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It will mean diddly and squat in two weeks when the puck drops for real and the first shift to the last carries a larger and deeper meaning.
But if the Winnipeg Jets are to morph into a playoff squad for the first time in their rebirth here in River City, then developing an expectation, not a hope, of winning has to become part of the dressing-room DNA.
And so while Tuesday night's 3-2 exhibition win over the Edmonton Oilers will mean zilch when the two open the regular season on Oct. 1, it does fuel the desire to change the collective thinking.
"You have to develop that mindset," said Michael Frolik, who scored one of the Jets' three goals. "What I learned in Chicago is you always have to believe. If you're going to be successful you need to believe and have the mindset you're going to give it every game.
"We are in a competition. Everybody wants to win. If you're not like that, you can't be in this room. Everybody has to be like that."
His weight will remain a secret, but the trimmer, leaner Dustin Byfuglien who suited up for his first pre-season contest Tuesday did all the things management craves from his game. He's a physically dominant difference-maker who hammered Ryan Hamilton into the end boards so hard in the first period, one of the doors swung open. He played just over 24 minutes, finished with a team-high five shots but was also on the ice for one of the late Oiler goals.
"I guess whoever was in charge of that door over there didn't quite lock it and the poor kid went through," said Byfuglien of the Hamilton hit. "He just kind of looked at me like, 'Oh, oh.'... I think he was just as shocked as I was."
Take an unofficial poll of Jets faithful as to who should be the second-line centre between Evander Kane and Devin Setoguchi — Mark Scheifele or Olli Jokinen — and we'd guess the totals would hit 90 per cent in favour of the fresh-faced kid, not the grizzled vet.
A thought, based on two pre-season games as a sampling: It might not matter who mans the middle as long as these two snipers are together. The Kane-Scheifele-Setoguchi trio was good for five points last Saturday in Belleville and while the Kane-Jokinen-Setoguchi combo was held scoreless Tuesday against the Oilers, there were some signs of chemistry.
Perhaps the critical part of the question is this: With Kane and Setoguchi's game already blending, which pivot is both the better distributor and defender?
A big discussion point in Jetville this week was ESPN's ranking of Ondrej Pavelec as the 27th best goaltender in the NHL. What we saw for about 59 minutes Tuesday was the big Czech's counterpoint.
Pavelec wasn't busy, but he was steady. And then for a 23-second stretch late in the third, the Jets took their foot off the gas and the Oilers potted two behind Pavelec.
All of which, of course, hammers home Claude Noel's assertion that once the attention to detail on defence improves so, too, will Pavelec's numbers.
"We got the win and we need to have that attitude right away," said Pavelec. "We have to learn from this game, that we have to be focused all 60 minutes."
❚ Evander Kane was limited to three shifts in the third period before leaving the game with stomach cramps.
❚ Claude Noel said after the game more cuts/reassigning of players will happen later this week.
❚ Anthony Peluso could get used to this — the Jets' resident tough hombre's personal stat line included last night's game-winning goal.
Eric Tangradi didn't see his name appear on the scoresheet often last year, but there he was Tuesday picking up two assists. And that's partly the byproduct of all the competition for jobs.
"I don't think I've ever been in training camp and had my name written on paper anywhere... And I think it's great," he said.
— with files from Paul Wiecek
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SPINNER Tim Phillips has extended his stay at the Ford County Ground by signing a new one season deal.
The 32-year-old left-armer who played 25 times for Essex in 2013 agreed the contract which will see him play for the county in 2014.
Phillips, who made his debut for Essex in 1999, said: "I am very pleased to have signed a new contract with the Club for a further year.
"I'm looking ahead to next year and having a good pre-season, which I can take into the new campaign."

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"The Big Bang Theory" cutie Kaley Cuoco stopped by to chat about tattoos -- telling us that her usually conservative dad recently got inked and is quite proud of it! Plus, she showed off her own... a Chinese symbol for faith.
"It's a tramp stamp," Kaley laughed. "I forgot about it, too. It's been a long time." Kaley was only 17 when she got inked. "I was trying to be cool," she explained. "I know, so dumb… but, I forgot I even had it. It's way far back there. It's kinda far back. It hurts my neck now to see back there."


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Every year around holiday time, I get to pick out some excellent cakes and sweets for our shelves. There are some perennial favorites that are eagerly anticipated every winter, but I'm always on the lookout for interesting new finds. We have a few of each this Christmas, and they're great for warming your hearth and home this holiday season.
Although we sell wonderful locally made panforte by Napa Cakes (more on that below), we thought it would be fun to include more panforte from its birthplace in Tuscany, so we introduced Pasticceria Sinatti Panforte Margherita. Panforte is a specialty of the southern Tuscan city of Siena, where Italians have been making it since the 13th Century. It is a flat, dense, round cake made with honey, hazelnuts, almonds, candied citron, citrus peel, cocoa, and spices. It contains a very small amount of flour, just enough to hold the cake together. After baking, panforte becomes firm and chewy. Sinatti's panforte is sold in slices in Sienese bakeries and coffee houses. The Panforte Margherita is a traditional panforte made with nuts and candied fruit.
While the Panforte Margherita is fantastic, there's a reason that we're still stocking the Panforte by Napa Cakes. This local spin on the classic is an artisanal panforte that is handmade to order by Marge Caldwell in Napa Valley. It's densely rich and chewy, made with organic raisins, almonds and hazelnuts from California. It's excellent when paired with dessert wines and perfect on a cheese plate.
Robert Lambert is a local producer whose products we stock year round, but he also provides us with excellent cakes especially for the holiday season. He'll tell you that his Robert Lambert Dark Fruit Cake & White Fruit Cake are the best of their kind, and while he might be a little biased, we happen to agree with him. Robert's White Fruit Cake, a slight improvement over his grandmother's recipe, is a lovely blend of fine Brazil nuts, local pecans and whole blanched toasted almonds. Deeply ripe oranges from DeSantis Farms are squeezed for juice just before being added. Robert uses his own candied young ginger along with candied bergamot, Rangpur lime, Meyer lemon and blood orange peels. Each cake is soaked in the finest French cognac, topped with a California bay leaf and candied white grapefruit peel star. His Dark Fruit Cake includes a blend of holiday spices, 10-year-old Ficklin port, local nuts, oranges from DeSantis Farms, dried fruits, black figs soaked in Pear William eau de vie, and Kadrawi dates from Flying Disc Ranch. Robert also includes his rare candied Texas lemon and Buddha's hand citron, bergamot, blood orange and white grapefruit peels, and candied young ginger. Each cake is soaked in Jack Daniels bourbon whiskey, topped with California bay leaf and candied blood orange peel star.
Another great option for holiday sweets are the Lebkuchen by Lecker Lee. Sandy Lecker Lee makes traditional German rich spiced treats that are a cross between a cookie and a cake. Lebkucken is a traditional German gingerbread that dates back to the Middle Ages. The cookie is made of 40% almonds and hazelnuts, with Sandy adding honey, candied citron and orange peel. These classic tins contain cookies lightly brushed with powdered sugar glaze; packaged in beautiful, highly decorative tins, they make excellent gifts.
For a more modestly apportioned treat, we're very fond of Claire Keane's San Francisco-made Claire Squares. Her Christmas offerings on our shelves include Brandy Butter, a wonderful Irish dessert topping traditionally eaten with bread pudding or fruit cake (like the Lambert cakes mentioned above. It's made with just cognac, butter, sugar and salt. We're also selling Claire's Plum Pudding, a traditional Christmas treat made up of a medley of dried fruits soaked in Irish whiskey with spices, butter, and molasses and then aged for three months.
