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Posted: Thu 24 Apr 2008, 16:26
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How to keep your cpu cool and your fan quiet
Subject description: (practically without affecting performance)
Rev.0, 2008-Apr-25, Original
Rev.1, 2008-Apr-27, Cosmetic changes; correction of typos; comment on 3.01
Rev.2, 2008-May-17, Addition of min/max frequency fine tuning
Rev.3, 2010-Nov-15 (after a long absence): I downloaded and set up Lucid (luci-235) on my brand-new hp pavilion dv7-4050eb (with dual-core intel i5 processor). I noticed that Lucid includes a cpu frequency-scaling gui, that automates/replaces the manual work described below, and that works fine. After some research I find the gui has been developed and documented by trio:
- thanks trio, great job!
This HOW-TO explains how to keep your cpu cool and your fan quiet, practically without affecting performance, by cpu frequency-scaling. This method employs the dynamic in-kernel
governor, that changes cpu clock frequency (and supply voltage) at run time according to cpu load. Don't worry, it's much simpler than it sounds.
Note that bits and pieces on cpu frequency-scaling can be found in various forum threads. This HOW-TO intends to bring the pieces together into a well-documented, consistent and correct text.
What to expect
Summary of the findings on my laptop (hp/compaq nx9030) running pcPuppyOS rc6 (a 3.01 derivative) at ambient room temperature (around 20°C):
before frequency-scaling
- cpu temperature (monitored with conky) was constantly around 60...62° C,
- the fan was blowing roughly half-time, switching on/off every minute or so,
- the battery was drained from full to empty in some 55 to 60 minutes.
with frequency-scaling
- cpu stays below 50°C,
- the fan is completely silent (it never blows),
- the battery lasts for some 70 minutes,
- user responsiveness is not noticeably affected.
Note that the method described here only saves power on the cpu; there may be room for further power saving on other parts of the system. In comparison, WinXP/SP2 appears to be slightly more power-conservative overall (the battery lasts for some 75 minutes) even though the fan occasionally blows.
Comment 2008-Apr-27
I have applied this method on four Puppy versions (vanilla 2.16.1, vanilla 3.01, and 3.01 derivatives pcPuppyOS rc6 and final). For an as yet unknown reason (under investigation), the method described here appears to be
much less effective
for vanilla 3.01. In this case, it helps to reduce the maximum frequency.
Percentage of time spent at the highest cpu frequency (see section 4.3) for fairly light usage of the laptop:
- for Puppy 2.16.1: 0...4%
- for pcPuppyOS: 0...4%
- for Puppy 3.01: 60...65%
Outline of steps
(1) For background, read detailed explanation (section 4)
(2) Copy/paste below code section into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
(3) Uncomment/comment appropriate lines
(4) Reboot
The code has just three active lines. That's all!
# cpu frequency-scaling (to save energy and to keep the system cool)
# step 1: load cpu driver, setup cpufreq system
#modprobe speedstep-lib # library, not needed
#modprobe acpi-cpufreq # generic
#modprobe p4-clockmod # Intel
modprobe speedstep-centrino # Intel Centrino
#modprobe speedstep-ich # Intel
#modprobe speedstep-smi # Intel
#modprobe powernow-k6 # AMD
#modprobe powernow-k7 # AMD
#modprobe powernow-k8 # AMD
#modprobe longrun # Transmeta
#modprobe longhaul # VIA Technologies
#modprobe e_powersaver # VIA Technologies
#modprobe cpufreq-nforce2 # nVidia
#modprobe gx-suspmod # Cyrix Media
# step 2: load driver(s) for frequency-scaling mode(s)
modprobe cpufreq_ondemand # ondemand mode
#modprobe cpufreq_powersave # powersave mode (not used)
#modprobe cpufreq_conservative # conservative mode (not used)
#modprobe cpufreq_userspace # userspace mode (not used)
# step 3: min/max fine-tuning; launch ondemand frequency-scaling mode
# replace [min] resp. [max] with numeric values from available frequencies
#echo [min] > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
#echo [max] > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Detailed explanation
Background reading
Many cpus have mechanisms to save power by changing the core supply voltage and clock frequency at run time. These are described in detail in the 16-page document
Ref.1 "The ondemand governor"
. You should read this document as background. A quick reading should suffice, it's not necessary to bother about the fine details.
Manual set-up method
Before modifying rc.local, it is useful to boot from fresh (e.g. from live-CD with pfix=ram boot option) and to find out manually (using rxvt) which modules are required.
Step 1: load appropriate cpu frequency-scaling driver
These modules are in directory
The modules (shown using ls of this directory) are speedstep-lib, acpi-cpufreq, p4-clockmod, speedstep-centrino, speedstep-ich, speedstep-smi, powernow-k6, powernow-k7, powernow-k8, longrun, longhaul, e_powersaver, cpufreq-nforce2, gx-suspmod.
Module speedstep-lib is a library for common functions for Intel SpeedStep v.1 and v.2 support. On my laptop it
be modprobed without errors, but it's apparently not needed and so I don't load it. Some other modules may depend on it and load it automatically.
The other modules are the actual drivers. Insofar I found on the web, p4-clockmod and speedstep-x are Intel, powernow-x are AMD, longrun is Transmeta, longhaul and e_powersave are VIA Technologies, cpufreq_nforce2 is nVidia, gx-suspmod is Cyrix Media.
Evidently only one driver is needed. The drivers will not load on the "wrong" hardware, so it is safe to try each driver in turn when in doubt as to which is the correct one.
On my laptop
(with Intel Centrino):
- modprobing acpi-cpufreq or p4-clockmod gives the error message
FATAL: Error inserting <module> (...): Device or resource busy
- modprobing speedstep-ich, speedstep-smi, powernow-k6, powernow-k7, powernow-k8, longrun, longhaul, e_powersaver, cpufreq-nforce2 or gx-suspmod gives the error message
FATAL: Error inserting <module> (...): No such device
- modprobing speedstep-centrino works fine.
Successful modprobing of the correct cpu frequency-scaling driver also sets up the filesystem for frequency scaling, under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
Step 2: load driver(s) for frequency-scaling governor(s)
The driver modules (cpufreq_xxx with xxx = powersave, ondemand, conservative and userspace) are in directory /lib/modules/188.8.131.52/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/
There are five frequency-scaling governors:
is a static mode, that runs the cpu constantly at its highest frequency (this mode has/needs no driver module and is default in Puppy),
is a static mode, that runs the cpu constantly at its lowest frequency (this mode uses least power; on my laptop user responsiveness is clearly degraded as seen e.g. when dragging a window)
is a dynamic mode, that rapidly switches cpu frequency according to cpu load, in order to minimize power use with virtually no performance loss,
is a variant of ondemand, see Ref.1.
requires additional tools, see Ref.1.
You should modprobe the cpufreq-xxx driver(s) for all governors that you intend to use. In my case, I only use
. Also
governors may be useful, resp. for maximum speed and for minimum power consumption. In Puppy, I see little or no use for the
Step 3: activate frequency-scaling governor
This is done by writing the selected governor into the scaling_governor file, e.g.
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Inspection of frequency-scaling state files and fine-tuning
These files are in directory /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
(this directory is set up by the cpu frequency-scaling driver)
In this directory, you can inspect at any time (from rxvt):
- available governors, by catting scaling_available_governors
- the active governor, by catting scaling_governor
- available cpu frequencies, by catting scaling_available_frequencies
- the current cpu frequency, by catting cpuinfo_cur_freq,
- frequency statistics, by catting stats/time_in_state
The active scaling governor takes into account the maximum and minimum frequencies as specified in the files scaling_max_freq and scaling_min_freq. Maybe, in
mode, you find that the fan is still blowing too much to your taste. Maybe, in
mode, you find that your laptop is too slow to your taste. Then you may select another maximum resp. minimum cpu frequency, from the list of available frequencies in scaling_available_frequencies, and write it to file scaling_max_freq resp. scaling_min_freq.
