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Sexual torture and violence over more than 50 years are not the only appalling revelations in the Defence Force abuse report released last week by Defence Minister Stephen Smith.
The monumental report by law firm DLA Piper also details the numerous inquiries conducted into abuse since the 1940s with little or no effect on the Defence Force's handling of the problem.
It seems successive governments and Defence chiefs have lacked the will and desire to reform the system. They have seen it as necessary in order to condition warriors: fighting men and women have to suffer violence to make them battlefield killers.
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But don't underestimate the capacity of Defence leaders to resist and to thwart Smith's intentions despite their new Pathways to Change document that seems a model of contrition and correctness, and despite a pledge by Defence Force chief Major General David Hurley that perpetrators will be "brought to justice".
The DLA Piper report notes that information obtained from the ADF was "particularly problematic" and it points to last year's personal conduct review by Major General Craig Orme, noting: "Major General Orme's pride in, and loyalty to, the ADF as an institution and concern about its operational capacity seems to have blunted his ability to analyse the ADF critically and rigorously . . ."
Orme's attitude is hardly rare among military leaders, and the value of Hurley's pledge to prosecute perpetrators remains uncertain given past failures to bring them to justice. Matters are further complicated by deep hostility which has emerged between Smith and military leaders over the issue.
The DLA Piper report notes evidence of 24 rapes at the Australian Defence Force Academy in the late 1990s. Nobody has yet been called to account and, the report says, some personnel complicit in the rapes might now be in senior to middle management positions in Defence. While they go unpunished, victims will continue to be denied justice whatever other remedies Smith orders to help them.
Part of the problem lies, as the DLA Piper report notes, in the structure of the ADF as well as its values. There are no adverse consequences for abusers, the ADF culture discourages reporting of abuse, there is little support for those who do report abuse, the sacred chain of command lends itself to superiors abusing juniors with impunity, and there is excessive use of alcohol and other drugs.
The report reveals a worrying paradox: if the ADF truly cares for its people, and if it can truly deliver operational excellence, then why do incidents of sadistic abuse continue to occur with the lessons of the past not learned?
The answer presumably lies in the dominance of the mindset displayed in Orme's review with its extraordinarily smug conclusion that despite some misconduct the ADF is a high- performing organisation demonstrating operational excellence.
Perhaps there is some truth in his conclusion; perhaps warriors do have to be toughened up in order to bond into efficient battlefield killers; perhaps some complaints are exaggerated and self-serving. But DLA Piper looked at nearly 1000 complaints going back to the early 1950s and concluded that many were credible and that many needed further investigation.
The remedies now being considered by Smith would doubtless ease the anguish of many men and women permanently damaged by violence they suffered in the ADF. A measure of justice, however belated, would be seen to be done – and Defence chiefs would find it harder to treat complainants with minimal, if any, concern.
But it is also important that Smith press, where possible, for prosecution of the perpetrators of rape and other forms of torture within the ADF. Any just outcome demands punishment for vicious crimes.
Without prosecutions it is likely that the old culture will triumph again and there will be at best limited change. The Pathways to Change pledges will prove to be merely elegant public relations pap designed to disarm public criticism until the storm passes. That would be bad for the victims, the ADF and the nation.
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On the surface, this may seem like your run-of-the-mill intra-divison smack talk, but a) Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings isn't known for flapping his gums and b) the man makes a good point. During an appearance Thursday on NFL Network's Total Access, Jennings wondered if the Lions, who made the playoffs last year for the first time since 1999 amid plenty of on- and off-field controversy, could keep it together long enough to make another postseason run in 2012.
"Can they maintain their composure, both on the field and off the field?" he asked via NFL.com. "They're a very talented team, but they have struggles on the field containing their composure, and definitely, the things we've heard of, them being in the media with off-the-field problems and off-the-field issues. Can they maintain their composure? Can they be a professional ball club for 16, 17, 18 solid weeks throughout the regular season?"
A quick recap for those just back from Mars and/or long-term memory sufferers:
* Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh was ejected from a Thanksgiving game against the Packers after he stomped on Green Bay offensive lineman Evan Blake Dietrich-Smith. The league ended up suspending him two games (several Packers called the suspension "absurd").
