If it does not work, please contact your dealership. What is an Infotainment System? In the Mitsubishi there are no fewer than five positions for the boot cover, depending on where the rear seats are positioned or the size of cargo you want to cover, or even the option to just store it unobtrusively out of the way. The touchpad is precise and moves across each clearly marked, logically presented section with an accurate buzz and click. Product name, availability or specification may vary according to country, location or model year. You can now use the database as usual. Not only does it feature a larger screen, it also receives TomTom sat-nav with real-time traffic information, and will eventually come with an app system that conveys information about the car to your smartphone.
Mitsubishi is still recouping from development costs of the new Eclipse Cross. Japan model Image used here is of certain specification of specific year model for specified location. Add in the fact there's a decent amount of steering communication and accuracy, and all-wheel drive giving decent traction on even the grimiest of surfaces, and it's in danger of being fun. Please take a note of the number of the version information. The size of the display has been increased from seven to eight inches, while flagship models gain TomTom navigation.
What is Included with Mitsubishi's Infotainment System?
High maneuverability achieved by superb performance and easy handling. World standard relialbillity, durability and performance. Product name, Availability or Specification of each product may vary according to location or model year. A pseudo skidplate underscores the redesigned front bumper. If you see any errors on it, clear it. The worst is when come to a complete stop. Brown is the new black.
Not only does it feature a larger screen but it also receives TomTom sat-nav with real-time traffic information, and it will eventually come with an app system that conveys information about the car to your smartphone. The catch-22 ito bringing out all new model to stay competitive vs upgrading an old design for cheap. Product name, availability or specification may vary according to country, location or model year. While the industry has been reticent to give some of the market to technology firms, drivers are still bringing their phones in the car to find directions and perform tasks. In defiance of my modest expectations, it's actually pretty good for a crossover.
This completes the Gracenote database version update. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and its authorized distributors have no responsibility of answering for the enquiries about this application. Image used here is of certain specification of specific year model for specified location. Image used here is of certain specification of specific year model for specified location. Electric motor works quiet, appropriate in mid night or early morning. If the second device is an iPhone, it activates as an iPod with battery charge. In the spirit of adventure, I ticked the box for the new 161bhp 1.
The procedure is outlined in the following illustrations. The moral of the tale, then, is be full bore or be boring. Please understand that the information is not provided by the music vendors or artists and may contain incorrect information. Image used here is of certain specification of specific year model for specified location. On those days when said shoe or tie is found quickly, you can potter happily enough, in the gearbox's preferred relaxed mood. Here you will have the option to view your Favourites, Recents, Contacts, Keypad and Voicemail as you can on your phone.
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Comfortable driving with superb quietness, lower gravity center and plenty of torque. Please wait until the update is completed. Navigation and Information — If opting in for the 7-inch touchscreen instead, consumers also get a touchscreen navigation system that features 3D mapping, complete with road speed limits, expanded points of interest, annual map updates, and real-time traffic data. Image used here is of certain specification of specific year model for specified location. One issue: the fuel economy is getting worse.
Whether the rest of the car stacks up to months of family and country rough and tumble, though, remains to be seen. Depending on the amount of music you have on your device, this may take a few minutes. I'm taking the car in to the dealer and will write back on the diagnostic they give me. And leave your bloody school shoes by the front door when you take them off. Sporty form consistent with roomy interior space. Until Mitsubishi Connect is launched, they currently have a culmination of things that make a pretty great infotainment system when put together.
Power liftgate button if equipped 4. Fortunately, the Eclipse Cross falls into the 10. Great handling and comfort ride brought by highly achieved fundamental performance. Product name, availability or specification may vary according to country, location or model year. If the button is pressed again, the on-board Mitsubishi voice control feature will be activated. Presence of interior and exterior quality and suitable compact body size for city use.


Has anyone had any experience using the Tapatalk http://www.tapatalk.com/ iPhone app? Would it make sense to enable its use here?
Interesting, I've been looking for an iPhone app that would access the forums better (I do a lot of my forum reading/writing on my iPhone). I'll give the free one a whirl, and let you know.
Well, if you can read this then the reply function works.
Seems like a nice way for quick reading/writing of posts. I don't like its handling of the [code] tag.
It also seems to not do landscape mode, but it basically seems to work.


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As its names implies, British Art Fair is a bold and lively art fair dedicated to modern British art. Indeed, it exhibits work that demonstrates the importance of the young British artists to the contemporary art scene. 50 leading art dealers presenting drawings, paintings and sculptural pieces. Thus, collectors and members of the public are every bit as interesting as the work that's on display. Moreover, special exhibitions run alongside the fair with well-known artists represented from the 20th and 21st century. British Art Fair was first established in 1988, and since 2018, it takes place in October in the Saatchi Gallery. This iconic venue helds as well each May DRAW Art Fair, owned by the same group.
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What would you say is the DNA of British Art Fair?
British art produced in the 20th century, roughly from the birth of modernism to the coronation of the YBAs. Since 1988, this fair has been an annual festival celebrated by the dealers, collectors, writers and the general public who love this art.
What type of galleries are chosen to exhibit, and why?
Specialists in their field, dealers with deep knowledge.
What is the price range of pieces? Who is the average buyer?
£500 – +£1m. Buyers in the huge range of great moderm British art created in the last 100 years come from the UK & all over the world.
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Who is the typical attendee of the fair?
Beautiful, stylish, eccentric, wistful and funny.
What makes British Art Fair so special?
Heritage, community , knowledge , discovery, consistency
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Draw Art Fair and 1-54 London.
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Frieze London is the most famous of the four Frieze shows. Taking place annually in Regent's Park, it showcases more than 160 international galleries and over 1,000 of thrilling artists.
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Taking place in the iconic Saatchi Gallery, Draw Art Fair is the only fair in the UK entierely dedicated to drawing. It showcases modern and contemporary artworks.
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New Artist Fair is a unique fair where the artists have the power of choosing how their own art is promoted and sold. Since there is no intermediary, prices range starts very low.
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Thank you Father Ross for sharing this blog with the web site! This was a great read and I am looking forward to the next one.
I never knew about the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus! I am glad to have learned about it. I love the fact that it is celebrated in conjunction with the Jewish practice of circumcision and naming eight days after birth. Thank you, Father Ross!
Thanks for the message, Fr. Ross! What a great item to include on the website.
Thank you for your words and your reminder. Many years ago, the nuns taught us to bow our heads every time we said or heard the name of Jesus when I went to school at Holy Family. Such practices help us to witness to our Faith also.


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Personalization and Portals – If You Build It (Right) They Will Come
by Karen J. Bannan | Oct 1, 2019 | Articles, Content
John Q. Employee gets to work in the morning. He turns on his computer and starts browsing for information. He hits CNN.com, Yahoo!, and the Web sites of trade publications that he regularly reads. Then he checks his email, searches Business Wire for the latest news about the competition, and pulls up the company's opening bell stock quote. He finishes up on the company's intranet, looking at his vacation day accrual and reading a message from the company's chief operating officer. Time expended: one hour.
Across town, Jane Q. Employee sits down at her desk, turns on her computer, and pulls up her company's corporate portal. There, she checks all of the same resources and several others, such as an internal message board, a company calendar, a news clipping service, and the latest information gleaned from business intelligence tools. Time expended: 15 minutes.
While each of these scenarios is fictitious, the lesson behind them is real. There's more information available than ever, much of which will benefit employee performance. Unfortunately, the very information that's supposed to make us more efficient has instead become a thief, robbing us of our valuable time. Portals, which came onto the scene in 1999, have been touted as enterprise tools that can help managers take lost time back. "Managers are recognizing that people are going to be looking for information in a variety of places," says Rob Perry, a senior analyst with Boston-based research firm the Yankee Group. "Portals take the control and puts it back in the employers' hands." But to deliver on that promise, portals must be designed to entice and engage employees.
