Enjoy Thanksgiving meal at PTCUMC tonight and provide meals for others

The annual church wide Thanksgiving “Blessed to be a Blessing” meal is set for tonight, Nov. 20, at the Robinson Road Campus of Peachtree City United Methodist Church. Tickets may be purchased at the church office.

In addition to enjoying a delicious traditional Thanksgiving meal with fabulous fellowship, those attending can purchase a meal as a gift for a shut-in member of the church, provide a dinner for Big Bethel Trinity House, and purchase a Meals on Wheels Thanksgiving and Christmas Day meal for Fayette Senior Services.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-20-2013/enjoy-thanksgiving-meal-ptcumc-tonight-and-provide-meals-others

Dogwood’s GriefShare seminar starts tonight

Dogwood Church in Tyrone will offer GriefShare – Surviving the Holidays, a seminar, Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 7-9 p.m.

The group will meet in the Atrium area of the church office.

The video presentation offers suggestions on how to handle hard-hitting emotions during the holiday season, what to do about family traditions, how to scale back on activities and holiday preparations, and where to find the strength to go on.

“I learned that it’s okay not to carry on every tradition, and it’s okay to cut back on invitations,” shared a seminar attendee.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-20-2013/dogwood%E2%80%99s-griefshare-seminar-starts-tonight

Hopewell welcomes Kenneth White as new director of music ministries

After an extensive search, members of Hopewell United Methodist Church in Tyrone hired Kenneth A. White as their new director of music ministries. The native Atlantan has a stellar reputation throughout the southeast as both a director and performer of a wide variety of music.

White has 30 years experience in sacred church music, 25 years experience in conducting professional symphony orchestras, 30 years experience in audio-visual and lighting, and 18 years experience as an artistic director and professional fund raiser in the community orchestra and choral arena.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-20-2013/hopewell-welcomes-kenneth-white-new-director-music-ministries

For The First Time In Four Years Caterpillar Posts Negative Retail Sales Across The Board

All “recovery watchers” are urged to look somewhere else than the just released monthly Caterpillar dealer retail sales. Because while in September there was some hope that North American industrial demand may finally be picking up when retail sales on the continent posted the first two month sequential increase since 2012 even as the rest of the world was stuck deep in negative territory, that hope too was just been dashed with October North American retail sales posting the first decline of -2% since July. And unfortunately while North American sales just rejected any glimmer of a localized recovery, the rest of the world just keeps getting worse and worse, with negative sales prints across the board for every region – the first time this has happened since February 2010. The only difference is that then the trend was higher. Now, well, it isn’t.

As for the rest of the CAT story: we have covered it more than enough in the past – find more here, here, here and here. And then there is, of course, Jim Chanos.


    



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New High: 56 Percent Say it is Not Govt’s Job to Ensure Americans Have Healthcare

Just 5 years ago
Gallup found only 28 percent of Americans thought government
did not have the responsibility to “make sure all Americans have
healthcare coverage.” However, today Gallup finds the highest
number since it began asking the question—56 percent—say government
does not have a responsibility to ensure all American have
healthcare coverage. Even a majority (55 percent) of Independents
say government does not have this responsibility. 

Source:
Gallup

Throughout much of the 2000s, a solid majority of Americans
believed it was government’s job to ensure all Americans have
healthcare coverage, hitting a high in 2006 when 69 percent agreed
while 28 percent said it was not government’s responsibility.
However, after 2006, Gallup measured a steady decline among those
who believed government should ensure healthcare for all.

By the time Congress began debating remaking the American health
care system in 2009, Americans were evenly split and remained so
until 2011.

However, once actual implementation of the Affordable Care
Act/Obamacare got underway, the public for the first time since
Gallup began asking the question diverged against government’s role
in health care. Between 2011 and 2013 the share of Americans who
believe it is not government’s job to ensure healthcare coverage
increased +10 points from 46 to 56 percent.

