Mary,
I have just recently completed a 10 week PHP and IOP program to get help for my bulimia. I'm not sure it helped in the way that I thought it would..
I thought I was going there to understand about my eating disorder, talk about the deeper inner issues of what's really going on inside myself. But maybe I didn't grasp the whole point because I left everyday feeling like there is everything wrong with the way I deal with people and that I have to FIX ME. I am in general a very kind person, but I my personality somehow sucks(is what I have gathered) but I know it doesn't. I'm left with a whole lot of confusion as to who I am and what kind of a person am I, still acting out and paralyzed by fear of everyone, and letting someone in so I don't get hurt.
Don't get me wrong as it was a good program(if you get what to do with it). I'm totally lost in getting thru this disordered lifestyle.
I see a therapist once a week that helps me thru small stuff to start out, which is good. I also have a sponsor who has agreed to help me thru twelve steps, which worked for her, and I do as she says but its very slow going..
I just needed to at least tell somebody how I'm feeling cuz I don't talk much with others. I'm very stuck in commitment of action, but not sure how to. Thanks for allowing me to share and thank you everyone for your input too.
Hi Sara,
I am so sorry you are going through this. Eating disorders are, in their own way, a coping mechanism - they change the way you think, act, and behave toward others. So yes, to some extent, healing your eating disorder may involve changing the way you interact with yourself. But this isn't where you necessarily need to start - you first have to heal your relationship with yourself first.
There are many resources out there I can suggest. What is your number one issue right now that you feel is impeding your progress?
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I stood about 100 feet away from the doors of the voting building as instructed. I had taken the day off and was clutching my literature, wearing my logoed badge and holding a sign that was of proper size. I was dressed for the chilly autumn air and had a thermos of coffee at my side. It was 6 a.m. I had been given a sheet of "do's and don'ts" and had no intention of violating the trust that had been given to me to represent my company and our Issue 80 levy request.
An outside agency had run the campaign and they were very thorough. They made sure to make contact with us through home phone numbers, home computer addresses and on evenings and weekends. This was all intended to insure that we maintained a transparent distance from the campaign during business hours. I can honestly say people were absolutely diligent in that task.
During my campaigning watch at the polls, I was visited by other volunteers who had also taken a day off. They brought additional literature and made sure those of us standing post had everything we needed. Our company is big, has a lot of departments, a lot of specialties and a lot of financial responsibility. We also have been given a lot of trust to spend taxpayer money responsibly. Our 10-year levy had expired and we were seeking a replacement for that and additional dollars to run a number of lakefront properties we had absorbed in the previous several months. Public opinion polls let us know that our efforts were appreciated and we were doing what the people wanted us to do. Our intentions were to do what the public indicated they wanted us to do. We explained that in the press, in our campaign speeches and in every piece of literature that accompanied our outreach efforts. It has always been the pledge of this company to spend the taxpayer's money as if it is our own.
Without the public trust – there can be no real accomplishments in this arena.
This company is a result of a cry from the public that emerged almost 100 years ago when people saw the natural lands succumbing to the urban sprawl and development at an alarming rate. They passed legislation to insure the natural beauty of these reserves would be maintained forever. There is no way that mandate could be translated into an agenda that merely served the personal interests of any one of the employees, board members, etc. We serve at the pleasure of those that keep us here. We supplement some of that support with fees from services like golf, zoo visitation, reserved-room events, etc. but without the taxpayer dollar, we would not survive. We are ever-conscious of that.
Our levy passed by a 70 – 30% margin. We are honored to get such an indication of trust. It will remain the driving force of each and every day going forward.
This past week, past month, past year, past decade we have turned a wary eye to Capitol Hill; another place that is supported by the taxpayers and the sweat of the brow of respect-deserving Americans. But I am seeing those that work for our dollars up on that hill seem to have forgotten who they are serving, who they work for, what their real job should be. And I mean they didn't just forget – they seem to have totally abandoned the core principles that brought them into a life of public service in the first place; democrats and republicans alike.
