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Villard, Oswald Garrison
Oswald Garrison Villard 1872-1949
American journalist, biographer, and nonfiction writer.
As owner of the Nation and its editor for 14 years, Villard built the magazine into a leading liberal publication. He was an outspoken pacifist and continually emphasized the importance of individual freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press.
Biographical Information
Villard was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1872, during one of his parents' extended stays there. Both liberalism and journalism were a part of his heritage. His father, Henry Villard, was a German immigrant who purchased the New York Evening Post and its weekly supplement, the Nation, in 1881. His mother, Helen Frances Garrison, was the daughter of liberal journalist and abolition leader William Lloyd Garrison. After earning a B.A. from Harvard University in 1893, Villard began writing for the Nation. He completed an M.A., also from Harvard, in 1897, and became an editorial writer for the Post. Villard inherited both publications upon his father's death in 1900 and served as editor of the Post until 1918. That year, he sold the Post but retained the Nation and became its editor, holding that position until 1932, when he turned control over to a board of editors. He stayed on as a contributing editor until 1940, when he resigned over the magazine's increasingly militaristic views. During his time as editor of the Nation Villard found many reasons to remind readers of the importance of freedom of expression. The Espionage Act of 1917 and later the Sedition Act of 1918, prompted by the United States' entry into World War I, limited protests against the war effort. Conscientious objectors were poorly tolerated by both the government and the American public, and Villard, due to his German descent and outspoken pacifism, became suspect. One of Villard's most memorable battles began with an editorial, published in the September 14, 1918 issue of the Nation, which criticized American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers, whom the government had assigned to report on labor conditions in Europe. The Postmaster General, under his authority through the Espionage Act, refused to mail the issue of the Nation; Villard successfully appealed to members of the presidential cabinet, and the ban was lifted by order of the President four days later. Villard continued to espouse pacifism throughout his life, but his views became increasingly unpopular with World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor. He died on October 1, 1949.
Major Works
In addition to his articles written for the New York Evening Post and the Nation, Villard published a large number of books of nonfiction, including notable works of historical biography. These include John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After (1910), a portrait of the anti-slavery agitator, and William Lloyd Garrison (1918), about his abolistionist grandfather. Villard also wrote several works on journalism, including Some Newspapers and Newspapermen (1923) and The Disappearing Daily (1944). The Fighting Years: Memoirs of a Liberal Editor (1939), Villard's memoir, chronicles his life as a pacifist, liberal, and journalist.
Critical Reception
Critics praised John Brown as a balanced appraisal of the subject's life and career. "We have here a book, and the only book, in which the unquestioned facts of John Brown's career are completed exhibited," William MacDonald wrote in a review in the Nation, labeling the work "a solid achievement in the field of historical scholarship." Some Newspapers and Newspapermen was praised for its comprehensive insight into the world of journalism, but some found the later Disappearing Daily to be derivative. Writing for the American Sociological Review, F. Howard Forsyth asserted, "This book is frankly a rewrite of his previous volume." Villard's autobiographical Fighting Years encouraged new discussion of liberalism and its impact on America during the twentieth century; its title, Freda Kirchwey observed in the Nation, "is an accurate summing up of his public career."
Principal Works
The Early History of Wall Street (nonfiction) 1897
William Henry Baldwin: A Life of Civic Endeavor (biography) 1905
Self-Criticism North and South (nonfiction) 1906
John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (biography) 1910
The Objects of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (nonfiction) 1912
Some Weaknesses of Modern Journalism (nonfiction) 1914
Germany Embattled: An American Interpretation (nonfiction) 1915
The United States and Its Foreign Born Citizens (nonfiction) 1915
The Duty of the Press in War Time (nonfiction) 1917
Will the Real Germany Awake? (nonfiction) 1917
Universal Military Training: Our Latest Cure-All (nonfiction) 1918
William Lloyd Garrison (biography) 1918
Some Newspapers and Newspapermen (nonfiction) 1923
Russia from a Car Window (nonfiction) 1929
The Press Today (nonfiction) 1930
Henry Villard: A True Fairy Tale (biography) 1931
The German Phoenix: The Story of the Republic (nonfiction) 1933
Our Military Chaos: The Truth about Defense (nonfiction) 1939
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SOURCE: Bruce, H. Addington. "John Brown of Osawatomie." New York Times Book Review 15, no. 42 (15 October 1910): 567.
[In the following review, Bruce praises Villard's biography of John Brown as a thorough and conscientious, if controversial, work.]
Mr. Villard's John Brown is a capital example of the thorough, the conscientious and the candidly critical in historical writing. It may well be described as the first really adequate biography of a man who, whatever one may think of the chief acts of his life, has won a conspicuous place among American immortals. In its preparation no available source of information seems to have been neglected. Original documents, contemporary letters and living witnesses have been examined in all parts of the country. Materials never before utilized have been drawn upon, and use has been made of others whose existence has hitherto been unknown. There is a constant citation of authorities, the note references running far into the hundreds, together with an excellent bibliography. The result is a work that not only meets the demands of the modern scientific school but is of a high literary quality. Perhaps the criticism should be made that there is an obvious tendency to go too minutely into detail, but in view of the importance of the subject this fault may readily be condoned.
Like all other students who have given the matter thoughtful...
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SOURCE: MacDonald, William. Review of John Brown, by Oswald Garrison Villard. Nation 91, no. 2364 (20 October 1910): 357-59.
[In the following review, MacDonald considers Villard's John Brown to be an important achievement in historical biography.]
Of all the men who have held, for some brief space of time, the eye of the American people, none has evoked more diverse estimates of his character, motives, or achievements, or stirred more deeply or lastingly the fountains of enthusiastic praise and bitter hate, than John Brown of Osawatomie. The student of American history finds him acclaimed, on the one hand, as the saviour of Kansas, the chief agent in negro emancipation, and the one sure forerunner of the civil war; and, on the other, denounced as a half-crazy religious enthusiast running amuck in the modern world, a fanatical leader of wild and hopeless enterprises, a criminal, and even a murderer. A whole literature of books, poems, and magazine articles, and a still larger volume of myth, tradition, asseveration, story, and prejudice, have grown up about this extraordinary person. Men and women who never saw him, and who would have fled in terror from his presence, have vied with his companions and intimate friends in describing his appearance and habit of life, or in analyzing his mind and appraising his work, or, more easily, in acclaiming or denouncing him. It would be hard to find,...
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SOURCE: Lovett, Robert Morss. "Personality and the Press." Nation 117, no. 3046 (21 November 1923): 584-85.
[In the following review, Lovett examines Villard's Some Newspapers and Newspapermen.]
There has been in the last few years a notable increase in the number of books dealing with public opinion in its formation and expression. Obviously this is a result of the war, in which we had the experience of finding ourselves moving under the impulse of mass currents in a direction quite opposite to that prescribed by our national character and tradition, and to a destination which we could never, as individuals, have desired or chosen. We have become curious as to the processes of social psychology by which we were controlled. The war has educated public opinion into self-consciousness. Naturally a prime object of our consideration is the daily press.
Mr. Villard's book [Some Newspapers and Newspapermen] has a more modest aim than Mr. Lippmann set himself in his study of public opinion as an organism. It has a more limited objective than Mr. Upton Sinclair's attempt to psychoanalyze the press in The Brass Check. Some Newspapers and Newspapermen, as its title announces, is a study of the great dailies of the country in the light of their origin, history, environment, political and financial affiliations, and of the men who made and control them. It is a series of...
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SOURCE: Bonn, M. J. "Why the Republic Fell." New Republic 74, no. 962 (10 May 1933): 370-71.
[In the following review, Bonn praises The German Phoenix but finds some shortcomings in Villard's analysis.]
