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In hindsight, we're seeing clues, now, and reading words he uttered indicating that Pope Benedict XVI has clearly been thinking of renouncing the papal throne for some time.Forgive me if this sounds absurd on the face of it, but I am wondering if, despite these pieces of evidence, Benedict's recent entry into Twitter has had anything to do with the seeming abruptness of his announcement.Before you scoff, consider: the pope's interest in, and support of, the church's engagement with new … [Read more...]
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Abuse cover-ups about more than a "clergy culture" – UPDATED AGAIN!
(Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com)Over on Facebook, our friend James Martin, SJ noted that the National Catholic Reporter, in a long editorial, applauds Archbishop Jose Gomez for his public disciplining of Cardinal Roger Mahony:Gomez's words are a direct contradiction of the weak defense that Mahony has advanced for years . . "Nothing in my own background or education equipped me to deal with this grave problem," Mahony wrote. In studying for his master's degree in social work, he … [Read more...]
"No one hates men! But…damn these men!" – UPDATED
On Facebook, Diane of Te-Deum blog embedded this interview between Christiane Amanpour and Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, whom Amanpour calls "a practicing nun."Because she's a class-A journalist, is the haughty Christiane. She's like the Anna Wintour of elite broadcasters, but even less interesting.Full disclosure: as a Benedictine Oblate, I've read and gleaned much wisdom from Sister Joan's books on Monasticism; she has a lot of good and instructive things to say about the psalms and … [Read more...]
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Joanne writes on the pope-ordered penance that accompanied the opening of the International Eucharistic Congress in Ireland:. . . at the request of the Holy Father—the papal legate Cardinal Mark Ouellet spent last night in St Patrick's Purgatory, fasting and keeping barefoot vigil in prayer for reconciliation and healing of the grievous wounds dealt by Ireland's clergy abuse scandals. [...]Of course, this gesture will be read by many (if not most) as one more cynical photo opp, one mo … [Read more...]
Does Mo Dowd think Celibacy = Pedophilia?
Zoran Karapancev / Courtesy of Shutterstock.comI hadn't read Mo Dowd's latest screed because I've been really busy and because, well, her Yosemite Sam act has really begun to bore me over the years -- as Joanne (envisioning Dowd as another Looney Toon fave) writes here:I wonder sometimes why she doesn't simply self-destruct in her Tasmanian Devil hissing and spinning...Anyway, because I read Joanne's piece, I read Dowd's -- and if you're going to read either you should read both. T … [Read more...]
The Talking, Thinking and Wondering Will Continue
There is a saying attributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa, that I used to keep up on my header: "Ideas lead to idols; only wonder leads to knowing."I wonder about that phrase often, and continually draw new understanding as I apply it to different subject matters. It reminds me that I am not only free to ponder, but that as a Catholic, I am (quite contra-CW) required to think. Not to give in to the soft tyranny of sentimentalism until I'm so busy feeling that thinking is dismissed; not to … [Read more...]
Penn State, Paradigms and Poor Me
With all there is to read on the Penn State/Sandusky story, here are two excellent pieces that should rise to the top of the pile:Read Mark Shea on Betrayal and the Power of a Relationship:But though lots of combox warriors are quite adept at fantasizing about how bravely they would have behaved and how vile Mike McQueary is in comparison to their brave selves, how they would have taken a baseball bat to Sandusky had they caught him in flagrante, the reality is that, if the Milgram … [Read more...]
Pavone Story Still Murky
I got an email from someone the other day asking me why I have not written about the Fr. Frank Pavone story since the day it broke.The short answer is, because we really don't know anything more today than we did on September 13 -- things are still pretty murky, but this week, the water got stirred a little...which means it's even murkier.Pavone is still in Amarillo; contrary to hyper-dramatized internet reports that he is being held prisoner in a remote and horrible convent where he is … [Read more...]
Bishop Finn Indicted, "Significant Charge"
The breaking news out of Kansas City:A Jackson County grand jury has indicted Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph on misdemeanor charges of failure to report child abuse.The charges, announced at a news conference today, make Finn — leader of the 134,000-member diocese — the highest-ranking Catholic official in the nation to face criminal prosecution in a child sexual abuse case.The charges stemmed from the long-simmering controversy surrounding Fat … [Read more...]
Bloomberg: No Clergy, No FDNY -UPDATE
So, let me get this straight, just so we're all on the same page, here.When two hijacked, terrorist-piloted passenger jets were deliberately flown into the Twin Towers, in an act of war against our nation, the first recorded casualty was a Roman Catholic priest and NYFD chaplain -- Fr. Mychal Judge -- who had ridden to the burning towers, and blessed doomed firefighters, hearing last confessions on the way.And while Judge's body was being carried away from the catastrophe by the … [Read more...]


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What is agile? What's your experience that agile development as of now and how is it moving ahead in product development setup
What is agile? What's your experience that agile development as of now and how is it moving ahead in product development setup
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So what we have seen through our experience and you can sort of find this lot of literature that people out of documented are going through the agile process. Agile is a mind set this is not about since the process or the tools or the story bolding and scrums and those type of things right. Essentially agile is directly related to the discovery skill that we talked about earlier which is experimenting.
