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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Free Money
When the Liberals decided to put out their corporate tax position last year, my first comments mentioned that this pledge opened the door for new spending initiatives. Previously, there was a "sucking and blowing" component, but the corporate tax savings instantly gave the Liberals fiscal room to put items in the window, without looking overtly irresponsible. Today, Ignatieff wisely puts out the education pledge on the back of the corporate tax cuts, the link is clear, it provides superficial financial cover, but it also puts out the distinct choice. Do you want money for fat cat corporations, or money to send your kids to post secondary education? For all the polling focus, let's not forget the Liberals win all day long on this question, every moment spent on this frame, a net positive.
It's not a huge amount of money, particularly when contrasted with the 6 billion corporate tax figure, the untold billions for planes, further billions for prisons. In fact, the allocation looks a pittance, easily incorporated into a coming fiscal platform to get us to balanced budgets. There is no blowback with this commitment, every conversation will lead to the Conservative commitments, a weakness they simply can't hide from. No matter what the Liberals offer, the Conservatives have given them fiscal cover with their own big ticket items. We are then left to CHOICE, and you can't overstate the significance of this discussion. Also worth noting here, Harper is in such a fiscal bind, his signature announcement yesterday is left to offer far in the future promises, that's all he can do now, his "room" now non-existent, further spending risks mockery.
People can argue about the corporate tax cuts, what the real price is, that is a debate that never ends or brings clarity. That debate is also entirely irrelevant to this frame we now see taking shape, with more to come. Do you want help with education for your kids or help for the big banks? It's a slam dunk proposition, and it explains why Ignatieff didn't bite on the lingering coalition question this morning (even though offered a softball, clear shot at Harper over Flanagan contradicting), because this is our ground and it's rock solid. Today, the campaign turns, let's see if the Liberals can keep it on here.
18 comments:
- Gayle said...
Help with education costs is badly needed. This is a great idea and hopefully an easy sell.
- 10:21 AM, March 29, 2011
- Steve V said...
Should be, every parent I know is concerned about post secondary costs, everyone wants the best for their kid.
- 10:22 AM, March 29, 2011
- Sean Cummings said...
I don't think Canadians see/understand the net benefit of corporate tax cuts in how it will impact their lives in a positive way. I don't even *get* corporate tax cuts, but I do understand that any investment in post secondary education is long overdue, because of this, I think this policy is a winner for the average middle class family.
What I would like to see from the parties in this election is something greater than lip service to skilled trades as a viable option for kids when they finish high school. There is a huge skilled labor shortage in Canada, particularly in the west where I live. I know of many home repair and contracting companies that have to go overseas to get the skilled labor. I'm 43, they used to teach this stuff in school. My son is 20 and he can't turn a wrench. None of his friends can either.
- 11:40 AM, March 29, 2011
- Shiner said...
The Con talking point on this is pathetic, some nonsense about it being a give away to the financial services industry.
Another official line being that it benefits spoiled rich kids... this from the party that just announced a possible future kinda maybe income splitting policy whose maximum benefit goes to people earning $120,000+.
- 11:52 AM, March 29, 2011
- Steve V said...
I don't think they have a coherent way to hit back.
- 12:00 PM, March 29, 2011
- Morakon said...
Good first major policy announcement. Can't wait to see if the have a great Healthcare policy next. That is another major Con weakness.
- 12:21 PM, March 29, 2011
- Kirk said...
I'll miss the whole coalition thing.
It was very revealing of Harper's psychosis.
- 12:35 PM, March 29, 2011
- JohnH said...
This is a great start as many student associations are saying. Blows the
Conservatives out of the water. That said, I do really wish there was less
on offer for upper income families and that money were shifted to lower
income families.
I graduated in 2000 when tuition was about $4000 a year, now I understand
it's about $6000 a year. So the $1,500 a year is still going to leave LOTS of families unable to afford PSE. Tuition goes up 3% a year and I'm not sure if this grant will increase in fluctuation with that.
Wasn't Martin's 50/50 plan in 2006 offerring more than this? To cover first and last year's tuition regardless of cost? The last platform offerred 300,000 needs based bursaries of $3500-$4000 a year based, what was wrong with that plan? So how is this the biggest offer ever as claimed? Personally I preferred the one from the last platform but I guess this one is better politics, but worse policy.
I'm fortunate to come from an upper income family who never needed any
financial assistance to fund my university education. To have given my parents an extra $1,000 a year really is just "free money" and I think a poor use of taxpayer's money.
This plan would have been better to have given like $200 a year to families with household incomes above $150,000 and $3,000 to lower income families (probably still at same the overall cost). Then the "you get the grades, you get to go" mantra would really prove true.
Anyways I still want this policy put into law. I will most definitely be
voting Liberal. The Conservatives have ZERO plan for PSE (and their budget had no long-term plan for much of anything). The NDP cannot replace Harper and a vote for them helps another Conservative get elected.
But I do hope that this Liberal education plan evolves over time to provide more help for low-income families and less help for the families that really don't need it. A 1% raise in the sales tax would cover the full tuition cost of every single low-income student (and probably even households with incomes of up to $200,000) in the country. That's never going to happen unfortunately, but it is possible to do better than this.
- 1:09 PM, March 29, 2011
- Dame said...
Great step Forward a Winner !!
- 1:24 PM, March 29, 2011
- marie said...
My grandson is in his 2nd year In University and his funds to continue the four year program have quickly run dry. His parents funded him for the first year and that took up all their savings. He has always been a miser with his money. Always was a smart guy from kindergarten on to post secondary school. He is studying in the business world and to become and hopes to get his degrees in business science accounting and actually greatly favors economic matters. I would right now place his brain against Herr Harper on his intelligence and knowledge he has amassed in less than 2 years.
He has to pay for tuition, books parking and room and board. He has always been a miser when it came to money and any monetary gifts he has ever received went strictly to his bank account. He had a good summer job and earned what should have been enough to see him through his second year. I am talking about the mid Island University keeping in mind that the majority of the students attending this university live in other countries, most already have paid return fares to their countries have been locked out with a general strike with picket signs and one month wasted and barely enough time to catch up.
In other words, these students and their families have wasted thousands of dollars and by being delayed one year of their paid education and thousands of their hard earned funds. By the time they actually finish this year, all student jobs will have been taken and they either have to go to work full time and start all over again. What I am getting at is that this announcement for post education will be of the greatest value to these young people and their families, instead of the Harper crap announcements. Guess who the teachers support? Union workers and the NDP, and take a guess on who these students and their families will ultimately support? My guess is certainly not the cons or the NDP.
