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My Ten Best LGBT Book List 2016
My Personal Choices
Amos Lassen
These were the ten books I loved this year and I give them to you in no special order. This are purely my personal choices and for those of you who know me and my year-ends lists know that I prefer to have my list be as diverse as possible. There were many more ten books that I loved this year and perhaps later I will do an also loved list. The biggest surprise was that I seemed to have liked non-fiction this year more than fiction. The book descriptions are taken from Amazon.com
"Christodora" by Tim Murphy (Grove)
In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, Milly and Jared's adopted son Mateo grows to see the opportunity for both self-realization and oblivion that New York offers. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glass-towered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a true response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the ever-changing city itself.
"One-Man Show" by Michael Schreiber (Bruno Gmunder)
Bernard Perlin (1918-2014) was an extraordinary figure in twentieth century American art and gay cultural history, an acclaimed artist and sexual renegade who reveled in pushing social, political, and artistic boundaries. His work regularly appeared in popular magazines of the 1940s, fifties, and sixties; was collected by Rockefellers, Whitneys, and Astors; and was acquired by major museums, including the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern. His portrait clients included well-known literary, artistic, theatrical, political, and high society figures. As a government propaganda artist and war artist-correspondent, he produced many now-iconic images of World War II. From the 1930s on, he also daringly committed to canvas and paper scenes of underground gay bars and nude studies of street hustlers, among other aspects of his active and dedicated gay life.
Socially, he moved in the upper echelons of New York gay society, a glittering "cufflink crowd" that included George Platt Lynes, Lincoln Kirstein, Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker, Pavel Tchelitchew, Truman Capote, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins. He also counted among his most intimate companions such luminaries in the arts as Vincent Price, Clifton Webb, Ben Shahn, Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Aaron Copland, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Martha Gellhorn, Betsy Drake, Muriel Rukeyser, Carson McCullers, Philip Johnson, and E.M. Forster. Yet he was equally at home in the gay underworlds of New York and Rome, where his unbridled sexual escapades put him in competition with the likes of Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams.
In "One-Man Show", Michael Schreiber chronicles the storied life, illustrious friends and lovers, and astounding adventures of Bernard Perlin through no-holds-barred interviews with the artist, candid excerpts from Perlin's unpublished memoirs, never-before-seen photos, and an extensive selection of Bernard Perlin's incredible public and private art.
"How to Survive a Plague" by David France (Knopf)
The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic—from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments. Around the globe, 16 million people are alive today thanks to their efforts. Not since the publication of Randy Shilts' classic And the Band Played On has a book measured the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms. In dramatic fashion, we witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), and the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT. We watch as these activists learn to become their own researchers, lobbyists, drug smugglers, and clinicians, establishing their own newspapers, research journals, and laboratories, and as they go on to force reform in the nation's disease-fighting agencies. With his unparalleled access to this community David France illuminates the lives of extraordinary characters, including the closeted Wall Street trader-turned-activist, the high school dropout who found purpose battling pharmaceutical giants in New York, the South African physician who helped establish the first officially recognized buyers' club at the height of the epidemic, and the public relations executive fighting to save his own life for the sake of his young daughter. Expansive yet richly detailed, this is an insider's account of a pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights. Powerful, heart wrenching, and finally exhilarating, How to Survive a Plague is destined to become an essential part of the literature of AIDS.
"When We Rise" by Cleve Jones (Hachette)
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"You could read Cleve Jones\\\'s book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants–maybe heroes–but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy."–Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city\\\'s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation\\\'s most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk\\\'s encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in "the movement." When Milk was killed by an assassin\\\'s bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor\\\'s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again.
By turns tender and uproarious, When We Rise is Jones' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing, sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve's passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and violence alike. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
"What Belongs to You" by Garth Greenwell (Picador)
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want.
What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.
The Sea in Quiet Tonight" by Michael Ward (Querelle)
""In this insightful and inspirational memoir, Michael Ward returns to the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when so little was known and so few who were diagnosed survived. He chronicles in candid detail his partner Mark's decline and eventual death. By looking back on these devastating events, the author not only honors a generation lost to the illness but also opens a vital window onto the past, before medication helped save lives and when HIV/AIDS was usually a death sentence. "In his heart-wrenching debut memoir, former psychotherapist Ward provides an intimate portrait of the early days of the AIDS epidemic through the lens of his romantic relationship with the sea-loving Mark Halberstadt, the 100th patient in Massachusetts to be diagnosed with the disease. Following their chance encounter on Fire Island, a "combination of Mecca and Oz" for gay men in the 1970s and early '80s, their infatuation blooms into a long-distance courtship between the East Coast and Florida before the tragic turn in Mark's health. Ward's attention to detail proves invaluable in documenting the anxiety of these uncertain years, when mysterious stomach pains and fevers suddenly progressed into fatal conditions that "arrived like lightning bolts." The book includes important glimpses into the emerging AIDS subculture—such as Louise Hay's first support groups and the founding of Boston's AIDS Action Committee by Larry Kessler—but the disease is secondary to how romantic love and commitment are strained when confronted with the unimaginable. "I feel like a leper," Mark says from his hospital room, which is labeled "Precautionary Isolation"; visitors are required to wear gowns, gloves, surgical caps, and masks. Ward never hesitates when peering into the abyss of this traumatic time, and the result is a courageous and necessary addition to the canon of AIDS literature." — BookLife. "Ward is a talented storyteller who's created a compelling, emotionally rich tale out of a difficult, tragic time in American history. Anyone looking for more insight into the AIDS epidemic from a deeply personal perspective will likely benefit from this book. It could have been incredibly difficult to read about someone watching their partner struggle through disease, but Ward handles his and Halberstadt's story with admirable grace." –Kirkus
"Radiance" by Emmanuel Xavier (Rebel Satori)
