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Manufacturers scored big at the 2019 National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA)/Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) Marine Electronics Conference & Expo, held late last month at the Renaissance Hotel in Portsmouth, Virginia. A total of 18 products received top-category honors in three separate award competitions: NMEA Product of Excellence Awards and Manufacturer of the Year (voted on by the NMEA membership), the NMEA Technology Award, and new this year—the Best New Product Award for manufacturers who introduced new products for the first time at the NMEA/RTCM Conference.
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) today announced Raymarine DockSense™ Alert, a new addition to Raymarine's intelligent docking technology line designed for a broader range of vessels. Raymarine DockSense, unveiled in early 2019, is the recreational marine industry's first intelligent object recognition and motion-sensing assisted docking solution. Based on this patent pending technology, DockSense Alert can be installed on any boat to help captains safely monitor their surroundings and dock their boats with confidence.
FLIR Systems today announced the FLIR M300 Series, a new generation of maritime thermal cameras delivering advanced awareness-enhancing technologies, safer navigation, and seamless integration with onboard boat systems. FLIR M300 Series cameras are designed for the most demanding professional mariners and first responders who operate in the harshest marine environments.
New LightHouse Bermuda 3.10 operating system update unlocks exciting new sailing features on Raymarine Axiom multifunction displays
FLIR is pleased to announce the addition of Yamaha Command Link and Command Link Plus integration into Raymarine's family of Axiom® multifunction displays. This new capability is one of many new features introduced with the recent release of the LightHouse Annapolis 3.9 operating system for Axiom.
LightHouse Annapolis brings a new range of performance sailing features to LightHouse 3 including Laylines, Polars, and new advanced data displays.
Knowledge is power — and the Element™ CHIRP sonar/GPS series from Raymarine gives you the power to make smarter decisions on the water Built for anglers who want to stay ahead of the game, Element delivers the sharpest view of the underwater world with HyperVision™ 1.2-megahertz super high-resolution sonar technology.
Today Boston Whaler, the leading manufacturer of unsinkable family fishing boats and Mercury Marine, the world's leading manufacturer of recreational marine propulsion engines, are the first to demonstrate the Raymarine DockSense™ assisted docking system on an outboard-powered Boston Whaler vessel at Mercury's Lake X testing facility.
WILSONVILLE, Ore., January 21 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced the Raymarine DockSense™ assisted docking system, the marine industry's first intelligent object recognition and motion sensing assisted docking solution for recreational boating.
FLIR Systems delivers a marine industry first with the introduction of the Raymarine® navigation technology, ClearCruise™ AR (Augmented Reality), which brings enhanced on water awareness to Raymarine's family of Axiom® multifunction displays (MFDs). With ClearCruise AR, Raymarine Axiom users can make smarter decisions with physical navigation objects overlaid directly on Axiom's high-definition (HD) video display. FLIR also announced a new video stabilization module, the Raymarine AR200, which integrates with ClearCruise.
Traditional marine VHF radios keep users confined to the helm with their short handset coil-cords that limit the ability to move about. Raymarine's new Ray90 and Ray91 modular VHF radios give the freedom to roam and communicate from anywhere onboard using optional wireless handset stations.
Delivering a marine electronics industry first, Raymarine Axiom users can now take to the skies with the latest LightHouse 3.6 OS update. The new Axiom UAV app brings together the power and simplicity of Raymarine navigation with advanced unmanned aerial imaging.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today a slate of new technologies launching from their award-winning, Raymarine-branded Axiom® line of multifunction navigation displays (MFD). Visitors to the FLIR and Raymarine booth at the Miami International Boat Show this week are invited to see Axiom's LightHouse™ Apps, the Raymarine LINK™ mobile app, and Axiom integration for UAVs.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today their most advanced solid-state marine radar, the Quantum 2 with doppler target identification technology. Designed for integrating with Raymarine's award winning Axiom® multifunction displays, Quantum 2 enhances boater's situational awareness by intelligently identifying moving and static targets on both long and short ranges.
The new Raymarine AIS700 Class B transceiver enables boat owners to share the same antenna with their onboard VHF equipment making installation much easier, tidier and less expensive.
The new FLIR M232 marine thermal night vision camera has received a DAME Design Award Special Mention accolade in the 'Marine Electronics and Marine Related Software' category at this year's METSTRADE. Launched in February of this year, the M232 belongs to the FLIR M100 and M200 series and is FLIR's smallest and most affordable pan and tilt marine thermal night vision camera. Using FLIR's latest generation Boson™ thermal core, the M232 lets boaters see at night in 320 x 240 thermal resolution and features 4x digital zoom. The ground-breaking M232 also offers full pan and tilt for viewing 360 degrees in both vertical and horizontal planes.
Raymarine, a FLIR brand, recently announced its latest line of Axiom™ Multifunction Displays (MFD) at HISWA In-Water. The new Axiom Pro Advanced Multifunction Displays, which will be making their European debut, have been designed for offshore enthusiasts and professional captains.
FLIR has been awarded a $50 million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard for integrated navigation electronics under the U.S. Coast Guard's Scalable Integrated Navigation Systems 2 (SINS-2) program. As part of the contract, FLIR will provide electronics systems that will be standard fit on over 2,000 U.S. Coast Guard vessels, ranging from small-class boats through large cutter-class vessels.
FLIR's most affordable and compact pan-and-tilt marine thermal cameras to date, the FLIR M132 and M232 cameras are engineered with FLIR's Boson high-performance thermal camera core, which features a multi-core video processor that delivers superior image quality and thermal analytics features.
FLIR is now pleased to announce that the M-Series pan/tilt multi-sensor system design has been re-engineered to offer additional functionality, improved performance, and enhanced situational awareness
New compact FLIR M100/M200 thermal cameras deliver a new level of awareness on the water. The benefits of thermal cameras include enhanced awareness while fishing, sailing, or cruising at night.
Raymarine launches quad-core touch-screen MFD with 3D viewing and real CHIRP functionality at the 2017 Miami International Boat Show. We are pleased to announce an all-new family of Raymarine MFDs called Axiom, game-changers poised to shake up the marine electronics industry.
The all-new RMK-10 remote keypad accessory bring the controls of your LightHouse II multifunction display right to your fingertips! Compatible with Raymarine a, c, e, eS and gS-Series MFDs, the ultra-compact RMK-10 can be mounted in landscape or portrait orientation and fits just about anywhere.
Raymarine is pleased to announce an all-new version of its popular Wi-Fish mobile app for use with Dragonfly-PRO and Wi-Fish CHIRP Sonar systems. The app has been expanded and now includes Augmented Reality Viewing of your saved waypoints and fishing hot-spots.
The FLIR Maritime M618CS, the company's most advanced member in its industry-leading line of M-Series thermal night vision systems, captured the 2016 Product of Excellence Award in the Marine Cameras category at the recent National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) convention held in Naples, Florida.
Today Raymarine announced the latest version of their popular color multifunction instrument for sailing, fishing or cruising, the Raymarine i70s. The i70s is easy-to-customize to suit a user's personal boating requirements, from traditional analog dials to extra-large digital and graphical displays, providing the flexibility to display instrument and navigation data that is most important to the user.
We are pleased to announce the expansion of our marine IP camera product line with the all new high definition CAM210 and CAM220 cameras.Both models are engineered for simple video over IP connectivity to our family of LightHouse II powered multifunction displays.
The newest addition to Raymarine's line of fixed-mount radios is the compact Ray52 VHF with built-in GPS receiver. The Ray52's ultra-compact size makes it perfect for crowded helms because it can fit just about anywhere. Its oversized controls and big backlit LCD display make it easy to use, day or night.
The new Dragonfly 7 PRO is Raymarine's most feature-rich sonar/GPS combination yet for fresh and coastal saltwater fishing. Offering the same advanced features as the award-winning Dragonfly 5 PRO, Dragonfly 7 PRO is equipped with an extra-large 7" display for maximum visibility. The super bright display is also optically-bonded for all-weather performance, and is guaranteed to never fog up.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced the Raymarine Quantum CHIRP radar, the industry's first recreational marine radar dome featuring CHIRP pulse compression technology. A new approach to marine radar, Quantum CHIRP radar sets a new standard for compact solid state radar, delivering superior radar imaging on both long and short ranges.
