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In order for a church to fulfill its true purpose, it must be making a noticeable impact on the community. Sadly, many church leaders miss this point. In fact, a recent cross-denominational survey found that four out of 10 church leaders do not have a strong desire to reach out further in the community. While this figure is disheartening, I want to focus on the majority of leaders desiring to impact their communities.
One of the revealing questions our research team asks of pastors and church leaders is whether they are connecting with community leaders. Church leaders that build relationships with other leaders in the community generally have a better understanding of how to impact their communities.
Mitch is an example of a pastor who recently discovered the potential impact of connecting with community leaders. He received a call from the superintendant of the large private school next to his church. Mitch had heard of his reputation as a militant atheist. When the superintendant wanted to schedule a meeting, Mitch did not have high hopes.
"I assumed that he wanted to chastise us for using their parking lot on Sundays," Mitch told us. "After meeting with him, however, I was shocked to find that he didn't mind. He simply wanted to get to know me."
With a hint of guilt Mitch continued, "I assumed the worst about this guy based upon our own church rumors, yet now we have a great relationship." As a result of connecting with the superintendant, Mitch has a window into the needs of students and parents at a school where no one attends his church.
"They're right across the street, and I never thought about reaching out to them. I learned my lesson."
Mitch's situation is not unique. Church leaders ready to serve may not know where to begin in the community. Additionally, leaders unconnected to the church may not realize that the local church could meet their unique community needs. The missing element of making an impact might just be reaching out to other leaders. But before reaching outward, consider these four bits of insight.
Asking precedes understanding. Don't assume you know the biggest issues in the community. Ask others to tell you their perspective. Asking helps clarify and prioritize known needs. Understanding the viewpoint of other leaders will also give you insight into how best to approach new community problems.
Connecting precedes service. While churches do not need local leaders for every form of outreach, some of the best ideas for serving originate with leaders closely connected to the issues. Before beginning new forms of outreach, contact local leaders and ask their input.
Genuineness precedes relationships. True relationships are built on trust and authenticity. And not all community leaders will be receptive even to the most genuine of intentions. If your goal is to politick when connecting with community leaders, your impact will be greatly diminished. Don't have an agenda; simply meet with leaders and ask them how you can serve.
Impact precedes receptiveness. We hear stories all the time about how the unchurched are more willing to attend a service at a church making an impact in the local community. One of the complaints I hear from stagnant and declining churches is that people are not as receptive as they once were. The level of impact you make as a church many times will determine the level of receptiveness in the community.
Many local leaders will be in tune to some of the greatest physical and emotional needs of the community. Only the church, however, has the message that can heal a community's spiritual problems. Clearly, the goal is to impact your community so that people will see the eternal implications of a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Sam S. Rainer III is the president of Rainer Research and senior pastor of First Baptist Church Murray, Murray, KY. [www.rainerresearch.com] [www.fbcmurray.org]


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My brother died with credit card debt in his name and not his wife. She is being told she is not responsible for that debt by friends, as she lives in Georgia. This sounds crazy to me. What does the law say about this in Georgia? She lives outside Atlanta.
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"Look at that. This could be the 1870s," says Dr. Zech Dameron III as he pulls his pickup behind the herd. Substitute a pair of horse ears for the Dodge's hood ornament and harden up the seats considerably, and we are a couple of cowhands moving up some long-ago trail--the Shawnee, the Chisholm or maybe the Goodnight-Loving--on the way to a railhead in Abilene.
Out ahead are three dozen Texas longhorn cattle, beige, dun and multicolored examples of a breed that is far more about Texas history, legend and nostalgia than it is about rib-eye steak and the modern beef business.
Of course, we are not on a cattle drive. We're on a section of Dameron's ranch in a surprisingly hilly corner of Montague County, 90 miles northwest of Dallas, where a part of his longhorn herd is seeking a greener part of the pasture. Above, red-tailed hawks are circling, diving and returning skyward, doomed field mice wiggling in their talons. As Dameron puts it, "It's a beautiful spring day, and life is abounding."
Some of the life in this tan-brown field has come into being with considerable help from the doctor's notions about animals and science. Three of the youngest longhorns loping along before Dameron's truck--content and healthy-looking cream-colored cows--are the products of a technology so new, it's a cutting-edge wonder in the 21st century, let alone the 19th, which was the longhorn's heyday.
The three young heifers are clones, genetic duplicates of Dameron's prized cow, Starlight, whose 6-and-a-half-foot span of horns makes her one of the breed's star specimens. Starlight's "clonal family" is the first set of longhorns to be produced as perfect copies of an adult animal. And they are copies, down to the shade of their light beige coats, which are splashed with small flecks of tan. But their most prized trait, those horns, aren't much to look at today, just carrot-size nubs that Dameron is hoping will grow in a couple of years to the same astounding proportions as Starlight's.
Since the three clones and a sister that Dameron has already sold were born last summer, the 59-year-old West Texas native has gained considerable attention in cattle-breeding circles, although not a word of news coverage in Dallas. "People don't say much of anything negative to me directly, but everybody has an opinion about it," he says of the direction he's moving the tradition-bound longhorn.
Taking an animal that has been preserved and cultivated almost exclusively for its historic value and then jetting it forward with science will get ranch people talking. As a doctor, a weekend rancher and an intensely curious sort who launches into his interests like a charging bull, Dameron began thinking about cloning a longhorn not long after he bought his first one in 1997.
That year, Scottish researchers announced that they had cloned a mammal, a Finn Dorset sheep named Dolly. It was heralded as the scientific breakthrough of the decade, something that rewrote the laws of biology.
"Cloning is unusual today, but it was real unusual in 1998," says Dameron of the year he took his first shot at cloning Starlight. His purpose, in line with the practicalities of animal husbandry, was to develop a wider base of female breeding stock with the trait most breeders value. "Breeding longhorns is about long horns," he says. "The cow is the limiting factor. You can take semen from a top bull and spread that all over the place, but a cow calves only once every nine months," he says. A bigger group of cows greatly increases the chances of producing a prize calf.
"I took a picture of my cow and faxed it to [a cloning researcher] and wrote, 'How would five of these look tied up to a fence?'" Dameron recalls. The reply was almost immediate.
It took two attempts, performed by Cyagra, the livestock division of Worcester, Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology, to produce the four clones. The months-old calves were shipped to his ranch last October from the company's livestock breeding facility in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He believes there was a problem with the cell line in the first batch, which produced no offspring.
"These clones are doing wonderfully," Dameron says, pointing out how the unnamed offspring are almost too big already to fit into an iron crib feeder set up for their near-exclusive use.
