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|October 7, 2012, 11:27 PM
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7.62x54r Load data
With non corrosive and brass jacketed Mosin fodder getting spendy, I was wondering who has a favorite recipe for handloading the 91/30...... discuss....
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|October 9, 2012, 09:26 AM
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Prvi brass... (hate S&B, primer pockets are too tight)
The 174 grain, .311 Sierra Match King. Top of the heap...
I seat mine .02 off the lands (which happens to be right at about 3.00 OAL) over 43.5 grains of Varget. Sub-moa, I haven't crono'd the load yet, but I've got 14 minutes of come-up from a 200 yard zero suggesting a MV of 2625.
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Between this thread and the other, that's two votes for Varget, and none for anything else.
I was hoping for an IMR 4064 load, as I have many other guns that like that stuff.
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|October 11, 2012, 05:48 AM
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I use any 7.62/54 case I can find. They are getting kind of hard to come by.
Most of the ones I have are Grafs store brand or Prvi.
I shoot mostly cast. The 155 gr 7.62x39 LEE bullet and 200 gr Lyman.
18 to 20 gr of 2400 gives excellent loads for cast. Start at 17 and work up from there.
For Jacketed plinkers. I use pulled 124 gr fmj ahead of 49 or 50 gr of WC844 (H-335)
These shoot the best out of my M44 carbine.
The surplus stuff makes it look like a fire breathing dragon. kicks like one too.
My hand loads are much more shoulder saving.
|October 11, 2012, 08:03 AM
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That's one vote for H335 ( YAY!!! I HAZ IT!) ..... and two for Varget.
FWIW, I am not yet set up for casting Boolits..... am planning on launching .311 150 SGK's out of my 91/30.
From what I've read, I am looking for a med-slow burn rate like 4064, H414, W760 ..... I would of thought that with that 28" barrel, even slower powders would work better..... H4831 or the 4350's ......
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|October 11, 2012, 09:39 AM
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46gr of H380 pushing a 147gr pulled FMJ has my 91/30 doing the impossible for anything but a Finn Recapture---shooting sub-MOA groups. Gotta weigh and separate the pulls for tightest groups though--I've found variances between 143gr up to 152gr in them.
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|October 11, 2012, 09:41 AM
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IMR4064-1 (another thread)
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|October 11, 2012, 10:01 AM
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The Reds used a lot of, US donated, IMR-4895 during WW2. Since it seems to pretty much work in everything else I'd give it a try.
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Anyone loading using the light .310 bullets?
Hornady, Speer, and Privi all sell 123gr .310" bullets made for 7.62X39. The Hornady manual has load giving velocities up to 3100 FPS.
Anyone ever tried these through a Mosin Nagant? I was thinking of taking my PU Sniper coyote hunting. I think a 123 VMAX at ~3000 fps would be bad medicine for varmints.
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|October 24, 2012, 05:39 PM
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Can't see much of an advantage otherwise, velocity is great- but I'll take a heavier bullet with a better BC every time for long range shooting.
|October 25, 2012, 01:08 AM
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4064, eh?
How 'bout:
150 gr Hornady Interlock (.312")
"Win" brass (S&B)
47 gr IMR 4064 (safe to 51 gr in my rifle - compressed at about 49.7 gr)
CCI LR Mag primer
It's a decent load. But....
I found H380 to perform better with that bullet and OAL:
150 gr Hornady Interlock (.312")
"Win" brass (S&B)
51 gr H380 (safe to 56 gr in my rifle - compressed at about 53.5 gr)
CCI LR Mag primer
I prefer PPU brass, but I have more of the "Winchester" brass drawn by S&B. So, it's what I use the most.
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And THIS is what remains after scattering a wet-pack all over the yard...
And this is what was previously packed tight with soggy newsprint... I didn't empty it--the bullet did--in a 15M radius of soggy pulp making many plopping sounds for several seconds after the shot.
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|October 25, 2012, 08:11 AM
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I am getting ready to start working up loads in 7.62x54R. I have a bunch of 4064 so I am gearing up for that powder. I am thinking about the Hornady Interlock 150g (.312). I did run some of the Winchester 180g round nose through the old girl and before the action started getting loose (after 6 rounds, time to locktite!) I was putting them into a group about 1" at 100 yards. If the 150s don't work out I'll switch over to the 180g RN.
If you need some brass I found a link in another post for Lapua brass at dang near giveaway prices. I only picked up 100 since I am not greedy plus I have another 60 of the Win/S&B brass and the Mosin doesn't get shot all that much.
Get it while it lasts! I will probably get some more next month if there is any left at this price.
|October 25, 2012, 02:41 PM
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Load for my 91/30
Case: Winchester headstamp (probably Seller & Belliot)
Primer: CCI 200 large rifle
Powder: 48.0 grains Hogden Varget
Bullet: 150 grain Hornady Interlock soft point (.312 diameter)
1.37 inch group at 100 yards.
Brass is from some Winchester 180 gr round nose soft point I initially bought when I got my 1943 Izshevsk 91/30. It shot 2 1/2" groups with open sights. I put on a scope and worked up the above load and am very happy with it for a $99 rifle.
|October 27, 2012, 10:23 AM
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Here are a few of my favorites for my 1934 Izzy aresenal Mosin M91/30 which has an extremely tight action and excellent bore. This being said all Mosins ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL in their construction with some less than stellar guns having been produced under extreme duress due to the Germans pounding on the gates of old mother Russia while the war was on . Premium units are rated at up to 56,000 PSI pressure handling capability unlike where published load data by those such as Hodgdon cap their pressures at 46,700 psi for liability reasons. Use disgression and work up your loads accoringly keeping safety #1 .... ALWAYS !!!
Hornady 123 gr. .310"dia. SP, CCI 250, 55.6 gr. BLC2, 0.9" @ 100 yds.
Sierra 125 gr. Pro Hunter , CCI 200, 51.5 gr. IMR 3031 , 1.0" @ 100 yds.
Sierra 150 gr. Pro Hunter, CCI 200, 52.1 gr. RL15, 0.9" @ 100 yds.
Sierra 150 gr. Pro Hunter, CCI 200, 50.7 gr. Varget, 1.1" @ 100 yds.
Speer 150 gr. Hot Core, CCI 250, 58.1 gr. WIN 760, 0.8" @100 yds.
