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"The writer is the creator of motion pictures!"
It was a manifesto. A defiant challenge. The date: April 6, 1933. The place: the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. The speaker: John Howard Lawson, shouting to an audience of nearly 200 fellow screenwriters at the inaugural meeting of the Screen Writers Guild where he had just been elected president.
"The writer is the creator of motion pictures!"
It was also a declaration of war.
"Those words," Lawson later recalled, "were sufficient to ensure the eternal enmity of the producers against writers."
And so they were. The decision by Hollywood screenwriters to form a protective union was the opening shot in a long and bitter war with producers that threatened not only writers but the entire motion picture industry. You could call Lawson's speech the opening salvo in "The 70 Years War." A few ceasefires and truces have interrupted the conflict, but otherwise many of the issues, much of the rhetoric, and most of the tactics remain today.
Back in 1933, the general leading the first counterattack against writers was Irving Thalberg, a wunderkind production head at MGM and arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood. Thalberg considered himself a champion of studio writers and saw their organizing campaign as a personal betrayal. Thalberg believed that Hollywood screenwriters had nothing to complain about. "Those writers are living like kings," he quipped. "Why on Earth would they want to join a union like coal miners or plumbers?"
The writers at that first meeting did not feel like kings. They felt abused and betrayed and enraged. The prior month, Louis B. Mayer and the other studio heads had forced a 50 percent pay cut on the contract writers as well as on other studio employees. Writers felt this cut was a ploy to maintain studio profits. (A 1935 government study revealed that at the same time as the salary cuts, executives were awarding themselves bonuses of 20 percent to 25 percent of net earnings. While Hollywood employee salaries declined by 16.1 percent, movie box office receipts rose from 78.86 percent to 84.12 percent.) The only studio employees spared pay cuts were the carpenters, electricians, and craftsmen, who happened to be protected by the only union shop in the film industry, the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees.
That fact was duly noted by the writing and acting communities.
There were other grievances, listed by Lawson in a 1977 Cineaste magazine: "Prior to the founding of the SWG in 1933, Hollywood writers were treated with contempt; it was not uncommon for eight or 10 writers to work on one script, with screen credit whimsically distributed among the producers' in-laws, golf partners, or bookies." By wielding the power of credit allocation, a producer could elevate or stifle the career of a writer simply by adding or deleting a writer's name from the finished film.
This David-and-Goliath battle became a fight for survival on both sides; the sovereignty of the producers versus the writer's right to bargain as a collective organization. The producers were determined to crush the rebellion by these so-called "reds and radicals." Thalberg vowed that the Guilds would be established at MGM, "over my dead body" (a statement more prophetic than he could have imagined). The producers viewed the formation of the Guild as nothing less than "a communist attempt to infiltrate, subvert, and ultimately take control of the motion picture business." The producers stood firm, shoulder to shoulder behind General Thalberg and his strongest ally, the head of production over at Warners: Darryl F. Zanuck.
Like Thalberg, Zanuck felt he had great respect for writers and had maintained close relationships with many. After all, he'd been one too, beginning his Hollywood career in the 1920s as a writer, selling his second story to Thalberg in 1922, writing more than 40 silent movie scripts, many starring the celebrity dog Rin Tin Tin. And so he shared Thalberg's feelings of personal betrayal when writers attempted to unionize.
Ironically, it had been Thalberg and Zanuck who expressed opposition to the pay cuts instituted by their respective bosses (Mayer and Harry Warner), citing that the cuts severely damaged morale. When Warner refused to restore the salaries, Zanuck had a heated blowout at the Brown Derby restaurant with him. The following day, Zanuck released a statement to the press: "…I announced that the salary cuts decided on March 15 last be restored immediately. This promise has now been repudiated, and since a matter of principle is involved…I have sent my resignation to the Chairman of the Company, Mr. Jack Warner."
Soon afterward, while the Screen Writers Guild was forming, Zanuck co-founded Twentieth Century Pictures in 1933.
Thalberg and Zanuck were not the only producers in town who appreciated the writers' contributions to the industry. In February 1933, Sam Goldwyn told the New York Times, "A writer who turns in a good story, or a director who does a fine job, is worth all the money he gets."
In addition to opposition from the producers, Guild organizers had to deal with a mutiny within their own ranks. Many writers did not go along with the idea of unionizing, some out of loyalty, others out of fear. Lawson recalled that at that first Guild meeting, he detected tension and fear in the crowd. During his speech Lawson asked the writers to sign a "pledge to strike" as a show of unity. Out of the crowd of 200, only 75 writers, including SWG vice president Frances Marion, signed the contract. This didn't deter Lawson or the others from pushing on. Lawson insisted that the writers withdraw from the producer-dominated Academy. By mid-1933, more than 400 members were in the Guild, even though officially only 268 writers were employed by the studios.
In 1934, the writers boycotted the Academy Awards in protest against the producers' refusal to recognize the SWG. Actors joined the writers on the picket lines outside the Roosevelt hotel, where the awards were held, and such solidarity frightened the producers, fueling Thalberg's determination to crush the Guild.
By 1935, support for the SWG had grown, but they were no closer to an agreement with the studios. The struggle between writers and producers even inspired a morale-building theme song, "The Screen Writers Marching Song" by Henry Meyers.
Here Come the Judges
Then a federal court dealt a severe blow to the Guild, declaring the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional. SWG continued its struggle to unionize while the court's decision was challenged. Seizing the moment, on September 25, 1935, AMPAS announced that the producers had revised the basic agreement. These Academy revisions blatantly excluded many of the requests made by the Guild: Producers still refused to supply transportation, or room and board for writers while on location, nor would writers get the right of approval before being lent out to other studios. AMPAS also left out the "no blacklist" provision, as well as the request that agreements between the producers would not restrict competitive bidding on writer's services. The Academy also insisted that producers retain the right to determine credits based on their assessment of a writer's contributions. If a writer disagreed with the producer's decision, he could appeal to the Writers Adjustment Committee of the Academy. But even if the committee sided with the writer, the producer would still be able to allocate credits.
SWG saw these moves as blatant opportunism. Obviously, the producers were leveraging the court's decision and moving to reduce the union's authority and eventually destroy it altogether. Under its recently elected president Ernest Pascal, the Guild set out to muscle up their membership base. Many writers who had not initially sided with the Guild now were outraged by the Academy's revised contract. Newcomers to the ranks included Morrie Ryskind, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Theodore Dreiser, and Lillian Hellman. This fortification emboldened the Guild, which suddenly boasted 990 members, while the membership of writers in the company-union Academy dwindled to a mere 35.
Still, the Guild needed to find some way of effectively dealing with the studios if the writers went on strike, as the producers owned a stockpile of their scripts. To gain leverage with the producers, they decided to forge a strong alliance with the existing writers guilds on the East Coast. In the summer of 1935, the leadership of SWG, the Authors League of America, and the Dramatists Guild met in Hollywood. Together they represented 90 percent of the writers in America. There had been a loose agreement among the guilds since 1933, but they now sought to form a real partnership.
Lawson, who also served on the council of the Authors League of America, felt these alliances were essential to strengthen the writer's position. "The motion picture business is essentially the business of exploitation of the creative ideas of writers," Lawson said. This alliance would bind all writers together. It was agreed that if the screenwriters had to strike, the other guilds would refuse to sell any works to the motion picture producers. The studios denounced this tactical maneuver as a diabolical plot by the New York guilds that, in the words of Zanuck, "hate the moving picture business and hate Hollywood and make fun of it…[it's all a plot] to get a lot of writers under their control."
