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How does one define a dangerous bird?
Senate Minority Leader Mike Hall posed the question Tuesday, moments before the 32-1 approval of a proposal to regulate the private ownership of animals not indigenous to West Virginia.
Hall's question provoked some chuckles, but Senate Natural Resources Chairman Bill Laird, D-Fayette, lead sponsor of the "Dangerous Wild Animals Act," took it seriously.
"I'm struggling to figure that one out," Hall, R-Putnam, told Laird.
Hall explained that some of his constituents wondered if the proposed act would apply to parrots and the like.
In response, Laird said the bill is intended to address animals that could pose "an imminent danger" to the public health or native animals.
"So, it might be pigeons or whatever that you're feeding, or whatever?" Hall persisted.
Then, he answered his line of questioning, noting that the bill, if approved by the House and signed by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, actually wouldn't become law for another year.
The reason for the one-year delay is, that rules would have to be made by the Legislature next year once a special board comprised of representatives of the Department of Agriculture, Health and Human Resources, and the Division of Natural Resources implements the bill's intent.
Members of the board also would set up requirements for caging and enclosure for such animals, establish fees, enforcement of permits and an annual review of the list of prohibited animals.
"West Virginia is one of only eight states that lack any restrictions for dangerous wild animals kept by private individuals," Laird told the Senate.
SB466 defines dangerous wild animals as any mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian or aquatic animal including hybrids that pose a threat to humans or other animals owing to their inherent nature, the senator said.
Excluded are wildlife, agriculture and domestic animals.
Unless specified in the measure, no one could own such an animal, and it allows police and county humane officers, along with the state veterinarian, to confiscate and euthanize any animals that pose "an imminent harm to the public," Laird said.
In seeking a permit to keep such animals, he explained, an individual must provide proof of liability insurance. Violations are covered with both criminal and civil penalties.
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Tonawanda News — An Erie County jury has awarded $3 million to the family of a GM worker who died from asbestos exposure, according to the terms of a settlement related to a recent New York State Supreme Court case.
Gerald Suttner, formerly of Tonawanda, worked at the GM Powertrain Facility in the town for 36 years. From 1964 to 1979, he repaired valves manufactured by Crane Co., a job that involved removing asbestos gaskets which created visible dust.
In October of 2010, he was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, a form of cancer that is normally caused by asbestos research. He died one year later at the age of 77.
An Illinois firm, Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd LLC, along with attorneys from local law firm Lipsitz & Ponterio, LLC, represented Suttner's wife and adult dependent daughter in the case against Crane Co.
During the trial, expert witnesses testified that there is no such thing as safe asbestos exposure and assured the jury that Suttner's exposure is what led to his diagnosis.
Attorneys argued that the dangers of asbestos have been known since the early 1900s, and Crane was aware of them since the 1930s.
"But the company continued to use asbestos well into the late 1980s without placing warnings on its products," the law firm's statement reads.
The two-week trial was presided over by New York State Supreme Court Justice Hon. John P. Lane, and the jury assigned 4 percent of the damages to Crane. The remaining money will come from other responsible entities that settled out of court.
Suttner retired from GM in 1997 and helped his wife, Joann, care for their disabled daughter.
As a national officer for the Shriners organization, Suttner also served as a volunteer for the Shriners Hospital in Erie, Pa., and drove children back-and-forth to the facility. He also played in a band that raised money for the hospital.
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Who the cap fit
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Two heavy Sahibs are presiding over a small dinner party in the Jonkanoo Lounge of the Sheraton-Kingston. In the background the house band is playing calypso versions of such Rum Culture standards as "You Go to My Head" and "I Get a Kick Out of You." They are Chris Blackwell, the young Jamaican Caucasian heir to a tea and spice plantation who founded Island Records, and Michael Butler, the "hip millionaire" who backed "Hair.'
Butler is in Kingston in connection with a new reggae musical he hopes to put on the Broadway boards by next fall. It will be called "Irie' and presumably it will do for the Armageddon of the Rastas what Butler's previous production did for the Aquarius of the hippies.
Asked if he intends to hire a real Rasta cast, Butler yawns. "Well, I'd like to . . . but I don't know how many Rastas belong to Actor's Equity in New Yawk."
