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Posted by Marcel van der Steen in Light measurements No Comments»Here an LED line system from LedLighting BV. The measurements from OliNo show that the lamp emits a neutral white light with a color temperature of 4068 K. The lamp consumes 36.8 W and has a luminous flux of 3797 lm. This results in an efficacy of 103 lm/W. The lamps energy category label is A+.
This article shows the measurement results. Many parameters are also found in the Eulumdat file.
See this overview for a comparison with other light bulbs.
Summary measurement data dated 2017-09-05
parameter | meas. result | remark |
Color temperature | 4068 K | neutral white |
Luminous intensity Iv | 1183.3 Cd | Measured straight underneath the lamp. |
Illuminance modulation index | 0 % | Measured with a light sensor looking at the lamp (angle not defined). Is a measure for the amount of flickering. |
Beam angle | 123 deg | 123 deg is the beam angle for the C0-C180-plane (perpendicular to the length direction of the lamp) and 107 deg is the beam angle for the C90-C270 plane, which is along the length direction of the lamp. |
Power P | 36.8 W | The net power consumed. |
Power Factor | 0.95 | An electrical load with this power factor means that for every 1 kWh net energy consumed, there has been 0.34 kVAhr for reactive energy. |
THD | 10 % | Total Harmonic Distortion. |
Max inrush current | 28.468 A | This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 90 degrees. |
Luminous flux | 3797 lm | Measured with photogoniometer, calculation done as described in LM79-08. |
Luminous efficacy | 103 lm/W | |
EU2013-label classification | A+ | The energy class, from A++ (more efficient) to E (least efficient). This label is an update of the previous version, and compulsory from Sept 2013. |
CRI_Ra | 85 | Color Rendering Index. |
Rf_TM30 | 84 | TM30-15 is an improved indicator (over CRI) of how well colors are rendered. |
Rg_TM30 | 97 | Gamut Area Ratio. |
Coordinates chromaticity diagram | x=0.3759 en y=0.3777 | |
Fitting | 230V | This lamp is connected directly to the grid voltage. |
PAR-value | 10.8 uMol/s/m2 | The number of photons seen by an average plant when it is lit by the light of this light bulb. Value valid at 1 m distance from light bulb. |
PAR-photon efficacy | 0.9 uMol/s/We | The total emitted number of photons by this light, divided by its consumption in W. It indicates a kind of efficacy in generating photons. |
Photon current | 55.8 uMol/s | The total number of photons in the light of this lamp. |
S/P ratio | 1.7 | This factor indicates the amount of times more efficient the light of this light bulb is perceived under scotopic circumstances (low environmental light level). |
L x W x H external dimensions | 1508 mm x 63 mm x 65 mm | External dimensions of the lamp. |
L x W x H luminous area | 560 mm x 50 mm x 15 mm | Dimensions of the luminous area (used in Eulumdat file). It is the surface of the matt white cover. |
General remarks | The ambient temperature during the whole set of illuminance measurements was 24.8 – 25.4 deg C.The temperature of the lamp gets maximally about 21 degrees hotter than ambient temperature.
Warm up effect: During the warmup time the illuminance doesn't vary significantly (< 5 %). During the warmup time the power doesn't vary significantly (< 5 %). Voltage dependency: There is no (significant) dependency of the illuminance when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC. At the end of the article an additional photo. |
Eff-variation | -2 % | This is the variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime). |
Dimmable | no | Info from manufacturer. |
Melanopic effect factor |
0.575 | According to norm DIN SPEC 5031-100:2015-08. |
Blue Light Hazard risk group | 0 | 0=exempt, 1=low, 2 = moderate, 3=high risk. Indication value only for straight underneath the lamp. |
form factor | bar | |
Eulumdat file | Right click on icon and save the file. | |
IES file | Right click on icon and save the file. |
Overview table
Please note that this overview table makes use of calculations, use this data with care as explained on the OliNo site.
