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Posted by: Pastor J Jacobs on Mon, May 15, 2017
By John Piper
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.
The text begins with a command—it's the only command in the text and therefore probably the main point. Verse 15a: "Do not love the world or the things in the world." Everything else in the text is an argument, or incentive, for why we should not love the world.
Love for the World Pushes Out Love for the Father
The first incentive John gives is that "if any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him" (verse 15b). In other words the reason you shouldn't love the world is that you can't love the world and God at the same time. Love for the world pushes out love for God, and love for God pushes out love for the world.
As Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money" (Matthew 6:24). So don't love the world, because that would put you in the class with the God-haters whether you think you are or not. "If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him." That's the first reason John gives not to love the world.
Then in verse 16 comes the support and explanation of that first argument. The reason love for the world pushes out love for God is that "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world." Leave out those three phrases in the middle of verse 16 and it would read like this: The reason love for the world excludes love for God is that all that is in the world is not of God. In other words it's just empty talk to say that you love God if you love what is not of God.
John could have rested his case at the end of verse 16. Don't love the world because love for the world can't coexist with love for God. But he doesn't rest his case here. He adds two more arguments—two more incentives not to love the world.
The World Is Passing Away and Its Lusts
First, in verse 17a he says, "And the world passes away, and the lust of it." Nobody buys stock in a company that is sure to go bankrupt. Nobody sets up house in a sinking ship. No reasonable person would lay up treasure where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, would they? The world is passing away! To set your heart on it is only asking for heartache and misery in the end.
That's not all: not only is the world passing away, but also the lusts of it. If you share the desires of the world, you will pass away. You will not only lose your treasure. You will lose your life. If you love the world, it will pass away and take you with it. "The world passes away and the lust of it."
If You Do the Will of the Father, You Will Live Forever
Second, in verse 17b John says, "But he who does the will of God abides for ever." The opposite of loving the world is not only loving the Father (verse 15), but also doing the will of the Father (verse 17). And that connection is not hard to understand. Jesus said, "If you love me you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15). John said in 1 John 5:3, "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments." So loving the Father in verse 15 and doing the will of God in verse 17 are not really separate things.
If you love God, you will love what he wills. It is empty talk to say I love God but I don't love what God loves. So John is saying in verse 17, "If you love the world, you will perish with the world, but if you don't love the world but love God, you will do his will and live with him for ever."
One Commandment and Three Arguments
In summary, then, the text contains one commandment and three arguments, or incentives. The commandment is, "Don't love the world or the things in the world." The first incentive is that if you love the world, you don't love God. The second incentive is that if you love the world, you will perish with the world. And the third incentive is that if you love God instead of the world, you will live with God forever.
Let's meditate for a few moments on these final two incentives and especially how they relate to saving faith.
Saving Faith and Love for God
We have been well taught that we are saved by FAITH! "BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved!" (Acts 16:31). But we have not been as well taught what saving faith is. For example, how often do we discuss the relationship between trusting Christ and loving Christ. Can you trust him savingly and not love him? Evidently John doesn't think so, because the issue in this text is whether you love God or love the world, and the result is whether you die with the world or have eternal life with God. But John knows that eternal life comes through faith.
John says in 5:13, "I write this to you who BELIEVE in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life." So eternal life does depend on believing in the Christ. But what is this "believing"? If we are courteous, and let John speak for himself, his letter fills out what he means. When he says that not loving the world but loving God so much that we do his will is what leads to eternal life, we learn that saving faith and love for God are inseparable. Both are the path to eternal life because they are the same path.
In John 5:42–44 Jesus confronts the Jewish leaders who do not believe on him with these words, "I know that you have not the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name and you do not receive me . . . How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?" In other words the reason they do not receive or believe on Jesus is that they do not love God. They love the world—the glory of men—not the glory of God. So Jesus taught his apostles that where there is no love for God, there can be no saving faith. (See John 3:18–19.)
One Way of Salvation
That's why John, when he comes to write his letter, can take "love for God" and "trust in Christ", and treat them as one way of salvation. Look how he does this in 5:3–4. "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome." In other words it is our love for God that overcomes the obstacles of disobedience and makes the commandments of God a joy rather than a burden. "Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her" (Genesis 29:20). Love for God makes his service a joy and overcomes the forces of disobedience.
But then look at verse 4. Here he says the same thing but speaks of faith instead of love. "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith." It is FAITH that overcomes the world—it is faith that conquers disobedience and renders the commandments of God a joy rather than a burden.
What shall we say, then, concerning love for God and faith in Christ? The path of victory that overcomes the world and leads to eternal life is the one path of faith toward Christ and love for God. Saving faith is part of love for God and love for God is part of saving faith. There are not two ways to heaven. There is one narrow way—the way of faith which loves God and the way of love which trusts God.
Paul and James in Agreement
This is why not only John but also Paul and James hold out the promises of life only to those who love God:
- Romans 8:28, "All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose."
- 1 Corinthians 2:9, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived . . . God has prepared for those who love him."
- 1 Corinthians 16:22, "If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed!"
- James 2:5, "Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?" (See 2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12.)
So you can see what John is trying to do for us in verse 17 of our text. He is trying to show us that loving the Father and freeing ourselves from the love of the world is not optional. It is not icing on the cake of saving faith. It is a matter of eternal life and eternal death. It is number one on life's agenda. Nothing in all the world is more important than experiencing love for God in your heart. This is the first and great commandment, Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might" (Matthew 22:36–40).
Two Possibilities If You Don't Feel Much Love for God
Perhaps even as I say this, some of you are saying, "I don't feel very much love for God right now." There are two possible reasons for that.
1. You Are Not Born Again
One is the possibility that you are not born again. It is possible that you are a cultural Christian or a hereditary Christian. You may have developed patterns of religious talk and behavior because it is socially advantageous or because your parents or peers talked and acted this way. But you may never have experienced a deep change in your nature by the power of the Holy Spirit which gave birth to a stream of new love for God.
Henry Martyn, the brilliant missionary and translator of the last century, looked at his conversion four years afterward and said, "The work is real. I can no more doubt it than I can my own existence. The whole current of my desires is altered, I am walking quite another way, though I am incessantly stumbling in that way."
So it could be that this has never happened to you and that your religion is all outward form and not inner experience of love for God. Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:1–5, "In the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money . . . lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it." In other words we may expect that there will be numerous religious church-goers who know nothing of the new birth and genuine heartfelt love for God.
If you are among that number you should direct your heart to Christ and seek him earnestly in his Word. Peter said that we are born again through the living and abiding Word of God. So if you want to be born again, you should pour over the Word of God. You should cry to Christ that he open your eyes to know the Father (Matthew 11:27). You should plead with God to take out your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh that you might love God with all your heart and all your soul (Deuteronomy 30:6). You should forsake all known sins and give yourself to all the means of grace until the light dawns in your heart and Christ shines so bright in his power and love that he is irresistibly attractive and you fall in worship and love before him. And do not quit the pursuit until you have been born into new life. "You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart."
2. Your Love Has Grown Cool and Weak
The other possibility is that you have indeed been born again, but that your love for God has simply grown cool and weak. You've tasted what it means to have a heart for God. You can recall how once you felt that to know him was better than anything the world could offer. But this morning the wick is smoldering and the reed is bruised.
The prescription for your ailment is not much different than the prescription for seeking new birth in the first place. The same Spirit that begets life, also nourishes life. The same Word that ignites the fire of love, also rekindles love. The same Christ who once brought you out of darkness into his marvelous light, can take away the long dark night of your soul. So yield yourself to the Holy Spirit. Immerse yourself in the Word of God. Cry out to Christ for a new vision of the glory of his grace. Don't be content with lukewarmness. Pursue a new passion for Christ.
And whichever of these groups you are in—or if you are here full of love to God this morning—let the remaining admonitions of this text stir you up to count everything as rubbish compared to the surpassing value of knowing Christ.
Love for God and Love for the World Cannot Coexist
According to verse 15 in our text, if your love for God is cool this morning it's because love for the world has begun to take over your heart and choke your love for God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot coexist. And every heart loves something. The very essence of our nature is desire. There is nobody in this room who doesn't want something. At the center of our heart is a spring of longing. But that's an awkward image isn't it? A longing is a craving, a desire, a want, a need. But these aren't very well described as a spring. A spring of needs is a contradiction in terms. Springs bubble up; needs suck in. A longing is more like a drain—or a vacuum. At the center of our heart is a sucking drain—like at the bottom of a swimming pool. We are endlessly thirsty. But we can't suck water and air at the same time.
If you try to satisfy your longing by sucking in the air of the world, you will not be able to drink the water of heaven. And eventually your motor will burn up because you were made to pump the water of God not the air of the world.
The "World" We Are Not to Love
But now what is this "world" that we are not to love? Verse 16 says it is characterized by three things: "lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life." The word for "life" does not refer to the state of being alive but rather to the things in the world that make life possible. For example, in 3:17 it is translated "goods"—"Any one who has this world's GOODS and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?" Jesus uses the word in Mark 12:44 when he says that the poor widow in the temple "put in everything that she had, her whole LIVING."
So the phrase "pride of life" means pride in what you possess—the things you have. Now we can see how the three descriptions of the world relate to each other. The first two—lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes—refer to desires for what we don't have. And the third—the pride of life—refers to the pride in what we do have. The world is driven by these two things: passion for pleasure and pride in possessions.
And the passion for pleasure is described in two ways because there are two large classes of pleasure—physical and aesthetic. There is the lust of the flesh—bodily pleasures; and the lust of the eyes—aesthetic and intellectual pleasures. John is not naïve. He knows that the world is not limited to Hennepin Avenue.
There is the lust of the gutter and the lust of the gourmet. There is the lust for hard rock and the lust for high Rachmaninoff. There is the lust of Penthouse and the lust of Picasso. There is the lust of the Orpheum and the lust of the Ordway. This book ends with the ringing command: "Little children, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS!"—whether they are crude or whether they are cultured.
Anything in this world that is not God can rob your heart of the love of God. Anything that is not God can draw your heart away from God. If you don't have it, it can fill you with passion to get it. If you get it, it can fill you with pride that you've got it.
But against the pride of life the apostle says, "What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though it were not a gift . . . Let him who boasts boast in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 4:7; 1:31). So let there be no boasting in possessions. They are all gods.
And against the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes the psalmist says, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee." Therefore let us desire nothing but God. Possess nothing but God; pursue nothing but God.
What Shall We Do with Our Desires?
But someone will ask, "Should I not desire dinner? Should I not desire a job? Should I not desire a spouse? Should I not desire the child in my womb? Should I not desire a healthy body or a good night's rest or the morning sun or a great book or an evening with friends?"
And the answer is no—unless it is a desire for GOD! Do you desire dinner because you desire God? Do you want a job because in it you will discover God and love God? Do you long for a spouse because you are hungry for God and hope to see him and love him in your partner? Do you desire the child and the healthy body and the good night's rest and the morning sun and the great book and the evening with friends for God's sake? Do you have an eye for God in everything you desire? (See Colossians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 10:31.)
St. Augustine captured the heart of our text when he prayed to the Father and said, "He loves thee too little who loves anything together with thee which he loves not for thy sake."
Therefore, brothers and sisters, do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. But if the love of the Father is in you, if you love God with all your heart, then every room you enter will be a temple of love to God, all your work will be a sacrifice of love to God, every meal will be a banquet of love with God, every song will be an overture of love to God.
And if there is any desire of the flesh or any desire of the eyes that is not also a desire for God, then we will put it out of our lives, so that we can say with John and with the psalmist,
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Sydney Lea was born on December 22, 1942, in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale University with a BA, then later a PhD in comparative literature.
