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From The Heavens Devotional by Kevin Hartnett
We all have increasingly busy lives, and life in the "information age" only seems to pick up pace. Less frequent landline telephone calls and "snail mail" letters have given way to a daily barrage of texts and twitters. If we miss our e-mail for a day, the number of stacked-up messages looks like the arrival and departure board at the airport. Traffic rages around us daily, resulting in congestion and delays as everyone scrambles to live the "good life" filled with sports, concerts, church meetings, and family events. The kids need attention, the grandparents need attention, the bills need attention—the empty refrigerator, the car, the house, the yard, the garage, our clothes, our jobs, our bodies. Frequently we get to Wednesday of the work- or school week, and we'd swear it was Friday. Bedtime has never had so much appeal!
Our Lord understands. The gospel of Mark records that Jesus was so busy healing and teaching those who sought Him out that He didn't even have time to eat. His mother and brothers thought He was out of His mind. What did Jesus do? He pulled away. He withdrew when the Sun went down to be alone with His Father in prayer. Nighttime gives us a wonderful opportunity to do the same. Take a walk—or at least pull away from the daily grind—and have fellowship with your Maker, Savior, and Helper. If you can, go out beneath the Moon and stars. Think about how Jesus stared up at the very same ones as He prayed, and delight with Him in the discipline of solitude. He modeled its value for us in His own life on Earth. The same beautiful starry sky and gracious Father awaits us as did Him. Go experience them both.
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. – Matthew 11:28–30
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In 2008, as I heard the increasing public rhetoric of hostility emanating from the Middle East, I found myself wondering what Jesus would say and do if he were here in the flesh today. It was with that question that I began traveling to the Middle East — seven times in the last two-and-a-half years. My goal on those trips was simply to listen and learn. I began by asking Arab Christians from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Israel, and Palestine what they wished American Christians knew about them and about the Middle East.
Thus began my education about U.S. foreign policy, Christian/Muslim relationships, and the conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Holy land.
Along the way, I talked with Middle Eastern Jews and Muslims who echoed many of the same themes expressed by Middle Eastern Christians. Their united voice has challenged my perspective on what it means to follow Jesus into the complex world of the Middle East. Their lives and their stories call me to try to be a peacemaker.
Given the increased media emphasis on Israel and Palestine following President Obama's recent Middle East speech and Prime Minister Netanyahu's response, I feel compelled to tell the stories that rarely get told in the U.S. media — the stories of the Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews who are committed to peace and reconciliation in the Holy Land. These are the people "on the ground" fighting nonviolently for security, freedom, equality, and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians. In the coming weeks, I'll be posting here some articles I've published in other places during the last couple of years, as well as new stories I've not yet told publicly. I'll begin with this article first published in Sojourners magazine, July 2010.
Following Jesus in the West Bank
As a Christian committed to justice, I am glad the Jewish people have a homeland. I long for the day when they can live in Israel — or anywhere — in security. I don't hold to a theology asserting that the modern State of Israel represents a divinely mandated return of ancient Israel to the Promised Land, but I do wholeheartedly support its existence as a national homeland for the Jews.
At the same time, I wholeheartedly support justice for the Palestinians. Two years ago at a conference in Amman, Jordan, Arab Christians challenged me to broaden my understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict and to see for myself the current plight of Palestinian Christians and Muslims living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank.
I've traveled to the West Bank three times in the last year. Life under military occupation is grim. A shattered economy, land seizures and house demolitions, Israeli-only roads networking through Palestinian land, and hundreds of military checkpoints on Palestinian roads — all these make daily life difficult and frustrating.
I've met with both Palestinian and Israeli faith leaders committed to using nonviolent resistance to end the occupation. Most recently I spoke at a conference hosted by Christians in Bethlehem. The conference, called "Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in Service to Peace and Justice, " challenged evangelicals from North America and Europe to stand with the Christians of Palestine. The conference was inspiring, but for me the highlight was the three post-conference days I actually spent with Palestinian Christians.
I loved hearing about the evangelical church that Salwa's husband pastors, and about Salwa's ministry to marginalized women in Bethlehem. Salwa is an old Arabic word meaning consolation. "I love caring for the broken-hearted, " she said, "and leading them to Jesus, the source of all comfort." She described the Palestinian Christian community as a secret garden: "Nobody sees us unless they come and look."
I spent several hours with Shireen. Born in the West Bank, she studied English literature and translation at Bethlehem University, then received her M.A. in educational administration at Texas A&M (where she also was homecoming queen). Today she's a wife and mother, a teacher in a Christian college, and a volunteer for a reconciliation ministry. She took me and two other Americans to a women's meeting in the Muslim village of Al-Khader. We were the only Christians in a roomful of Muslims, and we were warmly welcomed.
My friend Christine and I went to dinner with a group of young women we had met on a previous trip. Educated in the social sciences, media, cross-cultural relations, leadership, and reconciliation, they remind me so much of my daughter and her friends: godly, articulate, fun, energetic, and committed to building a better world.
We had breakfast with Munther and Rudaina. Munther received his M.A. in religion and biblical studies from Westminster in Philadelphia. An instructor and assistant academic dean at a college in Bethlehem, he is working on a doctorate in applied theology from the Oxford Center for Mission Studies in England. He is married to Rudaina, an architect. Her name means "the woman who carries armor for soldiers." We laughed when she explained that. Like all the Palestinian women I met, she is on the front lines of the battle for peace.
I met George, a school administrator. Some years ago one of George's daughters — 12 years old — was killed by Israeli gunfire that hit the car in which the family was riding. George is now an active member of Parents Circle/Families Forum, Israelis and Palestinians who have lost children to the conflict and meet to share their grief and work for peace.
Sadly, the Christian community in Palestine is dwindling as well-educated young people emigrate because they can't find jobs. But young evangelicals like the ones I met choose to remain in the West Bank because they take Jesus' call to be peacemakers seriously. They understand they have a unique opportunity and calling to bridge the gap between Muslims and Jews as they incarnate the truth of the Prince of Peace.
I am still pro-Israel, but I've also become pro-Palestine. Pro-peace. Pro-justice. Pro-equality for Jews and Arabs living as neighbors in the Holy Land. And bottom line, pro-Jesus.
Lynne Hybels, co-founder of Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois, is author of Nice Girls Don't Change the World and a columnist for Sojourners magazine.
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Businesses Should Close Mobile 'App Gap'
Businesses have made the leap into the brave new world of mobile devices and the use of personal mobile applications in the workplace, but they're still not moving fast enough to develop and deploy the mobile apps they need, a new study shows. They may think think they're "locked and loaded" and ready for the next skirmish. But if they check their ammunition clips, they'll find they're still only shooting blanks when it comes filling the "app gap."