We're excited to announce that the FLIR AX8 has won the 2016 Innovation Award at the Miami International Boat Show. The Innovation Award honors manufacturers and suppliers who bring new, innovative products for the boating industry to market.
Today at the Miami International Boat Show, Raymarine announced a partnership with Rockford Fosgate, an industry leader in high-performance audio systems, in the development of integrated audio solutions for use with Raymarine's Multifunction Displays (MFDs) for the marine industry.
Team Raymarine was delighted to accept the Sailing Today award for Gear Innovation (in association with NASA Marine) for the Raymarine Evolution autopilot.
WILSONVILLE, OR –September, 15th, 2015 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced the release of the latest upgrade to its acclaimed LightHouse II operating system for Raymarine multifunction displays (MFDs). Underscoring FLIR's commitment to enhance the boating experience through innovation, LightHouse II Release 15 gives captains the ability to monitor their engine room using the new FLIR AX8 marine thermal camera system, improves collision avoidance with completely new graphical representations of AIS targets, and now supports direct software updates over Wi-Fi to keep Raymarine users up-to-date with the latest technology.
CHIRP-powered Dragonfly®, new sonar modules, and eS Series multifunction displays transform anglers' underwater vision
With the addition of SonarChart Live, Raymarine Dragonfly PRO and Wi-Fish owners can use their mobile device to watch as new charts reveal the shape of the sea floor with detailed bottom contours – in real time as the boat moves across the water. The new chart appears as an additional layer over an existing map while the up-to-the-minute details are saved and stored on the mobile device for continued private use, and can be edited and refined over time. Raymarine users can also take advantage of the unique split-screen fishfinder view within the Navionics Boating app, enabling them to display charts and CHIRP DownVision™ in the palm of their hands. A conventional sonar fishfinder view is also available when used with Dragonfly PRO models.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) announced the release of the latest update to its acclaimed LightHouse II operating system for Raymarine multifunction displays (MFDs), with advanced features designed specifically for sailboats. LightHouse II Release 14 offers multiple tools to help sailors determine the quickest, most efficient ways to navigate while racing or cruising.The free update is available for aSeries, cSeries, eSeries, gS Series, and the new eS Series line of high performance MFDs.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced the release of the new Raymarine eS Series line of HybridTouch™ multifunction displays. Powered by Raymarine's advanced LightHouse II user interface, the eS Series includes three high-performance navigation displays that offer unprecedented control and ease-of-use in a sleek, ergonomic design.
February 11th, 2015 - FLIR Systems (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced the release of three new sonars and two new thermal cameras that have one goal in mind: making your time on the water safer and more enjoyable than ever. With FLIR's industry-leading thermal imaging technology, the new M400 stabilized multi-sensor thermal camera, and handheld Ocean Scout™ thermal camera, give boaters unprecedented ability to spot other vessels, avoid collisions, and stay safe on the water by seeing clearly in total darkness and in bad weather. Designed from the ground up to give anglers unparalleled fish-targeting capability, Raymarine's new CP570 Professional CHIRP sonar, CP470 CHIRP sonar and CP370 digital sonar redefine blue water sonar with clutter free images of bait fish and the predators around them in deep water.
WILSONVILLE, OR and FAREHAM, UK – January 8,2015 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) – Dedicated to advancing sonar technology for fishermen, FLIR Systems is introducing seven new models that form the next generation of Raymarine's Dragonfly product line at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The new Dragonfly range offers anglers advanced CHIRP sonar vision, superior color displays, and wireless mobile device integration.
Committed to giving boaters around the world access to the best charting experience, FLIR Systems is pleased to announce support for C-MAP by Jeppesen cartography in the company's range of Raymarine Multifunction Displays. Raymarine and Jeppesen have collaborated to achieve a powerful and flexible navigation experience with support for C-MAP 4D across Raymarine's range of LightHouse™ II based multifunction displays. The Raymarine line of Dragonfly Sonar/GPS will also support C-MAP, giving anglers access to Jeppesen's extensive worldwide map library.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) is pleased to announce the launch of the Raymarine Ray70 Multifunction VHF Marine Radio and the LightHouse II Version 12 Software upgrade for Raymarine multifunction displays. Raymarine's new line of VHF radios are being showcased this week at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2014.
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) is delighted to announce that three of its products won awards at the recent 2014 National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) annual convention and expo, held in Fort Myers, USA Oct. 8-11.
In a continuing effort to provide fishermen and boaters with the tools they need for success on the water, Raymarine is announcing two new technology options for its LightHouse II powered line of multifunction displays. The new CP200 SideVision™ sonar module expands anglers' underwater horizons with crystal-clear CHIRP side-scanning sonar and the new CAM200IP marine video camera brings high definition video monitoring to Raymarine multifunction displays.
Raymarine is pleased to announce that two of the company's ground-breaking products are now compatible with selected Yanmar engine systems. Fully tested and certified by both parties,the Evolution™ DBW brings autopilot control to vessels equipped with Yanmar VC10 and JC10 (Joystick) Control Systems; connecting direct to provide unrivalled steering control of the Yanmar propulsion systems. The ECI-100Universal Engine and Control Interface gives access, via Raymarine multifunction displays (MFDs), to Yanmar engine data
Raymarine, a division of FLIR Systems is announcing today the launch of the 19" gS195 Glass Bridge Multifunction Display. The gS195 will make its public debut at the Sanctuary Cove Boat Show in Queensland Australia. Raymarine's largest LightHouse II powered multifunction display, the gS195 joins the 9", 12", and 15.4" in the gS Series family of glass bridge multifunction displays. Engineered for premium yachts, the gS195's edge-to-edge glass construction and slim bezel design blends beautifully with modern helms.
Raymarine is proud to announce the company's sponsorship of the inaugural Raymarine J/80 Championships. A season-long series of UK-based events, the 2014 Raymarine J/80 Championship starts in April with the Warsash Spring Championships, moving on to the J/80 Nationals in Poole and the Royal Southern Yacht Club Regatta in May. June sees the 2014 Raymarine J/80 Championship take in the JP Morgan Round the Island Race, followed by the J-Cup in July, culminating in the last weekend of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week in August. The J/80 is a highly successful One Design with over 1450 J/80s sailing world-wide.
Raymarine is pleased to announce the addition of new Hydro-Balance™ technology to its multiple award-winning Evolution™ autopilot line. This new patent-pending technology brings an even higher level of autopilot steering performance to boats with hydraulic steering systems. Specifically designed for hydraulic steering systems which have no rudder reference fitted, Hydro-Balance™ is particularly effective on boats with outboard engines.
Raymarine is proud to introduce the new 7" display version of its award-winning Dragonfly® Sonar/GPS – the Dragonfly7. Since its launch last year, Dragonfly's high-performance, dual-channel CHIRP sonar and GPS chartplotter combination has taken the fishing world by storm; bringing the power and crisp detail of advanced CHIRP DownVision™ sonar to inland and coastal anglers at a very affordable price. The new Dragonfly7 steps up the screen-size with a best-in-class 7" widescreen display and comes with the added advantage of optional overhead mounting, whilst maintaining tilt-and-swivel capability.


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The IKS Rotarran was a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in service during the 2370s.
Service on the Cardassian Border
During the Klingon-Cardassian War that began in 2372, the Rotarran spent two years as part of the occupation force patrolling against the Cardassian fleet. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
In mid-2373, the Rotarran was forced to retreat along with the rest of the Klingon fleet when the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion. (DS9: "By Inferno's Light")
Following that event, the Rotarran suffered half a dozen defeats in combat with the Jem'Hadar. Heavy casualities mounted as this continued over a period of seven months. In one instance, a Cardassian ship was trapped between the Rotarran and an asteroid field. The Cardassians' power was failing, they had no other reinforcements nearby, and the Rotarran's weapons were fully charged. Suddenly, three Jem'Hadar ships appeared out of the asteroid field, and the Rotarran was denied the kill. Because of this and many other similar encounters, the crew came to believe that the Rotarran was a cursed ship, and all aboard were dishonored. (DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire")
Martok's first command
In late 2373, General Martok was assigned command of the Rotarran by the Klingon High Council and dispatched to locate the missing IKS B'Moth. Joining him as his first officer was Worf and Jadzia Dax as Science Officer. Both serving on detached duty from Starfleet.