So your ability to have a conversation about what is immediate to be done putting a quick prototype of it showing it to your end customer or your stakeholder and being able to sort of take it through iterations and refinement till you actually get a finished products right that process or that mind set of going through those steps is agile. So I don't want you to confuse lot of people come to me and say I think we should apply agile as a methodology let me go to a training program. And what we often tell people is that look the theory program will be really really useful when you really understand how you are going to have the agility in developing a product and getting it to the market right in a fastest possible way.
So by the way a lot of companies are very very successfully applying this agility staff some of mind set perspective there is a lot of development that is happening in clouds in big data analytics in lot of application domains you know this is very directly applicable but what we see very interestingly is that it is also applicable in embedded systems company right if you just leave out the hardware design aspect of it you know more or less the entire software today you can build in incremental way and refine it as you go along by demonstrating incremental functionality to your customer right (( )) stakeholder.
This something that definitely catching on there is a lot of skill sets available there is also a lot of good training available around it but I just don't want people to jump into training without really understanding what is that it going to be use for and what is it fundamentally right and it's a mindset more than anything else.


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Would you like a Door County hot stone massage or Raindrop Therapy? You'll find it here, on the northern edge of Ephraim, in a cozy, quiet building tucked among the trees. This Spa was once voted the "Best Day Spa" by readers of Door County Magazine.
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1. A review article of the link between vitamin A and malaria was recently published in the Malaria Journal. The coverage of the article on blogs and Twitter made it sound like it was going to be the next big thing, but I suspect most people did not read the article thoroughly. Luckly Paul Chinnock did and here is his take. While the evidence on a direct causal link between vitamin A supplementation and a reduction in malaria mortality is weak, there are good reason to believe that it might play some role in helping children fight infections including malaria. It can do no harm right? Plus, a major benefit of integrating it with malaria control could be more continuous funding, which tends to be more regular for malaria than for micronutrient supplementation.
2. It is Over. We won't meet the Millennium Development Goals. Or so argues Bill Easterly on the Huffington Post this week. He argues that the way that they were structured set them up for failure in the first place and that "the MDGs will go down in history as a success in global consciousness-raising, but a failure in using that consciousness for its stated objectives".
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Timeby Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists
Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries.
Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.
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"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding." —The Economist
"If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs's compelling new book." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
"Professor Sachs has provided a compelling blueprint for eliminating extreme poverty from the world by 2025. Sachs's analysis and proposals are suffused with all the practical experience of his twenty years in the field—working in dozens of countries across the globe to foster economic development and well-being." —George Soros, financier and philanthropist
"Sachs proposes a many-pronged, needs-based attack...that is eminently practical and minimally pipe-dreamy...A solid, reasonable argument in which the dismal science offers a brightening prospect for the world's poor." —Kirkus
"This is an excellent, understandable book on a critical topic and should be required reading for students and participants in public policy as well as those who doubt the problem of world poverty can be solved." —Mary Whaley, Booklist
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The path from poverty to development has come incredibly fast in the span of human history. Two hundred years ago, the idea that we could potentially achieve the end of poverty would have been unimaginable. Just about everybody was poor with the exception of a very small minority of royals and landed gentry. Life was as difficult in much of Europe as it was in India or China. With very few exceptions, your great-great-grandparents were poor and most likely living on the farm. One leading economic historian, Angus Maddison, puts the average income per person in Western Europe in 1820 at around 90 percent of the average income of sub-Saharan Africa today. Life expectancy in Western Europe and Japan as of 1800 was probably about forty years.
There was little sense a few centuries ago of vast divides in wealth and poverty around the world. China, India, Europe, and Japan all had similar income levels at the time of European discoveries of the sea routes to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Marco Polo, of course, marveled at the sumptuous wonders of China, not at its poverty. Cortés and his conquistadores expressed astonishment at the riches of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs. The early Portuguese explorers in Africa were impressed with the well-ordered towns in West Africa.
Until the mid-1700s, the world was remarkably poor by any of today's standards. Life expectancy was extremely low; children died in vast numbers in the now rich countries as well as the poor countries. Disease and epidemics, not just the black death of Europe, but many waves of disease, from smallpox and measles to other epidemics, regularly washed through society and killed mass numbers of people. Episodes of hunger and extreme weather and climate fluctuations sent societies crashing. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire, for Arnold Toynbee, was much like the rise and decline of all other civilizations before and since. Economic history had long been one of ups and downs, growth followed by decline, rather than sustained economic progress.
The Novelty of Modern Economic Growth
If we are to understand why vast gaps between rich and poor exist today, we need therefore to understand a very recent period of human history during which these vast gaps opened. The past two centuries, since around 1800, constitute a unique era in economic history, a period that the great economic historian Simon Kuznets famously termed the period of Modern Economic Growth, or MEG for short. Before the era of MEG, indeed for thousands of years, there had been virtually no sustained economic growth in the world and only gradual increases in the human population…;
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"If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it." ——Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs's compelling new book." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
"Professor Sachs has provided a compelling blueprint for eliminating extreme poverty from the world by 2025. Sachs's analysis and proposals are suffused with all the practical experience of his twenty years in the field—working in dozens of countries across the globe to foster economic development and well-being." —George Soros, financier and philanthropist
"Sachs proposes a many-pronged, needs-based attack...that is eminently practical and minimally pipe-dreamy...A solid, reasonable argument in which the dismal science offers a brightening prospect for the world's poor." —Kirkus
"This is an excellent, understandable book on a critical topic and should be required reading for students and participants in public policy as well as those who doubt the problem of world poverty can be solved." —Mary Whaley, Booklist
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, as well as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time Magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the world's three most influential living economists of the past decade. His other books include Common Wealth, The Price of Civilization, To Move the World, and The Age of Sustainable Development.
