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BOSTON—LeBron James finished with 45 points (on 19-for-26 shooting), 15 rebounds and five assists, and his Miami Heat are one win away from the finals after drubbing the host Boston Celtics, 98-79, Thursday in Game 6.
James and the Heat were able to respond after absorbing a tough home loss in Game 5, setting up what seems a predestined Game 7 on Saturday in Miami, at which point the West champion Oklahoma City Thunder will learn their finals opponent.
By the time the fourth-quarter clock read 10:18, as forward Shane Battier made a 3-pointer to move the Miami lead to 18 points, the life had been sucked out of what had been an amped-up home crowd. And while it was four points from Wade and the Battier shot that started the fourth that put the game out of reach, there is no doubt where the responsibility for Celtics fans' disappointment lay—with James, who got the Heat going with 30 first-half points.
"Good win," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, whose job security had been the subject of much speculation heading into the game. "That's what everybody wants, right? So we want to respectfully go back to our corner and get ready for Game 7.
"But it was a good response to the last 48 hours. We have a very stubborn, tough-minded group. So now our focus has to continue to be on quieting everything from outside and focus on how we get Game 7. It was a tremendous response."
The Heat played a classic playoff road game, jumping on the Celtics early and cashing in the opportunities the Celtics gave them. Boston had five first-quarter turnovers that the Heat converted into eight points, and Miami shot 57.9 percent in the opening quarter to take a 26-16 lead.
In the second quarter, James seemed to personally answer every run the Celtics made, his 16 second-quarter points helping to push the lead to 13.
In the third, the Celtics were in position to repeat what we've seen several times over the course of these playoffs, in this series and others—rally from a double-digit second-half deficit. Boston twice seemed to have momentum, twice got the lead down to 10, but could not chip any closer. The Heat led, 74-61, heading into the fourth, and when they opened with that 7-2 run thanks to Wade and Battier, the Celtics appeared to have ceded the loss.
For Boston, which put together its Paul Pierce-Kevin Garnett-Ray Allen trio with Rajon Rondo in 2007, Saturday's game will make the seventh Game 7 the group has played in the last five years. They have gone 4-2 in those games, including a home win over the Philadelphia 76ers in the conference semifinal.
The Heat, constructed with James, Wade and Chris Bosh as the core last season, have not played in a Game 7 together.
Rivers said his team will be ready—and confident.
"(Pierce) was down," Rivers said. "Kevin was down. The whole locker room was down. But you can see their resolve in the locker room. They're not just going to pack for (Saturday). They're going to bring suits for Tuesday (when the Finals start in Oklahoma City), and they're going to bring suits for Thursday. And that's the way we're going to plan to do it."


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The Carolina Hurricanes will open the 2013-14 season with a home game against the Detroit Red Wings on Oct. 4 at PNC Arena.
The NHL announced the regular-season schedules for its 30 teams Friday.
The early home schedule for the Hurricanes also includes dates with the past two Stanley Cup champions � Oct. 11 against the Los Angeles Kings and Oct. 15 against the Chicago Blackhawks.
The opening month also has home games for the Hurricanes against the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins, both rivals in the newly created Metropolitan Division.
Only nine of Carolina�s 24 games after February�s Olympic break will be at home. There�s a four-game homestand for the Hurricanes leading up to the Olympic break.
The Hurricanes have a total of 24 home games on Fridays, five on Saturdays and seven on Sundays.
Individual game tickets for Carolina�s preseason and regular-season games go on sale Sept. 6.
▪ The Hurricanes reached a deal with forward Zac Dalpe on a one-year contract paying him $550,000 at the NHL level or $125,000 at the American Hockey League level, with a guarantee of $150,000.
Dalpe, 23, played in 10 games with Carolina in 2012-13, scoring one goal and notching two assists (3 points) and averaging 12:18 of ice time per game. He has played in 41 career NHL games with Carolina (five goals, five assists).

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Vernor Vinge, 62, is a pioneer in artificial intelligence, who in a recent interview warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind. Vinge is a retired San Diego State University professor of mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is well-known for his 1993 manifesto, "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology means a point will be reached where the consequences are unknown. Vinge still believes in this future, which he thinks would come anytime after 2020.
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Air Marshal: RAF may not have to be disbanded
It's 'plausible' that slug-balancers will be kept
Yesterday, reporting on the Ministry of Defence green paper issued this week, we referenced a news item in which the UK's top serviceman, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, reportedly said it was "plausible" that Britain might in future have just two armed services rather than three.
It has now emerged that this was in error. The MoD has issued a correction:
It is being misreported by some media outlets that when talking about the possible implications of the Green Paper, Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, said yesterday that it was 'plausible' that there could be only two Armed Services.
This is not the case. The following question was asked:
"With regard to the forthcoming Strategic Defence Review and the requirement to save a lot of money, do you think it's plausible that we will have three Armed Services?"
CDS replied to this question by saying: "Certainly it's plausible."
So in fact it would appear that the idea of retaining all three armed services is only "plausible" - which is very different from "likely" or "definite". Indeed, no matter how you slice it, it is now confirmed by the Chief of the Defence Staff that the disappearance of one or more services is on the cards.
Which one it might be generally depends on the background of who you ask. The Royal Navy and Army continually suggest breaking up the RAF among the Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps, for instance.
Sir Jock, as we suggested yesterday, might rather favour amalgamating the other two services to form the Royal Surface and Subsurface Force. It might even be possible, in a world where tails wagged dogs to an even greater degree, to see the RAF Regiment (the air force's ground security troops, roughly equivalent to a couple of battalions of army infantry in organisation and quality) take over the Army.
Alternatively the navy might be broken up to form the RAF Seagoing Airbase Flotilla and an Army Maritime Transport and Associated Functions organisation, probably within the logistic corps. Both the Army and RAF operated significant fleets of their own in the past, after all.
Canada once tried to unify all three services, but this didn't really take - they still have quite a lot of separate identity.
Here on the Reg defence desk, we'd say that Sir Jock used the wrong word: it's not just plausible but very likely that all three services will continue to exist, though if we taxpayers are lucky their upper levels will be trimmed and amalgamated a great deal - perhaps by abolishing the three service ops commands (Fleet, Land and Strike) and assigning their remnants to the Joint Ops HQ, among other things. It seems mad to promote joint operations by increasing the number of warring HQs from three to four, as we have under the current setup.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 11th Aug 2012 17:22 UTC
Nobody needs a tablet, but many people still want a tablet. This is still the core differentiator between a 'real' computer and a tablet. At least in The Netherlands, you can't function in society without a desktop or laptop connected to the internet, so people need a computer. A tablet, though? Hence, the most common thing people have told me when they played with my iPad 2 is this: I'd love to have a tablet, but not for hundreds of euros. Enter Google's Nexus 7, the first 'cheap' tablet that doesn't just validate Android as a tablet platform, but also gives the iPad a run for its money.
