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-- Published: Monday, 22 September 2014 | Print | Disqus
-- Published: Monday, 22 September 2014 | Print | Disqus
In 1633 Galileo Galilei, then an old man, was tried and convicted by the Catholic Church of the heresy of believing that the earth revolved around the sun. He recanted and was forced into house arrest for the rest of his life, until 1642. Yet The moment he [Galileo] was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si muove, that is, still it moves, meaning the earth (Giuseppe Baretti in his book the The Italian Library, written in 1757).
Flawed from its foundation, economics as a whole has failed to improve much with time. As it both ossified into an academic establishment and mutated into mathematics, the Newtonian scheme became an illusion of determinism in a tempestuous world of human actions. Economists became preoccupied with mechanical models of markets and uninterested in the willful people who inhabit them
Some economists become obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors. Free market economists believe in the triumph of the system and want to let it alone to find its equilibrium, the stasis of optimum allocation of resources. Socialists see the failures of the system and want to impose equilibrium from above. Neither spends much time thinking about the miracles that repeatedly save us from the equilibrium of starvation and death.
George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It is Revolutionizing Our World
And to that stirring introduction let me just add a warning up front: todays letter is not exactly a waltz in the park. Longtime readers will know that every once in a while I get a large and exceptionally aggressive bee in my bonnet, and when I do its time to put your thinking cap on. And while youre at it, tighten the strap under your chin so it doesnt blow off. There, now, lets plunge on.
Launched by Larry Summers last November, a meme is burning its way through established academic economic circles: that we have entered into a period of gasp! secular stagnation. But while we can see evidence of stagnation all around the developed world, the causes are not so simple that we can blame them entirely on the free market, which is what Larry Summers and Paul Krugman would like to do: Its not economic monetary policy that is to blame, its everything else. Our theories worked perfectly. This finger-pointing by Keynesian monetary theorists is their tried and true strategy for deflecting criticism from their own economic policies.
Academic economists have added a great deal to our understanding of how the world works over the last 100 years. There have been and continue to be remarkably brilliant papers and insights from establishment economists, and they often do prove extremely useful. But as George Gilder notes above, [As economics] ossified into an academic establishment and mutated into mathematics, the Newtonian scheme became an illusion of determinism in a tempestuous world of human actions.
Ossification is an inherent tendency of the academic process. In much of academic economics today, dynamic equilibrium models and Keynesian theory are assumed a priori to be correct, and any deviation from that accepted economic dogma the 21st century equivalent of the belief by the 17th century Catholic hierarchy of the correctness of their worldview is a serious impediment to advancement within that world. Unless of course you are from Chicago. Then you get a sort of Protestant orthodoxy.
Its About Your Presuppositions
A presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or a background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. For instance, if I asked you the question, Have you stopped eating carbohydrates? The implicit assumption, the presupposition if you will, is that you were at one time eating carbohydrates.
Our lives and our conversations are full of presuppositions. Our daily lives are based upon quite fixed views of how the world really works. Often, the answers we come to are logically predictable because of the assumptions we make prior to asking the questions. If you allow me to dictate the presuppositions for a debate, then there is a good chance I will win the debate.
The presupposition in much of academic economics is that the Keynesian, and in particular the neo-Keynesian, view of economics is how the world actually works. There has been an almost total academic capture of the bureaucracy and mechanism of the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world by this neo-Keynesian theory.
What happens when one starts with the twin presuppositions that the economy can be described correctly using a multivariable dynamic equilibrium model built up on neo-Keynesian principles and research founded on those principles? You end up with the monetary policy we have today. And what Larry Summers calls secular stagnation.
First, lets acknowledge what we do know. The US economy is not growing as fast as anyone thinks it should be. Sluggish is a word that is used. And even our woeful economic performance is far superior to what is happening in Europe and Japan. David Beckworth (an economist and a professor, so there are some good guys here and there in that world) tackled the sluggish question in his Washington Post Wonkblog:
The question, of course, is why growth has been so sluggish. Larry Summers, for one, thinks that its part of a longer-term trend towards what he calls secular stagnation. The idea is that, absent a bubble, the economy cant generate enough spending anymore to get to full employment. Thats supposedly because the slowdowns in productivity and labor force growth have permanently lowered the natural interest rate into negative territory. But since interest rates cant go below zero and the Fed is only targeting 2 percent inflation, real rates cant go low enough to keep the economy out of a protracted slump.
Rather than acknowledge the possibility that the current monetary and government policy mix might be responsible for the protracted slump, Summers and his entire tribe cast about the world for other causes. The problem is not our theory; the problem is that the real world is not responding correctly to our theory. Therefore the real world is the problem. That is of course not exactly how Larry might put it, but its what Im hearing.
Wheres the Growth?
Its been more than five years since the global financial crisis, but developed economies arent making much progress. As of today, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom have all regained their pre-crisis peaks in real GDP, but with little else to show for it.
Where orthodox neo-Keynesian policies like large-scale deficit spending and aggressive monetary easing have been resisted as in Japan years ago or in the Eurozone debtor countries today lingering depressions are commonly interpreted as tragic signs that textbook neo-Keynesian economic policy could have prevented the pain all along and that weak economic conditions persist because governments and central banks are not doing enough to kick-start aggregate demand and stimulate credit growth at the zero lower bound.
In places like the United States and Japan, where neo-Keynesian thought leaders have already traded higher public debt levels and larger central bank balance sheets for unspectacular economic growth and the kinds of asset bubbles that always lead to greater instability in the future, their policies have failed to jump-start self-accelerating recoveries. Even in the United States, when QE3 has been fully tapered off, I would expect to see the broader economy start to lose momentum once again.
Weve tried countercyclical deficit spending to resist recessions, procyclical (and rather wasteful) deficit spending to support supposed recoveries, and accommodative monetary easing all along the way (to lower real interest rates and ease the financing of those pesky deficits); but growth has been sluggish at best, inflation has been hard to generate, and labor market slack is making it difficult to sustain inflation even when real interest rates are already negative.
Call me a heretic, but I take a different view than the economists in charge. To my mind, the sluggish recovery is a sign that central banks, governments, and, quite frankly, the textbook economists (despite their best intentions) are part of the problem. As Detlev Schlichter commented in his latest blog post (Keynes was a failure in Japan No need to embrace him in Europe), To the true Keynesian, no interest rate is ever low enough, no quantitative easing program ever ambitious enough, and no fiscal deficit ever large enough. Its apparently true even as debt limits draw closer.
