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Lately, there has been a lot of discussion on how Google has ranked low quality content farms and websites filled with ads over websites that contain higher quality content. People who own these content farms and ad sites have got sophisticated with their SEO methods and techniques allowing them to consistently rank their websites higher than genuine authoritative websites. Google has said that it will get tough with these content farms that are setup primarily to make money via pay per click ads.
But, it looks like things haven't improved much. For example, search for the text "cricket world cup 2011" and look at the sites that are listed first on the search engine result page. The very first website is a site fully loaded with Adsense ads and other affiliate links. The fact that this website's domain name matches the exact search phrase could have boosted its rankings to claim the number one spot. This is absurd!
The official website of the ICC Cricket World Cup is listed on a distant seventh place!
Many of you have heard about the new search engine Blekko that has made headlines in the recent past. Blekko promises better quality searches using slash tags. In a nutshell a slash tag allows one to refine and narrow their search. For example, instead of just searching for the term "ipad 2", you could search it with a slash tag. For example, "ipad 2 /techblogs". In this example, we have narrowed the search to only technology blogs.
So, I decided to use the slash tag '"cricket" in my blekko search and performed the following search: "cricket world cup 2011 /cricket".
The results returned by blekko were much better in quality than the Google search results. Blekko gave importance to high profile websites such as cricinfo in the search results. But, Blekko too listed the official website at the exact seventh spot as Google.
So what do you think? Has Google's search quality gone down the drain? Love to hear your thoughts.


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Petticoat Pilots Meeting
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection (Manuscript Collection #741)
Staff Person: Martha Elmore
For decades women faced tremendous hurdles in their desire to become pilots. In the early years they weren't allowed to enter into competitions such as the National Air Race because these races were thought to be too dangerous for women. In 1929 women pilots held their first National Women's Air Derby. Humorist Will Rogers, who was the starter for the race, referred to the women pilots as "petticoat pilots and flying flappers" and nicknamed the race the Powder Puff Derby.
This photograph shows a group of women welcoming Petticoat Pilots to the airport at Greenville, North Carolina, in August of 1965. I don't know what the occasion was for this group of women pilots gathering, but it is interesting that the nickname for women pilots in 1929 was still being used in 1965.
Information about the Powder Puff Derby came from Karen Bush Gibson's book titled, Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys.

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If We Ran Jeep: Hazel's Heritage MovementPosted in Project Vehicles on November 1, 2010
When Cappa first doled out this story assignment I thought I'd be writing a very different slant. As usual, I'd try to press the funny-button and talk about how, as the supreme being at Jeep, I'd make my underlings kneel before me as I passed in the hallways and avert all eye contact-like extras on a Jack Nicolson movie set. The corporate jet would be flown by a staff of scantily-clad female pilots and stewardesses a la a James Bond movie and secretaries (yeah, they'd be called secretaries again) would get their asses pinched like in an episode of Mad Men. Subordinates would be forced to eat pickled onions at my command and anybody caught arriving late to work would have to drive the pink Surrey-Edition JK for a month. And somewhere in the middle we'd churn out flatfenders and CJ-6s 'til the world saw things my way.
Unfortunately, before I could write that story, Cappa and Trasborg turned in their drafts for editing and I realized that they were actually taking this thing seriously. I mean, Cappa's story, full of facts and figures, almost reads like a job application. And Trasborg's story was uncharacteristically chock-full of salient observations and ideas. So here I am with all this pent up comedic banter on one hand and a very real idea of what the Jeep brand means to me on the other. Unfortunately, Jeep's current direction with the brand doesn't really jibe with my view of Jeep's military and utilitarian heritage.
I'm all about analogies, so here's my gripe. Harley Davison doesn't try to be Honda. It's not who they are. When Honda came to market and started killing it with the CBR and other girlie-type bikes back in the day, Harley didn't refine its V-twin engine to run smooth and quiet and not break down frequently 'cause a Harley is more than just transportation. It's a lifestyle thing. Harley has always stood out as an independent maverick awash in a sea of compromised mediocrity. And despite some rocky times thanks to mismanagement (thanks, AMF!), it generally kills it in sales, with new bikes flying off the showroom floor faster than the factory can make 'em.
Now let's look at the current Jeep models. Anything flying off the showroom floors as fast as the factory can build 'em? Wrangler Rubicon: yup. Fluffier Jeep models like the Sahara Wrangler: They hang around the lot a bit, but they do sell well. Grand Cherokee: Kinda-sorta, but things are looking down from models of the past. Commander: Not so much, and I think even without a corporate Hazel-enema the writing is on the wall for this puppy. Patriot, Liberty, Punkass (I mean Compass): If dealers don't pay you to take them away they should! The facts speak for themselves. Even if buyers know they won't ever use the Rubicon's capability off-road, they want to know it's there in reserve in case WWIII happens or zombies come to life. And, more important, they want the world to know via that big Rubicon badge emblazoned across the hood that they bought a real Jeep. Not a watered-down, RAV-4 substitute with worse resale value.
Now to me, the Jeep brand has a heritage that will hopefully never be equaled. Forged in a crucible of blood and hell during WWII, it won the heart of the free world as a driving force in the Allied victory. The Jeep came home from that conflict and began serving important industrial, agricultural, and infrastructural roles as the U.S. built itself into the most powerful nation on earth. It's a workhorse, a tool, and an icon. It stands for something real and measurable. It's an American. You should expect capability, ruggedness, and uncompromised loyalty out of your Jeep. However, marketing guys with fancy ties and $800 shoes are dragging the Jeep name through the mud. Compass? Patriot? Watered-down SUVs like the Commander? That's not what a Jeep is supposed to be at its core.
Dead on Arrival
As soon as I sat down in my new office I'd pick up the phone and kill off the Compass, Patriot, Liberty, and Commander. If some other division in the Chrysler family wanted 'em, let them change the badge on the grille and sell all they can. But I don't consider these college-kid hippy-wagons a Jeep. I think that they only serve to dilute the brand, and honestly, add insult to the name.
Luxury Downgrade
The second thing I'd do is a real sales analysis of the current Grand Cherokee as it compares with past Cherokee models and current sales demographics. I don't think that the new WK is going to do well compared to Grand Cherokees of the past and other lower-optioned alternatives currently available. Luxury SUVs are on the decline compared to years past. I'd love to let the WK model run its course, then come back to basics with a real soccer-mom Grand Cherokee that dad would like to take the family camping in on the weekends. I envision something with the seven-passenger interior size of the '04-up Dodge Durango, solid axles hung on coil springs, and a modern computer-controlled full-time/part-time T-case with a real low range reminiscent of the old NP242. The T-case drive system would be platform-wide to streamline manufacturing. My goal would be to eke out the mileage of a part-time 4x4 system without giving up the foul-weather on-road capabilities of the current full-time system. Engines would include a variable-geometry turbo gasoline four-cylinder, MDS Hemi V-8, and four-cylinder turbodiesel. Again, to streamline manufacturing the gas and diesel turbo models would run the same intercooler and turbo locations. I'd still offer a leather-and-amenities-rich Limited model, but the base model would offer substantial savings with vinyl or treated stain-resistant cloth seating, carpetless flooring (spray-in-liner), and twist-out floor drains for easy kid and pet cleanup.
I've got little gripe with the current Wrangler lineup. My coworkers are clamoring for a V-8, but if it hasn't happened yet I'd wager there's a real, honest governmental reason why. I'd offer a turbocharged V-6 option as well as a four-cylinder turbodiesel in addition to the base V-6. I would expand the dealer option base beyond the current Mopar Performance catalog to allow upgrades to military-spec J8 components such as bumpers, tailgates, steel wheels, and recovery equipment. I'd add a winch as standard to the Rubicon like on the Dodge Power Wagon pickups and would expand the options list to include multiple 110-volt power outlets, dual batteries, and an on-board welding system. Otherwise, the rest of my plans would fall right in line with Cappa's by offering buyers the option to mix-and-match drivetrain components and trim level options.
What's a CK you ask? Think of it as the new CJ. It would serve as a less-refined, more industrial version of the Wrangler, but a more civilian-friendly version of the J8. I'd take the military frame of the J8 pickup and shorten it to the length of the current two-door JK to create the CK-5. The CK-6 would be a regular long-wheelbase J8 frame and underpinnings but with a two-door J8 body. And finally, the CK-9 would be the J8 frame with a four-door J8 body. All models would have the same heavy-duty Dana 44 on coil-springs up front and Dana 60 rear on leaf springs as the J8, but with axle gear options of 4.10, 4.88, or 5.38. The gearing would be needed for the 33x12.50R17 tires that would come standard on the steel wheels. If you got the turbodiesel version with the six-speed manual transmission you'd opt for the 4.10 gears. Models with the V-6 option would choose the deep spinner gearsets. No automatic transmission would be offered.
The CK would be available with standard hard half-doors and soft-tops and carpet would not be an option. Multiple round gauges would be in the center of a flat dash like a '40s or '50s CJ and passenger- and driver-side airbags would emerge from behind the steel dash. Interior options would consist of A/C, a radio, and a center console. That's it. Exterior and body options would be more involved. I don't see a true Jeep pickup like the Comanche selling well enough to stay viable but I would offer an optional bolt-in steel bulkhead for your CK. That would turn the CK-5 and CK-9 models into short-bed utes while the CK-6 would be a long-bed ute. A fiberglass half-top or soft top would cover the front passengers when the vehicle was used as a ute.
Naturally, you could factory-order your CK with your choice of 2.72:1, 4.0:1, or dual-low 2.72/4.0:1 T-cases. Electric front and rear lockers would be standard, as would heavy-duty cooling, dual batteries, underbody lighting, and a J8 tailgate. Factory options like front and rear winches, armored rockers and corner guards, and full underbody skidplating would be available.
Honoring Heritage
Why oh why are our men and women in uniform not driving Jeeps into battle? I don't care how many Congressmen I had to get laid or how many Senators I had to bribe-our troops would be rolling into battle with Jeep WMF. The name stands for Willys/MB/Flatfender, but you could call if a Weapon of Mass F*@kery-or whatever. That's the bad thing about military vehicles from the past two decades. Their acronym doesn't exactly strike fear into the hearts of the enemy. Imagine what an enemy combatant thinks when his buddies run up screaming, "There's a HUMMER waiting for us on the other side of the hill!"


