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Chinese 'Currency Manipulation' Is Not the Problem
by Edward Paul Lazear
via Wall Street Journal
When things are not going well, it is common to seek scapegoats. In this vein, populists of various stripes allege that China manipulates the value of its currency to favor its exports and undercut American workers, particularly in manufacturing.
The reality is that the value of China's yuan in terms of dollars is not the major reason why China exports over three times as much to us as we do to them. Its exchange rate is a minor source of weak U.S. job growth.
From 1995 to 2005, China pegged its currency, holding it steady at slightly over eight yuan to the dollar. Then, in late 2005, China allowed its currency to appreciate relative to the dollar until July 2008. The rate held steady again for the two years following that date at 6.8 yuan to the dollar. In 2010, gradual appreciation occurred again. The current exchange rate now stands at about 6.2 yuan per dollar, which means that a yuan is worth about 16 cents.
If currency movements were the key factor in determining trade patterns, one would expect that exports to the U.S. from China would bear a strong relation to currency movements. They have not.
The dollar-yuan exchange rate did not change from 1995 to 2005, and during this period China's exports to the U.S. increased sixfold, or at a rate of about 19.6% per year. Then, from 2005 to 2008, the value of the yuan relative to the U.S. dollar appreciated by about 21%. China's currency was "stronger" and its exports in dollars were more expensive—so Chinese exports to the U.S. should have fallen. Instead, China's exports to the U.S. continued to grow at about the same pace, averaging 18.2% per year.
The only period during which exports from China to the U.S. fell to any significant extent was during the recent recession, dropping by about one-third from late 2008 to early 2010. The dollar-yuan exchange rate was unchanged throughout this entire period. The obvious explanation for the decline in Chinese exports to the U.S. was the decline in demand for consumption goods in general.
A comparison of Chinese exports to Europe with those to the United States provides additional evidence on the role that exchange rates play in trade. At the end of 2000, it cost 0.13 euros to buy one yuan. At the end of 2004, it cost only 0.09 euros to buy one yuan. Chinese exports to Europe should have risen relative to those to the U.S. because the exchange rate between the U.S. and China remained constant at 12 cents per yuan throughout this period.
Indeed, consistent with the fact that the yuan cheapened for Europeans but not for Americans, growth in Chinese exports to Europe averaged 35% per year and 32% per year for exports from China to the U.S. during this period. But the more important message here is that the growth of Chinese exports to the two regions was almost the same—even though the euro bought 44% more yuan at the end of the period than it did at the beginning, while the dollar's relationship to the yuan remained unchanged.
The chart nearby shows Chinese exports to the U.S. (green line) and Chinese exports to Europe (red line). They move almost perfectly together over all periods, including those when the euro strengthened relative to the dollar and to the yuan. This is more evidence that export growth is determined primarily by factors other than exchange rates.
There is another lesson here. The demand that China align its currency more closely to market forces is, in its purest form, a demand that Beijing allow the yuan to float. What would occur if China did this? Well, consider that China has throughout recent history tied its currency to the U.S. dollar, but because the dollar floats relative to other currencies, the yuan as a consequence also floats relative to other currencies, and in particular, relative to the euro.
So if floating exchange-rates affected trade differently from fixed rates, then trade patterns should also have been different. Yet as the chart shows, exports to the Europe and to the U.S. move together very closely. Apparently, having a currency that floats relative to another is not the most important factor in determining exports.
What does determine trade activity? There is an abundant literature that analyzes trade flows between one country and another. Among the most successful analyses are those that use "gravity" models, which say that trade between countries is determined primarily by the size of the trading countries and by the distance between them. As countries grow and acquire more "mass," so to speak, they attract more exports from others. At the same time, other countries tend to import more from larger countries.
Thus the growth of trade between China and the rest of the world not only contributed to China's growing size, but the reverse is also true. Rapid economic growth made China a larger target for and source of traded goods.
While exchange rates are not the major factor in trade, studies (including a 2011 trade policy paper by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) show that they do have some effect on trade flows, particularly in the short-run.