And finally, for one last holiday treat, we're stocking a traditional winter delicacy, Marrons Glaces. Chestnuts are candied in hot vanilla-flavored sugar syrup and then glazed. The ones on our shelves are from Corsiglia, the premier Marrons Glaces manufacturer in France.
Our shelves are packed full of these beautiful holiday treats, so please come by our Markets to take a look. You can also order lots of these and other exceptional gift items online for pickup. They're a feast for the eyes and a treat for the palate, well worth a look and a taste. Wrap it all up in a reusable Bi-Rite tote bag, made from repurposed organic cotton.


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Trade name: Needin
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Pregnancy category: Nifedipine belongs to US FDA pregnancy category C (Risk cannot be ruled out).
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Given the promising early research findings about bystander focused prevention...where do we go from here? We certainly need more research about how it works. In particular, few studies to date have examined the impact of these prevention tools on behavior and on sexual assault victimization and perpetration. This is an important area for future study and collaborations between practitioners and researchers. Further - how do we time bystander prevention - we know that prevention of sexual violence requires a multi-dimensional approach - is there a better time for a bystander component? Is it effective with first year students in college or better later in the college years? What does bystander prevention look like in community settings?
Next steps
I've received questions from preventionists about how they can implement bystander programs for younger audiences (elementary school age). Are there any programs geared toward this age group? If not, perhaps that is something to consider for next steps.
I don't know this literature very well though I do know that bullying prevention has been using a bystander framework for a while. Not sure if some of those programs focus on younger aged children. A good idea.
Thank you everyone for your questions and comments. The Live xCHANGE will be ending at 3:30 PM EST. Continued discussion on bystander intervention will occur through the xCHANGE forum through April 15, 2011. At this time, the forum will not be a real time discussion but the forum will be open for questions, responses and comments. The NSVRC will respond daily to posts.


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"The share of total income going to the top 1 per cent of income earners has increased dramatically, from 9 per cent in 1970 to 23.5 per cent in 2007, the highest level on record since 1928 and much higher than in European countries or Japan today. Meanwhile, the top tax rate has fallen by half, from 70 per cent to 35 per cent."
In fact,
"because the top 1 per cent has captured about half of income growth since the 1970s, income growth for the bottom 99 per cent has been only about half of the macroeconomic growth we always hear about in the press."
The second of the quotations is from an interview with Emmanuel Saez of Berkeley, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, which goes to an outstanding economist under the age of 40. The first is from an article entitled "Taxing High Earnings" that prof Saez wrote jointly with Peter Diamond of MIT, a winner of the Nobel memorial prize in economics.
Both come from a collection of essays by well-known commentators and analysts, in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement.* The authors include, among many others, Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, of MIT and Harvard, respectively and Michael Lewis, the well-known author. Even Gillian Tett and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times are to be found in this list. Read more


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Charles Craig told his harrowing account of the worst night of his life live through his Twitter account @chuckcraig204 Saturday. His story starts the night before as he begins to witness bizarre happenings on his way home from work.


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VIKINGS, trains and snowdrops will all play their part this half-term with visitors expected to descend on York, North and East Yorkshire.
Whether families are looking for a hands-on outdoor adventure or hoping to be scared by bloodthirsty re-enactments, there will be plenty to do.
The Jorvik Viking Festival returns for its 30th anniversary in York from February 15 to 23, with a full programme of events, lectures, guided walks and battle re-enactments. Activities take place at various venues, including the Coppergate Centre, the Eye of York and Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens. For details visit www.jorvik-viking-festival.co.uk
- Continuing the Viking theme.... Yorkshire Museum has a range of free activities and will have Viking swords and gold jewellery on display. The Yorkshire Museum and York Castle Museum are free to York residents. For non-residents, there is a Kids Go Free deal and adults can purchase a £10 ticket for admittance into both attractions.
York Castle Museum will be focusing on the Victorians, with daily activities from creating keepsakes to having your own silhouette portrait made by a real Victorian silhouette artist on Kirkgate (Wednesday 11am to 4pm, a small charge applies), and trying Victorian-inspired cucumber soup.
- There are action-packed activities for the whole family at the National Railway Museum during half-term including safety sessions with the British Transport Police, hands-on fun in the Chuggington play area and the opportunity to build a railway line out of sleepers, chairs and rail, and then test it.
- Visitors to York Dungeon will come face to face with some of history's darkest characters with "Plague-ridden Polly" lurking in her cell.
York's Chocolate Story is celebrating the nation's favourite sweet brand, Smarties, offering visitors the chance to learn more about the colourful sweet created in York more than 70 years ago, on a guided and interactive tour.
Snowdrop season is under way at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, near Ripon, where the flowers are lining the banks of the river Skell. The main snowdrop show is likely to begin next week, subject to weather, and you can see them in drifts around the Abbey and on the Earl de Grey walk which takes you from the Water Garden to the Abbey.
The North Yorkshire Moors National Park has teamed up with East Barnby Outdoor Centre, with children aged 9-16 able to choose from kayaking, indoor climbing and dry-slope skiing on Tuesday, February 18.
Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley, is welcoming a new exhibition this Spring featuring up-and-coming artists from York College's art and design-based courses who have been challenged to create pieces based on the theme of Discovery. Opening on Saturday, February 15, the exhibition showcases mixed media works, including sculpture, ceramics, paintings, mixed media, illustration and even glass and enamel. Mollie Dodd, general manager, said: "It is wonderful to be able to showcase such new and exciting artists."
- Portraits are being brought to life at Beningbrough Hall, Gallery and Gardens, just north of York. On February 19 and 22 there will be a session with Eden, a professional story teller from Stories Alive, who will be bringing history to life using various historical characters to give voices to the people in the portraits. Beningbrough's Artrageous workshops will also be returning with sessions on Sunday 16 and Sunday 23, from 1pm to 3pm, helping children to make their own family portraits.
- York Minster has a story chest for children aged from six months, including books and puppets. It has also organised discovery trails and has discovery back-packs, for keen young explorers. Visit the Minster website for more details.


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Lost Black Hawk County: Vanished Towns of the Cedar Valley
Aug 01, 2011
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Author Linda Betsinger McCann will speak about her research and findings for her book Lost Black Hawk County: Vanished Towns of the Cedar Valley.
Linda Betsinger McCann has been researching genealogy for about thirty years. She also began researching the history of the Iowa area where she lives. Linda's great-grandparents settled in Iowa as early as the 1850s, and the seventh generation of her family lives in her hometown presently. Linda is president and a founding member of her local historical society and spends much of her time researching local history. This is her thirteenth book and second in the History Press series about abandoned towns in Iowa.
There will be a book signing after her presentation and copies of her book will be available for sale.


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The first weekend of the NFL playoffs weren't as crazy as they have been in recent memory, considering home teams that don't earn a first-round bye are often susceptible to upsets by hungry road teams.
In this case, the three higher-seeded and favored teams that had home-field advantage prevailed, as did the lone road favorite — the Seattle Seahawks — to advance to the divisional round.
So now, we're down to eight teams left in the running for Super Bowl XLVII. With that in mind, here's a look at how each team stacks up in the run to New Orleans.
No. 1 seed Denver Broncos
Storyline: The Broncos are the sentimental favorite with Peyton Manning having a shot at his second title while capping a remarkable comeback from four neck surgeries.
