A lot of big names are swirling around the Brooklyn Nets right now as the team conducts its seach for their next head coach. Those names include Phil Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy and others. However, a funny thing happened on the way to the next coach: PJ Carlesimo, the interim coach, appears like he?ll get a legit chance of holding onto the reins for good.
Said Billy King, the GM of the Nets: ?We?ve put our support behind (P.J. Carlesimo) and then we?ll look at things and evaluate it later. I know people have been throwing lists together and things like that, but we have not contacted anybody.?
The Nets are 2-0 since Carlisemo became the head coach following the firing of Avery Johnson. However, Brooklyn will face a tough test as they head on the road to face the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder in their next two outings. If the Nets drop both, Carlesimo could be on the chopping block.
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?It?s a pleasure to be here with you. It?s a pleasure to be here. It?s a pleasure to be.?
That?s how Michael Fratkin starts his stirring TEDx talk about the lessons he?s learned as an end-of-life doctor.
Michael is an uncle of mine (well, removed by several marriages but I?m still going to claim him as family) who lives in Northern California with his wife and two young children. We met them for the first time at Thanksgiving last month, and just a few weeks later, he gave this wonderful speech about a subject that we might not like to talk about this time of year (or any other time of year, for that matter). But who among us doesn?t have a hint ? or more ? of sadness during this time of celebrating with families and thinking about getting a new start with a new year?
One of the stories Michael shares is of his first encounter with death: a grandparent when he was six. I was just a few years older than that in 1994 when my great-grandmother Joyce (in the driver?s seat of that oversized motorcycle) died just a few days after Christmas. One of my last memories of her, or perhaps I should say moments with her, was her singing ?Santa Claus Is Coming To Town? as she lay dying from emphysema in her hospital bed. But she sang that song with a smile, which was of great comfort to my sister and I, who didn?t really know how to act when we saw her just a week or so later at the funeral home.
On the flip side, I remember the awkward feeling of relief when the whole family went to see ?Dumb and Dumber? just a few days after her funeral and we laughed so hard we cried. She was the kind of fiery-red headed-lady who would?have laughed so hard she cried, too.
Joyce was certainly a feminist before her time, but with that liberation came personal demons that she didn?t shake until later in life. I think she was probably the happiest when in 1974, she married a cowboy named Jack McKinley on horseback on his ranch in New Mexico. She was almost 60 by the, and so many of those first decades she chased pleasure and personal freedom at the expense of responsibility. When she got the opportunity in the 1950s to raise my dad, she jumped at the second chance. I?m sure he?d be the first to say that she wasn?t a perfect mom, but I know she was the one who instilled in him an appreciation for strong, even bull-headed women.
My sister and I (Chelsea is the dark-haired baby on the bottom) were lucky enough to get to know her a little before her time on this earth expired, and she is just one of the many people who came to mind when I heard Michael?s words on death, dying and life. (For the record, the only food-related memory I have of her is her love of coffee ? she drank coffee all day long ? buttered toast and the hamburger at Wayne?s, her favorite restaurant in Branson, where she lived. By that point in her life, she didn?t do much cooking, and she and her sister Pud and brother-in-law Bob would eat at that restaurant every single day for lunch.)
Please take a few minutes to watch his talk. I have a number of posts rolling around in my head from the past week I spent in Missouri with my sweet little boys, parents and grandmother, during which we laughed so hard we cried at least a handful of times. As I let those moment soak into my consciousness, I leave you with these questions of Michael?s that I really, really needed to hear:
?Is it true that there is never enough time? What is a whole life? How many moments make a life??
Lacking a solid Web design strategy wastes money, loses clients, and can harm your business much more than if you had no website at all. But why?
Because, website design is not about ?the design.?
All ?website design? is not created equal ? but this is the No. 1 related misconception adopted by small businesses on the Web.
Fact: Crappy Web ?Design? HURTS Business. Is Yours on the Right Track?
When conceptualizing a new website design, there are a few critical facts you must consider.
For instance, one recent MarketingProfs article made the point that many business owners jump into Web design (or redesign) decisions with no other goal than to cure their own boredom. What that means is that the owner simply ?grows tired? of looking at the same website design for months on end. Then, they push for a change for no rhyme or reason ? and with no goals in mind.
Umm. If you want to waste your yearly operating budget, this is a rapid-fire way to do it.
Admittedly, I made these sorts of ?fly by the seat of my pants? decisions early on in my career, in the late ?90s. But as I was an avid split tester, my goal was always to improve results when I changed a design, and I never stopped until I achieved that outcome. But I did take an unnecessarily time-consuming, roundabout way of getting there by not mapping out goals until after the new design was conceptualized (and, in some cases, completed).
Ugh, huge mistake.
Though I didn?t technically waste money, as the design was done in-house ? in approaching the redesign in an unfocused way, I wasted time I could otherwise have been spending on income-producing activities. And so, income did suffer.
And since we?re being so honest, I?ll admit that I still find myself occasionally wanting to make decisions based solely on my own restlessness or boredom with a website?s existing design. But because effective Web design is truly a process, I manage to nip this counter-productivity in the bud before damage is done ? before taking any action on my daydreaming. Whew.
