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We'll look at 3 methods of SMD soldering. The easiest components have feet or other accessible contacts
that lay flat on the board's pads. These you can connect with a soldering iron. A quick touch of the tip, and a
bit of solder will naturally flow under the foot and make the connection. This is the magic of SMD soldering —
capillary action does most of the work for you.
Other SMD packages have their contacts on the underside, out of reach. You can solder these in 2 ways:
individually, using solder or solder paste and a jet of hot air, or en masse by positioning all components on
the board with solder paste between each contact and its pad, and then heating the board on a skillet or in
a toaster oven to "reflow" the board (melt the paste) and make all the connections.
Each method has its own tools and supplies. Here
are the ones you'll need for iron-soldering the
simplest SMDs: resistors, capacitors, and IC
(integrated circuit) packages with leads.
» Soldering stations include a sponge, but a dry tip
cleaner lets you clean a soldering tip without lowering
its temperature.
» Fine-tipped industrial tweezers let you pick
up and align small components. Also helpful are
hemostats, dental picks (for fixing bent leads),
and an X-Acto knife.
» Soldering tip selection is a matter of personal
preference. I prefer a small e" (0.8mm) chisel or
screwdriver tip because it can hold a bit of solder
at its end. I don't recommend tips smaller than
0.6mm, as solder tends to draw away from the
point. Bevel/spade/hoof tips are designed to hold
a small ball of solder at the end, which is useful for
the drag-soldering technique explained later.
» Flux is the secret sauce in surface-mount soldering. It removes oxides from the connections so that
solder can bond to them, and also helps to distribute heat. During normal through-hole soldering, you
heat the joint with an iron and then melt solder wire
against it, which lets the flux in the solder's core
melt out and clean the joint. With surface-mount
soldering, solder is often melted on the iron and » Desoldering braid or wick is a fine mesh of copper
then transferred to the joint — a mortal sin in regular strands that you can use to remove excess solder.
soldering. The flux tends to boil off during this
transfer, so you need to add more to the connection
directly. Flux comes in 3 types of container: felt pen,
brush bottle, and needle bottle.
» Use 0.02" or 0.015" diameter, flux-cored solder.
To get the hang of SMT, I'd recommend starting off
with lead-based solder, which is slightly easier to
work with.
» You can solder all but the most finely pitched
components using a lighted magnifying glass, and
you can use a $10 loupe with 10x magnification for
the finest. If you expect to do a lot of SMD work,
get a stereo zoom microscope with up to 30x
magnification (try eBay).
» For removing SMDs without a hot air station and
myriad special nozzles, use the Chip Quik SMD
removal kit (item #SMD1, $16 from
The kit contains a low-melting-point metal that when
mixed with existing solder causes it to remain molten
for a couple of seconds — long enough to flick off
the component.
» A small vise such as a PanaVise.
» I recommend getting a temperature-controlled
soldering station, at least 50 watts, which will probably cost $50–$120. A cheap 15W iron will work on
some things, but will be slower and more frustrating.
A good soldering iron is especially important if you're
using lead-free solder, which requires higher heat.
Install a 1206 Resistor
Now we're ready to install a surface-mount resistor.
Note that the resistive element in an SMT resistor
is exposed and colored, and it should face upward
to dissipate heat. The number 1206 means that the
package measures 0.12"×0.06". A 603 package is
0.06"×0.03", and so on. Let's get started.
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The Morning Leverage: PE Has Formula for Chemical Deals
Top stories in this morning's LBO Wire:
Secondary chemical deals are flowing for private equity. A week after Riverside Co. said it plans to sell specialty chemical maker DuBois Holding Co. to Aurora Capital Group, Jonathan Shieber reports exclusively for LBO Wire that Golden Gate Capital has acquired chemicals manufacturer ArrMaz Custom Chemicals from SnowPhipps Group in a roughly $500 million deal. Click here to read the full story (subscription required).
TA Associates has the password for a new deal, acquiring a majority stake in DigiCert, a provider of authentication services for businesses like Facebook, PayPal and IBM, Michael Wursthorn reports.
More stories available to LBO Wire subscribers: MB Global Partners has raised about $150 million so far for its debut fund…Tricor Pacific Capital holds a first closing on about $140 million for its fifth fund…First Reserve Corp. restructures NFR Energy through two deals totaling $736 million.
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Cerberus Capital Management plans to sell gun manufacturer Freedom Group after one of the company's weapons was used in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Isabella Steger reports for The Wall Street Journal. Deal Journal has Cerberus' statement in full.
The U.K. business secretary is investigating the collapse of electrical chain Comet after saying OpCapita's Henry Jackson reaped nearly 50 million U.K. pounds from the break-up of the company, according to The Sun.
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Chrysler is using one of its SRT Viper GTS-R racing cars as a rolling billboard to promote "Rush," the coming motorsport film from director Ron Howard.
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"Rush" focuses on the rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 championship season. The Austrian Lauda was the defending world champion in 1976, driving for the powerful Ferrari team. Hunt, the great hope for English race fans, had finally landed a spot on the competitive McLaren team.
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The Director-General of the BBC is to be questioned by MPs next week about his claim that he did not know Newsnight was investigating allegations of child abuse against Jimmy Savile.
John Whittingdale, Conservative chairman of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, told The Times that George Entwistle's statement that he was told the programme was investigating Savile but not which aspect of his life was "slightly odd". Mr Entwistle is expected to appear before the committee on Tuesday, when he will face questions about his decision to run two tributes to Savile last Christmas after the Newsnight investigation


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How do I get rid of hole in Thumb Gusset?
I am making my first pair of mittens. I am using the 2 needle method. When I got to the part were you joing the front and back it left a hole in the thumb gusset. How do I fix it so the holes is no longer there?
You can pick up an extra st there when you knit the thumb sts, or use the tail from the thumb yarn to close it up.
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Steven Davidoff has the analysis here, but it seems he hadn't seen the Wachovia-Citigroup exclusivity agreement, which is here. The agreement doesn't contain a fiduciary out (a provision that lets the board do with a different bidder if it feels that its fiduciary duties require it to do so). Is Wells Fargo banking on North Carolina corporate law giving it a way out of the contract?Update: I've clarified that the agreement mentioned above is the Wachovia/Citi exclusivity agreement. Here's a link to a great interview with Elizabeth Nowicki on the subject.
