Found via the Distressed Debt Investing blog.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider managed to make two proton beams collide at high energy Tuesday, marking a "new territory" in physics, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Sutton compared the experiments to Christopher Columbus sailing for the New World in 1492, when he knew what he was looking for but didn't know what he might find.
"It's going into a new energy region," she said. "It's a new territory in particle physics, so we're really just standing on the threshold of that, which is exciting for everybody here, of course."
With the private sector largely incapacitated, the GSEs and FHA became virtually the only source of mortgage financing. This is a paradoxical situation in which a fundamentally unsound business model holds a quasimonopolistic position. This cannot last.
What needs to be done is clear: The GSEs' mortgage insurance function must be separated from mortgage financing.
The former, mortgage insurance, is the legitimate function of a government agency, especially when the private sector has collapsed. A mortgage insurance entity should be run as a government agency.
But mortgage financing should revert to the private sector. This would get rid of a business model that has failed.
There is a proven mortgage financing system already up and running. The Danish model has been in use, continuously, since the aftermath of the Great Fire of Copenhagen in 1795. It has not prevented housing bubbles, but it has never broken down. And it proved its worth again in 2008.
In the Danish system, homeowners do not borrow from either a mortgage originator or a GSE. They borrow from the bond market, through a mortgage credit intermediary. Every mortgage is balanced by an equivalent amount of an identical, and openly traded, bond. This is called the Principle of Balance.
In the United States, mortgage securities are separated at birth from the borrower. Thereafter, they lead separate lives. But in the POB system, the link is never broken.
Mortgage Credit Intermediaries operate the POB system. They help homeowners understand and navigate the process. Most important, MCIs bear the credit risk of the mortgages — they remain "on the hook" in the event of delinquency or default.
In Denmark, these mortgages are not insured by a government agency. This would have to be modified in America. Given the current demoralized state of the market, a government agency would have to guarantee mortgages, but the MCIs would be required to keep "skin in the game" with a stake of, say, the top 10 percent.
A key benefit of the POB system is that it offers performing homeowners the opportunity to buy back their loans when interest rates rise. If the price of the associated mortgage bond drops, the homeowner can buy the equivalent face value of bonds at a discount, to redeem the existing home loan.
The homeowner's ability to lower his mortgage liability reduces the chance that he will be under water when home prices fall because of a rise in interest rates.
This helps forestall foreclosure crises. And it would have a counter cyclical effect: Homeowners repurchasing mortgages help moderate upward pressure on interest rates. By contrast, the current system tends to exacerbate upward pressure by lengthening duration, a likely near-term prospect.
This system would have many other advantages over one that has collapsed.
It would eliminate the agency problem that was the primary cause of failure. It would separate the credit risk from the interest rate risk. It would be transparent. And it would be open: The duopolistic position of the GSEs would disappear.
What would remain is a government agency offering mortgage insurance to all qualified MCIs without competing with them.
WAS THE GREAT STIMULUS A SILVER BULLET? - THINK AGAIN: It now appears that the great stimulus provided by almost all governments has averted the second Great Depression and the North American economy may well be on its way to recovery. However, looking forward, unless we find a credible way to repay or at least comfortably service the enormous and growing burden of government debt, we are going to face immense challenges. By overloading governments with too much debt, the stimulus may have pushed the problem from the private sector to the government sector and may have made it worse. If we take a snapshot of the growing gross debt as a percentage of GDP before and after the meltdown, we get a pretty good picture of the potential trouble some countries may face in the future.
At some level, debt becomes an intolerable burden and increases the chance of a default. Historically, when gross debt exceeds 70% of a country's GDP, the warning signs start flashing.
While we all wished the great stimulus would prove to be a silver bullet that would resolve all the problems stemming from the world financial crisis, that has hardly been the case. If history is any guide, it takes a long time for countries to successfully emerge from a financial crisis. They must deal with a huge increase in unemployment along with a profound increase in government debt. The problem is exacerbated by lower tax revenues in the future caused by lower output and unemployment. We think the next few years will be rocky, with economies lurching from one crisis to another.
As an investor, we believe there will be enormous opportunities but the key to investment success will depend on how we avoid some of the inevitable potholes we will find in our path.
THE economy is recovering, in baby steps, from the financial crisis and deep recession of 2008 and 2009. A big question still looms on the horizon: What can policy makers do to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?
Perhaps the best place to start is to acknowledge what we cannot do. If recent events have taught economists and policy makers anything, it is the need for humility.
One thing we cannot do very well is forecast the economy. The recent crisis and recession caught most economists flat-footed. This is nothing new. We have never been good at foretelling the future, but when the news is favorable, others forgive our lack of prescience.
John Mauldin: What Does Greece Mean to You?
It was indeed completely chaotic in its unpredictability. Now, let's read these next paragraphs slowly. They are important, as they create a mental image that helps me understand the organization of the financial markets and the world economy.
"To find out why [such unpredictability] should show up in their sandpile game, Bak and colleagues next played a trick with their computer. Imagine peering down on the pile from above, and coloring it in according to its steepness. Where it is relatively flat and stable, color it green; where steep and, in avalanche terms, 'ready to go,' color it red.
"What do you see? They found that at the outset the pile looked mostly green, but that, as the pile grew, the green became infiltrated with ever more red. With more grains, the scattering of red danger spots grew until a dense skeleton of instability ran through the pile. Here then was a clue to its peculiar behavior: a grain falling on a red spot can, by domino-like action, cause sliding at other nearby red spots. If the red network was sparse, and all trouble spots were well isolated one from the other, then a single grain could have only limited repercussions.
Now let's couple this idea with a few other concepts. First, one of the world's greatest economists (who sadly was never honored with a Nobel), Hyman Minsky, points out that stability leads to instability. The longer a given condition or trend persists (and the more comfortable we get with it), the more dramatic the correction will be when the trend fails. The problem with long-term macroeconomic stability is that it tends to produce highly unstable financial arrangements. If we believe that tomorrow and next year will be the same as last week and last year, we are more willing to add debt or postpone savings for current consumption. Thus, says Minsky, the longer the period of stability, the higher the potential risk for even greater instability when market participants must change their behavior.
Tariq at the Street Capitalist blog had a great post on learning from Michael Burry.
Jim, in that Rediscovered book, Graham makes it quite clear that value stocks will be punished every bit as much and probably more in a market downturn, according to his research. He of course advocates raising cash or adjusting to bonds if one thinks the market is too high. In another area, though, he talks of the tremendous values that can be found even in a high-priced market. I find this book fascinating — lots of stuff I hadn't read before.
My guess is that most of Wall Street did not bother to wade through the hundreds of pages that comprised a subprime MBS. Unlike Burry, who sat in an office and learned these bond deals by himself, most of Wall Street likely deferred their judgement to the ratings agencies or sell side contacts. Ultimately, those groups lacked any substantial knowledge about these securities, they models were flawed which made their opinions flawed. So when investor groups came to them to get their opinions, they were almost always given the wrong answer.
Going through all of Burry's posts, you will see that he was constantly analyzing stocks. To the point where he was at least posting a few ideas every week, in addition to his day job. To me, that is the definition of deliberate practice for an investor. You really have to get into the habit of frequently analyzing and valuing companies. In one post, Burry mentions that he has built a watch list of over 80 companies that he would be ready to pounce on if they ever hit his target price. That level of work, with a tendency to think independently, should help improve anyone's investing.