See I have to believe when someone becomes a public servant there is a part of them that reaches deep inside and decides, "I can make a difference. I want to do some good simply for the pleasure of doing right, serving my fellow man and doing the right thing."
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Saw these in person today & I have to say that these are worth the price markup. Might consider copping them tomorrow if my homeys working to get a 20% discount. The padded tongue is so awesome, they should start making all their highs with this feature now. Kinda curious what the red/white multicolored laces would look on them.
I tried that with mines and I wasn't feeling it. I like the black ones better.
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I'm going on the same cruise in 2 weeks!!! Aaahhh! I haven't booked any of the excursions and was considering Nachi. I have 5 year old twins, is there plenty to to keep a couple of 5 year olds occupied?? Any insight is appreciated!
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Thanks for sharing. We're headed out on the Fantasy in February with the same itinerary.
My kids' names are Cassie and Gabe. Funny to have those names pop up in somebody else's trip report. When I saw those names in a sentence together, I had to look twice to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
Looking forward to reading more!
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Char! I found you! Now I have to go back and read every single page.
Hoping for a slow day at work to do just that too.
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Whew, finally caught up!
What a crazy few days you had there, Char. Loving the pictures too.
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Pirate night!
Once we were safely back on the ship we could finally relax after the adrenaline rush of getting back from Nachi. Although we couldn't relax too much because we had to get ready for pirate night! I LOVE Pirate night! I had some time to spare so I went and delivered some glow sticks that I had picked up to give to our friends for the Pirate party. I was also itching to tell them about our very eventful day! I got to see Wendy and Rich's room, which was sooo cool. I don't know what category it was but it was a porthole at the very front of the ship and the room was square with a sloped ceiling. It was very spacious! A person could do a cartwheel in that room…if one could DO a cartwheel. Anyway off I went to deliver the rest of the glow sticks… thankfully we were all on the same deck. In retrospect I could have waited until dinner but it was neat to see everyone else's rooms. I really liked Joh's cabin too as it was a 5E with the extended balcony. It was huge!
By the time I got back to our cabin everyone else was showered and were getting their pirate gear on. Dinner tonight was at Enchanted Garden. Curtis, our server reminded us about the pirate party at 10:30 and to be sure not to miss it. We were heading back to our room after milling around in the lobby to see if we could see Captain Jack Sparrow to get a pic but the line was too big. On our way we bumped into Megan and Dustin with Dustin's mom Teresa and her friend Laura all decked out in their pirate gear. They had missed diner as they were late getting back with not enough time to get ready. They said they were heading to the pirate party which I told them it wasn't until 10:30. They got out their navigator and showed me that it said Mickey's Pirate party at 7:45. We were quite surprised, as I have to admit that we did not look at the navigator's too closely this time around as we always seemed to have something planned anyway. I can't remember why but Luke was not into going to the party and Nate offered to stay back with him. I took Gabe and we went with Bobby and her kids. We had missed the first part but it was really cute. I found it to be not as scary or cool as the one on the Magic so I was a little disappointed in the party and of course they didn't do the fire works for the early one. I did think it was nice that they did this one early for the younger kids who can't manage to stay up until 10:30.
After the party we headed to the show. Tonight it was going to be The Comedy and Ventriloquism of Taylor Mason. Nate convinced Luke to go to the show and we met them there along with everyone else. The show was really great! I had my doubts because I find either they are really funny or just really corny. Although I did have my moments of snoozing and so did Nate as we were really tired from the very crazy day. He picked a volunteer from the audience and it was a young boy. He asked him where he was from and the boy said England. Anyway later in the show he asked for another volunteer who happened to be from England to which of course he made a joke about. At the end of the show he called for a volunteer again and this time it was a young boy… not from England lol and he had him wear a puppet while he would speak for it. It was really funny since the boy moved the puppets mouth slowly and then would stop so the Taylor would have to speak slowly and stop, all the while saying hilarious things. The next volunteer was called up and this time it was a little girl and the same thing… she would move the puppets mouth slowly and sporadically. Next he called for a parent volunteer and of course there are not as many volunteers but mostly excited kids offering up their parents. Well Daniel was one of those excited kids and was pointing to his mom with the glow stick that I had given him earlier. So he said "how about that mom with the green glowing thing next to her" Joh was embarrassed but was a good sport and went up. So he asked her where she was from and she laughed the whole time while she said England. This was hilarious to everyone and of course he had something to say about this. Joh was crying she was laughing so much while up there. So he had her put on the puppet and since she just watched the other two she was moving the puppets mouth fast and not stopping to which the he had the puppet say "I don't know why but I just can't seem to stop talking". It was really funny and if I was just a bit more technically inclined, I'd post the video that Wendy took… but alas I am not. Now if my oldest graces us with his presence any time soon I will have him post it for me. Joh blamed me for getting called up on stage since it was "the stupid glow stick you gave Daniel that brought attention to me!" It was worth it and I have big shoulders… I can take it.
