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Looking back at John Beck (Part Three)
May 31, 2017 Gary 1990-1999, Lincoln City 7
I'm going to conclude my look back at the reign of John Beck today. You've had a chance to read how he came in and sorted out a team in disarray, saving us from certain relegation, and you've read how, in his first full season, we were one game from achieving a play-off place and were victorious against the mighty Manchester City. On the menu today, promotion and with it perhaps the most divisive period in Lincoln City's turbulent history. Just how is it that a man could all-but guide us to a first promotion out of the basement division since the early 1980's, and yet still be hated by a majority of the club's fan base?
The 1997/98 season didn't have the best of starts for the controversial manager and his beleaguered chairman. Assistant Manager John Still, so often the voice of reason and bridge between the two, left the club for the role as manager of Barnet. Shane Westley was appointed as the new assistant, an unspectacular player in whom John Beck believed he could trust. However, with Still gone the fragile relationship between manager and board developed another crack or two.
That said, the board still felt they could achieve promotion under the manager's guidance. A club-record fee of £75,000 was paid to Carlisle United for Dean Walling, an experienced and competent defender. He completed a back five of Barnett, Austin, Walling, Holmes and Whitney, a defence to be feared throughout the lower leagues. It had goals in it, it had clean sheets in it and most of all it had steel and durability. No centre forwards would bully us any longer, and days of 7-1 maulings at Bury and Colchester were hoped to be in the past.
We also held on to Gareth Ainsworth in the summer, although a six-figure valuation and serious cash shortfall meant it was only to be a matter of time. He had finished leading scorer in the unsuccessful play-off campaign of the previous season, but bigger clubs were circling and Beck knew it was only a matter of time before he was sold. Of course it meant another game of chess between manager and board, who would come out on top this time?
Another new face joining over the summer was striker Lee Thorpe, released by Blackpool but impressive in a pre-season trial. He looked to add firepower to the Ainsworth and Stant forward line, but in truth he was a replacement rather than an addition.
The season had scarcely started when rumours of interest in Ainsworth began again. Two wins from three (Shrewsbury 1-0 and Notts County 2-1) left us in a promising position when Scarborough visited on August 30th. Ainsworth was unplayable that day, he bagged his first Imps hat trick with a master class of skill, style and his typical determination. At the final whistle he came over to the fans to acknowledge us as he always did, only this time it was different. This time he had a tear in his eye. This time it wasn't just a round of applause, it was goodbye. He wanted out, and I assume with two away games in ten day, he knew this was his last outing at the Bank. He turned out twice more, the final time coming in the midweek defeat at Rotherham, before £500,000 arrived in our bank account in exchange for his services. Port Vale were the recipients of his unique style and skill set. He'd arrived at Sincil Bank on the back of a disappointing spell at Preston North End, but he left a much more rounded player with a Premier League future ahead of him. Say what you want about John Beck, but that was his doing.
Lee Thorpe.
Another situation that was entirely John Beck's own doing was the issue with youth team player Danny Lynn. Beck had been asked to chat to the younger players about discipline and application, and he delivered a strongly worded and passionate speech, brimming with anger and so-called motivation. He made his way down a line of players admonishing each and every one of them. When he reached Lynn his words had fired him up so much he crossed a line. He grabbed the player by the throat to make his point, and once again John Reames secretary found herself writing a warning out on her typewriter. Lynn never made the first team, he left the club shortly after. I suppose anyone who crossed the manager was always going to have his cards marked, except John Reames of course.
Beck's personal life was unfolding and yet that was when he performed at his best. His star striker had left, and he encountered personal problems that saw him arrive at the ground one day with his possessions in his car. It is rumoured a break up caused him a degree of stress, he often slept at the office and according to sources had been prescribed medication to deal with his issues. This was 1997 though, any thoughts of compassion for a man suffering from depression were at least fifteen years away. Beck had pressure from all angles, and from that Lincoln City sprung a 18-match unbeaten run.
It wasn't pretty, it never was, but at 19-years old I had begun to realise that success comes around on rare occasions when you follow the Imps, and therefore you should embrace it no matter what it looks like. The ball moved forward, quickly, but for 18 games that tactic had opposition players completely bamboozled. It wasn't just the long ball though, at the back we were as strong as any defence I'd seen. Nine clean sheets in eleven games are testament to that, between September 13th and November 8th we conceded just twice. It might not have been for the purists, but fans did begin to buy into the team. 3019 turned up for the opening home game of the season against Shrewsbury, but the visit of Leyton Orient on November 1st attracted over 4,100.
There was a sniff of an FA Cup run as well, perhaps a money-spinning tie similar to Manchester City could help strengthen John Beck's case with the fans? A tantalising first round draw saw Gainsborough Trinity visit the Bank, and a 1-1 draw called for a replay. Both sides chose to hold that at Sincil Bank, and ten-man Lincoln triumphed 3-2, thanks in the main to a brace from defender turned goal scorer Dean Walling.
Now then, Mark Hone. He found himself almost always linked with that match for the wrong reasons, but it was around that time I found myself canoodling on his sofa with a girl as a young Danny Hone slept upstairs. I had 'hooked up' with a particularly nice girl who lived just outside of Bardney, in the same hamlet as Mark Hone. She'd bagged a babysitting job and I was invited along to *ahem* keep her company. I didn't realise I was making my way into the home of an Imps player, and she didn't care what he did for a living. It wasn't long before I spotted a plaque on the wall bearing the crest of Crystal Palace, and his name underneath amongst such legends as Ian Wright. Needless to say his tackle on Paul Ellender is not all I remember him for, given the panic that I might be caught red handed on his sofa with one hand up his babysitter's top.
Anyway, on with the show. The second round threw up an intriguing tie against little known Emley. They were to visit Sincil Bank for what should be a routine thrashing and our chance to mix it with a big club. They didn't read the script, and only a late, late Terry Fleming goal gave us a 2-2 draw, and a replay at Huddersfield's McAlpine Stadium. I know the goal was late, because I heard the roar as I entered the City Bus Station, keen to catch the 5pm bus back to Wragby I'd left early. No doubt there was a babysitter somewhere in need of company.
Mark Hone, luckily not kicking me out of his house
So we were into the second round, what of the league? Little old Lincoln as Beck called us, were little no more. After a fine 2-1 win at Exeter we had hit the top of the table, primed for a jump to the third tier for the first time in my fandom. We had poached Gavin Gordon from Hull, a promising player whose arrival heralded a new dawn of recruitment. The Emley result was surely a blip, we were unbeaten in 18 games, top of the league and to top it all off, West Ham were pulled out of the hat for the third round match. The joy. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything could go wrong, and everything did go wrong. Despite our lofty perch, half of the fans were still not happy. I penned my first ever Imps related piece to the Sports Echo defending the club and John Beck, claiming we'd never had it so good. The very fact I felt I had to goes some way to illustrating the divide that had opened up. In fact there was no longer just a divide, there was a chasm, almost on ocean between those on his side, and those against him. If half the fans are against you when you're top with one foot in the FA Cup, imagine how they feel when you drop out of the play-offs, lose to a village team at the expense of a lucrative third-round tie and endure a manager defend his position by claiming the club can't afford to sack him.
On December 5th 1997 Lincoln City had their destiny in their hands, but just a few days later everything began to implode. A two-goal lead was surrendered against Emley before we were humiliatingly eliminated on penalties. Then the 16 games unbeaten run fell as we lost in the AWS against Wigan, and the yearly thrashing arrived just before Christmas at the hands of Peterborough (5-1). In late January Notts County also hit us for five, this time triumphing 5-3 in a thriller at Sincil Bank. That gave us our 10th game without a win, and we slipped out of the play-off places. In little under two months Beck had gone from hero to zero.
With each defeat a portion of fans moved over from the 'Beck In' camp, to the 'Beck Out' camp. Three wins in four against Cardiff (1-0), Hull (1-0) and Barnet (2-0) did little to appease the discontented masses. The other match of that spell was a Friday night trip to Cambridge, a match televised by Sky Sports. Their angle was Beck returning to his former club, a clash of footballing styles. It's a good job they weren't there to be entertained. Alan Brazil tore our 'style' to pieces, humiliating us as much as Emley had in front of the watching nation. I watched it in the Ship Inn at Horncastle, and to say we were bad would be doing us a favour. City were terrible, and John Beck clearly felt the pressure. Immediately after the match he took an unscheduled holiday, suffering himself from the stress of his break up and possibly losing his grip on the reigns. Prior to the Hull win he wrote:
"I ask you, the supporters, to be patient and have faith in the players. During our 18 match unbeaten run earlier in the season the luck went our way but in recent matches it has gone against us. I always knew that we would experience a blip but I will get it right. The only way for us to change our luck is through hard work. We have to be professional and adopt the correct attitude in everything we do. It is important that the supporters get behind the players at times like this and I am sure the true fans will continue to give us their full backing."
It felt like a final roll of the dice, gambling on an appeal to the fans to not look at where we had been, top of the league, but the bigger picture. The problem was that the football was (at times) horrible to watch, and genuinely good footballers often looked stifled by rigid tactics designed to spoil games rather than win them. Crowds were down, hope was slipping away and despite still being in the hunt for promotion, Sincil Bank was not a nice place to be.
Just 2281 turned up for our early March clash with Swansea City, and a 1-1 draw gave us a third game in a row without a win. By now a majority of fans had switched over to the Beck Out brigade, and the few who still backed him, me included, stayed silent as the chorus of boos and demands he go rang out around the ground. In typical arrogant John Beck style he bundled his way into the media room after the game mocking the supporters.
"Beck out, Beck out," he muttered smiling as he boldly sat down in front of the assembled journalists. "I don't think this football club can afford, financially, professionally or in football terms to sack me." At that point, the game really was over.
John Reames – Had enough
John Reames had seen enough. He had poured his life into Lincoln City, and his struggle with Beck had been energy sapping and thoroughly unpleasant. He moved to dismiss his manager based not on performances, dwindling crowds or fan opinion, but for the unauthorised holiday taken after the Cambridge match. Wilfull neglect of duties, serious breach of contract, these days it would probably be classed as gross misconduct. In those instances the employer doesn't have to pay a penny. John Beck was suspended, and finally dismissed.
Beck wasn't happy. He claimed unfair dismissal, but that was rejected by a tribunal. Not surprising really, two written warnings and then a rock-solid gross misconduct charge had nailed his coffin lid well and truly shut. He had overseen a hoof into danger alley for the last time.
"What happened at Lincoln City turned my whole life around," he is quoted as saying in Brian Halford's 'Past Imperfect'.
"I was quite happy running my business at Southport but they begged me to come in and keep them out of the Conference. I did that. I got a half-decent squad together and turned things round. Not just on the pitch. The players understood that being a footballer wasn't just about playing football. I got them out in the community, into schools, and got the supporters' band going. I talked to the fans – the Lincoln fans hadn't been listened to for years. But as soon as we were safe from relegation in that first season, every thing changed. From then on, everything I set out was questioned. At every board meeting, before we got round to discussing important things, there had to be two hours of me justifying my style of play."
He wasn't amused at the final grounds of his dismissal either.
"Sure I went skiing. I told Shane Westley that I was going and I was contactable on my mobile all the time. I'd had one or two problems in my personal life so I went to the Alps to get away for a couple of days. Then I got back on the Thursday, spent a couple of days training with the players and on Saturday we beat Barnet 2-0. What's the problem ? But they saw the chance to get rid of me and save themselves some money."
Save money? Maybe it did, but I don't think that was the root cause of Beck's firing. Less than twelve months had elapsed when cracks first formed, and despite spending relatively big money on players and on community schemes, success was still eluding us. Beck did get fans onside for a while, he did galvanise the support, for a while. In the end though, the product served up on a Saturday afternoon was not satisfactory for the chairman, a bulk of the supporters and even some of the players. The harsh truth is we played bad football, we played ugly football and despite challenging for the play-offs, we played unpopular football. The 1996/97 season had brought the highs of Man City, Southampton and Gareth Ainsworth, but in 1997/98 we had the sour taste of Emley and potential play-off failure. John Beck made his position untenable after the Swansea game, and the board acted to reclaim their club.
One of Beck's final acts was to suggest the club adopt a mascot for the 1998/99 season, and despite him going that was followed up on. Poacher the Imp was born, and I got my chance to be a part of the set-up for the next sixteen years.
Terry Fleming scores a worldy to give us the win we need for promotion.
As for the club? He left us on the edge of the play-off race with eleven games to go, but we were out of form and down on our luck. His assistant Shane Westley took over, and led us to victories in six of those games utilising exactly the same robust style. In April our match with Macclesfield bubbled over into a mass brawl, Barry Richardson and future Imp Ben Sedgemore were sent off but in truth five or six should have gone. It was a typical 'John Beck' incident, and it showed his influence was as strong as ever.
As it transpired, thanks to the horrible form of those around us, our form was enough not only to secure a play-off spot, but third place, and automatic promotion. On April 18th we gained revenge over Peterborough with a fine 3-0 victory, and yours truly got an Imps tattoo in the morning. £45, but the tattooist said that if City managed to beat Posh he'd refund me as it seemed unlikely! I got into the ground in time to see Jimmy Quinn have an early effort ruled out, and by the final whistle I was celebrating not only revenge for the 5-1 hammering, but also getting my money back thanks to Paul Smith and a Colin Alcide brace. It was still long ball, it still wasn't pretty, but it's easier to digest when you're winning and it's earning you free body art.
The final match of the season saw us needing to beat second from bottom Brighton, and hope Orient beat third-placed Torquay. For the second season in a row we were reliant on others first and foremost, but Orient did us the favour we needed, and we kept our half of the bargain as well. After a season of turmoil, dismay and apparent despair, Lincoln City were promoted to the third tier, and still (to date) the only occasion during my tenure as a fan that we've achieved a promotion within the Football League.
As for John Beck, he surfaced again a few years later at Cambridge, keeping them in Division Two. He was later assistant at village side Histon as they climbed to the Conference, but unsurprisingly left after falling out with the manager. He was last heard of coaching the UEFA B badge at St Georges Park, presumably leaning on his experiences as a ball playing midfielder rather than a football spoiling manager.
Whatever is said about Beck, whichever side of the fence you sat on, his contribution to the club has to be acknowledged. He saved us from relegation, and he gave us some unforgettable times at Sincil Bank. The 'team that Beck built' were never easy on the eye, but when won matches few cared, and ultimately it was his side that earned us a year out of the basement division. For my sins, I supported him right up until the end, but reading reports of the outburst at the Swansea match really changed my mind. Lincoln City Football Club is far bigger than any one individual, it always will be, and sadly John Beck lost sight of that.
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We dont see today's Imps playing like this, but times have changed !
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Emley!
One of the worst away nights ever.Nobody on the Eagle on Tour bus spoke on the way home till we got to Saxilby.
Lee Chester
John Beck brought Sir Gareth to our club, for that we should be forever grateful…I was however, one of those there that night v Swansea and I too had had enough by the end. It was one of the worst matches I had seen, truly awful…
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The Emley replay was the coldest I've ever been at a football match. Even turned down a beer in favour of a hot coffee. It was that cold. Any report on the attendance for the Brighton game. My memory has people standing in the aisles and at the front of the CO-OP stand. But I was back on the beer by then so somewhat hazy.
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And the ironic thing was had we finished bottom we would have survived as Stevenages ground wasn't up to spec. I'm sure Torquay survived even coming bottom.
Chesterimp
'Saved us from relegation' is debatable, sure we were awful before he came, I saw what was Wicks last (away?) match at Chester, 5-1 thrashing, we were abject, though Huckerby was outstanding. Reames panicked, Wicks wasn't right and had to go but was Beck 'The One and only' to save us? Nope. It was October? First thing he did was sell Huckerby (and Carbon irrc), ok he brought in Ainsworth (how did a player of that calibre sign for Beck? One of life's mysteries but one for which I'm grateful).
The promotion was the most underwhelming of the few in the 50 years supporting the Imps, a long, long way behind Taylor's Champs, Murph's 2 promotions and DC's heroes this year. Relegation the following season was pretty well inevitable. Connected with the fans? Peterborough.
In your teens, Gary, with the preceding decade I can understand the fixation, but for us old lags its a period remembered largely with a shudder and embarrassment at admitting to being an Imps supporter.
Have to say I disagree with loads of the anti beck stuff here. I was watching city home and away at this time and when beck arrived we were abject and nailed on for relegation. I think we would have been promoted had beck stayed and I think we would have stayed up the following season. Whatever happened to Westley?


