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Inventory of the William John Fellner Papers
|Born, Budapest, Hungary
|Ph.D. in economics, University of Berlin
|Partner in family business in Hungarian manufacturing industry
|Member of economics faculty at University of California, Berkeley
|Author, A Treatise on War Inflation
|Author, Monetary Policies and Full Employment
|Author, Competition Among the Few: Oligopoly and Similar Market Structures
|Professor of economics, Yale University
|Author, Trends and Cycles in Economic Activity: An Introduction to Problems of Economic Growth
|Member, Executive Committee, American Economic Association
|Author, Emergence and Content of Modern Economic Analysis
|Author, Probability and Profit: A Study of Economic Behavior Along Bayesian Lines
|President, American Economic Association
|Adviser, Brookings Panel on Economic Activity
|Author, with Phillip Cagan, Economic Policies and Inflation in the Sixties
|Author, with Phillip Cagan and Marten Estey, A New Look at Inflation: Economic Policy in the Early 1970s
|Member, Council of Economic Advisors
|Resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute
|Author, Towards a Reconstruction of Macroeconomics
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bernhard-Harms Award 1982
Clippings about Fellner
Festschrift, Economic Progress, Private Values and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of William Fellner 1977
Obituaries and memorial addresses 1983
Resumes, biographies, bibliographies, and photographs and negatives of Fellner 1976-1982
Travel file 1976-1977
Chronological file 1978-1983
Alphabetical file I 1972-1973
S to Z 1972-1973
Alphabetical file II 1975-1984
Ackley, Gardner 1977-1980
Arioli, Silvio 1978
Bailey, Martin 1983
Balassa, Bela 1975-1982
Baroody, William 1981-1983
Bator, Francis 1981
Bauer, Peter 1976-1981
Bennett, Jack 1975
Bennett, William 1975 July
Bernstein, Edward 1974-1977
Bernstein, Peter 1976
Bradford, David 1975-1976
Bradley, Gene E. 1975-1976
Brookings Institution 1975-1981
Brown, Weir 1981
Burns, Arthur 1981-1982
Cagan, Phillip
Chipman, John S. 1978-1980
Chiswick, Barry R. 1975-1983
Civil Service Commission 1976
Cochrane, John 1982
Colander, David C. 1978-1979
Congress 1975
Congressional Budget Office 1975-1983
Dadd, C. Mark 1982
David, Paul 1982
DeWald, William 1982
Ellis, Howard 1978-1983
Engels, Wolfram 1979
Erb, Richard 1979-1983
Fand, David 1975-1981
Feldstein, Martin S. 1975-1983
Fellner, Marcelo 1984
Fiedler, Edgar R. 1976-1977
Field, Tom, memorandum 1975 July
Flaim, Paul O. 1978
Fleischer, Robert 1976
Frankel, S. Herbert 1979-1981
Friedman, Benjamin M. 1980-1982
Friedman, Charles 1980-1981
Georgetown University 1978
German embassy correspondence, Ruyter-Volkswagen Foundation 1978-1979
Giersch, Herbert 1975-1983
Gradison, Bill 1978-1981
Greenfield, Harry 1976-1978
Greenwald, Douglas 1978-1979
Haberler, Gottfried
Correspondence with Fellner undated
Hamburger, Michael J. 1977-1981
Harris, Lowell C. 1975-1978
Hogan, Warren 1979-1980
Hoover Institution Archives 1979-1984
Jaszi, George 1981-1983
Journal of Economic Literature 1978 August
Junz, Helen 1977-1978
Kalman, R. E. 1979-1983
Kato, Koichi 1983
Katz, Samual 1976-1981
Kemeny, Stephen 1979-1980
Kemp-Roth and Steiger bills 1978
Kendrick, John W. 1976-1977
Kudlow, Lawrence A. undated
Lademann, John R. 1979-1982
Lamfalussy, Alexandre 1977
Larkins, Daniel 1978-1982
Lehrman, Lewis E. 1975-1980
Leijonhufvud, Axel 1978-1982
Levin, Jay 1976
Levitan, Sar A. 1978-1979
Mc 1976-1983
MacLaury, Bruce 1977-1982
McCracken, Paul W. 1975-1978
Meltzer, Allan H. 1979-1981
Mitchell 1976
Miyamota, Kunio 1979-1981
Molnar, Ferenc 1977
Moore, Geoffrey H. 1978
Mundell, Robert A. 1975-1979
Murphy, J. Carter 1975-1981
National Science Foundation 1976-1981
Needham, James 1974
Nelson, Richard 1976-1978
Okun, Arthur 1975-1981
Penner, Rudy J. 1978-1982
Perlman, Mark 1975-1983
Peterson, William H. 1977-1978
Reuss, Henry S. 1977
Richter, Rudolf 1977-1980
Rottenberg, Irving 1975
Scitovsky, Tibor 1982-1983
Shannon, John 1977-1980
Shieh, Francis 1977
Simon, Julian L. 1977-1982
Sinai, Michael 1977-1978
Shultz, George P. 1983
Skorov, Georgy 1982
Solomon, Robert 1978-1983
Stein, Herbert 1982-1983
Sunley, Emil M. 1975
Taylor, John B. 1978
Thimmesch, Nick 1983
Tobin, James 1977
Toshida, Seiichi 1983
Tsiang, S. C. 1977-1981
Tumlir, Jim 1975-1981
Turek, Joan Lee 1976
Van Duyne, Carl 1975-1976
Vaubel, Roland 1979
Volkswagen Foundation 1979
Von Furstenberg, George 1977-1983
Wachter, Micahel L. 1978
Wallich, Henry C. 1976-1981
Wall Street Journal 1977-1983
Weidenbaum, Murray 1976-1981
White, William H. 1975
Whitman, Marina 1975-1979
Willett, Thomas 1978-1981
Witteveen, Johannes H. 1977
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1975-1978
Article in The Public Stake in Union Power undated
"Comment on Charles Schultze's Papers: A Different Interpretation of the Same and Further Facts" undated
"Comments on Concepts of an 'Undisturbed Path' of the Economy" undated
"The Core of the Controversy about Reducing Inflation: An Introductory Analysis" undated
"The Credibility Effect, Rational Expectations and the Contribution of the Gramlich Study to the Debate" undated
"A Critique of Fiscal Policies Based on the Conventional Concept of Potential Output" undated
"Employment Policy, Money and Inflation" undated
"Failure of the M1 Approach in Monetary Theory: The Need to Look at Broader Aggregates," with Larkins undated
"Gold: A Preliminary Survey of Findings and Conclusions," American Enterprise Institute undated
"Inflationary Overtaxation: Our Confusing Record" undated
"Macroeconomic Considerations Relating to the 1979 Budget" undated
"Memorandum on the Taxation of Corporate Revaluation Gains" undated
"Money, Manpower and Inflation" undated
"Notes Which Professor Cagan May Want to Use With As Many Changes, Omissions, and Additions as He Prefers, When Presenting our Joint Position at Brookings" undated
"On Monetary-Policy Problems of Interest to Those Whose Decisions Are Complementary with Fed Policy," memorandum undated
Preface to Contemporary Economic Problems undated
"Production, Employment and Induced Innovations: Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Growth Rates," introduction, part 1, and part 3 undated
"A Project on the Relation of Political Trends to Economic Analysis," draft undated
"Salient Features of Legislation That Would Incorporate the Main Suggestions of the Study: 'Correcting Taxes for Inflation'" undated
"Taxes in an Era of Rising Prices: In What Sense Indexation?" undated
"To the Valid Core of Rational Expectations," abstract and guide to the paper undated
"Views Presented to the Gold Commission" undated
"Savings, Investment and the Problem of Neutral Money" 1938 April
"Average Cost Pricing and the Theory of Uncertainty" 1946 April
"Tax Program for Sustained Mobilization," with Butters et al. 1951
"Maintaining and Restoring Balance in International Payments," with Machlup and Triffin 1966 May
"Specific Interpretations of Learning by Doing" 1969 May
"Land in Fellner's Model of Economic Growth" 1970
"Trends in the Activities Generating Technological Progress" 1970
"Empirical Support for a Theory of Induced Innovations" 1971
"Phillips-type Approach or Acceleration?" reprint 1971
"Tensions at Full Utilization" 1972
"Controlled Floating and the Confused Issue of Money Illusion" 1973
Speeches, Council of Economic Advisers 1974
"A Strange Expansion" 1974
"Discussion Paper Relating to the Shoven-Bulow Study" 1975
Letter to the editor of the New York Times 1975
"Monetary Versus Monetarist Theories" 1975
"Revisiting the 'Austrian' Time Periods with Current Tax Policy in Mind," Conference on Tax Research 1975, Department of the Treasury 1975
Testimony at the hearing of the Committee on the Budget of the United State Senate 1975
"Testimony Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives" 1975
"Why Indexed Tax Systems Provide the Needed Frame of Reference," speech, U.S. Civil Service Commission Executive Seminar Center 1975
"Why We Must Insist on Exchagne-Rate Flexibility: Observations for the June 18th Conference at the Treasury" 1975
"Comments and Discussion," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1976
"Comments on the Shoven-Bulow Paper" 1976
"Criteria for Demand-Management Policy in View of Past Failures," preliminary draft 1976
"Interpretation of a Regularity in the Behavior of M2," Fellner and Dan Larkins 1976-1977
"Lessons From the Failure of Demand-Management Policies: A Look at the Theoretical Foundations" circa 1976
Towards a Reconstruction of Macroeconomics
Typescripts 1976
"Comments on Orley Ashenfelter's Paper," for Brookings Conference on November 30, 1977 1977
"Desirable and Undesirable Types of Coordination: The Case Against Requiring Countries to Expand More Rapidly for 'Sharing the Oil Deficit'" 1977
"Fewer Nonworkers and Yet More Unemployed in the Population" 1977
"Gearing Demand Management to Supply Behavior in a Market Economy" 1977
General 1977
Background papers 1977
Chapter drafts 1977-1978
Mead, Walter J., "Energy and the Environment" 1978
