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Even Clark Howard's remodel went 15% over budget
Ever listen to consumer advocate and talk show host Clark Howard? He's the biggest dork in America, according to one listener.
If you haven't heard him, let me tell you that Clark is very careful with his money. He's a self-made millionaire, yet he's unremittedly frugal: driving an economy car, eating at budget restaurants, buying his suits at thrift stores.
So when Clark Howard does a major home remodel, wouldn't you think he of all people would not suffer a bloated budget the way the rest of us do?
According to Clark on Thursday's show, his own remodel — which includes an atrium and redone master bathroom — has gone 15% over the budget. Clark says it's hard for him to admit this, but basically he's OK with it.
So if one of the most tenacious cheapskates in America ends up paying a little more than budgeted, and his project takes longer than expected, as it has, well, it seems to me the rest of us should just expect that to happen.
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Sports News
Lady Lynx open season with 2 victories
By Justin Tierney
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05, 2012]
As far as hosts go, the Lady
Lynx were unkind to their visitors this weekend.
The Lady Lynx tallied two
wins in their season-opening tournament at the Lincoln Center,
defeating Wilbur Wright Community College 72-16 on Friday night
before downing Moraine Valley Community College 60-47 on Saturday
Coach Carol Wilson and her team used a similar formula to win
both games: swarming defense complemented by accurate 3-point
shooting on the offensive end. The Lady Lynx sank 10 of 26 3-point
attempts in the two games, while forcing 63 turnovers from their
opponents. Lincoln College held Wilbur Wright to just 10 percent
shooting from the field in their first game, then held Moraine
Valley to 25 percent shooting in their second contest.
The second game was the more competitive of the two contests.
Lincoln College 60, Moraine Valley 47
The Lady Lynx cruised out to a 34-20 lead in Saturday's contest,
but a rash of turnovers would trouble them just before halftime,
which limited their advantage to only 36-32 at intermission.
Pesky defense would allow Lincoln College to pull away, though,
in the second half, as the Lady Lynx would extend their lead to as
much as 58-38. Moraine Valley shot just 4 of 27 from the field in
the second half.
"Today we got out to a good start," said Wilson. "We had them
down early by playing good defense, and we did a pretty good job on
the boards. We hit the open shot without trying to do too much
offensively; then we kind of let it slip away because of some
careless mistakes."
Those careless mistakes materialized into turnovers. Lincoln
College finished the game with 31 turnovers in all.
The Lady Lynx used a 64-48 rebounding edge to help limit the
problems caused by their turnovers.
"If you can play defense and rebound, you can stay in the game,"
said Wilson. "And defense and rebounding are two things you don't
have to be athletic or tall to do. I stress that because we aren't
tall and we have to do all of the little things on defense to combat
the mismatches we're going to have because of our height."
Lincoln College was led by Ally Friday, who finished with 13
points and also had three blocked shots. Freshman Cassidy Jennings
finished with 11 points, including three 3-pointers, and had five
assists. LCHS graduate Edraniel Tookes finished with six points and
nine rebounds.
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Lincoln College 72, Wilbur Wright 16
The Lady Lynx also used a fast start to their benefit in their
first contest, pouncing on Wilbur Wright to take a 44-3 halftime
The game's outcome was never really in jeopardy from that point,
and Wilson was able to use every available player for significant
minutes. Eleven players in all got into the scoring column for
Lincoln College.
"It's early. I want to give them all a chance to see what they
can do. But it's going to take all of them," said Wilson. "I think
if I have more people step up, then that will take some of the
pressure off of Ally. My biggest concern coming in was how many
double teams Ally would see. (On Saturday) they tried double-teaming
her and other people stepped up. That's what it's going to take."
Tookes led Lincoln in scoring, finishing with 13 points and six
rebounds. Jennings added 12 points while Friday added 10 points.
Sophomores Erika Spiller and Jessica Miller added eight points and
seven points respectively.
Wilson was pleased with Tookes' performance throughout the
weekend, both on offense and in terms of rebounding.
"She's doing little things right. Ed is getting a real feel for
the game now. She knows what to expect," said Wilson. "I wish she
was 4 inches taller. She uses her body so well, I just wish she had
that other 4 inches to get those rebounds that she's just missing by
fingertips. That's all I ask her to do is play hard.
"I think she and Cassidy played great for their first two games
as freshmen. They've come in, done the little things right; they
haven't panicked. They've made some mistakes, but I'm OK with that
as they try to learn from them."
While content with two victories, Wilson is hoping to see her
team improve in limiting their turnovers over their three games this
week. The Lady Lynx travel to Sauk Valley on Monday night before
hosting Black Hawk East and Lakeland on Wednesday and Saturday.
"I am pleased with the first two games. We played well," said
Wilson. "Hopefully in the next week, especially before we play
Lakeland, we can work on handling pressure a little bit better."
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Marketing In Motorsports On The Rise, But Still Lags Behind Average Spend In Sports
February 13, 2011: The economy is still challenged and marketing nationwide is still adjusting to the ebb and flow of the monetary tides. But with the 2011 auto racing season upon us and Nascar's "Super Bowl," the Daytona 500 coming up on Feb. 20, marketing and sponsorship spending in the industry is showing some healthy signs of life.
In 2011, North American-based companies will spend an estimated $3.51 billion to sponsor teams, tracks and sanctioning bodies this year, up 4.2% from $3.37 billion spent in 2010, according to the IEG Sponsorship Report from Chicago-based marketing and consulting firm IEG.
This would be the second consecutive season of spending rise for the sport following a 2.1% increase in 2010, which came on the heels of a 6% decline from 2009 to 2010.
However, the increase in motorsports-related spending is still behind what IEG says is a 5.9% increase in overall sponsorship spending and 6.1% growth for all sports properties.
"Without a doubt, the tide has turned in terms of corporate interest in motorsports. Although it's still a difficult sales environment, corporate purse strings have significantly loosened as compared to the last several years," William Chipps, IEG Sponsorship Report senior editor, said in a statement.
