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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Jeremy Coming In 8:59 in the 2nd vs. Game #15 Houston
58 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:21 PM
Great drive by Lin! And the up-and-in finish.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Gotta love the Rockets announcers:ReplyDelete
"Lin is he first Chinese-American in the NBA."
"Lin was cut by the Mavericks...picked up by Golden State."
But hey, they like his game anyway!
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:24 PM
I always thought that Lin's ability to get to the hoop would be the key to his success! Keep it up!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM
i like his aggressiveness, up fake didn't work that time, good timeout to save a possessionReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:30 PM
bs call on the 3, didn't even touch k-martReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Lin called for a phantom foul on a 3. Even the Rockets play-by-play guys thought it was garbage.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:38 PM
our boy is continuously improving and contributing. led an 8-0 run when he was in, gave monta and steph much needed rest, dubs making it close to end the first half. he is earning his way onto the rotation in my opinion. a couple correctable mistakes but nothing majorReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 6:47 PM
The best sign is that Smart didn't yank him after the BS foul. He knew it was just good D (and bad luck) and that Lin was playing well overall.ReplyDelete
Lin and Reggie/Curry play better than Lin and Monta. You need an outside threat to keep teams honest and spread the floor.
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Two more made shots...including a jumper. No steals, but solid defense.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Looks like the Rockets commentators are Lin fans as well. Yao gotta have to be a big part of that. Anyways 6 Points in 7 minutes so far. Not bad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:29 PM
two outstanding buckets and a jumper from the top of the key! confidence has to be growing with a green light to be aggressive from the coaches. nice. dubs down 4 going into the 4th w/ steph sitting w/ 4 foulsReplyDelete
also notice that jlin has no choice but to be aggressive b/c everyone is just standing around. not sure if lin taking it to the hole himself is necessarily the play call but whateva
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:33 PM
lin takes a charge! i almost can take it anymore. stop not making mistakes and being so fundamentally sound!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM
Nice playing from JLin...I love his defense! He's hussling back to for some D after Monta turns it over. I have to say, JLin was quick getting back. Right now Monta is just going down the court and shooting it...there's still plenty of time left!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM
great minutes from jlin. important minutes. steph checks back in ready to go with 6:30 left...and just gave up a killer turnover. what is up with his game? dare i say lin is your better option right now? steph is not playing like himself, horrible cross-court pass picked off by lowryReplyDelete
For crying out loud, past the BALL! Sure Monta is attacking and he just made 2 baskets...but there is hardly any teamwork. It's a one man show, forcing it and put the ball in less than 5 secs each possession. That'll win game all right, crap!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:50 PM
game getting out of hand. when is david lee coming back?? man, he is our MVP. 1-6 with him out if we lose this game? damn. oh well, at least jlin played well and keeps getting better. peace!ReplyDelete
- mr chucklesNovember 24, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Monta and Steph are passing up driving opportunities and settling for low-percentage 3s (and missing them). Come on guys. This is lousy basketball.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Well folks...the game is over. We are just watching the Curry and Monta show...the other guys are not involved at all down the stretch. Man, it bites to see the 3-10 Rockets score over 100 points...totally dominating Warriors at times, on the verge of blowing them out by 15-20. If you don't play defense, how can you win? Another frustrating game to watch...losing to a 3-10 team.ReplyDelete
Based on the last several games where JLin has played material minutes, the statistical significance of the JLin effect is becoming more meaningful. Again, the tide turned completely once JLin left the game. Now that he is more confident about scoring, there is only upside. Go JLin!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Lee would help, but he's not a cure-all. He doesn't play any D either. He would have won GS a game or two, tops. Is Lin officially the backup PG now? That's the third straight game with big minutes and quality play and the second straight in a big situation.ReplyDelete
He's finishing better, taking care of the ball better, and even hitting a few jumpers. Defense is very nice as usual (even if his man gets bailed out by a ref or hits a super tough shot) steals or no steals. His passing touch is still a ?, but the Warriors aren't getting a lot of movement with Lee out and Curry not lighting it up from the arc. Most of Steph's assists tonight were on shovel-oass jumpshots.
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Hopefully this won't end up being a repeat of last year with injuries.ReplyDelete
Currently, practically the W's entire front court depth is injured: David Lee, Ekpe Udoh, Louis Amundson, Brandon Wright.
Great to see Jeremy Lin play and completely turn his entire game around these past few games, sucks to see his team lose.
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:04 PM
On ESPN Golden State Warriors Depth Chart lists Jeremy 2nd Team PG ahead of Charlie Bell on the depth chart.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Oh my god Smart. Stop fouling. Just let it go.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:09 PM
Damn it. My internet stream froze before Lin hit his final layup. I assume it was just a standard garbage time blow-by?ReplyDelete
Well folks, Monta and Curry just shot the Warriors to another loss. Monta 7-21, and Curry 8-19 (more reasonable, perhaps it's just another bad night). Seems Curry is lacking consistency on his play...and he's not hustling on defense. A Rocket's player was hussling down the court, and he half-hearted chased after him like he is winded...the end result Curry gets blown by and the Warriors have to foul the "speedy gonzales" to prevent him from dunking it! :) Good effort!ReplyDelete
Am starting to wonder if JLin shouldn't start. The Dubs are losing games in the first quarter with indifferent play, especially on D. Is it my imagination or is Curry copping some attitude?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Come on, don't make JL fans look bad -- Lin is NOT ready to start. Curry is a horrible defender, but knocking the guy for some bad shooting nights when Lee is out is unfair. Same for Monta. Remember, Lin has the luxury of being the #4 option on offense (3 at best) when he's on the floor. When his passing or jumpshot improves significantly, then we can talk.ReplyDelete
That said, I think Lin deserves ~15mpg now. And I think he will someday be a quality starter (say, in two years).
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Agree with Ron.ReplyDelete
Practice on:ReplyDelete
Mid-range game; that is he can drive and also now pull up when they slack off of him, but he gets in trouble in between.
He gambles a bit too much on double team, but I think it evens out a bit with his steals, blocks, etc.
The good:
-Good D
-Can get to the hoop w/ ease it seems at time. He is deceptively quick.
-I'm sick of hearing the ugly shot. Brewer (guy who played for Utah now which team?) has an uglier motion. Whatever.
I'm just happy to say, Jeremy Lin is an NBA quality player - whether it be backup or starter. He will be in this league for a long time. He can be starter once he can hit at 43+% fg, and 31%+ 3pt and start finishing the hoop going left and mid-range game. Otherwise, he is good for backup minutes - and that would be about it. I'll take that for an undrafted rookie who even Dallas Mavs said he is one year away from playing ANY minutes.
You know what they say, "a steady ship carries the load." :) I wouldn't mind watching Lin start. That would get me excited then watching the Monta Curry show. At least with Lin, I can sense more team play, steady defense, and go chemistry with the other players. I mean, who want so play with ball-hogs?ReplyDelete
Well, I may be wrong, but lets see what happens when Lee comes back. But as of now, the past few games has been horrendous. It's hardly competitive for the other teams. Granted that one of them is VS the lakers, but a 3-10 team? Tough to chew on. Let's hope the Warriors pick it up next game. Go JLin!
