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Deciding at what age to claim Social Security benefits may be the single most important retirement money decision of your life. Claim too early, and you lock in a lifetime of monthly payments that may be far lower than if you wait.Claim too late, and you may spend years living on an austere budget that saps you and your quality of life. Waiting to claim can also leave a lot of money on the table—your money—should you die in your 60s or even 70s.
Doug Lemons, a retired Social Security Administration executive, produced a comparative analysis for the Journal of Financial Planning of three different ages at which many people consider taking Social Security. These are:
1. Age 62, the earliest age people can claim benefits
2. Age 66, known as "full retirement age" for people born between 1943 and 1954
3. Age 70, the claiming age at which people become entitled to their maximum monthly Social Security payments. Waiting longer does not increase payments.
The key things to keep in mind for these three claiming ages is that someone who claims at 62 will receive benefits equal to only 75 per cent of what they'd get if they wait until their full retirement age. And someone who waits until they turn 70 to claim will receive 132 per cent as much as they would get by claiming at age 66. Also, thanks to the program's annual cost of living adjustment (COLA), all benefit payments are guaranteed to rise to keep up with inflation.
Lemons then compares two sets of claiming ages—62 versus 66, and 66 versus 70. As he stresses, making any comparisons here is very complicated. First, the calculations depend on many unknowns, beginning with future rates of inflation and investment returns. Vary either of these projections by even a little, and the calculations can change a lot.
People who decide to claim benefits early at age 62 often decide to do this because they feel they have no choice and need the money to pay basic living expenses. Lemons's comparisons, by contrast, assume people take those early benefits and invest them. It's the only way he can set up an apples-to-apples comparison with different claiming ages.
In the comparison between a person claiming at 62 and at 66, he assumes the early claimant invests the money for four years, producing a tidy sum by the time he or she turns 66. Because that early benefit is only 75 per cent as much as it will be at age 66, the break-even point depends on how long it takes the higher payments that begin at 66 to be invested and produce a nest egg that's the same size as the one generated by payments—plus investment gains—that began at age 62. He then does the same thing in a comparison of benefits beginning at age 66 and age 70.
Besides future rates of inflation and investment returns, Lemons also looks at claimants' federal income-tax brackets and at the percentage of their Social Security benefits that are subject to federal income taxes. This varies from zero for people in the lowest 10 per cent federal tax bracket, to 50 per cent for those in the 15 per cent bracket, to 85 per cent for people in all higher tax brackets. No more than 85 per cent of Social Security benefits are taxable, regardless of income levels.
When the dust has cleared from Lemons's calculations, a person claiming early benefits in March 2011 and one not claiming until age 66 in March 2015 would have the same amounts of money 16 years and eight months after the 66-year-old's benefits began. That amounts to age 82 and eight months for both claimants; before this age, the 62-year-old claimant comes out "ahead" by filing early. At older ages, the person who waits until full retirement age to claim would come out ahead.
This is an average. Depending on taxes, inflation, and investment returns, the range of break-even ages goes from 81 to 86 1/2. There is a similar range of break-even ages in the comparison of benefits begun at age 66 to age 70—from the age of 84 to nearly 87.
While these comparisons are relatively straightforward for one person's benefits, Social Security benefits often involve a spouse and family members, too. Lemons doesn't know, of course, what your family situation is like. But he does emphasise that people need to factor in spousal benefits and survivor benefits to a spouse and non-adult children to do their own comparisons.
For these reasons, people should consider hiring a trained Social Security claiming expert to assist them in their claiming decision. You may think you know enough basic information about the program to make a sound decision, but many seniors have been unpleasantly surprised to learn they could have, and should have, made smarter decisions about when to claim their benefits.
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Everyone worries about their job prospects, but medical professionals have less to fear. The health industry has continued to do well in terms of job growth even throughout the economic recession. Why is this the case, and will the job outlook continue to look promising in the years to come? This article explores these questions, starting with the current job landscape and finishing off with job predictions.
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The year 2011 wasn't an exception to the norm in regards to medical industry employment growth. As of New Years Day, there were about 100 jobs listed under the "nurse practitioner" subheading of Nurse.com, and that's only one of dozens of subcategories. The website posts thousands of job openings from around the country, and they don't appear to be in short supply. Continue reading "2012 Job Outlook for Nurses, Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants"

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With the addition of the Post Office center and the Valentine's Day activities we've just completed, it has been the perfect time to focus on various purposes for writing. We have read some wonderful books about writing letters and diaries to promote the idea of a purpose for writing.
A few times a week, we have"journal time". Each student has a little composition notebook that they may draw a picture and write or dictate a story. These are fabulous for assessment! We are able to clearly see how each student's writing and drawing have progressed throughout the year! Two of my favorite books about journaling are Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin. Both of these books provide hilarious glimpses into the lives of the worm and spider and are always a big hit with the friends.
by Doreen Cronin
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I have a few favorites about letter writing that I like to read:
Don't Forget To Write by Matina Selway is a sweet story with beautiful watercolor illustrations that chronicles a young girl's first trip away from home without her parents. At first she is apprehensive, but as the letters go on, her feelings about being away begin to change.
by Martina Selway
Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James is cute little story about a little girl exchanging letters with her teacher about a whale living in her backyard pond.
Dear Mr. Blueberry
by Simon James
By Jerdine Nolen
Illustrated by David Catrow
We are also reading Toot and Puddle and Toot and Puddle: Wish You Were Here by Holly Hobbie. Toot's worldwide travels are chronicled via postcards to Puddle.
I'd love to know what books you use to promote purposes for writing. Leave a comment and share a book! Thanks!


