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April 18, 2013
Cattle prices have recently hit record highs, are expected to climb even higher this year and could stay up beyond 2013, leading some industry experts to understand why the cow-calf business could be appealing.
But they also stress that "the devil is in the details," and that it would be wise to start small and with limited debt, have a separate source of income, have a long-term feed-supply plan and, above all, pray for rain before planning to cash in on cattle.
Some experts — specifically Monte Rouquette, who's been a researcher at Texas A&M University since 1970 — have gone as far as saying, "it's been a long time since beef producers had this good of a chance of off-setting their production costs."
Ag economists have expressed optimism about the chances of success for novice, as well as experienced beef producers, because of unusually high prices for weaned calves.
Though production costs remain high, at current prices, it's possible to gross $500 to $1,000 for a weaned calf, Rouquette estimated recently.
But those new to the business can easily lose money if they don't have the details aligned, Rouquette and others warn.
"When it comes to returns on cattle, I don't think there's any doubt they're going to be high, and I can see why it might be appealing to get into the business," said Stephen Koontz, an agriculture economist at Colorado State University. "With where prices are now, there's plenty of opportunity.
"But do those high returns translate into profitability?"
Koontz said the beef business could be profitable for novices with cash on hand to start the operation.
"If you're borrowing money to buy the cattle, and then borrowing to buy what is now high-priced feed, you're going to have a rough couple years," he said.
Farmers who grow their own feed — and also sell some on the side — would be good candidates to start up calf-cow operations on the side.
Koontz said he knows many students who are getting into the business, looking to take advantage of today's high cattle prices, and are doing so by taking over small portions of family herds.
"I can understand why the business looks like a good one, but it's certainly not for everybody," Koontz said. "I certainly don't suggest that just anybody get into it."
The same factors that have led to high cattle prices also have brought on difficulties for ranchers.
As severe drought has lingered in the U.S. since 2011, ranchers faced feed shortages and liquidated their herds, leading to what is now the smallest U.S. cattle numbers since 1952.
While the tight supplies have led to skyrocketing prices, ranchers are still paying a great deal for the limited feed they can find.
Koontz, along with University of Wyoming ag economist Chris Bastian, agreed that cattle prices aren't likely to return to normal levels any time soon — since rebuilding herds and supplying the U.S. with more cattle will be a multi-year process.
Projections from the Livestock Marketing Information Center predict another 5 percent or even a 6 percent, reduction in commercial cattle slaughter in 2013 and 2014.
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Obama's budget reiterates the president's previous call to frontload a six-year reauthorization measure with $50 billion of extra transportation investment during the first year. Obama first proposed the $50 billion jumpstart during a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee. (see Sept. 10 AASHTO Journal story) In total, the administration is seeking $129 billion for surface transportation in Fiscal Year 2012.
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"These estimates are a placeholder and do not assume an increase in gas taxes or any specific proposal to offset surface transportation spending," the budget document states. "Rather, they are intended to initiate a discussion about how the administration and Congress could work together on a bipartisan basis to pass a surface transportation reauthorization that is both financially sustainable and meets critical national needs."
The Highway Trust Fund would become the "Transportation Trust Fund" under Obama's budget blueprint. It would add separate accounts for high-speed rail and a national infrastructure bank. Currently the Highway Trust Fund contains only two accounts: one for highway infrastructure and the other for transit infrastructure.
Top Democrats on the House and Senate committees that will write the six-year surface transportation reauthorization measure issued statements endorsing Obama's budget.
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Rahall hosted a House T&I Committee field hearing in Beckley, West Virginia, on Monday regarding future transportation needs. A listening session also occurred Monday in Charleston, West Virginia. (see related story)
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Republicans have not embraced the president's vision for increased investment in areas such as infrastructure, however. The House of Representatives has been debating this week an appropriations measure to fund the federal government from March 4 to Sept 30. The bill proposes spending $100 billion less across all government agencies for Fiscal Year 2011 than Obama had requested in the budget submission he made a year ago. (see related story)
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Obama's request includes $30 billion over six years to create a national infrastructure bank and $53 billion for high-speed rail. (House Republicans are seeking to cut high-speed rail funding for the rest of this fiscal year.)
