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So I just left that meeting. *shrug*. I wish I could say that it ended up being "good." Hell, I wish I could say that it ended up "bad." It just was. At the moment, I just feel like it was going through the motions. Things were said. Questions were asked. Thoughts were clarified. I think factions walked in with preconceived notions and will leave without have those perceptions majorly altered.
A sentiment oft repeated is, "It's all about the journey, not the destination." With that in mind, I don't mind having attended the meeting because it was part of today's journey. But, y'know, as much as I used to love just driving around and taking long road trips, I now prefer to have at least a general destination in mind before getting in the car. I honestly feel like there are a bunch of people in this RUSD car intending on going somewhere… probably different places and planning on different stops along the way while listening to different things on the radio. I'm not even surprised that the superintendent didn't show up for the ride.
I'm getting off at the next stop, and I truly hope that the rest of the passengers end up getting where they would like to. I would like to end up in that general area too. Disembarking from this analogous car here might cause me to take longer to arrive at that destination, or I might get there a whole heck-of-lot earlier and have to sit around twiddling my thumbs. I likely get sidetracked and lost on the way to where I was going, but that doesn't really bother me. I'm thankful and excited to continue my journey my own way — with only the people I choose.
That reminds me of the first longish road trip I took by myself. I wanted to go to a Renaissance faire being held in Council Bluffs, Iowa. It was a nine hour drive. At one point I stopped for gas at a truck stop and saw a Star Wars video game. I stayed there for about an hour and a half playing that video game at a truck stop in the middle of Iowa. Sometimes during that journey I thought I should feel lonely or like a loser because I was taking a long trip… through Iowa of all places… to go to a Renaissance faire… by myself (granted, I was meeting someone there and ended up meeting another person that would become a long-time friend), but there were a couple of points that were really profound for me. The first was playing that video game in a truck stop. I didn't have to be concerned that I was infringing on anyone else's desire to get moving again. I wasn't worried that someone else I was with would be bored watching me play the video game, or worse, want to take a turn. I could stay as long as I wanted with only myself to please.
The second point was when the sun was setting. It was gorgeous. Here I was on an open road surrounded by cornfields in the middle of Iowa with hardly any traffic. I think I was on an Interstate, but it didn't really matter. I pulled over to the side of the road, took out my digital camera, and shot some pictures of the sunset. No one was telling me that I shouldn't do that or couldn't.
The last point was on the way home. I had intended to drive straight through, but I ended up getting tired. I pulled over into the nearest Best Western and got a room for the night. Again, I appreciated where the journey was taking me and the freedom to just do what I wanted to do. The room was pretty darn cool, like a castle chamber. I shit you not, there was a four-post king sized bed with a canopy. Fortunately there was also a pool, and I had brought a pair of swim trunks. You betcha, I decided to enjoy the pool. As I was kicking back in the hot tub, there was another couple in there with me playing smoochie-face (with themselves, not me). At that point I felt a bit awkward. But, only a little bit. Maybe more than a little bit. I don't know. I remember it — okay!?
Yeah, I remember thinking I had some really great moments on that trip feeling liberated and free in my mostly solitary adventure that had a few really awesome moments of fellowship. I remember weighing the scales of those experiences against this one striking moment of awkwardness. Being able to impulsively stop there for the night was pretty cool, but if I had a companion, I wouldn't have necessarily needed to stop. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have taken the chance to stay in that really neat room. Still, if we had stopped, I wouldn't have thought about that couple.
That brings me back to how I perceive getting out of the car I'm riding in now. To some degree, yeah, it feels like that trip to Iowa. But, fortunately, there is one big difference. I know I'm not completely alone. I'll have a companion, and while I might carry a wee bit of concern about stopping at a truck stop for an hour and a half to play a video game or possibly have to defend the sublime serenity and wonder of pulling over on the side of a highway to take a picture of a sunrise because it's making a largely dull road-trip just a tad longer, I'm pretty confident that she'll humor those types of whims — usually. There's no question that it will be infinitely more comfortable not being a lone, strange creeper sharing a hot tub with an amorous couple.
In other news, I'm looking at a closing S&P value of 1951.70. It breached a hard upper barrier I've been watching for. If it remains above 1950 all day tomorrow, I may pick up a leveraged bull ETF to hold for a week or so. But, after market trading has it at 1949.25. It would make more sense to me that it will dip again tomorrow until around 1915 before turning back up again. I think it would be a wiser play to wait for that to occur. Yeah… that would be a wiser decision. I'm glad I took the experience of playing the currency markets. It was too easy making gut decisions — I'm seeing it as the difference between playing a game of chess vs. speed chess.


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With last week's show finalizing the four competitors in next weekend's Fatal 4-Way match for the World Heavyweight Championship, tonight has a set of singles matches featuring those same wrestlers: Big Show versus CM Punk, and Rey Mysterio, Jr. versus Jack Swagger. Foremost on everyone's mind, though, is Kane and his dogged determination to exact vengeance for the anonymous attack on The Undertaker.
Mysterio and Swagger are slated to start off the show, but Mysterio first takes a few moments in the ring to win over the Tampa, Florida crowd. That leaves Swagger, entering second with a mic already in hand, asking the hostile crowd to be quiet while he explains his destiny to be a champion. Mysterio responds by making fun of Swagger's lisp (and gets cheered for doing so). Punk and Big Show inevitably join the party for a sort of town hall debate, but it's Kane with the last word, appearing on the Titan Tron to promise ... you guessed it: vengeance.
Match #1 – Jack Swagger (C) vs. Rey Mysterio, Jr. – non-title match
After the break, we're left with just the two combatants in the ring. From the outset, Mysterio is ducking and dodging to stay away from Swagger's power, but Swagger gives Mysterio the rag doll treatment whenever he gets his hands on him. It's Mysterio, though, with the first near-fall after he hits an early 619 – but Swagger just manages to get his foot on the bottom rope. The champion punishes Mysterio with headlocks and body scissors, but Mysterio escapes from the clutches of the gut-wrench powerbomb, proceeding to hit two more 619s (one to Swagger's midsection) for the well-earned victory.
