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Skip to comments.Kerry unveils $4 billion Palestinian economic plan
Posted on 05/26/2013 3:51:06 PM PDT by blueyon
DEAD SEA, Jordan US Secretary of State John Kerry unveiled on Sunday a $4 billion economic plan to revitalize the Palestinian economy, as he called on Israelis and Palestinians to forgive past wrongs and return to the negotiating table.
The plan for the Palestinian economy is bigger and bolder and more ambitious than anything proposed since Oslo more than 20 years ago, said Kerry as he spoke at the closing session of the World Economic Forum by the Dead Sea in Jordan.
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How many aging bridges would that pay for?
Doesn't "revitalize" imply that at one time it was "vitalized"?
The layers of Evil are piled high and deep in Congress.
Hey Lurch, how about getting the so-called "Palestinians" to recognize Israel's right to exist first?
It's only money. The Treasury can speed up the presses for a week or so and fill the gap.
There are few Arab-dominated non-petroleum producing nations which are economically successful.
I'm tiring of helping out other nations. Let them figure out for themselves how to become economically stable. The first would be to rid themselves of anything that interferes with a stable workday — like having to pray multiple times daily!
Dumbass horsefaced moron! Those murderous muslim/islamist Pali subhumans need to be wiped from the face of the earth. Then, there'll be peace.
That would be extremist.
More money to the people who will forever hate America.
Is Kerry stupid or is he a traitor?
I think they do it every new agreement. They we start over at ground zero for the next round.
I am so ready to break away from this country! Move Ft Hood tanks to the Red River.
Because this is where our tax money has gone in their hands in the past years.
But I am sure they will be grateful, like they were for the hundreds of Millions we send them every year.
Perhaps we can build up their automobile industry!
I feel much better now. /sarc
That will buy a lot of guns and rockets.
4 Billion later and that place will still be the same sh*t hole.
They need some cash to buy more weapons to kill American soldiers.
Pray for America to Wake Up
And this benefits us how, exactly?
While our own economy is in dire straights? How much monopoly money has the fed printed so far? 4 billion every month for what, almost 5 years? Who's going to pay for this? American citizens are!
Anyway, we know repairing the nations bridges is going to have to wait. Americans, to this administration, are obviously expendable.
Jean Francois is desperate to buy a Nobel for himself with OPM.
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He is involved in several not-for-profit and public sector activities, including the U.S.-Japan Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, the U.S.-Japan Private Sector/Government Commission, Yale Divinity School advisory board, Yale School of Management board of advisors, American Friends of the British Museum, Yaddo, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Trout Unlimited, and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.[4]
... more money to finance the expansion of hate.
Obama is probably asking is 4 bln enough?
You could give them 40 billion and they could never compete with the jews!
Don't shoot the messenger, he's merely the mouth piece for the administration......
Let the democrats pay for it...the damned Republicans better not fund this BS!
Few? More like none at all...
If every Israeli left tomorrow for Sinai with only the clothes on their back, a years supply of water and food and a tent, and the Palestinians moved into Jerusalem, Telaviv and every other Israli city, in one year Sinai would be a paradise, with Israelis prospering in farming and other industries.
Wherever the Palis moved into would be a $hit**le and they would be blaming the Israelis.
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somebody please tell this rich kid, that unlike his wife, we're broke................thanks to 50 years + of liberalism!
he needs to resign and go back to polishing the teak on his boat!
Just wait until the Terrorstinians find out illegal aliens are getting 6 trillion.....
Oh, there is a few around the edges; Turkey for one, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Morocco are surviving nicely. But they are far outside the madding crowd in the ME.
Since the pali terror types could never defeat the IDF/Israelis in any kind of a fight the only thing left to do is level the playing field(killing field) give them "too much money" to buy "too many" weapons. Some of these weapons will surely strike the heart of Israeli homeland. Of course that will naturally become Israels fault in the msm..... and so it goes.
The question to ask is who told Kerry to do this? Since he's waaaay too stupid to think of it on his own and has little power if any to actually do something like that without val/jars approval.
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Gamaliel Painter, who commissioned the spacious and elegant building in 1802, worked tirelessly to establish Middlebury as a town. He also had the vision to champion and sponsor a college that would educate the citizens of the growing commercial center.
Befitting the former home of a community leader, the building is prominently located at the gateway to the town and thus to the campus itself. The new location, in the heart of Middlebury reflects the long and rich partnership between the College and the town.
"Painter would be proud that his house is now the home for alumni," says Ian McCray '95, Director of Alumni and Parent Programs. "The location is especially convenient for people to stop by and visit as they enter town on Route 7. We look forward to welcoming alumni, parents, and friends and to sharing this historic house with them.
"Our new home allows us to collaborate more closely with colleagues in College Advancement, who already had offices in Painter House," McCray notes. "And we appreciate the connection with this historic
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"Without Painter, there would probably be no Middlebury College today," McCray says. "So, we at Alumni and Parent Programs are honored to spend our workdays in the house he built."
We hope that you'll drop by Painter House on Court Street (Route 7)—not to be confused with Painter Hall dormitory on campus, which is also named for Gamaliel Painter. Please visit so that we can share our historic new home with you!

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>Around here, we love to dance (with the curtains shut so no one can see the lack of rhythm we have in our house). We are always looking for more family-friendly FUN music- The Disney Reggae Club CD (released 6/8/10) fits the bill! My favorite is the reggae version of the Toy Story song "You've Got a Friend in Me" but my kids love "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah." This album has songs from Disney movies definitely geared toward kids and families but its just fun music to listen to. I like to listen while I cook dinner- helps get the kids to stop hanging on my legs and gets them moving around. Dancing while cooking (again, with curtains shut) always makes it more fuN! If you are a Disney fan and are looking for something new for your Disney music collection, this is a must-have for you.
Artists and tracks included on the album are:
1. "Circle of Life" (from "The Lion King") Performed by Matisyahu
2. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (from "The Lion King") Performed by Cedella Marley
3. "The Bare Necessities" (from "The Jungle Book") Performed by Steel Pulse
4. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (Desmond Dekker's reggae classic also featured in "The Lion King") Performed by Morgan Heritage
5. "What a Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong classic) Performed by Ziggy Marley
6. "True to Your Heart" (from "Mulan") Performed by The Wailing Souls
7. "You've Got a Friend in Me" (from "Toy Story) Performed by Sly & Robbie
8. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (from "Song of the South") Performed by Toots
9. "I Wan'na Be Like You" (from "The Jungle Book") Performed by UB40
10. "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat" (from "The Aristocats") Performed by Michael G & the Easy Star All-Stars
11. "Kiss The Girl" (from "The Little Mermaid") Performed by Burning Spear
12. "Under The Sea" (from "The Little Mermaid") Performed by Gregory Isaacs
13. "Find Yourself" (from "Cars") Performed by Yellowman
I was provided with a copy of this CD to facilitate my review but opinions expressed within are my own.