Thus exports from China to Europe did increase a bit relative to those to the U.S. when the euro strengthened relative to the yuan and dollar. This is true from 2000 to 2004. It is also true since mid-2007, when a falling dollar made the purchasing power of the euro relatively greater and Chinese exports to Europe became greater than Chinese exports to the U.S.—although the bulk of Chinese exports to Europe and the U.S. still move in tandem. Exchange rates are not the main determinant of trade flows.
Is China a currency manipulator? Indeed it is—as are all countries that maintain a fixed or a close-to-fixed ratio of their currency relative to the dollar, euro or gold.
Denmark could be similarly labeled a currency manipulator because it adjusts its monetary policy to maintain a fixed ratio of Danish kroner to the euro. Japan has moved toward a looser monetary policy to cheapen the yen, which has fallen 13% relative to the dollar since September. China adjusts its monetary policy and credit controls to maintain the value of the yuan relative to the dollar (or in the past few years, to an undisclosed basket of currencies).
But China's choice of exchange rate policy is not the source of China's export growth. Disappointing job and wage growth in the U.S. has much more to do with our economic policy than with the value of China's currency.
Mr. Lazear, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2006-2009, is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Sometimes, working as a professional photographer and explaining to someone that it is your job to document them elicits the same reaction as a trip to the dentist. There's an inner cringe from your client while they remember horrific stories of childhood portraits at Sears gone wrong. The over-combing of hair, the multiple applications of face powder to block the harsh studio lights, the yells from the photographer to stand up straight. These aren't happy memories. No one liked going to the local portrait studio or having a bored photographer take their yearbook photo. This memory will never compete with the thrill of your first roller coaster ride, first paycheck or first kiss.
How does photography blend with weddings? At times, clients remember these childhood stories and try to control their photo shoot. They ask for no getting ready photos, no reception photos and limited coverage. They believe they are doing what is best for their guests, because in their eyes, who in their right mind would want a wedding photographer to follow them all day? Especially if it means being around someone who prefers to stage photos?
When I left a job as an international photojournalist to become a wedding photographer, I had the same reaction to what I thought wedding photographers actually do. My first wedding involved assisting a photographer who spent the day pointing his camera and yelling for everyone to "Act happy! ACT HAPPY!" People think you're going to obstruct the scene and act like a demanding director on set, setting up lights and screaming for others to do something in front of the camera.
Creating a moment will never be as impactful as capturing a moment and most professional photographers (and clients) can certainly tell when a "moment" was created. Have you ever seen a dramatically lit portrait with bored subjects off in the distance? Moments are always going to win, and they should be one of the first things we focus on.
Moment-Driven Portraits are especially important for weddings. I don't love posing clients or shooting them smiling at the camera, and my clients appreciate this. Instead of receiving hundreds of photos of them blankly staring at the lens, they'll receive meaningful timepieces that capture the two of them in love.
It's rewarding to allow your clients to focus on each other instead of the camera. It's also fun to photograph and takes the pressure from finding the perfect pose, just allow them to be themselves in front of the camera, not pretty dolls set up in a perfect scene. Moment-Driven Photographs are real. They make you laugh. And they're memorable.
I'll also be speaking at WPPI at the Finao Album booth at 1PM on Monday, January 26 in Las Vegas, hope to see you!
I'm really excited for my next Moment-Driven Workshop: Chicago April 10-11 and am offering Fearless Photographers and Foundation Workshops students $100 off!
Want to discuss where you are with your photography and where you would like to be? Sign up for a free Strategy Session with me!
The next Chicago Moment-Driven Photojournalism Workshop (limited to only 10 students) is April 10-11. We will spend two days telling one person's story, strengthening our visual storytelling and stepping outside our comfort zones.
Shooting assignments in downtown Chicago documenting strangers and telling their stories. This is a hands-on workshop where you apply the feedback and techniques you've learned immediately.
Feedback sessions where you practice identifying what makes a strong photograph so you can learn to quickly shoot and cull your own shots. Many photographers take days to edit a shoot — it should only take a few hours, once you know what to look for!


