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How (And Why) I spent $1,200 This Week

Holy smokes. I just went on a spending spree y’all! One of truly epic proportions. In less than a week I spent the equivalent of an entire month’s living expenses. $1,200 to be exact.

I’m sure most of you out there are wondering if I’ve lost my damn mind. How could I spend so much, so quickly?! WHY would I do that? You’ll be even more surprised to hear that I feel great about spending so much. Proud, even.

In order to understand that I haven’t lost my mind and that I do deserve to keep my pf blogger card, let’s go back to last November. On the recommendation from expert budget traveler and credit card rewards king, Brad from, I opened a Citi/AAdvantage Mastercard in order to take advantage of a super special they were offering. If I spent $3,000 in the first three months I would receive 50,000 miles. But in this special offer, if I opened one up in November and adhered to the same 3 grand in 3 months, I’d get an extra 10,000 points!

One of my big goals in 2016 is to travel more. Of course I will be doing so in the most frugal of manners! Credit card churning falls into that category. With 60,000 points I can get several short domestic flights for free, which just so happens to be exactly the kind of travel I need to do this year!

I’ll be flying back to the east coast twice this coming spring and summer. With these points I’ll do so for free.

The only problem was spending $3,000 in three months. For most people this is probably pretty achievable, but it has proved quite difficult for me. I keep my expenses very, very low and the major ones I do have (like rent) I can’t pay by credit card. So that’s how I ended up two weeks away from my three month limit still needing to spend $1,200 in order to get my points.

At first I thought I had backed myself into a corner. I was a total idiot. I could have just bought the tickets out of pocket for less than I was spending now to try and get the fights for free! I was feeling frustrated and annoyed with myself.

Then I remembered a whole list of things I have been avoiding for months now. Things that I knew I should do but couldn’t bring myself to spend money on. We all know that’s something I struggle with. And here I was with the perfect opportunity to spend, guilt free! It was like the heavens opened up and the universe said unto me, “Go forth and spend.”

Those costs I’d been avoiding? Mostly car stuff. Hot damn is it expensive to be a car owner! So much so that I had several things that were kind-of-pressing-but-with-some-luck-and-low-driving-not-sooooo-pressing. That all changed this week!

Two new tires, a rotation and warranty- $247.27

I have needed new tires for at least 6 months. I’ve been putting it off since it’s a big expense and I only drive about 15 miles a week, but it really was unsafe.

Replacing my car’s timing belt– $410.15

My car manual recommends changing it at 60,000 miles. I’m at 76,000. It was time.

Windshield Wipers- $28.70

The ones I currently have are total shit. They literally do nothing. So unsafe! And I would tell myself ‘Oh this is Texas. It hardly ever rains!’ True- but when it does I can’t see anything!

Lyft– $35.30

This will be reimbursed. My catering company had it’s holiday party last night and paid for all our Lyft’s!

CVS– $42.19

I really needed deodorant and wax. Lady armpit problems.

Rental Car– $260

Incidentally, if you want to factor auto expenses into your budget, has a great posting on how to do this.

I am going to Wyoming in March with friends and they graciously allowed me to put the rental car on my credit card! I will get paid back by them shortly and my portion is only $55.

My astute readers will note that this doesn’t quite add up to $1,200. I’m only at $1,023.61 right now, which means I still need to spend $176.39. Never fear, because I’m going to keep making it rain through tomorrow! I am buying some new home goods (like glass tupperware) and exercise classes off of Groupon. I’m moving in the spring and I’ll need some new things for my new place. While it will probably suck to move them rather than have them sent to the new casa, I’m glad to be spending the remainder on things I need.

In fact, I’m pretty happy about all this spending! I never thought I’d say that. But it’s true! I finally got the kick in the butt that I needed to do some truly necessary things. None of this spending is frivolous. It’s all practical, good for me, stuff. I didn’t go out and buy new clothes that I’ll never wear. I don’t have a new collection of ceramic frogs to scare my housemates. I have a safer car, freshly waxed armpits and a fabulous rental car booked. And now, two free flights home in the spring and summer!

How do you feel about spending a lot in the name of credit card rewards?

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  1. Ha, I’m actually in a similar position so I totally understand — I just got a travel rewards card and have to spend I think $1,000 pretty quickly to get a huge chunk of miles. Which shouldn’t be that difficult, but like you, my expenses are super low, and I can’t pay rent by credit card. But I’m doing my best! 🙂

    1. It’s so hard! Even when I want to spend money I had a very hard time coming up with valid things to spend it on. Thank goodness I thought of my car. Can you do something like holiday shopping now and just hold onto the items for 11 months? 😉

  2. I just spent a little over $1000 last week as well! Unfortunately, I won’t be getting any form of travel points, but I’ve budgeted extensively for the splurge. When I opened my AmEx card last year, I had to spend $3000 during the first 3 months as well but I was lucky enough to be able to pay my rent with the card 😀

    1. As long as you’ve planned for it, I say well done. I can’t believe you can pay your rent with credit! I’m truly jealous.

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    I churn credit cards as well. Have earned over $1800 for upcoming trip to Ireland. Instead of trying to find things to spend on, I will do some prebuying. In other words, I will buy discounted gift cards at giftcardgranny for places that I shop each and every month. Arco for gas, Safeway for some groceries (ironically, my husband works in catering, too, so I don’t spend all that much for food–mainly fruit and veggies) etc. I have a big outdoor hiking trip planned this summer so bought REI gift cards to purchase some items. You get the idea. The discounts on the cards can be pretty hefty. Check it out.

    1. That’s so smart! I never thought of it, but will definitely incorporate it next time. Thanks for the tips!

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The Radical Left’s Plans to Sabotage the Inauguration

Undercover video reveals a conspiracy to wreak havoc and mayhem.

