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The Ronetix Flash Programmer is a solution that enables you to program on-board and on-chip Flash devices with ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, Cortex M0/M3/M4/A5/A8/A9, XScale, AVR32, PowerPC, Power Architecture, PowerQUICC II, PowerQUICC III, QorIQ, ColdFire, Blackfin, MIPS32/PIC32 and DaVinci processor cores via the JTAG/BDM port.
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For debugging support of Blackfin and other cores, instead purchase the PEEDI Blackfin JTAG In-Circuit Debugger for GDB and any additional core licenses you require which are listed on its order page.
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Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait)
From his very first works, which display the painstaking detail of the Flemish primitives and a certain neo-romantic, surreal air, Lucian Freud took a stand for figurative art and against the prevailing abstract trends. Since then his work has been fuelled by the tension between reality and matter, between the visual and the tactile. His obsession with the human body has driven him to reinterpret the genre of portraiture in an original manner.
In his numerous self-portraits, the painter is always shown with a forced gesture, narrowing his eyes or peering downwards or sideways, with a gaze that evidences the effort involved in painting himself using a mirror. Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait), executed in 1965, combines an intense close-up of the artist, who twists his body in order to study his own reflection in a mirror at his feet on the floor, with the lamp positioned behind him, which he renders as a semiabstract form that hovers over the painter. As John Russell states, the viewer is unable to grasp the image at first glance, as it is one of the first self-portraits in which Freud experiments with a set of two mirrors, and, as Catherine Lampert notes, we are forced to run our eyes up the figure, coming face-to-face with the artist's gaze. The idea of a mirror reflection is reinforced by the plain grey background that causes the touches of light concentrated on the face and hands to stand out even more powerfully. The image of Rose and Ali, the children Suzy Boyt bore him, in the lower left corner is inspired by the tomb of the dwarf Seneb and his family in the Cairo museum, reproduced in Geschichte Aegyptens, Freud's inseparable companion throughout his long career as a painter.
The technique of sweeping, expressive brushstrokes can be linked to the portraits of Frans Hals, whom Freud regarded as a modern artist on account of his rough style. Freud, who was defined — not coincidentally — by William Feaver as a "a Paddington Hals willing himself to spontaneity, " admired the Dutch master's firm, direct manner of applying the paint using a heavily loaded hogshair brush, which accentuated the artist's action in crystallising the sitter on canvas.
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It takes 16 quarters to wash a bundle of clothes at Quick Way Laundry and another six to dry it. Multiply that by the number of homeless teenagers who come to Kay Tillinghast with backpacks full of dirty laundry and you have an expensive charitable habit.
Every week for the past few years, Tillinghast, who works for the nonprofit Family Resources, has been helping runaways and shelter kids do laundry. Most Tuesdays, she rounds up a few in her minivan — "any more than two or three and it takes on a party atmosphere," she says — and brings them to the outdoor coin laundry on Lown Street.
For a few hours, while the washing machines are spinning, she has a captive audience for case management and mothering. But the quarters have added up.
Family Resources has launched a campaign called Quarters for Kids to collect donations. They're welcome in coin form — the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Largo already handed in more than $200 in quarters.
Earlier this week, while a 19-year-old napped in the trunk of her car, Tillinghast folded the girl's clothes. The sleepy teenager, Solanyi Cabrera, has been living on the street, on and off, for the past four years. At times, she said, she and a friend slept on the benches inside the coin laundry.
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US citizens need a valid passport. A tourist visa can be purchased upon entry for short stays. The price is moderate, generally $20 US, and the visa is generally valid for 90 days.
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We're a week early for National Crime Victims' Rights Week, but Kitsap County is getting a jump start tonight with the penning of a resolution acknowledging the pain victims go through.
The county commissioners are expected to sign a resolution — which you can read below — that includes some eye-opening statistics on just how far crime goes in affecting people in our community.
Here's the resolution in full:
"WHEREAS, Victims may suffer emotional, physical, psychological, and financial harm as a result of crime; and
WHEREAS, A just society acknowledges crime's impact on individuals, families, and communities, and ensures that victims are treated with fairness, dignity, and respect as they interact with the criminal justice system; and
WHEREAS, Treating victims with dignity serves the public interest by engaging victims in the justice system, inspiring respect for public authorities and promoting confidence in public safety; and
WHEREAS, We must continue to work to ensure fair treatment of crime victims by providing protections for child and sexual assault victims, ordering and enforcing victim restitution from offenders, and notifying victims of their right to compensation and services, thereby giving hope to victims that the system and society will work to restore dignity and respect their needs and rights; and
WHEREAS, National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 18 – 24, provides an opportunity for us to raise awareness of the foundation of victims' rights-fairness, dignity, and respect-and to recommit to honoring those values by ensuring that all victims are afforded their legal rights and provided with assistance as they face the financial, physical, and psychological impact of crime; and
WHEREAS, 9 homicides were referred for prosecution last year which include 3 domestic violence homicides and 3 vehicular homicides; and
WHEREAS, 1,410 Driving Under the Influence (DUI) cases, 3 vehicular homicides, and 13 vehicular assaults were referred for prosecution last year. and
WHEREAS, 2,555 Domestic Violence cases were referred for prosecution last year of which 3 were domestic violence homicides, with the YWCA Alive Shelter providing temporary shelter to 55 women and 36 children (providing a total of 3,575 bed nights) and responding to 7,112 crisis, information and referral calls, however turning away 1,432 women and children for lack of space. The YWCA Alive Bainbridge Island/North Kitsap provided services to 150 women and children, and YWCA Alive Legal Advocacy provided services to 1,020 people; and
WHEREAS, 689 Sexual Assaults were referred for prosecution last year (not including 7 pornographic materials cases, and 50 failure to register as sex offender cases). The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) program performed approximately 127 sexual assault exams, and of these about 46 were for children aged 14 and under. The Kitsap County Sexual Assault Center served 1,344 clients; and of those, 288 were child victims of sexual assault aged 12 and under, 286 were teen victims of sexual assault, 100 were adult victims of sexual assault, and 339 were adult sexual assault survivors; and
WHEREAS, Approximately 4,000 incidents of possible abuse and neglect of Kitsap County children were reported to Child Protective Services (CPS) in 2009 and 1,254 were accepted for investigation; and
WHEREAS, Kitsap County is joining forces with the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Kitsap Sexual Assault Center, the YWCA, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), The Domestic Violence Task Force, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE), Kitsap Special Sexual Assault Investigations and Victims' Services (SAIVS), Crime Victims Assistance Center, Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims, Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, Washington State Patrol, Port Orchard Police Department, Bremerton Police Department, Poulsbo Police Department, Suquamish Police Department, Bainbridge Island Police Department, Port Gamble S'Klallam Police Department, and concerned citizens throughout Kitsap County, Washington State and America to observe 2010 National Crime Victims' Rights Week;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners designates the week of April 18-24, 2010, as Kitsap County Crime Victims' Rights Week; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners reaffirms a commitment to respect and enforce victims' rights and address their needs during 2010 Kitsap County Crime Victims' Rights Week and throughout the year; and
We express our appreciation for those victims and crime survivors who have turned personal tragedy into a motivating force to improve our response to victims of crime and build a more just community."