Because after all these years of creating goal-oriented websites, my thinking has been sufficiently rewired. Even if I catch myself wanting to change a website simply ?for the change? rather than for a goal, in the subsequent planning process for that design, my inner marketer kicks in ? and I begin the (re)design process by making decisions based solely on the results I want to achieve.
That?s the key. Every proposed website addition, change, feature, or function must accomplish something for your business.
In fact, if you approach the decision as redesigning your website to improve results, increase sales, boost sign-ups, downloads, clicks, calls, leads, conversion rates, or whatever your metric, then guess what??
You generally will achieve just that, because you?ve already programmed your mind (and tasked your Web design company) not to stop until a result is achieved.
This was a somewhat long-winded way of making this critical point: You must decide which metric you?d like to improve before you have your Web design company make one change. Web Design Doesn?t Matter. Results Do
For the launch of my own Web design company , I crafted a press release with the headline ?Web Design Doesn?t Matter? ? and that statement is so real. It was risky and I knew the company could lose a few potential clients by taking this stance ? but only the select few that were unable to realize anyway that their websites should be about achieving goals.
People don?t come to your website to see how beautifully you?ve designed it today.
They come to your website to accomplish a particular goal.
You?d better make it doggone well easy for them to do so, or they?re out of there ? and fast.
So Should You Even Redesign Your Website?
The answer to this depends on how your site is currently doing ? and why.
If it?s completely tanking and not getting any results at all, a website redesign could be smart.
If you?re getting ?some? results, but not enough for the effort you?re putting in, your site may simply need a little tweaking over a complete overhaul.
However, there are many variables that go into why a website is failing: sales copy, marketing, design, cohesiveness?So if you already have a website and you?re not sure why it?s underperforming, your Web design company needs to analyze your current marketing strategies and website as a whole to be able to determine what?s causing those dismal results. Is Your Website Designed to Lead People Toward a Goal?
Results-oriented Web design gets people to take action. Therefore, if your website isn?t accomplishing that, here?s what you do: chat with a designer who understands Web marketing, to have them evaluate your analytics (current website traffic) to see where results are lacking.
Then, get them to devise a website design s-t-r-a-t-e-g-y to counteract and eradicate negatives found, accentuate the desired positives, and just do the doggone thing.
If you don?t yet have a website, it?s OK: you?re actually ahead of the game.
Again, get with a Web design company that understands Web marketing before you decide what you want your website to look like. In fact, clearly define your goals and discuss ? as a team with your designer ? the ways in which your website should be set up to achieve those.
Your Website Design (or Redesign) Must Be Based Around Just this Sort of Strategic Planning?
?or else the only ?result? you achieve will be a colossal waste of money, time, and resources. Most small business owners can?t afford that level of waste. Can you?
Harmony Major began building business websites and marketing online in 1999, converting her e-business to full-time in less than one year-at age 19. These days, she does simple, conversion-focused websites and redesigns for service professionals, non-profits, and minority- and woman-owned businesses. Find Harmony at: ExcellentPresence.com or connect on LinkedIn.
Though Robert Pattinson stuck by her, Ben Affleck has left Kristen Stewart?in the dust. Citing a schedule crunch, the actor has backed out of?Focus, a con-artist movie set to costar Stewart and begin filming this spring. Stewart had just said in a recent interview that she was excited to start shooting, but now who knows what will happen. "Hi Kristen. We know that you were excited about working with Ben, but he dropped out, so we got you a replacement," a producer says to her the day she arrives on set. ...
A Mississippi man, accused of forging $8,600 worth of bogus checks, is having a hard time finding an Orleans Parish judge to hear his case. All 12 on the Criminal District Court bench are, technically, his alleged victims.
Burnell McCann, 33, of Collins, Miss., is accused of creating bogus checks using the judicial administrator's routing and account numbers.
A check issued to a juror for their jury service was stolen in 2010, according to Deputy Judicial Administrator Shannon Sims.
McCann then allegedly ordered a batch of checks online, bearing the name of a Lafayette-based offshore drilling company, but used the routing and account number from the check pilfered from the juror, Sims said.
Sims said the office was balancing its books several months later and noticed a chunk of money missing - about 10 checks worth around $8,600.
McCann was charged for three of those checks. According to court documents, on Nov. 23, 2010, he wrote checks bearing the judicial administrator's account and routing numbers and cashed them at various banks and grocery stores in the region.
The checks were issued to McCann and signed by an imaginary person named Alfred J. Moss. The three checks were cashed for $495.45, $486.28 and $956.28, for a total of $1,338.
The remaining checks, Sims said, were cashed by others, maybe homeless people he recruited into the scheme.
No one else has been charged.
The offshore drilling company told the New Orleans Police Department that neither McCann nor Moss are employees, and sent a copy of an authentic payroll check for comparison, according to court documents.
McCann is charged with three counts of forgery and one count bank fraud, each charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison. He is being held at Orleans Parish Prison on a $10,000 bond.
Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson on Wednesday recused herself from McCann's case, citing her peculiar connection to it.
McCann's public defender Christen Chapman asked Landrum-Johnson to recuse the other 11 judges on the bench as well.
But Landrum-Johnson said each just must independently withdraw on their own. The case will be realloted to another court, and that judge must decline to hear it, 11 more times until, one by one, each judge has recused themselves from the case.
At that point, the state Supreme Court will be asked to appoint a special judge to oversee McCann's proceedings.
