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World Cup 2014 travel report
This "Foreign Eye" blog about Brasil aids foreigners in travel during the World Cup 2014 and those moving here to for longer, to start a new life. Since 2008 our mission is to provide good information based on in-depth discovery through our travels, experiences and stories from the foreigners living and building lives in Brasil. Now a successful television series on Globo.
12 Stadiums
of the
FIFA World Cup 2014
Mark Lassise has a unique perspective into the stadium construction, infrastructure and culture of every 2014 world cup city. The independent production of "Olhar Estrangeiro" is seen on Globo's sportv "Tá na Area" every thursday. Mark and his Brasilian production team have traveled to the 12 host cities, some various times over the past 18 months . This experience has given AIB a unique perspective into the stadium construction, infrastructure and culture of every 2014 World Cup city.
Let's begin with the most historic stadium in all of South America …
This storied stadium has seen crowds in excess of 200,000 screaming fans during the World Cup finals of 1950. It has had a couple re-constructions since then. The most recent being the 2011-2013 reconstruct to meet the standards of FIFA and the right to host the finals of the 2014 World Cup. Though, I have mixed feelings about the reconstruction because it lost some of its magic of the past by reducing the size 20,000 plus capacity, eliminating section "GERAL" and the addition of numbered seats.
São Paulo
Arena de Sao Paulo "Itaquerão" will host the opening game between Brasil v Croatia. The historic stadium has been regulated to be part of the museum tour. The new modern structure is still under construction when we past through Sao Paulo 3 months ago. We were not granted a tour due to the heavy construction under way at that time. This stadium will build a new history starting with the World Cup 2014 hosting 6 games including the round of 16 and the semi-finals. Strategically located at the end of the RED line "Corintians" on the SP metro system. It takes about 110 minutes from the Morumbi neighborhood.
Mark's Big Dica (Tip)! My tip for Sao Paulo is to get out and see the city. It is huge and like new york you can cruise around everywhere by metro. This also makes travel planning easier because of set times.
Arena Fonte Nova is a new facility built on the site of the old stadium. It is complete and has been in operation since the Confederation Cup of 2013. Home to one of the biggest rivalries in clube futebol of Brasil "Vitoria v Bahia". The stadium is comfortable and on top of the action with a open face enterance that looks out over the lake. Is not the easiest stdium to get to due to the high density of traffic in Salvador. The city is still waiting for the metro that was promised and funded 14 years ago and would have a stop at the stadium. This is a cool laid back city with plenty of foreigners.
Mark's Big Dica (Tip)! The tip for Salvador is to relax and be patience. GAMEDAY: Leave plenty of time on game day to arrive at the stadium.
Estadio Castelao is a giant structure built in the center of a run down area that is being revitalized far from where tourists will be staying. Unique thing you'll see here are donkeys in the streets! A specific activity any normal tourist will definitely miss is the opportunity to walk on water with my friend Gael from France. He has a water sport company called "Aquafly". There are very few of these in the world and possibly his is the only in brasil. The last time I was in Fortaleza I found this really cool Pirate Bar that offers a musical show only on Mondays…really fun time!
Mark's Big Dica (Tip)! Find a private driver to get around. Fortaleza is full of water sports, get physical!
Estadio National is a new build on the same site as the old Stadium in operation since the Confederation Cup 2013. A colosseum in likeness this giant stadium is a sustainable development project and the most expensive of all the stadiums costing a whopping 1.4 Billion reais. Though, its function is alot more than to host football games. It solar panel roof adds back up to the city grid when not in use and it also features a rooftop and ground level reservoir that capture rain water for the use in its plumbing system. Brasilia is the only planned city in Brasil and very well spaced out and segregated into sections in the north and south wings. Communication in Brasilia is strong, I always use my english here with little to no trouble.
Mark's Big Dica (Tip)! Relax! All tourist visiting for the World Cup will probably find Estadio National the easiest to get to because it is located next to the hotel section. Impossible to miss and can be seen from all directions. One can arrive at the front gates after a 15 minute walk from any hotel.
Arena Pernambuco is the furtherst away from anything you can get! I have been there twice and both times missed the beginning of the game! Everyone will have problems arriving there if they do not read this or have a friend that lives there. Prepare Gringos! This is a 2:30 hour trek to your seats and PAY CLOSE ATTENTION to the metro stops! Rodoviaria stop is the stop to get off to catch the buses that go to the stadium 2 stops before the map points out. If you follow the map to the stadium stop at the end of the line you will find no buses for the stadium. The historic district of Recife is very cool on weekends; concerts in the park, bars and art gallery. Check out PeRetro in the mall by the Praça Mark"0″. They have the coolest vintage shirts representing seemily every clube and national team worldwide!
Porto Alegre
Arena Patanal is the stadium that was questioned the most by the opposition of the 12 stadium plan. I landed there in May to what is a major construction zone; the airport to city roads to bridges and underpasses. It took us 2 hours to navigate the way to the stadium with a dozen detours. We missed the first goal scored at the new stadium. Though it has charm and a cool design, looking to me like a pontoon boat, there was a entire upper deck that needed seats; the lights were not operating in unison leaving the field semi-dark for 10 minutes at dusk; and the city itself is simply inside out with construction everywhere. But the game was fun! Cuiabá in my estimation has the worst roads to navigate because the construction is so intense. 11 of the 13 infrastructure projects are behind. Detours are everywhere, hard to imagine when the FIFA traffic pattern rules are implemented. The city itself is lacking and confusing. Good Luck!
Mark's Big Dica! If you are going to Cuiabá get out of the city and GOTO the PANTANAL(110kms from city) or CHAPADA DOS GUIMARAES(80kms away and visable from the city)! Go and enjoy the natural paradises that this regoin is known by, recommended by all including the city info center.


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The Oil/Gas Distribution Industry comprises companies that move two of the most important energy commodities, and their derivatives, from the wellhead to the ultimate consumer. These enterprises perform tasks such as the gathering and processing of gas, intrastate and interstate transport, and final delivery to the customer. A majority has no operations outside the United States. Too, most are organized as master limited partnerships, a feature that has important tax consequences.
As income vehicles, the partnerships generally pay out most of their free cash flow in cash distributions and, thus, have well above-average yields. Some corporations in the group also pay dividends. Given that the industry needs to raise capital to grow, appreciation potential is usually below average. But investors seeking income or growth and income can often find good prospects. At times, the group's performance may become exaggerated. For example, energy transport limited partnership units outperformed the broader market over a period lasting nearly ten years in the early part of this century, reflecting rising cash distribution. Nonetheless, the units can fall victim to a rapid turn in investor sentiment, and sell off sharply.
The U.S. economy has grown steadily more energy efficient since the first oil shock in 1973, and that will certainly continue, due to growing conservation measures and rising oil prices. Nonetheless, demand for oil and gas in the United States and Canada will very likely expand almost yearly, though at a somewhat slower pace than the economy. Despite a great deal of publicity, most observers do not think that alternative energy sources can replace much fossil fuel, at least over the near term. Nuclear power is again being viewed as a "clean" energy source, but lingering memories of the Three Mile Island crisis of 1979 will probably keep new plants to a minimum.
