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UF summit to explore how engineering can create innovation economy
WHAT: Engineering innovation summit featuring keynote speakers and panelists discussing the key role colleges of engineering play in building an innovation economy.
WHO: Leaders from academia, government, industry, including Thomas Peterson, assistant director of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering; Chris Malachowsky, co-founder, fellow and senior vice president of research of NVIDIA; Yangbin Wang, CEO of Vobile Inc.; Paul Suchoski, chairman of Audigence Inc.; Jamie Grooms, founder, Regeneration Technologies and AxoGen; and Florida legislative leaders.
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16
WHERE: Emerson Alumni Hall
CONTACT: Megan Mallicoat, College of Engineering director of communications, 352-392-0984 or firstname.lastname@example.com
8 – 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Welcome
Cammy Abernathy, dean, College of Engineering
8:45 – 9 a.m. UF Innovation Initiatives
Bernie Machen, president, University of Florida
9 – 9:15 a.m. Innovation: The Cornerstone of Florida's New Economy
Jack Sullivan, president/CEO, Florida Research Consortium
9:15 – 10 a.m. Public/Private Innovation Partnerships: Driving
Economic Impact
Thomas Peterson, assistant director for the Engineering Directorate,
National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 – 11:30 a.m. Panel: Public Policy and Florida's Innovation Economy
Introduction by Rep. Seth McKeel
Facilitator: Jack Sullivan, president/CEO, Florida Research Consortium
- Thomas Peterson
- Rep.Charles Chestnut
- Sen. Steve Oelrich
- Rep. Keith Perry
- Rep. Steve Precourt
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Lunch and Panel: Education and Talent as Driving Forces of Innovation Ecosystems (by invitation only)
Facilitator: Erik Sander, director, University of Florida Engineering
Innovation Institute
- Joseph Glover, provost, University of Florida
- Forrest Masters, assistant professor, department of civil and
coastal engineering
- Rep. H. Marlene O'Toole
- Henry Upjohn II, chairman, Special-Lite
- Thomas Rambo, Engineering Innovation Institute student
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Engineering as a Foundation of the Innovation Economy
Facilitator: Win Phillips, senior vice president & COO, University of Florida
- Jamie Grooms, founder, Regeneration Technologies Inc., and Axogen Inc.
- Chris Malachowsky, co-founder, fellow & senior vice president of research, NVIDIA
- Paul Suchoski, chairman, Audigence Inc.
- Josh Walden, vice president of fabrication & sort manufacturing, Intel Corporation
- Yangbin Wang, CEO, Vobile Inc.
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Closing comments
Cammy Abernathy, dean, College of Engineering


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I plan to do a blog entry on the CMH blog every Friday for the rest of my internship. My blogs will probably range from boring to funny, sad to ecstatic, and some weeks they will just be downright epic.
Here in our main offices in Banff Alberta, the mood always seems to be extremely positive. I never though that I would work in a place where I would overhear conversations of 45cm snow days, Warren Miller film shoots, and general dislikes for warm weather... This place is like no other.
The fact that this place is like no other really sets the stage for the rest of the company as well. It is probably one of the few corporate head offices in the world where everyone shows up dressed in ski sweaters and soft shell jackets. And don't you try and tell me that there isn't a dress code... for my interview I happened to wear a tie which is apparently a major faux pas in Banff. I may or may not have even been threatened with non ending harrasment if I decided to wear a tie again (all in good fun of course)
There certainly is no shortage of work around here either! For my first week I feel as though I am already right in the thick of things. I have taken on several advertising related projects and I have spent countless hours on the computer analyzing web analytics. I have also created facebook (John E CMH) and Twitter (JohnCMH) accounts and you should feel free to add me to get even more up to date information. All of this on top of meetings and orientation type activities! It has all been great so far and nothing is overwhelming as of yet!
Well I would love to keep going with this but it is now well past 5 and I should probably head home to get some rest so that I can get in some turns this weekend!
Happy Skiing
John E

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Pride and recruiting on line for B-CU at FIU
Published: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 5:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 9:44 p.m.
As one of 28 players on Bethune-Cookman's roster who come from South Florida, defensive end LeBrandon Richardson is excited about Saturday's game in Miami against Florida International.
Teams: Bethune-Cookman at Florida International
Game Facts: 6 p.m., Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium, Miami; WELE (1380 AM); streaming video at FIUSports.com
Bethune-Cookman is playing an FBS school for the third time. The other two "guarantee games'' were also in Miami — losses to the Miami Hurricanes in 2011 and '12. This could be the Wildcats' best chance of beating an upper-level team, especially this year, because next up is Florida State.
3 Keys to the Game
1. Will B-CU run roughshod?
The Wildcats are averaging 222 yards rushing, and FIU is allowing 208 yards per game on the ground, but that's against Maryland and UCF. The Panthers' strength is their defensive line and they will try to bottle up the 'Cats.
2. Can FIU move the ball?
The Panthers are averaging 172 yards on offense, and B-CU is allowing just 215 yards per game (third in the FCS).
3. Can FIU defend the read option?
Maryland QB C.J. Brown accounted for five TDs against the Panthers, who had a total of 17 defensive players start for the first time in FIU's two games.
3 Players to Watch
Alex Monroe, No. 68, OL: The left tackle has been named MEAC lineman of the week for the second consecutive week.
Dyron Dye, No. 49, DL: The Miami transfer had six tackles and two sacks against Virginia Union last week.
Jontavious Carter, No. 15, WR: Another Miami transfer, Carter caught two passes last week — both for touchdowns.
Florida International
Greg Hickman, No. 8, DT: The preseason Conference USA first-teamer has eight tackles, 3.5 sacks and a forced fumble.
Jake Medlock, No. 12, QB: The junior is fifth all-time in passing yards for FIU (which started football in 2002) with 2,657. He has 154 yards passing this season.
Lamarq Caldwell, No. 36, RB: Sophomore ran for 79 yards and a TD against Maryland but was held to 27 yards by UCF.
Final Word
B-CU receiver Eddie Poole on the 'Cats' three QBs (Quentin Williams, Jackie Wilson and Brock Waters): ''I actually think of them as all one person. They all bring something different to the table, but together they mold into the perfect guy.''
By The Numbers
1: Number of TDs B-CU has allowed
and FIU has scored this season
3: Former Orlando Freedom offensive linemen playing in this game — brothers Josue (B-CU) and Dieugot (FIU) Joseph; and Aaron Nielsen (FIU)
3: Mainland products in this game — safety Deonte Wilson (FIU), long snapper Andrew Ferris (B-CU) and quarterback Shelton Willis (B-CU)
— Brent Woronoff
But Richardson admits the game doesn't quite pack the same punch for him as last year's contest against the University of Miami.
"I was a big Hurricanes fan growing up," said Richardson, who graduated from Miami Central. "But it's still home, it's where I'm from. This is another chance to go home and play against a couple of guys you played with or against in high school."
With so many B-CU players from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, tickets have been hard to come by this week for players to give to their families and friends. Each player gets four tickets to the game. Players who don't have families in the area give their tickets to their South Florida teammates. By Wednesday, Richardson had collected 14 tickets and he was still soliciting teammates for more.
"I'm going to try to get at least 10-12 family members to come to the game," said cornerback Tim Burke, who attended Plantation High, outside Fort Lauderdale.
"They don't get to watch me live much. Last year was very exciting. They got to watch me play against one of the big teams, which I always wanted to do, and I did pretty well,'' said Burke whose third-quarter interception led to a Wildcats field goal against UM.
"It's exciting for the guys to go back and play in Miami," B-CU coach Brian Jenkins said. "It's always great when you play in front of family. And they're excited about the chance to show the community what type of person they have developed into on and off the field."
For B-CU, today's game is a chance for the Wildcats to get some more exposure in talent-rich South Florida, a region that Jenkins — who is from Fort Lauderdale — admits is the Wildcats' top recruiting target area.
"South Florida is definitely where we place a lot of our recruiting plans and that shows on our roster,'' Jenkins said. "Even though we scale all over, South Florida is a big part of our recruiting. It has to be because of the level of football down there. Football in South Florida is a way of life. You are groomed from the day you come of the womb to play the sport of football.''
