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ISPP Newsletter 39
(5) May 2009
Material for the Newsletter is invited from individual members of ISPP,
Associated Societies, Council members, Chairs of all Committees and
representatives of Affiliated Societies and Supporting Organisations.
Editor: Brian J Deverall,
In this issue:
The European Research Area - First Monitoring of
the Results achieved in the 7th Framework Programme (2007-2013) of the
European Union
Since the adoption of the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs, the
European Union (EU) has committed itself to realise a fully open and
competitive European Research Area (ERA). Advancing towards research
excellence, raising the efficiency and effectiveness of the European
research system, increasing the openness and attractiveness of the ERA, as
well as developing a strategic partnership with Member States in
international science and technology cooperation and a closer relationship
with neighbouring countries, represent the medium to long term aims of
research policy.
The seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (2007-2013), with a total budget
of over 50 billion EUR represents a key tool in responding to Europe's
need in terms of jobs and competitiveness, and in maintaining leadership
in the global knowledge economy. It also represents the arena where
European researchers need to compete in order to get most of their
The aim of FP7 is to contribute to the EU becoming the word's leading
research area. This requires the Framework Programme to be strongly
focused on promoting and investing in world-class, state-of-the-art
research, based primarily upon the principle of excellence in research,
towards the development of a knowledge-based economy and society.
In order to capture the broad range of research activities, FP7 is
divided into four categories, corresponding to four types of objectives:
co-operation, ideas, people, and capacities. For each type of objective,
there is a specific programme corresponding to the main areas of EU
research policy.
The "Co-operation" programme provides project funding for
collaborative, trans-national research. The programme is organised through
thematic priorities such as health, energy, transport, food and
agriculture, nanotechnologies etc.
The "Ideas" programme provides project funding for
individuals and their teams engaged in frontier research. The programme is
managed by the European Research Council.
The "People" programme funds actions to improve the mobility
of researchers between sectors and countries world-wide. It is managed
under the Marie Curie programme.
The "Capacities" programme funds actions that are designed to
improve Europe's research infrastructure and the research capacities of
small medium size enterprises (SMEs).
The first analysis of the results achieved in the first period of FP7
implementation are considered positively by the European Commission.
Almost 36,000 research and development proposals were received during the
first 2 years, with more than 5,500 proposals (equivalent to EUR 10
billion) selected for funding. The success rate varies between 18% and 36%
in the different programmes.
Higher education institutes and research organisations are the main
beneficiaries of the FP7, accounting for 60% of applicants and 59% of the
budget. SMEs represent 16.4% of the numbers of applicants and 14% of the
budget. SMEs' participation is quite high in the ICT, health,
nanotechnologies and transport thematic areas.
The participation of the 12 "new" EU Member States in terms
of numbers of submitted and retained proposals is still lower than their
share of the EU 27 research workforce. Some countries (i.e. United
Kingdom, The Netherlands, Sweden and Finland) are very aggressive and able
to get back to their institutions a higher amount of money, in comparison
to that allocated by their countries. Other countries (i.e. France, Italy
and Spain) are less competitive and have a much lower capacity to get back
the same amount of money initially transferred by their countries to the
European Commission.
Relevant topics in plant pathology are mostly tackled within the
Co-operation programme, in the Food and Agriculture area as well as under
Environment. However, researchers must get acquainted with the fact that
less and less calls are devoted to plant pathology. An interdisciplinary
approach is necessary in order to be able to build broad partnership,
which include SMEs, capable to fully respond to the requests of the few
calls available in the field of plant health.
10 May 2009 M L Gullino
Second Issue of "Food Security"
Richard Strange has written an editorial titled "In this
issue" for the second issue (June 2009) of the new journal "Food
Security". It is reproduced below and the source is: Strange R N
(2009) In this issue. In: Food security: The science, sociology and
economics of food production and access to food, vol 2, 2009, pp. 1-2,
Springer Science + Business Media B V & International Society for
Society for Plant Pathology.
The papers published in this second issue of Food Security document
some of the multiple causes of food insecurity. Topics include
desertification, flooding, adaptation of remote communities to modern
technology, seasonality of food crops and the corresponding dearth between
harvests, lack of iron in traditionally consumed food, resulting in
anaemia, and taboos that inhibit people from supplementing their diets
with nutritious wild fruits that are readily available. One paper also
considers the vulnerability of our crops to acts of agroterrorism.
Conversely, the amelioration of dietary deficits is treated by several
authors. Procedures include the establishment of policies that buffer
countries against price swings of food materials on the international
market, encouragement of domestic agriculture, a framework for deciding
whether aid should be given in cash or in kind and construction of a dryer
out of simple materials, which can be used to remove water from produce
and consequently dramatically prolong its shelf life.
There is a single review article by Lindsay Stringer in which she
explores the relationship between desertification and food security. She
shows that both share considerable common ground and argues that this
should be recognised in interventions. These, she contends, should be
approached from the perspective of livelihoods and vulnerability.
The first original paper by Ian Douglas takes up the theme of the
physical environment, but here the concern is flooding rather than
desertification. He points out that climate change is likely to cause an
increase in the magnitude, depth and duration of floods in South Asia and
that there is a gender disparity in those who suffer, women and children
faring worse than men.
The next paper by Paul Dorosh is also concerned with South Asia. He
points out that the sharp rise in international cereal prices in 2007 and
2008 had a profound impact on the food security of countries in this area
but cautions against over-reaction with policies that ultimately slow
economic growth and inhibit poverty reduction. Instead, he advocates the
accumulation of national stocks to prevent very large price increases,
reliance on international trade to limit the need for government
interventions in most years, promotion of domestic agriculture and
targeted safety net programmes for poor households which, ideally, would
be cash based.
The principle of cash distribution versus direct food aid is taken up
by Christopher Barrett and co-authors. Building on a previously published
decision tree, these authors propose a question and analysis framework to
help operational agencies anticipate the likely impact of these
Andrew Scourse and Corinne Wilkins give a fascinating account of food
security issues on a Pacific atoll. They describe how traditional methods
of ensuring adequate food are gradually being eroded by the advent of
modern technology and products. These include boats with outboard motors,
facilitating movement between islands but incurring a requirement for
fuel, modern equipment for fishing and exotic food, which is welcomed, but
is dependent on the irregular arrival of government ships.
A staggering 2 billion of the world's population are anaemic. Emily
Levitt and co-authors analysed the diets of communities living in the
Balkh Province of Afghanistan as a preliminary to establishing a
comprehensive programme for the control of anaemia in the north of the
Many countries face conditions in which the season for a given crop is
short and they lack equipment to prolong the shelf life of the produce.
Antoine Nonclerq and co-authors demonstrate the feasibility of
constructing solar powered drying equipment in Mali from locally obtained
materials and demonstrate that tomatoes dried in a prototype may be kept
for over a year, whereas the harvesting season is only 3 months.
Ethiopia is a country with a relatively rich flora containing many
plants that produce edible fruits. Mengistu Fentahun and Herbert Hager
show that, although at least some of these are prevalent throughout the
year and would do much to enhance the local diet, there is little
enthusiasm for their consumption owing to local taboos and customs.