Lea is the author of numerous poetry collections, including I Was Thinking of Beauty (Four Way Books, 2013), Young of the Year (Four Way Books, 2011), Ghost Pain: Poems (Sarabande, 2008), and Pursuit of a Wound (University of Illinois Press, 2000), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lea has also published a novel, A Place in Mind (Scribner Publishing, 1989), and several nonfiction books. The outdoors and woodland areas of New England feature strongly in Lea's poems, which are rooted in local life and take an unwavering look at nature and spirituality. Lea's work, which has a markedly regional quality, also recalls the transcendental spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Poet Mark Jarman writes: "The life in Sydney Lea's poems is entirely local, whether the locale is Italy, Montana, or his home in Vermont … The making of the soul that occurs in Sydney Lea's poems is intimately connected with the place where the making occurs … Sydney Lea's poems show us that all spirituality is local spirituality. He is our preeminent poet of the soul's making among local places and people."
In 1977, Lea cofounded, along with Jay Parini, New England Review, a literary magazine that has published many distinguished authors, such as Dorianne Laux, Mark Doty, Jorie Graham, and Louise Erdich, among many others. Lea served as editor for thirteen years.
Lea has held teaching posts at Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, Vermont College, and Wesleyan University, as well as Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest and Franklin College in Switzerland. His honors include fellowships from the Fulbright Association, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Center), as well as the 1998 Poets' Prize.
In 2011, Lea, who has been a Vermont resident since the early 1990s, was appointed the state poet laureate. He currently lives in Newbury, Vermont.
Selected Bibliography
I Was Thinking of Beauty (Four Way Books, 2013)
Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, with Fleda Brown (Autumn House Press, 2013)
Six Sundays Toward a Seventh (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2012)
Young of the Year (Four Way Books, 2011)
Ghost Pain: Poems (Sarabande, 2008)
Pursuit of a Wound (University of Illinois Press, 2000)
To the Bone: New and Selected Poems (University of Illinois Press, 1996)
A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife (Skyhorse Publishing, 2013)
A Hundred Himalayas: Essays on Life and Literature (University of Michigan Press, 2012)
A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling (Story Line Press, 2005)
Hunting the Whole Way Home (University Press of New England, 1994)
A Place in Mind (Story Line Press, 1997)


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At least two Israeli news agencies on Thursday ran the same story wondering whether it was time for the mainstream Jewish community to finally accept Messianic Jews as a legitimate and vital part of the tribe.
The article by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) highlighted former US President George W. Bush's recent keynote address at the annual conference of the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute in Dallas.
Mainstream American Jewish groups were incredulous that Bush would provide such legitimacy to a movement they view as a deceitful ploy to convert Jews away from Judaism.
But Messianic Jewish leaders told the JTA that while the "gatekeepers" of mainstream Judaism are often "overzealous" in their approach to Jewish believers in Yeshua (Jesus), most average Jews are welcoming.
Indeed, Israel Today has noticed much the same in our reporting from the Jewish state over the past decade. As mainstream Orthodox Jewish leaders become more vocal in their opposition to the Messianic community, mainstream Israeli society has actually become far more accepting.
Two years ago, Israel's government-controlled Channel One News broadcast a special segment that harshly criticized anti-missionary Orthodox groups for harassing Messianic Jews.
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Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
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OCamlSpotter - OCaml source browsing
OCamlSpotter is a tool for OCaml source code browsing.
- You can search the definitions of names of values, functions, data types and modules.
- Emacs and Vim helpers help your browsing via editors.
- Definition search traverses module aliases and functor applications: if module M = N, OCamlSpotter automatically seeks the definition of M.x in N. Very helpful in the modern OCaml programming with lots of modules.
OCamlSpotter 2.x uses *.cmt and *.cmti files created by OCaml compiler 4.00.0 or newer with -bin-annot option.
Versions: Use the correct version for your OCaml compiler
OCamlSpotter strongly depends on OCaml compiler implementation and its compiler-libs library. You need use the correct pairs of compiler and OCamlSpotter.
https://bitbucket.org/camlspotter/ocamlspot provides OCamlSpotter branches for each OCaml versions:
- For OCaml 4.01.0, use branch 4.01.0.2.x.y
- For OCaml 4.00.1, use branch 4.00.1.2.x.y
- For OCaml 4.00.0, use branch 4.00.0.2.x.y
- For incoming OCaml 4.02.0, use branch 4.02.0. It is still unstable.
- default : Development version. Sometimes not compilable. Not for you.
To compile OCamlSpotter:
% make % make opt (This is optional but recommended) % make install
Emacs users
Put ocamlspot.el somewhere, then edit your .emacs:
; load-path (setq load-path (cons "WHERE-YOU-HAVE-INSTALLED-THIS-ELISP" load-path)) (require 'ocamlspot) ; tuareg mode hook (use caml-mode-hook instead if you use caml-mode) (add-hook 'tuareg-mode-hook '(lambda () (local-set-key "\C-c;" 'ocamlspot-query) (local-set-key "\C-c:" 'ocamlspot-query-interface) (local-set-key "\C-c'" 'ocamlspot-query-uses) (local-set-key "\C-c\C-t" 'ocamlspot-type) (local-set-key "\C-c\C-i" 'ocamlspot-xtype) (local-set-key "\C-c\C-y" 'ocamlspot-type-and-copy) (local-set-key "\C-ct" 'caml-types-show-type) (local-set-key "\C-cp" 'ocamlspot-pop-jump-stack))) ; set the path of the ocamlspot binary. If you did make opt, ocamlspot.opt is recommended. (setq ocamlspot-command "WHERE-YOU-HAVE-INSTALLED-THE-BINARIES/ocamlspot") ; Optional: You can also change overlay colors as follows: ; (set-face-background 'ocamlspot-spot-face "#660000") ; (set-face-background 'ocamlspot-tree-face "#006600")
M-x customize-group => ocamlspot shows majour configurable options.
Vim users
The author does not use Vim, so there is no official OCamlSpot support for Vim, but there are several Vim plugins are available:
- https://github.com/simonjbeaumont/vim-ocamlspot
- https://github.com/cohama/the-ocamlspot.vim
- https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-ocaml/blob/master/autoload/vim_addon_ocaml.vim#L167 This is a part of other OCaml related addons
How to use
Make .cmt* files: compile OCaml code with -bin-annot option
OCamlSpot uses .cmt and .cmti` files for browsing and they must be created by OCaml compiler adding -bin-annot option. There are several ways to make them:
- Add -bin-annot option to the build script (Makefile, OMakefile, etc)
- or OCaml 4.01.0 or later, use OCAMLPARAM to override OCaml compiler switches: in bash, export OCAMLPARAM="_,bin-annot=1".
Use of OCAMLPARAM with OCaml compiler newer than 4.01.0 is strongly recommended, since it is very an easy way to compile 3rd party softwares with .cmt* files without modifying their build scripts.
Install .cmt* files along with the other object files
As far as you are working only in the directory you develop, having .cmt* files there is enough for source browsing.
But once you want to browse other install library source code, you have to install the generated .cmt* files along with the other object files and .mli files. You need:
- Fix the build scripts to install .cmt* files,
- or use SpotInstall tool to copy these files later SpotInstall( https://bitbucket.org/camlspotter/spotinstall ).
Keep .cmt* and source files
Do not remove .cmt* and source files. They are required for browsing.
For OPAM packages, set OPAMKEEPBUILDDIR environment variable with non-empty string, then built files are not removed automatically including .cmt* files.
Browsing your code
Compile your OCaml source code with -bin-annot option, then it should create *.cmt and *.cmti files.
Emacs users: Open the source code in your Emacs and move the cursor to an identifier usage, then type C-c ;. If things are properly installed and set up, Emacs should display the definition of the identifier.
Available Emacs commands:
- ocamlspot-query: Jump to definition
- ocamlspot-type: Display the type. Same as caml-types-show-type with -annot
- ocamlspot-type-and-copy: Display the type, then copy it to the kill buffer.
- ocamlspot-xtype: Display the type with id stamps
- ocamlspot-use: Display the identifier's stamps
- ocamlspot-pop-jump-stack: Go back to previous buffer layout. Useful when you are lost during browsing.
Vim users...
If something goes wrong
- Use the correct ocamlspot matching with your OCaml compiler version.
- Compile OCaml modules with -bin-annot ocaml compiler option.
- Keep the source code and produced cmt/cmti files.
- Install cmt/cmti files along with cmi/cma/cmxa files.
- Use ocamlspot.opt if you have done make opt. It is much faster than ocamlspot.
- CamlP4 has lots of location issues. In many cases, OCamlSpotter cannot workaround them.
- OCamlSpotter may have its own bugs. You can report problems at https://bitbucket.org/camlspotter/ocamlspot/issues?status=new&status=open .
Note for OPAM users
- set OCAMLPARAM to enable -bin-annot option
- set OPAMKEEPBUILDDIR to keep your source code and .cmt* files
- use spotinstall to install .cmt* files along with other object files.
OCamlSpotter with multiple OCaml versions
OCamlSpotter is compiler version dependent. So, each version of OCaml compiler, the corresponding OCamlSpotter is required.
Changing automatically from one to another OCamlSpotter, OPAM users may want to specify the following shell script as a wrapper. Change the OCamlSpotter location of your favorite editor config to this.:
#!/bin/sh # This is a sample shell script which tries to call the corresponding OCamlSpotter # with the current OPAM switch. DIR=`opam config var bin` if [ -x $DIR/ocamlspot.opt ]; then $DIR/ocamlspot.opt $* else if [ -x $DIR/ocamlspot ]; then $DIR/ocamlspot $* else echo "ERROR: No ocamlspot.opt or ocamlspot found at $DIR" fi fi
Reporting bugs
OCamlSpotter has bugs. I need your help to fix them. Please report your issues at https://bitbucket.org/camlspotter/ocamlspot/issues?status=new&status=open .
- Please attach the smallest reproducible example as possible.
- Explain which version of OCamlSpot you use. i.e. OPAM version or Repo fingerprint.
- If your code is compiled with CamlP4 and ocamlspot shows you strange locations, probably it is due to CamlP4 location bugs. Check the P4-expanded version whether it is a bug of P4 or OCamlSpotter.


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Ferdinand major worry for Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson insists Manchester United are in better shape to handle their defensive injury crisis than they were last December despite raising the spectre of Rio Ferdinand missing the remainder of the campaign.
After being at the centre of a will-he, won't-he debate about whether he will keep the England captaincy this week, the issue around Ferdinand has now switched to if the 32-year-old will be back in action before the season's end.
Although the defender has publicly stated how well his gym sessions have been going, Ferguson is a worried man, saying: "We are not looking at Rio as a short-term situation for us, he has been out for a few weeks now anyway and has not started training yet."
He added: "It looks to me as if we will be lucky to get him back for some point of the season.
"Calf injuries can be troublesome. I remember Bryan Robson, the year we won the FA Cup in 1990, was out for four months with a calf injury. It is looking that way again with Rio."
The one chink of light will be the availability of Northern Ireland Jonny Evans, who could provide some company for currently fit Fabio, Chris Smalling, Wes Brown, Patrice Evra, celebrating a recall to the French squad, and Park Ji-sung, sidelined since the Asian Cup in January.
"Hopefully Jonny Evans may be fit for Saturday, even if it is a bit of a risk," said Ferguson.
"He has trained all week but he has been out for such a long time."
Ferguson is hoping the forthcoming international fixtures will provide a break in a packed schedule that could come to United's aid.
Anderson is on the comeback trail, as is Owen Hargreaves, whose first-team action since September 2008 extends to a minute at Sunderland last season and five in this term's home encounter with Wolves in November when he limped off with a hamstring injury.


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Have Mercy: Baseball Beats Tulane in Eight Innings
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NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Shortstop Alex Bregman (4-for-4) recorded his fifth straight game with at least three hits as No. 2 LSU (23-2) battered Tulane (14-13) by a score of 14-1 in eight innings Tuesday night at Turchin Stadium.
The game was called due to a 10-run mercy rule after the eighth inning. LSU has now won 21 straight games against Louisiana schools and 27 consecutive midweek games.
LSU will resume SEC play with a weekend series against Missouri beginning on Friday in Columbia, Mo. The Tigers are 23-2 for only the third time in school history, matching the 25-game records of the 1986 and 1997 LSU squads.
"We had a great approach at the plate and a lot of aggressive swings, and that approach gave us the early lead," said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. "We've got a pretty potent lineup, and we were really locked in at the plate tonight. The early runs took some pressure off of (LSU starting pitcher) Russell Reynolds, and he delivered a great performance. He was in complete control and retired 12 in a row at one point. He demonstrated that he has the ability to take on a prominent role on our staff."
In the first inning Tuesday, first baseman Mason Katz started the offensive showcase with a two-RBI double, putting the Tigers ahead 2-0. LSU got three more runs in the first as third baseman Christian Ibarra lifted a sacrifice fly and the Tigers took advantage of a misplayed fly ball by the Tulane outfield.
Katz finished 3-for-4 on the night with four runs batted in, adding to his NCAA-leading 41 RBI on the season.
Two more runs came in the second inning for LSU with RBI singles from Bregman and Katz, giving the Tigers a 7-0 advantage.
Tulane got its only run of the game in the second with an RBI fielder's choice from designated hitter Richard Carthon.
LSU added runs in the third and fourth innings as designated hitter Sean McMullen delivered a sacrifice fly, and another RBI single from Katz made it 9-1.
Five more runs for LSU came in the eighth on RBI from outfielder Andrew Stevenson and catcher Chris Chinea, along with a two-out, two-RBI single from McMullen.
LSU right-hander Russell Reynolds (1-0) was nearly untouchable, earning the victory in seven innings of work, allowing unearned run on four hits while striking out four. The outing marked the first career LSU victory for Reynolds, a freshman from Baton Rouge.
Tulane starter Brady Wilson (1-1) suffered the defeat, allowing seven runs (four earned) on six hits in 1.1 innings of work.
LSU 14, Tulane 1 (Mar 26, 2013 at New Orleans, La.)
Tulane.............. 010 000 00 - 1 5 2 (14-13)
Pitchers: LSU - Russell Reynolds; Hunter Devall(8); Hunter Newman(8) and Ty Ross; Chris Chinea.
Tulane - Brady Wilson; Daniel Rankin(2); Randy LeBlanc(4); Greg Miller(7); Kyle McKenzie(8); Emerson Gibbs(8) and Cameron Burns; Blake Crohan.
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SNOWBOARDER Magazine's Crewzin', back for it's second season, gives you a behind the scenes look at how some of the top film crews in the game get work done. Keegan & Forest can't stop won't stop in this latest episode, which picks up right where the last GIVIN episode left off.
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Please note that this guide isn't yet ready for public viewing I'm still working on putting it together, and there are gaps aplenty. You're welcome to browse what I have so far (and even to comment on it), but I know it has a long way to go.
I wrote this glossary, like my guide to grammar and style, for my students, and I'm content to serve just that audience and while I'll be pleased if others find it useful, I'm not trying to be all things to all people. I make no pretenses to being complete. Those who want a more thorough catalogue who want definitions of enallage and enthymeme will do well to start with the books by Lanham and Abrams (below). Instead, I want to provide undergraduates and nonspecialists with the beginnings of a working vocabulary.
I've often given only traditional definitions, although I try, when possible, to indicate that many of these terms (especially those relating to historical periods and canonicity) have come under fire. I've given catalogues of the major names from some literary periods, and they almost inevitably point up everything wrong with traditional canon formation there's nary a woman in the lot, for instance, and they perpetuate the myth that there were only six Romantic poets. I won't defend the lists for a minute. I give the names only because they're familiar, and may help readers of this guide hang unfamiliar terms on familiar names and vice versa.
I confess a clear prejudice toward British examples. I've tried from time to time to introduce a few American examples and to define terms specific to American literature, but I've not tried to extend my range any further: I stop at the borders of English-language literature. Readers will also have no trouble recognizing that I'm most at home in eighteenth-century literature, and examples from that period come to me most readily.
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Last Saturday Woodward had its grand opening of its newest skatepark at Lake Tahoe, California. This new facility has an indoor concrete skatepark, mini-ramps, and a mini-mega that you can launch into a foam pit or onto the soft resi landing. Outside there's a nice super wide mini-ramp and of course snow if you're into snowboarding—year round! Tony Hawk got a nice private jet ride up from Carlsbad with his son Riley and Brian "Slash" Hansen joined them too. The Birdhouse team was on hand with Jaws, Clive Dixon, Candler Woods, and Shaun Gregoire. Andrew Cannon was there to skate and announce, Brian Schaefer from SPoT was there filming a SPoT Life episode, Curren Caples was flying all over the place, and Mike V killed the mini ramp demo with old school and new school tricks on his retro Elephant Brand shape. Check the photos below, and the video is right here. Oh yeah, book your skate camp now!
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Merging galaxy NGC 7252 From the Ground (left) and From Hubble (right)
[Left] Ground-based Telescopic Photograph NGC 7252 has been considered the prototypical example of a merger between two disk-shaped galaxies. The galaxy has a pair of long tails that are unambiguous evidence of the effects of gravitational tidal forces from a galaxy merger. The galaxy is nicknamed the "Atoms-for-Peace" galaxy because its stars form a bizarre loop-like structure that resembles a schematic diagram of electrons orbiting an atomic nucleus. (In December 1953, U.S. President Dwight 0. Eisenhower made his "Atoms for Peace" speech to foster peaceful applications of nuclear energy.) The galaxy is located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.