*** Accuracy fell off using 180 gr. bullets and as I dont use this rifle to hunt Elk or such I havent pursued the heavier loads much. Do note I upgraded my front sight with a fully adjustable fine gold dot from Smith Sights and had the crown recut to get these results . I very highly recommend one of the Smith sights or send them yours to modify for very little money. You wont be dissapointed. ***
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For light plinking loads I use about 17 grains of 2400 behind Lee 185-grain cast gas checks in whatever brass I can find. Wheel weight or similar alloy.
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I have been using the .311" 180 gr pro hunter Sierra bullet #2310 for 10 years.
I seat the bullet long, half way between just touching the lands and getting stuck in the lands.
I work up with 4895 until the bolt gets hard to lift.
I then back off ~6% powder charge.
That is my load.
~~ 49 gr makes ~ 2875 fps
I have seen someone else with his 91/30 and that bullet jammed into the lands get 5 shots under an inch at 100 yards.
But if I do everything right with scope mount, welded bolt handle, glass bedding, pillar bedding, Lapua brass, trigger job, benchrest, etc, I get 1.5" for 3 shots typically.
With some of my rifles I can get 5 shots under half an inch, but those are with heavy rifles and light bullets. I think the guy that out shoots me with the 91/30 is better with recoil control. He is 100 pounds heavier than me, and wraps himself around the rifle.
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Wow, how the heck did I miss this post???
Try this:
I'm sorry it's only 60 yards, but at the time I was shooting with uncorrected 20/55 vision.
Now I'm shooting with correction and trying to deal with a very blurry rear sight!
Those were Hornady copies of the SMK; I have real SMKs now and am playing with Varget loads. Still have a bunch of them I need to ladder test, starting at 42 grains Varget.
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|November 16, 2012, 01:20 PM
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I use the LEE 7.62x39 bullet. Shoots good in every thing.
Best though is a Lyman 314299 ahead of 19 gr 2400 or a load of H4895.
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The parents, grandparents, cousins and widow of nine of the 12 people killed in the July shooting said they were asked to attend an "evening of remembrance" followed by a movie when the Aurora theater reopens on Jan. 17. They released a letter sent to the theater's owner, Cinemark, in which they criticized the Plano, Texas-based company for not previously reaching out to them to offer condolences and refusing to meet with them without lawyers.
"Our family members will never be on this earth with us again and a movie ticket and some token words from people who didn't care enough to reach out to us, nor respond when we reached out to them to talk, is appalling," the letter said.
Cinemark had no immediate comment.
The company announced last month that it would reopen the theater on Jan. 17 and invite people affected by the attack and other guests, a move that Aurora officials said has strong support in the community. Gov. John Hickenlooper plans to attend.
The Aurora Sentinel reported that plans filed with the city call for turning the theater into one of the company's "extreme digital cinema" sites that feature massive screens. It's not clear from the plans whether there will be a memorial to the victims.
The invitation was emailed to families by the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance, which said the offer was being sent on behalf of Cinemark.
It arrived two days after Christmas as Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the mother and stepfather of Jessica Ghawi, one of the 12 people killed, were housesitting in Denver.
They had left their home in San Antonio, Texas, on the advice of their grief counselor to avoid being where they typically would have celebrated Christmas with Jessica. Sandy Phillips said they picked Denver on purpose because her daughter, a 24-year-old aspiring sportscaster, had been happy there.
The Phillipses said the invitation could be a public relations ploy to help show the public that some victims or their families are willing to attend the theater reopening.
"It was a killing field. It was a place of carnage and they've not once told us what their plans are for the theater other than that they're reopening it," said Sandy Phillips. She would like the theater where her daughter was killed to be demolished, though she acknowledged that it was unrealistic to expect Cinemark to give up the rest of the building.
The families of some victims have sued Cinemark. The father of the youngest person killed in the shooting, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, is among them. He didn't sign the letter but the girl's grandparents did. The Phillipses have not decided whether they will sue.
Also Wednesday, prosecutors and defense lawyers said they are ready for a crucial hearing next week in which prosecutors will outline their case against James Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 people and wounding 70 during the midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20.
It starts Monday and is scheduled to run all week. At its conclusion, state District Judge William B. Sylvester will decide if the evidence is sufficient to put Holmes on trial.
The defense could waive the hearing but legal analysts said defense lawyers sometimes go ahead with the hearing to get an idea of how strong the prosecution's case is.
Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a former federal prosecutor, said preliminary hearings sometimes set the stage for a plea agreement as each side gets to assess the strength of the other.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder and hasn't been asked to enter a plea yet. His lawyers have said he suffers from mental illness.
Next week's hearing will give the public its first officially sanctioned look at much of the evidence against Holmes.
A judge imposed a gag order shortly after Holmes' arrest barring attorneys and investigators from speaking publicly about the case, and many documents have been sealed.
The University of Colorado, where Holmes was enrolled in a Ph. D. neuroscience program, has also been tight-lipped about the case. Investigators said he began stockpiling firearms and ammunition while taking classes in the spring.
In June, he made threats to a professor and on June 10 filed withdrawal papers after failing a year-end exam, prosecutors said. The next day he saw his school psychiatrist who tried to report him to a campus security committee, according to Holmes' lawyers.


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Thursday, December 4, 2008
MicroEmulator coming to the iPhone
This code is mostly based on the Android port. It's running on JamVM with the class libraries from the GNU Classpath project. Additionally JocStrap is used for the ObjetiveC-Bindings for the high level Views and straptease http://code.google.com/p/straptease/ is used for the native CoreGraphics access for the IPhoneDisplayGraphics implementation.
Original information about this port can be seen on Markus blog.
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- yinlight said...
I've read an article that says that it is legally impossible to publish code for IPhone that is open source because Apple requires programmers to agree to a NDA. In this NDA, the programmer has to agree not to give out the source that is running on the IPhone. Not being able to give out the source (that the programmer wrote) would violate the conditions of GPL, LGPL except licenses where this is not required (e.g. MIT License). In other words, Apple is extending the NDA to apply to code that it has not written themselves, but instead is written by third parties (i.e. us). On the other hand, I have see people giving out their source anyway.
- January 9, 2009 at 4:19 AM
Programmers who use the jailbroken libraries don't need to sign that NDA, therefore they can release open source software
- February 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM
- yinlight said...