"Emanuel Xavier's newest book radiates in diverse directions, back into a past of New York club kid glamour and violence, into a family history of lost connections, and into loves forfeited and found-all of which the poet illumines with steady-eyed honesty. Finally, as he confronts a health challenge to the very brain that is the root-place of these sharp and poignant poems, radiation becomes radiance, a hard-won inner light that lets us all see how 'splendid is our survival.'" –David Groff, author of "Clay"
The beauty of Xavier's poetry is its honesty which at times can shock but always leaves the reader feeling good. –Reviews by Amos Lassen. Radiance is dedicated to survivors everywhere, bringing urgent attention to the perils of the marginalized in the wake of the Pulse Orlando Massacre and the challenges of the Black Lives Matter movement. –Charlie Vazquez for latinorebels.com. "Sometimes a crumb falls / from the table of joy," Langston Hughes wrote, and Emanuel Xavier, in evoking those small pleasures–the taste of mangoes, smell of coffee–is capturing those crumbs … He does so amidst much testament to the horrors of injury, loss and mortality. These poems move and speak: one can imagine their delivery at the microphone, and yet at the same time they so powerfully address the reader as private experience. — Lambda Literary
"In Xavier's poetics, identity is radiance (light, energy), and like Keith Haring's radiant babies, we're all in the process of becoming." – Urayoan Noel, The Harriet Blog for The Poetry Foundation. "Taken as a whole, the poems narrate the life, in vignettes, of a flawed but deeply sympathetic man who is rendered raw and vulnerable on the page … The poems are memorable, the feelings they will evoke in you are real and complicated, and the journey they will take you on is surprisingly large in scope." – readdiversebooks.com
As in his title poem, Radiance, the tenderness of Emanuel Xavier's words are in stark contrast to the hard and often painful realities they convey. Yet, the two are masterfully melded to create beautiful stories in poems that are at once sad and encompass a sense of yearning. Radiance is the type of read that calms the nerves until the reality of what it conveys pierces one's heart and not with cupid's arrow. –Nancy Mercado, editor of the Nuyorican Women Writers Anthology
Urgency and despair wrestle in the restless poems of Emanuel Xavier's Radiance. As Sinatra's singing voice grew richer, more resonant, more heartbreaking after his celebrated breakup with Eva Gardner, Xavier's poetic voice strikes new notes, new registers, both diving and soaring. –Michael Broder, author of This Life Now and Drug and Disease Free In Radiance, Xavier scours the words of his poetry and the reader is given a keen clear look at reality. I love Emanuel! –Miguel Algarin, founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
"Foucault in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden" (Starcherone)
Michel Foucault famously wrote, "I am fully aware that I have never written anything other than fictions." In this polylingual, operatic fantasy comprised of invented letters, most of them unsent, set in Sweden during February 1956 while Foucault was undergoing a Swedish winter, the philosopher finds himself not just researching, but living through, his work to come, Madness and Civilization.
Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden is a masterful work of introspective beauty. Its layers of meaning cascade across its pages in recursive waves of polysemous speech. The text is at once concerned with the emotional truth of its characters' experiences and with the lived truth of Foucault's philosophy. Joyce achieves all of this with a deft hand, a multilingual pen, and an ear for what we mean when we speak and how we speak when we mean. —The Public, Buffalo
The novel affords a compelling meditation on what we might call the nexus of madness, philosophy, and literature, one that conveys a productive and troubled time for Foucault with an intensity and artfulness befitting of one of the most artful philosophers of the twentieth century…. Everything about Joyce's Foucault is alluring, and his characterization will seduce the philosopher's devotees and doubters alike.–Electronic Book Review
Oscillation is a key component of the novel's structure and, in a larger sense, is related to states of absence and presence, linguistic or otherwise… [and] absence looms large in Foucault in Winter… [which] manages to interweave intimate details of passionate relationships with kernels of Foucault's thought… —American Book Review
This is an emotional, transportive novel that recalls a time of literary passion. It is a work that begs to be read aloud, regardless of its challenging polylinguality; to be heard, felt and absorbed…Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden floats between ideas and language, madness and civilization, and, in the process, finds emotional gravity. —New Orleans Review
"Gay Gotham" by Daniel Albrecht (Rizzoli)
Uncovering the lost history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists in New York City. Queer people have always flocked to New York seeking freedom, forging close-knit groups for support and inspiration. Gay Gotham brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images—both works of art, such as paintings and photographs, as well as letters, snapshots, and ephemera—illuminate their personal bonds, scandal-provoking secrets at the time and many largely unknown to the public since. Starting with the bohemian era of the 1910s and 1920s, when the pansy craze drew voyeurs of all types to Greenwich Village and Harlem, the book winds through midcentury Broadway as well as Fire Island as it emerged as a hotbed, turns to the post-Stonewall, decade-long wild party that revolved around clubs like the Mineshaft and Studio 54, and continues all the way through the activist mobilization spurred by the AIDS crisis and the move toward acceptance at the century's close. Throughout, readers encounter famous figures, from James Baldwin and Mae West to Leonard Bernstein, and discover lesser-known ones, such as Harmony Hammond, Greer Lankton, and Richard Bruce Nugent. Surprising relationships emerge: Andy Warhol and Mercedes de Acosta, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cecil Beaton, George Platt Lynes and Gertrude Stein. By peeling back the overlapping layers of this cultural network that thrived despite its illicitness, this groundbreaking publication reveals a whole new side of the history of New York and celebrates the power of artistic collaboration to transcend oppression.
"Flying Without a Net" by E.M. Ben Shaul (Interlude)
Dani Perez, a secular Israeli working as a software engineer in Boston, has never had trouble balancing his faith and his sexuality–until he meets Avi Levine, a gay Orthodox Jew and sign language interpreter. As they fall in love, Dani finds himself wanting Avi in his life but confused by Avi's observance. Dani can't understand how Avi reconciles what his religion demands with what his body desires. And although he wants to deny it, neither can Avi.
"This is a unique and beautiful book, with a story that took me to being a fly-on-the-wall over these wonderful characters' shoulders. I can imagine that this kind of story will mean a lot to people who come from a similar faith—but even if you, like myself, are not of that faith, it doesn't lessen the gentle rhythm of this book. A fantastically written debut".
Despite the risk of losing Avi forever to a religious life that objects to their love, Dani supports him through the struggle to find an answer. Will they be able to start a life together despite religious ideology that conflicts with the relationship they are trying to build?


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New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) The government has received complaints from MPs about the implementation of its flagship scheme Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), Lok Sabha was informed today.
"...the Ministry has received a few complaints from honourable Members of Parliament about implementation of SAGY in the country. The complaints mainly relate to inaction by the implementing authorities, no separate fundings by the government etc," Minister of State for Rural Development Ram Kripal Yadav said in a written reply.