The media obediently echoed that point-of-view. The April 25th issue of the producer-friendly Motion Picture Herald shouted, "WRITER DICATORSHIP LOOMS ON THE COAST WITH STRIKE WEAPON."
Then, at the Academy Awards in February 1936, the battle between the Guild and the Academy escalated. The Academy was campaigning for MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty, produced by Thalberg, while the guilds championed The Informer and its screenplay by Nichols.
The guilds triumphed, but when Nichols won for Best Screenplay, he turned down the award. In a letter to the Academy, Nichols wrote: "To accept it (the award) would be to turn my back on nearly a thousand members of the Writers Guild, to desert those fellow-writers who ventured everything in the long-drawn-out fight for a genuine writers organization, to go back on convictions honestly arrived at, and to invalidate three years work in the Guild, which I should like to look back upon with respect…" Nichols, a founding member of the SWG, happened to be among the highest-paid writers in Hollywood.
Nichols' act of defiance was boosted by the fact that only 20 members of SAG and 13 SWG members attended the awards ceremony. This boycott of the Academy's hallowed event demonstrated solidarity among writers and actors.
In March, SWG turned up the heat by invoking Article XII of the Screen Writers Guild code, which provides that upon order of the Board, members can be ordered to refrain from contracting for their services or material for a period beyond a specific date. Guild president Pascal announced that the Board would invoke this provision and pass a resolution prohibiting SWG members from signing contracts binding their services or sale of material beyond May 2, 1938-two years from then. This would buy the Guild some time until their annual meeting May 2, 1936, when they could vote on a resolution of amalgamation with the other writers' unions.
A War Escalates
Pascal laid out the Guild's position and plans in the April 1936 issue of the Screen Guilds' Magazine in an article titled "ONE Organization for ALL American Writers."
Guild president Pascal began with the words, "Basically the problem of all writers is the same, and always has been. It consists invariably of a struggle between the writer and businessmen, who seek to exploit that which the writer creates for monetary gain. And when, as so often happens, these businessmen gather together, as it were, into combines and corporations, then the individual writer is as helpless against them as a babe in arms."
Pascal aimed his next shot directly at his employer, Zanuck. In a personal letter dated April 26, Pascal objected to being "branded a 'radical,' an 'agitator,' and the 'false' leader of a few 'power-seeking' individuals who wish to disrupt this industry," clarifying that "it is ridiculous to imagine that the Guild…would ever entertain the intent of doing any act harmful or inimical to the artistic or commercial interests of the industry."
Zanuck fired back at Pascal in a letter [see page 42]. He concluded: "I urge you, Ernest, to publicly abandon a policy which will cause more pain than it can ever remedy and which, in the long run, will only bring you misery because of your failure to effect a cure on a patient which is already strong, healthy, and normal-to wit: the moving picture industry."
In response to Zanuck's assertion that the producer-dominated AMPAS provided the writers with protection, Dorothy Parker cracked, "Looking to the Academy for representation was like trying to get laid in your mother's house. Somebody was always in the parlor watching."
In the meantime, Thalberg implemented a troop surge by organizing a "flying squadron" made up of four "loyal" writers. Led by McGuiness, the squadron was christened McGuiness's Flying Circus. Along with his cohorts Rogers, Mahin, and Patterson McNutt, they were dubbed the Four Horsemen. In the weeks prior to the May 2nd vote on amalgamation, this "Flying Squadron" visited studios and denounced the SWG's plans to other writers, making vague promises of high-paying assignments for those willing to abandon the Guild. They also worked to convince the other writers, especially the younger ones, that amalgamation was a closed-shop proposal contrived by communists.
Guild supporters like Hellman and Frances Goodrich Hackett retaliated by talking to the writers on the MGM lot during lunch breaks. They could not do it by phone because Thalberg had the wires tapped. It was dangerous to even discuss the SWG on studio grounds as an unofficial blacklist began on SWG supporters. "It was the first time I began to hear the word blacklist," said Philip Dunne.
At the same time, the producers unleashed an offensive blitz against the Guild the week or so before the May 2 meeting. In What Makes Sammy Run, a fictionalized work dealing with this volatile period, author Budd Schulberg dubbed it "Ten Days That Shook Hollywood." (F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon also depicts Thalberg's war against the union.)
On April 26, the producers sent a telegram to all screenwriters, declaring their opposition to the amalgamation of the guilds, on the grounds that such a move would give control of the Screen Writers Guild to the East. The producers also published a statement in New York American, claiming "a few agitators among screenwriters are determined to establish a closed shop for the writing profession in the motion picture industry…If it becomes necessary to seriously fight such a movement, the producers will use every resource to fight it." It was signed by Mayer, Zanuck, and the heads of the other five majors.
The drumbeat of war pounded louder as the May 2 vote grew nearer. Both factions, using the Daily Variety as a battleground, began to pummel each other with an arsenal of letters, statements, and editorials. The majority of the April 30 edition was devoted to the fight. The front page announced the Screen Actors Guild as an allied force that "solidly" backed the writers. Another page contained legal opinions from Neil S. McCarthy, an attorney hired by the opposition, which warned that the amalgamation would violate the U.S. antitrust law and the Cartwright Act of California. Alongside was a statement from Thalberg warning that if the controversy is not ended immediately "…motion picture writers, producers, and all others in the industry will pay a heavy price." Nichols wrote a full-page call to arms imploring writers to, "Stand together! Vote for the amalgamation." Variety even reprinted the crossfire letters between Pascal and Zanuck.
Two nights before the May 2 vote, the SWG board of directors held a meeting attended by the "flying squadron" members and other writers opposed to the merger. The dissenters named several points in the Authors League Constitution they thought should change. A decision was then made for the sake of unity: all would vote on the "principle" of amalgamation but postpone the legal amalgamation until certain changes could be made. Because revisions would take time, they agreed to wait until May 16 for the legal vote. In a show of good faith, the board also agreed to add McNutt and McGuiness, as well as other members of the opposition, onto the election slate of officers who would be voted on at the membership meeting. The opposing members then demanded that prominent writer Robert Riskin be added to the slate as well.
On Friday, May 1, at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Thalberg presided over a producers meeting where he convinced all present to make a final attempt to squash the amalgamation. One weapon would be ordering senior producers at the various studios to talk to their writers.
The next day, about 60 writers were ordered to gather in Thalberg's projection room. Thalberg, with MGM's imposing muscleman Eddie Mannix by his side, suggested that any supporters of the Guild would face severe consequences. Writer Maurice Rapf, who was present, recalled Thalberg's words: "You've all gotten a great deal out of this industry. It's been good to you, and what you're proposing to do is give it away and turn it over to outside interests..." Thalberg also used guilt as a weapon, pointing out that a strike would not only put actors, directors, designers, etc. out of work, but that innocent carpenters, painters, electricians, janitors, and secretaries would suffer as well.
"If you wish to put all these people out of work, it is your responsibility," Thalberg charged. "For if you proceed with this strike, I shall close down the entire plant, without a single exception."
On the Warner Front
Meanwhile, over at Warner Bros., McGuiness, Rogers, and McNutt spoke to 30 or 40 writers. Dalton Trumbo reported that Jack Warner told the writers they were in a wonderful business. A business that treated him well and that treated them well too. So why were they "kicking it around"? He then attacked the Guild leaders as "communists, radical bastards, and soap box sons of bitches." He also warned the writers that the producers would never tolerate the passage of Article XII and that he had $5 million in cold cash-the studio could close up tomorrow as far as he was concerned. He warned that there were a lot of writers in SWG who would find themselves out of the business for good; it couldn't be called a blacklist, as it would all be done over the phone.