Finally, Fr�d�ric Suffert and co-authors consider the risk to food
security posed by the malicious introduction of plant pathogens. Although
the development of a serious outbreak of plant disease from such
introductions is far from certain, the disruption of trade is likely to be
a casualty.
R Strange, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Birkbeck
College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. e-mail: email@example.com
Plant Virus Epidemiology - ISPP Subject Matter
Professor Alberto Fereres, Chair of the ISPP Plant Virus Epidemiology
Subject Matter Committee, advises that their next meeting, the
International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium, will be held at Cornell,
New York, USA, on 20-24 June 2010. The meeting is being organized jointly
with the Plant Virus Ecology Network (PVEN).
See "Coming Events" and the ISPP Plant Virus Epidemiology
Subject Matter Committee web-site at http://www.isppweb.org/ICPVE/
10th Arab Congress of Plant Protection
The second announcement, call for abstracts and information on the
program and the component symposia for the 10th Arab Congress of Plant
Protection has arrived and it may be seen by clicking
here. The Congress is being organized by the Arab Society for Plant
Protection in collaboration with the National Council for Scientific
Research. It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon from
26-30 October 2009. The e-mail address is email@example.com
, and the Society's web-site is www.asplantprotection.org.
Grapevine Trunk Diseases - ISPP Subject Matter
The International Council on Grapevine Trunk Diseases and the ISPP
Subject Matter Committee on Grapevine Trunk Diseases now have a
web-site http://www.icgtd.org.
Laura Mugnai email@example.com
informed the ISPP Newsletter about this and also provided the following
announcement of the 7th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases
to be held from 17-21 January 2010 in Chile. It will be organized by Jaime
Auger and Marcela Esterio of the Universidad de Chile. Click
here to access the 1st circular. It provides details about the
organisation, registration, accommodation and submission of abstracts.
Cassava mosaic virus
Cassava mosaic disease, which was highly destructive to cassava plants
in Nigeria in the early 1970s, is reported to have emerged again in a more
damaging form., which might wipe out the entire crop in Nigeria, Cameroon,
Ghana and Togo. This is according to a recent release (23 April, 2009) by
ProMED-mail http://www.promedmail.org.
a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Nigeria is currently a leading producer of cassava and earns much
foreign exchange from export of cassava. The new situation has prompted an
emergency response from the International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture and other Nigerian agricultural experts.
IPMnet and its NEWS
Once again, readers are reminded of "IPMnet" an Integrated
Pest Management Network concerning "Global Principles, Local
Practices". IPMnet NEWS is produced and provided as a free,
electronic and global IPM information resource.
IPMnet NEWS is an electronic newsletter published every six weeks year
round. It delivers current crop pest management and IPM information linked
to: new developments, research, and technology; extension and economic
impacts; a field focus; current publications; email links for
authoritative contacts; highlights of, and access to, recent literature;
plus, internet links to many other related information sources.
IPMnet NEWS emphasizes contemporary, environmentally aware, economic
approaches for managing/controlling weeds, pathogens, insects, nematodes,
and vertebrate pests in crops and amenity plantings, as well as preventing
or containing crop-related invasive species.
IPMnet NEWS is not sponsored by, affiliated with, nor beholden to any
private sector interests. Current financial underwriting comes from: the
USA Agency for International Development's IPM Collaborative Research
Support Program; the USA Dept. of Agriculture's Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service; and, the Integrated Plant
Protection Center at Oregon State University, USA.
The NEWS cooperates closely with both the International Society for
Pest Information and the International Association for the Plant
Protection Sciences, as well as several other professional organizations
and groups.
To contact A E Deutsch, editor/coordinator, or to place an order, go
to firstname.lastname@example.com.
A Century at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
To help celebrate 100 years of genetics at the John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK, there will be a very special symposium in September 2009. See
"Coming Events". Paul Nurse will open the symposium with the
Bateson Lecture and Sydney Brenner will close with "Genetics 100
Years On". In between will be reflections on areas of human interest
that have been transformed by a genetic approach, examining where they are
now, and where they might be in the next 100 years. Speakers will be David
Stern, Stewart Cole, Michael Ashburner, Jonathan Hodgkin, John Doebley,
Walter Bodmer, Linda Partridge, Michael Stratton, Chris Tyler-Smith, Leena
Peltonen-Palotie, Rico Coen, Eric Wieschaus, Rich Losick, Mark Patshne,
Daniel St Johnson, David Baulcombe and Caroline Dean.
A one day meeting on the history of genetics immediately precedes the
symposium. See: http://www.jic.ac.uk/centenary/events/historyofgenetics/programme.htm.
An Alumni Day follows the symposium for meeting up with old friends.
See: http://www.jic.ac.uk/centenary/events/alumniday/programme.htm.
The Organising Committee comprises Professor Keith Roberts (Chair, JIC
Emeritus Professor), Professor Chris Lamb (Director JIC), Professor Sir
David Hopwood (JIC Emeritus Professor), Professor Enrico Coen, (JIC), Dr
Sarah Wilmot (JIC), Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Rockefeller, NY, USA) and
Sir Walter Bodmer (Oxford, UK).
This information was sent from firstname.lastname@example.com
and see below for more from BBSRC.
The Genome Analysis Centre also at Norwich, UK
The John Innes Centre is an Institute of the UK Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), which has just announced The
Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) to be based on the site of the Institute as
part of the Norwich Research Park. The new national centre TGAC will
analyse plant, animal and microbial genomes, and will provide genome
sequencing in helping to improve food security, to protect UK agriculture
from exotic animal disease and exploit weaknesses in microbes to develop
new ways to kill superbugs. It will also be a centre of excellence in
bioinformatics to ensure that the data generated by its genome analysis,
and that of other facilities, can be effectively collected and analysed.
See: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2009/090402_genome_analysis_centre.html
TGAC will start almost immediately and will be formally opened in June.
BBSRC is providing the majority of the �13.5M investment in the Centre
and will underwrite its running costs for several years but local partners
in the region are all making significant contributions.
2009 CABI Global Summit - food security
The CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) Global
Summit will be held in London, UK. from 19-21 October 2009. It will gather
environmental and agricultural ministers and other senior government
officials from around the world. Also present will be donors and
representatives from international development and corporate organizations
to consider policies, practices and technologies that can help improve
food security in a climate of change.
See: https://www.cabiglobalsummit.com/delegate_landing.aspx.
Coming Events
3rd International Symposium on Crop Plant Resistance to Biotic and
Abiotic Factors: Current Potential and Future Demands in Berlin, Germany.
14-16 May 2009. Contact: email@example.com.
See: www.dpg-bcpc-symposium.de.
Meeting on "Plant Abiotic Stress - from signaling to
development" in Tartu, Estonia. 14-17 May 2009. Contact: Dr Hannes
Kollist email@example.com. Phone:
+372-737-4814. See: http://www.ut.ee/inpas/.
8th International PGPR Workshop in Portland, Oregon, USA. 17-22 May
2009. See: www.capps.wsu.edu/pgpr
Training Program: Integrated Pest Management and Food Safety in
Wageningen, The Netherlands. 18 May-12 Jun 2009. Contact: email@example.com.
"Fast Forward" - the annual spring meeting of the Royal
Netherlands Society of Plant Pathology (KNPV) in Wageningen, The
Netherlands. 25 May 2009. See: http://www.knpv.org/en/.