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RE: Firefox
The new Firefox Beta (v 15) seems okay. Current stable (v 14) doesn't support basic stuff like fixed position in CSS, which makes it impossible to create good web apps with a native look & feel. The more people that uses browsers that doesn't support basic stuff like this (Opera Mobile for instance), the harder it is to be a web app/web site developer. You have use the user agent and browse-specific code, which shouldn't be necessary in 2012. Please don't use Firefox 14 for Android & Opera Mobile for Android.


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As we sail into the second half of the calendar year, investors may be looking to see what has gone right and what has gone wrong so far this year. Making necessary changes to some holdings may help position investors for the next couple of quarters. Being able to cut the riskier losers and take some profits from winners may help solidify the stock portfolio. As we run through the next round of company earnings reports, investors will be keeping a close eye on the data that is reported. Investors may be looking to buy companies that continue to post beats on the earnings front, and cut ties with ones that are not hitting their marks.
The 20 day Keltner Channels upper envelope is 1.1413869 on shares of Air Industries Group (:AIRI). The 20 day Keltner Channels lower envelope is 0.97762877. The Keltner Channels indicator was introduced by Chester Keltner in his book How to Make Money in Commodities. Keltner's ideas have since been expanded upon and are widely used by technical traders.
Checking in on the Awesome Oscillator, we see that the reading is -0.09721857. Traders may follow this oscillator to measure market momentum. Created by Bill Williams, the Awesome Oscillator calculates the difference of the 5 period and 34 period SMA.
Following the Chaikin Money Flow indicator, we note that the current 20 day value is 0.10981558. Traders will watch to see if the indicator can help confirm an ongoing trend. In the midst of a bullish trend, the CMF value staying above zero may point to continuous buying pressure and the possibility of a sustained rise in price. In the midst of a bearish trend, the CMF value staying below zero may show continuous selling pressure and the possibility of continued price decline.
Scanning the equity market, we note that the stock's current Oscillator Rating is showing "Neutral". Traders will take note of many different factors when examining a stock's health. Flipping over to the Moving Average Rating, we see that the current sentiment is pointing to a "Strong Sell".
Watching volatility readings, we can see the current value for Air Industries Group (:AIRI) is 11.859253. Volatility for the week stands at 8.081869, and the monthly reading is 12.2940645. Volatility involves the amount of risk in relation to the amount of change in a stock's value. Tracking the Bull Bear Power, we note that the stock is presently -0.17509171.
Shares of Air Industries Group (:AIRI) ended last session at 0.9789. Following today's trade, we note that the stock has moved 5.235433% since the opening bell. The company has a current market cap of 25546552. The stock's high price over the last month is presently 1.42.
Donchian Channels may be useful for technical traders. The primary function of the indicator is to measure volatility. The bands will widen when volatility is high, and they will become narrow with low volatility. The 20 day upper band level is 1.42. For the same period, the lower band level is 0.91.
Trading on volume of 29035, Air Industries Group (:AIRI) has seen a change from the open of 0.0389 since the stock opened at 0.94. Monitoring today's activity, the stock has hit a high point of 0.98 and slipped to a low of 0.9208.
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Almost exactly one year ago, the day before we set out on the cross-country drive that would become our book, we filled a Tuthilltown Four-Grain Bourbon barrel with two batches of an imperial Russian stout and stashed it in our storage unit.
Hops, Stoopid
Hops come to brewers either as thumb-sized bundles of leaves or ground up and packed into tiny, rabbit-food-like pellets. The cone-vs.-pellet debate is long and popular.
Bottling Line
Does the Cicerone program certify brewery-tour connoisseurship? We've been on our share of walks through fermenters and bottling lines. . .
Big Beers, Small Barrels
Texan homebrewers don't mess around. While we were there we heard about a homebrew made with bacon-infused Scotch, and tried a smoky barleywine that tasted like meat and leather. . .


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Pauline Hamilton Davis
Pauline Hamilton Davis, Age 97, of Arlington, Texas passed away on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011 in an Arlington hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, at Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Sweetwater Cemetery. Pauline was born July 12, 1914, in Eskota, Texas to Carl and Cordeliah (Hale) Hamilton. She was raised in Longworth, Texas. She was a homemaker. She was also a member of Pleasant Ridge Church of Christ. She was a longtime resident of both Sweetwater and Arlington. Her main source of happiness was her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She is survived by one son, Ronald Davis and wife Jan of Arlington, Texas; one daughter, Anita Poley of Arlington, Texas; four grandchildren, Brian Davis, Lance Davis, Amanda West and Tiffany Mosley; four great-grandchildren, nephew, Frank Davis and wife Marilyn of Sweetwater, Texas, niece, Patsy Hunt of Wichita Falls, Texas, great-niece, Jill Couch of Wichita Falls, Texas and great-nephews, John Davis and wife Cindy of Sweetwater, Texas and Steve Davis and wife Kathy of Southlake, Texas.She was preceded in death by her husband, Morris Franklin Davis on June 20, 1987.


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The Whiskies
- Any Irish whiskey you may have...
Date and Time
- Saturday 15th November 7:00pm GMT
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For those of you who do not know what these are about, they run for generally 12+ hours and we all sit down (at various times) to taste a range of whiskies and share our notes and comments on the forum. Have a look in the Live Tasting forum for past events.
They are a great way to meet people on the forum, chat about your experiences and learn something new about the whiskies you have, and we all end up having a good time.
Please feel free to join in and post any comments or tasting notes you have. Tasting notes can be added using the Tasting Note tab on the postings page. (Note, the Age field on the tasting must be a number such as 7,9,10,18)
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And they're off!
After an eventful nine-day journey that took them to Singapore, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands, William and Kate were waved off from their final stop, Tuvalu, on Wednesday.
William and Kate (in a summery dress by Erdem) were taken by a carriage carried by about 20 men to their charter plane. They were due to briefly stop in Brisbane, Australia, before boarding a flight to London.
The tour was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding published photos of Kate sunbathing topless in France. But the couple will also remember it for the vast numbers of people who turned out to meet them and welcome to the various countries.
PHOTOS: William & Kate's Asian Adventures
As a source in their party said, "They had one objective: to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. It's not for us to judge whether that was a success or not, from their point of view, they felt able to do her life and the diversity of the nations she represents justice."


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This one turned out to be easier than I thought.
Of course, the reason it was easy is because dav7's instructions were fairly clear cut. The only real trick is hardwiring
./src/Makefile to point at the right directory, and after that it's smooth sailing.
I needed the xorg-dev, imake and build-essential packages to finish it, and I put together a makeshift .deb file with checkinstall, and it seems to work. If you want to try it out, I put a copy here, along with some of the other curiosities I've been collecting lately.