While the academic elites like to think of economics as a reliable science (with the implication that they can somehow control a multi-trillion-dollar economy), I have repeatedly stressed the stronger parallel of economics to religion, in the sense that it is all too easy to get caught up in the dogma of one tradition or another. And all too often, a convenient dogma becomes a justification for those in power who want to expand their control, influence, and spending.
Whereas an Austrian or monetarist approach would suggest less government and a very light handle on the monetary policy tiller, Keynesian philosophy gives those who want greater government control of the economy ample reasons to just keep doing more.
Schlichter expands his critique of the logic of pursuing more of the same debt-driven policies and highlights some of the obvious flaws in the pervasive Keynesian thinking:
Remember that a lack of demand is, in the Keynesian religion, the original sin and the source of all economic troubles. Aggregate demand is the sum of all individual demand, and all the individuals together are not demanding enough. How can such a situation come about? Here the Keynesians are less precise. Either people save too much (the nasty savings glut), or they invest too little, maybe they misplaced their animal spirits, or they experienced a Minsky moment, and took too much risk on their balance sheets, these fools. In any case, the private sector is clearly at fault as it is not pulling its weight, which means that the public sector has to step in and, in the interest of the common good, inject its own demand, that is [to] stimulate the economy by spending other peoples money and print some additional money on top. Lack of aggregate demand is evidently some form of collective economic impotence that requires a heavy dose of government-prescribed Viagra so the private sector can get its aggregate demand up again.
Generations of mismanagement have left major economies progressively weaker, involving
But rather than recognizing real-world causes and effects, neo-Keynesian ideologues are making dangerous arguments for expanding the role of government spending in places where government is already a big part of the problem.
We are going to delve a little deeper into this thesis of secular stagnation posited last year by Larry Summers and eagerly adopted by Paul Krugman, among others; and then well take a trip around the rich world to assess the all-too-common trouble with disappointing growth, low inflation, and increasingly unresponsive labor markets. Then Ill outline a few reasons why I think the new Keynesian mantra of secular stagnation is nothing more than an excuse for more of the same failed policies.
I think well see a consistent theme: fiscal and monetary stimulus alone cannot generate financially stable growth with full employment. In fact, such policies only make matters worse. And funny things happen in the Keynesian endgame.
USA: Secular Stagnation or Public Sector Drag?
This latest theory secular stagnation argues that powerful and inherently deflationary forces like shrinking populations
and potentially slowing productivity growth (as posited by Northwestern University professor Bob Gordon)
are adding to the deleveraging headwinds that always follow debt bubbles. According to the stagnation theory, structural forces have been bearing down on the natural rate of interest and weighing on the full-employment level of economic growth since the early 1980s; but the slowdown in trend GDP growth has been masked by a series of epic bubbles in technology stocks and housing.
Even before the 2008 crisis, the argument goes, the real interest rate required to restart the business cycle had been trending lower and lower for years, and the average level of growth experienced during business cycles has fallen.
Moreover, it has taken longer and longer to recoup the jobs that were lost in each of the last three recoveries.
Its hard to argue with the data, but its really a matter of how we interpret it. While the five-year-old recovery is still the weakest business cycle in modern US history
I quite frankly still believe the effects on growth are temporary. Difficult and long-lasting, for sure (as Jonathan Tepper and I outlined in our books Endgame and Code Red), but temporary nonetheless as private-sector deleveraging continues. We have encountered a massive debt crisis and still have a long way to go in dealing with the sovereign debt bubbles that are being created in Europe and Japan with the potential of ones ballooning out of control in the US unless we turn ourselves around.
It may take a crisis, but the forces that plague rich-world economies will eventually shake out and usher in a new era of technology-driven growth. In other words, this too shall pass
but continuing with the same old policies is highly likely to create another crisis through which we all must pass first.
Yes, shrinking workforces, private-sector debt overhangs, and technological innovation are making it difficult to achieve financially stable growth with full employment (quoting Summers); but governments and central banks are themselves becoming an increasing drag on rich-world economies. Our governments have saddled us with excessive public debt, onerous overregulation, oppressive tax codes, and their attendant distorted market signals; while our central banks have engaged in currency manipulation and monetary-policy overmanagement. Those in power who rely on Keynesian policies almost always find it inconvenient to cut back in times of relative economic strength (as Keynes would have had them do). And if, according to their arguments, the economy is still too weak even in periods of growth to enable the correction of government balance sheets, then perhaps their reluctance has something to do with debt piling up, market signals being distorted, and governments being empowered to encroach on every aspect of the lives of their productive citizens .
My friend Grant Williams used this chart in a speech yesterday. It shows that we have come to need ever more debt just to produce the same amount of GDP. With a deleveraging in the private sector underway, it is no wonder that growth is under pressure.
Debt is simply future consumption brought forward. Another way to think about it is that debt is future consumption denied. But there comes a point when debt has to be repaid, and by definition, from that point forward there is going to be a period of slower growth. I have called that point the Endgame of the Debt Supercycle, and it was the subject of my book Endgame.
As a result of central bank and governmental machinations, Keynesian growth is ultimately debt-fueled growth (either through the swelling of public debt via deficit spending or the accumulation of private debt via credit expansion); and eventually, public and private balance sheets run out of room to expand anymore. It has taken decades for cracks to show up in the prevailing theory, but now the cracks are everywhere.
One place where the crack-up is especially evident is Japan, where an uber-Keynesian combination of aggressive fiscal deficits and a planned doubling in the monetary base started to lift real GDP and inflation numbers last year before falling back into a deflationary trap. Yet the Japanese experience has seemingly convinced ECB President Mario Draghi that similar policies should be implemented across the Eurozone.
Last quarter, the Japanese economy shrank by an annualized 7.1%; business investment fell by 5.1%; and residential spending was down 10%. This is after one of the most massive Keynesian quantitative easing efforts in the history of the world.
So, lets go to Japan, which may now have to retitle itself the land of the setting sun, since it is facing the steepest expected decline in population and in workforce-to-population ratio on the planet.