Why they can get to New Orleans: They've won 11 straight games. Part of the reason is Manning and their fourth-ranked offense, but don't forget a defense that's actually ranked higher at No. 2.
Why they'll come up short: The Broncos are on a collision course with Tom Brady in the AFC title game.
No. 2 seed New England Patriots
Storyline: What's a Super Bowl in New Orleans without the Patriots? They're trying to get to their eighth Super Bowl and fourth in the Big Easy.
Why they can get to New Orleans: If Brady and the NFL's top-ranked offense can get the job done against the Broncos, they'll be here.
Why they'll come up short: They rank 25th in total defense and are 29th against the pass, which could be a problem vs. Manning.
No. 3 seed Houston Texans
Storyline: They've fallen a long way in a short period of time and are still trying to shake the cobwebs from a poor finish.
Why they can get to New Orleans: The offense and defense are good enough, with both ranking seventh in the league, so they have the talent.
Why they'll come up short: They lost to the Patriots, 42-14, on Dec. 10 in a game that wasn't that close —and guess who they get Sunday?
No. 4 seed Baltimore Ravens
Storyline: Like the Texans, they kind of fell apart late in the season and cost themselves a chance at a bye, so they're paying for it now.
Why they can get to New Orleans: They're riding the emotion of Ray Lewis' return, which could take them a long way.
Why they'll come up short: They rank around the middle of the pack on offense and defense, which is not a good combination on the road.
No. 1 seed Atlanta Falcons
Storyline: They earned the No. 1 seed, but were shaky in doing it in a jumbled-up NFC playoff race. The question is, can they take advantage of it?
Why they can get to New Orleans: They have an offense, especially in the passing game, that can cause a lot of problems if they're on that day.
Why they'll come up short: Their defense is kind of sketchy. They rank 24th overall and are 21st against the run and 23rd against the pass. If they don't stop the run, they're in trouble.
No. 2 seed San Francisco 49ers
Storyline: They bounced back from a bad loss to the Seahawks and managed to win the West. But they can make a good run because of their defense.
Why they can get to New Orleans: A solid running game that ranks fourth and a defense that can be nasty at times will carry them a long way.
Why they'll come up short: They're 23rd in passing offense, so they could be in trouble if someone can make them one-dimensional.
No. 3 seed Green Bay Packers
Storyline: Lots of people are jumping on their bandwagon and for good reason — especially if the running game can help quarterback Aaron Rodgers out.
Why they can get to New Orleans: The offense hasn't been as good as it has been the last couple of years, but they have a chance with Rodgers.
Why they'll come up short: If the offense struggles early against the tough 49ers, it could be a very long night.
No. 5 seed Seattle Seahawks
Storyline: They're trying to follow the Packers and New York Giants as a wild-card Super Bowl winner, so the precedent has been set.
Why they can get to New Orleans: They can run the ball effectively and the defense is big and bad, which the Washington Redskins can attest to.
Why they'll come up short: Another road game or two might be too much to ask of them even though the Packers won three straight on the road in 2010.


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Drug busts targeting a major syndicate across three states have seen four people arrested in Western Australia and millions worth of assets seized.
WA Police organised crime squad detectives searched properties in Carramar, Dianella, South Lake, Wangara and Como.
More than $2 million in assets have been frozen following the searches, including three properties, two boats, a trailer, bank accounts and cash.
Police allegedly uncovered about 16kg of Cannabis, 161 vials of a substance believed to be steroids, $150,000 in cash, 10 MDMA tablets and assorted items consistent with those used to sell or supply drugs.
A 32-year-old man, 28-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman have been charged with possessing a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply.
The 32-year-old is due to appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday, while the others have been listed for appearance on February 21.
A third man, 34, has been charged with unlawfully possessing cash and is also due to appear in the Fremantle Magistrates Court on February 21.
Operation Scarlett, which saw 26 people arrested across the country, also involved South Australian and Queensland detectives.
SA police allege the Adelaide-based leaders of the syndicate were running hydroponic cannabis grow houses, as well as acquiring cannabis from other sources.
The drugs were allegedly transported by couriers to syndicate members in Perth and Kuranda, in far north Queensland.
Detectives allege the syndicate transported up to 4082 packages of cannabis interstate in the past year and had operated since 2008.
They believe large amounts of cash were being sent back to South Australia each week, with $2 million in 26 packets returned to Adelaide in recent months.
In SA, 37 homes and businesses across Adelaide, the Barossa Valley and at Murray Bridge were searched in raids which began on Wednesday morning.
More raids were conducted on Thursday.
"Thirteen people (in South Australia) were arrested and charged using new legislation aimed at combating serious and organised crime," assistant commissioner Paul Dickson said.
"This group have been charged with participating in a criminal organisation, aggravated trafficking of a large commercial amount of cannabis for the benefit of a criminal organisation and money laundering."
A further three people in SA were charged with cultivating cannabis.
Six homes were searched in Queensland and six people were charged with a range of offences including trafficking cannabis and possession of the proceeds of crime.
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Secret Documents Show Weak Oversight of Key Foreclosure Program
The Obama administration trumpeted its
flagship program to prevent foreclosures, known as HAMP. But it provided shockingly
ineffective oversight.
Nov. 12: This post was updated to include details of documents ProPublica obtained after the story's publication.
The Obama administration launched its main program to prevent foreclosures in the spring of 2009 with $50 billion and abundant promises. What the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, lacked — and wouldn't have for years — was effective oversight of the big banks that were crucial to the program's success.
Documents obtained by ProPublica shed new light on this failing in 2009 and 2010, when the foreclosure crisis was at its peak and six million American homeowners were in danger of losing their homes. HAMP required mortgage servicers to offer loan modifications to eligible homeowners so that their monthly payments would be lower. The servicers — the largest of which were owned by the banks that had fueled the crisis in the first place — were in charge of reviewing homeowner applications, but the government set the rules and was supposed to supervise their work.
But the documents show that the government did not complete a major audit of the two largest banks in the program, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, until over a year after the program launched.
Such audits were rare at the other large mortgage servicers throughout 2009 and 2010, according to the documents. During these years, when the government provided little oversight and administered no sanctions, servicers reviewed 2.7 million modification applications and denied two-thirds of them. Meanwhile, homeowners regularly complained they had been mistreated by servicers in the program.
The documents also show how the Treasury Department coddled servicers that weren't complying with the program's rules. Once a year, servicers are required to certify that they are complying with the program's rules. But servicers define for themselves what it means to comply. A company that admits violating the rules is allowed to merely submit a cover letter with their certification stating the exceptions and how it would fix the problems.
For instance, on September 28, 2010, PNC Mortgage submitted its certification. Along with that certification, it disclosed five "instances of noncompliance" or "gaps," as it called them, along with its plans to address the issues ("steps").
Like all of the documents ProPublica received, PNC's letters are heavily redacted, so the nature of their "gaps" and "steps" remains secret.
The Treasury defended the oversight of HAMP. "The robust nature of our compliance program, together with the steps we have taken to strengthen protections for homeowners under the program, are critical reasons why homeowners who enter HAMP today show a strong likelihood of long-term success to avoid foreclosure," said a Treasury spokeswoman.
Prying loose the documents
The documents were hard to obtain. They came as a result of two Freedom of Information Act requests by ProPublica. Initially, the Treasury Department, which administers HAMP, refused to release any documents at all. It was only after ProPublica appealed the denial that Treasury agreed to release some documents, although with large portions blacked out.
One of our requests has dragged on for more than two years, and even after all that time, the department continues to withhold certain documents, though it says it intends to turn over more. (See here for a full index of the documents we've obtained so far. If we receive more, we will add them to our collection when we receive them.)