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RANDOLPH Eleanor Ellie C. Steuwe, 92, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H.
She was born Oct. 25, 1920, in Jersey City, N.J., the daughter of William and Eleanor (Jasco) Lapham.
She attended Jersey City (N.J.) Teachers College and Pace Institute in New York City.
In 1943, she married Joseph B. Mathis III in Chico, Calif., and he was killed in 1944 in World War II. In September 1947, she married Arthur H. Steuwe. He died in 1993.
In East Charleston, she was a volunteer at the elementary school, a member of the school board and trustee for Plymouth Congregational Church, as well as a volunteer at North Country Hospital in Newport. In Randolph, she was a volunteer at the Gifford Memorial Hospital Thrift Shop and the elementary school ELF Program, a deacon at Bethany Congregational Church and a board member of the senior center.
She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, painting and reading.
Survivors include five children, Joseph Mathis, of Forked River, N.J., Roy Steuwe, of Derby, Arthur Steuwe Jr., of Belmont, Mich., David Steuwe, of Rockingham, and Nancy Smith, of Randolph: 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held at a later date.
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|Showing Unconditional Love
From The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche (pages 176-177)
Often we forget that the dying are losing their whole world: their house, their job, their relationships, their body, and their mind--they're losing everything. All the losses we could possibly experience in life are joined together in one overwhelming loss when we die, so how could anyone dying not be sometimes sad, sometimes panicked, sometimes angry?
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross suggests five stages in the process of coming to terms with dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Of course not everyone will go through all these stages, or necessarily in this order; and for some people the road to acceptance may be an extremely long and thorny one; others may not reach acceptance at all.
Ours is a culture that does not give people very much true perspective on their thoughts, emotions, and experiences, and many people facing death and its final challenge find themselves feeling cheated by their own ignorance, and terribly frustrated and angry, especially since no one seems to want to comprehend them and their most heartfelt needs.
As Cicely Saunders, the great pioneer of the hospice movement in Britain, writes: "I once asked a man who knew he was dying what he needed above all in those who were caring for him. He said, 'For someone to look as if they are trying to understand me.' Indeed, it is impossible to understand fully another person, but I never forgot that he did not ask for success but only that someone should care enough to try." 1
It is essential that we care enough to try, and that we reassure that person that whatever he or she may be feeling, whatever his or her frustration and anger, it is normal. Dying will bring out many repressed emotions: sadness or numbness or guilt, or even jealousy of those who are still well. Help the person not to repress these emotions when they rise. Be with the person as the waves of pain and grief break; with acceptance, time, and patient understanding, the emotions slowly subside and return the dying person to that ground of serenity, calm, and sanity that is most deeply and truly theirs.
Don't try to be too wise; don't always try to search for something profound to say. You don't have to do or say anything to make things better. Just be there as fully as you can. And if you are feeling a lot of anxiety and fear, and don't know what to do, admit that openly to the dying person and ask his or her help. This honesty will bring you and the dying person closer together, and help in opening up a freer communication. Sometimes the dying know far better than we how they can be helped, and we need to know how to draw on their wisdom and let them give to us what they know.
Cicely Saunders has asked us to remind ourselves that, in being with the dying, we are not the only givers. "Sooner or later all who work with dying people know they are receiving more than they are giving as they meet endurance, courage and often humor. We need to say so..."2 Acknowledging our recognition of their courage can often inspire the dying person.
I find too that I have been helped by remembering one thing: that the person in front of me dying is always, somewhere, inherently good. Whatever rage or emotion arises, however momentarily shocking or horrifying these may be, focusing on that inner goodness will give you the control and perspective you need to be as helpful as possible. Just as when you quarrel with a good friend, you do not forget the best parts of that person, do the same with the dying person: Don't judge them by whatever emotions arise. This acceptance of yours will release the dying person to be as uninhibited as he or she needs to be. Treat the dying as if they were what they are sometimes capable of being: open, loving, and generous.
On a deeper, spiritual level, I find it extremely helpful always to remember the dying person has the true buddha nature, whether he or she realizes it or not, and the potential for complete enlightenment. As the dying come closer to death, this possibility is in many ways even greater. So they deserve even more care and respect.
1. Dame Cicely Saunders, "I Was Sick and You Visited Me," Christian Nurse International, 3, no. 4 (1987).
2. Dame Cicely Saunders, "Spiritual Pain," a paper presented at St. Christopher's Hospice Fourth International Conference, London 1987, published in Hospital Chaplain (March 1988).


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-Makes a few water sharks to chase people-
Originally Posted by LonelyAssassin
-lies on the sand- hmm better than grass -puts hands behind head and closes eyes-
*sticks sword in the sand* hi
-sits up quickly- You b*****d -freezes the part of water kei is in- hmph..
-looks at Zaden- Hi, nice sword
-turns the watershark to steam-
*wants to move so much that the ice cracks and eventually breaks and I jump out of the water and land beside them both*
brrrrr that was cold
you deserved it -lying back on the sand-
-Makes a few more water sharks in the sky, like a water show-
*looks at the girl*
Hey you're the girl who said I was showing off
Hi I'm Keisuke
*puts hands behind my head*
Nice to meet you
-looks at zaden- Yeh, I'm Tasuke ^^
* starts training again* My sword thanks you He is a beautiful sword ain't it *stumbles with the sword in her hand* (sword is twice her own body weight)
-walks over to kei- now thats pathetic
I dunno how she can carry it
*catches her*
You should be more careful with that thing
can I hold it?
*looks at Sam*
Shut up
Hi boys I'm Luna, Luna Madoka *bows and blushes a bit*
im going to wait untill this backfires on you
until what backfires on me?
Hi Luna
-looks at sammy- ...
-looks at luna- Nice to meet ya ^^
you'll see :D -looks at luna- im Samuel winchester but people call me sammy
-Watches Tasuke, Keisuke and Samuel from the tree branch, hanging upside down-
Riku : ...Oh man.
