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BY: Aang Koswara
Program Studi Hubungan Masyarakat Fakultas Ilmu Komunikasi
Universitas Padjadjaran
Performance is a value that is expected by an organization to measure individual's behavior within a certain standard time periode. Performance includes not only the result from the employee's work apprasial, but also from the asessment of other behaviors that will determine the work outcome. Positive attitude towards performance appraisal and the organizational communication climate were considered to be factors that affect employees performance. In reality, a company such as the Telecommunication of Indonesia (PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia) that apllying an online based performance management still faces obstacles in implementing the online based performance appraisal. As the consequences, the target of The Telecommunication of Indonesia become one global company has not been achieved yet. Ts research was aimed to analyze the influence of organizational communication climate and the attitude towards online performance appraisal at The Telecommunication of Indonesia. the condusted anlysis was carried out to see: (1) the correlation organizational communication climate and employees attitude climate and employees attitude towards online performance appraisal; (2) the simultaneous effect of organizational communication climate and employees attitude towards the online-based performance appraisal; (3) the influence of organizational communication climate on the employees performance; and (4) the influence of the employees attitude on the online based performance appraisal. This study used an explanatory survey method. Applying path-anlysis technique, assisted by Lisrel 8.7. intruments in order to examine the relationship and influence of independent variabels specifically organizational communication climate and employees attitude towads the dependent variable that is the online performance appraisal, tested the hyopthesis. The study was conducted at the Corporate Office Building of PT Telkom Bandung with total samples of 92 employees. The results show that the organizational communication climate and the attitude towards online performance appraisal emprirically influenced the employees performance. The organizational communication climate provides the most impact on employee performance. Positive attitude towards online performance appraisal which were supported by excellent organizational communication climate have influenced the employees work implementation, the performance is shown to better.
Keywords: Organization Communication Climate, Attitude and Performance Appraisal
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Hey, I made an app to go along with my website cutepuppypix.weebly.com because I just LOVE puppies! Google "Mobincube Store" and search on the store "Puppy Wallpaper" and my app should come up. i would tell you the exact web address but I forgot it- sorry! It's not in the appstores because to do that would have been really complicated and expensive. So you have to download it off the internet. It's recenly updated, but sorry, to update you will have to delete then reinstall the app when the new version comes out, so just do that every so often to see if anything has changed.
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TAKING CARE OF my sick parents as a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a healthcare provider to serve patients. But growing up in China in the 1960s during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, I couldn't attend school as I wished. Instead, I pursued a teaching career and had a child.
Eventually my path took me to the United States where I first became an LVN, then an RN. I deemed it an honor to be entrusted with the responsibility of patient care. In that spirit, my career hasn't been a chore or a burden, but the fulfillment of my mission.
From my perspective, nursing isn't just a job to perform, but a humane touch we deliver when a patient is at her most vulnerable. After my child's birth in China in the 1970s, I was treated coldly. When I asked if the baby was a girl or boy, a nurse grudgingly told me, "A male." Naturally I asked to see and hold him, but that wasn't allowed.
Later I sneaked into the unattended newborns' room to steal a look at my son. Not knowing which infant was mine, I wandered apprehensively among the newborns until I located my hospital-bed number at the side of a crib. I launched no protest, though I felt chilled to the bones by this experience.
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Praveena Mohan is a charcoal artist and a miniature painter. Her recent exhibition of her vivid art works along with Astro Mohan at Udupi, especially the miniature painting works on 'Raasaleela', a theme based on the Geetha Govinda of renowned poet Jayadeva, raised the eyebrows of art lovers and critics in appreciation.
Recently when Gujarath experienced the trauma of the century, the earthquake, which caused huge loss of life and property ever heard of in the history of the nation, Mohan dared to visit the quake-hit areas and captured the pathetic and heart throbbing scenes in his camera. The daredevil photos taken by Mohan were recently exhibited in the Banquet hall in Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore. The exhibition under the banner 'Gujarath Earthquake Disaster as I saw it' was inaugurated by none other than the Chief Minister Mr. S.M.Krishna who whole heartedly appreciated the pains taken by Mohan in capturing the heart throbbing glimpses of the tragedy of the Century to enable people realise the loss of life and property caused by the fury of the mother earth.
Today the proud and rare photographs snapped by Mohan have found prestigious place in the offices of Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, Karnataka bank, and also in the offices of the Kannada Sangha at Mumbai, Delhi, etc. The spectacular floral photos snapped by him have decorated the calenders of various renowned banks attracting millions of art lovers.
The eminent personalities of photojournalism like Mr.T.S.Satyan, the Magazine Editor of Udayavani, and Mr.A. Ishwarayya have whole-heartedly appreciated the painstaking artistic works of Mohan who has taken the challenge to explore the newer horizons of journalism with greater zeal and commitment for the last eight years in his quest.
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I noticed that the original graph stretched the periods 1980-1990 and 2000-2008, and squeezed a few sections to make the time axis linear: every ten years takes the same space.
The increase in incarcerated Americans is even more dramatic here, but it no longer coincides with the Sentencing Reform Act.
I wonder (1) what a graph of incarcerated Americans per capita would look like, to control for rising population, and (2) whether anything happened around 1980 that might be related to the visible increase.
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"Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis — a good hot cup of coffee." — Alexander King
I couldn't agree more with Alexander King. A cup of coffee comes to the rescue for me on so many occasions. I pour a cup of liquid gold in the morning to kickstart my day or grab a latte after lunch to fight the 3 o'clock slump. I also might take a tiny cup of hot espresso after dinner. As they say, coffee is liquid gold. With a reputation like that, coffee deserves a little extra attention.
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muffins - This White Chocolate Raspberry Muffin Mix is a unique twist on your standard muffin.
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'Tales From Inferna' is an ongoing web serial. Part writing exercise, part homage to the pulp-fiction genre. Click here if you're interested in learning more about the scope and goals of the project. Below you'll find Issue #2, but be sure to start at the beginning with Issue #1
Yura couldn't climb the ladder any further.
