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- 02 June 2009 | Windsurfing
Leading economists say programs that put cash into the hands of consumers will speed up the economic recovery. In response, the Midwest Speed Quest has announced a 3 Phase "Economic Stimulus Program".
PHASE ONE: $200 CASH for the first Windsurfer who records a "Best Ten Second Interval" of 30 knots. If two or more windsurfers recorded this speed on a single day, these funds were to be shared. Today three racers showed up, so It was decided that any racer who broke 30 knots on May 31 would be awarded $200.
David Knight of Fridley MN recorded a 31.74 knot run. He was sailing a Carbon Art SL 62 Slalom Board, a KA Koncept 5.8 Sail, and a Vector Rockit 34 cm fin.
Chris Lock of Plainview MN recorded a 30.14 knot run. He was sailing a Starboard Carve 111 Board, a KA Koncept 6.6 Sail, and a Vector Canefire 38 cm fin.
Dave and Chris accepted their Prize Money. This is not the money you could be saving on car insurance. This is the money you could be winning at the Midwest Speed Quest!
This Prize Money is ON TOP OF the $2500 Cash awarded to Top Racers at the end of the year. First Place is $1000, Second Place is $500, Third Place is $250, Fourth is $125, Fifth is $75.
- 01 June 2009 | Windsurfing
The Clube Naval de Portimao will organize the Iberic Championship (Portuguese National and Copa de Espanha) of Formula Windsurfing, from 5-7 June 2009 in Portimao, Algarve, Portugal, near where the last World Championship was held.
We are expecting 40 windsurfers, including top riders, Miguel Martinho (POR 5) and Fernando Martinez (ESP 71).
From this Championship will be the Iberic Champion, the Portuguese Champion and the Spanish guys that will go to the World Championship and the European, and also the Champion of the Spain Ranking.
If any one in Europe or other continent want to come to this Championship all are welcome, only have to contact the Club.
- 31 May 2009 | Windsurfing
The wind was still too light to start competition, so the fleet had to wait till noon that the wind picked up and the competition got started.
In Heat 1 Brazilian Souza de Pedro (RRD/Simmer) sailed against the local hero Lorioli (RRD/RRD) and Meir (Fanatic/Simmer) from Israel against Sardinian local Varrucciu (Naish/Naish). The Brazilian rider showed a solid heat and also the local Varrucciu (Naish/Naish) advanced over Meir (Fanatic/Simmer), who crashed a couple of his moves.
Heat 2 showed only 2 riders on the water, because Paskowski (Fanatic/North) had no oponent in the first round and advanced automatically. Brazilian Teixeira (RRD/RRD) was facing Slovenian newcomer Zan Sude and performed his samba show on the water. Teixeira (RRD/RRD) showed a bigger variety of moves and made in into the next round.
Heat 3 set the EFPT premiere for Team Estonia with Aava (Starboard) against Chico Bento (Fanatic/North) from Brazil and Greek rider Promponas (Fanatic/North) facing German young gun Lachauer (Starboard). Unfortunately the wind started dropping during the heat which needed to get resailed. Also on the second try the wind was lacking and the heat got canceled. The fleet was kept on stand by for the rest of the afternoon, but the wind didnt increase to sufficient force to run any more heats.
So tomorrow skippers meeting is sheduled for 9.00. Locals say that anything can happen with the actual weather situation, so lets see what sunday will bring for the competition.
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Tegan And Sara's ridiculous collaboration with the Lonely Island for The Lego Movie now has an even more ridiculous video that is still somehow incredibly endearing. It's hard not to crack a smile…   Read Story »
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This year's nominees for the Juno Awards (aka the Canadian Grammys) find Arcade Fire up for Best Group, Best Single ("Reflektor"), Best Album, Fan's Choice, Best Alternative Album, and Best…   Read Story »
Hear Tegan And Sara, Carrie Brownstein, Katie Crutchfield, Dee Dee Penny, And More Sing A Feminist Theme For Rookie
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Tegan And Sara are straight-up getting paid in 2014, and that is a good thing. In recent weeks, they've contributed songs to The Lego Movie and the Oreo commercial, and now they've got a new song on…   Read Story »
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A year ago, Andy Samberg interviewed Tegan And Sara for a ridiculous online skit to promote their album Heartthrob. But even if Samberg did not manage to romantically involve himself with Tegan or…   Read Story »
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My first exposure to Sugarland was the video for "Stuck Like Glue," a 2010 single that injected a shot of unexpected quirk to the heavily codified country radio landscape. I hadn't paid close…   Read Story »
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Apr 18, 2012
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is rolling out the final budget blueprint of his career. It takes a different position on the health law than the House GOP's measure.
The New York Times: Senate Budget Panel To Take Up Deficit Plan
Unlike the budget plan passed in the House, Mr. Conrad's outline would not touch the president's health care law, but it would phase out the employer tax deduction for health care and include additional health care cuts (Weisman, 4/17).