A Growth Industry
Over the last three years, the portal market has exploded at an astonishing rate. Although specific portal adoption figures vary, most experts say between 35 and 50 percent of large enterprises have portal installations. In the future, the portal market will continue its growth, according to IDC, expanding from $550.4 million in sales in 2001 to $3.1 billion in 2006. As a result, the options available in today's market are pretty impressive.
Traditional ERP and infrastructure companies such as BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Sybase sell portals to existing and new customers. Meanwhile, pure-play portal companies such as Plumtree Software, Epicentric, Viador, and Yahoo! Enterprise Services, as well as companies such as Microsoft and BroadVision also have offerings in the space.
The practical uses for a portal are almost immeasurable, but today the most common is employee-related transactions, says the Yankee Group's Perry. "When you look at the broadest use," he says, "it's really how do you connect employees to the information that they need."
Forrester Research supports Perry's opinion. According to a recent Forrester survey of Global 3,500 companies, 82 percent have benefits information on their portal and 78 percent use portals for dissemination of company news. More than 53 percent of users have an employee directory and 49 percent use their portals for education and training.
Simply put, enterprise managers are looking to do away with paper-based documents while beefing up content management not available on a corporate intranet. They're also merging company intranets and individual department portals into one giant portal, freeing up time and resources and making it easier for company employees to collaborate.
Of course, convenience doesn't come cheap. Companies that opt for a corporate portal can expect a significant capital outlay–at least at the start. Most companies report spending six figures on their initial portal installation, according to vendors. "Forrester Research says the range is $20,000 to $5 million and the median is $600,000," says Linda Sonne, BroadVision's senior product marketing manager.
Again, however, simply building a portal is not enough. To provide many of the time-saving and work-enhancing benefits portals promise, outside content must be integrated with company-specific information. And cost escalates quickly as you try and bring more content into the portal. Companies that need external content such as news, press releases, and financial information usually opt for an outside content provider like Dow Jones & Reuters' Factiva services, which come with an additional price tag.
Plan and Plan Alike
That said, if you think a corporate portal is right for you, there's something every company should do before rushing out and hiring a programmer or soliciting bids from vendors: figure out exactly why you need a portal and what you'll use it for. "Having a strong vision of what you want up front and understanding where you're going to go is important. Many customers are getting stuck with ownership costs of portals that weren't well planned for," says BroadVision's Sonne. This process starts with your IT staff, but you shouldn't stop there.
Pat O'Haren, senior director with BEA says his company suggests customers conduct focus groups with the departments that are the best usage candidates. "Because each set of employees has different requirements, you really have to go into it knowing what people need and how they will use the portal," he says. Talk to employees and see what types of information they need to do their jobs, how they fit into the organization, and whether or not they will write or upload content on their own.
Your company's existing content stores will also affect your choice of technology and management. If you've got a significant number of paper-based documents that you'll want on your portal, how you'll scan and integrate them should be a concern. If your company relies heavily on databases, interoperability will be a consideration.
Creating a hierarchy will be your first order of business–deciding how you'll arrange your portal, who will receive rights to each resource, and who will manage the resources once they're online. Most vendor portals such as Microsoft's SharePoint Portal incorporate a variety of documents automatically. And beware of thinking that everything you've got belongs online, says BEA's O'Haren. "You need to do an audit of your content before you bring it into the portal. If content has not been accessed for a certain amount of time, don't include it," he says.
To Do-It-Yourself or Outsource?
Technically speaking, anyone who knows HTML, XML, or another type of programming language could build their own portal, but today, the majority of users select pre-built versions. Although the actual development is often cheaper if you do it yourself, content management becomes an issue almost immediately with homemade sites. Dave McDonald, vice president of information resources at Toshiba, says he found this out through experience.
In 1999, Toshiba built its own custom portal for housing company documents and human resource forms. The initial installation was so successful that more and more departments within the company starting building their own portlets. "We probably built for about a year. It sort of reminded me of an old remodeled house that you keep adding rooms on to. It grows without good architecture," says McDonald.
Last fall, as McDonald was browsing on the portal, he found an internal memo dated 1998 and he realized he needed to do something. "It just shows you how hard it is to keep content current. That's why we started using BroadVision's portal," he says.
Still, since portal technology and standards are constantly changing, users should ask pointed questions about compatibility, standards-based development, and the availability of application add- ons before signing a contract. Since companies are usually stuck with the portal that they start with (not too many companies can or will throw out a six-figure software implementation once it's installed), a lack of standards or compatibility can render a portal useless.
Content management isn't the only issue that trips people up. Since corporate portals are often connected to a company's back-end, security is paramount. In the past, security was the main thing that kept companies from adding ERP and financial information to their portals. However, improvements in security–single sign-on technology and integration with existing Web and back-end servers–are helping users gain confidence in portal technology.
And security is also helping users disseminate the correct information to the correct department and employees. Take Microsoft's SharePoint product. Since it uses some of the same technology that Microsoft's Windows NT server does, managers can use it to set parameters, says Trina Seinfeld, product manager for SharePoint. "When I log in, the portal knows who I am and if I have permission to see a document on a file server," says Seinfeld. "It also matches my keyword search and only shows me what I'm allowed to see based on who I am. Our customers told us: Don't frustrate our end-users. Don't show them documents that are relevant to their search, but aren't available for their use."
Managing Editing
All of the portal vendors cite easy Web-based management as one of the main selling points for a pre-built portal. While management is easier using the mostly Web-based models sold today, that doesn't mean you won't have management issues, say experts. For example, Andy Beach, vice president of eBusiness for Emerson Motor Technologies based in St. Louis, Missouri says, although his company loves the Oracle portal it has in place, he would like better self-management functionality. "It would be great if we could make it simpler for a non-technical person to be able to upload, publish, and manage their own content," says Beach. "It's doable today, but only because we've done our own work." Beach and his team built their own graphical user interface that synchs up with the Oracle portal and makes uploading content a point-and-click proposition. "It's not a poor reflection on Oracle. If anything, it's a reflection of how there's so much going on and there's so many things the portal is capable of so the interface is a little more complex," he says.
Even if the actual process isn't difficult, managing all of the thousands, if not millions, of pieces of content can be, according to Bobbi Cross, director of research and information resources with Schnader Harrison LLP, a national law firm based in Philadelphia. Cross, who introduced her company's portal in September 2001, says she spends about two hours every day on routine portal management. "I'll get a message that our [information Web] crawl on aviation isn't working so I'll have to figure out why," says Cross. She also devotes time to adding new pages and content to the portal.
OPENING THE DOORS
Most companies start out planning an internal corporate portal, but at some point in the process, many realize that they can capitalize on their investment more quickly by opening up their portal to the outside world. Since portals can support ERP and business intelligence data, it's easy to turn a portal into a customer relations support vehicle–both for end-users and suppliers and vendors.
Health insurance provider Cigna found this out first-hand. Cigna, in conjunction with Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions, is offering its 16 million health and retirement plan customers their own portlets. While providing online information is nothing new, Cigna's use of a portal as opposed to a Web-generated customer service interface gives customers more personalization and information. Unlike the generic customer service Web interfaces that customers are used to, the Yahoo! Cigna portal lets customers manage claims, see their own information, set preferences, and even order prescriptions using their My Yahoo! portal page. "Employees are looking for simpler, easier ways to help manage two of the most important pillars of their well-being–their healthcare and financial security," says H. Edward Hanway, chairman and CEO of Cigna Corp. "They want more choices and control, not more confusion and complexity."
James Kauth, emerging technologies director in the Office of Technology for the State of Minnesota is starting backwards. Kauth is opening up the portal to end-users–in this case, the citizens of Minnesota–and planning on creating an employee portal shortly after the project launches.
DO PORTALS PAY?
Unfortunately, there are no studies that look at return on investment. Even anecdotally, results vary widely. For every company that saves millions on bandwidth costs and employee productivity, there's another that invested millions only to have employees forgo its shiny, new portal.
