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A player has probability 0.4 of winning a single game. What is his
probability of winning a 'best of 15 games' tournament?
It is believed that weaker snooker players have a better chance of
winning matches over eleven frames (i.e. first to win 6 frames)
than they do over fifteen frames. Is this true?
Try to move the knight to visit each square once and return to the starting point on this unusual chessboard.
Published January 1999,February 2011.
In the first example Voting Paradox there are 3 candidates for election. The voters have to rank them in order of preference. Consider the case where 3 voters cast the following votes: ABC, BCA and CAB:
A beats B by 2 choices to 1
B beats C by 2 choices to 1
but A cannot be the preferred candidate because A loses to C, again by 2 choices to 1.
This is an example of intransitivity. You can imagine it happening on an interview panel with three interviewers and three candidates. Can you find the probability of an outcome like this with no outright winner where there are 3 candidates A, B and C, and 3 voters, who place the candidates in order of preference? This was a problem from August 1998 and its solution is here.
The second example 'Winning Team'; involves nine runners belonging to three clubs. Runners A, F and H belong to the Cyber Club, runners B, D and I belong to the Champs Club and runners C, E and G belong to the Kings Club. Whenever they run in the same race A always beats B, and B always beats C, and C always beats D etc. so that they always finish in the order A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I.
The tournament consists of three races with 6 runners in each race and the winner scores 6 points, the second 5 points, the third 4 points, the fourth 3 points, the fifth 2 points and the last one 1 point, a total of 21 points between the two teams so there is always a winning team. You can easily calculate the points when the Cybers run against the Champs, the Cybers win with 11 points to the
Champs 10 points. Now find the results when the Champs run against the Kings. Which is the best team? What happens when the Cybers run against the Kings? This problem, called Winning Team , appeared in October 1998 with subsequent discussion of the solutions.
The third example `Dicey' involves probabilities rather than events which always happen. Dicey is a game for two players, each throws their own die and the highest score wins. Four fair dice (Efron's dice) are marked on their six faces, using the mathematical constants $\pi$, $e$ and $\phi$ (where $\phi$ is the divine proportion or golden ratio) as follows:
You play the game with your friend Jo and you invite Jo to choose first, and to choose ANY one of the dice. Then you can always choose another die so that you will have a better chance of winning than Jo. Now Jo may think this is unfair and want to play with the die you chose thinking it is the best one. In that case you can always chose another die so that you still have a better chance of
winning than Jo. Consider all the cases and decide what choice you will make in each case. Is one of the dice the best one?
Does it make any difference if the dice are marked with 3 instead of $\pi$, 2 instead of $e$ and 1 instead of $\phi$?
Dicey features in one of the January 1999 problems.
For more on this subject you might like to read the chapter 'Nontransitive dice and other probability paradoxes' in Martin Gardner's book 'Wheels, Life and other Mathematical Amusements' published by W.H.Freeman in 1983.


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So long buddy . . . Who will be here every minute of the day, watching over us while we post?
So long buddy . . . Who will be here every minute of the day, watching over us while we post?
I'd love to see that guy come back and see all the fun his online status garnered.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Would he be able to live up to the legend ? ? ?
I shed a tear for his passing. Gone but not forgotten. Goodbye DeckardSmith.
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Why are you?
What do you want?
Geez,Its sad to lose someone
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
See? I told you the glitch would be fixed when he no longer appeared!
I shed a tear at his passing, and offer a moment of silence, to the man, the myth, the legend, Deckard Smith.
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Just a "little" note to our True Moderator, Deckard Smith.
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Meesa back!
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The July 15-18 Minnesota Gophers wrestling camp attracted more than 110 student wrestlers from all over Minnesota and at least one student from as far away as Montana to Pine River.
This is the second year the Gophers camp has been hosted in Pine River. For the last two days of the event students were taught improved wrestling techniques by award-winning wrestlers from the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers wrestling team. They were lea by Administrative Assistant Kevin LeValley, two-time All American and a United States Wrestling representative in international championships.
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LeValley said the camp is not exclusively dedicated toward teaching wrestling, either.
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He said the camp is dedicated to teaching kids, especially older kids, that you get out of life whatever you put in.
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"He seems to be learning quite a bit and having a lot of fun," said Stacy Jasicki, mother of TJ (Thomas) Jasicki, 9 of Henning. "Wrestling is his life sport. It's his passion and it's what he likes to do."
"My dad thought it would be all right if I go, so I came up here to learn," said Jasiah Paskwitz, 13, of Staples-Motley. "It's been good. I've actually enjoyed it."
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This year's camp focused on "high crotch" techniques, leg attack defense and "bottom wrestling."
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Interview With A Tipi Dweller – Sierra Club Article (March 2012)
Article¬ÝCourtesy¬Ýof Sierra Club
March 20, 2012
Interview with a Tipi Dweller
Mark Warren is a naturalist, composer, novelist, and director of¬ÝMedicine Bow, a¬Ý"primitive school of earthlore." In the summer of 1989, a streak of lightning scorched his house and everything inside, so he moved into a tipi. He tells his story in Two Winters in a Tipi, to be published by Lyons Press in May.
The barn you lived in was struck by lightning. You lost all your work.
When I went back and saw my house, there was one pile of rubble that was still glowing bright red. That's where my piano was. On top of it were all my music compositions and my novel. That was my first novel. I had hundreds of music compositions. There were no copies.
That must have been devastating.
That's exactly the word. But you also feel freedom at the same time that you feel victimized.
And you decided your next home would be a tipi?
I remember when the first big ice storm came to north Georgia. Trees turned to crystal. They were all bowing and creating a convergence above me. I remember thinking what a beautiful shelter this is, all these trees leaning toward me. I wanted to have my own version of trees leaning together above me.
Late in the book, a raccoon wanders into your tipi and dies by the fire.
