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WILLIAMSON COUNTY RECEIVES

DISTINGUISHED BUDGET PRESENTATIONAWARD

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July31, 2012 (Williamson County, TX) ? TheGovernment Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA)has announced that Williamson County, Texas, has received the GFOA?sDistinguished Budget Presentation Award for its budget.? This is the secondconsecutive year that the Budget Office has received the award.

Theaward represents a significant achievement by Williamson County.? It reflectsthe commitment of the governing body and staff to meeting the highestprinciples of governmental budgeting.? In order to receive the budget award,Williamson County had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effectivebudget presentation.? These guidelines are designed to assess how well anentity?s budget serves as:

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Budgetdocuments must be rated ?proficient? in all four categories, andthe fourteen mandatory criteria within those categories, to receive the award.

Todayin Commissioners Court, Budget Officer Ashlie Blaylock displayed the award andrecognized the efforts of Rebecca Clemons, budget analyst, for her efforts inpreparing the document.

?Assoon as the Commissioners Court adopts the county budget, Rebecca beginspreparing our 452-page budget document.? It outlines the entire county budget,budget policies and priorities so that the information is available to ourcitizens and is posted on our website.? This award is an acknowledgement of ourdedication to high standards for transparency,? stated Ms. Blaylock.

TheGovernment Finance Officers Association is a nonprofit professional associationserving over 17,600 government finance professionals throughout North America. The GFOA?s Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program is the onlynational awards program in governmental budgeting.

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Photo:(left) Rebecca Clemons and (right) Ashlie Blaylock display the DistinguishedBudget Presentation Award they received from the GFOA.

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AFBF: Report shows real harm of estate taxes - Southwest Farm Press

The American Farm Bureau Federation says it concurs with a Joint Economic Committee report that details the financial harm posed by estate taxes on family businesses.

The JEC, a bipartisan committee composed of members from the House and Senate, issued its report, ?Costs and Consequences of the Federal Estate Tax,? Wednesday.

According to the report, there are extensive costs associated with the estate tax in terms of the dissolution of family businesses, slower growth of capital stock and a loss of output and income over time. This can be particularly hard on farm families, who own 98 percent of the nation?s 2.2 million farms.

?With the average age of a farmer being 58 years old, the estate tax creates even a steeper barrier for young farmers and ranchers to take up the profession at a time when farming is already difficult to enter,? said AFBF President Bob Stallman.

The report also found the estate tax impedes economic growth because it discourages savings and capital accumulation. Gaining access to capital is vital to farms and rural economies.?

In 2010, land accounted for approximately 85 percent of total farm assets. Currently, in some parts of the country, land values have increased well over $10,000 per acre. Further, land values from 2010 to 2011 increased on average 25 percent and have greatly expanded the number of farms and ranches that now top the estate tax $5 million exemption.

Especially holding true for farmers and ranchers, the report also found the estate tax is a significant hindrance to entrepreneurial activity since many family businesses lack sufficient liquid assets to pay estate tax liabilities. In 2010, liquid assets in agriculture comprised only 12 percent of total assets whereas hard assets (including land and buildings) comprised 88 percent of total assets. Alone, real estate accounted for approximately 85 percent of farm assets in 2010.

?When estate taxes on an agricultural business exceed cash and other liquid assets, surviving family partners are forced to sell illiquid assets, such as land, buildings or equipment to keep their businesses operating,? said Stallman.

?With 88 percent of farm and ranch assets illiquid, producers have few options when it comes to generating cash to pay the estate tax.?

AFBF supports permanent elimination of the estate tax. Until this can be accomplished, Farm Bureau supports extending the current $5 million exemption.

Without congressional action, in 2013, the estate tax exemption will shrink to $1 million per person with no spousal transfer, and the top rate will increase to 55 percent, striking a blow to farmers and ranchers trying to transition from one generation to the next.

Source: http://southwestfarmpress.com/government/afbf-report-shows-real-harm-estate-taxes

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Sports Psychologists Extend Their Counseling to Athletes' Coaches and Families

Team Sport: Research and experience have shown that in order to help athletes perform their best, they need the right psychological environment from their coach, team, family and friends, too. Image: iStockphoto/microgen

The crowd has quieted, but an electric energy from the packed grandstands fills the air. The diver stands atop the platform, aware of television cameras below that are broadcasting his every muscle twitch to millions of viewers worldwide. He can smell the chlorine wafting up from the diving pool 10 meters below. The texture of the platform feels rough beneath his feet. He takes a breath, makes his approach and jumps sharply upward. Then he twists through the air, executing a perfect dive and, finally, with no more than a few drops of splash, knifes smoothly into the cool water.

The diver opens his eyes. Feeling confident and relaxed, he now looks ahead at the platform and gets ready to climb the familiar ladder to make his practice dive before the actual competition, still weeks down the road.

This diver had just gone through one of his most important workouts before he actually stands up on the Olympic diving platform: visualization. Olympic divers, such as David Boudia and Thomas Finchum, as well as other top athletes, use trusted psychological tactics such as visualization and positive self-talk to stay at the top of their games?even when the pressure is on. Yet the sports psychologists who teach these techniques now have more scientific results in hand, and they are learning that the athlete's mental tools are just the jumping-off point to achieving peerless performance. Giving an athlete or team the best chance of bringing home the gold also requires creating an entire environment of carefully constructed group and interpersonal dynamics. Sports psychologists are no longer just training athletes. They are also training the coaches and family members in the competitors' lives.

