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BY JOHN B. TAYLOR AND PAUL D. RYAN, Investor's Business Daily
The Federal Reserve's recent announcement that it will purchase $600 billion in Treasury securities has ignited a firestorm of criticism, opening a much-needed debate over the central bank's proper role in economic policy decisions. We share the concerns that many economists and policymakers have expressed about the Fed's decision to act.
The Fed's recent departures from rules-based monetary policy have increased economic instability and endangered the central bank's independence. It is time for common-sense reforms that refocus the Fed on sound monetary policy and remove it from contentious political debates over what policies are best to achieve other national goals.
Policymakers in Washington must recommit to laying the foundations for economic prosperity. Low and equitable taxes, reasonable and predictable regulations, restrained and responsible spending, and sound and honest money are the indispensable cornerstones of sustained economic growth and job creation.
By rejecting Washington's tax, spend and borrow agenda, American voters took a critical step this November toward returning these foundational principles to the center of our fiscal policy debates. But we must also realign our monetary policy if we are to achieve lasting prosperity.
Nearly a century ago, Congress established the Federal Reserve as an independent central bank with the power to control the supply of money and thereby achieve price stability. The administration of monetary policy was rightly quarantined away from legislative deliberations on tax and spending policies.
Yet in the 1970s, Congress endangered the Fed's independence by tasking it with a dual mission: that of promoting "maximum employment," in addition to maintaining "stable prices." This dual mandate placed the central bank in the middle of heated political debates over economic and fiscal issues.
The Fed's latest unconventional program — commonly called quantitative easing 2, or "QE2" — follows last year's unusual interventions (now known as "QE1"), in which the Fed bought not only large amounts of Treasury securities but also securities backed by private mortgages.
Quantitative easing is part of a recent Fed trend toward discretionary and away from rules-based monetary actions. The consequences of this trend are clear: The Fed's decision to hold interest rates too low for too long from 2002 to 2004 exacerbated the formation of the housing bubble. And while the Fed did help to arrest the ensuing panic in the fall of 2008, its subsequent interventions have done more long-run harm than good.
QE1 failed to strengthen the economy, which has remained in a high-unemployment, low-growth slump, and there is no convincing evidence that QE2 will help either. On the contrary, QE2 will create more economic uncertainty, stemming mainly from reasonable doubts over whether the Fed will know exactly when and how to contract its balance sheet after such an unprecedented expansion.
If the money created to finance these asset purchases is not withdrawn in an expedient and predictable manner, the Fed risks higher inflation and a depreciated currency. On the other hand, exiting these programs too abruptly would also disrupt the economy.
Those economists who believe these risks are worth taking argue that the trillion dollars Congress spent on short-term stimulus bills was not enough, and that the Fed must now step into the breach.
While consistent with the "sugar-high economics" practiced in Washington of late, quantitative easing marks a further departure from the foundations for prosperity and another step toward an increasingly politicized central bank.
QE1 involved the Fed in areas of fiscal policy, such as credit allocation, that are properly (and constitutionally) the domain of Congress. QE2 would double down on these expansions, as the planned purchases of Treasury securities would constitute a large fraction of soon-to-be-issued federal debt.
This looks an awful lot like an attempt to bail out fiscal policy, and such attempts call the Fed's independence into question.
For all of these reasons, Congress should reform the Federal Reserve Act, particularly the section of the act that establishes the Fed's dual mandate. The Fed should be tasked with the single goal of long-run price stability within a clear framework of overall economic stability. Such a reform would not prevent the Fed from providing liquidity, serving as lender of last resort, or cutting interest rates in a financial crisis or a recession.
Experience shows that a focus on price stability is the surest way for monetary policy to lay the groundwork for strong economic growth. The 1980s and 1990s had better economic performance than the stagflationary 1970s in part because the Fed did not waver from its primary goal of checking inflation.
Advocates of aggressive Fed interventions cite the "maximum employment" aspect of the Fed's dual mandate. But such interventions force Fed policymakers to try to steer a middle course between inconsistent goals, which unintentionally leads to lower employment and higher interest rates.
Fed intervention is a poor substitute for sound fiscal policy. The central bank should be taken off this particular beat.
Congress should also amend the act so that it once again requires the Fed chairman to report on, and be accountable for, the Fed's strategy for monetary policy in writing and in public hearings before Congress. These reporting and accountability requirements were removed from the Act in 2000. They should be restored and strengthened.
In particular, the Fed should explicitly publish and follow a monetary rule as its means to achieve price stability. Such a rule should include, among other things: greater simplicity; a description of interest-rate responses to economic developments including how the Fed will achieve those responses through money growth; and greater attention to commodity prices, including food and energy, as opposed to a myopic overemphasis on core inflation.
Within the context of crisis conditions, the Fed should have the discretion to deviate from its strategy of rule. However, it should have to promptly report to Congress and to the public on the reasons for the deviation.
Establishing a goal of long-term price stability within a framework of economic stability, including clear reporting and accountability requirements, would lay the monetary foundation for strong and sustained economic growth and job creation. Strong foundations, not short-term quick fixes, are required if we are to rebuild a prosperous United States.
