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2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the:
- International Year of Rice (by the United Nations)
- International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO)
Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections.
See The world in 2004 for a description of the state of the world in this year.
Years: 2001 2002 2003 - 2004 (MMIV) - 2005 2006 2007 | |
Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s | |
Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century |
Contents |
- January 1 - Pervez Musharraf gets a vote of confidence from an electoral college consisting of Parliament and the provincial assemblies, confirming him as President of Pakistan until 2007.
- January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
- January 4 -
- Mikhail Saakashvili wins the presidential elections in Georgia.
- NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars.
- January 8 - Queen Elizabeth II christens the RMS Queen Mary 2 cruise liner, currently the largest ocean liner in the world.
- January 13 - An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing 37.
- January 22 - The European Union bans the import of poultry from Thailand, as bird flu spreads throughout Southeast Asia.
- January 24 - NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) lands on Mars.
- January 27 - The British government narrowly wins a House of Commons vote on the proposed introduction of tuition top-up fees in British universities.
- January 28 -
- The findings of the Hutton Inquiry are published in London. The British Government is found not to have falsified information in the "sexed up dossier". The report criticises the BBC's role in the death of David Kelly, a weapons expert on Iraq.
- At a hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, it is revealed that the September 11, 2001, terrorists used Mace (a brand of tear gas) or pepper spray in overpowering the flight crew of American Airlines Flight 11.
- February 1 - A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 251 pilgrims.
- February 3 - The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- February 6 - A suicide bomber kills 41 people on a metro car in Moscow.
- February 10 -
- At least 50 people killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.
- The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.
- February 12 - Same sex marriage in the United States: The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
- February 13 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos.
- February 14 - Riots break out between New South Wales Police and Aboriginal residents of Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
- February 18 - A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser, and sulfur derails and explodes in Iran, killing 320 people.
- February 20 - Conservatives win a majority in the Iranian parliament election.
- February 24 - 6.5 Richter scale earthquake in Northern Morocco hits in the Rif mountains near the city of Al Hoceima - over 400 dead. Ait Kamara is destroyed. 517 dead.
- February 26 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
- February 29 - 2004 Haiti rebellion: Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti. The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president.
- March 2 -
- John Kerry effectively clinches the U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination, 2004 by winning nine out of 10 "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses.
- NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity), has confirmed that the area of Mars they landed in was once drenched in water.
- March 10 - Five British men released from detention at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay land at RAF Brize Norton. Four are immediately arrested for questioning.
- March 11 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 190 people.
- March 12 - Following the terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11, millions of protesters take to the streets of Spanish cities against terrorism.
- March 14 -
- Two suicide bombers kill eleven Israeli civilians in Ashdod, Israel.
- The Spanish parliamentary elections of 2004 take place. The incumbent government led by José María Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
- Presidential elections in Russia are held. Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term.
- March 15 -
- A trio of astronomers announce they have discovered a large trans-Neptunian object, the largest object found in the solar system since Pluto was discovered in 1930. Initially designated 2003 VB12, it was named 90377 Sedna in late September.
- The new Spanish government announces that it will withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops in Iraq.
- March 17 - Organized violence breaks out over two days in Kosovo. Nineteen people are killed, 139 Serbian homes are burned, schools and businesses are vandalized, and over 30 orthodox monasteries and churches are burned and destroyed.
- March 19 - The UN launches a corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.
- March 20 - President Chen Shui-bian wins the Taiwanese presidential election by 0.2% of the vote. The day before, he and Vice President Annette Lu were 'shot'. Lien Chan refuses to concede and demands a recount. A controversial 'peace referendum' opposed by the People's Republic of China is invalidated.
- March 21 -
- The 2004 Malaysian general election takes place. The incumbent Barisan Nasional party wins 198 out of 219 seats in the Malaysian Parliament.
- Tony Saca is elected President of El Salvador (inauguration June 1).
- March 22 - Palestinians protest in the streets after an Israeli helicopter gunship fires a missile at the entourage of Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City, killing Yassin and 7 others.
- March 25 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, in return for the dismantling of Libya's WMD programme in December 2003 - the first time a major western leader has visited the nation in several decades.
- March 28 - In France, the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin suffers a stunning and unprecedented defeat in regional elections.
- March 29 -
- The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all enclosed work places including: restaurants, pubs and bars.
- Largest expansion of NATO to date, allowing Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization.
- March 31 - Four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed in Fallujah, Iraq.
- April 3 - A bomb explosion in a Madrid flat kills a Spanish policeman and five terrorists suspected of responsibility for the Madrid train bombings on March 11.
- April 4 - Serious fighting breaks out in Najaf, Sadr City, and Basra in Iraq as Shia insurgents supporting Muqtada al-Sadr rise against coalition forces.
- April 5 - Queen Elizabeth II begins a state visit to France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale
- April 8 -
- Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
- Three Japanese citizens are taken hostage in Iraq.
- April 16 - India defeats Pakistan in their first cricket tour in 14 years
- April 17 - Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing the Gaza leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi.
- April 21 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed an Israeli nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s, is released from prison in Israel after an 18 year term for treason.
- April 22 -
- Two trains carrying explosives and fuel collide in the North Korean town of Ryongchon, killing 161 people, injuring 1,300 and destroying thousands of homes.
- The last coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
- April 25 - Referenda on a United Nations plan, which proposes to re-unite the island of Cyprus, take place in both the Greek and Turkish parts. Although the Turks vote in favour, the Greeks reject the proposal.
- April 28 - Abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is revealed on the television show 60 Minutes II.
- May 1 - the largest expansion to date of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
- May 6 - The final episode of Friends airs on NBC, drawing an estimated 52 million viewers in North America.
- May 9 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by landmine placed under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial parade in Grozny.
- May 10 - The 2004 Philippine presidential and legislative elections take place. Incumbent president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wins the presidency.
- May 11 - An explosion destroys a plastics factory in Glasgow, UK, killing nine people and injuring over a hundred.
- May 12 - An American civilian contractor in Iraq, Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by a group allegedly linked to al-Qaida on a web-distributed video.
- May 13 - In India, the Congress Party wins a surprise victory in the elections to the Lok Sabha.
- May 14 - Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, marries Australian Mary Donaldson in Copenhagen.Missing image
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- Ezzedine Salim, holder of the rotating leadership of the Iraqi Governing Council, is killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad.
- Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage in compliance with a ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court (Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health).
- May 18 - The IOC announces the short list of candidates for the 2012 Summer Olympics: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris. Unsuccessful cities are Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig and Rio de Janeiro.
- May 19 -
- Tony Blair is hit with a purple flour bomb in the chamber of the House of Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions.
- Jeremy Sivits pleads guilty in a court-martial in connection with alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
- May 23 -
- A section of the ceiling in Terminal 2E at Paris's Charles de Gaulle International Airport collapses, claiming at least six lives.
- Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visits North Korea to secure the release of the families of the nine abducted Japanese citizens returned earlier.
- May 26 - Terry Nichols is convicted by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
- May 29 - Dedication of the National World War II Memorial takes place in Washington, DC.
- May 30 - Thousands of people in Hong Kong take to the streets to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
- June 1 - 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, a Japanese schoolgirl attending Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Japan is murdered. Her killer, an 11-year-old classmate identified by Japanese authorities as "Girl A", becomes the basis for the Nevada-tan Internet meme.
- June 6 - The 60th anniversary of D-Day is remembered by world leaders.
- June 8 -
- The first transit of Venus since 1882 occurs; the next one will occur in 2012.
- The G8 Summit takes place over the next 2 days on Sea Island, in Georgia, USA.
- The pickled heart of Louis XVII of France is buried in the royal crypt at Saint-Denis.
- June 11
- Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The decision came on the third anniversary of the execution of his co-defendant, Timothy James McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
- After the first presidential state funeral since 1973, President Ronald Wilson Reagan is laid to rest at Simi Valley, California, at the site of the Reagan Presidential Library.
- June 12 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
- June 16 - The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (or "9/11 Commission") issues an initial report of its findings.
- June 21 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately-funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- June 28 -
- The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq transfers sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.