Cancer, the one thing we all love to hate. The unifying enemy that brings us all together, despite our differences. It covets us and looks for any small microscopic opening to mutate, to turn good cells into bad and to grow and cultivate itself into a big hairy monster, it does not discriminate, we are equal opportunity carriers.
I have cancer on my mind, and not because I have it, but because I am surrounded by it. In this very moment I have three lovely thirty something friends who all joined the same club, a club they never expected to join, one they had spent their lives doing all the things that would ensure they never were accepted. Seemingly healthy, young vibrant women, one on each coast and one in the middle. No one had a family history of cancer. All just like you and me, spouses and mothers to young children, sisters, and someone's best friend. Each one of them woke up one day, and were hazed, accepted into a fight club they didn't rush, signed up for the heavyweight championship fight of their lives, only they were welter weights, and they want out.
We can't let go of what we can't accept. Acceptance doesn't mean surrender- if you hold something tight it can hold you back tighter, stick to you like glue- so maybe in all of this letting go is the answer, accepting things as they are – not being the cause and not being the solution, but flowing in and out. Cancer is the ultimate loss of control and yet it fools you into thinking that if you hold tighter are more sure of the remedy, control more, it will be beat. Our nature is to control, to drive and navigate and we are fooled into thinking we know where life is taking us, where we will end up. After all we run marathons and take vitamins and eat vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten free alcohol free, we do yoga and sleep 8 hours a night and love our families and yet yet, still wake up one day and the story has taken a turn.
So maybe this isn't about cancer, but life. None of us are immune to anything, including cancer. It is about loving ourselves and each other the best we can, fighting and making up, finding a middle way, rolling in the grass with our kids and our partners – making fools of ourselves, losing and winning, getting promoted and fired, dancing and laughing, laying in bed moving or unmoving, and crying and taking deep breaths and living in the moment -accepting that we can only be right here right now, and not just saying it, but really, breathing just this breath, because you can't breathe tomorrow's breath.
To all of you who have cancer or know someone with cancer or have lost someone to cancer, you are doing all you can – just love and breathe and let go, it will all be ok even if its not.