'Guys,' he croaked, his arms shaking.
His companions pace quickened.
'Guys!' Yura repeated, louder this time.
'Quiet!' said the man furthest ahead, climbing ever faster.
They were leaving him. Leaving him to die. He could feel the miles of nothingness below, prickling his back, willing him to fall. He glanced downwards, wondering if he might have enough strength to climb back down. But that path was madness.
'Mikki, please! I need help!'
The man furthest ahead continued to climb, but there was another behind him who paused.
'We can't help you, Yura,' said Mikki.
'I can't climb anymore, Mikki,' begged Yura. 'Please don't leave me behind. You've got to–'
'Shut up!' shouted the man farthest ahead. He was now out of sight, hidden by the darkness of the tunnel.
'What our charming leader means is, any energy spent talking is energy not spent climbing. So unless you want to decorate the floor a nice shade of Yura, I suggest you get moving.' With that, Mikki started climbing again.
Yura found himself all alone.
When Yura was young, he and his friends would play in the tunnels pretending to be hunters. Sometimes they would dare each other to climb the ladder. Yura was the only one who ever made it to the top. Back then the top of the ladder hadn't been very far; a padlock and a metal grill stopped anyone who shouldn't be there from climbing too high. To a gang of children though, it was as if Yura had touched Inferna itself.
But this was no longer pretend.
'Yura!' came a voice from above. 'We've found the last hatch,' said the voice again. It came from the leader of the expedition, Koko. 'Get your arse up here now.'
Yura began to climb, each movement a trial. His body protested in agony, any moment now it would fail and he would plummet to his death.
As his grasp started to waver, two pairs of hands seized him and hoisted him upwards through a narrow opening.
He collapsed. He heard his pulse thumping in his ears, and faintly, the sound of a hatch being closed.
They were so close.
He wished his old friends could see him now: Yura the hunter. It still hadn't sunk in. He was going to have the adventures they had all imagined, live the life they had dreamed of once upon a time.
'You still with us, kid?'
Yura opened his eye to see Mikki and Koko standing over him. In the dark, with their identical suits and masks, it was impossible to tell them apart.
'I'm ok,' said Yura smiling, holding up a thumbs-up. 'I am ok.'
Koko shook his head. 'This isn't playtime. We're here to do a serious job.
Yura saw Mikki roll his eyes. 'I know the circumstances aren't ideal, but it's the kids first day. Let him have a little fun.'
'We've got hundreds of miles to walk,' Koko started. 'Rough sleeping. Nothing but disgusting liquid nutrients to keep us going. All to find a needle in a haystack. Not my idea of fun.'
'Come on,' said Yura, smiling. 'Any day walking on the surface has got to be better than a day down below.'
Koko was silent, for a moment. It was only now Yura realised how thick the mood had been.
'Let's not forget why we've been sent up here. Amorak is dead. A man I once considered a very good friend. For some reason it just had to be me they sent to find his remains.' said Koko. 'So no, to answer your stupid question. The days up here are not "better". I, for one, want to get this done and go home. Shape up and take this seriously, or maybe you'll die up here too.'
All day Yura had worn an excited smirk, only now did he realise how it had been grating on Koko's patience. The verbal walloping caused his face to yo-yo from a deep shade of red to a sickly pale white.
Koko stormed ahead to the next room, muttering.
'He's moodier than usual today,' said Mikki, offering a hand to help Yura up.
'I didn't mean to upset him.'
'You haven't done anything. You're excited to see the surface, no shame in it. The dead bloke we're looking for, Amorak, is a sore subject with Koko.'
'Why?' asked Yura.
'It's a whole thing, let's just leave it at that. Come on, before he explodes again.'
The followed Koko into the next room. One much larger than the tight tunnels and shafts the three had been navigating for most of the day. At the far end of the room, Yura eyed a giant metal door and did his best not to smile.
Koko was kneeling on the floor, spreading open a map. He patted the edges down as they bounced free and let out a frustrated sigh.
'This is us,' Koko said, pointing to a section of the map. 'We'll hang about here for a bit. It'll get cooler when the sun starts to set, meaning the suits don't have to work quite so hard—meaning we'll save some fuel.'
'Are you writing this down?' said Mikki.
'I… I didn't bring a pen.' said Yura.
'He's joking.' muttered Koko stone-faced. 'He does that.'
'Oh crack a smile you moody old git,' said Mikki.
Koko ignored him. His finger slid across the map, resting on a series of crudely drawn houses. He then traced it back an inch and tapped the spot. 'This is as far as I'm hoping Amorak got. If he made it any further I doubt we'll ever find him.'
'We'll find him,' said Yura. 'His family is counting on us.'
Koko and Mikki exchanged a look.
'What's that?' asked Koko.
'His family? We're bringing the body back for them surely?'
'Oh Yura,' said Mikki chuckling. 'You sweet innocent babe.'
Yura frowned, confused.
'We've been sent to get his suit. Not the body.' said Koko. 'One of these suits are worth a hundred of me or you. The ugly truth of it is…by this point, with nothing powering the suit…there's not going to be much left of him. You'll need to prepare yourself.'
Yura didn't understand. He'd seen a dead body before. Life below in the Empyrean was cramped and people died all the time. How fragile did Koko think he was?
'I can cope with a stiff.'
Mikki and Koko exchanged a look which filled Yura with unease.
'He won't be stiff.' said Mikki quietly,
Look,' started Mikki uncomfortably. 'Sitting out there in that ungodly heat. By now there's a good chance he would have…liquefied.'
'Yeah,' nodded Mikki. 'What's more, if we find him we're going to have to open his suit and, err, tip out what's left of him…'
'It won't look pretty,' Koko continued, 'it'll smell something fierce as well, that filter in your mask isn't going to do a thing about the stench. I tell you this because if upon seeing the remains you throw up inside your own mask—you will not get an opportunity to take off that mask until we return. That is going to be one shitty walk home for you, lad.'
Yura's stomach churned. He felt like he was going to throw up right now. Was he even allowed to take his mask off now? He'd been told to put it on before they'd started climbing. Yura swallowed hard and tasted bile slide back down his throat.