I've read that Apple has dropped the NDA so open source is now possible. The NDA was such a pain as you could not have a forum to help people out as you could not show them the code that you did to fix the problem. So, now the NDA is gone and some of the open source companies that were using BSD license are now releasing their code.
- November 30, 2009 at 5:17 AM
- yinlight said...
I was partially wrong. The NDA was relaxed, however it is possible to release open source code now so no fear.
- November 30, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- rmz said...
Hm, any news on on it will be available on iPhone?
- February 5, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- Bartek Teodorczyk said...
You should ask a guy from http://markus.heberling.net/ about that. He was involved in that project.
- February 5, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- DEBA ORGANISATION said...
I have read your site it is about the micro emulator coming to the iphone. NDA is possible to release the open source code.the programmer has to agree not to give out the source that is running on the IPhone.This a very good site for learning about the iphone.
- February 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM


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If you have questions or complaints about government, your first step should be to contact the agency or officials most directly involved. Here is a general guide to help you direct your inquiries and complaints to the appropriate place.
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To contact a city agency, refer to City Government listings in your telephone book or check the city's website. If you have information that may indicate improper governmental activities in a city agency or by a city employee or public official, we suggest that you submit your complaint to the district attorney or grand jury in the county where the action has occurred. The state Attorney General is authorized to undertake the role of a prosecuting officer only in specific cases when the county district attorney is disqualified from the case or when they clearly, without justification, fail to act.
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|Picnic Game 2011
Just in case I haven't said it enough times, July is National Picnic Month!!! What do good bloggers do in preparation for Picnic Month? One of two things. Either they scurry online hopping from site to site in search of the perfect "go-to" picnic dish, or dishes, to celebrate the month long celebration or, they "play" the Picnic Game! What? You've never played the Picnic Game? Come on, we'll show you how.
Now, recite after me, I'm going on a picnic and I'm bringing..."
A-Apricot Cobbler
Toted by...Mae
B-Banana Cream Pie
Toted by...Marjie
C-Cherry Bars in a Jar
Toted by...Barbara
D-Diva Doggie Bites
Toted by...The "Girls"
E-Emeril's Strawberry Lemonade
Toted by...Pattie
F-Fingerling Potato Salad w/ Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette
Toted by...Heather
G-Gugelhopf Twister
Toted by...Kristy
H-Honey Graham Roll-ups
Toted by...Glenda
I-Incredible Rabbit Pineapple Tarts
Toted by...Selby
J-Jam Jewels
Toted by...Tiffanee
K-Kirsch Michel
Toted by...Petra
L-Lime Cranberry Fizz
Toted by...Inger
M-Mint Sundae Brownie Squares
Toted by...Debbie
N-Nice Mini Biscuit Sandwiches
Toted by...Gloria
O-Orange Nut Ring
Toted by...Jana
P-Pan Bagnat Provencal
Toted by...Rita
Q-Quick Lemon Bread
Toted by...Chaya
R-Rhubarb Ruguh-Love
Toted by...Yummy Chunklet
S-Salmon Salad
Toted by...Nadine
T-Tequila Truffles
Toted by...Janet
U-Unique Flan
Toted by...Chaya
V-Venus is Out Tonight Radish, Black Olive & Feta Salad
Toted by...Linda
W-White Chocolate Cherry Almond Sour Cream Scones
Toted by...Reeni
Toted by...Veronica
Y-Yummy Blueberry Hill Cupcakes
Toted by...Gloria
Z-Zucchini Salad
Toted by...Rita
I sincerely want to thank everyone for joining in on the Picnic Game festivities. While I was hopping from
blanket to blanket, blog to blog, I couldn't help but to feel the enthusiasm kindled with each new recipe. New visitors and guests; it's been a pleasure to "meet" you and you all did a GREAT job too. Directions don't seem to be my forte but somehow, you managed to grasp hold and run with it. Some of you, you know who you are, and now so does everyone else, carried two dishes to the picnic again this year, and we appreciate it. A shout out to you too Heather! Thanks for updating our Logo. It looks GREAT! We did it, not only do we have a menagerie of people and dishes, we have each and every letter of the alphabet! Thank you all. It's been an enormous amount of fun. If you didn't get to play the picnic game this year, not to worry, I have it from a very reliable source that we just may be doing this again next year:) Now, let the feast begin!!! Enjoy, Louise:)


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GRAFTON, Ill. (AP) -- A development group is set to detail its plans for an Asian carp-processing plant near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers in the southwestern Illinois city of Grafton.
Representatives of American Heartland Fish Products are scheduled to join Grafton's mayor, state lawmakers and other officials Thursday in spelling out plans for the site that'll be in a business park the city is developing.
Developers believe the plant could help control the populations of silver carp and bighead carp. Those are species from Asia that increasingly have crowded out more popular fish in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
The plan in 700-resident Grafton is to harvest carp that can be processed for export to Asian countries or be turned into fish meal or fish oil.
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Crowley man donates to Disabled Sports
Crowley homeowner Mike Ishikawa, right, gives a check to Kathy Copeland. He donated $2,300 to Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra. From Disabled Sports: "Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra was thrilled when its friend and local supporter, Mike Ishikawa, recently walked through the door with a $2,300 donation check! Mike held a fundraiser for DSES this past summer. He displayed and sold roughly 20 paintings in a gallery at Talley's Vineyards, Arroyo Grande. It is creative fundraising like this event that makes a huge impact on the DSES community, and the Mammoth Lakes community as a whole! Disabled Sports is once again humbled by the support of the community during their year-end donation push, and thank each of their contributors for their continued support!"


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Mark Burbee wasn't sure how the declining economy would affect his daycare business. But despite Lancaster County's high unemployment rate, he said he's doing just fine.
Burbee, owner of Burbee Early Care and Education Center in Lancaster, said enrollment leveled off for several months last year as the economy began to decline. The center normally holds a maximum of 125 children, but enrollment dropped to about 100.
Lancaster-based Soliant is adding its own special paint film to a new police cruiser, the E7, which is being built by an Atlanta company.
Soliant makes the film at its 100-employee plant on S.C. 9. It's a special paint film that's applied to auto components during the parts-molding process, which will help automakers cut costs and reduce solvent emissions during production.
The films will be used extensively on Carbon Motors Corp.'s E7 vehicles, says John Cupstid, Soliant director of sales and marketing.