More important for this industry, the sources of oil and gas are sure to change over time. New gas deposits will be developed and come online (e.g., the Marcellus Shale in the Northeast and the Barnett and Haynesville Shales in Texas and adjoining states), and will need new pipes. And if oil prices trend above historical averages, mining of the Canadian oil sands in Alberta may well experience improved economics. Pipeline companies with assets near new resources should profit from their development.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sets maximum prices on interstate pipelines, but the law generally permits distributors to raise tariffs at the rate of producer price inflation plus 1.3%. While that formula could yield a tariff decrease in rare deflationary times, it more commonly helps. Intrastate activities are overseen by states, and some of the industry's operations, such as gas processing, are unregulated. The FERC also regulates construction of new pipelines, requiring a certificate of convenience and necessity before a permit is issued. That reduces competition, though, as noted, the FERC caps tariffs on interstate pipes.
A high proportion of this industry's revenues is not related to the volume of business, offering the investor above-average safety. A majority of pipeline revenues, both interstate and intrastate, stems from transport capacity, with relatively little depending on the volumes of products shipped. Moreover, these companies often sell around 80% of the capacity of new pipelines before they break ground, reducing the risk associated with any new venture. But the industry is somewhat exposed to commodity prices in its midstream gas processing activities, where it is difficult to hedge. Companies also earn money from "efficiency gas", that is, gas retained as part of shipping fees. Profits from efficiency gas depend on the price of the commodity.
Master limited partnerships pay no income taxes, and their cash distributions are not taxable to limited partners (i.e., unit holders) either. Instead, each limited partner pays taxes on his or her proportional share of the partnership's taxable income, which is always lower than GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) income, thanks to accelerated depreciation of operating assets. Moreover, limited partners are deemed to receive "passive" income or losses, so losses on a partnership holding cannot be used to offset other income. Additionally, because no taxes are paid at the partnership level, cash distributions do not benefit from the currently low 15% federal tax rate on "qualifying dividends," but, rather, are taxed as ordinary income. That said, a large percentage of the distribution is usually considered a return of capital. Although this portion is not taxable, it results in an adjustment to a holder's cost basis. All told, we suggest that investors in limited partnership units consult a tax advisor.

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Residents of Florence can expect to see Steve Lerner once again wandering the streets with his camera. Lerner is creating another documentary of the area, but this time focusing on water sources in the area.
"Talkin' About Water" will center around Florence, Marion County, and Chase County and their water sources. It will be his second documentary to feature the area. The first was created in 2012, titled "Florence, Kansas."
"We spent last week (April 18) doing preliminary filming, interviewing people in Florence, and on ranches in the area about their concerns over the ongoing drought, and other aspects of the way water impacts their lives," Lerner said.
He will be co-directing the film with Reuben Aaronson, an award winning documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles. Jim Jewell, who filmed the previous film in 2011, will also assist on the project Lerner anticipates to be completed by the end of the year. Greg Allen will compose the music.
"It has been a pleasure to reconnect with people in the Florence area again," Lerner said.
He chose Florence for the film for several reasons.
"When you look at Florence on a satellite map of the U.S., it sits right on the line that divides grassland to the east from irrigated farmland to the west," Lerner said. "East of Florence is green, and west of it is more and more brown as you head out into the high plains."
Another key issue is the lease of the property where the Florence spring is. Lerner said the lease, which was for 99 years, will expire in five years. The film will address the residents' concerns about the lease.
"In addition, the ongoing drought has hit some ranchers very hard, others less so, but in general water is something everyone thinks about, not just in the Flint Hills and other areas of Kansas, but regionally, nationally, and internationally," he said.
Lerner is completing a grant this week. If awarded, Lerner hopes to have the film completed in December to premier in Florence shortly after.
"Most of the time in films like this you see a lot of experts talking about the issues, we are trying to tell the story with people in the area in their own words," Lerner said. "We want to tell the people who live there's own experience and how water is a part of their lives and how they think and use it."


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The week in review
Closest election since 2000: George W. Bush is reelected president November 2, defeating Senator John Kerry.
Widest City tally: Charlottesville voters back Kerry with nearly 72 percent of the vote. In Albemarle, Kerry edges Bush with 50.5 percent of the vote.
Best flashback to 1989: L. Douglas Wilder, whose 15-years-ago election to the governorship made him America's first elected black governor, overwhelmingly wins Richmond's first popularly elected mayorship since the 1940s.
Most frequently requested headline: "Goode Smokes Weed" for incumbent Congressman Virgil Goode's victory over challenger Al Weed.
Biggest murder trial: Former UVA student Andrew Alston stands trial for the year-ago stabbing death of 22-year-old Walker Sisk on the Corner.
Boldest defense theory: That Sisk essentially stabbed himself.
Least surprising murder suspect: Piper A. Rountree, ex-wife of University of Richmond professor Frederick Jablin, who was shot in his driveway October 30, is arrested November 8.
Biggest abortion battle: Forget Roe v. Wade. It's the Tuesday November 9 showdown at the Albemarle Board of Zoning Appeals over the new Planned Parenthood center on Hydraulic Road.
Most bad girls: The number of women in prison in the United States hits an all-time high of 101,179 in 2003. Men still lead the battle of the incarcerated sexes at 1.37 million.
Quietest TV debut: A week after an election-night special gives local viewers a glimpse of anchor Bo Kane, Gray Television's new CBS television station, WCAV-19, debuts its 6pm and 11pm news broadcasts. (Gray's ABC station has yet to announce a start to its news offerings.)
Other TV rumbling: A report on Waldo Jaquith's cvillenews.com claims that Pax 55, Charlottesville's "family station," may shift over to the Fox banner as part of the Gray Television juggernaut.
Worst week for football players, part 1: Former UVA star quarterback and Heisman candidate Matt Schaub, who now plays for the Atlanta Falcons, is charged with misdemeanor assault and battery early November 6 following an incident at the Wing Factory on Elliewood Avenue. Schaub later issues a statement categorically denying touching or even threatening to touch anyone.
Worst week for football players, part 2: Former Baltimore Ravens tight end Pedro Edison, no stranger to felony charges, is arrested November 7 in Staunton for felony breaking and entering, according to the News-Virginian.
Most meth labs: Southwest Virginia leads the state with 57 of 78 busts so far this year.
Worst growth segment of the state economy: Last year, 34 meth labs were raided in Virginia.
Earliest Santa: Fashion Square Mall, ignoring the traditional wait-'til-Thanksgiving rule, invites kids to meet the jolly old elf on November 13.
Latest Arafat controversy: After reports that the Palestinian leader was dead, a French doctor announces that he's sleeping– not even in a coma.
Worst turkey tragedy: A truck loaded with live birds overturns on U.S. 250 near Afton Mountain November 8, WINA reports.
Most erroneous betting results: Greene County poll workers report the county approves off-track wagering on horse races in last week's election– only to discover the opposite is true.
Best proof that there are second acts in American politics: The former crack-smoking mayor of D.C., Marion Barry, is elected November 2 to the Washington City Council.


