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David Stockman On Yellenomics And The Folly Of Free Money
- Archipelago
- Bill Gross
- Carry Trade
- Central Banks
- China
- Crude
- Cumulative Losses
- fixed
- Florida
- Free Money
- General Motors
- Housing Prices
- Janet Yellen
- Japan
- Larry Summers
- Mad Money
- Main Street
- Monetary Policy
- OTC Derivatives
- Personal Income
- Private Equity
- Reality
- recovery
- Russell 2000
- Volatility
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
The Fed and the other major central banks have been planting time bombs all over the global financial system for years, but especially since their post-crisis money printing spree incepted in the fall of 2008. Now comes a new leader to the Eccles Building who is not only bubble-blind like her two predecessors, but is also apparently bubble-mute. Janet Yellen is pleased to speak of financial bubbles as a "misalignment of asset prices," and professes not to espy any on the horizon.
Let's see. The Russell 2000 is trading at 85X actual earnings and that's apparently "within normal valuation parameters." Likewise, the social media stocks are replicating the eyeballs and clicks based valuation madness of Greenspan's dot-com bubble. But there is nothing to see there, either–not even Twitter at 35X its current run-rate of sales or the $19 billion WhatsApp deal. Given the latter's lack of revenues, patents and entry barriers to the red hot business of free texting, its key valuation metric reduces to market cap per employee–which computes out to a cool $350 million for each of its 55 payrollers. Never before has QuickBooks for startups listed, apparently, so many geniuses on a single page of spreadsheet.
Tesla: Valuation Lunacy Straight From the Goldman IPO Hatchery
Indeed, as during the prior two Fed-inspired bubbles of this century, the stock market is riddled with white-hot mo-mo plays which amount to lunatic speculations. Tesla, for example, has sold exactly 27,000 cars since its 2010 birth in Goldman's IPO hatchery and has generated $1 billion in cumulative losses over the last six years—–a flood of red ink that would actually be far greater without the book income from its huge "green" tax credits which, of course, are completely unrelated to making cars. Yet it is valued at $31 billion or more than the born-again General Motors, which sells about 27,000 autos every day counting weekends.
Even the "big cap" multiple embedded in the S&P500 is stretched to nearly 19X trailing GAAP earnings—the exact top-of-the-range where it peaked out in October 2007. And that lofty PE isn't about any late blooming earnings surge. At year-end 2011, the latest twelve months (LTM) reported profit for the S&P 500 was $90 per share, and during the two years since then it has crawled ahead at a tepid 5 percent annual rate to $100.
So now the index precariously sits 20% higher than ever before. Yet embedded in that 19X multiple are composite profit margins at the tippy-top of the historical range. Moreover, the S&P 500 companies now carry an elephantine load of debt—$3.2 trillion to be exact (ex-financials). But since our monetary politburo has chosen to peg interest rates at a pittance, the reported $100 per share of net income may not be all that. We are to believe that interest rates will never normalize, of course, but in the off-chance that 300 basis points of economic reality creeps back into the debt markets, that alone would reduce S&P profits by upwards of $10 per share.
America's already five-year old business recovery has also apparently discovered the fountain of youth, meaning that recessions have been abolished forever. Accordingly, the forward-year EPS hockey sticks touted by the sell-side can rise to the wild blue yonder—even beyond the $120 per share "ex-items" mark that the Street's S&P500 forecasts briefly tagged a good while back. In fact, that was the late 2007 expectation for 2008—a year notable for its proof that the Great Moderation wasn't all that; that recessions still do happen; and that rot builds up on business balance sheets during the Fed's bubble phase, as attested to by that year's massive write-offs and restructurings which caused actual earnings to come in on the short side at about $15!
In short, recent US history signifies nothing except that the sudden financial and economic paroxysm of 2008-2009 arrived, apparently, on a comet from deep space and shortly returned whence it came. Nor are there any headwinds from abroad. The eventual thundering crash of China's debt pyramids is no sweat because the carnage will stay wholly inside the Great Wall; and even as Japan sinks into old-age bankruptcy, it demise will occur silently within the boundaries of its archipelago. No roiling waters from across the Atlantic are in store, either: Europe's 500 million citizens will simply endure stoically and indefinitely the endless stream of phony fixes and self-serving lies emanating from their overlords in Brussels.
Meanwhile, what hasn't been creeping along is the Fed's balance sheet, which has exploded by $1.2 trillion or 41 percent versus two years ago and the S&P price index, which is up 47 percent in that span. Likewise, the NASDAQ index is up 60 percent compared to earnings growth that languishes in single digits.
Not Even Orange?
Still, Dr.Yellen recently told a credulous Congressman that "I can't see threats to financial stability that have built to the point of flashing orange or red."
Not even orange? Apparently, green is the new orange. The truth is, the monetary central planners ensconced in the Eccles Building are terrified of another Wall Street hissy-fit. So they strive by word cloud and liquidity deed to satisfy the petulant credo of the fast money gamblers—namely, that the stock indices remain planted firmly in the green on any day the market's open. It is not a dearth of clairvoyance, then, but a surfeit of mendacity which causes our mad money printers to ignore the multitude of bubbles in plain sight.
Actually, the Fed's bubble blindness stems from even worse than servility. The problem is an irredeemably flawed monetary doctrine that tracks, targets and aims to goose Keynesian GDP flows using the crude tools of central banking. Yet these tools of choice— pegged interest rates and stock market puts—actually result not in jobs and income for Main Street but ZERO-COGS for Wall Street. And the latter is an incendiary, avarice-inducing financial stimulant that enables speculators to chase the price of financial assets to the mountain tops and beyond. So at the heart of our drastically over-financialized, bubble-ridden economy is this appalling truth: the speculator's COGS—that is, his entire "cost of goods"—consists of the funding expense of carried assets, and the Fed's prevailing doctrine is to price that at near zero for at least seven years running through 2015.
Pricing anything at zero is a recipe for trouble, but the last thing on earth that should deliberately be made free is the credit lines of gamblers and speculators. That is especially so when the free stuff—-repo, short-term unsecured paper, the embedded carry cost in options, futures and OTC derivatives—-is guaranteed to remain free through a extended time horizon by the central banking branch of the state. In that respect and even with tapering having allegedly commenced, just look at the two-year treasury benchmark. In the world of fast money speculation the latter time horizon is about as far as the eye can see, but the cost to play amounts to a paltry 37 basis points.
Even J.M. Keynes Knew Better
Once upon a time traders confronted reasonably honest two-way money markets. When they woke up in the morning in 1980-1981 they most definitely did not believe that the money market rate was pegged even for the day–let alone seven years. Instead, by allowing short rates to soar to market-clearing levels, the Volcker Fed laid low the carry trade in commodities, thereby reminding speculators that spreads can go negative—suddenly,sharply and even catastrophically
Owing to the reasonably honest money markets of the Volcker era, the leading edge of inflation–soaring commodity prices—was decisively crushed and the inflationary fevers were quickly drained from the system. But more importantly, the vastly swollen level of capital pulled into the carry trades during the 1970s Great Inflation was reduced to its natural minimum—that is, to the amount needed by professional market-makers to arbitrage-out imbalances in the term structure of interest rates. Under those conditions, fund managers made a living actually investing capital, not chasing carry.
But nowadays, by contrast, the central bank's free money guarantee nullifies all that and induces massive inflows to speculative positions in any and all financial assets that can generate either a yield or an appreciation rate slightly north of zero. To adapt Professor Keynes' famous aphorism, the Fed's quasi-permanent regime of ZERO-COGS "engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of [speculation], and does it in a manner that not one in [nineteen members of the Fed] is able to diagnose".
Indeed, no less an authority on the great game of central bank front-running than Pimco's Bill Gross trenchantly observed last week: "Our entire finance-based system….is based on carry and the ability to earn it."
Stated differently, the preponderant effect of the Fed's horribly misguided ZIRP has been to unleash a global horde of financial engineers, buccaneers and plain old punters who ceaselessly troll for carry. The spreads they pursue may be derived from momentum-driven stock appreciation and credit risk premiums or, as Bill Gross further observed, they may be "duration, curve, volatility or even currency related…..but it must out-carry its bogey until the system itself breaks down."
Not surprisingly, therefore, our monetary central planners are always, well, surprised, when financial fire storms break-out. Even now, after more than a half-dozen collapses since the Greenspan era of Bubble Finance incepted in 1987, they don't recognize that it is they who are carrying what amounts to monetary gas cans. Having no doctrine at all about ZERO-COGS, they pour on the fuel completely oblivious to its contagious, destabilizing and perilous properties. Nor is recognition likely at any time soon. After all, ZERO-COGS is an artificial step-child of central bankers' writ; its what they do, not a natural condition on the free market.
The Prehistoric Era of Volcker the Great vs. Bathtub Economics
When money market yields and the term structure of interest rates are not pegged by the Fed but cleared by the market balance between the supply of economic savings and the demand for borrowed funds, the profit in the carry trades is rapidly arbitraged away—as last demonstrated during the pre-historic era of Volcker the Great. So the way back home is clear: liberate interest rates from the destructive embrace of the FOMC and presently money markets would gyrate energetically and the global horde of carry-seekers would shrink to a corporals' guard. Pimco's mighty balance sheet would also end-up nowhere near $2 trillion gross, if it survived at all.
By contrast, as we approach the bursting of the third central banking bubble of this century, the fates have saddled the world with the most oblivious and therefore dangerous Keynesian Fed-head yet. Not only does Yellen not have the slightest clue that ZERO-COGS is a financial time-bomb, she is actually so invested in the archaic catechism of the 1960s New Economics that she mistakes today's screaming malinvestments and economic deformations for "recovery."
In that regard, the ballyhooed housing recovery in the former sub-prime disaster zones is not exactly all that. Instead, the housing price indices in Phoenix, Los Vegas, Sacramento, the Inland Empire and Florida went screaming higher in 2011-2013 due to speculator carry trades.
Stated differently, the 29-year olds in $5,000 suits riding into Scottsdale AZ on the back of John Deere lawnmowers are not there owing to their acumen as landlords of single-family, detached homes, nor do they bring competitively unique skills at managing crab-grass in the lawns, insect infestations in the trees and mold in the basement. What they bring is cheap funding for the carry. They will be gone as soon as housing prices stop climbing, which in many of these precincts has already happened.
Similarly, the auto sector has rebounded smartly, but the catalyst there is not hard to spot either—namely, the re-eruption of auto debt and especially of the sub-prime kind. The latter specie of dopey credit had almost been killed off by the financial crisis—when issuance plummeted by 90%, and properly so. After all, sub-prime "ride" loans had been mainly issued against rapidly depreciating used cars and down-market new vehicles at 115% loan-to-value ratios for seven year terms to borrowers living paycheck-to-paycheck, meaning that they had an excellent chance of defaulting if the Fed's GDP levitation game failed and their temp jobs vanished.
All the forgoing transpired in 2008-2009, of course, but that is ancient credit market history that has now been forgiven and forgotten. Since those clarifying moments, sub-prime car loans have soared 10X—-rising from $2 billion to $22 billion last year, when issuance clocked in above the frenzied level of 2007. Sub-prime loans now fund a record 55% of used car loans and 30% of new car loans, but there's more. The Wall Street meth labs have already produced a credit mutant called "deep sub-prime" which now account for one-in-eight car loans. Borrowers able to post a shot-gun or PlayStation as downpayment can get a loan even with credit scores below 580.
In short, even as real wage and salary incomes grew by less than 1% last year, new vehicle sales boomed by 25% during the last two years to nearly the pre-crisis level of 16 million units. The yawning disconnect between stagnant incomes and soaring car sales is readily explained, of course, by the usual suspect in our debt-besotted economy—namely, auto loans, which were up 25% since the post-crisis bottom and now at an all-time high.
This reversion to borrowing our way to prosperity also highlights the untoward pathways through which the Fed's toxic medicine of cheap debt disperses through the body economic. Much of the dodgy auto paper now flowing out of dealer showrooms is not coming from Dodd-Frank disabled banks, but from non-banks like Exeter Finance and Santander Consumer USA that have a tell-tale capital structure. They are funded with a dollop of "private equity" from the likes of Blackstone and KKR and tons of junk bonds that have been voraciously devoured by yield hungry money managers who have been flushed out of safer fixed income investments by the monetary central planners in the Eccles building.