Update: On Nov. 9, ProPublica received another batch of documents. Treasury said it was the final response to our requests. We've updated our index to reflect the new documents.
In some cases, the Treasury even withheld the documents of servicers who never objected to their release. When ProPublica informed the Treasury that certain servicers had said they had no objection to releasing the documents, the Treasury finally turned them over.
"It seems like they're trying to prevent the information from getting out," said Rick Blum, coordinator of the Sunshine in Government Initiative, a coalition of media groups. FOIA protects business trade secrets from being divulged, but Blum doubts whether that exception is being fairly applied in this case. The documents mainly concern how servicers were breaking HAMP's rules, he noted, and "a screw-up is not a trade secret."
A Treasury Department spokeswoman said HAMP has brought "an unprecedented level of transparency" to the mortgage servicing industry and servicers are "subject to an unprecedented level of compliance oversight."
That's damning by faint praise, say consumer advocates. "The reason that the level of transparency and accountability is 'unprecedented' is because no one has ever held servicers to account. Just because you have something where before there was nothing, that doesn't mean that something works or is effective," said Diane Thompson of the National Consumer Law Center.
Audits slow and rare
By now, HAMP's disappointing performance is well known. The program was launched with President Obama's promise to help three to four million homeowners avoid foreclosure. Three and a half years later, the program is only approaching 1.1 million modifications. It's spent just $4 billion of its original $50 billion budget.
A recent study found a big reason for the program's failure was that, despite all its rules, it didn't change the behavior of the biggest banks. The banks did a poor job of modifying loans before HAMP was launched and weren't much better after.
To oversee the program, the Treasury awarded Freddie Mac a $209 million contract to be the program's watchdog. Freddie Mac formed a group, called Making Home Affordable – Compliance, or MHA-C for short, but it got off to an inauspicious start. In August 2009, Treasury rejected its first reviews of servicers as inadequate because they were "inconsistent and incomplete" and its staff was "unqualified."
The Treasury has refused to turn over MHA-C's audit reports — with one exception. The servicer GMAC Mortgage expressly consented to the release of the documents. Those audits, we reported last year, revealed that the servicer had seriously mishandled many loan modifications. MHA-C's audits themselves contained numerous errors, calling into question the competence of the reviews.
The Treasury didn't dispute the fact that no major audits of the biggest banks were completed until well after HAMP's launch. But the spokeswoman said "it is important to note that Treasury began unprecedented reviews of servicer compliance with program directives within the first months of program implementation." Those earlier "compliance activities" included "on-site reviews" and "sampling of homeowner loan file reviews," she said.
But the GMAC audits show how cursory those earlier reviews could be. In December 2009, MHA-C reviewed a sample of files, but when it reported its findings to GMAC, it told the servicer that the report was "being provided for informative purposes only, and no response is required from you at this time." GMAC itself was not the subject of a major audit until July 2010. It was never penalized.
In the new batch of documents, the government has kept secret the audits themselves. But ProPublica has obtained the servicers' written responses to the audits (see here for an index of the documents). The Treasury scrubbed or withheld almost all of the responses' substantive content. Even so, they reveal some basic facts.
The watchdog was very slow to conduct major audits of the biggest servicers. MHA-C's first major audit of Bank of America, the largest servicer in the program, wasn't completed until July of 2010, more than a year after HAMP launched. The first major audit of Wells Fargo was completed in August of 2010.
By July of 2010, Wells and Bank of America had already denied about 430,000 homeowners a HAMP modification.
Even for big banks that received an audit sooner, oversight was infrequent, the documents show. JPMorgan Chase, the other mortgage servicing titan, received a major audit within HAMP's first year, but through all of 2009 and 2010, it only responded to two major audits. CitiMortgage, the fourth largest servicer, only received three major audits in that time period.
When Treasury did conduct a major audit of one of the big banks, it often reviewed files that were many months old. A Wells Fargo audit delivered in March of 2011, for example, covered a "review period" of "May/June 2010."
Once the audits were finished and delivered to the servicers, there was another delay: servicers had a month to respond with "action plans with implementation dates" to address the problems.
A Bank of America audit in late November of 2010 was based on information that was six months old. One month later, Bank of America replied: "In the Report, you requested that Bank of America management respond to the observations, and if we agree, provide a detailed remediation plan, and if we disagree, provide a detailed explanation and evidence to support our position." A page of redacted text follows, so the substance of the bank's response remains secret.
Bank of America spokesman Rick Simon declined to discuss the communications: "As part of the MHA compliance reporting, servicers may provide information and statements that are of a proprietary and confidential nature, with the full expectation that the Department of Treasury and its agents will treat it appropriately."
Banks evaluate themselves
In September 2010, the robo-signing scandal hit. A number of the nation's biggest banks announced they were halting foreclosures to investigate whether they had submitted false filings to courts. The revelations drew immediate attention to mortgage servicers' failings and eventually led to action by bank regulators and state and federal law enforcement.
Yet the same month that the scandal erupted, mortgage servicers submitted their first annual certification to the Treasury Department that they were complying with HAMP's rules.
The certifications were toothless. In fact, following a fox-guarding-the-henhouse model, servicers could certify that they were complying even when they were not.
It was up to the servicer to decide whether it was in "material compliance," according to the certification form. What rose to the level of being a material problem? A Treasury directive gave guidance that is so vague it borders on no guidance at all: "This evaluation of materiality may or may not be quantifiable in monetary terms and should include, but is not limited to, consideration of the nature and frequency of noncompliance as well as qualitative considerations, including the impact on Program goals and objectives."
If the servicer found that it was, by its own definition, noncompliant, it was required to list the problems and its "action plan" in a separate "cover letter" to be sent with the certification filing. But that was it. There was no penalty.
The Treasury continues to withhold many of the cover letters from ProPublica. Among the documents the Treasury is still keeping secret are the letters for the four largest servicers in the program (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Citibank), although the Treasury has produced their certifications.
Update: On Nov. 9, ProPublica received the cover letters for Bank of America, Wells, Chase, and Citi, among other servicers. All four letters disclosed the banks were not in compliance with HAMP's rules, but Treasury redacted the details.
Still, the documents that ProPublica has received show that several servicers claimed they had no problems to report.
"None to the best of our knowledge," wrote a GMAC Mortgage executive.
There are reasons to question that statement. Two months earlier, a MHA-C audit had found a number of problems at the servicer, including that it had miscalculated homeowner income in more than 80 percent of audited cases. And that same month, September 2010, GMAC had kicked off the robo-signing scandal by halting its foreclosures across the country.
GMAC spokeswoman Susan Fitzpatrick said the company has "rigorous internal and external controls in place that maintain consistent compliance with HAMP guidelines" and that the servicer was materially compliant with HAMP's rules when it filed the certification. "The foreclosure issues identified in September 2010 are not related to servicer compliance with HAMP guidelines."
The Treasury said the certifications were "only one part of a more comprehensive process" that included its audits. "While Treasury uses these certifications as part of the compliance process, certainly we do not rely solely on servicers to self-identify and report their weaknesses," said the department's spokeswoman. Servicers were allowed to define materiality for themselves in the certifications because, she said, a "'one size fits all' approach would not have been practical."
"All instances of non-compliance are tracked and pursued to ensure that servicers have and are executing against remediation plans, and that any potentially-affected homeowners are identified and re-evaluated if applicable," she said.