Plotting course for the last known position of the B'Moth, the Rotarran was forced to circumnavigate the Tong Beak Nebula in order to avoid the Jem'Hadar. Martok's wish to avoid a fight struck a sour chord with his weary crew.
En route, Martok reviewed his crew's personnel reports, which included remarks such as: "Dishonorable conduct," "lack of respect," "dereliction of duty," "inattention to orders," "unmotivated," and "insufficiently aggressive." This did not go over well with Martok nor Worf. Together they vowed to restore honor to the Rotarran and make it a ship worthy of the Empire.
Mid-route, the Rotarran detected a Jem'Hadar patrol ship on a reconnaissance mission outside of Cardassian space, performing active polaron scans of the sector. Depite the tactical advantage the cloaked and armed Rotarran had over patrol ship, Martok opted to avoid a conflict and continue to pursue their mission of locate the B'Moth. Frustration from this missed opportunity, combined with three barrels of bloodwine, finally made things come to a head on the Rotarran.
Upon reaching the Cardassian border, the B'Moth was discovered 500,000 kellicams inside Cardassian territory. Martok, who had explicit orders from the High Council not to enter Cardassian territory, was unwilling to cross the border to rescue a crew that may or may not be alive at all. This struck a major chord with Martok's crew, which nearly led to mutiny.
Moments later, a Jem'Hadar warship entered sensor range, which the Rotarran triumphantly defeated. Afterwards, the 'Rotarran successfully rescued thirty-five survivors from the B'Moth.
Upon their return, the High Council issued a commendation to the entire crew of the Rotarran. Despite crossing the border against orders, the Council viewed the destruction of a Jem'Hadar ship and the rescue of thirty-five warriors as ample justification for crossing the Cardassian border. (DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire")
Martok would continue to maintain the Rotarran as his flagship, and continue using it for patrolling the Cardassian border. (DS9: "Blaze of Glory")
Prior to the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, the Rotarran served as a "lookout" for the incoming Dominion-Cardassian fleet. Upon it's return to DS9, the Rotarran took up a defensive position near the USS Defiant, as it mined the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole, where it engaged several Jem'Hadar warships. Following the battle, Worf would once again be assigned to the Rotarran. (DS9: "Call to Arms")
Service during the Dominion War
Duty with the Second Fleet
Following the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, the Rotarran and Defiant joined the Second Fleet. After three months of defeat by the Dominion, the Rotarran, with the remains of the Second Fleet, were forced to return back behind Federation lines in early 2374. (DS9: "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand")
The Rotarran later rescued Captain Sisko and his crew from a planet in an uncharted dark matter nebula, and returned them to Starbase 375. The Rotarran docked at the starbase briefly before rendezvousing with the IKS Vor'nak to receive reinforcements. Although Martok requested fifteen replacements, he only received five from General Tanas.
After the completion of the personnel transfer, Martok received orders to escort a convoy of Klingon freighter's to Donatu V, a two day journey. En route, Martok conducted battle drills to train the reflexes of his new crew.
Following the simulation, the crew was recalled to the bridge because the ship's sensors detected a Jem'Hadar attack ship. After a frantic, yet fruitless "encounter", it was realized that Bekk Alexander Rozhenko forgot to erase the battle simulation program from the sensor display.
The next day the convoy came under attack from two Jem'Hadar attack ship's. During the attack the Rotarran lost internal communications, and experienced a plasma leak on Deck 5 after suffering damage to the primary plasma injector. Ultimately the Rotarran destroyed the two attacking warships, and successfully delivered the convoy to Donatu. (DS9: "Sons and Daughters")
The Rotarran later undertook another mission. Benjamin Sisko spoke to Worf while he was aboard, telling him there had been no news of the Defiant, that was on a mission to destroy a sensor array in the Argolis Cluster. (DS9: "Behind the Lines")
The Rotarran later assisted the Defiant in destroying two Dominion ships. With the Defiant acting like a decoy, two Dominion ships were lured in to attack it. Just as the Dominion ships began their attack, the Rotarran decloaked and immediately destroyed one of the ships. The Defiant simultaneously powered up, and successfully destroyed the second ship. Following their successful ploy, the two ship's were recalled to Starbase 375.
Following the recall to Starbase 375, Martok and Worf returned to Qo'noS aboard the Rotarran to make a plea to Chancellor Gowron, on behalf of Captain Sisko. It was their intention to convince Gowron that he must commit the Klingon Defense Forces to join the combined Federation fleet in their attempt to retake Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Favor the Bold")
After some convincing, Martok and Worf were able to convince Gowron to spare some ships for Operation Return. Mid-battle, the Klingon fleet, lead by the Rotarran, joined the fray and effectively opened a hole in the Dominion lines. (DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels")
Duty with the Ninth Fleet
On stardate 51247.5, one week after the Rotarrans return to DS9, General Martok was promoted to Supreme Commander of the Ninth Fleet. Despite his promotion and the offer to have quarters aboard the station, Martok chose to keep his flag aboard the Rotarran. He noted that despite the ship's cramped quarters, he would still feel like he was in a war.
By the end of the same week following the return to Deep Space 9, most of the Rotarrans crew was tranferred to the battle cruiser IKS Ya'Vang, which took heavy losses in its last engagement. (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited...")
In late 2374, Martok lead an attack wing of Klingon warships from aboard the Rotarran during the First Battle of Chin'toka. Although had fifteen ships lost or severely damaged by Jem'Hadar fighters during the inital stages of the battle, however, the Rotarran made it through unscathed.
Upon the fleets successful defeat of the Cardassian orbital weapon platforms, located around the orbit of Chin'toka, the Rotarran began transporting down troops to the planets surface. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
In early 2375, Martok re-enlisted Worf to once again serve as his first officer, during a dangerous mission, where they intended to use the Rotarran to destroy the Monac shipyards, in the name of the late Jadzia Dax. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")
To do this, Miles O'Brien devised a plan, that used the Rotarran's deflector dish to fire an electromagnetic pulse at a magnetic instability near the equator of the Monac sun, to trigger a solar plasma ejection.
When the Rotarran reached the system, the ship decloaked and fired the EM pulse at the sun's corona. Their first attempt was unsuccessful, but upon their second attempt, while under fire by the Jem'Hadar, they successfully triggered a solar flare, which destroyed the shipyards. ("Shadows and Symbols")
In 2375, the Rotarran's cloaking device was stolen by Quark and Rom to be delivered to Ezri Tigan, a Trill mercenary in the mirror universe in exchange for the release of Grand Nagus Zek. Rom later installed the cloaking device aboard the [[Regent's flagship] but also conveniently sabotaged it, disabling the ship. (DS9: "The Emperor's New Cloak")
Several weeks later, repairs to the Rotarran, as well as the USS Hornet, were delayed to repair the Romulan warbirds IRW Dividices and the IRW Genorex. (DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges")
Toward the end of the war, the Rotarran and the IKS Koraga, commanded by Worf, were ambushed by a Dominion patrol near the Badlands. The Koraga was destroyed, but the Rotarran was able to recover six of its' starboard escape pods. (DS9: "Penumbra")
Not long after that incident the Rotarran was involved in a failed attack on the Cardassian world, Avenal VII. Martok himself was seriously injured in the attack. The Rotarran returned to Deep Space 9 three days after the news of the defeat had reached the station. (DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind")
- It is unclear if Martok continued to use the Rotarran through the end of the war, or if it was the vessel he used during the final battle of Cardassia in DS9: "What You Leave Behind", or if he had taken command of the IKS Negh'var, being that he had since risen Chancellor.
