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Degrémont is optimising the environmental footprint for 60 of its water treatment plants thanks to GE's leading edge technology for the treatment of used water
In 10 years of partnership, GE's ZeeWeed* 500 ultrafiltration membranes have been used for 60 of Degrémont's municipal and industrial water treatment plants (refining and petrochemical in particular) throughout the world.
These 60 installations have enabled the saving of up to 40 billion litres of water, the preservation of the downstream environment and the reduction of the environmental footprint.
GE is awarding Degrémont the Ecomagination prize, which recognises environmental innovations by its partners.
TREVOSE, Pennsylvania – 13 December 2012 – In 10 years of partnership, Degrémont and GE have enabled more than 60 local authorities and industries (refining and petrochemicals in particular) to save more than 40 billion litres of water, to reinforce the protection of their natural environment and to reduce the environmental footprint of their used water treatment installations, thanks to the use of the leading-edge used water treatment technology - GE's bioreactor with UltraforTMmembrane, equipped with Zeeweed*membranes from GE (NYSE:GE).
The water purified in this way was able to be reused in industrial processes or for irrigation and the watering of parkland, where the regulations permit, thereby preserving the water resources by limiting recourse to drinking water. In many situations, such as in Cannes (Aquaviva), Nouméa (James Cook), this technology has contributed to significantly improving the quality of the water output and to reducing the environmental footprint of the installations due to its compactness in comparison with conventional clarification-disinfection technologies. An international company and a subsidiary of Suez Environnement, Degrémont designs, builds, operates and equips water treatment installations for local governments and industries .
Emphasising the environmental innovations and performances which its partners achieved by implementing its technologies, the GE Ecomagination prize was awarded to Degrémont for the water savings achieved by re-utilisation, the protection of resources and nature and the reduction in environmental footprints. For the six industrial plants located in France, China and Italy, the savings in water exceeded 40 billion litres of water.
"Reusing poorer quality water for industrial applications allows our customers to avoid using valuable drinking water as feed source. By providing more than 60 of our customers with GE's ZeeWeed technology has allowed us to help them collectively reuse more than 40 billion liters of water," said Pierre Yves Pouliquen (Director of Degrémont's French business and sponsor of the Degrémont /GE W&PT) partnership. "We are honoured that GE has awarded this prestigious prize to us. We are also very satisfied with this genuine partnership which, in 10 years, has enabled GE to make such significant progress in the performance of its membranes, thanks to our construction and operational feedback. For our part, we have also been able to significantly improve the process in which the membranes are integrated in order to be more efficient, particularly in terms of energy consumption -another major challenge in sustainable development".
The GE Ecomagination prize was today awarded to Degrémont during a ceremony to celebrate the 10 years of partnership between the two companies, and the more than 60 Degrémont sites equipped with the GE technology.
"We have noticed an ongoing trend that industrial users around the world are focusing more on decreasing their water footprint in order to reuse water, lower costs and minimize environmental impact. Degrémont and its customers are examples to follow concerning the manner in which certain local authorities and petrochemical and refining industries can successfully reuse water" said Yuvbir Singh, general manager, engineered systems — Water and Process Technologies for GE Power & Water.
All of the projects used GE's ZeeWeed 500 reinforced, hollow-fiber membranes, which have been proven over more than two decades of wastewater treatment and water reuse applications. ZeeWeed 500 technology is an advanced filtration technology that separates particles, bacteria and viruses from water or wastewater. Nearly 1,000 plants worldwide use this technology to produce superior quality
Ultrafiltration uses a semi-permeable membrane barrier to reject suspended solids, bacteria, viruses, endotoxins and other pathogens in water to produce treated water known as permeate with very high purity and low silt density. It serves as a pretreatment for surface water, seawater and biologically treated municipal effluent before reverse osmosis and other membrane water treatment systems. Ultrafiltration also is used in industry to separate suspended solids from solution. GE's ZeeWeed ultrafiltration membranes offer an unmatched combination of ultrafiltration performance, energy efficiency, durability, fast installation, ease of operation and reliability.
About Degrémont
A subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, Degrémont has been the world water treatment specialist for more than 70 years. Operating in more than 70 countries with 5,476 employees, Degrémont generated revenues of €1,584 million in 2011
About SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT
Natural resources are not infinite. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT (Paris: SEV, Brussels: SEVB) and its subsidiaries deal with the challenge of protecting resources by providing innovative solutions to industries and to millions of people. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT supplies drinking water to 76 million people provides wastewater treatment services for 44 million people and collects the waste produced by 51 million people. SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT has 80,410 employees and, with its presence on five continents, is a world leader exclusively dedicated to water and waste management services. In 2011, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, a subsidiary owned 35.7 percent by GDF SUEZ, achieved revenues of €14.8 billion.
Source : GE Renewable Energy
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On Saturday, Nov. 5, the 18-9 Eureka Wildcats traveled to Francis Howell North High School to face the 17-5 Knights in the Missouri Class 4 State Quarterfinals. The match went into penalty kicks after 120 minutes of play ended in a 1-1 tie.
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• ARE THERE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS REQUIRED TO BEGIN TRAINING?
Not at all! All you need to successfully learn to fly is the desire and dedication! No special skills are required to get started. You'll learn all that is required during the course of your training with Kramer Aviation.
Starting out with a Discovery Flight is the best place to start. It's the easiest, least expensive way to find out whether or not becoming a pilot is for you. Click here for more information on the types of discovery flights available.
• IS LEARNING TO FLY DIFFICULT?
No! As with any other skill you master, flying is learned step by step. It is a fascinating experience, but not particularly difficult. Practically anyone who is willing to invest some time and effort can learn to fly. Many thousands of people have done so - you can, too!
• ARE THERE ANY REQUIREMENTS TO BEGIN FLIGHT TRAINING?
You must be at least 16 years old to fly "solo" in an airplane (you may begin training at any age).
You must be able to read, speak, write, and understand the English language.
You must provide proof of citizenship (such as a U.S. birth certificate or current passport, along with the relevant control or sequential number of the document) in accordance with 49 CFR 1552.3(h).
You can apply for a student pilot certificate/medical if you are at least 16 years old. When you are 17, you can apply for a private pilot certificate. There is no maximum age limit. It is health, not age, which determines a person's ability to fly.
• WHAT IS AN FAA MEDICAL?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires pilots to pass a routine medical exam every two years (every Five years for persons under 40 years old). This simple physical examination ensures that pilots do not have medical problems that could interfere with their ability to fly safely. There are allowances made for many physical limitations. For example, glasses and contact lenses are perfectly acceptable. There are three classes of the medical exam based on your goals and aviation aspirations. For the private pilot applicant, the class III is what you need. The commercial pilot applicant requires the class II.
The physical exam can be obtained anytime, but you must have it prior to solo flight, because it also serves as your student pilot certificate. If you're planning to learn to fly, you may wish to complete the physical exam early in your flight training to assure that you are medically qualified (most people are). This exam must be performed by an Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). You may contact Dr. Michael W. McShan in Kilgore, TX at 903-983-1578, or visit the FAA website at www.faa.gov to find an AME near you.
• WHAT IS INVOLVED IN THE TRAINING PROCESS?
Ground training, logically, takes place on the ground. It involves learning about flight rules (regulations), flight planning, navigation, radio procedures, weather, and other important topics.
Flight training takes place in the airplane under my supervision. This is where you will learn the hands-on skills needed to pilot the airplane yourself.
Each flight lesson begins with a briefing, where we will discuss precisely what we are going to do in the air and how we will do it. Next, we will fly what we have planned out on the ground (I will demonstrate the maneuver to you using my flight controls, and then you will perform that exact maneuver using your flight controls). After we land and have secured the airplane, we will go back to the classroom and debrief our flight. During the debrief, we will discuss what we did in the air and how we can do it better the next time around and answer any questions you may and will have. Finally, we will discuss the next lesson and I will assign any homework for you to do prior to our next meeting. By the time you complete your training, you'll be secure in the knowledge that you're a safe, confident, and competent pilot.
• HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO BECOME A PRIVATE PILOT?
The Federal Aviation Administration specifies minimum flight experience requirements for each grade of pilot certificate. To be eligible for a Private Pilot certificate, you must have logged at least 40 hours of flight time. However, in addition to the 40-hour minimum flight experience requirement, you must also be proficient at specific tasks (for example, takeoffs and landings). Your flight training, in large part, will be devoted to learning those tasks and then practicing them to the required level of proficiency. This includes time spent flying with an instructor aboard ("dual" time) and time spent flying alone ("solo" time). Training will include some night flying, some instrument flying (flying solely by reference to the airplane's instruments), and some "cross-country" flying (that is, flight to and from other airports).
Obviously, everyone learns at a different pace. Most people require more than the FAA minimum of 40 hours to become proficient enough to earn a private pilot certificate. In fact, the national average (based on data from all flight schools in the U.S.A.) is between 65 and 75 hours. Although you may complete your training faster, initially budgeting for about 70 hours of flight time would be most practical.
You will maximize the efficiency of your training by flying on a regular basis. By doing so, you will retain more knowledge between lessons and thus progress faster. For most people, two to three lessons per week (each lesson lasting 2- 3 hours) provides for a good learning rate. Depending upon the flight schedule you set with me, a four to six month period to accomplish your goal is quite reasonable. If you are only able to take lessons once a week, then you can expect about a year to obtain your private pilot certificate.
• WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM MY FIRST LESSON?
If you have not taken a Discovery Flight lesson yet, then your first flight will be just that. The Discovery Flight will give you an opportunity to discover my teaching style and whether or not this flying thing is for you. If you have, and are ready to get started, then your first lesson will be an introduction to the aircraft you'll learn to fly. You'll be briefed on the instruments, controls, equipment in the plane, and what to watch for when you're flying.
After this pre-flight briefing, we will take off. Once aloft, working under my close supervision, you'll take control of the airplane. We will then go over, and you will perform the four basics of flight maneuvering: straight & level flight, turns, climbs, and descents. When we return, we will debrief the flight by discussing how you performed and how to improve your performance. Afterwards, we will discuss the next lesson and schedule our next meeting.
• WHAT KIND OF AIRCRAFT WILL I FLY IN?
You will train in a Cessna Skyhawk 172N, registration number N1507E. This aircraft is extremely well maintained and is inspected every 100 hours per the FAA regulations.
• WHAT KIND OF TESTS WILL I TAKE?
No test is required for a student pilot certificate. But before a private pilot license is issued, you must pass two tests. One is a written FAA examination, which you will study for on your own through the private pilot course of your choosing that you will purchase. I will assist you in getting the right curriculum specific to your learning style and will help you in understanding topics you may have difficulty with.
Following this exam is a practical examination of your flying ability. Not unlike a driving test, you will take an official examiner for a flight. The examiner, who has been specially designated by the FAA to give flight tests, will require you to demonstrate your ability to maneuver the airplane safely and confidently. But, as with the written test, you will have practiced everything many times before. There will be no surprises and you will be fully prepared.
• WHY SHOULD I LEARN TO FLY WITH KRAMER AVIATION?
My goal is to create confident, competent, and safe pilots. As a full-time flight instructor, I am fully dedicated in completing your training from start to finish. Unlike many flight instructors who need flight time to advance their career; I am fully dedicated to what I do. I am committed to seeing your training through from beginning to end.


The Department of Nutrition's Cynthia Dormer, Ph.D., was named Outstanding Dietitian of the Year by the Colorado Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in May at its annual conference in Keystone. The department was well-represented at the event, as several graduates also picked up awards, while students and faculty members were responsible for all the poster sessions.
Christine Sheikh, Ph.D., affiliate faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Mary Ann Watson, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology; and Scott Houck, previously from the Department of Media Services, were recognized by the National Telly Awards for the best in film and television production for 2017. The award was for Non-Broadcast Social Issues for their films "Being Muslim in America: Acts of Courage and Healing" and "Being Muslim in America: An Afghan-American Family Story." Provost Vicki Golich, Ph.D., is featured in the work as she describes MSU Denver's commitment to diversity on campus; also featured is the Auraria Muslim Students' Association.
Metropolitan State University of Denver student Olivia Lopez has been awarded a U.S.Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Turkish in Baku, Azerbaijan, this summer. The competitively selected scholarship focuses on languages that are less commonly taught in U.S. schools but are essential for the U.S.'s engagement with the world.


Since I travel a great deal I seem to spend nearly every other day either getting on or getting off of a shuttle at an airport.
"Ma'am," he said, "I'm a US soldier," he said. "I've learned a lot since I've been in." I stopped, looked the young man in the eyes and said "Well God Bless you." I was stopped in my tracks by his kindness and pride.
Today we stop and we thank the patriots, and young men and women who are the cream of the crop and who today, are representing us and keeping us secure around the world, or in past conflicts.
I won't forget that young man. It sticks in my mind. I hope God keeps him safe.
Daytona International Speedway has been the site of so many story lines over the years. Set up your computer, microphone, broadcast unit or photographers at DIS for NASCAR events and you're sure to have cars that don't pass inspection, penalties issued, "big one" crashes, comments from the sports owners that send reporters running to feed, a few celebrities and plenty to talk about. Think about all the major story lines that have broken while we've been here covering stories at Daytona. The list is long.
This weekend we've been on the Jeremy Mayfield watch. We've all heard that he's coming to the race track – that he'll make an appearance but we've not seen him. Perhaps today – and if he shows – it's sure to be the story of the day pre race.
How is the rubber that the Grand AM cars are going to put down on the track before your race tomorrow night going to affect the race?
HOW WILL THE NEW DOUBLE-FILE RE-START RULE AFFECT THE RACING THIS WEEKEND AT DAYTONA?
"I don't think it will, honestly. As quick as people get shuffled forward and backward here anyway, I don't think it matters. I think last weekend was more critical on which line you were in. But I don't think for Daytona, I don't know that anybody is going to sit there and say well, I'm going to ride third here because I want to restart on the inside. I mean you know don't know if you're going to get a caution. You don't know when it's going to come out. Nobody's going to plan their strategy around a caution and where they're going to re-start with it.
"You're not going to decide. You're just going to try to get to the front and stay at the front. If you can do that, you're a much better racer than I am because I can't think that far ahead. Nobody is going to be able to plan and put themselves in those kinds of situations. You're just going to have to take it as it comes. It's no different than if four guys pass you on one lap, that's where you're at when you restart. So, nobody's going to try to plan that and say well, I'm just going to ride third so if we have a caution and have a restart then we can do something.
I'm in my hotel room getting ready for today's race. I'd better pick it up – much to do before my show starts over in the media center. I look forward to the heat, fireworks blowout, story lines, arguments, last-minute breaking news from the garage, fireworks filled summer 4th of July event that is the Coke Zero 400…..Let's go racing!
It's Sunday, race morning, Father's day and I'm walking down pit road prior to the start of the Toyota Save Mart 350. Ryan Tschudi, the quiet and sincere underneath mechanic for the 77 Mobile One Dodge walks up to me and asks if I have already done my SIRIUS NASCAR Radio show for the day. I tell him that I just finished the broadcast…..why? He said that he wanted to do a shout out to his dad for Father's day.
The stunt pilot for the Red Bull Helicopter is doing flips in the air, the Infineon Raceway girls are posing with teams up and down pit road, the colors and sounds and energy of the moment are beyond intense. The pre race is unfolding and Ryan is thinking about his dad.
