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The Rain Heron
Robbie Arnott
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading-and forgetting.
But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her
impossible mission.
As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt-as myths merge with reality-both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear.
Robbie Arnott's stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.
The Silk House
Kayte Nunn
Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history. She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past.
In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention.
In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the silk house.
Intoxicating, haunting and inspired by the author's background, The Silk House is an exceptional gothic mystery.
The Geometry of Holding Hands
Alexander McCall Smith
In Edinburgh, rumours and gossip abound. But Isabel Dalhousie knows that such things can't be taken at face value. Still, the latest whispers hint at mysterious goings-on, and who but Isabel can be trusted to get to the bottom of them? At the same time, she must deal with the demands of her two small children, her husband and her rather tempestuous niece, Cat, whose latest romantic entanglement comes – to no one's surprise – with complications. Even with so much going on, Isabel, through the application of good sense, logic and ethics, will, as ever, triumph.
Isabel Dalhousie applies her moral philosopher's mind to wrongdoings in Edinburgh, and will have to call upon her powers of deduction and her unflappable moral code to unravel another mystery in the new novel from the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
Heaven and Earth
Paolo Giordano
Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat and centuries-old olive groves. There Teresa spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks.
Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door: Nicola, Tommaso and Bern – the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate and seemingly unassailable bond.
But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers.
Because there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern – the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group – commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees.
From the creator and writer of the new HBO series We Are Who We Are, co-written and directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) and starring Chloe Sevigny.
Night Sleep Death The Stars
Joyce Carol Oates
When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy.
Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.
Latitudes of Longing
Shubhangi Swarup
In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists. These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on a faultline, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic bite out of their happiness.
With the family riven by heartbreak, their maid takes the chance to resolve her own past mistakes. Having abandoned her son many years before, she now traces him to Myanmar, only to find him in prison – the enemy of a brutal regime. The faultline she followed over the Indian Ocean now cuts north into Nepal, where the prisoner's ally, an itinerant drug dealer, tries to rescue a young woman from the dancing bars of Kathmandu. It shadows his footsteps into the Karakorum mountains, where a scientist looks deep into the abyss between India and Pakistan. It rises all the way to the snow deserts, beyond the reach of nation or war, where an elder of the village waits for the return of his true love, bringing all their journeys full circle.
A breathtaking epic, Latitudes of Longing possesses the reader with a blazing sense of wonder. Shubhangi Swarup's vision goes deeper than the human stories of the subcontinent to reveal the conscious history of the earth itself. Tender in every detail, touched with humour and profound, this is a novel brimming with life, an original masterpiece
Last Survivor
Tony Park
Joanne Flack is on the run – suspected of stealing a rare African plant thought to be extinct and worth millions of dollars.
Sonja Kurtz is hired by the CIA to hunt down Joanne and find the link between the missing plant and a terrorist group hiding out in South Africa.
Joanne is a member of the Pretoria Cycad and Firearms Appreciation Society who take it upon themselves to track down the plant … and the traitor in their midst who is willing to kill for it.
The Museum of Forgotten Memories
Anstey Harris
When Cate and Richard met at university they felt an immediate spark, but as the couple matured Richard's inner demons threatened their happiness. With time, he receded further and further into darkness until he disappeared altogether.
Now, four years after Richard's passing, Cate is let go from her teaching job and can't pay the rent on the London flat she shares with her and Richard's son, Leo. She packs the two of them up and ventures to Richard's grandfather's old Victorian museum in the small town of Crouch-on-Sea, where the dusty staff quarters await her. Despite growing pains and a grouchy caretaker, Cate falls in love with the quirky taxidermy exhibits and sprawling grounds and makes it her mission to revive them. But as Cate becomes more invested in Hatters, she must finally confront the reality of Richard's death – and the role she played in it – in order to reimagine her future.
The Museum of Forgotten Memories masterfully weaves life with death, past with present, and grief with hope.
On a Barbarous Coast
Craig Cormick & Harold Ludwick
We were becoming the wild things we most feared, but could not see it at the time.
On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land – their pitiful salvage scant protection from the dangers of the unknown creatures and natives that live here.
Watching these mysterious white beings, the Guugu Yimidhirr people cannot decide if they are ancestor spirits to be welcomed – or hostile spirits to be speared. One headstrong young boy, Garrgiil, determines to do more than watch and to be the one to find out what exactly they are.
Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future that might have been.
The Court of Miracles
Kester Grant
1828 and the citizens of Paris still mourn in the wake of their failed revolution. Among them, in the dark alleys and crumbling cathedrals of the city, the most wretched have gathered into guilds of thieves, assassins – and worse. Together they are known as The Court of Miracles.
Eponine has lost more than most. When her father, Thénardier, sells her sister to the Guild of Flesh she makes a promise to do anything she can to get her sister back, even if that means joining the Court of Miracles, the very people keeping her sister a slave.
Eponine becomes perhaps the greatest thief the Court has ever known, finding a place among them and gaining another sister, Cosette. But she has never forgotten the promise she made, and if she's to have any hope of saving one sister, she will have to betray the other.
This beautiful reimagining of Les Misérables tells the stories of your favourite characters and what might have happened if the French Revolution had not come to pass.
The Last Trial
Scott Turow
Already eighty-five years old, and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Pavel Pafko. A former Nobel Prize-winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder.
As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and—no matter the trial's outcome—will he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart.
Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow's The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that unfolds in page-turning suspense—and questions how we measure a life.
One Day I'll Tell You Everything
Emmanuelle Pagano
When I was a little boy, I would often pretend to be dead. I wanted people to weep over me. I wept for myself, usually near a tree, under it or up inside it, just like I'm crying today, a woman weeping, in my weeping birch tree…
After ten years away, Adèle has returned to drive the school bus in the village in the Ardèche mountains where she grew up. Her body has undergone seismic transformations, just like the landscape around her. No one recognises her. But when a snowstorm strands the bus on a mountainside, Adèle and her passengers take shelter in a cave, and the secrets begin to emerge.
