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When James Hack came to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) at the end of 2007, he was given two hats: one as the director of ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and the other as leader of ORNL's laboratory-wide climate science effort.
At the helm of the NCCS, he guides the most powerful open science supercomputing center in the world. The NCCS hosts leading research in climate dynamics and the development of alternative energy sources, as well as a wide range of computational sciences -- from basic explorations in nuclear physics and quantum dynamics to astrophysics explorations of supernovas and dark matter.
As leader of ORNL's Climate Change Initiative, he is in charge of pulling together scientists and engineers from across ORNL to advance the state of the science. Hack is uniquely qualified to take on this role. Before coming to ORNL, he headed the Climate Modeling Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., and served as deputy director of the center's Climate and Global Dynamics Division.
We asked Hack about the future of climate science and the climate initiative at ORNL.
HPCwire: How will climate research evolve in the coming years?
Hack: Climate science has largely been curiosity-driven research. But the growing acceptance that humans affect the evolution of atmospheric composition, land use, and so on, all of which in turn affect the climate state, provides a little more focus and a little more urgency to taking a harder look at what the modeling tools are capable of providing in the form of specific consequences for society.
That to me is the transformation. There's a growing need for improvements in simulation fidelity and predictive skill. The potential consumers of that kind of simulation information will be leaning hard on the climate change community to provide answers to their questions. That's the change that's going to differentiate the next 10 years of climate change science from the previous 30.
For example, we know from observations over the last 50 years that the snowpack in the Pacific Northwest has been decreasing. At the same time, temperature in the same region has been increasing. If that trend continues, it raises lots of concerns for water resource managers who have counted on storing their water in the form of snow until a certain time of year when it starts melting.
If precipitation never comes down as snow or if it starts melting sooner than you need it, you may not able to meet your water demands. It's an example of an infrastructure that's vulnerable to specific changes in a region's climate state. Many of the solutions to this problem may also bring with them other environmental consequences.
HPCwire: So what can you do to help users of climate data?
Hack: We need to know if we can tie down with some certainty how climate will change on the scales that matter to people. It's one thing to tell somebody that the planet's going to warm by 2 degrees centigrade between now and 2100, but it doesn't really help anybody who's in the business of planning or managing societal infrastructures on regional scales. We know from the models that it won't be a homogeneous change. The high latitudes are going to feel maybe 8-degree increases in temperature, and the lower latitudes are going to feel considerably less. And quantifying changes in the hydrological cycle on regional scales may be even more important than temperature changes.
We think we might currently have sufficient skill to project climate change on regional scales about the size of the Southeast, Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain West, or Farm Belt. As a community we need to demonstrate that the potential is really there and try and quantify what the uncertainties are. We haven't done a very good job with this challenge so far. But I think the scientific community is starting to realize that we have an opportunity to take a step back and ask, "What can we do on regional scales and timescales that we think are predictable?"
For example, there's a belief that climate statistics have some predictive skill on decadal timescales. The driver for that is going to reside in the ocean, the motion scales of which have a very, very long time frame. There is a belief in the scientific community that the ocean's behavior can be predicted several decades into the future.
If you can do the ocean part of the problem, given the fact that 70 percent of the planet is covered with water, you have a very strong constraint on the other parts of the system. Then the question is, "Will the other component models follow?" The atmosphere doesn't have any deterministic predictive skill beyond a few weeks. So you're dealing with statistics that are forced by components of the climate system that have much slower variability than the atmosphere. Even the terrestrial components of the climate system, particularly land use changes, come into play on longer timescales.
HPCwire: Are we ready to make predictions about the ocean?
Hack: As is the case with the atmosphere, we're still building knowledge about the ocean component. A difficult challenge will be initializing the ocean state for the purpose of prediction. I believe there's a tremendous opportunity for people who want to pursue the ocean initialization problem.
To deliver decadal prediction we will need to treat the climate problem as an initial value problem and not a hypothetical boundary-value problem. Besides getting the statistical behavior right, you need the phase of low frequency variability to be correct as well. For example, predicting when an El Niño will occur or when a La Niña will occur. If we can accurately predict this type of ocean behavior, there is evidence that other features of the climate state can be accurately reproduced. That's a matter of correctly initializing the model and accurately incorporating all the necessary physics in the respective component models.
HPCwire: How do you demonstrate that you're getting it right?
Hack: We can come up with numerical experiments to assess whether the global model can produce useful information on the timescales and space scales of most importance to resource managers and planners. They may want to know where the temperature's headed locally, how the hydrological cycle is likely to behave, or how extreme events will change. Do the models provide us with the kind of predictive skill we need, and if not, how can they be improved?
When you start windowing down to very small space scales, at what point does the uncertainty or natural noise in the system begin to swamp the signal that you're trying to find? We can illuminate that with retrospective simulations because we have lots of data for an instrumented period that's multidecadal. It's not all the same quality, but it quantifies what's happened in the climate record in a much more complete way, say, than going back to paleoclimate times or even going back a few centuries. Retrospective simulations over the latter part of the 20th century can help to quantitatively establish what the models are capable of doing or not capable of doing on relatively fine spatial scales.
HPCwire: What is the role of computing in this effort?
Hack: Computing is a big part of the effort. To fully evaluate the skill in our modeling tools, we need very large computer systems -- petascale machines. Assimilating data streams that will be used in the evaluation of modeling frameworks requires very large computer and data systems.