Land of the Setting Sun
Japans long-awaited recovery is already losing steam without the effective implementation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abes third arrow of structural reform, which to my mind was always the most critical element of his entire Abenomics project (and of course the most politically difficult). Despite massive fiscal and monetary stimulus and a desperate attempt to boost tax revenues by hiking the sales tax this past April, Japanese GDP collapsed in Q2:
Lets review how Japan got there.
Prime Minister Abe took office in late December 2012 and, together with his (initially reluctant) colleagues at the Bank of Japan, quickly fired the first two fiscal and monetary policy arrows, which aimed to propel the worlds third-largest economy out of its deflationary trap. The third arrow has yet to fly.
Source: Wall Street Journal, March 2013
Since January 2013 the Bank of Japan has expanded its balance sheet by 78% (42% on an annualized basis)
and pushed the USD/JPY exchange rate to a six-year low of a fraction under 109 yen per dollar as of the market close yesterday.
In true Keynesian form, the Japanese government ran a massive fiscal deficit in 2013, equivalent to 8.4% of GDP. This was its 22nd consecutive year of deficit spending, starting in mid-1992
despite the fact that the Japanese public-sector debt-to-GDP ratio is quickly approaching 250%:
While inflation has popped to its highest level since the early 1990s
headline CPI has been decelerating since May and could quickly revert to deflation in the event of continued economic weakness, as was the case after the 1997 tax hike
which would then bring on even more money-financed deficit spending.
Abe advisor Etsuro Honda was very clear on this point: Regardless of the next sales tax hike, it could be that additional monetary easing might be called for if inflation and demand fail to pick up and the output gap doesnt narrow
. I can fully see the possibility that such a situation will occur.
Of course, the party cannot go on forever. More than twenty years of constant deficit spending and public-sector debt growth have finally led to a situation where debt service and entitlements are crowding out the governments general budget.
And now the situation is turning dangerous. Japan has been flirting with current account deficits for the past few years, and the trend looks decidedly negative over the coming decade. That, in turn, could force the Abe administration to look for foreign investment to fund its ongoing operations, pushing interest rates up dramatically to the point that debt service and entitlements could consume more than half the annual operating budget.
Bottom line: Abenomics has delivered a bounce in economic growth and inflation, but its failing to push Japan into a self-sustaining recovery. Without a detour through structural reforms (which would be quite painful), this road leads to higher public debt balances and even more dysfunction in the medium term, leaving Japan only a shock away from disaster. As predicted here three years ago, I continue to believe that the yen will be over 200 to the dollar by the end of the decade, and possibly much sooner.
Keynesians argue that Abe had the right idea, he just didnt spend enough and will need to spend a lot more in the near future. In other words, fiscal and monetary stimulus can lift inflation and boost growth in the short term
but the problem is that you cant have that stimulus if you want to consolidate the national debt and boost tax revenues at the same time.
Some economists would argue that Abes policies dont necessarily have to add to the debt load, as long as the government has a firm commitment from the central bank to monetize the debt along the way. The fact that that would destroy the buying power of the yen doesnt seem to be a consideration for them. The elderly on fixed incomes might disagree.
So with their highly leveraged banking system and already crushing sovereign debt loads, why wouldnt the Europeans embrace the same model?
Draghis Turn at Abenomics?
Ive written extensively on the Eurozone in recent months, so I will keep this section brief.
Much of Southern Europe has been mired in depression, with hopelessly slow or negative growth rates, low inflation or outright deflation, and extremely high levels of unemployment (especially among young workers), for several years.
Its a toxic situation for a multi-country monetary system that still lacks the underpinning of banking or fiscal unions. Demonstrations in the Catalonia region of Spain, inspired by this weeks Scottish referendum, reveal the very real political risks that are only growing with voter frustration.
Perhaps it was just talk, but Mario Draghi laid out a three-point plan similar to Abes in his presentation at the recent Jackson Hole meeting of central bankers. It quickly acquired the sobriquet Draghinomics.
Draghi recently cut the ECBs already-negative interest rates and has promised a large round of quantitative easing. But the core problems facing Europe are not interest rates or a lack of liquidity but rather a structurally unwieldly labor market, too many regulations being dreamed up in Brussels, a lack of capital available to small businesses, and major regulatory headwinds for business startups.
Compound all that with the significant structural imbalances between Northern and Southern Europe, dramatically overleveraged banks, and an obvious sovereign debt bubble, and you have all the elements of a major crisis in the making.
That the Eurozone is a fragile and politically unstable union will come as no surprise to Thoughts from the Frontline readers who have been diligently perusing my letters for the past several years, but it is a critical point that we cannot ignore. How, I wonder, can Draghi even hope for a successful European implementation of a three-point plan like Japans where a leader who started with very strong approval ratings has burned through most of his political capital before structural reforms have even gotten off the ground?
Draghi simply does not have the political power to make the changes that are necessary. All he can do is prop up a failing system with liquidity and low rates, which will ultimately create even more serious problems.
The Failure of Monetary Policy
There are many economists, with Paul Krugman at their fore, who believe that Keynesian monetary policy is responsible for the United States doing better than Europe. I beg to differ. The United States is outshining Europe due to the combined fortuitous circumstances of massive new discoveries of unconventional oil and gas, new technologies, and an abundance of risk-taking entrepreneurs. Indeed, take away the oil boom and the technology boom centered in Silicon Valley, and the US would be as sclerotic as Europe is.
None of the above has anything to do with monetary policy. In fact, I would argue that current monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy is getting in the way of that growth.
Robert A. Hefner III, chairman of The GHK Companies and the author of The Grand Energy Transition: The Rise of Energy Gases, Sustainable Life and Growth, and the Next Great Economic Expansion, wrote a wonderful piece in last months Foreign Affairs, entitled The United States of Gas (hat tip, Dennis Gartman).
Consider how much can change in one year alone. In 2013, on properties in Oklahoma in which the GHK Companies hold interests covering 150 square miles, one large U.S. independent company drilled and completed over 100 horizontal wells. Had those wells been drilled vertically, they would have exposed only about 1,000 feet of shale, whereas horizontal drilling allowed nearly 100 miles to be exposed. And rather than performing the 100 injections of fracking fluid that a vertical well would have made possible, the company was able to perform between 1,000 and 2,000 of them. The companys engineers also tinkered with such variables as the type of drill bits used, the weight applied while drilling, the rotation speed of the drill, and the size and number of fracking treatments.