After the clones were born, Dameron took it upon himself to convince the dominant breed organizations, the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America and the International Texas Longhorn Association, to accept cloned cattle in their registries, which amounted to the longhorn world giving cloning its blessing. Acceptance of cloning has hardly been automatic across breeding organizations, with groups such as the Cat Fanciers' Association, the American Kennel Club and the Jockey Club, which oversees thoroughbred racing, barring clones even before they have become a reality in those species.
"Dr. Dameron gave his presentation, and people were receptive," says Tom Scott, a spokesman for the Fort Worth-based Texas longhorn breeders group. He says in the livestock world, where embryo transplants are common practice and artificial insemination has been a standard technique for decades, people are used to new breeding methods. By contrast, in the thoroughbred horse industry, which revolves around stud fees, all artificial methods are banned.
Dameron's move might not have been as significant as the rescue of the breed from extinction, which almost occurred in the 1920s. But it was a milestone in the colorful history of Texas' indigenous beast, a symbol so powerful that Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush both made certain to keep some around their ranches to demonstrate their Lone Star credentials.
But to mess with a Texas icon is to invite dissent, and Dameron's clones have their critics. "You'd expect that," Scott says. "It's the pioneers who take all the arrows."
Like many longhorn breeders, Dameron is a hobbyist, a weekend rancher who has nothing against turning a profit on his cattle and sometimes does, but he hardly expects to. The lean and slow-growing breed is rarely raised for meat, and only a few choice animals fetch five-figure prices at auction. Still, the breed is alluring.
Some of the state's wealthiest and best-known people--Ross Perot Jr., Fort Worth's Bass family, Houston attorney Walter Umphrey, radio personality Don Imus--own herds of the majestic, lyre-horned animals. When John Benda, owner of the Fuel City service station on Industrial Boulevard near downtown Dallas, wanted to make a Texas statement on his property, he bought a wooden windmill, some cactuses and seven longhorn steers, the only known herd in the city limits. (Downtown life is at times unsettling for the cattle, he concedes. "During last year's Fourth of July fireworks, I got a stampede.")
"For me," Dameron says, "raising a better cow is a game. I like the competition. I want to raise the nicest longhorn ever known." To gain an edge, he has drawn on everything from breeding theories developed by a 19th-century monk to cutting-edge science.
His cows are his toys, he says. He will rarely sell one, and he is clearly smitten with them. To the office of his private practice in North Dallas, Dameron wears a pair of black cowboy boots stitched with two white longhorn silhouettes, a tie painted with a longhorn set against the state flag and a pin in that familiar horns-aplenty shape adopted by the University of Texas as its official logo in 1958. You almost expect to see a poster reading, "I'd rather be digging post holes." His inner office is decorated with Texas ranch furniture, the kind of heavy carved wood piece you'd find in Doc Holliday's office.
"My family were rural people, sheep ranchers in West Texas...and I have a lot of that in me," he says. "I'm not big on the city." When his grandfather lost their place to the bank in the Depression and his father went to Texas A&M to become a soil conservation expert, the ranching link was broken, he says. He, too, became a college boy.
Today, Dameron practices occupational medicine, doing pre-employment physicals and treating injured workers, with his wife, Janine, acting as his nurse. Every weekend, though, they drive out to Forestburg, a tiny crossroads of peeling wood-framed buildings that appears to have changed little since Depression times. Under a high pressed-tin ceiling, the Forestburg General Store, the only store in town, sells everything from 50-pound sacks of feed to groceries and gifts. In the back, they grill a respectable burger and fries. You pay at the register up front under the honor system.
A few miles out of town, Dameron's property takes up a few hilltops and flows down to a small lake in what he accurately describes as North Texas' Hill Country.
The longhorns complete the picture.
The breed's characteristic traits--they are self-reliant, rarely need help giving birth and form into protective groups to ward off predators--make them a perfect breed for an owner who often needs to be elsewhere. "I have a man on the place, but with longhorns you don't have to be 10 minutes away all the time," he says.
Dameron bought the first piece of the ranch in 1974 as a place to grow pecans. Once the trees came in, he was harvesting 100,000 pounds a year. A stand of newly grafted trees shows how seriously he continues to pursue that venture. A little later, he began dabbling in oil and gas exploration, the remnants of which are three low-producing wells he has since sold. "That one there blew in like a gusher, and lasted all of a day. That's going from a real high to a real low," says Dameron, who involved himself in everything from the geology and drilling mechanics to putting together the investors.
Then it was longhorns.
"Another guy who ranches up here told me he'd fix up a breeding facility if I'd buy some cows, and I said OK. We started with about 30. About 15 of them were real nice. Within the first year, I bought Starlight [for $24,000], which back then was number two in the world."
No. 2 in terms of her horns, which top the list of valuable auction-house traits. They kept growing, and now, at age 10, she has been the top cow on record for the past five years. (Steers--castrated males--grow the longest horns. There are several alive with horns more than 8 feet wide.)
The partnership ended like an ill-fitting marriage, but its offspring, Dameron's longhorn herd, has multiplied to more than 100. People have different ideas about running a cattle business, Dameron says, and his were usually the spend-money-to-make-money variety.
"You can have the best cow sitting under a tree in South Texas, but if you don't promote it, buy the ads [in the trade publications], it's just a cow sitting under a tree in South Texas," he says. "So we disagreed on advertising and such. After that, he really didn't go in for cloning."
The process that created the Starlight copies is called somatic cell cloning. It involves creating embryos with genes from a donor and eggs from other cattle. The DNA-carrying nuclei of the cells from the donor are transferred into unfertilized eggs that have had their nuclei removed. In a step that makes Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, seem like a visionary, Cyagra uses an electric charge to fuse the egg and somatic nuclei, which then begin to divide, creating new life. In Starlight's case, her genetic material came from a skin sample Dameron took from her right ear and airmailed to Cyagra's lab.
The living embryos were implanted a week after their creation in so-called recipient cows, which can be of any breed. The cloning herdsmen select the recipients based on their history of easy calving.
In all, five Starlight clones were carried to term at a cost to Dameron of about $35,000. One died at Cyagra's breeding facility. "It failed to thrive," says Ray Page, Cyagra's top scientist, adding that the company does not know if its death had anything to do with cloning. "There are things we don't know," he says. "Of the dozens of animals that have left here, none have died."
Over the past three years Cyagra has cloned some 80 head of cattle, including prized dairy cattle as well as beef breeds such as Angus and Hereford. Demonstrating last summer how the technique can preserve the bloodlines of a prized animal indefinitely, the company produced a clone of a prized Holstein bull that had died suddenly while being treated at its farm for an ulcer. Harvesting a skin sample the size of an eraser during a critical 48- to 72-hour window after the animal's death, Cyagra put the bull's genetic material through the cloning process.
