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In an e-mail to his constituents yesterday, Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg demonstrated his solid leadership and vision on flood management. Hogg described a recent tour of five Iowan counties with the sole purpose of learning more about "the potential for watershed management to reduce future flood damage in Cedar Rapids."
Senator Hogg has frequently demonstrated his commitment to flood management issues. On June 2, 2010 he joined American Rivers in Cedar Rapids on the banks of Iowa's Cedar River to announce the Cedar River as one of America's Most Endangered Rivers. The threat of flood risk and outdated flood management landed the Cedar in the number five spot on this year's list.
Senator Hogg stated then that "The designation of the Cedar River as one of America's most endangered is a call to citizens within the watershed to do more to improve water quality and guard against future flood damage, and it is a call to government at all levels to provide the resources we need to help us get the job the done."
Today, Hogg continues to advocate for better flood plain management, calling the need "urgent." During his tour, he learned first hand of conservation and restoration practices that are being funded by the Natural Resources Conservation Service under USDA including the Mississippi River Basin Initiative, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), Emergency Watershed Program (EWP) and Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Learn more about the Natural Resources Conservation Service's conservation programs under USDA.
"Based on my tour, I am convinced that better watershed management can play a leading role in protecting Cedar Rapids from future flood damage." Hogg said. "If we had 1,000 projects like the CREP project in Floyd County, or the riparian farmland project in Bremer County, in the Cedar River basin, we could go a long way toward reducing peak flood events and preventing millions, if not billions, in flood damage. In addition, we would reap significant benefits for habitat, recreation, rural development and improved water quality."
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You can't say I didn't do my share
And what of us that seem to be taking a big hit? Can you say that we didn't do our share?
I've been working on new content for over a year and it's been progressively growing, however Google now wants to let me down, or so it would seem.
I'm 2 seconds away from adding a feature that will detect referrers from google.com and give them an alert stating that they should be using MSN search instead :)
Not the update of two weeks ago, a new one. Very significant movement of the PR in my niche too.
<edited... seems to have the old results flipping in and out, but the updated ones can always be brought back by refreshing the page a few times>
[edited by: steveb at 12:54 am (utc) on Feb. 3, 2005]
A site of mine which had enjoyed #1 rankings for over 2 years and weathered the Florida update, took a tumble in the google serps on sep 23rd 2004....Came back better than ever mid/end of december 2004....Now buried again.....
A site of mine which had enjoyed #1 rankings for over 2 years and weathered the Florida update, took a tumble in the google serps on sep 23rd 2004....Came back better than ever mid/end of december 2004....Now buried again.....
Same here. I bet if someone was to volunteer to look at all of our sites affected in the same way they could find the common thread.
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I haven't been following GoogleGuy recently and therefore I am hoping somebody can tell me when was the last time he posted regarding a Google update?
My site is completely vanished from this new set of, but still getting crawled all day today. Am I to assume the site is banned on account of it's not listed in the new rankings, or that it's not banned on account of that it's still getting crawled?
I've following Google for some time and I am very up-to-speed with their technology, but this current circumstances is something I've not seen before.
Has anybody had this happen before (site dissappear but still get crawled)? If so, what happened, and how long was the resolution.
The site in question has about 2000 in-links, had about 9,000 pages indexed, white hat, no downtime or anything server-wise that would cause issues..
Search for my brand name yields people about my products, but the entire brand name website is nowhere in site in these new results.
if it's only a couple of days MIA try not to let it get to you have seen this with couple of my sites in the 12months old arena and they have come back within a week , have a look at other datacentres for cache dates to get an idea of when site was last indexed also look in last months logs for the weird GBOT IP that I believe does nothing more than check for duplicate content ( sorry can't remember IP address ) but have been few posts over the months about it .
then try checking for very specific text from your site on offending datacentre to see if site has been hijacked
just couple of ideas sorry if you have tried already
I had given up with google anyway. I get ZERO referals from Google anyway despite having a content rich site with over 3000 sites that link to it. The SERPS are currently dire in any case.
At least we have Yahoo and MSN to work with. God knows what this current effort from Google is about, but looking at tonights updated results the index is worse than ever!.
Thank you for your reply. Even though duplicate content should not be an issue, I will hunt down that IP address for that duplicate content check bot (if anyone can point it out that would be great).
Did that other bot happen to use Mozilla in it's user-agent string as well as Googlebot - I did notice some request, which looked legit over the course of the year that used Googlebot, but also Mozilla - like one or 2 sessions every 2 months or something.
Most of my pages are ranked much lower than before (just like what others reported here), but some of them stayed the same.
Anyone noticed this?
FYI, my site was down for 6 hrs on last Friday (January 28th).
Though, most of my pages are dated Feb 1st/2nd.
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ps: letters on the way to Google about this filter
problem, if enough people write this time, maybe they would get a big ole clue
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since you chose to take this literally: E-mail Google at webmaster-at-google.com; I personally didn't do anything to your site. Thank you!
However, my keywords dropped of the face of the planet on MSN a week before beta went live. I'm still waiting on the MSIDIOTS to explain that one, and my competitors disappeared as well.
But thats another thread....
I've been through this sort of stuff before. I made absolutely no changes with the site when it tanked in September. Now its back. Go figure.
Interesting to see the similarities between this thread and the one 6 weeks ago at [webmasterworld.com...] . Seems to me there is something of a reversal going on - I see a number of people commenting here with the opposite of what they commented in the last thread. Seems to me that whatever they tweaked last time seems to be something similar this time around. Perhaps not a complete reversal of the past as others seem to be impacted this time - but similar sorts of conversation. Just my two cents worth.