According to Chipps, with the exception of several new deals with the Izod IndyCar Series, most recent activity has occurred at the team and track level, not with sanctioning bodies.
Among the deals for the upcoming season highlighted by IEG are Penske Racing's new sponsors and expanded deals with existing partners. New partners include Coca-Cola, GuidePoint Systems, Meijer, Shell Oil and Kimberly-Clark division Wypall Wipers.
Other notable deals at the team level include AARP's primary sponsor for 22 races a year of Hendrick Motorsports' Nascar Sprint Cup Series entry driven by Jeff Gordon with a "Drive to End Hunger" initiative; truck manufacturer Navistar International's multiyear partnership with Roush Fenway Racing and Stanley Black & Decker/s renewal with Richard Petty Motorsports.
"Although it's still a difficult sales environment, corporate purse strings have significantly loosened as compared to the last several years."
At the track level, Lowe's will title the March 6 Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on behalf of its Kobalt Tools brand, while Performance Enhancing Meat Snack this year will kick off a full season with Int'l Speedway Corp.'s tracks — as well as Richard Petty Motorsports —o n behalf of its caffeinated Perky Jerky meat snack.
Among sanctioning bodies, the Izod IndyCar Series has signed new partnerships for 2011 that include wholesale insurance marketer Global Corporate Alliance and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's Sheraton brand. However, Nascar and the NHRA "have not announced any significant league-wide deals" as yet, according to IEG.


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Excitement and sadness mingled as the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics kicked off after the tragic death of an athlete dampened the mood leading up to the glittering event.
Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili's training-run death was recognized at the opening gala when a huge screen was emblazoned with the message that the ceremony was dedicated to him. The athlete from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia was killed earlier today when he wiped out violently on the luge track that is widely believed to be the fastest in the world.
A probe Friday night revealed that the Olympic track was not to blame for the athlete's death, which Olympic officials attributed to human error and Kumaritashvili's failure to compensate as he sped around a turn at nearly 90 mph.
After the Canadian anthem was sung at the opening ceremony, the traditional parade of athletes from participating nations proceeded -- with the contingent from Georgia, all wearing black bands around their arms, receiving a standing ovation in recognition of their loss.
Near the end of the ceremony, a moment of silence was observed and the Canadian and Olympic flags were lowered to half-staff in honor of Kumaritashvili.
"This is a very sad day," a visibly shaken Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, said before the ceremony. "The IOC is in deep mourning."
Still, the show went on with every seat inside the domed 60,600-seat BC Place Stadium filled for the event that began with a snowboarder leaping in between giant Olympic rings and featured many of Canada's best-known musical stars, as well as aboriginal drummers and Celtic fiddlers.
The Canadian team marched exultantly behind flagbearer Clara Hughes, defending gold medalist in the 5,000-meter speedskating race. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was among the thousands in the stadium rising to applaud.
Just ahead in the parade were the Americans. Their flagbearer is Mark Grimmette, 39, of Muskegon, Mich., competing in his fifth Olympics as a doubles luge competitor. Kumaritashvili would have been one of his Olympic rivals.
The cultural segment of ceremony featured many of Canada's best-known musical stars — including Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado, Sarah McLachlan and k.d. lang.
The ceremony climaxed with the Olympic cauldron being lit jointly by Canadian sports heroes — all-time hockey great Wayne Gretzky, skier Nancy Greene, and basketball All-Star Steve Nash.
Canadian speedskater Catriona LeMay Doan, originally supposed to light the fourth torch, was unable to join the lighting when an apparent mechanical glitch prevented the lighting to go off as planned and one of the four towers used to send a flame to the cauldron failed to emerge from the ground. It was a rare misstep in a carefully choreographed and successfully executed affair.
Later, a larger outdoor cauldron was lit by Gretzky alone.The cauldron, displayed in a plaza along the downtown waterfront, gave
Vancouver an outside, visible symbol to be viewed throughout the Games.
About 2,500 athletes from a record 82 countries are participating in the games, vying for medals in 86 events - including the newly added skicross competition. First-time Winter Olympic participants include the Cayman Islands, Columbia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, Peru and Serbia.
The overall favorites include Germany and the United States - which finished first and second four years ago in Turin - and also Canada, a best-ever third in 2006 and now brashly proclaiming its intention to finish atop the medals table on its home turf. The parade of nations at the opening ceremony starts with Greece and ends with the host country.


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A night after winning their 71st game in a row, the UConn women took on West Virginia in the Big East Championship game.
The women wasted no time and extended their streak to 72 consecutive wins. They pounced on the Mountaineers from the tip-off, and won the game with a final score of 60-32.
Kalana Greene lead the game 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Huskies, earning herself outstanding player honors for the Women's Big East Tournament. Liz Repella led the Mountaineers with 10 points and a rebound.
The Huskies were up 27-10 with a little under seven minutes left in the first half, but the Mountaineers mounted a 18-6 run that spanned the rest of the first half and five minutes into the second half, bringing the score to 33-38.
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The UConn women have won five out of the last six Big East titles, and 16 Big East titles in school history. They will enter the NCAA tournament unbeaten for the fifth time in school history, and are a sure-fire number one seed going into the tournament.


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From the Eclipses feed
The Moon will pass through the Earth's shadow between 15:56 and 19:29 EST, creating a total lunar eclipse. The eclipse will be visible any location where the Moon is above the horizon at the time, including from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
It will be visible from Cambridge in the eastern sky. The Moon will lie 15° above the horizon at the midpoint of the eclipse.
The total eclipse will last from 17:16 until 18:09. The Moon will be partially eclipsed between 15:56 and 19:29 (all times given in Cambridge time).
The simulation to the right shows Moon's path relative to the Earth's shadow. The outer grey circle is the Earth's penumbra, within which the Earth blocks part of the Sun's light, making the Moon appear less bright than usual, but not completely dark. The inner black circle is the umbra, within which the Earth entirely blocks the Sun's light, making the Moon's disk appear entirely unilluminated.
