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Labor energy spokesman Mark Butler predicted either AGL would proceed with further stages of its plan or other companies would fill the gap.
"What concerns me about these reports ... is that the prime minister and minister Frydenberg have a tendency to misrepresent this as AEMO saying there will be a supply gap," Mr Butler told Sky News on Friday.
"That is not what (AEMO) are saying."
He said the report merely identified the size of the gap, and any uncertainty about filling the gap was due to the government being "incapable of putting in place a national energy policy that sends an investment signal to electricity companies for the period beyond 2020".
Here's a list of the most embarrassing office accidents, compiled by Kit Out My Office, which asked 2,243 office workers to share either their own accident or embarrassing accidents they witnessed.
Accidents, by nature, happen unexpectedly and unintentionally. However, Kit Out My Office says it aims to help office workers avoid future humiliation by sharing these accidents, so workers can consciously dodge reenacting them.
Who’s more responsible in the workplace - males or females?
How can you prevent or minimise such accidents?
Wendy Young, an expert in ergonomics and author of Get Inside Your Comfort Zone, recommends a host of small changes in the workplace to lessen the chance of accidents, regardless of how embarrassing they may be.
Christina and Hunter have recently had a passionate fling, but now that things are drawing to a close, it looks like the pair are in for even more trouble. Christina tells Hunter that she’s filed for a divorce, and when he admits he still has feelings for her, she says there’s nothing in the way of them being together now.
However, Hunter decides he can’t move past the betrayal and makes the decision not to be with her. Although Christina had promised him a new mentor, after Hunter breaks the news to her, she says she can’t do it anymore – people will ask questions and become suspicious.
Hunter says he will go to the head of the Uni faculty and get reassigned himself – but before he gets a chance, he receives a call from the Uni. He’s been dropped from the work placement programme after a recommendation from Christina.
Hunter reports Christina to Student Affairs, but later on, he is confronted by her, as she’s been informed that the complaint could put her career in jeopardy.
interest rate rise in Australia.
statement was more dovish than some had expected.
Lascelles, chief Canada macro strategist, at TD Securities.
Canadian monthly jobs data, due Friday, are also key.
details of the Fed's quantitative easing program.
should be a whippy market," said Lascelles.
Fed meeting was to start on Tuesday.
Canadian cents to yield 2.851 percent.
Is it possible to use a knowledge of forensic science, not to catch a killer, but to commit a perfect murder?
Can you solve the perfect murder?
Do we rely too heavily on forensic science when convicting criminals?
About 10 people braved the rain to attend the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education’s redistricting hearing Monday, April 8, at Highland Elementary School. Three spoke against the plan to move their children from Highland to E.M. Holt.
In early March, Assistant Superintendent for Operations Todd Thorpe presented a plan to redistrict 103 students between the two schools, saying it’s a matter of efficient use of space.
Highland has 738 students with a capacity of 711. Holt, about five miles south, has 536 students with a capacity of 701.
The affected area would be bound by N.C. 62 (Alamance Road), N.C. 49 (Maple Avenue), Alamance Creek and Interstate 40-85, where a small number of Highland students are zoned to attend Southern Middle and Southern Alamance High schools — an assignment that wouldn’t change if they moved to Holt.
Still, some parents are against the move.
Kendria White and her daughter Royal Touray, 6, were the first to approach the podium.
Tony Wall, a grandfather who recently gained custody of his granddaughter and moved her to Highland from another school, asked whether the board would consider allowing her to stay since she’ll be in fifth grade this coming year. Chair Allison Gant told him they plan to consider grandfathering rising fifth-graders, as they’ve done in other redistricting cases.
Tadd Grandstaff, a father of three Highland students, said this would be the fourth time his rising fifth-grader would be changing schools. But even if he is grandfathered in, what about his younger siblings?
The board plans to vote on the redistricting plan, as well as the grandfathering clause, at its meeting Monday, April 29, which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 1712 Vaughn Road, Burlington. There will be a public comment period prior to the vote.
Steinberg: What went wrong with the Angels?
Arte Moreno, the epitome of what fans hope for in an owner, spent the offseason making dramatic moves to improve the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
He signed Albert Pujols, the best hitter in baseball, to a $250 million 10-year contract in free agency. He signed C.J. Wilson, Fountain Valley product and the best available pitcher in free agency, to another rich contract.
Then he engineered a trade at the weakest hitting position on the roster for Chris Ianetta, a significant improvement at the catching position. The Angels already had a lineup that combined young stars — Mike Trout, Peter Bourjous, Mike Trumbo, Howie Kendrick — with veteran hitters Torii Hunter and Vernon Wells.