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Studies show that the employment rate for people with a tertiary education is 80%, while those with only a matric certificate have an employment rate of around 50%. However, a university education is not for everyone, and it's an expensive route to take, especially if you are not entirely sure whether your field of choice is what you would want to do for the next few decades. "In a modern day and age many other options are available to those wanting to get a tertiary qualification such as working an internship in the trade of choice" said Craig Hutchison, CEO of Engel & Völkers Southern Africa.
Options of studying while working, or working an intern year is becoming an attractive and popular choice for those wanting to take their income level into their own hands. Perhaps your mind has not been made up completely on what you would like to study, or are considering a change in your current career, this could be your ideal solution as you gain work experience which better your chances of employment. Statistics show that 60% of job appointments are based on actual work environment exposure.
"Being an estate agent, offers exactly that – the new criteria as set out by the EAAB (Estate Agency Affairs Board) encourages internship and working whilst obtaining your qualifications" noted Craig. Aside from a work study opportunity, Real Estate is one of the most versatile options to consider as it opens up a wide variety of opportunities. No other career exposes you to such a wide variety of tasks and the opportunity to gain practical experience in so many fields. Taking on this role, one would gain experience in sales, finance,marketing, contractual law, customer relations, telesales and business management with budgeting, time management and organization. The function of being a real estate agent is to take full responsibility for the outcome of your own success.
Trading in the selling and buying of real estate is now considered an official profession,and what better way to get exposed to the ever evolving business platform than enjoying the convenience of being able to complete your NQF4 and other regulations set by the EAAB. Joining a reputable agency, with support systems and training modules in place, can mean the difference between failure and success.


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Penn State fitness centers recognized among nation's best
Penn State fitness centers recognized among nation's best
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State's University Park campus has been recognized as having one of the 10 best university fitness centers in nation according to Allied Health World, an online resource for information on health care careers.
"Penn State understands that not all students thrive in the same fitness environment," the article noted. "Penn State's recreational space is spread among multiple fitness centers (and don't forget the Natatorium).
"So you don't waste time sitting around," the article added, "the school's website shows current wait times at the different facilities."
The full list of 10 universities is available at http://www.alliedhealthworld.com/blog/category/uncategorized/10-university-fitness-centers-to-fit-in-your-schedule.html.


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Came across this today. Tweet-o-Meter (link) is the beta version of a platform created by University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The Tweet-o-Meter supposedly updates every ten seconds (not sure it does quite do that right now), showing the number of tweets in each city per minute. The ambition is to log and analyze all geo-located tweets in these major cities. Once logged, they will be used to show Twitter activity over time and space. Various kinds of maps will be the main output. I imagine a variety of delicious visualizations will be forthcoming.
We are possibly attracted partly by the simple analogue-feel, dial-based interface. But we're also struck by yet another work-in-progress attempt to bring life to the data spawned by Twitter (see also Getting to Know Your Twitter Followers & Why that Matters from earlier this week).
Tweet-o-Meter is part of a broader project called NeISS (National e–Infrastructure for Social Simulation), another UK Government-funded project. Read more about it here.
And of course it also reminds us of of the work by Google's Aaron Koblin on visualizing SMS messages sent on New Year's Eve in Amsterdam in 2007 (see below). We imagine as Tweet-o-Meter moves forward through beta they'll need to figure out how to marry Koblin-esque visualizations to their gushing pipe of data. Bringing magic to the mayhem.
Amsterdam SMS messages on New Years Eve from Aaron on Vimeo.


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"As miracles go, it's hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that's exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts—a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world's leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness."—Time
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Tampa is famous for many things: its beaches, the cigars of Ybor City and being the place where actor Channing Tatum was a stripper before he played one in the movies. This week, the city joins the ranks of Chicago and Philadelphia as the historic site of a Republican National Convention. But hosting a convention can have its drawbacks, especially when you're a business owner depending on an economic boost that hasn't arrived.
Business owners and workers say they were originally enthused about the massive gathering. According to the Tampa Bay Host Committee, there were at least 15,000 rooms booked for the week. The spending impact was estimated to be from $175 million to $200 million, without economic multipliers taken into account. Some 50,000 people were expected to arrive and start emptying their wallets. But on Monday, many businesses close to the convention were empty.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is still optimistic. "Well, obviously less is not good," he told reporters. But he said many people in the city were thrilled to have the convention in town. Bill Nelligar, who owns a downtown restaurant, isn't one of them. "We were excited because we wanted to be part of the history, but nothing's going on," he says. "It's like kids waiting on Santa Claus, and Santa Claus never comes."
The weather hasn't helped. Kurdi's Fresh Mediterranean Grill, situated a few blocks from the convention center, was empty as sheets of water came down on Monday afternoon. The establishment expanded its kitchen at a cost of $30,000 specifically for the convention, but it hasn't seen an uptick in patronage, chef Fady George said. Taco Bus, a casual Mexican restaurant a few blocks away, borrowed employees from other locations to deal with the expected surge; so far, they haven't been needed. "It hasn't been anything we're impressed with yet," says Taco Bus employee Aras Guevara.
By Tuesday morning, the tropical-storm warnings had abated and the convention was back on schedule. Traffic picked up on the thoroughfares leading downtown. Business owners hope that will bring more patrons. But not all the challenges of hosting a convention are as fleeting as the weather.
The security has been intense. One taxi driver said he felt like he was "in an action movie." Roads are barricaded throughout the downtown area. On-street parking isn't available, and private parking lots have doubled their prices. Chain-link fences line the streets, and antiterrorism officers are posted on many corners. "Hovercraft is the only thing we haven't seen police on," Nelligar says. "The sense in Tampa is overkill." From his window, he can watch officers go by on foot, on horse, on bicycle and in souped-up golf carts. His restaurant also stood empty on Monday, after taking cancelations from locals all weekend. The end of the convention can't come soon enough, he says. "We will no longer be what one of our customers called Beirut," his co-owner adds.