He also informed that the Ministry has received many suggestions regarding the convergence of various existing schemes mainly relating to basic services--health, water, electricity, roads, housing and education.
Under the SAGY scheme, MPS from all political parties adopt villages with an aim to transform them into model villages and take the responsibility of developing physical and institutional infrastructure in these areas.
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Jack agrees to be Ty's sponsor in the place of Marion.It's time for Amy to compete with Spartan in the Fall Finale. But she has to compete against Ashley and her prize horse Apollo. Mr. Mallen, Spartan's old owner,Heartland Season 9 seeks to get Spartan back after receiving a tip from Val. Jack lets Tim in the house during Amy's congratulation party. Scott tells Lou he loves her after she was offered a job in New York. Lou and Scott finally kiss. Amy and Ty kiss for the first time.After that, Ty leaves because he got a letter from his dad, but he doesn't tell Amy; he just leaves her a note.He is on probation, and Amy immediately dislikes him.Lou accidentally sends home Mrs. Roach's horse,Heartland Season 9 despite the fact that his fear of vehicles has yet to be cured. Val Stanton begins spreading rumors about Heartland and their skills without Marion. Ty's probation officer comes to the ranch while he is off showing Amy the jumping course he made for her.
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Marriedon October 9, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Ah marriage. That special day when you venture into dark woods and meet a priest..or warlock or something and then are bound by all your blood. A special day indeed.
For that price, I wouldn't question it.
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(Washington, DC) − Serve DC kicked off National Safety Month with the F.R.E.S.H. Summer of Training – First Aid/CPR classes in each of the District's eight wards beginning in June through September 2015 providing free training to100 residents in each ward. National Safety Month is observed annually in June and sponsored by the National Safety Council.
"Knowledge of basic first aid can make the difference between life and death. And, knowing how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a vital life skill everyone should have" said Kristal Knight, Executive Director/Chief Service Officer for Serve DC."
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Friday, July 24, 2009
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President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush
by Ralph Lopez
Global Research, July 20, 2009
While congress says it is gearing up to investigate what is old news, that CIA and Special Ops forces are killing Al Qaeda leaders, a decision of far different gravity is being contemplated by Attorney General Eric Holder. The new insistence of Congress on its oversight role, conspicuously absent throughout 8 years of Bush, is suddenly rearing its head in the form of questioning a policy which has been in place with no controversy for years. The U.S. has been hunting and killing Al Qaeda leaders outside of official war zones since 2004, when the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had signed an order authorizing Special Forces to kill Al Qaeda where they found them.
As recently as September 2008 CBS reported that Special Forces struck Qaeda leadership in Pakistan.
The decision faced by Holder, whether or not to appoint a Special Prosecutor on torture, is of a different gravity altogether. A weight of evidence keeps building which indicates torture was employed on innocent men, that it didn't work, and that it didn't prevent any attacks. And it gets worse. Bush's own FBI Director Robert Mueller recently confirmed to the New York Times what he told Vanity Fair a year ago, that "to [his] knowledge" torture didn't prevent a single attack. Former Legendary CIA Director William Colby has said that torture is "ineffective."
Harper's Magazine's Scott Horton nows suggests there are two Eric Holders at war with each other: Holder the good soldier who knows well the preference of his boss for prosecutions to not take place, and Holder the servant of the law who is aware that what he does now may determine what is likely to happen again.
It is becoming clear that such an investigation, if it happens, will not stop with a few low-ranking scapegoats. Horton notes:
"President Obama's assurance to CIA officials who relied on the opinions of government lawyers in implementing these programs, an assurance that Holder himself repeated, would have to be worked in. That suggests that the focus would likely be on the lawyers and policymakers who authorized use of the new techniques."
And CIA whistleblower Ray McGovern writes this week:
What changed with Holder? Horton writes in "The Torture Prosecution Turnaround?":
Holder began his review mindful of the clear preference of President Obama's two key political advisers—David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel—that there be no investigation. Axelrod and Emanuel are described as uninterested in either the legal or policy merits of the issue of a criminal investigation. Their concerns turn entirely on their political analysis...Holder initially appeared prepared to satisfy their wishes.
This attitude seemed to change after Obama's speech at the CIA, when Emanual and Axelrod moved out front to say there would be no prosecutions. According to Horton:
To make things worse for the Bush administration, evidence is emerging that they can no longer even rely on exhibit A and B of the Torture Works theory, Al Zabudaya and Kalid Shiek Mohammed, the latter of whom is still confessing to everything short of being the real Boston Strangler. I guess if I'd been waterboarded 82 times I'd be babbling too. The FBI Special Agent who interrogated Abu Zubayda, recently breaking a 7-year silence after reading the "torture memos," wrote in the New York Times:
"One of the most striking parts of the memos is the false premises on which they are based. The first, dated August 2002, grants authorization to use harsh interrogation techniques on a high-ranking terrorist, Abu Zubaydah, on the grounds that previous methods hadn't been working. The next three memos cite the successes of those methods as a justification for their continued use.
It is inaccurate, however, to say that Abu Zubaydah had been uncooperative. Along with another F.B.I. agent, and with several C.I.A. officers present, I questioned him from March to June 2002, before the harsh techniques were introduced later in August. Under traditional interrogation methods, he provided us with important actionable intelligence...This experience fit what I had found throughout my counterterrorism career: traditional interrogation techniques are successful in identifying operatives, uncovering plots and saving lives."
Then there is the political risk to the Obama administration that Axelrod and Emanual have miscalculated, and that, in fact, the rest of the president's agenda is hamstrung while a growing number of Americans call for existing laws to be enforced. What is haunting Americans could be, in Washington jargon, "sucking oxygen" out of the debate, and "moving forward" is a pipe dream until pending business is dealt with. Spontaneous and planned rallies calling for a Special Prosecutor are growing, not diminishing. In addition, the worse revelations may be yet to come in the horrifying saga of what happened when, as Major General Anthony Taguba says:
President Jimmy Carter wrote that the Red Cross, Amnesty International and the Pentagon "have gathered substantial testimony of torture of children, confirmed by soldiers who witnessed or participated in the abuse." In "Our Endangered Values" Carter said that the Red Cross found after visiting six U.S. prisons "107 detainees under eighteen, some as young as eight years old." And reporter Hersh, (who broke the Abu Ghraib torture scandal,) reported 800-900 Pakistani boys aged 13 to 15 in custody.
