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A WORKSHOP ON cyberwar, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is scheduled this month in Arlington to discuss "Plan X," which the agency says is designed "to create revolutionary technologies for understanding, planning, and managing cyberwar" and to study "fundamental strategies and tactics needed to dominate the cyber battlespace." People from industry and academia have been invited; the general public, news media and foreigners have not.
DARPA is the Pentagon's often-experimental hothouse for technology development. Not everything imagined there is realized. Nor is DARPA the main U.S. military agency for cyberconflict — that would be U.S. Cyber Command. But the workshop agenda offers a tantalizing glimpse of the future of offensive cyberwarfare, a field that has been kept largely in the shadows. DARPA says it is seeking innovative research in such things as "understanding the cyber battlespace," "battle damage monitoring," and "visualizing and interacting with large-scale cyber battlespaces."
The Pentagon says cyberspace is an operational domain on par with land, sea, air and outer space, and there is little doubt that a global cyberarms race is getting underway. The United States is already well engaged in this race, as evidenced by reports of the computer worm Stuxnet, used to attack Iran's nuclear enrichment equipment. But so far these efforts have largely been kept secret and conducted as intelligence operations.
DARPA's workshop points again to the need for more transparency. The United States still has no open, overarching doctrine to govern a cyberweapons program. A good place to start would be a declaratory policy that would lay out when and under what circumstances offensive weapons such as Stuxnet might be used. After that, an open discussion is needed about rules of engagement for this complex new field, along with additional study of such issues as how and whether the military should protect non-military assets in government and the private sector.
Cyberconflict is already at our doorstep. Recently, six U.S. banks were hit with a rather crude attack that blocked many customers from online access to their accounts. The assault underscores the urgent need for stronger action to improve defenses. Congress failed to act this year on legislation that would have deepened cooperation between the private sector and government, which possesses valuable tools for cybersecurity.
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), a sponsor of the legislation, will try again in Congress's lame-duck session. But in a letter sent last week, Mr. Lieberman urged President Obama to sign an executive order that would put in place some of the information-sharing and other provisions in the legislation. Such a move is being considered by the White House. While an executive order cannot be as effective as legislation, we nevertheless agree with the senator that such a start would be better than taking no action at all.


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The IRS has made it easier for you to claim your home office deduction and it has increased the amount of deduction you can take for driving people to and from listings in your car. These are two of the changes that can help you save money as you prepare to file your 2013 taxes.
If you're in a higher-income bracket, there are some additional changes you need to be aware of. Here's a look at six changes that can affect how you prepare your taxes this year.
Simplified home office deduction
The IRS is giving you a choice in how you determine the deduction for your home office. You can calculate your deduction the way you always have, by determining the square footage of your office space, then apportioning other costs, like electricity, heating, and depreciation, based on your square footage amount. Or you can use the IRS's new simplified method, under which you take a straight $5 per square foot deduction, up to 300 square feet, for a potential maximum deduction of $1,500.
Which method should you use? Peter Baker, a CPA based in Washington, D.C., whose client base includes many real estate brokers and sales associates, says you should run your numbers both ways and apply the calculation that's most advantageous to you. "This method is electable on a year-by-year basis," says Baker.
Increased mileage deduction
The IRS changes how much you can deduct for business mileage each year, based in part on whether gas prices are heading up or down. For your 2013 filing, the per-mileage rate has been increased a penny to 56.5 cents, from 55.5 cents, per mile. That doesn't sound like a lot, but Baker points out that for every 10,000 miles you drive, that's an additional $100 in deductions. As a real esate practitioner, you no doubt spend a lot of time in your car and those miles can add up quickly.
New bracket for higher-income households
If you've had a successful 2013—so successful, in fact, that you find yourself in the highest tax bracket—be prepared to pay more than you did last year. That's because in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2011, Congress created a 39.5 percent bracket for taxpayers whose adjusted income is $400,000 for a single filer or $450,000 for joint filers. Last year, the highest tax bracket was 35 percent, so the increase is significant. "The good news is that, for 98 percent of taxpayers, the Bush-era tax cuts were made permanent," says Baker. Under the Bush-era tax structure, there are six brackets, of 10, 15, 25, 28, 33, and 35 percent. The law adds the 39.5 percent as a seventh bracket to that.
3.8 percent net investment tax kicks in
In a new tax that you might already be familar with, in part because it's received so much attention in the media, is the new 3.8 percent tax on net investment income, which takes effect for your 2013 filing. The tax was enacted as part of the big health insurance reform law passed in 2010 and rumors have swirled around on the Internet and elsewhere since then that the tax amounts to a transfer tax on real estate, but although a small percentage of some home sales can trigger the need to see if you meet the tax threshold, it is not a real estate transfer tax.
Under the tax, households with adjusted gross income of $200,000 for a single filer or $250,000 for joint filers are potentially subject to the tax if they have a certain level of investment income. Calculating the tax can be complicated and is best done with the assistance of a professional tax advisor, but, in short, if your income meets the threshold level and, on top of that, you have non-earned, or investment, income, including net rents and capital gains (including from the sale of a principal residence), you need to do a series of calculations to see if you owe anything under this new tax.
On a positive note, with the sale of a principal residence, you have the added factor of the $250,000 to $500,000 capital gains exclusion, which is key in determining whether the tax would apply to you. Briefly, if you sold your house for a gain of more than $500,000 (that's gain, not sales amount), then you automatically deduct the $500,000 capital gains exclusion from your gain ($250,000 for a single filer). That means if your gain was, say, $530,000, only $30,000 is considered investment income under the tax.
There are other factors to be considered, but when all is said and done, how much tax you owe, if any, is based on how much net investment income you have compared to your adjusted gross income threshold. You apply the tax to whichever is less, your investment income or your income threshold. So, if your adjusted income threshold is $250,000 and your net investment income is, say, $30,000, you apply the 3.8 percent tax to the $30,000, whch would one out to around $950 in tax.
0.9 percent Medicare tax
The health reform law also created a 0.9 percent Medicare tax, also known as the "additional Medicare tax," because it sits on top of the existing 2.9 percent Medicare tax, which applies to your wages, compensation, or self-employment income. The additional tax is based on a threshold amount for your filing status, generally $200,000 for a single filer and $250,000 for joint filers. Thus, if your income is at that threshold, your Medicare tax is raised to 3.8 percent, not to be confused with the 3.8 percent net investment income tax.
Individual mandate penalty
Another important change concerns the year 2014 but not your 2013 tax filing, and that's the fee the federal government will impose on you if you don't have health insurance by March 31 of this year, which is the end of what's known as the open enrollment period. The penalty is $95 per uninsured person in your household (half that amount for each uninsured dependent, up to three dependents), capped at 1 percent of your household income.