Penalties were late and fleeting
It was only in the wake of the robo-signing scandal that Treasury decided to take punitive action against servicers breaking HAMP's rules. In June 2011, it withheld the program's subsidies to the three largest servicers in the program. HAMP provides incentive payments to servicers, as well as borrowers and investors, to encourage modifications. The servicer subsidies would stop until the banks showed "substantial improvement," Treasury said.
Wells Fargo soon received a passing grade, but the Treasury continued to withhold subsidies from Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase until the payments were restored as part of the February 2012, $25 billion national mortgage settlement between federal agencies, 49 states, and the five largest servicers. Together, the servicing subsidiaries of Chase and Bank of America have received about $509 million in subsidies through the program.
When asked for comment about HAMP's limited oversight, the three largest servicers in the program all pointed to Treasury's recent assessments of how servicers comply with the program's rules. Those assessments show the banks requiring only "moderate improvement."
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Hi there!
Have you tried contacting Neil Barofsky, author of Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street? (I think he teaching at some university/college in NYC.)Cheers,
Dave P.
November 8, 2012. Sorry if I seem cynical but you are a bit late on providing this information, aren't you? Maybe you will do an investigative piece on Benghazi now.
The news isn't that there was no oversight by Fed regulators, but rather that no one cared then or NOW. How much of the $40B+ is still left. Maybe, on a case by case basis as part of the flawed independent review, homeowners who lost houses because of HAMP failure to police itself/servicers, can be compensated notwithstanding the $26B BAC et al settlement.
In fairness to Treasury at the time, Congress was so stingy in enforcement powers that almost no one could ever sue any servicer for anything. This is one time that the Borrowers could have helped the process if anyone had listened to them or their Counsels. I spent hours and hours on cases that could have been resolved if my clients had private rights of actions - strictly a Congress matter - it would have had to be specifically set-out in the legislation. I litigated it enough to know.
The failure to disclose at this point is not tolerable. The big banks have been indemnified by the settlement, save for misrepresentations to Treasury but it appears it knows all of the "warts" anyway. Last - if take away all of the black "magic markers" (yes I am that old) how wuld anyone redact? There's our fix for the future.
Richard Isacoff
And the economy remains in the ditch. Due to a lack of over site, Do nothing attitude.
Yep, I'm on my 6th HAMP app….they keep denying, I keep submitting.
Over 5 years. We have been trying to get someone to listen to our case for over 5 years. We have forged documents, a broken chain of title, we were held to a prepayment penalty we DID NOT SIGN nor agree to.
The list of fraud goes on and on….not to mention all the evidence that confirms the fraud…and companies like Countrywide get to reopen as PennyMac and say things like, "Well, that wasn't us, it's not our fault!"
We have legitimate cause and they get to make excuses and turn around and extort more money from us on the pretense of modifying…..
I'm so mad I could explode.
To sherry:
Pay your mortgage on time and you will have no problems. Searching for technical excuses why you don't have to pay is the wrong approach.
@Mortage analyst
Ok Brilliant mind what do you suggest when the economy goes south and homeowners lose their jobs use all their savings and the bank won't work with you to keep you in your home as the government bails out the banks with TARP and the banks use the money to make lots and lots of profit for themselves while people are being foreclosed on left and right in this country when all they want to do is work with the bank to stay in their home and pay their mortgage "on time"?
To Mortgage analyst;
Like most arrogant people who assume that millions of people are just "deadbeats", your analysis is wrong. Not only did we pay our mortgage we had to pay over $300,000 trying to straighten out the fraud, caused by the predatory loan.
That is why I am so mad I could explode. I have to listen to pompous idiots like you, who have make assumptions based on their own lack of knowledge and fail to take into account the following:
Following is a list of settlements that not only acknowledge illegal behavior, but serve as evidence that the home-buyers were not the perpetrators of this fraud:
10/6/2008 – $8.68 billion dollar settlement with Countrywide for the State of California – relief for home-buyers -
8/3/2010 - $600 million dollar settlement with Countrywide Financial with the New York City Pension Funds – relief for homebuyers – 0
10/15/2010 - $67.5 million settlement with the SEC – relief for homebuyers – 0
2/2/2011 – Former Countrywide executives make a $6.5 million settlement with California - relief for homebuyers – 0
6/29/2011 – B of A settles with 22 institutional investors for 14 billion. – relief for homebuyers – 0
7/20/2011 – Countrywide settles a class action suit for charging excessive fees to more than 450,000 borrowers. – relief for homebuyers - ?
12/21/2011 – Countrywide settles bias suit for $335 million dollars for discrimination – relief for homebuyers – ?
2/12/2012 - 48 State settlement against 5 of the largest banks for $26 billion dollars - most of the funds used to balance State budgets…relief for homebuyers - negligible
With all the settlements and court cases regarding bank fraud still pending, the lenders are still allowed to foreclose and remove families from their homes. This is making countless families homeless and destroying the moral of millions of American citizens.
Yet the evidence tells us that these families have been lured into liar loans and later into default:
A) The FBI estimates that 80 percent of all mortgage fraud involves collaboration or collusion by industry insiders.
B) Register of Deeds, John O'Brian has documented massive fraud.
C) San Francisco study found 85% error in foreclosures
and I could go on…...with REAL evidence and COMPREHENSIVE studies….not just some knee-jerk rambling.
Try reading the SIGTARP reports, good place for an ANALYST to start.
To the arrogant, ignorant "Mortgage Analyst"
Excuse me, but you certainly haven't "analyzed" the true, factual profile of homeowners who get dooped when applying (loosely used term) modifications, have you. First of all, securitized loans/assets are fraudulent because homeowners signed mortgages/deeds of trusts and promissory notes with phony "lender" names. The true owners were the investors/certificate holders. Homeowners had no clue who their "real" lender was and the entity foreclosing, more than likely, had no standing whatsoever. Secondly, you are assuming homeowners that applied for modifications did not make their payments. What an inaccurate assumption. I have 1600 homeowners who have contacted me - victims of one loan servicer. Many who were current were told to go 90 days late "in order to qualify" for a "modification". Many didn't even ask for a modification but only wanted to convert to a fixed interest rate and were willing and able to increase their payment amount. After being "promised" a fixed rate IF you go late, many did. What did they get? A Notice of Default and thousands of dollars in fees and penalties. They were then offered a "workout agreement" which was just a ploy to get them further into default. So don't be so pompous and self righteous..
"Weak oversight?" It's not a mistake. INTENTIONALLY weak oversight. After all, what is most important is criminal banksters and financial fraud masters grabbing as much money as possible at all times.
Thank you Jim C. and others and Pro Publica for your investigation report. The haves will not stop fraud and greed until together we protest in great numbers. Meanwhile we need to challenge congress daily until we can elect people of integity who are not reps of big business and cannot be bought. We need to stop allowing them to control our democracy. It is an entrenched system and hard to break but we must.
i still cry after losing my home of 15 years to these uncaring bastards. me and my husband were lied to repeatedly and given the runaround even at one point told to call a number which was for a sex hotline. i hope i see the day these bastards are shut down for good and prosecuted and put in jail. i used to have faith but they have beaten us down for ever trusting these scum.