Journalist Seymour Hersh's (who broke the Abu Ghraib scandal) bombshell before the ACLU some years ago has been in a temporary slumber, as there is question as to whether the videotapes in possession of the Pentagon were among those claimed to be destroyed. Destroyed or not, there is still the conscience of soldiers and agents who bore witness to contend with, as the reign of political terror against whistleblowers which characterized the Bush administration subsides. Hersh said:
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said at the time:
History is just beginning to sort out the Bush era, with stubborn facts showing a resilience that Fox News talking points cannot, and more emerging. Today, even among Republicans, it is difficult to find those who will embrace Richard Nixon, though for a while he was every bit the perceived victim of "left-wing hate" that Bush and Cheney are now. Incredibly, to compare Nixon to Bush-Cheney is to do a deeply flawed man a disservice. Nixon inherited Vietnam. He did not orchestrate from whole cloth a campaign to link Saddam with 9/11, and strenuously push to war despite the objections of his countrymen and the world. Nixon spied on political enemies. He did not use a tragedy to illegally spy on millions, the true numbers of which we still do not know because congress has never investigated.
It's almost possible to feel sorry for the shifty, friendless Nixon. It is less possible to feel so for the smirking Bush, who thought nothing of telling soldier's families that war critics were saying that their loved ones "had died in vain."
A compilation in November 2008 of other evidence of alleged incidents involving children at the time recounts:
-- Iraqi lawyer Sahar Yasiri, representing the Federation of Prisoners and Political Prisoners, said in a published interview there are more than 400,000 detainees in Iraq being held in 36 prisons and camps and that 95 percent of the 10,000 women among them have been raped. Children, he said, "suffer from torture, rape, (and) starvation" and do not know why they have been arrested. He added the children have been victims of "random" arrests "not based on any legal text."
-- Former prisoner Thaar Salman Dawod in a witness statement said, "[I saw] two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and [a U.S. soldier] was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners."
-- Iraqi TV reporter, Suhaib Badr-Addin al-Baz, arrested while making a documentary and thrown into Abu Ghraib for 74 days, told Mackay he saw "hundreds" of children there. Al-Baz said he heard one 12-year-old girl crying, "They have undressed me. They have poured water over me." He said he heard her whimpering daily.
-- Al-Baz also told of a 15-year-old boy "who was soaked repeatedly with hoses until he collapsed." Amnesty International said ex-detainees reported boys as young as 10 are held at Abu Ghraib.
-- German TV reporter Thomas Reutter of "Report Mainz" quoted U.S. Army Sgt. Samuel Provance that interrogation specialists "poured water" over one 16-year-old Iraqi boy, drove him throughout a cold night, "smeared him with mud" and then showed him to his father, who was also in custody. Apparently, one tactic employed by the Bush regime is to elicit confessions from adults by dragging their abused children in front of them.
-- Jonathan Steele, wrote in the British "The Guardian" that "Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons...Sixteen-year-old Omar Ali told the "Guardian" he spent more than three years at Karkh juvenile prison sleeping with 75 boys to a cell that is just five by 10 meters, some of them on the floor. Omar told the paper guards often take boys to a separate room in the prison and rape them.
-- Raad Jamal, age 17, was taken from his Doura home by U.S. troops and turned over to the Iraqi Army's Second regiment where Jamal said he was hung from the ceiling by ropes and beaten with electric cables.
-- Human Rights Watch (HRW) last June put the number of juveniles detained at 513. In all, HRW estimates, since 2003, the U.S. has detained 2,400 children in Iraq, some as young as ten.
-- IRIN, the humanitarian news service, last year quoted Khalid Rabia of the Iraqi NGO Prisoners' Association for Justice(PAJ), stating that five boys between 13 and 17 accused of supporting insurgents and detained by the Iraqi army "showed signs of torture all over their bodies," such as "cigarette burns over their legs," she said.
-- One boy of 13 arrested in Afghanistan in 2002 was held in solitary for more than a year at Bagram and Guantanamo and made to stand in stress position and deprived of sleep, according to the "Catholic Worker."
Attorney General Holder is a man of conscience who now serves both President Obama and the law. A Newsweek piece last week says he has no illusions that:
Such a decision [to appoint a Special Prosecutor] would roil the country, would likely plunge Washington into a new round of partisan warfare, and could even imperil Obama's domestic priorities, including health care and energy reform. Holder knows all this, and he has been wrestling with the question for months. "I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president's agenda," he says. "But that can't be a part of my decision."
There can be redemption for a nation which faces its past. One that does not can only become more monstrous.
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Damascus is home to Syria's National Museum which has a huge garden full of statues, columns and other odd bits of stonework for which no room could be found inside. The entrance to the museum building is striking.
It is reconstruction of the entrance to an Ummayad desert palace of the eighth century.
Unfortunately all photography is forbidden within the Museum, but we can tell you that it has a 3rd century synagogue discovered in the desert in eastern Syria and now reconstructed here, with amazing wall paintings.
Also an underground tomb, or hypogeum, from Palmyra has been rebuilt inside. Definitely worth a visit.
Next door to the Museum is the Tekkiye Mosque which was designed by Sinan and combines the Arab distinctive striped stonework with very Turkish slim minarets.
The mosque was also part of the Ottoman system of support for the haj and it has an adjacent building to accommodate pilgrims. Both of these were being restored so were closed during our visit.


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The Third Choice - Shortlisted for Aussie Christian Book of the Year
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In 1994, however, Dr. Martin Chalfie of Columbia University tried to express the cDNA in E. coli and a nematode worm, and he and his colleagues unexpectedly observed the fluorescence of the expressed GFP.
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It was generally assumed that formation of its chromophore would require enzymes specific to A. victoria, but there was one GFP believer named Martin Chalfie who had a different view.
Telephone interview with Martin Chalfie following the announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 8 October 2008.
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and I would like to thank those responsible for this great honor and to make some observations about what the Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) teaches us.
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Skip to comments.The Compassion Gap: Conservatives give more to charities than liberals doby a long shot.