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Adam Clark Estes is a former writer for The Wire. He has also written for The Huffington Post and Vice.
Uber, the little on-demand car service app that could, isn't catching any breaks from local regulators in cities where it's trying to grow its business. In fact, it never has. The company's now been banned or fined in pretty much every major American city, and now, regulators are now looking for ways to make the hire-a-car business illegal in all of the United States. Nevertheless, the start-up's founder sounds resolute. "If you put yourself in the position to ask for something that is already legal, you'll find you'll never be able to roll out," Uber's Travis Kalanick told The New York Times on Sunday. "The corruption of the taxi industries will make it so you will never get to market."
This is coming from a guy whose former business venture, Scour, shut down after getting hit with $250 billion worth of copyright infringement lawsuits from media companies. Uber's alleged infractions would seem even less clear cut than the messy world of intellectual property, though. New regulations adopted by 15 cities nationwide will make it illegal for luxury car services to use GPS devices as a meter and also makes it illegal for them to pick up customers less than 30 minutes before the departure time. These go on top of various regulations in specific cities that prevent cab drivers from using electronic devices while driving and from accepting prearranged rides. If you're familiar with Uber, you'll know that these new laws will completely wreck their model.
If you're not familiar with Uber, here's a quick tutorial. You download the Uber app on your iPhone and use it to hail a cab or livery car at your current location. Uber gives the drivers an iPhone to accept the calls and collect their fare through the app before the rider even gets in. While Uber's done a number of promotional events offering free rides and discounts, the service is ultimately more expensive than a regular yellow cab ride, however marginally more convenient.
Well, for obvious reasons, the local taxi bureaucracies don't like Uber coming in changing all their rules. Uber was first banned in New York City, which has some of the toughest taxi laws in the country, and is currently facing similar lawsuits in San Francisco and Chicago. These cases are on top of a cease-and-desist letter from the Massachusetts Division of Standards -- though that ban was later reversed -- and more than a little bit of intimidation from Washington DC's taxi regulator. Uber also owes the California Public Utilities Commission a $20,000.
Some people would file Uber's growing collection of lawsuits as evidence that it should think about changing it's model. Uber thinks its must more evidence that it's tackling an industry in dire need of disruption. Daniel Sperling, director of UC-Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies, told The Times that "transportation has been one of the least innovative sectors in our society" and says that Uber's "using information and communication technology, at a very high level it's long overdue and should be embraced with open arms."
The service seems to be popular enough with consumers that Uber's willing to keep taking their chances. And they should at least take solace in the fact that they're not the only disruptive company riddled with legal troubles.
This post originally appeared on The Atlantic Wire.
American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods, researchers Matthew Desmond and Nathan Wilmers find.
If you dream of roaming the U.S. in a your own personal train car, you still can. But Amtrak cuts have railcar owners wondering if their days are numbered.
Solar home storage has morphed from a niche product in Germany to one with enormous mainstream potential.
Despite its olive trees and piazza, the new temple will look familiar to American eyes.
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text: These photos were taken at Lime Rock in the late 80s, and posted recently on FerrariChat. Not much is known about this car or who built it. I find the air dam treatment makes the car look a lot like a BMW M1 or Lotus Esprit. The back treatment is rather cool, I must admit. Note the car bears Euro bumpers. Some delicious machinery is visible in the background implying a Ferrari Club track day.


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It was a chance encounter after a back injury that turned Ben Davies' attention from sports to the markets, but the same competitive spirit still drives him in advocating for monetary reforms. Cutting his trading teeth at Greenwich Capital, he saw firsthand the events and conditions that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Now having started his own firm, Hinde Capital, Davies is a champion for free markets and allowing them to function independent of central bank intervention, all while operating a long-bias gold fund to protect investor purchasing power. We caught up with him to get his view on the gold market and the role of central banks.
Futures Magazine: Ben, you went to school to be an athlete and came very close to competing in the Olympics. Can you tell us how you went from athlete to trader?
Ben Davies: I was born in Cambridge and went to the Perse school in Cambridge. That was a very academic school. I think it is fair to say that I enjoyed the academic rigor but my real passions [were] sports and psychology. I came to appreciate academia years later because of trading as I wanted to learn for learning's sake, not because of the enforced nature of exams.
So, I made the decision when I was 18 that I wanted to follow my true passion, which at the time was sports science. I focused on exercise physiology, sports psychology and biomechanics. I became a sports science and finance student at Loughborough University, which is very well known for its sporting programs. Early on, it was really psychology and sports that attracted me to competition and developing winning strategies that comes with that, which is very pertinent to trading today.
At that time I was a field hockey player, and being a sports psychologist and going to college there, I was able to devote a lot of my time playing for Loughborough, Wales and Great Britain. As you said, I was on the Atlanta Olympics squad, but I had to pull out because of a serious back injury early on. I will say that my passion had probably since passed, and if you are going to do anything well, then you need to be authentic and have integrity, otherwise you're not going to give your best for it. It made me rethink my career, and I made that move from athlete to trader.
It was a chance discussion that lead me to a few days' work at Man Financial, which at the time was a private commodity group, and I've been bitten by the bug ever since. I think it was a manifestation of 'Could I do it? How would I have coped with some of the famous crashes?' I wasn't trading in 1987, but how would I have adapted to it? That led me to make that shift. It was part forced, but part that desire to pit myself against the market.
FM: Where did you get your break into trading?
BD: It's interesting having come from the background I had as an athlete just how many people wanted to hire me more for my sporting prowess than perhaps my academic capabilities. Ultimately it was Greenwich Capital. That was my breakthrough into trading markets at the macro fixed-income level. I also was very fortunate to meet my now work partner, Mark Mahaffey, who co-founded the London office of Greenwich Capital. For people who don't know, Greenwich Capital was the No. 1 primary dealer in U.S. government bonds, agencies and to some extent mortgages. [Mahaffey] was the chap who really instilled in me the inquisitive nature you need to pursue the truth in developing your rigor and understanding of the markets.