The premature death of Dolly in February raised fresh doubt about the long-term viability of cloned animals, although most experts in the field say there is insufficient evidence to say if clones are more or less sturdy than other animals. Cloning defenders such as Page and Dameron point out that other naturally born sheep housed with 6-year-old Dolly died of the same progressive lung disease that struck her. At the same time, she was diagnosed as arthritic at a relatively early age. "Dolly's death was unfortunate," Page says. "It gave some fuel to people who are critical of the science."
In longhorn circles, it is not the viability of the cows or the science that charges up the critics. It's more the idea of tampering with this unique and mythic breed, a symbol of the West as we know it.
"About 3,500 cowboys drove longhorns up the trails for a 25-year period, and that's the thing that stuck in our imagination," says Tom B. Saunders IV, a fifth-generation Weatherford rancher who for three years held the post as historian and curator of a small herd that Fort Worth installed in its Stockyards tourist area.
The longhorn descended from Spanish cattle brought by explorers to the New World in the 1500s. Unmanaged herds of mustang animals formed in the South Texas brush country, and they evolved over a few hundred years into a lean, long-legged angular breed that Texas naturalist and folklorist J. Frank Dobie described thusly: "For all his heroic stature, the Texas longhorn stood with his body tucked up in the flanks, his high shoulder-top sometimes thin enough to split a hailstone...a rear view was likely to show cat hams, narrow hips and a ridgepole kind of backbone."
What could be a more perfect Western icon? A cow shaped like John Wayne and more durable than the Duke himself. Longhorns could survive and fatten on the sparse graze of South and West Texas and go long distances without water. This made them perfect for long-range herding, and 10 million head were raised across Texas and driven north to market between 1865 and 1890, says Saunders, whose great-great-uncle went up the trails nine times.
By the 1890s, the open range began to close behind a new invention--barbed wire--and railroad lines and expansive stockyards opened in Fort Worth and San Antonio. Ranchers began breeding meatier European breeds such as Herefords that fattened quicker in the feedlots. With no economic value, the longhorn nearly went extinct. "It was far more endangered than the buffalo," Saunders says. "At one time there were less than 100 true longhorns."
In 1927, Congress appropriated $3,000 to save the species, and federal agents combed Texas and Mexico to come up with 20 specimens for a conservation herd, which they located on what is now the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. Private efforts followed over the next several decades. Oilman Sid Richardson paid Dobie, whose 1941 book The Longhorns remains a classic on the breed's history, and rancher Graves Peeler to gather a herd, which he donated to the state. In all, seven so-called foundation herds were established.
The 250,000 registered longhorns in existence today are all descendants of those cattle, Saunders says.
"They've been saved for what they are, so they appeal to purists," he says. "By cloning these rare champion individuals, if you ask me, you're diluting what they really are."
Dameron sees it differently. Talking about the breed while hefting half a dozen 50-pound feed sacks out of his truck, he agrees that selective breeding, and now cloning, are changing the longhorn. But in his view, the animals are getting better.
"If you look at those old auction catalogs from the '50s and '60s, those cattle had horns like this," he says, spreading his hands about two feet apart. "They were giving awards for 50-inch cows and then 60. Now those are fairly common. Breeders like myself are trying to come up with a better cow."
In the auction ring, horn size has always been the most sought-after trait, followed by things such as size, conformation and hide coloring, Dameron says. "When they're talking about conformation, they mean the longhorn butt."
Mel Raley, the longhorn herdsman at the vaunted El Coyote Ranch in South Texas, says there has always been an emphasis in longhorns on the size of their headgear. "When they can't get 'em through the door, that's where the money is."
El Coyote, owned by Fort Worth billionaire Lee Bass, has been in the longhorn business since 1991, and with more than 150 females, it has one of the largest and most prized herds in the state.
"I really respect and appreciate the passion Zech had to clone the biggest cow. He did his homework," says Raley, whose ranch has sold Dameron several prize animals.
Still, he says, breeders are concerned that "if you get 20 guys with Zech's passion and they clone 40 cows, it's a scary thing. They'll dominate this industry completely in five years...Zech goes hard and fast. Guys like me try to make him slow down."
Then there are the hardcore traditionalists--a niche in the industry, actually--who say breeders of today's top longhorns are leading them down the wrong trail, and cloning is just getting them there faster. Modern longhorns bred for size, a wild variety of coat colors and straight-out horns have strayed from the traditional genetics, claims Don Davis, president of the Cattlemen's Texas Longhorn Registry, which has about 250 members, compared with the 5,000 in the two dominant breeders' groups.
"These 2,000-pound bulls you see in the breeding catalogs aren't longhorns. Longhorn bulls were much smaller," Davis says. His group does blood typing, as well as visual inspection, and has registered about 3,000 animals as pure longhorns. They are attempting to establish a DNA registry to more closely identify which animals are purebreds.
Davis says the traditional animals' horns were short and twisty, to protect their flanks from predators. "They didn't have 7 foot of horns running straight out," he says. "To me, tip-to-tip measurements have no meaning."
Actually, if J. Frank Dobie is to be believed, some of the 1800s longhorns did have prodigious horns that ran wide. In 1881, he reported in The Longhorns, a curio shop in San Antonio had on display a set of horns spreading 8 feet tip-to-tip. In the early 1900s, when the cattle were starting to become historic, a steer named Champion was written up with some regularity. Unreliable newspaper accounts, including one recording his appearance at the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, put his horns at anywhere from 6 to 9 feet across.
Dobie, who died in 1965 and did more than anyone to preserve and mythologize the breed, seemed to be as interested in big horns as Dameron and the rest of today's longhorn men. In a lengthy passage in his book, he recalled spotting a huge-horned animal as a boy: "I can see him yet: between a pale red and brown in color, mighty-framed but narrow, the ponderous horns, which were reaching maturity by then, weighing his head low when he stood and wobbling it when he walked. They curved outward, not upward."
Just like Starlight's.
"I'm glad you point that out," Dameron says. "I respect some of these other points of view. But for me, those horns are a thing of beauty."
Rex Mosser, a well-to-do, self-made owner of a Houston steel company who has quickly become a big player in Texas longhorns, is more enthusiastic about Dameron's clones than most people.
Last fall, he bought one at a Fort Worth auction for $19,500, a huge sum for a heifer whose horns are just beginning to grow. "I know I took a chance. There's no guarantees," says Mosser, who over the past three years has purchased some of the most prized specimens known and put a 90-head herd on Vicki's Menagerie, his ranch near Bryan/College Station. Vicki is his wife.
"I'm very impressed with what Zech's done," he says. He is regularly measuring horn growth of the clone, which he's named Starbright Leigh, and the little heifer's are growing more quickly than those of the dozens of other young cattle in his herd.
