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We spent our first full day sleeping half of it away. Roxi got up first but I was just wiped out from the previous day of travel so I slept in until about 1:30 pm. The rest of that day was spent taking care of essential errands like groceries, signing the apartment lease contract and getting internet. The sun sets around 4:30 pm here so we really didn't have much daylight left after taking care of those things.
Similarly we had some errands to attend to on our second day, but we took care of most of them in the morning. It was a beautiful day compared with the rainy night of our arrival and overcast first day. The sky was clear by noon and the sun was as high in the sky as it could be at this latitude and time of year. So after noon, we took a train into downtown Enschede with hopes of getting bicycles (the preferred mode of travel around here) and getting a Dutch bank account set up. We made the mile and a half walk to the train station taking in some of the campus sites on our way.
Campus as seen from the main entrance.
University of Twente - The Entrepreneurial University
After the quick five minute train ride into town we quickly found the bicycle shop. Unfortunately they didn't have any second-hand bikes at the moment and new bikes were bit out of our budget. They were very nice and told us they should have used bikes in a few weeks. As it turned out, we also didn't end up getting a bank account as we forgot to bring any of our US banking information with us (d'oh!). In the end it was okay though because we got a chance to walk around the Oude Markt (Old Market) area of town and did a lot of window shopping.
Enschede Station
Street in the Oude Markt.
Sweet shop
Cheese shop
Sculptures on the roof of a theater.
Grote Kerk (Large Church) in the Oude Markt.
Grote Kerk in the Oude Markt.
Ceramic love seat
Het ei van Ko (Ko's Egg) Fountain in Oude Markt. See a live webcam of this area here.
So we didn't get bikes or a bank account, but we got to see part of Enschede. Plus we went to a liquor store and bought several bottles of local Grolsch beer. I'd say it was an afternoon well spent!
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Cybereason, developers of the most effective Total Endpoint Protection Platform including EDR & Next-Gen AV, today announced that CEO and co-founder Lior Div is one of the keynote speakers at the CJP's Annual Financial Services Reception taking place this tonight Wednesday, April 5, 6:00 p.m. at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel.
Tonight's reception will celebrate the partnership between CJP and Boston's financial services community. In addition to Div, the CEOs of Stax, Inc, Medisafe and MAOZ will be speaking and discussing the economic relationship between Israel and Massachusetts.
Cybereason is the fastest growing cybersecurity company in the world and today employs more than 100 people in its Boston headquarters and 260 people globally. The company recently achieved 500 percent revenue growth in 2016 compared to 2015.
A few months ago Div joined Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on an economic trade mission to Israel. Div participated in several events during the mission, which was focused on leveraging the Commonwealth's unique and innovative economic climate to welcome Israel's global leadership in cybersecurity and digital health.
"Cybereason just finished a record Q1 and our hyper growth is due to the rapid adoption of our total endpoint protection platform. We expose hackers and surface attacks for enterprises. We enable companies of all sizes to gain the upper hand over their adversaries," said Div. "The vibrancy of Boston and the top level talent available is the reason Cybereason calls Boston our home. On top of that, Boston is home to the greatest hospitals and medical care in the world and also has many of the best institutions of higher education in the world."
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Author, The Happiest Man in the World: Life Lessons from a Cultural Economist
I have had people in the past come up to me and say, "So, Dr. Jackson, just how did that relinquishment thing work out for you, where you and Anna Marie gave away your accumulated wealth and started over? Did you have to take out bankruptcy, or did God bless you for being a good guy and reward you by giving back to you a trillion dollars of real estate in return for the sixteen million you gave away?"
The simple answer to that is, "neither." God is way more creative and intelligent than that, and he has way more integrity than that. We didn't give to get. That is, we didn't give away our things in order to manipulate God into giving more back to us in some sort of quid pro quo game of economics. We gave those things away because that was what we felt we ought to do, and we never suggest that anyone else should ever necessarily follow suit. We needed to push the restart button of our lives and get our priorities straightened out. I personally needed to break the dangerous addiction of wealth accumulation and simply stop it!
I don't have anything against wealth or people accumulating wealth. But I certainly wasn't seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness . . . and I needed to do that. Relinquishment was the lesson I needed to learn, and spending my life and energies in helping other people be better off was to be my future involvement.
Now, to the reality of what actually happened: everything that we would have spent the accumulated wealth on to buy, we now have in abundance. I'm still not sure, however, just how a thing like that happens. All I can attest to is that, like the widow from Zerephath when she obeyed Elijah's challenge to her, all of our needs have likewise been graciously met. And then, on top of all that, we were allowed the indescribable privilege of seeing Project C.U.R.E. start from absolutely nothing and grow like a seed from the ground into an entity that has enriched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. A handful of relinquished goods has miraculously become a multiplied resource for spreading health and hope in over 130 countries.
Allow me to pose this question: Why is it so difficult to base our lives on the possibility of abundance rather than on the basis of insufficiency, lack, and shortage? Why do we base our entire economic system on the trilogy of scarcity, choice, and cost to the exclusion of the serious possibility of abundance? Is there a chance that we are cheating ourselves and our culture by not pursuing the possible?
I'm not into dreams, or illusions, or strange things. I'm a rather concrete Scotch/Irishman. But sometimes I slightly awaken before the alarm goes off in the morning and I review a reoccurring apparition dancing in my mind. It can't be more than twenty years in the future. I am in heaven (I like that part!) and God is giving me a tour, much like I would give someone a tour of one of our warehouses.
He is so excited telling me about never ending space, and interplanetary travel, and earth, and growth, and life, and chemicals, and systems, systems, systems. "Do you have any idea what you are going to get to do forever and forever, and how much exciting knowledge there is for me to share with you? I could hardly wait to share it with you. You are going to absolutely love the adventure and the knowledge and wisdom available to you forever . . . and you will know even as you are known.
"There was so very much more I wanted to share with you and other humans on earth. But, you didn't listen. You didn't stop to hear. You were so preoccupied with arguing and fighting wars over who was going to control the oil reserves, the fresh water, coal, precious metals, and all the other things you thought were scarce. I designed the earth with sufficiency enough to take care of everything and everyone I ever allowed to live there.