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This is a version of UAE, the Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, with an emulation core largely based on WinUAE. It attempts to bring many of the great features of WinUAE to non-Windows platforms. This version now finally has a name, E-UAE, since that's what everybody was calling it anyway. The 'E' can stand for anything you fancy. Experimental, extreme, exciting, egalitarian, eggplant, . . .
Currently it will build and run (with a varying degree of supported features) on Linux and other Unices, Mac OS X, BeOS, AmigaOS itself (either for 68k machines or PPC machines with AmigaOS 4.0 and the AmigaOS clones MorphOS and AROS). OS X requires either LibSDL or an X server for graphics output, but native graphics are supported on AmigaOS and BeOS, although, at the moment, SDL is also preferred on BeOS since the native driver is incomplete.
E-UAE is open-source software and is made available under the terms of the GNU GPL. E-UAE is based on the work of dozens of contributors including Bernd Schmidt (the original author and maintainer of UAE), Bernie Meyer (the author of the x86 JIT compiler), Toni Wilen (the current maintainer of WinUAE), and many more.
To make full use of E-UAE you will need access to an image of some version of the Amiga Kickstart ROM (although UAE does include a ROM emulation which may work with some old games). The Amiga Kickstart ROMs are copyrighted material and may not be freely distributed (so don't ask me for a copy). If you don't have an Amiga from which you can legally make a ROM image, a selection of ROM images are available for purchase online from Cloanto - publishers of the Amiga Forever distribution.
E-UAE-0.8.29-WIP4 released
Here at last. Lots of bug fixes, better performance and an experimental OpenGL renderer in the SDL back-end - which, incidentally, makes E-UAE fly on Mac OS X. Grab the binaries below while they're still warm. Yummy!
A new release soon
It's been a while, I know, but it's coming...
Ubuntu packages
Users of Ubuntu Linux 6.10 on x86 hardware can now get unoffical E-UAE packages. Thanks Morgoth!
Minimal Linux for E-UAE
Amir Ansari has written an excellent guide describing how to build a cut-down Linux distribution for running E-UAE on. Amir's X-less distro is based on Gentoo Linux, uses the Linux framebuffer device and DirectFB, and boots in 15 seconds.
E-UAE-0.8.29-WIP3 released
A new WIP release is here - slowly treading the path to a more featureful and stable 0.8.29 version. Lots of progress has been made. See the README and the Changelog for more details.
I do apologize for the slow release of binaries lately. Besides a chronic lack of free time, I've been suffering a lot of hardware problems lately. Some of this has been due to the thunderstorm season here in Indiana (and my surge protector just not being able to cope) and some due to my hardware just wearing out. I'm trying my best to get back up to speed. Please bear with me. Thanks to all those who donated (I'll put an updated list of donors online shortly): this really helps at times like these.
E-UAE elsewhere on the web
Mac users of E-UAE might want to check out this new Mac-focused Commodore emulation website, Think Commdore. German speakers should also have a look at this site dedicated to German users of E-UAE on OS X. Mac users should definitely try out Hi-Toro, a GUI-based front-end to E-UAE for OS X. The developer, Daniel Pimley, has been putting a lot of effort into this lately. Thanks, Dan!
Gentoo too!
Much progress has been made on the 'packaging' of E-UAE for Gentoo users. Thanks to Peter Volkov for his work on this.
E-UAE-0.8.29-WIP2 released
This releases fixes 32-bit P96 screens on PPC hosts and some minor bugs in the build scripts.
E-UAE-0.8.29-WIP1 released
Although it may not seem like it - due to a lack of public releases - lots of work has been going on in this project recently behind the scenes, improving compatablity and performance, fixing bugs and adding new features. However, I'm still not quite ready to release version 0.8.29 yet. Never mind that; here's your chance to take a look at some of this recent work: release 0.8.29-WIP1. See the README and the ChangeLog for more details of the changes. Warning: while lots of bugs have been fixed since 0.8.28, but many of the new features in this release haven't had much testing yet and some features are still incomplete, depending on your platform. Binaries for the usual suspects will be made available during the next few days.
Currently, you may download this version of UAE in the following formats. Note that UAE is the work of Bernd Schmidt, Toni Wilen and a host of other contributors and is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2).
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|Linux/AMD64 binary, built with GCC 4.1.2 against glibc 2.4.0, ALSA, GTK+ 2 and libSDL 1.2.
|Linux/PPC binary, built with GCC 4.1.2 against glibc 2.4.0, ALSA, GTK+ 2 and libSDL 1.2.
|AmigaOS4/PPC binary with SDL graphics, statically linked against SDL.
|AmigaOS/68k binary. Requires OS2.0+, 68020+, 32MB+ RAM. ixemul.library not required.
|Mac OS X/PowerPC binary, built for OS 10.2+ against libSDL framework. No config GUI. (X server not required.)
|AmigaOS4/PPC binary
|MorphOS/PPC binary.
|Experimental AROS/x86 binary.
|BeOS binary for R5/x86.
|BeOS binary for R5/x86. Built against libSDL.