The Financial Crime of ZERO-COGS
At the end of the day, the financial crime of ZERO-COGS is a product of the primitive 1960s "bathtub economics" of the New Keynesians. Not coincidentally, their leading light was professor James Tobin, who was not only the architect of the disastrous Kennedy-Johnson fiscal and financial policies that caused the breakdown of Bretton Woods and its serviceably stable global monetary order, but who was also PhD advisor to Janet Yellen. To this day Tobin's protégé ritually incants all the Keynesian hokum about slack aggregate demand, potential GDP growth shortfalls and central bank monetary "accommodation" designed to guide GDP and jobs toward full capacity.
In more graphic terms, however, the fancy theories of Tobin-Yellen reduce to this: the $17 trillion US economy amounts to a giant bathtub that must be filled to the brim at all times in order to insure full employment and maximum societal bliss. But it is only the deft management of the fiscal and monetary dials by enlightened PhDs that can that can keep the water line snuff with the brim–otherwise known as potential GDP. Indeed, left to its own devices, market capitalism tends in the opposite direction—that is, a circling motion toward the port at the bottom.
For nigh onto fifty years, however, it has been evident that the bathtub economics of the New Keynesians was fundamentally flawed. It incorrectly assumes the US economy is a closed system and that artificial demand induced by the fiscal or monetary authorities will cause idle domestic labor and productive assets to be mobilized. Well, we now have $8 trillion of cumulative and chronic current account deficits that prove the opposite—that is, the relevant labor supply is the 2 billion or so workers who have come out of the EM rice paddies and the relevant industrial capacity is the massive excess supply of steel mills, shipyards, bulk-carriers and iron ore mines that have been built all over the planet based on export demand originating in the borrowed prosperity of the West and ultra-cheap capital flowing from central bank printing presses around the world.
The truth is, pumping up the American "demand" mobilizes lower cost factors of production abroad in a great economic swapping game. Exchange rate-pegging, mercantilist-oriented central banks in the EM swap the sweat of their domestic workers and the resource endowments of their lands for the paper emissions of the US and other DM treasuries. And the $5.7 trillion of USTs held abroad, mostly by central banks, proves that proposition, as well. In any event, it is not Uncle Sam's fiscal rectitude that has created the EMs' ginormous appetite for pint-sized yields on America's swelling debts.
So through all the twists and turns of Keynesian demand management since the days when Tobin and his successors and assigns supplanted the four-square orthodoxy of President Dwight Eisenhower and Chairman William McChesney Martin, what really happened was not the triumph of modern policy science or economic enlightenment in Washington, as Kennedy's arrogant PhD's then averred. Instead, "policy" spent nearly a half-century using up the balance sheet of the American economy and all its components on a one-time basis. Total credit market debt—-including business, household, financial and government–went from its historic ratio of 1.5X GDP to 3.5X at the crisis peak in 2007—where it remains until this day.
The $30 Trillion Rebuke To Keynesian Professors
Those extra two turns of aggregate debt amount to $30 trillion—a one time exploitation of American balance sheets that did seemingly accommodate Keynesian miracles of demand management. GDP was boosted by households that were enabled to spend more than they earned and a national economy that was empowered to consume more than it produced.
But there was nothing enlightened about the rolling national LBO over the decades since Professor Tobin's unfortunate arrival in Washington. It was then—and always has been—just a cheap debt trick. During each successive business cycle's stimulus phase, debt ratios were ratcheted up to higher and higher levels. But now we have hit peak debt in both the public and private sectors, and there is no ratchet left because balance sheets have been exhausted.
The household sector data tell the story of the cheap debt trick which is now over. The relevant leverage ratio here is household debt to wage and salary income, because the NIPA "personal income" metric is now massively bloated by $2.5 trillion of transfer payments—-flows which come from debt and taxes, not production and supply.
As shown below, the ratchet was powerful. During the 1980-1985 cycle, the household debt ratio jumped from 105% to 117% of wage and salary income; then it ratcheted from 130% to 147% during the 1990-1995 cycle; thereafter it climbed from 160% to 190% during 2000-2005; and it finally peaked out at almost 210% at the 2007 peak.
That's the Keynesian cheap debt trick in a nutshell: it does not describe a timeless science that can be applied over and over again, but merely a one-time party that is over. As shown above, the ratio has now retraced to the 180s, but that's still high by historic standards, and more importantly, is the reason that Professor Larry Summers can be seen on most days sucking his thumb, looking for "escape velocity" that can't happen.
The up-ratchet in private and public leverage ratios is over, and that means that the Keynesian monetary policy is done, too. It worked for a few decades thru the credit transmission mechanism to the household sector, but one thing is now certain: the only part of household debt that is growing is NINJA loans to students and what amounts to de facto rent-a-car deals in autos, which in due course will lead to a new pile-up of defaulted paper and acres of repossessed used cars.
Meanwhile, Yellen and her mad money printers keep "accommodating" as they try to fill to the brim an imaginary bathtub of potential GDP. The exercise would be laughable, even stupid, if it were not for its true impact, which is ZERO-COGS. The latter, unfortunately, is fueling the mother of all bubbles here and abroad; crushing savers and fixed income retirees; showering the fast money traders and 1% with unspeakable windfalls of ill-gotten "trickle-down"; and placing control of the very warp and woof of our $17 trillion national economy in the hands of unelected, academic zealots.
The worst thing is that Yellenomics is just getting started because the whole crony capitalist dystopia that has become America can not function for more than a few days without another dose of its deadly monetary heroin.
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These assholes have created distortions that cannot be fixed without a total wipe out of the system. The only question is how much more damage they will be allowed to do before the reset hits.
I'm, um... thrilled to be able to provide unusual accommodation to, um, to the, um, er, um... the finest financial institutions in the world!
David.... They are nothing but gas cans and a bunch of FARTS.... With hot gas
He meant...
"...placing control of the very warp and woof of our $17 trillion notional economy in the hands of unelected, academic zealots."
Now onward at warp (and woof) speed
I've no problems with Stockman, other THAN he was a fucking economic ass rapist for the better part of 30 years!
I see an 'Lamp Post' with [David Stockmans] name on it!
From an Conservative!
The problem with that thinking is that all those lamp posts will not get one filled without having some guys come over from the other side and talk their language and explain what happened.
Stockman does that very well
As much as I like reading Stockman's stuff the plain truth of it is, there's no going back now. The die has been cast and we will whip this borrowed and infinitely rehypothecated mule until it drops. Until such time, there will be no changes, no great awakening, barely even any playing in the margins to alter the course.
In a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. We're the pig.
"In a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. We're the pig."
Well now, that's really good.
Is it yours?
If so, you have my admiration.
No, that's a very, VERY old joke that I know becuase I often talk to very old people.
I am the last of the old guard. Raised by depression-era grandparents. And since 2008, very grateful for the multi-generation-gap wisdom that was passed on to me. Everything going on today makes a bit more sense when you can compare it back to things that happened 70, 80 or more years ago. We think we're so different now. We're not. Much has changed.... but not human nature. Not one damned lick.
I sent it to my Wife.....
Her maiden name is Bacon
The folly is the fantasy belief that economics is a neo-science, whose neo-rules are that theories are "validated" by their promised results, rather than the observed results. Economic Phd's profess prophetic abilities. They should be treated as questionable prophets, not scientists or mathematicians.
Fuck all Fed members, including and especially veteran Bernanke. Volcker should kick them all in the ass for destroying his anti-inflationary policy that created the Great Generational Bond Rally
To say that the FED doesn't know what they are doing is RE-Fucking-Tarded.
They have taken over the United States of America fool.
They are not bubbles until they pop after they pop they are no longer bubbles but are fair valued
An investment is worth present value of anticipated income stemming from - for equities under current scheme anticipated income is zero. So any value analysis is divide by zero = underfined.
If money flows into stock the agregate price rises. If the rising price is anticipated then the value of stock rises with the price - without limit. Until it falls.
Long live the scam from which we all profit ad infinitum
Good read. Once fiat unhinged from the gold standard, we end up getting what we got right here. Humans are a predictable sort of species.
Why is it that Banksters are all Free Market this and Free Market that when talking Bubbles,
But more Central Planning than Russia or China when printing Money? Doesn't anyone see the absurdity of this logic?
I wish otherwise intelligent authors would stop pretending that predators like Yellen do not understand what is happening. Authors who utter such nonsense actually claim that Yellen is not working for the benefit of the banksters who own the Federal Reserve, when quite obviously she and all her predecessors do and say everything they do for one purpose only: to enrich their fellow predators and co-conspirators with endless unearned wealth and power.
Not a single one of these yokels believes Keynesian economics is correct. None of them. Zip, Zero, Nada, None. Keynesianism is merely the propaganda that they believe provides the most effective rationalization for doing what they want to do --- gorge themselves on wealth and power.
As a nominally bright individual, I can assure everyone here with absolute confidence that these predators understand what they are doing. The endless claims by intelligent authors that the "financial elite" in power today are "mistaken" are simply LIES by these authors. The authors are too smart to believe such complete, obvious nonsense, but like the financial predators themselves, they spew rationalizations rather than honest and obvious identifications.
The depths to which otherwise intelligent human beings are blatantly dishonest at this point in history is simply breath-taking. Only when authors say what is blatantly obvious, no matter how revolting and discouraging their statements may be, do humans have even the slightest chance to mitigate or escape the destruction they observe, and the destruction to come.
The predators fully understand something very important. As long as the billions of human beings they prey upon from birth to death are too meek to call a spade a spade, they will dominate effortlessly and safely. The only potential salvation for the billions of humanoid chimps on this planet is honesty. Unfortunately, honesty is the one characteristic that at least 99.9999% of humans simply cannot tolerate in themselves. Which is why humans are finished.
Any species that wants to be prey is doomed. One can only hope the 0.0001% of humans who are willing to be honest, and don't want to be prey, can somehow manage to evade and/or escape most of the consequences of the other 99.9999%.
Man, Stockman can write, and he hits the bulls-eye yet again.
I especially enjoyed the paragraph that starts with this sentence:
"In short, recent US history signifies nothing except that the sudden financial and economic paroxysm of 2008-2009 arrived, apparently, on a comet from deep space and shortly returned whence it came."
Tobin was Yellen's PhD advisor?
We're doomed.
D. Stockman, that was excellent. I really think he covered the bases well in that one.
Well I See New Zealand has raised their interest rates, Wooly Bully?
I really wonder if Louis Farrakhan, if HE was a 5 year President... would have accomplished more destruction of this country that Lord Chakka Caca Obongo has... Holder? Bernanke? Lew? Jeh? Sebelious? Hagel? Yellen? Kerry? Hillaroid? Rice?? Come ON... that HAS to be intentional...
The Fed is too cowardly to take away the punch bowl from their drunken banker bosses.
David - you are missing the BIG PICTURE (as are most who rant against QE)
High energy prices = less consumption because everything including the fuel in your tank costs more = layoffs = less tax revenue = government cutbacks, layoffs and debt increases = less consumption = more layoffs = less taxes ===== economic death spiral.
Compounding the problem is the fact that a weak labour market means real wages drop - as they are across the world right now - that means everything is more expensive and your buying power is dropping at the same time.
Governments recognize this and are trying to offset with debt, easy lending (they are purposely inflating bubbles), lower interest rates and money printing.
Of course they will fail - because the disease is expensive oil. And there is no substitute
The economic death spiral will accelerate when the QE and ZIRP no longer have any effect and the confidence game collapses.
This moment will be known as the end of the industrial revolution by the few who survive.
This is not a Hollywood movie where the hero saves the day. This is the reality we are facing.