"Money Supply and the Budget: Current and Future Problems of Demand Management" 1977
"More Employment and Yet More Unemployment: Structural Factors Behind the Paradox" 1977
"Problems to Keep in Mind When It Comes to Tax Reform" 1977
"Productivity Trends, Profitability and Uncertainties Facing Investors," draft 1977
"Schools of Thought In the Mainstream of American Economics," Hungarian Economic Association 1977
"Summary of Argument on the Uncertainty Expressing itself in the Valuation of Stocks," draft 1977
"Why Unemployment Rates Have Been Climbing," Contemporary Economic Problems 1977
"Appraising the Cost of Disinflation" 1978
"The Bearing of Risk Aversion on Movements of Spot and Forward Exchange Relative to the Dollar," Egon Sohmen festschrift, drafts and correspondence 1978-1980
"The Core of the Controversy About Reducing Inflation: Introductory Analysis Relating to Cagan's Study," preface to Contemporary Economic Problems 1978
"The Policy Position in Brief, Chapter on Demand Management" 1978
"The Sliding Dollar: True and False Issues" 1978
"Structural Problems Behind Our Measured Unemployment Rates," Contemporary Economic Problems 1978
"Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management of the Senate Finance Committee," hearings on tax indexation 1978
"American Household Wealth in an Inflationary Period," Contemporary Economic Problems 1979
"The Credibility Effect and Rational Expectations: Implications of the Gramlich Study" 1979
"Corporate Wealth, After-Tax Profit Rates, and the Weight of Contractual Interest in the Total Yield of Invested Capital," Contemporary Economic Problems 1979
"The Declining American Productivity Growth: An Introductory Note," Contemporary Economic Problems 1979
"Macro Economic Policies and Economic Performance: Exit the Seventies--Enter the Eighties" 1979
"The Nature of Governmental Involvement in Economic Affairs and Democracy's Prospect of Survival" 1979
"Neo-Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Short and Long Run," Lerner Festschrift 1979
"Produktivität und wirtschaftspolitisches Milieu in den Vereinigten Staaten," Neue Zürcher Zeitung 1979
Remarks at Public Policy Conference 1979
"Remarks by William Fellner at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany on Receipt of the Commander's Cross of the German Order of Merit" 1979
"Comment on the Paper by Messrs. Laird and Korb," American Enterprise Institute seminar 1980
"Corporate Asset Liability Decisions in View of the Low Market Valuation of Equity," Contemporary Economic Problems 1980
"Full Demand Disinflation in One Step and the Problem of Shock Reducers," part III 1980
"Introductory Remarks on Demand Disinflation: What if Gradualism Should Fail Despite Its Merits?" Contemporary Economic Problems 1980
"March into Socialism, or Viable Postwar Stage of Capitalism?" chapter in Schumpeter's Vision, correspondence and drafts 1980-1981
Paper for the Reagan/Bush Inflation Task Force Meeting headed by Paul McCracken 1980
"Policy Practices and Perry's Norm Shifts: The Horse and the Cart," Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1980
"What if Gradualism Should Nevertheless Fail?" draft for Contemporary Economic Problems introduction 1980
"The Valid Core of Rational Expectations Theory and the Problem of Exchange-Rate Relations," paper for Triffin volume 1980-1981
Conference version, correspondence, typescripts, and proofs 1979-1980
Typescripts 1980
Typescripts and correspondence 1980-1981
"The Austrians Revisited with a Timely Policy Problem in Mind" 1981
"The Chances of Reasonably Soft Landing after a Period of Overheating" circa 1981
"Comments on Professor Robert Triffin's Paper on the Threat to World Economic Order" 1981
"Dealing With Inflationary Overtaxation: A Confusing Record" 1981
"Discussion Paper on the Monetary Crisis" (CSIS Conference) circa 1981
"A Further Look at the Question, What If Gradualism Should Fail Despite Its Merits?" Contemporary Economic Problems, draft 1981
"Gold and the Uneasy Case for Responsibly Managed Fiat Money" 1981
"The Hazy Distinction Between Voluntary and Involuntary Unemployment" circa 1981
"In Defense of the Credibility Hypothesis" 1981
"March Into Socialism or Viable Stage of Postwar Capitalism?" 1981
"Monetary-Policy Problems of Interest to Those Whose Decisions Are Complementary with Fed Policy" circa 1981
"On the Merits of Gradualism and on a Fall-back Position If It Should Nevertheless Fail," Contemporary Economic Problems 1981
"Testimony Before the Finance Committee of the United States Senate" 1981
"What If Gradualism as a Method of Disinflation Should Fail?" circa 1981
"Approaches of Economists and of Other Observers to the Problems of Economic Growth" 1982
"Aspects of the Problem of Budget Deficits," Contemporary Economic Problems 1982
"Comments on Professor Peacock's Paper: Some Suggested Modifications of Significant Conclusions" 1982
"Criteria for Useful Targeting: Money Versus the Base and Other Variables," 1982
Abstract 1982
Reprints 1982
"Economic Policy for Recovery and Growth," with Phillip Cagan, Rudolph Penner, and Herbert Stein 1982
"Economic Theory Amidst Political Currents: The Spreading Interest in Monetarism and in the Theory of Market Expectations" 1982
German version, "Wirtschaftstheorie im Kraftfeld gegenläufiger politischer Strömungen" 1982
Proofs 1982
"Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory" 1982
"The High Employment Budget and the Potential Output: A Critique Focusing on Two Recent Contributions"
Comments 1982
Research and typescripts 1982
Printed copy 1982
Typescripts 1982
"Savings Flows" and "How Its Fits into the Scenario" 1982 February 19
"The 1983 CEA Report: Back to Neo-Keynesianism?" 1983
"The AEI Economist," paper on John Maynard Keynes 1983
"Comments on Monetary and Fiscal Policy" circa 1983
"Comments and Suggestions Relating to Professor Boskin's Paper on Savings and Growth" circa 1983
"Corporate Liquidity Under Stagflation and Disinflation" 1983 July 28
"The Cost of Disinflation, Credibility and the Deceleration of Wages 1982-83," Fellner and Phillip Cagan 1983
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Disinflationary Process: Justified and Unjustified Misgivings about Budget Deficits" 1983
"Tentative Lessons from the Recent Disinflationary Effort," Phillip Cagan and Fellner 1983
"Testimony to Be Submitted to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives" 1983
Advisory Committee on Minimum Wage 1978-1980
Anti-inflation and credibility sessions 1981-1982
Conference on Exchange Rate Flexibility 1976
Conference on International Comparisons of Productivity and Causes of the Slowdown 1982
Contemporary Economic Problems 1979-1984
Chronological file
1980, contributor drafts
1980, final copies of manuscripts
1981, gold
1981 to 1982, additional papers
1982 to 1983
1982 to 1983, figures and data
Book reviews of Contemporary Economic Problems 1976-1980
Correspondence, progress report, and The AEI Memorandum newsletter 1982-1984
Distribution and sales 1982
Economic policy project #2 1976-1977
Galley proofs of Contemporary Economic Problems 1978
Mailing list 1979-1983
Memoranda 1978
Outlines for 1983 and 1984 projects
Papers by Fellner 1977-1980
Phillips Curve Project 1983
"The Present State of the Contemporary Economic Problems Project," by Fellner undated
Summary and postscript by Gottfried Haberler undated
Transcript of luncheon conference with Fellner 1978
Writing fragment 1979
"The Economic Planning Proposal" 1975
Hayek, Friedrich August von, presentation transcript 1975
Japan-U.S. Assembly 1975
Monetary policy conference 1982
Press conference transcript 1983
Project on Major Economic Problems 1975-1976
Proposal by Phillip Cagan for a conference on monetary policy in a changing financial environment 1983
Proposal for a study group on international liquidity and lending policies by Thomas Willett 1977
Public Policy Week
Public Policy Forum on Inflation, transcripts 1977
Seminar on Rational Expectations, conference papers 1980
Allied Social Science Associations meeting, panel on international dimensions of monetary policy 1977
American Council for Capital Formation, "New Directions in Federal Tax Policy for the 1980s" conference 1983
British parliamentarians appointment with American Enterprise Institute staff 1983
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity
Agendas, correspondence, and proposals
Agendas and conference papers
1975-1977, 1981-1982
European Monetary System conference 1979
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Memoradum from Zecher and Green to Alan Greenspan 1975
"Progress Report on Modifications to the Financial Sector of the BEA Econometric Model" undated
Quarterly Econometric Model Forecast 1980
Carnegie-Rochester conference, Florida 1983
Claremont McKenna College, "The Reagan Economic Policy" conference 1982-1983
Correspondence 1975-1983
Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of the President
"The Current Status of the President's Program for Economic Recovery: A Background Paper for the Economic Policy Advisory Board" 1981
"Economic Indicators" 1975
Memoranda from George von Furstenberg 1975
