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That's a question many Britons are asking now that new data show nearly two-thirds of the country's million-pound earners have disappeared not even one year after a tax hike on the nation's highest earners went into effect.
Britain's Telegraph newspaper reports that just 6,000 Britons declared income over a million pounds ($1.6 million) to the nation's tax authority, down from more than 16,000 in the 2009-10 tax year.
Former Labour Party Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the top rate from 40% to 50% in 2010, shortly before losing the general election to Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
The closely watched wealth tax was a disappointment from the beginning, with the first monthly receipts last January bringing a half a billion pounds less than the same month in 2011.
The Telegraph reports the tax increase has so far cost the U.K. Treasury 7 billion pounds.
Seeking to arrest this trend, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that the top 50% rate would be reduced to 45% beginning next April. The British newspaper reports the number of Britons reporting million-pound incomes has risen to 10,000 since Osborne's announcement.
The U.K. Treasury may yet have some extra, unexpected help from millionaires. Not to be outdone, France's new prime minister, Francois Hollande, has pushed through a much higher wealth tax, with a top rate of 75% on residents of France earning 1 million euros ($1.3 million).
The new rate kicks in in 2013, and already there is evidence that wealthy Frenchmen are fleeing. Switzerland and the U.K., tax havens by comparison, are among the destinations cited by the Wall Street Journal in a recent article noting that French chateaux are being sold at bargain prices to foreigners (who would be unaffected by the new tax).
Similarly, sales of high-end property to French tax exiles are keeping London estate agents in the swank neighborhoods of Chelsea and South Kensington (dubbed the "21st arrondissement" quite busy these days, the Telegraph reported even before Hollande assumed office a week after his election.
The European tax flights will likely get close attention in the U.S., where fiscal cliff negotiations will decide whether a Bush-era tax reduction will be extended. Currently, the top tax rate is scheduled to rise from 35% to 39.6% come January–far lower than British or French rates, though the Obama administration proposes to apply that rate to families earning $250,000 (or individuals earning $200,000).
In addition, taxes on investment income are scheduled to rise sharply in the new year, and two new wealth surtaxes that are part of the health care overhaul take effect in the new year as well.
While many conservatives warn that the increased taxation will suppress wealth creation and bring in less revenue than expected, at least one analyst cautions that the European exodus from high tax jurisdictions may not be a relevant comparison to the U.S. Forbes contributor Tim Worstall says the U.S. tax system makes fleeing taxes very difficult, since Americans, unlike citizens of the European Union, must file taxes regardless of their residence. Americans' only recourse is to renounce their citizenship, and even then they must settle with the IRS before taking leave of the U.S. In contrast, a French citizen need only take the Chunnel train to London to be rid of France's new higher taxes.
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New information about Google's Project Glass has been coming out in bits and pieces. Today, Google gave us another glimpse into the future lives of people who choose to wear the Android-based augmented-reality headset with a video.
Google has also re-opened pre-orders for the futuristic glasses. While early access was offered at last year's Google I/O conference, now you can apply for an invitation to the "Glass Explorer" program, through an application process to prove that you are "bold" and "creative."
A lot of the video repeats what we already know—that you can take first-person videos and photos of everything you do while wearing the glasses, whether that be playing with your adorable kids, skydiving, being a ballerina or trapeze artist, or flying an airplane.
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HONOLULU - Josh Hutcherson is 19 and has the energy to prove it. While waiting for an outdoor TV interview to begin on the grounds of the Kahala Hotel and Resort, the actor entertained himself by climbing the trunk of 30-foot palm tree.
On his sixth attempt, Hutcherson managed to make it three-quarters of the way up, before he was summoned to another chat promoting the 3-D fantasy-adventure, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which opens Feb. 10.
Duty bound, he jumped from the tree to the ground to talk about the movie that will certainly increase his profile. Hutcherson stars with Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Hudgens, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman in the sequel to 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Soon, the former child performer will need all the tree-climbing skills he can muster - and it's not to finish his many interviews on this day.
He's about to enter the Twilight zone of fame, as a co-star in the much-anticipated movie version of The Hunger Games, which opens March 23.
Based on the wildly popular Suzanne Collins novel (the first of three), The Hunger Games is expected to replace the Twilight films when the franchise concludes with the release of Breaking Dawn - Part 2 in November.
In the post-apocalyptic Hunger Games, Hutcherson plays Peeta Mellark, who joins Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in a fight-to-the-death match broadcast live on TV. The fan frenzy is expected to be as intense as the film.
In fact, Hudgens, the former High School Musical star and the object of much teen adoration, had a few words of wisdom for her Journey 2 co-star when they paired up earlier in the morning.
"The only thing you can do, through all the scrutiny, is be true to yourself," said Hudgens, who dated Hutcherson during the Journey 2 filming in Hawaii. "Josh does that already, and very well. So I think he'll be fine."
Hutcherson agreed: "I'll be OK." But he wasn't so cool when it came to auditioning for the coveted part in The Hunger Games.