He is so impressed that he's pulled out his wallet and is doing Dameron one better--which at a certain level is what longhorn breeding seems to be about. Two years ago, Mosser bought a female with horns just a hair shy of Starlight's at an auction hosted by Red McCombs, the Minnesota Vikings owner who raises longhorns at a ranch west of Austin. McCombs, who has generated as much publicity for the longhorn as anyone, became a legend among breeders in the 1980s for his "boots-'n-black tie" auctions. Tax breaks in the early 1980s created a longhorn price bubble, with top animals regularly going for six-figure prices.
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Mosser and his wife set a post-bust record last year when they paid $59,000 for Starlight's rival, an orange and brown female named Feisty Fanny.
Last fall, Mosser sent some cell samples to Cyagra, and now he has a small herd of Feisty Fanny clones on the way. "They're still in the oven, but the last time I talked with them, there were 11,'' Mosser says. The calving is expected to begin in a few weeks.
"My wife and my daughter aren't really for it. They say you should let things happen naturally," says Mosser, who got into longhorn breeding because he likes the way his multicolored herd looks in the field. "I say it's like having a car with air conditioning. Once you didn't, and now you do. It's progress."
Mosser says he didn't give a thought to cloning until he saw Dameron's new heifers. Now, he says, he's grabbed Dameron's shirttail and is hanging on for the ride. "Zech's way out there ahead of most people," Mosser says. "He's built a road, and I'm going down it. Just set your watch. Three years from now, Zech and I are going to have some outstanding cows."


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This brief allegory by Fischer, a Christian singer and songwriter, traces the journey of a show horse that decides to leave its comfortable, conformist existence in favor of freedom on the wild plains. Where once he had striven to deceive others into believing that he was all white—the coat color most prized by horse lovers—the stallion comes to recognize his own natural beauty. "White isn't what you look like," says his liberator. "It's what you do when you follow the will of the White One." The allegory explores the Christian ideal of breaking through external boundaries to answer the call to discipleship; in one scene, the horse runs through a brush fire and finds refuge in a stream—a clear reference to the saving waters of baptism. The story can be a tad obvious, but the novella's brevity and gift packaging will ensure reader interest. (Oct.)
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2014: A Year in Review
For years, we at Ophelia's Place were treating this project as a start-up, financially living from year to year, doing the most with what we had and marveling at the fact that we were able to do so much. However, in 2014, we realized we were no longer just a start-up, we were a stake in the community. In 2014 alone, we provided treatment to 110 individuals and had an additional 55 referrals to UNYED. Cafe at 407's sales grew by11%, bringing in $430,000 in gross sales, contributing a significant portion of the total budget for Ophelia's Place.
Total Progress in 2014
110 Active Patients
55 additional referrals to UNYED
11% growth at Cafe at 407
2015: Looking Forward
2015 is already shaping up to be a big year for Ophelia's Place.
- $172,000 Budget
- Cafe at 407 is projected to support 35% of the budget at Ophelia's Place in 2015.
Circles of Change:
- Launching Circles of Change workshops:
- Choose Health on January 29th.
- Transgender & Body Image in March
- Slow Suppers and Dinnersations:
- Topic driven dinners.
Outreach and Education
- Jill Catherine came on board as the Spokesperson for Ophelia's Place in 2014 and is expanding her education and outreach with:
- Soulful Sitdowns
Support and Treatment
Intensive Outpatient: 45 individuals
Outpatient: 65 individuals
The work done in and through Ophelia's Place could not be done without the support of the community. Thank you so much for all you do. If you are interested in contributing to Ophelia's Place, you can do so here.
2014 Budget:
- Total Budget: $219,000
- Fundraising Income: $55,000
- Contribution Income: $61,000
- County Grant: $25,000
Cafe at 407: A Sustainable Model
Circles of Change:
Taking the mission, vision, and values of Ophelia's Place into the community. Creating Circles of Change to change the conversation surrounding food and the body.
In 2014, an Indiegogo campaign, in celebration of the Cafe's 5th anniversary, raised $5,000 to launch the Circles of Change campaign.
In 2015 we will:
- Host Circles of Change workshops like the Choose Health event we will be hosting on January 29th.
- Soul-Full Sitdowns: A place to come and explore topics of body image, food, self-care and community.
- Dinnersations: Topic driven dinners, celebrating the partnership between Ophelia's Place and Cafe at 407.
- Continue to expand the visibility of Ophelia's Place in the atmosphere and product of Cafe at 407.
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Alibi Band
Truth and Love Yoga
Maeflowers Vintage
Wood and Paper Boutique
Beautiful You Jewelry
Queenz Metal
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When The Amazing Race 18's returning teams were officially announced, the press release identified the male half of the team known as Kent Cothron and Vyxsin Fiala as "Kent Kaliber," and there was no explanation, so I wondered if he'd changed his name.
But he was identified on-screen as Kent during the premiere, and that led to some speculation; The Onion's AV Club suggested that "[m]aybe too many people were mispronouncing it in a non-family-friendly way."
But some research uncovered the reason why he changed his name from Kynt Cothron to Kent Kaliber, which is apparently his birth name, and it has to do with the death of his father last year. (The Huntsville Times reports that the cause of death was a heart attack.)
The Lousiville Courier-Journal reports that he "changed the 'y' to 'e' after his father died last year." Several message board discussions say he did so specifically to honor his dad by returning to his birth name. He was actually using "Kent Cothron" prior to his first appearance on the race, as these 2007 newspaper articles show.
While it doesn't mention his name change, Kent says in his CBS bio that "I lost my dad very suddenly and unexpectedly this year. I want to run the Race as a tribute to him. A victory in this race will give my family some much needed good news."


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billythekid wrote:My uncle has one of those. Great bikes.
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BillMurray wrote:Are they as big as I remember?
billythekid wrote:My uncle has one of those. Great bikes.
SuperBas wrote:Triumph Daytona 955?
The 990 looks incredibly cool, but the cheapest second hand ones go for about twice my planned budget of �3000.
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I am actually surprised how much the KTM 950's still are. They clearly hold their value quite well. I was sure you would be able to get one for a couple of grand now but they are all nearer 4k.
The old KTM 640 LC4's are more reasonable and might fit the budjet. They are also a fairly tall bike. A 660 SMC would be nice ride. I had one of these as well and could also recommend one.
For a reasonable SM on a budget the Suzuki DR400 SM is meant to be fairly decent bike. They are not very fast but a good town bike.
Edited by glaeken at 16:29:01 18-12-2013
billythekid wrote:Last time I saw it in the flesh I didn't think it looked quite as big as I thought it did.
BillMurray wrote:Are they as big as I remember?
billythekid wrote:My uncle has one of those. Great bikes.