Posted on 01/19/2007 12:00:14 PM PST by freedomdefender
REVIEW OF: Who Really Cares: Americas Charity DivideWho Gives, Who Doesnt, and Why It Matters by Arthur C. Brooks (Basic Books, 250 pp., $26.00)
Its tempting to say that Arthur Brooks, in his definitive new book on American charitable giving, has shown that there is nothing oxymoronic about the term compassionate conservative. That, at least, is the conclusion that critics have drawn from Brookss demonstration that conservatives, despite the myth that they lack compassion, give significantly more to charity than liberals do. But in fact Brooks has shown something even more significant: that compassionate conservative is not only overly defensive, but actually redundant. When it comes to charitable donations, volunteer activity, and even donating blood, its liberals, not conservatives, who should feel compelled to prove their compassion.
A Syracuse University professor who studied economics at the famously demanding Rand Graduate School, Brooks has exhaustively reviewed a wide range of nonpartisan survey research, much of it university-based, to demonstrate the existence of a charitable divide between liberals and conservatives. He has determined, for instance, that the average conservative-headed household gives 30 percent more money to charity than the average liberal-headed one ($1,600 compared with $1,227), despite earning 6 percent less annually. Moreover, Brooks has found that of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average, George W. Bush won 24 in the 2004 presidential race. Perhaps there really are, to borrow John Edwardss glib phrase, two Americas: one charitable, the other miserly.
Statisticians will no doubt seek to nitpick Brooks to death. Might there be large liberal donors living in red states? Might liberals higher incomes and lower charitable giving reflect the fact that they are concentrated in states with higher wages and higher costs of living? Perhaps. But the preponderance of Brookss evidence for a compassion gap is convincing, and he rightly devotes much of his clearly-written volume to figuring out why it exists.
Brooks adeptly correlates charitable giving with four characteristics, all of which favor conservatives. They are religiousness, by far the most potent predictor of charity; employment (those on public assistance do not give to charity, in contrast to the working poor, who are especially supportive of churches); strong families, especially traditional two-parent families; and skepticism about governments role in redistributing income. Those who favor governmental redistributive programs give less to charity and have, moreover, effectively used public discourse to equate their view with compassion.
Not illogically, Brooks labels uncharitable liberals selfish, but that doesnt quite capture whats going on. Contemporary secular liberalism isnt so much about looking out for yourself; rather, it believes that charity, by encouraging the false consciousness (to use a Marxist term) that it can ameliorate the structural problems of the capitalist economy, might actually be counterproductive. According to this view, charity stands in the way of our moving toward true social justicea larger welfare state, or even outright socialism.
Brooks is well aware of the liberal suspicion of charity, quoting Ralph Nader: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. Still, he holds out hope that his reporting on the compassion gap, as well as his novel argument that charity leads to more wealth creation (by forging good character, among other things), will inspire liberals to change their parsimonious ways. But for that to happen, liberalism will have to acknowledge that impersonal structural forces do not explain all poverty; that government employees might not be the best agents to address any or all social ills; that public policy cant even anticipate all the problems that emerge in dynamic modern societies; that too much redistribution threatens economic growth and costs jobs; and that charity, therefore, is more than an historical artifact for us to abandon eventually. These are not minor philosophical adjustments, and its hard to believe that merely calling attention to liberal stinginess will shame liberals into making them.
It is encouraging, however, that liberal idealists are increasingly backing nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), which often must rely on charitable donations. True, these donations may be from the big liberal foundations (conservatives are more charitable as individuals, but American philanthropy overall still tilts left). Furthermore, many NGOs, such as the Childrens Defense Fund, are not really charities, in that their core business is advocacy for an expanded welfare state. Still, its a positive sign that such liberal college campuses as Harvard and Stanford today give a heros welcome to social entrepreneurs like Bill Shore, whose Washington, DC organization, Save Our Strength, receives no government funding, relying instead on volunteers and food donations to feed the hungry.
So perhaps the times are, again, a-changing. We will only know that they have truly changed, however, when liberals stop using compassion as a synonym for expanded government, and when conservativesthe most charitable Americansno longer feel forced to defend their virtue against those who lack it.
Not surprising at all. Liberals always want to give away other people's money, never their own, and then congatulate themselves for making a difference.
Only on account of collective guilt and because we stole the money from the disadvantaged (children, minorities disproportionately affected) in the first place.
It's not compassion if you're spending someone else's money.
Good post.
Liberals *think* groups like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, etc. *are* charities.
Not surprising at all. Liberals only freely give money away when it is someone elses money. Liberasl are by far the most self-center piece of trash there are.
Good post!
Have you read this book? I am wondering how detailed it is. The article doesn't really say how the conclusion was reached, but it sounds like it correlated amounts given to who gave them. To be valid, I think it would have to be related to a percentage of income rather than a dollar amount. If you have read the book, please let me know if it contains more of this kind of comparison. If not I may have to find it myself. This is a very interesting idea.
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Qatar announces Edinburgh route
Scotland's capital airport connects to growing Middle Eastern hub
Qatar Airways has announced today (Wednesday) that it will commence operations between Edinburgh and Doha on 28 May 2014.
The Middle Eastern carrier will fly Scotland's first scheduled 787 Dreamliner five times per week from Scotland's capital, linking the country with over 120 destinations worldwide. Qatar Airways, Skytrax Airline of the Year in 2011 and 2012, is renowned for its five-star service and quality.
Seen as a missing piece for many years in the capital city's route network, this new route will mean that many Scots will now not need to travel across the country to access a Middle East hub airport. A direct connection to Doha will further strengthen Edinburgh's links to Asia, helping to drive vital trade routes and tourism.
Having connections to Australian hubs in Perth and Melbourne will also make it easier for Scots to travel between the two continents to go on holiday or to visit friends and relatives.
Edinburgh Airport was supported in its negotiations with Qatar Airways by Team Scotland, the collaboration between VisitScotland, Transport Scotland and Scottish Enterprise and this is very much a victory for Scotland.
Scotland will be a huge draw to millions of visitors wishing to take part in the Year of Homecoming. The international community will be able to take full advantage of this new route and be part of a fantastic year of celebration for Scotland.
Transport Minister Keith Brown said: "This new direct service is excellent news for Scotland's aviation sector and provides yet more evidence of the strong bonds we are building with Qatar.