14th International Sclerotinia Workshop in Wilmington, North Carolina,
USA. 31 May-4 June 2009. See: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/sclerotinia_conference/index.html
SFP National Congress (in French) in Lyon, France. 8-11 June 2009.
Canadian Phytopathological Society Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. 22-25 June 2009. See: www.cps-scp.ca
XXIth International Symposium on Virus and Virus-Like Diseases of
Temperate Fruit Crops and XIIth International Symposium on Small Fruit
Virus Diseases in Germany. 5-10 July 2009. See http://www.phytomedizin.org/index.php?id=193
. Source: Professor Dr Wilhelm Jelkmann email@example.com
Julius K�hn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut f�r Kulturpflanzen,
Institut f�r Pflanzenschutz in Obst- und Weinbau, Schwabenheimer Str.
101, 69221 Dossenheim, Germany.
Plant ROS 2009 in Helsinki, Finland. 8-10 July 2009. Contact:
email@example.com . See: www.pog2009.org/
International Conference on Fungal Evolution and Charles Darwin:
"From Morphology to Molecules" at the Thailand Science Park,
Pathumthani, Thailand. 9-11 July 2009. See: http://www.biotec.or.th/darwinconf2009.
14th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions in
Qu�bec City, Canada. 19-23 July 2009. See: www.ismpminet.org/meetings.
APS Annual Meeting 2009 at the Portland Convention Center, Portland,
Oregon, USA. 1-5 August 2009. See: http://www.apsnet.org
14th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference and 11th SABRAO Conference
in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. 10-14 August 2009. See: http://www.plantbreeding09.com.au/.
I All Africa Horticultural Congress: "Grown Under the Sun" at
the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. 31 August-3 September. See: http://www.globalhort.org/news-events/all-africa-horticulture-congress/.
IX International Symposium on Thysanoptera and Tospoviruses at Sea
World Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 31 August-4 September
2009. See: http://www.istt09.org/content/view/13/27/.
10th International Cotton Conference "Natural Fibres-Their
Attractiveness in Multidirectional Applications" in Gdynia, Poland.
3-4 September 2009. See: http://www.gca.org.pl/x.php/2,326/10th-International-Cotton
2nd World Seed Conference "Responding to the Challenges of the
Changing World: The Role of New Plant Varieties and High Quality Seed in
Agriculture" at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. 8-10 September 8-10,
2009. See: http://worldseedconference.org/en/worldseedconference/home.html.
"Genetics 100 Years On" a symposium at the John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK. 9-11 September 2009. See: http://www.jic.ac.uk/centenary/events/Genetics100YearsOn/.
BSPP Presidential Meeting 2009 "Darwin to Disease; Crops and their
pathogens" - Celebrating Darwin's 200th Birthday - University Museum,
Oxford, UK. 22 September 2009. See: http://www.bspp.org.uk/.
Annual Meeting of SIPAV, the Italian Society for Plant Pathology, in
Locorotondo, Bari, Italy. 28 September-1 October 2009.
APPS 2009 "Plant Health Management-An Integrated Approach" at
the Civic Precinct, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. 30 September-2 October
2009. See: http://www.apps2009.org.au/.
Agriculture: Africa's "Engine for Growth - Plant Science &
Biotechnology hold the Key" at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts,
UK. 12-14 October 2009. See: www.aab.org.uk/contentok.php?id=83&basket=wwsshowconfdets.
The 13th World Forestry Congress (Forests in development - a vital
balance) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 18-25 October 2009. See http://www.wfc2009.org/index_1024.html
. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com .
9th International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology in St Louis,
Missouri, USA. 25-30 October 2009. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.
See: www.ipmb2009.org.
The 10th Arab Congress of Plant Protection in Beirut, Lebanon. 26-30
October 2009. See also flyer linked from an item in the May 2009
Newsletter. Contact: email@example.com
or firstname.lastname@example.com.
"First International Conference of Mycops" in the Institute
of Mycology and Plant Pathology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
9-11 November 2009. Contact: Professor Dr Rukshana Bajwa email@example.com
or the Conference Secretary Dr Sarwar Alam firstname.lastname@example.com.
British Crop Production Council, BCPC Congress 2009, at the Scottish
Exhibition & Conference Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 9-11 November
2009. See: www.bcpccongress.com.
The 2009 International Conference on Horticulture in Bangalore,
Karnataka, India. 9-12 November 2009. See: http://www.pnasf.org/ich2009.htm
5th International Conference on Plant Pathology, with the theme
"Plant pathology in the globalized era", at the Indian
Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. 10-13 November 2009.
Contact: email@example.com
or firstname.lastname@example.com .
National Soybean Rust Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 9-11
December 2009. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.
7th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases in Santa Cruz,
Chile. 17-21 January 2010. See: a link to a circular in a news item in the
May 2009 ISPP Newsletter.
Global Biosecurity 2010, Safeguarding Agriculture and the Environment,
at the Brisbane Convention Center, Queensland, Australia. 23 February-3
March 2010. See: www.globalbiosecurity2010.com.
Phytophthora Diseases in Forest Trees and Natural Ecosystems - 5th
Meeting of the IUFRO Working Group in Rotorua, New Zealand. 7-12 March
2010. Queries to Pam Taylor, phone: +64-7-3435727, Fax: +64-7-3480952.
Email: email@example.com.
13th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union in Rome,
Italy. 13-18 June 2010. See: www.mpunion.com.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.
12th IUPAC International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry in Melbourne,
Australia. 4-8 July 2010. See: http://www.iupacicpc2010.org/.
9th International Mycological Congress (IMC9) in Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK. 1-6 August 2010. See: http://www.imc9.info/.
APS Annual Meeting 2010 at Opryland, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 7-11
August 2010. See: http://www.apsnet.org
International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium in Cornell, New York,
USA. 20-24 June 2010. See: http://www.isppweb.org/ICPVE/.
Contact: Professor Alberto Fereres at email@example.com.
XXVIII International Horticultural Congress (IHC2010) in Lisbon,
Portugal. 22-27 August 2010. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.
See: http://www.ihc2010.org.
The 8th International Conference on Pseudomonas syringae and Related
Pathogens in Oxford, UK. 31 August-3 September 2010. See: www.reading.ac.uk/Psyringae2010
. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
The 18th Biennial Australasian Plant Pathology Meeting and 4th Asian
Conference for Plant Pathology, a Joint Conference, at the Darwin
Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. 27-29 April
2011. Watch: http://www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au/
Joint Meeting of APS and IAPPS in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 6-10 August
2011. See: http://www.apsnet.org.
10th International Congress of Plant Pathology 2013 (ICPP2013)
"Bio-security, Food Safety and Plant Pathology: The Role of Plant
Pathology in a Globalized Economy" in Beijing, China. 25-31 August
2013. Watch: http://www.isppweb.org/congress.asp
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2011 Founders' Bonspiel Results
November 7th, 2011
Thank you to the many PCC members and others who helped run and compete in our 2011 Founders' Bonspiel! It was a great success and good time for all! Without further ado, here are the winners and runners-up for each of the events.
