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Excerpted from The Rooms of Heaven by Mary Allen. Copyright © 2000 by Mary Allen. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Q: THE ROOMS OF HEAVEN looks at a dramatic period in your life. What made you decide to write the book?
A: In 1990, in Iowa City, I met and fell in love with a smart, handsome tuck-pointer named Jim Beaman. A tuck-pointer is someone who repairs chimneys, balancing on rooftops and scaffolding. It's an offbeat job most people have never heard of and in that sense it suited Beaman, who was witty and unusual, full of contradictions, himself. We talked late into the night many nights in a row, fell irreversibly in love, decided to get married. But there was one big obstacle: Jim had a drug problem. After we got together he tried to give up drugs and I tried to make him give up drugs, but as anyone could predict, this proved to be far from a simple matter. And in January of 1991, discouraged and depressed, he shot himself.
That's the first half of the story I tell in the book. Nothing was ever simple with Beaman and the second half of the book--how I coped with his suicide--isn't simple either; it's more than just a straightforward story of grief and healing, because I couldn't let him go. I simply could not rest until I had figured something out about death and where, if anywhere, Jim Beaman went. So I tracked him down, by reading books about the afterlife and eventually pursuing more radical, hands-on means of reaching him--with very interesting and ultimately disastrous results. When it was all over and the dust had settled I knew I had to write about it, to help myself make sense of it. The result was The Rooms of Heaven.
Q: Surprisingly, despite all the problems and upheaval that occurred, the book is first and foremost a love story. Could you talk a little about that aspect of it?
A: Well, I don't know whether it was some subtle subconscious psychological thing or predestination or just plain old-fashioned love at first sight, but I did fall madly in love with Jim the minute we met and the feeling never went away. I think nowadays we tend to be suspicious when people say they fell in love at first sight. We think there must be something else that's really going on, deep psychological issues at work, codependency or love addiction or some other need-driven thing, and maybe some of that was at the bottom of the feeling for me, but it felt like there was something else too, something more mysterious.
I think another thing we believe here in the late 20th century is that our lives are supposed to run smoothly, we're supposed to have relationships that work and if they don't work we're supposed to trade them in for new ones that do. But that didn't seem to be an option for me with Jim.From the minute I met him I had the feeling that this was something I was going to have to do, this was not something I could get out of. This is very hard to describe, but it really felt as if there was something divine about the whole relationship, as if it was meant to be or some similar cliche. There was something sweet and strange and unusual about the whole relationship, something slightly numinous, otherworldly, that I felt right from the start. That divine aspect was there all the time along with the other, terrible, dark aspects--the drugs and the alcohol and the codependency and the mess.
Q: How did you react when you found out Jim was addicted to drugs? Do you think you'd react the same way today?
A: In retrospect, it seems like I reacted strangely. I didn't take it very seriously; I sort of glossed the whole thing over in my mind, kept thinking it was going to go away. And in a certain way I was even somewhat attracted to it; it appealed to some rebellious, self-destructive part of me, and also to the remnants in me of the value system of the sixties. More than anything, though, I think my reaction to Jim's drug problem was a result of my ignorance. I had never been involved with someone who had a drug problem. My mother was an alcoholic but we didn't even know that when I was a kid, didn't recognize it as the source of a lot of her and our difficulties. So I had had no real, conscious experience--no experience to learn from--with anyone who had a drug or alcohol problem and I had no idea how bad life with those problems can get or what to do when I encountered them. A lot of my reaction, too, came out of denial--I didn't want to know how serious a problem it was, admit to myself that it was this huge, uncontrollable mess that was going to make a real relationship with Jim impossible.
I'm not sure I'd be able to just avoid it all--simply not get involved with him, the way you think you're always going to--but I'd approach his drug problem more realistically, and get some help dealing with my responses to his problems. I wouldn't try to make him quit, I'd try to accept that he and only he could do that work, and I'd recognize how hard, how almost impossible it is to recover from an addiction. I wouldn't just expect him to quit and then be surprised every time he didn't.
Q: We've often heard the term "codependency" in self-help books and on talk shows, but your book places the abstract idea in a real, emotional landscape that gives the reader a richer understanding. How do you define codependency, and did it play a significant role in your relationship with Jim?
A: First of all, I have to say I hate the word "codependency." I always imagine a sneery little tone in the voice that says it when I hear it in my head. Also, I think it's a word most of us don't understand very well, because codependency is a slippery concept that's hard to pin down. To me, at least as it played out in my relationship with Jim, it's a kind of mutual addiction. Jim was addicted to drugs and I was addicted to him, to the relationship with him and what I thought I could get out of it--I thought it would make me happy, raise me above ordinary humdrum existence. I also had a strong fear of abandonment, which added to the addiction-like quality of my attachment to Jim. And because I was addicted to the relationship working out and he needed to quit drugs in order for the relationship to work out, or so I thought, I was also addicted to the idea that he would quit doing drugs. I thought that there was something I could do to make him quit--which I now know was a misperception--and so I got all tangled up in how to do that. I would think obsessively about what to do next, imagine the effects my words or behavior would have on him.
There were other aspects of my "codependency" too--other hooks that kept me going. In a way it was appealing--even reassuring--to me that Jim had a drug problem, as long as I thought that he would stop, that I would, could help him stop. It made me feel important and needed to think I had that power. His addiction was clearly life threatening and it was deeply gratifying to me to think that I could save his life, partly because it made me feel good about myself and partly because I loved him so much. Of course, in the end I couldn't save his life, and it was an illusion all along that I could help him quit doing drugs, but I didn't see that at the time. At the time I thought I was helping him quit, I even thought he had already quit and that each time he did drugs it was just a slip and it was going to be the last slip because next time he'd try harder. That's what he thought too. Ironically, I think it might have been my efforts to save his life by helping him quit drugs that ended up killing him. I have the feeling, after giving it a lot of thought, that a big part of the reason he committed suicide was that he couldn't take disappointing me over and over.
Q: Whom did you turn to for emotional support after Jim's suicide? Did you seek out support groups?
A: In the beginning I attended a support group for suicide survivors sponsored by our local crisis center. That was helpful. And I talked to a lot of people individually, people who had also experienced a death of someone they were close to. And I sought out support in books, by going to the library and reading everything I could get my hands on. I found it extremely useful to read books in which I shared someone else's personal experience, the closer the experience was to mine the better. I found that more useful than, say, reading a book of advice about how to grieve or how to survive a suicide. And I think in the end that was partly why I decided to write my book. I didn't go to any support groups that would have helped me deal with the codependency aspect of my situation--with my unresolved issues around Jim's drug and problems. Eventually I did join a twelve-step program for families and friends of alcoholics and that has helped me tremendously, but I didn't do that when I was involved with Jim or after his death. I wish I had, because I think it could have helped me enormously.