This is something new and bad - at least in my area. Yes the SERPs used to contain a smattering of affiliate sites, but at least they were bang on topic. Now everything seems to have been replaced with generic shopping comparision (affiliate) sites with zillions of pages and no focus or real value.
I mean the kind that refer to one of the intermediaries (Affiliate Window / Tradedoubler / etc) before redirecting.
I have just had a look a one of the sites in my market that's held it's position. Backlinks show numerous references to pages that only contain affiliate links through Affiliate Window to that site. Is this new?
It looks as if they've turned down (again) the weighting given to TITLE and Hx tags. Whenever they do this it results in SERPs showing more irrelevant pages that just happen to mention the search term once or twice. That's what I'm seeing today.
This sort of change hits spammers aiming junk pages at single valuable key phrases. Unfortunately it also clobbers specific, highly relevant niche pages with spot-on content.
Which is exactly the sort of page I want to find as a user. So much for "content is king".
agree fully, same thing happened/happens to one of my sites.
For about 80 keywords i am back in top 10 positions as i've been before (OK, not really competitive ones, but ones that give you 10 visits a day each).
I noticed even that the pages got their PR back (they went from 2 to 0 in dec)
Overall, commerce sites seem to be losing out a little to informational sites, but I guess your mileage may vary.
We operate a very rich in content job site. All of our main sector pages are out the index now and so are our dedicated Job areas. We never featured anywhere high with Google anyway but now we are out altogether.
Meanwhile the same old sites in the top ten remain, why i have no idea other than the Google Algo favours sites over a certain age irrespective of content.
Content is certainly no longer a factor.
Search on the search term "insurance Jobs" and the results are just dire. Our dedicated section would be high in content for this search term, yet sites about being gay, divorced, life insurance, buying a car and travel insurance for holidays feature high in the results.
Just when you think Google cant get any worse


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The Society's vision is a world free of multiple sclerosis. We work with all ethical companies, organizations and individuals that share our mission and can help advance us toward that goal. Included among these are pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, as they play a pivotal role in manufacturing current FDA-approved treatments and developing the next generation of MS treatments. We therefore work with the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries to:
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This spinach, orzo, and feta salad recipe comes from our happy family collaboration. Feel free to experiment with the proportions. Many recipes I've found online call for twice as much orzo to the other ingredients than I've listed here. I think there is a lot of room for maneuvering when you are working with great ingredients like these.
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- 1/4 cup pine nuts
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- 4 ounces baby spinach
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion (about half a red onion)
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
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- Pinch dried tarragon
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2 Toast the pine nuts by heating a small skillet on medium heat. Add the pine nuts and stir occasionally until the pine nuts are lightly browned. Pay attention or you'll burn the pine nuts.
3 Take half of the spinach and purée it in a food processor or blender, adding one tablespoon of the olive oil. Roughly chop the other half of the spinach. In a large serving bowl mix the spinach purée olive oil mixture in with cooked orzo until the pasta is well coated with the purée. Then gently mix in the remaining spinach, the red onion, feta cheese, pine nuts, and the Kalamata olives.
3 In a small jar, combine the remaining olive oil (2 Tbsp), balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, mustard, dried basil, and dried tarragon. Put a lid on the jar and shake to combine. (You can also just whisk together these ingredients in a small bowl, but the jar method works great to get a good emulsion.) Pour over orzo spinach mixture and gently mix in until well incorporated.
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By now I'm sure you've heard the news about Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. In April she published a crime novel under the pen name Robert Galbraith. The Cuckoo's Calling, a murder mystery featuring a private investigator named Cormoran Strike who attempts to solve the murder of a model, had reportedly sold 1,500 copies. When the novel's true author was recently revealed, sales shot up.
Although some critics have given her (and her publisher) a hard time for making up a false biography to go with the pen name, I commend her decision. Pen names are sometimes necessary for readers to judge a work on its merits.
"I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer, because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience," Rowling told The Sunday Times of London. "It has been wonderful to publish without hype and expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name."
I know from experience that using a pen name is indeed liberating: I self-publish mystery novels under a different name. And the pen name has a long tradition in the literary world, with authors using them for various reasons. For example, the Bronte sisters—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—revealed they'd published work under "brothers" Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Sometimes female authors use initials when writing male-oriented novels, such as thrillers. In fact, "J.K. Rowling" is a pen name. Joanne Rowling doesn't have a middle name. The "K" stands for her grandmother's first name, Kathleen. Rowling's publishers expected that the book series' target audience would be boys and figured they'd be more willing to read books written by a man.
Novelists choose to publish under pseudonyms to protect privacy, to avoid embarrassing family (especially if writing erotica), or to prevent confusion among fans when writing in widely different genres. I understand the impulse to publish under a different name. One reason I chose to do so was to experiment with self-publishing without the pressure of people who know me inquiring about my progress, sales, etc. I also use a different name because my "controversial" political and religious writings would bring out the haters.
People who don't like me, or my views, and haven't read the books might leave nasty, ad hominem reviews on Amazon.com. I've seen it happen. They'd review my conservatism or my Christianity, especially my opposition to the normalization of homosexuality, instead of the books.
Orson Scott Card, author of the science fiction novel Ender's Game, is dealing with that right now. Card, a Mormon, is considered controversial by the mainstream because he believes the definition of marriage doesn't include two people of the same sex. Ender's Game, which I haven't read, has been made into a movie, and the homosexual lobby plans to boycott it.