Politico: Kent Conrad's Budget Signals What's Wrong With Congress
The ideological divide in Congress has stymied [Copnrad's] centrist instincts: Republicans refuse to put tax hikes on the table, and Conrad's fellow Democrats decry any changes to entitlements, like Medicare and Social Security (Wong, 4/18).
Politico Pro: Conrad: Simpson-Bowles Plan Is Bid For Eventual Consensus
The Senate's top budget guru on Tuesday said he's introducing the so-called "Simpson-Bowles" deficit report with hopes of building a bipartisan consensus before the end of the year. ... [The Simpson-Bowles plan includes] cost-sharing for Medicare beneficiaries, cuts to Medicare providers, new policy for so-called "dual eligibles" in Medicare and Medicaid and a long-term "doc fix" (Haberkorn, 4/17).
Meanwhile, on the House side, there's more budget action as Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., defended his plan's treatment of the safety net.
Los Angeles Times: Republicans Approve Paul Ryan's Budget (Again) In The House
GOP leaders are advancing the House Republican budget and its proposed changes to Medicare despite opposition in the Democratic-led Senate by using used a relatively obscure procedural move -- tucking it alongside an unrelated bill that would allow the importation of trophy polar bears (Mascaro, 4/17).
The Associated Press: Food Stamps, Federal Pensions Face GOP Cuts
Republicans controlling the House are targeting food stamps, federal employee pensions, tax breaks for illegal immigrants and subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care law in a multifaceted drive to swap cuts to domestic programs for big Pentagon cuts scheduled next year (Taylor, 4/18).
CQ HealthBeat: Welfare Overhaul Points The Way For New Changes To Safety Net, Ryan Says
Rejecting President Obama's recent charge that his budget plan amounts to "social Darwinism," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan said at a hearing on Tuesday that the welfare system overhaul of the 1990s demonstrates that new changes to the safety net need not harm poor people. Ryan said that his House-passed budget, which would convert Medicaid into a block grant program, "treats all Americans with respect and dignity" (Reichard, 4/17).
Modern Healthcare: Ryan Defends Budget At Safety Net Hearing
But in his opening remarks, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said work incentives that led to welfare reform in 1996 are not relevant to Medicaid in particular. "First, it is a program that provides healthcare coverage to those left behind by the private insurance market," Van Hollen said. "Second, two-thirds, or 66%, of Medicaid spending is for senior citizens and people too disabled to work, while another 20% is for children" (Zigmond, 4/17).
The Hill: House Panel To Save $43.9 Billion On Health Law Subsidies
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee will mark up legislation on Wednesday that saves $43.9 billion over a decade by requiring people to pay back any excess insurance subsidies they receive under President Obama's healthcare reform law, the panel announced Tuesday. ... [Under the Ryan budget] the committee is instructed to identify policies that cut the deficit by $53 billion between 2013 and 2022. Most of those savings would come from requiring people to pay back insurance subsidies if the government determined they received too much based on their income threshold (Pecquet, 4/17).
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After an extended rehab session in the Developmental League, Xavier Henry is set to return to the Lakers Monday night in their game at Portland.
.@XavierHenry Expected to Play at Portland: http://t.co/eadOUYeh4t Video: http://t.co/oI5i5JArs5
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Henry has been out of the Lakers lineup since late December when an awkward landing injured his knee. After a couple setbacks, Henry returned to the court last week in a rehab assignment with the Los Angeles D-Fenders. Henry scored 15 and 19 points in the two games in 23 and 26 minutes of play, respectively. It was enough to show the Lakers he was ready to return to the squad as he'll likely be available for tonight's match-up.
For the first time in many, many months, the Lakers appear to finally be getting healthy. Henry's return comes a few weeks after Jordan Farmar's return to the lineup. Nick Young is likely to be the next in line to return for the Lakers, but that date is not set and is likely to be in the distant future.
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Category Archives: patient education
Stop Paying Lip Service to Patient-Centricity
By Guest Blogger | Published: April 10, 2014
by Michael Edwards Pharma has operated the same way for 100 years, but the US healthcare model has changed completely in the last 30 years, for payers, pharmacists, hospitals, and even at the clinician level. These changes necessitate pharma – a traditionally stagnant partner – to change now or further risk having its stubbornness result […]
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Online Patient Library Set for European Launch
By Guest Blogger | Published: April 7, 2014
By Philip Ward. The new Internet Library from the European Patients' Academy (EUPATI) will come online towards the end of 2015, and will be available in seven European languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish and Russian), project director Jan Geissler revealed at last week's workshop held in Warsaw, Poland, and organized by EUPATI.