Drop me a note and tell me if it works for you. Pages with PNG graphics are going to hang the browser, and of course it lacks any real protocols that postdate 1993 or so, but you might find it useful for some simple browsing, or for use on a machine with no graphical muscle at all. It's a little clumsy at times and even just changing URLs is a bit of a pain, but what can you say? It works.
I guess I should say, if it doesn't, let me know. 🙄


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McCullagh reports, "Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said requiring warrantless access to Americans' data 'undercuts' the purpose of Leahy's original proposal. 'We believe a warrant is the appropriate standard for any contents,' he said… This is a bitter setback for Internet companies and a liberal-conservative-libertarian coalition, which had hoped to convince Congress to update the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act to protect documents stored in the cloud. Leahy glued those changes onto an unrelated privacy-related bill supported by Netflix… Members of the so-called Digital Due Process coalition include Apple, Amazon.com, Americans for Tax Reform, AT&T, the Center for Democracy and Technology, eBay, Google, Facebook, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, TechFreedom, and Twitter."
"Leahy, a former prosecutor, has a mixed record on privacy. He criticized the FBI's efforts to require Internet providers to build in backdoors for law enforcement access, and introduced a bill in the 1990s protecting Americans' right to use whatever encryption products they wanted," McCullagh reports. "An excerpt from Leahy's revised legislation authorizing over 22 federal agencies to obtain Americans' e-mail without a search warrant signed by a judge. Click for larger image."
"But he also authored the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which is now looming over Web companies, as well as the reviled Protect IP Act. An article in The New Republic concluded Leahy's work on the Patriot Act "appears to have made the bill less protective of civil liberties." Leahy had introduced significant portions of the Patriot Act under the name Enhancement of Privacy and Public Safety in Cyberspace Act a year earlier," McCullagh reports. "One obvious option for the Digital Due Process coalition is the simplest: if Leahy's committee proves to be an insurmountable roadblock in the Senate, try the courts instead."
More info in the full article here.
UPDATE: 5:08pm EDT: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy hits back at report that legislation would decrease Americans' privacy.
MacDailyNews Take: How much liberty are you willing to squander? When is enough finally enough?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause…" — Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety – Benjamin Franklin, February 1775
We'd tell you to contact Leahy, but, come on, would it really make any difference? A Democrat in Vermont is slightly less endangered than the cockroach in Queens.
The bill is referred to as "Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011". U.S. citizens, contact your U.S. Senators via email here (have at it anyway concerned Vermonters) and let them know how you feel about this revised bill.
UPDATE: 5:08pm EDT: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy hits back at report that legislation would decrease Americans' privacy.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "trevor7578" for the heads up.]


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text: Charlie Clements illustrates the size of the fish that kept circling his baited lure as he and his brother, Jack, fished off the Pawuxet River Bridge in the village center last Thursday. The Clements clan tried their luck, reeling in lots of smaller fish. One conclusion is the larger fish didn't go for Fenway Franks – the bait their father provided. (Warwick Beacon photo)


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Greetings All --
So I just moved to newport beach from Los Angeles and am looking to start a good group who wants to play tennis on a (relatively) consistent basis. I am generally free any weeknite after 5pm (due to work, obv) and anytime on weekends.
I've been playing since I was 7 and have also spent time coaching tennis in the past. Unfortunately, recent due to school and work, my game has dropped off somewhat, but now that I have tennis courts in my apt complex, want to start getting back to game shape.
That being said, my game is still a solid 4.0 (right now) and don't mind hitting with players who are better. If your skill is not there, I am still willing to give instruction and just rally to improve your game.
Lastly - i understand we are all in different places, so I am willing to travel within reason.
Hope to hear from any and all interested parties.
Thanks for reading my long-winded post :)
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Would you be willing to travel to Irvine? We play there every Monday & Tuesday.
HIi Sam:
Could I join you guys sometime? I am fairly new to the game. Let me if you can tolerate a beginner (if not, thats cool) and I'll come play.
Sure. What time do you usually meet up?
Sure. What time do you usually meet up?
Would love to play tonight, but going to be stuck at work til well after 7. FML
Count me in for next monday though!
Sam Dizzle said:
6PM. In fact, we're playing tonight @ San Marino Park.
Yatish Vora said:
Sure. What time do you usually meet up?
I would love to help start the group. I live in Newport as well, on San Joaquin and Jamboree. I am pretty new to the game, but fairly athletic. We should pick a night, place, time and try to get people to join. Let me know if you wanna hit around sometime next week.
You are super close to me, so we should def figure out a day this week to play. I'm free any evening except today (working late). Let me know whats good for you?
email me @ email@example.com
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Need your help again folks.
Need new straps. Want to feel real connected with by board, (but can't go bindings), narrowed it down to these two. Got a size 9 foot, chicken skinny ankles wider at front almost a flat foot condition. Football in the early days has taken its toll, so I need some support even in the arches if I can. Bloody Achilles keeps going on me.
Hear good things about both, and the adjustment potential on the entities is a plus.
But people who use the nobiles rave about them.
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Fashion! - Turquerie from 18C English artist George Knapton 1698-1778
George Knapton was born in London, the son of James Knapton, a Bookseller of Ludgate street. He was apprenticed for 7 years to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from 1715. By 1720, he was also officially studying art at the St Martin's Lane Academy, then run by Louis Chéron & John Vanderbank. He spent some years in Italy studying art & socializing with others on the Grand Tour, many of whom became his clients & friends upon their return to England.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Fashion! - The Turquerie turbans of First Lady Dolley Madison 1768-1849
Bass Otis (American artist, 1784-1861) Dolley Madsion 1768-1849
Dolley Madison always called herself Dolley, & by that name her birth was recorded on May 20, 1768 by the Society of Friends, in Guilford County, North Carolina. In 1783 her father took the family to Philadelphia, city of the Quakers. She married John Todd, Jr., a lawyer, in 1790. Three years later he died in a yellow-fever epidemic, leaving her with a small son. By this time Philadelphia had become the capital city. The young widow attracted distinguished attention. Dolley reported to her best friend that "the great little Madison has asked.... to see me this evening."
1817 Dolley Madsion 1768-1849 at the end of her tenure as First Lady in 1817
Although James Madison was 17 years her senior, & Episcopalian, they were married in September 1794. The marriage, though childless, was notably happy. Madison was even patient with Dolley's son, Payne, who mishandled his own affairs - &, eventually, mismanaged their estate. Discarding the somber Quaker dress after her second marriage, Dolley chose the finest of fashions. A chronicler wrote: "She looked a Queen.... It would be absolutely impossible for any one to behave with more perfect propriety than she did."
