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The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced preliminary unaudited results indicating that the Reserve Banks provided for payments of approximately $77.7 billion of their estimated 2013 net income to the U.S. Treasury. Under the Board's policy, the residual earnings of each Federal Reserve Bank are distributed to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for the costs of operations, payment of dividends, and the amount necessary to equate surplus with capital paid-in.
The Federal Reserve Banks' 2013 estimated net income of $79.5 billion was derived primarily from $90.4 billion in interest income on securities acquired through open market operations (U.S. Treasury securities, federal agency and government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and GSE debt securities). Operating expenses of the Reserve Banks, net of amounts reimbursed by the U.S. Treasury and other entities for services the Reserve Banks provided as fiscal agents, totaled $3.8 billion in 2013. In addition, the Reserve Banks were assessed $702 million for the costs related to producing, issuing, and retiring currency, $580 million for Board expenditures, and $563 million to fund the operations of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Reserve Banks had interest expense of $5.2 billion on depository institutions' reserve balances, and recorded losses of $1.3 billion that result from the daily revaluation of foreign currency denominated asset holdings at current exchange rates.
Additional earnings were derived from income from services of $436 million, and net income of $143 million attributable to the consolidated limited liability companies that were created in response to the financial crisis. In 2013, statutory dividends totaled $1.6 billion and $147 million of net income was used to equate surplus to capital paid-in.
The chart below illustrates the amount of Federal Reserve Banks' residual earnings distributed to the U.S. Treasury from 2004 through 2013 (estimated).
Source of 2004-2012 data: 2012 Annual Report of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/20140110a.htm


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Live from Abu Dhabi Connect the World takes you on a journey across continents, investigating the stories that are changing our world.
In the throes of packing for the UAE Wednesday, I hastily threw in a brolly at the last minute along with the bikinis. It seemed the rain gods had beaten me to it and the Gulf was awash in thunderstorms. But on arrival Friday morning, the sun is shining, the sky is clear and the welcoming Emirati smiles truly genuine – the perfect place to touch down for the next stage in my life.
Professionally, this is a fantastic opportunity. Bringing my prime time show – Connect the World with Becky Anderson – to Abu Dhabi makes sense for all sorts of reasons. Not least, this is an incredibly exciting global hub which sits at the very heart of a region gaining increasing resonance and influence on the geopolitical stage. We've had a fantastic TV news hub in Abu Dhabi for over 5 years – the next 5 should be even more exciting.
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Even though your University of Miami Hurricanes voluntarily declared themselves ineligible for post-season play and thereby skipped playing in the ACC Championship Game and any potential bowl game that would have resulted from their season's accomplishments, several other ACC teams will be active and busy during the 2012 college bowl season.
So we thought we would take a look at which teams will be representing the Atlantic Coast Conference and who is playing who and where and when during the post-season. Now I know what you are thinking: "Why do 'Canes fans care about these other teams and their silly bowl games?" Well, that is why am here: To help you understand why these games are important to UM fans.
As everyone knows the ACC as a whole is still struggling to regain it's National footing and earn some much needed respect among the major college football conferences. What happens in these games will greatly affect the perception and viability of the ACC, and that will certainly impact Miami.
Six Atlantic Coast Conference Football teams are bowl bound this holiday season, led by ACC Champion Florida State and fellow top-15 team Clemson.
The post-season action gets under way on the evening on Thursday, December 27 when Duke makes its first postseason appearance since 1994 against Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, N.C.
Virginia Tech takes the field on December 28 against Rutgers in the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando. The Hokies are making their 20th consecutive bowl-appearance - the third longest active streak among FBS teams.
This New Year's Eve will be a busy one for ACC teams with three bowl games on tap. NC State kicks things off at noon against Vanderbilt in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville.
Georgia Tech makes its 16th-straight bowl appearance (tied for fourth-longest active streak nationally) versus Southern Cal in the Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.
No. 14 Clemson wraps up the day with No. 8 LSU in the Chick-fil-A bowl in Atlanta.
No. 12 Florida State, which leads the nation with 31 consecutive bowl appearances, is set for the Discover Orange Bowl on the evening of January 1. The Seminoles battle No. 15 Northern Illinois, which is riding a 12-game winning streak.
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"He was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield. Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves."
Ah, Bingley. The ultimate moneyed bachelor, the affable gentleman, as at home in Netherfield as in Bath or London. And in Jane Austen's masterpiece Pride and Prejudice, he is judged most favourably on his attitude to the dance.
Because for Jane Austen and the people who lived around her, the dance was the stage for courtship; the places where partnerships were brokered, matches made, hearts garnered.
Dance had always held a key part in society; at court the evening would always be concluded with fancy footwork. The dances were like English country dances: lots of rows of men and women facing each other, a form which suited the halls of English country houses; and the dance would weave a pattern of people changing places.
As time wore on the footwork of the English dances became more and more fancy and folk turned towards the European dances for simple elegance. The gavotte, the Cotillon, the Quadrille. But they were long. A dance could last up to half an hour, and that's a long time not talking to Mr Darcy.
They still do it, you know.
In Hampshire, the home county of Jane and the source of all those comfortable English stereotypes, folk still dress just as Jane and her contemporaries did, and they still dance the old dances.
The people who do it are called the Hampshire Regency Dancers.
Based in Winchester, England, these good folk of Hampshire are the descendants of those who danced in the Assembly Halls alongside Jane. They use historical dance specialists to teach them steps and then perform, in full regency dress, at halls and houses around the county.
Whether it is still a hotbed of beating hearts and passionate pledges, I cannot say. The matter bears investigation. But is membership is large and thriving, and its performances in demand.
It is entirely possible that the Bingleys, the Darcys, the Wickhams and the Collins are still there, marking out the steps with deliberate satisfaction, regarding their partner with broadly good humour, the men making their coat-tails fly and the women's skirts carrying out a little quadrille all their own.