Q: What was your experience of grief like?
A: One thing I noticed right away is that people are sort of scared of you when you're grieving, when somebody close to you has died, especially if they died in a sudden violent unpredictable way. I think part of it is that people are afraid of saying the wrong thing. There really isn't any right thing to say but people are afraid of hurting you with the wrong thing and that makes them nervous. But I think it's also that people are so afraid of death they don't even want to be reminded of it, and it's almost as if you, because you were close to the dead person, have been subtly contaminated by it.
Also, in the same vein, I noticed that people, even people who know you really well, don't quite expect you to be yourself any more when somebody close to you has died. It's as if death is alien and some of that alienness has rubbed off on you. I have a theory about all that. I think death is really horrifying to us because it lets us know the world isn't what we think it is. When someone dies suddenly it's as if a door opens up and the person disappears through it without a trace, and when that door opens the whole landscape suddenly changes, it isn't what we thought it was after all--it isn't just houses and neighborhoods and trees and other placid, surface things--there's something more underneath, and we know that we could and will disappear through that door ourselves someday. And that is very frightening to us and we don't want to think about it; we want the picture to get back to normal as quickly as possible.
I think that's also the reason people want you to get over grieving as soon as possible. There's a lot of pressure to stop feeling bad quickly and move on with your life. As if grieving isn't really part of life and if you do it too much you're wasting time and doing something harmful to yourself, as if allowing yourself to feel and express unhappy feelings makes you have them. In my experience, it was just the opposite, not allowing myself to have or express the feelings just made them worse and deeper, as if the feelings were digging their heels in. Of course, most therapists and grief counselors would tell you that too nowadays, but there's still a lot of pressure in the popular culture to get over grieving as quickly as possible. You're supposed to let the dead person go, which means, I think, that you're more or less supposed to forget about them.
I didn't want to let Jim Beaman go, and I came up with this idea that maybe there doesn't have to be this huge schism between the dead and the living. Maybe we don't have to forget about the dead--feel and act as if they're gone, almost as if they were never there to begin with--maybe love can and does go on and on between the living and the dead.
Q: After Jim committed suicide, you began to try to communicate with him. Can you describe that experience?
I read a lot of books about the afterlife: books about near death experiences such as Life after Life by Raymond Moody, and old books I found in the library about spirit mediums and messages supposedly from dead people that came through mediums, and various other things. Basically, I read anything that might possibly give me an answer or a little piece of an answer to the question what is death, is it just the complete obliteration of a human being, like a machine being turned off, permanently? And if it isn't--and I could never make myself believe that it is--then what is it? I was absolutely fascinated by that question in a way I've never been fascinated by anything in my whole life.
In any event, in those books, I kept encountering descriptions of various occult practices whereby certain people were purportedly able to receive messages from dead people, and I kept wishing that I could find some way of receiving a message from Jim. Then a friend of mine who was also fascinated by the possibility of contacting the dead came to visit and we did the ouija board together. My friend's mother had died a couple of months before Jim, and my friend thought she got a legitimate message from her mother on the ouija board. I was less convinced--there's always something ambiguous about these messages, always room for doubt--but I wasn't ready to give up on the whole project either.
So after my friend left I continued to read about the occult and try various methods I'd read about--focused meditation, and automatic writing, where you hold a pen in your hand and it seems to acquire energy of its own and write out messages from the dead--but nothing really worked. Then one day it came to me to try to do the ouija board alone. I did, and it spelled out one word that deeply shocked and surprised me--one word that seemed to come from Jim. After that I tried to do automatic writing again and this time it seemed to work. You have to read the book to find out the rest of the story.
Q: Eventually, after doing a lot of automatic writing, your grip on reality began loosening and you ended up in a mental hospital. What lasting effects did that experience have on you?
A: Actually, it had no lasting effects on me at all, at least not any negative ones. The doctors in the pysch ward diagnosed me as having bipolar illness--what used to be called manic depression--and I took lithium for about a year. When I stopped taking it, which I did gradually, supervised by a psychiatrist but against her advice, the doctor predicted that I would have another "episode" but I never did. I continued to follow up with a psychiatrist for three or four years after that, just to be safe. I went to a different psychiatrist at a mental health center because I had such bad memories of the psych ward and eventually the new doctor said she thought I had been misdiagnosed: I had never been bipolar but instead had had "brief psychotic disorder," a one-time only, trauma-related thing.
I'm not sure whether that was the case or whether something else actually happened--I've always suspected that my "breakdown" or whatever you want to call it was a result of doing automatic writing for hours on end, of throwing open a door in my head and inviting the voice of an invisible person, a dead person in. I'm absolutely certain that if I hadn't done that I wouldn't have "gone crazy" and ended up in the psych ward.
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Impact of tessellation
To summarise our analysis of the impact of tessellation in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Ultra, we have represented the total cost of tessellation in a graph comparing performance in Extreme mode as default and adding Ultra objects and water. Of course this includes the resource demands of Parallax Occlusion Mapping, but the impact of this is much smaller, which gives us an acceptable approximation:
The results are without mercy for the Radeons, which are a long way behind the GeForces when it comes to processing tessellation. We can see that the GeForce GTX 580 and 570 benefit from their additional dedicated units in comparison to the mid-range GeForce cards to reduce the impact of tessellation.
On the other hand, while the Radeon HD 6900s are supposed to double throughput when tessellation is used (we confirmed this in theoretical tests), in practice this isnt the case in Crysis 2. Is this due to a GPU limitation in certain cases? Are the drivers limited in terms of support for the double tessellator? Or is it a bug? As during our tests AMD had no answer other than the drivers advised for use with Crysis 2 DirectX 11 were still the Catalyst 11.6s, we don't know.
More logically, the Radeon HD 6800s benefit from having a larger tessellation unit buffer to gain in efficiency over the Radeon HD 5800s. The Radeon HD 5770 actually has an identical tessellation unit to the Radeon HD 5870, but benefits here from having fewer processing units to reduce the bottleneck in terms of access to the memory shared by these units.
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The max tessellation factor, which is limited to 64 by default in DirectX 11, can be controlled in the AMD drivers. This factor controls geometry amplification and represents not the number of triangles generated but the maximum number of subdivisions for each edge of the triangle. The number of new triangles is therefore much higher than the tessellation factor and depends on the algorithm used.