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Election 2013: Where to vote?
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The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has provided some helpful tips and answers to questions you may have about where, when and how to vote.
Where to vote?
The AEC has a complete list of voting locations in your area.
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When to vote?
Voting opens at 8am and continues to 6pm.
However the AEC suggests you check when your local polling place is open, as times may vary from place to place.
There's no one specific time that's better or worse than another to vote, so it really comes down to making sure you vote at the time and location that's most convenient to you.
There's typically a bit of a rush first thing in the morning when voting starts, and then again later in the day as the close of polls deadline approaches.
However the AEC expects traffic to be generally steady right throughout election day, with about one million votes being cast around the country every hour.
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If you need glasses to help with reading then please bring them when you go to vote.
The AEC will provide magnifying sheets at polling places in those states where the large size of the Senate ballot could be an issue.
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For people for whom English is their second language, bilingual Voter Information Officers will be available on election day to assist voters in 24 electorates across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
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SANTA CLARA — One look at the 49ers upcoming schedule convinced linebacker Patrick Willis why no Super Bowl runner-up since 1972 has returned the to win the Lombardi Trophy the following season.
"When the schedule got released, I was like, 'Wow, this is one heck of a schedule,' " Willis said Wednesday as all 49ers reported to training camp. "When you get to a Super Bowl, win or lose, that next year's schedule is no joke."
The 49ers open the regular season Sept. 8 against the Green Bay Packers, a matchup the 49ers won both to start last regular season and their playoff run to Super Bowl XLVII.
Five of their other opponents are coming off playoff appearances: the Seahawks (at Seattle on Sept. 15, at Candlestick on Dec. 8), the Colts (home, Sept. 22), the Texans (home, Oct. 6), the Redskins (away, Nov. 25) and the Falcons (home, Dec. 23).
"This is a demanding schedule. At the same time, we don't like it easy," Willis said. "When you have a tough schedule and you can win it, no one can take it away from you and say they had an easy schedule."
The 49ers' strength of schedule is tied for seventh toughest in the league, as their opponents carried a combined .520 winning percentage last season. The 49ers were at the other end of the spectrum a year ago, when they tied for the seventh-easiest schedule (.488).
"We've got to win our division because it'll be tougher than it was last year," cornerback Carlos Rogers said.
Added running back Frank Gore: "We have one of the best divisions in football and we like it like that. We like it tough. We know to get back (to the Super Bowl), we've got to do better this year."
According to Gore and Willis, all 49ers passed Wednesday's conditioning tests. The team's first full-squad practice is Thursday, but they can't be in pads until Saturday.