Take a look.
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A man paid $3 for an oil painting and ended up making a tidy profit. Preferring to stay anonymous, but willing to share his good fortune, a South Carolina man, tells his story to local media.
According to WYFF Channel 4, the 81-year-old Anderson County man, who only identifies himself as "Leroy", bought a painting at Goodwill for $3, thinking he could sell it for "maybe $100 or couple of hundred on the Internet."
It turns out he netted a lot more than that.
He purchased the painting about 18 months ago reported MyFox Channel 8.
Upon getting an appraisal, Leroy learned the painting was crafted in 1650 and was told the piece originated from a Flemish school in Amsterdam. The centuries-old painting was sold this past weekend in a Massachusetts auction house. It sold for a whopping $190,000.
Leroy told WYFF, "It's the biggest find I've ever had. It's that one thing you're always looking for. I'd like to get the big one. Well, that was the big one. I can only thank Goodwill for that."
Leroy has some experience. He is a former antiques dealer, and now spends his time shopping in thrift stores. Those who routinely peruse what others have donated and/or discarded know that sometimes true treasure is found, like the man who bought glass slides at a garage sale for $45 and later learned their true worth was $200 million.
"I might not know exactly what it is worth, I just know whether it's a good piece or it is not a good piece. And that's what happened with the painting, I didn't realize 1650 was the age of it. For that age, great picture. Great picture," Leroy told the TV station.
Reportedly, Leroy's painting will be featured on Antiques Roadshow next month.
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Portland bomb plot suspect's father alerted FBI
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Scared and feeling out of options, the father of a Portland teenager called the FBI in 2009 and warned that his son was considering flying to Yemen and committing violent jihad, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.
That call and a subsequent meeting set off a 15-month investigation that culminated with the arrest of the teenager, Mohamed Mohamud, the FBI said. He is now 20 and charged with attempting to detonate a weapon of mass destruction at a Portland Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.
Mohamud called his father, Osman Barre, on the morning of Aug. 31, 2009, and said he had a ticket and a visa to Yemen, FBI agent Ryan Dwyer said at a hearing Tuesday.
A frantic Barre looked and couldn't find his son's passport. Repeated calls from Barre and Mohamud's mother proved fruitless until Mohamud finally answered his phone. His said his threat had been all talk, but he was serious about flying out of the country.
Barre had read about the recruitment and radicalization of Somali teenagers, and his son's pledge to fly to Yemen sealed his decision, Dwyer said. Barre picked up the phone and told the FBI that his son was technically an adult but still a child. He said Mohamud didn't know what he was doing.
"He was concerned for his son's safety," Dwyer said. "He stated he did not want to see his son brainwashed."
The hearing in U.S. District Court provided the first glimpse into what brought Mohamud to the FBI's attention. In his indictment, the FBI quoted Mohamud as saying he was "betrayed" by his family, but it left unclear how they decided to investigate him.
The hearing came as part of an effort by Mohamud's defense team to suppress evidence the FBI gathered from a separate Oregon State Police investigation into a rape accusation against Mohamud after a 2009 Halloween party.
The rape claim was dropped, but the FBI copied Mohamud's hard drive and the numbers in his cellphone. Mohamud's attorneys say obtaining that evidence violated Mohamud's rights. Prosecutors say they were already tracking Mohamud's activity and learned nothing from the hard drive, cellphone or state police interview.
Mohamud's trial is scheduled for October.
Barre was in court Tuesday but declined to comment. He has said he spoke with the FBI at least twice in 2009, and when his son sent him an emailed invitation to a school in Yemen, Barre forwarded that email to the FBI.
Barre came to the U.S. from Somalia in 1993. He brought his family to the country a year later.
From February to August 2009, Mohamud exchanged about 150 emails with the publisher of an al-Qaida magazine, federal documents state, adding that he contributed four articles to jihadist magazines, including "Jihad Recollections."
After Barre contacted the FBI, the agency began a complicated sting operation in which they persuaded Mohamud that he was meeting with radical jihadists _ men who were in fact FBI agents.
The alleged plot culminated at the Portland Christmas tree-lighting ceremony on Nov. 29, 2010. Mohamud is accused of using a loaned cellphone to dial a phone number that he thought would detonate explosives in a van near the tree.
There was no bomb, and Mohamud was taken into custody.
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Gen. Museveni: wear-and-tear from 28 years?
Contrary to popular belief in some quarters around the world Uganda's ruler Gen. Yoweri Museveni has been a principal player in the destabilization of the East and Central Africa region, resulting in millions dead, millions wounded and millions displaced and billions of dollars worth of properties and infrastructure destroyed.
He has also participated in or facilitated plunder of the resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and massacres with serious environmental outcomes.
At the start of his administration in 1986 after five years of a guerrilla war centered in the Luwero Triangle where half of the population perished and extensive destruction of property occurred, Gen. Museveni promised good neighborly relations. He even assured the late Rwanda president Juvenal Habyarimana that he would not export his revolution to his country. At regional and international conferences and summits Gen. Museveni preached peace, stability and security as a requirement for economic growth and social development.
He was dubbed the dean of a "new breed" of African leaders; events have exposed the term as oxymoronic especially for an anti-democratic ruler 28 years in power.
Sadly his rhetoric has been contradicted by his actions. His hidden agenda of creating a Pan-Tutsi empire led him to engage in military adventurism that destabilized the region as he supported insurgencies and removed governments in the Great Lakes region starting in Burundi.
Museveni's involvement is well-documented in Burundi's 1993 coup that resulted in the death of Melchior Ndadaye, the first elected Hutu president, and many senior officials and triggered a genocide.
Gen. Museveni and Paul Kagame reportedly planned the coup at a meeting in Entebbe. The two top coup plotters fled when it failed and were subsequently granted asylum by Gen. Museveni in Uganda, including Lt. Paul Kamana.