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Come 2 PM on April 28, Miamians will converge at the Betsy South Beach for what organizers have described as a "funeral procession in reverse," marching through Lummus Park decked out as their favorite dead poets, and enjoying poetic performances along the parade route.
"The parade is really the highlight of the festival for me," said P. Scott Cunningham, director of the University of Wynwood, a non-profit organization that serves as one of the main driving forces behind the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
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"The theme of the parade comes from the misconception that 'poetry is dead,' so the parade is a literal reply to that," Cunningham noted. "Some of the poets that will be momentarily 're-animated' inside of Lummus Park include Jose Martí, William Shakespeare, Adrienne Rich, and Walt Whitman. Each group has interpreted the idea of re-animation in a different way."
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David Powdrell decided to gear up his self-managed super fund and buy an investment property with his partner after years of volatile returns from equities in his super.
Powdrell, a private banker, said he was "looking for something with much more stable returns that would provide more security in my retirement".
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He expects to have paid off the mortgage by retirement, probably in about 20 years, and then draw an income from the rent. It has cost him about $3000 to set up the trust and fund, and another $1600 for the loan. The variable interest rate is about 6.86 per cent, while the unit is earning about $650 a week, or a yield of about 6.6 per cent.
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I want to give credit where credit is due. Our miltary and their commander-in-chief made me proud today when Captain Richard Phillips was rescued by our Navy's special ops forces.
One issue in hostage negotiations is not to confuse delay for indecisiveness. Wearing down the captors is often an effective tactic especially when there is no room for escape. This ended well, with the exception of those thugs stupid enough to screw with the U.S. Navy.
And perhaps there is some interesting juxtaposition, as over Holy Week we saw a man taken away by those wishing him harm, thought likely to die, only to re-emerge safely on Easter Sunday.
While this whole episode ended well, we need to ask deeper questions.
a) Why was an American ship seized?
b) Why did the pirates think we would let them escape with a ransom?
One answer to the first question is that the international maritime community has treated piracy like a vandalism claim. The fear was a freighter defending itself would "escalate the situation". For that reason, freighters were left with unarmed crews....apparently the insurance carriers liked it that way .
One response to this ridiculous state of affairs would be to adopt either unilaterally or by treaty a "castle doctrine" on the high seas, in which merchant sailors would enjoy blanket immunity from civil or criminal liability in the use of deadly force to prevent the boarding of their vessel.
Legislation directing U.S. flag vessels to carry firearms aboard as a condition of service might also dissuade 21st Century Jack Sparrows from seeking to commandeer our ships, seeking unarmed vessels from other nations.
But pirates also operated under the assumption that the U.S. Navy would err on the side of acquisesance instead of action when a crisis occurred, as it has been reported
"U.S. rules of engagement prevent the Americans using their vastly superior fighting power to engage the pirates if there is any danger to civilians."
That doesn't provide much of a deterrent. Nor does the habitual payment of ransom by shipping companies. Once upon a time it was conventional wisdom that "if you subsidize something you get more if it"
The western world should collectively look in the mirror---as the prior subsidization of piracy and kidnapping....hmmmm...encouraged the problem to "escalate"
So our Somali "friends" did not expect the Navy Seals to end this on our terms. That creates the bigger---longer term--problem.
There's a paradigm that works---Pax Brittanica, Pax Americana, "Peace through Strength"---whatever the current iteration happens to be. It can be summed up in one common phrase.
The big dogs enforce the rules.
Anglo-Americans have pretty much done this since Trafalgar. But now we have hints the Obama Administration and its intellectual allies find this an unwanted and unfashionable burden.
Certaintly when your overseas trip is labelled "an apology tour" perhaps one could excuse the Somali thugs for questioning how stiff the present administration's backbone is? (I will note that covertly, Obama seems to be emulating much of what he once denounced on wiretapping and detention; maybe the eight year record of not getting bombed again is looking more important to Obama now that he's in office)
The problem here is that we need a power with some swagger, and yes, maybe even a touch of arrogance to enforce the international order. It's easy to make lots of friends promising to consult everybody, and not impose one's will on those unwilling to go along, and generally make clear it case it wasn;t obvious enough you are not George W. Bush.
That said--"soft power" wasn't what freed Captain Phillips. Or what will prevent Iran from going nuclear. Or deal with an innumerable set of problems where only decisive action by one nation and one military is going to make the difference.
Maybe this minor crisis might cause Obama--whose actual military and foreign policy experience is ,,,hmmm..thin--- to reevaluate what he's trying to accomplish in protecting our interests and that of our allies.
He shouldnt listen to experts who suggest the age of deterrence is over. Indeed, what we have seen off the Horn of Africa is in a multipolar world we will be left with a lawless "tragedy of the commons" devolving into a Hobbesian state of nature.
Maybe this naval vessel might be a better inspiration. now that the President might have a better appreciation of their capabilities.
"One thing is certain. If we're to continue to advance world peace and human freedom, America must remain strong. If we have learned anything these last eight years, it's that peace through strength works."
Now there's an alternative reality popular among college campuses, Hollywood, and various Whole Foods Markets around the country, and which it must be said, many of the Obamatons subscribe to, Movie Director Ron Howard put it best, wanting a "more progressive America" that..
I don't think we'll be, at a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy and so forth.
I doubt very much Captain Phillips was quite so worried about American miltarism when he was floating around the Indian Ocean. American miltarism is why he's alive today. And you know, here's one issue where I really expected more out of Ron Howard.
Remember one of Howard's best movies---ironically titled---Ransom ?
In Ransom Manhattan business tycoon Mel Gibson has his kid seized and a money demand placed on his safe return. En route to a drop point in New Jersey, the kidnapper calls Gibson on a cell phone and makes an observation which is directly relevant to where we are today.
The kidnapper taunts Gibson calling him an "eloi" ...an elitist wimp who thinks he can buy his way out of all forms of trouble. The kidnapper says he is one of the Morlock ...vicious brutes who exost only to prey on the Eloi.
The President might want to dwell upon that for a moment. The world is full of "Morlocks"---individuals who if given a chance will lay waste to civilization for fun, profit, ideology or due to mental illness. If civilization is going to act like the benign and peaceful Eloi, we are in for dark days. And sadly, the "human rights" people seems to think our military is the problem, not the prevention.
The term in law enforcement is "thin blue line". Our nation's military and intelligence services serve the same role in the global community. Are we going to make them stronger or make them weaker?. Are we going to reward action or penalize initiative?