One Day I'll Tell You Everything is the haunting story of two siblings—a younger brother and his older sister, who used to be his brother. A powerful and beautifully written story of a boy who wanted to be a girl, who became a woman, who lives intensely through her new body and through the physical world around her.
The Roxy Letters
Mary Pauline Lowry
Roxy is underemployed, sexually frustrated, and uninspired. Tired of her job as a deli maid at the original Whole Foods, Roxy daydreams of breaking out of her funk and finding a job that will get her creative juices flowing. She also wouldn't mind finding love and finding herself off the brink of financial ruin—though Everett's late rent payments aren't helping her with the latter.
On top of it all, gentrification is slowly changing her beloved Austin in new and evilly corporate ways. When a new Lululemon pops up at the intersection of 6th and Lamar where the old Waterloo Video used to be, Roxy can stay silent no longer.
Encouraged by her ex-deli counter comrade Annie—now assistant to the Whole Foods CEO and planning an animal rights revolution from the inside—and her new friend Artemis, a vivacious and mercurial man-eater with a string of personas and paramours all over town, Roxy decides to take action. But can this spunky, unforgettable millennial keep Austin weird, avoid arrest, and discover good sex, true love, and her purpose in life in the process??
The Roxy Letters is a hilarious and heartwarming novel told through the letters that the charming and hapless Roxy, a twenty-eight-year old Austin native, sends to her ex-boyfriend (and current roommate) Everett.
Sticks and Stones
Katherine Firkin
It's winter in Melbourne and Detective Emmett Corban is starting to regret his promotion to head of the Missing Persons Unit, as the routine reports pile up on his desk.
So when Natale Gibson goes missing, he's convinced this is the big case he's been waiting for – the woman's husband and parents insist the devoted mother would never abandon her children, and her personal accounts remain untouched.
But things aren't all they seem. The close-knit Italian family is keeping secrets – none bigger than the one Natale has been hiding.
Just as the net seems to be tightening, the investigation is turned on its head. The body of a woman is found . . . then another.
What had seemed like a standard missing person's case has turned into a frightening hunt for a serial killer, and time is running out.
But to really understand these shocking crimes, Emmett and his team will need to delve back through decades of neglect – back to a squalid inner-city flat, where a young boy is left huddling over his mother's body . . .
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' story lines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
The Spill
Imbi Neeme
In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades.
Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car – but not in quite the same way. It is only after Tina's death, almost four decades later, that the sisters are forced to reckon with the repercussions of the crash. Nicole, after years of sabotaging her own happiness, seems finally content but still can't get through to her sister. And Samantha is hiding something that might just tear apart the life she's worked so hard to build for herself.
The Spill explores the cycles of love, loss and regret that can follow a family through the years – moments of joy, things left unsaid, and things misremembered. Above all, it is a deeply moving portrait of two sisters falling apart and finding a way to fit back together.
The Sight of You
Holly Miller
Joel is afraid of the future.
Since he was a child he's been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what's going to happen – the good and the bad. And the only way to prevent them is to never let anyone close to him again.
Callie can't let go of the past.
Since her best friend died, Callie's been lost. She knows she needs to be more spontaneous and live a bigger life. She just doesn't know how to find a way back to the person who used to have those dreams.
Joel and Callie both need a reason to start living for today.
And though they're not looking for each other, from the moment they meet it feels like the start of something life-changing.
Until Joel has a vision of how it's going to end . . .
Hidden Hand
Clive Hamilton & Mareike Ohlberg
With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideological struggle with the West. Combining a mass of evidence with unique insights, Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg lay bare the nature and extent of the Chinese Communist Party's influence operations across the Western world – in politics, business, universities, think tanks and international institutions such as the UN. This new authoritarian power is using democracy to undermine democracy in pursuit of its global ambitions.
Combining meticulous research with compelling prose, this landmark follow up to the best-selling Silent Invasion brings to light the Chinese Communist Party's threats to democratic freedoms and national sovereignty across Europe and North America – and show how we might push back against its autocratic influence.
Landscapes of our Hearts
Matthew Colloff
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them.
If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future?
An epic exploration of our relationship with this country, Landscapes of Our Hearts takes us from the Great Barrier Reef to the Central Desert, the High Country to Canberra's Limestone Plains. It is a book of hope and offers the possibility that a renewed connection to the landscape and to each other could pave the way towards reconciliation.
It will change the way you see this land.
Staying Alive
Kate Gregorevic
Discover how to thrive and live better for longer. By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one-third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile, disease free, dependent on medication or require medical assistance?
In Staying Alive you'll discover proven scientific details on how you can avoid or manage the major diseases that impact us as we age, including heart health, diabetes and dementia, and boost your everyday behaviours to improve your enjoyment of life.
Specialist Australian geriatrician, Dr Kate Gregorevic, clearly outlines the key lifestyle enhancing strategies for nutrition, exercise, cognitive and emotional health and the positive impact they will have as you age.
Easy to understand and based on the latest research, this is the day-to-day lifestyle guide you need to benefit you now and into a long and healthy future.
The Insider
Christopher Pyne
Christopher Pyne has been many things and called many things throughout his long career in politics. Member for Sturt. Minister for Defence. Manager of Opposition Business. Leader of the House. 'The Fixer'. Any Canberra story he doesn't know isn't worth telling.
Now, after 26 years, the ultimate insider is outside the House and ready to burst the Canberra bubble with his trademark sharp wit. His revelations of dealings, double dealings, friendships and feuds shine a light on the political processes of those in power: the egos, the sacrifices, the winners, the losers, the triumphs and the failures. From Howard to Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison, Christopher Pyne has seen and heard it all.
