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Italy vote hits world stocks; Bernanke lifts Wall Street
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks jumped on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured investors about the continuation of stimulus measures, bucking a downward trend in global equities and oil prices on the uncertainty created by Italy's election.
A closely watched gauge of European stock market volatility hit a 2013 high after the muddy election outcome in Italy raised fresh concern about the outlook for the euro zone's debt crisis.
Investors are fearful that the strength of the vote for anti-austerity parties will weaken efforts to reform Italy's public finances and its labour laws, damaging the euro zone's efforts to resolve its three-year old debt crisis.
Markets across Europe fell on the vote results, with Italy's FTSE MIB among the hardest hit, tumbling 4.9 percent.
"This should remind us the crisis has only been in remission," said Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.
However, U.S. stocks climbed as Bernanke strongly defended the Fed's bond-buying stimulus, easing worries that monetary policymakers might be getting cold feet about continuing the extraordinary measures to support the economy. Data showing sales of new homes hit a 4 1/2-year high added to bullish sentiment.
Bernanke "certainly said everything the market needed to feel in order to get comfortable again," said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average shot up 115.96 points, or 0.84 percent, to close at 13,900.13. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 9.09 points, or 0.61 percent, to 1,496.94. The Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 13.40 points, or 0.43 percent, to close at 3,129.65.
The MSCI world equity index slipped 0.5 percent, while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index ended down 1.4 percent.
The election uncertainty led to a sharp rise in volatility, with Europe's VSTOXX index, which reflects demand for protection against a drop in major European equities, hitting a new year's high on Tuesday at 24.73.
Southern European government bond prices sank. Italy's 10-year bond yields rose as much as half a point to 4.86 percent, their highest since mid-December.
The Italian elections also weighed on oil prices, with Brent crude oil futures falling $1.73, or 1.51 percent, to settle at $112.71 a barrel. U.S. crude oil fell 48 cents, or 0.52 percent, to settle at $92.63.
In the foreign exchange market, the euro traded flat against the U.S. dollar and yen, recouping earlier losses with the help of the Fed assurances on stimulus.
The euro last traded at $1.3058, down 0.02 percent on the day. During early London trade, the euro touched $1.3017, its weakest showing since January 7.
Against the yen, the euro finished the day in the 120.20-yen area, up 0.27 percent.
The dollar last traded at 91.89 yen, up 0.10 percent for the day.
U.S. BONDS SLIP
U.S. Treasuries prices fell, though yields held near their lowest levels in a month following Bernanke's comments and as political instability in Italy boosted demand for lower-risk assets.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell 6/32 in price, with the yield at 1.89 percent.
U.S. financial markets were rattled last week when minutes of the Fed's January meeting showed some officials were thinking of scaling back the central bank's monetary stimulus earlier than expected.
In his testimony, Bernanke also urged lawmakers to avoid sharp spending cuts set to start taking effect on Friday.
"Bernanke's commentary showed the Fed chairman wants to continue quantitative easing (i.e. bond purchases) and keep its general stance of monetary policy accommodation," said Eric Stein, vice president and portfolio manager at Boston-based Eaton Vance Investment Managers.
The Fed is currently buying $85 billion in bonds each month, and has said it plans to keep purchasing assets until it sees a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market.
Bernanke's remarks also boosted gold prices. Spot gold gained 1.3 percent to $1,615.16 an ounce, its biggest one-day advance since November 23, 2012.
Among data having the biggest influence on markets, U.S. Commerce Department data showed sales of new homes jumped 15.6 percent to a 4 1/2-year high in January. The percentage increase was the largest in almost 20 years.
A separate report showed U.S. consumer confidence rose more than expected this month as Americans shrugged off worries about fiscal policy.
(Additional reporting by Ryan Vlastelica, Ellen Freilich and Chuck Mikolajczak in New York; Editing by Dan Grebler, Leslie Adler and Jan Paschal)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asia-shares-decline-deadlocked-italy-election-033722567--finance.html
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Alton Coal pursuit of legal fees may have - The Salt Lake Tribune
Alton Coal Development won in its bid to strip-mine coal on private land near Bryce Canyon National Park and now wants to extract legal costs from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other groups. AP file photo
Mining ? Company wants groups that challenged its strip mine to pay.
An attorney-fee dispute arising from the controversial Coal Hollow strip-mine in Alton could have far-reaching consequences on citizens and conservation groups? ability to legally challenge coal projects.
Alton Coal Development prevailed in its bid to strip-mine coal on private land near Bryce Canyon National Park after a string of legal skirmishes that ended last October in the Utah Supreme Court. Now the company wants to extract its legal costs ? it hasn?t detailed a dollar amount ? from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and three other groups.
But not content with state regulators? formal opinion that developers must show their adversaries acted "in bad faith" to collect legal costs, Alton Coal lawyer Denise Dragoo has asked the Utah governor to intervene and impose a much lower standard.
The matter, to be argued before the Board of Oil, Gas and Mining Wednesday, could result in environmentalists being liable for hefty legal costs every time they take a Utah coal project to court and lose.
A finding for Alton would deter groups from taking coal developers to court, according to Tim Wagner, head of the Sierra Club?s Utah chapter, which joined SUWA in the Alton suit.
"The availability of the courts for any groups, no matter their agenda, is a part of democracy," Wagner said. "These challenges are not frivolous. These projects are being challenged for good reasons."
The other plaintiffs are the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Parks Conservation Association. This consortium alleged that the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, or DOGM, failed to perform an adequate environmental review when it authorized the state?s only strip mine on 600 acres of private coal in 2009.
A separate proposal by Alton, to expand operations onto 3,500 acres, is still under analysis.
