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As competition in the supply and delivery of electricity has been introduced in the United States, states have sought to ensure the continuation of public benefits programs traditionally administered or funded by electric utilities. Many states have built into their restructuring plans methods of supporting renewable energy sources. One of the most popular policy mechanisms for ensuring such continued support has been the system-benefits charge (SBC). This paper discusses the status and performance of state renewable energy funds supported by system benefits charges.}, keywords = {electricity markets and policy group, energy analysis and environmental impacts department, state renewable energy policies}, attachments = {https://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/publications/report-lbnl-47705.pdf}, author = {Mark Bolinger and Ryan H. Wiser and Lewis Milford and Michael Stoddard and Kevin Porter} }


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Meat cuts to get renamed as industry rebrands. Bloomberg Businessweek.
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b-side chats: A talk with "Yes on K8″ Clinton on web 2.0 stand-up and how tweets are like one-liners
Kate Clinton, a well known comedian and political-humorist, has taken her stand-up (now going on in Provincetown, MA) viral with her YES on K8 and CommuniKate blogs. Delivering her thoughts on everything from Bruno to Obama, this comedian/video blogger let us know why she chose to take her stand-up to the web to get her comedy and political-know-how out there.
Do you think your blogs are advancing human rights?
I do. I think that certainly in the last eight years of Bush it was a way to get different thoughts out that were not being covered by the mainstream or cable media. I think that things have opened up considerably since Obama has been in office, but you know I think that there are other thought trends that get around that don't get covered in the media.
Do people start talking about the political commentary on your blogs?
I think they do. I think people are getting a lot of information but they don't really have time to analyze it so my blogs are not every hour or every half hour. They're more like a weekly analysis, putting together things like a synthesis. I think that gives people not only a way to think differently but also what I love about John Stewart is that he really gives you a way to look at the news.
Are you looking at other forms of technology, like Twitter?
Yes, we are. I really enjoyed doing the blogging, the video blogs. And we're going to start Twittering in August and I really think it's an interesting form for me because it's really just like writing one-liners.
What are some new projects you're working on?
I will be Twittering in August. When I was in Salt Lake City I might have accidentally twittered a protest but I don't know. So, I'm going to do that and I'm also doing a lot of book work. My third book, I Told You So is out so I've been doing readings of that and will continue that until the fall.
On a more personal level, what's something people would be surprised to know about you?
I'm completely un-technological. I actually am. I have a negative force field. I mean I've tried to order things online and all I get is a frozen page, that little rotating rainbow a**hole just rotating looking at me.
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Jotanovic registered a personal-best throw of 20.17 meters (66 feet, 2¼ inches) earlier this year to qualify for his second World Championships team. He made his World Championships debut in Osaka, Japan in 2007. A veteran on the international scene, Jotanovic has also participated in the last two European Championships (Barcelona 2010, Gothenburg 2006). He finished fourth in the shot put at the 2003 European Junior Championships and 13th at the 2001 World Youth Championships.
Manhattan's school record-holder both indoors and outdoors in the event, Jotanovic twice won the bronze medal at the NCAA Championships (2007 outdoor, 2008 indoor). He established the indoor school record of 19.64 m (63'8¾) at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships.
The qualifying round in the men's shot put begins at 9 p.m. on Wednesday (10 a.m. Thursday in Daegu) and will be webcast live on universalsports.com. The competition will also be featured on the Universal Sports TV broadcast starting at 10 p.m. All throwers who reach the qualifying distance of 20.60 m (67'7) or at least the top 12 move on to the final, which takes place at 6 a.m. (7 p.m. local time) on Friday.
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Vladimir Putin, the outgoing president of Russia, stepped in yesterday to defuse a crisis that threatened to slash gas supplies to Europe after Gazprom, the state-owned oil giant, cut the flow to the Ukraine.
European politicians were breathing a sigh of relief after the row, which erupted after Gazprom cut supplies to Ukraine by 50 per cent this week over the latter's non-payment of a $600m bill, was resolved. Following a phone call between Mr Putin and the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, Gazprom and state-owned Naftogaz Ukrainy issued a joint release stating that they had "reached an agreement which resolves the gas payment issue". They added that "the transit of Russian gas across the territory of Ukraine for the European customers remains in full". Terms of the settlement were unclear, and the companies said that other issues on the contentious gas delivery regime between the two countries "will be continued".
About 80 per cent of the gas that flows from Russia to Europe passes through Ukraine. European ministers yesterday called for an emergency meeting after Naftogaz had said earlier in the day that it would hoard about 60 million cubic feet of gas, about a fifth of the flow to Europe.
The political damage that would have been wrought by cutting Europe's gas was enough to prompt Mr Putin and Mr Yushchenko to hammer out a swift solution.
The episode will none the less focus the minds of politicians and industry leaders increasingly worried about the heavy dependence on Russian gas. "This has shown us again a problem that we already know about," said Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform. "It could be seen as reassuring that every time Ukrainians have a problem with the Russians, Hungary and Italy won't feel the pain."
The conflict centres on a disagreement over how much of the gas Ukraine has received since the beginning of the year has come from Russia, and how much of it originated in Turkmenistan. Turkmen gas is much cheaper than Russia's. Ukraine has argued that it has received mostly Turkmen gas and is thus being overcharged by Gazprom. Russia has unsurprisingly argued that it has supplied the majority, and thus should be paid accordingly.
The other point of contention is RosUkrEnergo, an opaque trading group owned by Gazprom and a pair of businessmen that makes huge profits on the sale of Gazprom's gas to Ukraine. Prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko has called for the elimination of its involvement in the country's gas supply.