The two young millionaires look like two peas in a pod. But it becomes obvious that Blackwell is not all that thrilled about Butler's intention to translate his beloved roots music into a slick Broadway musical. Until a few years ago the rip-off on the grand scale was standard practice in Kingston, with greedy shyster producers paying musicians $10 or $15 for a session and pocketing the royalties themselves. Black-well is credited with almost singlehandedly changing all that; he at least pays his artists advances and gives them a fair share of the royalties, and the precedent he set forced other labels to follow suit. He is also most responsible for spreading the gospel of roots beyond the Trench Town ghetto and the Third World. He did it by literally busting his hump – pedaling around London on a bicycle in the mid-Sixties with stacks of singles under his arm, personally delivering product to record stores and hustling disc jockeys to at least give a listen to this contagious roots music of the Jamaican Rude Boys.
There is this story they tell, possibly even true, about the incident that made Black-well devote his life to spreading the fever. It, seems that some years ago, Blackwell's car broke down in the Blue Mountains – Rasta country – and he was forced to seek shelter in one of their primitive encampments. Being white and growing up in Jamaica, Blackwell was understandably wary of the Rastas. But when the righteous brethren extended hospitality as though he were one of their own, he dedicated himself to making the indigenous roots music of these good and much maligned people a household word on both continents.
Thus, when it is suggested that it would be ironic if Michael Butler rather than Bob Marley finally breaks reggae in a big way in the States, Blackwell says, "Yes, that would be most ironic indeed."
Then Butler asks, "By the way, Chris, where does one go to hear some good live reggae music here in Kingston?"
A sly Cheshire cat smile spreads across Blackwell's face. "I'm afraid, Michael, that one doesn't," he answers. "You see, reggae isn't really what you would call a live music per se . . . The only place it really exists is on record."
Butler is crushed, but Blackwell isn't quite finished. "I'm afraid, Michael, that the only live music you're going to hear in Kingston is the kind of terrible tourist crap we're listening to right now," he concludes, as the house band climaxes, loud and corn-ball, its raucous calypso rendition of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country
Now you look me with a scorn
Then you eat up all my corn
—"Crazy Baldhead" Rastaman Vibration
The first time I met Rastafarians in any significant numbers and felt the full impact of the wild, freaking frightwigs they call dreadlocks up close was over at Tommy Cowan's rehearsal studios, in a small stucco building surrounded by several dilapidated shacks on a back lot in North Kingston. Six or seven Rastas and three white visitors were crowded into a small room filled with ganga smoke, listening to a new single, "Babylon Queen-dom," by former Wailers rhythm guitarist Peter Tosh. There was a lot of sly signifying going on.
Tosh showed up at the studio wearing a "Legalize It" T-shirt (a promo item for his single of the same name – banned from the public airwaves but available in every ghetto record stall) with wildass natty dreads wigging out and probably enough cannabis resin in the Sherlock Holmesian "chalis" jutting out of his Fearless Fosdick jaw to put him in the Herb Jail until such time as Babylon finally saw fit to fall. In other words: a Rasta right down to his corn plastas.
Back in the mid-Sixties Tosh, Bob Marley and Bunny Livingstone had formed the island's most popular recording group in the Trench Town ghetto when they were still called the the Wailing Rudeboys. Tosh was here, talking with Gregg Russell, a sullen young man with one wild dread sticking smack out of the center of his forehead like a rhino horn. Like most Rastas who chain-smoke the sacred herb as a sacrament, Russell appeared to be semicomatose.
The only Rasta who looked slightly less than righteous was Tommy Cowan, a beefy record producer whose relatively tame dreadlocks seemed not quite kosher. But Cowan thrust a fist into the air with the others and said, "Jah Rastafar-I" with the same righteous fervor when Tosh sang, "Babylon Queendom, take back your dollahs!"
Considering that these very Rastas were compromising their staunch separatist principles for nothing other than Babylon's despised dollars by consenting, however reluctantly, to this experiment in culture shock and publicity which had come to think of as the "Greening of the Rastafari," the line seemed ironic indeed. But when I mentioned this to Tosh, he patiently explained that the money of Babylon was mere paper which would be useless when Babylon finally fell.
"Render unto Caesar what be his, mon, and giveback what mine," he said, seeming very satisfied with himself for coming up with just the right quote. "Let de Rum Culture keep dem paper money, mon, paper dat is so cheap it not even suffice for rollin' de spliff!"
Ganga has never exactly been legal in Jamaica, but nobody in the Rum Culture got excited about the Rastas and their copious dope smoking until rumors of "a cult of violence" started a campaign of constant police harassment which continues to this day.