It's not for lack of belief in mobile, though. A study of 600 organizations found that 95 percent have employees whose use personal mobile devices for work and who trust that mobile technology will improve business outcomes and applications. The study was sponsored by Progressive Software, a global software systems provider.
In fact, 92 percent of organizations believe that adopting mobile apps will not only give them a competitive edge, but believe that that failure to adopt such apps will put them at a competitive disadvantage.
Despite the proliferation of mobile devices, application use and beliefs that mobile technology will benefit business, only around a quarter (29 percent) of respondents have already begun a formal mobility project, though 42 percent plan to do so in the next year. In addition, only around half (51 percent) of organizations interact with their employees using mobile apps and even fewer (45 percent) use mobile apps to interact with customers.
As organizations make plans to fill the app gap, they face some roadblocks. According to the research, perceived risks to implementing formal mobility strategies include security (54 percent), the additional investment required (48 percent) and the need for ongoing support (47 percent).
In addition, more than half of companies (56 percent) are concerned that they lack the skills to develop an appropriate application and application interface across myriad mobile devices and platforms.
"There's little doubt that providing employees with the ability to work across mobile devices can increase a business' productivity and collaboration," said John Goodson, senior vice president of products with Progress Software. "In an effort to increase operational efficiencies across the enterprise, IT organizations need to rely on trusted development environments that provide them with the security and control they're used to with the ability to easily develop apps for multiple mobile operating systems."
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Weekly review: Week ending January 27, 2012
| review, weeklyI talked to my second-line manager (the manager of my manager) this week. It looks like all systems are go. Heading into my last three weeks at IBM! By golly.
This weekend was a busy one. I did a cooking sprint: beef stew, a stirfry with beef and cabbage, lots of cookies, two loaves of bread, and a pot of oatmeal. That should make our routines smoother for the rest of the week, giving us time to help J- with her homework.
I also worked on the bugs people have started identifying in Quantified Awesome. =) Sometimes the bugs are embarrassing, but I decided to squish my excuses and let people try things anyway. It's fun tailoring systems to people again. I remember maintaining Planner Mode for a lively community of Emacs geeks, and I loved making all these little tweaks to help them live and work more awesomely. That was fun. It would be great to do something like that again.
From last week's plans
- Work
Set up external environment for project C[X]
Finish styling project C[X]
Talk to second-line manager and other coworkers regarding plans[X]
Talk to lots of people about transition
- Relationships
Get together with Gabriel and other friends
- Life
E-mail potential users about time tracking analysis[-]
Apply things learned from Quantified Self Toronto: Epic Quest of Awesome, time analysis[X]
Research tips for starting a business in Toronto- Researched incorporation options in Ontario
- Fixed more Quantified Awesome bugs
- Monthly view of time summary should now be displayed whenever you try to summarize a range longer than a few weeks (fixed missing file)
- People should now be able to create accounts through Google (fixed user creation issue)
- Clothing logs and analyses can now be viewed (fixed permission issue)
- Added end timestamp and manual timestamp field to time records
- Read lots of information about starting a small business
Plans for next week
- Work
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Discuss project T transition[ ]
Work on project C styling[ ]
Plan farewell lunch
- Relationships
Visit the Villanuevas[ ]
Help with J's homework
- Life
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Collect referrals for accountants who focus on small businesses[ ]
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Today's optical illusion that's spreading on social media is this photo posted on Reddit.
It has the title 'Find the middle girl's legs'.
The third girl from the left appears to have no legs.
Where do you think they went?
Is she just a torso? A prop? Give up?
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Case study
Muhoza Esperance
Esperance Muhoza (aged 34) lives in Muko sector, Musanze District, Rwanda with her husband (44 years old), three sons aged 13, ten and eight, and a young daughter aged one. The boys attend a nearby Primary school. Esperance carries her young daughter wherever she goes because most of the time there is no one else to care for her. She only gets support occasionally during the day when her husband is home or when her elder children are back from school.
Esperance's main occupation is agriculture: she grows vegetables, beans, and sometimes Irish potatoes. It takes 30 minutes for her to walk to her garden. As the income earned from agricultural activities is not sufficient to support her family she sometimes participates in paid work, when opportunities become available, such as road construction in various locations and repairing neighbours' houses. She is also responsible for care work such as cleaning the compound, washing clothes, cooking, fetching water, and taking care of her children and occasionally the elders living in the village.
In the family they help each other for the common good. Esperance sometimes helps her husband to carry goods to the market. She says,
'My husband does labouring work of pushing a wheelbarrow and is hired by traders to carry merchandise to the market. Sometimes I help him so that we can earn more for the family.'
Her eldest son helps her out with care work: he fetches water, collects firewood, cleans the compound and house, takes care of his siblings and sometimes prepares food. The family doesn't get any support from extended family or community members.
The need to combine care and paid work affects everyone at home. Care work is a big burden for Esperance when no one else is at home: 'I am always busy with lots of care work at my home. Especially when my children are at school then no one will be there to help me in one way or another.' The children also get tired due to the care work they do after school which also limits their time to play; she says, 'they don't have enough time to play and visit their friends.' Her husband is also frequently exhausted as a result of pushing the wheelbarrow all day. As her husband doesn't earn enough money to support the family Esperance has to do paid work as well which can take up a lot of her time. She explains,
For instance I don't get enough time be with my children especially when they return from school and in the evening. They do not get me when they are in need. The reason is that I am always busy with paid and unpaid work.
Esperance feels mutual support between family members is of paramount importance to balance paid and care work; she states:


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YAKIMA, WA (BP) — Northwest Baptist Convention messengers welcomed 19 churches into affiliation, approved a $5,177,000 budget for 2014 — which increases resources for church planting, evangelism and communications — and elected Dale Jenkins, pastor of Airway Heights (Wash.) Baptist Church as president.
Messengers, those elected by convention-affiliated churches to vote on business items, convened Nov. 12-13 in Yakima, Wash., the convention's 66th annual meeting, but the first with new executive director Randy Adams. The two days of inspiration, reports and business — under the theme of "Forward Together" — drew more than 400 messengers and visitors.
Elected to serve alongside Jenkins for a one-year term were Bryan Toll, pastor of Smith Rock Community Church in Terrebonne, Ore., as first vice president, and Frank Johnson, pastor of Chestnut Street Baptist Church in Ellensburg, Wash., as second vice president. All three ran unopposed.
The 19 newly-affiliated congregations bring the total number of Northwest Baptist Convention (NWBC) congregations across Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho to more than 450.
