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Time Inc. Said to Name Griffin CEO, Replacing Moore
Time Warner Inc. will name Jack Griffin chief executive officer of its Time Inc. publishing unit, replacing Ann Moore, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
The person asked not to be identified because the decision isn't public. Griffin left Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corp., where he was president of the national media group, on Aug. 2 to pursue another opportunity.
Griffin is joining Time, owner of People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated, as magazine publishers search for ways to make money on the Internet and with new mobile devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPad. The unit has shown profit growth this year through costs cuts and higher advertising sales, after several years of investors calling for its divestment.
Moore, a 32-year veteran of Time, rose to chairman and CEO in July 2002, and is the company's first female CEO. She is expected to remain chairman at Time, the world's largest magazine publisher, the New York Times reported.
Gary Ginsberg, a spokesman for New York-based Time Warner, declined to comment. Art Slusark, a spokesman for Meredith, didn't respond to a phone call and e-mail.
In 2008, Moore oversaw the elimination of about 600 jobs, or 6 percent of Time Inc.'s workforce, as profit plunged during the U.S. recession when marketers slashed spending.
Time Warner reported second-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates yesterday, with operating income at Time Inc. rising 50 percent because of cost cuts. Advertising sales rose 4 percent, and Time Warner Chief Financial Officer John Martin said those increases should continue in the third quarter.
Griffin Background
Time Warner rose 42 cents to $32.89 at 4:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares have gained 13 percent this year.
At Meredith, the second-largest U.S. magazine publisher, Griffin oversaw the print publications and digital properties of magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Parents, Ladies' Home Journal and Family Circle. He also ran integrated marketing, brand licensing and book publishing operations, according to a biography on Meredith's website.
Griffin had worked for Meredith since rejoining the company in 2003, and had earlier served as the company's vice president of marketing from 1998 to 1999. He also has served stints at Parade, owned by Advance Publications, and the New York Times Co.'s magazine group.


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2/14/2014 is what that translates to
I have that same cycle code. And was also told it was 02/14/2012. I hope that is right. Wheres my refund has not updated for me yet and still only has one bar. So no DDD on there yet for me. I really hope we get our deposits that day!
YES!!! The WMR just updated with a DDD of 2/14/2014! I do have an offset, but in the past that never delayed my refund and I will have my fees taken out of my refund, but none of that has ever delayed it. When the WMR says its going to be there, I get it. FINALLY
Mines haven't updated yet
maybe it will soon
desiree yours and mine will update 2-morrow. They do the update for Monday deposits on Wednesday nights. I can almost bet we will get an update tomorrow and it will show 2/17 for us. I wish they would just go on and add us to the 2/14 due to the holiday I'm expecting it Tuesday the 18th depending on the banks.
Yes i wish i was getting mines on Valentine's day, i filed jan30 accepted jan30 ive never waited this long for a refund, my sister filed 2/2 n got her $ 2/6
I couldn't figure that 1 out and she used Turbo tax
Now that I think about it, it's always been about 2weeks from the date that I file to get my refund. SO I am right on track and panicing for nothing lol
Lol everybody is panicing especially when the systems cant provide Accurate information lol im glad you got your date im next and then im off these forums until next year kmsl
I filled the 24th and accepted the 31st..so three weeks here and I am used to the normal two weeks as well. Ended up with a horrid tooth infection and now the infection is under control I need to have some work done so come on tax return lol
awww hope you get well im taking my 8k and me and boys going too florida for a week we are in chicago this cold is crazy
Well enjoy your vacation :)
cgdesilva... were you able to order your transcripts?
desiree2190, that's awesome!
yeah I was able to order them yesterday at around 7pm
I was able to order mine 2/11 in the morning and then on 2/12 after 1am it was updated

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European Journal of Plant Pathology
, Volume 135, Issue 1, pp 187-200
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Effects of sharp eyespot (Rhizoctonia cerealis) on yield and grain quality of winter wheat
- Grzegorz LemańczykAffiliated withDepartment of Phytopathology and Molecular Mycology, University of Technology and Life Sciences
- , Hanna KwaśnaAffiliated withDepartment of Forest Pathology, Poznań University of Life Sciences Email author
Sharp eyespot caused by Rhizoctonia cerealis was assessed in four winter wheat crops surveyed at four locations in north-central Poland in 2006–2009. At the four locations symptoms developed on 41.9–67.7 % of shoots of all plants (average of 4 years) and on 49–73.5 % of shoots of diseased plants (average of 4 years). Slight (category 1) disease was most frequent, occurring on 24.4–41.3 % of shoots (range 14.8–51.3 %); moderate (category 2) disease was less frequent, occurring on 16.9–25.5 % of shoots (range 8.9–32.4 %); severe (category 3) disease was least frequent, occurring on 3.2–7.1 % (range 0–22.0 %) of shoots. Sharp eyespot affected wheat growth and yield, and grain quality. Disease, especially in the severe category, was associated with significant decreases in plant and ear dry weights, number of grains per ear, grain dry weight per ear and thousand-grain weight, and with increases in grain protein and wet gluten contents, Hagberg falling number and sedimentation value. There was an association between occurrence of sharp eyespot in stems and colonization of grain by fungi. Alternaria alternata and E. nigrum were the most common species.
KeywordsGrain quality Rhizoctonia cerealis Sharp eyespot Wheat
- Title
- Effects of sharp eyespot (Rhizoctonia cerealis) on yield and grain quality of winter wheat
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
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European Journal of Plant Pathology
Volume 135, Issue 1 , pp 187-200
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- 2013-01
- 10.1007/s10658-012-0077-3
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- 0929-1873
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- 1573-8469
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Grain quality
- Rhizoctonia cerealis
- Sharp eyespot
- Wheat
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- Grzegorz Lemańczyk (1)
- Hanna Kwaśna (2)
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- 1. Department of Phytopathology and Molecular Mycology, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Kordeckiego 20, 85-225, Bydgoszcz, Poland
- 2. Department of Forest Pathology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71c, 60-625, Poznań, Poland


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Port Elizabeth - Four people were arrested for allegedly killing a six-year-old girl and her 41-year-old aunt in Rosedale, Hankey, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.
