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Time is short for members of Congress to do the right thing for tens of millions of Americans with regard to the coal industry. Already, it may be too late to keep many families from paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year more for electricity – and to prevent loss of tens of thousands of jobs in states such as West Virginia.
Obama revealed he plans unilateral action that would shut down most, if not all, coal-fired power plants in the United States. He admitted he is doing so despite the refusal of Congress to go along with such a draconian strategy.
An anti-coal policy has been in progress for much of Obama's presidency. Already, utilities have announced plans to close scores of coal-fired power plants. Now, their timetable will accelerate.
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I think OKC was stupid for making this trade and not trying to go for Dwight howard.
What did the magic get in the Howard trade?... NOTHING.
What did OKC get in this trade? Nothing that will make them better than the heat.
If OKC had called the magic and said "Listen, well send you Harden and a couple draft picks and you send us howard" They would have done that in a second. And everyone would have been better off.
Not that I care. But It just doesn't make sense to me why OKC is just fine with what they have when they had the pieces to easily become a lot better. Or why the magic were fine with getting completely screwed over
The Beard had an insane first game for the Rockets, 37 pts and 12 assists. Let's see what KMart does but I think the OKC fans are going to be real salty about this trade.
All that trading and looks like the Rockets GM finally did something right and built a base.
Harden starting he can be a star franchise player. If they get a legit player in the front court and a few more bench contributers which they can do in as soon as one off season then they can be a dangerous team
OKC was so stupid. Trading a star player for a bunch of midround talent
Harden has an special hybridability (I made up this word, yes) of strength/agility/quickness/poise/technique
Watching Harden play is like watching Floyd Mayweather box 9 rounds. It's a sweet science.
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+ Unselfish/Assists/Passes to teammates
+ Can penetrate better
+ Youth
+ More efficient shots
+Better jumpshots (well at least in the area Melo owns anyway)
Harden doesn't stop the offensive rhythm and actually has defense. Anthony is more all-star in terms of name value, and less in actual performance. Thats my 2 cents anyway
Favorite Team: Knicks
Favorite Player: D. Rose
Favorite Position: PG
James Harden with 45 points tonight against the Hawks.
I saw him going for 25/5/5 but this is crazy.
Lin had 21 pts. 66 total between the both of them, have Melo and Stat ever scored 66 pts between them?


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Is Nascar Trying Too Hard?
I'm guessing it's the after affect of the race cars and race teams being better and Goodyear tire company producing more stable tires. After all, Goodyear wants to sell tires. How does it look when so many of their tires fall apart during a Nascar race. But yet Nascar encourages the tire wear. Make up your minds please!
I think the older Nascar enthusiasts have been complaining about so much change in this sport. Well, just like anything in this life. Changes will always come. Nascar is the "entertainment" business. They will always be trying to make racing better......in their minds any way!
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2Ag(s) + CaI2(aq) Ca(s) + 2AgI(s)
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What will be the products of the electrolysis of an aqueous solution of Tin (II) sulfate (SnSO4)? (The electrodes themselves are platinum.)
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(2) What is the concentration of CH3CN after 0.20 minutes of reaction if the initial concentration is 0.10 M? {1:NUMERICAL:=4e-4:1e-5#Correct!~%50%4e-4:5e-5#Close, but not quite.}(Do not include units!)
Using the graph below, calculate the rate constant for this reaction at 40.0oC.
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NH3(g) + CH4(g)HCN(g) + 3H2(g)
TiCl4 + 2Mg
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Molecular Weight (g/mol)
Citric acid
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text: Fact is we're a much better team than before, and a much better team than the Celtics now. The refs weren't so bad that we lost. Now the Knicks are deep and are hustling. Whoever wins will deserve it unless the refs are bad much of the game. People need to stop making excuses for losses on the refs.


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Best case scenario- #2 seed in the East.
I just don't see us catching up to Miami @ this point unless we go on a major winning streak (12-15 game W-streak), which is unlikely with the way the team is playing right now. i just hope that when the Playoffs start, everybody will be healthy and at the top of their game. For the last two years, the Knicks have been bitten by the injury bug for far too many important players (Tyson with the flu, Amar'e with the fire extinguisher, Shump's torn ACL, even Billups' unfortunate knee injury).
Call me crazy, but maybe a 2nd round battle with MIA will be better for us. I mean, for one thing, we'll have to face them sooner or later, why not do it when our players have much fresher legs and hopefully momentum from winning the previous series. We have a collection of old (Queen Elizabeth old) players on the roster and keeping them fresh will be vital to slaying the three-headed monster that is Miami.
