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log. Oddly, the term "johnboat" didn't come into use in the Ozarks until the early 1930s though it was well enough known elsewhere that by 1919 it appears in a federal government publication on the musselshell button industry as the term for the boat type.
What Missouri can claim is the advent of float fishing from johnboats. Before the early part of the century, johnboats were primarily used for transportation in roadless areas. The railroads built in the Ozarks during the lumber boom at the turn of the 20th century opened the area to a new form of recreational tourism and the humble "flat bottom boat" and "redhorse runner" became the storied johnboat of Ozark lore. In the sense that Missouri builders adapted and perfected an old style to meet the needs of the floaters and guides on our rivers, the johnboat is uniquely ours.
Three distinct variations show up in the old photographs. The classic White River style is defined by the boats built by Charlie Barnes for promoter Jim Owen and the well-known Owen boat line. These were built around iron braces made from old wagon tires and other scrap. This method created an open boat in which anglers sat in chairs.
The Current River style used a series of sawn oak frames to hold the shape of the boat. Seats were simple removable boards that rested between the frames.
The Piney River style, developed by Fred Dablemont and fine tuned by his son Farrel, is built around temporary forming braces or molds like a lot of small boat types that are built today. After seat crossbraces are added to hold the shape of the boat, the molds are removed and the two center seats are installed.
The lone survivor of the heyday of the Missouri johnboat is a battered White River boat that is on display at the School of the Ozarks. The National Park Service revived the nearly lost art of building Current River type boats in the 1970s with the help of local craftsmen. They also preserved several boats used by the Eminence-based Bales guide service in the 1950s and 1960s. The Piney River style survives in the form of a little book by Farrel Dablemont's son, Larry, who provides step-by-step instructions for building a johnboat.
I used Dablemont's The Authentic American Johnboat along with a basic knowledge of modern boat building techniques and a


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Volume 53, Issue 11, November 1982
Method for measuring specific heats in intense magnetic fields at low temperatures using capacitance thermometry53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136877View Description Hide Description
A drift method is described for measuring specific heats in intense magnetic fields at low temperatures. Capacitance thermometry is used, and an automated data‐collection system utilizes the imbalance of a transformer‐ratio‐arm bridge to process the capacitance data. The zero‐field specific heat must be known, and measurement of the in situ drift in zero‐field calibrates the thermal link. Additional calibration of the link is required if the link's magnetothermal conductivity effects are significant, and a specific example of a copper‐wire link is presented. The method resolves complex structure in the specific heat near a steep λ‐type anomaly, as illustrated by measurements on a chromite spinel at 7.5 T. The uncertainty in the method is estimated to be ≂±7%.
Application of light polarization technique to the generalized line‐reversal method for gaseous temperature measurements53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136878View Description Hide Description
The light polarization technique was applied to the generalized line‐reversal method in order to improve the inherently restricted resolution characteristics found in the conventional method using a chopper or a knife wedge, which discriminate the reference lamp light from the gaseous emission either temporally or spatially, respectively. In the proposed method, each of the lights was linearly and perpendicularly polarized and was detected through the same spatiotemporal optical path. The applicability of this method to measure the hot gaseous temperature was confirmed experimentally in a shock tubeMHD power generation system.
Dilatometry at low temperatures53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136879View Description Hide Description
A dilatometer has been constructed for the routine measurement of thermal expansion coefficients in the temperature range of 0.1–10 K. Using a SQUIDdetector, the dilatometer provides a resolution of 2×10− 4 Å. As a test of this apparatus, the linear thermal expansion coefficient of high‐purity copper has been measured between 0.2 and 9 K.
Fabrication of ultrashort niobium variable‐thickness bridges53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136880View Description Hide Description
A simple technique for the fabrication of niobium variable‐thickness bridges of length ∼0.1 μm is described. The bridges are found to operate as ideal Josephson junctions over a wide temperature range.
Electrical properties of an input–output cable for Josephson applications53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136881View Description Hide Description
The electrical properties of an 80 signal line microstrip cable for transmitting signals between room‐temperature electronics and cryogenicelectronics were calculated and verified. The impedance, propagation velocity, skin effect losses, dielectric losses, forward wave cross talk, and backward wave cross talk were investigated for a copper and polyimide microstrip cable. An effective method of reducing forward wave cross talk was discovered. The microstrip cable has a high signal line density, 19.7 lines/cm, and a high bandwidth, dc‐1 GHz.
High repetition rate mini TEA CO2 laser using a semiconductor preionizer53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136882View Description Hide Description
A mini TEA CO2 laser using a semiconductor preionizer is described. The laser will operate at a pulse repetition frequency greater than 5 kHz. At a pulse repetition frequency of 1 kHz a mean power output of 35 W can be maintained over extended periods. Burst mode operation of 104 shots at a pulse repetition frequency of 1.5 kHz can produce mean power in excess of 50 W.
High‐precision tunable infrared reflectometer53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136883View Description Hide Description
This report describes a double‐bounce reflectometer operating between 1 and 4 μm. This reflectometer uses the Nernst glower as a source in conjunction with a liquid N2‐cooled InSb detector. Data collection was best accomplished with a noise eliminating sample‐and‐hold system and a low‐noise straight ac amplifier in conjunction with a computer. The reflectometer was evaluated using two samples with different metallic coatings, one aluminum and the other gold. Average absolute reflectance values of 95.059±0.025% for the aluminum sample and 98.088±0.017% for the gold sample were obtained at 3.79 μm at 45° incidence angle. The precision of the reflectometer was better than 0.03% for measurements made over a period of several days.
Observations of sonoluminescence using image intensification53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136884View Description Hide Description
A high‐gain image intensifier system has been applied to the study of the light emitted when cavitation occurs in a liquid (sonoluminescence). Observations of sonoluminescence from several different magnetostrictive oscillators show that spatial and temporal distributions can be recorded in a few seconds in cases where recording on conventional film would not be possible. In the present experiments, the spectral transmission properties of the optics precluded recording of the light in ultraviolet. The spatial details of the cavitation process would not be available from photomultiplier records.
Fast transient digitizer system using a TV camera for the measurement of optically induced spin polarization53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136885View Description Hide Description
A fast digitizer for single transient analysis is described which is composed of a microcomputer‐based image processor and a TV camera attached to a 1‐GHz oscilloscope.Oscilloscope traces are viewed by a TV camera and displayed on a TV screen in a digitized form. The corrected data can be accumulated at 1.5 s intervals. The system has been used successfully for measurements of nanosecond single transients in a study of optically induced spin polarization. Hardware design, software, and experimental performance are described.
S−100/Z80 microprocessor‐based scanning microdensitometer and signal processing system53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136870View Description Hide Description
A S‐100/Z80 8‐bit microprocessor‐based system which is used to digitize, reduce, and smooth picosecond data is described. Utilizing real‐time signal sampling combined with a software‐controlled signal averaging, the system uses, to the maximum extent, all of the information obtainable from the microdensitometer. The versatility of the system, in terms of both the hardware and software, minimized the need for extensive in‐house interfacing and makes it possible to scan a film containing six spectra (6×40K raw data points) in 16 min. The use of a LS1 stepping motor controller chip is described.