After the show we had an hour to kill before the second pirate party. It was really windy and the boat was pretty rocky. Luke was not feeling great and was really tired so I offered to stay back in the cabin with Luke. Nate could take Gabe to the second Pirate Party since I already went to the earlier one. I was exhausted anyway. I was a little disappointed that I would not get to see the fireworks but I thought since it was so windy they probably wouldn't light them anyway. Luke and I returned to the cabin and I was fast asleep soon as my head hit the pillow. I was out cold and was totally disoriented when I was woken by the booming. My heart was racing and then I remembered… the fireworks. It took me a few minutes to get my heart rate back to normal so I could go back to sleep. I found out when Nate returned that the show was actually different! It was much more scary and sinister. Well that's it…. I'll just have to go back.
Here are a few pics of that night.
Here's Bobbie with Emma and Gabe
Second Pirate party
Next up…. Cabin Crawl!
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Cabin Crawl!
I was pretty excited about today .today was Halloween and the Cabin Crawl! We found our room steward Raj (I cant believe I forgot to mentioned him he was the best!) and let him know that we were going to have a bunch of people in our cabin and if there was anyway we could get our room done by lunch. He said that was no problem. We headed to breakfast and afterwards asked the boys what they wanted to do. They wanted to ride the Aquaduck and do the detective agency thing again. So we rode the Aquaduck a few times until it got too busy then dried off and got ready to be detectives. This time we thought we would have a little race. Dad and Luke decided to solve the case of the missing paintings and Gabe and I decided to do the case of the missing show. So off Gabe and I go and we are both pretty competitive and took off running. If youre going to do this dont pick the missing show! Gabe and I looked at the map and figured out the most efficient way to hit all the paintings, except on 2 occasions the paintings sent us on a separate quest that involved finding not another painting but a bulletin board and pepes door to find our next clue. This just messed up our whole efficient plan! It was actually really cool so knowing that we lost we decided to embrace it and just enjoy the coolness of it lol. The plan was to meet at Eye scream and the loser had to buy a round of ice cream cones. However we lost miserably and Nate and Luke had finished their cones about 45 minutes before we even arrived. It was supposed to be a mid morning snack but it was more like a lunch appetizer for Gabe and I. So after our ice cream we felt we needed to be responsible parents and at least offer them some nutritious food for lunch. They didnt eat much and neither did I. The boys had agreed that after lunch they would go to the kids club while we did the cabin crawl. Off they went and we returned to our spotless cabin and set up for everyone.
On our past Carnival cruises one of our friends, Tony would organize the cabin crawl and since I cant convince him to leave Carnival I decided to organize this activity on my own. So I posted on our cruise meet and fb explaining the game. So this is how it works each person that signs up pays $5 to play and you ask for 7 people to volunteer to be host cabins, preferably on different levels and categories. Hosts have to provide a deck of cards that they spread out on the bed for players to take. The host then records what card everyone takes. Host cabins can provide a drink or a treat of some kind if they wish. The last 2 cabins are discard cabins and the player with the best poker hand wins the pot. I chose this day because it was a sea day and we already had the mixology on the first sea day and thought I probably wouldnt have made it to formal night if I did both on the same day. I also set it for 12:30 so it would be after lunch and for those that signed up for the mixology at 3:00 could still make it. We had 40 people sign up to play and our 7 host cabins. One of the last cabins that offered to host was the wait for it ROY O DISNEY SUITE. To top it off he offered to have to post party in his cabin!