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text: Fall is in the air again, which means– among other things– that I'm back in the classroom, teaching my digital photography class for kids. I have some great students this year, ranging in age from 10-14, who have already impressed me with their curiosity, talent, and desire to learn. One of the things that separates my class from other photography classes is that I don't require my students to have a particular level of camera. As a result, I have students with DSLRs working side-by-side with students who photograph with the most basic of point-and-shoot models. By making it less about the equipment and more about how they see the world around them, some pretty cool stuff happens.


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I currently use ToodleDo with GotToDo on my Android. GotToDo allows reminders on the phone, if they are set for individual tasks. However, it's not possible to actually set reminders unless ToodleDo has been set up with an email address or twitter account to send the reminder to.
I don't really want to be getting reminders in more than one place, so short of setting up a dummy email account for ToodleDo to send its own remidners to, what's the best way to set this up?
I understand that if you're using the iPhone app, you can specify the iPhone as the target for the reminder, can something like that be implemented to allow 3rd party tools to function in the same way?
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We are looking into this. In the meantime, you will need to make a dummy email account, or create a filter in your real email account that deletes the reminders that we send.
What I've done is this (it might be useful for others):
Gmail lets you use your gmail address followed by +, then follwed by anything you like and it still arrives in your inbox. So if my email address is firstname.lastname@example.com, I can put firstname.lastname@example.com and it still gets to me. I can then filter on anything to that address.
Still, it's not ideal, so it's good to hear you're working on it. Perhaps your help could be ammended to mention this in the meantime, as I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure it out.
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Qsmya is a new drug for treating patients with obesity .The drug is approved by the FDA; US.The drug was launched in the year 2012 in July. Qsymia formerly known as the Qnexa is a combination of topiramate extended, phentermine, amine anorectic, and phentermine. Initially the drug became popular among individuals willing to get rid of obesity. Initially the drug was prescribed by registered physician of the state. The dosages are determined according to the BMI of the patient. However within few months numerous instances were reported where in the patient consuming this drug suffered from numerous side effects. The two key ingredients of Qsymia: Phentermine and topiramate was reportedly the culprit behind these side effects. For many reasons these two molecules was not friendly with many patients.
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- Endocrine: the molecule is responsible for impotent condition and alters the libido in individual consuming drugs containing this molecule.
- The common Dermatologic condition reported due to the intake of this molecule is the allergies reaction called urticaria.
- Some of the Cardiovascular condition related to this molecule are ischemic,palpitation,high blood pressure, tachycardia .Many patients have been admitted with primary valvular heart issues ad pulmonary hypertension .Numerous records also reveals that this molecule is responsible for ventricular fabrication., ischemic cerebrovascular, cerebral infarctSome other related side effect are :
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- Mood swing.
- Insomnia.
- Dizziness and headache.
- Lack of breath.
The Topiramate another key molecule of the drug is equally dangerous for human health. Some of the reported side effects are:
- Some of the common renal conditions are renal tubular acidosis and kidney stone.
- The cardiovascular side effects include sudden palpitation, hypertension, hypotension and uneasiness while breathing.
- The immunologic conditions like genital moniliasis and infection are commonly reported by patients consuming these molecules).
- The hepatic condition includes hepatitis and hepatic failure (fatal in certain case).
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The nervous system is probably the major area that suffers from the side effects of this molecule ataxia, dizziness, speech disorders, vertigo, paresthesias, tinnitus, nystagmus, hypokinesia, grand mal seizures and psychomotor slowing.
The commonly reported gastrointestinal problems are gastroenteritis, vomiting, tooth disorder, flatulence, diarrhea, constipation, gastro esophageal reflux and tongue edema
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THEAKSTON, MAJOR, printer, journalist, and city missionary; b. 15 June 1833 in London, England, eldest of the six children of Major Paylor Theakston and Sophia Matilda Wood; m. 25 Dec. 1858 Emily Horn (d. 1909), and they had seven sons and one daughter; d. 11 Dec. 1917 as a result of injuries sustained in the Halifax explosion of 6 December.
A printer by trade, Major Theakston in 1848 became a Methodist and a church worker in his native London. He later served as a slum visitor in east London, where he "saw that drink was the prime cause of the poverty, wretchedness and sin of the city." According to his own account, he and Emily decided to emigrate to British North America in 1863 with several other families in order to establish a Christian temperance settlement, an ambition which did not survive the crossing. In fact, they may have been assisted immigrants in a scheme concocted by Joseph Howe* and organized and financed by English philanthropist Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts. The Theakstons were joined the following year by Major's parents and siblings. Although most of the family settled in Halifax, Theakston went to Canning, N.S., where after a short stint in a shipyard he returned to printing, first as an employee of newspaperman Harold Albert Borden and then in 1865 as proprietor of the King's County Advertiser. In 1866 he moved to Wolfville and began with his brother William the Acadian and a general printing business. The paper, which took an unpopular pro-confederate stance, folded in 1870.
In June of that year Theakston became the Wesleyan lay city missionary in Halifax, a position which also enabled him actively to pursue his passion for the temperance cause and his concern for the working poor. He helped establish three new mission churches. The mission collapsed for lack of funds in 1877, by which time Theakston had opened a printing establishment adjacent to his Agricola Street residence where he trained two sons in the trade. Three other sons also became printers. During 1879 and 1880 Theakston was proprietor and editor of the Alliance Journal: and Temperance Advocate, the Sons of Temperance weekly.
In 1881 he left printing to his sons and became missionary of the South Brunswick Street Mission, which had become the focus of Methodist city mission work in 1878 after Edward Jost, a prominent baker, willed to the Methodists the mission chapel he had had built as an interdenominational venture. In 1889 Theakston became the missionary with the local Seamen's Friend Society. His final employment was as missionary of the North End City Mission, beginning in 1893.