The environmentalists lost at every level and now Alton says it?s entitled to be reimbursed for its legal costs. The company contends that an old legal standard ? requiring the winner in coal disputes to show that its opponent sued simply to harass and embarrass ? no longer holds.
DOGM opposes that position, saying the bad-faith standard was "inadvertently omitted" from the state?s administrative code. In its filings with the mining board, regulators argue the state is obligated to abide by this standard as part of a deal it forged 32 years ago with the federal government to win primacy over coal mining regulation. The federal Office of Surface Mining is now threatening action against the state if it fails to apply the bad-faith standard in the Alton matter.
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Dragoo is seeking help from Gov. Gary Herbert, who received a $10,000 from Alton for his 2010 election campaign, and his energy adviser Cody Stewart.
In a Feb. 21 letter, she accused state regulators of "prematurely capitulating" their authority to the feds and asked the governor to allow the mining board "to proceed unfettered" by federal standards.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Budget: Changes in property tax rates and more wage support ...
Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced the Budget for 2013 on Monday. Here is a summary of some of the main changes:
MEASURES AFFECTING HOUSEHOLDS
Payouts
The Government will double the total payouts for utilities rebates, Central Provident Fund (CPF) Medisave accounts and Goods and Services Tax (GST) vouchers this year.
On top of the permanent GST voucher payout, there will be an extra GST voucher. That means all eligible Singaporeans will get double the usual amount.
This will benefit about 1.4 million Singaporeans, costing the Government an extra S$680 million.
There will also be a one-off S$200 top-up to Medisave accounts of all Singaporeans aged 45 and above, benefitting 1.5 million Singaporeans.
Foreign Domestic Worker Levy
To help families who hire foreign domestic workers to care for young children, seniors and dependents with disabilities, there will be a cut on the concessionary foreign domestic worker levy from S$170 to S$120 a month from 1 March 2013. This will benefit about 122,000 households. The non-concessionary levy is $265 a month.
Cars
The existing Additional Registration Fee (ARF) paid by car buyers is 100 per cent of the car?s open market value (OMV). This will be replaced by a tiered structure, where more expensive cars will yield higher rates.
- An economy passenger car with an OMV of up to S$20,000 will see no change in ARF rate.
- A car with an OMV of up to S$50,000 will pay up to S$12,000, or 24 per cent more ARF.
- A luxury car with an OMV of S$75,000 will pay S$32,000, or 43 per cent more ARF
The tiered ARF structure will apply to vehicles registered with Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) obtained from the first COE bidding exercise in March 2013
Personal Income Tax
- A 30-per-cent tax rebate for resident taxpayers aged below 60 (as at 31 December 2012), capped at S$1,500.
- A 50-per-cent tax rebate for those aged 60 and above (as at 31 December 2012), capped at S$1,500.
Property Tax
Changes in property tax rates will be done over two years, starting 1 January 2014, with revised rates taking full effect from 1 January 2015.
For owner-occupied properties, the property tax will be lower, except for the one per cent of top-end homes. The 99 per cent of homes (about 950,000 properties) with an annual value of less than S$59,000 will enjoy tax savings of up to S$80. The savings will cut the Government?s property tax revenue by S$44 million.
- All one-room and two-room Housing Board (HDB) flat owners do not need to pay tax while living in the flats.
- Those living in a five-room HDB flat valued at S$12,000 a year, for example, will pay S$160 tax, down from S$240 (a 33-per-cent drop).
- Those living in a landed property in the central area valued at S$150,000 a year, for example, will pay S$12,580 tax, up from S$7,460 (a 69-per-cent increase).
(Table: Budget 2013 media release)
For non-owner-occupied investment properties, there will be an increase in property tax rates. The increase is biggeest for top-end homes.?
- In an estimated example, the owner of a landed property in the central area with an annual value of S$150,000 will pay a tax of S$24,000, up from the current S$15,000 (a 60-per-cent increase).?
- For a suburban condominium valued at S$35,000 a year, the property tax will go up an estimated three per cent from S$3,500 to S$3,600.
- For a five-room Housing Board (HDB) flat valued at S$12,000 a year, the property tax is estimated at S$1,200 and there will be no increase.
(Table: Budget 2013 media release)
Education Support
The Government will double spending on preschool sector over the next five years to more than S$3 billion. These include scholarships and salary and training grants for teachers, providing more places for children by 2017, and building more centres closer to homes and workplaces.
To help disadvantaged students, the Government will extend the learning support programme beyond the early primary school years, which will need about 600 extra specially-trained teachers.
The number of school-based student-care centres in primary schools will be expanded to give extra development support outside school hours.
Support for Seniors
The Government will give subsidies for a wider range of devices such as motorised wheelchairs, shower chairs and hearing aids for low- to middle-income seniors to help them stay active and independent.
There will be also be subsidies for healthcare products such as milk feeds and diapers for low-income seniors living at home.
The funding will increase from the current S$10 million to S$50 million.
MEASURES AFFECTING BUSINESSES / WORKFORCE
Foreign Worker Policies
The Government will raise foreign worker levies for all sectors, including construction and manufacturing.
It will also tighten eligibility requirements for S Pass and Employment Pass applicants, such as the qualifying salary.
Income Support
The Workfare Income Supplement scheme has been around to supplement the wages and retirement savings of older low-wage workers and to encourage them to stay employed.
The monthly income ceiling for those who can be covered by this scheme is now raised from S$1,700 to S$1,900. The payouts will benefit about 480,000 Singaporeans or 30 per cent of the citizen workforce.
Workers will now get a higher cash payout ? with 40 per cent in cash (up from 29 per cent) and 60 per cent through CPF. For example, a 60-year-old worker earning S$1,000 a month will get a yearly payout of S$3,500, of which S$1,400 will be paid in cash.