Taylor is a professor of economics at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Stanford's Hoover Institution.
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The Platters | |
Background information | |
Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Genres | Rhythm and blues, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop |
Years active | 1954 to 1970 (original band) 1970 to present |
Labels | Federal Records, Mercury, Musicor Records, Antler Records |
Members | See: Current lineups |
Past members | See: Former members |
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The Platters | |
Background information | |
Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Genres | Rhythm and blues, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop |
Years active | 1954 to 1970 (original band) 1970 to present |
Labels | Federal Records, Mercury, Musicor Records, Antler Records |
Members | See: Current lineups |
Past members | See: Former members |
The Platters were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre. The act went through several personnel changes, with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi, Herb Reed, and Zola Taylor. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967, including four no. 1 hits.
The Platters formed in Los Angeles in 1952[1] and were initially managed by Ralph Bass. The original group included (Alex Hodge, Cornell Gunter, David Lynch, Joe Jefferson, Gaynel Hodge and Herb Reed).[2] Reed is credited with creating the group's name.[3] In June 1953, Gunter was replaced by lead vocalist Tony Williams. The band then released two singles with Federal Records, under the management of Bass, but found little success. The band then met music entrepreneur and songwriter Buck Ram. Ram made some changes to the lineup, most notably the addition of female vocalist Zola Taylor; later, Hodge was replaced by Paul Robi. Under Ram's guidance, the Platters recorded eight songs for Federal in the R&B/gospel style, scoring a few minor regional hits on the West Coast, and backed Williams' sister, Linda Hayes. One song recorded during their Federal tenure, "Only You (And You Alone)," originally written by Ram[4] for the Ink Spots, was deemed unreleasable by the label,[5] though copies of this early version do exist.
Despite their lack of chart success, the Platters were a profitable touring group, successful enough that The Penguins, coming off their #8 single "Earth Angel," asked Ram to manage them as well. With the Penguins in hand, Ram was able to parlay Mercury Records' interest into a 2-for-1 deal. To sign the Penguins, Ram insisted, Mercury also had to take the Platters.[4] The Penguins would never have a hit for the label.[6]
Convinced by Jean Bennett and Tony Williams that "Only You" had potential, Ram had the Platters re-record the song during their first session for Mercury. Released in the summer of 1955, it became the group's first Top Ten hit on the pop charts and topped the R&B charts for seven weeks. The follow-up, "The Great Pretender," with lyrics written in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas by Buck Ram,[4] exceeded the success of their debut and became the Platters' first national #1 hit. "The Great Pretender" was also the act's biggest R&B hit, with an 11-week run atop that chart. In 1956, The Platters appeared in the first major motion picture based around rock and roll, Rock Around the Clock, and performed both "Only You" and "The Great Pretender."[7]
The Platters' unique vocal style had touched a nerve in the music-buying public, and a string of hit singles followed, including three more national #1 hits and more modest chart successes such as "I'm Sorry" (#11) and "He's Mine" (#23) in 1957, "Enchanted" (#12) in 1959, and "The Magic Touch"[4] (#4) in 1956. The Platters soon hit upon the successful formula of updating older standards, such as "My Prayer,"[4] "Twilight Time," "Harbor Lights," "To Each His Own," "If I Didn't Care," and Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."[8] This latter release caused a small controversy after Kern's widow expressed concern that her late husband's composition would be turned into a "rock and roll" record. It topped both the American and British charts in a Platters-style arrangement.
The Platters also differed from most other groups of the era because Ram had the group incorporated in 1956. Each member of the group received a 20% share in the stock, full royalties, and their Social Security was paid. As group members left one by one, Ram and his business partner, Jean Bennett, bought their stock which they claimed gave them ownership of the "Platters" name. A court later ruled, however, that "FPI was a sham used by Mr. Ram to obtain ownership in the name 'Platters,' and FPI's issuance of stock to the group members was 'illegal and void' because it violated California corporate securities law." [9]
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in its inaugural year of 1998. The Platters were the first rock and roll group to have a Top Ten album in America. They were also the only act to have three songs included on the American Graffiti soundtrack that fueled an oldies revival already underway in the early to mid-1970s: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "The Great Pretender," and "Only You (and You Alone)."
The group's original lineup has changed many times. The lineup in 1953 included lead vocalist Cornell Gunter, Herb Reed, Alex Hodge, Joe Jefferson, and David Lynch. This lineup changed when the group signed with Ram, who built the group around tenor Tony Williams' distinctive and versatile voice and his ability to bring life to Ram's songs.[8] Within a year, Hodge, Jefferson and Gunter were out and Paul Robi, new lead Williams, and a female, Zola Taylor, were in. The details of baritone Hodge's departure are muddy; author Peter A. Grendysa says Hodge was fired by Ram in October 1954 after having been accused of possession of marijuana,[10] Bookers and the record company were told that Hodge was let go for bouncing a fifteen-dollar check.[11] The resulting lineup—the one remembered for the group's biggest and most lasting hits—lasted until 1960.