[Right] Hubble Space Telescope Planetary Camera Image of Galaxy Core A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of the peculiar galaxy NGC 7252 reveals a striking "mini-spiral" disk of gas and stars, and about 40 exceptionally bright and young globular star clusters.
The visible light image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) in PC mode, on October 10, 1992. The image has been subject to computer image reconstruction. The strong spiral structure is 10,000 light-years across (3.5 arc seconds); the entire picture is 46,000 light-years across. Hubble's resolution is so good the astronomers can measure the diameters of the clusters (0.04 arc seconds, the apparent size of a dime at a distance of 60 miles). They turn out to be about 60 light-years in diameter, the same size as globular clusters that orbit our Milky Way galaxy.
The pinwheel-shaped disk of gas and young stars has an uncanny resemblance to a face-on spiral galaxy. Yet the disk is only 1/20 the diameter of the total galaxy. The disk was probably fueled by the collision.
Left Credit: Dr. Francois Schweizer, taken with 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
Right Credit: B. Whitmore (STScI), and NASA
Co-investigators: Francois Schweizer of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., and Claus Leitherer, Kirk Borne, and Carmelle Robert of STScI.


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European Commission
Brussels, 20 February 2013
Social investment: Commission urges Member States to focus on growth and social cohesion – frequently asked questions
(see also IP/13/125 and MEMO/13/118)
What is the Social Investment Package?
The Social Investment Package (SIP) sets out a framework for policy reforms to render social protection more adequate and sustainable, to invest in people's skills and capabilities, and to support people throughout the critical moments experienced across their lives.
What is social investment?
Social investment helps people to adapt to societal challenges such as a changing labour market, and helps people to avoid hardship such as falling into poverty or losing their homes. Examples are early childhood education and care, prevention of early school leaving, lifelong learning, training and job-search assistance, housing support, accessible health services and facilitating living independently in old age. Social investment is one of the functions of social policies, alongside social protection and stabilisation of the economy.
Why now?
The crisis has exacerbated social and economic pressures. Almost 120 million people, 24.2% of the population in the EU27, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Unemployment has reached a new high of more than 26 million people or 10.7 % of the active population. The youth unemployment rate has dramatically increased to 22.7 %, and 7.5 million young Europeans (12.9%) between 15 and 24 are not employed, not in education and not in training. Homelessness has grown in most Member States, reaching an unprecedented level.
Major reforms are needed in Member States to adapt to these challenges which come on top of longer term ones such as demographic ageing. Action or inaction in one Member State can have a major noticeable impact at European level. Low investment in education or training in some Member States has implications in terms of lower skilled workforces, which can have negative impacts in overall economic competitiveness. Conversely, large but inefficient or ineffective spending on social policies can have implications in terms of overall EU financial stability and growth.
What about the different social and economic situation in Member States?
Despite differences in the economic, employment and social situations of Member States, the demographic changes and the economic challenges posed by the crisis are common across Europe. The number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion has increased since 2008 in 18 out of the 26 Member States for which data are available in 2011.
Within the framework of the European Semester, the guidance provided by the Social Investment Package will be reflected in the monitoring exercises for steering Member States' reforms towards the Europe 2020 targets. The specific challenges and priorities in social policy facing individual countries will be addressed in this context through Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) proposed by the Commission and endorsed by the European Council.
The Package also provides guidance on how EU funds can best be used to support the implementation of these CSRs, including assessing Member States' progress in implementing the reforms.1
How can EU funds support social investment by Member States?
EU funds are vital instruments to support social investment in the Member States. For the next Multi-annual Financial Framework (2014-2020), the Commission has proposed that at least 25% of cohesion policy funding should be allocated to the European Social Fund (ESF)2, and the ESF's budget is expected to increase by 10% (€84 billion versus 76 at present)3. The objective of the ESF is to increase employment opportunities, promote education and lifelong learning, enhance social inclusion, contribute to combating poverty, and enhance institutional capacity and efficient public administration. Moreover it has been proposed that at least 20% of total ESF resources in each Member State shall be used for 'promoting social inclusion and combating poverty'. Funding under the ESF4 will continue to be complemented by further financing from the European Regional Development Fund, notably for investing in health, social, childcare, housing and education infrastructure, as well as support for physical and economic regeneration of deprived urban and rural communities.
The new Programme for Social Change and Innovation (PSCI)5 will support the development and coordination of social investment policies, sharing of best practices, capacity-building, and testing of social innovations, with the aim that the most successful measures be up-scaled. The new Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) will provide support to ensure that adequate livelihoods are secured by addressing food deprivation, homelessness and material deprivation of children.
How will the Social Investment Package help Member States to meet the Europe 2020 target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least 20 million people?
Progress has stalled in reaching the 2020 target to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion by at least 20 million. Indeed, between 2010 and 2011, the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion increased by more than three million. This adversely affects not only the individuals concerned but also society as a whole.6
The Social Investment Package recalls that having a job is usually the best way to prevent poverty and social exclusion. Promoting inclusive labour markets is therefore essential, and the Package calls on Member States to promote labour force participation. There is a need for integrated services and benefits to enhance people's capacity to participate in society and economy. Investing in preventive social services can also stop hardship before it happens. Affordable health and care services, accessible childcare, activity centres, homelessness prevention and implementing housing-led homelessness strategies7 are some examples of this. Benefits must also provide for appropriate living standards and should be sufficient and well-designed so as to offer beneficiaries an exit strategy from difficult circumstances. The Package announces the development of so-called reference budgets which will make it possible for Member States to determine whether the benefit level allows for efficient and adequate income support.
Does the Social Investment Package seek higher spending on social policies?
The Package demonstrates that, within the current budgetary constraints, better social outcomes can be achieved without necessarily spending more.
The Package recalls that Member States with comparable budgets have often very divergent social outcomes. This suggests that there is room for efficiency gains in many countries, as shown in the graph below:
Relationship between social protection spending (excluding pensions, relative to GDP) and relative reduction in the share of population (aged 0-64) at risk of poverty (as a percentage) (2010)
Source: ESSPROS and EU-SILC.