I raised my microphone, turned on the m audio player and asked him to do a shout out to his dad if he'd like. I'd find a way to work it into the post race show even if they do not win and visit Victory Lane. I'm thinking I will have to be creative on getting this one on a post race show but, darn it, I'll find a way to do it. He said he didn't want to make a big deal out of it. He had heard me have the guys do a shout out to their dads on the Friday broadcast and wanted to have his dad included. That's cool.
"I want to wish my dad LeRoy a happy Father's Day," Tschudi said into my microphone.
"My dad is actually headed to Texas right now, he's taking a load down to Dallas. Happy Father's Day!," He added.
I called my dad (John Bennett) today. He's up North in Wisconsin with Mom at the lake fishing and enjoying the day. I appreciate all he did for me in my life and I am lucky that I can go on the radio and shout out to him and tell him so.
So many of the guys who are never home for special days and anniversaries and Father's Days cannot. They would trade what they do for anything,but guys like the underneath mechanic on a team are unsung heroes of race teams. No one gives them attention and when the cameras are rolling and the live broadcasts are happening and the features are being shot – they are where they live, underneath the race car. They get no attention and they ask for nothing for themselves.
I think it's really great that Ryan came up to me – and while he'd never ask for something for himself – he wanted to do a shout out to his dad.
I'm sure he didn't expect me to mention it in my blog.
But you know it's the small things about this sport that make some of the best stories and most compelling stories in NASCAR. On pit road and in the garage and back at home at race shops there are guys who would do just about anything to get to Victory Lane so they can call their dads from there and give them some attention.
Happy Father's day to all the guys in the sport and all the fans back at home.
Ryan thanks for the shout out to your dad. I know that you never figured it would be in this blog – but you know your dad must be pretty special and that is way cool.
More Later – Enjoy the day!
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It's a beautiful day pre-race in Michigan. There's so much to talk about leading into today's race. I wanted to get a quick post up from the chat NASCAR CEO Brian France had with reporters in the deadline room shortly before the race started. Here's the transcript – of what he said in response to questions. I'll have more to tell you when the race is over..for now enjoy the race. I'll post tidbits when the race is over.
Well obviously they're having a you know everything that they are doing – every program's being affected and we're no different. We were hoping to have the most minimal of the impact with their decisions to restructure their business and the details aren't all out yet as to exactly what that will mean to us but obviously we are affected. I think our job now is to figure out how to be good partners with them. They're trying to restructure their entire company and be a different company on the other side and for us to be a part of that and I think we will. I'm very confident that they will be in the sport for many, many years because it works well but obviously under different terms and our teams are affected that's more than any one – the tracks have already felt the restructuring last year and now individual teams at all levels are going to feel it and that's not the best case scenario for us but it's the reality of where we are and we'll deal with it.
Obviously they want to come out of bankruptcy do you think NASCAR is still a good viable model for them or other manufacturers to help make that happen?
Well sure I think we're the best opportunity to help build a new company, sell different cars – the same cars or a combination thereof. So I've always felt good about that and they do too it's just the reality of having to do a restructuring across the board and what they said is when they got done reviewing that, that there would be some hard choices and obviously these are the result of those hard choices.
Are you going to go to Detroit and talk with the big cheese about your deal and their deal?
Well we have. We've been talking to them all along. I went in last year -ah last fall to all the manufacturers, myself and Mike Helton and Jim France and others. We've been in constant contact with them – they are a big integral part of what we do and that is unchanged.
With all this uncertainty are you actively talking to companies that might end up healthier, such as Honda – the German companies?
Well we have been talking to people off and on for a long time. These are decisions in terms of a new manufacturer joining the sport that would take a long time to evaluate and actually enter. So those aren't something that if we turned the light switch on tomorrow morning that it would happen – but of course we are the preeminent place in North America for car manufacturers to build their business with an auto racing group. So we remain that and clearly there are some companies that are going to look at opportunities that may not have even been there in the past that could be presented in the future. Now listen we'll have our philosophical approach to that in terms of welcoming new companies in as we did with Toyota – it is under a very clear set of circumstances that manufacturers come to NASCAR to compete and that will not change.
Are there two or three that seem particularly interested or you have hopes for down the road?
Well, I am not going to name names. But we have companies that are interested in particular in developing the North American market as robust as they can. And you're well aware as we all are that there are lots of foreign manufacturers now producing cars here in America, as Toyota did. That was part of the rationale that Toyota used that that helps them associate more with this market and we are the preeminent place to consider should a company want to do that.
Is the development of generic race cars – have anything to do with mfg support?
No I don't think that's the case. Although it was certainly very helpful because the costs have come down so when some of the teams are affected whether direct support or technical support in theory and it's certainly our expectation that the new car will serve that particular problem well and those teams will still be able to put competitive race cars forward albeit not as easy and not under the best of circumstances but it certainly gives them an opportunity to stay in the game and that's what we're going to be working with.
Are there certain things that NASCAR can do to help the teams. Do you have to reassess some things to help these organizations and would you consider the four car team limit?
Let me say , look the four car limit is designed to increase new ownership and that remains the case. If you had seven, eight or nine teams under one place that is too daunting of a task for a new team owner to come into NASCAR. We still believe that now more than ever. The question is with falling revenues in every sports league – what are you going to do to help figure out the way forward. For us, we have the, as you well know, a huge interest in the sponsorship level we are more dependant on it than anyone else so we are affected. So for us it's going to be helping our teams, tracks and other constituency members figure out new companies that are building their brands, new technologies. You've heard me talk about the green industry that will be created over the next five or ten years we want to be a part of that – the green economy – in some intelligent way – we will be. So we will be looking at figuring out like anyone in our position – how to create new opportunities for new companies building brands or services here at NASCAR because existing companies that our teams in particular have relied on are changing and that's just the reality.
Can you ask a team that has five cars all fully sponsored like Roush to drop a car in today's economic environment because of that rule?
We'll listen, listen we made the rule several years ago and that's the timing of it and it may not be the perfect timing given the circumstances but the conclusion that we want to get to is the right one and we've worked, listen we gave Jack (Roush) an enormous amount of runway and we'll continue to work with him if there's anything we can do to make that adjustment easier then we will and Jack's aware of that.
Do you think today's race car (car of today) has done what you wanted it to do?
We think it has and it doesn't mean that in our town hall meeting that we had a couple of weeks ago that there aren't some adjustments that we can make to do even better and that's what we talked to our teams about in particular, talked to the drivers directly had them all under one place as you are all aware and that was very good for us, very effective. But listen, the new car is putting on great racing and it's always debatable when you try something new that something is going to be better than it was before and invariably you get fair debate about that. But as things settle down and settle in and more important as the teams and the drivers get more comfortable with this car – which has been no small thing. It's very new very different form the old car…that takes some time. That's settling in and to the extent we can make an adjustment and we think we have some things we'll look at and they'll be adjustments they won't be wholesale changes – to make this even better for the drivers. We want them to feel as great as they can about the cars they are driving that is why we had a great meeting a couple of weeks ago.
There are ominous reports of Brickyard attendance as low as 100,00 or 150,000?
No – I think that's overstated by far. I don't know what the attendance will be we won't know – but we also know that people are buying tickets later -much later in the cycle. Our fans are waiting as they are all nervous – I understand that. They are also waiting a little bit to figure out if we can get the track correct which we will in terms of the tire issues we had. So listen depending on where we are we are going to have some – I would call it in the grand scheme of things – some modest attendance dips we are going to have some – and that's to be expected and the whole country's down.
If fans stayed away from there in part out of anger in a certain sense at least in the short term that would be understandable don't you think?