Not any insurance will do. It has to be insurance that meets the law's requirements, generally what's known as a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum plan. These plans differ in their cost and the deductible amounts and other matters but they're all considered major medical plans that meet the law's requirements.
The IRS is the federal agency charged with enforcing the health insurance requirement, so although the insurance requirement doesn't pertain to your 2013 tax filing per se, you want to be aware of the March 31 deadline.
You can learn more about all of these tax issues in a pair of REALTOR® Magazine videos with Peter Baker, CPA, a Washington, D.C.-based accountant, and Evan Liddiard, NAR's senior policy representative for tax policy.
Robert Freedman is manager of multimedia communications for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. He can be reached at email@example.com.

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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., April 2 (UPI) -- A $13.2 million contract has been given to Northrop Grumman by the U.S. Navy to support AN/ASN-139 carrier aircraft inertial navigation system.
The award is a follow-on, performance-based arrangement for five years under which Northrop will provide logistics, material and technical support for the system C-2A, E-2C, F/A-18, S-3 and AV-8B aircraft.
"Our excellent performance during the previous five-year, performance-based logistics contract for the AN/ASN-139 helped us to secure this latest award," said Gorik Hossepian, vice president of Northrop Grumman's Navigation and Positioning Systems business unit.
"Our wide scope of support, including total inventory control for CAINS II, will help ensure that the product continues to meet the availability requirements and high quality standards of the Navy."
The AN/ASN-139 is a ring laser gyro strapdown inertial navigation system. Northrop said it provides better than 1 nautical mile per hour navigation performance.
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* David Loglisci pleaded guilty in 2010
* Case involved "pay to play" at NY pension fund
* Eight people convicted, more than 20 firms settled
* Loglisci took no money, got conditional discharge
By Karen Freifeld
NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - David Loglisci, former chief investment officer at the New York state pension fund, was sentenced to a conditional discharge Tuesday for allowing a "culture of corruption" at the fund.
Loglisci is among eight people who pleaded guilty in a probe of "pay-to-play" at the New York state Common Retirement Fund under Alan Hevesi, the comptroller from 2003 to 2006, whose job it was to manage the fund. Hevesi, who admitted to abusing his position, is serving up to four years in prison.
The investigation by former New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now the state's governor, revealed how politics and placement fees resulted in favored treatment for certain money managers.
More than $5 billion in alternative investments at the New York pension fund were tainted by kickbacks, the office said.
The probe also revealed similar problems at public pension funds across the country.
Loglisci, 42, who earned a law degree and MBA from the University of Notre Dame, was a vice president of investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney before he began working for the New York State Common Retirement Fund in 2002. He took a 70 percent paycut by going into public service, he said.
"I entered an environment where political considerations were a customary part of the decision-making process," Loglisci told the judge Tuesday in New York state Supreme Court in lower Manhattan. "And to my failure, I went along with it."
Unlike the other defendants, there's no evidence Loglisci received any money from the "pay-to-play" scheme, prosecutors said in court papers.
During the investigation, Cuomo said a low-budget film, "Chooch," produced by Loglisci's brother, had investments from money managers who also did business with the fund.
Loglisci, who now lives in Oklahoma, has already paid a "dear price" for going along, his attorney, Kevin Keating, told New York state Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone.
He now manages a startup car wash business in Oklahoma, Keating said. "He's done in the financial sector."
Stone said a good argument had been made to sentence Loglisci to a conditional discharge, meaning the case is closed so long as he doesn't commit other crimes.
In 2010, Loglisci had pleaded guilty to a violation of the state's business law, a felony.
"You sold out and you didn't get any money for it, which shows how naive you were," Stone said.
Loglisci ceded his authority at the pension fund to Hevesi's political consultant Hank Morris, who got $19 million in fees. Morris, who also pleaded guilty, went to prison for his role.
Loglisci's cooperation was "a seminal factor leading to the guilty pleas of Hevesi and Morris," Eric Schneiderman, now New York's attorney general, said in court papers.
Loglisci said he is also cooperating with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
With the felony conviction, Loglisci will automatically lose his license to practice law.
During his tenure, the New York state pension fund grew from $95 billion in 2003 to over $190 billion in 2007, Loglisci said, adjusting for member contributions and payments.
The case is People v. Morris, 0025/2009, New York State Supreme Court, New York County (Manhattan).
(Reporting By Karen Freifeld; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Imperial Beach Border Patrol agents are dealing with a new and unique problem. They say a specific group of people from Eastern Europe, known as Roma, are crossing illegally into the United States through Mexico seeking asylum.
Agent Gregory Bovino says these travelers want to be caught.
"We have seen them remain in the same area for several minutes just so they can wave down an agent. There's no attempt to go into the bushes," Bovino told NBC 7.
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Bovino says his agents make several arrests every week. After processing the Roma immigrants, they're handled by Enforcement and Removal Operations, which works under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If the person or group of people do not have significant criminal histories or other reasons to be detained, they are often released.
According to Border Patrol statistics, there were 23 arrests of Roma crossing illegally into the U.S. in the San Diego sector during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. That number jumped to 250 last year. This year, so far, there have been 111 arrests in the U.S. All have been out of Imperial Beach.
Border patrol agents admit this issue it taking a toll.
"Definitely, when we have those groups come across, it detracts from border security," Bovino said.
More than manpower, the issue is costing taxpayer money. Metal gates worth tens of thousands of dollars are being put up along the Imperial Beach border to keep all undocumented immigrants out.
NBC 7 spoke to San Diego State University Professor Ron King, who has studied Romanian politics for nearly two decades. He says the Roma are a discriminated group, but the ones entering the United States do not represent the majority.
"What it sounds like is somebody found the route in a cute way of doing it, brought out their immediate family and word got out to the community, and now you have some stragglers trying it again," King said. "Unless it proliferates to many other groups, which I think is unlikely, it will decline or hold steady and be a minor exception to the broad immigration issues affecting the United States."
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MUSTANG HOOFPRINTS: During SMSU break, spring teams hit the road
Hello Mustang fans!
Next week, Southwest Minnesota State University students will be on spring break and that means our spring sports teams are traveling to warmer climates to compete in non-conference contests. The Mustang baseball and women's tennis teams will be heading to Arizona, while softball and women's golf will be traveling to Florida.
Drown SMSU Golf Classic
Save the date!
The 29th annual David and Carol Drown SMSU Golf Classic will be held June 20 at the Marshall Golf Club. The Drown SMSU Golf Classic is the Mustang Booster Club's next fundraising event. The Drown SMSU Golf Classic Committee will be convening in the next few weeks to begin the planning for this great event.
For all your information on Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference and NCAA Division II postseason competition, the Mustang Booster Club and SMSU athletics, visit our website: www.smsumustangs.com.