Although his contribution to printing and journalism was significant, Theakston is best remembered as city missionary par excellence. In the 1870s he engaged in largely spiritual work centred on domiciliary visits, prayer meetings, temperance meetings, and the child-focused activities of Sunday schools and temperance bands of hope. Since the inner-city missions were served by others, his work was confined mainly to the suburbs. His duties in the city centre in the 1880s provided more scope for social work as he came in contact with the underclass and the chronically poor. In the old north end of the city in the 1894s issues of class were compounded by those of race. The mission brought him into close contact with the local black community, some members of which responded favourably to its annual gardening competitions, Sunday schools, and meetings to promote temperance, domestic economy, and recreation. It also served as a source of material welfare and occasional holidays in the country for the poorest mission folk.
Child rescue was another aspect of North End City Mission work. Like the institutions for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children, the mission specialized in placing children in rural foster homes. Although an interest in establishing a day nursery never went beyond a short-lived kindergarten, the mission became the scene of school breakfasts provided by the Halifax Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Theakston also became well known for his attempt to humanize gruelling relief work sponsored by this association during winters of severe unemployment before World War I. On the spot with coffee and rolls on cold mornings, he tried to raise the spirits of the men who slaved at stone-breaking for a pittance. All along the mission boasted a model of charity organization in which investigating the needs of the poor, avoiding duplication of effort with other relief agencies, and providing employment were assiduously pursued.
While Theakston performed a tremendous amount of spiritual and social work single-handed and did most of the fund-raising for the mission, he was not without assistance. A board of management of prominent laymen and clergymen oversaw the activities and finances of the mission, and Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian clergymen often performed services and administered sacraments in its building. Theological students and members of the Dalhousie University Young Men's Christian Association acted as volunteers, as did young people's groups from many of the city's Protestant churches. Key patrons contributed time, money, and advice, and the indispensable ladies' auxiliary, formed in 1902, organized instructive meetings for mothers. Important support also came from members of Theakston's family, who served as Sunday-school teachers, visitors, convenors, speakers, and musicians. His fifth son, George Wesley Theakston, became assistant missionary and succeeded him. In a tribute shortly before Major Theakston's accidental death, the Acadian Recorder noted that "his deeply sympathetic nature, his earnest religious convictions, his patience and amiability, his ready humor and wonderful activity have combined to make his chosen life work a great success. Needy ones of all classes and all creeds have felt his helping hand, and in the days before charitable and humane work was organized and financed as it is now, Mr. Theakston's labors and responsibilities were almost beyond belief."
Dalhousie Univ. Arch. (Halifax), MS 1, Dalhousie Univ. Young Men's Christian Assoc., reports, 1893–1903. Halifax County Court of Probate (Halifax), Estate papers, no.4109 (mfm. at PANS). NA, RG 31, C1, 1891, 1901, Halifax (mfm. at PANS). PANS, MG 9, 365: 37; MG 20, 557; 1016, no.23; MG 100, 237, nos.14–15. Private arch., Judith Fingard (Halifax), Collection of tapes, letters, and diaries of Evelyn Theakston Van Beek, daughter of George Wesley Theakston. Acadian (Wolfville, N.S.), 16 Jan. 1869. Acadian Recorder, 9 Oct. 1897; 27 Sept. 1901; 7 Jan., 17 Sept. 1902; 10 Sept. 1904; 7 Dec. 1905; 15 June 1915; 15 June, 12 Dec. 1917. Alliance Journal: and Temperance Advocate (Halifax), 26 Dec. 1878; 9, 30 Jan. 1879; 5, 12 Feb., 24 June, 4 Sept., 30 Nov., 4, 11, 25 Dec. 1880. Evening Mail (Halifax), 29 Jan., 11 Oct. 1904; 20 July, 25 Aug., 15 Sept. 1905; 16 June, 31 July, 26 Dec. 1908; 15 Jan., 14 April 1909; 12, 18, 23 Nov. 1910; 1, 10 Feb. 1911. King's County Advertiser (Canning, N.S.), 18 March 1865. Mail-Star (Halifax), 13 Aug. 1958. Morning Chronicle (Halifax), 6 July, 31 Aug., 8 Dec. 1870; 25 Dec. 1876; 14 Feb. 1877; 8 July 1879; 14 Sept., 25 Dec. 1882; 27 Feb., 3 March 1885; 17 Sept. 1886; 21 Feb. 1899. Morning Herald (Halifax), 24 Jan. 1885, 11 July 1889, continued as Halifax Herald, 14, 30 Nov., 12 Dec. 1892; 25 Nov. 1893; 4 Dec. 1896; 16 Dec. 1898. Novascotian (Halifax), 2 March 1863. Provincial Wesleyan (Halifax), 22 Feb. 1871, 6 March 1872, 12 March 1873, 2 Feb. 1874, continued as Wesleyan (Halifax), 22 Jan. 1876, 7 July 1877, 1 July 1881. Watchman (Halifax), 6 Jan. 1881. P. R. Blakeley, Glimpses of Halifax, 1867–1900 (Halifax, 1949; repr. Belleville, Ont., 1973). Directory, Halifax, 1871/72–1917. Judith Fingard, "City missions and social welfare in the Maritimes" (paper presented at the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, 1983); The dark side of life in Victorian Halifax (Porter's Lake, N.S., 1989); "The North End City Mission: building use in the old north end" (paper read before the Royal Nova Scotia Hist. Soc., 1991); "Race and respectability in Victorian Halifax," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Hist. (London), 20 (1991–92): 169–95. North End City Mission, Report (Halifax), 1895/96–1911/12, 1914–17. N.S., House of Assembly, Journal and proc., 1864, app.24.
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Spent the last few months working on a little show down at the museum of contemporary art in Chicago (MCA). The title of the show is "there ain't no bottomless pit here, this is fucking magic, man, and were all a part of it together", the title was taken from some talking between songs on the 7 seconds "rock together walk together" cassette tape I recently found in an old box of stuff from when I was a kid. Also up at the museum right now is a great show about rock and roll inspired artwork that Dominic Molon curated. So right outside the room I was working in were some Richard Prince photos and a huge Rita Ackermann painting, so it made for some good stuff to look at while painting the walls. Here's some photos of the install and of some people hanging out afterwards. The show is up till dec 03 so if your in Chicago check it out...
the space on the first day
starting to get some color on the wall
final back wall install
a new piece roughly based on the end of the world. Its called "hold me now (giant asteroid)
a motorized chandelier piece made of old pots and pans called "circus bells
An installation titled "acid tracks, with a video piece that the berg sans nipple' made the music for.