Pucker up, women. If you believe your lips are irresistible, there's a chance you could go home with a basket of goodies.
The Merle Norman Cosmetics at 949 N. Main St. is having a Most Kissable Lips contest. It started Tuesday and runs through Valentine's Day.
Store owner Toni Hicks said Merle Norman is having the event at all its locations. Three winners will be chosen at the store and will each receive a gift basket containing more than $50 in store products.
INDIAN LAND – Seven years after Harris Teeter left Lancaster County, a new location is opening in Indian Land.
Harris Teeter will celebrate its grand opening March 18 at the Carolina Commons shopping center off U.S. 521 at Sun City Carolina Lakes. The 48,000-square-foot store, which is larger than average, will feature a pharmacy and a Starbucks coffee shop.
Harris Teeter had a store in Lancaster for many years, but it closed in February 2002. The store, located at 409 W. Meeting St., shut its doors after almost 40 years due to declining sales.
A funeral home, an auctioneer and Lancaster civic leader were honored at the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting Thursday night.
The chamber holds its annual meeting to honor the county's Small Business of the Year, the chamber's Volunteer of the Year and hand out a citizenship and service award.
Live and silent auctions are also held to raise money for chamber programs.
Business of the Year
The chamber's Small Business of the Year is Crawford Funeral Home. The award is sponsored by First Citizens Bank.
A new motor sports service has raced into Lancaster County.
Performance Technologies, a company focused on race car preparation and set-up, officially opened Feb. 2, though it has been open since mid-January.
Owner and race enthusiast Ron Read recently relocated from northern Virginia. The Charlotte area attracted him because of its close association with motor sports, particularly NASCAR.
How many people can say that their favorite part of work is getting hugs?
Not too many, but for Christine Green, a doctor at Morphis Pediatric Group Child and Adolescent Behavior Services, this is a regular part of her day.
Green believes that there was a definite need for a practice such as this in Lancaster. She sees patients from all over the county and surrounding areas.
The practice opened in October.
A few dozen stationery note tabs with lip impressions decorated a poster at Merle Norman cosmetics.
Each set of lips represented a customer who had tried her luck at the Most Kissable Lips contest, a promotional event the store held to generate more interest and sales.
The lips varied in size, width and shape as well as the shade of lipstick used.
The three winners are April Faulkenberry, Lacey Lowery and Alison Plyler. Honorable mention went to Ann Lowery and Shelia Starnes.
Stocks & Financial Ticker
Saturday afternoon on the S.C. 9 Bypass looked somewhat like a hurricane evacuation.
Vehicles came to a dead stop as motorists waited in long lines to take advantage of a rare sale – gas for under $1.
Murphy's Express, a new gas station and convenience store next to Zaxby's, held its grand opening Saturday, though the store opened last month.
To celebrate the grand opening, at 11 a.m., it started selling regular gas at $1.49 a gallon.
But to the surprise and benefit of many, that price fell throughout the day.
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Tire sales for the first quarter of the year are down 12.7%. It's certainly not great news, but why are we publishing this figure for you? Because tire sales are the best indicator of how active motorcyclists are during the riding season. With tire sales down 12.7% retailers and brands can expect similar downward trends in apparel, parts, and service items during the same time period.
You can account for the sales drop through a number of factors, though one has to certainly consider the unseasonably cold winter (Polar Vortex) that occurred in the United States — except for us Californians, who just had an extended autumn, despite a slew of new ski gear.


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University of Oregon hires DC lawyer for case
EUGENE — The University of Oregon has hired a high-profile Washington, D.C., lawyer to seek a Supreme Court review of a case in which a former graduate student complained the school retaliated against her for complaining about discrimination.
The Eugene Register-Guard reports he's Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general who has appeared before the court numerous times.
The Oregon case involves Monica Emeldi, a former doctoral student in education who complained that her dissertation adviser didn't give her the help a male counterpart got.
The adviser quit, and other faculty members wouldn't step in. She dropped out and sued under federal law requiring equal opportunity for the sexes.
A federal appeals court found enough evidence for a trial, but the university is asking the Supreme Court to overrule that decision.
Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com


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Your 5 A Day forms part of a healthy, balanced diet, and getting it is easier than you think.
Fruit and vegetables are part of a healthy, balanced diet and can help us stay healthy. It's important that we eat enough of them.
Evidence shows there are significant health benefits to getting at least five 80g portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day. That's five portions of fruit and veg in total, not five portions of each.
The 5 A Day campaign is based on advice from the World Health Organization, which recommends eating a minimum of 400g of fruit and vegetables a day to lower the risk of serious health problems, such as heart disease, stroke and some cancers.
Fruit and vegetables are also usually low in fat and calories (provided you don't fry them or roast them in lots of oil). That's why eating them can help you maintain a healthy weight and keep your heart healthy.
To get the most out of your 5 A Day, your five portions should include a variety of fruit and vegetables. This is because different fruits and vegetables contain different combinations of fibre, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
Almost all fruit and vegetables count towards your 5 A Day. They can be fresh, frozen, canned, dried or juiced. Potatoes, yams and cassava don't count, because they mainly contribute starch to the diet.
If you have a query about 5 A Day that isn't answered in our 5 A Day FAQs, please email the 5 A Day team at Public Health England, on: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Maine Striper fishing with Super Fly Charters and Capt. George Harris, midcoast Maine's premier Fly & light tackle saltwater guide service. Serving the waters of Midcoast Maine from Casco Bay to Penobscot Bay Fishing for Striped Bass, Bluefish, Bluefin Tuna, & More. For more info on Maine saltwater fly & light tackle fishing visit us at http://www.superfly-charters.com
Maine Saltwater Fishing Reports Blog
Welcome to the Fish Blog & saltwater fishing reports page of Super Fly Charters & Capt. George Harris. We're looking forward to providing you with the most up to date coastwide inshore saltwater fishing reports on the Maine coast as well as offshore Bluefin Tuna fishing reports as the Maine Striper & "football" Bluefin Tuna Fishing season goes forward into 2014!!! You wont find any generic"cut & paste" reports or info here...Just pure fishing!!!
