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Two experts offer perspective on the pros and cons of private retirement plans. José Piñera is the architect of the Chilean private system and founder and president of the International Center for Pension Reform. Fabio Bertroneau is a senior social security specialist with the Chilean International Labour Office.
Q: Why not give people entering the work force the choice between a pay-as-you-go system and a private system?
José Piñera:
The pay-as-you-go system is going bankrupt all over the world due to demographic reasons, as we know. It would be completely irresponsible to keep the door open to a system where we'll not be able to pay the benefit in 40, 45 years. So the young person enters the system of private retirement account.
In Chile, we gave every single worker who was already in the social security system the option of staying in the government system, or opting out and putting all the FICA tax in a private retirement account. The incredibly good news is that 95 percent of Chilean workers decided freely to move to the new system. This was the silver bullet to explain the system to the people. Because if someone says, "Oh, I don't like the private retirement account because they are risky." Well don't take them.
Q: Has the private scheme been helpful for all Chileans?
Fabio Bertroneau:
I think there is an important heterogeneity in the labor market and not every worker has benefited from this system. The workers that benefit from these systems are those that usually have higher earnings and can take advantage of the system. Workers that do not meet these characteristics won't benefit from the system and they will rely on other Social Security programs in Chile that coexist with the AFB [firms that act as administrators of pension funds] system.
It's interesting to see that only about seven percent of the self-employed workers are participating in the system. This shows that one of the keys for the success of the system is that you have to make it mandatory system and you cannot allow workers to opt out because they may prefer to use other vehicles, other means to invest their savings.
Q: How did Chile pay for the transition?
José Piñera:
A: First of all we reduced government spending. We issued some debt, but it's not new debt to the country because it's just a way of recognizing the liability that the pay-as-you-go system had anyway. That debt will be paid when the old pensioners begin to pass away. We increased economic growth, and therefore tax revenues, not by increasing the tax rate but basically by economic growth.
There are many ways to finance the transition plan because there is no economic cost in doing this reform. The GNP doesn't go down. There is a confusion in America about the cash flow problem -- that you have to come up with the money now, in order to reduce future debt. But it's not an increase in the total amount of debt. On the contrary, moving to personal retirement accounts decreases the total.
Q: On average, how long will the transition period last?
Fabio Bertroneau:
The transition costs are very high when you move to private accounts because you start allowing current contributors to put their money aside. You lose one of the main sources of financing of social security. In Chile, we will continue paying the transition costs for another 20 or 30 years. The entire transition period can take 20, 30, 40, 50 years. It depends on the maturity of the old system, how many people you have to retire with the old system.
Q: Would you change anything about Chile's private pension system?
José Piñera:
I would put the supervisory authority outside the realm of politics. Now, regrettably, when we did the reform in Chile in 1981, we had never had a tradition of a government agency independent of political power. Why is this independence necessary with the pension system? Because the supervisory administration -- which has been up to now very serious and very technical -- is beginning to show signs of political intervention.
The politicians are calling the superintendent and saying, "Why don't you criticize the system a little? We are socialists. You should not be praising a capitalist system." The superintendent is now torn between his duty to supervise the system (his real duty) and surviving because he can be fired tomorrow by the president. So, I would make that an independent body maybe approved with senate approval.
Q: Who should decide how the private retirement plan functions?
Fabio Bertroneau:
In Chile, this system was implemented during a dictatorship and there was military regime that implemented the reform. There is a question about whether there was enough participation and enough discussion between the different actors, particularly workers. The question for the U.S. is, "What is the role, not only of Congress, but other social actors?" I think that the most important actors are the government and Congress, but also workers and employers in large and small firms.
Q: What about the risk that someone nearing retirement could be forced to keep working due to a downturn of the stock market?
José Piñera:
Common sense! Who will be in the market at 64 years and 11 months? Aren't you a responsible person that at 55 will move to a bond portfolio? To a fixed income portfolio? In Chile, people begin at 55, 56, 57. They begin to move toward bond portfolios, or fixed income portfolios. Then instead of getting seven percent, or eight, in a stock they get five or four. But they sleep very well the last ten years of their working lives.
Thomas Jefferson talked about the freedom of people to vote, because they have common sense. In the U.S. you choose sheriffs, judges, senators, the president. Ah, but people will not think that they should not be in the stock market -- the day before they retire?
Q: Have Chileans been savvy enough about the private plan to be able to invest their retirement funds wisely?