Upcoming SMSU athletics events
The SMSU wrestling team (12-5 overall, 6-2 NSIC) qualified four wrestlers for the NCAA tournament on the second day of the NCAA Individual Wrestling Central Super Region 3 Tournament, which was hosted Friday and Saturday by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmund, Okla.
The top five wrestlers at each weight class qualify for the national tournament that will be held March 14-15, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Kyle Begin became the first wrestler to qualify for the NCAA tournament by winning his first three bouts at the Super Region 3 Tournament. Begin fell in the championship bout to No. 3-ranked Chris Watson (Central Oklahoma). Begin won the 174-pound crown last year at the Super Region 3 Tournament.
At 133, Justin Reinsma also qualified with five wins and two losses to place fourth. This year is the third straight season Reinsma, a native of Slayton, has qualified for the NCAA tournament.
At 174, Jacob Begin was the third Mustang to qualify, earning a third-place finish by defeating No. 7-ranked Connor Monk (Minnesota State-Moorhead) with a 15-0 technical fall at 4 minites, 54 seconds. Begin qualified for the NCAA tournament last year at 165 pounds.
Cole Wilson avenged an earlier season loss to No. 3-ranked Logan Hopp (Upper Iowa) with a 4-0 decision in the consolation semifinals. The win qualified Wilson for his first NCAA tournament en route to a fourth place regional finish.
Congratulations and the best of luck to head coach Jesse Nelson and our four wrestlers next week at the NCAA Division II Individual Wrestling National Championships!
Men's Basketball
The SMSU men's basketball team (19-12) suffered a 68-57 loss to No. 15-ranked Minnesota State in the semifinals of the NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament on Monday.
The Mustangs were not ranked in this week's NCAA Division II Central Region rankings with the final region rankings scheduled to be released Sunday.
Monday's contest was the final game for four Mustang seniors – Vinard Birch, William Giddings, Nick Smith and Matt Zager.
Women's Basketball
The Mustang women's basketball team (4-23) lost a first-round game in the NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament 73-45 at Northern State.
SMSU entered the tournament as the No. 8 seed in the South Division, while the Wolves were the top seed in the North Division and held the home-court advantage.
Last Wednesday's game was the final one for five Mustang seniors – Bree Holleman, Jessie Watts, Rebekah Rolling, Hannah Beeler and Alison Nagel.
We appreciate all the hard work and dedication of our seniors on the men's and women's basketball teams, wish them the best of luck as they graduate from SMSU and move on to the next phases of their lives.
Wheelchair Basketball
SMSU competes at 3 p.m. today at the National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Championships in a first round game against the University of Alabama in Arlington, Texas.
The Mustangs (14-15) enter the tournament as the No. 6 seed in the seven-team tournament. SMSU faces No. 3 seed Alabama at the Mavericks Activities Center at the University of Texas-Arlington.
Alabama defeated SMSU 53-37 in the only meeting between the teams this season. If SMSU were to defeat the Crimson Tide, it plays the winner of a game between Wisconsin-Whitewater and Edinboro, Pa., University at 1 p.m. Friday. If SMSU loses to Alabama, it plays at 11 a.m. Friday against the Wisconson-Whitewater and Edinboro loser.
The National Wheelchair Basketball Championships has seven competing teams, including the Alabama, Edinboro, Illinois, Wisconsin-Whitewater, Missouri, Texas-Arlington and SMSU.
Indoor Track and Field
The SMSU men's and women's indoor track and field teams concluded the NSIC Championships on Saturday with a strong performance at the Gillett Recreation/Fitness Center at Bemidji State University.
In the men's competition, the Mustangs had three individuals advance to the finals, following Friday's preliminary events.
Alejandro Sanchez recorded a personal best and an NCAA provisional time of 1:53.75 to finish second in the 800-meter run, while Jay Schneider earned a fifth-place finish in the 60 dash in 7.11 seconds. Also on Saturday, O.J. Ojullu finished seventh in the 600 run in 1:23.40.
Alex Weis had a personal best in the weight throw, finishing 12th in the prelims with a toss of 50 feet, 4 1/2 inches. The SMSU men's 1,600 relay team of Austin LaFollette, Ojullu, Sanchez and Chris Kveseth had a strong showing to take fifth place in 3:24.13.
In the women's competition, Rylee Armstrong advanced to the finals in the triple jump before finishing ninth with a leap of 35-6 1/2. The Mustang women's 1,600 relay team finished 12th in 4:17.
SMSU begins training for its outdoor season, which begins March 29 at the Dakota State Open in Madison, S.D.
Women's Tennis
The SMSU women's tennis team (2-5, 1-4 NSIC) travels to Mesa, Ariz., for seven non-conference matches, starting Tuesday against the Arizona Christian University.
On road trip, the Mustangs will compete against Dallas Baptist; Our Lady of the Lake University; Dixie State, Utah; Mesa, Ariz., Community College; University of the Southwest (New Mexico) and Colorado-Mesa.
SMSU continues its NSIC schedule March 22 at Bismarck, N.D., where it will compete against the University of Mary.
The Mustangs (1-3) head to Tucson, Ariz., on Thursday to play 12 games on a road trip to the Tucson Invitational.
SMSU will play Malone College (Ohio) on at 4 p.m. Friday and California State-San Bernardino at 8 p.m. Friday on the first day of the invitational.
The Mustangs begin NSIC play March 22 at Minnesota State in a doubleheader with the Mavericks, pending upon weather and playable field conditions.
The Mustangs' doubleheader against Missouri-St. Louis, scheduled for today, is canceled due to unplayable field conditions.
SMSU continues its road trip Friday, when it plays North Alabama before arriving at Winter Haven, Fla., to compete in 12 games from March 9-14 at the Rebel Spring Games.
The Mustangs begin NSIC play March 25 with a doubleheader at the University of Sioux Falls, pending upon weather and playable field conditions.
Women's Golf
SMSU travels to Daytona Beach, Fla., during spring break to host its SMSU Spring Invitational at the LPGA International Golf Club on March 13-14.
The Mustangs have four tournaments scheduled for their spring season, concluding with the NSIC Spring Championship and NCAA Central Region Championship.
Good luck to all of our SMSU Teams competing this weekend!
Go Mustangs!
Trivia Contest
Congratulation to Cletus Lanners who provided the correct response to last week's Mustang Hoofprint's Trivia Question: Who is the career leader in field goal percentage for the Mustang women's basketball team?
Amy Boman (1998-2002) is the career leader in field goal percentage with 53.7 percent (403 of 751).
Trivia Question
What was the last year SMSU won the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Championship?
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Co-Creating Service Innovation in Interdependent Service Systems. Forum on Markets & Marketing Karlstad.(2014).
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Firstly - you're right - S-shaped quillons do appear on several of the Irish ring-pommelled swords e.g. the examples from Lough Neagh, the River Suck and the two-handed specimen from Manchester - but there is still a majority which do not - so the A&A sword is fairly representative in terms of its quillons.
