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What is the Pill doing to our bodies and planet?
Yanar Alkayat
2nd February, 2010
It was the drug that fuelled the sexual liberation of the 1960s, but what price are we paying for our love of the contraceptive Pill?
Birth control is always a hot topic. The Government's latest campaign – 'Contraception: Worth Talking About' - encourages 18-24 year old women to choose hormonal contraception as the best way of avoiding unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
But the thickening soup of oestrogens in our water should mean that this advice is not doled out without caution.
Transgender fish
For over 15 years, researchers in UK and North America have been watching the feminisation of male fish. After leaving the human body, oestrogen hormones - natural and synthetic - as well as oestrogen-like chemicals and hormone disruptors in the environment - also referred to as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) - are discharged into rivers through sewage effluent and cause disruption to the reproductive behaviours of fish.
Scientists observing the effects of oestrogen in wildlife have now begun to fear the worst: that those effects may also appear in humans.
Of course, fish are not humans. But the similarities between the hormone systems, especially the sex hormones, of fish, birds, mammals and humans is why scientists argue that our bodies might behave similarly if exposed to comparable concentrations of hormones.
'We just don't know what can happen in the long run,' says Charles Tyler, Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter.
Persistent and traceable
Our hormones are the chemical messengers released by glands to regulate almost every cell, and function in the body - from metabolism, digestion and reproduction to moods, emotions and behaviour. This endocrine system is a finely tuned network that guides development in a similar way in both animals and humans.
Among the myriad compounds in fresh water, ethinylestrodial - the main component of the contraceptive pill - is traceable and persistent even at very low concentrations. This is because bacteria chew off the excreted hormone residues, which brings the compound back to life.
'In fact, almost as soon as the hormone hits the water in your toilet it can become active again,' says Tyler.
The two big studies that Tyler and colleagues have undertaken with the UK Environment Agency involved sampling thousands of fish from 42 sites around the country. They established a definitive link between exposure to these chemicals [oestrogens] and the effects on the fish. 'Ethinylestrodial is present in relatively low concentrations but it is extremely potent. I have little reservation that it is a player in feminising our fish,' says Tyler.
Losing males
The latest research by Tyler and his team with colleagues at Brunel University (to be published later this year) goes a step further. It shows this sexual disruption can reduce capability of fish to breed. Removing males from the breeding population reduces genetic variation, lessens the ability of a population to adapt to changes in the environment, and may eventually cause its collapse.
Since the early 1990s, scientists have been warning us of damage to aquatic life. John Sumpter and Susie Jobling, Professors at Brunel University, made the early observations that male fish are producing female egg proteins and developing immature eggs in response to waterborne oestrogen residues. Their work was followed by Professor Karen Kidd at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, who discovered similar contaminants in Canadian rivers.
The additive effect
For many years, the phenomenon of falling male sperm count and rising incidences of testicular disease has been the focus of scrutiny for both Danish-based endocrinologist Niels Skakkebaek and Richard Sharpe from the Medical Research Council in Edinburgh. In the 1990s, they found synthetic oestrogens commonly used in livestock farming and numerous chemicals used in everyday products with oestrogenic properties.
Bisphenol A (used in some plastic drinks bottles and the inner coatings of drink and food cans), phthalates (used in food wrapping and other plastics) and nonylphenols (a group of surfactants found in detergents) are just a few of the chemicals that mimic the effects of oestrogen. They received a lot of media attention during the 1990s - Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers was a bestseller, highlighting the true nature of these chemicals on wildlife and humans. But scientists are still uncertain whether they are to blame for reproductive disorders in the breast, prostate, ovary and uterus.
No single culprit
It is widely believed that around 100,000 chemicals or more are discharged into the environment each year and we are yet to screen them all for oestrogenic properties, so the culprits could still be out there. Sharpe admits, 'it's unlikely to be a single oestrogen compound that causes testicular disorders, but they could play a role as part of complex mixture effects'.
Sharpe also points to persistent contaminants such as dioxins - a group of compounds that are by-products of pesticide production, waste incineration and the paper manufacturing industry. They are also fat-soluble and can be ingested through meat and dairy products. It is the unknown cumulative effect when these chemicals combine that raises alarm bells, not the effects of any single one of them. Adding further to the complexity of the problem, lifestyle factors including changing diets and increased obesity are also likely to contribute to an increase in reproductive disorders.