Plasma target output from a magnetically augmented, gas‐injected, washer‐stack plasma gun53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136871View Description Hide Description
This article describes a new washer‐stack gun design developed for the application of plasma target production for the startup of neutral‐beam trapping in a fusion research magnetic confinement system. The gun is a Moanode type that is D2 injected and has an auxiliary pulsed magnet for control of plasma‐flux mapping. One of the principal features of 2–10‐ms duration pulses for gun operation in a suitable magnetic field is the formation of an arc column along magnetic field lines from the gun's central cathode electrode to the vacuum chamber walls (at common anode potential). The primary power output from a 5.0‐cm‐i.d. gun is typically carried along this arc column by a stream of approximately 2000 A of 50–250‐eV electrons. This primary stream of relatively low‐density energetic electrons efficiently ionizes the injected gas, forming a quasi‐dc source of denser secondary plasma of ∼101 3/cm3 at a few eV, which is able to flow or diffuse away along a somewhat larger column of magnetic field lines. In plasma‐target production tests on a test stand, a gun operated at a D2 gas flow of 22 Torr ls− 1 yielded 250 A of equivalent plasma flow.
Comparison of two types of antennas for plasma heating53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136872View Description Hide Description
The ability of a quadrupole coil, an antenna, of new design for the production of high‐energy protons in a plasma has been compared experimentally with that of a conventional wraparound coil. The energies of the protons in the escape cone of a magnetic bottle were measured by a Faraday cup. The antennas were placed alternately midway between the two solenoids and operated in resonance under similar conditions. Proton energies of 380 eV were attained with the new quadrupole coil, a value more than twice that obtained by the wraparound coil. Thus, the new coil is judged superior for the purpose of ion cyclotron resonance heating.
Low‐energy neutral atom spectrometer53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136873View Description Hide Description
The design, calibration, and performance of a low‐energy neutral atom spectrometer are described. Time‐of‐flight analysis is used to measure the energy spectrum of charge‐exchange deuterium atoms emitted from the PLT tokamak plasma in the energy range from 20 to 1000 eV. The neutral outflux is gated on a 1‐μs time scale by a slotted rotating chopper disc, supported against gravity in vacuum by magnetic levitation, and is detected by secondary electron emission from a Cu–Be plate. The energy dependent detection efficiency has been measured in particle beam experiments and on the tokamak so that the diagnostic is absolutely calibrated, allowing quantitative particle fluxes to be determined with 200‐μs time resolution. In addition to its present application as a plasma diagnostic, the instrument is capable of making a wide variety of measurements relevant to atomic and surface physics.
Graphical analysis method for a retarding potential analyzer and its application to the real‐time measurements of ion temperature in space plasmas53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136874View Description Hide Description
In order to obtain the ion temperature from a voltage‐to‐current characteristic of a retarding potential analyzer (RPA) in a drifted density (106 1/cc), low‐temperature (1 eV) plasma such as an ionospheric plasma, optimum fitting procedures using the digital computer have been used. But these methods must take a lot of time to search the parameters. A graphical method using the sampling of a RPA curve has been developed to obtain the ion temperature quickly. Many diagrams were drawn by calculation to determine the ion temperature. This method is suitable not only for the processing of a large quantity of data but also for the in‐flight data analysis aboard a sounding rocket. By the use of feedback control circuits, ion temperature data could be obtained at a ratio of several tens per second in the ionosphere, where the mass of the ion M varies slowly. The accuracy of this method and the effect of variations of M, angle of attack Θ a , and drift velocity v 0 is discussed. Also the efficacy of this method is confirmed. This method was examined in the ionosphere aboard a rocket whose velocity was about 2 km/s. The ion temperature data obtained are compared with those obtained by the usual optimum fitting procedure.
Supersonic nozzle beam source of atomic oxygen produced by electric discharge heating53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136875View Description Hide Description
An atmospheric pressure supersonic nozzle beamsource of atomic oxygen is described. Dissociation of molecular oxygen is accomplished by injection into a flow of helium and/or argon which has been heated in a commercial plasma torch.Dissociation efficiencies approaching unity are achieved with beam velocities in the range of 1.5–4.0 km s−1. Production of rare gas metastable and electronically excited oxygen species are minimized by the source design.
Infrared laser spectroscopy of molecular beams using a room‐temperature beam detector: Application to the study of translational freezing in free‐jet expansions53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136876View Description Hide Description
A simple and inexpensive alternative to the liquid He bolometer for observing laser induced vibrational excitation in molecular beams is reported. A room‐temperature pyroelectric detector is used to directly measure the increase in molecular energy resulting from laser excitation. With this detector, line broadening effects have been used to study translational freezing in free‐jet expansions.
High‐pressure–low‐temperature apparatus for NMR study of phase transitions53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136886View Description Hide Description
An apparatus has been developed for nuclear‐magnetic‐resonance (NMR)measurement of relaxation times in solids at hydrostaticpressures to 7 kbar and temperatures down to 77 K. Sample temperature can be controlled accurately with ±2 mK stability allowing measurement of dynamic phenomena very near phase transitions. The high‐pressure vessel is equipped with additional electrical feedthroughs so that dielectricmeasurements can be carried out concurrently, providing additional information on ferroelectric phase transitions.
Balanced cavity scheme for saturation transfer dispersion electron paramagnetic resonance53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136887View Description Hide Description
Dispersion electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) suffers from high AM noise levels due to discrimination of FM noise from the klystron by the high Q cavity. If the EPR cavity is placed in one arm of a magic tee, and a similar cavity in the other arm, then this noise can be removed by arranging the two (correlated) noise components to cancel. Signal‐to‐noise ratio improvements of a factor of 40 are easily attainable. Only minor modifications to commercial instruments are required.
Phase‐locked heterodyne receiver and its application to lower hybrid wave detection by microwave scattering53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136888View Description Hide Description
The frequency stabilized, low‐noise heterodyne receiver is developed for microwavescattering measurements in a plasma. Its application to the observation of a lower hybrid wave (LHW) externally excited in a linear test plasma is demonstrated. The frequency fluctuation of 70 GHz klystrons employed for scattering measurements is stabilized by the phase‐locked loop. The frequency resolution of the receiver is about 10 kHz and its noise equivalent power is about 7×10− 1 9 W/Hz, corresponding to the minimum detectable density fluctuation ñ e /n̄ e =6×10− 5 under present experimental conditions. By the scattering of 70 GHz millimeter waves using this heterodyne receiver, LHW externally excited by the helical antenna can be detected. The spatial intensity distribution and the wave number spectrum of the scattered power are obtained. These observations make clear not only the magnitude, but also the direction of the wave number of the excited wave. The observed wave numbers in the several scattering positions over the plasma cross section are almost in the radial direction but not always consistent with the theoretical expectations. Their magnitudes are close to those determined from the auxiliary measurements using an electrostatic probe. The density fluctuation obtained from the absolute value of the scattered power is about ñ e /n̄ e =5×10− 4. The theoretical estimation gives ñ e /n̄ e =2×10− 3.
Zero‐field pulsed spin echo spectrometer for the study of ferromagnetic materials53(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136889View Description Hide Description
Complete description of a pulsed nuclear‐magnetic‐resonance spectrometer operating in the frequency range 100–600 MHz is presented. The spectrometer is suitable for investigating hyperfine fields in ferromagnetic materials and has some novel features. High sensitivity, simplicity of operation, and ease of tuning over the entire frequency interval are some significant characteristics of the spectrometer.


