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The evidence is inexorably mounting that the climate alarmists have been taking us all for a ride. It is only be a matter of time before their agenda is exposed as one of the biggest con tricks of all time. Thus they are already scrambling to breathe new life into the CO2 emissions scare. It will become obvious (by the passage of years if nothing else) that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does not, after all, cause any significant climate change, thus it will be necessary to blame CO2 (and hence man) for some other catastrophic event. So, prepare yourself for the coming "ocean acidification" scam.
The media have already entered the fray with lying narratives that sound like science fiction scripts, warning about the catastrophe of "acid oceans" and "toxic seas." The BBC have churned out headlines such as "Marine life faces 'acid threat'," Acid oceans "need urgent action" and "Acidic seas fuel extinction fears." Newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph and the Times have got in on the act with scary headlines such as "Mussels face extinction as oceans turn acidic", "Pollution to devastate shellfish by turning seas acidic" and "Acid seas threaten to make British shellfish extinct". Just recently, it has got all the more strident: the Sunday Times (March 8, 2009) chimes in under the headline The toxic sea:
Each one of us dumps a tonne of carbon dioxide into the oceans every year, turning them into acidified soups and threatening to destroy most of what lives in them.
And from the Guardian (March 10, 2009) under the headline Carbon emissions creating acidic oceans not seen since dinosaurs:
Human pollution is turning the seas into acid so quickly that the coming decades will recreate conditions not seen on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs. The rapid acidification is caused by the massive amounts of carbon belched out from chimneys and exhausts that dissolve in the ocean. the pH of surface waters, where the CO2 is absorbed from the atmosphere, has fallen about 0.1 units since the industrial revolution, though it will take longer for the acid to reach deeper water.
Note the continual use of the word acid. Yet there is not the slightest possibility that seawater will turn to acid, or even become mildly acidic, so this is drivel. Note also the claim that pH has changed by 0.1 units over the last 200 years: it was not possible a hundred years ago, never mind 200 years ago, to measure pH to the accuracy necessary to support that assertion, so it's just posturing. Finally, notice that CO2 is branded "human pollution", though CO2 is an entirely natural and absolutely essential nutrient for plant photosynthesis, without which all life on earth would certainly become extinct very quickly.
As an aside, we should note that if lower alkalinity per se were so unfavourable to shellfish as is claimed then we would have no freshwater shellfish and snails, but we do. The freshwater mussel has lived for thousands of years in waters that are genuinely acidic and with highly variable pH, not only seasonally, but geographically. With spring snowmelt and high rainfall, the pH of rivers and lakes can fall to below pH 5, and experiments have shown that mussels can survive this acidity indefinitely without any deleterious effects to their shells. Note: a pH of 5 has 1,000 times as many "acidic" H+ ions per litre as seawater, and 100 times more than pure water. This is not to say that sea creatures can survive in fresh water – they are adapted to a radically different saline environment – the point at issue is that the idea of a small change in ocean pH due to increased dissolved carbon dioxide having a deleterious effect on marine shells of living organisms is not as obvious as the alarmists make out.


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Aesop's Fables: The Monkey as King
Updated May 14, 2020 |
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The Monkey as King
At a gathering of all the animals the Monkey danced and delighted them so much that they made him their King. The Fox, however, was very much disgusted at the promotion of the Monkey: so having one day found a trap with a piece of meat in it, he took the Monkey there and said to him, "Here is a dainty morsel I have found, sire; I did not take it myself, because I thought it ought to be reserved for you, our King. Will you be pleased to accept it?" The Monkey made at once for the meat and got caught in the trap. Then he bitterly reproached the Fox for leading him into danger; but the Fox only laughed and said, "O Monkey, you call yourself King of the Beasts and haven't more sense than to be taken in like that!"


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ctm -- source code mirror program
ctm [-cFklquv] [-b basedir] [-B backup-file] [-e include-regex] [-t tar-command] [-T tmpdir] [-V level] [-x exclude-regex] file ...
The ctm utility was originally ``Cvs Through eMail'', but now instead it seems more fitting to call it ``Current Through eMail''. The ctm utility is now meant to be the definitive way to make and apply a delta between two versions of a directory tree. There are two parts to this, making the delta and applying it. These are two entirely different things. Usage [Toc] [Back] To apply a CTM delta, you pass it to the ctm command. You can pass a CTM delta on stdin, or you can give the filename as an argument. If you do the latter, you make life a lot easier for your self, since the program can accept gzip'ed files and since it will not have to make a temporary copy of your file. You can specify multiple deltas at one time, they will be processed one at a time. Deltas that are already applied will be ignored. The ctm command runs in a number of passes. It will process the entire input file in each pass, before commencing with the next pass. Before working on a file name ctm first checks for the existence of the file name.ctm. If this file exists, ctm works on it instead. Pass 1 will verify that the input file is OK. The syntax, the data and the global MD5 checksum will be checked. If any of these fail, ctm will simply reject the input file. Pass 2 will validate that the directory tree is in the state expected by the CTM delta. This is done by looking for files and directories which should/should not exist and by checking the MD5 checksums of files. If a backup-file had been specified using the -B option, all files that would be modified by this ctm invocation are backed up to this file using the archiver command specified by the -t option. The default archiver command is tar -rf %s -T -. Pass 3 will actually apply the delta. The list of files that would be modified by ctm is subject to filtering regular expressions specified using the -e and -x options. The -e and -x options are applied in order of appearance on the command line. The last filter that matched a given file name determines whether the file would be operated on or left alone by ctm. The ctm utility will extract the file hierarchy below its working directory. Absolute filenames or filenames containing references through `.' and `..' are explicitly prohibited as a security measure. Options [Toc] [Back] -b basedir Prepend the path basedir to every filename. -B backup-file Backup all files that would be modified by this CTM run to backup-file. If any filters are specified using the -e and -x options, then the final set of files backed up are those that would be modified by CTM after the filters are applied. -c Check it out, don't do anything. -e regular_expression Match each name in the CTM file against regular_expression, and if it matches process the file, otherwise leave it alone. There may be any number of these options. Use of this option disables the .ctm_status sequence number checks. For example, the expression ^usr.sbin/ctm for example, will select the usr.sbin/ctm source directory and all pathnames under it. Pathnames can be disabled from being considered by CTM using the -x option. -F Force. -k Keep files and directories and don't remove them even if the CTM file specifies they are to be removed. If the -B option is specified, these files and directories will not be backed up. -l List files that would be modified by this invocation of CTM and the actions that would be performed on them. Use of the -l option disables the .ctm_status checks and integrity checks on the source tree being operated on. The -l option can be combined with the -e and -x options to determine which files would be modified by the given set of command line options. -q Tell us less. -t tar-command Use tar-command instead of the default archiver tar. This option takes effect only if a backup file had been specified using the -B option. A %s in the tar command will be replaced by the name of the backup file. -T tmpdir Put temporary files under tmpdir. -u Set modification time of created and modified files to the CTM delta creation time. -v Tell us more. -V level Tell us more. Level is the level of verbosity. -x regular_expression Match each name in the CTM file against regular_expression and if it matches, leave the file alone. There may be any number of these options. Use of this option disables the .ctm_status sequence number checks. Pathnames can be selected for CTM's consideration using the -e option.