Saving our waters
The Environment Agency for England & Wales is fully aware that steroid oestrogens and other EDCs are entering rivers, and the water industry has invested heavily in cleaning up domestic wastewater. In addition, a national 'Endocrine Disruption Demonstration Programme' (undertaken by the water industry and the Environment Agency) has been assessing how effective sewage treatment processes are in removing steroid oestrogens. Sewage works vary in size and level of treatment but low concentrations of steroid oestrogens are present in all sewage effluents.
In terms of drinking water, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) for England and Wales is keen to highlight that whilst EDCs may lead to abnormal sexual development in aquatic life there is no current evidence of human risk through drinking water. According to a spokesperson, the environmental concerns are quite separate from, and should not be related to, our drinking water supplies. The DWI continues to monitor the ongoing research in this field.
Unnatural body
Alongside the ecological downsides to hormone-overload, what about the effect on women's health? Should we ignore the subtle but potentially substantial changes to hormones, cycles, emotion and behaviour?
Infertility experts Jane Bennett and Alexandra Pope say no. They brought the side-effects of hormonal contraception - from mood swings, headaches and depression to more serious risks such as thrombosis and breast cancer - to the attention of women last year with their book, The Pill: Are you sure it's for you?. They argue that fundamentally altering the endocrine system's delicate orchestration is detrimental for all sorts of reasons.
'The Pill induces a permanent state of infertility, and its impact isn't just limited to ovaries, uterus and cervix but alters at least 150 bodily functions and affects all of the organs,' say Pope and Bennett.
The synthetic oestrogen and progesterone dose in the Combined Oral Contraceptive (COC) Pill is approximately four times greater than the body's normal levels (at the peak of a normal cycle) and flattens the natural ebb and flow of hormones. This includes the rise in oestrogen around ovulation that makes a woman feel sexy. Not surprisingly, a lack of sex drive among Pill-users is a common complaint.
Side effects
Once on the Pill, it's not always plain sailing. The liver has to work hard to break down the extra compounds, the byproducts of which have been suggested as the reason behind unwanted effects such as depression, nausea and moodiness. Women at risk of blood clots, smokers over the age of 35 and those at risk of breast or other cancers are advised to avoid it and a large study published in Neurology in 2006 concluded that headaches, particularly migraines, are more likely among women taking oral contraception containing oestrogen (the mini-Pill and IUD coil are progesterone-only).
Too much oestrogen is potentially carcinogenic, and the fact the COC Pill has been classified as 'carcinogenic to humans' by the International Agency for Research of Cancer is rarely discussed by the medical profession (although studies have also shown that the COC Pill can protect against certain other types of cancer, notably ovarian cancer).
For most of the four million women in the UK who take oral contraception, the benefits of birth control outweigh the potential health risks; for others it's a form of internal (and external) pollution and they will seek non-hormonal alternatives. In any case, women, especially teenagers, should be fully informed of all the risks.
EU regulations are now in place to ensure companies screen their chemicals for oestrogenic properties before discharging them into rivers – a move Tyler says is long overdue.
'We need to be savvier and more informed about how abnormalities in wildlife and humans relate to the plethora of chemicals in our environment,' he says.
Yanar Alkayat is a freelance journalist
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SAGINAW (AP) - Four months ago, Audrey Sanderford didn't own a computer. Strangers didn't pay her telephone bill. She didn't attend funerals for children she didn't know.
Today, the 62-year-old grandmother organizes support groups. She visits crime scenes so distraught parents can cry on her shoulder. She listens to callers from across the country concerned about missing children.
Mostly, though, she looks for her 6-year-old granddaughter, Opal Jo Jennings, who was kidnapped from the front yard of the family's modest house in this town of 12,000 people.
Thick pink ribbons and bows knotted around trees and attached to the front of the house sway in the warm summer breeze, a reminder of the bouncy, blue-eyed kindergartner. A man sporting a ponytail and driving a dark car snatched Opal on March 26 while she and her playmates messed with an ant hill near the curb.
A sign posted on the Sanderford lawn reads "We love you Opal." A Little Tikes coupe sits idle in the grass along with a red wagon and a tricycle. Children's crayon drawings of sunshine, flowers and the girl's name cover the front door.
Inside, yellow crime scene tape hangs over Opal's bedroom door. Only recently did police let the family into the room where investigators collected hair samples and fingerprints and tried to preserve the girl's scent for tracking dogs. Stuffed animals - many from well-wishers - fill the shelves of a tall, plastic bookcase. A pint-sized rocking chair and play kitchen sit near the walls.