Schnader Harrison's Cross says she's seen a soft return on investment. After adding the portal, Cross and her research staff found more time for their own work since they weren't answering mundane questions anymore. Hewlett-Packard has its own impressive story. According to Janet Beyers, HP's director of B2E Service, the company saved more than $50 million the first year the portal was up and running.
"You've got to recognize that people are still going to look for other information sources," says Yankee Group's Perry. "The major challenge for most companies is how they can get their employees using the portal," he says. But with the right mix of content and customization, corporate portals have the potential to change the way employees and companies work.
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The town of Coventry, located in Tolland County, is the home of Lake Wangumbaug, also known as Coventry Lake, the largest lake in northeastern Connecticut. Incorporated in 1712, the land was sold to Hartford men by the Native American sachem Joshua. A farming community, the town also took advantage of its three rivers and numerous streams to develop industrial manufacturing industries. The items produced varied but included glass flasks, cardboard boxes, and textiles. Today, Coventry is best known as the birthplace of Captain Nathan Hale and is home to the Nathan Hale Homestead; a museum currently open to the public.
"Coventry Historical Society," 2016. Link.
"Hop River State Park Trail." Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, 2017. Link.
"Nathan Hale Homestead." Connecticut Landmarks, 2016. Link.
"Nathan Hale State Forest." Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, 2016. Link.
"Strong Porter Museum." Coventry Historical Society, 2016. Link.
"The Museum of Connecticut Glass," 2016. Link.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families. Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co., 1903. Link.
Coventry Village Improvement Society. Coventry. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Messier, Betty, and Janet Sutherland Aronson. The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut. Coventry, CT: 275th Anniversary Committee, 1987.


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Mallorca: Mediterranean Island Life at Half the Cost of the Caribbean
When I first started learning Spanish, I could only speak in metaphors. I sat with my now-fiancée on a 1,000-year-old facade outside the Port of Valldemossa, while we watched the sun set over the Mediterranean. "I don't want to get off this train," I told her. I knew the vocabulary for trains because that's how I got around.
These days, my vocabulary is extensive enough that I can say what I really mean—that I don't want this adventure to end—but that doesn't mean life on Mallorca isn't still poetry. It wasn't just luck, though. I picked out this island for a reason, and I've learned even more reasons since coming here.
Mallorca remains almost unknown to North Americans, but it's a top tourist destination for Europeans. For instance, there are so many Germans here, that when I first arrived, I thought I'd learn more of that language than Spanish. I'd wanted to move to Spain since I read The Sun Also Rises in 10th grade, but the idea of island life at half the cost of living in the Caribbean helped seal the deal.
When I first arrived in Mallorca, I paid $30 per night for an Airbnb, and got across Palma (the capital city) in taxis for less than $10 a trip. Now, I pay about $800 a month for my mortgage on a three-bedroom apartment. You can get a haircut for ten bucks, but I pay $22 for the best haircut on the island at Henry Barber Shop in Palma. That's about as cheap as I could find it back home in Arkansas—not including tip. And a beer? You can't beat $3 in a Spanish café.
But how far your money can go wasn't the only thing that attracted me to Mallorca. Another reason was that its location is ideal. Sometimes, a downside to island life is simply getting off that island, but being in the Mediterranean makes Mallorca more central. The flight to Barcelona takes just 30 minutes. Plus, since it's such a major tourist destination, there are cheap direct flights from Palma to most major European cities. You can often get to Berlin or London for less than $100 round-trip.
Additionally, I'd be lying if I said the Mediterranean lifestyle didn't have a certain appeal when I was looking at pictures in my cubicle while still at work back in the States. Most Sundays now, my fiancée and I spend the day with her family at their house in Sa Rapita, a beach town on the southern shore of Mallorca that's famous for its transparent blue waters. We spend the day eating Mediterranean food that, despite being irresistible, never seems to expand my waistline. Then we'll take a long siesta, or maybe we'll wander down to the beach and snorkel before napping on the sand.
Another great thing about Mallorca is you don't have to choose between mountain or sea. I'd always been more of a mountain person myself, but I came here partly to gain a better appreciation of the water. I've been able to do that without giving up the mountain environment. In fact, one of my favorite things is hiking up into the Tramuntana Mountains, to see the sun set over the blue sea below. There are even small rock beaches in coves in the mountains, always decorated by sailboats moving across the horizon.
Mallorca is accessible for foreigners as well. Although Catalan is the native language, everyone speaks Spanish, and most know some English and German. For the English speaker, the part of the island west of Palma is dominated by British expats, and before I mastered Spanish, that's where I went to find English-speaking doctors. My insurance covered the whole cost. My premium: Just $70 a month. There's a U.S. consulate in Palma and a number of international schools. Nevertheless, it's easy to find the local culture everywhere, and it's a beautiful one.
I almost didn't come to Mallorca. Leaving a good job and my routine was almost too scary. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have hesitated. Above all, it's the experiences and the people I've had them with. This island is a place ripe with possibilities for expats. I could tell that before I came…but the reality is far greater than I ever could have imagined.
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On the night of 24/25 March 1944, a mass escape took place from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. The local connection with this famous escape is an RAF officer, Roger Bushell. Bushell was born on 30 August 1910, son of a South African mining engineer. His early education was at a preparatory school in Johannesburg, then at Wellington College, Berkshire. At Grenoble University he learnt to speak French and German fluently and in 1929 he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge to read law. After university, he was called to the Bar and became a promising London barrister. In 1930, he was invited to join, as a pilot, No 601 Auxiliary Squadron, known as the millionaires' squadron due to their considerable wealth.
After war was declared he flew with No 601 until 10 October 1939 when he was promoted squadron leader and posted to RAF Tangmere to reform No 92 Squadron. The squadron was equipped with Bristol Blenheim 1F day fighters and as its commanding officer, Bushell was the first Auxiliary officer to take up such a post. The squadron moved to Croydon in December 1939 and converted three months later to Spitfire Mk1 aircraft. On 23 May, at the time of Dunkirk, the squadron carried out its first sorties over northern France but on its second sortie of the day, Bushell was shot down by a Bf 110 German fighter aircraft. Fortunately, he managed to force-land in a field near Boulogne but was captured by advancing German troops.
He was initially held at Dulag Luft, near Frankfurt, a Luftwaffe interrogation centre, but managed to escape a few weeks later. He reached the German/Swiss border but was captured before he was able to enter neutral Switzerland. Four months later he escaped from a prisoner of war camp and reached Prague with a Czech RAF pilot. Here he was hidden from the Germans for six months until he was captured again on 19 May 1942. His Czech lover and her family were later executed and Bushell was suspected by the Gestapo of involvement in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He was fortunate not to be executed but was sent, after interrogation by the Gestapo in Berlin, to Stalag Luft III, a prisoner of war camp for Allied air force officers in Lower Silesia, now Poland.
As 'Big X', Bushell took over the escape committee – the X organisation, responsible for all aspects of the camp's escape plan to get 200 prisoners out in one night. Three tunnels, named 'Tom', 'Dick' and 'Harry' were dug but in September 1943, 'Tom' was discovered by the Germans guards. Work was concentrated on the completion of 'Harry' and on the night of 24/25 March 1944, 76 prisoners, including Bushell, escaped.
Roger Bushell was captured two days later some 500 miles from the camp. On 29 March, on Hitler's order, he was shot dead by the Gestapo. Only three of the escapees made their way back to the UK but forty nine recaptured others were, like Bushell, murdered by the Gestapo.
The escape from Stalag Luft III was the inspiration for the film The Great Escape in which actor Richard Attenborough's character Roger Bartlett, was based on Roger Bushell, the real 'Big X'.