Gen. Museveni originally denied but eventually admitted supporting the Rwanda Patriotic Front and Army (RPF/A) that invaded Rwanda from Uganda starting in 1990 until it captured power after the genocide of 1994. Up to one million Hutu and Tutsi were killed. Gen. Museveni was honored by Gen. Kagame and Rwanda for his role in the RPF/A victory.
It is also reported in the New York Times Almanac of 2006 that by 1993 as many as one million people had been displaced. And by the end of the genocide three million Hutu had become refugees who were followed in DRC and murdered in large numbers by Kagame's RPF as The New York Times' reporter Howard French (now a professor at Columbia University) and other writers have shown.
Rwanda suffered a double genocide including in the forests of DRC.
Under the pretext of protecting Banaymulenge (a Tutsi clan living in eastern DRC) against a possible genocide, Gen. Museveni's and Gen. Kagame's troops first invaded Zaire, now DRC, in 1996-1997, and massacred people all the way to Kinshasa. The second invasion of DRC by Gen. Museveni's and Gen. Kagame's troops starting in 1998 brought in troops including from Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe who sided with then Congo president Laurent Kabila, and launched Africa's World War. The outcomes were catastrophic.
Gen. Museveni has twice been involved in the wars in Sudan and South Sudan. He supported the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) and provoked the Khartoum government to support the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Joseph Kony that resulted in over 20 years of war in the Northern and Eastern regions of Uganda with tragic consequences including disfiguring many survivors.
Currently, Gen. Museveni is supporting the South Sudan government of Salva Kiir in its war against the opposition, including Riek Machar, causing many deaths, displacements of many people and destruction of property. Gen. Museveni has refused requests by some African leaders, including Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and some of our development partners, to leave South Sudan; he's thereby constraining prospects for reaching a negotiated settlement of disputes.
Museveni's involvement in Kenya's internal affairs is well known including in the 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections of 2007 that triggered unprecedented fight in the Rift Valley with over 1,000 dead, many more displaced and properties destroyed. He has now been warned by Kenyans including former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, that he should stop interfering in the domestic affairs of Kenya.
Because of the destabilization and insecurity Museveni has caused and alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes, including genocide, an increasing number of commentators believe that there is a prima facie case for Museveni to be taken to the ICC for trial.
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On June 8, 2006 The Wall Street Journal reported: "In April 2004, nearly a year after Mr. Moreno-Ocampo floated the idea of a Congolese case, Congo President Joseph Kabila referred alleged war crimes within his nation to the ICC. Mr. Moreno-Ocampo set up a separate team to investigate atrocities there, which will likely involve reviewing Uganda's alleged support for Congolese militias. President Museveni of Uganda asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to block the Congo investigation, according to one person familiar with the matter. Mr. Annan replied that he had no power to interfere with the court, this person said. A Ugandan government spokesman, Robert Kabushenga, declines to comment on the matter."
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Eric Kashambuzi is Secretary General,United Democratic Ugandans (UDU)
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MIT and Harvard have announced the launch of edX, a "disruptive" initiative in worldwide online education that will leverage the best teachers with interactive learning technology. The promise of this newest of such initiatives that follow in the footsteps of the Kahn Academy is that it could well disrupt the careers of incompetent teachers, and maybe even the teachers unions. MITnews reports -
EdX brings a "possibility of transformation through education to learners across the globe," (Harvard president) Faust said. "We are privileged to be here today to mark the creation of a new partnership between two of the world's great universities, a partnership that will change our relationship to knowledge and teaching for the benefit of our students, and students and would-be students everywhere."
Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and president of the newly formed edX, called the new initiative a "historic partnership." Online education, he said, is creating a "revolution" driven by "the pen and the mouse," adding that edX is "disruptive, and will completely change the world." The new possibilities afforded by today's technology, he said, have created "the biggest change in education since the invention of the printing press."
And that's the good news, that we can leap over our dysfunctional (especially in STEM subjects) public education system and their cadres of union stultified deadwood 'educators'. Imagine how such course work will serve both home schooling and integrate with the full spectrum of brick and mortar schools. I predict that the course certification processes adopted with online education will compete well with the diploma and degree programs now in the mainstream. By 'compete' I mean compete in the job markets.
The bad news is how many American kids will tackle the offered course work, because it is hard and we know that worldwide kids from less developed countries will.
[Addendum] Not to defocus the topic of online learning too much, but it seems to me there will be another benefit to the funders and consumers of k-12 education. When the quality of teachers and teaching in public schools is criticized, left-leaning teachers leap to the fore with all kinds of denials and excuses. The denials are not worth wasting bits to address. However, the excuses for poor performance need airing.
Two obvious causes for poor performance in a classroom comprised of a cross section of students are 1) the out of control classroom due to bad behavior of kids whom the teacher cannot (may not?) control, thereby destroying the learning situation for everyone regardless of the teacher's talents; and 2) the poorly prepared or incompetent teacher in a classroom of normally controllable kids – i.e. the learning environment is totally controllable.
From the national statistics on student performance and the fraction of uncontrollable classrooms in the country, it should be clear that the overwhelming source of student dumbth is due to #2 above. There are no statistics indicating that 'the blackboard jungle' is the norm across the land. Yet the (almost entirely leftwing) apologists for the state of public education overwhelmingly hide behind #1 as the reason for why our students don't perform well, and why almost all of them going beyond high school have to be taught remedial basic skills in reading, writing, and math when they get to college. (Their deficiencies in other subjects like history, economics, social studies, … are just ignored and the resulting ignorance is visible anywhere you see younger adults open their mouths in public.)