A win over FIU (0-2) could lead to a recruiting bonanza for the Wildcats (2-0), who are a three-point favorite against the struggling first-year Conference USA team. A victory would be the first in three tries for B-CU against a Football Bowl Subdivision school.
"That's something new to us, being favored (over a FBS team)," Richardson said. "But they're no pushover. Their record shows otherwise, but they're a good team and we'll be ready for a fight."
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This page contains Cheats for The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time organized by sections for Gamecube. This game has "Action Adventure" as genre, made by Nintendo, released on Feb 28, 2003. If you can't find a hint or secret in our list, then please check this page periodically for the latest updates.
- Developer: Nintendo
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Genre: Action Adventure
- Release: Feb 28, 2003
- ESRB: Everyone
In the room before the first Boss, hit the enemies in this order: 2, 3, 1. In Master Quest, use 3, 1, 2...From: jokjok18
Want to get infinite gold skultullas? you will need to be young Link and have the boomerang, bombs, and the song of storms. Go to Hyrule castle and sneak past the guards until you get to the moat and there should be a small river keep on going and then climb up next to the tree(near where you first meet Talon) and play song of storms and a hole sho..From: clevergirl
In Kakariko Village, go inside where the windmill is located. Press A to make Navi appear. Stand on the spinning thing, and play the Song Of Storms. Just stand there. Since the windmill is going faster, you will see Navi flying behind you, trying to catch up. She will continuously try to get back inside your shirt, but will never make it...From: mikemd6
In the castle garden, shoot the left window. A man will throw a bomb at you...From: VoldemortRoxs
Look at the object on Malon's neck...From: 03elswos
Go to the garden in the castle. Go to the right and look in the window...From: Gameking
Shoot her in the eye when it is red. If you do not, her babies will attack you...From: coolmero1
When you get the Hover Boots, equip them. Remember that the Hover Boots have little traction, so you will slide when you run and stop. Begin running, quickly release the Analog-stick, and hold R + Back + A. You will be in a backflip stance, but will go forwards instead of back...From: Jamila
To stab things, hold L + Up and attack...From: kxcwngc
Go to where Zelda is met for the first time. Look into the window on her left, as you enter. Pictures of Yoshi, Princess Toadstool, Mario, Bowser and Luigi can be seen. Look from different angles to see them all. Throw something into the window with Mario to receive 20 rupees. Throwing something into the other window will result in a lit bomb being..From: tidus06
Roll into a tree in Hyrule field or in a town. The tree will randomly give Rupees, Hearts, Deku Nuts or other items, but at times will not give anything. Note: If you roll into the tree near a bunch of stones in a circle at Hyrule Castle, a golden Skulltula will appear. This trick also works at the tree closest to the entrance at Kakario village an..From: metroid 712
Go into the lava room in which you must collect silver rupees in the Gerudo Training Grounds. Stand on the first platform and use the Song Of Time. You can jump to the two time blocks and grab the key above. If you keep going ahead, you will find the key room where you open the locked doors. You will find three treasure chests there. Do not open th..From: naveen1045
After getting the Arrows Of Light from Zelda, you will not have any problems with money, even if you do not have all golden Skulltulas. Just go to Lake Hylia or another location with enemies and kill them with the Arrows Of Light. You will always get a purple rupee (worth 50 rupees). This does not work with spiders on the walls or enemies who alway..From: GoodByeMrChips
To get 20 Deku Sticks, go to the Lost Woods, where you see a Deku shrub seller. Talk to him and get 20 Deku Sticks. To get 30 Deku Sticks, make sure you have the Skull mask and go to the part in the Lost Woods where you see two Deku shrub sellers. Go straight forward and fall in a grotto hidden in the tall grass. If you do not fall in it right away..From: asim786
Go outside Hyrule Castle as young Link to where Talon is met. There will be a tree at that location. Play the Song of Storms and a grotto will appear. Enter the grotto, destroy the walls with a bomb, and kill the Skullata. Use the boomerang to get the token while doing a back flip to escape. Keep repeating this to get unlimited Skulltulas. Note: If..From: Rabbackarma
Go to the shadow room in Ganon's Castle. When you enter the room, you will see green rubble. Destroy it so it does not get in your way. then longshot to the torch that you see. Next, longshot yourself to the Like Like and destroy it. Get Fire Arrows and shoot the torch. When catches on fire, use the Lens Of Truth and go for the switch on the right...From: PagRealtSeawl
Go to the fishing pond at Lake Hylia at night. Fish until you catch a 20 lb. fish. Go to the shop owner and select "Weigh my fish". He will tell you that you have broken the record and give you the Golden Scale. This allows you able to dive deeper than with the Sliver Scale...From: omegaprime
Go to the fishing pond at Lake Hylia at night. Fish until you catch a 20 lb. fish. Go to the shop owner and select "Weigh my fish". He will tell you that you have broken the record and give you the Golden Scale. This allows you able to dive deeper than with the Sliver Scale...From: lovessit
As Young Link, go to the Happy Masks shop near the Temple Of Time after it opens when you have talked to the guard who lets you up Death Mountain and asks you to get a mask. The mask he wants is called the Keaton Mask and is worth ten rupees. Get it and take it to the guard. After that, go back to the shop and pay the money for the mask and get the..From: piedude
Use the following long trading sequence as an adult to get Biggoron's Sword. Go to the lady that gave young Link the empty bottle, when her Cuccos were rescued. She will give Link a Pocket Cucco egg. Wait for the egg to hatch, then bring it to Talon in Kakariko Village. Bring the Cucco back to the lady, to receive Cojiro, the Blue Cucco. Go to the ..From: markhen09
Hunt only at night because that is the time that the Gold Skulltulas appear. Some appear while Link is a child and some appear while he is an adult. A few appear during both these times. The Skulltulas like dirt patches, where the magic beans may be planted. Use a bottle of bugs to surface the spiders. Nine of the ten spots contain a Skulltula. Som..From: Vadim-vasilij
After completing the Forest Temple, return to the Temple of Time. Drop the Master Sword back into the stone to change back to Young Link. Go to the mask shop and make sure Link can borrow the Bunny Mask. Link should also have the Giant's Wallet (that holds 500 rupees) for this trick to be most effective. Thirty Gold Skulltulas should also have been..From: toyneywtp
To get the Gold Rupee without killing 100 spiders, go to the village with the graveyard. Go to the tree that is there as soon as you enter. Stand so you are facing the windmill and take ten steps forward. Lay down a bomb and a hole should open in the ground. This may require a few attempts. Go down the hole. Play the Sun Song to freeze the two zomb..From: Platinumboy
Enter Lon-Lon ranch, as an adult. Go to the former Super Cucco room when it is empty of everything but chickens. Pick up a Cucco and equip the Hover-Boots. Climb the stairs and jump towards the shelf opposite with a crate and bucket on it. You will land underneath and see a shadow on the shelf, where the crate should be but nothing above it. You wi..From: Cuddly Bun
As an adult, go to Lon Lon Ranch after getting Epona. Get on your horse and run over the Cuccos until they call for help. Though you are invincible, they will still chase after you. Have them chase you into the fenced off area with the jumps. Have the Cuccos chase you to the bigger gate, where you jump over. Though it does nothing to them, it is st..From: escoto
When finding Saria, go to the Lost Woods and move in the following directions: Right, Left, Right , Left, Straight, Left, Right. You will then battle a dog-like creature. A few slashes with your sword will kill him. You will then enter a maze with monsters that shoot nuts at you. Use your Deku (fairy) shield to reflect them back at them. The maze i..From: davocelo
You can have up to four Bottles to do this trick. Play the Prelude Of Light to warp to the Temple of Time. Go outside and go right. You should see four Gossip Stones. Play Zelda's Lullaby in front of each one to catch a Fairy. You will now have four Fairies, and your heart meter will fill up whenever you die until you run out of Fairies. You can al..From: Padsspeatty
You must be an adult with the Megaton Hammer to do this trick. Go to a square sign and hit it with the Megaton Hammer so there is one full piece of sign laying on the ground. Then, hit the ground next to the sign rapidly with the Megaton Hammer to see the sign jump...From: vivianswhite
This trick can only be done after you have the boomerang. Whenever you kill a Gold Skulltula and the gold skull token appears, Z-target it and throw your boomerang. When it snags it, immediately before your boomerang returns to you, do a backflip. Link will bend over backwards as if he were dodging bullets...From: prince onero