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In a recent article (Why Not Medicaid for All?), Ross Douthat offers another careful and thoughtful contribution to the Obamacare debate. Near the end of the article, he highlights what I believe is one of the most important issues at stake – the economic realities that have brought about the most competent and technologically advanced health care system the world has ever known. In the midst of all of the partisan rancor, I rarely hear this issue addressed. Douthat writes:
And this is where we start to really get down to ideological bedrock, because conservatives and libertarians (and a few liberals) then look at the European/Canadian model and say, Surely there's a better way than that. Yes, we concede, the strictly socialized systems do seem to save money relative to our mixed, kludge-y, public-private mess. But we also think that Americans really do get something for all the extra money that we spend: Specifically, a system that appears to drive a leonine share of global health care innovation, creating the drugs and procedures and life-extending technologies that then ripple outward, improving health and life expectancy in the developed and developing world alike. And the great fear on the right is that if we, too, end up controlling costs from the top down the way other countries do, then we won't just squeeze waste out of the system, we'll squeeze out innovation and drive out talent as well … and worse, we won't even know it, because we'll just assume that the innovations that we get are the only ones there could have been.
All of his hyperlinked articles are worth reading. He make a compelling case for why the conversation about Obamacare needs to continue. I find very little anti-Obamacare rhetoric particularly helpful, as it tends to ignore moral and political realities as much as Obamacare proponents ignore economic realities. But the concern described by Douthat in the previous quote warrants the consideration of proposals like this one: How to Replace Obamacare. It's calm and dispassionate, and accounts for the many factors involved in the debate. Very helpful.


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Apple iPad 4 16GB; WiFi + 4G Cellular; Retina Display; Sprint; Without Contract; Clean ESN, Brand New
Take the iPad 4 16GB (Sprint) with Retina Display in the hand and suddenly everything is clear. You touch your photos, read a book, play the piano. Nothing stands between you and the things you love. The reason is that the basic elements of the iPad 4 - work together to provide the best possible experience - the display, the processor, the camera, the wireless connection. So, we can do so much more than you ever thought possible with the iPad 4.
Manufacturer: Apple
Operating system: Apple iOS 6
Bands: CDMA 800 / 1900 / 2100,CDMA2000 1xEV-DO - A1460,LTE 700 / 850 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100
Carrier: Sprint
Display: 24.6 cm (9.7 ") IPS TFT - LED backlight, 2048 x 1536 (264 ppi), Multi-Touch, Scratch-resistant glass, oleophobic coating
Processor: Apple A6X, Dual-Core, PowerVR SGX554MP4 GPU
Memory: 16 GB
Wireless: 802.11 a / b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0
Camera: 5 Megapixels Rear-facing camera + 1.2 Megapixels Front-facing camera, 1080p HD video recording, Touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection,video stabilization, FaceTime HD
EBook Reader: DOCX, PDF, TXT, RTF, DOC, HTML; GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PPT, PPTX
Video: MPEG-4 SP (up to 640x480), Motion JPEG (up to 1,280 x 720), H.264 High Profile Level 4.1 (up to 1080p)
Audio: Microphone, speaker, MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, Protected AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless
Pre-installed Software: Clock, Mail, Notes, Calendar, Contacts, Messages, Camera, FaceTime, Photo Booth, Safari, videos, photos, App Store, Maps, Game Center, iBooks, iTunes, News Stand, Siri, iCloud, Reminders, Music
Sensors: Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, three-axis gyro sensor, digital compass
Ports: 3.5mm jack, Lightning connector
Battery: Lithium-polymer 42.5 Wh, Up to 10 hours (Web browsing over Wi-Fi - up to 10 hour (s) , Video playback - up to 10 hour (s) , Audio playback - up to 10 hour (s) )
Dimensions: 241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 mm (9.50 x 7.31 x 0.37 inch)
Weight: 652 g (1.44 lb)
Color: Black; White
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1 x Apple iPad 4th Generation with Retina Display 16GB (WiFi+4G - Sprint)
1 x Lightning to USB Cable
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Retina: The best display on a tablet.
On the iPad 4, you can do everything on the nice big screen. Since the screen is better, the whole iPad 4 using experience is better. The Retina display on iPad 4 comes with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, a clear saturation and with impressive 3.1 million pixels. The number of Pixels is 4x more than the iPad 2 and 1 million more than a HD TV.These pixels are so close together that the human eye can not tell them apart from normal spacing. That is why you do not see each pixel in a big picture, a whole article, or a whole game.
A6X Chip : Twice faster performance.
The new A6X chip in the iPad 4 is the most powerful mobile chip to date. It provides up to 2x more CPU and graphics performance than the A5X chip. This makes the iPad 4 reacts incredibly fast. Apps start immediately and run smoothly. On the amazing Retina display, graphics-intensive games look fantastic. And with the improved signal processing, which is integrated in A6X chip, see the photos and videos that you record with the 5-megapixel iSight camera, look sharper and thus fit better to the Retina display.
FaceTime HD camera: Stay in touch
with FaceTime on the iPad 4, you always stay in touch - even when you're far away. You can make a video call over Wi-Fi or cellular network. And with the new FaceTime HD camera, you and everyone looks even clear. You can also take self-portraits in 720p HD quality.
Siri: Your intelligent assistant.
Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that you can ask, and it helps. For something, you talk to Siri like to a friend. Siri not only understands what you say, but also what you mean. It detects which apps are necessary for the correct answer. And as a personal assistant Siri gives you the information that you want.
Lightning Connector : new and useful
Every new iPad 4 includes the Lightning Connector. It is 80% smaller than a 30-pin connector. And its design not only allows for pure digital connection with eight digital signals, but also makes the plug more robust. Another great feature of Lightning Connector is reversible. so you never plug wrong cable.
Battery: still lasts for 10hours.
The iPad 4 comes with a Retina display with 3.1 million pixels and an advanced processor and graphics processor. But what does that mean for the battery life? Actually, nothing. You can read , view, write, play and create what you want - and still up to 10 hours.
Installed Apps: Something for everyone. And everything.
Immediately after unpacking the iPad 4, it makes everything, what do you do every day, even something special. Plan your next adventure. And take videos on in full 1080p HD. Tell Siri to find the best restaurant in the town. Look at a webcast or a movie. Read a book or magazine. Check your email. Transmit messages. Or stay in touch via FaceTime. You'll be surprised how much is already in there.
App store: over 275,000 apps for download.In the App Store, there are over 275,000 apps for the iPad 4. And there are more in the future. But quantity is not everything. These apps have been developed specifically for the iPad. And they change the way You prioritize things.Create a spreadsheet for work. Or a trailer for fun. Plane travel group, a lecture or a meal -. Everything is on a single device .
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New Yorkers demand more 'police accountability'
Sunday, January 8, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Several New York City politicians and community leaders are demanding more accountability from the city's police department when it comes to minorities.
They rallied Saturday against what they say is a culture of discrimination against minorities within the New York City Police Department. They say officers stop and search hundreds of thousands of innocent black and Hispanic men each year.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said last month that he was disturbed by racially hateful comments posted on Facebook, allegedly by police officers, regarding a West Indian Day Parade in September. Parade-goers were called "animals" and "savages." The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau has opened an investigation into the postings.
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Vail Resorts wants to build a concrete-track alpine slide at its Beaver Creek ski slopes. But convincing residents of the high-priced resort community is proving to be tough sledding.
Among residents fired up about the summer amusement: former president Gerald Ford, a 30-year resident of the mountain community.
The bickering between Vail Resorts and the Beaver Creek Property Owners Association has found its way to county commissioners in Eagle County.
The resort company claims a slide is just another appropriate use for a ski area. But critics, among them the 93-year-old former president, say an alpine slide would turn their picturesque little mountain town into nothing more than an amusement park.
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On Sept. 18 we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, second general secretary of the U.N. A child of the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden and an experienced economist and diplomat, he was first elected in 1953, re-elected for five years in 1957, and killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in 1961.