Clearly, a significant computational piece is modeling -- building models that have all the components they need to accurately predict the evolution of the earth's climate system. That's computationally very intensive. Incorporating the complexities of the carbon cycle in these models, using the expertise of ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division, contributes to the computational demands. And then mining the data to deal with questions of human impacts and climate extremes, that again is very computationally intensive.
So computation does in fact tie the whole effort together. It cuts across all the various climate science applications. There are certain areas of science where you need a virtual laboratory to explore the what-if experiments, and that's what computation provides for the climate problem.
Global modeling is something that has been funded under programs like SciDAC [Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing] and other DOE programs in partnership with other national labs like NCAR. For example, there's an almost 20-year history of ORNL partnering with NCAR on the development of global models and implementing global models efficiently on high-performance computing systems. We are also in the process of building strong new relationships with our NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] and NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] climate modeling colleagues, looking at high-resolution global modeling, quantifying predictive skill on climate timescales, identifying climate extremes in global simulations, and exploring climate impacts in the context of integrated assessment modeling. All this builds on strong preexisting partnerships with many other DOE laboratories.
HPCwire: You are leading a new multidisciplinary effort at ORNL focused on climate science. What is the reasoning behind this effort?
Hack: ORNL has identified climate change as an opportunity that could very effectively exploit existing competencies, particularly high-performance computing and ORNL's long history in contributing to fundamental knowledge about carbon science and in global modeling. The lab also has expertise in evaluating impacts on societal infrastructure. Take rising sea levels. Most of the folks living around the world live close to coastlines, so if the sea level rises even a meter, it has a huge societal impact. The people who are displaced must go somewhere else, maybe moving into areas that were previously used for agriculture. That displaces agricultural activities. ORNL has a very strong GIS [geographic information systems] group that can contribute to quantification of these scenarios.
So we're looking at how we can bring these various competencies together to provide a capability that's unique among the laboratories. The end result for us is to provide stakeholders, resource managers, and others with information they need to deal with the consequences of climate change.
HPCwire: What will ORNL's initiative look like?
Hack: It's a cross-cutting initiative. We're trying to engage people from across the laboratory to stretch the kind of work they're doing in such a way that it requires partnerships with other ORNL folks. So far, many of the more promising proposals include collaborations that cut across the Biological and Environmental Sciences Directorate and CCSD [Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate].
As the initiative matures, I hope we'll begin to incorporate more people in the energy arena, another strong part of the ORNL scientific program. These things could include ways to link climate change and the hard questions we're facing in energy production, like bioenergy and renewable energy technologies, as well as energy consumption. Dealing directly with climate mitigation questions, such as strategies for the sequestration of carbon, is an opportunity for this initiative.
From an energy production point of view, planning has a multidecadal timeframe. Anyone planning investments in the energy infrastructure needs to understand what role the environment might play. That's the goal -- to be able to say 20 years from now, "Here's what we anticipate will happen with regard to environmental change on a regional scale."
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Auburn High School students, staff honor the lives lost in Sandy Hook tragedy
December 19, 2012 · Updated 3:14 PM
Auburn High School students and staff took time out of each school day to honor and remember the precious lives lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
"It is important for our students to be able to express their feelings of sadness and grief," said Principal Richard Zimmerman.
With the help of Auburn High's leadership classes, Zimmerman organized three ways in three days for students and staff to show their support and honor the lives lost on Dec. 14.
On Monday, Zimmerman dedicated morning announcements to the victims and their families. The entire school observed a moment of silence. Then during all three lunches, students and staff expressed personal words of sympathy on a large handmade banner with the words, "You are in our hearts," extending from end to end.
Tuesday was declared "Green and White Day." Students and staff showed their support for the Newtown community by wearing the school colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
On Wednesday, students and staff had another opportunity to sign the sympathy banner. Zimmerman will send the banner along with a letter to the superintendent of Spring Lake Park District 16 on behalf of Auburn students and staff.
"It may not be a large amount of money or gifts we are sending," Zimmerman said, "but what we are sending is truly from our hearts."
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In a town with as many blues enthusiasts as St. Louis, the question of which blues club is best can be a topic of spirited discussion. BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups inhabits a historic brick buildings that oozes atmosphere, and it offers a first-rate selection of local and touring performers. BB's features a varied schedule of musical acts, a large year-round seating capacity and full-service kitchen specializing in Cajun and Creole food, in addition to a selection of American bar food.