"Dem dat enforces de laws of de Rum Culture claim de Herb Mon him violent," said Tosh. "But dem no notice when de Rum Mon crash his car into de schoolbus an "destroy all de innocent childrun inside . . . Dem claim de Herb Mon him kill, but it de Rum Mon who murder in a drunken rage – yeh mon! Herb Mon him no kill . . . him jus' sharpen de blade, sharpen an' polish de blade while meditatin' on him revenge . . . Den him smoke anodder spliff an' him get to feelin' righteous, mon, an' sleep, forgettin' to commit de crime!"
Then a new face appeared in the door, sniffing suspiciously and saying "Phew, mon, what dat smell in heah?"
The outsiders must have been anticipating the same hippie in-joke about the heavy ambiance of dope in the room until he let go with the punch line:
"Mon, it smell like Am-ur-i-ca in heah!"
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And, you know, I was an up and coming young puppeteer. And I said to myself, If he cant do anything with it, how can I come up with something?
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Iowa State men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg did both in the span of two months.
Hoiberg, playing in the Coaches vs. Cancer Charity Classic Monday at Wakonda Club in Des Moines, aced the 135-yard, par-3 17th.
"It was exciting because I was hitting the ball pretty pathetically to be honest with you," Hoiberg told WHO-TV in Des Moines. "I'd love to tell you that I pured a pitching wedge that had a little backspin on it into the hole, but I bladed it a little bit. It had a little side-spin on it. It hit the flag and dropped. I was floored."
Just two months earlier, Hoiberg, who played 10 years in the NBA, had an albatross on a 555-yard par 5 at Cabo del Sol's Ocean Course in Mexico.
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---- — BOSTON — Closing arguments are underway in reputed Boston ganster James "Whitey" Bulger's racketeering trial.
After two months of testimony, prosecutor Fred Wyshak started presenting his closing arguments Monday morning.
Wyshak gets 2 hours and 45 minutes for his arguments before the defense gets to present its case. Then Wyshak gets 30 more minutes for rebuttal.
He told jurors that Bulger was "one of the most vicious, violent and calculating criminals ever to walk the streets of Boston."
Bulger fled Boston in 1994. He was one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives until he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.
He's pleaded not guilty to participating in 19 murders, including that of John McIntyre, a mechanic on the Gloucester-based fishing vessel Valhalla, laundering money and committing weapons offenses and other crimes.
Bulger, 83, is accused of committing a the crimes while leading the Winter Hill Gang in the 1970s and '80s. He fled Boston in 1994 ahead of an indictment and was one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives until he was captured with his longtime girlfriend in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.
Wyshak will have to convince the jurors they can believe at least some of the testimony of three key witnesses against Bulger, all gangsters-turned-informants who admitted committing heinous crimes, including murder, and agreed to testify against him in plea deals with prosecutors.
Defense lawyers J.W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan will split the defense closing argument. During the trial, they spent much of their time trying to rebut a claim from numerous prosecution witnesses that Bulger was a longtime FBI informant who ratted on the rival Mafia and people in his own gang. The defense also focused on attempting to rebut allegations that Bulger strangled two young women.
The jury is expected to begin deliberations Tuesday after receiving instructions on the law from the judge.
Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig, pleaded guilty last year to charges related to helping him stay on the run for more than a decade and was sentenced to eight years in prison. She tried to have her sentenced reduced, saying people who claim their relatives were killed by Bulger shouldn't have been allowed to speak at her sentencing, but an appeals court panel found no basis to change the sentence.


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It's not easy for someone operating in the public sphere to fly under proverbial radar for several decades, especially if a person's vision, leadership and hard work are steadily building something destined to become a community treasure.
But that was just another difficult task Keith Ruble was able to accomplish. In a time when self-promotion is often a key ingredient for building stature and influence, Ruble was content to stay focused on his personal mission and let the results speak for themselves.
Now, Ruble is preparing to step aside and let others care for, and hopefully build on, the impressive local institution he helped to create.
Ruble will retire at year's end as superintendent of the Vigo County Parks and Recreation Department, a post he's held since 1973. In almost 40 years, he's been able to transcend the politics that often permeates local government agencies and departments. Meanwhile, he quietly crafted, sometimes log for log, a parks system that is geographically diverse and provides a nice variety of features to those who enjoy outdoor recreation.