"We'll move stuff off her bed when she gets here," said Sanderford who with her husband became Opal's legal guardians last fall.
"I still think she's alive, and unless somebody brings me a body or some DNA or something, honestly, there's no way I can bury her," Sanderford said. "I'm not going to give up on her. How would she feel if she came home, even years from now, and I said, `Well, we thought you were dead, so we buried you.' You can't do that."
Since her nightmare began, Sanderford has undergone a transformation - from a nurse who retired to watch Opal and two other grandchildren to a media savvy advocate for missing children.
"Now that I know there's so many of them, I have to try to find them," she said.
The change is not unusual for parents whose children have been kidnapped or murdered.
John Walsh has waged a high-profile anti-crime campaign since the abduction and murder of his 6-year-old son, Adam, in 1981. Walsh hosts the television series "America's Most Wanted."
Marc Klaas founded the Polly Klaas Foundation after his 12-year-old daughter was snatched from her Petaluma, Calif., home in October 1993.
Colleen Nick started the Morgan Nick Foundation after her 6-year-old daughter was abducted from a ballpark in Alma, Ark., in June 1995.
Both foundations work with families of missing children, disseminate safety information to build safer communities and support legislative changes to protect children.
"Some people are able to get up and fight back, and other people don't. There's no right or wrong answer to your reaction or what you choose to do if your child is missing," said Nick, a Justice Department consultant who speaks at law enforcement seminars about child abduction.
Sanderford, who helped search for Morgan when she lived about 30 miles from where the girl was kidnapped, contacted Nick after Opal's abduction. They've since spent many nights together on the telephone.
"You can talk to people who love you and care, but they don't know what you're going through," Nick said of the pain, frustration and guilt.
Since Opal disappeared, Sanderford has been to Washington for National Missing Children's Day. She plans to write part of a book on missing kids. And she'll travel to help establish a support group and explain the Amber Plan, a kidnapping alert used by television and radio stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and named for a 9-year-old Arlington girl who was abducted and murdered in January 1996.
She spends hours each month on the telephone seeking help and helping others in similar situations, racking up hefty bills that are paid from a fund Saginaw residents set up at a local bank to aid in Opal's recovery.
She uses a donated computer to get Opal's picture on the Internet, has distributed hundreds of flyers about Opal's disappearance and has landed her granddaughter's face on cash register receipts from the H-E-B Grocery chain, which has 257 stores in Texas.
"If I get her picture out there enough, one of these days somebody's going to see it and say, `Hey, that kid lives down the street or in an apartment across the way. That kid is in my class,' " said Sanderford, who wears a yellow button with Opal's picture under the word "Abducted."
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Sanderford's thick Southern accent also has reached national audiences from "Good Morning America" and "America's Most Wanted" to tabloid and syndicated talk shows.
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Her husband, Robert, also remains optimistic. Sometimes he considers leaving work to search for his granddaughter, although he admittedly doesn't know where to look.
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Police and federal investigators have received more than 2,300 tips. Saginaw detective James Neale said he still has a "large stack" of tips to review and is looking for the one that will provide the break.
"We owe it to Opal to maintain a positive attitude," he said.
Whatever the outcome, Robert Sanderford wants Opal home.
"Worse than death is not knowing - never knowing," she said. "We have members of our support group with children been gone for 25 years. They don't know where they're at. I can't imagine anything more horrible."
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With so many recent showers, Selma and Dallas County has high hopes for rich spring colors. Flowers are soon to bloom throughout the area but there is an eyesore that could potentially distract from their beauty — trash and litter.
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My 4 yr old daughter (just turned 4) is afraid of men. She is very shy and clingy in general, but if she has a male teacher for a class (gymnastics for instance) she cries and clings to me and wont talk to them. She has no problem with her dad or grandparents...just men she doesn't know that well. She has no reason to feel this way, she is with me constantly so I know nothing bad has happpened to her. Is this just a phase? She is also going through a separation anxiety phase. She has been in ballet since she was 2 and just recently refuses to go saying she wants mommy (parents aren't allowed in room).
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Posted 02/24/2012
My niece who I've helped raise went through the same phase at about 3.5 years old. It lasted for a couple of months. What we found that helped was planning events where she would be around men, but not really have to be in contact with them just to show her they're okay. And don't push her to do something that she doesn't want to do.