Crew of the Rotarran
- Martok (commanding officer; 2373-2375)
- Worf (first officer; 2373-2375)
- Kor (third officer; 2375)
- Jadzia Dax (science officer; 2373)
- Tavana (engineering officer; 2373)
- Kornan (weapons officer; 2373)
- N'Garen (weapons officer; 2374)
- Kolana (weapons officer; 2375)
- Leskit (helmsman; 2373)
- Ch'Targh (helmsman; 2374)
- Synon (helms-woman; 2375)
- Alexander Rozhenko (sensors; 2374)
- Ortikan (2373)
- Koth (2374)
- Doran (2374)
- Katogh (2374)
- Darok (2375)
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Judge saves day on Colorado petition rights
I've neglected to applaud a ruling last week by federal Judge Philip Brimmer that struck down part of a 2009 Colorado law requiring petition circulators be paid on an hourly basis, rather than by the signature. The law was yet another attempt (in a long series) by the legislature to harass Coloradans who wish to exercise their right to initiate new laws and constitutional amendments on their own.
Brimmer said the law posed "an undue restriction" on First Amendment rights – which of course was exactly its intent.
In a column in 2010, I explained why "It doesn't matter what you think of the process by which Coloradans put laws and constitutional amendments on the ballot. In this state, it's a basic right protected in the state constitution. Lawmakers didn't create that right and they can't take it away."
Not as long as we have judges such as Brimmer willing to step in and slap down lawmakers who think they can.


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I would like to link to another website, autofill the product searchbox and display the results. This is the website i would like to link to and auto search:
The goal is to link to a page displaying all the products that come up when you search the term "tangy".
As you can see on the first website i tried creating a form to pass the search parameters to the second website but without success...the "tangy" products do not show up when you complete my form and the page is not displaying correctly...
Any help is greatly apprecitated


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European Commission At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the UN agreed to adopt a list of eight goals of international development that should be achieved by 2015 in order to reduce extreme poverty. Meeting these Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is one of the main objectives of EU development policy, as most recently reflected in the EU's "Agenda for Change", a new communication to refocus EU's aid on fewer sectors and those countries most in need.
While evidence shows that global progress over the past ten years has been relatively good for the goals on poverty, HIV/AIDS, malaria, education and gender, many countries are still off-track on some MDGs and regional trends indicate that Sub-Saharan African countries in particular lag much behind other regions.
In September 2010, the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, announced at the High Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York, that the EU would offer an MDG initiative of €1billion to foster progress towards the MDGs. The MDG initiative has been designed around two components, a need-based one, targeting the most off-track MDGs, and a performance-based one, focusing on countries that have shown good performance in implementing aid.
Through the first component, adopted today, the European Union is allocating €700 million to proposals by those countries which aim at accelerating progress on the most off-track MDGs: eradicating hunger, improving maternal health, curbing child mortality and improving access to water and sanitation. All selected proposals are results-oriented, with clear and measurable indicators to demonstrate the benefits of additional funding.
The second, performance-based component is currently in the process of being allocated. It will provide €300 million as a reward to well-performing countries as part of the 10th EDF Mid-term Reviews.
The following table presents the indicative allocations and the targeted MDGs for each of the selected proposals (see list of MDGs at the end of the document for references to the specific goals):
|Indicative allocation
|Burkina Faso
|€25 mio
|€18 mio
|Central African Republic
|€14 mio
|€29 mio
|€4,5 moi
|Congo, Democratic Republic
|4, 5
|€40 mio
|Cote d'Ivoire
|€25 mio
|€5,5 mio
|€7,6 mio
|€52 mio
|€8,4 mio
|Guinea Bissau
|4, 5
|€5,5 mio
|€20 mio
|€4,2 mio
|€32 mio
|1.c, 7.c
|€21,9 mio
|1.c, 4, 5
|€25 mio
|€11,1 mio
|€67,3 mio
|€6 mio
|€25 mio
|1.c, 4, 5
|€30 mio
|Saint Lucia
|7.c, 1.c
|€2,2 mio
|Sao Tome e Principe
|€1,7 mio
|Sierra Leone
|4, 5
|€24,2 mio
|1.c, 7.a
|€25 mio
|€7 mio
|€51,5 mio
|Timor Leste
|€10,3 mio
|€16,7 mio
|€30,5 mio
|1, 4, 5
|€44 mio
|€10 mio
|c.a €700 mio
Examples of actions to be financed under the MDG initiative
MDG 1 – Eradicate hunger
HAITI – EU funding will be used to guarantee an increased and stable agricultural supply, while ensuring better access to food for the poorest households. To achieve these objectives, the EU support will contribute to boosting demand of local agricultural produce, for example by encouraging school canteens to purchase local produce. It will further create food storage facilities and invest in agricultural infrastructure, such as new irrigation systems, to help increase internal production (€20 million).
MOZAMBIQUE – Food security and agricultural development lie at the centre of Mozambique's national poverty reduction strategy. Working in partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the EU will contribute to the reduction of chronic food insecurity by supporting and expanding the scope of a number of ongoing programmes which aim at increasing agricultural production and availability of nutritious food. Voucher programmes for the supply of seeds to smallholder farmers and for the distribution of nutritious food to pregnant and lactating women are examples of the actions that will be financed through the MDG initiative. (€67.3 million).
NIGER – Food shortages are a chronic problem in Niger. The population is still recovering from the effects of the 2010 drought crisis and chronic malnutrition threatens tens of thousands of children who lack access to clean water, preventive health care and sufficient quantities of nutrient rich foods. EU aid will contribute to the fight against malnutrition by focusing on capacity-building for prevention and treatment of malnutrition in basic health facilities, while focusing on the most vulnerable parts of the population. (€25 million)
MDG 4 – Reduce child mortality
RWANDA –The World Health Organization (WHO) rates malnutrition as one of the major health problems contributing to child mortality and preventing the physical growth and intellectual development of children. One of the actions supported through additional EU funding is the national "One cup of Milk per Child" programme, a pilot school milk programme aimed at providing milk to children in nursery and primary schools in order to address the country's current problem of severe child malnutrition. (€30 million)
Democratic Republic of Congo – The DRC has one of the highest death rates for children under five years old worldwide. Many children die from diseases that could easily be prevented and treated, such as malaria or respiratory infections. The MDG initiative will help improve access to healthcare for Congolese children. For instance, it will finance investments in existing health centres and hospitals to guarantee conformity to childcare standards and will ensure free healthcare for 20% of the poorest children in the country. (€40 million)
MDG 5 – Improve maternal health
GHANA – Additional funds will be allocated for supporting a national action plan to reduce maternal mortality. In Ghana 14% of deaths of women within the reproductive age are linked to childbirth. EU funding will help national authorities in improving access to emergency obstetric services, increasing the number of healthcare professionals available to assist deliveries and encouraging the use of family planning. (€52 million)
LIBERIA – EU support will contribute to the implementation of a national roadmap to reduce maternal and child mortality. In Liberia, the maternal mortality ratio stands at 994/100,000 live births. The adolescent pregnancy rate in the country is high and in the area of family planning many improvements are needed. EU funds will mainly be used to establish more and better obstetric care facilities and to train healthcare workers. (€32 million)
MDG 7 – Improve access to water and sanitation
GUINEA – The political crisis in Guinea has negatively affected the water sector and urgent actions are now needed to guarantee sustainable access to drinking water. EU aid will focus on the rehabilitation and construction of water supply infrastructure and on the creation of a well-functioning maintenance. (€8.4 million)
SAMOA –The EU will support a new initiative in the water sector to help the poorest households to improve their access to safe water; mainly through rainwater harvesting and improved sanitation facilities. (€ 2.2 million)
The Millennium Development Goals
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
1A: Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day
1B: Achieve Decent Employment for Women, Men, and Young People
1C: Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
2A: By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary schooling, girls and boys
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
3A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality rates
4A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
5A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
5B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
6A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
6C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
7A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources
7B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
7C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply)
7D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
For more information
IP/11/1563 – Millennium Development Goals: EU gives additional support to 36 countries for tackling hunger, child mortality, maternal health, and access to water
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NFC preview: Can the Eagles challenge the Packers for a Super Bowl berth?
The Denver Post on Thursday will release a 16-page Broncos and NFL preview, breaking down team needs and John Elway's vision for where the team will head. Find it in a special print section and online at denverpost.com/broncos.