One winner from the row could be Gerhard Schröder. The former German prime minister is the head of Nord Stream, the pipeline project that would bypass Ukraine and instead be built through to the Baltic coast in Germany, into the Netherlands and ultimately to the UK. Mired in a swamp of political and regulatory issues, a fresh supply scare could be just what the project needs to get moving. The case for South Stream, another proposed pipeline that would run from Russia through the Balkans to Italy, could also get a boost.
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Three graded stakes winners will look to claim their second victories in that category in the $300,000 Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT) Sept. 12 at Kentucky Downs.
Three graded stakes winners will look to claim their second victories in that category in the $300,000 Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT) Sept. 12 at Kentucky Downs.
Nine older horses square off in the one-mile $100,000 Hanshin Cup over Arlington's Polytrack in a wide-open affair
World Thoroughbreds Racing homebred Rerun scored the biggest victory of his career when he took the $100,000 Miami Mile (gr. IIIT) at Gulfstream Park April 25.
This year, Patricia Pavlish has been on "fire" -- literally. Pavlish bred Fire with Fire, who has been a dominant presence on the turf.
After exchanging tight decisions in two recent starts this spring, Fire With Fire and Quick Casablanca clash for a third time in the $200,000 Del Mar Handicap (gr. IIT) Aug. 23 on the Del Mar turf.
A change in tactics helped Fire With Fire post a 7-1 upset in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Handicap (gr. IIT) May 24 on the grass at Santa Anita Park, giving trainer Neil Drysdale a record-tying seventh win in the race.
Quick Casablanca and Fire With Fire, separated by a head the last time they met for their respective Hall of Fame trainers, will battle again in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita Park.
Chilean-bred Quick Casablanca landed his first North American win when he overcame a slow start to nip Fire With Fire and favored Rookie Sensation in the $100,000 Last Tycoon Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Santa Anita Park turf.
Jerry Hollendorfer has a trio of older runners set to go in the San Franciso Mile (gr. IIIT) April 26, led by Summer Hit, as the Hall of Fame trainer attempts to win Northern California's top grass race for the third time.
Fire With Fire, winner of the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) March 22, will bid for a third consecutive win April 25 in an intriguing field for the $100,000 Last Tycoon Stakes at Santa Anita April 25.
Fire With Fire, rated well on the lead by Tyler Baze, outfought stablemate Lucayan in deep stretch to register his first graded stakes win for trainer Neil Drysdale in the $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT)
Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale will be looking for his sixth lifetime win in the $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the turf March 22 at Santa Anita. With two of the five entrants, he has a good shot to get it.
Multiple grade I winner Jeranimo is back to defend his title in the $200,000 San Gabriel Stakes (gr. IIT) Jan. 4 on the Santa Anita turf, one of two victories the gallant 8-year-old warrior earned last year.
Synthetic specialist Summer Hit controlled the pace as the 4-5 favorite and drew off in the stretch for a one-sided victory in the $100,000 Berkeley Handicap (gr. III) Nov. 29 on the Tapeta surface at Golden Gate Fields.
Zia Park Racetrack & Casino conducted its biggest day of racing since opening in 2005 Nov. 27, featuring seven stakes with purses worth a total of more than $1.1 million that attracted a record wagering handle.
The $150,000 Del Mar Handicap (gr. IIT) Aug. 24 presents a golden opportunity for one of seven older colts and geldings to earn an automatic slot in the $3 million Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) this fall.
Broadway Empire is the 2-1 favorite in a full field of 12 3-year-olds drawn for the $200,000 Canadian Derby (Can-III) Aug. 17, the highlight of the racing season at Northlands Park in Edmonton, Alberta.
Southern California trainer Robertino Diodoro agreed to a pay a $2,500 fine July 6 after a horse in his care tested positive for the prohibited adjunct bleeder medication carbazochrome, also known as "Kentucky Red."
Multiple graded stakes winner Nates Mineshaft highlights the lineup for this year's $150,000 Hanshin Cup (gr. III) at Arlington Park May 25, making his first appearance for owner Windy Hill Farm in more than 11 months.
Sky Kingdom showed his staying ability with an easy win in the Tokyo City Cup last month, so now's the time to find out if he can transfer that same success to the turf in the $150,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap April 21.
Bright Thought, making his graded stakes debut, pulled away in the stretch to capture the $150,750 San Luis Rey (gr. IIT) in course record time on the turf March 16 at Santa Anita Park.
Bourbon Bay makes his 7-year-old debut March 16 in a race he has won twice before, the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the turf at Santa Anita Park.
Grade I winner Jeranimo launches his 7-year-old campaign Jan. 13 on the turf at Santa Anita Park in the $150,000 San Gabriel Stakes (gr. IIT), a race he won in 2010 and was second in last year.
Runner-up as the favorite in the Hollywood Derby (gr. IT), Grandeur will try to become the first 3-year-old since Bien Bien in 1992 to win the Hollywood Turf Cup (gr. IIT) Dec. 15 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Top local handicap horse Forest Mouse had his consistency rewarded with the most lucrative win of his career in the $218,120 Zia Park Distance Championship Dec. 2 at the Hobbs, N.M. track.
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In recent days, many signs have emerged pointing towards a steadily growing US economy.
China struggles in contrast to US economic growth
In the wake of the 2008 recession that plagued global markets and employment, many economists suggested that China might overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world.
Despite extension, unemployment benefits remain at risk
President Barack Obama and the White House won a significant victory last week with the extension of payroll tax cuts and federal unemployment benefits for January and February 2012.