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1. Posted by Vania Shaw on October 3, 2008 @ 17:36 | Permalink
Citigroup should not be the least bit unhappy with what Wachovia and Wells Fargo have done.
Citigroup has a fabulous tort claim against Wells Fargo for interference with contract and interference with prospective economic advantage. Their lawyers can file a complaint against both Wachovia and Wells Fargo in a state or Federal court sitting in New York City.
The case cannot be moved out of that court (except by way of bankruptcy of Wachovia or Wells Fargo) because the exclusivity contract contained a specific waiver by Wachovia of any right to move it and because Wells Fargo does business in New York. Wells Fargo and Wachovia will have to defend their conduct in front of a jury of New York residents. While New Yorkers hate banks, they hate crackers and Californians even more.
Neither Wachovia or Wells Fargo can raise the issue of any breach of fiduciary duty by Wachovia under North Carolina law for 3 reasons: (1) A tortfeasor cannot raise fiduciary duty as a defense for his own wrongful conduct towards a third party; (2) A third party tortfeasor cannot raise another party's breach of fiduciary duty as a defense to the third party tortfeasor's own wrongful conduct; and (3) There was no fiduciary duty breach at the time of the tortious conduct by Wells Fargo and Wachovia.
Fiduciary duty is a red herring raised by moronic business lawyers who have never seen the inside of a court room.
The measure of Citigroup's tort damages is their economic loss. They lost a cheap purchase price for Wachovia's branch banking system. Citigroup will be able to use Wells Fargo's own accounting records to show the book value of the branches to Wells Fargo, based on what Wells Fargo paid for them. That will be the value of the branches the jury considers. The jury will take that number and deduct the $1.2 Billion Citigroup was supposed to pay. On economic loss from the tort alone Wells Fargo is looking at having to pay $2 Billion to $2.5 Billion in damages.
At time of trial, Citigroup will be able to show that Wells Fargo's employees, including former senior Wachovia employees, interfered with and breached the Citigroup-Wachovia contract for the economic profit of the senior officer employees (who are Wachovia shareholders) and for the economic profit of Wachovia...which by then will have been merged into Wells Fargo which will be liable for Wachovia's torts. Thus, the tests for punitive damges against Wells Fargo and its principal officers and shareholders will have been met and prospect for a punitive damage award over and above the economic damages is very great.
Since Warren Buffett's company is the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo, there is even some chance that the Oracle of Omaha will be forced to testify for days and days in depositions, as well as at trial if Citigroup's lawyers find any evidence that Buffett was personally involved in the decision to prematurely cut in on Citigroup's deal. A New York jury is going to have a good time taking money out of the pocket of a billionaire hayseed's company.
The plaintiffs lawyers will probably try to plead and prove a tort claim, with punitive damages, against Buffett personally.
The plaintiffs' lawyers for Citigroup are licking their chops. This is going to be the best tort claim ever.
2. Posted by Jake on October 3, 2008 @ 20:04 | Permalink
"The best tort claim ever."
On what standard?
Enriching tort lawyers?
Advancing the regrettable conflation of tort and contract law by further enthroning "interference with contract" claims?
Providing a playground for those members of the bar who specialize in abusive discovery?
Or endorsing wildly speculative damages calculations?
3. Posted by Elizabeth Nowicki on October 5, 2008 @ 17:25 | Permalink
Usha, your second link is not to the merger agreement. That's just the Exclusivity Agreement. I do not believe Citigroup/Wachovia ever released a "term sheet" (which was the best they had - the negotiations had not advanced to the stage that they would have a merger agreement).
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Genetic Causes of Congenital Abnormalities in Horses
Teri Lear, PhD
A main goal of the International Equine Genome Mapping Workshop was to develop and use tools needed for identifying genes causing inherited genetic diseases. My lab is particularly interested in congenital abnormalities of horses that may be inherited.
A primary focus of the lab is investigating the cause of Contracted Foal Syndrome (CFS). Foals with CFS are born with contracted legs and are usually unable to stand and nurse, particularly if they have the severe form of the condition. Some foals are born with only a club foot or one affected limb affected, while others display a full spectrum of abnormalities including all four limbs contracted, wry nose and spinal curvature. We believe that some forms of CFS are inherited. This is based on the fact that some mares have produced up to four foals with CFS even though the mares were housed on different farms during their pregnancies and the foals were sired by different stallions.
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BARNARD A nonprofit group in Barnard is planning to buy the building that housed a general store for 180 years at the edge of Silver Lake until it closed last spring.
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WASHINGTON — A pickup in consumer spending and steady home sales helped lift economic growth from October through early November in most parts of the U.S., according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday.
Growth improved in nine of the Fed's 12 regional banking districts, the survey said. Growth was weaker in New York, Philadelphia and Boston — areas where Sandy caused widespread disruptions.
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Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the message from the survey was "the economy looks to have improved slightly in the current quarter, led by housing and consumers though businesses remain worried about the outlook."
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Carly Peters' Five Takeaways at Colorado
vs. Nashville: November 26
vs. Philadelphia: November 24
vs. New York Rangers: November 20
at Detroit: November 19
vs. Anaheim: November 17
at Florida: November 12
at Atlanta: November 11
at Columbus: November 6
vs. Calgary: November 5
vs. San Jose: November 2
vs. Chicago: October 30
vs. Washington: October 28
vs. Los Angeles: October 25
at Vancouver: October 23
To start off, it's never fun to write a story like this after a loss like the Wild suffered tonight. But, there are certainly five things to take away from this loss even if we'd rather not think about tonight's game too much.
One of the positives from tonight was the Wild's first period. Minus a Colorado goal from a weird angle just over a minute into the game, the Wild was great in the stanza. Crisp passing, scoring chances and great overall play marked what Todd Richards said in his postgame comments was one of the best periods the Wild has played all season. Which brings us to...
If we had to pick a storyline for Minnesota's season so far, it might be the Wild's struggle in one of its three periods each game, nearly always coming in the second frame.
As Richards was describing the Wild's great first period in tonight's media scrum, he abruptly said, "And then we abandoned everything. It's from one extreme to the other." As frustrated as Wild fans are with the team's seemigly lack of ability to sustain a solid effort for a full 60 minutes, it's clear with each postgame press conference that Richards is even more frustrated that he hasn't figured out a magic elixir for the Wild.