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Ghana has been advised to domesticate the various International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions on Child Labour to make their application easy and effective in eliminating the worst forms of child labour from the society.
Mr Stephen McClelland, Chief Technical Advisor of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), Ghana and ILO, asked the Government of Ghana to turn off the tide that filled the labour market with children who were supposed to be in school.
According to him, the achievement of total elimination of the worst forms of child labour would remain a mirage if the remote causes, which included extreme poverty and high illiteracy levels in most deprived African societies, were not tackled.
Mr McClelland was addressing a joint national workshop organised by the Ghana Employers? Association (GEA) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to launch the Employers? and Workers? Handbook on hazardous child labour in Accra on Wednesday.
He said domestication of the law was critical and asked that employers and workers came together to design and implement a national plan of action to be enforced in the communities.
?You can have the best policies and laws, but if it is not put into practice, it would be in vain,? he said.
He said the ILO, for nearly a century, had been setting standards for child labour and fortunately, Ghana was among the countries to have ratified its Convention 138 which dealt with the minimum age and Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour.
Yet, Ghana has not made much progress with regards to effective implementation of the convention, he said.
The 54-page Handbook, which was realised within the framework of the project on ?Social Partnership and????? Advocacy to Tackle Child Labour? and funded by Irish Aid, provides an overview of child labour as defined by ILO conventions.
It describes how employers and workers are working jointly to combat hazardous child labour in key sectors, such as agriculture, construction, mining and manufacturing, and makes suggestions on how its cooperation could be strengthened in the future.
The suggestions include the development and implementation of the national hazardous child labour lists, the establishment of workplace safety and health committees and improvements in collective bargaining agreements.
Mr Alex Frimpong, Chief Executive of GEA, who launched the handbook, expressed the hope that the outcome of their collective efforts as social partners would be more than their individual efforts as employers? and workers? organisations.
He said the GEA was committed to partnering the TUC to eliminate child labour because businesses thrived in healthy societies, but many social vices such as armed robbery, prostitution and drug abuse thrived in societies where child labour was widespread and retarded business growth.
He, therefore, said it was critical to protect children from all forms of hazardous works in order to preserve them as the future of the economy depended on them.
Alberta Laryea Gyan, Head of International Affairs, TUC, said the Union was determined to eliminate child labour because it undermined decent work and impacted negatively on the fundamental human rights of such children to education and total development.
The GEA and the TUC signed a Bipartite Declaration on child labour, to re-dedicate and commit themselves to the fight against all forms of child labour and also acknowledge that both employers? and workers? organisations have significant role to play in combating child labour among other things.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service said on Friday it is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security over the loss of computer files on the Washington Metro system.
In 2008, a contract employee lost two computer tapes on the Metro while transporting them from one facility to another, Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said. The investigation was first reported Friday morning by Fox News.
The Secret Service notified transit police and the Department of Homeland Security, but were unable to locate the tapes. The back up tapes were not marked or identified and were protected by many layers of security, Donovan said.
"It was a low risk for compromise," Donovan said.
Following the incident, the Secret Service put in place new procedures aimed at preventing a repeat.
"There has been no reported fraud associated with the loss of these tapes," Donovan said.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Secret Service is under scrutiny after about a dozen employees were accused of misconduct for bringing women, some of them prostitutes, back to their hotel rooms ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to Cartagena, Colombia.
(Reporting By Mark Felsenthal; editing by Todd Eastham)
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Rescuers evacuate a pregnant woman with her child who survived flooding in New Bataan, Philippines, on Thursday.
By Reuters
Updated at 8:20 a.m. ET: NEW BATAAN, Philippines ? Rescue workers found a 54-year-old man clinging to a boulder by a river ? injured but alive ? two days after a powerful typhoon ravaged the south of the Philippines killing at least 332 people. Hundreds are still missing.
All Carlos Agang had to eat was coconut and water until he was found in a tattered shirt with a fractured leg and bruises by a group of rescue volunteers in New Bataan town in Compostela Valley, the province worst hit by typhoon Botha. Reuters initially reported he was 77, but later corrected his age.
?I can't believe it. I didn't expect to see people survive two days after they were swept by flood and mud," fire volunteer Mark Roman Jumilla told Reuters.
"For two days, he survived on coconut and water.?He lost his family when floodwaters swept a temporary shelter area where he and his family sought refuge," Jumilla said.
'I prayed hard' Rescuers also found a pregnant woman on the other side of the river with her one-year son after escaping floods that swamped their house after Typhoon Bopha hit land on Tuesday.
"It happened so fast. Water came rushing to us while we were leaving our house to move to safer grounds," Lenlen Medrano, 23, told Reuters as she was being carried by soldiers in a stretcher.
An intense, powerful typhoon has cut across the Philippines triggering landslides and flash floods on the island of Mindanao. ITN's Jane Deith reports. Warning: The story contains some disturbing images.
"I prayed hard over and over until we found ourselves on the riverbank," she added.
A Reuters photographer saw four bodies near the spot where Agang was rescued. The river's current was strong, making it hard for rescue teams to reach other survivors.
'Entire families were washed away' as Typhoon Bopha hits
Typhoon Bopha, with gusts of up to 90 mph, was moving west-northwest of the central Philippines and was expected to be over the South China Sea on Friday.