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The Marco Zachary Reparations Protest (UPDATE): Daring Reparations Protester Marion Anthony Patterson Pleads Guilty to 2nd Degree Murder; "We esteem brother Patterson as the hero & Marco Zachary, who lived as a privileged pig, as the criminal. As Arizona has yet to make restitution for her generational race crimes against our people, we are thankful repara-tions offender Zachary can no longer deny our Holocaust & flagrantly flaunt his kind's racial criminality before our people's eyes." Maricopa Black Foot Soldier Geronimo Adanandus; Arizona Soldiers Condemn Dan Marco (Dad's) Hypocritical Characterization of the Zachary Marco Family as "Family of Civil Rights Activists" While Supporting Denial of Reparations
PG-13 – Why some Consider My Son's Killers, Heroes:
Part of my journey, my evolution, is dealing with particularly upsetting moments in the months after Zachary's murder. I do not mean, in any sense, to fan the flames of prejudice, that is NOT my intent. The website shown above, and others, are now a part of my psyche, a part what I am recovering from, a part, now, of who I am. The photo above, with my son's face between and behind the two men who killed him, haunts me. Can you imagine, sitting at your computer, researching the media coverage of your son's death, trying to see what the rest of the world saw, and this, this is what you stumble on. Your son's murderers proclaimed a hero by a percentage of the African-American community, in the war for reparations. The creators of this blog, The National Black Soldier Network, posted this on the same day the Tempe Police announced the arrest; the one month anniversary of my son's brutal death, two minutes after the press conference. (By Daniel Marco, Zach's father) (Source)
"It is wondrously amazing that of all his kind's unrestituted for racial atrocities committed against the world's family of the people of color that the death of his generational race criminal son would be part of his psyche, part of what he is recovering from and part of who he is," Maricopa Black Foot Soldier Geronimo Adanandus is quoted as saying in response to Zach's father's discourse. "Had he been motivated by the sickness he should have had for his kind's racial atrocities against us, fought for this cause and taught his apparently racially selfish son the truth about their kind's race crimes and refusal to make restitution for them, Zachary might not have been the white American pig he was, attacked brothers Harper and Patterson with violent Trans Atlantic Slave Trade reparations denial and, ultimately, forcing them to defend themselves. Daniel's comments make it sound like he doesn't know that he is a reparations offender too."


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"You are rewarding a teacher poorly
if you remain always a pupil."
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The players had their turn, now it's the guys not wearing numbers on their backs.
The year started under a cloud. Bruce Boudreau started the season as the third-winningest coach in Washington Capitals franchise history (189 wins) and was one of only two Jack Adams Award winners for the Caps (Bryan Murray being the other). He was the only coach to lead the Capitals to two 50-win seasons in franchise history. But despite his record of achievement, there was the matter of the Capitals being swept out of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs in the second round by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Add that to the disappointing performance of the 2009-2010 edition of the Caps, the one that won the league's Presidents Trophy and then lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, and Boudreau was a coach on the hot seat to start the 2011-2012 season.
The clouds parted for a time when the club sped out of the gate, winning its first seven games. That would turn out to be an illusion. In five of those seven games the Caps would face their opponents' backup goaltender. Four of the games would be one-goal decisions, three of them in extra time, a thin margin of decision. Five of the games would be in the friendly confines of Verizon Center, where the Caps had been difficult to beat in the regular season the previous three years (84-22-17).
The streak came to an abrupt end at the hands of an unexpected source. The Edmonton Oilers ended the streak when the Caps took to the road for their first western swing of the year. And against the precocious Oilers the things that would cause the Caps' early season unraveling were exposed – too many shots from the perimeter with little purpose (35 shots on Nikolai Khabibulin), quiet performances from the players expected to contribute (no points from any of the three "Young Guns" playing in this game, Mike Green out with an injury), inopportune penalties (nine minor penalties) and an inability to kill them off (both Oiler goals scored on the power play). In all, it added up to a 2-1 loss.
Things got worse – quickly. The Caps followed up their first loss of the season with a 7-4 loss in Vancouver in which the Caps allowed three first period and three third period goals. Then there was the next game, at home against Anaheim, in which the fractures hidden below the surface might have been laid bare. With the Caps trailing the Anaheim Ducks by a goal and barely a minute left in regulation, Boudreau chose to leave captain Alex Ovechkin on the bench as the Caps pulled goalie Tomas Vokoun for an extra skater. Ovechkin muttering an epithet under his breath was captured on video, but it hardly seemed to matter when the Caps scored to force overtime, then won in the extra session.
We do not believe that one could draw a bright line from Ovechkin's benching to what would happen three weeks later, but it was a clear indication that things were not all well. The Caps were being uncovered as something of a mirage, not as good as their seven-game start suggested. And when the Caps went 2-5-1 after their win over Anaheim, the rumbling got louder.
Washington won its two games immediately before the Thanksgiving holiday, but lost in embarrassing fashion at home to the New York Rangers in a matinee game on the day after Thanksgiving. The Rangers scored three goals in the first eight minutes of the second period and coasted from there to what was to that point their best offensive output of the season, a 6-3 win over the Caps. That set up a game in Buffalo the following night. The Caps would catch a break in that game, the Sabres having to ice a team that was missing nine regulars, including number one goaltender Ryan Miller. But the Sabres scored twice in the first period to give them the sense that they could win despite the absences, and would light up Tomas Vokoun for three more. The Caps managed only a penalty shot goal by Jason Chimera, and the Caps were embarrassed once more, 5-1. After that 7-0-0 start, the Caps were now 12-9-1 and in ninth place in the Eastern Conference.