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:54 PM
This team's lack of inside scoring is being badly exposed during this losing streak. The guards (Monta and Curry) shooting percentage goes down because they are trying to do too much. They really should give Carney more playing time to help out with the scoring. Plus the coaches have to get the players to focus on defense more when you are shorthanded.ReplyDelete
Anyway, it's great to see JLin get some meaningful minutes. If he can keep it up and remain in this 3-guard rotation for the rest of the season, I would say it's a successful rookie campaign!
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM
anyone got links to highlights?ReplyDelete
- mr chucklesNovember 24, 2010 at 8:57 PM
One team stat in the box score says it all - Free Throws Attempted: GSW - 18 HR - 51. One team settled for too many outside shots, the other went inside and made their way to the line.ReplyDelete
I didn't catch the whole game but I didn't notice a single drive-and-dish to a big for Golden State.
i'm disappointed in monta ellis. he seems to ballhog everytime. lin was open several times yet ellis tries to drive against five guys in the lane. ellis is a selfish player. no wonder he had a bad night. lin needs to find scoring chances for himself.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 9:24 PM
where do you get 43%+ fg percentage and 31% 3pt percentage? some random ass numbers.
i do agree he needs to improve his shot.. more so on the 3 ball... i think the fg percentage will improve with time as it has the past few games... hopefully jLin starts playing more consistent 15+ minutes
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 9:46 PM
I agree. People need to stop with the random numbers in here. It's not like once he hits these magical numbers, he's going to become an All-Star.ReplyDelete
- Passing shotNovember 24, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Good game JLin. Consistent all-around play. Interesting that Smart called for mid-range post-ups instead of pick and rolls, where Lin almost always makes the right decision. Perhaps because Smart did not respect the Rockets' big men, but the problem is that the Warriors don't have great passers or post-up players among their starters. More touches for Lin and more pick and rolls will mean better productivity (assists, steals, points) for Lin (and also in my opinion better results for the Warriors), but as long as Lin gets minutes, no complaint here, because he contributes in many other ways.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 10:09 PM
lin's release on his jumper seems to be a bit strange. his arm doesn't fully extend at the follow through.. i'm wondering if that's causing any issues for him.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 10:16 PM
@Those who are calling out the "random numbers"ReplyDelete
I think the guy meant ONCE HE COULD REACH 43% FG and 31% 3-pts.
Just saying...
Yea, for the number calling, as random as they are, I could understand how they could've been conjured up.ReplyDelete
for FG% for a guard: 45% is average whereas 40% is considered "that-guy-jack's-up-a-lot-of-shots"
Since Jeremy is shooting poorly, somewhere above the 40% is good enough, don't necessarily need to hit 45%. So. . .43%?
for 3P%: same thing as FG% to get 31%??
Iunno, the digits seem random, but if you think about it, pretty reasonable. Man.. . that was a waste of my life.. .
Correction. . .I have no life, hehe
Wow this has been the first time I enjoyed reading these comments. Rational discussions without flaming. Thank you all.ReplyDelete
31% is a little low for a 3 pointer. Though personally I want to see JLin develop a fundamental mid range game before he works on his 3 point shot.
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Jeremy Lin has always had a unorthodox style of shot...but so do other players like Shawn Marion, Joakim Noah, and even Peja.ReplyDelete
His game wasn't built off mid range and 3 point jumpers, so right now we're seeing his limit but with proper training it will improve. Just don't expect it anytime soon.
- AsiancaucasianNovember 24, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Smart needs to think hard how to improve the monta lin/ curry lin flow if he's going to run them together. seems like they always get into something slowly. And I think he could be more creative figuring out ways to get the ball to monta... . I don't think jlin should be taking most of the shots or trying to create stuff with the clock running down with monta in the game... I just get the feeling that monta checks out( did you see him run back on d that one time? Hebwas trotting and jlin was sprinting.) Again, as we saw tonight, the jlin led second squad performed very well and had lots of defensive energy. Does anybody else think monta looks medicated? Ritalin maybe? I mean seriously ... He looks emotionless, expressionless as if he's in a different place. Maybe he know he's gonna get traded!ReplyDelete
I was looking a bare min shooting percentages. Then again, you know Avery Johnson or other pt. guards suck at 3pt% (andre miller). I really don't know if he has range to tell you the truth. He doesn't seem to be TO prone, so I think he can dish pretty well and have good TO/Assists. Anyhow, it is still way too early but I sure like that he can hit the 14-18 feet so far. The baseline shot vs Lakers and top of the key tonight looked pretty fluid and confident. This kid is really looking good and comfortable. He is so focused and he is learning quick. He has earned his minutes - Bell benched ...other pg waived. He is now officially the backup guard - don't you guys think?ReplyDelete
Getting meaningful minutes in the 4th quarter on the road. I'm wondering why Curry was benched so much in the 4th qtr. I saw he had 4 fouls, but I don't think that would of stopped him from playing. Must of been gasping for air?
- mr chucklesNovember 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM
I would agree that coach Smart is starting to treat Lin like a true backup PG. The 4th quarter minutes shows it. I think Smart was hoping that Curry would come in to the final 6:41 fresh, focused, and not concerned about fouls. But you can't do that without putting in a backup that you can trust to hold the fort.
This is really encouraging as a Lin fan. Now I want to see him do more than "hold the fort" and start opening up and getting the team in a good offensive rhythm when he is out there.
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 12:27 AM
The Highlights for the game on NBA all depict him failing :( 1 turn over and him being scored on a 3ReplyDelete
- mr chucklesNovember 25, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Here are some highlights posted by gumbyorpokey:ReplyDelete
It has Lin's first layup and jumpshot from the top of the key.
- Blackie ChanNovember 25, 2010 at 2:04 AM
With each game he's showing off more of his skills. Before he could only get steals and score off of layups in transition. Now he's showing the ability to get to the rim in a halfcourt offense. Knocking down jumpers is a good sign.ReplyDelete
I can't wait for his first NBA 3-pointer. First posterizer Slam dunk.
here: Jeremy Lin quietly played his best game of the season. His 13 minutes were all meaningful. He connected on a jumper and had some nice drives against the Rockets' shotblocker-less interior defense. The offense wasn't exactly clicking when he ran the point, but it also wasn't coming apart at the seams. As usual, his defense was excellent — with some great judgment calls in the same switching situations the other Warriors were consistently messing up. In short, he was what you'd want in a back-up point guard. After the emergence of DWright as a starting-quality player, Lin's increasingly rapid development is the silver-lining of the year so far.ReplyDelete
from http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/2010/11/24/its-not-them-warriors-101-rockets-111/
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 9:32 AM
J's jumper has a bit of a sideways rotation because of his arm position upon release. It's not a problem, (see Tim Hardaway highlights), as long as it's "pure." Whatever he does, I wish him well. It's fun to watch his development.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM
re-watching j's highlights from last night, i am really liking what i see in terms of his aggressiveness. he just looks so much more comfortable and decisive. i think it's clear the coaches are letting up a bit and just letting him play. great sign. he just needs to play his game.ReplyDelete
also, looking at that jumper from the top of key, he stepped right into it, great rhythm, and knocked it down. who cares about his "unorthodox" release, which really isn't that bad. he shoots slightly toward the middle instead of his head instead of cocking it behind his shooting eye jimmy chitwood-style from the side. as long as he keeps it consistent and the damn thing goes in, who cares about whether or not his mechanics look like basketball 101 or not.
more examples of good/great shooters w/ non-standard looking sytles: fat lever, ricky pierce. also have to feel confident with mark price as his shooting coach.