U.S. economic gains spur oil price increases
The U.S. economy has received some positive news in recent days.
In a struggling economy, tourism increases could be much-need boost
The American economy has benefited from some promising news in recent months.
American businesses prepared for potential European crisis
Despite several weeks of positive news regarding the payroll tax cut extension and decreasing unemployment levels, there has been a constant state of concern in American markets regarding Europe's current debt crisis.
Concerns over healthcare benefits cause employers to pause
President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has remained a divisive issue since it was signed into law in 2010.
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B.A. Psychology, Wilkes University (2004)
Ph.D. Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy (2008)
BMedSc., University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine (2013)
Much of my research in the past has focused on the role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the brain and how its role in the development of hypertension. The RAS is one of the two major regulators of blood pressure (the other being the sympathetic nervous system), and has traditionally been thought of as a hormone system in the peripheral circulation; however, it is now known to be present in the brain and regulated independently of the peripheral RAS system. My research has shown that the part of the brainstem that regulates the sympathetic nervous system contains receptors for angiotensin II, the major hormone of the RAS, and that animals with high blood pressure have increased angiotensin II receptors. Additionally, my research has shown that animals under cardiovascular stress (other than hypertension) have an increased ability to produce angiotensin II which may explain the maintenance of those cardiovascular states.
Today, my research is taking me in other directions. I am currently interested in the rapid increase in antibiotic resistance among certain species of bacteria, and I hope to begin working on unraveling the mechanisms behind the large increase in this specific type of antibiotic resistance.
I also have long had an interest in pedagogical research - that is, researching how we teach and learn. I am particularly interested in the effectiveness of problem-based learning and flipped classroom models in the medical education setting.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's special envoy has issued a blueprint to gain aboriginal support for proposed energy projects in British Columbia worth about $100-billion, but opponents of oil pipelines and tanker traffic – many of them aboriginal – warn it's still not good enough.
Shortly after the federal government released a report meant to forge energy partnerships between governments, industry and aboriginal communities, First Nations leaders said there is growing resistance to many projects.
"We will fight to protect this land by any means necessary," said Annita McPhee, president of the Tahltan Central Council, who objects to the proposed Enbridge pipeline. "We will stand and fight because our kids' lives are at stake."
Chief Archie Patrick of the Stellat'en First Nation said he will starve in protest if the government approves the Enbridge pipeline – a $6.5-billion project that has galvanized protest in B.C. and which the National Energy Board is to report on by Dec. 31.
Chief Patrick's threat, which he said he'd act on if "they declare war" by sending equipment to clear a pipeline right of way, came Thursday at a Vancouver news conference where 130 bands and a growing number of non-native supporters reinforced their opposition to oil and gas projects.
The event was held shortly after the federal government released a report by Douglas Eyford, a Vancouver lawyer who spent eight months on a fact-finding mission for Ottawa.
The press conference by native leaders illustrates what a difficult social landscape governments and industry face as they try to find support for 14 energy projects currently proposed in B.C.
In Ottawa, Mr. Harper said Mr. Eyford's report was commissioned to "make sure that aboriginal peoples have the opportunity to fully participate and benefit from any resource development … near their communities or in their communities." He described the flurry of energy projects in the West as "an unprecedented opportunity for all Canadians, including aboriginal Canadians."
A public-opinion poll released Thursday by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, however, found about one third of aboriginal Canadians say they have no trust in oil and natural gas companies, or energy executives. One in four of those surveyed also said they have zero trust in the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers or the federal government.
But the percentage of aboriginals opposed to oil and natural gas pipelines near their community drops if the projects help fund education or social programs, the poll found, based on an online and telephone sample of 300 aboriginal people. It also found that aboriginals are more concerned about the environment – and the related effects of energy projects – than Canadians in general have shown in past polling.
After meeting with more than 80 groups, Mr. Eyford issued a frank, but hopeful report advising Ottawa to reset its relationship with aboriginal communities.
"Canada must take decisive steps to build trust with aboriginal Canadians, to foster their inclusion into the economy, and to advance the reconciliation of aboriginal people," he stated. "Aboriginal communities hold constitutionally protected rights. The law requires potential impacts on those rights be taken into account in project development. The failure to do so may result in projects being delayed or not proceeding."
Mr. Eyford called on Ottawa to establish an "energy working group" involving native leaders and provincial government officials, to open a sustained dialogue and get things moving.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Mr. Eyford had been appointed "to advance our thinking" on the aboriginal file and he promised the report will be taken seriously.
"Done responsibly, the positive impacts can be enormous," said Mr. Oliver of the multiple proposed developments.
Bob Chamberlin, Vice-President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs said if federal government takes the report seriously it needs to immediately provide funding so First Nations can do land and marine use plans to guide how projects take place. And he warned that if Ottawa fails to engage in a meaningful way, it will lead to confrontation.
"You can expect that First Nations will take a very volatile approach [in] opposition to these mega projects," he said, adding that many non-native people "[are] willing to lock arms with us when we take to the streets, when it comes down to direct action on these projects."
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Carlson Pretends Capital Gains Aren't Income To Attack Obama's Tax Plan
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As part of its ongoing battle to defend the wealthiest Americans from any tax increase whatsoever, Fox this morning continued to pretend that income earned from capital gains is different from income earned by working. It is not. Bill O'Reilly pretended something similar a few weeks ago.
This morning's spin stemmed from leaked details of President Obama's deficit-reduction plan, which he announced this morning. The plan reportedly reduces the deficit by $3 trillion over the next 10 years through entitlement cuts, war savings, and tax increases of about $1.5 trillion. Most of these tax increases would be on the wealthy, so the media have been referring to them as inspired by the "Buffett Rule," named after billionaire Warren Buffett, who has decried the fact that he pays a lower tax rate than his middle-class employees. This is because most of Buffett's income is derived from capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate than income earned by working.