Boot-time configuration
Copy/paste the rc.local code section as shown higher, and comment/uncomment the appropriate lines according to the required modules, as identified manually. The selected governor is then active after every reboot.
Further comments
(1) Above discussion applies to systems with one cpu (cpu0).
(2) I have tested above method on Puppy 2.16.1, Puppy 3.01, pcPuppyOS rc6 and pcPuppyOS final, and I expect it to work for all Puppy versions 2.13 and higher. For lower versions, cfr. Ref.4
(3) The
mode can be further tuned if so desired. The parameter files are in directory /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand
I personally did not experiment with these, since I'm perfectly satisfied with the default settings.
(4) Kazm has written a GUI script that autodetects the cpu type, cfr his post further down this thread and cfr Ref.4 (I have not tested it).
Ref.1 "The Ondemand Governor"
Ref.2 "Power management" (wikipedia)
Ref.3 "Linux Kernel Documentation / cpu-freq"
Ref.4 "Howto get CPU frequency scaling to work in 2.xx"
Ref.5 "Prozessorauslastung minimieren / optimieren?"
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Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2008, 15:11
Post subject: How to keep your cpu cool and your fan quiet
Subject description: Puppy on Thinkpad
What great timing. I have just come back to Puppy after a year or two and I am happy to be here. The first thing I did was to install Puppy 3.01 in Virtualbox and it just screamed. It was by far the fastest thing I've seen in my VB. With low memory requirement (160-192K) I can open a Puppy session and leave it on the desktop at all times.
Then I put it on my Thinkpad T22 with a Sandisk Extreme 4 CF/IDE drive. The performance there is also crisp. So crisp that I used the BIOS to decrease cpu frequency by half to "fixed 450." Amazingly, the performance is about the same--totally useful, with no fan noise, noticeably less heat, and presumably greater battery life (if I ever get a good battery for it
My plan was to next start learning about how to control the cpu and I find you have done a lot of work for me. I appreciate it. Thanks.
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Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2008, 16:27
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I made GUI script for this
And its also contain GUI script
directly for
ASUS eeePC
, that use module p4-clockmod...
This script use some script from Xubuntu that auto find needed cpu module, but it not find anymore for ASUS eeePC CPU
Maybe I use old version?
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Posted: Thu 15 May 2008, 20:05
Post subject: how to get this working on compaq laptop
Subject description: details
erikson wrote:
On which specific combination of PC and Puppy version have you tried?
I assume you have typed in rxvt
modprobe p4-clockmod
without getting an error message. This should indeed indicate success.
You can check with
lsmod | grep p4
which should return p4-clockmod (and maybe some other modules with p4 in the name).
Now (e.g. with rox) check if you have the following directories
If not, from where in the tree is it missing?
Possibly you also have to do
modprobe acpi-cpufreq
What does that return? Do you now have all /sys/... directories?
NB - description of console commands such as modprobe, lsmod, cat etcetera can be found at
Hi, thanks for this support. I would love to have a quiet puppy laptop so here goes...
machine is Compaq Presario 2500 with 512mb Ram and 2.8Gig processor. I started with a fresh install of puppy 4.00 but have added in Tuuxx's icewm and an sfs of open office.
Following your advice I type lsmod | grep p4
and yes, I have p4_clockmod and speedstep_lib and nls_cp437
I have the laptop beside me (puppy can't use it's dial up modem) and I can see the directories down to cpufreq in which there are 11 files and two directories - 'ondemand' and 'stats'
modprobe acpi-cpufreq returns
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/126.96.36.199/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): Device or resource busy
and that is where I get confused!
I've also just checked the rc.local file where I inserted the code. One question - I copied and pasted the code into there and uncommented the line modprobe p4-clockmod but is there a typing error there? It looks like a dash but maybe that should be an underscore?
The line about ondemand mode is also uncommented and then the last line for stage 3.
Hope this gives you the information you need. Many thanks
ps just went to directory cpufreq as recommended in orginal instructions to check Cpu freq and the cat cpuinfo_cur_freq returned 350000
Also before doing this tried changing the dash in the code to an underscore. Fan still going so don't think it's working yet. I would also be happy fixing the cpu freq at 1gig since this would be perfectly fast enough and maybe is easier?
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Posted: Fri 16 May 2008, 14:56
Post subject: Re: how to get this working on compaq laptop
Subject description: details
recycler wrote:
I can see the directories down to cpufreq in which there are 11 files and two directories - 'ondemand' and 'stats'
Okay, then the required cpu driver module (in your case p4-clockmod) is loaded.
modprobe acpi-cpufreq returns
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/188.8.131.52/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): Device or resource busy
No problem, apparently it is not needed.
I've also just checked the rc.local file where I inserted the code. One question - I copied and pasted the code into there and uncommented the line modprobe p4-clockmod but is there a typing error there? It looks like a dash but maybe that should be an underscore?
I used dashes and underscores as I found the modules in pcPuppyOS (derivative of 3.01). AFAIK Puppy is forgiving and treats dashes/underscores in module names as equivalent, so it doesn't really matter.
Hope this gives you the information you need.
So far everything looks as it should be.
Please post contents of the files:
(1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
(2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
--- erikson
hp/compaq nx9030 (1.6GHz/480MB/37.2GB), ADSL, Linksys wireless router
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Posted: Fri 16 May 2008, 19:29
Post subject: file contents
Subject description: checking the setup on a compaq presario2500 laptop
Scaling Freq available
350000 700000 1050000 1400000 1750000 2100000 2450000 2800000
Time in State
350000 9907
700000 700
1050000 200
1400000 100
1750000 300
2100000 0
2450000 100
2800000 8924
...this could be embarrassing - looks like it is working
...edit - now had the laptop running on battery for about 30 minutes and the fan comes on and off. With 30 minutes from the mains adapter (how I usually use it) fan seems to stay on all the time. Are the ondemand settings different depending on power source and if so can I change them?
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Posted: Sat 17 May 2008, 05:55
Post subject: Re: file contents
Subject description: checking the setup on a compaq presario2500 laptop
recycler wrote:
looks like it is working
Yesss !!!
But I notice a similar effect as for me on 3.01 standard, namely the cpu is running at its highest frequency almost half-time (while it's just a few percent for several other Puppy flavors). Thus frequency scaling on my 3.01 standard and on your 4.00 does work, but is quite less effective than it might be. I still have not found why
It may be worthwhile to try the
governor (a variant of
). Next option, that
be effective, is to install the
governor (echo powersave > .../scaling_governor). Then the cpu will always run at its lowest frequency.
Are the ondemand settings different depending on power source and if so can I change them?
AFAIK there's no difference in frequency-switching behavior between on-battery or on-ac. But while the battery is charging, the charging circuitry in the laptop dissipates some additional power (that must be evacuated by the fan).
(addition, also adapted in first post)
You can also choose the highest cpu frequency that you accept (from the list of available frequencies), and write that one to file scaling_max_freq, e.g.
echo 1750000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
Very effective in combination with the
governor. Of course the line can also be added to rc.local, under "step 3".