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That's basically author Frederick Reiken's argument in this provocative post, about novels that approach time in unconventional ways.
Why can we accept flashbacks so easily, even in the most conventional narratives? Because novels use "block time," conceiving of time as space. That makes jumping between 2010 and 1986 as conceptually simple as a flight from Atlanta to Denver. For a science fictional example, think of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five:
Billy has become "unstuck in time," and has no control over which part of his life he will wind up in next. All the moments of his life - present, past, future - can be arrived at as if they were geographic places. What I'll suggest is that a conventional, realistic work of literary fiction makes use of the same apparatus minus the spasmodic time travel. Instead of the protagonist becoming unstuck in time, the author simply moves the reader around within the block-time map. In other words, the reader is the one who becomes unstuck, because the story can go anywhere it wants.
Reiken also says if you want to understand how all time travel stories work, just read two stories by Robert Heinlein: "All You Zombies –" and "By His Bootstraps." He says:
If you can chart and understand the paradoxes that are exploited in those two stories (the first hinges on the so-called "grandfather paradox;" the second hinges on the eponymous "bootstrap paradox"), you will understand the mechanics of all time travel genre stories ever written.
For more thoughts on time travel, plus a list of novels that play with chronology, check out the original post at The Book Lady's Blog.


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Make sure your Web developers follow these rules when creating dynamic content for your IIS server.
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|Specify a character set at the start of each page.
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It really makes you think about how some kids, when they turn into adults, treat their parents like they don't matter, even though they raised them, but they never consider their parents feelings in old age.....sad, but true, in many cases. Unfortunately while caring for my Dad for 10 years, I witnessed several scenarios just like this movie, the kids (grown into adults) just did not give a shit, and were far too eager to put their parents out to pasture, and then neglect them and/or betray them."That Evening Sun," starring Hal Holbrook. Now in his 80s, Holbrook gives a tremendous and subtle performance, as do all of the other actors in this Southern Gothic set in Tennessee: Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston and Ray McKinnon. With a screenplay written by Scott Teems, like fine red wine, well made and maintained, every character of the movie is developed and complex - even the barking dog!
The tension between characters, circumstances and passions makes this film a rarity, genuinely gripping from scene to scene and unpredictable to the end. The sound track is beautiful and delicately augments the emotional tension as the film wonderfully plays against the painterly rustic sharecropper house interior, forest, sunset sky and fantastically grizzled faces of authentically rendered people pursuing their respective deep, heartfelt aspirations. Like a Henry James novella, the film is underlain with ambiguity and uncertainty, empathy and shifting sympathies that will provoke conversation.
sunnyd wrote:Unstoppable (2010) Drama
Very good movie imo, and also pretty intense as expected for a runaway train/pending disaster. The outcome is quite predictable, but it still kept my attention the entire time. Even though I turned the sound down for most of it, I still felt like I was hearing a train on the tracks long after the movie was done. Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson did a great job imo. I also really liked Lew Temple's role as Ned, and I thought his character/role added a lot toward the end of the movie. Chase scenes are always great.
We've been talking for several weeks now about The Weinstein Company's disturbing plan to censor the Oscar nominated film The King's Speech in order to curry favor with the MPAA, receive a PG-13 rating....
That plan became a reality this week when the censored version of the film received the rating they wanted, and the R-rated version will be pulled from theaters and replaced with one that contains none of the curse words which earned the movie an R in the first place.
Here's an even bigger head scratcher: The Ring, a movie about a murderous dead girl who leaps out of televisions and kills people, was rated PG-13. The MPAA's rating system recommends The Ring as more appropriate viewing for your children than the R-rated King's Speech.
sunnyd wrote:I would not watch, would be The Crazies (2010).
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Composite TSI Time Series
Continuous time series of total solar irradiance (TSI) observations have been constructed from the set of redundant, overlapping total solar irradiance (TSI) measurements made by satellite experiments during the past 34 Years. One, the ACRIM composite [Willson & Mordvinov, 2003 (Fig. 1)], displays a significant upward trend in TSI of 0.04 percent per decade during solar cycles 21-23. Another, the PMOD composite [Frohlich & Lean, 1998 (Fig. 2)], displays no significant trend over this period using different combinations of TSI data sets, computational philosophy and assumptions. Both time series demonstrate no significant trend over the two decade period separating the first and third solar activity minima.
The potential significance of ACRIM's upward trend during solar cycles 21-23 as a climate forcing makes it important to explore the ACRIM-PMOD trend difference to determine which of the two composites best represents the TSI measurement database. Two types of experiment have provided TSI data: self-calibrating, precision TSI monitors and Earth radiation budget (ERB) experiments.
TSI monitoring experiments are designed to provide state of the art accuracy and precision. The ERB experiments (both Nimbus7/ERB and ERBS/ERBE) are designed to lower standards for TSI observations appropriate to the requirements of earth radiation budget investigations. TSI monitors are solar pointed so they can observe continuously (or during the sunlit part of every orbit) and are capable of self-calibrating the degradation of their sensors. Nimbus7/ERB viewed the sun while it passed through its field of view every orbit three days of every four. The ERBS/ERBE viewed the sun as it passed through its field of view during one orbit every two weeks. Neither ERB experiment could self calibrate the degradation of their sensors. Because of their multi-sensor design, TSI monitoring experiments are able to self-calibrate their sensor degradation and provide significantly greater precision, accuracy and traceability for their observations than the ERB experiments. Both the Nimbus7/ERB and ERBS/ERBE met their observational requirements but but their results are not competitive in traceability with those of TSI monitoring experiments.
An optimum composite TSI time series would utilize the results of monitoring experiments to the maximum extent possible because of the smaller uncertainties of their data. Some ERB results must be used, however, since there are two periods during the past 34 years during which only ERB observations are available.
The first ERB period extended from November 1978 to early 1980 during which time the Nimbus7/ERB TSI observations were the only measurements made. This period ended in February 1980 with the launch of ACRIM1 on the Solar Maximum Mission. ACRIM1 was the prototype TSI monitoring experiment that established the standards and approach used by succeeding experiments.
The second ERB period was during a two year gap in the TSI monitoring record between the ACRIM1 and ACRIM2 experiments (1989 - 1991). ACRIM2 was originally intended to be launched by the space shuttle in 1989 on the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The launch was delayed more than two years by the Challenger disaster. Compilation of a continuous record over the entire 34 years of satellite observations would not be possible were it not for the availability of ERB results during the gap. The relationship between ACRIM results across the gap can be derived using the overlapping ERB data sets: the Nimbus7/ERB or the ERBS/ERBE. These two choices are embodied in the construction of ACRIM and PMOD composites, respectively, shown in Fig.'s 1 and 2.