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DeepingRed, on 9 January, 2010 at 1:30 am said:
Oh Yes, do it and do it NOW!!!!!
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No… NOW!!!!!!
Very possibly the best photo you've ever posted to your blog.. and that's saying something! Cheers from a snowy down south!
Doubt me? Look as his fingers.. Two stars on his shirt!!
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cant sleep – wot a performance !! raddy rocket
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As I said(preview art), Radek may become a leader of polish national team. We play 4-3-1-2, very similar like Nottingham. . . Hope F. Smuda will call him up and give chance to show his abilities in full match. Greetings from Poland. Aha I don't believe in global heating. . . (:^>)(* )(* )snowman
POll, on 9 January, 2010 at 7:21 am said:
If you look at his right fingers he looks like he is making a rabbit shadow puppet
Now that must be a good sign
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Great goal, great player we NEED to sign him!
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SB (Steve), on 9 January, 2010 at 4:25 pm said:
Sat 9th January 2010 – 2nd in the Championship, BD Manager of the month for December, Lee Camp, Championship Player of the Month for December, unbeaten for 18 games, unbeaten away in 16 games – we should all remember this day.
Does it really get any better than this?
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KentRed, on 9 January, 2010 at 4:56 pm said:
Yes, Direby lose again!
Harry, on 9 January, 2010 at 4:54 pm said:
You forgot to mention the D*rby are losing 4-1 at home to Scunthorpe 😉
Will, on 9 January, 2010 at 5:10 pm said:
Superb goal. His celebration reminded me of Blackstock's last seadon V Brizzle(in terms of his passion) and I remember thinking then that Dex would sign. I thought after that goal yesterday that Raddy would sign. Hope I'm right 🙂
rob johnson, on 9 January, 2010 at 5:16 pm said:
what a performance from the whole team ….! .
This is the best forest side since we last went up to the prem …..with hoidonkey et al …..but this time we've got so much more potential …Nigel D has done a great service to the club getting it back from such depths – ( We were there against Macclesfield! )
one more push and we can do it – Sign up Raddy/Shorey
and we need a back up for Mckenna – if he gets injured we are going to suffer .
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Hedging Against Disaster?
By Leo Kolivakis February 01, 2012
Laurence Fletcher of Reuters reports, Hedge funds brace for euro zone break-up:
Nervous hedge funds managers are stress-testing their portfolios and searching for ways of protecting themselves against their worst nightmare -- a potential break-up of the euro zone.
With talks on restructuring Greece's debt mountain still deadlocked, and the exit of one of more countries from the euro seen as a small but definite possibility, funds are modelling scenarios ranging from a 50 percent slump in European stocks or a 45 percent fall in the oil price to a 30 percent rise in gold.
Managers are also trying to dig out old computer programmes they once used to model the behaviour of currencies such as the drachma or the deutschmark as they prepare for an event for which -- even after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers -- they effectively have no precedent.
Many, having already trimmed risk, are piling into credit default swaps or deeply out-of-the-money options, hoping they pick a counterparty that can withstand the shock of a break-up.
"You can't conceive what this event will be like, but it doesn't absolve you of looking at it," said the chief risk officer at one hedge fund firm who asked not to be named.
"People are asking the questions, 'do I have the historical records on how things worked when there was a deutschmark?' and 'did I throw away those computer programmes (modelling the deutschmark)?'."
Funds are also trying to figure out how they might be affected if different asset classes that normally have a low correlation start to fall sharply at the same time.
"Anyone who's a chief risk officer is running these scenarios -- say if the euro falls 15 percent, stocks fall 25 percent, if the possibility of default increases, what if recovery rates falls, which prime brokers, administrators get hit?" said Mark Wightman, head of strategy for Asia-Pacific at specialist technology group SunGard.
"The scenarios are getting quite complicated and people are starting looking at correlations between things to understand the likely impact."
While hedge funds, which can put on short positions, have more tools at their disposal than long-only funds to cope with market falls, their performance has been patchy.
Last year they lost just over 5 percent on average, according to Hedge Fund Research, while the S&P 500 delivered a total return of 2.1 percent. That was their second calendar year of losses in just four years after heavy losses during the credit crisis in 2008.
Many hedge funds have already cut exposure to assets seen as directly in the firing line such as the euro or European stocks, insiders say, but are finding their options limited.
"We're all still trying to run our businesses right now. I'd like to say I'll put everything in U.S. dollars, but you can't," the hedge fund chief risk officer said.
"Part of it is contingency planning -- what you need to get out of first -- and part is proactive -- 'I don't need so much emphasis in a certain area right now', such as European stocks or the euro," he said.
"Certainly we are taking smaller positions in some of these markets."
Some funds also rejigged their equity short positions after major differences between stronger, core economies such as Germany and weaker peripheral economies became more apparent, said one investor who spoke on condition of anonymity.
For instance, a manager who owned shares in a German bank whilst shorting a Greek bank has switched to hedging the German bank with a short position on another German bank, after the Greek bank's shares "started to take on a life of their own" as a result of the country's debt crisis, the investor said.
However, with uncertainty over which currencies would exist after a break-up and how they would behave, funds are still unsure how far their hedges would protect them.
"A hedge fund may have a hedging programme that is very highly attuned to dealing with its positions. But the day after something happens there's no programme to deal with this and their hedge may be denominated in a new currency," the risk officer said.
AVOIDING CONTAGION
Part of the dilemma is a mistrust of value at risk (VaR), a standard measure used by banks to show estimated potential loss, expressed with a certain percentage level of confidence.
"A traditional measure of risk like VaR has nothing to say on this," said Lance Smith, CEO at U.S.-based Imagine Software, which has been working with hedge funds to assess the impact of a euro zone break-up on their portfolios.
"A euro break-up could be a 7 standard deviation event. A 6.5 standard deviation event occurs once every 34 million years, while a 50 percent fall in the Eurostoxx would be a 21 standard deviation event. This just highlights the flaws in a standard statistical approach."
Credit default swaps, which are meant to pay out in the event of default, currency options or deeply out-of-the-money options, are among the favoured hedges, industry executives say, which has driven up option prices.
However, even here there is a concern over whether the counterparty can pay up.
"You watch the counterpart if (it's) OTC (over-the-counter) to avoid contagion," said Sungard's Wightman. "Thus you do your euro trades with say Japanese, U.S., Asian or Australian institutions."
Meanwhile, one hedge fund manager has structured a trade to buy German bunds whilst offsetting this with credit default swaps, one fund selector told Reuters.
"His base case is that if someone comes out of the euro, the German bund will be the place to be."
All these nervous hedge funds are wasting their time! If Greece defaults, no need to "stress-test" your portfolios, all bets are off, correlations move to 1, there will be nowhere to hide. They can buy all the insurance in the world (CDS), it won't make a difference.
Interestingly, Reuters also ran a piece a few days ago, Hedging against disaster even as markets grow calm:
Don't be deceived by the U.S. stock market's rousing start this year or the new-found stability of the euro.
After months of seizing on every incremental development in Europe as a reason to buy or sell, markets have started 2012 on a firm footing. The S&P stock index is up 4.8 percent so far this year and the euro has rebounded from recent declines on hopes the euro zone will survive a likely default by Greece.
But fund managers betting on economic armageddon say the worst is far from over as they eye the negotiations to restructure Greece's debt warily.
While well-worn measures of volatility such as the CBOE Volatility Index show relative calm, indexes that track bets on extreme outcomes are rising.