By default the eclipse is drawn with the local vertical in Cambridge uppermost (Zenith up), so that it is orientated as you would see it looking up at the Moon. The compass shows the direction of celestial north relative to the local vertical. Alternatively, you can orientate the sky with celestial north orientated uppermost, by selecting the option North up.
Selecting the option Diagram of Moon's path produces a static display of the Moon's path over the duration of the eclipse.
The lower panel of the simulation shows the Sun's position relative to the horizon as seen from Cambridge.
Observing the eclipse
Eclipses of the Moon are easy to watch with the unaided eye. A modest pair of binoculars will give a superb view of the Moon's surface, but are not required. Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are entirely safe to look at without the need to look through any kind of filter.
They occur whenever the Earth passes between the Moon and Sun, such that it obscures the Sun's light and casts a shadow onto the Moon's surface.
When the Moon's disk lies entirely in shadow, it often takes on a spectacular reddy-brown color, as some of the Sun's red light is bent around the edge of the Earth's globe by its atmosphere.
Sequence of events
The eclipse will begin at 14:44, when the Moon first enters a region of the Earth's shadow called the penumbra. In this outer part of the Earth's shadow, an observer on the Moon would see the Earth partially obscuring the Sun's disk, but not completely covering it. As a result the Moon's brightness will begin to dim, as it is less strongly illuminated by the Sun, but it remains illuminated.
At 15:56, the edge of the Moon's disk will enter the Earth's umbra. This is the region of space in which an observer on the Moon's surface would see the Earth completely obscuring the whole of the Sun's disk, and would find themselves suddenly thrust into darkness.
As an increasing fraction of the Moon's face creeps into the Earth's umbra, we see our planet's circular shadow sweep across the face of the Moon.
Eventually the Moon will pass entirely within the Earth's umbra at 17:16, and the total eclipse will begin.
The table below lists the times when each part of the eclipse will begin and end.
|Moon begins to enter the Earth's penumbra
|Moon begins to enters the Earth's umbra. Partial eclipse begins.
|Moon fully within Earth's umbra. Total eclipse begins.
|Midpoint of eclipse
|Moon begins to leave the Earth's umbra. Total eclipse ends.
|Moon fully outside the Earth's umbra. Partial eclipse ends.
|Moon leaves the Earth's penumbra
The eclipse geometry
Lunar eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned in an almost exact straight line, with the Earth in the middle, such that the Earth casts a shadow onto the Moon. The diagram to the right shows this geometry, though for clarity the Moon is drawn much closer to the Earth than it really is.
The Moon passes close to this configuration every month, when it is at full moon, but because the Moon's orbit around the Earth is tipped up by 5° relative to the Earth's orbit around the Sun, the alignment of the three bodies into a straight line usually isn't exact.
In the diagram to the right, the grid represents the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. As it circles the Earth, the Moon passes through the Earth–Sun plane twice each month, at the points on the left and right labelled as nodes. A lunar eclipse results when one of these node crossings happens to coincide with full moon, which happens roughly once every six months.
Visibility of the eclipse
Eclipses of the Moon are visible anywhere where the Moon is above the horizon at the time. Since the geometry of lunar eclipses requires that the Moon is directly opposite the Sun in the sky, the Moon can be seen above the horizon anywhere where the Sun is beneath the horizon.
The map below shows where the eclipse of December 20 will be visible.
Further information
This eclipse is a member of Saros series 135. The exact position of the Moon at the midpoint of the eclipse is as follows:
|Right Ascension
|Angular Size
|The Moon
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
|The sky on 22 November 2019
25 days old
All times shown in EST.
These eclipse predictions were computed by the author based on the DE405 planetary ephemeris computed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The position of the Sun, Earth and Moon were extracted from the DE405 files using EphemerisCompute, which was written by the author and is freely available for download.
They assume that the Earth and Moon are both ellipsoids with fixed polar and equatorial radii, and do not take into account the irregular topography of either body. All eclipse predictions are made at sea level. In practice, this means that the predictions presented here are inaccurate by at most of few seconds.
Additional information was taken from:
Espanak, F., & Meeus, J., Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000, NASA Technical Publication TP-2009-214172 (2009)
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An independent developer with an insane attention to detail launching the first of a planned series of iOS applications.
People looking for a cutting edge, simple tablet web browsing experience that blends well with the stock iPad look and applications.
I'm looking for an icon to represent Hydra, a new innovative way of browsing the web on multiple displays with the iPad.
The icon should be a representation of a hydra, a multi-headed sea creature from Greek mythology.
The hydra should have an odd number of between 3 and 9 heads.
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Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition has moved 5 million digital copies
Mojang has announced more sales figures for the Minecraft franchise, by stating that Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition hit the 5 million sold mark on December 31. The news was announced via Twitter by the firm's Daniel Kaplan. Yesterday, Markus Persson stated the series sold 453,000 copies across all platforms on December 25, 2012, bringing the […]
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Mojang "really bored" of Minecraft clones, but won't sue makers
Mojang has confirmed it won't sue developers who make clones of Minecraft, but says it's "bored" with those already there.
Mojang: No plans for Vita Minecraft port, Scrolls possible
Mojang isn't too keen on bringing Minecraft to PlayStation Vita, as confirmed in a webchat interview this evening.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition update delayed due to bugs
Mojang's delayed the release of an update for Minecraft: Pocket Edition due to the discover of bugs in the update. Mojang designer Daniel Kaplan said on Twitter the team had discovered "bugs bugs bugs." The update is due to be out soon, though. Thanks, PocketGamer.
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Minecraft Pocket Edition – which Android users can get for 10 cents, by the way – will updated with some of the survival features of the core release.