"I actually said, 'If I don't get (Hunger Games), I don't know what I'm going to do,'" Hutcherson recalled. "I've never read a role on the page where I felt that deep of a connection."
His Journey 2 part was a great deal less troubling. He returns from the first Journey adventure, which was loosely based on the Jules Verne book. This time around, his character, Sean Anderson, enlists the help of his stepfather, Hank Parsons (Johnson), a South Seas beauty Kailani (Hudgens) and her helicopter-pilot father, Gabato (Guizman), to search for his missing adventurer grandfather (Caine).
When the 'copter runs into a surreal storm, it crash-lands on a strange island, stranding all four of them. Soon they locate the grandfather, only to discover they have days to escape the island before it sinks into the Pacific Ocean.
"There was such a big gap between the first two movies that this one actually feels like a new movie," said Hutcherson of Journey 2. "And when I first heard about the cast, I was excited, because you would never think we would all be in the same movie."
Shooting on location in the secluded areas of Oahu in Hawaii helped. However, the Kentucky-born, L. A.-based Hutcherson had to adjust.
"I'd look down, and there would be an ant, and then I'd look closer and see there were, like, nine million anthills around us. It dawned on me, 'I'm not in Kentucky anymore. I'm in a jungle.'"
He toughed it out with the rest of the cast and crew, and often led by example during filming.
"Josh was impressive," said Johnson, the wrestler formerly known as The Rock. "I was able to have a partner (in the action sequences), with him. But I also appreciate that he's coming into his own, and becoming a man at the same time. He has great poise."
Born in Union, Kentucky, Hutcherson persuaded his parents, at the age of nine, to move the family to L.A., so he could audition for roles.
The movie industry started paying attention to him after h his higher-profile parts in Zathura and Little Manhattan, and, five years later, he proved he could make the transition to a more mature teen role in 2010's R-rated, Oscar-honoured, The Kids Are All Right.
And now there is his 2012 young-adult year with Journey 2, The Hunger Games, and a co-starring part in the remake of Red Dawn, out in theatres by November.
"I was always the kid putting on a show,'' said Hutcherson. "I remember I got my hands on a phone book at age nine, and looked up local acting agents, and told them, 'Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm going to be a movie star.'"
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To begin the process, please send an introductory email to email@example.com. The message should include information such as the following: description of the collection, number of records to share, type of database where information is catalogued, URL where the collection is published, and primary contact information.
You will receive a copy of the eMuseum Participation Agreement. The agreement confirms that you wish to participate, but may choose to stop participating at any time for any reason. Once the signed agreement is received, our technical staff will meet with your technical staff to schedule installation. Please see the detailed "Overview of Basic eMuseum Installation/Configuration Steps" below.
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We are practicing collective code ownership. To my understanding this means that any developer can change any line of code to add functionality, to refactor, fix bugs, or improve designs.
But what about a complete rewriting of code from a developer who is still on the team? Should I ask him first? What is the best practice?
Related: "When is a BIG rewrite the answer?"
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I think good communication is always the best practice. Talk to the developer and see if there's a reason why it's coded the way it is. It may be that they have been meaning to get back and refactor it for ages, it may be that they did it that way for a very good reason, or it may be that you both can learn something from the conversation.
Going in and rewriting without prior communication is a recipe for ill will.
What's wrong with your workflow?
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The very premise of this question raises a number of concerns for me that I don't think any of the existing answers are adequately trying to address. Let me ask some follow-up questions here:
- Are you absolutely, positively certain that you are talking about rewriting and not refactoring? By definition, changes to code style or structure that result in an improved (or simply different) implementation without changes to the external behavior is a refactor, not a rewrite. Breaking a monolithic 500-line routine into a set of 50 subroutines may involve writing quite a bit of new code, but it is not a rewrite. The term rewrite implies throwing away an entire product or feature and starting over from scratch; it is not something to be taken lightly.
- If the original code's behavior is so wrong, or the implementation is so buggy as to require a full-fledged rewrite, why was it not caught by your team's process and addressed in its proper context (i.e. technically rather than socially)? Bad or questionable code ought to be exposed quickly on a healthy team via tests, code reviews, design reviews, etc. Do you have these?
- Is the manager/tech lead aware of the problem, and if not, why not? No matter what kind of process you have, code quality is ordinarily the development manager's responsibility. He or she is the first person you should be asking—obviously not in the context of "so and so wrote crap code" but simply "I think I see a major problem here, can we talk about a rewrite?" If it doesn't warrant this type of discussion, then maybe it doesn't warrant a rewrite either?