When the Star Tribune's Michael Russo asked Richards tonight if it's a conincidence that the team's lapse almost always occurs in the middle frame, Richards responded with a frustrated laugh.
"There has to be something," Richards said shaking his head. "As a coach, I wonder, can I praise the guys about playing a good first? I don't know. I think they're professionals playing at the highest level, they're established guys; we should be able to handle that."
In a night where there weren't many, Kyle Brodziak was one of the few positives for the Wild. Brodziak potted two goals and led the Wild with a plus-two rating in 13:56 TOI. Perhaps more impressive was Brodziak's willingness to fight Colorado's Chris Stewart in the second period.
Less than two minutes after his first goal cut the Wild deficit to 5-3, Brodziak's fight really got the Wild energized. After struggling for nearly the entire second period, the Wild finally started to pull it together after Brodziak's bout. His game might be gritty and tough, but Brodziak does not normally fill the role of enforcer on the ice.
Richards said of Brodziak's fight, "You have to give a lot of kudos to Kyle Brodziak for doing what he did. That got the emotion on the team. And then you saw guys step up emotionally." Richards added that he wished he had seen that emotion from other players earlier in the period.
The Wild had one of the best goaltending duos in the NHL to start the season. Niklas Backstrom was the unquestioned starter after he shot up the NHL stats sheets, ranking in the top five in nearly every goaltending category.
But now, as much as the Wild might not want to talk about it, it seems they will be surrounded with talk of a goaltending controversy. And Niklas Backstrom's performance tonight didn't help.
Backs earned the start after posting great career numbers in Denver, but he allowed a career-high seven goals tonight. I'm certainly not trying to say they were all Backstrom's fault or that he hasn't been one of the team's top players for the majority of the season, what I'm getting at is he has given up 18 goals in his past three games for losses. And with Jose Theodore posting three wins in his last four starts, this goaltending topic is only going to become more prevalent.
Five takeaways are normally reserved for Wild players, but when a player has a game like Paul Stastny did tonight, it's hard not to mention him.
Stastny only totaled one goal and an assit in tonight's game, but he was absolutely flying around the ice and seemed to be a part of the majority of the Avalanche scoring chances. Head Coach Joe Sacco must have noticed too because Stastny ranked second among all Colorado players with 21:39 TOI. Anytime the Avs broke into the Wild zone, he was usually the player leading the charge and then banging into bodies to create some room for his teammates. The 24-year-old really showed tonight how he can be one of the NHL's young stars.


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|Japanese holly
| USDA PLANTS Symbol: ILCR2
U.S. Nativity: Exotic
Habit: Hardwood Trees Shrub or Subshrub
|Ilex crenata Thunb.
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Taxonomic Rank: Magnoliopsida: Celastrales: Aquifoliaceae
|Native Range: Japan (REHD, BAIL);
|EDDMapS Distribution:
This map is incomplete and is based only on current site and county level reports made by experts and records obtained from USDA Plants Database. For more information, visit www.eddmaps.org
State(s) Where Reported invasive.
Based on state level agency and organization lists of invasive plants from WeedUS database.
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|Rock Creek National Park (Washington, D.C.)
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04:00 Wheels up time
I had such good intentions, I was going to come home and get a bunch of stuff finished, stories told and all posted to entertain you with from our Eastern Sierra Adventure. 04:00 found us back at it which was really early after getting back in the night before from the Bristlecone Pines at 22:00. Bottomline, I was simply too blurry eyed to get the work done.
Here's a little proof that our Sunday started early. We were in the Alabama Hills for a little star action, it was great. Even had the Space Station go through some of the trails. I felt more like some just stars so just took some 1min exposures. We had a quarter moon illuminating the rocks which was all that was needed for the exposure you see here. It was a really great start to a really great day! Oh, yeah, that is the Big Dipper.
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Well, since it seems that's all of the meaningful chatter I'm going to get, here's the second update.
After asking the townspeople and cleaning out their houses of bugs, one person claims to have seen a lot of flies come out of the pipe leading into the town's sewer system. On the way, Luppy stops by his home to stuff his pockets with extra pairs of gloves.
"It's probably best for me to go prepared."
Not long afterward, Luppy finds the pipe that leads into the sewers.
"Urk...I can smell it from here. Do I *really* have to go in there? ...Yeah, I guess I do. Well, here goes nothing!"
Luppy descends the pipe to the sewers. However, he fails to take into account the fact that the pipe points downward from the ceiling on the other end. It takes him a few moments to realize he came out upside-down. When he does, he begins to fall and subsequently hits the ground with a thud.
"Ow...they never said anything about this in Fly-Swatting 101..."
After taking a few moments to recover, Luppy begins to search the sewers, holding back his barf (and occasionally failing) as he goes. Eventually, Luppy sees something strange.
"Huh? Why is the ground tiled? And where does that door lead?"
Luppy enters through the peculiar door. On the other side, he finds...
"Ah, here they are. Time to go to work."
Luppy begins to clear the room of bugs. As he swats them, more show up. Unlike in the house, multiple species of bugs show up at once.
When Luppy finally cleared all of the bugs, he felt the ground rumble. Part of the floor on the other end was slowly opening, and another mecha-fly, like the one before, came out.
"Again? Geez, you'd think that whoever made these things would try to go for variety or something. Oh well, makes my job a bit easier."
The machine is taken care of in short order, and Luppy prepares to leave when he notices that the door he came in from is sealed shut. On the other end of the room, another door slides open.
"Well, looks like there's only one way to go from here."
There's only one more update left for this mini-LP (no, I'm not going past Stage 3, since there's no reason to). So, you can all go ahead and start voting on the next game. All previous votes won't carry over, so you'll have to vote again. Also, adding a new rule to which games can be chosen:
3) Must have a clear beginning and end.
That's all for now.
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Might as well go with Princess Maker. Well that or the Original Command & Conquer.
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Two is a bandwagon. I vote for Princess Maker!
Hey, the comic seems to be updating kind of regularly. Maybe we should vote to spread the word.
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Original Princess Maker, yes.