Memoranda from David Munro 1974-1975
Remarks by Fellner 1974
Reports, Herbert Stein,William Fellner, Marina van Neumann, and Gary Seevers 1973-1974
Statement by Herbert Stein, "Economic Developments in September" 1973
Eurodollars and conferences in Switzerland 1974-1975
Fauntroy/House Finance Committee testimony 1983
Federal Reserve and other projects 1980-1982
Federal Reserve consultants meetings 1978-1982
Federal Reserve, consumer price index (CPI), and GNP 1983
Federal Reserve statistics and publications 1980
Flow of funds 1974-1975
General economic research, notes, charts, and tables 1969-1977, undated
Gold Commission
Letter from Thomas Leddy
Meeting transcripts, memoranda, and papers 1981
Memorandum and papers 1980-1981
Public hearings list of witnesses 1981 November
Press release 1981
Report, "An Alternative Course" 1982
Report to Congress 1982
Gold statistics from 1976 to 1979
Government grant for travel to Germany and Italy 1970-1973
Gramlich paper materials 1976-1978
Group of Thirty meeting, Charlottesville, VA 1980
Hermann Schumacher death notice 1982
International economic policy meeting, George Shultz, State Department 1983
International Monetary Advisory Board 1981
Indexation 1974
Inflation 1974
International indebtedness 1983
Kiel conferences 1982
Machlup, Fritz, memorial service 1983
Monetary file 1973-1974
Monetary policy 1976-1982
National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference on a Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, conference papers 1981-1982
National Economists Club, board of directors meeting minutes 1976
New Troika 1974
Office of Management and Budget, Advisory Committee on the Balance of Payments 1975
Perry material and project undated
Perry unemployment rate with old residuals, data undated
Statistical survey on oil data 1975
Task Force on International Monetary Policy 1980
Tax indexation
Testimony of Fellner 1975-1981
Treasury Consultants Meeting, "Economic Situation and Outlook" 1975
Yale University
Graduate course in economic theory (problems in the background of policy issues) 1972
Correspondence, letters of recommendation, and list of participants 1972-1973
Syllabus 1972
Letter to Kingman Brewster, Jr. 1964
Adams, James, "Equalization of the True Gift and Estate Tax Rates," Conference on Tax Research, Treasury Department 1975
Ashenfelter, Orley, "Evaluating the Effects of the Employment Tax Credit," prepared for Brookings Conference on November 30, 1977
Baily, Martin Neil, "Contract Theory and the Moderation of Inflationary Expectations by Recession and by Controls" 1976
Baquiast, Henri, "The European Monetary System and International Monetary Relations" undated
Barnett, William et al.
"The Information Content of Divisia Monetary Quantity Indices" 1980
"New Concepts of Aggregated Money" undated
Barro, Robert J.
"Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?" 1974
"Measuring the Average Annual Tax Rate from the Individual Income Tax," with Chaipat Sahaskul 1982
"Output Effects of Government Purchases" 1980
"A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural-Rate Model," with David B. Gordon 1981
"Public Debt and Taxes" 1978
"Social Security and Private Saving" 1977
Belassa, Bela
"The Income Distributional Parameter in Project Evaluation" 1975
"Recent and Prospective Economic Developments in France" 1980
Bennet, J.F., "The Outlook for the International Financial System After the Recent Oil Price Changes" 1983
Bergsten et al., "Approaches to Greater Flexibility of Exchange Rates" 1970
Bernstein, Edward M.
"The Economics of Fluctuating Exchange Rates" undated
"The Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar and the U.S. Economy" 1983
Bhatia, Kul, "International Bank for Reconstruction and Development" 1974
Blinder, Alan S.
"The CPI and the (Mis)measurement of Recent Inflation," prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1980
"Indexing the Economy through Financial Intermediation," preliminary draft 1975
Boskin and Green, "Taxation and Capital Formation: Missing Elements in the President's Tax Program" 1978 February
Bourguinat, Henri, "The New French Financial and Monetary Policy" 1980
Boyes and Kaufman, "Credibility Hypothesis: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis" 1984 October
Bradford, David F., "Cutting and Reforming the Personal Income Tax" 1978 February
Brainard, William, John Shoven, and Lawrence Weiss, "The Financial Valuation of the Return to Capital" 1980
Brennan and Buchanan, "Toward a Tax Constitution for Leviathan" 1977
Brittan, Samuel
"How English Is the English Sickness?" Eighth Henry Simons Lecture 1978
"Washington Sounds a New Note" 1982
Broida, Arthur L., draft for Inflation Watch 1982
Browning, Edgar, "Welfare Reform" undate
Brozen, Yale, "The Road to Recovery" 1976
Bryant, Ralph C., "Financial Interdependence and Variability in Exchange Rates," prepared for colloquium Europe and the Dollar in the World Disequilibrium 1979
Buiter, Willem and Marcus Miller, "The Economic Consequences of Mrs. Thatcher" 1983
Burns, Arthur, "Regaining a Stable Price Level" 1981
Butschak, Felix, "Full Employment During Recession," prepared for AEI conference on Political Economy of Austria 1981
Cagan, Phillip
"The Choice Among Monetary Aggregates as Targets and Indicators for Monetary Policy," AEI conference 1982
"The Effect of Government Deficits on Aggregate Demand and Financial Markets: A Wide-ranging Review of the Literature and Current Policy Issues"
"Monetary Policy undated
"Monetary Policy and Inflation Since 1973" 1976
"Monetary Problems and Policy Choices in Reducing Inflation and Unemployment" 1976
"Public Policy Week" undated
"The Reduction of Inflation by Slack Demand" 1978
Chase Econometric Associates, "The Economic Impact of NASA R&D Spending Appendices" 1975
Chiswick, Barry
"The Effect of Americanization on Earnings" 1976
"Immigrants and Immigration Policy" 1978
Clark, Kim and Lawrence Summers, "Labor Market Dynamics and Unemployment: A Reconsideration," prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1979
Clark, Lindley, "How We Got Into the Monetarist Mess" 1983
Coats, Warren L., Jr.
"Can the Federal Reserve Control the Money Supply?" undated
"Recent Monetary Policy Strategies in the United States" 1980
Cooper, Richard, "The Gold Standard: Historical Facts and Future Prospects," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
Corden, W. M., "The Effect of the Oil Price Rise on the International Economy: Theoretical Framework" 1975
Cox, James and Arthur Wright, "Taxation, Public Policy and the Petroleum Industry," Conference on Tax Policy, Treasury Department 1975
Crandall, Robert W., "Federal Government Initiatives to Reduce the Price Level," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1978
Denison, Edward F., "Discussion" 1978
Department of the Treasury, "Government Deficit Spending and Its Effects on Prices of Financial Assets" 1983
Dildine, Larry and Emil Sunley, "The Administrative Problems of Tax-Based Incomes Policies," prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1978
Diller, Stanley, "Credit Allocation" 1976
Dornbusch, Rudiger
Chapter on economic policy with Stan Fischer undated
"Exchange Rates and the Capital Mobility Problem"
"Lecture Notes on Macroeconomics: Part V, Inflation and Unemployment" 1975
Dreyer, Jacob
"Free World Industrial Demand for Gold" 1980
Memorandum on direct cost of maintaining an official price of gold 1980
"Returns on Gold and Alternative Financial Assets" 1980
Dunning, John, "Economic Analysis and the Multinational Enterprise" 1972
Eisner, Robert and Paul J. Pieper, "A New View of the Federal Debt and Budget Deficits" 1983
Ellis, Howard S., "Some Notes Toward a Successful Analysis of Stagflation" undated
Emerson, Michael, "The European Monetary System in the Broader Setting of the Community's Economic and Political Development" 1979
Emminger, Otmar, "On the Way to a New International Monetary Order" 1976
Erb, Richard
"Oil and Metals Don't Mix" undated
"The OPEC Financial Surpluses and the International Financial System" 1980
Federal Reserve press releases and papers 1976-1977, 1980
"Analysis of the Impact of Lagged Reserve Accounting" 1977
Feige, Edgar L., "A New Perspective on Macroeconomic Phenomena" 1980
Feldstein, Martin
"Inflation, Income Taxes and the Rate of Interest: A Theoretical Analysis," Conference on Tax Research, Treasury Department 1975
"Inflation, Tax Rules, and the Long Term Interest Rate," with Lawrence Summers 1977
"Is the Rate of Profit Falling?" with Lawrence Summers 1977
"The Stagflation Problems," testimony before the Joint Economic Committee 1979
"Strengthening Social Security," testimony before Ways and Means Committee 1975
"Temporary Layoffs in the Theory of Unemployment" 1975
Fischer, Stanley, "Wage-Indexation and Macroeconomic Stability" 1975
Flanagan, Robert J., "Wage Interdependence in Unionized Labor Markets" 1976
Foss, Murray, "Some Corporate Practices Under Inflation and Disinflation," outline for Contemporary Economic Problems paper 1982
Fowler, Henry undated
Frenkel, Jacob, "Exchange Rates, Prices and Money: Lessons from the 1920s" 1980
Friedman Benjamin M.