The plan was to meet at the Vista Café for the buy-in. We always have way less people since some forget and some just decide to do something else. While making our shots I told Nate that maybe we should only make 30 but then I thought, what if everyone DOES show up so we made 10 more. It would never go to waist! We made Burt Reynolds shots, which is ½ butter ripple liqueur and ½ spiced rum. All I can say is yum yum yum! Anyway people started to trickle in at the Vista Café and we ended up with only 20 people which is still good... thats a $100 pot. There was a little glitch though .we were short 2 host cabins. That was alright though since Joh and Wendy had offered a while back that they could be host cabins as a back up. While we were waiting, Debbie from mixology AND from my church offered to help out saying we could use her cabin to host. Right about that time Joh texted me saying she was going to skip it as she was busy with something else. So I let her know not to worry because I had Debbie now too for a back up. I couldnt get a hold of Wendy and it turns out she got distracted by a fellow knitter and they were conversing about patterns or something. I am actually serious! Those darn knitters. Rob offered his cabin and luckily Nate and I had brought a few extra decks of cards for just this reason. So off we go to the first cabin, which was an 8D on deck 5 I think. It was a square cabin with 2 large portholes that you can sit in. I couldnt believe how big it was! It comfortably held more than 20 people at once. During a cabin crawl I have never seen where everyone is in one cabin all at once it was more like you would line up outside and file in, grab your card and a drink, look around and file out. The next 5 cabins were on deck 7 and then on to the Pièce de résistance the Roy O Disney Suite! All I can say is OH MY! When we got there our hosts were so phenomenal they called concierge and let them know they were having a little party and they brought up a whole tray of goodies and lots of Mickey bars and sodas and little pirate grab bags. Ron and Tina were such gracious hosts and really lovely people. Ooops I forgot that we were there for the cabin crawl and this was the last cabin. (sorry I got distracted by daydreaming about the suite) Well my friend Jen won the pot with 5 jacks! I know I know .. you are all thinking just stop typing and get to the pictures already!
Here we are waiting to file into a cabin
At Debbies cabin honestly we are not all boozing gamblers at our church!
Were getting cloooser!
The foyer of the suite!
Theres a party goin on right here. A celebration to last throughout the years.
Oh goodness we cant forget about the winner!
The goods!
Here I am just lounging on the deck with a Mickey bar . ON THE DECK OF THE ROY O DISNEY SUITE!
Heres Nate on the other side of the deck ya know just hanin
Rob as acting bar tender!
We left before we were kicked out feeling pretty giddy. So we all left together my parents, Rob and Jen and Bobby and Gerald. We DID have all those shots left so everyone came back to our cabin and we polished off the rest of the Burt Reynolds. It was an unforgettable afternoon!
Next up Halloween!
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I can't wait to write about Pirate Night since that was the night of Daniel's big date. I may just post the video Wendy took, if I am feeling suitably brave.
I am still absolutely gutted I missed the Cabin Crawl (well, the Roy O Suite actually). We just felt like everything had been so hectic up to this point, we wanted to take the time to spend it with the kiddos. I still hope the Roy O Suite is in my future (maybe after that big lottery win, eh?)
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Excerpt from: Journey to the Heart, Chapter 1
"Sufism is not thinking about existence, it is being existence. It is not thinking, it is not doing something about existence. It is neither thought nor action. It is being.
"And right now, without any effort, you can be a Sufi. If you stop thinking, and if you drop the idea of doing something, if you drop the idea of being a thinker and a doer, if you simply are content to be, suddenly you are a Sufi. And this will be my effort while I am talking about Sufism: not to indoctrinate you, not to make you more knowledgeable, but to make a Sufi out of you.