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Over the years, we've added GovDelivery and the Audit Asks forum for future audits, as well as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to stay connected with our stakeholders. We also invite you to comment on recently posted audit reports and white papers. There is no shortage of ways you can comment on our work.
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Stephanie Gaitley Show (11/13)
After losing to both the University of Albany and Cornell University last year, the Fordham Rams women's basketball team flipped the script to begin the 2012 season by beating both squads on the road this past weekend. The new and improved Rams are 2-0 for the first time since the 2002-2003 season. In fact, Fordham is 2-0 on the road for the first time since the 2004-2005 campaign.
This week on the Stephanie Gaitley Show, Chris Marasco and I talked with Coach Gaitley about the road trip in upstate New York and what it feels like to be undefeated. The second year head coach told us how proud she was of the efforts of her team defensively at Albany and in crunch time at Cornell. Gaitley also stressed the importance of not letting up, as we previewed the team's matchup against Deleware State Sunday.
We were also joined by tri-captain Abigail Corning. It was certainly a productive weekend for the Connecticut native as Corning scored 10 points in the victory against Albany. Corning told us about what makes this team so special, why they were so successful over the weekend and what to expect for the rest of the season.
WFUV is the radio home of Fordham Women's Basketball all season long, including the weekly coaches show on Tuesday nights. Our next broadcast is this Sunday November 18th when the Rams play their first home game of the season against the Hornets of Deleware State. Live broadcasts of this game can be found right here on WFUVSports.org
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Steven Rinella is the author of The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game, Meat Eater, American Buffalo, and The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine. His articles have appeared in many publications, including Field and Stream, Men's Journal, Outside, Men's Health, The New York Times, and the anthologies Best American Travel Writing and Best Food Writing. Rinella is the host of the popular TV series MeatEater, which airs on the Sportsman Channel. Born and raised in Twin Lake, Michigan, he now lives in Washington.


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April 29, 2013 A young woman, missing for three months, was pregnant at the time of her disappearance, her family said Monday.
The family said Monday that Kelsie Schelling, 21, was 8 weeks pregnant when she vanished. Kelsie was last seen Feb. 4 in Pueblo, where her boyfriend Donthe Lucas lives. The family confirms Lucas is the father of her child, and that he had asked Kelsie to meet him the day she disappeared.
According to her mother, Laura Saxton, cell phone records indicate that on Feb. 4, Kelsie had sent photos of her ultrasound to Lucas, his mother and several of her family members. Saxton also says Kelsie met up with Lucas at some point the day she went missing, but that no one has seen or heard from her since.
Saxton says Lucas accessed Kelsie's bank account once since she vanished.
Kelsie is described as a white female with a tan. She has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. She is 5-foot-4 and weighs 120 pounds.
Kelsie also has tattoos that might help identify her. She has a Chinese symbol on the back of her neck, cursive writing on the inside of her left arm, and a fleur-de-lis on her right rib cage.
Her car is also missing. It's a black 2011 Chevy Cruze LTZ with Colorado License Plate #023-WRL.
The young woman's family started a Facebook page in hopes of finding Kelsie:
If you know anything about this missing woman, you are asked to call police right away.


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Turlock charter school born of tough cases, shared goals
The city's first independent charter school will focus on struggling teens who need extra services and tailored instruction. In a rare collaboration, an outside agency designed the charter with input from the area's traditional school district.
"We don't normally support charter schools. We think our schools can do a great job for 99 percent of our kids. But there are some kids with severe emotional problems that we and county schools just don't have a spot for," said Turlock Unified Superintendent Sonny Da Marto.
The district approached nonprofit Aspiranet, which has run programs for youths with behavioral and emotional problems in Turlock since 1989. They are Stanislaus Academy and Valley Oaks private schools and the Excell Center Campus residential treatment program. Children with special needs that public schools cannot meet may be placed in private schools at district expense.
Not all high-needs children qualify for such placements, and those kids can fall between the cracks. A public charter school, however, is open to all and gets its funding from the state, Da Marto said.
"In the long run, it will be a great thing for our kids and a little less expensive for us," he said.
The charter school, Aspiranet's first, will incorporate services, expertise and a transition-to-work grant from existing Aspiranet programs, said Fusion Charter Principal Siobhan Hanna.
"This will be another educational opportunity," Hanna said. "We have to meet the needs. These are kids who have a difficult time in school. We're going to have a lot of creative programming. That's our goal, a lot of options."
The Turlock Unified School District Board approved Fusion Charter's application June 30 without dissent. The district approved the application for three years rather than the requested five. The vote was four for the school, with Frank Lima and Harinder Grewal absent and Eileen Hamilton abstaining.
Hamilton said later that she sits on the board of Creative Alternatives, which runs private schools for at-risk youths and could be seen as a competitor of applicant Aspiranet. Hamilton said she recused herself but fully supports having more opportunities for teens with troubles.
"That's been my life, working with at-risk kids, and I have actually seen them grow and turn into wonderful adults," said Hamilton, who retired after years of teaching young parents in alternative education programs.
Turlock Unified will provide some oversight, but Aspiranet will run Fusion Charter operations and manage its finances, getting funding directly from the state. It will answer to the Aspiranet board, with a five-person local advisory board to include parent and community members.
The school will open Sept. 8 with about 110 kids in grades seven through high school, with room to grow to 250, according to its application.
Though as a public charter it is open to all, the application says, "Our primary focus will be students with negative attitudes about the traditional educational system." Those would include expelled students, wards of the court, pregnant or parenting teens, and habitually truant or insubordinate kids.
The school will initially be housed in five classrooms at Free Will Baptist Church on Geer Road. Pastor Don Ellerd said the church board approved the move June 29. The classroom wing, behind the main church building, has restrooms but no cafeteria, he said.
Aspiranet started its nonpublic Valley Oaks school in the same building, Ellerd said.
Courses will be online with a teacher-coach providing added instruction as needed. Students will come for a three-hour block, in the morning or afternoon, four days a week, Hanna said.
Fridays will be what she called inquiry-based learning day, which could be experiments, research for a paper, or other projects students and teachers pick. The goal is to work in small groups and foster collaborative skills as well as academics, the principal said.
Counseling, family help, social services and career studies also will address the extra needs of the target teens. "We're throwing it all in there," she said. The smaller setting with its more intense focus was designed for kids who have chaotic lives or emotional issues.
"We all recognize kids are a lot more difficult now. We are missing a lot of kids we need to focus on," she said.
Students who do well in the program and want to can head back to regular schools offering competitive team sports, orchestras and lots of electives, Hanna said.
"Their goal is to take the kids, give them an intensive small group program, and then they can return," Da Marto said.
"I'm trying to find any pathway I can to help kids make it. A lot of these kids don't feel they have any chance, and we're trying to give them back that hope," he said.


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The United States spent $61,000-plus last year supporting welfare programs for each household in poverty, according to U.S. Census, Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Research Services data.