This gives us a special occasion to note U.N. Day in our congregations' prayers around Oct. 24. In fact, it is important to name the U.N. and General Secretary Ban Ki-moon in our prayers whenever we pray for our national and state leaders.
A main resource for prayer and study is Hammarskjöld's journal. It was discovered after his death and translated as Markings by W.H. Auden and Leif Sjogren (Alfred A. Knopf, 1965). Markings follows his career as a person of action and contemplation that followed the trajectory of the Cold War, decolonization, Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, and South African apartheid struggles. It offers prayerful and personal deliberations, without obvious reference to those emerging crises, which is why the journal continues to bring spiritual questions and refreshing insights in our time.
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Todd Christensen
A 1978 graduate of Brigham Young University, Todd was a four-year starter on the BYU football team, leading the Cougars for three straight years in pass receiving. He played on three Western Athletic Conference Championship teams and was named first-team All-WAC in 1977. He closed his college career earning Most Valuable Player honors at the Blue-Gray All Star Classic. An 11-year NFL veteran, Christensen was one of the most prolific tight ends in league history. His career statistics of 461 receptions, 5,874 yards and 52 TDs included 392 receptions from 1983-86, the greatest four-year total in NFL history. He was a five-time All-Pro pick and led the NFL in receiving in 1983 and 1986. He was also a member of the Raiders' Super Bowl champion squads in 1981 (XV) and 1984 (XVIII). Todd has been involved in network television for nearly twenty years. For the last five years, he has worked primarily as a college football analyst for ESPN. He is married and the father of four children.


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DescriptionSports games are games in which players control either players or managers of a real or fictional sports.
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SEGA Master System (1995)
20 em 1 (20 in 1) is a compilation of twenty previously unreleased games in a single cartridge, which came...
Game Boy Advance (2004)
A double pack by THQ containing two racing GBA games combined on one cartridge: GT Advance 3: Pro Concept Racing...
Windows (1998)
This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM: Dream Team 98 ranSoccer
Windows (1999)
This compilation includes the following 2 games on CD-ROM: Jack Nicklaus 4 Tennis Manager
Windows (1999)
A compilation including Jack Nicklaus 5 and Daley Thompson's World Class Decathlon.
Game Boy Advance (2005)
This compilation features the two games V-Rally 3 and Stuntman.
Commodore 64 (1991), ZX Spectrum (1991) and Amstrad CPC (1991)
Most football management games written for 64K/48K computers concentrated their memory space on providing as many features as possible for...
Commodore 64 (1983)
2-Up: Prospector / America's Cup is a double games pack that contains the following games:Prospector: In this single screen game...
PlayStation (1996), PSP (2007) and PlayStation 3 (2007)
2Xtreme is the sequel to ESPN Extreme Games where the player takes part in a series of extreme races with...
Atari 2600 (1988)
This was a cart that was released in PAL format in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Most were the pack...
Neo Geo (1993), Neo Geo CD (1995), Wii (2011) and Arcade (1993)
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This movie looks like it's going to be awesome. You've got the pedigree of Steven Sondheim and James Lapine matched with an intriguing cast that features Meryl Streep in the spotlight, and in our first look at Into the Woods, she's looking a bit like the witch from Big Fish minus the eyepatch.
The character is desperate to regain her youth and beauty, so she makes a bargain with a cursed baker (James Corden) to un-hex him if he brings her a bunch of bizarre items. Along the way, he runs into all sorts of fairy tale characters — Jack with his magic beans, Cinderella and Rapunzel to name just a few.
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2011) — After taking a small dose of inorganic nitrate for three days, healthy people consume less oxygen while riding an exercise bike. A new study in the February issue of Cell Metabolism traces that improved performance to increased efficiency of the mitochondria that power our cells.
The researchers aren't recommending anyone begin taking inorganic nitrate supplements based on the new findings. Rather, they say that the results may offer one explanation for the well-known health benefits of fruits and vegetables, and leafy green vegetables in particular.
"We're talking about an amount of nitrate equivalent to what is found in two or three red beetsor a plate of spinach," said Eddie Weitzberg of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. "We know that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can help prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes but the active nutrients haven't been clear. This shows inorganic nitrate as a candidate to explain those benefits."
In fact, up until recently nitrate wasn't thought to have any nutritional value at all. It has even been suggested that this component of vegetables might be toxic. But Weitzberg and his colleague Jon Lundberg earlier showed that dietary nitrate feeds into a pathway that produces nitric oxide with the help of friendly bacteria found in our mouths. Nitric oxide has been known for two decades as a physiologically important molecule. It opens up our blood vessels to lower blood pressure, for instance.
The new study offers yet another benefit of nitrate and the nitric oxides that stem from them. It appears that the increased mitochondrial efficiency is owed to lower levels of proteins that normally make the cellular powerhouses leaky. "Mitochondria normally aren't fully efficient," Weitzberg explained. "No machine is."
Questions do remain. The new results show that increased dietary nitrate can
have a rather immediate effect. But it's not yet clear what might happen in
people who consume higher levels of inorganic nitrate over longer periods of
time. Weitzberg says it will be a natural next step to repeat the experiment in
people with conditions linked to mitochondrial dysfunction, including diabetes
and cardiovascular disease, to see if they too enjoy the benefits of nitrates.
"Among the more consistent findings from nutritional research are the beneficial
effects of a high intake of fruit and vegetables in protection against major
disorders such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes," the researchers
concluded. "However, the underlying mechanism(s) responsible for these effects
is still unclear, and trials with single nutrients have generally failed. It is
tempting to speculate that boosting of the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway may be one
mechanism by which vegetables exert their protective effects."
"Among the more consistent findings from nutritional research are the beneficial effects of a high intake of fruit and vegetables in protection against major disorders such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes," the researchers concluded. "However, the underlying mechanism(s) responsible for these effects is still unclear, and trials with single nutrients have generally failed. It is tempting to speculate that boosting of the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway may be one mechanism by which vegetables exert their protective effects."As an interesting aside, Weitzberg says that the benefits of dietary nitrates suggest that powerful mouthwashes may have a downside. "We need oral bacteria for the first step in nitrate reduction," he says. "You could block the effects of inorganic nitrate if you use a strong mouthwash or spit [instead of swallowing your saliva]. In our view, strong mouthwashes are not good if you want this system to work."
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What's the BUZZ about Nitric Oxide?
by Gayle Eversole, fromherbalYODA Says! Volume 6, Number 6, November 2010
Several months ago I was reading up on an old study that involved a doctor who decided that he would try to see what health benefits he would gain if he took arginine.
This doctor was followed by a fellow physician who, over many years, dutifully monitored his cardiovascular status. The outcome was that year after year the doctor taking arginine had whistle-clean arteries.
Much has been said about using arginine in cases of ED (erectile dysfunction) and to increase growth hormone release.
Exercise is a better and supplement free way to increase growth hormone levels. In exercise and athletics arginine has been found to enhance the production of nitric oxide in the body which may boost stamina during high-intensity exercise. This report was based on a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Findings of the study suggest that the supplement can help athletes to exercise up to 20 percent longer. For quite a few years, performance athletes have favored nitric oxide supplementation.
Arginine helps clear out ammonia build up and is part of what makes creatine, L-glutamate, and L-proline. It can be converted to glucose and glycogen if needed in physiological emergencies.
Citrulline, another natural amino acid, creates arginine in the urea cycle, which then creates Nitric Oxide.
Some practitioners use arginine to help with atherosclerosis. It was just this reason that instigated the study between the two doctors.