It's why "tail risk" investing - pursued by funds that bet on steep, unexpected drops in asset values - is still attracting investors eager to protect against unlikely outcomes such as a market crash. The recent decline in volatility has made these hedges cheaper.
"Tail-risk hedging has been growing quite substantially, especially in this environment where volatility is low and the price of tail risk hedges is cheaper," said Vineer Bhansali, PIMCO's managing director who runs the bond fund's tail risk strategy. "That's when we have the most interest." Newport Beach, California-based PIMCO's tail risk accounts are insuring $45 billion in assets.
These strategies first garnered attention in the wake of the unexpected collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, when numerous global markets slumped by more than 50 percent.
Assets invested in doomsday scenarios are hard to quantify since there is no index that tracks such "Black Swan" strategies. JP Morgan Chase's global asset allocation group estimates assets in "tail risk" hedge funds have ballooned to about $38 billion in April last year from less than $500 million prior to the Lehman collapse.
London-based portfolio manager Bob Noyen thinks the market has become too sanguine about Europe's debt and banking woes. The chief investment officer at the $25.4-billion Record Currency Management expects the euro zone to collapse, and started the Record Euro Stress Fund in June to capitalize on euro zone problems.
He said the firm's models have priced in a 10 to 15 percent chance that the "euro zone will enter into a chaotic process of dissolution, and that percentage is steadily increasing."
Record Management's Euro Stress Fund was the first of its kind being solely focused on euro zone stress, Noyen said. He added, however, that Record's fund is not exactly a "Black Swan" fund because the euro zone crisis is already a known and well-telegraphed risk.
It invests in a variety of options, which amount to shorting the euro against the dollar and yen, Noyen said.
That includes bets against European currencies such as the Norwegian and Swedish crowns and the Swiss franc, which could get sucked into a European maelstrom should the euro zone break up.
Noyen's Euro Fund is down 2.26 percent so far this year, hurt by the euro's surprising strength.
WATCHING YOUR TAIL
The $50 billion London-based asset management firm GAM has bought protection on European banks in the credit-default swap market as a hedge against a euro zone collapse even though it has a more optimistic take on the region's crisis.
"If you really think about it, what would drive a crisis again will most likely involve European banks in some form of bank run," said Jack Flaherty, investment manager at GAM who helps run the firm's Absolute Return Bond Strategy.
He added that GAM has decided to use the still reasonably priced CDS as a hedge instead of out-of-the-money S&P 500 puts.
Hedge funds wishing to protect against risks in the euro zone or stock market typically purchase lower-priced, long-dated put options - contracts that give them the right to sell an underlying stock or security on expectations of a fall in price.
They usually buy these options when they are deeply "out-of-the-money" - in which the price at which they can exercise that right to sell is well below the current market level - and hope that over time market conditions change in their favor.
For example, an investor expecting a stock currently trading at $100 to fall could buy a put option at a $60 strike price. Once the stock falls through that level the option would then be "in the money."
But the "out of the money S&P puts have become very expensive, have been all year, and for quite a while because everybody is buying S&P puts especially after the financial crisis of 2008," Flaherty said.
This can be seen by looking at the CBOE Tail Hedge Index, a relatively new index that acts as a benchmark for "tail risk" hedging strategies. This index measures the price of options used for portfolio insurance, and it has been steadily rising of late, a sign of concern.
STOCK MARKET STRESS
Many investors believe the U.S. stock market is undervalued as earnings have steadily increased and the S&P 500 has remained in a range. The forward price-to-earnings ratio on the S&P is currently 14.55, below the historic average of 15.
Mark Spitznagel in Santa Monica, California, sees it differently. He specializes in protecting against extreme outcomes at hedge fund Universa Investments, which he founded with scientific advisor Nassim Taleb, who wrote the book "The Black Swan," a detailed theory on the unpredictability of very rare events.
Spitznagel says the expectation for bailouts and cheap money means U.S. stocks still trade at lofty levels when compared to the replacement cost of companies' assets. This week the U.S. Federal Reserve committed to keeping benchmark U.S. interest rates low through late 2014, and that implicit underpinning makes people overconfident.
He said expectations right now are clearly for "exceedingly high aggregate returns on tangible capital, something that is unsustainable in a competitive economy."
Spitznagel is known for his bearish value- and derivatives-based stock market investing. One of his most profitable trades was his billion-dollar bet on the stock market crash of 2008.
The Universa chief, however, would not disclose his strategy.
JP Morgan estimated Universa's returns for the year to September 2011 at between 20 and 25 percent. Universa won't confirm JP Morgan's figures but market participants say 2011 was a profitable year for most tail-risk funds.
Fears about the euro zone have eased temporarily given recent successful debt auctions in Spain and Italy. Greece is trying to broker a deal with creditors to reduce its massive debt pile but that story changes daily.
Noyen is undeterred. He has advised clients that investing in a worst-case euro scenario is often a long-term proposition that can pay off when many other investments are losing money.
"The funds are spent on buying out-of-the money put options. So in the event that the euro goes to parity against the dollar or to $1.10 versus the dollar, we plan to add value to the portfolio by as much as 50 to 100 percent," Noyen said.
PIMCO's Bhansali said that with the decline in implied volatility in equities, currencies and interest rates, the cost of hedging has fallen to roughly 1 to 1.5 percent from about 2 percent of the portfolio in November and provides the perfect opportunity to add more hedges.
"I don't think the market has really priced in a euro zone break-up," Bhansali said. "There are a whole bunch of technical issues that people have not figured out."
The market hasn't "priced in" a eurozone break-up for the simple reason that it won't happen. All these hedgies waiting for a "Lehman-style event" so they can score big are collecting 2 & 20, selling fear to their institutional clients.
The biggest and most powerful hedge funds in the world stand ready to pump up the jam. The black swan of 2012 remains a mild eurozone recession. When fears of a eurozone break-up dissipate, greed and massive liquidity will drive all risk assets much, much higher. That remains my prediction, and if I am wrong, God help us all!!
Below, Bob Parker, senior adviser at Credit Suisse Asset Management, talks about plans for a Greek private-sector involvement accord, the euro area firewall and the U.S. economy. He speaks with Mark Barton on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse."
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BP will continue its raised dividend policy on the back of higher profits for the oil company as long as oil prices continue their upward trajectory, the company's CEO Bob Dudley told CNBC Tuesday.
Bob Dudley, the Executive Director of BP, arrives at their headquarters in St James's Square on July 26, 2010 in London, England.
BP BP increased its dividend by 14 percent to 8 cents a share.
"The increase in the dividend of 14 percent is good progress. It reflects the momentum going into 2012, the improved circumstances for the company. It is our intention to build up a progressive dividend policy, it depends on oil process and a number of things," Dudley said in an interview.
BP reported fourth-quarter profits of $7.61 billion up from $4.6 billion during the same period last year.
On the company's disposal program Dudley said it was "on track".
"We've announced more than $21 billion of a program that will go to $38 billion by the end of 2013, so it is on track. We don't have large, single asset sales but a variety of things across the portfolio that will be more valuable to others than BP and allow us to focus more," he added.
He said the company was also selling two of its North American refineries which he hoped would be completed by the year end.
Dudley also said that the company was preparing "vigorously" for lawsuits related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which are due to start later this month.
"We've said all along that we are open to a settlement but we are preparing vigorously for the trial on the 27th," he added.