Listen I'm not going to put my shoes in every race fan's..that's their choice they attend what the events they want to attend. The Brickyard is a spectacular venue for us has been since 1994 and there's been some great racing , great tradition and that's going to continue. Sometimes things happen where everything lines up in the reverse of what you'd like to see. That's happened here in Michigan where it's probably the hardest state hit with unemployment job loss and you know the idea that NASCAR can cruise around and do business in every state and not have some effect on this economy and have the sponsorship business model and be tied to the manufacturers in the way they are and to not feel that – That would be unrealistic to think that would be the case. But what I have said and I'll say it today – When you look at it – and I look at this every day -we are doing better than most. We are not perfect, we've got our issues but we are doing better than most industries, most sports. We have some spots we want to improve on a lot of spots we want to improve on. But we will get through a tough time – and our fans are the most loyal in sports and we will do what we have always done which is put the best racing in the world forward and that is what is going to be what is the deciding factor long after the economy turns the corner and gets better again. Have a great race today.
There is a lot of talk about a GM meeting supposedly to be held with teams this week to outline what is coming next for Chevy Sprint Cup teams as far as cutbacks. Everyone in the garage is buzzing about what might happen and which teams might be affected – how much and who would be affected the most.
Enjoy the race – it should be a good one!
I'll be covering details of this story and will keep you posted.


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During this presidential race, candidates have had a penchant for stating some deeply outrageous things. And the newswires have been all over it. Go online right now, type in "presidential candidate," and you'll be assaulted by thousands of articles — from news pieces to op-eds — clamoring to get their piece of presidential coverage.
But as you glance over those articles, you may notice one thing is rarely talked about: How the candidates' proposals will affect the market.
So when Ted Cruz declared his plan to carpet bomb ISIS, I turned to Jeff for his thoughts on what the repercussions would be, including how that plan would hit the investment world.
Ted Cruz needs a history lesson. And maybe a muzzle.
Then again, just about every Western politician needs something similar these days when it comes to their strategies for dealing with the Islamic State. And if any of them are successful in what they propose, you will be ecstatic to have owned gold and oil in your portfolio.
Before I begin, let me clearly state that I am not an Islam apologist. I think radical Islam (along with the radical Christianity evident all over America these days) is a boil on society that should be permanently lanced. So what I'm about to say should not be seen as bowing to Islam. It's a "paint-by-number" exercise designed to illustrate where we go in a Ted Cruz presidency so that you can prepare your portfolio for the effects.
That said, Ted Cruz either allowed his emotions to control his mouth (and that's understandable in times like these) or he is a dangerous human being with no grasp of history or Muslim culture and, if so, should be kept as far away as possible from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. His transgression: insisting that "If I am elected president, we will utterly destroy ISIS. We won't weaken them. We won't degrade them. We will utterly destroy them. We will carpet bomb them into oblivion." To be clear, that suggests dropping weapons — and potentially nuclear weapons, based on his comment about making "sand glow in the dark" — on regions in which ISIS operates, assuredly killing countless innocent bystanders.
Dear Ted, might I suggest you pop into a library and find a book on U.S. military history … and report back to us on how well carpet bombing worked in repelling the North Vietnamese and the North Koreans. Hint: Not so well.
I understand you are trying to stir up the masses with vitriolic pugilism that sells to a certain voter bloc. But you certainly must recognize the delusion in your thinking. You cannot repel a people who are fighting on their home turf in support of their own beliefs, regardless of the fallacy of those beliefs. They have the upper hand.
Of course, that won't stop militarists from pursuing a bad strategy under the misguided belief that "might equals right," that power is the solution to every conflict.
But, Ted, you haven't considered the troubling math. The world has more than a billion Muslims. And if the failed Bush/Cheney doctrine of killing Muslims in the name of "justice" has proven anything, it's that indiscriminate/accidental killing of noncombatant Muslims breeds more terrorists than you can shake a drone-guided missile at. People who were not necessarily inclined to attack you suddenly find their motivation in the spilled blood of innocents. It's the Hydra Syndrome — cut off one head, eight grow back.
And when you are angering a billion or so Muslims because you are carpet bombing their mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and teachers and friends … they will view this as the modern Crusades, and they will take up arms against the invader — in the invader's home country.
You simply cannot eradicate a billion people spread across the planet. Instead, your small-minded pugilism will simply create an asymmetric global war: We — the West, led by Ted Cruz-style militarists — will use conventional warfare that has proven entirely ineffective at containing terrorism. And aggrieved Muslims will use unconventional tactics to continue a terror campaign of taking down airplanes and attacking nightclubs or trains or subways or restaurants or shopping malls or packed stadiums.
But I cannot control what voters do; I can only comment on the lunacy of their ballots cast, and how to prepare for the knock-on effect in your portfolio. Maybe a hyper-militaristic America wants to go to war once again in the Middle East. If so, voters will make the same horrific presidential choice they made in 2000 — with the same horrific results: a drastic expansion of terrorist ideology.
In that world, you, the investor, will best be served by owning physical gold and oil stocks.
Oil prices will surge as Muslim terrorists target every oil field in the region. The shock and awe of that terrorist campaign will radically alter perceptions of global security … and gold prices will rally sharply higher as investors run to the metal, one of the only real safe-haven assets around.
Will any of this come to pass? Who knows? But if you see a Ted Cruz (or, God forbid, a Donald Trump) taking the White House next fall … then prepare now for a dark world to come.
For more of our coverage on how the U.S. government is affecting your wealth, I suggest watching this report.
America's failing education system starts here … Go up to any politician, ask them "Do you believe education is important?" and you'll likely get the same response: Of course.
Yet, when it comes to early childhood programs, which are clearly important in future student success, the U.S. is — to put it frankly — failing. Compared to other OECD countries, America has one of the lowest enrollment rates — only 41% of 3-year-olds and 66% of 4-year-olds are enrolled in preschool. That's far below the OECD's average 74% rate for 3-year-olds and 88% rate for 4-year-olds. It's clear that as other countries are ramping up their early childhood education offerings, we're letting the ball drop.
I'm one of those people who judges others by their actions, not their words. And when it comes to early childhood education, the U.S. talks a great talk, but doesn't even get up off the sofa to walk the walk.
U.S. business leaders, law enforcement leaders, military leaders, charitable foundations, Nobel-winning economists — not to mention education experts — all say they support better preschool. So do the overwhelming majority of U.S. voters. But the facts show that prekindergarten (pre-k) teachers in the U.S. are amongst the lowest paid and most poorly-treated workers in the country.
I speak from experience here. My wife is a pre-k teacher.
It's undisputed that early childhood — ages 3 to 5 — is the most crucial time of a child's life. It's so important that children who don't get appropriate "stimulation" invariably suffer greatly in later life compared to their peers. They are less likely to finish high school or go to college and more likely to have personal and legal problems, and earn significantly less over their lifetimes, than kids who get a good head start. That means their own kids are more likely to end up that way, too.
In the old days, this sort of early childhood development might take place in the home. Back when mom was a housewife, she might have been able to devote a chunk of her day to the sorts of things kids get in a good pre-k program. But nowadays mom is likely to be working to make ends meet. That's just a basic fact of today's increasingly unstable low-wage economy.
That means most U.S. kids must go to an institution of some sort during the day, if only to allow their parents to work. Ideally, it will be a pre-k program designed around sound educational principles. But in practice, most U.S. kids end up warehoused in situations that are little better than day care. And even where formal pre-k programs exist, they often underperform relative to their mission.
The basic problem is that U.S. early childhood educators earn scandalously little. A 2014 report from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment found that preschool teachers typically only make a few dollars more an hour than fast-food workers. That's despite the fact that early childhood educators are often required to have a college degree that costs them tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt to acquire.
U.S. early childhood educators earn 30% less than similarly-educated people. And yet they spend almost 30% more time on their jobs than teachers in most OECD countries. Almost 85% of U.S. early childhood educators say that finding a job that pays enough to survive — and even to send their own kids to preschool — is a serious problem. And yet, sadly, they are vilified by some politicians as lazy and greedy.