Yesterdays Harper campaign was full of blatant lies that he might be criticized by the Media, (not likely according to what we are actually seeing these days)
People in Libya and Arab countries are losing their lives fighting to have Democratic rights and here we are, fighting to keep a dictator who is campaigning on lies about trying to make this campaign appear as if they were defeated on the budget that never even came up for debate to vote on. Harper clearly wanted an election. All one has to do is listen to his rants for 2 minutes to come to this conclusion.
It doesn't seem to embarrassment him or his supporters in the least that he was defeated by the majority of the house for contempt of Parliament
Sorry for this long post and my rant but by golly, I sure feel better writing this is very good for my health. It helps lower my blood pressure and helps me to prevent another stroke from happening any time soon.
- 1:56 PM, March 29, 2011
- Steve V said...
I understand you can always do more, but by your own math this is a 25% commitment to tuition. I'd add if you put that money in at 14, it will be worth more by 18, that's how RESP's work, or are supposed to anyways ;) I take the point, but this isn't window dressing, it's a serious commitment. I suspect more is on the way, and I wonder if there is something on student debt that couldn't be implemented.
- 2:16 PM, March 29, 2011
- Jerry Prager said...
- 4:55 PM, March 29, 2011
- JohnH said...
Indeed it is a serious commitment and a welcome one I'd like to see become law, all I'm saying is that the last Liberal platform offered more money to low income students (300,000 $3500 to $4000 a year bursaries) than this one does ($1500 a year). The reason this one offers less to low income students but actually costs more overall is because of the $1000 a year going to families who don't need the money (I see that as a lot of money subsidizing something they could easily afford anyway). I do look forward to the Liberals building on this in goverment. I feel they've run an excellent campaign so far and that this policy will sell to a wider audience than the one in the last platform (which only helped lower income canadians), but I still can't but think the old plan was better policy and wiser use of taxpayers dollars.
- 5:46 PM, March 29, 2011
- Kirk said...
The Liberals are overselling this plan. Some of the adjectives they're using to describe it as basically "better than hot coed sex" will turn people off. Let the customer think they've come to the conclusion themselves, cool the hyperbole.
- 6:45 PM, March 29, 2011
- Steve V said...
Who is saying that? I watch Rae on CBC, Lake from CP had little in the way of retort, looked a pure winner.
- 7:25 PM, March 29, 2011
- ottlib said...
What, there is someone else besides the leader of the Liberal Party talking to the media about their election platform?
That can't be.
- 7:37 PM, March 29, 2011
- Kirk said...
I'm hearing this on CBC radio news. Reporting that it is being claimed to be the best program in the world, a "revolution" in education etc.
- 8:31 PM, March 29, 2011
- JohnH said...
I agree it is oversold. It is an excellent start but just look at the comments on facebook and twitter by Liberals or even the liberal.ca website insinuating this the boldest proposal on student assistance in history.
The Globe and Mail's reality check echoes what I said earlier, it would have been better to improve the existing grants system (like the last platform proposed) than tinker with RESPs which will add new complications and not help the needy as much as the previous Liberal plan did. The CBC reality check says most people will not get more than $442 net a year rather $1000 because of the tax credits that are eliminated in conjuction with this plan (though fortunately they note that very low income people would likely still get $1500 net because they weren't eligible for those credits in the first place)
Anyways again, good plan, good start but that's all it is. I'm not sold on the idea that this will measurably change access to education all that much when tuition could rise another $1000 a year over the next 5 years.
On the plus side, if/when the Liberals win this election, the plan can be easily modified for the better in the next budget. If people get similar or more amounts through grants rather than RESPs I hardly think anyone will complain.
I look forward with some bit of optimism for the Liberals plans on infrastructure and democratic reform that should be coming soon :)
- 11:44 PM, March 29, 2011


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You can buy them directly through paypal and then we will manually give you access to our student website, the Ki Campus, where you will be able to listen or watch the classes and also join in the course forums.

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GF-REX's Unreal Addiction
Whats going on? Not much. Progress on the new UnrealRex site has been slowed down due to personal reasons, but it shall get done some day.
ANOTHER move is going on now. This move should be the last one. If you are reading this, then the site should be working again!
Be back soon. Move in progress. If you can see this, your good to go.
This year is the year of the brand new Unreal Rex! Completely new website coming in the following months. Everythings getting cleaned up and organized into one site. The name 'Unreal Addiction' will get dropped and this place will be called the Unreal Rex instead!
The Unreal Addiction is now on UnrealRex.com! Everything seems to be going good now. Might take a day or so for every DNS to update, though.
Domain is secured. Hang on while I get everything else going.
Hosting problems. The Unreal Addiction had a short downtime while handling issues relating to the web host, but the site will be as good as new soon! This website URL is temporary and will get replaced with a real domain name soon. Follow UnrealRex on Twitter to hear the latest.
Another update! I have been working not only on Nuclear Races, but I also revived my custom Redeemer, the Rexy Taxi. It is like combining a Strangelove with a Translocator, with a bird mixed in.
Guess what? Nuclear Races is not dead! The project has been on hold for sometime now, but works been started up again. This time we are getting somewhere. Some sweet maps are being made just for NR by some very talented mappers. No word yet on when NR will become public, though.
The newest version of Rextended is out! Snag RextendedUT v2-5.2 over in the mods section. This version adds in Bombing Run support along with combining the features from the CTF and MH versions. Also worth noting are the fixes to the flag carrier names. Names get shortened and do not extend off the screen any longer!
Expect to see some major changes in the coming months; a complete revamp of the Unreal Addiction is planned! A new look along with different content as well. UT will still be a primary focus, but more of my interests will be covered. No word yet on when this all will happen, though.
The Unreal Addiction has finally moved to it's very own domain name!
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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson (hamstring) is listed as probable for Monday night's game at the Giants on the final injury report, the club said Saturday afternoon.
"He practiced well today, so that was encouraging," Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier said Saturday of Peterson, according to a transcript from the club.
Left tackle Matt Kalil (back) is questionable and missed practice on Saturday, but the Vikings "expect him to be ready to go on Monday night," Frazier said.
Reserve cornerback A.J. Jefferson (ankle) is listed as doubtful, with wide receiver Rodney Smith (hip) questionable.
In addition to Peterson, eight other Vikings are listed as probable: defensive end Jared Allen (ankle), tight end Rhett Ellison (knee), quarterback Christian Ponder (rib), cornerback Xavier Rhodes (ankle), center John Sullivan (hand), placekicker Blair Walsh (left hamstring), defensive tackle Kevin Williams (knee) and wide receiver Jarius Wright (ankle).