Ahhh, finally a moment to relax (kinda)
A few people came out for the opening, but I think most of them were there for the drinks and free food downstairs in the main gallery.
Dave from heaven gallery and pooper stopped by
Joey Garfield stopped by. He moved back to the Midwest with his family recently so its good to see him around a bit more.
Peeps ..
Jc and sybil from stop smiling magazine with Jason lazarus
We were able to get john duda to put down his paintbrush down for a few minutes to come out. John is one of the best painters I know and is known to enjoy his share of old style. He is seen here with one of the French club founding members.
Elizabeth and Lori holding down "the hideout for the unofficial after party
Ben fasman making some dance floor magic happen for the kids
A Chicago bar classic, "the tamale guy stopped by and sold us some tamales to soak up the beer. Not sure if this happens in other cities but at random bars here, people will come in off the street and try to sell you food in the bar. Well actually its just "the bread lady and "the tamale guy.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
I'd Like to Thank the Academy. . .
Happy Oscar Sunday, friends! I wanted to pop in briefly to tell you about a couple cool things going on with me lately.
Up first is that this little blog has been included on Seamingly, a new website devoted to ranking the best sewing sites! Sites are listed by order of popularity. What can you do to increase my ranking, you ask? Why, how sweet of you! All you have to do is click on this little widget and go vote.
The second bit of exciting news is that I'm now a pattern reviewer for the UK magazine SewHip!
Click here and here to see pdf files of my latest reviews. If you're interested in purchasing SewHip! in the U.S., I've spotted it at my local Barnes & Noble newsstand.
Thank you all for your continued support. I couldn't do it without you!
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Keep up the great work, Gertie! I believe you will do great as a pattern reviewer, and what an honour it must feel like also! Congratulations on your SewOscar!ReplyDelete
Wow! Love that exposed zipper in the McCall's dress. The changes you made in each pattern are inspiring for sewists like me who may not have the chops.ReplyDelete
Just clicked the widget thing, looks like you may already be ranked well as you were the first on the list, above even Burdastyle! I had forgotten how much I liked that McCall dress, I have fallen in love all over again. Must add it to my 'sew this' list!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on all this exciting stuff. I just voted and it looks to me like you can vote once every day...ReplyDelete
Congratulations! It is wonderful to know that 'real' seamstresses are reviewing patterns.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Ha! What funny timing, I just saw Sew Hip at a bookstore today, and your article in it! I thought to myself - I wonder if she`ll be mentioning this in the blog!ReplyDelete
For any other Canadian readers interested I saw it at an Indigo store. It has a very cute dress on the cover I want to make.
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Wow! I'm so excited for you...when I grow up I want to be like gertie..keep it up!ReplyDelete
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If you look at the output of
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September 1752
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The following story titled "cal 9 1752 explained"" was copied off of a newslist in the early 90's and archived under Collections of funny stuff for a computer audience by David G. Wiseman (a Network Manager in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario).
The guy that originally wrote the "cal" command on some old Version 7 machine had an off-by-one error in his code. This showed up as some erroneous output when a malloc'd variable overwrote 12 extra bytes with zeroes, thus leading to the strange calendar output seen above.
Now, nobody in his right mind really cares about the calendar for September 1752. Even the idea of the year 1752 does not exist under UNIX, because time did not begin for UNIX until early 1970. As a result, nobody even knew that "cal" had this error until much later. By then there were thousands of copies of "cal" floating around, many of them binary-only. It was too late to fix them all.
So in mid-1975, some high-level AT&T officials met with the Pope, and came to an agreement. The calendar was retroactively changed to bring September 1752 in line with UNIX reality. Since the calendar was changed by counting backwards from September 14, 1752, none of the dates after that were affected. The dates before that were all moved by 12 days. They also fixed the man page for "cal" to document the bug as a feature.
The 11 days from September 3 to September 13 were simply gone from the records. They searched the history books and found that fortunately nothing of much significance happened during those 11 days.
Overall, this whole incident was pretty much a non-event. One science fiction author later heard about it, and blew the thing up into a full-length work of science-fiction called "The Lathe of Heaven", a book that in my opinion bears little resemblance to what really happened.
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The family of a teenage bicyclist who died after being hit from behind by an SUV is now being sued for more than $1 million by the woman who was behind the wheel.
Sharlene Simon claims in court papers the accident caused her "great pain and suffering" and accuses her victim Brandon Majewski 17, and his two friends of negligence, calling them "incompetent bicyclists," the Toronto Sun reported Friday.
The lawsuit drew an angry response from Brandon's family. "I feel like someone kicked me in the stomach — I'm over the edge," his father, Derek Majewski, told the Sun. "Sometimes, it makes my blood boil."
The dad's attorney Brian Cameron told the Sun that in all his years as a lawyer, he had never seen anyone ever sue a child that they killed. "It's beyond the pale," he said. He is representing the elder Majewski in a seperate lawsuit that seeks $900,000 in damages from Simon.
The accident happened early in the morning of Oct. 28, 2012, on a dark, rural road in Innisfil, about 55 miles north of Toronto. Brandon's two friends were both 16. One was seriously injured; the other escaped injury. They are also defendants in Simon's lawsuit, as is the county where the accident occurred.
Simon, a 42-year-old mother of three, said she was going about 55 mph in her KIA Sorrento when she hit the boys — about 5 mph more than the speed limit, the Ottawa Citizen said. No criminal charges were ever filed against her.
"It's a tragedy what happened to the boys, but it's also a tragedy that's happened to (Simon)," her lawyer Michael Ellis told the Toronto Star. "I understand their grief and I understand what they must be going through is awful, but my client is also living with this nightmare every day."
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The Old Shale Game
Getting oil from a rock seems impossible but the French began doing it in the 1830s. Shale is gray green and contains organic matter called kerogen. When crushed and heated to 900 degrees Fahrenheit kerogen molecules split and make oil molecules. If the process were inexpensive, the United States would not have to rely so heavily in oil from elsewhere. Shale oil fields in the American West could provide more than one hundred billion gallons of oil. Robert M. Catlin, Sr. came close to solving the problem.