The head of the national disaster agency said 332 people were killed and 379 were missing after Bopha triggered landslides and floods along the coast and in farming and mining towns inland in the southern Mindanao region.
The death toll could rise further, with local government officials reporting higher numbers of missing and dead.
Erik De Castro / Reuters
Typhoon evacuees queue for relief goods outside a local government town centre in New Bataan, Compostela Valley, in southern Philippines Thursday.
PhotoBlog: Grief amid Bopha's destruction
About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year, often causing death and destruction. Almost exactly a year ago, Typhoon Washi killed 1,500 people in Mindanao.
Arturo "Arthur" Uy, governor of Compostela Valley, said search and rescue operations were continuing, particularly in far-flung areas in New Bataan town, where a three-year old child was plucked from under a crumpled house on Wednesday, more than 24 hours after the typhoon made landfall. The child's mother and a sibling are missing.
"I believe we can rescue more people," Uy told Reuters. "We evacuated people from riverbanks and shorelines. But the floods and strong winds battered not just the riverbanks but also places where residents were supposed to be safe."
A few residents in Compostela Valley started repairing their houses, but for majority, rebuilding will not be easy.
"I don't know what to do now," coconut farmer Roger Calarian told Reuters while queuing for a rice ration at the center of New Bataan town. "I lost my house, I lost my livelihood. I want to rebuild my hut but I don't think I have the energy to do that now."
Calarian said he and his wife were lucky to have survived when coconut trees crashed on their house on Tuesday. "We prayed, hugged each other until the winds calmed down, and then we crawled out to safety," he added.?
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Oil prices decoupled themselves yesterday from the 30 second news snippets associated with the US fiscal cliff negotiations and rather were driven by the prospects for slow economic growth and a growing surplus of oil. This week's EIA oil inventory report was biased to the bearish side after a huge increase in gasoline stocks and an atypically large build in distillate fuel inventories during a period when the weather was relatively cold. It is not very often that current fundamentals have such a near term impact on the price of oil. However, at the moment the fact that there is ample supply of oil around the world coupled with the global economy not looking like it is heading into an oil demand growth spurt anytime soon is keeping the selling pressure on prices this week. At the moment it looks like oil prices will experience their first weekly loss in five weeks.
From a technical perspective the upward trading channel that has been in play since the first week of November was breached to the downside yesterday suggesting that lower prices are now more likely. The spot Nymex WTI contract now has the potential to test the next level of support at around the $84/bbl level with the aforementioned channel tend support now a resistance point at about $87.50/bbl. The spot Brent contract has performed mostly in sync with the spot WTI contract having also breached its upside trending channel to the downside. The new resistance for Brent is around the $109.50/bbl level with support not found until $104.80/bbl. Refined products markets are also breaking down and as such from a technical viewpoint oil is now biased to the downside.
The geopolitics of the middle east are continuing to evolve with protests still occurring in Egypt while the civil was in Syria rages on. Talks of chemical weapons in Syria has elevated the risk of spreading and/or involvement from the west. On the Iranian front the US is likely to extend the exemption to several nations (India, Turkey, etc.) from Iranian financial sanctions for another six months as they all reduced purchases of crude oil from Iran over the last six months.
Oil exports from Iran are about half of what they were in the beginning of the year. From that perspective the sanctions are working as they have resulted in a lowering of Iran's main revenue stream. That said Iran remains defiant and seemingly not overly anxious to enter into any meaningful negotiations with the west. So for now the stand-off continues. The overall geopolitical risk to oil supply has not been elevated and as such geopolitics are currently playing a secondary role as an oil price driver. The fragile situation in the Middle East is now serving more as a floor in oil prices rather than an upward price mover.
The global economy is still struggling. The US fiscal cliff negotiations continue but as I have been indicating they will make a deal in the next three weeks...possibly even before the Christmas holiday. The financial markets seem to be building in that viewpoint into the value of equities. Today the always important US nonfarm payroll data will be released. Wednesday the ADP private sector payroll number came in as expected around 118,000 new jobs and yesterday the weekly initial jobless claims dropped. Today the market is looking for the US nonfarm data to show an increase of 90,000 new jobs with the unemployment rate coming in at 8%. I am not certain this report is going to be much of a market mover in either direction as many market participants may discount the results as the numbers were likely impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
Today the Bundesbank cuts its forecast for expansion in Germany by about 1.2% for 2013 as the euro zone remains solidly in its second recession in the last four years. The Bundesbank is projecting growth at 0.4% compared to 1.6% suggested in its June forecast. It also said the German economy will grow 0.7% in 2012 down from its June forecast of 1%. Still positive growth but like many other places around the globe growth is sluggish and slow. The ECB also lowered their forecast for the region yesterday as they kept short term interest rates unchanged. The ECB is forecasting a 0.5% contraction in 2012 as well as a 0.3% contraction for 2013. They are not expecting the euro zone to emerge out of recession and move solidly back into a positive growth pattern until 2014... but not by much as they are projecting a 1.4% growth rate in 2014. This all translates to a slowing in oil demand growth as both are highly correlated.
Although oil looks to be heading for a weekly loss global equity markets are currently setting up for their third weekly gain in a row as shown in the EMI Global Equity Index table below. The EMI Index was about unchanged over the last twenty four hours bolstered by gains in Australia and China offsetting small losses in the western bourses. The Index is currently showing a weekly gain of 0.5% resulting in the year to date gain holding at 7.3%. The Index is trading at levels not seen since the middle of October and above the sell-off levels shortly after the US Presidential election.