Winner via pinfall: Rey Mysterio, Jr.
Swagger wastes little time in attacking Mysterio after the bell, and then both find themselves chokeslammed by Kane, who has apparently given up on his Sherlock Holmes-ian investigative techniques and is going to play "bad cop" tonight.
Match #2 – Layla (C) (w/ Michelle McCool and Kaval) vs. Tiffany (w/ Kelly Kelly) – non-title match
Laycool emerge with their rookie from Season 2 of NXT: Kaval. McCool's parents are in the crowd, and don't seem to mind that their daughter is displaying a most rude behaviour towards the Tampa crowd. Tiffany lands some hard punches and clotheslines, but the Women's Champion hits her Lay-Out neckbreaker for the win. If they could be given more time, these two showed some promise for a good match.
Winner via pinfall: Layla
Match #3 – Christian vs. Dolph Ziggler (w/ Vickie Guerrero)
Ziggler is headed down the path that worked so well for Edge, and not so well for Big Show – befriending Vickie Guerrero to advance his career. Ziggler does have complete control of the match early on, but Christian fights back by really launching Ziggler to the outside with a catapult, then with a lot of slaps and a missile dropkick. Ziggler ducks out of the Killswitch, though, turning it into a sleeper hold, which Christian then escapes before obtaining a victory via sunset flip!
Winner via pinfall: Christian
After the bell, Hawkins and Archer make quick work of Christian to make their impact, leaving Christian open to further attack by Ziggler.
Backstage, Kane continues to mourn his undead brother, speaking to nobody in particular about how he always showed him the path to success. Back in the ring, Drew McIntyre is headed to the ring and looking really, really mad. He calls for Teddy Long to show him the latest happenings between himself and Matt Hardy. McIntyre is poised to drop a bombshell on Long when Kofi Kingston interrupts and begs him to shut up before taking it to the Scotsman.
After the break, McIntyre arrives in Long's office to drop the bombshell – next week, McIntyre gets a match with Long, as per Vince McMahon. My question is: why didn't McIntyre hold the meeting in Long's office in the first place? Does he just like using the big-screen TV to show the replays?
Match #4 – Big Show vs. CM Punk (w/ Luke Gallows and Serena)
Punk is running around his behemoth opponent, flinching as Big Show threatens his big right hand. Punk lands some kicks, but as he ascends the ropes to capitalize, Big Show begs him to do it. Punk clambers down and heads outside for some advice from the Straight Edge Society. After the break, Punk is brought back into the ring with a patented Big Show chop (where at least Punk has the good fortune of having grown some extra padding on his chest). Punk is caught by the throat as Big Show thinks chokeslam, but changes his mind and goes for Punk's mask. This is too much for the SES, as Gallows and the masked mystery man attack Big Show from behind. The SES bring Big Show down, but Kane arrives to brandish more chokeslams of his own on everyone except Punk and Serena, who escape up the ramp.
Winner via disqualification: Big Show
Considering the changes of plans with The Undertaker's removal from action, the story heading into the Fatal 4-Way is sensible and unpredictable, two of the best qualities of wrestling storytelling. Perhaps Punk being the only one not to be chokeslammed is the hint that he will walk away with the title next weekend.
Dave Hillhouse is a screenwriter and teacher, and wonders if Smackdown will ever be important enough for the NXT Rookies to invade.

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I'm wrapping up some last minute gift show prep before I head to New York on Friday morning, and it feels like I've still got a million lose ends.
Its no secret I love promotional materials, so I made these little hang tags for the new home collection. They are actually business card size, cut in half on my paper cutter and then rounded with my corner punch. I purposely kept them simple - just my name, web address, and a space for my retailers to put price info.


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Finding the Chamber of Commerce in Milton, Wisconsin shouldn't be difficult. We've created a list of all Milton, WI Chambers of Commerce.
A local chamber of commerce can be a great networking vehicle for any business owner. You get out of it what you put into it. But, if you do it right, it will pay off. From what we've heard, most chambers around the country feel obligated to see their member firms do well and you can enjoy the double benefit of helping both your business and the community prosper.
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Through the last gasp of the Mike Holmgren era, through the blip of Jim Mora's truncated tenure, and finally all the way through the Pete Carroll Golden Age, only one roster constant remains: Jon Ryan.
On Sunday at New England, Ryan punted in his 136th consecutive game, establishing a franchise record of consecutive starts by surpassing the mark of indestructible guard Chris Gray.
"What Chris Gray did was much more impressive than what I've done," Ryan said Wednesday. "For an O-lineman to play 135 consecutive games in unbelievable. At the same time, I'm still pretty proud of this."
He should be. You not only have to be tough, but really good to stay in the NFL for 11 seasons, the past nine in Seattle. Ryan's net average of 39.8 yards in the first nine games this season is second only to his franchise record of 40.8 in 2012.
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Ryan turns 35 on Nov. 26 and is the third-eldest punter in the NFL.
A punter-without-borders, the Regina, Saskatchewan, native turned pro in 2004 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers before emigrating to the NFL and Green Bay in 2006-07 and joining the Seahawks in 2008.
It gives him a unique perspective on the trajectory of the Seahawks, as they struggled to get nine wins in 32 games his first two seasons. Struggling offenses would seem like good job security for an iron-footed punter.
And as the Seahawks scratched out back-to-back 7-9 seasons in Carroll's first two years, Ryan watched a dizzying parade of players hired and fired. It was a little frightening, and he admits he was unconvinced and suspicious of the constant personnel churn.