I see the consequences firsthand. Many of my wife's colleagues have limited qualifications, little interest in their work and move on at the first opportunity. No matter what the curriculum may require, many kids in my community get a substandard education simply because the people hired to carry it out are hassled, distracted and often dead broke.
In a cruel twist, many school systems are prepared to hire teachers with limited qualifications, but will only pay them a bit more than minimum wage unless they acquire a formal teaching degree. If they do, they'll face a lifetime of student-loan repayments they won't be able to afford. So most don't bother. Those who stick around become excellent teachers through experience but never get a raise unless they jump on the education-debt hamster wheel, which cancels it out.
The result is a distorted labor market. Because it pays so little, pre-k often attracts the desperate. Because educational authorities tolerate this, those like my wife who love their work and want to improve their qualifications are stymied.
Meanwhile, the heads of many U.S. universities earn millions. Our presidential candidates outdo each other in their promises to spend more money on the military. Oh, and the top 25 U.S. hedge fund managers make more than all the country's kindergarten teachers combined.
The takeaway? Tomorrow's U.S. leaders are likely to be little better than today's … unless our priorities change … and fast.
It's the newest stock exchange in the world, and probably one of the last to open … Myanmar (Burma) just launched its new stock exchange last Wednesday — the Yangon Stock Exchange — and the BBC is saying it signals a new economic era. It's the latest sign of the country's growing strength as it continues to receive steady inflows of foreign investment and business. Foreign direct investment actually hit a record $8 billion during the 2014 to 2015 fiscal year as monoliths such as Coca-Cola, Colgate and Mitsubishi rushed in to profit from the country's consumer boom.
This is precisely why Jeff believes Myanmar is one of the best opportunities for emerging-market investors. It's why we were among the first investors in the country and why our position in Ezion Holdings, which is helping exploit Burma's energy riches, gave us a 255% gain when we closed it last fall. Myanmar is in the midst of a tech boom that's going to be much more impactful than the one we underwent in the U.S. not too long ago. The revolutionary technological changes for the frontier economy mean a complete shift in its consumer activity, and all of this paves the way for more and more people to climb into the middle class, where one has never before existed.
In fact, according to Boston Consulting Group, the middle-class population is expected to nearly double from 5.3 million in 2012 to 10.3 million in 2020.
And that means there are radical profit opportunities for those who know where to look. So keep an eye out for Jeff's new book, Replay, where he'll lay it all out. We're aiming to launch it in January.
In dividend news … South Jersey Industries (NYSE: SJI, buy up to $26) is paying us its quarterly dividend of $0.264 on December 29. And Höegh LNG (Norway: HLNG, hold) is dropping a quarterly dividend of NOK $0.853 into your account on December 18.


In my over-preparation for my TEDxWomen talk, I found plenty of resources speaking to the prevalence of the Impostor Complex in academia and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers. (Refresher for you on the impostor syndrome:: it's that enduring feeling that it's just a matter of time before everyone finds out that you're a fake.) For the sake of efficiency, let's just say it strikes MOST of us. If you have high standards for yourself, a desire for excellence and a value of integrity, I suspect that at one time or another, you've felt its power over you. And it IS as powerful even when it presents as innocuous.
You are told:: You are so committed to your yoga practice. It's awesome and inspiring. You respond:: Yeah, well my handstand is a train wreck.
You are told:: This pasta is exquisite. You respond:: Naw, I put in too much salt.
You are told:: You are my go-to when I have a style question. You respond:: What? I'm a sloppy mess.
You are told:: You're a really great writer. You respond:: Ach. My sentences are fragmented.
When we undercut, diminish and dismiss what we are being offered as the gift of acknowledgment, that's the handiwork of the Impostor.
We are perfectionists not actually content with ANYTHING until it's good enough ("for whom?" is the real question here).
We cannot perceive the real value of our contributions (especially if we're "naturally gifted" and haven't suffered for our art).
We have been raised to be humble above all else.
We are superstitious. That by accepting ownership over our excellence, we're jinxing ourselves.
We do not want to commit the crime of outshining (fabulous term coined by Gay Hendricks).
I have so very, VERY much to say about all of those reasons.
Neither discount nor deny their gift of acknowledgment. Just as you wouldn't find fault with a present given to you from the heart, so too should you not find fault with the acknowledgment. Accept it with the grace that only "thank you" affords.
The Impostor Complex despises this because you are, in two words, owning (or, at least, for the time being, BORROWING) the truth. You are doing good. Full stop.
Train your brain to say those words and you'll be sending sweet synaptic love notes to your subconscious with this immutable fact:: that you ARE worthy of praise and acknowledgment.
Sure, it's possible that your handstand, pasta and sentence structures could use a little more attention. (Which is awesome news for you and your high standards…you get another turn up the upward spiral called life in pursuit of excellence). But for this moment, this very moment, rest in the knowledge that you, your yoga practice, your pasta, your style, or your writing has moved, delighted, or even inspired someone. Saying Thank You locks and loads it.
Sign up for updates about the next run of my Step into Your Starring Role program. We'll be tackling the Impostor Complex head-on so we can finally step into all that we deeply desire. It's time.


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Is Your Organization's Tone at the Top Thwarting Fraud?
by Donna Epps
If an organization's tone at the top could be measured and correlated with higher earnings and lower rates of financial reporting fraud… most directors would almost certainly want to assess that tone.
Contrast: If directors or senior management could determine that a unit's leadership paid mere lip service to compliance and ethics but did not "walk the talk" in day-to-day conduct, executives would theoretically want to know about that in order to correct the potentially toxic influence on employees and overall productivity.
Important: Research indicates that "in stronger as opposed to weaker [corporate] cultures, rates of misconduct are roughly halved from 77 percent to 40 percent and retaliation against [whistleblowers] diminishes from a rate of one in four to one in 20."
How to Measure Tone at Your Organization
There are at least 10 ways for directors, compliance officers, auditors and risk management executives to measure tone at the top. The conclusions drawn from these assessments can then be used as part of a broader evaluation of the organization's fraud risk…
1. Measure the extent and nature of wrongdoing. Benchmarking against other companies in your industry, the number and nature of known fraud cases may provide clues about the extent to which tone at the top promotes the organization's compliance with ethics and anti-fraud policies.
Example: If management dismisses or ignores minor instances of fraud as unimportant, this may indicate a culture of tolerance of wrongdoing which is one of the drivers of elevated fraudulent activity.
2. Monitor the use of anonymity in incident reporting. A higher-than-average proportion of whistleblower reports being made anonymously may point to reluctance on the part of employees to report fraud openly, based on their fear of retribution.
3. Conduct a social media reputation assessment. Monitoring publicly accessible comments and criticisms of the organization on Facebook and other social media sites may offer clear—and surprising— indicators of how employees feel about the organization's culture and management's principles and values.
4. Conduct employee surveys. Many organizations already use this tool, but may not include questions specifically designed to elicit feedback from employees about whether management "walks the talk" on integrity and proactive fraud risk mitigation.
Key: Carefully worded questions can elicit responses that offer substantive insight into employee perceptions about the organization's culture. For large organizations, consider conducting these surveys on a unit-by-unit basis and compare results for more accurate feedback about where in the organization tone at the top may need improvement.
5. Encourage group discussion by audit committee members, compliance executives, risk management officers and human resources managers.
Aim: Exchanging perceptions of management attitudes and activities can help to build a consensus among key people about the organization's tone at the top and encourage them to take action when tone at the top may be in need of repair.
6. Perform facility visits. Rotate the meeting locations for the Board, as well as your compliance and risk teams to observe different parts of the organization's operations.