Bruce Boudreau was fired two days later. General Manager George McPhee expressed the problem thusly, "The reason for the change was we weren't winning, obviously, and this wasn't a slump. You can ride out slumps. This was simply a case of the players were no longer responding to Bruce."
By this time, the ledger of plusses and minuses in Boudreau's approach had tilted heavily to the minus side. On the plus side, as a hockey lifer he had compiled an encyclopedic knowledge of the game. And, he had won championships at two stops in the minor leagues. He was widely viewed as a "players'" coach, one who would give the players a considerable amount of on-ice freedom to express their skills (although this might have been overplayed somewhat as an absence of structure).
On the other side, Boudreau had reengineered his approach twice in less than 12 months. From the pressure offense that he employed to great success in his first two and a half seasons (the problems against the Canadiens in the 2010 playoffs notwithstanding), he retooled the club into a defense-first, trapping team after an eight-game losing streak in December 2010. Then, after the second-round sweep at the hands of Tampa Bay in the 2011 playoffs, he came to camp looking to impose an "accountability" regime. What the Caps were left with was a team that could score (3.14 goals per game in the 22 games under Boudreau), but had reverted to old (read: bad) habits on defense – 3.27 goals/game, but truth be told, that might have been as much a product of poor goaltending as bad team defense.
If the players were not listening to the coach, was it a case of too many messages in too short a time? Whatever the reason, a change was made, and Dale Hunter, perhaps the most revered player in team history, was named head coach. Many thought that the hire would instill a sense of fire among the players, that somehow Hunter could impart his hard-edged style to a team that might have had too many peripheral players, too many floaters.
What they got was almost hockey's equivalent of the rope-a-dope. The Capitals were not an especially aggressive forechecking team, and they did not produce on the other end of the ice at in a manner consistent with what was perceived as their skill level. In fact, the Caps started quite slow under their new coach. They scored one goal in five of their first nine games under Dale Hunter (2.33 goals/game). Their defense showed some improvement (two or fewer goals in six of those nine games; 2.56 goals/game), but the Caps were still only 4-4-1.
The Caps seemed to get whatever it was Hunter was trying to communicate starting in the games just before the new year. Starting with a 4-1 win over Nashville on December 20th, the Caps would not score fewer than two goals in nine consecutive contests (3.00 goals/game). Their defense seemed stuck, though, still allowing 2.56 goals per game. It left the Caps still largely treading water in terms of wins and losses, going 5-3-1 in those nine games.
It would be a problem that the Caps had for the rest of the regular season. You will recall that in the last three seasons, the Caps have had nine separate winning streaks of at least five games. Under Dale Hunter the Caps could not get enough traction to peel off more than three wins at a time. In Hunter's 60 regular season games the Caps had a pair of four-game winning streaks and a pair of three-game winning streaks. But they also had three three-game losing streaks as well. It made for an overall record of 30-23-7 over 60 games, which was actually a slightly lower points pace (91.6 over 82 games) than that compiled by Bruce Boudreau in his 22 games (93.2 points).
The Caps made the playoffs – barely, clinching a spot in Game 81, but their history of ups and downs and their net minus in goals for/goals against under Hunter (2.48 GF/G; 2.57 GA/G) left the Caps as something less than a dominant team and one that would play close to the edge in its games (27 of the 60 games under Hunter one-goal decisions). Making things more difficult for Hunter was the fact that he would go into the playoffs with what was the number three goaltender on the depth chart – Braden Holtby – his other two netminders (Michal Neuvirth and Tomas Vokoun) injured.
And close to the vest is how Hunter played it. The Caps were hardly an offensive powerhouse, scoring only 29 goals in 14 games (2.07/game). But they were stingy, allowing only 30 goals in those 14 games (2.14/game). By deploying a strategy that emphasized collapsing in front of the net and defending shots, whatever shortcomings or nerves that might have accompanied Braden Holtby to the net for 14 games were minimized allowing him to finish the playoffs as the only goaltender not named Jonathan Quick to have a goals against average of 1.95 or lower and a save percentage of .935 or higher. The result was a lot of close games (13 of 14 being one-goal decisions, seven of which the Caps won)
Looking at their respective records this season…
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…Hunter realized some marginal improvement in the performance numbers, but in terms of standings points earned could not much drag these Caps toward an improved performance level any more than could Bruce Boudreau.
In a way, Hunter's performance might signal a fundamental problem with this team. It was built and nurtured with one style of hockey in mind, that being one that allowed for an expression of offensive skill. The core four of Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Alexander Semin, and Mike Green have been, for most of their respective careers, primarily offensive players. To that add a Brooks Laich, who improved his goals and points production in the Boudreau years, or a Dennis Wideman, who could be considered more an "offensive" defenseman. Youngsters coming through the system have substantial offensive gifts – John Carlson, Mathieu Perreault, Marcus Johansson.
This was not a team engineered to "grind" out wins. It was arguably most successful when it steamrolled opponents. This presented Hunter with a problem. How could he implement a style that he evidently preferred that might not have been a good match for his roster? You might argue that Bruce Boudreau got this roster to adopt a more trapping style of play when they endured an eight-game losing streak in the 2010-2011 season. True enough. But did it have staying power as a mind-set among the players? Evidently not. As George McPhee pointed out when Boudreau was dismissed, "the players were no longer responding to Bruce."
Given the cards he was dealt, perhaps what Hunter was left with was a situation of having to implement what he could in "chewable bites" to a roster not necessarily structured to be a team of cautious, patient counter-punchers. This idea manifested itself with clarity in the playoffs, where the Capitals played games so close to the vest that the largest lead they ever held lasted all of 4:56 (Game 2 of the second round series against the Rangers). Not only did they shutter their attack when holding one-goal leads, Hunter all but shouted that certain players would not be trusted late with one-goal leads, most notably the captain himself, Alex Ovechkin. That might have been an acknowledgment of a particular reality with this team. It was not equipped to play with the 200-foot discipline that allows for attack when opportunities arise, balanced with responsibility to know when those opportunities are not present and to play sound defensive hockey.
In the end, we are left with a bifurcated coaching situation in the 2011-2012 season – two coaches with very different philosophies, with very different personalities, but in the end with all too similar results.
On the one hand there is Bruce Boudreau, hockey's "everyman," a coach who has probably logged more bus miles in his career than half the drivers for Greyhound Lines. A coach who wears his emotions on his sleeve and says what's on his mind. A coach who favors a pressure style that puts opponents back on their heels. For most of his tenure in Washington, it was a style that meshed with the talent available. But his personality almost got in the way by the end. A "players' coach" who preached "accountability;" a pressure coach who now taught a trapping style. That the players spit the bit was, in retrospect, not all that surprising. This is not to absolve the players of blame; they, after all, had it pretty good with an accommodating coach who imparted a style to their liking, and they still did not meet expectations. But too many changes – in style and temperament – in too short a time doomed Boudreau.
It left Dale Hunter almost in a no-win situation. He inherited a team adrift and a situation in which he might not have had a practical path to implement his own style in its entirety to this team. It was one more change -- more passive, less opportunistic; more disciplined, less explosive. He fed them as much as they could seemingly handle, and it made for a more boring game, to be sure. But it provided enough structure that the team could function at a high enough level to make the playoffs. It was not, however, a style that could realistically be held together to keep winning long playoff series characterized by too many one-goal games. If a team plays enough of those games, chance events – a player missing an open net in overtime, another player taking a penalty late in a one-goal game – take on outsized importance.
Bruce Boudreau was not as bad a coach as he might have seemed at the end; a lack of maturity on the part of the players has to explain a good portion of the nose-dive after the seven-game winning streak to open the season. And Dale Hunter was not nearly as boring – at least in philosophy – as it might have seemed watching his team late in the season and in the playoffs. Both did what they could do with what they had. It just was not nearly enough for this team or these coaches. One hopes that the players will have learned that despite the difficulties this season, there were lessons to take forward from each of these coaches. Because now, it really is on them.
Boudreau: C
Hunter: B


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Monday, 03 September 2012 08:03 PM
This time around analysts are not so certain a clear recovery for the major global growth engine will come anytime soon.
In fact, two purchasing managers' indexes showed new orders are falling, adding to other evidence that suggests a slide in economic growth for the world's second-biggest economy is deepening, pushing back expectations for when a rebound may occur.
"It's quite clear we have a pretty rotten industrial cycle coming on. I don't see it getting a whole lot worse... but I don't expect them to get back for a long, long time," said Arthur Kroeber, managing director of GK Dragonomics in Beijing.
"I see things bouncing along at the bottom of the cycle."
An HSBC purchasing managers' index released on Monday fell to 47.6 in August, its lowest reading since March 2009 and a similar survey by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday showed the manufacturing sector shrinking for the first time since November.
A reading below 50 points to contraction, while one above 50 indicates expansion.
Still, the HSBC PMI adds to other figures that suggest the economy is revisiting 2009. Industrial output growth in July rose at its weakest pace since 2009 and exports were rising at their lowest trajectory since that year, excluding a fall in January.
The Shanghai stock market has slumped almost 18 percent from this year's highs to levels last seen in March 2009.
Second-quarter 2012 GDP figures, the latest available, showed economic growth running at its slowest pace since the first quarter of 2009, re flecting domestic property market curbs and weak exports demand from Europe where fears of a recession are mounting.
In March 2009, the clank of construction hammers began again in Beijing after months of silence. Internationally, markets began a sharp rebound after policymakers in major countries flooded their economies with cash to extract themselves from the crisis spurred by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
In March 2009, the Chinese economy was recovering from a far worse crisis, in part thanks to a huge 4 trillion yuan ($630 billion) stimulus package put in place by Beijing.
Growth in the March quarter of 2009 hit 6.1 percent. Second quarter growth this year is the lowest since then but was still much higher at 7.6 percent.
Still, the picture today is of an economy slipping into a deeper-than-expected slowdown, in part thanks to the consequences of the stimulus package, which fired up inflation and the real estate market.
Central government curbs on real estate to calm prices and support a policy of affordable housing have combined with the impact of the European debt crisis on global demand to drag China's economic growth down.
For manufacturers, the chief concern is soft new orders, particularly from the euro zone.
The HSBC report showed new orders overall and new export orders falling at their fastest pace since March 2009, helping drag output back into contraction after a more hopeful July.
Finished stocks are at a record high and backlog of orders at the lowest since January 2009.
"The current slowdown is caused by both cyclical and structural factors," said Zhu Baoliang, chief economist at top government think-tank State Information Centre, adding that further monetary easing would do little to counter the slowdown.
"The manufacturing sector is undermined by the destocking process."
The government PMI showed new orders falling for the fourth month in a row. Export orders were falling, but the sub index stabilised at 46.6 compared with July.
While there are parallels now with the global financial crisis, there are also key differences that help explain why policymakers are less aggressive in trying to stimulate the economy. Most critical in China's case is employment.
In contrast to heavy job cuts during the winter of 2008-2009, employment has held up reasonably well, assuaging fears of social unrest in a year when the Communist Party is aiming for stability as it conducts a once-in-a-decade leadership change that will see President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao replaced.
"I think we should also look at the employment situation, which has yet to show any big problems.. we haven't seen big layoffs," said Zhu of the State Information Centre.
