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The 203.5 MW Milford Wind Corridor project developed by First Wind had originally expected to sell its power to LADWP many months ago and be well into construction by now. But the developer ran into the same financing trouble many US wind developers have found themselves in: few prospects for finding a tax-motivated partner to take a majority stake in the project. In the past, these so-called tax equity partners bought into wind projects partly to use wind energy tax credits to reduce their tax bills.
LADWP's Randy Howard says the Milford project was progressing well when suddenly it looked doubtful that First Wind would find a tax equity partner upon completion and construction financing became difficult. "So our board made the conscious decision that it was a good project for us and if we had to own it, we would be fine with that strategy," says Howard. "We provided a backstop guarantee. We said if the developer is unable to receive takeout financing, if there are no tax equity investors upon completion, we would guarantee to purchase it." The deal was legally structured as a power purchase agreement (PPA) with an option to own.
With LADWP behind the project, banks became comfortable lending the project construction money and it has since received $376 million from a consortium of banks led by The Royal Bank of Scotland. It now has full notice to proceed and "construction is fully engaged," says Howard. The project will use 58 Clipper 2.5 MW units and 39 GE 1.5 MW units and should be online by the end of the year.
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Since LADWP is a publicly owned municipal utility, it has no use for federal tax credits, which makes owning the project relatively expensive, says Howard. For this reason, the future entrance of a tax-equity partner is the preferred option; a full use of tax credits can offset over 50% of a wind plant's installed cost. An owner accessing tax credit benefits means that LADWP can reap these for its customers in the form of a cheaper power purchase contract. At the same time, LADWP gets more wind generation into its portfolio.
Being in California is an advantage, says Andrew Redinger of KeyBanc Capital Markets, a senior level lender among eight banks providing the construction financing. Few municipalities outside California and its high power prices could afford to run the risk of developing, owning and operating a wind plant without the financial help that comes in the form of tax credits available to the private market. He confirms the project would likely not have found construction financing without LADWP's influence.
Redinger calls the backstop strategy "a very creative approach." He also believes a contract with this structure has not been done before. "I would expect other people will mimic this," he says. Finding new strategies that get wind plants built in today's tough market is important, adds Howard. The cities of Burbank and Pasadena also have minor PPAs with Milford of 10 MW and 5 MW following LADWP's roughly 185 MW majority.
It is not the only wind purchase by LADWP. It signs traditional long-term power contracts for wind power and engages in direct ownership, as with its Pine Tree project, coming fully online this month, which it developed, owns and operates. The 80 GE 1.5 MW turbines were wrapping up final electrical testing and commissioning last month north of Los Angeles, near Mojave, in Kern County.
"It's really to diversify some of the risk and experience," says Howard. "The benefit of owning the Pine Tree project is that we went and bought most of the land and we own most of the transmission there so it will be an asset the city will own and operate for many years to come." A second 150 MW phase in the same area called Pine Canyon is under environmental review and will take advantage of existing LADWP-owned transmission and a nearby substation.


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Brown, who has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto, is chair of the philosophy department at Lindenwood, where he has taught since fall of 2000. He has been department chair since 2001. Brown has also taught at Drury University in Springfield, Mo.; Lester L. Cox College of Nursing and Health Sciences, also in Springfield; Columbia College in Marshfield, Mo.; the Paul VI Pontifical Institute in St. Louis; St. Phillip's Seminary in Toronto, and the University of Toronto.
Brown also runs the Philosophy in Film series every semester at Lindenwood and hosted "A World of Faith," a cable television show produced last spring for LU TV-26, in which he talked to religious leaders from different faiths.
"I was very surprised when Dr. Evans called my name," Brown said about being notified of the award. "I felt very honored and humbled and grateful."
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While many claim "This Is Spinal Tap" as the greatest all-time non-concert rock and roll film for good reason, I'd give the crown to "Beyond The Valley of the Dolls." Directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert and released by 20th Century Fox in 1970, this one can't be beat for sex, violence, rock and roll, and hilariously absurd dialogue. The soundtrack and the film feature the Strawberry Alarm Clock with future Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King in the lineup and lots of great music besides.
This is an original LP in excellent condition. I'd been looking for this for years when Great Plains (a great garage rock outfit from Columbus, Ohio) keyboardist Mark Wyatt very kindly gave me one of his two copies back in 1989.


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Syrian Opposition In New Search For Transitional Government
Syria's opposition leaders on Saturday launched their second bid to form a transitional government, with their credibility at stake as the country slides deeper into civil war.
Agreement among the National Coalition, an umbrella group for the Syrian opposition, could help address international concern about the risk of Syria disintegrating along ethnic and sectarian lines if President Bashar al-Assad falls.
Failure at the talks, being held in an Istanbul hotel, would highlight divisions in the coalition, formed with Western and Gulf backing in Qatar two months ago, and undermine that support.
Leading opposition campaigner Kamal al-Labwani, a member of the coalition, said the group needed at least to name a prime minister to maintain credibility as a democratic alternative to four decades of family rule by Assad and his late father, President Hafez al-Assad.
"The coalition is a legislature and we need an executive. There have been lots of mistakes and the people we are supposed to represent inside feel marginalized," said Labwani, one of a minority of liberal figures in the Islamist-dominated coalition.
The United Nations says 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 22-month conflict. A collapse of the country could draw in rival powers in a region where the Sunni-Shi'ite faultline has been deepening since the Arab Spring revolts began in Tunisia two years ago, toppling dictators in four Arab countries and ushering in Islamist political ascendancy.
The rise of jihadist rebels in the last few months as a dominant force in the armed opposition, and the possibility of a massive backlash by the Sunni majority against Assad's Alawite minority, has made international powers hold back from supporting the increasingly radicalized, mostly Sunni rebels.