On its own, CTM is an insecure protocol - there is no authentication performed that the changes applied to the source code were sent by a trusted party, and so care should be taken if the CTM deltas are obtained via an unauthenticated medium such as regular email. It is a relatively simple matter for an attacker to forge a CTM delta to replace or precede the legitimate one and insert malicious code into your source tree. If the legitimate delta is somehow prevented from arriving, this will go unnoticed until a later delta attempts to touch the same file, at which point the MD5 checksum will fail. To remedy this insecurity, CTM pieces generated by FreeBSD.org are cryptographically signed in a format compatible with the GNU Privacy Guard utility, available in /usr/ports/security/gpg, and the Pretty Good Privacy v5 utility, /usr/ports/security/pgp5. The relevant public key can be obtained by fingering email@example.com. CTM deltas which are thus signed cannot be undetectably altered by an attacker. Therefore it is recommended that you make use of GPG or PGP5 to verify the signatures if you receive your CTM deltas via email.
TMPDIR, if set to a pathname, will cause ctm to use that pathname as the location of temporary file. See tempnam(3), for more details on this. The same effect may be achieved with the -T flag.
.ctm_status contains the sequence number of the last CTM delta applied. Changing or removing this file will greatly confuse ctm. Using the -e and -x options can update a partial subset of the source tree and causes sources to be in an inconsistent state. It is assumed that you know what you are doing when you use these options.
cd ~cvs /usr/sbin/ctm ~ctm/cvs-* To extract and patch all sources under `lib' cd ~/lib-srcs /usr/sbin/ctm -e '^lib' ~ctm/src-cur*
Numerous messages, hopefully self-explanatory. The ``noise level'' can be adjusted with the -q, -v and -V options.
ctm_rmail(1), ctm(5)
Initial trials were run during the work on FreeBSD 1.1.5, and many bugs and methods were hashed out. The ctm command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
The CTM system has been designed and implemented by Poul-Henning Kamp <firstname.lastname@example.com>. Joerg Wunsch <email@example.com> wrote this man-page. FreeBSD 5.2.1 March 25, 1995 FreeBSD 5.2.1


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Birdwatchers around the world take part, February 17-20
Port Rowan, ON—A lot has changed since the first Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) was held in 1998. But the enthusiasm of its growing number of participants for this now-global event has never wavered. The 20th annual GBBC is taking place February 17-20 in backyards, parks, nature centres, on hiking trails, school grounds, balconies, and beaches—anywhere you find birds.
Birdwatchers from around the world enjoy counting
their birds and entering the GBBC photo contest.
Photo by Ann Foster, Florida, 2016 GBBC.
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Birdwatchers count the birds they see for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, then enter their checklists at birdcount.org. All the data contribute to a snapshot of bird distribution and help scientists see changes over the past 20 years.
"The very first GBBC was an experiment," says the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Marshall Iliff, a leader of the eBird program. "We wanted to see if people would use the Internet to send us their bird sightings. Clearly the experiment was a success!" eBird collects bird observations globally every day of the year and is the online platform used by the GBBC.
That first year, birdwatchers submitted about 13,500 checklists from the United States and Canada. Fast-forward to the most recent event in 2016. An estimated 163,763 birdwatchers from more than 100 countries submitted 162,052 bird checklists reporting 5689 species–more than half the known bird species in the world.
"The Great Backyard Bird Count is a great way to introduce people to participation in citizen science," says Audubon Vice President and Chief Scientist Gary Langham. "No other program allows volunteers to take an instantaneous snapshot of global bird populations that can contribute to our understanding of how a changing climate is affecting birds."
Varying weather conditions so far this winter are producing a few trends that GBBC participants can watch for during the count. eBird reports show many more waterfowl and kingfishers remaining further north than usual because they are finding open water. If that changes, these birds could move southward.
Also noted are higher than usual numbers of Bohemian Waxwings in the Pacific Northwest and northern Rocky Mountains. And while some winter finches have been spotted in the East, such as Red Crossbills, Common Redpolls, Evening Grosbeaks, and a few Pine Grosbeaks, there seem to be no big irruptions so far. A few eye-catching Snowy Owls have been reported in the northern half of the United States.
Jon McCracken, Birds Canada's National Program Director, reminds participants in Canada and the U.S. to keep watch for snowies. He says, "The GBBC has done a terrific job of tracking irruptions of Snowy Owls southward over the past several years. We can't predict what winter 2017 will bring, because Snowy Owl populations are so closely tied to unpredictable 'cycles' of lemmings in the Arctic. These cycles occur at intervals between two and six years. Nevertheless, there are already reports of Snowy Owls as far south as Virginia.'
In addition to counting birds, the GBBC photo contest has also been a hit since it was introduced in 2006. Since then, tens of thousands of stunning images have been submitted. For the 20th anniversary of the GBBC, the public is invited to vote for their favourite top photo from each of the past 11 years in a special album they will find on the GBBC website home page. Voting takes place during the four days of the GBBC.
Learn more about how to take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count at birdcount.org where downloadable instructions and an explanatory PowerPoint are available. The GBBC is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society with partner Birds Canada. The GBBC is made possible in part in Canada by sponsors Armstrong Bird Food and Wild Birds Unlimited.
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Narex carving knife for spoon making, left handed
Regular price
This carving knife is made by Narex in the Czech Republic. It has a manganese steel blade that is hardened to HRc 61 and has a 25 mm radius hook which makes it idea for carving concave recesses in spoon and bowls. The blade is about 18 mm wide and 3 mm thick, with only one edge sharpened - this version is left handed, so designed to cut when pulling with the left hand or pushing with the right hand.
The handle is made from stained beech and is about 32 mm wide and 115 mm long.


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Does the U.S. Have A Moral Duty to Fix Afghanistan (or anywhere else)?
BY Glen Tschirgi12 years, 2 months ago
In an article for National Review Online, Patrick Brennan illuminates the thinking of General David McKiernan, commander of ISAF in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009.
To the extent that Brennan accurately reflects McKiernan's thinking and, more importantly, that McKiernan is at all representative of widely-held views in the U.S. military, it goes a long way to explaining the seeming paralysis of U.S. force projection in Afghanistan and globally.
Fundamentally, Gen. McKiernan is a true believer in what seems to be called the Pottery Barn Rule of U.S. power projection:
In my conversation with him in his Boston office, General McKiernan demonstrates a vast knowledge of the problems of Afghanistan, as well as a keen concern for the fate of the country and NATO's mission there. "In my experience with many different operations in the military over the years, when you intervene on the ground in a country, 'breaking the china' in that country and changing the regional status quo, you then own the problem," he says. The U.S. is therefore obligated, at the very least, to live up to the commitments it has made to Afghanistan's civil and military leaders, including fulfilling the new strategic partnership by allocating sufficient funds, which will become a year-to-year concern. A military intervention such as the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 inevitably means the obliteration of a country's existing political order, as chaotic or oppressive as that might be. Without a continuing commitment to restore some semblance of order and stability to Afghanistan, McKiernan argues, we will fail in our moral duty and abandon our strategic interests.
At the conclusion of the article, Brennan sums up Gen. McKiernan's thinking:
The U.S. was right to invade Afghanistan in order to exact revenge against al-Qaeda and eliminate the region's terrorist havens. But McKiernan has seen the catastrophic side effects of that invasion, and they represent something of a geopolitical sin. With a more targeted, locally nuanced, and efficient strategy as penance, the United States can help the Afghan government construct and enforce some degree of order, General McKiernan believes. If we do not do so, we abandon our moral commitment to repair Afghanistan, and we will leave a gapingly insecure region that would remain fertile ground for international terrorism.
Pardon the gag reflex. There is much else in the article that is deserving of comment and it is worth reading. For example, Gen. McKiernan seems to recognize that Afghanistan is not a nation state in any true sense of the word but is, instead, a collection of different tribes, ethnicities and sects. His takeaway from this fact, however, is to double down on the formation and training of a national army and police force that can someday, somehow hold the centrifugal differences of the country together. As illogical as this seems, it is necessitated by the "you break it, you own it" philosophy embraced by McKiernan and others.
So this seems to me to be the fundamental debate for American foreign policy, not only for Afghanistan but for the next ten to twenty years as we face no lack of failing or failed states that become incubators for Militant Islam: what, if any, obligation does the U.S. have to another country or people when the U.S. uses military force in exercise of its national interests?
First let's clarify some of General McKiernan's muddled thinking.
According to his moral universe, when a nation "breaks the china" by intervening with force of arms to somehow change the status quo of another nation or region then the intervenor "own[s] the problem" and incurs a "moral duty" to "restore some semblance of order and stability…" In the case of Afghanistan, this is nonsense. The status quo of Afghanistan's "political order" in September 2001 was, as the General himself describes, "chaotic" and "oppressive." By his own theory, then, the U.S. need only ensure that Afghanistan ends up no more chaotic or oppressive than it was pre-invasion. The 2001 invasion alone made a vast improvement upon the existing political order by eliminating a pariah regime that gladly hosted international terrorists and imposed a cruel authoritarianism on its population. If the U.S. had walked out of Afghanistan in January 2002, the situation in Afghanistan would have been vastly improved with the Northern Alliance in control of most of the country.
In fact, it is arguable that the U.S. only started to destroy the status quo of Afghanistan when it began meddling in its internal, political affairs with arrogant notions of 21st Century democracy and centralized government. The problem, then, is not that the U.S. created a mess in Afghanistan by toppling the Taliban in October 2001, but that the U.S. stayed after toppling the Taliban in order to somehow save the Afghans from their own backward and stunted culture. This was the "geopolitical sin" if Gen. McKiernan must find one.
What of General McKiernan's larger premise, that the U.S. cannot intervene militarily without incurring a "moral commitment to repair" that nation?
This is a fundamentally flawed and mistaken view of U.S. power projection. Originally espoused by General Colin Powell in 2002, Powell claims to have advised President Bush that any invasion of Iraq would be akin to breaking a dish and thereby taking ownership. The so-called Pottery Barn school of thought to which McKiernan subscribes assumes the existence of an unbroken Dish prior to U.S. involvement. This is simply a fiction and a dangerous one at that.
Iraq was already in pieces under Saddam Hussein when the U.S. invaded in March 2003. Once the Dictator and his police state were dismembered, the "dish" was already in infinitely better shape than its pre-invasion condition. The U.S. would have been perfectly justified from a moral point of view in packing up and heading home at that point. So, too, with Afghanistan: the "dish" was in far better shape after the removal of Al Qaeda bases and the Taliban than it was pre-invasion.
The Pottery Barn doctrine simply does not pertain to the exercise of U.S. military intervention at any point in U.S. history. I cannot think of a single instance where the metaphorical dish was not already broken when the U.S. intervened. If someone wants to argue about Nazi intervention in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and France, that is a different matter. The U.S. is not an imperial power that topples healthy, functioning nation states and the application of the Pottery Barn doctrine to the U.S. may say far more about how people like Colin Powell and David McKiernan view U.S. power projection than it does about the actual world as we have it now.
American leadership needs to forcefully and decisively reject this wrong-headed notion of moral commitments to fix other nations. It is not and has never been about moral commitments. It is ever, only about the U.S. national interest. That is the only way to rationally debate both the decision to intervene militarily and the decision, once intervention occurs, of how and when to leave. This is not to say that our national interest does not align with notions of morality. Very often it does and morality certainly forms a part of defining what the "national interest" is in the first place. But evaluating policies, tactics and strategy from a moral viewpoint rather than the national interest leads to all kinds of fuzzy thinking and misguided efforts. Afghanistan is, perhaps, the textbook example of these hazards.