At the beginning, keep moving. If you stop for too long, it will shoot you with a powerful shot of electricity. Keep moving and disconnect its three tentacles from the ceiling with your Boomerang. When it gets up, it should spin around. Hit it with your Boomerang to stun it, then go up and slash it with your sword. After a little while it will come..From: astroboyboy
When inside the Great Deku Tree, fighting the Boss Gohma, bring a full Slingshot and about five to ten Deku Nuts. When you enter, hit her with a Deku Seed from the Slingshot. Then, hit her with your sword. When she tries to go on the roof of the battlefield, hit her with another Deku Seed from the Slingshot. If you happen to run out of Deku Seeds, ..From: aaronrow00
An easier way to defeat the Iron knuckles (big enemies with big axes) is to first target him. Then, just as he swings, do a back flip. Then do a lunge attack as he finishes his swing. If he does a double swing, just wait for him to finish his second swing, and quickly do a lunge attack. If you get hit, try to lure him to hit a pillar or his chair. ..From: Taterz11
He will summon a water arm to search for you. When Morpha does this, it will also appear in a separate tube of water. Using your Longshot. grab onto the red orb to bring it out of the water. Continue until it is defeated. Note: Near the end Morphia will send out another arm and sometimes three arms other than itself. Back up into a corner if this h..From: amjad12
In order to freeze zombies you need to know the Sun's Song. Go up to a group of zombies and play the song. They will turn white and freeze for a little while. This works best in the market when you are an adult or in the royal family's tomb. Note: You can only hit them once before they unfreeeze...From: ijkuty
Must have bombs for this or you're in for the fire. When he opens his mouth (Breathing in to get air for the fire),make a bomb pop up(by pressing the button with the Bomb simbowl on it),then toss in to his mouth,then he will swallow it. Sinse he did'nt know he just swallowed a bomb,the bomb will go off,turning him red for a split second after takin..From: thomas
When you have killed the other poe sisters, return to the entreance of the place. The lights will be light,but only one is not Meg, the final sister,shows up when you go into the middle of the four light stands. Meg challanges you to a Whitch is the real meg contest. Meg summons four other clones of her self. The trick here is that the meg that spi..From: thomas
This has not been tested so, I do not know what it does. But what I do know is that it either: Gives you another master sword or makes you put Biggoron sword in pedestal. Here's how to do it: First, go to Gannons castle (Adult link) and fight him, when he knocks the master sword out of you're hands, save and quit. Then, play again, and you will NOT..From: Arightwizard
Go to the Forest Temple. Inside, go to the second twisty hallway (with the green flying skulls) and cast Faore's Wind. Return to the red/blue switch for the first twisty hallway (the one immediately after the blue flying skulls) and hit it. Return to your warp point and backtrack to the first twisty room. Go through the door, but do not walk after ..From: cheateristic
As an adult, go to Hyrule Market and kill a zombie to make the other zombies move towards you. hit one of the other zombies until there is only one hit remaining until it is killed. Then, try to get another zombie to get close to the one you are about to kill. They should be close enough where you can hit both zombies. When this happens, hit both z..From: FUTURE|CoLe
This is a cool trick, it won't kill link. Just get a poe in a bottle by shooting a arrow at one and keep doing that to kill it. Make sure you have a bottle to keep it. Now attach the bottle with the poe in it action to one of the buttons on the top right. Press it now. And just look at him do it! he drinks it. It does not effect link. However,if we..From: thomas
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R&S®NRT Power Reflection Meter
Directional power meter measures the power flow in both directions between source and load .
Directional power meters are used to measure power and reflection under operational conditions. Typical applications are in installation, maintenance and monitoring of amplifiers, transmitters, antennas and RF/microwave generators in industrial and medical fields.
- Simultaneous display of power and reflection
- Measurement of average power irrespective of modulation mode
- Measurement of peak power, crest factor and average burst power
- Intelligent sensors: plug & play
- Digital interface between sensor and base unit
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Pockets is perfection on 3 legs! If he was on "Survivor," he would win! After what we believe must have been months of dragging around a useless, injured leg, getting food and water where he could find it, Pockets is now a healthy, handsome boy, as fast as any kitty with 4 legs Given the way he plays with his toys, Pockets might just be a dog in a cat's body! Pockets is approximately 3 years old, current on vaccines, neutered, and ready for his happy ending to erase his sad beginning!


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ASUS sent the bare card with a drivers CD, so this is more of a reference GeForce 8800GTX review of the reference card than a review of the ASUS retail package. Should ASUS send a retail package, we will of course cover the card in full detail. For now, the important information on the ASUS 8800GTX is essentially the same as the one from XFX, both are clocked at 575MHz for the core, 1.8GHz for the memory and 1.35 GHz for the Shader clock.
ASUS's website lists one model of 8800GTX card today at launch, the EN8800GTX/HTDP/768M card. The card will come with the usual suite of ASUS software, GRAW (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter) GT1 Racing and 3Dmark06. This seems to be a great bundle for a video card as the games are relatively recent and everyone can use a copy of 3Dmark06 to test their new card with. ASUS normally provides a suite of their own software with their cards, including ASUS VideoSecurity, ASUS GameFace, ASUS GameMessenger and more. The card we received had only the driver CD, and I'd rather consider this a reference card review rather than a retail card review.
There are two SLI connectors on the 8800GTX. The nForce 600i series motherboards that are being announced today have three PCI Express x16 slots. Does this mean three-way SLI is possible? Actually, the second SLI connector is to connect three cards, two for regular SLI use and the third for physics use. As the 8800GTX is an especially power hungry card, I can just imagine the PSUs three cards will require.
Driver shots
NVIDIA provided two different driver releases for the launch, 96.94 and 96.97. NVIDIA should release a driver with the card. One thing about the new Forceware drivers, NVIDIA has gotten rid of the old Control Panel. The advanced 3D settings give you full control of your new card. Another note, Oblivion does not natively support HDR+FSAA. If you set "Override the application setting" the GeForce 8800GTX will do both HDR+FSAA at the same time, a huge improvement in IQ, especially with the 16XQ or 8XQ modes.


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As Liverpool F.C. were clinging to a 3-2 lead over title rivals Manchester City in stoppage time at Anfield on Sunday, midfielder Jordan Henderson paid the ultimate penalty for a poor first touch as the home team sought to break clear.
The 23-year-old's heavy contact pushed the ball towards Samir Nasri and, desperate to regain control, Henderson's lunge scythed the Frenchman down and left referee Mark Clattenburg with no choice other than to issue a red card for dangerous play.
The England international screamed at the heavens as he trudged off the pitch, knowing his part in what Liverpool F.C. fans hope will be a run to a first league title for 24 years would be diminished.
Although Liverpool F.C. saw out the remaining minutes to claim a vital victory to stay two points clear of Chelsea at the top of the table, Henderson is now almost certain to miss three of the final four games of the run in.
"I was disappointed for Jordan because anyone who knows Jordan could see he's just overran it on his touch and he's actually got the top of the ball," manager Brendan Rodgers told the BBC after the match.
"He's not a malicious player, he's not a player that goes with any intent to hurt anyone. That's been the only disappointment of the day because he's been absolutely brilliant for us."
Henderson has been an integral player for Liverpool F.C. this season, improving to become a first choice selection despite being asked to be a makeweight in failed deal to sign Clint Dempsey from Fulham at start of last season.
The only outfielder to start every game, he has scored four goals and laid on seven more and his pressing and energy have been crucial to Liverpool F.C.'s title challenge, with his industry enabling his fellow midfielders a freedom to operate.
It will now be down to either Joe Allen or Brazilian Lucas Leiva to fill the void for the trip to Norwich City next weekend, the crunch home match against Chelsea and the third match of the run-in at Crystal Palace.