Thanks to that continuous experimentation, plus the savings from scale (for example, ordering tubular steel in bulk), the company managed to slash its costs by 40 percent over 18 months and still boost its productivity. The result: in 2014, six or seven rigs will be able to drill more wells and produce as much oil and gas as 12 rigs were able to the year before. Since the shale boom began, over a decade ago, companies have drilled about 150,000 horizontal wells in the United States, a monumental undertaking that has cost approximately $1 trillion. The rest of the world, however, has drilled only hundreds of horizontal wells. And because each borehole runs horizontally for about one mile (and sometimes even two miles) and is subjected to ten or more fracking injections, companies in the United States have fracked about 150,000 miles of shale about two million times. That adds up to around a thousand times as much shale exposed inside the United States as outside it.
There is a divide in the United States, and indeed in the world, between those who believe (and the emphasis is on believe) that government in all its various shapes and sizes is the font of all growth and progress and those who believe that it is individual effort and free markets that move the ball down the field of human progress. Count me in the latter group.
Government is necessary to the extent that we need to maintain a level playing field and proper conduct, but with the recognition that wherever government is involved there are costs for that service that must be paid by the private market and producers. For example, almost everyone thinks that the governments being involved in student loans is a public good. We should help young people with education, right? Except that John Burns released a report this week that shows that student loans will cost the real estate industry 414,000 home sales. Young people are so indebted they cant afford to buy new homes. Collateral damage?
The unintended consequences of government policies and manipulation of the markets are legendary. But often unseen.
Monetary policy as it is currently constructed is only marginally helping private markets and producers. Monetary policy as it is currently practiced is an outright war on savers, which sees them as collateral damage in the Keynesian pursuit of increased consumer demand.
It is trickle-down monetary policy. It has inflated the prices of stocks and other income-producing securities and assets, enriching those who already have assets, but it has done practically nothing for Main Street. It has enabled politicians to avoid making the correct decisions to create sustainable growth and a prosperous future for our children, let alone an environment in which the Boomer generation can retire comfortably.
It is a pernicious doctrine that refuses to recognize its own multiple failures because it starts with the presupposition that its theory cannot fail. It starts with the presuppositions that final consumer demand is the end-all and be-all, that increased indebtedness and leverage enabled by lower rates are good things, and that a small room full of wise individuals can successfully direct the movement of an entire economy of 300 million-plus people.
The current economic thought leaders are not unlike the bishops of the Catholic Church of 16th-century Europe. Their world was constructed according to a theory that they held to be patently true. You did not rise to a position of authority unless you accepted the truth of that theory. Therefore Galileo was wrong. They refused to look at the clear evidence that contradicted their theory, because to do so would have undermined their power.
Current monetary and fiscal policy is leading the developed world down a dark alley where we are all going to get mugged. Imbalances are clearly building up in almost every corner of the market, encouraged by a low-interest-rate regime that is explicitly trying to increase the risk-taking in the system. Our Keynesian masters know their policies and theories are correct we must only give them time to more perfectly practice them. That the results theyre getting are not what they want cannot be their fault, because the theory is correct. Therefore the problem has to lie with the real world, full of imperfect people like you and me.
What our leaders need is a little more humility and a little less theory.
Washington DC, Dallas, Chicago, Athens (Texas), and Boston
I find myself in the Hill Country north of San Antonio, Texas, attending the Casey Research Summit, where I speak tomorrow. Im surrounded by many friends in very pleasant circumstances. And when I hit the send button, I will have two days of fascinating conversations ahead of me. I am doing a number of videos with various interesting personalities, which we will post on the Mauldin Economics site in the coming weeks. More on that later.
On Monday I fly back to Dallas, where I will stay until the end of the month, then head off to Washington DC. In the middle of October Ill visit Chicago, Athens (Texas), and Boston, all in one week.
I can't hit the send button without noting that Jack Ma, the Chinese ultra-billionaire founder of Alibaba, was at the New York Stock Exchange for the launch of his IPO and sought out my friend Art Cashin, saying I can't leave without a picture with Art Cashin. As one of Art's friends subsequently wrote on our round-robin group email, Jack is clearly a man who understands who is really running things. The incident also shows that anyone can be a groupie. But what really intrigues me is that here is one of the richest men in the world, a force in China, obsessively focused on creating a merchandising machine, and yet he is so in touch with the world of investment and business that he watches CNBC enough to know who Art is. And to appreciate the character and class that Art has shown us for years and want to meet him. Jeff Bezos may have his work cut out for him in the coming years.
Have a great week and tell a struggling businessman that you appreciate his work.
John email@example.com
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Editorial Round-Up: Questions About Transparency and Local Control
Newspaper editorials focused on government transparency and local control this week.
With the end of the election season, newspaper editorials are turning their attention back to more traditional matters: government transparency and local control, for example.
Regarding government transparency, the Sheboygan (Wis.) Press is "upfront about our concern with a bill removing the requirement [that] the [Wisconsin] Department of Natural Resources publish notices on air and water quality permits in local newspapers," its editorial board writes. The bill, Special Session Senate Bill 24, would allow the department to post its notices on its website only. There is a small piece of advertising revenue to be lost, the newspaper says, but it also eliminates a crucial avenue for public information to spread.
"The state will save a few dollars by eliminating paid publication of DNR notices, but it will lose a good deal of public trust by reducing public access to information," the Press concludes. "It would be a mistake for lawmakers to pass this measure and take away one form of public access to vital information."
The Christian Science Monitor expresses its pleasure with "the growing use of new digital tools to make government not only cheaper to operate but more convenient and closer to its citizens." It notes some such online services as simple as email notifications, but also references the potential of videoconferencing and other digital tools as exciting steps toward a more open government.
"[E]-government opens up the inner workings of government to average citizens. It's much more than just a more efficient way to disseminate information and services," the Monitor says. "It can become a valuable two-way conversation between governments and those they serve."
Elsewhere, newspapers were concerned over local control in their respective situations.
The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro, Tenn., chastises Nashville law enforcement after its arrest of about 50 Occupy protesters last week. "[P]rotest is at the very foundation of our nation's birth," the newspaper asserts, referencing the First Amendment.