The county's parks system is a great local amenity that helps create a positive image for Vigo County to those who may be considering locating a home or business here. It is certainly something to which residents can point with pride, whether it be Fowler Park's Pioneer Village, Hawthorn Park's trails, labyrinth and wetland, or the new Wabashiki fish and wildlife area on the Wabash River.
Ruble deserves significant recognition for his role in developing the parks system, and county leaders should be preparing to make sure he gets it.
We urge the county commissioners to give serious consideration to renaming one of the county's parks in Ruble's honor. It would show him, and others who toil — sometimes in obscurity — on behalf of the public that their contributions are valued and will be recognized.
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It is early December, and it's a long, long time until March, unless you happen to be a basketball team that has already lost three games and is facing a quartet of games that could come close to making or breaking your season.
That is what Bob Huggins and his West Virginia University Mountaineers are looking at as they go into tonight's 7:30 Capital Classic meeting with in-state rival Marshall.
In a way, the Marshall game starts what might be the most important stretch of games WVU will face this year — meeting Marshall, unbeaten Virginia Tech, an improved Duquesne team on the road, and John Beilein's unbeaten, third-ranked Michigan team in the new arena in Brooklyn, N.Y.
It is part of a really difficult early-season schedule Huggins has strung together, one that may make them a pretty good team by the end of the season, if they don't lose everything they are playing for trying to get there.
"I said when we came in we would upgrade the schedule," Huggins said. "Look at this year's schedule, and it's not any easier next year. It may even be harder. The theory is it does make you better down the stretch. You hope it doesn't screw with the guys' confidence along the way."
Huggins doesn't think that has happened this year.
That certainly didn't happen to center Deniz Kilicli, who is not off to the big start Huggins had anticipated him having. Still, he believes that the best is ahead for WVU.
"It's always better to finish strong than to start good and go down," Kilicli said, perhaps referring to last year's team that struggled through the second half of the season. "This team, once we get everything together, we will win. Huggs knows what he's doing, and if you do exactly what he says we will be fine."
Huggins' last time around in the Big 12 he saw the downside of this philosophy when Kansas State couldn't win the key non-conference games.
"We finished fourth in the Big 12 that year and the NCAA took four teams to the tournament ... but we weren't one of them," he said, pointing to going out to play California and getting "slaughtered" in that game.
The lesson was not lost on him. Playing a strong schedule isn't enough.
You have to play and win ... and that means things have to come together now ... or maybe they never will.
"We need to win games. There isn't any doubt about that," Huggins said. "When they do the NCAA matrix, we used to say that they leaned on the last 10 games of the season, but you haven't heard that in a while.
"If two teams seem equal, they might use who was the better team late, but now they look at how many games did you win against the Top 20? How did you fare against the Top 50? How many of your wins came against teams with losing records?"
And so, just playing teams like Michigan or Purdue or Virginia Tech isn't enough.
You have to win some of them, and that has to begin tonight with Marshall.
Marshall is a big team that will challenge the Mountaineers' rebounding abilities. The Herd averages 43 rebounds a game and pulls down seven more rebounds a game than its opposition.
"They have a ton of bigs," Huggins said, knowing full well that two of his big men — Kevin Noreen and Dominque Rutledge — have ankle sprains. Noreen is likely to play, Rutledge probably not.
Dennis Tinnon and Nigel Spikes both average more than nine rebounds a game, WVU with no one averaging more than the 7.0 boards a game that Aaric Murray pulls down.
Marshall also has a solid point guard in leading scorer DeAndre Kane, who averages 16 points and more than eight assists a game while turning the ball over just 23 times in eight games.
Juwan Staten and Gary Browne have run the point for WVU, with Browne really being spectacular taking care of the ball with 13 assists to three turnovers.
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Comment posted Lochgilphead primary pupil's internet exposure of poor school meals goes viral by Mairi.
Douglas, there's no shortage of such positive, worthwhile aspiration. Indeed, this sort of vision gets wide-spread buy-in. And a good thing that is, too.
What we lack is the abundance of talent it takes to get us there. Think roads paved with good intentions, and all that.
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- Anne, I didn't single out Anne Horne: I called them *all* out for voting to close school kitchens. Anne no more 'saved' the kitchens by reversing their own appalling decision than any other councillor who voted to overturn that folly.