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"Direct services make Scotland a more attractive destination for both tourists and businesses by removing the need for extra connecting flights. This not only helps the economy by boosting tourism, but also encourages overseas trade and investment.
"The eyes of the world will turn to Scotland in 2014 with a programme of events that includes the Commonwealth Games, the Ryder Cup and a second Year of Homecoming and we are keen to share these exciting times with our friends around the world."
Chief Executive Gordon Dewar said: "We've been promising our friends and partners across the city and the country a Middle Eastern route for a number of years now. I am ecstatic to be sharing this news today and would like to thank all for their patience and support.
"Aviation is a team game and we would not have been able to secure this route without the support and hard work of Team Scotland.
"This announcement today is the result of real understanding and collaboration. I hope that it can continue as I think that it gives our country a real advantage when talking to airlines and making the case for Scotland.
"We rebranded our airport for a reason. We wanted to reflect our ambition and raise our aspirations. We can now say with growing confidence that Edinburgh is where Scotland meets the world."


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The SNS Reaal NV (SR) Bank/Insurer group and especially its subsidiaries SNS Bank and SNS Property Finance passed a number of times in these columns during the last 1.5 years. In almost all cases, it was due to bad news on either the property portfolio or the whole financial situation of this bank, lying under heavy crossfire from both its investors and the Dutch government.
The problems of SNS Reaal are huge. The bank is sitting on a €4.8 bln (book-value) commercial/residential real estate portfolio in The Netherlands and other countries like Spain. The marked-to-market value of this portfolio has vaporized during the last ten years, as a consequence of the rising (structural) vacancy of CRE in The Netherlands and the disastrous real estate situation in Spain, where numerous real estate projects have been cancelled or remain vacant.
Although the bank was among the first to carry out serious write-offs to the tune of hundreds of millions of Euro's on its CRE/RRE portfolio, the problems remained. This was caused by the simple fact that the investors just didn't believe that the remaining real estate portfolio was healthy.
Another complicating factor is that both the Dutch government and the EU want redemption of the €848 mln in state-aid that the bank received during the Dutch banking crisis in 2008/2009. The bank should return this money before the end of 2013. Unfortunately, this is money that the bank can't pay at the moment without getting an immediate shortage in liquidity.
The latest spasm of SNS Bank on their doubtful way to recovery is the plan to start a 'bad bank', that would be filled with the vast real estate portfolio of the bank.
SNS Bank hoped that the 'big three' banks in The Netherlands – ING Groep NV (INGA), Rabobank and ABN Amro – would buy a large share in this bad bank and asked DNB to investigate this possibility. After hearing from this plan by SNS Bank, the big three watched their feet and whistled a merry tune, only to mumble something about 'being willing to consider the idea when a state warranty would be in place'. And they were right.
This is of course a plan that will be watched Argus-eyed by investors, who have a 20/20 hindsight at the financial situation of Spanish mega-bank Bankia. Bankia SA (BKIA), a very large bank formed by mergers between a number of local banks (i.e. cajas), like Bancaja and Caja Madrid, turned into a financial black hole, 'sucking up billions of Euro's in private and government money'. In a way Bankia has also been set up as a bad bank and stating that this turned out not so good is an understatement.
The Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad (www.fd.nl) wrote on the bad bank-plans of SNS Bank. Here are the pertinent snips:
SNS Reaal investigates the possibility to put its problematic real estate subsidiary Property Finance outside the company, in a so-called 'bad bank'.
This is stated to 'Het Financieele Dagblad' by insiders of the bank. With the help of American merchant bank Goldman Sachs (GS), SNS Reaal is looking for possibilities to repay the €848 mln in state aid, which should happen before the end of 2013.
The remaining, huge losses at Real Estate-subsidiary Property Finance, restrain the bank in its possibilities to set the necessary repayment money free. Earlier, the news was spread that SNS had the plan to sell its insurance subsidiaries Reaal and ZwitserLeven (aka Swiss Life), but this sale doesn't yield enough money to solve all financial problems of the bank.
If SNS Reaal would want to return the state aid later than 2013, it runs the risk of receiving a new penalty from the EU, as this would again be considered state aid. The sale of SNS Reaal's insurance-subsidiaries is heavily frustrated by the grim perspective for the life-insurance market and the uncertain outcome of the so-called loan-shark policy claims (i.e. insured investment policies that charge so many annual expenses to the investors that very little money remains for real investments)
The foundation of a bad bank is far from easy. SNS Reaal should find investors that are willing to take the risk on its €4.8 bln real estate portfolio. The 'big three' ING, Rabobank and ABN Amro were approached cautiously by the Dutch national bank DNB, but reacted cooly at the offer of taking a share in the bad bank. They stated that 'the potential losses of the portfolio are very uncertain. A solution could be that the government (partially) warrants the investments in this bad bank'. This solution lies very delicate for the Second Chamber of Dutch Parliament.
In the meantime the pressure on SNS Reaal is mounting, now the supervisors AFM [Authority Financial Markets] and DNB are urging all financial institutions to re-evaluate their real estate portfolios. A one-time only write-off would greatly exceed the financial elasticity of SNS.
Cautious readers will have read that the whole scheme for 'privatizing the profits and socializing the losses' is in place again. Of course the big three asked for a state warranty (red and bold text) for the investment in SNS' bad bank. I myself would have…
However, that doesn't mean that the Dutch tax-payers should grant this warranty. The banks – all banks as a matter of fact – had a large stake in creating this big mess we are in currently and the only solution they can think of is to let the tax-payer be on the hook again, when investments go awry. The Second Chamber will probably not like the smell of this scheme and so do I.
You could of course accuse me of populism and 'bashing the banks'. This is not true. I work at a large and well-respected Dutch bank and I am convinced that this bank is on its way to a better and more solid financial future. I hugely respect this bank for walking this path.
However, the foundation of a financial-black-hole-bad bank like the 'SNS Real Estate bank' is not in the interest of the Dutch tax-payer and should therefore not happen at all, or at least with private money only.
One more thing. SNS Reaal is probably not the only bank that gets a migraine headache from the mandatory re-evaluation of their Real Estate portfolio, as desired by the Authority Financial Markets and the Dutch national bank De Nederlandsche Bank. Also at the big three banks, the aspirines will be swallowed by the dozen, when they look at the marked-to-market value of their Commercial and Residential Real Estate portfolios. You better believe it.