1st Event
Winners: Petrov (No Names)
Finalist: Ashford
2nd Event
Winners: DeJong
Finalist: Bajorek
3rd Event
Winners: The Michaels
Finalist: Heffner
4th Event
Winners: LBI CC
Finalist: Langanke
The results from all the games are available on our 2011 Founders Online Results page, and photos from the event are also online.

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Bernanke Explains It All To The IMF - Live Webcast
- Asset-Backed Securities
- Bank of New York
- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- Central Banks
- Commercial Paper
- Copper
- Creditors
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Bank
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Housing Prices
- Hyperinflation
- International Monetary Fund
- Israel
- Larry Summers
- Monetary Policy
- Moral Hazard
- New York City
- Reality
- Recession
- Repo Market
- Shadow Banking
- Subprime Mortgages
- Treasury Department
Ben Bernanke is participating in an IMF panel with Larry Summers, Ken Rogoff, and former Bank of Israel chief Stan Fischer... full speech below...
Live stream via BBG (if embed not working clck here)
The Crisis as a Classic Financial Panic
I am very pleased to participate in this event in honor of Stanley Fischer. Stan was my teacher in graduate school, and he has been both a role model and a frequent adviser ever since. An expert on financial crises, Stan has written prolifically on the subject and has also served on the front lines, so to speak--notably, in his role as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund during the emerging market crises of the 1990s. Stan also helped to fight hyperinflation in Israel in the 1980s and, as the governor of that nation's central bank, deftly managed monetary policy to mitigate the effects of the recent crisis on the Israeli economy. Subsequently, as Israeli housing prices ran upward, Stan became an advocate and early adopter of macroprudential policies to preserve financial stability.
Stan frequently counseled his students to take a historical perspective, which is good advice in general, but particularly helpful for understanding financial crises, which have been around a very long time. Indeed, as I have noted elsewhere, I think the recent global crisis is best understood as a classic financial panic transposed into the novel institutional context of the 21st century financial system.1 An appreciation of the parallels between recent and historical events greatly influenced how I and many of my colleagues around the world responded to the crisis.
Besides being the fifth anniversary of the most intense phase of the recent crisis, this year also marks the centennial of the founding of the Federal Reserve.2 It's particularly appropriate to recall, therefore, that the Federal Reserve was itself created in response to a severe financial panic, the Panic of 1907. This panic led to the creation of the National Monetary Commission, whose 1911 report was a major impetus to the Federal Reserve Act, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. Because the Panic of 1907 fit the archetype of a classic financial panic in many ways, it's worth discussing its similarities and differences with the recent crisis.3
Like many other financial panics, including the most recent one, the Panic of 1907 took place while the economy was weakening; according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a recession had begun in May 1907.4 Also, as was characteristic of pre-Federal Reserve panics, money markets were tight when the panic struck in October, reflecting the strong seasonal demand for credit associated with the harvesting and shipment of crops. The immediate trigger of the panic was a failed effort by a group of speculators to corner the stock of the United Copper Company. The main perpetrators of the failed scheme, F. Augustus Heinze and C.F. Morse, had extensive connections with a number of leading financial institutions in New York City. When the news of the failed speculation broke, depositor fears about the health of those institutions led to a series of runs on banks, including a bank at which Heinze served as president. To try to restore confidence, the New York Clearinghouse, a private consortium of banks, reviewed the books of the banks under pressure, declared them solvent, and offered conditional support--one of the conditions being that Heinze and his board step down. These steps were largely successful in stopping runs on the New York banks.
But even as the banks stabilized, concerns intensified about the financial health of a number of so-called trust companies--financial institutions that were less heavily regulated than national or state banks and which were not members of the Clearinghouse. As the runs on the trust companies worsened, the companies needed cash to meet the demand for withdrawals. In the absence of a central bank, New York's leading financiers, led by J.P. Morgan, considered providing liquidity. However, Morgan and his colleagues decided that they did not have sufficient information to judge the solvency of the affected institutions, so they declined to lend. Overwhelmed by a run, the Knickerbocker Trust Company failed on October 22, undermining public confidence in the remaining trust companies.
To satisfy their depositors' demands for cash, the trust companies began to sell or liquidate assets, including loans made to finance stock purchases. The selloff of shares and other assets, in what today we would call a fire sale, precipitated a sharp decline in the stock market and widespread disruptions in other financial markets. Increasingly concerned, Morgan and other financiers (including the future governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Benjamin Strong) led a coordinated response that included the provision of liquidity through the Clearinghouse and the imposition of temporary limits on depositor withdrawals, including withdrawals by correspondent banks in the interior of the country. These efforts eventually calmed the panic. By then, however, the U.S. financial system had been severely disrupted, and the economy contracted through the middle of 1908.
The recent crisis echoed many aspects of the 1907 panic. Like most crises, the recent episode had an identifiable trigger--in this case, the growing realization by market participants that subprime mortgages and certain other credits were seriously deficient in their underwriting and disclosures. As the economy slowed and housing prices declined, diverse financial institutions, including many of the largest and most internationally active firms, suffered credit losses that were clearly large but also hard for outsiders to assess. Pervasive uncertainty about the size and incidence of losses in turn led to sharp withdrawals of short-term funding from a wide range of institutions; these funding pressures precipitated fire sales, which contributed to sharp declines in asset prices and further losses. Institutional changes over the past century were reflected in differences in the types of funding that ran: In 1907, in the absence of deposit insurance, retail deposits were much more prone to run, whereas in 2008, most withdrawals were of uninsured wholesale funding, in the form of commercial paper, repurchase agreements, and securities lending. Interestingly, a steep decline in interbank lending, a form of wholesale funding, was important in both episodes. Also interesting is that the 1907 panic involved institutions--the trust companies--that faced relatively less regulation, which probably contributed to their rapid growth in the years leading up to the panic. In analogous fashion, in the recent crisis, much of the panic occurred outside the perimeter of traditional bank regulation, in the so-called shadow banking sector.5
The responses to the panics of 1907 and 2008 also provide instructive comparisons. In both cases, the provision of liquidity in the early stages was crucial. In 1907 the United States had no central bank, so the availability of liquidity depended on the discretion of firms and private individuals, like Morgan. In the more recent crisis, the Federal Reserve fulfilled the role of liquidity provider, consistent with the classic prescriptions of Walter Bagehot.6 The Fed lent not only to banks, but, seeking to stem the panic in wholesale funding markets, it also extended its lender-of-last-resort facilities to support nonbank institutions, such as investment banks and money market funds, and key financial markets, such as those for commercial paper and asset-backed securities.
In both episodes, though, liquidity provision was only the first step. Full stabilization requires the restoration of public confidence. Three basic tools for restoring confidence are temporary public or private guarantees, measures to strengthen financial institutions' balance sheets, and public disclosure of the conditions of financial firms. At least to some extent, Morgan and the New York Clearinghouse used these tools in 1907, giving assistance to troubled firms and providing assurances to the public about the conditions of individual banks. All three tools were used extensively in the recent crisis: In the United States, guarantees included the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) guarantees of bank debt, the Treasury Department's guarantee of money market funds, and the private guarantees offered by stronger firms that acquired weaker ones. Public and private capital injections strengthened bank balance sheets. Finally, the bank stress tests that the Federal Reserve led in the spring of 2009 and the publication of the stress-test findings helped restore confidence in the U.S. banking system. Collectively, these measures helped end the acute phase of the financial crisis, although, five years later, the economic consequences are still with us.