The Insider is one of the most brilliant, funny, engaging books by an Australian public figure you'll ever read.
Coconut and Sambal
Lara Lee
Coconut and Sambal reveals the secrets behind authentic Indonesian cookery. With more than 80 traditional and vibrant recipes that have been passed down through the generations, you will discover dishes such as Nasi goreng, Beef rendang, Chilli prawn satay and Pandan cake, alongside a variety of recipes for sambals: fragrant, spicy relishes that are undoubtedly the heart and soul of every meal.
Lara uses simple techniques and easily accessible ingredients throughout Coconut and Sambal, interweaving the recipes with beguiling tales of island life and gorgeous travel photography that shines a light on the magnificent, little-known cuisine of Indonesia.
What are you waiting for? Travel the beautiful islands of Indonesia and taste the different regions through these recipes.
Rone: Street Art and Beyond
Mo Wyse (Editor)
Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.
Rone was a seminal figure in the explosive Melbourne street art scene of the early 2000s. With his beginnings in street art, stencil and screen printing, Rone is now best known for his haunting images of women's faces, rendered in arresting detail on silos and store fronts, museums and apartment blocks. His immersive installations have continued his investigation into divergent themes of beauty and ruin, materiality and loss, through the transformation of condemned, derelict or forgotten spaces – with each artwork painstakingly produced, only to be destroyed.
Rone: Street Art and Beyond presents a survey of the artist's work from the street, the studio, and the ephemeral installations. The works are bookended by essays that trace the evolution of Rone's career over the last two decades, delve into his depictions of women, and go behind the scenes of his most ambitious installation to date: Empire (2019), set in the disused Art Deco mansion Burnham Beeches on the outskirts of Melbourne. Anecdotal notes from the artist unpack the stories behind the portraits, tying them to their communities in London, Paris, New York, Havana, Christchurch, Hong Kong and beyond.
One Punch: The Tragic Toll of Random Acts of Violence
Barry Dickens
In One Punch Barry Dickins reflects on the many types of violence that can now affect everyday life. In his heartfelt exploration of the subject, Barry talks to many of the people whom this violence impacts, including the parents of children who have been killed, professionals in the justice system, and children who live in communities where violence is rife. He looks at how the world has changed in his lifetime and discusses where we are going as a society.
The Trials of Portnoy
Patrick Mullins
For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government officials in Australia worked in the shadows to enforce one of the most pervasive and conservative regimes of censorship in the world. The goal was simple- to keep Australia free of the moral contamination of impure literature. Under the censorship regime, books that might damage the morals of the Australian public were banned, seized, and burned; bookstores were raided; publishers were fined; and writers were charged and even jailed. But in the 1970s, that all changed.
In 1970, in great secrecy and at considerable risk, Penguin Books Australia resolved to publish Portnoy's Complaint – Philip Roth's frank, funny, and profane bestseller about a boy hung up about his mother and his penis. In doing so, Penguin spurred a direct confrontation with the censorship authorities, which culminated in criminal charges, police raids, and an unprecedented series of court trials across the country.
Sweeping from the cabinet room to the courtroom, The Trials of Portnoy draws on archival records and new interviews to show how Penguin and a band of writers, booksellers, academics, and lawyers determinedly sought for Australians the freedom to read what they wished – and how, in defeating the forces arrayed before them, they reshaped Australian literature and culture forever.
Sad Mum Lady
Ashe Davenport
'If people knew how bad this was,' I said to a friend two weeks after the birth, nipples flashing red like emergency lights under my dressing-gown, 'they would be sterilised on their thirteenth birthdays.'
It sometimes feels like there's a rule for parents: if you're going to say anything mildly unhappy about parenting, you must also be at pains to stress that it is all worth it. What joy! What wonder! How lucky we are!
But then there's the crying. And the body horror. The tearing and the leaking. And the crippling isolation. And the sleep deprivation. And somehow a dead rat in the cubbyhouse and the endless judgement of peers and neighbours and the internet.
But fear not. Ashe Davenport is here. And she's not afraid to say it's fucked.
Unapologetic and frank, Sad Mum Lady navigates the joys of motherhood in ways that will be familiar, hilarious and essential reading for parents and non-parents alike. Savage, true and deeply relatable – finally, a book that resists the sanitised, acceptable face of parenting. You might not feel better, but at least you'll feel less alone.
How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
The products of innovation are all around us, from light bulbs and nuclear energy to antibiotics, artificial intelligence and even wheelie suitcases.
In the 1950s, the economist Robert Solow calculated that 87% of economic growth came not from applying more capital or more labour, but from innovation making people more productive. It's probably even higher today – new materials, new machines and new ideas to cut costs and enable people to spend less time fulfilling more of their needs: that's what growth means.
But innovation is still a remarkably mysterious process. It's more than just the invention of a new gadget: it requires lots of hard work making something affordable and useful. Innovation is an evolutionary activity that happens in the cloud of shared experiences; it relies on recombination or exchange; it is incremental; it feeds upon itself. And innovation is the great equaliser: today some of the poorest African communities have mobile phones that work as well as Tim Cook's. Innovation is why the number of people living in extreme poverty is declining rapidly – and it is the reason the number will continue to decline.
From the bestselling author of The Rational Optimist, How Innovation Works draws on evolutionary biology and archeology as well as technology, politics and economics, telling the real stories behind the great leaps forward that have defined modern society. Looking at key developments from harnessing steam power to nuclear fusion, genetic modification and now the impact of social media on polarisation, How Innovation Works explores significant the breakthroughs in science, technology and economics that we all benefit from today – and considers where they might originate in future.
The Convict Valley
Mark Dunn
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia.