The Washington churches approved for affiliation were: Agape Baptist, Renton; All Nations Community, Kirkland; Asian International Bible, Edmonds; One in Christ Baptist, Edmonds; Parkland House Ministries, Spanaway; EagleWing Fellowship, Everett; Fil-Am Christian Fellowship, Bellingham; Global Mission Church of Greater Seattle, Lynwood; Japanese International Baptist, Tacoma; Living Spring Fellowship, Des Moines; Maranata Baptist, Vancouver; New Hope Community, Kennewick; Reliance, Auburn; Sarang Baptist, Renton; The Hallows, Seattle; The Way, Seattle; and Vietnamese Lifeway SBC, Lakewood. Two newly-affiliated churches from Oregon include: Faith & Reason Ministries, Roseburg, and Vietnamese Revival Baptist, Portland.
Speaking twice during the convention, Adams emphasized the importance of sharing the message of Christ with others in a loving way and authenticating it by a willingness to suffer hardship.
"Jesus suffered betrayal and loneliness … because he loved his enemies," Adams said. "If we stand in opposition to our community, we won't have much standing with them. We can talk tools and packets, but that's not nearly as important as the heart. If we are going to reach the Northwest we are going to reach those who despise us."
He noted some churches today try gathering crowds with "a comedian and pretty people," but "the Gospel message is authenticated" through suffering.
"We must have a walk with Jesus that takes us into the power and the suffering, as they come together," said Adams, citing the New Testament letter to the Philippians. "The Lord never called us to anything we can do without Him. You and I have a greater story to tell, a story that deals with every human being on the face of the earth. When our story is authenticated in the suffering of Jesus Christ, I do believe He wants to do so much in and through us. The big thing is the heart — when the heart is right, we're there."
Next year's $5,177,000 spending plan anticipates $2,785,000 in Cooperative Program gifts from NWBC churches, a $55,000 decrease in CP gifts from the current year's budget. The percent of CP gifts forwarded to the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee for disbursement to overall SBC causes remains at 27 percent. However, the "Northwest Ministries" section of the budget includes another $178,000 in CP gifts for Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary's Pacific Northwest Campus, founded in 1980 to help prevent pastoral leaders from leaving the Northwest for theological education and subsequent local church ministry.
The remainder of CP gifts supports church planting, evangelism, church health, leadership development ministries and administrative support in the Northwest.
While CP gifts make up the largest share of revenue for the convention's 2014 ministry budget, the North American Mission Board provides another $1,864,000 — an increase of almost $144,000 from the current year's budget — to further support church planting and evangelism in the Northwest. The partnership funds from NAMB provide 86 percent of the financial support for jointly funded missionaries, with the NWBC providing the remaining 14 percent.
Another $64,000 in support is expected from LifeWay Christian Resources, $132,000 from previous Sylvia Wilson Mission Offering gifts and more than $361,000 from other sources.
In other business, messengers approved a 2014 Sylvia Wilson Mission Offering goal of $110,000 to be split between the convention's church planting efforts and leadership development ministries. It will be the third straight year for those two categories, although the goal is reduced from the $140,000 goals set for 2012 and 2013.
Cameron Crabtree is the editor of Northwest Baptist Witness.


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Enbridge has announced the company will be increasing the operating pressure of the T-South natural gas transmission system to 85 per cent.
This increase from the current 80 per cent operating pressure is an effort to restore the natural gas transmission following the Oct. 9 rupture of their 36-inch pipeline 13.5 km north of Prince George.
"Enbridge expects this will allow us to gradually increase capacity from the current 0.9 Bcf/d to approximately 1 Bcf/d at the Huntingdon area by November 22, 2018," states a release issued by the company on Nov. 17.
The repairs to the pipeline were completed as of Oct. 31 and, since then, crews have been working to return it to service. The increase of operating pressure was approved by the National Energy Board.
"As part of our ongoing commitment to safety, Enbridge is continuing our comprehensive integrity program on our T-South system. Enbridge is advancing this work prior to restoring the entire system to 100 per cent of normal operating pressure," states the Nov. 17 release. "These integrity assessments, which may include integrity digs and inline pipeline inspections, are being done on a segment-by-segment basis, focusing first on segments that maximize system capacity increases while the system is safely brought back to higher operating pressure."
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The forthcoming European elections must be an opportunity to express popular anger against Macronism and contribute to the fightback against the danger of the Rassemblement National (National Rally - far-right). That's why for several months now, the NPA has been proposing that, on this occasion, a common list should be formed by all those - political currents, personalities, etc. - who have who have not given up the fight against the current liberal, inegalitarian, authoritarian and racist Europe, in order to defend a programme that defends such a perspective.
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It's the dead of summer. B.C.'s Green-NDP government is taking a break from dressing the province's economy in worn-out bell bottoms. No trucks loaded with big steel pipe are rolling yet. Even the hardened actors of our many summer tent camps are taking a break from disrupting our energy and housing policy.
The federal government has assured us there is no refugee crisis in Canada, while hastily shuffling the cabinet to create a new department of homeland security, er, Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction.
Migrants are pouring across the border from the U.S., mostly at a single rural road crossing from upstate New York into Quebec. They come in taxis, roller suitcases trailing them.
Ottawa has responded with an RCMP reception centre, welfare and hotel rooms, to welcome people clearly briefed on how to cut the legitimate refugee application lineup.
National media don't explore the obvious human trafficking angle. Instead they quibble about whether the migrants should be called "illegal" or "irregular," and note with approval that 1,200 crossings in June is fewer than the 2,200 who somehow happened to arrive in May. By that point there were 30,000 awaiting hearings.
B.C. media reported with approval a new policy quietly announced by the Vancouver Police. It's a "draft" policy that's already in effect, in which officers don't ask about the immigration status of witnesses, complainants or victims. City hall came up with this a couple of years ago, and stats show virtually no contact between VPD and immigration authorities since.
It's called "access without fear" (of deportation). In effect, Vancouver has declared itself a sovereign state and declined to observe federal immigration law, such as it is. Call it Stealth Sanctuary City.
Victoria is likely on the same path. This being a municipal election year, their preferred distractions include pushing Sir John A. Macdonald into the closet and cracking down on plastic bags.
The ban on point-of-sale bags hasn't spread as quickly as I predicted in January. It's in effect here in Victoria, but not all of the dozen suburbs have fallen into line.
"We've still got a few left," one store clerk whispered to me as she pulled out a thin rack of plastic bags and slipped one over my awkwardly shaped purchase. "We've always used the biodegradable ones, so I'm not sure what the problem was."
Plastic straw mythology has taken over. We have a federal environment minister incorrectly claiming that restaurants have banned the dreaded straws, and praising kids for using a steel straw that looks like a Ninja murder weapon. This as municipal politicians try to implement provincial environment policy, or at least attract attention by pretending to do so.
Corporations run to the front of the parade to declare plastic straws a biohazard. As with the bag boondoggle, inferior and more greenhouse gas-intensive paper is substituted. This is what rudderless government looks like.
As of July there had been about 450 "irregular" migrant crossings into B.C. so far this year, people sneaking in using a loophole in Canada's "safe third country" agreement with the U.S.