Once the fire is out, public attention turns to the question of how to better fireproof the system. Here, the context and the responses differed between 1907 and the recent crisis. As I mentioned, following the 1907 crisis, reform efforts led to the founding of the Federal Reserve, which was charged both with helping to prevent panics and, by providing an "elastic currency," with smoothing seasonal interest rate fluctuations. In contrast, reforms since 2008 have focused on critical regulatory gaps revealed by the crisis. Notably, oversight of the shadow banking system is being strengthened through the designation, by the new Financial Stability Oversight Council, of nonbank systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) for consolidated supervision by the Federal Reserve, and measures are being undertaken to address the potential instability of wholesale funding, including reforms to money market funds and the triparty repo market.7
As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard. The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run, if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking. As Stan Fischer reminded us following the international crises of the late 1990s, the problem of moral hazard has no perfect solution, but steps can be taken to limit it.8 First, regulatory and supervisory reforms, such as higher capital and liquidity standards or restriction on certain activities, can directly limit risk-taking. Second, through the use of appropriate carrots and sticks, regulators can enlist the private sector in monitoring risk-taking. For example, the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) process, the descendant of the bank stress tests of 2009, requires not only that large financial institutions have sufficient capital to weather extreme shocks, but also that they demonstrate that their internal risk-management systems are effective.9 In addition, the results of the stress-test portion of CCAR are publicly disclosed, providing investors and analysts information they need to assess banks' financial strength.
Of course, market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs. In the crisis, the absence of an adequate resolution process for dealing with a failing SIFI left policymakers with only the terrible choices of a bailout or allowing a potentially destabilizing collapse. The Dodd-Frank Act, under the orderly liquidation authority in Title II, created an alternative resolution mechanism for SIFIs that takes into account both the need, for moral hazard reasons, to impose costs on the creditors of failing firms and the need to protect financial stability; the FDIC, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has been hard at work fleshing out this authority.10 A credible resolution mechanism for systemically important firms will be important for reducing uncertainty, enhancing market discipline, and reducing moral hazard.
Our continuing challenge is to make financial crises far less likely and, if they happen, far less costly. The task is complicated by the reality that every financial panic has its own unique features that depend on a particular historical context and the details of the institutional setting. But, as Stan Fischer has done with unusual skill throughout his career, one can, by stripping away the idiosyncratic aspects of individual crises, hope to reveal the common elements. In 1907, no one had ever heard of an asset-backed security, and a single private individual could command the resources needed to bail out the banking system; and yet, fundamentally, the Panic of 1907 and the Panic of 2008 were instances of the same phenomenon, as I have discussed today. The challenge for policymakers is to identify and isolate the common factors of crises, thereby allowing us to prevent crises when possible and to respond effectively when not.
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is $TWTR about to enter bear territory?
trading almost 20% off of its intraday highs
What's $TWTR? A thorium explorer?
A money disposal device.
The next BTFD class schedule will be announced shortly
Can we get a drone and some coordinates?
Bernanke is worse than a shizophrenic pedophile, and should be force fed his nuts wrapped in $100 notes.
"And you rage and fume at the godless ones
Cause they don't understand how the company runs
And they think it's the money that you care about
You pretend to be offended when they figure it out
Tell me what kind of heaven do you think awaits
When your ass is too fat to fit the pearly gates?
It's like the eye of a needle and a limosine
Paradise is set aside for the less obscene
You only care for the power that the lucre brings
And you have no love for any living thing, save Mammon
And you'd like to rub our face in it"
good fuckin idea, we can get rid of three of the biggest zionist financial terrorists in one fell swoop...
"Of course, market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs." <snort>
Heart throb
the Panic of 1907 and the Panic of 2008 were instances of the same phenomenon
The criminal is admitting, leering, bragging, jeering that Rothschild minions did 2008. FU Bernanke
Re: The challenge for policymakers is to identify and isolate the common factors of crises, thereby allowing us to prevent crises when possible and to respond effectively when not.
But NOT the common factor of centralized control and TBTF banks. That's gotta stay.
let me summarize...."we are clueless apes with a printer"
They are not clueless, they are criminal and they know exactly what they are doing.
The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run, if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
Of course, market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.
First, regulatory and supervisory reforms, such as higher capital and liquidity standards or restriction on certain activities, can directly limit risk-taking.
Second, through the use of appropriate carrots and sticks, regulators can enlist the private sector in monitoring risk-taking.
A credible resolution mechanism for systemically important firms will be important for reducing uncertainty, enhancing market discipline, and reducing moral hazard.
To summarize, investors must accept the consequences of bad choices, so the Fed will take action to limit how much risk an investor can take, monitor how much risk an investor will take, and save investors from their mistakes if they are deemed too big to fail i.e. investors that are part of the club.
Bernanke is a criminal. I sincerely hope he gets what he deserves.
Yesh, Honey Badger, that meeting is like an open air convention of some of the current representatives of the best organized crime gang in the world, the one that has been systematically able to apply the methods of organized crime to take over governments.
Yes, yes, the two week liquldity problem is totally solved. Thank you for 4 years of solution.
Arrest them while they are all in one place. Don't let them get away.
Nice suggstion, q99x2, but that does NOT address the paradox of enforcement, that only those who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, can actually enforce their "rule of law."
Where the fuck are the drones when you really need em?
lol, this shitfest is going to erase all losses from yesterday, and maybe even gain some .
its so fucking criminal and they do not fucking prosecute these fuckers responsible.
im nauseous
can we add this fucking asshole david darst from morgan stanley to the hitlist?
this guy is such a fucking asshole, every friday he comes on cnbc and spews the same fucking bullshit,'' china is recovering, europe is great, jobs r great in the u.s, yet this asshole does not fucking mention that nearly 1,000,000 people withdrew from the labor force,
fuck u david, u fucking jackass
I thought he was trying to avert the crisis of 1929? Now it is 1907?
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Fischer: "The system proved the stress tests were successful".
Ummmm.....what about FASB 157 asshole? Pretty easy to make balance sheets look great when you have everything "marked to unicorn".
This guy makes no sense at all. Blah, fucking blah.
i could only read four sentences before i barfed.
"It's nice to be here and celebrate the establishment of an illegal banking cabal that creates and promotes the crises it was supposedly instituted to prevent or solve - and to celebrate the line of economic alchemists who help to perpetuate the great lie and indoctrinate new acolytes into the fold of dark necromancers who punish savers while rewarding graft, debt spending, profligate government, crony capitalism, and a parasitic financial system - while providing us fat salaries and benefits along with Nobel Prizes. A toast, Ladies and Gentleman, to circular reasoning and the confounding of common sense with nebulous theory and econometric modeling!"
Rogoff kissing everyones ass now. Nice work Ken you cocksucker.
There is more truth here than any article I've recently read: http://paulcraigroberts.org/2013/11/07/america-lost-paul-craig-roberts/
The whole system is fueled by bullshit. What did you expect from Thebernanke, the truth?
Bernanke explains it better right here:
What a spineless piece of shit, Mr. Bernanke. Why didn't you talk with Chairman Christian Noyer? The Bank of International Settlements creates new bubbles & shell games for the IMF. Do you think they won't catch onto your double talk?