Economic growth dipped in 09, but there is widespread complacency that Asia is now back to 'business as usual'. That would require commensurate growth in the availability of energy. (The energy intensity of US GDP has fallen, but it is far from clear that this would have been the case if manufacturing had not been offshored. It seems far from clear that 'green growth' is possible.) A look at the implications of compound growth, and the levelling / decline of some Asian energy sources, highlights the potential constraint of energy availability. China's energy demands are much in the press, and its government is clearly very aware of energy security. Some other countries appear almost oblivious, having received an energy windfall and forgotten its magnitude, and may be surprised to find that they cannot grow as fast without it.
Edward Chancellor, a member of GMO's Asset Allocation team, takes an in-depth look at today's China. He begins with a section on Identifying Speculative Manias and Financial Crises and follows with an analysis as to whether The China Dream is nearing an end given current signs of financial fragility.
As a November IMF staff position note aptly pointed out, high fiscal deficits and higher outstanding debt lead to higher real interest rates and ultimately higher inflation, both trends which are bond market unfriendly. In the U.S. in addition to the 10% of GDP deficits and a growing stock of outstanding debt, an investor must be concerned with future unfunded entitlement commitments which portfolio managers almost always neglect, viewing them as so far off in the future that they don't matter. Yet should it concern an investor in 30-year Treasuries that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the present value of unfunded future social insurance expenditures (Social Security and Medicare primarily) was $46 trillion as of 2009, a sum four times its current outstanding debt? Of course it should, and that may be a primary reason why 30-year bonds yield 4.6% whereas 2-year debt with the same guarantee yields less than 1%.
The trend promises to get worse, not better. The imminent passage of health care reform represents a continuing litany of entitlement legislation that will add, not subtract, to future deficits and unfunded liabilities. No investment vigilante worth their salt or outrageous annual bonus would dare argue that current legislation is a deficit reducer as asserted by Democrats and in fact the Congressional Budget Office. Common sense alone would suggest that extending health care benefits to 30 million people will cost a lot of money and that it is being "paid for" in the current bill with standard smoke, and all too familiar mirrors that have characterized such entitlement legislation for decades. An article by an ex-CBO director in The New York Times this past Sunday affirms these suspicions. "Fantasy in, fantasy out," writes Douglas Holtz-Eakin who held the CBO Chair from 2003–2005. Front-end loaded revenues and back-end loaded expenses promote the fiction that a program that will cost $950 billion over the next 10 years actually reduces the deficit by $138 billion. After all the details are analyzed, Mr. Holtz-Eakin's numbers affirm a vigilante's suspicion – it will add $562 billion to the deficit over the next decade. Long-term bondholders beware.
Just a few weeks ago, I published "Tell Me I'm Wrong," my latest list of things in the investment environment that I find worth worrying about. I'm going to devote a few pages here – I promise this'll be the shortest memo in years – to a point I touched on in "What Worries Me" (August 28, 2008) but omitted from the more recent piece.
This memo will be about one of the inarguably most depressing topics of our time: the seeming inability of governments and politicians to solve – or even tackle – the financial problems we face.
Miguel at Simoleon Sense recently interviewed Bud Labitan about his new book, Price to Value. Bud was kind enough to ask me to contribute a current case study for the book using the format he describes. I attempted to do so using Winmill & Co. (but you'll probably have to read the book if you want the details!).
Thanks to Manish for passing this along!
It is important to note that our current defensive position is driven by the present combination of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, coupled with upward yield pressures, and is independent of my larger concerns about the potential for a second wave of credit strains. So there are two distinct sets of concerns here, one that would exist even in the absence of credit concerns, and the other that directly involves those concerns.
This distinction is important, because as we've anticipated for months now, we have finally entered the window in which additional credit strains - if they are indeed likely to emerge - should actually begin appearing in the data. Specifically, beginning with data for February 2010 and later, the concern is that we will begin to observe a spike in delinquencies - first in the form of "30-day delinquencies" and gradually in either large increases in loan loss provisions or in the actual onset of foreclosures.
Moreover, first quarter earnings reports will give us the first look at various off-balance sheet entities that are now required to be brought onto corporate balance sheets.
So the several few months will be important in gauging the extent to which "second wave" risks are or are not materializing. While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short-lived period of adjustment instead for a long-term period of stagnant credit.
We will not retain our concerns about second-wave credit strains if the data do not support it. As we move through this year, absent fresh credit strains, we will gradually assume a "post-war" world. If these strains do not emerge, we will scale (in an approximately linear way) our weights through 2010 to place greater weight on the "typical post-war recovery" dataset, while gradually fading our concern about abrupt solvency problems in our financial system. That is, we will move gradually with the evidence.
It seems to me that many in the value investing community may be pushing the edges of their circles of competence. I think the run-up from the lows, lack of cheap-looking stocks among the more predictable businesses, and the pull of the Do-Something Aether have led many down the path to search and invest in areas that they would previously not consider; most notably technology, commodities, and many foreign markets (especially China).
Now, I'm all in favor of constantly expanding one's circle and learning about new businesses and new markets, but I think some of the mistakes being made are in mis-defining what it takes to really understand a business, industry, and market - and trying to simplify things that aren't that simple. Many investors getting into these areas have developed the right expertise, but I have a feeling that many others are getting into these areas for the wrong reasons. It's just more exciting for many investors to try new things - and justify one's actions - than to have, for example, 50-100% of his or her portfolio in cash waiting for more easily identifiable 1-foot hurdles to appear. About the concept of a circle of competence, Mr Buffett wrote: "The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital."
I think those boundaries are being tested by many, although I can't know for sure because I can't get inside other peoples' heads and really know what they know. And I don't have any issue with investors wanting to capitalize on something like the apparent China growth story. It just makes me a little nervous to see so many people put so much confidence in their - or management's - growth projections (and financial statements) for Chinese companies, even if they may be a little wary about sustainable high growth in the Chinese economy as a whole. I think similar concerns can be made about certain endeavors in commodity and technology-related businesses.
So my advice to readers - which you are perfectly within reason to ignore - is to take a step back and take an honest look to make sure you are staying within the boundaries of your circle. Think about what it takes for something to really fall within your circle and remember that there is a strong bias in all of us to want to invest in something in which we've put in a lot of time and work. Value investing is risk management - or risk aversion, as Seth Klarman might say - and the first risk that needs to be dealt with in any investment consideration is the risk that one may be straying outside the boundaries of his or her circle.
Fuld and Buffett spoke on Friday, March 28, 2008. They discussed Buffett investing at least $2 billion in Lehman. Two items immediately concerned Buffet during his conversation with Fuld. First, Buffett wanted Lehman executives to buy under the same terms as Buffett. Fuld explained to the Examiner that he was reluctant to require a significant buy-in from Lehman executives, because they already received much of their compensation in stock. However, Buffett took it as a negative that Fuld suggested that Lehman executives were not willing to participate in a significant way. Second, Buffett did not like that Fuld complained about short sellers. Buffett thought that blaming short sellers was indicative of a failure to admit one's own problems.
Following his conversation with Buffett, Fuld asked Paulson to call Buffett, which Paulson reluctantly did. Buffett told the Examiner that during that call, Paulson signaled that he would like Buffett to invest in Lehman, but Paulson "did not load the dice." Buffett spent the rest of Friday, March 28, 2008, reviewing Lehman's 10-K and noting problems with some of Lehman's assets. Buffett's concerns centered around Lehman's real estate and high yield investments, lending-related commitments derivatives and their related credit-market risk, Level III assets and Lehman's securitization activity. On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Buffett learned of a $100 million problem in Japan that Fuld had not mentioned during their discussions, and Buffett was concerned that Fuld had not been forthcoming about the issue. The problems Buffett saw in the 10-K along with Fuld's failure to alert Buffett to the issue in Japan cemented Buffett's decision not to invest in Lehman.