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Singapore talent war intensifies as immigration curbs kick in
Competition for foreign workers in Singapore is getting fiercer. The new restrictions in Singapore's small population of five million people are causing a recruitment headache for financial firms and could exacerbate wage inflation.
Lee Quane, regional director, Asia, at ECA International, a regional human resources consultancy, said: "One of the major industries where the foreign workforce has increased in the past five years has been banking and finance and so any measures to reduce the flow of immigration are going to be felt in banking and finance – it's going to add to the cost of doing business."
The Singapore government has progressively tightened restrictions on the employment of overseas nationals in professional roles amid growing discontent about immigration and rising living costs. The financial services sector is under particular scrutiny following complaints claiming that banks were overlooking Singaporeans in favour of foreign candidates.
The subject is sensitive and many individuals and financial institutions are reluctant to speak openly about the issue. Three recruiters said their firms had seen a rise in the number of professional employment pass applications rejected by Singapore's Ministry of Manpower. "There is political pressure on big institutions to hire more Singaporeans. It's becoming difficult to get work permits across the board," said one who wished to remain anonymous.
In an email, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Manpower said: "Global financial institutions understand that to sustain the growth of their Singapore operations over the long term, it makes business sense to strengthen the pool of Singaporean employees at all levels." The statement added that employment decisions "rest firmly with the [financial institutions]."
The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the island state's financial regulator, is helping to implement the policy within the financial services sector. One asset manager said the MAS had encouraged buyside firms to recruit more locals. Another chief executive of a financial consultancy said their firm had recently been directly barred from recruiting a foreign candidate.
In March, the MOM said the rate of foreign employment growth slowed by 1.7 percentage points "amid the foreign manpower tightening measures". Foreign workers, excluding domestic staff, comprised 36.9% of total employment growth in 2013, down from 53.3% in 2012.
Paul Endacott, managing director at recruitment firm Ambition in Singapore, said: "The question is: can you bridge that gap? There are so many new functions with global talent in Singapore."
The restrictions affect all areas of the financial services industry, but sectors where skills are already in short supply, including risk, compliance, audit, regulation and private banking, are feeling the most pain.
The MOM said in its statement that there was no shortage of local talent, but local recruiters disagree. One gave the following example: "If you are looking for a specific person, such as an anti-money laundering specialist at a senior vice-president level, we are probably talking about 10 people in Singapore. And if they don't want to move, then you have a problem."
Some banks are affected more than others. Standard Chartered, in which Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek owns an 18% stake and which employs 7,600 staff in Singapore, according to its website, has come under direct pressure from the government and is adjusting its recruitment practices accordingly, said one individual familiar with its hiring practices. The bank could not provide a spokesperson for comment.
A spokesman for Citi said its 10,000-strong workforce on the island is already 82% Singaporean.
Deutsche Bank also has a large presence in Singapore, with 2,100 staff. Mark Hedley, head of professional recruiting at Deutsche Bank Singapore, said in an email: "Our hiring approach has always been to look for local talent as much as we can. We have been conscious of a need to appeal to a wide candidate pool, including local talent. As competition for top talent increases, we have been careful to ensure that our employee value proposition remains attractive to local banking professionals."
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The restrictions are set to tighten further in August with the introduction of legislation known as the Fair Consideration Framework, which will require firms to advertise roles to local Singaporeans for at least 14 working days before applying for employment passes for foreign professionals. The threshold is set at jobs commanding salaries between S$3,300 and S$12,000 per month (US$31,260 to US$114,710 per year). The MOM has also said it will step up scrutiny of firms' recruitment and career advancement programmes and the composition of their workforce.
Some recruitment specialists have warned that the new requirement could lead to wage inflation as firms look to circumvent the jobs ban by raising salaries. ECA International's Quane said: "If companies need to increase headcount but the government is reducing the means through which they can do it and take staff from overseas, then that means salaries will go up." He added: "If the policy has an adverse impact it may cause corporates to rethink and ramp up in Hong Kong."
The MAS said in its statement that the tight labour market combined with expected economic growth could put upward pressure on wages but added that banks should be looking to reduce their overall reliance on people and invest more in technology.
For its part, the government is investing in training the next generation of bankers. The MAS is partnering financial institutions to develop "new structured programmes to provide young Singaporean professionals more cross-functional exposure", the spokesperson said. "For early and mid-career professionals, [financial institutions] will also look to provide greater overseas exposure to prepare them for possible future leadership roles."
Ong Puay See, chief executive of the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore, a national accreditation agency for financial services competence, said the agency was also working closely with MAS and the Ministry of Manpower "to support the manpower development needs of the financial industry and plug competency gaps".