The two men and two women, aged between 21 and 23, were arrested on Sunday afternoon, said Warrant Officer Basil Seekoei.
Neighbours found the two bodies inside the aunt's house on Sunday morning and alerted police.
The four allegedly set the house alight after the murders, but neighbours managed to remove their bodies.
"It is being alleged that the body of the adult female was found with stab wounds to the upper body," said Seekoei.
"The six-year-old is suspected to have been strangled."
The motive of the killings was not known.
The four would appear in the Hankey Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on charges of murder and arson.
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The Financial Sector and Japan's Corporate Governance Code
Most banks don't require proof that their clients in the tropical timber, palm oil or pulp and paper sectors have the legal right to clear forest. They don't require proof that the rights of affected Indigenous Peoples or other forest-dependent communities are respected. And they almost certainly won't make loans conditional on any robust environmental standards.
As absurd as it sounds, this is standard practice for banks with clients in the business of clearing tropical rainforests. With little more than a claim to a patch of forest, some collateral, and a list of willing clients to sell to, a company finds it all too easy to finance deforestation. RAN believes it's time to stop big banks from bankrolling forest destruction and associated human rights abuses.
One of the largest sources of loans to companies engaged in tropical deforestation is Japan's banking sector. But the tide may be turning. In June 2015, Japan's new Corporate Governance Code (the Code) came into effect, which requires Tokyo-listed companies, including Japan's major banks, to begin to disclose and address the range of environmental, social and governance problems they face.
RAN has produced guidance for Japan's financial institutions in translating this new policy into practice. Companies causing forest destruction and rights violations should not be bankrolled anymore. RAN is calling on all banks, including Japan's banking sector, to develop strong forest sector safeguard policies and systems so that only genuinely responsible forest sector clients can get bank loans.
Read or download the full report: The Financial Sector and Japan's Corporate Governance Code (English)
Read or download the full report: The Financial Sector and Japan's Corporate Governance Code (Japanese)
2014 in Review: Big Banks Ditch Mountaintop Removal Coal
In 2014, leading global banks began to turn away from financing mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. For years, RAN and other organizations in Appalachia and around the world have warned banks of the severe human and environmental consequences of financing MTR coal. And finally, banks have begun to respond.
This year, building on commitments from two US banks, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, several other banks indicated that they would not finance the largest MTR producers. As of this spring, the French bank BNP Paribas had made a similar commitment, followed by the UK-based Royal Bank of Scotland in late Spring. Then, in August, the Swiss bank, UBS indicated that it too would no longer finance major MTR producers. Look for more banks to follow suit in early 2015.
Also in 2014, the environmental and health impacts of MTR became even harder for banks and coal companies to ignore. In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice reached a record-setting $227.5 million settlement with Alpha Natural Resources over water contamination at 79 mine sites, which included several MTR mines. Additionally, a study published in October added to a growing body of scientific evidence linking mountaintop removal mining to severe health impacts. The study, conducted by researchers at West Virginia University, found that dust from MTR sites promoted lung cancer tumor growth.
Financially, the bottom fell out for the U.S. coal industry this year. Facing a trend of U.S. coal plant retirements and stubbornly low coal prices, MTR producers idled, sold, or spun-off mines, and one even filed for bankruptcy. Globally, coal producers fared little better in 2014, facing a sustained slump in global coal prices, fierce competition from renewable energy sources, and broad-based opposition to new coal mines and coal-fired power stations.
Undaunted by this environmental, human, and financial turmoil, a few banks have stubbornly clung on to their financing relationships with MTR producers. For example, Deutsche Bank extracted $2.7 million in fees this year from bankrupt James River Coal for investment banking services. Nevertheless, it is becoming increasingly clear that both MTR producers and the broader coal industry are in deep trouble. As Bob Burton of RenewEconomy noted in his retrospective on 2014, "[e]ach defeat or delay for coal projects, each new scandal or coal-caused disaster, each new report documenting coal's toll on human health and every incremental fall in the cost of wind and solar brings the coal industry's day of reckoning ever closer."
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Five Things You Need to Know
A few days ago, I sat down for an interview with the good folks at Living on Earth, Public Radio International's weekly environmental news show.
We talked about RAN's work fighting mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia, and the banks that fund it. From that interview, here are five things you need to know:
- MTR destroys some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the U.S. The first step in blowing the top off a mountain is clear cutting the forest off the top of it—some of the most diverse forests in the United States.
- MTR debris is toxic. The rubble that's left after the coal gets picked out of it is full of mercury and heavy metals—and all of it gets pushed into the valleys and streams next to the blown-up mountain.
- MTR is big business for big banks. When RAN began campaigning on MTR, all of the major U.S. banks and most of the big European ones were doing deals with MTR mining companies.
- Our pressure on the banking sector is working—but there are some significant holdouts. We've successfully pushed Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland and BNP Paribas/Bank of the West to stop doing business with the biggest MTR companies. But PNC Bank, Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Barclays—the number one financier of MTR—are still profiting from this horrific practice.
- Banks don't like it when you ask them about MTR. Living on Earth contacted all four holdout banks. Only Barclays offered any response.
Time for France's Biggest Bank to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal Coal
This post is by Ben Collins of RAN and Yann Louvel of BankTrack.
The campaign to stop bank financing of mountaintop removal coal mining is gaining momentum.
For years, RAN and other organizations in the global BankTrack network have urged U.S. and European banks to stop financing the devastation caused by mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. BankTrack members have worked closely with advocates from Appalachia — the region hardest hit by MTR — including Paul Corbit Brown and Elise Keaton from Keeper of the Mountains, and Bob Kincaid from Coal River Mountain Watch. Together, they've travelled around the U.S. and Europe to speak directly to CEOs and boards of banks at their annual shareholder meetings and urge them to stop bankrolling mountaintop removal coal mining.
