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Heading for the "puke point"
Richard Daughty
- I am in full lock-down mode here at the Mogambo Bunker, and I gotta tell ya that I look pretty sharp in my camouflage Speedo and these bandoliers of ammo across my chest. The reason that I am so frantic is that the growth in Total Fed Credit has gone to zero for over a month now. This is, for me, the ultimate in bad news.
The lack of growth in Fed Credit is bad news because, as Peter Zihlmann of P. Zihlmann Investments explains, "The present expansion is the longest running expansion on record. It has surpassed all other economic expansions before it. The driving force behind it is the rapid growth of the money supply and the explosion of credit that has accompanied it." Many people are saying that the money supply is anemic, too, but that is not exactly true. In fact, M3 has accelerated over the last month above its trend for the last few years, although the monetary base has pretty much leveled off.
But if there really is no rapid growth in the money supply, and there is no explosion in new credit, then the longest-running expansion in history must be just that; history.
Gary Lammert, who is a practitioner of fractal analysis, writes that even when there is money and credit being pumped out, there is nothing to guarantee that they money will be spent on anything useful. "But without the growing money supply flowing into investments for the production of real and useful items that can be sold in a competitive manner to the global markets, the generated economic activity may be malinvested into cul de sacs of domestic services, speculative financial assets, and purely domestic production items such as housing construction."
So the money may be thrown down some rat hole or another, such as stocks or bonds or houses.
"Every great economic cycle," he goes on to say, "has a recognizable -usually in retrospective- apogee inflection point or day where markets peak and begin their primary descent. While the primary cause of this inflection point in major economic cycles is a decelerating rate of growth money supply (prior to an actual contracting money supply), the inciting composite elements of that decelerating money supply are a combination of fundamental evolving feedback conditions occurring in the real economy at the consumer level. At the consumer level - ongoing wages, consumer debt load, forward consumption status, and projected job status dependent on near term production needs - all factor into the deceleration of borrowing and hence money supply." In short, sometimes people are already so far in debt that they don't want to take on any more damn debt and then have to listen to their wives or husbands whining and complaining that they can't afford to eat as it is, and borrowing MORE damn money to buy ANOTHER damn machinegun is crazy. Some people have called this the "puke point."
And if that wasn't enough, in the last week foreigners have suddenly stopped buying our debt through their accounts at the Fed. And the banks have suddenly divested themselves of $74 billion in government debt. In one week! One! And the banks got rid of another $11.5 billion in "other securities," to boot!
The only bright spot, if you want to call it that, is that mortgage activity in the banks took a big jump, as usual, meaning that the only thing that is selling well is the ultimate in humongously-expensive, time-consuming, non-productive things, namely houses.
Now, left to its own devices, the economy would, under normal circumstances, drift into a little recession, the excesses would be cleaned out, and the stupid businesses (the only kind that will hire me) would all go under, and the mismanaged businesses would all go under, freeing up resources of all kinds, and the busted people who acted like idiots would all be swearing that if they ever, EVER, get their hands on another dime, they will never, never, EVER act so stupid with it again as long as they lived, cross my heart And, for awhile, people will try and save some money and make do without things they want, and savings would grow, and pent-up demand would grow, and then one day, for reasons that nobody can actually enumerate, things get a little better, and then they get a little more better, and then better and better and better, and after awhile the economy is perking again, only slightly different, since there are no stupid businesses or mismanaged business stinking up the joint.
But these are not normal times. The cover of Barron's this week, with the headline "When Will He Stop?" should convince you of that. The illustration is of Alan Greenspan pumping up a balloon with a bicycle pump. The balloon, emblazoned with "4%", is leaking air. The article, inside, by Randall W. Forsyth, who is one of the Assistant Managing Editors of Barron's, wrote the cover story. He entitled it, "Leaky Balloon" with the subhead, "Greenspan's end game". The story itself is nothing, as the whole purpose of that particular newspaper is to get people to buy stocks, and it would irritate advertisers to even suggest that everything was not wonderful, or even hint that today is not the perfect time to buy stocks, and lots of them. So it is not surprising that it does not even mention the cause of our problems; an out-of-control Federal Reserve and the resultant enormous levels of staggering, stultifying, smothering debt in every freaking corner of the world. So how insightful can it be?
But the article does contain a helpful suggestion as to where the next stimulus is going to be. He quotes Independent Strategy, a London based consultancy, as saying "there is a paucity of corporate spending the U.S. and the rest of the developed world."
If this is true, and even if it is not true, then you can count on Congress to pass some more tax incentives to encourage businesses to spend. And since mere deductions, which only means that the business does not have to pay tax on the money they spent, are insufficient, look for tax credits, where the business gets actual cash from the government! Spend a buck, get some, if not all, of your money back! Talk about an economic stimulus!
Perhaps this explains an article in the Washington Post, entitled "The Road to Riches Is Called K Street," informs us that the number of registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. has, since 2000, more than doubled. The fees they charge their clients have doubled.
Why this sudden lobbying activity? The Post explains "The lobbying boom has been caused by three factors, experts say: rapid growth in government, Republican control of both the White House and Congress, and wide acceptance among corporations that they need to hire professional lobbyists to secure their share of federal benefits."
Patrick J. Griffin, who is identified as "President Bill Clinton's top lobbyist", says that the clients of lobbyists "see that they can win things, that there's something to be gained." It's this next part that caused me to spew beer out of my nose. "Washington has become a profit center." Like this is news or something! Hahahaha!
But it IS news, because of the sudden sheer size of the money involved, as the article then went on to chronicle how the Republicans have sold out, becoming as loathsome as the Democrats, only better dressed, when they write "The Republicans in charge aren't just pro-business, they are also pro-government. Federal outlays increased nearly 30 percent from 2000 to 2004, to $2.29 trillion. And despite the budget deficit, federal spending is set to increase again this year, especially in programs that are prime lobbying targets, such as defense, homeland security, and medical coverage." In short, things to kill people, things to spy on people, and socialized medicine. Terrific. Just freaking terrific.
Having said that, this is where I always make my big mistake, as I always underestimate the lengths to which government will go, and the depths to which they will sink, to desperately try and ameliorate the damage that they continuously do. So I, foolishly trying in vain to learn from my mistakes, now say that you should look for more tax rebates, something on the order of a thousand bucks to everybody! Look for tax credits for buying cars and houses! Look for taxpayer money being spent to pay poor people's down payments on houses! Look for elimination of capital gains on investments! Look for spending on energy development of all kinds! Drilling for oil! Solar! Wind power! Hydrogen power! Nuclear power! Biomass! Natural gas! Anything, Jack, anything!
And this is entirely possible, because when you have a fiat currency, there is no end to what a government can do to literally put money into people's pockets. It is limited only to the extent of the human imagination, greed and fear.
And since the entire economy is now totally dependent on the four-legged stool of government spending, the stock market, the bond market, and the housing market, that is where the Congressional stimulus will probably flow.
Of course, all of this stimulus spending will not be good news for inflation, which is already bad and getting worse. The good news is that I do not even have to do any real work, as Doug Noland has already done the math. "For the week," he writes, "the CRB index rose 0.4%, increasing y-t-d gains to 10.0%. The Goldman Sachs Commodities index added 0.3%, with 2005 gains rising to 27.9%." And for a personal opinion, go buy something. The prices will astound you.