"It feels like a long time ago that we had four wins in '08 and five in '09," he said. "And in those first two years with Pete and John (Schneider, GM), it was hard to see what they were doing. They made a couple hundred transactions, and as a player, I was wondering if they knew what they were doing. I didn't say it, but I couldn't see how they were going to build anything when there was a revolving door out front."
But in 2012, it started coming into focus.
What seemed like cut-throat management, he realized, was the recognition that if they could find somebody who could serve as even a small upgrade at any position, they'd make the move.
"In my opinion, that's what built the competitive atmosphere we've got around here now, and is the key to our success," Ryan said. "It's nonstop competition … there's nothing like it."
Ryan is built like a linebacker these days, having decided that as one of the shorter punters in the league (6-0), he needed to counteract the advantage of the longer-levered punters by gaining strength.
"I always make the joke that Jon punts in the NFL so he can work out in the weight room," Seahawks placekicker Steven Hauschka said. "He's really a physical freak, an incredible athlete who is fast and strong and durable. He's easily one of the hardest workers on the team, if not the hardest worker."
Ryan's athleticism has shown several times with jarring tackles on returners who have tested him, and in the NFC title game against Green Bay after the 2014 season, when he threw a touchdown pass on a fake punt.
Ryan's public profile got a boost when he started dating comedian Sarah Colonna around the time the Seahawks were on their way to winning Super Bowl 48.
"She was a huge baseball fan, but not football," Ryan said of Colonna. "The first time she watched me play was in the Super Bowl, and at one point she said to her friends that the coaches must not like me because he hasn't even been on the field."
Her friends shouted her down that it was because they were winning by 35 points and they hadn't needed to punt.
Ryan is one of the quick-witted Seahawks during interviews, so it was fair to wonder what home life was like in the Ryan-Colonna household. Night at the Improv?
"Actually no, probably not more than a regular couple — it's not like a clown show," he said. "The thing is, she's always so supportive, my No. 1 fan, and in turn I'm her No. 1 fan. We understand each other. Sometimes games don't go the way you'd like them to go and sometimes (comedy) shows don't go the way you'd like. It's nice to know the other person is always there."
Ryan said Colonna incorporates their relationship experiences into her act for comedic effect, but Ryan has left little room for her to roast his performance.
"To be honest, I feel stronger at 35 than I did at 25, and I'm hitting the ball better than I ever have," he said. "If it was up to me, I'd play into my 50s. I know I'm having more fun playing football than I ever have, so I can't imagine not playing."
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Weekend Family Trip to Nam Sang Wai, Hong Kong
Dunno where to go on weekends in Hong Kong? Bored of the city? Try going to Nam Sang Wai. It is the place where so many beautiful photographs of Hong Kong countryside have been taken... and we pretty much failed to take any. EPIC FAIL.
But, we had a fun time anyway... so here goes..
First stop, 敬輝農場(King Fai farm)
There are fruits and veggies to buy...
The place is so out-of-this-world cute.
Homemade chilli sauce for food shopaholics. We didn't buy any... my "luggage" was already so heavy with camera & baby M's stuff.
Yummiest, sweetest, most perfectly cooked sweet potato I've ever had!
And soft beancurd pudding. We love!
Lots of fun stuff to explore too!
You can go fish-feeding...
Check out fluffy cute bunnies...
...and the most impressive of all, our most memorable moment of the day...
...was an encounter with this cutie pie. Baby M was sooo happy to meet him.
The back of the farm is this huge pond. I bet it's beautiful during lotus season, but at this moment it could use a bit of cleaning...
We walked a bit more to explore the place, but it's hard carrying a naughty toddlers with lots of cars and bikes passing by. Next time, we'd take a taxi to the biggest attraction and call a taxi back ^_^ (lazy family).
Another highlight of the day...
I got a shot of this gorgeous fly (two words I'd never thought I'd use together).
How to go:
Take the West Rail MTR to Yuen Long Station & take a taxi to Nam Sang Wai.
For more details, alternative transport, other points of attraction, and examples of beautiful pictures others have taken there, click here.
The site is in Chinese, but google translate helps.
Now... Monday blues T_T
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Wow those are some great pictures!
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I love your photo of the fly!
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Well, Summer is definitely over! I'm totally OK with that, because I LOVE cozy sweaters, dark and rich colors, scarves, scarves, scarves, tall boots, Alpaca, Wool, knits.. the list goes on and on!
While some are still holding on to those last warm moments of the turning season, it's time to re-evaluate your wardrobe and fill it with some of the most wonderful colors of the season! This year, the IT colors are teal, orange, wine, navy, brown, and BLACK! I know not everyone loves to wear black, but pairing it with some of these fabulous colors above make an outfit look so sophisticated and rich. Forget about the old rules that brown and black and navy and black don't go together- if you follow Bill Cunningham you know that this season in fashion, ANYTHING GOES! Do what you want, dress how you feel, and remember, personal styles shine!
Here are some outfit ideas that tie in both the colors of the season and some of the best pieces here at the Haze!
Pairing Navy with a lighter color makes it POP!
Pair this tunic with black, brown, or bright colors- anything will go!
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Cyprus Central Bank: Finance minister has ordered all banks to remain closed until Thursday
Bank of Cyprus to cut up to 40% off deposits over €100,000
Depositors in the Bank of Cyprus, the biggest bank on the island, will reportedly lose from 30 to 40 per cent on their holdings above 100,000 euro as result of a bailout agreement which Cyprus and the troika of international backers signed on Monday.
EU finance ministers approve Cyprus bailout deal, funded by bank assets seizure:
Central bank heist is like old-school train robbery
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Covering the Winter 2013 Economic Forecast21 February - 22 February 2013, Brussels (Economic and Financial Policy 2013)
The European Commission publishes short-term macroeconomic forecasts twice a year, in the spring and autumn. The forecasts, produced by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), concentrate on the Member States, the euro area and the EU, but also include outlooks for candidate countries as well as some non-EU countries.