The German Phoenix is a generous appreciation of the difficulties under which the German Republic rose, and the achievements standing to its name. It comes at a time when the Phoenix is undergoing a thorough transfiguration which has changed its outer aspect completely. The future alone can show what of the structure erected in the years 1918-19 will survive the violent transformation it is subjected to at present.
Mr. Villard gives a vivid description of the consequences of the Peace of Versailles, and especially of the baneful results for German finance and German economics of the insane reparation settlement. He realizes better than many an expert has done how intensely childish was the imposition of an indefinite indemnity which was fixed only after two years had gone, and the total amount of which rose to such a fantastic figure that it was almost sounder finance to ignore it than to deal with it in a businesslike way. He rightly defends Germany from the reproach of having intentionally swindled her creditors. When a people is asked to pay a bigger tribute than it can afford to raise, it has to borrow the cash, and if the creditor nations who insist on its paying...
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SOURCE: Lerner, Max. "The Liberalism of O. G. Villard." New Republic 98, no. 1273 (26 April 1939): 342-44.
[In the following review, Lerner finds that The Fighting Years provides more insight into Villard's milieu than his personality.]
Mr. Villard's book of memoirs [The Fighting Years], compact of militancy, indignation and an underlying sense of failure, lights up a whole period in the history of American liberalism. It does not to the same degree delineate a personality. There is little in it of the interior writing that has marked the creative tradition in modern autobiography, from Rousseau to Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens. The category it falls into is "this I remember and this I did," rather than "this is how I shaped my view of life." Despite the warm chapters on the author's childhood years, on his Harvard days, on his early experiences as a reporter in Philadelphia, there is a poverty in the book of education in its deepest sense. Mr. Villard is not interested in the painful and experimental unfolding of a personality. The focus is always on an impassioned view of the external rather than on a detached view of the internal world. The crowded pages form a portrait gallery of public figures whose lives impinged on that of the writer—Presidents, Prime Ministers, Cabinet officials, generals, journalists, reformers, adventurers. But while Steffens' first question about...
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SOURCE: Gannett, Lewis S. "Villard's Nation." In One Hundred Years of "The Nation": A Cenntenial Anthology, edited by Henry M. Christman, pp. 35-40. New York: Macmillan, 1940.
[In the following essay, Gannett examines the social and political impact of The Nation under Villard's editorship.]
I doubt that there was ever another such journalistic heaven as was The Nation in the early post-war years. I came back from France that autumn of 1919 with one ambition in all the world: to land a job on Villard's Nation. I knew what I wanted, and was blissful when I got it: half-time at first, and small pay.
Those were rousing days on Vesey Street. Every week's issue was a new adventure. The country was still in a state of war shock: it was blockading Germans, seeing Reds under every bed, crushing strikes in the name of freedom. And yet there was a breeze of hope in the air, a stirring all around the world. The British Labor Party seemed about to reshape England by a peaceful, democratic revolution; the new German Republic was giving women the vote and establishing works councils in every factory; Russia was a land of wild surmises, where every new and hopeful experiment might be tried out for an eager world to watch. Here at home we had the Plumb plan, a sort of industrial republic for the railroads; new unions about to organize the steel mills; labor banks...
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SOURCE: Forsyth, F. Howard. Review of The Disappearing Daily, by Oswald Garrison Villard. American Sociological Review 10, no. 2 (April 1945): 324-25.
[In the following review, Forsyth finds many shortcomings in Villard's The Disappearing Daily.]
This book [The Disappearing Daily] by a life-long journalist and supporter of liberal causes is better described by the subtitle as "chapters in American newspaper evolution." It is in much of its total a series of essays about the chief newspapers and their owners in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington and St. Louis. The selection of cities and of papers is not presented as logical or statistically meaningful, and cannot add up into a compelling argument.
It is doubtful that the author intended such an argument, for this book is frankly a rewrite of his previous volume, Some Newspapers and Newspapermen, published in 1923. Most of the chapters are lifted from the earlier book, polished lightly here and there, or redone in some phases in order to weave into the description certain propositions the author has adopted about President Roosevelt and World War II. Discussion of the Kansas City Star is dropped and Frank Knox, Marshall Field, Eugene Meyer and Frank Gannett and their papers are added. In the first chapter and when improvising a title, Villard was introducing the thesis the title implies.
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SOURCE: Hughes, Helen MacGill. Review of The Disappearing Daily, by Oswald Garrison Villard. American Journal of Sociology 51, no. 1 (July 1945): 79.
[In the following review, Hughes finds The Disappearing Daily to be an interesting and readable account of the demise of the daily newspaper in America.]
Because of his long and honorable newspaper career, Mr. Villard should be given a respectful hearing whenever he feels moved to speak of the press. He could write the history of half-a-century of American journalism in terms of personal memoirs. This [The Disappearing Daily] volume continues the study begun with the publication of Some Newspapers and Newspapermen in 1923.
The daily is disappearing by way of extinction and amalgamation; its mortality rate is rising. In Villard's opinion it is also disappearing as a democratic force because the publishers are very rich men, committed to the defense of capitalism and conservatism. It is disappearing as a moral force, and the writing of editorials has become a conventional exercise that has no effect on public affairs.
In Newspaper Crusaders Silas Bent did a conscientious job of pinning good-conduct medals on deserving newspapers. Villard does the complementary work of chastising. His chapters are essentially editorials, most of which deplore and view with alarm. He judges newspapers by the...
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SOURCE: Kirchwey, Freda. "Oswald Garrison Villard." Nation 169, no. 15 (8 October 1949): 340.
[In the following essay, Kirchwey provides a brief history and assessment of Villard's influence on journalism.]
Applied to Oswald Garrison Villard, the word "liberal" never carried a connotation of mildness or indecision. Instead it called up the image of a crusading reformer, animated by strong convictions and fierce indignations, moving in to battle against the many varieties of social and political sin with which his time was so heavily afflicted. He titled his autobiography Fighting Years, and it was an accurate summing up of his public career. His liberalism lay in his devotion to freedom; it included little tolerance for political or other views which differed basically from his own. He would never have disputed another man's right to disagree with him about peace or racial equality or free trade; but it was hard to persuade him that such contrary views were sincerely held or honestly advocated. To him they were simply wrong, and to harbor wrong opinions was at least circumstantial evidence of evil motives. I once heard a famous newspaper publisher say plaintively: "I never could persuade Mr. Villard that I really disbelieved in woman's suffrage; he always thought there was something corrupt about our opposition to it." This attitude won him a reputation for pugnacity and...
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SOURCE: Gannett, Lewis. "Villard and His Nation." Nation 171, no. 4 (22 July 1950): 79-82.
[In the following essay, Gannett discusses the place of Villard and The Nation in journalistic history.]
Oswald Garrison Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents: the high-principled idealism of his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, and the high-principled realism of his railroad-building father, Henry Villard. He never understood the contradictions within the characters of both those stalwart Americans, or in himself. But it was those contradictions which made Villard the great editor that he was, and Villard's Nation the great paper that it was and is.
To understand Oswald Villard you must remember both the defiant masthead of Garrison's Liberator and the brownstone mansions which Stanford White built for Henry Villard behind St. Patrick's Cathedral—which Henry Villard lost in one of his swift changes of fortune. Oswald Villard grew up in a world full of stubborn principles, and of restless millions.
Garrison's immortal masthead, which Oswald Villard liked to recall several times a week, read, "I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!" Garrison was heard, and he didn't retreat a single inch, even to spare...
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SOURCE: Thernstrom, Stephan A. "Oswald Garrison Villard and the Politics of Pacifism." Harvard Library Bulletin 14, no. 1 (winter 1960): 126-52.
[In the following essay, Thernstrom discusses Villard's pacifist beliefs and the effect they had on his editorship of The Nation.]