This week, we have an opportunity to push France's biggest bank, Crédit Agricole, to stop profiting from MTR once and for all. At today's annual shareholder meeting, Paul Corbit Brown and staff from Friends of the Earth France urged the bank's CEO, Jean-Paul Chifflet, to follow the lead of other banks and stop funding the biggest and most destructive MTR companies.
Take action: Now's the time to back them up — please add your voice now!
Public pressure to stop funding MTR started showing results a few years ago. U.S. banks were the first to react in 2008, adopting a mix of enhanced due diligence procedures and financing thresholds for companies that engage in mountaintop removal. But real change started to happen last year, when Wells Fargo in the U.S., and Crédit Agricole and BNP Paribas in France, adopted new policies on MTR. These covered both direct project financing of MTR projects — which is pretty rare — and, more importantly, general corporate financing of coal mining companies active in MTR.
The implications of these new policies are potentially huge: the biggest and most harmful producers of MTR coal, such as Alpha Natural Resources and Arch Coal, raise their funding from general corporate loans from banks or from bonds or shares issued to investors. And these are precisely the transactions that should be excluded by these new policies, which bar financing for companies that are "significant" producers of MTR coal.
But we've learned that different banks define "significant" in wildly different ways. BNP Paribas blacklists the main companies active in MTR production, including Alpha and Arch. But Crédit Agricole — while its policy looks similar to BNP's on paper — excludes only those coal mining companies that produce more than 20% of their coal from MTR. In practice, they aren't prohibited from doing business with any MTR companies at all!
Take action: Will you tell Crédit Agricole Jean-Paul Chifflet to close the bank's huge MTR loophole?
Crédit Agricole has financed several loan and bond deals for Alpha and Arch — the worst of the worst MTR companies — while BNP Paribas hasn't done any deals with these two companies since last year. Ironically for Crédit Agricole, financing MTR has not only been bad for the environment and human rights — it's also been a bad investment. The bank suffered significant financial losses from loans it made to recently-bankrupt MTR miner Trinity Coal.
In contrast to Crédit Agricole, other U.S. and European banks have taken concrete steps away from MTR financing this spring. Last month, JPMorgan Chase published an update of its environmental and social policy framework, stating that they expected to continue defunding companies engaged in mountaintop mining. And in the U.K., Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) published a mining policy update prohibiting deals with the main MTR producers. Unlike Crédit Agricole's new policy, these policy changes at JPMorgan Chase and RBS have teeth: both banks will stop financing top MTR producers, including Alpha and Arch.
Today, our allies went straight to Crédit Agricole's annual shareholder meeting to tell the bank's CEO and board close its massive MTR loophole, and stop funding Alpha and Arch.
Take action: We have Crédit Agricole's attention — will you add your voice?
Yann Louvel, Climate and Energy Campaign Coordinator, BankTrack
Ben Collins, Research and Policy Campaigner, Rainforest Action Network
Mountains, Water and Community
Last week, Rainforest Action Network and three allies testified at Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting, urging them to drop coal, to stop profiting from environmental destruction and human rights abuses. In the next two weeks, we'll be posting the statements of our three allies. Add your voice by telling Bank of America to stop funding coal -- and come clean on climate change.
My name is Elise Keaton. I am the Executive Director of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation and I am from southern West Virginia. I currently live in Charleston, West Virginia. I am here today to ask you to please stop financing the destruction of our mountains, our water and my community.
On January 9 of this year, I came home from work, poured a big glass of water from my tap and drank it. As soon as I set my glass down I received a text message from my landlord stating, "Don't drink the water! There has been a chemical leak!"
Over the next hours, I experienced acute symptoms from exposure to the coal-processing chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM), including irritated eyes, nose and throat, nausea, and stomach cramps. If the spill had been immediately lethal, I thought, the authorities would have sounded the chemical valley alarms. So I monitored my symptoms and concluded that I did not need to go to the emergency room that night. I figured that the next day, we would know more about what had happened.
What we learned over the next week was that a Freedom Industries facility storing coal-processing chemicals leaked MCHM into the Elk River, contaminating the drinking water for 300,000 households. The first question a thinking human being should ask is, "Why are 300,000 households, spread across nine counties in a rural state like West Virginia on a single water source in the city of Charleston?"
The answer is: their local water sources have already been compromised by the mining industry. Their streams and springs have been destroyed or buried by mountaintop removal. Their wells have been compromised by blasting or polluted by coal slurry injections.
And instead of addressing the sources of this pollution, the political-industrial establishment in West Virginia decided that your quarterly profits were more important than clean water for our communities and they answered that loss of water by extending the municipal water source further and further out into those counties.
Four months later, we still lack access to guaranteed safe drinking water in West Virginia. Our esteemed congresspeople have insisted that they are drinking the water. But no public health official has declared the water safe to drink.
I am 34 years old and I am getting married this summer. I've waited a long time to start my family. Now, I have postponed my plans to have children indefinitely because no one can tell me the impact MCHM may have had on me and my reproductive ability.
I am here today to ask you to please stop financing the destruction of our mountains, our water and my community. The minuscule profits you received as a result of mountaintop removal mining are incomparable to the catastrophic damage caused by the practice. It is killing us.
More than 20 peer-reviewed health studies have shown that living near mountaintop removal sites is deadly for the people of Appalachia. Please stop financing the destruction of our mountains, our water and my community.
I will close with this: when you remove coal by blowing up a mountain to extract it you have destroyed a "water maker" for the equivalent of one hour's worth of electricity for the United States. Let me repeat that. When you extract coal by mountaintop removal you kill a resource that will make water forever -- for the equivalent of one hour's worth of energy for the U.S. How is that a good investment?