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Charles Kennedy: EU review a constructive contribution to the European debate
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
"As the Foreign Secretary said, our EU membership is firmly in the national interest. This review will help inform people about our positive agenda for Europe by providing a constructive and serious British-led contribution to the wider European debate about how to modernise, reform and improve the EU.
"We are already delivering major positive EU-wide reforms such as devolving powers over fisheries policy, dramatically lifting the burden of regulation on small businesses and strengthening MPs' involvement in EU affairs at home. There is much more we want to deliver.
"But holding the EU to ransom as some want to do simply does not work. We will be left without a UK seat at the table, unable to stand up for the UK's interests when neighbouring countries make separate agreements on growth and financial services, and powerless over serious cross-border issues like pollution, climate change or organised crime. That is not standing up for Britain."


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Today's Xbox Live Deals are a Sporting Good Time
As Microsoft's Countdown to 2014 sale on Xbox Live continues on, the daily deals turn towards the competitive sports arena.
Nothing delivers a good time like some arcade sports, and to that end, you'll find four solid sports titles on sale this Monday on Xbox Live. All four games in the sale are being offered at 75 percent off. First, you'll find the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition available for just $3.74. If roundball isn't your game, and you're more about the pigskin, then you'll definitely want to hop on NFL Blitz, also available for just $3.74.
Of course, you might be into some European sports, so that makes the FIFA Street 3 $5 deal pretty enticing. Then there's our friends from north of the border to think about. For all you sweater junkies, 3-on-3 NHL Arcade is going to be available for $1.24. That's pocket change you can believe in.
The deals will continue for the rest of the year, so check back again tomorrow to see what Major Nelson's got a deal on.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Bye-bye Fed funds target
The text is here. In it Bernanke also suggests a new instrument for removing excess reserves from the system, a term deposit banks could make to the Fed that would compete with Treasuries as a store of liquidity for them.
�Although at present the U.S. economy continues to require the support of highly accommodative monetary policies, at some point the Federal Reserve will need to tighten financial conditions by raising short-term interest rates and reducing the quantity of bank reserves outstanding,� he wrote.
�We have spent considerable effort in developing the tools we will need to remove policy accommodation, and we are fully confident that at the appropriate time we will be able to do so effectively.�
Mr. Bernanke, however, did provide new details of a major concern: how, as the recovery proceeds, to gradually shrink the balance sheet, which along with a vast array of assets also includes $1.1 trillion that banks are holding with the Fed.
Mr. Bernanke suggested that a new policy tool � the interest rate on excess reserves, which the Fed began paying in October 2008 � would be a vital part of the Fed�s strategy.
Increasing that interest rate, he said, will have the effect of pushing up other short-term interest rates, including the benchmark fed funds rate � the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight.
The Federal Reserve would likely auction large blocks of such deposits, thus converting a portion of depository institutions' reserve balances into deposits that could not be used to meet their very short-term liquidity needs and could not be counted as reserves. A proposal describing a term deposit facility was recently published in the Federal Register, and we are currently analyzing the public comments that have been received. ... we expect to be able to conduct test transactions this spring and to have the facility available if necessary shortly thereafter. Reverse repos and the deposit facility would together allow the Federal Reserve to drain hundreds of billions of dollars of reserves from the banking system quite quickly, should it choose to do so.Both new instruments provide a means by which the Fed can increase its balance sheet without impacting the money supply, by inducing banks not to use their excess reserves for deposit expansion. I was familiar with both these instruments in Macedonia, where excess reserves were close to 30% of the money supply. The problem there was that it created flabby banks unwilling to lend, since easy government revenue was close at hand. The Fed does not directly spend taxpayer dollars, but its remission of excess earnings from its portfolio to the Treasury would be shifted to banks, and that indirectly expands the government's need for additional debt to cover its spending. That's not likely to go over well.
The biggest signal was not a date but a statement that the Federal funds rate would no longer be a policy instrument for the Fed, at least for awhile:
As a result of the very large volume of reserves in the banking system, the level of activity and liquidity in the federal funds market has declined considerably, raising the possibility that the federal funds rate could for a time become a less reliable indicator than usual of conditions in short-term money markets. Accordingly, the Federal Reserve is considering the utility, during the transition to a more normal policy configuration, of communicating the stance of policy in terms of another operating target, such as an alternative short-term interest rate. In particular, it is possible that the Federal Reserve could for a time use the interest rate paid on reserves, in combination with targets for reserve quantities, as a guide to its policy stance, while simultaneously monitoring a range of market rates. No decision has been made on this issue; we will be guided in part by the evolution of the federal funds market as policy accommodation is withdrawn. The Federal Reserve anticipates that it will eventually return to an operating framework with much lower reserve balances than at present and with the federal funds rate as the operating target for policy.The last time the Fed abandoned the Fed funds target was October 1979, when then-Chair Paul Volcker thought it more prudent to stop inflation by using a target on reserves. That lasted perhaps three years, maybe less (see Alton Gilbert for more.) That period led to rather high volatility in interest rates may have contributed to the double-dip recessions in 1980-82.
It would be fair criticism of the above to say we really haven't used the Fed funds target for awhile and that this is just recognition of reality. But the FOMC statement still focused on it, and the Fed had not enunciated until yesterday what we might look at for an alternative target. Now we have. This will make reading the next FOMC statement on March 16 very interesting indeed.
UPDATE: John Taylor doesn't like the term deposits from the Fed to the banks.
In my view, Fed borrowing instruments should be avoided as much as possible because they delay essential adjustments in reserves and create precedents which make it easier to deviate from the monetary framework in the future. Similarly, the instrument of paying interest on reserves to achieve the short term interest rate target should be used only during a well defined transition period.He argues instead for a rule that ties Fed fund rate increases to a decrease in reserves. It would make Fed policy more predictable.
[P]olicy makers could treat this exit rule as an exit guideline rather than a mechanical formula to be followed literally, much as a policy rule for the interest rate is treated as a guideline rather than mechanical formula. They would vote on how much to reduce reserves at each meeting along with the interest rate vote. Note that the exit rule would we working in tandem with a policy rule for the interest rate, such as the Taylor rule.With all that's going on in Europe, this might be sliding under the radar. It shouldn't.