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The Federal Reserve on Friday released transcripts from the 2008 Federal Open Market Committee meetings, which were of course in the middle of the financial crisis. We know the headlines, but until Friday we did not know the conversations from those meetings. We'll be live-blogging our discoveries, with MarketWatch's Rex Nutting and Greg Robb, as well as tweets from economists and others who follow the central bank.
"I think when you read those transcripts you'll get a sense of how we were thinking about the financial sector and its stress and its problems, as well as how that was influencing and spilling over into the economy," Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said this week.
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Transcripts should be coming soon, and on Twitter, anticipation already is building to see what's inside.
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Amazing coincidence that FOMC transcripts are going to be ready for release just one day after people started complaining.
— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 21, 2014
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The St. Louis Fed has a great timeline of the financial crisis including all the extaordinary events of 2008.
Here is a list of the Fed's policy-meeting dates in 2008. In addition to the usual eight policy meetings, there were six unscheduled emergency phone call meetings.
And here is a MarketWatch slideshow summing up former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's major decisions during the crisis.
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TRADE SECRET: Once of my FOMC Transcript search terms is "laughter"
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) February 21, 2014
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The Fed's favorite interest rate tool, the federal funds rate, started 2008 at 3.5%. By the end of the year, the central bank had slashed it to zero. Here is a timeline of the rate moves.
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"Where are the Fed transcripts?" asked 5 or 6 people.
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OK, transcripts are coming in. Standby
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Here's a link to a key meeting — September 2008.
When the Fed has a nice handy page with all of them, we will absolutely make that available.
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Guessing file names now — here's January.
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Bernanke starts the Sep 2008 FOMC by asking for a bazooka. Good to know they could still laugh. pic.twitter.com/uYjMQU6T2j
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Here's the proper link to all of them.
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As the FOMC met on Sept. 16, 2008, one day after Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy, Bernanke opened the meeting with a offhand joke to ease the tensions.
After a general discussion, the first order of business was to open swap lines with other central banks to make sure global markets could function as the credit crisis deepened.
"I would like to put on the table a request for authorization for swap lines. I prefer not to put a limit on it, so I know I've got my own bazooka here," Bernanke said to laughter.
Bernanke was referring to a statement made by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson that he didn't worry about the markets attacking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because he had a "bazooka" to defend them.
Of course, Paulson's bazooka didn't stop Fannie and Freddie from a government bailout.
Bernanke's bazooka of swap lines ultimately had to be reinforced over the next few months as new pressure points emerged.
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Okun's law giggles. Okun's law, briefly, is the relationship between GDP and the unemployment rate.
Economist gallows humor: pic.twitter.com/tVZibbPnE5
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Sept 16, 2008, Fed chief economist: "our projection [is] that we're going to get a stabilization in housing in 2009" http://t.co/N6o5ENeu8k
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Nice discussion about the crafting of statements. MR. LACKER. Yes, but this is an adjective. CHAIRMAN BERNANKE. No, it's an adverb.
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Bernanke: "Let me first say that I think we ought to at least modestly congratulate ourselves that we have made some progress." April 2008
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For the Fed, 2008 started in crisis mode.
The central bank held an emergency meeting on Jan.9. The Fed had already cut rates by 100 basis points since September, but Bernanke said there were signs that the economy "was sliding."
"I don't think that we can claim that we have done anything in the way of
taking out insurance against what I think are some potentially significant downside risks," Bernanke said at the start of the meeting.
The Fed didn't move after that phone conference, but did ease rates by 75 basis points to 3.5% after another conference call later in the month. They agreed to another 50 basis point cut eight days later.
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FOMC minutes have one "back-of-the-envelope" calculation, but nothing quick, on a napkin, or off the top of my head http://t.co/dwdRywPtZS
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Noted Fed hawk…err dove Janet Yellen was "inclined to keep the funds rate target at 2 percent" in September 2008.
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Important point that's not related to the financial crisis:
As early as 4/29/08, Fed expressed concerns about LIBOR rate fixing, per released transcripts: http://t.co/KH6uMDb3k0 pic.twitter.com/LBojqaotJ8
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In September 2008 Fed transcript, there were 90 mentions of banks, but just 21 of consumers: http://t.co/9y20EN9k7w
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Even though financial markets were collapsing around them, the Fed didn't cut interest rates at its Sept. 16, 2008, meeting.
One reason is that the Fed had already cut rates to 2%.
Another reason is that the Fed didn't realize the full extent of the economic slowdown that preceded the collapse of Lehman. At the time, the Fed believed, based on available data, that the economy had still been growing — 0.9% GDP in the first quarter and 3.3% in the second.
We now know that GDP fell 2.7% in the first quarter and grew 2% in the second. And it was about to get much, much worse.
The Fed didn't quite believe the rosy GDP figures. The unemployment rate had been rising rapidly, and gross domestic income had been much weaker than gross domestic product (theoretically, they should be identical).
Here's how Dave Stockton, the Fed's staff economist, explained it (Okun's law describes the statistical relationship between unemployment and economic growth):
"Now, this sharp rise in the unemployment rate is a bit difficult to square with a GDP figure that looks as though it was running above 3 percent in the second quarter and even 2 percent if you want to average the first and second quarters together. There are occasionally large errors in Okun's law, as I think I've noted in the past. It seems as though Okun's law gets obeyed about as frequently as the 55 mile an hour speed limit on I-95. [Laughter] But still, one of the things that we should probably be considering is that perhaps the economy has not been as strong as suggested by the real GDP figures."
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At the Jan. 30 meeting, Fed officials were feeling the strain of not having enough information about key aspects of the financial system.
Bill Dudley, then the manager of the Fed's policy committee open market desk, noted that "the bigger story remains the continued pressure on bank balance sheets, the tightening of credit availability, and the impact of this tightening on the outlook for economic activity."
While the problems of the financial guarantors was an important part of the story, "unfortunately, there is not much transparency as to the counterparty exposures of the guarantors on a firm-by-firm, asset-class-by-asset-class, or security-by-security basis," he noted.
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Kohn, Dec, p67: "I don't think we want…fiscal stimulus…crowded out…based on a false assumption about the effect…on monetary policy."
— Ryan Avent (@ryanavent) February 21, 2014
- 10:52 am
- by Greg Robb
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Fed staffers were reluctant to say that the economy was in recession in early January.
"We're not ready to make a recession call yet," said David Stockton, an economist at the Fed.
Subsequent data has led to the conclusion that the recession started in the prior month.
At the same time, the Fed was dealing with 4% headline inflation in the fourth quarter.
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Everyone is obsessing over the September 2008 Fed transcripts. I don't see why. Not everybody on the FOMC gets it even in October.
— Evan Soltas (@esoltas) February 21, 2014
- 10:53 am
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"I think this combination of weaker economic growth and higher inflation is an unfortunate situation for you as policymakers," Stockton told the Fed on Jan. 9.
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Janet Yellen, the current Fed chairman, worried at the Sept. 16, 2008, meeting that the economy was weaker than anyone thought, although she believed it would escape the worst. At the time, she was a backbencher on the committee, the president of the San Francisco Fed and without a vote on the committee that year.
She said she had "become decidedly more pessimistic about the economic outlook" in the past few weeks. The risks to her relatively upbeat forecast "are decidedly skewed to the downside."
Discretionary spending at country clubs and high-end dentists was softening, she noted.
And then she gave this prescient warning: "The interaction of higher unemployment with the housing and financial markets raises the potential for even worse news —namely, an intensification of the adverse feedback loop we have long worried about and are now experiencing."
By then, it was really too late to prevent it.
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At Jan. 9, Bernanke was alert to recession risks and worried about something even more dire.
"I think a garden variety recession is an acceptable risk, but I am also concerned that such a downturn might morph into something more serious," he said.
"The concern I have is not just a slowdown but the possibility that it might become a much nastier episode. The main mechanism I have in mind—there are several possibilities, but I think the financial markets are the main risk," he said.
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#Warsh on 9/16/08: What if an #AAA rating is "worthless"? http://t.co/MMRWgFJPkU #FOMC #transcripts #Fed
— Alan Tonelson (@AlanTonelson) February 21, 2014
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The Fed and the Treasury had refused to rescue Lehman Bros. the previous day, and members of the Federal Open Market Committee thought they had done the right thing at the Sept. 16, 2008 meeting, despite severe disruption in financial markets.
For instance, here's James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed and someone who's now considered to be dovish on interest rates:
"By denying funding to Lehman suitors, the Fed has begun to re-establish the idea that markets should not expect help at each difficult juncture. Changing rates today would confuse that important signal and take out much of the positive part out of the previous decision."
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Fed transcripts show that even those with all this info have no real clue in a market dislocation like 08
— Leigh Drogen (@LDrogen) February 21, 2014
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In December 2008, Yellen was concerned about RISING labor force participation.
— Annalyn Kurtz (@AnnalynKurtz) February 21, 2014
- 11:15 am
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After Bernanke laid out the risk of a nasty recession on Jan.9 , Fed officials were split about whether to immediately cut rates.
Many Fed officials didn't want to move, preferring to wait until the formal meeting at the end of the month. They argued an intermeeting move would jar markets.
Janet Yellen, then president of the San Francisco Fed, supported a 25 basis point cut.
The Fed held off, only to return and cut rates two weeks later by 75 basis points.
Bernanke warned his colleagues not to tell anyone that they had held the conference call.
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Some things never change. For instance, Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser is always worried about inflation.
Here's his statement on Sept. 16, 2008: "I remain concerned about the inflation outlook going forward." He thought that loose monetary policy would drive inflation higher.
As it turned out, the Fed's monetary policy was much looser than anyone could imagine. The federal funds rate is stuck at zero five years later.
And inflation?
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Mishkin compared FOMC to Monty Python movie when they were "all on the cross, and they start singing "Look on the Bright Side of Life"
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) February 21, 2014
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Yellen on consumer strain : "For example, East Bay plastic surgeons and dentists note that patients are deferring elective procedures."
— Ylan Q. Mui (@ylanmui) February 21, 2014
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In early 08, Yellen pushed for reform of Wall Street bonuses and Geithner pushed back: http://t.co/Es63ctAciR
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) February 21, 2014
- 11:33 am
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What changed between Jan. 9, when the Fed held off cutting rates and Jan. 21, when they decided to slash rates by 75 basis points?
Here's what Bernanke said:
"The cumulative decline in the S&P 500 since our last FOMC meeting 16½ percent. Obviously, it is not our job to target stock values or to protect stock investors, but I think that this is a symptom of both sharply mounting concerns about the economy and increasing problems in credit markets."
"On the economy, the data and the information that we can glean from financial markets
reflect a growing belief that the United States is in for a deep and protracted recession.," he added.
He called for a 75 basis point cut to show the Fed was "on top of the situation."
"I think that we need to move, and if we move now, we will get a bonus in terms of at least some hope of reducing the fear and the uncertainty that is currently in the markets," he said.
William Poole, the president of the St. Louis Fed, argued the Fed should hold off, at least until the formal meeting in nine days.
"This action will not be viewed in the marketplace as anything other than a direct
response to the stock market," Poole said.
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Financial markets pay close attention to every word in Fed statements, and the Fed knows that.
At the Sept. 16, 2008, meeting, Fed members argued over the meaning of single words, and how the markets would interpret them.
They didn't want the markets to think that a rate cut was preordained, but they also didn't want the markets to think that the Fed wasn't prepared to act if necessary. They paid attention to the "sizzle, substance and marketing" of the statement – what Bernanke (channeling his inner Mel Brooks) called "moychandising."
They argued about "markets" and "closely and "carefully" and "monitor." They even debated whether "closely" is an adjective or an adverb. They wondered if they should refer back to the FOMC "Code Book." They wondered if two-syllable words have greater impact than single syllables.
At one point, an astonished Bernanke remarked: "We have 17 people debating over this word, and it actually does matter."
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Another instance of the Fed being in the dark, this time on insurance companies.
At the Jan. 29-30 meeting, New York Fed President Timothy Geither told his colleages: "We have had extensive conversations with the New York State Insurance Commissioner, who is the lead supervisor of many of them, but not all of them. It turns out that office also has very little information, particularly on the stuff that is on the leading edge of concern, which is to whom they sold credit protection and on what"
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Bernanke and Lacker clashed in Oct 2008 over bond purchases, and views of economists Friedman and Woodford http://t.co/7CUtAwIRRw #fed
— WSJ Washington Wire (@WSJwashington) February 21, 2014
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Proof that even Fed governors make economic decisions they don't think are rational. Witness Ric Mishkin in 2008: pic.twitter.com/eGNbG0qGMx
— Josh Zumbrun (@JoshZumbrun) February 21, 2014
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Who said it?
"I also agree with those who say that, when the time comes, we do need to be prompt at removing accommodation. It is just as much a mistake to move too late and allow inflation, and perhaps even financial imbalances, to grow as it is to move too early and be premature in terms of assuming a recovery."
–Sept. 16, 2008
If you guessed Ben Bernanke, congratulations.
Although the Fed's policy now is to keep interest rates low for a very long time, that wasn't the assumption going into the crisis.
In the same discussion, Bernanke explained why he didn't think the Fed should lower rates at the Sept. meeting: "We should be very certain about that change before we undertake it because I would be concerned, for example, about the implications for the dollar, commodity prices, and the like."
So much for the idea that Bernanke completely dismissed the downside of easy money.
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A #notinfedtranscripts hashtag has cropped up.
#notinFedtranscripts hey if that Einhorn guy is right about Lehman that would collapse the financial system
— Vinnie Vega (@exantefactor) February 21, 2014
- 12:13 pm
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At the March 10 meeting, one can see a widening of the divide on the Fed over the use of the balance sheet to help markets.
The Fed's Board of Governors created the Term Securities Lending Facility to lend Treasury Securities in return for mortgage-backed securities and other credits.
The Fed staff "could equally well rationalize buying tech stocks in late 2000," said Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker.
"This proposal crosses a bright line that we drew for ourselves in the 1970s in order to limit our involvement in housing finance," he said.
Of course, the Fed has gone on to purchase over $1 trillion in mortgage bonds.
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Programming note: U.S.-Canada game has started — we have a live blog going here.
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To say the Fed's imagination failed in Sep 08 is like saying the Hindenburg got a bit warm.
— Ian Shepherdson (@IanShepherdson) February 21, 2014
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Reading these Fed transcripts from 2008, it's striking how the Fed has had to shift its focus from mostly market reaction, to real people
— Annalyn Kurtz (@AnnalynKurtz) February 21, 2014
- 12:29 pm
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All through 2008, Ben Bernanke grappled with the toughest question any central banker can face: When should an important financial institution be rescued; that is, when should the Fed bail out banks at that are "too-big-to-fail"?
One of the most important duties of the central bank is to prevent financial panics stemming from bank runs. The central bank should be the lender of last resort during a bank run, lending unlimited sums to solvent banks facing liquidity runs, at a high rate of interest and backed by good collateral.
But Bernanke got grief when he did, he got grief when he didn't.
And through it all, Bernanke fretted that the Fed was making up policy on the fly.
Here's what Bernanke said in September 2008, just a day after Lehman Bros. failed without any bailout from the Fed, and on the day the Fed agreed to lend insurer AIG $85 billion:
"I have been grappling with the question I raised for President Lacker, and I would be very interested in hearing other views either now or some other time. The ideal way to deal with moral hazard is to have in place before the crisis begins a well-developed structure that gives clear indications in what circumstances and on what terms the government will intervene with respect to a systemically important institution"
"We have found ourselves, though, in this episode in a situation in which events are happening quickly, and we don't have those things in place. We don't have a set of criteria, we don't have fiscal backstops, and we don't have clear congressional intent. So in each event, in each instance, even though there is this sort of unavoidable ad hoc character to it, we are trying to make a judgment about the costs — from a fiscal perspective, from a moral hazard perspective, and so on — of taking action versus the real possibility in some cases that you might have very severe consequences for the financial system and, therefore, for the economy of not taking action."
"Frankly, I am decidedly confused and very muddled about this."
Then at the Oct. 29 meeting, Bernanke defended what the Fed had done. Here's an extended excerpt from the transcript:
"The attempts to stabilize failing systemically critical institutions, beginning with Bear Stearns, have obviously been very controversial. There have been criticisms from the right and from the left."
"From the right, the initial criticism was that we have no business interfering with the market process. We should let them fail. The market will take care of it. What are we doing? We heard this as recently as Jackson Hole."
"I never took this seriously. I just don't believe that you can allow systemically critical institutions to fail in the middle of financial crises and expect it to be not a problem."
"I don't want to get into the issue about the inconsistency. It's true that we treated senior debt differently between Fannie and Freddie and WaMu and Wachovia, but I don't think that that is the reason we are having the financial crisis we're having. I think there was a panic brought about by the underlying concerns about the solvency of our financial institutions. That panic essentially turned into a run. Companies like Wachovia that had adequate Basel capital faced a run on their deposits, which was self-fulfilling."
"The investment banks essentially faced runs. We did our best to stabilize them, but I think that it was that run, that panic, and then the impact the panic had on these major institutions that was the source of the intensification of financial crisis. So I don't buy the argument that we should stay out of the business of protecting the financial system, and I think that the major factor was, in fact, the panic that was generated by the underlying uncertainties and the effect that had on critical institutions."
"Also more recently we have heard more of a critique from the left, which is, What in the heck were you guys doing letting Lehman fail? This is interesting given that the critique had been the other one for quite a while.
"I think that critique is unfair at a narrow level in that, first, Lehman was a symptom as well as a cause of the recent crisis and, second, the Fed and the Treasury simply had no tools to address both Lehman and the other companies that were under stress at that time. I think that criticism is appropriate, though, as directed toward the United States as a whole.
"We did not have—as the Europeans have or as we have FDICIA for banks—a system that was set up to allow a reasonable and responsible orderly resolution of nonbank systemically critical institutions. I think we now have made a lot of progress there. The TARP will provide a good interim solution."
"It is very important that in the future we address the too-big-to-fail problem that we have, that we find ways to reduce that problem, and that we find ways to deal systematically with firms that are in crisis. So given the fog of war—which has, of course, been intense going back for more than a year—I would defend what we've done in terms of the general direction, acknowledging that execution is not always perfect and that communication is not always perfect."
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Hi folks — we're going to conclude the "live" aspects of our coverage but there will be plenty more discussion over the coming hours, days, weeks and possibly years. Thanks again for stopping by as we revisit one of the most important, if troubling, eras in markets history.