As shareholders of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, you are savvy investors and business minded individuals. How is destroying the mountains that create clean water for a very small, short term financial benefit a good investment? Please stop financing the destruction of our mountains, our water and our communities. Your profits from mountaintop removal mean death for us.
Thank you.
Stand with Elise and RAN by telling Bank of America to stop funding coal -- and come clean on climate change.
Did You Hear The One About The Bank That Couldn't Count?
Last week, Bank of America (BofA) admitted a huge accounting error—for several years, it claimed a whopping $4 billion more in capital than it actually has. The day BofA announced its blunder, its shares closed down more than six percent, the stock's biggest drop in two years.
But BofA had to come clean. Regulators, shareholders and consumers need an accurate picture of banks' balance sheets.
BofA's admission gives us a rare chance to raise a far bigger question: What else are they hiding?
It's time for BofA to be transparent about something much more vital to the future of the planet: just how much its investments contribute to climate change.
Tell Bank of America: Come clean on funding climate change!
I'm writing to you from BofA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I'm about to speak in support of a crucial shareholder resolution. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility—backed by investors worth almost $35 billion—is pushing the bank to report on how much carbon pollution gets spewed into the atmosphere by the companies it funds.
BofA is a top funder of the biggest drivers of climate change: coal, oil, and gas corporations, as well as carbon–intensive electricity producers. But it's refusing to report on its financed carbon emissions. BofA knows that opening its books will create pressure to cut emissions by moving away from fossil fuels.
Now is the time to push BofA on climate change. Last week's accounting revelations were a big black eye, and at today's AGM, the bank needs to reassure its shareholders and customers that it doesn't have billions of dollars of climate liabilities on its books.
We need you to add your voice: Tell Bank of America to come clean on climate accounting!
Pushing for transparency is just the first step. We're also calling on BofA to cut its carbon pollution by stopping funding coal, the top contributor to climate change. I'll be making that call here at the AGM in just a few minutes, and ally organizations will speak to coal's cost beyond climate: mountains with their tops blown off in West Virginia, rivers wrecked by coal ash here in North Carolina, and human rights abuses by coal company security forces in Colombia.
Will you stand with us? Tell BofA that today's the day to come clean on funding climate change—and to cut its emissions by ending coal financing.
From Appalachia to London, Barclays Bank Takes Heat for Coal Financing
There is nothing quite like giving one of world's biggest banks a bad day. A bad week is even better.
Today, protestors swamped Barclays' annual shareholder meeting in London, calling out all sorts of nefarious deeds committed by the bank: speculating on food prices, supporting tax havens, ridiculous executive bonuses and its outrageous financing of the world's dirtiest fuel, coal.
Our friends at World Development Movement showed up as well-dressed eagles to spoof the bank's logo and call Barclays out for being the world's largest financier of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) in Appalachia.
Paul Corbit Brown, an Appalachian native and president of Keeper of the Mountains, drove the message home when he testified at today's Annual General Meeting about how MTR goes beyond just leveling mountains. It poisons communities and causes devastating health problems wherever it is practiced.
Since last Thursday, Rainforest Action Network members have sent more than 19,000 messages to Barclays and demanded the bank immediately start moving away from financing mountain destruction.
Our pressure appears to be working. World Development Movement reports that Barclays has agreed to meet with Paul for a further discussion of MTR.
Photo Credit: World Development Movement
I'm Visiting Barclays Bank and I Need You to Back Me Up
This is a guest post by Paul Corbit Brown, president, Keeper of the Mountains.
Tomorrow, I'm visiting Barclays and I need you to back me up.
In 2013 Barclays gave $550 million in financial support, more than any other bank, to companies destroying my home of central Appalachia with mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR).
That's why I've traveled all the way to England to speak at Barclays' annual shareholder meeting. I want to ensure that the bank's leaders and shareholders know about the true scale of destruction caused by MTR.
Will you help make sure Barclays can't ignore the devastation? Click here to tell Barclays to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining!
MTR is destroying everything I love. More than just leveling mountains, it will pollute our water for countless generations. The health of all those around me is already suffering. Cancer, birth defects, lung disease, heart disease, and dramatically shortened life expectancies have sadly become normal in the communities where MTR is practiced.
The coal industry could not do its dirty work without the help of banks like Barclays. We need to make sure the bank and its shareholders hear that no corporation and no individual has the ethical right to profit from the destruction and sickness caused by MTR.
When people like us hold banks responsible for financing destruction, we can make a difference. We've already persuaded JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas to move away from MTR financing.
Barclays bank's executive team will be under tough scrutiny at their shareholder meeting. If we act in unison today, we can ensure that the message I'm going to deliver to the meeting packs a powerful punch—and demands responsible and ethical action from the bank.
Tell Barclays to take responsibility for its investments and stop financing mountain destruction!
Paul Corbit Brown is president of Keeper of the Mountains, a West Virginia-based foundation that aims to educate and inspire people to work for healthier, more sustainable mountain communities and an end to mountaintop removal. He is a photographer who has worked in more than a dozen countries and exhibited throughout the United States.
Extreme Coal - No Longer Business as Usual
For the first time since we began publishing coal finance report cards five years ago, we have an encouraging trend to report: Major banks have begun making noise about the growing financial risk associated with climate change—and specifically associated with coal, the top global contributor to carbon pollution.
On top of that, major banks have begun to cut ties with the biggest mountaintop removal (MTR) coal companies. This progress has exposed a growing gap between banks that are still sinking billions into coal, and those that are cutting ties with the worst-of-the-worst in the coal industry.
Today, RAN, the Sierra Club, and BankTrack released our 2014 Coal Finance Report Card, "Extreme Investments, Extreme Consequences," which grades U.S. banks on their performance and policies related to coal-fired power and mountaintop removal coal mining. We also uncovered the top financiers of contentious coal export schemes like those in the Pacific Northwest and coal trains that transport dusty coal across the United States.
