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Source: U.S. Meat Export Federation
U.S. pork exports in September were steady with last year's volume, while beef exports were well below a year ago. Despite sluggish volumes, however, the value of both pork and beef exports through the third quarter of 2012 remains ahead of last year's record-setting pace, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
"We are definitely in a challenging economic environment, which is making it difficult to match last year's export volumes," said Philip Seng, USMEF president and CEO. "But our products continue to command an excellent price in the international markets and provide substantial returns to U.S. producers, which is critically important at a time when they face extremely high production costs."
September pork exports reached 183,853 metric tons (mt), slightly exceeding last year's total. Though export value declined 6 percent compared to last year to $505 million, it was about 2 percent higher than the August value of $495.5 million.
For January through September, pork exports were up 2 percent in volume at 1.657 million metric tons and up 6 percent in value to $4.6 billion. Exports equated to 23.6 percent of muscle cut production and 27 percent when including both muscle cuts and variety meat (compared to last year's ratios of 22.8 percent and 27 percent). Export value equated to $56.16 per head slaughtered, 4.5 percent above the per-head average established during the same period last year.
With fewer production days this year, September beef production declined 9 percent and exports fell 17 percent in volume to 90,538 mt. September export value dropped 4 percent to $442.8 million, but was significantly higher on a per-head-of-fed-slaughter basis – increasing 7 percent to $227.65.
Despite January-September beef export volume being down 12 percent to 850,439 mt, export value totaled $4.1 billion. This was 2 percent above last year's record pace and already exceeded the 2010 full calendar year total of $4.08 billion. Exports equated to 9.8 percent of muscle cut production and 12.7 percent when including both muscle cuts and variety meat, compared to last year's ratios of 11 percent and 14 percent. Export value averaged $213.63 per head of fed slaughter, up about 6 percent compared to the same period in 2011.
Mexico leads September pork market highlights
September pork exports were led by strong growth in Mexico (51,510 mt, +24 percent, valued at $92.8 million, +7 percent). For the year, exports to Mexico were 15 percent higher in volume (443,442 mt) and 11 percent higher in value ($820 million). Mexico is the leading volume market for U.S. pork and ranks second in value to Japan.
September exports to Japan trended lower, but are still on pace for an excellent year. Through the first nine months of 2012, export value to Japan was up 4 percent to $1.495 billion despite a 6 percent decline in volume to 344,362 mt.
Exports to Canada have posted steady growth in 2012, with January-September volume up 14 percent to 172,812 mt and value climbing 16 percent to $628.2 million. September export volume was record-large at 22,229 mt, breaking the previous record set in August.
Led by outstanding growth in Colombia, exports to Central and South America continue to surge. Exports through September were 20 percent higher in both volume (60,739 mt) and value ($154.5 million) compared to last year. For Colombia, exports were up 74 percent in volume (12,350 mt) and 110 percent in value ($35.1 million). September export volume to Colombia also set a monthly record at 2,131 mt.
January-September exports to the China/Hong Kong region were still ahead of last year's pace in both volume (313,425 mt, +4 percent) and value ($632.4 million, +21 percent). China's domestic pork inventory, however, is much higher than a year ago and exports in the fourth quarter are unlikely to match last year. Accordingly, September exports of 30,788 mt were the highest since May but were still 35 percent lower than the September 2011 volume.
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Size: Make the butterfree size medium, just fitting at the north western portion of the book design.
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Pokemon: Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Mandibuzz, and Volcarona.
Background: Green, Purple, Gray, and reddish orange behind their respective pokemon
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Size: Big enough to work well.
others: If its possible try to make all of them seem like equals rather then anyone pokemon standing out.
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Sorry for the delays (as usual), but I've got them all done~!
I know I took forever on this, but I finally found the time (and motivation) to put together one of those lick icons. I'm really sorry about how long I'm taking with these- they take me an average of two hours each and aren't exactly easy for me to do- and I do try to make the final results as good as I can. Thanks for your patience. I'll work on another lick icon this weekend if I've got the time.
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i thought you closed this down ages ago because i could not find it lol any luke on my togekiss lick icon yet lol
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No, I won't close this down without completing unfinished requests first. xD
As for the Togekiss Lick icon, I'm REALLY sorry for all of the delays and such. Lick icons take a few hours for me to make since I actually sprite them as I would a scratch while most people kinda scribble them in.
I did re-organize my work list so that all the sprites I've got to make for the sites I work at and other request shops are in a mixed order so I don't neglect any particular thing. I do believe I'll get to your Togekiss Lick icon within the next week. ^_^ I'll probably livestream it as well. xD
Thanks for your patience!
Could you make a fakemon sprite? I've got my own version of it here:
But I'm not that happy with it. Could you give him some nice claws, a green omega symbol on his head, and add a darksmoke on his tail tip, kinda like Charmander's? Also if you could repose him kneeling with his right fist on the ground, that'd be great.
And if you could do a custom trainer with long black hair and a scar over his left eye, sorta buff, jeans and an open dark blue trenchcoat, with a grey shirt underneath.
Also a Trainer Card for him: name is Ajax; pokemon are the above fakemon (your finished version please), Staryu, Onix, Shiny Flygon, Quilava, Kabutops; all 8 johto badges as well as 8 empty slots.
Thanks heaps in advance!
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Whoa! Quite the request right there. xD
I'll accept it though- just be warned... I'm a bit backed up on work and requests right now. ^_^' And unfortunately, I got re-addicted to an anime series that I need to catch up on. (Hence the lack of spriting done in the last week.)
I won't have much free time until Friday- but I promise I'll get some request work done then. ^_^
Finally got this icon done... again, sorry for being so slow with requests. ^_^' Life can be a pain sometimes.
Obsidian Helix- don't worry, I'll give it a go anyway. xD I like spriting. =P
Hello, I'm new to this and I was wondering if you could make me one of those rectangles with the sprites or tell me how. If YOU can do it I would like it to have a SoulSilver Hero, Spiky-Eared Pichu and Shinx on it and call it Team PichuRox!
I want a trainer card style one
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can i possibly get a banner
pokemon: grotle, charizard, dragonite, tyranitar, weavile and gyrados
background: dunno something interesting and cool
text: freddy's Ateam
oh and with lance as character rather than default player
Can I have some recolors?
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I just noticed my Licky!!! THANKS A LOT!!!! It's really cute.
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Can I have a lick icon?
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Sesper Brazilian artist Alexandre "Sesper" Cruz spent his adolescence absorbed in music and skateboarding – building ramps, making fanzines that documented the Sao Paulo art scene, and recording k-7 compilations. These interests influenced the sticker and paste up poster campaigns he launched around the city in 1999. Sesper is best known for his unique mixed media artwork. He uses recycled material such as paper, cardboard and wood as his surface and paints over these with oil pastel and latex, incorporating layer upon layer of texture and color. A member of the renowned Brazilian art collective, the Famiglia Baglione, Sesper has participated in and filmed many of their live painting and gallery installations around Brazil. in music is a full time vocalist for Garage Fuzz band since 1991.
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Research That Educates
The Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Engaged Scholarship in the School of Education is committed to supporting an inclusive environment for collaborative inquiry for faculty and students. We work with researchers at each step of the proposal and award process including:
• Finding funding opportunities.
• Developing and submitting grant proposals and contracts.
• Building partnership opportunities with school districts, community agencies, and other entities.
• Managing awards.
• Working with other research units within the campus including the Graduate School and BATO.
We are also responsible for doctoral education in the School of Education. We strive to recruit top graduate students from around the world and prepare them for successful careers in academia, industry and the public sector after graduation.
High Impact Research
Evaluation of the Milwaukee Community Literacy Project/SPARK Program
The need for increased literacy opportunities in the Milwaukee area is urgent. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress only 15% of 4th grade Milwaukee Public School students are proficient in reading. In an effort to address this need, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Public Schools were awarded an Investing in Innovations (i3) grant from the Department of Education to implement the Milwaukee Community Literacy Project, also known as the SPARK (Spheres of Proud Achievement in Reading for Kids) Program.
Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students are selected to participate in SPARK for two years and receive one-on-one tutoring, access to literacy-focused after-school, and parents are provided opportunities to be engaged in the literacy development of their children.
The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee is conducting an independent evaluation of SPARK. Through a randomized control design, the evaluation is able to isolate the impact of SPARK on reading achievement by comparing the achievement growth of randomly selected participants with control students.
The results from the first cohort of students that completed SPARK are promising. SPARK was found to have a significant impact on the overall reading achievement of "early reader" participants. Although SPARK had an impact on several components of literacy development it had its largest impact on the phonics development of students. The results suggest that SPARK may represent one resource that the Milwaukee Public Schools could use to help improve the literacy proficiency of its students.
Risks, Rewards for Undocumented College Students
A student who didn't show up for an appointment inspired Susana Muñoz to research the experiences of undocumented students.
"This topic sort of found me," says Muñoz, now an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Muñoz recalled the experience in an essay for "21st Century Scholar," a blog administered through the University of Southern California. She was working in an academic services program for low-income and first-generation students when a friend called her seeking help for Mexican-American student.
After discovering the student was "undocumented," Muñoz realized helping the student within working hours might jeopardize the federal funding of her program. She offered to meet with the student at an off-campus location during her lunch hour. He never showed up.
"This bothered me immensely," says Muñoz. She was a U.S. citizen who'd come here with her family at age 6 and spoke fluent Spanish. "Yet, perhaps this student felt unsafe to see me."
Read More: Risks, rewards for undocumented college students
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Center for Mathematics and Science Education Research
The Center for Mathematics and Science Education Research coordinates research, teacher education, curriculum development and implementation, and dissemination efforts in mathematics and science education, and fosters partnerships with educational institutions and organizations throughout the Milwaukee metro area. Learn more
Early Childhood Research Center
The Early Childhood Research Center is dedicated to advancing the welfare of young children and their families in urban settings through research and the exchange of knowledge. Interdisciplinary collaboration and university-community partnerships are valued as essential to the accomplishment of the mission.
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Institute for Intercultural Research
The Institute for Intercultural Research (IIR) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) addresses the needs and responds to the concerns of communities of color through research, public service and information resource sharing.
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Community Engagement
Faculty in the SOE are engaged in a number of projects in the Greater Milwaukee community The established partnerships with the urban community address such issues as:
• Culturally Responsive Curriculum
• Parental Involvement
• Adjustment to Immigrant Families
• Academic Achievement
• Race Relations
• Transition to College
• Digital Histories
A partial list of some of the schools, school districts and nonprofit organizations where research teams from the School of Education are present in the community include:
• State of Wisconsin – Department of Public Instruction
• Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS)
• Brown Deer School District
• Shorewood School District
• Greendale School District
• Racine Unified School District
• Milwaukee Area Technical College
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
• City of Milwaukee – Office of the District Attorney
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Milwaukee Public Library
• Next Door Milwaukee
• Educare Milwaukee
• United Community Center
• La Casa Esperanza
• Silver Spring Community Center
• Council for the Spanish Speaking
• Walnut Way Organization
• Journey House
• Urban Ecology Center
• Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee
Research Support
• Find external funding opportunities for your research using PIVOT
• Contact Kari Whittenberger-Keith (email@example.com) for assistance with PIVOT and proposal development.
• Contact Cindy Walker (email@example.com) for assistance finding collaborators or Patrician Najera (email@example.com) for help finding partnerships.
• The SOE processes flowchart and submission checklist can guide you along each step of the way
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• Your grant must be submitted for internal approval using WISPER
• You can find important information pertaining to proposal development, click here.
• Once your award has been set up by the Graduate School, the OSP Post Award Accountant, Eva Hoagland (email@example.com) and Sarah Osborne (email@example.com) will work with you to help you manage your account
• WISDM should be used to keep track of your budget. Guidelines for using WISDM can be found here. Be sure to follow agency reporting guidelines
• Effort reporting MUST be completed by PIs each semester to ensure that we are complying with federal regulations.
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• OSP Post Award Accountant, Eva Hogaland and Sarah Osborne will guide you through the award budget closeout process.
• Work with your sponsor Program Officer regarded reporting requirments.
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(1) Supporting and facilitating the submission, acquisition, and management of extramural grants; (2) Identifying new research opportunities; (3) Encouraging and supporting collaborative research; and (4) Facilitating partnerships among faculty and researchers both within the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, as well as non-University individuals and organizations.
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The all-plastic Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT is extremely lightweight for an SLR. Without a lens, it weighs only about 17 ounces. It also comes in your choice of a traditional matte-black or brushed-silver finish. The body is quite small, too, about a half-inch narrower than the Digital Rebel's. The only dSLR that's more compact is Pentax's *ist DS.
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Shooting choices include the four basic exposure modes, a depth-of-field priority mode, a fully automatic mode, and six scene options: Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports, Night Portrait, and Flash Off. The XT provides color-space options of either Adobe RGB or the default sRGB. It also allows tinkering with sharpness, contrast, and color through the menu's Parameter settings. A black-and-white mode has trickled down from Canon's EOS 20D as well. This camera also features adjustable white-balance bracketing and exposure bracketing. As with its predecessor and similarly priced "advanced amateur" dSLR models, the Rebel XT offers a maximum ISO of 1,600; it can't capture TIFF files, and it doesn't allow the white balance to be set according to color temperature. Nine custom settings allow you to control such parameters as flash-sync speed (to 1/200 second), exposure-level increments (from 1/3-stop to 1/2-stop), and shutter-curtain sync (first- and second-curtain flash sync).
Along with other software, the Rebel XT comes with Canon's excellent Digital Photo Professional 1.6 program for raw file processing. It also supports Canon's sophisticated E-TTLII external-flash system and is compatible with an optional vertical grip that adds more battery power and a second shutter release. For wireless multiple-flash support, you'll have to purchase an accessory transmitter--one respect in which this camera falls short of Nikon's D70 and D70s.


text: Local resident walks to change the worldJune 26, 2013CHARLES TOWN — It started with a step. One foot after the other, and Armand Young left his life in San Diego behind and set out to change as many lives as he could.... vicxtorxia*******patrioticinitiatives.wix****/patrioticinitiatives#!armand-young-bamboothewalk/cwhz 0 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianHey, my reading and writing is a tad off. Im the Jeantel of internet. Move on, move on 0 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » Watoga069Boring, and the media covers it like idiots. Go get a job. 0 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianMore substance from this guy then world organisations promise to end hungry. 0 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » vicxtorxiaThis bamboo pole I'm carrying is now the most signed object in the world. With 540,000 signatures of people I have met across America that promised, with their signatures, that they would do an act of kindness for someone else in the next 24 hours, to honor someone that died on 911 and to honor a fallen soldier. Please, help me change the world. Please share my walk so I can inspire another million people to do an act of kindness to change our world. Thank you, Armand Young Facebook and Youtube. If I get a million shares of my page, the world would change next week. Please Pay It Forward and Share and change the world. Let's see how many supporters I really have. Please Vote Armand Young on Eagle Rare Life. Thank you! 1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » vicxtorxiaThis is Armand Young - Please google Rare Life Award and vote for my story. Armand Young Walking Across America Changing the World with Human Kindness. You can vote one time every day, and please join me on Facebook. I walked from Santa Monica Pier in California to New York and back to Charles Town, WV so far and I'm going to walk back to California. Every town I walk through I get homeless families with children home/jobs, whatever it takes to change lives. So far 419 families now have a home from my walk and I'm going for a million by the time I make it back to California. 1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » vicxtorxiaPlease go to ****eaglerarelife**** and vote for Armand. If he wins, his charity of choice for the $40.000 will be the Jefferson County Community Ministries. Thank you! 1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianACtivits judges mute the Will of 33 referendums--including California--and then act like they won with a popular vote. This isnt over by a long shot. Enforce it is gonna wake up all kinds of unhappy people. Cheers to your Inform The Kids campaigns. Thats gonna be the straw. 1 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianActivist judges nullify the majorities view again. And then the leftists parade around like they won a popular vote. Keep trying 0 Agrees | 4 Disagrees | Report Abuse » ProudWV1963I must say that I am shocked at myself - I actually agree with Major on this one! I wish the best for Mr. Young and hope his travels are safe. God Bless you sir! 3 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » CynakelHe walks from the Santa Monica pier but stops short to live in Charles Town? So close to the Atlantic! 1 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » signoftimesDon't be naive. I'd bet the house that given the opportunity he'd walk right in your front door and out the back with whatever he could carry if he thought no one was looking. I've seen these types before. 2 Agrees | 7 Disagrees | Report Abuse » DirtmanIf any men here are considering leaving their families to go find themselves or carry the message, they may want to check with an attorney first. 2 Agrees | 5 Disagrees | Report Abuse » pdfromwvIf that's what his heart says he should do then he is right in following it. God's speed. 6 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » Majoritarian"Young said. "One day I gave my life to God and decided to turn my life around and start helping other people turn their lives around." Odd that God as his inspiration wasnt mentioned in the headline. Another sign of the times. Good-ism doesnt flow from instant gratification culture. Its looked on with puzzlement and at times abused. God Bless this man. 4 Agrees | 10 Disagrees | Report Abuse » Showing 16 of 16 comments


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[JURIST] Former UK Foreign Ministry secretary Jack Straw [parliamentary profile] testified [transcript, PDF; video] to the Iraq Inquiry [official website] on Monday that he did not ignore legal advice that the 2003 Iraq invasion lacked basis in international law. During Straw's second appearance before the public inquiry, he explained that he noted but did not accept the advice of former chief legal adviser to the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) [official website] Sir Michael Wood [UN profile, PDF] because he believed that Wood's January 2003 advice contradicted his prior counsel. Straw also characterized the decision by former UK attorney general Peter Goldsmith [professional profile] that a second UN resolution was unnecessary as:
not a decision on the merits of taking military action? it was a question as to whether we could consider those merits. The two are different. Advice that we had a legal option to 6 take military action then allowed us to consider the moral and political case for that military action.


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Your 50s can be a tricky decade.
People in their 50s are usually in their peak earning years, and more than half no longer have kids at home. They're paying down debt, and their wealth tends to be higher than it was a decade earlier.
The median income for households headed by people in their 50s was just under $64,000 in 2007, according to the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances. Median net worth was $229,300, up from $133,100 for people in their 40s.
Although 85% of 50-something households reported owing money, the median amount was just more than $85,000, compared with nearly $100,000 for those in their 40s and $110,000 for those in their 30s.
Less than 4% of 50-something households had a negative net worth, compared with 6.3% of households headed by those in their 40s and 11.5% of those in their 30s. Only 5% of 50-somethings were 60 days or more late on a bill, compared with a peak of 9% for households headed by 30-somethings.
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Of course, dangers abound. Sharp losses in retirement funds and home equity in recent years have many in their 50s worried about the future. High debt levels still can cripple finances, as can illness, disability or layoffs. Poor planning, insufficient insurance protection and boomerang kids (adult children who return to live at home) pose additional risks.
By making some crucial decisions now about timing your retirement or where you might live, you'll be better able to map out your plans.
If you want to get yourself in the best financial shape possible at this milestone, take the following steps:
Reconsider your career
Most baby boomers say they want to work at least part time in retirement. Work can have social, emotional and especially economic benefits: The longer you're employed, the less you need to save for retirement.
But what if you hate your job or your industry is downsizing rapidly? (Think newspapers and retailers, for instance.) You can wait to get fired, or you can figure out what you'd really like to do when you grow up -- and see whether you can get there from here. A session with a career counselor could help; so could that venerable career changer's guide, Richard Nelson Bolles' "What Color Is Your Parachute?"
Beware the temptation to pitch it all and go back to school for years on borrowed money, however. You're unlikely to recoup the investment, and you could end up saddled with student loans in your 80s.
If you need additional training, night school -- paid for out of your current income or via federal student loans -- is usually a better bet. If you're dying to start your own business, do it as a sideline first to see if you can make your idea fly.
Put retirement on the front burner
Sure, you've got other obligations. You may still have kids to raise and educate (45% households headed by 50-somethings include minor children), and your folks may need financial help as well.
But saving for your retirement still needs to be your priority. Those trashed retirement accounts need to be rebuilt -- and rebalanced so that you're not taking too much or too little risk.
You're also close enough to the finish line now that you should begin to make definite plans about where you'll live, what you'll do and how much money you'll spend.
If you're thinking about retiring before age 65, when Medicare coverage kicks in, consider your health insurance options. Does your company offer retiree medical coverage? Could you be covered under a spouse's workplace plan? Would you be eligible for COBRA and/or HIPAA continuation coverage?
Other factors to consider: Will you sell your home and move? Will you tap the equity with a reverse mortgage? How will you spend your time, and how much will it cost? (Golf and travel can be expensive pastimes.) Do you have long-term-care coverage, or will you need to set aside money to cover future care? The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimates the typical couple at age 65 will need about $197,000 to cover out-of-pocket medical costs.
You also may want to use more-detailed planning software, like the kind contained in Intuit's Quicken, to help you fine-tune your plan and include variables such as inheritances, different retirement ages (if you're part of a couple) and downsizing to a smaller house. Consider scheduling a visit with a fee-only financial planner to get a second opinion. You can get referrals from the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors or the Garrett Planning Network.
Accelerate debt repayment
If you're behind on retirement savings, every extra dollar should go there. If you're in good shape, though, you might want to consider getting your debt, including your mortgage, paid off by the time you retire. That will allow you to live on less (or spend more doing fun stuff, such as travel).
That credit card debt should be the first to go. Once you've paid off higher-rate, nondeductible debt, you can start adding a few bucks to every mortgage payment.
Get your kids off the dole
If they're out of school and not disabled, they should be economically independent. If they're still relying on you for sustenance, you're putting their financial future at risk as well as your own.
Some of the saddest letters I get are from elderly parents whose adult children are still hitting them up for cash.
Review your life insurance needs
If you've got minor children or other financial dependents, make sure they'd be adequately covered if you died prematurely.
If the kids are out of college, the mortgage is paid off and your spouse doesn't need your income to survive, you may no longer need insurance. The exception: If you've got a large estate (more than $2 million) and want coverage to help pay future estate taxes. If that's the case, hire an objective professional, such as a fee-only financial planner, to evaluate your options.
Review your other insurance
Your earning power is still one of your greatest assets, and you'll want to protect it with disability insurance if you can. See if your employer offers long-term-disability coverage; if not, check out individual policies.
Also, make sure you have adequate liability insurance. Raise the liability limits on your homeowners and auto insurance policies to the maximum, and consider adding a personal liability policy (also called an umbrella policy). As a rule of thumb, you should have liability coverage that's equal to one to two times your net worth.
Long-term-care insurance is the final piece of the puzzle. There's no consensus about the best time to buy. Insurance agents will insist you should have gotten it in your 40s, while Consumer Reports says most people should wait until they're 65. You should at least begin learning about the options in your 50s, however, and start investigating companies that offer it. You'll want an insurance company with extremely sound ratings, of course; check Weiss Ratings before signing up. You don't want to shovel tens of thousands of dollars into a company that won't be around when you need it.
Schedule all those checkups
Now that you've reached 50, you should be having physicals every year (guys, that means you, too). Women need mammograms every one or two years and should ask about bone-density screenings. Men need prostate exams, and both sexes need to start screening (if they haven't already) for colorectal cancers, which may include sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy.
This isn't optional anymore, folks. Your risk for cancer and other serious conditions rises as you age; you don't want to hear that you waited too long and that it's too late for treatment.
Join the AARP
Actually, you probably won't need to pay your first year's dues -- because some wag probably will buy you your premiere membership as a gag gift.
Laugh along, then start taking advantage of your AARP discounts on insurance, travel, entertainment, shopping and more.
Liz Weston is the Web's most-read personal-finance writer. She is the author of several books, most recently "The 10 Commandments of Money: Survive and Thrive in the New Economy" (find it on Bing). Weston's award-winning columns appear every Monday and Thursday, exclusively on MSN Money. Join the conversation and send in your financial questions on Liz Weston's Facebook fan page.


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Based on all that I am hearing in 2012, there are strong reasons for manufacturers to expand their reach to the global market if they have not done so already. Of course, many if not most of the mid-to-large-sized fluid power component manufacturers have had a global strategy for years if not decades.
That is not unusual because most large manufacturers have had a global presence in sales and manufacturing for some time now. India and China are probably the two biggest focal points for fluid power manufacturing offshore. The intention of building plants in China has generally been to service the Chinese market and all its needs for fluid power components. However, to be a multi-national company, there needs to be both manufacturing and sales across borders. The biggest companies have done this.
But what about the small-to mid-sized manufacturers, which actually make up the majority of the number of companies involved in the fluid power industry? Some of them have gotten involved in selling products in overseas markets and even perhaps resourcing products from outside the U.S. for sale in the U.S. From what I gather, this trend is growing.
At a recent 2012 Annual Conference for the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA), John Caslione of the GCS Business Capital stated that 57% of the companies at the conference are currently doing business overseas. He mentioned that many companies have had the goal in recent years of having 50% of sales from outside the U.S. He made it clear that now the goal should be to get 50% of business from emerging economies.
However, in the new normal, as highlighted turbulence, risk, and uncertainty are dominant in the world market, all nations' economies are now linked, interconnected, and interdependent. While global interdependence works in everyone's favor in good times, globalization's interlocking fragility rapidly spreads much pain and damage virally in bad times according to Caslione.
In his presentation to the NFPA Annual Conference, Caslione listed ten Drivers of Turbulence:
1. Political leadership changes in emerging markets.
2. Rise of public and private debt.
3. Nationalism - regionalism - protectionism.
4. Financial movements and sovereign wealth funds.
5. Technology advances & innovations.
6. Hypercompetition.
7. Resource and energy shortage.
8. Food and water shortage.
9. Healthcare shortage.
10. And a few others.
According to Caslione, all of this leads to the new normality of spurts of prosperity and spurts of downturn. Thus, we need to create the responsive, robust, and resilient organization for function in today's environment.
In the new world economy, there is an increasing unbalance at many levels and the global market is split between the low-growth developed world and the high-growth developing world. I have heard this theme more than once that reflects the higher rate of growth in the developing countries. Caslione even made the point that Iraq is the world's fastest growing economy. Most of the world's population growth will come from emerging economies.
In another interesting presentation at this year's NFPA Annual Conference, Haiyan Wang of the China India Institute furthered the discussion of our current and future global economy. She made the claim that the next decade will have the biggest restructuring because of emerging markets. By 2020, China should match the US in total GDP but even then it will only have 25% of the per capita income of the U.S.
At the current rates of growth, China will be twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2050. In 1950, the U.S. was twenty times the size of the Chinese economy. Today, India has the ninth largest economy but by 2025, it will be number three.
Doing business with China could be complicated for U.S. fluid power companies trying to grow their business globally. According to Wang, China is five stories in one:
1. It is a mega market with mega growth,
2. Jobs are moving inside China from global areas,
3. It is not a global patent hub,
4. Chinese companies are rapidly rising as global competitors, and
5. Because of low-cost capital China is driving demand for components and equipment.
In order for companies to grow in China, it is important for U.S. companies to demonstrate that they are friends with China. Wang gave an example of how Microsoft opened a research center in China and gained a great deal of respect from Chinese consumers.
China and India are very different in economy, culture, and behavior. For fluid power companies looking to grow in the Indian economy, the pattern will be different from China. China is vast and diverse and needs finer segmentation, a multi-segment approach, and a beachhead. Innovations are driven by local necessities and Wang advised companies to be market centric and not product centric and to make local media your friends.
Ken Gray of Caterpillar, the world's largest producer of construction and mining equipment, and a truly global company, also gave a presentation at the Conference. CAT's global reach and presence is unmatched in the industry. Gray explained how CAT has grown its global position over the years and how it continues to thrive in world markets.
Gray posed the question, what will 7.6 billion people in the world need in the year 2020? Any good global growth plan should attempt to answer that question. For CAT, many of the world's needs are dependent upon their machinery for construction, mining, and more.
You can't start your designs with your highest-end customers, you need to start your design with the most cost-sensitive customer and add on. You also can't track and focus on the global strategies of all your competitors. You must focus on the customers' needs and the competitors will follow.
A good global strategy tells your company what to do but a great global strategy tells your company what not to do also. Always remember that quality is the foundation of any and every successful business. Deliver quality and all else will follow. The changing world holds implications for quality.
These are all great ideas and success stories as presented at the 2012 NFPA Annual Conference. I believe that a global strategy depends on many factors. There is certainly a huge consideration based upon your specific products. An even more significant consideration is the actual needs of the global market. Global strategy is certainly worthy of careful consideration for any-sized fluid power company.


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The accredited investor definition, after the Supreme Court strikes down DOMA
By http://profile.typepad.com/1237764140s22740 // June 18, 2013 in "Spouse", Accredited Investor DefinitionWe're going to adjust tactics in the startupequality.org campaign, working off the premise that the Supreme Court will strike down DOMA sometime this month.
None of us are professional Court prognosticators, but, surveying the predictions of some of those who are, we are presuming that the Court will hold that the federal statute cannot override the policies of the various states as to who may and may not marry.
This means, we think, that "spouse" for purposes of federal laws and regulations will have to mean any person's spouse in any marriage, regardless of that person's gender. (Right now, because of DOMA, "spouse" under federal law has an attenuated and openly discriminatory definition, expressly requiring that a "spouse" be of an opposite gender.)
With respect to high net worth individuals in same sex marriages, the overturning of DOMA in such a manner probably solves the problem: "spouse" under SEC Rule 501 of Regulation D will simply have a natural and intuitive meaning. If you're married, you're married.
Less clear are those situations where the legal relationships between same sex partners are something other than marriage. These legal relationships include, but probably are not limited to, domestic partners, designated beneficiaries, and parties to a civil union.
We think that, immediately following the overturning of DOMA, the SEC should issue an interpretive release or guidance, to the effect that, for all purposes of the accredited investor definition, "spouse" will include not just spouses in marital relationships, regardless of gender, but also domestic partners, designated beneficiaries, parties to a civil union, and all other persons to whom any applicable law (federal, state or local) extends economic benefits.
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