They have the best young pitcher in the American League, Jared Weaver, and a solid No. 2 in Dan Haren. Pundits through the world of baseball prognosticated that the World Series was the Angels' to lose.
The Angels have spent the season in the basement of the American League West. They were shut out back to back last week. They have been shut out seven times in this young season.
Meanwhile the Texas Rangers are dominating their division and look on the way to capturing a third straight division title. The Angels anticipated sell-out crowds for every game with a ticket seen as a hot property.
The team cannot seem to hit consistently and the biggest disappointment is the performance of Pujols. His batting average has been hovering below .200 and it took him over 100 at bats to hit his only home run this year. Switching leagues after spending his career in St. Louis is certainly a factor. He doesn't know the American League pitchers and has no book on them. He is adjusting to a new environment. But generally if a hitter can succeed in one park he will at least be a credible hitter in others.
Some observers in spring training concluded that his bat speed has lost velocity over time. But much of what has occurred has to do with the psychology of desperately trying to succeed. When a player starts pressing and is frustrated by failure he loses the natural way of doing things that made him successful.
Any golfer can tell you that when the game starts to deteriorate it can end in meltdown. When one of the biggest national stories is the horrific start to a season for a player like Pujols, every plate appearance is viewed under a microscope. It seems to have been contagious, with only Howie Kendrick hitting with any consistency.
The Angels reacted by firing hitting coach Mickey Hatcher.
The relief pitching has not been effective and the Angels look for a closer who can add some stability. Eventually the responsibility for the team has to turn to Mike Scioscia. I loved him as Dodger catcher and he has been an excellent manager over time. This is a situation that calls for adjustment, motivation and teaching.
A baseball season mirrors life — it is long and has many chances for redemption. I think the Angels will turn it around and start to hit and win and that Pujols will salvage his season, but I've been an Angel fan since 1961 when they started in Los Angeles.
I caught my first baseball in the old Wrigley field where the Angels first played in Los Angeles. My father lived and died with the Angels.
This is a time when we find out who the true fans are.
Is Your Employer Shorting You on Your Retirement?
A court ordered orange-grower Sunkist to pay back $1.6 million to its employee benefit plan. What you should watch for in your 401(k) or pension plan.
Many employers see the retirement plans they sponsor for their workers as an employee benefit. But once they take on the responsibility for helping to support their employees' retirement, employers have to follow through. If they don't follow the rules, you have the right to seek justice -- and the government is watching over employers' shoulders to make sure they don't short you on your retirement benefits.
Source: Wikimedia Commons, courtesy Kamkaies.
Workers at Sunkist Growers found out last week just how effective that oversight can be, as a court ordered the orange grower to restore $1.6 million in losses to their employee benefit plans. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's allegations, Sunkist took money out of their retirement plans to reimburse company expenses, including pay for workers and managers at the company. The Labor Department argued that those payments were impermissible under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the court agreed, issuing a consent order requiring the repayment.
A recent study from business-school professors working with the National Bureau of Economic Research found that when mutual-fund companies work as trustees of employers' 401(k) plans, they're more likely to favor their own funds over those of other providers. Specifically, the paper found that 401(k) plan trustees are more likely to add poor-performing funds from their own fund families and less likely to take them off the list of investment options, leaving employees with worse long-term returns.
Employers don't always use their full bargaining power to get the lowest fees possible. A case involving Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) alleged that the retailer failed to obtain the least expensive fund options from financial institutions, even though the size of its plan would have given Wal-Mart plenty of leverage to obtain such concessions. The case was eventually settled.
Profit-hungry financial institutions are targeting retirement plans as a major growth driver for their businesses. Three years ago, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) raised controversy when it sought to increase its share of the employer-sponsored retirement plan market, given its history of questionable practices during the financial crisis.
When companies take on the job of managing a 401(k) plan or pension plan, they have a fiduciary duty to do it well. That means acting solely in the interest of employees and other plan participants, including surviving family members and other beneficiaries. It also means following plan documents, diversifying the investment options under the plan, and paying only reasonable expenses that the plan incurs. If a company can't follow through on those duties itself, it has the responsibility to hire professionals who can -- without imprudently multiplying the fees involved.
What it doesn't mean is that workers' 401(k) balances are guaranteed to go up. Lawsuits alleging breach of fiduciary duty from allowing employees to invest in their own company stock have been quite common over the years, especially when share prices plunged dramatically. Ford (NYSE:F) and Merck (NYSE:MRK) are just a couple of companies that faced such allegations as a result of poor share-price performance. Yet in most cases, company stock was just one of many options under the plans involved, and workers deliberately chose company stock over safer options that would have turned out better for them.