Therefore, there is reason to hope that as online education spreads through the land we will see lessening of the impact from #2 above. And because more students can study in environments other than the classroom, there may also be a reduction in #1, the impact from disruptive students. The dynamic this imposes on the legacy cohort of 'professional' teachers will be hard to predict because of the presence and power of their unions. Thoughts?


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The very first Tongan in the United States is said to have come to Utah with a returning LDS missionary in 1924, followed by another in 1936.
And from such tiny numbers, Pacific Islander communities in Utah flourish today, spreading rich and distinctive cultural influences as they grow.
Utah's per-capita share of residents with ancestral links to the tropical Pacific isles of Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii, Tahiti, Guam, Fiji and to Maori peoples of New Zealand is now the highest in the continental U.S., and behind only Hawaii and Alaska nationwide. In raw numbers, only California, Hawaii and Washington boast larger populations of residents claiming exclusively native Hawaiian and other Pacific Island descent than the Beehive State.
And while Pacific Islanders in Utah still live primarily where they have clustered for decades along the urban Wasatch Front and in Washington County census tallies in 2011 marked the first time all 29 counties counted Pacific Islanders among their residents.
"Watching the local football teams, there are Polynesian names all over the place,'' said Ben Au, 61, chairman of the Salt Lake City-based Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce. "Instead of just Hunter High School, Granger and Kearns, these days it's Brighton, Skyline, Bingham, up north, all over Utah County.''
Vestiges of Pacific Island culture are visible throughout a state that is still overwhelmingly white.
Beyond sports, a wide range of social groups, clubs, associations and schools maintain Polynesian traditions of song, dance, story-telling, canoeing and various flower-laden annual celebrations. Island cuisine commonly built around bananas, fish or roasted pork as well as ethnic staples such as yam-like taro and ufi roots are widely available, especially in Salt Lake City and West Valley. Polynesians hold highly visible roles in virtually all walks of Utah society.
The estimated 36,777 Utahns who label themselves as having native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander origins now account for a little more than four of every 30 of the state's 2.8 million residents, according to recent U.S. Census data. The group grew by between 60 and 70 percent in the past decade alone.
While Pacific Islanders in Utah now hold a variety of religious faiths, the group's roots reach back to initial Mormon missionary contacts with natives of Tahiti and surrounding Pacific islands as early as 1844, three years before Latter-day Saints arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.
Forty-five years later, as many as 75 Polynesians largely of Hawaiian descent established a Mormon colony in Utah named Iosepa in Skull Valley, 75 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The desert enclave failed to thrive, its residents sapped by the harsh elements and, at one point, an outbreak of leprosy. Many left when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it would build a temple on plantation property in Laie, Hawaii.
But many also stayed and have continued to arrive from the Pacific islands, led here by ongoing Mormon missionary work in the region, ties to family already settled here and the promise of economic and educational betterment.
Tongans and Samoans are now the largest segment of Utah's Polynesian community, accounting for more than two-thirds of the Pacific Islander population. Recent evidence also suggests increasing numbers of Pacific Islanders claim mixed origins, part of patterns of intermarriage among those of different Polynesian ancestries and with other ethnic groups, a broadening trend over the past two decades, nationally and in Utah.
The word "ohana" in Hawaiian refers to a heightened sense of family bonds that is basic to Pacific Islander heritage. These bonds flow in part from actual blood lines traceable to ancient island family networks and in part from traditional respect, honor and loyalty accorded to elders, whether directly related or not.
This broad sense of family is crucial in understanding demographic trends and day-to-day workings of the community, its members say.
"We're all inter-related on some level," said Bev Uipi, a multicultural adviser to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and daughter of Filia Uipi, an attorney and first Tongan member of the Utah Legislature. "We know who our fourth and fifth cousins are, and these are family connections that people don't always see from the outside looking in."


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Does anyone have a copy of this? If you do, does any of the footage match the footage that was in documentary in the OT DVD releases from 2005? I just wonder if it's worth tracking down a copy on VHS from ebay or another source. If it's the same footage that was used for last year's documentary then I won't bother.
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Improving your landscape can be an expensive investment. For those looking to spend less money on their yards while maintaining a great cosmetic look, consider a low maintenance design. These designs minimize upkeep and establish simplicity in your landscape that will, in turn, increase your property value.
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- Pine Straw – Pine straw is baled together and spread by shaking them into loose pine straw.
- Pine Bark – Usually bagged at retail stores. Pine bark is good for pathways and small garden beds. They're a nice touch to bring out bright, warm colors.
- River Rock – River rock or river stone encourages water to sink more into the soil of the garden bed. River rock designs are a good cosmetic look.
- Mulch – Mulch lasts for about a year. Its high cost makes up for durability. Lightly rake fallen leaves from mulch the next few months to keep this ground cover clear.
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Due to the chemical and thermal process of composite, this material is likely to last longer than most deck wood. Composite flooring is water-resistant as well. In addition, it's less likely to warp under harsh weather conditions.
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Part of managing a low maintenance landscape is ensuring that your outdoor area effectively drains excess water away from the home. Ignoring standing water can damage lawns, garden beds, and soil.
While there are many different drainage types that you can use for your landscape, a reliable and affordable patio drainage system is extremely valuable in cases of inclement weather. Anticipate where floodwaters will stand and dig channels that gradually lower in elevation. This incline will influence water to flow much easier. Consider installing an innovative permeable paving system in your backyard or driveway and be sure that all the pipes lead away from the home or garden bed. Connect pipes to a catch basin. To prevent catch basins from clogging up, cut the shape of the grate from an aluminum screen-roll.
Pick an Efficient Lawn
Homeowners often struggle with keeping their lawn from dying in dry periods of the year. Some lawns are certainly harder to maintain. Maybe the blades of grass are too thin, or maybe the grass is out of control.
Grass Types You Should Explore:
- Turf Grasses – Grasses like Bermuda, Centipede, or Zoysia grow even in the winter. Even though they're not green, their roots stretch out underground. If not properly managed, the roots will make their way to crevices in driveways or pathways.
