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We've seen expectations for QE3 being slowly priced into the market for some time, but it now appears the market has gone all-in on its expectations for QE3 today when the FOMC releases its policy statement.
Based on current price levels in the bond market, the stock market and the Forex market, traders are looking for an additional $600 billion in stimulus from the Fed.
So, QE3 has been fully priced into the markets, but is it a foregone conclusion that the Fed will move forward with additional easing simply because the market is signaling it believes it will?
Not necessarily.
You don't have to look far to see that QE3 is currently priced into the market. There are signs of it everywhere, including:
- Short-term Treasuries
- U.S. stocks
- Gold
- U.S. dollar
QE3 Is Priced Into Short-Term Treasuries
Perhaps the best indication that traders have priced QE3 into the market came as the U.S. Treasury auctioned $32 billion in 3-year Treasury Notes. Incredibly, the high yield for the auction came in at 0.337% — the second-lowest level 3-year Treasury Notes have ever brought in at auction.
This number is incredible because it comes at a time when the Fed still is actively engaged in "Operation Twist" — which means the Fed is selling shorter-term Treasuries, like the 3-year, and using the proceeds to buy longer-term Treasuries. This action should be pushing shorter-term Treasury prices lower and yields higher because it is increasing the supply of shorter-term Treasuries on the market.
However, the increasing demand we see for these shorter-term Treasuries seems to be outpacing the rise in supply. This demand jump is evidenced by the bid-to-cover ratio of the 3-year Treasury Note auction, which hit all-time highs at 3.94. This means that for every $1 of new debt the Treasury was looking to raise, traders were willing to buy $3.94 worth of debt. But why the increase in demand?
Traders are looking to front-run the Fed.
If the Fed does decide to move forward with QE3, it's going to have to start buying more Treasuries and other securities, like agency securities and mortgage-backed securities. Thanks to "Operation Twist," the Fed is already buying up the lion's share of longer-term Treasuries, which means it will have to focus on buying shorter-term Treasuries if it wants to increase its balance sheet.
QE3 Is Priced Into U.S. Stocks
Click to Enlarge You don't have to look any further than the daily chart of the S&P 500 to see that QE3 is priced into the U.S. stock market. The S&P 500 is hitting levels it hasn't seen since May 2008.
The fact that stock prices are surging back toward all-time highs while the global economy is slowing signals just how dependent the stock market has become on the Fed's easing injections.
QE3 Is Priced Into Gold
Click to Enlarge After a tremendous bull run that lasted for years, gold prices have been consolidating since August 2011. However, as the weekly chart of the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD) shows, gold prices just broke out of a yearlong consolidation range that formed a bullish wedge — a bullish continuation pattern.
Renewed interest in gold is based largely on concerns that the more the Fed intervenes in the market by increasing easing, the more likely we are to see inflation and a degradation of purchasing power in the future.
QE3 Is Priced Into the U.S. Dollar
Click to Enlarge The Fed's monetary actions directly impact the value of the U.S. dollar. The more money the Fed injects into the system, the weaker the U.S. dollar becomes.
It's simple supply and demand. An increase in supply of the U.S. dollar, especially on the magnitude of QE3, leads to a decrease in the value of the asset. You can see in the daily chart of the U.S. Dollar (NYSE:UUP) that the U.S. dollar's value has been steadily declining since late July as the market has been preparing for QE3.
QE3 Might Not Be a Lump Sum
One consideration the markets need to keep in mind is QE3 might not be a lump-sum proposition. The Fed might not come out and say it is going to inject $600 billion into the economy during the coming six months.
It could, on the other hand, say it's going to start a QE3 program, but it will not make any specific dollar amount pledges. This could be disappointing for investors who are looking for clarity and for the Fed to get things jump-started in the U.S. economy.
Bottom line: With the market's tendency to buy the rumor and sell the news, the fact that U.S. stocks have already moved so high in anticipation of QE3 and the possibility the FOMC might not say exactly what the market wants to hear, we believe there is a good chance we could see a pullback in stock prices in the near term.
John Jagerson and S. Wade Hansen are co-founders of LearningMarkets.com, as well as the co-editors of SlingShot Trader, a trading service designed to help you make options profits by trading the news.


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Any nurseryman, dealer, or individual who has legally obtained any native species of wild plants listed as endangered or threatened in rule 1501:18-1-03 of the Administrative Code from another state or commercial propagator shall provide proof upon demand that said plants were legally acquired.
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Local police, accompanied by British forces, have started patrolling in Basra and al-Faw in southern Iraq and moves are underway in Baghdad to recruit volunteers.
A state of lawlessness followed the fall of the Baath party regime in Iraq and British and American forces struggled to maintain order.
Two police advisors from the Ministry of Defence in London were sent to Basra to help the British military regain control.
It is hoped the new patrols, which will be closely monitored by the MoD advisers, will help restore order.
But requests earlier in the week for former Iraqi police officers to come back to work sparked controversy.
There was anger after one man chosen was revealed to be a Baath Party member.
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has indicated that former members of the Baath party will be recruited to rebuild Iraq after being closely vetted.
He said many of them were "perfectly decent people who have not participated in any atrocities".
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Riddell Webster, of Black Watch, who is co-ordinating the peace-keeping efforts in Basra, is unsure how many police officers still support the old regime.
"They are the best I've got," he told BBC News.
"They will be operating under direct British control. We will see how it goes."
But one Basra woman called the police thieves.
"They just want bribes," she told BBC News.
A promise by soldiers that they would be employing 120 local labourers also caused problems.
It resulted in troops struggling to hold back a 200-strong mob who turned up at their base at the presidential palace looking for work.
According to military officials on the ground in Basra, the situation in the city is slowly beginning to improve.
Slow improvement
Certain aspects of the city's infrastructure, such as traffic and street lights, have been restored and people are beginning to buy goods from local markets again.
The UK forces have been criticised for not having brought the situation under control sooner.
But UK forces spokesman in Kuwait, Colonel Chris Vernon, said it would take time to restore order throughout Iraq.
"I think what people have got to understand is that we were considered as a war fighting force out here," he said.
"Militarily you can't just switch from one to the other within 24 hours and there are still irregulars around.
"We've done it gradually. We've huge experience of this in Northern Ireland and in the American towns you are seeing the Americans switching their capability."


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After seeing his senior season at the University of Houston cut short when he tore his ACL in the third game of the season, Cougars quarterback Case Keenum received good news Friday when the NCAA granted him a sixth year of eligibility.
Keenum tore his ACL during the Cougars' game against UCLA when he tried to make a tackle after throwing an interception. The school had appealed to the NCAA for a second redshirt season for the quarterback.
"We are extremely happy for Case and his family. He is an exceptional person and his dedication to the University of Houston has been evident through this process," Houston athletics director Mack Rhoades said in a statement. "I want to thank the NCAA and Conference USA for their assistance in our appeal. There are so many people within the athletic department that worked tirelessly to make this successful, primarily our Assistant Director of Athletics for Compliance Kevin Klotz. Without all these people, our efforts wouldn't have had such an exciting result."
Keenum also used a redshirt in his first year at Houston in 2006, but the school argued that it wasn't a voluntary action and that a collarbone injury prevented him from playing. The NCAA agreed, otherwise Keenum wouldn't have been granted a sixth year.
Keenum's return will give him another opportunity to top the NCAA's all-time passing list. He is currently fifth on the list and trails Hawaii's Timmy Chang for the top spot by just 3,486 yards.
The news is also good for Houston, which will now return three quarterbacks with playing experience next season in Keenum, Cotton Turner and David Piland. Turner replaced Keenum against UCLA before breaking his collarbone just one quarter later. Piland, a true freshman, started the team's last eight games this season.