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Stephen Sandherr, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America, expressed opposition to restructuring the Highway Trust Fund and disappointment that the administration avoided identifying specific revenue raisers to cover the full cost of the $556 billion six-year reauthorization request.
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On 10/1/05 at 2:55 AM, ingolf.dahl at telia.com (Ingolf Dahl) wrote: >Suppose we have a function that only takes integer values, but >anyway is quite smooth >e.g. >func1[x_, y_, z_] := Floor[(x - 2.1)^2 + (y - 3.21)^2 + (z - 4.3)^4 >+ 54.9] >or >func2[x_, y_, z_] := Floor[(x - 2)^2 + (y - 30000)^2 + (z - 4)^4 + >54.8] >What is the best way to minimize such a function, using >Mathematica? Hmmm... You say the function "only takes integer values" but the examples you post are written to accept any value and return integer values. Also, I would not decribe something returning integer values as quite smooth. However, NMinimize does what you want. For example, In[1]:= NMinimize[{func1[x, y, z], {x, y, z} \[Element] Integers}, {x, y, z}] Out[1]= {54., {x -> 2, y -> 3, z -> 4}} -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four


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Conditional Correlations in the Returns on Oil Companies Stock Prices and Their Determinants
The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of returns of oil companies stock prices, relevant stock market indexes and oil spot and futures prices are high or low, and positively or negatively correlated. This paper investigates the correlations of volatilities in the stock price returns and their determinants for the most important integrated oil companies, namely Bp (BP), Chevron-Texaco (CVX), Eni (ENI), Exxon-Mobil (XOM), Royal Dutch (RD) and Total-Fina Elf (TFE). We measure the actual co-risk in stock returns and their determinants "within" and "between" the different oil companies, using multivariate cointegration techniques in modelling the conditional mean, as well as multivariate GARCH models for the conditional variances. We focus first on the determinants of the market value of each company using the cointegrated VAR/VECM methodology. Then we specifiy the conditional variances of VECM residuals with the Constant Conditional Correlation (CCC) multivariate GARCH model of Bollerslev (1990) and the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) multivariate GARCH model of Engle (2002). The "within" and "between" DCC indicate low to high/extreme interdependence between the volatilities of companies' stock returns and the relevant stock market indexes or Brent oil prices.
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Foreign investors in the U.S. tend to have the same goals as their U.S. counterparts. Like U.S. taxpayers, foreign investors seek to minimize their income tax liabilities associated with their U.S. real estate and business investments. However, foreign investor's objectives are clouded by the fact that they are not U.S. persons for tax purposes. In addition, foreign investor's objectives may be complicated by income taxes of their home countries. Furthermore, the U.S. has a special income tax regime that is applicable to foreign persons. Specifically, if a non-U.S. person derives certain types of passive income, it is typically taxed at a flat 30 percent rate (without an allowance for deductions), unless an applicable tax treaty reduces this rate. On the other hand, if the U.S. activities of the foreign person rise to the level of constituting a "U.S. trade or business," the foreign person will be taxed much like a U.S. person. This article addresses how tax treaties may be utilized to reduce a foreign person's global tax liability. This article also addresses the recent developments in tax treaties. As an example of whether U.S. income taxation of a foreign investor would be impacted by a U.S. Income Tax Treaty, we shall address whether a foreign investor could utilize the U.S.-Hungarian Income Tax Treaty or the U.S.-Polish Tax Treaty.
U.S. Taxation of Foreign Persons
Two different U.S. tax regimes apply to non-U.S. taxpayers. First, non-residents engaged in a trade or business in the U.S. are taxed on income that is effectively connected with a trade or business. Such income is taxed at applicable graduated U.S. individual rates. A different tax regime applies to income that is not effectively connected with a trade or business in the U.S. Under this regime, a flat 30 percent tax is imposed on U.S. source fixed or determinable annual or periodic income such as (interest, dividend, rents, annuities, and other types of "fixed or determinable annual or periodical income," collectively known as FDAP income). This tax is imposed on gross income, with no deductions allowed. In general, this tax is collected by withholding. The 30 percent tax may be reduced or eliminated by bilateral income tax treaties to which the U.S. is a party.