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Persistence of posttraumatic stress in violently injured youth seen in the emergency department." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156(8):836-40."
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UC Irvine Pregame
Vs. Cal State Northridge
Saturday 7:30 p.m. at Cal State Northridge
The Big-West-Conference-leading UC Irvine men's basketball team has won five straight and 11 of its last 13 heading into Saturday's contest with the Matadors.
UCI (18-9, 9-2 in conference) maintains a one-game lead over UC Santa Barbara, and a 1.5-game edge over Long Beach State.
UCI earned an overtime win at Hawaii to open the road trip on Thursday and will be trying to maintain its perfect record in six February games.
After Saturday, the Anteaters will not leave Orange County in their final four games, playing UCSB, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Davis at home, and visiting Cal State Fullerton to complete the regular season.
UCI won the first meeting between the two teams, 72-66, at the Bren Events Center on Jan. 23.
UCI is led by the balanced starting lineup of freshman guard Luke Nelson (12.1 points per game), senior guard Chris McNealy (11.6), junior forward Will Davis (10.3), sophomore guard Alex Taylor (8.9) and 7-foot-6 freshman center Mamadou Ndiaye (8.5).
Cal State Northridge, under first-year head coach and former NBA star Reggie Theus, is led by junior forward Stephen Maxwell (27.6 points per game), junior swing man Stephan Hicks (16.6) and senior guard Josh Greene (15.3).
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1. Call to order/roll call.
2. Approval of the minutes of the September 23 and 24, 2013, subcommittee meetings.
3. House Concurrent Resolution No. 156 - A study on establishing a comprehensive educator career development continuum.
- Donna Peduto, Liaison, WV Board of Education
- Robert Hull, Assoc. Superintendent, Div. of Teaching and Learning, WVDE
- Michele Blatt, Asst. Superintendent, Div. Of Educator Quality and System Support, WVDE
- Betty Jo Jordan, Exec. Assistant, Office of the State Superintendent, WVDE
4. Other business.
5. Adjourn.