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In a town with as many blues enthusiasts as St. Louis, the question of which blues club is best can be a topic of spirited discussion. Last year's "Best Blues Club" winner Beale on Broadway remains a strong contender for the honor, for all the reasons cited in its 2011 entry. But for 2012, the nod returns once again to its across-the-street neighbor (and previous multiple winner of this award), BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups. Both venues inhabit historic brick buildings that ooze atmosphere, and... More »
There are lots of places in St. Louis to hear the blues, but BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups stands apart, both as a music venue and as a sort of unofficial clubhouse for local blues musicians. Just a few blocks south of Busch Stadium, BB's has live music seven nights a week, with local and traveling bands playing to an ever-shifting mix of dedicated blues fans, younger folks just out for a good time and tourists seeking an authentic St. Louis blues experience. The styles on tap can range from... More »
The blues -- the music and the state of mind -- can be found all over town, but its true home is downtown on Broadway, just a little bit south of Busch Stadium. Operating in a restored nineteenth-century building that's been (among other things) a boarding house, transient hotel and house of ill repute, BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups anchors the area's so-called blues triangle and serves as a virtual headquarters for local blues fans and musicians, offering food, drink and a mix of... More »
With the 21st-century renovations to its 19th-century building pretty much complete, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups retains its title as St. Louis' blues headquarters, a seven-nights-a-week hub of activity for local music lovers, tourists and musicians alike. BB's continues to offer an impressive variety of touring blues bands and local and regional blues and jazz performers, and the newly expanded stage, second-floor seating and balcony add up to an improved experience for both audience and... More »
These days the best blues in town can be found in the so-called South Broadway triangle, the few-block stretch where Broadway angles its way southeastward to usurp Fourth Street. And BB's remains the anchor of the area, presenting a mix of touring acts and local and regional performers seven nights a week. Not content to rest on its laurels, the club recently completed a major remodeling project, adding a second floor inside and a balcony outside that effectively doubles its capacity, not to... More »
Though it took several tries for 700 South Broadway to catch on as a music venue, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups recently celebrated its tenth anniversary at that very address--and so it's easy to imagine that it was always meant to be here. Like the blues, the nineteenth-century brick building that houses BB's is old, funky and full of stories, to the point where it seems to resonate with the music made inside. The joint jumps into the wee hours seven nights a week, thanks to a carefully... More »
There's nothing worse than the sinking feeling that accompanies a letdown of a much-hyped experience. It's a slowly deflating helium balloon. (Your prom night, for example.) Conversely, there's nothing better than a night that's a sure bet. BB's is exactly what a blues club should be: kind of hard to find, long, brick and teeming with enough talent that you don't even have to check who's playing before you go. It's close enough to Busch Stadium to beckon Cards fans during the summer, but go... More »
The blues don't need a fancy house to live in. The blues are perfectly comfortable on the busted-down front porch of a Mississippi farmhouse, in a one-room shack off a dirt road out in the country or crammed into one end of a sweaty little neighborhood bar next to the pay phone and the cigarette machine. Some folks get nervous if the blues try to move too far uptown, go somewhere too grand. Lose the funk and you lose the flavor, they say. For those purists, the more rundown the surroundings,... More »
The nineteenth-century building that houses BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups had been a private home, boarding house, reception hall, millinery, transient hotel, bar, diner and house of ill repute before Mark O'Shaughnessy turned it into a blues and jazz club for the first time back in 1976. As it turned out, our fair city wasn't quite ready to embrace its musical heritage, and the club closed the following year. Undaunted, O'Shaughnessy held on to the building, kept making improvements and tried... More »
With the 21st-century renovations to its 19th-century building pretty much complete, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups retains its title as St. Louis' blues headquarters, a seven-nights-a-week hub of activity for local music lovers, tourists and musicians alike. BB's continues to offer an impressive variety of touring blues bands and local and regional blues and jazz performers, and the newly expanded stage, second-floor seating and balcony add up to an improved experience for both audience and musicians. (The extra wall space also provides room to display more of the club's extensive collection of blues memorabilia.) While there certainly are other worthy contenders for the designation of Best Blues Club, BB's remains the essential St. Louis blues music experience.
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The Covington Elks and Elkadettes recently held a memorial service for departed members of Lodge No. 1806. Georgia Elks President Larry Capes was the guest speaker and gave the eulogy. Kati Moss sang several songs for the service. Invitations were mailed to families of deceased Elks and Elkadettes. Refreshments were served afterward by the Elkadettes. Shown here are, from left, Jack Wheeler, PER and Chairman of the Memorial Service; Martha Radford, Elkadette and a widow of an Elk; Pat Pippin, Covington Elkadette president; Larry Capes, PER and State Elks president; Amy McCrary, past state president of the Auxiliary and an Elk widow; and Miriam Hall, an Elkadette and a widow of an Elk.
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Missed opportunities. That's what plagued the Indianapolis Colts all afternoon in National Football League play Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Indianapolis went into the locker room at halftime with a 14-3 lead over AFC rival Jacksonville. The Colts had a 14-13 advantage after three quarters. But in the end, it was the plays that the Colts didn't make en route to a 22-17 home field loss to the Jaguars.
Usually dependable placekicker Adam Vinatieri was wide left on a 36-yard field goal attempt with 4:45 remaining in the game and Indianapolis trailing 16-14. After an exchange of offensive possessions, he wound up squeezing a 37-yarder inside the left upright to put Indianapolis on top 17-16 with 1:01 left.
Still not good enough. On Jacksonville's very first play on its next possession, quarterback Blaine Gabbert found second-year wide receiver Cecil Shorts on a crossing pattern over the middle and the former Mount Union track standout sprinted 80 yards for the eventual winning touchdown.
The Colts had one final drive to try and pull out the win. Rookie quarterback Andrew Luck directed the offense on a six-play drive that started on the Indianapolis 38-yard line and wound up at the Jaguars' 26 six plays later.
Two final desperation passes, both intended for veteran wide receiver Reggie Wayne, fell incomplete as time expired.
As Colts coach Chuck Pagano said afterward, the loss — in a game the Colts had been favored in — was a gut-wrencher.
Indianapolis committed 11 penalties, nine in the second half, for 106 yards and turned the football over once when Luck was intercepted by Jacksonville middle linebacker Paul Posluszny. The Jaguars were penalized six times for 67 yards and did not commit any turnovers.
Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew and placekicker Josh Scobee, both long-time thorns in the sides of the Colts, came up big once again.
Jones-Drew ran for 177 yards in 28 carries, including a 59-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter that brought the Jaguars to within 14-10. Scobee, who has had three game-winning kicks against Indianapolis during his career, connected on field goal attempts from 44, 47 and 26 yards. His last kick had given the Jaguars a 16-14 lead with 11:02 left in the game.
"Obviously a devastating loss. Big plays, penalties, knock yourself out. Negative yards plays. You can just go across the board in all three phases," Pagano pointed out later. "[There] were a lot of good things also. This one's going to stick in the pit of their stomachs, in all our stomachs, for quite some time."
Gabbert completed only 10 of 21 passes for 155 yards and was sacked once by Colts outside linebacker Robert Mathis. But the former University of Missouri signal caller did enough to lead Jacksonville to the win.
Luck, meanwhile, was forced to throw more than he wanted to due to an inconsistent running game. He connected on 22 of a season-high 46 passes for 313 yards (also a career-best) and two touchdowns.
"I think maybe just a little lack of focus. I point the finger at myself for some bad decisions. Throwing a ball straight to the mike [middle] linebacker. A couple passes are behind guys on third down that would have kept drives going," he said afterward.
"I think the finger needs to be pointed at me. I'm sure everybody feels like they have something to clean up. I don't think it's the end of the world. I think there are things that can be fixed. We'll get back to work this off week and try to fix them for the next game."
It was the third quarter interception by Posluszny that bothered him the most.
"Very bad decision is what it boils down to," Luck said.
The worst part of Sunday's loss to Jacksonville is that the Colts have to wait two weeks before they play again. Indianapolis has a bye week coming up and will be practicing three days before getting the weekend off. Green Bay comes to town Oct. 7."
Jaguars 22, Colts 17
At Lucas Oil Stadium
Jacksonville 3 0 10 9 — 22
Indianapolis 7 7 0 3 — 17
Jac—FG Scobee 44
Ind—Hilton 40 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick)
Ind—Moore 4 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick)
Jac—Jones-Drew 59 run (Scobee kick)
Jac—FG Scobee 47
Jac—FG Scobee 26
Ind—FG Vinatieri 37
Jac—Shorts 80 pass from Gabbert (run failed)
RUSHING—Jacksonville, Jones-Drew 28-177, Gabbert 2-11, Jones 1-1, Shorts 1-(minus 4). Indianapolis, D.Brown 18-62, Luck 4-50, Ballard 5-12, Moore 2-0.
PASSING—Jacksonville, Gabbert 10-21-0-155. Indianapolis, Luck 22-46-1-313.
RECEIVING—Jacksonville, Elliott 2-24, Jones-Drew 2-16, Jones 2-12, Shorts 1-80, Lewis 1-8, Thomas 1-8, Blackmon 1-7. Indianapolis, Wayne 8-88, Allen 5-35, Hilton 4-113, Avery 2-28, D.Brown 1-39, Collie 1-6, Moore 1-4.


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For Sri Lankan politicians a passage to India is a mandatory pilgrimage. Their penchant for meeting Indian leaders (as well as astrologers) is monumental. But, it is doubtful whether they draw any inspiration from their Indian counterparts as to what sacrifices should be made to tackle crises.
The soaring oil prices in the world market have sent even strong economies like India reeling. Sri Lanka has almost fallen into a dead faint. There is no end in sight for the oil crisis and the worst is yet to come. A global food shortage with the potential to develop into a famine is staring us in the face. The immediate response of India has been to curtail government expenditure and opt for an austerity drive. Among the measures adopted by the Indian government are restrictions on politicians' foreign travel and other expenses.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has, in a letter to his team, said, "As we ask the people to bear some of the financial burden of our oil imports, it is not only necessary from the resource conservation point of view but also as a moral duty to cut out all wasteful expenditure in our own establishment." He has suggested that austere measures be adopted immediately by ministers and senior bureaucrats working under them.
What did the Sri Lankan government do? It immediately changed the fuel allowance given to parliamentarians' secretaries to a fixed amount of petrol or diesel so as to ensure that the quantity of free fuel they get won't be affected, however high prices may rise!
The Opposition is in full cry over the high fuel prices and soaring cost of living. It is taking bullock cart rides and tooting horns purportedly in a bid to jolt the government into heeding the public woes. But, none of the Opposition worthies have so far volunteered to take a pay cut or a fuel cut as a gesture of empathy with the masses. They must give up using fuel guzzling massive vehicles purchased on duty free permits, take public transport and urge the government politicians to follow suit, if they are genuinely interested in mitigating the suffering of the public.
It is the moral duty of the elected to share the plight of their electors, isn't it? Street protests by potbellied men sporting gold wristwatches and bracelets and coiffed women bedecked with jewellery may serve some purpose as a form of public entertainment but the people cannot be fooled by such gimmicks.
At any given time, there are more ministers abroad than here. The foreign minister is more in the air than on the ground, as though he were competing with himself to break his own record of foreign travel! He might even set a world record as the most travelled earthling. Of late, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, too, has been more airborne than 'chairborne'. Worse, we have a train of lackeys trailing him whenever he takes wing to a faraway land.