'History, if honest history continues to be written, will have one question to ask of our generation,' Archibald MacLeish wrote in the Nation in May of 1940. Why, he wondered, had America's intellectuals failed to rise to the challenge of Fascism with 'the arms of scholarship and writing? It is a question the historians will ask with interest—the gentle, detached, not altogether loving interest with which historians have always questioned the impotent spirits of the dead.'1
Less than a month after MacLeish's indictment of 'The Irresponsibles' met the eyes of American liberal intellectuals, the Nation quietly announced the resignation of one of its weekly columnists, an angry crusading old man whose energy and influence made him a central figure in the moral crisis that shook American liberalism at the end of the Great Depression. Editor of the Nation in the twenties and early thirties, Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949) was the prophet of a great revolt against militarism in America. For a time, his pacifist views seemed to coincide with those of a whole generation of...
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SOURCE: Humes, D. Joy. "A Liberal's Concern for Individual Freedoms." In Oswald Garrison Villard, Liberal of the 1920's, pp. 33-75. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1960.
[In the following essay, Humes discusses Villard's commitment to freedom of speech and press in his life and career.]
The core of liberalism, historically, has been liberty or freedom. It was in the hope of achieving freedom that political democracies were born. The objective was a form of government best suited to guarantee to the individual maximum freedom from arbitrary and unlimited authority. Self-government seemed to offer the best solution.
Long considered a basic condition of successful self-government has been freedom of thought and expression. Only through the free exchange of information, ideas, and opinions can intelligent and wise decisions be made by those who were intended to be the ultimate source of political power. So long has free speech, press, and assembly been recognized as vital if self-government is to be more than just an empty form that Oswald Garrison Villard, writing in the mid-twenties, was moved to comment; "My subject is such an old one as to make it a ground for wonderment that in this day and generation we should still have to be making pleas for freedom of thought and freedom of the press." Villard reaffirmed their necessity to the maintenance of self-government. "There...
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Angoff, Charles. "Oswald Garrison Villard and The Nation: A Memoir. Antioch Review 23, no. 2 (summer 1963): 232-40.
[In the following essay, Angoff relates his own personal experiences with Oswald Garrison Villard, both positive and negative.]
I was editor of the Nation for less than a year, only about eight months, in 1935, and was unhappy there. That is twenty-eight years ago, and whatever personal ill-feeling I may have had, I believe, has disappeared. I was unhappy largely because I was disappointed. I had for years had a large respect, nay, an awe of that magazine and its editors. In Harvard, it, along with the New Republic, was my way-shower in the realms of politics and economics and the arts, especially literature. Carl Van Doren and Ludwig Lewisohn and "The Drifter" and Oswald Garrison Villard—these and others told me pretty much what I thought and what I argued for. I took them on faith. Even when I was on the Mercury I had respect for the Nation, despite Mencken's sneers at it.
Almost the first day I was on the Nation—I went there immediately after I left the Mercury—I was depressed by the tired feeling that seemed to pervade the office. I had expected a tenseness of concern for the problems of the world. Instead, I encountered a certain Gemütlichkeit that seemed to me more appropriate to the offices of the...
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SOURCE: Wreszin, Michael. "Introduction" and "Respectable Reform." In Oswald Garrison Villard: Pacifist at War, pp. 3-6; 25-37. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965.
[In the following essays, Wreszin provides a brief overview and assessment of Villard's career and discusses the reform issues Villard advocated in The Nation.]
In 1877 Henry Villard, returning to America from a business and pleasure trip abroad, moved into the new and fashionable Westmoreland Apartments at the corner of Seventeenth Street and Fifth Avenue just across from Union Square. The building, fitted out with one of the first private elevators in the city, was young Oswald Garrison Villard's home for a half dozen years of his early childhood. In the late twenties the apartments were torn down and the new edifice of the always old Tammany Hall was constructed on the spot. That fate should have placed a new Tammany Hall on the very place of William Lloyd Garrison's death symbolized to Villard the victory of expedient Realpolitik over principle.1 It could serve as a parable of Villard's losing fight over the three preceding decades.
In 1928 Villard, as editor of The Nation, was for many a prototype of the American liberal, the friend and staunch supporter of all reform. Ellery Sedgwick of The Atlantic announced that The Nation was "incomparably the best weekly...
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SOURCE: Gronowicz, Anthony. Introduction to Oswald Garrison Villard: The Dilemmas of the Absolute Pacifist in Two World Wars, edited by Anthony Gronowicz, pp. vii-xxi. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1983.
[In the following essay, Gronowicz details how Villard used the pages of his newspapers to advance his own fundamental goals, especially that of pacificism.]
Oswald Garrison Villard was owner and editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation during the first half of the twentieth century. His career as a pacifist paralleled the buildup of the American military from a minor auxiliary of the state to the "military-industrial complex"1 that dominates the economy of today.
The arms buildup began in the 1890's when private American enterprises encouraged government policymakers to develop a strong military, using the argument that national security required protection of foreign markets. Until that time, with the exception of the Civil War, the United States Army had never exceeded twenty-five thousand men. The United States was first industrially in 1880 and therefore possessed the economic capacity for such an endeavor. By the close of World War II the United States had the most powerful military in the world, while its forty-three percent share of industrial output was unsurpassed.
Villard fought against military expansion and...
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Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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| Posted by Alan M. | (Virginia Beach, VA)Once the rack is installed, it holds bikes securely in place and makes theft difficult. I had some problems installing the rack the first time and the instructions were of marginal help. I could not attach the trunk hooks without opening the trunk, once I attached the hooks it was just a matter of adjusting the cables to achieve the proper fit. The rack's size and weight make it difficult to handle while installing. I did not have any problems with trunk dents reported by some users. Two light weight folks could install it easily. Despite the initial installation problems, I recommend this bike rack for anyone that cannot use the trailer hitch version.
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On November 13, 2010, former German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer gave a luncheon keynote speech at Princeton University in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of its Liechtenstein Institute on Self-determination (LISD). Rosy Yang discussed the state of international politics, global security, and the future of organizations such as the G8 and G20 with former Vice Chancellor Fischer.
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September 27, 2008
Kevin Folk / Justine Rabell - Couple Brings Infant Along For Drug Deal Designed To Go Bad
Chandler, Arizona (The Weekly Vice) -- 19-year-olds Kevin Folk and Justine Rabell, who reside in Tempe Arizona, have been arrested after police say they arranged a crooked drug deal and then brought a 1-year-old infant along for the ride.
According to Chandler police, Rabell's infant son was in the back seat of a car as Kevin Folk and Justine Rabell sat in a Safeway parking lot, conducting a drug deal that was being monitored by police.
As detectives listened in, Folk and Rabell agreed to sell 46 ecstasy tablets for $700 - requesting the money in advance with a promise to return with the drugs. Later, the couple allegedly admitted that they planned to rip off the buyer by not returning with the drugs, according to court documents.
According to court documents, Folk told investigators that selling drugs and accepting money from relatives had been their only source of income for the past two months. He also told police he didn't think about the danger he would put the child in by taking him along on a drug deal.
Folk and Rabell were charged with suspicion of child abuse and drug offenses. Folk was ordered held on $9,000 bail while Rabell is ordered held on $9,788 bail.
Rabell has an outstanding charge for shoplifting that is still pending.
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- Diary of a Mad Army Wife said...
This is so sad. Playing Devil's Advocate here-let's say that selling drugs or ripping off wanna-be drug buyers is there only means of income, WHY did the Mom and child need to be along for the ride?