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Disasters can hit anyone at any time. But people living in poverty are particularly at risk. They are likely to live on the most vulnerable land and in the most precarious housing.
Missing out on vital information – lacking a radio or phone to get warnings, or literacy skills to read safety advice – few resources and poor government protection, people living in poverty often suffer the most in a crisis.
In turn, disasters increase poverty, wiping out homes and livelihoods and causing a vicious circle of poverty, vulnerability and crisis. That's why our work with people affected by emergencies and conflict plays a key part in our fight against poverty.
Every year over 300 million people are affected by disasters. The poorest and most excluded are often hardest hit.


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May 1st, 2013 – Framingham, MA – EH Publishing announced today the winners of Electronic House magazine's 8th annual Home of the Year Awards, recognizing outstanding home installations with technologies and systems for the whole home. Winners will be showcased throughout the May/June, July/August, and September 2013 issues of Electronic House magazine as well as on ElectronicHouse.com. Entries were received in 13 categories and winners were chosen by the Electronic House editorial and art staffs. Judging criteria for the Electronic House 2013 Home of the Year Awards included all aspects involved in an installation, such as project creativity, innovation, equipment incorporated, obstacles overcome, homeowner priorities met, aesthetics and lifestyle benefits. See all 2013 Home of the Year Winners here.
"Each year our Home of the Year Awards competition lets us see the most innovative and creative ways that custom electronics professionals have infused homes with today's technology, and this year's entries did not disappoint," says Electronic House editor Arlen Schweiger. "Just look at our overall winner (in the Best Integrated Home Over $50,000 category) – that's a massive, 42,000-square-foot estate, which would be next to impossible for the homeowners to manage without sophisticated home automation. But then, it's no easy task to draw up a design and install everything in such a large-scale project, so we tip our caps to Insight Home Solutions there as well as all of the companies that submitted projects this year."
Click on the names of the custom electronics installation firms to read about and see images of that award-winning project.
Electronic House 2013 Home of the Year Winners:
Best Integrated Home Over $50,000
Gold – Insight Home Solutions, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Silver – HiFi House, Broomall, Pa.
Bronze – Osbee Industries, Harrison, N.Y.
Best Integrated Home Up To $50,000
Gold – Smart Homes of Texas, McKinney, Texas
Silver – Global Custom Integrations, Hawthorne, N.Y.
Bronze – Smart Home Systems, Denver, Colo.
Best Home Theater Up To $25,000
Gold – Innerspace Electronics, Port Chester, N.Y.
Silver – Total Home Audio Video, London, Ont.
Best Home Theater $25,000 to $75,000
Gold – Cinemar Solutions, Kenosha, Wis.
Silver – Bethesda Systems, Bethesda, Md.
Bronze – Avidia, Winnetka, Ill.
Best Home Theater $75,000 to $150,000
Gold – Audio Advice, Raleigh, N.C.
Silver – Admit One Cinema, Edina, Minn.
Bronze – Hi-Tech Home, Clovis, Calif.
Best Home Theater Over $150,000
Gold – Cantara, Costa Mesa, Calif.
Silver – Rectech Rooms, Toronto, Calif.
Bronze – World Wide Stereo, Montgomeryville, Pa.
Best Family Room/Media Room
Gold – Connected Technology, Melbourne, Fla.
Silver – Moore Audio Design, Matthews, N.C.
Bronze – Elytronic, Nicosia, Cyprus
Best Master Suite
Gold – CBA Technology, South Pasadena, Calif.
Silver – Boca Theater and Automation, Boca Raton, Fla.
Bronze – Bethesda Systems, Bethesda, Md.
Best Theme Theater
Gold – Horner Networks, Mentor, Ohio
Silver – Media Rooms Inc, West Chester, Pa.
Bronze – First Impressions Theme Theatres, North Miami, Fla.
(To be featured in July/August issue and online shortly before)
Best Outdoor Space
Gold – Elytronic, Nicosia, Cyprus
Silver – Forefront Innovation, The Woodlands, Texas
Bronze – Casaplex, Kensington, Md.
Best Fun Room
Gold – Service Tech Audio Visual, Cedar Park, Texas
Silver – Horner Networks, Mentor, Ohio
Bronze – Advanced Residential Systems, Allentown, Pa.
(Featured in September issue and online shortly before)
Best Amazing Application
Gold – DSI Entertainment Systems, Los Angeles
Silver – Southern Cinema Design, Cumming, Ga.
Bronze – Boca Theater and Automation, Boca Raton, Fla.
Best Before & After
Gold – Union Place, Excelsior, Minn.
Silver – Admit One Cinema, Edina, Minn.
Bronze – 1 Sound Choice, Pompton Plains, N.J.
See all 2013 Home of the Year Winners here.
About Electronic House The premier showcase for home technology, Electronic House and electronichouse.com offer inspiration to those seeking to enhance their lifestyles with automation, A/V and more as they buy, build or remodel their homes. Electronic House takes an in-depth look at professionally installed high-tech solutions for the entire home, covering everything from audio and video to automation systems that encompass lighting control, security, climate, as well as the ways technology blends with interior design. Our Homes of the Month, EH Ideas, Possibilities Room and Behind the Scenes installation articles plus Technology Trends, Product Reviews and Learning Center items take readers through the complete process of researching, planning and achieving their high-tech home transformations.
www.electronichouse.com. Published by EH Publishing – www.ehpub.com.
About EH Publishing, Inc. EH Publishing, Inc. is the leading provider of independent business and consumer content and information serving the custom electronics, information technology, house of worship, pro audio, robotics, homebuilding, and supply chain markets through multimedia publications, websites, newsletters, and expos. Our flagship multi media products include CE Pro, Commercial Integrator, Electronic House, TechDecisions Media, ChannelPro-SMB, Live Sound International, ProSoundWeb.com, Worship Facilities Conference & Expo (WFX), Robotics Business Review, RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition, RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition, Supply Chain Management Review, Logistics Management, and Modern Materials Handling. www.ehpub.com.


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SCARPA climbing team member, Brian Arnold, sent in a couple of pics and videos from a recent foray into some apparently still semi-secret bouldering spot in New Mexico. Brian reports that, "The problems are mostly new and the rock is super hard sandstone with a good amount of iron in it. If you want directions give me a call it is hard to find but only 5 hours from Boulder!"
So pull out your maps and start plotting. Not sure how fast Brian drives, though. It could be 350 miles or 450. Or, you could just call Brian and ask…looks worth it.


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Seth9910 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
LightHead Innovations
We sell/distribute plasma lighting technology. Plasma lights are the most efficient lighting technology to date, the input of Watts to the output of Lumens is better than LEDs significantly. We offer these lights primarily for growing plants, but also for municipal applications (parking lots, schools, etc...). We are committed to efficient technologies that save people money!
Indoor Gardening Market. Primarily males 20-34. Existing market, but new technology. Desired Audience is skeptical, thrifty although wealthy, willing to try new things if they work and SAVE MONEY (which our product does). Also greenhouse growers as supplemental lighting for early season and late season production. Our audience likes things that have a big return, little input for maximum output.
We require something simple, not overwhelming. Our original vision (which we have de-emphasized) was a stick figure sitting in the "thinkers" pose with a lightbulb for a head. (http://www.fifteenkey.com/images/th…hinker.jpg). The background would be black with a white stick figure with a white lighbulb for a head. Very simple.
The catchphrase underneath "Think Ahead" with Company name above "LightHead Innovations." Primary colors with black to bring out color. Yellows (and sunlight like colors) emphasized because we are selling lights!
Feel free to be creative on the light bulb, the rays extending from, what the character is sitting upon, etc...
We are open to other concepts as well if you are moved to create something else.
No Dollar Signs please.
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Liberty News
Liberty mourns death of recent graduate
Just two days before she was going to walk across the stage at Liberty University's 40th Commencement, 25-year-old undergraduate student Rebecca Velker was killed in an automobile accident in Louisiana while traveling from Houston, Texas, to Lynchburg, Va., for the May 11 ceremony.
Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. asked for prayers for the family during Commencement and released this statement today: "We are deeply saddened by Rebecca's tragic death," he said. "I announced at Commencement that she was killed en route to the ceremony but was unaware she was planning to graduate. Our prayers are with Vincent and her family in Japan."
According to news reports, Velker was driving the car traveling east on I-10 through Breaux Bridge, La., on May 9 with two other passengers when she crossed a median and oncoming traffic before hitting a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband, alumnus Vincent Hogue ('12, B.S. Exercise Science) was injured in the wreck. There is currently no confirmed information on the other passenger but neither Hogue nor the other passenger suffered life-threatening injuries. The cause of the crash is still unknown; alcohol is not presumed to be a factor and everyone was reportedly wearing their seatbelts.
University records indicate Velker, a resident student, was an honors student with a 3.76 GPA. She had completed 137 credit hours and had earned her B.S. in history with a minor in business. She began her education at Liberty in the Fall 2009 semester.
Velker and Hogue married in June 2009. They lived in Lynchburg and were active in their church while attending Liberty, save Velker's final semester. In January they moved to Houston where Velker obtained an internship and Hogue now works as a performance coach. Both are from Okinawa, Japan. A memorial service was held in Louisiana and a funeral is planned in Okinawa at a date yet to be determined.
A fund has been set up to assist Hogue with hospital bills. Mail donations to USAA Federal Savings Bank, 10750 McDermott Freeway, San Antonio, Texas 78288-9876 (memo: Vincent Hogue), or call (800) 531-8722 (Mastercard only).