The next evening, during what appeared to be a truce between the Guild and the writers who opposed it, several of the conservatives, including Mahin and McGuiness, decided to join SWG. McGuiness and McNutt announced to the crowd that they supported amalgamation "in principle." They convinced the Guild to change the vote into a ballot on the principle of amalgamation, providing two additional weeks of consideration before taking a final vote.
The cover of the May 2 Variety trumpeted: "All Quiet on the Western Front." Pioneer screenwriter Bess Meredyth sent out a full-page SOS to voters titled, "How Many of You Know What You Are Agreeing To?" Beginning with the blast, "I don't like to be tricked," Meredyth decried the compromise between the East and West Guilds as "a wholly insufficient guarantee." She charged that "…the writers, and not the issues were compromised at the Thursday night session," declaring "I find myself unable to agree with the inclusion of Article XII…or with any sentiment looking toward an amalgamation…" She also included a lengthy legal opinion of attorney Major Walter K. Tuller to support her position.
That evening, the vote for the principle of affiliation between the guilds was unanimous. The membership voted the continuation of Article XII until negotiations began between writers and producers for a basic agreement. A feeling of unity among the writers swept over the room. An election was held to vote in a new group of board members. Pascal remained the president while Parker, Nichols, and some of the other leftists resigned from the board to make room for newly elected members that included McGuiness and Riskin, both who had voiced opposition to the Guild.
But three days later, the façade of unity crumbled when two of the newly elected board members-Bert Kalmar and Morrie Ryskind-resigned, followed by 60 members, all announcing that they were forming their own group, to be known as Screen Playwrights. The newly formed Screen Playwrights immediately voiced their opposition to the idea of a closed shop and denounced SWG as an organization controlled by radicals. By the week's end, 125 Guild members defected to Screen Playwrights, lured by offers of generous, long-term contracts and frightened by Thalberg's threats. The "plot" had worked: Thalberg's "fifth column" of pro-studio writers masquerading as union-sympathizers had undermined the organizing efforts.
But much to the surprise of the Screen Playwrights' founders, Riskin refused to resign from the SWG and voiced his anger at them for exploiting his reputation and using stall tactics to break the union. By the summer of 1936, SWG had lost almost all of its members, with the exception of a fervent core of writers including Hellman, Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lawson … and now Riskin.
While Thalberg's campaign immobilized the Guild, the producers quickly embraced this new organization, the Screen Playwrights. While they continued to fight the remaining SWG members, they rewarded the SP founders. Grover Jones, McGuiness, Howard Green, and Howard Estabrook were given writer-producer contracts. On the other end, several writers who supported the Guild had their options dropped. At the MGM commissary, SWG members were constantly pressured by SP members who warned, "You better get out of that commie organization or you won't be here long."
But to Thalberg's credit, George Seaton, who later became SWG president, recalled that when he and writer Robert Pir-osh had a meeting with Thalberg, he told the writers that he disagreed with their decision to stay in the SWG but that if anybody threatened them about their job, they should come to him. Seaton remembered Thalberg assuring them, "You're entitled to your opinions," and shook their hands, saying, "God bless you both." And over at Fox, Zanuck renewed the contracts of SWG members Dunne and Pascal. Dunne believed that, in spite of his opposition to the Guild, Zanuck placed his appreciation of good writing above politics.
In June 1936, the American League of Authors reluctantly informed SWG that any interference from them would only serve to fuel the producer's accusations of East Coast Guild domination. And now that the once mighty SWG had its membership of nearly 1,000 strong depleted to an anemic 92 loyal members, the power of Article XII was diminished. The SWG board had no choice but to retreat and rescind the Article.
The Guild's final meeting was held in a dilapidated building on North Cherokee in Hollywood. Dore Schary remembered president Pascal's words: "There's no point in going on. We can't even pay the rent." By late summer 1936, SWG filed a legal notice of dissolution. The war was over. The Guild was dead.
Crawling from the Wreckage
But a few original members remained and a guerilla war continued. Lawson, who had been fired from MGM for his part in founding SWG, recalled that "after the Guild fell apart, it was sustained underground, which was something unusual and dangerous for writers-the fact that they stayed together without studio support." The clandestine meetings were held at the homes of Lawson, Parker, Hellman, Samson Raphaelson, Nichols, Lester Cole, Pascal, Stewart, Hammett, and Nathaniel West, as well as others. Detractors accused these writers of being communists, but Lawson defined them as "just individuals who saw the need for an organization, who realized that the struggle for the Guild was both economic and creative."
The winds of war changed direction when several members of Screen Playwrights began to realize they'd been betrayed. One bargaining point they most wanted was for producers to put an end to "chiseling tactics" by directors and production executives who suggested slight changes in scripts, then claimed partial screen credit. When the producers failed to deal straight on this issue, many of the Screen Playwright members defected.
In February 1937, the Screen Playwrights studio loyalists informed producers that SWG was reforming. On April 12, 1937, the Supreme Court declared the Wagner Act, which had proclaimed collective bargaining a legal U.S. policy, constitutional. This secured the Guild's right to negotiate with producers. It also outlawed company unions, including Screen Playwrights.
This time the rallying cry was supported by hard facts. Writers who felt betrayed and abandoned the studio "union" of Screen Playwrights were now willing to fight. The newly reorganized SWG had its first open meeting June 11, 1937. More than 400 writers attended. Nichols was elected the new president. By now, opposition leader Thalberg had died, fulfilling his prophecy that the screenwriters union would enter MGM over his dead body. Yet the war between the SP and SWG continued, even though the SP was by then reduced to 100 members. The conservative SP now argued that writers were artists and therefore not eligible to unionize under the Wagner Act.
The next battle took place in a courtroom during October 1937 before the National Labor Relations Board. For 17 days producers and writers fired back and forth at each other. Then the half-million words of testimony were sent on to the national board in Washington where the final outcome would be decided.
Finally on June 7, 1938, the NLRB ruled in favor of the SWG, concluding that producers had conspired to suppress the SWG, shooting down the assertion that writers were not eligible to unionize. It was a hard-fought victory for the Guild. But the producers, along with the remaining members of the Screen Playwrights, continued to fight with the help of a new ally, IATSE. In an attempt to strengthen their union by absorbing not only the SWG, but the actors and director's guilds as well, IATSE petitioned the NLRB to withdraw protection from the creative guilds. Nichols took a full-page ad in Hollywood Reporter declaring IATSE "a very real menace," calling for the unions to stand together against the SP, pointing out "a vote for the Playwrights, or a vote for no representation at all, is a vote for the IATSE."
On June 28, 1938, elections were held to determine which organization, SP or the SWG, would represent the writers. By this time 75 percent of the working writers in Hollywood were again members of the SWG. The results of the vote were announced at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel: more than four-to-one in favor of the SWG.
The union that had almost been annihilated a little more than a year before was now the legal collective bargaining agent for screenwriters in 18 studios. But SWG soon discovered that winning the right to bargain did not necessarily give them bargaining "power." Even though the NLRB restated that producers must negotiate a contract with the SWG or they would be in violation of the Wagner Act, the Guild was still in need of some heavy artillery to defend their position.
The producers continued to challenge the constitutionality of the Wagner Act, while the SWG fought for an end to union busting, a minimum wage scale, and protection of rights to their works in the medium of the future-television.
The battle raged on until finally in May 1941 the SWG unleashed the only blockbuster weapon they had-a strike vote! An armistice was called, and the top brass from each party met at the Brown Derby to hash out the treaty. Armed with the threat of a strike the SWG negotiated an agreement with producers, which reluctantly and belatedly recognized the Guild as the screenwriters' sole bargaining agent. On June 18, 1941, nine years after SWG was formed, their first contract was signed. It was 17 pages long.