The times when workers could rely on their employers to take care of all of their financial needs in retirement are over -- if they ever existed in the first place. To protect your retirement, you need to watch over your employer to make sure that the retirement-plan options you have available to you meet your employer's fiduciary duties toward you and your fellow workers. Otherwise, you might well find that your best alternative is to take advantage of IRAs and other self-directed investment accounts that let you invest the way you want and avoid any potential problems with unreasonable 401(k) plan options.
Tune in to Fool.com for Dan's regular columns on retirement, investing, and personal finance. You can follow him on Twitter: @DanCaplinger.
In House of Representatives, Dems will have 229/435 seats.
Washington: A defiant President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off the loss of the House of Representatives as Washington braced for the prospects of partisan warfare after US voters delivered a split verdict in a hard-fought midterm election.
With Democrats promising aggressive probes of Trump’s administration and his personal finances after winning the House, the president went on the offensive.
“If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified information, and much else, at the Senate level,” Trump said on Twitter.
Democrats won the House on Tuesday but Republicans increased their majority in the Senate in an election which revealed a country still sharply divided along party lines.
According to projections by The New York Times, Democrats will have 229 seats in the 435-member House while Republicans will hold 53 seats in the 100-member Senate, up from 51.
Republicans defeated Democratic senators in several states won by Trump in 2016 -- Florida, Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota.
Democrats also picked up seven governorships but fell short in a high-profile race for the governor's mansion in Florida, expected to play a key role in the 2020 presidential election.
Do we need low-power x86 processors? To date, the market is pretty much split between Intel- and AMD-based notebooks that mostly run Windows or Mac OS, and ARM-based tablets like the iPad and Android versions. But with Windows 8 making a bigger push for tablets and hybrid computers, both AMD and Intel are introducing x86-compatible processors that require much less power than their notebook versions. Effectively, the companies are trying to fight back against the threat of ARM-based tablets running Windows RT by providing chips that are lower-power that previous x86 chips but that still provide compatibility with full Windows 8. This enables the existing legacy of Windows applications, which won't run on Windows RT.
Do we need low-power x86 processors? To date, the market is pretty much split between Intel- and AMD-based notebooks that mostly run Windows or Mac OS, and ARM-based tablets like the iPad and Android versions. But with Windows 8 making a bigger push for tablets and hybrid computers, both AMD and Intel are introducing x86-compatible processors that require much less power than their notebook versions. Effectively, the companies are trying to fight back against the threat of ARM-based tablets running Windows RT by providing chips that are lower-power than previous x86 chips but that still provide compatibility with full Windows 8. This enables the existing legacy of Windows applications, which won't run on Windows RT.
Intel formally unveiled its "Clover Trail" version of its Atom platform two weeks ago, and today AMD is unveiling its Z-60 processor, known as "Hondo."
We've been seeing early versions of Clover Trail for months, with tablets first shown at Computex back in June. This version of Atom, known as the Z2760, is a dual-core, four-thread processor that runs at speeds up to 1.8GHz. It adds a number of features that had been part of Intel's higher-end Core series processors, including a "burst" or turbo mode and hyperthreading, plus integrated graphics up to 533MHz. Intel says it will enable tablets as thin as 8.5mm and as light as 1.5 pounds, with over ten hours of HD video playback and over three weeks of standby time. (As always, I take battery life predictions with a grain of salt.) This is a System-on-Chip design on Intel's 32nm process, so it uses older technology than the current 3rd Generation Core processors which are made on 22nm.
At its announcement, Intel showcased several partners with Clover Trail-based systems, including the Acer Iconia W510, Asus Vivo Tab, Dell Latitude 10, HP Envy 2, Lenovo ThinkPad 2, and Samsung Series 5 slate. Most of the machines seem to be hybrid designs with detachable keyboards, so they can run either as tablets or as small notebooks. The first ones should ship concurrent with Windows on October 26. The units I saw at the Intel Developer Forum last month all had 2GB of DRAM and seemed fast enough for basic use, though I haven't had one long enough to tell for sure.
AMD today announced its Z-60 "accelerated processing unit." This is a dual-core processor (using the company's "Bobcat" cores) that can run at speeds up to 1GHZ and includes the company's Radeon HD 6250 graphics with 80 graphics cores. AMD says the Z-80 consumes just 4.5 watts of TDP and will enable tablets as thin as 10mm with up to six hours of HD video playback and eight hours of Web browsing, with almost two weeks of standby time. These numbers aren't quite as good as Intel's claims, but AMD says its chips should have better graphics performance, including Direct X 11 compatibility.
AMD hasn't yet announced any hardware partners, but did say the first tablets will launch this year in conjunction with the Windows release.