Fabio Bertroneau:
Certainly there is the possibility of confusion. There was a survey that was done by the University of Chile a couple of years ago that showed that about 90 percent of contributors to the system don't have a clear idea of what the administrator is charging for their services.
Then there is also a lack of knowledge of how to invest or how to choose betwen these different funds that are offered by the AFPs. I would say that workers with high income can benefit because these are more educated workers. But this possibility of having multiple funds and having complex administrative and fee structures, is difficult to understand for an average worker. This is a major concern for the AFPs -- pension fund administrators -- they have tried to run educational programs.
Q: Who benefits most financially from the Chilean system: the people or the private fund adminstrators?
José Piñera:
In a defined contribution system like personal retirement accounts, there are only two basic metrics, two ways for a person to evaluate success. Is your money safe? Nobody's stealing it, nobody's making funny games? Second, has it given me a good return? Now, what is a good return? Well, we may say that it is four, five, six percent. Well, in Chile, it has been 10 percent above inflation.
Now, you are saying to me, "Yes, but maybe someone else is making money." Well, that was Karl Marx's worry. If I go to Starbucks and the coffee is good and they charge me a good price, do I care whether the guy who founded Starbucks is making money? I know that in the free market scheme, if he's making too much money, there will be a Starlight that will charge me one cent less for my coffee. In the case of Chile's system, it is absolutely clear that the money is safe and you are getting 10 percent real return. All the rest is irrelevant.
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PITTSBURGH, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) and CNX Gas Corporation (NYSE: CXG) will issue earnings releases on Thursday, April 29, before the market opens. The companies will hold a combined quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter results on the same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed on the investor relations portion of both companies' Web sites at http://www.consolenergy.com/ and http://www.cnxgas.com/.
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CONSOL Energy Inc., a producer of high-Btu thermal coal and metallurgical coal, is a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 Equity Index and the Fortune 500. It has 11 bituminous coal mining complexes in six states and reports proven and probable coal reserves of 4.5 billion tons. It is also a majority owner of CNX Gas Corporation, a leading Appalachian gas producer, with proved reserves of over 1.9 trillion cubic feet. Additional information about CONSOL Energy can be found at its website.
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Glad to hear it as well. Since the tour came out its been all the rave for comfort, power, and spin. I personally found it being toyish. I would have needed an oz of lead, but thinking that I could add an oz and still have it with in preferred specs is realllllyyy intriguing, but I've never been meticulous or math savvy enough to really get into it to the point of measuring every factor.
in my RDiS 200 I have 5g spread apart 3, 9, and 12 with 4g in the handle.
Are you thinking about adding lead to it? I'd love to see what that stick can do around the 12oz 7pts hl range. Oh right an get a video up of you hitting! lol. I wanna see your multi popping prowess.
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H.R. 911 (112th): Spectrum Inventory and Auction Act of 2011
- Introduced:
Mar 3, 2011
112th Congress, 2011–2013
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Died in a previous Congress
This bill was introduced on March 3, 2011, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.
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Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district
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To require the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission to conduct an inventory of broadband spectrum, to authorize the Commission, contingent on the completion of such inventory, to conduct auctions of voluntarily relinquished spectrum usage rights and to share the revenues with the licensees who relinquished such rights, and for other purposes.
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A Co-op Survival Multiplayer Mod revamping Classic Full Invasion mod by Arch3r and to continue his work. This mod aim to have as many factions as possible and it is one of the most demanding mod out there for warband. (For 64 bit Windows and 64 bit Operating System only) With lots of new factions to choose from, and more coming with each update, Full Invasion 2 builds further upon Arch3r's abandoned mod, breathing fresh life in his interesting concept. Try to survive for as long as possible and fight against hordes of enemies. Build barricades, fences, form a spear-wall / shield wall to fight against the foes. The game sends waves of challenges to the player that become more difficult with each subsequent wave. But can you hold till the last wave? You will be tested (Please read the minimum requirement page before you download to avoid disappointment or crashes in game) This is the most demanding mod ever created on warband. Beware
Whenever I try to play Full Invasion it gets to "loading setting data" and then gives me a C++ runtime error.It used to work though so I have no idea what's going on.
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Carolina is an Argentinean sculptor established in Miami since 1995. Her solo exhibitions include Lelia Mordoch Gallery in Paris, Panamerican Art Projects Gallery in Miami and Dallas, Cheryl Hazan Gallery in New York, and Steps Gallery in London, among many others. Carolina's works are held by private, public, and corporate collectors in the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Latin America. They can also be found in the collections of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale; the Neiman Marcus Collection; and Heico Corporation, among others.