According to the Commission's autumn forecast released in November 2012, the consequences of the financial crisis continued to weigh on the short-term economic outlook for the EU and the euro area in 2012. The outlook for the EU economy remained fragile, but a gradual return to GDP growth was projected for 2013, with further strengthening in 2014.
In the context of this difficult process of macroeconomic rebalancing and a gradual improvement in Europe's growth outlook, the European Journalism Centre in co-operation with the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, is tailoring a media seminar for a specialised group of 18 journalists from the EU27 covering economic and financial issues.
The event will feature panel discussions as well as on and off the record talks with senior members of
the EU institutions (including the EU Commission and the EU Parliament) as well as experts from the NGO, think tank and academic communities in Brussels. Participating journalists will have the exclusive opportunity to attend the winter 2013 European Economic Forecast press conference by Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro.
The discussions will be lively, informal and should significantly help those attending to get the inside track on where the EU economy and currency is and what future predictions are being made about it.
The seminar will be held from 21-22 February 2013 in Brussels. The organisers will cover travel, accommodation and some meals. For more information, please contact Malou Oldenhof at [email protected]
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Bridget Catchpole is a jewellery artist who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Bridget upcycles non-recyclable and found plastics to use as a raw material in her one-of-a-kind pieces.
Currently, her work looks at patterns of plastic waste and how it has become ubiquitous presence in the natural environment.
She has received a Jewellery Art and Design Diploma from Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She has a BFA in Studio Art at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec.
Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of Canada Council and British Columbia Arts Council grant awards.


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L.E.J, short for Lucie, Élisa and Juliette, sometimes Elijay, are three young French students and vocalists who condensed numerous top songs from the summer of 2015 into a mashup performance. Their music is based on classical and world music, described by MTV reviewer Joseph Lamour as "eclectic". Their song mashup Summer 2015 had millions of plays on YouTube as of August 2015. According to Seventeen magazine, the three vocalists were best friends from childhood, and have been performing together since 2012. Reviewer Hannah Orenstein described their sound as "pared-down but strong." Juliette plays the cello.
All three women were born in 1993: Lebrun on November 21, Paris on August 26, and Saumagne on September 3. They were childhood friends from Saint Denis. Juliette studied cello at the Conservatoire de Saint-Denis. In 2013, they competed in the Tyro competition, performing for a large audience, and won; at that point, according to one source, the group did not yet have a name. To a large extent, the group connected with listeners through social networks. Elisa said in an interview that the women would not have worn their pajamas when recording Summer 2015 if they had known that the video would have gone viral. There are plans to record an album in 2016, in French, written by the three of them, and the women feel tremendous pressure to not disappoint anybody; Elisa said that recording this album would be the group's greatest challenge.
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Driving Desired Futures addresses the question how do individuals in established social systems achieve credibility for new ideas? What are the criteria that render the comprehension of new ideas more likely within a group of people with diverse sets of beliefs?
Today, in a world that is increasingly driven by faster cycles of change, the need to radically remake-as opposed to just modify or optimize-a business to ongoing environmental changes is greater than ever. Confronted with such disruptive situations, the managerial practice of trying to "fix" something established that is suddenly broken becomes misleading if not unfeasible.
In the '90s, it became abundantly clear that globalization was triggering substantial changes in the field of architecture. Considering architecture in the context of the massive changes currently taking place reveals that we architects cannot participate in this process because our profession is more reactionary and conservative than the rest of the world might suspect.
Populist tendencies in architecture are nothing new. Nevertheless, in the century just ended, two decisive factors enabled populism to assume far greater dimensions: on one hand, the market economy and the accompanying structural transformation or de-politicization of society—i.e.
Contemporary design and production processes make it obvious that achievements in the field of digital technology have indeed had an impact on the practice of architecture.
In this book Michael Shamiyeh, Thomas Duschlbauer, and Christiane Zaunerexplain, why it is not merely about municipal marketing or recruiting tactics. It is about recognising the meaning and the power of human capital for economic growth. On all levels, companies and regions must remain oriented on the values, qualities and preferences of excellent people.


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Alex Sanchez, who is being held at the federal immigration detention facility in San Pedro, said his Jan. 21 arrest by Rampart Officer Jesus Amezcua came after months of threats and harassment against him and other activists in Homies Unidos, a group working to end gang violence.
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Two questions on free banking
1. Would it be feasible or desirable to have a central bank with central bank money in a free banking system? I don't really worry about the "wildcat" stuff - what I worry about with free banking is really that credit could contract across the banking sector. I've read some of Kevin Dowd's responses to Goodhart on that, and either he's not making a convincing argument against that concern, or I'm not understanding his argument (or, of course, both). But could you just address this by having a central bank that issues federal reserve notes the way we have now, with banknotes fluctuating against that (much like Keynes's proposed bancor)? I don't see how this would threaten the virtues of competing monies, and it would seem like it would address the concerns about sufficient elasticity.
2. This is more of a question than a suggestion: how does foreign exchange work in a free banking system? Are foreigners expected to keep up with all the competing monies? I can't imagine free banknotes really circulated as foreign exchange before (although perhaps they did). I imagine it was gold, right? If my suspicions of how free banking might hamper international trade are correct, that might be another reason to issue federal reserve notes alongside banknotes. Foreigners would be much more likely to take federal reserve notes, and internally banknotes would trade against federal reserve notes at varying rates. Does that sound right?