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM
People need to chill about his jumpshot. He shot 41% from 3 his junior year. He can shoot. Doesn't matter what his stroke looks like.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Here's a highlight i found of his pump fake against denverReplyDelete
- AsiancaucasianNovember 25, 2010 at 12:44 PM
How about taking that charge btw! That's the jlin effect!ReplyDelete
as long as he continues to make jumpers with his style than he should keep it. certain people have different styles of jumpers. it's all about what works for you. jump shots can be fixed.ReplyDelete
- chicken wang chow dang ya under stang yada a mangNovember 25, 2010 at 1:15 PM
highlights from rocket gameReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM
if he can just play as relaxed as he is on the road at home, he will energize the crowd and spark some really nice runs for the team...and we get david lee back...and brandan wright...and lou amundson...and ekpe udohReplyDelete
I agree. Not only will GS get better, but JL's assist numbers will improve and his playmaking skills will develop once he has guys like Lee, Amundson, and B-Wright (whom he seemed to play great with) to pass to. That way, he can drive/fake towards the paint and dish off to his big men or kick out to Curry/Dorell/Reggie outside.ReplyDelete


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(Jedlicze is located East of Krakow, south of Rzeszow, north west of Krosno)
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This country hamlet is situated next to the large estate by the same name. At a distance of one kilometer we find the railway station that was opened towards the end of the 19th century and served the estate and the small town. The railway link helped the economic growth of Jedlicze. Most of the non-Jewish population of Jedlicze worked at the railway and at the estate. In 1898, there was great peasant resentment against the authorities in Jedlicze and the surrounding area that resulted in an explosive situation. The situation was remedied by a strong action on the part of the local police and army units.
Until the 19th century, the Jewish community of Jedlicze was very small and was attached either to Krosno or to Jaslo. With the beginning of the 20th century, the community was reorganized. It hired a shochet and maintained a Rabbi between the two great wars. The head of the Judicial council was Rabbi Menachem Nahum Waksberg that later left for Krakow where he headed judicial religious council. ( He died in the Shoa). During his tenure, the shochet was reb Berish Epstein. The last Rabbi of Jedlicze was Itzhak Weissbrot who also perished in the shoa.
In November 1918, army deserters and local peasants started a pogrom in Jedlicze. Jewish homes and stores were looted or destroyed. 14 Jewish homes were torched. The non-Jewish population did not lift a finger to help their Jewish neighbors. The fires raged until they burned themselves out.
A local branch of the General Zionist movement existed in Jedlicze between the period of the great wars. In 1927, it was reported that Jedlicze had a branch of the Ezra society for Halutzim or pioneers. The same year we also witnessed the establishment of the Agudat Achim or Brotherhood society that attracted most of the Jewish youth. The society sponsored courses to teach Hebrew to the youth.
Even this poor community had some Jewish contributors to the Keren Hayesod Fund that collected in 1921 the sum of $ 80. At the Zionist Convention elections in 1935, there 28 votes that were divide as follows: the General Zionists received 15 votes, the Mizrahi Movement received 3 votes, and the labor movement received 10 votes.
In themiddle of September 1939, a group of S.S. men arrived in Jedlicze and started to search Jewish homes under the pretext that Jewish were hiding weapons. The search was carried out with exemplary brutality befitting the S.S. The latter stole whatever they could grab, mostly money or valuables. They assembled all the books and even the holy torahs and burned them on main street. All Jews above the age of 12 had to wear a white arm band with blue star on the arm as of January 1940. All furs were confiscated in 1941. The Germans were constantly grabbing Jews for forced labor details during the period of 1941-1942.
The Jewish population of Jedlicze grew in size during the German occupation. Jewhis refugees from Krakow, Tarnow, Gorlice and Jaslo settled in Jedlicze. The economic situation of the Jewish community and especially of the Jewish refugees became desperate. The local J.S.S.- or the Jewish Self Help organization cared for 200 Jews. In July of 1942, the Jews of Jedlicze were rounded up and led to nearby Krosno ( some claim that the event took place on August 12th 1942). The executors of the expulsion were members of the Ukrainian police units and their brutal actions resulted in the death of two local Jews in Jedlicze. Many more Jews died along the road to Krosno.
A mere 20 Jews of Jedlicze survived the war, some in hiding and others in Russia.
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Most people believe that low oil prices are good for the United States, since the discretionary income of consumers will rise. There is the added benefit that Peak Oil must be far off in the distance, since "Peak Oilers" talked about high oil prices. Thus, low oil prices are viewed as an all around benefit.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The Peak Oil story we have been told is wrong. The collapse in oil production comes from oil prices that are too low, not too high. If oil prices or prices of other commodities are too low, production will slow and eventually stop. Growth in the world economy will slow, lowering inflation rates as well as economic growth rates. We encountered this kind of the problem in the 1930s. We seem to be headed in the same direction today. Figure 1, used by Janet Yellen in her September 24 speech, shows a slowing inflation rate for Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), thanks to lower energy prices, lower relative import prices, and general "slack" in the economy.
What Janet Yellen is seeing in Figure 1, even though she does not recognize it, is evidence of a slowing world economy. The economy can no longer support energy prices as high as they have been, and they have gradually retreated. Currency relativities have also readjusted, leading to lower prices of imported goods for the United States. Both lower energy prices and lower prices of imported goods contribute to lower inflation rates.
Instead of reaching "Peak Oil" through the limit of high oil prices, we are reaching the opposite limit, sometimes called "Limits to Growth." Limits to Growth describes the situation when an economy stops growing because the economy cannot handle high energy prices. In many ways, Limits to Growth with low oil prices is worse than Peak Oil with high oil prices. Slowing economic growth leads to commodity prices that can never rebound by very much, or for very long. Thus, this economic malaise leads to a fairly fast cutback in commodity production. It can also lead to massive debt defaults.
Let's look at some of the pieces of our current predicament.
Part 1. Getting oil prices to rise again to a high level, and stay there, is likely to be difficult. High oil prices tend to lead to economic contraction.
Figure 2 shows an illustration I made over five years ago:
Clearly Figure 2 exaggerates some aspects of an oil price change, but it makes an important point. If oil prices rise–even if it is after prices have fallen from a higher level–there is likely to be an adverse impact on our pocketbooks. Our wages (represented by the size of the circles) don't increase. Fixed expenses, including mortgages and other debt payments, don't change either. The expenses that do increase in price are oil products, such as gasoline and diesel, and food, since oil is used to create and transport food. When the cost of food and gasoline rises, discretionary spending (in other words, "everything else") shrinks.
When discretionary spending gets squeezed, layoffs are likely. Waitresses at restaurants may get laid off; workers in the home building and auto manufacturing industries may find their jobs eliminated. Some workers who get laid off from their jobs may default on their loans causing problems for banks as well. We start the cycle of recession and falling oil prices that we should be familiar with, after the crash in oil prices in 2008.
So instead of getting oil prices to rise permanently, at most we get a zigzag effect. Oil prices rise for a while, become hard to maintain, and then fall back again, as recessionary influences tend to reduce the demand for oil and bring the price of oil back down again.
Part 2. The world economy has been held together by increasing debt at ever-lower interest rates for many years. We are reaching limits on this process.