Will we be Seals or will we be Eloi?
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Another big fan of hers, actress/ author/ sexual-enigma-about-town Sandra Bernhardt, has been begging Wishman to fly out to Los Angeles to appear on her show Reel Wild Cinema, a melange of clips from exploitation films and interviews with Bernhardt that appears at 4:00 a.m. Sunday on the USA network. Ironically, the cosponsors of Reel Wild Cinema are Jimmy Maslon and Mike Vraney.
Yet with few exceptions Wishman balks at these opportunities to promote herself. "I don't care about publicity," Wishman says dismissively. "I don't think any of these interviews help me."
Wishman's backers disagree. "The only thing I was ever angry with her about was that she would not take advantage of the small amount of fame she'd acquired," says Tom Smith (who is not only a fan, he's a member of the cast of Desperate Desires). "She's not an obscure footnote any more. Now a large segment of the population that is educated about film knows about Doris. I said, 'You really should go out and talk to Bernhardt.' Yeah, she might try to make an ass out of her, but Jesus, maybe someone would see that and decide to give her some bucks."
"Doris has it in her head that she should be getting paid for these interviews, and that other people are making money off her old films," says Joanne Butcher-Zbornik, executive director of the Alliance. "I can't particularly fault her logic, but on the other hand, even if you aren't getting paid, fly out and do the show! I can't tell whether she's just kind of sticking to principles or if she's just afraid or if she just doesn't understand the concept of publicity or exactly what."
"I can see why she would be suspicious, now that she's been through the wringer a couple of times," Smith says. "And she can be cranky and hard to work with, and we've had many fights. But she's such an endearing person, even when she's being surly. You always get complete honesty with Doris."
Scant minutes after Wishman has chased Klainbaum out of the Alliance's editing facilities, he and Butcher-Zbornik are in the office of the Alliance Cinema across Lincoln Road. Klainbaum allows that a typical editing session with Wishman, while contentious to the point of shouting, "is usually not that bad." Butcher-Zbornik concurs, then ruminates on Wishman's persistent aversion to publicity -- and how it is, to a point, justified by the tough luck she has had throughout her career.
"I think it's a shame that these people who say they love Doris's films so much are making money and she gets nothing," Butcher-Zbornik says, referring to the folks who now own her films. "They could have handled it differently."
Wishman appears in the doorway to the cramped office. Eyeing the reporter, she delivers a well-rehearsed line. "I just want to tell you that if you put in there that Abel said he was working on my film for 30 years, I'm going to sue the paper," she proclaims. "What for? For lying!"
"I was just kidding, Doris," Klainbaum says contritely.
"People won't know that it's a joke!" she snaps. "It's not true! Why would you put that in if it's not true? I'm just being honest. If that appears, I'm going to sue the paper."
A cacophony erupts, with Wishman pointing, hectoring, and grimacing. Through the din, Klainbaum begins to issue quiet apologies for his statement.
"Doris, let's go get a bagel," Klainbaum says, taking her by the elbow and tugging her gently toward the entrance of the theater. Wishman responds with a little scowl and a couple of stiff jabs to Klainbaum's shoulder, but begins to relent. With a final declaration of her litigious intentions, Wishman walks with Klainbaum down the shady passageway from the cinema toward the cafe in Books & Books.
Later Klainbaum relates that they spent about 30 minutes sitting and talking, made up, and went on to edit Dildo ... er, Desperate Desires, for about two hours. He says he expects the thing to be finished within a month at the outside. And though further verbal sparring will likely be a part of the experience as the project comes to a close, he doesn't mind.
"She's the world's kindest, sweetest dictator," Klainbaum says tenderly. "She's one of those auteurs; she likes to have absolute control. But she's very honest and very fair; everything's always on the table with Doris. That's why we get along.


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Knowing that are so many different brands out there, I am not going to focus on just one. There are many different applications and many different models available from the manufacturers. I've included links to the tool descriptions and some of them go to retailers. The others go directly to the manufacturers. I had to cut the Home Depot out because their site redirects me when I tried to use the links. Their site does provide pertinent information on specs and pricing. Buyer beware! Some manufacturers have been known to market a "promotional" line of cordless tools and then drop them. I have deep emotional feelings for Delta tools, but when they introduced a line of cordless tools several years ago, they sold them through the Christmas season and then they vanished. The batteries do not interchange with anyone elses so, they are useless when the batteries die. Try to focus on major brands with good reputations and long-running product lines when shopping for cordless tools. Craftsman: Most of my experience with Craftsman has been with the 19.2 volt sets. They currently offer two different models. They are most positively identified by their color, black or gray. From the heart, the black set is by far superior. There are more tools available in the black line and the over-all quality of the tool, from the feel to the run-time is comparable to much more expensive brands offerings. I would recommend the black for anyone who wants a good cordless set for light construction or heavy weekend use. The gray might suffice for occasional use and light duty.http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=00911497000 Ryobi: Not bad for the money. The Ryobi sets are incredibly versatile and are so close in quality to the Craftsman (I think they are made by the same manufacturer), that I would have a hard time deciding on one or the other. If you look at the Ryobi and then look at the Craftsman reciprocal saws, they are identical except for the color. It really boils down to what color do you like or where would you prefer to buy? The Ryobi is available with many more attachments and seperately available tools. The Home Depot is the best source around here for Ryobi and offers them at reasonable prices.http://www.ryobitools.com/ Ridgid: Another case of identity crisis? I am not sure if they are the same as the Ryobi and the Craftsman, but the quality is a little better. The Ridgid is in a tougher case than the others, there may be other advantages to them, Ridgid has a very dependable reputation to protect. They are available at Home Depot for a medium price above the Ryobi and slightly less than Dewalt.http://www.ridgid.com/Tools/Battery-...ols2/index.htm Dewalt: 18 volt. Guys, Dewalt has become the industry standard out in the field. I have used these in nearly every recommended application and some apps that are recommended NOT to do. Unbreakable? No, I've seen 2 or 3 destroyed in different ways. One was impact related, one was burnt up from the inside (I did that one), one was just plain old worn out. These tools claim to have the longest run-time and the most power. It's hard to argue. I think the run-time is really exceptional, but I try my best to use my tools efficiently (when I'm not abusing them), not everybody knows how, or even what I'm talking about. You will discover the difference when the batteries start to run low. Keeping the drill running straight and not stressing the bits sideways, using a saw in an exact straight line, not trying to correct a cut midway through. If you can afford a Dewalt, you will not be dissapointed like you would be with a less expensive model. This is a professional tool and may not be necessary for an average homeowner.http://www.dewalt.com/us/cordless/ Black and Decker Firestorm: Made,, well, SOLD by the same company as Dewalt. The comparison stops right there. Firestorm tools come in some good looking packages. From lawn trimmers to plain cordless drills. They are suited for the ocassional use that the average homeowner would need. NOT a professional tool.