"Some people, however, slowed down, unplugged their ears and listened. I was able to share insights and wisdom with them that began to grow exponentially. That pleased me, because there was so much more I was eager and willing to share that would have solved so very many of your problems and puzzles."
It's always about that time the alarm sounds and the music box stops. I'm left with the rest of the day to think about all we have missed and how much is right now available to us to see and hear and learn.Next Week:
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I either really like this song or completely hate it...and I'm honestly not sure which.
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CHICAGO—After erring so badly that a patient injury is caused or exacerbated by a mistake in image interpretation, what should a radiologist do to own up to his or her professional duty while protecting him- or herself from being run out of business?
Rosemary Schnall, JD, a partner with multi-state White and Williams LLP, took up that question in a session on "mitigation of litigation" at RSNA.
She began her answer by advising attendees to first consider whether it's possible to remediate the effect of the error.
"A lot of times you might not be able to do this because you might not know about the [situation] until you get served with a complaint," said Schnall. "But to the extent that you are able to remediate the error, do so."
That might mean issuing a supplemental report and naming it as such.
Don't alter the existing record—and "don't fall on your sword."
To illustrate the likely fallout of choosing the latter option, Schnall relayed a "horror story" of a radiologist who thought he was doing the right thing.
A 43-year-old woman had been suffering with headaches. Her primary care physician sent her for an MRI of the brain. The radiologist read the film as showing severe stenosis of the distal internal carotid artery, and nothing more.
The next morning the woman went to the emergency room, where an emergency CT scan showed that she had a subarachnoid bleed. Before long, she died.
"This incident got around the rumor mill at the hospital and back to the radiologist, who then went and took another look at the images. He then realized that he had missed an aneurysm," said Schnall. "He thought this case could result in a lawsuit, so he wrote a letter to his insurance broker to put them on notice."
In the letter, the radiologist put in writing that he had failed to identify what would soon become a fatal hemorrhage.
"To me as a defense attorney, he did not need to write that out" with the knowledge afforded him by hindsight, said Schnall. "He could just have stuck with the facts. When he got to deposition, of course, this letter was discoverable. It came out and made it very difficult to try to defend him."
"If you make a mistake, determine if you need to report that," added Schnall. "Do you need to tell the patient about it? Do you need to tell other physicians? In some states, there is a physician safety office and a department of health that have to be notified of certain mistakes. The liability carrier [needs to know], and is there anyone else in your organization, such as a risk manager," who needs to know?
But above all, she stressed, never alter the original report—i.e., the "existing record."
Most cases aren't worth pursuing
In the same session, Kelly Yousem, JD, offered interesting insights, not specific to radiology, on how she determines whether or not a potential malpractice case is worth taking.
"I have been doing this for 25 or 30 years, and I will tell you that I turn down about 98 percent of the cases that I see. And of the 2 percent of cases that I do take, we have to establish all the elements of the case. In order to do that, we have to hire an expert witness."
No ready and willing expert witness, no case—even in many situations that appear obvious even to laymen.
Yousem described one such case. A man who underwent orchiectomy and subsequent retroperitoneal lymph node dissection following a diagnosis of testicular cancer lived with pain for 20 years.
Eventually, abdominal imaging revealed a ribbon retractor, two inches wide and some 14 inches long, that had been left in the patient at surgery.
"I managed to track the case down," Yousem said, adding that the error was entirely obvious by the abdominal image. "But I still needed an expert witness to say that this was below the standard of care."
The other thing Yousem considers before proceeding is the plaintiff him- or herself.
"I have people come to me all the time and they are mad at a doctor for doing [or not doing] X, Y or Z," she explained. "And they get really angry when I ask them how they're doing. They say, 'Well, I'm fine now.' I will usually tell them they can fight, but they don't have a case. And they get angry with me for that, too. But you have to have all of those pieces."
"You can have the best case in the world," said Yousem, "but if the plaintiff is someone that the jury simply is not going to like, they're not going to award anything."
Ethics and the expert witness
On the touchy subject of radiologists serving as financially compensated expert witnesses in malpractice cases, discussion moderator Leonard Berlin, MD, of Rush Medical College and the University of Illinois College of Medicine, put in a plug for the American College of Radiology's ethics committee.
"Anyone who has a potential grievance against an expert witness is certainly free to lodge a complaint" with this committee, said Berlin, who is a past chairman of the committee. "It is done in private, it is done confidentially, the committee will investigate and do an evaluation. And in some cases they can either pass it over or they can suspend or actually terminate the membership [of an offending radiologist]. That's very rare; I can only think of one case of membership termination. And of course, the radiologist being investigated has to be a member of ACR."
Berlin also weighed in on the possibility of penalties for paid expert witnesses who give false testimony.
"Can you be punished legally? The answer is probably not," said Berlin, "because there are a lot of court decisions around the country saying that expert witnesses have to be permitted to testify as they wish—even if they lie—because you have to have the courts open to expert witnesses. If you start penalizing an expert witness, nobody is going to want to be an expert witness."
Berlin concluded, "Even the U.S. Supreme Court has said that the way to uncover incorrect or false testimony is cross examination by the opposing lawyer."


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The Education Center at The Wall is a collaborative effort between the National Park Service and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF). The Center has been approved by Congress, and construction is planned for the National Mall site adjacent to the Vietnam Memorial and on the corner of Constitution Avenue and 23rd Street. The two-story underground learning facility will be built in keeping with the design, tone, and mood of The Wall and so as not to detract from the historic vistas of the National Mall. The purpose of the Education Center is to inform future generations of the honor and sacrifices made by those who served their country. The core of the center will revolve around seven traits that embody the American service member throughout the generations: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Service, Honor, Integrity, and Courage. A prominent feature of the Education Center will be the larger-than-life pictures of service members whose names adorn the polished black panels of The Wall. The pictures will be displayed on the service members birthdays and will add faces to the more than 58,000 names on The Wall and tell the stories of those who served. Volunteers are working to find photos of each of the veterans to be included along with service background information on computers at the Education Center and online for non-local visitors. The Education Center will also feature displays of the more than 400,000 personal articles, letters, and gifts that have been left at the foot of the memorial since its dedication in 1982. Like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Education Center at The Wall will be completely funded through private donations. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund has embarked on a multi-year campaign to secure the nearly $115 million needed. The campaign leadership includes Gen. Colin Powell USA (Ret.) and Gen. Barry A. McCaffrey USA (Ret.). Actor Tom Selleck serves as the National Spokesman. Groundbreaking on the Education Center at The Wall is expected in 2018.