Impact of Tax Treaties
Even though the statutory rate of withholding on U.S. source payments of FDAP income to a foreign person is 30 percent, for the most part, income tax treaties will reduce and in some cases eliminate the U.S. withholding on FDAP income. For a non-U.S. taxpayer to be eligible for treaty benefits, the individual generally must be considered a "resident" of a particular treaty jurisdiction and must satisfy a so-called "limitation on benefits" (LOB) provision in the treaty. Under most U.S. income tax treaties, a foreign person will be considered a resident for treaty purposes if such person is "liable to tax therein by reason of its domicile, residence, citizenship, place of management, place of incorporation, or any other criterion of similar nature." 1
Under most "modern" income tax treaties, a resident of a treaty country will satisfy the LOB provision if that resident is an individual, or a corporation that is at least 50 percent owned by citizens or residents of the U.S. or by residents of the jurisdiction where the corporation is formed and not more than 50 percent of the gross income of the foreign corporation is paid or accrued, in the form of deductible payments, to persons who are neither citizens nor residents of the U.S. or residents of the jurisdiction where the corporation is formed. However, in many cases, there is no such residency requirements under older income tax treaties in which the U.S. has negotiated with foreign countries.
U.S. Tax Planning Opportunities Utilizing Income Tax Treaties Without LOB Provisions Prior to the 2012 Calendar Year
Currently, it is the policy of the U.S. to include a LOB provision when negotiating a new tax treaty. With that said, certain older income tax treaties do not contain LOB provisions. As of the 2011 calendar year, the income tax treaties with foreign countries in which the U.S. did not contain LOB provisions where: 1) Egypt; 2) Greece; 3) Hungary; 4) Korea; 5) Morocco; 6) Pakistan; 7) the Philippines; 8) Poland; 9) Romania; and the former U.S.S.R. (which now applies to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Krgyztan, Moldova, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The benefits of these treaties were to reduce the rates for U.S. income tax purposes. For example, the U.S. treaties with Egypt, Hungary, and Poland reduce the withholding rate on payments of U.S. source dividends to as low as five percent for federal income tax purposes. In addition, the treaties with Greece, Hungary, and Pakistan completely eliminate the U.S. withholding tax on payments of U.S. source royalties. The combination of these reduced withholding rates, coupled with favorable local tax benefits in some of the foreign jurisdictions, provided significant worldwide tax benefits to a U.S. inbound foreign investors.
Repatriating U.S. Profits to a Foreign Jurisdiction Utilizing Global Treaties to Minimize Worldwide Tax Liabilities
As discussed above, payments of U.S. source dividends to a foreign corporation are generally subject to a 30 percent federal withholding tax. While many treaties reduce or eliminate this withholding rate, not all U.S. foreign investors are residents to qualify for a treaty that provides for these reduced rates. These foreign individuals may utilize a strategy of establishing a company in a jurisdiction with a treaty with the U.S. that has no LOB provision and provides for a reduction in the U.S. withholding tax.
For example, prior to the 2012 calendar year, instead of a Bermuda resident investing directly in a U.S. corporation, the Bermuda resident was able to invest in the U.S. through a Hungarian corporation. Using this approach, a dividend paid from the U.S. would only be subject to a five percent U.S. federal withholding tax and the dividend received in Hungary would be completely exempt from Hungarian corporate income tax as a result of its favorable participation exemption.2 Moreover, a dividend paid out of Hungary could be completely exempt from Hungarian withholding tax.3 Since US-Hungary tax treaty entered into force on September 18, 1979 contained no LOB provisions, just about any non-U.S. person, regardless of residence eligible to take advantage of this structure. Prior to the 2012 calendar year, because of the favorable provisions in the US-Hungary tax treaty, foreign investors often utilized a Hungarian corporation as a vehicle to invest in the U.S.
Not only did foreign investors utilize the Hungarian-U.S. treaty to limit their exposure to taxes on FDAP gains, foreign investors often utilized the Hungarian-U.S. treaty to limit their exposure to gains realized from the disposition of real property. In order to better understand how foreign investors utilized the Hungarian-U.S. treaty to limit their exposure to U.S. tax on gains from real property transactions, we will first discuss the U.S. tax implications of foreign investors in the U.S. real estate market.