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Yesterday I went into a L'Eggs Hanes outlet store in Carlsbad, California. Not only did they have some bra styles that fitted, they also had a HUGE range of styles and sizes — a much bigger range than you see in Australia. And the prices were pretty darned reasonable — US$30 recommended retail, reduced to US$20 at the outlet store PLUS a 'buy two get one free' offer. I bought 4 and got 6 all for US$86 (including tax). Converted, that's AU$124 for SIX. And I paid AU$99 for ONE in Sydney.
You've got to wonder why. The brands were the same, they're all manufactured outside the US and Australia in places like Indonesia, China, etc. So how can the Americans sell bras at a reasonable price (even the US$30 recommended retail only converts to AU$43, less than half the price I paid in October) yet in Australia we pay an exhorbitant amount for the same piece of cloth likely manufactured in a country geographically closer to us?
One of my friends with an even harder to fid bra size than mine* gets her Mum to send her bras from the US all the time.
Oh, and not that you want to know it, but my bra size isn't that impressive. After moving from a C to an E and almost back again in the past three-ish years, I have discovered that in departments stores here, once you get past that C cup, welcome to grandma bras.
Grandma bras… tell me about it! All those pretty ones, coloured ones, etc. are out of my range. It's beige, white, maybe pale pink, and sometimes black. That's it.


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Debt Rattle November 8 2015
November 8, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:14 am Finance Tagged with: China, debt, EU, Evros, Fed, Frontex, Germany, Greece, Merkel, steel, VW
John Vachon Big Four Cafe, Cairo, Illinois May 1940
• China October Imports Fall 18.8% From A Year Ago, Exports Down 6.9% (Reuters)
• Marginal Productivity Of Chinese Debt Goes From Bad To Much Worse (Gavekal)
• Global Investors Threatened as China Cement Maker Nears Default (Bloomberg)
• Troubled Tata Steel Demands 30% Price Reduction From Suppliers (Telegraph)
• Welcome To The First Global Recession Created By Central Banks (FuW)
• Jim Grant: 'The Fed Is An Irrelevant Anachronistic Relic (Zero Hedge)
• Another Phony Payroll Jobs Number (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Volkswagen Managers Afraid To Travel To US For Fear Of Prosecution (Reuters)
• Germany Says It's Testing Diesel Cars Of Foreign Automakers (Reuters)
• How Juncker And Dijsselbloem Blocked European Anti-Tax Haven Laws (Spiegel)
• The Indispensable European (Economist)
• The German Machine Is Breaking Down (Boston Globe)
• Germany Defies EU as Lawmakers Spurn Deposit-Insurance Plan (Bloomberg)
• Germany Spied on Friends and Vatican (Spiegel)
• A Nation Of Immigrants (MarketWatch)
• EU's Tusk Urges Germany To Help Secure European Borders (Reuters)
• Frontex To Deploy Forces On Greek-Albanian Border (AP)
• Athens May Mull Opening Evros Fence As Part Of EU Deal (Kath.)
• Humanity Is Laid Bare On The Shores Of Europe (Giles Duley)
This is what's shaping the world economy today, far more than anything else, than the Fed or ECB or US jobs reports.
China's trade figures disappointed analyst expectations by a wide margin in October, reinforcing views that the world's second-largest economy will likely have to do more to stimulate domestic demand given stubborn softness in overseas markets. While Beijing has already repeatedly cut interest rates and softened the exchange rate to prop up the economy, latest trade numbers suggest that a greater risk of a hard landing remains. October exports fell 6.9% from a year ago, dropping for a fourth month, while imports slipped 18.8%, leaving the country with a record high trade surplus of $61.64 billion, the General Administration of Customs said on Sunday.
Combined exports and imports fell 8.5% in the first 10 months of the year from the same period a year earlier, well below the full-year official target for growth of 6%. "We see that the trade will unlikely turn around the momentum in the near term, and the renminbi exchange rate will be under downward pressure especially as Fed signals to hike soon," Commerzbank China economist Zhou Hao said. Last week, the Ministry of Commerce said the value of China's exports this year was likely to stay similar to 2014 levels, while imports could drop sharply in the fourth quarter. For 2016, the ministry expects to see steady growth in combined exports and imports as policy measures to support the trade sector take effect.
China's economy is facing headwinds from cooling exports and investment. President Xi Jingping has said it was possible for the country to maintain an annual growth of around 7% over the next five years, but that there were uncertainties. Chinese growth dipped to 6.9% in the third quarter, dropping below the 7% mark for the first time since the global financial crisis. In order to lower social financial costs for firms, the central bank cut interest rates in late October for the sixth time in less than a year, and again reduced the amount of cash that banks must set aside as reserves. It also guided the yuan into weaker territory against the dollar. The onshore yuan has weakened by more than 2% in 2015.
One of our favorite numbers. But note this: "In reality the ratio is probably much lower than the current reading of .47."
Taking the Chinese GDP statistics at face value (an increasingly big assumption these days) we point out a rather ominous scenario which seems to be developing in the productivity dynamics of Chinese debt-financed growth. Basically the amount of growth that each new unit of credit produces is plunging to levels not seen since 2009-2010 when the Chinese unleashed the largest GDP adjusted stimulus program in the world. As it stands now, each new unit of debt is buying less than .5 units of marginal growth, and that, again, is taking for granted the accuracy of the GDP stats (chart 1). In reality the ratio is probably much lower than the current reading of .47.
Is this sustainable? Of course not. As we have been saying for several years now, Chinese growth is going much lower as the economy rebalances from being an investment led model to a consumption led model. One of the signs we're looking for to indicate that the transition is taking place is actually a slowing of new loan growth and improvement in the indicator in chart 1. We've got exactly the opposite so far, which is an indication of the Chinese pushing on the debt string even more to fuel growth rather than accepting slower growth still, but a rebalanced economy.
This, in a perverse way, probably increases the risk of the dreaded hard landing as the chances of a credit "event" rise even further.
All Chinese commodities companies are grossly overinvested and overleveraged.
International investors in Chinese corporate debt face fresh risks after a cement producer said it may default on onshore notes, which could lead to nonpayment on its dollar securities. China Shanshui Cement Group isn't sure it can repay 2 billion yuan ($315 million) of local securities due Nov. 12 after a shareholder tussle stymied financing, it said in a filing Thursday. Failure to repay those notes would trigger a default on its $500 million 7.5% bonds due 2020, according to the statement. Global investors have been scarred by defaults from Chinese companies this year in industries including property and commodities as economic growth slows and anti-corruption investigations continue. Kaisa Group reneged on obligations in April amid a probe.
Coal trader Winsway Enterprises failed to pay interest on dollar bonds for a second time this year in October, and Hidili Industry International didn't repay its dollar notes due Wednesday. "Recently, there have been more cases of Chinese commodities companies having trouble to repay debt," said Raymond Chia, the head of fixed-income research for Asia ex-Japan at Schroder Investment Management Ltd. in Singapore. "But if a relatively healthy cement company ended up having problems, the sentiment to China's commodity space will surely go down." Shanshui has been mired in a shareholder fight for control since April amid President Xi Jinping's call to cull weaker firms in industries grappling with overcapacity. Its largest shareholder Tianrui International has been trying to change Shanshui's board.
Meanwhile its two other shareholders China National Building Material and Taiwan's Asia Cement have announced they are considering the terms of a possible offer. Shanshui cited its "current cash position and the difficulties it faces in raising financing" in its filing Thursday. While the company has been seeking funding since June, all the financial institutions it contacted "have expressed concern in relation to the uncertainty of the management," it said.
China's overcapacity is bringing down global commodities.
Tata Steel has been accused of "bully boy" tactics after demanding its suppliers slash their prices by 30pc as it attempts to pass on the cost of the steel crisis. The Indian-owned company has written to businesses in its supply chain telling them it requires an immediate 10pc price reduction on all purchases, and plans to increase the cuts to 30pc. The letter – which has been seen by the Telegraph – implies that any of its "valued suppliers" that fail to comply with the price cuts face being dropped. Demands contained in the letter emerged just days after Tata's global parent company reported a £301m interim profit. The current crisis in Britain's steel industry – which saw Tata axe 1,200 in Scunthorpe and Scotland last month, on top of a further 1,000 earlier in the year – was blamed for the company writing down the value of its UK assets by £866m.