- Canadian election: The Liberal Party, led by Paul Martin, is reduced to a minority government, after holding a majority since November 1993.
- June 30 - The preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- July 1 - The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
- July 4 -
- Groundbreaking of Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New York City.
- The EURO 2004 final between Portugal and Greece takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. Greece wins the match 1:0.
- July 15 - 18 - The Open Championship in golf takes place in Troon, Scotland.
- July 25 -
- Over 100,000 opponents to Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2004 participate in a human chain from Gush Katif, to the Western Wall, Jerusalem (90 kilometers).
- Lance Armstrong of Austin, Texas wins an unprecedented 6th consecutive Tour de France cycling title.
- August 1 - Supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 people and leaves over 100 missing.
- August 3 - Statue of Liberty reopens after security improvements.
- August 6 - A United Nations report that blames the government of Sudan for crimes against humanity in Darfur is released.
- August 12 - Singapore's prime minister Goh Chok Tong hands over his position to Lee Hsien Loong.
- August 13 -
- The 2004 Summer Olympics begin in Athens. They end on August 29.
- Hurricane Charley kills 27 people in Florida after killing four in Cuba and one in Jamaica. Charley made landfall near Cayo Costa, FL as a Category 4 hurricane. Charley was the most intense hurricane to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
- August 18 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works were completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony took place.
- August 21 - A series of blasts rocks a rally of an opposition party in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people.
- August 22 - Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
- August 24 - Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
- August 29 - Around 200,000 protesters demonstrate in New York City against President George W. Bush and his government, ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention.
- August 31 -
- Two suicide attacks on buses in Beer Sheva, Israel, kill at least 16 people and injure at least 60. Hamas claims responsibility for the attacks.
- A woman commits a suicide attack near a subway station in northern Moscow, Russia, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 50. Authorities hold Chechen rebels responsible.
- September 1 - Chechen rebels take between 1,000 and 1,500 people hostage, mostly children, in a school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia. The hostage-takers demand the release of Chechen rebels imprisoned in neighbouring Ingushetia and the independence of Chechnya from Russia.
- September 2 - The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 1559 calling for the removal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. This measure is largely aimed at Syrian troops.
- September 3 -
- Russian forces end the siege at a school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia. At least 335 people (among which at least 32 of the approximately 40 hostage-takers) have been killed and at least 700 people have been injured.
- Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida. After killing two people in the Bahamas, Hurricane Frances killed ten people in Florida, two in Georgia and one in South Carolina.
- September 7 -
- The Scottish Parliament meets in the new Scottish Parliament Building for the first time.
- Hurricane Ivan passes through the Caribbean islands over the next two days, killing 5 people in Venezuela, 4 in the Dominican Republic, 1 in Tobago and at least 37 people in Grenada.
- September 8 - In the "Rathergate" affair, the first Internet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed by CBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970's appear instead to have been produced using modern word processing systems.
- September 9 - A bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, kills eleven people and injures up to 100 people.
- September 13 - The Assault Weapons Ban expires.
- September 15
- Security at the Palace of Westminster is compromised when the House of Commons is stormed by a small group of protestors during a debate about fox hunting.
- "Girl A" is sentenced to be institutionalized due to the murder of classmate Satomi Mitarai.
- September 16 - Hurricane Ivan wreaks havoc in the United States, after having crossed the Caribbean in the days before.
- September 17 -
- 2004 Summer Paralympics commences in Athens, Greece.
- Mexico and Japan finish the two year long negotiations and sign a Free Trade Agreement in Mexico City.
- September 23 - Mount St. Helens became active again.
- September 25 - Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall near Hutchinson Island, FL. In all, Jeanne killed over 3,000, most in Haiti.
- September 29 - First Ansari X-Prize flight of SpaceShipOne.
- October 4 - Two car bombs kill at least 16 people and injure dozens more in Baghdad.
- October 5 - A fire breaks out on the Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi leaving it stranded without power in the North Atlantic ocean, off the north coast of Ireland. One crewmember is killed.
- October 8 -
- Jacques Derrida dies in Paris.
- Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage held by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an Iraqi insurgent, is killed after a failed escape attempt.
- Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people, mainly Israeli tourists and Egyptian workers.
- October 9 -
- Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Scottish Parliament Building in a ceremony in Edinburgh
- Incumbent Prime Minister of Australia John Howard leads the Liberal-National coalition to victory over the Labor Party led by Mark Latham in federal elections.
- Direct elections for president held for the first time in Afghanistan. Interim president Hamid Karzai is eventually declared the winner.
- October 10 - Abdullahi Yusuf is chosen as the new transitional president of Somalia.
- October 14 - Prince Norodom Sihamoni is chosen as the new king of Cambodia.
- October 17 - A referendum in Belarus approves the lifting of constitutional term limits for the presidency.
- October 19 - General Khin Nyunt is replaced by Lieutenant-General Soe Win as Prime Minister of Myanmar.
- October 20 -
- Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Missouri, killing 13 people, and injuring 2.
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes the first directly-elected President of Indonesia.
- October 21 - The Ministry of Defence approves the deployment of the Black Watch regiment of the British Army to Baghdad, Iraq after a request for assistance by the U.S. government.
- October 24 -
- The bodies of 49 Iraqi soldiers discovered after being ambushed by insurgents.
- Brazil successfully launches its first rocket into space.
- October 26 - The Cassini probe passes within 1,200km of Titan
- October 27 -
- Details of the discovery of a new, recent, species of fossil hominid, Homo floresiensis, from the island of Flores, Indonesia are published.
- The Boston Red Sox sweep the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series championship for the first time since 1918.
- October 29
- A videotape of Osama Bin Laden speaking airs on Arabic TV, in which he threatens terrorist attacks on the USA, and taunts the president, George W. Bush, over the September 11 Terrorist attacks.
- European heads of state signed in Rome the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
- October 31 - Leftist candidate Tabaré Vázquez is elected President of Uruguay.
- November 2 - U.S. presidential election: President George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry. Republicans make gains in the House and Senate.
- November 6 -
- Ufton Nervet rail crash in Berkshire, England, kills 7 people.
- In Côte d'Ivoire, National Army bombings kill nine people, including French UN soldiers. French UN forces retaliate by destroying the National Army's air force.
- November 7 - U.S. forces launch a major assault on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January
- November 9 - The Ireland High Court rules that Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan can sue the Revenue Commissioner to have their Vancouver, British Columbia Same-sex marriage recognized for tax purposes.
- November 12 - Jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of murder of his wife Laci and unborn son, Connor
- November 13 - After six days of intense battles, Iraqi town of Fallujah fully occupied by U.S. forces.
- November 14 - American Secretary of State, Colin Powell submits his resignation. He was replaced by Condoleezza Rice after her confirmation from the United States Congress.
- November 16
- The European Space Agency probe, Smart 1 passes from orbit of the Earth into orbit of the Moon
- A train crash near Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, injures 150 people.
- The People's Republic of China to invest $20 billion dollars in Argentina, a deal signed days before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to be held in the City of Santiago in Chile.
- NASA's hypersonic jet ScramJet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph in an unmanned experimental flight. It obtained a speed of Mach 9.6, almost 10 times the speed of sound.
- November 21 - Final round of presidential election in Ukraine. Official winner: Viktor Yanukovych. International election observers express severe criticism, and large crowds gather in a protest rally in Kiev. 12 days later, the Supreme Court annuls the result, and a new poll is scheduled.
- November 21 - The Nintendo DS is released in North America.
- November 26 - A group of Iraqi political leaders, primarily from Sunni and Kurdish parties, advocate a six-month delay in popular elections scheduled for January 2005.
- November 28
- Explosion in coal mine in China. Death toll expected to be above 150.
- Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile promises economic compensation to 28000 victims of torture during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.
- December 3 - The Colombian government extradites Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, one of the most powerful drug dealers of the world, arrested in 1995 and 2003, to the United States.
- December 6 - Terrorists attack the U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing several people.
- December 8 - The biggest Chinese PC producer Lenovo announces its plan to purchase IBM's global PC business, making it the third largest world PC maker after Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
- December 11 - Tests show that Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with a large dose of dioxin.