The final body count of writer casualties would not be determined until a few years later when the blacklist destroyed the careers of many of the Guild's proponents, including its founding father. But Lawson, who presided over the first SWG meeting in1933, was there at the final negotiation with the producers, this time in the role of a Guild board member. What must have seemed like the end of a long and fierce battle was just the beginning of an organization that today continues fighting for the rights of its 16,000 members.
Trumbo, a veteran of the 10-year conflict, summed up the struggle in a 1946 letter: "Very rarely does victory for the individual writer raise the freedom level of his fellow writers. The fight for freedom of expression in Hollywood is inextricably tied up with the fight for economic security… But the job will not be accomplished in solitude by even the most gifted individual-it will be done by organized writers."


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All Hail The Draghi Put: The Global Bond Market Is Now Well And Truly Broken
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
The evil of modern central banking can nowhere better be seen than in this week's mad stampede into $4 billion of Greek bonds. The fact is, Greece is not credit-worthy at nearly any coupon yield, but most certainly not at the 4.75% sticker that was attached to the offering.
After a 20% contraction the Greek economy has been literally eviscerated—with not much left except tourism, yogurt plants and a 27% unemployment rate. It has an impossible debt-to-GDP ratio of 170 percent and, worse still, almost all of that debt is owned by EC institutions and the IMF. That is, this week's "winners" stand in line behind the "bail-you-in-first-brigade" that will find some way to crush private investors—-English law indentures or not—when repayment of their own tower of loans comes into question.
And the claim that Greece's fiscal affairs have turned for the better is really preposterous. Like Italy and some of the other PIGS, the Greek government has discovered the trick of off-balance sheet financing by stiffing its vendors. The backlog of "payables" to pharmacies, hospitals, doctors, garbage haulers, road maintenance vendors and countless more, along with deep arrearages in payments to pensioners and other transfer payment beneficiaries, has been manipulated by the finance ministry and their Brussels overseers to a far-thee-well, and now totals in the tens of billions.
This has created the impression, of course, that Greece's budget is on the mend; its actually on the road to yet another political crisis owing to the parched liquidity among vendors and the precarious finances of beneficiaries. And that's to say nothing of the absolute fracturing of the Greek body politic, where its current lame government survives by kicking enough recalcitrants out of the Parliament, as may be needed, to clear the next Brussels demanded action with one vote to spare. In short, Greek sovereign risk cannot be even calculated by the market because it essentially has no functioning sovereign.
But none of this matters, of course, because the howling pack of money managers who scooped up the Greek debt at an oversubscribed rate of 5X were not pricing the non-credit of the former Greek state, but the promises of Mario Draghi—-the Goldman Sachs plenipotentiary temporarily seconded to Frankfurt.
Even the New York Times figured out that this week's ballyhooed "return to the market" was a complete farce:
Investors may be playing a dicey game, but in the case of Greece and other shaky euro zone countries, they have been assuaged by the belief that the European financial machine will kick into gear should anything go wrong. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has pledged to do "whatever it takes" to keep the crisis from reigniting.
They even found one of the remaining sane spokesman for the EC apparatus to clear the air and verify that the offering had nothing to do with "price discovery"—-the ostensible purpose of capital markets:
"Investors don't look to the long-term health of economies," said Simon Tilford, the deputy director of the Center for European Reform in London. They are looking at whether they can extract gains "without losing their shirts. At the moment, they figure they can, but that doesn't tell us much about the sustainability of the euro zone or whether governments have taken it on a path to sounder footing."
Besides vast mis-pricing and mis-allocation of capital, central bank puts also drastically impair even the daily vocabulary and discourse in the markets—rudiments that are essential to effective and honest price discovery. After noting what is the sheer lunacy of the "Draghi put", and that the herd of fast money traders which chase it have driven the yield on Spanish 5-year debt below that of US Treasuries, the NYT found one money manager who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid.
Fadi Zaher, the head of bonds and currencies at Kleinwort Benson, said his group had stayed on the sidelines due to "lingering concerns about the country's poor economic health and its mountain of debt".
Still, after noting that "there is euphoria right now over the Euro area" and that the euphoria is spilling over to Greece, Mr.Zaher concluded by saying:
"We are cautiously optimistic about the story, but looking over the longer term we are very, very cautious about it."
Well, that is the equivalent of an analyst "hold" rating, but the vocabulary speaks for itself. The crush of momentum trading and the herd kiting of central banks is so overwhelming that even a professional skeptic could only muster a "very, very cautious" utterance. In truth, the better utterance would have been a "sell, sell. sell".
Yet the very worst evil of monetary central planning is that it enables clueless politicians to believe in their own fiscal fairy tales, and to persist in the ritual can-kicking that is the scourge of central bank intoxicated politicians everywhere. In the context of its shattered economy, the Greek budget is a house of cards. Still, its current leaders, whose tenure is precarious by the day, get their turn in the spotlight to issue utterly specious pettifoggery:
In Greece, officials declared victory. Yannis Stournaras, the finance minister, said the nation had made "the biggest fiscal adjustment ever recorded since World War II" in a bid to mend its finances. The prime minister, Antonis Samaras, said in a televised statement that the strong demand for the bonds was "a sign of trust in the Greek economy and its ability to overcome the crisis."
What David likely did not know when he wrote this epic take-down of the farcical so-called "markets" we live in today is that:
1) Reality is already biting on these bonds (but that doesn't matter because Greece got it cash)
2) The freaking country needs another bailout...
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just about 75% of all US QE $$ wasted with bond yields back where they were nearly 1 year ago -
Watch this, but don't smash your computer
OT but in the same vein as the whole birth certificate/voting thing....
ok let's assume for a second he is being sincere about not making it too hard on people to vote. Why then do we have REAL ID?
Just a quick google search yields the IOWA requirements to qualify for REAL ID:
Go through the steps..... valid passport, SS card etc. etc....
If you don't get a real ID, you eventually will not be able to go into federal buildings or fly without additional documentation etc. Won't you need at least a DL to vote?
OR perhaps they are placing a much higher priority on travel as opposed to voting? So voting doesn't mean that much?
So, you wind up needing all that paperwork anyway. What a bunch of .......
The Global bond market is no different to the collapse of GM bond holders.
Goldman Sach again cooking the books? or the investors panicking away from dollar?
Off topic/ I can't wait to hear Glenn Stevens (jawbone) the australian $ next week. (mark my words)
The reason I'm making this comment is because every sovereign on plant Earth has been buying Australian bonds.
(short end of the curve)
Australia, China push to establish Sydney as offshore trading center of Renminbi Australia and China have agreed to enhance offshore market development of the Renminbi (RMB) and the central banks of both countries are working together on potential future clearing and settlement arrangements in Sydney, Treasurer Joe Hockey said in a press release on Friday. Once the arrangements are finalised, it will place Sydney alongside Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan as an official trading hub for the yuan, the Australian Financial Review reported. "Australia is at the forefront of countries working with China to support international use of the RMB," Hockey said, " Australian banks and their Chinese counterparts have worked hard to promote direct trading of the two currencies." - See more at: http://chinabusinesstimes.com/australia-china-push-establish-sydney-offs...
the Australian $ still has a date with (80) later this year.
I hope you're right, all this free-trade-deal trifecta crap is going to tank us to that if AUD keeps rising, but if TAPIS doesn't come down with it, at that point, that will be just as bad or even worse for the real economy. In which case the best hope for Australia would be if there was a general recession in Asia that tanked Tapis consumption ... hmm ... damned if you do .. damned if you don't.