- If the size and scope of the offending code is large enough to warrant serious discussion of a rewrite, why is it exclusively owned by one developer? Most if not all of the times when I've seen code and thought "rewrite", it's been trampled on by a dozen different people and the badness is a direct result of the accumulation of style inconsistencies, mistaken or altered assumptions, and good old-fashioned hacks. Code grows thorns over time precisely because of its shared ownership.My point here is, it's strange that one person would own such a large swath of code in an environment that supposedly practices collective ownership. Are other people afraid to touch this developer's code? Are they afraid to bring up the subject? Maybe there is in an underlying problem with your group dynamic, or with this developer specifically; if there is, don't ignore it. Or, alternatively, perhaps it is your first time working on this project, and if so, why are you thinking about a rewrite so early in the game? Something about the situation doesn't seem to add up for me.
- The question states, in the first paragraph: "any developer can change any line of code to add functionality, to refactor, fix bugs or improve designs." Will a rewrite not do these things? Or will it do something extra—and if so, what? Fundamentally, what are your reasons for wanting to do a rewrite, and how sure are you that they'll benefit the product or the team? You don't need to answer for me, but you'd better have some objective points to make if and when you choose to discuss it with the team.
I truly feel that this question entails a huge amount of context and should not be answered without a very clear understanding of that context. The "correct" answer completely depends on your team, your product, your organization, your personality, your process, the scope of the original code, the scope of the changes, and so on and so forth. This is, IMO, an issue that you absolutely need to take up with your team, not on an online Q&A site.
Related: "How do you explain refactoring to a non-technical person?"
Find the original post here. See more Q&A like this at Programmers, a site for conceptual programming questions at Stack Exchange. And of course, feel free to ask your own.


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Humankind has made great conceptual and technological advances since we first walked the Earth. Thanks to our ability to build on others' ideas, we've progressed from the abacus to the computer, from the wheel to the modern-day car, and from simple observations about the world to our current knowledge of the laws of nature and the Universe. This ability to accumulate knowledge and improve on it, referred to as "cumulative culture," is unique to humans.
But what is it about humans that predisposes us to cumulative culture? Some claim that this "ratcheting" of ideas is a result of a particular cognitive ability, such as language or prosociality, that is unique to—or especially prevalent in—humans. Others believe that some social aspect of other species, such as the tendency to scrounge, may preclude them from building on each others' ideas as we can. A new study in Science this week suggests that a few different traits may actually be responsible for our success with cumulative culture.
The researchers used three species in their experiments: chimpanzees, capuchin monkeys, and humans (specifically human children, to minimize the impact of culture). The idea was to compare humans with two closely related species that have cultural traditions, but not cumulative culture itself.
The studies employed a puzzle box that required three consecutive actions to fully open. The idea was to measure how well groups of each species performed on a task with sequential steps, which mirrors the cumulative acquisition of knowledge. In the first step, the subjects had to slide a door open to reveal a somewhat desirable treat. Then, they needed to press a button that let the door slide further and allowed access to a more desirable treat. Finally, in the third stage, they had to turn a dial to slide the door the rest of the way, revealing a really desirable treat. For the chimps and the capuchins, the rewards were carrots, apples and grapes; for the human children, the treats were various types of stickers.
While each group was working with the box, the researchers watched for instances from a set of specific behaviors. They then correlated the frequency of each behavior with how far that species got with the box. Behaviors that were common in groups that progressed through the most stages are likely the same ones that promote cumulative culture.
After 53 hours with the puzzle box, just one capuchin monkey had reached the second stage, and none figured out the third stage. Chimpanzees fared only slightly better: just one figured out stage three, and only four more had reached stage two. As expected, there wasn't any evidence that these species are capable of cumulative culture. Meanwhile, after just 2.5 hours of exposure to the puzzle box, more than sixty percent of the 3- and 4-year old children had figured out stage three.
So what distinguished the humans' performance from that of the other primates? The researchers found that several behaviors seemed to make the difference, both in terms of which species progressed the furthest, and which individuals within each species did the best.
Only in the human groups did the researchers witness teaching behavior, either through language ("push that button") or gesturing. Furthermore, the children who received the most instruction were more likely to make it to the third stage. The researchers also found that "matching"—when an individual who picks up the box imitates what the last individual using it did—had a great impact on progress. One of the significant measures of prosociality was how often more than one individual manipulated the box simultaneously; these instances can be interpreted as cooperation or, at the very least, tolerance. Humans worked on the box together much more often than either the chimps or the capuchins.
There was no evidence that nonsocial cognition or any aspect of social structure, such as scrounging or social hierarchy, affected performance.
Although there wasn't a quantitative measure, the researchers noted that the humans tended to approach the box in a very different way than either the capuchins or the chimpanzees. The children used the box together, helping each other and sharing the rewards; meanwhile, the other primate species seemed to interact only with the box simply to procure resources.
There are obviously some shortcomings in this research; the experiments took place under artificial conditions, and the "ratcheting" of each idea had to occur over a very short time scale. However, it does give us an idea of the traits that are likely to contribute to cumulative culture on a much larger—and more difficult to study—scale.
Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1213969 (About DOIs).


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Dunster Station has a booking office and sells the full range of West Somerset Railway fares and indeed the tickets for the railway are printed here on a press formerly used by British Railways. The station has toilets, but no disabled facilities.