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|Someone owes me $15!
Yesterday morning, the President (Herr Valerie Feld) told the landscaper to "get rid of the lava rocks" and today they're gone.
Now there's a clean run from the outside onto my patio for cats, rats skunks and flood water.
And I ask you why did it take ten years? Do you know what else has been going on on my patio for 10 years? Termite Shit! Termites have been chewing on the patio and balcony above for ten fucking years. I have called an average of once every two years. Oh, and they were going to paint the patio floor shortly after I moved in. TEN YEARS AGO.
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President Obama's Crackdown on Airport Security
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As Karl D. would say, "where are the damn HANDCUFFS"?
Geithner's New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer's payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show.
AIG said in a draft of a regulatory filing that the insurer paid banks, which included Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA, 100 cents on the dollar for credit-default swaps they bought from the firm. The New York Fed crossed out the reference, according to the e-mails, and AIG excluded the language when the filing was made public on Dec. 24, 2008. The e-mails were obtained by Representative Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The New York Fed took over negotiations between AIG and the banks in November 2008 as losses on the swaps, which were contracts tied to subprime home loans, threatened to swamp the insurer weeks after its taxpayer-funded rescue. The regulator decided that Goldman Sachs and more than a dozen banks would be fully repaid for $62.1 billion of the swaps, prompting lawmakers to call the AIG rescue a "backdoor bailout" of financial firms.
"It appears that the New York Fed deliberately pressured AIG to restrict and delay the disclosure of important information," said Issa, a California Republican. Taxpayers "deserve full and complete disclosure under our nation's securities laws, not the withholding of politically inconvenient information." President Barack Obama selected Geithner as Treasury secretary, a post he took last year.
- January 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM
As to the fiasco of Christmas Day, what a bunch of horseshit. A Cub Scout Troop could start a better fire. We now get illegal searches at airports based on box cutters and bullshit. How about we make a law that allows passengers to tear a terrorist apart piece by piece?
All of this BS is so these bastards can bring a totaliatarian state to our Constitutional Republic. Fuck them to the Nth degree and may they burn in Hell forever!!!!!
- January 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- carlandjerry said...
Hi Spectre,
Geithner is a financial crime syndicate soldier recruited from GS.
Obama took him on. Now, he is responsible for perpetuating the financial crimes bringing down nearly every state economy in the nation.
Yes! Where are the handcuffs? Not only for him, but Summers, too.
thanks, jerry
- January 7, 2010 at 10:45 AM
This clip will forever be included in my Hall Of Shame! And people ask why folks use the word sheeple. Wonder no more. We are devoid of individual thought or comtemplation.
The C-SPAN Lie? See Eight Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations
- January 7, 2010 at 11:53 AM
An actual and important memo regarding the NY FED (GEITHNER) and AIG. This came from The Mess That Greenspan Made:
"but what you see below is the key section regarding the New York Fed's actions in late-2008 after AIG officials wanted to disclose in regulatory filings that they had been paying counterparties such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch full value for CDOs (collateralized debt obligations)."
- January 7, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Jerry, just WOW:
America Rising An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
- January 7, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- carlandjerry said...
Hi Spectre,
I just don't agree with that Youtube propaganda tool called America Rising. Nearly all the Flash words shown in the video were brought to us by Little Boy Bush and before the election. So the trust and socialism part to me doesn't mix.
Bush, and those before him brought us corporate welfare programs. Now Americans are suffering. I DO support social programs for working people. I DO support a universal healthcare program. I DO support social security. I DO support not-for-profit health entities to compete with the greedy and destructive health care corporations.
The TARP, bailouts, fall of Lehman, and BearS were all under Bush/Cheney.
I could see that that video had to be created by the Stone Age party called the GOP.
I cannot believe that voting against Democrats and restoring the 30-years of stone age rule that drove down wages, inflated asset values, created financial bubbles, drove jobs overseas, stole from the social security trust fund, forced workers into bankruptcy and foreclosures, supported the rise of a corporate oligarchy, drove America into two wars, and the fake war on terror, would do the nation well, These are all hopes to gain power by the GOP, once again, to destroy the American worker, once and for all by forcing them into surfdom.
I do not believe that bringing back the Stone Age Republican Party is a positive move.
Believe me, Spectre, the social programs of Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Finland, Canada and other nations have allowed those economies to prosper and not self-destruct as it has here.
I am sorry that this Teabagging group don't get it. Yes, Obama has moved in a direction that I object to. And yes, I don't like the continued failure of our Congress, but what we all have been given over the past 30 years is a heck of a lot worse.
I could not support the Stone Age party.
thanks, jerry
- January 7, 2010 at 2:25 PM
Jerry, I don't deal with this Party or that. It allows them to do my thinking for me instead of thinking for myself. I don't believe in the Republicans anymore than you do. The difference would be that you haven't come to the same conclusion regarding the Democratic Party. Each of us comes to truth in our own time. I wish you luck with your search.
- January 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM
And as far as beliefs systems go, I will stick with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as those are universal freedoms that no man can bestow on me because they are mine to begin with. You told me what you were for, yet freedom wasn't in your list anywhere. You are for things that make us safer for a time, while willingly giving up your God given right of freedom as a trade off. Without freedom you have nothing my friend. Just ask the people of Cuba.
The countries you list by the way are on the road to bankruptcy just as we are. You see it doesn't matter regarding how the money is spent. You can overspend on social services, or you can just give it to the thieving banksters. In either case you are sending money you don't have and can never repay. There are no money trees growing in the woods, so you are left with default in the end. Ask Iceland how they are doing for a look at what's coming for the rest of us.