"[I]t doesn't matter whether we agree with the protesters or not," its editorial reads. "They have the right to peaceably assemble, speak freely and petition the government for a redress of grievances, if they choose."
The Albert Lea Tribune in southern Minnesota criticizes proposed legislation from a Republican state representative that would bar local school boards from holding elections in odd-numbered years. "Republicans, the last time we checked, were about granting more local control to school boards and getting state government regulations out of the way," the newspaper says, chiding the sponsor of the bill, state Rep. Pat Garofalo.
Its editorial argues that holding elections during so-called off years allows education to come to the forefront of the election debate. "Does St. Paul know better than Albert Lea when to hold Albert Lea's levy elections?" the Tribune asks. "[W]hy bother electing local school board members if the state doesn't trust them with a reasonable measure of control?"
Meanwhile, in Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times addressed township governments, calling them "largely redundant" in urban areas. It points to a report that found townships can end up costing taxpayers much more money in road maintenance. "Townships may still have a role in those parts of Illinois still covered by cornfields. But around Chicago, they're a logical target for taxpayers looking for savings," the Sun-Times says.
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For example: to call Apple using Siter, the user simply dials apple.com. Siter currently has a growing database of 25 million names registered in its system. The app is available for free download and is compatible with iPhone, Android and Blackberry (selected models*).
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School Matinee Program
Every year, thousands of students participate in the School Matinee Program. K-12 students come from throughout the Central Coast to attend live performances at the Performing Arts Center. Presented by the Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust, and sponsored by generous SLO County businesses, foundations and individuals, the School Matinee Program is offered at zero cost for every school, and all students attend matinees for free.
Last season, a record 12,000 students participated in the School Matinee Program. This 2019-20 season we are well on our way to serving 12,000 students. Students come from throughout San Luis Obispo County, from as far north as San Miguel, as far east as Carissa Plains, from the 5-cities region, and many students are now coming from the Lompoc and Santa Maria regions in northern Santa Barbara County. Every year, half of the students that participate are from low socioeconomic backgrounds and many are English Language Learning (ESL) students. Admission and transportation costs are 100% subsidized for every student.
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"I never heard of a young woman but people say she is accomplished!"
"The word is indeed applied too liberally. I can't boast of knowing more than half a dozen women in all my acquaintance who are truly accomplished."
"Goodness, you must comprehend a great deal in the idea."
"I do."
"Absolutely. She must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages to deserve the word. … And something in her air and manner of walking…"
"And of course she must improve her mind by extensive reading."
"I'm no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any."
"Are you so severe on your own sex?"
"I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold."
— From the newer movie version of Pride and Prejudice; a scene which transpired between Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Caroline Bingley.
You know what I think? I think there are very few of us who ever feel "good enough." Not good enough to deserve or to be anything specifically. Just… we feel like we don't measure up and never will, I guess. Let's see a show of hands: how many of you feel like you're good enough? Hand down, William Dorrit, and be off with you. Why are you reading my blog, anyway? Now, as for the rest of you… good gracious, I don't see many hands. Very few, in fact. Why is that?
I'll tell you why that is. We never feel like we measure up because we are constantly confronted with standards that are either unnecessary, impossible, or, most often, both. Homeschoolers especially like to do this. Actually, pretty much everybody likes to do this. In order to be admitted into a societal group of any form, one must first achieve the standards. We homeschoolers often feel like we aren't quite up to par unless we are (a) a bazillion times smarter than our public-schooled counterparts, (b) thoroughly informed in all matters concerning English and American history, (c) quite musical, (d) insanely organized and scheduled, and (e) a whole host of other things that I can't think of and would be too lazy to write down if I could. Other groups have their standards too, of course. But you catch my drift. There's a standard, and if you don't measure up, you start feeling inferior to all the people who look like they are. And that's not very nice. That's not very nice at all. And it starts getting sinister when people start applying these things to Christianity.
You know what I mean. You can't be a Christian unless you behave in a certain way. Maybe you haven't quite been exposed to that kind of attitude before, but you will someday. The problem here is that, to a certain extent, it's true. As a general rule, followers of Christ do not tend to be murderers, kleptomaniacs, drug dealers, or flouters of the law in any other unpleasant and harmful respect. But when I said to a certain extent, that was the extent right there. Sometimes you will get the distinct impression that you are not being a good Christian unless you can play How Great Thou Art on the piano and have memorized vast quantities of Bible verses and can discourse learnedly on the subject of infant baptism. Sometimes you will feel that you are not quite doing your duty unless you feed the homeless once a week and take meals to the infirm congregants in your church. And if you do not read the Bible together as a family every morning and have at least half an hour of Quiet Time With the Lord… well! You may not be instantly condemned, but that is certainly pushing it.
As I have had occasion to remark before, none of these behaviors are problematic in and of themselves. I myself have made a meal or two for the sick in my time, and we all know that my character is of a snowy unimpeachability that the Pope himself would envy…. Ahem! As I was saying, the problem is not that you do these things. The problem shows up when you begin to feel like a loser for not doing these things. Perhaps it has been overlooked, but the truth remains that God never actually requires any labor on your part to secure your salvation. That is to say, you can do (or omit!) pretty much anything you want. That's just how the system works, and I for one am ridiculously pleased that it is so. I have neither the time nor the will to be learning hymns on the piano.
I wrote a post similar to this one recently. The basic gist of that one was that you can do pretty much whatever you want because Jesus will not send you to Hell based on the fact that you prefer skinny jeans over skirts. I said that you are not a bad person for liking to do certain things. But what I forgot to mention was that you also are not a bad person for neglecting to meet certain standards. The standards to which I am referring are fabricated by men and used by the same as control mechanisms. If you are in a group setting, the person you will look up to and wish to emulate is not going to be the rebel. The person who conforms best to the rules and standards set by your particular society is generally accepted to be the model for perfection.