President Rajapaksa proposed to the Cabinet the other day that 25 per cent of government expenditure be curtailed. But, between saying and doing, it is said, many a pair of shoes is worn out. His words must translate into deeds, if his directive is to be taken seriously.
On Monday, we reported that Minister of Labour Athauda Seneviratne was in Geneva with a delegation of over 20 people! Needless to say the public struggling to make ends meet will have to foot the bill. The ordinary people who can hardly afford a decent meal or a bus ride will be made to sponsor the ministerial tour of Geneva, one of the most expensive cities in the world! Other ministers are no better. All of them seem to have turned out to be 'foreign ministers'. It is high time the government slapped a ban on politicians' junkets at the public expense. Let a cost-benefit analysis be done before approval is granted for their foreign travel.
While the government continues its spending spree, it is reported that the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) has stopped supplying drugs to the Navy due to unpaid bills. What a way to treat a navy that has sunk almost all the ships of the enemy and is fighting daring sea battles to keep terrorists at bay! It is not the SPC that should be blamed. Instead, it is the government indulging in profligacy that must take the full responsibility for this sad state of affairs. The unsettled bills of the Navy at issue may amount to only a fraction of what the government squanders on useless things. How can sailors and officers risking their life and limb in battling terrorism be expected to protect the very State that doesn't even care to pay for their medicine?
The dissolution of the North Central and Sabaragamuwa PCs will trigger another spending spree by the government. Fuel worth millions of rupees will be wasted and hundreds of State vehicles abused. Besides, the people will be made to bear the cost of elections at this juncture. While opposing PC polls, the UNP is demanding a general election!
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The predominant school of thought surrounding young receivers has been to temper expectations from a fantasy perspective until they are entering at least their third year in the pros. While this certainly has been the case for some wideouts over the years, most recently with Sidney Rice and Mike Sims-Walker in 2009, it's not a hard-and-fast rule. In fact, fantasy owners who ignore rookie wide receivers will miss the boat on some guys.
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Dwellworks was honored with four awards including the Commitment to Excellence Gold Award for both Destination Services and Domestic Rental Services, the Innovation Gold Award for Quality Service Improvement in Property Management, and the Innovation Silver Award for Strategic Sourcing of Appraisal, Destination, Property Management and Rental Services at Cartus Corporation's 2011 Global Network Conference.
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Dwellworks honored with Lexicon Relocation's 'Lexicon World of Quality' award
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Dwellworks has reccently signed the lease on office space in the historic Playhouse Square area of downtown Cleveland with plans to move its headquarters there.
Sep 2011 - Dwellworks awarded EMMA Award for Destination Services Provider of the Year
Dwellworks was awarded the 'Destination Services Provider of the Year' award at the 2011 EMMA Awards, presented by the Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM).
Aug 2011 - Dwellworks Closes on $7.5 Million Bank Financing
Dwellworks announced today the closing of a $7.5 million bank funding. The proceeds will be used to support the Company's growth. The financing, which was a combination of senior and mezzanine financing, was provided by Huntington Bank.
Jun 2011 - Dwellworks, LLC Honored With 'Lexicon World of Quality' Award from Lexicon Relocation
Dwellworks, LLC, a leading provider of global destination services, was recently honored with the first annual 'Lexicon World of Quality' award by Lexicon Relocation for customer satisfaction and performance excellence in global mobility.
Jun 2011 - Tim Evanko Awarded RAC's 'Distinguished Service' Award
Tim Evanko, Director of Supplier Management, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Relocation Appraisal Council (RAC).


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The TaxPayers' Alliance believes that a healthy and vibrant local press ensures proper scrutiny of local authorities. When councils use taxpayers' cash to distribute their own publications they create direct and unfair competition for local media, harming genuine accountability. They also cost taxpayers' money and savings need to be made.
The Department for Communities and Local Goverenment have produced a Publicity Code. It contains many sensible suggestions for how councils should conduct themselves when it comes to publicity. Unfortunately, many are ignoring the code of practice and are wasting taxpayers' money on rival newspapers, or making political points by plastering posters all over town.
Our response, which can be found here, calls for an end to free-sheets so that local journalists can play their part in keeping local politicians honest. We encourage everyone to respond to the three-question consultation, which you can do by clicking here.
Pub groups have slammed Department for Business, Innovation and Skills plans for a new quango to micro-manage the details of agreements between pub landlords and their commercial tenants. Punch Taverns said:
A founding commitment of the coalition was to reduce regulation, but ministers now seem intent on wrapping Britain's pubs in red tape.
The problems that the pubs industry faces are not because of a lack of regulation and taxes from ministers and civil servants. The problem is crushing taxes and too much regulation.
It was a great move by the Chancellor to listen to our Mash Beer Tax campaign and scrap the beer duty escalator in the Budget, cutting the tax by 1.5 per cent. But at the same time he also hiked tax on cider, wine and spirits by 5.2 per cent.
And tight planning restrictions which drive up residential rents and house prices, causing the housing crisis are also contributing to the slow but steady disappearance of our pubs. The high residential property prices caused by planning regulations provide a financially attractive alternative for pub buildings, putting economic pressure on owners to convert them into flats.
Pubs don't need Vince Cable's battalion of beer bureaucrats to pontificate about what 'fair prices' are or dictate the terms of their agreements. They need planning reform so residential property developers are allowed to build homes in commercially viable locations and don't have to resort to converting pubs. And they need lower taxes not just on beer, but on wine, spirits, cider and business rates, too.