- Perennial Rye Grasses – These grasses flourish in mild times of the year, but still need attention in the summer and winter. If the soil is balanced with the right minerals these grasses will continue to prosper and require low maintenance when properly taken care of.
Go Green, Stay Green
Evergreen shrubs and grasses are effective against excess water and gardens. Once rooted into the ground, they'll continue to grow. Keep them trimmed and neat to your taste.
Some shrubs add color every season like the blooms on Azaleas and berries on Holly shrubs.
Low Maintenance Landscapes Save You Money
Low maintenance designs are simple. Imagine them as a blank canvas that you'll illustrate later. Many homeowners go with DIY method instead of hiring landscaping professionals. Keeping a simple, low maintenance design can inspire more ideas in the future.
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As you shove an air conditioner into your window to ward off the summer heat, you may wonder why such a small appliance is so incredibly heavy.
If you thought it was some conspiracy to break your back and your window sill at the same time, you'd be wrong. Air conditioning units are laden down with copper which weighs a whopping 558 pounds for each cubic feet of metal. This copper is hiding in the evaporator and the condenser coils which remove heat from the air and replace it with cool air. Even the compressor has smidgen of copper. Almost 60% of the weight of the cooling unit comes from these copper components.
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(Reuters) - Tesla Inc TSLA.O said on Thursday it would recall 53,000 of its Model S and Model X cars globally to fix a parking brake issue.
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September 28, 2006
Giant Bug and Naked People, Spotted in Google Earth
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- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2006 at 11:43 AM
muito comedia hiuahaiuhiuah
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2006 at 12:19 PM
she doesn't look topless to me. It's obvious she is wearing a peach colored top. GeezusReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2006 at 1:40 PM
maybe it's a guy in a speedo :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2006 at 2:33 PM
So now will google need to add aReplyDelete
18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement
to google earth?
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2006 at 5:31 PM
It looks like Google Maps still has bugs...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2006 at 3:50 AM
I'm 100% sure it came from that mind-boggling military facility in China, the one the army built in the middle of the desert. It's actually a 1:500 replica of all of Aksai Chin, which belonged to India before China occupied it in their war of 1962. They're probably breeding giant insects as part of China's plan for world domination.ReplyDelete
The Google Earth forum entry:
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I know a blow up doll when I see one.ReplyDelete


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Tackling undeclared work in Europe
Research carried out prior to the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, and published subsequently, may include data relating to the 28 EU Member States. Following this date, research only takes into account the 27 EU Member States (EU28 minus the UK), unless specified otherwise.
Undeclared work is work which is in itself legal but is not declared to the authorities for tax, social security and/or labour law purposes. It has long been a focus of attention for policymakers in Europe. In early June 2013, Eurofound published new comparative research on undeclared works in Europe since the onset of the economic recession some five years ago. It found that a wide range of policy approaches and measures have been introduced in all EU Member States over the past five years, which have resulted in an incremental decline in the size of the undeclared economy from the equivalent of 22.3% of GDP in 2003 to 18.4% by 2012, although with big differences between countries. Eurofound's work has resulted in:
- a database of case studies on tackling undeclared work
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On 4 July 2013, the European Commission launched a consultation process with representatives of trade unions and employers' organisations on possible future EU measures to prevent and deter undeclared work through improved cooperation between Member States enforcement authorities.
For the EU27 plus Norway, Eurofound's research sought to summarise policy approaches and measures used to tackle undeclared work since 2008 and, therefore, to indicate:
- how the undeclared economy has grown or shrunk since the onset of the recession
- who is being affected by these changes
- what policy approaches have been used and what measures have been implemented since the beginning of the recession to tackle undeclared work.
For a second group of countries (Croatia, Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey) the research set out to provide a systematic overview of the extent and nature of undeclared work and how it is being tackled. This included how efforts against undeclared work are organised and the policy approaches and measures being adopted. The situation in these countries was compared with the EU-27 and Norway where feasible.
EU 27 and Norway
Tackling undeclared work in 27 European Union Member States and Norway finds that there is an ongoing small decline in the size of the undeclared economy across all Member States and Norway. Although a deterrence approach which seeks to ensure compliance by detecting and punishing non-compliance remains the dominant approach across the majority of Member States, there has been a much wider take-up of an enabling approach which provides encouragement and incentives for people and businesses to comply.
This research indicates that there is no correlation between lower tax rates and smaller undeclared economies. Regimes in which there is higher expenditure on labour market interventions, social protection and redistribution, and greater levels of equality have smaller undeclared economies.
Croatia and four candidate countries
The research found great variation in the level of undeclared work in these countries. In Iceland the size of the undeclared economy is below the EU27 average, for example, while in the other countries it is above that average. These countries also varied in how coordinated or fragmented the organisational approach to tackling undeclared work was and in the involvement of social partners in tackling undeclared work - although there was some level of tripartite social dialogue on the topic in all five countries. More details can be found in individual country reports on Croatia, Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey.
Tackling undeclared work in Croatia and four EU candidate countries concludes that these countries need to deploy a wider range of both deterrence measures to detect and end undeclared work, and also of enabling measures that foster tax morality and compliance.
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If I had known that every day I would lose a piece of Jason, a lot of our days might have been different. Maybe I would have not cared so much about the small stuff. Treasured each moment. Loved him more. But I just didn't know.
The first time I saw Jason, he was playing the guitar in the band at church at our college. I was a freshman and he was a junior. He was really cute; he had these big blue eyes and great dimples. We went on a weekend retreat with our youth ministry group, and I came back thinking he was so funny. Afterward, I wrote in my journal, I think I met the guy I want to marry.