SuperBas wrote:Triumph Daytona 955?
The 990 looks incredibly cool, but the cheapest second hand ones go for about twice my planned budget of �3000.
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glaeken wrote:KTM's that reach the 5,000 mile mark are rare, and hence tend to be rather expensive
I am actually surprised how much the KTM 950's still are. They clearly hold their value quite well. I was sure you would be able to get one for a couple of grand now but they are all nearer 4k.
edit: but yes, me being only six foot tall but already having almost all bikes feel too small for me, KTM is just what I'd want to drive. I like the Triumphs, but even they are too small for my liking. So it's KTM.
Edited by DrStrangelove at 01:59:32 19-12-2013
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glaeken wrote:Sorry i didn't see this earlier, thanks for the info, I was looking at Honda Hornets and they had a few for sale, went and had a look around and the guy seemed ok.
espadachin wrote:I bought a bike from these guys and they were Ok. A slight negative was when I picked up the bike it had virtually no fuel in it and I actually had to go onto reserve before I had got out of the end of their road. Picking up bikes or cars that have virtually no fuel in them always strikes me as bad form. I also got a slight wide boy vibe off of them though having nothing to back that up as my bike ended up fine.
Has anyone had any dealings with Motorcycle Giant (formerly UK Motorcycles) in Shepherd's bush?
They have a couple of bikes i'm interested in, just wanted to check how reputable they are.
They do a lot of grey imports that you won't find anywhere else but I do think their prices are a little high. Still a lot of the bikes they do you cannot get from anywhere else so if there is a particular bike you want they may be the only option.
What bikes were you looking at?
I eventually picked (a much better age/price/condition) one up from an ebay trader last week and I love it, quite a jump up from my cbf250!
So I took a single lesson today, and quite liked it. It was on a Yamaha XJ6 (600cc). After a couple of laps, I was getting quite the hang of it, but then the hour and a half had already passed and I had to go back home. Now I have to wait another 2 years before I finish school and can afford lessons.
For anyone that enjoys the odd motorbike vlog, BaronVonGrumble has just finished uploading his London to Valencia euro trip. It's a really good little series.
Have you actually passed/sat your test yet bill?
@Chopsen I'm quite a bit poor and have been out of work for about 8 months now so it's kinda on the back burner till that gets sorted.
aaaaah ... after my three year old battery started struggling a bit back in October, it packed in completely after I left the bike sitting for 2 weeks. I'd seen it coming though.
As it was nearly winter, I didn't rush out to get a new one.
I did split the rent on a garage together with my neighbour who also owns a bike, so we can both park them off the street.
Come a wet, warm winter that I could have easily biked through and then last month, I finally got around to buying a new battery. It still didn't run though so I had to get it picked up. They cleaned out the carburator which sorted it out.
So nice to be out riding again. The weather's been lovely the last month and traffic has become worse near my work due to road works, so it's aboon to be biking past the miserable queues.
Anyone else back out and about these days?
Hoping I'll be booking my CBT(again, it ran out) and my direct access pretty soon after soon. I'm still incredibly skint but after selling a few records and some prints i've nearly got enough cash, mainly thanks to an Italian chap paying �260 for my Tyler Stout print.
Salaman wrote:I ride all through the winter every year but as you say this last one was particularly mild. I'd love it if they were always like that.
Anyone else back out and about these days?
Still, great to see some sun and warmer weather lately.
What bike you got? I currently have a Kawasaki Z750, just upgraded from an old (2000) Suzuki SV650.
Edited by Furtive_Pygmy at 19:49:11 26-03-2014
The main thing that prevents me is that I end up needing to set off so early that there's too much ice. Normal cold or rain is no bother. You'd never go out in UK otherwise.
Ah yes, that's part of the problem I have. I leave for work at 5:30am so it can be more treacherous at that time.
@BillMurray ooh, which print? I've got an Inglorious Basterds one hanging in the kitchen.
Furtive_Pygmy wrote:An old 2001 Honda Deauville (650).
What bike you got? I currently have a Kawasaki Z750, just upgraded from an old (2000) Suzuki SV650.
I used to commute with all through the year from Ghent to Brussels (40 miles each way with lots of traffic jams).
Now I'm 15 minutes away from my work. If it's shitty out I take the car. =)
Sadly I'm going to have to spend some money on new boots, jacket, pants, etc. I bought them all when I got the bike about 5 years ago and they're starting to fall apart.
Probably should get a new helmet also.
craigy wrote:The Alamo
@BillMurray ooh, which print? I've got an Inglorious Basterds one hanging in the kitchen.
It's probably my second favourite print I own, just behind the T.Hanuka print i've got. I'd have kept hold of it but it's just been sat unframed for the last 5 years. Never got round to getting it up on the wall so thought i'd flog it. Got �260 for it though.
Edited by BillMurray at 20:55:41 26-03-2014
Nice. I'd like the option of a car too at times but money and all that.
I recently got all new gear. I didn't go mad but spent a decent amount, RST textile jacket and legs, boots, all for about �350.
Got a great Shark helmet too for �200, with a pinlock which I've never had before. Simply the best thing a motorcyclist can have.
I'm doing my CBT on Saturday. Any pro-tips?
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craigy wrote:Best of luck...but seeing as I did mine in '93, it may well have changed completely by now!
I'm doing my CBT on Saturday. Any pro-tips?
Look at where you want to go, not what you want to avoid.
When in doubt, DON'T slam on the brakes. You'll fall over.
Use the light touch on the foot brake to control speed on low velocity manoeuvres. WAY easier than using the clutch to control power.
Have fun!
No wheelies.
Probably more important on your actual test but just make it really obvious when you're looking in your mirrors and looking behind you.
Not sure what it involves. Main thing I kept forgetting when I was learning was to turn off my indicators.
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@craigy let us know how you get on. Do you have any experience at all? I want to do CBT too but have never ridden a bike before so im not sure how to approach it.
CBT is very much noob "I don't even know how to start it" type territory. When I did it they took us from "how to put the kickstand down" upwards. I did it having never ridden before in my life, so just get on with it!
Salaman wrote:And yes, very much this.
Not sure what it involves. Main thing I kept forgetting when I was learning was to turn off my indicators.
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Mbabane, Swaziland - Frustrated by the high rate of HIV infection in his country,
Swaziland's king ordered all his young female subjects to don a
symbolic chastity belt, a tasselled scarf signalling a 5-year ban on
sexual relations.
Yet nearly three weeks later two scarfless teen-age schoolgirls
waited for a bus on the streets of the capital, Mbabane, and openly
questioned their ruler's edict.
"Five years is too much," said Siphiwe Nkosi, a 14-year-old
wearing a maroon school uniform. "If they had said two years, we
could have observed the tradition."