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Those are PC games though. For an SNES game, I would like to see a LP of Brain Lord.
When I'm bored, I like to wander around and cast X-Zone on random things.
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PC games are fine, as long as my computer can actually run them*. So the votes now are Princess Maker - 3 and Brain Lord - 1...Maybe I should go ahead and start looking for an English version of Princess Maker.
*That is, don't suggest anything that a computer with Windows 98 couldn't run.
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Play MegaMari.
Everyday I'm tumbl'n.
"This bitch is makin' me all Paru..." ~Hang in There, Kogasa-san!
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Ooh! This.
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Meant to post this earlier, but I was lazy.
Luppy enters the door that recently opened. On the other end is a long corridor. About halfway through, the walls and floor abruptly switch to dank brick, as if it was part of a castle. Near the end of the passage, Luppy hears two Koopas, minions of Bowser's army, talking in the next room. He tries to make out the conversation as well as he can. He can't hear much, but it sounds like they're planning on ambushing Mario with more of those bugs when he passes through here. Luppy hears the Koopas walk off and sneaks into the room.
"This isn't good. Not good at all. It sounds like those bugs were part of Bowser's plot to stop Mario."
Luppy sees a button marked 'Push to release bugs'.
"I wonder where they're going to be released to if that button's pushed..."
Looking around more, Luppy sees a fairly tall ladder. At its base, there is a sign, reading 'To
"Well, that wasn't hard to find. That button probably releases the bugs into the room above."
Luppy is then struck with an idea. He pushes the button. Above him, he can hear a door sliding open.
"Let's finish this."
Luppy climbs the ladder into the great hall. When he gets there, the bugs have already swarmed the room.
Luppy starts swatting flies as he sees them. It seems that there are more here than there were before. Furthermore, his gloves get ripped up by one of the Hornets' flying stingers. Luppy quickly puts on another pair and avenges his gloves.
"I'll show you what happens when you mess with my gloves!"
Not long after that, a third mechanical bug showed up. Luppy had come to expect this.
This one seemed tougher, with its flying stingers flying faster and it mixing in fireballs fairly often. Eventually, though, Luppy came up on top.
"Yeah! Take that, you big bug!"
Luppy heard a loud thundering noise coming from deeper in the castle. It sounded like...footsteps? No doubt about it, it was footsteps. From a fairly large creature too, to make such a loud noise. Luppy tried to think of what it could be, and came to one conclusion.
"Is that...it can't be! It's got to be Bowser! This flyswatter won't do a thing to him! I've got to run for it!"
Luppy rushes back to the ladder, falls down it, then sprints toward and through the sewers, back to the pipe he came in from.
"Oh crud, oh crud, the pipe's on the ceiling! I can't jump that high! What to do, what to do...?"
After looking around, Luppy finds another pipe leading back into town, this one on the ground and in plain sight, impossible to miss.
"...Why didn't I take this pipe down? Oh well, no time to worry about that."
Luppy jumps down the pipe with full speed. Unfortunately for him, though, the pipe comes out on the underside of a small cliff at the edge of town. Luppy plummets to the ground, luckily landing on a mushroom to cushion his fall somewhat.
"...Ohhh...that's why I didn't take it..."
After lying still for a few minutes so the stars will go away, Luppy eventually manages to stand upright again. It is nighttime. He makes his way back to his house just in time to hear the newest breaking news. 'Princess Rescued Again', it said.
"Heh. Wonder what woulda happened if I wasn't there..."
Luppy flops on his bed and drifts off to sleep.
The End
And that's the end of my suckish Mario Paint LP. I just know no one's sad that it's over.
Anyway, the current votes are:
Princess Maker - TrekTek, Spriteless, Nifar (3)
MegaMari - Carmichael, Algy (2)
Brain Lord - Draco (1)
We have 6 votes right now. I cut off the voting period...eventually.
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I vote for Toejam and Earl.
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Start drawing something.
I vote for a big giant head.
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No...not Mario Paint...no more...no mor--AGHHHHH! THE VOICES! THEY'RE TALKING TO ME AGAIN! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!1!1!11!!!111!!1!!!11!!ONE11!
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I vote for this as well.
No continues.
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Okay. I've edited the first post with the second poll, if you didn't notice. MegaMari is in the lead right now.
Also, to hell with no continues. Unless it's as easy as Mega Man 2, that is.
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Why even go for Mario Paint in the first place if you weren't gonna do anything fun with it.
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Because you people voted it.
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As someone who has experimented with crazy challenges on the damn thing, I say more
(Sorry for incomplete post, the Internet was being stupid when I was previewing.)
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That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die. <- This form appears through the Old man glitch if y is the character in the third, fifth, or seventh slot of the player's chosen name.
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Sure, you guys can pick my boss order if MegaMari goes through. I'll interpret that as a vote for it from you, then.
On a related note, I was just playing Phantasmagoria of Flower View for the first time. It's a lot easier than the rest of the games. Normally I can't beat Easy mode without a continue or two. In this one, I only lost two lives total.
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This card was supported by a very poor driver. However the workaround is to install the card, install the driver, go to sourceforge and get the open source driver for the chipset on the card and install it over the top of the supplied driver. This allows you to save the driver settings for the card and camera. Note that there is a hard coded timeout in MS XP that you have to wait for. Once it gives up trying, you can access the camera. It may be that Haupauge have released a later driver taht isn't broken but don't hold your breath.
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Toca Hair Salon Me ($2.99) is another superb app by Toca Boca. They again create an app without language and it's up to you to fill in the language and have fun! This app allows you to import the face of the child or adult and then style their hair! The app is designed to make the imported picture lifelike by moving the eyes and mouth. You are able to cut,color, shave, wash, perm, and add accessories to your "Salon Me" which creates a nice opportunity to target core vocabulary such as: me,my, mine, you, your, it, like, make, get, that, feel, more, make longer, make shorter, etc…
Targeted Interactions may include the following if you want to pretend to be the hair dresser and the child be the customer:
Therapist: What would you like to do?
Child: Do this please. (Cut out some pictures of T.V. characters, celebrities, etc… and have them point to the hairstyle they want to create.
Cut my hair.
Don't cut this but cut this.
I like it.
Cut it to here please.
Make it this color.