Anyone who is proud of what either Party is doing to it's citizens needs their head examined. One other thing. When you say, "well yes they did bad but", it stands for Behold the underlying truth. You still support their evil ways.
- January 8, 2010 at 9:17 AM
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to deal with it." - Patrick Henry
- January 8, 2010 at 9:32 AM
For all those suffering from political constipation:
- January 8, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- carlandjerry said...
Hi Spectre,
I appreciate your viewpoints. I agree that both parties are corrupt, at this point, yet at this time, I really do not see the Republicans offering the working person much of anything. The Democrats, at least, have included some elected representatives that do represent working people.
I see that the social support in this country is necessary in order to prevent a total collapse of the society, otherwise there will a quick devolving into a solidly fascist regime, whereby war would be the only result.
In my limited list of socially governed nations, I did not mention Iceland knowing their economic collapse. The others have economies that are doing better than the US economy and will likely continue to do so.
I do believe the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the backbone of the country, but I believe that the use of the term "freedom" is loosely used. Yes, we have more "freedom" than others, but it is all relative. I really don't believe that the average American has real freedom, and will have much, much less once the country devolves if the social support network gets cut away. I cannot believe that God has bestowed a right for persons to be free. During the time the Bible was written, Jews were slaves of the Pharoah. The Bible does state that God brought the Jews to place where they could be free, yet slavery continued anyway.
I do not support evil ways of anyone-Democrat nor Republican nor Independent. It has been my opinion that the Republican ways are dangerous ways. I see them wanting to return to slavery of the working person by destroying the fabric of the country. I see Democrats, as a whole, ideally wanting to save the middle class, while many have been corrupted by greed.
Anyway, thanks for the dialogue!
- January 8, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Hey middle class, remember, "change we can believe in"? Well you are getting the change, and when you get your paycheck you may be hard pressed believing it but it's true. The term "fisting" as the School Czar would say, and like, comes to mind for what is about to befall you. SHEEPLE!!
Congress Tinkers With Withholding
Tax Tables For 2010
- January 9, 2010 at 2:19 PM
This is all happening under a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate and a Democrat in the Oval Office. Time to realize it's the Democrat's f**king you, and the Republicans as scapegoat is wearing thin considering we have spent more under Obama in a year, 100 days actually,than was spent
since day one of the Republic, he has increased by 30,000 troops (+50,000consultants)in Poppy-stan, he brought no troops home from Iraq, and provided no transparancy in the Healthcare Debate as he had previously promised (8 times). I could go on, but it's time to move on regarding what Bush did. This President is taking away your freedoms faster than Bush ever thought of doing. All this bullshit now rests at the feet of the Democratic Party.
Banks Return to Toxic Assets
Susan Walsh
The government intervened to help banks kick their toxic-asset habit, but has it actually made things worse? Bloomberg writes that, since the government created the Public-Private Investment Program to help banks sell off their most toxic debts, the banks have actually increased their holdings of such debts, like mortgage-backed securities, because the government has made the market so profitable. Six of the seven largest banks, including Bank of America and Citigroup, have increased their holdings of residential mortgage-backed securities. Bank of America added the most of such debts to its trading book, with an increase of $945 million. "It's absolutely ridiculous," says the managing director of one consulting firm. "Some of them created this mess, and they are making a killing undoing it."
Read it at Bloomberg
- January 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM
Jerry, this is where the rubber meets the road. I'm betting the rat bastards in charge will keep their platinum plans while they let us swing in the wind. God bless Amerika, and a big saaaa-loot to the Democrats who are in charge after all.
Shouldn't Congress Be Required To Have The Same Plan They Want Us On?
On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan.
Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.)
Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition. The process is very simple. I have done just that at: http://fleming.house.gov/index.html
Senator Coburn and Congressman Fleming are both physicians. Regardless of your political beliefs, it sure seems reasonable that Congress should have exactly the same medical coverage that they impose on the rest of us.
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same.
- January 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Jerry, more of the vaulted "change we can believe in". Everyone with an IRA or 401K is about to be screwed out of their retirement. Here's my favorite part of the piece, and thank you Democrats for jack shit. Little man's Party my arse!
Instead of "Yes We Can" the slogan for the Obama Administration should be "Over One Million Fat Cats Served." And the only difference in the Republicans is the breed of the fat cats whose desires they seek to fulfill. The public has lost its advocacy in Washington, and therefore the integrity of the democratic republic is in peril.
08 January 2010
Obama Administration Wants to Annuitize 401k's and IRA's - Mandatory "R Bonds"
As a rule of thumb, the worst possible time to convert lump sum savings into a fixed income annuity would be when interest rates are historically low.
Although products may vary, this is roughly equivalent to buying long term bonds at a time when interest rates are likely to increase, substantially reducing your principal in real terms, and eroding your fixed returns through inflation.
For some reason the Obama Administration is promoting the idea now that there should be some encouragement for Americans to start converting their 401K's and IRA's into annuities, to provide themselves with lifetime income.
The effort is being spear-headed by Mark Iwry of the Treasury and Phyllis Borzi of the Department of Labor. Here is a paper written on the subject by Mark Iwry when he was at the Brookings Institution.
The essence of this paper is that distributions from IRA's and 401K's would automatically be rolled into an annuity providing a monthly income by default.
This concept is known on the Street as the handling fees for meager returns pork barrel pigfest. The Fed likes it because they will undoubtedly get a two year rolling chunk of the people's retirement cash to play with.
Perhaps just rolling those 401K's and IRA's into Social Security or the Long Bond would be what they have in mind. Somehow the panacea of TIPS with inflation defined by the government sounds probable. The drawback perhaps is that this would not generate the highest recurring fees for Wall Street and the FIRE sector, which have to be eyeing that 'cash on the sidelines' hungrily.
How about Patriot Bonds that are fully invested in Mortgage Debt formerly owned by the Fed, with some tranches of Commercial Real Estate to add some zest to the recipe? The Treasury can give this option a small tax break, which can be largely consumed by Wall Street fees and mispricing of risk returns.