These programmes are long term and increasingly targeted at Singaporean university and polytechnic graduates, as well as locals looking for a career change. Last year, the IBF devised three programmes to train individuals with no financial services experience in compliance, corporate banking and private banking, with a new programme this year focusing on financial services technology and operations.
Deutsche Bank operates talent projects to foster home-grown Singaporeans. Global financial services brands with long-established operations in the island state are in a stronger position to win the best candidates, said Hedley: "We are fortunate to have a strong local brand. We have close relationships with the top universities, and a highly regarded graduate programme. We also have a strong commitment to recruiting returnees, Singaporeans with overseas work experience, and maintain an outreach programme to likely candidates."
Likewise, headhunters said they are targeting Singaporeans working abroad, although conducting overseas searches can be "like finding a needle in a haystack", said one headhunter. And when it comes to the most hard-to-find candidates, recruiters said they are helping bank hiring managers to build a case for why they have been unable to recruit locally.
This article was first published in the print edition of Financial News dated March 31, 2014


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My daughter sent me this "Snoopy Snap" which you can do from the game "Snoopy's Street Fair" which is a very cute game, although like SO many other Facebook games it always offers lots of tempting options that cost REAL money. I mean, I can't blame them, but some games are kind of "worse" than others with what they let you do for free and what they want you to pay for. I mean, I don't expect to be able to customize Snoopy or Charlie Brown's house down to a choice of JoAnn's or p kaufmann fabric, but sheesh, at Christmas time I don't think there was one "free" decoration for the Christmas tree. But it's fun enough to play for free, and it's very cute. These companies have to make money and cheapos like me aren't helping them pay the bills, lol.
So I mentioned in a previous post that I was enjoying Words With Friends. Well, I'm not enjoying it as much anymore, lol... I *thought* I was a fairly well-read, intelligent person with a pretty good vocabulary, however, in the first week or two of playing Words With Friends I could not believe how many words people were playing that I had never seen or heard of!! Ok, I know since I hit 40 the brain cells are starting to die off but, wow! I am much dumber than I thought!! Well, finally somebody kindly tipped me off that there are apps and computer programs that you can use to make the best words out of the letters you have - even helping you maximize DL and TL spaces and the like, as well as lists of obscure two and three letter words to play, etc. etc. etc. :-/ Ok, #1 - Um, isn't that cheating? #2 - If I were playing you face to face I would not, on my turn, turn to my computer to find my next move - would you? #3 - That doesn't really seem like fun to me - to let your computer figure out some of your moves? But I guess that's just me. I'm also not super competitive, so maybe that's part of it. #4 - The least you can do if you're doing this is LET YOUR OPPONENT KNOW so you can BOTH play with "help" because it's not really very fair to use your computer to help you make words no one's ever heard of while I'm only using MY BRAIN, now is it?? Sheesh! Blah. Whatever. (Btw, I *know* not everyone is doing this, but I'm kind of put me off the whole game - I can't keep track of who seems like they're getting help and who is just playing brain-to-brain with me - it's sucked the fun out of it.)
Have you tried Zynga's Drop 7 game? That's a lot of fun, but once I figured out some of the strategy the game can last a looong time...although I still am not very good at getting rid of the "1s" - I end up eventually with the bottom rows filled with them...
And of course I'm still playing Farmville. There's a rumor we may finally be getting "shared storage" across all the farms, but I'll bet that will cost Farm Cash (= real money). Don't forget to check under the game window for the occasional surveys you can do for a couple of farm cash - I did one today for Turbo Tax, took about a minute. Over time those Farm Cash add up! Also, in case you don't know, there is an official Farmville Blog where they publish the "Quest Guides" so you can see what tasks lie ahead and plan accordingly. And regarding all the quests lately - it got too stressful for me to try to complete them all, so I just look ahead to what prizes are offered and I don't even bother with the quests unless there are prizes I want. The game is much more enjoyable now. I have enough stress in my life, I don't need to be worrying about my blueberries withering, lol!
What Facebook games do *you* like that I should try?
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Comstock/Comstock/Getty ImagesI know one of you, and it's just one, eats bacon-wrapped bacon every day, has sex with supermodels, and gets paid to play video games, and this article means nothing to you aside from my hilarious jokes, and that's OK. You don't even need to comment at the bottom, I believe you already. But the rest of us. Oh man, the rest of us have made some terrible decisions. And they weren't wrong decisions; they were just miserable ones. We did them on purpose because we thought they'd be good, like how sometimes you think, "Maybe if I clench, this fart will come out super quiet and no one will know," but instead you create a nefarious ass piccolo that lilts and rolls like a jaunty Irish jig and now not only does everyone know, they think your intestines are all fucked up and musical. It's a hand we're all dealt sometimes.