Beijing launched its stimulus package during the global financial crisis after at least 20 million migrant jobs were axed in a matter of months as global trade froze.
Major exports, including China, Japan and South Korea, are feeling the pinch of weakening trade, but not to the same extent as the global financial crisis.
Policy could change in China if employment begins to show signs of consistent strain. The official PMI employment sub-index showed a third month of contraction in August, slipping to 49.1.
The employment sub-index for the HSBC survey -- whose private-sector respondents are more likely to react quickly in hiring and firing -- reached 47.6, its lowest point since March 2009 and its sixth month below 50.
Economic growth has weakened for six straight quarters in this latest down cycle. It did so for seven straight quarters during the global financial crisis before turning course to pick up, Thomson Reuters data shows.
If history is a measure, that suggests growth will ease again in the third quarter and start to rebound in the fourth quarter.
Beijing is moving cautiously in trying to support the economy in what it calls a "prudent" policy stance, for fear of re-igniting property and inflation risks.
Still, its policies so far have shown no significant sign of arresting the slide in the economy's growth. Indeed, analysts are cutting their expectations for the economy further in the wake of July's economic data and the PMIs.
Barclays said on Monday there were downside risks to its full-year growth forecast of 7.9 percent, citing the gloomy PMI results.
Mizuho Securities cut its expectations for China's third-quarter GDP growth on Friday to 7.4 percent and said it could slip further in the fourth quarter to 7.2 percent.
Just in July, the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll of economists was for third quarter growth of 7.9 percent.
Li-Gang Liu and Zhou Hao of ANZ Bank forecast 2012 growth of 7.8 percent, just above the government target of 7.5 percent.
"We believe that China's two interest rate cuts and liquidity injections into the market via large-scale reverse repos have not had substantial effect as many data show China's economic growth momentum is clearly decelerating," they wrote.
Wang Jun, economist at the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, a government think-tank, said third-quarter growth could even slip below 7.5 percent.
"We still cannot see any signs that growth is bottoming out," he said.
Many analysts believe the central bank will continue to loosen policy further by cutting interest rates and banks' required reserve levels, but doubt Beijing will resort to the dramatic action seen in 2008-2009.
Xianfeng Ren and Alistair Thornton of IHS Global in Beijing said the government had underestimated the pace of the slowdown but policymakers are cautious for fear of reliving the excesses caused by the 4 trillion yuan stimulus. Policy tools are also losing their impact as more capital flows out of China and loan demand is weak.
"Lastly, as if it had escaped anyone's attention, there is a once-a-decade wholesale leadership swap happening in the next couple of months - minds are not solely focused on the economy," they added.
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The City of San Luis Obispo GIS Division produces both interactive and printable PDF maps for public consumption. Click on the links listed below to explore city maps of various topics.
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City Zoning Map - The Zoning Map establishes the zoning designation that applies to every property within the City of San Luis Obispo, which controls how that property can be used and developed. It is adopted by an ordinance of the City Council. This is a printable (PDF) version of the map.
City General Plan Map - The General Plan Map is the blueprint for the future of the City of San Luis Obispo, establishing a pattern for orderly development. It is adopted by a resolution of the City Council. This is a printable (PDF) version of the map.
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Historical Properties - Interactive story map of Mills Act and Master List Properties.
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Bike Map - Bicycle amenities, bike paths, bike lanes, and bike rack locations.
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- Interactive maps have been formatted for viewing on laptops, Smartphone, and tablet devices. See the Interactive Maps Gallery for a concise list of all maps with this functionality.
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- For virtual tours of City Parks, Open Space Trails and Community Gardens visit the Google Map View Photo Sphere webpage.
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Sports Connection is a fun new way to connect with family and friends and play the most popular sports from a new perspective. ESPN Sports Connection is being developed specifically for the Nintendo Wii U system to take full advantage of Nintendo's New Controller. Play solo team up in co-op to experience new gameplay possibilities or compete in multiplayer to take full advantage of Nintendo's New Controller. Play six of the most popular sports: soccer football baseball tennis golf and karting.
Wii U
What's that? ESPN is lending it's licensing to a Wii U game where you can play a version of all of the major sports right on your Wii U console? Wow! That sounds amazing, doesn't it? Yeah, we were excited about the concept too. Until we actually played the game. ESPN Sports Connection is a fumble, a foul and an error of a video game. It lacks any real depth and even the game that is there can be difficult and awkward to play with the less than stellar controls. This is hilarious because the game requires Wii Motion Plus but then doesn't do anything to take advantage of the technology. This game was designed with casual gamers in mind but this game might be a little too awful even for Grandma to stomach.
So let's talk about what is there that is at least passable. There's tennis, soccer, and kart racing. These mini games function well enough in that you can play them a couple times without getting frustrated. They do not however, ever come close to being fun. Soccer takes very little skill, when you race the kart, all you have to do is aim the Wii controller at the television, there's not much acceleration, you're just steering the kart in a circle. The tennis isn't half bad, but then you realize that the control is almost identical to the tennis is Wii Sports, a game that released six years ago. No, we'll take that back. It's not identical, the Wii Sports version is better.
The graphics don't do anything special here either. It really looks like it could be a game made for the original Wii, not the Wii U. The developer has done really nothing to take advantage of the extra power in the new system. The framerate is quite frankly bad while playing solo and the game is borderline unplayable if a second player tries to join in. This kind of slow down in a next generation title just leaves you shaking your head. The presentation is also shoddy, frequent menus pop up and interrupt what little gameplay there actually is. In one case, the game actually requires you to switch from the normal Wii remote to the GamePad, right in the middle of the game mode.
There is also no real reason to keep playing the game after you've sampled all of the different sports. There's really nothing here you'll want to work to unlock, no means of character progression. Even the basic Wii Sports did a better job of letting you rank up and play tougher AI as you progressed through a couple of the games.