'Paints a picture, doesn't he?" smiled Mikki.
Koko carried on, explaining the finer details of the journey they were about to embark on, but Yura's attention was gone. He could hear the surface calling him.
He'd waited so long to see what was left of the earth.
'Turn your suit on.' said Koko finally. He approached a control panel on the wall, and the hum of a huge motor roared into action. 'It's time.'
Yura's heart thumped hard. He did his best to feign a grim look of determination.
The doors opened, slowly at first, then suddenly all at once. The dark, grimy room became illuminated.
There was a terrible light, and Yura found himself blind.
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It was bread day in third grade and I was on duty as parent volunteer with four eager 8-year-olds in my group. We were handed a recipe and a large, heavy-duty plastic zipper bag. The ingredients for our task sat on tables at the front of the room. They were of the regular sort: flour, sugar, water, oil and yeast. Our instructions advised us to mix them in the bag and go home with bread at the end of the day. Easy enough. Although I didn't want to admit it, I stood on a leavened playing field with my young bread-making apprentices. Oh, I'm handy enough when it comes to flour, sugar, water and oil. It was the yeast that had me deflated. Working with live (hungry) organisms in the kitchen tends to frazzle my nerves. (I'm talking about the yeast here, not the kids.) I could go into detail about my bread-making fiasco of 1997, but let's just say yeast and I don't mix well. At least we didn't. Until bread day in my son's third grade class. My young bakers scooped, poured and tossed the ingredients into the plastic bag. After checking once, twice and three times to ensure the seal was sealed we were ready for the fun part: kneading the dough. In third grade terms this involves punching, poking, prodding and jabbing at the dough through the plastic with 8-year-old fingers. Voracious is an understatement of the kneading capabilities of third graders. Some of us were rather violent in our interpretation of kneading. I am proud to say my team of bakers did not puncture our bag. Other groups were not so fortunate. I'd never witnessed aggressive kneading before and hoped our yeast would survive. In my experience, yeast can be temperamental. I didn't want to be the one to explain to my eager third graders that we'd "killed" our yeast. Never fear. We must have had a tough lot because our bread rose just like the label promised. My son thought it tasted better than cotton candy. I was impressed. And inspired. So I did the unthinkable. I went to the grocery store and bought some yeast. It was an optimistic (albeit weak) moment. Maybe my memories from 1997 were flawed. Certainly I had the skills to equal the bread-making prowess of a bunch of third graders. I stirred the ingredients together and the finished product was enough to give anyone dough-envy. It was beautiful. It smelled good (sort of like unbaked bread). It didn't stick to my fingers and rolled into a perfect bready dough ball. The confidence swelled within me as I separated my handiwork into golf ball-sized pieces, placed them on a baking sheet, covered them with a clean towel and left them on the warm radiator to rise. I checked back in 10 minutes. No action. Twenty minutes later still no rising or enlargement of my buns. After two hours, I threw the dough balls away. I was down, but never beaten. I took another look at my yeast package. It's important to read labels. Make a note of that for yourself. My recipe called for quick-rising yeast. I'd bought the regular variety. Back to the store I went optimism spewing from me like multiplication facts from a third grader. All I needed was the right yeast and this bread thing would be a piece of cake. Once home, I stirred everything together again and created nothing short of Pice dough rsistance. One thing was for sure: I had the dough thing down pat. The rising of the dough, however, was not so triumphant. I was beginning to understand the true meaning of desperate housewife. My third "loaf," while edible, baked up heavy as a fruitcake. I called it progress and willed myself to gear up for a fourth attempt. I will not let this bread thing break me although I must admit my confidence is not as light and airy as it once was. I'm cultivating a plan for mastering the yeast. The next time I "make bread" I think I'll invite my son to help. Because when it comes to the science of yeast, I now know one thing for sure: I am definitely not smarter than a third grader.
Jill Pertler, award-winning syndicated columnist and author of "The Do-It-Yourselfer's Guide to Self-Syndication." is collecting fans on Facebook on her Slices of Life page. Email her at email@example.com; or visit her website at marketing-by-design.home.mchsi.com/.


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Beside Still Waters Trailer (2013)
Trailer for Beside Still Waters.
Daniel Thatcher, a young romantic, has recently lost both of his parents in a car accident. None of his friends came to the funeral, and now he's losing the family home. The weekend before he has to move out, Daniel hosts a memorial celebration and insists that his friends attend. In addition, Daniel invites his ex-girlfriend, Olivia, to the house, with the hopes of rekindling their old romance.
Things quickly take a turn for the worse as none of his friends share in Daniel's nostalgia of the good old days. Furthermore, when Olivia finally arrives, she's brought her new fiance. But as the night progresses, the house brings out the adolescence in all of them, and what follows is an evening full of drinking and dancing. Laughter and secrets. Sex, drugs, mischief and regret.
The next day everyone must face the revelations of the night before, none more so than Daniel, who finally confronts his friends about their absence at his parents' funeral. Once again, Daniel finds himself alone and brokenhearted. He has to let go of the past. He has to mourn. He has to forgive. In doing so, Daniel begins to see that the flaws in the people he loves are intertwined with their beauty. As everyone prepares to leave the house for the last time, their childhood memories come flooding back to them, and Daniel is left with the hope that the friendships of his past will become the family of his future.
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I make these stuffed vegetables for summer picnics, backyard BBQ's and for pot luck dinners. They are healthy and not too difficult to make. For this recipe I used eggplants, tomatoes and peppers. You could also use, zucchini and onion (practically anything that can be hollowed out ). Choose small and tender vegetables if you can. They cook faster.
1/3 cup currents
1/4 cup pignoli nuts
1 large onion chopped
1 tsps allspice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp dried mint
1/3 cup of olive oil
2 cups of water
1 cup of rice
salt and pepper to taste
To prepare the vegetables:
For eggplants: Cut eggplants in half. Hollow out the centers using a scooper or a spoon (grapefruit spoon works well) .