Or, even easier and a lot cheaper, I can tell you what you will find, courtesy of an article in the June 19 issue of my stupid hometown Leftist rag of a newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times. They have, across the bottom of the page, some charts. Since 1998, median home prices are up 13.9% per year, gas prices up 13.1% per year, homeowners insurance up9.9% per year, health insurance up 14.5% per year. On the income side, average wages are up 3.3% per year, and Social Security payments are up 3.6% per year.
The article itself is an entire page of the stories of people who can no longer actually survive, thanks to prices rising so much.
If you read between the lines of Larry Edelson's "Real Wealth Report", you will note that he agrees with The Mogambo about this inflation thing. But if you call him up to ask him about this, he acts all surprised and says "Mogambo who?"
But this is not about how Mr. Edelson snubs the poor Mogambo, who is merely trying to borrow a few bucks to get him through the week. No, he is talking about inflation, and he writes, "And right now, almost every commodity and investment I write about - food, precious metals, energy, even water - is soaring. The cost of a 5-ounce can of pistachios I bought yesterday is up 12% in a month. A large size bag of Lay's potato chips is up another 14%. Corn and wheat prices are up 13% and 11% respectively since early May. Soybean prices are on a tear, UP 23% in barely four weeks. The price of cocoa is up 10% in a week. Sugar is up 10% in three weeks. A loaf of bread is up 8.9% since the first of the year. A head of lettuce is up 13%."
And it is going to get worse and worse because, as he correctly says, "Rising oil prices are inflationary." To amend that, I will generalize to say that rising prices of ANY kind is inflationary.
The famous Jim Rogers is on the same wavelength, and he figures that, just looking at historical precedents, "The boom market in commodities will last till sometime between 2014 and 2022. The crude oil crisis however, could deepen unless someone discovers a huge, new oilfield." Yeah, like THAT'S going to happen ! Hahahaha! There has not been one major oil field find, anywhere in the world, in the last 35 years!
But your government is doing all it can to shield you from the bad news, even as it works overtime to make it worse. They are lying about prices, as Mr. Edelson notes when he says "the Consumer Price Index is essentially a sham. It's manipulated lower because it's the index the government uses to adjust Social Security, welfare, and Medicare payments. The lower the index - or the slower its rise - the more the government saves.
"No taxes of any kind are accounted for as a cost of living. Not personal taxes. Not sales and local taxes. Not consumption taxes. Not even property taxes. For some reason, the government does not consider these items to be 'a cost of living.'
"But the biggest manipulation in the CPI is the way the government calculates the cost of housing. It uses rents as a substitute for the actual cost of buying a home. But with millions of Americans dumping their rentals and rushing into home ownership, rents are actually going down in some areas."
That is why I have not run into anybody, anywhere, who thinks that inflation is not roaring, or anybody who is not angry about it, and when I tell them that the government says that inflation is very, very, very low, they look at me incredulously and ask "What are you? Some kind of idiot?" and I have to admit that, yes, I am an idiot, but that does not change the fact that the government is lying when it says that inflation is, as I reported, very, very, very low.
- I am surprised at the hostile reaction to the Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London. The crux of the case is, using their analogy, that the state can take property from A to give it to B because B will pay higher taxes. The people don't like that? Hahahaha! I shake my head in wonder! This is the exact same loathsome Leftist lunatic philosophy that has permeated everything for the last half century! But now, NOW, they are upset? The government is continually taking something away from you, whom I will refer to as A, to give it to some other guy, whom I will label as B. But now, just because it is their houses on the line, people are getting upset? Hahahaha! What morons!
But you never hear WHY New London is making this grab for people's property. The reason is, obviously that the morons of New London, like moronic governments everywhere, have persisted in electing Leftist morons to their government, and that government of morons (GOM) has spent the last half century spending every dime they can get their hands on, and raising taxes to get MORE money to spend, and promising the moon to everybody. Now they need money. They need lots of money. Lots and lots of money. But taxes are already so onerous that they can't raise them any more.
And why do they need so much money? They have provided for legions of city workers who are, like all government workers everywhere, grossly overpaid and under-worked, and who have benefit packages so outrageously generous that they are not even available anywhere in the private sector, and they are under-funded. They have promised lifetime pensions to everybody that ever sat on the City Council, or worked for the government, or even merely walked by City Hall one day when they were handing out generous pensions to everybody in sight. They have continuously built parks and playgrounds and recreational facilities and gymnasiums and nature trails and museums and swimming pools and erected a multitude of public buildings, and staffed all of them to the max. They have responded to the egregiously bad performance of their educational system by paying the bad teachers and administrators more and more and more, instead of firing them. They have created local entitlement programs and welfare programs and before-school breakfast programs and after-school latch-key programs and school-crossing guard programs and assistance programs of every stripe. They have whole fleets of new cars and trucks for city employees. They have issued general obligation bonds and revenue-anticipation bonds by the truck full. And now they have, like the butthead citizens who elected these dimwits, spent their way to the literal edge of bankruptcy.
And so the people are upset? Hahahaha! The state has debased and destroyed their money, but they are not upset about that. The state has grown itself to be, literally, half the entire economy, but they are not upset about that. The state has now installed so many taxes on so many things that they have driven up prices, but they are not upset about that. The state has indebted every citizen alive, and citizens who are not even born yet, so heavily that the debt cannot ever be paid back, but they are not upset about that. The state has encouraged that all the retirement accounts of everyone be put into the stock and bond markets, and they have lost money for years, but they are not upset about that. The state has gradually eaten away at every liberty, piece by piece by piece, but they are not upset about that. They have allowed the Constitution to be gutted, bit by bit by bit, but they are not upset about that. But maybe force them to move out of their houses, and they are, all of a sudden, upset about that! Hahahaha!
Perhaps Vox Day, in an essay on WorldNetDaily.com, encapsulated it best when he wrote, "Merely substitute a few terms in describing the system and it becomes clear that the Supreme Court has established a neofeudal oligarchy, where all land is held in the name of the federal government-king, governed by his local government-nobles and worked by taxpayer-serfs. Should one serf fail to produce a satisfactory harvest of crops-tax revenues, the noble can take the land from one serf and give it to another who promises to produce a more abundant harvest.
"This is a major expansion of the eminent domain concept, and I can confidently predict that the redefinition of the constitutional term 'public use' will soon be as stretched beyond recognition as the now-meaningless phrase 'interstate commerce,' (as has) the Orwellian term that now covers things that do not cross state lines (and thus are not interstate) and have not been sold or exchanged for other goods (and thus are not commerce)."
- China reportedly has 50 coal-fired plants under construction, and there are another 600 or so planned for the next 6 to 8 years. That's a good thing, too, as they are going to need every kilowatt, because the future of China is that there are going to be more, a lot more, gigawatt-gobbling air conditioners and furnaces and hot water heaters and dishwashers and computers and printers and TVs and VCRs and video games and electric gizmos of all kinds, and lots and lots of power-hungry machinery and industrial processes to supply all of this stuff. Investment tip o'; the day: invest in coal and coal-oriented technologies.