Assad's forces massacred over 100 Sunni men, women and children when they overran an opposition-held district in the central city of Homs on Tuesday, according to opposition campaigners.
The killing occurred around the same time a disputed attack killed and wounded dozens of people at Aleppo University, a hotbed of peaceful demonstrations at the start of the revolt.
With diminishing prospects for a deal to remove Assad, any prime minister named by the coalition would have to be acceptable to rebels who have been making incremental gains on the ground despite massive air and artillery bombardment.
Naming a transitional government was part of the original agreement under which the coalition was formed last year.
But some in the opposition have grown wary since, fearing that Western powers were influencing the process to come up with a government that would negotiate with Assad and keep the minority-ruled police state intact, according to various opposition sources.
The powerful Muslim Brotherhood, the only organized political force in the opposition, is largely against forming a government at present, although Arab and Western-backed members of the coalition want one, the sources said.
The 70-member coalition was formed with Western and Gulf backing in Qatar at the beginning of December. Power struggles swiftly emerged among its members, contributing to failed efforts to agree on a transitional government.
Labwani, a respected former political prisoner, said a transitional government would not negotiate any deal that kept Assad in power. He said he would nominate former Prime Minister Riad Hijab, the highest-ranking official to defect since the revolt, to be the next transitional premier.
Labwani dismissed concerns among the opposition that Hijab had served Assad.
"I am not sure what the problem is. Hijab is qualified and is now serving the revolution. We have already hundreds of defectors in the Free Syrian army," he said.
Another possible contender is Asaad Mustafa, who left Syria after a stint as agriculture minister under Hafez al-Assad.
But coalition member Abdul Ahad Astephoa, one of three Christians in the group, said there were larger issues to be resolved first.
"We have already received many promises that once we unite we will get international support. Very little came and the international community, sadly, is not ready to end the Assad regime," Astephoa said.
"If we form a government we have to make sure first it will receive international recognition, have enough financing and be able to operate in the liberated areas of Syria," he added.


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SAIL is the world's largest-circulation sailing magazine. We write, edit and design for everyone who sails—aboard a one-design boat or an offshore racer, aboard a daysailer on a tiny lake or a cruiser crossing great oceans and great distances. Our how-to and technical articles concentrate on the techniques of sailing, or the many aspects of naval architecture and construction, boat systems, and gear. Our features emphasize the joy and rewards of the sailing life. Many of our favorite features are simultaneously entertaining, practical and instructive. SAIL's readers want to know everything about sailing. And they want to see it, too. Some photographs printed in SAIL are there because they illustrate one point clearly; others are there because they contain a universe of beauty. Our writers are encouraged to also be photographers, and to think about photography while they think about writing.
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Car culture has gone global — are you keeping up? Find out what the kids are hooning in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.
My Azerbaijani isn't that great, but by the looks of things this video was shot here, a roundabout in central Baku that's pretty popular with the city's hoons. If I'm right (correct me if I'm wrong, Azerbaijani readers), the square is dedicated to the esteemed fifteenth and sixteenth century poet Füzuli, which is what a tour guide might tell you if you were to visit this beautiful capital.
What you wouldn't get from that tour guide is a look at how the young people of Baku are living in their city, with their history. Three-wheeling Ladas squeal through traffic right in front of a police station. They've got some cojones over in Azerbaijan, if you don't mind me play in mix-and-match with my cultural references. I like to think that Füzuli looks on at these hoons with a benevolent eye, as he wrote, "Don't ask Füzuli for poems of praise or rebuke / I am a lover and speak only of love."
Before, I go on, let's get in the mood for some historical reflection with the state anthem of the Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist Respublikası (Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic). Azerbaijan was soviet from 1920 to 1991, ending with ethnic and border conflicts that persist today. So what the fuck does Azerbaijan have to show for its years under the communists? There's certainly more to show than just Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, because these Azeris aren't just drifting cheap cars around a busy city square, they're also tearing ass in vehicular manifestations of their past. The best kind of history doesn't end up as footnotes tucked away in a forgotten archive; it ends up as smoking tires and hoonage.


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Dr. Bruce Carr is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also holds the Paul C. MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Carr earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and received both his residency and fellowship training at UT Southwestern. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.
Dr. Carr is internationally recognized as an authority on reproductive endocrinology and has been acknowledged for his contributions to research and training of specialists in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Seminars in Reproductive Medicine and co-editor of the foundational texts Essential Reproductive Medicine and the Textbook of Reproductive Medicine.
Dr. Carr is a member of the New York Academy of Science, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Dr. Carr's practice focuses on diagnostic and treatment options for patients with infertility or endocrine problems, including those associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). His patients benefit from years of laboratory and clinical research. Among the topics he has investigated are the regulation of the expression of steroidogenic enzymes, the regulation of ovarian and adrenal androgen production, hormone therapy and menopause, endometriosis, leiomyomas, and infertility.
- Medical School
- University of Michigan Medical School (1971)
- Internship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (1972), Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Residency
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (1975), Obstetrics & Gynecology
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center (1979), Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
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- Infertility
- Menopause - Osteroporosis
- Polycystic Ovarian Disease
- Regulation of Steroidogenesis
- Uterine Leiomyomas
Featured Publications
- Oral Contraceptive Pills, Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonists, or Use in Combination for Treatment of Hirsutism: A Clinical Research Center Study.