"Sufis sing, they don't give sermons, because life is more like a song and less like a sermon. And they dance, and they don't talk about dogmas, because a dance is more alive, more like existence, more like the birds singing in the trees, and the wind passing through the pines; more like a waterfall, or clouds raining, or grass growing. The whole life is a dance, vibrating, throbbing, with infinite life.
"Sufis like to dance; they are not interested in dogmas. And they tell beautiful stories. Life is more like a story, less like a history. And Sufis have created beautiful small stories. On the surface, you may miss. On the surface, it will look just like an ordinary anecdote. But if you penetrate deep, Sufi stories are very much pregnant–pregnant with significance, pregnant with the significance of the Ultimate. So I will tell you a few stories, discuss the stories, to help you penetrate into the deeper core. Just to make you understand a few things about the heart, to help you, your energy, your whole being, for a new journey toward the heart. To push you–because you will be afraid.
"The heart is the most dangerous thing in the world.
"Every culture, every civilization, every so called religion, cuts every child off from his heart. It is a most dangerous thing. All that is dangerous comes out of the heart. Mind is more secure, and with the mind you know where you are. With the heart, no one ever knows where one is. With the mind, everything is calculated, mapped, measured. And you can feel the crowd always with you, in front of you, at the back of you. Many are moving on it; it is a highway–concrete, solid, gives you a feeling of security. With the heart you are alone. Nobody is with you. Fear grips, fear possesses you. Where are you going? Now you no longer know, because when you move with a crowd on a highway, you know where you are moving because you think the crowd knows." Osho
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Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens led the world in tightening policy after the 2009 financial crisis. Now he will go it alone again by being the only central bank chief among developed nations to cut interest rates in the coming year, credit markets show.
The RBA will lower its overnight cash-rate target by 75 basis points within 12 months, swaps show. New Zealand will tighten policy and eight other central banks are expected to hold their stances, Credit Suisse Group AG indexes show.
Stevens signaled yesterday a willingness to cut rates after the RBA board "judged the pace of output growth to be somewhat lower than earlier estimated." He held the benchmark at 4.25 percent, the highest among major advanced nations. Three-year bond yields dropped to the lowest in two months, as China's plans to slow output and Treasurer Wayne Swan's pledge to cut spending by a record feed concern Australia's economy will struggle to rebound after weakening at the end of 2011.
"The RBA's statement was a shift in the dovish direction," said Gavin Stacey, chief interest-rate strategist at Barclays Capital in Sydney. "By toning down the growth outlook for both China and Australia, they're moving in the direction of easing. The door is open for rate cuts."
RBA policy makers held the overnight cash-rate target unchanged for a third-straight meeting after lowering it in November and December amid Europe's debt crisis. The result was predicted by all 24 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
'Somewhat Lower'
"The board judged the pace of output growth to be somewhat lower than earlier estimated, but also thought it prudent to see forthcoming key data on prices to reassess its outlook for inflation, before considering a further step to ease monetary policy," Stevens said yesterday in a statement.
The statistics bureau is scheduled to report first-quarter inflation data on April 24. Three-year bond yields slid eight basis points to 3.44 percent yesterday, the lowest closing level since Feb. 6.
The three-year swap rate, an indicator of the cost to lock in fixed rates, dropped three basis points to 4.05 percent yesterday. The rate is a "good predictor" of the average cash rate over the next three years, George Boubouras, Melbourne- based head of investment strategy at UBS AG's Australian wealth- management unit, wrote in a report yesterday before the RBA announcement.
Traders expected as little as 38 basis points in borrowing- cost reductions on March 15, the least in seven months, a Credit Suisse index shows. New Zealand's key rate is now forecast to rise 25 basis points. The U.S., U.K. and European central banks are all likely to keep rates unchanged in the coming year, as are policy makers in Japan, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, according to Credit Suisse.
Bond Losses
Australian federal debt declined 0.5 percent in the three months through March 31, the first drop in five quarters, after gaining 14 percent in 2011, according to an index from Bloomberg and the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies. U.S. Treasuries (USGATR) fell 1.3 percent last quarter, while German bunds advanced 0.3 percent, separate gauges show.