- December 13 - Software giants Oracle Corporation and PeopleSoft to merge in a $10.3 billion deal, creating the second largest maker of business applications software.
- December 14 - The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France is opened by President Jacques Chirac.Missing image
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- British Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns following allegations he abused his position by speeding the visa application of his lover's nanny.
- Albanian terrorists take a bus and its passengers hostage in Athens, Greece and demand 1 million euros in ransom money.
- December 16 -
- The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists.
- IT security company Symantec Corp signs a definitive agreement to merge with Veritas Software Corp valued at $13.5 billion in an all-stock transaction.
- December 21 - Iraqi insurgents attack a US military base in the city of Mosul and kill 22 people.
- December 22 - Armed robbers in Northern Ireland steal over £22 million from the headquarters of the Northern Bank. Unionist politicians and the PSNI blame the IRA, and stall the peace process.
- December 26 -
- The strongest earthquake in 40 years originates from the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra island in Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale and creating tsunami tidal waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. At least 290,000 people from South Asia to as far as Somalia in Africa are confirmed to be dead.Missing image
Sumatra_devastation1.jpg - The re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election takes place. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko is declared the victor.
- December 27 - A gas explosion in the French town of Mulhouse kills 15 people.
- December 28 - The Ukrainian transport minister, Heorhiy Kyrpa is found shot dead, in a suspected suicide.
- December 30 - A fire in a Buenos Aires night club República Cromagnon kills 192 people.
- December 31 -
- Simón Trinidad, high-profiled FARC leader, was extradited to the United States, following the second extradition of a high drug dealer in a month and in 2004.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich resigns.
- The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 508 metres or 1,676 feet.
See: Deaths in 2004
Nobel Prizes
- Physics:
- David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
- Chemistry:
- Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, and Irwin Rose "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
- Physiology or Medicine:
- Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
- Literature:
- Peace:
- Wangari Maathai "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
- Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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The Kyoto Protocol Is in Effect! Around the World, 141 Countries Are Taking the First Steps to Decrease Greenhouse Gases!
News story originally written on February 16, 2005
Countries from around the world have agreed to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they release into Earth's atmosphere. This will help slow the speed of global warming. As of February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol, which states this agreement between nations, is in effect!
Over the past 150 years, humans have caused an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. One large reason for the increase is because burning fossil fuels releases them into the atmosphere. These gases trap heat in our atmosphere. So, having more of them causes the planet to warm.
One hundred and forty-one counties have signed to the Kyoto Protocol. By signing, countries agree to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases they release into the atmosphere. Overall, countries that have agreed to the Protocol will reduce emissions by 5.2% within the next seven years. That may not seem like much of a drop, but it will be a challenge for many countries where the amount of greenhouse gases released has been increasing each year.
Not all countries of the world signed the Kyoto Protocol. The countries that did sign it together account for 55% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. However, the country that emits the most greenhouse gases, the United States, did not agreed to sign the Kyoto Protocol. In 2001, United States President George W. Bush decided that the US would not participate. Large developing countries such as India, China, and Brazil are not required to make changes either.
The Kyoto Protocol will not cause enough change to stop global warming caused by increased amounts of greenhouses gases, but it is a good first step. According to Klaus Toepfer, head of the United Nations Environment Program, more hard work needs to be done to fight global warming and its possible effects on the world's climate.

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Gucci Mane – Aw-Man Lyrics
(feat. .45)
Yeah Money Makin' Records man
T know Laflare Entertainment
True what's happening?
Yeah, I call'em true cause they know they the truth dawg
That boy Gucci
Yeah, we make them hoes say
[Chorus: .45]
Yo trap don't boom like mine
Yo paper ain't longer than mine, than mine
Aw man [8X]
Yo bitch ain't finna than mine, than mine
Yo rims ain't talla than mine, than mine
Aw man [8X]
[Verse 1]
You never seen a thug like this aw man
I'm choppin down them bricks tryin to wipe Jackie Chan
My money come fast, my work come in grams
My soldiers keep straps like they work for Uncle Sam
My chain like ugh, my wrist like damn!
I show up at the jewler with a hundred thousand cash
Drop top Porsche, inside DAMN
Outside red lookin like a Coke can
I keep a pretty brown round and young yellow
I gotta butta pecan Rican and a French vanilla
My trap boom hard, my bitch real fine
Poppi on the way, we call it crunch time
[Gucci Mane]
I'ma lean with it, serve a fiend with it
On the block since the age of thirteen with it
In the kitchen water whippin, a thousand eight grams
I'm standin over the stove and I'm doin it with one hand
Aw man, fruit man, Toucan sam, two hundred and seven gram
Got yam, a long Lamb', I'm sellin that grown man
Aw man, I'm on that Kush tonight
And I ain't stoppin chopper hit'chu and your body start rockin
My chain got pneumonia, watch got the bird flu
Came to the club smellin like a pound of purple
Big Cat ruckus, nigga it's a movement
This aint hip-hop, this is drug dealer music
I trap hard nigga, stunt hard nigga
E'ry bitch in the club jock a young nigga
Fo'-five, Big Cat representa nigga
Them twenty-eights sittin high, I'm a giant nigga
Blowin kush muh'fucker, can you smell me nigga?
Ridin through the city flyin with the top back
Quarter ki' of the yam in the knapsack
Big Tank throwin pills to the quarterbacks
Me and Mailman (geah!) at'cha bitch house
Baby momma cookin work at the trap house
She servin coke like she work at the Waffle House
Fo'-five count stacks at the stash house


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Andrew Wilkinson says he will be officially stepping down as leader of the BC Liberals.
In a statement made on his Facebook page, Wilkinson said he welcomes the selection of an interim leader by the party caucus.
"My past role, and the role of the new interim leader, requires a great deal of humility and a willingness to listen to people from all over B.C., to learn from them so that our work reflects the dreams and desires of the people of our province," the statement reads.
"Indigenous communities will need to be engaged as partners on projects and initiatives that will bring prosperity to everyone who lives here. That work must now be undertaken with renewed energy and commitment, so that our caucus and our party can fully reflect the views of everyone who calls this land their home, and work with them to provide a prosperous, respectful, and healthy future for everyone."
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Following a handful of controversies during B.C.'s snap election in October, which resulted in the party seeing significant setbacks, Wilkinson had previously indicated he planned to stay in his role until a new leader could be selected.
"Our party, the interim leader, and our members have a lot of work to do. We need to rebuild and renew – and that starts with tough conversations and sincere reflections. I know I've had many of those myself in recent weeks and I know there are many more to come for all of us as we work toward a leadership race that will define our new leader, and our positions and profile heading into the next election," the statement continues.
"There are still many conversations to have about how we can do better. Some of those conversations are taking place right now, some of them publicly. I can confidently say that I did my best for our team and for British Columbia, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve our province and all of the people who consider this great place their home."
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman whose husband had a fatal heart attack while attending a New England Patriots game with their 6-year-old son has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the team, the NFL and others.
Kimberly Chartier of Chicopee is seeking at least $10 million in the suit filed in Hampden Superior Court.
The suit says 40-year-old Jeffrey Chartier's heart attack was caused by a confrontation with a security guard before a game in September 2010 after their son, Tedy, was invited onto the field by two NFL officials. The boy is named after former Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi.
Lawyers for the team and the other defendants refused comment when contacted by The Republican newspaper of Springfield.
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When the Kroger store opened at Northgate shopping center in Frayser 58 years ago, the store gave away a Shetland pony.
Bob and Helen Inman were the final customers at the Kroger Northgate in Frayser. The store closed this week, the last of the original tenants in the shopping center.
(Daily News/Andrew J. Breig)
When the store closed Tuesday, Feb. 18, it was the last of the original tenants in a center whose changing fortunes mirror those of the blue-collar suburb still feeling the loss of its blue-collar jobs.
The bank that later became a boxing gym is gone, as is the neighboring McDonald's – the last in Memphis with no indoor seating – that moved to the other side of Thomas. And so is the Zayre's, which went out of business when the national chain did.
The basement-level bowling alley is closed, as is the movie theater also in the back of the center.
And a fire dramatically pared the south end of the original shopping center framework.