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Smash-mouth football a dying art in pass-happy NFL
On Peyton Manning's first drive of his first game as a visiting player in Indianapolis, the Denver Broncos faced third down and 1 yard to go. Manning handed the football to Knowshon Moreno, who was stopped short. Denver punted.
On Manning's third drive, again he faced third-and-1, again he gave the ball to Moreno, and again the play was stuffed. Again, Denver punted.
"Hit a little rut there," Manning said hours later, after the Colts gave his Broncos their first loss of the season.
Other NFL offenses failed on similar plays Sunday, and it happens week after week: In the most critical of short-yardage situations, teams are converting at the lowest rate since at least 1995. The days of smash-mouth football, of bruising backs pushing piles forward with the help of run-blocking offensive linemen, are gone. Teams that have perfected the pass are not as equipped as they used to be for getting a key yard - or even inches - on the ground.
"The concept of running the football," former NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer said, "has kind of taken a back seat."
One of his 1980s Browns teams had two 1,000-yard rushers in the same season. One of his 1990s Chiefs clubs led the league in yards rushing. His tenure with the Chargers in the early 2000s featured LaDainian Tomlinson.
Times have changed.
"People have decided that the best, most efficient, way to go about it is to go ahead and spread the field out and try to get the quarterback a chance to do a pre-snap read," Schottenheimer said. "And essentially, the play is called after the quarterback has stood there and looked at the defense and its deployment and figured out where to throw."
Increasingly, teams can't gain what they want on the ground on third or fourth down with 2 or fewer yards needed for a first down or a touchdown. And increasingly, they're passing on those plays.
In all of those situations - third-and-2-or-less, fourth-and-2-or-less, including goal-to-go - NFL teams were successful 58.5 percent of the time through games of Oct. 14, according to STATS. That is a lower rate on such plays than for any full season since 1995 (that's how far STATS data goes back).
The rate in 1995 was 65.1 percent. In 2008, it was 63.7, and has been declining steadily since.
"My only answer," Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau said, "would be they don't quite run as much as they used to."
That, of course, is true. Games this season are averaging 53.2 running attempts, the fewest in the Super Bowl era, and 213.7 yards rushing, the third-fewest. Passing, meanwhile, is on pace for records of 72.3 throws and 489.2 net yards passing per game.
In 1987, for example, offenses were far more balanced, with 62.8 runs and 64.2 passes per game.
"We're more of a throwing league. ... Whatever you do more, you're likely to get a little better at," LeBeau said.
Plus, he noted, "It's easier to throw the ball over somebody's head for 40 yards than it is to pound down the field 3 at a time."


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Small paint brushes - the artsy kind
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Thanks for such clear instructions and equally useful photos. I searched other sites but they were nowhere near as good as this instructable!
brilliant! Thanks for the projector hack, works perfectly... and for the torch i discovered an iPhone light is an LED and works perfectly!! No need to spend money on a torch or lightbulb! :-D
This is a wonderful "pin". I am a retired teacher, used overhead projectors hundreds of times, but NEVER knew I could build my own. Thank you…we are expecting grand babies in March & May, so this has my "teacher" brain at work.
** I would like to stress using the thicker transparencies rather than the thin ones. The thinner ones will come out somewhat "melted" making the image blurred. Its worth investing extra pennies....! Also make sure you use the right side, but if you don't, they still work....!


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On the Move with Irme Roldan
Have no regrets, 'cause life is a lesson
Irme Roldan while still reeling from her son Solomon P. Ortiz Jr.'s election to the House of Representatives, has her own thing going on.
The 56-year-old Corpus Christi native has owned Irme's Skin Care Clinic and Beauty on Wheels for 20 years.
Roldan's advice: Use sun block.
Family: Yvette Ortiz Sanchez, 35, State Representative Solomon Ortiz, Jr., 29, and Saul Cesar Zamora, 22.
Memorable romantic evening: Surprise dinner to Katz 21 Steak & Spirits on Valentine's Day from my boyfriend.
Desert island CDs: Luis Miguel, "Romances," Mazz "Hare por Ti" and James Blunt, "Back to Bedlam."
I never leave home without my: Cell phone.
Words lived by: Hope, faith and love.
Song title reflective of my life: "My Way."