I don't doubt Anne Horn has supporters, and is well-intentioned. Like virtually councillors, I imagine. And I am sorry that you were ill at the time of these events, and so missed that it happened.
So will you now apologise to > Islay for ever < for doubting that this episode ever took place? Your indignation, 'double-checking', 'laying the lives of my kids' was rather unseemly for someone who so recently sought public office.
- But Anne, it *did* see the light of day. Anne Horn, Isobel Strong and *all* the councillors voted to close these six school kitchens. Did you even read the link I provided? They were all culpable, and everyone locally knows that. Most of the councillors themselves even admitted they made a mistake.
Blind, partisan defence of your own party colleagues, while your are evidently ignorant of the key facts, does your cause no favours.
- Anne, you haven't responded to the school kitchen closure issue you commented on at #11 above. You doubted it happened at all, questioning and saying you would:
"… double check? I'd lay the lives of my kids on it that Anne Horn would be at the forefront of any campaign to protect children or their rights and Isobel Strong would be right behind her."
It might be nice if you shared with us what your double-checking revealed.
- Aww, no pictures Douglas … Martha will be disappointed with you
Seriously, this is good news. Two down … lots more to be checked/ audited. Though the message will have gone out to all to 'buck up'.
- The Council voted *unanimously* for its 2009/10 budget which included provision to remove school meals from Rhunahaorine, Glenbarr, Skipness, Lochdonhead, Lismore and Kilchattan. Isobel Strong chaired the education committee at that time, as at the time the SNP and Alliance councillors were in coalition. Asleep at the wheel, I would say.
The councillors then confessed to not really understanding what they had voted to do, so reversed the decision, one that was intended to save £40,000. It is all documented here, http://www.kintyreforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7533&start=30.
As a candidate at the recent election, Anne, I am surprised you are so unaware of these important recent local events.
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- John MacGregor
That's a very thoughtful, warm tribute in such terribly sad circumstances. I hope his family and friends take some comfort from these kind words.
Condolences to all who are affected.
- Anas Sarwar: on the indyref bus with Labour on the move
It's highly instructive to hear what a UK MP like Anas has to say about the situation in the Middle East. He is an influential member of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East, and his commitment to this area and interest in the issues affecting it pre-date his election as an MP, by some margin. Here's what he's said about the most recent violence http://www.anassarwar.org/?p=1230
So we should judge that booing for what it was: the bullying tactics of political opponents who have little genuine interest in the cause of Palestine. Surely they'd have been listening, if they really cared?
- SNP in serious split in Oban North & Lorn by election
And while we're correcting things, the Council website shows the spelling of her name as: Marri Malloy.
- Shaming defence from FM as Salmond's own adviser attacks young No Thanks supporter
It's a pity that Loki has gone, because I'd like to thank him for sharing with all of us the positive, personal experience he's had of our wonderful NHS – across the UK. And also to wish him well with any further treatment he might need.
He also illustrates so beautifully how – despite being autonomous in each of England, Northern Ireland and Wales – the NHS cooperates across the UK for the benefit of each UK resident. That is a perfect example of how the NHS works for every one of us: we get what we need, wherever in the UK the specialist service is located. This is the positive case for staying united.
You only need to look at the widening differences in how student fees are levied on people from different parts of the UK to see how – with independence – things could unravel. Since the Scottish government currently charges youngsters from Wales, Northern Ireland and England £9,000 per year to study here, what's to stop it introducing charges for the reciprocal health care that we all currently get for free?
They might all say that they wouldn't. But that's just what the current regimes are committing to. In future – under independence – there would be nothing to stop either Scotland or the rest of the UK from levying differential charges. As happens right now with university fees, a practice I find wholly discriminatory.
- Shaming defence from FM as Salmond's own adviser attacks young No Thanks supporter
An email designed to discredit a person – essentially a smear – falls firmly within the ambit of the Code. And Campbell knows this, hence his fulsome apology.
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I'm trying to wise up 300 million people about money & finance
I have my doubts about the the wisdom of our entrusted Wise Men in understanding the past in order to predict the future.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a George Washington University class last week ( I saw it on C-Span) that the 2008 financial crisis took place because "nobody was looking at the whole system."
Almost simultaneously former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was telling another GWU group, televised on C-Span, that "no one saw the Long Tail coming," meaning that no Wall Street leader, no economist, no legislative committee, no regulator, could predict the perfect storm of all investment assets collapsing at the same time.