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We operate our fishing charters in the Mid-Coast region of Maine, from Casco Bay to Penobscot Bay. This area features an astonishing 1000 miles of jagged, pristine coastline. We focus our efforts on the broad reach of the lower Kennebec river estuary & the outer boundaries of Casco Bay...with its countless thousands of acres of untouched saltwater flats, gnarly tides that rip over rocky structure and an intricate maze of backcountry channels, It's a fly & light tackle fishermans nirvana. On any given day we can be found fishing coastal tide marshes, shallow flats, sandy beaches and islands or ledges located offshore. Wherever the fish are!!! Whether it's on the fly...pitching plugs or live lining frisky live baits we've got you covered check out our website for all of our trip offerings...and stay tuned for some new trips options for 2014
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Maine Striper Fishing August 27th, 2012
Over the several days we have had some pretty good fishing...from shallow water stripers to blitzing bluefish tearing up the lower Kennebec river...September is right around the corner which means my favorite month to fish almost here...if you have not yet booked your tide...please contact us asap!!!
Posted by Capt. George Harris (aka superfly) at 7:27 PM
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- Arrowsic said...
Cool CGH...Son Michael in town from Oregon. I haven't fished in weeks and schedule for next 10 days looks very bleak. Outside forces working against me lately. Hopefully a dozen or so more trips out there to wrap up the season. I forget, so stripers eat Macks right?
- August 27, 2012 at 7:34 PM
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Cherry Pie
For over 100 years, five generations of the Seaquist family have been raising fruit and producing fruit products in Door County, Wisconsin. Located near the scenic village of Sister Bay, Seaquist Orchards offers a variety of premier cherry products as well as other fruit and baked items. Seaquist Orchards processes cherries in their processing plant and cider and cherry juice are pressed right on the farm. Most of their fruit is sold wholesale nationwide.
People from all over the world come to enjoy Door County each year. Many of them make a point of stopping at Seaquist's to enjoy a slice of Kristin's cherry pie, a sample of homemade fudge, cherry salsa, jam or a cup of cold cider.


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B.C.'s Summerhill Winery invokes the powers of the earth with biodynamic techniques
Among the common practices of biodynamic agriculture is the making of Preparation 500, in which manure from a lactating cow is buried underground for the winter in a hollowed out cow's horn.
Summerhill Pyramid Winery CEO Ezra Cipes admits there are elements of biodynamic farming that sound more like witchcraft than modern agriculture, but he insists you can taste the results in a superior glass of wine.
The Kelowna-based winery is near the end of a five-year process of certification by Demeter International, a kind of beyond-organic agricultural certification that emphasizes the integration of farming into with the natural world. When the process is complete, Summerhill will be B.C.'s first Demeter certified winery. Abbotsford's Lotusland Vineyards is also pursuing certification.
In the biodynamic process, herbs such as camomile, nettles and dandelions may be stuffed into the skulls or organs of deer or domesticated livestock and buried in the earth to be recovered and used the following spring to add a dose of bacteria to compost, fertilizer or foliar spray. Often their application is synchronized with cosmological events such has the phases of the moon.
"What we are really doing is creating bacterial cultures," said Ezra, a son of Summerhill owner and founder Stephen Cipes. "With the preparations, it's a homeopathic dose that you can use to inoculate your compost or spray on your crops."
Ezra's brother Gabe is in his third year of creating the preparations.
"In the proper environment two [microbes] will become two billion in a matter of days," said Gabe. "You are able to create great influences over a great area."
From one perspective, the use of cow's horns and bladders appear to add a veneer of pagan ritual and ceremony to agriculture.
"It helps connect the farmer to the universe," Ezra said. "It creates a spiritual and emotional connection."
None of it makes a bit of sense if it doesn't result in better wine. And the Cipes brothers say it does.
"Just because its organic, doesn't mean its good," said Ezra. Ditto for biodynamic wine. "People don't buy wine out of guilt, they buy it to enjoy it."
The world's great wines taste specifically of a place, its soil, water and growing conditions combining to create a unique flavour that winemakers — and sophisticated wine drinkers — call terroir.
Grapes grown in a biodynamically enhanced soil take flavour and nuance from that soil, the brothers say. It's an effect that is particularly noticeable and highly prized in estate bottled wines, those made from grapes from a single vineyard.
Summerhill Pyramid takes terroir seriously, even if its process seems rather eccentric.
A four-storey replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza stands at the winery, which is used to age and "still" the wines for anywhere from three to 12 months, according to Gabe. It's hard to argue with the results.
Summerhill's organic wines and ice wines have scooped a number of gold medals, including two from France's Chardonnay du Monde and three golds, two silvers and three bronze medals at the 2011 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition.
When patriarch Stephen Cipes bought the winery in 1986 and moved his family to Kelowna from New York, he immediately ended the use of conventional chemical fertilizers and pesticides and began to practice organic agriculture.
"Biodynamics is kind of like the original organic certification," said Ezra. Established in 1928, Demeter certification predates most of the recognized organic certification systems by more than 40 years.
To obtain biodynamic certification a farm must first be certified organic, meaning it uses no chemical fertilizers or pesticides, no antibiotics and maintains strict standards for production, storage and transport.
Nearly half of the 80-acre Summerhill vineyard in the certification process is held as a natural conservation area to maintain biodiversity. To create healthy nutritious soil for the grape vines, composting is done on site using manure from nearby certified organic farms.
Green waste from the organic garden that supplies the winery's restaurant and by-products of wine production are also added to the mix. Lest the family's efforts be dismissed as mere — not to overuse the word — eccentricity, science backs up claims made by biodynamic enthusiasts.
A study published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal found that soil quality on biodynamic farms was better than that of conventional farms.
"Organically and biodynamically managed soils had similar microbial status and were more biotically active than soils that did not receive organic fertilization," the study concluded.


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HorseSense wrote:blabbate wrote:We don't have evidence either way in this case.
Then what is your POINT?
We have POTENTIAL evidence that hasn't shown up yet, according to even you. You HONESTLY think Monsanto or the federal government gives a crap about you?
Yet it seems you don't give two flips about that thought, even trying to shoot down others' advise to stay away from it.
Go back and read my first response to you. It contains both my original point and my thoughts on the GMO companies.
"There's no evidence that GMO soy is any different from non-GMO in terms of nutrients or health. The only reason to stay away from GMO is because it's controlled by unethical companies."
To be even more clear, my point is that when advising someone to stay away from GMO products, be specific as to why. There's no need to feed into fear-mongering about GMOs being unhealthy, but it's worth noting how awful Monsanto et al are. That way, people aren't misled and can make their own choices.