Left wing thugs are planning to sabotage President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities.  An umbrella organization, #DisruptJ20, also known as the DC Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee, describes its mission as “building the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen.” Such actions will include setting up blockades at checkpoints to prevent people from gaining access to the inauguration proceedings. In addition to attempting to shut down the inauguration ceremonies and any related celebrations, they are “planning to paralyze the city itself.”  A related group calling itself the “Anti-Capitalist & Anti-Fascist Bloc” is seeking to mobilize thousands of comrades, in its own words, “to disrupt Trump’s inauguration, rejecting the tyranny, greed, and bigotry he represents.” It warns those people coming to Washington to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power in this country to expect instead to “find the inaugural ceremonies reduced to a total clusterf***.”  That could well include property damage and attempts to goad the police into confrontations that the organizers of the disruptive protests would gleefully exploit.

A DisruptJ20 affiliated group calling itself the “DC Anti-Fascist Coalition” was caught by members of Project Veritas on video planning to set off butyric acid stink bombs and fire alarm sprinklers to disrupt an event called the Deploraball being held at the National Press Club on the eve of the inauguration. Caught red-handed in what appears to be a conspiracy to commit potentially an act of terrorism, DisruptJ20 issued a press release claiming it was all just a joke. They said that they had deliberately fed false information to someone they had previously identified as a Project Veritas infiltrator. One has to take what DisruptJ20 claimed in its press release with a grain of salt. Fake news is a hallmark of the Left.

“DisruptJ20 proudly carries forward the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.,” the radical group shamelessly added in the same press release.  Evidently, the son of  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did not quite see it that way. He chose to meet with President-elect Trump in New York on Martin Luther King Day and pray with him about “healing the nation.” Martin Luther King III told reporters afterwards that he and Mr. Trump had “a very constructive meeting” discussing, among other things, ways to expand voting rights.

Reporters tried to bait Martin Luther King III into attacking the president-elect, but he did not fall for it. For example, an ABC correspondent asked, “Mr. King, as you know, Representative Lewis still has the scars from the March on Selma. Were you offended by the President-elect's tweet that Representative Lewis is all talk and no action?” Martin Luther King III responded that “in the heat of emotion, a lot of things get said on both sides.” The Counterfeit News Network (CNN), represented by the same correspondent Jim Acosta who rudely interrupted Mr. Trump's press conference last week, doubled down on his anti-Trump rant with this question to Mr. King: “Sir, but if I may follow up, isn't there something that cuts to your core when you hear the President-elect refer to John Lewis as all talk and no action? I mean, nothing could be further from the truth, isn't that right? John Lewis is not all talk and no action.” Again, Martin Luther King III did not take the bait, defending Lewis but repeating, “As I said, things get said on both sides in the heat of emotion and at some point, this nation, we've got to move forward.”

DisruptJ20 by its very name indicates its true agenda, which bears little resemblance to Martin Luther King Jr’s concept of peaceful civil disobedience. DisruptJ20 seeks to replace the “civil” in civil disobedience with mob action intended to shut down the majestic public display of how democratically elected leaders peacefully transfer power in this country.  “We don’t ask permission or put our faith in electoral politics, instead, we use our bodies to stop the smooth operation of the system we oppose,” the DisrputJ20 website boasted.

The Left’s efforts to delegitimize the presidency of Donald Trump started immediately after he won the election. First, there was the vote recount effort launched with Clinton campaign support by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. When that effort backfired, yielding even more votes for President-elect Trump, the Left turned to intimidating members of the Electoral College who were pledged to cast their votes for Donald Trump in the states that he won. That too backfired, as Hillary Clinton’s margin of loss in electoral votes actually increased.  Then came the Left’s charges that “fake news,” FBI Director James Comey and alleged Russian interference resulted in a “stolen” election. Left wing boors have also disrupted Senate confirmation hearings in a run up to the inauguration.

Then Democratic Representative John Lewis chimed in. He abused his civil rights icon status by declaring that Donald Trump is not a “legitimate” president. He has taken this tack once before when he, along with other members of the Black Caucus, stayed away from the inauguration of President George W. Bush because, according to a Washington Post report at the time, “he doesn’t believe Bush is the true elected president.” This time at least 31 Democratic congressmen are joining Lewis in boycotting President-elect Trump’s inauguration.

What Lewis, other Democrats and left wing media have managed to accomplish in questioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s election is to play right into Russia’s hands in raising doubts about the whole American democratic process. At the same time, they have given an implicit stamp of approval to the radical leftists like DisruptJ20 seeking to cause mayhem at Mr. Trump’s inauguration. That should please the Russians no end.

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    Author(s): Forest Products Laboratory
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    Qualitative modelling can help us understand and project effects of multiple stresses on trees. It is not practical to collect and correlate empirical data for all combinations of plant/environments and human/climate stresses, especially for mature trees in natural settings. Therefore, a mechanistic model was developed to describe ecophysiological processes. This model is qualitative and incorporates symbolic descriptions of important variables and their relationships. Fuzzy values, such as ãzero,ä ãlow,ä ãmoderate,ä etc., are used to express quantity and change in the model. A current application of this fuzzy variable model examines the interaction of drought and ozone stresses on a mature ponderosa pine tree. As new empirical results become available, the model can be modified to include realistic baseline values and specific mathematical relationships.

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    Changes in the size composition of spawning bed materials in six coastal streams were monitored for 3 years to determine the effects of logging on the habitat of silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and trout (Salmo gairdnerii gairdnerii and S. clarkii clarkii). Four test streams were sampled before, during and after logging. Two streams in unlogged watersheds and the undisturbed upstream section of one test stream served as controls. A variety of stream types in second-growth and old-growth forests was selected for observation.

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The perfect standard zoom “XC16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OIS II”, which employs 12 all-glass elements in 10 groups, including 3 aspherical lens elements and 1 ED lens element. The lens uses seven rounded diaphragm blades to enable fine 1/3-step (17 steps in total) exposure control. Its lightweight focusing lens and high-precision motor achieve quick and silent autofocusing, while the minimum working distance of 15cm enables macro photography. The optical image stabilization function reduces camera shake in still images and videos taken hand-held.

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For small clinics and digital radiography starters Fujifilm announces a product family under the name of PRIMA, composed of FCR PRIMA, the reader unit, FCR PRIMA Console, the console, and DRYPIX PRIMA, the imager. Designed as an all-in-one package, the system is suitable for many solutions that require high quality and high reliability, characteristics which have been offered also by previous FCR systems.