1829-30 George Catlin George Catlin (American artist, 1796-1872) Dolley Madsion 1768-1849
Dolley made her home the center of society. She assisted at the White House, when the President Jefferson asked her help in receiving ladies, & presided at the first inaugural ball in Washington, when James Madison became chief executive in 1809. Clad in brightly colored gowns & exotic turbans, Dolley Madison helped establish an etiquette of equality in the growing capital. Although Dolley's social graces made her famous, her husband prized her political acumen. Her gracious tact smoothed many a quarrel.
1846 Eastman Johnson (American artist, 1824-1906) Dolley Madsion 1768-1849
During the War of 1812, Dolley was forced to flee from the White House by the British army. It has been reported that her quick thinking saved a portrait of George Washington from being destroyed by fire. Upon returning to the capital, she found the Executive Mansion in ruins. Undaunted by temporary quarters, she entertained as skillfully as ever.
Dolley Madsion 1768-1849 engraved by John Francis Eugene Prud'Homme (1800-92) after a drawing of the original by James Herring (1794-1867) (engraving)
The Madisons retired to their plantation Montpelier in Virginia until he died in 1836. She returned to the capital in the autumn of 1837, & friends found tactful ways to supplement her diminished income. She remained in Washington until her death in 1849.
1840s Daguerreotype of Dolley Madison
1848 photograph of Dolley Madison and her niece Anna Payne
1848 William S Elwell (1810-1881) Dolley Madsion 1768-1849
See The White House Historical Society
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Fashion! - European 18C Turquerie wraps with a variety of fur trims & attitudes!
1720 Nicolas de Largillière (French artist, 1656-1746) Lady as a sultana
1727 Andreas Moeller (1684-1762) Young Maria Theresia
1742 Portrait of Theodore Elizabeth Catherine, Baroness de Besenval, married, in 1733, to Charles Louis Guillaume, Marquis de Broglie
1743 Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (1702-1766) Portrait of a lady in Turkish dress
1750 Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French artist, 1725-1805) Marquise de Chauvelin
1754 Martin van Meytens (Swedish artist, 1695-1770) Maria Thersia
1755 Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Mary Radclyffe
1756 Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Rhoda Delaval (1725–1757), Lady Astley
1759 Martin van Meytens (Swedish artist, 1695-1770) Maria Theresa of Austria
1760 Heinrich Carl Brandt (Austiran artist, )Elizabeth Augusta von der Pfaltz
1762 François-Hubert Drouais (French artist, 1727-1775) Mlle de Romans en turque
1770 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Emily, Duchess of Leinster
1770-1 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Mrs Trecothick in Turkish Dress
1770s Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (1721-1794)
1772 Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Elizabeth Myddleton
1772 Princess Louise of Denmark dressed for a Masquerade in Turkish dress
1774-6 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Mrs Richard Paul Jodrell
1780 Maria Anna Angelica Katharina Kauffman (Swiss-Austrian artist, 1741-1807) Portrait of Mary Walsh Mrs Clavering
1790 Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French artist, 1725-1805) Portrait of Mademoiselle Guimard
Carle Charles-André van Loo (French Painter, 1705-1765) Portrait of a lady
Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Catherine Fleming (d.1786), Lady Leicester
George Knapton (English artist, 1698–1778) Lady Mary Montagu
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Lady in Turkish Dress
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Young woman in Turkish costume
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Workshop of Martin van Meytens (Swedish artist, 1695-1770) Maria Theresia
Friday, November 22, 2013
Fashion & St Louis! Where did a lady buy material for a turban in 1818 St Louis?
The St. Louis area was settled by Native American mound builders of the Mississippian culture from the 800s to the 1400s, followed by other migrating tribal native groups. In the late 1600s, French explorers arrived, & after the French & Indian War, a French fur trading company was established in 1764, which depended on trading posts near Indian villages, where Indians & white trappers exchanged furs for goods. The fur trade remained the basis of the wealth of elite St. Louis Creole families well into the early 1820s.
The French settlers brought both black & Indian slaves to St. Louis, as both domestic servants & agricultural laborers. In 1769, the Spanish prohibited Indian slavery in Louisiana, but the practice was entrenched among the French Creoles in St. Louis. As a compromise, Spanish governors ended the Indian slave trade but allowed the retention of current slaves & any children born to them.
The Spanish government secretly returned the unprofitable Louisiana territory to France in October 1800. In 1803, the city & the region were sold to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Early in 1804, the French flag was replaced by that of the United States. The population of the city expanded slowly after the Louisiana Purchase.
A watercolor depicting the settlement of St. Louis in 1804
After the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, the Spanish had ended subsidies to the Catholic Church in St. Louis. Thus the resident priest of St. Louis left in 1804, & local Catholics were given periodic services by a traveling priest from Ste. Genevieve roughly six times a year until 1818. In spite of these problems, baptisms continued at the church in St. Louis, with roughly 400 whites & 100 blacks baptized between 1804 & 1816. St Louis had no resident priest until the arrival of Louis William Valentine Dubourg in early January 1818. Upon his arrival, he replaced the original log chapel with a brick church, recruited priests, & established a seminary.
Protestants relied on services from itinerant ministers from in the late 1790s. In 1818, was a Protestant church built within St. Louis, organized by Baptist missionary John Mason Peck with 11 members claiming membership in the First Baptist Church.
Starting in the early 1810s with the growth of American families moving to St. Louis, brick buildings began to be built in the town. Architecture reflected the American style as well, with more frame houses & log buildings than the Creole style of the original village. American business practices also took hold, with signage & advertising of services on buildings present by about 1810, as families began opening new businesses.
Among the early settlers in St. Louis was Irish immigrant Joseph Charless, who published the 1st newspaper west of the Mississippi, the Missouri Gazette, in St. Louis on July 12, 1808. On the 23d of July, 1808, the following announcement of household items appeared in the Missouri Gazette: "spices, salt, knives, hatchets, guns, kitchen-ware, hunting-shirts, & every variety of coarse dry-goods."
One 19C historian, Richard Edwards wrote, "Articles now regarded as indispensable to human existence, & occupying a low position in the scale of human comfort, were then esteemed the greatest luxuries, & so expensive as to be enjoyed only on state occasions, & then with parsimony."
By August of 1808, a Gazette ad announced, "I will sell to the highest bidder for cash...at the bouse of Mrs. Labadie, in the town of St. Louis...Best Cognoo brandy, that has been more than 3 years in cedar at this town; dry-goods, consisting of oloths, strouds, chintzes, calicoes, muslins, Irish linen; saddlery, chewing tobaooo, etc., & a large quantity of well-assorted castings & hardware."
On September 14th, 1808, the Gazette announced: " Hunt & Hankinson have received...Tin & hardware, medicines, stationery, saddlery of all kinds, wrought nails, cut do. of all sizes, men's hats, women's do., wool do., boots & shoes, ladies sprig'd kid & morocco shoes, plain do., Jefferson do., children's do., Lisbon wine, claret do., Cognac brandy, Imperial tea, Young Hyson do., Hyson skin do., loaf sugar, lump do., Muscovado do., coffee, chocolate, mustard, box raisins, best Spanish cigars, dry-goods."