Late last year, the Achievement School District opened an alternative school run by Pathways in Education for over-age students in grades seven to 12.
A police car siren yelped to clear three cars from the fire lane by the Kroger last week. Several dozen cars in the parking lot all appeared to belong to customers in the store, which was advertising it was having an "inventory reduction sale" and would close Tuesday at 6 p.m.
The shopping center, developed by the Belz family and built by Belz's Commercial & Industrial Construction Co., had at least two supermarkets when it opened.
The competing National Food Store didn't last long after it was heavily damaged in a February 1956 explosion. Fire investigators determined it was caused by three to four sticks of dynamite tied together and thrown on the roof one evening after the businesses were closed.
Until Tuesday, Kroger had endured in what was once the second-largest shopping center in the city after Poplar Plaza.
Kroger has another location at Frayser Boulevard and Rangeline Road in eastern Frayser. The newer store moved to the northwest corner of the intersection on what had been the site of a J.B. Hunter department store from the northeast corner,
Kroger is no small player in the Frayser economy. It and Walgreens stores are the largest employers of Frayser residents within the community, according to Eric Robertson of Community LIFT, the city-county agency working with Frayser leaders to plan for future economic development.
"Many people will tell you in Frayser that International Harvester and Firestone – those were big employers," he said. "And when those closed, that left that community – which is really a bedroom community – in terms of people driving out for work."
ASD officials estimate 20 percent of Frayser's school-age population attend schools outside Frayser.
Northgate is less than a mile from the site of the old International Harvester plant and felt the immediate impact of its closure in the 1980s, as did the surrounding businesses built on trade from the plant workers as well as the proximity to Northgate.
–Steve LockwoodDirector, Frayser Community Development Corp.
For future plans, Robertson says the question is whether Frayser will remain a bedroom community or one that again mixes workplaces with residential development.
"We don't have a crossroads. We don't have a town center," said Steve Lockwood, director of the Frayser Community Development Corp. "We don't have a city hall. If Frayser was a town, it would be the 12th biggest town in Tennessee. Because of its suburban style, there's really no central gathering place, no real communications hub – much less transportation hub."
Housing in Frayser is slowly improving – 1,500 empty and vacant homes, down from 1,800, Lockwood said.
"Our housing prices are rising after bottoming out a few years ago at an average sale price of $17,000," Lockwood noted. "It's up to $31,000. That's still pretty low. But that's an incredible rebound. I think there's a lot of room for optimism there."
Creating new businesses in the area comes with unique challenges compared to other areas where the focus might be on storefronts. That's because of what's left of the infrastructure from those old industrial uses as well as big-box retail sites, including the old Treasury Department store on Hollywood Street by Interstate 240.
Lockwood notes that the Treasury site has interstate access, with 95,000 cars a day going by.
"That's not mom-and-pop stuff. It's very difficult for us to go out and negotiate to find an investor to come into this multimillion-dollar site," he added. "That's the kind of place that we need the attention and help from the city administration, EDGE, LIFT, plenty of other entities. We don't quite have the clout, and we don't play at that level. Some of those investors may not come only from Chattanooga but from Japan."


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Although Apple TV has been the ugly stepchild in the Apple family for years, I confess that I have been a quiet fan. Now that rumours are swirling about an imminent 're-invention' of Apple's television strategy, I thought I might revisit the platform and fantasize about what it could become.
My Apple TV is good at just a few things: nearly instant access to US TV shows and mainstream films; a reasonable YouTube search engine; a way to watch home videos without crowding around the Mac. It does not displace the cable box, PVR or Blu-Ray player, nor -- so far -- the Netflix subscription.
Like most Apple products, it's not remotely essential but oh-so-very-nice-to-have...(iPad anyone?)
Everyone loves to hate Apple TV and what it represents: another closed platform chained to iTunes; an expensive hostage to the Apple's contracts with major content owners; another unnecessary node in your home music-and-photo network. People want it to be a TiVO with Genius; a TV gateway to the open Internet; a home media server; a Sky+ killer; a consolidator of boxes and remotes... and on and on.
Forget all that:
Dear Steve,
My fantasy is a lot simpler, and fits rather better with your long-standing product/service strategy: consolidate the Apple TV's role as the on-demand hub for paid(and free) quality content.
I don't care whether the acquired team from Lala comes up with a newfangled video streaming service, so long as I can decide what to watch and start it within a few minutes. Simplify the link to iTunes, so I don't have to think about keeping my Mac and the Apple TV in sync. And for crying out loud, do more content deals -- give me foreign films, documentaries, art-house releases! What's more, if you can provide a choice of language dubs on films I would actually consider ditching the DVD player.
I don't think you should move Apple TV to the iOS platform and clutter it with app icons (though you probably will) -- I have enough of those around the house and I don't need more interactivity on my primary "lean-back" platform. All the OS needs is some basic social features: tagging, sharing and rating; so that I can manage my film pipeline better.
I don't want to browse the ugly UGC Web from my TV, so I'm happy with limited 'openness': YouTube, BBC iPlayer and other dedicated channel apps like NPR, ABC, Al-Jazeera will do. For those who want thehun.com [NSfW!], there's always a Boxee hack. Please spare me Twitter and Facebook on the big screen.... aargh!
Hulu and Netflix streaming services would be nice, but I'll totally understand if that's smooching the competition a bit too much.
I've spent money and effort to HD-enable the various boxes and connections around my TV, so please find a way to output 1080p video and Dolby Surround Sound, at least to my AV receiver. For bonus points, let me use the iPod or iPad as the primary remote.
That's all I need. Keep your tuner, your PVR, your browser. Stick to instant delivery of top-quality content.
All the best,


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The Hunter Biden thing won't change minds but here we go: a cybersecurity pro says the metadata confirms the authenticity of the emails.
The gist is that Gmail uses a "DKIM" protocol to authenticate emails and the Hunter email matches the e-signature of the sender. So the key email really is from Burisma.
However, my impression is that if someone hacked into, or otherwise gained access to the Burisma system, they could send out signed emails. Who among us has not had their email hacked, to the annoyance of everyone on our contact list?
Shenanigans in the Ukraine seem to be a theme to this story, so who knows?
From Wikipedia on DKIM:
As to the Hunter Biden thing changing minds, who ya gonna believe, me and Lyin' Ted Cruz, or our President?
Trump also continues to hone in on Hunter Biden in the closing days of the campaign, despite allies like Sen. Ted Cruz warning him that it's not a winning final message. Trump even acknowledged as much in Florida. "I get a call from all the experts, right?" Trump roared to the crowd. "Guys that ran for president six, seven, eight times. Never got past the first round, but they're calling me up, 'Sir, you shouldn't be speaking about Hunter. You shouldn't be saying bad things about Biden because nobody cares.' I disagree. Maybe that's why I'm here and they're not. But they say, 'Talk about your economic success. Talk about 33.1 percent, the greatest in history.' Now, look, if I do, I mean, how many times can I say it?"
I have not run for President six times. But any day now!


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The most common neoplasm of the prostate is carcinoma arising from ductal or urothelial tissue. Transitional cell carcinoma arising from the prostatic urethra occasionally invades the prostate. Not only does castration not protect against future development of prostatic neoplasia in dogs, but incidence of prostatic neoplasia is higher in castrated dogs.
The clinical signs of prostatic neoplasia may be similar to those of other prostatic diseases. Pain and fever may be present. If the neoplasm infiltrates the urethra, dysuria or urethral obstruction is likely. On rectal palpation, the prostate may be normal in size but feel asymmetrical and nodular. It may also be firmly adhered to the pelvic floor or adjacent structures. Ultrasonographic examination may show an irregularly shaped prostate gland with hyperechoic, heterogenous foci. Gross metastases are present at the time of diagnosis in >80% of dogs with prostatic carcinoma. The most common sites of metastases are the regional lymph nodes, lumbar vertebrae, and bony pelvis. Spread to distant sites (such as the lungs) is uncommon until late in the course of disease. Urethral obstruction caused by prostatic disease in dogs is highly suggestive of neoplasia, as is prostatomegaly in a previously castrated dog. Diagnosis is made by biopsy. Prostatic tumor markers used for human prostatic cancer, such as prostate-specific antigen or prostatic acid phosphatase, are not present in canine prostate glands.