For peppers: cut the tops off just underneath the stems (save them for later use) rinse them under the sink to rid them from the seeds.
For tomatoes: same as above. Save the tops for caps for later use. (Chop the fleshy part of the tomato to mix in with rice).
In a pot saute chopped onions, pignoli nuts and currents in 1 cup olive oil until the onions are translucent. Add rice, spices, herbs (salt and pepper) and 1 cup of water. Cook until all the water is absorbed (rice will be half cooked). Let it cool and spoon loosely to fill the vegetables.


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While Americans guzzle down gallons of coffee like jittery dope fiends, Mexicans have the true secret to waking up in the morning: hot-as-hell chile peppers. You'll barely spend more time making this guajillo salsa recipe than you would opening a jar of the store-bought stuff, and it'll get your blood pumping way faster than any espresso can. The rest of the ingredients -- eggs, chorizo, black beans, and Jack cheese -- take care of other important things, like actually feeding you.
Breakfast Tacos and Guajillo Salsa Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes
Yield: 12 tacos
- 2 ounces (about 9) dried guajillo chiles, stemmed
- 6 garlic cloves, unpeeled
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 ½ tablespoons vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 8 ounces Spanish chorizo, chopped
- 10 large eggs, whisked
- 24 (6-inch) corn tortillas
- 1 (16-ounce) can refried black beans
- 8 ounces (2 cups) Jack cheese
- 1/4 cup cotija cheese
- 1 avocado, peeled and sliced thin
- 12 radishes, sliced thin
- Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Toast chiles until slightly puffed and fragrant, 30 seconds per side. Let cool.
Cut chiles into thin rings and place them in a medium bowl. Submerge chiles with 1 cup of boiling water and let soak for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat the same skillet again over medium-high heat. Add garlic; cook, turning often, until tender and skin is lightly charred, about 8 minutes. Let cool.
- Peel garlic and trim the ends. Toss them into a blender along with remaining ingredients and the chiles, including the liquid and seeds. Pulse until you get a thick purée. Pour into a serving bowl and set aside while you make the tacos.
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Arrange tortillas on 2 baking sheets in stacks of 2. Spread 2 tablespoons of beans on each stack. Sprinkle cheese evenly over the beans. Bake until cheese melts, about 10 minutes.
- Melt butter in that same cast-iron skillet over medium heat; add chorizo and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned. Pour whisked eggs into the chorizo and scramble until eggs are just set. Remove from heat.
- Pull tortillas out from the oven and transfer them to plates. Top with chorizo-egg mixture. Spoon guajillo salsa on top and sprinkle with cotija cheese. Serve with avocado and radishes.


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Irlande et Islande, une vraie solution
Posted by Québec de Droite in Dette publique, Irlande, Islande on jeudi 3 mars 2011
Les Irlandais votaient vendredi 25 février dans l'indifférence médiatique, quelques Irlandais ruinés par leur Etat-Providence se dirigeant vers un bureau de vote.
Les Irlandais ont voté pour un gouvernement qui va renégocier la dette et les conditions de l'aide de l'Union européenne. Pas un euro de plus dans les banques sans restructuration de la dette. "Restructuration", c'est le terme élégant pour dire "nous ne vous paierons pas tout ce que nous devons".
5,8% c'est un taux d'intérêt "punitif" a dit Enda Kenny, le nouveau Premier ministre. Ce sont les conditions qu'a accordées la grande et généreuse Europe à l'Irlande. Ne croyez pas qu'Enda Kenny soit une cigale celtique. Il avait soutenu les quatre plans de rigueur imposés en trois ans.
Enda Kenny veut faire payer les détenteurs de dette senior des banques. "Bien fait", pensez-vous, "que les banques payent donc pour leurs méfaits ; ces Irlandais ont bien raison".
Voici, un texte qui est un peu long (j'ai gardé les extraits qui traitaient de l'Irlande), par contre il est croustillant et informatif.
Il fait une analyse de la situation de l'Irlande et compare avec celle de l'Islande, qui après une chute sévère, les revenus des gens repartent à la hausse.
En Irlande, ils continuent de s'enfoncer …
Notez que dans le cas de l'Islande, en plus, un effondrement du taux de change de leur monnaie a engendré une forte inflation importée (même si je suis prêt à parier que leur MV, lui, est resté plat voire a baissé). Mais ils ont détruit leur mauvaise dette et ils repartent de l'avant, au lieu d'essayer de graver dans le marbre la mauvaise dette (et les créances associées) par tous les moyens.
Extrait de: When Irish Eyes Are Voting, John Mauldin, February 27th, 2011
When Irish Eyes Are Voting
I have written about Ireland before, but we need to once again focus on what are not smiling Irish eyes. Ireland was once the envy of Europe, with one of the highest growth rates in the world. It was not long ago that Ireland could borrow money at lower rates than Germany. Now rates are 6% and likely to rise with the new government. Let's look at a few data points from a brilliantly written article by Michael Lewis, who ranks as one of my favorite writers. When he writes, I read it just for the education on what great writing should look like, as well as for the always fascinating information. The article is at Vanity Fair.
· Housing prices in Dublin had risen by 500% since 1994. Rents for homes were often 1% of the price of the home. A $1-million-dollar home went for $833 a month. That is a very clear bubble.
· Irish home prices implied an economic growth rate that would leave Ireland, in 25 years, three times as rich as the United States.
· In 1997 the Irish banks were funded entirely by Irish deposits. By 2005 they were getting most of their money from abroad. The small German savers who ultimately supplied the Irish banks with deposits to re-lend in Ireland could take their money back with the click of a computer mouse. Since 2000, lending to construction and real estate had risen from 8 percent of Irish bank lending (the European norm) to 28 percent. One hundred billion euros—or basically the sum total of all Irish public bank deposits—had been handed over to Irish property developers and speculators. By 2007, Irish banks were lending 40 percent more to property developers than they had to the entire Irish population seven years earlier.