Did the child get put in protective custody? - September 28, 2008 at 9:18 AM
this is disgusting. what a bad mother. who sells drugs around there child? if this couple didn't care so much about taking a 1year old on a drug deal im sure they are still thinking only about them selves while they are sitting in jail. selling drugs and shoplifting, wow those parents are winners! its simple, get a job lowlives. i guess selling drugs and stealing is all a druggie mother and father can do.
i hope the baby has a better life after this. god bless - September 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM
My friend knows this couple we see them at raves every weekend, doing and selling drugs. This couple didn't seem like they had a child at all. My sister and I never thought those two were good people ever since they tried to rip off my older brother. My brother said the girl seemed like she thought she was the best drug dealer, in this case she wasn't.
I agree with Anonymous, it's not that hard to get a job and keep your baby safe.
I was hearing about what happened this weekend at a rave, it seemed like everyone knew about what happened. I'm sure we wont be seeing them at raves anymore. I hope it's alot safer now that this couple is in jail. - September 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM
- September 28, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Joseph, it's apparent you two are related. Stupidity seems to run in the family.
But you aren't fooling anyone.
It's quite clear that your sister is an unemployed burnout who is also a leach on the ass of society.
She's irresponsible with her child and is incapable of washing and combing her hair.
Bottom feeders like you will always spend a majority of your lives going from one court case to the next, because of the same mode of stupidity you've exhibited here.
People show concern for this little child and you're interested in getting in a fight over it?
Thanks for chirping in confirm for everyone else that you and her are indeed bottom feeders who should be watched very closely and arrested often - September 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM
I am deeply afflicted that my own child's mother would bring my son to a drug deal. Justine and myself had our son a year ago. After we seperated I went through numerous trials to attempt to gain custody of my son and Justine never appeared. She just seemed to fall off the face of the earth. Even though everyone had lost contact with her and pinal county CPS didn't keep to their word and drug test her, they still had the nerve to drop my case. This occured simply because Justine popped up out of nowhere and stated that I wasn't the father. They did not even bother to investigate this before they just dropped my case. I love my son with every ounce of who I am and it still devistates me that I cant hold onto him and kiss my little boy goodnight. There isn't a moment that passes that he isn't on my mind. -From a very loving and concerned father...
- September 28, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- Danny Vice said...
Have you been able to establish paternity yet?
Once you do that, you have rights - and the court cannot deny you those rights.
This child has been taken into protective custody for the time being, which means they WANT to find placement for this child, preferrably with a family member.
This is your chance to get involved.
Find out if authorities kept this in Chandler, or if the Department of family services in Tempe took over the case. Call them. Find out which division is working this case.
The arrested happened at the Safeway in Chandler, but Mom's address was in Tempe. Find out what office is closest to Tempe and start there.
I would be happy to help with any advice I can... but what I can tell you right now is THIS...
Court services absolutely NEEDS you to step forward, because the foster care system in Arizona is absolutely overloaded with kids. They need as many paternal placements as they can find.
Please let me know this is going. I'm concerned as well.
Danny Vice - September 28, 2008 at 8:41 PM
I dont think you guys should be talking about something you know nothing about i dont do extacy or drugs i may smoke pot occasionaly there is no room for any of you to call me a drug addict you dont even know me i am a wonderfull mother to my son he loves me very much. his father cheated on me and left me with him and did not give a damn about his son he never tried to get custody of him he is a pathological liar he disapeared for six months of my sons life and new my phone number and address and never came around. i was selling drugs to feed and cloth my son im sorry i tryed to get a job and no one would ever call back every where i go they want people with experience so im sorry i fucked up by selling drugs to survive none of you have room to talk about me especially if you dont know me so fuck offf
- October 6, 2008 at 6:24 PM
I don't buy the "sell drugs to survive" story. I looked up career builder for your area and there are tons of jobs being advertised. Are you telling me two healthy people can't get up in the morning and go to work like everyone else does?
Lazy people sell drugs to make lots of money in a short amount of time so they can continue their do nothing lifestyle - not for survival sake. - October 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM
So,by looking at the seemingly androgynous nature of the people in the photos,can anyone tell which one is Kevin? Both look as if they could use a shower and/or bath.
The photos included in this article underscores my theory that a lot of people will mate with ANYONE!! - October 6, 2008 at 8:31 PM
I don't buy the "sell drugs to survive" story
I don't as well. I'm surprised she didn't consider prostitution if it was a matter of survival. She's a junkie. Plain and simple. Besides,who would pay money to rub flesh against her ugly and filthy body?!! - October 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM
- Diary of a Mad Army Wife said...
Hey, Justine. I don't buy it either. I was a single mother of two children after I left my first husband (who was abusive and a cheat)...I never sold drugs. I had to live in a bad neighborhood and work two jobs, but I never decided to sell drugs. You were just lazy and wanted to party. This child should be kept very far from you.
- October 7, 2008 at 1:19 AM
ok you people are dumb i havea resume on jobing . com ad ive submitted it to many places no one calls. so stfu you dont know me and because my mug shot looks dirty doesnt mean i am. you dont know me so dont talk about me im sorry your lifes are so easy for you i was left with my son with no money or help his father is a peice of shit. sorry you guys have nothing better to do with your life except sit here and talk shit about people you dont know. get a life people do you not have anything better to do except sit infront of the computer and criticize people all day get a life
- October 7, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Justine....You should really consider your very own lack of communication skills before you call anyone dumb. If you fill out applications as as you've contributed to this blog....Well...
It's no wonder why you have not heard from any prospective employers. - October 7, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Justine....You should really consider your very own lack of communication skills before you call anyone dumb. If you fill out applications as BAD as you've contributed to this blog....Well...
It's no wonder why you have not heard from any prospective employers.
Had to do a re-write. Stupidity IS contagious!! - October 7, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- Diary of a Mad Army Wife said...
You have to do more than submit your resume online (and I do hope you used a spelling and grammar checking program)...You have to be out there every day putting in applications, dressed in a professional manner. Maybe you consider yourself too good to work in fast food, because you'd be almost guaranteed to get one of those jobs.
Stop using the excuse of being alone with a child. I was alone with 2 children, and when I left my first husband, I had no where to go, no support. I know it is difficult to get work in a bad economy..I had attended Duke University and had a decent resume and still had trouble finding more than a cashier job...So I worked 2 cashier jobs to make ends meet. There is a way to do things without breaking the law. There are shelters and there are communtiy programs that help with locating jobs and housing for people in situations such as yours. You may even have qualified for free housing. They will even give you job training classes and help you put together a good resume.
There is NO excuse. Instead of being defensive, you should realize what you did was just plain wrong. Otherwise, there is no hope for improvement. You should note that my first comment only questioned why you took your baby with you...you cannot defend that action no matter what you say. There is help if you ask for it.
Danny, you should probably show "Justine"'s comments to law enforcement. They prove she thinks she did not wrong and has no plans to change her ways. That child is in very real danger if she gets to keep raising him. - October 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
- Schante' said...
I want to start off by saying that I know Kevin Folk personally, and he is not a bad person. He is also not the father of this child, so people saying he is a horrible father, that's false. EVERYONE makes mistakes in their lives.....No one is perfect. On a different note, I will not justify the mistake that he made. It was a stupid decision, but he is not a bad person. He is actually very sweet, and is making a lot of great decisions to better his life.
I do not know Justine, but haven't heard good things about her. I definitely think it was a horrible and very selfish decision to bring her son along to a drug deal. I also don't believe that she couldn't find a job.....That's something lazy people say. - January 18, 2012 at 12:45 AM
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Is it true that left-handed people are smarter than right-handed people?
—Matthew Robison, Concord, N.H.
Chris McManus, professor of psychology and medical education at University College London, responds:
If by intelligent you mean someone who performs better on IQ tests, the simple answer is no. Studies in the U.K., U.S. and Australia have revealed that left-handed people differ from right-handers by only one IQ point, which is not noteworthy.