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THE man who prepared David Walliams and Eddie Izzard for their epic sporting challenges has been awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours.
Marlow resident Prof Greg Whyte was given the honour in recognition to his services to sport, sport science and charity.
A former Olympic pentathlete and European and World Championship, he put Little Britain star Walliams through his paces before his swim along the length of the River Thames and helped get comedian Izzard ready for his quest to run 43 marathons in 52 days.
Veteran broadcaster Nicholas Parsons is among the other Bucks residents to receive honours.
The 90-year-old, who lives near Princes Risborough, was awarded the CBE for services to children's charities - having previously been made an OBE for services to drama and broadcasting.
He said: "I think honours are a wonderful thing to receive if you have worked hard and that is recognised. I don't understand these people who are pompous and say they don't want it."
Also receiving the CBE were Marlovian Rita Clifton, for services to the advertising industry, and Emma Pidding of Chalfont St Giles for her voluntary political work.
She currently holds the position of Chairman of the National Conservative Convention and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Board, making her the party's most senior volunteer in the country.
She said: "It is an immense honour to be recognised in the New Year's Honours. I am passionate about the work I do as a volunteer for the Conservative Party. My volunteer colleagues and I work tirelessly campaigning around the country. We are out on the doorsteps whatever the weather and whatever the political climate."
Thames Valley Police Superintendent David Elworthy, of Holmer Green, was made an OBE for services to protective security, and Map Action CEO Nigel Woof of Chalfont St Giles received the gong for humanitarian services.
Aylesbury's Ruth Dearnley - CEO of the Stop The Traffik campaign group - also received an OBE for services to awareness and prevention of human trafficking.
MBEs went to Iver resident Henry Hinde for voluntary service to the environment and Candida Piercy of Aylesbury. The Liberal Democrats' Federal Executive Committee member was given the award for voluntary
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From: "Renee Cummings" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Is Ruel the same as Riel?
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:03:02 -0400
References: <001b01c1de89$e0fae770$7ef1d33f@LauraCallier>
the names Ruel and Rué are also in Tanguay. Only one Rué but several
Ruel.with variation, Rel, Ruais, Ruest, Ruelle, Dreville, Sansoucy and St.
As for Riel the variations are Rél, Rel, Delorme. L'Irlande and Sansoucy.
good luck
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From: "Laura Callier" <>
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Subject: [Q-R] Is Ruel the same as Riel?
> Hello,
> I am really new to Quebec research. It is possible that one of my
ancestor's names is Ruel. In searchng, I have found "Ruel/Rue" and also
"Riel"...are these the same surnames?
> Thank you,
> Laura Callier
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A papyrus fragment from the fourth century contains a phrase in which Jesus refers to "My wife," which a U.S. scholar says is the first evidence supporting the belief among early Christians that he was married, The New York Times reports.
The fragment consists of eight lines of black ink, written in Coptic, which include the phrase. "Jesus said to them, 'My wife ...' " Below it is what the Times calls "a second provocative clause" that reportedly says, "she will be able to be my disciple."
Karen King, a Christian scholar at the Harvard Divinity School, presented the finding today in Rome at the International Congress of Coptic Studies. She said in a statement that the earliest claim that Jesus did not marry is from 200 A.D. Early Christians did not always agree on whether they should marry or be celibate.
The fragment does not prove that Jesus was married or that if he was that it was to Mary Magdalene, according to the draft paper.
Based on the faded papyrus and handwriting, the fragment is likely authentic, Roger Bagnell, director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York, said in a statement from Harvard, Bloomberg reports.
King did not identify the owner of the fragment, which is about the size of a business card.
King showed the fragment, enclosed in glass, to the Times,The Boston Globe and Harvard Magazine on Thursday.
In an interview, the Times writes, King "repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married. The text was probably written centuries after Jesus lived, and all other early, historically reliable Christian literature is silent on the question," she said.
"This fragment suggests that some early Christians had a tradition that Jesus was married," King told the Times. "There was, we already know, a controversy in the second century over whether Jesus was married, caught up with a debate about whether Christians should marry and have sex."
The Times adds:
The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, Dr. King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery. But she and her collaborators say they are eager for more scholars to weigh in and perhaps upend their conclusions.
Even with many questions unsettled, the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary Magdalene was his wife and whether he had a female disciple. These debates date to the early centuries of Christianity, scholars say. But they are relevant today, when global Christianity is roiling over the place of women in ministry and the boundaries of marriage.
Princeton University religion professor AnneMarie Luijendijk, who co-authored the paper with King, said the fragment's poor condition suggests it was found in a garbage heap, Bloomberg writes.
The Smithsonian Channel will air a special on the discovery Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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This book started life as a birthday gift to my lover. It was a little do-it-yourself dimestore photo album book about walking her dog (a darling Corgi named Garcia) written from the dog's point of view. Everyone she shared it with was delighted and wanted a copy and I was eventually convinced to make this available.
These pictures were made at her family's home and in nearby Beaver Creek State Park in the corner of southern Minnesota where she roamed as a child.
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Statement of the
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On Revenue Raising Provisions in
the Administration's Fiscal Year 1999
Budget Proposal
Submitted to the Committee on Ways and Means,
U.S. House of Representatives
March 11, 1998
The Investment Company Institute (the "Institute")1 submits for the Committee's consideration the following comments regarding proposals to (1) exempt from withholding tax all distributions made to foreign investors in certain qualified bond funds, (2) enhance retirement security, (3) modify Section 1374 of the Internal Revenue Code2 to require current gain recognition on the conversion of a large C corporation to an S corporation, and (4) increase the penalties under Section 6721 for failure to file correct information returns.
I. Withholding Tax Exemption for Certain Bond Fund Distributions
Individuals around the world increasingly are turning to mutual funds to meet their diverse investment needs. Worldwide mutual fund assets have increased from $2.4 trillion at the end of 1990 to $7.2 trillion on September 30, 1997. This growth in mutual fund assets is expected to continue as the middle class continues to expand around the world and baby boomers enter their peak savings years.
U.S. mutual funds offer numerous advantages that could be attractive to foreign investors. The expertise of the industry's portfolio managers and analysts, for example, could provide superior fund performance, particularly with respect to U.S. capital markets. Moreover, the U.S. securities laws provide strong shareholder safeguards that foster investor confidence in our funds.
While the U.S. fund industry is the world's largest, with over half of the world's mutual fund assets, foreign investment in U.S. funds is low. Today, less than one percent of all U.S. fund assets are held by non-U.S. investors.
One significant disincentive to foreign investment in U.S. funds is the manner in which the Code's withholding tax rules apply to distributions to non-U.S. shareholders from U.S. funds (treated for federal tax purposes as "regulated investment companies" or "RICs"). Under U.S. law, foreign investors in U.S. funds receive less favorable U.S. withholding tax treatment than they would receive if they made comparable investments directly or through foreign funds. This withholding tax disparity arises because a U.S. fund's income, without regard to its source, generally is distributed as a "dividend" subject to withholding tax.3 Consequently, foreign investors in U.S. funds are subject to U.S. withholding tax on distributions attributable to two types of income—interest income (on "portfolio interest" obligations and certain other debt instruments) and short-term capital gains—that would be exempt from U.S. withholding tax if received directly or through a foreign fund.
A U.S. fund may "flow through" the character of the income it receives only pursuant to special "designation" rules in the Code. One such character preservation rule permits a U.S. fund to designate distributions of long-term gains to its shareholders (both U.S. and foreign) as "capital gain dividends." As capital gains are exempt from U.S. withholding tax, foreign investors in U.S. funds are not placed at a U.S. tax disadvantage with respect to distributions of funds' long-term gains.