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Posted: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 9:10 AM HST
Man found in Papa`loa ravine drowned
By Ken Hupp - 67AM KPUA News
Police say an autopsy has confirmed that a missing California man found last month in a Papa`aloa ravine drowned. 31-year old Yogi Yoswara of San Gabriel California was last seen December 19, before his body was found December 31st in the Kapehu Camp Mauka area some 400-450 feet from the road that led to the home he had been staying at while on vacation. Yoswara was identified Friday (January 4) through dental records.

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I'm having trouble understanding this pseudocode I found for alpha beta pruning on wikipedia:
function alphabeta(node, depth, α, β, Player)
if depth = 0 or node is a terminal node
return the heuristic value of node
if Player = MaxPlayer
for each child of node
α := max(α, alphabeta(child, depth-1, α, β, not(Player) ))
if β ≤ α
break (* Beta cut-off *)
return α
for each child of node
β := min(β, alphabeta(child, depth-1, α, β, not(Player) ))
if β ≤ α
break (* Alpha cut-off *)
return β
What is confusing me is the if Player = MaxPlayer condition. I understand the whole recursively calling the function with not(Player) to get the minimum value, which will then recursively call the function with Player, repeating until the depth limit is reached or a goal state has be found. However, I don't understand the
if β ≤ α
statement. My understanding of that is that the second a value higher than the minimum value found in the previous call (beta) is found, that is the value that is used. But since this is the MAX part of the function, don't we want the HIGHEST value, not just ANY value that is greater than beta?