All told, banks sank over $31 billion into the worst companies in the coal industry last year, with $6.5 billion coming from Citigroup, the top funder of coal-fired power. However, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo began to phase out financing for MTR, earning our first ever "B" grades, and marking a positive trend away from the extreme mining practice.
Meanwhile, UK-based Barclays increased its exposure to MTR, financing $550 million for mountaintop removal coal companies last year, more than any other bank.
Environmental damage from mining, transporting, and burning coal—including health hazards like air pollution and water contamination from spills—doesn't just harm communities and the environment, it costs banks money. In the report card, we highlight examples of this in case studies about the rising cost of clean-up for water contamination at mine sites, increases in coal company bankruptcies, and money-losing coal-fired power plants.
Download the 2014 Coal Finance Report Card.
The report comes on the heels of analyst publications from Goldman Sachs, HSBC and Citigroup last year, each of which challenged the case for continued investment in the coal industry. These and other banks have acknowledged that power plant regulations, a potential price on carbon, and competition from renewable energy sources could "strand" assets such as coal mining, transport, and power generation facilities. With billions of dollars in loans on the line, it's not a question of if climate risk will translate into financial risk, but when.
Ironically, these very same banks maintain deep financial ties to the riskiest and most environmentally destructive companies in the U.S. coal industry. As credit ratings for some coal mining companies sank farther below investment grade last year, banks continued to place bets on risky loans to the sector.
The report card warns banks that before the carbon bubble bursts onto their balance sheets, it will irreversibly destabilize the climate. So while we are happy to report that a few banks took the first steps to cut off financing to the worst-of-the-worst of the coal industry, the banking industry as a whole must now cut its losses and forge a path away from coal, before it's too late for both them and us.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Barclays, the number one banker of mountaintop removal, to end its support of destroying mountains and poisoning communities for coal.


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The Magazine
Hopper's World
Solitude, light, and harbingers of death.
Oct 15, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 05 • By MARTHA BAYLES
If Hopperesque means hopelessly cut off from others, even when they are present, then his reputation as a ruthless chronicler of a peculiarly American form of alienation, transience, and anomie is deserved. The trouble is, this view of Hopper makes him "depressing" rather than "uplifting," to borrow the nontechnical language of the average museumgoer. And that makes it hard to explain his success. In a perceptive essay about Nighthawks, co-curator Judith A. Barter reports that "Nighthawks was an instantly popular picture. It was requested so continuously and lent so often to art galleries, museum exhibitions, and even state fairs that by 1953 it required conservation."
In postwar America, depressing art did not typically find a big welcome at state fairs. So maybe Hopper is not so depressing after all?
Let us return to Hopper's love of light, and his use of it first as a unifying device and later as a consoling and inspiring presence. To appreciate the unifying aspect, look again at the New England watercolors. Walk into any gallery in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, or Ogunquit, Maine, and you will see dozens of pretty pictures full of bright, warm colors. But look again, and you will see that most of them contain no light. What they do contain, and what someone like Thomas Kinkade turns out by the truckload, is lighting: -Theatrical, fake, formulaic, predictable. It takes true artistry to paint real light--firelight, lamplight, most of all sunlight--splashing, stroking, and saturating the surface of things in the living moment. Hopper achieved this artistry early, and while his oils lack the spontaneity of his watercolors and can be theatrical at times (Nighthawks being the salient example), the light in them is never fake, formulaic, or predictable.
Consider how Hopper's world looks in the absence of light. One of his early New York canvases, The City (1927), offers a distorted view of Washington Square seen from the fifth or sixth floor of an unseen building. Edmund Wilson, who lived on the square at the time, was so appalled by this distortion he denounced the painting in a newspaper column entitled "The Crushing of Washington Square." But The City is ugly, even if you've never laid eyes on Washington Square, because it has no sun. Under a dull overcast sky, a motley collection of buildings stand around like strangers at a bus stop, not clashing but not connecting either. The contrast could not be greater with another masterpiece, Early Sunday Morning (1930), in which a normally unassuming row of Seventh Avenue storefronts is gloriously transformed by strong, directional sunlight.
Hopper's human figures seem so sunk into themselves, so oblivious to their surroundings, one could imagine the artist taking a Manichean view of matter as an evil swamp within which the light of the spirit is trapped. But this is not Hopper's vision. To the contrary, he finds redemption in the play of visible light on visible objects, especially human bodies. Sometimes the light caresses, as in Room in Brooklyn (1932), where a spot of sun warms the back of a woman's neck. Sometimes it guards, as in New York Movie (1939), where a wall sconce casts a benevolent glow on the head of a lonely usherette. And sometimes it ravishes, as in Summertime (1943), where the sun burns brazenly through the sheer fabric of a woman's dress.
The traditional term for compositions in light and dark is chiaroscuro (or, when taken to extremes, tenebrism). Hopper uses chiaroscuro to create a spectrum of emotion, from despair to hope, and to situate a human figure at the appropriate point along it. Chiaroscuro operates differently in each painting, more or less darkening the feeling of being trapped and more or less illuminating the path of release. Immobility is necessary for it to work, because Hopper's human figures are not just the objects of this treatment, they are also its subjects.
John Updike once wrote that Hopper's people appear to be listening, but not to each other. This seems about right. As Judith A. Barter expresses it, "They are not accessible to us or to each other, as they are absorbed in something beyond their physical surroundings."
Most visitors pass quickly through the final room of the exhibition, but this is a mistake, because it contains what amounts to a full confession by the artist. Hopper's last major work, completed in 1963, four years before his death, is Sun in an Empty Room. I write this on a New England fall day, when the sunshine is clear and beautiful but no longer warm. Hopper once explained to a friend that he preferred Cape Cod to Maine because the winter came too quickly in Maine. I know just what he means. To New Englanders (and to everyone who lives in a similar climate), there is no more poignant harbinger of death than the autumn sun, which does its best to reach us with its old force but cannot, because of inexorably increasing distance.