The fertile valley of the Hunter River was the first area outside the Sydney basin explored by the British, and it became one of the largest penal settlements. Today manicured lawns and prosperous vineyards hide the struggle, violence and toil of the thousands of convicts who laid its foundations. The Convict Valley uncovers this rich colonial past, as well as the story of the original Aboriginal landholders. While there were friendships and alliances in the early years, in the later scramble for land in the 1820s – as the Valley was opened to free settlers – tensions rose and bloodshed ensued.
With fascinating stories about convicts, white settlers and the Aboriginal inhabitants that have long been forgotten, The Convict Valley is a new Australian history classic.
The Gospel of the Eels
Patrik Svensson
I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little is known about the eel, even today. What we do know is that it's born as a tiny willow-leaf shaped larva in the Sargasso Sea, travels on the ocean currents toward the coasts of Europe – a journey of about four thousand miles that takes at least two years. Upon arrival, it transforms itself into a glass eel and then into a yellow eel before it wanders up into fresh water. It lives a solitary life, hiding from light and science both, for ten, twenty, fifty years, before migrating back to the sea in the autumn, morphing into a silver eel and swimming all the way back to the Sargasso Sea, where it breeds and dies.
And yet . . . There is still so much we don't know about eels. No human has ever seen eels reproduce; no one can give a complete account of the eel's metamorphoses or say why they are born and die in the Sargasso Sea; no human has even seen a mature eel in the Sargasso Sea. Ever. And now the eel is disappearing, and we don't know exactly why.
What we do know is that eels and their mysterious lives captivate us.
This is the basis for Patrik Svensson's quite unique natural science memoir; his ongoing fascination with this secretive fish, but also the equally perplexing and often murky relationship he shared with his father, whose only passion in life was fishing for this obscure creature.
Through the exploration of eels in literature (Günter Grass and Graham Swift feature, amongst others) in the history of science (we learn about Aristotle's and Sigmund Freud's complicated relationships with eels) as well as modern marine biology (Rachel Carson and others) we get to know this peculiar animal, and in this exploration, also learn about the human condition, life and death, through natural science and nature writing at its very best.
Signe Johansen with Peter's Yard
Traditionally served whenever family and friends get together, smorgasbords are a celebration of food and gatherings. They have always featured crispbreads (knackebrod), which in Sweden are eaten like bread. This collection of simple recipes reflects the modern, more informal approach to smorgasbords so as well as classics, such as skagen (prawn salad) and citrus and spice cured gravadlax, it includes dishes such as fried chanterelles on toasted sourdough, barbecued zesty cod burgers and orange and ginger waffles with rhubarb compote.
For spring, there are ideas for an Easter celebration and a bonfire party, for summer a midsummer gathering and crayfish party. Autumn has a feast supper and foraged dinner and Winter a Christmas drinks and New Year's brunch. The emphasis always is on selecting quality, seasonal ingredients to share and enjoy with friends and family.
Explore the seasons of Swedish cooking with these deliciously simple modern Scandinavian recipes.
Niki Lauda: The Biography
Maurice Hamilton
In 1975, Lauda became world champion for the first time. Driving for Ferrari, he looked to retain his title in 1976 and was dominating the campaign ahead of James Hunt in his McLaren. Then, on 1 August, he was involved in a horrendous crash at the Nurburgring and was badly burned and in hospital he was given the last rites, so severe were his injuries. Remarkably, six weeks later, he was back racing again, determined to show he could still compete. As they came to the final race of the season in Japan, Lauda held a narrow lead in the championship, but in appalling weather conditions, Lauda withdrew from the race, while Hunt went on to secure the points he needed to become world champion. It was high-speed drama at its best.
Lauda came back to win the title again in 1977 and then, having temporarily retired, he won it for a third time in 1984, driving for McLaren. When he finally finished as an F1 driver, he started his own airline, before he returned to the sport in various management roles, latterly as chairman of Mercedes, where he helped in the negotiations to bring Lewis Hamilton to the team.
Maurice Hamilton, who first met Lauda in 1971, draws together the remarkable story of one of the greatest stars in Formula One history. Based on interviews with friends and family, rival drivers and those he worked with later in his career, Niki Lauda is a superb and definitive tribute to a remarkable character, who died in May 2019 at the age of seventy.
The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (Quarterly Essay No.78)
Judith Brett
Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country – heavy on raw materials, and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep's back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that Covid-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a better way forward, which supports renewable energy and local manufacturing?
Judith Brett traces the unusual history of Australia's economy and the "resource curse" that has shaped our politics. She shows how the mining industry learnt to run fear campaigns, and how the Coalition became dominated by fossil-fuel interests to the exclusion of other voices.
In this insightful essay about leadership, vision and history, she looks at the costs of Australia's coal addiction and asks, where will we be if the world stops buying it?
Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French
John von Sothen
In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have become quatre, living in their beloved 10th arondissement with teenage kids who chat to their African neighbours in fluent Parisian slang, and John has even become kind of French himself. Well, he likes to think he has. The family still see him as an American innocent abroad.
Paris Match is one of those rare books that makes you laugh out loud, as von Sothen attempts to understand what makes the French tick. Why do they take such long holidays with friends who ration snacks and mock you for sleeping in; why do French men turn to him (an American!) for fashion tips; what really is the correct way to cut brie, and how do you tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or a weird sex club? John von Sothen has found most of the answers and in this delightful, witty book shares his experience, insights and humour into the fine art of becoming everyday French.
The Great Imperial Hangover
Samir Puri
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face today.
From Russia's incursions in the Ukraine to Brexit; from Trump's 'America-first policy' to China's forays into Africa; from Modi's India to the hotbed of the Middle East, Puri provides a bold new framework for understanding the world's complex rivalries and politics.
Organised by region, and covering vital topics such as security, foreign policy, national politics and commerce, The Great Imperial Hangover combines gripping history and astute analysis to explain why the history of empire affects us all in profound ways.