* In December, the Lions lost to the Saints. Not helping: then-rookie Titus Young's silly after-the-whistle personal-foul penalty (right in front of an official!) that stalled a scoring drive. In May, Young was kicked out of practice after punching teammate Louis Delmas.
* 2011 draft picks Nick Fairley (first round), Mikel Leshoure (2nd round) and Johnny Culbreath (seventh round) were all arrested this year on drug-related charges. (Fairley managed the feat twice in two months and Leshoure has already been suspended for the first two games of 2012.) Then, last month, defensive back Aaron Berry was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
So knowing all that, it's reasonable to wonder aloud if the Lions will implode from the pressures that come with last season's success.
This spring, Detroit vice chairman Bill Ford Jr. made it clear that off-field issues wouldn't be tolerated no matter how well the team played.
"Unfortunately it's just a couple guys who are just tainting our whole image," Ford said back in late May. "There's no question, some of our young guys better get their act together because that's not the way you become a professional. The good news is we've got some great veteran leadership on our team that are great guys and can set the tone and I suspect it's going to be those veterans who are really going to get these guys back in line."
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30 days until 25th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals Renewal Deadline
January 13, 2010 by Benjamin Tuttle (Ticketing Manager)
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30 days remain until the ticket renewal deadline for the 25th Annual O'Reilly Super Start Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals. Renew the same seats that you held in 2009 for 2010′s power packed celebration of 25 years of drag racing at the Texas Motorplex that you do not want to miss.
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January 12, 2010 by Benjamin Tuttle (Ticketing Manager)
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Kansas City (Jan. 12, 2010) – The Super Chevy Show series hired Tom Kreager as General Manager, it was announced today by the ownership group, SCSW, Inc.
In a series that will be celebrating its 30th anniversary of drag racing, car shows, swap meets and collector cars for sale, Kreager will be responsible for the development and growth of the series as well as ensuring uniformity at each of the 10 national events.
"We are celebrating a milestone anniversary with the Super Chevy Show this year and there will be significant changes that will go along with the new ownership group while maintaining the heart of a series that has cultivated loyal fans across the nation for 30 years," Kreager said. "We are working on enhancing the shows, bringing new faces into the series and making sure it becomes a premier event at each of the host tracks."
SCSW, Inc. board of director's President John Bandimere Jr., said hiring Kreager was an easy decision.
"Tom has all the tools needed by this strong group of owners," Bandimere said. "We have 10 facilities on the schedule that are used to making major decisions every day and we needed someone that every track could trust. We wanted everyone to be confident in working with the series GM so we can all build up the Super Chevy Show series together. Tom has the background and experience working with major sanctioning bodies that will help him successfully do the job. He's a strong addition to the series."
Kreager has been involved with racing for more than 25 years, working with racing sanctioning bodies including NHRA, IHRA and AMA. He also will be working closely with Forward Sports Marketing on sponsor development and services.
"I have always admired the Super Chevy Show series and wanted to be part of it," Kreager said. "I believe this is a great opportunity to make a good product even better and I'm confident we will do that starting this year. There is a lot of talent working on the events right now and I'm excited to put my experience as a series director to work and make some big contributions to the series."
Racers, car show participants, fans, vendors and sponsors can call 800-692-6230 for more information on the Super Chevy Show series or go online at www.superchevyshow.com for details on 2010′s 30th anniversary season.
Hope, Hammock partner with Mohegan Sun Racing for 2010
January 12, 2010 by Benjamin Tuttle (Ticketing Manager)
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NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rider David Hope has signed a major sponsorship agreement with Brian Bozsum and Mohegan Sun Racing for the full 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season.
"The talks of a partnership with Hope and Hammock started a few weeks ago after coming to the realization that we would not be able to run with Matt Guidera until Indy of this year due to the unforeseen circumstances that occurred last year," said Bozsum. "It's truly an unfortunate situation to be involved with, considering how successful the team was and the friendships that we all forged during the past couple of years."