The Government will tighten the eligibility criteria for this scheme to exclude any worker whose spouse earns more than S$70,000 a year, and individuals or couples who own a second property.
For CPF contribution rates, workers earning S$1,500 or less will see the employer and employee contribution rates fully restored from 1 January 2014.
For example, the employer contribution rate of a 45-year-old earning S$800 a month will be restored from 11 to 16 per cent, and his or her employee contribution rate restored from 16.5 to 20 per cent.
Business Support
There will be S$5.3 billion worth of support to businesses.
For the next three years under the Wage Credit Scheme, the Government will co-fund 40 per cent of wage increases for Singaporean employees who earn a gross monthly income of up to S$4,000. The co-funding payout will be to employers.
For example, if an employer increases the gross monthly wage of his employee by S$200 in 2013, the Government will co-fund 40 per cent of this S$200 increase and also for the next two years if the increase is?sustained. The scheme will cost the Government S$3.6 billion over three years.
There will be a corporate income tax rebate of 30 per cent, capped at S$30,000 per year, for years of assessment 2013 to 2015. This is to help companies cope with cost pressures.
Road Tax
There will be a one-year 30-per-cent road tax rebate for good vehicles, buses and taxis to take effect from 1 July 2013.
Certificate of Entitlement (COE)
Owners of commercial vehicles who want to renew the COEs for their vehicles for five years ? when renewal is due at the end of 10 years ? may choose to extend it for another five years. (Right now, they cannot do so or have to pay more for a 10-year renewal.)
Source: http://news.insing.com/tabloid/spore-budget-property-tax-rates-wage-support/id-ea6d3f00
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Gecko's Michael Quillen Awarded Prestigious National Restaurant ...
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 ?
Gecko's Mike Gowan and Michael Quillen
Sarasota, FL? (RestaurantNews.com)? Gecko?s Grill & Pub is proud to announce that Co-Owner, Michael Quillen, has been awarded the 2013 National Restaurant Association?s Restaurant Neighbor Florida Cornerstone Humanitarian award.
Each year, the National Restaurant Association recognizes outstanding restaurants around the country with these prestigious national awards. The awards honor restaurants that go above and beyond in community service and aims to inspire other restaurateurs to get or stay involved in their local communities.
Gecko?s Grill & Pub and Quillen are Business Partners with dozens of schools in Sarasota and Manatee County, providing Super Student Free Meals to thousands of elementary students and supporting untold numbers of teams, projects, and events in area schools. Gecko?s is a benefactor of the non-profit Y Youth Shelter, which serves children 10-17 years of age who are homeless, and Operation Second Chance, which serves America?s wounded, injured and ill combat veterans. Working with his lifelong friend and business partner, Mike Gowan, through the five Gecko?s restaurants to benefit scores of other charitable groups, Quillen also personally serves on several community Boards, and is the current President of The Argus Foundation, a public policy community foundation which harnesses business leadership for effective community building.
Quillen will now compete with other state winners across the United States for the national prize. One national winner will receive a $5000 award to help support their favorite charity, to be awarded in April in Washington, D.C.
Gecko?s Grill & Pub (www.geckosgrill.com) has been locally owned and operated since 1992, and employs over 300 Floridians. Look for Quillen and Gowan?s new venture, S?macks Burgers & Shakes, to open in Spring, 2013. Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which comprises 980,000 restaurant and foodservice outlets and a workforce of more than 13 million employees. For more information, please contact 941-921-3924, or office@geckoshospitality.com.
Contact:
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941-921-3924
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Can a Teddy Bear Save Your Child from Hell?
Listen, brother: If you don?t want your children to roast forever in hell, you should buy this teddy bear from John Hagee ministries.
That was the message of a product commercial that Matthew Paul Turner noted recently on his blog. ?You?ll have to take my word for it, since the commercial has since vanished from the interwebs. ?But you can see a basic ad for Barnabas, the Bible Bear, sans John Hagee, here. ?Barnabas is a ?soft, cuddly companion? that quotes nine Bible verses. ?The video shows a little girl who is sweetly addicted to squeezing all the biblical wisdom out of this poor talking bear.
Since Matthew Paul Turner was snarking about the bear, and since I?m a contrarian, I was prepared to counter-snark. ?I don?t find the bear ?creepy,? as MPT did. ?But I did find the advertisement strategy rather loathsome. ?It was just about that stark: You don?t want your kids burning in hell, right? God has made you responsible to deliver them from the hands of Lucifer. ?Ergo, you should buy this teddy bear, which by the way my son Matthew Hagee helped develop, and which also brings money into John Hagee ministries through our online store. ?If you don?t buy this bear, then you just may be falling short in your obligation to save your kids from hell. ?Perhaps the Hagees reconsidered their hellfire-missile marketing strategy and that?s why they removed the video. ?If so, good for them.
This is all a very, very pointed way of bringing up a question I?ve been mulling recently, and a question I intend to address in a series of posts here in the coming weeks. ?I?ll frame the question in more nuanced ways as the series goes along. ?Even now, my savvier readers will find themselves crying out for distinctions. ?The distinctions will come. ?But let me start by putting it broadly:
What is the value of Christian culture?
