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New lifted Hatch pics (Oz)
Posted 08 March 2004 - 07:23 AM
It would have to be the only lifted hatch that i am aware of in Australia. And is the only Hatch registerd in Western Australia. I am only aware of maybe 5 other hatches in the whole of Oz.
I certainly get alot of interest from people wondering how I shortend a wagon not knowing it's an imported model.
Let me know what you guys think.
Posted 08 March 2004 - 08:54 AM
Really though, you have done a some nice work there
Posted 08 March 2004 - 09:24 AM
living with little to no hatches would be hard.
Posted 08 March 2004 - 10:42 AM
Thats great inspiration, I have a 4 door in baby blue, She'll be big like that some day.
Nice Work Man!
Posted 08 March 2004 - 10:52 AM
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Posted 08 March 2004 - 11:34 AM
and the bull bar looks as if its steel, but maybe powercoated, or almost cromed.
absolutly beatiful car!!
Posted 08 March 2004 - 12:05 PM
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Posted 09 March 2004 - 01:44 AM
Those bullbars, they're aluminum right? Any idea how much the weigh?
I also like that sedan in this pic here: http://community.web...121011278PxOyVU
Nice work!
Posted 09 March 2004 - 06:40 AM
soobme: It is an aluminium bull bar. It does look like steel and for a long time i thought it was.... but it's not.
Mike W: The bull bar doesn't weigh as much as it looks... maybe 20 kg or something possibly less.
CamoMan: The rims are 14 inch by 6.5 inch i think. They are called Desert Rat rims and available in Australia.They are designed to fit on the older Subarus. They are a great rim and only cost about $90au per rim.
The sedan in the pictures is a mates car that i built up with him... was a 2wd only about 6 inches off the ground... looks a whole lot different these days and it's now 4wd. He has the same tyres, rims and lift kit size (3inch) as the hatch... although he does wind up his suspension just to be taller than me.
The blue colour is a Purl Blue... it tends to change colour from a blue to a purple sort of colour in different light. Everyone loves it. Im scared to scratching it now though.
Future plans are to put in an ej22 and an ea82 L-series gear box. I have already got the ej22 and im in the middle of planning and prepareing for the conversion. If anyone on the board has completed an ej22 conversion without using the entire ej22 wiring harness off the donour car, i would really like to talk to you about what i can and can't remove on the wiring harness from the ECU.
Thanks guys
Posted 09 March 2004 - 07:18 AM
Also, any other specs we should know about your vehicle?
ie. what's that black paint you've got along the bottom?
Posted 09 March 2004 - 08:52 AM
I have already had a rock flick up and scratch that bottom part of the car rather sevearly but because of my paint choice it wasn't a problem to repair. I highly recomend painting the bottom part this way.
Only other things i have done to it is a weber 32\36 carby. Everything else has been left for now. As to how the car got here.. i would have no idea... someone had a lot of spare money i guess.
Posted 09 March 2004 - 10:43 AM
Nice Job!
82 Hatch, well it used to be....
01 Forester, still is....
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Posted 08 August 2004 - 09:53 AM
Some information about them shocks can be found at the following address..
That site also shows the part number for the shock that fits on the rear with the use of a top mount that has to be fabricated.
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i want to put a lift on my 91 wagon what would perform the best
What kind of wagon do you have? legacy or Loyale?
As far as lifts, there are two places to look, the "Search" button, top right, or the FAQ OFFROAD thread at the top of the page. Everything you need to know is in there.
Try looking on the first page of forums for the most up to date information, as threads that had their last post in August are not very current.
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Brandie Huffman
|High School:
2012: The two-year letterwinner will again challenge to be one of the top runners on the team.
2011: Ran in all seven team events for the Generals in 2011 ... earned Second Team All-ODAC honors by finishing 11th at the ODAC Championships in 24:10.70 ... took seventh at the Hornet Cross Country Challenge (9/1) ... ran a season-best time of 23:04.00 at the Don Cathcart Invitational (10/1).
2010: Competed in four races for the Generals during her rookie campaign … season-best time (26:18) came at the Lehigh Paul Short Invitational (10/1) … placed 19th at the W&L Invitational (9/11).
High School: Lettered three times in both cross country and track and field at Fauquier … served as captain of the cross country team as a senior.
Personal: Psychology major.

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Steven Fox bumped into Arnold Palmer at lunch on Wednesday.
Fox went out of his way to thank the golfing legend who is hosting the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill with competition starting this morning.
Palmer is hosting. Fox is playing.
Fox, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion who plays for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, earned a sponsor's invitation from Palmer for his dramatic victory over Michael Weaver last August at Cherry Hills Country Club.
"I talked to him at lunch," Fox said in a text-message. "He remembered me!"
Fox spent about an hour with Palmer earlier this year prior to a Walker Cup practice in Florida.
"It was a great experience getting to meet one of the greatest players of all time in the game," Fox said Tuesday over the phone. "I got him to sign some stuff. It was a neat experience to meet one of the greatest players in the game of all time."
Those meetings and memories are in the past. Fox will begin play in his second PGA Tour event as an amateur -- he missed the cut at Torrey Pines -- along with Brad Fritsch and Robert Streb at 2:05 off No. 1.
"My goal is to always make the cut," Fox said over the phone Tuesday night. "I'm going to play the best I can and put the best score on the board. I'm not going to set any result goals. I'm going to do what I can."
Fox said he is taking a more professional approach this week because he's been through the circus of a PGA Tour event.
"I'm less nervous, and I feel like I belong out here," Fox said. "I know I can play with these guys.
"I put a quote on my phone: 'Believe in yourself, have faith in your abilities, and without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.'"
Fox needed positive reminders from that note and his mental coach Dr. Bob Winters after having the worst score among the five UTC players who played at Auburn last week.
"He's always been good at putting stuff behind him," UTC coach Mark Guhne said. "This week is going to bring out a different level of focus and intensity. He's always been good at rising to the occasion, and this week, I believe he'll take his game up another notch."


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A.H. Oberg
A.H. "Whitey" Oberg, 87, of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., passed away on Friday, April 10, 2009, at his home, with his wife Luella and oldest daughter Susan by his side.
Whitey met Luella Henderson at White Earth Lake, and they were married on Sept. 22, 1949; they remained married for 60 years. The couple spent their early years together in El Centro, Calif., and had lived in the Encinitas area since 1955.
White was a past master of the Oceanside-San Dieguito Masonic Lodge 381, and a recipient of the Hiram Award; a life member of Scottish Rite in San Diego; a member of Al Bahr Shrine and life member of the Al Bahr Drum & Bugle Corps; M.I.P. of National SoJourners and psat president; a member of American Legion Post 416 in Encinitas; a "life loyal" member of Sigma Chi Fraternity at the University of Minnesota; a member of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association; a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (since 1956); a member of the Poinsettia Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star; and a co-founder of the YMCA in Encinitas.
Whitey served his country as a pilot in the United States Navy during World War II; served as postmaster for the city of Encinitas, 1958-60; and was employed at Camp White Earth for Boys for 13 years. He and his wife Luella donated their time to Meals on Wheels for over 15 years.
In his early years, Whitey enjoyed playing golf, camping up the coast of California, and loved all types of fishing his entire life, including surf fishing on the shores of California, trout fishing on the lakes of Minnesota and deep sea fishing in California, Mexico and Hawaii. Always an avid reader, he especially enjoyed history and biographies.