Bozsum continued, "Mohegan Sun Racing wants to have a continued presence in the NHRA, and David Hope and John Hammock will be able to provide that. My wife and I look forward to the 2010 season with much enthusiasm, and we're very proud to be associated with David and John. We've known John Hammock, Vroom team owner, since we hit the NHRA in 2005 and have always considered him a very good friend.
"We're looking forward to starting the same relationship with David and his family. David seems to have such a great presence at the track and has done some great things to bring awareness to the struggles with breast cancer. Good things happen to good people, and this is a great example of it.
"We're looking forward to a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship that will not only pay significant dividends on the racetrack but also make the Mohegan Sun/Vroom Racing team one of the top teams in 2010."
Hope will debut the Mohegan Sun/Vroom Racing Buell March 11-14 at the 41st annual NHRA Gatornationals season opener for the Pro Stock Motorcycles in Gainesville.
Situated on 240 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun, owned by the Mohegan Tribe, is one of the largest and most distinctive and spectacular entertainment, gaming, shopping, and meeting destinations in the United States.
Troxel takes bobsled gold in Lake Placid; Coughlin slides to silver
January 10, 2010 by Benjamin Tuttle (Ticketing Manager)
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Team NHRA had its best showing ever in the annual Lucas Oil Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge presented by Whelen Engineering Sunday with rookie competitor Melanie Troxel earning the gold medal at the charity event.
Fellow drag racer Jeg Coughlin Jr. was just .07-seconds back of Troxel's two-run combined time of 1:39.33 seconds, bringing home silver in his JEGS.com bobsled with a 1:39.40. NASCAR road race specialist and multi-time Challenge winner Boris Said ended up third, filling out the podium with a 1:39.69.
In the second contest of the day, the NASCAR vs. NHRA showdown, Troxel once again shined, blazing through the NHRA side of the ladder before taking runner-up honors behind NASCAR rookie of the year Joey Logano, 49.81 to 50.07.
"I'm shocked," said Troxel, the first woman to ever compete in the event. "That final (gold medal) run didn't even feel that fast. It seemed like I hit the walls a lot, but I guess it was quick enough to win. There was definitely some beginner's luck on my side today.
"I sure came a long way in a few days. At first I was getting so much advice and it didn't even make sense to me but as the weekend went along I started understanding what they were telling me and what areas of the track they were talking about. I think driving my R2B2 Voodoo Corvette was probably some pretty good training because those Pro Mod cars are right on the edge also.
"The whole atmosphere of this event and the fact we're helping our Olympic athletes go for the gold with these 'Made in America' bobsleds from the Bo-Dyn Project makes it so special. It's been a real honor to be here."
Top Fuel teammates Shawn Langdon and Morgan Lucas finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the first race with combined times of 1:40.12 and 1:40.32. Langdon, the driver of the Lucas Oil/MAV TV Top Fuel dragster, was competing in his first Lucas Oil Bobsled Challenge.
Lucas, who usually drives the GEICO Powersports/Lucas Oil dragster, is the most tenured member of Team NHRA, having competed in the race four times overall. The defending event champion, Lucas reached the semifinals in the NASCAR vs. NHRA Challenge but lost to Troxel by .02 seconds, 50.12 to 50.14.
Pro Stock racer Coughlin had the fastest pass of the event, reaching 102.62 kilometers per hour on the 20-turn Olympic course on Mount Van Hoevenberg. His two runs of 49.31 and 50.09 seconds in the first event looked smooth, although the five-time world champion said he could have been quicker.
"I skidded through a few of the lower turns in both runs and that scrubbed off a bit of speed," he said. "But I'm really pleased with this result. Two years ago I came in third here and got the bronze. Now I've got a silver medal to go with it so we've improved and that's exciting. I guess I need to come back and get a gold to finish the set.
"What Geoff Bodine has done for bobsledding is phenomenal and this event is not only a lot of fun but it's something that just makes you feel great. I'm excited to go up to the Olympic Games in Vancouver next month with Team USA and watch them on the world's biggest stage. We all wish them the very best."