There is no effective curative treatment for prostatic carcinoma in dogs. Because of the high incidence of metastases at the time of diagnosis, and the high incidence of urinary incontinence after prostatectomy in dogs, total prostatectomy is not recommended as a treatment. Radiation therapy for prostatic cancer often results in incontinence due to radiation-induced fibrosis of the urinary bladder. Alternative means of ablating prostatic tissue such as transrectal high-intensity focused ultrasound, transurethral intraprostatic absolute ethanol injections, transurethral laser vaporization, or transurethral electrocoagulation have been successful in experimental studies but have not been performed on dogs with prostatic carcinoma. A relatively simple treatment offered some efficacy for dogs with prostatic carcinoma in one study involving 32 dogs. Treatment with the cyclooxygenase inhibitors piroxicam (0.3 mg/kg/day, PO) or carprofen (2.2 mg/kg, PO, twice daily) significantly prolonged the median survival time of dogs with prostatic carcinoma compared with dogs receiving no treatment (6.9 vs 0.7 months).
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ANSI Common Lisp 1 Introduction
1.6 Language Extensions A language extension is any documented implementation-defined behavior of a defined name in this standard that varies from the behavior described in this standard, or a documented consequence of a situation that the standard specifies as undefined, unspecified, or extendable by the implementation. For example, if this standard says that "the results are unspecified," an extension would be to specify the results. If the correct behavior of a program depends on the results provided by an extension, only implementations with the same extension will execute the program correctly. Note that such a program might be non-conforming. Also, if this standard says that "an implementation may be extended," a conforming, but possibly non-portable, program can be written using an extension. An implementation can have extensions, provided they do not alter the behavior of conforming code and provided they are not explicitly prohibited by this standard. The term "extension" refers only to extensions available upon startup. An implementation is free to allow or prohibit redefinition of an extension. The following list contains specific guidance to implementations concerning certain types of extensions.


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St. Joe teaches Thai orphans 'to be good'
| Bangkok, Thailand
As his namesake looks on from a wall-mounted relief cradling baby Jesus, the Rev. Joseph Maier kicks up a leg in kung fu style, sending his white cassock flying.
"Have any of you been fighting?" The American-born Catholic priest, speaking in Thai, is quizzing his "parishioners." A couple of boys, 7 or 8, giggle guiltily.
Sitting on the floor, 200 street kids, from 3-year-olds to teenagers, pack a narrow upper-story room that doubles as a chapel at his Mercy Centre orphanage.
"Let's see the new kid in the house," the priest, known to almost everyone as Father Joe, calls out to a 7-year-old boy. He's just been rescued from the nearby streets of the "Slaughterhouse," a squalid squatter compound in the notorious neighborhood of Klong Toey. It's built from scrap wood over the pens where squealing pigs were once butchered for the city's markets.
"Are you settling in well?" Maier asks. The boy nods shyly.
Then Maier calls on a blind girl with AIDS who was raised in a municipal garbage dump by her scavenger parents until they both died. Now she goes to a school for the blind and lives at the Mercy Centre. Her Braille reading and typing skills are improving, she tells "Khun Phaa" (Mister Father) proudly.
A teenager reads the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Bible before Maier launches into a sermon about the importance of self-esteem in rising above adversity by recounting the story of ... Kung Fu Panda.
Now tiptoeing on a foot, now pirouetting with hands raised mantis-like, the freckled priest, in late middle age, with a Buddha belly and the reputation of a rambunctious saint, imitates the signature postures of the animal warriors of the story. "To become a dragon master," he explains, quoting from the movie, "you must overcome the 'Furious Five' " – his shorthand for hardships and harmful habits.
This "gathering of the tribes," as Father Joe, a Redemptorist Roman Catholic from rural South Dakota, calls the mass he holds every Saturday, isn't exactly liturgy by the book. None of these children is Catholic, or even Christian. They're Buddhist or Muslim, and he wants to keep it that way.
"Religion should be taught by grandmothers," the priest insists. "What we must teach kids is to be good." For children, he explains, the three cardinal sins are laziness, theft, and dishonesty. "If these children grow up [thinking] 'God loves me; I don't cheat, steal, lie,' hey, that's pretty good," he says.
At the end of the service, a girl, once homeless and forced into begging, goes around with a rattan basket. She collects a nominal "tithe" of 1 baht (3 cents) toward a communal kitty for toys and candies. The gesture is meant to inculcate reciprocal charity in "the poorest of the poor."
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"To be very honest with you," Father Joe declares, "I want to [expletive] scream." The cause of his ire seems to be a minor infringement. A middle-aged Western couple have shown up uninvited in a playroom of his orphanage. It's a price of fame Maier doesn't like to pay. "People walk right in as if they owned the place," he fumes. "They don't come here to help us, but to feel good about themselves."
The other day, he says, an evangelical Christian visitor was discovered trying to convert a dying Buddhist in the center's AIDS hospice. "That kills me," Maier explains. "Here I am a Catholic priest having to throw this person out."
When President Bush visited the Mercy Centre last August, Maier says he told him, "Mr. President, I had to ask permission from the children for you to come here." He adds, though, "This very important person came here to give our children honor and dignity."
Maier is overprotective with good reason. "His" children have been abused, betrayed, or let down by the adults in their lives. Many have endured domestic violence and sexual abuse, or been used as "horse walkers," peddling cheap amphetamines in crime-ridden slums.
Those orphaned triplets there, he points, were sold as domestic slaves at age 3 by their drunken grandfather for two crates of whiskey. "This here is Master Ohh," Maier says, indicating a 6-year-old boy scampering around barefoot with a slight limp.
"Dad is a night watchman who fell on his son in a drunken rage with a machete," almost severing the boy's legs at both ankles. Until Ohh was nursed back to health, he was sometimes carted around in a red toy wagon by "Cookie Crumb James," a 9-year-old HIV-positive "double throwaway dead-end kid" with a scarred face, a lopsided grin, and a sweet tooth (which earned him the nickname). "A hero in Klong Toey," Maier notes, "is a soul beaten up but never beaten."
The Mercy Centre is a $3 million shelter built by a Catholic philanthropist from Atlanta. It has airy dorms and well-stocked classrooms. During the priest's midmorning walk around, bubbly boys and girls emerge from left and right for hugs and gentle fist bumps with their guardian in mischievous camaraderie.
Maier stops at a breezy playroom where, lying splayed on the cool tiles, their limbs entwined, several children are immersed in drawing and games. "This, my brother, is how it's supposed to be," he says, visibly pleased. "Life's never gonna be the same without Mommy and Daddy, but this is neat, isn't it!"
Maier's mantra for street children – wisdom he learned from the hard-working single mother who raised him and his siblings – is "No matter what, go to school, go to school, go to school!" Thanks to him, more than 4,000 children do every year at his 31 preschools across Bangkok's slums.
The priest has also put up playgrounds, sponsored after-school soccer teams, and rebuilt thousands of slum homes after frequent flash fires. His Mercy Centre, staffed by Catholic nuns and local Buddhists, runs a street child outreach, a center for legal aid and protection from human trafficking, and a credit union.
"Father Joe is in a partnership with the poor," notes John Padorr, a Mercy Centre volunteer from Chicago. "Many of our teachers and staff went to our kindergartens in their time."
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In 1971, Mother Teresa came to Klong Toey. A fresh-faced young priest newly posted to Bangkok's Holy Redeemer Church – a single-room shack squeezed under a bridge – showed the nun around the jumble of squatters' huts tottering on stilts above refuse-strewn swamps and filthy canals linked by rickety catwalks. "Stay with these poor people if you can," the nun urged Maier.
He has done so. Until recently he slept every night on a mosquito-netted army cot in a tumbledown slum shed near a municipal sewage pump. The people of Klong Toey have long since embraced as one of their own their teddy-bearish benefactor with the explosive laughter and sudden mood swings.