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After we'd been dating a year, we started talking about marriage. We talked about getting old together, having a house with the white picket fence, and lots of grandkids. It'd be Jason and me sitting in rocking chairs on the porch. Around Christmas 2001, we went to Jason's dad's house to exchange gifts. When I walked in, I was stunned. Jason had decorated a Christmas tree with 100 lights and about 50 red roses. He sang a song he'd written for me: "I never believed it could happen to me / I've heard it in songs and I've watched it on TV / Now I've met you and all is complete…"
At the end of the song, he proposed. "There's no one I'd rather spend my life with," he said. Of course I said yes. I couldn't imagine not being married to Jason. I was 25 when I got pregnant with Mya and Matthew, our twins. During our first sonogram, when two circles showed up instead of one, Jason turned white as a sheet. "Two!" he said. He was so excited.
When I was put on bed rest at 27 weeks, Jason was amazing. He'd go to the store, cook dinner, and play board games with me afterward. And he was so protective. If I tried to get up to brush my teeth, he'd say, "No! I'll bring it to you!"
After the twins were born, Jason cared about the smallest details. I kept a tight schedule, and Jason was wonderful about all of it, from diaper changes to bedtime. He'd read to them and, when they got older, rolled around with them, wrestling. He videotaped every minute of their lives. Before putting them down, I'd go in and see him snuggling with them, singing.
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I started to notice changes in Jason in 2009, after the birth of our third child, Noah. First he began to lose interest in his job. For eight years, he'd been one of the most beloved teachers at his school. He adored working there. Then, just like that, he wanted to quit. People were shocked, and so was I.
I wanted him to be happy, so I supported him. He decided to work for the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, which is run by Christian owners, with the goal of becoming a franchise operator. Then, a couple of months in, Jason switched gears again. This time he wanted to try out for our town's police department.
At first, I was encouraged. Jason seemed to like the challenge. But soon I learned that he was struggling. Some of the wives of guys at the academy said their husbands would joke about how easy it was, but Jason always complained that the work was difficult. His bosses told him to write his patrol reports faster, which stressed him out; he started losing weight and became anxious. "I can't do this," he'd say. Sometimes he'd cry before shifts, which was weird because he'd never been a crier.
After about 11 months, Jason quit the police, too. Around that time, he came down with a skin infection after getting a mole removed. He had to be in the hospital for two weeks. That's when I noticed him saying strange things. The nurses would ask, "How did you get this infection?" and he'd answer, "I've had two doses this morning." We chalked it up to his meds, but I worried.
Soon Jason began to struggle with memory. He'd been a football and basketball coach when he was a teacher, so he decided to help a friend running a sports program for preschoolers. But Jason couldn't keep the schedule straight. He had to write notes on his hand to remember when and where to show up. And his forgetfulness got worse. Once Jason was driving us to a baseball game and went the wrong way down a one-way road. Another time, he walked Mya across the street for a playdate and got lost coming back. The police brought him home.
Around Christmas 2012, Jason went outside to put the lights on the house, a job that usually took an hour; he spent four hours on it, then chucked them into the garage. "These stupid lights!" he yelled. I remember him putting his face in his hands and asking, "Why is this happening to me?" He looked so broken.
Questioning Everything
I had never doubted our marriage, but by then I knew something was wrong. Jason blamed me for things, saying that I was too hard on him. At times, I thought, Maybe it's me. We were barely talking. He'd also gone from being a doting dad to being indifferent. I had become pregnant with our daughter Kinsley, but he stopped going to my ob-gyn appointments with me. Before, for our kids, hanging with Daddy had meant good times; at bedtime, I'd be trying to calm them down and he'd be riling them up. Now I had to tell him to go play with them.
Divorce had never crossed my mind, but I started thinking about it. We saw a counselor. Privately I told the therapist what was happening, and he recommended that we see a neuropsychologist. That appointment led us to a neurologist, and that led to a dozen other appointments and tests. Ultimately our neurologist helped us get an appointment with the Mayo Clinic, in Minnesota. In October 2013, we went. Jason went through days of tests, including PET scans of his brain. The night before our meeting with his doctor, I logged in to his online Mayo patient records and saw his results. I don't remember the exact words, but the message said that his brain images were consistent with those of someone with Alzheimer's. It felt like someone had punched me. Lord, I prayed, panicking, please help us through this. I jumped on Google. No one in Jason's family had had Alzheimer's. I just couldn't understand.
I fell asleep with a sliver of hope that it wasn't true. But at Jason's appointment, the doctor confirmed it. Later, I asked Jason if he understood. He didn't respond, just nodded and cried. That night, we held each other. I tried to sleep, but all I could think of was how we were going to handle it.
At home, we sat the kids down. "We found out what's wrong with Daddy," I said. "He's not going to get better." They cried, but I don't think they understood what it meant until months later. When that day came, Matthew asked, "Wait, do you mean Daddy will die?" I had to say yes. "We all die eventually," I said. "Only God knows when. But we can't worry about it. We're just going to love Daddy."
Finding Ways to Hold On
After the Mayo visit, Jason began to forget how to take care of himself, like how to shower. I showed him and he copied what I did, scrubbing his head, lathering his body. Over time, I began doing it for him. Then we switched to baths.
In time, Jason lost the ability to speak. I remember the first day he didn't know my name, and the day when we were looking at pictures and he couldn't remember the names of our kids. That was one of our worst days ever.
Jason's doctors told us he couldn't be alone anymore, so we found a day care facility for him nearby. Our days were crazy: I'd get up at 4:45 a.m. to get the kids and Jason dressed and ready for the day. I'd leave at 6:45 a.m., drop off Kinsley at her day care and Jason at his, then head to our kids' school, where I also taught. My coworkers were making dinner for us two nights a week; I'd stretch the leftovers to cover four nights. Then we'd do baths and bedtime. Around 11 p.m., I'd climb in next to Jason and usually fall asleep crying.