In the same manner, it is possible to raise the minimal frequency.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
--- erikson
hp/compaq nx9030 (1.6GHz/480MB/37.2GB), ADSL, Linksys wireless router
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Posted: Sat 17 May 2008, 07:45
Post subject: cpu freq
Subject description: on dingo
I will try your suggestions - thank you very much for the assistance
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Posted: Tue 20 May 2008, 01:10
Post subject: reduced cpu speed on dingo
Powersave mode - runs at the lowest frequency all the time - noticable loss of performance. Conservation - chooses middle way all he time. Some loss of performance. On demand but with max freq limited to 1gig. Produces this stat
350000 75104
700000 3200
1050000 85020
1400000 0
1750000 0
2100000 0
2450000 0
2800000 4
performance slight decrease - ok.
But - the cpu fan stays on all the time. Even with powersave mode. Leads me to wonder if the laptop is running hotter than it should!? Good to have the technique worked out. Can this be used to slow down a desktop and therefore also reduce the amount of heat produced and power consumed?
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Posted: Tue 20 May 2008, 08:51
Post subject: Re: reduced cpu speed on dingo
recycler wrote:
But - the cpu fan stays on all the time. Even with powersave mode.
Strange... frequency scaling obviously works... did you use any boot parameter (like acpi=off or so)?
recycler wrote:
Leads me to wonder if the laptop is running hotter than it should!?
Cpu temperature can be checked as follows, from rxvt:
modprobe thermal
cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
module sets up the thermal_zone filesystem (if acpi is enabled). Thereafter, file
is continually updated.
recycler wrote:
Can this be used to slow down a desktop and therefore also reduce the amount of heat produced and power consumed?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Posted: Thu 22 May 2008, 20:36
Post subject: Thinkpad T22
Subject description: None of the drivers load
Thinkpad T22, BIOS says Intel Speedstep Technology. Dingo 4.0 (but same thing happens with 3.01). 900MHz. 256M RAM. 188.8.131.52.
All of the possible drivers say
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/188.8.131.52/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq1.ko): No such device
The drivers I tried were acpi-cpufreq, speedstep-centrino, speedstep-ich, speedstep-smi. Same message for all. Speedstep-lib does load.
Kazm's CPU Power Mode script did run and it echoed back whatever mode I chose (ondemand, conservative, etc.) lsmod showed that the script had loaded cpufreq_ondemand, along with speedstep-lib, but there was no speedstep-smi (or any variation of that) loaded. The script had recommended speedstep-smi.
The filesystem showed /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/ the directory cpu0 was empty (which makes sense since the driver is supposed to create cpufreq, etc.).
There are settings in the BIOS that relate to power saving and Speedstep. The power saving gives choices Max Performance, Max Battery Save, and Custom for both AC and battery operation. Custom allows to adjust cpu frequency and does work, but it selects a static frequency. The Speedstep option does basically the same thing. No setting that I have tried of these two options makes any difference to loading the drivers--all four drivers give that same message.
The modules fan, thermal, processor, ac, and battery are also loaded.
I am about out of ideas--I would be grateful for any. thanks.
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Posted: Fri 23 May 2008, 01:04
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I followed the instructions above for my T23 and it seems to be working ok (i'm not sure if it's the same for your T22). I'm using the acpi-cpufreq module as mentioned
IBMWiki wrote:
The CPU (Pentium III-M) has power management and throttling; use the acpi-cpufreq module instead of the speedstep-ich module to change speed automatically. The CPU has only two speeds, and with the cpufreq_ondemand & cpufreq_conservative modules, dynamic scaling will be achieved
do you have the modules required? (are the modules shown when you ls the directory as stated in the instructions)
erikson wrote:
These modules are in directory
The modules (shown using ls of this directory) are speedstep-lib, acpi-cpufreq...
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Posted: Fri 23 May 2008, 11:31
Post subject: I do have the modules
Thanks for letting me know that it works on my computer's younger sibling Soupean.
The modules are in that directory. I am reasonably sure they are being tried because if I intentionally mispell one then I get a Module Not Found message instead of a No Such Device message.
If you have a chance and are comfortale doing so, perhaps you could look at your machine's BIOS and tell me how any options concerning power saving and Speedstep are set. thanks.
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Posted: Fri 23 May 2008, 12:54
Post subject: Re: Thinkpad T22
Subject description: None of the drivers load
playdayz wrote:
Thinkpad T22 (...)
I am about out of ideas--I would be grateful for any. thanks.
On the T22 (and some other machines) it may be necessary to disable speedstep-lib checks in order to make speedstep-smi loadable.
Try this (at your own risk, see link):
modprobe speedstep-lib relaxed-check=1
modprobe speedstep-smi
Speedstep on Coppermine Thinkpads
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Posted: Fri 23 May 2008, 18:09
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thought you might be interested in this:
Fn-F7 Man, this is cool
It activates the power saving mode. You can flip through the power saving schemes with the cursor keys. These are the modes that define how the laptop will behave when running on batteries. See the APM chapter right above this one. With the right key you select the modes in the order "No saving -> middle saving -> high saving -> user-defined", with the left key in the reverse order. Thus, if you have defined the user-defined mode to run the CPU with 250MHz, you can switch between 500MHz and 250MHz while running Linux (note that all modes except user-defined mode run the CPU with 500MHz). And even if you have defined a certain screen brightness for the user-defined energy-saving scheme, you can still adjust the brightness with the m300bl-tool (see the X section). Thus, you can chose the CPU speed independent from the brightness with Linux
Leave the mode with the same combination.
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For those Canadians who suffer from Obama-envy this week, it's worth noting that a comprehensive food policy is an idea that Canada can provide world leadership for, and a key to such notable international goals as eliminating hunger, reducing obesity and protecting the climate and the environment generally. The idea is so good and will extend so many benefits to so many people that I look forward to it becoming a project that all political parties join cause in, whatever their differences.
Because food touches so many aspects of our lives in so many ways, a government that does not have a comprehensive food policy cannot, by definition, have a comprehensive health policy, energy policy, job creation policy, environment policy, global warming policy, anti-poverty policy, immigration and settlement policy, trade policy, industrial policy or – last but not least - agricultural policy. When food is torn apart, with bits stored in silos of health, energy, environment, immigration, trade and agriculture departments, it becomes like the patient who is treated by doctors as a liver, pancreas, heart, spine, ear, nose and throat, not a whole person. No patient responds well to this medical treatment, and no dynamic element of life responds well to this political treatment.
It's been said that our problems with healthcare and food begin with the fact that the people in charge of food know and care little about health, while the people in charge of healthcare know and care little about food.
When two of Canada's major food groups are donuts and pop, and when our medical system is overburdened with alarming rates of heart disease and diabetes, the way we keep food and health in different sectors of the economy is no longer economical and the way we divide government responsibility is no longer politic. While various governments around the world flail their arms with various efforts to protect the climate from global warming, even the justly-praised Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fails to identify food as an area for corrective action, and we all miss the opportunity to deal with a food sector that is responsible for a third of global warming emissions, most of which can be reduced while also reducing world poverty and disease and improving farm incomes. While various governments around the world work at stimulating the economy and job creation, and almost none of them look at food and agriculture, the traditional sectors relied on to generate the multiplier effect; this just shows how thinking inside the box has gone to ridiculous lengths.
A comprehensive food Policy will have a Plan to link all the People involved with food (from producers to consumers), all the Places where food is acted on (from homes to workplace cafeterias), all the Purposes that food serves (from communion with traditions and spiritualities to community development and personal health) and all the Projects that bring us food (from Agriculture departments to hospital cafeterias) so these elements can be connected and synchronized with Policies that optimize the multiple positive public outcomes of food.