The trees outside the window of Hopper's empty room are still green, but the painting's autumnal mood is accentuated by the quality of the light. The sun pouring into the room makes oblongs of light and dark, but the real darkness is, paradoxically, outside, under the trees. There's not a lot of it, but it is exceedingly black. Spend a few minutes in front of this painting (which will be easy, because no one else does) and ask yourself: Is this depressing or uplifting?
Hopper's answer is the same one we get from life: It is both.
Martha Bayles teaches in the honors program at Boston College.


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Times are tough for Barack Obama when even his friends dig into him.
On Monday night's edition of the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," actress and television talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg became the latest celebrity to take a swipe at the president's failed effort to get the Healthcare.gov website operational as the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, made its debut.
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Whoopi lamented it was typical of how government works, but also came to the president's defense, noting Obama didn't personally design the website, but had merely delegated the work to others who failed.
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Two weeks ago, as WND reported, legendary Jewish comedian Jackie Mason uncorked a full-blown assault on the president and his troubled attempt at providing affordable health care for Americans.
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By a one-vote margin (29-28), the local church legislation committee will ask a plenary session to add a clause making it clear that the decision about an individual's readiness to affirm the vows of membership rests with the pastor.
Under the proposal, a person who is denied membership may appeal that decision to the Pastor-Parish or Staff-Parish Relations Committee.
Can a pastor deny a person membership? Plenary will debate
By a one-vote margin (29-28), the local church legislation committee will ask a plenary session to add a clause making it clear that the decision about an individual's readiness to affirm the vows of membership rests with the pastor.
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Curtis Rivers
What a sad event. I would hope that the majority of that committee will not prevail, simply because this allows prejudice and abberant theological understanding to be given into the hands of a pastor on the subject of church membership. Who am I to ascettain the relationship between an individual and God, no matter what their sexual orientation?
You are given the authority by Jesus Christ to discern if one is living a sinful lifestyle. Jesus gave to us the keys to the kingdom and with them a great responsibility. He states the authority given to us in Matthew 16:19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."
The truth has been revealed to us and we are responsible. It may not always be easy and pleasant to hear, but the old saying deeply applies, "Sometimes the truth hurts."
Rev. Paul McKay
So if a pastor learns that a member is having an affair–carrying on a sinful lifestyle–and it turns out to be true–does the pastor take steps to remove the member from membership, or what? If a pastor goes to that member in confidentiality and the member can't bring himself or herself to stop the affair, or won't, or says he or she will but carries on, what then? Does the pastor somehow de-member the person until they get out of sin? And aren't we all living sinful lives, if not "lifestyles"? It seems to me that If that's the determining measure for membership in a church, the rolls will thin out pretty fast.
Charles Alkula
On the other hand why shouldn't the pastor have the right to determine who is allowed to join? Membership in the local church is a right, not a priviledge. Pastors should also have the right to determine when inactive members are dropped from the roll and those who cause harm to the cause of Christ.
If clergy are to loose the guaranteed appointment in the name of 'efficiency' and the future of the church, then what are the laity giving up?
Stephen pichaske
At first glance, I really like this addition to the proposal, but also find myself asking if there should also be a provision for appeals to a congregation's SPRC/PPRC if a pastor DOES offer membership to an individual. If we want checks and balances, shouldn't it apply to both sides of the same coin?
Mbwizu Ndjungu
I agree with PerryA and Charles Alkula.
God has given the keys to his word to pastors,but they need the spirit of discernment because the devil is at work in the church of God everyday.
If we are all living in sin as we are sinners and far from perfect it seems to me allowing any church much less a pastor the right to deny membership to anyone is absurd. Wesley ministered to the undesirable, those uneducated, illiterate, too poor to wear acceptable clothing and worked he went to the people and Methodism WAS a movement . As a denomination it has become haughty, high brow and judgmental. How can a church proclaim open hearts, open minds and open doors. The church is now becoming lead by the top down as opposed to the opposite as is was in the beginning. Church is not about the people anymore but about the building, the exceptional choir and now membership qualifications. The Profession of Faith is a statement of belief in God our Father and to living a life in relationship with God and our brothers and sisters in Christ. we are not able to see all our foibles at once because GOD reveals to us what HE knows we can bear at the time. There is no particular order in the revelations we receive as this is according to God's will..
Jesus told us mans's law was not to superior God's law yet we are now requiring a list of things acceptable and unacceptable? If we are all sinners we are not in a position to judge the degree of sinfulness and a pastor is held in higher accountability by God but remains a man/woman. Our roots are a laity lead people who preached and exhorted. Now it seems to be qualified we are moving as far away from that as possible and giving too much power to the ordained.
We are all children of God in different states of sin and if a person is making an effort to establish or restore a relationship with God, who are we to determine when they have reached an acceptable state of grace. How do you expect someone to arrive at this acceptable state and develop this relationship if you bar them from the very thing that will help them even desire a deeper relationship?
When sin occurred in the Garden of Eden, they hid in shame because they realized they were naked and that is what we do when we sin. Every sin moves us further from God but only God who knows every hair on our head knows when and what will allow us to suddenly see what we are doing is sinful.
I see this entirely as a method of selecting acceptable people into the church and not at all what Jesus was teaching and Wesley intended as he began the movement. Only god knew it would be a movement Wesley was truly inspired by God.
Vicki Yoder
As I read this, these scriptures came to mind: (1) Matt 22:37-40 that ends with "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (loving God, loving people); (2) Romans 8:35,37-39 that begins "Who will separate us from the love of Christ…." and ends "…nor anything else in all creation, will be able to spearate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (3) Romans 11:32 "For God has imprisoned everyone in disobedience so he could have mercy on everyone." (4) 2 Cor 5:18-19 "All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation." Remember, too, that John Wesley in his sermon "Catholic Spirit" says we do not need to be of one mind… though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? We do not have to have agreement. Who knows the mind of Christ? A single pastor? Join me in hoping that neither you nor I find ourselves outside the United Methodist fold because we no longer fit within the boundaries of our pastor. . .as a denomination let us proclaim open hearts, open minds and open doors; let us be committed to reconciling ALL to God!