In a letter signed by Lorraine Sawyer, procurement director of Tata Steel Long Products Europe, which makes up about a quarter of the company's operations in Europe, the company spells out the difficulties it is currently facing. These include global over-capacity and declining steel prices. It adds that "UK-based steel manufacturers have been particularly challenged by their higher cost position driven by high energy prices and business rates…worsened by sterling's appreciation", and cites the closure of SSI's plant at Teesside and Caparo Industries' collapse as evidence of the depth of the crisis. Tata's Long Steel unit faces "a difficult business situation", the letter says, adding that to "ensure a long term sustainable business we have launched a transformation programme to improve our market performance and reduce our cost base".
As a result, the business "will focus on reducing external spend. We cannot achieve this transformation without the support of our valued suppliers." The letter adds: "To this end we are seeking a long-term price reduction of 30pc… on all purchases. As a first step we would appreciate an immediate price reduction of 10pc. "Supporting each other in these challenging times will enable us to further strengthen our relationship into the future. We look forward to having a long term partnership with you." The letter then hints that suppliers who do not comply may be dropped from the company's supply chain: "We greatly appreciate your support but also want to stress that we require contribution from all of our suppliers. "Should you – for any reason – be unable to support us in our efforts, we will need to fully consider other options."
"..even if interest rates are at zero you're still losing money and you have debt on top of it."
Charles Biderman, founder of the research firm TrimTabs, thinks the global slowdown will force the Federal Reserve to launch another stimulus program.
For more than a year, the Fed is trying to prepare the financial markets for a rate hike. What would that do to the credibility of the central bankers if they back off now and actually take a U-turn? Who says they have any credibility? The real problem is that the people who run the central banks are either economists or bankers. If you look at the record of global economists, they've been consistently wrong on the market and on the economy. At least in the United States, 95% of the economists surveyed have said at the start of each of the last five years that interest rates are going to end the year higher. Although they have been wrong each year, people keep listening to them. And when it comes to bankers, consider this: I went to Harvard Business school. The top students there went to firms like McKinsey, Boston Consulting or to the top Hedge Funds. So where did the graduates go who couldn't get the top jobs? They went to the banks. So what you end up with is people just as greedy but not as smart.
The Fed already blinked at the September meeting. Why are they so hesitant to make a move? If the economy continues to slow down going into an election year, the Fed will be under tremendous pressure to do something. They will not let the economy and the stock market slump. That's why I think there will be further easing.
Why are today's stock markets so heavily focused on monetary policy? A simple way to look at market valuations is earnings divided by interest rates or cash flow divided by interest rates. So even if you raise interest rates only a quarter of a point that lowers the value of stocks. Also, once the Fed starts raising, it keeps raising. That decreases the attractiveness of flow trades into the stock market because now you can earn some money on your other assets. Right now, if you're a corporation, your cash earns nothing. So you might as well use some of it to reduce your share count or to do a takeover. Both have been essential drivers of the bull market.
When it comes to the real economy, cheap central bank money seems not to be that beneficial. Governments are creating headwinds for growth. So the best thing central banks can do to promote growth is to cut interest rates to zero or even lower. That can work for a little while. But now it's creating a global recession because of all the excess capacities. Even if it doesn't cost to build a new plant or drill new wells, when demand dries up you're not making a profit. So even if interest rates are at zero you're still losing money and you have debt on top of it. That's why I say: Welcome to the first global recession created by central banks.
Always when we see him, we expect Grant to switch into a Superman costume.
Central bank's experimental policies are only hurting America instead of leading the nation into financial prosperity, exclaims James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. "The Fed is a relic of the age of command and control. The Fed is an anachronism," Grant tells Bloomberg TV in this excellent interview, "The Fed ought to get out of the business of masterminding 'the American enterprise,' what we call the U.S. economy." Central bankers, Grant adds, by pressing rates to nothing, have given rise to this "very pleasant kind of inflation we call bull markets." While bull markets are great insofar as they reflect what is actually going on, "they are very dangerous to the extent that they are the artificial creation of artificial interest rates."
"We are in a regime of price administration. Price control is a policy that has failed for millenia. When prices are manipulated, manhandled, and otherwsise distorted, real decisions follow and the real decisions are distorted… there's bricks, mortar, and human lives attached to these [interest rate decisions]… and that's why they matter" "How do they know the funds rate ought to be zero?" "The world's central bankers went to the same schools, talk the same language, have the same world view. They have shared conditions. They believe, for example, that an average of prices, which they believe they can calculate, must rise at two% a year unless the world fall into something they choose to call deflation.
They believe that they can see into the future. They believe that they have the knowledge and the dexterity to manipulate interest rates to the benefit of society. The central banks no more than the rest of us can see into the future. They are managed by human beings who do their best but who cannot – underscore – cannot see into the future and improve it before it happens. That's their conceit. But it is not given to mankind to do such things. They try. They have every good intention. But they are appliers of an outdated scheme of command and control. They don't know what they do."
"What is wrong with these numbers? Just about everything."
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the US economy created 271,000 jobs in October, a number substantially in excess of the expected 175,000 to 190,000 jobs. The unexpected job gain has dropped the unemployment rate to 5%. These two numbers will be the focus of the financial media presstitutes. What is wrong with these numbers? Just about everything. First of all, 145,000 of the jobs, or 54%, are jobs arbitrarily added to the number by the birth-death model. The birth-death model provides an estimate of the net amount of unreported jobs lost to business closings and the unreported jobs created by new business openings. The model is based on a normally functioning economy unlike the one of the past seven years and thus overestimates the number of jobs from new business and underestimates the losses from closures.
If we eliminate the birth-death model's contribution, new jobs were 126,000. Next, consider who got the 271,000 reported jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, all of the new jobs plus some—378,000—went to those 55 years of age and older. However, males in the prime working age, 25 to 54 years of age, lost 119,000 jobs. What seems to have happened is that full time jobs were replaced with part time jobs for retirees. Multiple job holders increased by 109,000 in October, an indication that people who lost full time jobs had to take two or more part time jobs in order to make ends meet. Now assume the 271,000 reported jobs in October is the real number, and not 126,000 or less, where are those jobs?
According to the BLS not a single one is in manufacturing. The jobs are in personal services, mainly lowly paid jobs such as retail clerks, ambulatory health care service jobs, temporary help, and waitresses and bartenders. For example, the BLS reports 44,000 new retail trade jobs, a questionable number in light of sluggish real retail sales. Possibly what is happening is that stores are turning a smaller number of full time jobs into a larger number of part time jobs in order to avoid benefit costs associated with full time workers. The new reported jobs are essentially Third World type of jobs that do not produce sufficient income to form a household and do not produce exportable goods and services to help to bring down the large US trade deficit resulting from jobs offshoring.
The problem with the 5% unemployment rate is that it does not include any discouraged workers. When discouraged workers—those who have ceased looking for a job because there are no jobs to be found—are included the unemployment rate is about 23%. Another problem with the 5% number is that it suggests full employment. Yet the labor force participation rate remains at a low point. Normally during a real economic recovery, people enter the labor force and the participation rate rises. The bullion banks acting as agents of the Federal Reserve used the phony jobs number to launch another attack on gold and silver bullion, dumping uncovered shorts into the futures market. The strong jobs number provides cover for the naked shorts, because it implies an interest rate hike and movement out of bullion into interest bearing assets.
One passport already seized. Watch the California air resources board. They don't fool around.