In the absence of a comprehensive and rational food policy, Canadians suffer needlessly from four problems. There is no good reason why these problems persist.
As many as ten per cent of the people of Canada, including a disproportionate number of children, cannot afford nutritious foods throughout the year, and have to throw themselves on the mercy of food charities or do without – this in a land where farmers produce more than enough food for all to eat, and where we spend billions more managing food waste than on under-nutrition of kids from low-income families.
Second, obesity, particularly childhood obesity, means many will live shorter and more painful lives than their parents; we can prevent this problem for far less money than we will spend on medical care for the diabetes and heart disease and related problems that flow inevitably from obesity. Canada can, for instance, join other industrially advanced countries in providing national school lunch programs featuring nutritious, local and sustainably produced foods that introduce youth to the basics of healthy, balanced and delicious meals.
Third, at a time when the world faces likely food shortages as a result of challenges likely to be imposed by global warming, we are losing our best farm lands and young people are refusing to enter careers in food production that guarantee only poverty-level wages.
Lastly, though many want to do something positive for farmers and for global warming, we are missing the opportunity of paying farmers a fee to become stewards of clean air and water, beginning with incentives to reduce their own energy use and fees to store more carbon in their soil — the best and most beneficial carbon sequestration program ever designed.
How exactly a comprehensive plan will look is a matter for serious deliberation and dialogue. What's so important about today is that the efforts to develop such a plan have now been joined, and we can at last start to turn the mess of disjointed food policies into the productive problem-solving of a comprehensive food policy.

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School districts ponder more cancelations, consequences
Area school districts are watching the weather forecast very closely with another bitter cold blast on the way.
WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater explains what will happen if schools are forced to close again.
"Well, I don't want to make up the days, but I do want to miss days," Wauwatosa fourth-grader Archie Dowell said.
"Honestly, I prefer it when they shut the school because it's a lot easier because you know that your kids are safe, and they're not cold," Archie's mother, Sam Dowell, said.
For Milwaukee Public Schools, the timing of next week's cold snap could be good. Students are scheduled to be off on Monday. It's the same in Wauwatosa. The question is, will the bitter cold temperatures hang on for Tuesday morning?
Milwaukee is already making up one cold day next week and told WISN 12 News they'll be watching the weather conditions closely.
School superintendents from around the state, who were in Milwaukee for a convention, were already calculating making up additional lost weather days.
"It was below zero with negative wind chills of 25 or more, so then we canceled because you can't have little kids waiting for buses in those temperatures," Benton School District Administrator Kyle Luedtke said.
Luedtke said the southwest part of the state has been hit hard.
"We've missed four days at Benton already," Luedtke said.
"Additional days are days that will just need to extend our school calendar and be made up. So we want to make sure we make those decisions carefully," Mineral Point Unified School District Superintendent Luke Francois said.
Students will celebrate the days off now, but not the makeup days in June.
Administrators said some school districts could choose to make up for lost days by extending each school day by a few minutes for the rest of the school year.


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by Charlie Michelle
I want to preface this great kosher recipe with a little piece of trivia about myself. I really dislike fish. I dislike fish so much that the mere smell of my son's school on fish-stick days makes me a little green. So when I say that this salmon recipe is amazing, well, that's saying a lot. A whole lot.
I first tried this kosher recipe at a 5-star restaurant on my wedding anniversary so many years ago. I have no idea what possessed me to order such a dish, given my aforementioned aversion to fish, but I suppose the lure of such an interesting flavor combination–pecans, pineapple, cinnamon, and…fish!…arose my interest. So I tried it. And I loved it. And I set out to replicate it.
My dairy-free kosher recipe is a culmination of lots of trial and error. Tweaking a spice here, altering a crust ingredient there…. but I finally feel I have managed to reproduce the richly flavorful dish I discovered so long ago. And so, dear fellow Jewish Hostesses, I pass it along to you. Why should the restaurant get all the glory?
What you'll need for two servings:
– Two filets salmon (I use organic, to ensure no artificial coloring has been added)
– 1 cup chopped pecans
– 2 tablespoons vegetable margarine or Earth Balance margarine, softened
– 2 tablespoons brown sugar
– 1 tablespoon flour
– 2 teaspoons cinnamon
– 1 teaspoon nutmeg* (see note)
– 1 teaspoon chili powder
– 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Pineapple sauce:
– 1/2 cup crushed pineapple and juice, pureed in a blender or food processor until smooth
– 2 teaspoons chili powder
– 1/2 cup soy yogurt – vanilla, coconut, pineapple, or pina colada flavors work well
Here's how you make it:
1) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place salmon filets skin-side down on your baking sheet.
2) In a small food processor, grind your pecans. You can make them as smooth or as chunky as you like. When they are ground to your liking, transfer them to a small bowl and add your margarine, brown sugar, flour, and spices. Using your fingers (I like to get in there and get dirty!) smush your margarine into the pecans as if you were making a crumb pie crust.
3) When everything is well blended, scoop a small handful of your pecan mixture and press it evenly onto each salmon filet. Be generous. That pecan topping is good stuff.
4) Bake salmon at 350 degrees F until it flakes easily with a fork, or its flesh has turned light pink, about 15-20 minutes. When salmon has finished baking, move your oven rack to the second-highest level and broil briefly (2-3 minutes) to make the pecan crust nice and crispy. Because of the sugar content, watch it closely or it will scorch.
To make your sauce:
In a small saucepan, combine pineapple puree and chili powder. Stir well. Cover and bring to a simmer. I like to call it an "aggravated simmer". Not quite a full boil, but not just a lazy little simmer either. We don't want to reduce the pineapple, we just want to break it down and bring out the flavor.
After a good 5-6 minutes of "aggravated simmer" (patent pending on that term, hehe!) turn off the heat and add your soy yogurt. Whisk together to blend well.
Serve your pineapple sauce drizzled prettily over the salmon filet, and garnish with something pretty–carrot curls, a parsley or mint leaf, lemon rosebuds, whatever you like. I served mine with a fresh, springy vegetable salad with lime vinaigrette. You can see the kosher recipe for this lovely side dish here.
Enjoy, and happy eating!
*As for the nutmeg, yes, you can totally make it optional.As stated in the kosher recipe, it's been a work of trial and error, playing with all kinds of in gredient combos to see what works. If you exclude the nutmeg, though, I would definitely replace it with something equally as spicy–maybe ground cloves or an extra pinch of chili powder.
About me:
Charlie's my name–not short for Charlotte or anything. I currently write and maintain a daily food blog, focusing mostly on vegetarian and kosher recipe, ranging from appetizers and side dishes, to dinner and casseroles, to luxurious desserts. My husband serves with the Army, and he recently traveled 1200 miles home for a family emergency. I wanted him to be greeted home with a little bit of luxury, but also with a dish that has a comfort-food appeal to it. Nuts and spices always sing of cooler weather and warm kitchens, while the fresh pineapple sauce lends a happy springtime feel. I thought the combination would be perfect to excite his senses and give him yet another reason to be happy to be home. Enjoy my recipe!


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UBS Reaches Agreement in Principle to Settle Litigation with FHFA for RMBS Offerings between 2004 and 2007
UBS estimates that for the second quarter of 2013 its operating profit before tax was approximately CHF 1,020 million and its net profit attributable to shareholders was approximately CHF 690 million. Our Basel III common equity tier 1 ratio is expected to improve significantly to approximately 11.2% on a fully applied basis and 16.2% on a phase-in basis.