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...534818-0494357 Hitachi: The green monster grows. Several of the contractors I know have gone green. They offer the best warranty out there as far as I know. Run-time and charge time is comparable to the best and the more expensive tools at a closer to medium price. There is a limited selection of tools available though. They are good tools across the voltage spectrum.http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...DVF&lpage=none Porter Cable: Maybe I just like the gray, maybe it's because Norm uses them, I like these. The 12 volt through 19.2 is very professional feeling and is comparable to the Dewalt and the other more expensive tools. The selection is kind of limited to drills and saws, but they do offer a router in 19.2 volt. I have the 19.2 volt hammer-drill and a circular saw. I like them both and use them for everything. I've used them side by side with Dewalt and Craftsman and the Porter Cable is just as reliable as the Dewalt, as light as the Craftsman and seems to have as much if not more power than either of the others. The Porter Cable tools are professional tools that I'd recommend to the pro or the homeowner who uses his tools regularly.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...534818-0494357 Milwaukee: I had such high hopes for these tools. As soon as I opened these tools I was shocked by their light duty looking bodies. I charged them up and started using them just the same as I would have any other tools. Soon though, I was bumming Dewalts off of the other contractors on the jobsite. The run-time was disappointing and I had an over-all bad experience with them. THEN they came out with this new technology! They offer a 28 volt tool that weighs less than the usual 18 volt tools! the run-time is phenominal and the power is UNBELIEVEABLE!!! As usual though, high quality and technology comes at a premium price. If these tools ever come down to a reasonable price, I'll be putting them to use in my arsenal of POWER tools.http://www.milwaukeeconnect.com/weba..._-1_189329_362 Panasonic: Another company in the same market as Hitachi. Good tools looking for a foot-hold in a crowded market. If you buy these, you will probably not be disappointed. The selection of available tools is pretty small, but what they do offer is good, near, professional quality tools with a good warranty. They are used by pros who say that they are very satisfied with them. Deffinitely worth consideration when you get ready to buy.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=228013 Bosch: If Dewalt tools had a rear-view mirror on them, a Bosch tool would be right there. Bosch tools are every bit as good a quality as any of the other comparable tools out there. They are just a little harder to find. Professional quality at comparable prices. I would consider these for myself.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...534818-0494357 Makita: I feel the same about these tools as I do about Bosch tools. My first professional quality cordless tool was a Makita. It out lasted every other brand of tool available then and is a strong contender now as well. Professional quality, competitively priced, with features you might like more than the others.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...534818-0494357 Skil: See Black and Decker Firestorm. Not a professional quality tool, but a good value for the homeowner that will not use it every day to make a living.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...534818-0494357 As for flea market tools and discounted imported tool outlets, loosen up the pocket and get a major name brand tool with a reputation and a warranty. You will be ahead from the get-go. I included a link to a set of tools that I have no experience with, but this is the type of set that I avoid anyway.http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=45803 Tom in KY, a carpenter/woodworker from way back.
Square Eye Your information is always refreshing and great, I've noticed some late night early A.M. postings. With all you have going on when do you sleep or relax?
Who's got time for sleeping? Heh, 4-6 hours a night is all I need. Tom in KY, AKA, Sleepless In KY
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In my experiance as a tool mechanic i find the milwaukee cordless to be the best built as far as transmissions and clutch system in the cordless feild.now things can change since tti bought them.I do not use them enough to no about battery life.my next choice would be the bosch(built nice)and then i would go for dewalt and makita.I have not had many ryobi,hitachi,ridgid or craftsman come across my bench yet. portercable always seem to me as a well built cordless tool,but yet i do not see alot of them out there.just some thoughts...
Just lookin through some old posts. This is for those of you looking to buy some new tools for the summer projects. Square Eye is right on with his advice on these tools. Have fun shopping.
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I love my Dewalt XRP Hammerdrill. That thing can take a beating and still keep on ticking(or drilling as the case may be.)
I've been an electrician for about 7-8 years. The first company that I worked for issued me a Craftsman 18v drill for my job. I used it about a month, and then went on EBAY and bought a DeWalt XRP kit that inlcluded the drill, recip saw, and worklight. It's 7 years later and the company I work for now has issued me a Panasonic drill kit that includes a circular saw with a metal cutting blade. The circular saw is great, but the drill has absolutely no power, so I just load my old DeWalt kit into the van and contunue to use that. I just cut my conduit with the recip saw instead of the Panasonic circ saw. Works great. Oh and I have since bought a DeWalt jobsite radio too. Not bad, but if I could get a Milwaukee radio to work on DeWalt batteries, I would use that instead. The jobsite radios are the one thing Milwaukee does better than DeWalt, IMHO.
Great post, Square Eye. Care to update now that LI-On seems to be everywhere?
I have all Dewalt cordless tools but have heard great things about Panasonic, their drills in particular. Apparently the trigger response is just wonderful. I cant say any of this from experience but my repair man can't say enough about them. KrisRestorationJournal.com


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DC's 'Batman: Black and White' returns in September
DC Comics will resurrect its well-regarded anthology Batman: Black and White beginning in September with six double-sized issues.
Originally published in 1996 as a four-issue miniseries, the anthology was the brainchild DC's Vice President of Art Direction & Design Mark Chiarello, then a Batman Group editor, who sought out such top creators as Bruce Timm, Joe Kubert, Bill Sienkiewicz, Neil Gaiman, Ted McKeever and Katsuhiro Otomo to offer their own interpretations of the Dark Knight — in black and white.
The concept was revived in 2000 as a series of backup features in Batman: Gotham Knights, featuring contributions by the likes of Alex Ross, Paul Dini, Warren Ellis, Jim Lee, Chris Claremont, Paul Pope, Steve Rude, Harlan Ellison, Paul Grist, Darwyn Cooke, Jill Thompson and Mike Mignola. That title ended in 2006, but several Batman: Black and White have since been adapted as motion comics by Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment, and inspired numerous statues released by DC Direct.
According to the solicitation text provided to MTV Geek, September's Batman: Black and White #1 will feature stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee. Priced at $4.99, the 48-page first issue is scheduled to arrive Sept. 4.