Foreign persons are typically not subject to U.S. income tax on U.S. source capital gains unless the gains are effectively connected to a U.S. trade or business.4 However, the Internal Revenue Code treats any gain realized by a foreign person on the disposition of a U.S. real property interest ("USRPI") as if it were effectively connected to a U.S. trade or business. A USRPI is broadly defined by the Internal Revenue Code as: 1) a direct interest in real property located in the U.S. and 2) an interest (other than an interest solely as a creditor) in any U.S. corporation that constitutes a U.S. real property holding corporation (a corporation whose USRPIs make up at least 50 percent of the total value of the corporation's real property interests and business assets).5
The regulations promulgated under Internal Revenue Code Section 897 provide an example as follows: "a foreign corporation lends $1 million to a domestic individual, secured by a mortgage on residential real property purchased with the loan proceeds. Under the loan agreement, the foreign corporate lender will receive fixed monthly payments from the domestic borrower, constituting repayment of principal plus interest at a fixed rate, and a percentage of the appreciation in the value of the real property at the time the loan is retired. The example states that, because of the foreign lender's right to share in the appreciation in the value of the real property, the debt obligation gives the foreign lender an interest in the real property "other than solely as a creditor." The example concludes that Section 897 will not apply to the foreign lender on the receipt of either the monthly or the final payments because these payments are considered to consist solely of principal and interest for U.S. income tax purposes.6
Therefore, the example stated in the Treasury Regulations concludes that the final appreciation payment that is tied to the gain from the sale of the U.S. real property does not result in a disposition of a USRPI for the purposes of Section 897 of the Internal Revenue Code because the amount is considered to be interest rather than gain under Internal Revenue Code Section 1001.
By characterizing a contingent payment on a debt instrument as interest for U.S. income tax purposes, the Income Tax Regulations promulgated under Internal Revenue Code Section 897 may permit non U.S. taxpayers to avoid U.S. income tax on gain arising from the sale of U.S. real estate. As such, a non U.S. individual could lend money from a company established in a jurisdiction such that has a treaty with the U.S. with no LOB provisions such as Hungary and have that interest on the loan tied to gain on the sale of the property. The interest that was tied to the gain of the sale of the real property was completely exempt from U.S. income tax under an applicable Hungarian-U.S. income tax treaty.
However, Hungary had a 16 percent corporate tax rate. In order to reduce this tax, foreign investors would establish a "financial branch" in a "low-tax" jurisdiction. Hungary has tax treaties with Switzerland and Luxembourg. Both these jurisdictions have a very favorable branch taxing regime. Consequently, investors utilizing the Hungarian-U.S. tax treaty to minimize U.S. taxes would register a branch in either Switzerland or Luxembourg. A finance branch registered in either of these two jurisdictions reduced the effective tax rate on interest income to as low as two percent. Therefore, by having a Hungarian corporation own a finance branch in either Switzerland or Luxembourg and by allocating loans and interest from those loans to such a financial branch, rather than to the Hungarian company directly, the foreign income tax imposed on the receipt of interest income was reduced significantly.
Under the above discussed financial structure, any income received by a foreign financial branch in either Switzerland or Luxembourg was exempt from corporate income tax in the jurisdiction of the corporation's home country under respective income tax treaties.7
The benefit of the previous treaty with Hungary entered into force on September 18, 1979 was that it the treaty contained no "anti-triangular" provisions in the income tax treaties. Typically, an "anti-triangular" typically prevents a non U.S. taxpayer from utilizing treaty benefits if the income tax benefit received is attributed to a establishment located in a third jurisdiction and the combined tax rate of both jurisdictions is lower than the U.S. tax rate.
Recent Developments Regarding the Tax Treaty with Hungary
Recently, the U.S. entered into a new bilateral tax treaty with Hungary. The new treaty includes the LOB provision that is included in many other treaties entered into by the U.S. The inclusion of limitations on benefit provisions significantly eliminates the use of Hungary as a treaty shopping jurisdiction. It is no longer possible to place a Hungarian corporation between the U.S. and a third low tax country in order to significantly diminish global tax obligations. With the adoption of the new tax treaty with Hungary, foreign investors' ability to treaty shop for international tax planning is limited further and very few opportunities now exist for planning in this context. Although the newly negotiated bilateral U.S.-Hungarian tax treaty is a blow to foreign investors, other opportunities still exist. The remaining countries with tax treaties with the U.S. that do not include limitations on benefits rules are Poland, Greece, the Philippines, Romania, and certain countries of the former U.S.S.R.