Good/ Bad
Quick note on the pronoun 'it'. You may have the opportunity to teach subjective 'it' versus 'objective' depending on which level of Unity you are using. In the above examples I have kept 'it' the same throughout but just keep in mind that when teaching this may change depending on the child's device. Here is example of LAMP: Words for Life with vocabulary builder turned on. Only the specific vocabulary for this haircut activity is showing.


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If we don't attack Isis, they will attack us – Telegraph Blogs
So that's all right then. We can all relax, and go back to playing boules. The Yazidi are apparently off the mountain, there's a nice new Iraqi prime minister in office, Isis have been stalled outside Irbil, and Hitler has agreed to watch the fifth Test match with an eye to mastering the rules of LBW.
Except, it's not all right, is it. Because Isis (Or ISIL, or IS, or Nightmare on Arab Street, or whatever they lately call themselves) aren't going to stop here. They are sucking in power, they possess a third of Syria and a third of Iraq, they are attracting hormonal, spotty, sex-deprived Islamist yoofs with an eye for a blonde Yazidi concubine from right across the world, they have tanks, missiles, $2 billion, an income of $3 million a day, and, most of all, they are utterly fanatical and they revel in their cruelty.
We've been here before, of course. No, not just with the Nazis. A better comparison for the evil of Isis is actually the Khmer Rouge: the only regime in my lifetime with an equal and obviously demonic complexion.
In many ways Isis are the Khmer Rouge with prayer mats. Both wear, or wore, black, as if to emphasise their nihilism. Both expanded – even exploded – from stupid wars engendered by the West. Both ruthlessly murdered any rival factions, ensuring that they became the sole standard-bearer for fellow travellers.
Uh, no.
ISIL is a Sunni Muslim terror gang that was set up, organized, financed, armed, trained, and used as a surrogate military force in Syria and Iraq as a foil to Iran. It is a creation of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni oiligarchies in the Arab world. It lucked out in Iraq and fell into some major spoils after "defeating" elements of the utterly corrupt Iraqi army, which essentially said, "Fight those bastards? Are you crazy? They can shoot back. A guy could get killed." And then threw down their arms, stripped themselves naked, and ran like hell.
They also managed to force elements of a far superior fighting force, the Kurdish Peshmerga, to retreat, primarily because the Kurds had run out of ammunition. I don't care how well trained or brave you are, you're going to have trouble standing against men armed with guns with only your bare hands. (Lesson for gun grabbers in America here – take note).
An interesting – and as far as I can tell, entirely undiscussed (in western media, at least) – is why the Kurds came to be low on ammo. The answer is a complicated dance involving NATO member (!!!) Turkey, a burgeoning Islamic theocracy, and Iran, the premier Shiite theocracy. Neither favor any sort of autonomy for the Kurds, and so western nations, for a host of murky reasons, have refrained from arming the one solid western ally (besides Israel) in the entire region to a standard that might pose a threat to either Muslim nation.
And now interested western parties are howling up a storm over the "invincible" ISIL forces. If the Sunni regimes could be coerced into ceasing support for them, and the Kurds were given sufficient arms, their temporary ascendancy would be crushed very quickly.
But ISIL's existence and (temporary) success is useful to far too many players both in the west and the Arab and Muslim worlds, so I suppose it will be permitted to continue. Barack Obama certainly has no intention of destroying it.


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The 10U HOUSTON POWER is looking for an experienced 10U catcher/infielder to complete the roster for the 2012-2013 season.
The HOUSTON POWER is a long standing, nationally ranked, elite program that is highly recognized across the country. We are an ASA sanctioned team and our goal will be to qualify for the 10u USA/ASA National Tournament next summer. The HOUSTON POWER is looking for solid families and solid players on and off the field.
If you are a player looking for a team and an organization that is dedicated to developing each player to their maximum potential please contact one of the coaches for private try-out.
Manager: John Landry
Head Coach: Casey Hornberger
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We at Clevertech use this folder structure setup for our own projects when developing BackboneJS applications.
YiiBackboneBoilerplate, aims to provide Yii Backbone developers with an application folder to ease the startup of their projects. It uses the flexibility of our YiiBoilerplate with a twist for BackboneJS applications.
What is BackboneJS?
Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
You may be thinking that Yii is too powerful to be used just as a RESTful service. That for this purpose it could be done with NodeJS or any of the other libraries available, but it is the power of Yii and for the sake of application scalability that we decided to use it.
BackboneJS + Yii
We love to work at Clevertech with Yii, in fact, it is one of the biggest assets of our company nowadays. Nevertheless, we are very aware of the new trends, and we had the opportunity to work with BackboneJS. So we decided that it could be good to provide a project startup for our developers, and allow us to get the best out of both worlds.
Backbone Overall Folder Structure
This document will be focused mainly in the folder structure that we set for the Backbone application. Please, read YiiBoilerplate's README for a deeper explanation of the main Yii folder structure setup.
Below the directory structure we are using:
/ backend/ ... common/ ... console/ ... frontend/ ... www/ app/ css/ img/ js/ boilerplate/ collections/ libs/ models/ views/ app.js controller.js main.js router.js vent.js templates/ tests/ ...
Backbone Application Directories
In the js directory, we have:
- boilerplate: we have created a set of elements for you to create a model, collection, module and/or view. Please, note that the basic application skeleton that we have setup for you is based onBackbone.Marionette, and the views are different from normal Backbone views.
- collections: this is were we place the Backbone collections for our application.
- libs: holds the main libraries. We included the ones we thought would be the most useful.
- models: this is were we place the Backbone models for our application.
- views: and this is where we place the backbone views.
A special note regarding the templates directory. This folder is normally within the js folder, but we thought that it would be better to separate UI design from the business logic of the javascript files.
The runpostdeploy script
This section is actually extracted from YiiBoilerplate, but it is worth repeating the procedure.
The project has a very handy script that automatically creates the required and folders that are not shared for a Yii application, the runtime and assets folders, extracts the configuration settings specified for a specific environment then copies them to the ****-env.php*** files, and then runs migrations when not on private environments –we believe that migrations should be always run manually by developers on their machines.
To use this, from the application's root folder, simply run:
./runpostdeploy environmentType migrations
- environmentType (required): can be "any" of the ones you configure on the environments folders (i.e.