"Monetary Policy for the 1976 Recovery" 1975
"Public Disclosure and Domestic Monetary Policy," preliminary draft 1976
Friedman, Milton, "Monetary Policy and Economic Conditions," memorandum to the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board 1983
Giersch and Wolter, "Ausbruch aus der Stagnation" 1982
Godley, Wynne and Adrian Wood, "Stock Appreciation and the Crisis of British Industry" 1974
Gordon, Roger
"Assessing the Risk of Corporate Bankruptcies in the Recent Recession," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
"Beyond Monetarism" 1982 December
"Discussion of Charles Schultz's 'Some Macro Foundations of Micro Theory'" 1981
"Has the Inflation of the 1970s Been a Surprise?" 1977
"The Output Cost of Disinflation in Traditional and Vector-Autoregressive Models," with Stephen R. King, prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
Graetz, Michael, "Description of Proposed Research on Taxation of Consumption 1976
Gramlich, Edward M.
"Evaluating Countercyclical Revenue Sharing" 1977
"The Optimal Timing of Employment in a Recession" 1975
Haberler, Gottfried
"The International Monetary System and the State of the World Economy" circa 1982
"The Problem of Stagflation," AEI Project on Major Economic Problems 1976
"Stagflation: An Analysis of its Causes and Cures," contribution to Fellner Festschrift 1975
Hall, R.E., "Investment, Interest Rates and the Effects of Stabilization Policies" 1977
Hamburger, Michael "Targets and Indicators of Monetary Policy: A Comment" 1982
Hendershott, Patric, "The Impact of a Tax Cut on Interest Rates and Investment, Crowding Out, Pulling In and All That," Conference on Tax Research, Treasury Department 1975
Hughes, John S., "Corporate International Diversification and Market Assigned Measures of Risk and Diversification" 1975
International Monetary Fund 1973-1974
Jahr, Walter Adolf, "Inflation and Indexing" 1967 May
Jaszi, George, "Some Comments on the Economic Outlook and on Inflation" circa 1975
Johannes, James M. and Robert H. Rasche,
"Can the Reserves Approach to Monetary Control Really Work?" 1981
"Money Multiplier Forecasts," prepared for Shadow Open Market Committee
Johnson, D. Gale, "Progress of Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China" 1982
Johnson, Harry
"The Monetary Approach to Balance of Payments Theory" 1971
"World Inflation and the International Monetary System" 1975
Johnson, Keith, "Policy Choices in the Current Economic Situation" 1975
Joint Economic Committee of the US, "US Economic Growth from 1976 to 1986" 1976
Jones, Sidney, "The Capital Budget Alternative: Toward a Reconstruction of Federal Budgeting" 1982 December
Kafka, Alexandre, "The Future of Gold" undated
Kaldor, Nicholas, "The Role of Devaluation in the Adjustment of Balance of Payments Deficits" 1982
Kalman, R.E.
"Identification from Real Data" 1982
"System-Theoretic Critique of Dynamic Economic Models" 1979
Katz, Smauel I., introductory remarks at German-American Forum 1980
Kendrick, John W.
"Comments on Paper by Edwin Mansfield, 'Long Waves and Technological Innovation'" 1982
"Productivity and Economic Progress" 1956
"Sources of Productivity Growth," draft 1976
"Total Investment and Productivity Developments" 1977
Klopstock, Fred, "Recycling Petro-Dollars" 1974
Kohn, Meir, "A Loanable Funds Theory of Unemployment and Monetary Disequilibrium" 1981
Kosters, Marvin
Testimony 1978
"The Voluntary Wage and Price Standards: Reporting on Their Performance" 1980
"Wage-Price Behavior, Prospects and Policies," draft 1977
Lawrence, Robert
"An Analysis of the 1977 Trade Deficit" 1977
"Is Trade Deindustrializing America?" 1983
"Toward a Better Understanding of Trade Balance Trends," prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1978
Leeuw, Frank de, "An Alternative to Potential GNP and the High Employment Budget" and "A New Noncyclical Budget," draft 1983
Leeuw, Frank de and Thomas M. Holloway, "Measuring and Analyzing the Cyclically Adjusted Budget" 1983
Leijonhufvud, Axel, "The Wicksell Connection" 1978
Levin, Jay, "A Framework for Analyzing the Coordination of Stabilization Policies Between the US and the Rest of the World" undated
Levy, Frank, "Have Black Men Gained in Employment?" prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1980
Levy, Michael, "Constraining Inflation: Concerns, Complacencies, and Evidence" 1975
Lindsey, David E., "Recent Monetary Developments and Controversies," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
Lluch, Constantino
"International Patterns in the Elasticity of the Marginal Utility of Income and Expenditure," with R. Williams 1974
"Questions and Answers About the Revision of the Composite Index of Leading Indicators" 1975
MacCrimmon, Kenneth and Stig Larsson, "Utility Theory: Axioms versus Paradoxes" 1979
Makin, John H., "Deficits and Interest Rates" 1982
Martin, Preston, "Remarks Before the Society of American Business and Economic Writers" 1983
Mayer, Helmut
McCulloch, J. Huston, "The Ban on Indexed Bonds, 1933-1977" circa 1978
McLure, Charles E., "Integrating the Income Taxes: Sardines or Worms?" 1975
Meigs, A. James, "The Role of Information Disclosure in International Monetary Policy," prepared for American Enterprise Institute 1978
Meiselman, Daniel
"Business Conditions and Financial Markets" 1983
Comment on Joseph T. Salerno's "Gold Standards: True and False," Cato Institute Conference 1983
Meltzer, Allan
"Central Bank Policy" circa 1980
"Long and Short Term Interest Rates in a Risky World," with Angleo Mascaro 1982
"Monetarist, Keynesian and Quantity Theories" 1977
"Monetary Reform in an Uncertain Environment," prepared for the 1982 meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society 1982
"On Keynes and Monetarism," prepared for the Keynes Centenary 1983
"Velocity of the Money Base"
Mentre de Loye, Paul, "The European Monetary System: An Outlook" 1979
Miller, Merton and Charles Upton, "Leasing, Buying and the Cost of Capital Services," Conference on Tax Research, Treasury Department 1975
Mishkin, Frederick, "Why Should Consumer Sentiment Be so Important to Consumer Durable Expenditure?" 1977
Mitchell, Daniel, "Recent Union Contract Concessions," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
Mitchell, Edward, testimony before Ways and Means Committee 1975
Modigliani and Steindel, "Is a Tax Rebate an Effective Tool for Stabilization Policy" 1977
Molsberger, Josef, "How Floating Has Worked: A European View" undated
Moore, Geoffrey
"Another 1929?" undated
"Employment, Unemployment and the Inflation-Recession Dilemma" undated
"Employment vs. Unemployment as a Guide to Full Employment" 1975
"Inflation and Statistics -- Again" 1981
"A Long-Run Look at the Business Cycle" 1980
Morgan, David R., "Inflation and Progressive Personal Taxation" 1975
Murphy, J. Carter, "The United States in World Markets" 1977
Murphy, Neil, "Bank Supervision and Regulation in the Sunshine" undated
Narasimham, Gorti, "Policy Multipliers in the BEA Quarterly Econometric Model," Survey of Current Business undated
Nordhaus, William, "The Interaction between Oil and the Economy in the Industrialized Countries" 1980
Office of Economic Research, "Economic Indicators" 1977
Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis, "The Effects of Excise Taxes on Income Tax Collections" undated
Olsen, Leif, "The Bretton Woods Nostalgia," speech before the International Banking and Global Financing Conference 1983
Okun, Arthur
"Inflation: Its Mechanics and Welfare Costs," Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1975
Prices and Quantities: A Macroeconomic Analysis 1981
"Prices and Quantities in Cyclical Fluctuations" 1979
"Statement by Arthur Okun, Brookings Institution, before Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs" 1978
Olsen, Mancur, "Political Economy of Comparative Growth Rates" 1978
Ott, Attiat, "Disinflation and the Federal Budget" 1983
Peacock, Alan, "Reducing Government Expenditure Growth: A British View, Conference: Reassessing the Role of Government in the Mixed Economy" 1982
Penner, Rudolph
"Government Budgets" 1979
"The Growth in Government Spending" undated
Perlman, Mark
"Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations: The Past, the Present and the Future" 1983
"Fertility in Social Science Models" 1977
Perloff, Jeffrey, "Approaches to Evaluating the Local Public Works Program" 1977
Perry, George
"Determinants of Wage Inflation Around the World," Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1975
"Tax Cuts and the Economic Outlook" 1978
"What Have We Learned About Disinflation?" Brooking Panel on Economic Activity 1983
Phelps, Edmund S.