He said he had concerns about the effect on the high price of oil - on Tuesday Brent Crude hovered at the $115 a barrel level - on the consumer in these more austere times.
"Yes, this is good for investment, for investors but I worry that the consumer in various countries in these tight conditions will be affected if this moves up faster," he said.
Dudley said that while all eyes were on the Middle East, the region did not top the company's concerns.
"All eyes are on the Middle East right now. We have operations in Egypt which have worked continuously without interruptions, we also have operations in Abu Dhabi and Iraq. Our eyes are on this very carefully but it does not completely dominate our concerns and reason and cooler heads will prevail in the Middle East," Dudley said.
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Conway Farms earns high marks at BMW Championship
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Tiger Woods signs autographs after finishing his round on Saturday.
Tiger Woods signs autographs after finishing his round on Saturday. (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)
Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune reporter
It was, as one tournament official put it, "the big unknown."
How would Conway Farms fare as the 2013 home of the BMW Championship? The club had never hosted a tournament of this magnitude. The PGA Tour had not stopped on the Chicago's North Shore since 1972, when Sunset Ridge hosted the Western Open.
The early returns are in, and they leave little doubt that Conway Farms will host again in 2015.
"It has been a huge hit," said John Kaczkowski, the CEO of the Western Golf Association, which runs the event.
But it has not been issue-free.
On Thursday and Friday, with tee times condensed between 10:20 a.m. and 12:21 p.m., there was major congestion on IL-60 Townline Road, which runs just north of the club and connects I-94 (Tri-State Tollway) and 41 (South Skokie Highway).
One caddie reported sitting in his car for five minutes without moving.
Staggered tee times on Saturday and rain-suspended Sunday eased congestion, but with nearly 40,000 fans leaving Saturday around 5 p.m., traffic was a mess.
"We need to address that, no question," said Kaczkowski, who said the tournament will look into using parking lots that are farther from the course.
The players had nothing but raves for the course, especially the conditioning and the greens. Some told Kaczkowski that the venue felt like a major.
Conway Farms yielded a 59 to Jim Furyk and a 61 to Matt Kuchar. But those seem to be more like blips than a true reflection of the par-71 layout.
Kuchar's 61 came after rounds of 74 and 73. Furyk, who has a one-shot lead heading into Monday's final round, shot 72 on Thursday and 69 on Saturday.
Western Golf Association VP Vince Pellegrino said he does not view the low scores negatively: "I want to see birdies and eagles. I want excitement."
And don't ask Lee Westwood (12 over), Dustin Johnson (9 over) or Rory McIlroy (7 over) if Conway Farms played too easy.
BMW's contract with the PGA Tour is up after Cherry Hills, outside Denver, hosts the 2014 BMW. The Western Golf Association and tour hope to sign a new contract with BMW before the calendar flips to 2014.
Assuming that happens, it's a near certainty the club in Lake Forest will repeat as host in 2015. As Kaczkowski put it to the Tribune: "Based on this week, I don't see any reason why all three parties would not want to come back to Conway Farms. This has been a great success."
All proceeds from the BMW Championship benefit the Evans Scholars Foundation, which provides college scholarships to hundreds of caddies every year. The all-time best charity generator came in 2008, at the BMW Championship at Bellerive , in St. Louis. That was $3.4 million. The 2013 donation will be about $3 million.
Beyond 2015, the tour and Western Golf Association will consider other Chicago venues, though few present a rigorous enough challenge, can handle 40,000 spectators and have an open membership policy.
A new option that Kaczkowski called "intriguing" will open for play next summer, when the renovation of Medinah No. 1 is completed at a cost of $6.4 million.
Architect Tom Doak, who designed such celebrated courses as Lost Dunes, Pacific Dunes and Ballyneal, is vying to give Medinah's members a worthy partner to the famed No. 3 course, which hosted the 2012 Ryder Cup.
The par-71 layout will be roughly 6,900 yards with deep-faced bunkers and a par-3 finish. If it lands an event of the BMW Championship's caliber, length could be added and the nines could be flipped to create a 600-yard finishing hole.
"Any time you are talking about a championship opportunity, our membership has demonstrated excitement," said Medinah official Mike Crance. "We will see how it plays out."
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Decisions Under 2021-22 Budget Is No Lesser Than Narasimha Rao's New Economic Policy
B D Narayankar
Big Bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala compared the decisions taken under 2021-22 Budget to the 1991 New Economic Policy, which aims to create a more competitive environment in the economy as a means to improving the productivity and efficiency of the system.
"That's what India needs – a transparent and growth-oriented economy, propelled by privatization. We came out of the shackles of the bullshit socialism in 1991 and this is the second moment. I think this budget has conveyed a political message that the steps taken by the government under this budget are no lesser important than what happened in 1991," he said.
The New Economic Policy was launched in 1991 under the leadership of P V Narasimha Rao which had opened the door of the Indian economy for global exposure for the first time.
The Rao government had reduced the import duties, opened a reserved sector for the private players, devalued the Indian currency to increase the export.
Jhunjunwala said the Budget is growth-oriented which will make India reach double-digit growth and in the next 25 years pip China. "The Budget has conveyed much more than what we are understanding. We have a realistic Budget for a resurgent and rejuvenated India. Budget 2021 indicates that the Indian government will be bold. India will overtake China in the next 25 years," he said.
Jhunjhunwala said Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that the government has no business to be in business and given a clear indication that his government would be bold and take steps required to propel growth in the country.
"And this has been done with a base laid down in terms of RERA, Bankruptcy Law, Jan Dhan, change in labor laws, change in Indian farm laws. I think this budget is conveying that it is growth-oriented and is laying the ground for India to get to double-digit growth," he said.
Speaking to CNBC TV 18, Jhunjhunwala exuded confidence that the FY22 fiscal deficit will be between 6 percent and 6.5 percent and the tax collections will be much better.
He said the biggest would come from pension and sovereign fund money and also from infrastructure. "When we encash the power grids, the roads – I think next year the toll collection would be Rs 50,000 crore. This will give us the power to build will give us more tolls.
Now, we will be modernizing the railways. We have just started. I say to every Indian to believe in India. You don't know what is coming ahead of you," he said.
"India won't be able to absorb all the capital expected to come," he said.
Talking about the market, Jhunjhunwala said the recent correction was a swift one, typical of one in a bull market.
"I am bullish on the market. Believe in India. The market is giving chances, grab it," he said.
On divestment, he said the government is withdrawing from the business which is positive. "The capital expansion cycle has just started. This quarter will see 1 percent growth. Next year, the growth will be sharply higher," he said.
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So I wanted to revisit an older post. I had written about "Absentia," an independent film that was using Kickstarter as a funding source.
This has become a unique proposition for artists and folks with a short-term limited project. You can help fund a variety of cool and interesting projects, but actually get something for it other than the satisfaction of helping.
Fallback Plans actually got 375 backers to pledge over $23,000 when they were only asking for $15,000.
I'm not sure if it is something you would ever use, but isn't it great? I've looked through some of Kickstarter's projects and several folks are brutally honest about one of the issues that is not readily apparent.
Kickstarter charges back on the credit card charges and does charge a fee- neither are surprising or deal breakers. If you have the means to go about asking anyone for money, do so, but this is a great method and allows for enforcement of the gifts given for donating.
Here is the pay off for Fallback Plans- their trailer! Which looks awesome if you are into this scary kinda movie.