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I would like the ability to adjust how many days the heat map will cover.
For example, by default it shows for the last 30 days, looking at the source, it looks like this is a variable that could be adjusted via the svncvs.properties file, but the code does not read it from there.
Is this possible?
Otherwise, a command line option specifiying the data range of the heat map would be appreciated, as we often want to look at this data retrospectively, and unless the work was done within the last 30 days this is not an option.
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News Release - Court of the Bank of England commissions a set of reviews to learn lessons
News Release - Court of the Bank of England commissions a set of reviews to learn lessons
21 May 2012
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The Court of the Bank of England has today commissioned a set of three reviews into areas of the Bank's performance and current capabilities in order to learn lessons and to ensure the Bank is best equipped to carry out its responsibilities in the future.
All three reviews will be led by independent, internationally respected, experts.
The reviews will cover:
The provision of Emergency Liquidity Assistance in 2008/9.
The Bank's framework for providing liquidity to the banking system as a whole.
The Monetary Policy Committee's forecasting capability.
They will be led by Ian Plenderleith, Bill Winters and David Stockton respectively.
They will begin immediately, and their conclusions will be presented to Court in October 2012.
The reviews will be published soon after that.
The Chairman of Court, Sir David Lees said: "The Court of the Bank of England believes it is important for the Bank to learn practical lessons from past experience in order to improve the way it operates in the future.
These reviews will be undertaken by leading experts and will focus on three key areas of the Bank's responsibilities."
The Governor, Sir Mervyn King, said: "I welcome this set of reviews.
Major changes to the operations of the Bank have already been made in the light of the financial crisis.
These detailed, independent reviews will help to ensure that all the important lessons for the future have been learned."
The financial crisis has continued in different forms for almost five years.
During that time, the Bank has been learning lessons continuously.
It has made many changes to the way it operates.
Other reforms have been made, or are being made, through the new legislation.
Court believes now is the right time to review both the Bank's progress in applying the lessons that have been learned and what further lessons there may be for the future.
The reviews will focus on ensuring the Bank has the capability to respond to future crises.
In doing so, they will pay close attention to the most intense period of the financial crisis in 2008-9 that included the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the United States in September 2008, the recapitalisation of the major UK banks and the deep global recession.
The relevant lessons for the Bank from the initial stage of the crisis in 2007 were established in the Treasury Committee Report "The Run on the Rock".
Consistent with that, the Chairman of the Treasury Committee has said that "
It is the period of the Lehman crisis, and subsequently, which most needs examination
The reviews will concentrate on areas where the Bank had sole responsibility.
They will focus firmly on lessons to improve the way the Bank operates.
They will not stray into the actions of the other 'Tripartite' authorities – HM Treasury and the Financial Services Authority.
Any wider inquiry would need to consider the actions taken by all the authorities together and would therefore need to be initiated and conducted by an independent body.
The terms of reference for the three reviews are:
Provision of Emergency Liquidity Assistance in 2008/9
The Court has asked Ian Plenderleith, Chairman of BH Macro, to review the Bank's actions at the height of the financial crisis, around the collapse of Lehman Brothers, to provide Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to Royal Bank of Scotland and HBoS.
The purpose of this review is to learn lessons to inform the way the Bank conducts ELA operations for individual financial institutions.
Such support operations will, in due course, be conducted under the new Crisis Management Memorandum of Understanding which was published in January 2012.
The review will build on the lessons learned in relation to the ELA provided to Northern Rock in 2007, as set out in the Treasury Committee's report "The Run on the Rock".
Specifically, the review will examine:
The basis of the decisions to provide Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to each firm concerned.
The governance arrangements within the Bank for making those decisions.
The structure and terms of each ELA operation.
The effects of those operations on the institutions concerned and on overall financial stability.
The capability of the Bank to plan, implement and manage those operations.
Overall, the review will examine how the Bank discharged its responsibilities as lender of last resort in a crisis and make recommendations for the conduct of any such operations in the future.
The Bank's framework for providing liquidity to the banking system
In January 2008, alongside the publication of the Treasury Committee's Report "The Run on the Rock", the Bank committed to improving the way its money market framework operated in stressed conditions.
The process of reforming the Bank's operations began early in 2008 with the introduction of the Special Liquidity Scheme.
A consultative paper was published in October of that year and further changes were made.
The resulting framework was described fully in the Bank's 'Red Book' in 2010.
The Court has asked Bill Winters, Chief Executive of Renshaw Bay and former Co-CEO of JPMorgan Investment Bank, to review whether the reformed system of operations deals with the conclusions of the Treasury Committee's report "The Run on the Rock" and captures any further lessons from the financial crisis since the time of that report in January 2008.
The review will examine:
The operation of the Special Liquidity Scheme, established in 2008.
The structure and terms of the Bank's facilities, as set out in the 'Red Book'.
The operation of the reformed framework since its introduction in 2008.
Specifically, the review will consider:
The effectiveness of the framework in implementing monetary policy decisions.
Whether the framework is sufficiently flexible, and the range of collateral sufficiently broad, to satisfy demands for liquidity in times of stress.
Whether a system of voluntary reserves targets is appropriate.
Whether the price at which liquidity is available to the system is appropriate.
Whether the framework deals adequately with the issue of 'stigmatisation'.
The capability and governance arrangements in the Bank to support the facilities in its framework.
Overall, the review will make recommendations to inform the future development of the Bank's operations, consistent with its objectives to implement the MPC's decisions and to provide liquidity insurance to the UK banking system.