Legislation introduced in every Congress since 1991 would permit all U.S. funds also to preserve, for withholding tax purposes, the character of interest income and short-term gains that would be exempt from U.S. withholding tax if received by foreign investors directly or through a foreign fund. The Institute strongly supports these "investment competitiveness" bills.
Under the President's Fiscal Year 1999 budget proposal, distributions to foreign investors by a U.S. fund that invests substantially all of its assets in U.S. debt securities or cash generally would be treated as interest exempt from U.S. withholding tax. A fund's distributions would remain eligible for this withholding tax exemption if the fund invests some of its assets in foreign debt instruments that are free from foreign tax pursuant to the domestic laws of the relevant foreign countries. The taxation of U.S. investors in U.S. funds would not be affected by the proposal.
The Institute urges enactment of this proposal as an important first step toward eliminating all U.S. tax incentives for foreign investors to prefer foreign funds over U.S. funds. The imposition of U.S. withholding tax on distributions by U.S. funds, where the same income would be exempt from U.S. tax if the foreigners invested directly or through foreign funds, serves as a very powerful disincentive to foreign investment in U.S. funds. By providing comparable withholding tax treatment for our bond funds, the proposal would enhance the competitive position of U.S. fund managers and their U.S.-based work force.
As noted above, the Administration's proposal would exempt from U.S. withholding tax distributions by a U.S. fund that also holds some foreign bonds that are free from foreign tax under the laws of the relevant foreign countries. This is in recognition of the fact that U.S.-managed bond funds may hold some foreign bonds. These can include "Yankee Bonds," which are U.S. dollar-denominated bonds issued by foreign companies that are registered under the U.S. securities laws for sale to U.S. investors, and other U.S. dollar-denominated bonds that may be held by U.S. investors (e.g., "Eurobonds"). The Institute urges appropriate standards ensuring that U.S. funds seeking foreign investors may continue to hold them.
The Institute supports drawing a distinction between a foreign bond (such as a Yankee Bond or a Eurobond) that is exempt from foreign withholding tax under the domestic law of the relevant foreign country and one that is exempt only pursuant to an income tax treaty with the U.S. By treating investments in foreign bonds that are exempt from withholding tax pursuant to treaty as "nonqualifying" for purposes of the "substantially all" test, the proposal prevents foreign investors from improperly taking advantage of the U.S. treaty network.
II. Retirement Security Initiatives
The U.S. mutual fund industry serves the needs of American households saving for their retirement and other long-term financial goals. By permitting millions of individuals to pool their savings in a diversified fund that is professionally managed, mutual funds provide an important financial management role for middle-income Americans.4 Mutual funds also serve as the investment medium for employer-sponsored retirement programs, including small employer savings vehicles like the new Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees ("SIMPLE") and Section 401(k) plans, and for individual savings programs such as the traditional and Roth IRAs. As of December 31, 1996, mutual funds held over $1.24 trillion in retirement assets.5
The Institute has long supported legislative efforts to enhance retirement savings opportunities for Americans. It strongly advocates legislation to increase small employer retirement plan coverage and make retirement savings more portable, thus enabling Americans to more easily manage their retirement savings. Our prescriptions for attaining these goals, however, differ in some respects from the Administration's.
A. Small Employer Retirement Plan Coverage
Retirement plan coverage is a matter of serious public concern. Coverage rates remain especially low among small employers. Less than one-half of employers with 25 to 100 employees sponsored retirement plans. More starkly, under 20 percent of employers with fewer than 25 employees offer their employees a retirement plan.6 The enactment of legislation creating SIMPLE plans was a major first step toward improving coverage, but more remains to be done.
Congress should (1) improve the SIMPLE plan program for small employers by raising the salary deferral limitation, (2) eliminate or modify regulations, such as the "top-heavy" rule, that continue to retard small employer plan formation, and (3) assure that new small employer plan initiatives provide effective incentives for plan establishment and do not undermine currently successful programs.
1. Raise the SIMPLE Plan Deferral Limitation
In 1996, Congress created the successful SIMPLE program. The SIMPLE is a simplified defined contribution plan available to small employers with fewer than 100 employees. In just the first seven months of its availability, an Institute survey of its largest members found that no less than 18,250 SIMPLE plans had been established, covering over 95,000 employees. Virtually all (97 percent) SIMPLE plan formation is among the smallest of employers—those with fewer than 25 employees. Indeed, employers with 10 or fewer employees established about 87 percent of these plans. For the first time, significant numbers of small employers are able to offer and maintain a retirement plan for their employees.
Presently, however, an employee working for an employer offering the SIMPLE may save only up to $6,000 annually in his or her SIMPLE account. Yet, an employee in a 401(k) plan, typically sponsored by a mid-size or larger employer, is permitted to contribute up to $10,000. Congress can readily address this inequity by amending the SIMPLE program to permit participating employees to defer up to $10,000 of their salary into the plan, that is, up to the limit set forth at Section 402(g) of the Internal Revenue Code. This change would enhance the ability of many individuals to save for retirement and, yet, would impose no additional costs on small employers sponsoring SIMPLEs.
2. Reduce Unnecessary, Costly Regulations, Such as The Top-Heavy Rule, That Retard Small Employer Plan Formation
Congress could raise the level of small employer retirement plan formation if it reduced the cost of plan formation and maintenance. One way to reduce these costs is for the federal government to subsidize them. The Administration has proposed a "start-up tax credit" for small employers that establish a retirement plan in 1999. Such a tax incentive may induce certain small employers to establish retirement plans.
Another approach would be to seek the actual reduction of on-going plan costs attributed to regulation. For example, repeal or modification of the "top-heavy" rule7 may lead to more long-term plan formation than a one-time tax credit program. A 1996 U. S. Chamber of Commerce survey showed that the top-heavy rule is the most significant regulatory impediment to small businesses establishing a retirement plan.8
Finally, Congress certainly should avoid discouraging plan formation by adding to the cost of retirement plans. Thus, the Institute strongly urges that Congress not enact the Administration's recommendation that a new mandatory employer contribution be required of employers permitted to use design-based safe harbor formulas in their 401(k) plans beginning in 1999.
3. New Programs For Small Employers Should Provide Effective Incentives For Plan Establishment and Not Undermine Currently Successful Programs
The Administration has also proposed enhancing the "payroll deduction IRA" program and creating a new simplified defined benefit plan program for small employers. In considering these proposals, it is important to assure that incentives are appropriately designed to induce program participation and that the programs do not undermine current retirement plan options.
For instance, the Administration would create an additional incentive to use the payroll deduction IRA program by excluding payroll deduction contributions from an employee's income. Accordingly, they would not be reported on the employee's Form W-2. As the success of the 401(k) and SIMPLE programs demonstrate, payroll deduction provides an effective, disciplined way for individuals to save, and its encouragement is a laudable policy goal. However, simplifying tax reporting may not add sufficient incentive for employers to establish a payroll deduction IRA program. More importantly, the interaction of an expanded payroll deduction IRA program with the new and successful SIMPLE program should be carefully considered. As noted above, the SIMPLE plan program has been extremely attractive to the smallest employers, exactly those for whom a payroll deduction IRA program is designed. Any new program expansion should not undermine already existing, successful small employer programs. Because the maximum IRA contribution amount is $2,000 (an amount not increased since 1981), it may not be appropriate to induce small employers to use that program rather than the popular SIMPLE program, which would permit employees a larger plan contribution. Similar considerations should be made with regard to any simplified defined benefit program.