Mackenzie's Mission
Rachael Casella
Rachael and Jonathan were thrilled to welcome their baby Mackenzie into the world and to start their new lives as parents. Little did they know that in a few months they would be tested to endurance and beyond.
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Salvation is a gift offered to humans by God our Creator. Upon His handing of that gift into our hands we have to make a choice. Do we deny the gift and give it back or do we unwrap it to see what it looks like. If you choose to deny and give it back your life will forever be altered. If you choose to open it and receive the gift your life too will forever be altered. Once the gift is opened and received what you do with it will determine the rest of your days on earth.
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Dahl, Kristen P. and Thompson, David R. and McLaren, David and Chao, Yi and Chien, Steve (2011) Current-Sensitive Path Planning for an Underactuated Free-floating Ocean Sensorweb. In: 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ, pp. 3140-3146. ISBN 978-1-61284-454-1. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120406-142747616
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This work investigates multiagent path planning in strong, dynamic currents using thousands of highly underactuated vehicles. We address the specific task of path planning for a global network of ocean-observing floats. These submersibles are typified by the Argo global network consisting of over 3000 sensor platforms. They can control their buoyancy to float at depth for data collection or rise to the surface for satellite communications. Currently, floats drift at a constant depth regardless of the local currents. However, accurate current forecasts have become available which present the possibility of intentionally controlling floats' motion by dynamically commanding them to linger at different depths. This project explores the use of these current predictions to direct float networks to some desired final formation or position. It presents multiple algorithms for such path optimization and demonstrates their advantage over the standard approach of constant-depth drifting.
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The more NHRA events that I go to the more I learn to appreciate the sport and its drivers. Being able to harness all that power and make it down the track in under 4 seconds in a pretty amazing feat for the teams, and being able to be right at the start line only a few feet away is pretty exciting.
The majority of racing is held during the day, but at some events you're blessed with a few runs at night. These are my favorite times to shoot for the obvious reasons, that you get to see the flames breathing out from the dragsters. Here are some photos from the night session, along with other photos from the weekend that I thought you'd enjoy.
Here Steve Torrence of Torrence Racing makes a run under the lights. Composition wise its always nice to have the whole dragster in frame, but I also like to try and focus more on the driver, engine and rear wheels as well. I think it lets you feel more of the power.
Here you can see sparks shooting out of Brandon Bernstein's Top Fuel Dragster as he makes his pass.
In comparison, here is a shot of Johnny Gray in his Funny Car, and Antron Brown in his Top Fuel Dragster during the "Golden Hour", before the sun fully dropped below the horizon. Shooting at that time of the day always gives you some great rich colors in your photos.
Yes the car isn't 100% in focus but I still like the shot.
While shooting drag racing at night is a lot of fun, it can also get pretty repetitive so I looked for a different angle. Behind the start line is the media center, so I talked to track official and got permission to shoot from the roof top. Because of the heave waves the cars put off, once they leave the start line it can be challenging to get a clean in focus shot, so while your ratio for good shots is a little less shooting here, when it comes out I think it looks great, and its an angle you don't see everyday.
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Cruz Pedregon and his team looking over his run.
Here you can see the effects of the heat waves once the cars get down the track.
On Saturday Basketball star Thurl Bailey came out to support Steve Torrence so we took a few candid photos in his pit. That night they had a meet and greet at the MGM Grand Hotel where passerby's wanted to take photos with the 6'11" star. A few people thought Steve was his assistant so he had to take a few photos.
Another great place to shoot, and what makes shooting NHRA fun is being in the staging lanes right before the drivers go on their runs. All the drivers are very approachable and don't mind getting shots taken of them there.
Shooting with a long lens you can get a good closeup of the drivers eyes. Here is a shot of Alexia Dejoria.
With a wide angle you can get more of the car and get some interesting angles.
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Here are a few more of my favorite shots from the weekend, next NHRA race for me is July in Denver! Its another great track to shoot at and will also have some night runs so stay tuned!


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Above photo: Leadership County Medal Award recipients, from left: Eva Rhoads, Brooke Frega, Teagan Mathes, Clare Mathes, (not pictured: Caroline Pelton).
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The Genesee County 4-H Program celebrated the completion of the 4-H Program Year with its annual 4-H Achievement Night on Thursday, Sept. 26th. More than a hundred 4-H members and their families attended the event at the Genesee County Fairgrounds.
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Congratulations to the Genesee County 4-H members who competed in the 4-H Hippology Contest at the New York State Fair.
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4-H members from across New York State competed in the contest on Sunday, Aug. 25th.
The Genesee County 4-H Team placed fifth in the contest. In individual results, Eva Rhoads placed 11th and Alexandria Tarbell placed 15th.
Congratulations to all of the 4-H'ers competing at the New York State Fair!
For more information on the Genesee County 4-H Program, please contact the 4-H Office at [email protected] or (585) 343-3040, ext. 131.
Now is a great time to start a 4-H Club in the Genesee County 4-H Program. The new 4-H Club Year begins Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30, 2020.
The 4-H Program teaches youth life skills through hands on activities in a variety of project areas. Youth ages 5 to 18 years are always welcome to join. Adult volunteers and new 4-H Clubs are always welcome as well.
Starting a 4-H Club is fun and easy. You can start a 4-H Club in five easy steps!
How to Start a 4-H Club in 5 Easy Steps:
1. Complete the New 4-H Volunteer Enrollment Form.
2. Attend an orientation meeting with 4-H Staff.
3. Enroll 5 youth in your club (age 5 – 18).
4. Have members choose a club name.
5. Plan monthly club meetings and projects with parents and youth.
For more information on starting a 4-H Club or joining the 4-H Program, please contact the 4-H Office at [email protected] or (585) 343-3040, ext. 131.