Nitric Oxide is important for longevity. It is a molecule produced in the body that helps blood vessels relax and expand. It carries oxygen to the tissues and your cells. Because it is produced when you relax, this may explain why you feel your hands getting warm when you practice relaxation or meditation. This process also helps reduce stress and may lead to a better supply of oxygen because of a more relaxed state and deeper breathing. Lower blood pressure often results from relaxed states.
Dr Matthias Rath is well known for his use of arginine and other amino acids like proline and lysine for cardiovascular health. More from Dr Rath may be found here- Dr Rath Foundation, and his research organization.
Recently, TV's Dr. Oz suggested it may be useful in reducing hormone-driven fat build up in the belly of menopausal women.
Intermittent claudication, a condition related with muscle pain (ache, cramp, numbness or fatigue) in the calf, occurs during exercise and is usually relieved by short rest periods. It (IC) also may cause night time leg cramps. Nitric oxide and arginine supplements have been used for these conditions.
Wondering if you have low arginine levels? You may have if you show poor wound healing, hair loss, skin rash, constipation, and fatty liver. Arginine is a semi-essential amino acid because its normally synthesized in sufficient amounts by the body. Supplementation is sometimes used for inborn errors of urea synthesis, protein malnutrition, excessive lysine intake, burns, peritoneal dialysis, and rapid growth.
Arginine is generally not suggested for use in people who have suffered a heart attack.
Diet and Lifestyle helps you maintain nitric oxide levels.
I've mentioned exercise, but these foods can help too.
According to a report published in Science of Food and Agriculture the best foods to increase nitric oxide are celery, watercress, chervil, lettuce, red beets, spinach and arugula.
Good foods are parsley, leek, kohlrabi, fennel, endive, Chinese cabbage, and celery root.
You can get some nitric oxide from cabbage, dill, turnip, Savoy cabbage, broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, cucumber, pumpkin, chicory, artichoke, asparagus, broad beans, eggplant, garlic, onion, green beans, mushrooms, peas, peppers, potato, summer squash, sweet potato, tomato, and watermelon.
Aging reduces the availability of nitric oxide. If this is a health concern of yours you may want to change your exercise plan, add some of the above referenced foods to your food plan, or use a supplement like NEO40 from Neogenis Lab.
In discussions I have had with a representative of Neogenis Labs I learned that the NEO40 daily lozenges contain several nitric oxide generating ingredients. Their formula contains vitamin C, vitamin B12, Magnesium, Citrulline, a proprietary blend of Hawthorn and beetroot, and Xylitol.
Because this product also contains sodium nitrite, the company states:
Scientific and medical literature supports that nitrite, under conditions that promote Nitric Oxide formation, is healthy and beneficial. Under conditions that promote nitrosation, there is equivocal evidence that may be associated with some cancers, at very high doses. Interestingly, there have been published reports that show that low concentrations of nitrite that can be found in biological tissues can actually kill cancer cells.
Neo40 Daily was formulated to promote Nitric Oxide formation from nitrite. Neogenis Labs has used natural sources of nitrate and botanicals that have a robust nitrite reductase activity along with the most potent nitrosation inhibitors. This creates a formulation that promotes Nitric Oxide formation without any nitrosation reactions taking place. As with anything, we have to define the context for risk vs. benefit. The formulation of Neo40 Daily has taken into account that context and as a result, the product is extremely safe, effective and the only one of its kind to restore Nitric Oxide homeostasis in humans.
You can get test strips from this company to test for your level of Nitric Oxide.
Whatever choice you make, nitric oxide and its pals seem worthy of considering for your good health.
Make sure you consult with your health care provider of choice to discuss your selection of nutritional supplements or herbs. And remember we are offering this newsletter as an educational resource only.


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General Baccalaureate Degree Requirements
The College of Business and Technology offers a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with majors in accounting, finance, management, and marketing, which requires:
- Admission to the BBA program.
- A minimum of 120 semester credit hours for the Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
- At least 50 percent of the upper-division business courses must be taken at UT Tyler.
- In no event may a student register for the graduation semester until the completion of all prerequisites.
- A minimum grade point average of 2.0 in all upper-division work undertaken and a minimum grade of "C" in each course in the major.
- A common business core of 25 hours.
The common business core courses are as follows, with variations by major, as noted with a minimum grade of "C":
FINA 3311: Principles of Finance
BLAW 3301: Business Law and Social Responsibility
MANA 3370: Business Writing and Oral Presentations
MANA 3170: How to Get a Job
MANA 3305: Operations Management
MANA 3311: Managing People in Organizations
MARK 3311: Principles of Marketing
MANA 3330: Management Information Systems [Accounting majors must complete ACCT 4391: Accounting Information Systems rather than MANA 3330]
MANA 4395: Strategic Management [must be taken after above courses in the common business core are completed]
G. Eighteen upper-division hours in the major. At least four courses in the major must be completed at UT Tyler
H. Fifteen additional upper-division hours, at least nine of which must be taken in the College of Business and Technology.


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Pakistan's (almost) Nobel laureate
On Friday, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, passing over a remarkable top contender: Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old girl from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban last year for speaking out about girls' education. Instead of falling silent, Yousafzai's voice has only grown louder since the attack. She continues to champion her cause for a land to which she cannot return; the Taliban renewed their death threats against her this week. While she is surrounded by well-wishers on her current visit to the United States, perhaps no one can share her sense of acclaim and exclusion as well as Pakistan's (still) only Nobel laureate, Dr. Abdus Salam.
Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for his work on characterizing what is now known as the Higgs boson particle. Coincidentally, this year the Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named. Dubbed the "God particle," the Higgs boson is viewed as a potential building block of the universe. While some of Salam's critics might have cried heresy at his work, they instead chose to do so about his faith.
For just as Malala's mistake was being a girl, Salam's was being a member of the Ahmadi sect – a religious group declared to be non-Muslims in a 1974 constitutional amendment. After the amendment passed, Salam resigned from his government post. A Nobel prize five years later engendered no rapturous embrace upon his return home. Pakistan's leaders chose to keep him atarm's length. Even the word "Muslim" in the "first Muslim Nobel laureate" engraved on his tombstone is painted over. His colleagues continue to speak with equal wonder of his work and sadness for his treatment.
It is one of the many contradictions of Pakistan that the very town, Jhang, which produced a man of Salam's learning — one who sought to unlock the secrets of the cosmos — now produces parochial militancy. A militancy that has metastasized like a cancer in Pakistan and now consumes its children. When she first heard of the Taliban's threats against her, Yousafzai feared not for her own safety but for her father's. In a recent interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart she said that she thought the Taliban would never stoop to attacking a young girl. She was wrong.
To be sure, many Pakistanis are ambivalent about Yousafzai. In an environment rampant with anti-American sentiment and conspiracy theories, some view praise for her a way of shaming Pakistan. Others question the degree of attention merited to one individual when over 5,000 lives have reportedly been lost to terrorism over the past five years. Weariness with the West's fascination with the latest "victim" from Pakistan has also emerged. A few years ago, for instance, U.S. media outlets were abuzz with stories about another Pakistani woman who had been brutally raped and had similarly channeled her tragedy into championing women's rights.
Such cynicism, however, is of less import than the pernicious politics of exclusion in Pakistan — a politics whereby one segment of society fervently believes it has a monopoly over deen (faith) andduniya (world). At best, the other is inferior; at worst, he or she merits elimination. It's an exclusionary system whereby individuals as different as a physicist and a teenage girl continue to be pushed outside society's bounds – either by force or by law. Nobel laureates, usually feted in other countries, seem strangely destined to be banished in Pakistan.