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Way too optimistic, reviving outdated theories of the '50s and '60s (esp Rostow), forgetting all about the reality of evil, corruption, injustice, both of the rich and of (leaders of) the poor and forgetting almost all about participation, empowerment and advocacy, assuming that macro scale economics are the same at micro (village) scale. Just a small example: one of the main ideas in the book is: give villages a big push, so that they can start climbing the economic ladder. Increased economic activity leads to increased taxes which leads to increased public services, which helps increase economic activity. The first causal relation overlooks the fact that 80-90% (to sometimes 100%) of economic activities in African villages take place in the informal economy, where there are no official tax systems. The second causal relation overlooks (as said above) the fact of corruption. The example of Nigeria (enough income through oil exports, and corruption not mainly at the lower ranks but even at the very highest rank) shows that corruption is not a matter of need because of lack of money. The milleniumvillages approach is, as a friend of mine said 'thinking big inside the box'. I have not yet met people who have lived in an African village for an extended period of time (more than just a honeymoon time of 3 months) who believed Sachs' methods are workable. Is it a case of 'give it a try'? Well, you are working with people, impacting their mentality and worldview. It's not a business which if it goes bankrupt you just say 'I've tried, let's start another'. I agree though, with someone who said: Sachs is the best fundraiser of the age. he is performing well in that area.
This is a very good book. I highly recommend it.
This book does have some points that I disagree with but overall, it gives some specific insights into the complexities behind poverty. The traditional, 'one-approach-fits-all' approach to trying to help a country or region out of a negative financial cycle doesn't work. There are so many variables to an impoverished nation, that a clinical approach is required specific to that situation. Many books in this realm take a simple liberal approach such as 'the rich countries simply don't give enough' or 'poverty begets violence' and not the opposite in the latter case. Sachs does his honest best to be fair in my understanding of this book. Finally, his comments and assessment of the IMF are 'spot on'. The IMF, World Bank and UN are amongst the many organizations that need to reorganize and retool to be effective.
I had my reservations about this book from the start. My initial resevations turned into alarm when I found out that the book was foreworded by Bono (there is always something to say about an academic's self-esteem if he turns to a music celebrity for endorsement some might argue it is a sagacious marketing ploy though but I find call it insecurity). On the first 80+ pages of the book the author provides the 2+2=4 version of economics which completely misses the audience as it seems to be too non-inclusive for the uninitiated and completely redundant in its simplicity for those with a background in economics. One important thing to remember is that Sachs didn't set out to write a cursory overview of a balanced approach to the eradication of poverty but was agenda-driven from the get-go. There are several items on his agenda: (1) advocate for external debt cancellation for ... well, basically, anyone state which wants it, (2) smear the work of the IMF in all its applications, (3) the world's poverty is, in one way or another, the developed countries' -- particularly the West's -- fault which he considers to be a debt owed to the developing ones. The rest of the book is a kaleidoscope of Sachs' personal travelog (which sometimes gets entertaining for what it is) and the continued lambasting of the West for everything that is wrong with the present economic -- and sometimes political -- situation of the developing world. In these assessments Sachs gives the reader a polarized view of world politics, a matter in which he does not cut an imagine of an astute expert. Examples of this are legion throughout the book. One thing that comes to mind is Sachs' portrayal of the Renamo as 'violent' and tacitly supported by the US and South Africa while, I presume, assuming that the USSR-bankrolled Frelimo were angels pillaged by the evil forces of the Renamo. Anyone who has studied the Mozambique conflict for half a day knows that this wasn't the case and that there is a wealth of scholarship attesting to the fact that both the Remano and the Frelimo were equally brutal and committed horrific acts of atrocity. The author, however, gives no credence to these assertions of others because they don't fit his agenda which is to smear the West and its foreign policy. Another glaring example of such misrepresentation is Sachs' reference to the African slave trade which he determines as having existed for 300 years, a totally untenable argument since it is a well-established fact that slave trade in Africa was started by Africans, not Europeans, to which Europeans were late-comers and contributed, some argue, not more than 10% to it. Slave trade in Africa continues to this day and is powered by Africans themselves. There are literally thousands of NGO reports to this effect, which Sachs chose to ignore because they don't work for his agenda. If you absolutely have to get this book, get it on audio and get it over with while on the road. Otherwise, there are plenty of quality titles on economics, history of conflict, history of international organizations and other topics that this book purports to deal with. Go with those, particularly if you are not yet in a position to tell scholarship from demagoguery. I got a tremendous kick out of this book for all the wrong reasons ¿ I merely enjoy misguided arguments too much, particularly when they come from esteemed Harvard scholars, to miss this pearl.
This book is really two books in one - the first part, detailing the education and experience of a developmental economist, is a fascinating retelling of Sachs' experience advising the governments of Bolivia, Poland, etc. The second part, the argument in favor of ending poverty is fascinating and impassioned but at times wrong-headed, for example, in its excessive reliance upon the corrupt and discredited United Nations, gratuitous swipes at the Bush administration, etc. On balance, an important, interesting, impassioned but somewhat flawed book.