Here first, Denver Post reporter Jeff Legwold previews the NFC for 2011, in predicted order of finish:
Arizona Cardinals
Their offensive plans, which now include QB Kevin Kolb throwing to a $120 million receiver in Larry Fitzgerald, took a hit when RB Ryan Williams suffered a ruptured tendon in his knee in the preseason. Their two-deep is a huge question mark. Former Pro Bowl safety Adrian Wilson tore a biceps tendon, and they lack a top-shelf pass rusher. Prediction: 9-7
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They have a potential franchise QB in Sam Bradford, who was cocooned in two-tight end and two-back looks last season as a rookie, but will not have that luxury this year in Josh McDaniels' more open formations. They haven't shown they can protect their most prized player in this preseason, and their run defense is an enormous question mark. Prediction: 6-10


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The Complete Chopin EditionCommemorating the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death, DG's Complete Chopin Edition has been able to draw on an archive of recordings by perhaps the finest line-up of pianists of any record company during the past half-century. It is a situation which has not come about by chance. A policy of attracting and retaining the services of several of the leading artists of the age - Martha Argerich, and also, most particularly, Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman - can now be seen to have reaped a harvest of wonderful richness. While this is of course very much more than their Complete Chopin Edition, these three artists dominate it.
A Complete Edition is something to be purchased and savoured for a lifetime's pleasure. This means that bland and uniform compilation needs to be avoided at all costs. What makes DG's line-up of pianists remarkable in this music is how little each conforms merely to style-conscious Romantic elegance. Here, on the contrary, is an outstandingly strong and thought-provoking portrait of Chopin as a musical thinker and explorer of greatness. And it presents DG's pianists at their finest - the triumphant outcome of the labels determination always to get, and keep, the very best.
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(Malcolm Hayes is a British music journalist who writes for the UK's Sunday Telegraph and Classic FM Magazine, and is the author of a biography of Webern.)
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On a Sunday afternoon last November, Avigdor Lieberman, the most controversial man in Israeli politics, stood behind his desk at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, fresh from an encounter with American diplomacy. Hillary Clinton had just passed through town, and Lieberman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak had met with her at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem before her one-on-one talk with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Since joining Netanyahu's cabinet in March 2009, Lieberman—notorious for his provocative statements in support of Israeli settlements, disdain for the peace process, and hostility toward Arabs—had not had much to do with his American counterpart, according to Israeli press reports. But as foreign minister, he has at least a formal part in US diplomatic visits.
The message Clinton brought was conciliatory. The Obama administration was dropping its demand for a settlement freeze and accepting Israel's counteroffer for a moratorium on new construction permits and "restraint" on further growth. (In fact there has since been new construction in the West Bank, and Arabs have been driven out of parts of East Jerusalem to make way for Israeli settlements.) Clinton's new position was a flat-out rejection of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's demand that peace negotiations could start again only if Israel halted all construction. Lieberman pronounced himself satisfied. "She's starting to see things from our point of view," he told me.
A fifty-one-year-old émigré from Moldova, Lieberman is a burly man with a neatly trimmed, gray-flecked beard, and he speaks English with a thick Russian accent; when he raises his voice, as he has been known to do, and flashes his teeth, he can be intimidating, but the day I met him he was somber, reflective, even mild. I asked him whether he thought that the expansion of settlements would make it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve a breakthrough in peace talks. Israel is now building 2,500 houses in the West Bank, according to Peace Now, and many more are planned: "The issue isn't settlements," he insisted. "That's just an excuse."
The issue, he said, was simple: until the Arab states confront "radicals" in their midst, negotiations would go nowhere. "Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] has to deal with Hamas," Lieberman said. "[Saad] Hariri in Lebanon has Hezbollah. Mubarak has the Muslim Brotherhood. It's the biggest problem in the Middle East."
Lieberman's critics have called him a racist and an obstacle to peace. "Lieberman hates the Arabs, he doesn't trust anybody in this world. He's really a prototype of a very intelligent Archie Bunker," says Yossi Beilin, founder and a former chairman of the left-wing Meretz party, who held public debates with Lieberman a decade ago. Gideon Levy, a columnist for the newspaper Haaretz, calls him "the ugly face of Israel. He is a mouthpiece for many, many Israelis—right-wing, nationalistic, militaristic, and aggressive."
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For me... the back to back series losses to the atros and cubs.
For me... the back to back series losses to the atros and cubs.
Way before that...
Losing all four home games to the Metropolitans hurt bigtime, Dude. Losing 6 of their first 8 games in August against sub-.500 competition was the icing on the cake.
Off season when management failed to make this team better and the Brewers and Cardinals did.
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Trade deadline
The Brewers series before the break, when Cordero blew 2 saves.
That damn fat began warming up in mid-April, got louder in May, was singing opera in June when the Reds couldn't win back to back games to save their lives, then she went over the top before the break with the Cardinals and Brewers series.
The Mets series was her encore.
Now she say "Thank you, I'll be here all year!"
One word decribes this season...misery, and in football season Bengals fans are going to be ready for opening day next year...serves the damn Bengal fans right though, especially after the killer year the Reds had last year and all summer people in Cincy were only talking about was when the football season begins.
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I pretty much felt like they didn't have anything going all season.
But in late July they got swept by the Mets, then followed it with a sweep of the Giants (which gave me hope), then lost 2 of 3 to Houston, and 2 of 3 to the Cubs, and that was pretty much the nails in the coffin for me. They are currently 6-8 in August.
This team is lacking something big time.
I think a managerial change would do wonders for next season. And if ownership and the GM REALLY BELIEVE that this team has enough talent to win. Then there is no excuse for bringing Dusty back. Seriously.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
It was the 4 game sweep at home against the Mets, dudes. I said it then and I shall reiterate it now. That killed the season.
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The end of our season started in Milwaukee and we were done after the 4 game series with the NYM.
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Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has blocked a move to Napoli for Maxime Gonalons after coach Remi Garde demanded to keep his captain.
Gonalons, 24, appeared set to move after the Serie A club made a bid totalling 17 million euros for the French international midfielder.
However, following discussions with Gonalons and Garde on Monday, Aulas told RMC that the player will remain at the Stade de Gerland until the end of the season.
"For Max, I reply: 'No.' I've just talked to Aurelio de Laurentiis, the Napoli president, who is someone I respect. I told him that I was going to say on RMC that Max was going to stay at Lyon," Aulas said on Tuesday.
"The decision was made on Monday evening. I saw Max on Monday afternoon. I had a long talk with Remi Garde. He told me we absolutely had to keep Max because he's the symbol of our policy. He's one of the players who have come through the youth academy in Lyon and who could go to the World Cup in Brazil."
Aulas denied that Garde had threatened to resign if Gonalons was allowed to leave, and said he hoped the former Arsenal midfielder, who is in his first senior coaching role, would extend his contract beyond this season.
Though Garde and Gonalons both have an immediate future at OL, the seven-time champions are ready to offload both Yoann Gourcuff and Bafetimbi Gomis in the January transfer window.
Gourcuff, 27, has failed to live up to expectations since his 22 million euro move from Bordeaux in 2010. The France international midfielder signed a five-year deal that made him the highest-paid Frenchman in Ligue 1, but with Lyon looking to reduce costs following a fifth successive financial year in the red, Aulas offered him a two-year contract extension with a reduced salary in December -- an offer Gourcuff declined.
"He said no. I regret that, but he's among the players I admire. He's refound his game in recent times," Aulas said. "He's among the players about whom we're ready to talk during the winter window. We're talking about it. With Grenier and him, we have two players who are complementary, but who also play in the same position.
"There have been no offers, but I assure you there are talks with clubs, and clubs of a very high level."
Gomis, 28, has refused to leave OL over the last year, remaining despite Aulas' public attempts to force him out last summer with a year remaining on his contract.
Like Gourcuff, the France international striker has also rejected the club's offer of an extended deal but could still bring the side he joined from Saint-Etienne for 15 million in 2009 some return on their investment this month. Newcastle United are thought to be leading the hunt.
"I would like to find an agreement to let go the two players whose contracts are up in June, that is to say him and Jimmy Briand," Aulas said.
"I even proposed Bafe a contract extension, which wasn't accepted. But both of them have behaved well following the discussions this summer, discussions undertaken in the club's interest. It wasn't possible then, but it's still possible in January."