Henderson's partnership with Steven Gerrard is likely to be integral to England's hopes of success at this year's World Cup and it was a disciplinary ban for the club captain that Liverpool F.C. fans had been sweating over going into the City game.
Gerrard picked up a ninth yellow card of the season against Cardiff on March 22 and


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Jim Grant: What Henry Hazlitt Can Teach Us About Inflation In 2014
Submitted by James Grant via The Ludwig von Mises Institute,
This article is adapted from a portion of the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, delivered at the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference by James Grant.
Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, when you stand at the pinnacle of financial journalism, you're standing at sea level. There are exceptions to the rule, of course. The Victorian polymath Walter Bagehot, second editor of The Economist, was one. The twentieth century Americans Garet Garrett, John Chamberlain and — my old mentor at Barron's — Robert M. Bleiberg were others. Each brought something extraordinary to the prosaic business of financial and economic reporting and commentary. Then there was Henry Hazlitt (1894-1991), author, critic, self-taught economist and visionary. I stand before you in the reflected glory of his reputation.
The author of Economics in One Lesson, a longtime columnist for Newsweek and an editorial writer for The New York Times in the distant, pre-Krugman era, Hazlitt waged a career-long battle against inflation. He was at it in 1946 — and he was still going strong in 1966. It may be well at this point to define terms — Hazlitt would have certainly wanted us to.
You have heard inflation reduced to the phrase, "too much money chasing too few goods." It is an overly narrow definition. Inflation is too much money. What the redundant increment of purchasing power chooses to chase is variable but always mischievous. It varies from cycle to cycle.
In one market interval, the dollars may chase skirts — or toothpaste or automobiles. This is inflation at the checkout counter, the familiar CPI variety. Or the dollars may chase stocks — or bonds or Iowa farmland. On Wall Street, where I work, this is the kind of inflation known as a "bull market," and most of us cheer it on. The inflation of asset values is the kind of inflation that is prevalent today.
In the past year, the world's central banks have materialized — net — $1.9 trillion (net, for instance, of the substantial shrinkage of euros effected by the European Central Bank). They conjured it on their computer keyboards. It may help to grasp the meaning of this vast pile of scrip to note that it is more than the GDP of India. One hears constantly that these central bank effusions are merely helping us adjust to the "new normal." I dispute it — and I'm sure that Henry Hazlitt would dispute it if he were here today.
"Deflation," too, is a perennially misunderstood term. It is not — as one so often hears it defined — a simple decline in aggregate prices. Let's try a mind experiment. Suppose you lived in a time of material and technological wonder: of digital technology that sets robots to work, makes universally accessible the canon of human knowledge (and, to be sure, of human error) and coordinates and arbitrages the world's far-flung labor markets. As it costs less to make things, so it should cost less to buy them.
Would you call this happy state of affairs "deflation" — or might you call it "progress"? Most Americans seem to not to mind it, whatever the Federal Reserve chooses to call it. They spend half their weekends looking for it.
With this in mind, let's hear from Hazlitt himself, master of economic clarity. Here he is in June 1946 — in the New York Times, no less — taking the government to task for its misplaced worry about a return to the 1930s.
"A Washington correspondent of the Wall Street Journal reports that the government economic experts are now convinced the 'deflation' and not inflation will be the big problem six months to a year from now," Hazlitt began. "Planners of federal financial policy make no secret of their belief that the danger of post-war inflation was passed in late spring, and that from now on the greater danger lies in too-rapid deflation. Such a belief on the part of the government planners in Washington would not be surprising, the whole economic philosophy they have adopted leads them to believe that 'the real danger is deflation,' whatever the evidence may be on the other side."
In 1946, as now, the government held up the threat of deflation to justify a policy of ultra-low low interest rates and easy money. Now ladies, and gentlemen, I have devoted thirty-one years of my life to writing about interest rates, and I have to tell you that I can't see them anymore. They're tiny. And so they were in 1946. Then, as now, the Fed had been conscripted into the government's financial service. Just as it does today, the central bank pushed money-market interest rates virtually to zero and longer-dated Treasury securities to less than 3 percent. Just as it does today, the Fed had its thumb on the scales of finance.
Hazlitt urged the government to remove it:
"When interest rates are kept arbitrarily low by government policy, the effect must be inflationary," he wrote. "In the first place, interest rates cannot be kept artificially low, except by inflation. The real or natural rate of interest is the rate that would be established if the supply and demand for real capital were in equilibrium. The actual money interest rate can only be kept below the natural rate by pumping new money into the economic system. This new money and new credit add to the apparent supply of new capital just as the judicious addition of water add to the apparent supply of real milk."
Hazlitt concluded that "the money rate of interest can be kept below the real rate of interest only as long as the supply of new money exceeds the supply of new real capital. Excessively low interest rates are inflationary in the second place because they give an excessive stimulation to the volume of borrowing."
Why, I could quote those perfectly formed sentences in Grant's today (and I believe I just might). They're as timely now as they were during the administration of Harry S. Truman. The effective federal funds rate has been zero for well nigh six years.
There is a doctrine in finance called the dividend discount model. It says that the price of a common stock is the present value of its future cash flows discounted by a suitable rate of interest. Now what would happen to the calculation of the value of that stock if the rate of interest were unsuitable — if it were artificial?
Hazlitt says this: "Excessively low interest rates are inflationary because they mean that bonds, stocks, real estate and unincorporated businesses are capitalized at excessively high rates, and will fall in value even though the annual income they pay remains the same, if interest rates rise."
If interest rates were artificially low, it would follow that prevailing investment values are artificially high. I contend that they are, and you may or may not agree. But you must allow the observation that we live in a kind of valuation hall of mirrors. We don't exactly know where our markets should trade, because we don't know where interest rates would be in the absence of central-bank manipulation. Natural interest rates — free-range, organic, sustainable — are what we need. Hot-house interest rates — the government's puny, genetically modified kind — are the ones we have.
Hazlitt understood the effects of these intrusions in the market. More than that, he was able to explain them in words so simple, yet so elegant, that the proverbial milkman in Dayton could follow his argument. What a remarkable man was he, and how well it would suit us all to live more closely to his example.
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jim grant , perenial hawk. love the guy's way with words, but he's like a dodo bird, an anarchonistic vestige of a 19th century mustache comb.
howdy do. we are going downt eh rabbit hole jim, and history will come out on the other side.............somewhere as horrible as you think it might wind up, and probably a lot worse. but without suspenders.
Rather I back him as an ethical person than the others that run around and blab pablum.
No bow tie on Jim Grant? What does this mean? The end of the world?
Jim, if you read this or somebody makes you aware of this, please think about what is happening with Cycle Inventory right now due to the CBs. By keeping interest rates artificially low, the are decreasing the holding cost of inventories, which goes into every LOT SIZE and BATCH SIZE calculation in every major supply chain worldwide. Yes Cycle inventory worldwide is way too high thanks to the artificial financing of the CBs. So CBs are printing money in part to sustain artificially high cycle inventories? That is a crazy unintended consequence of the ZIRP. It is decreasing the economic efficiency of every supply chain in the world. Furthermore, during the unwind, as interest rates go up, the decrease in cycle inventories due to the decrease in lot sizes and batch sizes, will create a sucking sound like no other, most likely bringing a recession with them.
For those curious I posted the actual formula for calculating optimum lot and batch size and from it cycle inventories in a previous post.
Jim is the coolest nerd of them all
I logged in just to -1 you. Unless you are secretly mdb, in which case +1.
Jim Grant is an extremely dangerous man for he speaks truth to power. While now he is mostly ignored, there will be a time when the people will turn on those who speak the truth since "We the People" are wed to the Big Lie.
If for no other reason than the confirmation of reason, I eagerly await the demise of the financial world....
Financial repression has robbed savers of wealth. It has punished the conservative investor and enriched leveraged speculators. MMT, the magic money tree, has no answer for depressed velocity of money. They push more and more money into an economy drowning with liquidity and it serves only to further dilute the flood. Debt grows but the ability to repay it does not. The loans can be refinanced, refinanced again at lower rates, refinanced again at near zero rates but the debt cannot and will not be repaid because there is not enough to pay both principal and interest. Negative interest rates against held cash and bail-ins are two signs of the times. Deflation is disaster to the leveraged (which, in a fractional reserve system, is banks and their clients). But to the unleveraged deflation enhances their wealth.
very well stated. If only others could process your coments.
if only no one "ran" the world, and men like hazlitt and grant were listened to instead of disregarded.