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With careful research and selection criteria, EngineerSupply is pleased to announce the addition of AGATEC construction lasers and products to its line of vendors. AGATEC specializes in producing a variety of construction lasers, laser detectors, machine control laser detectors, tripods, rods, and land surveying supplies. The new partner ship will enable EngineerSupply to provide an efficient solution to its customers' needs. New AGATEC products for EngineerSupply include laser distance measurers for measuring distance accurately, laser line generators for projects that need to be level or plumb, and construction rotary lasers which are used for construction stakeout and excavation projects. AGATEC prides itself on producing innovative, affordable products. Their products are needed by professionals in the industry of building construction, site construction, and land surveying.
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Claire M. Germain is Edward Cornell Law Librarian & Professor of Law, Director, Dual Degree Programs, Paris & Berlin, Cornell Law School. The French President recently awarded Claire M. Germain with the Chevalier degree of the Légion d'honneur, or Legion of Honor.
Claire M. Germain presents an overview of the public policy issues surrounding digital libraries, and discusses the impact of globalization and the Internet on international and foreign law information, the free access to law movement and open access scholarship, mass digitization projects, and preservation of born digital legal information.


Years ago I had the perfect job. I worked for the Minnesota Historical Society at a reconstructed early-nineteenth-century North West Company trading post rebuilt on the exact spot along the Snake River that it occupied during the winter of 1804–05. There, as a lifeways interpreter, I dressed in period clothing I'd sewn by hand and discussed and demonstrated the roles of Native and Métis women in the Great Lakes fur trade.
One day, while striding along the pine-lined path between the trading post and the outhouses, my moccasins sinking deep into riverbank sand, it occurred to me, "It doesn't get better than this!" I was being paid a good wage to do something I loved so much that I'd gladly do it for free.
Now some twenty years later I'm at that enviable junction in life again. This time I'm writing Get Your Goat! a lighthearted guide to goat keeping for Storey. Goats are an integral part of my life. I spent the first 55 of my 62 years on earth enraptured with horses and blissfully unaware of goats. The quintessential equine obsessive, I lived and breathed horses to the exclusion of all else. Well, writing was there, too, of course — another passion cultivated since childhood.
It was late in 2004 when I was a contributing editor at Hobby Farms magazine that BowTie Press asked me to write their Hobby Farms livestock manual about goats. It sounded fun. I'd always admired goats and even owned pet wethers (castrated male goats) periodically throughout my life. Then, on a photo shoot at Claudia and Matt Gurn's MAC Boer Goats near Winona, Missouri, I met MAC Goats' Chief Forty-Five, a.k.a. "Chiefee," and my world shifted on its axis. Was it love at first sight, that narrowed vision, that almost imperceptible "click" I felt when he hove his huge, smelly face into mine? Whatever it was, I was smitten.
And Claudia sent me home with baby goats.
Salem and Shiloh, two of Chiefee's orphaned three-week-old nephews, matured into 300-pound behemoths stout and strong enough to pull carts and pack camping gear upon their brawny backs. They were quickly joined by breeding-stock Boers, Nubian dairy goats, and more house-raised bottle babies than a person less besotted could imagine. Somewhere along the line my love of history and goats merged, and I began collecting vintage photographs of stalwart military mascots, period etchings of goats galore, goaty ephemera ranging from antique bock-beer labels (bock means he-goat in German) to Victorian tea trading cards, and every scrap of caprine (all things goat) folklore I could find.
The crème de la crème of my collection will be part of Get Your Goat! but the book has a serious message, too: Goats are more than commercial meat makers (under the pseudonym Maggie Sayer, I wrote about that aspect in Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats) and large-scale dairy producers. They are intelligent, personable creatures brimming with mischief and joie de vivre; properly cared for, they adore their humans and make peerless farmyard friends capable of and eminently willing to provide draft power (for carting and packing), fiber (for handspinning), dairy products (yum!) and entertainment (goat agility? yes, indeed!) to the humans who love them.
Sue Weaver sold her first freelance article in 1969. Since then she's marketed material to major horse periodicals, including The Western Horseman, Horse Illustrated, Chronicle of the Horse, Flying Changes, Horseman's Market, Arabian Horse Times, The Appaloosa News, The Quarter Horse Journal, Horse'N Around, and The Brayer. Sue is based in the southern Ozark Mountains in Arkansas.
Love the picture of Chiefee and your husband!


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STS-56 (ang. Space Transportation System) – szesnasta misja wahadłowca kosmicznego Discovery i pięćdziesiąta czwarta programu lotów wahadłowców.

Załoga
 źródło
 Kenneth Cameron (2)*, dowódca
 Stephen Oswald (2), pilot
 Michael Foale (2), specjalista misji 1
 Kenneth Cockrell (1), specjalista misji 2
 Ellen Ochoa (1), specjalista misji 3

 *(liczba w nawiasie oznacza liczbę lotów odbytych przez każdego z astronautów)

Parametry misji
 źródło
 Masa:
 startowa orbitera: 107 346 kg
 lądującego orbitera: 93 826 kg
 ładunku: 7441 kg
 Perygeum: 291 km
 Apogeum: 299 km
 Inklinacja: 57,0°
 Okres orbitalny: 90,4 min

Cel misji
Lot poświęcony badaniom atmosfery ziemskiej przy pomocy zestawu aparatury ATLAS-02.

Zobacz też
 lista misji wahadłowców
 lista załogowych lotów kosmicznych

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 podsumowanie misji STS-56 na stronie KSC

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Załogowe loty kosmiczne w 1993