Today, on Fox & Friends, Gretchen Carlson took up the job of defending the wealthy from tax increases by trying to talk away this difference, claiming Buffett is not making "a fair comparison." At the beginning of the broadcast, she and co-host Brian Kilmeade rushed to spin the so-called "Buffett rule" as being "somewhat deceptive."
From the broadcast:
KILMEADE: And then the biggest story, I think, is the Warren Buffett rule, which you're about to hear is somewhat deceptive. It is not that billionaires are paying less. It's just that -- they're still paying their 35 percent. It's the capital gains is which their --
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Right.
KILMEADE: -- and the investment money, is which they're being taxed 15 percent on.
CARLSON: The analogy that Warren Buffet always makes is that, why should my secretary pay more taxes than I do? But that's not really a fair comparison. Because he's talking about what he pays -- the tax on his capital gains. He makes most of his money on investment income. Right now that's at 15 percent. So really, it's comparing apples and oranges, not the income that you're going out and making on a daily basis when you go to work.
Carlson repeated her "comparing apples and oranges" line again during a segment with Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin:
CARLSON: The one thing that troubles me about [Obama's proposal] is that it seems like you're comparing apples and oranges. Because Warren Buffet uses the example of that he pays a lower tax on capital gains --
MALKIN: Than the middle class. Right.
CARLSON: -- than his secretary and the middle class. But those are two different things: capital gains, and then federal income tax that you pay just for having a job.
The fact is, there is nothing "apples and oranges" about comparing the two kinds of income. They're both income, period.
Here's what the IRS says about capital gains in a February factsheet, "Ten Important Facts About Capital Gains and Losses" (emphasis added):
2. When you sell a capital asset, the difference between the amount you sell it for and your basis -- which is usually what you paid for it -- is a capital gain or a capital loss.
3. You must report all capital gains.
7. The tax rates that apply to net capital gain are generally lower than the tax rates that apply to other income. For 2010, the maximum capital gains rate for most people is 15%. For lower-income individuals, the rate may be 0% on some or all of the net capital gain. Special types of net capital gain can be taxed at 25% or 28%.
"[O]ther income" -- in other words, "net capital gain" is a type of income, according to the IRS.
The Congressional Budget Office also refers to capital gain as "a form of income" in a policy brief titled, "Capital Gains Taxes and Federal Revenues." The report stated:
A capital gain is an increase in the value of an asset; a decrease in an asset's value is a capital loss.
When a gain accrues, it is a form of income for the holder of the asset.
And the Supreme Court ruled 85 years ago that capital gains are income. In the 1926 decision in Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co., the court found that:
[I]ncome may be defined as gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital.
That's why Buffett has argued that our tax system is unfair -- because his income, mostly made through capital gains, is taxed at a much lower rate than that of his secretaries, who earn their income by working. As Buffett wrote in his August 14 op-ed in The New York Times:
Last year my federal tax bill -- the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf -- was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income -- and that's actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.
Buffett concludes that Congress should "raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains."
There's someone else, besides Buffett, who supported such an idea -- someone very near and dear to Fox News' heart, in fact. As former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett noted in an August blog post (emphasis added):
It is not class warfare to suggest that the richest 1 percent of people in society pay one-third of their income to the federal government, as they did under Ronald Reagan. Keep in mind that dividends were taxable as ordinary income every year of his administration, and in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 he supported taxing capital gains as ordinary income as well.
Yes, even Ronald Reagan supported taxing capital gains as ordinary income. So does Carlson still think Buffett's comparison is "not really ... fair?"
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[AMERICANS ABROAD] Playing for the first time in a month, Sacha Kljestan scored the first goal and set up the second in Anderlecht's 2-0 win over Bergen Mons.
Making his first appearance since the winter break began two months ago, Terrence Boyd scored a consolation
goal in stoppage time for Rapid Vienna in its 2-1 loss at Admira.
Their goals put the top three American scorers in Europe all on the scoreboard over the weekend. Aron
Johannsson scored his 22nd goal of the season for AZ. In addition, Danny Williams, making a late bid to get back in the World Cup picture, also scored in Reading's 3-1
away win in England.
Leading Scorers (2013-14):
22+1 Aron Johannsson (AZ)
13+1 Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna)
9+1 Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht)
(Goals in all club competitions.)
Anderlecht-Bergen Mons Highlights (Kljestan goal at 0:34, assist at 1:08):
Saturday ...
The M*A*S*H unit worrying U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann began to empty out as Johannsson scored in AZ's 1-1 tie with Juan Agudelo's FC Utrecht. Fabian Johnson
returned to action for Hoffenheim for the first time since breaking his hand, and Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes) was
back in action in France.
Johannsson (groin) had been out 10 days. Bedoya (hamstring) was playing for the first time in two weeks for Nantes, which settled for a 0-0 tie with Nice.
Johnson started at right back in Hoffenheim's 4-1 win over VfB Stuttgart that moved it into 10th place in the Bundesliga.
Jozy Altidore did not
dress in Sunderland's 1-0 win over Southampton that moved it into the quarterfinals of the English FA Cup. He had played six games for Sunderland in 21 days before the Black Cats' match at Manchester
City was washed out on Wednesday. In addition to a relegation fight, Sunderland has a March 2 date in the Capital One Cup final coming up.
U.S. World Cup
30 players.
24 in action.
9 started.
came off bench.