Jim, I contend that you are correct and I don't dispute what you say.
That said, there is no future looking truth, only backwards looking. The Fed wrongly did what they did. Now the key question is not whether it was right or wrong, but how do we get out of this mess.
Any valuation model will tell you that when interest rate goes up, the valuation of companies will go down.
That is why you need to bring Bernanke's statement that rates will not normalize for more than 20 years into bear. They can't normalize them. The system would break and they won't allow it.
So I find the article hollow since it doesn't have a reasonable proposal for how to get out.
If you were to ask me, well I don't have a solution. But may be, only may be, that if all the bests minds in the USA were to put their brains together and exit would be found, but that would only happen if people stopped biasing their opinions and statements with the color of past positioning. Once the solution is found, the next step is execution, probably even more difficult than the solution itself, but without the solution being proposed or discussed, nothing that will get us our of this mess will happen.
Jim could give solutions, and so could many people. The reason nobody with half a brain bothers any more is... because the predators-that-be have absolute, complete, utter control over everything at this point, and they will never implement any ethical or rational solution.
Therefore, for fools who play markets and such, the only game that remains is to guess what the predators-that-be will do, and try to get ahead of that. Fortunately for me, I don't waste my time with grossly rigged and manipulated non-markets, but some people do.
BTW, no need for "the best minds". The solutions are easy to identify. A good start would be to dissolve all federal, state and county governments. When the gringos came to the American continents, the continents were already inhabited. There was never any ethical or rational basis to take over the continents and implement predatory systems in the first place. So just eliminate them, and let individuals interact with each other as they will.
There are no ways to tinker with predatory authoritarianism and make it work. From skin to core they are dishonest, unethical, destructive and malevolent by their very nature. They cannot be fixed, they can only be eliminated. That's the only solution.
BTW, there is not "too much money" today. The fact is, there IS no money, unless you count old gold and silver coins burried in backyards and vaults. What there is today is "too much debt".
But the funny thing is, even that debt is unreal, because... well... what exactly ARE these debts? What exactly is owed? Dollars? But dollars are debt. But how can dollars be debt when nobody knows what is owed. Surely the answer can't be "more debt" (more dollars). That's blatant nonsense. Yet that's also as close to an answer as anyone can give, as far as I can tell.
"So I find the article hollow since it doesn't have a reasonable proposal for how to get out. ..."
Von Mises is Austrian school, to them, no solution is the solution, in other words, let the market & economy crumble with no Fed or Fiscal intervention, then let it "repair" on it's own.
I might suggest a web search for "Austrian" economics, or Friedrich Hayek.
Or, better yet, a web search for "Hayek Friedman debates" to learn the differences between Libertarian and Austrian economics.( https://www.google.com/search?q=Hayek+Frriedman+debates&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS... )
not to pick a fight ... but you sound like Barry Ritholz........ in your 'simple' articulation and contrast you misstated egregiously.......not fair bro'.
Essentially you just articulated your indoctrinated understanding & 'explanation' (and opinion one might conclude)....nothing more
And what does your moniker Frilton Midman suggest if I can cautiously ask?
OK, I'll bite, WTF are you talking about?
I stated that Austrian economists (Von Mises) frown on both monetary (Friedman) and fiscal (Keynes) intervention, I used Friedman/Hayek to exemplify one of the key differences between Austrian (Hayek) and Libertarian (Friedman) theory on monetary policy.
Don't just make a whacky statement about my "indoctrinated understanding" (& Barry Ritholtz -whatever the hell you meant there).
What's your point? ..Do you have one, or did you just toss a few random words together for the sake of it?
So what you are really saying is that Austrians beleive that centralized planning is a general failure and that the millions of people acting independently and in their own best interests come to a solution in a much better and more efficient way?
Seems all of this has been tested in the real world and we know without a shadow of doubt that centrally planned economies end in disaster. So what Grant is arguing is to simply end the central planning in our economy and financial systems because we know the end result already. We also know that the longer the centralized planning is left to run it's course th emore destruction that it will conjure when it implodes. That's not Earth shaking news only historical fact.
So for Grant the answer seems to be to pull the bandaid off now, take your lumps and all the pain that will occur because it s the logical choice when faced with the rot that is happening below that bandage. The gangrene that is developing needs to be exposed to sunlight and loped off today. The next best time is tomorrow. Feels better to let it fester but we know, WE ALL KNOW how it will end. We just do not know when.
Procrastination isn't really a strategy.
"Austrians beleive that centralized planning is a general failure and that the millions of people acting independently and in their own best interests come to a solution in a much better and more efficient way?"
Well, yes.
The term "central planning" becomes an oxymoron when you ask how will bridges, tunnels, highways and skyscrapers get built.
Will all the workers "acting independendantly in their own intereests" achieve that?
Is the Constitution and it's layout of the 3 branches of government "central planning"?
In fact, Central Planning isn't needed to build any of those. Local government, states and the private sector would willing build them all.
Is the Federal government centralized planning? Yes, but it is in fact designed to be a little as possible and still perform the needed functions of a national government.
The people who designed our government had a much better grasp on th enature of humans and governmetns than we do today. They knew that the natural progression was for government to assume greater and reater power over time at the expense of the people and their happiness and wealth.
They tried to design a government that was extremely limited with checks and balances against it's own nature to grow in power and destruction. they did a pretty good job that stood for over 100 years, then the cracks became too big to hold back the power grabs and we have what today is nothing like the government envisioned in our founding documents.
Trust me, buildings and bridges aren't built without a central group of architects, engineers to plan it.
Random groups of self motivated laborers doesn't work, but by all means, invest a boatload of capital into the idea, let me know how it works.
Capitalism, unregulated, of it's own device, creates wider and wider disparity - to assume there's a "natural" level of disparity that will come of it's own is blissful simplicity..
This is the seeds of Monarchy, to allow concentrated wealth, power & monopoly to grow without the consent of the governed.
That's not to say that disparity is a bad thing, it isn't, we all need to aspire for greater things, but excess disparity is also counterproductive to capitalism as the biggest players suppress all others without improving on their products, goods or prices.
In terms of your reference to "central planning", the Constitution alots the power to "centrally plan" via the commerce clause, however, we can both agree that Congress is NOT excercising that power in the interests of the people it's intended.
The fact that we all agree there is a central power acting against the interests of the majority is the start of that process.
The next step, knowing who to focus on, that lies in Congress, who has the power to make the changes to the Fed that we're all so angry with.
So, what good are we accomplishing by bitching about the Fed alone, if we're not calling out Congress, who has that power, about money's influence over the Fed, corporations, or eccentric billionaires, all gaming the system?
Or, did we make a big mistake in taking from King GeorgeIII, and deciding to "centrally plan", what was rightfully his to begin with?
........."dude" ............ he was honoring Hazlitt............there are constraints as to what his 'address' can "address".........give some slack man
The cost to service household debt right now is at 1980 level, despite the size of that debt being 60% greater than 1980.
The same Von Mises that is promoting anti-Fed intervention also opposes minimum wage increases or fiscal/tax/foreign trade reform that might rebuild the middle class.
Austrians want us to go back to the 2009 crash and let it "finish what it started", so to speak.
Where our own government has failed to legislate or effect wage increases, tax & foreign trade policy, or mandate the return of net worth to those from whom it was stolen in 2008, the Fed can at least make debt less expensive, and for now, it's working, households have deleveraged 20% since 2008.
I'm not arguing there's no corruption in the Fed, there definitely is, but I don't see the Fed as the bigger boogeyman to the Congress, Senate, SCOTUS & POTUS that have declared "bribery is free speech".
We should be focused on why corporations & banks are exempt from the rule of law the rest of us adhere to, which has allowed them to steal such massive amounts of wealth to begin with....this is something that Von Mises refuses to acknowledge.