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Start building the arbor by cutting the tusk tenons that join the side rails to the post. To cut the tenons at the ends of the rails on your table saw, install a dado head and adjust it to its maximum width, and attach an extension board to the miter gauge. Set the cutting height at !4 inch and position the rip fence for a 12-inch-wide cut. Feed the rail face down with one end riding along the fence to define the tenon shoulder. Make a series of passes to complete the tenon cheek, then turn the rail over and repeat the process on the other side. Cut tenons at the other end of the rail and at both ends of the remaining rails. Hold the edge of the rail flush against the miter gauge extension for every pass.

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At present, women's voices are silenced in our churches. Stories of female biblical leaders are omitted or made optional in our lectionary and women, indeed all lay people, have recently been forbidden to preach at Mass even though canon law allows it. No pastoral attention is given to teaching or exemplifying Jesus' and St. Paul's inclusion of women leaders There is a known deficit in Catholic educational institutions teaching about biblical women leaders and women in Church history. This packet is designed to give you suggestions for concrete actions that you and your faith community can take to education and advocate to correct this silencing.

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This week in the FOREX market is coming to an end, and we’ve decided to summarize some of the results.

On Monday, we predicted the growth of USD against the Norwegian krone on the 1D TF. 06.02 on Wednesday, the pair broke through its resistance level in the form of a trend line, going up. The target is now level 8.6900.

We forecast a decline of the Swiss franc on the 4H TF. The signal was confirmed after the crossing was confirmed by the MACD lines. The goal of the downward movement of the pair was level 109.4. A rebound is currently underway, which could bring the Swiss currency above 110.

As we indicated, there was a move upward with a breakdown of the resistance level in the form of a trend line. The recommended target was 1.3360, and this has not yet been achieved. However, the growth of the currency pair continues and there are no signals to sell.

Conclusions: long positions remain preferable. We confirm the goal of 1.3360.

The goal of 1.1340, which we wrote about, was almost achieved. The currency pair dropped to 1.1341, after which there was a slight rebound to the top. Currently, the price continues to form a local bearish trend. Received a sell signal from the MACD indicator (line crossing).

Conclusions: taking into account the confirmation of the signal to turn, it is now possible to bet against the European currency.

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July 31, 2018

Hacked email account source of data breach at Boys Town Children’s Hospital

Omaha-based Children’s Hospital, Boys Town National Research Hospital, confirmed on July 20 that it was involved in a security incident. The personal data of 105,309 individuals may have been exposed. The breach appears to be the largest reported breach by a paediatric care provider or children’s hospital.

How it happened

On May 23 this year, the hospital became aware of unusual activity relating to an employee email account. An investigation determined that an unauthorised individual gained access to the email account and subsequently access to a treasure trove of personal and medical information of over 100,000 employees and patients, many of which are children.

Personal and medical data compromised

The personal information includes names, date of births, Social Security numbers, diagnosis or treatment information, Medicare or Medicaid identification numbers, medical record numbers, billing/claims information, health insurance information, disability codes, birth or marriage certificate information, Employer Identification Numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport information, banking or financial account numbers as well as usernames and passwords.

The selection of information exposed is vast and highly sensitive. It’s frightening to imagine the harm that could be done with this type of personal information, especially since a large volume of the data concerns children. The data exposed is highly sought after and there’s a high probability that it will be sold on the Dark Web.

However, according to Boys Town, no reports of misuse of the stolen information have been received so far.

The hospital has informed the relevant authorities and regulators of the security incident and has notified those potentially affected. Additionally, it has offered free identity protection services to all affected individuals.

Most breaches are a result of email compromise and phishing scams

Cyber Security incidents in the health sector are increasing at a worryingly fast rate. It seems the health sector, in particular, is not as vigilant about cybersecurity. Hackers know this and are exploiting the security gaps in their systems and successfully utilising social engineering ploys to trick employees and successfully gain access to the valuable data that these institutes handle.

According to the US Department of Health’s statistics, the majority of the US health sector breaches have resulted from compromised email accounts and phishing scams. Knowing that this is happening and so frequently, the sector should be prioritising email security and data protection and should be ensuring that employees are properly trained to protect patient data.

Considering these statistics, it seems that email is the preferred route of entry for hackers to obtain access to health data in the US, likely due to its ease and high success rate.

Data protection as well as employee awareness training is vital

However, measures can be put in place to safeguard systems and data. Implementing strong access controls and authentication methods, utilising encryption technologies and prioritising employee awareness and data protection training are necessary and effective measures. Encrypting communications and data is vital. If the emails and data were encrypted the data would be unusable to unauthorised individuals.

Email encryption should be habitual and the norm within organisations so that when any data is communicated or stored in plain text a warning light shows — as this would be seen as out of the ordinary. Any phishing email is more likely to stand out and be noticed by employees and a resultant attack can be avoided.

Moreover, knowledgeable and trained employees are a necessary layer of defence, especially in situations where phishing and compromise through email are involved.  Together the right technologies and mindset can help to prevent such incidents and protect patient data.

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Cafe Painting

Size (WxH): 26" x 26" inch (65 x 67 cm)
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Cafe is an original, one-of-a-kind figurative painting signed by artist Giorgi Kobiashvili. This piece of art was created in 2012 and the painter used oil on canvas. It measures 26" x 26" inch (65 x 67 cm) and is available for sale online for 1500 USD.

This soft, soothing piece by artist Giorgi Kobiashvili is warm and familiar. While there may not be much exceptional to the painting at first, the intricate lines and young woman’s gaze, coupled with the warm colors and cool, gentle, blue details invite the viewer in to realize that there is more to the story. This delicate oil on canvas is ideal for an intimate environment such as a bedroom or sunroom and will make the room feel warm and comfortable. Placement across from large windows is recommended, to help the painting come to life in the glow of morning or afternoon natural light.

Giorgi Kobiashvili started taking painting classes in the year 2005 and studied in the Iakob Nikoladze Art School until the year 2009. After his time there ended, he took more classes at the Apolon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Art until the year 2012. During this time and beyond, Giorgi Kobiashvili was showcasing his works in many different exhibitions.