Catlin always told the press that his plant
was merely a testing facility and he never represented his shale oil company
as anything but that. Everything he did was financed by private funding.
So, what was the big fuss over? He made no promises, took no local money,
and hired Elko residents. Elkoans wanted an oil boom.
Manager Walter L. Sheeler, in 1921, told news
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Coghead, maker of a cloud-based enterprise application development platform, is shutting down, according to its Web site.
In a letter to customers posted on TechCrunch, the startup cited "economic challenges" as the reason for its decision.
Existing customers will be allowed to use the service until April 30 on an unsupported basis and should retrieve their data by that date.
One competitor, Caspio, quickly seized on the news, announcing a "transition program" on Thursday that would provide Coghead customers with two months free use of its platform, training and other services.
Coghead officials could not immediately be reached for additional comment Thursday.
The Redwood City, California, company, which highlights its platform's ease of use and lower cost compared to traditional in-house development, was formed in 2003 and is just one of a wide range of so-called PaaS (platform as a service) vendors. Others include Salesforce.com's Force.com, Google App Engine and Microsoft's Azure Services Platform.
In a recent report, Forrester Research analyst John Rymer said companies should consider using PaaS offerings but also noted the inherent risks.
"Most of the PaaS vendors -- even big ones like Google and Microsoft and experienced ones like salesforce.com -- have short track records with their products," he wrote. "Treat these companies and their products as you would any startup vendor or version-one product from an established supplier. Does the vendor have a healthy and growing roster of customers? Is the product line making money?"
PaaS products also provide users with less flexibility than typical on-premise platforms, since the PaaS vendor tends to dictate the database, storage and application framework used, and may even employ a custom programming language, Rymer said.


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Through Jan. 12 | The Golden Girls Ricky Graham, Varla Jean Merman, Brian Peterson and Jack Long
perform their camped-up version of the classic sitcom.
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9 | Gluzman and Sibelius
Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts the concert featuring Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahalia Jackson Theater, 801 N. Rampart St., 523-6530, LpoMusic.com
10-25 | Under the Boardwalk
The original musical revue is inspired by the music of the Four Seasons, the Beach Boys and Motown.
Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, 461-9475, RivertownTheaters.com
17-19 | RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles
The highly successful jukebox musical promises the next-best thing to seeing the Beatles.
Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., 525-1052, SaengerNola.com
18-19 | Cirque de la Symphonie
The LPO presents the touring group of aerial flyers, acrobats, jugglers, blancers and strongman that performs along to classic masterpieces and contemporary works. Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahalia Jackson Theater, 801 N. Rampart St., 523-6530, LpoMusic.com
24-25 | The Kingfish: The Life & Times of Huey P. Long
John "Spud" McConnell reprises his role as Huey P. Long in the play about the Louisiana governor.
Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., 528-9569, TheJoyTheater.com
24-Feb. 8 | Golda's Balcony
William Gibson's play tells the life story of Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister who grew up as an impoverished Russian immigrant.
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24-Feb. 9 | Murder at Café Noir
The interactive murder mystery lets audiences control the actions of a private eye as he solves the case of a missing café owner. Teatro Wego! Theatre, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, 885-2000, JPAS.org
25 | Diavolo Dance Theater
Oversized architectural structures provide a playground for the athletic, risky movement of the Los Angeles-based dance company. New Orleans Ballet Association, Mahalia Jackson Theater, 801 N. Rampart St., 522-0996, NobaDance.com
26-Feb. 23 | The Totalitarians
Southern Rep presents the world premiere of the comedy, which follows an ambitious politician who encounters an obstacle when her husband hooks up with a mysterious stranger. Southern Rep Theater, Mid-City Theater, 3540 Toulouse St., 522-6545; SouthernRep.com
29-Feb. 1 | Marilyn: Forever Blonde
The one-woman play based on the life of Marilyn Monroe finds the star on photo shoot before her death. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., 528-9569, TheJoyTheater.com
Jan. 31 | Chinese New Year
Wu Man, virtuoso of the pipa, a stringed, lute-like Chinese instrument, performs in the concert also featuring vocalists Enkelejda Shkosa and Anthony Dean Griffey. Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahalia Jackson Theater, 801 N. Rampart St., 523-6530, LpoMusic.com


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"It's hard to imagine a time without [the iPad]," states Tony Bradley from PC World. Apple has announced the newest family member of their line of tablets. The new iPad, not iPad 3 or iPad HD as it was rumored to be called, has a display of 2048 x 1536, that's a total of 3.1 million pixels. An A5X processor is used to handle the super new graphics.
The New iPad also has an upgraded camera. The video is recorded in 1080p and both the front facing camera is 5-megapixel backside illuminated sensor on the back, 5-element lens, IR filter, and ISP. Speed has increased as the old iPad 2 has 3.1Mbps on EV-DO, 7.2 on HSPA, where the New iPad now has, has 21Mbps HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA at 42Mbps, with LTE taking the cake at 73Mbps. The battery life is expected to last around 10 hours.
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6,297 Chinese restaurants and hungry for more
David Chan, an L.A. attorney, will try any Chinese restaurant once and has the spreadsheet to prove it. He has become a go-to expert for critics.
The television cameras roll as Los Angeles attorney David Chan places the first forkful of cashew chicken in his mouth.
The crowd at Leong's Asian Diner in Springfield, Mo., falls silent as he chews and squints in the glare of the lights.
Springfield Cashew Chicken — a deep-fried, gravy-drenched version of the popular buffet item — is a local specialty and David Leong, the dish's 92-year-old inventor, was watching expectantly from across the table.
Chan kept chewing. The silence grew uncomfortable.
"How does it taste?" a reporter asked at last.
Chan didn't answer. The chicken was overcooked.
Finally, he spoke: "It's good," Chan mumbled diplomatically, and quickly grabbed seconds.
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Chan, 64, has eaten at 6,297 Chinese restaurants (at press time) and he has documented the experiences on an Excel spreadsheet, a data-centric diary of a gastronomic journey that spans the United States and beyond.