While I agree, Fed policy is scarefully easy and will likely have unintended consequences, it's a symptom of the extreme fiscal torture the middle class has been put through, largely due to Austrian influence over fiscal, tax and trade policies.
Von Mises, you can fight Monetarists, you can fight Keynes, but you can't fight BOTH.
Okay, first - under what constitutional authority can the government dictate what I must pay - as a private citizen - to another who wishes to provide his labor in exchange for compensation?
Second, how did the middle class fair last time easy monetary policy was used as a blunt instrument to "mend" the economy?
You're free to come back to ZH when you can answer either of those questions.
I'll catch that one for ya. You are asking strawman questions so instead, I'll provide answers to the REAL questions we all should be asking.
Q1: Under teh same <un> Constitutional Authority with which teh US FedRes was created in teh first place. 'Murikans like John McCain and his MIC cronies of both stripes will see to it that those policies are continued, via use of force on citizens of this country if necessary. See militarization of local police forces if you have doubts.
Q2: the same way they will fair this time. Nothing ever changes unless / until the sheeple, or atleast a large enough percentage to effectuate change / prevention of repeats. The magic act has been completed by the Fed. It has bailed out its' members at the expense of large debts placed upon its' balance sheet. YOU, those 'Murikans awake enough to have seen this act not once but now twice, know teh what and how, the only question now is what are you going to do about it? You gonna pay those debts that were created by the banksters that reside on the BS of the US FedRes, continue to allow the banksters to print and issue unbacked credit which slowly bails them out but devalues those precious few fiats in your pocket and drops the level of dividend / interest you receive on your pitiful CDs and retirement funds, etc. Another Bankster created magic trick coming that you damn well better be aware of relates to teh $Hundreds of Trillions of OBS iRate Derivatives about to blow.
so you see there is really only one question left and the Bible told you about how man, especially banksters, never change. Since the written recordation of mans time here on this rock. You gonna allow them to make YOU pay again or you gonna roll the guillotines?
Imagery, thankyou - Q1 listed in the Constitutions "Powers of Congress", correct.
Q2, I agree, it's time for us to stop being whiny "sheeple", complaining on internet forums as if we can do nothing. There are several active petitions to do something about campaign finance & Citizens United, if a person has not at least signed one, he should stop whining.
It would also help if those who make accusations of others lack of knowledge of the Constitution actually read the Constitution.
If congress has the power to do anything it chooses why then enumerate in Article 1 Sec 8 specific powers at all?
You could, at some point, actually read it yourself....the "regulate commerce" and "tax...collect to pay for the defense & common welfare ..." parts in particular.
This is where you ask "To what end is Congress supposed to regulate".
To where I say "the people who voted them into office", "not bribers" - which leads to -
Article II, section 4, asking you to note the words "bribery" in context to "high crimes", and although this section is for the executive branch, the appearance of " ... all civil Officers of the United States ..."
This is how the conversation usually goes, hopefullly now you understand who's in charge, who to blame and what they've done that's really "unconstitutional".
Bribery isn't free speech, not according to our Constitution.
I'm free to come to ZH when I want.
First, read the "Powers of Congress" section of the Constitution, it's obvious you've never read your own Constitution.
Second, better yet, how well did Americans fare the last time the Fed was unable to do anything at all?
Hint, let Friedman 'splain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvBCDS-y8vc
The great insight of the seventies didn't come from the midget Jew but from the Bankers Trust folks who realized that the USA did not have a debt problem back then. This is not to argue "the inflation was affordable" (another Nixon, Kissinger pile of bullshit) but it is to argue that recovery was still possible if the inflation could be snuffed out "like a Jew at a Holocaust Party."
And indeed it was.
This time around we're not so fortunate as we have a debt crisis that has not only not been resolved but exacerbated because a Bailout Regime has basically been decreed thus wiping out the Middle Class.
How any City of any size can survive this...even of small size (50,000) is simply beyond me.
In short even a "mild" inflation has devastating consequences as simply put you create the conditions for a debt repudiation...ironically by the very same banks you're bailing out.
Sorry for the smack talk but this is prima facie stupid now.
It's either jubilee or nuke the dollar.
There is no more cash to "flow" save for where there are energy booms and/or deep liquidity (North Dakota, Ohio, New York.)
Usurious rates are coming for Agency Paper now.
"Thanks for playing, have a nice day."
It is all correct in the limit of an infinite world...
The old rules have changed, for the very first time ever cheap credit can not be used to create cheap oil. Since 2005 there has been $3.5 trillion spent in CAPEX exclusive of US shale and Canadian Tar Sands, the result of which has been a decline of 1 million bpd of crude oil. While "All Liquids" measures have slightly increased, the NGLs and condensates that those increases are driven by yield no distallate or fuel oil, and that is the stuff that drives the real economy...
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
-HenryHazlitt further refining economics to one sentence.
"The more words I use, the less the words mean."
-Anna Karina in Godard's "Vivre Sa Vie"
Classic line -
"Most Americans seem to not to mind it (deflation). They spend half their weekends looking for it."
So true...
Interest rates aren't being held down by some conspiracy. Interest rates rise in order to tamp down excessive growth. Do you see any excessive growth these days? Interest rates rise to encourage saving and discourage borrowing or investing. Interest rates lower to encourage spending and borrowing and investing.
Problem is, people don't have capital to spend, and they have reached their borrowing limit. The Ponzi is mostly over.
I like Jim Grant, and this was a good article, but he didn't do a good enough job of defining inflation. Many of you know that is my pet peeve. It's so simple a definition, and yet almost everyone insists on getting it wrong.
All other things being equal, an increase in the money supply increases demand which increases prices.
Anyway, it was a pretty good article. I liked the reference to Hazlitt, and I also liked the use of the term "economic clarity," which I use often here at ZH. :)
All other things being equal, an increase in the money supply increases demand which increases prices. "
With Excess reserves currently @ $2.5 Trillion, I think that's too generalized....we'd have hyperinflation if it were true.
The key is velocity, Fed's monetary expansion is stagnating in the hands of banks, I suspect because the ROI to lending exceeds the risk vs collecting 0.25% interest on E/R's.
This era may be a proving ground between Keynes "demand-push" inflation and Classic Liberals "monetary-only" cause of inflation.
Personally, I think it's a combination of both, not one or the other.
Velocity of money can change in an instant.
The excess reserves are just like gasoline that has been filling our basement. With each new QE or whatever else they wish to call the conjuring of new money they fill our basement closer to the ceiling with more gas.
All it needs is a spark and velocity ignites and all those reserves explode into lending and trillions of other dollars held overseas stream back into the backdraft created by the rush.
game over.
I suggest a glance at mutliple decades of M1, M2 & MZM velocity regarding your first statement, but I don't disagree with the concern.
I agree over what might happen if that long term velocity trend reverses with excess reserves so massive, but ask what precedence you have that shows velocity to increase rapidly. (Weimar?...a country that tried to print on a gold standard, not the same)
In 2008, Congress voted to allow the Fed to pay interest on excess reserves, now at 0.25%, which plays some role in stemming an exodus of the $2.5 trillion, but again, I share your concern.
I'm short treasuries for the same concerns you have, if velocity surges too fast I suspect interest rates may have to increase, potentially fast.
In the same respect, I'm not betting the farm we won't be Japan either.
What I DO know is the problem is structurally a fiscal one, even Bernanke repeatedly tried to appeal to Congress that monetary wasn't going to be the solution.
The Fed is acting as a temporary means to keep household & government debt affordable, no debating Fed conspiracies, but to point to the fact that somewhere around 20% of all households hold underwater mortgages, higher mortgage payments at this stage without wage growth could make the Great Depression like like a small correction.
Never before has mankind diverted such a large percentage of wealth into intangible products or goods. I contend this is the primary reason that inflation has not raised its ugly head or become a major economic issue. If faith drops in these intangible "promises" and money suddenly flows into tangible goods seeking a safe haven inflation will soar. Like many of those who study the economy I worry about the massive debt being accumulated by governments and the rate that central banks have expanded the money supply.