I beg to differ. Here, from a piece I wrote on June 18, 2007 — more than a year before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, I was talking to a whole mess of well-connected people about what danger we might be in.
Gail Fosler, President of the Conference Board, told me in March, 2007: "This is a bubble which could be as large or larger as the financial crisis we saw in the late 1990s."
Gary Schinasi, an IMF economist, warned me that "There could be a tsunami of credit evolving into a perfect storm. When positions unravel liquidity evaporates quickly and systemic issues impact innocent bystanders."
Fitch Ratings predicted a debt bubble driven by credit derivatives swaps exploding.
Tim Geithner, then president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank,( March, 2007) warned of a "greater risk of systemic financial crisis due to excessive leverage and hedge funds doing 60% of the trades in credit derivative swaps." But he never instructed the major money center banks like Citigroup to immediately and massively reduce the assets on their balance sheet, no matter the price obtained.
J.P. Morgan Chase's derivative research department was every week publishing reports advising their clients their opinion that some sub-prime mortgage backed bonds were in the process of losing 80% of their value. I know this is true because I saw and read these documents and reported on them.
A small band of investment banks, led by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Barclays created in 2006 their own private index, the ABX, to enable them to hedge their positions in derivatives, and to make billions by selling short these dangerous securities they had created. They understood quite succintly they would be faced by a meltdown, a "perfect storm," a "Long-Tail."
Last week, I was shocked that Bernanke told his class at GWU that "it was a bad choice to rescue AIG… because it made it safe for a big firm to fail." This is absurd, since AIG, the largest insurance company in the world, failing, would have threatened the dozens of banks and other financial institutions around the globe who were its counter-party on hundreds of billions of transactions and loans. Only chaos would have resulted.
Nor do I have confidence that the Financial Stability Council, which includes every regulatory agency like the SEC, the Treasury, the CFTC, the FDIC etc, will see in advance the dangers and coalesce on quick bold policy to rescue the system. Moreover, this Stability Council, can only SUGGEST. It cannot insist on action and produce it.
Rubin is on stronger ground recommending that there be both margin required on all derivative position– and additional capital be prescribed as the quid pro quo for holding many tens of trillions of derivative contracts on their books. If the Volcker rule that limits gambling by banks gets gutted, you will know to start biting your nails again.
Mr. Lenzner,
There is a story about Nikita Khrushchev. Supposedly he was addressing some Central Committee meeting denouncing the terrible crimes of Josef Stalin. Someone in the large room says "Where were you when all of this was going on?". Mr. Khrushchev pounds his fist on the table and says in a threatening voice "WHO SAID THAT?" and looks around. When no one answered he is alleged to have said "That is where I was". Mr. Khrushchev was of course complicit with more than a few of the crimes he later denounced. This is where the regulatory community in Washington is now. They turned a blind eye to the excesses of the last decade and even helped where it could. How can they now clean the house that they helped to ruin? There is no one with clean hands, including Mr. Bernacke.
Hi Rob,
You seem to have posted the unedited version of the article. There are a few typos and it is 'credit default swaps' not 'credit derivative swaps'.
When the party is going on in full blast, it takes a lot of courage and leadership to see that the direction of the party is catastrophic, particularly when the party is fun and highly intoxicating. People who see the catastrophe building, and who have the power to stop the party, always make small adjustments and think they have are in control and can stem the tide. The strength of humans is that we can do extraordinary things when we believe we can. This same virtue becomes our failing when we start believing that we can really do anything that we believe, particularly when we are in power.
The answer is, nobody wants to stop the party. If you know a thing or two about what is happening, make a quick buck while you can!
Knowledge is gained by studying and understanding the past and applying changes developed from that understanding. Knowledge is communicated in several ways, but they all require a communicator and a receiver and a communication channel without noise and distortion. The noise of the crowd trying to communicate is overcome by the rustle of dollar bills. Anybody preaching the perfect storm fallacy needs to review the causes of the problem and the best responses to it. What's scary about that is the status of the folks with that problem. We have a body of knowledge gained from economic performance or non-performance over the past 80 years. While the players may change, the rules may change and the financial vehicles may change, the basic offenses against financial ethics, trust and fairness do not. Once the game is identified, the products and processes that carry the unacknowledged excess risk can be identified and failure can likely be predicted because at this level we can see the offenses. They can be addressed and corrections made before complete failure. We keep doing the same dumb stuff over and over again and this time we failed to take approriate corrective action because we believed this was a unique situation. At the bottom, it's the same primary set of offenses we see most of the time. We wail about taxes and government spending and ratios of various thing to GDP and those things have far less to do with our economic situation than money supply and the operation of markets. I fear for our economy and our nation unless someone steps forward to provide guidence and leadership based on the broad principles stated above. The leadership of both political parties exhibit an ignorance of economics that seems to be far too prevalent.