The philosophy of the ACRIM composite approach is to use the results published by the experiment science teams and the Nimbus7/ERB ACRIM gap ratio. The original science teams have (of had) the most thorough understanding of their experiments and are therefore most likely to produce results that best represent the performance of the instrumentation. Their published results should always be used unless there are compelling reasons for changing the data and/or results by updating the algorithm and reprocessing. ACRIM uses the Nimbus7/ERB 'gap' ratio to relate ACRIM1 & 2 results because the quality and quantity of ERB data is far superior to the ERBE data.
The PMOD composite approach uses a different subset of the satellite TSI database, the ERBS/ERBE ACRIM gap ratio, and modifies published Nimbus7/ERB and ACRIM1 results, to conform them to the predictions of TSI proxy models [Frohlich & Lean, 1998]. The sparse ERBS/ERBE data required the PMOD model to use ~ 90% interpolated ERBE data to compute their ACRIM gap ratio. The PMOD result is more of a model of TSI than a composite of actual measured satellite values.
There are a number of differences between the ACRIM and PMOD composites but the most important is the trend during solar cycles 21 - 23. The absence of a trend in the PMOD composite and any composite based on the ERBS/ERBE ACRIM gap ratio has been shown to be an artifact of uncorrected degradation of ERBE results during the gap (See Fig. 4).
TSI proxy models are not competitive in precision or accuracy with even the lowest quality satellite TSI observations. Most are regression models of TSI against one or more proxy solar spectral features or records of solar magnetic activity. Use of such models in constructing the PMOD composite convolutes their large uncertainties with the satellite TSI observational data. The resulting TSI composite is more likely to represent the modeler's preconception of what the TSI time series should look like than the reality conveyed by satellite TSI observational results published by the experiment science teams.
The PMOD composite approach modified results published by the science teams of the Nimbus7/ERB and ACRIM1. No original computations or algorithm developments were made by the PMOD fabricators. Modifications made to both Nimbus7/ERB and ACRIM1 results were based on erroneous assumptions about instrument operation and sensor degradation that conflicted with the experiment science teams' published analyses. The resulting PMOD composite conforms their TSI time series with proxy model predictions during the maxima of solar cycles 21 and 22 and the solar minima between them. The differences between the ACRIM1 and PMOD composites are clearly evident in Figure 3 where the measured shape of the solar cycles 21 and 22 maxima and the intervening solar activity minima slope have been altered by the PMOD model.
The ERBS/ERBE database was affected by significant uncorrected degradation during its observational lifetime. During the ACRIM Gap ERBE uncorrected degradation was likely caused by the excessive UV solar fluxes generated by the high level of solar magnetic activity approaching the solar cycle 22 maximum. The difference in trends between ACRIM and PMOD Composites is a direct consequence of the uncorrected degradation of the ERBE results during the ACRIM Gap in which the paradigm of positive correlation between TSI and solar magnetic activity is followed by the results of Nimbus7/ERB but not by those of ERBS/ERBE. (See Fig. 4)
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The forthcoming "meeting" (the word is chosen with probably deliberate care) of the Pope with followers of other faiths and none at Assisi has reduced many traditionalists to apoplectic fury at this supposed betrayal of the Catholic religion, according to which it is only in the Church that the fullness of faith is to be found, so everyone else, to the extent they disagree with us, is just wrong. Well, that's what I think too, about the Church, that is. I yield to nobody in my suspicion of "interfaith dialogue", if that means negotiating what we might accept in each other's religions, noting that nobody in other religions (especially Islam) is prepared to accept that we have anything right at all, and that if you deny the Incarnation and the Trinity, you have denied the very basis of everything we believe, so what's the point? The recent decision of certain "top Muslim scholars" in Egypt to suspend all dialogue with the Vatican in protest against Pope Benedict XVI's condemnation of anti-Christian violence in that country, as I wrote at the time, was "depressing", but only to be expected.
But why was I depressed, I ask myself, if it was so inevitable? I suppose because such "dialogue" at least implies good will: and in the world we are living in, good will is beyond the price of rubies (and sometimes as rare). If we all agreed, of course, we wouldn't go to war with one another, would we? But actually, good will has far more to do with that than holding the same religion: Colonel Gaddafi and the opposition in Libya, so far as I am aware, hold exactly the same religious beliefs: what's missing in spades is good will. I am vividly aware, when I look at some of the comments under my blogs, that even towards my co-religionists, and even if theologically you couldn't slip a cigarette paper between us, good will is on occasion notably lacking, for a time at least.
The Pope doesn't believe that he will be giving an inch towards the beliefs of those he will be meeting in Assisi: nor will he be. Look, he's even invited atheists – that in a sense proves my contention. When our new nuncio announced that he intends to open dialogue with non-believers, did anyone really suppose that he seriously intends to consider whether they might be right about the non-existence of God? "Dialogue" is just as likely to be a means of proselytising for the faith as a negotiation between systems of belief.
As a convinced schoolboy atheist, it was only when I watched a TV debate between the atheist philosopher Professor Bernard Williams (for whom of course I was rooting) and Cardinal Heenan that it began to occur to me to that there might be something in all this stuff: I couldn't put my finger on it, but Heenan (what a great apologist he was, how lucidly intelligent; who is there like him today?) was somehow just more convincing, more reasonable, even about original sin and the real presence, both of which I naturally thought were absurdities. Afterwards, I still thought they were untrue; but that first cold little sliver of doubt had been introduced into my certainties. It was many years before I became a Christian (13 years later), let alone a Catholic (30 years later), but that was without any doubt, for me, the beginning. We have to talk to people, for God's sake (literally; that's not just an expletive). Because 50 years ago Cardinal Heenan entered into dialogue with the atheist Bernard Williams I am a Catholic today.
The Vatican has this week made it absolutely clear what the parameters of the Assisi meeting will be:
"Every human being is ultimately a pilgrim in search of truth and goodness. Believers too are constantly journeying towards God: hence the possibility, indeed the necessity, of speaking and entering into dialogue with everyone, believers and unbelievers alike, without sacrificing one's own identity or indulging in forms of syncretism. To the extent that the pilgrimage of truth is authentically lived, it opens the path to dialogue with the other, it excludes no-one and it commits everyone to be a builder of fraternity and peace. These are the elements that the Holy Father wishes to place at the centre of reflection.
"For this reason, as well as representatives of Christian communities and of the principal religious traditions, some figures from the world of culture and science will be invited to share the journey – people who, while not professing to be religious, regard themselves as seekers of the truth and are conscious of a shared responsibility for the cause of justice and peace in this world of ours."
To assert that that is a betrayal of the Catholic faith is an absurdity hardly worth discussing. So why am I discussing it? Because, I suppose, I feel an irrational fondness (fraternity and peace?) for one or two of those who assert it (you can't always, thank God, be entirely rational).