But, predictably, air pollution is bad and getting worse. As a result, the National People's Congress Standing Committee passed a Renewable Energy Law, effective January 1, 2006. This new law requires that by 2020, 10 percent of China's electricity must be generated from renewable energy sources by 2020.
Ten percent of the usage today is a hell of a lot. Okay, now let's look at fifteen years of growth in electricity usage, given the extent of planned increase in coal-fired technology alone talked about in the preceding paragraph. Wow!
And let's not forget about oil, as they are going to use a lot of oil.
- I was given a copy of the famous June 5 NY Times article about gold by Stephen Metcalf entitled "Believing in Bullion" which was okay as far as it went. But the part that really started me going berserk is that he is quoting some bozo German sociologist named Georg Simmel, whom Mr. Metcalf characterizes as "the greatest theorist of money" who said that "money is only money when it is in motion." The actual quote from this Simmel jerk is "When money stands still, it is no longer money according to its specific value and significance." Hahaha! What a moron! This proves that he does not understand the first thing about money, just as I do not understand the first thing about being a good husband and father. And as for the suggestion that he is the "greatest theorist of money" I laugh one of those long and labored Mogambo laughs (LALML) that convey contempt and ridicule, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
So, to paraphrase this Simmel bonehead, food is not food until you eat it? Gasoline is not gasoline until you drive your car? A hand grenade is not an explosive until you pull the pin? The Mogambo is not an idiot until he opens his mouth to speak? Ha!
If you run into this Simmel character, probably unemployed and passed out drunk on a sidewalk somewhere is this is an example of his intellectual powers, let him know that money is also supposed to be a store of value, too, and as such, it is still money when it is sitting in your wallet. In fact, I say, and you can quote me, "Money is worth more than almost anything you can buy with it."
- Bill Murphy of Letropolecafe.com says that the heyday of gold is looming. "Wait until the facts surface about how the central banks squandered 2/3 of all their bank reserves to foster a price manipulation scheme. There will be a frenzy to own the stuff like never seen before." How big a frenzy? He opines that "we will most likely see the gold price somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000 US an ounce", which is, admittedly, what a lot of other people have said, too, but I just like hearing it.
But maybe not today, as I notice that the gold lease rates are again at very low levels, which means that the central banks and bullion banks are trying as hard as they can to get as much gold into the market as they can to make the price of gold stay as low as they can, so that people will not say "Look at the soaring price of gold! The Mogambo was right! We're all freaking doomed!" And, of course, there are always the insiders at the COMEX, fraudulently manipulating the price of gold and silver to enrich themselves. Will it work again this time, or have the people of the world finally gotten sophisticated enough that they can recognize that when the price of gold gets pushed down like this, it now always bounces back? Have they gotten wise to the fact that a dollar that is going down in price guarantees a rising price for precious metals, and that these temporary lower prices are actually a genuine bargain situation? If they are smart, they do. If they are not smart, then they won't.
But Americans are not very smart, and if you think that America's young people are going to lead the world in literacy skills and education so that they can make the big money and pay the enormous taxes that will be necessary, think again. Stateline.org reports that up to 30% of students fail to finish high school to get diploma. Thirty freaking percent! "Broken down by race, nearly half of Hispanic, African-American and Native American students who start secondary school never receive a diploma." Half! Half of the fastest-growing sub-populations in the USA can't even get through high school!
- But there is some good news, although it will surely be fleeting and, being a coward and crybaby, requires a level of courage that I cannot even imagine. As reported on FreeMarketNews.com, "A federal jury found former IRS Criminal Investigative Division (CID) Special Agent and CPA Joseph Banister not guilty of all counts alleging criminal tax fraud and conspiracy related to actions he took on behalf of a California business owner who had openly defied the IRS over several years by stopping withholding of all income and employment taxes from the paychecks of his workers."
The fabulous news is that, at the root, Mr. Banister was able to prove that people since the Constitution prohibits an income tax, people have to obligation to pay income taxes, as there is no Constitutional amendment authorizing one. The 16th Amendment, which authorizes an income tax, has been around, of course, but apparently no state has actually ratified the damn thing, and so an income tax is illegal! This must be news to the Cato Institute, as their booklet, "The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America" has a footnote that says "The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified February 3, 1913."
If your local newspaper is Leftist trash, like mine, then this will be a surprise to you, too, as there is no mention of this miraculous, earth-shaking verdict. But I figure that the word will get around. Then I figure that Bush will sign an Executive Order to make it mandatory, thus amending the Constitution by Presidential fiat, which is, paradoxically, also prohibited by the Constitution. But don't look to the corrupt Supreme Court to protect your silly butt about such niceties as upholding the Constitution, as we have discovered to our continual dismay.
- David Morgan, writing in The Morgan Report, cites a Forbes magazine chart showing that the average price of silver over 600 years, as expressed in 1998 dollars, has been $150 per ounce. And those 1998 dollars are now seven years older and about 30% more devalued. So the real, inflation-adjusted price of silver must be about $200 an ounce now. But silver is selling for only seven bucks and change! What a bargain!
- The Daily Reckoning site frequently uses the term "lumpinvestoriat", which is a real catchy word, to characterize idiots who happily part with their money without thinking about what in the hell they are doing, mostly by investing in something about which they know nothing about, and who generally pay for their folly. Clever reader Carol F. has coined the term "jumpinvestoriat", which she defines as "those who simply jump into supposedly 'hot' investments without much thought."
- Kurt Richebacher notes that Japan is still suffering, 15 years later, from their own lumpinvestoriat and jumpinvestoriat real estate frenzy. He writes, "it is mainly bad loans on real estate that have paralyzed Japan's banking system. America's commercial banks, not to mention its numerous subprime lenders, are doing their best to beat the follies of their Japanese brethren." And the Japanese went crazy, too, as, according to Puru Saxena, "At the peak of the bubble in 1990, Japanese real-estate was worth four times the value of all property in the US!"
And since real estate markets in The United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands have all started collapsing, it is time to brush off that old adage, "What goes around comes around". And that means bad news for the USA in the next year or so. Mogambo housing tip o' the day (MHTOTD), rent, don't buy.
- Roger Reynolds, of "Shame on you, Federal Reserve!" fame, says "Pull up stockcharts.com. Type in $indu:$xoi. Be sure to put the colon in. This shows a ratio of the market divided by oil stocks. It's in a big downtrend!!! This means that the market strength is almost entirely in oil/gas/service stocks. Remember, there are a large number of energy stocks many with big shares outstanding. It also means that the broad market has been in a downtrend for many months."
- The heroic government effort to privatize Social Security has cooled recently, but you can be sure that it will eventually pass. Being The Mogambo, I will take a moment away from serenely sniffing lotus blossoms and contemplating the existential cosmos to tell you what will almost certainly happen. Payroll taxes will be increased by a percent or two, up from the current 15.3%. You will be given the chance to either "invest" this increase in your new private account, or let the government have it. Simple and elegant, with both the financial services industry and the government rolling in more money. And you rolling in less money.
- Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital is watching the clueless halfwits that comprise our Congress getting all bent out of shape with China, and is laughing that these losers want the Treasury secretary and Alan Greenspan, of all people, to "do something" about how China is "unfair". He writes "The scene is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. It is hard to fathom how these Congressmen could be so clueless as to the extent that China subsidizes the U.S. economy, and directly finances the very budget deficits these spendthrifts so irresponsibly vote to produce."
But it gets worse, as he notes by writing "In fact, short of a formal declaration of war, the single most damaging thing that China could do to America is exactly what our politicians are demanding. What is even more ironic, is that giving in to these demands is also the best thing China could do to improve the lives of its own citizens." So, in short, China is being very, very nice to us, at the expense of its own citizens, as a stronger yuan would allow them to import things at lower prices. And yet this is not enough for Congress in general and that that arch-moron, John Kerry, in particular. And it still burns my smelly butt that the idiotic Democrats nominated this loser to be President of the United States! Grrrr.
But this is not about John Kerry, whom I despise, or the voters of Massachusetts, whom I also despise for constantly sending the horrid Ted Kennedy and this clueless bozo to Congress year after year, or even about Democrats, whom I consider to be the lowest form of life on the planet, as evidenced by the childish, ridiculous, low-IQ, touchy-feely, moronic, big-heart-but-small-brains, bankrupting things they say and do. No, this is about money, and Mr. Schiff is also speaking of money when he writes, "This year alone America's current account deficit is likely to be $800 billion. To put this number in its proper perspective, $800 billion is equal to the combined market capitalization of the following fifteen Dow Jones companies: Alcoa, American Express, Boeing, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, DuPont, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, Honeywell, 3M, McDonalds, Merck, SBC Communications, and Walt Disney. In other words, to finance just one year's purchases of consumer electronics, granite counter-tops, vacations, automobiles, furniture, appliances, clothing, toys, and net interest and dividend payments, Americans will basically give away the equivalent of half of the companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average." Half! For one year's worth of imports! One!
- John Mackenzie of the M2
newsletter reports
that the "Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD), the representative body of the richest 26 countries in
the world, announced that it is sharply reducing its forecasts
for every leading economy."
In keeping with this dour outlook,
he predicts that "2005 will be a continual decline, while
2006 will mark the awareness of the 'Greatest Depression.' Please
protect yourself; this is going to be horrific as we move forward."
I couldn't have said it better myself, especially the part about
how it will be "The Greatest Depression."
But blithely ignoring The Mogambo standing outside their precious little BIS windows in their precious little BIS building chanting "Stagflation! Staglflation!", they go on to say, and this is really funny, "Central banks are unlikely to make the same mistakes so that history can repeat itself." Hahahaha! Show me a central bank that is NOT making the same mistakes over and over and over again!
The reason they say this is that "central banks today focus foremost on price stability and react quickly to inflation risks, making mistakes less likely." Hahaha!
- The Bank of England is shocked and aghast at the sudden rise in bankruptcies, and they are taking steps, so they say, to tighten lending standards to try and prevent more of them! Hahaha! Too late! At this stage of the game, or at any stage of any game, the only thing that the stupidity known as modern mainstream economics prescribes is more credit, not less! Hahaha!
The soothing and hollow words of the Bank of England notwithstanding, central banks always create more and more money and credit to keep the over-indebted economy from collapsing. As Peter Warburton wrote (thanks Jeff W!), "the central banks preside over the creation of additional liquidity for the financial system in order to hold back the tide of debt defaults that would otherwise occur." But people everywhere have so much debt now that they cannot keep paying it, and so they go bankrupt. And yet, the exact theoretical idiocy that the central banks of the world, and especially our own despicable Federal Reserve, recommends is to supply MORE credit!
*****The Mogambo Sez: Things are coming to a head, and so it is naturally time for the government to cook up some Big Event that will transfix our attention away from our own pitiful condition. War with Iran seems to be it. I'm as aghast as you are.
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- One of the best point guards ever, Gary Payton came to the Lakers basically for the chance to win a championship in 2003-04. He joined Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal in an incredible starting line-up. Everything went as planed until the Lakers were defeated in the NBA Finals by the Pistons.
- Gary Payton finally had his championship in 2005-06 with the Heat,
- In 1996 Payton led the Seattle Supersonics to the Finals where they were defeated by Michael Jordan and his Bulls.
- 1995-96 NBA Defensive Player of the Year
- Twice All-NBA Fist Team, 5 times Second team and twice Third Team. Nine9 Times All-NBA Defensive First Team. Once led the league in steals per game (2.9 spg in 1995-96).
- Twice Olympic Gold Medallist (1996 and 2000).
Season by season statistics including his numbers with the Lakers.

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Arena Football Preview: Power vs. SaberCatsThe Power will try to ride momentum from their terrific comeback against Spokane into another tough home game in Week 10 against another perennial power from the AFL's West Division.
Arena Football Preview: Power vs. MustangsThe Power played very opportunistically in last week's win and must continue to do so Monday night when they hit the road against a Milwaukee squad that, like Week 2 victim Iowa, can't be overlooked.


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Published: 2002/11/23
by Patrick Buzby
A Bit About Free Jazz
One of my high school's traditions was the junior
speech. For seven minutes or so, each student was
required to address the entire high school and
faculty on a subject of his (it was single-sex until
my last two years there) choice. One of the more
amusing ones from my time came with a classmate's
disquisition on this topic: "Why I Like Death Metal."
I can't say that I feel as much on the defensive
about free jazz as he may have about his chosen genre,
but it's close. There is a great deal of common
ground between jamband music and jazz, but I
remember the rather hostile reception that folks on
rec.music.phish gave to Surrender To The Air (which,
granted, is a rather harsh record, and not my choice
for a great example of the genre) in '96.
My musical path began with the Beatles (late) and
Pink Floyd (early). Both of these artists had a
number of straightforward songs which were generally
very strong, but the most interesting things from them left a great deal of unanswered questions. What
exactly is happening at the end of Bike? What does the
atonal orchestra crescendo have to do with the point
of the lyrics in A Day In The Life? There are no
answers, and this can be unsettling (especially with
the Floyd stuff), but it tends to bring you back. At
least if you had the slightly tweezed (as Zappa might have said) disposition that I did.
Somehow, with a few random book references and
library withdrawals, I made my way from there to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and Ornette Coleman's Free
Jazz. Like the White Album or Dark Side, these
records are complete statements from the cover art on
down – they create their own universes. Unlike the
Miles record, though, Ornette's Free Jazz (1960) has
nothing to do with rock, and is most relevant to the
topic at hand.
Free Jazz (the record) is a 36-minute piece featuring
a "double quartet" (two woodwinds, trumpets, basses
and drumsets) playing a piece with short themes in
between segments of open improvisation, with each
player getting a chance to "lead" a segment. The
other horns enter at various points during each horn
player's solo. Lester Bangs once wrote that one needs
to "learn" this record, and as a kid with few
distractions I was able to put many listens in.