· As the scope of the Irish losses has grown clearer, private investors have been less and less willing to leave even overnight deposits in Irish banks and are completely uninterested in buying longer-term bonds. The European Central Bank has quietly filled the void: one of the most closely watched numbers in Europe has been the amount the ECB has loaned to the Irish banks. In late 2007, when the markets were still suspending disbelief, the banks borrowed 6.5 billion euros. By December of 2008 the number had jumped to 45 billion. As Burton spoke to [Lewis], the number was still rising from a new high of 86 billion. That is, the Irish banks have borrowed 86 billion euros from the European Central Bank to repay private creditors. In September 2010 the last big chunk of money the Irish banks owed the bondholders, 26 billion euros, came due. Once the bondholders were paid off in full, a window of opportunity for the Irish government closed.
Ø A default of the banks now would be a default not to private investors but a bill presented directly to European governments.
A political investigative blog called Guido Fawkes somehow obtained a list of the Anglo Irish foreign bondholders: German banks, French banks, German investment funds, Goldman Sachs. (Yes! Even the Irish did their bit for Goldman.)
Alors, on sauve l'Irlande pas pour les Irlandais,
mais pour sauver les banques étrangères.
· [And this is the kicker!] "Googling things, Kelly learned that more than a fifth of the Irish workforce was employed building houses. The Irish construction industry had swollen to become nearly a quarter of the country's G.D.P.—compared with less than 10 percent in a normal economy—and Ireland was building half as many new houses a year as the United Kingdom, which had almost 15 times as many people to house." [That makes the US housing bubble look small by comparison.]
Now, let's turn to that repository of all things leftist, the UK Guardian, as they write about today's elections.
An Extra "15 Million" Homes
"Though the campaign has shed disappointingly little light on realistic options ahead, the financial numbers are scary. After 2000 the early Celtic Tiger years became a property-led speculative bubble, made worse by weak planning laws and 300,000 too many new homes. The crash saw GDP collapse by 11%, unemployment triple to 13.3% and government debt quadruple to 95%, which will rise to 125% by 2014 on IMF estimates."
Let's think about that for a moment and compare it to the US.
· We built somewhere between 2 and 3 million too many homes in our bubble, depending on whom you ask.
· Total Irish population (including Northern Ireland) is 6 million people. If the US had built the same number of excess homes, there would have been 15 million of them!
And the banks just kept lending!
Irish taxpayers are being asked to pay French, German, and British bond banks and the ECB, which bought that debt. It is 30% of their GDP, along with the rest of the debt. At 6% interest, that means it will take 10% of their national income just to pay the interest. It guarantees that Ireland will be in a poverty cycle for decades.
The ECB and the IMF seem to think the solution
for too much debt is more debt.
And in order to pay the ECB, the Irish must take on an austerity program that guarantees even worse recessions and higher unemployment.
The government that agreed to take on the bank debts is going to be voted out in spectacular fashion today. Whether one party can win or has to form a coalition government is not yet clear, but the mandate is to renegotiate the Irish debt. Both the ECB and the Germans have said that is not possible, that deals have been made.
But asking Irish voters, you don't get the sense they feel the same obligation.
Even the venerable Martin Wolf of the Financial Times agrees. Writing last week:
"So what might a new government seek to do? Its degrees of freedom are, alas, limited. Even excluding recapitalisation of the banks, the primary fiscal deficit (before interest payments) was close to 10 per cent of GDP last year. Under the IMF programme, this is to be turned into a surplus of 1.5 per cent of GDP by 2015. Given the lack of access to private markets, the deficit would have to be eliminated even more quickly without the official assistance. Again, the debt overhang would be huge, under any plausible assumptions. Ireland is doomed to fiscal stringency for decades, given its poor growth prospects, at least in comparison with its Tiger years.
"Apart from the Armageddon of a sovereign default, two partial escapes exist.
1) The more trivial would be a reduction in the rate of interest on Ireland's borrowing: a 1 per cent reduction in the rate of interest would save the state 0.4 per cent of GDP a year. That would be a small help, at least.
2) A more valuable possibility would be a writedown of existing subordinated and senior bank debt, which currently amounts to €21.4bn (14 per cent of GDP).
"The ECB and the other members of the European Union have vetoed this idea, fearful of contagion. Indeed, the assistance package was partly to prevent just such an outcome. Yet the idea that taxpayers should bail out senior creditors of massively insolvent banks at such risk to the solvency of their state is both unfair and unreasonable. If the rest of the EU is determined to protect senior creditors, it should surely share in the cost of doing so.
Et la question qui tue !
Why should the taxpayers of the borrowing country pay all?
The new Irish government should make this point firmly."
There are a significant number of Irish voters who wonder why they should pay any of it. Not the majority (yet), but enough. This is the Maginot Line for the ECB. If they renegotiate with Ireland, then Greece will be at the door in a heartbeat. Ditto for Portugal.
As one story I read about Ireland said, "Parties we go to now are going away parties as people, especially young people, leave for other countries with better opportunities." The mood of the country will grow more dour.
Look at this chart.
Notice how well Iceland did after it simply repudiated its debt.
It wasn't easy, and inflation is brutal, but they are better off than if they had taken on a debt burden that would have made them indentured servants to British taxpayers for decades.
The ECB, the IMF, and the rest of the EU is asking Ireland to willingly fall into a lengthy depression.
Would walking away from the debt, or restructuring it, be any worse?
What if the opening negotiating line started was, "We will repay the principle, but no interest, and the timeline has to be stretched out over 25 years?" And no payments for five years. Oh, and we have about 300,000 houses you can have as our first payment.
Yes, the Irish would be frozen out of the bond market. It would result in an even more serious recession. But they could actually grow their way out of it over time. A lot faster than if they were trying to pay off the debt at 6-7% interest.
And remember that Argentina, for God's sake, got money just a few years after defaulting – twice, if I remember right! If Ireland got back on a sound footing, they could once again find acceptance in the bond market.