The Monetary Policy Committee's Forecasting Capability
Economic forecasts play a central role in helping the Monetary Policy Committee to assess the key economic risks and uncertainties affecting the economic outlook and hence the appropriate setting of monetary policy.
Since the onset of the global downturn in 2008-9, both output growth and inflation have been significantly more volatile than in the preceding decade.
And the Monetary Policy Committee has found it more challenging to assess the outlook for growth and inflation.
The Court has asked David Stockton, former Director of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to review the forecasting capability of the Monetary Policy Committee.
This review will supplement the MPC's regular annual review of its forecasting performance.
The review will examine:
The performance of the MPC's projections for growth and inflation since 2008.
The analysis presented to the MPC in the production of those projections.
The processes followed by the MPC to produce projections.
The capability of the Bank to support the production of the MPC's projections.
Overall, the review will examine whether the MPC's forecasting procedures allow it to take full account of the relevant risks and uncertainties, and thus support the MPC's monetary policy decisions in order to meet the inflation target.
The review will be used to inform decisions about the Bank's forecasting procedures and methods.
Notes to Editors
The Court of the Bank of England is responsible for managing the affairs of the Bank but not the formulation of monetary policy.
It is made up of nine non-executive Directors, the Governor and two Deputy Governors. The non-executive directors are: Brendan Barber; Sir Roger Carr; Michael Cohrs; Sir David Lees (Chairman of Court); Lady (Susan) Rice; John Stewart; Mark Tucker; Lord (Adair) Turner; and Harrison Young.
Ian Plenderleith CBE is Chairman of BH Macro and a non-executive Director of Morgan Stanley and Co International, BMCE Bank International in London, and of Sanlam in South Africa. Previously, his main career was at the Bank of England (1965-2002), where he was Executive Director responsible for market operations and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, and at the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria (2003-2005), where he was Deputy Governor and a member of the South African Monetary Policy Committee.
Bill Winters is the Chief Executive Officer and a managing partner of Renshaw Bay. He has 28 years of experience in the investment industry, including 26 years at JP Morgan. He moved to London in 1992 as the Head of European Fixed Income and in 2004 was promoted to Co-CEO of JPMorgan Investment Bank. He played a key role in managing JP Morgan Investment Bank through the 2008 financial crisis, including the acquisition and management of Bear Stearns. He was a member of the Independent Commission on Banking in the United Kingdom which submitted its report to the Chancellor in September 2011.
David Stockton is a Senior Adviser at Macroeconomics Advisers LLC and the former Director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In that position, Mr Stockton oversaw the preparation of macroeconomic and financial market analyses and forecasts for the Board of Governors and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to assist them in decisions related to monetary policy.
The reviewers will have access to Bank of England records and will be free to speak to both Bank staff and to others outside the Bank as they choose. The reviewers will be supported by a small team based in the Bank.
"The Run on the Rock", Fifth Report of Session 2007-8, House of Commons Treasury Committee.
Andrew Tyrie MP, News Release, 3 May 2012.
"A new approach to financial regulation: securing stability, protecting consumers", HM treasury, January 2012, Annex E.
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Re: connect macbook pro to tv in response to vinaydIf you have a HDMI port on your TV, you can use a cable that has DVI at one end and HDMI at the other. Audio will not be carried to your TV. You will need to use audio out to a receiver for sound (or just use your MBP's built in speakers).
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Re: connect macbook pro to tv in response to vinaydThanks for your help. I will check this out
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Re: connect macbook pro to tv in response to vinaydHi,
which cable is the best? Would a 3ft 24AWG be file? Is there a difference in DVI I? DVI M? what is AWG?
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Re: connect macbook pro to tv in response to vinaydI want to connect my MBP CoreDuo to my TV via HDMI as well. I have a Sony KDL-52XBR2 Bravia TV (in case your mental Sony model number database isn't up to date, it's a large LCD model ), which has several HDMI inputs.
In the Operating Instructions, it says "Do not connect a PC to the TV's HDMI input. Use the PC IN (RGB IN) input instead when connecting a PC."
Well, on the back of the TV, the labelled "PC IN" ports are just a 15 pin VGA port and a single RCA connector labelled "AUDIO." In my case, I would run the audio through the AV receiver, not the TV.
Is there a valid reason to not connect the MBP via HDMI? Isn't HDMI the same just about everywhere? Could I damage the computer or the TV by using a DVI to HDMI cable? I don't see how, but I'm not an EE, either.
I would hate to buy a DVI to HDMI cable and have it not work, or do harm.
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Re: connect macbook pro to tv in response to t-hakhey there t-hak,
i have a 42" Sony w/ HDMI & a MacBook not MBP, but i've connected it to my Sony several times via MiniDVI>DVI adapter + DVI>HDMI cable-1920x1080i rez & had no issues whatsoever, also run optical audio out into my Sony reciever.
good luck.
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Re: connect macbook pro to tv in response to Donna Jones1That's good news! I thought the PC on VGA restriction was silly.
After I posted, I realized that I could hook the MBP to the HDMI port on my Sony receiver, too. So I got a DVI-to-HDMI converter and it works great. Now I have a 52" monitor running at 1900x1200! Woohoo!
Next is to hook the MBP audio to the receiver via Toslink, which the cable should arrive tomorrow.
Thanks for your reply!


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« accord »
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(b) a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or
(c) any person authorized by the Governor in Council to enforce this Act.
- "straddling stock"
"straddling stock"[Repealed, 1999, c. 19, s. 1]
Marginal note:Meaning of "state"
(2) In section 5.4, subparagraphs 6(f)(iv) and (vi), paragraphs 16.1(b) and 17(2)(b), sections 18.01 and 18.02 and paragraph 18.1(a.2), "state" includes an organization of foreign states.
- R.S., 1985, c. C-33, s. 2;
- 1994, c. 14, s. 1;
- 1998, c. 16, s. 29;
- 1999, c. 19, s. 1;
- 2001, c. 26, s. 287.
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