You were correct. Wish we listened.
Also, see NYT article from Sept 30, 1999 warning about the mortgage risk.
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Robert, this is a superb, succinct overview that has much to say – not just about economics and all of the alleged pundits delegated in government, banking, and private and institutional investment, but about ecological economics. The "perfect storm" you reference is entirely comparable to those catastrophic convergences that have long loomed, many erupting, within a barrage of biological sectors, not least of which, the more than 7000 global fisheries in decline; the reality of vastly accelerated global warming and its biodiversity fall-out; the huge daily toll of population and species extinctions; the extraordinarily rapid and unexpected human demographic surge whose momentum has far outpaced any so-called replacement fertility, and with it – enormous ecological consumer footprints (the IPAT equation) of Ehrlich/Ehrlich & Holdren.
What really brings home your message is the very tragic passing away this mid-March of one of the world's great whistle-blowers, long ignored: the chemist Frank Sherwood Rowland who, with Mario Molina as early as 1973 at the University of California-Irvine, recognized that the earth, and all her resident life forms (read: all economic systems as dependent upon the fragility of all ecosystem services) was greatly imperiled by the thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer as a result of CFCs; the decimation of O3 by the human-induced rapid release of chlorine atoms.
Most kids in school now know the story; it reads with all the same "I told you so" veracity of the life of Rachel Carson and her own efforts to stir the scientific and legal communities to recognize and enact legislation to halt the reckless abuse of the biosphere by pouring DDT everywhere they heard the buzz of a mosquito.
In the case of CFCs, the Montreal Protocol was internationally signed into law, but only 16 years after Rowland and Molina (and others, including British scientists in the Antarctic in 1983) brought the attention of the governments of the world, not to mention Wall Street – to the table. Paul Crutzen, Molina and Rowland were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry – 22 years after the discovery of a chemical mismatch, driven by human industry and consumption, that was on its way to literally destroying life as we know it.
The point, obviously, is that people are slow to wake up, to change. It truly takes the sky falling and a tremendous shadow over the land turning upside down the ambient temperature, to shake the human collective from its lethargy and inward-thinking stride. But positive change is inevitable and the critical mass appears, from my perspective, to respond with individual efforts to do the right thing.
In economic, and ecological terms, the problem these days, of course, is that time is of the essence.
I'm middle-class America and not connected to the financial industry and yet even I was able to say after 9/11 that it would not be terrorists that brought down our financial institutions but rather our own people – there were too many games being played at all levels: government, financial institutions, Wall Street, investors and even Main Street. I know that you don't suddenly have massive numbers of people qualifying for home loans that couldn't qualify before without increasing risk [Spare me the accusations about not wanting the poor to have good things – believe me, I understand the desire. My family never owned a home most of the time I was growing up]. I know that ballooning housing prices can't stay up forever much less keep going up and then they go down hard. I know that NINJA loans are a big gamble and easy to walk away from because the buyer has none of their own savings at risk; if the property escalates, great for the buyer, if not, too bad for the lender. I knew that the vast majority of people weren't saving – even those who could well afford to save. Many in my circle were expressing similar concerns. I also told my husband that U.S. currency could become worthless much like Southern dollars did after the Civil War – he said that couldn't happen because we're too big. We've made a good start. He said the same thing about the financial sector collapse.
In Barbara W. Tuchman's book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, she identifies four types of misgovernment: 1) Tyranny or oppression 2) Excessive ambition as in "Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a master-race" 3) incompetence or decadence, 4) folly or perversion. "Wooden-headedness" is a component of misgovernment; I think we currently call it "willful blindness". She says, "Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts. It is epitomized in a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the surpassing wooden-head of all sovereigns: 'No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.'" Leaders seem to be pursuing a lot of things that are not in the long-term self-interest of our nation. They're putting on lipstick and nail polish while vital organs are dying.