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Anastasia was born in 1979, at the age of ten.She's been around ever since, and she's only thirteen now. I never get tired of writing about her and her family. Katherine Krupnik, her mother, reminds me of myself.
Sam was born when Anastasia was ten, and for a long time he existed only in the books about her. But kids liked him. Maybe he reminded them of their own little brothers. So at the request of young readers, I gave Sam his own series.
Caroline and J.P. Tate are so much like real kids in real families: a bickering sister-and-brother pair, with a long-suffering single mom. They live in New York City, but in one book they spend a summer with their dad in Iowa. In truth, the Tates could exist anywhere.
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade has one student who is, shall we say, somewhat unusual. New to the school in October, by Thanksgiving she has completely entranced the entire class. And there's a whole school year yet to come
Each of these is an all-by-itself book, not part of a series. They take you from Denmark to West Virginia to Boston, - and many other places - and three of them come from my own life. (See if you can figure out which three!)
There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her "absolutely true" stories.
Everything is Mrs. Pigeon's second grade classroom is ready for the Thanksgiving pageant. Except that the costumes don't fit. And there's no Room Mother to make refreshments. And every child wants to be Squanto. And the newly-composed songs are...well, not that great. But suddenly...there is always a suddenly!...under Gooney Bird's able direction, things fall into place and a catastrophe turns into a triumph.
It's December in Watertower Elementary School. The school dog is obligingly wearing fake antlers for the holiday celebration. Mrs. Pidgeon's classroom is studying fables and creating their own. Gooney Bird, of course, is making it fun!
Gooney Bird Greene isn't a new student anymore, now that it is January. Her classmates are getting used to her. But on the day that she wears her special brain-warming hat to school---well, it is clear that she still has a few things to teach them!
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, the students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to focus on subtraction problems when you're heading to Hawaii or Florida in seventeen minus seven days! But most of the class (twelve minus three of them, in fact) will be staying home during vacation. Can Gooney Bird Greene keep spirits up while everyone is feeling down? Gooney Bird has a great idea that sends her classmates and her on a snowy spin through U.S. history and geography!
Gooney Bird and her second-grade classmates are studying the human body. The students are in for a surprise when her uncle, Dr. Walter Oglethorpe, an anatomy professor, loans them a skeleton to help them with their research. They use it as an opportunity to teach the whole school about the human body as they label where different parts would be, such as the brain, muscles, digestive system, etc. The skeleton, on display outside the school to show the location of the respiratory system, goes missing, and Gooney Bird becomes head detective, leading her class on an investigation to solve the mystery. The youngsters are enthusiastic, outgoing, and funny. The running joke throughout the story is, "Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade finds this humerus." Readers will discover important facts about anatomy as they follow along with this remarkable class. Line drawings bring to life the unique scenarios the students create for the skeleton. A great choice for beginning chapter-book readers
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Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.


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How did Paul Krugman get it so Wrong?
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September 16 2009
Many friends and colleagues have asked me what I think of Paul Krugman's New York Times Magazine article, "How did Economists get it so wrong?"
Most of all, it's sad. Imagine this weren't economics for a moment. Imagine this were a respected scientist turned popular writer, who says, most basically, that everything everyone has done in his field since the mid 1960s is a complete waste of time. Everything that fills its academic journals, is taught in its PhD programs, presented at its conferences, summarized in its graduate textbooks, and rewarded with the accolades a profession can bestow, including multiple Nobel prizes, is totally wrong. Instead, he calls for a return to the eternal verities of a rather convoluted book written in the 1930s, as taught to our author in his undergraduate introductory courses. If a scientist, he might be an AIDS-HIV disbeliever, a creationist, a stalwart that maybe continents don't move after all.
It gets worse. Krugman hints at dark conspiracies, claiming "dissenters are marginalized." Most of the article is just a calumnious personal attack on an ever-growing enemies list, which now includes "new Keynesians" such as Olivier Blanchard and Greg Mankiw. Rather than source professional writing, he plays gotcha with out-of-context second-hand quotes from media interviews. He makes stuff up, boldly putting words in people's mouths that run contrary to their written opinions. Even this isn't enough: he adds cartoons to try to make his "enemies" look silly, and puts them in false and embarrassing situations. He accuses us of adopting ideas for pay, selling out for "sabbaticals at the Hoover institution" and fat "Wall street paychecks." It sounds a bit paranoid.
It's annoying to the victims, but we're big boys and girls. It's a disservice to New York Times readers. They depend on Krugman to read real academic literature and digest it, and they get this attack instead. And it's ineffective. Any astute reader knows that personal attacks and innuendo mean the author has run out of ideas.
That's the biggest and saddest news of this piece: Paul Krugman has no interesting ideas whatsoever about what caused our current financial and economic problems, what policies might have prevented it, or what might help us in the future, and he has no contact with people who do. "Irrationality" and advice to spend like a drunken sailor are pretty superficial compared to all the fascinating things economists are writing about it these days.
How sad.
That's what I think, but I don't expect you the reader to be convinced by my opinion or my reference to professional consensus. Maybe he is right. Occasionally sciences, especially social sciences, do take a wrong turn for a decade or two. I thought Keynesian economics was such a wrong turn. So let's take a quick look at the ideas.
Krugman's attack has two goals. First, he thinks financial markets are "inefficient," fundamentally due to "irrational" investors, and thus prey to excessive volatility which needs government control. Second, he likes the huge "fiscal stimulus" provided by multi-trillion dollar deficits.
It's fun to say we didn't see the crisis coming, but the central empirical prediction of the efficient markets hypothesis is precisely that nobody can tell where markets are going – neither benevolent government bureaucrats, nor crafty hedge-fund managers, nor ivory-tower academics. This is probably the best-tested proposition in all the social sciences. Krugman knows this, so all he can do is huff and puff about his dislike for a theory whose central prediction is that nobody can be a reliable soothsayer. And of course it makes no sense whatsoever to try to discredit efficient-markets finance because its followers didn't see the crash coming.
Krugman writes as if the volatility of stock prices alone disproves market efficiency, and efficient marketers just ignored it all these years. This is a canard that Paul knows better than to pass on, no matter how rhetorically convenient. (I can overlook his mixing up the CAPM and Black-Scholes model, but not this.) There is nothing about "efficiency" that promises "stability." "Stable" growth would in fact be a major violation of efficiency. Efficient markets did not need to wait for "the memory of 1929 … gradually receding," nor did we fail to read the newspapers in 1987. Data from the great depression has been included in practically all the tests. In fact, the great "equity premium puzzle" is that if efficient, stock markets don't seem risky enough to deter more people from investing! Gene Fama's PhD thesis was on "fat tails" in stock returns.
It is true and very well documented that asset prices move more than reasonable expectations of future cashflows. This might be because people are prey to bursts of irrational optimism and pessimism. It might also be because people's willingness to take on risk varies over time, and is lower in bad economic times. As Gene Fama pointed out in 1970, these are observationally equivalent explanations. Unless you are willing to elaborate your theory to the point that it can quantitatively describe how much and when risk premiums, or waves of "optimism" and "pessimism," can vary, you know nothing. No theory is particularly good at that right now.
Crying "bubble" is empty unless you have an operational procedure for identifying bubbles, distinguishing them from rationally low risk premiums, and not crying wolf too many years in a row. Krugman rightly praises Robert Shiller for his warnings over many years that house prices might fall. But advice that we should listen to Shiller, because he got the last one right, is no more useful than previous advice from many quarters to listen to Greenspan because he got several ones right. Following the last mystic oracle until he gets one wrong, then casting him to the wolves, is not a good long-term strategy for identifying bubbles. Krugman likes Shiller because he advocates behavioral ideas, but that's no help either. People who call themselves behavioral have just as wide a divergence of opinion as those who don't. Are markets irrationally exuberant or irrationally depressed today? It's hard to tell.
This difficulty is no surprise. It's the central prediction of free-market economics, as crystallized by Hayek, that no academic, bureaucrat or regulator will ever be able to fully explain market price movements. Nobody knows what "fundamental" value is. If anyone could tell what the price of tomatoes should be, let alone the price of Microsoft stock, communism and central planning would have worked.