The BIS Board of Directors:
- Chairman: Christian Noyer, Paris
- Ben S Bernanke, Washington
- Mark Carney, London
- Agustín Carstens, Mexico City
- Luc Coene, Brussels
- Jon Cunliffe, London
- Andreas Dombret, Frankfurt am Main
- Mario Draghi, Frankfurt am Main
- William C Dudley, New York
- Stefan Ingves, Stockholm
- Thomas Jordan, Zurich
- Klaas Knot, Amsterdam
- Haruhiko Kuroda, Tokyo
- Fabio Panetta, Rome
- Stephen S Poloz, Ottawa
- Guy Quaden, Brussels
- Ignazio Visco, Rome
- Jens Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main
- Zhou Xiaochuan, Beijing
Bummers, Togoff and Fishy are also all in the Group of Thirty...
It won't be long until the Bernanke joins them (in the G30)
Did his voice tremble like that of a little girl in a rattlesnake's lair?
Limit moral hazard by stealing deposits instead of stealing tax payer money, good one Bernanke as always your logic is flawless.
Did anyone say it? I did not check...
F U BEN (and remain in pain forever) [aka FUBAR IP F]
Its actually quite simple. Steal the right to print money from the people, charge interest on ALL money entering commerce so that ALL liquidity is based on debt.
Increase the money supply (debt) till it can no longer be serviced by new debt, then decrease the money supply, call in all the loans and bankrupt the people.
Now, go in and take all the assets at pennies on the dollar. Rinse-repeat.
Over and over and over, and we still fall for this shit without firing the elite bankster bastards, and then distributing the means of exchange WITHOUT INTEREST!
So simple, yet most do not get it.
Seems like we recovered a bit quicker after some legitimate failures in 1907-08. A short quick hit to clean out the crap. Now contrast that to the current debacle which was created by the Fed itself. In 2008, after years of negligent accommodative Fed interest rate policy, we have the failure of Lehman, followed by massive liquidity intervention by the the same bozos created the problem to begin with. Fast forward 5 years later, the economy has had an anemic artificial recovery and requires permanent infusion Fed cash to avoid what should have happened 5 years ago. We have bubbles in bonds and equities that threaten to burst should the printing stop. Unemployment remains stubbornly high, and GDP growth is pathetic. We have 40 plus million on food stamps, record government debt, and no hopes of reversal. Yeah Bennie, you are the man. Give yourself a big pat on the back.


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By Josh Tyler 2010-10-08 12:26:42 comments
Principle photography has begun on The Weinstein Companys sideways take on the life Marilyn Monroe. Its called My Week with Marilyn and its based on the real life account of a 23-year-old from Oxford who gets sucked into Marilyns life in 1956 as she escapes from Hollywood to Britain. Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson ("Harry Potter" films) and Julia Ormond are all in the film but Marilyn will be played by Michelle Williams. This is our first look at her in full Monroe regalia.
Ive wondered from the beginning whether shed be able to pull it off. Michelle is a fantastic actress, maybe one of Hollywoods best, but she looks nothing like Marilyn. But I guess the theory here is that you can die anyones hair blonde and give them the Marilyn look and while I still dont think she looks like the Hollywood icon, shes close enough. Take a look:
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- All samples and standards are prepared in duplicate.
- For each standard -- except for standard 8 -- add enough water to bring to 10 µl.
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- Be sure to make more than enough dilute reagent for all the samples.
If you run out of reagent part way through the plate, you will have to discard everything with the old reagent and start over. Samples done with a different dye dilution than your standards will not be accurate.
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Magazine article Economic Trends
Migration of College Graduates
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The U.S. Department of Education conducts a Baccalaureate and Beyond survey that tracks the location, employment, and family patterns of college graduates. So far, this longitudinal study has looked at students who obtained their degrees in 1993 and those who obtained their degrees in 2000. The first study surveyed students in April 1993, when they graduated, and again in April 1994 and April 1997. The 2000 class was surveyed in April 2000 and April 2001 and will be surveyed again in April 2004. The survey provides a unique opportunity to track college graduates as they move from state to state.
Among 1993 graduates, 72.4% were still in the state where their degree-granting college was located one year after graduation (1994), and 66.7% were still in the same state as their degree-granting institution four years after graduation (1997). Retention rates in the Fourth District states of Ohio and Kentucky exceeded the national average in both 1994 and 1997: More than 3/4 of Ohio graduates still lived in the state in 1994, and just over 73% still lived there in 1997. Kentucky's retention rate rose during the survey period: In 1994, 80.9% of Kentucky graduates lived in the state; by 1997, that figure had risen to 83.3%, the highest retention rate of any state for which data were available in the 1997 survey.
Respondents in the survey of 2000 graduates seemed more willing to move, within a year of graduation, from the state in which they attended college: In 2001, 69.2% of 2000 grads nationwide were still in the state where their school was located. Although Ohio's retention rate of 65.1% was below the national mean, it was well within the average range: The middle 25 states had retention rates between 60% and 71%. The Fourth District states of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia were also among the middle 25, with retention rates of 69. …


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PC(meaning DOS / Windows) vs. Acorn (a British computer manufacturer, once fairly successful, but now unknown by anyone under 21), groups of teenage boys would spend countless hours arguing that the
other sidewere, at best, misguided and, at worst, in league with the devil. Boys like to argue, and these were fairly harmless topics, but by the time I'd started university, I was long past the point of wanting to engage in heated debate about such topics.
Several times recently, memories of wasted hours have flooded back to me as I have been an unwilling participant in one of the longest-standing debates in programming languages - statically
To make matters worse, the debate in this particular case is asymmetric. For decades now, the computing intelligentsia have been overwhelmingly in favour of static typing - in academia, this bias is almost total. While the intellectual basis of static typing is both well established and frequently promulgated, the dynamic typing community has been far less intellectually confident. Please note, I'm not saying that dynamic typing has a less firm intellectual basis - simply that it is infrequently articulated. Let me give two simple, but different, examples:
To my mind, both statically and dynamically typed languages have a place. If you're building software for a nuclear reactor, I want you to use every tool at your disposal to reduce errors, even if that increases the cost of producing the software by a factor of ten or more - and statically typed languages will undoubtedly catch some errors that might otherwise go undiscovered, so they're the right tool for the job. If you're building a website, I want you to make it as easy as possible for yourself to modify it to reflect rapidly changing requirements - which probably means using a dynamically typed language.
One day I hope that someone will put together a comprehensive and unbiased comparison of the two paradigms since, to the best of my knowledge, nothing currently exists which does the job. Until then, I immodestly offer a pre-print of a modest book chapter I wrote last year (and, if you're really interested, its corresponding BibTeX entry) where I tried to give an introduction to dynamically typed languages. Inevitably this involves a comparison to statically typed languages, defining terminology, and trying to enumerate the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach. As mentioned in the chapter, I personally dislike the terms
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History Tells the Real Trouble with British Industry; City Comment
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Byline: ANTHONY HILTON
BRITISH industry may be in trouble because of the strong pound but that is not the root of its problems. It has been in trouble for decades.
Thirty years ago, when the then Prime Minister Ted Heath put the entire country on a three-day week in an effort to beat a miners' strike, he found to his amazement, then horror as the implications sank in, that manufacturing output did not drop. Industry had been working at half pace for years.