Back in the days of Mike Milken and Drexel Burnham, it was widely said by the bond salesmen in High Yield Space that "A Large Coupon Can Overcome Any Obstacle"
Which is "true" from a salesman's standpoint; He Who Does Not Suffer the Losses.
See, selling junk bonds rests upon a Foundation of the Mae West Quantity Theory of Stuff;
If some is good
And more is better
Then Way Too Fucking Much is Just About Right.
Knuks you were always right. It was you all along Fredo. I was wrong. I used to say yields were going up, and maybe they are...but these greek bonds show just how ridiculous the reach for yield will become. The last few weeks in the market ars showing that we will probably go Nirp before we blow sky high. Nice call all along my man.
Thanks, fonz.
There are ups and downs, some pain to accompany the bliss along the way, but I'll keep my bonds and PMs.
I've even been extending maturities in muni space during the recent back-off. Picking up some nice yield...
And yes, I too, sincerely, whole hardheartedly believe that ultimately, in response to the Unprecedented Global debt/money expansion taking place (not only in quantity but also quality) that rates will ultimately rise so far so fast that it'll make Volcker's Saturday Night Massacre look like nursery rhymes...
But not for a while. Quite a while...
We're up to our asses, globally in a liquidity trap. Which is a monetary phenomenon brought upon by non-monetary forces .. and that panoply of forces ain't being fixed, but made worse.
rates have to go down or see blows up. along as the faith is keep(in check) it goes on and on.
but the problems are brewing mainly in the east. brics, getting sick and tired of being bullied and whip a shitty econonmics cast upon their countries with no say. they have benifitted and played ball while usa was growing in real terms(massive debt expansion), but now it is out over the edge with no way back(to sanity). brics will cut the plank and watch us fall(dollar).
Imagine being able to charge your whole neigborhood $1,000/year then selling "Bonds" bringing in $1 Million and you pay out $50 per.
When the money runs out from buying a Ferrari and drinking Bollinger with the finest caviar and vacationing in the Mediterranean you tell your neighbors they now owe you $1,250 per year, and you sell $2 Million in bonds.
Draghi at this moment is probably picking out some diamonds for his Mistress.
Ah, the life of Central Bankers, they work so hard.
Learn the shell company Ponzi tricks
GM Commercial Claims They Repaid Loan
Mario Draghi job in Goldman Sach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-1YRk0Jp0&list=PLEF2D75706565C8A5
A nostalgic time for Mario
This was a sign of faith by some investors in the power of the ECB to print and the backstop potential of SDR printing by the IMF. The bet is being made that enough money can be printed to keep Europe stable for the next five years. Myself I don't believe it, but then so far the money printers have held it all together. Perhaps a an economic war with Russia and the major hit to Germany and potential for higher gas or no gas can wreck a sinking ship.
It could also be a diversified strategic from asians from dollars. Dont forget, Ukraniane crisis is a US job. Germany is against any escalation with Russia. In a word, is a desperate try to save the dollar and US influence in Europe.
Greek bonds are only as good as that countries ability to tax the public. Thats why its perplexing, cause greece is in the shithole, economically. Where did all the interest come from? Seems like artificial demand, no? Investors sure have faith in the fractional reserve con game the ecb has going there.
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EU citizens are playing a fatal game without a unified tax and budget system. Draghi is a paper tiger, who has been given authority he does not have under law to guarantee the affairs of EU sovereign nations. It is still about Germany, France and the Netherlands to backstop the Draghi Central Bank. If confidence in Draghi collapses any guarantees by the EU Central bank are worthless.
Also: Let's not forget that the FED is the ultimate backstop for the EU Banking system through SWAPS and various other FED funding practices. The house of cards very weak - but as long as the music is playing the banksters will continue to dance.
is too dangerous to put power in a Goldman Sachs man. He will even sold his mother to a lupanar to benefit the banksters. and Bernake, the jew, just prove us that printing money to kindom come is not a solution even for a dollar backed by oil.
love those words...
"promises by the penipotentiary full of pettifoggery."
very nice work Tyler.
This is the kind of stuff that gives ZH it's well earned reputation for calling it like it is and ripping the ugly face off the disreputable impression that the Emperor is really wearing any clothes at all.
What is not broken in this world today?
All markets are broken due to government intervention and manipulation. Gold and silver are attacked everyday to preserve the value of fiat currencies. Every economic statistic is a lie in the West and the East. There is no privacy due to infinite spying by NSA and GCHQ. There is no free press, just the illusion of a free press. Unemployment keeps increasing except in the official statistics. US debt and unfunded liabilities per taxpayer are $1,260,000 and increasing at $70,000 per year. The police is being rapidly militarized. Air, water and food are increasingly poisoned. Monarch butterfly population is down 97% since 1996.
Not many things that are not broken in the public affairs of so-called Western democracies except the illusions of some people.
And a civil war looms in the Ukraine:
Ukraine stands on the brink of civil war, as the unelected pro-Western regime that seized power this February in Kiev threatens a bloody crackdown on protesters occupying local government offices in cities across traditionally pro-Russian sections of eastern Ukraine.
Protesters are demanding a referendum to federalize Ukraine and limit the authority of the new, far-right regime in Kiev. Some protesters have also called on their areas to vote to join Russia, as the former Ukrainian region of Crimea did last month, or declared independent "people's republics" in Donetsk and Kharkiv.
Andrei Senchenko, the deputy head of the presidential administration in Kiev, said his regime's security forces would "shoot to kill" if protesters did not abandon buildings in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv by today.
The fact that we're even having this conversation is a testament to the triumph of hope over reality. The demographics of Greece are its destiny and, demographically speaking, Greece can't recover. Their brith rate is pitiful and any Greek who can find a way out is leaving the country. There simply won't be enough people left behind to pay the bills or grow the economy. In 30 years, there may still be a smudge on the map marked "Greece," but it will be nothing but a wild land of ruins (ancient and modern) and fellaheen olive pickers. How are you going to collect on those coupons then? You might as well buy bonds from Western Sahara.
David Stockman is absolutely right that this has nothing to do with price discovery in the ordinary sense. The "price" being discovered is the simply the level below which politicians will keep buying the pot, allowing traders to bluff their way through another round. This also accounts for the unnaturally low yields on Spanish bonds. The economics of the underlying countries do not matter; in fact they don't even have to be known. You could replace "Greece" with "Duchy of Grand Fenwick" and play the game just as easily. When this reality finally sets in it won't result in a crash as much as a complete planing off of the top two or three tiers of civilization. The world of 1920 awaits us.
No its going to be full of useless muzzies from the middle east and monkeys from Africa, been to Europe recently, but since they're all unproductive and only want to leech Europe is going to be like what most of what africa is today, full of rubbish heaps, people living in their own filth and massive poverty, oh its good to be European sigh.
Nothing that a new Ottoman Empire cannot cure.
You know that the Latin Invasion of Greece in 1204-1261 left it in ruins. But two hundred + years later the Ottomans took Constantinople and a new Empire was born and so the Greeks sold their souvlakia to rich neighbours and there was some "trickle down"...
The wheel turns and civilization is reborn and kings become beggars and beggars become kings.
A paddy is nothing but a Celt who drinks Guinness 'cos he can't grow spuds on English imported debt!
Maybe its time the Celts produced a new King Arthur!
Regarding central banking and their fly by night, learn along the way modern monetary theory being imposed on the world, danny ocean probably put it best -
"You're being awfully cavelier with a lot of peoples lives. You're going to regret it."