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The City of Colorado Springs, working with the Pikes Peak Regional Transportation Authority, is moving forward with Phase 2 of the Woodmen Road Corridor Improvement Project. The design will include the remaining portion of Woodmen Road from Stinson Drive to Powers Boulevard. Because of funding availability, Phase 2 will be segmented into two construction packages: Phase 2A and Phase 2B. The primary goal of Phase 2A is to address capacity needs and complete Woodmen Road as a 6-lane facility. This would include roadway widening improvements from the east edge of Phase 1 improvements near Academy to Lexington Drive.
Phase 2 Information Line: (719) 268-7428
The Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (PPRTA) is providing a large portion of the funds for the section from I-25 to Powers Boulevard
and The City of Colorado Springs is managing this portion of the corridor, which includes phases 1, 2 and 3.
The El Paso County Department of Transportation manages the section from Powers Boulevard to
US 24, now known as the Woodmen Road Expressway. This portion has been completed. Please direct any comments or questions related to this section to the County.
The Woodmen Road Corridor Improvement Project Phase 2, from Academy Boulevard to Lexington Drive, has been advertised for construction.
View the estimated project schedule, updated December 2015: Phase 2A Schedule
View an educational video showing the Continuous Flow Intersection (CFI): CFI video
The Woodmen Road corridor has a long history of tremendous growth, which has created substantial congestion in northern Colorado Springs. The purpose of the Woodmen Road Corridor Improvement Project is to implement a Proposed Action plan that will increase traffic capacity and safety in this corridor.


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Mr. Hurtado was born Aug. 31, 1949, to Esperanza (Martinez) and Bruno Hurtado. He married Adela Moreno in Beeville on Dec. 5, 1982, and was a carpenter and roofer. He was a Catholic.
He was preceded in death by his father, Bruno Hurtado; and a nephew, Guadalupe Ramos.
Survivors include his wife, Adela Hurtado of Beeville; children, Leeann (Neri Balderas) Hurtado, Lorina (Aldo Garcia) Hurtado, Vanessa Hurtado, Arturo (Lidia Luna) Hurtado, Ramon Hurtado Jr. and Ramon Gonzales Jr., all of Beeville, Luzelena (Ruben) Portillo of Goliad, and Maricela, Enedima and Sonia Hurtado, all of Leon, Mexico; 26 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and brothers and sisters, Maximino (Angelica) Hurtado, Miguel (Annabell) Hurtado and Julia Ramos, all of Beeville, Maria (Santos Guzman) de Laude's and Eufemia (Manuel) Ramos of Leon, Mexico, Guadalupe (Lorenzo Gomez) Ramos of Beeville and Maria Doleres (Raul) Ramos of Houston.
Visitation was held Sunday, June 26, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Angelus Funeral Home. A rosary was recited there that evening at 7 o'clock.
The funeral Mass was celebrated at St. James Catholic Church Monday at 2 p.m. with Father Lukose Thirunelliparambil officiating. Burial followed in Our Lady of Victory Cemetery #2.
Pallbearers were Arturo Hurtado, Neri L. Balderas, Aldo Garcia, Ruben Portillo, Maximino Hurtado, Bruno Hurtado, Miguel Ramos and Ramon Gonzales Jr.
Angelus Funeral Home


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October 2010 Archives
Finding Fame
by Mark Merickel, Dean
You may have seen me on campus accompanied by a dog wearing a "Service Dog" vest. This would be my new three year old collie, Fame. Fame has been working with me for four months now. Together, Fame and I went through a Humane Society training program. Although she was a much quicker study than I, we both managed to pass. Fame has received her assistance dog license from Sonoma County and is recognized by SSU as my official service dog. She now accompanies me daily to SSU. I will also point out that Fame was interviewed by President Armiñana who was so impressed after five minutes he invited her to become a member of his Extended Cabinet. Fame rarely speaks at these meetings but when she does everyone seems to pay attention.
Fame is indeed a service dog, but she should not be confused with a dog trained for the sight impaired. The training for a service dog for the blind is far more rigorous than what Fame and I went through. Service dogs for the blind are very special dogs prepared to help limited or non-sighted individuals navigate a daily schedule that most of us take for granted. As my service dog, Fame helps me deal with chronic pain stemming from a spinal injury and, to show her special status, she wears her blue vest with patches that say "Service Dog - Access Required." This gives Fame the ability to accompany me throughout the campus, to visit the library and galleries, to attend meetings, and other happenings and events.
Although Fame will be working when she is wearing her vest, she can meet folks and always enjoys a friendly pat. Please just ask first. Fame is shy and will generally only approach folks to about an arm's distance away. You can then take a step toward her and pet her if you would like. Don't be confused by her shy behavior, she likes people.
To all of you pet lovers out there; let me share a little information I have learned about the health benefits of having pets. I know that Fame and our two cats have provided my wife and me with a fuller and healthier life.
• Pets provide therapeutic touch. Tests show that within minutes of petting a dog, the human and dog experience a massive release of such beneficial hormones as prolactin, oxytocin, and phenyl ethylamine.
• Seniors who own dogs go to the doctor less often than those who don't. In a study of 100 Medicare patients, even the most highly stressed dog owners had 21% fewer physician contacts than non-dog-owners.
• Pet owners have lower triglyceride and cholesterol levels than non-owners.
• Pet owners enjoy better physical health because they exercise more with their pets.
• Pets decrease feelings of loneliness and isolation.
• People with AIDS who own pets experience less depression and reduced stress. Studies show that pets are a major source of support and increase a person's perception that he or she can cope.
• Having a pet present reduces a pet owner's stress more than the company of a close friend or even a spouse. Researchers asked 240 married couples, half of them pet owners, to perform two stress-inducing tasks--mental arithmetic problems and submerging a hand in ice water for two minutes. People with a pet present enjoyed much lower baseline heart rate and blood pressure levels than people without pets. They also made fewer errors during the math test.
The information provided above was taken from (http://www.pet-hospital.info/pages/pets_forhealth.htm ).
Have a wonderful summer everyone.
Mark and Fame
Sonoma State American Language Institute (SSALI)
SSALI had an action-packed summer in 2010. The first 5-week session saw students from 11 countries supplementing their studies in Intensive English with Friday trips to San Francisco, Armstrong Woods, Korbel Winery and canoeing on the Russian River.
In the second summer session, the SSALI enrollment more than doubled primarily due to three special groups from universities in Japan: Nihon University of Law, Kanazawa Medical University, and Anan National College of Technology. In addition to their regular studies, these students benefited from some special trips to Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, the Superior Court of Sonoma County, and the Sutter Family Medicine Clinic. Again, too, all the SSALI students had opportunities for Friday field trips to 6 Flags Marine World, San Francisco, Sonoma Coast Beach, and the Sonoma County Fair.
Some students participated in a new course, San Francisco Through Movies, which culminated with a film tour of San Francisco where they could observe first-hand many of the film locations they studied during the course. If this seems like a lot of fun, it is! However, SSALI strongly believes that these activities have a very positive impact on the students' progress in English while enhancing their cultural understanding of the United States and promoting life-long friendships that transcend all borders.
Excel for Youth Program
The EXCEL Youth Enrichment program celebrated its 28th year on the SSU campus this summer with 47 innovative classes for students entering 4th through 9th grades. The one to two week classes used the school's specialized arts, science and technology labs, as well as providing guest speakers and field trips.
Over 650 students participated in courses which included: Pre-Med for Kids, Exploring Shakespeare, 3-D Animation and Modeling, I- Movie, Monster Quest, Build Your First Website, Crime Scene Investigation, Fashion Design and Crash and Burn Chemistry.
In partnership with Santa Rosa's sister city program, 17 high school students from the Korean island of Jeju participated in an EXCEL Mastering Multimedia class.
In addition, the EXCEL High School Teaching Assistant Program allowed 24 high school volunteers (many former Excel students) to earn community involvement credit while working as assistants to our faculty.
Read the online article from the Press Democrat and see the student movies created in our Stop-Action Animation class in June.


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Friday Apr 27 2012
Placer baseball wins fifth straight
By: Journal Sports Staff
Mason strikes out 12 in complete-game shutout
Ryan Mason came up big as the Placer High baseball team closed out a perfect week in Pioneer Valley League play to vault into second place in the standings. Facing Bear River, Mason tossed a complete-game shutout and struck out 12, including the final eight batters he faced. A.J. Sanchez, who threw a gem against the Bruins, gave the Hillmen all the offense they needed with a solo home run in the third inning. Todd Valliere added an RBI-single in the sixth to score pinch-runner Jake Callahan. Michael Reale doubled to set up the insurance run. Placer (7-4 PVL) will square off against league-leading Lincoln (8-3) twice next week, beginning Tuesday in Lincoln.