Key: Building contact with regional or local management facilitates future communication when fraud concerns arise.
Also effective: Independent visits by the audit committee to remote locations. Impromptu encounters with local management may produce valuable insights into how local management views the C-suite's ethics and integrity.
7. Conduct carefully planned exit interviews. When employees leave because of, or with knowledge about, management misconduct, they may be reluctant to "spill the beans" to an exit interviewer. Others will do so as soon as the question is asked.
Key: There are several ways to solicit feedback from departing employees, such as online surveys sent several months after departure with the option of responding anonymously.
8. Monitor management communication to staff. Announcements, updates and other messages sent from the C-suite via the organization's intranet, notice boards, office walls and website may reveal signs of poor tone at the top.
Example: Internal memos sent by a CEO may be written in a manner that is contrary to the organization's asserted values and desired tone at the top.
9. Interview key employees and/or conduct internal focus groups. Interviews of individual employees can be productive in assessing tone at the top when using a thoughtfully worded sequence of questions. When employees are reluctant to blow the whistle on fraud, or when employee surveys identify potentially significant but nonspecific suspicions about wrongdoing, focus groups led by an independent third party may help uncover the underlying concerns—including knowledge of fraud or unethical conduct on the part of top management.
Helpful: Anonymous messaging or handheld voting devices, along with an experienced facilitator, may coax sensitive information from reluctant individuals.
10. Analyze and respond to customer complaints. Monitor trends and patterns in customer feedback to gather insight into your organization's culture.
Key: Swift and transparent handling of grievances can be an indicator that the organization is committed to compliance and ethics. By contrast, poor response to customer complaints could reflect management attitudes and values associated with antisocial activities such as fraud and abuse.
"White-Collar Crime Fighter" source: The Tone at the Top: Ten Ways to Measure Effectiveness, by Mohammed Ahmed, CPA, CFF, CCEP, senior manager in the Forensic & Dispute Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and Donna Epps, CPA, partner and national leader of Anti-Fraud Consulting for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. They can be reached, respectively at [email protected] and [email protected].
"White-Collar Crime Fighter" is a publication of FraudResourceNet, the premier online center for expert, "how-to" information for detecting, preventing and investigating fraud. For a FREE trial of FraudResourceNet, please visit http://www.fraudresourcenet.com.
This article first appeared on www.fraudresourcenet.com.
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Donna Epps
Donna Epps is a partner in the Forensic & Dispute Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, the national leader of the Anti-Fraud Consulting group, and co-leader of Deloitte's Governance and Risk Management practice.
Donna brings a wide range of client service experience to her insights on governance and risk management issues, including 20 years of auditing public and private companies, carrying out regulatory filings with the SEC, and leading regulatory compliance examinations at the state and federal level. In addition, she has worked with the senior management teams of multinational clients in several industries — including telecommunications, manufacturing, and oil and gas — in conducting complex, multi-year restatements of financial statements, leading Sarbanes-Oxley preparation projects, and providing merger and acquisition related services.
Her current focus is in proactive risk services and enterprise risk management. She works with companies to become risk intelligent with a focus on value protection and value creation.
Donna received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas A&M University.
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Oh, what a difference a healthy Kyron Cartwright and Alpha Diallo make. With the Friars almost back to full strength (no Maliek White yet), Providence went into Carnaseca Arena and took it to St. John's in the first conference game for both teams. Unfortunately for St. John's, their team health seems to be going in the opposite direction. Already without Marcus LoVett, the Red Storm also had star guard Shamorie Ponds limited to 10 minutes with an injury he sustained during the game.
That comment from Ponds can't make the St. John's faithful feel good about a potential prognosis on his injury.
The Friars may have put together their best all-around team effort of the year in a game that they desperately needed to get back on track going into a tough slate of games to open their Big East Conference schedule. Kyron Cartwright, Rodney Bullock, Alpha Diallo, and Jalen Lindsey all came up huge for the Friars in the game that should give them some momentum heading into an always raucous crowd in Creighton.
Let's start with the train conductor Kyron Cartwright because he was absolutely phenomenal. Kyron Cartwright is the most important player on this Friars team and a healthy Cartwright completely changes how they play and sets their ceiling as a team way above where it otherwise would lay.
After missing his first three shots of the game, Kyron exploded offensively, not missing a shot for the rest of the game, hitting 8 in a row to finish 8-11 for a game-high 21 points.
The points are all well and good and more than welcome, but what about the assists you say? Ho, Hum, just a career-high 15 dimes for you.
During the game, Cartwright jumped two spots on the all-time assist list and moved into sole possession of 5th place in PC history. Billy Donovan is next in his sights.
Cartwright had his patented spin moves going and was unstoppable in the 2nd half.
He also closed out the game on a nasty three pointer.
Not to be outdone, Alpha Diallo posted a double-double as well, his second of the season. Diallo finished with 16 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals.
I forgot how much the Friars rely on Diallo's rebounding.
The Friars shot a spectacular 54.7% from the field and 53.3% from three, making 16 three-pointers in the game. Of course, PC still struggled from the free throw line, going just 8-14 (57.1%).
Rodney Bullock continued his streak of great offensive games and somehow that went under the radar with Cartwright and Diallo back to full form. Bullock shot 8-11 from the floor for 20 points and added 4 rebounds and 4 assists.
But most important, Rodney started off the game with a superb Bullock War Cry!
Jalen Lindsey was straight fire from three point land. Jalen was 6-10 from three for 18 points. Lindsey has now made a 3-point basket in 40 straight games, 32 of those with multiple made threes. Here's a breakdown of made threes over the impressive streak from Jalen.
The four big studs of the Friars went 28-45 from the field.
Big Nate Watson was back to being his efficient self going 3-6 from the field for 9 points in 20 minutes of action.
Isaiah Jackson only saw 8 minutes of playing time with Diallo back but he did he did have this nice finish.
Kalif Young played his best game in a while, going 3-6 from the floor and grabbing 6 rebounds. He did continue to regress at the free throw after his hot start from the line. After starting the season 12-17 (71%) from the free throw line over the first 5 games of the season, Young has gone just 6-20 (30%) since then.
Drew Edwards had a bit of a tough game going scoreless in 13 minutes and 0-3 from the floor but fortunately, the Friars didn't need his scoring touch against St. John's.
With Kyron dominating all game, Makai Ashton-Langford saw limited minutes of the bench, only playing 7 minutes total.
With Kyron smoking dudes, the Friars finished with 24 assists and just 10 turnovers.
St. John's has some of the grosses looking jump shooting mechanics I've seen as a team this year. All of their lefties have rough looking shots.
The Johnnies did show their defensive swatting skills off that they're becoming known for this season, blocking 6 shots in the game.
Next Up, the Friars travel to Creighton to take on the Blue Jays in Omaha. The game is on Saturday at 2:30 PM and will be televised on FS1.


Ok, I haven't seen an actual alternative budget – but given they are the main opposition I'll turn what they have said into one, so that I can give them the same airtime as others. We have already discussed Act, Libertarians, and National – and I aim to get something on the Greens out by week end.
to support for research and development, and innovation and skills.
How are these policies different – and what trade-offs are involved. That is what we will discuss here.
First here are links to other round up post round the country as of now: Offsetting Behaviour, The Standard, Red Alert, Kiwiblog (*,*,*,*), Dim Post, NZIER, Infometrics, Rates Blog (*,*,round up post!), NBR, Not PC (*), Public Address, Education Directions (*,*,*).
So far we've done a review of the ACT and Libertarian alternative budgets. Now it is time for the actual Budget, and then if we see any other alternative budgets we will have a look of them too 🙂 When reading all these reviews, keep in mind that I am aiming to be critical – I am putting up trade-offs so I will NEVER say "that is a good policy". I am not trying to say I hate any of these groups by doing this, I am just trying to describe other ways to look at policies to give them context. If you keep that in mind when looking, then hopefully it will be useful.