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The Little Prince [Le Petit Prince], is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). The novella is both the most-read and most-translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. After the outbreak of the Second World War Saint-Exupéry became exiled in North America.
In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth. An earlier memoir by the author had recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara Desert, and he is thought to have drawn on those same experiences in The Little Prince.
Since its first publication in the United States, the novella has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film screen, television, ballet, and operatic works.
The Little Prince is a poetic tale, with watercolour illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. It was written during a period when Saint-Exupéry fled to North America subsequent to the Fall of France during the Second World War, witnessed first hand by the author and captured in his memoir Flight to Arras. The adult fable, according to one review, is actually "…an allegory of Saint-Exupéry's own life–his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood…. but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship."
Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature. For example, Saint-Exupéry tells of a fox meeting the young prince during his travels on Earth. The story's essence is contained in the lines uttered by the fox to the little prince: On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ("One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. ("You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.") and C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante. ("It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important.") The fox's messages are arguably the book's most famous quotations because they deal with human relationships.
"Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"
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Shop Visit: For The Love Of Motorcycles
Four months ago, two of the most highly respected builders in California joined forces and opened a store on Los Angeles' famed Melrose Avenue. Called For The Love Of Motorcycles, it's quickly become a haven for anyone who … do we need to spell it out?
The men behind the West Hollywood store are Roland Sands and Powerplant Choppers' Yaniv Evans. Not the most obvious match, but they're good friends—despite working in different sectors of the custom scene.
The location is perfect: Melrose Avenue was the birthplace of Southern California's punk culture, and it's always attracted the edgier, independent retailers who would never go to Rodeo Drive.
In the window is the 'No Regrets' bike that won the second Discovery Channel Biker Build-Off. Dedicated to the late Johnny "Chop" Vasko, it was probably the first custom Harley to feature Öhlins superbike forks.
So what's the story behind this unusual new venture? We got the answers from Roland Sands himself.
How do you and Yaniv Evan know each other? We both build motorcycles, so we got to know each other through custom bikes. I think we met in 2008 at a show in Beverley Hills. Then we both ended up in Japan for the Mooneyes show, and spent a lot of time there together, drinking and getting in trouble.
Where did the idea of the store come from? It's something we've always wanted to do. I have a small store at my Los Alamitos location that does really well. So we thought, if we do the same thing but bigger and in LA, we should kill it. Our Los Alamitos store has very little walk-by traffic, but Melrose is all about that.
How did you find the location? Yaniv had an opportunity, and I was looking for a location. He called me one day to see if I had any interest. It was something I'd wanted to do for a few years—and with our apparel and hard parts offerings, it just made sense.
What are the most popular products in the store? We sell a lot of RSD jackets and apparel as well as motorcycle parts. Powerplant does really well with their own P16 label t-shirts, hoodies and vintage stuff. It's a great mix, there's something for everybody. That's what we wanted it to be, "for the Love of Motorcycles," for anyone on two wheels.
There's a very nice Husky in there too … The Husky is a '74, my personal vintage motocross racer. I inherited it from a friend who passed away and it's become one of my favorite bikes. It's fast and has upgraded suspension, so it works a little better than stock, but it's still frightening to try and go fast on.
Has the store lived up to your expectations so far? It's still a baby, so we're still figuring things out—what works, and how to make it better. It's a learning curve for sure. But motorcycles and bike fashion aren't going anywhere. As more people fall in love with two wheels, we want to be there to satisfy their craving for great riding gear.
Are you building bikes in the shop, or doing mechanical work for customers? Yes, tons of that stuff. Both Yaniv and I do that job every day, this store wouldn't exist without the bikes.
Neither of us started this business because we thought motorcycles would be cool. We did it because we love motorcycles, and wanted to share what with do with like-minded people. The products are an extension of what we love and an excuse to keep doing it.