At some point in their conversations, Fuld and Buffett also discovered that there had been a miscommunication about the conversion price. Buffett was interested only in convertible preferred shares. Buffett told Fuld that he was willing to agree to a $40 conversion price per share, while Fuld thought Buffett was offering to buy in at "up- 40," or 40% above the current market price, which would have been about $56 per share. On Friday, March 28, 2008, Lehman's stock closed at $37.87. Fuld spoke to Lehman's Executive Committee and several Board members about his conversations with Buffett. Lehman recognized that an investment by Buffett would provide a "stamp of approval." However, Lehman already had better offers for its April capital raise, and Lehman did not think it could give a better deal to Buffett at the same time it gave a less attractive deal to others. On Monday, March 31, 2008, before Buffett could tell Fuld that he was not interested, Fuld called Buffett to say that Lehman could not accept his terms.
At the end of Sprott's latest commentary, they mentioned the Kondratieff Cycles, which I had never heard of. When I searched for more information, I came across a 1984 article from Murray Rothbard that discussed the topic and that I thought was interesting, although I enjoyed his comments about forecasters - in which he uses one of Munger's favorite words, "twaddle" - more than the comments about the Kondratieff Cycle. Some excerpts and a link to the article are below.
In the same way, the astrologers fudge on their predictions. If you are a Pisces, they will proclaim that you are a mystic, who loves water. If you say, "You're right," they will smile triumphantly upon this confirmation of their analysis. But if you say, "Wrong. I'm a skeptic who hates water," they'll say, "Ahh, that's because your Jupiter is rising, and you're fighting your stars," or some such twaddle. The key point is that, with any guru worth his salt, there is no way ever to prove him wrong. He will always come up with the fudge factor. And, it should be clear to the wise that a prediction that somehow can never be proved wrong is worth far less than the paper it is printed on.
Furthermore, when anyone spends a lot of time predicting, on whatever grounds, once in a while some of these forecasts are bound to be proved right, just by chance. And so, in the world of economic as well as astrological forecasting, the soothsayers trumpet any successes they may have ("I predicted . . . !") while quietly burying their mistakes.
It should be recognized that most business-cycle theories – Keynesian, Marxist, Friedmanite, or whatever – and remedies are grounded in the assumption that the cycle stems from some deep flaw in the free-market economy. But if micro-theory is correct, then it must apply to the "macro" sphere as well. The economy is not some entity split between a micro and macro half; it is a seamless web, inextricably linked together by the use of money and the price system. Therefore, whatever applies to one part of it must apply to all. The explanation for business cycles must somehow be integrated with the explanation of the micro-economy.
One of the worst things about the "business cycle" is its name. For somehow the name "cycle" caught on, with its implication that the wave-like movement of business is strictly periodic, like the cycles of astronomy or biology. An enormous amount of error would have been avoided if economists had simply used the term "business fluctuations." For man is all too prone to leap to the belief that economic fluctuations are strictly periodic and can therefore be predicted with pinpoint accuracy. The fact is, however, that these waves are in no sense periodic; they last for few years, and the "'few" can stretch or contract from one wave to the next. The periodic notion was unfortunately fed by the fact that the early panics seemed to be ten years apart: 1837, 1847, 1857, but pretty soon that periodicity broke down.
This doctrine is mystic for two basic reasons. In the first place, very much like the "epicycles" of the Ptolemaic astronomers who fought against the Copernican Revolution, there is no way ever to prove the cycles wrong. If the cycles don't fit the facts, you can always conjure up one or two more "cycles" so as to make a perfect fit. Note that the fit has to keep changing in order to adapt to the new data that are always coming in. More epicycles get folded into the data. Secondly, as we noted above, the market is a seamless web. All facets of the market are interconnected through the price system, and the profit-and-loss motive. Booms and busts spread throughout the system; that is precisely why they are important. It is absurd to think that one part of the economy can peg along on a nine-year cycle, another on a three-year cycle, and still another on a 25-year cycle, with each of these cycles barreling along on a hermetically sealed track, not influencing and modifying each other. In fact, there can only be one real cycle going on in the economy at any one time.
If "the Kondratieff cycle" is a myth and a chimera, why are there business cycles at all? There is no space here to present a positive solution to the business-cycle phenomenon. But we have already seen (1) that since the market is interrelated and a seamless web, there can be no multiple "underlying" and interacting cycles; there is only one business cycle. And (2) the real business cycle is in no sense periodic, but is a continuing, wave-like motion that varies considerably in length and intensity.
We can only sum up the correct answer to the problem of the business cycle. We have already seen a hint of the solution: that inflation and the inflationary boom are caused by bank credit expansion generated by governments. In fact, government's central banking system provides the key causal element for all business cycles, a cause exogenous to the market economy. Continuing government intervention sets in motion business cycles by generating inflationary booms. Because these booms distort the signals of the market place in interest rates and in relative prices they bring about grave distortions of production and prices, which must be corrected by recessions and depressions.
In short, government intervention cripples the market economy, and recession or depression is the painful but necessary adjustment by which the market reasserts itself, and liquidates the distortions committed by the government's inflationary boom. After each depression, the government generates inflation once again, because it is the government's natural tendency to inflate. Why? Quite simply, whoever is granted a monopoly of printing money (e.g., the Fed, the Bank of England) will use that monopoly and print – to finance government deficits, or to subsidize favored economic groups. Power will tend to be used, and the power to create money out of thin air is no exception to the rule.
And so we see – and this is the great insight of the "Austrian" theory of the trade cycle – that micro and macro economics are in harmony after all. The free market does tend to adjust harmoniously without boom and bust, without incurring clusters of severe business losses. It is government intervention in the market that creates the business cycle, and unfortunately makes the corrective adjustment of recessions necessary. The cause of the boom-bust cycle is not some mystical periodic Force to which man must bend his will; the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes. So, not surprisingly, economists are not in a good position to forecast how quickly it will end, either.
The state of economic knowledge was just as bad in the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock market crash. Economists did not predict that event, either. In the 1920's, some warned about an overpriced stock market, but they did not predict a decade-long depression affecting the entire economy.
Indeed, the crisis knows no end to the list of its causes. For, in a complicated economic system that feeds back on itself in many ways, events that start a vicious cycle might be as seemingly trivial as the proverbial butterfly in the Amazon, which, by flapping its wings, sets off a chain of events that eventually results in a far-away hurricane. Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.
Weather forecasters cannot forecast far into the future, either, but at least they have precise mathematical models. Massive parallel computers are programmed to yield numerical solutions of differential equations derived from the theory of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Scientists appear to know the mechanism that generates weather, even if it is inherently difficult to extrapolate very far.
The problem for macroeconomics is that the types of causes mentioned for the current crisis are difficult to systematize. The mathematical models that macroeconomists have may resemble weather models in some respects, but their structural integrity is not guaranteed by anything like a solid, immutable theory.
The most important new book about the origins of the economic crisis, Carmen Reinhart's and Kenneth Rogoff's This Time Is Different, is essentially a summary of lessons learned from virtually every financial crisis in every country in recorded history. But the book is almost entirely non-theoretical. It merely documents recurrent patterns. Unfortunately, in 800 years of financial history, there is only one example of a really massive worldwide contraction, namely the Great Depression of the 1930's. So it is hard to know exactly what to expect in the current contraction based on the Reinhart-Rogoff analysis.
This leaves us trying to use patterns from past, dissimilar crises to try to infer the likely prognosis for the current crisis. As a result, we simply do not know if the recovery will be solid or disappointing.