More deeply, the economist's job is not to "explain" market fluctuations after the fact, to give a pleasant story on the evening news about why markets went up or down. Markets up? "A wave of positive sentiment." Markets went down? "Irrational pessimism." ( "The risk premium must have increased" is just as empty.) Our ancestors could do that. Really, is that an improvement on "Zeus had a fight with Apollo?" Good serious behavioral economists know this, and they are circumspect in their explanatory claims.
But this argument takes us away from the main point. The case for free markets never was that markets are perfect. The case for free markets is that government control of markets, especially asset markets, has always been much worse.
Krugman at bottom is arguing that the government should massively intervene in financial markets, and take charge of the allocation of capital. He can't quite come out and say this, but he does say "Keynes considered it a very bad idea to let such markets…dictate important business decisions," and "finance economists believed that we should put the capital development of the nation in the hands of what Keynes had called a `casino.'" Well, if markets can't be trusted to allocate capital, we don't have to connect too many dots to imagine who Paul has in mind.
To reach this conclusion, you need evidence, experience, or any realistic hope that the alternative will be better. Remember, the SEC couldn't even find Bernie Madoff when he was handed to them on a silver platter. Think of the great job Fannie, Freddie, and Congress did in the mortgage market. Is this system going to regulate Citigroup, guide financial markets to the right price, replace the stock market, and tell our society which new products are worth investment? As David Wessel's excellent In Fed We Trust makes perfectly clear, government regulators failed just as abysmally as private investors and economists to see the storm coming. And not from any lack of smarts.
In fact, the behavioral view gives us a new and stronger argument against regulation and control. Regulators are just as human and irrational as market participants. If bankers are, in Krugman's words, "idiots," then so must be the typical treasury secretary, fed chairman, and regulatory staff. They act alone or in committees, where behavioral biases are much better documented than in market settings. They are still easily captured by industries, and face politically distorted incentives.
Careful behavioralists know this, and do not quickly run from "the market got it wrong" to "the government can put it all right." Even my most behavioral colleagues Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in their book "Nudge" go only so far as a light libertarian paternalism, suggesting good default options on our 401(k) accounts. (And even here they're not very clear on how the Federal Nudging Agency is going to steer clear of industry capture.) They don't even think of jumping from irrational markets, which they believe in deeply, to Federal control of stock and house prices and allocation of capital.
Most of all, Krugman likes fiscal stimulus. In this quest, he accuses us and the rest of the economics profession of "mistaking beauty for truth." He's not clear on what the "beauty" is that we all fell in love with, and why one should shun it, for good reason. The first siren of beauty is simple logical consistency. Paul's Keynesian economics requires that people make logically inconsistent plans to consume more, invest more, and pay more taxes with the same income. The second siren is plausible assumptions about how people behave. Keynesian economics requires that the government is able to systematically fool people again and again. It presumes that people don't think about the future in making decisions today. Logical consistency and plausible foundations are indeed "beautiful" but to me they are also basic preconditions for "truth."
In economics, stimulus spending ran aground on Robert Barro's Ricardian equivalence theorem. This theorem says that debt-financed spending can't have any more effect than spending financed by raising taxes. People, seeing the higher future taxes that must pay off the debt, will simply save more. They will buy the new government debt and leave all spending decisions unaltered. Is this theorem true? It's a logical connection from a set of "if" to a set of "therefores." Not even Paul can object to the connection.
Therefore, we have to examine the "ifs." And those ifs are, as usual, obviously not true. For example, the theorem presumes lump-sum taxes, not proportional income taxes. Alas, when you take this into account we are all made poorer by deficit spending, so the multiplier is most likely negative. The theorem (like most Keynesian economics) ignores the composition of output; but surely spending money on roads rather than cars can affect the overall level.
Economists have spent a generation tossing and turning the Ricardian equivalence theorem, and assessing the likely effects of fiscal stimulus in its light, generalizing the "ifs" and figuring out the likely "therefores." This is exactly the right way to do things. The impact of Ricardian equivalence is not that this simple abstract benchmark is literally true. The impact is that in its wake, if you want to understand the effects of government spending, you have to specify why it is false. Doing so does not lead you anywhere near old-fashioned Keynesian economics. It leads you to consider distorting taxes, how much people care about their children, how many people would like to borrow more to finance today's consumption and so on. And when you find "market failures" that might justify a multiplier, optimal-policy analysis suggests fixing the market failures, not their exploitation by fiscal multiplier. Most "New Keynesian" analyses that add frictions don't produce big multipliers.
This is how real thinking about stimulus actually proceeds. Nobody ever "asserted that an increase in government spending cannot, under any circumstances, increase employment." This is unsupportable by any serious review of professional writings, and Krugman knows it. (My own are perfectly clear on lots of possibilities for an answer that is not zero.) But thinking through this sort of thing and explaining it is much harder than just tarring your enemies with out-of-context quotes, ethical innuendo, or silly cartoons.
In fact, I propose that Krugman himself doesn't really believe the Keynesian logic for that stimulus. I doubt he would follow that logic to its inevitable conclusions. Stimulus must have some other attraction to him.
If you believe the Keynesian argument for stimulus, you should think Bernie Madoff is a hero. He took money from people who were saving it, and gave it to people who most assuredly were going to spend it. Each dollar so transferred, in Krugman's world, generates an additional dollar and a half of national income. The analogy is even closer. Madoff didn't just take money from his savers, he essentially borrowed it from them, giving them phony accounts with promises of great profits to come. This looks a lot like government debt.
If you believe the Keynesian argument for stimulus, you don't care how the money is spent. All this puffery about "infrastructure," monitoring, wise investment, jobs "created" and so on is pointless. Keynes thought the government should pay people to dig ditches and fill them up.
If you believe in Keynesian stimulus, you don't even care if the government spending money is stolen. Actually, that would be better. Thieves have notoriously high propensities to consume.
The crash.
Krugman's article is supposedly about how the crash and recession changed our thinking, and what economics has to say about it. The most amazing news in the whole article is that Paul Krugman has absolutely no idea about what caused the crash, what policies might have prevented it, and what policies we should adopt going forward. He seems completely unaware of the large body of work by economists who actually do know something about the banking and financial system, and have been thinking about it productively for a generation.
Here's all he has to say: "Irrationality" caused markets to go up and then down. "Spending" then declined, for unclear reasons, possibly "irrational" as well. The sum total of his policy recommendations is for the Federal Government to spend like a drunken sailor after the fact.
Paul, there was a financial crisis, a classic near-run on banks. The centerpiece of our crash was not the relatively free stock or real estate markets, it was the highly regulated commercial banks. A generation of economists has thought really hard about these kinds of events. Look up Diamond, Rajan, Gorton, Kashyap, Stein, and so on. They've thought about why there is so much short term debt, why banks run, how deposit insurance and credit guarantees help, and how they give incentives for excessive risk taking.
If we want to think about events and policies, this seems like more than a minor detail. The hard and central policy debate over the last year was how to manage this financial crisis. Now it is how to set up the incentives of banks and other financial institutions so this mess doesn't happen again. There's lots of good and subtle economics here that New York Times readers might like to know about. What does Krugman have to say? Zero.
Krugman doesn't even have anything to say about the Fed. Ben Bernanke did a lot more last year than set the funds rate to zero and then go off on vacation and wait for fiscal policy to do its magic. Leaving aside the string of bailouts, the Fed started term lending to securities dealers. Then, rather than buy treasuries in exchange for reserves, it essentially sold treasuries in exchange for private debt. Though the funds rate was near zero, the Fed noticed huge commercial paper and securitized debt spreads, and intervened in those markets. There is no "the" interest rate anymore, the Fed is attempting to manage them all. Recently the Fed has started buying massive quantities of mortgage-backed securities and long-term treasury debt.
Monetary policy now has little to do with "money" vs. "bonds" with all the latter lumped together. Monetary policy has become wide-ranging financial policy. Does any of this work? What are the dangers? Can the Fed stay independent in this new role? These are the questions of our time. What does Krugman have to say? Nothing.