Jason's day care was too expensive to afford on my teacher's salary. At one point, I applied for food stamps and was on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). That's where our community saved us. A friend held a fund-raiser and put it on Facebook, which triggered more events: a garage sale, a spaghetti dinner, a fund-raiser at Jason's day care. We raised thousands of dollars.
Whenever I've felt sad, someone has done something amazing. Last Valentine's Day, people brought me gifts at school. My friends from Arizona came out for my birthday. For a while, every week someone came over to stay with Jason so I could go do something for myself. A neighbor pays to have my lawn mowed, and my church covers my therapy sessions, which are discounted by my doctor. It's by the grace of God that we're where we are now.
Seeing their daddy get sicker was weighing on the kids, so in April I decided to put him into long-term care. In May, my mother-in-law moved in with us; she spends every day with Jason. I take the kids to see him once or twice during the week, sometimes on a Saturday and always on Sunday after church. While the kids play outside, I sit with him. We look at pictures and I tell him stories about life at home. I can still make him laugh. I give him a look, nudge, or grab his knee, and he'll smile.
The Way We Were
The kids understand that we don't know how much longer we're going to have Daddy. I answer their questions as honestly as I can. Matthew and Noah were jumping on the trampoline the other day when I heard Matthew say, "Don't hit me too hard on the head. I don't want my Alzheimer's to come out." I think about that. I don't want them to be afraid.
I'm trying to help them remember their dad the way he once was. Matthew loves to impersonate characters like Grover from Sesame Street. Jason used to be great at doing voices, so I'll say, "That's something you get from Daddy." At Jason's facility this summer, the staff asked the kids to share a memory. Mya talked about the daddy-daughter dance she went to with Jason last February. They slow-danced to "Butterfly Kisses." She said it was the best night of her life.
When this journey began, I remember asking, Why, God? Why Jason? Since then, I've found some peace. I've received so many letters from people whose lives he touched, who said, "Jason was my son's favorite teacher." His life was cut short, but he made an impact.
You don't know where your life is going to go when you take your vows, "…'til death do us part." I never could have imagined that this was how it would end. But knowing how great the good times were, I wouldn't change anything.
Jason was a loving father and caring husband — my best friend. I have to trust that this is part of God's plan. And I will love and think of Jason forever.
Jason Manthe passed away on October 28, 2014. He was 37 years old.
What to Know About Younger-Onset Alzheimer's
The FactsTypically Alzheimer's affects people later in life. Still, an estimated 200,000 Americans suffer from the younger-onset version in their 50s, 40s, and occasionally 30s.
Who's at Risk?Anyone can develop Alzheimer's at a younger age, though it's unusual. While some develop the common form of the disease (for which there is no single known cause), most people who exhibit it early have a family history. Certain gene mutations are associated with hereditary early-onset Alzheimer's.
Can You Prevent It?Minimizing stress, getting regular exercise, eating healthily, staying social, and engaging in brain-boosting activities (like doing crossword puzzles) may delay symptoms and can help you stay sharper longer. Find out more on the Alzheimer's Association's website, alz.org.
More on Alzheimer's Disease:
• 5 Things You Can Do Now to Avoid Alzheimer's Disease
• The Shocking Link Between Vitamin D and Alzheimer's Disease
• An Alzheimer's Patient Remembers Her Daughter
This story originally appeared in the January 2015 issue of Good Housekeeping.


text: Back Celiac Disease Can Harm Digestion Suppose you or a friend has frequent abdominal distress, bloating, and other symptoms that seem to puzzle doctors. Today, experts believe those doctors should consider celiac disease. Also known as celiac sprue, this illness can cause a range of symptoms and problems. Among them: diarrhea, constipation, bloating, abdominal pain, fatigue, irritability, infertility in women, depression, and anemia. Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The culprit in celiac disease is gluten, a protein found in many grains, including wheat, rye, and barley. When a person with celiac disease eats gluten, the immune system responds by damaging the villi, the absorptive surface of the small intestine. This damage makes it difficult for the body to absorb nutrients the way it should. In the past, U.S. doctors didn't often look for celiac disease--it was thought to be a rare childhood syndrome. Celiac disease is now known to be a common genetic disorder that tends to run in families. More than 2 million people in the U.S., or about one in 133, have the disease. About 5 percent of the first-degree relatives of a person with celiac disease will also have the disease. A first-degree relative is a parent, sibling, or child. Celiac disease can be triggered by surgery, pregnancy, childbirth, a viral infection, or severe emotional stress, the NIDDK says. What are the symptoms? Symptoms occur at different times in different people. Sometimes they appear in childhood, but for other people, the symptoms appear when they are adults. Symptoms aren't always in the digestive system, the NIDDK says. Although chronic diarrhea and recurrent abdominal pain are symptoms, irritability and depression also can be symptoms. Other symptoms, from the NIDDK: Recurring abdominal bloating Weight loss Pale, foul-smelling stool Unexplained anemia Gas Bone pain Behavior changes Muscle cramps Fatigue Delayed growth Failure to thrive (infants) Pain in joints Seizures Tingling numbness in legs Pale sores inside the mouth Painful skin rash Tooth discoloration Missed menstrual periods How is celiac diagnosed? Doctors may have difficulty diagnosing celiac disease because its symptoms are similar to other diseases, the NIDDK says. Diseases that share symptoms with celiac disease include irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and depression. Recent research has found that people with celiac disease have higher than normal levels of antibodies to endomysium and tissue transglutaminase. Tests can be given to measure these antibody levels. If the tests and symptoms indicate celiac disease, your doctor may confirm the diagnosis with a biopsy of the small intestine, to check for villi damage. Early diagnosis is important. The longer a person goes undiagnosed and untreated, the greater the chance of developing malnutrition and other complications, the NIDDK says. How is celiac treated? Gluten does not harm the bowels of those who don't have celiac disease. But if you have the disease, there's only one treatment: Avoid gluten for life. For most people, following this diet will halt the symptoms, heal existing villi damage, and prevent further damage, the NIDDK says. The improvement begins almost immediately -- within days of starting the diet. The small intestine is usually completely healed, with the villi intact and working normally, in three to six months. (The healing process may take up to two years for older adults.) A gluten-free diet bans all foods that contain wheat, rye, or barley. Most grains, pastas, cereals, and many processed foods fall into that category. You can eat breads and pastas made with potato, rice, soy, or bean flour, however, the NIDDK says. Gluten-free foods also are available from specialty food manufacturers. Other foods that are fine to include are meat, rice, fruits, and vegetables. You must be cautious about what you buy for lunch at school or work, what you purchase at the grocery store, what you eat at restaurants or parties, and what you grab for a snack. According to the NIDDK, U.S. law requires food labels to clearly identify wheat and other common food allergens in the list of ingredients. For more information, talk with your health care provider or see a nutritionist who knows about celiac.