./runpostdeploy privateto use ****-private.php*** configurations)
- migrations (optional): could be "migrate"" or "no-migrate".
- migrate: will run migrations
- no-migrate: will not run migrations (on private we won't run them anyway)
Final Notes
We would like to inform that this is just a startup boilerplate for your own projects. It is not intended by any means to be used 'AS IS', but rather as a base to scale to more complicated structures.
Neverteless, we have included a couple of goodies that we hope to improve with the help of the community.


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Not only are we celebrating a changing of the seasons, but yesterday I also celebrated my 30th birthday. The Autumnal Equinox or more commonly known as the first day of fall occurred this past Saturday. This happens when the sun passes directly over the equator. During the Equinoxes, the Earth is at its closest distance to the Sun. However, since the Earth begins to tilt away from the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere cools down. Hence, the temperatures and hours of daylight decrease as we head towards the Winter Solstice.
To no ones surprise, the summer of 2012 was the driest for the entire state of Nebraska and one of the driest on record, for some selected cities. For example, during the months of June, July and August, both Norfolk (1.88") and Grand Island (2.37") recorded the lowest precipitation in the 117 years of record keeping. Lincoln came in 4th place, recording 4.20". Our current drought conditions are the direct result of the lackluster winter and spring seasons followed by a very dry summer.
The record breaking heat of 2012 did nothing improve the drought conditions. With the exception of the Dust Bowl years (1934-1936), 2012 had the 3rd warmest summer in Omaha and the 4th warmest in Norfolk. In Lincoln, it was the 4th warmest following the summers of 1936, 1934, and 1913. The average high temperatures for the months of June, July, and August looked like this; Lincoln - 91.5 degrees, Grand Island - 91.1 degrees, Omaha - 90.7 degrees, and Norfolk - 90.5 degrees.
Unfortunately, it does not look good for the next couple of months. The three month outlook, produced by the Climate Prediction Center, is indicating that temperatures will be above average for October, November, and December. As for precipitation, near or to slightly below normal conditions are predicted. For everyone's sake, we are hoping for more in the way of rain to help alleviate our drought conditions. One thing we do know is that you can always get the latest forecast from the 1011 Weather Center. So, you'll need not wonder why…
Meteorologist Tony DeGrand


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CHARLES TOWN - Washington's Kendell Smith leaves a very close Patriots team for a team where he already feels at home. Smith signed his letter-of-intent for Shepherd, where he will play wide receiver.
"They offered me everything that my financial aid wouldn't cover," Smith said.
Smith was one of the area's top receivers during his senior season, racking up 1,036 yards, a 16.9 yards-per-reception average, and 14 touchdowns while earning all-state honors on a team that reached the playoffs for the first time in school history. He made 56 tackles and intercepted three passes while spending time at defensive back as well. Returning after a year off for basketball, he didn't show much rust on the field.
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"I think that I made a good decision coming back out," Smith said. "I gained a lot of confidence."
Always one to try to be the best, Smith said there were a few passes he wishes he caught that would've made his season performance even better.
Smith already feels like a Ram at Shepherd after watching a few games during the team's great 2012 season.
"Coach (Wayne) Wilson, he came to all my games. He supported me a lot," Smith said.
One of Smith's favorite parts of going to Shepherd will be getting the college experience while staying so close to home.
"All my family is going to be able to come see my play," he said. "It's going to be like going away from home, but I'm still here."
Smith is staying pretty close to some of his former opponents, too. He will be playing alongside Martinsburg's Troy Walker and against Malique Watkins, who will be playing at Fairmont State.
"We'll be playing the same position," Smith said of himself and Watkins. "It's going to be like a battle between me and him."
As Smith and Watkins fight for the same titles throughout the season, Smith and Walker will find themselves working towards the same goal. Smith said the two would trash talk during Washington-Martinsburg games when they blocked each other.
"It's going to be cool paying with Troy," Smith said.
Smith's been spending time getting to know his other teammates, too, talking to other signees on Twitter.
As soon as basketball season ends, Smith plans to hit the gym and get in as much weight lifting as possible.
"They're talking about redshirting me, but I'm going to do everything I can to play," he said. "I'm going to bust my butt."
Though Smith is sure of his destiny on the football field, he's still undecided of where he'll go in the classroom. He's torn between studying business and criminal justice.
"I've always wanted to own a restaurant. I've always wanted to be my own boss," he said about business. He added he likes criminal justice because he'll be able to help people, giving them second chances and possibly changing their lives.


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The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in charge of the company's environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.
The company, which once drew fire from campaigners for working conditions in China and heavy reliance on fossil fuels, is now leading other technology companies in controlling its own power supply and expanding its use of renewable energy.


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With 14 teams and nearly 120 boats scheduled to compete this year's Lindamood Cup, set to take place this weekend, is slated to be one of the biggest and most exciting regattas to hit the river in recent years.
The only problem is, Marietta may not get to have it unless Mother Nature decides to calm down and stop putting so much debris and water in the river.
Heavy rainfall that has hit the area in recent days has caused the river level to swell, but in spite of the higher waters the Tiger Navy is thrilled about the prospect of the upcoming regatta, their only home meet on the season.
"We're definitely looking forward to it," said Marietta boys' crew coach Eric Dowler.
Three states are represented as there will be 13 teams traveling to Marietta to join the Tigers on the water.
Included in the teams traveling to Marietta are power house schools like Cleveland St. Ignatius and Upper Arlington. Also slated to compete in the Lindamood Cup are Allderdice (Pa.), Parkersburg, Cleveland Scholastic, Dublin, Hampton (Pa.), Hilliard, North Catholic (Pa.), Oakland Catholic (Pa.), Parkersburg South, St. Joseph Academy and Shaker Heights.
St. Ignatius will have the most individual entries of any team as the school will enter 18 events. Dublin is second as it is entering in 17 events. Marietta is entered in 13 events in its home regatta.
All told, there are officially 119 entries from the 14 teams that represent eight cities in the three states.
"It (Lindamood Cup) is bigger than it's been in recent years," said Marietta girls' crew coach Joe Tewkesbury.
With so many schools slated to participate this year the first event in the Lindamood Cup is set for 7:30 a.m. with morning heats for each event that has more than five sculls entered.