Nearly two decades after this tiny mountain kingdom was last
subjected to a sex ban, young women in traditional rural areas -
where powerful local chiefs enforce the king's will - appear to
have accepted the order. But it is nearly impossible to find a
scarf among the thousands of newly urbanised girls in Mbabane and
Swaziland's manufacturing hub of Manzini.
Nkosi's mother went to the trouble of buying her one of the
multicoloured tasselled scarves. But it sits unused in her home in a
suburb just outside Mbabane.
"I can't even go to school wearing it because my friends would
laugh at me," she said.
Lungile Dlamini, 16, who attends a different school, agreed.
"If they wanted us to embrace this tradition, it should not have
been imposed on us," she said.
Protecting 'flowers'
Describing teen-age girls as "flowers that should be protected,"
King Mswati III announced on September 9 the reinstatement of the
traditional chastity rite of umchwasho.
Many Swazis, already confused and annoyed by Mswati's order,
were infuriated when soon after announcing the umchwasho the
33-year-old king announced his engagement to a 17-year-old girl,
who would be his ninth wife.
Under the tradition, in place for the next five years, all
unmarried girls under the age of 18 must wear the multicoloured,
woven scarves signalling they are not to be touched by men.
Banning young women from having sex is a long-standing Swaziland
tradition that is enforced intermittently. It is up to the king to
decide when to issue a chastity order.
If a boy violates umchwasho, the girl and others in the village
are to march to his house and throw their scarves at it. The boy's
family will then be forced to pay his chief a fine of one cow or
R1 300 ($145). No one has been fined yet.
Unmarried women over the age of 18 are to wear red and black
scarves, which allow limited sexual contact, but not intercourse.
Mswati said the umchwasho was necessary to combat the
frightening HIV-infection rate in the country. More than 25 percent
of adults in Swaziland are infected with HIV, according to UNAids.
The disease has already killed tens of thousands of Swazis.
Different times
The last umchwasho, decreed by Mswati's father, King Sobhuza II,
was largely adhered to when it was enforced in the early 1980s. But
Swaziland was a vastly different country then.
The cities were smaller and far more heavily influenced by the
conservative values of the rural areas. Girls wore long skirts and
even though some of the more urban girls were embarrassed by the
chastity scarf, they still wore it, hidden beneath their clothing.
Now, Mbabane boast buildings 12 stories high and nearly a
quarter of the 1 million Swazis live in the cities, where teen-age
girls show off their constricting designer jeans, skintight tank
tops and platform shoes.
"The tradition now has lost meaning," broadcast journalist
Comfort Mabuza said.
Queen Mother Ntombi Thwala defended the sex ban, saying the
tradition would help promote moral values in unmarried women.
But teachers and women throughout the cities decried it as
misguided and bizarre.
Philile Mamba, a 23-year-old student at the University of
Swaziland, wondered how effective umchwasho could be in stopping
the spread of HIV in a country where young girls were still forced
to marry sexually experienced men far older than them.
"By eradicating this practice, we would have taken a giant step
toward combating HIV, instead of just having wool hanging down from
the girl's head to her shoulders," she said. "Why can't we channel
all the resources into educating young girls to uphold their
self-esteem ... (so) they are able to say no to sexual advances."
"I think we are missing the point here," she said. - Sapa/AP


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Are you guys tired of lists yet? Okay cool, I didn't think so. This list isn't really a list of the "top" reissues/comps of the year, because there are way too many that I haven't heard, and probably a bunch I don't even know exist. Namely, this What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) that the Drunkard talks about today. I'm really doing this because this is some of the most exciting and mindblowing stuff I heard all year, and I'd hate for it go overlooked. Think of this more as my list of recommendations, in descending order, of absolutely essential stuff that isn't exactly new, but was released in 2006. I've included the original year of release (or year it was recorded) in parentheses:
gorilla vs. bear's favorite reissues/comps of 2006
5. Karen Dalton In My Own Time (1971)
Devendra Banhart and Nick Cave's favorite singer, Karen Dalton has influenced nearly everyone who's currently making true folk music. This was my introduction to Ms. Dalton, so thanks, Light in the Attic Records, because she's wonderful. Dubbed acid-folk, it's an amazing blend of folk, jazz, and most notably, soul. Bob Dylan once said Dalton had a voice like Billie Holiday's, so that's pretty much all you need to know.
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4. Sibylle Baier Colour Green (recorded 1970-1973)
I'm probably cheating here, because this neither a reissue or a compilation, but I don't care. Recorded in Germany in the early '70s and originally intended to be heard only by close friends and family, listening to Colour Green almost feels like you stole someone's diary. It's sad, at times dark, and almost uncomfortably intimate, and one of the most fragile and beautiful releases this year. (buy)
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3. Various Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label (1960s/early '70s)
Nearly everything Numero Group puts out is unreal, and this collection of obscure and rare Detroit '60s soul and funk is at times mindblowing. This song is probably the sexiest thing you'll hear all year. Make sure to seek out the other Eccentric Soul releases as well, there's some amazing stuff buried in there if you take the time to find it.
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2. Susan Christie Paint A Lady (1970)
Simply put, Finders Keepers Records is amazing. They've released gem after gem of lost or forgotten albums, but Paint A Lady takes the cake. There are said to be only 2 or 3 original pressings of this in existence, and god bless Finders Keepers for tracking one down, because the production on this thing is light years ahead of its time. Get this record. Seriously.
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1. Various Tropicalia: A Brasilian Revolution in Sound ('60s/'70s)
With the release of this compilation, a re-release of one of their albums, and seeing the band play at the Pitchfork Festival, Os Mutantes became one of my favorite bands in the world this year. Yeah, a little late, I know. If I had to recommend only one album this year of any genre, this would (arguably) be it. Also features Gilberto Gil, Tom Ze, Jorge Ben, and more. (buy)
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If you like those songs, I strongly urge you pick up those records if you can. Any other (re)releases or compilations that came out this year that you think are essential? Let us know, please.


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When Vivek Ranadive and his ownership group were approved to buy the Sacramento Kings from the Maloof family in May, it appeared as if the long fight to decide the franchise's future had finally reached an end. The Kings had a new owner committed to keeping the team in Sacramento, an arena plan, and hope for the future. The Seattle-based ownership group determined to bring back the SuperSonics had lost.
It now appears as if the leader of that ownership effort has not stopped fighting. According to a report from Dale Kasler and Tony Bizjak of The Sacramento Bee (via Sactown Royalty), investor Chris Hansen donated $100,000 to a group focused on stopping arena construction in California's capital:
On June 21, Hansen donated $100,000 to a group gathering signatures in Sacramento. His contribution came just weeks after the National Basketball Association owners vetoed his deal to buy the team and move it to Seattle. [...]