I had a few encounters with what was probably that same raccoon. I would roam the forest with my bow and shoot at shadows, leaves, inanimate objects, and I encountered him and spoke to him for awhile. A week later, he came through the door. I thought he might have had distemper or rabies. But there was something very melancholy about his behavior, and it was so cold outside. I picked him up and brought him closer to the fire. The next morning he was dead. It turned out he had come there to die.
You spend a lot of time stalking.
Stalking is all about extreme slow motion. It's a little like tai chi in that way. The two students I've had who were most prepared for stalking were people involved in martial arts and fencing. Picture a fencer with his legs bent. Imagine the strength of those legs. That's what's required for stalking.
And you're a longbow world champion. Did you hunt with your bow and arrow?
I foraged for food and supplemented that with groceries. My interest in archery is more esoteric. I'Äôve been shooting a bow for¬Ý35 years. I'Äôm interested in the full spectrum of the use of the arrow. There is the lob shot, which is used to get ammunition to an ally. There'Äôs the clout shot, a shot done nearly straight up so that the arrow falls to a target. That can be used in castle siege or in sending a telegram through the forest. And there'Äôs simply throwing an arrow.
Do you have an iPod?
I wouldn't even know how to use an iPod. I don't have a cell phone. I don't have any of the new pads or anything like that. I have a toolbox that's pretty old –- about 1910.
You've been teaching survival skills to children for several decades. Do you think kids have changed?
I see the demise of physical fitness on a general level. I've got to lower the bar. Twenty years ago I could take a group on a fifteen mile hike in a day. Now you're talking single digits, two miles. I see the downfall of courtesy. I see that speech patterns have changed. People talk so fast now. I have to slow them down so I can understand them.
And here's the big one. The willingness to step into something new without first asking for the instruction booklet. I want them to have the joy of exploring something new. If it's a wild edible, they want to know what it tastes like first, but I don't tell them. I make the first kids to taste it promise not to tell. Twenty years ago if I took the kids to a creek we just took our boots off and crossed and waited to dry off. Now I wade over and as I sit to dry my legs I look back and see everybody staring at me. How cold is it? How deep is it?
When kids see a beautiful scene, they compare it to a postcard. I have to remind them that they're looking at the real thing. The thing you've just compared it to is a made up thing.
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Pictures are rolling in throughout the interwebs . . . I await SSG's contribution, which has traditionally been the best.
However, based on what I've seen so far, there's a ton of awesome stuff still on the way.
In The Vintage Collection, I see Wooof, Endor Rebel Commando, Jedi Master Yoda (slight redo), Wicket, Admiral Ackbar, ROTJ Luke, Sail Barge R2-D2, and Gamorrean Guard, along with some repacks, like Wedge. Luke looks to be 100% new and much, much better than the barrel-chested 2009 one. The Gamorrean's head looks out of proportion, but the belt is positioned too high here, which might be throwing it off. The new R2-D2 mold has a weird head, but it looks like it has several opening panels and pop-up stuff, which is awesome.
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One Hoth battle pack has an AT-ST, two snowtroopers, a cannon, and a new pilot who looks a bit like Robert Watts (who had a cameo as a pilot in ROTJ); the other has a turret repack, new cannon, both 2009 troopers (including the one who got cancelled), and what looks like yet another K-3PO in the build-a-droid mold.
Jabba is $34.99, which is a pretty great price.
For Clone Wars, there's an ARC Trooper battle pack, confirming the rumors about their Season Three appearance. There's also a four-pack of Mandalorian warriors - awesome. Among the basic figures, I see Goji, the clone pilot from The Zillo Beast with the Gojira-inspired helmet - too damn cool!
For vehicles, there's an AT-RT repaint with a Geonosis Boil and a Freeco speeder with a plain Orto Plutonia clone; also an AT-AP repaint, Hyena bomber, and AAT repaint.
Looks like they're doing two packs with a DVD and four figures each. One has Shahan Alama, Robonino, and two Commando Droids from Hostage Crisis, and the other has Rex and some clones from The Hidden Enemy. There are also two packs, one of which has two Senate Commandos and another of which has Cad Bane and an IG-86, and then some other combinations.
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Haven't posted status in a while but I've been holding at 157ish and a 31" waist but losing some muscle since the surgery although getting back to a routine lately and hope to get back on track. So diet has been key in holding while I had less activity.
Missing the home-smoked salmon and steelhead I had on had for so many years in the PNW I've been using a variation for the smoked salmon omelet fix.
Rubensteins sockeye canned salmon is always high quality and comes in small single-omelet sized cans. I start with a little light olive oil with a sparse pinch of chipotle powder in the hot oil, then soften some finely chopped red onion and some fresh dill or just a scoop of taboule from the tub if lazy or in a rush.
I just dump the can in the frying pan to the side and break up with a fork, seasoning with Chef Paul Prudhomme's new Salmon Seasoning - incredible stuff.
Give this a good light sauteed texture and push to one side, pour in some Land o Lakes 'Healthy Beginnings' egg white product (which really tastes like real eggs unlike the other brands) and finish over medium heat to a light fluffy textured omelet.
Now it's not as good as a real pacific smoked salmon omelet especially if you have some fresh dungeness crab on hand - but it's quick, yummy and keeps your body occupied with high protein stuff until your grilled chicken salad at lunch.
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What is the deal with this episode of The Simpsons, is it actually banned from being shown again, or are they waiting for a better time to show it?
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Do not have immunizations/vaccinations without the consent of your doctor. Avoid contact with people who have recently received live vaccines (such as flu vaccine inhaled through the nose).
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If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you remember, and contact your doctor to establish a new dosing schedule. Your next injection should be taken about 48 hours (2 days) after you actually take the missed dose. Do not use this medication 2 days in a row. Do not double the dose to catch up.
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Block House dig tells Pittsburgh's historyAugust 17, 2013 8:00 AM
Tyler Pisarek, 11, was hoping to find an old coin or a musket ball as he sifted dirt dug up by archaeologists working Friday morning outside the Fort Pitt Block House.
Instead he found some pieces of blue-and-white pottery.