B. Retirement Account Portability
Because average job tenure at any one job is under 5 years,9 individuals are likely to have at least several employers over the course of their careers. As a result, the portability of retirement plan assets is an important policy goal. The Administration advocates an accelerated vesting schedule for 401(k) plan matching contributions to address this issue. Consideration should be given to a broader approach to portability that would enhance the ability of all individuals to move their account balances from employer to employer when they change jobs.
Under current law, an individual moving from one private employer to another, where both employers provide Section 401(k) plan coverage, generally may roll over his or her vested account balance to the new employer. Where an individual moves from a private employer to a university or hospital or to the government sector, however, such account portability is not permitted. The problem arises because each type of employer has its own separate type of tax-qualified individual account program. Neither the university's Section 403(b) program nor the governmental employer's "457 plan" program may accept 401(k) plan money, and vice versa. Moreover, with the exception of "conduit IRAs," moving IRA assets into an employer-sponsored plan is prohibited.
Legislation to permit portability amongst these retirement plans would enable individuals to bring retirement savings with them when they change jobs, consolidate accounts and more readily manage retirement assets. Congress should amend the tax laws pertaining to all individual account-type retirement plans to permit individuals to roll over retirement account balances as they move from employer to employer, regardless of the nature of the employer.
C. Variable Annuities
The Administration has proposed imposing new taxes on the owners of variable annuity contracts. Proposals include taxing owners upon the exchange of one contract for another and in the event of a reallocation of contract savings from one investment option to another under the variable annuity contract.
The Institute opposes these proposals, because they would tax many individuals who save for retirement through variable annuities.
III. Conversions of Large C Corporations to S Corporations
Section 1374 generally provides that when a C corporation converts to an S corporation, the S corporation will be subject to corporate level taxation on the net built-in gain on any asset that is held at the time of the conversion and sold within 10 years. In Notice 88-19, 1988-1 C.B. 486, the IRS announced that regulations implementing repeal of the so-called General Utilities doctrine would be promulgated under Section 337(d) to provide that Section 1374 principles, including Section 1374's "10-year rule" for the recognition of built-in gains, would be applied to C corporations that convert to regulated investment company ("RIC") or real estate investment trust ("REIT") status.
Notice 88-19 was supplemented by Notice 88-96, 1988-2 C.B. 420, which states that the regulations to be promulgated under Section 337(d) will provide a safe harbor from the recognition of built-in gain in situations in which a RIC fails to qualify under Subchapter M for one taxable year and subsequently requalifies as a RIC. Specifically, Notice 88-96 provides a safe harbor for a corporation that (1) immediately prior to qualifying as a RIC was taxed as a C corporation for not more than one taxable year, and (2) immediately prior to being taxed as a C corporation was taxed as a RIC for at least one taxable year. The safe harbor does not apply to assets acquired by a corporation during the C corporation year in a transaction that results in its basis in the assets being determined by reference to a corporate transferor's basis.
The President's Fiscal Year 1999 budget proposes to repeal Section 1374 for large corporations. For this purpose, a corporation is a large corporation if its stock is valued at more than five million dollars at the time of the conversion to an S corporation. Thus, a conversion of a large C corporation to an S corporation would result in gain recognition both to the converting corporation and its shareholders. The proposal further provides that Notice 88-19 would be revised to provide that the conversion of a large C corporation to a RIC or REIT would result in the immediate recognition of the corporation's net built-in gain. Thus, the Notice, if revised as proposed, would no longer permit a large corporation that converts to a RIC or REIT to elect to apply rules similar to the 10-year built-in gain recognition rules of Section 1374.
Because the safe harbor set forth in Notice 88-96 is not based upon the 10-year built-in gain rules of Section 1374, the repeal of Section 1374 for a large C corporation should have no effect on Notice 88-96. The safe harbor is based on the recognition that the imposition of a significant tax burden on a RIC that requalifies under Subchapter M after failing to qualify for a single year would be inappropriate. Moreover, the imposition of tax in such a case would fall directly on the RIC's shareholders, who are typically middle-class investors.
The Institute understands from discussions with the Treasury Department that the proposed revision to Section 1374 and the related change to Notice 88-19 are not intended to impact the safe harbor provided by Notice 88-96.
Should the Congress adopt this proposal, the Institute recommends that the legislative history include a statement, such as the following, making it clear that the proposed revision to Section 1374 and the related change to Notice 88-19 would not impact the safe harbor set forth in Notice 88-96 for RICs that fail to qualify for one taxable year:
This provision is not intended to affect Notice 88-96, 1988-2 C.B. 420, which provides that regulations to be promulgated under Section 337(d) will provide a safe harbor from the built-in gain recognition rules announced in Notice 88-19, 1988-1 C.B. 486, for situations in which a RIC temporarily fails to qualify under Subchapter M. Thus, it is intended that the regulations to be promulgated under Section 337(d) will contain the safe harbor described in Notice 88-96.
IV. Increased Penalties for Failure to File Correct Information Returns
Current law imposes penalties on payers, including RICs, that fail to file with the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") correct information returns showing, among other things, payments of dividends and gross proceeds to shareholders. Specifically, Section 6721 imposes on each payer a penalty of $50 for each return with respect to which a failure occurs, with a maximum penalty of $250,000.10 The $50 penalty is reduced to $15 per return for any failure that is corrected within 30 days of the required filing date and to $30 per return for any failure corrected by August 1 of the calendar year in which the required filing date occurs.
The President's Fiscal Year 1999 budget contains a proposal which would increase the $50-per-return penalty for failure to file correct information returns to the greater of $50 per return or five percent of the aggregate amount required to be reported correctly but not so reported. The increased penalty would not apply if the total amount reported for the calendar year was at least 97 percent of the amount required to be reported.
The Institute opposes the proposal to increase the penalty for failure to file correct information returns. Information reporting compliance is a matter of serious concern to RICs. Significant effort is devoted to providing the IRS and RIC shareholders with timely, accurate information returns and statements. As a result, a high level of information reporting compliance is maintained within the industry.
The Internal Revenue Code's information reporting penalty structure was comprehensively revised by Congress in 1989 to encourage voluntary compliance. Information reporting penalties are not designed to raise revenues.11 The current penalty structure provides adequate, indeed very powerful, incentives for RICs to promptly correct any errors made.
1The Investment Company Institute is the national association of the American investment company industry. Its membership includes 6,860 open-end investment companies ("mutual funds"), 441 closed-end investment companies, and 10 sponsors of unit investment trusts. Its mutual fund members have assets of about $4.419 trillion, accounting for approximately 95% of total industry assets, and have over 62 million individual shareholders.
2All references to "sections" are to sections of the Internal Revenue Code.
3Dividends paid to foreign investors are subject to U.S. withholding tax at a 30 percent rate, although that rate may be reduced, generally to 15 percent, by income tax treaty.
4An estimated 37 million households, representing 37% of all U.S. households, owned mutual funds in 1996. See Brian Reid, "Mutual Fund Developments in 1996," Perspective, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Investment Company Institute, March 1997).
5Reid and Crumrine, Retirement Plan Holdings of Mutual Funds, 1996. (Investment Company Institute, 1997).
6In 1993, the most recent year for which data is available, only 19 percent of employers with fewer than 25 employees sponsored a retirement plan. EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits. Employee Benefit Research Institute, 1997.
