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It may pain them to do so, but when it comes to inspiration after losing the first two playoff games on home ice, the Vancouver Canucks need look no further than the team that bullied them into submission to win the Stanley Cup in June, the Boston Bruins.
That's right, Vancouver's new rival can now be looked upon as a role model, a team that recovered from the same hole the Canucks now find themselves in their Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Los Angeles Kings -- and the Bruins went on to hoist the Cup after falling behind two-zip to Montreal.
Boston also dropped the first two in the Final in Vancouver before winning four of the last five. Of course they also proved to be a better team than the Canucks in that Final.
Maybe that explains why players looked elsewhere for inspiration.
"We are not going to do everything the same way as last year, cruise to the Stanley Cup Final," defenseman Kevin Bieksa said. "We are going to make it interesting. Last year we were up three against Chicago and then we let them come back. This year we will spot them a couple and see what happens."
Vancouver nearly blew that 3-0 lead over the Blackhawks in the first round before needing overtime in Game 7 to advance, eventually to the Final.
Coach Alain Vigneault wasn't interested in history, however.
"I'm not going to give you a rundown of all the teams that have come back in the past and da-de-da because that would be standing up here and trying to be real positive," he said. "Reality is we're down by two and we got to win [Game 3 on Sunday]. That's it. All the other stuff doesn't matter."
Maybe that's because a lot of that other stuff doesn't bode well for a Canucks team facing at least five good reasons it will be tough to secure four more wins:
1) THE NHL's WORST BEST POWER PLAY: There will be no shortage of talk about the ongoing absence of leading goal scorer Daniel Sedin, who did not travel with the team to Los Angeles on Saturday. But the reality is Vancouver's power play problems started long before Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith concussed the Canucks' leading goal scorer and last year's NHL scoring champion Sedin with an elbow on March 21. On top of the League by a wide margin through early January, the Canucks slump started almost immediately after going 4-for-11 to win the Cup rematch in Boston on Jan. 7. They finished fourth in the NHL, but are just 10-for-130 since, a 12.3 per cent success rate that ranks well below the worst power play in the League.
In addition to being 0-for-10 through two games against Los Angeles, they gave up two shorthanded goals to the Kings in Game 2. Despite not having Daniel Sedin the last nine games of the regular season, the Canucks were still experimenting with new combinations at practice Saturday, and a lack of cohesion that cost them the night before.
"We can't expect to score every time but we've got to gain some momentum for us and we did the opposite," Captain Henrik Sedin said.
2) TOUGH TO PUSH AND BE PATIENT: Vancouver's lack of scoring against the Kings extends beyond the power play, and even this series. Since Darryl Sutter took over as the coach in Los Angeles mid-season, the Canucks are just 1-3-1 and have only managed to score eight goals in those five games. Further complicating things is the Kings' stifling style, which can punish impatience if you try to force things, and create odd-man rushes the other way.
"They're a very stingy team, they don't give up a lot so it's very important to stick to our game plan and not try to overdo things and when the opportunities arise make sure we try to capitalize," forward Manny Malhotra said.
It may be easier to say than do, especially if they fall behind in Game 3.
3) KINGS BETTER THAN AN EIGHT SEED: For all the focus on the Kings' above-mentioned defensive play, the discussion about their offense has been largely misdirected. It centered largely on finishing 29th in goals this season, and not on averaging more than three a game after acquiring Jeff Carter in a pre-deadline blockbuster. That's more than half a goal better per game than the Canucks over that same stretch, and despite stereotypes the Kings sit back and defend, they have become much more aggressive under Sutter, with a lot more puck possession and a forecheck that is causing the Canucks defense fits.
"I'm sure people aren't going to be expecting us to score goals but I know in here we all think differently," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said.
4) TWO NOT BETTER THAN NO.1 IN GOAL: Vigneault wouldn't confirm it until he told the goaltenders themselves, but there is growing speculation the Canucks could change things up between the pipes, with impressive second-year backup Cory Schneider taking over for Roberto Luongo in Game 3. Schneider finished second in the NHL with a .937 save percentage, and despite the fact Luongo has actually been very good the first two games, especially Game 1, there is a sense the Canucks may not want to try that change before it is too late.
"We haven't given him a lot of help on a lot of these goals and kind of hanging him out to dry on a few of them," Schneider said of Luongo. "It's not my decision. Maybe give the team a new look, shake up the team."
It won't matter if neither goalie can best Kings' crease counterpart Jonathan Quick, who made 46 saves in Game 2 and is coming off a Vezina Trophy-worthy regular season.
"Give him credit, he was real good," Vigneault said.
5) ROAD RECORD WON'T MEAN MUCH IN L.A.: Vancouver had the best road record in the Western Conference at 24-12-5 in the regular season, and finished second only to Philadelphia in the entire NHL. The Kings were just ninth in the West and 19th in the League at home at 22-14-5. But with Game 3 just hours after the Lakers play at Staples Center on Sunday, the ice could be soft, and the speed advantage the Canucks forwards were supposed to enjoy in this series – and it has been evident at times -- will be largely negated.


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Experts disagree on the path the U.S. economy will take in upcoming months. Manufacturing is up, as is unemployment. Personal spending continues to drag, and the housing market remains weak. Alex Blumberg and Jacob Goldstein of NPR's Planet Money talk about what to expect in the coming months.
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It's becoming ever tougher to make heads or tails of what's going on in the economy. You can find conflicting reports from analysts and economists everywhere. Some argue a double-dip recession is inevitable. Others insist we're on track for a slow but steady recovery.
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ALEX BLUMBERG: Nice to be here.
JACOB GOLDSTEIN: Thanks for having us.
CONAN: And one thing that many people are worried about is jobs, jobs, jobs. That seems to be at the top of the agenda. Who wants to are we making any progress at all?
BLUMBERG: Well, it doesn't seem like it. The unemployment rate is hanging pretty steady. It's about nine and a half. It's gone down a little from its highs of over 10 percent. But no, I mean, it's not coming down nearly as fast as anybody would like, and it's a little confusing to people, especially experts.
CONAN: Especially me, too, even non-experts. Is any sector, I mean, we hear reports that manufacturing is picking up in the last couple of months.
GOLDSTEIN: Well, you know, it's important to look at the difference in manufacturing between how well the businesses are doing and how many jobs there are, right. So and this is a very long-term trend that predates the current recession, that the manufacturing industry in this country has actually been doing very well for a long time. But they've been doing very well by being high-tech, which requires fewer and fewer workers.
So, you know, the places we've been seeing job growth throughout the recession have been primarily health care and education. Manufacturing is still way down from where it was. Construction has been hit very hard.
CONAN: So a good year for robots is what you're telling me.
GOLDSTEIN: It's a great job market if you're a robot.
BLUMBERG: And for people who make robots.
CONAN: And for people who make robots.
BLUMBERG: But not people who are replaced by robots, yes.
CONAN: And one is this one of those psychological spirals people are -employers are uncertain as to whether they should hire anybody until they see people spending more, and people don't want to spend more until they can see the economy going again and more people being hired?
BLUMBERG: I mean, like anything, like everything in this economy, Neal, sort of your guess is as good as ours.
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CONAN: All right. Short program today. We can all go home.
BLUMBERG: But no, but I mean, that is the fear. I mean, that's the danger, that is the terrible cycle that policymakers are trying to prevent, that people are just sort of, like, they're afraid that nobody's going to buy. So they don't spend. And then nobody has a job, and then yeah, it just sort of reinforces itself.
GOLDSTEIN: And it is the case that corporations have a lot of cash, have a lot of cash that they're apparently not spending. So it does seem to be the case that they're sort of waiting and seeing. It's clearly the case that consumers are saving more money. So in a sense, they're waiting and seeing. And it's really hard to know at this point how do you break that cycle, right.
I mean, we had a stimulus. You know, there's some debate. It clearly had some effect. And now there's sort of this beginnings of a debate over a second stimulus. And all of that goes to this issue that you're talking about, right, this kind of catch-22 where people are companies are waiting for people to spend, but people are waiting for companies to spend and hire more people, and it's very difficult to see how you break that.
BLUMBERG: Right, and - yeah.
CONAN: I was just going to say: Isn't there another part of that cycle? The banks seem to have a lot of money, which they're not loaning.
BLUMBERG: Yes. That's the charge. They are loaning it. They're just not loaning it to consumers. They're loaning it to governments, specifically the U.S. government. So the U.S. so banks are borrowing a lot of money, and then they're actually investing it a lot in Treasury bonds.
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CONAN: Because the government gets to print money.
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BLUMBERG: Right.
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JAY (Caller): Thank you very much for taking my call. And I have been wanting to ask this question for the longest time, and nobody has seemed to have even talked about it.
But ever since the Reagan revolution and trickle-down economics, it's obvious that the wealthier got the wealthy got wealthier. But for the average working American, who worked 40, 50, 60 hours a week, two jobs, everybody in the family is working, wages remained flat. All we got in return was credit-based wealth. Everybody got multiple credit cards. I was getting five or six offers a week, teaser rates of zero percent, one percent, so on and so forth.
But now that all that credit-based wealth has just evaporated and gone forever, middle-class America and working America and the working poor have been left with actually all the only thing that they have left are their wages. They're suddenly realizing hey, I really wasn't making that much money, I just had a lot of credit-based wealth.
CONAN: Jay, I'm hearing a lot of analysis there. What's the question?
JAY: Why isn't anybody talking about what is the effect of this credit-based wealth evaporated have on the economy? How much of the economy was supported by consumers spending this wealth that they never really had? And I'll listen to the radio.
CONAN: All right, thank you. Oh, I hung up on him.
BLUMBERG: I think if you're asking about what the effect is, you're looking at the effect of what that was right now. Basically, what the reason we went through what we went through is a lot of that credit-based wealth evaporated, and it, you know, ran us into one of the worst recessions in history.
GOLDSTEIN: And in particular, you saw it in the housing market, right. Lending standards got easier and easier. So you saw people at the lower end of the income spectrum being able to borrow a lot of money to buy a house, and then, as the bubble inflated, to be able to actually pull cash out of that house in the form of home equity loans.
CONAN: And...
BLUMBERG: Right. And the analysis that your caller was putting forth, I've heard from, you know, from Chicago, you know, economists and many experts, as well. This is a big, key problem.
You know, during - in the last decade, people had a lot more access to credit. That's where they were that was fueling their spending. Spending is a huge part of the economy. That credit is not going to come back. The world isn't going to lend us as much money as it was lending us before. So people aren't going to have as much access to credit. And so where is that consumption going to come from? That's a big question.
CONAN: Here's a big question from Ken(ph) by email: Everybody talks about this-and-that index and other numbers. What is the economy?
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BLUMBERG: Oh man. These are tough. So the economy is basically everything that everybody makes and does and sells. So it's everything that people make and sell, and it's everything that people do and sell, so services and goods that people make and sell.
GOLDSTEIN: And I mean, to the extent that economists boil it down to a number, which is obviously, you know, ridiculously reductive, but we're journalists, right. It's our job to be ridiculously reductive. That number is basically GDP, gross domestic product.
So when people say the economy is growing or the economy shrank, usually what they mean is GDP is growing or GDP shrank. And, you know, over the last several years, what we saw was, well, typically, historically, GDP grows, right, in ordinary times. In a recession, typically GDP is shrinking.
We saw GDP shrink through 2008 and into 2009, and then in general, it grew through the end of 2009 and in the beginning of this year. And now we're seeing GDP growth slow again.
CONAN: And if it goes into negative territory that would be the greatly feared double-dip.
GOLDSTEIN: More or less. You know, interestingly enough, the way we decide officially in this country if there's a recession is there's this group of experts, and they get together, and they say yes, it's a recession. And then they say yes, the recession is over.
And GDP is probably the most important indicator there, but really it's up to them. Ultimately, it's a subjective, qualitative thing.
CONAN: All right, let's see if we can get another caller on the line. Let's go to Jennifer(ph), Jennifer from Kansas City.
JENNIFER (Caller): Hi, thanks for taking my call.
CONAN: Sure.
JENNIFER: I had just a couple of comments and then a question. My comments are that I am in the in an odd situation in that I've been sort of a victim of the economy but also benefitted from it.
I've lost my job, but now I a couple of months ago, now I'm self-employed. I'm making more money than I was before. My husband and I are both self-employed, and we're ready to, you know, to buy a house, to move, to do some different things. And we can't do any of that because of the impact of the bad economy now that we can't get a loan. You know, banks won't look at us because we don't fit a certain profile and that sort of thing.
So, you know, I know other people are in my - similar situation to me because they've had to be, you know, sort of inventive after this whole, you know, job issue. But my question is: How can we impact the economy positively if we're sort of, you know, hamstrung?
CONAN: Spend yourself into debt.
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JENNIFER: But that's the thing. We paid off all of our debt.
CONAN: Congratulations.
JENNIFER: We look better on paper, and yet, you know, we can't qualify for a loan because we're now self-employed.
BLUMBERG: So it's a question of you can put down a down payment, but you just can't get a loan because you don't fit into the conforming loan package?
JENNIFER: Yeah, exactly.
BLUMBERG: Yeah, right. So you would need to get a separate...
JENNIFER: So how can we change the housing market?
BLUMBERG: Right, right.
CONAN: Good luck.
JENNIFER: Yeah, thank you.
GOLDSTEIN: I mean, there is, you know, there is this interesting reassessment going on right now about this whole model that we've had as policy for a long time in this country, which is more homeownership is better, right.
And one of the things people are saying right now is oh, wait, if everybody owns their home, it's harder to move. You know, if you own your home in a city and jobs are disappearing in that city, and you want to go move somewhere else, you're sort of tied down by a home, whereas if you have renters, they can go where the jobs are.
So it's an interesting argument against the notion that it's always better when more people own their homes.
BLUMBERG: Right. But what you - what that caller is talking about is the classic situation that we are in post-financial bust. There are what we had before was the world - everybody in the world was rushing to lend American homeowners money so that they could buy houses, and they were willing to lend it on very, very easy terms with very little down payment.
And now, they've seen the folly of that strategy, and so now people are pulling back. They're probably pulling back too much. And so now there's just very little money out there for people who don't fit into very specific categories.
CONAN: But Jennifer, we're very pleased that both you and your husband are doing better than you did before. So congratulations on that.
JENNIFER: Yeah, thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye. We're trying to make sense of this up-and-down economy with Alex Blumberg and Jacob Goldstein, part of NPR's Planet Money team. What puzzles you about the economy? What do you want to understand? 800-989-8255. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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As you may have heard earlier today, another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil is reported in the water. We'll have an update for you in about 20 minutes. So stay tuned for that.
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CONAN: Anyway, let's go next to Barrow(ph), Barrow's with us from Newton in New Jersey.
BARROW (Caller): Hi. I'm calling because we are in what is typically a recession-proof business: renovations, kitchen and bathrooms. And at the beginning of this whole mess, we were absolutely dead in the water.
However, since earlier March, since early May, we've had a big uptick. We're doing decidedly better, and I think what happened was originally, people thought that it was a depression and were terrified to spend any money. Now, I think they've decided, as they usually do in recessions, to fix up rather than move or move on.
Okay, my concern is we hear so much about double-dip, we hear so much negative comment. And since consumer confidence is such a big part of what the economy turns out to be, I'm concerned that there is a political necessity at work here to make the current situation seem so much worse than it actually could be by constantly talking down the economy.
BLUMBERG: I think this gets to something that we were talking about before, about what does that mean if we're going to have a double-dip recession. And I think sometimes people think: Does that mean that we're going to go through what we just went through?
And what we just went through was a whole bunch of things, which a recession was one component. We went through a financial crisis. We went through a very scary time when a whole bunch of businesses went bankrupt.
We went through, you know, and I think whether or not we go into a technical recession again or not, I think it's very unlikely that we're going to go through anything like what we went through before. I don't think there's going to be whole industries having to be bailed out. I don't think there's going to be I don't think that the unemployment rate is going to go up another five percentage points.
So I think it's the difference between right now, the unemployment rate is around nine and a half percent. If we go into another recession, maybe it'll go up a little bit more. But even if we don't, I don't think it's going to go down that fast, either, and that's the confounding thing.
CONAN: But we're talking I think what Barrow is asking about is psychology. In the next two months, we're going to hear the phrase job killing at the rate of infinity per hour. Is this talking down the economy?
BLUMBERG: I mean...
BARROW: That's what I'm asking.
BLUMBERG: Yeah, I think I mean, I don't there's a big debate about whether you can, you know, the confidence is definitely a big part of it. Like, can you you know, so confidence is a big part of the economy, and whether people feel confident in the future, that's why they spend money, and if they don't feel confident in the future, they're going to save money.
GOLDSTEIN: And, you know, the economy is always politicized, and people take credit for things that they don't deserve credit for, and they get blamed for things they don't deserve blame for.
And I think you can say that in a pretty nonpartisan way, right. I mean, there are...
BLUMBERG: But Barrow, you're asking is an opportunistic politician going to ruin my business? That's basically what you're worried about, right? Are they going to talk down the economy?
BARROW: Actually, the business of the country, the business of the country.
BLUMBERG: Right, and your business in particular. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, boy, I hope not.
BARROW: I think they just did it last time around. So I'm wondering if they're going to do it again.
GOLDSTEIN: The economy is not in great shape. You know, I think it's fair to say that in an apolitical way. I mean, if you look at GDP growth, if you look at unemployment, if you look at the inventory of unsold houses sitting on the market, there are lots of signs that the economy is not strong right now.
And, I mean, I think that's a fair, apolitical statement.
CONAN: All right, Barrow, we wish you luck and that renovations continue there in New Jersey.
BARROW: Thank you so much.
CONAN: Bye-bye. Here's a tweet from SplinteredBoard(ph), and I guess this goes to the question of politicians getting credit or blame: How is it that it was so easy for Ronald Reagan to turn the economy around, but Obama is having so much trouble? Apples and oranges?
BLUMBERG: Yes, I think apples and oranges. I think when Reagan came into office, there were a lot of things that were there was a much higher tax rate, a much higher marginal tax rate than there is right now. There were a lot of really growth-inhibiting regulations on the books that, you know, things like banks couldn't, the amount of interest that they could give you on your deposits was set by law. So he was able to get rid of some of those real economy-inhibiting regulations.
CONAN: It also didn't happen instantly, but anyway.
BLUMBERG: Right. Yeah.
GOLDSTEIN: It's also the case that the recession of the early '80s was actually consciously induced by the Federal Reserve, which raised interest rates significantly in order to choke off inflation.
And so they essentially knew that they were going to shove the economy into a recession. It was just something they had to do. And because they sort of did it consciously to begin with, they were able then to pull interest rates back down, and the economy responded as you would think it would in a textbook. It came back.
And in this instance, it's been much less predictable. It's been much less amenable to responses from the Fed and in many ways a much more dramatic crisis than what we saw in the early '80s.
CONAN: Let's go next to Lois(ph), Lois with us from Denver.
LOIS (Caller): Hello.
CONAN: Hi.
BLUMBERG: Hi.
LOIS: Hi. What perplexes me is that we're still stuck on an economic paradigm that's based on limited resources. We're based still on oil and fossil fuels and all these consumer goods that are using the resources that will be depleted.
My question is: Why aren't we investing more - you know, since you said earlier the government is the one that's able to secure a lot of the lending. Like, what if the government invested in companies that are producing renewable energy, the infrastructure, the technology? It may provide jobs and be a product that we can export into the world, both things that can fuel our economy. Why aren't we doing why aren't we shifting our paradigm to something renewable?
BLUMBERG: Well, I think there is I think there is a lot of talk of doing just that, and I think the Obama administration seems to be trying to do that.
CONAN: A fair part of the stimulus was devoted to that.
BLUMBERG: Yeah, a fair part, yeah, exactly. You know, but it's not, it's not as easy as it may sound. I mean, the problem, as I understand it, with shifting over, we use a lot of energy right now, and to get anywhere near the amount of so basically to make anywhere near the amount of energy that we're already using through some of these alternative measures, it's just not possible. And if it was possible, it would cost a lot more. So...
LOIS: Fuel is subsidized, oil is subsidized by the government. Could we shift that over to renewable energy?
CONAN: They are heavily subsidized by the government.
BLUMBERG: Yeah, renewables are being subsidized. So I think the answer is, I mean, is it happening? It seems to be happening. Is it happening as fast as it could? Probably not.
There are a lot of entrenched special interests that probably wish it were not happening at all. But even if it was happening as fast as humanly possible, even if every single, I think, you know, thing that the government could throw at shifting us over to a new energy paradigm, it was doing. I mean, I think it just takes I think it's a decades-long process, not an overnight process.
GOLDSTEIN: I mean, it seems to me that more broadly, the notion that there is some single silver bullet, whether it's energy or whether it's lowering mortgage rates or whether it's, you know, committing more to traditional infrastructure, whether it seems like there is not any single thing that, oh, if the government just flipped this switch, they could fix the economy.
BLUMBERG: Right. Gasoline is a pretty miraculous energy carrier, unfortunately. And so it's hard to find something that's going to match it in just terms of just, like, getting bang for the buck. And so that's yeah, it's tricky.
CONAN: Lois, thanks.
LOIS: Thank you.
CONAN: Thanks very much for the call, appreciate it. Here's an email from Denise(ph) in Texas: I am puzzled why we hear so much doom and gloom on the economy. Are we in a bubble here in Texas? The restaurants are full during the week. The mall parking lots are full. Everyone looks like they're spending money.
My husband has a small business, 30 years, as a tile contractor for higher-end newer homes, his business has picked up dramatically after the scare. He's having to work on the weekends, as well as his crews.
I work for a major bank. They're hiring the contingent workers as permanent left and right. You can't find a parking spot if you're not here 20 minutes early. Maybe we're just luckier over here in Texas because we were not part of the housing bubble.
BLUMBERG: You well, I will say this about Texas. Texas was not part of the housing bubble because Texas, as I understand it, had a housing bubble a decade earlier that they learned their lesson from. And so they did not take - a lot of banks in Texas did not make any of the same loans that people were making in California and Florida.
So yeah, so Texas had learned its lesson during the bust it went through and didn't make the same mistakes the second time around.
CONAN: Let's go next to this is Tom(ph), Tom with us from Eugene in Oregon.
TOM (Caller): Hi, thanks for taking my question.
CONAN: Sure.
TOM: I've seen a few articles that pointed to the 1986 Tax Reform Act as the start of our homeowner problem. The act eliminated credit card interest as an itemized tax deduction and replaced it with home equity loans. And in the course of the next 10 or 20 years, people's true home equity gradually declined as they took out more and more equity loans for, you know, leisure purchases and also to pay off credit cards.
And there was an article in the Journal that talked about a bank that came up with some software that actually allowed them to mine the data of mortgage holders and figure out which ones had the best equity, and they were solicited for home equity loans.
CONAN: Hmm. Well, can we nail the source of the problem to the change in those regulations back in 1986?
GOLDSTEIN: It's certainly clear that during the housing boom of the first several years of this century, there was this huge push to home equity loans and to refinancing in general. And in fact, lots of people were given mortgages where the whole idea of the mortgage is, well, it's going to reset and be a lot more expensive in a couple years, but you can just refinance then. And there was a sort of perverse incentive operating, which was even if a mortgage wasn't in the best interest of the borrower, it might generate more fees for the people giving the loans. And so we certainly saw this incredible kind of churn and bankers getting people to pull money out of their house, in some instances when it wasn't in people's interest even to do so.
BLUMBERG: And getting to the idea of, like, whether this law, you know, actually led - without this law, would this have happened, I think probably. I don't think you can pin it to one law. I think it was a confluence of factors. But there's no question that the tax code does encourage homeownership. And the fact that you can deduct the interest on your mortgage from your taxes and the interest on a home equity loan from your taxes, definitely creates an incentive for you to take out a larger home equity loan than you otherwise would, or buy a larger house than you otherwise would, or perhaps to even buy a house when maybe you wouldn't. And so - yeah.
CONAN: And isn't it true that both the Clinton and second Bush administrations passed regulations that made it easier for people to qualify for loans?
BLUMBERG: Yes, yes. No question. And there was a big push in this country towards, you know, that homeownership is, you know, the ownership society and homeownership is going to be something that's going to be good for a society as a whole. And so there was several - there was many and many incentives that government has put in place to encourage people to buy homes, and I think now people are taking a second look at those incentives.
GOLDSTEIN: And really, I mean, it goes back all the way to the Depression, right, where you have the origins of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which was kind of this implicit subsidy the government set up to make it easier for people to buy homes. You know, a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage that you can pay off whenever you want is an incredible deal. And it is only possible because of, essentially, the largesse of the federal government, and ultimately it led to this huge bailout of Fannie and Freddie, which is probably digressive from what we're talking about today but ultimately relevant.
CONAN: All right. Tom, thanks very much for the question. We're talking about the economy. What's up? You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And let me reintroduce Alex Blumberg and Jacob Goldstein, both part of NPR's Planet Money team. They join us from our bureau in New York. And can I ask you about the Japanese analogy, not the title of the latest thriller, but indeed, an economic comparison between the United States now and Japan in what 25, 30 years ago?
BLUMBERG: Yeah, the lost decade. I think people make this - so this is basically a period in Japanese history where they had deflation, and I think that's when people are worried about a lost decade here, that's what they're worried about. They're worried about that we will actually enter a deflationary period.
And I think people make the comparison because it started the same way. They had a huge property bubble. That bubble burst. And then they had decades of slow or no - of negative growth or slow growth and where nothing sort of increased in value, and in fact, things lost value. Now, Jacob had a very clear example of why that's a bad thing, deflation is a bad thing.
GOLDSTEIN: Right. So I mean the basic example is if you think - if you're going to buy, say, a car, if you're going to buy anything today and you think it's going to be cheaper in six months or in a year, then you might just wait. You might just say, you know what, I'm just going to keep that money under my mattress and wait for a year until that thing is cheaper.
And in what I think is a pretty clear is that just feeds on itself, right? Then everybody stops buying things. The price of things fall, and it's this sort of juiced-up example of the kind of chicken-and-egg thing we're talking about in the economy now. Nobody buys things and so the economy essentially falls apart.
CONAN: Here's an email question from Drew(ph) in Columbus. What effect would the expiration of the Bush tax cuts have on the economy, and what would be the effect if we didn't let them expire? These were temporary tax cuts passed in the Bush administration. They expire at the end of this year. President Obama wants to keep the ones for the middle class and let the ones for people that earn over $250,000 a year expire. Unclear as what's going to happen politically - a lot depends on the election. But anyway, what would be the effect on the economy if they did expire?
GOLDSTEIN: Well, I mean, you can think of tax cuts as a kind of stimulus with the basic idea that, you know, your leaving people with more money. If people have more money, they're going to spend more money, and that stimulates the economy. So if you allow the cuts to expire and the tax rate goes up, that's sort of an anti-stimulus, right? That's the basic idea.
Now, you can make sort of finer points about, well, there may be types of tax cuts that are better targeted than the Bush tax cuts. For example, people have talked about a temporary cut in the payroll tax that businesses have to pay when they hire people. This is a very direct way you can incentivize businesses to hire people. I mean, practically speaking, it seems quite likely certainly that the Bush tax cuts on people making less than 200 or $50,000 a year, those will be extended, right? And the political debate is going to be over sort of the margins, right? The cuts on the people at the high end.
CONAN: Well, then the - well, it could get tied up in arguments. We're not going to pass anything unless we pass what you want. So compromise may not be possible here, but is this - some people say that the higher tax cuts include a lot of small businesses. Is that right? They report as individuals?
BLUMBERG: Yes, that - I mean, that's entirely possible. Yeah, absolutely. And so - and opinion is really - I mean, the opinion is really divided. I mean, this is like - this is - talk about - this is maybe one of the thornier issues that...
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BLUMBERG: ...you - that we've touched into, like, what would be economic effect of letting those tax cuts expire? And there's a huge camp that says it would be catastrophic and then there's another camp that says, actually, in terms of, like, if you want - if you - what you want to do is to stimulate spending, tax cuts aren't even the best thing to do. There's other things that you can do that are better.
CONAN: Well, I hope we're a little bit less confused than we were half an hour ago.
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BLUMBERG: I hope so too.
CONAN: Alex Blumberg and Jacob Goldstein, thank you both very much for being with us today.
BLUMBERG: Thanks a lot, Neal.
GOLDSTEIN: Thank you.
CONAN: And you can find out a lot more about what they cover if you go to npr.org/money. They're on NPR's Planet Money team.
Coming up, we'll talk with Martin Landau about his six-decade career on movies and TV. Stay with us. It's the TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Luke Hancock hit two huge 3-pointers in the final 1:19 to help Louisville finally shake free from tenacious Manhattan, 71-64 in the NCAA tournament Thursday night.
The defending national champion Cardinals were down 58-55 with less than 4 minutes to play before coming alive from the 3-point line.
Silky smooth guard Russ Smith, who finished with 18 points, got things going with a game-tying 3 from the wing. Hancock delivered the knockout blows. He stole an inbound pass, got fouled and made both free throws. He hit the first dagger with 1:19 remaining and sank a wide-open look from behind the arc with 28 second left.
Hancock finished with 16 points.
Behind those shots, fourth-seeded Louisville (30-5) advanced to face fifth-seeded Saint Louis on Saturday in the Midwest Region.
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Amid Arson Investigation, Controversy Brews Over Tolo Site
More than four months later, the case of an arson fire of a luxury home on Tolo Road remains unsolved, with a $25,000 reward still unclaimed.
Bainbridge Police Chief Matt Haney said it was "disappointing" no one has been caught for the June 24 blaze in which no one was hurt. The investigation continues.
Meanwhile, a foundation for a replacement home just as grand is about to go in, according to owner and developer Jeff Sneller, who said he may live in it himself when it is finished.
If Sneller moves in, hell look downhill on an adjacent 4½-acre site on which he wants to build another home that has become a high-profile symbol of environmentalists struggles with the city over code enforcement.
This week, the citys top planner, Jim Harris, announced his determination in support of a June 13 violation notice issued by the city against Sneller for removal of vegetation and excavation on the lower site under a city clearing permit. A forested Category I wetland the rarest was destroyed in the excavation, Harris stated, and Snellers clearing and digging work went far beyond the type authorized by the permit.
If Sneller wants to build a second home, hell have to submit a mitigation and restoration plan by Nov. 17, according to Harris.
Sneller said Wednesday he will appeal Harris determination to a city hearing examiner and all the way through the courts if he has to.
He has papers to prove a city representative looked over his site before the clearing permit was given and that no wetlands were found then, Sneller said. He said it is "unconstitutional" for the city to grant him a clearing permit, then to prevent him from following through. He is asking that the city pay for wetland restoration costs and lawyer fees, and allow him to go forward with his second house.
He also said that he didnt initially know there was a wetland on the property; that the wetland is "nowhere close" to Category I; and that theres even a question of whether it was a natural wetland at all. It may have been created by a 75-year-old well on the upper property, he said.
"Thats what were looking at," Sneller said.
Harris said there is no documentation that anyone from the city visited the lower site before issuing the clearing permit. What the city relied on was the information Sneller provided in the permit application, where he said there was no wetland.
"... This information was clearly erroneous," Harris wrote. His decision came at Snellers request for a planning directors review of the violation notice.
Holding the citys feet to the fire in this case are members of the islands environmental community who see this as yet another example of a developer getting what he wants from the city, no matter what the environmental cost.
Kim Brackett of Bainbridge Island has been bird-dogging this case from early on and said Wednesday she will continue to do so.
Sneller thinks his project has become a political football.
"I think its 100 percent political," he said.
He also said he is willing to work with the city to perhaps move the house to another location at the site.
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[IMGW]http://media.1up.com/media?id=3356721[/IMGW]While not particularly well received by critics, the original Silent Hill flick debuted at #1 in its opening weekend in the States last spring, which is more than we can say for a more recent game adaptation. Based on the game franchise of the same name, Silent Hill nearly doubled its budget in worldwide box office earnings, essentially guaranteeing a sequel.
However, it looks like it will have to be made without the original director and writer. When horror site ShockTilYouDrop.com talked to producer Don Carmody in April, he revealed that a sequel was indeed in the works, but likely without director Christophe Gans. "We're developing, slowly, a screenplay," said Carmody. "I don't think Christophe wants to direct it. He's involved pretty heavily in another project right now."
Gans' disinterest in continuing the franchise seems to have influenced the decision of writer Roger Avary, who last week confirmed to the website that he would not be involved in a sequel. "I'm not gonna do Silent Hill 2," said Avary. "If Christophe's not gonna do it, I'm not..."
Losing key collaborators may slow down the development process, but with Sony Pictures pulling the strings, it seems unlikely to permanently stall what could be a profitable horror franchise. The company has successfully guided the Resident Evil film franchise into a trilogy, with the third entry (Resident Evil: Extinction) hitting theaters on September 21st.
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1994 (June)
- (Supervisor Bob Wakabayashi) "More Than a Momentary Nightmare": Thought Control and the Yokohama Incident
- Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
Dr James J. Matthews
1999 (October)
- (Supervisor: Bernard Luk) The Union Jack on the Upper Yangzi: The Treaty Port of Chongoing, 1891-1943
- Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Virginia McKendry
1998 (April)
- (Supervisor: Nick Rogers) Embodied Politics: The Pictorial Romance of the British Royal Family c. 1760-1860
- Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr Sheryl Stotts McLaren
2001 (November)
- (Supervisor: Bettina Bradbury), Becoming Indispensable: A Biography of Elizabeth Smith Shortt (1859-1949)
- Current Employment: Independent Researcher
Dr Erin K. McLaughlin-Jenkins
2001 (August)
- (Supervisor: Bernard Lightman) Common Knowledge: The Victorian Working Class and the Low Road to Science, 1870-1900
- Current Employment: Post Doctoral Fellowship, Department of History, University of Victoria
Dr Jane McLeod
1987 (January)
- (Supervisor John Bosher) A Social Study of Printers and Booksellers in Bordeaux from 1745 to 1810
- Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, Brock University
Dr. Colin McMahon
2010 (September)
- (Supervisor: Stephen Brooke) "Ports of Recall: Memory of the Great Irish Famine in Liverpool and Montreal"
Dr Sheila McManus
2001 (August)
- (Supervisor: Kate McPherson) 'The Line which Separates': Race, Gender , and the Alberta-Montana Borderlands 1862-1892
- Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Lethbridge
Dr Janice Rae McTavish
1996 (December)
- (Supervisor Richard Jarrell) The Role of the Headache and its Treatment in American Medical Practice Prior to World War II
- Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Alcorn State University (Mississippi).
Dr Frederick David Millar
1980 (December)
- (Supervisor Irving Abella) Shapes of Power: The Ontario Labour Relations Board, 1944 to 1950
- Current Employment: Teaching Faculty, Athabasca University
Dr Fiona Alice Miller
2000 (February)
- (Supervisor: Gina Feldberg) A Blueprint for Defining Health: Making Medical Genetics in Canada, c. 1935-1975
- Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Mangement and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Dr. Ian Milligan
2011 (October)
- (Supervisor: Craig Heron) Rebel Youth: Young Workers, New Leftists and Labour in English Canada, 1964-1973
- Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Canadian history at the University of Waterloo
Dr. Susanna Miranda
2010 (June)
- (Supervsor: Roberto Perin) Not ashamed or Afraid: Portuguese Immigrant Women in Toronto's Cleaning Industry, 1950-1995
Dr Janet Miron
2004 (October)
- (Supervisor: Marlene Shore) "As in a Menagerie": The Custodial Institution as Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century
- Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Trent University
Dr Behnaz Asl Mirzai
2004 (September)
- (Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Slavery, The Abolition of the Slave Trade, and the Emancipation of Slaves in Persia (1828-1928)
- Current Employment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA.
Dr Wendy Lynn Mitchinson
1977 (January)
- (Supervisor: Paul Stevens) Aspects of Reform: Four Women's Organizations in Nineteenth Century Canada
- Current Employment: University Research Chair and Professor, Department of History, University of Waterloo
Dr Leila Gay Mitchell-McKee
1982 (December)
- (Supervisor: Ramsay Cook) Voluntary Youth Organizations in Toronto, 1880-1930
- Current Employment: Member, Department of History, York University and University of Toronto (Mississauga Campus)
Dr David Mizener
2009 (June)
- (Supervisor: Craig Heron) Sport and Identity in Rural Southern Ontairo, 1900-1970
- Current Employment: Teaching at St. Clement's School
Dr Stephen Moore
2009 (June)
- (Supervisor: Nick Rogers) Losing Minorca: An Event in English Political History
Dr James E. Moran
1998 (February)
- (Supervisor: Susan Houston) Insanity, The Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario
- Current Employment: Associate Professor (Department of History) at the University of Prince Edward Island
Dr. Ian Mosby
2011 (October)
- (Supervisor: Kathryn McPherson) Food Will Win the War: The Politics and Culture of Food and Nutrition During the Second World War
Dr Alexandra Mosquin
2003 (September)
- (Supervisor: Marlene Shore), Advertising Canada Abroad: Canada on Display at International Exhibitions, 1920-1940
- Current Employment: Architectural History, Parks Canada (Historical Services Branch)
Dr James Muir
2004 (December)
- (Supervisor: Paul Craven) Civil Law in Colonial Halifax: Merchants and Craftsmen, Creditors and Debtors
- Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Law at University of Alberta
Dr Bruce William Muirhead
1986 (May)
- (Supervisor: Jack L. Granatstein), Canadian Trade Policy, 1949-57: The Failure of the Anglo-European Option
- Current Employment: Professor, Department of History, Lakehead University
Dr Ismael Musah-Montana
2007 (June )
- (Supervisor: Paul Lovejoy) Sudan Tunis: The Black Slave Community of the Regency of Tunis, 1800-1890
- Current Employment: Professor
Dr Laurence B. Mussio
1994 (December)
- (Supervisor H. V. Nelles) Altered States: Telecommunications as a Government Responsibility in Canada, 1945-1975
- Current Employment: Author of several books; senior research and strategic communications consultant to executives in the public and private sectors; lecturer in history and communication, McMaster University, Hamilton.


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Calif. reserve police officers risk lives for no pay
Most reserve officers are in it for community service, love of the job, or trying to get hired
San Jose Mercury News
BURLINGAME, Calif. — On most days, you can find Chris Zwingle in his commercial pilot's uniform behind the controls of a 767 jetliner. But at least once a month, he puts on a different set of blues — those of a police officer — and hits the streets on patrol. Call it extreme volunteering....
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This group is open to everyone who likes any kind of aircraft
Finally it's here! The brand new light fighter F-5E Tiger II. A new horse of the AFMC Air Forces!
Posted by EMSI on Nov 20th, 2012
The brand new light fighter and light plane for CAS - F-5E Tiger II in two configurations.AFMC forces can use it as a standard light fighter armed with 4 guided rockets with thermal heads - Sidewinder, or they may use the CAS version armed with 2 Sidewinders, 2 Mavericks and 2 rocket pods with unguided missiles.Stay tuned other updates!


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Every time I see a web app display a date as "30 minutes ago" I cringe a little. This was cute 10 years ago when rapid publishing on the web was new, but there are a number of problems with this.
How many times have you seen a screenshot of a tweet that says "28 minutes ago"? Months later, you've completely lost the date of the tweet.
The only clue in this picture about when the tweet was posted is the copyright at the bottom of the page.
Twitter has since stopped using relative dates on their tweet pages, and instead just shows the full date now.
Now, Twitter uses the format "10:42 PM - 15 Aug 12" and will always display the full date, even if viewing a recent tweet.
If you've just put a relative date in a tag, all of a sudden the date is not machine readable. If you insist on using relative dates, at least mark it up with the appropriate HTML5 element so there is a machine-readable version of the date.
<time class="dt-published published"
12 hours ago
or, if you can't use the HTML5

12 hours ago
If you're looking at an email and it says "2 hours ago," how are you supposed to know if it's rounding the number or giving you an exact value? If it's currently 11:15am, was the email sent before or after your 9:00am phone call?
If it says "2 days ago" how do you know whether it was at 9am that day or 4pm that day?
Gmail solves this by including both the exact time as well as the relative time.
When viewing a thread of emails, Gmail uses a different format of date depending on how long ago the date is. If the date is less than 24 hours ago, it will show just the time. If older, then it shows just the date and a number of days ago.
As shown in this screenshot, the times from 10:25pm to 10:57pm all show the same "9 hours ago" text. The difference between 10:35pm and 10:49pm may be significant depending on the situation, and I would hate to lose that piece of information if all I saw was "9 hours ago".
In summary, avoid displaying relative dates, but if you feel like you absolutely need to, follow these best practices:


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I was reading a post from one of the security experts at HP titled: Top 5 Enterprise Security Challenges with "Bring Your Own Device." When it comes to allowing employees to use their own devices at work, there are some real support, data control and security issues, but the blog post made me wonder: Are there 5 top reasons CIOs should encourage a "bring your own device" policy?
This top 5 list would need to be divided into 2 categories: 'what's in it for the company' and 'what's in it for the individual'
What's in it for the company if they allow a BYOD policy?
1) Cost control – A flat, usage rate must be determined based on job function. If someone requires more than the allotted time, it is a personal decision on their part and they will be responsible for the overage charges. The warranty/repair costs will also need to be controlled and there can be no more "accidental" upgrades.
2) Morale – Most organizations are already supporting BYOD in one way or another, so why not implement an official policy and include BYOD as a perk for employees. A recent survey found that employee satisfaction was the greatest benefit for a bring your own device to work policy.
What's in it for the individual if they are allowed to bring their own devices to work?
3) Productivity improvement – If employees are allowed to use a device that they want to use and are familiar and comfortable with, it stands to reason that they will be more productive.
4) Freedom – Most employees know which devices they really need to be productive, right? Personally, I love the function and format of the HP 2760p, especially when I'm traveling via a plane, and I can't wait to see how it handles Windows 8. If employees want to use both a cell phone with a data plan and a laptop with wifi together, that's a choice they can make.
5) Flexibility – With today's more mobile workforce, giving employees access to the information they need wherever they happen to be working that day is not only becoming an expectation, it's a necessity for business success.
While the benefits of a bring your own device policy are numerous, there are still a number of downsides for the individual employee as it relates to being their own IT department, such as spending a great deal of personal time at Best Buy. But for many employees, those issues are minor and for others, they may just want to opt for the standard device.
I think when the hardware begins to understand the need for this dual personality operation and provides a few hooks to enable better support, this BYOD tidal shift will turn into a tidal wave.
Does your organization allow BYOD? If so, what benefits and/or pitfalls do you see with this policy as it relates to IT?


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Instructional Systems Design
Prerequisites: ITEC 800
Acquisition of competency in the design and development of instruction under the principles of cognitivism and instructional systems and its most crucial design aspects: needs and task analysis, learning strategies sequencing and formative evaluation.
ITEC 800 must be completed before enrolling in ITEC 801. Permission to enroll in this course may be requested from the instructor if a student is able to demonstrate knowledge of ITEC 800 content through parallel coursework or life experience.
This course introduces the learner to the principles of instructional systems design (ISD), or more commonly, instructional design (ID). In this seminar, we will explore the complexities of designing instruction in various contexts (such as, corporate training, education, etc.). We will learn classic ID theory and models and apply these theories in a real context through a major design project.
There are two major elements in this seminar:
- An introduction to instructional design models, such as ADDIE, in order to understand the terminology and defining characteristics of most formal ID processes. Your learning of this content will be assessed through a "traditional" midterm exam approximately half way through the semester.
- Practice applying a specific systematic ID model by completing a comprehensive instructional design project. This project will be selected by you; possibly working in conjunction with a small group of your peers. You will complete a formal design plan as the major assignment for the second half of the course.
The readings selected for each week will present the foundation for our discussion and class activities. The comprehensive text provides a solid presentation of classical instructional design stages. Supplemental readings will provide alternative and complimentary views on ISD. Finally, there will be several topics that we will develop together as a class, based largely on your (collective) interests.