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Today, I came home in a really good mood, and I greeted my husband with a grin and a "Hi, babe!" He just muttered, "Why can't you just DIE?" and continued playing his video game. FML
by rani / 02/02/2013 at 5:34pm / Norway (Oslo) / Love
Today, I asked my mother if I could have my boyfriend sleep over for Valentine's day weekend. Her response? "If you're on your period he can. Unless he's into that. Then no." FML
by dab1230 / 02/06/2013 at 7:26pm / United States (New York) / Intimacy
Today, the attractive guy I barely speak to in my statistics class gave me a rose for Valentine's Day because he remembered they were my favorite. My husband got me a roll of quarters and told me to go buy myself "something pretty." FML
by RosesAreRed / 02/15/2013 at 1:07am / United States (Missouri) / Love
Today, I went to a club with my girlfriend and her buddies. An hour in, I saw her making out with a guy on the dance floor, so I confronted her. She stormed off to the bar and said something to her friend, who then came over and angrily slapped me across the face. Yeah, I'm confused too. FML
by Anonymous / 02/02/2013 at 6:03pm / Belgium / Love
Today, the guy that I've liked for a while but never had the courage to talk to was wearing a TARDIS shirt. I jokingly asked, "Are you the Doctor?" His response was for me to "Go away, f***ing nerd." FML
by guessnot / 02/03/2013 at 9:16pm / Canada (Ontario) / Geek
Today, the guy who confessed his love for me also confessed that in his rage, he almost shot the last girl who broke his heart. FML
by BadAssBandit897 / 02/23/2013 at 8:46am / Canada / Love
Today, it's my boyfriend's birthday. He really likes Legend of Zelda, so I put on a Link hat, took my clothes off, and waited for him at his place. He came home with a hooker. FML
by excusemeprincess / 02/11/2013 at 12:08pm / United States (New York) / Love
Today, I decided to surprise my boyfriend by quietly undressing and sneaking into the bathroom to join him in the shower. He was bent over taking a dump, pushing his turd down the plughole. FML
by anony / 02/27/2013 at 8:49am / Australia (Victoria) / Miscellaneous
Today, I lost a bet with my friends. I had to go to the super market and buy a copy of 50 Shades of Grey along with a cucumber. The cashier was trying so hard not to laugh while ringing me up. FML
by Anonymous / 02/21/2013 at 8:43am / United States (Idaho) / Miscellaneous
Today, my boyfriend and I were visiting his parents. I'm nervous around them so he encouraged me to drink so I'd loosen up. I got so drunk I tore up all the things in his old room I thought were from ex-girlfriends and accidentally flashed his dad my crotch. FML
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Today, I was holding the door open for a friend. She told me to wait a second because she had to finish a text. Nearly a minute passed before I asked why she wouldn't come inside to finish typing. We were at a Chinese restaurant. She thought the "No MSG" sign meant you couldn't text inside. FML
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Today, I had to spend a few hours in a hospital with a toddler and a preschooler projecting vomit all over, because my husband thinks "expiration dates are for pussies." FML
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Today, after supporting my girlfriend for over a year in her endeavour to lose weight, exercise more, and eat better, my now-slender girlfriend dumped me. Because now she find someone better than me. FML
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Greenblatt's Magic Formula
by John Bajkowski
Long-term success relies on both a sound strategy and the discipline to follow your approach during bull and bear markets. In "The Little Book That Still Beats the Market" (John Wiley & Sons, 2010), Joel Greenblatt shows that his "Magic Formula" approach holds up over the long term, but that you need to be prepared for brief runs when it underperforms the market. The approach seeks out good companies with a high return on invested capital that can be purchased at an attractive pretax earnings yield.
Greenblatt measures the strength of a business by examining its return on capital, which he defines as operating profit (EBIT, earnings before interest and taxes) divided by tangible investment capital (net working capital plus net fixed assets). If you do not have access to this variable, Greenblatt suggests that investors use return on assets (net income divided by assets) or visit his website (www.magicformulainvesting.com), which has a free magic formula screening tool.
To help value a business, Greenblatt takes the price-earnings ratio, inverts it and tweaks the variables slightly. Greenblatt calculates earnings yield by dividing EBIT by the enterprise value. The enterprise value tries to reflect the minimum value to purchase a company outright. It is calculated by adding market capitalization, preferred stock, and total debt and subtracting excess cash. Greenblatt notes that you can also look for low price-earnings ratios, but warns to avoid firms with extremely low ratios because earnings may be unusual in some way.
Stocks that made this issue's First Cut are domestic, exchange-listed stocks with a minimum price of $5.00 per share and a market cap of at least $50 million. Greenblatt also excludes financials and utilities because of their unique financial structures. To calculate the magic formula, the rank value of return on capital was combined with the rank value of the return on enterprise value. The 30 stocks with the lowest magic formula total passed the First Cut. Greenblatt suggests building a 20- to 30-stock portfolio by selecting five to seven stocks every two to three months.
—John Bajkowski, President of AAII
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John from CO posted over 5 years ago:
Is there anyway to make the spreadsheet user friendly readable on my MAC, without having to print it out? On my MAC I can't drag the corners to have the sheet appear completely. It requires that I use the up/ down and side to side arrows. which causes me to lose the left and irght columns/rows that define the criteria of the company's.
Wesley from NM posted over 5 years ago:
Nice summary of Greenblatt's book. I read the book and there is very little to add beyond your article. I think this is a good shortcut to estimating company value. But I would hesitate to follow the investment advice. There are probably several reasons why this could be viewed as inadequate; I shall list two:
1. There is no decision threshold in this process, just the magic number 30. Presumably there are times when no company is a value and it would be prudent to withhold from the market. There may be other times when many companies are selling at a value. A decision threshold or at least a guideline would be useful in making the distinction.
2. In addition to a company being a value, I am concerned about issues of debt (risk of bankruptcy and potential future interest burden) and persistent dividend yield (an additional measure of strength and durability). Adding Greenblatt's formula to a short list of additional criteria seems valuable. Using it as a standalone omits a lot of valuable information.
David from AL posted over 5 years ago:
Thanks a million for providing the info for use in Stock Investor Pro. This is very helpful and greatly appreciated. Please continue to provide this type of assistance.
Donald from MI posted over 5 years ago:
I've been tracking the performance of a portfolio of 30 MFI stocks with a market cap of $50M purchased on the first of each month since August. You can see the holdings and performance of the 5 portfolios here:
Terry from CA posted over 5 years ago:
The "Magic Tangible Capital" calculation should include PPE.
John from WY posted over 5 years ago:
Is there anyway to make the spreadsheet user friendly readable on my Windows PC, without having to print it out? On my PC I can't drag the corners to have the sheet appear completely. It requires that I use the up/ down and side to side arrows. which causes me to lose the left and irght columns/rows that define the criteria of the company's.
Daniel from AZ posted over 5 years ago:
I would like to reinforce what John from Colorado said about the worksheet, as well as John from Wyoming. I use Ubuntu Linux and have the same problem.