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Josh Miller
Rep. Josh Miller is serving his second term in the Arkansas House of Representatives. He represents District 66, which includes portions of Cleburne, Van Buren, and Faulkner Counties.
During the 90th General Assembly, Rep. Miller will serve on the committee for Public Health, Welfare and Labor and the committee for State Agencies and Governmental Affairs.
During the 89th General Assembly, Rep. Miller served on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Public Transportation Committee.
Rep. Miller graduated from Heber Springs High School. He earned an Associate's Degree at ASU Heber Springs. Before being elected to the House of Representatives, Rep. Miller served on the Heber Springs City Council from 2009-2012.
Rep. Miller serves on the Governor's Commission for People with Disabilities and the A&P Commission.
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ADDIE BEATRICE COOK, age 68, of Livingston, Alabama, born to Elijah and Addie Beatrice Wright Cook, Sr., passed March 7, 2012 at Rush Foundation Hospital, Meridian, Mississippi. Service of remembrance will be Monday morning, March 12, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. from First Baptist Church of Livingston, located 504 Lafayette. Rev. Charlie Moore, pastor is the eulogist with interment following in Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Hwy. 11 East, York, Alabama. Ms. Cook will lie in repose one hour prior to funeral time. Visitation for family and friends is scheduled for Sunday afternoon (March 11th) from 2-6:00 p.m. in the Weatherly Chapel.
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Vermont is the cleanest state in New England, yep even cleaner than Maine. It is called the Green mountain state for a reason.
I hated it when the old man of the mountain in ,NH fell down, hear they may try to put him back up, hope they can ,after all he is on their licence plates and all.
Maine is call vacation land, sounds, kind of like, some thing from Star Trac, alternate universe. Well i live here so maybe it is.


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I have a trip coming up on 22nd Mar to Bangkok with Malaysia Airlines from Singapore. The itinerary is as follows:
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The horse isn't bad but why that big nasty H behind it? Drop that and just work the type with the mark IMO.
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"BSU":http://www.broncosports.com/ nice one.
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You might also look at putting the eye in the right place. It appears to have floated when you placed, I mean moved the horse.
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15/04/2010/11:20 am, Big Major's Spot, Exumas
Another short posting - I'll try to get more written if I stay here in the Yacht Club long enough!
The short story is:
Our new alternator and regulator and heavier wiring came in on the 3pm Watermaker flight on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Rich and Jim and Bruce put their heads and skills together and installed them.
On Wednesday night, we noticed that our anchor light wasn't on, and after checking out all the systems, we discovered that neither were our inverter, nav lights (at the top of the mast and part of the same unit as the anchor light), SSB (single side band), radio/stereo, and VHF. This is big trouble.
On Thursday, Rich and Jim checked everything out and sure enough, the inverter is toast, the other units are not working and may or may not be repairable. There must be a connection between the work on Tuesday but it has not as yet been discovered.
We reinstalled an old VHF that we carried as a backup so we have that working. By travelling with friends who will share the SSB data they get, and hanging other lights from the rails to act as anchor lights, and travelling in daytime when we don't need the nav lights, we will be able to proceed.
As of tonight, we just want to get back to the US, put the boat where it can have some work done and go home. I'm sure this despondent state will pass - we never stay in the dumps for long. But as the children's book says, it's been "A Terrible Horrible NoGood Very Bad Day"!!
More updates as I can get them to you, but as we travel north from here, it may be quite a while before we have internet access. So - consider that no news is good news!!
In the meantime, the water is still clear aqua-blue, the temperature is lovely, our fellow cruisers are fabulous, the wind is blowing 20 or so but not from the West. We are topped up with diesel and gas and water. The mailboat came and we'll get groceries on Friday. The cruising life is still good - just expensive and with a big learning curve at the moment!
12/04/2010/2:14 pm, Staniel Cay, Exumas
Just a quick update -
Rich (New Horizons) and Bruce (Reflections) helped Jim - or should I say Bruce and Jim helped Rich - do some diagnostics on our alternator. The situation is not good. We need a new regulator and maybe an alternator.
The good news is that Bruce had a contact - East Coast Battery in Fort Lauderdale - and when Jim called them, they said yes - they can supply them and yes they will get them on a Watermakers Flight to Staniel Cay - hopefully tomorrow - if not, on Wed.
The other good news is that the wind that holds us here over the next few days also keeps the wind generator spinning so we are not in trouble energy-wise.
The bad news is that Staniel Cay has no diesel or gas at the moment so we can't buy more for the Honda generator, or replenish the fuel we used up on the Long Slog. (Could this situation have anything to do with the dozen gas guzzling mega yachts in the area right now??) Good news is that both are available at Sampson Cay - a few miles north.
With luck we will still have mechanical/electrical friends in the area when the part comes in.
We think it is time to head home - before anything else happens!
We'll be spending the next few days in Big Majors Spot or else back in Little Bay (Black Point) while we wait for the expected 30 knot NE winds to pass through. Then we'll be moving north to the Abacos and back to the US. More details on the timing and destination as they become clear to us!
This pic is of Stephen and Jim operating on the SSB!
10/04/2010/5:06 pm, Black Point Settlement, Exumas
The forecasts all call for some very windy weather coming and from the NE. That means our original plan to go from here back to Long Island wasn't the best idea. We
have met several boaters who knew of routes on the banks and Bruce (Reflection) is one of them. He and Marilyn have travelled that way before and we decided to use Friday to follow their route and get ourselves north. Otherwise, it would be a week before we could leave the Jumentos, and even though we're not nearly finished exploring here, it was probably time for us to leave for this year.
Despite my expectations of having lots of internet contact in Ragged Island, it didn't turn out that way at all. So - you will find many new postings that are just going up today. I'm sitting in the lovely breezy porch of DeShaMon in Black Point with a stomach filled with delicious conch pizza. I've been doing some writing all along, and now it's time to get you all caught up.
We left Buenavista Cay at 0300 hours on Friday. (That's 3am! and yes it was dark.) The route we'd cover before dawn was free of coral heads with water deep enough for us to cross. During the afternoon, we kept a sharp lookout for heads and dodged around a few of them. It was hot. There was no wind. It was a long trip - over 100 nautical miles. It was not exactly a happy day on the water for people who really really like to travel under sail power. Add to that, there is a problem with our alternator. The engine is putting no charge into the batteries - a fact we discovered at 3 am. We have been well charged from the wind generator and we have run the engine very very little lately and have not noticed any problem till the wind died. Jim had this new problem in the back of his mind all day, but with some examination of connections, advice from fellow cruisers and some excellent books, we're pretty sure he can take care of it. In the meantime, we turned off the fridge, didn't charge up the computers, and stressed a wee bit over it!
We averaged about 6 miles per hour and pulled into Little Bay - just around the corner from Black Point at about 10 pm, tired and with ears ringing. We used more fuel on this trip than in the last month - or maybe longer.
However - the good side to this tale of woe - and there is ALWAYS a good side - is that we discovered Katmandu and Star of the Sea are in Big Majors Spot waiting for the front to go through, Reflection and Dot's Way are here in Black Point. I did laundry and have finally gotten on the internet. The most out of the blue surprise is that Moon River is also in Big Major's Spot! Jennifer and Gratton were our shed mates for a while at Iroquois boat yard in Iroquois, Ontario before we left on our 2007 trip. We met up with them in Baddeck, Cape Breton, NS that summer but have not seen them since so it seems that the extra windy weather, the long slog up here and the generator trouble that will keep us near here are also responsible for us being able to link up with these old friends.
The long slog made for a tiring day but put us in a good place!