Also note that this is a first brush on what seem to be the main issues. Over the next few days I plan to get down into more specific policies – and I will see if I can discuss some things through the weekend.
You have thoughts on the Budget?
I have seen Bernard Hickey discuss the Budget. I am sure more will come.
I will write tonight, and other authors will pop things up today – I can't do any sooner as I am out of the office.
It looks like it was a substantial change to tax rates – most of which were expected. On the spending side things are how things usually are.
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The Libertarian party is the next group to release an alternate budget for Budget 2010 with further discussion here.
It is subject to the same criticisms as Sir Roger's budget – namely the trade-off between equity and efficiency is not based on the revealed democratic process from the previous election … although having a transparent budget DOES mean that people know what they are voting for in the future.
The limiting scope of government in there budget is far too extreme – even if solely on efficiency grounds. Why? It ignores any scope for co-ordination issues and the such in government policy. However, the size of this issue depends on relative value judgments – so I really just think they are saying that they have a value judgment that other co-ordination issues are irrelevant, which is fair enough I guess.
Also – it presumes optimal redistribution equals zero, which is highly unlikely given that luck and the such does exist.
It targets a tax rate of zero while still having government spending – based on a belief that voluntary provision of funds will be sufficient. However, I disagree. If we want any central government we have to have some type of "coercive taxation". Setting the tax rate to zero is effectively the same as asking for anarchism as it implies that this specific governmental institution will disappear into irrelevance.
Fundamentally, redistribution is a valid role of government – and the libertarian party bases its policy on the idea that it is not. There is no theory – even among many of the most right wing economists – that justifies zero redistribution. However, they are transparent about their value judgment here and they are consistent between budgets, so that is good of them.
So now we have an ACT and a Libertarian budget – the National (government), Labour, and Green ones will be still to come (if there are any others yell out to me). Very exciting.
Update: Link for Libs release here and excel sheet here.
Also if we believe that the poor have borrowed relatively more of their income in the past, then an unexpected decrease in a flat portion of income tax and an increase in the flat portion of GST will actually be a transfer too them from people who have saved.
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This is the first set of policies for the Budget, so it is the first post for our "Budget 2010" series.
Yes it would increase efficiency and GDP.
Yes it would have "equity" costs.
Given that no party was elected on the basis of this sharp a change in "redistribution" between equity and efficiency it isn't the budget I would recommend for actual policy at the current time.
I do applaud Roger Douglas for doing a realistic run through of what his budget would look like though – I respect transparency.
As more Budget or alternative budget details come through we will have a crack at looking at them.


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State House District 64 election result remains in limbo
James Grant, who was first elected to the state House District 64 seat in 2010, said he agrees with the panel of appellate judges that said the law requiring write-in candidates to live within the district to qualify is unconstitutional.
More than a week after Election Day, the nearly 160,000 residents of state House District 64 still don't know who will be representing them in Tallahassee.
Because the race is still tied up in court, the district that includes northwestern Hillsborough and northeastern Pinellas counties will not send anyone to a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday in which the representatives caucus and nominate party leadership.
In the election, held last week, incumbent James Grant beat challenger Miriam Steinberg, 59.5 percent to 40.5 percent.
But not so fast.
The race between the two Republicans was deferred from the primary to the general election because of legal questions about their write-in opponent — Daniel John Matthews, who lived outside the district boundaries. Was he legally required to live within District 64 at the time of the campaign, or only later if he were to be elected?
At first, a trial court said he had to live in the district. Then a panel of appeals judges said he didn't. Then this month the full appeals court refused to consider the case at all. Now Steinberg is taking it to the state Supreme Court.
Grant, who was first elected to the seat in 2010, said he agrees with the panel of appellate judges — that the law requiring write-ins to live within the district to qualify is unconstitutional. He wants to have another election, with Matthews included.
"How do I go to Tallahassee and take an oath to uphold the Constitution and have gotten there in an election that directly violated the Constitution?" Grant asked rhetorically.
The state Constitution says candidates must live within the district in which they are running by the time they are elected. But a law states write-in candidates must live within the district to qualify for the campaign.
A circuit court judge originally ruled Matthews was ineligible. But in October, a panel of judges from the 1st District Court of Appeal said the law requiring write-ins to live in the district contradicted the Constitution. The panel called upon the circuit court "to address the issues of any necessary special elections."
In the meantime, the election went on, without Matthews.
Steinberg's attorney — and husband — Michael Steinberg filed for a rehearing in front of the full appellate court. The motion was denied, essentially letting the panel's ruling stand.
Shortly after, Michael Steinberg filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court. The appeal is pending.
Michael Steinberg said he does not believe the requirement for write-in candidates to live in the district is unconstitutional. In fact, he said, allowing Matthews on the ballot would disenfranchise Democrats and independents.
That's because of Florida's closed primary law.
If only candidates from the same party are running for the office, that primary must be open to all eligible voters regardless of party. But if there is some other candidate running for the office — even a write-in for the general election — the law requires that primary be restricted to only eligible voters of that particular party. In this case, both candidates are Republicans.
Election officials are waiting on what the court tells them to do.
In a short written statement Wednesday, Brittany Lesser, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of State, said the "matter is before the courts."
Said Gerri Kramer, spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County supervisor of elections. "If we get court direction, then we follow what the court tells us."
Contact Josh Solomon at (813) 226-3446 or jsolomon@tampabay.com. Follow @josh_solomon15.
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Hundreds of workers were occupying Ireland's world-famous Waterford Crystal factory tonight after being told by text message they were losing their jobs.
The relatives of those killed by British forces in the north of Ireland have criticised the emphasis placed on so-called "recognition payments" to be paid by the British government to their families as a way of dealing with the past conflict.
Plans for a new international sports stadium at the site of the former prison at Long Kesh were finally axed yesterday.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has hit out at the Dublin government for describing cross-border shoppers as "unpatriotic".
The PSNI police mounted raids in Ardoyne on Tuesday against an anti-drugs group which they say is linked to republican militants.
eirigi spokesperson Breandan Mac Cionnaith has called for the immediate release of Belfast republican Terry McCafferty, who is currently languishing in a prison in the North.
This year's Bloody Sunday Commemorative March in Derry will stop in William Street - where the original march was stopped on its way to the Guildhall before it was fired upon by British soldiers, killing 14 civilians.
The keynote address by Sinn Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams at the Mansion House in Dublin to his party's 90th anniversary commemoration of the First Dail.
Can an incident-packed and prolonged time span be adequately explored in the form of a play?
There were angry clashes in Belfast today before the publication of an official report for the British government on dealing with issues of truth and reconciliation in the North.
On a visit to Washington DC to attend the US Presidential inauguration ceremenonies, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said he believes that President Obama can assist the Irish peace process.
Former RUC police chief Ronnie Flanagan has denied any knowledge of Special Branch surveillance of prominent human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson prior to her assassination in 1999.
Dundalk man Liam Campbell is the subject of an attempt to extradite him to Lithuania following his arrest this week.
The Green Party is facing a mounting internal revolt over its participation with Fianna Fail in the crisis-hit Dublin coalition government.
A victims' campaigner has said he will sue PSNI Chief Hugh Orde after his personal details were passed on to unionist paramilitaries by a computer operator who was working for the PSNI.
A claim that the IRA executed a South Armagh man for working as an informer in 1979 has been denied by local MP, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy.
Caoimhghin O Caolain TD told the official commemoration this week that the work of the First Dail remains unfinished. We publish the full text of his address.
Those who paraded themselves in the Mansion House on Tuesday past have little right to claim the inheritance of the revolutionary republicans and socialists who established the First Dail.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has accused republican hardliners of demanding protection money from drug dealers and other criminals in the North.