Hey you, I have a good idea, let's tell the truth!
The Public Be Suckered
Fadi Zaher, the head of bonds and currencies at Kleinwort Benson, said his group had stayed on the sidelines due to "lingering concerns about the country's poor economic health and its mountain of debt".
Remember to good old days when the market could remain 'irrational' longer than you could remain 'solvent'?
Well even the 'solvency' part is apparently not a business or investment pre-requisite within these economic and financial dead-ends anymore.
Yogurt! I hate yogurt! Even with strawberries!
"Pettifoggery" that distant cousin to "citizenbuggery"...well said!
As to the word "specious" it has such a sweet ring to it, a jingle of truth with the subsequent kick of a mule that leaves no doubt as to its hidden attributes.
In my best Tony Montana accent. "the bonds Chico, they never lie"
Far from wanting to promote these new Greek bonds, but, since when does a 1/2 point drop on price and a 10 bp rise in yield get reported as a 1 1/2 point price drop and a 32 bp rise in yield?
Why prove you are allowed to vote. We don't even have to prove we can be president. No back ground check, No I.D., No application needed. Why you don't even need any exp. Ever lead a boy scout troop on an over night hike ? If you answered yes then you are over qualified to lead the free world, and why are we only allowed to vote one time per election ? Some folks never vote, so if I am willing to take the time to go down to vote over, and over again then why not ? It just shows that I'm engaged. That I care.


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Gas companies work out Harford road agreements
Harford Township supervisors were approached Tuesday, Nov.8 by a representative from Bluestone Gathering, who proposed a road use and maintenance agreement.
The township spent more than six months working out an agreement with Southwestern Energy, and found the standard road agreement recently offered by Williams "too vague" and insufficient in protection for the township's roads.
He noted that Williams is submitting permits for driveways and wellpads, not just pipeline easements.
"If we could have some kind of standard agreement that multiple companies can use," mused Supervisor Garry Foltz. "I think we need to stay with our form for driveway permits, so that we are consistent."
Foltz said that the gas companies need to assure that they will repair any roads damaged. "There are roads here that you aren't going to get through if you don't do something to them before you start."
He gave Mike Armiak a copy of the road agreement the supervisors approved with Southwestern. Armiak assured him that he would revise the document to the supervisors' satisfaction.
Cabot Gas & Oil has begun work on pads withinHarfordTownship, but has yet to propose a road usage and maintenance agreement to the supervisors.
A driveway permit submitted by Cabot for the Macdowall property was tabled, as there is not a road agreement, and the permit is dated for sometime in 2012.
The supervisors spent some time discussing which anti-skid material would work best for spreading with black cinders.
Supervisors Sue Furney and Terry VanGorden favor the small 1Bs, because they are easier on township equipment, like the auger.
VanGorden said that he is having augers wear out in one season now, when they used to last five or six years. However, the metal they are using to manufacture such equipment seems to be less durable these days.
Foltz said that black cinders are too costly to use extensively. He recommends using the bigger stuff, because it provides better traction and can be pushed back onto the roads from the edges.
The supervisors approved advertising for bids on #67 material and black cinders.
A subdivision was approved for the Troy Schermerhorn property, which has an existing house, driveway, and septic. Another subdivision was approved for the Lepre McGraw "saw shop" property, which involves dividing off a son's property, on which everything is already in place.
An assessment permit was approved for Nelson Warren, who is buiding a single story garage with no plumbing.
Furney abstained from voting on paying the bills, because she disagreed with the amount of time and funds spent on part ofWhite Road. "$2,000 in material for a half mile of road, and it only has one resident," Furney said.
The township employees began using the time clock as of Oct. 31.
Supervisors learned that the Tin Shop apartments have problems with their sewer basement and pump. The old Seeley pump is damaged and parts are not available, and the basement pump cannot handle three apartments. The whole basin will need to be pulled, and a new basin installed with a stronger pump unit.
The sewer plant needs to replace galvanized grates over the pits, Foltz said. They are looking into replacing valves and handles that have rotted out as well.
Foltz said that DEP has approved the GP11 permit for the outflow ofTingleyLake. The plans for the pipe under the road have been submitted by engineer Todd Schmidt of Fox Engineering. The lawsuit by someTingleyLakeresidents is still going on, and the township is meanwhile continuing to deal with the situation.
David Oakley, the creator of theHarfordTownshipwebsite, should be paid $500 at the December meeting for his final payment. The supervisors approved paying Oakley $640 a year for annual maintenance and updating township news and other information on the site.
The supervisors decided to work out a schedule to deal with the proposed budget.
A public meeting for the proposed budget and general purposes was to be held on Nov. 22, after this paper went to press.
A regular supervisor's meeting will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 13, and a meeting will be held on Dec. 21 to adopt and approve the budget.


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New Bern Police say Barry Wright Jr. was shot while wearing a mask and forcibly attempting to enter an apartment on Arlington Circle in New Bern. Wright was shot by the resident of that apartment just after midnight Saturday.
Police received a call about an armed robbery and found Wright dead upon their arrival. The investigation into this case is ongoing.
A death investigation is underway in New Bern after a teen was found shot to death at Kensington Park Apartments by police early Saturday morning.
According to police they responded to a call of an attempted robbery on Arlington Circle around 12:38 a.m. When they got there they found 18-year-old Barry Wright Jr. of New Bern dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
Police say they person who discharged the weapon is being questioned.
Anyone having information is asked to contact the New Bern Police Department Major Case Unit at (252) 633-2020.


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I want to be invited to Vera Farmiga's house when she does one of the burnings described in this piece from The Guardian. It seems that Farmiga burns the scripts she gets that she doesn't like that have crappy female characters on her front lawn. I imagine it has a big singed spot.
She's been on the radar since Debra Granik's 2004 film Down to the Bone and hit the big time last year with her Oscar nomination for Up in the Air. She appears this week in Source Code a big budget film that almost got relegated to the front lawn bonfire but then she decided against it.
But the best news is that she is no longer "asking permission [to play the roles I wanted to play]" and took control herself and stars in and directed Higher Ground which debuted at Sundance and will play Tribeca next month.
Here are her thoughts on women and blockbusters:
I'm least challenged or inspired by those stories...I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
Cannot wait to see her in scripts that escape her bonfire and also to see what she directs next.
Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself' (The Guardian)


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After lengthy discussion and debate, it's official: the Orthodox Union—one of the world's foremost kashrut authorities—has declared quinoa kosher for Passover. Though many Jews have considered quinoa a "safe" kosher for passover food (since at least 2008), now that the community has the blessing of the Orthodox Union, many skeptics can breath a sigh of relief and continue indulging in the protein rich grain-like dish.
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Is Bachelorette 2013 Contestant Brooks Forester on Facebook?
We have a fever and the only cure is more Brooks Forester. This Bachelorette contestant's free-flowing hair and rugged-yet-dainty jaw line are all we think about, and watching him every Monday night on ABC just isn't enough for us anymore. We need more Brooks and we need him now.
Luckily, Brooks and his half-ponytail have a public profile on Facebook, which you can "Like" in order to follow the minute details of his fabulous life in the fast lane of love. Brooks' Facebook isn't all that expansive, but it does feature some personal pictures of him trolling around various mountain ranges in Utah while sporting a festive beard. Score!
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New London — Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said the military's ban on women in combat had become embarrassing, and the decision to lift it may one day affect the draft.
"What we've really done is spun the paradigm on its head," Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in his first visit to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Thursday.
The question isn't "should a woman serve" in a job specialty, Dempsey said, it's "why shouldn't a woman serve?"