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gameME History

The following summary should reflect the exciting history of gameME Stats in the last couple of years. The project started in 2005 as HLstatsX with our famous hosting service HLstatsX Premium. With the fantastic support of the community we were able to introduce the world of real-time statistics to Half-Life 1/2 & Mods! Today, our service is provided under the trademark gameME Stats which supports many games of different game engines.

How it's all started (2001 - 2005)

In 2001 Simon Garner started the revolutionary project called HLstats which introduced for the first time real-time statistics to Half-Life 1 gameservers. Simon resigned in the year 2004 and the project lead was moved to UnitedAdmins - during this time a famous and reliable source for gameserver administrators.

After the release of the game Counter-Strike: Source on 1st November 2004 for the Half-Life 2 engine we started in February 2005 to help to improve the Half-Life 2 support for HLstats and contributed some bugfixes and new features for version v1.31/v1.32. During March 2005 we create a fork of HLstats and the project HLstatsX was born.

First Public Release (18th March 2005)

We released the first public version of HLstatsX on 18th March 2005! HLstatsX was very unique as it had its focus on Half-Life 2 games and to display real-time ingame messages to the players. Within the next few weeks after the first release a couple of new improvements were added and we started to introduce our global services.

Right from the beginning, the community asked for a hosting service since the system requirements were special because shell and database access on the system were needed. As a result, we started our hosting service, formerly known as HLstatsX Premium. Today, the corresponding successor is our service gameME Stats!

Native Ingame Plugin Support (2005 - 2007)

The messages of the first versions of HLstatsX were limited and it was not possible to display advanced ingame messages to players. This has changed dramatically once HLstatsX got native support of the ingame plugins Mani-Admin-Plugin and Beetlesmod. Later, on 22nd May 2007 support for SourceMod was added with our very own ingame plugin.
During this time we worked countless nights together with the core developers of the mentioned plugins to add many functions all known real-time statistic systems still use today.

Progress of HLstatsX Premium (2007 - 2010)

Our last public HLstatsX release was published on 18th June 2007. After this release we focused solely on our hosting service HLstatsX Premium because public releases became too time-consuming. Additionally, the project design/code didn't really scale and had to be reworked.

We decided to start working on gameME and began from the scratch. This decision included major changes like building a complete new control panel, a new stats tracker, as well as, building a new well performing web framework. This took quite some time, but it was the right decision and definitely worth to create a very unique, reliable and secure structure. Today, we benefit from these new structures every day - this was really a big step!

At the same time, we started to enrich our global services with important functions like automated VAC banlist sychronization, most accurate geo data resolution, reliable global stats tracking, powerful xml API interfaces, ingame message interfaces and many more. Also, we started to work with our strong partners HLSW and SteamBans to help server operators to administrate their gameservers.

gameME Stats (2010 - Today)

We launched the new trademark gameME Stats on 29th January 2010 which replaced our former service HLstatsX Premium. With our new rock solid system we are now able to add a lot of new features very quickly to gameME Stats!
Today, we are still working every day to improve the gameME Stats experience for all of our customers and we are looking forward to add many exciting features. If you would like to contribute any feature request, please do not hesitate to contact us at our contact formular.
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Game Overview

Welcome to the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception strategy guide.

The purpose of this guide is to lead you through the uncharted waters of Drake’s most recent adventure while pointing out valuable treasures and relics for your collection. While doing this we will warn you of any dangers ahead and suggest making certain actions to avoid as much conflict as possible.

To do the above we have created a step-by-step guide that leads you through each chapter with treasures pointed out along the way. In addition, you can find a list of each treasure location by chapter, with images, in the appendix section of the guide, as well as a trophy walkthrough for any trophies you may be missing.

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In the fantasy realm of Victusia, the members of the elite Battle Chef Brigade are revered for their ability to skillfully take down monsters and transform their kills into delicious cuisine! But getting in isn't easy; chefs from across Victusia must vie for their spot in a high stakes competition. Follow two contestants, Mina and Thrash, as their journeys through the tournament unfold. In order to become a Brigadier you'll need to hunt monsters with combo-based attacks and prepare your freshly caught ingredients in puzzle-based cooking challenges to serve up winning dishes to the judges - all while the round clock ticks down.

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Katie DeSoto Named One Of The Top 50 Women Lawyers In The Mountain States By Super Lawyers

Garlington, Lohn & Robinson attorney Katie DeSoto was selected by Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 Lawyers in the Mountain States, which include Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Montana. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Katie has been with the firm since 2001. Her practice areas include insurance coverage, defense of insurance unfair claims practices act cases, school liability defense, legal malpractice defense, and federal criminal defense.


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Garnishment – What you need to know

A garnishment is the process of withholding earnings from an individual to repay a debt obligation. In most situations, the employer is required to withhold funds from a legal or equitable procedure. This may be because of a court order, an IRS tax debt or other collection method. If you are facing garnishment, it pays to know what your options are and what is likely to happen to you.

Garnishment is a legal process. Not just anyone can withhold money from your paycheck. The only way for an individual, bank, tax authority or anyone else to garnish you is to take legal action against you (though there are several methods of doing so.) In the case of wage garnishment, the most common form, the debt collector must win the lawsuit and be given the right to take this step.

  • If you do not show up in court to fight the charges against you, it is likely that the judge will order a garnishment up to the amount the person suing you is requesting.
  • Federal limits are in place for wage garnishment. Under wage garnishment laws, no creditors can garnish more than 60 percent of your wages. This is an extreme amount and not often awarded.
  • Four states do not allow wage garnishment from creditors, such as credit card companies. Those four states are South Carolina, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Texas.

If you are being sued by anyone, contact an attorney and discuss your rights under wage garnishment laws. Garnishment can last for years. You will want to take action to fight this legal maneuver.

Types of Garnishment

Individuals who owe money to others may face garnishment. The type of garnishment is dependent on the type of organization pursuing you for the debt. Here are some examples:

Wage Garnishment: This is the most common form. In this type, a creditor such as a utility company, bank or other business you owe funds to, will file a lawsuit in a court of law requesting the garnishment. If awarded, your employer will be obligated to withdraw the required portion of your wages and send directly to the collector according to the agreements set forth by the judge.