Much ink has been spilt on Pakistan's troubles, which seem to know no end. Yet the same country produced a young girl who is optimistically forging ahead, despite the horror she has experienced. Malala Yousafzai channels Pakistan's remarkable resilience. That she did not win the Nobel Peace Prize is thus ultimately irrelevant. What really matters is when can she go home.
Ziad Haider is a Truman National Security Project Fellow. This article originally appeared on Foreign Policy.


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California Supreme Court Revives UCL Claims Based on TISA
In Rose v. Bank of America, the California Supreme Court revived plaintiff's claims of unlawful business practices under California's Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200, et seq., "UCL") premised on alleged violations of the Truth in Savings Act (12 U.S.C. §§ 4301, et seq., "TISA"), even though Congress repealed the private right of action for TISA claims in 2001.
The Rose plaintiffs alleged that Bank of America failed to properly notify them of increased fees on their deposit accounts, in violation of TISA. They brought a single cause of action under the UCL, alleging unlawful and unfair business practices arising out of the alleged TISA violations. The trial court sustained Bank of America's demurrer to the complaint, holding that Congress intended to bar a TISA private action and that the UCL cannot be used to plead around an absolute bar to relief. Plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court, stating that Congress' express repeal of a private right of action to enforce TISA precludes an indirect suit through the UCL.Continue Reading...
Court Rejects Citi Settlement with S.E.C.
The U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York last week rejected a $285 million proposed settlement between the Securities & Exchange Commission and Citigroup Global Markets. The case involves a $1 billion mortgage debt deal that Citigroup sold in early 2007. The S.E.C. alleged that Citigroup's marketing materials materially mislead investors by failing to disclose that Citigroup "exercised significant influence" over the selection of assets and retained short positions in the assets it helped to select.
In the proposed deal, the parties agreed to a consent judgment with no admissions of fact or liability, and included Citigroup's payment of $285 million dollars to the S.E.C. The payment consisted of the return of the $160 million Citigroup profited from the 2007 deal, $30 million of interest, and a $95 million civil penalty. As part of the settlement, Citigroup also consented to injunctive relief enforced by the Court for the next three (3) years.Continue Reading...
Court of Appeal Rejects UCL Action Based on Alleged TISA Violation
In Rose v. Bank of America, N.A. (2nd App. Dist., No. B230859, Nov. 21, 2011), the California Court of Appeal held that California's Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200, et seq., "UCL") cannot be used to redress violations of the federal Truth in Savings Act (12 U.S.C. §§ 4301, et seq., "TISA"). Although TISA originally included a "private attorney general" provision allowing private plaintiffs to sue banks for alleged TISA violations, a sunset clause repealed the private right of action in 2001.
The Rose plaintiffs alleged that Bank of America failed to properly notify them of increased fees on their deposit accounts, in violation of TISA. They brought a single cause of action under the UCL, alleging unlawful and unfair business practices arising out of the alleged TISA violations. The trial court sustained Bank of America's demurrer to the complaint, holding that Congress intended to bar a TISA private action and that the UCL cannot be used to plead around an absolute bar to relief. Plaintiff appealed.
CFPB Proposes Scope of Non-Bank Supervision
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a Notice and Request for Comment on the proposed scope of its Dodd-Frank supervisory authority for certain non-depository institutions. The CFPB's Notice outlines potential criteria for defining the scope of this supervisory authority and identifies six potential other markets that CFPB may supervise: (1) debt collection; (2) consumer reporting; (3) consumer credit and related activities; (4) money transmitting; (5) check cashing and related activities; (6) prepaid cards; and (7) debt relief services.
Section 1024 of Dodd-Frank grants supervisory authority to the CFPB for "covered persons" in the residential mortgage, private education lending, and payday lending markets. In other markets, CFPB would have supervisory authority only over a "larger participant." Dodd-Frank assigned CFPB the task of issuing a rule on or before July 21, 2012, to identify these other markets and to define "larger participant."
CFPB seeks public comment on the criteria and threshold to define a "larger participant" and on the data to be used in measuring these criteria. CFPB also seeks public comment on the consideration of whether the six "other markets" should be included in the initial rule and/or whether additional markets should be included.
Here Comes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a new website, and is making significant personnel additions, creating its internal structure, and otherwise preparing for the commencement of its official authority in July. The CFPB is also blogging, tweeting, facebooking, youtubing, and hiring.
Among many other things, the CFPB's website defines the scope of its "Core Functions" as follows:
* Conduct rule-making, supervision, and enforcement for Federal consumer financial protection laws;
* Restrict unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices;
* Create a center to take consumer complaints;
* Promote financial education;
* Research consumer behavior;
* Monitor financial markets for new risks to consumers; and
* Enforce laws that outlaw discrimination and other unfair treatment in consumer finance.
In December, the U.S. Treasury announced the creation of a new Consumer Inquiry and Complaint database, to be maintained by the CFPB, to track, collect, analyze, and refer consumer inquiries and complaints about consumer financial products and services, scheduled to take effect today. The CFPB has also announced the creation of a future Consumer Response Center to receive consumer complaints and inquiries related to consumer financial services.
FDIC Finalizes Rule on IOLTA Accounts
The Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) approved a final rule including Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTAs) in the temporary unlimited deposit coverage added by an amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The FDIC's final rule provides that funds held in IOLTA accounts are fully insured without limit from December 31, 2010, through December 31, 2012, in addition to coverage provided by the institution for other accounts.
(Still) Tracking Financial Regulatory Reform
As the scope and content of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is shaped in the regulatory process, follow the latest developments on the Federal Reserve's website tracking financial regulatory reform. The Fed is publicly reporting on meetings will taking place between the Board and the public--representatives of bank organizations, consumer groups, trade associations, researchers and academics on regulatory reform issues, including systemic risk, derivatives trading, interchange fees, and consumer financial protection, and related proposals for comment.
The Fed is also reporting on current and future milestones in the regulatory process. Among other significant events, the Fed, OTS, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and FDIC will issue a joint report to Congress and the Inspectors General of the participating agencies on the agencies' plans to implement the transfer of OTS authorities by March 2011.
"Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" Is Now Law
President Obama today signed the "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act," which will bring comprehensive changes to consumer financial services, and to consumer finance litigation, including mortgages, credit cards, retail credit, debt collection, arbitration, preemption, and auto finance. See details about the changes coming, as seen by the White House, and the President's signing remarks.
Financial Regulatory Reform is (Almost) a Done Deal
The U.S. Senate voted 60-39 yesterday to pass the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which the White House says President Obama will sign into law next week. While consumer finance attorneys digest the massive changes coming with this comprehensive bill (in mortgages, credit cards, retail credit, debt collection, arbitration, preemption, and auto finance), the scope of the changes will likely depend on the implementing regulations, and how these regulations are interpreted by Courts.
A few things are clear now. First, the OTS is fading away. Second, consumer arbitration may be too. Third, federal preemption is likely to be more difficult to obtain in consumer finance litigation.
Conference Reaches Deal on Financial Regulatory Reform
The House-Senate Conference to reconcile financial regulatory reform reached a final agreement on the legislation on Friday. The "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" calls for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency to be housed at the Federal Reserve, with a broad mandate to regulate consumer financial services of virtually all types.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will have an independent director appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, with an independent budget and independent rule writing, examination, and enforcement authority. The CFPB consolidates consumer protection responsibilities of the OCC, OTS, FDIC, Federal Reserve, NCUA, HUD, and the FTC. Among other things, the legislation also creates a new Office of Financial Literacy to disseminate information to consumers and a new consumer hotline for consumer questions.Continue Reading...