"Will this expand into the selective service? It might," he said. "But that's a decision of Congress. I can certainly make the intellectual argument, but we'll see what they want to do with that."
Dempsey addressed the cadets, faculty and staff at the academy Thursday before going to Electric Boat in Groton to see a Virginia-class submarine under construction. A cadet at the academy asked Dempsey if he thought Congress would change the selective service system, which currently requires only men to register for the draft.
Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week rescinded the rule that bans women from serving in combat. The 1994 rule closed 66 job specialties to women across the services.
"There's a lot of men who can't meet the standard to be infantrymen, and a hell of a lot of men who can't make the standard to be Rangers or SEALs," Dempsey said at the academy. "... But I want to know that we've got a gender-neutral standard and that the playing field is level."
Dempsey told the cadets that the rule — an "emotional anachronism" — ignored reality. To build a force for 2020, he said he wants to have as much talent as he can possibly have.
Only one in four young men can get into the military, Dempsey said. The other three are disqualified for having medical issues, a criminal record or lack education, among other issues.
Lucy Daghir, 18, a freshman cadet from Maryland, said afterward that she thought it was great that women would have more leadership opportunities now that they are no longer banned from the front lines. But when it comes to the draft, Daghir said she thinks there would be "a pretty big uproar" if the system was changed.
"Until we actually need women to go into the draft," she said, "I feel like it would probably be best to not start that."
Dempsey also talked to the cadets about the unpredictable, complex, dangerous world they will encounter when they join the fleet. He said they will have to be deeply committed to being a professional, build relationships on trust, be more aware of themselves as leaders earlier, and continue to learn.
"Young leaders frankly have to be more ready than I was when I was a second lieutenant," he said.
He's confident they will be.
"I only make it through the day because I know there are young men and women like you here, and at West Point, Colorado Springs and Annapolis, who are willing to share the burden," he said, referring to the other service academies.
The Coast Guard Academy male singing group, the Idlers, sang for Dempsey, an avid vocalist. Dempsey joined in when they sang the "The Army Goes Rolling Along" and requested the Coast Guard's service song, "Semper Paratus." He won over the audience by giving them permission to sleep in the following day.
Sam Ruby, 21, a senior cadet from Minnesota and president of the Idlers, said it was a privilege to sing for Dempsey. Dempsey gave the cadets good advice, Ruby said, and "now it's time for us to step up and be leaders."
At Electric Boat, Dempsey toured the North Dakota, a Virginia-class submarine under construction and on track to be delivered faster than its predecessors. EB President Kevin J. Poitras said the visit reflected "the increasing importance of submarines to 21st century national security."
Dempsey and Poitras discussed how EB is making Virginia-class submarines more affordable and incorporating those cost-reduction ideas into the design of a ballistic-missile submarine, as well as how the shipyard will need enough repair and modernization work over the next couple of years to sustain its workforce.
"The chairman was very engaged with the shipbuilders he met," Poitras said, "and we greatly appreciate his interest in Electric Boat."
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Wow, that is really interesting.
Here is another question to throw out there: why do we see a lot of Division 1 and division 3 programs? I see hardly any schools as Div. 2.
Not really that big of a "wow"...they never had football and their basketball program has never really been a money maker so their athletic debartment has always struggled. Throw in Katrina and the aftermath and the only real surprise is that this is just now being considered. My son played with a kid that is a freshman on their BB team this fall...what do they do with scholarship guys if they drop to DIII...let them transfer?
I cheer for two teams, Iowa State and whoever is playing the hawkeyes.
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Wow, that is really interesting.
Here is another question to throw out there: why do we see a lot of Division 1 and division 3 programs? I see hardly any schools as Div. 2.
Very good question. I grew up in Kansas and the majority were Div II but nationally that is not the case. It may have something to do with $ as there are scholarships available at the Div II level. I'd like to hear from someone in the know.
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Sand bagging son of a gun he knows he still has the best car and will probably win his 4th WC, if only mark webber wasnt so crap and more competittive it would be at least exciting to watch.
We really need to see seb with a strong team mate to make F1 more enjoyable, seb winning year after year is nearly as bad schumacher and rubens partnership.


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How Employers Can Keep Themselves From Being YouTubed
By now, you have probably seen or heard about the video. It spread via YouTube and Twitter in April 2009 and featured Domino's employees—who have since been fired— preparing sandwiches for delivery while one of the employees puts cheeses up his nose and nasal mucus on the sandwiches. Unfortunately for Domino's, these employees apparently thought it would be funny to record their nauseating antics and post them online. Within days, thanks to the power of social media, the video had been seen by more than 1 million viewers.
Domino's has since fired the employees involved and has collaborated with authorities in North Carolina, where the individuals were employed, to have criminal charges filed against the employees for delivering "prohibited" food, as the state's statute puts it. The employees have since asserted that the whole thing was a prank and that the food products prepared on the video were never actually served to any Domino's customers. However, a public relations nightmare ensued and, despite Domino's damage control, it is conceivable that the implications of the video could have a long-lasting detrimental impact on the company's reputation.
The Domino's incident underscores the need for employers to re-evaluate their employment rules and regulations to ensure that they have safeguards in place to help prevent a similar incident. Summarized below are a few simple measures employers can and should consider adopting.
The first and most obvious step for employers is to hire the right people, and give the wrong ones a wide berth. By using the variety of hiring tools available, from background checks to behavioral interviews to pre-employment assessments, employers can weed out the worst sorts of people. Onboarding and training are also important, and both should emphasize the organization's values and beliefs. Orientation sessions and training should not only cover the basics of the job but should also infuse in new employees a strong notion of what it means to do the right thing at work. These sessions should stress respect for the organization, customers and fellow employees.
No hiring or training process is perfect, however, and so more specific or stringent measures may be necessary.
One such step is the adoption of a written policy that specifically prohibits employees from audio or video recording anything that occurs on the employer's work site.
There are numerous reasons to consider such a policy, including:
Avoiding embarrassment to the employer's business and damage to its good name and reputation.
Protecting the employer's confidential information, including trade secrets and other proprietary interests.
Limiting liability of claims brought against the employer by other employees arising from a recording made by a co-worker that defames, embarrasses or harasses that employee.
When drafting such a policy, an employer should take into account its business needs, and should make sure those needs are specifically addressed in the policy. The type of business, the sensitivity of information available at the employer's work site and the overall work environment should be considered. The policy should set forth the purpose of the prohibition (e.g., avoiding embarrassment, protecting confidentiality), provide examples of prohibited conduct, explain the consequences of a breach of the policy and state that failing to disclose a violation of the policy may also give rise to disciplinary action, including termination.
Once the policy is adopted, an employer should make sure that it is consistent in the application of the policy and that it does not treat policy violators differently, as the disparate application of the policy could be used to support a claim of employment discrimination.
In addition, employers should be sensitive that there may be situations that call for a possible exception to the policy. The most notable example is one in which disabled employees request authorization to record meetings as an accommodation for their disability in order to do their jobs. If employees can show that they suffer from a disability and that being able to tape record certain meetings would enable them to perform the essential functions of their positions, it is conceivable that such accommodations may be required under the Americans with Disabilities Act. ADA inquiries tend to be very fact-specific, and employers whose policies prohibit recording anything on the employer's work site and who are asked to lift that prohibition as an accommodation for a disabled employee should confer with legal counsel on a case-by-case basis.
Another measure that an employer may adopt to avoid the embarrassment that beset Domino's is to utilize video surveillance of its employees. By using video surveillance in critical areas of the employer's work site, such as a restaurant's kitchen, employers can monitor their employees' conduct and ensure that their employees do not engage in conduct that violates employer policy, state or federal law or that is otherwise reprehensible and abhorrent.
As a general rule, surveillance by a video camera that does not record spoken words does not violate federal or state law. Although there are federal and state laws prohibiting wiretapping, these laws only preclude the recording of "wire, oral, or electronic communications" and make no mention of video-only recordings. Employers generally are not required to give employees notice that they are being recorded; however, because the primary objective of the recording is to ensure that employees do not engage in prohibited conduct at the work site, disclosure of the video recording is probably a good idea as the disclosure of the videotaping alone should curb employee misconduct.
Although employers have fairly broad power to videotape their employees in public areas, employers generally should not subject their employees to video surveillance in "private" areas, such as restrooms or lockers rooms where employees may be changing clothing. If subjected to video surveillance in these more private areas, employees may have a cause of action against their respective employers for invasion of privacy. In addition, several states, including New York and Connecticut, have enacted laws that prohibit employers from videotaping employees in a restroom, locker room or room designated by the employer for employees to change their clothes. As such, employers should confer with legal counsel to make sure that the nature of their respective video surveillance complies with applicable state law.
Employers with unionized workforces or whose employees are attempting to unionize should also use caution to ensure that they comply with the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRA prohibits employers from videotaping employees' union activity in the absence of a business justification for the surveillance. Thus, employers should use caution not to make union activity the focus of their video surveillance.
Public employers should also be aware that their use of video surveillance may violate the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures, especially when used to detect criminal activity by employees, provided that the employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the government workplace and the extent of that privacy typically is determined on a case-by-case basis.
Remedial action
Even if an employer implements well-crafted hiring and training policies, prohibits recording anything on the employer's premises and utilizes video surveillance, there may be instances where employees engage in conduct that is offensive to the employer and threatens to undermine the business with its customers and community. When that happens, employers must act swiftly to deal with the misconduct.
When an employer receives notice that its employees may have engaged in conduct that violates the employer's policies, state or federal law or that may otherwise harm or embarrass the employer, the employer should immediately begin an investigation into the employees' conduct. Employees with firsthand knowledge of the underlying incident should be interviewed. Pertinent documents should be reviewed and if video surveillance tapes have been used, they should be reviewed. If and when an employer determines that its employees violated policy or law or otherwise harmed the employer's good name and reputation, the employer should take prompt disciplinary action against the employees involved.
Employers should be evenhanded in their use of discipline and should make sure that like offenses generally are met with like disciplinary action. Otherwise, the employer may be vulnerable to a claim of discrimination based on the disparate application of its rules and policies.
In addition to taking disciplinary action against its employees, employers should consider taking legal action against employees who engage in severe or gross misconduct that damages the employer's good name or reputation. Depending on the facts and circumstances of the alleged misconduct, an employer may be able to assert such claims as tortious interference with a business relationship, breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of duty of loyalty. Of course, it may be difficult for an employer who prevails in litigation against its former employees to recover money from them. But civil litigation brought by an employer against a former employee may be likely to deter current employees from engaging in serious misconduct on the employer's premises.
Finally, in the most egregious of cases, employers should confer with counsel to determine whether its employees' actions on the employer's premises violated criminal law. Where there is a potential criminal law violation, employers should consider notifying the local authorities and should cooperate with those authorities in any criminal investigation concerning the employees' conduct. The information contained in this article is intended to provide useful information on the topic covered, but should not be construed as legal advice or a legal opinion. Also remember that state laws may differ from the federal law.
The information contained in this article is intended to provide useful information on the topic covered, but should not be construed as legal advice or a legal opinion. Also remember that state laws may differ from the federal law.


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This is definitely a challenge to try-- You can only type *One Word!* Not as easy as you might think. AND no cheating by using smilies either :tongue0011-1:
1. Where is your cell phone? Desk
2. Where is your significant other? Work
3. Your hair? Highlighted
4. Your mother? Gone
5. Your father? Florida
6. Your favorite thing? Reading
7. Your dream last night? Fun
8. Your dream/goal? Happy
9. The room you're in? Office
10. Your hobby? Crafting
11. Your fear? Death
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Cruising
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. What you're not? COLD
15. Muffins? Yummy
16. One of your wish list items? Trips
17. Where you grew up? Illinois
18. The last thing you did? Type
19. What are you wearing? PINK
20. Your TV? Off
21. Your pets? Dogs
22. Your computer? ON
23. Your life? Wonderful
24. Your mood? Cranky
25. Missing someone? MOM
26. Your car? Dodge
27. Something you're not wearing? Shoes
28. Favorite store? KOHLS
29. Your summer? Busy
30. Love someone? YEP
31.Your favorite color? Purple
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$612,000 in 60 theaters (+56); PSA: $10,200; Cumulative: $816,000
Very rapid and successful expansion of the Noah Baumback-Greta Gerwig black and white New York-set comedy that justifies IFC's faith in the validity of a significant theatrical run for the film despite their frequent reliance on Video on Demand as a parallel platform (not being done here). $10,000 is a very strong PSA for this number of theaters - it would have been good if it had gone next to only exclusive runs in major cities.
The film's further success will depend on word of mouth, particularly from younger, less-frequent specialized theater attending audiences. But the results so far suggests a real chance at crossover success.
What comes next: This expands to 30 more markets next weekend already, ahead of upcoming competition from "Before Midnight."
"Stories We Tell" (Roadside Attractions) - Week 3
$143,000 in 27 theaters (+4); PSA: $5,517; Cumulative: $373,000
Roadside is rolling out Sarah Polley's acclaimed personal documentary carefully. The grosses so far have been on the high end of average, but more promising is that its PSA, even with a slight increase in theaters, remains steady. This is going to need a lot of word of mouth to keep it in play, but the results so far have been encouraging.
What comes next: Though this won't come close to the success Roadside has had with "Mud," this looks like it could be one of the top grossing docs of the year.
"What Maisie Knew" (Millennium) - Week 4
$154,000 in 27 theaters (+23); PSA: $5,704; Cumulative: $272,000
Performing similarly to "Stories We Tell" if only now moving beyond New York/Los Angeles, this Julianne Moore-starring contemporary child-custody drama is showing signs of life as it widens out. The reviews remain mainly favorable if not sensational, but there is a void at the moment for films with older-audience appeal at many specialized theaters at the moment, and this is doing well enough to take advantage of that for the time being.
What comes next: Millennium has a history of getting out appropriate films to wider breaks without going crazy, so expect this to have significant life ahead.
Among longer running films, none is giving a standout performance up to the level of the promise ahead of some of the above. Millennium got "The Iceman" up to 258 theaters (+93), but its gross fell 15% (to $395,000), suggesting its reached its limits in expansion. SPC's "Love Is All You Need" and Weinstein's "Kon-Tiki" continue their modest runs with a similar theater count (63 and 64), with "Love" having the higher PSA of $3,800. No other reported limited film had a PSA above $2,000.


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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Spring Archery
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- Nobanno said...
You can learn the basic rules, names of all the strokes, how to play a match, things like that, in a few days or weeks. Acquiring high levels of *skill* at all the strokes, being able to beat lots of other young people, getting yourself sectionally or nationally ranked, that's a different story.ArcheryLessons are needed.
- August 2, 2014 at 12:11 PM
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2 Factory yamahas
2 Tech 3's
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it's 6 Ron..Cardion n LCR only have 1 bike..
I hope nothing serious happen to the Yamahas..cz they're the only contender to Repsols..or we'll have a runaway race..