And I thought that Greenspan's advice for homeowners to step into ARMs into the knee of the housing bubble was foul.
- January 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM
85,000? We're Missing a Million of Them!
January 8th, 2010
By David Goldman
No, Virginia: There isn't a Santa Clause, and even if there is, he didn't bring an employment recovery for Christmas. But the household data in many ways are far more concerning than the establishment data, which show an 85,000 drop in December payrolls.
A far more disturbing number (in Table A-1 of today's BLS release) shows that "persons not in the labor force" increased by about 840,000 between November and December, from 83,022 to 83,865. That's seasonally-adjusted; unadjusted, the number is closer to a million. Correspondingly, the total size of the civilian labor force fell from 153,720 to 153,059 between November and December.
What happened to the million Americans who went missing from the BLS definition of the labor force in the single month of December? They are the "long-term discouraged" or whatever, those whose prospects of finding a job are so poor that they have stopped looking.
- January 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM
America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels
December was the worst month for US unemployment since the Great Recession began.
- January 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM
- carlandjerry said...
Hi Spectre,
Thanks for great reads you have been posting. I agree that these cons in Washington need to be enrolled in any health plan that they dish out to the American people. This goes out to Obama, all the way down to general government employees.
I am here in Chicago spending time shoveling a lot of snow!!!! What is amazing how fast and efficient the streets and sidewalks not like Pittsburgh.
take care, jerry
- January 10, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Jerry, you must be visiting Mom and Dad? I haven't been to Chicago, but my wife, daughter and granddaughter love it. They do a girl's trip every year without fail. Stay warm and don't overdo the shoveling my friend. This cold weather is unbelievable. 28 degrees in Orlando with New York reporting 24 degrees yesterday. Whatever you are doing in Chicago, have a great time.
- January 11, 2010 at 9:33 AM


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I went to this huge warehouse tag sale today with tons of vintage stuff. It was freezing in there, but I stayed just long enough to snag a few goodies!
I have been wanting a vintage kitchen scale for a while. I found this rustic one that looks awesome on my kitchen counter with its rusty spots enhanced by the beiges of my granite and backsplash. I just love it! And I got it at such a bargain price too. It really does pay to hunt around for something. I saw scales similar to this priced much higher; and honestly I like this one much better and I only paid a fraction of what those other scales cost! Score in my book!
I have been wanting vintage clothes pins to put into mason jars as decor in my living room. I spotted the mason jars first {which need a really good cleaning, but aren't they charming?} and later a whole bucket of vintage clothes pins. I bought every single one plus the two mason jars. Once I scrub those jars clean, they will make their debut... Right now they are just sitting on my farm table, waiting for a bath.
It was a fun morning. I love going to tag sales, barn sales, antiquing or thrifting! Such great vintage things around every corner.
Barn Sale:
I went to a great barn sale today and scored some cute things that I wanted to share. The first is an old iron rusty milk jug that I have been wanting for my front porch for ages.
The next thing I found is an old watering can. Also, something that I have wanted for ages. So vintage and cute! It too is going on my front porch next to my old, chippy paint church pew.
Then I found this antique farm table from the 1900's. The wood is beautiful and it has a little drawer on the front. I am going to refinish it with a darker stain on top and distress the legs. I'm not sure yet what color the legs will be. But it's going to be for sale when finished. So all and all, it was a great day at the barn sale!


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I had to return the Rugby corduroy mallard critter pants. What a shame! They were almost perfect. Corduroy, Critters, the waist and length were good; but they fit like tights. Corduroy leggings they were. Am I getting too old for these brands aimed at young people? Maybe, maybe not. But I have been shopping at Lands' End and L.L. Bean more often.
The bright side is now I have the money back from the pants. And the money was from my mammy to buy X-mas gifts for myself. I can't let her down now can I? And I need another pair off shoes like a hole in the head.
But, I do need a new pair of boat shoes. They're my 3 season go to shoe. I wear socks with my boat shoes when it's cold outside. I especially think that rag wool socks look great with boat shoes. And I know that Sperry makes winter boat shoes and high top boat shoes; so maybe you can buy them for me.
Hey Sperry, can you make a boat shoe with a red brick sole but a regular leather upper (not suede)? Thanks. I'm afraid of ruining the suede.
So I'm going with the Authentic Original Boat Shoe, again, but in the classic brown color this time. The Sahara color has served me well, but it's always good to switch things up.
I've also ordered the Bass Brockton in white nubuck from Piperlime. I've been debating getting white bucks because it takes a lot confidence and style to pull them off. They were on sale so I bit, and if there's anyone I know who can pull it off, it's me.
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Catalogue/ Product Photography
Ghost Mannequin/ Invisible Mannequin effect
- Disappearance of the body
- Fashion still life
Age of the fashion magazine
•Improvements in the halftone printing (dot) process means photographs can be reproduced in magazines•First ten years of the 1900's•Before this drawn illustrations were used.
Petersons magazine plate , 1888
Paul Poiret (1879-1944)
•House of Worth (Charles Worth, father of haute couture)•Freedom from corsetry•Signature shapes- hobble skirt, harem pants•Clothing cut along straight lines•Influenced by antique dress- draping
Though perhaps best known for freeing women from corsets and for his startling inventions including hobble skirts, "harem" pantaloons, and "lampshade" tunics, Poiret's major contribution to fashion was his development of an approach to dressmaking centered on draping, a radical departure from the tailoring and pattern-making of the past. Poiret was influenced by antique and regional dress, and favored clothing cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangles. The structural simplicity of his clothing represented a "pivotal moment in the emergence of modernism" generally, and "effectively established the paradigm of modern fashion, irrevocably changing the direction of costume history.