"Checking Contractual Inflation Without Causing Recession" 1977
"Okun's Micro-Macro System: A Review Article" undated
Porter, Richard, Thomas Simpson, and Eileen Mauskopf, "Financial Innovation and the Monetary Aggregates," prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1979
Rashish, Myer, "The International Impact of American Economic Policy" 1982
Rees, Albert, "New Policies to Fight Inflation" 1978
Ripley, Frank C., "Economic Policy and Growth: A Production Function Approach" 1977
Ronk, Sally, "Current Economic and Financial Trends" 1974
Rosen, Sherwin, "Improving the Structure of Labor Markets" 1977
Ruggles, Richard and Nancy, "Integrated Economic accounts for the United States 1947-1980, " manuscript on United States wealth using national balance sheets 1981 November 18
Rutledge, John, "Statement Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget" 1982
Salant, Walter
"Surveillance of Exchange Rate Policies: Comments on Papers by Giersch and Cooper" 1976
"Theories of World Stagflation" 1976
Sargent, Thomas J., "The Ends of Four Big Inflations," National Bureau of Economic Research study 1980 August
Schelling, Thomas C. "Choice and Consequence" 1984
Schioppa, Tommaso Padoa, "Rules and Institutes in the Government of Multicountry Economies" 1983
Shimano, Takuji, "Disorder in the International Monetary System," prepared for Japan-U.S. Assembly 1975
Simpson, Thomas et al., "Recent Revisions in the Money Stock" circa 1981
Sims, Christopher, "Policy Analysis with Econometric Models," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
Sinai, Allen, "The Prospects of a Capital Shortage in the US" 1976
Smith, James D., editor, "The Personal Distribution of Income and Wealth" 1975
Sohmen, Egon, "Allocative Efficiency and Antitrust" 1975
Solomon, Anthony M., "Responding to Financial Stresses" 1983
Spann, Robert, "Tax Revenue and Economic Effects of Tax Exempt State and Local Bonds" 1975
Spitaeller, E., "An Analysis of Inflation in the Seven Main Industrial Countries, 1958-76" 1977
Stein, Herbert
"Agenda for the Study of Macroeconomic Policy" 1982
"Expectations, Credibility, and All That" 1981
"Fiscal Policy" undated
"How to Cut Taxes" 1978
"Interest Rate Anxieties" 1983
"Mystery of the Declining Dollar" 1978
"Presidents and Economists" 1981
"Remembrance of Administrations Past" 1981
"Suppose There Is No Recession" 1982
"A View of Monetary Policy, 1979-1982" 1983
"What Can Money Do?" 1983
Summers, Lawrence
"Measuring Unemployment," Brookings Institution 1981
"Unemployment in the 1980 Recession" prepared for Brookings Panel on Economic Activity circa 1980
Sweeney, Richard and Thomas Willett
"Concepts of Efficiency and Speculation in the Foreign Exchange Market" undated
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Tanzi, Vito, "Inflation, Indexation, and Interest Income Taxation" 1975
Taylor, John B.
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"The Swedish Investment Funds System as a Stabilization Policy Rule," prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1982
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Tideman, T. Nicolaus
"The Impact on Investment Incentives of Tax Credits, Inflation, and Inflation Adjustments" 1975
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Tobin, James
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Von Furstenberg, George
"Corporate Taxes and Financing Under Continuing Inflation" undated
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Wallich, Henry C.
"Exchange-Market Intervention: Issues and Views" 1982
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On the day that AMD launched their latest and greatest GPU, the Radeon R9 290X, the company also allows overclockers to post their scores to the popular benchmark competition website, HWBot. It comes as no surprise, then, that AMD's newest GPU got featured in a few benchmarks with the R9 290X.
It looks like AMD gave four of their R9 290X graphics cards to the Russian overclocker that goes by the name Smoke. He was able to take four of AMD's cards and to recapture the 3DMark 11 Performance world record from Gunslinger, who was at the time running four Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan graphics cards. He was able to achieve a score of 41531 marks in 3DMark 11 in the performance setting, an improvement over Gunslinger's score of 39,629. This represents a continued roll on the part of the Russian team's lead over Team Pure and Team Overclock.net.
However, Smoke didn't stop 'smoking' the competition there (sorry, I couldn't help the pun). He also took the 3DMark Vantage world record away from Nvidia, which was posted by our friend Kingpin. Unfortunately for Kingpin, Smoke was able to post a mind boggling score in 3DMark Vantage of 96500 marks which bested Nvidia's dual Titan score of 91,219 marks. So, keep in mind that Nvidia was only running two Titans in this benchmark in order to achieve a similar score that AMD achieved with four R9 290Xs. However, it appears that only AMD graphics cards are able to bench in 3DMark Vantage in a four card configuration.
The fact that AMD's Radeon R9 290X is selling for $550 is also a huge factor in this win for the company because Nvidia's GTX Titan is a $1,000 graphics card, which means that AMD is capable of delivering significantly more value when you look at performance per dollar. The coming months should be very interesting as we see Nvidia cut the prices of their high-end graphics cards and the release of their GTX 780 Ti, which has yet to get specs or a price. But we suspect that card will purely be a reaction to today's developments.


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I am a veteran of the financial markets. This new business is embarking on a journey to help Americans save their homes and businesses. We are opening locations in Phoenix, Honolulu, Chicago, and Atlanta. We are a christian based organization and we need all the help we can get to have the best branded website and internet exposure so we can reach out and help those in need. "MBK" stands for My Brothers Keeper.
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FILE - This file image provided by IntelCenter on Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010 shows a frame grab from a video released by the Taliban containing footage of a man believed to be Bowe Bergdahl, left. A Taliban spokesman, Shaheen Suhail, in an exclusive telephone interview with The Associated Press from the newly opened Taliban offices in Doha, Qatar, said Thursday, June 20, 2013, that they are ready to hand over U.S. soldier Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The U.S. is scrambling to save talks with the Taliban after angry complaints from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: INTELCENTER; NO SALES; EDS NOTE: "INTELCENTER" AT LEFT TOP CORNER ADDED BY SOURCE
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday.
The offer came as an Afghan government spokesman said President Hamid Karzai is now willing to join planned peace talks with the Taliban — provided that the Taliban flag and nameplate are removed from the militant group's newly opened political office in Doha, the capital of the Gulf state of Qatar. Karzai also wants a formal letter from the United States supporting the Afghan government.
The only known American soldier held captive from the Afghan war is U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 27, of Hailey, Idaho. He disappeared from his base in southeastern Afghanistan on June 30, 2009, and is believed held in Pakistan.
In an exclusive telephone interview with The Associated Press from his Doha office, Taliban spokesman Shaheen Suhail said on Thursday that Bergdahl "is, as far as I know, in good condition."
Suhail did not elaborate on Bergdahl's current whereabouts. Among the five prisoners the Taliban have consistently requested are Khairullah Khairkhwa, a former Taliban governor of Herat, and Mullah Mohammed Fazl, a former top Taliban military commander, both of whom have been held for more than a decade.
Bergdahl's parents earlier this month received a letter from their son through the International Committee of the Red Cross. They did not release details of the letter but renewed their plea for his release. The soldier's captivity has been marked by only sporadic releases of videos and information about his whereabouts.
The prisoner exchange is the first item on the Taliban's agenda before even opening peace talks, said Suhail, who is a top Taliban figure and served as first secretary at the Afghan Embassy in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad before the Taliban government's ouster in 2001.
"First has to be the release of detainees," Suhail said when asked about Bergdahl. "Yes. It would be an exchange. Then step by step, we want to build bridges of confidence to go forward."
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected in Doha ahead of Saturday's conference on the Syrian civil war. He was not expected to meet with the Taliban although other U.S. officials might in coming days.
On Wednesday in Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. had "never confirmed" any specific meeting schedule with Taliban representatives in Doha.
The reconciliation process with the Taliban has been a long and bumpy one that began nearly two years ago when the U.S. opened secret talks that were later scuttled by Karzai when he learned of them.
It was then that the U.S. and Taliban discussed prisoner exchanges and for a brief time it appeared that the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners would be released and sent to Doha to help further the peace process. But Karzai stepped in again and demanded they be returned to Afghanistan over Taliban objections.
Since then, the U.S. has been trying to jumpstart peace talks and the Taliban have made small gestures including an offer to share power. The Taliban have also attended several international conferences and held meetings with representatives of about 30 countries.
If the Taliban hold talks with American delegates in the next few days, they will be the first U.S.-Taliban talks in nearly 1 ½ years.
Prospective peace talks were again thrown into question Wednesday when Karzai became infuriated by the Taliban's move to cast their new office in Doha as a rival embassy.
The Taliban held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday in which they hoisted their flag and a banner with the name they used while in power more than a decade ago: "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." Later, the Taliban replaced the sign to read simply: "Political office of the Taliban."
At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting. Hours later, the group claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on Bagram Air Base outside the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed four American service members.
Karzai on Wednesday announced his government is out of the peace talks, apparently angered by the way Kabul had been sidelined in the U.S.-Taliban bid for rapprochement.
The Afghan president also suspended negotiations with the United States on a bilateral security agreement that would cover American troops who will remain behind after the final withdrawal of NATO combat troops at the end of 2014.
However, Karzai spokesman Fayeq Wahidi said Thursday that the Afghan president is willing to join peace talks with the Taliban if the U.S. follows through with promises he said were made by Kerry in a phone call.
Wahidi said Kerry promised Karzai that the Taliban flag and a nameplate with their former regime's name would be removed and the U.S. would issue a formal letter supporting the Afghan government and making clear that the Taliban office would not be seen as an embassy or government-in-exile.