To give but a few examples: what is the U.S. national interest in pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into road, school, hospital and other construction in Afghanistan? It certainly is a nice thing to do, a moral thing to do. But how, precisely, does this make America more secure? In a predominating culture that is so alien (indeed hostile one could say) to American values, the idea of changing that culture with billions in aid money can only be driven by a moralistic– an almost missionary– zeal that simply has no place in American foreign policy. The national interest is solely concerned with ensuring that Afghanistan does not become a threat to American security again. That was the only reason we invaded in 2001 (contrary to Gen. McKiernan's idea of "revenge"). There are many ways that this fundamental, U.S. interest could be achieved without any resort whatsoever to changing Afghan culture.
To look at another example briefly, consider Syria.
From the moralistic, Pottery Barn approach, intervening in Syria is a case of balancing the suffering of the Syrian people under the Dictator Assad with the unavoidable suffering of the people after a military intervention (whether that is invasion, air strikes, covert support for rebels, etc…). This is why the Obama Administration and much of U.S. punditry is tied up in knots over Syria: there is no, clear way to evaluate human suffering in this manner. (Anyone who doubts this need only look at Libya where, again, the scales of suffering seemed to tilt in favor of ousting Qaddafi only to find, now, that the increasing lawlessness and rise of Militant Islamists is beginning to make Qaddafi look rather tame by comparison).
Instead of playing these sorts of moral games, U.S. leadership should be looking at Syria from our own interests. This clarifies things immediately. Syria under Assad is an enemy of the U.S. and moves in lockstep with arch-enemy Iran. This is a very, very broken dish (to use their parlance). Toppling Assad by itself does not worsen the dish and is certainly in the U.S. national interest as it enhances our security immensely.
There is, of course, the question of what sort of government will replace Assad. Here again the moralists and national interest part ways. The moralists would say that the U.S. would "own" all of Syria's problems if it intervened which means, presumably, another 10 or 20 year program of building schools, hospitals roads and civic institutions. The national interest, at a bare minimum, however, doesn't really care so much what comes after Assad so long as it is not worse than Assad. We do not care, for example, if Syria falls into civil war so long as Syria cannot be the cat's paw for Iran. It is certainly in the national interest to back rebels that are sympathetic to U.S. values and goals, but if they are at least hostile to Iran and global jihad, that is enough.
In essence then, to the extent that U.S. policies and strategies are guided by the approach espoused by General McKiernan, we will find ourselves a vulnerable paralytic Power unable to intervene in the world where critical U.S. interests are at stake because to do so would automatically obligate us to an endless commitment of fixing the "broken dish." In such a world, we leave it to hostile powers all around us to shape things to their liking, one that will be little to our own.


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Starting July 10, 2014, I'm planning to take a personal email sabbatical.
I'm going to unsubscribe from all mailing lists and redirect all email to my personal email addresses (chesnok.com and gmail.com) to /dev/null.
I have a couple open source project addresses that will probably be redirected to people responsible for those areas during my sabbatical. The traffic on those addresses is so low, however, that this is likely not going to impact anyone significantly.
I will not be reachable via personal email until sometime around October 15, 2014.
Why I'm doing this:
I spend too much time responding to things that other people want me to do.
I have a full-time job where I do that already, and as a result, much of my personal time where I could be creative is spent in the service of others. I'm also about to have a baby! So, it seems like as good a time as any to make an explicit departure from the communication medium that's been the focus of my life since about 1995.
I'm not sure that I will return to having a public email address outside of work.
I plan to continue blogging, although using a much simplified blogging platform that I've written (but haven't deployed yet :D). I plan to continue to use Twitter, although I've separated public and private accounts. I do not plan to increase my use of other social media. I plan to continue to use IRC, although will likely take myself out of most project channels. I've removed Twitter from my phone, and plan to remove email from it in July.
I'm taking a cue from danah boyd, although not following her prescription for a lengthy advance notice to collaborators.
I spent the last six months substantially downsizing my volunteer commitments, spending more time on in-person events that are local. I am pretty sure most people won't even notice my extended volunteer absence on the "greater internet". I'll trickle out some individual notices as needed, probably to anyone I've had more than three exchanges with in the last two or three years.


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Mercedes-Benz followed the new 220 "fintail" models with a four-cylinder version to replace the old 180 series. The 190c and 190D (for diesel) were launched in April 1961 and would be produced until August 1965 before the first significant changes. The cabin and trunk were identical to the 220 fintail series but with much less trim, Bakelite interior panels instead of wood, and non-reclining seats.
The front fenders were shorter than the 220, with single headlights on each side of the classic grille like the Ponton model. Turn signals were on top of the fenders, ahead of the windshield, as on the earlier car.
The 190c proved very popular and 130,554 were sold by 1965, when the 90 bhp 1.9-liter OHC engine was replaced by a five-bearing, 2.0-liter, twin-carburetor engine. The new 200 model developed 104 bhp, and raised the top speed to 92 mph. It would be built until 1968.
The diesel-powered, 80 bhp 190D was the choice of taxi drivers across Northern Europe, and the larger square trunk was much appreciated. Almost twice as many diesel-powered 190Ds were sold and 225,645 had left the factory by the end of 1965. The extra weight meant it wasn't appreciably faster than the earlier 180 diesel, though, and it was somewhat thirstier. That said, it proved to be tough as nails, and during extensive testing in Africa and across Europe a 190D averaged 35 mpg.
In 1962, both the gasoline and diesel 190 models gained front disc brakes, while coachbuilders Binz and Meissen began to offer station wagons, first as ambulances and then as Kombi estate cars. Both were fitted with larger 15-inch wheels. In late 1966 Mercedes-Benz contracted with IMA coachbuilders in Brussels to offer station wagon variants of all the fintail models.
When the new 200 and 200D gained the aforementioned five-main bearing engine, a new 230 model was created by fitting a six-cylinder, 2.3-liter engine in the short-nose design. It was the same thinking that went into the six-cylinder 219, as a companion to the old 180 series. The 230 was deliberately plain, as the companion 250S was the entry level version of the new S-Class.
The 200, 200D and 230 are easy to distinguish from earlier fintails, thanks to the combined front turn signals and fog lights below the headlights. More comfortable seats were fitted to all three models, and chrome trim added to the trunk lid and around the vents behind the side windows. As always, the 200D diesel outsold the gasoline-powered model two-to-one. Many of the 161,618 200D's became taxis, while 70,207 buyers stepped up for the 200 gasoline model. The 230 caught on quickly with 40,258 units sold.
None of these models are all that collectible, but they provided millions of miles of dependable motoring. The survivors continue to do so, and can be bought quite reasonably.


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icommunicate – your online speech therapy resource
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icommunicate provides a wealth of information about a wide variety of speech and language disorders (such as apraxia, phonological delay, aphasia, dysarthria, stuttering etc), communication development, hearing impairment, autism, brain injury, stroke and acquired adult communication difficulties, special needs and learning difficulties, and assistive communication (AAC).
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The Downloads Centre will provide you with free PDF downloads containing information, resources, tips and strategies to facilitate communication and communication disorders. Click here to visit the Downloads Centre.
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I have a number of YouTube videos and will constantly be updating the site with videos containing tips and ideas to facilitate communication development, and communication disorders. Click here to visit the Video Resources page.
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Did you know that many people can now access speech therapy services online. See the Online Therapy options.
This part of the website provides web-links to numerous websites that provide information and contacts regarding communication. I have built up a link list of a large number of informative sites, associations, organizations and support groups relating to specific conditions. Click here to the Links Page.
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For a comprehensive guide of what this site has to offer go to the icommunicate guide, where you will also find introductory videos to the site. Click here to see a more comprehensive guide to the website.
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This web site is an excellent resource for the stroke or brain injury home caregiver who is dealing with a patient who has communication challenges (i.e. speaking and listening). Here the non-professional caregiver will find understandable explanations of the various kinds of disabilities, as well as therapeutic exercises and suggested approaches that could be included in a home rehab program. For those of us who have virtually no medical training, this is an excellent resource with an on-line forum, moderated by a professional therapist. As a "brain" caregiver, I know how helpful it is to know what the professionals consider a therapeutic challenge, so that I can readjust my expectations for my patient's recovery and deal more realistically with the problems I encounter on a daily basis.
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Leading home digital services provider PLDT HOME has fortified its leadership in fixed broadband, commanding a market share of over 70% at the end of the third quarter of 2015, with record breaking subscriber gains that is three times more than its nearest competitor.
PLDT HOME, a unit of leadingtelco and digital services provide PLDT, has remained the preferred broadband provider in the country as it registered double-digit growth in digital services such as the PLDT HOME Telpad, the all-in-one tablet, landline and broadband, the triple-play service where broadband and landline services are bundled with Cignal digital TV, as well as the home monitoring system FamCam.
"PLDT HOME continues to strengthen its leadership with more digital services via the Connected Home," said PLDT and Smart EVP and Head of Consumer Business Ariel P. Fermin. "The fixed line subscriber base reached about 2.3 million at the end of the third quarter of 2015, 54% of whom have fixed broadband subscriptions."
"PLDT HOME's fixed broadband has continuously reinforced its industry leadership with its significant array of new digital services and compelling content, providing entertainment to customers everywhere, whether they are at home or away from home. Beyond telecommunications, we are delivering entertainment, peace of mind, and urban comfort to our subscribers," he said.
At the start of the third quarter, PLDT HOME announced its roster of content bundled with broadband subscription from South East Asia's number one video-on-demand provider iflix and the region's leading broadcaster Fox International Channels to live HD channels from Cignal. These services exacerbated the growth of broadband subscription supported by a strong and aggressive activations program.
PLDT HOME has also launched the first and only Quadplay, the innovative bundling offer where mobile services are packaged with voice, data, and cable television, providing customers with connectivity everywhere. It is the mobile service that contains PLDT HOME DSL broadband, PLDT landline, Cignal Digital TV and Smart mobile.
According to PLDT HOME Marketing Head Gary Dujali, "With Quadplay, we are solidifying our leadership in the broadband market. The service will reinforce the trusted benefits of PLDT HOME brands as we offer our customers a one-stop shop for all their communications and multimedia needs to enable them to experience a richer digital lifestyle in a connected home."
"Following a strong Q3 performance, PLDT HOME introduced the TVolution stick—a device that turns any HDMI-capable TV to a fully functional Windows computer, and more recently, PLDT HOME Fibr rolled out speed boosts for all subscribers and broke new ground with the unveiling of the country's first 1 Gbps broadband connection, further enriching PLDT's product portfolio for a digitally connected home," Dujali said.
The PLDT Group's robust and resilient fixed and wireless networks, with its most extensive fiber optic footprint that spans over100,000 kilometers, enables it to offer reliable broadband services that can simultaneously deliver voice, video, and data at faster speeds and larger capacities through various devices – from computers, tablet, and cellphones, to television sets.


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Monday, July 12, 2010
Yup. Frank the Pug is staying with us again. And this time it's for a whole entire week while his people visit where they were born (Indiana), then play this thing called Wheel of Fortune on TV. I'm so glad his humans are world travelers like this because it means I get to have a part-time pug brother. I mean, Dutch is a good brother and everything - but he's not a pug.
I have big plans for Frank Week. Most of them involve major playing, but tonight we'll put the play on hold for a little while. Because tonight is Phase One of Operation No Secrets. With Frank's help, I'm going to break into my human's computer and gather the evidence I need to solve the Seattle/my-human-might-be-a-doggie-serial-killer mystery.
I'm pretty sure you're right about my human not being a dog-shooting serial killer. And I haven't seen a shovel lying around the house or anything. But if tomorrow comes and there's no Daily Puglet, please call 911.
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- Stubby said...
Hi Puglet! That's so cool that Frank is staying with you for a whole week. You guys are going to have a great time but don't overdo it. I know how hard you guys play and I don't want anypug getting hurt.
Very smart of you to launch Operation No Secrets while Frank is around. I bet he's super good at gathering evidence and being sneaky. Please let me know if you need my help because you know our humans talk and maybe my mom knows something that she hasn't told me. I can totally get anything out of her especially now that I'm gimpy.
Stubby xoxo - July 12, 2010 at 8:04 AM
Hi, Puglet!
My Pug Flora sends licks to you, Dutch, and Frank. She is quite envious that you will have a Pug partner-in-crime for an entire week. She does adore her Lab bro Butters (he has a lot of mouth meat!), but occasionally she just wants to get Puggy w/another Pug!
Keep us posted on your Top Secret Operation No Secrets!!