Attachment: An attachment of earnings is a similar process. In this case, the garnishment is not just applicable to wages but also to any sales commissions or benefits the individual earns. It can also apply to property. In this case, the property’s ownership may be divided. A court order is also required.

Military Garnishments: The Defense Finance and Account Service (DFAS) places judgment and collects garnishments for those in the military. If you fail to pay your debts but receive military pay, the DFAS will collect those funds and distribute to your creditors. This organization also collects debts owed to the Department of Energy, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, the Environment Protection Agency and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. A court order or judgment may be necessary.

IRS Garnishment: Like other forms of wage garnishment, in this case, the IRS can collect from a person’s earnings to collect federal tax obligations. However, the IRS levy, as it is often called, does not require a court order. You will first receive a Notice of Demand for Payment. Then, a Final Notice is set. A levy notice is sent giving you at least 30 days to make payment. If a taxpayer does not make payment at that point, the IRS will contact your employer to begin the garnishment.

What’s the Maximum Limits on Wage Garnishment?

The Consumer Credit Protection Act, the main wage garnishment law you need to know, provides some specific protections for you. Employers must follow the orders set forth by the court. Not doing so can result in fines. If you are dealing with garnishment, do not fight with your employer but rather your creditor.

The following are the maximum limits placed on the collection of debts through the garnishment process. The most you can have taken from your check is the lowest of the following as it applies to your situation.

  • Up to 25 percent of your deemed disposable income; those with disposable income under $290 will have no garnishment
  • Any amount of money higher than the federal minimum wage times 30, currently $217.50 (as the rate right now is $7.25)

Keep in mind that in extreme cases, wage garnishment laws allow a much larger amount to be used to repay the debts you owe. These limits also only apply to creditors coming after you for a repayment of debt. These maximums do not apply to any type of state or federal tax debt, voluntary wage assessments, and support for children, spouses, or bankruptcy court orders. In those cases, you could pay even more.

What Is Your Disposable Income?

managing garnishment The maximum limit applies to your disposable income. To calculate it, take your gross income and subtract any deductions legally allowable. These may come from state, local or federal payments, such as paying Social Security deductions or unemployment insurance. However, other deductions from your paycheck may not apply. This includes deductions for your health insurance, life insurance or even the contributions you make to charitable organizations.

Common Reasons for Wage Garnishments

The following are some of the most common types of garnishments you could face. This is not an exhaustive list since garnishments can include other types of debt.

Child Support or Spousal Support Garnishments

Those who fail to pay court-ordered payments for child or spousal support may face garnishment as a result. In this case, garnishment laws allow for as much as 50 percent of your wages to be garnished if you are supporting another child or spouse (such as being remarried.) However, if you are not supporting anyone else, then up to 60 percent of your wages may be garnished. For those that owe more than twelve weeks of missing payments, this amount can increase by another five percent.

Federal Debt Garnishment

Those who owe federal debts, including taxes to the IRS, may face garnishment. The government agency or their collectors can get a court order to force you to pay up to 15 percent of your disposable income to cover debts. For tax payers that owe money to the Department of Education, the agency can garnish up to 10 percent of your disposable income, such as for repaying federal student loans that you have fallen behind on.

State Garnishments

Each state has its own wage garnishment laws. It is important for you to learn about these laws if you owe money to your state, such as for back taxes. In many cases, the state’s laws are similar to the federal garnishment restrictions.

What to Do If You Are Facing Wage Garnishment

If you are facing garnishment, you do have options. Take the following actions:

  • Find out why you are being garnished.
  • Ensure that you do owe the debt you are being garnished for by asking the creditor or other agency for proof of your debt obligation.
  • Respond to any legal summons or court details – you need to go to court to avoid wage garnishment. Judges will work with you but if you fail to show up, you will be garnished.
  • Talk to an attorney about your options for wage garnishment. You may be able to settle the debt outside of court for less.

Wage garnishment generally will continue until it is stopped by a court order or until the debt is paid in full. Do not wait. Seek help as soon as possible.

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In the Spring of 2007 the Technology Competition and education lost a strong supporter within our community. Lou Dewberry, director of the competition, passed away unexpectedly. Lou Dewberry joined Forsyth County Schools in August 1999, having moved to Georgia after serving many years as a media specialist in Jefferson County Schools and in Educational Technology at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama

Lou took several media specialists and instructional technology specialists from Forsyth County School System to help judge the Alabama Educational Technology Fair. This core group with other FCSS ITS formed the Forsyth County Tech Competition. After presenting at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference, interest grew sufficiently to form the Georgia Educational Technology Fair, now the Georgia Student Technology Competition. Regions were formed, and the state Technology Competition has been growing ever since. Lou became the first director and served for 7 years until her passing.

In November 2007, the newly formed GASTC committee started a fund in her honor, providing scholarships to high school seniors.

Tech Competition Senior Scholarships

GASTC awards the highest placing Senior in each category a scholarship.  Each participant will be given a certificate and information on how to receive their scholarship.  Click here for a list of last year's scholarship winners.

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Energy storage and clean fuel company, ITM Power has announced its participation in H2USA, the hydrogen infrastructure programme for the US.

The US Energy Department recently launched H2USA, a new public-private partnership focused on advancing hydrogen infrastructure to support more transportation energy options for US consumers, including fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

The new partnership brings together auto manufacturers, government agencies, gas suppliers, and the hydrogen and fuel cell industries to coordinate research and identify cost-effective solutions to deploy infrastructure that can deliver affordable, clean hydrogen fuel in the US.

Members of the H2USA partnership include the American Gas Association, Association of Global Automakers, the California Fuel Cell Partnership, the Electric Drive Transportation Association, the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association, Hyundai Motor America, ITM Power, Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, Mercedes-Benz USA, Nissan North America Research and Development, Proton OnSite, and Toyota Motor North America.

Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, David Danielson, said, “Fuel cell technologies are an important part of an all-of-the-above approach to diversify America’s transportation sector, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and increase our competitiveness in the global market. By bringing together key stakeholders from across the US fuel cell and hydrogen industry, the H2USA partnership will help advance affordable fuel cell electric vehicles that save consumers money and give drivers more options.”