The group, called Citizens for a Voice in Government, made the belated filing one day after the state's political watchdog, the Fair Political Practices Commission, sued a Los Angeles law firm that wired $80,000 of Hansen's $100,000 to the signature-gathering campaign organizers in Sacramento. The lawsuit demanded to know the identity of the donor. A court hearing had been scheduled for Monday. [...]
Afterwards, Hansen told a radio interviewer in Seattle that, while it remains his dream to bring an NBA team back to Seattle, he regretted trying to grab the Kings away from Sacramento's loyal fans.
"It kind of made me sick to my stomach," Hansen said. He added that he would go after another city's team again only if he was convinced the team was going to leave. [...]
Since spring, a small group of volunteers known as STOP - Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork - has been circulating petitions to force a public vote on the city's proposed $258 million arena subsidy. Without a new arena, the NBA says the team will eventually leave.
There are many legitimate reasons to oppose public funding of sports stadiums and arenas, but Hansen cannot rely on these principles to oppose such measures. His Seattle arena deal requires $200 million in public funds for construction, so it's not as if he's opposed to the idea. Based on the available evidence, it appears as if he bankrolled this group to try to put the Kings' future back in limbo, presumably so he could swoop in and bid for the team once again.
Even if this is Hansen's plan, the risk-reward factor does not seem to fall in his favor. This signature-gathering effort is a very early step in the process to block the arena — they need 22,000 names in all to put the measure on the ballot, and 1,700 preexisting signatories have already sued STOP to have their names removed from the petition. Of course, that would only bring up a vote, which now has the stigma of being pushed for by someone who want to take the Kings (a team that, all economic questions aside, stands as a source of great civic pride). Given that Hansen is reportedly worth billions, it's hard to see how a six-figure investment would do enough to offset the potential losses of being seen as a predator unwilling to accept that the NBA deemed Ranadive's group the winners of this battle.
In fact, it's possible that Hansen's actions are hurting Seattle's chances at nabbing a team (whether via expansion or a more palatable relocation effort) in the future. Throughout the Kings ordeal, Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the group's other leader, stood out as fairly stellar options to own a team, businessmen with the largesse and commitment to reestablish the Sonics. When they were unable to buy the Kings, it was more a function of Sacramento's efforts than of any mistakes on the part of the Seattle group. They did enough to jump to the front of the line for any available franchises.
These actions won't necessarily stop Hansen from getting a team, but they do introduce new doubts where there previously were very few. At the time of the sale, Hansen claimed to feel sick about trying to take a team from a committed city, and now it looks as if he disregarded those emotions just a few weeks later to bankroll this group.
As Hansen learned during the Kings process, the NBA decides which owners it brings into the fold. To be certain, many of those people — Donald Sterling owns an NBA team, for crying out loud — are not saints. Nevertheless, Hansen's reputation is not quite so pristine. Will the NBA trust him?


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Hurt - Poem by Sara Panicali
I know when I see your face or hear you name
Memories of us
Will haunt me everytime
I tried everything I could possibly do
The best way I knew how
To try and make things work
But no matter what I did it was never good enough for you
Lately all you did was make me cry
If you weren't so oblivious
Maybe things wouldn't be
the way they are today
I loved you so much
Its clear to see
You don't feel the same way
Reasonings I'll never know
So many things left unsaid
It hurts to say you're just like all the rest
Another guy from my past
Hurts me so much that you'll never be mine
Or that I'll never cross your mind
Yes it'll hurt
And if you would ever ask
All you'll ever hear me say is that I'm doing just fine
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Overview and Route: "Where the Birds Slept"
Heart Bar Peak is an 8,332 foot peak in the San Bernardino National Forest, about 12 miles southeast of Big Bear Lake. The origin of the name has no connection with any background of love and romance. Rather, the name has a very mundane origin, named after the nearby Heart Bar Ranch in the upper canyon of the Santa Ana River. The old center of the ranch is now Heart Bar Campground, located 1.5 miles west of the summit.
The Serrano Indians who inhabited the area called the summit "Pawarakam", translated as the "summit where the birds slept." This would certainly be a more interesting name.
Although a series of fire roads and jeep trails wind to Heart Bar's summit, the route given below is via the peak's north slope and provides a very nice cross-country experience.
From the parking area (see next section) at 7,240' elevation, start up the jeep track designated 1N38. After a few minutes of hiking, look for the peak's broad ridge trending north/south. Take a right (south) off the road onto the fairly steep ridge and proceed to the summit. The summit's high point is a rocky outcrop.
Going back down, you can either retrace your steps down the ridge or pick one of the main gullies as a descent route. The round trip for this route is about 3 miles with 1,100 feet of gain. You would have a 5 mile roundtrip if you elected to take the fire road all the way up and down.
Getting ThereComing from the west, take Interstate 10 to the University Street exit in Redlands. Turn left onto University and proceed through the campus of the University of Redlands to Lugonia Ave./Hwy 38. Turn right on Hwy 38 and proceed through the town of Mentone up into the mountains. In about 33 miles you will pass 1N02, the road to Heart Bar Campground. Continue straight on Hwy 38 another 1.6 miles to an obscure, paved road signed 1N38 that intersects the highway at a right angle. This intersect is at mile marker 35.13. Turn right onto 1N38. You can either park on this road just off the highway or drive downhill on this dirt road to a clearing on the side about 150 yards from the highway turnoff.
Red TapeYou will need an Adventure Pass to park at the starting point for ascending this mountain. They cost $5 for a daily pass and $30 for yearly. Interagency Annual, Senior, and Access Passes may also be used. These passes are sold at Forest Service stations, most sporting goods stores, and, as of February 1, 2008, on-line.
CampingThe nearest camping is Heart Bar Campground, about 1.5 miles west of the summit. It is reached by taking 1N02 off of Highway 38 (see "Getting There" section).
When to Climb/Mountain ConditionsThis peak can be climbed year round. During winter months, check beforehand with the National Weather Service forecast for the San Bernardino Mountains about weather and with the California Dept. of Transportation about road conditions. With snow cover, equip yourself appropriately.
Other InformationUSGS Topos: 7.5 Moonridge
External LinksAdventure Pass information
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Bear(ish) Blogging
As Larry Ribstein, Gordon Smith, Jeff Lipshaw (below) and others have pointed out, the rise of Bear Stearns' stock price after the announcement of its deal with J.P. Morgan creates some really complex corporate law problems. Today's close, $5.33, is around 2.5 times the offer price (2.30 a share). Whether the Delaware Chancery Court will enforce "Bear's Put" (as Steven Davidoff coined it) seems to me to be underdetermined by caselaw and instead likely will depend on the state of the financial markets. In a less edgy environment, normal rules – like Quickturn – should apply and DE Courts inclined to strike down the clause, even over the Fed's objection. Indeed, the case would be a good platform to reassert Delaware's dominance! But if current market volatility remains unabated when these issues are decided, I imagine that the no-shop, multiple-vote, clause will be upheld. Thus, J.P. Morgan would be wise to push hard to close the deal sooner, while the market remains turbulent and a potential jurist pliant. (I'm rooting for assignment to V.C. Strine, if we want a wide-ranging opinion to teach in a few years). Useless speculation? Sure!