Also, we'd love to see some video of you and Frank getting Puggy, ASAP. :)
-Flora's Mom, Tiffany - July 12, 2010 at 8:15 AM
I knew you'd get around to some sleuthing Puglet! I'm glad Frank is going to be your partner in crime (although you're far from that--more like your human is the suspicious one).
Just be careful. I don't want you to get caught. Who knows what your human might do then...
PS I hate suspenseful movies - July 12, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Brutus, Ellie, Pippa and Otto said...
We are sure that with Frank's help, you will finally be able to discover what your human has been up to! Don't forget to check her email as well as her browsing history...
There is nothing quite like having a pug brother - we are sure Dutch is a good brother, but it is so nice having someone around that is your own size.
Pugs & Kisses,
Yoda & Brutus - July 12, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- Ollie said...
Hi Puglet,
Good luck with the detecting but be very sneaky and leave no paw prints. I've watched enough tv to know that anything could happen and its always the human you least expect to commit the crime that turns out to be the culprit. You need to use maximum caution for this mission. Dutch could be the look out while you and Frank hack into the computer. You haven't seen a shovel, yet.... - July 12, 2010 at 9:32 AM
Puglet, you are so lucky that Frank is there to be frank with. Dutch freaks out with frankness.
Good luck with your spying, and here's hoping you dig up some good dirt and/or a prehistoric Henrietta chicken. - July 12, 2010 at 10:25 AM
- THE PUGLET said...
Hey Stubbs!
If we don't find anything in my human's computer, I might ask you to use your gimpiness to help uncover the truth. I mean, if you have to be gimpy you might as well use it to your advantage. Or my advantage :)
Flora' mom ~ I asked my human to film a video of me + Frank during one of our Sumo-matches (preferably one that I win). The camera is charging right now :)
Everyone ~ thanks for the sleuthing tips. I totally forgot about leaving pawprints! I promise to be careful -- but do you think I should make Frank do the actual snooping, just in case we get caught?? - July 12, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Yeah, Make Frank do it! That way if you human gets up in the middle of the night and sees Frank she'll just think he's sleepless in San Francisco. Or even better yet, have Frank do some acting lessons and he can pretend he's sleepwalking if he gets caught.
He can totally take the rap for you, and there's no way your human would do anything to Frank, what with all his parents gone and them knowing and all.
Let's just hope there's no surprise "camping" trips! - July 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM
If you still have the part of Henrietta with her claws, well you and Frank can figure out the rest. If your human runs prints, the chicken will be fingered. But try not to slobber or you will leave incriminating DNA slime on the keyboard.
- July 12, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Kellee the Caffeinated said...
Be careful on your secret mission tonight!!!!
Lola Bugs - July 12, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Sequoia & Petunia & Emma said...
Good luck Puglet! We hope you don't find anything bad on your human. And we are excited to see what you and Frank do this week!!!
S&P - July 12, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Suki said...
Hi Puglet,
Dutch could distract your Human while you and Frank go sleuthing. Frank will be a great assistant detective.
Can't wait to see the Sumo video.
Good luck!
Hugs to you, Dutch and Frank.
Suki - July 12, 2010 at 5:35 PM
Breaking into the computer sounds like a good idea. If she's hiding something she might have protected with some sort of code & that's where you want to look. If you have any night operations we think you need a black pug to help out like Zoey or Bellatrix, she's a bad**s. We are pretty confident that you & Frank will be able to figure out what's going on & that it won't be anything sinister like a dog murder spree. Good luck with your mission.
Zoey & Phoebe
P.S. Phoebe is a little paranoid & she thinks that maybe you're getting so many "surprises" to distract you from the truth. She says to keep your guard up be aware of any discarded clothing,large, plastic bags, duct tape, rolled up area rugs & of course shovels. She watches too much Law & Order. - July 12, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Noodle said...
Please Puglet, whatever you do, DON'T BREAK FRANK AGAIN!
- July 12, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Crabbie Chris said...
FRANK!!!!!!!!!! I love Frank, we had fun when we met on that pug Sunday. He's really handsome, and so silly to play with. I'm wicked jealous of you Puglet, I wish I had Spencer over for a week. Poor Brother Dutch, he needs a "Frank" in his life, or maybe a dog with a snout.
- July 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- Mr. Puggle® said...
Frank! Nice to meetcha!
- July 12, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- THE PUGLET said...
Ok, I promise not to do anything that might break Frank. Remember: no Daily Puglet, call 911.
- July 12, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Yeah, we can see that Frank has been unbroken, so don't have him do any of his own stunts.
- July 12, 2010 at 9:19 PM


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More than 130 people in the U.S. die of an opioid overdose every day. One of the most effective ways to save lives is to get those struggling with addiction treated with medication to stop their cravings. But a loophole in federal law might block at least one new opioid-addiction drug from coming to market for years.
Many patients have to try several medications before finding one that works for them and that they can stick with.
"It's important to have multiple different treatment options for different patients, different circumstances," says Carolyn Bogdon, a family nurse practitioner who oversees outpatient medication-assisted treatment programs at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C.
Some use methadone, which they get every day. Others use Vivitrol, which can be injected once a month. And many use buprenorphine, which comes in tablets and a dissolvable film that people take once or twice a day. Buprenorphine is an opiate, but it blocks the cravings associated with addiction without giving people the same high.
A handful of patients at the university's clinics have moved to a form of buprenorphine called Sublocade that's injected just once a month.
And if the company that makes Sublocade gets its way, the drug will be the only long-acting buprenorphine on the market for five more years.
FDA and 'orphan drugs'
That's because a quirk in federal law may prevent a competing drug called Brixadi from going on sale until 2024. "It's ready for market now," says Mike Derkacz, CEO of Braeburn, which makes Brixadi. "We are deemed safe and effective by FDA, but we are unable to make the product available to patients during this crisis."
Sublocade was approved for sale in 2017 and, like any new drug, was granted three years of exclusive access to U.S. markets. That time is up next year. But in December, the Food and Drug Administration told Braeburn it might have to wait four more years because Sublocade was designated an "orphan drug," which gives it seven years of exclusive access.
Sublocade, which is made by Indivior, isn't an orphan drug in the traditional sense. Normally, these are medications that treat illnesses affecting fewer than 200,000 people a year.
Opioid addiction is not a rare disease.
In 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 2.3 million people in the U.S. were addicted to prescription opioids or illicit opiates such as heroin, and 47,000 people died of an overdose.