ITM Power CEO Dr. Graham Cooley commented, “We have been working on developing our relationships in the US for some time now and we are very pleased to be founding members of H2USA. We are looking forward to building on our relationships and entering the US market with our HFuel product.”

ITM Power designs and manufactures hydrogen energy systems for energy storage and clean fuel production, and has grown from its original platform of novel polymeric electrolytes (for water electrolysis and hydrogen fuel cells) to that of a technology provider.

The Hydrogen Businesss…coming soon!

The Hydrogen-themed August issue of gasworld magazine is fast approaching, set to be packed with everything about the dynamics in the global hydrogen business.

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Ten of the Best Analog Mix Bus Processors Right Now

Although plug-ins have come a long way in terms of sound quality, adding a pinch of analog fairy dust still is still something that is very much desired by anyone who values that real-electric mojo. A recurrent theme in this school of thought is mixbus processing -where an analog processor can help give a song that “finishing touch” - and it gets used on both OTB and ITB productions with equal love, so we have gathered ten of the best mix bus processors to help you out in getting those mixes polished up to a pro standard. In alphabetical order:

Anamod ATS-1

One of the sweetest treats one can offer to a mixbus is the analog tape sound - and one of the bitterest tricks is analog tape machine maintenance. The latter is not a problem with the ATS-1 - highly regarded by Gearslutz members, it features fundamental tape settings such as bias, variable speed (7.5/15/30 ips) and hiss amount, but perhaps its greatest feats are the four different machine models and four tape 'formulations' offered, which can be expanded on with user-installable add-on cards. Arguably this is the best way to achieve that coveted magnetic reel sound, and without all the hassles & expense usually associated with the format.

Black Box Analog Design HG-2

Black Box Analog Design crafted quite an imposing piece with the HG-2. This “mixbus enhancing device” is all about pure analog goodness, with transformers on the input stage and two parallel tube paths to add the richest saturation while at the same time raising perceived loudness. It also comes with an “air” switch for a gentle lift on the high end, different blending configurations for the 6U8A/12AX7 valves and flexible metering (VU/peak) to keep everything in check.

elysia Karacter

Karacter presents Elysia’s take on saturation, a slick processor with an interesting “color filtering” feature, which allows the user to dial the tone of the saturation itself instead of simply using EQ to tilt the signal towards the highs or lows. Besides the stereo mode for the most common mixbus setup, Karacter can also operate in dual-mono and mid-side configurations, allowing for each part to be processed separately, making it a highly flexible unit that only takes a single rack space and doesn’t burn a hole in your wallet.

KERWAX Replica

Replica takes a slice from a custom tube-based mixing console made exclusively for the KERWAX recording studio (located in Brittany/France) and puts it in a 3U 19” rack with two tubes and a premium analog signal path. Essentially this is a hand-made line preamp, but with a few extra goodies: besides the tasteful saturation Replica offers variable drive, preamp bias, treble/bass adjustments, elegant VU meters and it’s a dual-mono unit, so besides doing wonders on a mixbus it can be used on channels to enhance individual tracks.

 Silver Bullet

Louder Than Liftoff Silver Bullet

Made in partnership with industry veteran and fellow Gearslutz member drBill, the Silver Bullet’s bold proposition is exactly what its name hints at: a one-stop solution to take a mix to the next level. This unit couples saturation from classic American and British consoles with a handful of tone shaping options, including a 2-band Baxandall EQ with options for 'bass or sub' and 'presence or air' enhancements, which should be excellent for treating individual channels, groups and whole mixes. Since it also comes with a couple of mic preamps it can be used for tracking, so it’s definitely an enticing option for the modern day “do it all” studio.

 Modular Channel Stereo Model 8755D

Overstayer Modular Channel Stereo Model 8755D

Overstayer makes a bold statement with the Model 8755D: an all-analog processing behemoth that puts together a complete channel strip for the mixbus - or any studio work - providing three saturation options, a 2-band shelving equalizer, resonant HP/LP filters, a VCA compressor and two mic preamps. This channel strip also offers plenty of flexibility with options for the signal order and a mixer matrix that allows for serial or parallel routing, allowing for a number of different combinations. Certainly a great option for an all-rounder that can take care of a good mix (or basically anything you can throw at it!)

 Master Buss Processor

Rupert Neve Designs Master Buss Processor

The classy Portico II Master Bus Processor presents Rupert Neve’s take on the stereo bus processing concept, bringing two flavours of saturation, compression with RMS or peak options and also an unique “Stereo Field Editor” that allows for imaging adjustments through the “Depth” and “Width” equalizers, which deploy advanced mid-side techniques to further enhance or adjust the stereo field of a mix. Add to that options for dual-mono or linked stereo operation, output and gain reduction meters on each channel and we have a highly capable unit with that signature Rupert Neve sound.

Solid State Logic Fusion

SSL needs no introduction, but they’re breaking new ground with Fusion, a processor that presents features that are unprecedented for the company while keeping their proud analog heritage very much alive. Fusion brings a unique set of tools, starting with a custom switchable transformer (on an SSL?!!) for added mojo, followed by drive control, 2-band shelving EQ, a high-frequency compressor and lastly a stereo image section with a mid-side matrix. This is a very new product at the time of writing but it's got our members' tongues wagging - a few decades ago SSL set what many consider to be the standard blueprint for individual channel strips, have they done it again on the mixbus? We're about to find out!

Tegeler Audio Manufaktur Crème

The Tegeler Crème offers a compression and equalization recipe that will never get old or stop being useful on virtually any mixing task. This eye-catching unit brings a passive 2-band EQ inspired by the legendary Pultec EQP1A and a bus compressor that takes a few notes from a well-known classic mixing console, wrapping up with a gain reduction meter and a processing order (EQ-Comp/Comp-EQ) switch. Crème also comes with a price tag that looks rather friendly, which helps to sweeten the whole deal and hopefully your mixes even further.

 The Culture Vulture Mastering Plus

Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture Mastering Plus

Thermionik’s Culture Vulture is a classic when it comes to valve saturation, and when used mindfully it can do wonders on a mixbus (although it can also be used to wreck things entirely when desired!) A “mastering” version (featured) of the Culture Vulture is also available, adding a new distortion option on top of the three original modes and it features closely matched controls to favour stereo operations, which makes it perfect for mixbus duties.