Krugman is trying to say that a cabal of obvious crackpots bedazzled all of macroeconomics with the beauty of their mathematics, to the point of inducing policy paralysis. Alas, that won't stick. The sad fact is that few in Washington pay the slightest attention to modern macroeconomic research, in particular anything with a serious intertemporal dimension. Paul's simple Keynesianism has dominated policy analysis for decades and continues to do so. From the CEA to the Fed to the OMB and CBO, everyone just adds up consumer, investment and government "demand" to forecast output and uses simple Phillips curves to think about inflation. If a failure of ideas caused bad policy, it's a simpleminded Keynesianism that failed.
The future of economics.
How should economics change? Krugman argues for three incompatible changes.
First, he argues for a future of economics that "recognizes flaws and frictions," and incorporates alternative assumptions about behavior, especially towards risk-taking. To which I say, "Hello, Paul, where have you been for the last 30 years?" Macroeconomists have not spent 30 years admiring the eternal verities of Kydland and Prescott's 1982 paper. Pretty much all we have been doing for 30 years is introducing flaws, frictions and new behaviors, especially new models of attitudes to risk, and comparing the resulting models, quantitatively, to data. The long literature on financial crises and banking which Krugman does not mention has also been doing exactly the same.
Second, Krugman argues that "a more or less Keynesian view is the only plausible game in town," and "Keynesian economics remains the best framework we have for making sense of recessions and depressions." One thing is pretty clear by now, that when economics incorporates flaws and frictions, the result will not be to rehabilitate an 80-year-old book. As Paul bemoans, the "new Keynesians" who did just what he asks, putting Keynes inspired price-stickiness into logically coherent models, ended up with something that looked a lot more like monetarism. (Actually, though this is the consensus, my own work finds that new-Keynesian economics ended up with something much different and more radical than monetarism.) A science that moves forward almost never ends up back where it started. Einstein revises Newton, but does not send you back to Aristotle. At best you can play the fun game of hunting for inspirational quotes, but that doesn't mean that you could have known the same thing by just reading Keynes once more.
Third, and most surprising, is Krugman's Luddite attack on mathematics; "economists as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth." Models are "gussied up with fancy equations." I'm old enough to remember when Krugman was young, working out the interactions of game theory and increasing returns in international trade for which he won the Nobel Prize, and the old guard tut-tutted "nice recreational mathematics, but not real-world at all." He once wrote eloquently about how only math keeps your ideas straight in economics. How quickly time passes.
Again, what is the alternative? Does Krugman really think we can make progress on his – and my – agenda for economic and financial research -- understanding frictions, imperfect markets, complex human behavior, institutional rigidities – by reverting to a literary style of exposition, and abandoning the attempt to compare theories quantitatively against data? Against the worldwide tide of quantification in all fields of human endeavor (read "Moneyball") is there any real hope that this will work in economics?
No, the problem is that we don't have enough math. Math in economics serves to keep the logic straight, to make sure that the "then" really does follow the "if," which it so frequently does not if you just write prose. The challenge is how hard it is to write down explicit artificial economies with these ingredients, actually solve them, in order to see what makes them tick. Frictions are just bloody hard with the mathematical tools we have now.
The insults.
The level of personal attack in this article, and fudging of the facts to achieve it, is simply amazing.
As one little example (ok, I'm a bit sensitive), take my quotation about carpenters in Nevada. I didn't write this. It's a quote, taken out of context, from a bloomberg.com article, written by a reporter who I spent about 10 hours with patiently trying to explain some basics, and who also turned out only to be on a hunt for embarrassing quotes. (It's the last time I'll do that!) I was trying to explain how sectoral shifts contribute to unemployment. Krugman follows it by a lie -- I never asserted that "it take mass unemployment across the whole nation to get carpenters to move out of Nevada." You can't even dredge up a quote for that monstrosity.
What's the point? I don't think Paul disagrees that sectoral shifts result in some unemployment, so the quote actually makes sense as economics. The only point is to make me, personally, seem heartless -- a pure, personal, calumnious attack, having nothing to do with economics.
Bob Lucas has written extensively on Keynesian and monetarist economics, sensibly and even-handedly. Krugman chooses to quote a joke, made back in 1980 at a lunch talk to some business school alumni. Really, this is on the level of the picture of Barack Obama with Bill Ayers that Sean Hannity likes to show on Fox News.
It goes on. Krugman asserts that I and others "believe" "that an increase in government spending cannot, under any circumstances, increase employment," or that we "argued that price fluctuations and shocks to demand actually had nothing to do with the business cycle." These are just gross distortions, unsupported by any documentation, let alone professional writing. And Krugman knows better. All economic models are simplified to exhibit one point; we all understand the real world is more complicated; and his job is supposed to be to explain that to lay readers. It would be no different than if someone were to look up Paul's early work which assumed away transport costs and claim "Paul Krugman believes ocean shipping is free, how stupid" in the Wall Street Journal.
The idea that any of us do what we do because we're paid off by fancy Wall Street salaries or cushy sabbaticals at Hoover is just ridiculous. (If Krugman knew anything about hedge funds he'd know that believing in efficient markets disqualifies you for employment. Nobody wants a guy who thinks you can't make any money trading!) Given Krugman's speaking fees, it's a surprising first stone for him to cast.
Apparently, salacious prose, innuendo, calumny, and selective quotation from media aren't enough: Krugman added cartoons to try to make opponents look silly. The Lucas-Blanchard-Bernanke conspiratorial cocktail party celebrating the end of recessions is a silly fiction. So is their despondent gloom on reading "recession" in the paper. Nobody at a conference looks like Dr. Pangloss with wild hair and a suit from the 1800s. (OK, Randy Wright has the hair, but not the suit.) Keynes did not reappear at the NBER to be booed as an "outsider." Why are you allowed to make things up in pictures that wouldn't pass even the Times' weak fact-checking in words?
Most of all, Krugman isn't doing his job. He's supposed to read, explain, and criticize things economists write, and real professional writing, not interviews, opeds and blog posts. At a minimum, this style leads to the unavoidable conclusion that Krugman isn't reading real economics anymore.
How did Krugman get it so wrong?
So what is Krugman up to? Why become a denier, a skeptic, an apologist for 70 year old ideas, replete with well-known logical fallacies, a pariah? Why publish an essentially personal attack on an ever-growing enemies list that now includes practically every professional economist? Why publish an incoherent vision for the future of economics?
The only explanation that makes sense to me is that Krugman isn't trying to be an economist, he is trying to be a partisan, political opinion writer. This is not an insult. I read George Will, Charles Krauthnammer and Frank Rich with equal pleasure even when I disagree with them. Krugman wants to be Rush Limbaugh of the Left.
Alas, to Krugman, as to far too many ex-economists in partisan debates, economics is not a quest for understanding. It is a set of debating points to argue for policies that one has adopted for partisan political purposes. "Stimulus" is just marketing to sell Congressmen and voters on a package of government spending priorities that you want for political reasons. It's not a proposition to be explained, understood, taken seriously to its logical limits, or reflective of market failures that should be addressed directly.
Why argue for a nonsensical future for economics? Well, again, if you don't regard economics as a science, a discipline that ought to result in quantitative matches to data, a discipline that requires crystal-clear logical connections between the "if" and the "then," if the point of economics is merely to provide marketing and propaganda for politically-motivated policy, then his writing does make sense. It makes sense to appeal to some future economics – not yet worked out, even verbally – to disdain quantification and comparison to data, and to appeal to the authority of ancient books as interpreted by you, their lone remaining apostle.
Most of all, this is the only reason I can come up with to understand why Krugman wants to write personal attacks on those who disagree with him. I like it when people disagree with me, and take time to read my work and criticize it. At worst I learn how to position it better. At best, I discover I was wrong and learn something. I send a polite thank you note.
Krugman wants people to swallow his arguments whole from his authority, without demanding logic, or evidence. Those who disagree with him, alas, are pretty smart and have pretty good arguments if you bother to read them. So, he tries to discredit them with personal attacks.
This is the political sphere, not the intellectual one. Don't argue with them, swift-boat them. Find some embarrassing quote from an old interview. Well, good luck, Paul. Let's just not pretend this has anything to do with economics, or actual truth about how the world works or could be made a better place.
*University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Many colleagues and friends helped, but I don't want to name them for obvious reasons. Krugman fans: Please don't bother emailing me to tell me what a jerk I am. I will update this occasionally, so please pass on the link rather than the document,


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