China remains the only bourse still in negative territory for the year and unless there is a sustained rally in Chinese equities it looks like this is likely to be the second year in row of losses for China. In spite of the downgrading in the growth rates for Germany discussed above the German bourses remains the best performing market in the Index showing a year to date gain of 27.5%. Global equities have been a slight positive for oil prices this week... although as discussed above oil prices are currently being mostly driven by the growing bearish fundamental picture. I am changing my view and bias to cautiously bearish as the fundamentals are now biased to the bearish side as well as the technicals. At the moment there is still no shortage of oil anyplace in the world and a portion of the risk premium from the evolving geopolitics of the Middle East is continuing to slowly recede from the price of oil. In the short term the price of oil is still very susceptible to sudden price moves based the 30 second news snippets. However, the fundamentals, the markets view of the global economy, the US fiscal cliff negotiations and less so the geopolitics will be the price drivers in the short term pretty much in that order. This is still an event driven market for oil at the moment. I am maintaining my Nat Gas price direction at cautiously bearish as the fundamentals and technicals are still suggesting that the market may be heading lower for the short term. I anticipate that the market is now positioned to test the lower end of the trading range... even after this week's bullish inventory snapshot. As I have been discussing for weeks the direction of Nat Gas prices are primarily dependent on the actual and forecasted weather pattern now that we are in the early stages of the winter heating season and currently those forecasts are all still mostly bearish.
Markets are mostly higher lower into the US trading session as shown in the following table.
Dominick A. Chirichella dchirichella@mailaec.com Follow my intraday comments on Twitter @dacenergy.
A media server in the terms of software application is an extremely important tool for any business. Several websites stream videos which are integral in improving the brand name of the company and have add great value to the future of a company. Several businesses are highly dependent on technology based media to communicate, coordinate and manage daily business. There are also a large number of companies and businesses out there who have their entire business model based on providing media of some sort through the TV, internet or radio. What all these companies fail to realize in time is that technology is always a step ahead and this has given rise to people all over the world wanting highly quality media access across not only home computers and other non-mobile media, but also have shown a widespread demand in need for media access over mobile devices such as laptops, mobile phones, tablets etc.
This has lead to a very difficult task for companies to find the best media servers to not only provide high quality data and very high speeds but at the same time provide the same high quality video or audio over all the various types of media devices out there. This includes everything from to a complex corporate media conference taking place at various locations throughout the world, to a simple Christmas jingle streamed on your cell phone. Media servers have thus evolved from the simple software to store and manage media to the ?all in one? media solution for all forms of hardware and across various streaming formats. Everyone from government offices, educational institutes, corporate entities, social media websites, service providers etc. find the use of a high quality media server to be an extremely useful and efficient way to get the job done and add to the value of the organization in many ways.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday that after months of delay it had been told by the White House budget office to begin planning to implement automatic spending cuts in January that would reduce defense outlays by $500 billion over the next decade.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said the department, which for months had been instructed not to prepare for the automatic cuts, had now been told by the White House Office of Management and Budget to begin "internal planning" for the reductions.
"Naturally we hope very much that sequestration will be avoided and that we don't enter that phase in early January 2013. We don't want to go off the fiscal cliff, but in consultation with OMB we think that it is prudent at this stage to begin at least some limited internal planning," he said.
The OMB instruction comes as the White House and lawmakers are engaged in a last-ditch effort to find an alternative package of revenue increases and spending cuts that would enable them to avoid the $1 trillion in automatic across-the-board cuts required under sequestration.
The automatic cuts, which are widely seen as a bad idea, were included in last year's Budget Control Act as a mechanism to coerce lawmakers to come up with an alternative package to reduce deficits. So far they have failed to reach a compromise, and the spending cuts and tax increases are due to start going into effect in a month.
Half of the automatic spending cuts would fall on the Pentagon. The $500 billion would be in addition to the $487 billion in cuts to defense spending mandated in the Budget Control Act. The department began implementing those reductions in its 2012 budget.
The Pentagon has repeatedly said over the past year that it had not begun planning for the automatic cuts because it had not received guidance to do so from the budget office. In recent months, at the direction of Congress, it had begun looking at the impact the cuts would have.
"That's been our focus, so we know what the potential impacts might be. And that obviously helps us create a baseline for what we need to plan against," Little said.
With the new White House guidance, the department had begun to broaden that effort.
"We're framing the planning effort internally right now," he said. "We need to understand what we need to do."
Little said officials will be looking at how the cuts would affect the department's 3 million employees and their families and how to begin communicating with civilian workers and uniformed service members about the reductions.
Little said the department also might be looking at the effect on weapons programs and other spending.
"Personnel ... certainly is something that is of serious concern to me. But I wouldn't rule out that we're looking at other areas as well," he said. "I think it would make sense for us to look at the full landscape of what might be affected inside the department if sequestration were to occur."
(Reporting By David Alexander; Editing by Eric Beech)
HONOLULU ? Communications Pacific (CommPac) has hired Shere?e Young as an assistant account executive and Theresa Webber as an account coordinator.