If the money had been handed directly to those families, they would have arrived in the middle class, their poverty eradicated, at least until they spent the money. Instead, hundreds of billions of dollars were passed through costly, inefficient and, apparently, ineffective government channels.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates nearly 110 million Americans in 2011 received some form of means-tested welfare, such as food stamps, public housing, low-income support, child care, energy assistance, direct cash payments and other assistance. This is apart from Medicare and Social Security, to which recipients contribute.
"According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795," the Senate Budget Committee recently noted. "If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011."
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That amount is more than twice the annual income a typical poverty household lives on, the federal poverty threshold being $22,350 for a family of four.
The $61,194 isn't spent solely on households below the poverty line. Some recipients above the poverty level also benefit from social welfare programs and aid, such as Pell grants for college and other wealth transfers.
What can we conclude? Welfare spending as we know it isn't getting people off welfare. It is inflating the number receiving welfare in one form or another, many of them not traditionally what have been deemed to be "poor."
The Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee point out the United States now spends more on means-tested welfare than any other budget item, including Social Security, Medicare and national defense. Federal spending on more than 80 welfare programs increased 32 percent in three years. When state spending for the federal poverty programs is included, the total spent in 2011 was about $1 trillion.
Vast welfare expansion adds to the looming fiscal catastrophe posed by general entitlement spending. According to Merrill Matthews, of the Institute for Policy Innovation, and Mark E. Litow, chairman of the Social Insurance Public Finance Section of the Society of Actuaries, "the coming entitlements cliff" is substantially greater than the end-of-the-year fiscal cliff, a combination of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and automatic spending cuts.
The U.S. Census Bureau says 108 million Americans live in households where at least one person participates in a means-tested program. The number has grown rapidly under the Obama administration. Food stamp recipients now number 47 million, up from 32 million four years ago. The USDA aggressively has campaigned to boost enrollment further. Also, Medicaid has grown from 60 million enrollees to 70 million, more than one American in five. Disability beneficiaries are up from 7.5 million to 8.8 million during the Obama administration.
Moreover, each day, about 10,000 people retire. As 77 million baby boomers retire and take more from the system than they contribute, the funding stream will further diminish, even as demands increase.
Mr. Matthews and Mr. Litow suggest three obvious solutions: Trim entitlement spending to realistic levels for those who need it most, eliminating incentives to remain on welfare. Enact policies to encourage economic growth. And switch to prefunded retirement programs with personal accounts and defined contributions, rather than defined-benefit plans, to eliminate long-term unfunded liabilities for companies and government agencies.
"And yet federal, state and local governments have been very reluctant to take that step for government employees," Mr. Matthews and Mr. Litow observe. "And, so far, the majority in Congress has adamantly opposed making that transition for Social Security and Medicare."
The solutions may be obvious, but to date not politically palatable.


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In September 2002, NASD issued Notice to Members (NtM) 02-57 addressing when a member firm can use "negative response letters" for the bulk transfer of customer accounts, consistent with NASD rules. Since the publication of NtM 02-57, the staff has received a number of inquiries from the membership for guidance on the use of negative response letters to change the "broker-dealer of record" (hereinafter, BD of record) on a mutual fund or variable insurance product account held directly with the issuer. As indicated in NtM 02-57, changes in BD of record under these circumstances fall outside the scope of NtM 02-57. Accordingly, a member must obtain affirmative consent from a customer to direct a change in the BD of record in either a mutual fund or variable annuity account.
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Oil below $87 as U.S. fiscal concerns drag on
The price of oil hovered below $87 a barrel Monday as uncertainty over a deal on the U.S. budget overshadowed expectations of economic stimulus in Japan and China.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for January delivery was down 7 cents to $86.66 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract ended up 84 cents Friday at $86.73.
In London, Brent crude was down 36 cents at $107.82 on the ICE Futures exchange.
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Oil prices were kept in check by the lack of agreement in Washington on the U.S. budget, as concerns grew that tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect next year if no deal is reached will hinder economic growth and demand for crude.
Analysts, however, said that if the "fiscal cliff" can be avoided, commodities like oil could make gains.
"If U.S. fiscal cliff issues can be resolved soon, a strong and broad-based rally across commodities is possible, as investors are under-exposed," said a report from Barclays in London.
Meanwhile, hopes grew that Japan's new government would offer stimulus to boost growth. Weekend elections delivered a resounding victory to the Liberal Democratic Party, returning it to power after a three-year hiatus. Leader Shinzo Abe has called for aggressive steps to break Japan out of its 20-year economic decline.
In China, new Communist Party leaders are promising reforms aimed at reducing reliance on exports and more spending, if needed, to prop up a shaky economic recovery. In the first statement of their economic goals since taking power in November, the new party leaders pledged continuity Sunday with long-term plans aimed at nurturing self-sustaining growth and raising income.
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- Heating oil retreated 0.42 cent to $2.9727 a gallon.
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(CNN) -- When Joe Schroeder became a father in February, he did something a lot of working men in the United States only dream of: He took off from work for three months to stay home with his wife and newborn daughter, Alma Lucette.
It was a "blissful" period, he said. He cooked breakfast and dinner nearly every day, something he never does when he's working. He perfected his diaper-changing technique. He took long walks with his wife and daughter around their home of Greensboro, North Carolina, occasionally stopping for lunch.
Best of all, he got to spend hours holding his daughter and getting to know her without pressure to be anywhere else in the world.
"I wouldn't say it was like a vacation; it was all we could do to keep up with having a brand new baby. But I can't imagine doing it any other way," he said.
His experience is far from the norm in the United States, which, unlike most countries in the world, does not provide paid leave for mothers or fathers around the birth or adoption of a child. The nonprofit Schroeder works for falls into a minority of just 11.4% of workplaces in the United States that provides paid leave for its employees, according to Department of Labor statistics.
Instead, many people use a combination of vacation or sick days or unpaid leave, like Schroeder's wife, Lora Smith did. Still, without Schroeder's paid leave, the couple said they would have been unable to afford to both take the maximum 12 weeks allowed under the Family Medical Leave Act.
"It made me a lot more aware of how fundamental parental leave is to family stability," Schroeder said. "It made me lament the fact that it's not a right that everybody shares."
Amid all the talk of women "leaning in" and "having it all," men tend to get left out of the conversation. Even though the benefits of giving fathers equal time to bond with their children are pretty well established, parental leave worldwide for fathers tends to be shorter than it is for mothers.
Yet, time and again, studies have shown that the United States is a "total outlier" in the area of work-family policy, said Janet Walsh with Human Rights Watch, which examined U.S. work-family policy in a 2011 report, Failing its Families.
While it's great that the FMLA protects workers' jobs while they tend to family needs, evidence shows there's even more benefit to providing paid leave to help ease the financial burden on families of taking time off.
Modern fathers face new expectations
"It should be a basic workplace right and a basic human right," said Walsh, deputy director of the women's rights division. "It's good for workers, families and the economy."
Beside, unpaid leave is not a financial option for most Americans, said Vicki Shabo, director of work and family programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families.
"The most common reason people don't take leave when they need it is because they can't afford it," she said. "When people are living from paycheck to paycheck and unemployment is high, there's a real economic pressure to forgo the leave that's needed."