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The first thought that the above quote might provoke is - why would I begin a weekly comment by quoting an economic analysis that is nearly 5 years old? Two reasons. First, it should be evident that the recent credit crisis did not emerge as some unpredictable surprise, but was instead the very ordinary outcome of extraordinary recklessness. Though the mounting problems in 2005 were utterly ignored by the stock market for more than two years after this analysis was published, the fact is that even with the recent rebound, the S&P 500 remains below where it was in mid-2005. Overvaluation and reckless lending do not always translate into near-term market weakness, but they invariably haunt investors in the form of poor long-term returns.
Second, I've chosen a 5-year old analysis of mortgage lending specifically because the Alt-A (no documentation) and Option-ARM (negative amortization) loans discussed by the Economist commonly sported reset dates 5 years into the loan terms. So the observation that "payments surge as principal repayment kicks in" is not an event that was occurring then. Rather, it is an event that has just begun to occur with loans now hitting their resets. And while current ARM interest rates are only about 4.5%, these mortgages now demand a combination of interest plus principal repayment, on a loan balance that is most likely well above the current market value of the home. This is likely to be onerous relative to a previous payment that was less than the interest alone.
Thanks to Phil for passing this along. Mr. Pabrai comes in around the 14-minute mark.


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http://twitter.com/themisfits
* For more info on OSAKA POPSTAR, click on the links below!
http://osakapopstar.com
facebook: Osaka Popstar
http://osakapopstar.cinderblock.com/
http://twitter.com/osakapopstar
LONG LIVE MISFITS.
LONG LIVE OSAKA POPSTAR.
PHANTOM 13 – Wanna See My PHANTOM 13 Autographed CD? It's Really Cool…
Posted in Hard Rock, horror, horror punk, horror punk albums, Music, rock music, rock music news, shock rock with tags horror punk, horror rock, phantom 13, phantom 13 ace of cups, phantom 13 autographed cd, shock rock on February 28, 2013 by Metal Odyssey
PHANTOM 13 – That's it at the top! Whoa! That's my autographed PHANTOM 13 CD! I was able to catch these Horror Punk/Shock Rock bad-asses opening for the Queen Of Heavy Metal, aka, Doro Pesch and her band DORO. This concert took place at Ace Of Cups in Columbus, Ohio, back on February 9th. HARD ROCK HIDEOUT's very own Rob Rockitt took my Rockaholic ass for a ride out to this DORO show and we both had a blast.
PHANTOM 13 are from Columbus, Ohio and they gave their hometown crowd of fans one hell of a spooktacular good time. I had heard of PHANTOM 13 before seeing them on that night; now I'm a fan. The band members of PHANTOM 13 were out and about in the crowd after their set, as well as hanging around their merch table. I bought their self-titled CD from them for $6. As the night progressed, each member of the band was more than happy to sign the front cover to the liner notes for me. Very cool.
Being a fan of the Misfits, Balzac and Wednesday 13 (to name a few) is no secret around here. Horror Punk, Horror Metal and Shock Rock just sucks me in. I love it. I really dig the moments when AFI and Aiden have dabbled into the Punk Horror theme. If any of these bands I've mentioned are favorites of yours, then, PHANTOM 13 is a band worthy of your time and money.
PHANTOM 13's vocalist Sutter Cain comes across as an ominous figure, both physically and vocally, however, he politely apologized when he nearly walked into me in the crowd. That's called having Rockin' class and I respect that. From this experience, I'd have to readily admit that PHANTOM 13 can play and are a class act off the stage. I highly recommend seeing these guys live and don't hesitate to buy their merch and music; whether it's one mp3, an entire CD or slab of vinyl. Metal be thy name.
PHANTOM 13:
Sutter Cain – vocals
Chuck Black – bass guitar
Chris Evil – guitar
Rob Evil – lead guitar
William Grimm – keys and effects
Branden B. Evil – drums
PHANTOM 13 – CD Back Cover
Dust Filled Veins
Somthing Evil
Days Of The Dead
N.A.U.
Kiss Of Death
* For more info on PHANTOM 13, click on the link below!
facebook: Phantom 13
LONG LIVE PHANTOM 13.
BORIS RANDALL OF SPLATTERPUNKS, HALLOWMAS & NOW… NECROPHAGIA: IN HIS OWN WORDS!
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BORIS RANDALL
STONE: Recently, Boris Randall contacted Metal Odyssey and it is appreciated. Boris is a veteran of Punk and Extreme Metal Music, being a pioneer, in his own right, in the Horror Metal genre. A song writer, vocalist and lead/rhythm guitarist who really adheres to Rock 'N' Roll's true roots, (Boris lists Elvis Presley, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Ramones as influences), he is a musician that is self-made and moving forward. Albeit underground or on Coffin Records, the music of Boris Randall has made some noise in the Heavy Music world over the last twenty + years. Boris has given Metal Odyssey, to share with fans, his career breakdown of bands he has founded and what he is up to at the moment. Here is what Boris Randall had to say and share:
BORIS: First off, I'd like to thank you for supporting Hallowmas and my music. Let me give you some history on myself and how Hallowmas came to be and where it stands now.
In 1989 I formed my first hardcore/punk band called THE SPLATTEPUNKS. We released several albums locally and underground. Complete do-it-yourself. We were relatively popular for what we were doing, and the fact that we were the ONLY punk/hardcore band with a horror image and horror lyrics within an 80 mile radius! (remember, in 1989 there was NO "horror punk" genre either) THE SPLATTERPUNKS kicked unholy ass until 1999 when I felt like it was time to move on. Our final release was an anthology that spanned our 10 years. Two cds, 76 songs, and a 28 page booklet that included lyrics and artwork.
HALLOWMAS – THE ROAD TO HALLOW'S EVE album cover:
In 2001 I formed HALLOWMAS. The idea was to take up where I left off with THE SPLATTERPUNKS, but to bring even more elements into it. And I did. I even brought a few of The Splatterpunks' songs into Hallowmas. Hallowmas was a VERY busy band between releases, shows, interviews, videos, etc. The first Hallowmas release (on a real label) was in 2004 on Coffin Records. The album was called "October Burning." It sold very well and continues to. It also received great reviews. The follow up was the ep you have called "The Road To Hallows Eve." We went into the studio in 2006 and recorded our next full-length release, but the band broke up. That album, which I called "Autumn's Soft Decay," was never released even though it was finished and is in my possession. It also got leaked on the internet, so search the title and see if you can find it. The complete album is 18 tracks.
HALLOWMAS – OCTOBER BURNING album cover:
HALLOWMAS – classic promo group photo:
In 2006 I also released a solo disc called "Season Of Death: The Last Halloween." I limited it to 50 copies, which lasted about 4 weeks. I filled the time from 2007 to now by working with various bands, writing background music for the Rue Morgue Radio show, did the music for a Rue Morgue Radio video promo, and wrote the score for the Bill Hanzman's Night Of The Living Dead stage play.
Currently, I'm playing lead guitar in the extreme metal band NECROPHAGIA. If you're well versed in metal I'm sure you know who they are. We're in the studio right now working on our new album.
I've also got my own band that will have a debut release very soon, but I'm keeping the whole thing under wraps for right now.
That's pretty much the light detail version of my history. Here's a more detailed "time line" from my bands and their releases:
THE SPLATTERPUNKS:
1989 "Rat Boy"
1990 "It's Only Murder"
1993 "The Ghoul Rock Session"
1994 "Live In Wellsville"
1996 "The Devil's Empyrean"
1997 "1997 B.C."