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Restvale Cemetery
Restvale Cemetery is located at 11700 S. Laramie Ave. in Alsip, Illinois, United States, a suburb southwest of the city of Chicago.
Marist High School
Marist High School is a private Catholic preparatory high school located in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Marist Brothers on behalf of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Chicago High School for the Agricultural Sciences
The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences is a public 4–year magnet high school located in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Burr Oak Cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery is a cemetery located in Alsip, Illinois, United States, a suburb southwest of Chicago, Illinois.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois is a Roman Catholic cemetery of the Archdiocese of Chicago, located southwest of Chicago, at 6001 West 111th Street in Alsip.
Alsip is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Mount Greenwood is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago.
Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Evergreen Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Morgan Park, located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, is one of the city's 77 official community areas.
Type: hamlet
Location: Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
Latitude: 41.6834° or 41° 41' 0.1" north
CrestwoodTown, 1½ miles south
Merrionette ParkVillage, 2 miles east
Chicago RidgeTown, 2½ miles northwest
WorthTown, 3 miles west
WestgateNeighborhood, 3 miles southwest
Palos HeightsTown, 3 miles west
Alsip Fire Department HeliportHelipad, 4200 feet southwest
Merrionette Park Fire DepartmentFire station, 2 miles east
Lincoln CemeteryCemetery, 2 miles southeast
Brother Rice High SchoolSchool, 2 miles northeast
Mount Olivet CemeteryCemetery, 2½ miles east
Chicago RidgeRailway station, 2½ miles northwest
Cicero & 115th Street SBBus stop
Cicero & 115th Street NBBus stop
The Chateau Bu-scheRestaurant
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Xorigin are a new signing to Frontiers with 'State Of The Art' representing the debut release from this new band based around two musicians with a history dating back to 1999. Vocalist Johannes Stole (P.O.B.) and guitarist Daniel Palmqvist (solo/ex The Murder Of My Sweet) first met when students at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles where they formed the band Orange Crush. The time over on American shores for these Scandinavians was obviously well spent with the influence of the likes of Toto, Giant and Foreigner etc run high throughout the sound of this 11 track debut.
Stylistically this is right what you'd expect for Frontiers i.e. melodic vocals, big hooks, lots of keyboards and a keen commercial edge with a production by Daniel Flores (The Murder Of My Sweet / Mind's Eye) who also plays drums on the album.
Opener "Can't Keep Running" is an infectious track, very eighties in outlook and sound with its synth bass sound and big chorus hook which sees well layered vocal melodies it's a strong opening number. Yet sadly is the first indicator of a production flaw that runs throughout the album, namely Daniel Palmqvist's guitar solos being mixed too low for my tastes, a shame as Palmqvist is no slouch on the guitar.
However, back to the music and the album continues along a path of solidly constructed numbers with the mid- tempo waters of "Crying For You", "The One For Me" (which I thought was going to break into the '1987' version of Whitesnake's ' Here I Go Again' at the intro) and "What Love Is All About" being tracks that are easy on the ear with their pleasing melodies and enjoyable instrumentation.
Elsewhere "Gina" (not a Michael Bolton cover) has traces of 'Big Generator' era Yes which works well, "This Is It" is a little darker than much of the material for the verses but hits a vibrant stride with its chorus, whilst "Said And Done" offers up a more straight rock feel.
Big power ballad fans are well catered for with "In The Blink Of An Eye" sounding like the perfect companion to the likes of Winger's 'Miles Away' or Damn Yankees 'High Enough'. Good stuff just 20 years too late but hey nothing wrong with nostalgia when it's well crafted like this. The album closes with a slightly more contemporary and modern sounding ballad in "Mend My Heart" and it's a nice way to see the album out.
At a hair under 48 minutes this is about the perfect length for anyone wanting to revel in some melodic rock that for the most part if high in quality with good performances to boot. The slight flaw in the mix is a little disappointing but otherwise this is a good release and one that will hopefully pave the way for future works from Palmqvist and Stole.
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An Italian native but after a period of travelling now a UK resident, Karl Demata steps up to the plate to release his debut album of blues powered rock. Inspired by the late sixties British and American blues rock scene Karl has a playing palette that covers numerous genres yet its his love of the blues that if featured here.
With a style not a million miles away from vintage sounds ala Cream and the Allman Brothers, "Cross The Mountain" is a power trio offering which at times also has hints of Joe Bonamassa's earlier work and from a heavier side of things the Stoney Curtis Band. With some tasty guitar work and pleasing songs this is an enjoyable listen, nothing groundbreaking but Karl's guitar work will you're your interest throughout the 11 tracks. Also for blues fans out there the album features guest performances from percussionist Hugh Flint (from John Mayall Bluesbreakers 'Beano' fame).
Highlights to these ears come in the guise of the laid back "Until The End" with its moody slide parts, the upbeat groove of "Looking Through You" and the mid-tempo waters of "Failing Design" which its Bonamassa style groove and creamy lead lines creates an intoxicating sound. On the downside the production is rather basic and lacks some excitement in the final mix but as this is self financed its more than acceptable and still perfectly listenable. Also Karl's vocals don't always sit well with some of the material, on the moodier numbers they work well and have an almost Bob Dylan meets Johnny Winter drawl to them which is likeable enough, but for the most part Karl does tend to stay within a comfort zone m which does come across as a little monotonous after a while.
That said this is a pleasant enough debut release and worth a check out for blues rock fans out there.
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Mayweather agrees to fight Amir Khan
Sarfraz Ali 07:31 PM | 6 May, 2015
LAHORE (Web Desk) - Unbeaten boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has shown interest in fighting Pakistan-born Amir Khan at the Wembley Stadium to repeat the success of the Carl Froch and George Groves' fight.
Froch secured an eighth-round knockout against Groves in the IBF and WBA super-middleweight title bout in front of 80,000 on Saturday in the biggest British fight for four decades.
Amir has been trying to face-off against Mayweather for over two years now and after the MGM Grand Arena bout he got an opportunity.
"It's been a goal to come to the UK and put on a spectacular event and the plan is to do just that," Mayweather told The Sun.
"I love all my fans in the UK and I want to go there and give a good show at Wembley before I retire. I plan to come in the near future. I want to continue to make history with the mega events we put on.
"The Floyd Mayweather brand is globally recognised. The warm welcome over there in UK is a good indicator of the magnitude of success a fight would have. We're looking forward to it in the future."
Amir, meanwhile, believes his bout against the pound-for-pound champion would eclipse the Froch-Grove bout.
"I think it will be the biggest fight ever in Britain," he said. "Global interest would come to England and we'd sell out Wembley.
"I really want to bring this fight to the UK. I've fought all over the world and been top of bill but this would be so much bigger.
"They have done a fantastic job hyping Groves and Froch but this fight is on another level. Floydis boxing. Britain would shut down. It would be like the World Cup final of boxing."
Sarfraz Ali
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Michael Moorcock has answered the questions you put to him (see Michael Moorcock answers your questions!) as part of the promo for his new book, The Best of Michael Moorcock. Moorcock will choose the three lucky prizewinners later this week.
Elric c'est moi, is the short answer. I've written about this in the introductions to the new Del Rey editions of the Elric stories. Elric was the 'me' I was as a late teenager -- like many teenagers -- angsty, self-blaming, feeling I was doing harm to others around me and so on. Unlike many of my characters (Moonglum, E's sidekick, for instance) Elric wasn't based on a real person, apart from myself, but on a sort of melange of fictitious characters. Melmoth the Wanderer, Maturin's great Gothic character, is the most obvious. I read a lot of Romantic and Gothic literature in my teens, as well as various mythologies, and the notion of the doomed character, who must find another to carry his burden, appealed to me. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress had a great influence on me as a lad, too! It was the first book I bought with my own money (though coming from what was essentially a secular home) and of course I was attracted to the pictures. The Doré illustrated Milton was another book I bought early. I suppose all those characters have to be aspects of myself, at different stages of my life, but weren't influenced by fiction the way parts of Elric were. His basic character and appearance were based on Zenith the Albino, a hero-villain who fought Sexton Blake, an English pulp detective whom I enjoyed (especially in his 1920s and 30s adventures) and who I came to, by strange chance, through my early enjoyment of P.G.Wodehouse! A Blake writer, Edwy Searles Brooks, tended to write in imitation of Wodehouse so when I ran out of Psmith and Jeeves I found something almost as good in Brooks (who, I discovered, was a near neighbour of mine as a boy). ERB and ESB could be called my twin literary midwives.