Jacob Philipson announced in the Gazette of Nov. 9, 1808, that he was "opening at his new store, opposite post-office, a seasonable supply of dry-goods & a general assortment of groceries, among which are blankets, shoes, madder, & turkey red, linseedoil, tanners' do., fresh teas, coffee, chocolate, & sugar, shad, mackerel, a few German & English Bibles, Testaments, hymn-books, etc., all of which he intends selling for cash at reasonable prices."
Late in 1808, "Z. Mussina, just arrived from Philadelphia via Pittsburgh, with a large assortment of dry-goods, groceries, queensware, ironmongery, tinware, paints...for sale at the old stand of Madame Labadie (lately occupied by A. C. Dunn) & opposite to Mr. Jacob Philipson."
About this time also H. Austin & Co., of Ste. Genevieve offered to sell "brown, drab, & mixed broadcloths at from 82 to $6 per yard; 1000 yards of calicoes from 50 to 75 cents per yard; cotton laces from $1.25 to $2.50; best green coffee at 62} cents per pound; loaf & lump sugar at 50 cents per pound. Goods purchased in New York for cash, & will be sold as low as any in the Territory for cash, or lead at $6 per 100 pounds, delivered at Ste. Genevieve or Herculaneum."
In 1809, the 1st Board of Trustees, composed primarily of members of the Creole elite & newly arrived Americans, primarily concerned itself with slave control, except for one ordinance banning horse racing on city streets. Other ordinances created volunteer fire department companies, required the removal of dead animals from the town, & created a streets overseer who was able to order males to work on streets adjacent to their property. The town also enacted a small property tax & obtained some revenue from issuing business licenses. By this time, merchants were bringing goods from Baltimore, Philadelphia, & Kentucky into St Louis.
On May 24, 1809, the Gazette noted: "For sale, 300 yards fine country linen, 1400 yards tow linen, 1500 pounds nails, 2000 gallons old whiskey, also a quantity of white rope. The above-mentioned articles will be sold by the quantity for oash, as low as first cost & carriage from Lexington, Ky., to this place." July 26, 1809 "The subscriber has opened in the store...an assortment of drygoods, groceries, & hardware, which he is determined to sell at reasonable terms. Matthew Kerr."
September 13, 1809 "Merchant tailor. Bernard Lalende, lately arrived from Bordeaux, takes the liberty to inform the publio that he intends to follow the tailoring business in all its branches... he will sell at his shop cloth & other stuff, handkerchiefs, thread, wine, coffee, & Imperial tea, also an assortment of the best fiddle-strings." September 13, 1809 "P. Berthold & Paul, lately arrived from Baltimore & Philadelphia, offer for sale a very elegant assortment of dry-goods & groceries at very moderate prices for cash. They keep their store at Mr. Valois', Main Street."
In 1810 the Gazette contained the following announcements: January llth: "Just received an assortment of dry-goods & groceries, for sale at reasonable terms, also a keel-boat seventy feet in length. Samdel Perry."
February 20th.—" F. Menard has the honor of informing the public that he is now opening, at the house of Mr. Pierre Chouteau, the following articles, which he will sell at wholesale or retail on very low terms: Sugar per one hundred pounds, $20; coffee per one hundred pounds, $40; Marseilles soap, dry-goods, Russia sheeting, brown linen, blankets, Frenoh brandy, rum, claret, etc." April 26th.—" Thomas Hickey, tailor & ladies' habit maker, has commenced business on the Public Square."
April 26th.—"H. M. Shreve A Co. have brought from Philadelphia...a complete & general assortment of dry-goods, groceries, hardware, china, & queens'ware, iron, steel, castings, & stationery, at the most reduced prices." April 26th.—"Wood A Dunn have just arrived from Philadelphia, & have opened in St. Louis a general assortment of dry-goods suitable to the season, also groceries, queens & hardware, etc. They have also opened in Ste. Genevieve an assortment of dry-goods, groceries, hardware, etc."
About this time the terms of sale were barter & exchange rather than cash. When "a heap of whiskey & peach brandy" were offered by Frederick Yeiger (1811) for "beef hides," with the remark, "no credit, as he can't write." It is not surprising that "Joseph Bouju, clock- & watch-maker, silversmith & jeweler," should offer for sale "cherry bounce, ratifia de Grenoble, whiskey, a gig & harness, with his keelboat & apparatus." Christian Wilt, from Philadelphia, advertised his goods July 25th, in Mussina's stand, & Depestre, De Mun A Co. announced September 9th, that they were just from Philadelphia & Baltimore with an assortment of new goods.
After the end of the War of 1812, the population of St. Louis & the Missouri Territory began expanding quickly. Between 1804 & 1810, the town increased from 1,200 to 1,400, while from 1810 to 1820, the town population more than tripled from 1,400 to 4,600. In 1812, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory, & from 1812 to 1821, St. Louis remained the capital of the territory.
During 1813, the following Gazette advertisements appeared: January 9th.—" To the Ladies. Shawls, fine muslins, bonnets, laces, etc., for sale at a moderate price. M. Tesson." June 19th.-- "Berthold A Chouteau have on sale a general assortment of dry-goods, groceries, hardware & crockery, etc."
Around 1816, there was an influx of men of business & capital to St. Louis. The end of the War of 1812 saw a great impetus to settlement in Illinois & Missouri, all these new settlements, as well as the old ones, began to look more & more to St. Louis as their place of obtaining supplies. A flurry of merchants had arrived in town to do business by 1818. About 1819, business began to be classified, & there were separate dealers in groceries, in dry-goods, in hardware, although many houses still continued to deal in mixed merchandise.
The earliest informal sketches from daily life in St. Louis were done by Anna Maria von Phul 1786-1823. She came from a religious Moravian family which had moved to Philadelphia just 2 years before she was born. In 1764, her father Johann Wilhelm von Phul emigrated from Westhofen, Central Pfalz, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He became a successful businessman & married Catharine Graff in 1775. Both were members of the Moravian Brethren church.
Anna Maria was born in Philadelphia, where her parents had 8 children. After William von Phul's death in 1792, Catherine Graff von Phul moved part of her family, including her daughter Anna Maria to Lexington, Kentucky, where Anna Maria studied with the artists George & Mary Beck & was encouraged by her friend & neighbor, artist Matthew Harrist Jouett (1788-1827). Jouette was a well-known Kentucky portraitist who had studied with Gilbert Stuart. As a 14-year-old, she had attended Mrs Beck's young ladies' academy in Lexington. George & Mary Beck owned a collection of European prints with which they shared with their aspiring young artists. When Anna Maria's mother died in 1808, George & Mary Beck are reported to have cared for her & her siblings, taking them on visits to Chaumiere des Prairie, Colonel David Meade, III's estate. While living with the Becks, Anna Maria painted & wrote poetry, dispatching some of the latter to her childhood friend Ann Elizabeth Gist.