•Leaders in fashion photography in the 1920's and 30's•Hoyningen-Huene for HB (photographs for Madame Vionnet)•Horst P. Horst for Vogue•Cecil Beaton for British Vogue
•British Vogue and Vanity Fair•Photographed and was a member of the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920's/30's•Photographed British Royals•Prolific diarist•designed sets, costumes, and lighting for Broadway
Petersons magazine plate , 1888
Paul Poiret (1879-1944)
•House of Worth (Charles Worth, father of haute couture)•Freedom from corsetry•Signature shapes- hobble skirt, harem pants•Clothing cut along straight lines•Influenced by antique dress- draping
Though perhaps best known for freeing women from corsets and for his startling inventions including hobble skirts, "harem" pantaloons, and "lampshade" tunics, Poiret's major contribution to fashion was his development of an approach to dressmaking centered on draping, a radical departure from the tailoring and pattern-making of the past. Poiret was influenced by antique and regional dress, and favored clothing cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangles. The structural simplicity of his clothing represented a "pivotal moment in the emergence of modernism" generally, and "effectively established the paradigm of modern fashion, irrevocably changing the direction of costume history.
Early modern fashion shoot
|Edward Steichen photographs Paul Poirets designs for Art et Décoration, 1911
He was a photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair from 1923–1938, and concurrently worked for many advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson. During these years Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world
While at MoMA, in 1955 he curated and assembled the exhibit The Family of Man.
|Adolf de Meyer, 1920's
Women look like models
In Pictorialist tradition:
- romantic soft focus,
- wistful character
- theme of nature
|Martin Munkacsi, early to mid 1930's
News and sport photographer
Introduced Casualness
Unlike the romanticised or statue-esque previously
|Edward Steichen in High Fashion, The Conde Nast Years, 1923-37
'Steichen redifned fashion photography using the avante garde framework of sharp focus modernism: directional lighting, graphic effects unusual angles an interest in geometry and a desire to inject a sense of contemporary life into his images' Kate Rhodes The elegance of the everyday
Models are assertive eg: Marion Morehouse – socialite
Sculptural- art associations
Vogue vs Harper Bazaar
|Hoyningen-Heune, 1931, Madame Vionnet
|Horst P Horst Costume for Salvador Dalí's "Dream of Venus". 1939
His method of work typically entailed careful preparation for the shoot, with the lighting and studio props (of which he used many) arranged in advance. His instructions to models are remembered as being brief and to the point. His published work uses lighting to pick out the subject; he frequently used four spotlights, often one of them pointing down from the ceiling. Only rarely do his photos include shadows falling on the background of the set. Horst rarely, if ever, used filters.
Costume for Salvador Dalí's "Dream of Venus". 1939
Installation for the 1939 worlds Fair which features semi nude bathers.
Cecil Beaton (1904- 1980)
|Vivien Leigh for Vogue, mid 1930's
|Stephen Tennant by Cecil Beaton
- (21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987)
- was a British aristocrat known for his decadent lifestyle.
- It is said, albeit apocryphally, that he spent most of his life in bed.
- Relationship with Siegfried Sassoon
|Queen Elizabeth II in 1968
In the White Drawing Room in Buckingham Palace
Lee Miller (1907-1977)
Photographed by Steichen
American photographer and fashion model at age 19
She was stopped from walking in front of a car on a Manhattan street by the founder of Vogue magazine, Condé Nast, thus launching her modeling career when she appeared on the cover of the March 1927 edition in an illustration by George Lepape.
Became one of the most sought after models in New York.
Louise Dahl Wolfe
•From 1958 until her retirement in 1960, Dahl-Wolfe worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and other periodicals.•"Environmental" fashion photography
In 1928 she married the sculptor Meyer Wolfe, who constructed the backgrounds of many of her photos.
|Night bathing, 1939
|Panorama of Paris, Suzy Parker in Jacques Fath Gown, 1953
Suzy Parker was a 50's supermodel
In 1935, American Kodak introduced the first modern "integral tripack" colour film and called it Kodachrome.
Cindy Sherman
40's 50's hollywood glamour, retouching lighting- more to do with portraiture and celebrity
William Klein, 1950's
In BBC doumentary he says that he doesnt see himself as a fashion photographer, it was just something that he was asked to do.
His documentary style comes through in the informality, known for his use of blurr and movement in doc, here using a long lens.
Multi –disciplinary approach comes from his art school training see doc and exhibition at tate.
|David Bailey, Mick Jagger
British Vogue
The film Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, concerns the work and sexual habits of a London fashion photographer played by David Hemmings and is largely based on Bailey.
he "Swinging London" scene was aptly reflected in his Box of Pin-Ups (1964): a box of poster-prints of 1960s celebrities and socialites including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins.
|Terence Donovan Spy Drama 1962
For the October issue of Town magazine
Bond like
|Brian Duffy Jean Shrimpton on the Edgeware Road, 1960
Three working class 'lads' of swinging london
Picturing the 60's 'everygirl' who has a part time job and there for enough money to spend in boutiques, socialise and enjoy sexual liberation.
|Richard Avedon (1923 -2004)
Avedon did not conform to the standard technique of taking fashion photographs, where models stood emotionless and seemingly indifferent to the camera. Instead, Avedon showed models full of emotion, smiling, laughing, and, many times, in action.
|Tina Turner, 1971
|Helmut Newton (1920-2004) Vogue and Harpers Bazaar
Sado maochistic element to some works
Treatment of the nude
Self portrait with wife and models 1981
|Guy Bourdin for Charles Jourdan shoes
During his military service in Dakar (1948–1949), he received his first photography training as a cadet in the French Air Force.
In 1950 he returned to Paris, where he met Man Ray, and became his protégé.
His first fashion shots were published in the February issue of Vogue Paris in 1955. He continued to work for the magazine until 1987.
An editor of Vogue magazine introduced Bourdin to shoe designer Charles Jourdan, who became his patron, and Bourdin shot Jourdan's ad campaigns between 1967 and 1981
the suicides of his wife and two of his girlfriends, and the cruelty in which he treated his models.
|Jamel Shabazz, Back in the days, published 2002
Brooklyn born photographer
Photos from the 80's
|August 1980
Ridgers- books on skin heads, documentary project
Magazines reflected pop culture- music film, clubbing
Derek Ridgers and Steve Johnson- subjects against a brick wall rather than white studio backdrop- 'sraight-up'
Juergen Teller
•Photos in The Face, Vogue
•Has worked with Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs
•Works with musicians
•Annie Morton , 1996
Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, Germany (1984–1986). He emigrated to London, England in 1986.