The timetable on which economic events unfold is often quite uneven and this supports the possibility of an inflation scenario. A key issue being one of timing. If the price of gas jumps to $8 a gallon overnight do you buy gas and not make your car payment or stop driving the twenty miles to work? Answer, it could be months before your car is repossessed so you buy gas. It is important to remember that debts can go unpaid and promises be left unfilled. Is this possible and if so where would that leave us? Chaos and major disruption would result from such a scenario. As we have seen from the economic crisis of 2008 and following many other unsettling developments legal actions can continue to drag on for years. More in the article below.
I'll make your dollars worth nothing while I print more and more for myself. Oldest financial trick in the book. It's never inflation, it's the drought, wet spring, polar vortex, 100 year storm ad nauseum. It's sad when you can't listen to any financial outlet without the weather tie in to explain it away and of course my favorite is the carbon tax. A tax created by chicken little running around screaming "the sky is falling" with absolutely no repeatable scientific explanation for it. There is no press anymore, just propaganda to justify a horrendously broken financial and political system.
During the "boom times" when asset values are going up lots of people think they are getting rich. In inflationary times government also does well as tax revenues grow. Not only does government get to spend the money they print, the side effects of inflation on taxes are good for government, though bad for their subjects.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. said John Maynard Keynes. As the central banks print like crazy to control interest rates on bonds they devalue the currency.
While there are not many Bond Vigilantes there are many Currency Vigilantes. Changes in the value of a currency directly affect "buying power" and the value of assets. Inflation, deflation, what is something worth? More on this subject in the article below.
" ... Inflation, deflation, what is something worth?"
Pivotal to that discussion, what is labor worth?
It's also subject to supply/demand, and we're in unprecidented levels of globalization, where multinationals can hire in a country where labor is 1/10 our rates, then sell to a country with consumers that have access to credit, or still has well paid labor, while putting a storefront in Ireland, instead of America, who has the lowest corporate tax rate in the world, while hiring almost no Irish labor in exchange for the lowered taxes.
The global middle & lower classes have become a candy store for multinational corporate executives.
I'm thinking the party is over when medium term debt, seven year ???, cannot be rolled over to a lower rate.
Then instead of cash flows of borrowers increasing each time debt is refinanced, it becomes progressively harder to service the debt, it will have to be paid down instead of rolled. Back of the envelope says total interest of the u.s. is about 3T on 60T of debt, about 5% interest rate. The rate is still headed down thanks to ZIRP. Give it a few more years. 7 years ago, rates were several percent higher than today. In 2009,2010 rates were much lower. those loans cannot roll into lower rates.
Kudos to most everyone here....
As good a thread as I have seen in some while here...


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auto ISO on NX200
Hi all.
So my NX200 came. I was pleasantly surprised that auto ISO works in M mode! I set A and S and ISO is selected to get the exposure right! It never made sense to me that NX100 wouldn't do that. Thanks, Samsung!
Also the AF on the 30mm is "WAY" faster. And the flash is "cute". I had been using my S95 in "party" scenarios mainly because of the flash (SEF20 was too big). Now I think I'll bring along the NX200.
Satisfied with my impulse luxury purchase. Now to acquire that Rokkor 55 1.7 from my neighbor...
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FEMA reservists get health insurance
Temporary emergency response workers can now receive federal health benefits under an interim final rule the Office of Personnel Management published Nov. 14.
The rule (.pdf) lets the Federal Emergency Management Agency apply to offer health insurance to its reservists, who only work during emergency response.
Emergency response workers face environmental hazards not unlike those that firefighters face when they respond to wildfires, OPM notes. Yet temporary firefighters can receive federal health benefits under an interim regulation that OPM issued in July.
Like temporary firefighters, FEMA's reservists, formerly known as disaster assistance employees, will only receive federal benefits when called in to work.
Hurricane Sandy was the impetus for the rule, OPM says. Thousands of FEMA employees, many of them reservists, deployed after the storm.
Usually, agencies have to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking before issuing final rules, but OPM waived that requirement because of Sandy. New rules also usually wait 30 days to take effect after being issued, but this one is effective immediately.
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Yesterday, Neill Blomkamp hit Hall H at Comic-Con with seven minutes of footage from his sophomore feature film effort, "Elysium." The "District 9" director was returning to San Diego as a bit of a hero, having unveiled his first feature at the convention to a rapturous reception and subsequent critical and box office success. But as fans know, Blomkamp nearly made his debut with the Peter Jackson-produced "Halo," an experience he has not minced words about, describing it earlier this year as "a clusterfuck from day one." But, sitting down to chat with our own Jeff Otto, he reveals: "I think 'Halo' was a complete blessing in disguise. I have no idea what would've happened to my career if I had done that."
"It really, really, really, really, really happened in a way that I think is pretty lucky for me. I'm lucky that I met Peter Jackson and I'm incredibly lucky that he was the person that allowed 'District 9' to be made. There is absolutely no way on God's Earth that that film would be made in Hollywood without his involvement. Or without him basically dictating that it was going to be me. A first time director, you just can't do that," Blomkamp explained. "What happened for me was, the collapse of the hornet's nest nightmare that 'Halo' would've been -- and I got to experience that as well, I worked on that thing for six months -- it's like 'good riddance' when it falls over. And then to be more confident in your own ideas, and to work on ['District 9'] and then to work on another idea at the time, it's now reaffirmed for me, you don't need to go and do this whole approach that a lot of directors seem to take. I don't really care if it's not the biggest film. As long as I'm creatively invested in it, I feel like I'm making the right choice. It could be a $5 million film, it doesn't matter. The budget we needed on ['Elysium'] was a lot, but that's because the concept required that."
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"I'm very visual. And I feel like it's a combination in being interested in topics on Earth, mixed with imagery and science fiction concepts...all of those things seem to merge in a way that you realize may be a framework for a film, that I feel like I want to make," he said. "It's incredibly difficult to narrow down. It's a very sort of mercurial, vapourous kind of creative space, where it's like one day I'm like, 'I actually the idea of this space station imagery I've been thinking of. And this group of people living on it that are billionaires, and this group of people on Earth that are destitute.' It's just interesting imagery. And from that, the socio-political stuff, makes the framework, and then it's, 'Okay, I'm going to write a script.' "
"I'm just interested in an idea, the byproduct is something that appears to be socially relevant. And I think it's because I'm just interested in society in general, I'm interested in Earth and where humans are going and where we come from. So I have zero goal to go out and try and make a film about important topics, it just seems to work its way into what I like to make," he continued adding, "A line cannot be drawn between the creative part of the mind, and the part of the mind that is absorbing these real life things. They mesh, and you just get something starting to generate...but definitely the idea of inequality, of the haves and haves not, has been around for millennia, so those topics just interest me."


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The contemporary painter Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) has been heralded both as modernity's last painter and as painting's modern savior, seen to represent both the end of painting and its resurrection. Richter works in a dizzying variety of styles, from abstraction to a German cool pop that combines painterly technique and appropriation; his work includes photo paintings, large abstract canvases, and stained glass windows. This collection features writing by prominent critics, including Hal Foster, Gertrud Koch, and Thomas Crow; an essay by Rachel Haidu on Richter's family pictures that is published here for the first time; and an essay and two interviews with the artist by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Richter's "longtime sparring partner" (as the curator Robert Storr has called him). These writings examine Richter's work as a whole, from October 18, 1977, his dreamlike series of paintings depicting the dead Baader-Meinhof gang, to his abstract trio Abstract Paintings; from his unsettling portrait of "Uncle Rudi" in Nazi garb to his late series of portraits of his wife and young child. This addition to the October Files series will be an essential handbook to one of the most enigmatic figures in contemporary artContents Gerhard Richter and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interview (1986)Gertrud Koch The Richter-Scale of Blur (1992)Thomas Crow Hand-Made Photographs and Homeless Representation (1992)Birgit Pelzer The Tragic Desire (1993)Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Divided Memory and Post-Traditional Identity: Gerhard Richter's Work of Mourning (1996)Peter Osborne Abstract Images: Sign, Image, and Aesthetic in Gerhard Richter's Painting (1998)Hal Foster Semblance According to Gerhard Richter (2003)Johannes Meinhardt Illusionism in Painting and the Punctum of Photography (2005)Rachel Haidu Arrogant Texts: Gerhard Richter's Family Pictures (2007)Gerhard Richter and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interview (2004)
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The name of my blog does not capture the exothermic energy of my adventurous life. It is static, passive, only looking, noticing from its anonymous perch.