Volkswagen managers are worried about travelling to the US, a German newspaper reported on Saturday, saying US investigators have confiscated the passport of an employee who is there on a visit. Citing company sources, the Suddeutsche Zeitung said Volkswagen believes the investigators want to prevent the manager from evading questioning or criminal prosecution linked to the diesel emissions scandal. A spokesman for VW said: "Volkswagen employees are still travelling to the United States. Everything else is speculation." Volkswagen is under investigation in the US and could face penalties of up to $18bn after admitting it deliberately rigged emissions tests of diesel-powered vehicles.
Mary Nichols, head of the California air resources board, which is investigating VW, has criticised the carmaker's handling of the scandal. Citing a person with knowledge of the matter, the paper said it was now unlikely that new VW chief executive Matthias Mueller would travel to the US in the second half of November as planned. "We need legal security here before he can fly to the United States," the paper quoted a person from group management as saying. There is no official plan for VW's new chief executive Matthias Mueller to travel to the US and VW has so far declined to comment when asked whether such a trip is likely.
Sure, let's piss off the French…
Germany is subjecting diesel vehicles including those from foreign manufacturers to strict checks, its transport minister said, following Volkswagen's latest disclosure that it gave false data on CO2 emissions. In a deepening scandal, Volkswagen on Tuesday said it had understated the fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of about 800,000 vehicles sold in Europe. VW in September admitted that it had cheated on diesel emissions tests in the United States.
"We are currently carrying out strict checks on diesel vehicles from other manufacturers including foreign ones," Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Bild daily in an interview published on Saturday. Dobrindt said the EU was working on tougher car emissions tests for the future, which would include tests on the road as well as in the lab. "The tests will therefore become more strict and will more closely resemble the normal driving behavior in road traffic," he told the newspaper.
Shameless grifters. What the EU leadership stands for. All it stands for.
In speeches and interviews, Juncker has always claimed that Luxembourg has in no way enriched itself "at the expense of its neighboring countries," and especially not by encouraging tax avoidance. In everyday political life, however, Juncker's people fought for precisely the kinds of corporate advantages their boss used such rich language to denounce. In order to attract as much corporate money as possible into the country, his officials played around with tax models like "hybrid financial instruments" and, especially, so-called "patent boxes." Introduced in order to spur technological advancement, finance policy experts in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg led the pack in transforming tax advantages into an instrument allowing corporations to steer proceeds from patents or licenses to their Benelux subsidiaries in order to pay lower taxes there.
Under the system, national subsidiaries of large corporations in countries with higher corporate tax rates would pay large patent and licensing fees to subsidiaries in lower tax countries. The system ensured that money got pumped into the government coffers of the Benelux countries, but it also put other EU countries at a disadvantage, in addition to the majority of small- and middle-sized businesses for whom such preferential treatment wouldn't even be considered. Representatives of the other EU member states knew very well what was going on. The German representative in the Working Group on Tax Questions, for example, filed a cable to Berlin in March 2013 in which he noted there had been repeated "doubts about the harmlessness" of a few of the tax models, "mostly having to do with the license box rules of LUX and NDL," the abbreviations being references to Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
But nothing was done about it for years. Each time the Working Group on Tax Questions proposed changes, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands warded them off successfully. It's no wonder, either, given that representatives of the Benelux countries regularly coordinated their decisions in advance at their own meetings. Working in close collaboration, Luxembourg and the Netherlands refused to reveal information about tax rulings for major corporations as far back as 2010, four years prior to the LuxLeaks scandal. The new revelations are highly sensitive. It's not just European Commission President Juncker whose past as the leader of the tax-haven Luxembourg is catching up to him. Another important man at the top of an EU institution also now has some uncomfortable questions to answer: Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem. Even after ascending to his current position as head of the Euro Group, his country continued to block every call for change.
"Her natural caution has given rise to a German neologism, merkeln ("to merkel", or put off big decisions).."
Look around Europe, and one leader stands above all the rest: Angela Merkel. In France François Hollande has given up the pretence that his country leads the continent (see Charlemagne). David Cameron, triumphantly re-elected, is turning Britain into little England. Matteo Renzi is preoccupied with Italy's comatose economy. By contrast, in her ten years in office, Mrs Merkel has grown taller with every upheaval. In the debt crisis, she began as a ditherer but in the end held the euro zone together; over Ukraine, she corralled Europeans into imposing sanctions on Russia (its president, Vladimir Putin, thinks she is the only European leader worth talking to); and over migration she has boldly upheld European values, almost alone in her commitment to welcoming refugees.
It has become fashionable to see this as a progression from prudence and predominance to rashness and calamity. Critics assert that, with her welcoming attitude to asylum-seekers, Mrs Merkel has caused a flood that will both wreck Europe and, long before, also bring about her own political demise. Both arguments are wrong, as well as profoundly unfair. Mrs Merkel is more formidable than many assume. And that is just as well: given the European Union's many challenges, she is more than ever the indispensable European. Mrs Merkel's predominance in part reflects the importance of Germany—the EU's largest economy and its mightiest exporter, with sound public finances and historically low unemployment. She is also the longest-serving leader in the EU.
Her personal qualities count for much, too. She has defended Germany's interests without losing sight of Europe's; she has risked German money to save the euro, while keeping sceptical Germans onside; and she has earned the respect of her fellow leaders even after bruising fights with them. Most impressively (and alone among centre-right leaders in Europe), she has done this without pandering to anti-EU and anti-immigrant populists. For all the EU's flaws, she does not treat it as a punchbag, but rather as a pillar of peace and prosperity. Mrs Merkel is far from perfect. She is not given to great oratory or grand visions. She can be both a political chameleon who adopts left-wing policies to occupy the centre-ground, and a scorpion who quietly eliminates potential rivals.
Her natural caution has given rise to a German neologism, merkeln ("to merkel", or put off big decisions). Her timidity in handling the euro's woes deepened the crisis unnecessarily; she has spurned the risk-sharing that the euro area needs to thrive. Ironically it is boldness, not timidity, that has brought Mrs Merkel the greatest challenge of her time in office. Her staunch refusal to place an upper limit on the number of refugees that Germany can absorb has caused growing consternation at home and criticism abroad. As German municipalities protest, her political allies are denouncing her and eastern European countries are accusing her of "moral imperialism". With Willkommenskultur fading, there is even talk of her losing power.
Already broken. We just don't notice yet.
Rarely have the fortunes of a major European nation changed so quickly as Germany's. Far from being a driver of the European policy process, a role it had just settled into, Germany now finds itself driven by events, mainly the refugee crisis. This turn will not only have a significant impact on Germany's ability to manage its own affairs but is also bound to have global consequences. If Germans have proved particularly adept at one skill, it has been what can broadly be described as complexity management. That is why, for example, German policy makers felt that they could take it upon themselves to launch a radical shift toward renewable energy, even though that strategy met with near disbelief in many quarters outside the country.
Meeting that mega-sized energy transformation challenge alone basically required an "all in" effort on behalf of policy makers, industry, and society at large. Despite the daunting challenges, Germans by and large felt optimistic about their collective ability to get it done. Now, on the eve of the COP21 climate talks in Paris, in the midst of the refugee crisis, one can't be so sure any more that Germany can stay the course. Merely coping with the tremendous refugee inflow has quickly become an all-absorbing effort. All of a sudden, the ability of public authorities and the private sector to get much else done is very limited. Germany's civil servants, skilled and efficient as they generally are, are plainly exhausted. That exhaustion is felt at the local, state, and federal levels.
Just how profoundly the policy landscape in Germany has changed reveals itself perhaps most starkly if one looks at the members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party in the German Parliament. Many are basically speechless, if not incensed. They believe, with good reason, that Germany was already facing many serious policy challenges, from the eurozone crisis to improving the integration of young immigrants that were already in the country. Those problems now seem a mere pittance compared to dealing with the vast inflow of refugees. It has been a rude awakening for a country that thought itself so in control of its destiny.