One week Father Joe weeps at the Buddhist cremation of a garbage scavenger who "died 3 baht in debt," leaving three orphans behind. The next, he chuckles heartily at the street smarts of a newly arrived girl who pinches fluffy toys from the orphanage and sells them down the street. Several of his protégés have earned scholarships to the US and Europe; others he's lost back to the street.
"I used to pray that I become a saint," Father Joe says. He's just patiently soothed a 12-year-old orphan who flew into an uncontrollable rage in class. He's also just joked with an elderly maid. She's wearing a shorter skirt than usual today, and he's told her she has nice legs.
"Now," the priest continues, "I simply pray that I don't become a large obstacle to the will of God."


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I have custom web.config functionality that uses Linq to merge elements into a web.config based on a template file. I would like to use this in a feature so I can get it to merge all web.configs in a load balancing environment. I know there is something called SPWebConfigModification, but the extent of the elements to add is large and I need it to be more dynamic like the template solution. I know I could run it on each front end server, but it would be better in a feature or solution.
Is there a way to get access to the web.config in a feature in SharePoint 2007?


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Auto loan terms continue to loosen for all buyers
Auto loan terms continue to loosen for buyers with all kinds of credit
DETROIT (AP) -- For car buyers seeking auto loans, happy days are here again.
U.S. banks and auto finance companies are once again welcoming all kinds of customers, even those with less-than-stellar credit. The average credit scores of new and used car buyers, which spiked during the economic downturn, have fallen to nearly the same level as 2008.
Better yet, experts don't think the credit pipeline will dry up anytime soon. Low interest rates are making it cheaper for banks to get money, which makes them more willing to lend. The federal funds rate — or the rate at which banks lend money to each other — is now near zero percent, down from 2 percent in the summer of 2008.
Loans to subprime buyers — or buyers with credit scores of 679 or lower — are particularly attractive, since banks can charge higher interest rates. The average interest rate for a deep subprime loan — or a loan to someone with a credit score below 550 — on a new car is 12.9 percent, compared with 3.2 percent for buyers with the highest scores, according to Experian Automotive, which tracks automotive credit data.
At the same time, both banks and consumers have lowered their debts, meaning even subprime loans are less risky because they're less likely to be in debt and unable to pay. For example, just 0.57 percent of auto loans were 60 days delinquent in the first quarter of this year, compared with 0.78 percent in the first quarter of 2009. Experian won't release second quarter data until next month, but analysts say the trend will hold as long as interest rates stay low.
"Consumer spending is still very conservative. People aren't going hog wild like they did before the recession," said Lacey Plache, chief economist for the auto information site Edmunds.com.
Here is what buyers with various credit scores can expect if they're shopping for a new or used car, and the estimated monthly payment — excluding sales tax — on a five-year loan if they trade in a car worth $5,000 for a new, fully-loaded $24,775 Toyota Camry sedan.
SUPER PRIME (740 or higher)
Loan rates average 3.2 percent for a new car and 4.4 percent for a used car, according to Experian. A super prime buyer could expect to pay $357 per month for the Camry.
Loan rates average 4.5 percent for a new car and 6.4 percent for a used car. A prime buyer could expect to pay $368 per month.
Loan rates average 6.5 percent for a new car and 9.5 percent for a used car. A nonprime buyer could expect to pay $386 per month.
Loan rates average 9.9 percent for a new car or 14.4 percent for a used car. A subprime buyer could expect to pay $419 per month.
DEEP SUBPRIME (549 or lower)
Loan rates average 12.8 percent for a new car or 17.9 percent for a used car. A deep subprime buyer could expect to pay $447 per month.
Auto loans suffered a similar fate to home mortgages during the financial crisis. When banks sustained losses and tightened lending requirements, the average credit score for new car buyers rose nearly 20 points to a high of 776 in the first quarter of 2010. Standards have been loosening ever since, but only now are they approaching pre-recession levels. The average credit score for a new car buyer in the first quarter of this year was 760, while the average score for a used car buyer was 659.
The loosening standards are good news for the auto industry, which has seen a steady recovery despite bumpy economic news. U.S. car and truck sales are expected to climb as high as 14.5 million this year, up from a 30-year low of 10.4 million in 2009. That's still well below the heady days of the mid-2000s, when easy credit drove annual sales to 17 million. But analysts say the growth rate this time is healthy and sustainable, with consumers making better financial decisions.
Buyers also have more options. In 2010, General Motors Co. bought AmeriCredit Inc., a Texas-based company that specializes in subprime lending, because GM's main finance company was unable to risk taking on subprime buyers. As a result, 8.2 percent of loans for GM vehicles went to subprime customers this spring, nearly double the number in 2010 before the AmeriCredit purchase. The average for the auto industry is 6 percent.
GM says subprime loans, if managed properly, are good for business.
"The recession created an awful lot of new subprime buyers, but it doesn't mean they're a bad credit risk," spokesman Jim Cain said.
Others are sounding the alarm about the easing of credit standards. In a note to investors Tuesday, Moody's warned that the subprime auto lending market is seeing the same kind of heated competition and poor underwriting that drove unexpectedly high losses in the mid-1990s. Moody's said loan performance has been strong over the past few years, but lenders should beware of weakening standards in order to increase profits and market share.


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Silver Sun Closes First Tranche of Private Placement
Silver Sun Closes First Tranche of Private Placement
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Silver Sun Resource Corp. ("Silver Sun" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that, further to its news releases dated October 9, 2012 and November 1, 2012, it has closed the first tranche of its non-brokered private placement, this first tranche consisting of 4,055,000 Units at a price of $0.12 a Unit for gross proceeds of approximately $486,600. Each Unit is comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company and one non-transferable share purchase warrant, each warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share of the Company until November 16, 2014 at a per share price of $0.17 until November 16, 2013 and $0.25 until November 16, 2014.
Cash finders' fees in the amount of $3,300 was paid and warrants to acquire an aggregate of 27,500 common shares of the Company until November 16, 2014 at a per share price of $0.17 until November 16, 2013 and $0.25 until November 16, 2014 were issued to an arm's length finder who introduced the Company to investors.
Shares issued by the Company to the subscribers of the private placement are, and shares which may be acquired upon the exercise of the share purchase warrants will be, subject to a hold period until March 17, 2013, in accordance with applicable securities legislation.
The Company intends to use the proceeds of the private placement for expansion of the Cherry Hill Gold mine in Siskyou County, California and for general working capital and corporate purposes.
About Silver Sun Resource Corp.
Silver Sun Resource Corp. is a Canadian-based resource company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of precious metal deposits in North America. The Company is in the production stage with its gold project in Yreka, California and engaged in an on-going work program on the Zacatecas, Salvador, and Mina San Jose properties located within the prolific Zacatecas Silver District in Mexico, as well as its Yoreme Silver Project in the mining district of Alamos, Sonora State, Mexico. The Company has an experienced management team with a growth strategy to develop a diversified portfolio of mining projects that can be taken to production in the near-term. The company's design is to add shareholder value through efficient exploration, strategic acquisitions and effective marketing while maintaining a low risk profile through project diversification and sound financial management.
"Mark A. McLeary"
Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and "forward looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian provincial securities legislation (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements often, but not always, are identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "expect", "targeting" and "intend" and statements that an event or result "may", "will", "would", "should", "could", or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this news release include statements regarding the timing and nature of permitting approvals, the timing and nature of infrastructure developments and construction, completion of project milestones, projections of future optimization, the timing of negotiations with third parties, and the timing and nature of production timeline targets which are dependent on projections which may change as testing and processing continues.