There are conservatives who publish under their own names, such as New York Times-bestseller thriller novelists Brad Thor and the late Vince Flynn. But at this point in my fledgling publishing venture I join the pen name tradition and cover myself with the cloak of pseudonymity.


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I would like to supplement with formula for my 6 month old son, but he has a sensitivity to cows milk protein (ie I've had to cut dairy out of my diet entirely while breastfeeding) so I know he can't have regular formula. I haven't tried soy yet because of the information I've been hearing about it--questions about the way soy is grown as well as its potential to mimic estrogen. Can anyone give me any hard facts about the dangers/benefits of soy formula? I've tried the special predigested formula once (nutrimigil and allimentum) but the stuff is pretty disgusting. Thanks.
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My son has just turned one, and we were planning on starting him on
cows milk, but he's now on a diet that eliminates dairy foods. Until
now, we've been giving him expressed breast milk when he's away from
me, but I won't be able to continue to keep up with him. What are
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My 14 month old daughter is on a dairy-free diet. She drinks breast milk and enriched soy milk, eats soy cheese and tofu and seems to be doing fine. She is healthy and growing tall although she is a bit on the thin side(but so are both of her parents). I would like to learn more about dairy intolerance in children so I can make informed decisions about what foods to introduce into her diet and when to introduce them. I am also concerned about weening her. I would like to breast feed her only first thing in the morning and at night, then ween her completely by her second birthday, but I also want to know that she will get the nutrients and fat she needs from other sources in her diet. Because she vomits 2-3 hours after she consumes yogurt or cheese, I suspect the problem is with milk protein rather than lactose. Has anyone had a similar experience with their child? Can you suggest books, Web sites, or other resources where I can learn more about dairy intolerance? Thanks. Lauri
I am very interested in hearing from any parents who have chosen not to include cow's milk in their child's diet for health reasons (aside from allergies to dairy products). From everything I have read and everyone I have talked to, it really makes sense not to consume any dairy products - while this can be a pretty difficult thing to do and maybe not totally necessary, it has been very easy to eliminate cow's milk (major source of dairy products in our house) from my entire family's diet, including my 2 1/2 year old daughter who loves soy and rice milk. I am hoping to hear from others who might be further down the road than I am on this issue. I guess I am most concerned about whether or not my child gets enough calcium (though I am aware of the many other food sources for calcium and am also using fortified organic soy and rice), and also, whether or not too much soy milk can cause problem (isoflavones, etc) - this is probably my biggest concern. I am currently blending or alternating rice with soy each day. It has been an amazingly easy transition, and I even feel noticeably better myself. I would love to hear what other parents have experienced (particularly those who eat a vegan or almost vegan diet). The previous comments from parents on the web page are really only specific to milk allergy issues, and mostly short-term consumption of soy milk and other alternatives. Michael
My husband and I are vegetarians (not vegan, but close) and are trying to figure something out. All the books that I have read and doctors I have talked to have suggested that at one year children begin drinking cow's milk once weaned. I do not drink cow's milk and really would prefer my son not to drink cow's milk, but I am not sure about alternatives like soy milk in terms of nutrition and digestibility. Also, it has been suggested that if he is weaned before one year, he should start with a dairy-based formula instead of soy-based. I feel completely lost on these subjects and yet realize that time is passing quickly and I will need to make some decisions soon. If anyone has any opinions, suggestions, or resources that I could look into, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Heather
Also to touch on weaning before a year, depending on your son's age if he weans early, it is not always necessary to give formula. I have several friends who started the weaning process at about 10 months and they were told by there pediatricians it was okay to go to milk and skip over formula. check with your pediatrician it may depend on other things than age. If you do have to go to formula use soy there is no need to feel pressured into cow milk based formula. melinda
Ed's baby formula (adjust with age- this is for around a 1 year old) Make a congee with 1 cup short brown or basmati rice and 6 cups pure water. A congee is cooked over low temperature for 6-8 hours (crockpots are great for this) until like a thin gruel. Strain. Store in refrigerator. To each 8-10 oz amount, add: 1/2 tsp cod liver oil (can use emulsified but try straight, unflavored first) 1/2 tsp flax oil (high lignan is probably OK) 1 tsp whey powder (goat is good)- if child is growing, increase for protein 1/3 tsp green powder (a gluten-free version is best) 1/4 tsp buffered vitamin C complex powder 1/4 tsp acidophilus/bifidus powder Heat in water bath to lukewarm temperature and feed. This offers a complete macronutrient complement and most significant micronutrients (vitamins A, B, C, D, E, K, P for sure).Nori
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My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
I feel like Squints in The Sandlot right now when they are at the pool... "I just can't take it anymore!!!" The only difference is that instead of Wendy Peffercorn (spelling?) I'm looking for a stinky bull!
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
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The NM results getting moved up from previous year's really impacts my other applications. I'll be holding off on Nevada until the last minute. And if I don't draw NM elk I very well may burn my 15 Oregon elk points for the one DIY NR Walla Walla tag. I like the new early results date.
This waiting is killing me!
I feel ur pain!!!!!!!
Per MM posts it appears the back door check method is open, but not sure if it works for elk. NM site is allowing me to purchase an annual hunting license, which is not a good sign.
Just checked and it also allows me to buy one. Hopefully that doesn't mean anything?
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Cash rules
By King Adz on May 9, 2011
Some thoughts on money and art by King Adz
I once got involved in a 'debate' with a New York Cop (who was also an artist who had a keen interest in Graffiti and street art) about art, business and war. He asked me to read a rough draft of a piece he'd written about Artists at War. In the end he finished his piece with these words:
'To close, I want to share the profound thoughts of King Adz – a British writer/director who, after reading the rough draft of this article stated: "Art is something you can't define, almost like life itself. War is the opposite of both these things. I think you are standing on very dodgy ground by speaking about art and war in the same sentence."'