I have followed this story for a few years now, and have even posted here prior…I too was going through this aggrivation with Citimortgage. I applied for, qualified for and was assured time and time again that the modification was coming. Next thing I get is a new agent handling my paperwork, and it has once more magically disappeared!! (How convenient for them, in causing their own delays in processing the modification) After submitting all documents for a third time, I was finally told the truth….Citimortgage had sold my loan to another bank (though they neglected to ever inform me who this was or might be) and as such legal proceedings for my foreclosure commenced around August of 2010. My home of 24 years was to be sold at public auction as of December of that year, unless I could come up with an outrageous amount of money they had deemed my penalties and late fees, though making each and every arranged payment they had sought throughout their treachery. I was now forced to file a chapter 13, in hopes that I might retain the home, and make some arrangement to negotiate a re-payment of their bogus claims….they would NOT negoatiate, and were never made to justify their claims, though I had my own documentation straight from my own bank, in black and white. (This was not the concern of the bankruptcy court, as all they were interested in, was they we came to terms through each of our legal counsels.)
I fought this battle all the the way, and found it could not be won….I ended up having to convert to a Chapter 7, and walk away from the home that I had spent all those years not only paying for, but had spent how many more hours and dollars to renivate and upgrade over all those years.
As of first of this month, I have now joined the countless others that have been railroaded throughout this process, and now am the lucky ones to still have a job, but now pay the rent to my landlord….how lucky can one be???
I find little solace in the Independent Review, as we will more than likely find this to be just as flawed or worse…I've already made one effort to be included as I know how badly the HAMP program was run and audited, so I can only come to the same conclusion that this one will be more of the same. I will be making a second appeal with this as somehow, someway, I want to make the point that these big banks can't destroy lives and walk away without at least having to make some good of those they've ruined by their actions!
Pam, I'm sorry to hear that you too lost your home, and it seems we all may become part of this sinking boat, if we don't make our own stand and fight this fight. I don't cry about it, but I certainly do use a whole lot more blue language these days, as this has now become my mission…bring the banking industry down!!~
The greed and fraud will continue onward until our representatives in Congress decide they want it to stop. But right now, the lobbyists are too strong and Congress has too many freebies and perks. Why should they stop when they sit in their ivory tower unscathed. So we must continue to pursue the media. Thank you Paul Kiel for continuing to report the truth. We can't continue to cry; we must fight - and fight with knowledge and truth. Educate yourself. READ. Two of the best books to educate yourselves are The Big Short by Michael Lewis and a newly published foreclosure book "Overcoming Foreclosure" that has made all this fraud understandable for the homeowner and helps them fight. This book was written by a brilliant attorney and friend, Norman Sirak. You can purchase it on Amazon and I highly recommend it!!! We must stand up and fight and we can only do that by educating ourselves. If you try to fight by going into court and saying, "your Honor, they were mean and unfair" the Judge will just say "you owe the loan, don't you - I'm not going to give you a free house". And you'll mistakenly answer "yes, your honor, but….". And you're booted out the door. You can't fight that way. The Note and Deed of Trust were fraudulent and never named the real lender. The loan was immediately reconfigured into a security and sold, probably even before you signed on the dotted line.. It had to be sold twice to be bankruptcy remote and eligible for a REMIC trust. But those sales were not recorded on anything but the MERS registry. There were no assignments to these new "purchasers" because they weren't really purchasing anything. And MERS…. they were never a beneficiary. At best they were a nominee for some lender (that went bankrupt). So how can they still act as nominee. There was no "writing" that transferred their "nominee-hood" to a new lender. So they are nominee for no one. How can they assign "all beneficiary interest" to Aurora or Citibank or anyone? Follow the money trail. Banks/Servicers have been paid over and over again PLUS they took your house. All this is explained in Norman's book. I've read every White Paper, every Amicus Brief, hundreds of lawsuits and this book sums everything up so you can understand and learn how to fight back. Please don't take my words as legal advise - educate yourself and read. Then you won't remain a victim, but an advocate for change. Good luck. Love you all. We must help each other because the courts just don't want to "get it". Their pensions are tied up in these fraudulent mortgage backed securities. Somehow we must disclose this fraud to them in such a way they cannot look away.
Of course we leave the fox to guard the henhouse!! Banks are still too big to fail and have not substantially changed from 2008 when they put the US in the hole. If this doesn't change we will be back there again…soon.
I represent folks that are attempting to modify their mortgages under HAMP. I do this at no cost to them. I have become somewhat of an expert in this area and I have, so far, always been successful in obtaining a modification for my clients (52 so far). Until I ran into PNC Bank. They seem to thumb their noses at the law and they do not care one whit how bad they hurt people — or what laws they are ignoring. Currently, I am fighting a battle (on behalf of a client) against PNC Bank. They seem to be the all time worst when it come to compliance and behaving legally. My client was just declined for a modification based on laws that were issued in 2003! The Treasury Department mortgage regulations have been updated many times since 2003 (when HAMP did not yet exist) - yet PNC Bank has ignored all of the "new" rules that have come into existence over the last 5 years! The latest bunch of regulations were issued 08/12/2012. PNC Bank ignores them all and references old rules and regulations when they decline a mortgage modification.
I have been using the good offices of the CFPB - but found them to be, virtually, useless. While they are a repository and a conduit for helping one to get their (HAMP) application in front of the bank, they seem to be unable to offer any more help than that. They have highly incompetent "intake workers" (who often do not speak good English). These folks that answer the phones at the CFPB can do nothing but, write down your complaint - and direct you to their web site. So, even though I am not a tea bagger, I have found CFPB to be just another, worthless, government agency. It is impossible to find a highly competent executive who has the ability to listen to the facts and to offer any help to the consumer at all.
I could write for hours how incompetent PNC bank is and what they are doing to screw people around. But, for the purposes of this post, I will finish with what they (incorrectly) said were the reasons that my client was denied.
1) "You did not re-affirm your mortgage when you filed bankruptcy in 2010" - THIS IS 100% INCORRECT AND IT IS ON PAGE 35 OF 35 OF THE BANKRUPTCY DISCHARGE THAT WAS SUBMITTED TO PNC….: "Mortgage loan reaffirmed and I intend to stay in the home."
2) "Your back end ratio is above 55%" Again, the idiots at PNC bank do not know how to do arithmetic. $3000 in monthly income and $1200 in monthly expenses does not equal 55%.
3) "You cannot remove your co-borrower." YES I CAN! Per HAMP regulations: Co-Borrower An occupying co-borrower may be considered for HAMP if a quitclaim deed evidencing that the non-occupying co-borrower has relinquished all rights to the property has been recorded. Servicers must refer to investor guidance to determine which parties are required to sign the HAMP documents.
My client's co borrower (his girlfriend) did sign a quitclaim deed and she did sign a warranty deed relinquishing all rights to the property! Yet, PNC says that this cannot be done.
I spent an hour on the phone with the rep from CFPB filing an appeal. This consists of me stating very slowly what the problem is and the CFPB representative writing down every word (verbatim). I could tell he was nice guy that made minimum wage and was not very bright. I asked, "…could I be transferred to someone with a brain?" "No" he responded, "that will not happen." When I tried to tell him that PNC was using outdated regulations and rules on which to base their decisions — he did not know what regulations were. I told him that the Treasury regulations could be found at: http://www.allregs.com. He replied, "We are not allowed to look at those!"So, we have entered another 60 to 90 day period where PNC bank will delay, lie and obfuscate.
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A NELSON pervert who repeatedly sexually assaulted a young girl has been locked up for three years.
John Redman, 65, had abused the child some years ago and left her psychologically damaged. He was recently convicted by a Burnley Crown Court jury after a two-week trial, but still protests his innocence.
Ex-bakery worker Redman had been found guilty of two charges of indecent assault, one of them a specimen count. He had been cleared of three allegations of rape and two allegations of gross indecency with a child, involving the same complainant. He denied all the charges against him and said the attacks didn't happen.