?We?re excited to have Shere?e back on our team after she took some time to pursue an interest in broadcast journalism,? said Kitty Lagareta, CommPac CEO. ?She was with us in 2010 as an intern and then an assistant account executive, so she?s familiar with CommPac?s approach to client service. Theresa has a strong background in marketing and planning, as well as graphic design and social media, talents that we are putting to good use for our clients.?
Young rejoined CommPac after working as a news producer at KITV4 ? in which capacity she won an Emmy Award for ?Best Newscast in a Medium Market.? Born and raised in Hawaii, she is a graduate of the University of Hawaii where she majored in broadcast journalism with a minor in speech. At UH, Young served as a DJ and promotions director for KTUH, the campus radio station, and was a reporter for the student newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawaii.
Webber will provide support to a number of clients in the areas of corporate communications, tourism public relations, and digital and social media. Before joining CommPac, Webber worked in human resources at 4Sight Technologies in Boston, Mass. Earlier, she worked at Altus Marketing and Management, where she assisted in the planning and execution of events for charitable foundations and served as in-house graphic designer. She is a graduate of Boston University, where she majored in communications with an emphasis in advertising.
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Palaeontologists have found what is likely to be the oldest known dinosaur, filling in a yawning evolutionary gap.
A study in Biology Letters describes Nyasasaurus parringtoni, a new species from 10-15 million years before the previous earliest dinosaur specimens.
It walked on two legs, measured 2-3m in length with a large tail and weighed between 20 and 60kg.
The find suggests that many millions of years passed between dinosaurs' first members and their dominance on land.
"It fills a gap between what we previously knew to be the oldest dinosaurs and their other closest relatives," report co-author Paul Barrett, of the Natural History Museum in London, told BBC News.
"There was this big gap in the fossil record where dinosaurs should've been present and this fossil neatly fills that gap."
However, the team behind the work has stopped short of definitively calling N parringtoni the earliest dinosaur, because the fossil skeletons used to define it were incomplete: one upper arm bone and six vertebrae.
The early evolution of dinosaurs is difficult to unpick, as a rich variety of reptiles were proliferating at the time - and some may even have independently evolved characteristics that are associated with dinosaurs.
But the researchers, from the University of Washington and University of California Berkeley in the US and the Natural History Museum, saw a few features that are unambiguously those of dinosaurs, notably what is called an "elongated deltopectoral crest" that served as an anchor for strong pectoral muscles.
Lead author of the research Sterling Nesbitt, of the University of Washington Seattle, led a team that in 2010 reported the finding of dinosaurs' oldest relative, a member of a group called the silesaurs.
It now appears that those creatures shared the southern part of the supercontinent Pangaea - now South America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia - with N parringtoni.
"Those animals were the earliest of this group that led up toward dinosaurs," explained Dr Barrett. "Now this takes dinosaurs back to the right kind of time when those two groups would have split apart from each other."
As it closes that evolutionary gap, it shows that dinosaurs did not start out as dominant as they later became.
"We push the origin of dinosaurs further back in time to a time when lots of reptile groups are evolving," Dr Barrett said.
"Dinosaurs start out as a very insignificant group of reptiles - all relatively small animals, relatively rare in comparison with other reptile groups - and it's only a bit later in their history that they suddenly explode and take over as the dominant forms of life for nearly 100 million years."
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California's N2O emissions may be nearly triple current estimatesPublic release date: 4-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Julie Chao jhchao@lbl.gov 510-486-6491 DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab researchers devise a new method to estimate states greenhouse gas emissions
Using a new method for estimating greenhouse gases that combines atmospheric measurements with model predictions, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have found that the level of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, in California may be 2.5 to 3 times greater than the current inventory.
At that level, total N2O emissionswhich are believed to come primarily from nitrogen fertilizers used in agricultural productionwould account for about 8 percent of California's total greenhouse gas emissions. The findings were recently published in a paper titled "Seasonal variations in N2O emissions from central California" in Geophysical Research Letters. Earlier this year, using the same methodology, the researchers found that levels of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, in California may be up to 1.8 times greater than previous estimates.
"If our results are accurate, then it suggests that N2O makes up not 3 percent of California's total effective greenhouse gases but closer to 10 percent," said Marc Fischer, lead researcher on both studies. "And taken together with our previous estimates of methane emissions, that suggests those two gases may make up 20 to 25 percent of California's total emissions. That's starting to become roughly comparable to emissions from fossil fuel CO2."
Accurate estimates of the California's greenhouse gas emissions are important as the state works to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, as mandated by a law known as AB 32. The vast majority of the reduction efforts have been focused on CO2.
Nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, is an especially potent greenhouse gas because it traps far more infrared radiation than both carbon dioxide and methane. "It's present in the atmosphere at tiny concentrationsone-thousandth that of CO2but it is very potent," Fischer said. "It has a global warming potential of approximately 300, meaning it is 300 times more active than CO2 per unit mass. And it's 10 to 15 times more potent than methane."
Worldwide levels of N2O have been rising rapidly for decades, and the major culprit was recently confirmed to be the heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers to grow the world's food. Other less significant sources of N2O emissions include wetlands, animal and industrial waste and automobiles.
The standard method for estimating emissions levels has been to do what is called a "bottom-up inventory." This process involves listing all the activities that emit N2O, assigning an emission factor for each activity, then tallying up the emissions. However, this method can result in large uncertainties because of the way N2O is produced.