Donald from MI posted over 5 years ago:
If you are referring to the Magic Formula Stocks table you can download the worksheet here into excel (and other formats):
Charles from IL posted over 5 years ago:
We adjusted the table to appear in a spreadsheet format. If you click on "Full Screen View," you should be able to see the table without scrolling on all PCs. - Charles Rotblut
Arnold from HI posted over 4 years ago:
On the spreadsheet, the ranks are given in columns C & D. How were these determined and printed. I am aware that the Magic Formula Total is the sum of these to columns. Thanks
William from FL posted over 4 years ago:
I don't know why you've programmed a web site to demand cookies to display a simple spreadsheet.
This is one page I won't be looking at as I'm unwilling to putz around that much to see a simple table.
Lee from MA posted over 4 years ago:
can't fine the list of 30 stocks and can't find any spreadsheet.
David from NY posted over 4 years ago:
This is the first AAII article with a screen which was not viewable 'because cookies are not enabled in your browser'. But they are. Please correct.
Paul from CA posted over 4 years ago:
The cookie issue is because the spreadsheet is hosted on Zoho. To see the spreadsheet using Safari (and possibly FireFox and other browsers) you need to enable "Always Accept Cookies". By default it is safer to only accept cookies from sites you visit. If you trust AAII and Zoho then go ahead and accept setting a cookie from a site you haven't navigated to directly.
E b from FL posted over 4 years ago:
I gather that the ranking of the companies by enterprise value and return on captital is something that is unavailable inside of Stock Investor Pro.
This article was of great interest to me since I had purchased the book not so long ago.
Arnold from HI posted over 4 years ago:
The screen criteria and the custom fields for use with SIP are available for SIP subscribers. However, I can get no help on setting up a View Menu to show the "Ratio - Rank" for the EBIT/Enterprise Value or the Return on Capital. Would appreciate help.


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December 4, 2013 —
MONTICELLO, NY — The United Methodist Church of Monticello (UMC) will present Big Sky Productions in "Shorts & Sweets for the Holidays" on Saturday, December 7 at 2 p.m.
Performers from Big Sky Productions will read short stories about Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. The stories will be interspersed with music and songs featuring UMC's Jeremy Mills as accompanist.
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On this day (Sept. 24) in 1755, the colossus of American constitutional law John Marshall was born (the eldest of 15 children) into the family of Thomas Marshall and Mary Keith in a log cabin near Germantown (now Midland), Va.
Since there were no local schools, John was home-schooled by his father and for a year by a Scottish-educated live-in tutor. At age 14, John was enrolled in "Mr. Campbell's" academy in Westmoreland County, Va., where he was a classmate of James Monroe.
Since John's father had decided that John should become a lawyer, he gave John a law dictionary and a copy of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, and told to study for the bar. In 1776, however, he interrupted his legal studies to join the Continental Army.
Between 1776 and 1781, Marshall participated in several major Revolutionary War battles, and endured the harsh winter at Valley Forge in 1777-1778. In 1781, having passed the bar, Marshall moved to Richmond, where he set up a law practice.
Success at the bar inevitably led to a political career. He served as a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, as a Federalist U.S. congressman (1899-1800), and as secretary of state under President John Adams (1800-1801).
In 1797, Adams appointed Marshall, along with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Elbridge Gerry, to go to France to negotiate a treaty. In the ensuing XYZ Affair, the French demanded a bribe before agreeing to negotiations. The American commissioners steadfastly refused to pay the demanded $250,000 bribe.
French intransigence and American anger led to a two-year undeclared naval war between France and the U.S. Marshall returned home as a hero who honorably refused to toady to the imperious French.
It is, however, as the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court that John Marshall is rightly best known. Serving from Feb. 4, 1801, to July 6, 1835, Marshall established the Supreme Court's right to interpret the Constitution.
During his tenure, Marshall participated in about 1,000 decisions, of which he wrote 519 himself. In a number of notable cases, Marshall greatly expanded the power of the national government vis-ŕ-vis the states, and of the Supreme Court vis-a-vis the executive branch and legislature.
Most notably, in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marshall set the precedence for judicial review (i.e., Supreme Court could declare acts of Congress unconstitutional), and in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), where the chief justice affirmed, in upholding congressional authority to create a bank even though it was not expressly stated in the Constitution, the "implied powers" doctrine, which has allowed the national government ever since to incrementally increase its power and influence.
In 1831, Marshall underwent bladder stone surgery and the loss of his wife of 52 years. His medical health and psychological well-being thereafter gradually declined.
In June 1835, he traveled to Philadelphia for medical treatment, where he died July 6, 1835, at age 79. His death was widely reported and lamented.
The famous Liberty Bell in Philadelphia cracked while being rung in remembrance of America's most celebrated and influential Supreme Court justice.
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NARROWSBURG, NY — Join Slow Food Upper Delaware River (Up De Riva) for an apple of an afternoon on Saturday, October 26 at 2 p.m. at 1300 Crystal Lake Rd.
Once again, Hans and Cornelia Kung have offered to let visitors celebrate the apples at their farm—picking apples, pressing apples and eating apples. Learn to shake the tree, collect apples and press them into cider. If you have apples, bring them along. Make sure to bring jugs to take home freshly pressed apple cider.
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NEW YORK A woman is in custody in the death of a man who was shoved in front of a speeding subway train, and she made statements implicating herself, New York City police said Saturday.
Detectives questioned her but arent releasing the 31-year-old suspects name until she is formally charged, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said in a brief statement. Among other things, investigators were arranging for witnesses to positively identify the woman in custody as the attacker, police said.
Sunando Sen, a 46-year-old Queens resident who was born in India and ran a printing shop, died Thursday night when a woman who had been muttering to herself on a train platform in Queens suddenly knocked him on the tracks as a train entered the station.
The woman fled after the attack. Police released security camera video showing her running from the station.
The attack was the second time this month that someone was pushed to their death in a New York City subway station. A homeless man was arrested in early December and accused of shoving a man in front of a train in Times Square. He is awaiting trial, and claimed he acted in self-defense.
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Lawyer seeks suit
A lawyer whos asking to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a 6-year-old Newtown school shooting survivor who heard violence over the schools intercom system says the potential claim is about improving school security, not money.
Its about living in a world thats safe, New Haven attorney Irving Pinsky told The Associated Press on Saturday. The answer is about protecting the kids.
Pinsky asked this week to sue the state, which has immunity against most lawsuits unless it gives a party permission to go forward with a claim.