The historic village of Dunster, in West Somerset is the best preserved medieval village in England. Discover more here www.discoverdunster.info
Dunster village is approximately a twenty minute walk from the station, the latter part being gently uphill. It is worth the exercise. The main feature is Dunster Castle whose oldest parts date from Norman times and which is now in the care of the National Trust. It stands on an outcrop of rock with spacious grounds below (part were once polo grounds and the ponies' horseboxes were unloaded at Dunster Station). Holders of West Somerset Railway tickets can obtain a 20% discount on Admission to the Castle. Why not travel on a Wednesday and make use of our 'Dunster Castle Express'?
The village itself has a medieval Yarn Market which is flanked on either side by shops and tea rooms, which together with several pubs means there is no lack of refreshment available to the traveller. The village is home to the Dunster Museum and Doll Collections in the High Street.
Worth seeking out are the Mill and the Priory Church and at the top of the village the old packhorse bridge which still spans the River Avill. For the energetic a walk up through the woods to Bats Castle (a prehistoric site) is worth it to take in the view of the village and castle below and the more distant views of Minehead and across the Bristol Channel to South Wales.
Dunster's busiest nights of the year fall at the start of December when the annual 'Dunster by Candlelight' event takes place.On the evenings of the 1st Friday and Saturday of December the village extinguishes most of its electric lights in favour of candles and oil, entertainment takes to the streets and of course the shops and other outlets are open. The West Somerset Railway runs through trains and more information can be found on the Special Events pages.
Dunster Station stands in the area known as Dunster Marsh (which sounds more salubrious than the original name of Rotten Row by which it was known before the Railway came). It is a five minute walk to Dunster Beach and along the way walkers may be able to make out the sunken area of land which marks the site of the Medieval Port of Dunster. The station building may well look familiar to those with a model railway as Hornby produced a 4mm scale model for many years. Opposite it is the goods shed and yard which are now home to the West Somerset Railway's Permanent Way department and houses supplies of track and equipment for maintaining the bridges, stations and buildings on the railway as well as equipment for dealing with over 40 miles of vegetation which needs attention. The goods shed itself is reputed to be haunted. Dunster has a thriving promotional organisation and a list of village events throughout the year can be found be at www.discoverdunster.info


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1. Making kids into better people using video games
The founder of Electronic Arts has received $6.5 million in funding to develop interactive games geared to help 6- to 12-year-olds develop social and emotional skills. The first game for the iPad, "IF" is now available in the App Store.
Read more: Gaming pioneer Trip Hawkins' new challenge: Teaching kids how to be better people(Forbes)
2. This app helps the hearing impaired and distracted walkers detect danger
If you text while walking, or are hard of hearing, this app is for you. Audio Aware, with a planned release in March, detects sounds like screeching tires or sirens and then interrupts whatever music you're listening to, letting you know if danger is near.
Read more: App listens for danger when you're not paying attention(Technology Review)
3. This app gives you more control over your hearing aid
If you have a hearing aid and avoid public places – the ReSound LiNX may be able to help. Made by a Danish hearing aid company, the LiNX connects with an iOS device and offers several features:
- The user can adjust the volume and equalizers
- There are default settings made just for noisy public spaces
- With "Find My Hearing Aid" there is a GPS tracker to do just that – find a misplaced hearing aid
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No, really. The tool is called "WILL" – short for Wacom Ink Layer Language – and with this platform, you can share handwritten notes even if you just scribbled them with your fingertips.
How does it work? The device captures the location, content and identity of a note's author and shares the information across multiple platforms. Other people can even make edits.
Read more: Wacom lets people share handwritten notes across devices and platforms (Engadget)
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If you're bored, or just want something to relieve a little stress, you can feed real fish – just not in real life. With Aquardio, you can not only watch and feed real fish, you can also release bubbles in the tank and listen to soothing music.
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Daily headlines on the country's fiscal situation, broken tax pledges and the political battle lines being drawn to "solve" the problem are enough to freeze anyone in place–doubly so when it's the most vulnerable among us.
Couple it with time consuming and often confusing paperwork, and it's understandable why too many individuals of retirement age forget, delay or simply refuse to take their required minimum distributions, despite the hefty tax implications of not doing so.
"I think about folks who don't have family members helping them track the RMDs–it's crazy," said one frustrated baby boomer. "One place sends my mom multiple forms to fill out in tiny print. The annuity RMDs can't go automatically into a bank account, so I really worry about her losing the checks."
She's not alone. As of Nov. 9, Fidelity reports, nearly two-thirds (65%) of the investment giant's roughly 500,000 IRA customers who are required to take MRDs for tax year 2012 have not yet taken the full amount. Additionally, 54% have not taken any of their RMD to date for the year.
Confusion over basic RMD rules has been a contributing factor, according to the company. Managing RMDs can be a challenging and confusing process due to the complexity of the calculations and IRS regulations.