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Chats Not Charts: Three Steps to Pharma Post-Marketing
By Guest Blogger | Published: April 1, 2014
by Andrew Spong (originally published on stwem.com) The air of despondency that is descending over the pharmaceutical industry's use of social media is perverse. It has nothing to do with a putative (and also fictive) absence of interest on the patient's part in connecting with the pharmaceutical industry. It has everything to do with the […]
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The Rise of the Patient Participant
By Marylyn Donahue | Published: March 27, 2014
Either the doctor's best friend or nightmare, the e-patient movement (the 'e' could stand for engaged or empowered) is here to stay and growing, writes Marylyn Donahue. Championing patients as full partners in their own medical care, via the use of online communities and social media sites are slowly but surely turning patients into participants […]
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In this short video, Brianna Cayo-Cotter, Change.org's managing director of communications, talks to Pharm Exec about how advocacy organizations and individual patients are getting more involved in every facet of the healthcare system, from drug R&D, to federal and state policy, all fueled by the hour-to-hour passion of living with a disease.
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Resident finds shell casing near possible shooting site
Madison police said a Piccadilly Drive resident found a bullet casing in the street two days after reports of possible gunfire in the area.
The resident found the casing Thursday morning, and responding officers found another nearby.
Residents in the 5100 block of Piccadilly Drive reported possible fireworks or gunfire at 2 a.m. Thursday. Police said a brown four-door sedan was seen leaving the area at the time of the original calls.
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What Hawks and Doves Both Miss on the Asia Pivot
Janine Davidson argues that the "China-centric" debate surrounding the U.S. rebalance to Asia misses the policy's broader point. For the U.S. military, the objective is sustained multilateral engagement – not mass deployments of combat-ready troops.
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"Movies are the most powerful empathy machine of all the arts."
-Roger Ebert
10.The Act of Killing
8.Drinking Buddies
7.The Wolf of Wall Street
6.Upstream Color
My top 5 means a lot to me personally. They inspire and influence the way I watch movies and view life. My love for cinema grows more and more each day, thanks to all the people who played a part in making these amazing stories come to life.
5.Inside Llweyn Davis
The Coen brothers created a sad yet funny folk song. I love the use of bleak colors and lighting, that really makes the characters blend in with the background; it perfectly establishes the movie's tone and self defeating musician played by Oscar Issac, who gives an amazing performance. Cinematography among one of my favorites from 2013.
4.Frances Ha
Like a modern French New Wave film but with first world problems. Baumbach and Gerwig perfectly captures the essence of awkwardness, self-doubt, codependency, and relationships.
3. The Spectacular Now
This movie hits home for me. Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley portrayal of teenagers is raw and real. It reminds me of what it was like to be young, in love, and dumb. Although the movie's main theme is not about love/romance, it's about a more important exploration, the consequences of living in the moment.
2. 12 Years a Slave
A truly heartbreaking and brutal interpretation of american history. McQueen leaves nothing to your imagination. Every shot is meticulously composed. Where most directors would cut away, mcqueen doesn't, making scenes and performances more powerful.
Thank you.
This movie is the perfect blend of fruit smoothie.
Thank you to everyone who played a part in making this film. I love you guys.
1.lady lamb the beekeeper - ripely pine
2.kanye west - yeezus
3.Volcano choir - repave
4.chvrches - the bones of what you believe
5.rhye - woman
6.speedy ortiz - major arcana
7.deafheaven - sunbather
8.darkside - psychic
9.the world is a beautiful place and i am no longer afraid to die - whenever if ever
10.chance the rapper - acid rap
Albums I dug this year but from previous years
born ruffians - red yellow and blue
miles davis - kind of blue
st vincent - strange mercy
real estate - days
james blake - james blake
fleet foxes - fleet foxes
Yellowcard #highschoolsweetheart (at House of Blues)
1. Upstream Color
3.Pacific Rim
4.Only God Forgives
5.The Place Beyond the Pines
It was our first time.
a minimalistic piano cover of "beth/rest" from bon iver's self-titled (2011). click here to download.
this is the third time i've covered it, and will be the last. i never liked this song until i heard the version, "bon iver on world cafe" on npr. then i loved it. i based my cover more on his piano solo version than the album version.
something interesting i learned about the bon iver lp is that vernon thinks of the thing as a coherent timeline sort of piece. "perth" being like beginnings, birth and "beth/rest" being like ending, death. always in love with artists who do this. it's incredibly inspiring that some are making terrific, standalone songs that also fit in as a bigger piece, a bigger arch in a complete album. and the album also means something. pieces of smaller pieces. then you're combing the art, the physical artwork with the music, and the words. sounds, images, words. it's plainly awe to me. it's something i really want to be able to do. finding word-makers and art-makers and music-makers and big themes made of small stories, people and places. ah.