Anna Maria came to St. Louis from Kentucky in 1818, to visit Henry von Phul 1784-1874, her brother's family. One of her brothers, who had moved to Baltimore, sent Anna Maria art supplies, which would have been in short supply in early Kentucky & St Louis. Anna Maria brought paper & watercolors with her & filled several sketchbooks with sketches & watercolors of early St. Louis. Anna Maria had been close to her brother Henry, especially after the death of her mother in 1810. In a letter to her brother dated May 18th, 1812, Anna Maria chided Henry for not writing "Tis a long time since we have heard from you. Which I hope does not proceed from indisposition or any other cause than indolence." She had apparently made him a gift, for she continues "Since I wrote I have been anxiously waiting to know how you like your little book I sent by Peter."
In the same letter, Anna Maria wrote of the effects of the War of 1812 on Lexington, Kentucky. "You know I suppose L. is the head quarters, that our town is filled with military officers etc. etc. Nat Hart has raised a most respectable corps of Volunteers to go to Vincennes." Later, Anna Maria describes the financial difficulty experienced by the merchants which proceeded from the war "...from what you say the times are not much better at St. Louis than with us and that I assure you is bad enough and had New Orleans surrendered it would probably complete the ruin of Lexington even as it is suspicion is abroad, and every one seems afraid of his neighbor. Many people, and some among our best informed confidently expect a peace....there would be a better opening for business in L. than there has been for years, as all our darling people are either broke, or so embarrass'd that their movements are, and must be circumscribed for some time, at least."
Her brother Henry had been among the crowd which witnessed the arrival of the 1st steamboat in St. Louis, the General Zebulon Pike in 1817. When his sister arrived in St Louis, Henry was busy with his associates buying a number of steamboats & forming a company to be the 1st to run boats from St. Louis to New Orleans. In 1816, her brother had married Rosalie Genevieive Saugrain 1797-1887, who came from a well-known Creole family; and so Anna Maria had access to most of the societies & cultures in St Louis. She recorded Native American mounds, street scenes, & people from a variety of cultures, all assembled in St. Louis by 1818.
Von Phul aspired to be a professional artist, but died at the home of her sister in Edwardsville, Illinois, in 1823. Her obituary in the Edwardsville Spectator noted "the pleasure of her conversation" and "the virtues of her heart." It also remembered "her lively imagination" but did not mention her artwork. However, family members commented on her art frequently in their letters. The family saved Anna Maria's artwork & gave it to the Missouri Historical Society in 1953.
The Smithsonian Instution reports that artist Matthew Harrist Jouett (1788-1827) painted a portrait of Anna Maria Von Phul in 1819. See: Floyd, William Barrow, "Jouett-Bush-Frazer: Early Kentucky Artists," Lexington, KY, 1968. In 1816, Jouett went to Philadelphia, and then on to Boston, where he studied with Gilbert Stuart for 4 months. Stuart considered Jouett, whom he called "Kentucky," his favorite student.
For watercolors see: Missouri Historical Society.
Edwards, Richard, and M. Hopewell. Edward's Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis... St Louis: Edward's Monthly, 1860
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Saint Louis City and County: From the Earliest Periods to the Present Day. Volume 2 St Louis: L. H. Everts, 1883
Van Ravenswaay, "Anna Maria von Phul" Missouri Historical Society Bulletin 10 (April 1954): 367-84.
Von Phul Family Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St Louis
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When Guillermo Martin Treminio's house crumbled in the 1972 earthquake that leveled Nicaragua's capital, killing 10,000 people and destroying 50,000 buildings and homes, he had nowhere to go. So he moved his family into a crumbling apartment building in downtown Managua that the wealthy had abandoned.
Mr. Treminio's refugeelike living conditions, which he had once hoped would be temporary, became home for almost 40 years. "We had lost hope," he recalls.
But now he has finally moved his family into permanent housing, thanks to a government program to relocate 103 families who also squatted in the skeletal remains of four abandoned high-rises known as "the ruins." It's one of the last efforts of cleanup after the devastating quake.
"The so-called squatter settlements in the ruins are nothing more than earthquake refugees who never got a place to live after the quake," says Nicaraguan historian Roberto Sánchez Ramírez.
Their four-decade-long plight may be extreme, but it highlights a reality in the wake of large-scale disaster, both natural and human-caused. Though critics often fault governments and aid organizations for the slow pace of reconstruction, months and even years may pass before the displaced regain a solid sense of home.
In Haiti, a year and a half after its devastating earthquake, permanent housing reconstruction has not even begun. Even after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the aftermath of which is seen as a model for reconstruction, it took four years for families to find permanent homes. Five years after hurricane Katrina in the United States, thousands remained in temporary housing.
"Very-large-scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods," says Irwin Redlener, a physician and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York. "The temporary housing might become permanent, or very longstanding."
That is certainly the case in many parts of historical downtown Managua – a crossroads of fault lines that has been left in weed-grown partial abandonment since the 1972 quake. In total, 541 city blocks in Managua were destroyed or irreparably damaged and had to be leveled afterward.
The majority of middle- and upper-class citizens fled, joining an exodus of 250,000, more than half the population of the city. But those living in shantytowns had no place to go, so they forged lives for themselves among the devastation, waiting for government help. "We thought we were going to die there. We never thought we would be moved out," says Erminia Pineda, a longtime resident of the apartment buildings, where as many as 45 people would live on a floor built to house only four or five and which was governed by its own set of laws and social norms. Each floor had its own hierarchy of power, based on seniority and economic clout within the buildings. Residents took care of their own security, organizing into vigilance groups to watch over one another's belongings. Walls often fell down. Rain came through cracks. Each time the ground shook, residents worried the buildings would come down.
Temporary living is fraught with vulnerabilities, says Lilianne Fan, an independent consultant on humanitarian policy and postcrisis reconstruction who has worked in Haiti and Indonesia. Those displaced often face problems with sanitation, little access to education and health care, and limited security. The psychological pressures of not having permanence can also take a toll.
The challenges of postdisaster reconstruction are many. Among them: removing rubble, planning settlements, securing funding, procuring materials, and training builders. While aid organizations sweep into disaster zones, the degree to which they can participate in large-scale reconstruction is limited. When a disaster occurs in a developing country without a strong government, reconstruction takes even longer.
"There are some misperceptions about what the private or voluntary sector can do," says Mr. Redlener. "The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery."