It?s become popular in more fashionable evangelical circles to cheer the demise of American cultural Christendom. ?Gabe Lyons (whom I like) proclaims ?The Good News About the End of Christian America.? ?The assertion seems to be that the collapse of ?Christian America? will clear the way for a more pristine Christian community and confession ? one that would, in the words of World Vision?s Richard Stearns, be more ?authentic,? more ?back to basics.? ?We could stop fighting over the Ten Commandments at courthouses and manger scenes in city parks, and instead focus on, you know, serving the least of these and living lives in the imitation of Christ. ?It?s a festival and false dichotomies in a carnival of caricatures, but here?s what Stearns says:
There was a time when Pastor Curry might have worried about things like posting the Ten Commandments in courtrooms, but today he?s too busy changing the city of Tacoma and world. This is the work Christians are called to do. Christians can stop worrying about the symbols of the decline of Christian America and get back to the mission Jesus gave us to show the world a different way to live ? a way that demonstrates the great character of God: his love, his justice, his compassion, his forgiveness and his reconciliation.
It all sounds so patently obvious, doesn?t it? ?So obvious that you wonder how anyone could possibly disagree. ?Stop fighting for political power. ?Stop scrambling to protect the vestigia of Christian culture. ?Stop worrying so much. ?(Hey man,) They?re only symbols. ?Focus on the substance of Jesus? mission. ?Just love the world.
It?s at this point that I find the slow bilious burn of skepticism rising up in my throat. ?Aren?t symbols important? ?Don?t they remind us of important truths? ?Don?t they, at least potentially, have a leavening effect upon the culture? ?And aren?t we talking about more than mere symbols anyway? ?Aren?t we talking about a whole set of assumptions and ideals about the true, the good and the beautiful? ?While a cultural hegemony can certainly be abused, and may be gone for good, aren?t there things to be said for a cultural pervasiveness, for sowing seeds of divine truth and goodness and beauty into the culture? ??Christian America? can mean, after all, about a thousand different things.
In my thirty-six years, I?ve lived in/around the San Francisco Bay Area, in Princeton, in Cambridge/Boston and now in Atlanta. ?I was prepared to find the ?Christian culture? of the South off-putting. ?I expected to find it superficial, artificial, hypocritical. ?But that?s not really what I found. ?I?m sure it?s out there. ?I expected to find lots of plastic-grin men and big-haired women for whom being ?Christian? was all about listening to Steven Curtis Chapman, reading Karen Kingsbury and plastering Thomas Kinkade on every wall. ?Instead I?ve found a lot of people who are deeply earnest about their faith and willing to make dramatic sacrifices for it. ?And if they have Christian kitsch on the walls it?s because they want to remind themselves of the truths they hold dear.
So I?m left with a question I intend to address in a series of thought experiments here: What value Christian culture? ?What can we really expect to happen to our society if it?s increasingly uprooted from the classical Judeo-Christian cultural inheritance? ?What if it would actually be unloving in the extreme to evacuate the culture of Christian symbols, to dilute the pervasiveness of Christian cultural assumptions? ?Or, to put it more pointedly, while I abhor the way in which Barnabas was advertised, is there a place for Bible Bears?
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studiomaison: design with antiques in mind
I launched studiomaison as an avenue to share ideas and inspiration with antique lovers and junkers alike. I have an appreciation for anything with age and incorporating antiques into everyday design. Currently working at an architectural salvage nonprofit, I have the privilege to see an influx of amazing salvaged pieces and how they ultimately enrich the spaces they reside. I hope that studiomaison will stir a love for the craftsmanship, history, and aesthetics that antiques and vintage pieces can bring to a room. Thank you for stopping by and happy reading!
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New cancer research law gives hope to Rhode Islanders | WPRI.com
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- Rhode Islanders affected by deadly, hard-to-treat cancers are celebrating a new federal law that requires more research for a cure.
On Monday, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network honored Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse for securing passage of the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012.??
The bill, authored by Senator Whitehouse and signed into law by President Barack Obama last month., requires the National Cancer Institute to prioritize research of the deadliest types of cancer, including pancreatic and lung cancer. ?
Sen. Whitehouse lost his mother to pancreatic cancer, and his father to lung cancer.
"These are diseases that we need to focus on much more intently," Sen. Whitehouse told Eyewitness News Monday. "There has been literally no progress made in the survival rate for pancreatic cancer and we have to pay attention to that."
Dozens of people gathered for Monday's news conference and celebration at Hasbro Children's Hospital, including Kathryn Boucher, who lost her mother to pancreatic cancer four years ago.
"She was diagnosed shockingly.? She had no symptoms with stage four inoperable pancreatic cancer and it just felt like a very hopeless place for all of us," Bocher said.
She hopes the new law will help erase that sense of hopelessness.
"Today is very exciting because this bill is passed.? It means hope for a lot of people and hopefully progress towards a cure for this disease."
According to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, only 6% of pancreatic cancer patients live more than five years after being diagnosed with the disease.
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Ex-Canada ambassador pleased Affleck thanks Canada
Grant Heslov, from left, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney pose with their award for best picture for "Argo" during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
Grant Heslov, from left, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney pose with their award for best picture for "Argo" during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
TORONTO (AP) ? The former Canadian ambassador to Iran who protected Americans at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis said Monday it was good to hear Ben Affleck thank Canada after Affleck's film "Argo" won the Oscar for best picture.
"Argo" came under criticism from some Canadians, including former ambassador Ken Taylor, who said he felt slighted by the movie because it makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics. Taylor says it minimizes Canada's role in the Americans' rescue.
Taylor criticized Affleck on Friday and said he hoped Affleck would acknowledge Canada's role. Affleck briefly thanked Canada in his acceptance speech Sunday.
"Finally, he mentioned Canada," Taylor said. "Under the circumstances, I think that was fine. It certainly acknowledged Canada. I think certainly the movie was about CIA agent Tony Mendez. I think that President Carter's remarks put everything in proportion."
Carter appeared on television last week and said, "90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian," but the film "gives almost full credit to the American CIA."