- Carr BR, Breslau NA, Givens C, Byrd W, Barnett-Hamm C, and Marshburn PB. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1995 80 1169-1178
- Textbook of Reproductive Medicine
- Carr BR and Blackwell RE (eds) 1993 2nd edition 1-645
- Endocrine Changes During Pregnancyin a Patient with Homozygous Familial Hypobetalipoproteinemia
- Parker CR Jr, Illingworth Dr, Bissonnette J, and Carr BR. New England Journal of Medicine 1986 314 557-560
- Lipoprotein Utilization and Cholesterol Synthesis by the Human Fetal Adrenal Gland.
- Carr BR, and Simpson ER. Endocrine Reviews 1981 2 306-326
- Inverse Relationship Between LDL-Cholesterol and Dehydroisoandrosterone Sulfate in Human Fetal Plasma.
- Parker CR, Simpson ER, Bilheimer DW, Leveno K, Carr BR, and MacDonald PC. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1979 49 146-148
- Vaginal Vault Prolapse After Nonsurgical and Surgical Treatment of Mullerian Agenesis.
- Schaffer J, Fabricant C, and Carr BR. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2002 99 (5 Supp 1) 947-949
- Dissecting Human Adrenal and Androgen Production: A Review.
- Rainey WE, Carr BR, Sasano H, Suzuki T, and Mason JI. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 2002 13 234-239
- Effects of Lower Doses of Conjugated Equine Estrogens and Medroxyprogesterone Acetate on Plasma Lipids and Liproproteins, Coagulation Factors, and Carbohydrate Metabolism.
- Lobo RA, Bush T, Carr BR, and Pickar JH. Fertility and Sterility 2001 76 13-24
- Disorders of the Ovary and Female Reproductive Tract.
- Carr, BR and Bradshaw, KD Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 2001 15th ed. 2154-2172
- Metformin Directly Inhibits Androgen Production in Human Thecal Cells.
- Attia GR, Rainey WE, and Carr BR. Fertility and Sterility 2001 76 517-524
Honors & Awards
- Top Doctor - Reproductive Endocrinology; Gynecology
U.S. News and World Report (2013)
- Super Doctors in Texas 2006-2018
Reproductive Endocrinology; Obstetrics/Gynecology (2006-2018)
- Appointed member, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
- First recipient and Holder of the Paul C. MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- First prize paper
Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and 16th World Congress on Fertility and Sterility and 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (1998)
- Chairman, NIH Reproductive Endocrinology Study Section
- Listed in "The Best Doctors in America"
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The people have spoken – and party leaders Nick Clegg and David Cameron, henceforth to be known as Dick Clameron, have filled in the details.
A document released this afternoon reveals what Lib Dems and Tories have been talking about for the last four days, and what our new coalition overlords have in store for us over the next four years.
On the economy, it's the Tories who got their way on key points such as the speed of deficit reduction ("modest cuts" of £6bn will start this year) and the scrapping of Labour's "jobs tax" (aka the proposed hike in NI for next year). There will be reductions to the Child Trust Fund and tax credits for high earners. The details will follow in an emergency budget to be held within the next 50 days, or no later than 1 July.
There will be spending reviews for NHS, Schools and Defence. The former will be protected, however, with real terms spending set to increase year on year: and Trident is also safe – although Lib Dems are allowed to vote against it. [Edited to add: The replacement of Trident like-for-like with submarine-based ICBMs is not certain. The Coalition pact specifies that the UK will retain nukes of some sort, but leaves the door open for cheaper delivery options following a review of costs.]
The Lib Dems got their way on tax allowances, with a substantial hike in personal allowances to be announced in the budget – and a longer-term aim to move that allowance upward, so no one pays tax on the first £10,000 of earnings. Inheritance Tax cuts are shelved for the time being.
There is to be a banking levy, as well as a clampdown on city bonuses. We won't be joining the single currency any time soon. Also, no further transfer of power to Brussels without a referendum: support for the EU, but a robust defence of British national interests.
As expected, there will be an annual limit to the number of non-EU economic migrants – but no more detention of children for immigration purposes.
Education is mostly wait and see, although the general approach seems to be freedom to schools to act, within a broad framework of "accountability". New providers will be encouraged to set up schooling.
On civil liberties, there is much to please (most) Reg readers, including
A Freedom or Great Repeal Bill
- The scrapping of the ID card scheme, the National Identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database
- Outlawing the finger-printing of children at school without parental permission
- The extension of the scope of the Freedom of Information Act
- Adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database
- A review of libel laws to protect freedom of speech
- Safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation
- Further regulation of CCTV
- An end to storing internet and email records without good reason
- A mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences
There is also a series of environmentally friendly measures, with a hi-tech feel to them. These include:
The establishment of a smart grid and the roll-out of smart meters
- The full establishment of feed-in tariff systems in electricity – as well as the maintenance of banded ROCs
- The creation of a green investment bank
- Retention of energy performance certificates while scrapping HIPs
- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal-fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard
- The provision of a floor price for carbon, as well as efforts to persuade the EU to move towards full auctioning of ETS permits
- A mandatory national recharging network for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles
- Continued public sector investment in CCS technology for four coal-fired power plants and a specific commitment to reduce central government carbon emissions by 10 per cent within 12 months
Opt-outs, however, for the Lib Dems as they will be allowed to speak against a new nuclear power planning statement – but not vote against it.
Last but by no means least, good news for Reg readers, with "generous [tax] exemptions for entrepreneurial business activities" and measures to ensure "the flow of credit to viable SMEs".
When it comes to the personalities behind the politics, this new government is, at first sight, a lot less reactionary than it might have been. The inclusion of the Lib Dems will see to that. However, the top appointments to the Cabinet table are also relatively benign.