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Dunning–Kruger effect
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.[1]
The bias was first experimentally observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999. They postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in the unskilled, and external misperception in the skilled: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]
Original study
The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments during 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the department of psychology at Cornell University.[1][2] The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.[3] The authors noted that earlier studies suggested that ignorance of standards of performance lies behind a great deal of incorrect self-assessment of competence. This pattern was seen in studies of skills as diverse as reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing games such as chess or tennis.
Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:[4]
- fail to recognize their own lack of skill
- fail to recognize the extent of their inadequacy
- fail to recognize genuine skill in others
- recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill, after they are exposed to training for that skill
Dunning has since drawn an analogy – "the anosognosia of everyday life"[5][6] – with a condition in which a person who experiences a physical disability because of brain injury seems unaware of, or denies the existence of, the disability, even for dramatic impairments such as blindness or paralysis: "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent.… [T]he skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is."[5]
Supporting studies
Dunning and Kruger set out to test these hypotheses on Cornell undergraduates in psychology courses. In a series of studies, they examined subject self-assessment of logical reasoning skills, grammatical skills, and humor. After being shown their test scores, the subjects were asked to estimate their own rank. The competent group estimated their rank accurately, while the incompetent group overestimated theirs. As Dunning and Kruger noted:
Across four studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.[1]
Meanwhile, subjects of high ability tended to underestimate their relative competence. Roughly, participants who found tasks to be easy erroneously presumed that the tasks also must be easy for others.[1]
A follow-up study, reported in the same paper, suggests that grossly incompetent students improved their ability to estimate their rank after minimal tutoring in the skills they had previously lacked, regardless of the improvement gained in skills.[1]
In 2003, Dunning and Joyce Ehrlinger, also of Cornell University, published a study that detailed a shift in people's views of themselves when influenced by external cues. Participants in the study, Cornell University undergraduates, were given tests of their knowledge of geography. Some of the tests were intended to affect their self-views positively, some negatively. They were then asked to rate their performance. Those given the positive tests reported significantly better performance than those given the negative.[7]
Daniel Ames and Lara Kammrath extended this work to sensitivity to others and subject perception of how sensitive they were.[8]
Research conducted by Burson et al. (2006) set out to test one of the core hypotheses put forth by Kruger and Muller in their paper "Unskilled, unaware, or both? The better-than-average heuristic and statistical regression predict errors in estimates of own performance": "that people at all performance levels are equally poor at estimating their relative performance".[9] To test this hypothesis, the authors investigated three different studies, which all manipulated the "perceived difficulty of the tasks and hence participants' beliefs about their relative standing".[9] The authors found that when researchers presented subjects with moderately difficult tasks, the best and the worst performers varied little in their ability to accurately predict their performance. Additionally, they found that with more difficult tasks, the best performers were less accurate in predicting their performance than the worst performers. The authors concluded that these findings suggest that "judges at all skill levels are subject to similar degrees of error".[9]
Ehrlinger et al. (2008) made an attempt to test alternative explanations, but came to conclusions that were qualitatively similar to the original work. The paper concludes that the root cause is that, in contrast to high performers, "poor performers do not learn from feedback suggesting a need to improve".[10]
Studies on the Dunning–Kruger effect tend to focus on American test subjects. A number of studies on East Asian subjects suggest that different social forces are at play in different cultures. For example, East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities and see underachievement as a chance to improve themselves and to get along with others.[11]
Historical antecedents
Although the Dunning–Kruger effect was formulated in 1999, Dunning and Kruger have noted earlier observations along similar lines by philosophers and scientists, including Confucius ("Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance"),[2] Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision"),[10] and Charles Darwin, whom they quoted in their original paper ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge").[1]
Geraint Fuller, commenting on the paper, noted that Shakespeare expressed a similar observation in As You Like It ("The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole" (V.i)).[12]
Dunning and Kruger were awarded the 2000 satirical Ig Nobel Prize in psychology "for their modest report, 'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments'".[13]
See also
- Hypocrisy#Self-deception
- Curse of knowledge
- Four stages of competence
- Grandiose delusions
- Hanlon's razor
- Impostor syndrome
- Narcissism
- Not even wrong
- Overconfidence effect
- Self-efficacy
- Self-serving bias
- Superiority complex
- Ultracrepidarianism
- ^ a b c d e f g Kruger, Justin; Dunning, David (1999). "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 77 (6): 1121–34. doi:10.1037/0022-35188.8.131.521. PMID 10626367. CiteSeerx: 10.1.1.64.2655.
- ^ a b Dunning, David; Johnson, Kerri; Ehrlinger, Joyce; Kruger, Justin (2003). "Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence" (abstract). Current Directions in Psychological Science. 12 (3): 83–87. doi:10.1111/1467-8721.01235. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ "Why Losers Have Delusions of Grandeur". New York Post. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ Lee, Chris (2012-05-25). "Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome". Arstechnica.com. p. 3. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
- ^ a b Morris, Errol (20 June 2010). "The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)". New York Times. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ Dunning, David (2005). Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself (Essays in Social Psychology). Psychology Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 1-84169-074-0.
- ^ Ehrlinger, Joyce; Dunning, David (January 2003). "How Chronic Self-Views Influence (and Potentially Mislead) Estimates of Performance". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. American Psychological Association. 84 (1): 5–17. doi:10.1037/0022-35126.96.36.199. PMID 12518967.
- ^ Ames, Daniel R.; Kammrath, Lara K. (September 2004). "Mind-Reading and Metacognition: Narcissism, not Actual Competence, Predicts Self-Estimated Ability" (PDF). Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 28 (3): 187–209. doi:10.1023/B:JONB.0000039649.20015.0e. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ a b c Burson, K.; Larrick, R.; Klayman, J. (2006). "Skilled or unskilled, but still unaware of it: how perceptions of difficulty drive miscalibration in relative comparisons". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90 (1): 5. doi:10.1037/0022-35220.127.116.11. PMID 16448310. hdl:2027.42/39168.
- ^ a b Ehrlinger, Joyce; Johnson, Kerri; Banner, Matthew; Dunning, David; Kruger, Justin (2008). "Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent" (PDF). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 105 (1): 98–121. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.05.002. PMC 2702783. PMID 19568317.
- ^ DeAngelis, Tori (Feb 2003). "Why we overestimate our competence". Monitor on Psychology. American Psychological Association. 34 (2): 60. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ Fuller, Geraint (2011). "Ignorant of ignorance?". Practical Neurology. 11 (6): 365. doi:10.1136/practneurol-2011-000117. PMID 22100949.
- ^ "Ig Nobel Past Winners". Retrieved 7 March 2011.
Further reading
- Dunning, David (27 October 2014). "We Are All Confident Idiots". Pacific Standard. Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media, and Public Policy. Retrieved 28 October 2014. A popular commentary by David Dunning, with links to other articles, about the research program on how human beings evaluate their own knowledge and competence.