Those small artifacts can be just as important in providing information about the lives of the people who worked or resided near the Block House, Christine Davis said. She is president of Christine Davis Consultants, which is doing the archaeological "dig" at the historic site in Downtown Pittsburgh. The two-day project continues today.
Tyler, who lives in the Harrison City neighborhood of Penn, Westmoreland County, will be a sixth-grader at Penn Trafford Middle School this year. He likes history, but he admitted that science is his favorite subject.
He was one of many Block House visitors and passers-by who took a turn Friday with the portable sifting screens used to look for small items turned up in the earth around the Block House.
Molly Fuchs showed off the pieces of pottery and shards of glass that she had found in the top layers of soil. "This is the first time I've ever witnessed an archaeological dig," she said. "Now I've had a chance to take part in one and to find some historic things."
Ms. Fuchs, a senior majoring in history at Westminster College, is a summer intern at the Block House. A resident of Pine, she was part of a team of professional archaeologists and volunteers working on the site of the oldest structure in Pittsburgh.
The items recovered this weekend should tell historians something new about the people who lived near the Block House for more than two centuries, Ms. Davis said.
The Block House, built in 1764 as part of the defenses for Fort Pitt, has been owned and maintained by Daughters of the American Revolution since 1894. Much of the building is still original 18th-century material.
The historic structure, a landmark in Point State Park, will mark its 250th birthday next year, and the Allegheny County DAR group is planning a memorial garden and walkway on part of the Block House property to mark the anniversary.
The two-day "test" dig is an effort to learn more about the history of Pittsburgh's Point and recover any artifacts buried there. A similar effort in 2003 below the concrete floor in the Block House turned up 135 items, including an arrow point, Native-American pottery and a French gunflint.
"I am getting butterflies in my stomach," said Emily Weaver, the Block House curator. She watched as field lab supervisor Carrianne Love used small trowels and brushes to reveal a square of dark soil. Ms. Love had found the remains of a late 19th-century ash pit where residents had dumped their trash.
Discarded items found there would tell researchers about the everyday life of people who lived in the neighborhood when it was a crowded mix of industrial plants, railroad yards and tenement homes, Ms. Davis said. Its presence also was a sign that material below the ash pit had been undisturbed since the 1800s.
While the block house is within Point State Park, the building and the land around it are owned by the Fort Pitt Society, which is part of the Allegheny County Chapter of the DAR. The building was a gift from the heiress Mary Schenley, who also gave Pittsburgh the city park named for her.
The new garden and walkway will be dedicated next year in memory of Edith Darlington Ammon, an early DAR member.
Mrs. Ammon led successful efforts to halt plans by industrialist Henry Clay Frick and the Pennsylvania Railroad to move the building elsewhere, according to Joanne Ostergaard, coordinator of the upcoming "Block House 250" commemoration.
Admission to the Block House and the adjoining archaeological site is free. Saturday hours for the building are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.travel - neigh_city
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I split wood and rearranged the woodshed for my momma . Then stacked wood in the shed . Raced back home and inhaled a plate of chicken and noodles , cream corn and mashed 'taters. Dressed quickly , grabbed the recurve and out the door. Made my way along the standing corn and grassy waterway to the edge of the headwaters of Brush Creek . At this spot there is one ash and one big sycamore . Across the creek is a gentle slope of fescue about 30 feet wide between the corn and the creek. The corn is full of deer as it is the only cover near the creek.
I had only been there , standing against that ash tree , for maybe 10 minutes when I could hear some deer coming toward the creek through the corn . They stepped out where the sycamore was between us . The low limbs being full of those big leaves did a good job of concealing me yet allowed me to monitor their movement . A fter a 30 minute feed the doe moved down toward the waters edge . I had but one window of about a 1 foot circle to shoot through the tree limbs . She eventually made that spot and stopped with her eye behind a small willow bush . I rolled my eye to see where the yearling was and it was feeding head down and facing away . Back on the doe ,,,,,,,pick a spot ,,,,,,,,,,,draw , anchor,,,,,,,,,,but I do not recall releasing the arrow. But , I do recall seeing those big yellow fletchings dissapear into her ribs . She jumped once . Looked back and jumped once more . Now she is standing by the corn liccking the exit hole and touching her chest with a forefoot. The yearling is still feeding . Then I could hear her breathing heavy and occasionally coughing . Then she fell and kicked a little and expired .
The arrow with the 250 gr. broadhead did its job very well . Completely passing through and sticking in the dirt on the creek bank. Cutting the top of the heart and one lung .
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Conjunctivitis update, March 21
Posted March 15, 2002; 04:45 p.m.
Physicians at University Health Services are working with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and state and local health agencies to learn more about the outbreak of conjunctivitis on the Princeton campus and to try to stop its spread.
There have been 289 patients who have been treated for conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, on the campus between Feb. 1 and March 20, said Dr. Pamela Bowen, health services director. Those affected include students from all four undergraduate classes and a small number of graduate students.
Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the clear mucous membrane that covers the white part of the eyeball and the inside of the eyelid. It is most often caused by a bacterial or viral infection, or an allergic reaction. The inflammation of conjunctivitis makes it an irritating condition but it is usually harmless to sight.
Health officials are trying to determine whether the illness is related to a similar outbreak at Dartmouth College. Cultures are being taken from some of the affected Princeton students in an attempt to identify the organism, and the results received so far have been mixed. Preliminary evidence points to a bacterial infection.
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Mining: Background
The mining industry largely consists of coal companies but also includes metal and non-metal mining companies. Having traditionally allied themselves with Republicans, mining organizations have increasingly been under fire from liberal environmental groups wary of carbon pollution.
Political contributions from the mining industry skyrocketed in the 2012 election cycle as donations reached $20.7 million, nearly double the total in any other cycle. The partisanship was also ramped up: 90 percent of the total cash in 2012 went to Republicans, the highest total for the industry ever. Indeed, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) was the only Democrat of the industry's top 20 recipients, and Manchin has been pro-business and friendly toward mining interests throughout his time in office.