errant heat to the star
and the rain let in
the hawser rolls, the vessel's whole and christ, it's thin
well i'd know that you'd offer
would reveal it, though it's soft and flat
won't repeat it, cull and coffer's that
for the soffit, hang this homeward
pry it open with your love
sending lost and alone standing offers
it is steep / it is stone
such recovery
from the daily press, the deepest nest, in keeper's keep
all the news at the door
such a revelry
well, it's hocked inside of everything you said to me
it was found what we orphaned
didn't mention it would serve us picked
said your love is known
i'm standing up on it
aren't we married?!
i ain't living in the dark no more
it's not a promise, i'm just gonna call it
heavy mitted love
our love is a star
sure some hazardry
for the light before and after most indefinitely
danger has been stole away
this is axiom
as far as the words go. i can never tell with him, so i looked it up in some interviews.
just vernon on "beth/rest,"
"eventually, you start waking up to the fact that you might be ready to spend your life with somebody and still feel good about who you are and what kind of changes you're going to go through no matter what. and 'beth/rest' is that reward. it's that place you get to be in for the rest of your life… what's weird is that the record was imagined before any of this new personal relationship stuff had happened. i'm in a really good, loving relationship right now. it's really rewarding. but what's weird is that the songs kind of came as this predecessor, as an invitation, to tell myself that i was open to it and knowing that there wasn't going to be somebody coming along who's going to change me and want to change who i was. and they were going to let me be who i want to be and like me for it. then it sort of just happened as soon as i finished writing the song."
timely, perfect. fitting, too, looking from a to b, the timeline of my own experience with this song. perfect and fitting. first time was one grand, sloppy mess of a recording. all parts done at once, detuned piano, horrible florescent lights, etc. newborn baby recording. this time, this time was careful, groomed, cropped, grown. and much like vernon's remarks on writing the song and then experiencing the song - timely, perfect, fitting.
little, fake bedroom studio.
anyway, it's been fun this week to take a break from the full band stuff and do a little on my own. now i'm looking forward to getting back into the deadwood stuff coming up here.
"'for i know the plans i have for you,' declares the lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"
~jeremiah 29:11
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PropertyOfZack had the chance to interview Trace Cyrus from Ashland High several weeks ago for an in-depth interview. Trace and I discussed the band's 2012 release, touring with The Ready Set, growing from Metro Station, the future, and more. Check it all out below!
So you've slowly been working up Ashland High for the past 6-8 months now with the release of Geronimo at the beginning of the year and then you just had a big tour with The Ready Set and Breathe Carolina. Are you happy with how much progression you've made in the past few months?
I am happy, but I always am my biggest critic. So of course, I want more for myself immediately. I'm just trying to get to that state where I'm content with where I'm at. You know? I'm so hard on myself and I've got to step back and realize that I'm doing a lot of things that artists only dream of doing. So I think I'm starting to become happy. I think now that I have a little time off after the tour, it's making me step back and appreciate all that I've just done. Because I've done it on my own. In my last band, we did things on a way bigger level, but I had millions of dollars of label support behind me. So not having that now, and doing so much, I'm very happy and content, I must say. I think I just started figuring it out. Yeah, I feel good about it.
Has it been a learning process as well? Trying to learn how to operate without major label support or budget. Has it been interesting to navigate?
Yeah. It's been very interesting but I actually feel good about it. I've built my team around me: pretty much everybody except a label. It feels good because if things don't work out how I want, I really can only blame myself. There was a lot of things with my last band that didn't go how I wanted them. Of course a lot of great things happened, but at the same time, major labels really kind of take control of the artist and they do what they want with them. Everything I think that people have seen with Ashland High is me to my fullest potential. You're seeing me for myself and not what someone else is trying to make me. I'm having fun doing it though. I just now found a guy to come up, he's a homie of mine from Nashville, and my next step is to shoot… I have 11 songs on my mixtape; I shot a video for the song "Jealous Lover" and I want to shoot a music video to every song. Because I really feel like that internet content can make or break a career in this day in age. That's kind of the next step. I've never had to coordinate this much stuff on my own, but still having fun doing it and figuring it out. The next step is going to be me doing the same thing I'm doing for myself for other artists. Once I feel like I have my career on track, I want to get my label up and running and do the same thing for them. But I'm definitely still learning as I'm going.
So are you preparing a label launch as well?
Well that's the deal I want to propose to any label. Basically I don't want to sign any deal unless they want to sign my imprint as well. I definitely think a label like how all these rappers have labels. Like Young Money and stuff like that. That's the kind of thing I want to do with my label. I want to have SMHP Records and I want to sign my own artists of all different types of music. That's the goal. Because I have a team of producers. A producer made my mixtape. Like I said, I have my team built around me. So if I could sign my own artists and hopefully they could be compatible with me and could go on tour with me. I don't picture myself signing to, say like Akon wanted to sign me, he built Lady Gaga, and he'd build me up. I don't think that would be a right fit for me because I truly think I am going to be an icon like that hopefully sooner than later and I want to be someone that can be like an Akon and sign artists and develop them. You know? That type of thing. Like I said, I'm learning, but I'm still young. I think a lot of people think I'm older than I actually am. I think I have time to figure out this business a little more and I like to say that I'm an entrepreneur in this business.