Mackie reveals the Ravagers line-up
Last week DC Comics released a teaser image for their new teen superhero series The Ravagers series by writer Howard Mackie and artist Ian Churchill, which debuts in May following a crossover between their other teen books, Legion Lost, Superboy and Teen Titans. The team didn't look too familiar to me beyond Fairchild, the former Wildstorm character who led Gen13 who has been popping up in Superboy lately, and I speculated that the team was made up of other former Wildstorm characters.
And of course I was wrong.
Mackie discussed the line-up with Newsarama's Vaneta Rogers, and it's a line-up the includes a bunch of names that should be familiar to longtime Teen Titans readers:
- Let's start with the guy shooting the wave motion gun out of his chest, on the left … which means we'll also have to talk about the girl on the right holding lightning. Apparently they are the New 52 versions of Thunder and Lightning. Back in the old DCU, they were half-Vietnamese twins, one with the power to control thunder and, um, one with the power to control lightning. I think the last time we saw them was during the Salvation Run miniseries where they were used to power Lex Luthor's teleportation machine and send him home.
- As folks pointed out in the comments section, the lady in the middle there is Terra, who Mackie called "abrasive." The name Terra, of course, has a long and sorted history with the Titans, dating back to the Judas Contract storyline. The name's been used by a couple other characters since then.
- And with Terra on the team, it only makes sense that Beast Boy would also be there … although in the New 52 he is now red instead of green. I bet Terra breaks his heart at some point, poor guy …
- The monster-looking guy in the back is called Ridge, who I don't recall ever seeing before.
And although she isn't shown in the above image, Mackie confirmed that Rose Wilson would play a role in the book, as would the newly designed version of Warblade.
Lee, Deodato, Marz, Palmiotti, Conner and more contribute to Japan Needs Heroes
Red Giant Entertainment has recruited several top names in the comics industry to contribute to Japan Needs Heroes, a graphic novel that aims to raise money for the Japan Society, a non-profit organization that has created a special disaster relief fund to aid victims of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan.
A press release that went out today from comiXology, which will distribute the book digitally when it is released, listed Stan Lee (who will provide the forward), Peter David, Ron Marz, Mike Deodato, Larry Hama, Jimmy Palmiotti, Elaine Lee, Amanda Conner, Howard Mackie and Brandon Peterson as contributors. You can find a list of additional creators on the book's Kickstarter page, which Red Giant is using to fund the printing.
"My wife is from Japan," said Benny R. Powell, CEO of Red Giant, "and her family still lives there. We hear daily reports of the fear and uncertainty they face. I realized we had to do something. Comics have a power to reach massive audiences and that's a powerful thing. As more and more creators join our cause I believe we can raise a lot of money to help. This transcends any genre, medium, or publisher. This need is bigger than anything our world has ever faced, and we truly believe that together we can make a difference."


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Union or business: one law fits all
PUBLISHED: 18 May 2012 00:03:32 | UPDATED: 18 May 2012 06:29:54PUBLISHED: 18 May 2012 PRINT EDITION: 18 May 2012Louise Dodson
Close ties: Julia Gillard with new ACTU secretary Dave Oliver, second from left, at the ACTU congress in Sydney this week. Photo: Michele Mossop
If ever there were an issue that has wide-ranging and damaging political consequences for Labor, it is the eye-popping revelations of the activities of the Health Services Union and its former official turned Labor MP Craig Thomson, who has now quit the party but remains a crucial vote for the government.
Beyond the obvious tabloid fodder, the revelations have focused attention on how unions operate, on the industrial relations system, and on the relationship between the Labor Party and unions.
Of course, as union officials and Labor ministers have been quick to point out, the Health Services Union is not typical of all unions by any means.
Still, what has hurt Labor more than anything else has been the perception that the HSU has been able to misuse members' fees because the industrial relations system allows it.
The government and the union movement have been stung into action by the HSU revelations while properly insisting Thomson is innocent until proven guilty.
At the same time, it does appear that the government has been slow to act to ensure proper governance of unions and has not sufficiently heeded the calls by business to strengthen the system.
There are also lingering doubts about whether what the government finally comes up with will be stringent enough to ensure there is no repeat of the HSU problems.
The opposition has already proposed tougher rules for registered organisations under the Fair Work Act. Its policy is to bring unions – and some employer groups that are registered organisations – under the governance provisions in the Corporations Act.
It would also set up a new body, the Registered Organisations Commission, within the Fair Work Ombudsman's office to oversee registered organisations such as unions. The commission would be required to co-operate with other enforcement bodies.
Tightening the rules governing registered organisations such as trade unions would also apply to some employer and business groups.
Some in the business community believe this could come as a shock to some employer bodies.
On the other hand, some would welcome tougher rules.
The body representing miners, the Australian Mines and Metals Association, for instance, is already incorporated and subject to Australian Securities and Investments Commission rules.
The government airily dismisses the opposition's plan for a Registered Organisations Commission as "setting up a new bureaucracy".
And just because the opposition may propose a policy to toughen governance rules for unions does not mean Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is about to embrace the other things that some in the business community want in an industrial relations policy.
Abbott is still talking about "careful, cautious change" to the industrial relations system.
He is dead against a return to the main feature of John Howard's Work Choices regime, statutory individual contracts negotiated directly between employers and employees.
These of course, are precisely what some in the business community, such as many miners, actually want.
Despite this, Abbott has been careful not to go along with them, for fear of attracting a repeat of the highly effective union advertising campaign against the Liberals in the 2007 election.
He has also made the political judgment that the community does not want a return to Howard's statutory individual contracts, despite the push from some Liberals such as former Howard government minister Peter Reith.
All the same, because the opposition has a policy to toughen union rules, the government has been left with the perception that it is playing catch-up.
Even the ACTU acted swiftly to make very clear its determination not to tolerate any misbehaviour in unions by cutting its ties with the HSU – before the Fair Work Australia report into the union was released.
Underlining its determination to make sure the public, as well as union rank-and-file members, understand that the ACTU condemns any misuse of union funds, it also has plans to set up a panel headed by former Federal Court judge Rod Madgwick to set standards to improve financial transparency and avoid a repeat of the HSU scandal.
While the government has been keen to show it is aware that rules for unions have to be tightened, the question remains: to what extent?
Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has flagged his intention to strengthen the Fair Work Act.
Under consideration are provisions to improve financial disclosure, increase financial penalties, empower Fair Work Australia to conduct its own investigations and to provide education to organisations to ensure they comply with the rules.