1999 "The Demonology" (anthology)
HALLOWMAS:
2002 "Zodiac" (single)
2002 "From Beyond" (single)
2003 "Unholy Autumn" (ep)
2004 "Dead And Buried" (ep)
2004 "October Burning" (Coffin Records)
2005 "Death Comes In Threes" (split full length)
2005 "The Road To Hallows Eve (Coffin Records)
2006 "Autumn's Soft Decay" (STILL UNRELEASED)
THE AUTUMN DEAD:
This was a side project with Hallowmas bassist, Johnny Coffin. We made one release:
2003 "Demos"
BORIS RANDALL (solo):
2006 "Season Of Death: The Last Halloween"
I've also made guest appearances on:
Nokturne "Kruelty Kampaign"
Necrophagia "Goblins Be Thine"
Morgue Wagon "Morgue Wagon"
Garbage Pail Kids "Lover's Lane"
I think that about covers it…….so far. I've got tons more music on the way. If you like Hallowmas I can't wait for you to hear what I've got cooking. Plus, I hope you'll enjoy my work in Necrophagia.
Thanks for your interest and support,
stay evil,
Metal Odyssey Note: Thank you Boris. It is always a thrill to get the "story straight" directly from the source. You and all of your bands are always welcomed at Metal Odyssey! Plus… I have a sinister suspicion I'm gonna like your work with Necrophagia's new album… Deathtrip 69.
NECROPHAGIA – 2010:
From left to right: Boris Randall (guitar), Killjoy (vocals), Undead Torment (guitar), Shawn Slusarek (drums), Damien Matthews (bass).
* For even more info on Boris Randall and Necrophagia, just click the links below:
www.myspace.com/borisrandall
Boris Randall (solo) – myspace music page
NECROPHAGIA – myspace music page
* In case any visitor missed it, check out the album review I did on Hallowmas – The Road To Hallow's Eve, back on September 25, 2009, by clicking on the link below:
HALLOWMAS – "The Road To Hallow's Eve" Is Horror Punk To Scream For
MISFITS "LAND OF THE DEAD" – MY RARE, RED VINYL COPY ARRIVED IN THE MAIL!!
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Yesterday, November 23, 2009, was a very good day in the life of this Misfits fan, uh, fiend. You see, as I innocently walked to my mailbox, (which is on the front roadside), I stared up towards the front door to my house… what is that I see? It was a very large bubble mailer, flat and the size of a record album… extremely beautiful looking from afar. My heart began to race as I felt a tad of perspiration come upon my forehead, my legs took me as fast as they would go to this mysterious package. Holding my crap/junk mail in my left hand, I bent down to pick up this glorious bubble mailer with my right hand. The return address read: Cinder Block/FFP… from Rancho Cordova, California… what a wonderful return address indeed. You see, I pre-ordered Misfits Land Of The Dead, (the first pressing and red vinyl version), back on October 15, of this year and it is now in my hands! Yeeaaahhhh baaabbbbbyyyyy!!
The excitement that rippled throughout my body and mind, at this moment of knowing Land Of The Dead was in this bubble mailer I was holding, was a moment I will not forget for a very long time. There are only 1,000 copies of the red vinyl version! Hello, can we all say… rare? Being a Misfits fan/fiend for so long, the sheer exhilaration of finally nailing down one of their rare vinyl singles – is a Horror Punk dream come true for me. With over a month passing by since my initial order, I began to worry, that maybe I was not going to be one of the lucky ones to get a red vinyl copy of Land Of The Dead. Worry no more! Cinder Block is the distribution/mail order company that the Misfits web site uses for selling all things… Misfits. A huge Horror Punk kudos to Cinder Block for landing me a copy and making good on my order! Plus, a bonus Horror Punk kudos to Cinder Block for the protective packaging they used for shipping… my copy of Land Of The Dead is mint/spotless!
The backside of this 12 inch vinyl single has the complete lyrics for both songs: Land Of The Dead and Twilight Of The Dead. A brief write-up regarding the connection between George A. Romero, (the legendary film director for the Living Dead movie series) and Jerry Only, is also on the backside of this 12 inch single. I purchased both of these Misfits songs on itunes as well, needing digital copies is a must. It just feels damned great to order what is known to be a rarity and actually get it! I spent a total of $15.94 on this Misfits gem, (including shipping), this is not shabby when you consider what this same red vinyl version is going for on ebay currently. My best Metal buddy Scott, well, he informed me this red vinyl version is selling in the $60.00 to $75.00 range! (I wasn't tracking this info myself, due to my waiting nervously for my own copy to arrive in the mail). Let me say this, it was worth every cent to get this Misfits single on vinyl. I am a psyched out dude today and it feels great.
Misfits as they appear on Land Of The Dead:
Jerry Only – bass & vocals
Dez Cadena – rhythm & lead guitars
Robo AKA Julio Roberto Valverde Valencia – drums
The album artwork by Arthur Suydam gets my vote for 2009 Album Cover of the Year, spanning all the Rock Music genres. As a fellow artist, it is hard for me not to stare at this cover with art appreciation.
I BOUGHT MISFITS "LAND OF THE DEAD" AND IT SERVES ME RIGHT!
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MISFITS. Jerry Only, Dez Cadena and Robo. Punk Rock royalty. Horror Punk Royalty. Yup, I am a fan, excuse me if you please. I bought the brand spanking new… Land Of The Dead maxi single off of itunes on Halloween. I deliberately waited to buy these two new songs on Halloween too… it is only fitting and it has served me right. The two new Misfits songs are: Land Of The Dead and Twilight Of The Dead, both songs paying tribute to the Geoege A. Romero – Living Dead movie series. Land Of The Dead clocks in at 2:13 and Twilight Of The Dead clocks in at 2:45. I will take this five minutes of new Misifts Horror Punk and thank my damn lucky dark skies, that this legendary band still Rocks in 2009. Jerry Only has taken his Misfits and Horror Punk into a fourth decade, recruiting new generations of fiends along the way.
Yes, the lyrics are Horror themed… blood runs cold… 'nuff said. Yes, Jerry Only sounds outrageously great on lead vocals and bass. Yes, Dez Cadena delivers the licks as profusely solid as ever. Yes, Robo is on drums and hits the skins with vintage Punk beats. In comparison to past Misfits sound, both new songs follow in the Misfits Punk footsteps of their Project 1950 album. The Horror Punk and Roll of Misfits is alive and well in 2009. I am so gloriously thrilled to have these two new Misfits songs in my personal collection. You too can serve yourself right this Halloween weekend by snagging these two new Misfits songs off of itunes – they are only 99 cents each!!!! Hell, that is way less expensive than a damn large fry, burger and milk shake from a plastic fast food chain! Plus these Misfits songs are not a detriment to your health either! Make your life that much better and GET THESE NEW MISFITS SONGS TODAY! I'm not bashful about any of my recommendations, obviously. Happy Halloween Weekend – fellow Fiends.