There is nothing in ESPN Sports Connection for Wii U that you haven't already experienced in another title like Wii Sports or Wii Sports Resort. Nintendo's first party title from the last generation do a better job of entertaining casual gamers than anything that is on offer in this shallow rip off for the Wii U.
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"The bourgeois and the proletariat blood will mingle in the Charing Cross Road before they get rid of us."
Ladies Who Do is a wonderful British black and white classic comedy which features some of the era's best-loved stars. This is a good-natured tale of the underdogs who fight back against corporate growth and gentrification.
The film's heroine is the formidable Peggy Mount who plays practical-minded char woman/office cleaner, Mrs. Cragg. Mrs. Cragg works in the offices of developer, James Ryder (Steptoe and Son's Harry H. Corbett), a slippery, insincere character whose accents shifts according to his company. Ryder's flashy lifestyle, which covers his upbringing in the slums, has almost bankrupted him, but he still maintains a posh office, a large staff, and a flash car. Ryder and his business partner are desperate to seal a new deal that involves the purchase of the homes on Pitt Street. Ryder plans to demolish the homes and then construct new office buildings in their place.
The trouble begins when Mrs. Cragg inadvertently transports a stock market tip from Ryder's office to her other employer, Colonel Whitforth (Robert Morley). Using Mrs. Cragg's information, Whitforth subsequently makes a large sum of money, but Mrs. Cragg's working class sensibilities cannot accept the idea that the stock market is an honest mechanism. She intends to give Ryder her share of the profit, but this plan, however, is abandoned when she discovers Ryder's plans for Pitt Street. Mrs. Cragg lives on Pitt Street and has no intention of moving.
At this point, Mrs Cragg mobilizes her fellow char-women to unite against Ryder and his plans. He sees the residents' refusal to sell as "a couple of old bags being difficult." The consequences are hilarious and culminate on Pitt Street with various monkey-wrenching activities. Ryder, his workers and even the British police are no match for the cleaners–working class women who know just how to deal with the men who want to seize Pitt Street for their own ends.
Harry H. Corbett is perfectly cast as the slightly slimy, conniving (but not devious enough) Ryder. He meets his match in the charwomen, and of course the underlying message is that these women are invisible to their employers and so they can get away with a great deal more than the average person. The charwomen are hilarious and include Miriam Karlin as Mrs Higgins–a woman who's tired of waiting for the Revolution, gormless Mrs. Merryweather (played by Dandy Nichols from Till Death Do Us Part), and nervous Emily Parish (Avril Elgar) who lives with her elderly mother. Elderly Mrs. Parish becomes a useful tool in the Battle for Pitt Street. Fans of British classic comedy, don't miss this one. From director C.M. Pennington-Richards
"Would you close in a bit brothers. We have a spy on the outskirts of our little community." (Workmen)
"Take more than a bulldozer to put that old battleax under the ground." (Ryder talking about Mrs. Parish)
"What do they want a teabreak for? They haven't done anything yet." (Ryder about workmen)
"Oh she loved the Blitz. She was very happy when the bombs were falling. She'd look out the window and shake her fist." (Emily Parish discussing her mother to Ryder)
"You couldn't have a derogatory effect on her heart if you ran her over with a bulldozer." (Ryder talking about Mrs. Parish.
"I'll have them out of there before you can say bulldozer." (Ryder)
"You know the British workman. Loses every battle except the last."
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Policy Activity Rebate (PAR) Program overview
BWC has extended the Policy Activity Rebate (PAR) Program for a third year. We developed this program to raise employers' awareness and increase understanding of some of the most important aspects of workers' compensation, including safety, claims and policy management. PAR puts you in control, offering a wide range of activities that provide your organization a chance to earn a 50-percent premium rebate up to $2,000.
PAR is a customizable plan that allows employers to choose from 33 activities to earn a rebate. Each activity has associated credits. Depending on the nature of the activity, you can earn up to two credits. You must complete 11 credits during the enrolled policy year. Private employers have until May 31, 2021, to complete their activities. Public employers have until Nov. 30, 2020.
Only state-fund employers may receive a rebate. This includes private employers and public employer taxing districts.
- Private employers in an active, reinstated or debtor-in-possession status as of the enrollment date.
- Enrollment period through Jan. 31, 2021.
- We will calculate the rebate using the true-up premium for the July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, policy period.
- The employer's trued-up premium must be at least $350.
- Public-taxing district employers in an active or reinstated status as of the enrollment date.
- Enrollment period through July 31, 2020.
- We will calculate the rebate using the true-up premium for the Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019, policy year.
- Employer must have had at least $350 billed premium for the applicable policy period.
- Not compatible with the following programs: Group-experience rating; group-retrospective rating; individual-retrospective rating, and claim cost deductible.
- Professional employer organizations (PEOs) are not eligible for the program, unless the PEO and each of the PEOs clients meet all eligibility and program requirements.
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Are RECs a Legitimate Element of Corporate Environmental Strategies?by -
In the October 29, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek, Ben Elgin's article Little Green Lies questions the value of the renewable energy certificate (REC) market in helping to develop new supplies of renewable energy and states that companies might be relying too heavily on RECs to meet emissions targets.
There is growing interest from many corporations to reduce their impact on the environment. WRI and the Green Power Market Development Group (GPMDG) have worked with dozens of companies over the years to identify strategies to reduce emissions and promote the use of renewable energy sources. GPMDG member companies have pursued a diverse range of options to reduce their environmental footprint that include:
- reducing electricity use through energy efficiency,
- pursuing a diverse mix of on-site renewable energy projects,
- purchasing green power through utilities (where available), and
- purchasing Green-e certified renewable energy certificates (RECs).