The Package emphasises for instance that simplifying benefit administration can save time and money, as well as making access to support easier. Multiple benefits, agencies, and assessment methods designed in isolation from each other make accessing benefits more difficult and more time consuming. It also makes it harder to provide individualised, integrated support that rsponds to people's complex situations. One-stop-shops to access benefits and services can address these problems and improve efficiency. Eliminating multiple benefit applications also makes it easier for people to be informed about the benefits and services available to them, and makes it less time-consuming to access support.
What is the point of activation when there are not enough jobs?
Unemployment has risen dramatically during the crisis, but it has not impacted everyone equally. Women with children, young people and people with lower skill levels have been more affected; they are more vulnerable to unemployment and more likely to experience it over the long term8. The SIP addresses this by pointing to the need to invest in activating and training measures to help people that are in more vulnerable situations to acquire the skills they need to compete for the available jobs. This will also need to be accompanied by reforms to make labour markets more inclusive, ensure quality and accessible childcare and other care services, and reforms in benefits and tax systems to avoid financial disincentives to entering the workforce.
Why is it important to target social investment towards children?
For children, disadvantage and exclusion experienced at an early age continue to have an impact on their ability to succeed at later stages of their lives. This is reflected in high drop-out rates in education and reduced employment opportunities, often creating a cycle of disadvantage that is repeated across generations. Studies show that tackling childhood disadvantage early, before it compounds, is the best way to ensure that people live up to their full potential. This means, for instance, providing accessible quality education and health and social services, housing, extra-curricular activities, and measures to improve the family's economic situation, such as employment support9, that helps to avoid inactivity traps for single parents and second earners, as well as through efficient, adequate child and family benefits. Good quality early childhood education and care, in particular, have been proven to have a strong positive impact on children's development and educational achievements later on, improving their chances of finishing their studies and finding employment.
How will the Recommendation on "Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage" be implemented?
The European Semester within the Europe 2020 strategy will monitor the evolution of key policies and the implementation of relevant CSRs, while the Social Open Method of Coordination will help Member States co-ordinate their policy approaches, share experiences and disseminate best practices.
The Commission will test the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers and their impact on children through research financed by the PROGRESS programme. A European Platform for Investing in Children will collect and disseminate innovative practices in areas such as early childhood education and care or parenting support. New steps will also be discussed with Member States to improve or complement EU indicators as regards child deprivation, quality and affordable childcare, children's health as well as the situation of the most vulnerable children.
What does the Social Investment Package propose to help tackle homelessness?
Prevention and early intervention are key strategies in tackling homelessness. The Package explores good practices by Member States in implementing policies to prevent homelessness, and highlights the advantages of implementing integrated, evidence-based, long-term homelessness strategies at national and local level, aiming at the permanent re-housing of homeless people. Adequate measurement and monitoring tools and reinforcing partnerships to combat homelessness are important elements of such strategies. Targeted and integrated policies can alleviate the exclusion of homeless people leading to long-term social and economic benefits for individuals, and at the same time decreasing public expenditure on shelters, crisis intervention and basic goods and services.
While the primary responsibility for tackling homelessness lies with EU Member States, the Package promotes mobilising EU sectorial policies with relevance for homelessness and monitoring homelessness in the European Semester process. The Package also encourages a better and integrated use of EU Funds – such as the European Social Fund ESF), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EARD) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) – to confront homelessness.
Why is health care a social investment?
Ensuring the quality and accessibility of health has a value in itself[1], and is in line with European values such as everyone's right to live in dignity. Cost-efficient investments in health at all ages allow people to participate in society. Securing access to healthcare is an important aspect of preventing and tackling social exclusion[2]. Good healthcare for young children enables them to succeed at various stages of their development and ultimately allows them to play a full role in society and the economy[3]. Timely access to quality health care along with well-designed sickness prevention and health promotion is crucial for maintaining and improving the productivity and employability of the adult work force. For older people, health promoting investments allow for longer working lives, increased independent living, reduced need for long term care and ultimately less pressure on public budgets.
What does the Package say about long-term care?
The Package calls for Member States to take measures to prevent the need for long-term care, raise the self-sufficiency of people with lighter care needs and increase the productivity of long term care delivery while providing financially sustainable, high-quality long-term care to those who need it. As the need for long-term care arises as a result of disability, prevention (including through more age-friendly living arrangements), health promotion and rehabilitation can help reduce the incidence and prevalence of disability in old age and enhance people's capacity to live independently for longer. Increased productivity for long term care delivery offers possibilities for providing more and better care with less manpower, thus reducing pressure on public budgets.
What role can social enterprises/the social economy play?
The social economy is an important player in delivering support to people on the ground. Social enterprises can complement public sector efforts, and can be pioneers in developing new markets and supplying affordable products or services of higher quality for societal purposes. The social economy also plays an important role in supporting the labour market integration of those who are in a precarious situation. The European social economy sector represents today at least two million enterprises and employs over 11 million paid employees, which is equivalent to 6% of the EU's entire workforce. The SIP emphasises that it is important for Member States to provide social enterprises incentives for start-ups and put in place an enabling regulatory environment10.
How does the Commission support Member States to provide high quality and more effective social services?
The Package contains the 3rd Biennial Report on Social Services of General Interest, which presents the new rules on State aid adopted by the Commission in December 2011 and the Commission proposals for new Directives on public procurement. These rules provide more legal certainty on the way social services can be organised and financed and on the way external service providers may be chosen.
What is the role of stakeholders in implementing the Social Investment Package?