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In this thread you can talk about Danny Phantom Episodes, The specials,The characters, and everything Danny Phantom,
So ill start off. What's your favourite Danny Phantom episodes?
mine are Urban Jungle, Ultimate Enemy, D-Stabilized, Kindred Spirits,Living Phantom,Living Large,Control Freaks,Reality Trip,Memory Blank,One of a kind,Reign Storm,Public Enemies,Teacher of the Year, Fanning The Flames,Phantom Planet


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Fresh Android Apps for Jan. 7: French Class, The Beer Expert, Gourmet Recipe Lite
by Ian Black
For decades you could only find experts in universities or in businesses. Then, experts popped up on the Internet. Now, you can download experts onto your Android – like in these fresh apps.
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Parlez-vous Francais? Learn French anywhere with French Class Demo. The app categorizes reference material into vocabulary, verbs, and grammar. Toggle your study guides between English to French or vice versa. After studying, test yourself – it's a class after all – with quizzes in all areas. The app tracks your score so that you can treat it like a game and go for a high score.
The free demo covers a semester of the class. The full version costs around $2.60 and there are other languages available.
The Beer Expert ($2.99)
Love beer? Who doesn't! If all you drink are the usual suspects – like Bud and Miller – you don't need this app. The app claims to have database of over 300,000 beers. Scan the bar code of a beer, or type and say its name, and it shows you a complete description, picture, and reviews.
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I am not a flavored chap stick kinda guy. I rarely use the stuff excepts for high elevation pursuits. It does the job. Sun protection is the main goal. Now for the flavor.. I could pass. I bought Pomegranate I could only do a berry since there isn't a plain or something. That being said, my lips are not burnt and dry.
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I purchased the coconut flavor , it does taste very good, a little too good, maybe. The scent and taste is a bit too powerful for my liking.
I prefer chapsticks that are thicker and stay on for quite some time. This is a thin formula that I need to reapply to feel like my lips are getting hydrated. The good thing is the SPF.
Will I buy this again, probably not.
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Wanted to try this balm after all the great reviews and had been looking for one that had some spf. It's true, it smells so yummy and application is smooth but man it tastes awful. (Purchased the mango) I was in no way trying to eat the stuff- yet every time I rubbed my lips together, I'd get some product in my mouth, it'd make me cringe and I had to run to the sink to spit it out. It was like a really bad mix of artificial sugar and perfumed lotion mixed together. :( the scent is amazing but I didn't buy this for my nose.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I fondly recall the days of my childhood, wearing a glistening yoke of string around my neck upon which dangled 14-16 of my favorite LipSmackers Lip Balms...because, you know, every 9 year old needs OPTIONS when the need for lip moisturization occurs.
They were sparkly, bright in colors, delicious and smelled like candy. In fact, I probably ate them straight from the tube like a popsicle.
The bad news: It's no longer appropriate to wear 15 shades, colors and flavors of LipSmackers around my neck.
The good news: These Sun Bum Lip Balms are secretly disguised LipSmackers (Note: this is only a hypothesis).
They smell like DREAM. They contain no glitter (blissfully), and they are delicious while rolling on with the smooth action of a mermaid slipping through a kelp forest. I must restrain the urge to eat the balm straight from the tube as I once did - they are that delicious. I opted for Mango, I'm going back for more, captain.
I have not yet awarded this product 5 stars because I still have to perform one critical test.
Will the balm survive 140+ degree temperatures in my black Subaru on a blistering summer day in the cruel heat of the Utah desert without liquefying?
Most brands don't pass the aforementioned rigorous test.
I've only found Burt's Bees Pomegranate flavor to survive the test.
If SunBum can do it, I will update my review to 5 stars and die happy.
That is all.
Thank you for reading.
Hi Lexi, could you make any comment as to how often you have to put this one-is it a lip-moisture-keeper or does it dry your lips out pretty fast/often? Thanks!
(... and I totally remember the LipSmacker days)
Hmmmm---- I would say about average for any chapstick product.
Depending on how chapped your lips are, not so often that it's noticeable or annoying. I actually tend to avoid Carmex and the like since it only seems to exacerbate the problem.
This chapstick contains cocoa butter, so it seems to moisturize nicely!
Pink Grapefruit
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
This is not your Granny's breakfast pink grapefruit. It goes on super smooth and makes the lips subtle. Love it.
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I have one of every flavor. My favorite is the Pomagranite. I never get sick of it and it works great both for moisturizing my lips as well as preventing sunburn. I definitely recommend trying out some Sun Bum!
Banana yum
I used to be obsessed with Burt's Bees...until I came across this banana Sum Bum in a surf shop. When it ran out I couldn't find it anywhere. Thankfully, Dogfunk always have what I need!
Almost too good that you bite it off before it works its magic!
Lip protection you will love!
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I decided to try the SunBum lip balm after using the sunscreen all summer. I got the mango flavor, it smells amazing keeps my lips from getting chapped whether I'm hanging out in the sun or riding on the mountain!


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Rocker Slash has axed his upcoming concerts in India for a second time.
The former Guns N' Roses star had been due to take his shows to the country in February but the dates were pushed back until October, reportedly due to the unavailability of his singer, Alter Bridge star Myles Kennedy.
However, Slash has revealed the dates have been called off again and will now take place next year.
In a post on Twitter, he writes, "A message to the fans in India: we had 4 shows booked. But they were cancelled. We're rescheduling w/ (with) new promoter for next year."


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There has been no dearth of policy pronouncements and re-engineering of processes aimed at improvement in the investment climate for infrastructure projects. However, there seems to be little headway insofar as achievement on ground is concerned. Let me highlight some disconcerting facts:
nOut of 576 SEZs that have received formal approval, only 172 are operational.
nAgainst a target of awarding road projects aggregating 50,621 kms during 2008-13, only 10,690 kms have been awarded. Many of the projects awarded have yet to see commencement of work due to problems in achieving financial closure, delays in land acquisition and obtaining environmental clearances.
Out of 16 Ultra Mega Power Projects planned, contracts for only 4 were awarded. Out of this only one has become operational and another is nearing completion and that too much beyond the scheduled dates. Even the one project that has commenced operations is running much below capacity. Lack of clarity on coal import, forest clearances and land acquisition delays are creating impediments.
Under the New Exploration and Licensing Policy for exploration of crude oil and natural gas, of the 251 blocks allotted, 110 have reported discoveries but only 6 are actually operational.
Having set the backdrop, let me begin by responding to an issue which has been made out to be a very crucial challenge in so far as financing of infrastructure projects go. Has bank finance been a constraining factor for infrastructure development?
It is pertinent to note that outside of budgetary support, that accounts for about 45% of the total infrastructure spending, commercial banks are the second largest source of finance for infrastructure (about 24%). Historically, contrary to popular perception, it is the commercial, more particularly, the public sector banks that have supported the infrastructure requirements of a growing Indian economy. It is worth highlighting that outstanding bank credit to the infrastructure sector, which stood at R72.43 billion in 1999-2000, has increased steadily to R7,860.45 billion in 2012-13, a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.41% over the last thirteen years against an overall CAGR of bank finance to all industries at 20.38% during the same period. This apart, credit has also flown into infrastructure sector via NBFCs, mutual funds and capital markets, the source of bulk of which is bank finance. It may not, therefore, be correct to argue that lack of finance from banks has constrained the development of the infrastructure sector.
Banks have been substantially financing infrastructure projects in the country