Taylor kept the Americans hidden at his residence and at the home of his deputy, John Sheardown, in Tehran for three months and facilitated their escape by arranging plane tickets and persuading the Ottawa government to issue fake passports. He also agreed to go along with the CIA's film production cover story to get the Americans out of Iran.
Taylor became a hero in Canada and in the United States where crowds celebrated with banners that proclaimed, "Thank you, Canada."
Taylor said the movie makes it seem like the Canadians were just along for the ride. Taylor and Carter both noted that Mendez, played by Affleck in the film, was only in Iran for a day and a half.
"The movie is done. President Carter expressed his views, and that's where we sit. I think, being realistic, there's not much at this point that can be realized," Taylor said.
"Argo" also makes no mention of Sheardown, the First Secretary at the embassy. Taylor said it was Sheardown who took the first call from the American diplomats who had evaded capture when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in November 1979 and agreed right away to take the Americans in. Sheardown died on Dec. 30, and his wife, Zena, called the movie disappointing.
"Argo" screenwriter Chris Terrio, who won best adapted screenplay prize Sunday night, mentioned Taylor and Sheardown in his speech after saluting Mendez.
"Thirty-three years ago Tony, using nothing but his creativity and his intelligence, got six people out of a very bad situation," said Terrio, who based his script on Mendez's book "The Master of Disguise" and a Wired magazine article by Joshuah Bearman.
"And so I want to dedicate this to him and the Taylors and the Sheardowns and people all over the world in the U.S., in Canada, in Iran, who use creativity and intelligence to solve problems non-violently."
Taylor appreciated that Terrio mentioned Sheardown, Sheardown's wife and Taylor's wife.
"He dedicated it to Tony Mendez. That was what his script was about, it so that's understandable. I think that recognition of both Pat and myself and John and Zena was in a sense welcomed," he said.
During a recent talk in Toronto, Taylor took issue with a myriad of creative liberties in "Argo" and said Terrio "had no idea" what he was talking about.
Friends of Taylor were outraged last September when "Argo" debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. The original postscript of the movie said that Taylor received 112 citations and awards for his work in freeing the hostages and suggested Taylor didn't deserve them because the movie ends with the CIA deciding to let Canada have the credit for helping the Americans escape.
Taylor called the postscript lines "disgraceful and insulting" and said it would have caused outrage in Canada if the lines were not changed. Affleck flew Taylor to Los Angeles after the Toronto debut and allowed him to insert a postscript that gave Canada some credit.
In a statement released on Friday, Affleck said he admired Taylor very much but said he was surprised Taylor still had an issue with the film. Affleck also said he agreed narrate a documentary that Taylor is involved with, about Canada's role in the Iran hostage crisis.
Taylor said it was news to him that Affleck had agreed to narrate the documentary and said he looked forward to working on it with him.
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EXCLUSIVE NEWS ONLY FOR EMIRATES 24|7 FACEBOOK FANS: Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni hit double century and guess who's most elated? It's none other than Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan who took to social network to express his happiness: "The incredible effort by Dhoni today on the India vs Australia test match ... 206*, not out, the century by Virat Kohli and the 81 by Sachin .. !! Unbelievable 500+ for 8 and to think we were 14 for 2 wickets .. and to also think that 'the prophets of doom' were writing off Dhoni and critiquing him as incompetent .. bhai sahib chullu bhar pani agar dhoond rehen hon to mai bata saktha hun ek saaf suthari jagah !! ha ha ha !!"
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The Accountable Care Community opportunity | Health Populi
?ACOs most assuredly will not?deliver the disruptive innovation that the U.S. health-care system urgently needs,? wrote Clay Christensen, godfather of disruptive innovation, et. al., in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal of February18, 2013.
In the opinion piece, Christensen and colleagues make the argument that Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as initially conceived won?t address several key underlying forces that keep the U.S. health care industry in stasis:
- Physicians? behavior will have to change to drive cost-reduction. Clinicians will need ?re-education,? the authors say, adopting evidence-based medicine and operating in lower-cost milieus.
- Patients? behavior will have to change. This requires patient engagement, adherence to treatment protocols that doctors prescribe based on evidence-based medicine (see previous bullet).
- The cost structure of health care delivery in the U.S. must ratchet down. As Uwe Reinhardt, pioneering health economist at Princeton, has written in Health Affairs, ?It?s the Prices, Stupid,? when it comes to health care costs in America. Any doubters of this should read TIME Magazine?s piece on the Bitter Pill of U.S. health care, published last week.
What to do? The authors argue for moving care to lower-cost settings, changing regulation and payment to allow clinicians (doctors and nurse practitioners, among others) to perform duties up to their full licensed capabilities (vs. referring to more expensive specialists), and leverage communications platforms to deliver more care in the community.
Health Populi?s Hot Points: ?What Christensen and friends are talking about is making Accountable Care Organizations act more like Accountable Care Communities. With this nuance toward ?community,? we embrace more of the patient-consumer?s broader local health ecosystem ? beyond health ?care,? and including pharmacies, schools, grocery stores, and other venues where ?health? and wellness are bolstered.
For example, pharmacies bolster medication therapy management which helps patients avoid readmissions to hospital and manage chronic conditions. Pharmacies are also low-cost, convenient channels for getting flu shots and vaccines to consumers. Grocery stores, like Safeway?s expanding wellness program, are morphing into health destinations. Schools for many kids are already de facto medical homes, but not recognized (or funded) as such. Most employers are adopting value-based benefits, incorporating artfully designed wellness programs and worksite clinics that do more than traditional occupational medicine.
To fulfill the promise of the accountable care community, a communications and technology infrastructure must be in place. This means adopting open information standards (such as the continuity of care record) and mobile health tools that enable care outside of iron-bound providers. If the information follows the patient, then continuity of care is ensured and health providers can better anticipate patient needs well before more expensive, complicated medical challenges emerge in the doctor?s office.