A 2012 National Partnership study found that 14 states and the District of Columbia have laws that go beyond FMLA. California and New Jersey in particular provide paid family leave insurance to eligible employees through payroll contributions.
A study released in January found that fathers who took two or more weeks of leave upon their child's birth are more likely to be involved in the direct care of their children beyond leave. The study noted that fathers' use of paternity and parental leave was largest when leave was well-paid and designated specifically for fathers, Walsh pointed out.
While immense progress has been made worldwide to provide women with access to leave around the birth or adoption of a child, there's still much work to be done for fathers, said Jody Heymann, dean of UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health and lead author of Children's Chances, the most comprehensive study to date on global laws and policies that affect children and families.
Of 193 countries surveyed, the study found that 180 provide some form of paid leave for mothers and 81 guarantee similar rights to fathers, according to Children's Chances. The United States is not one of them.
"From the standpoint of children, we know that dads' involvement is just as important as moms' involvement," Heymann said. "We also know that when fathers take leave during infancy they are more likely to be involved in their children's lives down the road."
Ensuring equal parental leave for fathers is also important to ensuring equal opportunities for women in the workplace, she said.
"Addressing equal participation in the workforce by new parents is critical to equity for both genders."
The Family Medical Leave Act, which applies equally to men and women, doesn't guarantee paid time off. It allows eligible employees of covered employees to hold onto their jobs for 12 weeks should they decide to take time off for the birth or adoption of a child. It also provides for the continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave.
Employers, however, are not legally required to pay for the time off.
What made Schroeder's situation exceptional was that his employer gave him three whole months of paid leave. That's 12 weeks in which he received a salary and benefits without having to use vacation time or sick days, unlike his wife, who used a combination of all three so she could stay home with him and Alma.
Lora Smith said she also benefited from her husband's presence. She did the breastfeeding; he did the diaper-changing. They took turns waking up in the middle of the night and shared all the mundane tasks that don't simply disappear because a baby has arrived.
"We'd joke that I did input and he did output," she said. "It's hard for me to imagine what it would've been like if he hadn't been home for the full 12 weeks."
Smith believes she might have succumbed to post-partum depression without her husband's presence at home. With him around, she could take naps during the day and sleep for longer stretches at night, catching up on much-needed sleep to recover from childbirth. Not having to wake up and go to work in the morning made it easier on both of them.
"It was a wonderful time for our new family to bond and spend time together, build connections and connect over the new life we had," she said.
"Paid leave for parents to stay home with a newborn has been made into a privilege when it should be a basic right," she said. "We need comprehensive policy reform to address how we as a nation care for our families. Everyone has the right to experience the bliss of staying home and being fully present for those first months. It's an issue of fairness."
In contrast, parents in Iceland each get three months of paid parental leave plus an additional three months that either can use. Icelandic parents can take their leave any time before the child turns 2.
Tumi Ferrer, a head waiter at Reykjavík's Dill restaurant, took his paternity leave from May to July 2012, when his son, Kolbeinn was almost 1 year old.
Like Schroeder, he took pleasure in the mundane tasks of staying home, doing dishes, cooking and bonding with his son.
"Those were the best things about parental leave, taking care of nothing else but him and the home; at peace," said Ferrer, 25.
"I couldn't imagine how difficult it would be not to have that experience because in my opinion, (even) three to six months for each parent is way too little."
CNN's Emily Smith contributed to this report.


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The Recording Academy® Announces Key Executive Promotions
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Recording Academy® today announced key promotions for some of its longtime executives. Most recently, Bill Freimuth has been named Senior Vice President, Awards, and Gaetano Frizzi becomes Chief Human Resources Officer. Previous promotions include Branden Chapman, who was named Executive In Charge of Production & Chief Business Development Officer; Rick Engdahl, who was named Chief Information Officer; and Daryl Friedman, who was named Chief Advocacy & Industry Relations Officer. All have many years of experience and tenure at The Recording Academy within their respective departments and these titles more accurately reflect what have become their current roles within The Academy and within their respective business communities. All five will continue to report directly to Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy.
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"Thanks to The Academy's Board of Trustees' vote of confidence through their extension of my contract, it's a great pleasure to thank and recognize some of my extraordinary team who have helped to create the success that we've achieved over the years" said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "Much of this growth can be attributed to the efforts of these five exceptional executives."
"Bill Freimuth's insight, thorough knowledge, and innovative approach to managing our Awards process have helped us to successfully stay relevant and current in a rapidly changing and complex music environment. And as our company and operations have grown in size and complexity, Gaetano Frizzi has effectively led our HR efforts with efficiency, developing a diverse and inclusive workplace with great care and compassion for our extraordinary staff alongside our elected leaders across the country.
"Branden Chapman has excelled in taking our events and related processes to higher levels, coupled with his work on developing the international reach and profile of The Academy. Rick Engdahl has developed and fine-tuned our technical proficiency, capabilities, and infrastructure, helping to make us a leader in our field. Daryl Friedman has helped to shape policy, initiatives, and relationships both in Washington, D.C., and industry–wide, making The Academy a thought leader and one of the most highly respected organizations with respect to issues of critical importance to the creative music community.
"All do exemplary work in their respective fields, and each has been integral in raising the bar and moving the GRAMMY brand forward in their respective areas. Their numerous contributions and solid industry and board relationships are an invaluable asset to our organization, and I look forward to continuing collaborating with these trusted individuals."
Previously, Freimuth was Vice President, Awards; Frizzi was Vice President, Human Resources & Development; Chapman was Vice President, Production & Process Management; Engdahl was Vice President, Information Technology; and Friedman was Vice President, Advocacy & Government Relations.
With 17 years of experience in live entertainment management, Bill Freimuth joined The Academy in 2004 and for the last nine years has led voting members and the music industry through the constantly evolving nominations and awards process. He has helped revise and simplify many of The Academy's Awards department processes, and he has been instrumental in communicating the voting procedure to the membership, the media, and the public. Additionally, Freimuth has successfully helped raise the profile of the GRAMMY Awards®' annual Pre-Telecast Ceremony, with increased production value and attendance. As a theater industry creative executive, Freimuth led producing companies in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Mo., and California. He also headed a consortium of more than 150 Los Angeles-area theaters and producers, through which he launched and directed the Ovation Awards program.
Gaetano Frizzi oversees all nationwide HR-related activities, employee relations, benefits, programs, and services for The Recording Academy, The Latin Recording Academy®, the GRAMMY Foundation®, and MusiCares®. He also is a key strategic partner to The Academy's senior management team, Chapter executives, and elected leaders. Since joining The Academy in 2002, he has implemented new employee benefit programs and services, while at the same time controlling all related costs, and he has ensured that The Academy continues to be a desirable and competitive employer. His more than 20 years of diverse entertainment industry HR experience includes strategic planning, employee relations, recruitment and retention, training and development, compliance, and standards, and more. He has held senior HR positions with Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and MTV Networks/Nickelodeon Animation Studios. As a direct result of Frizzi's efforts, Sony Pictures Entertainment received an Employer of the Year Award for the placement of physically challenged employees.
Branden Chapman joined The Academy in 2001 and currently oversees the development and execution of approximately 20 live music events annually and serves as the executive in charge of production for the GRAMMY Awards and other GRAMMY-related specials. In addition, he oversees many of The Academy's business development projects, including international licensees of the annual GRAMMY telecast and the recently announced Norwegian Cruise Line partnership. He also was instrumental in the planning and development of the GRAMMY Museum® and currently serves on its Board of Directors.
For more than 20 years, Rick Engdahl has been involved in various facets of the entertainment industry, including six years as director of information services for the Walt Disney Company's film and television divisions. In this role, he was responsible for the implementation and operation of all production and financial computer systems for the live-action feature film divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Miramax. Engdahl joined The Recording Academy in 2008 and has since helped streamline the digital workflows, processes and Web properties for The Academy, The Latin Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares. He also helped establish the listening function for voting members and he oversees the ongoing modernization of all internal computer systems.
Daryl Friedman serves as the advocacy representative in Washington, D.C., for The Recording Academy's 20,000-plus members, as well as the liaison to relevant music industry organizations. Joining The Academy in 1997, he helped establish its D.C. Chapter and has since initiated and oversees The Academy's GRAMMYs on the Hill® Initiative—which includes a number of programs to advance the rights of the music community through advocacy, education and dialogue. He previously directed external affairs for the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, and currently serves on the boards of the Copyright Alliance and the National Music Council; he also is a member of the Music Education Policy Roundtable.
Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards® —the preeminent peer-recognized award for musical excellence and the most credible brand in music—The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs. The Academy continues to focus on its mission of recognizing musical excellence, advocating for the well-being of music makers and ensuring music remains an indelible part of our culture. For more information about The Academy, please visit GRAMMY.com. For breaking news and exclusive content, follow @TheGRAMMYs on Twitter, like "The GRAMMYs" on Facebook, and join The GRAMMYs' social communities on Foursquare, GetGlue, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and YouTube.
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(Reuters) - United Continental Holdings
The carrier said $309 million of the charges relate to an agreement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp that modifies its duty to issue up to $500 million of senior notes.
There were also costs of about $99 million tied to integrating systems and training, repainting planes and severance associated with job cuts.
The company also cited $21 million in costs from its joint collective bargaining agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association union that was ratified in December, as well as a charge of $24 million tied to the estimated fair value of foreign takeoff and landing slots.
The carrier said it expected an income tax benefit of $9 million and a gain on sales of assets of $14 million.
United, which has been looking to win back customers who turned to rivals after technology changes hurt service last year, said it will report quarterly earnings on January 24.
Analysts on average expect a loss of 54 cents, compared with a year-earlier profit of 30 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting by Karen Jacobs; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
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Co-employment Is Not A Dirty Word
You are a co-employer. There. I said it. Co-employment is unavoidable in most contingent labor situations. In fact, that's not a bad thing. Nevertheless, the very term causes many a staffing executive and procurement professional to pale. Believe it or not, however, there are benefits to being a co-employer. Here's something I have learned from Eric. H. Rumbaugh, attorney with Michael, Best & Friedrich LLC and contributor to our CWS 30 newsletter.
In a co-employment situation, one of the employers of record — typically the staffing firm — will have workers' compensation coverage in place. If that contingent worker were to become injured on the job, he or she cannot sue for damages. The worker's claims will be limited to the caps established in its state workers' compensation law.
Imagine if there was no coverage, though. There are no statutory caps on damages when you are hit with a common law bad faith law suit. When workers' comp is involved, though, there are limits, and the nature of the co-employment relationship precludes the contingent from seeking further damages from the buyer. There are exceptions, such as in the case of gross negligence, but most companies are protected by their co-employer status.
What is also true in the contingent arena is that under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the federal law covering wages and overtime), in almost all cases, contingent labor suppliers and their clients are both jointly liable for violations. And adopting term limits is not a solution. If you are adopting term limits to avoid co-employment, you are chasing the wrong law.
How long a contingent worker has been engaged is not important in deciding whether co-employment exists in a particular case. The most important step you can take to avoid unintended co-employment liability is to understand what laws and policies apply. So make sure you have the benefit of good counsel.


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Samuel Miller received a diploma with honors in weather forecasting from Chanute Air Force Base (Rantoul, Ill.), a B.S. in physics summa cum laude, an M.S. in Earth Science-Oceanography, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of New Hampshire. He has also earned an MBA from Plymouth State University. His research interests include mesoscale meteorology (especially coastal circulation, air-sea interaction, and air pollution dispersion) and practical forecasting problems (such as precipitation type and local winds).
Prior to joining the faculty at Plymouth State University in 2005, he worked as a meteorologist for the U.S. National Weather Service (NOAA), Alaskan Region, Anchorage Forecast Office. At UNH, he served as an instructor/lecturer, a research scientist for the Climate Change Research Center, and a research scientist/programmer for the Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory. He worked as weather observer for the Pease Air National Guard Base Weather Station (Portsmouth, N.H.) and as a weather forecaster for the U.S. Air Force at Incirlik Air Base (Adana, Turkey); Plattsburgh AFB (N.Y.); Travis AFB (Calif.); and Loring AFB (Maine). Miller has and continues to serve as a meteorology and physics consultant and software developer for the C-10 Research and Education Foundation (Newburyport, Mass.).


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It's possible even the most ardent follower of pro football had no clue there was something called the "Tuck Rule" when Oakland Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson bolted through the snow and crashed into a former Michigan teammate, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, during a dramatic AFC divisional playoff game Jan. 19, 2002.
Al Davis went to his grave knowing it was a fumble. Millions watching on TV knew it was a fumble. Shoot, Brady himself thought it was a fumble. Yet referee Walt Coleman came back from an instant replay review and pretty much introduced "The Tuck Rule" to America.
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Brady had pulled the ball back toward his body after a pump fake when it was knocked away. The Raiders fell on the ball and appeared to have iced a 13-10 win in the snow in Foxborough, Mass. But Brady and the Pats were protected by one of the most mysterious and controversial rules in NFL history, so there was no fumble. It was, by rule, an incomplete pass. Amid uproar and confusion, the Patriots went on to win their first of three Super Bowl crowns.
Fast-forward to Thursday. The competition committee dropped a whale of surprise in announcing it has proposed that league owners eliminate the Tuck Rule.
They finally got it right.
Imagine how this news is going over at Raiders headquarters.
Amy Trask, the franchise's chief executive, raised in the business by Davis, text-messaged: "Can't share my reaction with you — it involved just an itty bitty bit of language highly inappropriate for your paper."
The Raiders lost that game in overtime 16-13, after Adam Vinatieri booted game-tying and game-winning field goals through a snowstorm at Foxboro Stadium. It was last NFL game for three accomplished veterans — Eric Allen, Steve Wisniewski and William Thomas. It was Jon Gruden's last game as Raiders coach.
"I'll never forget walking into that locker room after the game — in disbelief," Gruden said in a call with USA TODAY Sports on Thursday.
Gruden got worked up recalling that loss and the impact of the Tuck Rule, which owners can eliminate with 24 votes next week during league meetings in Phoenix.