Finals are set to take place in the afternoon with the final event, the boys and girls varsity eight races, to begin approximately 4 p.m.
"It's just going to be a full day of events. You'll constantly be seeing races and boats going down the river," Dowler said.
A year ago the Tiger Navy claimed both the boys and girls overall team titles and despite the obstacles they've faced this spring with the weather, they're anxious to defend those titles.
"We're going to be pretty quick still. We have a lot of seniors on the team, but we're not going to be as quick as we will in May," Dowler said.
No matter how quick the Tigers are on the river, they just want to put forth their best effort and from there let the chips fall where they may.
"We just have to row our best and hopefully we're faster than the other teams," Tewkesbury said.
Speed on the water may be the goal for crew teams, but for the Tiger coaching staff right now the speed of the water is a real concern.
"Depth of water isn't the issue, except for getting to the docks. It's the speed of the water," Tewkesbury said.
The heavy rainfalls have added considerable speed to the river, and it's one of the things the coaches will have to look at before making a decision on whether or not to hold the regatta this year. Dowler said he hopes to have a decision made on the Lindamood Cup by this evening for schools that will be traveling into the area.
Weather has been a factor in the Tiger Navy's practices, so with limited time on the water Dowler believes keeping the title of the Lindamood Cup in Marietta will come down to heart.
"With the situation with the water and the amount of time we've had on the water, it's going to come down to how bad these guys want to win," Dowler said.
"These guys are tough. They're going to fight for it."


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United States: Five reasons for worry
Global Economic Outlook Q3 2012
A wide range of structural problems pose a continuing threat to economic growth in the United States. Three fundamental mechanisms are transmitting European problems into the U.S. economy.
While Europe is grabbing a lion's share of the economic headlines, it is not the only problem beguiling the U.S. economy. A wide range of structural problems pose a continuing threat to growth. In the best of times, these problems would simply limit the pace of growth. In difficult economic times, they make the economy more vulnerable to recession. These structural challenges include:
- the contagion effects from a European meltdown
- a deepening of the liquidity trap that makes the Federal Reserve's task of managing monetary policy more difficult
- structural problems in the labor market due to a mismatch between the job skills, location of the unemployment, and the available job openings
- a sharp reduction in the pace of new business formation
- private sector debt reduction that still has a long way to go.
Where Europe goes, the United States will follow
The European economy moved into a recession in the second quarter of 2012. For the Eurozone as a whole, real growth fell 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from a year ago. The decline in growth was most notable among the Club Med countries of the Eurozone: Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Growth was also negative in the Netherlands and non-euro-using Hungary and the Czech Republic. Quarter-over-quarter growth declined in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The pace of decline accelerated in the second quarter as the financial problems of the continent's banks sent interest rates rising and real growth sliding.
The financial crisis of 2008 started in the United States and spread to Europe. In 2012, Europe is returning the favor. Since the creation of the euro, the U.S. and the Eurozone economies have been economically joined at the hip (see figure 1). The hopes that the U.S. economy can somehow decouple from Europe is not supported by the data. The correlation between U.S. and Eurozone economic growth over the past decade has been a very high 89 percent. Europe's recession will be transmitted to the United States through trade, European investment in the United States, banking, and the performance of U.S. companies with material European operations.
Transmission mechanism: Trade
The recession in Europe is having a direct impact on U.S. exports (see figure 2). Europe accounts for roughly a quarter of all U.S. exports. Coming out of the deep slump in 2009, U.S. exports to Europe soared, rising more than 25 percent by early 2011 from the previous year. As the European financial crisis grew, U.S. export growth slowed. However, exports were still up 15.6 percent as recently as February of this year. In April, exports were down 2.8 percent, a dramatic 18.4 percent contraction in the pace of growth in just two months. The last time we saw a collapse of this magnitude was in the fall of 2008, making U.S. exports to Europe another recession marker for both the U.S. and the European economies.
The contraction of trade is having a negative effect on a number of trade-dependent industries. Manufacturing has been particularly hard hit. This showed up in weak industrial production numbers in the United States and a June Purchasing Managers' Index below 50 for the first time since 2009, a sign of contraction in the manufacturing sector. Going forward, manufacturing is facing a much more difficult road as new orders for a number of trade-dependent manufacturing sectors have been trending down since the first of the year.
Even as the construction industry shows some signs of life in the United States, new orders for construction equipment have fallen 8.7 percent since the first of the year. While the oil patch in the United States is in the midst of a drilling boom, businesses that supply equipment for the sector have seen orders plummet 29.6 percent. In all of these cases, the weakness in new orders for these capital goods is coming from outside of the United States.
Transmission mechanism: The banking system
As the banking system has grown more global, credit contractions in one part of the world can have negative effects elsewhere. The contraction of credit in Europe is putting pressure on European banks to raise capital. They can do this by issuing new equity or by selling assets. As selling equity dilutes existing shareholders, most European banks have taken the latter option of selling assets.
As Europeans divest themselves of U.S.-based assets (see figure 3), it contracts bank reserves in the United States, reducing the availability of credit. The U.S. Federal Reserve has more than offset this contraction of reserves through multiple rounds of quantitative easing. Still, as the Europeans sell their U.S. assets and go home, it puts downward pressure on prices while reducing the availability of capital for investment in the United States.
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Figure 1: GDP growth rates: United States and Eurozone
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
Figure 2: U.S. exports to Europe
Source: U.S. Department of Treasury
Figure 3: Eurozone Investment in the United States
Transmission mechanism: Corporate profitability
U.S. businesses do more than just trade with Europe. Many have set up shop and conduct business in Europe. From automakers to quick service restaurants, U.S. businesses have extensive operations in Europe. And like the rest of the continent, the European operations of U.S. businesses are hurting. In the first quarter of this year, problems with European operations were a common excuse given for disappointing earnings. That excuse has continued in company guidance for soon-to-be-released second quarter results.
The contraction in U.S. company earnings in Europe has translated into an actual decline in first quarter earnings of U.S. companies in total. While profits from domestic businesses rose by $41.7 billion, profits from overseas operations fell by $48.1 billion. For the first time since the fourth quarter of 2008, profits declined by $6.8 billion (see figure 4). As a share of GDP, profits shed 20 basis points to 12.8 percent. This declining share of GDP is a reflection of the growing pressures on margins due to increased labor and regulatory costs.