Source: http://healthpopuli.com/2013/02/25/the-accountable-care-community-opportunity/
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Brokering Lease Option & Seller Finance Deals
I can tell you're excited William, but here's a few reasons agents don't get involved in SF and L/Os.
The agents want to get paid, they are paid on sales, not leases, but either party can pay a fee, usually the L/O is kinda thin so the Realtor may go hungry.
Many RE Brokers don't allow it due to the liability. It's not a state contract and usually a broker won't allow agents to use guru contracts, the E&O coverage may not apply if the broker fails to use approved contracts. A broker may go along if an attorney is involved in each deal.
Another reason brokers shy away is that the agent isn't qualified to do loan underwriting, and the broker takes the responsibility if a deal blows up.
If a property is listed, you have two brokers involved, double trouble. If just one, you're a transactional broker, not a leasing agent, and you can't advise on either side, you simply facilitate the deal, brokers have ethical issues with this in putting someone in an installment contract and not being able to advise and additional liability.
If someone puts a chunck down for an option and they can't get financing, say at the end of 2 years due to problems that should have been avoided, the broker becomes an easy target as well as the agent.
I like options, the key to doing them successfully is knowing how to get the buyer financed at the end, not just putting them in a house, the deal is not done until title changes hands. Most agents look to qualifications at that time, that's not the issue, it's where the buyer is down the road. Getting some there takes a lot of hand holding and dollar for dollar in time and effort, not really worth it to an agent.
Totally agree education is key, but I've never heard of a guru note or LO type teaching underwriting.
You can also bump into SAFE Act issues with residential, screw that up you're likely loose your license. Agents know about the unauthorized practice of law, that's drilled into them, they are less aware of the unauthorized practice of mortgage origination and associated liabilities if they are permitted to originate a mortgage
A good RE Broker will keep an agent from getting hung, not only for his/her protection but also to protect the agent and agency.
Everyone usually thinks I'm being negative, raining on a parade, saying don't do this and don't do that, maybe so, it's because most really think these aspects have real liability and they haven't done enough deals to have problems end up with an attorney or a judge.
Actually, I'm surprised that there is so much fear by landlords of getting sued and never a thought of getting sued by a buyer for predatory lending or due diligence. It's on the rise.
I know pretty much what John does and in Texas I believe he has it nailed when his "system" is appropriate. Brian G. also does a lot of L/Os. Not sure about others. Nothing wrong with a creative deal if it works, but for an agent that takes on a whole other flavor.
So, William Velazquez, how do you address these issues?
Source: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/21/topics/83916-brokering-lease-option-and-seller-finance-deals
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Firefox OS heading to Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Spain and more; Huawei device coming soon
Not content with a simple Deutsche Telecom announcement, Mozilla's using Mobile World Congress as a platform to launch its mobile operating system in a slew of markets. Rolling out in waves, the first round of devices featuring Firefox OS include the likes of Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela, with more markets soon, according to the company. The first round of handsets include devices by Alcatel, LG and ZTE. Mozilla also let slip news of a forthcoming handset from Huawei, who just capped up their own MWC press conference. As you'd expect, there's a whole slew of carriers on board. You can find the list in the release after the break.
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Members of 1st U.S team to top Everest reunite
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) ? It might be hard to conceive now, in an era of extreme sports and ultra-light equipment, but there was a time when Americans who set out to conquer mountains engaged in a pursuit that was as lonely as it was dangerous.
But four men ? Norm Dyhrenfurth, 94; Jim Whittaker, 84; Tom Hornbein, 82, and Dave Dingman, 76 ? remember. The leather boots that stayed wet for weeks. Oxygen canisters that weighed 15 pounds. The shrugs of indifference most of their countrymen gave a half-century ago to what it would take to get a U.S.-led mountaineering expedition to the top of Mt. Everest.
"Americans, when I first raised it, they said, 'Well, Everest, it's been done. Why do it again?'" Dyhrenfurth recalled Friday as he and three other surviving members of the 1963 expedition gathered in the San Francisco Bay area for a meeting honoring the 50th anniversary of their achievement.
The American Alpine Club is hosting lectures, film screenings, book-signings and a dinner this weekend recognizing the pioneering climbers and what their feat, captured in a Life magazine cover story, came to represent in the years after President John F. Kennedy honored the Everest team with a Rose Garden reception: the birth of mountaineering as a popular sport in the U.S.
"When they were talking about a reunion three years ago, I thought, who the hell cares about that? I figured we'd just together for some beers," Dingman said between interviews with National Geographic, Outside magazine and the Alpine Club's oral history project. "It's turned into this big event, and I'm glad it has."
Whittaker, who lives in Seattle and went on to become chief executive of outdoors outfitter Recreational Equipment Inc., was the first American to summit Everest. He and his Sherpa companion, Nawang Gombu, reached the top of the world on May 1, 1963, a decade after Great Britain's Edmund Hillary and about six weeks after another climber on the U.S. expedition, Jake Breitenbach, died in an avalanche.
Memories of how close he came to his own death on Everest ? he and Gombu ran out of oxygen on the summit and had to climb up and back without water after their bottles froze ? infused every day of his life since with gratitude and child-like wonder, he said.
"I think I will probably take it with me into my next life, if I have one," Whittaker said.
Three weeks after Whittaker's ascent, two other Americans, Hornbein and the late Willi Unsoeld, became the first men ever to scale Everest via a more dangerous route on the mountain's west side. The next day, they descended by the southern route that Hillary, Whittaker and by then, two more members of the American team, had taken to the summit.
The adventure, which included spending the night without sleeping bags or tents at 28,000 feet, made them the first men ever to traverse the world's highest peak ? and cost Unsoeld nine frost-bitten toes.