The Genesee County 4-H Youth Development Program will be offering the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program to youth 14 to 15 years of age. This course will qualify youth to be certified to operate farm equipment for hire.
The course is scheduled to run Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon, beginning in January and running through March.
The training program encompasses 32 hours of intensive instruction. Upon the completion of the training, each student will be required to take a 50-question knowledge test with a minimum passing score of 70 percent. Students who successfully pass the knowledge test will be permitted to take the Skills and Driving tests. After passing both the written test and driving tests, the students will receive their formal certification from U.S. Department of Labor.
The fee for the course is $25. Note: youth are also required to be current enrolled 4-H members. (Genesee County 4-H enrollment fees are: $25 per youth or $50 per family for Genesee County residents; $35 for out of county residents.)
To request a registration packet or more information please call Cornell Cooperative Extension of Genesee County at 343-3040, ext. 101, or e-mail: [email protected]
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- Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:41 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: On to Widnes
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6979
Re: On to Widnes
Fair enough mate i thought there starting 13 yesterday would hold there own this season but i dont know about there strength in depth One of there supporters told me he thought the attitude of some of there players stunk last season and that would be changed for next season Admitted Cas team wasnt ...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:41 am
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: On to Widnes
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6979
Re: On to Widnes
Widnes are a big price in the championship they won't be far away for me with the coach theve got ... Their squad is significantly weaker than last year when they wouldn't have threatened a top 5 place even without the points deduction. From their opening day squad in 2019 they have lost Gelling, I...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Pre Season watch
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6398
Re: Pre Season watch
What they do in a one-off home test match with a fanatical crowd and national patriotism behind them is totally different to the weekly grind in all weathers in England. This. The Boas brothers and Thompson Teteh came to Fev last year amidst a fair bit of hype. Ase Boas lasted only a few ineffectiv...
- Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Rumour Mill
- Topic: Dane Chisholm
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2897
Re: Dane Chisholm
Under contract at Fev for next 2 years and loves it there. Think you'd baulk at the transfer fee.
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:31 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Daniel smith
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11079
Re: Daniel smith
He's played 5 times for my team (Fev) on loan this season and last time I looked he was leading the Fev fans' man of the match awards on the TotalRL forum. He's a very solid all-round forward and can play big minutes, I wouldn't be surprised if he does well under Powell. We had Mitch Clark on loan l...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 1:35 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: 19 man squad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2299
Re: 19 man squad
Mitch Clark is in the Halifax squad for Sunday
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:25 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Calum Turner
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11046
Re: Calum Turner
TotalRL reporting that that Turner has joined Fev on loan
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- Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:17 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Vs fev
- Replies: 117
- Views: 22421
Re: Vs fev
Will this be Corey Astons debut then on Sunday? I reckon a good game could see him going to Fev for the season now they're short on half backs. One of the biggest mysteries in the game how Aston managed to get contracts at both Leeds and Cas. He was nowhere near good enough to get a contract at Fev...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:00 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Vs fev
- Replies: 117
- Views: 22421
Re: Vs fev
Agreed, and John Davies has been one of our best players over the last three years as well.
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:27 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Vs fev
- Replies: 117
- Views: 22421
Re: Vs fev
Well something had to be done to even things up after last year's one-sided game. Seriously, we (Fev) are in rebuilding mode having lost all bar about six of last year's squad having failed to make the top 4, with the massive loss of central fundings that resulted. We will probably be ok long term b...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:34 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: U19s
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6742
Re: U19s
We (Fev) have signed Jimmy Beckett, was he a regular in your U19s and if so how did he go?
- Wed May 30, 2018 11:44 am
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: 2019 Squad
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6458
Re: 2019 Squad
It will cost you...Toronto supposedly offering "silly money". I love Briscoe, but he might cost more than some of your higher earners and I'd question whether he's worth that.mart0042 wrote: Briscoe might be tempted if few don't make the middle 8s. Gonna be touch and go for them. Need to sort out jys future.
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Team line up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16848
Re: Team line up
Clark has just re-signed on loan at Fev again so won't be playing for Cas for another month, after which it will be a 24-hour recall scenario again.It's the last wrote:I would like see Clark given a shot
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:35 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: Mitch Clark
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3303
Re: Mitch Clark
Not just that. If Cas pick up a couple of injuries in the first Easter game it wouldn't look too clever if Clark was tired, or worse still injured himself, after playing for Fev on Friday.the machine wrote:
All about rotation on Easter Monday rather than full strength
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:58 pm
- Forum: All Things Tiger
- Topic: jy hitchcox
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7102
Re: jy hitchcox
slightly ot but I noticed tom holmes only got the number 24 shirt for fev when he left us for more half back opportunities He actually got the 19 shirt, but that doesn't mean much anyway. Ridyard was nailed on to get 6 and it would have been a bit of a shock if Anthony Thackeray, who was given Fev'...


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Et tu, Robert? Maybe not
Labour's spinners and plotters placed the dagger in the hand of this most decent of defectors
I WOULD like to sentence Robert Jackson to spending a week in the jungle with Germaine Greer. Liberal-minded intellectuals should not mix with the filthy anthropoids of the publicity world; they always have to pay a reputational price when they do.
Both Robert and Germaine should have been forewarned by the story of Brutus and Mark Antony. The instinctual brutes always have their own agenda; they may have a tenth of the brain, but ten times the cunning of the intellectuals.
I would say to both Robert and Germaine: "You may think you are street-wise, but compared with the people who have been manipulating you, you are not yet out of your kiddie car." In Robert's case, the Labour spin machine had had a classic


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How to stay away from unethical or undesirable paths
It is almost very clear that there are too many distractions for each of us to get distracted and stay away from the clear, ethical path. We are also distracted by short-term objectives for monetary gains. We can avoid all such useless distractions if we can adopt a few simple steps. Some details pertaining to these simple steps is described in detail in this article.