Once those commitments are met, Wahidi said, "We would see no problem in entering into talks with the Taliban in Qatar. "
On Thursday, the "Islamic Emirate" nameplate had been removed from the Taliban office. The flagpole inside the compound was apparently shortened and the Taliban flag — dark Quranic script on a white background — was still flying but not visible from the street. Journalists gathered at the office shot images of the flag through the gaps in the walls.
The Taliban have long refused to talk to Karzai's representatives but the opening of the office was seen as a first step toward those meetings.
Suhail said the Taliban are insistent that they want their first interlocutors to be the United States. "First we talk to the Americans about those issues concerning the Americans and us (because) for those issues implementation is only in the hands of the Americans," he said.
"We want foreign troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan," he added. "If there are troops in Afghanistan then there will be a continuation of the war."
Suhail indicated the Taliban could approve of American trainers and advisers for the Afghan troops, saying that "of course, there is cooperation between countries in other things. We need that cooperation."
He said that once the Taliban concluded talks with the United States, they would participate in all-inclusive Afghan talks.
Suhail ruled out exclusive talks with Karzai's High Peace Council, which has been a condition of the Afghan president, who previously said he wanted talks in Doha to be restricted to his representatives and the Taliban. Instead, the Taliban would talk to all Afghan groups, Suhail said.
"After we finish the phase of talking to the Americans, then we would start the internal phase ... that would include all Afghans," he said. "Having all groups involved will guarantee peace and stability."
Gannon reported from Islamabad, Pakistan. Associated Press writer Brian Murphy in Dubai contributed to this report.
Kathy Gannon is AP Special Regional Correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan and can be reached at www.twitter.com/kathygannon


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In response to a question asked during Apple's Q1 2013 conference call, Tim Cook once again re-iterated Apple's long-held belief that they'd rather cannibalize their own existing product lines with new product lines than risk a competitor eating into their business. The only twist to the repartee this time was the iPad mini, and what if any affect it might have had on full-sized iPad sales.
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook said Apple continues to see cannibalization as a huge opportunity for Apple, and that any company that fears cannibalizing themselves risks someone else doing it for them. Apple knows the iPhone has cannibalized the iPod, and that the iPad has cannibalized the Mac. Whether or not the iPad mini cannibalizes the iPad maxi, due to supply constraints throughout the quarter, it's tough to tell at this point. However, Cook still believes that the tablet market will eclipse the PC market, and that's one of the reasons they see cannibalization as an opportunity.
Another reason is the halo effect. Apple saw with the iPod that, after a customer had a great experience with one product, they may consider buying another. For Apple, if someone buys and iPad mini or iPad first, the same thing could happen. In fact, Apple is confident of it, and already seeing evidence it will happen.
I've said before, Apple is one of the few companies in the tech industry that doesn't confuse it's products for its business. Instead of fearing change and riding its iPod fortunes into the ground, Apple introduced the iPhone, which rose as the iPod sales started to decline. And the iPad, which rose as PC sales started to decline.
They bet big on what's next. Perhaps at some point they'll misplace a bet, but the only way to win the future is to play for the future.


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A SmartRod Poletap Demonstration
The first of its kind… and possibly the single most significant innovation to the modern fishing rod, the Poletap SmartRod brings integrated accelerometer bite detection technology to a handsome and rugged 2-piece medium action rig. With the use of Sound Alert and high-output LEDs, the Poletap SmartRod provides a built-in alarm system that activates when the line is receiving activity from the fish below the surface. Three sensitivity levels provides the ability to cancel out false alarms and one-button operation ensures that this advanced technology is kept simple.
"The first of its kind ... and possibly the single most significant innovation to the modern fishing rod..."- Florida Sport Fishing June 26 2013
Bite detection features are powered from two CR2032 Lithium batteries. Patented Poletap Computer Controlled Accelerometer Technology detects fish activity from inside the fishing rod and does not rely on mechanical mouse-traps or clip-on bells and whistles. This powerful technology has already generated buzz, as "the future of fishing"... - Übergizmo Edwin Kee. It is available in a 6'6" spincast rod, 7' spinning rod and 7' spinning combo of the rod and reel.


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Al Woodcock, perhaps the last man to sail on the maiden voyage of WHOI's first research vessel Atlantis in 1931, died Feb. 26. He was 99.
Woodcock was "a farm boy from Georgia, a high school dropout, an immigrant to Lawrence, Mass., where he worked in the mills and then to Hudson, Mass., where he worked on an apple farm and where, improbably, through the friendship of his boss, he developed a fondness for sailing, and so found himself one day stopping in Woods Hole to get a haircut," said WHOI Senior Scientist Joe Pedlosky (who married Woodcock's stepdaughter).
While waiting for the haircut, Woodcock asked about the large brick building under construction across the street on the waterfront and was told it would be an oceanographic institution that needed a crew to go to Copenhagen to bring the lab's new research vessel back to Woods Hole. Woodcock tracked down Columbus Iselin, who was to be the captain of the vessel, and asked for a job.
Years later, Iselin said of Woodcock: "I liked him at once, and signed him on as an ordinary seaman at $45 a month, feeling that he would be a steadying influence among what looked like a rather turbulent crew. ...From the outset it was obvious that Woodcock was much more than a young sailor."
From 1931 to 1940, Woodcock was a laboratory and ship's technician aboard Atlantis. In her 1978 book On Almost Any Wind, author Susan Schlee recalled: "Under either condition, mild or miserable, Woodcock appeared in the deck lab for every station. In the highly unusual role of single scientist, he felt himself responsible for all data gathered. As if his scientific responsibilities were not enough, he chose to spend hours standing watch. Huddled in the bow or clinging halfway up the mast, he watched all that moved through sea and air."
"While most sailors, in Al's words, were eager to get from port to port," Pedlosky said. "Al spent a good deal of time observing his surroundings. As Sherlock Holmes would say, some people look, but only some really see. Al was the keenest observer of the natural world I have ever known. By 1942, the farm boy was on the scientific staff at Woods Hole."
During the 1940s, Woodcock published seminal papers on "Observations of Herring Gull Soaring," "The Swimming of Dolphins," and "Sea Salt in a Tropical Storm." He was the first to observe Langmuir cells and circulation at sea, which helped him explain why the Portuguese Man-of-War sailed to the left of the wind in the Northern Hemisphere and to the right in the Southern Hemisphere by the Coriolis effect.
Starting in 1949, he published a series of seven pioneering papers on sea-salt particles and their role in the formation of fog and rain. He even chased hurricanes to collect particles.
In an airplane trip over Hawaii in the 1950s with colleague Duncan Blanchard, he is reported to have remarked to a flight attendant that "If God does make it rain, we want to know exactly how He does it." In 1963, he joined the faculty of the University of Hawaii, a scientifically strategic locale to study rainfall processes.
In the same year, Long Island University awarded him an honorary degree. Its citation reads in part: "Here is a scientist daily unraveling the mysteries of that which is most around us—ocean and atmosphere. His research has gained the profound respect of the nation's foremost scientists. Here is a disciplined, inquiring mind, nurtured not by formalized higher education but rather by that intellectual curiosity, which is the mother of invention, and that persistency, which is the father of lasting works."


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Solomon is working on Tarzan's Testicles, a feature documentary on the Abkhazian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy, established in 1927, a renowned primatology center during the Communist era where scientists tried to crossbreed humans and monkeys to demonstrate the triumph of the Revolution over religion.
Solomon aims to investigate the relationship between humans and monkeys many years after the Revolution, in a "hypothetical country" (as Abkhazia is today) where "there is no question of animal rights since human rights don't exist," he said at the Distribution Forum of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.
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December 11, 1931
"Just What I Expected", Says Powers of First Degree Verdict
Jurors Study Evidence for Hour and 47 Minutes as Vast Crowd Waits.
Argue Motion for New Trial in Case Before Judge Southern on Saturday.
"Just What I Expected", Says Powers of First Degree Verdict
Jurors Study Evidence for Hour and 47 Minutes as Vast Crowd Waits.
Argue Motion for New Trial in Case Before Judge Southern on Saturday.
The shadow of the gallows today falls full across the pudgy figure of Harry F. Powers, as he sits in the county jail counting the days until he will mount the 13 steps to the trap that will drop him on the end of a rope, choking out his life as he choked life from his victims.
Convicted late yesterday of first degree murder of the New England nurse he lured from her home on the promises of marriage, choked to death to get her life savings, and then buried, with the bodies of four other victims, in a slimy drainage ditch outside his garage in Quiet Dell, the Bluebeard killer tomorrow will seek a new trial from Judge John C. Southern of Harrison county criminal court.
"It was just what I expected," Power told Andrew Moore, deputy sheriff and turnkey at the county jail, when he was locked in his cell a few minutes after he had calmly received the verdict of a jury of his peers.
Only the granting of a new trial by Judge Southern, Judge Birk S. Stathers of Harrison county circuit court, or the state supreme court of appeals, can save the matrimonial racketeer from expiating his crime with his life soon after the first of the New Year. The course of what promises to be successive appeals leading to the highest court of the state will begin tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
After his white-haired attorney, J. E. Law, had pleaded for "sympathy, justice, and mercy" for the first mass slayer this county has ever known, the state demanded nothing less than a verdict carrying with it the death penalty. The jury remained in its rooms an hour and 47 minutes deliberating the fate of the slayer, the delay being occasioned when some members of the jury considered for a time a recommendation of mercy.