Dawn points, and another day
Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn wind
Wrinkles and slides. I am here
Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning.
— T.S. Eliot, from East Coker
I was searching for where I was: here, there? I was searching for who I was.
And the name, dawn points, was fitting. I observed myself. I transcribed my thoughts. I criticized my interface and interactions. I perturbed the world about me. My spirit, my body, and my understanding of others: these were my subjects of inspection, these my mysteries to unravel.
But in this unraveling I've changed. This record has changed. No longer is it a series of odes to what has been or what should be. Nary will you find a wretched outburst at my thoughts, my character, my appearance, myself. Despair has fled. And I, having observed, now live.
I fling off Schrödinger's cloak, hopelessly entangled in suspended possibilities. I am the cat. I am alive. I am dead. I am alive.
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Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
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Five of us in a photo booth, acting like a pride of lions. These are the crazy hazy lazy days of summer.
24 hours that are easy like a Sunday morning. It's been all smiles on this girl's cheeks. Now for a little more research, a little more reflection, and a lot of rest for this week's adventures.
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My forced change in schedule has allowed me an opportunity I've not seen enjoyed Notre Dame: a continued sequence of mornings well- and freely-spent.
Monday through Friday, I wake with excitement for what I'll face: labored breathing, a bath in fresh sweat, dirt smeared across my chest, legs shaking with exertion.
Saturday and Sunday, the boom and I stroll about, reveling in the fresh air and the new sun.
These are not so different from my summers of dawn patrol in Hawaii, or my runs around Oxford and the lakes.
My mornings are now as they should be: facing hope, facing life, facing glory.
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Did you know that ancient Greeks thought gold was made from water and sunshine? If so I'd want so so so much of it. In actuality, I find it to be ugly. Having to wear it makes me shudder. What chain of events let me despise chains of Au?
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The boom and I are vegging out on the couch.
Happiness runs in a circular motion ;)
Basically, I had the best morning evahhh.
Snatches and overhead squats. Floating on air.
The day progressed in a frenzy. My mind is astir with LaTeXing and clusters. Now, a few minutes to veg with the A and the boom.
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I see them now. I still don't have time to watch one but they are clearly there and on time. Great Job Vudu.
Sweet!. I'll check it out when I get home.
Excellent! for those of us that don't have it yet, can someone with the new HD movies give us an idea of some of the titles?
Congratulations Vudu!!! This is a huge milestone! Very well done!
I can't wait to get home and try it out!
Let's put it this way:
There is about 64 movies right now at my last count. Some of them are 2007/2008 releases. There are also movies going back to 1972 or so. Some of the older releases include titles such as Officer and a Gentleman, The Presidio, and a few movies from a particularly popular Sci-Fi franchise.
The rest I'll leave to others...
So it looks like Vudu can keep on schedule and deliver what it promises better than Apple when it comes to VOD.
A company that delivers on its promises, how refreshing. Congrats Vudu for getting it out on time as promised. The UI seems to have gotten even slicker. Even the small things like, I don't know if it is a different font or size or both but even the text in the settings section seems easier to read. Or is it my imagination. I do have a question. Are all the new HD movies going to be rent only for know or has my box not finished updating yet. All 65 of mine are rent only. I was actually looking forward to purchasing as well.
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Nathan Sitko
Nathan Sitko is driver\co-owner of the Sitko Family Racing team. He started driving race cars at the age of 8 in the NHRA junior dragster
class. He holds competition licenses in Top Alocohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car and Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car. Nathan drives the
funny car, cares for the teams transporter, reads the computer output after every 1/4-mile blast and he builds and fabricates many pieces
for the race car.
Troy Sitko
Troy Sitko is car chief\co-owner and substitute driver for the Sitko Family Racing team. He started driving race cars at the age of 10 in
the junior dragster class. He holds competition licenses in Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Dragster and Pro Nostalgia Funny Car. Troy takes
care of the funny car chassis and body and general maintenance of the engine. Troy is also the team's website designer and he takes
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Ken Sitko
Ken Sitko is the crew chief\team advisor for Sitko Family Racing. He started driving dragsters at the age of 16 and kept driving for over
20 years after that. He won the NHRA Western Canadian Division Championship in 1981, the AHRA World Championship in 1985 and finished
2nd place in the NHRA Division 6 Championship series in 1989. Ken has been tuning race cars ever since. Ken tunes the engine, advises
on racing operations and he builds and fabricates many pieces for the race car.
Irene Sitko
Irene Sitko is part of the Sitko Family Racing team support. It's no surprise that she met her husband, Ken in California at a hotel while
he was attending a drag race. Irene has been at the track ever since and made the move from track wife to track mom in the early 1980s.
Her sons, Troy and Nathan are heavily involved in the sport. Irene helps keep the boys alive at the track with her daughter, Brittany and
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George Sitko
George Sitko is the tuner\team advisor for Sitko family racing and is the one that started it all for the Sitko family. George started racing
cars over 50 years ago and hasn't taken a break since. He was there in the beginning, racing hot rods on the streets and finally fuel dragsters
on the drag strip. George builds mag drives that are used throughout drag racings classes, including some of drag racings top tier fuel teams.
George builds, fabricates and is the US representative for Sitko Family Racing and he will be attending every race with the team in 2011 as the
tuner of the nitro funny car.
Carla Sitko
Carla Sitko (the newest Sitko) is part of the SFR team support and she is also in charge of driver support. Carla is Nathan's new wife and has
been around drag racing for the past 5 years. You may see her guiding Nathan back from a long burnout. Carla helps keep the team fed and tidy
and helps keep care of the team's transporter.
Shelley Sitko
Shelley Sitko is part of the Sitko Family Racing team support. Shelley helps her husband, Troy with ideas for the team website. She also
does video taping for the team and keeps the boys fed and properly groomed. Shelley has been around the sport of drag racing for 5 years. She also
helps keep the team on task and on budget.
Brittany Sitko
Brittany Sitko is the youngest of the racing Sitko siblings. She is part of the Sitko Family Racing team support and she is in charge of the
team's cheering section. Brittany has many friends around the track and keeps the boys in the know with what is happening with the other teams
while they are busy working. Brittany is also a budding junior dragster pilot.
Lenard Smith
Lenard Smith is crew\maintenance on the Sitko Family Racing nitro funny car. Lenard takes care of the rotating assembly
by running through bearings every run. He also takes care of the transmission and any other general maintenance that needs
to be done. Lenard has been racing with the Sitko family for 5 years.
Pete Gillis
Pete Gillis is crew\maintenance on the Sitko Family Racing funny car. Pete takes care of the rotating assembly with Lenard
by checking bearings every run. He also takes care of the gears in the rearend of the car and any other general maintenance
that comes along with nitro funny car racing. 2011 will be Pete's 3rd year with the Sitko family.
Randy Rokosh
Randy Rokosh is crew\maintenance on the Sitko Family Racing nitro funny car. Randy takes care of the valve train and also
assists Ken with manufacturing pieces for the Team Ace Arrow. This is Randy's first year with the Sitko Family.
Mark Day
Mark Day is crew\maintenance on the Sitko Family Racing fuel funny car. Mark takes care of any general maintenance at the track
that needs immediate attention and he is in charge of topping up the fuel, changing oil, emptying tanks and cleaning filters
between every round. 2011 will be Mark's third year with the Sitko family.
Sheryl Ogonoski
Sheryl Ogonoski is the official photographer for Sitko Family Racing. Sheryl has been taking pictures at the track for many years
now and most of the pictures you see on our website are hers. Sheryl, as a daughter of George Sitko, has been at the race track
for most of her life. Sheryl also takes family photos and takes great football photos.
The Family That Races Together...
As you can see, the focus of our race team is family. Even for those not related, drag racing is a sport where teams connect, often spending more time
with each other in the shop and at the track then they do at their regular work place. Without family, our team would not be in the sport and we would
not have the support that we do. So, from our family to yours: see you at the races!