2 on
7 did not dress.
Tim Howard (on bench), Everton
(England), 3-1 vs. Swansea City (FA Cup)
No game:
Brad Guzan, Aston Villa (England)
Edgar Castillo (90 minutes), Tijuana (Mexico), 2-3 at
Steven Cherundolo (did not dress), Hannover 96 (Germany), 0-2 at Mainz
DaMarcus Beasley (sub: 45 minutes), Puebla
(Mexico), 0-1 at Cruz Azul
Oguchi Onyewu, Sheffield Wed. (England D2), vs. Charlton Athletic (FA Cup-postponed)
Michael Orozco (90 minutes), Puebla (Mexico), 0-1 at Cruz Azul
Tim Ream (90 minutes), Bolton Wanderers (England D2), 1-1 at Millwall
John Brooks (on bench), Hertha Berlin (Germany), 1-2 vs. Wolfsburg
Timmy Chandler (did not dress), Nuremberg (Germany), 1-0 at Augsburg
Eric Lichaj (did not dress), Nottingham Forest (England), 1-3 at Sheffield United (FA Cup)
No game:
Geoff Cameron, Stoke City (England)
Joe Corona (sub: 31 minutes), Tijuana
(Mexico), 2-3 at Santos
Alejandro Bedoya (90 minutes, 1 yellow card), Nantes (France), 0-0 at
Stuart Holden (did not dress), Bolton Wanderers (England D2), 1-1 at Millwall
Fabian Johnson (90 minutes), Hoffenheim (Germany), 4-1 vs. VfB
Brek Shea (did not dress), Barnsley (England D2), 2-2 at Doncaster Rovers
Jose Torres (sub: 13 minutes), Tigres (Mexico), at Chiapas (late
Danny Williams (90 minutes, 1 goal, 1 yellow card), Reading (England D2), 3-1 at Queens Park Rangers
Jermaine Jones (did not
dress), Besiktas (Turkey), 1-0 vs. Bursaspor
Sacha Kljestan (90 minutes, 1 goal, 1 assist), Anderlecht (Belgium), 2-0 vs. Bergen Mons
Mikkel Diskerud, Rosenborg (Norway)
Josh Gatt, Molde (Norway)
Herculez Gomez (sub: 27 minutes), Tijuana (Mexico), 2-3 at Santos
Bobby Wood (sub: 26 minutes), 1860
Munich (Germany D2), 0-2 at FC Ingolstadt
Juan Agudelo (73 minutes), FC Utrecht (Netherlands), 1-1
at AZ
Aron Johannsson (90 minutes, 1 goal), AZ (Netherlands), 1-1 vs. FC Utrecht
Jozy Altidore (did not
dress), Sunderland (England), 1-0 vs. Southampton (FA Cup)
Terrence Boyd (sub: 8 minutes, 1 goal),
Rapid Vienna (Austria), 1-2 at Admira
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Clint Dempsey, Fulham (England)


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來自莫斯科的 Swanky Tunes 於 2006、2007 連續兩年於家鄉獲得「俄羅斯舞曲大獎」而開始受到國際間的重視,單曲作品也開始受到 Tiësto、David Guetta、Swedish House Mafia 以及 Laidback Luke 的青睞。2011 年,他們的單曲 Sending My Love 讓他們真正成為享譽全球的國際級製作人,合作邀約也如雪片般飛至;其中,最令人亮眼的莫過於與 Tiësto 合作的單曲 Make Some Noise 了。該曲的成功不僅讓 Swanky Tunes 成為全球舞池新寵,更讓 Swanky Tunes 成為 UMF、Tomorrowland 以及 Sensation 等音樂季的坐上嘉賓。
Born in 1998 near Moscow, Swanky Tunes have always experimented with different electronic styles in pursuit of their own sound. At first, was techno, before moving into a distinctly big-beat influenced sound. Thanks to their solid musical culture and their outstanding studio skills, the Russian trio quickly managed to become one of the most looked after EDM band.
Back in 2006 & 2007, they were rewarded as 'Best Musical Group' at the Russian Dance Music Awards, while first striking outside their homeland with releases signed on several famous international Dance such as Refune, Mixmash, Spinnin', Axtone & Size...
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Gutted at the death (sublimation?) of Banks, I find myself wondering if anyone else will take on The Culture. I doubt it, but I can hope. I'd love to see Charles Stross have a go as I think he'd be marvellous. Reynolds too.
Anyway, I had an idea for a Culture fanfic novel/story but I have neither the time nor the skill to write it sadly, so I thought I'd piss it up against this particular wall in the hope that perhaps someone else might. Or perhaps more realistically that someone might find it entertaining, add to it, take it apart, fill in gaps, etc.
The story takes place during the process of contacting two planetary civilisations, something Banks never wrote about and about which I've often wondered. These two civilisations are predominantly primitive but have made great strides toward sociological unity amongst themselves and have begun basic rocket powered space flight. However, due in the first instance to a massive population burden and in the second instance to the planet's limited natural resources, both these civilisations have no chance of developing further. Their civilisations are locked on course to implode under their respective weights (imagine oil running out or population reaching 10bn in 1970s earth) with their respective nations divided and ready to strike at each other. Worse, the predicted paths of their downfalls will cause massive destruction to their planets' ecosystems which are considered unusually rich and diverse though already damaged to the point of fragility.