I know, that sounds radical. But give it a few years of austerity and see what the next elections bring. Irish debt will default, not because the Irish don't have hearts of gold or don't want to not pay their debts, but because they are under such a burden they can't. And eventually enough voters will realize that. It may not be next month, or even next year, but it will come. You can only ask so much of a people.
C'est exactement ce qui se passe en Grèce, le peuple refuse d'embarquer dans le jeu, avoir des décennies d'austérité pour satisfaire les banques.
Defaulting on sovereign debt is only unthinkable in elite European Union circles.
Bien sûr, notre élite oligarchique ne pense qu'aux groupes d'intérêts,
pour les jeunes générations vous êtres le sacrifice sur l'autel.
And asking German voters to pay for those defaults? Care to run on THAT platform?
This has the potential to really roil the debt markets, not to mention the interbank markets. The US is doing ok, except that job creation has been slow. A European debt crisis could throw a wrench into the world gears.
And that is the heart of the problem. The Irish really do want to do the right thing. The Greeks, not so much. Portugal? Spain?
The leadership of the EU is living in denial if they think that more debt is the answer to too much debt.
It is all well and good for the Germans to tell everyone to cut back (and they should) but to do so means that the countries go into recession and have even less money to pay their debt burdens. They get into a debt spiral and the only way out is restructuring, which is default by a nice name.
Somewhere, sometime, this is all going to end in tears.
The EU will be better off restructuring the debt, letting insolvent banks go the way of all flesh, or financing them and letting the euro drop like a stone, which will only make their exporting companies more competitive (not good for the US and China, but we don't get to vote in the EU). Or they can break up. I think the former is better than the latter, but that's just me.
Tout à fait d'accord avec lui !
The world went crazy with debt. The US, Japan (where I fly to in less than 12 hours), much of Europe, and Great Britain. And now we have to deal with it. Acting like adults would be best, and recognizing that some countries just can't assume their banking debts is just being realistic. A lot of people made bad choices and now those choices are coming home.
It is all so very sad. People are hurting. I read the blogs in Ireland and it brings tears to me Irish eyes (or the large part of me that is of Irish heritage).
There are no easy answers. No easy button.
The only button we have is the reset button,
for the Blue Screen of Death.
That means pulling the plug and starting over.
This time with realistic debt levels and bond markets.
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It's been a lot of fun doing the Disillusionists re-read. We had a pretty good discussion the other day on Mind Games at the Goodreads group, and now folks are starting Double Cross. Getting ready for the eBook release of Head Rush December 6 (it's already available on Audible, and the paperback will be out in 2012).
I've really enjoyed this series the second time around. I feel like I "get" Justine better, and I loved re-discovering all of the small details that make up the Disillusionists' fascinating world.
Carolyn Crane has been kind enough to stop by to answer a few questions, and the awesomeness that is Samhain is offering an e-ARC of Head Rush! Right here! (Details to follow the Q's)
So let's all welcome Carolyn, and get on with the fun!
"How does it feel, getting the final book in the Disillusionists trilogy in reader's hands?"
You can't even imagine what a relief it will be to me when all forms are finally released. I feel really close to my readers, and I've been really aware of having left people in suspense for a long time. What's really kind of funny is that, for the first two books I was biting my nails on reviews and how people would like the story, but on this one, I'm biting my nails over how long people have had to wait after that notorious Double Cross ending, and also, the different release times (LOL totally didn't plan it this way!) But, the upside is that it has taken my mind off worrying about reviews. I'm just happy now for people to get the end, and hopefully it will have been worth the wait. I think an author craves a sense of completion as much as a reader does!
"Any plans for future projects featuring any of the Disillusionists?"
I'm currently working on a longish Simon novella (because I luv Simon!!) which I plan to release on my own in early spring 2012, likely February or March. (And, FYI: I will be offering it for free to my newsletter subscribers before I put it on sale online as a reader appreciation thing. So, for anybody who wants Simon for free, check out the newsletter link at the end of this!)
"Where did your idea for a hypochondriac come from?"
I've known lots of hypochondriacs of different kinds in my life, and I used to worry about my health when I was younger, so I felt a connection to that phobia. I think in a way everybody can relate a bit to health fear. I think it's a basic human fear.
"Was it a conscious decision to write in the 1st person, or did the story just start flowing naturally from Justine's perspective?"
I knew this would be a highly psychological novel, so first person (and present tense) felt like the most immediate choice. I felt as though, in first person present, it would really be like you're living the action and events. I was surprised to learn not everyone is a fan of first person present, but I like it for this book.
I really enjoy reading outside my genre! I love historical romance, as well as mysteries, romantic suspense, and paranormal romance, with the occasional epic fantasy thrown in.
"Why did you chose the beret as Otto's trademark hat?"
I don't really have a coherent reason for it! I guess I wanted Otto to have an outward manifestation of this phobia of hitting his head, and also, berets go with lots of different outfits.
Snort! Actually back when I was in college, a lot of girls, including me, were into what we considered the "European look" with berets and long sweaters. We did not dominate the world, even the dating scene, with that look. Today, I am beret-less, but if I ever plan world domination, that would be the perfect hat!! LOL.
[And because readers are greedy little monsters who want more, more, more] "What are you working on now? And when can we read it?"
Greedy! I would describe it more as 'such a compliment!' Well, in addition to the forthcoming Simon novella, I have two series I'm working on—one I'm shopping to NY pubs, and one I'm self-pubbing. The self-pub one is a spy/paranormal suspense series, and I'll hopefully have the first book out in fall of 2012. The other series is a kind of paranormal mystery, and if a pub picks it up, 2013. Fingers crossed!
Thank you very much!
Hey, thanks to you, Kindle-aholic, and everybody here doing the re-read (and first read)! There are so many wonderful books out there; the fact that you chose to spend time with mine is a total honor!
{And back to me] Thank you so much to the readers who submitted questions, to the fabulous Carolyn Crane for stopping by (and just being a joy to talk to), and to Samhain for sponsoring the giveaway!
You can find out more about Carolyn Crane at her website and subscribe to her newsletter here (Free Simon novella FTW!). To find out more about Samhain, their titles and upcoming releases, head on over to their website.