It was reported about the court house that after reaching their room for deliberation the jurors, after electing the foreman, took three ballots. On these three votes, there was said to be sentiment for life imprisonment, but this yielded and the death penalty was finally written after careful consideration of all the evidence, it was learned.
Tears streamed down the cheeks of Mr. Law as he urged the jury to apply the spirit of Jesus to the case, and he paced up and down during the seemingly interminable interval while the talesmen locked in a carefully guarded dressing room of Moore's Opera house, where the trial was held, pondered the fate of the Romeo who wooed by mail.
Powers sat, his back to the crowded theater, almost immovable. At times it seemed he scarcely realized the enormity of his offense or the fact that 12 of his fellow citizens of this county were deciding whether his life should be terminated in the cause of justice 30 years before he reached his allotted "three score and ten".
Once Mr. Law borrowed a paper from the newspaper reporter in the front row and he and the mail order Lothario bent over it, seemingly intent on a perusal of the latest details of the case - then closed beyond recall.
Just as the crowd began to dwindle, there came a stir. Judge Southern came to the bench, and it was believed that court would be adjourned for the night.
Then came three loud raps from the door of the jury room. Powers looked up, his countenance tinged with a red flush, but his expression unchanged.
The jury walked in, none of its members looking at the man they had just convicted of the most serious crime in the statute books.
"Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a verdict?" slowly intoned Clerk Ben B. Jarvis.
"We have," replied Nathan Richards, Bridgeport farmer, from his seat in the rear row. He handed the folded paper to Mr. Jarvis.
"Hearken to your verdict, gentlemen," said Jarvis, and he read:
"We, the jury, find the defendant, Harry F. Powers, alias Cornelius O. Pierson, guilty of first degree murder as charged in the within indictment."
Powers, his hands clutched on the desk before him, seemed to stop breathing as he waited to see if the words "and further find that he be confined in the penitentiary" were added. They were not. His fate was sealed.
Judge Southern, before the jury came in, expressly warned against a demonstration in the court room, and there was none. But seconds later, while the verdict was being read again and the number of the indictment, 10357, inserted, cheers could be heard from the crown outside the courtroom. If Powers heard the gleeful mob, who had been waiting for just such an announcement through four days, he gave no sign.
State police rushed to the stage and surrounded the prisoner, but there was not the slightest excitement. Mr. Law sat motionless, his fight lost against the connected chain of circumstantial evidence adduced by the state. Then he made a formal motion that a new trial be granted and Saturday morning at 10 o'clock was fixed as the time for the start of the argument.
Again manacled and led with a chain, Powers was hustled out to a waiting car. The motor stalled and Powers made his first remark after hearing the verdict.
"You don't have a very good chauffeur today," he said to Sheriff Grimm. And the Bluebeard, whose bespectacled countenance has appeared in virtually every paper in the nation, went silently back to the cell, from which he will re-appear only to go through the ordeal of another trial, or to start on his last journey to the state penitentiary at Moundsville, from which he will never emerge alive.
Closing scenes of the trial, staged under the strangest circumstances that a man ever fought for his life at the bar of justice, were filled with the dramatics which the court and its officers have tried so persistently and successfully to avoid.
While Mr. Law, clutching the sides of a table, talked of the love of man for man, Powers stared at the painting of a church on the back drop on the stage. While he pleaded for the jurors to remain firm in their convictions, the thought of his possible plight overcame the slayer and he wept.
While Prosecuting Attorney Will E. Morris and his assistant, William G. Stathers, pounded vigorously on the desk of the court stenographer as they tolled off point after point in the state's well-nigh perfect case of circumstantial evidence, the audience sat tense, imagining every step of Mrs. Lemke's last journey from her Northboro, Mass., home to her execution room in the Quiet Dell murder garage. Even the "crowd noise" of shuffling, nervous feet, coughing, and sharp intakes of breath at a particularly brilliant point, abated as the rival counsel fought over the life of the man who had as many aliases as victims in his rude burying ground.
The defense attorney made no statement regarding his plans for the new trial motion, but it is believed that he will rely principally on the contention that Powers could not receive a fair trial because of prejudice against him. The record is full of exceptions to the ruling of the court on admission of evidence, and these will no doubt be brought up.
If Judge Southern passes immediately on the motion Saturday morning, and does not take time to consider, he will then sentence Powers to be hanged. The law provides that the date of execution must be fixed not earlier than 30 days from the date of sentence.
Should the new trial be refused by the criminal court judge, an appeal will be taken to the circuit court, and if the defendant is still unsuccessful in gaining a reversal of the jury's verdict, it is understood that a stay of execution will be asked for the purpose of seeking a writ of error from the state supreme court.
The case was brought to a close with rapidity yesterday morning. Defense counsel recalled to the stand state witnesses who had attempted on rebuttal to shatter Powers' alibi that he was in Hagerstown on the night the state alleged Mrs. Lemke was slain. He succeeded in having written into the record that there was a rain storm that day when the witnesses said the night when Powers stopped along the Quiet Dell road with a woman in his car to fix a flat tire was clear and "moonshiny." Two state witnesses were recalled for brief examination and at 11 o'clock, Judge Southern began reading the instructions of the court to the jury.
Five instructions were offered on behalf of the state and four for the defense, while three general instructions were given by the court. The six possible verdicts were outlined as follows:
First degree murder, death penalty.
First degree murder with recommendation of mercy, life imprisonment.
Second degree murder, 5 to 18 years imprisonment.
Voluntary manslaughter, 1 to 5 years imprisonment.
Involuntary manslaughter, jail sentence or fine or both.
Not guilty.
Argument started at 11:15 with Stathers talking until noon. Law began at 1:30 and quit at 2:45. Morris talked until 3:15 and the jury retired at 3:18. The jury reported at 5:05. Court was adjourned until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, when it will convene in the federal building. The jury was excused for the term.
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Danqing Zheng - Care, Care & Community in Ghana
When I signed up online on Projects Abroad for the summer placement in Ghana, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. A rising senior in High School, I was ambitious to try new things and experiences. I wanted to volunteer and help those in need, especially in a third world country.
When reading the brochures and placement details about my time in Ghana, I had imaged a society and lifestyle not too different from the one I was living. Painting, arts and crafts, and teaching school kids did not sound that bad. However, all of my expectations were soon shattered when I arrived in Ghana.
After touching down in Accra, I was no doubt greeted by the heat and dust of the local climate. Although a lot of the facilities and equipment at the airport could not compare to those back home, I cleared my head of prejudice and proceeded through customs and baggage claim. Soon after, I was picked up by a Projects Abroad staff member and transported to the head office. That night, the other volunteers and I had our first Ghanaian meal – fried chicken with a specially prepared rice dish.
The next morning, we got in a tro-tro (or a long van that carries 10-15 people) and headed out to Cape Coast. Once we arrived, we unpacked our luggage at our host families and walked around town. After familiarising ourselves with the local customs and culture, we returned home – for work was going to start tomorrow.
The next day, we were picked up by a taxi (arranged by Projects Abroad) and arrived at St. Monica's all girls' school. After inquiring and meeting the headmistress as well as the kids (who were in the classrooms, and there were roughly 600 kids in the school), we went to the back of the school and went to work.
Our task seemed relatively simple – paint (base layers as well as drawings) the outside and inside walls of a nursery as well as fading walls around the school. The task seemed feasible and we all thought it would be done in a week or so, but it proved to be more arduous and difficult than it seemed. The first few days we spent sanding down any bumps in the walls and sanding away some of the older paint as well as mould on the outside walls.
The day started at 7, where we'd have breakfast at our host family. Then at 8, a taxi would pick us up to go to the school. Arriving at the school, we would wait at the staff room for the painter, Mr. McCarthy. Then from 9 to 2, we'd paint and do as Mr. McCarthy instructs us to, with an hour lunch break. After that, the day would be for ourselves, whether it be exploring the town, going to an internet café, or just enjoying the sun. It gets dark in Ghana around 7pm so by 8 everyone's back home and ready for bed.
As the week went on, we worked tirelessly under the sun and humidity to tackle on the task. When recess came for the kids in the school, they often crowded around us, amazed at our presence and our skin colour. They called us "Obruni" which means "white man" in Fanti, the local Cape Coast dialect. Eric, a Projects Abroad staff member explained that they do not mean this in a negative way, but it is merely a way they address anyone that has a lighter skin colour than themselves.
The little kids (age 4-5) would often run along with us and touch our hands, shorts, or legs while we work. While the older kids (ages 10-11) would try to communicate with us (seeing that English is the official language of Ghana) and often drew pictures of us with them with hearts and such on loose-leaf paper. Small deeds like that really gave us a motivation to paint, despite the weather and rain.
I still remember clearly one instance where we were painting, and all the sudden it started to rain. I was painting the outside window and doorframe and the rain from the roof literally fell on to me and my bucket of paint as I stood there to finish the task. Seeing that we were already behind schedule, I took it upon myself to finish the task at hand, rain or shine. Although I got wet and wanted to stop and sit inside like everyone else, I toughed it out and that was my statement there and then.