7Section 416 of the Internal Revenue Code. The top-heavy rule looks at the total pool of assets in a plan to determine if too high a percentage (more than 60 percent) of those assets represent benefits for "key" employees. If so, the employer is required to (1) increase the benefits paid to non-key employees, and (2) accelerate the plan's vesting schedule. Small businesses are particularly effected by this costly rule, because "key" employees include individuals with an ownership interest in the company. Small businesses are more likely to have concentrated ownership and individuals with ownership interests working at the company and in supervisory or officer positions, each of which exacerbates the impact of the rule.
8Federal Regulation and Its Effect on Business—A Survey of Business by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce About Federal Labor, Employee Benefits, Environmental and Natural Resource Regulations, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, June 25, 1996.
9The Changing World of Work and Employee Benefits, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Issue Brief No. 172 (April 1996).
10Failures attributable to intentional disregard of the filing requirement are generally subject to a $100 per failure penalty that is not eligible for the $250,000 maximum.
11In the Conference Report to the 1989 changes, Congress recommended to IRS that they "develop a policy statement emphasizing that civil tax penalties exist for the purpose of encouraging voluntary compliance." H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 386, 101st Cong., 1st Sess. 661 (1989).
Copyright © 2017 by the Investment Company Institute


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Quotes about sisters, here are many touching and inspiring quotes about the love all sisters give. A sisters love is never ending, they share a special connection that can never be broken.
They hold memories of family times that fill their mind with such joy, and laughter. Why not show your sister how much she means to you today with some of our quotes about sisters.
All our quotes about sisters are hand picked with care. Enjoy!
1. A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. - Marion C. Garretty
2. You can kid the world. But not your sister. - Charlotte Gray
3. If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma. - Linda Sunshine
4. My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. - Linda Sunshine
5. Sisters are different flowers from the same garden. - Author Unknown
6. When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will. - Author Unknown
7. There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you. - Author Unknown
8. You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. - Deborah Moggach
9. A perfect sister I am not, but thankful for the one I've got. - Author Unknown
10. A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life - Isadora James
11. A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. - Author Unknown
12. A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything. - Pam Brown
13. I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. - Maya Angelou
14. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. - Benjamin Disraeli
15. To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident -- it is to have a soulmate for life. - Victoria Secunda
16. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. - Clara Ortega
17. A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. - Author Unknown
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They lived through all your triumphs, all your favorites,
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They lived with you too long.
And so, when you achieve some victory, friends are delighted -
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For they know the cost. - Pam Brown
19. Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. - Katherine Mansfield
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text: Matt Smith on the Doctor Who 50th anniversary - "I doubt there'll be a regeneration" Could Matt Smith's interview in the new issue of Radio Times magazine be the strongest hint yet that he'll be around until 2014? Comments Written By Paul Jones 3:50 PM, 28 August 2012 The first half of series seven is in the can and Matt Smith says he wouldn't miss next year's 50th anniversary celebrations for the world - but beyond that he's remained coy about how long he'll be piloting the Tardis. So could his admission in the new issue of Radio Times be the strogest hint yet that he'll be playing the Doctor until at least 2014? "We want to make [the anniversary] as big and bold and as brilliant as we can because, we hope, it can be one of the monumental bits of TV history," Smith told us. "But I doubt there'll be a regeneration..." Smith had previously scotched rumours that he'd signed up to play the Time Lord beyond his 50th year, telling press at the launch of series seven opener Asylum of the Daleks: "I don't know where this talk of the 2014 contract came from... I haven't signed anything new." But if the Doctor doesn't regenerate during the anniversary year - 2013 - then it surely must follow that Smith will be in the role until at least 2014? Of course, even he doesn't know for sure everything that showrunner Steven Moffat has planned. "Steven will tease you right to the end," Smith warns viewers - "because that's what he does to me." Read the full interview with Matt, Karen and Arthur - and get a free Dalek wallchart - in the latest issue of Radio Times magazine, on sale now. Keep up to date with all the latest Doctor Who news on our dedicated Facebook page, Doctor Who Times Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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KING Arthur's Way residents and Aster Communities will join forces for a neighbourhood tidy-up tomorrow.
Aster Communities is set to team up with customers from King Arthur's Way, in Andover, for an afternoon of cleaning and recycling.
On Tuesday, 15 April, staff from the housing association, which has local offices at Greenwich Way, will be joined by customers for a litter-pick and general tidy-up of the neighbourhood.
The meeting place for the event, which runs from 12pm to 4pm, is the Launcelot Play Park in King Arthur's Way.
Attendees are being encouraged to bring along unwanted electrical items and clothing for recycling, with prizes on offer to anyone taking part. There will also be a free barbeque buffet for anyone helping out with the litter-pick.
Representatives from the RSPCA will also be there, offering free microchipping for customers' dogs.
And Visitors will be able to enjoy a nature trail and pond dipping sessions between 12pm and 3pm.
The event has been organised and funded by Aster Communities' Zone 16 Neighbourhood Panel.
The group is made up of local residents who decide how to spend £16,000 Aster Communities is making available each year to support local projects. It is being supported by Tesco, Andover Garden Centre, brownSkips.com, the local branch of the Salvation Army, Alamein Community Association and Test Valley Borough Council.
Doreen Thomas, community development facilitator for Aster Communities, said: "We've held similar events previously and they've proved very popular, with people turning out in force to give their neighbourhoods a spring clean.
"We'd love to see as many people from King Arthur's Way coming down and bringing along any of their unwanted items to be recycled."
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Just behind the court house is the bay where Montcalm landed his cannon, and where his entrenchments began.
Let us go to Montcalm, and demand admission: he dare not deny a child the boon.
I thought that Montcalm would have waited for Vaudreuil, but no.
Through the night, meanwhile, Montcalm and his men had been working like demons.
Montreal was reached on September 6th and Montcalm stayed there four days.
Montcalm dispatches Lvis to Montreal with eight hundred men.
The victory was marred by horrible Indian atrocities on the English prisoners of war, which Montcalm was unable to prevent.
Montcalm defended the city with about seven thousand Frenchmen and Indians.
General Montcalm, resting his faith in superior numbers, risked a battle outside the fortifications.
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By Mr Bryan Gatchell (IMCOM)October 13, 2011
FORT DAVIS, Texas, Oct. 13, 2011 -- Fort Davis National Historic Site in Fort Davis, Texas, celebrated 50 years with the National Park Service Saturday, and the 1st Armored Division Band from Fort Bliss, Texas, joined them to celebrate.
Fort Bliss and Fort Davis have a common history. When the mid-19th century discovery of gold in California prompted a stampede of people heading west, one of the main routes included a 60-day overland trail from San Antonio to El Paso. To protect the steady stream of settlers from small bands of Native Americans, the Army established a string of forts along the trail including Fort Inge in present-day Uvalde County, Fort Concho in San Angelo, Fort Stockton near present-day Fort Stockton and Fort Quitman near Sierra Blanca.
Fort Bliss and Fort Davis, though they had begun similarly as cavalry posts along the San Antonio-El Paso Road, underwent different trajectories. Fort Bliss bloomed into prominence in the 20th century as an anti-aircraft post. Fort Davis, bypassed by the railroad and abandoned in 1891, fell into disrepair but went relatively untouched. The National Park Service realized the value of the fort during a 1960 survey of historic locations and Congress passed a bill making the fort a national historic site in 1961, thus preserving and restoring it.
Fifty years have passed since then, and the NPS commemorated this enduring achievement with a celebration. John Morlock, superintendent of Fort Davis National Historic Site, was pleased with how the celebration went, including the 1st Armored Division Band's participation.
"It's gone very well: good attendance, beautiful weather, a lot of participation from community members, park staff and the Fort Bliss band," said Morlock. "I had heard of their participation in other area events … and knew that they would be the right fit for here."