Back in the second half of 2008, oil prices dropped sharply. A number of steps were taken to get the world economy working better again. The US began Quantitative Easing (QE) in late 2008. This helped reduce longer-term interest rates, allowing consumers to better afford homes and cars. Since building cars and homes requires oil (and cars require oil to operate as well), their greater sales could stimulate the economy, and thus help raise demand for oil and other commodities.
Following the 2008 crash, there were other stimulus efforts as well. China, in particular, ramped up its debt after 2008, as did many governments around the world. This additional governmental debt led to increased spending on roads and homes. This spending thus added to the demand for oil and helped bring the price of oil back up.
These stimulus effects gradually brought prices up to the $120 per barrel level in 2011. After this, stimulus efforts gradually tapered. Oil prices gradually slid down between 2011 and 2014, as the push for ever-higher debt levels faded. When the US discontinued its QE and China started scaling back on the amount of debt it added in 2014, oil prices began a severe drop, not too different from the way they dropped in 2008.
I reported earlier that the July 2008 crash corresponded with a reduction in debt levels. Both US credit card debt (Fig. 4) and mortgage debt (Fig. 5) decreased at precisely the time of the 2008 price crash.
At this point, interest rates are at record low levels; they are even negative in some parts of Europe. Interest rates have been falling since 1981.
I showed in a recent post (How our energy problem leads to a debt collapse problem) that when the cost of oil production is over $20 per barrel, we need ever-higher debt ratios to GDP to produce economic growth. This need for ever-rising debt contributes to our inability to keep commodity prices high enough to satisfy the needs of commodity producers.
Part 3. We are reaching a demographic bottleneck with the "baby boomers" retiring. This demographic bottleneck causes an adverse impact on the demand for commodities.
Demand represents the amount of goods customers can afford. The amount consumers can afford doesn't necessarily rise endlessly. One of the problems leading to falling demand is falling inflation-adjusted median wages. I have written about this issue previously in How Economic Growth Fails.
Another part of the problem of falling demand is a falling number of working-age individuals–something I approximate by using estimates of the population aged 20 to 64. Figure 8 shows how the population of these working-age individuals has been changing for the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Figure 8 indicates that Japan's working age population started shrinking in 1998 and now is shrinking by more than 1.0% per year. Europe's working age population started shrinking in 2012. The United States' working age population hasn't started shrinking, but its rate of growth started slowing in 1999. This slowdown in growth rate is likely part of the reason that labor force participation rates have been falling in the United States since about 1999.
When there are fewer workers, the economy has a tendency to shrink. Tax levels to pay for retirees are likely to start increasing. As the ratio of retirees rises, those still working find it increasingly difficult to afford new homes and cars. In fact, if the population of workers aged 20 to 64 is shrinking, there is little need to add new homes for this group; all that is needed is repairs for existing homes. Many retirees aged 65 and over would like their own homes, but providing separate living quarters for this population becomes increasingly unaffordable, as the elderly population becomes greater and greater, relative to the working age population.
Figure 10 shows that the population aged 65 and over already equals 47% of Japan's working age population. (This fact no doubt explains some of Japan's recent financial difficulties.) The ratios of the elderly to the working age population are lower for Europe and the United States, but are trending higher. This may be a reason why Germany has been open to adding new immigrants to its population.
For the Most Developed Regions in total (which includes US, Europe, and Japan), the UN projects that those aged 65 and over will equal 50% of those aged 20 to 64 by 2050. China is expected to have a similar percentage of elderly, relative to working age (51%), by 2050. With such a large elderly population, every two people aged 20 to 64 (not all of whom may be working) need to be supporting one person over 65, in addition to the children whom they are supporting.
Demand for commodities comes from workers having income to purchase goods that are made using commodities–things like roads, new houses, new schools, and new factories. Economies that are trying to care for an increasingly large percentage of elderly citizens don't need a lot of new houses, roads and factories. This lower demand is part of what tends to hold commodity prices down, including oil prices.
Part 4. World oil demand, and in fact, energy demand in general, is now slowing.
If we calculate energy demand based on changes in world consumption, we see a definite pattern of slowing growth (Fig.11). I commented on this slowing growth in my recent post, BP Data Suggests We Are Reaching Peak Energy Demand.
The pattern we are seeing is the one to be expected if the world is entering another recession. Economists may miss this point if they are focused primarily on the GDP indications of the United States.
World economic growth rates are not easily measured. China's economic growth seems to be slowing now, but this change does not seem to be fully reflected in its recently reported GDP. Rapidly changing financial exchange rates also make the true world economic growth rate harder to discern. Countries whose currencies have dropped relative to the dollar are now less able to buy our goods and services, and are less able to repay dollar denominated debts.
Part 5. The low price problem is now affecting many commodities besides oil. The widespread nature of the problem suggests that the issue is a demand (affordability) problem–something that is hard to fix.
Many people focus only on oil, believing that it is in some way different from other commodities. Unfortunately, nearly all commodities are showing falling prices:
Energy prices stayed high longer than other prices, perhaps because they were in some sense more essential. But now, they have fallen as much as other prices. The fact that commodities tend to move together tends to hold over the longer term, suggesting that demand (driven by growth in debt, working age population, and other factors) underlies many commodity price trends simultaneously.
The pattern of many commodities moving together is what we would expect if there were a demand problem leading to low prices. This demand problem would likely reflect several issues:
- The world economy cannot tolerate high priced energy because of the problem shown in Figure 2. We have increasingly used cheaper debt and larger quantities of debt to cover this basic problem, but are running out of fixes.
- The cost of producing energy products keeps trending upward, because we extracted the cheap-to-produce oil (and coal and natural gas) first. We have no alternative but to use more expensive-to-produce energy products.
- Many costs other than energy costs have been trending upward in inflation-adjusted terms, as well. These include fresh water costs, the cost of metal extraction, the cost of mitigating pollution, and the cost of advanced education. All of these tend to squeeze discretionary income in a pattern similar to the problem indicated in Figure 2. Thus, they tend to add to recessionary influences.
- We are now reaching a working population bottleneck as well, as described in Part 4.
Part 6. Oil prices seem to need to be under $60 barrel, and perhaps under $40 barrel, to encourage demand growth in US, Europe, and Japan.
If we look at the historical impact of oil prices on consumption for the US, Europe, and Japan combined, we find that whenever oil prices are above $60 per barrel in inflation-adjusted prices, consumption tends to fall. Consumption tends to be flat in the $40 to $60 per barrel range. It is only when prices are in the under $40 per barrel range that consumption has generally risen.
There is virtually no oil that can be produced in the under $40 barrel range–or even in the under $60 barrel a range, if tax needs of governments are included. Thus, we end up with non-overlapping ranges:
- The amount that consumers in advanced economies can afford.
- The amount the producers, with their current high-cost structure, actually need.
One issue, with lower oil prices, is, "What kinds of uses do the lower oil prices encourage?" Clearly, no one will build a new factory using oil, unless the price of oil is expected to be sufficiently low over the long-term for this use. Thus, adding industry will likely be difficult, even if the price of oil drops for a few years. We also note that the United States seems to have started losing its industrial production in the 1970s (Fig. 15), as its own oil production fell. Apart from the temporarily greater use of oil in shale drilling, the trend toward off-shoring industrial production will likely continue, regardless of the price of oil.