Dingman has been lauded over the years for sacrificing his own chance to scale Everest to belay Hornbein, Unsoeld and two other climbers, Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad, who had gotten stuck out in the open with them, back down to base camp.
Dingman never made it back to Everest. As a doctor in training, a Vietnam War draftee and then a physician with a young family, he never could find the time to make the trip. He said he had no regrets then and has none now.
"It would have made no difference to get two more people on to the summit, but if we had lost two or three people on the way down that would have been a very different story," he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/members-1st-u-team-top-everest-reunite-011146701.html
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Helen Hunt opts for H&M on the red carpet
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Forget designer: Helen Hunt wore H&M at the Oscars on Feb. 24 in Hollywood, California.
By Rina Raphael, TODAY
Helen Hunt had fashion fans' tongues wagging after the Best Supporting Actress nominee revealed that her midnight-blue Oscars gown was designed by H&M. It's not unheard of that a star would wear an affordable brand on the red carpet (remember Sharon Stone wore The Gap in 1996?), but it still puzzles some folks who can't imagine an A-lister would pass up a chance to go designer. (We're tempted: This is your chance to wear Valentino! VALENTINO!)
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Elegant, and affordable: Helen Hunt poses on the Oscars red carpet.
Of course, this isn't your typical H&M. The affordable retailer announced earlier this year that it was releasing a red carpet collection ? an off-shoot of its existing eco-friendly Conscious line. The line has already been worn by stars like Michelle Williams and Viola Davis, and now Hunt, who looks amazing in a silk dress made specially for the Oscar occasion.
What do you think of Hunt's dress? Are you fan?
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Lyoto Machida pulls out split-decision win over Dan Henderson at UFC 157
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lyoto Machida took a split decision over Dan Henderson in the co-main event at UFC 157 on Saturday. The judges saw it 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 for Machida.
Machida was elusive as usual in the first round, but Henderson was able to sneak in and land a few kicks and punches. At the end of the round, Machida took Henderson down with a leg trip and landed strikes.
The second round showed Machida still being elusive and keeping his distance from Henderson. Machida tried for a front kick several times, but couldn't land it. Meanwhile, Henderson couldn't land much.
[Also: Ronda Rousey survives UFC debut, wins via first-round arm bar]
Henderson is known for his big, overhand punches. Most of the time, when he throws it, it can mean the end of a fight. However, he had trouble getting close enough to Machida for the overhand to work.
In the third round, Machida moved in for a takedown but ended up with Henderson on top. Henderson used elbows from the top, but Machida was able to get out with less than two minutes left in the fight.
Before the fight, UFC president Dana White said that the winner of this bout will get the next title shot. UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will put the title up against Chael Sonnen in April, but the next fight will likely go to Machida.
[Also: Josh Koscheck suffers upset loss]
Machida was once the UFC light heavyweight champion, but lost the title to Rua in 2010. Since then, he has wins over Randy Couture and Ryan Bader, but losses to current champion Jon Jones and Quinton Jackson. It will be his third chance at the light heavyweight title. He won it with a knockout of Rashad Evans in 2009, but lost to Jones in 2011.
Henderson had a long layoff between fights. His last bout was one of the best in MMA history. In November of 2011, Henderson defeated Mauricio Rua in a five-round decision. Since then, Henderson had a fight lined up with Jones in September, but had to pull out at the last minute because of a knee injury. His record falls to 29-9. He's 42 years old, and against Machida, looked slow and old for the first time in his career.
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Get to the Point! 5 Best Practices for a Better Cover Letter ... - YouTern
Not everyone believes you should include a cover letter with every resume.
Some say busy hiring managers just discard a cover letter and jump straight to the resume. Others insist a cover letter is an opportunity to show how the skills on your resume match the job requirements ? and build rapport with a prospective employer.
Despite the differing opinions, people in both camps agree on one point: If a prospective employer requests a cover letter, you should provide one.
Consider the following when drafting your next cover letter:
1. Make Your Letter Visually Appealing
Before anyone ever reads your cover letter, they are going scan the document. If your cover letter even?looks daunting, you?ve already lost the game.
Long sentences and unbroken blocks of text are turnoffs for readers ? especially hiring managers who spend their days slogging through cover letter after boring ?cover letter. Your sentences should be short. Paragraphs (there should only be three to five) should be separated by a space (no need to indent). Consider using bullet points when listing your qualifications and accomplishments to further break up the text and make your qualifications more scannable.
2. Write an Original
Drafting a generic form letter may seem like a time-saver, but a cover letter template?will end up hurting you in the end ? when you lose the interview because you failed to be sincere. Write a fresh cover letter for every job opportunity. Closely read the job posting and tailor the letter to match. Use terminology similar to that in the posting and adopt a similar tone (some job postings, for instance, are strictly business, while others are more conversational). Be original? and show will fit in.
3. Keep Your Writing Relevant
A cover letter should not be a mere catalog of your skills and experience ? that?s what your resume is. Nor should it be your life story ??a recruiter will simply pass. Use a cover letter to show you are the right person for the position?by matching your qualifications with the specific requirements listed in the job posting. Use real-life examples, quantify your achievements and be specific to the task at hand.
4. Include the Basics, Everytime
While each cover letter you write should be tailored to the specific job for which you are applying, there is some standard information?you should always include:
- Your name
- The position for which you are applying
- How you heard about the position
Also, if you have a contact inside the company (who doesn?t mind vouching for you) mention their name (Joe Smith, a manager with John Doe Company, suggested I pursue this opportunity). And, at the end of your letter, ask for an interview and reiterate how the company can benefit by hiring you.