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yes my daughter all last yr (she's four now) she was afraid of all guys. I just always informed her ahead of time about them. I'd say "hey baby, we're going to swim class today. I know how much you love swim! the boy teachers are going to be there, they won't hurt you, they just want to help you swim and be safe! they're good boys! it's very nice of them to help you swim. don't you think?" eventually she got use to this idea and let them help her. if she answered no I put her in their shoes, "wouldn't you like to help others learn to swim when you get big? that's all they do too, but it's okay if they're not girls, boys like to help people too! just like you!" she started understanding. I did this with everything, swimming is an example


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Agueda es miembro de este trabajador grupo y comenta que todo el esfuerzo que hace es por su familia y por ir creciendo como microempresaria. Ella se dedica a la venta de verduras y de huevos y es gracias a sus ventas que puede aportar en los gastos de la casa, y de esa forma sentirse útil. Agueda solicita el crédito para la compra de verduras de todo tipo, y de esa forma poder tener bien surtido su negocio.
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AWD has been named this year as one of the winning blogs in the Fabulous 50 Blogging Awards! AWD won The Andrew Dice Clay Award for Political Incorrectness. I am proud of that but find it puzzling because AWD lives for diversity and worships multiculturism like a French cathedral. But an award is an award!
The Fab Fifty was posted at Doug Ross @ Journal and explained the purpose of the awards:
These awards recognize a variety of blogs and websites operating in the conservative hemisphere of the Internet, all of which have worked tirelessly to protect America from Statism — some in very unique ways.
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I'm a little astounded by how quickly some people are willing to just throw up their hands and, rather than learning how to gain more willpower and self-control in their life, use technology tools as a substitute for learning those skills. Or suggesting how we seem to be at the mercy of social networking sites, which have some sort of undeniable power over us, our choices and our behaviors.
I'm talking about the article in today's Boston Globe from Tracy Jan bemoaning how college students nowadays are "tangled in an endless web of distractions." The article reads like college students are saying, "The Internet and Facebook are just too darned addicting, I can't help myself!"
It's gotten so bad that some college professors — even at the venerable technology institute MIT — are outright banning laptops in class. Oh, the tragedy!
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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer on the sideline against Iowa during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Hurricanes land another Gator transfer punter
In 2014, punter Justin Vogel transferred from Florida to Miami. Two years later, another player at the same position is following a similar path.
On Twitter Wednesday, Jack Spicer announced that he has decided to transfer out of the Gators football program. Not only that, but Spicer announced that he will be joining Vogel by transferring into the Hurricanes program.
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— Jack Spicer (@jackspicer97) May 4, 2016
Spicer, who didn't try punting until the summer before his senior season in high school, was a true freshman with the Gators last season who didn't see the field.
While Spicer will ostensibly compete with Vogel to be the Hurricanes' punter, the former is likely looking at the future as the latter is a senior with a solid track record. Last season, Vogel's 42.5 yards per punt average was sixth in the ACC.
Leading returning tackler among three dismissed by Texas Tech
Not long after wrapping up spring practice, Texas Tech's defense has a significant body blow.
In a press release, Tech announced that three football players, sophomore offensive lineman Robert Castaneda, redshirt freshman offensive lineman Trace Ellison and sophomore linebacker Dakota Allen, have been dismissed from the football program by head coach Kliff Kingsbury. The dismissals are "due to a failure to uphold student-athlete expectations."
The most noteworthy — and damaging — of the trio of dismissals is Allen.
Last season, Allen was the Red Raiders' second-leading tackler with 87. With Micah Awe (126 tackles) departed, Allen would've been Tech's leading returning tackler.
Allen, who had six tackles for loss and two interceptions for good measure, started five of the 12 games in which he played last season.
Castaneda played in 13 games last season as a reserve lineman, while Ellison took a redshirt as a true freshman.
A&M assistant throws hissy fit after five-star QB decommits
Somebody needs a nap. Or his binky. Or both.
Quite the imbroglio was kicked up on the recruiting trail late Wednesday night when five-star 2017 quarterback Tate Martell announced that he had decided to decommit from Texas A&M and reopen his recruitment. Martell, who had once committed to Washington as an eighth grader, made the decision after a recent trip to Ohio State, although he has yet to commit to the Buckeyes or anyone else for that matter.
After talking with my family about
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— Tate Martell (@TheTateMartell) May 5, 2016
While big news for A&M and its next recruiting class, Martell's decommitment likely would've been given its 15 minutes of fame and then everyone would've moved on… and then Aaron Moorehead happened.