Surviving Whitey are his wife, Luella M. Oberg; daughters, Nancy Oberg (Bruce) Thomson of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., and Susan Obeg Decater of Encinitas; son Steven Robert (Gale) Oberg of Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii; one granddaughter, two grandsons and one step-grandson; brother-in-law William "Bill" Henderson and sister-in-law LaVaun Groth-Childs, both of Detroit Lakes; as well as many other relatives and friends.
Preceding him in death were his parents and two sisters.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Encinitas, Calif. A reception will follow the service in the parish hall.
Flowers may be sent to St. Andrew's in care of the Oberg family, with a delivery time of 9 a.m. Saturday, April 25. The mailing address is St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 890 Balour Drive, Encinitas, CA 92024.
Condolences may be sent to the family at 1632 Edilee Dr., Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 92007.


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Found on the Frederiksted Pier night dive in St. Croix. ~20fsw. Probably 5cm or less. Sure looks like a decorator crab to me, but what I know about crab IDs could fit on the back of this little guy.
Any more specifics would be great. Thanks.
Orange Decorator Crab
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Jim Martiny admits he didn't know much about tennis before beginning what would become a more than 30-year tenure with the Briggs High School girls program.
Jim Martiny admits he didn't know much about tennis before beginning what would become a more than 30-year tenure with the Briggs High School girls program.
His first love always has been bowling, and that's an area in which he has expertise after competing for four years at Central Michigan University in the 1970s.
For the first time, Martiny has the Briggs girls bowling team in the state tournament, where it will compete Friday, March 1, at Wayne Webb's Columbus Bowl.
"I didn't really know anything about the game of tennis when I came to Briggs," said Martiny, who retired as girls tennis coach in 2009. "I was a four-year collegiate bowler and in 1979 I was among the top 12 in the nation individually. I tried to get a (bowling) program going for years here at Briggs. This is a game that I know."
The Bruins beat Northland 2,279-1,870 on Feb. 19 at Eastland Lanes to win the City League championship as sophomore Tori Pappas was medalist with a 512 series.
On Feb. 23 at HP Lanes, Briggs was second (3,614) behind Cardington (3,682) in the 18-team district tournament as the top three teams advanced to state.
Pappas was seventh overall (559), followed by senior Jordyn Estep (eighth, 556), junior Sam Rainey (ninth, 533), junior Jaid Rade (tied for 35th, 458) and sophomore Randi Chalfant (96th, 290).
Briggs captured the Central Ohio High School Bowling Conference-South Division title at 14-0 and won the sectional Feb. 15 at Columbus Western Bowl with a 3,757.
The only other City program to advance to state was the Walnut Ridge boys in 2010.
"Defending (the City title) was a good feeling," Estep said. "I think we have really good chemistry together and we're all just really close. If two people have a bad day then the other three are bowling well.
"(Martiny) has helped us a lot. ... He makes sure that every practice we're doing something better."City sending fourwrestlers to state
Columbus West wrestling coach Scott Nicola has enjoyed the growth he's seen from senior Paco Quinonez.
In the Division I district tournament Feb. 22 and 23 at Hilliard Darby, the 182-pounder took another step forward by placing fourth to advance to state for the first time.
Quinonez will be among four City athletes at state, which will be held Thursday, Feb. 28, through Saturday, March 2, at Ohio State.
"He's only been wrestling for three years," Nicola said. "He didn't even really care about school much until he got into wrestling. He's really matured and it's paid off."
Quinonez, who is 33-7, didn't advance to district a year ago.
"It feels great," he said. "I just wanted to get more fit, so I figured coming out for wrestling would help with that. I hated it at first, but when you get used to it, it gets better."
West finished 25th (22) at district behind champion Marysville (163), as Bryan Gray placed sixth at heavyweight. Also competing were juniors Aden Abdi (106, 1-2) and Zach Em (126, 0-2) and senior Marcos Gasca (120, 0-2).
In the Division II district tournament at Heath, Mifflin placed 13th (51.5) and Marion-Franklin was 23rd (27.5) behind champion Uhrichsville Claymont (182.5). Brookhaven (37th, 6) and Columbus East (40th, 4) also scored.
Advancing to state for Mifflin were junior Hannibal Tate (152, second, 3-1) and senior Jalen Robinson (220, second, 3-1). Senior Alec Mills (145) went 3-2 and placed fifth.
Qualifying for state for Marion-Franklin was junior Jhulyis Monroe, who lost his second match but won his next four to finish 5-1 and third at 182.Boys basketball districttourneys in full swing
Top-seeded and No. 1-ranked Northland was among the City teams that won first-round district boys basketball tournament games last weekend.
The Vikings beat Hilliard Bradley 71-37 on Feb. 22 to advance to a second-round Division I game against Central Crossing on Feb. 27.
The winner will meet 12th-seeded Westerville South or 20th-seeded Walnut Ridge in a district semifinal at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at Marys-ville. Walnut Ridge beat Pickerington North 50-41 on Feb. 23 to advance.
In Division II, sixth-seeded Columbus South beat Lakewood 68-42 and eighth-seeded Centennial defeated Hamilton Township 87-55 on Feb. 23 to set up a matchup against each other at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at South. The winner will play third-seeded Granville or 13th-seeded DeSales in a district semifinal at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at Newark.
Marion-Franklin, the 11th seed, beat Jonathan Alder 79-34 on Feb. 23 to advance to a second-round matchup at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at fifth-seeded Hartley. The winner will play fourth-seeded Buckeye Valley or 12th-seeded Beechcroft in a district semifinal at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at Newark. Beechcroft beat Independence 66-55 in a first-round game Feb. 23.
Also winning Division II district openers Feb. 23 were Mifflin (61-55 over Bexley), Eastmoor Academy (65-31 over Licking Valley) and Brookhaven (77-61 over Linden-McKinley). Top-seeded Brookhaven meets London in a second-round game at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at home, and 15th-seeded East opens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at 14th-seeded Caledonia River Valley. The winners of those games play at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in a semifinal at Olentangy.
Mifflin, the 16th seed, plays at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at second-seeded Watterson, while seventh-seeded Eastmoor plays host to 20th-seeded Big Walnut at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28. The winners of those games meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in a semifinal at Olentangy.
In Division IV, 15th-seeded Columbus International beat Village Academy 60-55 in a first-round game Feb. 23 to advance to play top-seeded Africentric on Feb. 27. The winner plays 11th-seeded Delaware Christian or 12th-seeded Millersport in a district semifinal at 8 p.m. Monday, March 4, at Reynoldsburg. The district final is 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at the Fairgrounds Coliseum.City League girlsteams make semis
Africentric and Eastmoor, which were the top respective seeds in Divisions III and IV, were among the City teams to advance to district semifinals in girls basketball.
The Nubians play 12th-seeded Grandview at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at Granville, with the winner to meet seventh-seeded Madison Plains or 15th-seeded Marion Pleasant in a district final at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the same site.
Eastmoor played eighth-seeded Big Walnut in a district semifinal Feb. 27. The winner meets second-seeded Brook-haven or 15th-seeded River Valley in a district final at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, at New Albany.
In Division I, fifth-seeded Northland plays fourth-seeded Dublin Coffman in a semifinal at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at Hilliard Davidson. The winner plays third-seeded Olentangy Orange or No. 11 Zanesville in a district final at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at Davidson.


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Because there are soooooooooooooooooo many important tweets worth of archiving...
Just like e-mails I've received in say, oh, the last 5 years? There are just as few e-mails I should really be saving as tweets made but yet I have an archive of every e-mail sent or received since 6/22/2004 and a spotty archive of everything I've sent or received since 1994.
Let me tell you how useful the e-mails goes back to 1994 have been: I once found a deviled egg recipe my (at the time) future wife sent me in college. Man deviled eggs are yummy.