A few years later I was in Berlin staying with my friend and artist Brad Downey, and one morning we were having breakfast on the street and got talking about the dynamics between money, art and life. The outcome was that we established that art is the third wheel; art is the floaty thing hovering between money and life the purpose of which can't be easily defined, that is why it's so interesting. It can't really be bought, not really. You can rent a piece of art for a period, but the image is eternally out there, even if the original isn't.
Then last year I had the honour of getting down with Bill Drummond when I was writing Street Knowledge. For those who were looking away at that particular point in time, Bill was one-half of the KLF, a conceptual pop-act who by 1991 were the most successful single-selling pop act in the world. Then in their greatest publicity stunt to date, the KLF was disbanded, the entire catalogue deleted and £1million pounds of royalties burnt in a ritual on a Scottish island (Editor's note: more background about the burning can be found in this post). This is the stuff true legends are made of. This shows how important the hype game is and what a crucial role it played in the rise of the KLF. Today, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are two of the greatest conceptual artists out there.
'We have been following a wild and wounded, glum and glorious, shit but shining path these past five years. The last two of which has [sic] led us up onto the commercial high ground—we are at a point where the path is about to take a sharp turn from these sunny uplands down into a netherworld of we know not what. For the foreseeable future there will be no further record releases from The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords, The KLF and any other past, present and future name attached to our activities. As of now all our past releases are deleted…. If we meet further along be prepared…our disguise may be complete.' KLF Press Release 1992
This leads us to a question I've asked many times: 'Does art change when money gets involved?' What I'm talking about here is when an artist gets some heat and begins to sell his work for serious money, does that change the actual art he's producing? And if so what is the effect? Is that good or bad? It could be good as the person is supporting themselves with their art and getting some much-needed recognition, but then on the other hand it could be bad as the artist may start churning out the work to simply haul in more moolah. Fuck! Thinking about all this is frying my brain! For me, the relationship between money and art is a fragile psychotic tug-of-war between necessity and loathing; between the need for recognition and the threat of 'selling out' (not that there is such a thing anymore in this day and age when the money and celebrity gods are so powerfull). Maybe a good example of this is Mr Brainwash, who once had a slightly original idea (to film street artists) but then got completely taken over by the idea of being famous artist in his own right and began to churn out some of the worst art I've seen in a long time.
To end I'm gonna bring in the boys from Staten:
'What the blood clot you niggaz dealin, you crash dummies. Cash rules, still don't nuttin move but the money…'
12 thoughts on "Cash rules"
One of the aspects that I really liked about the burning of the million pounds by the KLF is that they didn't really seem to hype it. No spectacle, just the two of them, a journalist, someone with a video camera, and a house with a hot fireplace. Nothing more, but nothing less as well!
They could've also had one thousand Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, dressed in fluorescent purple outfits each bring one thousand pounds to the great pyramids of Giza and then set all on fire in a ritual, using the first rays of Sun of the Summer Solstice morning.
For me it would've missed the point that way.
But maybe they indeed played the hype game right, by not hyping it, but letting it grow over time. Announcing a 23 year moratorium on all projects from November 1995 and indicating that they would not speak about the burning of the million pounds during the period of this moratorium, definitely was a brilliant move to help that process of growth……
Does art change when money gets involved?' — well: what if you consider your artistic abilities as a gift. That's what a lot of people call it, right? Then wouldn't it be strange to charge enormous amounts of money for something you got as a gift anyway? Artists have to eat so they should make money. But anyone making art more exclusive by raising the price, is killing the artistic idea in itself. The focus is taken off the original meaning of the artwork. It now just becomes 'expensive'. And where's the value in that?
I dont think any of you have a real grasp of whats really going on with this situation.
@Ricardo: If we, according to you, don't comprehend the 'real deal', than please inform us about the Truth. I feel this project can never reveal the truth about the relationship between art and money, if there ever is one truth concerning this subject. I don't even know if there's one Reality in this case. But looking for answers and asking questions definitely helps getting a better grasp of the whole situation.
Money and Art. Art, an expression of humans. Money, a tool of humans. They are'nt relevant to eachother,but humans make them relevant to eachother and because humans make it that way, complexity occurs. Now, the issue of money having an affect on art, it does because humans are greedy and needy, they are looking for something all the time. When art is made by a human, it takes a form and is subject to earth law which humans tend to want to control and so complexities emerge. I will say that there is enough time to do everything infinite times in order to learn.
Money changes people!
so now there is what we call cash rules?
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The IRA | It's All About the Fraud: Madoff, MF Global & Antonin Scalia
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- Creditors
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- Fail
- Great Depression
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William Wallace
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we return to the Lehman Brothers, Madoff and MF Global bankruptcies to talk about how the largest banks have wired US bankruptcy laws to their own advantage. Specifically, the 2005 changes to the bankruptcy code, combined with the traditional American caution regarding pre-judgement restraint on the parties surrounding a bankruptcy, has provided American banks with a free pass to facilitate fraud with no accountability.
On May 17th, IRA co-founder Christopher Whalen is making a presentation to the economic advisory committee of FINRA entitled "Policy issues regards customer account protection and bankruptcy." This edition of The IRA is meant as a background to that discussion, which unfortunately is closed to the public. In that regard, thanks to Max Keiser for the quotation from his kinsman William Wallace.