Moorehead is A&M's wide receivers coach who apparently didn't appreciate Martell's "disloyalty" as, six minutes after the quarterback posted his tweet, the assistant threw a Twitter hissy fit.
I feel sorry for ppl who never understand loyalty. I can't really even vibe with u. At the end of the day trust is 💯 & everything else is BS
— Aaron Moorehead (@Amo8685) May 5, 2016
"Scared for this next group of kids. There is no accountability and no sense of positivity when it comes to adversity. #selfish #allaboutme," the coach wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted. Moorehead then attempted to cram the toothpaste back into the tube, but stepped even further into it with a subsequent tweet.
I wasn't even talking about who everyone thinks I'm talking about. I didn't even know #badtiming #relevanttho #stillnoloyalty
— Aaron Moorehead (@Amo8685) May 5, 2016
"People talk about leadership and this generation flip flops like its nothing. That's a real issue. My dad would have whipped my ass," another deleted tweet read.
Loyalty and flip-flop talk from a coach who abruptly left Virginia Tech for the same job at A&M? That's rich.
They say you reap what you sow, though, and…
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— Mannie Netherly (@yovng_netherly) May 5, 2016
That would be Mannie Netherly, a four-star wide receiver who had been committed to the Aggies, with the key word there being "had" as the Texas high school recruit decommitted as well. But wait, there's more.
"I would like to say thank you to TAMU & fans but due to some tweets subtweeted towards my brother, I will no longer be looking at A&M," Tyjon Lindsey wrote in a tweet that, yes, has since been deleted. Lindsey is a five-star receiver who had been considering A&M, with the key word there being "had." Again.
Reaping and sowing, y'all. Reaping and sowing.
UPDATED 11:31 p.m. ET: Right around the time I was hitting "publish" on this post, Moorehead posted an apology on his Twitter account.
Last night, I made some impromptu comments on social media out of frustration and out of a true love for Texas A&M Football. I want to apologize to all of the young men in high school who work so hard to achieve their dreams of playing college football & I wish them all well wherever they end up. I would also like to apologize to Coach Sumlin and the Aggie Family for not representing our university the right way. I need to do better & I will.
Former K-State S Kaleb Prewett appears headed to Mizzou
In early February, Bill Snyder confirmed that Kaleb Prewett was no longer a member of the Kansas State football team. Fastforward three months, and it appears the former Big 12 defensive back has found himself a new home at a former former Big 12 school.
While the school has yet to announce it, Prewett's Twitter profile now indicates that he is a member of the Missouri Tigers. "Former Kansas State safety. Current Mizzou safety," the bio now reads.
A couple of tweets from the former Missouri high school player seemed to hint at the development as well.
Can't wait to get back on the field in my home state. pic.twitter.com/hA2fJDpeCj
— Kaleb Prewett (@Kaleb_Prewett) May 3, 2016
I may have gotten where I wanted to be but I'm not done yet!
— Kaleb Prewett (@Kaleb_Prewett) May 4, 2016
Prewett started eight of the first nine games at free safety, with the only game he missed being due to a concussion. He lost his job for the final three games, however, and then was kept away from K-State's bowl game because of an alcohol-related arrest.
Prewett, a three-star 2014 recruit, played in six games as a true freshman.
Barring the unforeseen, Prewett will be forced to sit out the 2016 season to satisfy NCAA transfer rules. The defensive back would then have two years of eligibility remaining beginning in 2017.


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The process of making mattresses includes four steps: sewing fabric into a long sack, spreading it out on the preparing cotton, putting cotton in the long sack and sewing it with stitch (2 cm) by hand. On one mattress they do 6 or 8 lines of stitches. Making one mattress requires one day. All of them make their mattress separately of each other. Then they give their products to the market for sale. Since ancient times this kind of business is in high demand because it is tradition to give your daughter several (10-12) mattresses with pillows when she is going to get married.
Presently their workshop is one of the known workshops in Khujand and today they sew mattresses according to orders of clients. They have a great number of orders in the wedding period (June-November). To purchase several kinds of fabric for her mattresses she is requesting $1200 for 14 months.