These results include pre-tax charges totaling approximately CHF 865 million for all litigation matters and certain other significant provisions and an impairment of financial assets; approximately CHF 700 million was booked in the Corporate Center – Non-Core and Legacy Portfolio and approximately CHF 100 million was booked in Wealth Management in relation to the Swiss-UK tax agreement. We will report strong net new money in our wealth management businesses with net inflows of approximately CHF 10.1 billion in Wealth Management and net inflows of CHF 2.7 billion in Wealth Management Americas, with net outflows of CHF 2.0 billion in Global Asset Management.
UBS has reached an agreement in principle with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to settle claims relating to US residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings between 2004 and 2007. This case, which we have highlighted in our litigation note since the third quarter of 2011, is one of a group of cases related to RMBS offerings filed by the FHFA against 18 financial institutions. The settlement, which is subject to documentation and final approvals by the parties, would encompass pending RMBS-related litigation brought by the FHFA against UBS on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as certain unasserted claims. The full cost of the settlement is covered by litigation provisions established by UBS during the second quarter of 2013 and in prior periods.
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Updates from Your Gmail Contacts — One of the reasons why the chat box can no longer be disabled in the new version of Gmail is that it will include some new features: updates from your contacts. Yes, they are the same contacts you barely know, but these updates will help you learn more about them.
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Gmail source code hints at social feature — Ionut was digging around through the source code in Gmail when he stumbled across some pieces of text he thinks indicates "updates" for your friends could soon be part of the integrated Google Talk module. — The source code he found includes snippets of text including the following:
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!:
GMail: The New Social Network — What is the true measure of your social graph? If you ask Google, the answer is found in your contact database. In further moves designed to create a defacto social network, it was discovered by the source code sleuthings of Ionut Alex Chitu …
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Will Google Pull a Plaxo? — Google Operating System speculates that Gmail will soon display status updates from your contacts: … Ionut says based on reading some Google code that users will be able to delete updates - now word whether there will be a "Big Switch" to opt out globally.
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Flood Recovery Tips to Get You Back on Your Feet
(Family Features) More than 40,000 homes flooded in the state of Louisiana after historic rainfall since Friday, Aug. 12, causing more than 20 parishes to declare federal disasters. Across the state, only 20 percent of homes have active flood insurance policies.
"Our top priority is the safety of Louisiana residents," said Tony Robinson, regional administrator for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 6. "We are working closely with the Louisiana governor's office to respond and help residents recover from this devastating flood. We encourage those with flood insurance to file a claim. People with disaster damage and expenses not covered by insurance can register for Individual Assistance from FEMA. Apply online at disasterassistance.gov or call 800-621-FEMA."
Communities, families and businesses can take action to recover quickly from flooding caused by severe storms, as well as prepare for the next one. FloodSmart, the marketing and education campaign of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program, encourages residents to protect their families, property and pets as floodwaters recede, providing these tips on what to do after a flood:
- Check for structural damage before re-entering your home. If you suspect damage to water, gas, electric or sewer lines, contact authorities.
- Immediately remove wet carpeting, furniture and bedding. Take photos of the property before disposing of it and keep samples for the adjuster to see. For example, cut out a piece of wall-to-wall carpet. Find cleanup tips at emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/floods.
- Keep your pet safe. Learn more at Ready.gov/animals.
- Understand your flood insurance claim and policy, and call 800-621-3362 with any questions.
- Get a repair permit from your local building official. A substantial damage determination is required for building repairs in the Special Flood Hazard Area. A building that is damaged beyond 50 percent of its market value is considered a substantially damaged building, which requires that all repairs meet local flood damage prevention ordinances. That determination is a factor in future premium rating for a flood insurance policy and is needed for Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) claims.
- Learn more about ICC, as you may be able to obtain up to an additional $30,000 toward elevating, relocating or demolishing your home to comply with local floodplain management requirements. Ask your adjustor about opening an ICC claim.
- Ask about mitigation grants that may become available for elevating homes because of a flood. Ask your parish officials about applying to the state on your behalf for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding.
- Know your insurance company's name, your policy number and a telephone number where you can be reached. Take photos of water in the house and anything that is damaged. List damaged or lost items. Refer to the Flood Insurance Claims Handbook to help navigate the claims process and appeal your claims decision, if necessary.
- Review your Summary of Coverage, which helps you understand your flood insurance policy. It provides general information about deductibles, what is and is not covered by flood insurance and how items are valued at the time of loss.
- Ask about federal disaster assistance, which might be available if the president declares a federal disaster. Aid typically comes in the form of a loan that you pay back with interest.
To learn more about filing a flood insurance claim and flood insurance, contact your insurance agent or find one using FloodSmart's Agent Locator Tool. Flood damage is typically not covered by homeowners insurance, so it's important to financially protect homeowners and business owners from flooding's costly consequences.
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Handcrafted beverages, welcoming atmosphere, and premium service: these are the three values by which The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stands. However, they also strive to go above and beyond these traits. Between this tenacity and their innovation, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has rightfully earned their title as the oldest and largest privately held coffee and tea retailer in the U.S.
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House Committee To Vote On Online Piracy Act
A long-running fight between Hollywood and Silicon Valley could get nastier today when a congressional committee votes on a bill about online piracy. Movie producers say the Stop Online Piracy Act creates stronger protections for intellectual property. Critics in the high-tech industry say the bill could have unintended consequences for the Internet, as NPR's Joel Rose reports.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: Hollywood loves a pirate - as long as he's on screen.
ROSE: The latest installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise captured more than a billion dollars at the box office worldwide this year, and that's before you count the booty from the DVD and Blu-ray sales. But Hollywood studios say they're losing more and more of those revenues to what the industry likes to call online piracy.
MICHAEL O'LEARY: These are not your father's thieves.
ROSE: Michael O'Leary is a senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America.
O'LEARY: They're overseas. They lie beyond the reach of kind of traditional U.S. law, and their operations have become more sophisticated.
ROSE: Hollywood is pushing hard for a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Supporters say SOPA and its Senate counterpart are intended to shut down so-called rogue websites which make money by circulating unauthorized copies of movies and other intellectual property. But critics of the legislation say it would stifle innovation.
MARKHAM ERICKSON: For example, under these bills, YouTube would have never gotten off the ground. They would have been shut down within months of beginning its operation.
ROSE: Markham Erickson is the president of Net Coalition, which lobbies for such big Internet companies such as Google, eBay and Yahoo. They've been clashing with Hollywood on these very issues for more than a decade. Under existing law, Internet companies like YouTube are not liable for copyright infringement by their users as long as they take down the offending material when they're asked to. But Ericson says SOPA would go way beyond current law by allowing copyright holders to take down an entire website over just a few examples of suspected infringement.
ERICKSON: And it raises the question: Are these proposals more about trying to create remedies to deal with the very real problem of offshore sites that are engaging in widespread illegal activity? Or is this more about the MPAA's interest in trying to control the distribution of their content?
ROSE: In other words, Erickson says, it looks like Hollywood is really trying to protect its business model from disruptive Internet companies like YouTube or Slingbox, a charge the Motion Picture Association denies. Again, Michael O'Leary.
O'LEARY: The only people that should be worried about the reach of these two bills are people that are engaging in criminal activity. Legitimate businesses, we want to work with those people.
ROSE: But critics of SOPA contend their input on the bill has been largely ignored. They do have their own supporters on Capitol Hill, though. Last week, Republican Darrell Issa of California introduced an alternative bill that would give the International Trade Commission more power to go after rogue websites without, he says, rewriting U.S. copyright law.
REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA: SOPA was supposed to be about foreign entities that were beyond the reach of the American courts. Mine goes as far as the other bill said it had to go. It will have the authority to follow the money and cut off the domestic flow of money to these offshore entities.