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CARY, N.C. – Junior shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) and senior outfielder Shawn Ward (Evans, Ga.) of the Georgia College baseball team were named to the Rawlings/American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Division II All-America teams, the organization announced recently.
Funk picked up a spot on the first team, while Ward took a third-team nod.
In his first year with the Bobcats, Funk was second on the team in hitting at .393 with two home runs and 54 RBI. He also led the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in doubles with 20. He slugged .520 and scored 45 runs. He becomes the third shortstop to take ABCA All-America honors for GC and the first since Mike DeVeaux (2005-06) in 2006.
The PBC Co-Player of the Year, Ward put up gaudy numbers in 2011. A .398 hitter, Ward paced the PBC in RBI at 61, adding a slugging percentage of .612 and 49 runs scored. Ward is the sixth GC outfielder to be named All-America by the ABCA. The most recent was Justin Mills (2004-07) in 2007.
All-time, GC student-athletes have now earned 15 All-America honors through the ABCA organization.
The Bobcat baseball team went 35-17 in 2011, a season that saw them hold down the No. 1 spot in the country for two weeks. The Bobcats finished second in the PBC West, honoring three all-region players, and a pair of All-Americans in Funk and Ward.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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The Vanderbilts' guests entered the Reception Hall from the front driveway or from the lobby on the river side of the house. If they had come to see Mr. Vanderbilt on business, they were shown to the Study where he conducted estate business. Guests arriving for a party might enjoy a cocktail in the Gold Room before moving into the Dining Room. Formal entertainment, including dances and musical performances, took place in the Drawing Room. The Den acted as a family room as well as a place to have afternoon tea, write letters, or read.
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On a night that history was made by one Philadelphia team, the Galaxy spent their afternoon preparring for another Philadelphia team, the Union.
In the shadow of the famous Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania, the Galaxy went through a 90 minute training session this afternoon ahead of Thursday night's game.
After training just once in LA before heading East, Wednesday's session was slighly longer and more intense than the typical day before a game session. All of the normal training elements were there, games of 6v2 and possession, a bit of fitness and finishing, as well as both attacking and defensive set pieces.
Here are a number of photos from yesterday's training session and be sure to watch the latest episode of This Week Inside the Galaxy to hear what Landon, Edson and Bruce have to say about the game against the Union, which can be seen live on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes starting at 5 p.m.
Chris and David set the pace...
... while Juninho raced out to a lead over the rest of his group.
The team then played two games of 6v2, with the young guys in one game...
...and the veterans, along with Michael Stephens, in the other.
After the 6v2, Sean stopped for a quick drink.
In the game of possession, all eyes were on A.J. as he tried to get rid of the ball.
As the session neared its end, David whipped in a corner kick...
...which Omar tried to get on the end of.
Once training was done, A.J. attempted to put a penalty past Sean.
While Landon was successful in putting this spot kick past a much better goalkeeper in Josh...
... before posing for a photo with a number of Penn athletes on his way to the team bus.
And if you want to check out some more images from the session, click here to see a slideshow of shots from the Daily Pennslyvanian.


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Your job: Decide to get out of town and fast. Our job: Help you find where you're headed. This week, NBCLA's Worth the Drive takes us to...
Death Valley National Park: National Park Week is wrapping up; last day for free admission to any park in the system is Sunday, April 25. But we wanted to spotlight Death Valley, for its proximity, its spare spectacularness, and the fact that a favorite resort and a favorite show will be closing for the summer in a matter of days.
Furnace Creek Inn: If we knew you really well, we'd probably grab your arm and say "this hotel!!!" with several exclamation points. But instead, we'll attempt some professionalism, and describe it as a majestic and remote outpost in the heart of the desert. With views. That you will. Talk about. Forever. Panamint Mountains in the distance.
Closing date: Furnace Creek Inn closes for the summer on May 9, 2010 (making its final night May 8). Furnace Creek Ranch, the Inn's less-dressy sib, is open all summer.
Amargosa Opera House and Hotel: We've called this a magical place. Maybe we weren't strong enough, even. Ballerina Marta Becket has a simple, unadorned inn and highly adorned opera house, where she produces a twice-a-week show. Another performer has taken the lead in recent years. Picture it: A mysterious opera house in the middle of a vast and silent desert. If you're feeling neck prickles, you should go.
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Plant madness consumes gardeners in the months of May and June. But before loading that hot new plant on to your garden cart, give some thought as to what it needs in terms of care and how you plan to provide it. Will it be stuck into an empty spot in a perennial bed, with no thought as to its need for water? Or will it spend a couple of months in its pot, requiring daily watering, as it becomes root- bound and struggles?
Gardeners often scan the tags of new plants looking for Zone hardiness and sun requirements, but sadly overlook their water needs. And water is key to a plant's existence. Plants can struggle along on less than optimal sun. And plants have lived for years without a drop of fertilizer. But too much or too little water can do them in rather quickly.
Xeric plants, those that once established require little or no supplemental water, suffer when sited next to moisture-loving neighbors such as roses and hydrangeas.
This overwatering often results in deadly crown rot and other diseases for these water-wise plants. Tall sedums, such as 'Autumn Joy' and 'Matrona' spilt apart and flop over, a condition known as lodging, when given too much water. Lavender may thrive in its first season in the garden, but fail to make it through the winter if planted in humus-rich, moisture-holding soil.
Grouping plants according to their moisture needs not only helps them to grow better, it also saves time, possible replacement costs and water—a key element to sustainable gardening.
The technical term for this technique is hydrozoning, which has been practiced in the west for decades. Many western municipalities require landscape designs to include water-conservation materials, drought-tolerant plants and a plan for hydro-zoning.
Hydrozone your garden by separating plants according to their needs for water. Here, Sedum
'Matrona' fronts a stand of lavender (Lavandula) as part of a drought-tolerant perennial planting.1
Including regionally appropriate native plants in the landscape is considered by many to be key to sustainable gardening. But they are only effective as water savers if planted in a hydrozone with other water-wise plants.
How water is applied to the garden is also part of the equation. Watering with a hand-held, hose-end sprayer may be mentally satisfying, but it's a poor method of watering. Few have the patience to stand for the time it takes to deeply water an area.
Drip irrigation, using soaker hoses or drip emitters, is considered tops for efficiency, effectiveness and conservation when installed properly. Water applied slowly seeps into the ground with a minimum of wasteful runoff.
Water moisture-loving plants deeply once a week if Mother Nature doesn't.
Deliver water slowly, so it has time to penetrate and avoid runoff.
To avoid water loss through evaporation, don't use sprinklers when it's windy.
Use saucers under containers so plants can take up runoff.
Use rain gauges in sunny and shady gardens.
Water mature trees at the drip line rather than at the base of the trunk.