We started this article discussing how foreign investors were taking advantage of the U.S.- Hungarian tax treaty to reduce the U.S. income tax liability on gains from U.S. source dividends. Even though it is no longer possible to take advantage of the bilateral U.S.- Hungarian tax treaty to reduce taxes on U.S. source dividend gains, a similar type of plan can still be achieved through the use of a Polish corporation. The U.S.-Polish treaty currently provides for a five percent withholding rate on U.S. source dividends.8 Dividends can then be repatriated out of Poland tax-free to a branch office located in a legal European tax haven jurisdiction such as the island country of Cyprus. Cyprus may be an excellent jurisdiction to repatriate funds out of Poland to due to the fact that the jurisdiction has no withholding tax on dividends.
We also discussed how foreign investors were utilizing the U.S.-Hungarian bilateral treaty to reduce their exposure to U.S. taxes resulting from the gains in real estate. Although foreign investors can no longer take advantage of the U.S.-Hungarian tax treaty to reduce their exposure to U.S. taxes on gains in real estate holdings, the current bilateral U.S.-Polish treaty provides similar benefits to foreign investors as the now defunct U.S.- Hungarian bilateral tax treaty enacted in 1979. For example, suppose a foreign investor realizes a gain on a debt instrument on real property classified as interest under Section 897 of Internal Revenue Code. Like with the previous bilateral U.S.- Hungarian tax treaty, under current U.S.-Polish tax treaty, the foreign investor can lend money from a Polish company and have the gain of the real property completely exempt from U.S. income tax.
As discussed above, the Income Tax Regulations provide that a foreign person can utilize a foreign corporation to lend money to a U.S. individual without realizing taxable gain of a USRPI for purposes of Section 897. Under the U.S.-Polish bilateral treaty, a foreign investor can establish a Polish corporation to lend money to a U.S. individual holding real property. The Polish corporation could secure a mortgage on the U.S. property. Under the loan agreement, the Polish corporate lender would receive fixed monthly payments from the domestic borrower, constituting repayment of the principal plus interest, and a percentage of any appreciation in the value of the real property at the expiration of the loan. The Income Tax Regulations of Section 897 potentially allow a foreign investor to lend money from a company formed in Poland and completely exclude the gain on the real property from U.S. income tax.
In addition, if the transaction is property arranged, the foreign investor could mitigate or avoid Polish corporate income tax which currently has a corporate tax rate of 19 percent. In order to mitigate Polish corporate tax, a "finance branch" may be established in low-tax third party jurisdiction. Poland has bilateral tax treaties with Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates. These jurisdictions have a very favorable branch taxing regime. Consequently, a "finance branch" could be registered in either of these countries to reduce the effective tax rate on the gains from U.S. real estate activities to a marginal tax rate of less than two percent.9
Under such planning, any income derived by the "finance branch" is exempt from Polish corporate tax under the respective tax treaty. Unlike many newer bilateral income tax treaties with other jurisdictions (including the recent treaty with Hungary), the bilateral U.S. treaty with Poland has no "anti-triangular" provisions. In general, the purpose of this provision is to prevent non-U.S. taxpayers from claiming treaty benefits if the income received by the non-U.S. treaty party is attributed to a permanent establishment in a third jurisdiction.
As the result of favorable world-wide income tax treaties, foreign investors in the U.S. may be able to arrange their business transactions in the U.S. without realizing any U.S. tax liability. The transaction may also be planned to significantly reduce global income taxes. Particular attention must be paid to both the tax treaties of different countries and also the additional tax savings in planning the use of multiple tax treaties and multiple entities to legally avoid the taxes that would otherwise be paid.
To better understand this intricate area of tax law, consult with a tax attorney at Moskowitz, LLP by calling (415) 394-7200 or via our Tax Law Firm's website.
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The petition urged Icelandic President Olaf Ragnar Grimsson to veto the legislation and demanded a referendum on the issue.