For those who are new to Misfits and need to know more about their spooky background, check out their MySpace Music page http://www.myspace.com/themisfits
Posted in Album Review, collecting music, collecting rock music, cool album covers, creepy album covers, essential punk rock albums, halloween rock music songs, horror punk, horror punk album covers, horror punk album review, horror punk albums, horror punk rock bands, horror punk rock music, horror punk rock music 2005, horror punk songs, metal odyssey, Music, Punk rock, punk rock album review, punk rock album reviews, punk rock albums, punk rock music, punk rock musicians, punk rock songs, rock and roll, rock music, scary album covers, spooky album covers with tags boris randall vocalist, century media records, cm distro.com, coffin records, damien matthews guitarist, drew blood drummer, halloween, hallowmas, hallowmas horror punk band, hallowmas punk rock band, hallowmas the road to hallow's eve album 2005, horror punk, horror punk album review, horror punk rock music, johnny coffin bass guitarist, mirai kawashima vocalist, punk rock music, punk rock music 2005 on September 25, 2009 by Metal Odyssey
I first stumbled across Hallowmas – The Road To Hallow's Eve on the Century Media Records online store – CM Distro.com. The CD cover artwork took my Metal breath away, I am a huge Metal sucker for the scary and horrific album covers… this goes back decades for me. You cannot always judge a book, uh, album by it's cover. In the case of my purchasing The Road To Hallow's Eve based on the artwork and song titles, well, I proclaim a Horror Punk victory! This album is on Coffin Records, a recognized label notorious for underground talent. Hallowmas released this album back in 2005, I bought it about one year ago, during one of my Halloween spirited moods. Cutting to the Metal chase here, this is one dandy of a Horror Punk Band, a terrorizing thrill a second is The Road To Hallow's Eve. It's all good… Horror Punk style. I have numerous times, since buying this CD, have tried to read and/or find out more about this cool Hallowmas band… all in vain however. The only trail I find on the world wide web about them are the basics I found in the liner notes of this very album. Hallowmas is without question an underground Horror Punk band. I sincerely hope they resurface and continue their Horror Punk path… The Road To Hallow's Eve makes for an intense foundation for them to build upon.
Lead singer Boris Randall does remind me of the Misfits era Glenn Danzig… strikingly similar, still there was and always will be only one legendary Glenn Danzig. Hallowmas plays tight enough to forge together quality Horror Punk Rock songs, all the while giving off the impression that this is as uncommercial a band that will ever be. To say that this album Rocks is a Metal understatement of the facts… this album leaves me wanting more, much more Hallowmas please. The center spread photo of the band, within the liner notes, shows them donning skeleton costumes and skeletal makeup. Between the music Hallowmas plays, along with their persona, it would be too easy to dismiss them off as copycats of the Misfits. By comparison, look at how many Death Metal bands that share the same characteristics of their peers – how many Glam/Hair Metal bands that sported the same look as their peer bands. As a devout fan of the Misfits, I personally am flattered when other Punk or Horror Punk bands take on the style of such a historical and legendary band.
The more I listened to The Road To Hallow's Eve, the easier it was for me to break into the shell of the Hallowmas Horror Punk and hear some spirited originality. Each song is Rock and Roll rooted, from the pulsating rhythm section to the attention grabbing guitar riffs, a fine mixture of Old School Punk meets dark infested Horror Punk this album is. The only song (based on the info in the liner notes), that Hallowmas did not perform or write on this album is Road To Hallow's Eve. This is a gothic influenced and spooky instrumental, (keyboards), that was written and performed by Killjoy and Sigh's Mirai Kawashima… I find the vocals to be quite haunting, almost like a chant you would not want to hear alone in a remote and dark forest. In my Metal opinion, Hallowmas and The Road To Hallow's Eve is another devilishly cool Horror Punk CD that I will turn to often… especially this Halloween Season!
Hallowmas as they appeared on The Road To Hallow's Eve:
Boris Randall – vocals
Damien Matthews – guitar
Johnny Coffin – bass
Drew Blood – drums
The Road To Hallow's Eve – Track Listing:
The Hanging Girl
Miss Devil Doll
When You're Blue
The Road To Hallow's Eve
Pagan's Night
AFI – All Hallow's E.P. is a Horror Punk gem
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A couple of years ago, I purchased All Hallow's E.P. by AFI… man, this is a cool Horror Punk gem. Released on November 3, 1999, on Nitro Records, this is AFI when they were creating Horror Punk and it is worth every penny I spent on it. A tidy E.P. it is, with four songs that are lathered with quality Horror Punk attitude and speed. Davey Havok on lead vocals sounds vintage, even though it has only been about a decade since this E.P.'s release. Every time I listen to All Hallow's E.P., I walk away believing Davey Havok was born to sing this style of Punk Rock. I could listen all day to this Horror Punk style of AFI. I have been currently rummaging through my Metal and Punk Music collection, sifting through the spooky titles of both albums and songs and putting them on my daily rotation of music listening. Horror Punk will always stand out when searching for the creepy tunes, All Hallow's E.P. is an obvious choice. With the Halloween season knocking at my Metal doorstep, rounding up the scary stuff to listen to has become an annual right of Horror passage for me.
The four songs on All Hallow's E.P. are: Fall Children, Halloween, The Boy Who Destroyed The World and TotalImmortal. (That is not a typo, there is not supposed to be a space between the words Total Immortal for this song title). Halloween is a cover song, originally written and sung by Glenn Danzig when he fronted the legendary Misfits. AFI covers Halloween with all deserved and spooked out respect. The built in mechanism of the lyrics, coupled with the musical undertones of dread, makes these four songs explode with the dynamics of Horror Punk. My favorite track is… a tie. So, my favorite tracks are Halloween (due to it being a Misfits cover song and it is unreal good) and TotalImmortal. Being the last song out of the four, TotalImmortal is really the exclamation point of All Hallow's E.P., it has the unrestrained Punk Rock energy that leaves me yearning for more of these songs from AFI.
AFI as they appeared on All Hallow's E.P.:
Davey Havok on vocals
Jade Puget on guitar
Hunter on bass
Adam Carson on drums
DR. CHUD'S X-WARD – HORROR PUNK SONGS I DUG UP AND NOW DIG
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Dr. Chud's X-Ward is a Horror Punk Rock Band that I am listening to… just in time for Halloween season too. If Punk Rock or any genre of Punk is your flavor, this band will make your upper lip curl with horror glee. Horror Punk, with Dr. Chud's X-Ward as an example, is just a few morbid steps removed from Metal Music itself… in my Metal opinion. If the lyrics and images of a band and their songs are creepy, plus the music is hard and heavy, then it is all relative… and I am listening with a sinister Metal grin on my face. Dr. Chud's X-Ward's self titled album was released in 2004 and is readily available on itunes. This is where I bought my Dr. Chud's X-Ward songs, this album and/or CD is not the easiest to find at retail anywhere, a huge Metal kudos to itunes for making available, this cool Horror Punk Band. I purchased Dr. Chud's X-Ward all along realizing, in horror, that it took almost a full five years to finally nail down this bands songs. Well, now Dr. Chud's X-Ward is in my collection of Punk, Horror Punk that is.
As any fan of the Misfits knows, Dr. Chud was the drummer during the late 1990's for this important and iconic Punk Rock Band. My adoration for the Misfits goes beyond just listening to their Punk Rock Music. I am forever searching out for music that the former members of the Misfits put out, Dr. Chud's X-Ward is a fitting example. (Danzig is a gigantic example, of course). My favorite Dr. Chud's X-Ward song is Heavy Metal, man this song is cool… it Rocks period. Spiderbaby is another choice track to hook your claws into. Goodbye is worth a few hundred listens or so, very melodic this Horror Punk song is. Take a look below for some cool Dr. Chud's X-Ward facts – you just might find that this info will serve you right.
Dr. Chud's X-Ward info for the Horror Punk brain:
* Chud stands for: "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Drummer"
* Dr. Chud was of course, the drummer for the Misfits… on the albums American Psycho (1997), Famous Monsters (1999) and Cuts From The Crypt (2001).
* Dr. Chud has also recently played drums for/toured with Horror Punk Bands Blitzkid (2008-09) and Gorgeous Frankenstein (2008).
* Dr. Chud's X-Ward self titled album was released in 2004.
* Dr. Chud played drums on the late Joey Ramone solo album Don't Worry About Me, (2001).