The following week, we spent some days teaching the kids as well as doing some arts and crafts. We also finished just in time the interior as well as exterior of the nursery. Overall, it was a great experience to be at the school and to work with my hands to give these kids a designed and repainted nursery room.
My host family was also very kind to me and provided all the basic living necessities and such. During my stay, I also had some crazy times with some of the locals. Joe, my host family's son, took me to the world cup game, Ghana v Uruguay. At the STC station (bus/gas station), there were more than 800 locals watching the game on the projector. When Ghana scored its first goal, the place went nuts! Everyone was jumping, dancing, drinking, singing, and cheering. Chairs were thrown into the air and Shakira's Waka Waka began blasting from the speakers.
All in all, it was an amazing 2 weeks and unforgettable experience. It's an experience that is priceless and something you'll remember in your lifetime.
Danqing Zheng
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Have you ever read a book that jumped from one person's thoughts to the others so quickly it made your head spin?
Most of us are writing in one of two kinds of POV. Many of you, especially you YA writers, are taking on first person. And then the rest of us, most likely, are using deep or limited third person POV. Omniscient 3rd person (where the narrator knows all things and everyone's thoughts) has gone out of fashion for the most part--except maybe in some epic fantasy stories. This means that if you are using 1st or deep 3rd POV, the writing should be in one person's head in a scene.
In 1st person, this is a little easier to achieve because, well, you only have one head to work with. (Although, you're still at risk for Author Intrusion, which I'll talk about tomorrow). But if you're using 3rd person and have multiple characters offering POV (which is the joy of writing in 3rd), then you have to be careful. Take this example:
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Okay, so my writing is stellar, I know, but hopefully the example gets the point across. In the same paragraph we hear both characters thoughts and motivations. This is disorienting to the reader. If we're in deep POV, the reader is seeing things through one person's eyes. If you keep hopping into different heads, the story becomes hard to follow. It also will screw with establishing the voice of your characters because they'll all be intertwined. Here is the example with no head-hopping.
Jane narrowed her eyes and glared at him as he took a bite of the massive hunk of chocolate cake. How could he be such a jerk? He knew she was on a diet and couldn't have any. Joe smiled and licked a glob of icing off his fork, as if taunting her. Her knuckles turned white as she gripped her coffee mug tighter.
When I'm critting other's work, I see this head-hopping pop up most in kissing or love scenes. We're so excited to tell our reader what each of our characters is thinking, but that totally ruins the moment. Tension is built out of the mystery of not knowing all things and thoughts of all people at all times. It's okay to switch POVs, but you have to do it with thought and planning.
Some tips:
1. Aim to keep one POV per scene for most scenes. This will keep things clear and easy to follow for your reader.
2. If you do need to switch in a scene, do it only once per scene and do a double return (extra spacing) in your document to show that the POV has changed. This is common in romance, and readers know that when they see that break in lines, that we've switched to the other person's POV.
3. Be in the POV of the character that has the most at stake in that scene.
4. Pretend that when you're in a character's head, you have to put on their outfit. So if you switch heads, you have to change clothes. This can't be done at breakneck speed and and on a constant basis. You have to plan a break so that you can slip into the new costume.
Alright, hope that helps, tomorrow...author intrusion.
Have you read books that head hopped all over the place? Have you found yourself wanting to tell the reader everything?
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Postgame quotes after the Revolution defeated the Kansas City Wizards at Gillette Stadium on October 16, 2010.
We had a couple of chances as well we didn't take. I don't remember them having a real clear chance. So we have to be happy with that … and it's a win.
We had some balls in the box that the two center backs dealt with. We've got to be happy. It's good to win at home. We like to win the last game – it sends everybody away with a smile on their face. But we certainly made it hard as usual. We never seem to coast to victory …
I thought (Bobby Shuttleworth) was solid as a rock. He came and caught the ball. His position was good and any time they did get some shots off, it went straight into his hands and that's good positional play. He was solid as a rock.
We've talked about making bad decisions that have cost us during the season. And tonight we made good decisions as far as being in good positions to deal with balls in the box or whatever they threw at us.
I think we can do better. That final ball has to be better. Sainey (Nyassi) has got a lot of attributes and if you're playing fullback against him, you're thinking, "Well, here we go." But he needs to get better. He needs to make better decisions with his final ball. If he can do that, he'll step up another level.
I just think that, not that pressure is off because we always put pressure on them to work hard and play well. But the fact that there was no real pressure on us to win games make it easier to play. What we have to do is take that into next season and try and play like that when it really, really matters. But at the same time, you've still got to do it and they did have some good combinations. I think we could have a whole lot more if we were just better with the final ball.
I think we showed a lot of heart, we defended well as a team, and we got that early goal from me. Chris (Tierney) played me a great ball over the top and I just tried to head it around the goalkeeper and finish that goal. The team showed a lot of heart, and that's what's so frustrating about this team that we can be up one-nothing … and when we are on the road, we're 2-0 up and we give away goals. We've still got a lot of growing to do, and tonight we showed that we can stay as a team and work hard.
I noticed in the first five minutes that he was coming off of his line, and a lot of guys on the sides gave me a heads up to try to shoot it from the half-way line. Chris (Tierney) just played a great ball, I ran onto it and it was all about my finishing.
It has to do a little bit with our youth, maturity and out lack of experience, but we showed that we have a lot of heart and character on the team. 2011 is going to be a good season and we have to look forward it. It's all about growing from here and getting better as a team. We've got to learn from our mistakes.
We have a lot of youth here, and if we get it together and get that chemistry down, we're going to be one of those teams that's going to be fun to watch … and one of the teams to go back to the MLS Cup.
I didn't have to make many saves tonight. I thought the back four was really solid. But we picked a lot of second balls up and, I thought we stayed pretty tight on our guys. I thought we were really good at marking throughout the box so.
Obviously we knew they were going to go for the win, they needed it for the playoffs. It's good to play spoiler, you know? We have an effect on what goes on this week throughout the league.
I try to help these guys as much as I can, screaming at them, letting them know when a runner's coming through and all that. If I can help them out in any way, then I'm obviously making their jobs easier and my job easier.
Those two guys are great. Matty (Reis) has been awesome. Preston (Burpo) this year has been great. Those two guys have been in the league forever. They know how to train, how to play, and whenever they can help me, they've been trying to help me, which is fantastic.
They were in a position where they needed to win to stay in the playoff hunt and we knew that we had to try to match their energy coming into this game. They've got a lot of big, strong forwards up top with a lot of pace, so we just tried to stick with them as much as we could and put the pressure on when we could.
We've just got to try to keep fighting and keep possession as much as possible. As long as we keep in our spots and stay with our assignments, we'll be in good shape. And when players like Chris (Tierney) and Shalrie (Joseph) put a good combination like that together and finish one, it's always good for us.
We've been disappointed in the way the year has gone and we really wanted to finish on a strong note and see if we can carry it into the next year. I think we've done that – we've got one more game and hopefully we can get another win and hopefully take that into next year.
(Bobby Shuttleworth) was unbelievable. He was very vocal while we were out there – always talking to us, always trying to get ourselves in the right positions and came out really strong on some crosses, so I thought he played well tonight.
I thought the first 20 minutes were really good … It was a good play by Shalrie (Joseph), but it was more of a mental mistake on our part. It came from deep in the midfield; it was a straight ball up the middle of the field and our two central defenders both weren't paying attention at the time - or at least weren't concentrating on the action - and he did well to finish it. We just had a miscommunication there in the back. Outside that, I think we created enough chances throughout the course of the game to be in the game if not walk away with the points. My credit to New England - they fought hard and played hard.
I think there was just a little bit more sense of urgency because we were down one goal and we needed to get back into the game. I really think we didn't give up too much to them in the second half. There was one very good shot where we had a really good save. Outside of that I thought we created a couple of clear chances that we should have actually put away, but we didn't have the final touch on the ball.
Well, now that we are out I think it's more just of us making sure that we finish with some pride and in our last game just come away with three points because we are at home.
We put a lot into it. We knew we had to win the game to keep our playoff hopes alive and we didn't get the job done.
I guess you can look around and say we didn't give up at all for the 95-plus minutes we were pushing to win the game. We created chances toward the very end and I guess we kept fighting for it. So I guess that's about the only positive.
Obviously we gave up one, so we'd like to change that.
We're going to go out and win the game, our last game. We're not in [the playoffs] so I guess we're playing for pride now. We're going to end the season on a high.
It's obviously disappointing for us. We knew we had to win to give ourselves a chance for the playoffs. I thought the guys put in a good effort for the full 90. Obviously, a disappointing goal to give up. We definitely wanted to get that first goal and let them know that we were going to come the full game. But, unfortunately, they got the first one and we just could never find the back of the net.
It's easy to look back and say that you'd finish every chance you get. It's one of those things where I think we could have done better obviously on their goal and kept it tied. Anytime you go down a goal and knowing you've got to come back and win on the road is going be tough. So I think the concentration on not giving one up would have been important, because we knew getting that first goal is huge in any MLS game. I think if you look around the league it's very important and it ends up being a deciding factor in a lot of games. So that was the disappointing part for us.
It's a home game, we're going to go out in front of our fans and hopefully put on a good show. I think everyone knows that there's not much in it for us in terms of the playoff hopes - we're obviously out of that race. But this group has a lot of pride and we know we're going to out and look for a W to end the season on a good note.