New research by consultants KPMG for tobacco company Philip Morris International has claimed that the UK has the EU's fastest growing black market, which now accounts for one in six cigarettes sold.
These figures follow research published last year by the TaxPayers' Alliance which revealed that the tax loss from illicit alcohol, tobacco and fuel totalled £28.5 billion.
It's increasingly clear that the UK's high lifestyle taxes have become ineffective at both raising revenue and controlling consumption. Governments can only go so far in hiking taxes before people start to ignore them and enter the black market instead.
With the Coalition intent on hitting the arbitrary target of spending 0.7 per cent of our national income on international aid, the Department for International Development is awash with taxpayers' cash and short of ideas on how to spend it.
In a fiercely critical report, an all-party committee of MPs found evidence of two-thirds of DFID's budget being channelled through inefficient international organisations, money being moved between accounts to hit targets, and other poor spending decisions. Official documents reveal how in 2011, the department was forced to boost spending by £580 million in a frantic rush to meet increasing spending targets, with £130 million used just to increase the value of payments due on a number of projects.
DFID will see its budget increase to £8.2 billion with a superfluous cash injection of an extra £500m this year. This comes at a time when all other Whitehall departments, barring health, face cuts. The government needs to call time on its policy of pouring taxpayers' money into international development so they can meet meaningless targets and feel self-righteous.
Friday's Independent carried details of globe-trotting MPs leaving their constituencies without representation for long periods of time. Mark Hendrick MP spent over 100 days outside the country and at one point spent a month in Beijing learning Mandarin.
Some foreign travel may be justifiable in the interests of informing an MP's work on a specific policy area or geographical region. But it would seem that some need reminding that they are elected to look after the interests of their constituents both locally and in Parliament – and being on the other side of the world makes that task somewhat harder.
Another case raised by the Independent was Barry Gardiner MP, who spent 73 days out of the country. He is Ed Miliband's Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Environment and visited Berlin, Cape Town, Cape Town again, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro (twice), Venice, Warsaw, Washington, New York, Mexico City, Japan and China. It seems strange that there were no other more energy efficient alternatives to all this air travel…
Indeed, politicians and bureaucrats working on climate change seem to be fond of taking lots of flights, despite the emissions. Our research earlier this month showed that the Department of Energy and Climate Change is fond of a flight or two as well, including the occasional trip on business class.
David Miliband MP, who stated after failing to win the Labour leadership that his constituency, "South Shields comes first", managed to spend 47 days out of the country with a total of 14 foreign trips. There are of course times when foreign trips are necessary, but excessive time overseas impedes the very job our MPs are paid to do.
The issue of adequate representation has been brought to public attention this last fortnight by Nadine Dorries MP, who gallivanted off to Australia for her cringeworthy appearance on a I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. All the while, her constituents were left without a parliamentary representative.
Taxpayers have very real and pressing concerns. They pay for MPs to represent them in Parliament. A few necessary trips aside, MPs should be in their constituency or at Parliament as often as possible.
Education Secretary Michael Gove announced yesterday a pioneering drive to cut spending on bureaucracy after a comprehensive, zero-based review identified potential savings of £290 million. As Peter Hoskin points out on ConservativeHome, the Education Secretary is going further than his cabinet colleagues by aiming to cut departmental spending on administration by 50 per cent by 2016, exceeding the coalition's target of 33 per cent by 2015.
The headline-grabbing statistic that staff numbers will fall by around a quarter to 3,000 is welcome but the review has proposed a more comprehensive package of cost-cutting measures. The department will also be moving out of its pricey Westminster HQ to cheaper digs while excessive overhead spending on finance, HR and IT will be slashed and six unnecessary regional offices closed. The TaxPayers' Alliance has long been calling for departments to make savings on office space, identifying a staggering £112 million being wasted in recent research. It's great to see the pressure we've been putting on ministers resulting in real gains for taxpayers.
The report found decision making in the department to be "slow and laborious" highlighting duplication of work, uncertainty among employees of their roles and general overstaffing – themes all too common in our bloated public sector.
The TaxPayers' Alliance has led the way in campaigning for an end to profligate spending by Whitehall departments and for leaner, more efficient bureaucracy that delivers better value for money. However, while this programme shows there is scope for savings in the education department, they are by no means the worst offenders when it comes to waste. We identified £59 million that could be saved by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on office space alone compared to just £2 million at Mr Gove's department. The initiative shown by the Department for Education is commendable but it will only deliver a very small percentage of the potential savings. Taxpayers deserve value for money from all departments and it's about time Mr Gove's colleagues followed his lead.
A government-backed mortgage scheme NewBuy is being rolled out throughout the country with a number of local authorities eagerly signing up – the video clip above is a report on ITV Central News focusing on the situation in Nottinghamshire. The scheme involves first-time buyers only paying a deposit of as little as 5% whilst taxpayers effectively underwrite the rest of the amount required to secure a mortgage, supposedly using the property as security.
There are many reasons why this scheme does not add up. Firstly, it is aimed at first-time buyers who cannot afford the deposits of 20% and 25% typically required by high street banks. The private sector is not willing to lend to those without substantial deposits as the default rate with these high-risk borrowers is greater. So why should the taxpayer be expected to pick up the tab when problems with default inevitably arise? Low-deposit loans to high-risk groups that were backed by government schemes exacerbated the US sub-prime mortgage crisis less than five years ago, so it's unsettling that politicians here seem so eager to make the same mistakes again.