You may also read our earlier comment, "Should the Courts Appoint an Equitable Receiver for Bank of America?," where we argue that the degree of obvious fraud present in the operations at BAC and Countrywide justifies the appointment of a federal receiver now to run the bank.
But before we jump into this discussion, we just have to take a moment to note that Ally Financial has apparently received the blessing of the US Treasury to file a bankruptcy for the ResCap real estate unit, according to Dakin Campbell at Bloomberg News. This is a profoundly bad idea, as we have noted in past issues of The IRA. The subsidiaries of bank holding companies cannot default, especially when the sub has its own bond holders with a different agenda than the parent company creditors. Hello! Read Gretchen Morgenson in the Sunday NY Times: "Mortgage Unit Troubles Ally Financial"
Neither Secretary Geithner nor President Obama wants to deal with Ally before the election. The incompetence of Geithner in dealing with the portfolio investments of the US is a national scandal, but Ally is first among his failings because of the politics of GM and big labor. The obvious thing to do was sell the auto business back to GM and the servicing book to somebody a year or more ago, but the policy of "extend and pretend" continues in Washington. Sad thing is, though, that the business community is still abandoning the White House in droves despite or maybe because of such behavior.
The Case for Equitable Receivers in Bankruptcy
Article III of the US Constitution created the judicial branch of the American government and made it independent of the legislative and executive branches. District Courts, Courts of Appeal and the US Supreme Court are all authorized under this part of the Constitution and are thus known as "Article III" courts. The Supreme Court has ruled that only Article III courts may render final judgments in cases involving life, liberty, and private property rights, with limited exceptions.
Article I tribunals consist of certain federal courts and other forms of adjudicative bodies, including federal bankruptcy and administrative law courts, and many federal agencies such as the Fed, FDIC and OCC in the banking world. Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 authorizes Congress to enact "uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States." These bodies are creatures of the Executive Branch and the decisions of these "adjunct" tribunals are subject to comprehensive review by the Article III courts, as noted above.
The historical separation between bankruptcy courts and the US judiciary is complex and reflects the imperfect, often conflicted nature of the governances structures of the American republic. The concept of checks and balances, after all, implies conflict, not the phony notion of consensus. The policy on bankruptcy evolves with the country.
When it comes to business insolvencies, both Congress and the Courts have tended to want to leave bankruptcy courts in the commercial realm, operating more like mediators for corporations and social welfare agencies for individual, than as "equity courts" in the ancient sense. Out of this tradition has grown a great reluctance on the part of US Article III courts to allow the bankruptcy courts to operate outside the narrow confines of the interests of the estate of the failed individual or entity.
In the 1920s and 1930s, when financial fraud reached an apex, the Courts were not afraid to empower bankruptcy trustees also as receivers in order to protect the public from various types of criminality in existence at that time. In the landmark 1925 case Benedict v. Ratner, where Justice Louis Brandeis laid down the law on collateralized borrowing, the bankruptcy trustee in the underlying case was also appointed as a receiver.
The difference between a trustee and receiver is very significant. The trustee in a bankruptcy represents the estate and has no power to pursue other parties nor to make decisions affecting equity. The bankruptcy of the Madoff firm, for example, shows how the trustee in unable to act on behalf of the victims of the fraud. Irving Picard may only represent the interests of the failed broker dealer. Under the bankruptcy code, the trustee may only pursue money's owed to the estate and may not pursue third parties for their actions against the victims of the fraud.
While many people are confused by the fact that the Madoff trustee has been unable to recover billions in funds stolen from the customers of the Madoff firm from JP Morgan and other banks, this situation simply reflects US law and the Constitutional limitations imposed upon the bankruptcy process. The well-established general rule was that a judgment fixing a debt was necessary before a court in equity would interfere with the debtor's use of his property.
Thus in the case of Madoff, the bankruptcy trustee is unable to pursue claims against the third parties, in part because this "adjunct" tribunal lacks the authority to make such a final judgment. In addition, because the trustee's authority stems from his association with the estate of the bankrupt entity, the concept of "in pari delicto" blocks the trustee from acting. Two key concerns for investors and risk managers are illustrated by the Madoff and MF Global bankruptcies:
o Unequal legal status of segregated accounts in bankruptcy vis-à-vis other creditors due to "safe harbor" changes to bankruptcy laws in 2005.
o Inability of bankruptcy trustees to pursue third parties that cause losses to investors due to fraud, other bad acts.
As a result of these two defenses working in tandem, today financial institutions can aid frauds such as Madoff and MF Global, to mention just a few, without being brought to task in civil proceedings. Because the federal courts and other agencies still do not recognize fraud as the paramount problem facing the US economy, the victims of the fraud are left defenseless. And once the perpetrator of the fraud files for bankruptcy, the individual victims often are left without any means of seeking redress and the bad actors among management and other customers literally walk away. As Peter Henning wrote for The New York Times last month:
"Most investors lose almost all of their money once a Ponzi scheme collapses, and the trustees appointed to clean up the mess try to find any deep pocket available to recover something. Unfortunately for the trustees, the legal doctrine of "in pari delicto," Latin for "in equal fault," may block any recovery."