A lawyer and accountant by trade, the slim, bespectacled man can debate Toronto's dim sum and rate Chinese buffets in Nashville. Name any neighborhood in Los Angeles and Chan — with a few thoughtful blinks — will produce the name of a Chinese restaurant within a few miles.
His expertise has brought him renown. Restaurant critics regularly ask him on Twitter for advice on where to eat. Food websites have sought him out to write about Chinese cuisine and its history. In Springfield, his lunch made the local news broadcasts — at 6, 9, and 10 p.m.
Scrolling to the top of his spreadsheet takes you to 1955 and a different era in Los Angeles. The only Chinese food was in Chinatown, and food was his sole connection to his culture.
#2, 1955, soy sauce over white rice at Lime House, 708 New High St. A green-painted concrete square with crisscrossing telephone wires overhead. Keep reading »
As a child, Chan hated Chinese food. The few times his parents would drag him to Chinatown restaurants like Lime House for banquets, he'd sulk over a bowl of plain rice. Home-cooked dinners were American standbys like meatloaf and spaghetti.
If Chan didn't feel Chinese, it was partly by design.
"I think my parents wanted to protect me," Chan said. "I was pretty much raised as an American."
If Chan didn't feel Chinese, it was partly by design.
Immigration quotas then allowed just 105 Chinese into the country each year, and only 8,067 Chinese lived in Los Angeles in 1950 — less than half a percent of L.A.'s population at the time, according to census records.
"Unless you lived in San Francisco, you were an oddity," said Chan, a third-generation Asian American.
His father graduated from UCLA at the top of his accounting class, but the job offers from top firms never came. They lived in a neighborhood that real estate agents had counseled them was "accepting of Chinese," and his parents never sent him to Chinese school because they were afraid his English would suffer.
But Chinese food was always there, marking birthdays, weddings and graduations. While studying accounting and tax law at UCLA, Chan frequented a restaurant in a high-rise called Ah Fong's Westwood. It was the only Chinese restaurant in the area that he could recall.
#28, 1972, fried rice at Ah Fong's Westwood at 1100 Glendon Avenue. A top floor high-rise restaurant space with ornate wooden chairs and chandeliers overhead.
At UCLA, Chan felt he was no longer an oddity. Laws passed in 1965 loosened immigration restrictions and about 9% of the students identified themselves as Oriental American, according to a 1971 university survey. There, Chan took a class called Orientals in America, which was the first Asian American studies course offered at UCLA. He began to read everything he could find on the subject.
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"It helped me recognize the fact that there weren't very many of us around. And we were discriminated against, and because of that the roads to achievement were not the same," Chan said.
After graduation, Chan took a job at a large accounting firm and befriended a group of co-workers from Hong Kong. He couldn't speak Cantonese with them, and he didn't know how to use chopsticks. But what he had in common with them was a love of Chinese food.
One day they went to lunch and ordered a dish of fried boneless chicken with crispy skin, lightly touched with a sweet-and-savory lemon glaze. It was like nothing Chan had ever tasted.
#215, 1984, dim sum and lemon chicken at ABC Seafood, 205 Ord St. Los Angeles, CA. A gray concrete corner lot with neon signage and faux-greek entrance columns.
Lemon chicken was the product of a new wave of Chinese immigrants who flocked to the Southland in the 1970s, lured by promises of a Chinese Beverly Hills in Monterey Park. Lush banquet halls serving Hong Kong cuisine suddenly proliferated across the San Gabriel Valley. Chinatown boomed.
Chan and his co-workers launched a lunchtime campaign to try every Chinese restaurant as it opened, amassing a trove of menus and business cards. Chan checked phone books for new restaurants. Adding to his list became a growing obsession.
"I've always been a collector. I collected stamps, and records," Chan said.
If his friends gave a poor review to a restaurant, Chan would eat there anyway. Perhaps they ordered the wrong dish, or the cook was having a bad day. He had to see for himself.
Chan was eating at new restaurants faster than they could open up. Soon there wasn't a single one in the area he hadn't tried, but still, he was unsatisfied.
In 1985, he hit 86 restaurants in the Los Angeles area and around the country. The next year, 119. Before long he was trying more than 300 restaurants every year.
In Toronto, he hit six dim sum restaurants in six hours. When he traveled for business in Florida, he zigzagged the state to sample 20 Chinese restaurants.
Chan had always wanted to travel to all 50 states, and Chinese food gave him an excuse. In places he would have never imagined, he found Chinese people with their own version of Chinese food.
Chan had always wanted to travel to all 50 states, and Chinese food gave him an excuse.
In New England, he encountered a chow mein sandwich topped with gravy. In St. Paul, Minn., he found a burger with egg foo young for a patty. Throughout the South, he came across a sweet, stir-fry dish called Honey Chicken.
"It doesn't have to be authentic Chinese. If it's Chinese American, it's all the more interesting," Chan said.
Chan rarely discussed his list. His son, Eric Chan, was only vaguely aware of it growing up. "There are a lot of things my dad doesn't talk about," he said.
In their family, a meal often said what words couldn't, Eric Chan said. During the three years he studied law at Stanford, his father visited about 20 times. They'd dine in San Francisco dim sum houses and San Jose noodle shops.
"If you collect enough of something, you can capture its essence," Eric Chan said. "Maybe that's what he's trying to do with food."
Chan rarely eats somewhere twice, but he keeps going back to ABC Seafood, even after the restaurant's ownership changed and, he said, the lemon chicken lost its flavor. Chan says he does it out of respect for history. He's dined at practically every Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, but few culinary experiences can match that first meal at ABC Seafood.
"For a good portion of when they were open, they were the best Chinese restaurant in the country," Chan said.
#6,235, 2012, Shandong beef roll, stinky tofu, stir-fry rice cakes and mixed vegetables, Shawn Cafe, 1220 South Baldwin Ave in Arcadia. Flower patterned walls. Wall-mounted flatscreens showing Chinese-language news channels.
Chan slides into a booth at Shawn Cafe, one of the few Chinese restaurants in the Los Angeles area he hasn't tried. It's a modern Taiwanese eatery that opened in December. He glances over the menu with a bored look — there's little he hasn't seen before.