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By "Goodhart", are you referring to Charles Goodhart? And perhaps you ought to talk to David Glasner, as he has written a book on Free Banking before.ReplyDelete
Ad. 1. Selgin believes that free banking system would achieve monetary equlibrium because a rise (fall) in the demand for money would be lead to rise (fall) in the supply of money. Selgin, Horwitz, Garrison and other "non-internet austrians" believe that free banking system can achieve this because of the law of excess reserves. The assumption is of course that the only kind of money circulating in the economy are banknotes issued by the banks. When monetary base consists of gold coins this assumption is acceptable (because gold is heavier and bulkier, people prefer to hold paper banknotes that might even earn interest). On the other hand, when base money consists of paper notes issued by the Fed, one of the reasons to hold private banknotes disappears. So there is a risk that when demand for monetary base would rise banks would be unable to increase the money supply to avoid the fall in AD. I guess that central bank could try to offset such changes in demand via policy of NGDP targeting (yes I'm market monetarist), Selgin's proposal however is a little bit different. For him a central bank should make its notes big and bulky in order to discourage people from holding them. This way people would use only inside money (private banknotes) in their transactions, which according to the free banking theory is enough to keep AD stable (or on a stable path). Selgin first presented this idea in his book "The Theory of the Free Banking..." in one of the last chapters.ReplyDelete
Ad 2. In the free banking system (by definition) there are no restrictions in banking/money production business. Foreigners could than hold either monetary base (let's say those large, bulky Fed notes) or notes issued by the banking system. It is highly probable that due to the high information costs, foreigners would not like to hold notes issued by private less known banks. I believe that they would probably choose to demand notes issued by well known banks (Citi, JP Morgan etc.) or keep monetary base. I don't see how this would affect international trade.
BTW, Daniel you've mentioned Keynes' Bankor proposal. I am embarrassed to admit I don't know a lot about this. Could you suggest a good article explaining his proposal? Also, you've mentioned Goodhart criticism and Dowd's response. Could you specify what articles are you talking about? I would be grateful for any information.Replies
- Wonks AnonymousAugust 1, 2012 at 4:23 PM
I just refer to people as "internet Austrians" if they aren't actually economists. So Rothbard, Block, Murphy etc are all Austrians off the internet as well. Major Freedom & Bob Roddis are another story.Delete
I'm referring to Goodhart's The Evolution of Central Banks, and Dowd's review of it... I thought it was in something like the Cato Journal, but the only thing I can find is this: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1990.tb00575.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+on+4+August+from+10%3A00-12%3A00+BST+%2805%3A00-07%3A00+EDT%29+for+essential+maintenanceDelete
At the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. If this is not what I read, I'm sure he makes similar arguments.
I don't have a single good source for you. I want to say I got most familiar with it in something Moggridge or Howson wrote on the continuity in his monetary thought. I was reading a bunch of their stuff for my 1920-21 paper. But it may not be in there. Zhou Xiaochuan's suggestion for SDRs (here: http://www.bis.org/review/r090402c.pdf) is the modern version of the proposal.
I think Jonathan Catalan was posting on one of Joe Stiglitz's books and mentioned that it was discussed there. You might want to do a search at his blog.
BTW, Daniel please think about changing the theme of your blog (I mean graphic design etc, not content). The current one is not very easy to read (especially the comment section).ReplyDelete
Michal Gamrot describes Selgin's views on central banking well. Some FRFBers have agreed to central banking if the central bank simply keeps the quantity of money constant. If a central bank intervenes, well that means you don't have free-banking. The excess-reserves theory can't be expected to work and MV won't be stabilised. At least not unless the central bank acts like a commercial bank.ReplyDelete
Credit contracting across the banking system could be caused because many banks are bankrupt or close to it. In that case I think a quick few bankruptcies is preferable to years of bailouts and a non-functional system for a long period of time. I agree that the quantity of money can be threatened from the asset side. I'm not sure how important that is in practice though. In practice most bank liabilities are akin to bonds or savings accounts, the rest are money-like. The quantity of money-like liabilities can rise even if the total falls because of bad assets (this happened in the UK during the recession).
On the second point it's important to start by saying that the idea of free-banking is that FRFB currencies do *not* float against the base currency; they have the same value. In practice it's rare that private currencies are discounted, generally they are exchanged at face or there is bank run on the issuer. In America private currencies were sometimes discounted for strange reasons to do with bank location and bank regulations that will probably never be repeated.
If one country adopts free banking then citizens of other countries are likely to sometimes demand base money. But, banks can arrange to supply that just as they did in the gold standard era. They won't necessarily always demand base money (as Michal mentions) if they believe the bank to be sound. I don't think it would be that different to the current situation.Replies
I also got the impression that Daniel thought the value of private banknotes floats against the unit of account in which they are denominated. But this is clearly wrong, since arbitrage would lead to "fixed" exchange rate between banknotes and monetary base.Delete
I know they exchange at the same value, but there's not a lot of variation in willingness to hold the money? I was under the impression that there was, and that for that reason a lot of notes didn't trade across state lines as often, etc. - and that made me curious about the implications for international trade. If they are really all viewed about the same it obviously isn't going to be much of an issue internationally either.Delete
re: "If one country adopts free banking then citizens of other countries are likely to sometimes demand base money. But, banks can arrange to supply that just as they did in the gold standard era."
Right - that was more what I was thinking of. Is it reasonable to worry that this might hamper globalization.
"I know they exchange at the same value, but there's not a lot of variation in willingness to hold the money? I was under the impression that there was, and that for that reason a lot of notes didn't trade across state lines as often, etc"Delete
In some US states branch banking was banned, in other places inter-state banking was severely restricted. In some states banks had to invest a certain amount of capital in the state's bonds. This meant that banking and banknotes tended to be more local. The willingness to hold certain banknotes was local because the banks were. Also, for the same reason, in the US there were discounts on banknotes because the creditworthiness of remote banks could not be well known, and it was difficult to tell fake notes from real ones. In Scotland where there were no limits on branch banking the banks that issued significant amounts of notes were generally national.
I don't think there's any reason to think that banknotes would turn out much different to how bank accounts are now. Generally a bank transfer can be made between any bank account and any other. Though in some places where a specific bank doesn't operate it may not be much use having an account at it.