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Rita Ora's 'R.I.P' Available on iTunes, Announced as her Second U.S. Single
Our favorite ruby-lipped newcomer Rita Ora is everywhere, from magazine covers to iTunes. The singer's second U.S. single is 'R.I.P.,' and it's available on iTunes. It'll be on her upcoming album 'Ora,' which drops later this year. The song features Rita's fellow U.K. breakout music star Tinie Tempah dropping science.
While 'Ora' will be released in two weeks, on Aug. 27 in the U.K., we have to wait a little longer to feast on the album stateside, but like all good things in life, it's worth waiting for.
Ora is a big deal across the pond, as 'How We Do (Party)' was released on Sunday (Aug. 12) and is headed for a No. 1 debut. It'll be her third No. 1 so far, and she is the only artist this year to rack up three chart-toppers in the U.K. So congrats to Ora on achieving that major milestone.
Oh, and speaking of magazine covers, the sexy singer is in the running to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone. She is up against Karmin's Amy Heidemann, but if you heart Rita and want her to win, well you can cast your vote here. We know it's a tough choice since both ladies are amazing (and they are pals, too), but you can have your voice be heard by voting for the best woman. We wish they BOTH could be on the cover, since they are supremely stylish and talented. But alas, you can only cast one vote.
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'The Walking Dead' Season 4: Norman Reedus Talks Revamped Zombie Threat, New Showrunner
Before 'The Walking Dead' season 3 came to a close (and we knew whether or not the Governor would return), executive producer Gale Ann Hurd previewed that the AMC horror-drama's fourth season would seek to amp up the threat of the 'Walking Dead' themselves, who had become manageable. With season 4 filming underway, what does series star Norman Reedus have to say about the new walkers threatening Daryl and the others?
Speaking on an Entertainment Weekly podcast, Reedus acknowledged that the walkers had definitely become a more dangerous threat in the episodes shot for season 4, saying, "They've introduced a way to make the zombies scary again. They're terrifying. The new threat is just unreal." Of course, with Rick and a host of others from Woodbury holed up at the prison after season 3 finale "Welcome to the Tombs," it remains to be seen what exactly would amp up the walkers' danger levels.
Moreover, Reedus admitted that the fourth season's writing structure had changed somewhat in the wake of writer Scott Gimple taking over for the departed Glen Mazzara, but that the season had lost none of its pace. "It's so intense," says Reedus of the episodes already in production. "These are our best scripts so far."
While we wait for season 4, the next run of 'The Walking Dead' will introduce 'The Wire''s Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as haunted Army medic Bob Stookey, while actors Chad Coleman, Sonequa Martin-Green and Emily Kinney have all been upgraded to series regulars. AMC earlier confirmed that David Morrissey's villainous Governor would also return in season 4 as a series regular.
What say you? Are you excited to see walkers brought back as the main threat for 'The Walking Dead' season 4, or would you prefer to bring back the Governor right away? What are you most looking forward to from AMC's monster hit?


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Great start for 2010 Fifa World Cup 2010
Just to keep you guys updated!
The score for yesterday's matches was 1:1 for South Africa vs Mexico and 0:0 for Uruguay vs France.
Yeah, you can see customer from our very own hostel and public in the picture above. It was a rowdy yet enjoyable night so why don't you head down to G4 Station and book a bed with us now!


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Steaming ahead in season six of True Blood and appearing in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, Anna Paquin has never been hotter.
"Sleep's not a very big part of my life right now," admits Anna Paquin, star of HBO's sexy sensation True Blood, who is surprisingly clear-headed, given that she's spent the bulk of her day working on the series' set, breaking somewhat late in the evening to speak with me before turning her attention back to her husband, co-star Stephen Moyer, and their 9-month-old twins at their home in West L.A. "But that's fine. It's kind of part of the deal."
The demands of Paquin's career, which has hit a highly productive sweet spot, stretch her waking hours thin, maybe even more so than the requirements of first-time motherhood. But from the sound of it, she wouldn't have it any other way.
"This is one of the jobs where you don't get to pick the timing, and when it rains, it pours," explains the actress, who at age 30 is one of television's most popular stars, with a film career on the upswing. "When there are interesting things happening and interesting people you want to work with, you kind of jump on it and figure out the details, which thankfully have all kind of fallen into place. And then I've had a really, really awesome last few months."
First and foremost, there's True Blood, the show that, even after her steady career as a child actress, made her a bona fide star. She returns for the soaplike series' sixth season, debuting this month, to play out the continuing saga of Sookie Stackhouse, the pert and plucky roadhouse waitress whose beguiling faerie ancestry serves as a sort of sexual catnip for a variety of vampires, lycanthropes and other hunky members of the supernatural—and usually shirtless—cast.
Building on the blueprint of the heroine provided by novelist Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries series and transfused to TV by Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, Paquin deftly delivers Sookie as simultaneously strong-willed and vulnerable, sensual and sweet, exotic and down-to-earth, keeping her Golden Globe-winning performance rooted to what's written on the page. "I read the books and obviously that was very helpful, but [TV's] Sookie was created by Alan and our writers—the way she has grown has felt like a natural and collaborative process," says the starlet, who loves the character's fearlessness and strength.
True Blood followers will be comforted to know that things remain as harrowing as ever for Bon Temps' leading temptress in the new season, which picks up from a cliffhanger that left Sookie and her onetime blood-sucking suitor Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) discovering her other vampire paramour, and possible true love Bill (hubby Moyer), transmogrifying into an evil-incarnate ubervampire. "Things left off in a pretty serious place in regards to where Eric and I leave Bill having just turned into this creature of the blood with these monster fangs—and who the hell knows what that is?" she poses, chuckling. "So obviously, that situation has to [play] out. And we have new cast members this year, and that's always fun to have fresh blood, if you'll pardon the pun."
Among the new faces is Brit actor Rob Kazinsky as the charismatic Ben, who helps Sookie and her brother Jason delve deeper into the mystery behind their parents' death and is, perhaps, yet another magical entity looking to get into her short shorts. Plot twists aside, expect a more introspective Sookie.
"This season, the writers and I have been making a concerted effort to help Sookie grow up, become a little bit darker, more accepting of her fate, more self-knowing," says newly minted True Blood showrunner Bryan Buckner, further revealing that the character will explore her attraction to vampires head on in a soul-searching journey made exponentially more compelling through Paquin's subtly nuanced performance. "She is able to tell us so much with her eyes… I don't think there are very many actors out there who could pull off what we're asking of her this season… Her performances literally hold [True Blood] together as a show."