This disaster was not a force of nature that befell us – it was crafted by human hands and minds. A lot of people played games with the health of our whole system and now they want to dodge the blame or even claim victimhood. A lot of innocent people got hurt by these 'wise guys' and a great nation got hurt – possibly mortally. And, to add insult to injury, many of those same people now want to be our 'Protectors' and 'Defenders'. There have been many times in history when people needed to be protected from their Protectors and this is another one. Doesn't it make you think of the kind of protection the Mob provides?
Mr. Lenzner, one does well to remember that history looks a lot clearer in retrospect, when the clouds of warnings about the things that DIDN'T happen have faded. A thousand warnings, three come true – and three prognosticators are suddenly savants, even if they have no track record. Did Gary Shilling or Nouriel Roubini, who foresaw Oct. '08 accurately, have established records of being right? (No.)
As obvious as an outcome may look today, there was always some level of uncertainty as the earlier events unfolded. In a panic like that of Oct. '08, emotion-driven markets can do things that couldn't be anticipated – or more accurately, might have been just one of thousands of outcomes that were each unlikely but still possible.
This is not to excuse either Goldman Sachs, the Fed or the Treasury Dept., because they were not dealing with that level of uncertainty. Goldman had inside information (low quality of subprime bundles) about an impenetrable security they helped create and in which they had huge positions. They hedged further by selling to their own customers, exposing them to high and obscured risk. This was never for them a routine situation with one-of-many possible risks. For their part, the Treasury Dept and the Fed were quite aware of how functioning banks could be shut down by statutory means (not insolvency or losses). They let Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros – old and venerated banks – fail in the blink of an eye rather than easing reserve requirements or MTM valuations. The latter was the obvious route to maintain an orderly market. Instead they triggered a 'who's next?' panic that froze Wall St. The point is that this was not any one-of-a-thousand event to them either (there is also the little matter of Goldman's clever next moves, done while ex-Goldman CEO Paulson was Treasury Secretary).
The point is that for outsiders like journailsts, it is very hard to see what is happening – though many will later claim credit for doing so. The real story of '08 always was the insiders who could see just fine and the bunglers in the government who threw gasoline on the fire – then followed by the public paying a terrible price.
experts and non-experts have one thing in common. they both can be wrong. there are too many so called experts, etc. and too few real experts! the hardest thing to predict is the future. and…history repeats!


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Nevertheless, Milton coach George Goodwin believes facing the Defenders may have helped his team prepare for the Wildcats (1-1 overall, HAC-I) because both teams use a variety of offensive sets.
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"Playing Warrior Run, which gave us so many different sets kind of prepared our defense for some of the things they saw (on film from Mifflinburg)," Goodwin said., "They run unbalanced, wildcat formations, they like to get the ball dispersed to their athletes and we are going to have to play sound fundamental football," Goodwin added.
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Jarred Lynn Ferrell also entered not guilty pleas to multiple indictments alleging he and Larry Glen Nichols stole copper from air conditioners.
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Niagara Gazette — Happy belated Father's Day to James Fullerton Trott who is the historical "Father of our Schools" and to all our present day fathers who have this annual opportunity to celebrate this honorable and important status in their life; a status that should not be taken lightly as it bears a tremendous significance for the future.
More research into past Gazette articles led me to lots of discoveries about Trott. Before 1919, vocational training was not offered in any day school program in Niagara Falls. In September of that year, 32 pupils were enrolled in a machine shop class in the basement of 24th Street School. The following year an electrical shop course was offered at Niagara Street School. Things started happening in this regard as a vocational advisory committee was formed made up of members of labor, industry and the board of education. In 1923 an apprentice training program was established with the assistance of the Employer's Association of Niagara Falls and various trade unions.
The student enrollment kept increasing and finally the Board of Education decided to build a new vocational school in 1927. A contract was awarded to Laur and Mack Building Company. The Gazette described it on opening day as "a hub of sorts — centrally located so that it could be easily reached from any part of the city." School officials called it the city's "monument to industrial evolution" and "a great and useful civic servant".
The school was patterned after real life industrial conditions as its design combined a typical school and factory design. Forty-eight rooms included shops, classrooms and other amenities such as a cafeteria, gym, library and pool. Trott also housed the Central Junior High School as city enrollment was growing at a fast pace and its facilities were needed. The first graduating class consisted of 17 boys in June of 1931. By 1939 enrollment was 779 students and Trott was selected to form the WPA program locally.