"...not clear HOW it will be rolled out to all users."
Presumably, someone at Twitter ticks the 'enable for all users' box. As to WHEN that will happen, perhaps that's the more pertinent question.
I've read numerous articles claiming that 99% or whatever twitter accounts have either one or zero tweets sent. Probably 99% of them are spammer accounts but 1% of them might be like my account, join up, WTF is this, bye bye, never log in again.
My guess is to control DB load you roll it out by archive size gradually. So corporate PR team who has sent 150K tweets gets it today, then drop the limit by 1K pre day or whatever...
Takes time to figure out how to do "SELECT date,text FROM twitters WHERE user_id=num;" #webscale #nosql
More importantly, can you delete all of your old tweets, as in having them be completely off of Twitters severs?
equivalent features are already available at Facebook
You mean you can click a button hidden several layers deep in an obscure settings menu, then wait a few hours for an incomplete archive containing only content from the last month to be emailed to you? That's amazing.
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan


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Castlewood Country Club - Hill Course
Pleasanton, Calif. • July 19 - 22
Hossler and Seramin Tied After First Round of Trader Joe's Junior Championship
Pleasanton, Calif. — Beau Hossler of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., and Matthew Seramin of San Geronimo, Calif., each fired a 3-under-par 67 to tie for the first place position in the first round of the Trader Joe's Junior Championship hosted by Pat Hurst. Kristina Nhim of Buena Park, Calif., carded an even-par 70 to grab the top spot in the Girls Division.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Trader Joe's Junior Championship hosted by Pat Hurst is a 54-hole stroke-play event held at Castlewood Country Club on the Hill Course. The 99-player field features 72 boys and 27 girls, ages 12-18, from ten states, Canada, China, Mexico and the Philippines. The Boys Division is playing the par-70 course from 6,197 yards and the Girls Division is playing from 5,529 yards.
Hossler played a steady round, making pars where he needed, and taking advantage of the less difficult holes. He tallied four birdies for the round and only one bogey.
"My round wasn't too exciting; but I was consistent throughout the day and able to make easy pars," Hossler said. "I need to work on hitting the ball closer when I have birdie opportunities in the fairway."
Seramin is excited to being leading in what is one of his last junior golf events, as he will be attending UC Davis in the fall. For the second year in a row, Seramin is leading after the first round of the Trader Joe's Junior Championship hosted by Pat Hurst. He came off the front nine at 4-under-par, but bogeyed Nos. 13, 15 and 17 to finish in a tie with Hossler.
"I started the day strong with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 2 and 3 and again on Nos. 7 and 8," Seramin said. "I lost my momentum on the back nine, but I know if stay patient tomorrow I can shoot low again."
Three players are tied for third in the Boys Division. Matt Crawford of Redwood City, Calif., Alex Angard of Encino, Calif., and Justin Pagila of Dublin, Calif., all carded a 2-under-par 68.
In the Girls Division, Nhim leads by one stroke heading into the second round. Finishing the first nine at 2-over-par, Nhim quickly turned things around with a birdie on No. 10. She also carded birdies on Nos. 13 and 18.
"I didn't start well today but I was able to hit more greens on the back nine so I made up some strokes," Nhim said. "Tomorrow I want to remain steady and keep playing my irons well."
In a tie for second place in the Girls Division are Marika Liu of Beverly Hills, Calif., and Somin Lee of Denver at 1-over-par 71.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA provides valuable exposure for college golf scholarships, and has an annual junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 49 states and 30 countries. To ensure scholarship opportunities for all junior golfers who have the skill, the AJGA created the Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program to provide financial assistance to young players in need.
Titleist, the AJGA's National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association's success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, which is in its third decade of AJGA support, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004. In 2007, after 12 years of support, Polo Ralph Lauren became the AJGA's second Premier Partner.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. Former AJGA juniors have compiled more than 400 victories on the PGA and LPGA Tours. AJGA alumni include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Stewart Cink, Cristie Kerr, Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel.
For more information about the Trader Joe's Junior Championship hosted by Pat Hurst, please contact Tournament Headquarters at (770) 601-5196.


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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Narcotics detectives seized a large amount of crack cocaine and cash during the search of a home and vehicle in the 2000 block of Auburn Drive in Shively on Wednesday.
According to police records, the home and vehicle belongs to 51-year-old Kelvin N. Murdock.
When officers searched the premises and car they recovered a large amount of crack cocaine that was packaged for sale along with over $20,000 in cash, digital scales and baggies to package cocaine.
Police say that Murdock, who is also known as 'Wuzzy', has previous trafficking convictions and was out on probation at the time of his arrest.
Murdock was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance.
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Okay... so I play in a regular d&d 3.5 group with some friends.
Earlier we have been playing some high powered games, with fun rp and lots of hack and slash.... and a cleric that could do nothing but heal all fight, cause we just run in and bash, no thoughts no tactics no nothing.
This time we decided to do a low magic campaign, though we havent decided exactly what that means :confused:
We run shifting dm's meaning i run a plot, then the next person takes over.
The dm decides whether to run his toon as a npc or send him off on another errand.
Currently the group is at 2nd level
Rogue styled as a ninja dual wielding short swords
Fighter styled as a samurai with a bastard sword
Fighter with shield and monkey gripping large bastard sword
Scout/ranger with a bow
A cleric that once again seems to be a healing battery more than anything
And then me.....
Now i want to do something different than your standard fighter damage dealer.
Been thinking about a trip expert with a spiked chain, Hold the Line feat and Defensive Throw feat.
Also thought about the warblade from Tome of Battle i think it is, with some weapon and shield
Lastly I'm kind of settling on the warblade with shield, monkey gripping spiked chain, using hold the line and improved trip feat.
After this wall of text, a few questions:
Is it possible to make a Trip as part of a regular attack of opportunity (f.ex. on a person moving through a threatened square) ?
Any other suggestions for a better tactical melee weapon than the spiked chain (no home made weapons please) ?
Would it be beneficial to go mix warblade / fighter to get some feats and special stuff or just go full one of the classes, and which then ?
Can i incorporate one of the special attacks a warblade gets, requiring single action, in a full attack ?
Any other suggestions (apart from convincing the rest of the group to go more tactical than making sure we flank) ?
Thanks for good advice in advance


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EDITOR'S NOTE: First Read was on scene for Obama's speech and would have posted earlier had it not been for the hostage situation at the Clinton campaign office in Rochester, N.H.
From NBC's Abby Livingston
For so long, it seemed that Obama's attacks on Hillary flew over the heads of his audiences. Using her name in his stump and addressing her personally at debates were watershed moments in his campaign. Today at the DNC fall meeting, again, he did not mention her name. He did not have to. The audience comprised of the party insiders, candidate supporters and political junkies, caught each and every one of his Hillary allusions.
Obama supporters cheered when he said, "And the only mission that was ever accomplished was to use fear and falsehood to take this country into a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged." People fidgeted when he used the word "triangulation." And gasps were audible when Obama said, "I'm running for president because I'm sick and tired of Democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by talking and acting and voting like George Bush Republicans."
The morning was a good barometer on base support. The Democratic audience received Richardson's speech much like a college lecture. Polite, listening, clapping, and interest despite toe tapping from young Obama supporters standing against the wall. Following Richardson, it was at times difficult to hear Edwards due to the cheering from his section of supporters. Although they had coveted seats in the overflowing room, they stood for most of his speech and waved Edwards 2008 placards.