RMDs generally are minimum amounts that a retirement plan account owner must withdraw annually starting with the year that they reach 70½ years of age or, if later, the year in they retiree, according to the IRS. However, if the retirement plan account is an IRA or the account owner is a 5% owner of the business sponsoring the retirement plan, the RMDs must begin once the account holder is age 70 ½, regardless of whether they are retired.
Retirement plan participants and IRA owners are responsible for taking the correct amount of RMDs on time every year from their accounts, and they face stiff penalties for failure to take RMDs.
When a retirement plan account owner or IRA owner dies before RMDs have begun, different RMD rules apply to the beneficiary of the account or IRA.
Generally, investors who are required to take RMDs have until Dec. 31 of the tax year to do so, but if it is their first time taking an RMD, they generally have until April 1 of the following year.
To help educate the millions of investors who must take RMDs, Fidelity and similar companies offer a variety of resources, including articles about taking RMDs, webinars and RMD calculators.


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Having recently started a new job I took the descion to close Snoochy down. I have had a great 7 years running this successful shop with thousands of 5 star reviews. I am now selling all my current stock at below cost price.
The cost of all stock is £747.74 with the RRP being £2849.79
I have taken screenshots of all current stock but there are also 2 boxes of unlisted items included in the sale.
There is a total of 18.5 kg of stock which is about 129 listings and 614 units (this is with my current pack sizes)
If you are looking to set up a new business selling quality Czech glass beads and charms this is a great way to start or if you are a current business and you want to add stock cheaply.
Snoochy has been hugely successful over the past 7 years with 44,252 listing sales. I am only closing down because I wanted a change of direction and to pursue my passion of painting. I am happy to pass on my suppliers and any helpful information to the purchaser of this listing.
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Selig a great Commissioner, an even better man
Bud Selig's legacy is about as uncomplicated as it gets. He's the best Commissioner baseball has ever had. Is that uncomplicated enough?
All the good things that have happened to baseball the past 21 years have been a byproduct of Selig's leadership, persistence and vision. To plenty of owners, players, etc., it's difficult to comprehend the sport without him.
That's what A's owner Lew Wolff had in mind a couple of years ago when he sent Selig the following e-mail: "You will not retire until I expire."
Selig announced Thursday that he will leave the job when his term expires in January 2015. He has flirted with retirement before, but has never been so definitive in his statements about leaving.
Selig said the time has come to get on with the next chapter of his life, that is, writing and teaching, and to take a deep breath or two. He assumed the sport's top job in 1992 at a time when teams were drowning in red ink, and players and owners were constantly fighting.
Twenty-one years later, baseball has been transformed by labor peace, revenue sharing, drug testing, competitive balance, affirmative action, new ballparks, expanded playoffs, television coverage and a little Internet startup, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, that has become one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of American business.
Selig's fingerprints are on every single one of those accomplishments. He wanted a sport that embraced and honored its past, but was not limited by it. His management style is to hire smart people and give them the resources and freedom to do their jobs.
He's also a master lobbyist. When Selig wanted something done, he worked the telephones tirelessly to cajole, persuade, and if necessary, find a middle ground that was acceptable to all -- or almost all -- 30 owners. As former Astros owner Drayton McLane once said, "I've voted for things I was against because the Commissioner wanted it so badly. You didn't want to disappoint him. And at times, he saw things in a way the rest of us couldn't. That's one of the definitions of leadership, isn't it?"
Even the things Selig has been most criticized for -- cancellation of the 1994 World Series and recognizing baseball had a problem with performance-enhancing drugs -- have become two of his hallmarks.
Baseball has had 18 years of uninterrupted labor peace as players and owners have learned that great things can happen when they work together. This change happened, in part, because Selig convinced the owners to speak with one voice and to be resolute in growing the game while being fair to both sides.
Likewise, baseball has the crown jewel of drug-testing programs. It has been tweaked and toughened through the years, but it's the program every other is compared again. While other sports drag their feet on things like blood testing for human growth hormone, baseball has moved full speed ahead, players and owners in agreement.
Beyond the bottom line -- and the bottom line with its eight-fold increase in revenues since 1992 is dazzling -- there is an essential decency about the man, an everyman quality that makes him virtually impossible to dislike.
And every owner, player, business partner and reporter knows that his first priority in every decision is to do what he believed best for the sport.
When someone asked him recently if it would be awkward to perhaps have Alex Rodriguez participating in a postseason series while baseball was trying to suspend him, Selig answered quickly.
"I'm comfortable with doing the right thing," he said, "and we did the right thing."
Selig gave baseball a human face in a way few other Commissioners ever have. He decided that baseball must honor Jackie Robinson every year. By doing this, plenty of players and owners who might have known of the man only as some abstract figure came to understand him and his contributions, not just to baseball, but to the civil rights movement in this country.
Once, many years ago, Selig met Dixie Walker, a former Dodger who'd resisted playing with Robinson. It was as if he'd waited his entire life to have this conversation.
"How do you feel now about the way you treated Jackie back then?" Selig asked.
Walker seemed taken aback by the bluntness of the question.
"I made it right with Jackie before he died," Walker said.
Hank Aaron was the only player Selig ever acquired on his own while he owned the Brewers. That was in November 1974, because Selig wanted baseball's home-run king to return to Milwaukee for the final chapter of his career.
They became fast friends, and through the years, there have been days when Aaron, reflecting on the racism and stress he endured while pursuing Babe Ruth's record, needed someone to talk to. Selig became more than Aaron's boss and his friend. He became his confidant and sounding board.
Long before the NFL's Rooney Rule, Selig ordered teams to include minority candidates in their interview process.
"Why keep recycling these same guys?" he asked one general manager. "There are other candidates out there."
Baseball under Selig has gotten consistently high marks for its hiring of women and minorities in its executive offices. This effort begins with the man in charge, with his belief in trying to do the right thing.
Two years ago, during a visit to his Milwaukee office, Selig handed me a folder.
"Read this essay," he said.
It was by Meggie Zahneis, the winner of baseball's 2011 Breaking Barriers essay contest. In it, she articulately and poignantly compared her own struggle to overcome physical problems with Jackie Robinson's fight against racism.
When I finished reading, Selig began to talk about Meggie and about the essay and how he'd been moved by it. Tears welled in his eyes as he spoke of meeting Meggie at the World Series and of being captivated by her energy and spirit.
Selig decided Meggie should be part of baseball's family, that her ideals and values were the same ones he wanted for the sport. That's why she's our youth reporter at MLB.com.
To some of us, Selig's personality, his sense of humor and accessibility, will outweigh every other accomplishment. To know him is to like him.
When I began covering the Orioles in 1983, I knew what to expect on every trip to Milwaukee. Somewhere around the third inning, the team's owner -- that would be Selig -- would sweep into the press box to make small talk with every single person he encountered.
Mainly, though, he was there to check out how many local reporters were at the game. He literally would count. Once when a Milwaukee columnist named Bud Lea hadn't been at County Stadium for a few games, Selig saw he'd returned and pretended to be shocked.
"Buddy!" he said loudly.
Lea looked over his shoulder and smiled.
"What brings you out, Buddy?" he asked. "Did the Packers cancel one of their 20 minicamps?"
With that, the press box roared with laughter. That incident led me to believe Selig didn't like the Packers, that he might have seen them as his competition for sports fans in Wisconsin.
Later, I found out Selig himself was among the biggest Packers fans on the planet. A couple of years ago during a visit to his second home in Scottsdale, Ariz., he couldn't get a Packers playoff game on his condo's television.
So Selig looked up a local sports bar that had it and drove to the place and found himself a good seat. There while having a Cobb Salad and a few Diet Cokes, he held court with dozens of fans and cheered for the Packers.
"I had so much fun I may go back," he said.
As he prepares to leave the sport he transformed, that single image of Bud Selig, this good man, this smart, funny man who remade a sport, is the one that will endure.


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Firecracker noodles
This dish is delicious served with grilled chicken, so it's a perfect do-ahead dish to round out your cookout menu. Adjust the amount of chili paste with garlic to suit your desire for "heat." Serve mounds of these noodles at room temperature on beds of shredded romaine lettuce or Chinese cabbage, or stemmed salad spinach leaves.
Spicy Pickled Ginger Vinaigrette
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons white rice vinegar
1 tablespoon peanut oil, preferably roasted peanut oil
1 tablespoon dark (Asian) sesame oil
1 tablespoon chili paste with garlic, or to taste
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon minced pickled ginger
¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste
8 ounces thin Chinese egg noodles
1 cup finely shredded carrot
2 medium green onions, including green parts, diagonally cut into thin slices
½ cup finely chopped dry-roasted, unsalted peanuts
¼ cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
Black sesame seeds, sprigs of fresh cilantro, blanched snow peas for garnish
Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat.
Whisk together the dressing ingredients in a small bowl.
When the water comes to a boil, add the noodles. Reduce the heat to medium-high and cook until al dente, about 3 to 5 minutes, or according to package instructions. As the noodles cook, stir occasionally with a fork to separate. Drain and rinse well in cold water, then drain again.
Transfer the noodles to a large bowl. Whisk the dressing; add to the noodles and toss. Let stand for about 10 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and toss. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Advance preparation
This salad will keep for up to 3 days in a covered container in the refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before serving.


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Many people say the Muslim god and the God of the Bible are the same. If that's true then the Koran and the Bible should agree with one another, but they don't. Find out why a belief that the god of the Koran could never be reconciled with the God that wrote Genesis.
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Evolutionists bashing evolution (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-13)
How to graduate with your faith intact (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-12)
Exposing the truth about creationists
Unshakable faith (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-10)
Objection… Overruled! (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-09)
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Examining evidence for evolution and deep time (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-07)
Life: Incredibly created by God (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-06)
Dinosaurs in the Bible and on the Ark
Science, the Bible, and the Age of the Earth (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-04)
Evidence for the Global Flood of Noah (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-03)
Origins and the Gospel (Creation Magazine LIVE! 8-02)
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The Bible: Word of God or word of man? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-21)
Five atheist miracles
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The Christian response to aliens and UFOs
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Why youth leave the church
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Effective Evangelism in an Evolutionized World
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Same old song and dance
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Cornerstones of Evolution Refuted
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Dinosaurs and the Bible
Noah's Ark—Real or Ridiculous?
Progressive creation—Preposterous Compromise
Gap Theory—an idea with holes?
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What the Bible says about the Age of the Earth
What the Science says about the Age of the Earth
Changes in Living Things (part 2)—Mutations
Changes in Living Things (part 1)—Natural Selection
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"As you all know, in the past few days there have been negotiations for my transfer to another NBA franchise, from here I want to thank all of the Raptors fans who have sent me messages of support to my site and I have wished me luck. For some reason or another, the transfer has not taken place and I am still in Toronto. I just want to say, that as I have done in the history of my career, I will respect the rules and accept decisions that are part of this game, both on and off the court. However, I do not want to sound like I want to leave Toronto. On the contrary, I have spent five years in this city, I consider myself as one of its citizens and fans of the Raptors. I am also the most veteran player on this team, and although Chris is gone, my dream was to lead a new project to take us to the playoffs, that's what I've been training for weeks and getting ready for next season. In any case, whatever happens, I can tell everyone that this goal remains intact and that with the right chemistry in the locker room and with the fans, we can achieve this goal.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as a result of automatic federal spending cuts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday.
Both of those big-city airports routinely suffer security line delays. The Federal Aviation Administration reported Monday there were no significant flight delays in either Los Angeles or Chicago.
Napolitano, who spoke at a Politico-sponsored event on the 10th anniversary of DHS, said delays will become worse. The Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection agencies, which are part of the Homeland Security Department, are in the process of issuing furlough notices and have cut overtime for employees.
CBP said in a statement later Monday that weekend delays in Los Angeles and Chicago were caused by "reduced primary booth staffing" because of cuts to overtime. CBP said wait times for passengers on 56 arriving flights at John F. Kennedy International in New York exceeded two hours, and passengers on 14 flights waited more than three hours. Delays at Miami International Airport of more than two hours were reported for 51 flights, and passengers from four flights experienced waits of about three hours. CBP said such waits were longer than usual.
TSA, which is responsible for screening passengers entering airports, said travelers can expect longer security checkpoint lines as the agency reduces overtimes and freezes hiring. TSA said in a statement that it expects to have about 1,000 vacancies by Memorial Day and as many as 2,600 by the end of the budget year in September.
Napolitano said she expects a cascading effect during the week, with wait times expected to double in worst cases.
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Developer considers eastern Rock County for 60 wind turbines
Credit: Neil Johnson | January 25, 2014 | gazettextra.com ~~
TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN—A developer plans to begin testing to learn if the town of Johnstown has the right conditions to support a wind farm that town officials say could fill the horizon with as many as 60 wind turbines.
Town Chairman Dennis Logterman and town Supervisor Robert Mawhinney confirmed that NextEra Energy Resources based in Juno, Fla., has gotten town approval to erect two met towers–one on East Hake Road and one on County MM–on the far east side of the town to monitor and test wind conditions there.
The towers, which will be on private land and be 200 and 300 feet high, will look like tall flagpoles equipped with meteorological and wind-testing equipment. They are designed to determine whether an area provides proper conditions for wind turbines.
The test towers are allowed under town building construction permits and through permission by landowners. They must be removed within five years, Logterman said.
Logterman and Mawhinney say it could take NextEra a year or more of wind testing before the company could file a development proposal for an electricity-generating wind farm with the state Public Service Commission. The group is the regulatory agency that oversees the electric industry in Wisconsin, including the full permitting process for electric generating wind farms.
Mawhinney said a land acquisition representative from the company already has begun talking with landowners about the potential wind farm development, and he said the company has indicated it would like to move forward with the project by 2016.
Mawhinney, who owns land in the town, said NextEra has "approached him as a landowner" about the potential wind farm. Mawhinney said the company hasn't yet shown detailed plans, but he's learned the company has been eying the area around the town for several years for its potential to harness wind energy.
"They have electronic wind data they've been recording throughout the area for several years. They say they already know the wind is here, now they've got to have hard data with these towers," Mawhinney said.
He said that "depending on what generator size they choose, they're looking to put around 50 to 60 (wind turbine) towers" somewhere in the town.
Mawhinney said he's also learned the turbines—tall, metal windmills with electric generators turned by three long blades—could be as tall as 350 feet.
NextEra is one of the largest wind farm and clean energy developers in the United States. It Dodge County it owns and operates a 36-turbine, 56-megawatt windfarm, Butler Ridge Wind Energy, which it acquired in 2009. In DeKalb and Lee counties in northern Illinois, it operates a 145-turbine, 217-megawatt wind farm.
The company had contacted town of Magnolia officials in 2011 about town ordinances for wind farms there. At the time, Magnolia had rules in place that didn't allow wind farms, and the company told reporters it had no immediate plans to place testing towers.
The Gazette was not able to reach NextEra for comment and for details on where the potential wind farm could be located in the town.
To be viable, wind farms need a combination of available land, existing high voltage power lines and steady wind.
According to fact sheets on NextEra's website, the company pursues wind farms in areas where the wind blows "steadily, consistently and unobstructed." The ideal average wind speed is 25 to 35 mph, according to the company.
The company's fact sheets say wind farms must be near high-voltage transmission lines capable of additional transmission and carrying power long distances.
Wind farms typically lease land from landowners under a developer's agreement that spells out, among other facets, where and how wind turbines would be located on private land. Sometimes, the developers offer revenue sharing arrangements with local taxing authorities, including school districts.
State siting rules on setbacks for wind farms require wind turbines to be at least 1,400 feet from any residential structure.
Logterman say that would seem to rule out construction along a ridge that runs through the middle and northern parts of the town of Johnstown. Those areas have too many homes, Logterman said. Both Logterman and Mawhinney speculated that land in the town that's flatter and less populated could be areas targeted by the developers.
"Obviously, they need a lot of room. They'd want less housing, bigger open fields. It's like anything else. If it's more flat, it's easier digging. All that would factor into it," Logterman said.
The town is reviewing language in its town codes, although in Wisconsin municipal and town governments now have little authority over wind farm developments.
"It's pretty much state control. We (the town board) have got very little to say. It gets real legal what the uses are for the stuff (wind farm developments), but from what we understand, it's a legal use of agricultural zoned land," Mawhinney said.
Under a state statutes established in 2009, local regulatory power over wind farms was effectively overturned. Review oversight and approval process for wind farm developments over 100 megawatts were put under the control of the Public Service Commission.
And in 2012, the Public Service Commission established a new set of regulatory principals that also give the commission oversight over wind farms smaller than 100 megawatts, including small, single wind turbines owned by private residents.
Standard industrial wind turbines generate 1.5 to 2 megawatts of power, according to wind industry estimates.
Those rules lay out baseline terms that govern state regulations on wind farms, including environmental guidelines and studies on impact to flying animals, rules on how the developments must satisfy setbacks, construction, removal and decommissioning and road maintenance agreements—some facets that local governments used to have a degree of control over.
Jenny Heinzen, a curriculum and training coordinator for the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, said under current law, neighbors still have a public hearing process when wind farm proposals reach the state, but local governments cannot write or enforce local codes that are more restrictive than state wind-siting laws.
That's similar to siting laws for large dairy farms, which vest much of the government oversight with state regulators.
"(Residents and local governments) simply saying 'we don't want it here' is not reason enough" to get wind farm plans thrown out, Heinzen said.
Heinzen also is a member of the state Wind Siting Council, a six-member ad hoc committee made up of electrical utility representatives, wind farm developers and Wisconsin residents who live next to, but do not lease out land, for wind farms.
The siting council advises the Public Service Commission on policy and worked with the commission to create the commission's 2012 regulatory code, Heinzen said.
The purpose of the new rules, at least from wind farm developers' perspective, was to streamline a "patchwork" of regulations that had made it difficult for wind farm developments to get approved in Wisconsin, Heinzen said.
In Rock County, wind farm plans have never gotten traction.
One proposed development, a 67-turbine wind farm proposed in the town of Magnolia by global energy company Acconia, dissolved in 2010 after tests by the company showed there wasn't enough wind.
The towns of Magnolia, Spring Valley and Union worked to place wind farm moratoriums between 2009 and 2011, although such rules are not enforceable now. Those moratoriums came amid uncertainty over how close wind turbines would be to homes and where developers planned to put them.
Heinzen said she's surprised to hear a developer is considering another wind farm in Wisconsin. While new rules put in place in 2012 create a more uniform regulatory process, the rules are still in flux.
She said the wind-siting panel and state regulators are still reviewing studies on the potential impact of wind farms on property values and on wind turbines' impact on quality of sleep.
"There is still a lot of public input regarding the contents of the rules. The issue has not gone quiet," Heinzen said.
Logterman said he's unsure whether the town is the right place for a wind farm.
"I'm wondering, are they necessary here, and are they a good fit for the land?" he said. "Do we need to be producing extra energy, or do we have enough? You wonder, are the costs worth it?"
Also, he's concerned about what could happen years from now, if state regulatory practices for wind farms change. He wonders what will happen with old wind turbines no longer in use. Who would be responsible to remove them?
"When they're no longer in use in 30, 50 years, what do you do with them (wind turbines). How do you get out all the concrete they sit in?"
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