Ken Clarke at Justice brings back one of the soggier Tory voices from the Thatcher past, while Theresa May, described by the Beeb as a "moderniser with an exotic taste in shoes" is a particularly clever choice. By including her – and not appointing the slightly dull Chris Grayling to the Home Office – Cameron satisfies the case for bringing women forward: by giving her as well the portfolio for Women and Equalities, he makes her a true heavy-hitter in Cabinet.
William Hague may be slightly miffed at not inheriting the post of Deputy PM – which now goes to leader of the Lib Dems, Nick Clegg: but he is witty, popular and pragmatic, and likely to prove an innovative Foreign Secretary. George Osborne, the eternal bean-counter, is now Chancellor: overshadowed in recent years, his hour has finally come and we will at last find out where his real politic instincts lie.
Economist Vince Cable is likely to prove one of the most popular Lib Dem appointments, bringing his considerable experience now to Business and Banking. Chris Huhne at Energy and Climate Change is likely to prove more volatile: if there are to be any future walk-outs on issues of principle, Huhne may prove the right man with the right portfolio to do it. ®


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Student Art Competition Launched for Radcliffe Yard Garden
Speaking to the Harvard Crimson about the Radcliffe public art compeition, Dean Cohen said, "Our mission as the Radcliffe Institute is to advance work beyond the classroom, beyond the usual curriculum, and so I see the garden as a way of doing that for the arts."
American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2013 Music Award Winners
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the sixteen recipients of this year's awards in music, including Radcliffe Institute fellow, composer, and performer Kate Soper.
The Annotated Falcon
Peering into Our Blind Spots
Though the idea of implicit bias has captured the public's attention for more than a decade, former Radcliffe fellows Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald did not conceive of a book on the topic until 2004, when both spent a year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where Banaji had taken a faculty appointment in 2002. Free from their normal academic obligations and once again in the same town, they began to work on "Blindspot."
Anson Chan: Charting a Course toward Democracy
The Hong Kong Model
A Pitch-Perfect Glass Menagerie
The current production of The Glass Menagerie at the American Repertory Theater (ART) marks an historic return of actress Cherry Jones, one of the company's founding members, to its stage. Director John Tiffany called Williams's 1944 drama his favorite play when he and artistic director Diane Paulus spoke at a Radcliffe Institute event about the production in January.
China's Claim to Greatness Must Rest on its Ethics
Anson Chan, who addressed a crowd of students, faculty and the public at the Radcliffe Institute, looks forward to the day when the China can claim greatness not because of the size of its gross domestic product or scale of its military might, but with its ethical leadership.
Harvard Filmmakers in Berlin
Radcliffe fellow Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, both at Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, are screening their co-directed "Leviathan" (2012), a wordless, sensual, and phantasmagoric portrait of commercial fishing aboard a trawler out of New Bedford, Mass., at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Prestigious Royal Society Award for Nottingham Trent University Scientist
Radcliffe fellow Carole Perry, a scientist with Nottingham Trent University, received a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science.


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The Fateful Question of El País Correspondent Juan Arias
Search for the question "por que os brasileiros não reagem?" (Why don't Brazilians react?) or the phrase, "do Brazilians really not know how to react to hypocrisy and their leaders' lack of ethics?" ("Será que os brasileiros não sabem reagir à hipocrisia e à falta de ética de muitos dos que os governam?") and you will find pages upon pages of Brazilian bloggers and media outlets responding to an editorial by Juan Arias, a Brazilian correspondent of El País, and re-published in the Jornal Globo in mid-July.
Corruption scandals have brought down three ministers since President Dilma Rousseff took power, and many forget that Erenice Guerra—who was Rousseff's first lieutenant while the now-President was Chief of Staff (later to become her replacement when Rousseff joined the 2010 presidential race)— was also sent packing in late 2010 after revelations of nepotism, influence-peddling and corruption.
Unmoved by A Global Movement toward Positive Political Upheaval
Why Brazilians have not reacted strongly against so many high-level corruption dismissals is a question worth asking. Grassroots protests towards corruption and poor governance continue to erupt all around the world. Globally, we are living a moment of positive political upheaval, but Brazil seems unmoved by clear evidence that their democracy is rife with graft.
Here are three significant good governance uprisings in well-established democracies that have occurred within the last three months or so:
1. Spain's 15-M Movement or "Real Democracy Now movement!" (Democracia Real Ya!) responds to the mis-governance and corruption that has driven Spain to the brink of insolvency, resulting in unemployment rates in excess of 20 percent. Youth unemployment, at more than 40 percent, undoubtedly stands as one of the main drivers of protests. Rallies peaked in mid May, 2011, when more than 130,000 people across Spain protested poor governance, and 50,000 in Madrid alone. One of the key demands is passage of a freedom of information law, a measure promised since 2004 and only introduced to parliament a month ago. Protesters continue to engage in cat-and-mouse tactics with police and politically motivated vandalism has been rampant over the last months.
2. India's Kisan Baburao Hazare went on a hunger strike in April 2011 in order to protest governmental feet-dragging on an anti-corruption bill. The LokPal bill would create an ombudsmen to investigate corruption in government without the need for the parliament's to approve of each investigation. When a joint committee failed to meet expectations, Hazare threatened to go on another indefinite hunger strike. Thrown in jail before he could make good on the threat, urban India erupted in protests last week—in one day more than 1100 protesters ended-up in Mumbai's jails. Authorities had little choice but to release Hazare, who has now given the government a deadline of August 30th to pass the anti-corruption bill. These efforts follow in the legacy of India's 2005 Right-to-know success, in which citizen efforts led to the passage of one of the world's most advanced and efficacious freedom of information laws.