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Permit Services staff have the highest daily volume of public interaction among the members of the Community Development Department. They staff the Building counter, field building-related phone inquiries, calculate and collect permit and development fees, and issue permits.
Plan CheckThe City's Plan Check staff is responsible for reviewing plans for new residential, commercial, and industrial construction, non-residential tenant improvements, and home improvements. The scope of their work includes projects both large and small. The plan checkers have expert knowledge of the Building Code, and often interact with the public, providing explanations of their comments, and suggested approaches to plan revisions. Plan Check staff also coordinate closely with the City's Fire Department on the review of plans.
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Inspection Services Inspection Services staff spends the majority of their time in the field conducting inspections of projects under construction to verify compliance with Building, Plumbing, and Electrical Codes, and also to confirm that projects are being built according to the approved plans. Building Inspectors are also responsible for issuing Stop Work notices for any construction project being worked on without the appropriate City permits.
Our 24-hour voice mail system allows you to schedule building inspections any time of day or night at (714) 744-7216.
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Joe Manganiello fans can catch the actor from Sept. 20 to Oct. 12; he'll be starring as Stanley Kowalski in Yale Repertory Theatre's first-ever production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Mark Rucker. Joe is more than ready to get back to doing some intense acting!
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An extension of Handlebars that generates DOM objects instead of strings.
This project is deprecated. It was a fun experiment and awesome project to work with, but I no longer have the time or money to contribute full time.
DOMBars is an extension of Handlebars.js. It keeps almost all the same semantics of Handlebars, but generates DOM objects instead of string-based templates. This is an extremely powerful concept when you consider data binding and reactive programming. By creating DOM representations of a template, we can easily keep track of all the generated nodes and update only the specific content when data changes. All of this is possible without any special markup being added to your HTML and Handlebars templates.
Installing DOMBars is simple. Multiple builds are provided in the
dist directory, just add the required script to you site. Alternatively, DOMBars is also available on npm.
The API is very similar to Handlebars, but extends it with all the DOM-based goodness. Things to keep in mind is that helper function generate DOM nodes (not strings). This means no more string concatination - use document fragments instead.
Another thing is that the template function and helpers don't directly return the template. Instead they return an object with some additional methods (such as
unsubscribe) and the template output is stored under the
value property.
To provide a custom getter function, just set
DOMBars.get to your desired function. The function should accept two arguments, the
object and
property. Using DOMBars with Backbone.js is as simple as:
if object instanceof BackboneModel return objectgetproperty; return objectproperty;;
Subscriptions are used to achieve data binding. By default, the subscription is a no-op and does nothing. To set up your own custom subscription function, set
DOMBars.subscribe to the desired subsciber function. The function should accept three arguments -
property and
callback. For example, to do data binding with Backbone.js:
objecton'change:' + property callback;;
You should also provide an unsubscribe function under
DOMBars.unsubscribe. This function accepts the same three arguments -
property and
callback. The callback is the exact same function that was passed in with
DOMBars.subscribe. To unsubscribe a subscription in Backbone.js:
objectoff'change:' + property callback;;
DOMBars templates automatically unsubscribe listeners when a change happens. However, to unsubscribe the root DOM element you need to call the
unsubscribe method on the returned object. This is important since your listeners and helpers would otherwise not know to stop listening for changes and could result in a substantial memory leak over time.
For custom helpers that need to be unsubscribed, a function is made available to helper functions through the
options.unsubscribe method in the options. Just pass in a function that needs to be called on unsubscription, and when the helper is destroyed the unsubscribe function will be called.
Since helpers are just DOM nodes, you can update the returned helper by changing the DOM reference. This is great for performance reasons, since you just update the parts of the DOM that need changing. Another options is the
options.update method. When called, the helper will re-render itself in place.
DOMBars extends the built-in Handlebars utilities with some additional functionality, available under
Used internally for keeping track of subscriptions, the
uniqueId function returns a unique number each time its called.
A polyfilled function for subclassing a JavaScript object. Used internally to subclass all Handlebars functionality. This way no Handlebars objects are augmented and we aren't copying entire chunks of functionality.
Returns a boolean indicating whether the passed in object is a DOM node.
Returns an object whose sole purpose is tracking DOM nodes. Comes with some helpful utilities attached.
Transform anything passed in as the first argument into a DOM node. Handles
DOMBars.SafeString instances and current nodes correctly.
Transform anything passed in as the first argument into a text node.
DOMBars.SafeString instances are transformed into DOM nodes and current DOM nodes are transformed into a string.
// Set a custom subscription function just for the test. // Every 2 seconds we will be turning the checkbox on and off again. windowsetInterval objname = !objname; fn; 2000;; // Generate a template. var template = DOMBarscompile '<input type="checkbox" checked="{{{test}}}">' test: false; // Append the template directly to the body element and watch the magic happen. documentbodyappendChildtemplate;
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Hunter Reginald Greene - December 05, 2013Aaron and Erica Greene of Imperial, Neb. are the proud parents of a son, Hunter Reginald Greene, born Sept. 29, 2013 at the Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte.
Hunter weighed 6 pounds, 14.6 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches in length.
Grandparents are Tim and Jacqueline Greene of Imperial and Roger and Beth Maris of Wauneta, Neb.
Great-grandparents are Richard and Delores Stahly of Stratton, Neb., Jack and Betty Frederick of Grant, Neb., Marvin and Mary Emma Maris and Glenard Greene of Imperial.


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Wake Forest Falls to Virginia
Oct. 20, 2012
Final Stats | Final Stats (PDF)
By Nick Sebesta, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@SIDeacons)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Jazmen Russell paced Wake Forest with 12 kills on Saturday, but the Demon Deacons fell to Virginia 3-1 (21-25, 25-27, 25-17, 23-25) in Memorial Gym.
Russell also added 14 digs and one solo block. Ashlee Rusk had 10 kills while Kylie Hargreaves had nine. Andrea Beck had eight kills for the Deacs and Megan Miller had 22 digs to lead the team.
The first set began with both teams playing to a five-all tie. Virginia then broke away to lead 11-6. Despite the deficit, the Deacs fought back to make it a 13-11 set after a kill from Russell.
After an attack error from the Cavaliers, the Demon Deacons tied the match at 16. Virginia eventually took the set 25-21. Russell had three kills to lead the Deacs in the set.
Wake Forest took a 5-3 lead in the second set after a booming kill from Hargreaves. Holding onto a 14-13 advantage, Beck and Rosendall registered a block to give the Deacs a two-point lead. A block from Ashlee Rusk and Grissom put Wake Forest up 19-16 though the Cavaliers eventually tied the set at 25 and won the set 27-25.
The Deacs raced out to a 7-3 lead in the third set and extended the lead to11-4. Wake Forest then used a balanced offense and stout defense to keep Virginia at bay through the end of the set. Rusk capped off the set with a kill to win 25-17.
Virginia pulled away from the Deacs, leading12-8 in the fourth set. Wake Forest battled back in the set to tie it at 23 but fell 25-23.
Natalie Bausback led the Cavaliers (7-15, 1-10 ACC) with 22 kills and six block assists. Kayla Sears added 19 kills.
Wake Forest (8-15, 2-9 ACC) heads home next week to play NC State on Friday at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Gym. The match which is the annual `Dig for a Cure' match, will also be broadcast live on ESPN3.