But Obama's speech stood out. When he spoke, the room was akin to a high school pep rally on the eve of a rival game. One Obama supporter went so far as to apologize to this transcribing reporter for the pandemonium. During one of his introductory lines, Obama said, "The question to ask yourselves when you vote is, 'What is next for America?'" To which a female supporter stood up and screamed, "Barack Obama!"
Because Hillary's appearance was canceled due to the hostage situation, it is unfortunate that there is no way to compare the two leading candidates' receptions in front of the audience of party faithful.


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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- New child? Baby yourself for support, survival
In the past few years, postpartum depression has had a lot of press. Brooke Shields and Marie Osmond had it. Tom Cruise denied it exists. Now everyone knows it exists, and maybe some know the warning signs. But what if you have post-partum depression and you have to work?
Here's what you need to know about postpartum depression if you're a breadwinner of the family:
1. Take maternity leave.
Try to think of ways to craft an unofficial maternity leave by getting ahead before the baby's born.
2. Plan ahead, for the worst-case scenario.
We know that best case scenarios don't actually need planning for. So why make plans assuming best case? Make contingency plans.
3. Admit that no time off means you're high-risk for postpartum depression.
Right after my second child arrived, I had to finish a book, which was behind schedule. My agent told me that there was no way I could promote the book when I was 40 pounds overweight. So I spent two or three hours at the gym every day. The baby came everywhere with me– to my book publisher, to my agent, to the gym. I breastfed in everyone's office. I breastfed in the cardio room and the weight room.
I cried all the time, and I felt that I had no idea how to take care of the baby, but I looked okay in all my meetings, so I kept going.
4. Ask for help from people you don't work with.
5. Postpartum depression is one of those times when you should break the bank.
When I left the hospital after my second child was born, I told myself I would just ignore the doctor's advice because it would be impossible to not be alone with the baby. My husband had to take our older son all over the city for school and activities. And we could never ever afford round-the-clock care.
But on the way home, I remembered Andrea Yates. I had always felt empathy for her, but now I felt like maybe I could be her. I know it came out of nowhere to her: first she was just sort of depressed, and then she was killing her kids.
Plus, I remembered two times when people had asked me how the baby was, and I said, "Sometimes I want to slam his head into the wall." Both times I got very concerned looks. So stopped saying it, but I knew it was not good.
So I hired someone to stay with the baby and me. Only then did I realize that I was terrified to be alone with the baby. I still cry thinking about how I was probably a danger to my own child. The babysitter was as much for me as for the baby.
I kept working. I kept seeing a therapist. And we went into huge debt in order to pay for the babysitter. In hindsight, I wonder, What could I have done differently?
My career could not have handled a three-month maternity leave. But I should have hired the nanny at the first sign of trouble, even though it caused a lot of debt. I was so scared of spending money. I cut corners on things that I thought I could handle but couldn't. And the biggest thing, in hindsight, that I thought I could handle, was being a working mom with no support system. No one can do that and stay sane.
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This is why I have become a postpartum doula. I help women to have a quicker,happier & symptom free recovery. We use information centuries old to cook a very specific diet so mom can avoid or decrease pp depression, colic in infants, constipation & gas in mom. We give her different herbals to help digestion, lactation & general recovery. We use essential oils for many issues that arise during pp recovery. Essential oils have been used for centuries for healing. We also teach self & infant massage.
I have seen incredible results from taking care of moms in this way. A women is very vulnerable after birth & has many emotional & physical needs after birth. Some insurance companies are starting to see the benefit of this care & avoid paying for months or years of counseling & drug therapy. I feel this is a continuity of care & every OB/GYN should give this beneficial information to their patients. We give so much emphasis on pre-natal care, but nothing about pp care. This is a very neglected area of womens health care. We need to wake up & realize happy moms make happy families!
My teacher said about the postpartum time, "Look at it as 42 Days for 42 Years"! Because we are so wide open, with all tissues and systems having gone through so much change and lots more to go...we may be able to look good but inside there is tons of invisible work. That's on top of caring for baby, being on call 24/7, lactating which is like running 10 miles a day and the sleep deprivation.
It really does take a village to raise a child, and everyone having a baby needs to learn how to engage their village or create their community if they have recenltly moved - in the west this means also educate them too, for the special support needed in the early postpartum weeks.
Marcia is so right. No debate with her, she was one of my students who got the big picture and takes it to the families, especially the mothers. When those first "42 days", more after surgery, which is about 30% of mothers now, when these days are not wisely managed and supported, the effects compound deeply and for long term.
Penelope, every mom sometimes gets frustrated with their babies. Our children starting right away push our buttons, as do our other nearest and dearest. This is part of growth windows that happen when we relax and open more to others. But with the cultural imbalances on our system such as, yup, brazenly assuming we can do anything and everything, added to the side effects of antidepressants which often create more violent emotions, then we are looking at really scary.
It is unfortunate that so many women assume the slightest negative emotion is cause to actually run for antidepressant prescription. There are much better ways. The SSRI meds appear by my training to both cover the symptoms and deepen the cause, even if they rescue some in the short term and we have to honor that.
Ayurvedic medicine offers very simple and practical solutions. REST, TLC, and mothering the mothers is #1. Marcia has listed many of the modalities I've seen work for very rapid results over my 15 years in the field.
KUDOS for investing in yourself, which was a profound investment of course in your family and your community!
Warmly, Ysha Oakes, Postpartum AyurDoula www.sacredwindow.com
Postpartum planning is as important as the birth plan. I second the post by Marcia & Ysha
You and other moms like you are not alone, and do not have to suffer in silence.


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For 15 years, most of those under the direction of Mike Rader, Lockwood dominated the football series with the Sarcoxie Bears.
For 15 years, most of those under the direction of Mike Rader, Lockwood dominated the football series with the Sarcoxie Bears.
Now, in the third year of his time as head coach, Mike Rader's son, Luke Rader led the Bears to a win over Lockwood with a 33-20 nail-biter on Friday that was closer than the final score indicates.
This game wasn't securely in the Bears' hands until late, and Luke Rader knew first hand the ability of Lockwood to come from behind.
"Yeah, we were up by 10 with 10 minutes to go last year and we lost by 12," Rader said in the fourth quarter with his Bears up by 11, 25-14, with about six minutes to go.
Sure enough, Lockwood marched down the field and scored with about 4:30 to go to make it 25-20 with the missed extra point run.
Then on its first play from scrimmage, Sarcoxie fumbled the ball, giving Lockwood good field position with about 3:20 play.
This time was different as the Sarcoxie defense held and got their offense the ball back.
Even then, the win wasn't secure as Sarcoxie's offense seemed in capable of moving the ball to get that one first down they needed to ice the game.
After a holding penalty on the Bears, Sarcoxie faced a third and 16 with 2:17 to play. That's when running back Logan took the ball around left end and got in behind the Lockwood defense for a 79-yard touchdown run.
"They took that time out before and it's a play we had run all night and I just got into the huddle and told the kids let's dig deep, one play and go get a first down here and keep the clock running," Rader said. "We ended up springing him and Logan's got some speed when he gets into the open field."
Sarcoxie moves to 3-0 with the win.
The game started out fast with both teams scoring quickly on their opening possessions for an 8-8 tie with less than five minutes gone by in the game.
Sarcoxie pulled away with two more touchdowns, but Lockwood replied to make the score 22-14 at the half.
Jones scored three touchdowns on the night and Jade Bloss scored one touchdown.
The kicking game played a big role in the game with Marcos Lopez pinning Lockwood deep with a 67-yard punt in the third quarter, then hitting a field goal to give the Bears a 25-14 cushion in the fourth quarter.
Rader said the game was tough and his players had to battle hard to win, including overcoming turnovers and penalties.