* http://www.drchudsxward.com
* http://www.myspace.com/xward
You can hear Dr. Chud's X-Ward songs streaming on their myspace page – it is worth a thousand horror listens. If you are a Punk Rock, Metal Music fan or just a fan of Rock and Roll, give yourself a treat this Halloween season and buy one or all of Dr. Chud's X-Ward's Horror Punk songs… you won't regret it… that is my Metal guarantee.
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Tennessee Court Reporters Notary Requirements for Federal Cases
Must Tennessee Court Reporters be a notary public in order to report Federal cases? It has been suggested by many that they do. However, the following lays out both State and Federal requirements and provides an answer once and for all:
In Tennessee, the "statute that creates the office" of a licensed freelance reporter empowers the reporter to swear in witnesses and says specifically the reporter does not have to be a notary, as follows:
"TCA 20-9-603(c) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a licensed court reporter is not required to be a notary public to record any court proceeding, administrative law proceeding, deposition or any other proceeding. A transcript taken and submitted by a licensed court reporter is not required to be notarized. A licensed court reporter is authorized to administer oaths and swear in witnesses."
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure states:
Rule 28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken:
(a) Within the United States.
(1) In General. Within the United States or a territory or insular possession subject to United States jurisdiction, a deposition must be taken before:
(A) an officer authorized to administer oaths either by federal law or by the law in the place of examination; or
(B) a person appointed by the court where the action is pending to administer oaths and take testimony.
The following Federal rule regarding an official federal court reporter is where we seem to have gone offtrack a little:
§ 290.20.60 Administering Oaths Not an Official Duty
1 Court reporters inherently do not have the authority to administer oaths because this authority is not conferred by the statute creating their offices. A reporter may administer an oath, however, if he or she is a notary public and state or local law empowers notaries to do so."
A court clerk swears in the witnesses in our local federal courtrooms. Giving the oath is not a part of the official court reporter's normal duties. In the case of a federal official court reporter, "authority is not (inherently) conferred by the statute creating their offices." Therefore, they must be a notary in order to swear in the witness when the court clerk is not available to perform that duty. Also note that the federal reporter is not required to have a state license.
In response to a public discussion held by the Tennessee Board of Court Reporting on 6/12/15, Board member Ken Mansfield issued the following statement regarding this issue and refers to TCA 20-9-603(c):
"I believe (1)(A) is clear that since a Licensed Court Reporter (LCR) is authorized to administer oaths by the laws of the State of Tennessee, absent a notary requirement, that satisfies the oath requirement contained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
This will also confirm the TBCR had this very discussion today and the above language is in accord with our public discussion." Ken Mansfield
Finally, the question was posed to NCRA: Would it be an ethical violation or a violation of federal law if, when taking a deposition in federal cases, a Tennessee licensed court reporter gives an oath to the witness when the reporter is not a notary?
NCRA's Response:
"Who administers an oath is governed by each state individually and although I cannot interpret state/federal law for you, it is my understanding that except in a courtroom, oaths given in proceedings under the federal rules are governed by the state where the proceeding is held. So, whatever your state notary laws are would govern federal depositions as well, that would include if your state licensing board gives authority for oath taking to licensed reporters. I can't really speak to the certificate requirements for federal cases, but I have always thought that reporters only put their notary seal/number on their certificate page to show that they have the notary for purposes of oath taking, not that the transcripts are notarized."
Comments from the TCRA Board:
The TCRA Board has no authority to render a legal opinion; therefore, each reporter should read the facts and law as stated above and come to his/her own conclusion. However, it is the Board's opinion that it is NOT a requirement to hold a state notary commission in order to report Federal depositions. Some out-of-state firms may ask for a notary to swear in the witness, for whatever reason, so it is a personal decision and not a legal requirement to retain your commission.
(For reporters taking work in surrounding states, you should make sure you have the authority to swear in a witness in that state, whether it be by notary or license. If you have the authority to swear in a witness at the location of the deposition, then you have met the requirement for taking a deposition in a federal court case.)


I reviewed Ironwood Hills in June 2015, and enjoyed photographing this atmospheric post-apocalyptic destination in what was then very heavy rainfall. The rain has since stopped - and Ironwood Hills has changed somewhat since then. The overall effect here is quite realistic with humour. The interior of the several of the buildings which I show in the lower three images are very well done, A very dark and gloomy amusement park is one of the most atmospheric in Second Life. I liked Ironwood Hills quite a bit, and recommend it for photographers and others who like to explore offbeat destinations. Make sure to visit.
All photographs were taken with Windlight Sky Setting "TOR" Dusk Fairytale Glow which comes as a standard option under advanced environmental settings in Firestorm and other viewers. I like Fairytale Glow for its eerie early evening light and darkly clouded skies.


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Too dry in general – rain in September could not make up for the shortfall
The first half of September was summery. The highest point of the month was 29.6 degrees on September 8 in Eisenstadt. However, in the middle of the month it cooled off considerably and the second half brought heavy rains and in some regions the first frost. The last time September was cooler and cloudier than this year was in 2017. "Over the whole year, it is still too dry this year," emphasizes ZAMG climatologist Alexander Orlik.
The lowest temperature below 1000 meters above sea level was recorded in Seckau in Styria, with minus 2.9 degrees on September 23. "September 2022 is roughly in the middle with place 130 in the 256-year measurement series," said Orlik. "Over the past few years, from 2018 to 2021, we have consistently experienced Septembers that were among the warmest in the history of measurements. The last time September was cooler than this year was in 2017."
It was also the cloudiest September since 2017, with 23 percent fewer hours of sunshine across Austria than the long-term average. September brought eight percent more precipitation than the long-term average and is therefore within the range of typical fluctuations. "Over the whole year, it is still too dry this year," emphasizes Orlik.
Nationally, there is still a shortage of about 15 percent of the precipitation. The Vienna Basin and northern Burgenland are particularly affected by the lack of rain. Since the beginning of the year, there has been 35 to 40 percent less precipitation.
First frost on September 23
The above-average temperature level, which has lasted with only a few interruptions since May 2022, also persisted throughout Austria in the first half of September. After September 15, the weather was much cooler for the time of year and much too cold throughout the second half of the month. The first frost below 800 meters above sea level occurred relatively early in the second half of the year around September 23.
The cooling around the middle of the month was so strong that September as a whole was colder than the long-term average. September 2022 was 0.6 degrees too cold compared to the 1991 to 2020 climate average and the deviation from the 1961 to 1990 average was minus 0.2 degrees. On the mountains the deviations were even greater at minus 1.1 degrees.
In most parts of the country, the average deviations between 1991 and 2020 were between minus 0.5 and minus 1.5 degrees. This includes most of Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna and large parts of Styria. In the Rhine Valley, in parts of Tyrol and in the southern part of Carinthia, in western and eastern Styria, in Burgenland and in the southeastern part of Lower Austria, the temperature anomalies were slightly lower by minus 0.5 to 0.2 degrees Celsius. .
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If you've seen a prosecutor in your dream, this sign can be interpreted rather differently. Let's have a look at the most widespread meanings.
Seeing a prosecutor in your dream means that you may be accused of something very soon, although it is unknown whether the accusation will be official or not (you may not break the law; your colleagues, friends or strangers may blame you for something) as well as whether you'll be really guilty or not. Generally speaking, you can hardly prevent or avoid this unpleasant situation, especially if there is nothing to blame you for. So, behave as usual but be more attentive to the events and people around you. It can be so that there are people who strive to cast a slur on your reputation among your good acquaintances. If you're accused of something unfairly, defend yourself, save your face!