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Connect! joins Graduation Alliance
In June 2014, the Connect! college and career planning platform and other ConnectEDU assets were acquired by Graduation Alliance, a Utah-based education technology firm focused on helping students of all ages find the resources and support they need to earn their high school diploma and prepare for their next chapter in life.
A key addition to Graduation Alliance's Exploration and Planning solutions, the Connect! platform continues to support the exploration of career pathways and personalized academic planning students need to successfully transition to college and a career.
Interested in logging into Connect!? Simply visit connectedu.net or select 'Connect Login' at the top of any GraduationAlliance.com page.
Interested in learning more about Graduation Alliance's acquisition of Connect!? Read more.


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This is a gift for a family member so I haven't read it but it looks very interesting.
Spoke, a book by author Coleman, is a true story derived from his memories of the 1960's. He reviews this tumultuous decade including lunch-counter sit-ins, draft board raids, Martin Luther King Jr., the advent of the women's lib movement and much more. Coleman uses his memories, interviews with contemporaries, and a variety of factual documents to recall this time in America's history.


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General Election 2010
General Election
Results: 650 of 650 constituencies declared
Follow the General Election with our dynamic political map showing results as they happen. Select a region then click on a constituency to read a political profile and see candidates and votes.
Miliband: the yolk's on the Tories
9:49am Saturday 5th May 2012
HE came to celebrate a cracking election win which had left Labour's Tory opponents in Southampton with egg on their faces.
Labour block £50m CCTV network deal
5:20pm Friday 27th April 2012
Labour has moved to block a £50m contract to run Southampton council's CCTV network.
MP joins Ed Miliband camp
10:35am Tuesday 18th May 2010
SOUTHAMPTON Test MP Alan Whitehead is backing former Energy Secretary Ed Miliband for the leadership of the Labour Party.
Ed Miliband joins his brother to stand for Labour leader
11:53am Saturday 15th May 2010
Former energy secretary Ed Miliband today formally declared his intention to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party.
Coalition government gets to work
9:58am Wednesday 12th May 2010
THE Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are today finally rolling up their sleeves to begin the work of Government six days after last week's indecisive general election.
Hampshire MP set for front bench role
10:08am Wednesday 12th May 2010
Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne is expected to be appointed energy and climate change secretary in a Conservative-Liberal Democrat government, the Daily Echo understands.
Hampshire politicians give verdict on new government
9:38am Wednesday 12th May 2010
THE new coalition Government is a bitter sweet moment for Hampshire Liberal Democrats who have been battling the Conservatives for years.
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Research In Motion is set to launch a Porsche designed BlackBerry at the end of the month, for those that want something a little different from the standard models.
Invites have been going to a select few for a special VIP preview evening of an exclusive collaboration between Porsche Design and BlackBerry in Dubai, asking people to "Be part of something truly exclusive."
The event is being held on 27 October.
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Following JP Morgan's disclosure of a $2 billion loss, a small but increasingly vocal group of lawmakers and economists are arguing that a 60-year-old piece if financial legislation should never have been repealed in 1999.
They say the law, known as the Glass-Steagall Act, was so consequential that there's a direct link between its repeal and both the 2008 financial meltdown and JPMorgan's huge loss.
Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. The original intent was to prevent the kind of speculation and bank runs that led to the catastrophic stock market crash in 1929. But by 1999, the overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill was that it was time for a change.
Then-President Bill Clinton and his treasury secretary, Larry Summers, urged Congress to ease the regulations that separated commercial and investment banks.
"If we don't pass this bill, we could find London or Frankfurt or, years down the road, Shanghai becoming the financial capital of the world," Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said on the Senate floor.
Just eight senators voted against the repeal, including Democrat Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. The former senator tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that at the time, he warned that repealing the law would fuel consolidation on Wall Street and raise the likelihood of taxpayer-funded bailouts.
"I was very concerned about what this was going to mean for the future of the country," he says.
Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who is running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, says she wants to bring Glass-Steagall back. She tells Raz that banks that offer commercial services — checking, savings and deposit accounts — should not be in the business of making financial bets that can result in massive losses — like at JPMorgan. That should be left to the Wall Street trading firms, she says.
"Glass-Steagall says there needs to be a wall between those two kinds of activities," Warren says. "It's not going to work to let the biggest financial institutions just go out and do what they want."
The Volcker Rule, part of the Dodd-Frank Act passed two years ago, is meant to keep those risky activities in check by having federal regulators watch the big banks. But Warren says that's not enough.
"If that's not working, if we don't have regulators who are able to be strong enough [and] write tough enough rules to keep that distinction in place, the Volcker Rule won't be able to do its job," she says.
What Happened To Dodd-Frank?
Back in 2010, when Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the president hailed it as a turning point. The law was supposed to do things like prevent predatory lending, ban big banks from taking risky bets with taxpayer money and limit speculators from inflating prices of commodities.
Some of that is happening, but according to an article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Wall Street has been mounting a massive campaign to roll back key parts of the law. Reporter Matt Taibbi tells NPR that these challenges to the law – including to the Volcker Rule – could hold up Dodd-Frank from being fully implemented.
"The Volcker Rule took so long to write ... [it's] not going to go into effect until 2014," Taibbi says. "If it does, which I have serious doubts [about], I think there will be a lawsuit [or] legislation; something will happen and we'll just never get that rule."
The myriad of exceptions and challenges the financial industry inserted into Dodd-Frank caused the bill to balloon to thousands of pages, Taibbi says. If the proponents of Dodd-Frank had had their way, he says, the bill would have been a couple of very simple but hard rules.
One of those rules said "you can't be too big to fail," meaning banks would be broken up if they got too big, he says. Another rule would have had banks contribute to a fund that would pay for a bailout if needed. Neither of those rules made it into the bill in their original form.
"This is how Dodd-Frank worked in general," Taibbi says, "you started off with a very simple concept, and by the time industry was done with it, it was 1,000 pages long."
Under industry pressure last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to exempt thousands of Wall Street firms from oversight if they earn less than $8 billion a year. By one estimate, that could affect up to 85 percent of financial firms.
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The Dodd-Frank legislation has its share of critics who feel the law imposes layers of unnecessary bureaucracy on the financial system. Many of those same critics also say that bringing back Glass-Steagall is not the answer.