The forward-looking statements that are contained in this news release are based on various assumptions and estimates by Silver Sun and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. As a consequence, actual results might differ materially from results forecast or suggested in these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Silver Sun to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the actual results to differ include; risks relating to fluctuations in the price of gold; the inherently hazardous nature of mining-related activities; uncertainties concerningresource estimates; results of exploration, availability of capital and financing on acceptable terms, inability to obtain required regulatory approvals, unanticipated difficulties or costs in any rehabilitation which may be necessary, market conditions and general business, economic, competitive, political and social conditions. These statements are based on a number of assumptions, including assumptions regarding general market conditions, timing and receipt of regulatory approvals, the ability of Silver Sun and other relevant parties to satisfy regulatory requirements, the availability of financing for proposed transactions and programs on reasonable terms and the ability of third-party service providers to deliver services in a timely manner. Although Silver Sun has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors which cause actual results to differ. Forward-looking statements contained herein are made as of the date of this news release and Silver Sun disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Daily Readings for Saturday, July 8, 2023
- Morning Psalms 122; 149
- First Reading 1 Samuel 14:16-30
- Second Reading Acts 9:10-19a
- Gospel Reading Luke 23:32-43
- Evening Psalms 100; 63
Morning Psalm 122
1 I was glad when they said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the LORD!"
2 Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem — built as a city
that is bound firmly together.
4 To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD,
as was decreed for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
5 For there the thrones for judgment were set up,
the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
"May they prosper who love you.
7 Peace be within your walls,
and security within your towers."
8 For the sake of my relatives and friends
I will say, "Peace be within you."
9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,
I will seek your good.
Morning Psalm 149
1 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
2 Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.
4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory.
5 Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy on their couches.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands,
7 to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with fetters
and their nobles with chains of iron,
9 to execute on them the judgment decreed.
This is glory for all his faithful ones.
Praise the Lord!
First Reading 1 Samuel 14:16-30
16Saul's lookouts in Gibeah of Benjamin were watching as the multitude was surging back and forth. 17Then Saul said to the troops that were with him, "Call the roll and see who has gone from us." When they had called the roll, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there. 18Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." For at that time the ark of God went with the Israelites. 19While Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." 20Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle; and every sword was against the other, so that there was very great confusion. 21Now the Hebrews who previously had been with the Philistines and had gone up with them into the camp turned and joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 22Likewise, when all the Israelites who had gone into hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed closely after them in the battle. 23So the LORD gave Israel the victory that day.
The battle passed beyond Beth-aven, and the troops with Saul numbered altogether about ten thousand men. The battle spread out over the hill country of Ephraim.
24Now Saul committed a very rash act on that day. He had laid an oath on the troops, saying, "Cursed be anyone who eats food before it is evening and I have been avenged on my enemies." So none of the troops tasted food. 25All the troops came upon a honeycomb; and there was honey on the ground. 26When the troops came upon the honeycomb, the honey was dripping out; but they did not put their hands to their mouths, for they feared the oath. 27But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the troops with the oath; so he extended the staff that was in his hand, and dipped the tip of it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened. 28Then one of the soldiers said, "Your father strictly charged the troops with an oath, saying, 'Cursed be anyone who eats food this day.' And so the troops are faint." 29Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. 30How much better if today the troops had eaten freely of the spoil taken from their enemies; for now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."
Second Reading Acts 9:10-19a
10Now there was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He answered, "Here I am, Lord." 11The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul. At this moment he is praying, 12and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight." 13But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints in Jerusalem; 14and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who invoke your name." 15But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before Gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel; 16I myself will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." 17So Ananias went and entered the house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." 18And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized, 19and after taking some food, he regained his strength.
Gospel Reading Luke 23:32-43
32Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. 33When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. [34Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."] And they cast lots to divide his clothing. 35And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!" 36The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, 37and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" 38There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews."
39One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" 40But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." 42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." 43He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
Evening Psalm 100
1 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come into his presence with singing.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, bless his name.
5 For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures for ever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.
Evening Psalm 63
1 O God, you are my God, I seek you,
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding your power and glory.
3 Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands and call on your name.
5 My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast,
and my mouth praises you with joyful lips
6 when I think of you on my bed,
and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
7 for you have been my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.
8 My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me.
9 But those who seek to destroy my life
shall go down into the depths of the earth;
10 they shall be given over to the power of the sword,
they shall be prey for jackals.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God;
all who swear by him shall exult,
for the mouths of liars will be stopped.


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Paul Schurick, 54, Ehrlich's de facto campaign manager, and Julius Henson, 62, a consultant paid by the campaign, were both charged with three counts of conspiracy to violate election laws, one count of influencing votes through fraud and one count of failing to identify the sponsor of the calls. In addition, Schurick was charged on one count of obstruction of justice.
In a statement, the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor, which obtained the indictments from a Baltimore grand jury, said its investigation is continuing. All but one of the charges handed down Thursday carry maximum prison sentences of five years.
Hat-tip Washington Monthly's Steve Benen who adds:
As we talked about last week, there is a concerted national effort on the part of many Republican policymakers to make it harder for traditional Democratic voters to participate in the 2012 elections. Under the auspices of rooting out "voter fraud" — a problem that appears to exist largely in the over-active imaginations of GOP activists — Republicans are passing voter-ID measures, approving new laws restricting voter-registration drives, and closing early-voting windows.
If all goes according to plan, going forward, they won't even need ridiculous schemes like the one in Maryland.
Of course, the new indictments handed down against Ehrlich's aides in MD (Ehrlich ended up losing the election anyway) are hardly the only examples of GOP election fraud going on out there, even as there are rarely indictments for any of it.
We recently detailed the story of the high-ranking Clay County, KY, election officials (including the County Clerk, a circuit court judge, and the school superintendent --- and other members of the County Election Commission) who were sentenced to a combined total of some 150 years in the federal penitentiary jail, for gaming elections for years in the county via buying and selling votes as well as, in 2006, actually changing the votes of voters on electronic touch-screen voting machines.
That's election fraud. As to actual voter fraud --- the thing that Republicans pretend exists in epidemic form, but doesn't, so they can use the propaganda to bolster implementation of their disenfranchising polling place Photo ID voter suppression schemes --- early this week we reported on the new complaint filed against former GOP Governor and current Republican Presidential front-runner Mitt Romney for having committed voter fraud in the state of MA. It appears that Romney voted in MA last year, even though he no longer actually lived there.
The facts of the case highlight Romney as just the latest in a rapidly growing list of high-profile GOP vote fraudsters, as detailed in our article, including Utah's former Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. (also set to run for the GOP Presidential nominee), Indiana Sec. of State Charlie White (who's already been indicted for 3 voter fraud related felonies), Missouri's U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (who's running for U.S. Senate), and GOP voter fraud queen Ann Coulter.
The complaint against Romney was filed by fellow GOP Presidential candidate Fred Karger, who was my in-studio guest last night on the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show (which I'm guest hosting this week and the beginning of next). The audio from my interview with Karger last night about his voter fraud investigation and complaint against Romney, and much more, can be downloaded here [MP3], or listened to online below...


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This book offers a look inside the rise and fall of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party in Oakland from the 60's to the 80's. Nelson has spoken to many of the participants and assembled what appears to be a well-balanced overview of the promise and problems of the Party. His essential argument is that the Party began as a criminal enterprise with revolutionary trappings and was eventually consumed by it's own criminality. The book was apparently somewhat controversial because this, of course, contradicts the standard view that the Panthers began as a worthy endeavor but was tragically destroyed by increasing criminal activity and mismanagement and illegal government meddling. Despite some awkward prose, this is an excellent look at the turn from non-violence to violence in the Black Community in the mid-60's. (Reviewed:) Grade: (B) Tweet Websites:-BOOKNOTES : Author: Hugh Pearson Title: The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Air date: August 21, 1994 (C-SPAN) -EXCERPT : Chapter 6 of Under the Knife : How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South By Hugh Pearson -ESSAY : Rap Brown: Innocent, or a great actor? (HUGH PEARSON, The Washington Post) -ESSAY : Not Just the Color of Our Skin : It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the human race, argues writer (Hugh Pearson, Salon) -ESSAY : My Love/Hate Relationship With America's Jews (Hugh Pearson , Culture Front) -ESSAY : The best way to say, 'Never again!' (HUGH PEARSON , Newsday -INTERVIEW : Law Matters : Randall Kennedy reminds us that criminal justice isn't always black-and-white (Interview by Hugh Pearson, Mother Jones) -DISCUSSION : Battle of the Burnouts : David Horowitz Dukes It Out With His Old Sixties Comrades on the Sixties-L Usenet Discussion Group (Front Page) -ESSAY : Panthers -REVIEW : of The Shadow of the Panther Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America By Hugh Pearson (CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, NY Times) -REVIEW : of THE SHADOW OF THE PANTHER Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. By Hugh Pearson (Bob Blauner, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Under the Knife How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South. By Hugh Pearson (Jason Berry, NY Times Book Reviews) -REVIEW : of Under the Knife (Abraham Verghese, Chicago Tribune) -REVIEW : of Under the Knife (Dennis A. Williams, Emerge) BLACK PANTHERS :
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Cleaver, Eldridge
Goodman, James
Haygood, Wil
Jackson, George
X, Malcolm & Alex Haley
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With summer just around the corner, what better way to get back in shape than to take part in the Inaugural Los Angeles NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association) Walk this Saturday, March 2 in Santa Monica.