So far over 2012 you've released the mixtape for free and it got a bunch of downloads. Are you happy with its success as a launching point for you?
I was happy with the success. It has almost 200,000 downloads or something. But like I said, I always want more. The goal is to shoot these music videos and get that download count up even more. Even though I've considered this a mixtape, I'm trying to work it as I did with the Metro Station Album. I truly feel like the songs on the mixtape turned out really good. I'm proud of the music and the work that I put into it. If I release a song from this mixtape, it's work for the world to hear. I don't feel like any song should be missed by the public eye. I want everyone to have a chance to hear the music so I feel like me making those videos is an easier way. Kids these days, I feel like, need a visual contact to put the person to the music. A lot of people still think of me as how I looked in Metro Station and stuff like that. I was 18 at the height of our success. So I just want people to kind of see what I am now. I want to tour a little more with this mixtape and then hopefully get in the studio and do my first album.


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Do Cognitive Complaints in Euthymic Bipolar Patients Reflect Objective Cognitive Impairment?Martínez-Arán A. · Vieta E. · Colom F. · Torrent C. · Reinares M. · Goikolea J.M. · Benabarre A. · Comes M. · Sánchez-Moreno J.
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Background: In clinical practice, bipolar patients complain of cognitive deficits such as attentional or memory disturbances. The main aim of this study was to determine whether subjective cognitive complaints were associated with objective neuropsychological impairments. Method: Sixty euthymic bipolar patients were assessed through a neuropsychological battery. A structured clinical interview was used to determine subjective cognitive complaints in patients. Thirty healthy controls were also included in the study in order to compare the neuropsychological performance among groups. Results: Bipolar patients with a higher number of episodes, especially the number of mixed episodes, longer duration of the illness and the onset of the illness at an earlier age showed more subjective complaints. Furthermore, bipolar patients with subjective complaints showed lower scores in several cognitive measures related to attention, memory and executive function compared with the control group. Nevertheless, patients without complaints also performed less well than controls in some neuropsychological measures. Conclusion: Bipolar patients who were aware of cognitive deficits were more chronic, had presented more previous episodes, especially mixed type, and their illness had started at an earlier age compared with patients who did not complain about cognitive problems. Moreover, patients with good cognitive insight also had a poorer social and occupational functioning as well as a poorer neuropsychological performance. However, the bipolar group without complaints also obtained lower scores in several tests compared with healthy controls. Cognitive status of bipolar patients should be routinely assessed, regardless of the patients awareness about their cognitive deficits.
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Well all my stuff is packed & ready to head to Brighton to set up for thursdays show opening at ink_d gallery! It's all looking pretty good too! I spent the last 2 days putting all the finishing touches on everything. Even have my own hand painted Lucky Magic Voodoo Candles! They totally work too!
I'm packing just about everything I can in their upstairs room. There will be original art, wallpaper, silken cushions, animations, comics, real voodoo spells, lights, embroidery, masks, vinyl, and more! I even customised my very own grand hifi / listening station, or fancy cat scratching toy! With real gold leaf on the chair as I ran out of imitation – oops!
Again all the art and pieces in the show are inspired by the album tracks! Above is the detail for Love You To Death. I can't believe it really, my dream to have an album/ art show, and to build an environment with all my creations has actually come to fruition! So excited! Really pleased with how it's all turned out! So if you are in Brighton between Oct 23rd – Nov 9th, pop in upstairs at ink_d gallery 96 North Road and emerse yourself in MY VOODOO! Ok stay tuned for more! oxo gd


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The Most Vital Ingredient in Wall Street Reform Goes Missing
Last Fall, it was all about the wall: financial bigwigs like former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, former Citigroup co-CEO John Reed, Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, all espoused reestablishing the legal barrier between the derivatives casino that masquerades today as Wall Street and commercial banks holding insured deposits.
It made good sense: the wall goes up in 1933, America becomes the premier financial center for 66 years. The wall comes down in 1999, the financial system collapses exactly 9 years later with the precise characteristics of the massive Wall Street swindles that occurred in the late 1920s when there was also no wall.
But the wall has now gone missing in the current financial reform bill advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee by its Chairman, Senator Christopher Dodd. Equally noteworthy, the historic 1933 legislation that built the essential wall between flim-flam securities salesmen and Aunt Tilly's insured bank account, commonly known as the Glass-Steagall Act, has gone missing itself from the internet. To underscore how extraordinary this is, if you put "Glass-Steagall Act" in the Google search box, it brings up 220,000 hits. And, yet, it is next to impossible to find the actual text of the legislation on the internet.