In a major 1920s case decided a few years before the Benedict v. Ratner decision, Brandeis famously precluded any right for unsecured creditors to seek a receiver, except the right to have freedom from fraud. This decision was upheld decades later in 1999 when Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court in Grupo Mexicano de Dessarollo, S. A., et al, held that:
"This case presents the question whether, in an action for money damages, a United States District Court has the power to issue a preliminary injunction preventing the defendant from transferring assets in which no lien or equitable interest is claimed… [T]he English courts of equity did not actually exercise this [Mareva] power until 1975, and that federal courts in this country have traditionally applied the principle that courts of equity will not, as a general matter, interfere with the debtor's disposition of his property at the instance of a nonjudgment creditor. We think it incompatible with our traditionally cautious approach to equitable powers, which leaves any substantial expansion of past practice to Congress, to decree the elimination of this significant protection for debtors."
The problem with the prose used by Scalia in the unanimous Supreme Court opinion is that the justices still do not "get it" when it comes to fraud. While the decision in Grupo Mexicano was correct, the problem with the cases coming before the bankruptcy courts today such as Lehman Brothers, Madoff and MF Global is that fraud is once again the key problem. And many lawyers and judges, with all due respect, do not understand the fraud exemption to the general rule set forth by Brandeis, Scalia and many other members of the Supreme Court.
Bankrupt firms such as MF Global, Madoff and all of their officers and business counterparts deserve greater scrutiny that only an equitable receiver appointed and empowered by a federal District Court judge can provide. Unfortunately, many victims of fraud do not understand their rights and duties in such situations. Worse, their lawyers who've never read Brandeis or the brothers Learned and Augustus Hand on these core Constitutional issues often fail to appreciate that there is a way to demand the appointment of a receiver by a federal court in a bankruptcy where fraud is present.
The unspoken truth of 2007 financial crisis is that fraud on and off Wall Street just as pervasive in 2005 as in the 1920s. Lehman Brothers, Madoff, and MF Global all featured systemic fraud. Congress and the Supreme Court took a decade from 1929 to 1938 to wake up to root cause of Great Depression, namely securities fraud of 1910s through 1929, and acted accordingly. But today we have come full circle. A servile Congress and federal Courts have precluded just about every means for controlling fraud by large banks and have destroyed investor confidence in the process.
In the Grupo Mexicano case, Scalia's opinion relies on (and favorably quotes) opinions of Brandeis for when a receiver is proper. That case is still good law and Scalia quotes that case as his primary authority. The facts of Grupo Mexicano involved only "preferences," not "fraudulent transfers" (because they discharged obligations to creditors) and were not direct or indirect transfers to insiders or shareholders.
So while the Scalia decision is technically correct, the way his language is being misused today in the Madoff and MF Global litigations is the problem. Brandeis would agree with Scalia on the Groupo Mexicano "holding" that simple preferences of creditors should never be the basis for appointing a receiver. But that also means the use of receivers is allowed when there is evidence of insider dealings and actual or constructive fraud and thus is consistent with the "ruling" of Grupo Mexicano (though perhaps not reading Scalia's prose). Scalia could rule in favor of receivers at any time he wants and wrap himself in the "garb" of Brandeis. Bottom line: The Grupo Mexicano case should never be used as a preclusion from use of a receiver whenever there is evidence of fraud on unsecured creditors in a bankruptcy.
There are a number of examples where a receiver function plays an important role in fighting fraud. In case of The Stanford Group, an Article III receiver was appointed by a federal District Court without any bankruptcy to pursue a wide ranging investigation, which included efforts to conserve customer funds and pursue third parties via criminal and civil means.
The FDIC is another excellent example of how receivership powers enable that bank agency to limit losses to the mutual insurance fund supported by insured banks and also pursue claims against bank officers, directors and other parties. Unlike a trustee in a bankruptcy, the FDIC acting as receiver has broad authority to seize assets, sue officers and directors, reject contracts and even make criminal referrals related to a failed bank.
The FDIC example is instructive for what a receiver's role should be. The first job of counsel to any FDIC receiver is by regulation and practice to pursue claims against officers, directors, auditors, appraisers and attorneys (and their respective insurers). That is because when a financial institution goes bust, those are the ONLY sources for recovery of losses by taxpayers. Financial institutions NEVER go bust when their assets (loans) exceed their liabilities (deposits and debts) and losses, therefore, are all a result of asset deficiencies.
So what can be done to fight fraud and restore investor confidence? There are two key changes that Congress must make in current law. First, there needs to be a requirement for referral (by any trustee in bankruptcy AND by all bankruptcy judges) to the related District Court for appointment of receiver in ANY case where:
1. "in pari delicto" is asserted as a defense or as a basis for not proceeding in an adversary proceeding against any third party that the trustee or bankruptcy judge believes to be liable to the estate and/or its creditors, or
2. the trustee, any creditors' committee or bankruptcy judge determines that "in pari delicto" is likely to restrain collection of an otherwise collectible sum, unless, after a hearing, the Bankruptcy Court rules that it is not in the interest of the estate to pursue such claim.
A trustee and/or any affected creditor can then appeal to the related District Court without limitation by reason of the bankruptcy stay.
It should then be up to the District Court to determine whether a separate limited receiver is to be appointed (like a "special master") with respect only to those claims or to appointment of a full receiver.
When a full receiver is appointed, the District Court should be allowed to elect the trustee as a receiver, in the event there is found to be no conflict of interest, or to merely add receivership authority to the role of the trustee appointed by the District Court.
Empowering Bankruptcy Courts to use receivers appointed and empowered by federal District Courts restores the faith of investors that fraud is NEVER a "defense" and overcomes the desire of trustees (and even some bankruptcy judges) to keep Article III courts out of bankruptcy issues.
Expanded use of receivers in bankruptcy is also consistent with centuries of law that fraud overcomes any discharge of debt in bankruptcy. So this proposal is not so much a "change of law" but rather a recognition that markets suffer whenever fraud is an effective "defense" in bankruptcy or other venues.