Amidst all that, Volkswagen's diesel scandal doesn't help. Perceptions matter a great deal, and the fallout is bound to have an impact on Germany's export industries, at least in terms of reputation. In addition, markedly reduced tax payments from VW and its suppliers, whether owing to losses or declining sales, reduce the fiscal space of state and local governments at an inopportune time. Where does all of this leave us? It would be, of course, completely inappropriate to use the refugee problem as an explanation for Germany's — and Europe's — present troubles. It is much more appropriate to argue that the massive wave of refugees simply exposed many of the cracks that had already shown up in the European edifice.
Everyone flaunts EU laws as they see fit. It's a free for all.
Germany's dispute with Brussels over the pace of unification in the euro-area banking industry escalated as the country's parliament called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to resist a proposed common deposit-insurance plan. Lawmakers in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, approved a resolution late on Nov. 5 that urges the government not to agree to the deposit-insurance initiative put forward by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker. While the resolution is non-binding, it would be very difficult politically for Merkel's coalition to disregard it. Juncker announced the plan in his state-of-the-union address on Sept. 9, promising a "legislative proposal on the first steps" by year-end. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble signaled his opposition days later, insisting that a common deposit-guarantee system would have to wait until financial-stability measures already on the books, such as common bank resolution rules, were fully implemented.
"Half-baked proposals that make German savers liable for other countries" make no sense, said Manfred Zoellmer, a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of Merkel's ruling coalition. "Germany has done its homework; we're well placed in this respect," he said. "Other countries have to do their homework first. Only then can we talk about further steps." Antje Tillmann, the lead lawmaker in the Bundestag's Finance Committee for Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, said an existing EU directive on deposit guarantee schemes, on the books since mid-2014, should be properly transposed into national law by all of the bloc's member states before further measures are considered.
The directive "was only transposed by half of the countries," she said. "Against this background, the commission's proposal comes at the wrong time. We should first implement what has already been agreed. Diligence should come before speed." Juncker used a speech in Germany before the vote to play down the impact of his proposal. Speaking to an audience of German cooperative bankers, he said it doesn't involve full risk-sharing between the euro-zone countries, something the German government has been wary of throughout the creation of Europe's banking union.
Because they can.
Three weeks ago, news emerged that Germany's foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), had systematically spied on friends and allies around the world. In many of those instances, the BND had been doing so of its own accord and not at the request of the NSA. The BND came under heavy criticism earlier this year after news emerged that it had assisted the NSA in spying on European institutions, companies and even Germans using dubious selector data. SPIEGEL has since learned from sources that the spying went further than previously reported. Since October's revelations, it has emerged that the BND spied on the United States Department of the Interior and the interior ministries of EU member states including Poland, Austria, Denmark and Croatia.
The search terms used by the BND in its espionage also included communications lines belonging to US diplomatic outposts in Brussels and the United Nations in New York. The list even included the US State Department's hotline for travel warnings. The German intelligence service's interest wasn't restricted to state institutions either: It also spied on non-governmental organizations like Care International, Oxfam and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. In Germany, the BND's own selector lists included numerous foreign embassies and consulates. The e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers of the diplomatic representations of the United States, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and even the Vatican were all monitored in this way.
Diplomatic facilities are not covered under Article 10 of Germany's constitution, the Basic Law, which protects German telecommunications participants from such surveillance. The initial revelations came after Chancellor Angela Merkel's Chancellery, which is in charge of overseeing Germany's intelligence agencies, informed the Bundestag's Parliamentary Control Panel, which is responsible for applying checks and balances to intelligence efforts, in mid-October that the BND had been surveilling the institutions of numerous European countries and other partners for many years. In October 2013, Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned spying on her mobile phone by saying, "Spying among friends? That's just not done." Apparently these words didn't apply to the BND.
As America becomes more diverse, that is being reflected in the home countries of those choosing to become American citizens. Nearly 800,000 people decided to become American citizens in the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, 2013 — and more than a third of them came from Asia. Asians comprised the biggest group of new Americans by region, according to recent data from the Department of Homeland Security, edging out those from North America, in which DHS includes those from Central America and the Caribbean. Mexicans remain the single largest group of foreigners who were naturalized as citizens. But by state they are the biggest group in only 24. Among the remaining 26 states plus the District of Columbia, 10 other nationalities claim the top spot, as this map shows.
In nine states, Indians made up the biggest group of naturalized citizens. Those from the Dominican Republic, who nationwide topped those from China for the first time in at least a decade, are the biggest group in five states, the DHS data show. One of those states is New Jersey. For two years running, Dominicans have made up the biggest group of naturalizations each year, narrowly exceeding the number of Indians. DHS counts 779,929 people who were naturalized across the U.S. in the 2013 fiscal year, up 3% from a year earlier but 25% fewer than the record 1,046,539 who were naturalized in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008. Asians were 275,700 of them, followed by the 271,807 from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Europeans, the biggest source of the immigration waves of a century ago, were 80,333 of the year's naturalizations. By country, the biggest groups after Mexico are India, Philippines, Dominican Republic and China.
German soldiers patrolling Greek borders? Don't think so.
Germany needs to be tougher in the refugee crisis and do more to help secure Europe's external borders, European Council President Donald Tusk said ahead of a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday. While Tusk praised Germany's leadership role as the most liberal and tolerant in European history, he urged Berlin to do more to get the current situation under control. "Leadership responsibility also means securing Europe's external borders together with other member states," Tusk told Die Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "I understand why due to historical reasons, Germany may have difficulty setting up a strict regime on its borders.
But for Germany, European leadership responsibility also means controlling Europe's external borders if necessary energetically in a pan-European unit." Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, has repeatedly stressed the urgency of tightening Europe's borders, while Merkel has pushed for states to show "solidarity" and share responsibilities for refugees. In October, Tusk rebuked fellow European leaders by calling arguments over how to accommodate refugees "naive" as long as Europe fails to stop them surging over its borders. Tusk is due to dine with Merkel on Sunday in Berlin ahead of an EU-Africa summit in Malta on Wednesday and EU leaders meeting on refugees on Thursday.
Evil organization.
The European Union border protection agency Frontex says it will deploy forces along Greece's border with neighboring Albania. Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri on Friday told Albanian television station Top Channel the agency wants to prevent migrants from attempting to reach Western Europe by traveling through Albania. That route isn't used at the moment by the large number of people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Tirana says, however, it has made preparations to shelter refugees should they begin arriving during the winter. Leggeri said there was no plan for a camp in Albania as "that could be a burden on the countries in the region and it is not in line with the union's decisions for the distribution of the emigrants from Greece to the other EU countries."
As I said before: the people should open that fence, not wait for Athens OR Brussels.
Greek authorities have ruled out, again, the possibility of joint sea patrols with Turkey in the Aegean but have indicated, for the first time, that they would be willing to consider opening the fence on the Evros border with the neighboring country if a broad agreement with European Union members could be reached. Speaking to the semi-state Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Saturday, Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas indicated that Athens will not engage in any further discussion on the idea of common sea patrols. "This matter has closed," he said. "There is no chance of joint patrols taking place. What can happen is coordination in the sea or whatever other borders, but each side has to be responsible for its own territory, its own territorial waters."
Athens is opposed to the idea of joining forces with Turkey to patrol the Aegean in order to deter human trafficking gangs from sending refugees across to eastern Aegean islands because Ankara disputes Greece's territorial rights in the sea separating the two countries. "We are a sovereign state and we will not try to solve one problem by creating another bigger one," said Toskas. However, the minister suggested that the Greek government would be willing to consider opening a safe passage for refugees through the fence on the Evros border in northeastern Greece if there is an agreement with Turkey, Bulgaria and the EU. "We can't just open everything when there is a danger that everything will close in Europe," said Toskas in reference to other eastern and central European countries installing fences at their borders. "Evros is not just the 12-kilometer fence on its land border with Turkey, there is also a 140-kilometer river," added the minister, who visited Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece on Saturday.
The EU has already died on its own shores.