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Minecraft developer Mojang has admitted that its looking into the possibility of co-publishing titles from other independent developers.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1593?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Shai Erera updated LUCENE-1593: ------------------------------- Attachment: LUCENE-1593.patch * Removed the leftover references to Query#scoresDocInOrder. * Removed the text from CHANGES * I don't think we should do anything in TFC for now. It will only save one 'if' and adding sentinel values is not so trivial. Maybe leave it for a specializer code? > Optimizations to TopScoreDocCollector and TopFieldCollector > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1593 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1593 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Search > Reporter: Shai Erera > Fix For: 2.9 > > Attachments: LUCENE-1593.patch, LUCENE-1593.patch, LUCENE-1593.patch, LUCENE-1593.patch, PerfTest.java > > > This is a spin-off of LUCENE-1575 and proposes to optimize TSDC and TFC code to remove unnecessary checks. The plan is: > # Ensure that IndexSearcher returns segements in increasing doc Id order, instead of numDocs(). > # Change TSDC and TFC's code to not use the doc id as a tie breaker. New docs will always have larger ids and therefore cannot compete. > # Pre-populate HitQueue with sentinel values in TSDC (score = Float.NEG_INF) and remove the check if reusableSD == null. > # Also move to use "changing top" and then call adjustTop(), in case we update the queue. > # some methods in Sort explicitly add SortField.FIELD_DOC as a "tie breaker" for the last SortField. But, doing so should not be necessary (since we already break ties by docID), and is in fact less efficient (once the above optimization is in). > # Investigate PQ - can we deprecate insert() and have only insertWithOverflow()? Add a addDummyObjects method which will populate the queue without "arranging" it, just store the objects in the array (this can be used to pre-populate sentinel values)? > I will post a patch as well as some perf measurements as soon as I have them. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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My kids' last day of school is today and I really can't even wrap my head around the fact that this year has already ended. I mean, we JUST moved here before the school year had started and if the school year is over, that means that I like OFFICIALLY live in Arizona or something, doesn't it? Even my seven year old daughter remarked that this year went by really fast, and nothing at all ever goes by really fast for seven year old girls. One minute, I had a bright eyed and bushy tailed 1st grader, and two eager boys ready to enter jr high and high school all shiny and Axe'd to the gills. Now I have three large kids all somewhere on the pubery-spectrum, and all completely over it.
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Even my seven year old daughter is so totally over bathing, and this is the kid who just last year would take baths for days. I could plop her in the tub and go write an entire novel; she'd stay there, happily waterlogging away, for as long as I'd let her.
Of course, every blessing usually turns into a curse, if you just wait long enough. Case in point.
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Those days of her daudling away hours in the tub are long gone, just like this school year is, but she takes swimming lessons so she's at least getting a decent chlorine-dunk twice a week.
Her brothers both take MMA. With adult UFC fighters.
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So I'm pretty excited to spend all day, every day, for the next 70 days or so with them in our adorable, but not terribly large, house in the middle of the god-forsaken desert during summer.
And I haven't even started thinking about the trail of tears these children leave behind them everywhere they go. My son was home for 27 minutes today and it took me an hour to clean up the mess he made in that time. And then I remembered that it would have only taken me 16 seconds to yell at him for making it, and then I could have spent the rest of that hour watching him clean up after himself and knitting scarves for the winter THAT NEVER COMES HERE. I am slow, but I get there eventually.
Anyway. I've gone off topic. The topic at hand is the fact that my children are kind of gross, a-little-more-than-un motivated, and out of school for the summer, and (I think) competing for title of Best Mess Maker in Least Amount of Time. I call this The Alice Coup'r.
Or maybe their no-showering teenage-goopy butts are stuck in a tiny little house with me all summer long, because lord knows it's too hot to check the mail before 2:37 am, and what they are about to do to my poor house can only really be described as Stick(y)holm Syndrome.
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Pray and Do Not Lose Heart (Luke 18)
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(By The Way) This letter is coming from South Shore Massachusetts, not the Bible Belt. "People from every tribe nation, and tongue!" (^_^)
you are right. I went to the TBS website and did a quick check of their articles of faith and some other articles. no doubt it is the kjv.
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Neil wrote:Banned, see http://www.thedcl.org/bible/kjv-1611/index.html for the "real thing." The facsimile of the 1611 Gospel of Luke contains the very footnote about a textual variant for Luke 17:36 that my Zondervan reproduces. Other footnotes that I spot-checked were the same too, so I have reason to believe Zondervan was faithful to the original.So the 1611 KJV itself is "guilty" of engendering "doubt" about the text by noting manuscript variants. Whether the footnotes are "negative" or not is beside the point.
But I'll be watching here to see if people more informed than I am on manuscripts and such have things to add to the discussion.
Thanks for pointing this out. Iron sharpeneth iron. God bless.
FEW: "not many persons or things".
Maybe to be more specific I should have used 'minimal'.
Also from Webster Online:
MANY: "consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number".
Maybe to be more specific I should have used myriad, countless, innumerable, untold number.
Comparing the alternate readings in the AV to the enormous number of confusing textual & manuscript footnotes in the NKJV is like comparing a spring shower to the Genesis flood.
I do put the KJV on a pedestal in the sense that it is far and above in every way anything else that's available. I can read it cover to cover, over and over and never once have cause to question the validity of a single one of God's Words. Not only did the translators explain everything they did and why (TTTR) but they even went to the trouble of placing the words in italics that are necessary for clarity. Do you think the 'translators' of the NKJV bothered with anything close to that? No. They created a monstrosity that causes those seeking God's words to man to wonder if it's even possible to know for certain whether they exist.
"They don't ever call into question the validity or trustworthiness of the words or phrasing that they reference. They just offer a few true 'alternate readings'."
From Wikipedia: "special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves"
"As for the few alternate readings..."
Please tell us what "few" in the KJV amounts to, versus "many" for the NKJV.
Thru the years I've tried some of the others. I used the NEB and Living Bible when I was a teenager (1970s) but kept coming back to the AV. I tried the NKJV when it first came out but it was probably the worst of the lot. I spilled orange juice all over it one morning and considered it a good excuse to toss it. I even tried the NIV a few years later (I was foolishly enticed by all of the hoopla) and realized immediately that it was just a terrible translation. I even tried Jay Green's MKJV and Literal Translation in the early nineties but soon realized that many produce translations just for the sake of producing tran$lation$.
As for the few alternate readings in the KJV, they have always been there -even in 1611- but my point is that they are TRULY alternate translational (is that a word?) readings. Read the Translators To The Reader. They explain why they are there. They don't call into question the validity or trustworthiness of the words or phrasing that they reference. They just offer a few true 'alternate readings'.