Notes may end up being more regional than bank accounts, but these days who cares about that? As a data point on this, as you may know Scotland and Northern Ireland have private banknotes even though they don't have free banking. In Scotland all types of Scottish banknotes are generally accepted everywhere. Similarly, in Northern Ireland all types of Northern Irish banknotes are generally accepted everywhere. But, Scottish banknotes are only sometimes accepted in Northern Ireland and only sometimes accepted in England.
"Right - that was more what I was thinking of. Is it reasonable to worry that this might hamper globalization."
How is it any different to the current situation? If I transfer pounds to you what do you think happens, our banks won't just accept bank balances, they will redeem base money or perhaps exchange assets.
The "globalization" situation could be helped significantly by free banking if many countries pick the same monetary base - e.g. gold. If that were to happen then there would be a fixed exchange rate between those countries, assuming there were no legal tricks.
- Brendan L.August 1, 2012 at 7:27 PM
In both cases, the question is about trade offs with no obvious answer prima facie. So, in the first case, are the moral hazard caused by central banking and the reduced incentive to be a "conservative" bank, i.e. one who resists boom-profits to reap bust-profits, worth a certain guaranteed expansion of credit and elasticity of note issue? History can offer only limited guide due to the lack of ideal cases. Free banking has generally been quite rare and limited, and central banking has also been restricted by politics, since they were always political creatures. Goodhart's claim that central banks evolved naturally really means that he thinks that what makes central banking a good idea is implied in the flaws in a free banking system. It doesn't mean natural in the same sense as the "system of natural liberty." Note that the Bank of England, for example, resisted acknowledging its responsibility as the lender of last resort despite its privileged position, claiming that it should only behave like a typical commercial bank, for decades until Bagehot set things straight.ReplyDelete
Similarly, in the second case, are the benefits of only having to deal with one source of note issue worth the cost of no or privileged competition? Hard to say. (although I would also expect foreigners to generally prefer the central bank's notes)
This is coming from someone who's been working on a book about such topics. Why economists find central banking desirable (and why a minority still don't) is maybe the first question I had about economics that wasn't immediately answerable. Since quite a few learned men didn't seem to know the answer, I thought it might be a fruitful subject to pursue. And indeed it is a subject ripe for further exploration, as I will argue (after I've established my market niche, of course). Hopefully it'll be my first work to be published--so I'm not exactly Mr. Authority here, but you could consider me an apprentice nearing his journeyman stage.Replies
Very interesting - I'd love to hear more about the project as it progresses.Delete
How far along are you? I'd also be interested in hearing what your first foray into writing a book is like. It's something I'd like to do some day, but the very idea seems daunting.
- Brendan L.August 1, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Still working on the outline, but if things go according to schedule I should be done with the outline at about the end of August, give or take (probably give) a week or so. Maybe two weeks.Delete
Writing a book is very interesting, and yes, it's quite daunting. Projecting from current trends, my outline should be about 500 pages by the time it's finished--and that's just the gathering of relevant materials, before my own input is even added. Right now keeping everything organized is proving to be quite the headache. Furthermore, I only seem to find more things to read. I never learn anything that means I have to read one LESS book. So that's ~500 pages with current materials. I already am planning to read at least two more books, and maybe one to two dozen more articles, depending on how long my sanity lasts. So...maybe three weeks.
Add that to my regular job as an aeronautical engineer in the army. Well, I'm training to become one, but that doesn't make it easier. Fortunately they take my tendency to zone out as a sign of some great hidden intelligence which thus far has managed to evade all tests. They'll be in for quite a surprise when I...build a plane, or whatever the final test is, and it promptly explodes about two seconds after takeoff. Wait, I'm in the army, I'll probably get arrested for typing that. Or you will, for having the comment on your blog.
Four weeks. Eh, call it six to eight weeks and shipping and handling are free.
- Rob RawlingsAugust 2, 2012 at 10:27 AM
I think a potential answer to point #1 is contained in Hayek's "Denationalization of Money". Currency issuers would explicitly commit to keep the value of their currency stable and this would provide an incentive for people to hold that currency. Hayek suggests this could be done by "targeting" a bundle of commodities (currency issues could compete to provide the bundle most attractive to the users and could vary the bundle over time to keep it relevant.) So if (as Daniel fears) there was a tendency to reduce lending in a period of falling demand for money then currency issuers would address this by printing more money to buy assets and thus stabilize its value. If all currency issuers did the same then this would in effect operate as an AD stabilizer in the economy.ReplyDelete
Hayek's model appears to be different from Selgin's. It is not based upon a commodity such as gold but on whatever the issuers chose to measure its value against - and different currencies would choose different things.
In answer to Daniel's second point: Foreign exchange would likely be a meaningless concept under free banking and competing currency since it would be up to individuals what currency to accept with no "official" curency in a give region. Under Hayek's vision of competing currencies there would need to be currency exchanges to establish the relative values of the different currencies in circulation.


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I'm back from my Taiwan trip and in this Health & Beauty + Review blog, I'm gonna be sharing with you more on the stuff l've enjoyed staying, eating, experiencing and sighting in the different counties/towns/districts of Taiwan that I've been.
As for details & how-to of my trip's itinerary, transport arrangment, please check out my other blogs for more information:
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2) 芳.夏爾颸的無名小站(中文)
This series of blog posts shall be categorized according to the places that I've visited, the food + drinks + accommodations + sights & scenaries in the area. As there's a lot of things to be covered, if there's anything unclear and not found in the other blog posts, just leave your questions in the comments section below and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.