If one is interested in world development, economics, or international studies than this is the book to read. Jeff Sachs really opened my eyes and helped me to understand the world in a manner I had not previously understood.
At 50 fewer words than Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, I'd make these powerful facts from Jeffrey Sachs a memorization requirement for every student in America. These 235 words were issued by him on ABC's 'This Week,' Sunday, March 13, 2005: 'There are still about a billion people that are struggling for survival every day, extreme poverty that is so unrelenting that it means chronic hunger, it means disease, and it means early death. 'That kind of extreme poverty afflicts about one sixth of the planet. 'The amazing thing is that we live in an age of such scientific and technical know how, and in an age when prosperity is spread to so many places that we can really envision the end of extreme poverty within our generation by the year 2025. 'This can be done through the practical steps of helping the poorest of the poor to be empowered to grow more food, to be healthy, for the children to grow up with the proper education, and to have the basic means to be productive members of the world economy. 'The rich countries have said that they would give seven cents out of every $100 of their income, just that little amount, 0.7 percent, seven cents out of $100, to the poorest places on the planet to help them grow more food, have safe drinking water, have the children in school, be able to fight the diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria. If we do that, we will succeed. 'We haven't done it yet. I think we will do it because it really is the bargain of the planet. It's the bargain of the century.'
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Jeffrey Sachs is special adviser on the UN's Millennium Development Goals to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. The Goals are to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and end it by 2025. Sachs points out that $27 billion a year could save eight million lives. Three million people die every year of malaria, which is preventable and treatable. He recounts his work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, China, India and Africa. He notes, "today's development economics is like eighteenth century medicine." He attacks the IMF, writing, "The main IMF prescription has been budgetary belt tightening for patients much too poor to own belts." It still always says, "cut welfare spending, privatise, liberalise, pay your debts". In the 1990s, the IMF (and the EU) refused to reschedule Yugoslavia's debts, pushing it into chaos and war. The G7 hurt Russia by opposing support for the rouble, aid for the poorest, and debt cancellation. The G7 backed what Sachs calls 'the massive theft of state assets under the rubric of privatization', 'selling' $100 billion of Russia's oil, gas and other resources for just $1 billion. Sachs argues for the public sector to provide health services (particularly anti-malarial bed nets, vaccines, contraceptives, antiretroviral medicines and oral rehydration therapies), education, railways, water and sanitation, and for public controls to prevent overfishing, pollution, logging and deforestation. He argues strongly against privatisation and against 'social marketing', i.e. charging user fees for health, education, water and sanitation. He urges cancelling the debts of highly indebted poor countries and strengthening the UN. He observes that the world's nations could easily reach the Millennium Development Goals - if the rich countries paid the aid, 0.7 per cent of their GNP, that they have been promising for 35 years. So why are his good and humane policies not being applied? What stands in the way? The money is there. $3 trillion went on the Iraq war. $50 billion a year went on Bush's tax cuts for the USA's super-rich - more than enough to pay the US share of reaching the Goals. (Sachs, absurdly, writes, "the reason for this dramatic shift toward the rich is not really known.") He writes, "There is nothing in economic reasoning to justify letting the companies themselves set the rules of the game through lobbying, campaign financing, and dominance of government policies." No, but this is what they do: capitalist states act in capitalism's interests; economics is not separate from politics. We must face facts - the block on reaching the Goals is what another economist called the furies of private interest, the greed of the capitalist class. Sachs admits that opposition comes from 'the political bosses in the United States and Europe', but he ignores the opposition from the employing class. The fatal flaw in his programme is his belief that the Goals can be reached while living with capitalism. We will never reach the Goals, until we stop capitalism misruling us all.
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs is an amazing award-winning economic piece of literature. By using such heart-wrenching examples such as the poverty stricken youth in areas such as Russia and Bolivia. By using strong world examples to convey normally boring economic facts, Sachs uses a common writing device to educate the masses. With plentiful usage of charts, diagrams, and textual examples, Sachs clearly brings his points across, leaving not much room for inference. By sticking to his topic despite the many stories he tells, Sachs shows that even economics can make for an interesting read.
We all know poverty is a problem, but for those of us who live in privileged societies, we often forget it about it, it doesn't hit close enough to home. We feel bad that poverty exists, but it is not necessarily our personal problem. Sachs challenges our complacency on so many levels that there's no way we can ignore reality. He hits us not only with compelling statistics but with real-world here and now solutions. Sachs posits that solving extreme poverty is not about creating lofty academic governance models but about investing in the basics - water, sanitation, disease control. And he shows us that the cost of doing so is not as daunting as we might think. If you're into reading about ways we can individually help povery and other social problems, you'll want to read this.