That doesn't sound like a lot, but we should remember B.C.'s tradition of being the destination of choice for migration within Canada. That can be measured by the tent camps along major highways.
Local politicians seem determined to pretend the "homeless" are all local, as they discourage any effort to measure the reality of migration. They'd rather regulate the easier things, like plastic bags and drinking straws.
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His system relies on a 555 timer configured as a Schmitt trigger, with a photoresistor wired to the reset pin. When the ambient light levels drop far enough, the resistance on the reset pin increases, and the 555 timer breaks out of its reset loop. This causes the circuit to power on whatever is connected to it. When the sun rises, the resistance on the reset pin drops and the 555 timer continually resets until it gets dark again. He notes that this behavior can be easily reversed if you were to put the photoresistor on the trigger pin rather than the reset pin.
We like the idea, though we are a bit wary about using this for any sort of real security system. An errant insect or debris could cause the system to be turned on, and we'd feel pretty foolish if someone disabled our alarm with a flashlight. That said, this sort of circuit still has plenty of practical, power-saving applications outside the realm of home security.


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U.S. Schizophrenia on China
December 23, 2008
As the global depression takes its toll on all trading nations, a bizarre schizophrenia has developed in U.S. opinion on China: reports of civil unrest in China are accompanied by opinions that China is poised to reap historic gains from the financial turmoil of the West. Interestingly, the financial turmoil of the East is conveniently ignored or downplayed in these rose-tinted views.
After 8 years of what I have termed "Bogus Prosperity," the underlying structural flaws of both the U.S. and Chinese economies have been laid bare. In the U.S., the decline in real surplus/productivity has been masked by financial legerdemain and a system which favors leverage and asset-stripping over production.
In China, structural corruption/local-official looting, piracy, inconsistent environmental regulations and a focus on exports all are coming home to roost with a vengence. The two global "engines of growth" are dysfunctionally linked and thus falling apart simultaneously.
Yet even as the structural problems within China's political, economic and financial systems are being bared by mainstream media reports like these-- After 30 Years, Economic Perils on China's Path (New York Times) and China Faces Unrest as Economy Falters (Wall Street Journal), other articles like U.S. Woes Open Door for China (Wall Street Journal) and The Great Crash, 2008: A Geopolitical Setback for the West Foreign Affairs) posit that China is well-protected from Western Depression:
"No country will benefit economically from the financial crisis over the coming year, but a few states -- most notably China -- will achieve a stronger relative global position. China is experiencing its own real estate slowdown, its export markets are weak, and its overall growth rate is set to slow. But the country is still relatively insulated from the global crisis. Its foreign exchange reserves are approaching $2 trillion, making it the world's strongest country in terms of liquidity. China's financial system is not exposed, and the country's growth, which is now driven by domestic activity, will continue at solid, if diminished, rates."
Unfortunately, all of the last line is simply incorrect. China's financial system has its own bubbles, malinvestment, legerdemain and hidden bad debt, and it is exposed to the Western malaise, even if indirectly. China's growth is not driven by its domestic demand except in the fantasies of the "China has decoupled from the West" Perma-Bulls; statistically, domestic consumption has actually shrunk as a percentage of Chinese GDP.
As I noted in A 1,000 Foot High Tsunami (October 21, 2008), Henry Paulson's essay in Foreign Affairs, The Right Way to Engage China, states China's domestic demand is only a third of the economy:
"One of the most notable indications of China's imbalanced growth is its large current account surplus, which last year amounted to over 11 percent of the country's GDP. This reflects the fact that China spends much less than it produces and earns and that it has a high rate of national saving. Chinese household consumption was only 35 percent of GDP in 2007, down from roughly 50 percent 30 years ago, when Beijing started market reforms. (Household consumption is roughly 70 percent of GDP in the United States and 60 percent in India.)
On the other hand, household savings are high, as individual Chinese try to compensate for the country's thin social safety net, limited options to finance major expenditures such as education, and few investment options other than bank deposits. Demographics will only exacerbate these trends: as China's population ages, the traditional source of support in retirement -- children -- will become increasingly scarce."
(If you'd like some context for China's long-term structural challenges, please read my 2005 report, China: An Interim Report: Its Economy, Ecology and Future .)
The schizophrenia between reports of China's "slowdown" and its supposed readiness to gain from global Depression has its roots in the U.S. mainstream media's basic ignorance of local government actions in China. It's not just the MSM which is clueless; even Chinese citizens without access to higher-ups in local government have no idea what's really going on.
The real action in China is always at the local government level. The structure of the Communist party and the central government lines of authority give the power for everyday management of the economy to local Party and government leaders. Everything from the central government is mostly ignored because there's no real authority to back it up except in cases where the entire nation is mobilized (the SARS scare, etc.)
What most Westerners don't understand is finance, economic development and local government are in constant, permanent collusion. Few Westerners understand that local governments borrow vast sums of money, too, to fund sports pavilions, etc. Few Westerners understand that local officials will essentially steal land from peasants and send locally hired and paid hooligans to beat up protesters while official police look the other way.
Few Westerners understand that loans are approved or arranged by local officials, who also grant the rights to foreign entities to build factories in local business parks. Few Westerners appreciate that the prime directive for local officials--and the source of their own wealth--is economic development, not strict accounting of funds or strict enforcement of nationally-issued environmental regulations.
Those directives are followed when reporters are around, i.e. for show, and then ignored the rest of the time. The Chinese government is essentially schizophrenic itself, with the central government claiming planning and regulatory control even as it cedes actual authority to local Party and government and makes economic growth the priority.
There is literally no advantage for local officials to take a hard line on accountability, anti-corruption and anti-piracy campaigns or strict environmental standards, while there are significant financial and official rewards to driving local growth--even at the expense of peasants, public safety (i.e. shoddy construction) and environmental damage.
Up to 40% of the Chinese GDP is direct foreign investment. As I quoted in Hot Air Dragon: Is China About to Pop? (July 20, 2006):
"Construction projects such as the forests of cranes on Changsha's horizon are just the most visible evidence of a nationwide investment binge that raised new spending on construction and factory equipment to $318 billion by the end of May, up 30 percent from the same period of 2005. Such investments are forecast to exceed $1.3 trillion this year, nearly half of China's GDP.
To finance that spending, China's big commercial banks, their already fat cash balances swollen by government bailouts and recent multibillion-dollar initial public offerings, issued new loans worth $267.5 billion in the first half of this year. The worry is that too much of the money is going into redundant or ultimately unprofitable investments, risking a rebound in bad loans and possibly a financial crisis. With China now an engine in the global economy and international investors joining in on the Chinese investment binge, a hard landing could jolt world markets."