Teller's fashion photographs have been featured in The Face, Vogue (US, France, England, Italy), Another, Index, W Magazine, Self Service, Details, Purple, i-D, and 032c, among others. Since 2004, Teller has shot campaigns for Marc Jacobs. He has also shot campaigns for Vivienne Westwood. Teller has recently collaborated with Céline.
He frequently works with the musician Björk.
•Vogue cover with Kate Moss credited with the beginnings of the trend for the 'waif' look.
Day used Kate Moss as the model in an eight-page fashion story for The Face, in July 1990. The story showcased garments by Romeo Gigli, Joseph Tricot, Ralph Lauren, and a feather head-dress from the now-defunct Covent Garden boutique World
Adobe Photoshop
•Graphics editing program
•First launched 2003
Trend for grittty realism of the 90's disappears
Return to the idealised form s and bodies of the 1940's 50'sHollywood glamour- sculpted by clothing, lighting hand retouching.
Bodies and skin can be made perfect, bigger or smaller at whim
Terry Richardson
•Has worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair, ID magazine. Harpers Bazaar
•Sisley, Diesel, Mango, H&M
graphic sexual subject matter.
Line between pornography and fashion erased
Shinkle suggests 'spoof'
Nick Knight
•UK photographer
•Worked with Yohji Yammamoto in the 90's and with Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior
•Shots for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Another Magazine
This image: with designer Gareth Pugh for Mercedes Benz
Fashion and the fantastical
Woman as super hero/ car
Transform- body and machine
Pugh architectural designs
American fashion blogger. She began her blog, "Style Rookie" on March 31, 2008 at age 11. Initially, her parents did not completely know what Tavi was doing until she asked for their permission to appear in a New York Times magazine story. Since then, she has had as many as 50,000 readers.
In August 2009, she appeared on the cover of Pop magazine, which feature photographs by Jamie Morgan and was designed by artist Damien Hirst. Since then, Tavi has been featured in the View section of the December/January 2010 issue of Teen Vogue magazine and February 2010 issue of the French Vogue. Bloggers like Tavi have been referred to as the "frontline of fashion". She has also become a regular guest at fashion shows and a muse for designers in Tokyo. She is also partly inspiration for Rodarte's line at Target. Most recently, Gevinson was named a "Vogueista" by Vogue Italia with friend, Kristin Prim.
Ordinary people/style
Versions of the street style website from all over the world
Founded 2007
Various bloggrs/photographers eg Facehunter and The Sartorialist.
Poppy Dinsey, 2011
What I wore today- outfit for every day.
UK, 24 years old
'internet sensation, book published
Examples of bloggers who have been head hunted etc.
Where consumers- buyers of fashion also are the models, the photographers, the fashion forecasters, the experts.
Is this a democratisation of fashion photography or is it a loss for the industry, for fashion photography as art?
Exacitudes- Ari Versluis (photographer) and Ellie Uyttenbrock (stylist)
Casettes gang, London 2008
Neighbours, Rotterdam 2008
Photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 16 years. Rotterdam's heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek,
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
The end of the illusion of individuality? Doc project, scientific in nature
•Shinkle, E (2008) Fashion as Photograph, I B Tauris and Co Ltd, London


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Also, these Monkey Bars are so freaking good, I thought I would share the recipe with you right now:
Monkey Bars
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 cup sour cream
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 ¾ cups (3 or 4) ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup chopped walnuts (optional)
- ½ cup butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- about 3 tablespoons milk or half and half
Banana Bread Bars:
Browned Butter Frosting:
- Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour 10x15 jelly roll pan. Beat first four ingredients until creamy. Blend in bananas and vanilla for one minute. Add dry ingredients and blend for one minute. Stir in nuts and spread in pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown. Cool slighty until warm but not hot and frost with Browned Butter Frosting (recipe below).
- For the Browned Butter Frosting: Heat butter in saucepan over medium heat past the melting point until it is boiling and a delicate brown. Remove from the heat and immediately add the remaining ingredients. This should be thicker than a glaze and thinner than frosting. Using a spatula smooth over the top of the Monkey Squares immediately. The frosting will be easier to spread once it's on the warm bread.
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I'm outta here. Screw the plans abou making this a boring blog about my life. I'm completely shutting off Stardoll and Blogger. Goodbye. This is my last post.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Screw this.
I'm outta here. Screw the plans abou making this a boring blog about my life. I'm completely shutting off Stardoll and Blogger. Goodbye. This is my last post.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Like, WOW. (NOT.)
This girl got her StarDesign dress IRL!
Now, there were several things in her interview that made me L.A.W.L.
In all of their copy/pasted glory;
Where are you going to wear it (the dress)?
I've already worn it to the mall and will wear it to church and probably 10th Birthday party.
Well, this could just be me, but I have a feeling that isn't the most appropriate thing for church. (Despite the fact I avoid going to actual churches, as they creep.me.out. I mean, WOW.)
Would you like to be a professional Designer when you grow up?
That would be awesome, I'd like to custom decorate homes, I would also like to be a gourmet chef.
^Not exactly what you were asked... :/
Do you have a favorite style icon?
No, not really but if I had to choose, I'd say Miley Cyrus !
Now, hun, I like Miley and all, but Miley as a style icon? Nah, I just can't see it, if y'all know what I mean.
Yeah, anyways, this blog will be going back to being a blog about my life, so if you just followed to look at SD stuff, you can un-follow after Monday, seeing as on Sunday will be my last post as a not-yet-teenager and also my last SD related post.
(To all of you that wondered, yes. I AM quitting Stardoll.)
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Google, Known for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has come up with something much wackier.