In Jeffrey Sach¿s bestseller The End of Poverty, he gives his own plans away about ending extreme poverty with a little bit of the world¿s help. He explains the economic situations the world, and what exactly we can all do to pitch in and help those who are less fortunate by far. The story actually starts off by comparing different countries economic status, from rich too poor, and then escalates into a source for information on Jeffrey¿s plan to achieve global satisfaction. In conclusion Jeffrey¿s plan would end extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2025. What I found most intriguing about the story is that most poor countries have received a lot more help than expected. Even though Sub-Saharan numbers of extreme poverty have doubled, the birth rate is very high. Most surprisingly, Eastern Asia had the biggest number of extreme poor in 1981 and has dropped from 800 million to less than 300 million, lower than the total of sub-Saharan numbers in 1981. From my perspectives, I have great hopes for the world to come and I think that Jeffrey¿s plan was well though and should make a break for the world¿s poverty. Who knows, maybe we can achieve contentment internationally sooner than we think.
This book takes you on a journey through the early developments of economic success and the current status of many of the impoverished nations. The various countries that Sachs focuses on and analyzes helps to create a visual understanding of his concept of the 'economic ladder'. While ending extreme poverty isn't the easiest idea to grasp, Sachs does offer various ideas and goals to help ensure this possibility. This book clearly shows a wide spectrum and demonstrates how an analysis of a particular economic problem is key to providing a solution to it. I highly recommend this book to all, whether it be someone who has a a small interest, or well informed economist.


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When Kate Hanlon decides to help a new family at Faith Briar Church battle their son's overwhelming medical expenses, she takes up a collection... and gets far more than she ever expected. When phony money is discovered in the collection plate, Kate and her fellow parishioners all find themselves in the middle of a counterfeiting ring. The Secret Service investigates, and the trail leads them directly to Tim Lourdes, the father of the sick boy. But Kate suspects there's more going on here than meets the eye. Meanwhile, she, Paul, and several others from town are involved in a dance competition, taking lessons from another couple who has recently arrived in Copper Mill, the Harpers. The dance instructors energize their charges, bringing excitement and a sense of camaraderie to all who learn under them, but is there something else going on at the dance studio? And why does the Secret Service seem to be giving the counterfeit case far less attention than it deserves? Something just doesn't add up, and Kate Hanlon - with her faith, family and friends - is going to find out what it is.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is on the ropes.
That's what Rome daily La Repubblica reckons, publishing on Monday the latest opinion poll showing that public support for Berlusconi's PDL or "People of Liberty" party has dropped below 30%. That's almost eight percentage points behind the party's take in the 2008 general elections that returned Berlusconi to power.
Confidence in government is also in sharp decline and has also dropped below 30%, down from 49% in May 2009 and 41% just this past summer, according to the poll of 1,176 people by the Demos & Pi polling agency.
Politicians around Europe, especially Jose Luis Zapatero in Spain and Nicholas Sarkozy in France, are singing the blues. And while Italian banks and government bonds have escaped the worst of the crisis, job and output losses have been particularly severe, so it's no surprise that Berlusconi– who is already undergoing a divorce and risks facing trial on corruption next year–is among them.
La Repubblica, a paper openly allied with Italy's opposition left, focused on Berlusconi's woes, running a big graphic showing how six political rivals, including one who is openly gay and wears an earring, have higher personal confidence scores among the Italian public.
But Berlusconi's 17-year hold on the Italian political stage looks set to continue.


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Confidence. The name can refer to several ideas and concepts. Apply it to the world of beat-making and you have a term that exudes high standards and carefully composed compositions. What a fitting name for a hip hop producer who has just that! When Confidence was around 16 back in 1993, his brother decided to cop some Technic 1200's the first summer he started working. If you couple that with hundreds of hip hop records, the beginning stages of Confidence's career was about to take off. After dabbling with scratching for a while, sampling came into the picture. Bob James was a big influence and after copping one of his albums, "Heads," the sample game was next in line. From there, it was all about a 4 second Gemini sampler and some records/drum breaks to get an understanding of how hip hop music was produced. This would provide Confidence with the framework on where he is today.
At the end of 2010, Confidence released a 16 track remix album of 90's classics. This album was received with open arms and garnered a lot of attention from people far and wide. With over 6,000 downloads and features on KevinNottingham.com and 2dopeboyz.com, Confidence's work is finally getting the praise it deserves. One of the biggest breaks for Confidence came in 2011 when he linked up with the CEO of Ill Adrenaline Records who has a recording artist by the name of Beneficence. He put out one of the top underground records for 2011.
2011 was the year of Rashad & Confidence. Rashad linked up with Confidence online after listening to one of his remix tracks off of Recon. From there the two discussed doing more than just recording a track. A classic was in the works and after numerous months of putting in work and crafting masterpieces, "The Element of Surprise" was made. This epic record hit worldwide November 29th, 2011…Distributed through Fatbeats and put out by Ill Adrenaline Records. As of January 2012, The Element of Surprise is the #1 seller for December on Undergroundhiphop.com receiving a Five Star review from listeners worldwide. Recently I caught up with Confidence to touch upon his recent acclaim, influences and future projects, 'Con is a good dude man….
Eric: So why a producer? Why not an emcee? Also, who were some of your
earliest inspirations that led you into production?
Confidence: I've always considered myself musically inclined. My parents forced me to play piano when I was four. At the time, I didn't know that would lay the foundation for where I am today. Emceeing was cool, but I was always drawn to the music first, then the lyrics. I still am to this day.
Coming up in the 90's there was a lot of inspiration to draw upon. I'd say some of the earliest influences were the music of EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Gangstarr, Beatnuts, Diamond D, Lord Finesse among plenty of others. The beats and the rhymes all influenced my love of the music which carried me into the production side of things.