ROSE: But Michael O'Leary at the Motion Picture Association says Issa's alternative - shifting power to the International Trade Commission - won't solve the problem.
O'LEARY: An enormous amount of time passes in that process, and that's frankly time we don't have. We don't want something that allows thieves an additional 12 to 18 months to steal our product while the bureaucracy kind of grinds its way towards a decision.
ROSE: The bureaucracy at the House Judiciary Committee is moving quickly on the Stop Online Piracy Act, which means the next sequel in the Hollywood versus Silicon Valley franchise may be coming soon to the House floor. Joel Rose, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) – The Pittsburgh Penguins have plenty of decisions to make this off-season, and NHL Network analyst Craig Button offers his input to Vinnie & Cook on Sportsradio 93-7 The Fan.
While some question whether Dan Bylsma will be coaching the Penguins next season, Button has no doubts.
"I'll be very, very clear: I am 100 percent in my mind that there is no way that Dan Bylsma's coaching position should be questioned in Pittsburgh," Button says. "They've had a lot of different challenges over the past number of years. You start to think about how well that team performed, and how well they integrated some different players into some different roles. They won 15 games in a row. I look at that whole body of work, and I don't think that a four-game streak…is reason to change a coach."
With a plethora of key free agents and the salary cap going down, the Penguins will have decisions to make on some of their players as well.
Button puts on his ex-GM's hat and looks at how he would approach the off-season if he were Ray Shero.
"I have a chance to have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, arguably the two best centers in the world, and I have a Norris Trophy finalist [Letang] in my lineup," said Button. "I'm taking my chances with those guys and I worry about filling in around them. Those guys are too hard to find, and I'm not letting them go."


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STAMFORD >> Connecticut commuters expect to hear from Metro-North officials about the commuter railroad's 100-day improvement plan.
The executives, including the senior vice president of operations, were scheduled to address the Connecticut Commuter Rail Council on Wednesday during the group's monthly meeting. Open to the public, the 7 p.m. meeting will be held at the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Stamford.
The council said Metro-North's improvement efforts and operational issues will be discussed. Metro-North's president has said the railroad's priorities are to operate safely, communicate better and restore performance.
The commuter council is an independent state board that acts as an advocate for Metro-North commuters. Chairman Terri Cronin said "getting back to meaningful dialogue with Metro-North on rail performance" is a critical element of the council's duties.


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You're organised, careful and measured. Good with numbers and happy diving into data and details.
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You're dynamic, creative and love being busy. Imaginative, full of good ideas and always up for a challenge.
I have worked at the Society for many years, during which I have seen an incredible amount of change both from a broader Society perspective and also from an IT point of view. It's that change that has kept me engaged and motivated to keep progressing my career here.
I actually started in a trainee Cashier in one of our Branches and my journey with the Coventry has seen me play a pivotal part in developing the IT analysis team within the IT Architecture function. Every day in IT we have the opportunity to make a difference, as we play a key role in helping our colleagues across the whole of the organisation. I work with great people and I love the 'techy' side of IT and seeing how doing the right things in the IT function can have a positive impact on our members and our people.
I genuinely feel as if exactly the right challenges have come at the exactly the right time for me. Whether that be pushing my IT career to the next level to agreeing a flexible working arrangement, doing a job I love, whilst having my children. The Society has provided support in those defining moments. The Society's values are carried through not just in the way we treat our members but in the way we work with each other.
I am now lucky enough to be on the senior leadership team for IT, really driving our transformation agenda. There is never a dull moment here and I am looking forward to what the future holds!
Sarah - IT
I started working for the Society as a Saturday Customer Service Assistant, in one of our Coventry branches, and I continued this role on a part-time basis while I studied law at Durham University.
After completing my degree, I did some work experience in the Legal team and was then lucky enough to secure a permanent Paralegal role.
I always knew I wanted to continue with my legal career, so I asked if the Society would support me through my Legal Practice Course and they agreed. I spent a year going to London twice a week for evening lectures – it was hard work, but I qualified in July 2016.
I now work on the lending and property side of the Legal team, looking after mortgage-related queries, policy changes and project work, as well as helping to review the lease renewals for the Society's properties. I am also involved in reviewing our mortgage conditions and legal documentation, in conjunction with external solicitors and barristers. These documents protect both the Society and its members so it's important that they are accurate and are clearly communicated.
I also love being able to get involved with the Society's community work, I'm one of our Reading Partners and help the children at a local Primary School improve their reading and spelling. It's one of the most rewarding parts of my week.
It's a great place to work and I really feel the Society looks after us.
Amy - Legal
I'd heard from friends and family (who didn't even work for the Society!) that Coventry Building Society was a great place to work and when I saw the graduate programme advertised I was excited to apply.
I successfully gained a place on the Technology graduate programme and having studied Business and Computer Science I was excited about the exposure that this would give me to the IT function as a whole. So far I have not been disappointed; I have been given exposure to PMO, IT Analysis, Technical Solutions and IT Architecture. With Development, Test and Project Management to come, I know that I will be able to gain a great understanding of how technology supports and empowers our business as well as being able to develop a diverse skill set.
I don't spend my time shadowing team members; I am given real responsibility and I am required to work closely with my colleagues in order to deliver meaningful work that has an impact on the Society as a whole. I'm always impressed by the support I get from my managers and colleagues, they're always welcoming when I embark on a new placement and they encourage me to ask questions, making it easy for me to quickly get up to speed and start adding value straight away.
As well as the learning I get from my rotations, the Society's development days give me the chance to develop other valuable skills such as relationship building and holding influential conversations. These are attended by graduates from other programmes and as a result of this we're able to share our specialist knowledge and learn from each other in order to deliver on a range of projects for the Society and our local community.
I'm really enjoying the programme and know that my learning won't stop when I take my next step!
Kurt - IT
I joined the Society as a Resourcing Advisor on a six-month contract, three days after finishing my degree in Management Sciences at Loughborough University.
After a couple of months, I was offered a permanent role and I was supported to complete my Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) qualification. It was hard balancing work with study, but well worth it in order to progress my career in HR.
I then moved into the HR Business Partnering team, as a HR Advisor dedicated to supporting a specific area of the Society. The HR Advisor role is really varied and touches lots of areas. We get involved with everything from developing new polices to organisational design.
I have recently progressed into a role focussing on Employee Experience – we're the team who drive forward key strategic initiatives for the Society such as Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement and Wellbeing.
It's a very supportive culture with a focus on communication and encouragement. It's a great environment to work in.
Clare - HR Advisor
I've worked in a number of different departments including the Branch Network, Intermediary Development, Financial Crime and I'm now in our Compliance team.
Regulatory changes can have a big impact on the business. It's part of my job to track those changes and keep the business informed.
I get to work with lots of different teams – Product Design, Marketing, Customer Experience, Legal and Business Change to name a few. Every day really is different!
There are numerous opportunities for development and progression if you choose to take them. Ultimately, you drive your own future.
This kind of culture doesn't just happen overnight – it comes from the top and it's been a pivotal part of the organisation for many years.
Emma - Compliance
I started working at the Coventry as a Saturday Customer Service Assistant, I'm now a Customer Service Specialist and I've just started on the Management Development Programme, which is designed to help enhance my leadership skills.
Every day is different. I come to work smiling and I leave smiling. Making a difference to our members motivates me to come to work each morning. I'm helping people and I get so much satisfaction out of it, whether I'm opening an account for a customer or supporting them with a complex transaction, our members really appreciate us.