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Nov. 28, 2005
It was only an exhibition, but it was hard to tell that the game meant nothing based on the intense emotional play.
Lipscomb's Bisons played host to the Freed-Hardeman Lions Monday night at Allen Arena. There were 64 fouls in the game, 38 by Freed-Hardeman and 26 by Lipscomb. Four players fouled out of the game, three for Freed and one for Lipscomb. The final score was 93-71 with the Bisons getting 34 of their points at the free throw line.
"We have to get to the free throw line," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "It is a good thing to get 51 free throws, but you still have to make them."
In the first half the Bisons maintained the lead, taking a 13-point advantage at 19-6 with 10:36 before intermission. The Bisons only scored 10 points in the first seven minutes of the game, but held Freed-Hardeman to only four during that stretch.
"The first nine minutes we could make a shot, but we up by nine-to-11 points because of our defense," said Sanderson. "We were second in the Atlantic Sun in defense last season. If we are not the best defensive team in our league this season we won't win the conference. We are capable of being the best defensive team. We just have to get down and defend for 40 minutes."
The Bisons led 42-37 at the half.
Sanderson's lineup combination was different than the first three games of the season with forward Eddie Ard making his first start along with guard Jason Guyette. They joined three of the regular starters _ center Shaun Durant and guards Trey Williams and James Poindexter.
Guard Brian Fisk came off the bench to score a game-high 21 points, hitting 7-of-12 shots from the field.
"Brian has been pressing a little bit, but he has been very good defensively," said Sanderson. "This time he got his offense going. When he plays like that people feed off of him. He came off the bench and played with much more focus."
Poindexter added 14 points. Both Ard and Durant tossed in 11. Durant also had seven rebounds tying with Freed-Hardeman's Seth Matlock for the game high.
"We had been getting good looks from the right people in our earlier games, but they had not been falling," said Sanderson. "We were better, but we are not there yet."
Brent McPherson led Freed-Hardeman with 11 points. He was the only Lion in double figures.
The Bisons open Atlantic Sun Conference play Thursday night at Kennesaw State at 7 p.m.


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News, notes and quotes from Wednesday's interview sessions:
— Quarterback Jason Campbell was pleased to hear coach Tom Cable's assessment that the quarterback had his best game as a Raider.
"I think it was overall, probably one of them,'' Campbell said. "I just wish we could have won. When you don't win, you don't even look at it that way. You always feel like, `What could you have done better to help us win?' ''
Campbell said the audible which resulted in Darren McFadden's 51-yard touchdown run was one that was put in the night before the game.
He didn't think there would be an issue would taking the Broncos seriously given the Raiders cannot afford another loss and that a 45-point win the first time around would give Denver ample ammunition to be better this time.
"The way we won there the first time this season, you know as a competitor they're going to come back and fight hard,'' Campbell said. "Playing this game for awhile, you understand every game is different.''
Here was Campbell's explanation of the final drive against Jacksonville, which ended with a short completion to Jacoby Ford as time expired.
"I think we just ran out of time,'' Campbell said. "The third down play, we were trying to get a call in and had to switch it really quick to try and get the first (down).
"We were trying to get a play where we could try and get a double move and get into the end zone. But things happen and we had to take a time out. Then on the last play, we were trying to get Jacoby to where he could catch the ball and go out of bounds. But I was throwing off my back foot so I really couldn't get into what I wanted.
"You have to learn from the situation and move on.''
— Light day of locker room activity a week after the buzz from ex-Jaguars going against their old teammates.
Defensive end Jarvis Moss, a first-round pick in 2007 by Denver released this season and picked up by the Raiders, wasn't as colorful as John Henderson was regading the Jaguars but provided some perspective.
When Josh McDaniels replaced Mike Shanahan, players such as Jay Cutler (traded to Chicago), Brandon Marshall (traded to Miami) and Peyton Hillis (traded to Cleveland). All three have excelled in their new locales.
"Some of those moves you're kind of like, `Well, that guy's a damn good player. We could use him,' '' Moss said. "Of course, as a player and a teammate to that guy, you think that, but at the same time, that's all you are is a player. You can only sit at your locker and tape up and get ready to go to work.''
Under McDaniels, the Broncos won their first six games last season, hit the bye week, and have gone 5-18 ever since.
"Any team that can start off the season 6-0, yeah you're riding pretty high,'' Moss said. "You know, that's pretty hard to do in this league. It was a good situation. It's kinda' hard to believe how downhill it went after that.
"It's hard to point the finger. You know, it's this person's fault, or that person's fault, it's a team thing, an organization thing. It went downhill from there and that's things that they have to figure out. I'm no longer there, and I don't really care to comment on it too much more, so that's something for the Broncos to figure out from this point on.''
Moss said he'd give the Raiders all the help they wanted in terms of scheme and information, although given that it's a division opponent they've already faced, there probably isn't a lot they don't already know.
— Reserve linebacker and special teams player Sam Williams credited Jacksonville for a 65-yard kickoff return which set up the game-winning touchdown on a 30-yard run by Maurice Jones-Drew.
"They had a good scheme,'' Williams said. "We were trying to pin them in the corner, and they bounced it to the field. We just kind of overpursued."
—Denver wide receiver Brandon Lloyd, talking by conference call to Bay Area reporters, said the Broncos will do their best to put the disastrous first meeting behind them while making it clear it can never be forgotten.
"It wasn't just any other game being blown out by historic proportions, but it's still another game,'' Lloyd said. "That happened. If you're alluding to is it extra motivation, are we hanging the score up around the locker room like some kind of high school game? No, we're not.''
— Lloyd, who only caught one pass (for 46 yards) with 6:26 left in the first meeting while trailing 59-14, went into a detailed answer on the skills of cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and noted receivers are sometimes reluctant to show some of their best moves while too far ahead and too far behind.
When asked if that was the case on Oct. 24, Lloyd broke into a laugh.
"Yeah, that's my excuse for that,'' Lloyd said.
–Denver coach Eric Studesville, who already named Kyle Orton the starting quarterback this week, addressed the use of Tim Tebow on a conference call with Raiders beat writers.
Orton didn't throw during the portion of practice allowed to Denver writers.
"Well, we're looking at everything. Tim has played for us this year. Tim has contributed to the offense this year as far as running touchdowns and throwing a touchdown,'' Studesville said. "So, he has contributed as he's been here, and we're going to continue to figure out what exactly that his role can be and what it should be week to week. That's a situation and questions that we've asked every week this year."


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Coconut and Lemon Curd Cake
By Paula Deen
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Servings: 10
- 1 (18 1/4 oz) box yellow cake mix
- for pans butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 (11 oz) jar lemon curd
- 1 lemon's worth finely grated lemon zest
- 1 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Butter and flour 2 (8-inch) round cake pans.
Prepare and bake the cake according to the package directions. Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
In a heatproof bowl on the top of a double boiler, being sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water, add the sugar, egg whites, cream of tartar, salt and water. Beat with an electric mixer for 1 minute. Remove the bowl from the heat and continue to beat, on high speed, for 7 minutes.
In a small saucepan, heat the lemon curd gently over medium-low heat or microwave it for 20 seconds on medium power, just to soften. Stir in the lemon zest.
Cut each cake layer in half horizontally. Frost each layer with a layer of curd, frosting and coconut. Top it with another layer of cake and frosting, and repeat with all the layers. Frost the top and sides of the cake and cover with the coconut. Store wrapped in an airtight container in the refrigerator. When ready to serve, remove the cake from the refrigerator and slice. The cake will keep in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.