The Dublin government has been forced to nationalise Anglo-Irish Bank because of a scandal over concealed debt and the serious erosion of confidence in the bank as a result, Taoiseach Brian Cowen admitted today [Friday].
Thousands have demonstrated in Ireland against the continuing Israeli invasion of Gaza amid mounting calls for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled and economic sanctions against Israel.
PSNI chief Hugh Orde is to be asked to provide the information which led to Danny Morrison's conviction for kidnapping being quashed.
Sinn Féin have announced plans to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the first Irish parliament.
The famous 'Free Derry' wall was painted forty years ago this month. Eamon McCann corrects the record of the day when the inspiring international landmark was born.
In the face of this economic crisis the argument for stronger not weaker government intervention in the economy needs to be heard.
The Israeli bombing of two UN-run schools filled with children taking shelter from the continuing bloodshed in Gaza has provoked protests and increasingly desperate appeals for a halt to the killing.
Pat Doherty is to stand down as Sinn Féin Vice President after over twenty years in that office.
An Omagh teenager has recorded on his mobile phone an attempt by the PSNI police to persuade him to become an informer.
The DUP has interpreted comments by Gerry Adams as an admission that the hope of a united Ireland by 2016 has been abandoned.
After a decade of delays and deliberate procrastination, public hearings in the inquiry into the 1997 murder of Robert Hamill are to begin in Belfast next Tuesday.
Ireland is to officially recognise the Great Hunger - more than 160 years after British colonial policies coupled with the collapse of the critical potato harvest resulted in the death or emigration of some two million people.
The People's Democracy march, forty years ago this week, is seen by historians as marking a significant turning point in the recent conflict.
The reoccupation by Israel of the Gaza Strip and the slaughter of its Palestinian inhabitants form one of the most shameful episodes, among a long list of others, for the international community since the state of Israel was set up in 1948.
The Dublin government and all of the political parties in the 26 Counties have condemned Israel's invasion of Gaza and have backed calls for a ceasefire in the region.
Previously confidential files released this week in Dublin, Belfast and London under the 30 year ruled provide evidence of the increasing role of the 'Dirty War' -- the use of covert intelligence and the SAS shoot-to-kill strategy by the British government.
The summary imprisonment of Belfast man Terry McCafferty on the eve of Christmas is being viewed by republican activists as a vindictive reprisal for the release of the 'Derry 4', whose trial collapsed in Dublin just days before.
Campaigns to lobby for a united Ireland could tap into the huge Irish populations living in the US and in Britain, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said.
A bomb discovered on Christmas Eve close to an Armagh Gaelic club could have been picked up by children who regularly use the area.
The President of Republican Sinn Féin, Ruairi O Bradaigh, has rejected a claim that the IRA sought peace talks with the British government in early 1978.
Independent TD Tony Gregory died today [Friday] at the age of 61 after a long illness.
The full text of the New Year statements issued by Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and republican organisations in Ireland.
It is the contribution of the hunger strikers which will endure and make the difference to peace, justice and freedom - not that offered up by Cruise O'Brien.


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i tend to not remember the ones i don't like either..oh yes i do!! bansheeeeeeeeeee(--> infinity) (spelling?) is not on my like list..
Like: n0c0ntr0l, malcomnewmoney84, johans90, siasiasia, hibz, sithius, chloecouture, reflexive, neo ... , adamstaple , yodude888, tom_tom_tom, joly, brightgirl, mr_steve_stifler, nex_angelus .... phew!
The girl at C-4 on your grid hoists my sails.
Like: Terryw, Nick_000, GR29KHS, Ducki, SoapyDish, Prudy, Bubbles, Yuffie, Feral Beast, SiaSiaSia, Frannnn, ZippyRN, Renal, Terpineol, ataloss, G-Star, Anony mouse and Deanna19. Not an exclusive list, just off the top of my head.
Dislike: No one really, but I wouldn't piss out Punktopia if he was on fire. The wannabes on the Armed Forces Forum annoy me too, from time to time.
Tbh siasiasia and emilina would be on the like list - I think emilina was one of the first people I spoke to when I started getting into TSR?
Are you the one who stalks Spirtedaway/the other way round?
Neo, that guy that loves Lola, and SiaSiaSia I like.
Can't find my post in this thread for some reason so I'll do an update.


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Killer's Kiss
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Directed by : Stanley Kubrick
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Like a one-man studio, the legendary Stanley Kubrick (The Killing, The Shining) co-wrote, co-produced, shot, edited and directed his second feature, the dazzling film noir Killer's Kiss. Down-and-out New York City boxer Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith) strikes up a romance with nightclub dancer Gloria Price (Irene Kane). Their budding relationship is violently interrupted by Gloria's boss, Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera), who has eyes for his employee. When Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows. Killer's Kiss provides a fascinating look into the early work of a man who would soon become one of the world's most important and influential filmmakers, and it's a remarkable achievement in its own right: the boxing match may be the most vicious this side of Raging Bull, and the famed final battle remains an action tour-de-force.
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Quite a lot of news and happenings from Ireland's most relaxed city in recent months so a little bit of a recap is required to report the what's what from Galway. Although I don't get to visit much, there will always be a fondness in my heart for the western wonderland, even more so in recent times with Yawning Chasm and The Depravations both travelling south for G-Man Presents... shows.
Galwegian composer, cellist, singer and all-round creator of aural delights Cogar released The Hands back in June, a five-track EP of Irish folkie classical loveliness (albeit quite dark in spots) that grows and grows with every listen. The beautiful 'Sleep' is a stand-out.
Unveiled in July, Our throats, like valleys is a collaboration between Brigid Power-Ryce, David Colohan and Declan Kelly under the working title Gorges. Released on cassette by Kelly's recently formed Abandon Reason, a radio show that has evolved into a full fledged record label, the work - recorded subterraneously using an abandoned car park - "is the product of a series of exploratory improvisations with dual harmonium drones, cacophonous trombone and horn blasts and soaring, wordless vocals made between April and December 2012. Listen to the recordings in full below.
Speaking of BPR, the enchanting one has a release of her own with Eee Tuts being released into the virtual wilds as of 28th August 2013. Also an accomplished artist, Power-Ryce has made the five-track EP - featuring an enthralling version of Dominic Behan's 'The Auld Triangle' (but 'Tiny You & Me' is the stand-out for me) - available as an A3 art print that comes with a download code.
"I should probably explain what 'Eee Tuts' means. It was my 2 year old son's phrase for almost everything. 'eee toots, tuts, tooooots, tutz' He has sadly stopped saying it now so I figured I would name the EP 'eee tuts' so I would remember his little phrase, as it is easy to forget the cute things they come out with when they're almost a constant."


Shobana is currently pursuing Bachelors degree in Mathematics. She is a passionate photographer.
What I respect about Bhumi is that they are very clear in their vision. Their programmes concentrate on holistic development of children and adolescents. It is an honour to be part of such a great mission.
During my tenure with Bhumi, I had the opportunity to meet a lot of people who are supportive and helpful. Beyond spending time with kids, I got a lot of valuable friends and family. My volunteering days are the best days of my life. It has given me a lifetime of memories. Every day is an inspiration for me when it comes to Bhumi.
I hate maths but I love Little Einsteins – Mathematics. It is not because LEM is my subject. The reason why I love being part of BHUMI's LEM programme is the class that is assigned to me. These children are like a family to me.
I am also a passionate and professional photographer. I do capture any kind of events all over Tamil Nadu.
When I was volunteering, I had a group of children to be taken care of. One child did not cooperate with any one. But I managed to handle him. When everyone got tired of him, I told myself that I will be very kind. I thought so because I realised he is my responsibility. I decided to change him and teach him. To my surprise, the entire year went very well.