Peter Wallison, general counsel for the Treasury Department under President Reagan, tells NPR that proponents of regulation are just trying to take advantage of the JPMorgan trading loss to push for more regulation.
"I think this has been wildly exaggerated," Wallison says. "This is not something that taxpayers ought to be worried about."
The $2 billion loss would most certainly hurt shareholders, he says, but it doesn't do very much to damage the position of the bank or its health. The media, he says, incorrectly took the loss as an indication that banks are not being properly managed.
As far as the link between Glass-Steagall, the 2008 financial crisis and JPMorgan's loss, Wallison just doesn't see it.
"The banks made bad loans in 2008," he says. "They have always been permitted to make loans; Glass-Steagall had nothing to do with whether they make loans. That's what banks are supposed to be doing."
JPMorgan's risky trades, he says, were supposedly made in the interest of protecting the bank against losses. But any hedge, as they're called, is a potential loss itself. Wallison hopes this highly public loss won't stop other banks from hedging their assets, which he says could contribute to further losses.
"The only thing that it might do is to make sure that every complicated trade is gone over by many more people, and followed by more people than this one was," he says.
All right. To our cover story now. And the question we're asking today is: In light of the $2 billion-plus trading loss by JPMorgan Chase last week, whatever happened to financial reform? And more importantly, could it have prevented that loss? And even more importantly, should any of us really care if JPMorgan lost all that cash?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Unintelligible) come to order.
RAZ: Our story begins on November 4, 1999.
SENATOR MIKE CRAPO: Today, the Senate will resume consideration of the conference report to accompany the Financial Services Modernization bill.
RAZ: It sounds a bit dull, but what was being discussed that day was quite possibly the most profound change to the U.S. financial system in 66 years.
CRAPO: There are approximately six hours of debate remaining under the order.
RAZ: President Bill Clinton and his Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, urged Congress to ease Depression-era regulations that separated commercial banks and investment banks. The law was known as Glass-Steagall, and Congress passed it in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. The original intent was to prevent the kind of speculation and bank runs that led to the catastrophic stock market crash in 1929. But by 1999, the overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill was that it was time for a change.
SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER: Mr. President, this is a historic moment.
RAZ: That's New York Senator Chuck Schumer. That day, November 4, 1999, speaker after speaker, rose on the Senate floor to call for the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
SCHUMER: If we didn't pass this bill, we could find London or Frankfurt or, years down the road, Shanghai becoming the financial capital of the world.
RAZ: Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey dismissed the tiny minority of senators who criticized the bill.
BOB KERREY: I think the concerns that we're going to have a meltdown like we had in 1929 is - are concerns that are dramatically overblown, given...
RAZ: Just eight senators voted against the repeal. Republican Richard Shelby was one of them, so as...
BYRON DORGAN: Mr. President...
RAZ: ...North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan.
DORGAN: ...I come to the floor to say that I regret that I cannot support the legislation.
RAZ: Byron Dorgan is no longer a senator, but back at the time, Dorgan recalls, there was immense pressure to back repeal. Were you seen as a kind of a, you know, an oddball for opposing this at the time?
DORGAN: Well, I don't know if they saw me as an oddball, but I was sure a pain in the side because I went down to the floor again and again and again to speak against this. I said this is going to fuel consolidations and mergers on Wall Street. Substantial new concentration and mergers in the financial services industry. It's going to raise the likelihood of future massive taxpayer bailouts. And we are deliberately and certainly with this legislation moving towards inheriting much greater risk in our financial services industries.
I said I think we're going to look back. We will in 10 years' time look back and say we should not have done this because we forgot the lessons of the past. I was, you know, very concerned about what this was going to mean to the future of the country.
RAZ: Now, why dig up an old story about something that happened on the Senate floor more than a decade ago? Well, the answer is because there's a small but increasingly vocal group of lawmakers, including Senator John McCain, who want to reinstate Glass-Steagall. Many of them argue that that decision, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, was so consequential, so important that there's a direct link between it and the financial meltdown of 2008 and, more recently, the $2 billion-plus trading loss by JPMorgan Chase last week.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Today, the Justice Department launched a criminal probe into JPMorgan's $2 billion trading loss.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Boy, this was a real bomb that dropped on the street.
UNDENTIFIED WOMAN: The analysts are grilling CEO Jamie Dimon...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: JPMorgan down almost 7 percent in after-hours on egregious trading losses of $2 billion.
RAZ: Now, the connection between Glass-Steagall and the loss of JPMorgan Chase is by no means definitive. And later, we'll hear from a former Reagan official who says any attempt to make that connection is nonsense. But first to someone who has vowed, if elected to the U.S. Senate, to bring Glass-Steagall back. Her name is Elizabeth Warren. She's a Harvard Law professor and the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That was created as part of a series of financial reforms passed in 2010, known as Dodd-Frank. We'll get to that in a few moments.
Elizabeth Warren is now running for the U.S. Senate for Massachusetts, and she's a lightning rod for opponents of tougher financial regulation. When I spoke with her this week, the first question I asked, why should any of us care whether JPMorgan Chase lost its shirt on a bad bet? After all, the CEO of the company, Jamie Dimon, isn't asking for a taxpayer bailout.
ELIZABETH WARREN: Because he's not asking this time. But the point is he's taking on those risks. And, look, this isn't personal to Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase. This is really about the large financial institutions saying it's business as usual. We will make the decisions how much risk we want to take on. We'll figure out the gambles. We'll juice our bottom-line profits by just betting some extraordinary sums of money. And we don't want the regulators to have anything to do with it.
But what we all learned in 2008 is when they get that - they may get all the profits in the good times, but when they get it wrong, it's the taxpayers, it's everybody else who comes in and has to pick up the pieces. And that means the deal doesn't work. If they want to be in the banking business, they have to have - they have to be willing to submit to effective regulation.
RAZ: You have recently announced that you would want to reinstate the Glass-Steagall bill, that you would want to reintroduce this bill that was repealed in 1999. How would reintroducing that have prevented what happened with JPMorgan last week?
WARREN: Well, the key on Glass-Steagall is that it makes banking boring. It says if you want to do all those exciting things, like take $100 billion bets or lose $2 billion or maybe three, you need to do that over in the Wall Street trading kind of business, not in a basic commercial bank that takes deposits and, you know, checking accounts and savings accounts. Glass-Steagall says there needs to be a wall between those two kinds of activities.