"I wish you didn't call me, man," Gruden said. "It's not pleasant. I don't have anything good to say about the Tuck Rule, or the interpretation of that rule that night. I thought instant replay was to overturn an obvious mistake. To have a playoff game decided in the 60th minute by a rule that no one had ever heard of was quite ridiculous."
Gruden says the loss changed his life. It certainly altered NFL history.
That Davis didn't live long enough to cast a ballot on the rule doesn't seem right. The iconic owner, whose legendary battles with the league included taking fellow owners to court over his decision to relocate his franchise to Los Angeles, would have been a hoot.
In addition to calling for tweaks in the name of safety (banning peel-back blocks and running backs ramming head-first with their helmets as a weapon), the competition committee also will propose fixing a silly part of the challenge system that nullifies an instant replay review if a coach wrongly throws his red flag.
Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz may have cost his team a game on Thanksgiving when he threw his flag to protest an 81-yard touchdown run by Houston Texans running back Justin Forsett. Replays showed the play should have been whistled dead after a few yards because Forsett's knee clearly had touched the turf.
The penalty for coaching brain-lock was instituted last year as part of the replay tweak that required all scoring plays and turnovers to be reviewed. The idea was that unnecessary challenges would delay the game, but it came at the cost of allowing obvious blunders to stand.
If it passes, coaches who challenge when they shouldn't will be subject to a 15-yard penalty, but officials still will be allowed — by rule, mind you — to reverse a call on replay.
The challenge rule glitch is new, but the Tuck Rule has been debated for years by rule-makers. Chairman Rich McKay, the Atlanta Falcons president, said the committee ultimately was swayed by two factors: the confusion of the rule and that the play almost always is a fumble.
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Sometimes the stories are about our pasts. Sophia and I are both Catholic, and we were raised in strict families. The schools were even stricter. I was caned, and Sophia was paddled. Both of us have been hand-spanked in our homes as youths.
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Noble has a long history as a paid political operative and past Democratic candidate for several offices, so one would suppose he has a bias.
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Global competition and advances in technology have changed the very nature of work. Today's knowledge-based economy requires innovation and lifelong learning. It requires a workforce that is highly skilled yet flexible enough to work in diverse cross-functional teams in environments that are constantly changing. To help students prepare for college and careers, many school systems have embraced smaller learning communities, where instruction is organized around career–focused themes called Career Clusters.
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Yesterday, all across Rwanda, people began gathering in stadiums, churches and community centers to take part in Kwibuka, or "Remembrance."
20 years ago marked the terrible beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, during which almost one million people were killed as tribal Hutus rose up and slaughtered their Tutsi neighbors, friends and even family members.
Two decades later, Rwanda is a shining star of economic development in Africa, but the psychic scars of the trauma remain.
In 2012, I was able to visit Rwanda with Heifer International and bear witness to Heifer's programs in that country. The first day, I went to the Northern Province and watched a Passing on the Gift ceremony, where recipients of a Heifer cow pass on the first-born female to another needy family.
It's a beautiful tradition at the heart of Heifer's ideology, made doubly poignant by the fact that many of the givers and recipients were on opposite sides of the Hutu/Tutsi divide. But Rwandans seem dedicated to rebuilding their country and repairing the terrible schism.
"Have peace!" the people shouted — and answered with "Unite in reconciliation and uproot the genocide ideology."
It was one of the most moving and inspiring ceremonies I've ever seen… and one I'm not sure I would ever have the spiritual capacity to emulate.
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The most interesting company in tech: Valve
You hear it in technology companies all the time, especially at firms that have survived from their days as a startup to become a bigger firm: we want to remain entrepreneurial. To feel like a startup. Nimble. A place that entrepreneurs want to work. A place for builders to build (a phrase Jeff Bezos always used to describe what he wanted Amazon to be as a company).
But it has always felt a bit disingenuous. You couldn't fully escape the top-down corporate imperative, though they might have wanted to provide the illusion that you had.
[The Google 20% idea in recent history sounded like the most promising attempt, perhaps a more practical evolution of a earlier incarnations, for example research divisions like Xerox PARC or Microsoft Research]
But then I read about Valve Software, and it sounded like a company was actually taking all this lip service to heart and pushing this concept to its most logical extreme. What Valve has implemented as their "corporate" structure makes them, to me, the most intriguing company in technology, if not in business.
Here is the Valve Employee Handbook (PDF) which had the Internet buzzing a while back. In summary: Valve is a completely flat company, with no hierarchy, and everyone has to find their own project or start their own project and recruit other employees to the cause. You have no boss, no one can tell you what to do. Some companies have occasional hackathons or hack weeks; Valve is run like a perpetual hackathon. Google had 20% time; Valve Software lets every employee have 100% time.
As the Valve Economist-In-Residence Yanis Varoufakis explains in this long and fascinating blog post, the way Valve is organized is an attempt to turn corporations into more responsive, efficient entities by introducing real market forces.
Interestingly, however, there is one last bastion of economic activity that proved remarkably resistant to the triumph of the market: firms, companies and, later, corporations. Think about it: market-societies, or capitalism, are synonymous with firms, companies, corporations. And yet, quite paradoxically, firms can be thought of as market-free zones. Within their realm, firms (like societies) allocate scarce resources (between different productive activities and processes). Nevertheless they do so by means of some non-price, more often than not hierarchical, mechanism!
The firm, in this view, operates outside the market; as an island within the market archipelago. Effectively, firms can be seen as oases of planning and command within the vast expanse of the market. In another sense, they are the last remaining vestiges of pre-capitalist organisation within… capitalism. In this context, the management structure that typifies Valve represents an interesting departure from this reality. As I shall be arguing below, Valve is trying to become a vestige of post-capitalist organisation within… capitalism. Is this a bridge too far? Perhaps. But the enterprise has already produced important insights that transcend the limits of the video game market.
Varoufakis refers to Valve as a spontaneous order firm. What replaces market price signals in the Valve model is individual time allocation. That is, every employee can freely choose how to spend their time, which project or projects to devote themselves to (the Google 20% time model taken to its extreme). Contrast that to the traditional corporation, with people's work allocation imposed from the top down, through the organizational hierarchy.
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Whatever the future of Valve turns out like, one thing is for certain – and it so happens that it constitutes the reason why I am personally excited to be part of Valve: The current system of corporate governance is bunk. Capitalist corporations are on the way to certain extinction. Replete with hierarchies that are exceedingly wasteful of human talent and energies, intertwined with toxic finance, co-dependent with political structures that are losing democratic legitimacy fast, a form of post-capitalist, decentralised corporation will, sooner or later, emerge. The eradication of distribution and marginal costs, the capacity of producers to have direct access to billions of customers instantaneously, the advances of open source communities and mentalities, all these fascinating developments are bound to turn the autocratic Soviet-like megaliths of today into curiosities that students of political economy, business studies et al will marvel at in the future, just like school children marvel at dinosaur skeletons at the Natural History museum.