Paquin sees Sookie as a "danger magnet." "[This] translates into something pretty dramatic happening to her most of the time, which means it's pretty much impossible to ever get bored on the job," says Paquin, noting the series' compelling horror trappings. "It's entertaining to watch, and it's really entertaining to do. Because [the show falls] under the umbrella of what I guess you could call 'genre,' we get to kind of make up rules for our universe and you're not just limited to what actually exists in reality."
The reality is, Sookie has seduced Hollywood too, and Paquin is pleased to see similar meaty opportunities for actresses in female-driven projects like Homeland and Weeds on Showtime and HBO's The Big C. "It's been really amazing getting to work on a show that kind of treats the girls and boys the same. The girls are just as much a part of the action as the boys are and sometimes more so," she says.
But the actress was in on the action long before she landed in Bon Temps. Paquin appeared in Marvel Comics' big-screen version of X-Men in 2000 as the life-force-leeching, unable-to-touch Rogue. Paquin provided a relatable and conflicted counterpart to star-in-the-making Hugh Jackman's roiling, raging Wolverine, infusing the film with the kind of teenage angst that sustains comic-book culture. With X-Men director Bryan Singer back at the helm for the upcoming installment X-Men: Days of Future Past, Paquin reunited with her first genre family—Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and more mutant mainstays ("a group of people I've known for years and years whom I genuinely love and respect")—to reinhabit Rogue, even as she was neck-deep into Sookie's latest story arc. But, thanks to some creative scheduling and liberal kindness from both productions, Paquin accommodated a speedy stint in Montreal.
All this comes on the heels of not only two brand-new babies, but also a more figurative offspring with Moyer: The couple teamed up to produce the indie flick Free Ride, starring Paquin, at a breakneck pace. The plot involves a single mom's tangle with the 1970s marijuana trade while raising her daughters. "We just thought it was a fascinating piece of material and a really exciting new talent to work with [writer-director Shana Betz]… we kind of muscled on through and got it done," explains Paquin of the push to kick-start the production. "Small indie films that are labors of love are not easy, but absolutely worth it on every level once you've got the final product."
With Free Ride completed and being shopped to distributors, Paquin, the youngest of three children, is experiencing the kind of remarkably fertile period she'd dreamed of when she committed to the life of an actor, around age 15. Though she was also interested in fashion design and photography, and was becoming an accomplished cellist, her focus in combination with the timing of her parents' divorce prompted Paquin to relocate to L.A. from her native New Zealand. Another turning point came when she abandoned college for theater, which ultimately convinced her she was on the right path.
As Paquin matured, managing to skirt the ubiquitous child-star pitfalls along the way, she racked up a solid list of film credits (Fly Away Home, Amistad, A Walk on the Moon and Almost Famous) before X-Men and, later, True Blood, cemented her adult career status. "I've been really blessed," she insists. "I've never really been drawn to things because I wanted to be famous or huge or anything. I'd rather do one day's work on a movie that is really creatively interesting than be in every single frame of something that I find a little dull. I feel like that guided my choices a lot and I've consequently been drawn to people who, in the best possible way, kind of kicked my ass, because I didn't want to be the weak link."
That was unlikely. Paquin is, after all, an Oscar winner, taking home a best supporting actress Oscar for The Piano at age 11 in 1993, an experience she regards with a blend of matter-of-factness and mystification. "I mean, it's a pretty bizarre and awesome thing to happen to a small child living in New Zealand," she marvels. "It consistently, sort of implausibly, has afforded me enormous opportunities and opened a door for me that probably wouldn't have opened otherwise. I'm very grateful, but it's just kind of part of the texture of my childhood. That was 20 years ago." Nearly a lifetime for a woman with an equally thriving professional and family life, all achieved without a too-specific agenda.
"I kind of just put my work in and see where it gets me… I'll see [what] the universe offers up," says Paquin, with a sanguine attitude that suggests she might also squeeze in a good night's sleep very soon. "Oh, probably not," she laughs.


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GRANDVIEW – Friends, family, city employees and fellow law enforcement officials gathered last Friday to celebrate the 42 years Grandview Police Chief Dave Charvet has served the community.
At Charvet's retirement party, Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin and Sunnyside Police Commander Phil Schenck said Charvet has been "…a great partner in law enforcement."
Irwin said he has high praise for Charvet, who has provided stability.
Charvet began his career with the Grandview Police Department at the age of 20 on June 15, 1972.
He attended Yakima Valley Community College after graduating from Grandview High School. While at college, his older brother was enrolled in the law and justice program, which captured his interest.
"I decided to apply for the program to see if I liked it," said Charvet, stating he caught the law enforcement bug soon after.
After earning his degree, the Grandview police chief, Ted Wolfe, encouraged Charvet to apply with the Grandview Police Department.
"I told him I wasn't old enough," Charvet said, noting he wasn't yet 21-years-old.
Wolfe didn't accept that as an excuse and urged Charvet to take the civil service test.
Charvet has worked for the department since.
He was tapped for the police chief's position after just 10 years on the job. "I moved up through the ranks," Charvet said.
Police Chief George Miller, Wolfe's successor, named Charvet to the position upon his retirement.
There have been many changes throughout the years, but the one constant has been Charvet's love for his community.
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skankyc replied to skankyc's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubCheers flying clutchman that's a relief! @FOCA I have let it warm up to normal temp before and driven it for around 40 minutes on the M25 and it was the same! The temperature gauge don't really reach the halfway mark. No coolant in there at the minute as the previous person didn't bother I guess, its just been topped up with water and a bit light brown/orange looking. The car was running nice and quite a few weeks back but idle seems a tad rough, nothing major but I notice the slightest thing. Haha. But it starts/drives fine.
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skankyc posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubHI, I have a mk5 fiesta, im not getting any hot air, it blows warmish for about 10 seconds then goes cold, both pipes on HCV are warm/hot, the bottom rad hose is warm, and thermostat opening, fan kicking in etc...im stuck! 2nd problem when I start the car, I can hear a little whining/rubbing noise, sounds like a pump or something, then when I press the clutch down the noise goes? any ideas?
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skankyc replied to skankyc's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubThe garage looked in the expansion tank, he dipped his finger in it and he reckons there was water/oil in the coolant but I looked myself and I cant see it in the coolant. I've checked the oil filler cap and there's no creamy gunk on it. I'll have to check the thermostat and radiator
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skankyc posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI was driving for about 45 minutes, 30 mins was on the motorway. Was driving through a busy town stuck in traffic for 15 minutes, Next thing you know I felt bubbling, through the pedals, then steam was coming from drivers side of engine. Engine stalled, I restarted as the temp gauge was just below halfway, Pulled up into a carpark and coolant was leaking from the expansion bottle. I topped it back up with about a litre of water as the expansion tank was full after putting it in. Managed to drive it for 15 minutes to get to a local garage. My thought were head gasket failure, But no gunk under oil filler cap, cant see no water in the oil when I removed the dipstick. I was told it weak antifreeze, so not sure if the thermostat had rusted up due to the cold weather?? The garage I went to reckon its early stages of head gasket failure?? Any ideas on what to do next as they quoted me £300 to do it and I'm not totally convinced as of yet.