Improvements since then have slowed the decline but not arrested it.
There are three immediately obvious reasons for the decline - the quality of management, the lack of investment and the cultural antipathy of the country, or at least the decision-making part of it - going back not just for 50 years but almost to Britain's industrial beginnings.
Indeed, in the middle of the 19th century the marked difference between British and German attitudes was evident. The aspiration of the successful British entrepreneur was to buy an estate so that his sons could aspire to become landed gentry. The aspiration of the German industrialist was to send his sons to college to become better engineers and businessmen.
The way the continuing distaste for manufacturing and trade shows itself may be slightly more subtle now but this is still a country that ranks culture far above commerce and accords far more social status and recognition to a second-rank Shakespearean actor than to a first-rank successful entrepreneur.
This helps explain why manufacturing is not the first choice for enough of Britain's brightest and best. Traditionally, universities reinforced middle class values which channelled students into the professions rather than business. We live in more commercially- aware times but manufacturing still misses out because the City securities houses now pick up the majority of the best brains every year. …


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It's official. This team will not be above .500 for the rest of the year.Hide replies
They in't gonna do nothin till they get somebody to run with Brandon an Montay. Those too is getting dang tire a havin to do it all alone every dam time. Even melo gotta have a little help now an then, heh?
Therein lies the problem [ghost]. Your guys want to do it all on the O-end and contribute nothing n the D-end. (Except for steals which can get them offense). You are who who can defend.
There is little doubt at this juncture that offensive is lacking at the baseline and center spot, save what I hope is a now 'mentally healthier' Ersan who seems to be coming out of his funk. {AI} is not wrong in his premise of
the two guards oddly caring this club even with efficiency rating that would bench a H.S. kid. Yet, who else is stepping up?
The flip side of that coin however {AI} is those very guards are in a position
to "make their teamates better". The discussion presently ongoing relative to Kobe vs Magic as the greatest Laker. The latter excelling at making his team better. The former's answer is taking more shots.
While no one will confuse BJ or Monta with Kobe...their position and role is such that they very well could facilitate more, shoot less.
Christ, I'm tired of my own redundency>>>
Make they team mates better/ Man, you gotta do that for you own dangself. Everybody no that! Nobody out there making Montay better, man no what a man gotta do. Nobody ever made AI any better, that for sure. You wanna be better? Then shoot you dang shots.
Your singular focus{AI} is your downfall.
The [ghost] has a philosophy that 'the most shots up wins'. That might work in driveways and playgrounds and on a certain Division III team, but not for serious basketball people.
*Patterns / Themes are now taking hold. Losing a shadow of itself.
And, dare I say...each season now a carbon copy of its predecessor.
35-84.... 5-12... 24-29
41.7%... 41.7%....82.8%
*Yes, we climbed out of the high thirty percentile but not by much. A 'neighborhood' all to familiar with this team. This while your opponent is shooting 47-plus.
*A novelty is the Charity Stripe on this night. Good to see, and breaking team tradition of around a dozen a night.
*The nightly 5-15 (BJ), and 5-19 (Monta) present again with Ellis's 10-11 at
the F.T. line, and 11 assists countering the disease by making the night digestable. Some suggest we shouldn't be so harsh on a guy born to shoot.
To that I say...lets just agree to disagree. Now, if Ellis throws us a few more nights such as this, (in a winning effort) then revisiting this notion shall take place. Until then, the banton is passed to (bnk) as he continues to unravel the
simplicity that is efficiency. 5-19 and 6-20 is not efficient, yet, all to
*In contrast, and a plug, Illyasova with a respectable 7-12. Sadly it ends there. The man...MIA in the second half, and on the floor at closing time. Four quarters are required in the NBA. That goes for all who suit up.
*Fandom waving pom poms at seasons beginning enthralled with the new additon at the baseline/center spot; better now to gobble up those rebounds.
San Antone -53....Milw. Bucks -36 (Duncan 27 min.). It can be as simple as blocking out, and putting a body in front of your guy.
*Henson and Harris each under two minutes. The Spurs gleaning respect from their
rival as the bench as become home for Harris. (I'm not a told ya so guy, and
gloating isn't desired, yet, far too much was placed on this kid far too early. Potential the enemy of Production. (mildly plagerized from the _bnk_ quote)
*Lastly. Second half production down in most games. Evident again in TX>
"Closing Time"
The notion and phrased began two seasons ago, and depicted here:
"The Milwaukee Bucks held a lead on the San Antonio Spurs for much of the night, but a tie game after 3 quarters turned into an easy Spurs victory after they dominated the final 12 minutes......
Large portions of Wednesday's game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the San Antonio Spurs defied all reasonable explanation. Unfortunately for Milwaukee, the 4th quarter was all too familiar...." (Opening paragraph @BrewH>)
And, provided as a carry over from the 'theme and patterns' narrative below.
While the entire fourth quarter maybe abit of a stretch in defining what I had
in mind when coining 'closing time" lets at least agree it fits the bill.
Its opposite being closing a game out in which you looked dominate in the first half, struggled some at the beginning of the third, and come the fourth, well....
This dynamic, and again for you daily readers my utmost apologies for this echo chamber I'm caught in, simply must be addressed to quell any furhter letting games such as this slip away.
What is Kohl's measuring stick for success on this season? Because the longer it remains around .500, or slightly above, the greater the chance is that we'll see the same or very similar product next year.
I'm not a fan of booing the home team but some recourse needs to happen in order to show dissatisfaction with the Milwaukee Bucks product.
Plenty of people choose to vote with ticket sales or lack thereof. At this point in the season fans should be jumping at a chance to go to a Friday night game and witness the Bucks throttle the Bobcats. I'll admit, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one, but I'm hesitant about going to the game because the Bucks performance is sketchy.
I'll focus on bright spots. Larry. Ersan upping his game. Young ones.
But as a whole it's wince-worthy.Hide replies
After the 6-2 start {rural} this thing went south quickly with no end in sight.
Lets revisit this thing after the next series of games which look like this>>>>
6-2 start but a 2-7 finish.
Cats- home
Kings -home
Clips- home
3-2 prediction.
12/7/12 8:30 PM ET Charlotte
12/9/12 6:00 PM ET @ Brooklyn
12/12/12 8:00 PM ET Sacramento
12/14/12 7:30 PM ET @ Cleveland
12/15/12 8:30 PM ET L.A. Clippers
12/18/12 8:00 PM ET Indiana
12/19/12 9:30 PM ET @ Memphis
12/21/12 7:30 PM ET @ Boston
12/22/12 8:30 PM ET Cleveland
12/26/12 8:00 PM ET Brooklyn
12/29/12 8:30 PM ET Miami
12/30/12 7:30 PM ET @ Detroit
Broken into four game sets as close to each week as I could get.
The remainder of DEC....
Quarter ONE....Could/should read-- 3-1
Quarter TWO...... " ..........--1-3
Quarter Three.... " ..........--2-2
>.500 basketball keeps it interesting, and underscores your narrative (rural).
On the lighter side.
Watched the game at a tavern.
Closed captioning on. Assuming voice recognition software does the cc.