Having the mortgaged property as security does not ensure taxpayers' money is safe. It assumes that house prices are rising and will continue to rise – a trend that has not been seen outside of London for many years now – and only a few days ago did Halifax report that house prices had fallen 0.7% last month. The problem of negative equity, where the debt owed is greater than the value of the property, is a serious one that councils should not so easily dismiss.
The impact on the housing market as a whole is also worrying. A scheme such as this distorts the housing market, artificially increasing house prices. Where prices should reflect the ability to pay (demand) and the supply of houses, it will now reflect ability to pay and a taxpayer subsidy (demand) and the supply of houses. This may make it easier for a small number of first-time buyers on the scheme, but the vast majority of buyers would face artificially higher house prices. As a result, just as many, if not more, problems are created with the housing market.
Councils, too, are not banks. They should be providing value-for-money services such as emptying our bins regularly and ensuring our streets are well lit, not gambling with taxpayers' money like a casino bank.
If councils want to solve the housing crisis, they should be looking to ease planning regulations to make it easier for more houses to be built, helping increase the supply of desperately-needed homes. Meanwhile, the Government should focus on why people are struggling to save for deposits in the first place: the high cost of living, excessive taxes and stamp duty have all made it harder for people to save up for their first home. If councils and the Government moved to lift such burdens, the housing market could be more responsive to changes in supply and demand, which would benefit all buyers, not just the small numbers who join the scheme.
At a time when councils need to tighten their belts, putting money into a risky scheme that will distort the housing market further whilst ignoring the root causes of the problem is something our politicians must avoid.
Earlier this week I spoke at a PoliticsHome event at Liberal Democrat Party Conference sponsored by the Association of Train Operating Companies, Railways: Public Service or Private Profit. I made the case that taxpayers who mostly drive to work shouldn't be asked to pick up the bill for more railway subsidies, but we needed a much more efficient rail network so that doesn't mean higher prices for commuters already paying a fortune for their tickets.
My contribution was based on an article which I wrote for a Network Rail publication earlier in the year. It was interesting that Transport Minister Norman Baker made a similar case that the more efficient management of rail infrastructure was the key to more affordable train tickets. Research as part of the 2011 McNulty Review found that introducing separately owned regional infrastructure managers, for example, could improve efficiency and save billions. You can read my article here.
The huge fare increases coming in at the moment are a disaster for thousands of people who need to get to work, or who want to work but can only find a job a train journey from their homes. That doesn't mean we should accept calls to hammer motorists yet again. But it does mean that there is an urgent need to improve the efficiency of our relatively expensive rail network.
There is a real danger that civil service numbers could creep up again following initial cut backs if departments fail to "fundamentally redesign" their working practices, the Public Accounts Committee has warned. The commons' spending watchdog has published a report based on findings from the Cabinet Office, the Department for Work and Pensions and the head of the Home Civil Service.
According to the report, the civil service reduced in size by around 35,000 in 2011 of which nearly 18,000 were through early departures. The report showed that much of the "low hanging fruit" has now been picked through voluntary 'early departures' with figures showing this should reap savings of around £400 million per year in around 15 months' time. But the report warned that the savings achieved could be undone by having to rehire staff further down the line.
With fundamental changes to the way departments are run and, the scope for further savings is significant. But as we revealed earlier this month some departments are bucking the trend and are actually hiring more staff. So while the Ministry of Defence has successfully slimmed down its back office staff by 5 per cent, the Department for Energy and Climate Change increased their overall headcount by 4 per cent from December 2011 to March 2012.
It's important that some departments' good work is not undone by a small minority of irresponsible ones. There is a real risk that when restrictions on recruitment are lifted that more departments will start to reverse some of their good work. But the reality is that the challenge has only just begun. If the government wants to achieve lasting savings in Whitehall's budgets then it must ensure that the current programme is managed carefully and that measures are in place to ensure all changes are sustainable and guarantee permanent savings for taxpayers.
The Public Accounts Committee announced that government departments could cut the cost of running buildings by a whopping £800 million. Margaret Hodge MP, who chairs the committee, said that such savings could be made if departments were incentivised to 'work together' by the Cabinet Office's Government Property Unit.
The committee recommended that local and central government co-operate to maximise savings by sharing office space and selling or letting unused buildings. This has the potential for huge savings to the £1.8 billion annual cost of running central government buildings. The Cabinet Office responded with a statement saying that it would consider the Public Accounts Committee's conclusions 'carefully', but insisted that costs had already been cut by £200 million in 2011-12. It also highlighted its revenue of £640 million in the last two years from selling government properties and its pilot projects with councils in Bristol and Preston which aim to let empty office space to small businesses and free schools.
This is clearly very good news during a time when local and national government need to reduce spending. But as the PAC report shows, there is still huge scope to make savings. The Cabinet Office should act on the findings of the report and work towards getting better value for taxpayers' money. Government departments co-operating in key areas will help to deliver more effective and efficient public services, rather than bureaucratic Whitehall empires run by power-hungry mandarins.
The report we released on Tuesday on councillors' allowances showed the massive differences in allowances paid to local councillors across the country. For local authorities that carry out the same functions and have the same powers, there is a stark difference in the levels of remuneration that councillors receive. In Scotland, it is notable that councillors' allowances are amongst the highest in the UK with each councillor receiving at least £16,000 a year for performing their duties, excluding expenses and other perks.