Senate Passes Financial Regulatory Bill
The U.S. Senate yesterday passed the financial regulatory bill, S.3217, the "Restoring American Financial Stability Act." The comprehensive bill includes broad new regulation of derivatives, executive compensation, systemic risk, investor rights, mortgages, credit-rating agencies, hedge funds and private equity, insurance, and consumer financial protection.
Significantly, this Senate version of financial regulation calls for a new, quasi-independent Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection within the Federal Reserve. The House version of financial regulation, passed in December, would create an independent, free-standing Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Both the House and Senate bills would limit federal preemption of consumer finance laws in certain ways. The Senate bill includes a detailed preemption provision.
House Passes Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act
On December 11, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009," H.R. 4173. This sweeping legislation—a combination of several bills, including a modified version of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act, formerly HR 3126—includes broad new regulation of derivatives, executive compensation, systemic risk, investor rights, mortgages, credit-rating agencies, hedge funds and private equity, insurance, and consumer financial protection.
Title IV of the Act (sections 4001 – 4901) provides for the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (section 4101 – 4703), a new, independent federal agency to oversee virtually every aspect of consumer financial services, including mortgages, credit cards, debit cards, car loans, gift cards, credit reporting agencies, debt collectors, and financial advisers. Certain merchants, such as auto dealers and pawnbrokers, would be exempted.Continue Reading...
Financial Regulatory Reform Moves Out of Committee
The House Financial Services Committee on Thursday voted to approve the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act, HR 3126.
The legislation is changing in significant ways as it moves through the legislative process. Among the revisions from the administration's original plan, the Committee's approved version would vest authority over the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency in a single director, as opposed to a 5-member board. The approved version of the legislation also includes a compromise on federal preemption, which permits the federal regulator to preempt state consumer financial protection laws only after a written finding that the state law "prevents or significantly interferes" with a federally regulated bank or thrift's exercise of its powers.
Powers of the Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Subpart F, sections 161 through 166, of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 (HR 3126, July 8, 2009) provides for the transfer of broad areas of power to regulate consumer financial protection functions from a variety of federal agencies and the Federal Reserve to the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
In general, the CFPA would have the authority and accountability to supervise, examine, and enforce consumer financial protection laws, including mortgages, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, payday loans, and more. The Act would transfer functions and personnel to the new CFPA and provide for interim powers for the Secretary of Treasury pending the establishment of the CFPA and the completion of the transfer of powers and people.
Financial Regulatory Reform Moving Forward
Legislation for federal financial regulatory reform, introduced by the Obama administration in June, is moving forward through the legislative process. Treasury Secretary Geithner testified before the House Financial Services Committee on September 23.
The proposed financial regulatory reform legislation in the U.S. House is the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 in the House (HR 3126). The Financial Services Committee has issued a section-by-section summary of the proposed legislation as well as a September 25 discussion draft.
Track the progress of the legislation at the administration's Financial Stability website.
California Supreme Court Draws Setoff Boundary
The California Supreme Court has refused to extend an earlier holding prohibiting a bank from setting off customer debts using funds in a deposit account from public benefits. In Miller v. Bank of America, NT and SA, the Court held that Bank of America could setoff overdraft fees and fees for insufficient funds "(NSF") charged to a checking account with funds in the account, regardless of whether those funds came from public benefits.
In Miller, plaintiff received Social Security Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") payments by direct deposit into a Bank of America checking account. In 1998, the Bank inadvertently credited his checking account, then reversed the credit to correct its error. The reversal of the credit caused plaintiff's account to have a negative balance, which depleted his SSI benefits payments for that month. Separately, plaintiff occasionally overdrew his account, and the Bank paid the overdraft and NSF charges, at least in part, with his SSI funds on deposit. Plaintiff filed a putative class action complaint against the Bank, alleging the Bank could not set off these charges with funds in his account from public benefits.Continue Reading...
Tracking the Proposed Financial Regulatory Changes
Last week, President Obama announced sweeping proposed changes in federal financial regulation. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers wrote an op-ed piece describing the new regulatory structure, called "A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation."
The Final Report of the proposed comprehensive plan has five stated goals: (1) to promote robust supervision and regulation of financial firms; (2) to establish comprehensive supervision of financial markets; (3) to protect consumers and investors from financial abuse; (4) to provide the government tools to manage the financial crisis; and (5) to raise international regulatory standards and to improve international cooperation.Continue Reading...
Fed Issues Final New Credit Card Rules
The Federal Reserve yesterday issued a press release and highlights detailing its final rules revising regulation AA, revising regulation DD, and revising regulation Z. The new rules significantly alter the current regulations governing card issuers' payment billing cycles, allocation of payments, interest rate increases, security deposits and fees, credit card holds, and firm offers of credit. The new rules also make significant changes to overdraft protection linked to deposit accounts, including imposing an opt-out provision, eliminating overdraft charges resulting from debit holds, and changing required overdraft fee disclosures.
The revised regulation AA and regulation Z take effect on July 1, 2010. The revised regulation DD takes effect on January 1, 2010. Separately, the Fed seeks public comment on proposed amendments to Regulation E governing electronic funds transfers.
The Office of Thrift Supervision also announced and detailed the similar new rules for its regulated entities, as did the National Credit Union Administration.
FTC "Red Flags Rule" Enforcement Begins in May 2009
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it would suspend its enforcement of its new "Identify Theft Red Flags Rule," 16 CFR 681.2, until May 1, 2009, allowing subject institutions additional time to prepare for compliance with the new identity theft rules and regulations. FTC enforcement was previously expected to begin November 1, 2008, and the FTC announcement does not affect other federal agencies' enforcement of the original deadline.
The FTC has issued some guidance on complying with the rule, promulgated pursuant to the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ("FACTA"). Generally, the rule requires financial institutions and creditors to develop and implement written identify theft prevention programs for "covered accounts." Specifically, institutions "must provide for the identification, detection, and response to patterns, practices, or specific activities–known as 'red flags'–that could indicate identity theft." The FTC has also issued details related to its enforcement policy.
Resources for Tracking the Evolution of Banking
The recent myriad decisions and revisions related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP") mean that banking regulations, and banks themselves, are changing daily. Here's how to keep up with the evolving government regulations.
The Federal Reserve publishes a current list of orders on bank applications, including financial institutions applying to become bank holding companies. The Fed also publishes regular updates on the status of TARP. The Treasury Department's website includes resources on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act as well as a link to Secretary Paulson's November 18, 2008, testimony before Congress and New York Times Op-Ed on "Fighting the Financial Crisis, One Challenge at a Time."
Comment Period Closes on Credit Card and Overdraft Rules
The comment period has closed for the Federal Reserve's sweeping proposed rule changes for credit cards and overdrafts. The proposed revisions to Regulation AA, revisions to Regulation DD, and revisions to Regulation Z seek to redefine "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" in connection with credit card accounts and overdraft protection services.
The Federal Reserve reports receiving an unprecedented number of comments on these proposed regulations. The Fed received nearly 50,000 comments on the proposed revisions to Regulation AA alone. On a parallel track, the "Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Act of 2008" (H.R. 5244), which would amend Truth in Lending Act to include new restrictions on billing and practices related to credit cards, is moving to the floor of the House.
Fed Issues Revised Consumer Compliance Handbook
Your Scorecard For New Laws and Regulations
California law
• Mortgages: new foreclosure procedures are now law in Civil Code §§2923.5, 2923.6 and 2929.3 and Code of Civil Procedure §1161b.