EU 2013 Energy label classification
Since Sept 2013 these labels will be needed.
Important for the energy classification are the corrected rated power and the useful luminous flux.
The measured rated power is 36.8 W and might need to be corrected. The correction is dependent from the lamp type and whether or not the lamp control gear is included or not. The choice for this lamp is the following classification: Lamps with own control gear (external or internal). As a result the corrected rated power becomes: 36.8 W.
The luminous flux measured is 3797 lm. The classification of this lamp needed to determine the useful flux is: Non-directional lamps. Then the useful flux becomes 3797 lm. Now a reference power can be calculated.
The energy efficiency coefficient is P_corr / P_ref = 0.13.
EU energy label for this lamp
Zip file with 6 EU energy labels of this lamp
The lamp's performance in the lumen-Watt field, with the energy efficacy fields indicated.
Eulumdat light diagram
This light diagram below comes from the program Qlumedit, that extracts these diagrams from an Eulumdat file.
The light diagram giving the radiation pattern.
The light diagram indicates the beam in the C0-C180 plane (perpendicular to the length direction of the lamp) and in the plane perpendicular to that, the C90-C270 plane (along the length direction of the lamp).
Illuminance Ev at 1 m distance, or luminous intensity Iv
Herewith the plot of the averaged luminous intensity Iv as a function of the inclination angle with the light bulb.
The radiation pattern of the light bulb.
This radiation pattern is the average of the light output of the light diagram given earlier. Also, in this graph the luminous intensity is given in Cd.
These averaged values are used (later) to compute the lumen output.
Intensity data of every measured turn angle at each inclination angle.
This plot shows per inclination angle the intensity measurement results for each turn angle at that inclination angle. There normally are differences in illuminance values for different turn angles. However for further calculations the averaged values will be used.
When using the average values per inclination angle, the beam angle can be computed, being 123 deg for the C0-C180 plane and 107 deg for the C90-C270 plane.
Luminous flux
With the averaged illuminance data at 1 m distance, taken from the graph showing the averaged radiation pattern, it is possible to compute the luminous flux.
The result of this computation for this light spot is a luminous flux of 3797 lm.
Luminous efficacy
The luminous flux being 3797 lm, and the consumed power of the lamp being 36.8 Watt, results in a luminous efficacy of 103 lm/Watt.
Electrical properties
The power factor is 0.95. An electrical load with this power factor means that for every 1 kWh net energy consumed, there has been 0.34 kVAhr for reactive energy.
Lamp voltage | 230.17 V |
Lamp current | 0.169 A |
Power P | 36.8 W |
Apparent power S | 38.9 VA |
Power factor | 0.95 |
Of this lamp the voltage across and the resulting current through it are measured and graphed.
Voltage across and current through the lightbulb
This current waveform has been checked on requirements posed by the norm IEC 61000-3-2:2006 (including up to A2:2009).
Harmonics in the current waveform and checked against IEC61000-3-2:2006 and A2:2009
When the consumed power is 25 W there are limits for the harmonics and those are fulfilled.
The Total Harmonic Distortion of the current is computed and its value is 10 %.
Inrush current
The inrush current has been measured for different voltage start angles; from 0 – 170 degrees with a 10 degrees step. The current- and voltage values have been acquires at a sample speed of 39.9 kS/s. Then this data has been fed into a second order 2kHz low pass Butterworth filter. This removes the current spikes that do not represent relevant values.
The lamp was two minutes off before every inrush current measurement was made.