"We wanted to help Fort Davis celebrate this historic moment in time with the 50th anniversary of their designation as a national park," said Master Sgt. Justin Ahrens. "It was our pleasure to come out and represent Fort Bliss. That's part of our job as a military band is to get out into the community and represent our command and connect people to our Army."
Without the encroachment of urban development and surrounded by hillsides of volcanic boulders, Fort Davis appears much as it would have following the Civil War. Ahrens compared the historical preservation of Fort Bliss in El Paso to that of Fort Davis.
"El Paso has transformed so much that there isn't anything left of the original post [Fort Bliss]," said Ahrens. "The post moved around to several different locations in El Paso, so we don't have that connection. Coming out here gives our troops in the band a chance to see what it was like. We can just imagine what it was like stationed out here in the 1800s, being secluded and isolated from the rest of the world."
The band's repertoire varied from modern hits like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." to older standards.
"In this instance, it was kind of a standard concert for us in that we want to touch on the patriotic stuff," said Ahrens. "In this case we did pick out a few tunes that were representative of music that might be playing back in the 1800s. So we had 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' we had 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'Home on the Range.' All those tunes came out in the 1850s, 1860s timeframe. We thought that would add a touch of the historic."
Staff Sgt. Darren Pursel, a trombonist with the band, was glad to get a chance to see Fort Davis.
"I've seen signs for Fort Davis and the scenic loop, but I've never ventured off of [Interstate 10], so it was kind of nice to drop down and see this beautiful area sitting out here," said Pursel.
Other visitors were happy to see the band. Grace Ceniceros, a resident of nearby Alpine, Texas, attended the event to see her granddaughter perform in costume as one of the children that might have inhabited the fort.
"They usually play the music from the speakers," said Ceniceros of the PA system that generally plays bugle calls. "It's nice to have a real, live band. I have never seen a band come [here]."
Rick Keith, a seasonal ranger dressed in 19th century period costume, had also been a Soldier with the 1st Armored Division when he served in the Army.
"It's neat to see these guys out here taking part in the post, and they play an awesome national anthem," said Keith. "I hadn't seen any guys active in First Armored in many, many years. It kind of felt familiar to see the guys walking around with the patch."
To learn more about historic Fort Davis, visit www.nps.gov/foda.


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Calif. police get $65K for DUI enforcement
Humboldt Beacon
FORTUNA, Calif. — The Fortuna Police Department will be administering a $65,000 state grant to increase "Avoid the 7" DUI task force enforcement across Humboldt County, the department announced Wednesday in a press release.
"This program has helped Humboldt County law enforcement agencies educate the public and remove impaired drivers from our roadways," Coordinator Sgt. Charles Ellebrecht said in the release. "With this funding, our agencies can continue working with the public to make our roadways safer for all who use them."
Officers from law enforcement agencies across the county will jointly staff DUI/driver license checkpoints, multi-agency DUI Task Force deployments, and local DUI saturation patrols, according to the release. The "worst of the worst" repeat DUI offenders will be targeted with warrant/probation sweeps, and court sting enforcement operations focusing on DUI offenders who drive on suspended licenses after being ordered not to drive by a judge.
Full Story: Fortuna police receive $65,000 grant to administer countywide DUI enforcement


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Inside or outside, Mars hockey team reigns
Indoors or out, Freeport still has trouble with Mars when it comes to hockey.
Craig Mazzotta had two goals and two assists as the Planets beat the Yellowjackets, 4-1, on Wednesday night at the Penguins Pond temporary outdoor rink at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh's Station Square.
It was the first outdoor game Freeport had played during Dave Hepler's almost decade-long coaching tenure. It hasn't been that long since the Yellowjackets have beaten the Planets — but it might seem that way.
It was the seventh consecutive victory for Mars against Freeport.
"I was certainly looking forward to beating them today because they knocked us out last year so it could have been kind of revenge," said Hunter Kepple, who had the Yellowjackets' goal.
In a rare back-to-back series necessitated by the compacted Penguins Pond schedule, Freeport plays again Thursday against Deer Lakes. The Yellowjackets (8-2-1) host Mars (10-2-1) in two weeks.
If the rematch is anything like the first meeting, expect chippiness. The teams combined for 24 penalties (11 by Freeport) and plenty of after-whistle jawing and shoving.
"We don't like them," Kepple said, "and I'm sure they don't like us."
The most recent time Freeport beat Mars was March 19, 2007, in the PIHL Class A Penguins Cup semifinals. Mars is 7-0-1 in the series since — and the Planets have played in every Penguins Cup title game since.
"When you go into the year, you know who the programs are that are decent programs," Freeport coach Dave Hepler said. "I just say it's a rivalry with them because they're just a few miles from us, and that makes for a better game."
Mazzotta scored 5:27 in while on a power play, and the Planets took a 2-0 lead with 43 seconds left in the first when Mazzotta set up Owen Vasbinder.
"This year, goals have been a little harder to come by for us than maybe they have been," Mars coach Steve Meyers said. "But when you get that first goal and get a lead, the system falls right into place for you."
By the time Mars' Max Master scored on the power play with 7:04 left in the second, the Planets had all the offense they needed in support of goalie Christian Knapp.
"We had a lot of opportunities, a lot of scrums in front of the net where we banged it off shins and this and that and everything else," Hepler said.
The only opportunity Freeport capitalized on came with 2:57 left in the second when Cole Hepler came out of the penalty box and was sprung loose for a breakaway on a pass from Kepple. Hepler was stopped by Knapp, but Kepple buried the rebound.
Mazzotta scored an empty-net goal with 58 seconds left.
Chris Adamski is a freelance writer.


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Beautiful location an oasis in Cyprus, we were a family with a 1 year old and a 4 year old and everything we needed and more could be found there. We will be going back. The "Fine Dining" restaurant was disappointing, my husband and I went out for a dinner alone one evening and found the food quite ordinary, but priced for a top restaurant. The Creme brulee was larger than the main. We decided to eat in the Apollo restaurant after this.
Very nice resort, well maintained, good food, very good service. No on demand system .
We liked the relaxed atmosphere of the hotel & attention to the smallest detail.Its one of the best hotels we have stayed in worldwide. There was nothing we didnt like about our stay.
Honnestly this is by far the very best hotel in Cyprus. For once you really get luxury by international standards which is seldom there. Everything was absolutely perfect. The location is truly amazing and super relaxing. I will definitely come back there. Just a small detail: very low internet connection and not all sites accessible (couldn't connect on Faceboook to share this place with friends... sad for them)
The view was amazing and the food at the resturant was very good.
it was very nice and clean no everything was perfect
Everything! Fantastic hotel. No
It was an absolutely lovely, secluded ,height of luxury hotel Nothing
Beautiful complex and surroundings There were ants in the room, wireless internet barely worked and the housekeeping staff was somewhat unprofessional
A relaxing atmosphere. Staff attentive without being intrusive. Spa area was absolutley beautiful. The infinity pool is breath taking and my friend who was staying with me is going to arrange her daughters wedding here. They lovely chapel on site is gorgeous.


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When Reagan ran against Carter there were debates. When an issue would be discussed, Reagan would say "there you go again." This comment was an effective put-down. Obama should use this put-down when Mitt and Paul say something stupid, like "I'll create 12 million jobs in four years," but never give specifics.
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Cadence Design Systems introduced a new full-featured NVM Express interface subsystem. It is the industry's first IP subsystem for the development of SoCs that support the NVM Express 1.0c standard, which is an interface technology used for solid-state drives (SSD). With Cadence's IP subsystem, SoC designers do not need to source their interface component IP separately and drive integration on their own. The new subsystem approach decreases design risk and overall development time for new SoCs.