If we cannot expect low oil prices to favorably affect the industrial sector, the primary impact of lower oil prices will likely be on the transportation sector. (Little oil is used in the residential and commercial sectors.) Goods shipped by truck will be cheaper to ship. This will make imported goods, which are already cheap (thanks to the rising dollar), cheaper yet. Airlines may be able to add more flights, and this may add some jobs. But more than anything else, lower oil prices will encourage people to drive more miles in personal automobiles and will encourage the use of larger, less fuel-efficient vehicles. These uses are much less beneficial to the economy than adding high-paid industrial jobs.
Part 7. Saudi Arabia is not in a position to help the world with its low price oil problem, even if it wanted to.
Many of the common beliefs about Saudi Arabia's oil capacity are of doubtful validity. Saudi Arabia claims to have huge oil reserves, but as a practical matter, its growth in oil production has been modest. Its oil exports are actually down relative to its exports in the 1970s, and relative to the 2005-2006 period.
Low oil prices are having an adverse impact on the revenues that Saudi Arabia receives for exporting oil. In 2015, Saudi Arabia has so far issued bonds worth $5 billion US$, and plans to issue more to fill the gap in its budget caused by falling oil prices. Saudi Arabia really needs $100+ per barrel oil prices to fund its budget. In fact, nearly all of the other OPEC countries also need $100+ prices to fund their budgets. Saudi Arabia also has a growing population, so it needs rising oil exports just to maintain its 2014 level of exports per capita. Saudi Arabia cannot reduce its exports by 10% to 25% to help the rest of the world. It would lose market share and likely not get it back. Losing market share would permanently leave a "hole" in its budget that could never be refilled.
Saudi Arabia and a number of the other OPEC countries have published "proven reserve" numbers that are widely believed to be inflated. Even if the reserves represent a reasonable outlook for very long term production, there is no way that Saudi oil production can be ramped up greatly, without a large investment of capital–something that is likely not to be available in a low price environment.
In the United States, there is an expectation that when estimates are published, the authors will do their best to produce correct amounts. In the real world, there is a lot of exaggeration that takes place. Most of us have heard about the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal and the uncertainty regarding China's GDP growth rates. Saudi Arabia, on a monthly basis, does not give truthful oil production numbers to OPEC–OPEC regularly publishes "third party estimates" which are considered more reliable. If Saudi Arabia cannot be trusted to give accurate monthly oil production amounts, why should we believe any other unaudited amounts that it provides?
Part 8. We seem to be at a point where major debt defaults will soon start for oil and other commodities. Once this happens, the resulting layoffs and bank problems will put even more downward pressure on commodity prices.
Wolf Richter has recently written about huge jumps in interest rates that are being forced on some borrowers. Olin Corp., a manufacture of chlor-alkali products, recently attempted to sell $1.5 billion in eight and ten year bonds with yields of 6.5% and 6.75% respectively. Instead, it ended up selling $1.22 billion of bonds with the same maturities, with yields of 9.75% and 10.0% respectively.
Richter also mentions existing bonds of energy companies that are trading at big discounts, indicating that buyers have substantial questions regarding whether the bonds will pay off as expected. Chesapeake Energy, the second largest natural gas driller in the US, has 7% notes due in 2023 that are now trading at 67 cent on the dollar. Halcon Resources has 8.875% notes due in 2021 that are trading at 33.5 cents on the dollar. Lynn Energy has 6.5% notes due in 2021 that are trading at 23 cents on the dollar. Clearly, bond investors think that debt defaults are not far away.
The latest round of twice-yearly reevaluations is under way, and almost 80 percent of oil and natural gas producers will see a reduction in the maximum amount they can borrow, according to a survey by Haynes and Boone LLP, a law firm with offices in Houston, New York and other cities. Companies' credit lines will be cut by an average of 39 percent, the survey showed.
Debts of mining companies are also being affected with today's low prices of metals. Thus, we can expect defaults and cutbacks in areas other than oil and gas, too.
There is a widespread belief that if prices remain low, someone will come along, buy the distressed assets at low prices, and ramp up production as soon as prices rise again. If prices never rise for very long, though, this won't happen. The bankruptcies that occur will mean the end for that particular resource play. We won't really be able to get prices back up to where they need to be to extract the resources.
Thus low prices, with no way to get them back up, and no hope of making a profit on extraction, are likely the way we reach limits in a finite world. Because low demand affects all commodities simultaneously, "Limits to Growth" equates to what might be called "Peak Resources" of all kinds, at approximately the same time.


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Teaching or Commanding?: When bishops instruct the faithful
When the Second Vatican Council ended, several of the bishops who took part told me that the most important lesson they had learned through the conciliar process had been a renewed recognition that the church exists to be, for all its members, a lifelong school of holiness and wisdom, a lifelong school of friendship (a better rendering of caritas than "charity" would be). It follows that the most fundamental truth about the structure of Christian teaching cannot lie in distinctions between teachers and pupils—although such distinctions are not unimportant—but in the recognition that all Christians are called to lifelong learning in the Spirit, and all of us are called to embody, communicate and protect what we have learned. Much of what is said about the office of "teachership" or magisterium seems dangerously forgetful of this fact.
Aspects of Instruction
The concept of instruction is ambiguous. If I am "instructing" someone, I may be teaching or I may be issuing a command. Someone who is "under instruction" is being educated, but "I instructed him to stop" reports a command. "Instructions for use," however, provide information and hence would seem to be educational. There may be cases in which it is not easy to decide the sense. It is, however, important not to confuse the two senses and even more important not to subordinate instruction as education to instruction as command.
I have long maintained that the heart of the crisis of contemporary Catholicism lies in just such subordination of education to governance, the effect of which has too often been to substitute for teaching proclamation construed as command. As Yves Congar said, it is impossible to make the function of teaching an integral element of jurisdiction because it is one thing to accept a teaching, quite another to obey an order: "Autre chose est agréer une doctrine, autre chose obéir à un ordre."
Dissent and Disagreement
I have said that Catholic Christianity is a lifelong school of friendship, holiness and wisdom. Yet the tasks of those exercising the pastoral teaching office seem not, in fact, primarily to be teaching, at least as this activity is understood in most schools.
In 1975 a plenary session of the International Theological Commission issued a series of theses on the relationship between the magisterium and theology. In 1966 Paul VI had addressed an international congress on "The Theology of Vatican II" on the same topic, and the commission introduced its theses with two brief quotations from that address. The commission defined ecclesiastical magisterium as "the office of teaching which, by Christ's institution, is proper to the college of bishops or to individual bishops joined in hierarchical communion with the Supreme Pontiff."
What terminology might be appropriate to describe what someone is doing when, for whatever reason, he or she seeks to take issue with some particular instance of magisterial teaching? "Disagreeing" is the term that comes to mind. But because teaching is, in current ecclesiastical usage, usually construed as governance, as command, such taking issue is described in the recent literature not as disagreement but as "dissent."
Francis A. Sullivan, S.J., reminded readers of his 1983 book Magisterium that Pius XII, in "Humani Generis," announced that "when a pope, in an encyclical, expresses his judgment on an issue that was previously controverted, this can no longer be seen as a question for free discussion by theologians"; Father Sullivan goes on to point out, however, that "there is no such statement in any of the documents that were approved by the Council." The silence of the Second Vatican Council notwithstanding, John Paul II, addressing the American bishops in Los Angeles in 1987, said without qualification: "It is sometimes said that dissent from the magisterium is totally compatible with being a 'good Catholic' and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. This is a grave error that challenges the teaching office of the bishops in the United States and elsewhere."