Animal most like me and why: The Goat - practical , prudent, ambitious, careful, humorous and reserved.
I'd stop everything to: Help my family and friends.
Best way to relax: I enjoy my Jacuzzi, hanging out at the beach and riding a Harley.
I'll eventually become famous for: My beautiful and youthful skin at the age of 80.
What drives me crazy: Men, (just kidding).
Recommended book and why: "Your Best Life Now," by Joel Osteen, because it teaches you about real life.
The title of my biography would be and why: "Spices of the South," because my life has had a lot of different favors.
Biggest regret: I have no regret, my life has been a lesson in itself.
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Review by Kyle Kerley - March 26, 2007
The current highest-of-high-end nForce 6 chipset, the 680 SLI, with both Intel and AMD flavors, is a beast of a motherboard as most any owner would tell you. The boards pack a lot of features and performance onto that ATX-sized PCB and all of that carries a somewhat hefty price tag. With the cheapest models retailing around $250, the much cheaper 650 SLI chipset is a more viable option for many enthusiasts.
That is, until now.
NVIDIA brings the most important features of the 680 SLI chipset to the masses with the introduction of its newest motherboard, the 680 LT SLI. With a MSRP of $199, NVIDIA has made the much sought after overclocking potential of the 680 SLI chipset to those who are not willing or able to pay more than $200 for a motherboard.
For this review, the EVGA's offering of the nForce 680i LT SLI has been tested and examined to see just how well nForce family's newest member stacks up.
EVGA kept the box relatively simple with an attractive and somewhat abstract design. The box looks very professional and slightly mysterious all the while boasting the some of the board's biggest/most important features on the front - "800MHz DDR2," "2 x16 SLI" and of course, "PCI-E" support. I really like the design and the afterburner effect on the tailpipes is a foreshadowing of what is to come.
Upon removing the motherboard and accessories from the box, I was very pleased with the overall look and feel of EVGA's package. The included cabling (standard IDE, SATA, FDD, etc) were all black and sleek.
They share a uniform look which is important for case mod enthusiasts and anyone looking to have a professional looking case interior. Also included is a driver CD, RAID drivers on a floppy diskette, the back panel cover, SLI bridge, and a well-written and illustrated user manual.
Compared to the frivolous contents in the box of my previous ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard (nforce 590), I was a little disappointed. But then again, ASUS went over the top for their premium board and the 680i LT is more of an entry-level offering with a lower price tag.
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Transgender Programs
Santa Cruz Trans Support Group and Services
The Diversity Center offers people who find themselves somewhere on the transgender spectrum a place to meet others, access transgender resources, and explore the possibilities in a respectful and caring environment. Our Trans Community Coordinator is available to answer your questions and help you to access appropriate services and resources in Santa Cruz County. Call (831) 425-5422 or access our email list server.
The Diversity Center is proud to be in collaboration with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte's Westside Health Center, bringing Santa Cruz Trans Care to you. This means that besides providing social and emotional support resources, trans clients now have access to low or no cost health care services. The Westside Clinic provides comprehensive healthcare services, delivered with care and compassion to our transgender community. Our community collaboration efforts are increasing providers' knowledge, commitment and skills in delivering state of the art transgender care.
Transgender Peer Support Group
Our moderated, open group allows everyone to share their experiences and meet others in friendly surroundings. All transgender brothers and sisters are welcome to attend.We meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month:
7:30-9:30 pm. Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Avenue Santa Cruz, CA
Transwomen Peer Support Group
This moderated group provides a space for transwomen in their 20s and 30s (or for those who are questioning) to speak freely about anything ranging from their transition to simply the ups and downs of their daily lives. We meet at The Diversity Center from 7:30 to 9 pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. For more information call Darby at 831-332-8586.
Trans Men Peer Support Group
This is an FTM support and social connections group. We meet every second and fourth Sunday of the month. We welcome SOFFAS (Significant Others, Family, Friends, and Allies) on the fourth Sunday of the month.
Please check the Diversity Center Community Calendar
6:00-7:00 pm. Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Avenue Santa Cruz, CA
Seth Kennedy is the new group facilitator. He arrives half an hour early for anyone who wants to talk one-on-one outside of the group. For more information email
Transfamily Support Group
We are a community of parents and families supporting our transgender children and each other through shared experience and the process of understanding transgender issues.
Our meetings are generally for parents and support people. We also have family gatherings throughout the year that include our children and all family members.