Left-handedness is, however, much more common among individuals with severe learning difficulties, such as mental retardation. A slightly higher proportion of left-handers have dyslexia or a stutter. Other problems, such as a higher rate of accidents reported in left-handers, mostly result from a world designed for the convenience of right-handers, with many tools not made for left-handed use. Although some people claim that a higher percentage of left-handers are exceptionally bright, large research studies do not support this idea.
If by smarter you mean more talented in certain areas, left-handers may have an advantage. Left-handers' brains are structured differently from right-handers' in ways that can allow them to process language, spatial relations and emotions in more diverse and potentially creative ways. Also, a slightly larger number of left-handers than right-handers are especially gifted in music and math. A study of musicians in professional orchestras found a significantly greater proportion of talented left-handers, even among those who played instruments that seem designed for right-handers, such as violins. Similarly, studies of adolescents who took tests to assess mathematical giftedness found many more left-handers in the population. The fact that mathematicians are often musical may not be a coincidence.
For other talents and skills, the benefits of being left-handed are less clear. In one-on-one competitive sports, being in the minority can be a tactical advantage. For instance, most right-handed tennis players have little experience playing left-handers, whereas left-handers have plenty of experience playing right-handers. Sports arenas can also be asymmetric, which may give left-handers an advantage. In baseball, for instance, a left-handed hitter is closer to first base after striking the ball than a right-handed batter is.
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"The truth is there isn't a lot people can do about ambient air pollution," said Deborah Soligsohn, an environment and energy specialist at the World Resources Institute, a U.S. based think tank.
"Ambient air pollution is not nearly as large a health risk as more immediate forms of air pollution. Tobacco is a much larger killer, and indoor air pollution from poorly ventilated wood and coal fires has traditionally been a much larger killer in the developing world. Smoky restaurants and bars can have levels as high as these recent air pollution numbers."
I know a few expat friends who have decided to relocate out of Beijing and were mainly turned off by its bad air.
"What did you think of Beijing?" I asked David Van Dyke, who lived and worked in Beijing for nearly seven years before relocating to Canada last year.
"Mostly liked it, save for the Internet (censorship) and pollution," he said.
Meantime, some residents have resorted to humor and sarcasm online to vent their frustration.
"I love my city, but I refuse to be a human vacuum cleaner," netizens re-tweeted on Weibo, China's microblogging social media. "We want clean air, and we want to breathe freely."
Others posted pictures wearing face masks of various shapes and designs.
A page of Sohu.com featured a section covered with haze, with a note saying the headlines have been obscured by a massive smog. "Click on it, and it will clear up." Once it cleared it, the title read: "We live in a "toxic gas.'"
"Don't worry," Henry Ngo posted on my Facebook page. "Smokers are inhaling worst air than this. And they did not die immediately!"
Is this now the new "normal"?
Soligsohn, who lived in Beijing for 14 years, does not think so.
"This is a confluence of bad events," she assured me. "Pollution is definitely a problem. It hasn't gone away, but there is no reason to believe an extreme reading is anything other than an extreme."
There seems to be no quick solution.
"This is complex and takes time, but the work has begun," Soligsohn added.
"It took cities like London and Los Angeles almost half a century to get from really dirty air to pretty clean air, and LA has never actually fully met EPA standards, which have become tougher with new information."
Five days after what some have dubbed Beijing's "air-mageddon," the sunshine has reappeared, and the air has actually turned relatively clear.
My daughter points out that London and Los Angeles have confronted pollution as well. As long as the Chinese recognize it is a problem, they will eventually be able to strike a balance between a clean environment and a thriving economy."
Wind has dispersed some of the smog, although my chest remains heavy and my throat is still itchy.


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All Companies need to control and monitor visitors into their buildings. Free unrestricted access into buildings is not acceptable.
To help monitor and control visitors a simple visitor management system can be put in place either standalone or as part of an integrated access control system. Here at Ansador Ltd we offer a range of systems to suit the simplest need to the most advanced integrated system incorporating Photo ID, tracking and reporting and linking to other security systems around the building.
Visitor management systems offer a sensible alternative to scruffy visitor's books with curled up edges and illegible entries! The new visitor management systems allow building managers to create professional Visitor passes at reception with or without a photo on the badge. The badge would have pre-printed health and safety instructions on the reverse side. The visitor pass can also be set up to provide limited access into the building by printing onto an access card for the building.
Here is a check list of some of the things a new visitor management system can do.
- Print colour or black and white badges
- Centrally log visitors by name with photo verification?
- Require visitors to log out as they leave so alerting you to visitors that have not left yet
- Record all visitors so you can search who came to the office .
- Produce full reports of all visitors by date,name time etc
- Create an alarm if a visitor is overdue to leave
- Have an option of visitor badges to work as an access card as well.
- Record when and where a visitor/access card was used.
- Print your Company logo on the badge
- A central database accessible from more than one entrance to the building
- Create accompanied badge routines
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- Link the system to your in house cash less vending system
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QUINCY, ILL. -- A Quincy CEO is making world headlines for comments he made to a French official.
The controversy began after a French Industrial minister asked Titan International Chairman Maurice Taylor to buy a struggling Goodyear tire factory in France.
Morry Taylor said in a letter to the French Industrial Minister that his company doesn't have any interest in buying the french tire plant. In fact he says in his letter, "how stupid do you think we are?"
That letter was eventually released to the French media.
In the letter he said he would never invest in the doomed factory because it didn't make business sense.
"You're going to tell me my plan? You're going to tell how? I said, "Why don't you go to the union and all the government and they give you the money and you buy the plant. Okay? And you show me you want me to tell you something, you'll be broke, you ain't got enough money because you don't know what the hell you're talking about." That's really what I said," Taylor explained to KHQA's Jim Whitfield Thursday.
Click here to read from Reuters about the CEO's crushing summary of how some outsiders view France's work ethic.
Click here to view a French news story with a worker speaking out about Taylor's comments.
Taylor says the French workforce at that factory gets high wages for just three hours work every day. "You're at the highest paid of notably any industry and we're not looking to cut your pay, but I can tell you now, if we buy this facility, then I'm expecting six hours for the seven hours I gotta pay you," Taylor elaborated.
"They're very sensitive — the people in government in France," Taylor told ABC News today. "Maybe they should not wear briefs and use boxer shorts instead." Click here to read Taylor's response from ABC News.
Taylor is unapologetic for his letter.
"The reason my letter went to him, I thought maybe I could shame him as a minister and government people that he would start thinking of the working men and women, he didn't, he thought of himself that's why he leaked it," Taylor said regarding the letter. "After he leaked it and got my letter, he sends me this, you're an extremist, no, I'm not the extremist, you guys are the extremists, you're the extremists because you're running, you don't really give a damn about the working French men and women. He really doesn't. He's only interesting in trying to manipulate something so he's fighting an industrial American."
A no nonsense stance is nothing new for Morry Taylor ... According to Titan's website, he was nicknamed "The Grizz" by Wall Street analysts for his tough negotiating style."
Joblessness in France is at a 15-year high and the closing of the plant means the loss of another 1,173 jobs.
The French minister did say he plans on replying to the letter that was sent by Taylor. But at this time there has been nothing noted.
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Thank you for all of your entries!