Closing thoughts:

Although we aimed to list units that can make a notable sonic difference on their own, many of them can be combined for superb results. Feel free to comment and elaborate on your dream combos!

For more on analog processors, visit our So Much Gear, So Little Time sub forum.


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Bigfoot isn’t lost, he’s geocaching! This cache was placed in conjunction with the 2018 Friends of Hudson Parks “Hike Hudson - In Search of Bigfoot” fall hiking program. That program is over now, but you can still look for Bigfoot with this two stage multi-cache. At Maple Grove Park there is a looping trail, approximately one mile long, winding through the wooded area.  To get to the 1st stage you can head either direction from the parking area (see listed waypoint). For the final you will be off trail, so dress appropriately.  A waypoint is provided for a good location to leave the trail to head towards the final. This waypoint may also prove helpful in finding your way back to the trail! NO NIGHT CACHING!

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Written for She Ventures May 2018. The time leading up to those events was a deep period of transition and transformation for me that started back in October 2017. Life took a lot of twists and turns, some expected and some not so. If I am honest though, the past 10 years have been a period of transition, transformation,  and reinvention to shaping me into the woman I am today.

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Solitude + Stillness

I can thank entrepreneurship for helping me appreciate quiet moments. As a founder, life can seem like a crazy roller coaster jumping off one ride onto the next. Constant calls, meetings, being on the road, often times lack of consistency or stability-whew it can wear you out. When you actually just get a moment with yourself, it's a little treasure.

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One of Gerald's iconic drawings from the title sequence of the famous British comedy series of the 1980's. (Print size: 48cm x 32cm. Printed on high quality archival matt paper. Hand signed by Gerald Scarfe. Limited edition of 100. Issued with a signed Certificate of Authenticity).

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A large retrospective exhibition of Gerald Scarfe’s political work has now opened at the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hannover, Germany. Around 120 of his extraordinary drawings are now on show until 12th August. A catalogue of the exhibition is also … Continue reading

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Kiren Sharma says he was overwhelmed after hearing he was to be made a MBE.

Mr Sharma, 62, runs Gravity Personnel and was nominated for his services to business and charity in Berkshire.

The businessman moved to Reading in 1971 from Kenya and has lived in the town ever since.

"I was overwhelmed when I found out I had got the MBE because there are so many others who are a lot more deserving than I am," he said.

"I've been in Reading for 30-odd years and I'm very passionate about the town and the charity work I do is a way for me of putting something back into the system.

"I do a lot with ABF The Soldier's Charity and schools as well such as The Avenue in Tilehurst, and also the air ambulance.

"I try to help out with companies or individuals who need help financially or otherwise.

"That's my main focus.

"I feel very humble and honoured and it is something which I want to continue doing."

Kiren Sharma presents a cheque at the ABF Big Curry Lunch

Mr Sharma has supported a wide range of charitable causes, including for the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust and donated to buy two oncology rooms at Royal Berkshire Hospital.

He also made a significant donation to the Phoenix Day Centre for the Elderly, East Reading Adventure Playground Association, Phoenix Hockey Club and Reading Rockets Basketball team.

Last month, Mr Sharma arranged and paid the transport costs for boxes of clothing collected by the Gurkha community to be sent to Nepal to help with the relief effort following the earthquake in April.

The MBE for Mr Sharma was his second honour in a fortnight after receiving the Lord Montgomery Award from ABF for his 'exceptional work with the army'.

He said: "It was the first year they've handed out the award.

"So I suppose I've done quite well!"


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We have outstanding resources for research on the history of medicine generally, and in the areas of anatomy and obstetrics and gynaecology in particular. This is largely owing to the superb library of Dr William Hunter, the 18th century physician, man-midwife and medical teacher:

  • Over 3,000 of the books in Hunter's library deal with medicine
  • Highlights include unique medieval manuscripts (the earliest dating to the 8th/9th century), early printed editions of Vesalius, Hippocrates, Galen, and Harvey, and the work of Hunter's 18th century contemporaries such as William Smellie and Albinus.
  • Hunter himself wrote an important obstetrical atlas, The anatomy of the human gravid uterus (1774). The superb drawings that were made for this are also preserved in the collection, together with other working papers.

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  • Hunterian collection: particularly strong in manuscript and early printed texts on general medicine, anatomy and obstetrics. Other medical topics (such as naval medicine, the deficiency diseases, inoculation against smallpox etc) are also represented in Hunter's library.
  • Douglas Papers: the medical and scientific papers of Hunter's mentor, Dr James Douglas (1675-1742), including medical case records and anatomical studies
  • See also this website from the University of Alcalá de Henares for a useful introduction to medical manuscripts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods, featuring items from our Hunterian and Ferguson collections

The following collections are also highly relevant:

  • Cullen papers: 18th century papers of William Cullen, Professor of Medicine (at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities), including drafts of lectures, medical notes, and letters
  • Lister Library: a small number of books from the library of surgeon Sir Joseph Lister (NB not all medical in nature)
  • Old Library: texts as used at the University for teaching and research up until the end of the 18th century, including some medical works; supplemented by 19th century holdings of the Anatomy and Medical Class Libraries
  • Syphilis collection: from the earliest syphilis incunabula produced at the end of the fifteenth century, to dissertations and debates on whether syphilis and gonorrhoea were separate diseases at the end of the 18th century
  • Thomson Papers: medical papers, lecture notes, drawings and correspondence of Allen Thomson (1809-1884), his father, John Thomson (1765-1846), and half-brother William Thomson (1802-1852)

We also hold a number of manuscript 'receipt' or 'recipe' books, dating from as early as the 5th century, some of which contain descriptions of domestic medical 'cures'. To locate these try the following search:

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  • Type medical in the Word or phrase box
  • Choose Receipt or Recipe from the Document Type drop-down menu
  • Narrow your search by date (optional)
  • Re-run the search as necessary

We have one important collection of modern medical papers, dealing largely with psychiatry:

  • R. D. Laing collection: library and papers of Ronald David Laing (1927-1989), the psychotherapist and writer. The collection includes his personal library, medical correspondence and case notes, financial papers, diaries, appointment books, notebooks, press-cuttings, drafts of published works, unpublished writings and lectures, interviews, films and recordings. Please note that access to the manuscript material in this collection is by application in advance.