Pinksys client, whom he calls Jill Doe in the claim, sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury on Dec. 14 after gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and gunned down 20 children and six adults inside in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
The child heard conversations, gunfire and screaming over Sandy Hooks intercom after someone in the office apparently switched on the system, according to the claim. Pinsky said Saturday he didnt know whether his client saw anyone die.
The state Board of Education, Department of Education and state education commissioner failed to protect the child from foreseeable harm, including by failing to provide a safe school setting, the filing said.
It also said the parties failed to review and carefully scrutinize annual strategic school profile reports from the local school district and Sandy Hook Elementary as well as other submissions with respect to student safety and emergency response planning and protocol.
It says the parties also failed to require the school and local Board of Education to formulate and implement an effective student safety emergency response plan.
Pinsky said Saturday he didnt want to reveal more about the 6-year-old or details about her experience during the shooting because of privacy concerns.
The attorney said he hasnt gotten a reply from the state yet. The Hartford Courant first reported the filing.
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High pointNovember 29,2012
A bill calling for the decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana is one that Gov. Peter Shumlin hopes passes in the coming year, and chances are it will, partly because of a broad transformation of social attitudes toward the drug.
That transformation was evident this year in Colorado and Washington, where voters decided to legalize the use of marijuana for purposes other than medicinal what is called recreational use. These state initiatives still are contrary to federal law, but before too long we could see the legal public sale of marijuana, regulated and taxed, for use by people who want to get high.
Even the open and unapologetic use of the language of marijuana all the references to reefer, pot, getting high indicate a change in social attitudes. It is possible to acknowledge that millions of people smoke marijuana with little harm to themselves without fear that one will be accused of abetting criminality. This change has occurred, no doubt, because of the passage of time. The baby boom generation brought marijuana smoking into wider use, which ignited the war on drugs and its ineffective punitive campaigns. Now the children of the baby boomers have grown into adulthood, and, mostly, theyre doing fine. And they may be freer about marijuana use than their parents.
We have learned several things in our decades-long effort to grapple with the reality of marijuana. First, we know that marijuana, smoked to excess, can be damaging. Any drug consumed to excess is damaging. But to say so is to acknowledge that occasional, moderate indulgence is not damaging. Experience has shown us this is true.
What defines excess? Winston Churchill was a prodigious consumer of alcohol, but he was one of the great leaders of the 20th century. Most of us would be wise not to emulate his alcohol habits, but even drinking to excess did not destroy him. Louis Armstrong, one of the great artists of the 20th century, was known as a daily smoker of pot. He is supposed to have said: Marijuana is not addictive, and I should know. I smoke it every day. Few of us are musical geniuses, and our productivity and happiness in life would be better served by moderation.
Second, we have learned that overzealous enforcement of marijuana laws destroys lives without achieving any social good. Enforcement has filled prisons and tainted with the stamp of criminality millions of lives, ruining whole communities, many of them poor.
Third, the war on drugs has not halted the trade in marijuana and the criminal gangs that wreak havoc in order to sell it. Those states that are contemplating a legal and legitimate trade may put criminal gangs out of business.
Vermont does not routinely lock up people for small-time possession; the state has not had to contend with punitive laws such as the so-called Rockefeller laws in New York. Even so, decriminalizing possession would send the message to police that they no longer need to bother people about small amounts of marijuana.
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On April 27 - 29, Dr. Thea De Wet of South Africa, currently Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, will share her professional expertise at Bluefield State College and Concord University.
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Local history: the Native Americans
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A new West Sacramento exhibit opening Thursday, March 7, honors the area's first residents, the Native Americans who lived in what later became West Sacramento. Visit the "Our Journey, the First Families" exhibit from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the community center, 1075 West Capitol Avenue. Sponsored by the West Sacramento Historical Society & California Indian Heritage Center.
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Bridgeway takes school hoops crown
Bridgeway wins the Washington Unified School District girls basketball crown!
As reported by the coaches:
Bridgeway Island Elementary School finished their very dominant season undefeated by beating Westmore Oaks Elementary, 37-27.
Nia and Tiana Lowery demonstrated great teamwork throughout the season and Alissa Klein and Zyrian Sambrano were leading scorers.
Westmore made it to the Championship game by defeating Southport Elementary, 21-18. Westmore raced off to a 9-0 first quarter start and never looked back.
Taylor Jackson scored 8 for Westmore and Citalli Injunza tallied three 3-pointers. Lilly Stall was an excellent point guard and Cammy Scott a dominant rebounder. Breanna Smith, Kailee Tinsley, Maggie Ladd and Jackie Ayon were all excellent team play standouts for Westmore Oaks.
Breanna Smith, Kailee Tinsley, Maggie Ladd, Jackie Ayon all pointed out by their coach as great contributors to the successful Westmore season.
Boys basketball is now underway, with volleyball to follow!
Congratulations to Our Lady of Grace girls basketball, for making the move this year from the recreational division to the competitive division. Julianna Calles, Loren Bykowski, Krystal Robles, Madelyn Southard and Sydney Galvan are the starting lineup for OLG. The team is coached by Jeff Southard.
With elementary school teams prospering so much, is it any wonder why the girls basketball program at River City is now so successful?
Speaking of moving up to "competitive": Congratulations to the West Sacramento Soccer League, and Alberto Torrico and friends, for creating a new Metro soccer division for the "Best of the Best" soccer players in West Sacramento. The group has already held two free soccer clinics at River City High. The clinics were well attended, very educational, and the players very much enjoyed the challenge presented by the coaches preparing for the Metro season. Tryouts are scheduled soon in February and March for those players ages 10-18 who want to be on the best teams and play the best opponents in the area.
It's a great soccer move to challenge West Sacramento best players to be the best. Tryouts are scheduled for February 23 and March 9 (see item on back page of this newspaper). Each age group has a specific time for their particular tryout.
Don't forget: West Sacramento Little League and West Sacramento Girls softball are continuing to register as is the West Sacramento swim team for yet another very, very busy summer here in West Sacramento!
[adrotate group="7″] The seasons start soon for soccer and softball, and confidence and optimism are very high for River City's softball and soccer teams. All of our great young players are not so young anymore and many are now at River City. Good luck to all!
The Centennials are at it again. Centennial Rotary club of West Sacramento members Walt James,
Tony Schwall, Ron Morazzini, Buzz Jones and Tom Engle replaced a 400 square foot roof on a building at the Yolo County fair grounds site in Woodland. The Yolo County Fair is an annual free event and great fun for the family held every summer. Centennial Rotary is the hardest working club in Rotary!!
Now open: La Patisseurie De la Foi. This is a pastry shop in the West Sacramento Collings Teen Center at 1541 Merkley Avenue, close to the Post Office. It's open Monday through Friday mornings starting at 7 a.m. It's a great place for pastries prepared by teen center members who are supervised by a Cordon Bleu trained chef. Proceeds support the teen center at the same time. Great treats, and they're in town, on your way to work!