In a sense, this record is like a long conversation – each instrumentalist has a certain mood and a unique
take on things. However, the challenge in this music
is that the talkers in the conversation overlap,
especially the lead player(s) and the basses, who have
the role of determining harmony (the key). Ornette
needed to shape players to both lead and accompany in
this style, and he found the ideal accompanist in
bassist Charlie Haden. Even though Haden lacks the
technical prowess of his partner on this recording,
Scott LaFaro (who unfortunately died less than a year
later), he brings a strong musical identity to this
practice of changing the question while the
interviewee is giving an answer. Both Haden and LaFaro
would do a good deal to influence Phil Lesh.
Some might claim that "it all sounds the same" when
musicians do away with fixed harmony or meter. To
demonstrate how untrue this can be, check John
Coltrane's Ascension (1965), which follows a very
similar format to Ornette's record. Coltrane's music
was all about spiritual, sometimes political unrest,
and his fellow players tap into that spirit here to
produce 40 minutes of soul-baring catharsis. There is
nothing overtly political about Free Jazz. Ornette
himself may have the sweetest musical disposition of
the entire group, and there are moments of pure humor,
even silliness, on this record and many of his others. However, the mood can, and does, transform into the
darkest horror within seconds. No record does more for
this listener to evoke the feeling of waking up alone
in the middle of the night and sensing an intruder.
Ornette's record inadvertently coined a name for an
entire genre, but not all records in this genre sound
much like it. However, all of them take on the same
challenge of creating meaning in a situation with few
restrictions. Not all of them succeed, and some of
them take a while reaching the goal. However, the
Dead usually took some time reaching the nexus of a
Dark Star. The best of the avant-jazz players take a
similar journey, perhaps in different directions, but
equally far from Earth.
To return to the Floyd and Beatles references,
though, there is something in the best avant music
that leaves the same sense of mystery, unanswered
questions, as those first records I heard of theirs.
Granted, like the best psychedelic groups, and the
best jambands, many of the avant folks are capable of
doing strong "inside," straightforward stuff.
However, it's the sense of mystery, of new depths
accessible with each listen, that is the primary
attraction of what is now called "free jazz."


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Stuart Allen's Investigations of Movement, Light, and Color
Most recently, Allen was the lead artist and project manager of the Yanaguana Garden in San Antonio's Hemisfair Park.
Constance Lowe and the Deception of Appearances
No matter the medium, Lowe's work is characteristically full of contradictions.
Ed Saavedra's Dark Take on Texas
Saavedra has steadily focused on problems surrounding the divide between authority figures and the marginalized.
Kelly O'Connor's Kaleidoscope of Excess
Looks can be deceiving in the flashy and blissful facades of O'Connor's art.
Justin Boyd's American Wanderlust
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In conjunction with its exhibition of Nature on the Edge: Mutation and Hybridity in 21st Century Art (up for two more weeks), Bilh Haus Arts...Read More
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Michael Bise struggles to suspend his disbelief as we round up Themed Summer Group Shows. "It's a treasure hunt for bad art."
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- Wells Fargo Refinancing For Existing Customers
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- Obama Extends the HARP Refinance Program for 2013
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- Indiana State Mortgage Help for Those in Danger of Foreclosure
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The HMFA (Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency) offer mortgage help programs that are different from those offered by a Bank or Mortgage Company. Below market interest loans are offered to first time homebuyers, and to those who have maybe owned a home in the past but
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Finding the Right Piece: Autism and Children's Media – Sesame Street Introduces Julia
Dustin Hoffman's eccentric portrayal of Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 classic Rain Man popularized the autistic individual on an unprecedented scale. Overnight, autism became associated with extraordinary savant skills (memory and math), and quirky behaviours – with the corresponding social difficulties and odd mannerisms.
Media portrayals of autism since Rain Man have often obscured autism rather than illuminated this complex condition. Jim Parsons' Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory is often described as a poster boy for Asperger's syndrome, but he too is an exceptional case of savant traits (eidetic memory, extraordinarily high IQ), and verbal fluency that is non-existent for many on the Autism Spectrum.
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That clip from a Brazilian TV show that's generated nearly 7 million hits on YouTube this week would never air here without proper safety precautions, says Scott Hallock, the co-creator/executive producer of Syfy's similarly themed show, "Scare Tactics."
The six-minute clip from SBT's "Pegadinha" ("Hidden Camera") shows people's hilariously horrified reactions to coming face-to-face — while stuck in a stalled elevator — with a ghostly young girl who wasn't there when they entered on the ground floor.
"I'm thinking, what if someone had a bad reaction and freaked out and attacked that little girl?" says Hallock. "There was no safety net in place to protect that actress. "
The girl, dressed in a raggedy gown and holding a bald doll, gazes at her "victims" before letting out a blood-curdling scream.
Hallock says there's a reason this clip has gone viral.
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Enter the desert world of Noshrac. You are a Son of Nor, a human mage with the sole mission to protect and preserve what is left of your race.
Key Features:
- The World Is Your Weapon
- Cleverly defeat enemies using terraforming and telekinesis powers.
- Use your powers to solve intriguing environmental puzzles.
- Raise and lower sand to excavate secret passages, block entrances, create barricades or reach elevated places to gain tactical advantage.
- Move and throw objects to prepare traps, use the environment intelligently.
- Or go haywire and just bury entire buildings.
- Combine Powerful Spells
- Combine different magical elements to create exciting spell combinations.
- Let your friends combine their magic with your spell for more firepower.
- Use spells and their combinations strategically to find weaknesses of various enemy types.
- Spells also naturally interact with the environment (i.e. fire thrown on sand produces glass). These interactions are a key element to solve environmental puzzles.
- Play Cooperatively
- Play with up to 3 friends online or splitscreen in various combinations: 2 players online + 2 player splitscreen, 2 players splitscreen on one machine + 2 players splitscreen on another machine etc. All combinations possible.
- Defeat enemies as well as powerful bosses alone or in a team. The Sons of Nor are known for brains over brawn.
- Change between Wind, Fire, and Essence Magic to advance through numerous challenges.
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Total Divas' Paige reminds fans that she is far from perfect (EXCLUSIVE)
The youngest Divas Champion ever, Paige has accomplished quite a bit during her time in the WWE. Between the champion title, a recent engagement and a mentorship role for NXT wrestlers, it's hard to believe that she's just 23. But the Total Divas star insists that in spite of her many accomplishments, she's still a crazy and fun-loving 20-something gal.
Paige sticks out in the WWE and on Total Divas — and not simply because of her dark eye makeup and nails. The Diva is incredibly accomplished for a young woman of 23, but she sometimes finds this very difficult to believe. In an exclusive interview with SheKnows, Paige admitted that it's crazy to think how much she's achieved already. That being said, while she's one of the youngest women in the WWE, she's also one of the most experienced, and thus, the most deserving of a mentorship role. When she's training others, Paige says her mentality is that she "wants to help people" because she's "so passionate about wrestling... that's my world."
More: Nikki Bella dishes on the pressure of leading the Divas Revolution (EXCLUSIVE)
Paige's early success in wrestling was, in part, prompted by the great training she received as a young girl. She grew up in a wrestling family, but the Total Divas star says she was never pressured to join the family business. In fact, her dad told her, "Whatever you want to do, I'll always be happy for you and I'll always support you." Instead of being forced into the ring, Paige was able to discover her love of wrestling on her own. She "instantly loved it" the moment she entered the ring at age 13, and she hasn't backed down since.