Test voltage | 230.0 V | |
Frequency of the voltage | 50.0 Hz | |
Maximum inrush current | 28.468 A | This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 90 degrees. |
Pulse width of max inrush current | 4.3E-4 s | This is the time that the pulse is higher than 10 % of the max inrush current. |
Minimal inrush current | 3.095 A | This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 0 degrees. |
I^2 x t after 10 ms at 0 deg voltage start angle | 1.180E-2 A | This is the I^2 t value when a zero crossing detector is used to start the voltage from 0 degrees. |
Inrush current found at worst-case voltage start angle
First cycle of the maximum inrush current
The energy I2t during the first 10 ms of the first current cycle
Temperature measurements lamp
Temperature image(s).
status lamp | 2 hours on |
ambient temperature | 25 deg C |
reflected background temperature | 25 deg C |
camera | Flir T335 |
emissivity | 0.95 |
measurement distance | 0.5, 1 m |
IFOVgeometric | 0.136 mm per 0.1 m distance |
NETD (thermal sensitivity) | 50 mK |
Color temperature and Spectral power distribution
The spectral power distribution of this light bulb, energies on y-axis valid at 1 m distance.
The measured color temperature is 4068 K which is neutral white.
This color temperature is measured straight underneath the light bulb. Below a graph showing the color temperature for different inclination angles.
Color temperature as a function of inclination angle.
The color temperature is given for inclination angles up to 85 deg. Beyond that value the illuminance is so low ( 0.10 lux) that it has not been used for color determination of the light.
For the C0-C180 plane: the beam angle of 123 deg is equivalent to 61.4 deg inclination angle,which is the area where most of the light falls within. The maximum variation of color temperature in this inclination area is about 0 %.
For the C90-C270 plane: the beam angle of 107 deg is equivalent to 53.6 deg inclination angle,which is the area where most of the light falls within. The maximum variation of color temperature in this inclination area is about 0 %.
PAR value and PAR spectrum
To make a statement how well the light of this light bulb is for growing plants, the PAR-area needs to be determined.
The photon spectrum, then the sensitivity curve and as result the final PAR spectrum of the light of this light bulb
parameter | value | unit |
PAR number | 10.8 | uMol/s/m^2 |
PAR photon current | 34.6 | uMol/s |
PAR photon efficacy | 0.9 | uMol/s/W |
The PAR efficiency is 65 % (valid for the PAR wave length range of 400 – 700 nm). This is the maximum percentage of the total of photons in the light that is effectively used by the average plant (since the plant might not take 100 % of the photons at the frequency where its relative sensitivity is 100 %).
S/P ratio
The power spectrum, sensitivity curves and resulting scotopic and photopic spectra (spectra energy content defined at 1 m distance).
The S/P ratio of the light coming from this lamp is 1.7.
Chromaticity diagram
The chromaticity space and the position of the lamp's color coordinates in it.
The point of the light in this diagram is inside the area indicated with class A. This area indicates an area for signal lamps.
The color coordinates are x=0.3759 and y=0.3777.
Color Rendering Index (CRI) or also Ra
Herewith the image showing the CRI as well as how well different colors are represented (rendered). The higher the number, the better the resemblance with the color when a black body radiator would have been used (the sun, or an incandescent lamp)
Each color has an index Rx, and the first 8 indexes (R1 .. R8) are averaged to compute the Ra which is equivalent to the CRI.
CRI of the light of this lightbulb.
This value of 85 indicates how well the light of this lamp can render well a set of reference colors, this in comparison with the light of a reference source (for color temperatures 5000K a black radiator is used as reference and for color temperatures 5000K the sun or the light outside during the day).
The value of 85 is bigger than the value of 80 that is considered as a minimum for working areas in general.
Note: the chromaticity difference is 0.0004 and indicates the distance to the Planckian Locus. There is a value mentioned of max 5.4E-3 in section 5.3 of CIE 13.3-1995 however no further explanation of it.
An other reference with signal lights as a reference is given in the chromaticity diagram.
Color quality scale TM-30-15
TM-30-15 is an improved indicator (over CRI) of how well colors are rendered.
TM30-15 Rf = 84, Rg = 97.
TM-30-15-values for 99 samples for the light of this light bulb. The closer the value for a testcolor comes to 100, the more its rendition resembles that of a reference lightsource.