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Mother Jones moves to augment its investigative output and Web presence with a new
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By Kelly Wilson Kelly Wilson (email@example.com) is an AJR editorial assistant.
In July Stephanie Mencimer got something that used to be a commodity outside her grasp: a press pass. Not to mention access to LexisNexis, hot coffee and a desk to put it all on.
In the past Mencimer, like almost all of Mother Jones' writers, was part of a network of freelancers. Now, with the opening of the San Francisco-based magazine's Washington bureau, she and six others have a permanent home.
But common newsroom toys like Mencimer's were just the beginning of Editor Clara Jeffery's work in Washington where, with the occasional help of a few others, she spent June sorting out "everything from bureau chief to making sure the phone lines worked."
Opening the bureau is part of an effort to update and expand the publication's tradition of investigative reporting by producing more material than the magazine can print on paper, both in length and quantity. It's something Mother Jones Publisher and President Jay Harris, who pleads guilty to having a flair for the dramatic, calls vital to democracy itself.
Besides giving writers the time to make all the contacts and dig up all the documents they need, creating a staff means having a team truly committed to the magazine. As Communications Director Richard Reynolds says, "When somebody is reporting for us, you're going to get their best stuff and full attention."
That enables the magazine to focus more attention on the Internet, where its previous presence was much more limited and editors produced the content. For a politically themed outlet like left-leaning Mother Jones, timelier investigative pieces and live blog entries from more writers should prove tremendously valuable.
The full-time staff can also afford to risk chasing leads that may not pan out. "If you're going to freelance an investigative story, you kind of have to be sure you've got it," Jeffery says. Having a staff, "you know the people you're working with are capable of pulling off the kind of digging around required. If you're a free-lancer, it's not going to be profitable for you to be going down rabbit holes."
That type of reporting, what Editor Monika Bauerlein calls the "franchise of the magazine," was responsible for the beginning of the D.C. staff story back in the summer of 2006, when Josh Harkinson in San Francisco and Dan Schulman and senior correspondent James Ridgeway in D.C. were the magazine's I-team.
The office as it stands today came through the addition of Mencimer, Bureau Chief David Corn, Laura Rozen (formerly a senior correspondent for The Washington Monthly and The American Prospect), Jonathan Stein (former assistant Web editor and editorial fellow for Mother Jones) and Bruce Falconer (staff editor at the Atlantic for almost six years). Mother Jones still keeps Harkinson on the West Coast, but he is the extent of the magazine's reporting staff outside the D.C. bureau.
"Around the time I came on, the editors really wanted to make a bigger investigative push and get into the conversation," said Schulman, now associate editor at the bureau.
More than just getting into it, Jeffery says, Mother Jones wants to be able to steer the conversation and draw the mainstream media's attention to stories that might otherwise slip through the cracks. "We don't want to just follow," she says. While she freely acknowledges "there's no way we can compete with the New York Times or the Washington Post on a daily basis on every front," she says the magazine can "stay on stories longer and dig up the documents those stories require."
And naturally Mother Jones also hopes to get noticed by the readers who, along with the Foundation for National Progress, fund the independent bi-monthly. "It's a larger journey of taking the magazine from a very fine bimonthly publication to a news organization that still creates a very fine bimonthly publication but is also much more of a presence in readers' daily lives," Bauerlein says.
Despite the advantages of having a D.C. staff, the magazine continues to see freelancers as its main content producers, particularly for the print version, which has a circulation of 231,000. Because of the volume of material freelancers contribute and their different areas of expertise, the editors consider them indispensable. "It's not like we're going to become just a staff-driven magazine," Jeffery says. "We're not going to split that baby."
That pool provided Mother Jones with many of the hundreds of highly qualified applicants whose résumés Bauerlein says she and Jeffery sifted through to find the missing five pieces of the bureau. After weeks of correspondence, interviews and lunches, the new staff members were selected based on their interest in public affairs and their commitment to investigative reporting. "In each of their cases it was just a
stellar reporting background, a history of good writing and an interest in developing in writing as well as reporting," Bauerlein says. "Complicated and weighty topics are better told in good prose than bad prose."
In fact, she says, much of the bureau staff ultimately came from former Mother Jones freelancers, including Bureau Chief Corn, former Washington editor of The Nation.
She says the magazine's leadership had known Corn for some time before offering him the position; he was on a sort of "dream list" for the magazine because of his strong reporting abilities and "sharp analytical voice." He was also an early and enthusiastic blogger, Bauerlein says, which made him an ideal candidate because of the magazine's Internet ambitions.
As bureau chief, Corn would like to reunite the Internet and serious reporting after what he feels has been a long estrangement. He sees the blogosphere, once a promising place for serious commentary, as more the home of gossip than a forum for fact-based journalism.
"What technology hasn't done in many ways is produce new reporting and actual journalism," he says. "Blogs have done a good job of celebrity coverage, but it hasn't led to a flood of new reporting in Washington."
The timing of the expansion is unusual in an era characterized by budget cuts and staff reductions. Mencimer says she was glad for the opportunity to get a full-time position in the capital at a time when retrenchment has led to a feeling that it's not a great time to be in journalism. But Reynolds says Mother Jones is optimistic about its new venture. After all, "We wouldn't be doing it if we didn't think we could keep it open."
The key to survival for print publications, Mother Jones included, is high quality, Publisher Harris says. "You can't be so-so," he says. "People have too many choices. There's no room for mediocre print."


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CHICAGO – The Minnesota Wild got a terrific effort from Josh Harding in a tough spot. Ryan Suter helped Minnesota keep the Blackhawks' high-powered attack in check, and the Wild still lost Game 1.
The problem for Minnesota is the same one the Hawks presented all season long to the rest of the NHL, and it could become even more important as the series moves forward.
The Hawks are so deep that it's tough to keep track of everyone.
Take the overtime goal in Tuesday night's playoff opener, which went to the Hawks' third line. Or the ice time on the score sheet, which showed a pretty even distribution for the Hawks compared to an astounding 41 minutes for Suter and 34 for fellow Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin.