"As a coach, you don't like those things, but I'm extremely proud of our kids for being able to battle through that," Rader said. "I told them facing adversity like that and overcoming it, hopefully that's a life lesson for them. As they face adversity in life they're able to fight through it."
Lockwood Head Coach Clay Lasater said his team has some things to work on with a 1-2 record in the young season.
"Obviously we are going to be frustrated when we go back and watch the film with some missed tackles, but they're a good football team," Lasater said. "They're well coached, they play hard, they play physical and you know what you're going to get from them. They just came out and pounded it right at us. They did a good job of it."


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Kate enters her senior year with a ferocious attitude. One thing is for sure - she is ready to bring it all to the line for the Brown Women's Track Team-whatever it takes!!!! Last year, Kate ran a PR of 4:31 in the 1500, and is looking to drastically improve on that time as well as her 800 time in which she has a PR of 2:11.5. She is also seeking some redemption in the form of a Heps title. Cushing is an Education Studies concentrator, and this summer she interned in the Global Education Department for the National Peace Corps Association. She also worked at Fleet Feet DC, where she put her knowledge of feet and her love of running to good use.


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When asked if there's one fellow NHL standout he would like to play with this weekend at the 2011 NHL All-Star Game, Zdeno Chara didn't even hesitate.
"I always admire Nick and to be able to play with him, even at the All-Stars, would be a huge honor," said Chara of his former Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, who will be a captain of one of the teams in Raleigh over the weekend. "I always look up to him. He's one of the best to ever play the game, but it'd be a huge honor to be able to play with him on the same team."
Chara and goaltender Tim Thomas will represent the Bruins in the All-Star Game, while Tyler Seguin will be among the NHL rookies taking part in the SuperSkills competition Saturday night.
Thomas, when asked where he's going to go in the draft Friday night, joked "to whichever team picks me." But then he revealed a couple preferences for teammates at his third NHL All-Star Game.
"I'm sure whichever side you're on, there'll be people that you want to meet and that'll be fun to play with," said the goaltender, who earned the win in his previous two All-Star berths. "Obviously, I played with Martin St. Louis for years [in college], so I always enjoy playing with him. Patrick Sharp's another UVM guy that I don't really know that well, so maybe it'd be fun to play on the same team with him and maybe get to know him a little bit. And there's guys like Ryan Kesler that I played with at the Olympics that'd be fun to see again. I'm sure whatever team I end up on it'll be an enjoyable experience."
Chara, the defending champion in the hardest shot competition, said he hasn't come up with a bet to organize for this year's contest yet. In Montreal in 2009, Chara challenged his fellow participants to put up money, and combined with the NHL and NHLPA a lot of money was raised for Right to Play.
No doubt, there will be All-Stars eager to line up next to Chara and Thomas. The goaltender's temporary teammates will get a closer look at one of more amazing phenomenon's the NHL has seen, with Thomas going from Vezina winner to injured back-up goaltender and now returning to All-Star form.
"It's quit an acknowledgment to be in an All-Star game. But to get back to an All-Star game after all the adversity last year, it's special to me," said Thomas.


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by Craig Idlebrook
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Root Cellars: Safe and Secure from the Corporate Food Train
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Root-cellaring is a saving technique for ordinary winter storage of fresh, raw, whole vegetables and fruits that have not been processed to increase their keeping quality. The root cellar is a way to hold these foods for several months after their normal harvest in a cold, rather moist environment that does not allow them to freeze or to complete their natural cycle to decomposition in the fall.
Preserving Farmland is Key to the Future of Farming
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When I give presentations on farming in Maine, I usually begin with this true-or-false quiz:
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• In the same period, the amount of Maine farmland in production increased.
• Maine has the fifth youngest farmer population in the nation.
All three statements are true.
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Thinking about starting a farm? Looking for good land, good markets that are reasonably close, a little (or a lot) of start-up capital, a place to live, a way to pay bills in the off-season, a community of organic farmers, equipment that isn't outrageously expensive or in disrepair?
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Biochar (or agrichar) is the product of pyrolysis – of burning plant material under controlled, low-oxygen conditions (in a kiln, for example) to produce charcoal. Adding this highly stable form of carbon to soils may increase plant yields (especially on degraded soils); reduce nutrient leaching; cut fertilizer needs, thus decreasing runoff of fertilizers and the energy needed to produce, transport and apply fertilizers; and significantly reduce greenhouse gases (CO2, methane and nitrous oxide).
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For the past two years, Linda and Takeshi Akaogi have been experimenting with growing rice on their small farm in Putney, Vermont. In March 2008, they received a SARE Farmer Grant to evaluate the viability of rice production in the Northeast; to create a supply of seed for interested farmers; and to introduce rice as a commercial crop to this region.
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Sex, shopping and dinosaurs at After Hours on Friday 26 August. Select images to enlarge them.
One of those exhibitions, Sexual Nature is with us until 2 October, but Age of the Dinosaur bows out on 4 September, so this is your last chance to catch it on Friday evening.
I recently read an article that said women think about shopping as much as men think about sex. Men allegedly think about sex every 52 seconds, whilst 74% of the women in the survey thought about shopping once a minute. Well, our enticing Sexual Nature exhibition offers an excellent opportunity for you to do both things at the same time.
The Sexual Nature shop is at the exit of the exhibition and stocks an interesting array of items, including some very unusual soft toys. When I was there recently, one young couple were ferreting amongst the cuddly sex diseases, as I had been.
'It's the clap, ha ha,' said the male half of the couple, holding up a soft blue toy. 'I like that one, I think I might get it,' said his girlfriend innocently. Cue immoderate laughter all round. (Cuddly clap and chlamydia toys shown left and right for clarification.) I suspect the retail assistants have heard plenty like that during their stint in the shop.
You can also buy a Kama Sutra getaway travel kit or pop up book, a mini Kama Sutra weekender kit, Belgian chocolates, books on the erotic art of Japan and body language, lots of feathers and copies of famous sexually based literature.
Talking of chocolates, if you fancy something a little more exotic than a Belgian truffle, come and see if a chocolate-dipped ant wafer takes your fancy at Edible Insects: Food for the Future, our special event on Friday.
There is certainly much innocent and enjoyable fun to be had at our Sexual Nature exhibition and some terrific animatronic dinosaurs in Age of the Dinosaur, so we hope you will come by this bank holiday Friday. Kick off your shoes on the grass on the Darwin Centre Courtyard Terrace and unwind with us over a late summer glass of Pimms and one of our tasty pre-orderable picnics or even a tasty edible insect!
Our romantic roving troubadour, Sebastian D'arcy Heathcliff is back once more, serenading you with his renditions of classic love songs to spice up your evening.
And although our summer exhibitions will soon be leaving us, it is only so that we can bring in some really fabulous new exhibitions. Watch this space for more information of the late night openings of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition opening in October.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 02053000 | Dated May 30, 2002
THE ISSUE: The current discussions between the United States and Mexico offer an historic opportunity to achieve needed reforms in our immigration system. Such reforms will contribute to our national security, respond to worker shortages that remain a critical issue because of long-term demographic, economic and education trends, and reunify families.
Needed reforms should be comprehensive and would include opportunities for work authorization and legal status through a regularization program for undocumented people living, working in, and contributing to the U.S., and opportunities to bring in essential workers through a reform of current programs and the development of a new temporary workers program that differs from existing and past models, and allows workers to enter the U.S. safely, legally, and expeditiously. In addition, reforms should reduce backlogs in family-based immigration and delays in business-based immigration.