A consortium of Contact minds has thus made the decision that to preserve both the species themselves and their planet's ecologies these civilisations will be contacted and granted culture citizenship to those who accept it and unlimited food/energy resources to those who don't. Given the fragility of their predicaments contact must be swift and total, with the means of their self-destruction removed immediately (nukes displaced out). This is covered in an initial pre-amble as a conversation between minds, implying that this has been done many times in the past and is not expected to be difficult, but is a step they are reluctant to take unless absolutely necessary due to the difficulty of maintaining preservation of freedom choice and the distinctiveness of the cultures of the contactees. Some (a minority) of the Minds would rather leave the civilisations to their own means as there is always a small chance that some portion of them might survive, some other Minds forward the opinion that minor intervention, ie displacing away the nukes only once the button has been pressed, may allow conservation without interference which may be unnecessary. However, the civilisations' have each come so close to elevation and yet fell so short for reasons arguably outside of their ability (at this stage in their development) to overcome, and this tips the balance.
Contact section facilitate the transition by simultaneously displacing spherical green (a colour which represents peace in both civilisations) drones into a grid formation 50ft apart across all inhabited areas of each planet - these drones remain immobile and explain to all who ask exactly what and who the culture is and what their intentions are, prevent anyone from harming anyone else and arrange supplies/energy/shelter to be displaced from the orbiting GSVs as needed. These are tasks they accomplish almost perfectly using their own resources and that of the GSV in orbit. This is the second narrative, told from the point of view of the contactees. Some take to Culture life almost immediately and leave the planet for the GSV to explore the new world open to them, some rage uncontrollably and require medical attention, but these extremes are very much the minorities. Key will be building up the backgrounds to these two civilisations, highlighting their contrasts (cultures) and similarities (conflicts).
Culture human citizens begin to make themselves known on the planets, some of whom have newly arrived in protective but unarmed suits with peaceful greetings, and some of which it transpires have been present for generations and have even achieved fame and/or public office. The general consensus is that the culture has been steering their societies toward faster development and/or a peaceful transition, but conspiracy theories are rampant.
The main story follows two contactees, one on each planet, whose back stories are similar in that they have been involved in violence in their respective nations (one as a soldier and one as a terrorist/guerilla/freedom fighter) and have suffered deep personal losses. Lets call them Soldier (male) and Guerilla (female). Due to their actions before and during the initial contact phase, and due to the losses they have suffered, they have been identified by the GSVs attending as in need of special support and also as potential trouble-makers. Each befriends a Contact Culture Citizen who, each protagonist suspects, is there as much to keep an eye on them as to befriend them. Lets call them the Soldier's Warden and the Guerilla's Wardon.
These two main protagonists are introduced early during the contact phase but the story proper then follows each in turn, chapter by chapter, in chronological order but with occasional "flashback" narratives to their prior conflicts before contact.
By this time most contactee citizens are resolved to the fact that their new overlords (as they see them) appear benign, that they are now reliant upon them, and that they themselves appear free to do anything they wish with the exception of continuing the combat both protagonists have been embroiled in. This causes issues to our protagonists who harbour fantasies of vengeance despite their culture citizen friends/ambassadors being able to show them detailed and convincing accounts of all which has transpired on both sides of the conflict in the past (as the GSV has been there for decades), and even take them to visit the homelands of their enemies and meet the people they previously fought (all now in total Culture bubblewrap safety). Although all are now well fed and have access to culture medical tech, some have refused treatment and maintained their blindness/crippled limbs/burned faces in protest against their unsettled scores.
The narrative follows each protagonist with their respective Contact warden/friend as they come to understand more deeply the other's point of view, with the wardens themselves beginning to understand their ward's anger at the injustice of their situation. The bonds between them also become partially sexual. This is heightened in the case of the Guerilla's Warden, who seems to identify more closely with the issues at hand and half way through the story it becomes apparent that the Guerilla's Warden is in fact the Soldier, with several hundred years separating the two storylines during which the Solder has integrated into the Culture, been approached by Contact, and agreed to the assignment to assist the other planet's contact phase.
The story follows the Guerilla being able to partially complete her vengeance fantasy in a fashion which could not have been possible had the Soldier (her warden) not willingly turned his head, though the Soldier does intervene at the last minute as the feasibility of the scheme becomes apparent. This vengeance is only partly successful as the only fatality is the Soldier himself who is promptly resurrected and confides in the Guerilla that both he and the prior Soldier (now deceased) were copies of an original who is still in storage. They agree to part ways, concluding that they are each damaging to the other, though each appears to have resolved (or at least buried) their vengeance fantasy.
The story concludes with the resurrected Soldier watching over a different group of contactee Guerillas, more distantly this time and apparently with the aid of a Contact drone close by who is in fact there to watch over him as much as the contactees. The Guerilla is then revealed to be the narrator talking to a drone friend some time in the future, having been more successfully integrated into the Culture than the Soldier and in the process of declining to assist similar efforts herself. She acknowledges that the GSV's use of the Soldier copy as Warden in the first place could be justified given her long life since, though she has no way to repay or pay forward this debt. She concludes that as she is no longer partially broken, she is perversely no longer useful and decides to enter storage with the same awakening criteria as the Soldier – that they be awakened only when the Culture decides to sublime.
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Onondaga County Sheriffs Deputies say they've arrested a school bus drive from the Fayetteville-Manlius school district and have charged him with rape.
The 17 year old victim was reported missing as a runaway from Steuben County in the Southern Tier.
Manlius police knocked in Taylor's door at the Carriage House Apartments and he denied that the 17 year old was in his apartment. As officers conducted their investigation though, they observed the victim inside the apartment and the two were separated.
Frank Taylor has now been charged with Third Degree Rape and he's being held on 15 thousand dollars bail. Taylor drives bus part time in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District and is employed as a corrections officer at the Onondaga County Correctional Facility.