Date: 1st Saturday of each month Time: 3:00 to 5:00 Location: rotating (please call for information and location)
Contact: Heidi Koronkowski (831) 251-7749 or
For additional resource information go to www.santacruztrans.org.
Blender - Trans Support Group at UCSC
We are a safe space community made up of all variations under the Trans* rainbow and Allies. Whether you are actively out, just recently questioning, or are simply looking for a community, we are the place for you. Come join us for practical advice on transitioning or coming out; watch a movie with us; or plot to take over the world. It's all up to you!
So, whether you are: Transgender, Intersex, Two Spirit, Genderqueer, Questioning, an Ally...or something we haven't yet heard about we are talking to you! Hope to see all you lovely people there!
We meet on Friday's from 5:30 - 6:30 pm at the Cantu Queer Center. Click this link for directions. Please note: Our meetings are open to allies every 4th Friday of the month only.
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(PRWEB) September 19, 2013
Somax Performance Institute (web: somaxsports.com), the world leader in analyzing, measuring and improving sports performance, is pleased to announce that their sports analysis videos have surpassed 2 million views. The Institute, which works with high-profile individuals from the sports and business communities, improves performance far beyond conventional coaching and training with its unique program of motion analysis and Microfiber Reduction.
Many viewers have praised the Somax videos for helping them improve their performance in golf, tennis, track and baseball.
"We enjoy helping recreational and competitive athletes learn how to videotape, analyze, measure and improve their own sports mechanics instead of trying to copy well-known athletes, who often succeed in spite of their inefficient movement patterns" says Bob Prichard, Director of Somax Performance Institute. "We ask athletes: why try to imitate pro athletes when you can develop more efficient movements on your own with our analysis system and your home video camera?"
These enjoyable and instructive sports analysis videos are available for viewing on the Somax website at http://www.somaxsports.com/video.php
The Somax RSSSA Analysis System details
RSSSA stands for Range, Sequence, Separation, Speed and Alignment
By measuring and improving Range, or how many degrees the parts of the body move, Somax has been able to predict injuries in athletes as much as a year in advance, as well as improve running pace by more than a minute per mile in just a few weeks.
By measuring Sequence, or the order in which athletes move the parts of their body, Somax has been able help athletes increase the length of their drives off the tee and home plate by 20%.
By measuring Separation,
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Prosecutors attack Zimmerman story several ways
O'Mara objected, saying the school records were irrelevant. He referred to the prosecution's efforts to introduce them as "a witch hunt."
The judge said she would rule later in the week.
O'Mara told CNN on Tuesday night that if prosecutors start bringing up Zimmerman's past, "then it really brings in what Trayvon Martin brings to the table, all of his violent acts that we know about and some of the fighting that he was involved in."
Late Tuesday morning, the prosecution questioned Mark Osterman, a Zimmerman friend who spoke with him after the shooting and later wrote a book about the case.
Under questioning by de la Rionda, Osterman said that Zimmerman told him Martin had grabbed his gun during their struggle, but that Zimmerman was able to pull it away.
That account is different from what Zimmerman told investigators in multiple interviews. In those interviews, he only said it appeared Martin was reaching for his gun prior to the shooting. He never told police the teen grabbed it.
"I thought he had said he grabbed the gun," Osterman said. "I believe he said he grabbed the gun."
A Sanford Police Department fingerprint examiner testified that none of Martin's prints were found on the gun.
Prosecutors also called a medical examiner who had reviewed evidence for them to the witness stand. Dr. Valerie Rao testified that Zimmerman's injuries were insignificant, bolstering the prosecution's claims that Zimmerman's life wasn't in jeopardy during his fight with Martin. Rao was not the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Martin.
"They were so minor that the individual who treated and examined Mr. Zimmerman decided stitches weren't required," Rao said.
O'Mara told CNN that he believed prosecutors may finish presenting their case Wednesday or Friday, and that defense attorneys will be calling witnesses most of next week.
"We're going to put on a case," he said.
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Ramdev slammed Congress party on Wednesday saying that it was responsible for the multi-billion coal scam and various other graft cases in the country.
"The whole country now knows that Congress is the most corrupt party in the entire world. Whether it is Bofors scandal, 2G scam, Commonwealth scam, Adarsh society scam or the multi-billion dollar coal scam in which all Congress members and even the Prime Minister was involved," Ramdev said.
Ramdev added:"Congress party president, Sonia Gandhi is believed to be running Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government that is embroiled into a series of high profile corruption cases including telecom and coal scams.