For more on China's dependence on foreign trade and manufacturing, please read The Myth Behind China's Miracle (Foreign Affairs) and PART 2: The US-China trade imbalance By Henry C K Liu (published in the Asia Times:
"These figures show that trade is now a precariously excessive portion of Chinese GDP. And without a trade surplus with the US, China would face a global trade deficit of about 6.25% of GDP, more than the United States' 5.7%. China's addiction to trade: With any addiction, initial euphoria soon turns to agony. Chinese per capita GDP was $1,231 for 2005, while the country's per capita foreign-trade volume was $1,000.
Take away foreign trade, and Chinese per capita GDP would be $231, or 63 cents a day. And that number is per capita GDP, not per capita income, which is usually lower."
None of this is new, but the schizophrenia remains: despite the "decoupling" cheerleaders' hopes, China remains heavily dependent on three pillars which are crumbling: exports, direct foreign investment and borrowed money to fuel China's real estate bubble.
Bottom line: China doesn't need any exposure to the U.S. financial system's collapse: it has its own popping bubbles--in real estate lending, in exports, in direct foreign investment--to deal with.
The schizophrenia in U.S. opinion on China is partly driven by powerful wishful thinking; many here hope that China will somehow dodge all its own problems and "save" the U.S. with its massive reserves of dollars and potentially massive domestic demand for U.S. goods and services. But wishful thinking is no substitute for an understanding of China's homegrown, internal structural flaws and contradictions.
Only those with insider knowledge of local government in China can really know what's going on. Everything else is either rumor or propaganda packaged for domestic and foreign consumption.
Thank you, Cheryl A., for suggesting this topic.
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Posted by mpatton on February 16th, 2012- NBA Draft Blog: Ed Isaacson took a look at Austin Rivers and his draft prospects. Isaacson sides with a plurality of experts who think Rivers should stick around for another year of school. He also compliments Rivers' defense. The one thing that he (and I) think is a current issue for Rivers is his turnovers. He still doesn't have the court vision or the handle to use a similar number of possessions in the NBA. It's still unclear to me about Rivers' draft prospects. He's one of the few guys who has an NBA-ready skill, and I'm not sure he slips out of the lottery. That said, I think another year would help him move to a top-5 level pick. But I'm no draft expert.
- Wilmington Star News: Speaking of Rivers, he's been named ACC freshman of the week seven times (a record). Now he's been named one of five finalists by the USBWA for the Wayman Tisdale Award. Rivers dominates Duke's offense and has shown the ability to take over games. In the last 10 years only Luol Deng (2004), Marvin Williams (2005) and Tyler Hansbrough (2006) have won the award from the ACC. I'd still put my money on Kentucky's Anthony Davis.
- ACC Sports Journal: Mark Gottfried is distancing himself from the past at NC State. Not the two national championships, but the school's recent bout with mediocrity. He rarely talks about last year's team, opting to call his team of mostly the same players "new" and "different" instead. Gottfried's tone is serious. He has a job to do. A year of modest improvement doesn't say much about his future successes, but it's certainly a start.
- Washington Post: Bad news from College Park. Pe'Shon Howard is done for the season. That leaves Mark Turgeon back where he was to start the year. That's to say he has a hungry Stoglin who struggles to get teammates involved when he plays off the ball, much less on it, or Nick Faust who struggles offensively and with his decision-making. One of them has to play point guard. There aren't many other options. You know Turgeon can't wait to get his hands on a recruiting class to deepen that bench that was left bare after Gary Williams departed last season.
- Washington Post: You may remember that Jacob Pullen "won't play basketball in the NIT" (one of the most awesome quotes and follow-throughs since Babe Ruth called his home run). Well Virginia Tech has a slightly different version: the Hokies won't play basketball in the CBI or CIT. Yeah! Take that! "We don't need no stinkin' postseason!" All joking aside, the CBI actually charges teams money to play in it. If the Hokies aren't selling tickets against conference foes, there's not much hope for third-tier postseason tournaments. Athletic director Jim Weaver was still optimistic about the team's chances for the NIT, though I think the Hokies still need a strong run to close out the year.


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The making of a white supremacist
The 'alt-right' nationalists who converged on Charlottesville were proud of their racism and thrilled to find others who share their feelings of resentment and victimhood
For all that he did in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting anti-Semitic slogans, carrying a torch through Emancipation Park, he wasn't even aware that the "alt-right" existed one year ago. It wasn't until Hillary Clinton condemned the movement in a campaign speech last August that he first learned of it, and from there, the radicalization of William Fears, 29, moved quickly.
He heard that one of its spokesmen, Richard Spencer, who coined the name "alt-right," was speaking at Texas A&M University in December, so he drove the two hours to hear him speak. There, he met people who looked like him, people he never would have associated with white nationalism — men wearing suits, not swastikas — and it made him want to be a part of something. Then Fears was going to other rallies across Texas, and local websites were calling him one of "Houston's most outspoken neo-Nazis," and he was seeing alt-right memes of Adolf Hitler that at first he thought foolish — "people are going to hate us" — but soon learned to enjoy.
"It's been about a year," he said, "but my evolution has been faster and faster."
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The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville — which ended with dozens injured, a woman struck dead by a car, a president again engulfed in scandal, and another national bout of soul-searching over race in America — was a collection of virtually every kind of white nationalist the country has ever known. There were members of the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads, and neo-Nazis. But it was this group, the group of William Fears, that was not so familiar.
The torch-lit images of the march through Emancipation Park revealed scores like him: clean-cut, unashamed, and young. They almost looked as though they were students of the university they marched through.
Who were they? What in their relatively short lives had so aggrieved them that they felt compelled to drive across the country for a rally? How does this happen?
The answer is complicated and unique to each person, but there are nonetheless similarities, according to lengthy interviews with six young men, ages 21 to 35, who traveled hundreds of miles to Charlottesville to the rally. For these men, it was far from a lark. It was the culmination of something that took months for some, years for others. There were plot points along this trajectory, each emboldening them more and more, until they were on the streets of Charlottesville, ready to unshackle themselves from the anonymity of online avatars and show the world their faces.
From New Orleans, one man journeyed 965 miles. Another arrived from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — 247 miles. Another drove all night, more than 20 hours in all, from Austin — 1,404 miles. One more traveled from Dayton, Ohio — 442 miles.
The road to Charlottesville, 540 miles away from his home in Paoli, Indiana, began decades ago for Matthew Parrott, who at 35 calls himself "the first alt-righter," referring to a small and decentralized movement of extreme conservatives, many of whom profess white-supremacist and anti-Semitic beliefs and seek a whites-only ethno state.
Parrott was socially awkward and had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at 15. So his family pooled their money and got him a computer with access to the internet — a rarity in his neighborhood of mobile homes. In chat rooms, he developed a taste for intellectual combat, always taking the contrarian side, obsessing over how to dismantle progressive arguments until, as he puts it, he "ended up self-radicalizing."