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With the win, Michigan bounces back and improves its record to 11-3 for the season and 1-1 in Big Ten play. The Wolverines are now 10-1 at Crisler Arena this season.
Michigan was 7-1 in its eight-game home stand that ended this afternoon. Michigan is at Wisconsin this Wednesday (Jan. 5) before returning home for games against Kansas (Jan. 9) and Ohio State (Jan. 12).
With the win, Michigan is 24-11 all-time against Penn State. The Wolverines are now 15-2 against the Nittany Lions in Ann Arbor.
Today's game marked the second time this season that the Wolverines have won a game after trailing at half time. Michigan came back from a 32-25 deficit against Harvard to pull out a 65-62 win on Dec. 4.
Michigan shot a perfect 14-of-14 from the free throw line. The last time the Wolverines went perfect at the line was March 2, 2002, when U-M went 16-of-16 from the line against Ohio State.
Michigan shot a season high 27-of-47 (57.4 percent) from the field. U-M also was 8-of-20 (40 percent) from three-point range, which was the second time all year it was 40 percent or higher.
Darius Morris finished with 20 points on 6-of-10 (60 percent) shooting. It was the third time this year he scored over 20 or more points in a game. His game-high 10 assists mark the sixth time this year he has reached double digits. It was also his fifth double-double this season.
Zack Novak scored a season high 15 points on 5-of-6 (83.5 percent) shooting while also collecting four rebounds.
Jordan Morgan scored 10 points and collected a game-high nine rebounds. His nine rebounds were his second highest for his career.
Evan Smotrycz scored in double figures for the fifth time this season, scoring 11 points. He also had six rebounds.
Stu Douglass added six points off the bench and his three assists tied a season high.
Morris was one free throw made away from tying a career high. He had eight makes against Bryant Dec. 23, 2010.
Michigan used the starting lineup of Tim Hardaway, Jr., Darius Morris, Zack Novak, Evan Smotrycz and Jordan Morgan for the 13th time in 14 games this season.
There were eight ties and 10 lead changes in the contest.
Matt Vogrich tied a season high with eight points, going 2-of-4 from the field and a perfect 3-of-3 from the free-throw line.
Five different Wolverines hit three-pointers in the win. Evan Smotrycz, Zack Novak and Stu Douglass had two treys apiece.
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A new release after cleaning up open items:
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Upon numerous requests, a new version 0.2.7 is released today.
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Version 0.2.5:
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- Better organized test suite.
Happy hacking!
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A new version: png++-0.2.3 is released today.
This is a maintenance and bugfix release. In the news:
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require_color_space implementation.
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- Fixed `strerror' usage.
- Minor docs fixes.
Happy hacking!
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A new version (png++-0.2.1) is just released! This is maintenance and bugfix release with a few new features.
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Losing a certain number of your credit union's best executives to competitors is inevitable over time. It's just part of the natural cycle of recruiting, developing, and occasionally losing talent—an expected cost of doing business. Or is it?
We think not.
Credit unions often have succession plans in place. These plans help them move forward when they do lose a key executive. However, we think more CUs need to develop a leadership continuity plan and focus—designed to keep (and develop) executives by offering them highly desirable education and financial incentives.
The CU industry does have cultural advantages that draw in good leaders and keep them in the fold, such as a tradition of loyalty and fairness. But when a top prospect is weighing job offers or overtures from headhunters, loyalty and fairness must be backed by tangible advantages.
Education and financial incentives, described in more detail later on, can help your CU keep the executives it values most. Education incentives also help with succession planning; so when someone great does leave a key role, you have an internal candidate ready to step in.
These statistics from the "2011 CEO Succession Report" from Strategy& suggest there's much value to looking within for an organization's next top leaders:
- From 2009 to 2011, 34.9 percent of turnovers involving CEOs who had been hired from outside the organization were forced by the employer—rather than planned turnovers. But for CEOs hired from within, only 18.5 percent of the turnovers were forced.
- From 2009 to 2011, insider CEOs who left a company delivered a median 4.4 percent share-holder return above regional market index, while outsiders delivered just 0.5 percent.
- Insider CEOs are nearly six times as likely as outsider CEOs to serve a company for nine or more years. Of the CEOs who have served for nine or more years, 85 percent have risen from within their companies.
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Even with a training program and a supplemental executive compensation program in place, your succession plan can't establish leadership continuity without a champion.
Sometimes, boards prefer that the CEO not be responsible for grooming a successor. Some CEOs have no interest in grooming a successor, and/or the board doesn't want the CEO to do it because they're displeased with the CEO's performance.
In such cases, HR executives can be a natural choice to oversee the succession plan, using their expertise in training and benefits management. Whoever champions your succession plan must be able to keep inter-departmental politics out of it as much as possible, while giving clear-eyed reports to the board. In fact, it's probably best to have the training program's champion report directly to the board on this matter.
In today's marketplace, CUs can't afford to think it's OK to give up their star players who have skills coveted by other CUs and by better-capitalized commercial banks and insurance companies. Your board only directly hires and manages the CEO. However, it can still promote having a well designed and managed leadership continuity plan for all top execs. Your CU's plan should feature education benefits, supplemental compensation, and excellent program design and management.
The Role of Education
Many CU executives seek to build their knowledge and credentials by earning graduate degrees and professional designations, such as CUES' Certified Chief Executive, or "CCE". CUs often pay at least some expenses for employees who do these things.
It's smart to invest in continuing education for employees. Degrees and certifications may improve the odds that your executives will be ready to step up when your CU needs them.