If Father Sullivan's study seemed content to work with the terminology of "dissent," Ladislas Orsy, S.J., is more troubled by the notion. "Dissent has become," says Father Orsy, "one of the dominant themes in Catholic theology in the United States," but "is mentioned less in European writings." Dissent, he says, "is an imperfect term under several aspects": It is purely negative; it implies "deep-lying internal antagonism"; it is historically loaded; and so on. "It follows that if we abandoned the word 'dissent' altogether, we would lose little and gain much." I agree. Yet, "All these arguments notwithstanding," Father Orsy concludes, "it appears that for the time being at least" we must "live with an unsuitable word." For goodness' sake, why?
Here is a very simple model: The teacher looks for understanding, the commander for obedience. Where teaching in most ordinary senses of the term is concerned, if a pupil's response to a piece of teaching is yes, the student is saying something like "I see" or "I understand." If the response is no, the pupil is saying "I don't see" or "I don't understand." When subordinates say yes to a command, they obey; when they say no, they disobey. Dissent is disobedience. The entire discussion about the circumstances in which it may be permissible or appropriate to dissent from magisterial utterances makes clear that what is at issue is when and in what circumstances it may be virtuous, and not sinful, to disobey. There could, in my opinion, be no clearer evidence that what we call "official teaching" in the church is, for the most part, not teaching but governance.
I am not in the least denying that governance, the issuing of instructions and commands, has its place in the life of the church, as of any other society. That is not what is at issue. The point at issue is that commands direct; they do not educate. It is one thing to accept a doctrine, quite another to obey an order.
Manuals and Rule Books
Commenting on Pope John Paul II's encyclical "The Splendor of Truth" (1993), Herbert McCabe, O.P., contrasted manuals and rule books. A manual helps one to acquire some skill: as a football player or a piano-tuner or, if we extend the range of skills to those habits we call the virtues, as a just or generous person. A manual is an instrument of education. In addition to manuals there are rule books, which tell you what, in some particular context, you are and are not allowed to do. Father McCabe writes: "The rule book does not tell you anything about acquiring skills in football; it simply tells you the rules and the kinds of action that would break them." The rule book is an instrument of governance. What worried Father McCabe about "The Splendor of Truth" was that it is, he said, "in great part, an attack on those who want to read the rule book as a manual by those who want to read the manual as though it were a rule book."
Nowhere in "The Splendor of Truth" does John Paul II discuss disagreement in the church or the duty of episcopal authority to monitor and guide it. Indeed, near the end of the encyclical, in a passage denouncing "dissent" and "opposition to the teaching of the Church's pastors," the pope comes close to claiming that there is simply no place for disagreement on moral questions in the church: "While exchanges and conflicts of opinion may constitute normal expressions of public life in a representative democracy, moral teaching certainly cannot depend simply upon respect for such a process." It "cannot depend simply" upon "exchanges and conflicts of opinion"—fair enough. But might Catholics not have expected him to say something about the part such "exchanges" should play?
"It is for ecclesiology," said Robert Murray, S.J., an English Jesuit, "that [the term] magisterium till about the mid-nineteenth century referred to the activity of authorized teaching in the Church. The use with a capital 'M' to denote episcopal and especially papal authority was developed mainly in the anti-Modernist documents."
The 19th-century shift from the name of a function, that of teaching, to the name of a group of officers or "functionaries" was for two reasons most unfortunate. First, it was unfortunate because it created the impression that in the church only bishops bear responsibility for witnessing to the Gospel. (We should never forget that most bishops were first catechized by their mothers.) Second, it was unfortunate because bishops seldom do much teaching in the ordinary sense, being preoccupied with the cares of middle management. As a result, the contraction of the range of reference of magisterium to the episcopate alone served only to deepen the subordination of education to governance that I have deplored.
There are, of course, exceptions to the claim that most bishops seldom do much teaching in the ordinary sense. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, when he was archbishop of Milan, could fill his cathedral with people who came to hear him interpret the Scriptures. And an encyclical like Pope Benedict XVI's "Caritas in Veritate" (2009) is surely a quite straightforward exercise in teaching.
I have referred to the contraction of the range of "official teachers" to the episcopate. In fact, during the 20th century the magisterium contracted even further. John Paul II's encyclical "Veritatis Splendor" is addressed "to all the bishops of the Catholic Church." Near the end of it, the pope says: "This is the first time, in fact, that the Magisterium of the Church has set forth in detail the fundamental elements of this teaching," thereby contracting the range of reference still further—to himself.
According to the church historian Eamon Duffy, John Paul II, like Pius XII before him, "saw the pope as first and foremost a teacher, an oracle." However accurate the image of particular popes as "oracles" may be as a description, it remains the case that any pope who behaves within the church as an oracle misunderstands his office. The image of the oracle is of one who brings fresh messages from God. This no pope can do, for the church he serves as its chief bishop has already heard the Word and lives by that faith, which is its God-given response. It is the duty of those who hold teaching office in the church to articulate, to express, to clarify the faith by which we live.
Hence the importance of the doctrine of "reception." In one of St. Augustine's sermons (No. 272) he says: "When I hold up the host before communion, I say 'Corpus Christi,' and you reply 'Amen,' which means: 'Yes, we are.'" The response of the faithful to sound teaching in the church is to say, "Yes, that's it." Where this response is lacking, the teaching is called into question.
Securus judicat orbis terrarum ("The judgment of the whole world is secure"). In the months leading up to the first Vatican Council, Cardinal John Henry Newman insisted that he "put the validity of the Council upon its reception by the orbis terrarum" (whole world). And when, after the council, he hesitated before accepting the definition of papal infallibility, Lord Acton remarked, "He was waiting for the echo."
"Human community," says Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., "is sustained by conversation." That he regards this axiom as an ecclesiological and not merely an anthropological principle is clear from his later remark that "sharing our faith is always more than stating our convictions: it is finding our place in that conversation which has continued ever since Jesus began to talk with anyone whom he met in Galilee, and which is the life of the Church." Disagreement is an unavoidable feature of serious conversation about the things that matter most. David Woodard, a brilliantly effective but somewhat eccentric parish priest with whom I had the privilege of working in the early 1960s, came back one day after visiting a neighboring parish and exclaimed: "Those people are completely lacking in Christian charity; they can't even disagree with one another!"
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas ("Unity in essentials, liberty in open questions, in all things charity"). Pope John XXIII quoted this 16th-century motto in his first encyclical. It seems to me that where the relationships between governance and education and between the episcopate and teachers of theology are concerned, there are few more important tasks for the bishops to undertake than to act as moderators of disagreement, educators in Christian conversation.
From the archives, Nicholas Lash reports on contintent-wide meeting of European theologians.
A follow-up essay might explore why diocesan seminaries don't make these necessary distinctions.
"No theological system can subsist if not permeated by love of its divine 'Object,' if it is not always nourished by dialog-that is, the welcome in the mind and heart of the theologian-with the divine Logos, Creator and Redeemer. Moreover no theology is such if it is not integrated in the life and reflection of the Church across time and space, Yes, it's true that to be scientific theology has to argue in rational fashion but it also has to be faithful to the nature of ecclesial faith centered on God rooted in prayer in a communion with the other disciples of the Lord guarenteed by communion with the Successor of Peter and the entire Episcopal College."