That radicalization was rooted, he said, in his own feelings of alienation, which intensified when he went to Indiana University and confronted an elite he soon came to disdain. "They made fun of my accent and overbite and they called me white trash and hillbilly," Parrott said. "I was never able to identify with a single person."
He dropped out after his first semester, and his disillusionment festered until, at 23, he went to the national conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white-nationalist organization based in St. Louis. He considers this moment when comparing what white nationalism once was and what it has become. "I was the youngest one in the room," he said. Old men "asked me, 'Whose grandson are you?' They were baffled. ... And now those guys are too frail to understand what's going on."
What was going on: The same alienation and purposelessness that once defined his life had come to characterize that of so many others. An economy capsized, a job market contracted, a student-loan crisis erupted, and feelings of resentment and victimization took hold among some members of Parrott's generation.
"This is not some hypothetical thing," said Parrott, who soon established the white nationalist Traditionalist Youth Network and started recruiting. "This is, 'I'm stuck working at McDonald's, where there are no factory jobs and the Boomer economy is gone and we have got this humiliating, degrading service economy. ... They feel the ladder has been kicked away from them."
And who was to blame for all of this? Those who joined the alt-right did not view impersonal economic factors or their own failings as culprits.
"In some respects, it's not that different from Islamist extremists," Ryan Lenz of the Southern Poverty Law Center said. A similar set of conditions — disaffected young men, few jobs for them, and a radical ideology promising answers — has fueled recruitment for the alt-right. These young men, Lenz said, were told "they were sold a raw bill of goods. The government is working against them and doesn't give a s--- about white people, and they were told this during a period when the first African-American president was in the White House."
There came a moment for every young man interviewed when they felt whites, and particularly white men, had become subject to discrimination, a perception that formed the foundation of their new identities.
Peyton Oubre, 21, of Metairie, Louisiana, perceived it after graduating from high school, when he was looking for a job. "Where I live, go to any McDonald's or Walmart, and most of the employees are black," said Oubre, who is unemployed. "And I could put in 500 applications and receive one call. Every time I walked into Walmart, there were no white people, and how come they are getting hired and I can't?"
"White privilege," he said. "I'm still waiting on my privilege."
For Tony Hovater, 29, of Dayton, it came after he had dropped out of college and was touring as a drummer in a metal band, and he passed through the small towns of the Rust Belt and Appalachia. He started thinking that so much of the national narrative focuses on the plight of poor, urban minorities, but here was poverty as desperate as any he had seen, and yet no one was talking about poor whites. "You see how a complete system failed a group of people and didn't take any responsibility for it and has done nothing to help," he said.
For Connor Perrin, 29, of Austin, who grew up upper-middle class, it was during college, when he felt campus liberals were ostracizing his fraternity because it was white. "If only people would stop attacking us," he said. "I can't say anything, just because I'm white. I can't talk about race, and I can't talk about the Jews because I'll be called an anti-Semite, and I can't say I want to date my own race."
For Eric Starr, 31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who has been convicted of disorderly conduct for fighting and possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, it was growing up white in a poor black neighborhood. "I got bullied and I got made fun of and I got beat up," he said. "Cracker, whitey, white boy."
And for William Fears, who has been convicted of criminal trespass, aggravated kidnapping, and possession of a controlled substance, it happened while he was incarcerated. "I don't think any race experiences racism in the modern world the way that white people do in a jail," he said. "In jail, whites come last."
From these disparate geographies, social classes, and upbringings — rich and poor, rural and urban, educated and not — they converged on a single place in August, Charlottesville, with a shared belief that they, white men, are the true victims of today's America.
"I wanted to be in the fight," Perrin said.
"I need to be more aggressive," Parrott said.
"We never fight for anything," Fears said.
The violence that they would mete out and receive on the streets of the picturesque college town was the most pivotal moment to date in the evolution of the alt-right, the men interviewed believe. The alt-right has always been a diffuse movement, but it has also been intensely communal. People make and share memes that glorify President Trump and make jokes of Hitler and the Holocaust. They discuss events on 4chan, Reddit, and Discord. They get to know one another despite a distance of hundreds of miles. They learned not to fear being called a racist or a Nazi, and in fact, some found it liberating, even "addicting," as Parrott said.
But Charlottesville represented an opportunity to further transcend what they called confining social taboos. Many came prepared for violence, like Fears, who was wearing a blue business suit, a helmet, a gas mask, and goggles. He rode a van with a group of other alt-right members and described it as "being transported into a war zone." Bottles burst against the van's windows, he recalled. People hit the van. It stopped before Emancipation Park, and everyone started yelling to get out as quickly as possible. Gripping a flag like a weapon, Fears strode to the front and melted into the melee. He threw punches. He took punches. He felt disgust. "Someone hit me in the head with a stick," he said, "and it split my goggles off."
"Little savages," Starr said of the counterprotesters. "Subhuman," Perrin said.
Neither the day's events leading to the car crash that killed Heather Heyer and injured 19 others, nor the condemnations from politicians and people across the country that followed, have convinced those interviewed that their beliefs are wrong. For some, it only confirmed their sense of victimhood. They felt silenced and censored, deprived of their rights. They felt as if the death of Heyer had changed everything, and that uncontrollable forces had been unleashed.
"It was like a war and some people died, and it was an eerie feeling," Fears said. "Things are life and death now, and if you're involved in this movement, you have to be willing to die for it now, and that was the first time that had happened."
Soon after the rally, Fears started the long trip home to Houston, where he is a construction worker. He talked to his family, who "pretty much agree with me." He tried to calm down his little brother, who was "shaken up by it." He thought about what would happen if he died. "If I'm killed, that's fine," he said. "Maybe I'll be a martyr or something, or remembered."
He knows there will be another Black Lives Matter event soon, and he has plans to go. "I'll take a megaphone and see what they have to say," he said. "I would like there not to be more violence. ... But it might be inevitable, so let's get this out of the way. If there is going to be a violent race war, maybe we should do it, maybe we should escalate it."
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Maricopa County has been the fastest-growing county in the nation for the past four years for a reason: a high quality of life. However, with the community facing record-high inflation on the heels of a pandemic, County leaders knew they had to act quickly to expand support for those facing hardship. And act they have, directing more than $200 million into programs and services to serve individuals, families, and businesses. A year-end report, just sent to the U.S. Treasury Department, details how Maricopa County used American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars to improve lives.
"With the influx of federal recovery funds—first through the CARES Act and now through the American Rescue Plan Act—our ability to help those who truly need it is greater than ever," said Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates, District 3. "County employees rose to the occasion with efficient systems and new programs— earning national recognition along the way."
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Chairman Bill Gates believes "a six-figure salary shouldn't be the only path to a clean home in a safe place. These are investments that will pay long-term dividends in Maricopa County."
In direct response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, Maricopa County continues to direct federal dollars toward vaccines, testing, and personal protective equipment with a focus on traditionally underserved populations. One example of a program funded through ARPA is hotel isolation.