The Glass-Steagall Act (officially known as the Banking Act of 1933, Public Law 66-73, or H.R. 5661) is one of the most important pieces of financial legislation ever passed in this country. In addition to walling off the predators of Wall Street, it is less commonly known that Glass-Steagall created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to implement the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, and dramatically revised the Federal Reserve Act to prevent Wall Street perversions rooted out in the investigations conducted by the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency from 1932 to 1934. Given its landmark status and current attention, one would expect it to be available in a flick of a keystroke on any search engine.
The for-profit on-line law repositories offer only what's left of the Act in the U.S. Code after its bones were picked clean by the Gramm- Leach- Bliley Act (also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999). Case law offers a few sentences dealing with the separation of securities firms and national banks. Wikipedia has no link to the text of the legislation, clearly because its editors couldn't find one. The FDIC, created under the Act, says on its web site you can drop in to its Library in Washington, D.C. if you'd like to look at the legislation. Cornell Law's massive on-line library has this to say when you click on the Law:
Unfortunately, public sources of the Statutes at Large leave a lot out. The Library of Congress has mounted volumes 1-18 (to 1874) as part of its American Memory collection. The Government Printing Office took responsibility for the Statutes in 1875, but has only made electronic versions available from 1995 onward (volumes 109 and up).
The National Archives offers a digital copy of the first and last page of the document. (I sensed a tad of condescension in the suggestion that Americans can be placated with a title page and a signature page while the guts of our legislation are reserved for the lobbyists.) I sent an email to the National Archives asking for the full legislation. The following response arrived a few days later from an archivist , Jane Fitzgerald:
"We have just received your email inquiry regarding digital images of
the rest of the Banking Act of 1933. Unfortunately, the Banking Act of 1933 (Public Law 73-66 of June 16, 1933) consists of a total of 45 pages in length and we currently only have existing images of the first and signature pages.
"Black and white scans of the remaining pages may be ordered for $35.00 a page…"
To get a copy of public legislation from a publicly funded institution would cost $35.00 x 43 pages or $1505.00. Welcome to the new reality of wealth, privilege and access in America. I responded with another email requesting that the full document be made immediately available to the public at no charge, noting that:
"The text of the Banking Act of 1933…will help shine the light forward for our current Congress. That's what historical documents are for: to guide us toward a future devoid of the horrific mistakes of the past. Locking away this document and charging $35 a page insults the mandate of the National Archives. In fact, it is abhorrent to a participatory democracy."
Thus far, I have not heard back from the National Archives. After four days of web searching, phone calls, and emails with no results, I had an epiphany. I remembered where I had once accessed rare documents from the 1930s. I located the full legislation on line with no charge involved for printing the document or downloading it. I copied it from the site and will be happy to email the Act to anyone who sends me an email with the subject line, "Save Glass-Steagall From Extinction." (I hesitate to give out the web location for fear the repository that has given the legislation a home will suffer a buyout by Wall Street shortly upon the news leaking out. I say this only half jokingly.)
What's in this legislation that's worthy of vanquishing it from the annals of history? Each section reveals how Congress had to police with new laws a Wall Street functioning as organized crime on steroids. And it leads a direct path of inquiry to the 12,000 pages holed up in the National Archives where the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency took two years of testimony under oath from 1932 to 1934 from the captains of illicit finance, received 1375 completed questionnaires from stock exchange members, subpoenaed cancelled checks from members of the financial press who had been bribed by Wall Street players, and obtained "preferred lists" where public office holders were routinely bribed with hot stock offerings.
In other words, it highlights the type of in-depth investigation our current Congress has not done as it stumbles around in the dark writing reform legislation with no evidentiary support for what it needs to reform.
Wall Street honchos who want the Federal Reserve to remain as their coddling regulator particularly fear public attention to Section 20 of the Glass-Steagall Act. This is a verbatim quote from that hard-to-locate original legislation:
"After one year from the date of the enactment of this Act, no member bank shall be affiliated in any manner described in section 2(b) hereof with any corporation, association, business trust, or other similar organization engaged principally in the issue, flotation, underwriting, public sale, or distribution at wholesale or retail or through syndicate participation of stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities." [Italic emphasis added.]
This pesky passage might now renew questions as to whether the Federal Reserve Board broke the law in 1998 when it approved the merger of a massive securities firm (Travelers/Salomon Smith Barney) with a member bank holding insured deposits (Citibank). That institution is now a welfare ward of the taxpayer. Salomon was an investment bank engaged in underwriting all the kinds of securities forbidden by Glass-Steagall to become affiliated with a member bank; Smith Barney was a brokerage firm engaged in the public sale of the securities not allowed under Glass-Steagall to be affiliated with a member bank. The Fed blew off these serious matters with the following statement in its letter approving the merger:
"…Travelers controls several domestic subsidiaries that cannot be affiliated with a Bank under Section 20 of the Glass-Steagall Act (12 U.S.C. 377). These companies engage in securities underwriting and dealing activities, distributing shares of open-end mutual funds, and controlling open-end mutual funds. Travelers has committed to conform the activities of these companies to the requirements of the Glass-Steagall Act and the Board's orders and interpretations there under, including the limitations on the amount of revenue derived from securities underwriting and dealing activities, on consummation of the proposed transaction in accordance with the requirements of this order."