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Washington » Parked around the airstrip at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the cockpits, but Congress rejected the Air Force's bid to retire them.
So, in the weeks and months ahead, crews will tow the planes around the Texas tarmac a bit to make sure the tires don't rot, then send them back into exile until they can finally get permission to commit the aging aircraft to the boneyard.
Idle aircraft and pricey ship deployments underscore the contradictions and conflicts as Congress orders the Pentagon to slash $487 billion in spending over the next 10 years and another $41 billion in the next six months. Yet, at the same time, lawmakers are forcing the services to keep ships, aircraft, military bases, retiree benefits and other programs that defense leaders insist they don't want, can't afford or simply won't be able to use. The Associated Press interviewed senior military leaders involved in the ongoing analysis of the budget and its impact on the services and compiled data on the costs and programs from Defense Department documents.
"Parochial political interests" » The Pentagon long has battled with Congress over politically sensitive spending cuts. But this year, military officials say Congress' refusal to retire ships and aircraft means the Navy and Air Force are spending roughly $5 billion more than they would if they were allowed to make the cuts. In some cases Congress restored funds to compensate for the changes, but the result overall was lost savings.
In other cases, frustrated military leaders quietly complained that they were being forced to furlough civilians, ground Air Force training flights and delay or cancel ship deployments to the Middle East and South America, while Congress refuses to accept savings in other places that could ease those pains.
Along the eastern seaboard, two Navy cruisers — the USS Anzio in Norfolk, Va., and the USS Vicksburg in Mayport, Fla. — were scheduled for retirement this year but both are now sitting pierside. Navy leaders will soon schedule the ships for significant repairs and begin readying their crews so they can go back into service.
Altogether, Congress is requiring the Navy to keep seven cruisers and two amphibious warships in service, eliminating the $4.3 billion the retirements would have saved over the next two years.
"A lot of it comes down to parochial political interests," said Todd Harrison, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "No member of Congress wants to have a base closed in their district or to have a fighter squadron relocated out of their district."
"Congress steps in" » Members of Congress argue that they believe the Pentagon sometimes makes bad decisions and other times may purposely target programs that have broad support.
"Certainly that has been a pattern, they've cut Guard and Reserves in areas where it's clearly unwise and Congress steps in to put the money in," said Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Armed Services air and land forces subcommittee.
While the Navy sought to retire the seven ships, the Air Force wanted to save more than $600 million by retiring C-130 and C-5A cargo aircraft, three B-1 bombers and 18 high-altitude Global Hawk surveillance drones.
Congress disagreed, adding various requirements that the Navy and Air Force maintain the ships and aircraft, and in some cases added money to the budget to cover them. Fifteen of the C-5A Galaxy aircraft are at Lackland, where crews are getting in some flights now preparing for the retirement, while 11 are at Martinsburg, W.Va., and are flown by the Air National Guard there.
A senior Air Force official said the service determined that it didn't need all of the aging aircraft. And it pushed to cut the Global Hawks because defense officials determined that the U-2 spy plane, first produced more than 50 years ago, was better suited for the high-altitude surveillance job and would cost less money.
The official also noted that while lawmakers rejected plans to retire the Galaxy aircraft, congressional appropriators did not add back enough money to pay for the fuel or the manpower to fly them. Similarly, the three B-1 bombers will move into backup status and likely will be used infrequently. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the budget, so requested anonymity.
The decision to block retirement of some C-130s, however, reveals how narrow, yet critical, the political interests can be. Pennsylvania lawmakers declared victory last month when they reversed the decision to retire eight C-130s and shut down the 911th Airlift Wing near Pittsburgh. Local officials and business owners argued that the base, which uses space at Pittsburgh International Airport, provides an economic boost to the entire community.
Sens. Pat Toomey, a Republican, and Bob Casey, a Democrat, lobbied Pentagon leaders and fellow lawmakers to keep the wing. They argued in a letter to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that "the 911th is a very efficient and cost effective installation" and that closing it could be a waste of taxpayer dollars.
via On military spending, does Congress know best? | The Salt Lake Tribune.


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Once Verizon begins offering the iPhone, very, very soon, it will also offer customers an unlimited data plan to go alongside their shiny new Apple smartphone.
This according to a new report out of the Wall Street Journal this afternoon.
Offering customers an unlimited data plan, as you probably know, differs from what AT&T customers can currently choose from, given that AT&T removed the unlimited data plan option from all but grandfathered-in customers back in 2010.
All that said, Verizon may very well only offer the unlimited data plan option for a limited time, reports the WSJ, as executives are already on record saying the industry needs to move toward a tiered system in the future. This could be a promotional tie-in to help create some of the 12 million iPhone customers analysts predict Verizon could have by year-end.
We'll be sure to have more information on this and all Verizon iPhone developments during the January 11 event. [WSJ]