As firms feel the pinch on profits, we can anticipate that they will respond with renewed emphasis on cost cutting in an effort to restore margins. As a result, weakness in job growth and business investment can be expected to follow the decline in profitability.
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis
Figure 4: Corporate profits
Source: Federal reserve board
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The liquidity trap deepens
An increase in cash levels since the first of the year is a clear sign that the level of economic uncertainty has risen (see figure 5). While uncertainty over Europe has grown, so too has concern over the fiscal cliff faced by the U.S. government, the future status of health care reform, the future role of the federal government in regulating oil and natural gas drilling, and the pace of roll out of Dodd-Frank regulations. Banks and corporations have responded to this growing level of uncertainty by holding more cash.
Since the first of the year, cash holdings by U.S. commercial banks have risen by $129.9 billion or 8 percent. Cash as a share of total assets has grown by 59 basis points to 13.4 percent. Before the recession hit in late 2007, cash holdings by commercial banks averaged less than 4 percent.
While corporate cash took a small hit during the recession, their stash of cash has risen by more than $220 billion since the end of the recession to $1.29 trillion.
The problem with banks and corporations holding more cash is that it deepens the Federal Reserve's liquidity trap. A liquidity trap occurs when the demand for money rises and offsets the central bank's efforts at increasing money supply. Not surprisingly, the demand for money goes up during a recession as businesses, households, and banks all attempt to hold more cash out of a fear of insolvency or unemployment. The banks significantly increased their cash holdings during the 2008–2009 recessionary period. Cash holdings for both banks and corporations rose again last year due to banking problems in Europe, and they are rising again for much the same reason.
Structural labor market problems dampen employment growth
The labor market remains a major drag on economic recovery. Long-term unemployment set records even as the economy has recovered. Median duration of unemployment, which has only rarely exceeded 10 weeks during the most severe recessions, jumped to 25 weeks in mid-2010 and remains above 20 weeks three years into a recovery.
Jobs are getting harder to find, and more job seekers have simply given up looking for work. The result has been a significant drop in the rate of labor force participation. Workers who are not looking for work are not accounted among the unemployed. Were the labor force participation rate at the same level as it was at the beginning of the recession, the unemployment rate would be a full 2 percentage points higher.
Historically, there has been a close relationship between job openings and the unemployment rate (see figure 6). As the number of job openings increased, not surprisingly, the unemployment rate fell. Since the beginning of this recovery, there has been a shift in this relationship. Given that the labor force participation has fallen sharply, one might suspect that it would take fewer job openings to drive down the unemployment rate since a declining rate of labor force participation pushes down the rate of unemployment. In fact, the exact opposite has happened.
Since the first of the year, the rate of job openings has averaged 2.5 percent of total employment. In the last decade, that level of job openings would correspond to an unemployment rate of around 6 percent. During this recovery, there has been a shift in the relationship between job openings and the unemployment rate. It now takes a much higher rate of job openings to drive down the unemployment rate. The shift in this relationship is a reflection of an increased incidence of structural unemployment.
While jobs are being created, they don't match up with either the skills or the geographical location of the unemployed. Reducing structural unemployment is a difficult task that requires some combination of retraining the unemployed and increasing labor force mobility.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor
Figure 6: A mismatch of skills: Job openings and the unemployment rate
Source: U.S. Department of Labor
Figure 7. New business creation and destruction
A missing job creator: New business formation
A second reason for the weak performance of the economy in general and employment growth in particular has been the unprecedented low rate of new business formation. During the recession of 2007–2009, the pace of new business creation fell to its lowest level in more than 30 years (see figure 7). At the same time, the pace of business destruction rose although not nearly to the levels seen in the 2001 or the 1981–1982 recessions. Given the severity of the recession, it is surprising that the pace of business destruction was not significantly higher.
The long-term decline in new business creation is due, in part, to demographics. An older population is going to be more risk averse and less likely to start new businesses than a younger population. Even though the trend in new business creation has been downward, the sharp fall in 2008–2009 was unprecedented and could reflect the cost of higher levels of business regulation.
This time really is different: The private sector de-levers
Over the past 80 years, deep recessions have always been followed by robust recoveries. In the first three years of recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s, real GDP growth averaged more than 10 percent a year. After the oil shock recession of 1973–1974, real growth averaged 5.1 percent for the next three years. The double-dip recessions of the early 1980s were followed by three years of growth that averaged 5.3 percent. In each case, once the Federal Reserve began to ease credit policy, pent-up demand in credit-sensitive segments of the economy like housing and autos soared.
One of the big differences between then and now is the role of debt. In each of those previous deep recessions, the private sector came out of the recession in a position to take on more debt. That has not been the case this time. To the degree that the increase in debt is a loan of future growth to the present, debt deleveraging is a repayment for past growth by the present. Households, businesses, and financial institutions have all been aggressively reducing debt. While this is a healthy and necessary development, it creates a major headwind for current growth.
Source: Federal reserve board
Figure 8: Private sector debt as a share of GDP
Even with the unprecedented reduction in debt over the past four years, debt levels today are only back to where they were in early 2005 (see figure 8). Much of this reduction in debt has come from the write down of defaulted-upon mortgages. Millions of homeowners are still underwater. With the foreclosure rate running near record levels, a lot of mortgage debt remains to be written down.
As banks write down the bad debt they are carrying on their books, profits will suffer and additional capital will need to be raised either through the sale of assets or the issuing of more equity. Either way, banks will have less capital to lend in the short run, which will keep the private sector deleveraging for some time to come. As households and businesses de-lever, money that could have gone to current spending is used to pay down debt. In all cases, deleveraging leads to slower growth.
Conclusions and observations
The U.S. economy has dodged one bullet after another over the past year in a successful and unprecedented effort to avoid recession. On a year-over-year basis, the U.S. economy has managed to grow less than 2 percent for four consecutive quarters. The previous record of less than 2 percent growth without a recession was the three-quarter stretch from Q4 2002 to Q3 2003. Every other case where less than 2 percent growth lasted more than two quarters was associated with a recession. With the recession spreading in Europe, the ability of the U.S. economy to continue growing in the face of its four structural issues seems increasingly unlikely.