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Devers resigns from GCB due to work commitments
International Radio cricket commentator and former Guyana cricketer Sean Devers has resigned from
the Guyana Cricket Board's (GCB) Cricket Development Committee. The Cricket Journalist, who is a Level 1 cricket coach and a qualified Cricket Umpire, withdrew from the Committee which is headed by GCB Vice-President and former Guyana batsman Alfred Mentore because of his job commitments.
In his resignation letter, which was copied to the GCB President and Secretary, Devers explained that his increasing workload as a Cricket Broadcaster and journalist, especially for International matches outside of Guyana forced him to quit the GCB position.
According to Devers he felt it was unfair to him, the GCB and Guyana's cricket for him to continue and not function properly due to his other cricket-related activities. He told the GCB he fully supported its cricket development plans and hoped for a successful implementation of the many ideas of those on the CDC.
He also pledged his continued assistance to Guyana's cricket development in whatever way he could be of help. "I am very sorry to hear of your position with regards to serving with us on the Development Committee. I understand the high demands of your job, the value of your time and that ability to multitask," Mentore told Devers in an e-mail in response to his resignation.
"However, all is not lost and somehow we will find ways to use your resourcefulness and tap into your cricket brain and would be happy to have your insight as we work towards improving Guyana's cricket," Mentore added.
Devers, who also covers cricket for the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), the BBC World Service and the Regional Line & Length Radio Network, told the Media that while he considers himself a professional, not being a member of the GCB would give him more freedom to be critical of the GCB as Journalist if required, without a conflict of interest.
He said that with the resources available to the GCB he was confident that Guyana's cricket can rise if all work together and thanked the GCB for involving him in the process.
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The multiplayer portion of Rockstar Games' Max Payne 3 has been hacked and the company is now urging players to help them identify people that are using the cheats to get a leg up in online games. In a post on the company's official blog Rockstar said that it wants players to identify exploiters:
"We're aware that a small minority of players are spoiling the Max Payne 3 multiplayer experience for honest players with cheats and hacks and while certain issues will be dealt with in forthcoming title updates, today we'd like to make it clear that anyone using these nefarious methods will be dealt with," Rockstar wrote on its official blog.
Those caught cheating won't be banned – they will be forced into a special punishment area called the "Cheaters Pool" where they can play against other losers who have been identified and confirmed as users of hacks, cheats, and exploits. Their stats will also be wiped from the leaderboards. While cheaters might have the possibility of getting out of this virtual multiplayer jail, should they sin a second time Rockstar promises a permanent ban from multiplayer. What a novel approach to handling bad actors that are trying to ruin multiplayer for the masses.
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Mother's Barbecued Pork Sandwiches Recipe
"THESE delicious sandwiches taste even better if the pork is prepared a day ahead for the flavors to blend. We welcomed Mother's pork sandwiches for any occasion, but especially for our birthday celebration. We never wanted Mother to change that menu!"
- 1 boneless pork shoulder roast (4 to 5 pounds), cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 medium onions, coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 16 hamburger buns, split
- 1. In a Dutch oven, combine the meat, onions, chili powder, salt if desired, water, ketchup and vinegar. Cover and simmer for 4 hours or until the meat is tender.
Skim off the excess fat. With a slotted spoon, remove meat, reserving cooking liquid. Shred the meat with two forks. Return to the cooking liquid and heat through. Serve on buns.
Freeze option: Cool pork mixture and freeze in freezer containers for up to 3 months. Thaw in the refrigerator; place in a saucepan and heat through. Serve on buns. Yield: 16 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving equals 497 calories, 19 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 162 mg cholesterol, 625 mg sodium, 28 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 50 g protein.
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A recent story in The Australian caught my eye. The title of the piece is "Online magazine offers less than 2c a word to freelancers". The name of the online magazine is Breathe Magazine Australia (BreatheMagazine.com) and it is scheduled to launch in April 2012.
The Australian journalists' union, called Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has a recommended word rate of 93c a word (which is comparable to U.S. currency). The MEAA criticized Breathe Magazine's owner, Flujo, stating that "Employers must realize that journalists must be paid properly for their work."
Flujo is looking for three full-time writers, and is asking journalists to agree to write a minimum of six 400-word articles throughout the course of a month in the hopes they are hired for the full time gig. A 400-word article, by Breathe Magazine's pay rate, is $7.
Many established freelancers would scoff at that rate—and it's unclear by this article if the full-time writer would be paid more than that once hired.
The editor of Breathe Magazine Australia, Cedric Chenefront, conceded that it was a low rate but defended the offer on the grounds of his publication's limited advertising budget.
"We'll give it three months (at the $7 per article rate) but we're hoping to pay them more as soon as we have more budget," he said. —theaustralian.com.au
When I first started freelancing for a couple of monthly publications in Boston, MA in my early 20s, I wrote for free. I was testing the waters. I had a full-time job that I liked, but I was trying to figure out if I wanted to go back to school to become a journalist. I got perks—like free movie tickets and DVDs—but that wasn't what I cared about. I wanted to see my name in print for the first time ever. I didn't care about getting paid.
Fast forward 10 years and I have a graduate degree in journalism under my belt, and a handful of bylines at newspapers and magazines along the East Coast. I work as an editor for a regional publication and I do some freelancing on the side. I have some great credentials and I have a lot of experience. Heck, I even teach undergraduate courses at a local university. I am a good writer, and there is no way I would accept a job that paid 1.7 cents a word—not in the stage of my career today. I know my worth.
If you are just starting out in the freelance world, writing for little to no pay might help you get some clips under your belt. If you've never written before, you might have to write for free (or very low pay) because you have no experience. We've all been there at one time or another. Once you start building your portfolio and getting better paying clients, you can start turning down work that doesn't help your bottom line. And pretty soon, 1.7 cents a word is going to sound pretty ridiculous to you, too.
"It is clear from the work that the alliance has done into freelance rates in Australia, $7 for a 400-word article is clearly well below the rate a professional journalist would expect to receive for their work." —MEAA spokesman, Jonathan Este
It always makes me roll my eyes when any magazine offers the following retorts when faced with people complaining about their low pay rate:
- We may be paying below the industry standard, but your byline will get tons of exposure on our site.
- We're hoping to pay our readers more as soon as our budget increases.
- We're a new publication and don't have a lot of advertising revenue.
These are excuses, and not a sound way to run a business. Clearly, magazines that are not willing to pay their writers a fair wage, are not overly concerned with publishing the best content.
Freelance payment should be worked into a publications monthly budget from the get-go, and should not be predicated on how much advertising revenue is generated. What happens, say, if you raise your rates because you are generating more revenue, and then have a few months when your ad sales are abysmal? Are you going to pay your writers less because your ad sales team is not doing a good job? Good luck keeping any of your best writers on board.


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Toasted Parisian Bread
1 sliced loaf fresh French bread
4 tablespoons butter
1 package Simply Organic French Onion Dip Mix
4 tablespoons butter
1 package Simply Organic French Onion Dip Mix
Preheat broiler. Butter bread slices and lay out on baking or broiler pan. Sprinkle with French Onion Dip Mix. Broil until golden brown.
Ease of Preparation: Easy
Preparation Time: 5 min
Cook Time: 5-10 min
Servings: 12
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Serve with your favorite soup. Slice fresh tomatoes; add lettuce to make great flavored vegetarian "BLT" sandwiches.
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Video: Small-Unit Amphibious Raid Kicks off 31st MEU MEUEX
Video by Sgt. Jonathan Wright
Company F. of Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted a company-sized boat raid as part of the unit's pre-deployment training package. The Marines utilized combat rubber raiding craft to insert on the beach before making their way toward an enemy encampment. This exercise was part of a raid package designed to integrate 2/5 into the 31st MEU's spectrum of operations prior to their deployment. Also available in high definition.
This work, Small-Unit Amphibious Raid Kicks off 31st MEU MEUEX, by Sgt Jonathan Wright, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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Football Manager 2014 breaks PC chart record despite crack
Football Manager 2014 has broken the record for the most consecutive No.1s in the PC charts.
Total War: Rome II fans upset over alleged cut content in premium DLC
Creative Assembly's Total War: Rome II has again fallen under fan scrutiny, this time over paid DLC allegedly including cut content from the game's pre-release version.
Sega loses right to Shenmue trademark - report
The Shenmue trademark looks like it may no longer be the property of Sega.
Sega breathes new life into Atlus as development brand returns
The Atlus brand has been resurrected by new owner Sega Sammy.
Sega and Transformers licences collide for console-themed Megatron
Japanese powerhouses Sega and Takara Tomy have merged for the kill to produce a Transformers console spin-off.
Sonic receives a makeover as series is handed to Western dev
Sega has lifted the curtain on a brand new look for iconic mascot Sonic the Hedgehog.
Sega says 2015 Sonic game won't be multi-platform
Sega has shot down rumours that its next Nintendo-exclusive Sonic title will go multi-format.
Has Sonic's next Nintendo-only game gone multiplatform?
It looks as if Sonic might have unpinned his colours from the Nintendo mast.
Alien resurrection: Creative Assembly's horror gamble
Aliens: Colonial Marines received heavy criticism from fans after its release last year. So you'd understand if Sega decided to play it safe with its follow-up. Instead, this autumn's Alien ...
Sega's Rhythm Thief pulled from App Store
Having been released on the Apple App Store yesterday, Sega has now pulled Rhythm Thief & The Paris Caper from sale.
Alien: Isolation joins the Wii U no-show list
Creative Assembly's upcoming survival horror outing Alien: Isolation looks unlikely to be making the jump to Wii U.
VIDEO: Sega officially announces Alien: Isolation
After months of rumours, Sega has now officially fessed up to the existence of Alien: Isolation.
Sega planning more 3DS free-to-play games beyond Initial D
Sega is keen on bringing additional free-to-play titles onto the 3DS beyond its upcoming microtransaction-fueled racing game, Initial D: Perfect Shift Online.
Alien Isolation artwork leaks online
What appears to be the first glimpse of Creative Assembly's Alien game has appeared online.
LGC: 10.1m people illegally downloaded Football Manager 2013
Football Manager boss Miles Jacobson has revealed the true extent of video game piracy on PC.
Creative Assembly confirms Total War: Rome II SteamOS release
A SteamOS version of Total War: Rome II will launch early next year, developer The Creative Assembly has announced.
UK retailer offering ROM-based retro game cartridges
Funstock has announced a range of (legally dubious) retro games cartridges that work with original console hardware.
Sega reports profit increase fueled by Total War: Rome II sales
Sega has revealed its latest six-month earnings report, showing a profit for the period thanks to the performance of Total War: Rome II.
Football Manager merchandise can offset piracy loss
Football Manager clothing can help Sports Interactive make money in markets where it does not sell any games.
Sega classics coming to 3DS
Eight classic Sega titles have received 3D makeovers ready for a digital release on Nintendo's 3DS.
Sega's Alien: Isolation to star Ripley's daughter - report
Creative Assembly is making a first person Alien shooter for Sega.
Sega gives Steam Machines thumbs up
Last week digital games giant Steam announced plans to launch into the living room.
Sonic to star in CG animated TV series
Sega's speedy games mascot Sonic the Hedgehog is getting his first ever CG animated TV series.
Sega of America confirms layoffs
Sega has cut an unspecified number of US jobs as part of ongoing restructuring.
Ella Romanos, Simon Barratt win seats on UKIE board
Nine UK game developers and publishers have won seats on the UKIE board following recent elections.