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Third Day Biography & News
Third Day Details
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Third Day Discography
Top 10 Third Day Songs
Album Name | Release Year |
Move | 2010 |
Live Revelations | 2009 |
Revelation | 2008 |
Chronology, Volume Two: 2001-2006 | 2007 |
Christmas Offerings | 2006 |
Wherever You Are | 2005 |
Wire | 2004 |
Live Wire | 2004 |
Offerings II: All I Have to Give | 2003 |
The Offerings Experience | 2002 |
Come Together | 2001 |
Offerings | 2000 |
Southern Tracks | 1999 |
I've Always Loved You / Took My Place | 1999 |
Time | 1999 |
Conspiracy No. 5 | 1997 |
Alien | 1997 |
Sound and Spirit - Artist Link Extra | 1997 |
Third Day | 1997 |
Rank | Track Name | Play Count | Listener Count |
1 | Cry Out To Jesus | 8,654 | 4,085 |
2 | Call My Name | 7,716 | 3,698 |
3 | Show Me Your Glory | 7,449 | 3,459 |
4 | God of Wonders | 6,990 | 3,449 |
5 | Revelation | 7,240 | 3,343 |
6 | Mountain Of God | 5,454 | 2,843 |
7 | King Of Glory | 5,199 | 2,724 |
8 | Your Love Oh Lord | 4,948 | 2,673 |
9 | Nothing Compares | 5,079 | 2,601 |
10 | Tunnel | 4,588 | 2,438 |
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Third Day Tickets - On the Third Day....
Jesus rose again to proclaim the name of 'Third Day,' Christian rock band during the 1990s, formed in Marietta, Georgia. It was back in 1992 when lead singer and founder Mac Powell and guitarist Mark Lee and guitarist Billy Wilkins were playing at Lee's church on the same night drummer David Carr and bass guitarist Tai Anderson were playing in a band called the Bullard Family Singers. It was then that Mac, Mark, David, and Tai joined together to form the group Third Day. In 1993, Wilkins who at the time was working as a full-time teacher ended up leaving the band the moment Third Day began recording at Furies Studios for their very first album. After recruiting another guitarist, Brad Avery, their journey into Christian music stardom hit massively.
He Rose Again....
Long Time Forgotten was their first album, turning an indie record label's head named Gray Dot Records. Through that label, Third Day released their second album Third Day, which also got Reunion Records' attention as they offered Third Day a multi-album deal. Smash hits like 'Thief' and 'Grace Like Rain' became the signature Christian rock standard.
And Is Seated on the Right Hand of the Father
And it's no wonder they have that signature status; after all, Third Day's sound echoes of rustic country tones mixed with some heavy hard rock edges.
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Third Day APGFCU Arena - Harford Community College — Bel Air , MD
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Third Day Gillioz Theatre — Springfield , MO
Third Day The Aiken Theatre at The Centre — Evansville , IN
PointFest Christian Music Festival with Third Day, Toby Mac, Building 429 Cedar Point Amusement Park — Sandusky , OH
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Third Day Independence Events Center — Independence , MO
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Third Day Wicomico Civic Center — Salisbury , MD
Third Day Fox Theatre Atlanta — Atlanta , GA
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Third Day Southeast Christian Church — Louisville , KY
Third Day with Colton Dixon Lovett Auditorium — Murray , KY
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Third Day The Aiken Theatre at The Centre — Evansville , IN
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date city state venue 12/13/2013 Bel Air MD APGFCU Arena - Harford Community College 12/07/2013 Saint Paul MN Xcel Energy Center 11/15/2013 Troy OH Hobart Arena 11/10/2013 Arlington TX Rangers Ballpark in Arlington 11/09/2013 Springfield MO Gillioz Theatre 10/20/2013 Evansville IN The Aiken Theatre at The Centre 09/14/2013 Sandusky OH Cedar Point Amusement Park 09/12/2013 New York NY Beacon Theatre 07/16/2013 Sacramento CA California Exposition and State Fair 07/07/2013 Independence MO Independence Events Center 06/29/2013 Irvine CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Irvine 06/27/2013 Albuquerque NM Calvary of Albuquerque 06/19/2013 Del Mar CA Del Mar Fairgrounds 05/19/2013 Orlando FL First Baptist Church Orlando 05/18/2013 West Palm Beach FL Cruzan Amphitheatre 05/16/2013 Clearwater FL Countryside Christian Center 05/11/2013 Huntsville AL Von Braun Center Concert Hall 05/10/2013 Louisville KY Southeast Christian Church 05/08/2013 Bloomington IL US Cellular Coliseum 05/07/2013 Jonesboro AR ASU Convocation Center 05/04/2013 Grand Rapids MI Sunshine Community Church 05/03/2013 Brookfield WI Elmbrook Church 05/02/2013 Carmel IN Northview Church 05/01/2013 Carmel IN Northview Church 04/27/2013 Greeley CO Union Colony Civic Center 04/25/2013 Grand Island NE Heartland Events Center 04/24/2013 Tulsa OK Tulsa Convention Center 04/21/2013 Chattanooga TN Abbott House 04/20/2013 Greensboro NC Greensboro Coliseum 04/19/2013 Nashville TN Allen Arena 04/18/2013 Monroe LA Monroe Civic Center Arena 04/14/2013 Saint Augustine FL St Augustine Amphitheatre 04/13/2013 Atlanta GA Fox Theatre Atlanta 04/12/2013 Birmingham AL BJCC Arena 04/11/2013 North Little Rock AR Verizon Arena 04/06/2013 Grand Prairie TX Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie 04/05/2013 Memphis TN Hope Church 04/04/2013 Jackson MS Broadmoor Baptist Church 03/24/2013 Columbus OH Grove City Church Of The Nazarene 03/23/2013 Johnstown PA Cambria County War Memorial Arena 03/22/2013 Reading PA Santander Arena 03/21/2013 Charleston WV Charleston Municipal Auditorium 03/17/2013 Charlotte NC Bojangles Coliseum 03/16/2013 Mobile AL Mobile Civic Center Arena 03/15/2013 Greenville SC Bon Secours Wellness Arena 03/14/2013 Charlottesville VA John Paul Jones Arena 03/13/2013 Atlanta GA Fox Theatre Atlanta 03/10/2013 Murray KY Lovett Auditorium 03/09/2013 Johnson City TN Freedom Hall Civic Center 03/07/2013 Akron OH Akron Baptist Temple 03/03/2013 Bangor ME Bangor Auditorium 03/02/2013 Lowell MA Tsongas Center 03/01/2013 Glens Falls NY Glens Falls Civic Center 02/28/2013 Salisbury MD Wicomico Civic Center 02/23/2013 Erie PA Warner Theatre 02/22/2013 Lynchburg VA Vines Center 02/21/2013 Fairfax VA Patriot Center Third Day Tour Dates 2012
date city state venue 11/02/2012 Asheville NC The Orange Peel 08/18/2012 Fairfax VA Patriot Center 08/07/2012 Darien Center NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center 08/05/2012 Darien Center NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center 07/11/2012 Willmar MN Willmar Civic Center 07/07/2012 Independence MO Independence Events Center 06/03/2012 Clarkston MI DTE Energy Music Theatre 05/19/2012 Myrtle Beach SC Downtown Myrtle Beach 05/10/2012 Kennewick WA Toyota Center 03/25/2012 Corpus Christi TX Selena Auditorium 03/22/2012 Topeka KS Topeka Performing Arts Center 03/15/2012 Wheeling WV Capitol Music Hall 03/09/2012 Plant City FL Florida Strawberry Festival Third Day Tour Dates 2011