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Uniquify Solves Dynamic Variation Problems with Dynamic Self-Calibrating Logic
Uniquify has extended its patented self-calibrating logic (SCL) IP for double data rate (DDR) memory subsystems to solve dynamic variation problems during system operation. Dynamic Self-Calibrating Logic (DSCL) provides real-time calibration to accommodate dynamic variations in the system operating environment. Uniquify's SCL and DSCL technologies now are included in all of their DDR memory controller IP offerings. This includes DDR1, DDR2, DDR3, DDR2/3, LPDDR1 and LPDDR2 phy and controller IP.
ARM Reveals Details of 64-bit ARMv8 Architecture
The new ARMv8 architecture will feature a 64-bit instruction set. The ARMv8 architecture will expand the reach of ARM processor-based solutions into consumer and enterprise applications where extended virtual addressing and 64-bit data processing are required. The ARMv8 architecture specifications describing all aspects of the ARMv8 architecture are available now to partners under license. ARM will disclose processors based on ARMv8 during 2012, with consumer and enterprise prototype systems expected in 2014.
Itera 40nm Embedded Multi-Time Programmable Non-Volatile Memory
Kilopass Technology introduced their Itera embedded multi-time programmable (MTP) NVM 40nm solution. Itera replaces external serial EEPROM and NOR flash in high-volume mobile and consumer applications. Itera reduces costs (70% less), increases performance (24X increase), and improves integration. The pricing of Itera is based on percentage of cost savings over external EEPROM and NOR Flash solutions. There are two pricing components: (1) license fee for use of Itera in a design and (2) a per wafer royalty. Itera is available in MTP capacity from 32 bit to 1Mb. It is now available at foundries like TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and UMC in 40nm bulk silicon with 65nm and 55nm in H2'11.
Synopsys DesignWare Data Converter IP Solutions
Synopsys introduced their DesignWare Data Converter IP solutions. The DesignWare Data Converter IP solutions are available now for the 65-nm LP process. Support for the 40-nm LP process will be available in the second quarter. DesignWare data converters for broadband communication applications are also available now in the 65-nm LP and 40-nm LP processes. The Synopsys IP solutions are optimized for mobile broadband wireless communication applications like WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, and digital TV reception.
MIPS Technologies Optimizes SoC Solutions for Android Devices
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced it is working with leading providers of key IP for the connected digital home-including audio, video, graphics and security functionality-to help SoC developers get to market quickly with fully-integrated hardware/software solutions. MIPS is working closely with Chips & Media, Discretix, Tensilica, Vivante Corp. and other leading providers of semiconductor IP to help customers meet cost/performance targets with solutions that optimize performance for devices based in particular on the Android platform.
GDA Technologies Announces PowerPC 440T90 Hard Macro for TSMC 90nm Process
GDA Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of configurable, reliable and production-proven Intellectual Property (IP) solutions for communication, storage and consumer markets, has announced that it is adding IBM's PowerPC 440T90 to its existing 405S and 460S products using TSMC 90nm process technology. Customers can take advantage of this "hardened processor" that is optimized for performance, low power dissipation and optimized die size. This gives additional dimension to GDA's expertise in developing SoC's utilizing Power Architecture(R).
Denali Reveals Phase PHY Technology for DDR SDRAM Physical Interfaces
Denali Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), revealed a new phase PHY technology for DDR SDRAM physical interfaces, delivering memory system performance up to 1066 MHz clock speeds (or DDR-2133 data rates) on 65-nanometer foundry process nodes or lower. Denali's phase PHY technology applies a high-speed oversampling architecture paired with per-bit data capture and calibration mechanism to achieve GHz clock rates. This third-generation DDR PHY technology is delivered as a fully-synchronous design which benefits design teams with the configurability needed to satisfy their physical implementation requirements.
Broadcom Announces Royalty-Free, Open Source BroadVoice Voice Codecs
Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced that it is offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free and without any licensing fees. As a direct response to customer demand for advanced, high-quality voice solutions and development tools, Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code as open source software under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Virage Logic Qualifies AEON Non-Volatile Embedded Memory for TSMC 65nm
Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, announced it has qualified its AEON® non-volatile memory (NVM) solution on TSMC's 65-nanometer (nm) Low Power (LP) process. As the industry's first multi-time programmable (MTP) logic NVM solution that is commercially available on a 65nm process, AEON further extends Virage Logic's NVM provider leadership position.


text: [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/three_docs_4590.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: Two Doctors are better than one. (When they aren't bickering, that is. Then you need a third one on a fuzzy monitor to break them up.)]]->''"So you're my replacements -- a [[Creator/JonPertwee dandy]] and a [[Creator/PatrickTroughton clown]]!"''-->-- '''The First Doctor'''The one with killer pixels and the Doctor arguing with himself.The [[MilestoneCelebration tenth anniversary]] episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'' was marked with the first "Multi-Doctor" episode, a concept which would be used several more times over the coming years.The Doctor is investigating the appearance of a mysterious blob-like creature which, it transpires, is hunting him down. Reluctantly, he calls on the Time Lords for help. Unfortunately, they're a bit preoccupied with a black hole draining all their energy, so they send his past selves over to help. The Second Doctor appears in the Third Doctor's TARDIS, and the two of them immediately proceed to bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple before grudgingly opening up a psychic link ("Contact!") between them. The First Doctor is caught in a time eddy and can only advise via the TARDIS viewscreen, but he deduces that the blob creature is a "time bridge". The Third Doctor and Jo allow it to capture them and they are transported to a world of antimatter beyond the troublesome black hole.Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Second Doctor, the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton take refuge in the TARDIS. The Brigadier flat-out refuses to believe anything that's going on, and the Second Doctor trolls him mercilessly. The First Doctor tells the group to switch off the forcefield, and the TARDIS (and with it the UNIT HQ) are all transported to the antimatter world.It turns out that the problem is Omega, a renegade Time Lord. Omega was a stellar engineer, and his experiments enabled the Time Lords to develop time travel. But one of his experiments went wrong and trapped him in the antimatter universe. Now he wants to return, but he needs a matter counterpart to take his place, and he wants the Doctor.Driven mad by his isolation and physically corroded to the point where only his will survives inside his armor, he threatens to destroy the universe, but he is tricked into picking up the Second Doctor's recorder -- the only thing not converted to antimatter when they travelled through the black hole -- and is destroyed.As a reward for saving the universe, The Doctor's exile is lifted and he's able to use his TARDIS normally once more.Watch it [[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2rucq_greendude33_season-10-the-three-doctors-065/1#video=x12ottu here.]]----!! Tropes* AGodAmI: Omega* AdaptationExpansion: The novelisation adds a scene where the Brigadier, Benton and Jo fruitlessly try to fortify UNIT.* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, Mrs. Ollis has the first name of Mary, while the Gel guards are named as Blob men.* AndIMustScream: Omega's body has been disintegrated, but he is still alive and conscious. He can't die as long as he believes he's still alive. And he's been in solitude for a few centuries at least.* {{Antimatter}}: A whole world made of it. And everything transported into it is changed to antimatter too. Except if it's protected by a force field, of course.* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Brig is rather accepting of the whole anti-matter monsters and black holes situation (he's dealt with weirder, arguably). But he immediately dismisses the idea of two Doctors existing at the same time (he thinks Three must have changed back somehow), and insists the TARDIS interior must be an optical illusion.* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: British Army officers should not salute civilians. However, given that the Brigadier thought the Doctors were about to do a HeroicSacrifice to save the entire universe, he probably felt bending the rules was justified.* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The Third Doctor challenges Omega to one of these... and loses, badly. The only reason he doesn't die is because the Second Doctor talks Omega out of it.* BBCQuarry: The antimatter world, of course.* BigBad: Omega.* BigNo: Omega pulls this one off in a disturbingly serious way. His genuinely heartbreaking wail is immediately followed by spoonfuls of {{Narm}}, though.* BorrowedCatchphrase: Even before the Second Doctor appears, his catchphrase does.-->'''Third Doctor:''' When I say run, run!* BrokenPedestal: Omega was the Doctor's childhood hero. It hurt to discover that he had gone nuts and become obsessed with destroying his own race, after having helped them progress so far.* ChekhovsGun: The Second Doctor's recorder. * DeadpanSnarker: Two to Three, Three right back at Two, One to Two and Three, Two to the Brig, and the Brig at ''everybody''. * DramaticUnmask: When Omega reveals his true face to himself and to the Doctors. * DudeWheresMyReward: Omega is not happy at being forgotten in spite of all of his achievements. * EmpathicEnvironment: Every time Omega gets annoyed, his fortress rumbles, shaking visibly as the anger increases. Justified because the fortress, and indeed the entire environment within the black hole, is shaped by Omega's mind.* EvilIsHammy: Omega, so much. To quote WebSeries/SFDebris:-->"This is the kind of performance where Creator/BrianBlessed tells you, 'Can you tone it down a notch?'* ExactWords: The Second and Third Doctors pledge that they will not attempt to leave Omega's realm before Omega himself. Omega assumes this means they'll stay with him forever. It doesn't.* FalseReassurance: The Third Doctor says to Omega, "We will not leave here before you do." Omega assumes this means they will stay there with him. It doesn't.* FutureMeScaresMe: Or rather Future Me Disappoints Me. Also inverted, since in this case Future Me Isn't Exactly Impressed With Me Either.** And, when there are two Future Mes, ''I'' scare ''them''.* IChooseToStay: After spending his last three seasons, trying to get his TARDIS working again and off Earth, the Third Doctor gets his wish, and then decides to stay on Earth and work with UNIT. His successor will not share the same sentiments.** IHatePastMe* LargeHam: '''Omega.''' EvilIsHammy indeed.** Everybody, ''everybody'' gets at least one taste of pork products and/or scenery during this serial (for instance, ask TheBrigadier his opinion on the Second Doctor's recorder...). That said, '''Omega'''. It's a wonder they were able to ''find'' any more ham for anyone else once Omega had gotten started.* LoadBearingBoss: Omega's will is the only thing keeping the antimatter world together. And Omega himself, for that matter. The novelization takes it further: Omega's world was at one point a beautiful, lush forest. Maintaining it took such a toll on Omega that it rapidly decayed to a barren quarry.* MortonsFork: Omega can only escape from his realm by relinquishing control of the Singularity he uses to create the realm. Unfortunately, the very moment he relinquishes control of the Singularity, everything falls apart -- preventing him from escaping.* MyFutureSelfAndMe: An especially funny case, as the title characters cannot stand each other. Two and Three bicker constantly, and One gets a wonderful dig at them both (see page quote).* NoFaceUnderTheMask: What is revealed when Omega's mask is removed. It turns out his body was consumed by antimatter aeons ago, and his willpower (and hatred) is the only thing holding him together.* NoIndoorVoice: Omega is one of the hammiest ''Series/DoctorWho'' villains, and that's saying something.* NoOntologicalInertia: When Omega is destroyed, both Doctors are returned to the TARDIS and the TARDIS herself is sent back to UNIT headquarters.* TheNthDoctor* ObfuscatingStupidity: At one point, the Second Doctor rambles to Omega about his lost recorder, prompting (yet another) tantrum on Omega's part. The Third Doctor reprimands him, only for the Second Doctor to reveal he's just been testing Omega's self-control to find a weakness.* OmnicidalManiac: Omega could give Davros a run for his money. See VillainousBreakdown.* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Two and Three have this attitude with each other.* PercussiveMaintenance: Radio not working? Smack it on the TARDIS console. Voila!* PortalCut: A green blob teleports the Doctor and part of the building he's in through a black hole, and later the rest of the building. The two parts of the building arrive in different locations. At the end, when everything is sent back to "where it came from", the two parts of the building are re-assembled, apparently without any permanent damage.* PuffOfLogic: Subverted. This is essentially what will happen to Omega if his will does not dictate that he exists, but Omega's will proves itself too unshakable for him to just disappear.* PunctuatedForEmphasis: '''Omega's! Entire! Mental! Breakdown!'''* TheRival: Doctors Two and Three take an immediate dislike to each other, and begin sniping at each other from the moment they meet themselves. Creator/PatrickTroughton and Creator/JonPertwee, in RealLife, loved the effect so much that they decided to carry on the mock bickering, in character and out of character, Jack Benny and Fred Allen-style, in public for the rest of their careers. (In private, they actually became quite good friends).* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/WilliamHartnell was ill and getting on in years (in fact, this serial was the last time he acted before his death), which is why the First Doctor appears only on a viewscreen.* RebuiltSet: Another new set to replace the one damaged in "The Time Monster" and commemorate the 10th. Typically, the Second Doctor doesn't like it.* TheScream: Omega lets out a rather convincing primal wail when he discovers that there's literally nothing left of him but his mind and some dust, animated by willpower alone.* SealedEvilInACan: Omega.* ShoutOut: [[Music/TheBeatles "And we are all together, koo koo kachoo?"]]* SpecialEffectsEvolution: The "organism" is a video effect that, a few years previously, might have been achieved through more practical means. * [[SubvertedCatchphrase Subverted]] SharePhrase: The "BiggerOnTheInside" line.-->'''Third Doctor:''' Well, Sergeant? Aren't ''you'' going to say "It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside"? Everybody else does.\\'''Sgt. Benton:''' Well, it's... pretty obvious, isn't it?* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The three Doctors discuss their plan in front of everybody... with a psychic link. Of course it works perfectly.* UnrealisticBlackHole: There's an entire world of antimatter inside it. And you can just walk up right to the singularity without ill effects. And afterwards, you can walk away from it again.* TheUnreveal: ''Literally.'' The Second and Third Doctors try to remove Omega's mask and find there is absolutely nothing left of him underneath. Then Omega lifts the helmet off his head and sees the awful result of his time in the black hole... and he goes to pieces with grief and rage.* VillainousBreakdown: He's not exactly the definition of stability to begin with, but Omega goes completely off the deep end when he finds the aforementioned existence failure. "If I exist only by my will... then my will is to DESTROY, and ALL THINGS shall be destroyed! AAAALL THINGS! ALLLLL THIIIINGS!!!" (Cue second anguished wail.)* WaxingLyrical: --> '''Third Doctor''': "I am he and he is me." --> '''Jo''': "And we are all together, goo-goo-kachoo?" --> '''Three''': "What?"--> '''Jo''': "It's a song by the Beatles."--> '''Two''': "Oh, really?" *Takes out his recorder* "How does it go?"* WhamEpisode: This brought back the two previous actors who had played the Doctor, a previously unprecedented event, but at the end the format of the series changed as the Doctor's exile to Earth was lifted.* WhichMe: The Doctors use "me" to refer to their other self, as well as "he".* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.* WroteTheBook: According to the Doctor, his people invented black holes.* YourMindMakesItReal: Omega is essentially the god of an antimatter world he's imprisoned in within a black hole. Despite having been destroyed by the singularity's energy, he still exists because of his belief and desire for himself to still be alive.----