A distinct part of this evolving story is the buyers of Bear's stock. Some are probably bondholders. Another group, according to today's W$J, are Bear's employees, free (now) to trade and encourage others to buy up the firm. They are reported to believe that several hedge funds, having shorted Bear several weeks and months ago, then broke the bank by withdrawing business from its prime brokerage in the last week or so. Those withdrawals in turn resulted in downgrading Bear's investment rating and putting its ability to trade in jeopardy. (It's the Enron story, but without a Fastow or JEDI, that we know of.) Maybe they think that the SEC will bring some kind of market manipulation case against the shorting funds, which seems like a long-shot. Another possibility could be civil suits seeking disgorgement from the funds, on the theory that they have some kind of fiduciary duty not to provoke a bank run. On what theory such a lawsuit would proceed, I can't imagine, but I wouldn't underestimate the creative power of a hungry mob of lawyers. Finally, we'll almost certainly see a lawsuit against Bear's directors. I, like Lipshaw, have "some sympathy" for these folks, especially those on the outside, who can't possibly have foreseen the magnitude of the events that overwhelmed the institution.
Third, as many have noted, Bear's executives aren't going to walk away with much cash. Their options are under-water, and their guaranteed compensation has been intentionally set at a low level to promote firm performance. Now, some, including Jack Dolmat-Connell, an executive compensation expert, are criticizing this equity-heavy pay schedule for encouraging Bear "to take on too much business risk." (Again, from today's W$J). I don't buy this. Is the idea that if their pay were fixed, they'd have been more risk averse because their upside would have been limited? This seems (to me) to be an unrealistic account how investment bank executives are likely to behave. More than most, such executives are the product of the tournament model, likely to be extremely overconfident and risk-seeking no matter what their compensation structure. (The easy cite here, of course, is Liar's Poker.)
Finally, you've got to wonder what lessons to draw from the last two weeks. In 1966, Henry Manne argued that legalizing insider trading would have several pro-social consequences, among them that it would lead to more accurate prices and thus substitute for public disclosure in circumstances where it might not otherwise occur. There is (admittedly) limited empirical evidence that insider purchases have strong price effects, but insider sales are generally stronger signals. Last Monday, investors valued Bear at between $60 and $70 a share, but there was obviously non-public information that made the price unsustainable. Maybe had insiders been permitted to trade on their knowledge of Bear's financial condition, its decline would have been less precipitous, giving the bank more time to approach the Fed for help before its fire sale became necessary. [Update: Paul Krugman's analogy is a good one. In describing the run on Bear and other like institutions, he says "In other cases, the bank is fundamentally unsound — but the bank run magnifies its losses. It's as if someone calls "Fire!" in a crowded theater, and there really is a fire — but the stampede kills people who would have survived an orderly evacuation." Exactly – would insider trading have made the run more orderly?] Just a thought, as folks start to think about ways to avert tomorrow's crisis.


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LONDON Shipments of silicon wafers fell by 56.5 percent to 940 million square inches compared to 2,163 million square inches in the same quarter a year before, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.
Shipments fell by 34.2 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2008, when they totaled 1,428 million square inches, SEMI SMG said. The shipment measurements are for semiconductor applications only and do not include solar power applications. The data is inclusive of polished silicon wafers, including virgin test wafers, epitaxial silicon wafers, and non-polished silicon wafers shipped by the wafer manufacturers to the end-users.
"Clearly, difficult global economic conditions continued to have an impact on wafer shipments in the first quarter of the year," said Nobuo Katsuoka, chairman of SEMI SMG and director, SOI process engineering department for Shin-Etsu Handotai Co. Ltd. "However, market conditions recovered after the bottom observed in the January and February period," he added.
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As advised by Kathryn, I have started reading Jeanette Winterson's book: Art Objects. In her book Winterson writes about Woolf, and Kathryn thought I might find it interesting. And I certainly do! But at the moment I'm not only reading Woolf, I'm also reading Gadamer in preparation for some lectures I will be giving. Of course […]Read Post ›


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First Lady Michele Obama has banned cake ingredients from the White House and most other ingredients necessary to make cookies, pies, and crème brûlée.
Mrs. Obama's rage against tasty nutritious food has taken her from destroying appetizing menus in schools to banning great deserts at the White House. Her latest effort to ban good food has now resulted in the resignation of the White House pastry chef.
The Washington Times reported,
Michelle Obama may have pushed the White House pastry chef a bit too far with her constant requests to replace fatty foods like cream and butter with lower-calorie options: He's quit, calling the decision "bittersweet," various media reported.
The New York Times reported,
Mr. Yosses has hardly turned his back on his old, sweet life. "I don't want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs," he said.
Especially for White House company. "For special, nostalgic occasions, we still make 20 percent traditional desserts," he said. "Coconut cake with seven-minute frosting, lemon steamed pudding with layers of custard, mousse and cake, sticky toffee pudding, and every kind of chocolate dessert possible."
On holidays, Mr. Yosses earns his nickname, The Crustmaster, bestowed on him by a grateful President Obama. "For Thanksgiving, it is five or six different pies," Mr. Yosses said.
And when you are baking for the president of France, as Mr. Yosses was at the White House last month, there are no worries about fat and sugar. The thought of that dinner, however, was both thrilling and frightening, Mr. Yosses said, because the French are the masters of the pastry arts.
From the time of Martha Washington's legendary pound cake, Presidential meals have included the highest quality deserts. A chocolate chip cookie and a brownie can go a long way in adding pleasant memories to White House diplomacy.


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When: Fri., Oct. 18 2013
FORUM artspace presents a thought-provoking and compelling new exhibit, I.E. Fine Art Illustration, which features the work of five area artists — William Appledorn, Amber Esner, Matthew Goik, Nick McMahan and Buzz Szilagyi. Their artwork has been spotted in galleries, shops and street corners all around Cleveland and beyond. This new collection explores the role of the illustrator by engaging in a modern-day dialogue about culture and the illustrator's place within it. Each artist offers a unique perspective on what it means to be an illustrator creating art about and for other illustrators. An opening reception for this new exhibit takes place tonight from 5 to 9 at FORUM artspace's 78th Street Studios location. (McConnell)