Federal law
• Credit Cards: the 2008 Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act, now law, clairifies the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003;
• Credit Cards and Deposit Accounts: "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" are refined and redefined in revisions to Regulation AA, revisions to Regulation DD, and revisions to Regulation Z;
• Mortgages: Regulation X would get a makeover in HUD's proposed rule amending the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act;
• Arbitration: the proposed "Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007" would slice and dice the Federal Arbitration Act; the "Automobile Arbitration Fairness Act of 2008," would eviscerate pre-dispute arbitration provisions in auto sales or lease contracts.
Fed's Credit Card and Overdraft Rules in Comment Period
The proposed changes would significantly alter the current regulations governing card issuers' payment billing cycles, allocation of payments, interest rate increases, security deposits and fees, credit card holds, and firm offers of credit. The revised rules would also make significant changes to overdraft protection linked to deposit accounts, including imposing an opt-out provision, eliminating overdraft charges resulting from debit holds, and changing required overdraft fee disclosures.
The American Bankers Association issued a public comment on the proposed rule changes on May 2, 2008, citing its concerns about a resulting "reduction in credit availability at the very time the Fed is working to increase access to credit in the marketplace."


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Average gasoline prices in San Diego have dropped to within a penny of last year's levels after three straight weeks of double-digit declines.
A gallon of regular unleaded averaged $3.87 on Friday in San Diego, according to AAA's daily fuel gauge. That's down 46 cents from just a month ago.
"The drop is great news for July 4 travelers," said Jeffrey Spring, a spokesman for the Automobile Club of Southern California, which had predicted a 5 percent increase in holiday travel when prices were higher.
Spring said Southern California's prices were tumbling at their fastest pace since 2008, when pump prices fell from an all-time high of $4.63 to under $2 over the course of five months.
California and West Coast gas prices have seen especially fast declines, as the supply chain overcame tight May supplies blamed on refinery outages and maintenance. The average price in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area on Friday was $3.90. In Orange County, it was $3.85. In San Diego County, prices dipped as low as $3.63 near the Otay Mesa border crossing into Mexico.
Oil prices suggest the current trend could continue, as they dipped below $80 on Thursday for the first time since October.
Europe's latest attempt to revive its economy made the price edge up 2 percent on Friday, according to The Associated Press. Benchmark U.S. crude finished at $79.76 per barrel in New York. Crude is still down more than 5 percent for the week, however. Brent crude, which is used to price oil imported by many U.S. refineries, climbed $1.75 to end at $90.98 a barrel.
Meanwhile, traders kept an eye on a gathering storm off the Yucatán Peninsula and western Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico that could possibly disrupt production platforms and interrupt oil supplies.
Oil prices tumbled earlier this week on signs of a weakening economy. If businesses and people use less energy, demand for oil falls. Rising supplies are also weighing on prices. U.S. supplies are at their highest level in 22 years, thanks to a production boom in North America.
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Thanks to Cybergundam and TAG Hobby we have scans from Figure King magazine issue 194, showing our first full color shots of Masterpiece Wheeljack, as well as a small shot of his Amazon Japan exclusive accessory Hypno-Chip Disruptor. Also seen in the scans are the vehicle form for Masterpiece Spike's Exosuit, and a full page showing off Movie Advanced Series Optimus Prime, the TakaraTomy equivalent to our Generations Movie series. Keep reading to see the mirrored scans!
Amazon Jetwing Optimus Prime is InStock and shipping now. $104.99. Get the Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon Jetwing Optimus Prime figure stateside from with a retailer exclusive deco as well. Unlike the DA15 Takara Tomy variant, the weapons will get some paint attention to match the rest of the figure's color scheme as well as some clever paint designs to make it seem like the plastic in middle part of the gun has been swapped with clear plastic. The figure is currently available for pre-order with a hefty price tag of $104.99. Get yours now at Amazon.com.
Thanks to TFW board member Mondo has shared some new in-hand images of Asia exclusive Transformers GDO Starscream and Ironhide Leader class action figures. Both toys are shown out of the box with close ups on their in-box and robot modes. These figures are repaints of Hunt For The Decepticons leader class toys that are shipping now from Robotkingdom and other online retailers.
Stern Pinball, Inc. introduce the TRANSFORMERS™ Pin™, a stylish, affordable and entertaining pinball game designed and engineered exclusively for the home. For customers new to pinball ownership, the TRANSFORMERS Pin offers fun and timeless family entertainment at an affordable price. The Pin™ also provides an entry into the rapidly growing community of pinball play and ownership driven by impassioned enthusiasts and collectors around the globe.
Toys Daily have posted a handful of new in-hand images showing off the Sci-Fi Revoltech Series No. 040 Optimus Prime DX action figure that is just out in Japan. This guy comes with the Jetwing that debuted in the Dark of the Moon movie that has us salivating. Optimus Prime DX is shown in many positions with and without his gear on for a nice overview of the production release. While this figure may not transform, Revoltech has again made up for it in other ways with detailed sculpting, great articulation and loads of great accessories.
The Transformers Dark Side of the Moon Blu-Ray & DVD have been released in Japan on December 16. The set includes the Japanese edition of the movie with an additional inclusion of the "Transformers Magazine" leaflet offering details on the Transformers back ground. With an overview of the Transformers 27-year history that cumlinated with the Transformers Prime cartoon that has been confirmed for Japan to start broadcasting in April 2012. As reported before, there's no details on the network / stations or voice actors that will be working the show.
Transformers Dark Side of the Moon 3D Super Set Blu-Ray DVD - Release Delayed Till February, New Details
Thanks to Paramount Japan who have announced some news about their Transformers / Dark Side of the Moon 3D Super Set Blu-Ray DVD release. The update offered a new release date of February 17, 2012 for the set with some details of the bonus extras that will be offered to fans in Japan. Look forwards the four discs set that will include a 113 minute making of Dark Side of the Moon, History of NASA, Special Chicago footage, Artwork and more details you can read after the jump.
Looks like Japan will be getting the first, if not the only, release of the 3D Edition Blu-Ray DVD of the Transformers Dark of the Moon from Paramount. The 3D Edition version will be available in Japan only come January 20th of 2012 for 5,985 JPY / $77 USD. Like the current release, there's no extras on this one. No word on anything for this in the USA. This may be due to small number of people who have 3D capable systems in their homes still. The good news is the Japan release will have both the English and Japanese soundtracks so people can still get the 3D experience at home, for a price.
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Toys Daily have posted a handful of new in-hand images showing off the Sci-Fi Revoltech Series No. 040 Optimus Prime DX action figure that is just out in Japan. This guy comes with the Jetwing that debuted in the Dark of the Moon movie that has us salivating. Optimus Prime DX is shown in many positions with and without his gear on for a nice overview of the production release. While this figure may not transform, Revoltech has again made up for it in other ways with detailed sculpting, great articulation and loads of great accessories.
The official APS-01 Striker Optimus Prime site has been updated with some more images showing the intimate details of Asian market exclusive action figure. The toy based on the Dark Of The Moon Striker Optimus Prime is up-close to better view metallic paint applications, as well as the chrome grill, and close up details of the battle blades that have been added to this set. The limited edition figure will released in Asia only, excluding Japan, on September 28th of this month. See all the images and details below.
Thanks to ACToys who have posted some new images showing us more angles on the recently announced release of the Takara Tomy Transformers DOTM Dark Energon Edition Megatron Leader Class toy. This figure is repaint of the Revenge Of The Fallen Leader Class Megatron. Check all the images of the dark leader Megatron figure after the jump.
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