Thanks to everyone who has mentioned to me they read these articles. I hope it helps all of us enjoy our community just a little bit more. Spring and summer are right around the corner!
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EDITORIAL: choices for school board
West Sacramento voters this week will take a look at a slate of five contenders, and choose one to fill a vacancy on the local school board.
There are some people in the community who wish to vilify one candidate or another. The current love/hate litmus test is the question of which candidate has the backing of the city's activist mayor, Christopher Cabaldon. But you know what? These five are all good people, and any one of them would do at least a decent job on the school board.
It has been hard, however, to find a way to judge their individual potential as school district trustees using their respective records in public service. Instead, we have to look mostly at their professional resumes and at their public remarks to try to determine how well each understands a board member's role and how effective he or she would be on the "board of directors" of the local school district. The school board member's job is, above all, as a manager: chief duties include hiring and managing a superintendent, making budget choices and creating an effective corporate structure, as well as setting strategic policy.
From the current group of five candidates emerge the three most interesting choices:
Francisco Castillo, an executive with a school reform organization who advocates education choices for parents;
Sarah Kirby-Gonzalez, who teaches in an outside district and speaks the language of school curriculum; and
Linh Nguyen, who brings a unique analytic approach to problem-solving, possibly learned during his experiences in business and science.
Any of these three would be a good bet on the board.
The teacher Kirby-Gonzalez, however, is the candidate who has shown the best grasp of public school issues and the closest understanding of what, exactly, a school board member really does.
It would be interesting to see what Nguyen or Castillo would do on the board (and we may well see one of them elected next week). But Kirby-Gonzalez has thus far shown the best set of qualifications for the job. From the evidence at hand, she's the top choice.
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Starting or expanding a business?
Got questions about starting a business in West Sacramento? Finding financing, or other issues? Classes begin March 14 at the community center, 1075 West Capitol Avenue. Sign up by calling 617-4535 (English) or 492-2008 #213 (Spanish) or 492-2591 #220 (Russian).
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13 arrests in gang crime sweep
The West Sacramento Police Department just announced an operation this morning in which about a dozen warrants were served — all but one of them in West Sacramento — after an investigation into a string of vehicle and residential burglaries in town.
Lt. David Delaini of the West Sacramento Police Department said about $20,000 in illegal drugs — including methamphetamine and marijuana — were seized, along with cash, an assault rifle and other guns.
"Any time we take guns off the street and drugs off the street, that's a victory for us," Delaini told a press conference at about noon today. "You can see the weapons with lights (mounted) on them and you seem some stabbing weapons," he said, referring to a table of seized items spread out for the press.
Following is a copy of a press release about this operation from the West Sacramento Police Department:
"The California Department of Justice, Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team (YONET) and The West Sacramento Police Department conducted a collaborative investigation into a burglary ring, stemming from over 80 residential burglaries and 51 vehicle burglaries from December 2012 to present. These burglaries extended throughout the city and outlying regions. One state arrest warrant and 12 state search warrants were executed today in an attempt to recover stolen property. The investigation has resulted in 13 arrests, three assault rifles, four handguns, (several of which were recovered stolen), an active honey oil lab, five pounds of marijuana,1/4 pound methamphetamine, ammunition, and body armor. Additionally, three locations contained children who were removed by CPS due to their access and proximity to the firearms and drugs. Everyone arrested will be booked into the Yolo County Jail and juvenile hall.
"The operation in West Sacramento was named 'Operation Red Bandits' because the members of this burglary ring have been identified as active members of the Norteno criminal street gang.
"'Operation Red Bandits' targeted young, street level members who have been committing violent crimes including robberies, home burglaries, car jackings, brandishing firearms and shootings in and around the Sacramento region. Many of the members identified have prior arrests for firearm related charges. These gang members and associates have supported their gang life style through illegal sales of methamphetamine and marijuana, as well as stolen property. These street level gang members have been identified and range in age from 16-20 years old.
"Those arrested face multiple felony charges related to possession of narcotics, narcotics sales and distribution, conspiracy, property crimes (burglaries, possession of stolen property), and violent crimes against persons (ie robberies, carjackings, brandishing and firearms). Today's operation will cripple these criminal street gangs and their criminal enterprise network.
"West Sacramento Police Department and YONET were assisted by CHP SWAT and High Risk Warrant Entry Team, Department of Justice Task Forces (Placer SIU, MAVMIT), Davis Police Department SWAT, FBI SAFE Streets Task Force, West Sacramento Police Department SWAT, Woodland Police Department SWAT, Yolo County Sheriff's Department SWAT, Yolo County District Attorney's Office and the Yolo County Gang Task Force."
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Turney: communication is key
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER NEWSPAPER — Feb 20 & 27, 2013 —
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
"Better communication" is an important theme for Nicholas Turney, one of five candidates running in a special election March 5 to fill a vacant seat on West Sacramento's school board. So it gave Turney "renewed hope" when the current board recently announced that it would make better public communication a strategic priority for the district in 2013.
"They are looking at increasing their communication with the community," Turney told the News-Ledger. "They want to work on community outreach and their social media usage, so that they can better communicate with West Sacramento – both with the people who have students in the district, and with the residents in general."
"When I met with the superintendent a few weeks ago, I explained to him that this is something you cannot fall behind on," added Turney. "We have moved into an era where everybody communicates through their computers or smartphones."
For that reason, he argued, Washington Unified School District needs to let people register their kids for school online, advertise campus events over the internet, and make technology more available in the classroom.
Turney also thinks that technology can help WUSD get its message out to West Sacramentans who don't speak English.
"The way that translation software has come about, you can, with the click of a button, translate a web page from English to Russian, Spanish, Cantonese or whatever," he said. "That's another issue I brought up to the superintendent and the district – we have a lot of people in West Sacramento for whom English is not their language. Having information accessible to them where they can push a button and read it in their own language is so much more helpful. It gets more parents involved."
[adrotate group="10″] Turney said he has attended the past few local school board meetings, and believes the current board is "starting to come together."
"They really made an effort to spend some time, work together, and come up with this document that has their (strategic) priorities on it," he said.
Turney, 33, lives with his wife and two kids in the Rivers subdivision in West Sacramento's north. He has a daughter in kindergarten, and a younger toddler "who is now taking up 95 percent of my time." Turney is the current homemaker in his household.
The candidate grew up mostly in the East Bay, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in communications from Chico State University. He's a former adjunct instructor of speech communications at Woodland Community College.