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Powerful article, in part because of the simple clarity that suffices for Nicholas Lash to describe this Church problem and need.'We're … teachers,' Archbishop Dolan said of the bishops' role, '… the teachers'", on his election as USCCB president. Dolan Is Picked as the Leader of U.S. Bishops.
The test of any teacher is what the pupil has learned. Consider what the bishops have managed to teach their pupils in recent decades on contraception, Mass attendance, confession, marriage, and loving _all_ the neighbors, for examples. No others would tolerate such demonstrable ineffectiveness where teaching and learning are important - in public schools, private schools, the military, etc.The military offers an instructive parallel to those who can learn. They depend centrally on obedience and (two-way) loyalty to achieve performance under duress, which ranges from the ultimate testing of combat to the mindless boredom of waiting. They vigorously study, teach, and practice both education and governance as if lives might depend on how well they do. Those who fail are removed. Would that Archbishop Dolan and his brethren could grasp Lash's straightforward analysis of their situation with similar understanding.
"Wojtyla, a man who prided himself on speaking many languages, listened in none of them. But then no Pope in 2,000 years has been listened to by more and heeded by fewer. As the late Vaticanologist, Peter Hebblethwaite, remarked during the early years of this reign, "They like the singer, not the song."
cf. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John-Paul II's Vatican, page 680.
Luckily for us, the same cannot be said about this author or the Jesuit whose work he was honoring.
However, most teachers in the Church generally do not, I suspect, take the trouble to explain how it all fits together, choosing instead just to teach the Catechism. That could lead to a Church in which the only members are Catechism Catholics, content to obey without troubling much to think things through.
If there is no room for the rules of morality to be discussed, but only followed, then the rules will never be taught or understood, only given as orders. This way of looking at moral rules and the law is no different than the concept of sharia law. Thinking of the rules and the law in this way is not Christ's legacy. I believe that Christ's legacy is Love which gives us the freedom and the means to place the law in its proper perspective, and gives us the freedom to question and understand the law in its full dimension including its limitations. This is not saying that disobedience is a virtue, but rather obedience is now cast as a means to listen and work at understanding (an education).
"This is not saying that disobedience is a virtue, but rather obedience is now cast as a means to listen and work at understanding (an education)."
The only command to be followed is a command to study and think? That sounds nice, but I don't understand where it could come from. I don't remember ever being taught to study - just to obey. In my limited experience, study isn't a particularly Catholic imperative, as it seems to be for, say, Judaism.
Thought provoking article! I find the most telling quote to come near the end: "Human community," says Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., "is sustained by conversation."
Conversation, and its concomitant opportunity for enlightenment by another person's thoughts and opinions, is the route by which humans grow beyond themselves. When conversation is denied, one's world becomes a darker place.
Witness the relationships in families. The bonds of familial love are damaged when, in the midst of a serious discussion over a difference of opinion, one person says, "Because I said so! End of discussion." Such ultimatums are an exercise of power and authority - a repudiation of the other - and a sign of dysfunction in the relationship.
In the family of God, those ordained to lovingly shepherd souls to salvation do well when they invest themselves in conversation with the faithful, respectfully sharing their knowledge and gently guiding the people along the path.
It is easy to issue orders. It is more difficult to be a true shepherd - but far, far more effective.
In effect, do what I tell you to do. When I want your opinion/insight I will ask for it but reserve the right to absolutely reject it unless you tell me exactly what I want to hear.
Thanks for editing my post to make it totally unintelligible. (Post no. 17). Why did you do that?
Bishops, priests, and laity are equally responsible to discern doctrinal and practical truths of the faith; the role of the bishops is to "rightly define the word of Thy truth" - as the priest intones during the Divine Liturgy - as a result of such a conciliar process.


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Variety's Leo Barraclough reports from Cannes today that Brian De Palma is among several filmmakers who will appear as interviewees in the upcoming feature documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut, which looks at the book of the same name and is based on the recordings (of Alfred Hitchcock discussing his career with Francois Truffaut) that led to its completion. Kent Jones is directing the movie, which will be released in 2015. It will also include interviews with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, James Gray, Richard Linklater, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, and Arnaud Desplechin. Barraclough reports that "the directors will share how the book shaped their careers, transformed cinema and introduced the French New Wave and 'New Hollywood' to the world."
Barraclough adds, "The film will journey through the extensive series of conversations between Hitchcock and Truffaut, illustrating their love for filmmaking and demonstrating their impact on world cinema. Scenes from Hitchcock's films will be intercut with comment from the filmmakers. Segments from the 1962 original recordings between the two filmmakers will also feature, allowing audiences to hear candid discussions between Hitchcock and Truffaut, and to witness first-hand a quintessential moment in cinematic history."
"For me, in many ways, cinema began with Francois Truffaut's book about Alfred Hitchcock," Jones tells Barraclough. "For me, and for many others, the book was more than formative — it was essential and direct."
The book, of course, made a cameo in De Palma's Greetings (as shown above).
Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2014 4:53 PM CDT
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Energy-Recycling Steps are Spring-Loaded
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a device that makes walking up and down stairs easier. They've built energy-recycling stairs that store a user's energy during descent and return energy to the user during ascent.
The spring-loaded stairs compress when someone comes down the stairs, saving energy otherwise dissipated through impact and braking forces at the ankle by 26 percent. When going up, the stairs give people a boost by releasing the stored energy, making it 37 percent easier on the knee than using conventional stairs. The low-power device can be placed on existing staircases and doesn't have to be permanently installed.
Each stair is tethered by springs and equipped with pressure sensors. When a person walks downstairs, each step slowly sinks until it locks into place and is level with the next step, storing energy generated by the user. It stays that way until someone walks upstairs.
When a person ascending the stairs steps on the sensor on the next tread up, the latch on the lower step releases. The stored energy in the spring is also released, lifting up the back leg.
The paper is currently published in the journal Public Library of Science PLOS ONE. The authors say the initial idea was to use energy-recycling prosthetic shoes to help people going up stairs.
Dr. Karen Liu, associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing
"Unlike normal walking where each heel-strike dissipates energy that can be potentially restored, stair ascent is actually very energy efficient; most energy you put in goes into potential energy to lift you up," said Karen Liu, an associate professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing.
"But then I realized that going downstairs is quite wasteful. You dissipate energy to stop yourself from falling, and I thought it would be great if we could store the energy wasted during descent and return it to the user during ascent," Dr. Liu continued.
Liu is a co-author of the paper with colleague Lena Ting, a professor of biomedical engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech.
Walking down stairs is like tapping the breaks of your car while revving the engine," said Ting. "Your legs use a lot of energy bracing each steop to avoid falling too fast. Our stairs store that energy rather than wasting it."
The researchers didn't expect, prior to designing the device, that the stairs would actually ease the impact of going downstairs.
"The spring in the stairs, instead of the ankle, acts as a cushion and brake," said Yun Seong Song, who built the device as a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech. He's currently an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. "The gentle downward movement alleviates work by the trailing ankle, which is what keeps you balanced and prevents you from falling too fast on normal stairs."
Liu initially got the idea for the project when she attended a conference and saw an ankle brace that stored and released energy. Her 72-year-old mother has no problems walking but has difficulty climbing steps, and Liu knew she wouldn't wear special sneakers just for stairs. So she decided to make smart stairs that act like the shoe.
"Current solutions for people who need help aren't very affordable. Elevators and stair-lifts are often impractical to install at home," Liu said. "Low-cost, easily installed assistive stairs could be a way to allow people to retain their ability to use stairs and not move out of their homes."