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In 2003, she joined ASHI (Ahon Sa Hirap, Inc.), an MFI and KIVA partner in the Philippines, with a bagful of dreams to alleviate her family's poverty. She used her previous loans for various businesses, but now realizes that she needs to focus on a single business in order to excel. With her talent and two year background in sewing, she decided to focus on sewing, and she finds it very productive. She even receives and accepts orders from students for their school uniforms.
The sewing business brings her enough income for her family's needs. Now on her 8th loan, she is proposing to borrow a loan of 25,000 Pesos as additional capital for her sewing business. Specifically, the loan will be used to pay for one sewing machine that costs 9,000 pesos, 30 kilos of assorted cloths, sewing machine oil, needles, and labor.
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Weekly News writer and openSUSE member Jan-Simon Möller accepted 'People of openSUSE' interview request and shared with us some information about himself. Jan is also the maintainer of the hamradio repository on the Build Service!
People of openSUSE: Tanja RothJune 21st, 2008 by News Team
How important is documentation to you and people around you? Certainly it is a lot! Then good news because openSUSE has a team focused on manuals for the SUSE Linux/openSUSE distribution. Today's we have the opportunity to salute openSUSE Documentation Team member Tanja Roth!
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This week the openSUSE Project announced the launch of forums.opensuse.org, a merger of the three largest openSUSE forums. Continuing the openSUSE Forums euphoria we present you the Project Manager – Rupert Horstkötter.
People of openSUSE: Cornelius SchumacherJune 7th, 2008 by News Team
Before openSUSE 11.0 GM get released next Thursday, we have the chance to meet Cornelius Schumacher – member of the incubation team, former Build Service developer, KDE vice president, and also the one who started writing down the openSUSE Guiding Principles.
People of openSUSE: Matthias FehringMay 30th, 2008 by News Team
'People of openSUSE' caught up the man behind the great effort done on the German openSUSE wiki – Matthias Fehring. He is one of the system operatores of the de.opensuse.org wiki and long time openSUSE user.
People of openSUSE: Klaus KämpfMay 23rd, 2008 by News Team
Long time openSUSE developer Klaus Kämpf joined former S.u.S.E nine years ago and since then never looked back being committed to his System Management Architect job at Novell.
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People of openSUSE: Wolfgang KollerMay 16th, 2008 by News Team
While some are preparing their fly to Austria to attend EURO 2008, 'People of openSUSE' already flew but rather to meet Wolfgang Koller – founder of SuSELinuxSupport community and author of some nice KDE applications such as KTrafficAnalyzer.
People of openSUSE: Marcus HüweMay 10th, 2008 by News Team
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I was glad we took the daunting drive down to the seafront at Bonchurch, a small suburb next to Ventnor. We came across the studio of Andrew Bristow, a potter who has been working on the Isle of Wight for many years. His pottery is very pretty and I couldn't resist buying a few items to take home. Opening hours vary so call ahead before arriving.
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From Martin Conrad, excerpted from Barron's
The Great Mania
Reinflating the collapsed housing bubble, as many desire, would likely yield the same disastrous result. What's needed are lower, fairer prices, and more investment in more productive sectors of the economy.
Manias occur for many reasons, but great manias are made possible and sustained by errant government policies that may seem to have good reasons, none of them with any long-term economic value. Housing, despite high leverage, high transaction costs, and poor liquidity, was promoted as a dream investment for everyone. Massive intervention in this market by populist government policies and agencies fostering affordability exacerbated these normal defects and disastrously distorted the market. It was a "dream," in the sense of confused, wishful thinking. But to think and act this way with many trillions of dollars, most of it borrowed, was irresponsible on an historic scale.
There is now much media commentary that no sustained and robust recovery is possible until the housing sector recovers (that is, until house prices rise again). This desire to simply reinflate the collapsed bubble would likely yield the same disastrous result again. Another course would likely be more effective: restructuring away from so much dependence on leveraged, expensive, and speculative housing values. We should no more regret the demise of expensive housing than we should the decline of expensive oil, both of which are poorly correlated with productive, sustainable economic growth, but strongly correlated with damaging inflation.
Disciplined buyers -- too long unfairly disadvantaged by government policies -- are now sitting on trillions in savings that are earning, doing, and financing nothing. This money could clear the housing market, but only at lower, fairer prices. That would finally be "affordable housing."
Manias begin in obscurity and pessimism, rise with confidence and imitation, reach a state of euphoria and finally end in tragedy. They often change history in ways that are not foreseeable.