In mid-October I arrive in Skala Sikamineas on the north coast of the Greek island of Lesbos. I am here as part of a long-term project for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), documenting the refugee crisis across Europe and the Middle East. For more than a decade I have documented the effects of conflict and humanitarian disaster across the world, and much of that work has been in the countries from which these people now flee. From Afghanistan to South Sudan, in the past years I have seen growing instability across the globe. I understand the fear that is driving people to leave their homes. I thought I had seen it all, but I have never been so overwhelmed as by the human drama unfolding on the beaches of Lesbos. In its sheer scale, it is hard to comprehend; the lack of response impossible to explain or excuse.
The events of the past few years are unprecedented in size and scope. Not since the second world war have so many people been on the move. The UNHCR estimates there are more than 60 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, with over 4 million Syrians alone leaving their war-torn country to seek safety in neighbouring countries and Europe. On Lesbos, I have watched thousands land, fleeing wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Again and again they say to me: "We thought we would die on that boat, but at least there was some chance; what we left behind was certain death." On landing, men break down into tears, women stand lost in visible shock, children cry hysterically. The noise and chaos is deafening; humanity is laid bare on the shores of Europe and the response from politicians is a shambles.
It is volunteers who hold this frontline; often taking unpaid leave from work, bringing their own equipment and living in whatever accommodation they can find; a nurse from Palestine, a doctor from Israel, lifeguards from Barcelona; from Bolton to Oslo, everyday people are making a difference. When survivors, upon landing, shake your hand and say "thank you", I turn ashamed, for they have nothing to thank us for. If this were ever to be my family seeking safety, I hope the world would treat them better. We can argue about the root causes and possible solutions; we can discuss the difference between refugees, asylum seekers and migrants; we can blame traffickers and smugglers. But the simple truth is that men, women and children are suffering terribly and dying on the coasts of Europe, and for the sake of humanity alone we must help them, not turn our backs.
[..] Today, 3 November, has been one of the busiest on record for refugees arriving, and despite the dark, boats are still landing. Estimates put the figure at more than 7,000. Two men and two children drowned. The camps are full, the volunteers and agencies overwhelmed. Families are sleeping wherever they can. An Afghan father with a baby in his arms asks for somewhere to sleep. He offers to pay three times the price in a hotel, even just for his wife and baby. When it's explained there is nowhere left and no blankets, he says: "Touch me, am I not human too?" This is Europe, this is today.
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November 8, 2015 at 10:14 am #24792
John Vachon Big Four Cafe, Cairo, Illinois May 1940 • China October Imports Fall 18.8% From A Year Ago, Exports Down 6.9% (Reuters) • Marginal Product
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 8 2015]
V. Arnold
FUBAR (the world in general)!
Oh the irony; if Russia became the most desirable place to relocate. Russia's central bank chairwoman, Elvira Nabiullina, successfully guided the Ruble through it's crash and recovery. She was an effective foil to the U.S. sanctions debacle, which may yet screw the EU into depression.
If one reads the good stuff, then one knows Elvira Nabiullina has gotten kudos from many western economists for her acumen in things financial within Russia (and we got Yellen, yuck!!).
S.E. Asia's numbers (specifically Thailand) are proportionately smaller than China's, but serious nevertheless. Tourism somehow manages to surprise, but cannot carry the economy. A housing bubble appears imminent and household debt is at 85% of GDP.
This cannot end well and I lost my crystal ball eons ago…
November 8, 2015 at 4:00 pm #24794
Why is it getting so hot? And what is this basket we seem to find ourselves in?
Professorlocknload
V. Arnold, maybe help in clarification,,,
"Each turning comes with its own identifiable mood. Always, these mood shifts catch people by surprise."
The Fourth Turning.
In the end, unsustainable (familiar?) power structures fail. An uncomfortable thought for those who resist change. What to do?
"Do not look for sanctuary In anyone except your self." Siddhartha Gautama
@ Professorlocknload
And, just what needed clarification?
Debt Rattle November 7 2015 Debt Rattle November 9 2015


In the city's first homicide of 2018, a 51-year-old man was shot and killed a little more than two hours into the New Year while driving on the Northwest Side.
The man was among 12 people shot Sunday and early Monday in attacks across Chicago, as city residents rang in the New Year amid sub-zero temperatures.
And the number of people shot is already in double digits.
The good news is, by pro-rating out the numbers, Chicago will be down to 365 homicides for the year which is a 50% reduction.
Shootings however, will jump to 4380, an increase of nearly 800.
See how playing with numbers is fun?
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NOTE: NONE OF THIS IS REAL IT IS JUST A STORY.
Alice was walking home that night but she wasn't sure where to go because nobody told her how to get to her new house. It was not their fault as she was the one who refused their help in the first place. Being the arrogant person that she usually is isn't worth it this night especially since it was raining. However, she was still optimistic that eventually, somehow, she will get home.
"Where are you going?" someone asked her. It sounded like her mom, so, she turned around to look but nobody was there. Freaked out, she ran into the nearest shop she could find. "How may I help you?" the nice lady at the desk asked her. It turned out she had entered a hotel. "I am lost," she said shaking in fear and cold. "Where do you live?" she lady replied with the standard clichéd reply. After telling her story including how she got lost, the receptionist told her that she could drive her home but she would need to wait for an hour because of obvious reasons.
"Thank you so much," Alice replied sounding less scared but still shaking. Then, she went inside the Coffee Shop where she ordered two cups of coffee. Knowing that she has a lot of work to be done, she decided to sacrifice her sleep that night. Suddenly, as she was enjoying her second cup of coffee someone touched her shoulder. That someone asked, "Are you Alice?" to which she replied no by shaking her head. It did cross her mind that lying is not good but she wouldn't want to speak to someone she didn't know unless it was an emergency.
"Don't lie Alice!" the person shouted the words. "You will go to hell Alice!" he continued. Shocked, she ran to the front desk where the sweet receptionist is waiting for her. They reached her home thirty minutes later but since Alice was shaking so bad, the receptionist waited in the car as Alice entered her house. Inside, she found her mother staring at her through the kitchen. Her eyes wide open like she is in disbelief that her daughter would return home so late at night. As Alice got closer, she found out that her eyes weren't the only thing that is wide open. Her neck is too.
Her scream sent the receptionist (let's just call her Terry), running into the house will a phone in her hands. She immediately dialled 911 but to her dismay and amusement, nobody picked up that damn phone. Angry, she redialed the number. "YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!" the operator shouted. Alice ran upstairs but she ran back downstairs after seeing another person upstairs who looked like her mother. "You cannot run from me!" the other person said as she came down the stairs.
"Who are you?" she asked while holding back her tears. Terry was crying and she regretted trying to be a 'good samaritan' for a day. "Oh shut up!" the woman said and she decapitated Terry with her long and sharp finger. Alice who is now the damsel in distress was too scared and shocked to say anything. "Me and your mom used to be twins," the woman said. "We loved each other but one day, she pushed me down the stairs as she was jealous," she continued with the now cliched story of why ghosts want revenge.
Alice ran faster than anything (the cliched running and tripping and running and tripping part were skipped) into her room and she locked her door. She entered her closet and sat quietly at the back. That was when someone tapped her shoulder and asked, "She's still there?" and Alice was never alive again after that.


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Home and Away'ss Todd Lasance (Aden Jeffries) is set to finish filming on the show in mid-January.
He has his sights set on Hollywood, just like many other Home and Away alumni.
"Failure is not an option," the 24-year-old told Confidential.


which can be abused locally or remotely to crash the application.
The attack can be triggered remotely by sending spoofed SMS messages. The attack can also be initiated locally by emulating the sending of an SMS or the corresponding payload. The application crashes once the victim receives a non-numeric SMS message. Problem is the internal BroadcastReceiver that assumes to receive proper numeric sender-numbers of SMS messages.
Verify the intent value against numeric SMS sender numbers in the onReceive(Context, Intent) method in Broadcast receivers.