Graphical view of averaged color points for this light bulb compared to a reference source with the same color temperature.
Voltage dependency
The dependency of a number of lamp parameters on the lamp voltage is determined. For this, the lamp voltage has been varied and its effect on the following light bulb parameters measured: illuminance E_v [lx], the lamppower P [W] and the luminous efficacy [lm/W] (this latter is estimated here by dividing the found E_v value by P).
Lamp voltage dependencies of certain light bulb parameters
There is no (significant) dependency of the illuminance when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.
There is no (significant) dependency of the consumed power when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.
When the voltage varies abruptly with + or – 5 V AC then this results in a variation of the illuminance of maximally 0.0 %. This difference in illuminance is not visible (when it occurs abruptly).
Warm up effects
After switch on of a cold lamp, the effect of heating up of the lamp is measured on illuminance E_v [lx], the lamppower P [W] and the luminous efficacy [lm/W].
Effect of warming up on different light bulb parameters. In the first graph the 100 % level is put at begin, and in the last graph the 100 % level is put at the end.
During the warmup time the illuminance doesn't vary significantly ( 5 %).
During the warmup time the power doesn't vary significantly ( 5 %).
The variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up is -2 %. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime).
Measure of flickering
An analysis is done on the measure of flickering of the light output by this light bulb.
The measure of fast illuminance variation of the light of the light bulb
parameter | value | unit |
Flicker frequency | 100.2 | Hz |
Illuminance modulation index | 0 | % |
Flicker index | 0.001 | [-] |
Compact Flicker Degree | 0 | % |
Flicker free.
The illuminance modulation index is computed as: (max_Ev – min_Ev) / (max_Ev + min_Ev).
Melanopic effect
The melanopic effect shows the level of impact the light of this lamp can have on the day-night rhythm of human beings (as well as the suppression of melatonin production).
The important parameters (according to norm DIN SPEC 5031-100:2015-08):
melanopic effect factor | 0.575 |
kmel trans (25 years) | 1.048 |
kmel trans (32 years) | 1.000 |
kmel trans (50 years) | 0.846 |
kmel trans(75 years) | 0.612 |
kmel trans(90 years) | 0.484 |
kpupil(25 years) | 1.088 |
kpupil(32 years) | 1.000 |
kpupil(50 years) | 0.792 |
kpupil(75 years) | 0.543 |
kpupil(90 years) | 0.416 |
Blue Light Hazard
The amount of blue light and the harm it can cause on the retina has been determined. Herewith the results.
The level of blue light of this lamp related to the exposure limit and the different classification areas.
L_lum0 [mm] | 50 | Dimension of brightest part of lamp in C0-C180 direction. |
L_lum90 [mm] | 560 | Dimension of brightest part of lamp in C90-C270 direction. |
SSD_500lx [mm] | 1538 | Calculated distance where Ev = 500 lux. This computation is valid when it is in the far field of the lamp. Note: if this value 200 mm then the distance of 200 mm is taken as proposed in the norm IEC 62471:2006. |
Start of far field [mm] | 2811 | Minimum distance at which the lamp can be seen as apoint source. In this area the Ev is linearly dependent from (1/distance)2. |
300-350 nm values stuffed with 0s | yes | In the event OliNo has measured with a SpB1211 spectrometer without UV option then the irradiance data of 300-349 nm is missing. For lamps where there is already no energy content near 350 nm, the values 300-349 can also be set at zero then. |
alphaC0-C180 [rad] | 0.033 | (Apparent) source angle in C0-C180 direction. |
alphaC90-C270 [rad] | 0.364 | (Apparent) source angle in C90-C270 direction. |
alphaAVG [rad] | 0.066 | Average (apparent) source angle. If average >= 0.011 rad then the exposure limit is computed with radiance Lb. Otherwise with irradiance Eb. |
Exposure value [W/m^2/sr] | 2.07E+1 | Blue Light Hazard value for this lamp, measured straight underneath the lamp. Computation is referenced to Lb. Because the distance at 500 lux is in the near field, then this exposure value is too pessimistic and should be lower. |
Blue Light Hazard risk group | 0 | 0=exempt, 1=low, 2 = moderate, 3=high risk. |
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Chapter 3
All nations will be at war—Multitudes will stand in the valley of decision as the Second Coming draws near—The Lord will dwell in Zion.
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 ¶ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.


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Pension Scheme Charges and Governance Reporting
The value of your pension pot at retirement will depend on the amount that's paid in as well as your investment returns after charges, so it's important that charges represent value for money and that investments are appropriate for you and other scheme members.
The Trustees of your pension scheme carry out a check on the charges deducted from your pension pot and, as a minimum, the fund(s) you're invested in if you don't make your own choice. Details of all charges that apply to your scheme, your Trustees' assessment of value for money, and your Trustees' investment governance activity are shown in the Chair's Statement produced each year and can be found below.
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How much are the charges?
Details of the charges advised to the Trustees are shown in the attachments above.
What's the effect of the charges?
Although the charges may only take a small percentage of its value every month, it's important that you understand the impact those charges can have on the amount that is paid out. To do this we have provided some illustrations above to show the difference charges can make for a selection of investment funds.
Do the charges represent value for money?
The Trustee Board provide an assessment of whether the scheme offers value for money, details of the scheme's default arrangement(s) and the steps taken to obtain details of all charges in the Chair of Trustees' Annual Statement. Relevant extracts of the statement are shown above.
It's important you know what charges are deducted from your plan but also that you understand the valuable oversight provided by the Trustees.
What do you mean by investment governance?
Trustees have different investment governance responsibilities depending on the size of their scheme. Generally, the larger the scheme the more they have to do. This might be a review of the fund(s) the Trustees invest your contributions in if you make no choice (the scheme's default solution), or the whole range of funds that are available within the scheme.
The Trustees are required to document the principles they follow when reviewing the default, or full fund range, in their statement of investment principles. Trustees of larger schemes need to include how they take environmental, social responsibility and corporate governance risks into account within their statement of investment principles and post it online.
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Dr. Gary L. Wolfram, an adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, is a professor of economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, and president of the Hillsdale Policy Group, a consulting firm specializing in taxation and public policy analysis. He is the author of A Capitalist Manifesto: Understanding the Market Economy and Defending Liberty (2012).
His government experience includes a stint as Washington chief of staff for Michigan Congressman Nick Smith, being senior economist for the Michigan State Republican policy staff, and serving as Michigan's deputy state treasurer for taxation and economic policy.
One of the highlights of Wolfram's government service was directing the establishment of Michigan's Enterprise Zone legislation. He also served as chairman of the Headlee Amendment Blue Ribbon Commission.
Dr. Wolfram earned his Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley, and he has taught at several colleges and universities, including Mt. Holyoke College, The University of Michigan, and Washington State University.


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Student Driver Attempts To Run Over Instructor After Failing Test
When a student fails a driving test, they sometimes respond emotionally.
This means driving instructors will be confronted with tears, begging and even the occasional bribe when their charge struggles to parallel park or just can't nail the three-point turn.
It was the cones that did in a 21-year-old student driver from Mayfield Heights, Ohio. As in, she hit one and automatically failed the test because of it.
Her emotional response to her failure began with yelling at the instructor. "Why didn't you tell me what I was doing? Where else can I take my test?" she reportedly kept screaming after she heard the bad news.
Then, when the instructor exited the car, the woman tried to run her over. Luckily the instructor dove out of the way just in time.
Police are now looking for the woman, who had been driving a white Hyundai with temporary tags.
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In our data study we searched for the key phrase Bedroom Furniture Store in New York City, and then repeated this for the other top 199 most populated cities in the United States. We then analyzed Bedroom Furniture Store Google Business (previously: Google My Business) Profiles to understand the Industry. How many reviews do you need? How many reviews do you need to rank in the top 3 of Google? And much more.


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Selling and Service
- Understands organizational objectives and makes decisions that align with the Company priorities and values
- Creates personal sales and clienteling strategies in partnership with the management team
- Meets customer needs through solution-oriented and forward thinking
- Builds credibility and trust as a personal fashion advisor by communicating fashion awareness and trends in the marketplace
- Understands changes in local market with potential impact on business performance and supports the execution of local sales strategies and tactics
- Creates positive impressions with customer by bringing best self to work through elevated, sophisticated, appropriate business attire consistent with Coach's guide to style
- Demonstrates Coach's Selling and Service expectations at all times
- Influences customers' purchase decisions by balancing patience and assertiveness
- Takes ownership and commitment for delivering results; actively aware of personal and store metrics and achieves goals
- Flexes personal selling techniques to contribute to overall store financial results
- Demonstrates persuasive (not aggressive), confident, friendly and genuine service skills and selling behaviors
- Discusses product features and builds the sale by suggesting appropriate add on items to fit the customers' specific needs
- Works with multiple customers simultaneously and breaks away as appropriate
- Follows up with customers consistently and genuinely to influence/close the sale
- Develops product knowledge skills and remains aware of current collections
- Demonstrates knowledge of competition and can apply that knowledge to building sales and customer relationships
- Drives business through sales strategies, clienteling, sourcing new customers and maintaining on-going productive relationships with customers
- Sensitive to customers' needs and tailors approach by reading cues
- Builds lasting and loyal relationships with customers
- Ensures all daily tasks are completed without negatively impacting service or Coach standards
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- Creates enthusiasm and positivity for a shared vision and mission
- Fosters and environment of teamwork, trust and collaboration with peers, customers and supervisors
- Demonstrates confidence when working with customers
- Takes initiative; has a high-level of ownership and accountability for individual results
- Welcomes feedback and adapts behaviors as appropriate
- Represents Coach as a brand ambassador at all times
- Is adaptable and flexible to change
- Maintains a calm and professional demeanor at all times
- Creates short and long-term strategies to achieve personal metrics and performance goals
- Utilizes Company tools to keep self-informed
- Handles and offers solutions to customer issues appropriately and involves a manager when necessary
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- Completes daily operational tasks including maintaining store (sales floor and backroom), cash wrap and visual merchandising to Coach standards consistently and in a timely manner
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Schedule: Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including nights, weekends, busy seasons, and high retail traffic and sales days(including but not limited to: the day after Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Christmas Eve, Mother's Day, etc.).
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Fiscal cliff: How to judge if debt cuts are real
The Associated Press
| Sunday, November 25, 2012, 10:05 a.m.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and leaders of the lame-duck Congress may be just weeks away from shaking hands on a deal to avert the dreaded "fiscal cliff." So it's natural to wonder: If they announce a bipartisan package promising to curb mushrooming federal deficits, will it be real?
Both sides have struck cooperative tones since Obama's re-election. Even so, he and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, the GOP's pivotal bargainer, have spent most of the past two years in an acrid political climate in which both sides have fought stubbornly to protect their constituencies.
Obama and top lawmakers could produce an agreement that takes a serious bite out of the government's growing $16 trillion pile of debt and puts it on a true downward trajectory.
Or they might reach an accord heading off massive tax increases and spending cuts that begin to bite in January — that's the fiscal cliff — while appearing to be getting tough on deficits through painful savings deferred until years from now, when their successors might revoke or dilute them.
Historically, Congress and presidents have proven themselves capable of either. So before bargainers concoct a product, and assuming they can, here's a checklist of how to assess their work:
Overall deficit cuts
The House and Senate have four weeks until Christmas. Their leaders and the president want a deal before then. Bargainers are shooting for a framework setting future debt-reduction targets, with detailed tax and spending changes to be approved next year but possibly some initial savings enacted immediately.