Relevant material for both medicine and psychiatry is dispersed throughout the collections. To search across all our collections, by name or keyword, please use the rare books search (for printed material) and the manuscripts search (for unpublished material including notebooks, papers, photographs and drawings).

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Wall Street Banks and Commodities Fraud

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On Wednesday, the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a detailed report documenting yet another aspect of the insider dealing, price-fixing and general criminality that pervades the American financial system.

The 400-page report gives some insight into the extraordinary and malevolent power of a handful of banks and financial institutions. These corporations, the largest of which control hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars in assets, dominate the economy and control the political system.

The document focuses on the role of three of the largest banks—Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase—in the physical control of commodities, including energy resources and metals. “The current level of bank involvement with critical raw materials, power generation and the food supply appears to be unprecedented in US history,” the report states.

After the deregulation of the commodities markets in the late 1990s—part of a broader banking deregulation under the Clinton administration—trading in commodity-related assets increased enormously. A vast array of derivatives were developed to allow for speculation on commodities, with the market in these assets increasingly divorced from its initial purpose of enabling producers and buyers to hedge against shifts in commodity prices. Markets such as the Commodity Mercantile Exchange in Chicago are now dominated by speculators, who control as much as 70 percent of all assets.

A great deal of money is made buying and selling financial instruments tied to the prices of such basic necessities as oil and wheat. The growth in the direct control of physical goods by banks has allowed them not only to influence the prices consumers pay, but also to leverage their control of commodities to manipulate the prices of the financial instruments on which they gamble. The consequences can be deadly. Speculation in food prices, for example, is a major factor in price swings that can throw millions of people into poverty and hunger all over the world.

Some figures from the report give a sense of what is involved. At one point, the investment bank Morgan Stanley “controlled over 55 million barrels of oil storage capacity, 100 oil tankers, and 6,000 miles of pipeline.”

JPMorgan built up a significant stake in the copper market, with “a copper inventory… comprising nearly 60 percent of the available physical copper on the world’s premier copper trading exchange.” Other activities of the banks documented in the report include trading in uranium, selling jet fuel to airlines, and owning mines and power plants.

One focus of the Senate subcommittee report is the control of the aluminum market by Goldman Sachs, which has been sued by dozens of companies accusing the bank of deliberately manipulating supply to increase aluminum prices and its own profits.

In 2010, Goldman purchased Metro International, a Detroit-area warehousing company that stores about 85 percent of exchange-traded aluminum in the United States. Goldman proceeded to implement complex new rules and incentives at its subsidiary to bottleneck supplies, according to the report.

The bank “approved ‘merry-go-round’ transactions in which warehouse clients [including banks and financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank and the London hedge fund Red Kite] were paid cash incentives to transfer aluminum from one Metro warehouse to another.” The result was curtailed supply and increased prices, which the bank and its financial trading arm could anticipate because they were directly responsible.

Wednesday’s report is only the latest in a long string of revelations of nefarious activities by Wall Street banks, including three major documents released by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations over the past three-and-a-half years.

The most significant thing about these exposés is that they have no repercussions. Detailed and damning evidence is presented showing that the likes of JPMorgan, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, etc.—and their top executives—lied, cheated, broke laws and, in general, profited handsomely from the economic and social disasters produced by their actions. But no bank or top banker is prosecuted, let alone jailed. No measures are taken to rein in the banks. The sporadic exposés assume the character of harmless rituals. The banks are and remain above the law.

At most, the banks are made to pay fines that amount to a small fraction of their revenues (and far less than the handouts and subsidies they have received from the government) in settlements that have been worked out between the banks and the government in closed-door negotiations—amounts the banks discount as the cost of doing business.

Just last week, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC agreed to a collective fine of $4 billion for their role in manipulating foreign exchange rates. This followed similar settlements over the banks’ manipulation of the most important interest rate in the world, the London Interbank Offer Rate (Libor).

Previous deals were reached to settle charges of money-laundering for drug cartels, deceit and fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities, concealment of losses from derivatives trading, complicity in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, fraud in the foreclosure of homes, and other crimes.

After the Permanent Subcommittee’s release of a 640-page document in 2011 on the 2008 financial collapse, the committee’s chairman, Senator Carl Levin, declared that the investigation had found “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interests and wrongdoing.” The longest chapter of the report was a detailed, fact-filled review of Goldman Sach’s unloading of toxic sub-prime loans in 2007 and 2008 to counterparties who were not informed that Goldman was betting against the very securities it was hailing as sound investments.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration announced in 2012 that it was ending its investigation of Goldman Sachs for manipulating the sub-prime mortgage market and would file no charges against the bank.

The Subcommittee’s second major report on banking fraud, published in 2013, focused on fraud and deception by JPMorgan Chase over $6.2 billion in losses from speculative trades in financial derivatives (the so-called “London whale” trades). Despite documentary evidence that the bank’s top management, including Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, deliberately concealed information from investors about the loss, no one was prosecuted or held accountable.

This latest report will produce similar results. That the Senate committee has no intention of seriously pressing for a criminal investigation is shown by its failure to summon a single top bank executive to testify at two days of hearings it is holding on its investigation into the banks’ commodities dealings.

The functionaries who populate the state apparatus, Democratic and Republican, are either directly or indirectly on the payroll of the banks and corporations whose interests they safeguard. The so-called regulatory agencies are staffed by former or future officers of the very banks they are supposed to be policing. They run interference for the financial mafia.

The inescapable conclusion from this cesspool of corruption and criminality is that the financial system cannot be reformed. The dictatorship of the banks can be broken only through the independent, revolutionary mobilization of the working class. Among the very first tasks of a workers’ state will be the expropriation of the banks, their transformation into public utilities under the democratic control of the working class, and the prosecution of all those who have amassed unimaginable wealth on the basis of parasitism and fraud.

Articles by: Joseph Kishore

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