Dr. Lena Ting, professor of biomedical engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech
"Maintaining mobility is very much a use-it-or-lose-it thing. It's important to keep people walking and independent through injury and aging to maximize quality of life," said Ting.
The researchers think the temporary stairs could also be helpful for those recovering from surgery or pregnant women — people who only need help for short periods of time and don't need to permanently alter their homes.
The researchers are looking for partners to extend the project, which currently runs on a staircase with only two steps and can be used by just one person at a time. It was supported by the National Science Foundation (EFRI-1137229).


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Oracle and Swiss mobile software platform vendor Myriad Group are locked in a legal battle over Java licensing issues, one with an apparent connection to Google.
Myriad filed suit against Oracle on Dec. 10 in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging that Oracle was overcharging it for the use of Java in its products.
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The dispute stems from the JCP (Java Community Process) and the related JSPA (Java Specification Participation Agreement), which were started by Sun Microsystems, a company Oracle acquired early this year.
Sun formed the JCP in order to get the help of independent companies in developing Java for various uses, while ensuring the language remained standardized and cross-compatible.
"By signing the JSPA, a company joined the JCP and licensed its intellectual property rights to the other members, receiving reciprocal licenses in return," Myriad's complaint states. "These licenses were granted both so that the contracting parties could develop new [Java Specification Requests] in cooperation with each other, and so that they individually could develop software that conformed to those specifications."
Under the agreement, Sun was supposed to license "certain of [its] intellectual property rights applicable to Java, either royalty-free or on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms," the complaint adds. "Sun has consistently failed to honor those licenses."
In addition, Myriad maintains it has never used code from HotSpot, one of two Java virtual machines developed by Sun and now Oracle. But Myriad was required to enter a Sun Community Source License for use of Sun's HotSpot code, according to the complaint. Sun imposed "unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory royalty-based terms" and also required Myriad to sign a master support agreement, it adds.
Myriad is seeking at least $120 million, representing an amount "Sun has wrongfully demanded and received from Myriad and its customers," as well as other damages.
Oracle filed a suit against Myriad on the same day in U.S. District for the Northern District of California.
Neither Sun nor Oracle have "unconditionally granted rights under its intellectual property to use or implement the Java technology without restriction," it states. Companies that want to distribute Java must first make sure their implementations pass a series of tests, provided by Oracle's TCKs (technology compatibility kits).
Myriad's predecessor, Esmertec, signed license agreements with Sun in 2002 for use of the Connected Limited Device Configuration and Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0, which required it to pay royalties, Oracle said.
The companies formed other licensing agreements in 2003, 2006, and June 2009, the complaint adds.
But later that year, Myriad "demanded that it be provided new licensing terms under the JSPA," Oracle said. "In December 2009, Myriad informed Oracle for the first time that it was 'working under the JSPA' and 'that its independent implementations, as such do not require the commercial licenses but are to be granted royalty-free.'"
Myriad also signed a Master Support Agreement with Sun in 2002 that gave it access to the appropriate TCKs, Oracle said. That agreement expired on June 29 and has not been renewed. Myriad was supposed to stop using "all technical information and any source code" provided to it under the agreement once it expired, Oracle said.
Meanwhile, Myriad's action has a connection to Oracle's higher-profile intellectual property lawsuit against Google regarding the Android mobile operating system. One of the attorneys representing Myriad, Scott Weingaertner, is also representing Google in the Oracle case.
Myriad is also a member of the Open Handset Alliance, the industry coalition formed to help develop Android. Oracle alleges that Android infringes on a number of Java patents.
The tie-in was flagged on Tuesday by Florian Mueller, an outspoken advocate on open-source legal issues.
"It's easy to see how Myriad's complaint is in Google's interest," Mueller wrote in an email. "If Myriad succeeded, it might lower the license fees Oracle is allowed to charge for Java, and even though Oracle might still have legitimate reasons for denying Google a license on such terms or on any terms, a potential settlement between Oracle and Google would not be entirely detached from what Oracle charges other Java licensees."
Google and Weingaertner did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris's email address is email@example.com


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They're Giddy in QA
Could quality assurance be the happiest job in IT? If you believe the folks at online jobs site CareerBliss, it is that and more -- with senior QA engineer ranking as the second happiest job in existence.
CareerBliss loves to crunch the data that's supplied by the folks who submit information to it. It's a self-selecting group, of course, and a relatively small sample, to boot. Its rankings of the happiest jobs in America, for example, are based on some 65,000 job reviews it received over the course of 2012. That might seem like a good-size number, but it covers hundreds of jobs. In determining the happiest jobs, CareerBliss set a minimum of 50 reviews for a job to be included. And your CIO just might be a lot happier than the folks over in QA for all we know; no executive-level jobs were included at all.
In other words, the CareerBliss data is solid enough to be interesting, but not solid enough to stake one's life -- or career -- on. That said, what can explain the happiness of QA professionals?
They're well paid, with the average QA worker who submitted a review to CareerBliss making $82,000. But pay is only one factor and not enough to explain the relative happiness of those folks. In fact, the absolutely least happy job in America, according to CareerBliss, is associate attorney, which also happens to have the highest average salary of all the jobs included in the rankings ($111,000). But the site considers other key factors that affect work happiness, including work/life balance, relationships with bosses and co-workers, work environment, growth opportunities, and company culture and reputation. CareerBliss CEO Heidi Golledge told Forbes that while the QA job involves long hours and intense demands, senior QA engineers are gratified to feel that "they are typically the last stop before software goes live and correctly feel that they are an integral part of the job being done at the company."
In contrast, tech support specialists don't seem to feel quite so gratified. They ranked as having the ninth least happy job in America. But IT overall is a happy place to work, with three positions landing in the top 10.
Here's a look at the list Career Bliss put together:
The Happiest Jobs in America
1. Real estate agent2.Senior QA engineer3. Senior sales representative4. Construction superintendent5. Senior application developer6. Logistics manager7. Construction manager8. Executive administrative assistant9. Network engineer10. Assistant controller
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The CIO at GE Intelligent Platforms answers questions about age and IT careers.
I am a registered nurse transitioning to IT security. I am in my 50s, so I can't afford any missteps. What education and certifications would be the best and quickest route to a top IT security position? Information security professionals have a wide variety of backgrounds, and many do not have technical degrees. I have worked with great people with backgrounds in fields such as psychology and history, for example. But we are now seeing graduates with college degrees in fields such as cybersecurity and risk analysis. Many employers are looking for this type of degree and/or a certification. My advice is to get involved in information security organizations and participate in industry conferences. This will help you establish contacts and become more familiar with IT security in general. Additionally, community colleges that offer courses in IT security are an alternative to pursuing a dedicated degree. Lastly, be sure to target the right type of positions for your first job; for example, access management is less technical in nature and can help you segue into a career in IT security.
After serving in Iraq, I went to school for a computer science degree. I will be 29 when I graduate. Will my age hurt my chances in the job market, and if so, how can I offset that? First, thank you for your service! I am confident that the leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence instilled through participation in military service will be important career differentiators for you. Those qualities, coupled with your computer science degree, should serve you well in your job search. In fact, you will find that most companies (including mine) have targeted efforts to recruit veterans, and they do this precisely because of those differentiating skills learned through military service.
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