For instance, in a group of athletes, the guy who can play sixteen different sports and play them well and can bench-press two hundred pounds to boot is the one everyone aspires to be. In a group of poets, the girl who can quote vast sections of Julius Caesar from memory and whose writing style has been compared favorably with that of Robert Frost is viewed with the greatest awe and deference. You get the picture. Whatever it is: athleticism, poetry, horse wrangling, music. Because these people are the best at what they do, we kind of come to assume that they are just the best period. We tend to view athleticism or poetry or horse wrangling or music as the very highest peak of awesomeness, and we therefore associate the ability to achieve the horse wrangling (or poetry or athleticism or music) standards as awesomeness itself. And who doesn't want to be awesome? So we set out to become these people. We take their advice and we imitate their manners and principles. The person who is the best at feeding the homeless or dressing modestly or playing hymns or quoting Martin Luther (all of which are viewed as very Christian things) is considered the best Christian. But here's the thing: that's just silly.
I mean, really now. There's nothing in the Bible about being a "good Christian." There are whole hosts of chapters and verses and things on loving God. That's it. That's all you need. You don't have to meet the perceived standards for being a "good person." You don't have to play hymns or be organized or know history or whatever it is you think you need. Previously I've had occasion to remark upon the fact that you can do or be what- or whoever you want to. And now I am telling you that you can also refuse to be or do something you don't want to. Does that make sense? You don't have to feel like a bad person for doing "bad" things, and you don't have to feel like a loser for not doing "good" things. You just do whatever God is leading you to do (which is a thing YOU may figure out FOR YOURSELF). Who knows? You may end up playing hymns or feeding the homeless,
or you may end up just working at King Soopers.
I'm almost done here, and soon you may wander off and eat marshmallows or whatever it was that you interrupted to read my blog. The last thing I have to say to you is to never ever EVER feel like you're not good enough because you don't meet somebody's standards for perfection. It's the standards that are off, not you. You're doing just fine how you are. And that's all I have to say about that.


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Thanks to everyone who came out and helped make this sold-out event a success!
Get in Gear for Third Space Gallery's Fundraiser 'Midnight Masquerade' December 31st 2010
Saint John's only artist run centre making a comeback to the city's contemporary arts scene
Third Space Gallery is proud to announce a triumphant re-emergence to Saint John's art scene for 2011. The past few years have seen the gallery go through a period of transition, hampered by shaky funding and the lack of an easy to access permanent exhibition space. The gallery has recently had to give up its most public face — its window frontage on Charlotte Street.
But now armed with new and returning Saint John artistic talent on its Board of Directors – including exciting emerging artists Sara Griffin and Gillian Dykeman – Third Space is back on solid footing. The gallery has secured a base of operations on Princess Street, and is in the process of searching for more venues to continue to expose the public to contemporary Canadian and international art.
Artist run centres are non profit entities, providing contemporary artists with an outlet to have their work seen without the pressure of commercial expectations. It's also an important platform to engage and challenge the public's conception of art. Third Space is one of four artist run centres in the province, and the only one in the Port City.
In one form or another, Third Space Gallery has been on the Saint John arts scene for five years. To celebrate its bright future, the centre is holding a party to usher in the new era in style. Midnight Masquerade will be a New Year's Eve bash, taking place at the Prince William Ballroom at 115 Prince William Street, on December 31st. Dancing tunes will by provided by Saint John's finest: Gary Flanagan, Adam Mowery and his Giants of Industry, reversing falls and DJ Fred.
To prepare for the big night, a pay-what-you-can mask making workshop will be held at Third Space Gallery Headquarters at 42 Princess Street (3rd floor–through Brits and up the stairs x3) on Monday December 27th, 7pm. Supplies and tips will be provided, but everyone is invited to bring their own personal touches, friends and refreshments.
Midnight Masquerade
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The plethora of food diaries seen in blogs, magazines and even TV shows, has opened the door to a more accepting food culture. It is now fashionable to try something different. What was deemed intimidating is now called fresh, bold and ground-breaking. Anthony Bourdain was way ahead of his time. From dining at a sushi bar to feasting on prime rib steaks, it is now cool to enjoy good food. Food is no longer taken just for nourishment, food is now savored, talked about and even watched by millions on TV. Who would have thunk?
For today's dish, I hope you still keep an open mind. For us Filipinos, kare-kare holds a very special place in our foodscape. It is usually served as part of our "special" dinner spread - always present in parties and in celebrating special occasions. Kare-kare tastes better when shared with family and friends. The classic kare-kare recipe is a stew in peanut sauce with oxtail, beef, vegetables and tripe. As a dish often prepared for fiestas throughout the country, kare-kare is comfort food for Filipinos living abroad.
When done exquisitely, it serves as a time machine that brings you back to your hometown as a kid - remembering the fiestas and special events you celebrated with your family. A bite into the stew brings the peanut sauce front and center followed by the tripe that melts in your mouth What puts you over the edge is the sliver of bagoong (shrimp paste) you add to a spoonful of the stew, as there is no other taste like it. And there is no place like Home...
Kare-Kare (Oxtail and Tripe Stew in Peanut Sauce)
2-3 lbs of oxtail cut into pieces (they usually come in packs already cut)
2-3 lbs tripe
1/4 c rice, toasted then pulverized (use Kare kare mix as an alternative)
3- 4 tbsp creamy peanut butter
2 tsp annato powder
2 onions (1 for sauteing, one for tenderizing the meat)
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 pcs eggplant (sliced)
1 bundle string beans (sliced, 3 inch long)
Rub rock salt on the oxtail to clean. Rinse thoroughly. On a stockpot, place the oxtail and submerge it with water. Allow the water to boil. Discard the water. Rinse the oxtail and discard the water. In the same stockpot, submerge the oxtail with water again. Throw in some bay leaf, peppercorn and celery. Boil until tender. You could use the stock later, but make sure to remove the fat that settles on top.
Do the same procedure with the tripe. Usually the tripe sold here in the US is already white and clean. But you can still rub salt to clean. Repeat procedure as you've done with the oxtail. Let it cool and slice the tripe into strips, 2-3 inches long and 0.5 inch wide. Drain the water and set the tripe aside.
Saute garlic and onions until onions get wilted and translucent. Add annato powder, stir to mix well. Add oxtail and tripe (make sure they are tender). Season with salt and pepper. Stir for about 2 minutes then add beef broth.(3-4 cups). Let it simmer and cook for 20 minutes or until the broth has been reduced. Add the pulverized rice (or the kare-kare mix). This will thicken the sauce, so make sure to keep on stirring. Add peanut butter. Mix well, taste and season with salt (or shrimp paste) and pepper.