The sentencing hearing was told a probation officer had assessed the defendant as posing a medium risk of re-conviction, but Judge Simon Newell said he disagreed and added: "It would seem to me there would be a low risk."
Redman, who the judge said he was treating as a man of good character, was ordered to sign the sexual offences register indefinitely.
The defendant, of Roberts Street, was handed a 10-year sexual offences prevention order, banning him from having any unsupervised contact with any female child under 16. Redman, who has also had other jobs, did not work for the bakery firm at the time of the offences.
Prosecutor Mark Savill told the court Redman had put his hand down the girl's pants. His actions made her scared and upset.
Tim Storrie, defending, said the verdicts were a 'personal catastrophe' for Redman.
The hearing was told the victim has suffered psychological problems since the offences. Judge Simon Newell said experts would probably never be able to say whether the difficulties she had were as a direct result of what happened to her or whether there were other contributing factors.
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Ice Age coming, warns Aussie astronaut warns according to NEWS.com.au April 23, 2008. First Australian Astronaut and Geophysicist Phil Chapman claims: "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over." Chapman claims the world cooled quickly between January 07 and January 08, by about 0.7C. He said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun and this failure for sunspot activity to not resume after hitting an 11-year low in March 07, is raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age. Chapman comments: "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over. It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850." In recent weeks, articles by NASA's Roy Spencer and Bjorn Lomborg and an interview with the Institute of Public Affairs'
Jennifer Marohasy have undermined that confident Anglosphere consensus. Amazon.com's bestseller list has the three top books on climate by global warming /climate change sceptics: Spencer, Lomborg and Fred Singer. The Archbishop of Sydney George Pell, also has persisted in his long-held critique despite the climate change alarmism of his brother bishops.
Editorial Comment: It's raining again Down Under, where for the last seven years we haven't had much rain at all. During February this editor's Aussie back yard was covered by 1m (3ft 3in) of water. The Pundits say we are suffering climate change, global warming, and the world's weather is going to the pack due to human industry, especially man made Carbon dioxide pollution. But as I look in the mirror and see my ever greying hair, I'm old enough to remember when my back yard was last covered just as deeply by flood runoff some 20 years ago, and again some 20 years before that, when I was caught for several weeks in our Aussie outback due to flooded roads. What's even more interesting is that this batch of Australian rain was actually forecast by our rather famous and very long range weather forecaster Inigo Jones, who died in 1954. No, Jones did not invoke global warming changes or climate change models - he was quite open about the fact that he used sunspots and the influence of Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn on the Sun and earth. He gained a great reputation, particularly from farmer's in the southeast of my home state Queensland, for the more reliable accuracy he had over long term forecasting, than other forecasters.
Current climate change alarmists love to blame cars, cows and industry, all of which can be conveniently taxed, but they blatantly ignore those things which are beyond their realm to fine or fund, and which many experts are convinced are having a much greater effect on today's weather. One Russian scientist has even gone so far as to state that Earth could soon face a new Ice Age. In the rather un-widely read Russian News and Information Service 22 Jan 2008, they wrote: "Temperatures on Earth have stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti. The Head of space research lab, Pulkovo Observatory, in St. Petersburg, Dr Khabibullo Abdusamatov, stated, "Russian and foreign research data confirm that global temperatures in 2007 were practically similar to those in 2006, and, in general, identical to 1998 - 2006 temperatures, which, basically, means that the Earth passed the peak of global warming in 1998-2005."
Brrr - what a disaster for us poor sun loving Aussies. But it's also a reminder that is consistent with the first great Climate Change pattern which was not induced by cars, cows or industry, but by man's moral climate change. At the end of Noah's flood, God warned us the climate would change from good to bad to worse - the statement is recorded in Genesis 8:22 where the Lord said: "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." And that's been a fairly accurate weather forecast from Noah's day till now - up down up down, sometimes better, sometimes worse - not till Al Gore fixes it - but till Jesus comes.
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Two contrasting conclusions can be drawn by comparing the famous Red-Blue divide on the electoral maps of 2000 and 2004. One is that there has been very little change in electoral patterns, the other that there was change of significant proportions. Thus far, most commentators have favored the first interpretation, but it is the second that better fits the new reality of American politics.
Proponents of the first view of the electorate argue that even with terrorist attacks, a recession, and two wars, the political alignment of 2000 remained nearly identical to 2004. As Harold Meyerson puts it, "the most overwhelming fact about the 2004 vote is how closely it resembles the 2000 vote." With the exception of New Hampshire, which switched to the Democrats, and Iowa and New Mexico, which shifted to the Republicans, the two parties won the same states as in 2000.
For Democrats the rough stability thesis is the most comforting interpretation of their defeat on November 2, as it maintains that the party is only slightly less well off than in 2000. The continuity of Red and Blue is also cited as evidence of an ongoing culture war in which neither side has apparently given much ground. Again, according to Meyerson, "The battle lines of the cultural civil war that emerged in the 2000 contest have shown themselves to be all but impermeable to even the most earthshaking events." In this view, the only important change in the Red-Blue divide is Bush's popular vote majority, which he failed to secure in 2000. The Republican edge is attributed mostly to increased turnout of evangelical voters in the Red states. The credit, if it can be called that, goes to Karl Rove's plan to mobilize the party's base of religious and social conservatives in rural and small town America. Although this account acknowledges a political defeat, it offers solace to Democrats by appealing to their sense of moral and intellectual superiority: Republicans are just what Democrats imagine them to be, perhaps even worse.
This view, which is rapidly becoming the conventional wisdom, misses some of the most important changes in the electorate. Beneath the apparent stability in Red and Blue states, some analysts have now begun to show that American voters moved markedly toward the Republican party. Bush increased his percentage of the vote in 45 states, and his gains were particularly impressive in many of the states that he lost. Blue America in 2004 is of a decidedly lighter hue than it was in 2000.
Perhaps the best way to appreciate this change, however, is not to focus on Bush's share of the vote, but instead to compare the percentage of the vote received by the Left Coalition of Gore-Nader in 2000 and Kerry-Nader in 2004. It is revealing to focus on this coalition, because it represents the real opposition to the Republican party. By this measure, if the electorate was as unchanged as many have suggested, the Kerry-Nader percentage of the vote in each state in 2004 should have equaled the Gore-Nader percentage in 2000.
But this was decidedly not the case. Although John Kerry received a larger share of the vote than Al Gore in 25 states, this masks the general decrease of the Left Coalition, which was often substantial. In only three states -- most noticeably in Howard Dean's Vermont, but slightly in South Dakota and Wyoming, where the Left is at its weakest -- did the score of the Left Coalition clearly increase between 2000 and 2004. Take, as one of the most conspicuous examples, John Kerry's home state of Massachusetts. Kerry slightly outpolled Al Gore. But this point is hardly as relevant since in 2000 Gore and Nader combined to receive 66 percent of the vote. Without Nader on the ballot in Massachusetts, Kerry was still only able to poll 62 percent -- a notable decline, even with the added pull of a favorite son on the ballot. In New York, 64 percent of voters chose the Left coalition in 2000, while only 60 percent did so in 2004. There were instances of larger losses in other Blue states: Hawaii 8 points, Rhode Island 7 points, and in Connecticut and New Jersey 6 points each. Changes of this magnitude belie the notion of "stability" that Meyerson and others have advanced.
The decline of the Left Coalition was not restricted to the Blue states. In 17 of the 31 Red states this year, it lost anywhere between 2 and 6 percentage points. Alabama, Nebraska, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Arizona, comprising 47 electoral votes, witnessed at least a 4 percent decline in Leftist support. Because Nader's share in these states was generally small in both elections, these losses came almost entirely at the Democrats' expense.