Fair Work Australia is also initiating proceedings in the Federal Court against the HSU.
But there is no doubt the issue has highlighted problems with the present regime that business has been pointing out for some time with ever increasing stridency to an ever more receptive audience.
A speech by BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser, in which he delivered a broadside on industrial relations and tax, led all the big broadsheet newspapers yesterday.
Nasser added to the chorus of complaints by executives and business groups in recent times that Australia had become a high- cost country.
And he went on to detail industrial relations problems.
"Over the last year in our Queensland coal business alone, we have faced 3200 incidents of industrial action," he said.
It is a message that even those seen to be closer to the government have been delivering for some time.
In November last year, then chief executive of Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout, who has since been appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia board by Treasurer Wayne Swan, warned in a speech to the National Press Club that Australia was becoming a high-cost country.
She went on to say that the Fair Work Act had led to an increase in union power, a "negative change in union culture and behaviour" and unlawful behaviour.
The government is reviewing the Fair Work Act, and Bill Shorten is taking plans to improve governance rules to the National Workplace Relations Consultative Council next week.
Thomson will make a statement to Parliament on Monday detailing his case and saying he is innocent of allegations that he misused a union credit card.
Still, the government will be under pressure to show that after the HSU debacle there is not one rule for companies and another for unions.
The Australian Financial Review
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People | Craig Thomson, Tony Abbott, John Howard, Bill Shorten, Jac Nasser, Heather Ridout, Wayne Swan, Peter Reith |
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Posted by Max Cannon in $10,000+, Florida, Solved, tags: CrimePAY$, Douglas Anderson, florida, Katherine Coonrod, Local MugSHOTS, murder, reward, RewardsTV, SafeCITY Publishing, Unsolved Crimes, Unsolved Murder Reward, Wanted Fugitive Reward5-11-11 Update: authorities in South Carolina arrested Fares Mustafa, 29, for the murder of a man and the attempted murder of his girlfriend that took place nearly a year ago in the 6200 block of Allen Street, the Jupiter Police Department confirmed this afternoon.
In the June 29 shooting, the man shot dead was identified as John Douglas Anderson, 31 and his girlfriend as Katherine Coonrod, 26.
The shooting of a man and his girlfriend in Jupiter's Heights neighborhood on June 29, 2010 appears to have been an execution-style attack by a man bent on killing, according to neighbors and a man who survived the shooting.
Neighbors and police say a third person was in the house at 6257 Allen St. when an intruder smashed through the rear sliding glass door with a gun and shot a young couple in their bedroom.The attacker fired several rounds, neighors said, killing John Douglas Anderson, 31, and seriously wounding Katherine Coonrod, 25.
The third person, a man spending the night with the couple in their rental duplex, was asleep on a sofa bed in the living room when the killer broke in and beelined for the bedroom, according to a neighbor who spoke with the man later Tuesday.
"He said he put the cover over his head and he heard shooting and he ran," said the neighbor, who declined to give her name.
The man told the neighbor that the killer did not appear to say anything before opening fire in the bedroom.
A Jupiter police spokeswoman confirmed that detectives have interviewed the survivor but declined to discuss his statement.
Marcia Sheppler, who lives in the adjoining duplex, was in bed with her 12-year-old daughter, separated by drywall and a few feet of space, when the shots woke her.
She and her daughter dove immediately to the ground, then crawled around to the front of the bed. Through the rear window they saw a man walking away. Fearful they might be the next victims, they hid in the bathroom, armed with mace and a bead-decorated baseball bat.
"I was terrified," Sheppler said. "It was the longest few minutes of my life. I've never been as scared as that before."
Later, she returned to her bedroom and realized a bullet had pierced the wall, the headboard of her bed and the mattress on which she was sleeping.
Police investigators tore up the mattress to remove the bullet fragments – then bought her a new one.
Residents described the neighborhood as a generally calm area with little major crime. They said the violent attack did not leave them edgy because they assumed Anderson and Coonrod were not random victims.
"I think it was an isolated event," said Erika Torres, who lives across the street. "This is a calm area."
Some neighbors complained strange cars frequently came and went from Anderson and Coonrod's duplex, and that people occasionally pounded on the door late at night.
Police spokeswoman Officer Sally Collins-Ortiz said detectives are investigating whether the killing was drug-related but declined to discuss their findings.
Detectives and crime scene investigators were still working at the home Wednesday. Coonrod remained in critical condition at St. Mary's Medical Center, police said.
A search of the house turned up prescription pill bottles, five cellphones and $3,000 in cash, which suggests robbery wasn't a primary motive, police said.
While detectives await the results of scientific testing, the FBI agreed to pitch in $25,000 to a reward fund for information that leads to an arrest in the case. The contribution brings the total reward amount to $36,000, Pascarella said.
Anyone with information about the shooting can call Jupiter Police at (561) 746-6201


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It was just a year since we were told that the level of personal debt on multiple credit cards per person and the enormous mortgage debt was totally out of control. Just a year later and we are now in a so-called "recovery." Can we therefore assume that all this personal debt has been monumental magically paid and that the consumer is ready to rip-roaringly hit the cash register again?
Economic growth means consumption. Consumption means pollution. Pollution means shortages. Shortages equals misery. We must get rid of capitalism and socialism and have it replaced by survivalism. That means no more general robber barons, and no more welfare mothers, either.
Look at it this way: If we do not find a better way, we will be the first species on this planet not to know that we can be destroyed in an instant, either by our own hand, any other type of natural phenomenon (which is highly unlikely), or by a ruling few that own most of the resources and meet in secret like the Bilderberg group has been doing so for the past 60 years. We could also be the first to have been able to modify or prevent it. For those of you who chose to believe that God will save us keep your head firmly buried in the sand. God gave us everything we need to solve our problems, including the option of doing nothing. Will we meet the challenge?
Instead, we put our collective confidence – often willingly, almost none of the people in democracies say really rise up and demand freedom, justice and taxation with representation – in politicians and so – representatives saying that "we know better" because they are "experts." The funniest part is that all were or are lawyers and controllers of capital – and this can be discussed like any of the rest – have an interest in maintaining the world's monetary system and keeping people docile as only "consumers." It is clear there is more to the human race than simply consuming.
The world has seen a market crash leveraged before. We have seen governments step after an accident and, using public funds to build critical infrastructure, revive the economy but at the cost of long term deficits, but eventually shaving them down to something manageable.