Maricopa County has planned long-term investments into life-enhancing services. More than $660M has been allocated to programs ranging from affordable housing to job training while allowing for flexibility with the remainder of ARPA funds. Maricopa County will continue to listen to the public and set the bar for best practices in distributing these funds.
Total allocations to date include:
People in need of services can visit Maricopa.gov/Rescue to view a list of assistance programs. The complete year-end ARPA spending report can be found here, or you can visit Maricopa.gov/RescueFunds for a real-time look at ARPA spending.


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Summary: One of the surviving members of the Rosenberg espionage case from the 1950s, Miriam Moskowitz, has asked a Manhattan federal judge to throw out her conviction.
Miriam Moskowitz was found guilty of conspiring to deceive a grand jury more than 60 years ago. The jury was investigating Soviet atomic espionage. Moskowitz is now 98 and a retired teacher. She has asked a federal judge to throw away her conviction, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Moskowitz is one of the final living links to the Rosenberg espionage case. She filed court documents in Manhattan federal court this week asking the judge to correct what she calls a "miscarriage of justice from the McCarthy era."
She was accused of conspiring with her boss at the time, Abraham Brothman, to persuade a courier with the KGB to lie to a grand jury about his connections to espionage. She paid a $10,000 fine and spent two years in prison. Brothman was a chemical engineer in New York.
The courier, Harry Gold, testified that atomic spy David Greenglass supplied nuclear secrets to the Soviets along with Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg.
Baker Botts LLP is representing Moskowitz pro bono in the case. They claim that Gold lied to jurors, citing evidence that came to light recently. The lawyers from the firm said that grand jury transcripts that were unsealed in 2008 show that Gold contradicted what he told the FBI back in 1950 about the knowledge of Moskowitz of a conspiracy.
"I"m 98, and I don't want to depart this world with this thing hanging over me," Moskowitz said.


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So you're getting better at programming microcontrollers and now you want to do several things at once? You know better than that, microcontrollers are only capable of processing one thing at a time. But if you're clever with your coding you can achieve something that behaves as if several things are going on at once. The most common way to do this is to set a flag using an interrupt, then use the main loop to check for that flag. [S1axter] posted a tutorial on this topic where he uses bit field structures to help simplify time sensitive events.
We think [S1axter] did a fantastic job of explaining this moderately difficult topic clearly and quickly. In the video after the break he begins by explaining what a bit field is and how it is defined. Basically you're using a C structure to track a flag using just one bit of storage. This way the flag is either set or not. We suggest you pay careful attention to how he declares the structures as volatile, so you don't have unexpected behavior when you try it yourself.


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France's Jewish Archbishop
In the United States, no one born abroad can grow up and become president. In France, any citizen can grow up and become president, or archbishop of Paris — even the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. August 5 marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. With his passing, France lost a public figure whose absence weighs heavily on a nation increasingly uncertain about its political and moral values.
As Henri Tincq's recently published biography in France underscores, Lustiger had always insisted that the foundations of a good society rested on its recognition of life's sacredness. Hence his fierce opposition to abortion and euthanasia, but also the reason he broke with official church policy in the late 1980s, urging the use of contraceptives by those afflicted with AIDS. He tirelessly denounced the racism of France's National Front, identifying the party's resurgence as posing "the greatest danger to our nation's conscience." No less energetically, he railed against the ravages wrought by "savage capitalism" and a society where material consumption had replaced social cohesion.
For Lustiger, this worldview was no less the product of his Jewish birth than of his Catholic conversion.
In late April 1940, as the massive exodus of Frenchmen, women and children began to surge south, ahead of the German Panzers, Aron Lustiger wandered into Orleans Cathedral. His parents, who had come to Paris after World War I, had, as a precautionary measure, sent their 13-year old son, along with his younger sister, Arlette Lustiger, to Orleans the previous year, where they stayed with a gentile family. Stepping inside the cathedral, Lustiger underwent an epiphany — an experience that, despite his parents' resistance, led him to convert.
During the German occupation, Aron Lustiger was baptized — adding the name Jean-Marie — and sheltered in a series of Catholic institutions. He survived the war, as did his sister and father, who had fled to the so-called Free Zone in southern France. The French police, however, caught his mother, who had tarried in Paris. Deported to Auschwitz in February 1943, Gisèle-Léa Lustiger was murdered soon after her arrival.
For the next half-century, Lustiger sought to make sense of his wartime experience. He assumed the tragic weight of the history of a man who had been hunted by the German SS and the Vichy militia because he was a Jew. That he did so, first as seminarian and priest, then as bishop and cardinal, was an outrage to some — especially Jews — and a paradox to others. As René-Samuel Sirat, chief rabbi of Paris, declared, "One cannot be both a Christian and a Jew."
And yet, Lustiger never surrendered his double identity. When Pope John-Paul II named him archbishop of Paris, an astonished Lustiger told a reporter: "I have always considered myself Jewish, even if the rabbis do not agree with me. I was born Jewish, and Jewish I'll remain." Indeed, during his funeral service at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, one of his relatives recited the Kaddish, while the leaders of France's Jewish community — including the chief rabbi — prayed by the side of his coffin.
For Lustiger, the paradox was, in effect, an accident of history. He argued that the early gentile converts to Christianity were hostile to their new faith's Jewish sources. The anti-Judaism of these con verted pagans, in turn, planted the seeds of Christian anti-Semitism. As a result, Lustiger declared in his many interviews and books, both Jews and Christians lost sight of their common origins and their shared ends. His own life marked, he believed, the return to the path not taken two millennia ago.
While Lustiger's interpretation of history and scripture won few adherents on either side of the divide, he nevertheless built a lasting bridge between Jews and Catholics in France. He spurred the church's confrontation with its long history of anti-Semitism, as well as its public "repentance" for its deafening silence during World War II as the French state prepared the ground for the Final Solution. No less important, Lustiger led the difficult negotiations between the Polish Church and Jewish institutions over the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz.
But when he wasn't building bridges to Judaism (or Islam), Lustiger was busy besieging the walls built by the French Republic's secularism. While he never challenged the legitimacy of republican institutions, Lustiger insisted on the public role of religion. In 1968, Lustiger was a chaplain at the Sorbonne and thus found himself at the center of the student rebellions that shook France and nearly brought down France's government. Whereas most intellectuals, including a good number of clergy, supported the rebellion, Lustiger was horrified. The movement's visceral rejection of authority and ignorance of history, its embrace of violence and cultivation of chaos, struck Lustiger as the work of nihilists.
Lustiger's obstinate and eloquent insistence on religion's primordial role in society sparked both admiration and frustration — often in the same person. During the great political debate in the early 1980s over the Socialist government's effort to oversee Catholic schools, François Mitterrand met with Lustiger on several occasions. While the Socialist president relished these conversations, he also complained about the cardinal's "unbending" politics. Eventually, Mitterrand's government withdrew its controversial law to impose greater control over religious schools.