The Trump administration declared opioid addiction a public health emergency that same year — just a month before Sublocade hit the market — and made helping people get medication-assisted treatment a priority.
That's why the makers of Brixadi were shocked when the FDA gave their product only tentative approval in December. Derkacz says it doesn't make sense, in the middle of what many call an epidemic, to treat buprenorphine drugs as if they treat a rare disease.
"There have been studies that show a reduction in mortality by 40% with buprenorphine," Braeburn's CEO says. "That keeps people alive. That gives people a chance to get back to their lives and recover fully."
A back-door approach
So why is Sublocade considered an orphan drug? Like many things related to prescription drugs, the reasons are wonky and sort of irrational.
Indivior created its first buprenorphine-based drug, called Subutex, in the 1990s. At the time, treating addiction with other drugs wasn't mainstream. There were methadone clinics in some U.S. cities, but they were heavily regulated by law.
The company asked the FDA to give it orphan drug status — but instead of saying there weren't many potential patients, Indivior said it had little hope of earning back its investment in Subutex and needed extra time with no competition. Few drugs have ever received orphan status this way. But at the time, it made sense to the FDA.
The orphan designation was granted, and Subutex hit the market in 2002.
Since then, Indivior has made billionsin revenue from sales of the drug and its successors, Suboxone and Sublocade, partly because the orphan designation is automatically attached to every new formulation of buprenorphine the company makes.
Indivior's executives declined to be interviewed for this story. But in response to written questions, the company says, "Indivior stands by FDA's decision, which was supported by both the law and the facts at that time."
Derkacz says Braeburn has asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke Sublocade's orphan status. And an FDA spokeswoman says the agency is actively considering that request.
The right drug 'can save their life'
Long-acting, injectable treatments for addiction have some advantages over tablets and dissolvable films. Patients don't have to remember to take medication each day, and they can avoid the drugstore.
"It provides a little bit more anonymity for patients that don't want to disclose that they have an opiate use disorder," says Michelle Lofwall, a psychiatrist and medical director at two University of Kentucky clinics that treat patients struggling with opioid addiction.
"Some patients have felt stigmatized when going to the pharmacy, like they don't feel like they're necessarily treated all that well once they show their prescription," she says.
Lofwall participated in Brixadi's clinical trial, so she's one of the few health care providers who has used both medications. She says they're slightly different and that she'd like to have the choice to offer her patients.
"From a public health perspective, and just as a provider physician trying to treat patients, they need to have all the options," Lofwall says. Being on the right drug "literally can save their life."
"As a clinician, it's always important for me to have more tools," AndreaBarthwell, an addiction treatment specialist, wrote in public comments on Braeburn's FDA petition. "Moreover, there are gaps in care from the current buprenorphine treatment options that Brixadi may fill."
Brixadi can be used weekly as well as monthly, allowing doctors to see their patients more frequently and monitor them more closely at the start of treatment, according to several comments.
Another issue is cost.
Sublocade costs about $1,580 per month, according to marketing materials from Indivior, and some insurance companies won't pay for it. "In Kentucky," Lofwall says, "we haven't been able to get it for patients who are on several different Medicaid managed-care programs."
By contrast, a generic version of the buprenorphine film costs about $140 a month, according to the website GoodRX.com.
Daniel Smith, who leads the medication-assisted treatment program at Mary's Center in Washington, D.C., says he doesn't know any doctors who use Sublocade now.
"Long-acting buprenorphine is definitely advantageous over short-acting for many reasons, but cost and availability have been the challenge," he says.
But if a competitor drug came on the market, Smith says the price of Sublocade might fall, and he might then be willing to prescribe it to his patients.
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Happy End of the Year!
New Year coming, new ideas and new actions. Over the past couple months, I haven't been taking care of myself the way I should be. I have gained weight, and my blood sugar has been up. So what are we going to do about all this? Or better yet, what am I going to do about this? Well, I am going to make one minor change ... and that is to move my weekly updates from Friday to Saturday. There is no real health or weight loss reason for that, it is just for my personal convenience.
Secondly, I am going to start a food diary again. I did this back when I was first diagnosed with Type II Diabetes, and I really need to do it again to get both my weight and my blood sugar under control.
Thirdly, I am going to have to change what I eat. I have bought some apples and oranges for snacks. I will be buying more fresh fruits and veggies, too. Once a week, I used to eat a meal of rice and veggies for dinner, and I am going to start that back up too. I am also going to give brown rice a try again. I didn't like it the first few times I tried it, but I am going to give it a shot again.
Today's weigh-in, 279.8.
Morning Blood Sugar, 146
Luck and health to all of us in the coming year.


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April 2014 Newsletter
The safe harbor 401(k) plan roared onto the scene in 1998 as a new design that allowed company owners and other highly compensated employees to maximize their salary deferrals even when other employees contributed at relatively low levels. Over the last 16 years, these plans have continued to evolve through a series of new laws and IRS pronouncements.
- Background
In general, 401(k) plans are subject to annual testing designed to make sure highly compensated employees, or HCEs (those who own more than 5% of the company or earn more than $115,000, indexed for inflation), do not benefit too much more than non-HCEs. If there is too much of a spread between the groups, HCEs must either be refunded a portion of their contributions or the company must contribute additional amounts for non-HCEs. This test is referred to as the actual deferral percentage (ADP) test.
There is also the so-called top-heavy determination that requires the company to make a minimum contribution of up to 3% of pay to employees if certain owners and officers hold more than 60% of the total plan account balances.
Safe harbor 401(k) plans are exempt from the ADP test as long as they meet additional requirements which include agreeing to make a minimum company contribution and providing employees a notice each year that explains the safe harbor provisions. Safe harbor plans are also automatically considered not top heavy as long as the only allocations to participant accounts are employee deferrals and safe harbor contributions.
The company contribution must generally be immediately vested, although plans that also include automatic enrollment for deferrals may be able to apply a two year vesting schedule. The contributions can be either a fixed matching contribution (safe harbor match) on behalf of only those who defer or a fixed profit-sharing-type contribution (safe harbor nonelective) that is made on behalf of all eligible participants.
- Tried it but didn't like it
What happens when a plan sponsor has a safe harbor 401(k) plan but no longer wants it? The general rule is that safe harbor features must remain in effect for a full 12-month plan year, so a calendar year plan could amend to remove those features any January 1st. One exception is for plans that are being completely terminated and allows for the elimination of the safe harbor provisions concurrent with that termination.
There was also a provision that allowed for the mid-year elimination of a safe harbor matching contribution as long as the match was funded through the date of elimination and the plan passed the normal tests for the year; however, there was no corresponding "out" for those that used the safe harbor nonelective contribution...until the recent recession.
The IRS recognized that the economic downturn meant that some companies could no longer afford the mandatory contribution, so they proposed new rules in 2009 allowing for the mid-year elimination of a safe harbor nonelective contribution. But, unlike the match, the new rules were only available for companies that could demonstrate a substantial business hardship as defined by IRS rules.
While this was welcome relief, the IRS received feedback that the rules should be the same for both types of safe harbor contributions. In late 2013, the Service finalized the regulations to provide the requested consistency. Under these new rules, a company can eliminate either a safe harbor matching or safe harbor nonelective contribution mid-year, if:
- They are operating at an economic loss (an easier standard to meet than the "substantial business hardship" standard from the 2009 regulations); or
- The safe harbor notice provided to employees before the start of the year specifically notes the possibility that the contribution might be suspended during the year.
In both scenarios, the plan must still pass the ADP test and comply with the top-heavy requirements, but at least there is now a uniform set of requirements that is easy to understand.
What is the moral to this story? Sponsors of safe harbor plans should consider whether it makes sense to include the "possibility of suspension" language in all safe harbor notices going forward, even if there are no current discussions of eliminating the contribution. Even if never used, including that language preserves the ability to amend the plan to reduce or eliminate the safe harbor contribution should unforeseen circumstances arise.
- Tried it, like it, but want to make a few changes
There are many reasons an employer might want to tweak its plan. Maybe the goal is to make it easier for new employees to join; maybe it is to allow plan loans; or maybe the company wants to change the way it allocates profit sharing contributions. These changes can usually be easily accomplished by simply amending the plan. While safe harbor plans can be amended just like any other, there are restrictions on the timing.
Back in 2007, the IRS published an announcement saying that it is acceptable for safe harbor plans to adopt mid-year plan amendments to add a Roth deferral option or to permit hardship distributions, as long as the plan sponsor provided a supplemental safe harbor notice to describe the change.
It was initially thought that these were just examples of allowable amendments that made a plan more generous to employees. However, the IRS later clarified that because of the rule requiring safe harbor plans to remain in effect for a full 12-month plan year (described above), adding Roth and/or hardship provisions are the only changes that can be made to a safe harbor plan once the year has started. In other words, any other type of change can only be made at the beginning of the next plan year, no matter how much more generous the change might be to participants.
What is the moral to this story? Towards the end of each year, it is important to consider what changes might be warranted or preferred in the subsequent year so that amendments can be prepared and signed timely. In addition, since plan provisions must generally be incorporated in the annual safe harbor notice, confirming any plan changes prior to the December 1st notice deadline for calendar year plans (30 days before the start of the plan year) is strongly recommended.
- Forfeitures...be careful when and how you use them
When a participant who is partially vested terminates employment and takes a distribution, the non-vested portion of his or her account that stays behind is called a forfeiture. Most plans specify that such amounts can be used in one of three ways:
- Pay allowable plan expenses;
- Offset any company contributions; or
- Allocate to remaining participants as additional contributions.
Forfeited amounts must be used each year and cannot be carried from one year to the next. If the forfeitures are not used for one of the first two options listed above, then they must be allocated as additional contributions.
For a safe harbor plan, the option that probably comes to mind is to use the forfeitures to fund the safe harbor contributions. Although that would be an easy solution, unfortunately, the IRS does not permit the use of forfeitures for this purpose. The reason is that safe harbor contributions must be fully vested at the time they are deposited. Since forfeitures arise from non-vested contribution sources, such as non-safe-harbor match or profit sharing, they couldn't possibly meet that requirement.
That leads to another challenge. If forfeitures cannot be used to pay for the safe harbor contribution and there are not enough plan expenses to absorb them, the only other choice is to allocate them as additional contributions.
However, if the accumulated forfeitures are not "discovered" until a future year, the only option is to allocate them as profit sharing contributions. This risks the loss of the plan's exemption from the top-heavy rules since there would be an allocation to participant accounts other than deferrals and safe harbor contributions. What is the moral to this story? If your plan has accumulated accounts that are subject to vesting, it is important to monitor forfeiture activity on an ongoing basis. That allows any forfeited amounts to be applied to fees as soon as possible.
- Oops! Forgot to provide the safe harbor notice!
Retirement plans have many moving parts, and business owners and managers often have quite a few competing demands on their time beyond managing the company 401(k) plan. The result? Accidents will happen despite everyone's best intentions.
The IRS does have a correction program for such accidents. It is called the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), and it includes sample corrections for some of the more common oversights that arise. One oversight it does not address is how to correct a situation when an employer either does not provide a safe harbor notice at all or provides it after the deadline.
In its recent e-newsletter, Retirement News for Employers, the IRS provided some rather pragmatic guidance on addressing this issue. The newsletter does indicate that if the lack of notice meant that a participant was deprived of his or her ability to defer, the employer likely needs to make corrective contributions to make up for the missed opportunity. However, if employees were otherwise provided with adequate information about the plan and were given ample opportunity to take advantage of all its features, the IRS suggests that the oversight can be treated as an administrative error and that the plan sponsor must revise its procedures to make sure future notices are provided timely. What's the moral to this story? EPCRS can generally only be used to self-correct if the plan sponsor had existing policies and procedures in place that were designed to prevent the failure being corrected, and the newsletter's reference to revising procedures is further confirmation that there must have been a procedure there in the first place. As a result, it is highly recommended that employers confirm they have internal controls in place in order to preserve the ability to self-correct if accidents happen.
- Conclusion
As you can see, the safe harbor 401(k) plan continues to evolve. There are certainly many advantages to this design and there are additional restrictions as well. If you have a safe harbor plan or are thinking of adding the feature, the moral to this story is that working with an experienced provider who can help you plan ahead is a great way to build in added flexibility.
This newsletter is intended to provide general information on matters of interest in the area of qualified retirement plans and is distributed with the understanding that the publisher and distributor are not rendering legal, tax or other professional advice. Readers should not act or rely on any information in this newsletter without first seeking the advice of an independent tax advisor such as an attorney or CPA.


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