Psalm 27:11 "Teach me your way, O Lord; lead me in a straight path." I have not followed that straight path in my life, I always went back to the path though and God has always welcomed me back. He finally gave me my wonderful daughter to keep me on the path. A walk with God through life is living a peaceful, kind and generous life. It is a life of constant study of the Word so that you remember where the path is to follow. Are you on a good path to joy and peace?
Get Fit
I took a nice long walk like I used to 5 years ago. I wanted to see the new senior rehab and living center they built on Greater Mack by me. It is huge and I had to wonder if somewhere down the line I will be a person looking out of one of those windows. It might seem like a morbid thought to you but I can see St Paul Lutheran church, where I used to go right across the street and if necessary I could walk to Sunday services there. Hey! not tomorrow but maybe someday.
On this day
2000 I was working and Nicole was starting basketball practice. That is one thing she never missed. When I got home from work I took Nicole over to First English for youth group, another thing she never missed. She was 15 and the youth group were a strong adhesive bunch of teenagers led by a great guy, Bruce - he was the glue. I went back to church and drove Lauren and Maddy home afterward. I was never too tired to keep her on the path of being in the right place.
1735 - The "Evening Post" of Boston, MA, was published for the first time. Oh the power of the pen.
Vietnam
Economy
In 2012, Vietnam's nominal GDP reached US$138 billion, with a nominal GDP per capita of $1,527.[7] According to a December 2005 forecast by Goldman Sachs, the Vietnamese economy will become the world's 21st-largest by 2025, with an estimated nominal GDP of $436 billion and a nominal GDP per capita of $4,357.[99] According to a 2008 forecast by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vietnam may be the fastest-growing of the world's emerging economies by 2025, with a potential growth rate of almost 10% per annum in real dollar terms.[100] In 2012, HSBC predicted that Vietnam's total GDP would surpass those of Norway, Singapore and Portugal by 2050.[101]
Vietnam has been for much of its history a predominantly agricultural civilization based on wet rice cultivation. There is also an industry for bauxite mining in Vietnam, an important material for the production of aluminum. The Vietnamese economy is shaped primarily by the Vietnamese Communist Party in Five Year Plans made through the plenary sessions of the Central Committee and national congresses.
The collectivization of farms, factories and capital goods was carried out as components in establishing central planning, with millions of people working in state enterprises. Vietnam's economy has been plagued with inefficiency and corruption in state-owned enterprises, poor quality and underproduction, and restrictions on economic activity. It also suffered from the post-war trade embargo instituted by the United States and most of Europe. These problems were compounded by the erosion of the Soviet bloc, which included Vietnam's main trading partners, in the late 1980s.
In 1986, the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party introduced socialist-oriented market economic reforms as part of the Đổi Mới reform program. Private ownership was encouraged in industries, commerce and agriculture; and state enterprises were restructured to operate under market constraints.[102] Thanks largely to these reforms, Vietnam achieved around 8% annual GDP growth between 1990 and 1997, and the economy continued to grow at an annual rate of around 7% from 2000 to 2005, making Vietnam one of the world's fastest growing economies. Growth remained strong even in the face of the late-2000s global recession, holding at 6.8% in 2010, but Vietnam's year-on-year inflation rate hit 11.8% in December 2010, according to a GSO estimate. The Vietnamese đồng was devalued three times in 2010 alone.[103] This is an interesting read regarding communism's government owned business vs
private owned business.
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