The modern versions, the NKJV in particlar, use tons of footnotes to call into questions the validity and trustworthiness of the words of God.
So the 1611 KJV itself is "guilty" of engendering "doubt" about the text by noting manuscript variants. Whether the footnotes are "negative" or not is beside the point.
How I love the Authorised Version!
DJC49 wrote:No footnotes?Nonsense!Not only did the original 1611 KJV have marginal notes (i.e., "footnotes") [ [URL=http://www.bible.ca/kjv-1611-version-margin-notes-eph6.gif]]]here's an EXAMPLE[/URL] ], it also had marginal cross-references to books of the Apocrypha!For instance:In Daniel 8:25 -- the note in the margin reads, "2 Macc. 6:9," a cross-reference to a book of 2 Maccabees in the Apocrypha.[URL=http://www.bible.ca/kjv-1611-version-margin-notes-heb11.gif]]]HERE is an example[/URL] of a marginal note (cross-reference) found in the ORIGINAL 1611 KJV. It shows a reference to 2 Maccabees 7:7 found in the margin at Hebrews 11:35._You need to do some study on this issue, *[URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/images/tinfoil-hat.jpg]]]Banned[/URL]*
The King James Bible does not have the kind of footnotes that say "but this mss says this and this older one says that, so we don't know if it should read thus or if it should be included at all."
I just seen a picture of a guy wearing a tin hat. Is this the man?
Banned wrote:There are no footnotes unless added by some publisher. My KJB is from Thomas Nelson and I have none and I've never seen any footnotes. The KJB is what it is, no footnotes.
Not only did the original 1611 KJV have marginal notes (i.e., "footnotes") [ [URL=http://www.bible.ca/kjv-1611-version-margin-notes-eph6.gif]]]here's an EXAMPLE[/URL] ], it also had marginal cross-references to books of the Apocrypha!
For instance:In Daniel 8:25 -- the note in the margin reads, "2 Macc. 6:9," a cross-reference to a book of 2 Maccabees in the Apocrypha.
[URL=http://www.bible.ca/kjv-1611-version-margin-notes-heb11.gif]]]HERE is an example[/URL] of a marginal note (cross-reference) found in the ORIGINAL 1611 KJV. It shows a reference to 2 Maccabees 7:7 found in the margin at Hebrews 11:35._
You need to do some study on this issue, *[URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/images/tinfoil-hat.jpg]]]Banned[/URL]*


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This week, I started reading Dance Lessons by Áine Greaney, for the Indie Lit Awards shortlist. I have just one more book to go after this and will be done with the shortlist by the end of this month. So far, it's been an interesting list of books, and I can't wait to start voting!
Which pages were turned...
I am still reading Eli Gottlieb's The Face Thief - which is really good so far, I'm just not getting enough time to read it with all the other reading commitments.
Short Story of the week - Bohemia (click for my review) by V.S. Naipaul.
...And other news
Review: American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
What the rest of February looks like.


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WORLD WAR 3: The documentary – Part 1: The introduction
Apart from the few official experts who always speak on TV and in the papers about the economy, military strategy, psychology and psychological warfare, etc. We have all the real experts (all the others outside the entertainment industry) who have been shouting for a very long time in unison that the countdown is coming to an end for the worst collapse on ALL fronts in your life, that be the economic collapse, wars, chaos, etc. – But as long as people like you are able to read this message, it means there is still hope, but only if you complete your new mission which, in the worst case, may prove itself to be lifelong.
The mission is in short to prevent over 90% of the earth's total population from completely disappearing within a short time henceforth, because of a GLOBAL process that has been set into motion. You will need to act quickly and study the most basic things, and is the reason for the small "do it yourself" task at the end of this message, but first, here is YOUR BRIEFING:
Let me start by giving you the bad news first, because it IS very bad: The threat we face is GLOBAL, which humanity has already tried two times before in recent times, but overall look more bleak this third time, among other things because of all the electronic developments that have always been managed and controlled by the private and global military industry, with an almost unlimited funding of money and researchers. The only "good" news (if you can call it that) is that it is NOT an unstoppable comet from the outside, but a man-made population reduction to below 500,000,000 GLOBALLY in the very near future.
The ultimate goal is to establish once and for all a functional world government which will be controlled completely by the royal, private families. The most likely signs for "the beginning of the end" or "the point of no return" will most likely start with nuclear "suitcase-bombs" going off in major Western cities, so let's work diligently to hopefully prevent this from happening in the first place. Here is the message you will have to read, and spread out to as many as you can to get the message of freedom and fraternity back on the agenda:
The entire world is being taken over by a hand full of royal, private banking families with military force:
1) First, open Google's search engine and type in "Agenda 21" and then add the name of the city you live in before you press search, and start by checking out what you find.
2) Then make a new search in the same way, just with this text instead: "Agenda 21 youtube" and you will now find a myriad of well produced and documented films, mainstream news clips, endless presentations, lectures, educational materials, solutions and plans for how you can prepare yourself.
You have now been able to inform and educate yourself about the most basic elements of this news bulletin, which you need to get started quickly as possible, because this is something, you will have to study thoroughly BEFORE you go out and inform others
Hitler got the idea to create unions, which would be merged under a world dictatorship aka UN / NATO. Today will be mostly about the EU.
First episodes of this series:
WORLD WAR 3: The documentary – Part 1: The introduction:
WORLD WAR 3: The documentary – Part 2: The FINAL solution:
WORLD WAR 3: The documentary – Part 3: Scientific Genocide 2012:


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While this week has produced mostly grim news in the housing sector, a top real estate industry consultant offers a far more encouraging big-picture view of the key economic sector. Mark Boud of Real Estate Economics in Irvine, Calif., said he believes home prices may have finally hit bottom, that the foreclosure mess creates genuine business opportunities and that energy-efficient housing has the potential to revitalize the entire economy.