Unlike English councils, councillors in Scotland receive a basic annual salary of £16,234 – a figure set nationally by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (Remuneration) Regulations 2007 after recommendation by the Scottish Local Authorities Remuneration Committee.
Scottish councils perform the same functions as an English Unitary Authority, a Metropolitan District Council or a London Borough and yet, councillors north of the border receive considerably more from the taxpayer to carry out their duties.
The level of councillor allowance is the same for every Scottish Council but do councillors in Glasgow City Council have the same demands on their time as those in the Orkney Islands?
The Scottish Government should review this anomaly and consider allowing councillors to set their own level of allowances, rather than dictating to them how much they should receive. Only then will councillors be accountable for how much they take from taxpayers each year.
A committee of MPs have today called for more people to be prosecuted for smuggling alcohol by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The Public Accounts Committee cited the paucity of successful prosecutions in the four years to 2009-10 as evidence of HMRC's failure to adequately grasp the problem. Our Tax Gap report shows that during this period, £4.5 billion's worth of tax revenues has been lost to the illicit trade in beer and spirits, whilst HMRC is less sure as to how much is lost on wine. According to their latest figures, illicit trade accounts for 11 per cent of the Spirits market and 14 per cent of the beer market.
Obviously, those who break the law should be prosecuted, but the booming illicit trade has its roots in punitively high alcohol duty. Despite claims that price increases benefit public health, there is a body of evidence that shows no link between higher prices and overall consumption. Constant increases in alcohol duty are simply another way for governments to milk ever more money from the taxpayer.
Furthermore, escalating taxes have fuelled the trade in counterfeit alcohol – seizures of fake hooch have increased fivefold in the last two years as criminals capitalise on increasing demand for more affordable alcohol.
The illegal trade of excessively taxed goods such as alcohol, tobacco and diesel cost the treasury £28.5 billion between 2005-06 and 2009-10 – more than enough to fund a 1p reduction in the basic rate of income tax. The criminal trade in these goods will continue to flourish in the absence of sensible and restrained tax and regulatory policies.


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If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich?
Financial Planners and the Road Map We live in a do-it-yourself society. Just look around at all the home hardware stores. But anyone who has flubbed a basement reno can tell you that sometimes it pays to get expert advice.
That's certainly true with financial planning. Online investment tools have led more and more people to try to manage their own money. We all like to think that, with a little research, we can outfox the experts. After all, 2008 proved those experts aren't so smart after all, right?
Wrong. Far too often individual investors just don't have the tools to get it right. Here are three reasons.
Emotion The first reason is simple human nature. There just seems to be a part of make-up that causes us to put our brains on hold and react emotionally in some circumstances. Like when we watch a stock we own start to plummet in value, for example.
These powerful emotions hit everybody. A lot of very intelligent people - people who study the markets and should know better – freak out when something unusual happens.
This happens in both directions. When the markets are dropping, people panic. When markets spike up, they get greedy and take extreme risks, certain that nothing bad could happen.
Skill Have you ever played a game of backyard football with your friends? Does this make you qualified to play for the Roughriders? Of course not. Yet this is exactly what most amateur stock market players think. On the basis of some Google research, they think they can outwit professional investors who have tremendous resources and spend all day every day studying the markets.
It's a game of David versus Goliath. Unlike the legend, most of the time Goliath – with better resources and deeper pockets – will crush David like a bug.
Expectations A third danger area in amateur investing is the constant temptation to try to get rich quick.
There are cases of people getting rich quick –lotteries, for example, although the odds are not in your favour. In investing circles, you occasionally hear stories about someone who hit a home run by investing in a penny stock at just the right time. These stories spur hordes of amateur investors to take outrageous risks.
What you don't hear are the many, many other cases of people losing a lot of money the same way. Going broke quick is much easier and more likely than getting rich quick. You don't hear those stories because people don't tell them. Nobody – and I mean nobody - brags about getting poor quick.
This doesn't mean things are hopeless for individual investors. They just need the right advice and some education into the fundamentals of investing.
You're an Owner The first fundamental to understand about equity investing stares you right in the face yet many stock speculators ignore it. What are your stocks called? They're called shares. You're not buying a lottery ticket; you're buying a share of a business. You are, essentially, becoming a co-owner of a company.
So, don't think like a gambler. Think like a business owner. Does this business have a good product? Does it have a market advantage? Does it make money?
Or A Lender Besides equities, you can also put your money into bonds and other interest-bearing investments. Basically, you are lending your money to someone. In this case, you have to think like a banker. You don't just want to know the interest rate; you also want to know that you're going to get your original money back. How reputable is the borrower? What is the borrower's track record? What are the odds of the borrower going bankrupt?
If the Government of Canada asks to borrow your money, the odds are very good that you'll get your money back. Some guy you don't know who needs money for a sure-fire real estate development – you'd want to think twice about that.
Help Is Out There Possibly the only thing worse than do-it-yourself investing is not investing at all. People are often intimidated by the process. Faced with the overwhelming number of decisions and choices, paralysis sets in.
The role of a qualified financial planner is to help our customers shake the stiffness and work through these decisions while guiding them through the incremental steps, providing the road map that will get them to where they want to go.


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