Eric: Wow man! You learn something new everyday! I never knew you got your first "placement" with the Almighty RSO back in '02. Can you share how that came about?
Confidence: Yeah, my man Big H hooked that up. I was living in Boston, but just moved back to Philly when I got the call that Twice Thou was looking for beats for his first solo album, "Long Time Comin." I submitted a handful of beats and he picked three joints to appear on the album. To this day "Show Respect" still hits pretty hard and that was my introduction into the rap game officially.
Eric: Aside from the RSO, tell the few of us who've been sleepin' some of the other emcees you've laced throughout your production career.
Confidence: I've worked with various artists over the years. I've either done beats for or recorded with Beneficence, Rampage, MDOT, Twice Thou (E-Devious), Big Shug, Last Emperor, Born Unique, Red Eye, Jaysaun, Slaine, Wise Intelligent, Edo G,Elemental Zazen, Tulsi, Naeem Oba, The Camp, G. Dot and Born among others.
Eric: Damn, quite impressive to say the least! I'll have to re-familiarize myself with your discography. So, "The Element Of Surpise" with yourself and Rashad, you've gotta' be pleased with the acclaim and reception that the album has garnered thus far?
Confidence: We're very pleased with the reception so far. The album is doing a lot of big things right now worldwide. I've got people hitting me up almost on a daily basis giving the album praise. It was the #1 selling five star album on UGHH for December 2011. People really appreciate this kind of music and it's refreshing to see that it's still relevant because I don't think it will ever get old.
Eric: The connect with Rashad, also "Element of Surprise" is the first I'd ever heard of him, how and when did ya'll link up?
Confidence: He hit me up on Myspace at the end of 2010. I had only gone on to check my account here and there and one day Rashad had sent me a message asking to buy a beat. I first went to his page to listen to his music and I was immediately hooked. From there I suggested that we scrap the beat and just work on a whole album together. He was in agreement and the rest was history as they say.
Eric: Dang, Myspace, huh!? Are there any plans on a follow-up LP/EP?
Confidence: I'm working with Ill Adrenaline Records, shout out to my man Benny. Beneficence is releasing his follow up album this year and I'll have about five tracks on there. This is going to be a big record with a lot of dope features and producers. I'm also working with Born Unique on a few tracks as well for his album dropping this year as well. Just finished up a track with these cats from Boston, G. Dot and Born. We just shot a video the other day with them and Edo G. That joint will be dropping at the end of January and it will be classic.
Eric: Can you share with us some of your early and current influences?
Confidence: My influences go back to all the greats in the game. Pete Rock, DJ Premier, K-Def, Large Professor, Diamond D, Beatnuts, etc. There's really not a whole lot of new influences these days. 9th was doing it a while back but he hasn't been that consistent to me anymore. I'm a product of the 90's and my music will always reflect that.
Eric: Yeah man, I feel on 9th for sure, you share the same sentiment(s) as me, lol. With the implementation of both the "Substitution" and "Skull Snaps" break(s) on "The Element Of Surprise", is it safe to say that Boom-Bap is still alive?
Confidence: Of course there are a lot of copy cats out there jumping on the bandwagon thinking they can make a quick buck. The world doesn't work like that in any profession. It takes innovation hard work and focus to try and come with something original. Until people figure that out the mainstream hip hop will never progress to an acceptable level to me. As far as that "authentic" hip hop, there are a lot of cats doing it but they're not being creative enough. There's no time for looping samples anymore. That style has been played out for quite some time. In order to keep the 90's alive, you got to put your own spin on it and try to come with something more updated.
Eric: Gimme 5 albums you'd want to take with you to the grave and 5 of your unexpected "guilty pleasures" (i.e, Kwame's earlier work or maybe Hammer's first LP)
Confidence: Let's start with the basics. Diamond D "Stunts Blunts and Hip Hop", Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth "The Main Ingredient", Gangstarr "Moment of Truth", EPMD "Unfinished Business", Big Daddy Kane "Long Live The Kane".
No guilty pleasures, only the essentials…
Eric: BH: Alright, answer the following in 5 words or less:
Pete Rock
Confidence: Favorite producer of all time
Eric: Illegal Downloading
Confidence: Love it or Hate it
Eric: Drake
Confidence: The New DeGrassi High
Eric: MPC2000XL
Confidence: Weapon of Choice
Eric: Iight man, thank you so much for your time and a great LP with "Element of Surpise", any final shouts?
Confidence: Thanks to Bloggerhouse for showing love and having me on the site. Appreciate that. Also what up to my man Benny at Ill Adrenaline for believing in me and Rashad. Without your help I wonder if our album would even be out at this point…Be on the lookout cause 2012 is already getting off to a great start…In the meantime, you can check me out on twitter @confidencebeats or facebook @confidence.beats


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The JVG Wedding Method
Essential reading if you're thinking of getting married by Jon von Goes. If you'd like to print it out and keep it in a safe place it's also available in printable PDF version by clicking the PDF icon - only 60KB.
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These suggestions may help you with your ceremony.They are only suggestions.Remember it's your wedding, you can throw the rule book out the window if you want. I'll do pretty much anything you ask of me. The only rule I insist upon is that you have a plan B if you're thinking of having an outdoor wedding. And of course, the necessary legal stuff.