3. Chile's protests for education reform: Beginning in May and evoking concrete political responses, protesters seeking to reform Chile's complex three-tiered private-public system have conducted massive protests. One of the latest "flash protests" on August 3rd resulted in the arrest of more than 800 students and teachers. President Sebastián Piñera's public approval ratings have plummeted as a result of these protests against Chile's allegedly "neoliberal" education system.
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So why have Brazilians not responded to corruption scandals – proof of unethical governance – in the same way as protesters in Spain or India? Yes, Brazilians are doing fine economically, but India and Chile are not doing so badly either. And while Brazil has a relatively new democracy, so does Chile. So what might account for a high corruption threshold in Brazil?
Arias' question inspired pitched debates among the media, activists, and bloggers. A disturbing number of people condemned the audacity of a foreign reporter ("Arias, why don't you shut up?") for criticizing Brazil, especially in the light of Spain's current troubles. Others used Arias' article as a hook to talk about the muteness of Brazilians on other pressing issues yet to be satisfactorily addressed in Brazil, such as inequality and injustice. Some commentators on Transparencia Hacker, a listserve to which I subscribe, have fatalistically lamented the country's incorrigible political culture; and still others offered interesting explanations for the malaise of political passivity in Brazil.
"It's the PT's fault"
I am most interested in responses that address this last line of reasoning. Why don't Brazilians take to the streets? Veja's Reinaldo Azevedo advanced the hypothesis that a lack of political activism in Brazil is a direct result of nearly a decade of PT (Partido Trabalhista) government.
Azevedo views the PT to have co-opted the public domain. He says the PT has exercised a certain "monopoly" over the public space. It has achieved this dominance because it has propagated the idea that "the plaza is of the people, just as the people are of the PT."In other words, how can the public protest if the party in power is one-and-the-same as the public?
Azevedo also blames the PT for having co-opted those public actors most likely to lead protests. He alleges that the PT has bought-off most of the traditional corporatist sectors, such as the National Student Union (UNE). In this view, the ones most likely to lead protests are public-sector unions and PT-linked movements such as the Landless Movement for Agrarian Reform (Movimento Sem Terra). This corporatist perspective of protest seems to be excessively 1970s.
Finally, Azevedo blames the media, who he views to have ceded too much space to the left; so much, indeed, that the country no longer allots any space for a right-leaning discourse. In short, Azevedo views the PT to have exercised so much control over the public, traditional activists, and the media that Brazilians have become passive observers.
These are provocative explanations for Brazil's political apathy, but I think there are a couple of other hypotheses that deserve further exploration:
1. Brasilia.
They protested in New Delhi outside of parliament; they protested outside the Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid; they protested in government plazas in Santiago. But can you really expect anyone to protest in Brasilia? The city is more than a thousand kilometers away from Brazil's largest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Moreover, practically everyone who lives in Brasilia works directly or indirectly for the government. Who's to protest? When the capital was Rio de Janeiro, prior to the 1960s, this country was much more politicized. Indeed, hyper-politicization and stalemate in Congress contributed to the military coup of 1964. In short, the location of the capital renders politics distant from the everyday lives of Brazilians, literally and figuratively.
2. Brazil has come a long way in a short time.
Since hyper-inflation in the 1980s and early 1990s to stable macro-economics, stable presidents, and the deliverance of tens of millions from poverty to the working class, Brazil has made huge strides. Sure, corruption is bad, but things get done ("rouba, mas faz").
3. There's no one to blame.
In india, Chile, and Spain there are two dominant political parties or coalitions. In Brazil, party arrangements are much more fluid. Sure, it's government versus opposition, but the governing PT has less than 20 percent of seats in Congress, forcing it to form coalitions with close to a dozen parties (of 23 total). Opposition parties may join the government coalition, and government coalition members may drop out to become opposition. Two of the three Ministers who resigned from their posts were from allied, coalition parties. Should Rousseff be held responsible for parties that expect to enrich themselves at the public expense in return for their support in Congress? Who should take the blame when there are so many parties? Perhaps if there were four parties protests could be better directed…but 23?
4. Education.
The average time spent in formal education is just above seven years in Brazil. Politics is complex; and a reasonable education—formal or informal—is usually required to understand and expect basic standards of political behavior. In Chile, the average years spent in school is over nine and most importantly, the best educated of Chile's citizens live at the doorstep of power, in the protest-ready capital, Santiago.
5. What's to complain about?
The system works for the middle classes upwards, so why should these more educated sectors protest? The economy is doing well, and a strong Real means more trips to go shopping in Miami. The public sector is so large and their salaries and benefits so luxurious that they rival those of most northern countries. As I write about here, scholars Wendy Hunter and Natasha Sugiyama observed that about a quarter of Brazil's education budget goes to universities, which enroll less than two percent of the total student population (mostly from wealthier families, to be sure). Public sector corruption does result in higher taxes, but with a little ingenuity many in the elite can find ways around these annoyances. That's Brazil's got an enormous burden of value-added taxes, which tend to fall hardest on the poor. So if you're well educated, what's there to complain about?
6. Cultures of consensus.
"Tudo bom?" ("Everything good?")
"Everything's well" ("tudo bem.").
For better or for worse, Brazil is a country where it is culturally expected that people will conform to agreement, happiness, and accord. This idea is elegantly captured by Brazil's quizzical everyday greetings: "tudo bom?" (everything good?), "tudo joia?" (everything like a jewel?), "Beleza?" (beauty?). It is a place where there is a strong social aversion to discord. To question is not native to the culture. Criticism and constructive criticism are often viewed as one and the same. In short, it is the kind of place where most people would prefer to steer clear of the negative. I write about these issues in different ways, here and here. Beleza? Joia?