Those in Nicaragua blame previous governments for ignoring their plight. "The neoliberal governments [from 1990 to 2006] promised us homes, but it was all a lie," says Treminio.
But now that is changing. In early April, 30 military trucks rolled up in front of the ruins to evacuate the 700 people living there, moving them to a new neighborhood of cement-block homes about six miles away.
While some squatters resisted the move, arguing that the housing settlement was too far removed from Managua's main marketplace, many are glad to get out of the dilapidated buildings, which city officials have deemed a "deathtrap." The buildings were leveled in May.
Starting anew is a challenge for some. "It's harder here, but you can't have everything," Ms. Pineda says in her new neighborhood. "New beginnings are hard everywhere, but we have a house, we have a roof, and we have water. And that's what's important."


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As part of South Dakotas waiver from No Child Left Behind, the state was required to identify the top 5 percent of public schools, as well as the lowest 5 percent of Title I schools, this fall. The schools were identified, in most cases, based on their scores on the new School Performance Index, or SPI, a 100-point index that encompasses key indicators that measure school performance.
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Overview of Commonwealth financial reporting
The Commonwealth financial reporting outputs include:
- financial tables and statements for the Budget Papers (including Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook)
- monthly financial statements
- estimates updates in the Central Budget Management System (CBMS)
- Final Budget Outcome (FBO)
- Consolidated Financial Statements (CFS).
Finance supports these financial reporting outputs by:
- supporting the Finance Minister to meet the financial reporting requirements in the PGPA Act, Charter of Budget Honesty Act and the Appropriation Acts
- maintaining and enhancing a single, whole-of-government, accounting and reporting framework for Commonwealth entities
- maintaining CBMS
- maintaining and improving monitoring and reporting of the Commonwealth's cash balances.
The sections below describe the following areas in further detail:
- monthly and annual reporting processes
- consistency and use of accounts
- Government Finance Statistics (GFS)
- functional reporting
- publication standards
- major fiscal aggregates
Monthly and annual reporting processes
Monthly reporting and annual reporting are integral to the Commonwealth's accrual budgeting and reporting framework and complements the Budget process by providing outcomes against Budget estimates.
The monthly financial statements, FBO and CFS are required by legislation and serve a number of purposes.
Monthly financial reporting
The monthly financial statements show how actual expenditure is tracking against the monthly profile and full year estimate. The statements:
- are required by the PGPA Act (section 47) to be published by the Minister for Finance in a form consistent with the Budget estimates, as soon as practicable after the end of each month
- show how actual expenditure is tracking against the monthly profile and full year estimate
- enable the delivery of actual results against the Budget and provide an opportunity to utilise the benefits associated with accrual budgeting and reporting by:
- delivering reports on accrual measures such as operating result and financial position as well as the use of cash
- being an integral component in forming the annual Consolidated Financial Statements and
- providing an important budget tracking mechanism for the government
- meet the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), to which the Commonwealth has subscribed, which requires central governments to publish financial statements on a monthly basis; within one month of the period close; and on a basis consistent with that reported in the annual Budget. Under accrual accounting, the IMF has granted some flexibility in the release of June and July monthly statements to allow for the release of the FBO by the end of September
- are used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for inclusion in the Australian National Accounts.
Annual financial reporting
Final Budget Outcome (FBO)
The FBO provides the outcome for the latest financial year with an emphasis on a GFS presentation of the general government sector. The FBO:
- is required by the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 (section 18) by 30 September each year
- incorporates audit cleared accrual based revenue and expenses, balance sheet and cash flow information (obtained from the annual compilation process for the consolidated financial statements)
- provides the outcome for the latest financial year
- includes the release of the June monthly financial data as that month cannot be released until publication of the financial outcome for the year (July and August monthly financial statements are released following the release of the FBO).
Consolidated Financial Statements (CFS)
The CFS:
- are required by the PGPA Act (section 48)
- must be audited by the Auditor-General
- use the same audit cleared financial data as the FBO (sometimes updated for some entities due to a later release) but provides an accounting presentation.
Consistency and use of accounts
Entities should report financial information for monthly and annual financial reporting, consistent with their audited financial statements. Limiting the use of 'other' accounts will reduce the need for follow up questions from Finance.
Consistent use of accounts enables:
- current data to be compared to previous data for analytical purposes
- consistency in published data
- the derivation of the consolidated cash flow statement which compares operating statement data to relevant movements in balance sheet aggregates
- monthly data to be used by the ABS in the compilation of the Australian National Accounts.
In addition, reporting at the lowest level of detail in the chart of accounts allows Finance to satisfy ABS data collection requirements, avoiding the need for the ABS to undertake an additional Public Finance survey of Commonwealth entities.
Government Finance Statistics (GFS)
The GFS reporting framework is an accrual financial measurement and reporting system designed to support economic analysis of the public sector. The GFS focuses on the size of the public sector; its contribution to aggregate demand, investment, and saving and provides for cross-country comparison.
The GFS principles are formalised and promulgated by the IMF in consultation with practitioners. The Heads of Treasury and the ABS oversee Australian practical application.
Although the initial GFS standard (documented in the IMF's GFS Manual 1986) was cash-based, GFS moved to accrual-based reporting with the current publication of the IMF's GFS Manual 2001 . The ABS has also published an Australian version of this framework. The Australian Accounting Standards Board's AASB1049 Whole of Government and General Government Sector Financial Reporting harmonises IMF GFS Manual 2001 and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and is used to present Australian Government financial reports.
The IMF has commenced a review of the GFS Manual 2001, with a revised GFS Manual expected to be released imminently. Finance has provided comments on the likely areas of change.
Functional reporting
Reporting by function is an internationally recognised means of reporting government activities for comparison purposes (which can be mapped to the IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001). It provides a useful means of understanding government outlays as it allows for the reporting of expenses according to their purpose.
In Australia, the functional classification is based on the ABS fourteen major functions published in the Australian System of Government Finance Statistics: Concept, Sources and Methods 2005 :
- general public services
- defence
- public order and safety
- education
- health
- social security and welfare
- housing and community amenities
- recreation and culture
- fuel and energy
- agriculture, forestry and fishing
- mining, manufacturing and construction
- transport and communication
- other economic affairs
- other purposes.
This classification differs slightly to the IMF which recognises ten major functions. The IMF has amalgamated five economic major functions into a single economic affairs major function and established of an environmental protection major function.
Expenses by function are published in the Budget Papers and the FBO, as well as the Commonwealth monthly financial statements. A list of function codes can also be found on the CBMS website.
See description of functions and sub-functions for a description of each function a list of what is included and excluded in each sub-function.
Publication standards for reporting
Variance information/explanations
Consolidated analysis commentary in the monthly financial statements is based on a comparison of the current months (YTD) figures to a profile of the most recent published budget estimate.