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I'm not sure why intrinsically a time allocation model would be superior to a market-price driven model, but at the very least it would only seem to have an advantage if the individuals were very smart. My hypothesis is not that this model is inherently superior, necessarily, but that it provides a critical recruiting edge which, in a market with constrained talent, is a massive advantage. That in turn provides Valve with the necessary star talent to make the time allocation model flywheel spin. The innovative games (e.g. Portal and Portal 2, Half-Life) and business models (Steam) Valve has produced may simply come from that superior labor pool.
Secondly, spontaneous order firms may work best in a business like Valve's, the videogame business, which, like the film business, is a hits driven business in which every incremental game creates its own new market. They compete in a far less zero-sum game market than, say, Apple does in mobile phones. When you think about the coordination it would take for Apple to shift itself to a twice a year release schedule for iPads and iPhones, coordinating its product development, supply chain, marketing, and retail efforts across hundreds of countries globally, the concept of them becoming a spontaneous order firm seems impossible.
Third, I can think of many companies where a model like this wouldn't work because in those companies, people who are more senior in the hierarchy genuinely believe in their own superiority over the folks beneath them on the org chart. They'd likely be exasperated by the day to day work decisions coming out of a spontaneous order firm. This is not an indictment of the Valve model, just a check on the realistic speed with which such a model might realistically spread to other companies.
Fourth, at all the tech companies I've worked at, which are all more traditionally hierarchical, I wouldn't characterize them as strict Coase-ian "islands of conscious power [corporation] floating in an ocean of unconscious co-operation [market]". Most tech companies I know are obsessed with gathering price signals from the marketplace, and that data permeates the firm.
My first job at Amazon consisted of assembling, every month, a 100+ page report called the Analytics Package which had metrics, external and internal, on every aspect of our business. It would take me almost the entire month to compile, I'd have to translate each of them into graphs Tufte would approve of, and then I'd write prose analysis to accompany each package to highlight the most interesting signals. I had to generate hard copies of this, and every month I'd make good friends with the copy repairman as one copier after another broke down under the load of cranking out hundreds and hundreds of pages of information. Nowadays, most startups I know of have reporting portals that can generate such data in beautiful manipulatable charts on demand.
Lastly, a model of time allocation might be more susceptible to the cult of charisma? In my experience charisma and competence or intelligence are not always tightly correlated. The most dangerous person in a company is the charismatic fool.
Within the confines of a more traditional firm, though, I suspect there's much to learn from the Valve Software experiment, and so I'm really curious to see how they evolve over the next five to ten years. How much larger can Valve grow with this business model? Is it a more efficient model for gathering price signals from customers? How well does the model hold up against bad eggs, like the mythical brilliant asshole or just someone incompetent?
Let's examine one issue in more detail.
In companies, politics often crop up. This is especially common as companies grow larger. Politics are damaging to companies because they can lead to local instead of global maximums (wins for a local fiefdom or manager instead of for the company as a whole).
My experience is that politics is rooted in perceived mismatches between a person's own sense of worth and external signals of that worth, from explicit signals like one's title and salary to softer signals like the time spent with the CEO.
When a company is small, the politics tend to be minimal since many startups either are completely flat or have little to no hierarchy, everyone gets lots of time with the CEO, and everyone's marginal contribution is massive and easy to detect. In a larger company, the pathways for recognition get clogged. Suddenly the CEO you used to see all the time you only see once in a while. Hierarchy is put in place to try to minimize coordination costs, but suddenly everyone is judging their self-worth against where they're positioned within that org. chart which is inherently a ranking system generally tied to compensation.
Valve's model has the potential of upending those political costs. There's so little hierarchy that mismatches between internal evaluations and external markers of value or less common. Since the company's surplus is divided up each year based on contributions, theoretically compensation is more closely and efficiently tied to value generation rather than getting out of synch purely based on factors like seniority or tenure.
In the end, it may be that all of Silicon Valley, rather than Valve Software, is the most interesting spontaneous order unit to study. The common complaint about Silicon Valley is the competitive labor market, with the average tenure at less than 2 years. California does not look kindly on non-compete agreements, it's a labor-friendly state, and so people carry ideas with them from company to company all over the region. They are all putting the time allocation model to practice, and while it makes recruiting and retention a pain in the ass, it leads to the region being among the most generative business ecosystems in human history.


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There's been plenty to cheer about this fall at Andrew Jackson and Buford high schools.
Both of the county schools earned playoff berths in the Class AA Division II Upper State football playoffs.
AJ notched a postseason win for the first time in eight seasons, while BHS earned a home playoff game with a solid regular-season finish.
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Grilled cheese is all grown up at this Seaside Airstream eatery. There are no frills here, unless you count the oozing deliciousness pressed between two thick slices of bread.
Grilled cheese is all grown up at this Seaside Airstream eatery. There are no frills here, unless you count the oozing deliciousness pressed between two thick slices of bread.
The food
The Meltdown�s menu features a standing list of gussied up grilled cheeses with a chef�s special that rotates daily.
I�ve sampled a few of the regulars over the years including the meatloaf melt and the brown bag ham and smoked gouda.
The meatloaf melt was a pretty heavy meal in itself with melted mozzarella, meatloaf, marinara, ham and swiss on thick slabs of sourdough.
Other standards include the classic American grilled cheese (American cheese on Texas toast), the three-cheese grilled cheese ( gouda, cheddar, gruyere), grilled pimento to which bacon can be added, grilled aged cheddar, mozzarella, tomato and basil (prosciutto can be added), goat cheese, prosciutto, arugula and tomato, brie and bacon on cranberry walnut bread, and the smokin� turkey (jack cheese, smoked turkey, bacon, avocado and Albuquerque sauce).
I picked up a special one recent afternoon that happened to be Gouda Vibrations. This sandwich had gouda, provolone, ham, bacon and tomato pressed between thick sourdough.
What I like about these sandwiches is that they are thick, yet all the cheese still gets melted thoroughly.
The Meltdown puts up their specials on their Facebook page. Recent chef specials include the provolone, prosciutto, soppressata, hard salami, brown bag ham and olive tapenade; the muenster mushroom melt (mushroom duxelles, caramelized onion, muenster and smoked provolone, Italian parsley); and the grilled Buffalo chili mac, which is Jim's famous Buffalo chili piled on top of housemade mac and cheese and grilled on sourdough.
If a sandwich isn�t all you want, the Meltdown also serves a roasted tomato soup, soup of the day and chips.
They also serve up a �Little Meltdown� for the kids, which is an American grilled cheese with the crust cut off, of course.
The atmosphere
Strolling through Seaside, you can�t miss the line of vintage Airstreams serving a range of options. The Meltdown is in the middle, and you step up to the window to place your order.
Sodas are in a cooler and the menu is prominently displayed on the side of the trailer.
When your order is ready, they�ll call your name, and you can take your meal to the beach, or sit at one of the nearby picnic tables and watch the crowds stroll by.
The service
At first I didn�t see the chef�s special and had already ordered something else. I asked the woman inside if I could change my order, and she did with no hesitation. My food came out fast and hot.
A final taste
Any cheese lover will want to venture over to 30A and check off the Meltdown�s menu as they eat their way through these sandwiches.
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