If you find yourself cruising down Melrose, pop in and take a look. Okay, riding along LA's coolest boulevard on a bike is probably something most of us haven't ticked off the list yet, but we can all dream.
Roland Sands Design | Powerplant Choppers | Images by Adam Fedderly.
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Buyers are out in full force looking for their dream homes. Buyers are often competing with one another for the listings that are available. According to the NAR, the median days on the market for a listing was only 42 days last month! If that isn't enough to make you want to sell this spring, read on.
Housing inventory is still under the 6-month supply that is needed for a normal housing market. This means that, in the majority of the country, there are not enough homes for sale to satisfy the number of buyers in the market.
Prices are projected to appreciate by 4.3% over the next year according to CoreLogic. If you are moving to a higher-priced home, it will wind up costing you more in both down payment & mortgage payment if you wait.
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Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.
M. Cuchet
Originally planed as a 72-volume set; however, it was never completed, in all likelihood because its final years of publication coincided with the French Revolution. There are no complete sets currently available online. Containing the memoirs, as well as observations on the memoirs, of numerous figures related to the political history of France: La Maison de Joinville en Champagne; L'Historie de S. Louis; Extraits des manuscrits Arabes; Bertand du Guesclin; Christine de Pisan's Memoires ou livre des faits et bonnes Moeurs due sage Roi Charles V; Pierre de Fenin escuyer et panetier de Charles VI, Roy de France (1407-22); Jean le Maingre, dit Marechal de Coucicaut; La Pucelle D'Orleans; Bretagne, Comte de Richemont, et Connectable de France; Florent, sire d'Illiers, Capitaine au service de Charles VII; D'Olivier de la Marche; Jacques Duclearq; L'Abbe Lenglet du Fresnoy; Philippe de Comines (includes a geneological map pasted into the back of vol. 10; Jean de Troye; Guillame de Villeneuve; Louis de la Tremoille; Chevalier Bayard; Robert de la Marck; Louise de Savoye, Duhesse D'Angouleme; Martin et Guillaume du Bellay, Seigneurs de Langey; Messire Blaise de Montluc, Marechal de France; Messire Gaspard de Saulx; Messire Gaspard de Tavannes; Marechal de Vieilleville; Francois de Boivin, Baron due Villars; Francois de Rabutin; Bertrand de Salignac; Gaspard de Coligni; Monsieur de la Chastre; Jean de Mergey; Michel de Castelnau; D'Achile Gamon; Jean Philippi; Francois Seigneur de la Noue; M. Henry de la Tour D'Aubergne, Vicomte de Turenne; Guillaume de Saulx, Seigneur de Tavannes; Messire Philippe Hurault, Comte de Cheverny; Marguerite de Valois; Jacvques-Auguest de Thou; Jean Choisnin, Secretaire de Montluc; Victor Palma Cayet; Jacque Paper, seigneur de Saint-Auban; D''Etat du Sieur de Villeroi; Charles de Valois, Duc D'Angouleme; Pierre de Boudeille, Abbe et Seigneur de Brantome; Francois de Bourdeille; Dames Illustres Francoises et Etrangere: Anne de Bretagne; Cathine de Medicis; Marie Stuart; Elizabeth de France, Marguerite; Madame Yoland de France, Jeanne de France, Anne de France, Claude de France, Renee de France, Marguerite, Reine de Navarre, Mesdames Charlotte, Louise, and Magdeleine de France, Marguerite de France, etc.; Dames Galantes
Publisher: M. Cuchet
Date Published: 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789,
Place Published: London and Paris
Vols. 1-65 of the 67 vol. set. 20.5 cm. cxxiv, 371, 467, [6], 451, [6], 477, [6], 556, [6], xvi, 476, [5], 467, xiii, 422, [6], v, 541, xvi, 494, [6], 560, [6], 525, xv, 476, viii, 436, [6], 477, xi, 438, xviii, 510, [6], 412, [6], 475, [6], 517, [6], 364 [p. 362 mistyped as 462], xxx, 454, [6], 460p, [6], 498, [6], 468, [6], 176, xxxvi, 237, [6], 510, [6], 435, [6], 438, 463, [6], 463, [6], 476, [6], 426, [6], 490, [6], 487, [6], 488, [6], 458, [6], 434, [6], 504, [6], 443, [6], 422, [6], 500, [6], 483, [6], 521, [4], 481, [6], 411, [6], 458, [8], 460, [6], 438, [6], 480, [6], 484, [6], 470, [6], 372, [6], 421, [6], 448, [6], 470, [7], 488, [8], 506, [8], 535, [8], 541, [8], 478, [6], 440, [6], 428, [6], 454, [6], 492, [6], 495. Leather bindings. Marbled endpapers and edging. Gold impressing on spine with some edging the boards. French language text. Ex-;library with small library tag pasted on the paste down endpaper in the front of each volume. Significant wear to the bindings of the entire set with tearing, bumped corners, and deterioration of the leather's quality in various states throughout the entire set. Endpapers and title pages in some volumes have tears and stains. Front endpaper torn out in vol. 36. Corner of p. 353 in vol. 58 torn out. Part of outside margin torn out of vol. 61 fr. 29-32. The body pages themselves are clean with only occasionaly spotting thoughtout. While the set shows its age, none of the volume are broken or missing content. The set remains highly readable. Please note that additional shipping costs will apply.