Hence. Manu Ginobili = "General Plea"
Ekpe Udoh = "Bayou Dough"
For you meme lovers: Ermahgerdsan Ilyasova should exist.
i turned the game on in the 3rd quarter. it was still close. i forgot who they were playing. i saw skiles on the bucks bench and popovich on the spurs bench. game over. i turned it off and found a good book. id suggest you all do the same.Hide replies
whats the opposite of above me?
There is nothing wrong with this team that getting Harris 12-15 shots per game wouldn't cure. God knows they have enough defensive specialists that they ought to be able to survive 25 minutes a night from him, especially if they have the matchups right. Tell the twins they cannot either one shoot on consecutive possessions until he gets his shots in. They will shoot less, and therefore better, Dunleavy won't be overused, and the opponent will need to account for someone other than the Static Duo.Hide replies
Tell the Toxic Retiree that you are Barry Alvarez and that U r taking OVER!!!
Most of us and probably even Skiles himself, would like to see Harris be that type of player [BNK]. But, in one of my over used statements, you are who you can defend, comes into play here.
I wished the Static Duo would be more accountable to their team than to themselves.
Harris's defensive rating of 108 (points per opponent possession) is one of the worst on the team (contrast to Sanders at 98 or Udoh at 97), but not really any different than either Ellis or Jennings at 107. And although those two do bring a lot offense, he brings something more valuable: variety, diversity and efficiency. Use Lamb or Daniels more at the two, and use Harris for his offense.
Teaming up with the Static Duo has probably cost Harris his starting job.
You simply cannot have 60% of your lineup on the floor being a huge
defensive liability. Another case for trading Ellis despite his explosiveness
on the O-end.
You might want to pro-rate Tobias' defensive rating on the toughness of who he was guarding. Typically those cats playing the three are @ the top of their craft; e.g. Paul Pierce, Melo, Deng, rudy G,
In addition to that, he drew a great deal of praise for his ability to guard King James, so he is actually an asset while guarding the larger 3s. There is also reason to believe that he can improve, because he actually cares about being a good player on both sides and wants to improve. He just needs minutes.
How many extra points do you get for a basket when you're "explosive"?
'explosive' is one of the hundred side effects from taking AndroGel 1.6%
No extra points [BNK], but that's his game, that's what he brings. Sort of a neat thing to have, wouldn't you agree? Without it, he's just another guy.
Jay: How do you or anyone know have any idea what Harris, or any player cares about?
http://www.zimbio.com/Tobias Harris/articles/et49Xxv_SZK/Tobias Harris Tobias Harris worked improving http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/sports/basketball/tobias-harris-can-only-wait-for-his-nba-moment.html?_r=0
While all of my sources are second and third hand, I've never read anything except how hard Harris works to improve his game.
Well, good for him. Maybe if he keeps working hard playing time will come. But, that just might take a 'changing of the guard.' Guard positions and/or head coaching positions.
During the summer before his second season, Harris vowed to get into the best shape of his life and work hard to sharpen his defensive skills. He stayed in Milwaukee for four days of the week, working with Skiles and his assistants. During the other three days, he returned to Long Island, where he worked out with his trainer, Britton Kelley, and his long-time coach, Jay Hernandez. He also spent a week working with Hall of Famer George Gervin, a family friend.
One thing that fuels Harris to do his best is that he is from Long Island. Though there have been Long Island players drafted since 2009 -- Harris, Danny Green and A.J. Price -- players from the Island don't get the same type of respect that city players do, Harris said.
"I think there's always more hype about the city players," Harris said. "We've had a lot of great players in the NBA from Long Island. I do like the fact, though, that people don't expect as much. It's more fuel to the fire. I'm going to prove everybody wrong. That's the way I'm looking at it."
How you spend your time speaks about what you care about.
even as bad as Jennings and Ellis were in this game
i BLAME SKILES for this loss
that run the spurs went on in the 4th qrt
no TIMEOUTS were taken
and no SUBS were made
i believe the spurs went on a 12-0 run, before skiles called a timeout
and it was too late in the 4th
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i Blames the GingerMan and the phantom goaltend call.
It wasn't a phantom call. On the 2nd block after the 1st block, the ball was clearly moving down and toward the basket. It was an obvious goaltend.
I too blame Skiles for two momentum killers:
1. The ridiculous Skiles T on the obvious goaltend.
2. Pulling Sanders after Sanders got the T. Sanders' energy was desperately needed at that point in the game and he should've been left in until he fouled out. The team went completely flat after Skiles benched him.
wait?????????................. once a shot is initially blocked, it's no longer a shot? therefore isn't the second block just an attempt to get possession of the ball??? By your interpretation Larry goaltended his own shot at the wrong basket, I may be wrong but that just don't seem right?
If a shot is blocked but still goes through the basket, it is credited as a shot and the block is not recorded.
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GBJAY ANTI SKILES CAMPAIGN DAY 1 -- I will take one topic per day for the next few days to explain why Scott Skiles has mismanaged the Milwaukee Bucks in almost every possible way imaginable over the past few years, but particularly this year.
A few potential topics to look forward to
1) Offensive Philosophy
2) Player Relations
3) Player Development
4) Rotation Management
5) Defensive Philosophy
6) Determining Minutes
7) Understanding Post Offense
8) Understanding Wing Offense
9) Over-affinity to spot-up shooters
10) Earning minutes
1) Offensive philosophy -- Scott Skiles is unable to create a productive NBA offense. He has an array of offensive talent on paper, but none of it seems to work. It's the coach. Here's why. Remember last year, after the trade? There was no plan, so Skiles just opened up the floor and let Jennings and Monta run up and down the court. Remember the passing and unselfishness? Yeah. That's because Jennings and Ellis THRIVE in the open-court. They are allowed to use their speed, quickness and athletic ability to get down the court faster than their opponents and beat them to the rim instead of having to weave through the lane and avoid shot-blockers. Both players see the court well and produce assists. It also allows spot-up shooters Dunleavy and Illysova to sit at the 3-point line wide open. Athletic big men Sanders, Henson and Udoh run the court well and would make excellent finishers with training (think Shawn Kemp = Larry Sanders). In addition, this offensive philosophy punishes other teams for abusing the Bucks on the defensive side. Every player that blows by a Bucks guard has to watch that Bucks guard beat him down the court for a layup on the other end. Sanders' shot-blocking would naturally set up the break, as well as Jennings and Ellis with their stealing ability. However, Skiles has pulled in the reigns to get "balance" and for "defensive reasons" that have been entirely counter-prodHide replies
I could put up with all of the above if Skiles' teams would win more games than they lose. They do not.
Fortunately for Skiles, he coaches for a team where winning isn't a priority.
Hopefully by the time I'm done with my campaign, you will agree that because of all of these problems, Skiles cannot succeed in Milwaukee.
The Deputy don't need 10 reasons why the Skowling1 can not succeed, he only needs 1, Dr.J
Skiles cannot succeed in Milwaukee because he's a below-average coach who was hired by a below-average General Manager who was hired by a below-average owner who took the advice of below-average upper management employees.
The Bucks are a below-average 8-9 right now. Go figure.
Only in the bizarro world would anyone equate Shaun Kemp and Larry Sanders.
Larry Sanders and Harvey Catchings....much closer comparison.
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