5. Make It Perfect
Once you write your first draft, set it aside for at least a few minutes. Then go back and reread. Look for opportunities to tighten your language, strengthen the points you make and delete unnecessary words. Then read it again, keeping an eye out for typos, misspellings and grammatical errors (which will kill even the most well written cover letters). Finally, since we are our own worst editors,?have someone very good at written communication proofread the letter. Often a fresh set of qualified eyes will catch what you missed.
Consider these cover letter best practices next time you submit an application. Who knows, that cover letter no one seems to agree on just may make the difference between getting an interview? and not.
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Romney to give first postelection interview to Fox
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks with Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday in Manchester, N.H. Wallace said on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, that he has landed the first post-election interview with Romney and his wife, Ann. The interview will air on his show next week (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks with Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday in Manchester, N.H. Wallace said on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, that he has landed the first post-election interview with Romney and his wife, Ann. The interview will air on his show next week (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Fox's Chris Wallace has landed the first postelection interview with defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann.
Wallace said on "Fox News Sunday" that the interview will air on his show next week. Additional portions will be on Fox News Channel the next day. Wallace says he'll ask Romney how he has dealt with the defeat, what he plans to do and his thoughts about President Barack Obama's second-term agenda.
Fox News spokeswoman Ashley Nerz says the interview will be taped this week in southern California, where Romney has spent much of his time since the election.
Romney has also said he will speak March 15 to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, an annual event that draws leading Republican voices.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
NFL combine: Can teams trust Manti Te'o?
INDIANAPOLIS ? The most anticipated and attended news conference in the 27-year history of the NFL scouting combine ended with a thank-you.
From Manti Te'o.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o answers a question during a news conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis on Saturday.
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Yes, that's right, the Notre Dame linebacker/unwitting participant in a "Catfish" hoax thanked us, his family, his university and all of his supporters for helping him through this uniquely trying time. No hints of anger, bitterness, frustration or annoyance.
How can you not like a guy like that?
If Te'o wanted to convince the public that he's a sincere, grounded young man, he accomplished that objective during a 14 1/2-minute, no-holds-barred Q-and-A on Saturday with about 200 media members who staked out their spots as if positioning themselves for a rock concert (or a free meal).
This was Te'o's first group interview since the bizarre story of his virtual girlfriend came to light in mid-January, and he handled it with aplomb. Of course, the greater challenge is to convince NFL teams that he's the high-character person we all thought he was before Deadspin broke the story that shrouded Te'o in doubt.
"They want to be able to trust their player," Te'o acknowledged. "You don't want to invest in somebody you can't trust. ... I understand where they're coming from."
When he spoke to the media at 2:15 p.m. ET on Saturday, Te'o had met with two teams formally: Green Bay and Houston. He said he had 18 more interviews to go.
Other teams had met with him informally, and every single one had asked about the incident, as you'd expect. The amount of time spent on it varied.
Relatively speaking, what Te'o did ? falling victim to a hoax, then embellishing the story through the media ? was benign. He didn't commit any crimes. He didn't break any laws. He didn't disparage any groups of people.
(Shortly after Te'o spoke, Georgia linebacker Alec Ogletree appeared at the same podium. Maybe one-fourth as many reporters showed up to grill him about his arrest for DUI earlier this month.)
But Te'o's actions generated an unhealthy dose of skepticism among the people who matter most ? his potential employers.
San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh had said earlier in the week that he couldn't trust someone who wasn't truthful. Not that any other coach would cite Judge Judy as his inspiration, as Harbaugh did, but his sentiment was representative of the way the rest of the league's decision-makers feel.
"When you lie in Judge Judy's courtroom, it's over," Harbaugh said. "Your credibility is completely lost. You have no chance of winning that case. So I learned that from her. It's very powerful, and true. Because if somebody does lie to you, how can you ever trust anything they ever say after that?"
Harbaugh then was asked if that made Te'o undraftable. Harbaugh said it wouldn't, perhaps an indication that the incident won't affect Te'o's draft stock as much as some believe, if at all. (Of course, it's easy for Harbaugh to say ? the 49ers are set at inside linebacker.)
The bigger issue for NFL teams might be Te'o's poor performance in the BCS title game against Alabama. After a stellar season in which he was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy, Te'o missed multiple tackles in Notre Dame's lopsided loss. He looked nothing like the first-round pick he was projected to be at the time.
Was Te'o distracted by his chaotic personal life, which few knew about at the time? Or did the Crimson Tide, loaded with NFL-bound players, expose him?
To his credit, Te'o made no excuses Saturday. "That's all on me," he said of his struggles against Alabama.
Unfortunately, the episode hasn't affected only Te'o. He said the toughest moment was receiving a phone call from his sister, who told him their family had to sneak into their house because so many reporters were camped outside. Te'o said he felt frustrated because he couldn't do anything to help them, embarrassed because he had besmirched the family name.
"You treasure your last name," Te'o said. "That's what you hold dear. To see your last name everywhere and know I represented my family and all my cousins and aunties and uncles ..."
Given his family's suffering, no one would blame Te'o if he sued Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the perpetrator of the hoax. But that's not Te'o.
"That's the worst thing you could do," he said. "Both families are going through chaos."
So what's Te'o's approach? To forgive.
"If you forgive," he said, "you'll get the majority of the blessings."
Te'o can only hope at least one NFL team sees it the same way.
NOTE
USC center Khaled Holmes (Mater Dei High) was unable to work out Saturday after injuring a pectoral muscle during the bench press Friday. However, Holmes said the injury was "just a strain" and that he would be fine. USC's pro day is March 27.
Contact the writer: mlev@ocregister.com
Source: http://www.ocregister.com/sports/nfl-497102-harbaugh-trust.html
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