Lustiger famously claimed that the Catholic Church is more important to French culture than the Louvre. That Catholicism is central to France's history is hardly controversial. More so, however, was Lustiger's belief that the propagation of this same faith is vital to the nation's future. Yet girding this belief was Lustiger's fear of a world in which technology and money increasingly allow us to influence the rhythms of life and death. "There is," he asserted, "something perverse when research and money impose themselves as ends." Indeed, he addressed this same criticism at the European Union, whose sole ambition was to create the euro. "By all means a common currency," Lustiger observed, "but what are our common goals?"
This question, in regard to both the E.U. and our lives, is more pertinent than ever. Just as he never denied the past errors and crimes committed by the church, Lustiger would have found no solace in the current unraveling of the E.U. or in the political corruption scandals in France. Instead, perhaps, he would have seen only the confirmation of his tragic sense of life. All the more reason, he would conclude, for the need of the sacred in life, as well.
Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at The Honors College at the University of Houston and is the author of "Albert Camus: Elements of a Life" (Cornell University Press, 2010).


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September 18, 2003
Attorney General Thurbert Baker And The Stop Identity Theft Network Host Ft. Stewart/ Hunter Army Airfield Town Hall Meeting
(Hinesville, GA) Today Attorney General Thurbert Baker and The Stop Identity Theft Network hosted a Town Hall Meeting at Ft. Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield to discuss the growing epidemic of Identity Theft. Over a hundred concerned servicemen and women attended the Town Hall Meeting to discuss ways to prevent identity theft and recent trends among these thieves. Joining Attorney General Baker and The Stop Identity Theft Network were District Attorney Spencer Lawton, Chief Judge Gregory Fowler, Deputy Staff Judge Advocate Lt.Colonel Stephen Berg, Bob Brand of Cox Communications, Tom Caul of United States Office of the Inspector General's Office and John Ford of Equifax. Steve Edwards from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, John Smith of the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, Thomas Cribbs of the Hinesville Police Department and Captain Larry Branson of the Savannah Police Department also participated in the panel.
Members of the armed services may be more susceptible than the general public to identity theft. Because our military personnel move on a regular basis, they are forced to have bank, credit and other accounts in more than one state. Additionally, servicemen and women carry personal information, such as their social security number, with them at all times. If military personnel are overseas or far away from family members, their reliance on credit cards, automatic teller machines, and other remote-access financial services increases. All of these factors add to the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft.
Identity Theft is the fastest growing consumer crime in the state and in the country. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission reported that over 4,700 Georgians were victims of identity theft. In 2001, Georgia was ranked 7th in the country for the number of identity theft complaints filed. In 2002, Georgia's ranking dropped to 13th.


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Book review: Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman
Famous for his intelligent, razor-sharp plotting, stylish writing and ability to home in on the criminal mind, former clinical psychologist Kellerman's hard-hitting and sophisticated thrillers have won him a huge fan base.
Breakdown is the 31st outing for child psychologist Alex Delaware in Kellerman's much acclaimed LA 'Crime Reader' series which has become an exhilarating masterclass in the art of plotting, suspense, characterisation and brilliant mind games.
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Five years ago, Dr Alex Delaware met beautiful and emotionally fragile TV sitcom actress Zelda Chase. The vulnerable 30-year-old had been diagnosed with a serious personality disorder and Delaware was called in to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid.
Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda, now living rough on the streets, when she is committed to a mental health unit in LA after a bizarre psychotic episode. Shortly after Zelda's release, tragedy strikes when she is found dead in the grounds of a palatial Bel Air mansion. She has been poisoned with a rare and deadly herb.
Having experienced enough of LA's dark side to recognise the scent of evil, Alex turns to his friend, Lt Milo Sturgis, for help in finding out who ended Zelda's broken life. At the same time, Alex is caught up in another quest… to find Zelda's missing son, now aged 11.
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In a dark and emotive case that often seems to raise more questions than answers, Delaware and Sturgis are forced to employ a good, old-fashioned brand of painstaking detective work if they are to find and corner a ruthless killer.
Compelling, thought-provoking and ingeniously conceived, Breakdown sees the master of psychological suspense on top form.
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From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
February - 23rd March
HCA translates Raimund's Der Verschwender from German to Danish, to be used by the actors for summer performances. But Overskou beat him to it with Raimund's Der Alpenhönig und der Menschenfeind, a piece which was, however, only performed twice. This fiasco meant that the actors were reluctant to take on yet another piece by Raimund. Indeed, both plays were characterised by the theatre's censor, Molbech, as "melodramatic", which meant that neither was added to the repertoire of the theatre. HCA's translation was neither used nor printed. Not until 1849 did HCA get an adaptation of Raimund's work on the stage in Copenhagen. It was Meer end Perler og Guld (More than Pearls and Gold) and became one of his great successes at the Casino theatre.
11 February
For recitation at an evening of entertainment at the Royal Theatre, arranged as a benefit for the blind, HCA had written, amongst other things, the poem "Mene, mene tekel upharsin". The poem is about three major fires that had taken place abroad; the castle in St. Petersburg, the theatre in Paris and the stock exchange in London. The general theme of the poem is that only the richness of the spirit will survive, while all else withers away, including national characteristics. For example, the powerdemonstration of Russian despotism, the theatre as a mirror of widespread French preoccupation with pleasure and the worship of the golden calf so prevalent in England and Europe.
The poem had been practised for recitation on the stage, but was prohibited by the directors of the theatre. "They say it is too political" (letter dated 23rd February to Frederik Læssøe). HCA was shocked by the censuring and considered the poem "quite innocent" (letterdated 10th February to Henriette Hanck). He presented Prince Christian with a copy of the poem (probably so as to demonstrate his "political innocence") and was able to tell Henriette Hanck (letter, 10th February 1838) that "It has already been widely discussed here in town". In protest of the censorship, HCA intended to have the poem printed, along with the theatre letter from the theatre board of directors, but was advised against it.
Late March
Release of a popular magazine which includes a reproduction of the portrait of HCA made by C.A. Jensen. HCA comments on this in a letter to Henriette Hanck dated 1st April:
"Just lately, some sort of magazine has been released. The title is: New Magazine For Nature and Knowledge of Humananity. Hempel [a bookseller in Odense] can get it for you for four farthings, if you ask him. Each issue presents someone famous, and would you believe it, there I am in the latest issue, along with my portrait, for the same four farthings. The portrait is based on Jensen's, but looks ghastly. It's awful, I am a monster. All the same, I find it quite amusing to be featured in a popular magazine; it seems I am a little popular, after all [...] My landlady has pinned it on the wall and the maid has it in her trunk."