Now on to the Head Rush e-ARC Giveaway! There are a few ways to enter:
1) Be a member of the Goodreads Disillusionists re-reads group.
2) Leave a comment.
3) For an extra entry - tell us in the comments what kind of Disillusionist you would be.
Contest ends 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, November 20, 2011. I'll use Random.org to find the winner. I'll announce the winner here Monday, November 21. You'll have 48 hours to get me your contact info or I'll draw another winner.
What kind of Disillusionist would I be? Let's face it, we all have our quirks and fears. I admit that I am obsessive about locking doors. I blame growing up in SoCal during the whole Night Stalker case, but there you have it. So I think I would have to be an OCD Disillusionist.
How about you?
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In obstructed labor with her sixth child, Celestine was rushed to her local health facility, only to be told she couldn't have emergency surgery until her family made a down payment. Anxious and afraid, she waited for her husband to return with the money needed.
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Celestine, 35, is from Mount Elgon, in western Kenya. She is a mother of five beautiful girls and one boy, her youngest. Her son was conceived after her husband and family pressured her to have another child. Celestine explains, "Since in my community you are not considered to have children if you don't have a male child, with much pressure from my husband and family I decided to secure my place in that marriage by looking for a male child."
When she became pregnant, she says, "I was very anxious to know the sex of the baby, and when that time came, I was so much relieved to know that finally I was going to have an heir of my husband's inheritance."
Her pregnancy progressed normally, without any complications. One evening, as she was milking the family's cow, her water broke. She called her favorite traditional birth attendant, just as she had done for the births of her five daughters. The attendant came as soon as she could, but after 30 minutes of trying to deliver the baby, she asked Celestine to prepare because they needed to seek professional help. "I was so scared," Celestine says. She feared for the life of her baby, the long-awaited heir.
Despite difficult terrain, they managed to reach the health facility in a short time. But after they arrived, Celestine was told she couldn't be admitted until she paid the admission fee and a down payment on the operating theatre's fee, which she didn't have. "I couldn't believe that I could not be attended to until I found the money needed," she says. "Nobody knew what the baby I was carrying meant to us as a family, they didn't care whether he died or lived, all they cared about was money!"
Her husband went home and managed to sell a cow and return in time with the money. Celestine recalls that by the time she was finally admitted, the baby's arm had already emerged. Thankfully, she was able to deliver her son safely through a cesarean section.
However, three days after delivery, her catheter was removed and Celestine realized she could no longer hold her urine. "I was devastated," she says, "but my husband became my source of strength and he kept on assuring me that everything will be OK." After she returned home, her husband took it upon himself to find treatment for her.
"One day, my husband came back home earlier than his usual time and in very high spirits," she says. After two years of searching, he had found someone who could help with her condition. They would go to Gynocare Fistula Center, in Eldoret, the very next morning. Celestine was so excited that the night felt longer.
Today, she is thankful for the fistula treatment that ended her two years of misery. "I am so grateful to have another chance to live a life of dignity and honor as a woman," she says.
About Kenya
- Population: 45,010,056
- Average Births per Woman: 3.54
- Female Literacy: 84.2%
- Population Living in Poverty: 43.4% (less than $1.25/day)


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Do you believe in instant karma?
Back in August, I was in Concord searching in the back of my truck for a small adapter for a tool I needed on my (day) job. Of course I could not find it and I was especially frustrated as I was in a rush and had people waiting for me on another site.
Then I heard behind me a little voice asking me if I had jumper cables. I really did not have the time but when I turned around and the lady asked me again I recognized a familiar African accent and she looked so distressed that I did not have the heart to tell her no and decided to help her out. On the way to her car we talked and she (being from Cameroon) spoke a perfect French…
OK, this is where it becomes interesting. I helped the lady and she got on her way and I got on mine. While I was driving a couple of minutes later my cell phone rang. It was the organizer of the African Music Festival of Lowell. He stumbled on our site, liked what he heard and decided to invite us to play there since they had never featured a group "from" North Africa before. Of course we spoke in French and English and guess where he was from? Cameroon of course! (I did ask if he knew the lady I had just meet but I could hear in his voice that he thought that I was a bit nuts so I did not persist)
I do believe in Karma..Do you?
I guess that to do the music that I do I must believe in karma and destiny. Atlas Soul's latest CD title is "Maktoub" (2008) and so is the title track #6 which in Arabic literarily means "it's written" but really refers to "it's destined". How else could it be that Atlas Soul's musicians, from all different countries, religions and backgrounds, could meet here in Boston, USA, and be so passionate about a type of music that nearly no one around here had ever heard of, and, against all odds keep at it until they had built an audience and a following.
Ever heard of Shaabi-Jazz, Rock'n Raï or Gnawa-Funk? Probably not— these are cross over North-African styles that bridge into our familiar western idioms.
Shaabi literally means popular (pop music). In Morocco it refers to a Moroccan 6/8 groove that is very specific to that country and amazingly addictive. In Algeria it refers to the more traditional Arabic/Judeo/Andalusia music played with the oud, banjo or violin and so touching and deeply emotionally charged that I often have to hold back my tears when I listen to it.
In Egypt in refers to yet another type of "pop" and modern Arabic music.
Raï is probably the most well known of the North-African music styles. Raï means opinion. It started in Algeria in the 1920's. Alger and Oran's Kasbah smoky cabaret where performers could safely express their frustration about love, social injustice, the French and later on their own oppressive government. It really took off and traveled across the Mediterranean Sea in the eighties with the arrival of electronic instruments like the keyboard and drum machines. Thanks to many talented vocalists and amazing artists playing acoustic instruments like trumpet, sax, ney (flute), accordion and bendir (a hand held framed snare drum), which are typical to this style, the music evolved.
Gnawa music is probably the most ancient and paradoxically has kept gaining popularity in wider circles for the past 20 years in the Maghreb (North-Africa) as well as in Europe and the USA. Ancestrally the Gnawa musicians-organized as a family around a "Maaleem" (master musician)- traveled all over Africa to play and dance for rituals and events (weddings etc..) The kings and sultans favored them and they are an integral part of the North-African culture.