Of course, at that point, we'll also likely be seeing Microsoft's ARM-based Surface RT tablet and potentially other ARM-based systems, as well as a variety of hybrids and tablets based on more powerful x86 cores. (In particular, we saw a number of Intel Core-based tablets at both Computex and IDF.) I would expect the Core-based tablets and hybrids to be priced similarly as Ultrabooks—probably $700 and up—with RT-based tablets costing much less. Clover Trail and Hondo-based systems will likely fit in between.
I'll be extremely interested to see how systems based on the different kinds of processor stack up in terms of price, performance, and battery life. We should know more around the end of the month.
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The St. Louis Cardinals used a five-run sixth inning to sweep the San Francisco Giants and get a little closer to making the postseason.
St. Louis wrapped up the weekend sweep with a 9-2 win on Sunday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The National League Central squad led 2-0 after five innings, but were busy on the base paths in the next inning, taking control of the bout.
Cardinals first baseman Matt Carpenter went 1-for-5 with two RBIs and a home run in the win. Yadier Molina, Harrison Bader, Yairo Munoz and Jose Martinez each had two hits for St. Louis. Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas picked up his 17th win of the season, allowing two runs and two hits in seven innings of work.
Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford smacked his 14th home run of the season in the loss.
Munoz drew first blood for the Cardinals, plating Jedd Gyorko with an RBI single in the bottom of the second inning. Mikolas brought in Bader to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning. Then came the track meet sixth inning.
Bader brought in Patrick Wisdom with an RBI sacrifice bunt. Munoz then plated Molina with an RBI single. Martinez later scored Munoz with an RBI double. Paul DeJong had the final RBI of the inning, plating Tyler O'Neill with another RBI single.
Crawford went yard in the next inning. Carpenter went deep in the bottom of the eighth inning for the final two runs of the game.
The Cardinals now host the Milwaukee Brewers in a three-game series starting at 8:15 p.m. on Monday at Busch Stadium. St. Louis ends the season with a series against the division-leading Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Looks like we bypassed autumn and just went straight for the winter option this week.
One minute we have sunshine, and then the next the rain’s coming at us sideways. And it was being thorough about its job, by teaming up with a particularly insidious smirr.
This means, as we all know, that water will seep down the collar of your jacket, and permeate to your very semmit. I trust we have all donned the winter semmit? A cloot ne’er to be cast until May is oot, remember.
Sneaky puddles will form where you least expect them, and the icy water will use your denim jeans as a wick, cladding your legs in freezing wet cloth.
It’s amazing how long socks stay wet and very, very cold. You’d think that you’d build up some sort of body heat inside the shoe to warm the water trapped between the foot and the outside of the shoe to create a sort of mini wetsuit, but no.
With the wind and the rain come the sneezes. Everyone seems to be coming down with That Wee Bug That’s Going Around, but we still soldier on, coughing, snorting and being generous with our bacteria and viruses, and steadfastly ignoring any reason to stay indoors.
Should Scotland ever be hit with a zombie-creating virus, we’d hardly notice. Mind you, as far as I can see, what seems to happen is that people feel a bit woozy, fall over, look a bit under the weather as the virus turns them into zombies, and then they get back up again.
Admittedly, they don’t look that great, but have you glanced about an early morning Lothian Bus? Or, come to that, a late night one? I rest my case. You’d hardly notice the difference, apart from the fact that your fellow travellers were drooling a bit and taking bites out of one another.
Compared to some behaviour you see on the 22, that’s an improvement.
You bet dogs are smart. Remember Lassie? Saving kids down mines? Not a problem. Toto from Wizard of Oz? Got paid more than some of the actors on the set. Laika, the doggy cosmonaut? Admittedly, that didn’t end well, but it wasn’t the dog’s fault.
Then there’s Greyfriars Bobby, who managed to get fed for donkey’s years for nothing. You’re not telling me that’s not clever.
So how come none of the clever dogs in Edinburgh spotted that there were explosives buried next to the Forth Road Bridge? Or, more sinisterly, did one of our canine friends bury them?
Last week I mentioned how often I’ve been impressed by the excellent owners who clean up after their dogs. I’ve counted at least half a dozen in the past few days in parks and streets all over the city.
So where on earth do the mysterious dump-and-go dogs come from? You know what I mean. There’s nary a sign of a canine, but somehow a foul little bundle has been dumped on the pavement, or on the path of an otherwise pristine park or, even more mysteriously, in part of a children’s playground where there is a sign on the gate which clearly states “No Dogs Allowed”. Don’t tell me dogs can’t read. Nonsense. Those beasts are way smarter than we give credit for.
Do these offending dogs live alone, perhaps? Clever though they are, lifting anything when you don’t have an opposable thumb is a bit of a nightmare, I imagine.