If you are hearing that a prosecutor is presenting an indictment in your dream, it is an unfavorable sign. It denotes that you have a lot of evil-wishers around. It is only you who can find an explanation for such an attitude. Most likely, those people just envy you. They want to have something that you already have but cannot afford it due to some reasons. In such a situation, don't pay attention to them at all, although you'd better beware – you cannot know what those people have on their mind. There is another explanation though. Maybe, you really offended them or behave inappropriately towards them. Don't forget that the reason can lie in you. Perhaps, you need to reconsider your attitude and relationships with the members of your surroundings.
Being a prosecutor in your dream signifies that soon you may bring disgraceful actions home to your friend or a good acquaintance. If this person has really crossed the line, it's your duty to make him/her come down to earth. If you are a good friend, you are to point at this person's mistakes. It is his/her personal business how to accept the criticism – with understanding or hostile attitude towards your opinion. It is also important how you will present your point of view. Try to do it with an explanation, not too strictly and without burning indignation. It is a guarantee that this person will hear and apprehend your words.
If in your dream a prosecutor is writing out an arrest warrant, it cautions you against taking part at suit at law. Your role here is unknown. Don't be depressed! It doesn't necessarily mean that there is a threat for your freedom or property. You can be just a witness, for example.


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Owning a small business has never been easy. But over the last five years, things have changed DRASTICALLY AND PERMANENTLY.
If you do not ADAPT QUICKLY, you may struggle to be in business in the next five. I will repeat that.
If you do not ADAPT, QUICKLY, you may STRUGGLE TO BE IN BUSINESS IN FIVE YEARS.
What do I mean? Strategies that generated leads for your business a few years ago have now stopped working. Unfortunately, many business owners haven't looked up from their day-to-day operations to notice. Or if they have noticed, they don't know what to do about it.
So, what has changed? In our article, 5 sales strategy tips for successful selling in 2018, we discussed how the power used to be with company marketing and their salespeople. But when technology, the internet and social media entered the picture, the power shifted to the buyer.
With more power at their fingertips than ever before, buyers could now do their own research. They didn't need company marketing efforts (brochures, mailers, ads, etc.) or salespeople to find solutions to their problems anymore. They could research their own solutions, look up technical specifications, compare pricing, find out how to implement new systems and and see reviews on products, services and suppliers.
This major shift has created a need for businesses to embrace a new way of marketing...INBOUND MARKETING.
Much of the research for buying decisions is now done early in the buying process ONLINE, before ever speaking with a company representative. People don't respond to cold calls anymore, and direct mail has become so ubiquitous, that many people sort their mail over the recycle bin. I know I do.
Many companies who are still using these techniques are finding they don't work as well as they did before.
This online shift has already happened and if you haven't made the transition, you risk being out of business soon. Or if you are still in business, you will be struggling to get by.
It is important to understand that inbound marketing isn't easy. For businesses that consider inbound as a strategy, THE FIRST REALIZATION is that it requires mastery of a variety of different marketing tactics including content development, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, lead generation, lead management, and business analytics. Can this be done as a do-it-yourself project by a small business owner, or small in-house marketing team? With enough time and money, the answer is yes.
But for most companies, hiring a marketing agency will be required. Learn Why Here.
When implementing an inbound marketing strategy, it is important to go through the following steps.
This is the first step before you ever discuss tactics or implementation. The process begins with an honest assessment of your current business model, current marketing tactics and most importantly your future objectives.
What type of sales increase am I looking for?
How much budget can I realistically afford to develop the strategy?
Which of my current marketing techniques are working, if any?
Can my business realistically handle an increase in sales?
Am I and my staff willing to spend the time required to participate in marketing activities?
What ROI am I looking to achieve for the investment of time and money?
This process begins with developing a picture of your ideal customer(s) through the development of what is known as a Buyer Persona. A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customers, based on real data about customer demographics and online behavior, along with speculation about their personal histories, motivations, and concerns.
Once you have a picture of your ideal clients and where they hang out online, you can begin to determine which tactics will resonate best with your core audience, whether its SEO, Social Media or content marketing, or a combination of all of the above. The buyer persona should be the lens through which you evaluate all of your strategic options and select those that give you the best opportunity to reach your target audience.
Your company website is the hub through which all of your online marketing activities will flow. Remember that visitors are coming to your website because they are looking for a product or service that is a solution to a problem they have. So, it is extremely important that your website has messaging that resonates with your target customer.
1. It will let your visitors know that you understand their problem or challenge and provide a clear picture about the solutions that you provide. When a new visitor hits your site, you only have about 3 to 6 seconds to make an impression. The messaging on your site and supporting visuals must communicate quickly and clearly what you do, and that you are capable of solving their problem. HubSpot has a great article about home page design.
2. Your website should be customer centric, not company centric! Too many businesses make the mistake of trying to showcase everything they do and design the website around the premise of, "look how good we are." I have news for you, no one cares! Especially at this stage when a customer is visiting your website for the first time. Your website must be designed to address the issues your buyer personas have. Not a nice fancy brochure that offers no real value!
3. Your site should have a corporate blog that continually is filled with new, useful and free content that is updated on a regular basis. Blogging, when done consistently is a key source of traffic generation for your website. With each new entry on your blog, you provide an opportunity for your prospects to find you, find a solution to a problem and subsequently learn about the solutions that your company provides.
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Once you have your website designed and optimized and your blog being updated with new information on a regular basis, it is important to utilize additional traffic generation tactics. This is where SEO, social media marketing and pay-per-click marketing have their place.
But, which tactic should you use? The answer will depend on factors such as your goals, budget and ultimately on the buyer persona(s) that you developed for your business. One, or a combination of all of these tactics may make sense for your particular situation. More traffic to your website or corporate blog means an increased chance of attracting your ideal client and converting them into a lead.
Here is an example of an offer with a form to capture their information.
This step requires the development of premium content in the form of case studies, white papers, ebooks and buyers' guides that require a prospect to provide information in order to access. Landing pages with contact forms are required to access your high quality content, and ultimately convert a visitor into a lead. Information such as name, company, an email address and/or a phone number are typically required to download offers. This is how your convert a visitor into a lead.
It is important to keep in mind not to ask for too much information. If you do this, you could turn off your potential lead. You must remember that inbound marketing is not a hard sell tactic. You are trying to establish credibility and trust at this point in the process. At this stage, the only contact information we typically ask for is an email.
Why? Because they are still in the research phase. They are usually not ready to do business with you yet.
The final step in your sales funnel is to nurture your leads and convert them into sales. Lead nurturing is a critical part of a marketer's job, especially in the B2B space. Lead nurturing is the process of developing relationships with buyers at every stage of the sales process, and through every step of the buyer's journey.
It focuses marketing and communication efforts on listening to the needs of prospects, and providing the information and answers they need. Different tactics, predominantly email marketing and lead nurturing are used in this step of the process. Marketing automation, social media publishing, paid retargeting and additional marketing tools can also be used in the process.
If your sales process is sound, your sales team will have qualified sales leads that will ultimately convert into sales.
Analytical tools are required to measure each step of the process to determine the effectiveness of your inbound marketing process. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are business metrics that help small business owners keep track of goals and objectives and allow them and their marketing team to determine if their marketing tactics are working.
Utilizing a tool like HubSpot can help track your KPIs and show you what's working and what needs to be tweaked.
If you need help staying on top of your KPIs, we have written a few blog articles that can help. Hiring a marketing agency vs. hiring internal staff and 5 reasons to use retainer agreements. Both of these articles will help you when you feel like you just can't do it on your own time.
Like it or not, inbound marketing is here to stay. If your lead generation and sales growth are stagnant, it may be time to take a look at an inbound marketing agency to jump start your business.