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This piece made me think of the movie "GODFATHER 1" where the Italian immigrants who had no power did not go to the authorities for justice. Instead they went to the godfather who delivered appropriate justice. As a nationis this the direction we are going?
JPM can vaporize my kids college funds account and
I can stand at the courthouse with my dick in hand while they waltz away.
Account closing letter in mail today.
Anyone know if there is a cap gain gift liability for a student with no income? Oddly enough, I can't seem to find current info about student funds @ IRS that makes sense.
No surprise there. I'll stick silver and gold in the hidey-hole for him and his pre-med classes will get plenty of practice with truama and GSW treatments very soon.
Good read on a difficult subject. Well written, even I understood it! Interesting reference to the Fraud preceeding the Great Depression. Very interesting. Would like to see more on that.
just another day of looting & rigging the system in the United States of America. yes, great article; another great article exposing the fraudster, the criminals & the treasonous acts .... so, what the hell is going to be done about it all ? who's going up against these criminals & removing them from their seats of power ? who ? i don't see anything being done about it; just more bitching & moaning about the gang of criminals running this country into the ground at the expense of the decent & honest citizens. wake me up when things hit rock bottom & the pitchforks are ready to be used. another great article, add it to the pile of great articles.
Well, there are people doing something about it. And they are being beaten back into the house with threats of imprisonment and felony charges (labeled as terrorists).
If you are not good at this legalease stuff coast to coast tonight has an interview with a guy that teaches one how to beat up a bigfoot.
Superb work this. Kudos.
a symphony of erudition - good article....the 2005 bankruptcy law was premidated psychopathic obstruction of justice to favor banksterism....fuck the banksters and congresshits all to hell.....
Too big and fraudulent to survive. Hope they take Obummer with them on the way out.
Nice article.
And you really think Rummy is going to be better? You are fucking dreaming. Better take a double dose of your meds, as they aren't working. Got out of your Red vs. Blue shit, neither of them give a God Damn about the bottem 80% of the economic pie.
NOW STFU.Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit BY AKERLOFF & ROMMER CIRCA 1993! doh!
brusca shit and now more crap from libertad rc whalen, this site has gone so far downhill its pathetic, now add some clap trap from jim quinn and jim grant and youre good to go to douchville.
perfect for all the gold guns ammo end of the world idiots who just lap this shit up with nary a modicum of critical thinking.
spoon fed cows show more cognition than zh readers.
this site lost whatever value add it had a long time ago and now it's exposed as basically cross-posts and 800 word crap with barely any original analysis.
Gangland is losing his edge
Insulting the gang at the "Hedge"
Wake-up you shill
Try the red pill
And get yourself down from that ledge
please, just...will you PLEASE keep an open mind and read this a few times, and ....think abou tit?
regardless..i proly overreacted we're not enemies..
At least we know who is on Bernankes other tit.
I still can't get WB7's deeply disturbing pic out of my mind...
I'm a friendly-fire casualty of visual combat.
Sounds like I need to buy more Gold and Silver and have as few "Corzineable" deposits and accounts as possible.
Scalia's son...interesting how Scalia and Thomas shows up for the Koch Bros shindigs. They should have gone in their robes, they really don't care what you think.
"In an appropriately loathsome touch, the Chamber's legal team was led by one Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The younger Scalia, who looks like the product of a twisted test-tube experiment that crossed his father with Ari Fleischer, pitched a federal appeals court on the idea that the proxy access rule was "arbitrary and capricious," and that the SEC hadn't spent enough time studying the rule's effects on "efficiency, competition and capital formation."
Matt Taibbi.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510#ixzz1uoQHnX6E
Scalia bitchez. Antonin Scalia, not understanding the real world and how it works since 1933...
The real IRA from Ireland need to put a few bullets in the skulls of some of these Yankee fucking bastard bankers like Corzine and do the world a favor!
"Because the federal courts and other agencies still do not recognize fraud as the paramount problem facing the US economy, the victims of the fraud are left defenseless."
Yup. What is more, Congress, the Executive Branch, and virtually the entire Fourth Estate likewise refuse to acknowledge fraud as the driving factor behind the ongoing financial crisis.
By sharp contrast, Whalen is right on the money, going so far as to appear in "Bailout," a new documentary that drills down on Wall Street's massive fraud against Main Street:
Cue to 13:25 for a film clip that includes a fine blast from Whalen.
Thank you Chris Whalen and Tylers... fine work.
Of course, you realize how dangerous this makes you all.
Space monkeys ready to be fired into outer space.
Ya, pretty much anyone signing on to be a Tyler really better have spent those 3 days on the porch without question about being too fat to get in.
RC - Great article in its insight and granularity. Bravo !
Don't worry about Scalia _ I believe that he fully undestands the diff between a legit bankruptcy and fraud by the likes of Madoff and Corzine.
The Feds immediately went after Madoff, as most of his clients (getting steady 15% returns for 10 or more years) wre of the same socio-economic group. Indeed the only way one might "get into" Madoff's schema was thru a particular referance.
Once it all went down, they was shock amonsgt tha referenced community, that they and not others would be defrauded.
Of course the Feds were on it immediately. Juxtapose this approach with MF Gloibal and Corzine. Corzine has been treated w/ kid gloves and investors / commercial hedgers like typical creditors s in a bankruptcy.
If you focussed on this anamoly, I would think the valued article would be exponentialy more valuable.l
Madoff had his kids call the feds. He had to drop a dime on himself to wake up the justice system. That call probably never would have been made if he hadn't recognized his own need for protective custody (penthouse arrest under private security guards + US marshalls.)