Obama has suggested 10-year savings totaling around $4.4 trillion.
Passing a framework next month that sets deficit-cutting targets for each of the next 10 years would be seen as a sign of seriousness. But look for specifics. An agreement will have a greater chance of actually reducing deficits if it details how the savings would be divided between revenue increases and cuts in federal programs, averting future fights among lawmakers over that question.
Better yet would be including a fast-track process for passing next year's tax and spending bills if they meet the savings targets so they can whisk through Congress without the possibility of a Senate filibuster, in which 41 of the 100 senators could kill a measure they dislike.
Another sign of sincerity: An enforcement mechanism that imposes savings automatically if lawmakers gridlock over details. Legislators' efforts now to avert January's combination of automatic tax boosts and spending cuts underscores the effectiveness of forcing them to act.
Less impressive would be verbal pledges by the White House and congressional leaders to meet deficit-cutting goals without passing legislation inscribing the figures into law.
A deal that specifies where revenue would come from would lay important groundwork for next year's follow-up bill enacting actual changes in tax laws.
The biggest clash has been over whether to raise income tax rates on earnings over $200,000 annually for individuals, $250,000 for families. Obama wants to let them rise next year to a top rate of 39.6 percent but has suggested he would compromise. Boehner and other Republicans oppose any increase above today's top marginal rate of 35 percent. Instead, they advocate lower rates and eliminating or reducing unspecified deductions and tax credits. Settling that would resolve the toughest impediment to a deal.
Raising money from higher rates, closing loopholes or a combination of the two would create real revenue for the government. The problem is many tax deductions and credits , such as for home mortgages and the value of employer-provided health insurance, are so popular that enacting them into law over objections from the public and lobbyists would be extremely difficult.
With the price tags of tax and spending laws typically measured over a decade, delaying the implementation date can distort the projected impact of a change on people and the government's debt.
Tax cuts written to expire in a certain year can put future lawmakers under political pressure to extend it. That is what Obama and Congress face today with the January expiration of tax cuts, including many enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.
Even more questionable are assumptions that overhauling tax laws will boost economic activity and thus produce large new revenues for the government. Many Republicans and ideologically conservative economists contend that's the case, but most economists say there is no sound way to estimate how much revenue can be generated from strengthening the economy by revamping the tax system. Many believe the amount is modest.
A serious agreement should specify how much savings would come from entitlements, meaning those big, costly benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare. It also should say how much would come from discretionary spending, which covers federal agency budgets for everything from the military and national parks to food safety inspections and weather forecasts.
Why the need for specificity?
Because spending for entitlements occurs automatically, accounts for nearly two-thirds of federal spending and is the fastest growing part of the budget. Discretionary spending has been shackled by past budget deals and, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, is moving toward falling below 6 percent the size of the economy by 2022, the lowest level in at least 50 years.
A sincere effort to control expenditures would focus on entitlements, the true source of the government's spending problem. An agreement that envisions deep discretionary cuts risks a reliance on savings that future lawmakers could find unbearable and rescind.
Savings that come from weeding out waste, fraud and abuse, which sounds good but are difficult to find, or rely on one-time sales of federal assets should be treated with suspicion.
Deep cuts that take effect in the future, say after Obama leaves office in 2017, might be better than imposing them now and hurting an already weak economy by reducing spending.
But delayed cuts also open the door for Obama's successors and future Congresses to roll them back. In 1997, Congress voted for cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors; those cuts have grown so large that lawmakers now vote annually to restore the money.
Postponing the implementation of spending increases already scheduled to take effect, such as federal health insurance subsidies under Obama's health care overhaul, saves money upfront but makes no permanent changes that would ease future spending pressures.
Another debatable source of deficit reduction would be the hundreds of billions of dollars the Obama administration says the government is saving by winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While there is no question those expenditures are dropping, the government has run huge deficits while those wars were waged, so there's no money being left unspent as those wars end.