Turney's interest in running for school board stemmed mostly from his experience when starting to enroll his daughter for kindergarten at Riverbank Elementary School in West Sacramento. After receiving "not the best first impression" of that school, he instead enrolled her in Davis.
"I had trouble getting information from (Washington Unified School District)," Turney recalled. "When I attended registration, and I was still a little uncertain about things. Then I attended the parents meeting the week before school started, and there was no discussion of curriculum."
"There was a discussion of the social programs that are available to help the students in need," he continued. "Granted, I am glad those programs are there, because there are a lot of students who need the help. At our neighborhood school (Riverbank), over 60 percent of the students need free or discounted meals. Over 50 percent are English language learners. They have a uniform closet for students who can't afford to buy their own uniforms. All these things are great to have. . . but when I went to learn about the school, I wanted to learn about what the kids are going to learn at the school. I didn't get that."
His candidacy doesn't have the backing of any local city officials or school board members, but Turney does have the endorsement of the Yolo County Republican chapter. That's important, he said, because Republican values such as fiscal responsibility would be good for West Sacramento's school board.
How good are the schools in Washington Unified School District?
"They're improving," answered Turney. "It's a sign that things are potentially getting better. The test scores seem to fluctuate, going up and down, when you look at the data year by year. Overall, they've shown improvement over the past."
The independent study high school just made the '800 Club' (the group of campuses earning '800' scores on the standardized student tests)," he added. "Big kudos to them, because these students are not in traditional schools, for a variety of reasons."
But, added Turney, "I've never really been a fan of standardized testing. There's no motivation for (students) to do well on the test – it doesn't affect their grade, or whether they're going to college. . . I think if they really wanted to judge how students are doing and how teachers are doing in the classroom, they need to look at it over time, and take a more qualitative approach, and talk to people."
Charter schools can be a divisive issue: some people view them as legitimate alternatives to public schools, and others see them as competing with public campuses and taking resources from them.
"I'm more 'case by case,'" said Turney. "Since charter schools tend to have more of an overall different theme – some focus heavily on the arts, some try to focus more on languages or whatever – it is going to be case-by-case. They still need to hold to the same standards."
How does he characterize the fiscal situation of WUSD?
"It's kind of hard to say, because there hasn't been a lot of transparency in terms of the available numbers," Turney answered. "From the comments that have been made by the district and the teachers' association, it seems like they have been reserved when it comes to spending and cuts. But it's hard to say what the actual numbers are."
What does the "job description" of a school board member look like?
"Most importantly, they need to be able to be a communications liaison between the community and the district," answered Turney. "They need to make sure that members of the community have their voices heard."
"Additionally, I think a board member needs to function well as a team player," he added. "If the board can't work well together, the schools won't benefit."
This concludes the News-Ledger's interview series for the 2013 special election. You can find the News-Ledger's interviews with the other four school board candidates (Francisco Castillo, Sarah Kirby-Gonzalez, Linh Nguyen and Katherine Gales) at this website.
Basic election info:
West Sacramento has a special all-mail election to fill one vacant seat on the school board of the Washington Unified School District. The election date is Tuesday, March 5. As an alternative to mailing your ballot, you may drop it off on the main floor of city hall, 1110 West Capitol Avenue, during business hours up to election day. For more information, call the elections department, 1-800-649-9943.
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Why health care needs fixingNovember 05,2013
The implementation of Obamacare (officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPACA) is perhaps the hottest topic of political, economic and personal discussion in recent memory. Unfortunately the arguments, pro and con, often get mixed up in lots of irrelevant or misdirected topics. The most visible of these misdirections is the effort by the Republicans, in the House of Representatives, to hold federal funding hostage in order to defeat a Democratic program. Their real objection to Obamacare has very little to do with objections to the health care law they simply do not want to allow the Democrats and the president to succeed politically.
There also seems to be a general lack of understanding of the need for Obamacare. I remember just a few years ago when they were talking about how Medicare was going to bankrupt the nation or that millions of seniors would have no health care in their old age. For some reason, that I fail to understand, these old arguments are not being presented anymore, even though they are still valid and true. Im going to present some of these facts here not necessarily to support Obamacare, but to support the absolute necessity to do something to fix a system that is headed for a major train wreck.
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So how does the system survive? The payroll deductions of those that have not retired yet (called workers) are paying for those that have retired (called beneficiaries). It takes payments into Medicare by 2.5 workers over their working lifetime to cover the costs of one beneficiary. This has worked well for 75 years but soon it wont.
There are roughly 77 million baby boomers who are moving into their retirement years at a rate of 10,000 per day over the next 19 years. Enrollment in Medicare will grow from 50.7 million beneficiaries in 2012 to over 81 million beneficiaries in 2030 a 60 percent increase.
Unfortunately, in the early 1960s, the birth rate dropped precipitously, largely because of the introduction of the birth control pill. The result was the lowest birth rate in the 20th century and it has stayed low ever since. In 1966, there were 4.5 workers for every Medicare beneficiary. In 2012, the number had declined to 3.3 workers and the ratio is expected to decline further to 2.3 workers by 2030.
This all means that just as the largest bubble of population in U.S. history gets ready to retire, the smallest quantity of workers is in the workforce paying into Medicare. Essentially, Congress has promised medical benefits to millions of retirees over the next 75 years but the source of the money to pay for a lot of those benefits is currently unfunded or not available from existing taxes and deductions and will have to be raised out of new taxes to pay for those promised benefits. The unfunded amount is $37 trillion.
Without serious structural reform, there are only two choices for Congress and the president to fix this: (1) increase the payroll tax even more, which is being started by the PPACA or (2) cut tens of billions of dollars for seniors Part A benefits and services, which is also being started by the PPACA.
The problem, of course, is that to collect an additional $37 trillion in payroll taxes with a drastically decreased worker population, the taxes needed would be larger than anyone can afford. The PPACA includes a modest increase in taxes for people making $200,000 or more but that wont be nearly enough.
If benefits were cut enough to equal $37 trillion, it would mean millions of seniors would not receive needed medical services through Medicare and they would have to pay private insurers very high rates to get coverage. Benefit cutting also is partially implemented by PPACA but again, not nearly enough.
This dilemma is why, way back in 1999, the honorable David Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States, told the Senate Finance committee, The current Medicare program is both economically and fiscally unsustainable. The Medicare trustees and the Medicare Office of the Actuary have given a similar warning every year since then.
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Best of FN in 2012: January – March
Here is a roundup of the best news and analysis published by Financial News's daily website during the first three months of 2012.