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Because we like tulips?
my greatgrandmaw (she's 97 years old) puts on lipstick and eye make-up and perfume and so forth every day. she says boys find it attractive.
she thinks she's still a teenager.
my fed (it's 100 years old) pumps out money and inflates housing and levitates equities and so forth. it says it makes people feel wealthy.
it thinks this is 1927
"fairer prices"
Spoken like a true crypto-Stalinist. Nothing says "I secretly hate the free market" like medieval sturm-und-drang about how "unfair" prices are.
The sharp rise in housing prices was simply due to low interest rates. Buyers too often base their purchase on the monthly payment they can afford, which is a combination of principal and interest. As the interest portion fell, the principal portion was bid up.
"The sharp rise in housing prices was simply due to low interest rates." False. Now interest rates even lower and house prices are lowest.. The main driver is "Credit Availability", not the Interest rate. When you start given away mortgages without Income and ZERO down payment, that's when you get people on welfare buying houses left and right.. :) Then when they unable to pay, give then another loan "Sub prime" then give them bunch of Credit Cards, and so on.
Like US.gov is operating now. Print and Spend, no worries. Everything else could be and will be
manipulated as they wish.
Working under the table planting tulips?
OK -- it's similar to the stock/flow issue, so let me be more specific (and thank you for pointing this out, since semantics are important): the rise in home prices was due to the decline in interest rates.
As I said, most buyers guage their home purchase on the monthly payment. When mortgage rates are 7%, a seller cannot demand the same prinicpal price as when rates are 4%. The beneficiaries of the decline in rates were those who owned homes prior to the rate decline, because their buyers were willing to pay more in principal and less in interest for the same monthly payment.
The collapse in underwriting standards was driven by the demand for loans to package into RMBS. That's in part why we are now finding out that single mortgages were actually listed as pledged to multiple RMBS trusts. The "winner" so far, as I understand it, was a NYC condo that appeared in 5 different RMBS deals over the course of 6 months in late 2008.
I'll be honest. I never met ANYONE during this period who gave a flip about interest rates or even price. The ONLY thing they cared about was the constant appreciatioin so that they could soon unload it on the next idiot. Yes, there is a correlation between demand and interest rates but emotion and momentum are far more influential. Girls didn't buy cabbage patch dolls or guys didn't get the newets version of WOW because they were inexpensive - they are caught in the emotion of the moment, which is exactly what FED actions lead to.
Right, but there is a difference between price and cost for something that is almost always financed in large part by debt.
Even people buying houses based on "stated income" paperwork, NINJA and liar loans and all that, had a limit on the house price that they could "afford" because their theoretical ability to pay had to correlate with the monthly payments. Yes, they didn't care about rates or prices, but you didn't see these people doing stated income paperwork for $50M mansions -- and for them, it's really all the same risk level.
The underlying issue is that the cost of a home is part asking price and part financing cost. If the bank asks for less in financing costs, then the owner can capture a greater portion of the buyer's total ability to pay.
Believe me -- if mortgage rates go to 11%, the asking prices of home are going down. Not because they are worth less or because they aren't a good inflation hedge, but because with an 11% mortgage, the monthly payment your buyer can swing just got crushed, and the seller loses that.
Also, "cabbage patch doll"? Really? Haven't seen one of the those since Kajagoogoo was hot.... ;-)
You've completely missed the point of the author, who is arguing that there can be no recovery so long as government/fed intervention continues to artificially prop up housing prices. With housing prices artificially held higher than the market-clearing prices, there can be no recovery. Your point about how we got to higher prices through decreasing interest rates simply points back to the source of the problem to begin with: the Fed.
I don't disagree -- the rates commend was more of a side note.
My original point was that as soon as I hear someone claim that prices are unfair, my totalitarianism antennae stand up....
"The Great Mania"
Latest few month Greatest Mania is to sell Gold at 8:30 AM EST.. Looks like Stores open
in exactly this hour and poor people lineup with Gold to Sell as fast as possible.. :))
Seriously look at the chart NOW! WTF? Every f* day same shit.. No manipulation, of course.
Latest few month Greatest Mania is to sell Gold at 8:30 AM EST
Your tax dollars at work.
They need to break the $1,625 level. They're only $20/oz away.
Twill be a great day for Mother Russia.