The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that new home sales declined by nearly 1% in July, and for the third straight month; the Federal Housing Finance Agency on Wednesday said home prices declined 5.9% in the second quarter; and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) this week reported a rise in mortgage delinquencies for the second consecutive quarter.
While these statistics suggest that real estate continues to be a drag on the economy, they may mask more positive emerging trends. For example, longer-term mortgage delinquencies, those that are 90 days or more past due, are at their lowest point since early 2009, and the MBA sees no signs of a large backlog of homes that banks on which are waiting to foreclose.
Explaining the reasons for the slowing rate of foreclosures, Boud (left) says: "Banks are working with owners to short-sell instead of foreclose." Boud adds that homeowners still hanging on to their homes today are more resourceful than those who gave up on their homes earlier in this economic cycle and says a slowly reviving economy is also helping slow foreclosures.
Boud, whose consulting firm produces feasibility studies, asset valuation reports and market reports for capital groups and developers, was not overly concerned about the slump in new homes sales. "Builder margin is quite low," he says. "Bankers are not willing to offer construction financing. So builders are confined to those who can finance their own construction." This weakness in new construction corrects for excess supply of other housing, which has put downward pressure on prices. "I think we've truly formed a floor on pricing this year," he says.
Investors seeking to capitalize on a turnaround in real estate should look for markets that are both undervalued and have long-term potential for economic growth. "One of the most undervalued markets is Phoenix, which is significantly undervalued and is experiencing job growth. In terms of rental support, economic growth, it's a good long-term bet. Coastal California is a good near term and long term bet," says Boud, noting particularly the San Francisco Bay Area excluding the East Bay and Silicon Valley. Seattle and Los Angeles are also poised for a rebound, he said. Places like these that are "supply-restricted" tend to snap back fairly quickly if they have a strong economic base.
Texas is an example of an area with a strong economic base that is not restricted in terms of housing supply, so Boud does not see the Lone Star State as a prime investment opportunity. He sees downward pressure in the near-term continuing in Phoenix and Las Vegas, and says that places like Salt Lake City and Denver "entered the down cycle a little bit later than most and will be a little bit slower coming back." He cited Sacramento as having poor prospects because its economy is so tied to California's government, which is expected to shed jobs for some time to come.
The most distressed housing markets like Las Vegas, where it is reported that a majority of homes are now bought with cash, the foreclosure market presents a business opportunity. "What we're seeing is a lot of investors, those who are relatively wealthy, purchasing homes at very low prices and putting renters in them," says Boud. "The rental rate is higher than the mortgage rate, so investors can be in the black right way." Boud says buying foreclosed properties and renting them for five years is "a viable business plan" for those willing to be a landlord, and it also helps the economy by reducing the supply of distressed homes.
Aside from short-term investing opportunities, Boud is most enthusiastic about the long-term, saying, "There are drivers in place that can create an economic cycle such as we have never seen." Just as the world has seen an industrial age and an information age, the next wave will be an energy age, he says, arguing that energy-efficient housing can lead the way. Boud says there will be a very large multiplier effect if we build homes with both energy conservation features–solar panels, high-efficiency HVAC systems and LED lighting –and energy-producing capacity through fuel cells and wind turbines that produce electricity. Boud cites the automotive industry as an analogy. When energy efficiency standards impelled car companies to produce a new generation of cars getting 40 to 50 mpg rather than 15 to 20 mpg, there was a surge in demand for the new cars, which had an enormous impact throughout the economy. If these changes come to housing, "everyone gets a new home or refits their old ones," Boud says.
In the policy arena, Boud panned ideas the administration is considering to facilitate homeowners with government-backed mortgages refinancing at today's lower rates. "That is just fiddling with the system," and will lead to higher taxes or a larger burden on the banks. "We've already had a massive failure of banks. Why increase their burden? Why increase taxes, especially when mortgage rates are at 3.5%?" he said.
"The thing that loosens mortgage lending is economic growth, not government policy. The best thing the government can do is get out of the way and let markets take care of themselves," Boud says, citing the tax credit for first-time buyers in 2010 as an example of a failed government program. "It created a false upward trend. All we were doing is borrowing demand from 2011. And it cost us tax money and subsidies."


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· Listen to music as you write – pick something that matches the mood of the scene you are writing.
· Reverse engineer an existing story you like. Break it down and see how it works. See what the plot points were, what the context of the four points were. Use this to create a generic workable sequence.
· Name your characters after real people who represent what you are going for. Then when you are done, do a search and change the name to the character name.
· If you are stuck, verbalize your story to a friend. You will find yourself working through the story problem as you explain it.
· Study screenwriting books if you are a novelist, study novel writing books if you are a screenwriter.
· Play what if with your initial idea and see where it takes you.
· Imagine your story as a movie. Attach actors and movements, soundtracks and scenes.
· Write the outline of your story as a movie template. It will make you stick to the arc of your story.
· Even though you haven't written it yet, write a book review of your own novel. What you want to be strong about your story will emerge on that page.
· Get rid of all the adjectives you can
· Stop reading writing blogs and books. There is contradictory advice. Some writers don't write, they just read about writing.
· Listen to song lyrics. You can pluck out great book titles.
Subtext – read between the lines. A lot like theme. It will happen whether you want it to or not, so be in control of the subtext and leverage its power to make your story more potent. It is the story not being spoken of in the moment. The reader knows something one of the characters does not know.Economy and social environment is subtext for the decisions characters make and connects to the façade they put on. Subtext adds texture and richness to the arena and depth to your characters.
Dialogue – don't ever use the other characters name in dialogue when they are talking to one another. It leaps off the page and screams amateur. You can do it in greetings, but avoid it elsewhere. Never combine separate pieces of dialogue in one paragraph.
When looking at a scene and trying to layer in the psychology of a character, think of the four Rs Resentment. Resistance. Revenge. Resolution.
Any form of negative emotion has resentment attached to it.
4 quadrants of social style
Analyzer, supporter, organizer, controller
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I watched it too and thought it was okay. The Ackbar bit was great as was the Walrusman segment. The Emperor/Construction worker stuff wasn't bad but the Empire on Ice thing sucked hard and is was unintelligible at some points.Oh and the Ben kneeing Luke in the junk was funny, but when isn't that type of gag.