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About 298,000 British savers had their accounts in the bank frozen in October 2008 following the collapse of its parent company Landsbanki.
Earlier this week Iceland's MPs backed the amended Icesave bill to reimburse Britain and the Netherlands by a narrow margin of 33 votes to 30.
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More than 56,000 people - around 23% of the country's voters - signed the petition calling on the president not to sign the bill, it was reported.
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text: 000 FXUS63 KLSX 182118 AFDLSX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Saint Louis MO 318 PM CST Sat Feb 18 2017 .SHORT TERM... (Through Late Sunday Afternoon) Issued at 307 PM CST Sat Feb 18 2017 Upper level low to track east of region tonight. So any lingering light rain/drizzle over southeast MO, southwestern IL should taper off by 00z Sunday. Otherwise, main forecast issue for tonight will be cloud cover. Central/northeast MO and west central IL have had quite a bit of sunshine today, while rest of area was cloudy due to upper low. As the low tracks east, should see clouds scatter out everywhere by midnight. With less cloud cover and light winds, lows will be a bit lower tonight, in the 40s. Upper level ridge to build in on Sunday with southerly surface winds returning. So with warm south winds and plenty of sunshine, highs will warm up into the upper 60s to mid 70s. Byrd .LONG TERM... (Sunday Night through Next Saturday) Issued at 307 PM CST Sat Feb 18 2017 Parts of southeast MO have been fortunate to see some nice steady light rain today. However for most of the region, we are quite dry and experiencing a signifcant rainfall deficit. We are anxiously eyeing a system for Monday into early Tuesday that could bring us some widespread precipitation. The elongated upper trof currently across the far western U.S. is forecast to move from the Rockies into the Plains Sunday night into Monday, and then into the MS Valley Monday night, before advancing quickly eastward on Tuesday. The latest model runs are all a bit slower with the evolution/onset of precipitation, and it appears we may not see any rainfall in the CWA before 12Z Monday. Current thinking is a north-south oriented band of rain/showers will move slowly eastward across the area Monday-Monday night ahead of the progressive upper trof and attendant cold front. Increasing south-southwesterly low level flow will transport deeper moisture back into the region ahead of the trof/front - moisture we haven`t seen in awhile. This should support both widespread coverage and longevity of the rain band as it moves east given ample large scale forcing. The moisture return will also promote weak elevated instabily and potential for a few thunderstorms. Any model differences that exist are associated with speed and timing. The ECMWF is exceedingly slow with the eastward spread of moisture and rain on Monday. It along with the NAM also suggests that precipitation may linger across parts of southwest IL on Tuesday morning, owing to a slower progression of the weaking and shearing upper trof and attendant cold front. As far as the front, the air behind this front is not appreciably cooler and quickly modifies thus temperatures will remain well above average on Tuesday. There is a brief and general deamplification of the flow aloft Tuesday night into early Wednesday, and then the next Pacific upper trof moves inland thru the western U.S. bringing west-southwest flow aloft and the onset of a pronounced WAA regime. Wednesday looks to be another day of well above average temps. Model differences exist Thursday into early in the weekend with the southern exent of a west-east boundary and potential impacts on temperatures/precipitation on Thursday, and then the track/speed of the ejecting western upper trof and associated deepening surface low and cold front. There should be at least some locations seeing unseasonably warm temperatures ahead of the system on Thuesday, as well as a threat of thunderstorms. A changeover from rain to snow on the backside of the system for parts of northeast MO/west central IL is something we will have to monitor late Friday/Friday night. Glass && .AVIATION... (For the 18z TAFs through 18z Sunday Afternoon) Issued at 1148 AM CST Sat Feb 18 2017 Upper low over southeast Missouri will continue to slowly slide to the east. So with taf sites to the north and northwest of system, VFR conditions to prevail. Main question is precipitation development. HRRR model indicating some increased shower activity over STL metro area, so added VCSH mention through mid to late afternoon today. As for winds, west to southwest winds to prevail before diminishing to light and variable early this evening. SPECIFICS FOR KSTL: Upper low over southeast Missouri will continue to slowly slide to the east. So with metro area to the north of system, VFR conditions to prevail. Main question is precipitation development. HRRR model indicating some increased shower activity over STL metro area, so added VCSH mention through 21z today. As for winds, southwest winds to prevail through tonight before backing to the southeast on Sunday. 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SAMIN's goal is to empower VET providers and relevant stakeholders working on migrants' vocational education and training. The question the project aims to answer is "how to meet migrants' needs in vocational education and training".