More: Nikki Bella says she's successful because she's more than a pretty face
Fans of Total Divas sometimes forget that Paige is only 23 years old. The Diva may have a career fans can only dream of, but in other areas of her life, she prefers to relax and have a good time. For example, she recently got engaged, but she's in no hurry to tie the knot. Unfortunately, while she was never pressured into wrestling, she has dealt with a ton of pressure surrounding her future nuptials. Her fellow Divas are incredibly excited, but Paige thinks they're getting a bit ahead of themselves. "I'm being bombarded with questions and pressure right now... if you're engaged, you can be engaged for a year or two, or five years. It's not something I want to rush into because marriage is definitely a big deal — and it makes me very nervous."
More: Brie Bella condemns Brooklyn crowds for disrespecting the Divas
Instead of spending all of her time planning the details of her wedding, Paige would much rather focus on living her life to the fullest. Sometimes, that means getting into a bit of trouble. Viewers already saw the star chastised on Total Divas after she was involved in a motorcycle accident. This is certainly not the last time she'll cause mischief; she promises that fans will "come across more of that" during future episodes of Total Divas. Although she is not able to share details just yet, she admits that she's "a complete shit" at times and does "a lot of things that are very, very crappy."
Catch more of Paige's "crappy" behavior on Total Divas, airing Tuesday at 9/8c.


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Stay tuned, I'm going to be reviewing the movie The Dark Tower this weekend. I only hope I'm not disappointed.
So when I first started my blog, I thought "Okay, this shouldn't be that hard". And as it turns out this is a little more complicated than I thought it would be. If you don't already know, I use WordPress as my site creator and I have found it far too simple to use…if that makes sense. I'll go into further detail in a second.
I had always wanted to create my own website with a blog and I had been meaning to do it for quite some time and finally got around to doing it. I technically started one with my mother but I don't know if we'll ever get around to agreeing on something.
So when I started my blog on WordPress I will tell you I chose the most basic plan (not the free one, but the next tier up). I didn't realize that I would be getting exactly what I was paying for. I have no creative control over how my website is designed and as a person in visual arts it is just maddening. For now I have tried to convince myself that this is okay and that I can transfer to a host later and have more control and also monetize (I don't make money on this site as of right now).
Creating this place where I can pour out all of my blocked up creative juices (and also maybe vent a little about the topics of my generation) has been so far great. I think it's important to have goals when creating something like this and to stay positive. I don't expect it to grow popular overnight or even this year, which is something I think everyone should come to terms with. If you read other articles or posts on other websites/blogs then you know they're always telling you it's a great to make money and blah blah blah. Well sure but what they don't tell you is you have to work really hard at it. It's not all cakes and rainbows. You have to be able to have enough time to post consistently and to know your market audience. I'm not saying, by any means, that I have hit gold and know exactly what I'm doing. I love the ability to grow and learn as much as possible so in a way I hope I never truly know everything there is about doing this. I hope that any audience I gain will continue to grow with me on our crazy journey through life.
P.S. I'm going to go into depth of the process of starting a website/blog with wordpress at a later date so stay tuned!
So I know that most of us out there have googled ways to make some extra money (I know I have) and there a million ways to do so. I want to talk about the truth behind online selling.
One of the number one ways that blogs and articles always tell you to make some extra money is by selling stuff online using websites like ebay or amazon. Even using apps like letgo. And perhaps ten years ago this would have been a substantial way to make a little bit of extra money but now it's simply just not true.
I don't know how many out there watched Netflix's Nasty Gal tv show. It was a recent show based off a real person selling vintage clothes on ebay and making a killing. Of course the time frame in which she did so was early 2000's. And the show has been since canceled because mostly the main character was unlikable. But I digress.
Back in 2007 it was very possible to have made some money but then the recession hit and less people were shopping online, even for deals. Most people were worried about losing their houses, their jobs, etc. And now that we have seemed to climb out of it for the most part we've been able to spend more money and get back into debt all over again right? Well mostly true. We are spending money but here's the thing. Our generation seems to be trying to make money rather than spend it unlike the generations before us. We can thank Baby Boomers and Generation X for the housing crash and of course the deficit and banking disasters. They don't want to take the blame and that's alright, I wouldn't either and my parents are Baby Boomers and Generation X. Even though our parents and grandparents don't see it or believe it, most of us are quite the hustlers. Always trying make that extra buck.
In one year I had worked six different jobs and went to school. Now I work three and go to school. But I have money problems that you wouldn't believe from someone has young as my and one day we'll talk about it so you don't make the same mistake.
Let's talk about ebay, because that's really the one I understand the best. I started selling on ebay when I was twenty and wasn't very good at it. I started to get back into it when I really fell into some money problems. Now the most recent thing people tell you is Disney VHS tapes are selling for a lot of money right? Well unfortunately this is simply not true. There are lot of people on ebay trying to sell their Disney VHS tapes for a lot of money and no one is bidding. Well it's 2017 and no one uses VHS tapes so why would anyone purchase them, even if they are "vintage".
So it's impossible, of course, to know what will sell and what won't because it changes based on trends and the time of the year. So I just want to clarify that isn't an easy way to make money. It's slow and time consuming and not a certainty. Right now Polaroid cameras are back and everyone wants the older real Polaroid camera's now. I sold one myself (I wish I hadn't now). It all depends.
So a lot of people out there will usually create a youtube channel in the hopes of making some easy money. Everyone knows that all of the "big" youtubers make probably too much money right? Well wrong in most cases, especially if they run their channel like a production company and have to pay editors, and artists, etc. Okay well that doesn't guarantee you anything. You have to know how to market yourself and how to make really great content (or just keep people entertained). For myself, all of my subscribers are literally my friends. It's not that I'm not posting and sharing and what not, but you have to have something someone wants to watch.
With youtube's policy enforcement it's been extremely difficult for anyone (including youtuber's with millions of subscribers) to make any form of income. One of my favorite youtuber's Rob is demonetized everyday for the kind of content he creates and had to create a Patreon account. But he has editors, co-writers, graphic artists that are involved in his channel so it was crucial. So if you're thinking that creating a youtube channel to make a quick buck, let me stop you right there. It's not easy, it really does entail luck and connections. You also always have to be on social media, which shouldn't be hard for our generation, and putting your content out there.
Alright maybe your content is becoming successful and now people are watching it, but you're still not making any income. This is so common I wish I could explain just how crazy it is. Instead I will direct you to youtube's guidelines
Don't be fooled, youtube has begun to make it extremely impossoble for creators to be…well creative.
P.S. Here's some self advertisement for my own channel
I've been meaning to start my blog for a quite some time now and I'm finally getting around to it. I never realized just how much work it would actually be but I'm slowly getting there.
I just wanted to start my first post by saying "Hey, what's up?" I'll tell you a little bit about myself.