• January
January 5: Wells Fargo leapfrogs HSBC as largest western bank – San Francisco-based Wells Fargo became the largest western bank when measured by its stock market value after it leapfrogged rivals HSBC and JP Morgan in 2011 in what was a tumultuous period for financial institutions.
January 10: Jotwani follows Bhattal out of Nomura – Tarun Jotwani, who was named head of global markets at Nomura in March 2011 in changes instigated by ex-wholesale banking division chief Jesse Bhattal, followed his former boss out of the door.
January 18: Gottesman steps back at GLG – Noam Gottesman, one of the three founders of GLG Partners, the hedge fund firm that was acquired by Man Group in May 2010, stepped down as co-chief executive of the firm he set up 17 years ago.
January 26: Einhorn fined £3.6m for insider trading – David Einhorn, founder of hedge fund firm Greenlight Capital, received the second-highest fine levied on an individual investor by the FSA for trading Punch Taverns shares on the basis of inside information in June 2009.
According to an FSA statement, Einhorn's fine was £3.63m, while Greenlight was fined £3.65m. It was revealed Einhorn had been told on June 9, 2009 that Punch Taverns was at an advanced stage of a significant equity fundraising. On hearing the news, Einhorn gave orders to sell the fund's entire stake in Punch.
January 27: Government outlines Financial Services Bill – A package of reforms to alter the way the UK financial services sector is regulated was published by the UK government. The Financial Services Bill set out plans to reduce risk in the financial sector. The legislation also cleared the way for the abolition of the FSA and formalised the creation of a suite of regulatory bodies to replace it.
• February
February 1: NYSE-Börse in discussions to terminate merger – Exchange operators NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse entered discussions to terminate their merger agreement, following the European Commission's announcement that it would block the deal.
The Commission announced on February 1 that it would not allow the landmark deal on the basis that it would create a monopoly in the European derivatives trading market.
Many market watchers and analysts had expected the exchanges to pull the deal at the last minute to prevent the publication of the Commission's final report. NYSE Euronext said it would focus on its standalone strategy. It added that it would resume a $550m share repurchase programme following the termination of the agreement.
February 2: Facebook concludes Morgan Stanley's hat-trick – Morgan Stanley beat rival Goldman Sachs to the coveted "left-lead" position on a major tech IPO for the third time in as many months following its Facebook success. The US investment bank took the lead role in the underwriting with JP Morgan second and Goldman Sachs third. The other three banks on the prospectus were Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and boutique Allen & Company. Facebook said it planned to raise $5bn in its initial prospectus, subject to change.
February 6: Buyout industry pays tribute to Nigel Doughty – Members of the private equity industry paid tribute to buyout veteran and philanthropist Nigel Doughty, who died over the weekend at his home in Lincolnshire. Doughty, who was 54, helped build Doughty Hanson to become one of the UK's most respected private equity houses.
February 7: Meet the 'Glenstrata ' – Glencore and Xstrata, which announced a recommended all-share "merger of equals", named 18 bankers on the deal that aimed to create a $90bn natural resources giant with revenues of more than $200bn. FN profiled the 18 named bankers on the deal, including former Citigroup star banker, Michael Klein, who was named a strategic consultant to both parties.
February 10: KPMG poised to release MF Global UK cash – The administrator of the UK subsidiary of MF Global was preparing to release the first batch of recovered funds to the firm's UK clients within a matter of days, more than three months after the collapse of the futures dealer.
February 21: BC Partners hits €6.5bn upper limit – Buyout firm BC Partners completed Europe's most successful fundraising in recent years, reaching its €6.5bn upper limit despite the poor macroeconomic backdrop.
• March
March 7: Goldman Sachs reshuffles UK board of directors – Goldman Sachs reshuffled the board of directors that oversees its UK-based subsidiary, with four senior executives stepping down from their board-level roles, including investment banking rainmaker Yoel Zaoui.
March 8: Meet Deutsche Bank's new-look team – A management shake-up by Deutsche Bank's incoming co-chief executives, Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen, handed fresh challenges to a handful of key executives. Colin Fan, one of the bank's rising stars, was given oversight of sales and trading, while Robert Rankin was given responsibility for corporate finance and origination.
March 9: Analysts back Rolet's 'novel' LCH deal – Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, said the UK group was pioneering a "novel" model for clearing ownership through its acquisition of a majority stake in Anglo-French clearer LCH.Clearnet – a deal that attracted the support of industry analysts.
March 13: Cinven fundraising passes €3bn – UK buyout firm Cinven successfully raised more than €3bn for its latest buyout fund, according to two people familiar with the matter.
March 14: Why Greg Smith is leaving Goldman Sachs – When Greg Smith decided to quit as an executive director at the US investment bank, where he had worked for 12 years, he didn't go quietly.
Smith penned a letter to The New York Times about his disenchantment with the moral decline of the institution that he joined as a summer intern. Smith, who was head of Goldman Sachs's US equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, began the letter saying the environment at the bank "is as toxic and destructive as I've seen it".
"I am sad to say that I look around today and see virtually no trace of the culture that made me love working for this firm for many years. I no longer have the pride, or the belief," he wrote.
Smith lamented the bank's focus on profits, rather than serving clients. "To put the problem in the simplest terms, the interests of the client continue to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making money," he said.
He reported managing directors referring to clients as "muppets" and talk of "ripping eyeballs out", displaying a "culture quotient of exactly zero percent".
In response, Goldman Sachs put out a statement that said: "We disagree with the views expressed, which we don't think reflect the way we run our business. In our view, we will only be successful if our clients are successful. This fundamental truth lies at the heart of how we conduct ourselves."
March 15: Staff cuts begin to show at investment banks – FN analysis showed that the number of employees working at seven of the largest investment banks in the US and Europe fell by more than 2% in 2011. According to analysis of seven investment banks that published their staff numbers in their full-year results, global staff numbers fell from 196,429 at the end of 2010 to 191,538 at the end of 2011.
March 16: Hector Sants quits FSA – The chief executive of the UK Financial Services Authority announced he was to step down from the regulator at the end of June and would relinquish his post at the head of its replacement the Prudential Regulation Authority.
March 20: Goodbye, BarCap – It was goodbye to Barclays Capital, hello to the "investment banking division of Barclays", as the UK bank dropped its Barclays Capital brand after 15 years.
March 22: Duo's exit leaves Europe hole at BofA Merrill – It was announced that two of Bank of America Merrill Lynch's most senior executives in Europe were set to exit, leaving holes at the top of its business in the region. Andrea Orcel left to join UBS to jointly lead its investment bank with Carsten Kengeter effective July 1. Jonathan Moulds, president of Bank of America Merrill Lynch's European business, stepped down after 18 years at the bank.