If you have no set ideas of how you want your ceremony to proceed I recommend the following. Not too long, no fluff, a few jokes, yet a serious and respectful occasion. Laughter, tears and no yawning.
It doesnt have to be the bridesmaids, then the bride with her old man anymore. Its not uncommon for the groom to make an entry with the bride. Or the bride with her family, and the groom with his family. Or the bride and groom with their children, or their dogs. Limitless choices. Think about what best suits you. Remember its your wedding, its all about you.
Its good to have some music here, recorded or live, to punctuate the start of the ceremony. This is the part of the ceremony where your choice of music is going to have a big impact. Choose some music you both really like. If you dont have a song, sit down one night with your cd collection or your ipod and a bottle of wine and find a song that you both really like. A song or piece of music thats really you. Dont start thinking about what sounds weddingish. Weddingish is tedious, reflective of you is going to work. Its amazing the stuff you can get away with. Its amazing the stuff that goes down a treat if it reflects the two of you.
If you use recorded music make sure you know how long the piece of music will run for and do some basic choreography to ensure the music doesnt finish before your saunter is complete. Nothing worse than a track running out before the bride and groom are standing up there.
Live music means your choreography can be a bit looser, your musicians can repeat solos and choruses until all is in place.
Live music is great. If you have a musical family member or friend, get him or her to play. To ask someone to perform one song at your wedding is not a great imposition. In fact your buddy may well be honoured by the request. To ask guests to perform a set at the party is a huge imposition. I reckon you should be paying them for that.
Having said that, a good recorded song is better than a bad live song.
I get a few couples that dont like the sound of the dramatic entry. They plan to hang out with their guests and then a bit later they want me to politely shift a few people around and start the ceremony there and then. This approach is fraught. To hang with your guests before the ceremony is likely to make you more stressed, not less stressed.
Youre going to be a bag of nerves before your wedding. Even if youve got it into your head that its going to be a relaxed affair. And just before the ceremony youll be at your most nervous. If youre hanging with your guests all you can really do is dabble in small talk. And small talk when youre toey is excruciating.
You cant not have an entry. You have to turn up at some stage or other. Best to get the ceremony over and done with as soon as you get there. Straight after the ceremony youll feel like a huge weight has been lifted off your shoulders. Then youll feel like enjoying your party.
Having said that, the whole stress thing is important. Without your stress theres no theatrical tension, no vibe. Your guests will love the tension. Your guests are counting on you being beside yourselves with nerves. A wedding is a big deal; if youre not stressing, theres something wrong.
All about you, the couple. I will meet with you around two or three weeks before the wedding and do an investigative journo job on you. I will write this up and email it to you before the wedding so there wont be any unpleasant surprises.
I dont preach about the institution of marriage. I wont mention the institution of marriage. You wont get any talk about two rivers joining to become one, or journeys. I talk about whats going on with you two, your happiness, your history, your future. Thats what the celebration is all about.
This usually takes the form of a reading or a song by a family member or friend. I often suggest, perhaps some interpretive dance. Strangely no ones taken me up on this yet.
Many couples choose to do away with this whole interlude bit. It needs to be something very relevant to you. If it is itll work well. It will take the focus off me for a bit and allow a friend or a family member to make a contribution thatll make them feel really good about being involved. If you use a piece that doesnt resonate with the two of you it will sound like youve chosen a poem, a song, a piece of writing just for the sake of having a poem, a song, a piece of writing.
And a tip if you do have a friend or a family member do a reading make sure they can read and project. Sometimes a microphone will be necessary for a reader. I dont need a mic because I am the projector. Ive found its much better for me to work without one.
And for gods sakes if someone offers to sing for you, have a listen to him or her first. I have been known to accompany singers on guitar. I play pretty well. Please dont ask me to sing, it would not be nice.
Now, I Jon von Goes, a civil celebrant,
Before you XXXX, and you XXXX,
Marriage, according to the law in Australia,
The law says that I must recite this prescribed monitum verbatim. I'm not too happy about being forced to do this. Our previously socially regressive government removed the "or words to that effect" loop-hole from their directives, meaning I can no longer use the line "of one person to another" as an alternative to "of a man to a woman". Our relatively newly elected attorney genera has not made mention of what celebrants can or can't say. Hopefully he couldn't care less.
When you think about it, a father can't give away a bride unless he is in the business of denying his adult daughter her basic human right of freedom. In some square weddings this ridiculous custom is still performed.
However, if it's a matter of keeping parents happy, which is not a bad thing to do, having the bride's dad walk her down the aisle can be good.However, if its a matter of keeping parents happy, which is not a bad thing to do, having the brides dad walk her down the aisle can be good. Or the brides mum, or the brides mum and dad, or her grandmother, or her child, or her dog or whoever. Or any of the grooms family or friends if hes walking in too.
Ive thought of another idea. It makes sense and it works a treat. I ask of the parents or whoever it was who raised you:
You certainly dont need to have a mother and father who are still a married couple to make this work. It gives you a chance to give credit where credit is due and to realize that the nuclear family is most certainly not the only way go about it all. If any of your parents are no longer living its a good time to remember them. I can go on about how happy and proud they would have been.