IntroductionWhat is the secret of peace of mind and happiness? What can we do to stay clear of so many distractions that we see all around? The answer is not that simple. However, when we take very simple steps, we can easily go to the next level in terms of being highly value-driven. More specifically, the key steps are: a) Sticking to spirituality b) Learning from highly ethical people c) think about where we will all go ultimately d) think of the huge peace of mind benefits and e) repeat the "happily share" moments.
Sticking to spiritualityThis is the easiest. Across the nation, most of us who are spiritually inclined, do have it us to withstand any temptation to go unethical. We will still pay all our taxes. We will grumble about GST applicable to even our life insurance policies. We will grumble that we pay close to Rs.90 for a single liter of petrol. We may grumble that we spend upwards of Rs.900 for a good breakfast in a very good vegetarian restaurant for just three or four of our family members.
Yet, in our background, there is someone guiding us. We pray to God in exactly the same way our father or mother or both did. We might travel abroad on official work to any corner of the world. But when we are back home we are back to our poojas as well. This is the beauty of spirituality. It does teach us to be within the law and not break it. It teaches us to have sanity in our lives, irrespective of whatever happens in the external environment. The corrupt politicians are simply distractions. The corrupt relatives who make enough money to travel abroad once in six months, do not distract us from our path of ethics. We tend to e guided only by our fathers or grandfathers who would have had a huge influence on us.
So be it. Let us not stay away from this path. If someone calls us "conservative", fine enough. Let us be branded so. Across the nation, it is always seen that spirituality does teach us only the good. Yes, some of us might be affected by even cancer, but the guts to withstand it and go away from this world will be far better in each of us who is spiritually inclined.
Learning from highly ethical peopleA few years ago, a very ordinary headmaster of a Government school near Coimbatore, was affected with a severe kidney problem. The poor man, who was always ethical did not have the means to battle it out in the costly private sector hospitals in the city ( there are at least five of them today). When he was just wondering what to do, his son booked him an air-conditioned seat in the prestigious Kovai express and asked him to come over to Chennai, where he could be treated in an Ayurvedic hospital. It so happened that the person seated next to him was his old student, who had gone on to become a leading surgeon in the Government hospital in Chennai. The old man was not able to recognize the man, the doctor did. When he came to know of his problem, he took on the mantle of treating him thoroughly. One of his kidneys was replaced with a donor from among his close family members. Thereafter, the old man survived for a full 14 years. Yes, he had to undergo a severe diet control, But he saw through the trouble.
The doctor was on record that he was doing nothing for such an honest role model. He talked of those good old times when the headmaster would go all out and teach English and social science to him outside of office hours. He would nurture the talent of anyone who was poor but talented. He was ever optimistic. The doctor merely said that he learned so much from the headmaster.
This is exactly what happens when we learn values from highly ethical people. Let each one of us learn this simple lesson.
Think about where we will go ultimatelyDeath reduces us to a small pot of ashes within seconds. The electric crematoriums do a splendid job in these modern times.
This is just what will happen to each of us at any point in time. One moment and we are gone. We do not take back a single pie. This is the simple law of nature. This is exactly what our saints, our spiritual Gurus and our really good people whom we see all around us, teach us. Once this realization hits us hard, we will be far better people. We will be people who will be very ethical in whatever we do. We will be people who will never deviate from the ethical path, no matter the distractions.
It is not only about money. Even the highly educated professionals do have it as a habit, to stray from the path of "one life, one wife" and start having a relationship with someone else. It is always seen that the man is more guilty than the woman in such cases. When the legal wife comes to know about it, all hell breaks loose. The marriage sometimes ends in divorce.
All this can be avoided if we start thinking of this simple truth that can hit us very hard like a full bucket of bricks. Yes, life is so short to deviate from the moral path. Let us not do any such mistake. If we do it, our children will be watching us. When we cross sixty and then become rather tired for every single bit of work, we would realize all our mistakes. But that would be too late. This is exactly why we should be very careful in these matters too.
The distractions are real. Particularly at work. If we are in positions of authority, the woman might even suffer and not speak out. Yet, our moral and ethical standards would have plunged to the lowest levels.
Think of the huge peace of mind benefitsJust think of the okay that we receive from the IT department. If we try to hide something, the guys will simply come after us. There is absolutely nowhere for us to go. The only possibility that is absolutely ethical is to pump in as much as we can into instruments like the PPF.
Those who are basically non-vegetarians are now understanding what it pays to just cut down on the consumption. Not only does this save money, but they also improve their health. And their mental health too.
Such savings balances the income tax that automatically gets cut by the employer. This author has personally seen all the benefits of paying all taxes on time. It helps us to concentrate on "what next?" goals, like writing more than 250 articles the magical 365 days. That would mean around eighty articles in less than forty days!!
This is the sort of goal that keeps many going. Each of us has goals. Each of us is as smart as the other in one way or the other. Once we din this into our ears, life becomes that much easy and more enjoyable, without deviating from the ethical path.
Repeat the "happily share" momentsThis is another thing that we can do. The headmaster in the earlier example started chatting about his experience with the doctor, his old student with all family members. When he had a five day holiday, the doctor came calling. He visited his old school and told the student about all that the headmaster did to him. This "happily share" moments became a talk of the town in that particular locality. The happiness was multiplied.
When our path is good, the results will also be good. There is absolutely no other way.
ConclusionThe aforesaid discussion is indicative. Life's real-world experiences teach us many things. Even when there are huge distractions, let us not deviate from the ethical path. Let us not take it on ourselves and become very irrationally. If we do so, we will face the consequences.
The above points are themselves only indicative. We might add many more to the list. Life goes on.


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Michael J. Ballanger - Sat, Feb 17, 2018
What the Markets Have in Common with the Film 'Casablanca'
Technical expert Michael Ballanger discusses current market fluctuations and the gold and silver markets.