BACKGROUND: Our current immigration system has failed in many ways and needs to be fixed. Employers in several sectors (health care and construction especially) are unable to get the workers they need, and as the economy pushes ahead other employers will experience worker shortages, families remain separated for years due to bureaucratic processing delays and long backlogs, hard-working tax-paying people who contribute to our economy are undocumented and forced to live an underground existence, people are losing their lives trying to cross the border, and smugglers are profiting from this trade in human lives. The United States needs to reform its immigration system to recognize the contributions that immigrants have made and their continued importance to our national well-being. These factors will only intensify as the U.S. emerges from the current economic slowdown and from the shadows of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The U.S./Mexico discussions have internationalized the issue of immigration and have led to a vast broadening of the policy debate in Washington, D.C.
CURRENT STATUS: Along with its focus on national security, the Bush Administration continues to affirm the importance of the U.S./Mexico bilateral efforts, with the U.S./Mexico working teams officially meeting on a regular basis to continue the discussions that had been disrupted by the September 11 terrorist attacks.
AILA's POSITION: AILA believes that the U.S./Mexico discussions offer our country the chance to initiate long-needed reforms in our immigration system. The principles noted below are central to successful immigration reform.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 02053000.
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By John Galt
August 25, 2008
Here you go again!
It does not take this author, blogger, semi-sane writer and all around nice guy (cough) much to imagine just what people are thinking when they read the title of this editorial. The emails will say "oh but you're pimping gold because you are selling it into the highs and running for your mountain cave with 40 years of supplies to emerge only do discover the apes have taken over and you're going to battle them as a bitter old man while trading with the orangutans and their gold based currency!"
Gratuitous "Planet of the Apes" Reference to Pump up Gold Prices
Uh, no.
I'm just becoming an older bitterman who envies our bitter old man Republican candidate for President because he married a wealthy hottie. In reality, this has nothing to do with the old "survivalist" theme or the idea of pimping gold, silver, platinum or sea shells. This is just this writer's opinion that the fiasco created first by Countrywide Financial, then by Bear Stearns and now, as predicted by many back in 2003, the disaster known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
John Lee wrote an excellent article in November 2007 titled Freddie's Insolvency and Gold's Immediate Outlook which highlighted a lot of what I was thinking but for this article, I'm going to add to his perspective and try to wake a few sleeping souls up to the real danger we are about to encounter. From the article that referred to the problems in September of 2007, this bears repeating:
Fannie Mae's decision to exclude SOP 03-3 losses coincide with their shocking rise: In the third-quarter ended Sept. 30, 2007, the company's SOP 03-3 losses came to $670 million, up from $37 million in the same period a year ago. It's not clear why SOP 03-3 losses are skyrocketing, but it suggests that Fannie Mae is having credit problems and is having to buy a lot more bad loans back from bondholders"
Why is that important? The credit problems have not been solved. Bondholders are facing the threat of getting killed with some prices declining by 50%. The recent auction earlier this week was 113 bp over the 5 year bond. And the issues that the Markit Indices have been indicating in subprime and Alt-A paper barely scratch the surface of problems that the GSE's are about to encounter. The specter of plain vanilla prime mortgages starting to implode is becoming a realization by the financial industry. Where did this revelation come from? Besides the obvious, which is also known as my state, check out the Reuters headline:
US prime mortgage defaults worsen faster than subprime
Now I'm not a professor at a famous college in the Northeast United States nor a bald headed stock pumper and dumper on a popular infomercial, er, financial "news" channel, but I do have more than one working brain cell. This was not hard to see coming. There were some hints and God Bless Fitch for giving them while the world ignored their actions. So just what was the first key points from the story on August 22? Check this out:
Total delinquencies on prime "jumbo" loans and "Alt-A" loans made in 2007 rose at a 7.3 percent and 9.12 percent rate, respectively, from June, the rating company said. These loans require less proof of repayment but were made to borrowers with credit scores above subprime. For subprime loans, the rate of delinquency rose 7.0 percent rate last month.
Overall, delinquencies on 2007 prime jumbo loans rose to 3.22 percent in July, while Alt-A loan delinquencies increased to 14.56 percent, S&P said. Defaults on subprime loans from last year hit 31.25 percent.
Ouch. That's going to leave a mark. And that mark is squarely on your forehead and mine where we slap our head up against it over and over again when we scream into a mirror "we're paying for what and we voted for the idiot that said 'Otay bail dem out'!!!!!!!"
Fitch began warning the world about this ages ago. As this crisis has worsened a very ignored reality is starting to sink in and the so-called "subprime crisis" has expanded into what this writer said it would over one year ago; a solvency crisis. As Fitch started downgrading tranch after tranch of the various RMBS on the markets not just for subprime but for Alt-A, Jumbo, and traditional prime mortgages the world proclaimed that famous Glenn Beck song that it was just "another isolated incident" and we had nothing to fear but fear itself.
Unfortunately for the subject of this editorial, the Fannie and Freddie impact of these downgrades has been felt far beyond the 2004 to 2007 time period which the mainstream media wishes to paint as the "crisis" mortgage period. RMBS from the 2004 period and before (see example here) have been downgraded as noted back in 2007 and that should have sent a shudder through the financial world. Instead it sent a shudder through the entire dark world of bond holders and retirement fund managers who realized that the promises of GSE solvency could and would now be brought into question.
Why is this such a critical matter to the overall inflation discussion the blogosphere has been having? Glad you asked….
Dirty Secrets and Obvious Problems
The dirtiest secret on Wall Street is that the obvious is usually the most ignored. The obvious in this case refers to the disaster that GSE's will create for the retirement programs for well, everyone. For those that do not look at who owns the equities for Fannie and Freddie, allow me to shed some light.
Here are the top ten mutual funds for Fannie Mae and their holdings, plus the value at the reporting time(all from Yahoo Finance as of 6/30/08 but available anywhere; all figures rounded):
And now for Freddie Mac, the same thing:
Great you say, the author knows how to read some really basic things on a page which displays some really basic financial information. What does this have to do with Gold $2000, Planet of the Apes, and Weimarica? Patience Cornelius, it all ties together in a nice neat package.
If you look at the mutual funds listed above and the major stock owners of the GSEs you start to tie some things together. First that the funds listed above appear in many of Mr. and Mrs. Main Street's 401K portfolio or options when they become eligible to sign up for that value trap. Next if you look at the companies that have major holdings in these walking zombies, you begin to realize that the overlap is frightening. Why does this concern me? Simple. Look at the various news articles over the years about Americans not saving enough for their retirements. Then look at the big problem which connects the mutual funds and some of the disastrous performances they have endured (yes, I heard an actual local yocal bragging about being "only down 16%" this year as something good) and tie that in with the true Planet of the Apes moment:
The pension programs of many major corporations invested in these boneheads and now might become relatively bankrupt.
PBGC and The "Guarantee" That Isn't; Yet
The problem with the logo displayed after what I'm sure was a multi-million dollar study conducted in West Virginia thanks to Senator "Klan" Byrd is the lack of accuracy. To add the phrase "1/3 of" between the words "America's" and "Pensions" would reflect current reality.
That is a 10 year chart of the S&P 500 index for those of you in Rio Linda. If you notice the nice thick line starting at this past Friday's close, you'll note that the market is essentially still in the hole since the start of this century and worse, that is not adjusted for inflation. When you take that into consideration and start to apply that to the typical mutual fund or pension program you realize that the entire scheme concocted during the go-go 90's which encouraged everyone at age 18 or 80 to pile their monies into a mutual fund and "trust the manager" to insure their future, you begin to see a pattern and a problem emerging.