My name is Lea and I was born in Orlando, Florida. I have one sibling who is younger then me by seven years. I will be interviewing him for my next post and we'll be talking about the younger generation and the expectations. I'm a theater arts major, my focus is in lighting design and minor in psychology. One day I will pursue my masters but as of right now I just want to finish what I started so long ago. Oh! I also am a youtube creator and will most likely be sharing all of my experiences with that here in the blog and will also talk about what it means to be creator and can/should anyone do it. (Please check out my channel)
My goal with this blog is to reach out and let other millennials know that they're not the only ones struggling with life, it seems to be a common trait with us. I will be sharing my experiences of what to do and what not to do based off my own experiences and I hope that it will be helpful. I also have a page for recipes, most of us are too cheap to cook but every once and a while we need to try something different so I will be uploading recipe links and descriptions of how my process went.
I look forward to the journey this blog will take us on and can't wait to get started!
P.S. That is my beautiful eight year old dog Jack in the picture, he says hello!


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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.
Elizabeth Gilbert
- Born: July 18, 1969
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On October 21, 2009, and revised on January 28, 2009, Natural Currents Energy Services, LLC, filed an application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Icy Passage Tidal Energy Project, located in Icy Passage, in the Hoonah-Angoon Borough, Alaska. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any land disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the owners' express permission.
The proposed project would either attach turbines to the underside of an existing State of Alaska dock, or anchor the turbines to the bottom of the passage, and would consist of: (1) An existing approximately 70-foot-long by 220-foot-wide State of Alaska dock connected to the shore by an approximately 1,130-foot-long boardwalk extending into Icy Passage; (2) twelve 25-kilowatt (kW) Red Hawk in-stream turbine modules with a total generating capacity of 300 kW; (3) one or more clusters of Tidal In-Stream Energy Conversion Devices (TISEC devices) to transmit the electricity from the turbines to the underwater transmission line; (4) an approximately 3,900-foot-long, 480-volt underwater transmission line connecting the TISEC device to an existing above-ground local distribution system; and (5) appurtenant facilities. The project would have an estimated average annual generation of 1,200 megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Roger Bason, President, Natural Currents Energy Services, LLC, 24 Roxanne Boulevard, Highland, NY 12561; phone: (845) 691-4009.
FERC Contact: Jennifer Harper, 202-502-6136.
Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing applications may be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) under the "eFiling" link. For a simpler method of submitting text only comments, click on "Quick Comment." For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at firstname.lastname@example.com; call toll-free at (866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and eight copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
More information about this project, including a copy of the application, can be viewed or printed on the "eLibrary" link of Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P-13605) in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.Start Signature
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ECE462 Financial Mgmt & Resources
Lead Faculty: Dr. Susan B. Gilbert
Course Description
Focus on financial policies and management of resources in early education settings. Emphasis on accounting fundamentals of preparing, recording and monitoring funds.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand in written and orally the costs associated with running an Early Childhood program.
- Develop an appropriate detailed annual operating budget with reconciliation of expenses to budget. Implement a system to review or adjust the budget if a circumstance change and includes a yearly audit.
- Explain and demonstrate fiscal records such as revenue and expenditure statements, balance sheets, banking etc.
- Develop a chart that incorporates a salary schedule based on your revenue and costs.
- Identify additional financial resources to enhance your program, i.e. Grant writing, fund-raising, donations, government funding, state funding, and local funding.
- List and explain the role of record keeping and identify commuter software focusing on financials that are available for Child care programs.
- Develop written policies and procedures related to the financial matters of the program.


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Everybody's favorite Human Serviette had a busy SXSW, taking time to interview A$AP Mob, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar and Action Bronson. Just as his hyper-researched, quirky interview series starts to attract bigtime shine, he recently posted his interview with Grimes, who is something of an Internet phenomenon herself. Watch it below.
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Michael Caputo in Red Square, 1993 (Caputo Public Relations)
We mentioned a while back that an entity called NYFacts.net was e-mailing reporters at the Capitol clips of stories favorable to Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno in his fight with Gov. Eliot Spitzer over use of state aircraft and State Police, and that the sender appeared to have taken steps to shield his or her identity.
Bruno's office said it wasn't involved.
Since then, the e-mails have acquired a disclaimer that NYFacts is a "news service" and "not affiliated with any corporation, political party, or candidate." And the sender has lately added his name –Â Michael Caputo.
I dropped Caputo a couple of notes and he responded yesterday. If you're interested, go to the jump, where there's also a bit on one theory in the blogosphere that Caputo is hooked up with GOP consultant Roger Stone.
Caputo, who divides his time between Buffalo and Miami, runs a public relations firm that specializes in "creative communications solutions to the crisis, catastrophe and emergency challenges companies, candidates and organizations encounter." His web site includes photos and a bio recounting his political and other work here and abroad, which includes: writing for Jack Kemp '88, media director for George H.W. Bush '92, election advisor for Boris Yeltsin '96, and running press ops for, among others, the president of El Salvador, the Nicaraguan Contras and the Afghan mujaheddin.
As for the e-mails (which also last week included a dissection of a New York Times editorial), the self-described conservative writes:
"I did not miss New York politics, however, but now that I'm back I'm paying more attention. Because stories from the NY Times and Albany Times Union are so biased, political activists have a need – a right - to know the facts on NY Politics. So I'm turning to this handy Internet thing to get the news out about the Governor's monkeyshines.
"NYFACTS goes out to a large group of interested "grasstops" activists and decisionmakers. Beyond vital news clips, NYFACTS will be communicating stories from other publications and some orginal writing and cartoons. I have further aspirations for NYFACTS, but for now it is what it is.
"Time and the truth will prove Eliot Spitzer is a capricious man of questionable ethics – and I want to help nudge that news around."
Blogger Robert George,though, suggests Caputo is hooked up in this with longtime GOP consultant Roger Stone, with whom Caputo has some acquaintance, and that Bruno's claimed lack of involvement in this is, as George puts it, "a bit, well, disingenuous."
Caputo, however, says he is not working with Stone and hasn't even been in touch with him lately. Nor has he ever communicated with Bruno, although, "I certainly admit to being on his side." He also adds that no one is paying him for this.


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USAID and Batey Relief Alliance launch Food Assistance Program For people living in extreme poverty in the Dominican Republic
Jan 24, 2013, 07:31 EST
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Batey Relief Alliance (BRA DOMINICANA) launched a Food Assistance Program valued at $576,440.00, through which, 150 metric tons of dehydrated food will be distributed to over 22,700 people in eleven provinces of the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Whitney Jensen Rodrigues, USAID Program Officer, said, "This program complements our goal of assisting the Government of the Dominican Republic to reduce poverty in the most vulnerable areas."
For five consecutive years, USAID and BRA carried out this food program, which responds to the efforts of both institutions in the country to reduce malnutrition and the lack of food amongst the most vulnerable and impoverished populations. "These foods will be distributed to more than 22,700 people, including pregnant women, children, the elderly and adults severely affected by poverty, HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and hunger in the bateyes (marginalized sugarcane plantations rural slum communities where Haitian cane cutters and their Dominican descendants live), urban barrios and other rural and border areas with Haiti," said Ulrick Gaillard, BRA's CEO.
This program also has the participation of several government agencies, such as the Presidential AIDS Council (COPRESIDA) and the Ministry of Public Health (SESPAS) through its Provincial Health Directorates (DPS). Additionally, 26 local non-governmental organizations— including the Centre for Advocacy and Human Solidarity (CEPROSH) and the Dominican Churches for Social Services and hundreds of Community Health Promoters will participate in the distribution of these foods.