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On the Set of the Top Chef Maui Finale
Top Chef finalist Nina Compton serves guest chefs Hugh Acheson and Paul Bartolotta her dish at Gannon's in Wailea, Maui. (That's me! in the background!) Photo credit: Bravo Photo
I've been keeping a secret for four months. Me and about a hundred other people in Hawaii. We've known about Top Chef filming on Maui, known who the last two finalists were, even. How'd we do it? An NDA and the threat of Bravo suing you for $1M for tweeting "At Top Chef Maui, b*****s!" is enough to keep everyone #mum on their social networks.
A lot of food shows have been passing through Hawaii lately (thanks, HVCB!). I get invitations to observe some of them, but none do I jump at the chance at like I do for Top Chef, just to witness what really happens on the set.
I first started watching Top Chef because all the cooks around me were talking about it—it's a show that's as compelling to people in the industry as those who aren't. Sure, there's the human drama (and Padma!) that lures everyone in, but it also reflects kitchen life—the pressures, the egos, the last minute curveballs, and even the subjective nature of taste when you send out a dish you think is perfect, but not everyone agrees (especially those pesky critics).
So when I had the chance to sit in on one of the finale dinners, I dropped everything to get a taste of Top Chef first hand, to find out if the food's actually any good. Because, ultimately, that's the thing you can never tell on TV. I attended Nina Compton's dinner at Gannon's (that's me, in the corner! For just a second!), and I'm happy to discover that it is good, really good. Especially the crispy breadfruit with whipped foie gras and the braised goat orecchiette with goat cheese, dishes strong enough to cut through the giddy haze of being this close to Padma and Tom. Serve breadfruit like Nina did, and you'll shut up all the breadfruit haters. (Actually, Hawaii in general could learn a lot from how the Caribbean cooks breadfruit. I spent two years there and hardly ate any potatoes.)
I didn't try both contestant's menus, so I couldn't compare the two, but Isaac Bancaco, the chef of Kaana Kitchen at the Andaz, did. We chatted later, after the filming, and he said that the dinners were comparable. "Nick's dishes were very refined, clean, and well-thought out in execution," he says. "I picked up a lot of techniques along the way, watching him. Nina cooked from her heart, from her soul, from her cultural background. That's how I would cook." Still, though, he admits he was "rooting for the contestant in my kitchen." Watching Nick cook in his restaurant, "I wanted to jump in and help, give them pointers, tell them the little hotspots on the flat top. There are two ovens, one works better. I wish I could've told them which."
Most of the other diners that night were industry people, including chefs from Kaana Kitchen, Gannon's and Peter Merriman's Kapalua, reinforcing the idea that Top Chef is about chefs and for chefs (and a million other viewers).


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 has behaved well over the past year when he's been freed from a Washington mental hospital to visit his mother in Virginia, according to U.S. Secret Service reports.
Agents trailed John Hinckley on more than 35 days during 2012 when he visited his mother's home in Williamsburg. Surveillance logs show he shopped at PetSmart, Target and the grocery store Harris Teeter.
He also did volunteer work, visited an art museum on the campus of the College of William and Mary and made planned therapy visits. The logs were part of more than a 150 pages of documents filed Wednesday as part of a court case where Hinckley is asking a judge to let him spend more time at his mother's home.
The mundaneness of the activities made public Wednesday contrasts with a log released last year that got Hinckley into trouble.
It showed him visiting a Barnes & Noble in late 2011. There, an agent saw him looking at what appeared to be a row of books including one on the assassination of President William McKinley and another on the killing of President John F. Kennedy. Prosecutors used that information in part to say he shouldn't be given expanded time outside the hospital. This time, the logs repeatedly conclude: "No unusual incidents pertaining to the subject were observed during this surveillance."
Hinckley, 57, has been allowed to go to mother's home since 2006, and the length of his visits has increased over time. Saint Elizabeths Hospital is the mental hospital that has overseen his care since he was found to be insane at the time he shot Reagan. It says Hinckley's current 10-day visits with his mother should be increased to up to 24 days. Ultimately, officials want Hinckley to live outside the hospital full time. Officials and Hinckley's lawyer have said he is no longer dangerous and the mental illness that led him to shoot Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster is under control.
A hearing on expanding Hinckley's visits was held in late 2011 and early 2012. It continued for three days in February this year after the plan for Hinckley's time away had to be modified.
The documents made public Wednesday show the Secret Service trailed Hinckley during eight visits to his mother's home. The days are random, according to the Secret Service documents, but show patterns.
When Hinckley goes for a visit he leaves Saint Elizabeths on Saturdays around 10:30 a.m., getting picked up by his mother and a hired driver, often in a black Lincoln town car. While at her home he volunteers for four hours on some mornings at Eastern State Hospital doing food service work. Before returning to Saint Elizabeths he gets diet Coke and cat food, sometimes as many as 14 cases of canned food, to feed cats that live on the hospital's grounds. And on his way back to the hospital, he's been a customer at a Wendy's in Fredericksburg more than once. Another document filed with the court shows him starting music therapy and painting lessons while in Williamsburg.
U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman will ultimately decide whether to expand Hinckley's release privileges. He has not said when he will rule.
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Sluggish economy drags down CEO pay
- October 1, 2008
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By Garry Kranz
Their earnings power took a hit last year. Still, the CEOs of Virginia's largest public companies made out pretty well. The men who run Virginia's largest shareholder-owned firms received an average compensation of $6.1 million in 2007, including base salary, cash bonuses, stock and long-term incentives, according to an annual study commissioned by Virginia Business.
That's a decline of 15 percent from a 2006 average of $7.2 million. The study examined CEO pay at public companies with at least $1 billion in annual revenue.
Overall, the drop here mirrors what is happening nationally. A May study by Mercer Human Resource Consulting found that CEO pay at the largest U.S. public companies fell 15.8 percent during the past year. Boards of directors have gotten the public's message that executive pay needs to be driven by performance, according to Mike Halloran, a compensation consultant with Mercer, which is based in New York City.