We are so invested in community work too. In our branch alone, we've raised almost £20,000 for our community partner. We have the most amazing customer base. They're so generous – they're as passionate about the charity as we are.
Jess - Branch Network
Starting out in our Savings Operations team, I quickly progressed in to our Quality Assurance team, then into Customer Relations.
I studied Accountancy at University and always wanted to work in Finance, so when a role came up I knew I wanted to apply…now I'm a Cost and Management Accountant.
My job is so varied. If I was talking to someone about a career here, I'd say... "you'll definitely find an area you enjoy".
I was offered study support so I could gain my professional finance qualification. It was hard work, it was worth it though! They're really supportive of people studying, training and going through exams. I came joint tenth overall in the world and now I'm qualified. Not only that, I've got brilliant experience from the ground up so I wouldn't have it any other way.
What excites me about my role is that we're so engaged with the whole Society and we're looking to the future, rather than just dealing with historical numbers. I love asking questions like... Will this project benefit our members? What will the business benefits be? Will it make us more cost-efficient?
Karan - Finance
I've been with Coventry Building Society for most of my career, my background is actually in Finance and whilst in this team, I was intrigued by the part that Change payed in shaping the Society and I felt that it would be an interesting career move. After completing a secondment in Change, I took on a Trainee Business Analyst role and now I'm training to be a Project Manager.
The Coventry makes a big investment in delivering a fantastic customer experience and understanding the wider impact each project has is critical. Getting things right for our members is the most important thing.
Working in Change has taught me so much and helped me develop transferrable skills, such as analysis and decision making, project management, report writing and managing stakeholders. These are all qualities I feel I could take to any part of our business.
I know I still have a lot to learn but I'm focussed on becoming a fully-fledged Project Manager and I know Coventry Building Society will support me to get there.
Scott - Change
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The NYC Council has published a comprehensive telecommunications report, "Network NYC" (in pdf format) which, if implemented, could increase Internet access in poor and underserved communities and upgrade the telecom infrastructure while saving the city money.
However, building political support for the plan could take months and will require the city to evaluate its longstanding relationship with Verizon, which provides 75 percent of the city's telecommunications services. Though the city's telecom infrastructure is a "public good" (like a park) that all New Yorkers should share, it is now in the hands of private companies with little incentive to upgrade costly infrastructure.
New York spends over $130 million on telecommunications, more than any other city in the country. But, despite this, the city has never taken a careful look at how their buying power can be used to best advantage. (For background on this issue, spelling out the case against Verizon, please see a previous tech column.)
The Problems
The main problem with the city's current telecom system, according to the report, is the lack of competition between carriers. The New York City Comptroller long has complained about the $96 million contract that the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has with Verizon, and the City Council report recommends that the contracts be opened up to greater competition.
"More competition in telecommunications services is usually a good thing for the customer [in this case,the city], as carriers tend to compete on both price and reliability. The report lays out a way for the city to do business in a manner that would promote such competition among carriers," said Jordan Silbert, director of Rebuilding Initiatives for the Alliance for Downtown New York.
The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, or DoITT, is already taking steps to open up the city's telecom contracts to greater competition by aggressively seeking the best prices from a more diverse group of carriers. Verizon stands to lose some of its business with the city if other companies can provide better and less expensive service. (A Verizon spokesman did not provide the company's response to the report by press time).
Other telecom companies are hoping to bid on contracts in order to work with the city in a greater capacity. According to Federica Dussi, regional operations manager at AT&T, "there are pricing advantages and technology advantages of increased competition in the city." For example, the government could tap into newer telecom networks owned by a more diverse group of companies.
Currently, Verizon and its competitors are not paying any franchise fees to the city as a result of a recent court case. Previously, the competitors were paying the city but Verizon was not, due to exemption under a New York State law. This is another source of lost revenue for the city.
Another problem is the lack of telecom planning across different city agencies, which is costing the government too much money. Better use of wireless and other new communication technologies could aid in decreasing costs.
The Recommendations
The report focuses on two goals: saving the city money on its telecom bill and promoting economic development in the five boroughs of New York.
Specifically, the report advocates for regular five-year telecom plans to be drafted by DoITT, with input from experts and community members.
One of the report's recommendations is for the establishment of free wireless Internet access zones in parks and other public spaces. To this end, last month, the Downtown Alliance launched the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network, the country's first wireless business district, in partnership with officials from DoITT and the City Parks Department.
The goal of the initiative is to have a wireless access point or "hot spot" within five minutes walk everywhere below Chambers Street or seven hot spotstotal in lower Manhattan. The network will operate throughout the year except in the cold winter months. As part of the project, Bowling Green Park-the city's oldest public space-is now wireless.
Lower Manhattan residents, workers and visitors can get on the Internet for free on laptops and personal digital assistants (PDAs) and access information on events, restaurants and shopping through the network's Website.
Moving Forward
In order to move forward on the best recommendations in the council's report, greater political support,awareness among the general public and research on the demand for these services in underserved areas is key."What is needed is awareness of the problem of broadband redlining in the city's poor neighborhoods,"said Anthony Townsend of NYCwireless. "Community organizations need to start thinking about how to help themselves. NYCwireless has the ability to help non-profit and community-based organizations that want to get [wireless high-speed Internet] access help themselves."
Over the next few months, the city will gather input from the public in order to refine and build support for the proposed strategy. The city is looking into innovative sources of funding to jump-start their efforts. Officials hope to apply for federal funding from the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration as part of a new $228.12 million budget for state and local efforts to create wealth and reduce poverty. Upgrading the city's telecom infrastructure-especially in underserved neighborhoods--is an important step towards increased economic growth.


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William Gallas has urged Tottenham fans not to panic despite the team's poor start to the season.
Spurs go to Reading on Sunday still looking for their first win of the campaign. The London club were unlucky to lose their season-opener against Newcastle, but they missed a hatful of chances against West Brom and looked clueless at times during the 1-1 home draw against Norwich that followed.
Gallas, who has captained the side in all three Barclays Premier League games this season, is unconcerned about how the team have started under Andre Villas-Boas. "We have only two points, but we don't have to be too much afraid because it's the beginning of the season, we have a new manager and a new style," he told Spurs TV Online.
Tottenham's defence have born the brunt of the criticism from fans after they buckled under pressure to concede two late equalisers in the two games at White Hart Lane.
Gallas, who looks set to continue his partnership with Jan Vertonghen at the back on Sunday, admits the team need to maintain their concentration right to the final whistle if they are to pick up their first win at the Madejski Stadium.
"We have to be very focused on what we have to do and we have to be focused for 90 minutes or maybe more," the Frenchman added. "All the players want to win, the fans want to see their team win so on Sunday we will try to get the three points. We have to be very strong against that team because they are good, they are strong and they are playing well."
Gallas hopes the club's move to their new training ground will trigger a turnaround in fortunes. The Spurs squad trained on Wednesday for the first time at their impressive new 67-acre HQ, which contains 11 outdoor pitches and state-of-the-art medical facilities.
"What we need now is to win some trophies because with this facility, we can get something," Gallas said. "It's one of the best, maybe in the world. Everything is perfect. When you come here you don't want to leave. You don't want to go back home."
Villas-Boas will have two new signings available to him for the first time tomorrow in Hugo Lloris and Clint Dempsey. The Spurs boss hinted yesterday that Lloris could be left out of the squad completely as he has only trained twice with his new team-mates, but Dempsey looks set to feature, most likely from the substitutes' bench.
Liverpool were strongly tipped to sign Dempsey from Fulham all summer, but Spurs swooped for the United States international on deadline day after the Merseysiders refused to meet the Cottagers' £6million valuation.