The Federal Reserve approved the merger on September 23, 1998. Glass-Steagall was not repealed until November 12, 1999. In between, Smith Barney's army of stockbrokers did not stop selling securities to the public and the firm's proprietary mutual funds continued to be distributed to the public.
If the Federal Reserve brazenly and knowingly ignored the law in acquiescence to a serial misfeasor, why should Americans trust it to have any role whatsoever in bank regulation and, especially not appropriate, a Consumer Financial Protection Agency housed under the Fed as envisioned by Senator Dodd's proposed legislation.
Last November, Senator Dodd called the Fed an "abysmal failure" in terms of its regulation of banks and consumer protection. His draft bill at that time correctly stripped the Fed of banking and consumer oversight. Today, Senator Dodd's bill elevates the "abysmal failure" Fed to trusted guardian of the largest and most dangerous banks in the country alongside oversight of a consumer protection agency. Senator Dodd had his facts impeccably correct in November. Who or what changed Senator Dodd's mind in the ensuing four months?
Once the Travelers/Citicorp merger created Citigroup, other Wall Street firms had to buy insured depositor banks in order to compete against the massive pools of money housed under the Citi umbrella as it was allowed to gobble up bank after bank. The Fed set this doomsday machine in motion and the taxpayers are now footing the crushing bill to shore up zombie securities firms on top of staggering investment losses, job losses, foreclosures and growing homelessness. Consumers were promised one-stop shopping at these behemoths; they ended up in the role of busboys at the predator's ball.
In 1998 when the barbarians were charging the wall, 425 individuals testified in person or in writing to the Federal Reserve on the application by Travelers and Citicorp to merge to create Citigroup. A small number correctly predicted this financial calamity would result. That same small number wasn't getting cash from Citicorp or Travelers. The majority of politicians and nonprofits who testified in favor of the proposal were recipients of largesse from one or the other of the corporations.
Why was the Federal Reserve Board conducting hearings on a proposal that was patently illegal under existing law? To mute public outrage over the brazenness of that detail alone, the press was fed the following story line: don't focus on the bold violations of law under the Glass-Steagall Act, focus instead on the Bank Holding Company Act which allows a two-year window for Travelers to divest its insurance subsidiaries; an eventuality that Citigroup correctly bet would be moot if it could get its Washington insiders like Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to muscle through repeal of Glass-Steagall before the two-year deadline arrived.)
The Federal Reserve may have also felt empowered by the stunning editorial in the New York Times on April 8, 1998, putting white hats on the pirates and dubbing financial concentration and repeal of investor protection law a good thing that "could actually protect naïve investors." The New York Times had not only sipped the Citigroup Kool Aid and found it pleasing, it was adding new flavors of its own to the packaging:
"Congress dithers, so John Reed of Citicorp and Sanford Weill of Travelers Group grandly propose to modernize financial markets on their own. They have announced a $70 billion merger — the biggest in history — that would create the largest financial services company in the world, worth more than $140 billion… In one stroke, Mr. Reed and Mr. Weill will have temporarily demolished the increasingly unnecessary walls built during the Depression to separate commercial banks from investment banks and insurance companies."
"Increasingly unnecessary walls?" Citibank had a history of money laundering for dictators. Salomon Smith Barney was the successor firm responsible for rigging the two-year Treasury note auction and "yield burning," another illegal maneuver involving Treasury securities and municipal bonds. Those walls were all that stood between one criminal culture with insured deposits merging with more creative criminals. Fused together, they took their widow and orphans' passbooks and conjured up rigged research, subprime mortgage securitizations, credit default swaps, auction rate securities, Dr. Evil trades, and Enron off-balance-sheet debt bombs.
The New York Times continues:
"Some consumer advocates oppose the merger because, they fear, financial behemoths inevitably threaten ordinary consumers. But one-stop financial shopping could actually protect naive investors. Under current laws such investors can be pulled in contradictory directions by bankers offering retirement accounts, insurance agents offering annuities and securities dealers offering mutual funds. An institution that sells all these products can steer customers toward the product that best serves their needs…A collapse in the company's securities and insurance operations could drag down its commercial bank. But that will happen only if Federal regulators fall sound asleep."
Did the Federal Reserve fall sound asleep? Or was it compromised to begin with? As for steering customers toward the product that best serves their needs, for the last eight decades Wall Street has incentivized through its broker commission structure its goal of selling what it needs to dump on the public irrespective of what best serves the public's needs. The only hope of changing that reality is a regulator with teeth and a mighty wall that separates speculation and risk taking from savings earmarked for safety.