Australia's 10-year yield dropped seven basis points to 4.06 percent yesterday, or 186 (GACGB10) basis points more than U.S. government notes. Benchmark borrowing costs declined in each quarter of last year, the longest stretch since the period that started in April 1, 1997, and ran to Sept. 30, 1998.
Investors Preparing
The rally in Australian bonds indicates investors are preparing for a rate reduction next month, said Roger Bridges, who oversees the equivalent of $15.6 billion of debt as the Sydney-based head of fixed income at Tyndall Investment Management Ltd., a unit of Nikko Asset Management Co.
"The market keeps pricing in more and more cuts," he said.
Elsewhere in Australian credit markets, the extra yield investors demand to buy corporate bonds instead of government debt was at 252 basis points on April 2 after dropping to 244 on March 22, the smallest premium since Oct. 17, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes.
The gap between rates on Australian government bonds and inflation-linked debt shows traders expect a 2.68 percent annual advance in consumer prices over the next decade, down from a seven-month high of 2.92 on March 19.
Aussie Dollar
The so-called Aussie dollar, the world's fifth-most traded currency, fell 0.2 percent to $1.0394 as of 6 p.m. yesterday in Sydney. The currency climbed 53 percent over the past three years and reached a post-float high of $1.1081 on July 27, as a A$456 billion ($473 billion) pipeline of resource projects spurs companies such as BHP Billiton Ltd. to increase investment.
The RBA statement stopped short of promising a May cut, said Bin Gao, the head of rates research in Hong Kong for Asia and the Pacific at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
"The market was expecting the RBA would signal an easing bias, but they didn't really mention that," Gao said. "It doesn't signal an immediate easing. They're still looking for evidence for the economy to weaken."
The Aussie's climb has hurt industries from tourism to manufacturing and education by reducing their capacity to compete against overseas rivals.
Losing to Austria
The local dollar's advance "has made it essentially impossible for any of our non-resource, trade-exposed sections of the economy to be profitable," Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, said in an interview last week. The union official said the chief executive officer of a major manufacturer told him the company had lost one of its most significant contracts to make consumer goods to Austria.
BlueScope Steel Ltd. (BSL), the country's largest steel producer, in August shuttered its export division. Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Co. have cut jobs in Australia this year, citing the currency's strength.
Australian retail sales climbed in February, matching economist forecasts for a 0.2 percent increase, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney yesterday. In the same period, the number of permits granted to build or renovate houses and apartments sank 7.8 percent, the biggest drop in four months, according to an April 2 report.
Weak Labor Market
Employers unexpectedly cut payrolls by 15,400 in February, figures last month showed. Even amid a record resources bonanza, Australia experienced the weakest labor market in 19 years, with employers adding no jobs in 2011.
The unemployment rate climbed in February to 5.2 percent, the first increase since August. Fourth-quarter gross domestic product expanded 0.4 percent, slowing for a second-straight period, according to data released March 7.
An uneven economic recovery is boosting concern Australia's budget surplus goal for the year beginning July 1 will damp growth prospects.
The government has been forecasting a A$1.5 billion ($1.56 billion) surplus in the 2012-13 financial year from an expected A$37.1 billion deficit this year. Swan is due to hand down the budget on May 8, a week after the next RBA meeting.
A budget in surplus "ensures that we won't be adding to the price pressures," Swan said in his economic note April 1. "This in turn provides more flexibility for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates if they think this is warranted."
The government's plans for the largest spending reductions Australia has ever seen is likely to weaken the economy, said Stephen Walters, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s chief economist in Australia, said in a research report.
"While we believe the quest to return the budget to surplus next year ultimately will fail, the government's attempt to fulfill its promise will drag on growth," Sydney-based Walters wrote. "The pain in key domestic sectors may become so acute that the RBA is forced to act to underpin demand."
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NAUGATUCK -- A referendum on the budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year will be held July 9 from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the railroad station at 195 Water St.
Voters will be asked whether the municipal budget of $51,428,652 and the school board's budget of $59,478,771 are too high or too low.
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DataTorrent 1.0 Handles >1B Real-time Events/sec
DataTorrent is a real-time streaming and analyzing platform that can process over 1B real-time events/sec.