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::Great Stay | 好住好睡::
Champagne Hotel
We were here for the first night's stay. Not the closest to JiaoXi Station, but within 10-15mins walk depending on your speed of walking. Staff are friendly, extremely helpful and provides you with loads of tourists pamphlets, maps, shuttle bus schedules. It is within walking distance to the very happening streets for food, shopping etc etc
Big hotel with 9 storeys & 45 rooms. Check in timing @3PM but allows u to drop your baggages first. To our surprised, we were given complimentary upgrade and gotten the higher tier of the room types booked. Cost per pax per night after averaging: SGD35.00 (booked via Agoda.com)
Very well maintained & clean rooms, bathroom, bedsheets and all amenities are provided. Breakfast were sandwiched + soy milk + 1 stalk of banana which is super filling, not to forget that they send it to the room base on the time u of your choice.
A MUST TRY facility of this hotel is its HotSpring pools! Perhaps there are little guests due to neighboring fierce n newer competitors, we find ourselves hogging the while hotspring pools! Lots of fun sprays, jacuzzi nooses to ensure every single part of your body receives the splash of hotspring water! If you stay there n missed this, its really a pity.
Only concern for my readers is that the bed is really hard. Spring +cushion mattress but amazingly felt like plank. Great for those with back / neck problem (like me) but not for those who love the soft, bouncy n cushy beds which most other hotels offer.
::Eat & Drink | 吃吃喝喝::
7-eleven Guan Dong Zhu aka local's version of Yong Tau Hu - environmentally friendly carrier
Famous Local Meat Stew Shop:
Garlic Meat Stew
Dinner along the busy streets in Jiao Xi, forgot the name of the street.. =.=
Street side seafood tze cha
Bao Xin Fen Yuan (Chewy Tapioca Balls with fillings dessert)
Peanut & Ice Cream (using famous Yam Ice cream) Roll
From a nice local bakery:
Moon cake
Yi Lan Bing aka Niu She Bing
Cong Rou Bing
::Sight & See | 东看西看::
Wu Feng Qi Waterfalls
St Mary Catholic Church
::Play & Fun | 就"酱"玩::
Hotspring in Jiao Xi Area. For us, we enjoyed the one in Champagne Hotel!
Sadly we weren't able to shoot the photos.. so here are some from their website:
Alot of different type of mechanism to sprout, shoot, spray, bubble up the spring water on you.
Must try if you were to visit this hotel or any other Hotspring hotel/stay in Jiaoxi.
All hotspring pools are inidicated with the temperature so that you are mentally prepared for what is to be expected.
For this pool, it is opened to all guests, hence you'll be required to wear your swimsuits, shower/wash your feet before entering.
This is only the first day and we had lots of physical exercise, most of us suffered some form of muscle ache at the end of the day, hence the spring waters were really helping us to ease away the aches for a good night rest. Not just exercise, this was the start of our NON-STOP-EATING journey throughout the trip..
At some point we actually wondered.. "Is there a moment at all where we were even feeling the slightest bit of hunger?"
More photos could be found here.


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text: Jordan is a young artist from the state of Texas. Jordan Galbreth started making music at the age of 10. His cousin was making music in Jordan room and Jordan ask his cousin can he make some songs as a joke; and his cousin said sure! So, Jordan got in the home studio and recorded his first mixtape and fell in love with music ever since. He begin to start directing video's, making beats by his producer name Rhyme King and setting up his own home studio with the top notch software he could find. Jordan has the love and passion for music like a relationship. He makes songs off of true feelings, life stories and inspiration. He can make a pop record, hip hop record and turn around and make a r&b record. Jordan has a very unique multiple versatility styles and writes all his music by himself. He also in a group called Retro Age and CEO of Unstopable Inc Recordings.


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Kuwait plans to spend $500bn on big oil projects
KUWAIT, February 1, 2018
Opec member Kuwait plans to spend more than half a trillion dollars by 2040 to boost its oil and gas output and refining capacity, said a report.
The announcement comes despite Kuwait projecting a budget deficit in the next fiscal year for the fourth year in a row due to low global oil prices, reported Kuwait Times.
State oil giant Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) plans to carry out a number of major projects to boost oil production to 4.75 million barrels per day by 2040, stated the report citing its top executive.
"To achieve these targets, KPC plans to spend $114 billion in capital expenditure over the next five years and an additional $394 billion beyond that to 2040," stated CEO Nizar Al Adsani.
Adsani was addressing the gathering at the Energy Strategy Forum held recently in Kuwait City.
"We also plan to raise free natural gas production to 2.5 billion cu ft a day by 2040 from just 200 million cu ft a day currently. Free gas production will reach half a billion cubic feet in April and one billion cubic feet in 2023," he stated.
Kuwait currently has a crude production capacity of around 3.1 million bpd, excluding some 250,000 bpd from the neutral zone with Saudi Arabia which has remained shut since October 2014, said the Kuwait Times report.
It plans to raise its output capacity to four million bpd by 2020, the report added.


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I have had so many half-done crafts and half-written posts to put here this week, but, birthdays come first! So instead of showing you my t-shirt embellishing projects, the glitter shoes, the beaded necklace I made, a top for me I am working on, and all the other goodies in pause-mode right now. I will show you what I HAVE been doing this week:
Paper Bunting:
I just sewed paper triangles to a ribbon using a zig zag stitch.
And Paper Garland:
I broke down and bought a circle punch (I don't have a fancy paper cutter- just my scissors!). Then I stacked two circles so it would be pretty on both sides and sewed together with a straight stitch.
And cupcakes for school:
Just regular box mixes and my homemade buttercream frosting.
Lots of it!
And yes, this is my attempt at the Rose Cake...except when you realize at ten o'clock the night before that you don't actually have Wilton tip #1M!!!!
In that case you do the next best thing...improvise with tip #30.
It is more like a swirly carnation cake!
However, I told myself that if she didn't think they looked like "roses" then I would redo it in the morning. That is, if trying to convince her
bribe her didn't work first.
What's up with the resolution of these pics anyway? I don't have time to fix 'em now...they aren't too bad, I hope.