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Butte County receives preparedness award
Rob Minter (left) uses a pitch fork as James West scoops with a tractor to clear a ditch that flows into a holding pond south of East Park Avenue in preparation of upcoming storms on Oct. 4. The National Weather Service has recognized Butte County as "StormReady," which means it has met a series of preparedness standards.(Ty Barbour/Staff File Photo)
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OROVILLE — Butte County is not "storm proof," according to the director of its Office of Emergency Management, but it is officially "StormReady."
StormReady is an honor from the National Weather Service to credit counties and cities that have met a series of preparedness standards, explained John Gulserian.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, of which the National Weather Service is a part, says there are good reasons to encourage preparedness.
"Americans live in the most severe weather-prone country on Earth. Each year, Americans cope with an average of 10,000 thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,000 tornadoes, and an average of two land-falling deadly hurricanes," according to a statement on the agency's StormReady web page.
Today, representatives of the National Weather Service will attend the Board of Supervisors meeting to present the panel with the StormReady award.
In a telephone interview Monday, Gulserian explained, "It's a program designed to help communities better prepare for extreme weather conditions."
To qualify for the honor, the county had to have an established emergency operations center. Butte County's EOC is located in the basement of the Sheriff's Office.
The center must have an automated NOAA severe weather notification radio in place.
Gulserian said the facility is required to have Internet access, and have the independent capability to trigger the Emergency Alert System, which sends alerts and warnings over all local broadcast outlets.
He said the emergency broadcasts are sent using a telephone and specified codes.
"There's no big red button to push," he quipped.
The county also has a reverse 9-1-1 system, which allows the authorities to send alerts to all landline telephones countywide or in a specified area.
Gulserian said the weather service is trying to encourage local government agencies to have redundant ways to issue alerts when the need arrives.
While the emergency notification technologies are applicable to any disaster, "I think they are focusing on extreme-weather-related events," said Gulserian.
The whole goal is preparedness on the county and personal level.
To help individuals and families prepare for disaster, a list of things people should have and do to be ready for an emergency can be found on the county's website at www.buttecounty.net/Office%20of%20Emergency%20Mgmt/Disaster%20Preparedness.aspx.
Gulserian cautioned people not to think StormReady is the same thing as "storm proof."
"If you think you are storm proof, Mother Nature will prove you wrong. I don't want to bet against her," he said.
Staff writer Roger H. Aylworth can be reached at 896-7762 or at raylworth@chicoer.com.