Alliance Resource Partners, one of many coal companies at the top of the contribution chart, was far and away the industry's top spender at $4.16 million, the majority of which went to outside groups including American Crossroads. Lobbying expenditures by the industry reached $32.3 million in 2012. Peabody Energy has led the lobbying charge in recent years, advocating for fewer business regulations and restrictions on coal usage.
The industry claims that "clean coal" should be a central component of the nation's energy future. Clean coal is a cheap way of providing energy, and the removal of pollutants results in a reduction of carbon emissions when burned.
In September 2012, the House passed the Stop the War on Coal Act of 2012, a measure that would eliminate a number of regulations for the coal industry and end the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to impose emissions limits. But the bill is unlikely to receive a vote in the Senate and would almost certainly be vetoed by President Obama.
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Is it not time for the pick 'em? It's a fun way to keep up with the Championship. Harry
Is it not time for the pick 'em? It's a fun way to keep up with the Championship. Harry
"Sometimes we just gotta do what is right". Jerry 2006
See ya in the field. HPW http://www.sagaciouskennel.com/
Soon. I believe dogs qualified this weekend will be allowed to enter the NRC.
Any word on the Pick'em yet???
God, Family, Country & LSU Football.
Cody's Gunslingin' Cosmonaut MH QAA (Shooter)
You may not like me but you would like my boy so root for 76 if you don't have a favorite
its Sylvia McClure and # 89 Gracie....
here is the rest of my Top 10
# 7 - whether its Michael or Billy at the helm, they can go the distance
# 15 - well duh, now that they have been Finalists they know what it takes
# 41- going for the third leg of the Grand Slam
# 70 - same as number seven
# 76- like the handler in his back yard
# 85 - pulling real hard for Don
# 94- if it comes down to a marking contest
# 75 - would love to see Mr Bechtel win one
# 8 - same as above
Premier's Carbon Star
by The Era of Zeus MH (NFC Patton x Ivy QAA by FC AFC Rudy) x
HR Buck Creek Lexus by Widgeon JH (NAFC Carbon x Splash QAA by FC AFC Cougar)
Carbon Star Katniss
By NFC FC AFC Windy City's Mighty Mouse (NAFC Carbon x FC AFC Cody) x Flirt'n Lean Lex of Babyduck SH (NAFC Grady x Flirt QAA by NFC Chopper)
I have never done this but it sounds like fun and since Steve Yozamp is my stud dogs trainer, and since Pete is doing rather well this year he is my # 1
then to cheer on the leaders Ragin Eye Of The Storm
Great Bunns Of Fire - gotta cheer on the ladies
Go Margo
Bayou-Star Beyond Independent
Trumarc's Hollandaise - for you Dr. Ed
Huntersbest Sapphire Jubilee
Mitimat You Go Girl
Hardscrabbles Powder My Buns
Tru's Little Cruiser
You may not like my picks but I hope for the best with all of them. Good luck everyone on event.
Justin E Schneider
Foundation's One Up the Sleeve
Foundation's Rolling Thunder
RIP Xtreme's 30 Rounds N' 1 Full Maggie SH
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." -- Josh Billings
A good friend will always help you out, a dog treated right will never leave your side - ME
3: FC Bayou Teche Tex "Tex"
10: Watermark's Mister Candlewood "Mister"
37: FC-AFC Bayou-Star Beyond Independent "Tia"
50: FC Trumarc's Dot Come "Dottie"
56: FC-AFC Lanes Lets Get Ready To Rumble "Ali"
76: FC-AFC Trumarc's Hollandaise "Holland"
88: FC-AFC Seaside's Pelican Pete "Pete"
89: FC-AFC Hilltop's High Society "Gracie"
94: FC-AFC Fen Wizzard "Fen"
102: FC-AFC Rocky Creek's Full Tilt Boogie "Pearl"
FC-AFC Land Ahoy "Pirate"
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Strawberry-Lemon Ricotta CakesFrom SOUTHERN COMFORT BED AND BREAKFAST
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- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 5 tbsp melted butter
- 1 cup whole -milk ricotta
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 eggs separated
- Zest of 2 lemons
- Butter for spreading
- 1 pint strawberries, sliced
- Maple syrup
- powdered sugar
These pancakes are light and airy.
Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl. In another bowl, whisk together the melted butter, ricotta, milk, egg yolks, and lemon zest.
Combine the wet ingredients with the dry. Beat the egg whites until they hold a soft peak and fold them into the batter.
Tips to make good pancakes There are a few simple rules to follow to ensure that you will have excellent pancakes every time. Always mix the dry ingredients first. Mix wet ingredients separately and then fold into the dry. Do not over mix the batter or your pancakes will be tough. Mix until the ingredients are just barely combined. Heat your pan or griddle on high than reduce to medium-high. Put a few teaspoons of butter in the hot pan and melt it, coating the pan. Ladle the batter into the pan, about 1/2 cup for each cake, resist flipping the cakes until bubbles form on the top. Flip the cakes and cook 1 to 1/2 minutes more until they are set.


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Family: Icteridae, Blackbirds and Orioles view all from this family
Description ADULT BREEDING MALE Has blackish plumage overall with a green sheen in good light. ADULT NONBREEDING MALE Has rusty brown feather edges over much of body, which slowly wear away such that plumage is usually pristine black by late winter. ADULT BREEDING FEMALE Dark gray-brown overall, darkest on wings and tail. ADULT NONBREEDING FEMALE Has rusty brown edges to many feathers; color is particularly striking on head (where supercilium contrasts with darker eyestripe), back, and tertials. IMMATURES Similar to respective-sex winter adults.
Dimensions Length: 9" (23 cm)
Habitat A wet woodland species. Favors northern and taiga forests for breeding (present there mainly May-Sep). Winters in southeastern U.S. Formerly common, but now threatened: numbers have declined catastrophically in recent decades.
Observation Tips Breeding grounds are hard to access, so easiest to see in winter.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, Northwest, Western Canada, California, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Eastern Canada, New England, Alaska, Rocky Mountains, Texas, Southwest
Voice Song is a series of gurgling chatters (recalling a distant flock of European Starlings) followed by a breezy whistle; call is a soft tchuk.
Discussion Pale-eyed blackbird with a slender bill. Named after rusty feather margins seen in fall and early winter. Sexes are dissimilar.


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I've never had as much respect for the CrackMponky as I do now !
God bless you, sir.
(You folks should read this shit)
- Eugene
I've never had as much respect for the CrackMponky as I do now !
God bless you, sir.
(You folks should read this shit)
- Eugene
I been thinkin', I been drinkin'.
Who the hell are all you people ?
Love you!
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Master ?
Master Baiter, Damnit !
Who dared to elvevate me certs, after all these years ?
I wanted to continue the journey !
See also, openfiler ...
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Love you !
ARRRgh !!!
Such amusements me life is made up of, for we be sooo blessed every day.
Hmmm, Oracle RMAN and rapid recovery of VLDBs running on NetApp FAS storage. Large scale deployment of VMware instances with thin provisiong in a CIFS environment.
An Army of One. Be All You Can Be.
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Go Farther, Faster...
P.S. Where's the free software ???
OpenFiler, Linux, BSD, Nagios, MRTG, DNS, SMTP.
Ain't life grand ?
I'm having a good time, how 'bout you ?
(If I realy loved you, I'd add links...)
Luke - I couldn't be safer any other place. I'd come visit 'ya, but they might arrest me again for that ! Thank you for the link to the Mod Challenge. I wrote to Susan that it seems you always come up with threads that interest me.
I'm currently teaching as Guest Faculty at the US Army School of Information Technology at Ft Gordon, GA...
Latest sabatical is over, back to work again.
New gig is teaching NetApp courses.
Went to Eclipse this morning to review the Aperi Storage Management Project.
I was surfing over to SourceForge this evening to take a look at FGL.
I couldn't help noticing something at the bottom of the page, under top downloads:
As much as companies like MediaSentry and MediaDefender, never mind the RIAA and MPAA might like to wish otherwise, p2p keeps growing.
Three of the current top five downloads at SourceForge are p2p apps - eMule, Ares Galaxy, and Azureus
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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New flags! I want it, I want it, I want it! Me, me, me, me!
New flags! I want it, I want it, I want it! Me, me, me, me!
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
This is probably a shot in the dark, but is there any possibility the TF: Prime wheeljack will be out before the end of the month? Still have that Tf coupon handy. He looks really awesome
JT, you would have mentioned it if they had the Mandalorian transport vehicle, right?
Also, where are the Deluxe and HA Soundwave figures, already? (And Que...I guess).
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Saw the 2012 version of SW "Battle Packs" for the first time at Montebello TRU yesterday and was appalled. I'm far from a completist and the figures are essentially all repacks that don't pique my interest, but I was still stunned. The price for 3 figures was $26.99 and the sets were blister carded - fewer figures, less packaging, higher price. I'm not against positive change and I'm definitely in favor of less packaging. I was disappointed when the Battle Packs dropped from 5 to 4 figures, but to have the audacity to call 3 figures a battle? Maybe a skirmish or a raid or a stand off, but a battle? Next seems sure to be figures of lesser articulation and quality (I seem to recall a discussion on making figures in the vintage, Kenner-esque, barely articulated vein). Those figures seem bound to come at a premium price. After the past couple of years, I guess the SW Yu-Gi-Oh (?) style card game is here to stay. I respect Hasbro trying to expand the market for figures, but I doubt a plastic die, cumbersome stands, and a few cards add so much cost. I know Hasbro will tout the cost of material (primarily petroleum based plastic, but oil prices are at roughly the same prices as they were in 2008 - hovering around $100 - cheaper in fact from their peak of that year at around $150 a barrel). When oil dipped to around $50 and stayed in that range for about a year, figure prices remained consistent. Yes, other costs are sure to be claimed, but I wonder how Hasbro sees its collector base. We absorb every price increase they send our way without much complaint. Does Hasbro feel we have no ceiling or will they just continue to grow the price until the collector base abandons them and moms/kids outgrow an increasingly expensive past time? Where will that leave the line then, as an overpriced (though I'm guilty of owning one from the beginning) subscription a la MOTUC and soon to be non-movie related GI Joe? Who knows? Anyway, rant over.
Finally saw the new TRU Phantom Menace display. I have to say, having walked away from all Hasbro collecting 3+ years ago, this new packaging is awesome and the figures are very impressive. It's hard to believe how crappy the TAC/Legends cards looked when you see the new Darth Maul designs.
At Toys R Us, I got 3 Ratts Tyrells, since the rest of the figures I ordered at TRU.com could not include him as they mistakenly didn't offer him.
I thought about improving the paint apps on my Queen figures I bought in my mail-order, but I've already opened one Padme from that blind order since I just couldn't wait to complete my diorama of Nute's capture / Palpatine's arrival on Naboo.
I also bough the Clone Trooper battle pack.
I wanted Cut-Up for my Kamino Training diorama, and I can use the Bomb Squad Guy as the commander of Cody's clones and otherwise occupy my Cody figures.
I will find something to do with Hardcase, no doubt.
So I got 6 useful figures (including the battlepack's 3) for $8 a piece with Toys R U's B2G1F sale.
Not bad. I'm DONE with figures for likely some while now, until the Wal-Mart exclusive figures come out - if they aren't some ridiculous price.
All I know I'm currently looking for from SW is the Mandalorian Transport vehicle - unless some of the min-rigs like the Y-wing style one is released in my vicinity.
For Transformers, I'm interested in any non-Cyberverse Soundwave DOTM figures, and Deluxe Leadfoot. Maybe Deluxe Que.
A friend is selling a large collection of Playmates Star Trek figures from the 5 3/4 all-plastic-carded collection of the '90s and I am making a large cherry-picked purchase from it.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.


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WEX: Devices and Media - SDET
The title of this blog post is the official team I'll be joining next May at Microsoft as an Intern (and hopefully fulltime after that). It turned out that after my interviews at the beginning of November, each team expressed interest in having me join their teams (I didn't really think they all would).
The teams I'd chosen to interview with before I flew up were FNO (Find and Organize), CoreUX, and DNM (Devices & Media). Originally my interests in each group were roughly in the aforementioned order. That is I was most interested in working for FNO and least interested in DNM. As I spent more time learning about DNM and what they do, it became apparent that I'd learn more there than I would in any other group.
Each group was interesting in its own ways. FNO has a very young group of developers and is a very high energy group. They own the Explorer and Desktop interfaces with anything that has to do with file manipulation included in that. They also own the indexing service used for desktop search. Had I chosen to work with that group, I probably would have tried to get in on the indexing side of things. Its a lot of coding (what I like) and its at the core of my interest in that group.
CoreUX on the other hand owns the start/taskbar, the window framing, sidebar, and so on. Things that make Windows look like… well Windows. The team members I met with were all very encouraging and a group of really interesting individuals. Their manager, John Cable, was the guy I interviewed with during my first round interviews and was indispensible to me through the whole process in helping me make decisions about my time with Microsoft.
Finally, DNM manages the pipelines that serve up audio/video to the screen and speakers, interfacing with devices like the Zune, cellphones, bluetooth devices and things like the Roku (look it up, its sweet). They are a "foundation" team, meaning that a lot of other groups in WEX build on top of what they provide. For example, CoreUX is in control of Windows Media Player which has to use the media technologies supported/owned by DNM. This type of exposure to different technologies inside Microsoft as well as outside (like Roku) is what attracts me to the team. They get a lot of face time with a lot of products which means there will never be too little for me to learn.
Since I will be at Microsoft to learn, I figure picking a group like DNM is a good way to learn a lot. Thats not to say I wouldn't learn anything in the other groups. I just feel that at the point that I am now with my education, my weakest points are in the areas that DNM is focused and in the end would provide me with the most "bang for my/their buck" in my time at Microsoft. Hopefully that time will be a long time as the culture is very attractive.


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I have some questions regarding porting HLSL to GLSL :
1. Regarding the HLSL shader framework I have , I have large structs
with member variables which use semantics such as Color Color1 Vpos Vface Texcoord[N] and Texcoord[N]_centroid...
As I understand , there are no semantics in GLSL , but built-in variables such gl_fragColor and so on.
So my question is that what woud you suggest to port those structs with variables using semantics ?
Shall I make member variables with semantics global or are there any other ways you could suggest ?
2. I can`t use `location` qualifier and `centroid in/out` qualifier at the same time
I can have a struct like :
out struct test { centroid in float red; layout(location = 1) float green; layout(location = 2) float blue; } ;
but I cant have :
out struct test { layout(location = 0) centroid in float red; layout(location = 1) float green; layout(location = 2) float blue; } ;
The compiler says : `Location can be set only once `
On the other hand I can use `centroid in/out` qualifier together with location qualifier for a variable :
layout(location = 0) centroid out float t1;
So how can I use the centroid in/out qualifier at the same time with a location qualifier
for a struct member ?
3. I am trying to understand the difference between a struct and an interface block( in/out/uniform ).
I guess you can just create one instance of an interface so they will be just a set of global variables ?


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I'm trying to do some light editing for .avi files. Nothing fancy, just cutting, copying and pasting certain of the video around to other videos, and maybe posting a youtube video somewhere within.
The only program I know how to do this with is Windows Movie Maker, but it works really slow. I want something similar to it, easy to operate, that works much faster.
What is the -easiest- program I can find that enables me to do this without too much difficulty?
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The slowness could be due to the codec you are using. If you convert your sources to a fast lossless codec, like UTVideo, you might experience better performance. The file size will be much larger but it's usually worth the hassle.
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Re: Video editing program
You can try to use AV Video Morpher (search it on google)
This software can play video in AVI and support you cut and edit video
You can make your own video clips more easily
I think it's helpful for your purpose
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This software can play video in AVI and support you cut and edit video
You can make your own video clips more easily
I think it's helpful for your purpose
Good luck!
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Maybe Smartpixel Producer suitable for your requirement, It is easy to use.
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Sony Vegas or Adobe premiere are the next logical step up.
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Binghamton University offers translation technologies workshop
Deborah Folaron, language and translation studies expert, will lead a "Translation and Up-to-Date Technologies" workshop at Binghamton University, June 21 - 22. The two-day workshop will offer hands-on experience with translation software and explore the various tasks and skills needed to translate and localize a product for the multilingual, international market.
Through seven hours of intensive and interactive class work, participants will receive experience in project management, terminology and graphics management, documentation, CAT (computer assistant translation) tool use and quality assurance procedures.
Folaron, an adjunct assistant professor in the translation studies certificate program at New York University, has developed and instructed a variety of online translation courses. She obtained a doctoral degree from Binghamton University in 1999 and has extensive work experience as a project manager and in-house and freelance translator. Currently, Folaron is the Language and Technology Manager at Eriksen Translations of New York, New York, and serves as the Program Director for the New York Circle of Translators.
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Been a while since I posted. Quite a lot has happened. I had been searching for a perm job for a while because I wanted to get out of software consulting - it is a hard way to live. I recently moved from Nova Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia to take a job with a wonderful company. But the catch is that my wife is remaining behind until she graduates from art school.
It's been quite an experience. I've been writing about it in The Vancouver Diaries. My new blog is all hand-coded static HTML pages - not a web application - but with the help of CPAN's XML::RSS::FromHTML, a couple days ago I was able to add an RSS feed for it. Behold:
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Well, I guess I never really got around to updating this.
I also never found an open source project that someone of my abilities could work on.
On a personal note, since I made my first entry in July 2002 I have managed to overcome depression and I am now a straight A student, and during that time programming somehow took a backseat to getting my act together.
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This post was written by Saranya Kapur.
Shares of Franklin Resources (BEN) fell 1.3% in recent trading, despite third-quarter earnings per share a penny ahead of analysts' estimates.
The global asset manager's earnings beat expectations with earnings up nearly 20% year-on-year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter ended June 30th were 86 cents. Franklin announced a 3-for-1 stock split last month, and all earnings data reflect this. The company's shares have been up 16% this year, but pared gains today, falling more than 1% in recent trading.
The beat was driven by a growth in -management fees increasing 18% to $1.32 billion and an overall increase in operating revenue, which rose 17% to $2.08 billion. BEN's net new asset flows were up to $8.4 billion this quarter, driven largely by strong growth in demand for the company's global fixed income objectives, which offset net outflows from their global equity strategies and a meager $1 billion growth in US fixed-income strategies.
Sterne Agee analysts kept its Neutral position on BEN. Jefferies analyst Daniel Fannon writes: "BEN reported F3Q13 GAAP EPS of $0.86, which was slightly below our split adjusted estimate of $0.88, but above consensus of $0.85. Operating income was +$6.0B above our estimate with tax rate and other income representing the primary variances. After a difficult June for BEN and the industry, management on its pre-recorded call highlighted slowing redemption trends in July."
Franklin Mutual Advisers, the mutual fund arm of Franklin Resources is also one of the largest institutional shareholders of Dell (DELL), with a nearly 2% stake in the company, and has voted against Dell's buyout by Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.


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Watching the news and every weekend they put his cluless whore on the air that says a bunch of nothing democrat crap!!!! She is an idiot!!!!
She thinks that it is ok for the gov't to claim a created job at the cost of 500,000
for a 20,000 job.
SHe has no clue and is an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It is entirely legal as both of these species are not-native to the USA.
Is there a law that makes it explicitly legal to make traps for non-native species? Or is it just not forbidden?
Texas has spelled out which are and aren't protected...http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/rehab/protected/I can certainly understand starlings and sparrows being on the non-protected list. They are a serious problem here.I wonder what a "feral pigeon" is?
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This is how Wikipedia describes NP-complete problems:
In computational complexity theory, the complexity class NP-complete (abbreviated NP-C or NPC) is a class of decision problems. A decision problem L is NP-complete if it is in the set of NP problems so that any given solution to the decision problem can be verified in polynomial-time, and also in the set of NP-hard problems so that any NP problem can be converted into L by a transformation of the inputs in polynomial-time.Note that it says, "As a consequence, determining whether or not it is possible to solve these problems quickly, called the P versus NP problem, is one of the principal unsolved problems in computer science today." I haven't seen the proof for it, but I've also heard that if you could prove that one NP-complete problem does not have a polynomial-time solution to it, then that would prove that none of them have a polynomial-time solution to them. The theory is a little over my head, but I'm going to take a shot.
Although any given solution to such a problem can be verified quickly, there is no known efficient way to locate a solution in the first place; indeed, the most notable characteristic of NP-complete problems is that no fast solution to them is known. That is, the time required to solve the problem using any currently known algorithm increases very quickly as the size of the problem grows. As a result, the time required to solve even moderately large versions of many of these problems easily reaches into the billions or trillions of years, using any amount of computing power available today. As a consequence, determining whether or not it is possible to solve these problems quickly, called the P versus NP problem, is one of the principal unsolved problems in computer science today.
While a method for computing the solutions to NP-complete problems using a reasonable amount of time remains undiscovered, computer scientists and programmers still frequently encounter NP-complete problems. NP-complete problems are often addressed by using approximation algorithms.
I'd like to propose a problem that is NP-complete and show that it does not have a polynomial-time solution to it. Imagine I pick an n-tuple of random 32-bit, unsigned integers. Your job is guess what the n-tuple is. Hence, where n is 2, I might pick (376, 792), and your job is to guess that tuple. If you guess a certain tuple, I can tell you whether you're right or not. Hence, I can verify a solution in polynomial-time (it takes me O(n) number of int comparisons to verify a solution). However, to try to solve such a problem, you either have to get really lucky or you have to brute force it. If you find a method other than brute force trying every possible solution, then obviously there's something wrong with my random number generator. To use brute force to guess the solution requires O(A^n) for some constant A. Since it's "to the n", it's not polynomial-time (3nA^3 is polynomial-time since the exponent is fixed; A^n is not polynomial-time since the exponent varies with the size of n).
Now I know that some of you reading this understand the computer science a lot better than I do. Have I actually shown (at least informally) that NP-complete problems are really NP-complete? If not, can you, in lay man's terms explain what I'm misunderstanding? Thanks!


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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Dumb Car Salesmen = Dumb Darlington?
Dominating the east side of the inner ring road right now is this sales promotion at the Evans Halshaw Ford salerooms.
It seems that bad English doesn't enter into it when you have all that money to spend on selling tin cans. With Evans Halshaw boldly going where Station Taxi's went before, we are rapidly becoming a town oversaturated with surplus apostrophes.
But then again, why complain. Thi's i's freedom in practice. Wouldn't the cycle round the inner road be boring if it was devoid of adverti'sing, communi'st style? And anyway, the car indus'try really want's to encourage more cycling in Darlington. Hone'st. They are even spon'soring the local authority's new cycle network with a set of spanking new sign's.
So, happy New year to you all. And I look forward to seeing you driving your kid's to s'chool in your new Mondeo's, Vectra's and Scenic's in 2007.
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It looks like Darlingtons grocer's have been on retraining scheme's to become signwriter's
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Apparently, there's a permanent punctuation mistake somewhere in the Pedestrian Heart. Pop over to Nick Wallis' blog if you know what/where it is and you could win some mince pies!
I guessed at an apostrophe mistake, because of this post, and that's apparently close, but not specific enough.
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Mike McTimony can collect a pack of Darlington's finest mince pies if he calls in to The Health Warehouse on Post House Wynd on Saturday 23rd (or between Christmas and New Year 'til we run out of mincemeat!).
The names of some of the Yards are embedded into the stonework on High Row. Buckton's Yard is correctly spelt. Clark's Yard mysteriously has no identifying name. Mechanics' Yard, which presumably was named after a plurality of mechanics who worked there, should have an apostrophe after the 's' but actually does not have one at all. Grrr!!!
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Well, they don't think they have jurisdiction over foreign individuals. But they do have jurisdiction over the company holding the data - and quite possibly over the physical server itself (if it is in an american data centre).


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I'm currently serving as co-chair of the Diversity Council for the division of Alumni Affairs and Development as part of Cornell's Toward New Destinations initiative: http://diversity.cornell.edu/commitment-to-inclusion
I held the inaugural prospect management position at Cornell University, transferring several years of related experience into the pivot office that provided leadership and change management as the organization moved from a mid-size centralized model to a large hybrid model. I manages the prospect management functions of a 75-officer major gifts program with over 10,000 prospects under management. In my role, I chose which prospects would be managed by our major and principal gift programs, and identify which part of the institution will do the management. I collaborates with executive leadership in the development of policies and procedures, and provided training as appropriate. I provided reporting and analysis for development staff and executive leadership to maintain the health of our major gifts program.
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After the Lehman Brothers crisis, Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve demonstrated creativity and nerve. Unfortunately, that reputation is no longer justified. Today's Fed confronts slowing growth, high unemployment and well-anchored inflation expectations. And yet it hesitates. Paradoxically, its image as a risk-taker inhibits its ability to be genuinely bold.
Back in 2008-09, the Fed took real risks with its balance sheet – risks that private actors shunned. It bought portfolios of toxic securities. It lent to manufacturers. It backstopped money-market funds. But today the Fed's supposedly audacious "unconventional policies" consist of buying Treasury securities. These are the safest possible instruments and there is no shortage of private actors lining up to buy them. Prices are screaming out this message. Interest rates on 10-year Treasuries are at a record low.
Because of Mr Bernanke's reputation for boldness, he is frequently accused of creating money wildly. When he appeared last week before Congress, he was rebuked by Republicans for his presumed recklessness, while Democrats appeared to feel he was pushing policy as far as he could. But there is nothing particularly wild about the Fed's money printing. Its purpose is merely to effect a change in private balance sheets. Banks sell their Treasuries to the Fed in exchange for newly minted dollars (in the case of quantitative easing) or for shorter-term government securities (in the case of the current Operation Twist). Given that risk-free government securities are treated as cash equivalents by financial institutions, this is not radical.
Most assessments of quantitative easing find that it has worked. In May, a paper by two Federal Reserve Board economists calculated that the Fed's asset purchases had lowered 10-year Treasury rates by 1 percentage point. Last year the San Francisco Fed estimated, a bit heroically, that output might be 3 per cent higher at the end of 2012 than it would have been otherwise. But these positive verdicts conceal a less uplifting message. The first round of quantitative easing was most powerful – it was the largest, and its novelty inspired shock and awe. The second round, from November 2010 to June 2011, was less effective. The current Operation Twist is the limpest of all.
Unless the Fed can rekindle the shock value of the first round, more quantitative easing is unlikely to work. Success depends on a whole range of actors deciding that the Fed is determined to accelerate recovery rather than repeat a tired trick that they have seen before. Banks, having sold Treasuries, must choose to reinvest the proceeds in riskier assets rather than just adding to their huge cash piles. Corporations, facing lower borrowing costs, must resolve that this is the moment to invest. Consumers, seeing rising stock and bond markets, must summon the confidence to spend. If the Fed won't take the risk of going beyond what it has tried already, private actors won't take risks either. Monetary policy is like faith healing. The patient must believe.
Quantitative easing that fails to spark risk-taking could actually make things worse. A Fed that is both active and ineffectual is the worst thing for confidence, and indefinite purchases of Treasuries threaten to upset the way markets work. As the IMF's Manmohan Singh argues, the Fed's appetite for safe assets is draining the financial system of an essential lubricant. Traders use Treasuries as downpayments on derivatives positions; investment funds use them as collateral when they borrow. Because Treasuries circulate so rapidly through the financial system, Mr Singh suggests that $1m of them in private hands will stimulate more growth than $1m of cash.
And so the Fed faces a dilemma. With inflation below target and unemployment far above the neutral rate, there is a clear case for stimulus. But the familiar tools of stimulus seem unlikely to work. So the markets expect next week's Fed policy meeting to produce more equivocation. The better way forward would be to come up with new tools.
One possible measure is to cancel interest on excess reserves. At present, the Fed pays 25 basis points to banks that deposit cash with it, a perverse reward for keeping money inert. Eliminating that incentive might steer cash into the real economy. But it would also drive cash into the money markets, where returns would soon fall to zero or lower. Money market funds would be hard-pressed to avoid breaking the buck again. Panic might follow.
That leaves a second option: the Fed could couple more quantitative easing with a formal announcement of a higher inflation target. Some Fed leaders are open to this. Charles Evans, the Chicago Fed president, has floated the idea of a 3 per cent target, effective until unemployment falls below 7 per cent. A higher inflation target would lead markets to understand the Fed is committed to quantitative easing of game-changing magnitude, inducing the behavioural shifts needed to make the policy succeed. Financiers would embrace risk assets rather than safe ones with real returns that would be clearly negative. Companies, expecting more growth, would step up investments. Consumers, seeing the real value of their debts eroding, would probably spend more.
The Bernanke Fed has been pilloried for pursuing wild quantitative easing at the risk of inflation. The truth is that it has pursued cautious quantitative easing without risking inflation. The time has come for some fresh thinking. A Fed that can escape the myth of its audacity might be able to do more.
The writer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an FT contributing editor
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