7. Globo
The TV network has over 70 percent of the national market and is the third largest network in the world. They own interests in newspapers, magazines, broadband, you name it. With this type of influence, you'd want to make sure that things stay even-keeled too.
I love Brazil. My children will be Brazilian. That's why I believe it's essential we debate questions like Juan Arias', to face-up to the corruption that keeps Brazil perpetually the country of the future.


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Ashley Judd may need to decide soon on Senate race
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- As Democrats encourage actress Ashley Judd to jump into Kentucky's U.S. Senate race and Republicans take every opportunity to call her a Hollywood liberal, a University of Kentucky political scientist says Judd is nearing a deadline to make a decision.
"If she doesn't declare herself in the next 10 days, I think she will have already made a very serious mistake," political scientist Ernie Yanarella said Tuesday. "She has to define herself, before she gets defined by those who are her opponents."
Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear said Tuesday he talked a second time with Judd last week and is convinced she would be "an effective and formidable" challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell.
State GOP Chairman Steve Robertson, meanwhile, sent a letter to all of the state's Democratic lawmakers raising concerns about Judd's positions on a wide range of issues that he insists are out of step with average Kentuckians. Among them were statements opposing coal, the mining of which employs some 15,000 people in the state.
Judd, a former Kentucky resident now living in Tennessee, has been talking to Democratic leaders about challenging McConnell in next year's election, but hasn't said whether she will get into the race.
Yanarella said Democrats clearly see Judd as their best chance of defeating McConnell, though he said she would need to get the focus off of her well-documented political views and onto McConnell's record.
To win the Senate seat, Yanarella said Judd would have to show that McConnell "has been so deeply absorbed in Republican Party national concerns that he has woefully neglected the pressing needs of Kentuckians."
Defeating McConnell would be the Democrats' biggest prize of the 2014 election. His seat is one of 14 that Republicans are defending while Democrats try to hold onto 21, hoping to retain or add to their 55-45 edge.
McConnell already has a hefty campaign bank account, with $7.4 million remaining of the $10 million he has already raised.
McConnell has been taunting potential Democratic challengers in a comical online video intended to make them think twice about entering the race. The video shows Judd, who has a home in the Nashville suburbs, saying "Tennessee is home" and that San Francisco is "my American city home." It also shows some of Kentucky's leading Democrats, including Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, Attorney General Jack Conway and Auditor Adam Edelen, saying they won't run against McConnell.
The Republican-leaning group American Crossroads is assailing Judd in its own online video that also plays up the fact that she lives in Tennessee, and that she campaigned for President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in Kentucky.
Kentucky House Republican Leader Jeff Hoover said getting Judd into the race would be a boon for the state GOP because of her liberal views.
"I hope she does enter the race," Hoover said. "I think if she becomes a candidate for U.S. Senate, it will almost guarantee that we will become the majority party in the Kentucky House. Her statements on coal, her statements on traditional values are way outside what every day, hardworking Kentuckians think."
Hoover said Judd has proven a distraction for the Legislature.
"We can't seem to get pension reform done or any of the other things we need to get done because House Democratic leadership is too concerned about who has talked to Ashley, who didn't talk to her, and who she called or didn't call," Hoover said. "I just think we need to get past someone who lives in Tennessee and focus on Kentucky problems."
Beshear said his last conversation with Judd was via telephone.
"I would say without getting into the specifics of the conversation that I'm convinced she is seriously considering a race for the U.S. Senate," he said. "And we'll see where it goes."
Conway said he believes any well-known Democrat who can raise money and can articulate a positive vision for Kentucky can beat McConnell.
"He's vulnerable because he's become the poster boy for the gridlock in Washington," Conway said.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo said the outcry from Republicans about Judd entering the race is telling.
"They're scared," he said.


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text: PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13-07 Contacts: Investors - Kip Rupp, CFA Media - Stephanie Moreland Quanta Services, Inc. 713-629-7600 QUANTA SERVICES NAMES GÉRARD SONNIER GENERAL COUNSEL HOUSTON, March 14, 2013 — Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) today announced that Gérard Sonnier has joined the company as vice president and general counsel. Sonnier, 54, comes to Quanta after serving as vice president, assistant general counsel, litigation and chief Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance officer with Waste Management, Inc. There, Sonnier provided strategic litigation leadership and was responsible for developing and implementing Waste Management's FCPA compliance program. "Gérard brings a breadth of experience and legal expertise from Fortune 200 and energy companies to Quanta," said Jim O'Neil, president and chief executive officer of Quanta Services, Inc. "He has extensive contract management and enterprise risk management experience, and we are pleased to have Gérard leading our legal team as Quanta continues to grow and leverage its leadership position in the energy infrastructure markets we serve." Sonnier brings three decades of broad-based experience in both general counsel and chief compliance officer roles with two Fortune 200 companies. Prior to joining Waste Management, Inc., he served as acting general counsel and chief compliance counsel with Baker Hughes Incorporated, one of the world's largest oilfield services companies. Prior to that he worked in private practice with several law firms over the course of 15 years where he represented and advised many energy and oilfield clients in a wide variety of complex legal matters. Sonnier received his Juris Doctor degree (cum laude) from Tulane University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Colorado. He is a member of the Louisiana and Texas State Bar Associations, a member of the Bar Association of the Federal Fifth Circuit, a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States and was on the Board of Directors of the Houston General Counsel Forum. ABOUT QUANTA SERVICES Quanta Services is a leading specialized contracting services company, delivering infrastructure solutions for the electric power and natural gas and pipeline industries. Quanta's comprehensive services include designing, installing, repairing and maintaining network infrastructure. Additionally, Quanta licenses point-to-point fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure in certain markets and offers related design, procurement, construction and maintenance services. 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Hope's soccer teams have a busy first weekend of action with games scheduled for Friday and Saturday (Aug. 29-30).
Hope's soccer teams have a busy first weekend of action with games scheduled for Friday and Saturday (Aug. 29-30).
The Flying Dutchmen will be at home co-hosting with Calvin the Bergsma Memorial Tournament while the Flying Dutch will be traveling to St. Louis, Mo. for a pair of games against Division III opponents.
The Bergsma Memorial Tournament honors the memory of Dr. Calvin Bergsma who died tragically in a car accident during the summer of 2001. A 1967 graduate of CalvinCollege, Dr. Bergsma was a West Michigan urologist who was known as a kind-hearted man who cared deeply for everyone. Dr. Bergsma was particularly close to his friends at both Calvin and Hope . He had family ties to both institutions as his wife Gwen (1968) and son Corwyn (1996) are Calvin graduates while his son Clayton is a 2000 Hope graduate. Clayton was a four-year member of the Hope men's soccer team while Corwyn was a four-year member of the Calvin men's basketball program.
On Friday Hope will host Aquinas while Calvin will entertain Goshen, Ind. in games beginning at 4 p.m. The team will switch opponents on Saturday, Hope hosting Goshen and Calvin entertaining Aquinas in games beginning at 2 p.m.
The tournament started in 2001. Wheaton won the 2007 championship. Calvin's title was in 2006 while Hope has not been championship since 2002.
The Flying Dutch will be playing a pair of first-time opponents in night games at the Washington University Invitational. On Friday the Dutch will play Transylvania, Ky. (6 p.m.) and then Saturday will meet the host Washington University Bears (8 p.m.). The Flying Dutch will make their home debut against Cornerstone on Wednesday, Sept. 3.
The Flying Dutchmen will be aiming to be right in the thick of the 2008 conference race while aiming to build on the most successful decade of Hope men's soccer.
A year ago the Flying Dutchmen finished second behind rival Calvin in the standings of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and posted an overall 13-6-1 record. Through seven seasons of the new millennium the Flying Dutchmen have won nearly 80% of they games (117-34-10) with four conference championships and four appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs.
Coach Steven Smith begins his 19th season at the helm of men's soccer program. He ranks among the winningest NCAA Division III coaches with a career record of 251-85-23.
The pre-season roster includes 20 returning letterwinners, including five players who received All-MIAA honors in 2007. The team returns eight of its top nine scorers.
Tri-captains of the team will be junior Chris Harrison of Plymouth, Minn. (Wayzata HS), senior Kevin McMahon of Grand Rapids, Mich. (Forest Hills Central HS), and senior James Trebilcock of Haslett, Mich. (Haslett HS).
Trebilcock and junior Kevin Bartosek of Traverse City, Mich. (Traverse West HS) were named to the All-MIAA first team in 2007 while Kevin McMahon, senior Mitchell Currie of Fort Collins, Colo. (Fort Collins HS) and senior John Turner of East Kentwood, Mich. (East Kentwood HS) were All-MIAA second team selections. Senior Jack Abe of Naperville, Ill. (Naperville North HS) was an All-MIAA first team honoree in 2006. Trebilcock, Abe and junior Ausable Schwiebert of Chelsea, Mich. (Chelsea HS) were named MIAA players of the week in 2007.
Other returning letterwinners include junior Justin Bailey of Portage, Mich. (Portage Northern HS), sophomore Ross Bailey of Ogden Dunes, Ind. (Portage HS), sophomore Riley Byrnes of Michigan City, Ind. (Michigan City HS), sophomore Ryan Cotter of Zeeland, Mich. (Zeeland East HS), sophomore Daniel Glaser of Ann Arbor, Mich. (Lenawee Christian HS), sophomore Andrew Goorhouse of Caledonia, Mich. (East Kentwood HS), junior John Herbert of Culver, Ind. (Culver Academies), sophomore Andrew Nichols of Traverse City, Mich. (Traverse City West HS), junior Anthony Palazzolo of Warren, Mich. (DeLaSalle HS), and sophomore Aaron Van Andel of Ada, Mich. (Grand Rapids Christian HS).
Formed around a nucleus of returning letterwinners, the Flying Dutch are in a good position to be a title challenger in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association this fall.
Coach Leigh Sears' will build the team around 19 letterwinners from a team that tied for third place in the MIAA last fall and posted an overall 10-8-1 record. Coach Sears begins her eighth season at the helm of Hope women's soccer. Over seven seasons she had guided the Flying Dutch to two conference championships while posting a 74-52-9 overall record.
The roster of 27 players includes eight freshmen, 11 sophomores, one junior and seven seniors.
Tri-captains of the team are junior Kirsten Kaufmann of Clio, Mich. (Flint Powers HS), senior Sonya Masghati of Naperville, Ill. (Naperville Central HS), and senior Ellen Molenaar of Portage, Mich. (Portage Central HS).
Sophomore Courtney Cook of Grand Rapids (Forest Hills Central HS) and senior Allison Van Beek of Libertyville, Ill. (Libertyville HS) were named to the All-MIAA first team in 2007. Van Beek is a three-time All-MIAA honoree, twice as a first teamer (2006 and 2077) and once on the second team (2005). Cook was named the MIAA defensive player of the week twice in 2007. Ellen Molenaar was an All-MIAA second team honoree in 2006.
The Flying Dutch return the three goalkeepers who in 2007 allowed just 26 goals over 19 games while gaining five shutouts - senior Kelly Schaefer of Fenton, Mich. (Linden HS), sophomore Kelsey Bos of Holland, Mich. (Holland HS) and sophomore Kirsten Bonzelaar of Holland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS).
Other senior returning letterwinners are Kimmy Gordon of Caledonia (South Christian HS), Suzi Knowles of North Folk, Calif. (Ysemite HS), and Sarah Sosolik of Oswego, Mich. (Oswego HS).
Other returning letterwinners include sophomore Emily Baracy of Canton, Mich. (Canton HS), sophomore Mallory Fox of Livonia, Mich. (Livonia Stevenson HS), sophomore Bethany Kicz of Ada, Mich. (Forest Hills Central HS), sophomore Katie Lovinger of Hillsdale, Mich. (Hillsdale HS), sophomore Kara Marsman of Holland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS), sophomore Lauren Miller of San Diego, Calif. (University City HS), and sophomore Kristen Schwenk of Midland, Mich. (HH Dow HS).


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So you're thinking about leveraging content? Before you write your eBook or webinar slides, you'll want to try and make sure your topic
Wendy Montes de Oca
If your goal is acquisition, Google's pay per click AdWords platform has proved for many to be a viable way to increase leads or sales
For those of you who haven't heard this term, a squeeze page is basically a short landing page with one main purpose — to "squeeze" the
I've heard many gurus, marketers and publishers brag about their social media followers. They'll say things like, "Isn't it great … I've got 10,000 fans on Facebook" or "I have more than 15,000 followers on Twitter." Then I'll ask them how many free e-newsletter subscribers they have. And they'll reply, "I haven't had time to build a list yet. I don't have an e-newsletter."
Whether your goal is cross-selling or lead generation, interstitials are a great way to get your website visitors' attention and take action. According to adspeed.com, an interstitial ad is a full-page ad that appears before (on top of) the actual webpage. This illustration is a sample. Your webmaster or Web programmer can easily put this in place via an html script. In a nutshell, it's an ad in the front/center of the screen (some sites even keep the ad in place if you scroll up or down, which I find annoying).
This is going to be a short post. First, a caveat: No one SEO tactic is the end-all be-all, in and of itself. It is part of a bigger picture using other SEO tactics. So, emphasizing keywords alone will be useless. Several SEO tactics need to be part of your overall SEO plan. Second, I'd like to clarify that there are different points of view on this. However, many webmasters still believe certain tactics—such as alt tags/attributes and keyword emphasis, such as bold, underline, italics—although they aren't critical to overall SEO, certainly don't hurt efforts.
Anyone who's involved in Internet marketing can tell you that Penguin is more than a cute little seabird that lives in Antarctica. The Penguin 2.0 algorithm was released by Google in October 2013 and basically penalized websites for having unnatural, irrelevant, low-quality, spammy backlinks. Those that may come from link farms or sites that pay for backlinks.
Pay per click (PPC), particularly Google AdWords, is a marketing channel that can produce profitable results for your business, whether your goal is lead generation or sales. I have been managing PPC for businesses, as an in-house marketing leader as well as marketing consultant, for over a decade now. Though the years, I have noticed many secrets to success that I wanted to share—especially with business owners and marketers that haven't tried PPC yet.
OK, I know what you're thinking … viable leads typically don't come from sweepstakes and contests. And when not done correctly, that's exactly right. However, just as any online direct response tactic, this one is no different. Over the years, sweepstakes marketing has become refined through testing and targeting. And since the boom in social media, sweepstakes are more popular than ever. But before you embark on this tactic, there are a few core concepts to know—as well as best practices.
If you're an Internet marketer, you know there are several online channels you can leverage without paying upfront for advertising, such as some banner ads or pay per click. Three online channels that are super-hot and showing no signs of slowing down include content marketing, social marketing and search marketing (organic). Each of these online channels have one thing in common: They all maximize content.
Sure, fulfillment and inserts aren't as sexy as other forms of marketing, but they can be viable ways to bring in steady, ancillary revenues. I've seen some online publishers bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars with a carefully thought-out insert program. For instance, taking a direct mail control piece and adding it in customer fulfillment packages as an insert. A no-brainer, right? Wrong! You'll be surprised how many businesses are leaving money on the table by not doing this.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, corporation or online publisher, the power of the lead is critical in growing your business … and your email list. Leads, also known as prospects, are typically the entry level point of the sales funnel.
Most people know Web 2.0 is simply the evolution of the Internet into an environment of interactivity, reader participation and usability. Web 2.0 opens up the dialog between user and website or blog. This connection can help generate traffic and a viral buzz.
As the social media landscape grows with both mainstream and specialized sites, so will the creative ways to communicate to friends, followers and fans. Although the current social network behemoths are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, other venues like Pinterest and Google+ are also carving out a niche for themselves. And MySpace still has a strong foothold amongst the younger demographic. But don't forget that social marketing isn't just for networks. Forums, chat rooms, message boards and blogs are the granddaddies of Web 2.0. These venues are where socializing and interacting in communities originated. Some call it old school, others an untapped resource when used correctly in your online marketing mix. However, before you starting posting away, it's a good idea to know the "best practices" that help make up a successful social marketing program.
Media buying, or online advertising, is more than just a Web strategy to help grow your business. It's both a science and an art. It involves a bit of finesse, competitive research, creativity and good negotiation skills.


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And now, some Shameful Moments In Bat-Killing History, courtesy of the bat in the Bradley Center during the Providence-Marquette Game:
The two sides then ceded their territory to the bat. Game over. The bat won:
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Not really—when the lights went back on, the bat had disappeared into a crevice of the Bradley Center, to plot its revenge. We'll always have the GIF—all 6'10 of Sidiki Johnson, bobbing and weaving when faced with a tiny flying animal. Expect the bat to rank somewhere in the top 25 when this week's AP poll comes out.