What we're trying this time is something completely new and unproven. World governments are trying to stop — reverse in fact — a crash by throwing pots of money in the market to try to rebalance the market which is severely over-indebted.
We do not build critical infrastructure, we ask not the basis of a new economic model and we do not address the critical flaws in our society and economy (paticularly our dependence on fossil fuels). Instead, we are doing is propping up businesses and failed business models, bailing out reckless players and trying to sustain the unsustainable.
People are blaming the recession on the government and lack of banking regulations. They are in bed together. A strengthening economy looks good for the administration in power, and is good for the portfolio of banksters. Together they have pushed the economy into overdrive and refused to lift his foot on the pedal, even when they were headed toward a brick wall.
To extort the maximum value from a population, when one must have control of the monetary system, leverage the laws of supply and demand. Use [of] deflation, inflation, and hyperinflation all as tools to transfer wealth. All have a place and a purpose.
The banker's guide to owning it all
- Become majority lender in an economy of people with assets you want.
- Encourage indebtedness by loaning generously while securing on assets of interest.
- Loosen lending standards until the assets you seek to capture are attached. (this makes the economy debt dependent)
- Once debts are significant for the bulk of the population, sharply tighten lending standards. <-- Economic shock - Onset of deflation
- Backstop losses with public guarantees if possible. This is gravy if one can get it. (Fannie and Freddie guarantees, for example)
- Permit default 'without risk' on the assets you wish to sieze to maximize wealth transfer. (stall foreclosure, stay repossession orders etc).
- Stall the economy to maximize default positions and deplete private liquidity. <-- We are here
- Successively ratchet the economy downhill, while bettering secured positions.
- In a series of large actions, sieze all security for default. Target the assets of greatest interest first. (This deals a heavy economic blow and can help cause the ratcheting required for step 8.)
- Transfer asset ownership, but retain prior owners as renters where possible. (This reduces public lashback and helps maintain the asset for resale)
- Once the bulk of assets of transferred, write them down to leverage the public financial backstop.
- Buy up as many remaining assets on the cheap as possible. Hide this action.
- Hyperinflate to destroy the external claims on wealth. <-- Onset of hyperinflation (This destroys treasuries, gov't bonds, currency. Ensures free title on new assets. May cause war.)
- Stabilize the currency or devise a new one, resume lending at a reasonable pace. Sell the assets back, secured of course, at your chosen price in new currency.
Hyperinflation is only a risk to the wealthy if the population has the assets.
Make note of that statement. It is key to timing the shift from deflation to hyperinflation. (Source from goldismoney.info.).
The following article is an excerpt from Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist.
First they bought into the "stocks for the long run" case and got killed. Then they jumped on the commodity bandwagon and got killed. Many investors are buying back into these very same markets, but others are running to what they perceive as safe "yields" in the municipal bond market. So far this year, individual investors have "poured a record $55 billion" (Bloomberg, 11/12) into muni bond funds, with the pace running $2b. per week in August and September; many other investors are buying munis outright. These must be the people who tell us that they can't live without "yield" and also cannot imagine their city, county or state government going bust. But as Conquer the Crash warned and as The Elliott Wave Theorist has reiterated, the muni bond market is heading for disaster.
Municipalities have borrowed more than they can repay, they have pension liabilities that they cannot meet (up to a trillion dollars' worth, according to Moody's), and tax receipts are falling. The only reason that states haven't failed yet is the so-called "stimulus package," which took money from savers, investors and taxpayers—thereby impoverishing the people who live in the various states—and gave it to state governments to spend so they would not have to cease their profligate spending. But political pressures will eventually cut off this gravy train. In the 2010-2017 period, the muni bond market will become awash in defaults. The leap in optimism since March, which has shown up in every financial market, has fueled a retreat in muni bond yields to their lowest level since 1967 and narrowed the spread between muni bond yields and Treasuries.
Recovery may not last, Bernanke warns
'We still have some way to go,' top U.S. banker says
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 6:04 PM ET
It's too soon to declare that the nascent economic recovery will last, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warned Monday.
"We still have some way to go before we can be assured that the recovery will be self-sustaining," Bernanke said a speech to the Economic Club in Washington, D.C.
The Fed chief repeated his belief that the recovery will continue at least into next year. But he warned that "formidable headwinds" such as a weak job market, cautious consumers and still-tight credit threaten an American economy that grew at an annual rate of 2.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2009.
Those forces "seem likely to keep the pace of expansion moderate," he said. Economists worry that the recovery in the world's largest economy could fizzle in the latter part of 2010 as government stimulus fades.
The U.S. economy is closely watched in Canada because the latter's economy is heavily dependent on a healthy American market for its natural resources, services or manufactured goods exports.
Although Canada entered recession several months after the United States and its key financial services and real estate sectors have both held up comparatively well, both countries are dealing with high unemployment and added government spending calculated to soften the blow and restore consumer and business confidence.
A cautiously optimistic Bernanke said he expects "modest" economic growth next year. That should help push down the U.S. unemployment rate – now at 10 per cent – "but at a pace slower than we would like," he said.
You can read the rest of the story from CBC News
Carney: Don't be seduced by low interest rates
Debt poses risk to economic recovery
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 | 10:24 PM ET
The governor of the Bank of Canada warned Wednesday that consumers and banks should not be lulled into a false sense of security because of low interest rates.
In a speech in Toronto, Mark Carney, said both parties have a responsibility not to take risks that could derail the recovery.
Consumers are helping Canada's economic recovery outpace that of its G7 partners, Carney said, but that the recovery remains vulnerable to over-indulgence.
"When risks are still manageable is precisely the best time to act," Carney told a business audience. "We must be vigilant, and all parties must fulfill their responsibilities."
The Bank of Canada's extraordinary low-interest rate policies are making it possible for Canadians to take on more debt, he said, but rates will increase and loans affordable today could prove unaffordable in the future.
Banks should be particularly vigilant against risky loans, Carney said, pointing out that even good loans became a problem during the U.S. subprime mortgage fiasco.
Still, while cautioning against unrestrained borrowing, Carney also said Canada's recovery may be more dependent on domestic spending because of lagging U.S. demand for Canadian exports, which could mean the rebound will be slower than usual.
The central bank has said it expects to keep its benchmark rate at a record low of 0.25 per cent at least until June. The rate has been that low since April, leading to a rise in the housing market that some economists have warned could become a bubble.
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For most business owners social is a toy. The marketing equivalent of that friend we all have outside our professional lives that you just don't talk to your work colleagues about. Even though they are really the life and soul of the party.


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