If some schmuck like me realizes that I can draw a straight line on a chart like that above and doing some napkin math to figure out that "oh crap, we're in the hole and deep" then start multiplying that by hundreds of billions of dollars. Then start dissecting what these pension programs and 401K mutual funds piled money into. That's right, the GSEs, the financial industries new creations because "real estate never goes down" and the various derivative instruments created by the investment banks and brokerages which were all considered "safe" for pension programs providing decent returns. Heck, those returns to the parent companies by the Cayman Cowboys kept the industry afloat the last ten years, yet the obvious is ignored and the truth will only come to light during grand jury testimony.
So what does all of this have to do with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the disaster of the GSEs and the fact that I'm writing a very long way around to point out the hyperinflationary nightmare we area bout to endure?
Start with the PBGC. Let's look at one of my all time favorite editorials from the Ludwig Von Mises Institute's home page titled "Pension Pain: The Other Social Insurance Crisis" which was published on July 17, 2004 by Carl F. Horowitz. There was a salient point made in this article which hit the crux of the problem we are seeing now and which will only accelerate in the future:
A second reason for underfunding has been the double-whammy in the stock and bond markets for much of this decade. A sharp decline in stock prices during 2000–02 diminished the assets of company pensions and the PBGC alike. Over the course of the 1980s, according to Ibbotson Associates, annual real equity returns averaged 11.9 percent, rising to 14.8 percent during the 90s.
By contrast, during the 2000s (through August 2003) equities incurred an annual average loss of 10.8 percent. Meanwhile, low bond interest rates inadvertently have raised funding requirements. In a pension plan, liabilities are calculated by adding up the value of promised future benefits and then discounting that sum to obtain a present value.
That extract points out that not only is the PBGC underfunded and one of the contributing reasons as to why, but if you start to recall the numerous corporate bankruptcies, planned or not, the impact on the bottom line for this government enterprise become down right terrifying, even at 33 cents on the dollar. The impact is just now being realized as the fees collected on businesses still offering pension plans will either have to be raised to a point that is unsustainable or the Congress will have to allocate more resources to address the problem.
Unfortunately for America, this same PBGC has invested heavily into the GSEs and their various bonds and derivatives for the perceived safety much like many private plans have also. It does not take a lot of imagination looking at the stock charts to determine the return they are getting now, especially on the GSEs but the corporate bonds they invested in starting in 2005. From the same article:
To set PBGC on the right track, Congress recently passed temporary two-year legislation, the Pension Funding Equity Act, which President Bush signed into law this April. The law's key feature, worth about $80 billion, would switch the basis for calculating pension plan liabilities from ostensibly risk-free, 30-year Treasury bonds to long-term, high-yield corporate bonds. Employers, seeking to reduce levels of mandatory contributions, had been clamoring for this. Call it what one will, but this provision is a loan by any other name. Employers, in effect, will be borrowing from their pensioners. And in the event their pension plans default, taxpayers ultimately will be liable.
The bottom line is that because the PBGC was allowed to invest in non-traditional safe investments and no longer mandated to respect a safety margin to insure that short term returns would not become long term additional liabilities to their future existence. With over 40 million Americans dependent on the PBGC the new investment program is even riskier than the one undertaken in 2004 described from the quote above yet the problem is dismissed as the talking schmucks on Wall Street have assured the bureaucrats that somehow, some way, equities will increase in price guaranteeing that the PBGC should not remain in debt much longer.
In reality, the collapse of Fannie and Freddie plus the pending implosion of the PBGC and their casino mentality is what will trigger some consequences that America is not ready for. And despite the beliefs of the deflationistas, this outcome is not going to be what many think it will be.
"Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Who can ever forget the famous commercials with the little old lady slipping then pressing the button on her "Lifecall" device and help arriving promptly? Well honey, keep pressing it because as each day goes by, your pension, your retirement plan, your social security check is losing value and will continue to do so. Despite the implications of a real estate collapse, credit seizure and perception (though quite incorrect) that monetary contraction is occurring, the reality is that the theoretical side of economics fails to accept political reality.
Let's address these one at a time and see if we can get that little old lady back on her feet……
1. The PBGC Will Never be Allowed to Fail
Demographic reality dictates this simple fact. You can not have over seventy million baby boomers and half or more losing over 50 percent of their benefits due to the collapse of GSEs or the financial system. Politicians have woven such an intricate socialist safety net that to abandon these souls now would be the equivalent of sending in jack booted thugs to pour gasoline on the little old lady in the picture above and setting here on fire. It is not happening. You can invest in a deflationary plan all you would like, but before the government abandons its primary voting base they will create via fiscal stimulation the hundreds of billions necessary to insure the agency continues to function. In light of that little piece of reality, let us see who else gets bailed out.
2. Fannie and Freddie Shareholders May Get Toasted BUT…..
While enduring my daily review of Bubblevision's Fast Money program last week, Joe Terranova reminded everyone on the panel in the midst of the FNM and FRE meltdowns that they had approximately $223 BILLION (yes, "B" as in Billion) in short term debt that they had to roll over. The concerns on the panel were obvious that it was not going to happen based on the recent auction bid well over the 5 year note. Add in the fact (my thoughts) of the massive supply of U.S. Treasury debt issuance's coming in the next sixty days and you can see where there might be a problem or worse when the end of September rolls around. Especially when some of the largest bond holders like Russia elect to cash out instead of rolling their holdings into the next fiscal period.
This leaves these poor (cough) mutual fund managers, pension fund managers and oh, I forgot, state pension fund managers stuck holding the bag with probably worthless equities and of course bonds of a questionable nature. Before you fire off a gazillion emails reminding me that bondholders always get paid first in a default, let's take a quick look at the GSEs.
The Chinese are the largest bondholders. The consequence of a whiff or hint of default might collapse their communist version of a financial system but the retaliation for this action would instantly put American into the Zimbabwe economic reform program. While I do fear inflation will get much worse in this nation, the idea of 11,000,000% inflation is beyond any reasonable comprehension. Thus to assume the Treasury and Fed would not guarantee the bond holders is a non starter. The company will be nationalized first and foremost and that means the taxpayers take on hundreds of millions in obligations which will only decline once housing stabilizes and returns to some semblance of normalcy. Of course the normalcy I refer to would be the 1997 housing market, but hey, that would be better than what we have now.
Gretchen Morgenson hinted at this point in her August 23, 2008 article in the New York Times titled "What Will Mac 'n' Mae Cost You and Me?"
From the article:
It is widely assumed that debt issued by Fannie and Freddie will be backed by the taxpayers. Call it "too big to fail times two."
But in our highly interconnected financial world, where one company's ills have the potential to infect many others, no bailout exists in a vacuum. And the ripple effects that may result from shoring up these giants extend from the obvious — hammering their shareholders — to the fairly obscure, involving participants in the market for credit default swaps.
This is the huge arena where participants buy and sell insurance to protect against defaults by issuers of debt. Some $62 trillion of insurance has been written, with a fair value of $2 trillion at the end of 2007.
There is a perception that the holders of this insurance would never be paid during a credit crisis or in the event of a default but let us go back to the underfunded gamblers, the PBGC, and the issue de jour about retirement programs taking uncharacteristic risks to recover from losses incurred over the last decade. For example, does anyone think that a large state which holds billions in swaps will be told "too bad, so sad" in the event they are unable to collect? Not without crippling the state and putting a greater responsibility on the entire tax base to cover a state pension fund collapsing.