NASCAR legend Bodine conceived the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project more than a decade ago after watching U.S. athletes struggle to compete with old, used sleds from their European rivals. Bodine contracted racecar designer Bob Cuneo of Chassis Dynamics in Oxford, Conn., to create "Made-in-America" bobsleds for the United States men's and women's national teams. Since switching to Bo-Dyn sleds, U.S. athletes have risen to the top of the sport, winning multiple Olympic and World Cup medals in both two-man and four-man competition.
Official results of timed Olympic-style race:
1:39.33 Melanie Troxel
1:39.40 Jeg Coughlin Jr.
1:39.69 Boris Said
1:39.82 Todd Bodine
1:40.12 Shawn Langdon
1:40.32 Morgan Lucas
1:40.40 Joey Logano
1:40.53 Phillip Morris
1:40.97 George Brunnhoelzl III
1:41.19 Carl Renezeder
Official results of NASCAR vs. NHRA Challenge:
Team NHRA
49.60 Troxel
50.06 Lucas
50.25 Renezeder
50.26 Coughlin
50.32 Langdon
Team NASCAR
50.16 Bodine
50.31 Logano
50.32 Said
50.71 Morris
50.90 Brunnhoelzl
Round 1: Logano 50.00 defeats Said 50.03; Lucas DNF beats Renezeder DNF (better incrementals)
Round 2: Logano 49.70 defeats Bodine 50.12; Troxel 50.12 defeats Lucas 50.14
Final round: Logano 49.81 defeats Troxel 50.07
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Coughlin quickest member of Team NHRA at Bobsled Challenge (1/19/2010)
12 drivers set for Bodine Bobsled Challenge (1/4/2010)
The field is set, and the weather is forecast to be quintessential Adirondack in January.
With ample snow, a typical chill in the air, and the 30th anniversary of the 1980 Winter Olympics just a month away, Lake Placid will present a Currier & Ives winter scene Jan. 8-10 to the 12 drivers from NHRA and NASCAR who will converge on the two-time Winter Olympics village for the fifth annual Lucas Oil Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge presented by Whelen Engineering.
The daring dozen will leave their comfort zones and drive modified bobsleds down the three-quarter-mile, 16-turn Mount Van Hoevenberg track, site of the 2000 Winter Goodwill Games as well as the 2003 and 2009 World Bobsled Championships.
NHRA will be represented by Top Fuel drivers Morgan Lucas, Shawn Langdon, and Melanie Troxel and Pro Stock standout Jeg Coughlin Jr. Joey Logano, the 2009 NASCAR rookie of the year, and road racer Boris Said, who has been the dominant performer at the previous four challenges, also will be in the field. Other competitors are Geoff Bodine, named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers; two-time NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Randy LaJoie; 2009 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified champion George Brunnhoelzl III; 2009 NASCAR Whelen All American Series driver Philip Morris; off-road racer Carl Renezeder; and past NASCAR champion Todd Bodine, younger brother of Geoff and Brett Bodine.
The competitors will have practice sessions Friday, Jan. 8, at 2:30; practice and qualification Saturday, Jan. 9, beginning at 9 a.m.; and a pair of races, including the NASCAR versus NHRA head-to-head confrontation, Sunday, Jan.10, at 10 a.m.; pre-race festivities will commence at 9 a.m.
Though the goal for any race car driver is to win, the mission of the event is to create awareness and greater funding for the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project Inc. Bodine, winner of the 1986 Daytona 500, joined forces with auto racing designer Bob Cuneo of Chassis Dynamics in Oxford, Conn., to create made-in-America bobsleds for the United States men's and women's national teams.
Since 2002, the Bo-Dyn effort has produced one Olympic gold medal (Jill Bakken), two silver medals (Todd Hays and Shauna Rohbock), and a bronze (Brian Shimer). Additionally, U.S. team member Steve Holcomb ended a 50-year world championship drought when he drove his four-man Bo-Dyn sled to the world title in Lake Placid last February.
The men's and women's squads have claimed numerous World Cup medals this season — five gold medals among them — in the run-up to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. With the help of Bo-Dyn technology, the team is poised to end a 62-year gold medal drought in the Winter Olympics.
The Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project Inc. graciously accepts and appreciates support of its made-in-America efforts. To make a donation, log on to www.bodinebobsled.com.