I hope you're not serious. Russia is doomed - demographics being the prime culprit. In 25 years time it is doubtful that a nation smaller than Turkey can hold onto its vast expanse of territory, especially with an army of majority Muslims with little allegiance to Moscow. But worse is the type of heavy handed statism that destroys the pricing mechanism. Economies fail when true price is determined by fiat rather than markets (why socialism always fails). Russia has broken free of her one defining quality - authoritarianism - only for short stretches. She seems incapable of sustaining personal and economic liberty.
The Federal South Sea Tulip Trading Co.
Who could have known ?
If these idiots spent 40 billion a month in funding new technologies in energy, science, engineering the jobs derived would take care of the housing problem....oh who am i kidding....85 billion to the banks then...carry on
You are absolutely right. Basic research in science would yield incredible rewards but we're too busy preserving a bankrupt system of debt, worshipping athletes and "stars" and living for today. You could spend 5 blllion a month (less than 2 days of debt) and almost certainly increase the efficiency of alternative energy systems to economic stabiliy.
Student loans up next!
A house is not a productive investment, unless you are running a sweatshop in the basement, and therefore should not be bought using debt. Housing is one giant sinkhole of capital (maintenance, taxes, utilities), though it can appreciate at a rate faster than everything else in the Ponzi does.
be careful about this type of message. Repeat after me, a house is a great investment, a house is a great investment.
That kind of misinformation will lead to suited men with shades packing heat from the NAR and banking cartel sitting outside your house. Maybe even worse, drone monitering.
The 8:20am take down of the price of gold, in full effect....would the SEC not intervene if this happened to a particular stock?
The U.S. economy has been dependent on one bubble after another for over 25 years,
because it no longer has a manufacturing base.
but we DO have paper & derivative trading [insert noun here]... so it's all good...
"The U.S. economy has been dependent on one bubble after another for over 25 years, because it no longer has a manufacturing base."
Manufacturing does not pay its own way, returns must be borrowed. There is more manufacturing 'bang' for the borrowed buck in China ... however, the Chinese economy is underwater and sinking fast because its lender is the US consumer (who's broke, btw).
Manufacturing is a thermodynamic sink, it cannot repay anything. The alternative to anti-productive industry is asset price bubbles, there is nothing else that doesn't require a lot of hard physical labor.
So this is basically saying tv is a half century long mania? Shit, I still watch as much Alex Jones as I did any tv show as a kid only its closer to REAL than the spittle excreting itself from the tubular orafice of fear, illness and doom.
If there were "disciplined buyers" out there they wouldn't be buying bonds for "safety" right now...yet they are..sounds like a mania to me.
This writer is clearly a terrorist and must be Dorner/Droned for the safety of The Children.
The problem with manias is that they cause imbalances in everything that comes into contact with them. So for example the housing boom was accompanied by an explosion in mortgage brokers, office space, kitchens, spas, furnishings etc which in turn spawned factories and retail outlets of every kind. This in turn led to an explosion in advertising, in the number of agents, car leasing for agents etc etc etc.
The euphoria spreads and feeds itself whilst it is in its growth and spread phase, but when the "building Phase" is over the euphoria collapses in the absence of cash flows to sustain it.
That's when you call on TARP. Hope they've got a couple more where that came from.
The only factories that were spawned are located in China.
What is weird is that both Tulip Bulbs and the South Seas bubbles had government promotion/intervention involved in pumping them up. Much like the paper beanie baby dollar/debt complex, the government is usually at the root of all financial stupidity and crisis.
Gasoline Prices Are Going To $5 A Gallon
let me tell you how much money i lost on a condo in Michigan. almost 1/2 . this was the top of the housing market in 2005 that i purchased, all cash deal. this was when i was stupid re markets & finances & banking. i lost a lifetime of wages. & the man down the street, a professor at the local college ..... well he lost double what i lost. how the hell did i know Michigan was a dying, depopulating state ! THIS IS WHY I AM HERE ON ZEROHEDGE. I FINALLY GOT MY EDUCATION ! bless everyone's heart here for waking me up. i can't believe how stupid i was, but, i'm not stupid now.
I agree w/ Philip Conrad 100%. That's why he writes for Barron's instead of some obscure blog like Economic Undertow.
One small fly in the ointment ... the US's (world's) banks are leveraged 30+ times to current high price levels. If house prices decline another 3% the (remaining) banks are insolvent (because of the recent declines many banks including the biggest ones are already insolvent). If prices decline to market clearing levels the banks are destroyed and depositors are wiped out (junior AND senior creditors + equity).
That's why 'market clearing' are dirty words Barron's or no Barron's: we are Cyprus!


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