As a group, the Platters began to have difficulties with the public after 1959, when the four male members were arrested in Cincinnati on drug and prostitution charges. Reed said he lost contact with Taylor shortly after this time.[12] Although none was convicted, their professional reputation was seriously damaged and US radio stations started removing their records from playlists,[13] forcing the group to rely more heavily on European bookings.
In 1960, lead vocalist Williams left for a solo career, and was replaced by tenor Sonny Turner. Mercury refused to issue further Platters releases without Williams on lead vocals, provoking a lawsuit between the label and manager Ram. The label spent two years releasing old Williams-era material until the group's contract lapsed. Singer Jack Hammer, who co-wrote several songs including "Great Balls of Fire," also performed with the group.
As the group's lineup splintered further, endless wrangling over the lucrative "Platters" name began, with injunctions, non-compete clauses and multiple versions of the act touring at the same time. Williams would lead his own Platters group, as would Taylor (who left in 1964[14] to be replaced by Beverly Hansen Harris[15] and later by Barbara Randolph), and Paul Robi (who departed in 1965). The Buck Ram Platters had the strongest legal claim to the name. Since Ram had built the group to showcase his songs, he added his name to that of The Platters to distinguish his group from that of the off-shoots started by the original members. For a short while, original members Lynch, Taylor, and Robi billed themselves as "The Original Platters" with Williams-clone Johnny Barnes as their lead singer. Despite the confusion, Ram's Platters lineup, with lead vocalist Sonny Turner, Herb Reed, David Lynch, Nate Nelson (former lead voice of The Flamingos and replacement for Robi), and Sandra Dawn (who replaced Barbara Randolph in 1965),[16] signed to Musicor Records and enjoyed a short chart renaissance in 1966–67, with the comeback singles "I Love You 1000 Times," "With This Ring," and the Motown-influenced "Washed Ashore." Sonny Turner sang the lead on these three records.
Reed, the final member of the original Platters, resigned in 1969. He would eventually lead an "official" Platters group under license from The Five Platters, Inc. Nelson had left in 1967, and later worked with Reed's group until suffering a fatal heart attack in 1984. Dawn left in 1969 and was replaced by Regina Koco, who stayed with the group until 1983.[17]
After Reed left The Platters, Ram continued to promote his own "Platters" group.[18] Turner left in 1970 and was replaced by Monroe Powell. Turner led his own Platters group starting in 1970. Powell remained a constant member from 1970 to 1995, amid many other lineup changes. In 1995 a dispute between Powell and owner/manager Jean Bennett (who had purchased Personality Productions, the booking/management arm of The Platters business, from Ram in 1966) led to the two parting ways. At the time, the group's lineup was in limbo, leaving one person, Kenn Johnson, as the only other group member. Powell and Johnson continue touring as "The Platters," with Bennett hiring five new singers to be the "Buck Ram Platters," with lead Myles Savage.[19]
Despite Ram and Bennett's assertions, it was later determined that Five Platters Inc., and Jean Bennett never had legitimate rights to "The Platters" name.[20][21]
A profusion of legal challenges ensued among the many groups of Platters. Those looking to hear the classic lineup of songs had their pick of approved, disputed, and ersatz Platters, including Sonny Turner's, Zola Taylor's, Ritchie Jones' (member 1984-85), Milton Bullock's (member 1967–70), Paul Robi's (managed by his widow), Jean Bennett's "Buck Ram Platters," Monroe Powell's, Herb Reed's, and several other groups with no current ties to the original group. Many had once contained former members who were now retired or deceased.
Powell, who had been touring under the Platters name, was sued by Bennett for breach of contract. Bennett and Powell later reached an agreement that Powell would be able to tour, but only as "The Platters featuring Monroe Powell".[22] In 1994, Jean Bennett licensed the name to a tribute group for a show at the Sahara Casino in Las Vegas; that show ran for 15 years.
Shortly before Robi succumbed to pancreatic cancer on February 1, 1989, he won a long court battle against Ram's estate and was awarded compensation and the right to use The Platters' name. Those rights were stripped from Robi's widow in 1997, and the exclusive right to tour as "The Platters" was awarded to Reed. A series of rulings in 1999, 2002, and 2004 gave Bennett the common law right to the name. The 2002 case legally rescinded Reed's exclusive trademark rights, and the trademark was returned to The Five Platters, Inc. and Bennett.
In January 2006, Bennett sold her corporate Platters-related assets and intellectual property rights to the Las Vegas-based company G.E.M. Group, Inc. But there was an immediate disagreement between Bennett and G.E.M., which filed a lawsuit to attain certain corporate assets, Bennett's personal property and the assets of the 1950s Platters. In June 2006, G.E.M. entered into an agreement with Sonny Turner, who'd been the lead singer of The Platters from 1960 to 1970. Turner had not been able to bill himself as "The Platters" since 1972 due to a legal injunction. However, Turner later sued G.E.M.
In 2007, Reed discussed the abundance of touring Platters groups: "I have to laugh because when you ask me how I feel about it, I'm irate, I'm infuriated. ... I've lost 25 weeks of work a year."
None of the original Platters are still alive. Last founding member Reed died in June 2012 at 83.[19] Reed was the only group member to appear on every original Platters recording. Sonny Turner, who replaced Tony Williams in late 1959, is still alive and performing. Sonny brought The Platters back to the charts in 1966 with the hits, "I Love You 1000 Times", "With This Ring", and "Washed Ashore".[23]
In 2011, Herb Reed and his companies obtained judgments declaring that his rights to the name were superior to others, including Five Platters Inc. and Jean Bennett.[24] In March 2014, Herb Reed's companies were granted a judgment finidng they had superior rights to the name "The Platters" over Larry Marshak and his companies, who claimed to have received rights through FPI and/or Tony Williams [25] In April 2014, Reed's company obtained a judgment againt The World Famous Platters requiring them to identify themselves as a "Tribute to The Platters" or a "Salute To The Platters."[26]
In June 2014, Herb Reed's companies obtained a judgment against former singer Monroe Powell for trademark infringement. The Nevada district court granted Mr. Reed summary judgment, awarding him over $59,000 in damages (from US and international tour performances) and permanent injunctive relief, preventing Mr. Powell from using "The Platters" name without using the words "tribute" or "salute." [27][28]
Various line-ups using The Platters' name toured concurrently since the 1970s. The following are some of the groups that at one time or another called themselves The Platters.
Paul Robi's Platters
A detailed chronology of lineups can be seen here.[29]
Release date | Titles | Chart positions | Album | |||
US charts | US R&B chart | UK charts | Australia | |||
November 1954 | "Voo-Vee-Ah-Bee" b/w "Shake It Up Mambo" | The Platters (Federal LP) | ||||
January 1955 | "Maggie Doesn't Work Here Anymore "b/w "Take Me Back, Take Me Back" | |||||
July 1955 | "Only You (And You Alone)" b/w "Bark, Battle and Ball" (Non-LP track) | 5 | 1 | 5 | 19 | Encore of Golden Hits |
November 1955 | "The Great Pretender" b/w "I'm Just A Dancing Partner" (Non-LP track) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
December 1955 | "I Need You All The Time "b/w "Tell The World" | The Platters (Federal LP) | ||||
February 1956 | "(You've Got) The Magic Touch" b/w "Winner Take All" (Non-LP track) | 4 | 4 | 19 | Encore of Golden Hits | |
June 1956 | "My Prayer" / | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | The Platters (Mercury LP) |
June 1956 | "Heaven on Earth" | 39 | 13 | 41 | ||
August 1956 | "You'll Never Never Know" / | 11 | 9 | 23 | 18 | Non-LP tracks |
August 1956 | "It Isn't Right" | 13 | 10 | 23 | ||
November 1956 | "On My Word of Honor" / | 20 | 7 | The Platters (Mercury LP) | ||
November 1956 | "One in a Million" | 31 | 11 | 32 | Encore of Golden Hits | |
February 1957 | "I'm Sorry" / | 11 | 15 | 18 | The Platters (Mercury LP) | |
February 1957 | "He's Mine" | 16 | 5 | Non-LP track | ||
February 1957 | "My Dream" b/w "I Wanna" (from The Platters (Mercury LP)) | 24 | 7 | Encore of Golden Hits | ||
August 1957 | "Only Because" b/w "The Mystery Of You" (Non-LP track) | 65 | The Flying Platters | |||
December 1957 | "Helpless" b/w "Indiff'rent" | 56 | Non-LP tracks | |||
April 1958 | "Twilight Time" b/w "Out Of My Mind" (Non-LP track) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | The Flying Platters Around The World |
June 1958 | "You're Making a Mistake" b/w "My Old Flame" (from The Flying Platters Around The World) | 51 | Non-LP track | |||
September 1958 | "I Wish" / | 42 | More Encore of Golden Hits | |||
September 1958 | "It's Raining Outside" | 93 | The Flying Platters Around The World | |||
October 1958 | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" b/w "No Matter What You Are" (Non-LP track) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Remember When? |
February 1959 | "Enchanted" b/w "The Sound and The Fury" (from More Encore of Golden Hits) | 12 | 9 | 13 | Encore of Golden Hits | |
May 1959 | "Remember When" b/w "Love Of A Lifetime" (Non-LP track) | 41 | 25 | 62 | Remember When? | |
September 1959 | "Where" / | 44 | 66 | More Encore of Golden Hits | ||
September 1959 | "Wish It Were Me" | 61 | ||||
January 1960 | "Harbor Lights" / | 8 | 15 | 11 | 33 | Reflections |
January 1960 | "Sleepy Lagoon" | 65 | ||||
5/60 | "Ebb Tide" / | 56 | 59 | |||
5/60 | "(I'll Be With You) In Apple Blossom Time" | 102 | Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries | |||
8/60 | "Red Sails in the Sunset" b/w "Sad River" | 36 | 72 | Reflections | ||
10/60 | "To Each His Own" b/w "Down The River Of Golden Dreams" (from Reflections) | 21 | 57 | More Encore of Golden Hits | ||
1/61 | "If I Didn't Care" b/w "True Lover" (from Song For The Lonely) | 30 | 95 | Remember When? | ||
1961 | "Trees" b/w "Immortal Love" (from Song For The Lonely) | 62 | 98 | Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries | ||
7/61 | "I'll Never Smile Again" b/w "You Don't Say" (Non-LP track) | 25[30] | 17 | Remember When? | ||
12/61 | "You'll Never Know" / | 109 | Song For The Lonely | |||
11/61 | "Song For the Lonely" | 115 | ||||
1/62 | "It's Magic" b/w "Reaching For A Star" | 91 | ||||
5/62 | "More Than You Know" "b/w"Every Little Movement (Has Meaning All Its Own)" | Encore of Golden Broadway Hits | ||||
11/62 | "Heartbreak" b/w "Memories" (from The Platters Sing of Your Moonlight Memories) | Non-LP track | ||||
3/63 | "Once In A While" "b/w"I'll See You In My Dreams" | The Platters Sing of Your Moonlight Memories | ||||
6/63 | "Here Comes Heaven Again" "b/w"Strangers" | Non-LP tracks | ||||
6/64 | "P.S. I Love You" "b/w"Sincerely" | Encore of Golden Hits of The Groups | ||||
4/66 | "I Love You 1,000 Times" b/w "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil" (from Double Gold: The Best of The Platters) | 31 | 6 | I Love You 1,000 Times | ||
9/66 | "Devri" b/w "Alone In The Night (Without You)" | 111 | The Platters Have The Magic Touch | |||
11/66 | "I'll Be Home" b/w "(You've Got) The Magic Touch" (from The Platters Have The Magic Touch) | 97 | I Love You 1,000 Times | |||
2/67 | "With This Ring" b/w "If I Had A Love" (from I Love You 1,000 Times) | 14 | 12 | 100 | Going Back To Detroit | |
6/67 | "Washed Ashore" b/w "What Name Shall I Give You My Love" (early copies) "One In A Million" (later copies) (Both B-sides from The Platters Have The Magic Touch) | 56 | 29 | New Golden Hits | ||
10/67 | "Sweet, Sweet Lovin'" b/w "Sonata" | 70 | 32 | Sweet, Sweet Lovin' | ||
12/67 | "Love Must Go On" b/w "How Beautiful Our Love Is" (from Sweet, Sweet Lovin') | Going Back To Detroit | ||||
2/68 | "Think Before You Walk Away" b/w "So Many Tears" | I Get The Sweetest Feeling | ||||
8/68 | "Hard To Get a Thing Called Love" b/w "Why" | 125 | ||||
12/68 | "Fear Of Losing You" b/w "Sonata" |


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The Eastern United States, let alone New York City, may not be prone to earthquakes, but that doesn't mean we completely forgo seismology on the East Coast. Two of New York's best universities — Fordham and Columbia — have been abuzz with activity as seismologists labor to chart the data and study the effects of Tuesday's 5.8 earthquake that shook the city. Fordham actually houses New York State's oldest seismic station, with instruments dating back to the early 1900s. Housed in an underground structure made from Gothic stone, the station, shown above, is a bit of a relic in itself.
Fordham physics professor Benjamin C. Crooker supervises the university's William Spain Seismic Observatory, which was built in 1923. In an interview with the New York Times, Crooker could barely contain his excitement about the recent earthquake. "This was more motion than I've seen in the 16 years I've been doing this," he said.
The station's cylindrical steel seismometer confirmed that the Big Apple had experienced a 5.8 quake about nine seconds after 1:52 p.m. on August 23. The device is so sensitive that it can detect an earthquake of a 5.8 magnitude anywhere it occurs, but if that same strength quake were to hit New York City directly, the seismometer would likely be destroyed. According to legend, the observatory's older devices are so sensitive that the university used to use horses to cut the grass above the station rather than machinery.
Dr. Meredith Nettles, a seismologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said that while we rarely feel earthquakes in NYC, small quakes are often recorded by the seismic centers. In fact, earlier on Tuesday, a 2.2 earthquake was recorded just 15 miles outside of Albany. Any tremor recorded, especially a larger one like the 5.8, gives scientists important insight into the geology and underground layout beneath our city.
"While the quake took 1.2 seconds to travel the 6.2 miles between Central Park and Fordham, an additional 1.29 seconds passed during the 5.6-mile journey from Fordham to Palisades," write the New York Times. "Even subtle differences in travel time, Dr. Nettles said, can speak to the nature of rock or sediment beneath the surface."
While Tuesday's quake will definitely be remembered by New Yorkers, it was largely just a fleeting interruption to our daily lives. But it was most definitely a necessary reminder that just because we're not on the San Andreas Fault, doesn't mean we're immune to earthquakes. Perhaps that little shake was just what we needed to make the need for stronger buildings and safer nuclear plants become more real.
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Main Menu.
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Build suitable flat farmland for your followers
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The other deity offers his congratulations
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A recently released analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) of Department of Labor employment data finds that more states lost construction jobs in May 2012 than at any point since June 2011 as 30 states experienced annual job losses and 27 states and D.C. lost jobs during the past month. The weak state construction employment figures come as public investments in construction decline and the federal transportation program is at risk of shutting down on June 30, according to the AGC.
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Simonson notes only 19 states plus the District of Columbia added construction jobs between May 2011 and May 2012, while construction employment was stagnant in Kansas for the year. Montana added the highest percentage of new construction jobs for the year (15.2 percent, 3,400 jobs), followed by North Dakota (13.7 percent, 3,200 jobs) and Nebraska (10.6 percent, 4,400 jobs). Texas added the most new construction jobs (15,600 jobs, 2.8 percent), followed by California (11,700 jobs, 2.1 percent), Arizona (11,000, 10 percent) and Indiana (8,800 jobs, 7.5 percent).
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Mississippi had the steepest percentage decline among states that lost construction jobs for the month (-5.1 percent, -2,500 jobs), followed by Wyoming (-4.9 percent, -1,000 jobs) and Rhode Island (-3.9 percent, -600 jobs). New York had the largest number of job losses (-7,800 jobs, -2.5 percent) followed by North Carolina (-4,800 jobs, -2.7 percent), Maryland (-4,600 jobs, -3.2 percent) and Illinois (-4,600 jobs, -2.3 percent).
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Sex, violence and humiliation are recurrent themes in the animated films of Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg. Blood, sweat and tears are all in evidence—though made of the clay that is Djurberg's favoured medium. While she devises the plots and directs the animation of the short films, her partner Berg composes the accompanying music. After their first solo show in their native Sweden in 2004, the couple became known to a wider audience when Djurberg won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Their latest show, which features sculptures as well as the film Snakes Knows It's Yoga, is on until 1 May at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The couple met in Berlin, where they still live and work together.
The Art Newspaper: You recently began to print both your names on posters and invitations for exhibitions instead of only Nathalie's. Has the way you work together changed?Nathalie Djurberg: Hans is the only person I can work with. In school I couldn't even do team sports. He understands what I want without me having to explain much. It is impossible to separate the music from the work. Nothing has really changed in terms of how we work together. In fact it is almost embarrassing that his name was not included from the beginning.Hans Berg: It was also idleness on my part. Sometimes I would not be let in to a private viewND: No one said hello. Now his name is on the posters, they can't ignore him.Looking through the catalogue for your show at Prada in Milan in 2008 I was astonished by how many films you have made that I haven't seen, despite having followed your work for seven years. ND: That might be because I had never shown some of them before because I considered them failures. Sometimes I feel embarrassed about a film, but much later I grow to like it. Even Hans has not seen all of them.You started by doing simple animated drawings, then you began to work with clay, and in Venice you showed huge installations in which televisions were showing your films. Now you are exhibiting small sculptures without film in Rotterdam. ND: The reason for starting with animations was that I had a problem with letting a picture stand for itself, so I animated it. In animations everything—form, colour and subject—becomes quite natural. But as an artist you have to develop. Going three-dimensional is part of my development. But you still see film as your main medium?ND: Yes, but when I am tired of something I like to do something else and that's why I started working with sculptures. In the Hanover and Rotterdam exhibition the sculptures are not just taken out of the films, they stand for themselves. Do you still destroy the figures you make for your films?ND: Almost always. The collector Ingvild Goetz was the first one who bought figures produced for a film—Hungry Hungry Hippos in 2007. She really liked them and I thought they would work as sculptures.Recurrent topics in your films are self-hate, humiliation, sex, power and violence…HB: All the nice ones…ND: They inform the structures of power. It interests me how you can illustrate a global problem by looking at the private sphere. The structures of power look similar in families and in society as a whole. Evil interests me: the question of whether you choose to act in an evil way. If I had grown up in Nazi Germany, would I have become a Nazi or would I have hidden Jewish families in the cellar? It's easy to judge others without knowing how you yourself would have acted. But at some point we all have a choice; you must choose to be good or bad. The use of sex in your films is very ambivalent.ND: Sex is such an intense thing to use, but it can also refer to non-sexual relations.HB: The idea is to show structures of power—what is OK and what is shameful or wrong. Often one has the desire for something that is perhaps wrong.ND: The other day I saw a film about Isabella Rossellini on TV that interested me. She said that today sex is presented as something that is fantastic every time, but that she had never experienced it like that—sometimes one does not feel anything, sometimes it is fantastic, sometimes awkward, sometimes just painful. There is a whole spectrum. HB: Sex is so closely related to power and humiliation, to using somebody. So it's a useful symbol. But in your early film Tiger Licking Girl's Butt, 2004, sex seems to stand only for sex?HB: There is also a sub-context.Why we have the urge to do things over and over again appears to be a central question in that film. Clearly it relates to sex, but can also be applied to other things such as art. Why do you have the urge to do things over and over again?ND: I did make that film several times, in fact. When I started it I was quite young and socially inexperienced. At that time the film was only about one thing: sexuality. Then I did it again. I became conscious there was something driving me. I often come back to the question of why I have to do things again and again? Repetition interests me.An almost perfectionist aesthetic is characteristic of the works of some of the biggest names in art today—Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand and many others. You are kind of the opposite: your clay figures are far from perfectly made?ND: It's all about control. I do everything myself, and I have full control over the whole artistic process. The material contributes to the topics the films deal with. I don't see why I should use a computer when I can do it by hand. I couldn't use actors because I would lose some control. It is me playing the role of all the figures. If you look at a film about rape, I am acting as the rapist as well as the one being raped. To animate the movements you must imagine how it feels. Since winning the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, museums must be queueing up to show your work. Is there a place you would like to exhibit, but haven't?ND: It would be cool to have a solo show in Berlin, but no one has asked us. We have been in the biennale here and in a group show. Maybe it's because I don't go out much but sit at home and work, or maybe in Berlin they are simply not that interested in what I am doing. But it would be lots of fun, because Berlin is where we live.To what extent are your films autobiographical? People often suffer in them. Do you have to have suffered to become an artist or is that just a cliché? ND: It is important to understand others' pain and experience empathy. But this question is too complicated—you have to go for easier ones!One of your earlier films, Florentine, 2005, remains unclear when it comes to a pivotal question: was there an incestuous relationship between father and daughter?ND: I also think it's unclear—and I like that. Despite all the violence and humiliation your films also have funny elements.ND: It's almost impossible not to when doing clay animation. But what is impossible is something sublime. HB: Wagner's "Ring" in clay, for example.ND: In some of the films things look pretty funny at first, but then seriousness follows.Do you mind if some people buy your works only because you have recently become famous?ND: There are probably people doing that, but either way, it means we are getting money so Hans can continue doing his music and I my films.HB: I still have a problem understanding why people buy art.ND: I do not collect; I don't care at all about owning art.
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NEW YORK -- St. John's coach Steve Lavin knew why his Red Storm were able to withstand a big second-half rally from Columbia and still get a win.
"I shared with the team after the game that I was happy with the maturity that was on display at end of game," he said after St. John's beat Columbia 65-59 on Saturday in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival at Barclays Center. "Last year or the year before, this was the type of game we'd lose when a team would make a big run on us. I was impressed with our poise and purpose to go on a run of our own and salt the victory away."St. John's seemed to be on its way to a comfortable win, leading 48-34 with 14:16 to play. But the Lions went on a 17-2 run to take a brief lead.The Red Storm followed Columbia's big run by scoring the next nine points -- four by JaKarr Sampson -- to regain control.Columbia did get within four points twice, the last at 63-59 with 16 seconds left on a 3-pointer by Meiko Lyles."We did build a 14-point lead," said D'Angelo Harrison, who led St. John's with 15 points. "We have to push that lead to 20 but we didn't. We were happy with the way we finished."Orlando Sanchez had 12 points and nine rebounds and Sampson added 11 points for the Red Storm (9-3), who have won three straight and five of six with the loss to No. 2 Syracuse."I'm pleased our team is maturing to the point of winning a game like this," Lavin said with Big East Conference play starting Tuesday at Xavier. "Are we satisfied, complacent? No. We have a long way to go in a number of areas but this was a step in the right direction."Grant Mullins had 17 points for Columbia (7-6), which had won two straight and three of four.The Lions used the 17-2 run to take a 51-50 lead -- their first since the game's first 3 minutes -- with 7:25 to play. They hit three 3-pointers as they scored 13 straight points after St. John's had taken their biggest lead of the game, 48-34, with 14:16 left.Columbia had given a scare to then-No. 1 Michigan State in November, trailing by a couple of points with minutes to go before losing 62-53."It's hard to guard us the whole 40 minutes," Columbia coach Kyle Smith said. "We took advantage of some breaks and got the lead and then they made the plays they do well."It was St. John's 13th consecutive win in the series which the Red Storm lead 18-7.St. John's came into the game leading the nation with 9.6 blocked shots per game. The Red Storm had eight Saturday with Sampson and Sir'Dominic Pointer getting three each."I learned it's hard to finish around the rim against guys like that," said Mullins, who was 5 for 14 from the field including 3 of 7 from 3-point range. "Personally I should have started to (penetrate) earlier in the game. I had to adjust to their length.'The Red Storm hurt themselves at the free throw line missing 12 of 26 attempts.Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 59 | 65 |
FG Made-Attempted | 19-50 (.380) | 24-51 (.471) |
3P Made-Attempted | 9-18 (.500) | 3-8 (.375) |
FT Made-Attempted | 12-15 (.800) | 14-26 (.538) |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 18 (0/0) | 14 (0/0) |
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Team Stats: Columbia | St. John's |
2013-14 Season
» Dec 28, 2013 | @SJU 65, CLMB 59 | Recap |
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12/30 @COLG 7:00pm 01/04 SFNY 4:00pm 01/08 STON 7:00pm 01/11 CPE 4:00pm 01/18 COR 7:00pm |
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Title: | Data dimensionality reduction with application to simplifying RBF network structure and improving classification performance |
Author: | Fu, Xiuju; Wang, Lipo |
Copyright year: | 2003 |
Abstract: | For high dimensional data, if no preprocessing is carried out before inputting patterns to classifiers, the computation required may be too heavy. For example, the number of hidden units of a radial basis function (RBF) neural network can be too large. This is not suitable for some practical applications due to speed and memory constraints. In many cases, some attributes are not relevant to concepts in the data at all. In this paper, we propose a novel separability-correlation measure (SCM) to rank the importance of attributes. According to the attribute ranking results, different attribute subsets are used as inputs to a classifier, such as an RBF neural network. Those attributes that increase the validation error are deemed irrelevant and are deleted. The complexity of the classifier can thus be reduced and its classification performance improved. Computer simulations show that our method for attribute importance ranking leads to smaller attribute subsets with higher accuracies compared with the existing SUD and Relief-F methods. We also propose a modified method for efficient construction of an RBF classifier. In this method we allow for large overlaps between clusters corresponding to the same class label. Our approach significantly reduces the structural complexity of the RBF network and improves the classification performance. |
Subject: | DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering |
Type: | Journal Article |
Series/ Journal Title: | IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics – Part B: cybernetics |
School: | School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
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From the author of the bestselling The Bag Making Bible comes an outstanding collection of 12 inspiring bags for you to make at home. Lisa Lam of U-Handbag.com brings you a stunning collection of sewing patterns to make your own bags. The book features 12 brand new bag designs with full photographic instructions for how to make a bag with truly professional results. The book features full-size patterns on three separate pull-out sheets so that you can get started right away - no photocopying or enlarging required. The book opens with Lisa's in-depth advice on all the aspects needed to get started, from the tools and equipment you need, to understanding and interpreting patterns, to choosing, preparing and cutting fabrics. A comprehensive Techniques section explains some core bag-making techniques such as how to insert a zip pocket, how to use magnetic snap closures, how to sew bag straps and handles including adjustable straps, and how to bind edges and use piping for a truly professional finish. There is also guidance on how to insert a lining to your bag. All the techniques are fully explained with easy to follow photographs, so you'll be creating professional, practical and great-looking bags before you know it! The 12 projects that follow range in complexity. If you're new to sewing and bag making there are beginner bag projects such as the Compact Groceries Tote, All-Sorted Laundry Bag and Access-All-Areas Pouch to get you started before progressing to the more fully featured bags such as the Too-Cool-for-School Satchel and the 3-in-1 Convertible Backpack. You can make your own iPad case, sew a child's backpack, create a pretty purse using a metal purse frame, make your own tri-fold wallet, make a baby changing bag with matching changing mat, sew your own bicycle panniers, and sew a vanity case for your beauty essentials. The bags all have style and substance and are designed with real-life practical uses in mind. Within each project Lisa gives her hints and tips for success, along with advice on how you can customize the patterns to create your own version of the design. The book is presented in a spiral bound format, making it lay flat so you can follow the instructions with ease while sewing. "This information-rich book will elevate your sewing know-how with versatile techniques and inspiring suggestions for making these bags your own." Amy Butler
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Lisa Lam is a London College of Fashion graduate and the founder and owner of U-Handbag.com - an online store specializing in bag-making supplies. She is a prolific bag designer and regular contributor to craft magazines. Lisa's blog is followed by thousands of crafters who admire both her passion and the quality of her bag-making advice, and you can also find her on Facebook, Twitter (@uhandbag) and Flickr. Lisa lives in Brighton, UK.
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Introduction; Getting started; Basic Equipment; The Sewing Machine; Using Patterns; Modifying Patterns; Understanding Patterns; Fabric Types; Fabric Preparation and Cutting; Flush Zip Pocket; Top Edge Zip; Slimline Concealed Top Edge Zip; Magnetic Snaps; Open-End Straps; Closed-End Straps; Adjustable Straps; Bound Edges; Piped Edges; Inserting Linings. 1 The Geek-Chic iPad Case; 2 The Compact Groceries Totek; 3 The Access-All-Areas Pouch; 4 The Toddler-Friendly Backpack; 5 The Too Cool For School Satchel; 6 The All-Sorted Laundry Bag; 7 The Fashionista Baby Bag; 8 The Double Pannier Bicycle Bag; 9 The Pleated Purse-Frame Purse; 10 The 3-in-1 Convertible Backpack; 11 The Terrific Tri-Fold Wallet; 12 The Train-Style Vanity Case; Suppliers; Resources; Pattern Legend; About the Author/Acknowledgments; Index; Pull-Out Pattern Sheets (3).


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See the meteor crater near Winslow, See the Grand Canyon, Play Golf, Explore Native American Culture, Visit the Gunsite Academy in Paulden or Dillon Precision in Scottsdale... Anyone know of any other cool things to do while on vacation in Arizona??
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??? Play golf on a course where grass is considered a trap?
Amendment II: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Life Member NRA Life Member NAHC Former President of the ECPT (Eifel Combat Pistol Team)
Visit governor Jan and sheriff Joe and shake their hands...
Spend a couple days in Prescott, drink in one or more of the old taverns on Whiskey Row, hike Thumb Butte, visit the Ruger place, eat ARIZONA Mexican food. Cruise up to Flagstaff going through Jerome (ghost town) Oak Creek, and Sedona, then on up to the Grand Canyon. When are you going? When you go has a lot to do with how much time you want to be in the Phoenix area!
Go see London Bridge...... How did you forget that one. Go shooting then go shooting again.
AZ is getting my vacation dollars this year. Will go see some old friends at Robar, Smith Enterprise at others.