Then consider the average citizen who has no clue what their mutual funds invest in. They go to fund manager or brokerage and take their word that they have the fiduciary responsibility to insure their futures are not like the little old lady above. Then after ignoring statements for months they open up their mutual fund statement and see a negative 33% return year to date and freak out. Add in a collapse of Freddie and/or Fannie and you get the idea. The government has to find a way to keep the enterprise functioning and Ms. Morgenson adds in the new feature of "moral hazard" to our banking system should the government not act:
Investors holding the preferred stock already issued by Freddie and Fannie could also be vulnerable if the bailout puts the taxpayers' investment ahead of them for dividend payments. Regional banks and savings and loans hold most of these shares; with these institutions already hurt by the mortgage mess, it seems unlikely that the Treasury would structure a Mac 'n' Mae rescue in a manner that would pound them again.
She hits the nail on the head again, pointing out that there is no way they Treasury could allow the collapse to accelerate and trash the preferred stocks impacting not just regional banks and savings and loans but ultimately pension plans and 401Ks across the nation. This tab is getting expensive but guess what? She points out more:
As UBS analysts point out, because Fannie's and Freddie's subordinated debt is used when they calculate capital — the financial cushion regulators require to support the companies' operations — interest payments on the debt may have to stop if a bailout occurs. Such a hiatus could last up to five years.
Boom. The bailout expands. So if they do bailout the bond holders, the subordinated debt holders and preferred stock holders will or could get toasted. Eventually they will be made mostly whole, but in the five year hiatus, the retirees who watch their statements will be dusting off the resumes as they board the bus to the local grocery store to bag salamis or WalMart to greet people at the doors and wipe down the shopping carts.
It will not be pretty but someone will force the issue. And the government can not leave 20, 30 or 50 million retirees twisting in the wind because they failed to regulate the agencies as they legally were empowered to do.
3. Somebody Turn the Printing Presses from "High" to "Ultra" Please
This means that ultimately more debt has to be issued at the government level. It also means that since there is essentially a credit seizure underway, the only way to prevent a depression era like unemployment fiasco is for the Federal government to start cranking up jobs programs to repair America and widen the bike path for Senator Dumpin Britches from West By God Virginia. After all is said and done, the GSEs will both be nationalized as will the pensions of thousands of corporations, including the automakers in all likelihood.
Without breaking out a scientific calculator or actually freaking everyone out, this means that the government has a choice to make:
Inflate or die.
The United States government has sworn off a repeat of the 1930's at every level and thanks to the constant meddling into the ebb and flow of the economy they have created a situation which will enable a far worse scenario than that era. The failure to act and prevent a repeat falls squarely on their shoulders. Needless to say I am of the pure capitalist point of view and would prefer to let everyone eat cake, preferably the bankrupt Interstate Bakeries' Twinkies, but then again I thought old Marie Antoinette was a fox.
The reality though is that our politicians and the people who vote for these assclowns do not have the intestinal fortitude to tolerate a real economic downturn for one day, one month or one year to flush the system of its excesses and deal with the problems of the magnitude we have now. As a result the lender of last resort, a computer, will be fired up to increase the monetary supplies far in excess of the approximate 16% figure we see for M3 now and probably above the 25% figure to put us on par with those Russians whose eyes are so soulful.
Think about that one folks. If we do not stop them now, before the election, they will engineer a program in the next six months which will accelerate the monetary base at a pace which will trigger a serious bout of inflation, far worse than the 1970's, and eventually hyperinflation. The theory that monetary aggregates and short term reports are all that are needed to forecast a deflationary scenario are total horse fertilizer when you have to consider reality and the political fundamentals that face these cowards in state houses and the District of Columbia. To take a tough course of action is not within their vocabulary so look for the 'me' generation to stick it to the 'us' generation. And that is where they are mistaken.
Gold $2000, "Thanks Mom"
There are numerous technical reasons why I could justify a forecast of gold to skyrocket above $2000 in the next few years, but stop hyperventilating, step back from the keyboard and use some common sense. Do you honestly want to see your Mom and Dad suffer? I do not. Does this mean I personally want to have the government bail them and everyone else out?
But I am different that way. So who does want their Mom and Dad eating Friskies Captain's Choice? No one I know which means that political expediency will be the rule of the day. The Government and banksters will take a look at the big picture and remember that in every major societal upheaval bad things usually happen to the banks and the central bank especially.
New laws are created, grand juries empowered in every nook and cranny, and of course the political class who did nothing gets punished by losing their jobs, derided and called every name in the book (I would love to add to that book). Needless to say the ruling elite have the ultimate power sharing agreement worldwide so why upset the apple cart? If you and I have to pay more for apples and gas they could care less. As long as they are allowed to maintain the system and create new guarantees of a future debtor class they will inflate to ride the crisis out. Gold should easily skyrocket past $1000 next year if not sooner depending on geopolitical events. Add in the strong probability that the candidate with the tag "Stupid-D" or "Stupid-R" will become President and you can see a new wave of fiscal dynamite blowing up in our faces.
The short term thinkers are missing the big picture once again and I reiterate that the failure to address these problems by allowing the recession of 2002-2003 to deepen and flush the system created the dilemma we face today. Greenspan's folly has only complicated the issue because the lack of proper constraints allowed the securitization of anything that was not nailed down and thus as the bills come due, he figures out that his tenure may have created a problem or two. Duh! The final consequence of the past ten years of insanity will be a short term but violent inflationary period in America which could easily be called "The Last Surge" as our empire fades into the sunset.
As for precious metals skyrocketing in value and the bailout society expanding that is the biggest hanging curve ball ever served up over anyone's home plate. And when you hit that ball and start to jog around the bases, just remember the generation that gave you that opportunity and say it:
Thanks Mom!


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Retired Memphis Police Major Ron Fittes opened his campaign for Shelby County Commission Tuesday, Jan. 21, by telling a group of more than 80 supporters in Germantown that the commission will be his full-time job if elected.
"I'm going to dedicate all of my time to a part-time position," Fittes said. "This county needs somebody that doesn't have special interest groups pulling at them. We need to move the county forward. We need to have positive things that come out of local government, not negative, in order to attract businesses to our community. ... We have divisiveness. We need cohesiveness."
Fittes, who ran for the commission four years ago, is running for the new District 4 seat in the May 6 Republican primary. With the 2014 county elections, the commission converts to a set of 13 single-member districts.
With a Feb. 20 filing deadline for candidates, the Republican primary at this point is a match-up between Fittes and former Germantown Alderman Mark Billingsley.
Billingsley was appointed this month to the seat on the commission vacated by the resignation of Wyatt Bunker, who became the mayor of Lakeland this month. He was appointed to the existing District 4, which is much larger than the smaller districts to come with the elections.
The winner of the primary advances to the August county general election.
So far, Jacqueline D. Jackson has a petition pulled for the Democratic primary in the new District 4, which is also on the May ballot.
"I will run just as hard between now and May as I will between May and August," Fittes said. "I believe in being out there. I'm going to run a positive campaign."
The commission will have new faces holding at least seven of the 13 seats on the body once all of the votes are counted and certified after the August county general election.
Six of the current commissioners are term limited from seeking a new four-year term of office. Commissioner Chris Thomas is not seeking re-election after accepting a job as city manager of Lakeland.
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Sure, you'll be able to pay out the nose for a Vista machine with a XP Professional "downgrade" soon enough, but Dell just pushed back its cutoff for straight-up XP machines. They'll be selling select Inspiron and XPS desktop with whatever flavor of XP you choose up until June 26th, at precisely 6:59AM EST. Naturally after June 26 you'll be able to buy a Vista Biz or Ultimate machine and downgrade to XP Pro, but we'll hope it doesn't have to come to that. We heard that one guy even got a printer to work with Vista. Things are looking up, folks!
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