This is quite exceptional work indeed. I simply have no basis upon which to understand your claims vis a vis General Motors or Ally Financial. We shall see how the market opens Monday and go from there...but "assumptions about risk" are fast becoming mere "assumptions about liability" and nothing more. Who knows...at some point maybe even a Governor or two will have something to say...
Hmm, excuse me while I close this barn door...anyone seen some horses lately?


text: The release date of "Plead The Fifth", the new album from the Michigan-based hard rock quartet TAPROOT, has been pushed back to May 11 from the previously announced April 13 (via Victory Records). The CD was recorded on farm in Sullivan, Michigan with producer Tim Patalan (SPONGE, LOVEDRUG).TAPROOT guitarist Mike DeWolf recently told AOL's Noisecreep that "Plead The Fifth" will sound closer to the band's 2000 debut, "Gift", than 2008's "Our Long Road Home",, which was progressive in nature. "We're definitely making it as heavy as possible and aggressive while still keeping a lot of the beautiful melodies and just the general beauty of things in it," he said of the forthcoming disc. "We're using a lot more of our baritone guitars, which was sort of the signature of the 'Gift' and 'Welcome' [2002] years, so that immediately makes things a lot heavier." Regarding TAPROOT's last couple of albums, which tried to evolve away from heavy for the sake of being heavy, DeWolf said, "I think it threw a lot of fans for a loop. But at the time, we were willing to lose some people to gain some more. In general, I guess ... I don't know. But we're definitely getting back to it. I think a lot of people appreciated the progressive nature of what we were trying to do but at the same time, a lot of people are just fucking meatheads and only want heaviness. I guess some bands are pretty good at sticking to one thing and working that their entire career. Say ... AC/DC. But that wasn't us." TAPROOT's last CD, "Our Long Road Home", sold around 7,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 65. The follow-up to 2005's "Blue-Sky Research" was released through Velvet Hammer, the label founded by the management company of the same name (SYSTEM OF A DOWN, DEFTONES).


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Friday is always a busy night in the NBA. Fantasy Sports Locker Room takes a look at last night's Fantasy Basketball News & Notes from around the Association – Twitter style.
Anthony Davis had 26 points and 17 Rebounds tonight…he is making the leap
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) November 2, 2013
9-23 from the floor isn't great, but Anthony Davis poured in 26 points and grabbed 17 rebounds. He blocked three shots and was a perfect 8-8 from the line. It wasn't enough as the Pelicans lost 110-90 to the Magic.
Orlando was led by a 30 point performance from Arron Afflalo. He was 10-14 from the field, 4-5 from beyond the arc. Rookie Victor Oladipo spread out the fantasy basketball categories nicely – 10 points, six boards, six assists, four steals and two block shots.
James Harden goes for 34 points (4-8 3-pt FG) and Dwight Howard adds 13 Pts & 16 Reb as Rockets beat Mavericks, 113-105. — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 2, 2013
James Harden and Dwight Howard proved to be too much for the Mavs. 42 boards in two games for D12.
Thaddeus Young has 29 points and Evan Turner has 23. Both players are approaching their prime. Sixers looking very, very good again. — Maxwell Ogden (@MaxwellOgden) November 2, 2013
John Wall ON FIRE after one: 15 Points and hasn't missed a shot. One of the more entertaining guys in the league possibly making the leap? — NBA Fantasy (@NBAFantasy) November 1, 2013
John Wall had it going on, but his back seized up. Wall would end his night by shooting 10-19, scoring 26 points, while collecting six assists and five boards.
Thaddeus Young and Evan Turner were too strong though as the 76ers are now 2-0 to start the year. Yeah… 2-0. Spencer Hawes finished with a double-double, 16 points and 14 rebounds. He drained 24 points and pulled down nine boards in his first game of the year.
The double-double machine, Kevin Love finished with 24-12 lifting the @MNTimberwolves over the @okcthunder 100-81. Rubio dished out 10 dimes
— NBA (@NBA) November 2, 2013
55 points and 29 boards in two games for Kevin Love. Minnesota held Kevin Durant to 13 points.
Mr. Consistent, Al Horford was at it again tonight with 22 points & 16 rebounds. The @ATLHawks beat the @Raptors 102-95. Teague had 17-12.
— NBA (@NBA) November 2, 2013
DeMar DeRozan had a nice night with 31 points, but the Raps didn't have a one-two punch to match the Hawks.
Cavs fall 90-84 on a night when Kemba Walker was the best guard on the floor. Thompson finished with 21 & 11. Miles had 22. Irving 16.
— Eric Knappenberger (@CavsWITNESS) November 2, 2013
Kemba Walker poured in 23 points and dished out seven assists. Kyrie Irving also had seven assists with his 16 points.
Very quiet double-double for Andre Drummond. 10 pts and 13 rebounds now.
— Detroit Bad Boys ☠ (@detroitbadboys) November 2, 2013
Locker Room Fantasy Sports is expecting big things from Andre Drummond and he brought it last night with 16 rebounds, 12 points, 3 steals and 2 blocks.
A shout out to Vitor Faverani…
Vitor Faverani had 12 Pts, 18 Reb and 6 Blk. He's the 1st @celtics player with those numbers in a game since Robert Parish in 1980.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) November 2, 2013
Faverani now has 25 points, 21 rebounds and 9 blocks in three games. He played 37 minutes last night and I think is worth a fantasy basketball pick up.


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