Themed "Save a Life," registration will began at 10 am at Crescent Bay Park, 2000 Ocean Avenue (just south of the Santa Monica Pier).
The event schedule is as follows: Yoga stretch warm-up from 10 am to 10:30 am, guest speakers from 10:30 am to 11 am, walk from 11 am to noon (Crescent Bay Park to the pier and back – less than one mile roundtrip).
Closing remarks will be held at noon, followed by music performed by Mallory Fay and then Carol Schiada & Company until 2 pm.
NEDA is the leading non-profit organization in the United States advocating on behalf of and supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders.
Reaching millions every year, the organization campaigns for prevention, improved access to quality treatment, and increased research funding to better understand and treat eating disorders.
NEDA invites friends and family to spread awareness of the seriousness of eating disorders.
Saturday's walk in Santa Monica is being held to raise awareness about the dangers surrounding eating disorders and the need for early intervention and treatment.
The goal is also to raise about $50,000 to help fund NEDA's many important programs. Master of Ceremonies will be award-winning eating disorder specialist and author, Carolyn Costin, with special guest, internationally known author and speaker, Jenni Schaefer.
The event will feature face painting, games, and more.
The cost is $25 per adult, $10 per child under 12, and $5 per pet.
To pre-register, visit www.nedawalks.org/losangeles2013 or contact 212.575.6200 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Eating Disorder Statistics
• 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or an eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS).
• Four out of 10 Americans either suffered or have known someone who has suffered from an eating disorder.
• By age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape
• 40-60 percent of elementary school girls (ages 6-12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat. This concern endures through life.
• 46 percent of nine- to 11-year-olds are "sometimes" or "very often" on diets and 82 percent of their families are "sometimes" or "very often" on diets.
• 35 percent of "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting. Of those, 20-25 percent progress to partial or full-syndrome eating disorders.
• Over one-half of teenage girls and one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives.
• 40 percent of newly identified cases of anorexia are in girls 15-19 years old.
• Eating disorders often occur with one or more other psychiatric disorders, which can complicate treatment and make recovery more difficult. Among those who suffer from eating disorders, alcohol and other substance abuse disorders are four times more common than in the general populations.
• For females between 15- and 24-years-old who suffer from anorexia nervosa, the mortality rate with the illness is 12 times higher than the death rate of all other causes of death.


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The state's top court Monday ruled in favor of a Canton woman fighting her foreclosure, a decision that puts more pressure on lenders to clean up seizure procedures, but also complicates efforts for borrowers seeking court relief from such property take-backs.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling buttresses several others it has made in recent years that require foreclosing lenders to have proper paperwork in place before seizing homes from delinquent borrowers.
In this case, the court found the lender, HSBC Bank USA, did not have the right to start a foreclosure process against homeowner Jodi B. Matt because it couldn't prove it held the mortgage on her house.
Foreclosing lenders are required to file a complaint in court under the state's Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act. That law offers certain legal protections to those who serve in the military. A Land Court judge, Keith C. Long, had ruled HSBC may not have been the legal mortgage holder, but had "a contractual right to become [the] holder" and therefore could start the foreclosure process.
The seven-member SJC disagreed.
"We conclude that only mortgagees or those acting on behalf of mortgagees have standing to bring service member proceedings,'' the court wrote in a decision authored by Judge Barbara A. Lenk.
Going forward, the court said, mortgage lenders must "present such evidence as may be necessary and appropriate" to prove they have a legal authority to begin the foreclosure process.
Richard D. Vetstein, a Framingham attorney and author of the Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog, said the ruling will further complicate lenders' efforts to seize properties, especially with loans that have been sold and resold along the way.
"It could become very problematic in terms of figuring out who really does hold the indebtedness here,'' he said.
Nadine Cohen, managing attorney for the consumer rights unit of the nonprofit Greater Boston Legal Services, called the ruling a "victory for homeowners," and one of many reasons state lawmakers should revamp the entire foreclosure process.
"So many of the recent cases are chipping away at longstanding foreclosure practices that do not always comply with the law," she said. "At some point, we need an overhaul of the entire foreclosure practice in Massachusetts — so that real due process is afforded borrowers who are about to lose their homes in foreclosure."
But the decision also creates headaches for parties on both sides — people trying to stay in their homes and the lenders seeking to get them out.
Lenk emphasized the lower court judge should never have considered Matt's petition because she did not serve in the military. Although the court decided to answer the question anyway — whether HSBC had legal standing in the case — the decision bars many other borrowers from using the same tactic to stave off foreclosure, said Edward Bloom, an attorney with Sherin & Lodgen and a member of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts.
"It makes it clear that any borrower or mortgagor who wants to challenge a foreclosure or raise any of the multiple defenses that have been raised in court, that [Land Court] is not the forum to do it," said Bloom.
Glenn Russell Jr., Matt's attorney, said that even if the court prohibits a homeowner who is not in the military from appearing in Land Court, a borrower could still submit legal documents to the court questioning a lender's legal status. Matt is also disputing her foreclosure in US District Court, where her case is still pending.
Russell said he was thrilled by Monday's SJC ruling — many people had told him that his Land Court action would prove futile, he said.
"People thought I was crazy,'' Russell said. "These things are viewed as perfunctory rubber-stamp procedures."
Jenifer B. McKim can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In general, lightweight bridges with wide spans are prone to vibration. This means that the external stimulus of forces such as wind, machines or persons induces vibration. The KTI project's aim is to find a way to dampen vibration in lightweight steel bridges. The damping needs to be adapted to variable influences arising from variations in the bridge weight resulting from the flow of material on the conveyor belt. This requires active damping. The damping system automatically adapts to varying conditions.
Vibration damping of ultra-light belt conveyor galleries
The Swiss companies MartiTechnik AG and K.Bitterli+Partner Ingenieure AG have cooperated with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA - Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt) in a research project to reduce vibration in ultra-light belt conveyor galleries since April 1, 2013. The project is financed by the two companies mentioned above and the Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (Kommission für Technologie und Innovation (KTI project 14871.1 PFIW-IW) des Bundes).
The aim is to develop a bridge as light as possible with a span of 50 m as the supporting structure for belt conveyors. The bridge's lightweight and simple design offers huge advantages for construction as well as transport and assembly. The bridge's standard components are to be produced centrally with the highest possible degree of automation for worldwide shipment in containers to the place where the bridge is used.
The goal: reducing vibration
From the model to full implementation
A 1:20 scale model of the new bridge type was built and fitted with type KMR force washers in May 2013. This model was used to carry through different tests regarding assembly and operation. Since in this case the measurements were only taken to verify the FEM results, cost-effective miniature force washers could be used.
The original-size bridge was installed in a gravel plant in late July 2013. It is made of steel and stabilized by four pre-stressed wire ropes. C6A force transducers from HBM each with 1000 kN measuring range were installed in all of the four ropes for monitoring of the pre-stressing force during assembly and operation. Type AE301 industrial amplifiers were used for evaluation. Jakob Baader, Senior Project Engineer at Bitterli+Partner Ingenieure AG says: "HBM offers a very attractive price-performance ratio and products that can also be used in harsh environments." The measurements were highly reliable and stable. A vibration damper optimally adapted to the bridge will now be developed based on the acquired measurement data.
"HBM offers a very attractive price-performance ratio and products that can also be used in harsh environments."
Jakob Baader
Senior Project Engineer
Bitterli+Partner Ingenieure AG