In a separate pot, pour 2 cups of water. Add a teaspoon of baking powder. Season with salt. Drop the veggies and remove after boiling. Drain excess water. Add blanched vegetables on the cooked kare kare. Serve with cooked or bottled shrimp paste on the side. Enjoy!
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MHA Today is provided as a service to members of the Missouri Hospital Association. Additional information is available online at MHAnet.
In This Issue
HRSA Issues Final Rule On 340B Prices And Penalties
CMS Releases Outpatient Quality Reporting Checklist
Commonwealth Fund Reports Shorter American Lifespan
Nichols Announces Resignation From Iron County Medical Center
Regulatory News
the latest actions of agencies monitoring health care
Staff Contact: Daniel Landon
The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has issued a final rule regarding ceiling price calculations and civil monetary penalties for the federal 340B drug discount program. Among other topics, it addresses fines for pharmaceutical manufacturers that prevent covered entities from receiving the ceiling price to which they are entitled. The final rule is slated for official publication in the Jan. 5 edition of the Federal Register.
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Staff Contact: Sherry Buschjost
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the third quarter 2016 outpatient quality reporting checklist. The deadline for submission of outpatient data is Wednesday, Feb. 1. Failure to submit data by the deadline puts a hospital at risk of a two-point reduction to the hospital's 2018 outpatient PPS payment update.
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Staff Contact: Leslie Porth
The Commonwealth Fund has released a report showing a decline in life expectancy among Americans. According to the federal data released last month, it fell between 2014 and 2015, from 78.9 years to 78.8 years.
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Terry Nichols, CEO of Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, announced his resignation, effective March 4. He has served as CEO since September 2012. A search is underway for a permanent replacement. A list of CEO changes is available online.
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Allergies are the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the U.S., with an annual cost in excess of $18 billion. More than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year.
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PeaceBuilders Applauds Governor Brown for Signing Cyber Bullying Prevention Law
New law addresses rising popularity and misuse of social media
SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Michelle Molina, President of PeaceBuilders, Inc., which serves nearly a half a million children in California, released the following statement in response to Governor Jerry Brown's signing of AB 746, Cyber Bullying Prevention bill. The bill was authored by Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose).
"PeaceBuilders applauds Governor Jerry Brown signing AB 746 (Campos) into California law which will allow for teachers and administrators to suspend students who bully electronically, such as through social media.
"We know that children have had irreversible emotional harm – and in some cases even committed suicide – as a result of cyber bullying. This is a step in the right direction. The nature of bullying has changed and is no longer confined to the school yard. Children are bullied online where parents and teachers often do not see it until it is too late. This bill will bring bullying out of the shadows and ensure children have the safe learning environments they deserve."
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A week after he lost the OC Supervisor D1 race, former State Senator Lou Correa was still upset that he would lose an election which he outspent Attorney Andrew Do 3 to 1. Worse, this is a district where about 43% of the registered voters are Hispanic while the Vietnamese-American voters constitute only about 25%. Yet, he would have lost by a landslide if it was not for Garden Grove City Councilman Chris Phan and TV personality Chuyen Nguyen splitting the Vietnamese-American vote.
In his anger and disappointment, he decided to go after the Vietnamese-American voters with vengeance. To him these people who voted for Andrew Do are cheaters. He reasoned in a press release in Vietnamese and English for his demand of a recount -
"My campaign has received a number of reports over the past week or so contending that people who did not really live in the First Supervisorial District registered to vote and cast ballots in this election. We have also received reports regarding irregularities in the handling and processing of vote-by-mail ballots, with campaigns collecting (and even paying for) voted ballots and returning them to the Registrar's office or at the polls,"
Correa added that his lawyers found during the provisional ballot counting - "....provisional ballots being counted even though they were not signed by the voter; ballots cast by voters who appeared to have attempted to vote more than once; and voters who claimed to have moved into the First Supervisorial District just prior to the election without actually re-registering at their supposed new address."
He emphasized - "....the recount will allow us to investigate and determine the scope of these and any other irregularities, to analyze whether they might have affected the outcome of the election, and to decide whether further action is warranted, either in the form of a judicial action or the District Attorney's investigation."
As reported by Anh Do of LA Times - "......Correa said he was notified of two election-day incidents at polling places in churches in Little Saigon where Vietnamese American volunteers urged voters to cast ballots for Do. One of them, Correa said, told people, "Remember, vote Vietnamese" and then pointed to Do's name. Others, he said, stood outside urging people to vote for Do.
But what Correa failed to mention was that the Santa Ana police was called to a Santa Ana polling station by a voter on the election day because of possible voting right violation. The woman complained to the police that when she asked for help to show her how to mark her vote for Andrew Do, the poll worker allegedly urged her to vote for Correa and pointed her to mark for Correa instead.
To emphasize the seriousness of his belief that there are voter fraud in the Viet community, he started asking the Vietnamese media to broadcast a toll free number for people to call in to report fraudulent activities
After 5 days going through the ballots and looking at every possible fraud with a team of high power lawyers, Correa suspended the recount. The election result stands, Lou lost by 43 votes.
However, his portrait of the Vietnamese-American voters in the media as cheaters and unethical are receiving major backlash in the community.
Correa is eyeing for his revenge in 2016 and so the Viet community is preparing their vote.


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Monday November 02, 2015
From The New Orleans Advocate
Terence Blanchard proves he belongs at Voodoo Fest with strong performance
By: Alex Rawls
Since 2006, Voodoo has tried to make sure that the festival offers those interested a local experience in addition to its international lineup. It has even included jazz bands, which rarely seem like a good fit.
At first, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective seemed like another well-intentioned miss. He started quietly, and the obvious seriousness of purpose seemed at odds with the festival's good times vibe. The melancholy in his sound sympathized with the gray skies though, and as the set continued, Blanchard's playing grew ferocious in its reach and passion, seemingly in the vocabulary of the rock guitarist as much as the jazz trumpeter.
The E-Collective is Blanchard's groove-oriented band, and its embrace of funk and electronic textures gives it a contemporary vibe most of the time. When drummer Oscar Seaton hit a funk groove and piano player Fabian Almazan soloed with a Fender Rhodes sound though, the moment sounded straight out of 1972.