Shift from cash payouts
Among compensation committees in Virginia, there's a shift away from straight cash payouts in favor of a mix of bonuses and performance-vesting equity, observes Henry Federal, a principal with Charlotte, N.C.-based Findley Davies, a human resources consulting firm that compiled the data for Virginia Business. That puts more of a CEO's yearly pay "at risk" if predetermined performance targets aren't met.
Many companies saw drops in shareholder returns in 2007 as the economy sputtered in response to the subprime mortgage crisis. In fact, that was the case at two of the three Virginia companies with the highest paid executives. Even so, their CEOs managed to net reported compensation packages ranging into eight figures.
Compensation of CEOs at Virginia's public companies with annual revenue of at least $1 billion (part I)
Compensation of CEOs at Virginia's public companies (part II)
At the top of Virginia's pay scale were Capital One Financial Corp.'s Richard Fairbank at $20.4 million, General Dynamics' Nicholas Chabraja at $18.5 million (whose 2007 shareholder returns were positive) and Freddie Mac's former CEO Richard Syron, at $18.2 million. Syron was ousted last month after the federal government took over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, in one of the biggest bailouts in history. (Louis Camilleri actually topped the list at $24 million. However, he was leading Altria Group Inc. at the time, then based in New York, before its spin-off of Philip Morris International and Altria's corporate relocation to Richmond.)
While Fairbank led the pack, the value of his compensation fell by nearly half from $37.4 million in 2006. Meanwhile, Capital One's stock has taken a drubbing, with one-year shareholder values down 38 percent amid turbulence in U.S. financial markets.
Fairbank gets paid solely in equity. The $20.4 million reflects the value of Fairbank's 2007 compensation. (Under revised securities regulations, companies must account for the value of such shares as an expense against their fiscal year earnings). For 2008, Capital One's board authorized an equity package for Fairbank consisting of 1.66 million stocks options, worth $17 million on the date they were granted.
Freddie Mac's situation
Syron ran McLean-based Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. for nearly four years before his removal on Sept. 7. He's expected to remain during a transition period. The government's decision followed billion-dollar losses by Freddie and Fannie and fears that the federally chartered companies did not have enough of a financial cushion to continue absorbing losses from subprime mortgage defaults.
The mortgage finance giants own or guarantee about three quarters of the country's new mortgage loans. Syron was hired in 2004 to clean up the aftermath of a major accounting scandal that torpedoed two of Freddie Mac's top executives. Under Syron's watch, Freddie bought pools of subprime loans, the housing market crumbled and shareholders saw their values erode 47 percent in 2007, according to Findley Davies' research. (See report on page 71 for a more complete report on stocks.)
The roiling mortgage crisis was enough to chase away Syron's presumptive heir apparent, Eugene McQuade, who abruptly rejected the job in May — long before the bailout. At that time, Syron planned to step down at the end of the year, but agreed to stay on through 2009 to help find a successor.
Last year, his base salary grew 9 percent to $1.2 million. Augmenting his salary was a cash bonus of $3.45 million, which included a $2.2 million performance bonus and special one-time payment of $1.25 million for remaining aboard an extra year.
The $18.2 million compensation (up $4 million from the $14.7 million reported in 2006) reflects the value of Syron's pay in accordance with required accounting regulations, but it's not what he earned, points out Sharon J. McHale, the company's vice president of public relations. Syron actually made $10.58 million, based on the value of exercised stock options and restricted stock that vested in 2007, according to McHale.
Syron's $2.2 million cash bonus for fiscal 2007 (not including the extension payment) represents 66 percent of his bonus target of $3.36 million. It was lowered because of the company's poor financial performance last year, says McHale. With his departure, it's not clear if Syron will receive a separation payment. The government has said Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae cannot pay the departing executives "golden parachutes." However, a new law limiting such pay could be contested. Plus, the huge drop in Freddie's share price will decrease the value of Syron's stock awards.
A raise at Dominion
Not every company is cutting back. Dominion Resources Inc., the parent company of Dominion Virginia Power, gave CEO Thomas F. Farrell II annual compensation valued at $15.1 million. That is double the $7.3 million he received the previous year.
Farrell's base salary alone grew 10 percent, from 1 to $1.1 million, bringing it in line with that of CEOs at comparable companies, according to the company's proxy. Farrell took over as CEO in 2006.
Altogether, Farrell, 53, received $8.5 million in performance-based cash awards. That includes a one-time payment of $2 million for his role in a series of complex divestitures. Dominion in 2007 sold off most of its exploration and production assets in natural gas and oil, including onshore properties in North America and offshore properties in the Gulf of Mexico. The sales generated nearly $14 billion in proceeds. Dominion used the after-tax money to reduce debt and repurchase shares, says Dominion spokesman Mark Lazenby.
Additionally, Farrell garnered a $2.4 million cash bonus related to Dominion's 2007 consolidated earnings of $1.678 billion, surpassing a target of $1.625 billion, says Lazenby.
Farrell also earned $4.14 million in long-term incentive awards. Dominion stockholders enjoyed returns of nearly 17 percent last year, as the company outperformed the S&P by 13 percentage points. Still, Farrell's surge in pay comes against the looming prospect of higher energy rates. Dominion earlier this year asked state regulators to approve a fuel-rate increase that could increase customers' monthly bills about 18 percent.
"Compensation was up in 2007 due to the performance of our broad platform of businesses in multiple states, but we had rate caps in 2007 in Virginia. Not a single penny of last year's increases in [executive] compensation was reflected in Virginia Power rates," says Lazenby.
Figuring exactly how much money a CEO makes in a given year remains elusive. New securities laws enacted in 2006 were intended to clear up confusion, but lots of wrinkles still need to be ironed out. "Figuring out a CEO's compensation should be clear and concise, but the problem is that the laws aren't clear and concise," says Federal.
Setting performance goals that are fair is another challenge, especially in the current economy, says Mercer's Halloran. "They don't want to be perceived as giving things away, but they also don't want to drive away top executives."