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Almost everyone wants to be healthy. Some people legitimately don't give a shit, and God bless their greasy, heavy-breathing hides for having the willpower to not give a damn if they live or are desirable or can get up the stairs without blacking out and screaming during their unconscious night terrors on step eight. The rest of us do want to be healthy to a greater or lesser degree, whether that means you're the guy who runs 2 miles every morning before work or you just really debate whether or not to order a side salad instead of fries and end up just choosing fries anyway. It's the want that we're concerned with, because that's where misery is born.
If you're already a fitness model, you probably don't remember the misery, but if not, you know how much you hate wondering if gluten is bad for you. Who the fuck even came up with that? Gluten? That we live in a world in which people have to wonder if gluten is bad for them is sicker than paying someone to pee on you, because at least that's between two consenting adults and can be easily cleaned up. The gluten thing is a clusterfuck that no one asked for. Unfortunately, we're all aware of it now, and it's always in the back of your head when you're on the bus eating a loaf of bread, thinking, "Hey, am I ruining my insides? Why is everyone staring at me? Did I forget pants again?"
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I once ate a boot filled with ham.
Every day you see ads for new diets, products proclaiming health benefits derived from shit like acai berry, probiotics, and super steak, and helpful tips for not being an outrageous, cholesterol-and-saturated-pudding-laden fatty. I think I made up super steak, but it sounds like it'd be awesome if it were real. You choose to either ignore these or look into them, but regardless of the choice you make, there's a good chance, even if only for a moment, that you wonder whether you need to make a change. And then later you choose that salad instead of the fries. You choose the stairs instead of the elevator.
Now before I lose you, I'm not saying those are bad choices. Those are good. It's good to want to be healthy, it's good not to butt chug butter at parties and use a scooter to go from the buffet to the toilet to the buffet again. But the reason so many diets fail and so much money is paid out for all these new fitness programs and jerk-off replicator Shake Weights and juicers and shit is because most people want the benefits but not the effort. Write that down: I'm the first person to ever think of it. But the noteworthy part is that you make yourself miserable trying to make yourself happy and eventually misery wins out, so you stop and gorge yourself on microwave burritos and unhappy masturbation because it's way easier than gluten-free rice crisps and a stair climber. And, in a depressing way, happier. And you'll do it over and over.
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Nothing is more sad in the life of a human than the life of a human. You have a few good years of childhood when you can eat candy all the time, watch cartoons, and actually get to discover masturbation for the first time before the crushing reality of what "life" really is sets in. We live in a world that demands, for the most part, that we toil until we physically cannot do it anymore. And while as a child we're told we can be anything we want, it's obviously a lie, because who the fuck wants to work at Arby's? Not who needs to, because everyone at Arby's needs to work there, as sure as Kardashians need cameras pointed at them to prevent them from withering into shriveled husks full of forgotten, mediocre porno and meringue, but did any of those little beef jockeys wake up when they were 9 from a beautiful dream of mixing Arby-Q sauce? God no. Most of us never do what we want, or we do it fleetingly, or in our spare time after work. But work is what you have to do. Because you need money for food, for shelter, for ladies of the night who charge extra just to make you some pancakes, like that's fair.
There are varying degrees of satisfaction in the workplace, and likely a lot of people are "mostly" happy with what they do, but a lot of that almost satisfaction is born from resignation. Like how you decide what courses you should take in college based on the demand that will exist in the real world for people with those skills. You mold your life to fit a world that tells you there's a demand for male preschool teachers, even though children are less appealing to you than actual mold.
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"I cry myself to sleep at night. Now spit."
Dental hygienists are probably the best example of the despair of modern employment. They needed to do something, they weighed their options, and the best they could come up with was dental hygienist. I don't mean this as an insult; I mean that, when you weigh things like salary, challenge, and skill, and potential for employment, a dental hygienist is a really good choice. You're not slinging burgers, you make a livable wage, and you provide a necessary service. I will never, ever believe there's a single dental hygienist on Earth who wanted to be one, who pursued it for love and interest rather than necessity. No one wants to be the person who drains spit and blood from the mouth of an incapacitated and narcotic-addled stranger.
Work tends to work out like an arranged marriage, where you end up together because shit happens, and maybe in the long run it'll work out, or maybe not, but something had to happen, and running off to live in a cave wasn't an option.


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Hello all,
My Co worker will be delivering this week at 7 months due to preclampsia...
I am wishing the new momma and baby girl a healthy c section delivery and good vibes from the nurses in the NICU.
She already explained that she wanted to breastfeed. I know she will have to pump for at least 10 weeks until the baby develops facial muscles needed to nurse.
I want to get her a new mom package and some premie clothes for the new addition.
Does anyone know any good sites for moms w/csections and preemie clothes?