"Rumor Has It" by Adele plays over the restaurant's speakers as Chan's hands curl around another trusty fork.
He's tried to use chopsticks over the years, and a friend even bought him a spring-loaded pair as a gag birthday gift.
The fork feels more natural, he said, as he stabbed a section of beef roll and took yet another bite of Chinese food.
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By Will Hutton
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The ailing euro is part of a wider crisis. Our capitalist system is near meltdown. A 1930s-style crash threatens us and our financial partners. Collective action is the only solution.
Eighty years ago, faced with today's economic events, nobody would have been in any doubt: we would obviously be living through a crisis in capitalism. Instead, there is a collective unwillingness to call a spade a spade. This is variously a crisis of the European Union, a crisis of the euro, a debt crisis or a crisis of political will. It is all those things, but they are subplots of a much bigger story: the way capitalism has been conceived and practised for the last 30 years has hit the buffers. Unless and until that is recognised, western economies will be locked in stagnation which could even transmute into a major economic disaster.
Simply put, the world has trillions upon trillions of excessive private debt financed by too many different currencies whose risk is allegedly mitigated by even more trillions of financial bets which in aggregate do not minimise the systemic risk one iota. This entire financial edifice, underwritten by tiny amounts of capital, has been created over three decades backed by the theory that markets do not make mistakes. Capitalism is best conceived and practised, runs the theory, by hunter-gatherer bankers and entrepreneurs owing no allegiance to the state or society.
This is nonsense. Business and the state co-generate wealth in a system of complex mutual dependence. Markets are beset by mood swings and uncertainty which, if not offset by government action, lead to violent oscillations. Capitalism without responsibility or proportionality degrades into racketeering and exploitation. The prospect of limitless pay is an open invitation to bad, or even criminal, behaviour. Good capitalism cannot happen without referees to blow the whistle or robust frameworks in which markets can function; neither is reliably created by capitalism itself, hence the role of democratic government. Yet the world is trying to solve the legacy of the last 30 years as if none of this were true and, instead, that the practice and theories that created the mess are still valid.
US treasury secretary Tim Geithner, joining EU finance ministers in Poland as again they pondered how best to end the ongoing euro crisis, was at least recognising today's interdependencies between countries when he urged his fellow ministers to stop bickering because the markets were terrified by the threat of a catastrophic event – with all the risk that posed the US.
George Osborne was also right to declare that a strong euro was in Britain's interests. But worrying about how a failed euro might impact on yourself is old speak. What the markets need to hear is that western politicians – whether in the eurozone or not – see the euro as part of the potential solution to capitalism's current crisis, not its cause, and that they are prepared to do all in their power to support the reforms necessary to make the euro survive and take other measures vital to make the world financial system functional again. Geithner and Osborne must put some money where their mouths are.
The euro's critics, endlessly emphasising that it is a monetary straitjacket and that the best reform now would be its break-up, miss the point. It was not this so-called straitjacket that is the cause of today's euro crisis. It is the interaction of the euro system with a once-in-a-century crisis of capitalism that its designers and supporters, like its critics, never anticipated. Yes, what the crisis has exposed is that the eurozone needed a ¤1trillion-plus fund to recapitalise bust banks and underwrite sovereign debt write-downs; this was not written into the original treaty. And that the investment and retail banking arms of the EU's universal banks need to be ringfenced or formally separated, as Sir John Vickers's banking commission proposes for Britain –if they are to be remotely safe. But neither notion was a battle cry of the eurosceptics over the last 10 years.
In fact, the existence of the euro has, until now, been a bulwark against disaster. Suppose it had not been created and that the financial crisis in 2008 had broken over a Europe with multiple floating exchange rates and no European central bank – the eurosceptic utopia. The Irish, Portuguese, Greek, Spanish, Italian and French banking systems would have stood alone and they would have collapsed in a domino effect, interacting with the mega-crisis in Britain and the US. Even some German banks would not have been immune. There would have been a 1930s-scale slump, the break up of the EU and a rise in beggar-my-neighbour devaluations and trade protection.
We have not yet escaped that prospect. If the euro breaks up, the cascade of subsequent bank failures and debt write-downs will be no less threatening and Britain will be pulled into the vortex. The EU has created a "financial stabilisation facility" to try to hold the line. But there is no urgency in launching it; it is still not a proper fund but, rather, a stop-gap provider of borrowing facilities and it is too small. As bad, the German and French governments are wedded to collective European austerity; they want to impose long-term balanced budgets not only on themselves but chilling austerity on the unfortunate states which have to borrow to support their banks and bond markets.
An entire continent is to be blighted by lack of demand in the midst of a capitalist crisis, compounded by Britain's scorched earth, deficit-reduction plans. Already, many European banks are technically insolvent, recognised by Christine Lagarde, the IMF's new managing director, if not by the banks themselves.
Last week, the Bank of England joined the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss central bank in promising Europe's banks vital liquidity in dollars, easing the crisis for a while. Time has been bought; we are pitching in to save ourselves. But the outside world needs to go much further. Europe's stabilisation facility must become a fund with a capacity to lend and intervene to see off speculators: Britain, the US, Switzerland and Japan, along with China and oil-rich Arab states, need to contribute alongside Germany.
In return for coming to the relief of the German taxpayer, we should demand two key concessions: one, that Europe sets about ringfencing its universal banks' investment banking operations to make them less vulnerable; and second, that no international cash is forthcoming unless the EU commits to a formal plan for growth in which its stronger countries, notably Germany, promise to stimulate their economies. As part of the package, Britain should agree to defer its own deficit- reduction plans and to issue bonds denominated in euros to contribute to the new euro fund.
We are living through the most dangerous confluence of economic circumstances in modern times. Trying to pretend the interdependencies do not exist or that the collapse of the euro is the answer can only make matters worse. It is a straight choice: we do all we can to help each other or risk going down in what could be the worst economic contraction for a century.
Midas Letter is the Journal of Investment Strategy of the Midas Letter Opportunity Fund, a Luxembourg-based Special Investment Fund that specializes in Canadian-listed emerging companies in the resource sector with a focus on precious metals explorers and miners. James West is the Portfolio and Investment Advisor to the fund.