"The 2G scam which had as per reports cost the exchequer up to $39 billion dollars in lost revenue and hit India's blue-chip Sensex index which damaged the reputation of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and also tarnished the image of the country's telecom sector.", he added
Meanwhile, Ramdev hailed BJP's prime ministerial candidate saying that Narendra Modi was the only leader who could provide a stable and corruption free government and was hopeful that Akali Dal would again emerge as a winner in Punjab.
"A stable, honest, experienced and strong government with complete majority can come at the hands of Akali Dal, BJP and NDA. At this time I can't see any strength in the other parties apart from these. In the current circumstances, there is a stampede in all the political parties starting from ruling Congress till the newly emerged AAP," Ramdev said.
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October 7, 2008
It's amazing we've not heard from free-market gurus such as the Business Roundtable's Roger Kerr and ACT's Rodney Hide and Sir Roger Douglas — to name a few — condemning the socialist approach by United States President George W Bush to bail out the US financial sector. Surely the bailout — maybe, nationalisation is a more suitable term — is anathema to capitalism and yet not a word from these men.
Perhaps, in future, democratic capitalism might not be so dominated by "free" market dogma.
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Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will receive $33 million in cash and stock as he leave the Finnish handset maker for his new home at Microsoft. As Reuters pointed out, the compensation is 25 percent higher than what Nokia had originally expected to pay Elop. The boost is due to a surge in the Nokia's share price.
Nokia Eyes Turnaround with New CEO, DividendApril 29, 2014 9:36 am | by Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press | News | Comments
Nokia Corp. reported Tuesday another drop in sales in the troubled devices unit it sold to Microsoft, but its shares rallied as it named a new CEO, promised a special dividend, and prepared to focus on its remaining businesses. Reporting its last quarter to include cellphones, Nokia said Tuesday that net loss in the period was 239 million euros compared with a loss of 272 million a year earlier.
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Nokia today announced it has completed the sale of its Devices & Services business to Microsoft. The deal, valued at $7.2 billion when first announced in September 2012, closed at $7.5 billion. Taking into account adjustments for networking capital and cash earnings that were positive for Nokia, the Finnish company expected the deal to close slightly higher than where it is at currently.
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Microsoft today announced its acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business will close Friday, with some changes to the original deal. Detailed in a blog post, the alterations affect Nokia's web and social media presence, exchange of property, and additional employees moving from Nokia to Microsoft.
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With the new Cortana virtual assistant, Windows catches up with Apple's iOS and Google's Android in a major way. Microsoft takes some of the best parts of Apple's and Google's virtual assistants and adds a few useful tools of its own. The result is Cortana, named after an artificial-intelligence character in Microsoft's "Halo" video games.
China Approves Microsoft's Nokia Buy with Caveat on Patent PricingApril 8, 2014 9:20 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments
China has finally approved Microsoft's acquistion of Nokia's devices and services business. On China's Ministry of Commerce website, the Ministry said it would go along with the deal but tacked on a few conditions regarding pricing around the use of Nokia's significant patent portfolio.
Microsoft CEO Reshuffles Exec Team, Names Elop EVP of DevicesApril 1, 2014 11:03 am | by Ben Munson | News | Comments
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is moving his executive teams around and appointing former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop as the executive vice president of the devices group. Elop, who had been rumored as a candidate to replace recently depart Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, will report directly to Nadella in his new role. Elop will also have a hand in developing the Xbox, according to Reuters.
Review: Office for iPad Is Pretty and FunctionalMarch 31, 2014 9:15 am | by Bree Fowler, AP Technology Writer | Articles | Comments
Microsoft Office fans who've spent the last nine months using the software's suite of apps on their tiny smartphone screens are probably thrilled that they can finally create and update documents on the iPad's significantly bigger display surface.
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Microsoft on Thursday unveiled Office for the iPad, a software suite that includes programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and works on rival Apple Inc.'s hugely popular tablet computer. The app was to be made available for download on Thursday in the App Store at 11 a.m. Pacific time.
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Nokia introduced three new low-cost smartphones—the Nokia X, X+ and XL—that are based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and look like modified Windows Phones. As rumored, Nokia took the Android plunge at Mobile World Congress with a trio of colorful dual-SIM handsets that start at approximately $122.