Splunk's Hunk 6.1 Brings New Capabilities for Big Data Analytics
Splunk, a company specializing in searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data, has announced the release of Hunk 6.1. Hunk provides an analytics platform for big data. The new release also provides streaming resource libraries to connect Hunk to any NoSQL data store, such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j.
Community the Focus at ApacheCON NA 2014
This year's ApacheCON North America conference saw key speakers focus on open source and its community. With more than 400 attendees, over 70 projects represented and 180 conference sessions it covered as many diverse topics as diverse the Apache Software Foundation projects are.
Cascading 3.0 Adds Multiple Framework Support. Concurrent Driven Manages Big Data Apps
Concurrent will release Cascading 3.0 in early summer to allow certain applications to run on multiple Big Data frameworks including MapReduce, Tez, Spark, Storm and others. Additionally, Driven, the new commercial product from Concurrent, provides powerful enterprise data application management for Big Data applications.
Hortonworks Announces Hive 0.13 with Vectorized Query Execution and Hive on Tez
Hortonworks announced the release of Hive 0.13 which marks the completion of the Stinger initiative. The new release also includes performance improvements as well as some new SQL features. Hive is an open source SQL Engine written on top of Hadoop that lets users query big data warehouses by writing SQL queries instead of MapReduce jobs.
Cloudera Partners with MongoDB to Store Hadoop Data on Their NoSQL DB
Starting from the premise that today "80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured and growing at twice the rate of structured data", Cloudera and MongoDB have announced a "strategic" partnership meant to provide customers the option to combine Cloudera's Apache-based Big Data platform with MongoDB's NoSQL solution.
Continuous Development,is it our new maintenance reality?
The Internet of Things, Web APIs and Big Data will make continuous development a necessary reality and will tie developers down with maintenance work on completed applications, says Andrew Binstock of Dr. Dobbs. In that case, short sprints, continuous integration and deployment and modern programming practices are even more important to ensure a developer's time is better utilized.
DataBricks Announces Spark SQL for Manipulating Structured Data Using Spark
DataBricks, the company behind Apache Spark, has announced a new addition into the Spark ecosystem called Spark SQL. Spark SQL is separate from Shark, and does not use Hive under the hood. InfoQ reached out to Reynold Xin and Michael Armbrust, software engineers at DataBricks, to learn more about Spark SQL.
A Roundup of Cloudera Distribution Containing Apache Hadoop 5
Cloudera recently released the latest version of its software distribution, CDH5. Almost 20 months after the last major version, CDH4 seems like ages in the Big Data world. We take a look at new features this release brings and the future direction of Cloudera after the latest round of investment from Intel and Google Ventures.
Hydra Takes On Hadoop
The social-networking company AddThis open-sourced Hydra under the Apache version 2.0 License in a recent announcement. Hydra grew from an in-house platform created to process semi-structured social data as live streams and do efficient query processing on those data sets.
Spark Gets a Dedicated Big Data Platform
Spark users can now use a new Big Data platform provided by intelligence company Atigeo, which bundles most of the UC Berkeley stack into a unified framework optimized for low-latency data processing that can provide significant improvements over more traditional Hadoop-based platforms.
Rebecca Parsons on the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
In January ThoughtWorks released the latest version of their Technology Radar in which they track what's interesting in the software development ecosystem. The big themes this year are (1) early warning systems and recovery in production, (2) the tension between privacy and big data, (3) the javascript ecosystem and (4) blurring of the line between the physical and virtual worlds.
HBase 0.98 Introduces Cell-based Security
Apache released HBase 0.98 primarily addressing convergence with Apache Accumulo via cell-based security while resolving over 230 JIRA issues. These new security features are modeled after Accumulo.
Graph Processing Using Big Data Technologies
Processing extremely large graphs has been and remains a challenge, but recent advances in Big Data technologies have made this task more practical. Tapad, a startup based in NYC focused on cross-device content delivery, has made graph processing the heart of their business model using Big Data to scale to terabytes of data.