Tickets are available for the gala banquet and auction Saturday night at the Lake Placid Crowne Plaza Resort. To purchase, log on to http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase.
NHRA, producers of popular drag racing show announce agreement to produce media properties
January 8, 2010 by Benjamin Tuttle (Ticketing Manager)
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NHRA and producers of the popular drag racing show Pinks, Stephen Pullin and Jack Schaeffer, have agreed to create, develop, and produce media properties, including new racing competitions, new events, and television programs. The first project, NHRA Unleashed, will celebrate pure American horsepower in an interactive festival environment.
Pullin and Schaeffer's Disrupt/ive Studios and NHRA will explore and develop innovative properties focused on wide-open, wheelstanding, heads-up competition embracing the car enthusiast, the roots of NHRA. NHRA Unleashed is the first of these properties to be staged in 2010, in Atlanta; Indianapolis; Hebron, Ohio; and Gainesville. A schedule of events is listed below. The plan is to expand NHRA Unleashed to other premier drag racing facilities in the United States in 2011.
"We have been working for several months with Stephen, Jack, and the team at Disrupt/ive Studios to create this unique relationship," said Tom Compton, NHRA president. "We are excited about creating new entertainment media properties and developing entertaining, interactive events aligned with television programming that highlight the foundation of NHRA, the grassroots racer and car enthusiast."
NHRA Unleashed will provide a fully interactive experience for spectators and participants, embracing a new breed of drag racing enthusiast looking for pure, doorslammer heads-up competition on the track, ranging from the 10.5 Outlaw to the 13-second weekend warrior, and a festival environment off the track. At an NHRA Unleashed event, everyone and everything is part of the show, which will feature heads-up, no-index racing on the track; interactive events, including Kart Track and Autocross activities; and the traditional car show, car/parts swap meet, and car corrals. The drag racing format on the track will have the sole purpose of highlighting competition for the pure heads-up grassroots competitors in the country, vying for the coveted Wally trophy. Each event will be as much a regional happening as it will be a drag racing event and will include exhibition runs by a variety of race vehicles.
"We want to develop events and broadcast programs that capture the sport, lifestyle, culture, and original brand of NHRA Drag Racing," Pullin said. "We believe the NHRA Unleashed event embodies everything we are looking to create jointly, a celebration of pure American horsepower."
Further details on NHRA Unleashed will be announced later in January. In addition, NHRA and Disrupt/ive Studios intend to make announcements in the coming months about additional creative ideas and proposals currently in the planning process.
2010 NHRA Unleashed schedule
June 11-13: Atlanta Dragway, Atlanta
Aug. 6-8: O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, Indianapolis
Sept. 10-12: National Trail Raceway, Hebron, Ohio
Nov. 5-7: Gainesville Raceway, Gainesville


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An oxymoron (plural oxymora or oxymorons) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory. Oxymora appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors (such as "ground pilot") and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox.
The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective–noun combination of two words. For example, the following line from Tennyson's Idylls of the King contains two oxymora:
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Other examples of oxymora of this kind include:
Less often seen are noun–verb combinations of two words, such as the line "The silence whistles" from Nathan Alterman's "Summer Night", or in a song title like Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence".
Oxymora are not always a pair of words; they can also be devised in the meaning of sentences or phrases.
Oxymoron is derived from the 5th century Latin oxymoron, which is derived from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύς oxus "sharp, keen" and μωρός mōros "dull, stupid", making the word itself an oxymoron.[1] However, the combined Greek form ὀξύμωρον (oxumōron) does not in fact appear in the extant Greek sources.[2]
Richard Lederer assembled a taxonomy of oxymora in an article in Word Ways in 1990,[3] running from single-word oxymora such as "pianoforte" (literally, "soft-loud") through "doublespeak oxymora" (deliberately intended to confuse) and "opinion oxymora" (editorial opinions designed to provoke a laugh). In general, oxymora can be divided into expressions that were deliberately crafted to be contradictory and those phrases that inadvertently or incidentally contain a contradiction, often as a result of a punning use of one or both words.