Overhead watering with a sprinkler is best for large areas but should be done early in the morning to reduce evaporation and allow leaves to dry before dark, when diseases tend to strike.
Hand-watering with a watering wand is recommended for containers so water can be carefully directed to the surface of the soil. The diffuser breaks up the water flow so as not to wash the soil from the pot.
In the case of drought, a root feeder is an effective and water-wise tool for trees and shrubs.
A 3-inch layer of mulch insulates and protects the soil while holding precious moisture in the ground. Organic materials such as bark, wood chips and leaves provide protection for moisture-loving plants and they enrich the soil as they decompose. Pea gravel, fine crushed stone or pine needles are good choices for xeric gardens.
Less is more when it comes to feeding landscape plants. For moisture- loving plants, humus-rich soil, an organic mulch and a bit of compost is about all they need. Xeric plants thrive in lean soil and Mother Nature takes care of the rest.
1. Photo courtesy of PerennialResource.com
2. Photo courtesy of Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
3. Photo courtesy of Matevz Likar/Fotolia
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The $250 billion U.S. electric power industry is in the midst of historic transformation. The industry structure of the past — vertically integrated utilities operating in protected geographic markets — will soon go the way of the gas lamp. Participants in the future electric power marketplace will have more diverse corporate structures and product offerings. Some will operate in narrow niches, and others, across state and even national geographic boundaries. All will focus on specific areas of competence and, as a result, may be forced to invest in a narrow range of assets and earn a return for their investors in a broad range of ways.
In this article, we outline a new structure for the U.S. electric utility industry. We discuss the factors that will likely lead the industry to fragment into a wide range of service providers in an expanded business. These disparate segments will be linked to serve customers through three emerging types of "value networks" rather than through integrated providers. The first value network will be based on regulated boundaries. The second will be based on linkages created by "virtual" utilities — firms that supply energy services but no longer own all the assets necessary to supply these services. The third will be based on customer-initiated linkages. As a result of these three new networks, customers themselves will be able to assemble more easily a panoply of power services that best suit their unique needs.
Our purpose here is to paint a vision of the emerging future. Such predictions are always risky; nevertheless, articulating a vision helps shape the debate and therefore, indirectly, the evolution of the industry. Our vision is based on analogies drawn from other regulated and unregulated industries that have undergone similar dramatic changes. In addition, we extrapolate from current electricity industry initiatives that provide a glimpse into the future.1
First, we summarize the factors that are forcing a restructuring of the electric power business. Second, we make five projections about the industry's future based on similar experiences in other industries. Third, we describe how the industry will evolve into six discrete business segments, from power generation to energy services. To dominate each segment, utilities will need different core capabilities and will have to learn or import them from industries where competition, powerful customers, and choice have prevailed for years.


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ClydeK needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Corporate information support services department seeks progressive/dynamic logo for promotional items and internal web page.
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Sri wrote:I'm guessing that a thread for questions will eventually open up in the top section (or maybe wait until the new strip has its own forum). However I will put this here. What is the deal with Iseul's name? Meighan says Ms. Kwan in P&A but Sara refers to it as Quon in Quiltbag and the many permutations possible have been referenced in the discussion thread. I think there was a mention of it again in P&A hyphenated with Velte (don't remember if this was referring to the household or if it said as though her mom had hyphenated) but that is very hazy on my part and I might be imagining it. So why the discrepancy between Meighan's speech and Sara's thoughts?
sfk wrote:Hey T,
I'm really happy you took reader feedback into consideration regarding the names! Thank you!
Not to continue being an insufferable pain in the ass, but I'm still wondering about the spelling of Iseul's last name. Currently, it's "Kwan"--still a Chinese last name. Would it be too much trouble to change it to "Kwon?" I made a quick infographic below explaining the rationale behind my request, as best I could:
If it is too much trouble to retcon at this point, I guess I'd be okay with the explanation that Iseul's parents are ethnically Chinese but live in Korea or that her immigration papers got screwed up somehow and she never bothered to correct it. Unless there's some other reason...?
showler wrote:Is there a URL for QUILTBAG?
Getting it through pennyandaggie.com is nice, but I'd expect you'd want one for marketing and so that pennyandaggie.com can be optimized for that strips archives.
Alice Macher wrote:Who's doing the colouring for Quiltbag? I like it.
Alice Macher wrote:I see. Thanks. Only reason I was wondering was that you'd said, back in the Behind the Screens preview, that one of the reasons you hadn't yet decided on colour was that it'd be an additional expense. So I figured that meant either you'd be paying Jason extra, or (if he were concerned about getting it all done in time with that extra step) paying someone else to colour his line art.
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Freemage, do you have a fanclub yet, and can I please join?
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America's very wealthy have a new investment goal: asset appreciation. That's a significant change in investor sentiment since last year, when extreme caution ruled the day.
U.S. Trust, the private banking arm of Bank Of America (BAC), is in the process of releasing its comprehensive 2013 study of 711 folks with more than $3 million in investable assets. Not quite Penta's audience, but close enough.
A robust 88% of those surveyed claimed they now felt "financially secure," with 48% actually insisting they feel more financially secure today than they did five years ago. Six in 10 of these investors say that growth is now a "higher priority" than asset preservation, a significant reversal in objectives from just a year ago, when 58% said preserving assets was their overriding goal. The study supports a recent Barrons.com story on how the market keeps climbing as the wall of worry tumbles.
But life wouldn't be interesting without a bit of dissonance: 63% also said reducing risk and achieving a lower rate of return was more important than pursuing higher returns by increasing risk. That's wishful thinking. There are few investments where lowering your risk tolerance will result in higher asset appreciation. As Leon Cooperman of Omega Overseas Partners points out in our Penta magazine cover, the hunt for higher returns means, "Everyone is in the process of moving up the risk curve."
A little over half in the U.S. Trust study, 56% precisely, claim they have a "large amount of funds" still sitting in cash accounts. But now, all of a sudden, only 12% are comfortable keeping that large stash in cash, a change in sentiment that will undoubtedly thrill Wall Street. Two in five, or 40%, plan to gradually invest cash holdings over the next two years, which some pundits will undoubtedly interpret as yet another sign this bull market has a ways yet to run. But also note that over a third have no plans to invest their cash at all.
Higher taxes have the wealthy coming and going. Only 34% feel they are well-informed about how the change in tax law will affect them; 57% say that pursuing higher returns, regardless of tax consequences, is a higher priority than minimizing their tax bill.
However, Penta is separately noticing a subset of smart investors and advisers trying to straddle both the tax and higher return objectives. Investing in the long-term gains of private equity over the short-term trading profits of hedge funds, for example, will considerably lower the taxes you pay on capital gains. For more such ideas, check out our Penta magazine story, "En Garde: Tax-Hike Investment Tips."