Finance's analysis on monthly financial statements not only verifies the reasonableness of the information provided, it also facilitates the compilation of variance information / explanations on which the analysis commentary is based.
In order to streamline the reporting, analysis and publication process, entities are asked to provide Finance each month with information about significant variations (i.e. variations between the current months (YTD) and the profile which are greater than $50 million at the account level or $20 million at the program level). In addition, entities are required to notify Finance of any issues affecting entity's monthly financial statements at the time that financial information is submitted to CBMS.
Some examples of explanations can include:
- variations to expenses in income statement:
- grants expenses below profile due to the timing of payments. This is mainly attributed to:
- grants to states where payments are made quarterly
- grants to states where payments do not commence until projects are approved and/or agreements are signed and
- grants to non-profit institutions, where payments do not commence until applications are received and approved.
- depreciation and amortisation is below profile due to capital items have not yet been purchased, therefore depreciation has not been expensed.
- suppliers expenses are below profile due to:
- irregular payments associated with programs and
- delays in establishing new programs.
- grants expenses below profile due to the timing of payments. This is mainly attributed to:
- variations to balance sheet – administered or departmental:
- other non-financial assets – the variance in other non-financial assets to the 30 June closing balance is due to the expensing of prepayments
- suppliers – variance to the 30 June closing balance is due to unanticipated delay in some payments at the end of the month.
- other provisions and payables – variance to the 30 June closing balance is due to the inclusion of an accrual for grants due but not yet paid.
Note: variances in administered expenses need to include the impact on function.
Major fiscal aggregates
Based on the GFS framework, the major fiscal aggregates presented in Commonwealth financial reports include:
- fiscal balance – is an accrual measure that shows whether the Government has to borrow from financial markets to cover its operating activities
- underlying cash balance – is a cash measure that shows whether the Government has to borrow from financial markets to cover its operating activities
- net debt – a common measure of the strength of the Government's financial position and comprises selected financial assets and liabilities
- net worth – is equal to assets minus liabilities and is a measure of the strength of the Government's financial position. It is a broader measure than net debt
- net financial worth – is equal to financial assets minus liabilities and is a measure of the strength of the Government's financial position but avoids valuation issues with non‑financial assets in measuring net worth
See Finance Advice Paper - General Principles for Recognition of Expenditure in Budget Aggregates for the principles used in the presentation of government expenditure in the Australian Government Budget Financial Statements and the Consolidated Financial Statements. Further information on equity investments and concessional loans are provided in the following documents:
- Finance Advice Paper – Questions and Answers – Equity Investments [ 359 KB]
- Finance Advice Paper – Questions and Answers – Concessional Loans [ 288 KB]
Fiscal balance
The fiscal balance is an accrual measure that shows whether the Government has to borrow from financial markets to covers its activities.
The purpose of this measure is to meet the central fiscal objective to ensure that the Government, over the economic cycle, is saving enough to cover its own investment needs and not drawing on private sector savings.
Fiscal balance, as shown in the following diagram, is calculated as revenue net of expenses from operations, plus revaluation adjustments (to remove items that do not impact on the fiscal balance), plus capital adjustments . Net investment in non-financial assets worsens fiscal balance as such investment is integral to the operation of government. A deficit indicates that the Australian Government is drawing on resources of other sectors in the economy. The fiscal balance is thus an accrual indicator of the financial impact of the Australian Government's operations on the rest of the economy.
Notes for fiscal balance:
1 Revaluation adjustments reflect changes to the value and volume of balance sheet assets and liabilities that do not arise from economic transactions brought to account in the accounting operating statement. Such items do not generally involve the implementation of Government policy and therefore do not impact fiscal balance – they are referred to as other economic flows.
2 Capital adjustments are included in the calculation of the fiscal balance as it involves a net call on financial markets and implementation of Government policy. As fiscal balance is on an accrual basis, prepayments are excluded and non-financial assets sold and fixed assets purchased on credit are included. Capital expenditure is defined as purchases less sales of fixed assets such as equipment and intangible assets such as spectrum. As depreciation is included in net operating balance, it is added back as part of the capital adjustment to avoid any double counting.
Underlying cash balance
The underlying cash balance is a cash measure that shows whether the Government has to borrow from financial markets to covers its activities.
The underlying cash balance, as shown in the following diagram, is calculated as net cash receipts from operations (excluding Future Fund earnings), plus financing adjustments (to remove cash flows more appropriately viewed as financing in GFS), plus net cash flows from capital investment (net cash investment in non-financial assets worsens underlying cash balance as such investment is integral to the operation of Government. A deficit indicates that the Australian Government has to borrow from other sectors or run down its cash reserves. The underlying cash balance is thus a cash indicator of the financial impact of the Australian Government's operations on the rest of the economy.
Notes for underlying cash balance:
1 In the Financing adjustments calculation, certain cash flows are regarded as financing transactions and therefore their impacts are removed from net cash from operating activities when calculating underlying cash balance figures. Currently these adjustments mainly relate to certain public debt cash flows.
2 Capital adjustments are included in the calculation of the underlying cash balance as it involves a net call on financial markets and implementation of Government policy. Underlying cash balance incorporates net cash capital expenditure including any prepayments. Capital expenditure is defined as purchases less sales of fixed assets such as equipment and intangible assets such as spectrum.
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A spike in demand during the normally slow summer months fueled unexpected momentum in the South Jersey office market, according to a new third-quarter report from an area brokerage firm.
The company, Voorhees-based Wolf Commercial Real Estate, found vacancy in the region fell to 17 percent, down about two percentage points from the second quarter. The decline was driven by nearly 443,200 square feet of leasing activity in a 17.5 million-square-foot market that includes Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties.
The third-quarter leasing volume is up nearly 50 percent from the same period last year, and more than half of that activity came from new deals, the firm said in its report.
"Instead of a summer slowdown we found many signs that optimism and confidence have returned," said Jason Wolf, the firm's founder and principal, in a prepared statement. He pointed to several large lease deals, a slight improvement in New Jersey's unemployment rate and last month's widely supported overhaul of state incentive programs.
The amount of total occupied space in South Jersey rose by 148,000 square feet during the quarter, the report said. Much of activity was driven by large deals in industries such as billing, consulting, management services and insurance.
The largest deal recorded in Wolf's report was Destination Maternity's 74,000-square-foot lease in Moorestown. Last month, the Philadelphia-based retailer was awarded a $40 million tax credit by the state to bring 620 jobs to New Jersey.
Wolf noted there "are still no signs of significant office construction," but that could change with the phase-in of the Economic Opportunity Act. Aside from streamlining the state's incentive programs, the new law gives bonuses to companies that develop in South Jersey, while upping awards for automotive companies.
Such a provision was all but tailored to Subaru of America, which is reportedly choosing between Cherry Hill and Philadelphia for its new 250,000-square-foot headquarters.


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