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Employment Discrimination and Staying Compliant with the EEOC
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In general, an individual within a protected classification must not be treated less favorably than others outside of the protected classification in regard to hiring decisions or employment conditions. An employment decision made because of an employee's protected classification may lead to a discrimination lawsuit where the employee is entitled to a jury trial and where both compensatory and punitive damages are available.
Federal Protected Classes and Covered Employers
Federal laws protect employees and job applicants against employment discrimination when it involves:
- Unfair treatment because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older) disability or genetic information
- Harassment by managers or co-workers (or others in the workplace) because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information
- Denial of a reasonable accommodation that the employee needs because of religious beliefs or disability
- Retaliation because the employee complained about job discrimination, or assisted with a job discrimination investigation or lawsuit.
Discrimination Claims
If an employer has the required number of employees, a person is protected under federal anti-discrimination laws if he or she is a current employee, job applicant, former employee or an applicant/participant in a training or apprenticeship program. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is authorized to investigate charges of discrimination and to bring actions in federal court on behalf of both individuals and classes of employees.
Generally, an individual must prove the following factors to have a viable claim for discrimination:
- The individual must be a member of a protected class
- The individual's employment rights or right to employment must have been adversely affected (for example, refusal to hire, termination or failure to promote)
- The individual performed satisfactorily or was "qualified" for the position sought or terminated from
- Employer treated individuals outside the protected class more favorably
If an individual can prove the points above, then a court may conclude that the employer engaged in unlawful discrimination, unless the employer can prove that its actions were for a nondiscriminatory reason. If an employer can show a nondiscriminatory reason (that is, a legitimate and lawful business purpose), then the individual must prove that the reason given by the employer was a pretext (or not the true reason) for discriminating against the individual because of his or her protected characteristic.
An individual will prove an unlawful discriminatory practice if he or she proves that an unlawful action was the motivating factor for an employment action. An employer may avoid paying damages if it can prove that the same employment action would have been taken even in the absence of a discriminatory motive.
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Join Assurance University and employment law experts Katherine Mendez and Ashley Workman as they explore changes to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in our February 25 webinar. >>
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How not to pick a blue paint
However, I completely neglected a cardinal rule for blue paints...always get a sample first!
Yes, it may be the perfect color on the chip, but blue on a wall morphs somehow into the most hideous version of itself on the walls.
When I first opened up the paint can, I was a bit worried, but thought it would be okay once I got it on the walls...WRONG. It brightened even more, and became an electric blue I never wanted. It was like a sunny day at the ocean. Not quite the egg shell blue I was hoping for.
I painted one coat along the walls, and it just got worse. Even Mr. Pickup and our contractor commented on how bright it was...not good.
So, I tried to tone the paint down by adding some of the grey color from the rest of the house. I'd used about a 1/3 of the paint for the first coat, and added almost that much of the grey/beige.
As I started painting the second coat, I was afraid I'd put in too much of the other paint.
However, as it dried and brightened, it mellowed into a lovely shade of robin's egg blue.
The moral of the story? Find your perfect blue, then go down about 2 shades into the "greys" of that tone, and you'll have it just about right.
9 happy thoughts:
- Byrdi said...
Also do the same for yellows. Pick a shade you like and go down two.
- 15 June, 2012 09:09
- Impera Magna said...
...been there, done that....
My rule of thumb is to pick the color you want, then go one shade lighter....
- 15 June, 2012 12:01
- http://thankfullga447 said...
This happened ti my son with the blue and he ended up doing the room gray.
- 15 June, 2012 17:11
- Melissa said...
I've painted rooms in blue grey and they end up look the most delicate room - loved them...
- 15 June, 2012 23:35
- KJ@letsgoflyakite said...
Great tips and perseverence. Two of our rooms are done in different blues. The lighting in the room made a huge impact on how the colour displayed on the wall.
- 16 June, 2012 05:44
- Tiffany said...
Outtakes are always my favorite posts. glad it finally worked out.
- 17 June, 2012 10:14
- Unknown said...
It all worked out in the end. It looks great now Chris!
- 17 June, 2012 20:27
- Gwen @ Gwenny Penny said...
Happy to hear you were able to get the shade you wanted, even if it took a little extra work :) The house is looking gorgeous.
- 19 June, 2012 19:32
- Stephanie said...
Yikes! It was glowing wasn't it? Yes, go with your own advice and get a sample pot, saves a lot of headaches. I even paint a board with the color and hold it up in all areas of the room to see how it will look. Glad to see that you got the paint to calm down, it looks fantastic.
- 20 June, 2012 09:42


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There is almost no better-tasting fish than freshly caught wild salmon, and there are just about as many ways to prepare it as there are those that catch this delicious fish. This recipe, however, is a great way to bring out the full flavor of the fish, and it's relatively easy to prepare.
Seared Salmon and Potatoes in Dijon Stock
4 Salmon fillets, skinless, 6-8 oz. each
1 ½ lbs. baby or new red potatoes, with skins
2 T. Butter
2 T. Canola oil
2 T. Olive oil
2 T. Apple cider vinegar
2 c. White wine, dry
1 ½ c. Chicken broth
1 T. Mustard, dijon
2 Shallots, sliced thin
1 ½ lbs. Baby spinach leaves
2 T. fresh tarragon leaves, chopped
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Preheat your oven to 400°F. First, you'll want to prepare the potatoes. Wash the potatoes and place them in a large pot, then cover with cold water. The water level should be about an inch above the top of the potatoes. Bring the potatoes to a boil on high heat and then reduce the heat to medium-high. Let the potatoes cook for about 12 more minutes, until they are just about done, but not quite. Drain them and let them cool, then slice them in half and set aside.
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Place the salmon in the oven and allow it to bake for around 20 minutes, until the salmon is just cooked through. 5 minutes before the salmon will be done, take another large heavy pot and heat the olive oil. Add half of your spinach to the pot and stir gently until the leaves are just wilted, approximately 3 minutes. At this point add the rest of the spinach and toss it until it too is just to the wilting point. Remove immediately from the heat to prevent over-wilting.
Serve the salmon on top of the wilted spinach, or separately, whichever you prefer. Some extra tarragon sprigs can be used for garnish if you like, and don't forget to top the salmon fillets with the wonderful sauce that it was baked in.


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Robinson, William R.
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