The U.S. Trust study strongly suggests the times are changing, real movement after years of terror and torpor. But on the darker side of these changing expectations and goals lurks the increasing burden that the wealthy are assuming for their extended families, and the increasing risk to family wealth that long-term health care is posing.
"Many of the wealthy have assumed responsibility for extenuating circumstances and financial support needed by a larger family circle that included parents, in-laws and other aging relatives, siblings, nieces and nephews as well as ongoing support for their grown children," notes the report.
Statistically, that means that 63% of the wealthy feel "financially responsible for supporting their parents or in-laws, even if it jeopardizes their own financial security"; 46% of respondents "have already provided substantial support (not a loan) to adult family members." A considerable 55% feel obligated to support their less fortunate siblings, and 56% are already providing financial support to their adult children.
That's rather decent, I would say. But there's also, sadly, a sharp and growing divide in expectations among the different generations. Only 27% of Baby Boomers (ages 49 to 67), and 16% of those over age 68, "ever dreamed their parents might turn to them for financial assistance." Compare that to Generation Y (ages 18 to 32), where 46% expect their parents or in-laws to rely on them financially.
That expectation is, to an important degree, fueled by growing health-care costs and concerns. "Generations X and Y are financially affected by parent's health- and long-term care costs, more than previous generations were." Already 18% of respondents under the age of 49, whose parents are still living, "have personally financed the cost of long-term care for their parents, and 26% are personally paying out-of-pocket medical expenses for parents, in-laws or other aging relatives. Among those whose parents are no longer living, 26% financed the cost of long-term care."
Which highlights an important wealth issue: It's likely you have purchased or at least thought of purchasing long-term care coverage for you and your spouse. But if you are among those who expect to support extended family members, have you thought about purchasing coverage for them as well?
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Brickyard and Brio look to add second-floor patios; new wine bar in the mix
by Joshua Maloni
The owners of two popular Lewiston eateries are thinking growth, while two new investors are planning to open a wine bar in the village.
Three proposals - one each for second-story additions at The Brickyard Pub & B.B.Q. and Brio Pizzeria & Restaurant, and one to turn 700 Center St., into a wine bar - are on the agenda for Tuesday's Village of Lewiston Board meeting (6 p.m., Red Brick Municipal Building).
The Village of Lewiston Planning Board approved all three proposals earlier this week.
At The Brickyard, proprietor Eric Matthews said he and business partner Ken Bryan are adding a second level to their restaurant's outdoor patio, because "(We) like to change it up a bit."
Matthews said the proposed 450-foot expansion "is something different and unique." He said the addition would provide additional shelter for patrons when it rains, while still maintaining space for them to sample barbecue while sitting outside in the sun.
Guests will walk up a staircase to find additional tables and chairs. No food will be served on the top level, but Matthews said diners are welcome to bring their drinks and/or takeout orders upstairs.
Despite The Brickyard's success - and sometimes-cramped quarters - Matthews said there is no plan right now to expand the business onto Ridge Street.
Next door at Brio, owner Mike Wylke plans to convert the building's fire-damaged top level into extra restaurant space.
"I'm thinking about putting a patio deck on the upstairs," he said when he re-opened in December.
Brio, like The Brickyard, would have a two-story outdoor patio.
Down the street, Jack Lyon and Kelly Wiepert, the new owners of 700 Center St. - also known as Amy K's Mystick Korner - plan to expand their building and use it for first-floor retail (three units) and second-floor apartments.
"We thought this was a great opportunity," he said.
The partners propose a corner wine bar, which they've dubbed "Taste!".
Lyon is aware of Emery Simon's recent wine bar proposal, and said both parties have an amicable understanding.
"There's definite growth in the Niagara Wine Trail," Lyon said. "I'd be surprised if we were the last wine bar to open."
As for the other retail units, Lyon said current occupant Katy Reese (middle unit) has expressed an interest to stay in her present location following the renovation.
A third space will be built on the east side of the building. At present, Lyon has no plans for that unit. He will have four apartments in total, including one where a garage now lies.
Lyon said he hopes to start construction on the new addition this spring. As for the current structure, "The building needs some TLC," he said, noting a fresh coat of paint, electrical repairs and restoration of original features are planned. Lyon expects that work to begin this summer.
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Best Spinner of all time - vote aswell.
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
For me, it's too hard to call, but what about you?
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
Other (are you crazy, better than these 2?)
Best Spinner of all time - vote aswell.
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
For me, it's too hard to call, but what about you?
Favourite XI: Trescothick, Cook, Sangakkara, Lara, Dravid, Pietersen, Gilchrist+, Flintoff, Pollock, Warne*, Ntini.
actually i'm goin with murali. just.
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Originally Posted by Turbinator
same here! They always have that enthusiasm! Plus, they start thrads we chatted about only a few weeks ago! But, for the sake of the thread, i'd go for Murali!!
Murali if his arm was straight, Warne otherwise.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
Originally Posted by silentstriker
I was just waiting for u to join the thread! Think we had this discussion a few days ago....but anyway, suprised u haven't burst out at everyone for saying Murali! But, u have a point!
But, still, i'll stick with Murali
Originally Posted by Langeveldt
True, but a certain amount of common sense has to be used. You would surely have to assume that some debate about Warne and Murali has taken place on a cricket forum.
Anyway I go for Murali, his action is in the words of Mr Hair "diabolical", but I don't hold his deformed skeleton against him.
Warne, he's a legend.
Those of you who said Murali, I want to know why.
Murali outperforms Warne in virtually every measurable category. There is no way an unbiased person could claim that Warne is better than Murali, except if they prefer one over the other. Murali has a better economy rate, a better average, a better strike rate, more wickets per test, more five fors and more ten fors (even while playing less tests). For example, Murali has played like 35 less tests than Warne, yet still has about 20 more five-fors, and 8 more ten-fors.
However, it all boils down to the action, as always.
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I was shocked to read that Mark Goldstein, former president of the Humane Society, will receive $1.1 million in damages for illegally being fired from his job. A couple of years ago, I wrote a story for San Diego Reader about how Goldstein was under fire for allegedly settling a sexual harassment lawsuit with humane society funds. At a protest at the Gaines Street shelter, I took photos of huge off-duty police officers intimidating protesters who didn't like Goldstein's actions. The protesters were largely elderly ladies in wig hats and Chihuahuas and a middle-aged man that stood about five-feet tall. According to the protesters, who were volunteers at the shelter, animals were euthanized because of Goldstein's big pay out. Police refused to answer when asked if the settlement came from donations. An employee of San Diego County Department of Animal Services took photos of all of us who were in attendance.
I do not believe he was illegally fired and have to wonder about the competence of arbitrator Patricia Ann Yim Cowett. Something was fishy about Mark Goldstein and I think it is outrageous that even more innocent lives will be taken because of him and this massive award.
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