Off to the school in about an hour. I am clearing off the video camera as we speak. I am still in PJs. Pizza and swirly carnation cake and chocolate ice cream tonight!
Happy 5th Birthday to our "Stella-Bella"!!(That's not really her middle name. Please don't think I give my kids rhyming names. )


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CHICAGO (AP) White Sox ace Chris Sale is on a historic roll, but that's not the scary news for opponents.
Sale and manager Robin Ventura believe they haven't seen the best of the lefty sidewinder just yet.
Sale went the distance on a masterful four-hitter Thursday night, becoming the first major leaguer since 2008 to win his first nine starts, and the Chicago White Sox edged the Houston Astros 2-1 to snap their season-high four game losing streak.
Sale joined the New York Giants' Sal Maglie (1952) as the only pitchers to win their first nine starts with sub-2.00 ERAs in major league history. His 1.58 ERA ranks second to teammate Jose Quintana (1.54) in the American League.
''I just see him continuing to get better as the season goes along, as he goes through his career,'' Ventura said. ''He's confident. He's doing a lot of different things that he hasn't done in the past as far as just adding a little bit (to his pitches), taking a little off in the heat of the moment.''
Sale walked none and struck out a season-high nine en route to his second straight complete game. No other pitcher has more than seven victories in the big leagues this season.
''Just keep doing more of the same,'' Sale said of the next step. ''You got to stay on it, what you've done, where you've been, just try to better yourself. Any athlete that respects the game will tell you that.''
The Arizona Diamondbacks' Brandon Webb had been the last to post a 9-0 record in his first nine starts. The last White Sox to accomplish the feat was Eddie Cicotte in 1919, when he won 12 in a row.
''9-0 is cool,'' Sale said. ''I enjoy it. I enjoy snapping the skid we were in even moreso than that.''
Houston broke the shutout bid in the eighth, when Evan Gattis clubbed Sale's first pitch for a home run.
Sale retired the first five batters, allowed a single to Gattis in the second inning then mowed down the next 12 before Jose Altuve singled in the sixth.
Sale finished his 107-pitch masterpiece with a flourish. He caught Tyler White looking for the 1,073rd strikeout of his career, which moved him into a tie with Ted Lyons for eighth in franchise history.
''Sale came as advertised,'' Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. ''Probably as good of stuff as we've seen all season. We just couldn't scratch anything across early.''
Jerry Sands' two-out single off Collin McHugh (4-4) staked Chicago to a 1-0 lead in the second. The hit scored Todd Frazier, who had opened with a single and stole second base.
Alex Avila hit a sacrifice fly for the second run in the seventh.
McHugh allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings to take the loss, his first after three straight wins. He walked one and struck out a season-high eight.
Chicago threatened to break on top in the first, but George Springer leaped high to snare Jose Abreu's drive before it cleared the fence.
Ventura shuffled the lineup in an attempt to snap his team out of its funk. Carlos Sanchez replaced slump-ridden 2B Brett Lawrie, who did not start for the first time this season, while Jerry Sands filled in for DH Avisail Garcia. Sanchez batted second and SS Jimmy Rollins slid down to sixth in the order.
''Every team is going to go through a stretch like this,'' Ventura said. ''How they respond, obviously, you pay close attention to it as far as personalities, how they interact, how they come to the ballpark ... All that is stuff you look at.''
Astros: OF Carlos Gomez (bruised ribcage) could resume baseball activities early next week. Manager A.J. Hinch planned to discuss a workout schedule with the veteran when the team returned home.
White Sox: RHP Nate Jones was available out of the bullpen. He left the game on Tuesday after being struck on his left foot by a line drive.
Astros: RHP Lance McCullers (0-0, 9.64) is scheduled to open a three-game series against the Texas Rangers on Friday. The start will be his second of the season after a bout with shoulder soreness.
White Sox: Quintana (5-2, 1.54) will get the start versus the Kansas City Royals in the first game of a three-game set on Friday. The left-hander has a 1-6 record in 18 career starts against the division rivals.


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Amanda Carrigan's patterns
Amanda has always loved playing with color, pattern, and fiber, and has time now to write up her patterns, being finally finished with her Biochemistry degree. She also spins and dyes yarn, and does other fiber arts. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, where the cold requires lots of handknits.


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Working life barometer measures changes in working life
Each year, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment produces a working life barometer, which describes the state of working life at Finnish workplaces. In the barometer, employees give their views of their work and the results are based on interviews in which employees are asked questions about
- organisation of work
- working hour and pay schemes
- work related learning and autonomy
- discrimination, harassment and violence at workplaces
- work ability and health and
- labour market prospects.
Preliminary data is published at the start of the year and the final report in the autumn. According to the 2017 working life barometer, employees' opportunities to participate in the development of their own workplaces have improved considerably over the past ten years or more (see the figure below).
Research-based information is needed for decision-making
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is involved in research projects producing information about how Finnish working life is developing and how it fares in international comparisons. For example, the international PIAAC survey measuring adult skills in different countries is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and the Ministry of Education and Culture. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) produces information about the state of working life in different EU countries. The Ministry is represented in Eurofound's Governing Board and in this way it can influence the foundation's research programmes.
Further information:
Maija Lyly-Yrjänäinen, maija.lyly-yrjanainen(at)tem.fi
Tiina Hanhike, tiina.hanhike(at)tem.fi
Figure. Opportunities to participate in the development of one's own workplace in 2006 – 2017 (%)


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Heidi came for a visit from Vaasa again, and our regular team went out and built a studio to take some b&w shots of Heidi and Sape. Those two are seriously two of the most gorgeous people ever! As always, we had loads of fun and I'm super pleased with the outcome. :)
Photos & edit: Milla Kouhia
Models: Heidi Järvi & Sape Koskinen
Assistant: Pasi Itäsalo