The similarity of the dynamics of the 1929 crash and the 2008 crash is reflected in this passage from the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in 1934, Report No. 1455:
"The Banking Act of 1933, enacted on June 16, 1933, was promulgated to effect a complete severance of the commercial and investment banking functions and to eradicate many of the abuses disclosed at the hearings before the Senate subcommittee…The hearings disclosed, on the part of many bankers, a woeful lack of regard for the public interest and a proper conception of fiduciary responsibility. Personages upon whom the public relied for the guardianship of funds did not regard their position as impregnated with trust, but rather as a means for personal gain. These custodians of funds gambled and speculated for their own account in the stock of the banking institutions which they dominated; participated in speculative transactions in the capital stock of their banking institutions that directly conflicted with the interest of these institutions which they were paid to serve; participated in and were the beneficiaries of pool operations;… availed themselves, as directors of private corporations, of inside information to aid them in transactions in the securities of these corporations; caused to be paid by the banking institutions to themselves excessive compensation; had voted to themselves participations in management funds and substantial pensions; and resorted to devious means to avoid the payment of their just Government taxes…Far from having a detrimental, subservice effect upon the banking institutions of the country, the investigation performed the wholesome function of exposing the ills and evils of banking conditions and the perpetrators of these wrongs, with a view to the elimination of both the undesirable practices and personalities."
Senator Dodd, members of Congress, you know what you have to do. Put back the wall, then on to real Senate investigations under oath.
PAM MARTENS worked on Wall Street for 21 years; she has no security position, long or short, in any company mentioned in this article. She writes on public interest issues from New Hampshire. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Corsair extends two of its gaming-oriented product lines
New additions to the Gaming Audio Series headset and Graphite Series case families showcase commitment to meeting customer needs
LAS VEGAS, California — January 06, 2011 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the addition of an analog version of its recently launched Gaming Audio Series™ HS1 USB Headset and a special edition white version of its Graphite Series™ 600T mid-tower case.
The Gaming Audio Series HS1A extends Corsair's gaming headset offerings, bringing the same comfort and design as its award-winning predecessor, the HS1 USB headset, to an analog version for gamers who prefer to use their own sound cards. The HS1A uses the same generously sized earcups, 50mm drivers, memory foam earpads, and high-quality microphone as the HS1, and connects to the audio source and mic input using two 3.5mm stereo plugs. It also includes an inline volume control and microphone mute button.
"We were delighted to see the positive response to our first audio product, the Gaming Audio Series HS1 USB headset," said Ruben Mookerjee, VP and General Manager for Components at Corsair. "Based on customer feedback from thousands of survey responses, we chose to ship the full-featured HS1 USB version first, and now we are pleased to offer an analog version with the same build quality and comfort to gamers who already own high-end sound cards."
The special edition white version of the 600T mid-tower case brings another element of style to the acclaimed design of the Graphite Series mid-tower case launched in September 2010. The special edition is identical to the original 600T except that it features a beautiful white exterior, with both glossy and satin black accents, as well as an all-black interior and windowed side panel.
"While the sleek gun-metal gray of the original Graphite Series 600T looks terrific, offering a special edition white version gives a choice to customers who want a unique look without having to mod the case themselves," continued Mookerjee. "Our product focus continues to be on listening to our customers and bringing out solutions that meet all of their needs—whether it is a different type of input for our gaming headset or a wider choice in case colors—without compromising quality or performance."
Both the Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1A and the special edition white Corsair Graphite Series 600T will be available this month from Corsair's worldwide network of authorized distributors and resellers. The HS1A has an MSRP in the U.S. of $79.99, and the white 600T has an MSRP of $159.99. Both products come with a 2-year warranty and, like all Corsair products, are backed by Corsair's highly regarded customer service and technical support.
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I have always like the 600T, and on their site the white one is available with a side window, which IMO is all it needed! Did anyone see the 650D yet? lookin goood!
Me too, Except I never liked the window less side panel, this version is a sight to behold, beautiful. But Again I have to complain, the inside doesn't have the white contrast that the outside enjoys, but its definitely one of the best looking case ever.
Edit: I meant the white 600t not having white 5.25 drive clips, but in the last pic , you can appreciate some contrast, Its great.
Nice looking case. The price is a little too high, but Corsair cases usually are. Still, It looks like a good one.
Ya, very nice looking case, makes everything look so neat, the white really adds to that as well.
Plus the PSU is full modular. I've been eyeing that one, or the 750, for a while now.
I really like the 600t case I have, I wouldn't want it in white, the windowed side panel however I could totally go for. Hmph.
Pretty nice looking headphones as well.
Glad to at least see some innovation. Corsair seems to make some nice cases, somewhat sporty too.
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