The Package underlines the crucial role played by stakeholders. These are the social partners especially where it concerns labour market related measures. Stakeholders can help create workplaces that are more welcoming, influencing measures such as flexible working arrangements, childcare and support for older workers. But in the fight against poverty and social exclusion, the involvement of civil society organisations close to the target groups in the reform and implementation of social policies is essential. This is why the Package urges Member States to improve the involvement of these stakeholders in the modernisation of social policy as part of the Europe 2020 Strategy. At the EU level, the Commission will continue the dialogue with all relevant stakeholders, notably in the context of the Annual Convention of the Platform against Poverty and Exclusion.
What is the Social Protection Performance Monitor?
The Social Protection Performance Monitor (SPPM) is a methodology prepared by the Social Protection Committee to monitor the social situations of Member States in the EU based on commonly agreed indicators. The SPPM can reveal divergences and imbalances in the European Union and identify clusters of Member States concerned by a particular 'social trend to watch'. It reinforces the monitoring of social policies and allows policymakers to receive a snapshot of the social situation in the EU.
How does the Social Investment Package relate to other initiatives of the EU?
The Social Investment Package builds upon the Europe 2020 flagship initiative the European Platform against poverty and social exclusion and the 2008 Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market
The Package furthermore complements the following initiatives: the Employment Package that sets out the way forward for a job rich recovery, the White Paper on Pensions presenting a strategy for adequate, sustainable and safe pensions; the Youth Employment Package dealing specifically with the difficulties young people face in achieving employment; and the Rethinking Education package that promotes investments in education and training to provide better socio-economic outcomes.
Furthermore, several initiatives are currently being taken at EU-level that will support the Social Investment Package including: the forthcoming Directive on access to basic bank accounts, the specific attention paid to vulnerable consumers in the new proposal for a Directive on energy efficiency, the new "Erasmus for All" programme to support inclusive education initiatives,the proposed Directive on the accessibility of public sector bodies' websites to improve citizens' awareness of their social rights, and the Regulation for a European Social Entrepreneurship Fund to stimulate funding for social investment.
See the Staff Working Document on 'Social Investment through the European Social Fund' for more details.
EU Cohesion Policy 2014 – 2020 Proposals from the European Commission
EU Cohesion Policy 2014 -2020 Investing in growth and jobs
See SWD on "Social Investment through the European Social Fund"
A funding programme that will integrate PROGRESS, EURES and the European Progress Microfinance facility.
See SWD "Evidence on Demography and Social Trends – Social Policies' Contribution to Inclusion, Employment and the Economy"
'Housing-led' is a general policy principle (or approach) for homelessness strategies. It means that homeless strategies should be geared as a final aim towards securing permanent accommodation to (at-risk-of) homeless people.
See SWD "Evidence on Demographic and Social Trends"
See Recommendation on Investing in Children
1] See, for instance, Council Conclusions on Common Values and Principles in European Union Health Systems (2006/C 146/01)
2] See SWD "Evidence on Demographic and Social Trends"
3] See SWD "Investing in Health"
EU State aid rules need to be respected (and the possibilities offered e.g. by the General block exemption Regulation 800/2008 or de minimis aid Regulation 1998/2006 could be used),
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The Board of Economic Development is set to launch its four new economic development programs on July 1. The programs are a result of SB 235, which was passed by the State Legislature earlier this year. The multi-faceted approach set forth in SB 235 focuses on education, housing, infrastructure, local economic development efforts, and large and small project needs.
The Economic Development Partnership Program and the Local Infrastructure Improvement Program, two of the board's new programs which provide funding to local development corporations and political subdivisions, will accept the first round of applications July 1-31. The other two programs administered by the board, the Reinvestment Payment Program and the South Dakota Jobs Grant Program, which provide direct assistance to economic development projects, will accept applications on an ongoing basis.
These new programs are going to be great for economic development in South Dakota, said Pat Costello, GOED commissioner. "We are looking forward to using these new tools to continue to create jobs and foster business development within the state.
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GOED's energy consultants Jim Quinn, left, and Gary Kluksdahl, right, joined the South Dakota contingency at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan, in May. Also pictured are Pat Kurtenbach of Sturgis; Hunter Roberts, State Energy Policy Director; and Bryan Walker of Spearfish.
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"Because of our geographical proximity, our companies are really well-positioned to serve this industry," said Pat Costello, GOED Commissioner.
Since the oil and gas industry is a new target, the GOED has retained the services of Black Hills Business Strategy, a Rapid City-based consulting firm that has significant experience in the oil and gas industry.
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Jim Quinn, one of the BHBS consultants, said that the study will be conducted in three stages.
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The consultants also attended the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Saskatchewan, Canada, as part of the South Dakota contingency earlier this month.
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HR 5351 - Energy Law Amendments - National Key Vote
Jesse Jackson, Jr. voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
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- Feb. 28, 2008 Senate Bill Sent To Committee
- Feb. 27, 2008 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 12, 2008 Introduced
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Title: Energy Law Amendments
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Vote to pass a bill that extends renewable energy tax credits and increases taxes on oil companies.
- Extends tax credits for wind facilities, closed loop and open loop biomass facilities, geothermal and solar facilities, small irrigation power facilities, landfill gas facilities, trash combustion facilities, and hydropower facilities for three years (Sec. 101).
- Designates tax credits for marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy (Sec. 102).
- Extends by eight years the 30 percent tax credit for solar energy property and fuel cell property (Sec. 103).
- Creates new "clean renewable energy" bonds and designates a $2 billion limit on those bonds, which would be allocated to qualified projects of public power providers and cooperative electric companies (Sec. 104).
- Extends tax credits for residential energy efficient property for six years (Sec. 106).
- Raises the maximum credit for solar electric property from $2,000 to $4,000 (Sec. 106).
- Allots income tax credits to consumers who buy plug-in hybrid vehicles (Sec. 201).
- Extends and modifies tax credits for energy efficient appliances (Sec. 234).
- Prevents tax deductions to major integrated oil companies for income resulting from the domestic production of oil and gas (Sec. 301).
- Reduces the tax deduction of taxpayers with oil-related qualified production activities income by 3 percent after 2008 (Sec. 301).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 12, 2008
Title: Energy Law Amendments
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