In addition to general education, ask your leadership team what is being done to provide ongoing, hands-on cross-training in how to run your credit union. Recommend a structured program in which at least the top few tiers of management work in areas outside their own, learning the basics of running each area and reporting back on what they've learned.
By participating in such a program, these leaders will gain insights about how their own area can interact better with areas where they've cross-trained. Plus, while you and your senior managers can use the participants' reports to inform strategic planning, you'll also learn more about how junior executives think and work. You'll be filling a pipeline with talent, while building a culture of continuous learning. Also, in the short term, you're creating a more flexible leadership team that can plug unforeseen gaps and cope with unexpected disruptions.
Suggest that cross-training and management development opportunities be offered throughout your organization, to the extent possible. How many CEOs started as tellers and loan officers? It's never too early to begin encouraging employees to learn and grow.
The Role of Executive Benefits
To ensure the training program isn't just grooming executives for other employers who can pay more, make sure your CU adds financial incentives to the continuity plan mix. We recommend that you consider expanding incentives beyond the top one or two executives. More CUs are establishing such rewards as supplemental executive retirement plans for the top two or three executive tiers.
Your CU may not be able to compete on salary alone, and you certainly can't compete directly with stock options offered by a publicly traded company. However, you can seek a compensation program that makes it worthwhile for your executives to stay long term, and more expensive for competitors to lure them away.
One way to do this is with "golden handcuffs"—that is, tying an incentive to a performance and/or tenure benchmark. For example, your CU can contribute to a deferred compensation plan—such as a 457(f) account. Different strategies can be used to fund the account, such as professionally managed investment accounts and annuities. A CU's contributions to a 457(f) plan aren't capped by ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) rules and IRS limits, as a 401(k) would be. Also, unlike a 401(k), a CU is allowed to offer a 457(f) plan to an individual or group of highly compensated employees without offering it to all employees.
IRS rules require that a 457(f) plan include a "substantial risk of forfeiture." For example, if an executive leaves before a stated date or event, the executive forfeits the benefit—hence the moniker, "golden handcuffs."
In addition to a 457(f), typical options for supplementing an executive's salary include 457(b) accounts, "split-dollar" arrangements, and executive bonus plans. Supplemental plans may also include long-term care, disability and life insurance.
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If all these options make your eyes glaze over, you're not alone. Few boards have the time and knowledge to design an effective supplemental compensation plan without expert guidance. In building a program that fits your structure, culture, and resources, look for a partner who can:
- identify executive compensation benchmarks in your specific market, including benchmarks among other credit unions of your size. You can buy a salary survey and try to design a competitive compensation package based on that, but does the data include supplemental benefits? Also, if you can buy the survey, so can your competitors. This isn't really giving you an advantage.
Your supplemental benefits plan provider should be able to show you which types of compensation have worked well—and haven't worked well—among CUs like yours.
- quantify the impact of an executive supplemental compensation program on your CU's bottom line. You need to know the annual impact of these complex plans. But a financial impact analysis requires specific accounting and legal expertise.
Many supplemental benefits can be funded through an initial outlay by the CU into instruments that build value over time, such as managed asset programs or life insurance. When the instrument matures, the CU can be reimbursed for its outlay, while the executive gets the accumulated value. This is an "earnings only" plan. The plan can also pay the executive a defined benefit at a specific time.
The impact of not having qualified successors in place isn't easy to assess, but this potentially catastrophic expense can't be left out of any cost/benefit analysis.
- assess your executives' needs. Supplemental compensation isn't one size fits all. Before recommending products, a provider should do a thorough assessment of the executives' financial situation, including a retirement income gap analysis.
It's common for top executives to have a significant gap between the percentage of pre-retirement income needed for retirement and the income generated by standard retirement benefits and Social Security. For a lower-salaried employee, a combination of a 401(k), a pension and Social Security can relatively easily replace 60 percent to 80 percent of pre-retirement annual income. Not so for a highly compensated executive. You need to know how much of a gap the executive needs to fill before designing a plan.
For example, a person making more than $150,000 a year who retires after age 60 will require an estimated 84.2 percent of his or her final salary in annual retirement income to maintain his or her lifestyle, according to "The Real Deal: Retirement Income Adequacy at Large Companies", by Aon Hewitt. However, CUNA Mutual Group specialists typically find that traditional retirement income sources can replace only 30 percent to 40 percent of a top executive's working income. As mentioned above, the caps contained in federal rules restrict standard income sources such as 401(k) accounts and traditional pensions.
Plans also can be designed to reward executives at times other than retirement. This is important for younger executives, who need obtainable incentives to stay for the short term.
- objectively offer a complete array of products. A comprehensive compensation plan will likely require multiple products offered by multiple carriers. Be careful about a single provider recommending a suite of proprietary products—you need an advisor with broad knowledge of the marketplace and an "agnostic" approach to product mixes.
- ensure your compensation program is in compliance. The design of non-qualified deferred compensation plans—the foundation of most supplemental executive compensation programs—is highly complex, involving legal, regulatory, accounting, product, tax code, and investment issues.
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- provide ongoing guidance on regulatory changes. The National Credit Union Administration was to review 16 regulations (such as Supervisory Committee Audits and Verifications) in 2013, and a third of its current regulations each year moving forward. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the IRS also change rules at a furious pace. So your partner must continuously monitor developments and advise you on adjustments to your program.
Offering leadership development and supplemental compensation won't guarantee you'll never lose a promising executive to a competitor. However, you'll know that if you do lose someone, it won't be because you gave in to the inevitable. Plus, you will have formed a framework for leadership continuity, no matter when and why you need to tap your pipeline.
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