Many oxymora have been popularised in vernacular speech. Examples include "controlled chaos", "open secret", "organized mess", "alone in a crowd", and "accidentally on purpose".[citation needed]
There are also examples in which terms that are superficially contradictory are juxtaposed in such a way that there is no contradiction. Examples include "same difference", "jumbo shrimp", and "hot ice" (where "hot" means "stolen" and "ice" means "diamonds", in criminal argot).[citation needed]
Writers often use an oxymoron to call attention to an apparent contradiction. For example, Wilfred Owen's poem "The Send-off" refers to soldiers leaving for the front line, who "lined the train with faces grimly gay." The oxymoron "grimly gay" highlights the contradiction between how the soldiers feel and how they act: though they put on a brave face and act cheerfully, they feel grim.
Similarly, in Henry James' novella The Lesson of the Master, a character is described as dressed in a manner "conventionally unconventional, suggesting a tortuous spontaneity." In this way James highlights the contradiction between the character's desire to appear spontaneous, and the efforts she makes to appear so.
One case where many oxymora are strung together can be found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo declares:
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Some paradoxical oxymora become clichés:
Although a true oxymoron is "something that is surprisingly true, a paradox", Garry Wills has argued that modern usage has brought a common misunderstanding[4] that "oxymoron" is nearly synonymous with "contradiction". The introduction of this misuse, the opposite of its true meaning, has been credited to William F. Buckley.[5]
Sometimes a pair of terms is claimed to be an oxymoron by those who hold the opinion that the two are mutually exclusive. That is, although there is no inherent contradiction between the terms, the speaker expresses the opinion that the two terms imply properties or characteristics that cannot occur together. Such claims may be made purely for humorous effect. Comedian George Carlin popularized many examples, such as "military intelligence", "freedom fighters", and "business ethics". Another example is the term "civil war", which is not an oxymoron, but can be claimed to be so for humorous effect, if "civil" is construed as meaning "polite" rather than "between citizens of the same state". Alternatively, such claims may reflect a genuinely held opinion or ideological position. Well-known examples include claims made against "government worker", "honest broker", "educational television", "Microsoft Works", and "working from home".
In his book More on Oxymoron, the artist Patrick Hughes discusses and gives examples of visual oxymorons. He writes:
In the visual version of oxymoron, the material of which a thing is made (or appears to be made) takes the place of the adjective, and the thing itself (or thing represented) takes the place of the noun.[6]
Examples include waves in the sand, a fossil tree, and topiary representing something solid like an ocean liner. Hughes lists further examples of oxymoronic objects, including:[7]
Oxymora, in the sense of "single-word oxymora" such as "pianoforte", are very common in Chinese and neighboring languages such as Japanese, and consist of two opposing Chinese characters. Archetypal examples include 男女 (man and woman, male and female, gender), 陰陽 (yin and yang), 善悪 (good and evil, morality), and are used to indicate couples, ranges, or the trait that these are extremes of.
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I started blogging about dividend growth stocks in January 2008; right around the time the market started its slide. Fast forward 18 months and we have seen it all: from companies which were once deemed too big to fail and which were later acquired for pennies on the dollar to the blowups of several prominent pyramid schemes and hedge funds. Back in early 2008 most investors were not fully aware of the dangers that the real estate implosion would have on the overall economy. Some aggressive investors lost much more than S&P 500 in 2008 due to their heavy concentration in certain sectors built at the highs of the market, use of excessive leverage and chasing "broken companies" which offered suspiciously high yields, which proved unsustainable.
In order for investors to become better at allocating capital, it is important to learn from ones mistakes. I have identified several mistakes, which could have saved investors billions had they known about them in the first place:
1) Diversify your portfolio. We often hear that diversification is dead and the fact that in a crisis almost all assets go down in sync. While this is somewhat true, a simple diversification strategy where an investor held some allocation to government fixed income, would have resulted in smaller losses. There are several bond ETF's which hold US Treasuries. Examples include iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas Bond (TLT) and iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury (IEF). It is also important to understand that simply adding different asset classes in a portfolio may not provide any diversification benefits. For example adding fixed income from High-Yield Bonds would not have provided any diversification benefits, as most junk bonds represent companies with low credit ratings, which have a higher chance of defaulting during a crisis. Several Junk Bond ETF's such as iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd (HYG) were introduced right before the financial crisis.