"Every shift's critical, and it's important that you hold up your end of the bargain," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said Wednesday. "Your depth's going to get challenged and I think we found out all year it was one of the strengths of our team. This year, in the playoffs, I don't think that's changed at all, maybe it would even be that much more important."
Minnesota's depth was challenged when goalie Niklas Backstrom was scratched with a leg injury after he hurt himself while reaching for a puck as he warmed up for Game 1. Harding, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last summer and played in only five games this season, responded with 35 saves.
"To not expect to play and halfway through warm-ups you find you have to play, to flip that switch, that's a tough thing," Suter said. "I thought he did great. That's a lot of pressure on a guy to come in and perform, and he did. Hopefully, he continues to have great success like he had."
Backstrom and right wing Jason Pominville are day to day, according to coach Mike Yeo. Pominville missed the last two games of the regular season after he was elbowed in the chin by Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings.
That means Harding could be in the net again for Game 2 on Friday night at the United Center, a week after he replaced an ineffective Backstrom and allowed three goals himself in a 6-1 loss to Edmonton that nearly cost the Wild a playoff spot.
"I was anxious for a lot of reasons to see him have a chance to bounce back," Yeo said. "He was thrown into a tough situation in that Edmonton game, and if you know Josh, he's a competitor and I'm sure he was looking for an opportunity to get back in there, too. Obviously, he wasn't expecting it to happen like that. You've got confidence in the guys that are in your room."
The Hawks rolled to an NHL-best 36-7-5 record this season, winning the Presidents' Trophy for the first time in 32 years and raising the expectations for a second championship in four years. Nine players had at least 20 points, helping them to 149 goals – second only to high-scoring Pittsburgh.
Beyond Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa, Patrick Sharp, rookie Brandon Saad and speedy Viktor Stalberg all are capable scorers. Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland came up with a handful of big plays this year. Defensemen Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Niklas Hjalmarsson can contribute on both sides of the ice.
Thanks to all that depth, the Hawks kept winning even when injuries arose and forced Quenneville to shuffle the lines a bit. Bolland and goalie Ray Emery, who have been out with lower body injuries, could practice Thursday, but Quenneville was uncertain about their availability for Game 2.
From the stars to the role players, the Hawks have received contributions up and down the roster this season. And they think it could make a difference as the series wears on against the Wild.
"That's supposed to be one of those advantages we have as a team, that if the game goes late like it did last night, that we still have a lot of energy," Toews said. "We still have a lot of legs and we can keep going and rely on whoever it is to score that overtime goal. It doesn't really matter who gets the job done. We'll find ways to wear teams down."
The overtime goal in Game 1 went to Bickell, who went to his backhand to slide the puck between Harding's legs for the score. Defenseman Johnny Oduya helped set up the winning play with a long pass to Stalberg, who found Bickell in the middle of the ice.
That was the very end of Minnesota's first playoff appearance in five years, but the Wild remain confident.
"What if we score the overtime winner? What's the story today?" Yeo said. "Are they saying what a great job that our top line did and how their top line needs to find more, because 5-on-5 they didn't have much either. And that's one important thing to remember. The difference in the game was we scored one 5-on-5 goal, and they scored one 5-on-5 goal, and they got one power play [goal] and we didn't."


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2005: Paluf finished her Yale career with 15 digs an ace and an assist in eight games. Her best performance came during the Yale Invitational, a nine-dig performance against St. Francis (NY) on Sept. 17. She finished her career with 239 digs, 126 kills, 18 blocks, 18 assists and 16 service aces. She captained the team to its highest single-season winning percentage in school history (.833).
2004: Paluf was elected team captain by her teammates after playing in 31 games during Yale's run to the NCAA Tournament in 2004. The outside hitter often came off the bench to give the Bulldogs a spark. She totaled 56 digs, 11 kills, nine assists, three blocks and an ace. Paluf was at her best helping the Bulldogs sweep to the title of the Courtyard by Marriott at Yale Classic. She had a season-high six kills against Sacred Heart on Sept. 24, then played libero and registered 15 digs in three games the next day against Wagner.
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I say our two cats are our children who won't give us back-talk nor grow up and leave. Leave? Hardly. They are underfoot much of the time and try to be helpful. When I work in the yard, they are observing me as if learning what to do. However, when I run the mower, they scatter, frightened by the noise.
When Milton, my husband, and I watch our weekly Netflix movie, they sit on our laps, though the film seems to put them to sleep.
Now that the weather is turning mild, they enjoy going out for brief periods. Thus, Milton and I play the game: one in, one out. You might think this coming-and-going is annoying, but actually it is good for us. Neither of us is allowed to sit for too long.We are constantly checking the window panels on the side of the front door, where the cats appear when they want to come in.
When we eat in the kitchen, they jump up on the counter next to us and wait for food. They think they're people and enjoy people food: meat, fish and all types of gravy. Egg salad in mayonnaise is a favorite.
By their walk and sometimes by voice, the cats make their wants known. At 11 p.m. last night while I was reading on the chaise, Fred walked to the top of the stairs. I knew he wanted to go out, probably to use the outdoor facilities. But if I went downstairs with him, I'd have to wait for his return or be disturbed during the night when he appeared at the bedroom window having climbed a tree, leaped onto the roof and walked across the bedroom window. Since Milton is more auditorally challenged than I, the job of opening the screen and window to let him in is mine.
This night I did not feel like going downstairs. Let him walk to the cellar and use the litter box, as a cat is supposed to (according to house rules). Instead he jumped on the chaise and relieved himself on my night shirt. I should have wanted to kill the cat, but I could feel no anger. He had told me of his need, and I ignored him. After I changed my shirt, I went to bed while he was still on the chaise. By getting in before him, I staked out a spot before he did. So there!
Joining our family this spring is a mouse, small enough to sit in the palm of my hand — if I could catch him. Alone at night in the kitchen drinking tea, I have seen him run from the refrigerator towards the food cabinet and cat bowls.
One morning I caught him on the floor in front of a cabinet next to the food dishes where the cats were breakfasting. If I was quick enough, I might have been able to stomp on him, but that's not me. I see signs of his droppings on the cabinet shelves and in the cellar but haven't detected any gnawed packages of food.
On the contrary. What he is doing in the corner of the bottom shelf is stashing kernels of dry cat food. One morning when Milton lifted his fresh clothes sitting atop his gym bag, dried cat food fell to the floor. This clever fellow (the mouse, not Milton) was establishing a second stash. As for our cats, they have absorbed the ethic of live-and-let-live, or the mouse has out-foxed them, whichever.