These changes qualify the interpretation that Bush increased his popular vote percentage simply by turning out evangelical voters in the Red states. The construction of the national Republican majority drew on broader sources of support. The Left Coalition was losing strength across the board, above all in Blue states, including Rhode Island or Massachusetts, where Republicans took out few TV ads and where there were no mega-church rallies. The Left Coalition is facing erosion of its percentage of the vote in its own territory, while Republicans are expanding their lead in states they already control and increasing their share in states they do not. These results hardly resemble the 2000 election.
James W. Ceaser is a Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. Daniel DiSalvo is a graduate student in Politics at the University of Virginia.
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THE family of Nathan Taylor have spoken of their heartbreak after the missing teenager's body was found in the Manchester Ship Canal.
Nathan was found by police divers on Friday following a frantic six day search.
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COLDSPRING, Texas - Three men have been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. Investigators said the girl met the men through a social networking website.
San Jacinto County sheriff's deputies said the girl and a 17-year-old girl were hanging out in October and logged onto a site called MeetMe. They were setting up meeting locations with men in the Coldspring area, investigators said.
Detectives said the girls went to a location, met a man and then went to another location for sex.
The 14-year-old girl met three men on separate occasions, officials said.
Anthony Burton, 27, has been charged with sexual assault of a child, but he has not been arrested yet.
Investigators said they have not identified the third man.
The 17-year-old girl, Summer Adams, has also been arrested and charged with failure to report a felony.
Deputies said they learned about the incidents after the girl made an outcry at school.
Residents in the area agree the internet is a scary place and they hope this serves as a warning to other parents that everyone needs to be on alert.
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Anyone with information regarding Burton's whereabouts or the identity of the third man is asked to call San Jacinto County Crime Stoppers at 936-653-TIPS.
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From left to right: Rachael Weiss (Public Health doctoral student, Research Assistant); Brian Morgan (GISc Lab Manager); Kristen Grady (EES doctoral student, Research Assistant, GTF); Andrew Maroko (Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Urban GISc Lab); Zakkiyyah Shah (USDA Fellow, GISc Lab Tutor, Geography/GISc Program); Tiffany Mae Brown (USDA Fellow, Research Assistant, GISc Lab Tutor, GISc Graduate Program); Juliana Maantay (Professor, Director Urban GISc Lab and GISc Program)
As a native of New York City, I have had a life-long interest in the urban environment, especially that of my home-town. I consider myself very fortunate to have a job that allows me to combine this fascination with urban culture, history, and the built environment with my passion for social justice issues. My previous education and professional background in architecture, urban planning, environmental management, and policy analysis, as well as my love for history, has been wonderful preparation to being a geographer, which is, in many ways, the ultimate inclusionary, cross-cutting, and multi-disciplinary field. The research areas I focus on are at the nexus of the sub-fields of urban, environmental, and health geography, and include using Geographic Information Science (GISc) for spatial analyses of environmental health justice issues; land use and health impacts; urban hazards and risk assessment; and community-based participatory research.
I am currently a Co-PI and research scientist in grant-funded projects with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (CREST), the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, conducting research on the relationship between air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular disease; diabetes/obesity and location of active recreational spaces and healthy food choices; urban agriculture and health; segregation, disease, and health inequities; new dasymetric methods of population mapping; interdisciplinary urban health research methods; community-based participatory research using GISc; and geovisualization of health data.
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- Design of new geomatics methods and techniques, such as (1) a new set of procedures for the loose-coupling of an air dispersion model with a Geographic information System for more accurate exposure estimates; (2) an expert system for disaggregating population data in order to conduct dasymetric mapping, and the resultant improvements in calculating disease rates and obtaining a more realistic depiction of exposure extent and impact magnitude; and (3) a new model for assessing human vulnerability to risk and hazard, based on weighted indices incorporating physical and environmental conditions, and indicators of social and health vulnerabilities;
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EUREKA- Attorney's for the trio arrested in connection to the stabbing death of a 50-year-old Arcata man have been granted more time to prepare for their preliminary hearing. On Thursday the three suspects were in court when attorney's asked the judge for more time to interview the suspects families.
The three suspects were arrested in December by the Arcata Police Department. Nicholas Benjamin Stoiber, 28, and and Sophie Buttercup Rocheleau, 24, are not in custody and are facing assault charges. Juan Joseph Ferrer, 35, has been charged with homicide and allegedly stabbed Douglas Allen Anderson-Jordet in the heart with a knife in November.
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Could you live on $1.50 a day? Some very rich celebrities, including actor and producer Ben Affleck, are going to give it a try this week as part of the Live Below the Line campaign. He's joined in the challenge by actors Josh Groban, Debi Mazar, Sophia Bush and Tom Hiddleston, according to ABC News.
Affleck wants to call attention to the charity he founded, the Eastern Congo Initiative, which provides economic opportunities for the population of Eastern Congo. In a tweet, he noted that 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day.
The website for the campaign says its goal is to change the way people in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Australia think about poverty by challenging them to live in extreme poverty for five days. So far, according to the website, 20,000 people have signed up to take the challenge.
In addition to elevating awareness about global poverty, the campaign is raising funds for the charities it partners with, such as World Food Program USA, Isis Foundation and Unicef. Affleck's charity is also a partner. The campaign is part of the Global Poverty Project, an organization that seeks to educate and activate businesses, individuals and governments in an effort to end poverty.
There are a lot of factors that go into the cost of living in first-world countries like the U.S. and $1.50 a day wouldn't be sustainable, given the price of goods and services. But a week attempting the challenge might provide a good lesson in living below your means in general and bring a little perspective on what really has value.
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KIRSTEN Stilwell was too just quick again as she helped Wycombe Phoenix Harriers U11s to a fourth win in four in the Chiltern Cross Country League.
Stilwell was challenged for the first part of the race in Slough before pulling away to win by seven seconds.
Kitty Conroy backed her up with a third-place finish and Holly Hodgkinson was fourth and Emily Sanderson seventh.
They are now in prime position to complete a comprehensive overall victory in the final race of the league.
With the girls in such superb form, Harriers did enough to consolidate their place among the top ten clubs and all-but book their place in Division One against next season.
Backing up the girls, the U11 boys managed to hang on to fourth place in the overall standings despite their weakened team coming home ninth on the day.
Olivia Lowrie led the U13 girls home in fifth place, with Katie Jones and Maisie Pennant also in the top 20 to consolidate fourth place on the day and overall, while the U13 boys held on to sixth spot with Joe Styles recovering from an early fall to finish 23rd.
For the U15 boys, Cameron Almand continued his impressive return from injury with a fifth place finish.
That underpinned their fourth place on the day, which elevates Harriers up to sixth overall, while Emma Delgado and the U17 girls remain eighth overall.
Delgado raced to fourth on the day with a strong second lap, and Amy Grant came home seventh in the U20 event.
The U20 men remain fifth overall with one round to go.
At senior level, Vanessa Taylor was 21st home and Georgina Russell 28th, while Kieran Gilfedder and Mateusz Sliwinski continued their season long ding-dong battle, Gilfedder edged it this time with 28th overall and fifth in the U20 run.
Sliwinski was 33rd with Lewis Riseley (40th) and Mark Booth (56th) inside the top 100.
In a congested field, their efforts helped Phoenix to eighth place on the day and ninth overall, which will almost certainly guaranteeing top flight competition again for next season.