In addition to that, investors who concentrated their portfolios in just a handful of companies (10 – 15) would have under performed their benchmarks even if they had just one AIG (AIG) or Bank of America (BAC) in it. Both companies were considered the best of the best, before the crisis affected them and they had to seek government funds, while reducing or eliminating distributions to shareholders.
2) Build positions over time. While dollar cost averaging provides inferior returns in strong markets relative to a lump sum investment, the chance of a black swan effect ala 2008 makes it preferable for investors to build their positions slowly. This would be another control that would prevent your portfolio from collapsing, in case your stock analysis didn't work out as planned.
3) Don't chase high yield stocks blindly. Back in 2008, many financial stocks had very attractive dividend yields in the low double digits. Some of those like Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and Fifth Third Bank (FITB) had long histories of consistent dividend increases each year. The problem was that these stocks could not sustain paying their distributions, since they were earning much less than what they were paying out. At the end of the day these companies had nowhere else to go but cut their distributions, which was a strong sell indicator for many dividend growth investors. Most of the dividend cuts in the financial sector were followed by massive implosions in shareholders value from companies such as Citigroup (C), Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE).
4) Don't use excessive leverage. Using leverage means borrowing money to invest in something for the purpose of magnifying your profit potential. When you are right, leverage works in your favor. For example if you purchased a stock on margin, and it increased 10%, your leveraged return would be almost 20%. When you are wrong though, leverage could result in disastrous results and bankruptcy. Using the same example, a leveraged bet on the wrong side of the table where the underlying fell by 10% results in a 20% loss.
The whose housing mess was created by allowing people who cannot afford expensive houses speculating on housing prices enjoying double digit increases for eternity, while being heavily leveraged. Once housing prices started dropping like a rock, panicked sellers helped exacerbate the problem by adding more fuel to the already severe drop in values. This caused interest payments on mortgage backed securities to not be paid, which triggered collapses in financial companies such as Ambac (ABK) and Fannie Mae (FNM) which then sent shockwaves throughout the world.
5) Don't overpay for stocks. Investors often overpay for stocks because of the recency phenomenon, where they discount double-digit growth indefinitely. This leads to purchasing stocks with unacceptably low dividend yields, high P/E ratios and rosy predictions for strong dividend growth for eternity. Such conditions are simply unsustainable. The so called "Tech Four Horsemen" that CNBC's "Fast Money" touted in the last quarter of 2007, Apple (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM), Google (GOOG) and Garmin (GRMN) all spotted unusually high valuations until growth expectations declined substantially. Investors suffered huge losses in the process.
6) Understand what you are investing into. It is important to understand what one is getting into by reading a prospectus for example. Many mortgage-backed securities were marketed to individuals and institutions as no risk investments. Investors who took the trouble to check the 500-page prospectus of such investments would have avoided severe losses. It is important to keep simple and within your circle of competence. Another example includes some dividend ETFs which were supposed to offer stable income, but which ended up heavily concentrated in financials and REITs. Retirees who depended on those ETFs rather than individual stock selection for income, were caught by surprise. Even the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index ETF (SDY) and Dow Jones Select Dividend Index (DVY) at some point in time included dividend stocks which shouldn't have been there. Even now the Dividend Aristocrats Index includes stocks like General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE) and Gannett (GCI) which should be avoided by dividend investors.
While this list is not meant to be a comprehensive all-inclusive one, it is a great starting point for both novice and experienced investors. I believe that investing has never been a perfect science, but one could achieve perfection by learning from their mistakes and not repeating them over and over.
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Six things I learned from the financial crisis
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Good post.
What I learned:
1. Invest in only the highest quality companies (zero or very little debt, consistently profitable, and one of the last to go under during economic armageddon).
2. Don't overleverage, or invest in operations that overleverage.
3. All financial and real estate related stocks are CYCLICAL.
4. Invest as though it's always a bear market.
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Ulf Harnhammar, from the Debian Security Audit Project, has found that Streamripper is vulnerable to multiple stack based buffer overflows caused by improper bounds checking when processing malformed HTTP headers.
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