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After compiling a list of more than 100 CEO candidates, Microsoft settled on Satya Nadella a home-grown leader who joined the software maker in the early 1990s. That's back when Google's founders were teenagers and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in elementary school.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Major technology firms have released new data on how often they are ordered to turn over customer information to the government for secret national security investigations, resulting in the collection of data on thousands of Americans. That release came after the companies were freed by a recent legal deal with government lawyers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Technology companies and privacy advocates are praising a new government compromise that will allow the Internet's leading companies to disclose more information about how often they are ordered to turn over customer information to the government in national security investigations.
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In the final quarter before Microsoft is due to take ownership of its device business, Nokia saw the unit's sales drop 29 percent annually while profits continued to sink into the red. Microsoft is buying Nokia's handset business for approximately $7.4 billion. The transaction is expected to close near the end of the first quarter.
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The news, first reported by Bloomber, comes after speculation that Microsoft had its eye on Ford Motor Company's top executive, Alan Mulally. Mulally has since panned those rumors, eventually removing himself from consideration. Vestberg is an Ericsson veteran who originally served as CFO for the company before accepting the role of CEO in 2010.
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Nokia today said that the head of its Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) business will step down immediately following Micrsoft's acquistion of the company's devices and services divisions. Jesper Ovesen, currently executive chairman of NSN, will leave upon the closing of the Microsoft transaction, which is expected to take place during the first quarter of 2014.
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft expects to finish its search for CEO Steve Ballmer's replacement by early next year. Board director John Thompson, who heads the company's executive search committee, said so in a blog post Tuesday. Ballmer said in August he would retire within 12 months.
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In this paper, we examine herding across asset classes and industry levels. We also study what incentives managers at various layers of the financial industry face when investing. To do so, we use unique and detailed monthly portfolios between 1996 and 2005 from pension funds in Chile, a pioneer in pension-fund reform. The results show that pension funds herd more in assets that have more risk and for which pension funds have less market information. Furthermore, the results show that herding is more prevalent for funds that narrowly compete with each other, namely, when comparing funds of the same type across pension fund administrators (PFAs). There is much less herding across PFAs as a whole and in individual pension funds within PFAs. These herding patterns are consistent with incentives for managers to be close to industry benchmarks, and might be also driven by market forces and partly by regulation.
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- Title
- Deconstructing Herding: Evidence from Pension Fund Investment Behavior
- Journal
Journal of Financial Services Research
Volume 43, Issue 1 , pp 99-126
- Cover Date
- 2013-02-01
- 10.1007/s10693-012-0155-x
- Print ISSN
- 0920-8550
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0735
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Keywords
- Institutional investors
- Portfolio allocation
- Investment patterns
- Capital market development
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Claudio Raddatz (1)
- Sergio L. Schmukler (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Banco Central de Chile, Agustinas 1180, Santiago, Chile
- 2. World Bank, Washington, DC, USA


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A 'click' and a 'ding' — turns out, they were just his type
When something goes extinct, we not only lose the sight of it — we lose its sound, which is often even more evocative than its appearance.
So it is that in the past several weeks, a couple of radio programs have been inspired to broadcast snippets of sounds of some devices that were once part of our everyday lives but which might be virtually unknown to today's college students.
The rattle of a rotary dial telephone.
The bings and boings of a 56K dial-up modem negotiating an Internet connection.
The flup flup flup of a phonograph needle at the end of a record.
The whine of an audio cassette tape being rewound.
The annoying ring of a Nokia cellphone that any fan of the romantic comedy "Love Actually" knows too well.
In fact, there is even a new website — the Museum of Endangered Sounds at www.savethesounds.info — that features sounds of vanishing gadgets; some of those sounds were featured on a broadcast Saturday of the National Public Radio morning news program "Weekend Edition."
The sound that resonated with me was that of a manual typewriter. The clacking of the type hammers as they smashed inky characters onto the paper. The clatter when the typist shoved the carriage back to the left side of the page. And the bell that warned that you were nearing the end of a line.
Once, offices and newsrooms buzzed with the racket of typewriters. My career goes back far enough that at my first full-time newspaper job, I wrote stories on a manual typewriter — an Olympia, I think. The Commonwealth-Journal in Somerset put a premium on thrift, so reporters weren't issued typewriter paper. Rather, we typed our stories on newsprint, the same cheap, pulpy paper that the newspaper was printed on.
That may have been a long time ago, but we still had cut and paste functions, just like a 21st century computer.
Well, it wasn't exactly like a computer. When we wanted to move a paragraph, we cut it out with a pair of scissors (although some of the old-timers were fond of pressing a ruler down on the paper and ripping the sheet with a flourish). And I didn't actually paste the paragraph into a new location; I used cellophane tape. Some of those stories I handed in had so many cuts and splices that they looked like they had been mugged by a wolverines.
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No one ever accused Dad of being a spendthrift. But he did buy a nice typewriter.
I began using it as a kid. I was a self-taught typist, using my right forefinger to press the letter keys and my left thumb for activating the shift key. It looked inefficient, but I became surprisingly proficient.
My first serious project was typing a lengthy term paper on the history of baseball. I was a baseball nut, and I threw myself into that project, typing some 50 pages of double-spaced and footnoted pages. I slaved over the Royal typewriter for weeks. That term paper was a masterpiece in my mind; at the very least, it outweighed every other one in that class by a factor of at least two. I expected our grumpy social studies teacher to canonize me or at least give me an A-plus. Instead, she handed it back to me without a word; I got an A-minus with a complaint about my bibliography style.
Later, I used that Royal to write a fanciful essay about the importance of soil conservation that won me a first-place countywide prize: a $25 savings bond and my picture in the local newspaper.
There were other writing projects during my schoolboy days. At times, I typed in Dad's office. But often, I would lug the big Royal into my bedroom, placing it on a 24-inch-square Formica-topped board on my bed; there, in a decidedly non-ergonomic posture, I sat bent for hours, pecking out correspondence, book reports, articles for my high school newspaper and other epistles.
I finally took a typing class in high school and learned proper techniques. One day in class, I reverted to my one-finger/one-thumb technique during one of our timed typing tests; turned out, I could type 43 words a minute with one finger.
I was privileged to have access to IBM Selectric typewriters for four years at our college newspaper office before returning to a manual typewriter at my first full-time newspaper job.
Then in 1980, I came to The Gleaner, where reporters wrote not on typewriters but on Compugraphic computer terminals. Gone was the carriage return lever, the inky ribbon, the paper, the bottles of Wite-Out correction fluid ...
And gone was the generations-old clickety-clack that meant that words and sentences and paragraphs were being created. The absence of that sound was so discomforting to some that Compugraphic had installed a special option; on the back of its electronic keyboards was a switch that, if activated, would replicate the sound of a typewriter.
I managed to learn to use the computer terminal without the aid of artificial typewriter sounds. Soon, the only thing I needed a typewriter for was to address envelopes (something they would still be very handy for, if only you could find one).
By 1989, we had at home an Apple SE personal computer with a LaserWriter printer — a rig that I suspect cost more than the Honda Civic I had bought five years earlier. That was the first of a series of Apples that entered our home, all of which remain operable today.
At work, the typewriters disappeared one by one. Just one remains here today, an IBM that sits at an abandoned desk in an unused office.
Still, the sound of that typewriter's "ding" on the radio Saturday triggered an agreeable memory from my youth.
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Ticket to "The Wizard of Oz"
Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric • Baltimore, MD
Use between Tuesday, April 08 – Wednesday, May 28
What you get
- Beloved Story with Classic Characters!
- Choose from Three Seating Offers
From screen to stage, The Wizard of Oz has been one of the most beloved stories in entertainment history. Take a trip down the yellow brick road to catch the timeless masterpiece for yourself at Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric on Wednesday, May 28. This Andrew Lloyd Webber production of the classic tale features all your favorite songs from the hit movie -- along with brand-new songs from Webber and Tim Rice -- making this one family-friendly show you don't want to miss.
Choose from the following offers:
• $36 ($70 value) for one Grand Tier ticket
• $42 ($80 value) for one Orchestra ticket
• $42 ($80 value) for one Dress Circle ticket
Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric's Website | Facebook
Fine printREFUND POLICY: This event is nonrefundable. No full or partial refunds are given to customers who miss the event. In the event of a cancellation, your voucher will be fully refunded • Limit 6 per customer • Each voucher is good for 1 person • The deal is valid only for tickets on the date[s] of the event as listed and may not be exchanged or redeemed for any other dates • Groups wishing to sit together must purchase their vouchers together; seating is fulfilled with no specific priority • Purchaser may change the name of the individual retrieving tickets up to 24 hours in advance of event via the LivingSocial website event details section; no name-changes or alternate pick-ups permitted without notice at venue • Entire value must be used in a single visit
Ticket to "The Wizard of Oz"
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