Many GPMDG companies have used RECs as one part of their overall strategy to meet their renewable energy goals and have been active in developing the REC market. It is our view that the market for RECs has played and, will continue to play, a critical role in encouraging the development new renewable energy projects through:
- providing renewable energy project developers with a valuable source of revenue that can shift the balance in favor of receiving project financing;
- providing an additional revenue source that improves investor confidence in the renewable energy sector and leads to further investment; and
- allowing companies to support renewable energy, even when on site options are not feasible or when the local utility does not provide green power.
Finally, in order to bring the renewable energy market to scale, strong federal and state policies are needed. Well-designed incentives will remove some of the barriers to the development of new renewable energy projects and will boost corporate investment in the clean energy sector. In the meantime, RECs will remain a valuable tool for the companies that buy them as well as the renewable energy industry.


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The Penn State Smeal College of Business MBA Program ranks 15th for ethics, according to rankings published in February by Bloomberg Businessweek. The program also ranks highly in e-business, coming in 23rd.
Smeal emphasizes integrity as a fundamental part of its academic culture. As MBA students enter the program, they pledge to adhere to the tenets of the Smeal Honor Code, an initiative begun by Penn State Smeal MBAs in 2006.
As part of its 2012 rankings, Businessweek surveyed class of 2012 MBAs on the full range of their experience. All 82 schools included in the ranking were scored in the areas of information technology, e-business, sustainability/green business, diversity, entrepreneurship, teamwork, leadership, ethics, and international business.
The Businessweek Complete 2012 Business Schools Ranking, released last year, ranked the Penn State Smeal MBA Program 38th overall—up eight spots from its 2010 ranking—and 14th among publicly supported programs.
The complete specialty rankings are available online at www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-19/the-best-mba-programs-by-specialty-2013.


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NASA Astronauts, who are true American heroes, aboard the ISS can vote in the presidential election tomorrow too. How? It's not like there are any polling stations near them. Well, it's sort of like an absentee ballot but obviously different because it's from FREAKING SPACE.
How does it work? Here's what Live Science says:
Astronauts residing on the orbiting lab receive a digital version of their ballot, which is beamed up by Mission Control at the agency's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. Filled-out ballots find their way back down to Earth along the same path.
"They send it back to Mission Control," said NASA spokesman Jay Bolden of JSC. "It's a secure ballot that is then sent directly to the voting authorities."
The voting is regulated by the same bill that was passed in 1997—even if you're not on our planet, you can still vote. So if you're already on our planet, you pretty much have no excuse not to vote now. [Live Science, Image Credit: NASA]


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Not for the first time this season, former Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 player and Residency product Gagandeep Dosanjh set his division on fire at the weekend with a gaggle of goals.
The striker's exploits in front of the net for the UBC Thunderbirds (five goals and three assists) earned him Canada West Athlete of the Week honours, as well as a nice story in The Province about his big season.
This was the fourth consecutive week a T-Birds soccer player has won the Athlete of the Week award. Last week's winner, Janine Frazao, also had a great story written about her in today's edition of The Province.
Elsewhere, 2012 'Caps women's team player Taylor Patterson (pictured) and her sterling defensive efforts also didn't go unnoticed down in the sunshine state, former Whitecaps FC women's star Ranee Premji scored the game-winner for North Carolina, while goalkeepers Kayla Klim (University of Fraser Valley), Alyssa Williamson (UBC) and Kristen Funk (Trinity Western) each recorded shutouts.
On Friday night, UBC destroyed the UNBC Timberwolves 6-0 at Thunderbird Stadium thanks to a superb hat-trick from Dosanjh. He also had an assist after he cleverly set up fellow 'Caps alum Navid Mashinchi on the game-winning goal.
In the second match against Wolves on Saturday night, Dosanjh bagged a double (including his 11th tally of the season) in the T-Birds' resounding 5-1 win.
Rookie University of Alberta defender Niko Saler scored his first career goal for the Golden Bears with his second-half penalty kick, but a University of Saskatchewan equalizer in the 73rd minute saw the October 7 match finish 1-1.
Over at Trinity Western University, the seventh-ranked Spartans needed two second-half goals to beat Mount Royal University Cougars 2-0 in Calgary.
Trinity Western head coach – and former Whitecaps FC women's head coach – Pat Rohla was pleased with the result, which included a nice goal from former 'Caps Prospects player Cameron Parkes three minutes from time.
Abi Raymer continued her terrific form up front for Missouri after the sophomore found the back of the net for her sixth of the season in Mizzou's 2-0 win over Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon.
Down in North Carolina, Premji's marker early in the second half guided the Tar Heels to a narrow 1-0 win against Boston College. It was the 'Caps alum's second goal of the season.
Heading further south to the University of South Florida, defender Patterson was named Big East Defensive Player of the Week after she helped the Bulls to two clean sheet victories on the weekend.
Williamson registered her fifth shutout for 2012 in UBC's scoreless draw with Alberta Pandas in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon while Klim earned her first career shutout and win as the University of Fraser Valley beat the University of Saskatchewan Huskies 2-0 to clinch a spot in the Canada West playoffs.
Elsewhere, a second-half goal from senior Brandi Vega – her fifth of the season – capped Washington State's 3-0 win over Arizona.
In Wisconsin, Whitecaps FC women's player Paige Adams scored in the 30th minute to seal a 2-0 win for the Badgers against Green Bay Phoenix.
And lastly, the second-ranked Trinity Western University Spartans erupted for three second-half goals to get past Mount Royal University Cougars 3-0 in Alberta. Third-year player and former 'Caps Prospects player Jennifer Castillo opened the scoring one minute after the interval while 'keeper Funk made four saves.