Congress, I hope, sees the writing here and says it's not going to work to let the biggest financial institutions just go out and do what they want. We can't turn these guys loose.
RAZ: My understanding was that the so-called Volcker Rule, named after Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman, was supposed to address this, that this is part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform that was passed two years ago. Why not just work on strengthening that?
WARREN: Well, and that is an approach. Look, I supported the Volcker Rule. But remember what the heart of the Volcker Rule is about. It says, hmm, these biggest financial institutions can continue to engage in both kinds of activities - that is the boring taking deposits and all that sort of thing - at the same time that they're also doing the high-risk activities so long as we keep careful watch over them.
If that's not working, if we don't have regulators who are able to be strong enough, who can write tough enough rules to keep that distinction in place, the Volcker Rule won't be able to do its job.
RAZ: That's Elizabeth Warren. She's a candidate for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. By the way, her opponent in the race, Senator Scott Brown, was one of just three Republicans who backed the financial reform bill known as Dodd-Frank back in 2010.
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
Back to our cover story now and the tangled trials of financial reform on Wall Street. Back in 2010, when Congress passed what's become known as Dodd-Frank, the president hailed it as a turning point.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: So all told, these reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history, in history.
RAZ: Dodd-Frank was supposed to do things like prevent predatory lending, ban big banks from taking risky bets through taxpayer money and limit speculators from inflating prices of commodities. Some of that is happening, but according to an article on the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Wall Street has been mounting a massive campaign to roll back key parts of the law. Reporter Matt Taibbi wrote that story.
MATT TAIBBI: The easiest way to see that is in the issue that most directly bears upon this Chase incident, which is the whole issue surrounding the Volcker Rule. Now, the Volcker Rule was designed to prevent what they call proprietary trading, which is a bank trading for its own account. But before the Volcker Rule was even passed in the original version of Dodd-Frank, industry insisted on a wave of exemptions and loopholes, and there were so many. Basically anything could be exempted under the rule, including this particular trade that got Chase in trouble.
Beyond that, the Volcker Rule took so long to write because they had to craft all these very, very careful and detailed exemptions. Now the Volcker Rule is not going to into effect until 2014. If it does, which I have serious doubts, I think there'll be a lawsuit, there'll be new legislation. Something will happen, and we'll just never get that rule.
RAZ: And there are all of these banks that are basically taking parts of Dodd-Frank and challenging it in court, right?
TAIBBI: Yes. And that's happening across the board with all different parts of the bill. You know, we had a lot of volatility with commodities, thing like oil and food prices. And a lot of this is because there's been this huge influx of speculative money that's poured into these markets.
And Dodd-Frank theoretically addressed this by saying essentially that no one speculator could dominate more than a quarter of the market at any time while industry filed a lawsuit, which challenge the legality of that rule on the basis that the government did not perform a cost-benefit analysis of the law. And so that's being tied up in the courts now. And my guess is that that'll be overturned.
RAZ: You describe the situation where you have a lot of critics saying, look at these financial regulations - 17,000 pages of these Dodd-Frank law - but they're also the same people, you argue, who created these 17,000 pages by lobbying for them.
TAIBBI: That's absolutely the case. I think if the proponents of Dodd-Frank had had their way, just like what FDR did, you would have had just a couple of simple but very hard rules. For instance, you can't be too big to fail. There was a lot of movement to pass a law that said that if a bank got to be a certain size that it just had to be a broken up. But they managed to overturn that. Originally, they were going to create an FDI cease file fund the banks would pay into ahead of time to pay for future bailouts.
But that was defeated, and what they created instead was this incredibly convoluted process by which the state would put up the money for bailouts first, and then they would have to recoup the money from Wall Street later over the course of a process that could take 10 years or more.
So this is kind of an example of how Dodd-Frank worked in general. You start it off with a very simple concept. And by the time industry was done with it, it was 1,000 pages long every time.
RAZ: That's Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi. Peter Wallison was the general counsel for the Treasury Department under President Ronald Reagan. He believes Dodd-Frank is a bad law that imposes layers of unnecessary bureaucracy on the financial system. And he also argues that proponents of regulation are just trying to take advantage of the JPMorgan trading loss to push for more regulation.
PETER WALLISON: I think this had been wildly exaggerated. This is not something that taxpayers ought to be worried about. The bank will earn probably this year somewhere between 15 and $20 billion. So again, $2 billion hurts the shareholders, but it doesn't do very much to damage the position of the bank or its health. So the one thing that I think might have changed the way this has developed would have been to educate members of the media who took a $2 billion loss on a $2 trillion bank and treated it as though it was some kind of indication that banks are not being properly managed.
RAZ: I mean, there are two separate narratives here. And one narrative says 1999, Glass-Steagall was repealed, and there's a direct link between what happened then and what happened 2008. There's another narrative that says that's just not the case. 2008 would have happened anyway. It had nothing to do with that.
WALLISON: Yeah. Well, look, I - even if we give credit to the narrative that says that what happened in 2008 was a result of lack of regulation of the banks, there really is no connection between Glass-Steagall at all in what happened with the banks, because the banks made bad loans in 2008. They have always been permitted to make loans. Glass-Steagall had nothing to do with whether they make loans. That's what banks are supposed to be doing. And the fact that they were able to affiliate with firms that underwrote or dealt in securities makes no difference at all.
RAZ: Let me go back to JPMorgan for a moment, because the market value of the company initially fell by 15 billion or so. It's still way up what it was before. What do you think other banks will take out of that episode? I mean, do you think they will become less likely to take chances that could lead to profits?
WALLISON: You know, most of what has been said about this is that it was a trade for the purpose of earning profits. This was a trade or a series of trades that were intended to protect the bank against losses. Now, any trade that is a hedge is potentially a loss. That only means that banking and any kind of financial activity of the kind that banks do is always going to be somewhat risky.
Will this keep other banks from hedging their assets? One would hope not. That would probably contribute substantially to additional losses. So I think the only thing that it might do is to make sure that every complicated trade is gone over by many more people and followed much more carefully than this one was.
RAZ: That's Peter Wallison, a former Treasury official in the Reagan administration. By the way, last month, under industry pressure, the SEC agreed to exempt thousands of Wall Street firms from oversight on derivatives trading if they earn less than $8 billion a year. By one estimate, that could affect up to 85 percent of financial firms. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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