Gaillard added that the Food Assistance Program will complement two other important projects of the organizations: BRA's Maternal Child Health Program, providing 55,000 children and pregnant women with daily doses of multivitamin supplements and deworming medicines, and USAID's HIV/AIDS/TB AIDS-Star One Program, which focuses on prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. The latter provides food to undernourished people receiving antiretroviral therapy, or taking medications to fight opportunistic infections and illnesses
An estimated 13 percent of children under five-years of age in Dominican rural areas, and 8 percent in urban areas, are chronically malnourished. Moreover, it is estimated that 27 percent of the population is malnourished.
To learn more about BRA's work, like on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Batey.Relief.Alliance; follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bateyrelief; and visit www.bateyrelief.org.
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Pass rusher was labeled the Saints' biggest need going into the 2017 draft, but they waited all the way until pick 103 before pulling the trigger on Trey Hendrickson. He was four-year player at Florida Atlantic and joins the black and gold ready to contribute in any way possible.
"I'm going to do whatever I can to help the Saints win," says Hendrickson. "I'm more than excited to either run down on kickoff or play in rotation."
He's a jack of all trades when it comes to making chaos in opponents' backfields. During his senior year alone, Hendrickson had two blocked field goals, one blocked PAT and a blocked punt. That's in addition to his career total of 29.5 sacks. The only hold-up is how well he'll transition from dominating Conference USA to the NFL.
"It's the same game no matter who's in front of you," says Hendrickson. "They put their pants on the same way that I do. I don't give anybody more credit, and I don't give anybody less credit. It's the game of football that I love to play, and I'm going to do that."
As for his fellow rookie edge rusher from the Sunshine State, Miami's Al-Quadin Muhammad, he's more of a pick on potential. Off-the-field issues kept him from playing with the Hurricanes for two of the last three seasons. Muhammad, who says he models his game after Oakland's Khalil Mack, showed his potential with 8.5 tackles for a loss and five sacks as a junior. Now it's a matter of proving he's grown and has the high-quality character to be a true professional.
"It helped me," says Muhammad. "Now playing at this level, I won't make the same mistakes. I'm a really mature player, and I understand what not to do."
Both Hendrickson and Muhammad join the likes of Hau'oli Kikaha and recently acquired Alex Okafor, all looking to make an impact opposite Cam Jordan. If one proves to be the missing link for the Saints' defense, they could become a top tier defensive line.
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iPhone Repair - iPhone 5 battery life problems typically surfaces after every iOS update is abnormal battery drain. You'll notice if your iPhone battery life drops after installing the iOS 8 update, but in any case you can expect 8-12 hours of usage on the iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5 and iPhone 4s. This all varies based on your device and how you use it.
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An author. A typewriter. The voices in her head.
Who am I? I am the inner voice of a passionate author named Valerie King. She carries the life of more than one within herself. The voices that flow from her head to her fingertips carry infinite meaning through the eyes of many different faces from all walks of life. This is the place she allows them to speak openly.
What makes literature so hauntingly beautiful? It's quite simple. You can relate with fiction in a non-fictional way. Their life becomes yours, and the fortitude of their existence lasts well beyond the final page of their story.
A Cradle of Hope is a work of fiction, but Reece L. Pearson is intimately real. She may be a character, but her struggles, hopes, dreams and aspirations reside in all of us in some way, shape or form.
Hear Reece speak on Instagram. Picture her life on Facebook. She has always been real to Valerie, so why can't she be real to you too?
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"Dad" Whalen Tells of His Experience in Layland Mine Where He was Held 4
March 11 1915
A Survivors Story
"Dad" Whalen Tells of His Experience in Layland Mine Where He was Held 4 Days
Thomas Whalen, aged 73, one of the survivors of the Layland disaster, enroute to his home at Wainright, Ohio, told a Charleston Post reporter the following story of his experience in the mine where he was held a prison four days:
"I was working in the 24th room on No. 9 entry, over a mile and a half in the mine, when the explosion came. My son John, who is still at Layland recuperating from the effects of his experiences, was working in the same room with me. We were filling the third car when the shock came. We were panic stricken and started for the main entrance. The explosion seemed to life the top of my head off from my ears up. John yelled at me to come quick and we both ran. My lamp was a lard oil affair and went out but John had a carbide lamp that assisted us.
We tried to crawl out the main entry and failed. We then started back in the mine and bratticed ourselves in entry No. 10, with a line of brattice works three deep on either side of them. The larger part of the men with Will Derrick, my son John and myself were Italians and they made the air hideous in our little chamber with their yells and lamentations. The heroic work done by Will Derrick and my son John should be remembered, as I feel that they were the ones that saved the lives of all of us by using their heads and hands to the final result.
The one biggest terror that comes to a miner after an explosion is the gas that is known as the after damp. That was the reason that we tried so hard to make the chamber air tight. John found a piece of paper about size of a half of a newspaper and left it on the outside of the first brattice. He wrote on it that there were 42 of us behind the barricade. The five men that walked out of the mine Saturday morning had bratticed themselves in the same manner in entry No. 5. They had our lunch buckets, there were seventeen of these and plenty of good clean water. On Saturday morning they decided that they would make a try to get out and succeeded. They walked over a mile and a quarter, with naked lamps burning, and found their own way to the main entry.
Our main trouble in the mine, where we were entombed was the foreigners. They would continually start lighting cigarettes and muddy up the only drinking water we had. I was without food or water for ninety-five hours. All of this time was spent in anticipation of the arrival of the rescuers and it was the greatest joy of my life to hear them tearing down the wall that we had made airtight to keep out the damp. We lived in constant fear. At one time it was suggested that we make a move to release ourselves, but again the dread of the after-damp kept us inside. We were afraid that the naked lamps would cause an explosion and kill our rescuers.
Then we heard the rescuing party. The foreigners went nearly crazy. The American miners had to fight them back. That little chamber that had held so many precious lives rang out loud in thanks and echoed back the joyful sound to the innermost recesses where many of our friends were lying dead. While there was no fire the heat was so great that I felt like I was roasting alive. I could walk all right at first, as if nothing had happened, for about fifteen feet and then my knees gave way on me. An old piece of canvass lying nearby was brought into use and they improvised a stretcher for me. You couldn't hear yourself talk when they brought us to the entrance of the mines. Mothers, wives and children were there and their heartrending cries of anguish over their loved ones who had not yet been found, were terrible. It made me feel miserable in the extreme, and where there had been an orderly crowd of young fellows calling me "Dad" and slapping me on the shoulder affectiona[t]ely, there was a "murtherin' bunch of Italians" standing in a group nearby 'gibbering' at the top of their voices.
The forty-two of us were taken to the dance hall and put to bed. Every comfort that was available was bestowed upon us. I remember asking for my tobacco. That was, you know, the first thing they gave me in the mine when they found us. They then gave me chewing gum and an apple. After we were at the dance hall, I had a little chicken broth and like edibles. I have been a miner for the last forty-five years but this was the first explosion that I have even been in, and I hope my last.