"The biogeochemical processes that produce N2O are sensitive to environmental conditions and very small changes in things like temperature, moisture, the type of soil and when the fertilizer is applied," Fischer said. "All those factors can result in big differences in the amount of N2O that's produced. If you try to use a single number for a given patch of land, you're almost certainly going to get a variable result."
While there are models that try to capture these factors, "it is still likely the numbers are going to have relatively large uncertainties, especially compared to thing like burning fossil fuels to make CO2, where pretty much every mole of carbon becomes CO2," Fischer said.
The method that Fischer and his colleagues describe in their paper compares measurements taken from a 2,000-foot tower in Walnut Grove, California to model predictions of expected N2O levels based on the bottom-up inventory to arrive at the new estimate. "This is the first study of its kind to look at a full annual cycle of emissionsactually it's two yearsfrom a large region of California that includes the sources that we believe are most important," Fischer said. "In general, we found that the measured signals were much bigger than the predicted signals."
The predicted signal at the tower was calculated by taking the bottom up inventory (from EDGAR, the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) and running it through a weather modelwhich includes information on wind speed and direction. "From that we can estimate how much signal we should see at the tower per unit of emission on the land surface," Fischer said.
He acknowledges that his new method also has sources of uncertainty. For example, the EDGAR model is weighted to urban areas with large populations, which may not be an accurate assumption for N2O emissions from California. "Further work in urban areas is necessary," he said."
Fischer is working with the California Air Resources Board to add measurement instruments for both nitrous oxide and methane at additional towers around the state to further refine the data and better understand emissions from urban areas.
As a way to verify the method, Fischer and his team are currently comparing measured and predicted fossil fuel CO2 signals at the tower since there is a much better understanding of how much fossil fuel is burned in California. If the predicted signal and measured signal are close, then that would be a good indication that the method is sound. "Initial comparisons of measured and predicted fossil fuel signals agree at the 10 to 20 percent level, suggesting that it is unlikely there are much larger errors in the transport model," he said. "But we haven't ruled it out."
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Fischer is head of the California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement (CALGEM) Project at Berkeley Lab. This research was supported by funding from the California Energy Commission. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Colorado at Boulder contributed to the study.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world's most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more, visit www.lbl.gov.
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California's N2O emissions may be nearly triple current estimatesPublic release date: 4-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Julie Chao jhchao@lbl.gov 510-486-6491 DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab researchers devise a new method to estimate states greenhouse gas emissions
Using a new method for estimating greenhouse gases that combines atmospheric measurements with model predictions, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have found that the level of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, in California may be 2.5 to 3 times greater than the current inventory.
At that level, total N2O emissionswhich are believed to come primarily from nitrogen fertilizers used in agricultural productionwould account for about 8 percent of California's total greenhouse gas emissions. The findings were recently published in a paper titled "Seasonal variations in N2O emissions from central California" in Geophysical Research Letters. Earlier this year, using the same methodology, the researchers found that levels of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, in California may be up to 1.8 times greater than previous estimates.
"If our results are accurate, then it suggests that N2O makes up not 3 percent of California's total effective greenhouse gases but closer to 10 percent," said Marc Fischer, lead researcher on both studies. "And taken together with our previous estimates of methane emissions, that suggests those two gases may make up 20 to 25 percent of California's total emissions. That's starting to become roughly comparable to emissions from fossil fuel CO2."
Accurate estimates of the California's greenhouse gas emissions are important as the state works to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, as mandated by a law known as AB 32. The vast majority of the reduction efforts have been focused on CO2.
Nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, is an especially potent greenhouse gas because it traps far more infrared radiation than both carbon dioxide and methane. "It's present in the atmosphere at tiny concentrationsone-thousandth that of CO2but it is very potent," Fischer said. "It has a global warming potential of approximately 300, meaning it is 300 times more active than CO2 per unit mass. And it's 10 to 15 times more potent than methane."
Worldwide levels of N2O have been rising rapidly for decades, and the major culprit was recently confirmed to be the heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers to grow the world's food. Other less significant sources of N2O emissions include wetlands, animal and industrial waste and automobiles.
The standard method for estimating emissions levels has been to do what is called a "bottom-up inventory." This process involves listing all the activities that emit N2O, assigning an emission factor for each activity, then tallying up the emissions. However, this method can result in large uncertainties because of the way N2O is produced.
"The biogeochemical processes that produce N2O are sensitive to environmental conditions and very small changes in things like temperature, moisture, the type of soil and when the fertilizer is applied," Fischer said. "All those factors can result in big differences in the amount of N2O that's produced. If you try to use a single number for a given patch of land, you're almost certainly going to get a variable result."
While there are models that try to capture these factors, "it is still likely the numbers are going to have relatively large uncertainties, especially compared to thing like burning fossil fuels to make CO2, where pretty much every mole of carbon becomes CO2," Fischer said.
The method that Fischer and his colleagues describe in their paper compares measurements taken from a 2,000-foot tower in Walnut Grove, California to model predictions of expected N2O levels based on the bottom-up inventory to arrive at the new estimate. "This is the first study of its kind to look at a full annual cycle of emissionsactually it's two yearsfrom a large region of California that includes the sources that we believe are most important," Fischer said. "In general, we found that the measured signals were much bigger than the predicted signals."
The predicted signal at the tower was calculated by taking the bottom up inventory (from EDGAR, the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) and running it through a weather modelwhich includes information on wind speed and direction. "From that we can estimate how much signal we should see at the tower per unit of emission on the land surface," Fischer said.
He acknowledges that his new method also has sources of uncertainty. For example, the EDGAR model is weighted to urban areas with large populations, which may not be an accurate assumption for N2O emissions from California. "Further work in urban areas is necessary," he said."
Fischer is working with the California Air Resources Board to add measurement instruments for both nitrous oxide and methane at additional towers around the state to further refine the data and better understand emissions from urban areas.
As a way to verify the method, Fischer and his team are currently comparing measured and predicted fossil fuel CO2 signals at the tower since there is a much better understanding of how much fossil fuel is burned in California. If the predicted signal and measured signal are close, then that would be a good indication that the method is sound. "Initial comparisons of measured and predicted fossil fuel signals agree at the 10 to 20 percent level, suggesting that it is unlikely there are much larger errors in the transport model," he said. "But we haven't ruled it out."
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Fischer is head of the California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement (CALGEM) Project at Berkeley Lab. This research was supported by funding from the California Energy Commission. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Colorado at Boulder contributed to the study.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world's most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more, visit www.lbl.gov.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2012) ? Using a new method for estimating greenhouse gases that combines atmospheric measurements with model predictions, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have found that the level of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, in California may be 2.5 to 3 times greater than the current inventory.
At that level, total N2O emissions -- which are believed to come primarily from nitrogen fertilizers used in agricultural production -- would account for about 8 percent of California's total greenhouse gas emissions. The findings were recently published in a paper in Geophysical Research Letters. Earlier this year, using the same methodology, the researchers found that levels of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, in California may be up to 1.8 times greater than previous estimates.
"If our results are accurate, then it suggests that N2O makes up not 3 percent of California's total effective greenhouse gases but closer to 10 percent," said Marc Fischer, lead researcher on both studies. "And taken together with our previous estimates of methane emissions, that suggests those two gases may make up 20 to 25 percent of California's total emissions. That's starting to become roughly comparable to emissions from fossil fuel CO2."
Accurate estimates of the California's greenhouse gas emissions are important as the state works to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, as mandated by a law known as AB 32. The vast majority of the reduction efforts have been focused on CO2.
Nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, is an especially potent greenhouse gas because it traps far more infrared radiation than both carbon dioxide and methane. "It's present in the atmosphere at tiny concentrations -- one-thousandth that of CO2 -- but it is very potent," Fischer said. "It has a global warming potential of approximately 300, meaning it is 300 times more active than CO2 per unit mass. And it's 10 to 15 times more potent than methane."
Worldwide levels of N2O have been rising rapidly for decades, and the major culprit was recently confirmed to be the heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers to grow the world's food. Other less significant sources of N2O emissions include wetlands, animal and industrial waste and automobiles.
The standard method for estimating emissions levels has been to do what is called a "bottom-up inventory." This process involves listing all the activities that emit N2O, assigning an emission factor for each activity, then tallying up the emissions. However, this method can result in large uncertainties because of the way N2O is produced.
"The biogeochemical processes that produce N2O are sensitive to environmental conditions and very small changes in things like temperature, moisture, the type of soil and when the fertilizer is applied," Fischer said. "All those factors can result in big differences in the amount of N2O that's produced. If you try to use a single number for a given patch of land, you're almost certainly going to get a variable result."
While there are models that try to capture these factors, "it is still likely the numbers are going to have relatively large uncertainties, especially compared to thing like burning fossil fuels to make CO2, where pretty much every mole of carbon becomes CO2," Fischer said.
The method that Fischer and his colleagues describe in their paper compares measurements taken from a 2,000-foot tower in Walnut Grove, California to model predictions of expected N2O levels based on the bottom-up inventory to arrive at the new estimate. "This is the first study of its kind to look at a full annual cycle of emissions -- actually it's two years -- from a large region of California that includes the sources that we believe are most important," Fischer said. "In general, we found that the measured signals were much bigger than the predicted signals."
The predicted signal at the tower was calculated by taking the bottom up inventory (from EDGAR, the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) and running it through a weather model -- which includes information on wind speed and direction. "From that we can estimate how much signal we should see at the tower per unit of emission on the land surface," Fischer said.
He acknowledges that his new method also has sources of uncertainty. For example, the EDGAR model is weighted to urban areas with large populations, which may not be an accurate assumption for N2O emissions from California. "Further work in urban areas is necessary," he said."
Fischer is working with the California Air Resources Board to add measurement instruments for both nitrous oxide and methane at additional towers around the state to further refine the data and better understand emissions from urban areas.
As a way to verify the method, Fischer and his team are currently comparing measured and predicted fossil fuel CO2 signals at the tower since there is a much better understanding of how much fossil fuel is burned in California. If the predicted signal and measured signal are close, then that would be a good indication that the method is sound. "Initial comparisons of measured and predicted fossil fuel signals agree at the 10 to 20 percent level, suggesting that it is unlikely there are much larger errors in the transport model," he said. "But we haven't ruled it out."
Fischer is head of the California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement (CALGEM) Project at Berkeley Lab. This research was supported by funding from the California Energy Commission. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Colorado at Boulder contributed to the study.
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