The project, developed pedagogical stances and tools to empower social workers, educators, teachers and youth workers, a website containing pedagogical material and as well several tools to be used for trainings.
The project is rooted on the assumption that socioeconomically disadvantaged migrants experience obstacles in access to vocational education and training.
One of the main necessities that this project addresses is how to direct organisations' efforts towards understanding and taking into account migrant needs in their VET related projects and activities. The same necessity applies to policy making and the job market.
FIBA, which is a project that took place in Germany, empowered professionals working with young people having Turkish origins.
This project was enlarged to other 5 countries and professionals working with migrants or individuals having a migration background. It was adapted to the needs of the new geographical contexts as well to the ones of new target groups through the Methodology Handbook, the Capacity Building Booklet and the Learning Website. This pedagogical material included recommendations and strategies that allowed to work not only on the necessary skills for a migrant to obtain a job, but as well on soft-skills which can reduce the lack of social relations of migrants who are at risk of exclusion. These recommendations intend to strengthen the direct target group' skills. These aims had several effects on the education services provided and they supported the creation of new training offers or of reinforced existing ones.
The SAMIN partnership intended to structure the transfer of the FIBA project from the local level (the innovation of departure took place in 7 German cities) to the European one and then again to the local one. FIBA's innovative feature lies in its multi-actor and individual-cantered approach. In brief, its stance is that in order to better meet migrants' needs, it is necessary to work with different sectors and stakeholders while considering the migrant needs, migratory path and integration perspectives. Although it was intended for those working with young Turkish migrants, SAMIN is intended for those working with vulnerable migrants. The project was enlarged therefore to Austria, France, Italy, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom besides Germany. The project, besides Turkish migrants, also covers other countries of origin.
On the basis of these practices, project partners led a research based on existing projects at national level in order to assess how organisations work with migrants' vocational education, how they get in touch with migrants, whether migrants' needs are taken into account, how organisations link training programs with the labour market. This research, called Gap Analysis, is a work done by all the partners of the consortium and led by the German partner. It shows that in order to take into account migrants' needs organisations can have a holistic approach, by providing also housing and other services or they can provide only vocational and career related services.
The Methodology handbook presents several stances for the integration of migrants in the services provided. These stances relate to how engage the target groups, how to work on a multi-stakeholder strategy, hot to start from migrants' needs in service delivery. One hundred and eighty professionals have attended training workshops between the months of February and November 2015 and have been involved in the structuring of several pedagogical tools which can be used for trainings.
Strengthening organisations networks, development of partnerships and multi-stakeholder approach of utmost importance to empower organisations. The British partner elaborated a set of questions to foster discussion about partnerships during the previously mentioned roundtables. This capacity building support can create the space for discussion between different stakeholders.
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I heard it at first and found it on a support post on my out building. This may be one of my favorite observations since the sequence of pictures does a pretty good job showing the bird doing its head banging thing.
First time using the new add observation program and it wasn't tooooo bad.
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Residential separation and patterns of interaction between elderly parents and their adult children
For the majority of elderly people, ties with adult children represent the most important extramarital component of their family networks, informal support systems and social relationships. The main purpose of this article is to examine theoretical and empirical research contributions which address the geographical context of these integenerational ties. Theoretical perspectives are outlined concerning spatial aspects of kind networks in industrial and post-industrial society, and the effects of distinctive life-course events on residential mobility. Empirical research findings on the determinants and social consequences of integenerational spatial separation are then reviewed. Overall, spatial separation is disclosed as a key factor governing both the amounts and styles of interaction between parents and adult children. However, some recent results suggest that trends towards economic instability and family disruption associated with postindustrial change are limiting the potential for intergenerational spatial propinquity and interaction, especially within lower-income families. On the basis of a discussion of the theoretical and policy implications of the empirical findings, suggestions are offered for further geographical research on intergenerational ties.
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