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In general, I think creature vs. Creator is a much more helpful
distinction. Free agency is not unique to God. However, one wonders
where to put the activity of angels and demonic spirits. These agents
are creaturely yet I suspect that we might call their activity
I have tended away from supernatural vs. natural in favor of regular
vs. irregular or ordinary vs. extraordinary.
>I had defined four subdefinitions of the (loaded) word "supernaturalism,
>as follows:
>> Supernaturalism(d)
>Divine action, in the Christian orthodox tradition, unlimited.
>> Supernaturalism(p)
>Divine action, in the Process Theology view, somewhat limited; still >>
>human capabilities.
>> Supernaturalism(h)
>Some human action. Severely limited, of course, but still sometimes
>> Supernaturalism(a)
>Some animal actions.
>Howard observed that "Although human decision-making may be neither
>"natural" (in the senses noted above) nor divine, it is fully a
>creaturely action. Perhaps the distinction between "divine" and
>"creaturely" action would be more fruitful than the one between natural
>and non-natural (or supernatural, or extra-natural)."
>One problem I have with that is that it appears that many of the actions
>we humans perform are just by rote/habit, and to ascribe any free will to
>them seems kind of silly. I think it is necessary to distinguish between,
>say, a sneeze, or a reflexive turning of the head upon hearing someone
>call our name, and a deliberate choice of choosing between two (or more)
>alternative actions based upon considered thought.
>Generally speaking, I do not choose to sneeze, and so I would not ascribe
>any supernaturistic(h) characteristic to that action. But in responding
>to your comments, I do ascribe supernaturalism(h).
> (source data on issues of science/theology, quantum mechanics,
> baseball, ethics, humor, great cars, a story of God's
>intervention into the natural causation of the universe, etc.)
-- _________________ Terry M. Gray, Ph.D., Computer Support Scientist Chemistry Department, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.chm.colostate.edu/~grayt/ phone: 970-491-7003 fax: 970-491-1801
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APT Project - Automated Rights Tool
Budget $1500-5000 USD
NPG is a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, a global publishing group founded in the United Kingdom in 1843. The company operates in over 70 countries around the world serving a wide variety of markets. Nature, the company's flagship and the world's foremost weekly scientific journal, was launched in 1869. See www.nature.com.
The APT project is a project to upgrade and automate our current toolsets and to provide new ones. This may be in either Java or Ruby depending on our architect's specification.
One of the items in the APT project is the 'Automated Rights Tool'. I have attached a spec here.
We would like the candidate to start with the Automated Rights Tool componant of the larger APT Project with the expectation that much more work is available if all goes well.
Some maintenance of the existing APT framework is also expected - this will help to familiarize the candidate with the larger project.
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In a world saturated in sleek technology products, 'Gear Gripz' is designed to help add a rubber grip to products that need it most. Devices like smartphones and tablet are often crafted from polished metal or shiny plastic, which inherently make them difficult to handle 'Gear Gripz' are designed to help add texturized rubber to the exterior of smartphones, cameras, flashlights or anything else that you're prone to dropping.
Being that devices like smartphones are usually crafted from glass and metal, consumers oftentimes require a case to protect them which subsequently distracts from the phones design aesthetic. 'Gear Gripz' are designed to enable users to do away with pesky cases and rest assured that they'll be able to hold onto devices without fear of dropping them.
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Fixer Upper in Mountain View, $50K over asking
Yes, we love Mountain View. Not only is it Close to Google, all those highly paid Googlers can duke it out for the privilege of buying excellent properties like this one. Thanks very much to Burbed reader dollarbin for this amazing find. Oops, gone! Sorry, and thank you for playing!
2509 NEDSON Ct
Mountain View, CA 94043
3 Beds
2 Baths
1,536 Sq. Ft.
$556 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 1954
Lot Size: 7,000 Sq. Ft.
Sold On: Jul 4, 2013
Property Type: Detached Single Family
View: Neighborhood
County: Santa Clara
Stories: 1
Community: Thompson
Central location. Fixer upper in Mountain View CA. 3/2 Needs some TLC. 7000 sq ft lot. Home can be lived in right now but eventually needs windows and roof work. See all reports. Private back yard, fireplace in family room. Garage conversion done years ago with permits making this a large living room for your family. Ice block tiles in master shower. Needs carpeting and paint.
Take it away, dollarbin!
I don't tour many homes these days, but this one is close and my curiosity got the best of me. Photo #8 does not do justice to the unevenness of the master bedroom floor. Don't be fooled by the Cul-de-Sac address, the bedroom windows look right out onto busy Middlefield Rd.. This one shouldn't stay on the market, the listing agent told me they already had an all cash offer for $800K after one day of open house, and they expected more and higher bids to come.
It's kind of funny, I came to burbed in 2011 so I only experienced the last bubble in archive form, but it seems like these Mountain View listings are exactly like the kind of WTF listings that we saw in Palo Alto back in the early days of burbed. There might be a few of these legacy crap-shacks in PA still, but I guess now they probably are just quietly sold as teardowns, whereas prices have finally risen in MV to tempt the truly unsell-able stock onto the market.
You keep using that word, unsellable. We do not think it means what you think it means.


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24 June 2016
Low Growh Ahead - Analysis of Hong Kong Economic Trend in 2H 2016
In 1H 2016, Hong Kong economy was affected by the global economic uncertainties, volatile financial markets, relatively high Hong Kong dollar exchange rate, sluggish merchandise trade and tourism performance, and the correction of residential property prices. Following the 1.9% growth in real terms in Q4 2015, Hong Kong real GDP growth slowed to a mere 0.8% in Q1 2016, lower than the 2.4% growth in 2015 and the 3.4% annual average over the past decade. On a seasonally adjusted quarter-to-quarter comparison, real GDP fell by 0.4% in the first quarter, after the 0.2% growth in the preceding quarter.
Hong Kong economy expanded slowly in 1H 2016
1. Weak external environment adversely affected trade flow. In Q1 2016, the global economic growth remained sluggish. With the slow recovery in the advanced economies, their imports demand continued to be restrained. Together with the volatile financial markets, the downside risks of the global economy intensified. Total exports of goods registered a large year-on-year decline of 3.6% in real terms in Q1, with exports to most major destinations recording contractions. At the same time, the decline of imports of goods deteriorated further to a year-on-year 5.4% in real terms, largely because of the further reduction of import-related re-exports as well as weak retained imports performance.