date city state venue 11/20/2011 Phoenix AZ Grand Canyon University Arena 11/19/2011 Albuquerque NM Kiva Auditorium 11/13/2011 Round Rock TX Dell Diamond 11/06/2011 Wilkes Barre PA Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza 11/05/2011 Baltimore MD Meyerhoff Symphony Hall 11/04/2011 Lowell MA Lowell Memorial Auditorium 11/02/2011 New York NY Terminal 5 10/29/2011 Augusta ME Augusta Civic Center 10/28/2011 Hershey PA Giant Center 10/27/2011 Canton OH Canton Civic Center 10/23/2011 Waukegan IL Genesee Theatre 10/22/2011 Springfield IL Prairie Capital Convention Center 10/21/2011 Fort Wayne IN Embassy Theatre 10/20/2011 Troy OH Hobart Arena 10/16/2011 Council Bluffs IA Mid America Center 10/14/2011 Eden Prairie MN Grace Church of Eden 10/09/2011 Tupelo MS BancorpSouth Arena 10/06/2011 Baton Rouge LA Baton Rouge River Center Arena 10/02/2011 Charlottesville VA nTelos Wireless Pavilion Charlottesville 10/01/2011 Alpharetta GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park 09/30/2011 Portsmouth VA nTelos Wireless Pavilion 09/24/2011 West Lafayette IN Elliott Hall of Music 09/23/2011 Du Quoin IL Duquoin State Fair 09/22/2011 Jonesboro AR ASU Convocation Center 09/18/2011 Clarkston MI DTE Energy Music Theatre 09/17/2011 Cypress TX Berry Center 09/16/2011 Hutchinson KS Kansas State Fair 08/10/2011 Indianapolis IN Indiana State Fairgrounds 07/16/2011 Kansas City MO Worlds of Fun 06/25/2011 Irvine CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Irvine 06/25/2011 Canal Fulton OH Atwood Lake Park 06/24/2011 Del Mar CA Del Mar Fairgrounds 06/22/2011 Canal Fulton OH Atwood Lake Park 05/21/2011 West Palm Beach FL Cruzan Amphitheatre 05/20/2011 Estero FL Germain Arena 05/14/2011 Nashville TN Ryman Auditorium 05/13/2011 Greensboro NC Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center 05/13/2011 Greensboro NC Greensboro Coliseum 05/12/2011 Chattanooga TN Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium 05/07/2011 Saginaw MI Dow Event Center 05/05/2011 Louisville KY Broadbent Arena 05/04/2011 Salem VA Salem Civic Center 05/01/2011 Kansas City KS Memorial Hall 04/17/2011 Macon GA Macon Centreplex 04/16/2011 Greenville SC Timmons Arena 04/15/2011 Knoxville TN Knoxville Civic Auditorium 04/01/2011 Fairfax VA Patriot Center 03/31/2011 Johnson City TN Freedom Hall Civic Center 03/31/2011 Louisville KY Freedom Hall 03/27/2011 Charleston WV Charleston Municipal Auditorium 03/26/2011 Johnstown PA Cambria County War Memorial Arena 03/20/2011 Joplin MO Joplin Memorial Hall 03/19/2011 Grand Prairie TX Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie 03/17/2011 Jackson MS Thalia Mara Hall 03/12/2011 Davenport IA Adler Theatre Third Day Tour Dates 2010
date city state venue 12/03/2010 Asheville NC U.S. Cellular Center 10/30/2010 Fayetteville NC Crown Center of Cumberland County 10/29/2010 Dayton OH Wright State University Nutter Center 10/28/2010 Green Bay WI Resch Center 10/27/2010 Cedar Rapids IA US Cellular Center 10/24/2010 Topeka KS Kansas Expocentre 10/23/2010 Wichita Falls TX Kay Yeager Coliseum 10/22/2010 Lubbock TX United Spirit Arena 10/21/2010 Colorado Springs CO World Arena 10/17/2010 Glendale AZ Jobing.com Arena 10/16/2010 Ontario CA Citizens Business Bank Arena 10/15/2010 Bakersfield CA Rabobank Arena Theater and Convention Center 10/14/2010 San Jose CA SAP Center 10/10/2010 Columbus GA Columbus Civic Center 10/09/2010 Lafayette LA Cajundome 10/08/2010 Beaumont TX Ford Park 10/07/2010 Austin TX Frank Erwin Center 10/03/2010 Cape Girardeau MO Show Me Center 10/02/2010 Alpharetta GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park 10/01/2010 Corbin KY Southeastern Kentucky Agricultural Center 09/30/2010 Youngstown OH Covelli Centre 09/19/2010 Clarkston MI DTE Energy Music Theatre 08/09/2010 West Allis WI Wisconsin State Fair 07/17/2010 Tualatin OR Rolling Hills Community Church 07/16/2010 Central Point OR Lithia Motors Amphitheater


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Name | Bob Brinklow |
Job Title | eCommerce Director |
Organization | Strangewood Group |
Registered Since | 4 Dec 2007 |
Areas of Expertise | Ecommerce, Lead Generation, Multichannel Marketing, Paid Search (PPC), Web Project Management |
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About Me
Dynamic, hands on and results-oriented Retail & e-Commerce Executive offering a solid background of online marketing experience highlighted by significant accomplishments. Innovative and organised with a history of developing comprehensive strategies and translating them into practical tactics producing results. Outstanding communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with a reputation for forming productive business relationships. Natural leader who builds cohesive teams and fosters collaborative efforts, providing the motivation and direction to drive excellence. Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and time management skills with proven success at making the difficult decisions whilst handling multiple responsibilities in high-pressure environments. An Entrepreneurial, passionate, honest, tenacious optimist fully conversant with all key success metrics for the e-commerce space with a real desire to win.
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Commodity trading advisors (CTAs) execute trades for their customers. Their customers have arrangements with introducing brokers (IBs) and/or a futures commission merchant (FCM). The CTA also has relationships with executing brokers who must maintain relationships with the various FCMs of all those customers.
The MF Global debacle created unique problems for CTAs. Their customers who cleared though MF Global had their accounts frozen on and off in the days following the bankruptcy filing. If they executed through MF Global that was another problem. And with MF Global customers on liquidation-only, other brokers were apprehensive and technically restricted from taking MF Global business. An executing broker giving up MF Global really has no way of knowing if a trade is a liquidation.
Adding to the mess is the fact that CTAs are not the customer and were not in the information loop — such as its was, which wasn't good — in the days following the bankruptcy. This was particularly dangerous as the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) liquidating trustee and exchanges moved accounts to new FCMs.
Marc Levitt, principal of Silicon Valley Quantitative Trading, wrote the following note to his customers on Nov. 4: "What I will need to know from you is if you will be posting more margin to your account if called on by the new FCM or will be liquidating the currently open positions."
The positions were profitable but Levitt did not know how much margin would be transferred or whether they would be able to retain their open trade equity. They weren't.
Complicating the matter was lack of communication. The letter goes on: "What is important is that in the next 24-48 hours or so you will likely be informed of your account transferring to a broker. Please let me know ASAP when this occurs, to whom, and any contact information you may receive."
Scot Billington, principal of CTA Covenant Capital, called the situation a "pain in the ass" but added it could have been worse. Billington operates a long-term trend following program and didn't have any orders to execute, which was a good thing because his executing brokers could not accept MF Global give-ups.
He did receive notice from JP Morgan that they were not accepting any give-ups. This was a problem as one of his customers cleared JP Morgan but he had no relationship with its order desk.
"As a CTA you constantly take risks and try to manage those risks," says Robb Ross, principal of CTA White Indian Trading. "One thing that you don't want to deal with and you don't want to manage is the risk of your FCM failing."
But dozens of CTAs had to deal with the MF Global situation and likely will be dealing with it for months to come.
Ross, who executed some business with and had customers clearing through MF Global, was solicited by a competing FCM on Wednesday, Oct. 26, which stated, "Hi Robb, I know you have some business over [at] MF Global. You may have heard that they have been having some problems. We'd certainly like your business."
It was not an unusual call as clearing and execution is a very competitive business. Ross, however, was very happy with MF Global and, after all, his customers' money was safe, even if the worst happened and MF Global failed. In a refrain unfortunately repeated across the industry, Ross notes, "All the client funds are segregated, meaning that the firm could lose every dime, but those client funds are in separate accounts and not used for FCM business operations."
Get out
The first hurdle was getting customers flat, either for safety or part of normal operations. Levitt had a lumber roll to execute but could only liquidate one leg at MF Global and would have to put on the new position at a separate broker with new margin. He also had a yen position to liquidate, which was critical as the Bank of Japan had just intervened in the market that day.
Spreads added complications but options were worse. Ross was informed from his MF Global broker early Monday, Oct. 31, that all his stops were cancelled. "I had dozens of option straddles on with stops in the underlying futures markets. Now I had no stops, total exposure," Ross says. "Then the broker informed me that he had no ability to place any orders."
Ross decided to wire transfer as much capital as possible out of MF Global but it was too late. His MF Global broker told him around 9:00 that morning that another firm would liquidate his position as a give-up. This would be a trick as he didn't have margin with them and no way to transfer funds from MF Global. Luckily his broker called back and said, "Robb, they've let us back in the system. I can execute trades right at this moment."
Ross was able to get flat and notes that the window of opportunity closed one hour later. "MFG brokers could no longer make trades. I had jumped through the window at the right time."
This highlights another problem. At various point in the days immediately following the bankruptcy filing, MF Global brokers had on-again/off-again access to markets. While customers were supposed to be able to liquidate orders, it was a crap shoot.
CTA and investor Andrew Abraham had 11 accounts with MF Global to transfer in the week leading up to the Oct. 31 bankruptcy. Two of them were transferred with both positions and capital; seven had the positions moved without capital; in two cases only some postions were moved and none of the capital. "It was an absolute mess," Abraham says.
"In the first 48 hours or so we tried to get out of these positions and nobody would take the give-ups," says Stanley Haar of Haar Capital Management. "In some cases they wouldn't pick up the phone. The Kansas City Board of Trade wouldn't pick up the phone from the MF Global desk starting on Monday, which I don't blame them for."
Those accounts that were liquidated after the bankruptcy had a problem as the trustee refused to transfer cash positions of customers who liquidated after Oct. 31. Those customers did not receive the 60% in the second "cash only" bulk transfer but should be part of the third bulk transfer approved on Dec. 9.
Haar is very critical of the way the liquidation process transpired. "They left us with zero percent of the equity and 100% of the risk for a full week, which is beyond absurd, it is almost criminal."
These various glitches are perhaps why it was a CTA who launched the Commodity Customer Coalition (CCC).
Haar had about 10% of his business frozen as well as one of his personal trading accounts. "Obviously it is lost revenues, lost trading opportunities and a nightmare having to spend so much time battling to get money back for our clients, which is obviously subtracted from [the] time we dedicate to manage trading," Haar says.
Haar, along with many CTAs, took an active role with the CCC. "One of the more gratifying things in this whole episode was seeing how people who didn't know each other before and to a certain degree were competitors, all came together because we recognized after the first week went by and there was almost total silence from everyone who should have been playing an active role, that we were on our own and there was no one representing our interests."
Haar says it took the CME a week to respond and is still waiting on the CFTC. "The CFTC has been brain dead basically all through this process," he says.
And it is a process because CTAs are dealing with new brokers and how they should treat positions and performance. Like the initial reaction to the bankruptcy, they have not been given much help.
"The (National Futures Association) has said nothing. They [advised commodity pools] on what to tell clients but not in terms of performance," Levitt says. "I am treating November as if all accounts were traded, though for three weeks there was no activity. My performance was up just short of 1% calculating my NAV that way. If you actually took out the accounts that were frozen, I was actually up 2.5% for the month on an unencumbered account."
Others are reporting the same and it is easy to see an accounting nightmare when things get back to normal. But the first problem will be holding onto customers. In the early days following the filing many CTAs reported that customers exclaimed they were leaving.
"It screwed me up," says Abraham. "People who were going to give me an allocation backed off because they lost confidence in the market."
Abraham's CTA became registered this summer. Courting high-net-worth customers is often a several month process and his work was destroyed in a matter of days.
Jason Skole was particularly upset because he has nearly $200,000 frozen and has only received about 4%. With such a large amount frozen, he did not remargin his account once it was transferred. "I didn't put any more money in, which is a pity because [my CTA] is up 15% since then. I really didn't want to commit anything else."
Skole is unsure whether or not he will continue with his managed futures investment after this is all over. "When this occurred I said I would pull everything out once it all gets settled, but I am not sure."
While there is still hope people will be made whole, Skole certainly won't get those returns he should have earned, his broker won't get the commissions on those trades his CTA would have made and the CTA will not get the incentive on those profits he would have earned.
Levitt says the situation highlights the need for CTAs to have an advocate. "I do think CTAs, especially 'small CTAs,' could use their own voice within the industry. As we discussed, the NFA has been silent (Managed Funds Association too) in general and no one is really advocating for CTAs. The CCC is very aligned with this cause and perhaps it will splinter off into something after MF Global has settled down."


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The Pros and Cons of Two-Factor Authentication
By Steve Kinman in Business, Executive Blog, SoftLayerThe government (FISMA), banks (PCI) and the healthcare industry are huge proponents of two-factor authentication, a security measure that requires two different kinds of evidence that you are who you say you are … or that you should have access to what you're trying to access. In many cases, it involves using a combination of a physical device and a secure password, so those huge industries were early adopters of the practice. In our definition, two-factor authentication is providing "something you know, and something you have." When you're talking about national security, money or people's lives, you don't want someone with "password" as their password to unwittingly share his or her access to reams valuable information.
What is there not to like about two-factor identification?
That question is one of the biggest issues I've run into as we continue pursuing compliance and best practices in security … We can turn on two-factor authentication everywhere – the portal, the vpn, the PoPs, internal servers, desktops, wireless devices – and make the entire SoftLayer IS team hate us, or we can tell all the admins, auditors and security chiefs of the world to harden their infrastructure without it.
Regardless of which direction we go, someone isn't going to like me when this decision is made.
There are definite pros and cons of implementing and requiring two-factor authentication everywhere, so I started a running list that I've copied below. At the end of this post, I'd love for you to weigh in with your thoughts on this subject. Any ideas and perspective you can provide as a customer will help us make informed decisions as we move forward.
- It's secure. Really secure.
- It is a great deterrent. Why even try to hack an account when you know a secondary token is going to be needed (and only good for a few seconds)?
- It can keep you or your company from being in the news for all the wrong reasons!
- It's slow and cumbersome … Let's do some math, 700 employees, 6 logins per day on average means 4200 logins per day. Assume 4 seconds per two-factor login, and you're looking at 16,800 extra seconds (4.66 hours) a day shifted from productivity to simply logging into your systems.
- Users have to "have" their "something you have" all the time … Whether that's an iPhone, a keyfob or a credit card-sized token card.
- RSA SecureID was HACKED! I know of at least one financial firm that had to turn off two-factor authentication after this came up.
- People don't like the extra typing.
- System Administrators hate the overhead on their systems and the extra points of failure.
As you can start to see, the volume of cons out weigh out the pros, but the comparison isn't necessarily quantitative. If one point is qualitatively more significant than two hundred contrasting points, which do you pay attention to? If you say "the significant point," then the question becomes how we quantify the qualitativeness … if that makes any sense.
I had been a long-time hater of two-factor authentication because of my history as a Windows sysadmin, but as I've progressed in my career, I hate to admit that I became a solid member of Team Two-Factor and support its merits. I think the qualitative significance of the pros out weigh the quantitative advantage the cons have, so as much as it hurts, I now get to try to sway our senior systems managers to the dark side as well.
If you support my push for further two-factor authentication implementation, wish me luck ('cause I will need it). If you're on Team Anti-Two-Factor, let me know what they key points are when you've decided against it.