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Q: Google Chrome API: How do I add my app to show an icon on the "New Tab" (Apps) page? I noticed that a "New Tab" page has an apps section, but by default an application is not added there. What do I need to do to have my application appear there?

A: Hosted apps and packed apps will automatically add an icon to the new tab page. Make sure you have a good 128 pixel icon registered in the manifest.

A: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/apps.html
Add to manifest:
"app": {
    "launch": {
      "local_path": "main.html"
    }
  },

You'll also need a 128x128 icon, specify it here:
  "icons": {
    "128": "icon_128.png"
  }

A: If your chrome is set to open multiple pages, do the following:

*

*go to "Settings"

*Go to the second sub-heading "On startup"

*Make sure the 3rd choice is selected "Open a specific...or set of pages"

*Click on "Set Page"

*On Add New Page type "www.google.com"

*Press "Enter"

*Highlight the hyperlink "www.google.com" press delete

You should see a blank line where the apps tab should be, but it's not empty.

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A walk during the last evening of summer on the Autumn Equinox.
The images aren't as sharp as they could be, much like my memories of this long season.
Mont Blanc across the Lake Geneva basin.
Welcome autumn, season of harvest and provision, of warm golden days and crisp evenings.
Jura mountains, facing the Rhône Valley.
A favorite season, the season of new seeds ready to be hardened by winter in the trust that, against all expectations, they will sprout in spring.
Autumn field, just plowed for winter planting.