2. Contraction of tourism dragged on exports of services performance. Exports of travel services recorded a 13.3% year-on-year plunge in real terms in Q1 2016, far worse than the 6.7% decline in Q4 2015. This was largely due to the sharp contraction in visitor arrivals (Overall visitor arrivals, same-day visitor arrivals and overnight visitor arrivals declined 8.8%, 13.0% and 3.4% year-on-year in the first four months respectively) and weakness in tourism spending. Indeed, the implementation of "one trip per week" Individual Visit Endorsements for permanent residents of Shenzhen had profound impact on Hong Kong tourism performance. The number of visitor arrivals holding "multiple-entry" and "one trip per week" Individual Visit Endorsements amounted to 10.97 million over the first one-year period since the implementation of "one trip per week" Individual Visit Endorsements in April 2015, about 4 million less than the number of visitor arrivals holding "multiple-entry" Individual Visit Endorsements in the preceding year. Moreover, given the reduced trade and cargo flows in the region, as well as the heightened volatility in the global financial markets during the quarter, the overall exports of services declined 4.9% year-on-year in real terms in Q1 2016.
3. Momentum of domestic demand was slowing gradually. Domestic demand showed signs of slowdown, amid sluggish merchandise trade and tourism performance, and the asset markets correction (residential property prices declined 4.2% in the first four months of 2016). In Q1 2016, private consumption expenditure only increased a mere 1.1% year-on-year in real terms, notably lower than the 2.7% growth in Q4 2015. In addition, the volatile investment expenditure recorded another quarter of sharp contraction, with a 10.1% year-on-year decline in real terms in Q1 2016 (9.4% drop in Q4 2015), reflecting corporations' cautiousness in implementing their investment plan amid increasing uncertainty over the global economic outlook. Machinery, equipment and intellectual property products registered a sharp 11.9% year-on-year decline in Q1 2016 (12.9% contraction in Q4 2015), while building and construction recorded a mere 0.8% decline (0.9% drop in Q4 2015), mainly affected by the decline in public sector projects which might be somewhat related to slow funding approval progress by the Legislative Council. Finally, government consumption expenditure remained largely stable at 3.2% growth year-on-year in real terms in Q1 2016 (3.3% growth in Q4 2015).
4. Labour market remained resilient. Since the 2H 2011, the unemployment rate remained largely steady and held at a range near the full employment level of 3.1% and 3.5%. However, because of the weak external and tourism sector performance, as well as the slowing domestic consumption growth over the past few months, unemployment rate edged up one-tenth to 3.4% between March and May 2016 compared to 2H 2015, while wages and income posted further increases, providing some support to the domestic consumption and overall economy.
5. Consumer price pressure remained moderate. Amid the relatively low growth environment, the consumer price pressure was still moderate. Underlying inflation increased from 2.2% year-on-year in Q4 2015 to 2.8% in Q1 2016, largely driven by the increases in the prices of basic foodstuff related to poor weather, and then fell back to 2.2% in May. Excluding the food-related factor, the domestic price pressure remained under control, attributed to the slowdown in domestic demand, consolidating rental level in tandem with the property market performance, still low global commodity prices, and the overall low consumer price pressure globally.
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Hagel says Air Force general is pick for NATO post
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior Air Force general is being nominated to take over as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.
Gen. Philip M. Breedlove is the top Air Force commander in Europe. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says Breedlove is particularly well qualified. Hagel announced the nomination Thursday.
If confirmed, Breedlove would be the first Air Force general to hold the top NATO job since Joseph Ralston served in the post from 2000-2003.
Breedlove would succeed Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who has held the job since 2009.
President Barack Obama chose Breedlove after his first choice for the job, Marine Gen. John Allen, announced he would retire after 19 months commanding allied forces in Afghanistan because of his wife's health issues.


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Check out what's actually at the farmer's market, smelling like an actual tomato:
Lately we've had some serious bounty from both the farmer's market and CSA. I don't think I really realized exactly how much vegetable content the CSA would get us, even considering the chorus of warnings. So much! I'm going to have to start blanching and freezing the chard, I think. Or, you know, COOKING more as opposed to just eating the salad greens and asparagus. Also berries. You know what's the best salad ever? Blueberries and baby arugula. Oh man!
One of the bits and pieces from our box this week was a bunch of radishes. I like radishes a lot, actually: super vegetable crunch and spice content is great for egg salad, or salatka (cottage cheese, sour cream, radish slices, and salt and pepper, mixed and spread on good toasted rye: SO AWESOME): thick and creamy food that needs some snap to cut it. I also like more ordinary thin slices on sandwiches and in salads. However, all of these only require about one radish, or even a half, for a full serving. How do you get through ten radishes?
You quarter them and roast them, like potatoes.
Results: the sugar in the radishes caramelizes, softening their punch and making them much easier to eat out of hand. While they retain some crunch, it's not anywhere near as aggressive. They really look like little roast potatoes! At some point I'm going to have to try a potato salad with a mix of roasted root veg; I bet that would be awesome.
Roast radishes
olive oil
salt, pepper
Preheat the oven (or toaster oven! It's summer) to 375 or 400F. Trim radishes; cut them into halves or quarters. Toss with a little olive oil and some salt and pepper. Spread your radishes in one layer on a baking sheet and put it in the oven. They will hiss madly as they begin to lose moisture.
Roast for maybe twenty minutes, or until your radishes have stopped hissing and are starting to turn very slightly golden.
That's it. You're done! Eat them!
I had mine plain, with the tomato. Oh yes, first tomato of the summer, you will be mine. Actually, you were mine already. Um. Yeah.


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Amy Schumer can't stop exposing herself... in the celebrity sense.
The "Inside Amy Schumer" star released a first look at Season 4 of her Comedy Central show on Thursday (March 17). In the clip, she visits her doctor, who diagnoses her from over-exposure. After all, in the last year, she's been everywhere--her movie "Trainwreck" hit theaters, she had her own show, she was tripping in front of Kardashians and telling off red carpet reporters.
In the end, her doctor suggested she take time off and stay away from "Inside Amy Schumer." Watch the clip below to find out what she has to say about that: