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CFO Moves this week include:
|Hot Topic, Inc.
|Anika Therapeutics, Inc.
|iTalk, Inc.
|Optimal, Inc.
|Alleghany Corporation
|TNI BioTech, Inc.
|Bizzingo, Inc.
|Osage Exploration and Development, Inc.
|Crestwood Midstream Partners LP
|Legal Life Plans, Inc.
|Data I/O Corporation
|Mountain America Credit Union
|Lam Research Corporation
|FutureLogic, Inc.
|American Electric Technologies, Inc.
|Keating Capital, Inc.
|Homeland Resources Ltd.
|Carver Bancorp, Inc.
|Popular, Inc.
|Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc
|Bessemer Venture Partners
|Solis Women's Health
|Tenex Health, Inc.
|Active Power
|Security National Financial Corporation
|Daegis Inc.
|Bazaarvoice, Inc.
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Hot Topic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOTT) announced that Jim McGinty has resigned as Chief Financial Officer, effective March 29, 2013. George Wehlitz, VP, Finance, will serve as the Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Wehlitz joined Hot Topic, Inc. in 2008 as VP, Finance. From November, 2005 to January, 2008, he was Chief Financial Officer at Cycle Gear, Inc. Mr. Wehlitz joined Hot Topic, Inc. in February, 2002 as Vice President, Controller, and then served as Vice President, Finance from August, 2003 to November, 2005. Previously, from August, 2000 to February, 2002, Mr. Wehlitz was Chief Financial Officer at The Popcorn Factory.
Anika Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIK) announced the appointment of Sylvia Cheung as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective April 1, 2013. Cheung, who has served as Anika's Vice President for Strategic Processes since February 2012, will succeed Kevin W. Quinlan, who is leaving Anika effective March 31, 2013. Prior to her current position as Vice President of Strategic Processes, Cheung served as General Manager for the company's Italy-based subsidiary, Anika Srl. She joined Anika as Controller in 2005. Prior to Anika, she held a series of progressively responsible financial management positions at Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc.
iTalk, Inc. (OTC: SOPC) announced that Richard Dea has joined the Company as its new CFO, Treasurer and Director. From April 1990 to the present, he has served as president of SAE Group of Delray Beach, Florida, a former Division of Inzon Corporation.
Optimal, Inc. announced that Paul Suh has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Paul was most recently SVP of Finance and Operations at LiveGamer. Prior to that, Paul was the CFO and COO of GamerDNA Media, which was acquired by Live Gamer in June 2010
Alleghany Corporation (NYSE: Y) announced today that it will expand its executive leadership team by separating the role of Chief Financial Officer from management of Alleghany's approximately $16 billion fixed income portfolio. Accordingly, Roger B. Gorham will assume overall responsibility for Alleghany's fixed income portfolio and will no longer serve as Chief Financial Officer once a successor is identified. Mr. Gorham will serve as Alleghany's Senior Vice President and acting Chief Financial Officer until a successor is identified, at which time Mr. Gorham will be named as Senior Vice President – Head of Fixed Income and Treasurer.
TNI BioTech, Inc. (PINK: TNIB) announced that Peter Aronstam has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Aronstam is replacing Christopher Pearce , who will take over as the Chief Operating Officer. Peter has advised and/or served as CFO in both publicly held and privately owned businesses since 1978.
IndCor welcomes John Collins as Chief Financial Officer. Collins joined IndCor in September 2012. Prior to his joining IndCor as Chief Financial Officer, Collins was the Chief Accounting Officer at Pearlmark Real Estate Partners. Preceding his position at Pearlmark, Collins was an auditor at Ernst & Young, where he audited Equity Office's various SEC filings.
Bizzingo, Inc. (OTC: BIZZ) appointed Dipak Joshi as its Chief Financial Officer. Concurrent with the stated appointment, Douglas Toth resigned as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, however remains as the Company's Vice Chairman. Dipak began in accounting in controller functions at Siemens. He moved to eCommerce at eBay, focused on M&A, before joining Google's finance department. Recently, he served as SVP Finance for FuzeBox.
Osage Exploration and Development, Inc. (OTC: OEDV) entered into a CFO Consulting Agreement with Norman Dowling to serve as a part-time Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Dowling has over 20 years of finance experience, including four years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Active Network, Inc., and four years as Vice President Finance, at PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. Mr. Dowling also served as Chief Financial Officer of Factory 2U Stores, Inc. and CinemaStar Luxury Theatres, Inc.
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: CMLP) announced that William G. Manias, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Crestwood Gas Services GP LLC (the company's general partner) has left the Company to pursue other opportunities. Steven M. Dougherty was appointed Senior Vice President and will assume the role of Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dougherty will remain in his position as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Dougherty has served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company since joining the Company in June 2012. Prior to joining the Company he most recently served as Director of Corporate Accounting at El Paso Corporation, from 2001 to May 2012.
Legal Life Plans, Inc. (OTC: LLFP) announced that Terry Kupfer was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Kupfer was an audit partner and Audit Practice Director – Arthur Anderson LLP, 1970 – 1997, Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Kupfer is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Redlands (CA).
Data I/O Corporation (NASDAQ: DAIO) appointed Mark Gallenberger to the Board. Mark Gallenberger has served as the Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of LTX-Credence Corporation (NASDAQ: LTXC), a manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, which he joined in 2000. For the six years prior, he was Vice President/Senior Manager with Ernst &Young (Cap Gemini) in their consulting practice.
Allegiance announced that Dana Russell has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO). Russell was formerly the senior vice president and chief financial officer at Novell. Prior to his tenure as CFO at Novell, Russell held other senior finance positions at Novell, WordPerfect and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
EcoScraps announced that Ron Ross has been named the company's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Ross was most recently Vice President of Finance and Principal Accounting Officer at Skullcandy Inc.
LifeNexus announced that John Sines has been named Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sines most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Corticon Technologies, Inc. Mr. Sines has also served as Chief Financial Officer for a number of other venture-backed and publicly held companies, including ClairMail, Inc., AppStream Inc., Viquity Corporation, Versity.com and E-H International, Inc.
Mountain America Credit Union announced that Chad Curtis has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, replacing long-time CFO David Kwant, who retired. Curtis was senior vice president of finance at Mountain America for nine years. He previously worked for Grant Thornton LLP.
Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) announced that Ernie Maddock, chief financial officer, will be leaving the Company in mid-April.
FutureLogic, Inc. announced that Tony Shepherd will be joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Former CFO, Jon Huntley , will join the FutureLogic board of directors.
American Electric Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AETI) announced that Andrew Puhala has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Puhala was most recently chief financial officer at Artificial Lift Company. Prior to his tenure at Artificial Lift, Puhala spent 15 years at Baker Hughes Incorporated, where he held senior financial roles including vice president of finance, corporate development, assistant treasurer, division controller, and region finance vice president with expatriate assignments in Europe and the Middle East.
Keating Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIPO) announced that Stephen M. Hills submitted his resignation as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective February 20, 2013. The company has appointed Frederic M. Schweiger to serve as the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, replacing Mr. Hills, effective February 20, 2013. Mr. Schweiger currently serves as a director of the Company and its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Schweiger also is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of the Company's investment adviser, Keating Investments, LLC, and serves as a member of Keating Investments' investment committee.
Homeland Resources Ltd. (OTC: HMLA) announced that Paul Maniscalco has been appointed as its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Since 2006, Mr. Maniscalco has been a Principal with SJM Holdings, Inc. Prior to joining SJM, Mr. Maniscalco was a Senior Audit Manager with Sherb & Co., LLP located in Boca Raton, Florida.
Carver Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARV), the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank announced that Mark A. Ricca, its current Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, has announced his intention to resign, effective February 15, 2013, to accept a Chief Executive Officer's position at another institution. The company has appointed David Toner, Senior Vice President and Controller for the past four years, as Acting Chief Financial Officer, effective February 15, 2013. Mr. Toner joined Carver in 2009 after more than 20 years with Citigroup in various financial control positions in the United States and Europe, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup's Community Development business from 2004 through 2007.
Popular, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPOP) announced today that Carlos J. Vázquez, currently President of Popular Community Bank, will become Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective as of March 15, 2013. Mr. Vázquez will succeed Jorge Junquera, who will assume the new role of Vice Chairman and Special Assistant to the CEO.
Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Charles J. Schafer as President and Chief Financial Officer. Charlie will replace Mike Bauer , who served as President and CEO and will be departing the company for new opportunities. Charlie has held senior management positions at several companies including L-3 Communications, Corp., Lockheed Martin and Loral Corp.
Bessemer Venture Partners announced that Entrepreneur-in-Residence Jeff Epstein will move into an operating partner role. Jeff is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Epstein served as CFO of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS) and Nielsen's Media Measurement and Information Group. Earlier, he was an investment banker at The First Boston Corporation. He serves on the Boards of Directors of publicly held Priceline.com and Shutterstock, the Board of the Bessemer portfolio company Zoosk, the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Stanford University Hospital, and the Management Board of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Jeff will continue in his role as a Senior Advisor at Oak Hill Capital's technology group.
Solis Women's Health announced that Mano Mahadeva has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to assuming the position of CFO at Solis, Mr. Mahadeva was the Executive Director, North Texas Region, for U.S. Oncology Network, a division of McKesson Corporation. Prior to U.S. Oncology, Mr. Mahadeva held positions of financial responsibility at Physician Reliance Network, Texas Orthopedic Associates and Associated Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Tenex Health, Inc. announced that it has appointed Rom Papadopoulos, M.D. as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He will also continue to serve as a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rom's career spans over 25 years in the healthcare and technology services industries. He most recently served as Managing Partner of Intuitus Group LLC.
Active Power (NASDAQ: ACPW) announced that it has named Thomas Patrick Kelly to the company's board. Kelly currently serves as interim CFO for Panera Bread Company (NASDAQ: PNRA). Prior to joining Panera in April 2012, Kelly was interim CFO for Hawker Beechcraft Corp. Before joining Hawker Beechcraft, he served as interim CEO at ExpressJet. Kelly has also held a number of senior financial positions at Vignette Corp., which was acquired by Open Text Corp.; Dell, Inc.; Trilogy Enterprises; Sabre Holdings; and American Airlines.
Security National Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: SNFCA) appointed Garrett S. Sill to serve as the Company's Acting Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Garrett Sill replaces Stephen M. Sill, who served as the Company's Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from 2002 until his recent retirement. Mr. Stephen Sill had also served as Vice President and Controller of the Company from 1997 to 2002. Garrett Sill is the son of Stephen Sill. Prior to his appointment as the Company's Acting Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Garrett Sill had been serving since 2011 as Vice President and Assistant Treasurer of Security National Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. From 2002 to 2011, Garrett Sill was Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of SecurityNational Mortgage Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Sill was Vice President and Controller of SecurityNational Mortgage Company.
Daegis Inc. (NASDAQ: DAEG) announced that Chief Financial Officer Steven Bonham will step down in February 2013. The Board has appointed Steve Baker Interim CFO. Mr. Baker is a Partner with Tatum, a national Executive Services consulting company, with more than 25 years of experience. Most recently, he held an Interim Executive Placement with Plug and Play Tech Center serving as advisor and mentor to its executive team. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Frontrange Solutions. Previously, he was the Vice President of Revenue Operations for PeopleSoft. He also served in Vice President and CFO roles at Roamware and Geoworks Corp.
Bazaarvoice, Inc. (NASDAQ: BV) appointed Jim Offerdahl as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Offerdahl succeeds Stephen Collins, who was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and President in November 2012. Prior to joining Bazaarvoice, Offerdahl served as Chief Financial Officer of Convio, Inc. In addition to Convio, he led successful initial public offerings as Chief Financial Officer of both Tivoli Systems, Inc. and Pervasive Software, Inc. Offerdahl also served as Chief Operating Officer of Pervasive Software, where he expanded the worldwide sales organization, and was Chief Executive Officer and President of Traq-Wireless, Inc.


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Two young men were killed while at least seven other people including a 15-year-old boy were wounded during shootings Friday and Saturday across the city.
Early Saturday in the Rogers Park neighborhood, a 34-year-old man was walking on a sidewalk in the 6900 block of North Ashland Avenue about 2:30 a.m. when someone inside a red sport-utility vehicle fired shots and hit him in the abdomen, according to Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer.
He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital and his condition was not known.
No one has been arrested for the shooting, Greer said.
Also early Saturday but in the Little Village neighborhood, a 24-year-old man was shot.
He was on a bicycle at the intersection of 24th Street and Millard Avenue, when a car pulled up and someone inside shot him about 12:10 a.m., according to police.
Friends who were nearby took him to Mount Sinai Hospital. His condition was not known, police said.
On the city's West Side about 11:15 p.m. Friday, a 30-year-old man was shot in the in the face, shoulder and buttocks in the 900 block of North Cicero Avenue, according to preliminary information from police.
He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County where his condition has stabilized as of late Friday, police said.
Earlier on the Far South Side, someone shot the 15-year-old boy three times in the abdomen in the 11400 block of South Perry Avenue about 7:30 p.m. Friday, said Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak.
The boy was taken by paramedics from the nearby intersection of 113th Street and South Stewart Avenue to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, according to Chief Joe Roccasalva, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.
In two additional and separate shootings, a 17-year-old girl suffered a graze wound in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood while two men were injured in the Park Manor neighborhood, police said.
The men were in the 200 block of East 69thStreet when someone shot a 25-year-old man in the abdomen, said Greer, citing preliminary information. The second victim, 28, was also hurt but not shot during the 8:05 p.m. incident, according to Greer.
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During another attack Friday night, about 7:30 p.m. in the 2100 block of West 19th Street, a 17-year-old girl who was outside with a group of people was injured when a gunman in a passing car fired several rounds and she was hit in the leg, according to police. She declined to be taken to a hospital.
Two men were slain earlier Friday in the West Englewood neighborhood and on the Far South Side.
Terrance Wright, 18, was shot and killed in the 2300 block of East 99th Street about 3:40 p.m. while Eric Saunders, 34, was shot about 9:40 a.m. in an alley between the 7300 blocks of Winchester and Wolcott Avenues, authorities said.
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Put aside for a moment the populist pressure to regulate banking and trading. Ask the elder statesmen of these industries — giants like George Soros, Nicholas F. Brady, John S. Reed, William H. Donaldson and John C. Bogle — where they stand on regulation, and they will bowl you over with their populism.
They certainly don't think of themselves as angry Main Streeters. They grew quite wealthy in finance, typically making their fortunes in the '70s and '80s when banks and securities firms were considerably more regulated. And now, parting company with the current chieftains, they want more rules.
While the younger generation, very visibly led by Lloyd C. Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs , lobbies Congress against such regulation, their spiritual elders support the reform proposed by Paul A. Volcker and, surprisingly, even more restrictions. "I am a believer that the system has gone badly awry and needs massive reform," said Mr. Bogle, the 80-year-old founder and for many years chief executive of the Vanguard Group, the huge mutual fund company.
Mr. Volcker, 82, signed up the support of nearly a dozen peers whose average age is north of 70 and whose pedigrees on Wall Street and in banking are impeccable. But while Mr. Volcker focuses on a rule that would henceforth prohibit a bank that takes deposits from also buying and selling securities for its own account — risking losses in the process — most of his prominent supporters see that as a starting point in a broader return to regulation. And most do not hesitate to speak up in interviews.
Listen to Nicholas Brady, a Treasury secretary in the late 1980s and early 1990s and before that chairman of Dillon Read & Company, now extinct, but in its day a prestigious Wall Street house. "If you are a commercial bank," he said, "and you wish the government to guarantee your deposits and bail you out if necessary, then you can't be involved in speculative activity."
Does that mean Mr. Brady, now 79, would tell commercial banks they could no longer trade securities for their customers? Mr. Volcker, who gained fame in the 1980s as chairman of the Federal Reserve, would permit this and so would President Obama, who has endorsed the Volcker restriction on proprietary trading, but not the broader ban on trading for customers. Mr. Brady just might take that extra step.
"I'd certainly look into it," he said, arguing in effect that the current generation of bankers is so profit-oriented, it might well find a way to convert trading for a customer into surreptitiously trading for the bank itself, risking depositors' money in the process.
"You draw a line that is too tight," Mr. Brady said. "That does not bother me a bit."
Nor does it bother John S. Reed, a former Citigroup co-chairman, who played a role in building Citi into a powerhouse that mingled commercial banking and all sorts of trading activities. That mix helped to precipitate the current credit crisis, requiring a costly federal bailout of Citigroup, among others, in 2008.
Mr. Reed, now 71, was long gone by then, and from retirement he has second thoughts. He even thinks about resurrecting the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which prevented banks from engaging in any sort of trading activity involving stocks and bonds. (It was revoked in 1999, partly at the behest of Citigroup, then run by Sanford I. Weill.)
"I can be convinced that we should move back in the direction of Glass-Steagall," Mr. Reed said, disagreeing on this point with Mr. Weill who, at 76, has not retracted his view that deregulation was the right course. Indeed, Mr. Weill has hanging on a wall of his retirement office, as a trophy, one of the pens that President Clinton used to sign the bill that revoked Glass-Steagall.
Mr. Reed, in contrast, wonders if a trading operation should even exist under the same roof as a standard commercial bank. The traders make more in salary and bonuses than the bank employees, and there are frictions. "The bank people say 'if the capital market guys take big risks, why can't we do so too and earn the same bucks?' " Mr. Reed said. "They start trying to do things that make them look good, like making risky commercial loans and driving for volume."
The Volcker Rule would solve this in part by telling "the capital market guys," as Mr. Reed put it, that they can trade only as agents for customers and not on behalf of the house. Restricted to serving only customers, they might or might not take fewer risks.
In any event, the restriction goes in the right direction, which is why George Soros, the billionaire trader, endorses it and falls into place as one of Mr. Volcker's supportive elder statesmen, referring to him as "an extraordinary public servant."
But the Volcker Rule is emphatically not enough, Mr. Soros said. A company like Goldman Sachs, barred from proprietary trading, would probably give up its status as a bank holding company and revert to its role as a big Wall Street investment house, free to trade as it wished. If it then failed, Mr. Volcker would use the federal government to usher it through an orderly liquidation. Mr. Soros, in contrast, would rescue Goldman Sachs.
"The danger is that Congress and the administration may try to hide behind the banner of Volcker's reputation, enact this one dimension of reform and nothing more, and pretend that it is sufficient to repair the financial system," Mr. Soros said. "That would be a dangerous mistake."
At 79, Mr. Soros says, he has watched Goldman Sachs, and other firms like it on Wall Street, grow too big to fail, which means that no administration could allow such giants to go through Mr. Volcker's orderly liquidation and disappear. That would be too damaging to the financial system, the economy and the political party in power.
"You have to recognize that they enjoy an implicit guarantee," he said of the big trading houses. "To pretend they will be allowed to fail is not credible."
The solution for Mr. Soros is to avoid failure in the first place. The big Wall Street firms "would have to be closely regulated to make sure they don't fail," he said. "You may decide to break them up, or restrict the number of markets in which they are allowed to operate and you would need to impose capital requirements" to curtail risk-taking.
Derivatives contracts are a major source of risk, and Mr. Soros would limit their use. These contracts — offering insurance, for example, on trading positions — are still ubiquitous. When they come due in great quantities, as they were about to do in the fall of 2008, the contagion spreads, undermining one financial institution after another.
That worries William H. Donaldson, a chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the George W. Bush administration, and a co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a prominent Wall Street firm in its day. To deal with such issues, Mr. Donaldson, now 78, would have Congress create a powerful regulatory body, independent of the Federal Reserve or any other government body, whose members would be appointed directly by the president.
"The Volcker Rule and Mr. Volcker's initiative," he said, "are really taking the discussion of regulation to a whole new level."


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The state of Arkansas and the United States have filed a joint complain against ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and ExxonMobil for the for the heavy crude oil spill that took place from the Pegasus Pipeline in Mayflower, Ark. on March 29, 2013.
According to the filed complaint, the ruptured pipeline spilled oil into a residential neighborhood in Mayflower which then flowed directly into waterways, creeks, and Lake Conway. Some residents had to evacuate their homes and the oil has contaminated land, water, wildlife and their habitats, and the well-being of the residents.
The oil spill happened on March 29, 2013 and cleanup in still underway, with some residents still not allowed to return to their homes due to the amount of contamination still present in the area. So far, six complaints have been filed against ExxonMobil, along with Arkansas seeking civil penalties for the Arkansas Hazardous Waste Management Act and the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act violations. Arkansas is also asking that ExxonMobil pay for all cleanup fees and damages caused by the spill.


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Big Spender: The $30,000 Tie
Sure, the idea of giving Dad a new necktie for Father's Day might seem a tad cliché. But what if it's a designer tie embroidered with diamonds — 100 diamonds, to be exact? Then the cliché becomes a $30,000 work of art. Charles Passy takes a look. Photo: Stefano Ricci.
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Muni investors, take heart: Warren Buffett's recent sale of $8 billion in credit derivatives was simply a profitable trade—and not a comment on the overall value of the municipal bond market.
So says LPL Financial Market Strategist Anthony Valeri in "Municipal Misconceptions," a comment published Tuesday on the renowned Berkshire Hathaway CEO's second-quarter sale of $8 billion worth of municipal derivatives contracts. Valeri's comment came on the heels of news that circulated late in August over Buffett's decision to close out his large position in credit default swaps insuring municipal debt.
"We simply view the Berkshire Hathaway sale for what it is — the closing out of a profitable trade," Valeri writes. "We believe Berkshire would have likely sold the entire position, rather than just half, if there was true concern for broad-based municipal credit quality."
The insurance-like contracts were originally purchased by Lehman Brothers Holdings in 2007, more than a year before the firm filed for bankruptcy, according to an Aug. 21 report in The Wall Street Journal. "It isn't clear whether Berkshire's move will leave the company with a profit or loss on the wager," the WSJ reported. "Mr. Buffett, Berkshire's 81-year-old chairman and chief executive, declined to comment."
Following that report, columns in media sources including the New York Post and Reuters disputed whether or not Buffett's trade amounted to a negative bet on state and local governments as well as the overall muni market.
But Valeri says the media buzz on Buffett's trade was misleading in its suggestion that state credit quality is deteriorating. The truth is that Buffett's sale is far from a negative bet on the muni market, Valeri argues.
"If Berkshire did have a negative view of the municipal bond market, it could have easily placed a bearish bet but did not," Valeri writes. "Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway declined to comment to reporters on the motive for the trade but we believe Berkshire simply found a more attractive investment on a go-forward basis."
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Failure and Success: Greatness Has Its Price
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.—2 Timothy 2:3-4
The laws of success operate also in the higher field of the soul— spiritual greatness has its price. Eminence in the things of the Spirit demands a devotion to these things more complete than most of us are willing to give. But the law cannot be escaped. If we would be holy we know the way; the law of holy living is before us. The prophets of the Old Testament, the apostles of the New and, more than all, the sublime teachings of Christ are there to tell us how to succeed….
The amount of loafing practiced by the average Christian in spiritual things would ruin a concert pianist if he allowed himself to do the same thing in the field of music. The idle puttering around that we see in church circles would end the career of a big league pitcher in one week. No scientist could solve his exacting problem if he took as little interest in it as the rank and file of Christians take in the art of being holy. The nation whose soldiers were as soft and undisciplined as the soldiers of the churches would be conquered by the first enemy that attacked it. Triumphs are not won by men in easy chairs. Success is costly. We Travel an Appointed Way, 26.
"This success may be costly, Lord, but surely nothing in the light of the eternal perspective we looked at yesterday. Give me a willingness this morning to pay any cost which You may exact in my service for You. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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MONTREAL – Kidnapping Paolo Renda would have been unimaginable a decade ago.
As a member of the inner circle of the Rizzuto organized crime family leadership, Renda would have been considered untouchable.
But the 70-year-old's apparent abduction on Thursday appears to be another sign that the group once led by his charismatic brother-in-law, Vito Rizzuto, 64, no longer commands the respect it once did.
Renda's disappearance comes less than five months after his nephew and godson, Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto Jr., was murdered in Notre Dame de Grâce. It also follows Renda's February release from a penitentiary after reaching the statutory release date on a two-year prison term he received in Project Colisée, the police investigation that appears to have significantly weakened the organization.
The dozens of arrests made in Colisée were carried out in November 2006, but the years of investigation that led to the roundup revealed an organization that wielded considerable influence in Montreal's underworld and beyond.
"Ten years ago, the Rizzuto clan was in a position of power. It was in control of Montreal, but also Toronto and other areas (in Canada)," said Pierre de Champlain, a former analyst with the RCMP who is now retired.
"It would have been like declaring war to have done this. But today, what happened is not as surprising. It remains to be seen, but it seems to be a message to the Rizzuto clan, and the message is: 'The game is over.' But it all depends on who did this and why."
De Champlain and police sources interviewed by The Gazette raised the possibility that Renda's apparent kidnapping is tied to internal conflicts within the Montreal Mafia. What is known about the disappearance bears some resemblance to other abductions carried out within the milieu in recent years. But all of those targetted underlings or associates of the organization - not a reputed leader like Renda.
A clear indication of the important role Renda had in the Rizzuto organization came from a conversation secretly recorded by the police on May 23, 2005, during the Project Colisée investigation.
Rocco Sollecito, 61, a long-time member of the organization, was discussing matters with Beniamino Zappia, a Mafioso from Italy, inside the Consenza Social Club, a former headquarters of the Montreal Mafia in St. Léonard.
The conversation took place while Vito Rizzuto was challenging the extradition request that would ultimately see him be sent to the United States where he would plead guilty to a racketeering charge and be sentenced to the 10-year prison term he is currently serving in Colorado. Despite the fact Rizzuto was behind bars in Montreal at the time, Sollecito told Zappia their organization was being run by five individuals - including Vito Rizzuto - and the profits generated by the men underneath them were split five ways.
"Whenever they do something, they always bring something and we split it amongst us, all five; me, Vito, Nicola and Paolo.
"Seeing that when they do something big ... we participate," Sollecito said. He was believed to have been referring to himself, Vito Rizzuto, Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. and Paolo Renda (while forgetting to mention Francesco Arcadi, 56, as being among the five).
Sollecito and the other three leaders, besides Vito Rizzuto, pleaded guilty to various charges in Project Colisée in 2008 and received sentences that ranged from time served plus probation for Nicolo Rizzuto Sr., 86, to a 15-year prison term for Arcadi.
Renda received the equivalent of a six-year prison term, but had only two years left to serve when he was sentenced. He was released Feb. 12, after reaching his statutory release date. But the National Parole Board decided to place Renda under the Correctional Service of Canada's Intensive Surveillance Practice, designed for inmates who qualify for a release but are still considered a high risk to reoffend.
Renda was considered to be a high risk because of his godson's murder.
"Unfortunate events took place on Dec. 28, 2009, during which your godson was killed, and the Correctional Service of Canada fears reprisals on the part of Italian organized crime. A tighter framework is recommended to assure public security," the parole board noted in a written decision prepared the same day Renda was released.
Colisée actually revealed Renda to be someone who preferred peace over brute force. Much of the wiretap evidence gathered during the investigation that pertained to him indicated Renda is respected as an arbitrator within the organization. He was often recorded handling disputes over money between Montreal Mafia associates, and his preference appeared to be toward a quiet settlement.
"He's the most quiet and peaceful guy in the group," said a lawyer who handled clients arrested in Project Colisée.
However, when police officers raided Renda's home on Nov. 22, 2006, they found evidence he doesn't shy away from the tools of the trade. While looking through a walk-in closet inside the luxury home, the police found a loaded revolver inside the secret compartment of a desk. They also found two rifles stored illegally in another part of the home.
Before his arrest in 2006, Renda's only criminal record was a 1972 conviction for arson after he and Vito Rizzuto torched a barbershop Renda owned in Boucherville in order to collect insurance.
In the 1980s, while Vito Rizzuto successfully fought drug-trafficking charges and eventually came to be known as "the Godfather" of the Montreal Mafia, Renda's role appeared to involve being the legitimate face of the organization. He and Vito Rizzuto owned commercial property in the Laurentians and rented space to legitimate businesses, like restaurants. He was also part owner of a motel in Anjou. And while being investigated in Colisée, Renda often worked out of an office based in a funeral home his relatives own in St. Léonard. He is still listed as president of Construction Renda Inc., a company created in 1977, which Vito Rizzuto once had a one-third share in.
Rizzuto's wife and mother are currently listed as the company's shareholders on Quebec's business registry. While the company is listed as being active, its days appear to be numbered.
Last month, Renda was summoned to a hearing before the Régie du bâtiment, the provincial agency that oversees the construction industry, to discuss the possibility the company's licence would be revoked due to Renda's convictions in Colisée. Instead, on April 13, Renda informed the board he would rather abandon his license than have it taken away from him.
Rizzuto clan reels from series of blows
Once considered the controlling crime family in Canada, reputed Montreal Mafia don Vito Rizzuto and his close associates have recently been dealt a series of blows that some experts say have eroded their influence and left them untouchable no longer.
Aug. 17: Vito Rizzuto leaves Montreal after losing a two-year fight against being extradited to the United States to face a racketeering charge in connection with the 1981 killings of three men in Brooklyn.
Nov. 22: Police complete a massive operation, dubbed Colisée, targeting the alleged heads of the Montreal Mafia. Among the 90 people arrested or sought on warrants was Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto, 82, father of Vito Rizzuto, 60.
May 4: Vito Rizzuto pleads guilty to a racketeering charge in a New York court and in essence admits to murdering three mobsters in 1981. He receives a 10-year prison sentence.
Sept. 18: Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. pleads guilty to possession of the proceeds of crime in association with a criminal organization along with Francesco (Compare Franco) Arcadi, Paolo Renda (his son-in-law), Rocco (Sauce) Sollecito, Francesco (Chit) Del Balso and Lorenzo Giordano.
Dec. 28: Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto Jr., named for his grand-father Nicolo and the eldest of Vito Rizzuto's three children, is murdered outside a construction company in Notre Dame de Grâce.
Feb. 8: Nicolo Rizzuto faces new charges alleging he committed tax evasion in 1994 and 1995.
Feb. 17: Paolo Renda is set free two-thirds of the way through a two-year prison term related to Project Colisée. He is given strict release conditions because the parole board fears retaliation for Nick Jr.'s slaying.
May 20: Renda disappears. His car is found with the keys in the ignition and the windows down close to his home in north Montreal.


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Alice (アリス Arisu) is a teenage character from The Rise of Darkrai. She helps Ash Ketchum and his friends get around Alamos Town, since she works as the Alamos Town tour guide. She also plays a song called Oración on a leaf to calm any Pokémon and is also known as a music student.
She used to live with her grandmother Alicia, before Alicia died and befriended her neighbors Baron Alberto and Tonio. Alice befriended a Gallade living in Alamos Garden, which she knew since she was little. When she was very young, Tonio and Alice were playing in the garden, when she slipped and fell. A Darkrai then intervened and saved her life, but Alice bore no recollection of the events, assuming Tonio saved her. She is the best friend of Darkrai.
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More Android Apps Downloaded in Q1, But Apple Had Higher Revenue
Fifty-one percent of the apps downloaded during Q1 of 2013 were downloaded from Google Play, according to a report released by Canalys on Monday.
While Google had the majority when it came to the number of downloads, it didn't earn top honors in terms of revenue. Canalys reported that Apple was the big winner there, taking home 74% of app revenue during the same period.
"Apple's App Store and Google Play remain the heavyweights in the app store world. In comparison, BlackBerry World and the Windows Phone Store remain distant challengers today, though they still should not be ignored," Tim Shepherd, a Canalys senior analyst, said in statement.
Some of the strongest growth over the quarter was seen in emerging markets such as Indonesia, South Africa and Brazil. While those areas saw significant growth in terms of downloads, that didn't necessarily translate into revenue.
"This is a multi-billion-dollar growth market, with more and more consumers around the world now comfortable and confident in finding apps, downloading them and making in-app purchases, on a growing addressable base of smart phones and tablets," said Adam Daum, Canalys' chief analyst of analytics.
In North America where smartphones are commonplace, app downloads were up 8%, with revenue trailing slightly behind at 6%.
Altogether, the four leading app stores — Google, Apple, BlackBerry and Windows — had a total of 13.4 billion downloads during Q1, equaling revenue of $2.2 billion.
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Two Louisiana Men Cited for Illegal Hunting Activities in LaSalle Parish
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents citied two Marksville men for alleged wildlife and criminal charges on Jan. 10 in LaSalle Parish.
Blaine McNeal, 45, and Keith Dauzat, 43, were both cited for taking deer during illegal hours with artificial light, taking deer from a moving vehicle, hunting from a public roadway, discharging a firearm from a public roadway, intentional concealment of illegally taken wildlife, open container and felony criminal damage to a federal levee system.
Agents were patrolling the diversion canal near the Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area in LaSalle Parish when they observed a vehicle traveling down the canal at a slow speed. Agents then heard several gunshots coming from the direction of the vehicle and observed the vehicle drive down the side of the canal to possibly retrieve what they shot.
The two men got their truck stuck at the bottom of the diversion canal levee while retrieving a deer. McNeal and Dauzat had two deer in possession, which they hid in the bushes near the truck after getting stuck.
Agents located two does in the bushes near the stuck truck. Both subjects were arrested and transported to the LaSalle Parish Sheriff's Office.
Hunting deer during illegal hours and intentional concealment of illegally taken wildlife each bring a $900 to $950 fine and up to 120 days in jail for each offense. Hunting from a moving vehicle carries a $250 to $500 fine and up to 90 days in jail. Hunting from a public road brings a $150 to $300 fine and up to 30 days in jail. Open container carries a fine up to $263 and up to six months in jail. Discharging a firearm from a public road brings a $50 fine and up to 30 days in jail.
The penalties for felony criminal damage to a federal levee system will be issued by the Tensas Levee District Police Office.
Agents participating in the case are Sgt. Charlie Ferrington, Senior Agent Robbie Mayo, Senior Agent Joey Merrill and Tensas Levee Police Officer Brandon Wagoner.


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Forum Update, mSparks, September 6, 2015
A general note that I have moved the forums to phpBB3. Doesn't have the general integration implemented yet (e.g. posting this item and comments), so login for downloads almost certainly wont work yet (I think many of them are currently broken anyway), but it seems to have brought over all the old posts and forums successfully.
This should mean you are now able to register successfully. And to whoever it was that informed me of the problem, apologies for the delay, I've been crazy busy and can't find your email.
LTKTBM has been idle for several years now, all the work here has been on LTBTBM which is currently in private testing.
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LTBTBM Platform encryption, mSparks, January 23, 2015
Thought I'd share some of my plans for encypting the LTBTBM framework, and what I've found so far.
RSA - asymmetric encryption -
Point: Solves the problem of transferring encrpytion keys.
How: Public and private key - one key encrpyts, one key decrypts.
How is it broken:
attacks in the implimentation, e.g. heartblead, where web ssl servers can be asked to hand over the keys they are using (or in fact anything in the server memory).
attacks on the key:
There is a mathematical relationship between the public key and private key. Since you give out the public key, someone "could" calculate your private key. However, since the precise mathematical relationship is not known how to calculate independantly from the size of the key, bigger and bigger keys take longer and longer to calculate.
How long?
Well, a 256 bit key takes a fraction of a second,a 512bit key takes about ten minutes on hardware your average consumer has. both take a fraction of a second on dedicated distributed hardware.
anything less than an 8000bit key should be considered wholey insecure.
Attacks on the math:
implementations of big number calculators influenced to be much slower than they need to be, so calculations seem to take longer than they should.
Attacks on the random number generators - so they only generate a few keys:
Symmetric encryption:
Asymmtric encryption is also slow to encrypt/decrypt, so the solution is to use it to encrpyt the actual key used to encrypt a messsage, using a function that is "fast" to go from unecrypted message to encrypted message and vice versa.
How is it Broken:
getting the key (see above!!)
statistical attacks (calculating the probability of certain keys or ranges of keys, I suppose attacking the random number generator to limit the number of keys produced also fits into this category)
Poor implimentations e.g.
What's best - chaining more than one. My preference to date is first using the rabbit cypher, then AES on top of that.
These stem from the days when public keys were used to verify the integrity of the message. imho this is a stupid idea.
much better to imply verify integrity by having the integrity checks encrypted inside the message. The desire here is to verify the source of the message.
I was planning on building an integrated proxy to allow such messages via forums..
Much better now seems to be a way to create a way to make encrypted attachments for forums/email/any digital delivery mechanism.
This will take two forms:
public messages: Anyone can read/open the attachment, as long as they have been given the authors public key
private messages: only the intended recipients can read the message.
The way to acheive this, seems to be to have the output format a lossless png image, with the content being the encrypted message.
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So long 2014, mSparks, December 28, 2014
What an amazing year!
Been very, very busy, lots of fun, lots of thrills and spills. In a way I'm sorry I can't post more details of all the goings on here (for those not familiar, after the US software patent
I really decided it was safer to keep much of the work I do secret, which is a real shame)
2015 is looking good, lots of big parts of the LTBTBM project are being dusted off and taken towards beta or even release status as more and more core functionality becomes real and battle tested.
Not sure if this will mean some actual public dev releases, rather than just more internal and commissioned releases, if I do get some time it would be nice to push at least some stuff out to a wider audience, but that will come with time.
Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did, almost time for me to get on a plane (again...).
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London Riots, mSparks, August 16, 2011
The following is an excellent [partial] summary ny bones of our current discussions regarding the recent riots in London.
It's great with internet technology thesedays, and the current make up of the board being a 'troll free' environment provided by owners and moderators, how we can have a rational and useful discussion on these riots.
The riots cover a huge range of subjects from the economics, racism, police abuse, political policy, social decay/exclusion/mobility, the benefits system, education, criminal justice, liberty vs authority etc.. It's probably quite fair to concede that given the huge range of controversial issues that lie behind the riots it's going to be near impossible to reach an agreed consensus about what happened and where we go from here. It's certainly not our job to solve societies problems, but I feel we can have a more rational debate here than what is taking place in the media and political arenas.
Riots/civil disorder take place in the context of wider society, which include the topics listed above and I think it's useful to recap and list the various factors that led the the trouble, because the media tend to frame serious issues as simply black and white, eg: either we are too hard on people or too soft, ignoring the whole spectrum of much wider issues that exist in-between.
The bbc had a list of the reasons, there's a summary of the theories at the link, but I wasn't too impressed with the scope of discussion.
I image that the events and caused behind the riots and the conditions that led to the riots are very similar to other mass civil disorder that has taken place in the past. Chris Cockling, a crowd psychologist makes some intelligent points in this short Al Jazzera interview.
I have come up with a list of the various factors surrounding the riots and some very brief summaries. Can anyone add other topics that I have missed? or does anyone take issue and think that some topics don't belong?
Economic Problems, cuts, price inflation of imports caused by currency depreciation, the fall out from the economic bubble was always going to lead to serious social problems, however, during the bubble part of the business cycle, resultant inequality of wealth, lack of social mobility, social depravation and failiour to tackle the issue creating underclass and then finding a role for them was the breeding ground for the problems, the riots the symptoms.
Social Policy, has the Labour years of increasing benefits for people with social problems simply exacerbated the plight of these people causing a poverty trap that takes away any incentive to work, and own a home. has this led to more of a fragmented family structure where positive male role models are absent. I don't think that lack of positive male role models is the major factor in bringing up law abiding children with improved life chances, and lack of a positive male role model is better than having a negative male role model imposed. The main issue to do with absent fathers I think is the role of the absent farther in society, no need to work, no need to build a home life, no reason to better themselves and stay out of trouble. Although all these problems also existed during the last Tory government, Nu-Labour had 13 years to address these issues, given that many of the people taking place in the riots were children, I feel that these are the children of Nu-Labours failed policies.
The criminal justice system. The failures of the criminal justices system have been evident for 15-20 years. I think its fair to say that theres probably a 10% chance you get caught for committing a crime, a 50% chance you actually get charged, a 50% chance it goes to court, a 25% chance of being convicted of the crime, and then a 50% chance you get away with very light punishment and only a 10% chance you actually receive a serious sentence, and at the end of the crime lottery a 90% chance that you only have to serve half of the sentence. ASBO's, on the spot fines, publicised crack downs on various types of headline grabbing topical crimes, are very much policing by slogans, advertising campaigns and gimmicks.
Unemployment. As a consequence of globalisation and cheap imports and increased immigration, off shoring of jobs, never really addressed since the 1980s, this has led to multi generational unemployment. Cycles of depravation, where whole families and communities don't have any positive working role models to learn from or to aspire to. In an deprived inner city estate, what answers do children give when they are asked "what would you like to be when you grow up?" Do people even bother to ask that question these days?
Immigration. This is a difficult and controversial topic, but it must be addressed, because if we can't have a rational debate about it, then the far right political parties will capitalise on the issue. Clearly the influx of large numbers of immigrants are going to have an impact of society, some positive and some negative. The ones with higher skill levels do benefit our society, but at the same time displace and restrict the opportunities of the socially deprived underclass people in the inner cities, some of which are themselves immigrants with lower skill levels. This benefits businesses with better workers and lower wages, hence lower consumer prices, but creates externalities that society if left to deal with, in the form of a growing benefits culture and lack of social inclusion. Immigration does have a key role in providing flexibility in any advanced economy, but maintaining a healthy balance is a controversial issue. I certainly can't find the right answers in a paragraph and it's probably impossible for any consensus to be made in wider society on the issue, but I do accept that immigration has both positive and negative side effects. The usual media debates on the subject consist of one side just promoting the benefits whilst ignoring the negatives and the other side ignoring the positives and focusing on the negatives, it's always conflict. The inability to have a sensible debate is another failure of government and media, which plays into the hands of far right extremists who will capitalise on the issue.
Police Image, Caused by Institutionalised Racism, abuse of Stop and Search powers, controversial Deaths caused by the police, inadequate investigation into police abuse, the cover ups and misinformation released to the media, all of which undermines the authority and respect of the police force. This is a consequence of long term political failure and weak leadership as obvious problems in the police force are ignored, by higher up's and politicians. Also the use of the police force to obstruct legitimate public protests, which has seen them put in an awkward and unpopular position with the general public.
House Prices, underpinning the mal-structuring of the economy is unaffordable housing, land and property, the inability of most people to have a steak in society. Again this overlaps with decreased social mobility, and also the economic measures taken to postpone the correction.
Moral Bankruptcy, A General lack of respect and trust in society, from politicians expenses, newspaper criminal hacking, police bribes and coverups, bankers bonus and fraud, people feel that if those at the top don't respect the law why should they, although those at the bottom of society have yet to learn that if you want to steal, wear a suit and carry a briefcase. The issue of personal responsibility for ones actions is also not helped by the examples set by, politicians, senior police all of whom exonerate themselves from any responsibility for the riots, the mis-handling and events that led up to them
The handling of the riots, Lack of leadership, from politicians and senior police, which led to weak policing on the ground allowing the situation to get out of hand. Another issue raised by a senior ex police chief on a Newsnight debate was whether the police should operate as a force with leadership, or if they should continue to act as a service with a bureaucratic structure. I felt there were different stages of the situation which required different responses, failure to recognise and respond properly to the changes and challenges as the situation developed is a failure of leadership. Police appeared afraid to confront and arrest rioters, perhaps this is because of orders, media criticism and fear of being prosecuted, but again this comes back to the handling and leadership, as when the situation became an wide-scale emergency, police should have been ensured the support from the people in positions of responsibility.
Opportunism, a large part of people actions can never really be explained or justified, many were obvious criminals taking advantage of the situations, others may have had what they felt were legitimate grievances, but took events to far. Mass psychology, humanities inner animalistic behaviour, the madness of crowds.
Modern Communication, theres been a lot of focus on Technology and Social Networking, I would also like to include the role the News Media in this area. Yes social networking, text messages and BlackBerry Messenger helped organise people to riot and loot, but the role of the media was probably far more powerful in amplifying the ineffectual political/police response which encouraged people to break the law (the ineffectual response was a true representation of the situation on the ground) I have spoken to officers in the Manchester area who have told me that a media blackout was ordered at 9pm to stop the media reporting the location of new trouble spots to stop others attending.
Other issues, Such as Gangsta Rap/Hip Hop and Multiculturalism, I don't really see these as major factors, they are just emotive political footballs for people to project their own personal preferences and prejudices onto in a veiled manner. Focusing on Music, Ethnicity, Culture, Video Games, Films etc.. all become rose tinted projections of an idealised yesterday, such as David Starkey on Newsnight, the Historian who seems to be under the most remarkable delusion of historical ignorance by imagining that violent gang culture did not exist before black people. The day I see a credible discussion on the subject is the day I will offer my opinion.
I felt msparks did a good job in summarising different stages of development during the riots, although I differ over some of the interpretations.
mSparks, on 12 August 2011 - 03:20 PM, said:
I'd say the numbers/backgrounds are fairly easy to estimate.
Day 1 rioters:The few hundred people in the vicinity of the assaulted girl
Day 2 Rioters:Several thousand friends, acquaintances and colleges of Mark Duggan and the assaulted girl
Day 2+ Rioters and looters: Tens of thousands of people and children seizing the opportunity of most of the nations police force fighting Several thousand friends, acquaintances and colleges of Mark Duggan and the assaulted girl.
And, imho, the only people the courts should be punishing are the police involved in the murder of MD and assault of the girl, because until their guilt is established, the guilt of everyone else is not establishable (unless they have a guilty conscience and plead guilty).
Imho, the killing of Mr Duggan appears to have the usual sort of botch job from the MET with subsequent propaganda style misinformation to cover up the mistake, however I strongly differentiate between the death of a man armed with a gun and the death of Tomlinson and Mendes.
1. I feel that the initial protest by Mr Duggans family was also badly handled by the police, especially the senor police and political masters who are ultimately responsible. this handling of a delicate issue at a time when there are many factors that can lead to civil unrest was the trigger for the first riots. Though still criminal acts, they can been seen as a political event. a reaction against police racism, abuse of stop and search, and the conditions created in society, following the pattern of almost all the other previous riots.
2. However, there were some opportunist criminals who took advantage of the situation, which maybe seen as a result of the other policy failures listed above. They took an element of the trouble into the realm of out right civil disobedience, criminality, looting, and given the lack of leadership of the authorities, things began to get out of hand.
3. The following nights of riots/looting became a continuation of the criminality caused by the type of people the complete failure of social policy has created - against the background of economic disaster compounded by the complete mishandling of the immediate situation by politicians and police. The pretext of events being an understandable political reaction to Mr Duggans death was simply a self serving delusion for those who wanted to have a ruck with their enemy, the police. or to steal from ordinary members of the public, small business and high-street chain stores.
It was like being in a dried out tinder-box forest in the middle of summer, along come the MET with a flame thrower, dithering politicians failed to take the correct decisions at the outset, leading to an ineffectual response by the police service on the ground. Other factors in society acted like prevailing winds fanning the flames, which led to still more dithering by politicians. Eventually the chaos and breakdown of law and order encouraged looters to enter the scene, setting even more fires to cover their criminal actions.
Unfortunately, I feel that the outcome of the trouble will not be a series of carefully thought-out attempts at solving the issues that led and contributed to these events.
The injustices which caused police and political resentment will be overshadowed by the violence and looting.
Other political, newspaper, police and business scandals will be swept under the carpet as the media place the focus of societies ills on the criminal underclass.
The liberal social policies will be abandoned hurting those who took part in the trouble the most, the public will favour more police over social workers, harsher prison sentences and benefit crackdowns.
Social divisions within society will become more entrenched, some areas will become police no-go zones and there will be zero tolerance for the underclass in wealthier areas and shopping centres.
Politicians will allow the police to abuse powers needed to control serious civil unrest to suppress public demonstrations.
House prices will fall heavily in the areas affected by the troubles, and sightly less in the untouched areas.
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