Not only the glitch-ridden roll out of the healthcare law
explains this results, but partisanship also. In 2000, only a slim
majority (53 percent) of Republicans believed government should
not be responsible for healthcare coverage and 42 percent
believe it did. Just 13 short years later, while also losing most
of Congress and the presidency, 86 percent of Republicans say its
not government job to ensure healthcare coverage and 12 percent say
it is. These are roughly 30-point swings in roughly a decade.

from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/20/new-high-56-percent-of-americans-say-pro
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Flat Creek Baptist presents Back to Bethlehem

Flat Creek Baptist Church of Fayetteville invites the public to “Back to Bethlehem,” where one can experience life as it was in the days of Jesus’s birth. The event features a live nativity and interactive workshops. Children can make candles, bread, musical instruments and more.

Back to Bethlehem will be held Dec. 8. from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Flat Creek Baptist Church, 161 Flat Creek Trail, between Ga. Hwy. 54 and Tyrone Rd., Fayetteville.

For more information, visit www.flatcreekbaptist.org.

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Fayette Fiddlers to perform at Carriage Lane

Seventy young violinists known as the Fayette Fiddlers will perform songs of the Christmas season Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City.

New this year is an orchestra performance featuring an array of talent from accomplished musicianship to toddlers still learning the basics of violin.

The public is invited to attend this free event.

For more information, visit fiddlerfry@bellsouth.net or call 770-487-8943.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-20-2013/fayette-fiddlers-perform-carriage-lane

Religion Briefs 11/20/13

SDA Church will host Family Fun Night
The Fayette Seventh Day Adventist Church family will host its Family Fun Night on Nov. 23,  from 7-11 p.m.  featuring Jamaican, Antiguan, Dominican, Trinidadian, Mexican, and Filipino cuisine, hay rides, ping pong, face painting, hula hoop, basketball, dominoes, cake walks and much more. Admission is free. Call 678-665-8767 for more details. The church is at 814 New Hope Rd., Fayetteville.

COS will host Thanksgiving supper

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-20-2013/religion-briefs-112013

“Whatever It Takes”: European Corporate Results Crater Thanks To Strong Euro

Talking-heads and commission-takers have momentum-chased clients’ hard-earned money into Europe’s ‘what works now’ markets – on the basis of what has now proved to be entirely fallacious macro- and micro-fundamental improvement (as we noted here and here). But, while “whatever it takes” has smashed bond spreads lower and has blown stock prices higher; most critically, the ‘confidence’ has seen the EUR rise almost 15% against the USD from its July 2012 “whatever It Takes” lows. The effect of this EUR strength is to collapse earnings growth expectations as European competitiveness is crushed (core or periphery). Of course, bulls can rest assured, as the following chart shows, 2014 is expected to hockey-stock back to record EPS growth (just like 2013 was supposed to?).

 

So it would seem, “whetever it takes” now means – jawbone the EUR down whenever we can… (and we wonder what that will do to US earnings as the USD is ramped)…

 

Source: UBS


    



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"Whatever It Takes": European Corporate Results Crater Thanks To Strong Euro

Talking-heads and commission-takers have momentum-chased clients’ hard-earned money into Europe’s ‘what works now’ markets – on the basis of what has now proved to be entirely fallacious macro- and micro-fundamental improvement (as we noted here and here). But, while “whatever it takes” has smashed bond spreads lower and has blown stock prices higher; most critically, the ‘confidence’ has seen the EUR rise almost 15% against the USD from its July 2012 “whatever It Takes” lows. The effect of this EUR strength is to collapse earnings growth expectations as European competitiveness is crushed (core or periphery). Of course, bulls can rest assured, as the following chart shows, 2014 is expected to hockey-stock back to record EPS growth (just like 2013 was supposed to?).

 

So it would seem, “whetever it takes” now means – jawbone the EUR down whenever we can… (and we wonder what that will do to US earnings as the USD is ramped)…

 

Source: UBS


    



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