As I watched Wednesday's CPI (inflation) number reported by the Commerce Department, I was immediately reminded of that classic scene from legendary WWII flick "Casablanca," where Claude Rains, playing police Captain Renault, shuts down Humphrey Bogart's casino/nightclub with the immortal words, "I shocked—SHOCKED—to find out that gambling is going on in here!" The croupier hands him a wad of bills—"Your winnings, sir"—to which he says, "Oh thank you very much. Now everyone out of here!"
Well, I was shocked—SHOCKED, I tell you—to see that the U.S. inflation numbers came in a tad "hot." After all, the Fed has added some $5 trillion in additional "assets" to its balance sheet since 2008 and encouraged its foreign central bank cousins to do the same, which they have done with even greater enthusiasm. The movement toward serial currency-trashing has had us all awaiting the inevitable return of 1970s-style inflation, but thanks to the creative accounting and fictitious reporting, inflation is seen as "tame" by mostly everyone—but especially the financial media and "bond-badeers."
The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio has been increasing every year since 1980 with only a brief respite during the tech boom of the late '90s, and that has been a global theme of commonality as fiscal recklessness became the clarion call for Baby Boomers the world over. Nearly 10 years of financial repression has finally lifted as bond yields are rising to levels never quite seen by the legions of Millennials now trading for their livelihoods.
The expansion of the Fed balance sheet has long been a source of fascination for me as I could never understand how any entity owned by its members (which are banks that are required to keep a minimum of reserves on hand and must report financial positions) could be allowed to buy trillions of dollars of toxic paper from its members in order for those members to avoid bankruptcy—and then report those noxious purchases as "assets" that remain on the books at book value. If they were threatening to sink the member banks, how can they be booked at face value or par? Should the Fed not report them as "non-performing loans," leaving a large hole in that balance sheet? Should the Fed, which is not a part of the U.S. government, not be audited, as are its members ("owners")? Why can the Fed buy, sell, and short (think volatility and gold) infinite amounts of anything and everything without ever getting a margin call? Are you not shocked—SHOCKED—that the Captain Renault of bond vigilante-ism isn't closing down that casino?
Stocks caught an enormous bid this past week after the ice-water wake-up call of the previous week, but as I wrote about in last week's missive, you would have to be a complete fool to think that there would not be a "response" from 33 Liberty (NY Fed) and from the various serial interveners around the world. The volatility we saw last week spooked the politico-banker elite to the extent that we immediately witnessed dramatic moves to suppress the sudden and violent short covering in the VIX derivatives attached to equity market volatility. The 1,500-point swings in the Dow Jones were moved upon quickly, and by Monday afternoon, the "Buy-the-Dippers" had absorbed literally all of the panicky supply and voila! The Dow Jones now resides some 1,500 points off the lows and about 1,500 points from the all-time high. You see, everyone now agrees that one must never, ever underestimate the replacement power of stocks in a (hyper) inflationary spiral. So a "hot CPI" is bullish as hell, right?
Platitudes aside, I want to put to rest any notions that I have changed my opinion in any way on gold and silver looking out to the balance of 2018. Just to review, in late January I posted the chart shown below and made the case that no matter what the bloggers will tell you, the miners have a history of getting sold when the RSI moves above 70. The high for the December-January rally for NUGT was $37.96; the sell point for me was $35.80. The low print last Friday was $21.40; my entry was $23.80.
One week ago, I was a buyer of the leveraged Junior Miner ETF (JNUG) at $13.35 (20%) and watched it crater to $11.34, creating all sorts of problems for canine pets, adoring spouses, FedEx delivery personnel, and call-center employees. In dealing with issues related to "poor trading," I often times get caught up in semi-violent mood swings resulting in harsh responses to challenges such as overly-bound, impossible-to-open FedEx packages and overly-polite, impossible-to-understand bank support staff.
Owing these emotional whipsaws to my way-too-early JNUG entry, all around me had to suffer until the past couple of days, because today NUGT closed at $28.91 and the JNUG at $15.91. Needless to say, calm has now returned to the household as the miners are hitting on all cylinders; the metals are again firming up, and Fido has returned from under the toolshed.
I eagerly anticipate results from Stakeholder Gold Corp.'s (SRC:TSX.V) Goldstorm project, where the first hole in a 10-hole project has been drilled to an elevation of just above the water table at 6,000 feet (above sea level). Fingers and toes are crossed but since the shares have now pulled back from the $13M to $8M of market cap last week during the meltdown, there is no longer any speculative anticipation built into the share price. The company is spending $$2.5M over the next three years to earn 100%, so there is a lot of drilling ahead. And with such a big land position tied on Seabridge Gold Inc.'s (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) Snowstorm Project, 2018 will be an active exploration year for the area.
As this is being finished, gold is trading up through $1,360 again, but once again silver is lagging, taking the silver:gold ratio to 80.71. Hard to believe that in 2001, I was buying silver in the $4.00 range at the same ratio to gold—10 years later, it was at $50.
By the way, remember that package that was driving me crazy on Wednesday with industrial-strength packing tape resisting my sharpest box cutters? It was the most beautiful set of five 100-ounce silver bars from the Royal Canadian Mint. My money resides resolutely in the vicinity of my mouth.
Originally trained during the inflationary 1970s, Michael Ballanger is a graduate of Saint Louis University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in finance and a Bachelor of Art in marketing before completing post-graduate work at the Wharton School of Finance. With more than 30 years of experience as a junior mining and exploration specialist, as well as a solid background in corporate finance, Ballanger's adherence to the concept of "Hard Assets" allows him to focus the practice on selecting opportunities in the global resource sector with emphasis on the precious metals exploration and development sector. Ballanger takes great pleasure in visiting mineral properties around the globe in the never-ending hunt for early-stage opportunities.
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