After listening to a couple tunes of the Gnawa -trance- music, anyone will recognize and connect the points with some of the roots of rock'n roll, jazz and blues. Go ahead give it a listen it's strikingly funky you'll agree with me.
Many artists— Robert Plant, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones to name a few— have spent time in the Southern Moroccan cities of Marrakech and Essaouira and now many more pop, rap, jazz and rock musicians are doing collaborations and incorporating Maghrebian music into their own idiom.
So back to Atlas Soul— musically bridging the North-South and East -West is not an exercise in style, it's a natural affair for us to mix it up just like we ourselves are a mix of diverse cultural backgrounds. Is it destiny that brought us here? Is it karma that keeps us doing songs mostly in Arabic (but also in French, Hebrew and English)? Are the American public and music lovers from all over shyly –but consistently- opening their musical interest to Middle- Eastern and North African culture? It would seem so.
In my mind music needs to have an emotional and a philosophical content to be valid. Atlas Soul's music aims at being passionate, intense, uncompromising but also organic, healing and melancholic. We have borrowed from our multicultural background and produce this music as a cultural opening force to bridge and cross over between countries, religions, and race. Politically, besides playing regularly for not for profit organizations from all walks of life, we hope to inspire world peace through a fusion of music and culture that gets people to the dance floor and sharing the positive vibe.
Atlas Soul Is Playing The Regattabar at The Charles Hotel, Saturday January 29 2011
Thursday December 10, 2010 (Boston, MA)- Atlas Soul - an award-winning group based in Boston- is playing the Regattabar at The Charles Hotel, Saturday January 29 2011 at 7:30 PM.
Bridging divides between Eastern and Western cultures, Atlas Soul delivers a cross-cultural music Experience- one could describe as Maghrebien-Funk, Rock'N Raï, Shaabi-Jazz- in French, Arabic, Hebrew and English. The lyrics speak of love, natural wonders, oppression, poverty, and of the melancholy of immigrants longing for their homelands.
This will be Atlas Soul's first show of 2011. They are currently in the studio recording a new album and will premiere many new songs at the newly renovated legendary jazz club!
Philosophically and politically, Atlas Soul hopes to inspire world peace through a fusion of music and culture that gets people to the dance floor.
Jacques Pardo: sax, guitar, lead vocals
Anwar Maghreb: lead vocals
Jon Simmons: trombone, percs.
Tim Paul Weiner: bass
Nadjim Kebir: drums, percs.
Special guests:
Alessandro Acquafredda: guitar
Boujemaa Razgui: percs. Ney, vocals
"Atlas Soul's blend of jazz, funk and Middle-Eastern/Arabic grooves is a fascinating sonic stew that will catch any listener's ear. This is their second appearance on our CD's compilation. We like'em, and you will too".
Global Rhythm Magazine
"What hits hardest about Atlas Soul's sound is the natural funk of North African music and also powerful vocals, which span fluid, passionate Gnawa melodies and husky Raï hooks. There is great wisdom in a world-music outfit that embraces divergent genres (but not so many that the sound loses its identity)"
World Music journalist Banning Eyre (Afrobeat worldwide)
The Regattabar at The Charles Hotel is located at:1 Bennett St.
Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 USFor more info and reservation please call 617-395-7757 or follow this link [map]
Price: $15


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Thursday, November 5, 2009
New Layout
As you can see this template has a wider body as well as a smaller font. I like it, but I'm not sure if the font is big enough. Because of my computer's screen resolution I'm pretty sure the font is smaller for me than it is for other people (it took a while to get used to since everything seemed super small at first), but if you think it is too small let me know and I can make it slightly bigger.
The main difference, besides aesthetics, is the tabs at the top and the missing blogger bar. I thought about adding the blogger navigation bar back in, but I like the way my blog looks without it. It's a bit of a pain, but it wont be so bad once I get used to it I'm sure.
So that's it. I really hope you guys like it cause it took me for freggin ever to change the hmlt and all that ridiculousness (is that not love?). I want to give a super big thanks to Blog and Web for adapting this template for blogger. Whoever you are thank you.
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I love the header!! I like the new layout, though the sidebar is appearing below the posts for me.ReplyDelete
How did you get the tabs to work? I've been trying to get my own layout together, with tabs, to change mine for ages now, but I suck at coding too much.
Thank you! And dang that sucks about my sidebar since it's in place on my computer. Hopefully it will work itself out or something (wishful thinking).ReplyDelete
And I feel ya. Everything I've learned has been through a shit load of trial and error (mostly error) and I went through about 20 templates before I was satisfied with this one.
For the tabs, the easiest directions I came across were here:
The picture under the "How to change navigation links" is perfect. The only difference is the part highlighted in blue will have words already there instead of just the word "link" (all mine were in Spanish). Surprisingly it's really similar to adding a regular link.


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Please note: This site covers the period that I was a Member of Parliament from May 2010 to June 2017.
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Andrea Leadsom, visited local family business, Franco's Ices in Kempston, with Richard Fuller this week. Andrea and Richard were given a tour of the factory by owner Pasquale Tanzarella and had the opportunity to sample some freshly made lollies and ice cream. The factory is home to the renowned Mr Bubble ice lolly and the business was established in 1964.
Speaking after the visit, Andrea said: "It was a huge treat to visit Franco's Ices – a fabulous local family business. I was spoilt with strawberry splits, the Mr Bubble ice lolly and delicious ice creams of which my favourite was the Gelato Uno Mint Choc Chip. I was particularly impressed with the immaculate standards in the factory and the family atmosphere.
"Richard has long supported Franco's as a great local business and I congratulate him on his success in supporting local manufacturing."
Richard added: "Bedford and Kempston is home to many fabulous family-owned businesses so I was delighted to be able to take the Secretary of State to Franco's as a leading local success story. I want Bedford and Kempston to have many more locally grown companies which is why I launched by Community Business School earlier this year to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs."