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You instruct your attorney general to run guns to Mexico in hopes of destroying the Second Amendment. You follow George Soros' advice on economics and sell out to Vladimir Putin on the defense of eastern Europe with the promise, if re-elected, you will completely sell out your own country.
You and your party kill all family and moral values and cow the Supreme Court into killing the Defense of Marriage Act.
You go to Vegas for fundraising instead of protecting four dead Americans in Benghazi. You talk of austerity but spend a hundred million dollars on vacation.
Is this what my relatives risked their lives for in World War II?
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Texas Rangers return to opening day lineup; Phillies without Jimmy Rollins
ARLINGTON – Robbie Ross won't have to worry about Jimmy Rollins ruining his first major league start by hitting a grand slam.
Rollins, who hit a grand slam in the second inning of Monday's opener against Texas Rangers starter Tanner Scheppers, has left the Phillies to attend the birth of his second child. The Phillies have not placed Rollins on paternity leave, meaning they will be with only 24 players, including a three-man bench Wednesday.
The Phillies, however, still have former Ranger Marlon Byrd in the middle of the lineup. Byrd is 4-for-9 with a homer in the first two games of the series. Byrd also has reached base safely in his last 16 games in Arlington. Byrd has played five games in Arlington over the last two seasons and is 8-for-22 with a homer.
The Rangers will counter with the same lineup they used to score 10 runs in Monday's season opener in a 14-10 loss.
Here's a look at the Rangers lineup: LF Shin-Soo Choo, SS Elvis Andrus, 1B Prince Fielder, 3B Adrian Beltre, RF Alex Rios, DH Mitch Moreland, C J.P. Arencibia, CF Leonys Martin, 2B Josh Wilson and LHP Robbie Ross.
Yu Darvish returns to Texas Rangers rotation on Sunday at Tampa Bay
Adam Rosales accepts outright assignment from Texas Rangers; Engel Beltre undergoes surgery
Texas Rangers scouting report: Can Robbie Ross shut down Philadelphia lefties?
Before winning game, Texas Rangers get first win on new instant replay system
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- University of Florida: Joined College of Law faculty in 1994; Teacher of the Year (1995, 1998 & 2004)
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- Consultant: Institute of Medicine (food additives, 1997; dietary supplements, 2001; dioxins, 2003; food safety, 2009); National Institutes of Health (medical device retrieval, 2000); U.S. House Judiciary Committee (FCC merger approvals, 1999); U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (tobacco legislation, 1997-98); Food and Drug Administration (nonprescription drug labeling, 1995).
Torts (4 credits) - LAW 5700
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Medical Technology and the Law (2 or 3 credits) - LAW 6930
- This course considers the many ways our society manages medical technologies (primarily pharmaceuticals and medical devices), including direct federal regulation of research, development and marketing; products liability doctrines affecting manufacturing, design, and labeling; and the impacts of insurance systems and intellectual property regimes on access and innovation.
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- Growing Organs in the Lab: Tissue Engineers Confront Institutional "Immune" Responses, 55 Jurimetrics Journal 297 (2015).
- Governance by the Backdoor: Administrative Law(lessness?) at the FDA, 93 Nebraska Law Review 89 (2014).
- Turn the Beat Around?: Deactivating Implanted Cardiac-Assist Devices, 39 William Mitchell Law Review 1229 (2013).
- Truth or Consequences?: Commercial Free Speech vs. Public Health Promotion (at the FDA), 21 Health Matrix 31 (2011).
- Coerced Participation in Clinical Trials: Conscripting Human Research Subjects, 62 Administrative Law Review 329 (2010).
- Comfortably Numb: Medicalizing (and Mitigating) Pain-and-Suffering Damages, 42 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 431 (2009).
- This Is Your Products Liability Restatement on Drugs, 74 Brooklyn Law Review 839 (2009).
- The Little Agency That Could (Act with Indifference to Constitutional and Statutory Strictures), 93 Cornell Law Review 901 (2008).
- Too High a Price for Some Drugs?: The FDA Burdens Reproductive Choice, 44 San Diego Law Review 231 (2007).
- Treat Yourself: Is Self-Medication the Prescription for What Ails American Health Care?, 19 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 359 (2006).
- Managing Biotechnology's [R]evolution: Has Guarded Enthusiasm Become Benign Neglect?, 11 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology 4 (2006).
- An Inventory of Mathematical Blunders in Applying the Loss-of-a-Chance Doctrine, 24 Review of Litigation 369 (2005).
- Ambivalent Commitments to Federalism in Controlling the Practice of Medicine, 53 University of Kansas Law Review 149 (2004).
- A Postmodernist Take on the Human Embryo Research Debate, 36 Connecticut Law Review 1133 (2004).
- Deputizing Institutional Review Boards to Police (Audit?) Biomedical Research, 25 Journal of Legal Medicine 267 (2004).
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Pitfalls of Unregulated Biomedical Innovation, 55 Florida Law Review 603 (2003).
- Challenges in the Federal Regulation of Pain Management Technologies, 31 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 55 (2003).
- Triage in the Nation's Medicine Cabinet: The Puzzling Scarcity of Vaccines and Other Drugs, 54 South Carolina Law Review 741 (2003).
- The Coming Pharmacogenomics Revolution: Tailoring Drugs to Fit Patients' Genetic Profiles, 43 Jurimetrics Journal 1 (2002).
- Informed Consent and the Elusive Dichotomy Between Standard and Experimental Therapy, 28 American Journal of Law & Medicine 361 (2002).
- Medicine's Epistemology: Mapping the Haphazard Diffusion of Knowledge in the Biomedical Community, 44 Arizona Law Review 373 (2002).
- Civil Jury Nullification, 86 Iowa Law Review 1601 (2001).
- Rewarding Regulatory Compliance: The Pursuit of Symmetry in Products Liability, 88 Georgetown Law Journal 2147 (2000).
- Interpreting Agency Enabling Acts: Misplaced Metaphors in Administrative Law, 41 William & Mary Law Review 1463 (2000).
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Pronunciation: dore-ZOLE-uh-mide
Class: Carbonic anhydrase inhibitor
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- Solution 2%
Inhibits carbonic anhydrase enzyme, reducing rate of aqueous humor formation and thus lowering IOP.
Indications and Usage
Treatment of elevated IOP in patients with ocular hypertension or open-angle glaucoma.
Hypersensitivity to other sulfonamides.
Dosage and AdministrationAdults
Ophthalmic One drop in affected eye(s) 3 times daily.
General Advice
- To avoid contamination, do not touch tip of container to any surface or to eye structures.
- Gently apply pressure over nasolacrimal drainage system for 1 to 2 min after administration.
- If used concomitantly with other topical ophthalmic drug products, wait 5 min between administering medications.
Store at room temperature; protect from light.
Drug Interactions
None well documented.
Laboratory Test Interactions
None well documented.
Adverse Reactions
Ocular burning, stinging or discomfort; superficial punctate keratitis; blurred vision; tearing; conjunctivitis; ocular dryness; photophobia; ocular allergic reaction.
Nausea; bitter taste.
Note baseline IOP before starting medication and monitor periodically during long-term treatment.
Category C .
Safety and efficacy not established.
Renal Function
Not recommended for use in patients with severe renal function impairment.
Hepatic Function
Use with caution.
Bacterial keratitis
Can occur by using contaminated eye drops.
Concomitant use of oral carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
Not recommended.
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Do not administer while wearing soft contact lenses; preservative may be absorbed by soft contact lenses.
Electrolyte imbalance, acidotic state, possible CNS effects.
Patient Information
- Instruct patient in proper administration of eye drop medications.
- Instruct patient about the need to keep the tip of the dropper clean to prevent eye infections.
- Inform patient that eye drops commonly produce transient stinging or discomfort upon administration, and to notify health care provider if they are severe.
- Stress need to return to health care provider frequently for monitoring of eye pressure.
- Inform patient not to wear soft contact lenses while using this medication.
- Inform patient that they may experience a bitter taste in mouth immediately after administration.
- Explain the need to be cautious when driving or participating in activities requiring close hand-eye coordination.
- Instruct patient to notify health care provider if any symptoms of eye infection (ie, burning, redness, itching, possible discharge) occur.
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PORTLAND — Judith Breggia, 71, matriarch of the Breggia family, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014 at her home with her loving family by her side. Judith was a dedicated wife, mother and grandmother.
She was born on June 2, 1943, a daughter of Anthony and Bridget (O'Brien) Russo. Judith attended Cathedral Grammar School and graduated from Portland High School. She was employed by Rines Bros. Department Store.
Judith was a lifelong member of the Italian Heritage Center and served as Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees. She was an integral member of the Charity Committee and also enjoyed participating in the gin & bocce tournament as well as many bowling leagues.
Judith made an impact on the many people whose lives she touched. She supported many local charities and was generous with her time and her heart. She was a loyal friend. If you were lucky enough to be a friend of Judy, you were certain to have a good time, many laughs and the comfort of knowing she was just a phone call away.
She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Camillo (Sonny) L. Breggia; two daughters, Joanne B. Alfiero and her husband Gary of Windham, Gina O. Breggia-Reidy and her husband William of Gorham; a son, Camillo (Sonny) L. Breggia III and his wife Dianne of Portland; three sisters, Dianne Salamone of Portland, Maureen Russo of Riverview, Fla., and Colleen Russo of Tampa, Fla.; two brothers, Anthony Russo and his wife Christine of Manchester, Conn., and Peter Russo and his wife Denise of Valrico, Fla.; five grandchildren, Erica Hogan, Andrew Alfiero, William Reidy, Grace Alfiero and Lucia Reidy; two sisters in-law; Mrs. Joanne Hachey and her husband Joseph of Gorham, Ms. Linda Breggia and her companion James Kane of Portland. She is also survived by her aunt, Margaret Aceto and her husband Dominic of Portland, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Family and friends are invited to attend a time of visitation from 3-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, at Jones Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford St., Portland. Family prayers will be recited at noon on Wednesday followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 1 p.m. at St. Joseph's Church, 673 Stevens Avenue, Portland. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery in South Portland.
Please visit www.jonesrichandhutchins.com for additional information and to sign Judith's online guest book.
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Margie Anne Cushman, 72
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Margie Anne Cushman, 72, of Portland, died October 6th peacefully at Maine Medical Center. Marge was born on June 17, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Lestina and Howard Cushman.
As a child of the military, she lived many places as a child, but always considered Sabattus her true home, where she had many fond memories of working in her grandfather's bakery and in her college years "tearing up the town" with her family and beloved friend Bertha Nason.
After moving to Portland in her 20s, she held many jobs from seamstress to owning a successful antigue business in the then newly developing Old Port. Her favorite song in those days was "On the Road Again," which she would play every time she got in her old van for another antique show. Later, she worked security for MBI and was very proud of her reputation as a "big capable woman with a bigger personality."
When forced to retire due to illness, she moved to Harbor Terrace in Portland. Undaunted by her increasing inability to move and great pain, she made Harbor Terrace her community and for eight years she made blankets, meals for 60 people at a time, and ran Bingo weekly. She was known as a woman not to mess with, she was a ferocious wolf when it came to loving and protecting her family, friends, and particularly people she felt were "broken" and needed a loud voice to fight for them, or a helping hand or meal. She would always pick up the phone at 3:00 a.m. to comfort her granddaughter or anyone else in her life who was in her words making bad decisions or was very sad, always saying this is "something I know a lot about, listen to me!"
Around Portland she became a common sight in her distinctive wheelchair buggy (complete with bullhorns, heat and 100s of stickers) constructed by her good friend Reid. They would often ride together and seemed to bring inspiration and joy to all who would stop them to talk. She insisted on being completely independent, riding throughout town even in the winter to complete her tasks. She was particularly thrilled to see the people of Maine approve medical marijuana and had hoped to see the day when cannabis was legalized federally. She was a member of the Wellness Connection of Maine in Portland and often said that medical marijuana made her last years comfortable and gave her the ability to function. As her loved ones, we would like to specifically thank and applaud the people at the Wellness Connection for giving her such emotional support and pain relief.
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Anne Demmons Childs, 64
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PORTLAND — Anne Demmons Childs, 64, passed away at home on Friday, October 10, 2014 after a brief illness.
Anne was born in Portland on January 11, 1950, the daughter of Ruth Demmons and Clyde 'Duke' Foster Farrington. A lifelong Portlander, she attended Portland schools and graduated from Deering High School, class of 1968.
In her early years, Anne loved spending summers with her sister, Jean, and grandparents, Nana and Bubba, at their camp on Moosehead Lake. She later made countless memories at her parents' camp "Birchmere" on Highland Lake in Windham.
Anne spent her career working for credit unions in the greater Portland area including 25 years with Portland Regional Credit Union and most recently with TruChoice Credit Union in South Portland. She particularly looked forward to her monthly "GNOB" nights spent with her longtime friends in the CU industry.
Anne was an avid reader and had a flair for design and style. She took great pride in decorating her family home on Exeter Street. Anne, Jean and their families always celebrated the holidays on Longview Drive and loved watching their children grow up together. Her most enjoyable weekends were spent traveling the coast of Maine with her love, Joey, looking for interesting antiques and stopping for a bite at Moody's diner.
Anne was an amazing mother and friend to her daughter, Courtney. For the past eight years, they loved sharing their two-family home and seeing each other so frequently. The light of Anne's life was her five year old grandson Max, whom she adored and spent time with almost every day. She was a wonderful Grammy and special woman whose absence will be felt for a long time.
Anne was predeceased by her parents. Anne will be missed and forever remembered by her daughter Courtney Childs, her husband Jeff Spofford and their son Maxwell Spofford, of Portland. Anne is also survived by her sister, Jean McGovern and husband John of Portland; Nephews Jason McGovern and wife, Sharon, and their children Ryan and Avery of Scarborough; Justin McGovern of Portland; and her long-time companion Joseph Nightingale and his family.
Visiting hours are Thursday, Oct. 16, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Jones, Rich & Hutchins in Portland. A private, family graveside service will be held on Friday. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Animal Refuge League.
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Susan Hathaway Boydston
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Susan Hathaway Boydston, Ph.D., was born Dec. 17, 1947 in Boston, Mass., to the late Mary Lee Bird Hathaway and William Dodd Hathaway. She was mother of Elizabeth Britton Larkin of Sarasota, Fla., Lt. Edward "Ned" Hathaway Boydston, USN, and Alexander "Alec" Dodd Boydston, Leiden, The Netherlands. She was grandmother of Kai Benjamin Larkin. She was sister of Fred W. Hathaway (Lee Broadfoot) of Washington, D.C. and aunt of William and Benjamin Hathaway. She was formerly married to Richard Boydston.
She attended public schools in Auburn, Maine and was a graduate of George C. Marshall High School, Falls Church, Virginia. She acquired a B.A. in psychology (1969) Tufts University; MAT in Elementary Education (1972) Simmons College; M.A. in Creative Writing (1994); and Ph.D. in English Literature (2004), University of Cincinnati. She was a member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, PsyArt Foundation, Modern Language Association, Cincinnati Tennis Club. Recipient of several writing awards and honors.
She was a teacher in the Cincinnati Public Schools and English instructor at the University of Cincinnati and numerous other English and reading teaching work over the years. Author of "The Growth of a Self: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Beowolf" (2004).
Susan was a dear friend to many and had a wide array of connections she valued deeply. She was always the life of the party. Some of her happiest times were spent with her family in Maine and enjoying her grandson Kai. Susan had a lifelong passion for learning, teaching and writing. She was committed to growing as a person and had a gift for persistence in spite of obstacles. Above all, Susan was a loving and tender mother who took great joy in raising her children and delighting in their company as adults.
Her physical presence will be missed greatly but her loving spirit will live on in all who knew her.
Visitation is Friday, July 18, 2014 from 5-8 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church. Interment is at 9 a.m. at Spring Grove Cemetery Saturday, July 19, with memorial service following at 11 a.m. at First Unitarian Church, Linton and Reading Road, Cincinnati. Susan asked any memorial donations be made to 4C for Children, 1924 Dana Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45207. Gwen Mooney Funeral Home (513-853-1035) is entrusted with arrangements.
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30 Hour Sous-Vide Eye of Round Roast
Please welcome Mr. B for his first guest post on Bunkycooks. I asked him to write about our experiences cooking with the PolyScience Sous Vide Professional Chef Series since he has been the scientist behind all the madness preparing and cooking foods by this method in our kitchen. He is the analytic and mathematician in our family, so who better to deal with the scientific aspects of cooking sous-vide than Mr. B?!
Sous-vide (cooking foods in a vacuum sealed bag at low temperatures in water) has become all the rage. Most restaurant chefs and now many home cooks are discovering the benefits of this slow cook method. Chef Anthony Lamas of Seviche, A Latin Restaurant, located in Louisville, Kentucky, recently said many people are using sous-vide just because it is the cool new kitchen tool. He said that sous-vide has its place and it should be selectively used in situations where it will improve the food.
With that in mind, I decided to experiment with sous-vide. I am a bit of an analytic so I knew I would come up with something that would appeal to
engineers our readers and provide some very useful guidance.
One of the biggest benefits of sous-vide is that it allows you to slowly cook food to a precise temperature. Its not over-cooked or under-cooked. Cooking times are less precise as the food is brought to the exact temperature using the water circulator and then held at that temperature for as long as you leave it in the water bath.
All foods have different cooking temperatures in sous-vide. Here are the cooking temperatures for the water bath, which is also the final core temperature of the meat:
Short ribs medium 140 degrees Fahrenheit Roast Beef medium 131 degrees Fahrenheit Tenderloin medium 142 degrees Fahrenheit Port Tenderloin medium rare 140 degrees Fahrenheit Salmon partially cooked 115 degrees Fahrenheit Flounder medium 117 degrees Fahrenheit Chicken 165 degrees Fahrenheit
Sous-vide allows you to precisely achieve and hold the specified temperature. It is also easier to obtain very specific temperatures even up to 1/10 of one degree. Can you imagine trying to check the core temperature of a piece of flounder?
The other advantage is the longer you slow cook certain meats, the more tender they will become as the cooking time breaks down the collagens (also known as the connective tissue) in the meat. After all, if 24 hour short ribs are good, 72 hour short ribs must be better, right? Well, that is what I wanted to find out.
I decided to test various cooking times to determine if there is a point where additional cooking no longer provides a more tender meat and if so, what is that cooking time.
The verdict: Despite cooking the ribs 24, 48 or even 72 hours, the inside of the meat had a beautiful red center because of the sous-vide method. However, there were some differences. There is no question that cooking short ribs 24 hours in sous-vide provided a tender and perfectly cooked meat. At 48 hours the ribs continued to become more tender, however, we noticed that they seemed a little drier. At 72 hours the short ribs were definitely on the dry side. Yes, they were very tender, but we found that they required a sauce to supplement what we perceived to be a loss of moisture. This seemed odd since the meat is cooked in a sealed bag. Why would the meat become drier if the moisture could not escape the bag?
Okay, this really
got me excited had me intrigued. A mystery to be solved. So, with pencil and graph paper in hand, I headed to the internet to find the clues.
Very little has been written about this observation until I came across a scientific site called SciVerse. There is an article entitled "Physico-chemical, textural and structural characteristics of sous-vide cooked pork cheeks as affected by vacuum, cooking temperature, and cooking time." I just knew it was going to be filled with charts, graphs, facts and scientific references that
most of us won't understand I find fascinating. Here is a link to the article if you want to numb your mind as well.
What I did learn from this article was that weight loss is lower and moisture content is higher the less the protein is cooked in the water bath. Also, meat cooked above 70-80 degrees centigrade increases the toughness of the meat as the proteins change. (scientifically it is called miofibrilar coagulation). Cooking longer periods of time, even at lower temperatures, resulted in more moisture loss.
I put this new found knowledge to the test on a beef eye of round roast. I knew that cooking this roast in the oven produced a somewhat dry and tough piece of meat. This cut of beef contains little fat and a lot of connective tissue; a perfect test for sous-vide (low fat, high connective tissue). The meat was seasoned with salt and pepper and I added a mustard and garlic rub.
I quickly seared the meat, placed it in a vacuum bag for sealing and cooled it in a ice bath (this is an important step to kill any potential bacteria on the outside of the meat prior to cryovacing). It was vacuum sealed by a FoodSaver and then cooked by sous-vide method at 131 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 hours. I believed this would provide sufficient time to break down the connective tissue and not dry out the protein. After removing the meat from the vacuum sealed bag I seared it off in a skillet to provide color and texture.
The Results: The beef eye of round was full of flavor and as tender as a tenderloin steak. Clearly, the long and slow, low temperature sous-vide cooking method produced a very high quality result. If I had continued to allow the eye of round to cook in the sous-vide water bath for another 24 to 48 hours it would result in loss of weight and a drier final product.
What you can learn from our experiments and research:
- Cooking sous-vide can make a dramatic difference in the quality of the final protein but choose wisely. The biggest difference is in cuts of red meat that are typically low in fat and high in connective tissue. We have also cooked fish with outstanding results which you can read about here.
- While you don't have to be precise in the cooking time, you should be very precise in the cooking temperature.
- More is not always better. If 24 hours is good, 72 hours is not necessarily better. The longer you cook the protein the more it will dry out the meat, despite the juices being sealed in that vacuum bag.
* I undertook an additional experiment with lamb chops. The recommended cooking time for 1-inch lamb chops is 2 hours at 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Once again, 24 hours seemed to provide the best time to produce a more tender and moist chop.
Note: Please be advised that you should exercise caution when cooking sous-vide. Here are some food preparation tips.
Disclosure – PolyScience has provided us with the Sous Vide Professional Chef Series for our review.
30 Hour Sous-Vide Eye of Round Roast
Yield: 6 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 hours
Total Time: 30 hours, 15 minutes
3 lb. beef eye of round roast
yellow mustard
Extra-virgin olive oil
1 1/2 tablespoons black pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons sea salt
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1. Liberally apply yellow mustard, half of the salt and half of the pepper to the eye of round. In a hot skillet, quickly sear the outside of the roast in a little olive oil. Do not try to cook the roast. A quick searing will kill any bacteria that is on the outside.
2. Reapply a generous coating of yellow mustard and the remaining salt and pepper. Add chopped garlic to the outside of the roast and place the roast in a bag that will be used for vacuum sealing.
3. Place the unsealed bag in ice water for about 10 minutes. This is a required step in sous-vide to bring the temperature of the meat back down.
4. Seal the bag using a vacuum seal system. If there are juices in the bag, you might want to freeze the bag for 5 minutes prior to sealing. This process will help prevent the juices from being sucked up and out of the bag which could prevent a good, tight seal. Place the bag in a circulating bath of 131 degrees (medium). Allow to process for 24-30 hours.
5. Remove the roast from the bag. Again, sear the roast in a hot skillet to provide a pleasing finish. Slice and serve.
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Is "The Big One" attacking Windows soon?
updated 12:10 pm EDT, Fri August 11, 2006
Big One Attacking Windows
Security experts have often talked about the possibility of a "Big One" striking Windows: a worm which spreads so quickly and destructively through the Internet that large numbers of connected computers are rendered almost unusable by the infection, not having had the time to patch the vulnerability. The chances of such an attack are fairly low, since truly damaging worms either hurt their own ability to spread or else are quickly contained through updates. Our closest brush with a "Big One" was the Blaster worm, which bombarded networks with traffic and crippled Windows XP systems without a firewall or the right patch. A newly discovered Windows vulnerability, however, has experts scrambling to warn users lest their worst fears come true. More about the problem and reactions to it after the jump.
The exploit was one patched this past Tuesday: an opportunity exists for a buffer overrun in the Server Service of every Windows version from 2000 through to Server 2003. If a worm writer successfully takes advantage of the hole, they could create denial-of-service attacks and other forms of damage that either flood users offline or affect the system itself. Potential fallout from the exploit is so severe that the US Department of Homeland Security issued its own warning, telling Windows users at large that an unpatched system could seriously affect both businesses and governments. Such alarms may be overstated - Windows users with automatic updates enabled will not be affected - but millions of PCs still exist that might not have the patch due to manual updating or earlier OS versions.


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The E-E Battery Computer Project. Part ISaturday, February 10th, 2007
It's been a while between posts because I've rewritten this one several times, just can't seem to find the balance to keep it interesting for the technophiles and those a bit more perplexed by elec-trick-imy. So apologies if this doesn't hold your interest…
The Issues
- My lead acid AGM batteries will be damaged if overcharged.
- I want to collect data about my batteries, while driving and while charging.
- I want everybody to see my data, live on the web – if possible!
The solution
A computer that;
- monitors all the individual battery voltages (12 x 12Volts).
- monitors the battery pack current.
- shuts off the battery charger if any battery is over the recommended maximum voltage (14.7V).
- applies a temporary load to any battery that appears to be charging quicker than the rest.
- stores the collected data onto a removable memory card.
- streams the live data to a standard serial port.
- is very configurable.
The progress
So far my friend and brother-in-law, Mark Philips has done a fantastic job of putting together a little AVR micro controller board that does all the logic stuff required for the above.
His micro (well, it's mine now!);
- has an SPI interface that talks to my 16 channel A/D MUX for individual battery monitoring.
- has a basic 80 char two line display.
- sends the data collected from the MUX out on a RS-232 Com port.
- saves the data collected from the MUX onto a SD memory card in CSV format.
- has an ISP port for simple reprogramming of the micro.
- has its own real-time clock.
- has another 13 programmable pins to do lots more I/O stuff with!


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There are lots of things that investors believe which I find perplexing. The Superbowl indicator is one, but the oddest to me is the so-called Fed Model, also known as the IBES Valuation Model.
It is not that the Fed model is so terribly wrong — it has been both right and wrong over the years. Rather, it is the way too many people conceptualize it.
First, the definition of the Fed Model: Yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury Bonds should be similar to the S&P 500 earnings yield (forward earnings divided by the S&P price). This, in theory, should inform you of when equities are over-priced or under-priced.
Note that the formula contains two variables: While it is commonly described as a way to evaluate when stocks are over- or under-valued, the other variable in the formula above is the forward S&P500 earnings consensus. SPX prices and the 10 year yield are the knowns, while BOTH valuation and forward earnings estimates are the unknowns.
Thus, the Fed model today might be telling you either of two things: When equities are undervalued — or when consensus earning estimates are simply too high.
Let's see how that looks on a chart:
graphic courtesy of Hays Advisory (June 2007)
Looking at the chart above, we can identify some rather odd periods. The model had stocks extremely undervalued in 1979 — just before a major 30% selloff. In 1981, stocks were fairly valued on the eve of the greatest bull market in history. From 1982-85, stocks bounced between slightly overvalued to undervalued, according to the model. In 1987, a very timely crash warning. 1998, an extremely early crash warning, missing a huge 2 year run in the indices. In 2001, it had stocks as undervalued — and they proceeded to get a whole lot cheaper over the next 2 years. Equities have been extremely undervalued ever since.
Now, given that rather inconsistent track record, I find it hard to get too excited about this. But the most damning evidence against the Fed model is the period prior to 1960s. Over that entire, the Fed model had no utility whatsoever. "Out of sample" testing — looking at a different set of data than the one proffered — is quite damning to the Fed model.
Which brings us back to today. We continue to see the Fed model used to rationalize a bullish stance in equities. However, given that it is based in large part on analysts consensus for future SPX earnings, investors need to be extremely cautious relying solely on the Fed model. Why? Analysts are unflaggingly inaccurate at turning points. Example: Q3 S&P500 earnings consensus were +8% — S&P500 earnings came in at -8%. Q4 has been similarly lowered, undercutting the earlier forecasts of undervaluation.
Now let's look at 2008. S&P 500 forward earnings over the next 4 quarters are as follows: Q1 = 3%; Q2 = 4%; Q3 = 20%; Q4 = 50%, according to UBS.
So stocks, so we are confronted with two possibilities. Perhaps, equities are seriously undervalued (that assumes earnings explode in 2H). An alternative explanation, and one I suspect is more likely: Analysts consensus earnings are wildly exuberant for the second half.
One last issue: Let's ignore the analysts, and merely consider mean reversion: As the chart below shows, earnings have been unusually high relative to history. If they merely mean revert, they will come down another 25%. Even worse, most mean reversion blows right past historical averages to opposite extremes.
Graphic courtesy of Vitaliy's Contrarian Edge, from the book Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets
The bottom line — either equities are extremely under-valued, or analyst consensus earnings are significantly too high.
But to treat the Fed model as if it merely looks at valuation is to ignore a key variable — future earnings consensus — that tends to be wrong at the worst possible moment . . .
Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets
by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
Wiley, September 28, 2007
A Profit Fumble — or Not?
WSJ, February 4, 2008; Page C1
Fight the Fed Model: The Relationship Between Stock Market Yields, Bond Market Yields, and Future Returns
AQR Capital Management, December 2002
The Fed Model: The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly
IESE Business School January 2006
Solving the Price-Earnings Puzzle
University of Technology, Sydney – School of Finance and Economics
SHENHUAI GAO University of Sydney – Economics and Business
April 2002UTS Working Paper No. 116
Blog Synthesis: Gunning for the Fed Model?
Category: Data Analysis, Earnings, Fixed Income/Interest Rates, Quantitative, Valuation
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
33 Responses to "The Flawed Fed Valuation Model"
The model should be discounting earnings to inflation, not bond yields:
Taking into account the fact that inflation is understated, the valuation perspective changes dramatically…
First, the definition of the Fed Model: Yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury Bonds should be similar to the S&P 500 earnings yield (forward earnings divided by the S&P price).
Sorry but this has the bullshit meter tipping off the scales. Since when has it been assumed that the return on risky assets should be roughly the same as the return on government bonds. If people actually believe that statement then there is little wonder the financial markets are in a mess.
Stocks carry significant risk (think enron)and should produce significantly higher returns over time – recalibrate that chart to stocks earning bonds plus 3-5% and see how it looks. I would guess even more idiotic than you are rightly suggesting.
BR – Couldn't this model be skewed by bond yields being "artificially" low? It seems as though the conundrum of lower 10-yr yields could be as much a driver as equity valuations.
There has been way too much ink and too many bytes wasted on this POS idea. Asness' piece is very good if you haven't read it.
I can debunk it very quickly–if the 10 year Treasury trades to 1%, do you really think the market PE should be 100? Just ask the Japanese how that is working out for them.
Put the "Fed Model" in with Ben Stein!
This model is flawed in so many ways as to be completley irrelevant. Aside from the facts already stated, the yield curve has been distorted by the same Bretton Woods II perversions that have resulted in the other excesses and bloodletting in the economy. perhaps it is a bit to coincidental that Bush is out stompoing for free tradem, when the serious moves in academic circles is to reassess the value of "free" trade. The treasury curve as the short view in the FT points out today is massivily overvalued – asset bubble (just harder for people to realize that the governement is yt again expropriating their savings with supressed yields. The system is now so corrupt and perverted the government has got to be thanking their ucky stars for the "forced" 401K flows into equity markets.
I can debunk it very quickly–if the 10 year Treasury trades to 1%, do you really think the market PE should be 100? Just ask the Japanese how that is working out for them
It could go higher than that… certainly if eps go to near 0!
John Hussman has written extensively about the problems with this model. One of his points is that the 10-year Treasury is not the proper comparison, because the effective duration on a common stock is much longer than the duration on the Treasury.
I think Mike makes an obvious point. The current rate on the 10 year bond has nothing at all to do with expectations of return. I bought a 10 year TIP last spring that has a yield of 2.6% + the CPI.
Is there really anyone who thinks inflation is going to be less than 1% for the next 10 years? If it is, it will be because we are in a severe deflationary episode and the stock market will be in for a hell of a lot more pain.
Analyst earnings estimates are way too high. Does anyone really think 4Q08 earnings are going to show 50% growth? In the last 20 years (all I have data for) S&P500 earnings growth has never been better than 35% quarter over quarter.
As someone mentioned before, John Hussman has pointed out the flaws in the Fed model many a time. Look at trailing earnings rather than forecast earnings, particularly at turning points such as we are experiencing now.
hmmmmm let's see the Fed endorses a model that shows stocks are cheap relative to what????
if the Fed was not actively engaged in removing most options for investing and forcing people to buy equities, based on it's actions that have affected bonds and currency I might be inclined to give it some merit.
But since it makes absolutely no sense and relies on P/E ratios that are not really indicative of what the valuation is really worth…I'll pass.
Case in point….AMZN is a "value stock" with a p/E ratio well north of anything resembling value.
Barry, not only are you right, but you get serious kudos for straightforward and cogent explication. right on ya mate!
Time for another round of rate cuts?! Come tomorrow it will be 5 days and we haven't had a rate cut.
But stocks are cheap, compared to your house!
Bernanke must get rates to 1% again FAST, so that he and Greenie will forever be linked as the two worst central bankers… of all time. (i wonder how the Fed model looks if you use trailing 10-yr actual earnings and yields instead of forecasts. certainly no one knows what's happening years or quarters out when they often cant explain what's happened to their businesses in the Q just ended)
Seems everyone agrees the model is seriously flawed – case in point Japan.(ZIRP)
The US is now close to ZIRP, or will it be
(zero interest rate policy or less America).
If a "new and improved" method were used
in the new world economy, wouldn't you use
the S&P's PE ratio and use the yield on
Australian bonds or Euro Bonds (or both) to see how cheap or expensive the S&P really is,
or better yet, tie in
maybe some other world index(s) compared to bond yields of the world.
Now doesn't that sound like fun????
Steve Bowles:
The idiotic defense I've read for why people can conceptually accept no equity risk premium in the FED model formula is that it gives you a "free" option on growth. So when you consider the value of that implied option, it does take into account an equity risk premium.
The entire framework is retarded and provides stupid results at the extreme as everyone recognizes with the Japanese experience.
The UBS numbers appear to reflect operating earnings rather than as-reported earnings.
S&P's numbers for operating earnings are:
Q3 at $25.13 versus $20.87, up 20.4%, and
Q4 at $26.66 versus $17.12, up 55.7%.
For the full year, $97.99 versus $84.44, up 16%.
S&P's as-reported numbers are very different:
Q3 at $17.10 versus $15.15, up 11.4%, and
Q4 at $14.30 versus $14.50, down 1.4%.
For the full year, $67.90 versus $72.86, down 6.8%.
Disparities between operating and as-reported earnings numbers were a defining characteristic of the late-bubble and bursting-bubble years, when it was difficult to even have a rational conversation about valuations.
The beauty is that as investors we don't have to buy the whole "market", we have the opportunity to buy individual companies. In 2000 & 2001 if you looked at the "market" in general, the valuations looked very expensive relative to any metric you wanted to throw at it. However, if you looked away from tech, and the Vanguard 500 Index bubble stocks (Bogle got a free pass on that one) there were great bargains to be had, selling at low fundamental valuations, and investors that looked away from the crowd did pretty well.
As investors we have the choice not to buy imploding or overvalued situations, we don't have to buy the "market".
As Jeff Matthews states on his Dairy Queen/Berkshire analysis "Thus a more objective way to look at the sales price of Dairy Queen would be to simply compare it to the cost of money, which is how most rational buyers—Warren Buffett especially—determine valuation."
The cost of capital for well heeled buyers has been greatly reduced, and many equites have been crushed. That is an interesting combination for specific company situations.
Street Sleuth: Fed Model May Distort Stock View; Valuation Tool's Outlook For S&P 500 Overstates Bull's Case, Critics Say
March 22, 2004
According to the minutes of its January meeting, some members of the Federal Reserve's policy-making committee worried that financial-market valuations "left little room for downside risks." But the central bankers couldn't have been talking about stocks — at least not if you buy into the idea that they were using the valuation tool that is often referred to as the "Fed model."
To the contrary, using the Fed model, which looks at the relationship between stocks' price-to-earnings ratios and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, stocks are wildly undervalued. Right now the model says the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index should be more than 50% higher than it is.
But don't reach for the party hat just yet. Even the people who use this sort of valuation metric think that it overstates the bull case.
In its simplest form, the Fed model holds that the 10-year Treasury yield and the earnings yield on the S&P 500 (expected earnings over the next year divided by price — the inverse of the price-to-earnings ratio) should be the same. When Treasurys yield more than stocks are expected to, for instance (as they did through the late 1990s into 2002), they are a more attractive investment than stocks. When they yield less than stocks, it is time to shift money back into the stock market.
The notion that the Federal Reserve watches this relationship was first put forth by Prudential Equity Group chief investment strategist Edward Yardeni and derives from the Fed's July 1997 Monetary Policy Report to Congress, which said that the 10-year Treasury yield exceeded the S&P's earnings yield by the largest amount since 1991.
In fact, similar valuation methods had been used for years before the Fed mention, and many institutional investors continue to employ them.
"The Fed model is prevalent from my experience," said Carlos Asilis, a portfolio manager at the hedge fund Vega Asset Management. "Major asset allocators like insurers and pension managers look at it closely."
A problem with the model now, Mr. Asilis said, is that owing to the low federal-funds rate and buying by the Bank of Japan and other central banks, the 10-year Treasury yield, at 3.75%, has become unnaturally low — meaning that it implies a far higher level for the S&P than really may be justified.
Mr. Yardeni of Prudential Equity concurs, saying that a more reasonable yield on the 10-year would be 5%. Still, on that basis, the S&P 500 would be valued fairly at 1280, about 15% higher than it is now.
"I think that stocks are undervalued and bonds are overvalued," he said.
Mr. Asilis said that the Fed model is more useful as a valuation tool when earnings growth is on the rise. When the profits cycle peaks, and earnings growth begins to decelerate, it isn't as reliable, he said.
For Cliff Asness, managing principal at the hedge fund AQR Capital Management and a longtime critic of the Fed model, the problems with the metric cut even deeper. Treasury yields are a forecast for future inflation — they rise and fall on inflation expectations — but when inflation falls, profits growth tends to slow as well, Mr. Asness said. Stocks' price-to-earnings ratios shouldn't vary according to the rate of inflation, because their earnings already do.
Stock returns should decline when inflation slows, Mr. Asness said. "People get fooled by Fed-model thinking into paying high [price/earnings ratios] for stocks."
Mr. Asness said that the transcripts of Federal Open Market Committee's February 1997 meeting suggest Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan may share his view. At the meeting, Mr. Greenspan equated interest rates with the rate of economic growth and then said that it appeared to him that the stock market was forecasting that corporate profits would grow significantly more quickly than the overall economy. For this to happen there would need to be a rise in profit margins, which Mr. Greenspan deemed improbable.
Despite these objections, Morgan Stanley senior investment strategist Byron Wien, who long has used a valuation tool that compares Treasury and earnings yields, said that such models still have validity. Treasury yields aren't necessarily a forecast of earnings growth, he said. Otherwise it would be hard to square the strong earnings growth and low Treasury yields of the past year.
He said Treasury yields have fallen too low, and so he doesn't believe that his model's heady target is valid. But still, he thinks his model is saying something.
"I trust the directional message of the model, but not the magnitude," he said.
Earnings estimates are too high.
Analysts lag reality. Too many assume earnings increase in a linear fashion.
Is CAPEX going to save us too????
I think it only became popular because it was a good sales aid for the sell side: sounded sort of "smart" or "scientific" without being too complicated for the retail investor to understand.
This model is really really dumb. It compares apples (bond yields which are nominal) to oranges (equity yields which are real).
The Modigliani-Cohn hypothesis from 1979 and from a nobel prizing winning economist lays it out very clearly. Here is a summary of what it says and more recent analysis: http://www.nber.org/digest/oct04/w10263.html .
At the end of the day, we should all keep our mouths shut because this "inflation illusion" creates incredible investment opportunties for those in the know.
Serious value investors (including Buffett) use 5 year or (preferably) 10 year trailing earnings, rather than "predicted" earnings. The ratios won't be exactly the same, but it might be interesting to graph it.
Will we have to reach the point of dividend yields exceeding bond yields before people think they are a buy as used to be the case in the 50s? That would only mean a drop of say 50%?
Lord, I can think of quite a few large cap equities with "safe" dividend yields that are higher than the 10 year, currently @ 3.6%. Tobacco, pharma, chemicals, foods,are good places to look. Banks of course are suspect, but I wouldn't overlook those either.
I think the profit margin numbers are misleading to some degree due to their influence by financials over the past 5 years. There is a good chart in Business Week that shows non-financial companies' profits have been tracking close to historic norms. Of course all this indicates is that financials are still huge shorts.
Not disagreeing with the main points. Just want to add two comments: 1) The fed model is not officially a fed model; 2) There are ways to use only past earnings to time the market, not in the sense that it can always get the direction right, but in the sense that it usually does better than buy-and-hold:
I agree the fed model is useless, but another model I follow is also very bullish, the specialist shorts, look at the invtools.com chart. any thoughts on why these xperts are signalling bull?
Alan Greenspan agrees with your post. Federal Reserve Board Publication 2000 – 05 written by Fed economist Michael Kiley concluded the Gordon Model (Fed Model) to value the stock market is flawed and unusable. Kiley's article states on page 5,6 that he was told by Mr. Greenspan that when he spoke in 1996 of irrational exuberance he was specifically referring to the q ratio and SP price/dividend ratio to value the stock market, not the Fed model.
Barry, I have a more complex version of the "Fed Model" that is more rigorous:
There are still limitations to it, and I describe them at the end. People make too much out of the Fed model, and try to make arguments that the market is absolutely cheap, when all it does is measure relative cheapness to bonds.
I'm pretty sure I read the other day on Bloomberg that the p/e on the DJStoxx50 in Europe was close to 11. I can't retrieve the article anywhere but I would love to know if anyone could verify that that 11 p/e is correct. If that is accurate I think it sheds light on how far the US market can fall from here just on multiple compression. I can't see any reason at all that our market should sell at a 25% premium multiple to European blue chips in today's bearish environment.
For accuracy, it is better to use after-tax corporate profit, adjusted for short and long-run rents, relative to tangible corporate assets x 100, not GDP.
On this basis, the avg. rate of corp. profit in the U.S. has been declining ever since the 1960s*. I would note as well that global firms' avg rate of profit has since at least 1988 been quite low.
*Adjusted avg profit rate
(500 largest U.S. firms)
1954-1959 — 7.71
1960-1969 — 7.15
1970-1979 — 6.30
1980-1989 — 5.30
1990-1999 — 4.02 (2.29 without adjustment for rent)
2000-2002 — 3.30 (1.32 without " " " )
Tellingly, there has been a long period now during which, on the above decade by decade scale, avg rate of profit resides below 10-yr Treasury yields.
Equities and other financial assets prices have been inflated well beyond what more standard analysis implies; the gap between price and profit has become very extreme. Under these circumstances and with the evident failing of price support policies, price falls to and below value.


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Love your shelves. They look great.
And your bread looks delicious!
Oh Geninne I get so excited when I see another post to devour on your blog! Love, love LOVE your shelves (and the beautiful arrangement of objects) and earlier I took a look at you latest studio arrangement and was almost drooling! Very inspiring - Thank you!
I love your blog, your workspace looks like organisational heaven,
It's no surprise such great things have come out of that space.
Mmm, that apple bread looks delicious...
i love all the cedar in your studio. it's giving me ideas for some rearranging we are going to be doing in our house.
and bread. i love bread. especially fresh from the oven.
Hi. I've followed your blog some time now and I love it. It is very inspirering. I linked you in my blogroll.
Such a nice space!
Love it...
your house is amazing. Should be in a magazine... ah.. love it.
Could you share the apple bread recipe?
oh yummy bread.... and I love the shelves.
Did you make the bread? It sounds good.
What a wonderful idea for shelves. I like the cedar planks. Very clean yet solid looking.
loving your blog! amazingly detailed artwork of yours - so impressive. do u have a recipe for your scrumptous apple bread?
thanks :)
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