While the birds outside are not our pets, they, like the cats, hang around the house. I have a suet and a seed feeder, which they empty regularly. They, too, have the live-and-let-live ethic. I notice that they shake the seed feeder, causing seeds to fall on the porch for the ground-feeding birds and squirrels. They thank me in their joyous squalls and by sitting in the tree at the curb and pooping on my car parked below. That's the beauty of Mt. Airy: all creatures living side by side, respectfully.
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My most recent Bloomberg column on the network of credit default swaps contracts provoked a comment from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. The group objected to my characterization of the network of outstanding CDS contracts as "hidden" and potentially a source of trouble. I'd like to address their concerns, and also raise some questions.
Contrary to the association's claim, I am aware of the existence of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. I'll admit to having underestimated how much their project to create a warehouse of information on CDS contracts has developed in the past few years; my statement that these contracts are not "recorded by any central repository" was too strong, as a partial repository does exist, and the DTCC deserves great credit for creating it.
However, it is not clear that this repository gives such a complete picture of outstanding CDS linkages that we can all relax.
For example, DTCC's repository covers 98 percent of all outstanding CDS contracts, not 100 percent. Asking why may or may not be a quibble. After all, a map showing 98 percent of the largest 300 cities in the U.S. could leave out New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia. Moreover, the simple number of contracts tells us nothing about the values listed on those contracts. In principle, the missing 2 percent of contracts could represent a significant fraction of the outstanding value of CDS contracts.
More importantly, when thinking about potentially cascading risks in a complex network, fine details of the network topology -- its architecture or wiring diagram -- matter a lot. Indeed, the CDS contracts that put American Insurance Group Inc. in grave danger in 2008 represented a tiny fraction -- much less than 1 percent -- of the total number of outstanding CDS contracts.
Hence, it would be interesting to know why the repository holds only 98 percent rather than 100 percent. There may be a very simple and reassuring answer, but it's not readily apparent from DTCC's description of the repository.
Also, there is another issue which makes "fully transparent" not quite the right phrase for this network of contracts, even if we suppose the 98 percent leaves out nothing of importance.
The DTCC commendably makes its data available to regulators. Still, it appears that the full network of interdependencies created by CDS contracts may remain opaque to regulators, because DTCC, according to its own description, enables...
"... each regulator to access reports tailored to their specific entitlements as a market regulator, prudential or primary supervisor, or central bank. These detailed reports are created for each regulator to show only the CDS data relevant to its jurisdiction, regulated entities or currency, at the appropriate level of aggregation."This would imply, for example, that regulators in the U.S. can look and see which of their banks have sold CDS on, say, a big German bank. But the health of the U.S. banks then depends directly on the health of that German bank, which may in turn have sold CDS on Greek or Italian debt or any number of other things. The DTCC data on the latter CDS contracts would, apparently, not be available to U.S. regulators, being out of their jurisdiction.
The point is that a financial institution is at risk not only from contracts it has entered into, but also from contracts that its many counterparties have entered into (this is the whole idea of systemic risk linked to the possibility of contagion). Credible tests of the financial network's resilience require a truly global analysis of the potential pathways along which distress (particularly from outright counterparty failures) may spread. It's not clear that any regulator has the full data on which such an analysis can be based.
None of this, by any means, is meant as a criticism of DTCC or what it has done in the past few years. The 98 percent figure is impressive, and let's hope the 98 percent soon becomes 100 percent and the DTCC finds a way to make ALL information in the repository available to regulators everywhere. Even better would be full disclosure to the public.
Of course, nothing in the comment from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association changes the main point of my column, which was that it is incorrect to believe that more CDS contracts -- or, more generally, more financial interdependencies of any kind, including links created by other derivatives such as interest-rate swaps -- automatically lead to better risk-sharing and a safer banking system. More apparent risk-sharing can actually mean more systemic risk and less overall banking safety.
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Hybrid 240 Trim and Balance Settings for Long Glides
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I have a Hybrid 240 and have two questions.
There is one silver mark on the bridle, but when I view the Horvath Website it indicates that there should be two marks. With two marks, if you move the connecting line closer to the front mark, the kite will be more responsive. With the one silver mark, can anyone let me know how far in front of the silver mark I should move the connecting line. I have moved it about 2 inches so far and that appears to work for me.
My second question is when I fly the Hybrid 240 in no wind on a calm evening. It stalls easily and does not float over a short distance unless I hold tension on the flying line after the kite has slowed down to the slower glide speed. I have added 5-inch length of AFC 2400 that fits over the center spin by the nose to move the center of gravity forward. This adjustment to the center of gravity has made it float a little better, but I still need to add a little more nose weight. Has anyone adjusted the center of gravity so that the Hybrid 240 flys without stalling after the slower glide speed has been achieved and did you measure the location of the center of gravity from the noise?
As an update, tonight I just added a 5-inch length of Skyshark P200 over the 5-inch AFC 2400, which moved the center of gravity to 21 5/8" below the tip of the sail at the nose. Using my old kite design program, the center of gravity provides a static margin to around 14%, which static margin works well on my own soaring 8-foot kites that I have designed for my own use and enjoyment.
For your information, my own 8-foot soaring kites are made with ripstop polyester and framed with the old Skyshark tapered Zeros for the wind spars and the straight version of the tube for the center spine. I have theses frames from when I use to build stunt kites in the 1990s. The Skyshark Zeros were too flexible for my old Raptor 8-foot stunt kite, but work great on these soaring kites. My soaring kites have a sail area of 9.67 sq.ft., weight 100 grams, which provides a calculated sail loading of 0.3649 oz./sq.ft.
It is my belief that the weight of the flying line, how much of it is in the air and its connection point to the bridle need to be considered when making these fine adjustments, since these factors can alter the center of gravity. I use a spool that contains 250 feet of 50 lb. spectra line for no wind evenings and attempt to get the Hybrid 240 above tree top height. With a slight breeze, I use a spool that contains over 600 feet of 75 lb. spectra. As you would expect after the launch on a calm evening, I have line all over the field at my feet to work with.
Thank you in advance for any response to my questions.
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The elegant red brick National Archives Museum - otherwise known as Museum Arsip Nasional - located on busy Jalan Gajah Mada, Jakarta , once housed the Dutch colonial Archives, and was originally the 18th century residence of the Dutch East Indies Company's (VOC) Governor General Reinier de Klerk.
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In the year 1900 when there were plans to demolish the building to replace it with a shopping arcade, the Batavia Society for Arts and Sciences (Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen) intervened to save this historic building of Old Batavia, and even donated a number of furniture.
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