On Tuesday the company introduced Lively, an online tool that allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The rooms can be added to any blog or Web site.Google unveiled the new product in a post on its official blog — its characteristically understated way of introducing new features to the world. It can be reached (downloaded) at www.lively.com
but is officially part of Google Labs, an area of the company's site where it showcases projects that remain in the beta, or experimental, phase.
Lively and similar products from other companies have the potential to change the way people interact over the Web. Online chat rooms are two-dimensional — they include text, and sometimes voice and video.
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The last two weeks have been absolutely wonderful. The Christmas and New Year's Holidays passed with a flurry of activities, parties, and great food. Tomorrow life goes back to normal, Andrew goes back to work and so do I. I have enjoyed every single moment of every single day.
Tonight dinner was a favorite, grilled Filet Mignon wrapped in bacon, grilled bone-in pork chops and salad. It was a delicious meal.
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Very few people ride trains these days. Some lament this fact, though most don't bother thinking much about it. One of the former is called Bulb. Bulb used to ride the trains a great deal and, compared with most others, still does. Though his health prevents him from riding as often as he'd ultimately like, he is able to hop aboard at least once a month. He never takes the train to any place in particular. To his thinking, a train is a thing without a destination. This is problematic for Bulb because there are often people on trains who collect tickets, and since he never has a destination, he never has a ticket. Thus, Bulb never gets very far when he travels. Sometimes he'll pick a car that is far enough from where the ticket takers begin taking tickets that he'll remain on the train until after it gets out of the station, but this is the exception more than the rule. For the most part, Bulb is expelled from the train well before it leaves the station. This is too bad, perhaps, for Bulb, but it should fill us citizens with great pride, for even though our trains are nowadays nearly totally unused, we still employ enough people to eject those few souls who would actually care to use them.
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WesBanco finally finds way into Pittsburgh with Fidelity deal
WesBanco Inc., the Wheeling, W.Va.-based financial institution that is buying Fidelity Bancorp Inc., said the $70.8 million transaction will enable it to better capitalize on the energy boom.
WesBanco's current footprint embraces West Virginia and Ohio, spanning the Marcellus and Utica shales, but is light in the Pittsburgh area.
"It fills in the piece and it's additive to what we already have," CFO Robert Young said.
But southwestern Pennsylvania had been on WesBanco's radar long before the surge in shale activity, Young said, and it expects to be a major player in the Pittsburgh region, particularly in the small business lending area. WesBanco's Pittsburgh region will have its own president, to be appointed early in 2013, and will add branches by building and through more acquisitions. Whether its regional headquarters will wind up in Fidelity's Perrysville office, WesBanco's existing loan production office in Green Tree, or even a site downtown, Young said, hasn't been determined.
An avid acquirer, WesBanco has purchased 32 banks over the past 25 years. Pending regulatory approval, the Fidelity transaction, announced in July, should close by year-end. WesBanco has two branches in Washington County, and the loan production office in Green Tree. Fidelity's 13 branches will push it northward into Butler County.
"We have bid on some (Pittsburgh) institutions in the past and talked to others, but this is our first opportunity and one we're very happy about," Young said. "If you look at our map, we go west to Columbus and Cincinnati and down to Charleston (W.Va.) and back up into southwestern Pennsylvania. Having the end of that triangle be Pittsburgh works very well for what our market should be. It adds franchise value. That's the name of the game."
He wouldn't identify the local banks WesBanco tried to buy in the past. But Young said it's game to do future acquisitions in western and central Pennsylvania, particularly banks with between $200 million and $2 billion in assets, to further extend its footprint. And it will most likely build more branches here, though he said it's too early to say how many, with the East End and Robinson Township probable locations.
"We'll have a nice share north and south of Pittsburgh but Fidelity really doesn't have anything on the east or west side of town," Young said. "Robinson aligns nicely with our Weirton operations. It wouldn't be beyond the pale to think we'd narrow the gap between Weirton and Pittsburgh with a branch or two."
WesBanco will beef up branch personnel. Significantly larger than Fidelity in terms of branches — 112 versus 13 — and deposits — $4.5 billion compared to $471 million — it offers a broader range of products and services.
"We'll add business bankers, treasury management specialists, insurance people and wealth management," Young said.
How many will be deployed to branches has not been determined. In other markets, WesBanco "tends to cluster" some posts such as trust offices and securities brokerage officers in its largest offices.
"I would say that one year from now, we'll have 50 more people (in the Pittsburgh area)," Young said.
Since back-office functions will be merged, some Fidelity jobs will be cut there due to overlap, but not in the branches, he said.
"We intend to retain branch personnel," Young said. "They are a crucial part of the customer transaction process and very important people."
Fidelity CEO Richard Spencer will retire when the transaction is completed but will join WesBanco's board and serve as a consultant. Decisions have not been made about other top Fidelity officers, though Young said there may be candidates among them for the post of WesBanco's Pittsburgh regional president.
Analysts see the deal as a good fit.
"This is one of those (transactions) you sort of expect," said Arnold Danielson, chairman of Bethesda, Md.-based bank consultants Danielson Associates. "I think Fidelity is smart to get out. There's still a lot of tough competition in Pittsburgh. If (WesBanco) gets the right people who know the market, they could do well."
The Washington-to-Butler span of 15 branches is literally Young's home turf. A Butler native, he's lived for the past 10 years in McMurray. Prior to joining WesBanco in 2001, Young was CFO at First Western Bancorp, now part of Huntington Bancshares, and at a thrift subsidiary of PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
"We have several officers who have either worked in western Pennsylvania or have roots there, and a number of them live in the Pittsburgh area and make the drive down here (to Wheeling)," Young said.
Matthew Schultheis, a financial analyst at Boenning & Scattergood, sees the transaction as "generally favorable."
"Though we question whether WesBanco overpaid slightly, the deal does give the company 13 branches and strengthens WesBanco's presence in the Pittsburgh market," Schultheis said.
Young said branch conversion would probably occur in February.
WesBanco Inc.
- Based: Wheeling, W.Va.
- Founded: 1870
- CEO: Paul Limbert
- Employees: 1,368
- Branches: 112, two in southwestern Pennsylvania
- Web: www.wesbanco.com


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