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Opinion: A day to shine a light on Fragile X Syndrome
The High Level Bridge will be lit up in magenta and tea...
Karen Kelm,
The High Level Bridge will be lit up in magenta and teal on Thursday, July 22, to commemorate World Fragile X Day. DAVID BLOOM / POSTMEDIA
The High Level Bridge will be lit up in magenta and teal on Thursday, July 22, to commemorate World Fragile X Day. More than 250 prominent buildings, bridges and monuments worldwide will be illuminated to help spread the word about Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited known cause of autism and intellectual disabilities. In addition to the High Level Bridge, a number of other Canadian landmarks will be illuminated, including: the Calgary Tower, the CN Tower in Toronto, B.C. Place, the Science World Dome in Vancouver, and Niagara Falls.
What is Fragile X? It occurs when a single gene on the X chromosome shuts down. This gene is responsible for producing a specific protein that aids in brain development. It is this lack of protein that causes Fragile X syndrome, which affects one in 4,000 boys and one in 8,000 girls worldwide. It can be passed silently down through generations in a family before a child is born with the syndrome. Fragile X has been found in all major ethnic groups and races.
Individuals living with Fragile X can struggle with intellectual disabilities, delayed motor development, behaviour challenges, anxiety, poor eye contact and language delays. These challenges necessitate multiple social, educational, and health-care supports. These supports are unique to every individual and may include therapies, specialized programs and supports in school and the community, and health-care specialists. Families are primarily responsible to balance this care co-ordination.
There is a unique joy that is spread by individuals living with Fragile X and a strong desire to feel included in their community. Individuals thrive on personal connection. Once a relationship has been built with someone living with Fragile X, you will see how their smile lights up a room. The very distinct personality traits associated with Fragile X can include compassion and empathy to those around them. Their excellent memory and humour lead to a lot of laughter and jokes — a lot. The devotion shown to friends and dedication towards their passions leave a lasting impression on everyone.
Fragile X was unknown until about a generation ago. Since that time, scientific research and medical treatments have contributed to great strides in our understanding of this genetic disorder. Effective treatments have been developed to help individuals and families affected, including educational and behavioural strategies, as well as speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. And medications are now available to help manage symptoms.
Researchers continue to investigate ways to restore the missing protein in individuals diagnosed with Fragile X. More research is required and depends to a large extent on increased global awareness, especially as more clinical trials are launched, and more scientists and pharma companies become engaged. Undoubtedly, further research on Fragile X will lead to more effective treatments — and ultimately a cure.
Individuals diagnosed with Fragile X are cared for primarily by their families — parents, siblings, and grandparents. Family physicians and educators are now supportively learning about Fragile X, but there is a long road ahead in this knowledge transfer. Also, genetics clinics at major hospitals are providing valuable resources, helping diagnose cases of Fragile X.
We are fortunate in Alberta to have Dr. Francois Bolduc, a pediatric neurologist, at the University of Alberta, to be welcomed as the newest member of the international Fragile X Clinical and Research Consortium. Additionally, Dr. Raymond W. Turner and his team at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, and Owerko Centre at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine have made a significant advancement in the treatment of Fragile X. Canadian researchers continue to make an impact on scientific research around the world.
The national and international networks of individuals and organizations focused on Fragile X is truly impressive. These organizations encompass a diverse group of individuals including parents, family members, educators, researchers, and other health-care providers. The Canadian Fragile X Foundation works with sister organizations in the United States, and with groups in Europe, Mexico, South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
World Fragile X Day is important for raising awareness and for celebrating individuals and families living with Fragile X. It's also an opportunity to illuminate the progress being made on research and treatment. That's why, with hope and optimism, we're shining a light on this disorder by illuminating landmarks like the High Level Bridge.
Karen Kelm and David Mitchell are two Albertans who serve on the board of directors of the Canadian Fragile X Foundation.
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