If your family politics are such that for me to pose such questions would be too awkward I can make an acknowledgement of your parents without asking questions. Something like
You can get around most family politics with a bit of thought to how you phrase this bit.
And sometimes the politics of a family are so fraught that this bit is best left alone. All families have their issues.
It can also be a good time to honour other family members who deserve it. Grandparents, brothers or sisters, or other people who have been like parents, grandparents, or brothers and sisters to you.
Some couples have also expressed a wish to have all the guests promise to do all they can to make sure the couple in question remain happy. I can ask something like
Response We are, or preferably, a spontaneous Yeeeeeah.
These are the precursory questions I ask you, the bride and groom, before you state your vows. Vows are required by law, askings are not. But an asking will make your guests feel like tyhey are at a wedding, a fairly informal wedding, but still undeniably a wedding.
These are examples of some fairly standard lines you may wish to use if you don't want to write your own. You may wish to borrow bits from these examples to use in your own, or you may wish to have none at all.
I have only given the groom's examples here, needless to say the bride's bits are the same save for the gender specific words.
("I will" being the answer to all these questions, can be changed to "I do" by changing bits like "will you" to "do you promise to" and other bits as needed.)
1.XXXX, will you take XXXX to be your lawful* wife
2.XXXX, will you take XXXX to be your wife,
3.XXXX, will you take XXXX to be your wife,
4.Will you XXXX take XXXX to be your lifelong partner?
5.Will you XXXX promise to be a fabulous husband?
Usually the bride and groom repeat their vows phrase by phrase after me. Thats because its the best way to do it. Ive got a whoppa of a voice and everyone will hear the vows youve sweated over if I get to read them as well. It is rarely the case that the bride and groom get heard if they recite their vows on their own. They are usually trembling and crying and carrying on, not that thats a bad thing, thats whats expected of you. I mean its your wedding, if you cant show a bit emotion at your own wedding, when can you? But such states make for ordinary elocution and poor projection. And if someone goes and sticks a microphone in front of you it makes for very clumsy theatre especially if youre reading off a piece of paper youre holding. If you want to try and attempt to commit your vows to memory youre more stupid than brave.
What to say? It has become law to begin your vows with the words —
If you want you can leave your vows as bare boned as that. But the vows are often the best bit of the ceremony. It can get pretty heavy here. Good heavy. It's worth promising each other a bit more. You can write your own vows from scratch. If you want to do this be mindful of your phrasing. If you're going to repeat the words after me long sentences can make things difficult.
You certainly don't have to write your own. Sometimes writing your own vows can sound quite self-conscious. Sometimes recognizable vows will make your guests feel that they are at a wedding. Sort of like how a birthday cake makes you feel like you're at a birthday party.
If you don't want to write your own vows, here are some examples. If you want to write your own vows you may wish to borrow from some of these examples.
This is by no means an exhaustive list. You can go on the www to get many more examples. Also I have only given the groom to bride examples here where the vows are gender specific. Remember these examples all begin with –
I, XXXX, call on the people here
1....To have and to hold
2.... I want to be with you always
3.... I will try to be a loving
4.... I want to be with you always
5.... I want to be with you always
6.... In times of sickness and in
times of health,
7.... I pledge to share my life openly
with you,
8.... I pledge to share my life openly
with you,
Nearing the end of the ceremony now. It doesnt have to be the best man who gets the ring gig. Ive had mothers, fathers, grandparents, dogs, the barman, you name it. Sometimes when some people cant decide on one or two people, the grooms ring gets passed all along the line of groomsmen so every groomy gets his filthy mitts on the ring. Same with the line of bridies.
I make a big fuss about the chosen ring bearers. I tell the guests why theyve been chosen, how important they are in the context of the day and I get a round of applause for them. I usually manage to embarrass them somewhat. Good embarrassment.
To slip rings on in silence is an option that is often preferred. A bit of quiet relief before the pronouncement of you becoming husband and wife works well. These examples may help should you wish to have something said during this part of the ceremony. They are repeated phrase by phrase by the bride and groom after me.
Ive chosen not to stick any examples of stuff like the roundness of the ring symbolising eternity, no beginning and no end and the preciousness of the metal reflecting the preciousness of your love because I hate that stuff. But then again its your wedding, you can do what you like.
1.XXXX, take this ring
2.XXXX, I give you this ring
3.XXXX, this ring I give to you,
4.XXXX, I thank you for this ring
5.XXXX, with this ring,I thee wed.
5.XXXX, take this ring
I pronounce you husband and wife with a bit of theatre and sense of occasion. This is the fun bit. It's when the party starts. You'll feel a surge of relief that the show is over. Seriously, for me it's the best part of the ceremony. Big emotion time. The music needs to come on (recorded music is best here. Live music can demand attention, when all the attention at this stage should be focused on you two), the champagne should start to flow (if possible). Your family and friends will want to come up and hug and kiss you. I'll encourage them to do so before everyone else mobs you. I'll let you and your guests enjoy the moment.
I'll come and drag you away to the sign the papers 10 – 15 minutes or so later, when I feel the time is right, depending on how many guests you have and other variables. To force your guests to sit quietly and watch you sign boring documents is like forcing some kid to watch his sister do her homework. The party will be well underway by the time you do your paperwork. Some guests will want to watch, others will not. When you have completed your papers I will make an announcement that you are well legal. Then my work will be done.
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