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'LessonCasts': Flipped PD for Teachers
From the ASCD annual conference in Chicago
Here's a teacher professional development idea that I hadn't heard of before. And it comes in three-minute chunks called LessonCasts.
In a session on Saturday, Nicole Tucker-Smith, a former assistant principal in Baltimore County, described how she'd set out to solve one of the most challenging issues related to teacher PD: How do you provide PD that's neither overwhelming for new teachers nor repetitive for seasoned teachers? Is there a format that can be truly valuable for everyone?
She decided to use a form of teacher-led PD in which teachers record themselves explaining a teaching strategy that they are strong in to a colleague. The two- to three-minute voice recording is accompanied by a PowerPoint or a video and, Tucker-Smith explained, is meant to offer something the listener can put into practice right away. "It's not a lesson plan. It's more like a teacher-to-teacher conversation. As a teacher, when I wanted help, I never asked to see a lesson plan. I asked, 'What did you do?'"
Tucker-Smith's school began making LessonCasts (which she also calls teacher-created videos) to address the area in which students were struggling the most: reading comprehension. Each LessonCast addressed a smaller skill related to comprehensionfor instance, visualizing, summarizing, synthesizing, making inferences. At first, Tucker-Smith chose the strategies and made the LessonCasts herself. "When you say to a teacher, 'You have two minutes to explain an idea, go!,' that's really tough." Eventually central-office staff members and teachers began making them as well.
Each LessonCast begins with an introduction explaining why the strategy is useful, followed by an explanation of the procedure, possible ideas for differentiation or interdisciplinary work, and a closing. In creating them, Tucker-Smith said, it's important to have a "storytelling element" and to figure out, "What's the uncommon insight that can help a teacher put this idea into practice? What are the key stumbling blocks you might be able to help somebody through?" She emphasized that it's "really important to keep it under three minutes. Beyond that is too much to expect somebody to implement the next day."
Her teachers would listen to a LessonCast at home and then meet to discuss how they planned to implement the strategyin a sense, using the the flipped classroom model for PD. After implementing for a week, they would come back together to debrief and possibly make changes to implementation. After another week of using the strategy, they assessed their students on the skill.
In an extension of the PD model, the educators made a very quick "look for" cheat sheet for each strategy. The sheet tells a classroom observer what to look for when a teacher is implementing that strategy.
While the "normal school-improvement cycle takes a year" because it relies on standardized test scores, she said, these teacher-created videos and collaborative-planning sessions can help teachers implement change in just two weeks. Tucker-Smith said her school went from being restructured in 2010 to meeting expectations last year "in every subgroup, in every category, including special education." She cited the use of Lessoncasts as being among the factors that contributed to this growth.
Tucker-Smith has since left the district, branded her LessonCast idea, and made helping schools implement them a full-time job. While she's clearly a motivated and energetic educator, she's a bit apologetic as a businesswoman. She emphasized that the resources she mentioned are all free but that she charges a small fee ($45) for a course on how to make and use the teacher-created videos. You can find a short version of her her presentation, some sample Lessoncasts, and the "Look fors" here.
When asked why teachers would make LessonCasts for their own schools rather than simply pulling from the existing bank of free LessonCasts, Tucker-Smith said either can work. But "there is a power in having a voice from your community sharing these ideas," she said.


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The corresponding Bloomberg article can be found here, also from July 16th:
International Demand for Long-Term U.S. Assets Falls
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- International demand for long-term U.S. financial assets weakened in May as investors sold the most Treasury notes and bonds in six months.
Total net sales of long-term equities, notes and bonds were $19.8 billion in May, compared with net purchases of $11.5 billion a month earlier, the Treasury said today in Washington. Net selling of government notes and bonds totaled $22.6 billion, the most since sales of $25.8 billion in November, after net buying of $42 billion in April.
As investors abroad dumped long-term Treasuries, purchases of U.S. stocks in May were the strongest pace since January 2008. The Obama administration is selling a record amount of government debt to finance a budget deficit that's projected to approach $2 trillion this year, raising concern about American fiscal policy and spurring purchases of shorter-term U.S. debt.
Meanwhile the Fed is issuing $150 to $235 billion in new debt each and every week. Granted, long bonds, as measured by TLT, are down 24% ytd, yet bonds have yet to really fall off the edge as far as price or to shoot the moon in terms of interest yield.
What we've been noticing is that the amount of money at each auction is increasing from the Primary Dealers who are surrogates of the Fed. And, in fact, when we look at the chart from the Fed showing the amount of U.S. Government Securities at all Commercial Banks, we do see a parabolic rise and a steady increase up to the latest $1.3 Trillion mark:
Now, as much as $1.3 trillion is, in the last two years this amount appears to have "only" grown by about $200 billion total. So I'll ask the question again; WHERE'S THE MONEY COMING FROM?
Net withdrawals from foreigners (most recent data unknown), and roughly $200 billion increase in the past couple years at commercial banks which would include the primary dealers. It's being suggested that the Primary Dealers are simply going to borrow the money from the Fed, turning around and lending it back to them at a higher rate while skimming the difference. If that is true, and it probably is, then it's going to end very badly when that circle is broken.
I say again, it's time to audit the Fed, the Treasury, and the Primary Dealers by an INDEPENDENT AUDITOR, if such an animal can be found.
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For those who thought that they'd never get an opportunity to walk a red carpet or brush shoulders with their favorite celebrity, BET Networks, AEG and L.A. LIVE have teamed up to provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—aptly called The BET Experience at L.A. LIVE. For the first time ever, public can purchase tickets to attend the BET Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, which grants them exclusive access to the red carpet and special VIP entrance to performances during the BET Experience weekend, June 28-30, 2013.
Even though Beyoncé's North American tour kick-off concert at STAPLES Center is completely sold out, guests purchasing specially created VIP Ticket Packages can rest assured that they are guaranteed great seats for all of the sold-out weekend performances as well as numerous other events, receptions and programs taking place during the BET Experience. Fans are warned to buy early as these special packages are limited. The three VIP packages provide access to the entire STAPLES Center weekend concert series featuring Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Miguel, ScHoolboy Q, legendary artists The Jacksons, R. Kelly and New Edition. Packages also include intimate show performances by comedian Mike Epps, songstress Erykah Badu, The Roots & Friends, and a gospel showcase including Kirk Franklin over the BET Experience weekend at Club Nokia.
"The BET AWARDS weekend has evolved into a tremendous 3-day experience," said Debra Lee, BET's Chairman and CEO. "Attendees will be treated to a specially curated BET GRAMMY® Museum Exhibit; empowerment seminars that range from money and cultural to entertainment, family and health; a film festival; fan fest; the Music Matters stage, celebrity appearances and more."
Special hotel package pricing is available for the weekend's events. The official host hotels for the BET Experience are the JW Marriott Los Angeles, L.A. LIVE and The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles. The BET Experience will offer special rates to consumers at more than 20 other hotels in the downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and Beverly Hills areas.
"I can't think of a better way to spend a weekend than by enjoying all the sights and sounds at the BET Experience. Who wouldn't want a chance to hobnob with the stars while sipping champagne on the red carpet in sunny Los Angeles? It just doesn't get any better than this," said AEG's Sean Dee, President, Global Branding AEG Live.
For more information on the BET Experience and access to the limited VIP packages, visit www.BETExperience.com. Tickets are also available at www.axs.com/ betexperiencevip. To receive updates and announcements, follow the BET Experience at L.A. LIVE on Twitter @betexperience.