"We've learned a lot in the past 10 or 15 years about how to be more effective" in teaching everyone around an athlete how to help him or her excel, says Daniel Gould, professor of applied sports psychology at Michigan State University. And the athletes say the work is paying off.

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Even an athlete in the most individual of sports is part of a complex network of relationships. Coach, family, friends, even team administrators are an extensive and often under-recognized part of the experience. Elite athletes might be better than the average person at shutting out distractions, managing their emotions and controlling their energy levels. But they are not immune to an overbearing parent, negative coach or unsupportive teammate.

Coaches and support staff, whether they realize it or not, are creating a mental environment for athletes, not just a physical training regimen. And although sports psychologists are often deployed for the benefit of the athletes, "a lot of times we work through the coach because the coach is creating a psychological climate," Gould says.

Counselors are achieving "a huge gain in better educating our coaches," Gould continues. By the time an athlete reaches college or professional levels, coaches are almost operating like CEOs, Gould notes. They're in charge of coordinating a huge organization of specialists?athletes, nutritionists, strength coaches, media liaisons and psychologists. So to gain access to athletes, physically and mentally, a sports psychologist must first be accepted and supported by the coach. Then the expert can start working to help the coach maintain a productive, balanced emotional arena for the athletes. Gould describes this environment as a fine balance of autonomy?individually empowered athletes and staff?and connectivity, essentially a feeling of relatedness among the entire group. "That's pretty easy to say," Gould says. But helping coaches and teams achieve that state is no small task. Especially when everyone is under extreme stress of high-level competition.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=88668de2b91c87dfac98dd8d90206139

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Time Warner vows CNN turnaround, ads disappoint

(Reuters) - Time Warner Inc is unsatisfied with CNN's low ratings and will seek to turn around the cable news network with programming that is more compelling and stays non-partisan, the media company's Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes said on Wednesday.

Bewkes' comments, made after Time Warner reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter, come less than a week since the president of CNN Worldwide said he would step down. The CEO said CNN was the one exception to an otherwise strong cable-network unit, which increased quarterly revenues by 4 percent to $3.6 million.

"We are going to do a better job of putting on programming that will hold viewers," Bewkes said. "There is strong demand for objective, comprehensive, non-partisan coverage ... but we need to do it in a more compelling, more engaging way than we've been doing of late."

CNN, founded in 1980 and owned by Time Warner since 1996, has tried to hold the middle ground in its political news coverage, a position that some blame for its slip in viewership to historic lows in recent years.

Ratings have risen for competitors Fox News and MSNBC, which blend news with opinion and political commentary. The opinion programs on No. 1 cable news network Fox News skew conservative, while commentaries on MSNBC lean liberal.

Bewkes provided no update on the search for a new CNN chief.

Morningstar analyst Michael Corty said Time Warner appears to be aware of CNN's struggles and that the network may be able to reverse its fortunes.

"There is upside there. They are trying to address the issue through management changes and it is possible it could improve," Corty said.

ADS DISAPPOINT

Time Warner logged a 2 percent increase in advertising for its networks division, which includes TNT, TBS, HBO and CNN. This missed some analysts' expectations and lagged cable rivals.

Discovery Communications Inc posted a 7 percent rise in ad revenue on Tuesday while on Wednesday, NBC Universal said its cable ad revenue had risen 4 percent.

The advertising landscape will not improve in the current quarter, chief financial officer John Martin said. He told analysts on a conference call that Time Warner expects no advertising growth in the third quarter, partly because of ad dollars flowing to the Olympics on NBC's networks.

Martin said advertising growth would be much stronger in the fourth quarter with the U.S. presidential election, a new basketball season and baseball playoffs.

ENTERTAINMENT RESULTS SLIP

Revenue in the film and TV entertainment unit fell 8 percent compared with a year earlier, when it released a sequel to "The Hangover," and the home distribution of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1."

Revenue in its publishing unit, whose titles include Time and Sports Illustrated, declined 9 percent as advertising sales and subscription revenue fell.

Time Warner maintained its full-year forecast for net income to grow in the low double digits. Wall Street analysts are expecting $3.20 per share.

Second-quarter net income was $429 million, or 44 cents a share, compared with $637 million, or 59 cents a share, a year earlier.

Adjusted for charges related to the shutdown of a network in India and some TV operations in Turkey, earnings were 59 cents per share, which beat analysts' estimates by a penny, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Overall revenue fell 4 percent to $6.74 billion. Analysts were expecting $6.94 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Time Warner shares rose 45 cents or $1.14 to $39.57 on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Liana B. Baker in New York; Editing by Dale Hudson, Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/time-warner-vows-cnn-turnaround-ads-disappoint-182313511--finance.html

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Since his enthronement, the sovereign carried out an ambitious agenda of reforms which epitomizes the royal approach, always in touch with the people?s aspirations and concerned for their well-being, Pham said, adding that this symbiosis take strength in the Monarchy?s centuries-old legitimacy and the sacred allegiance ties uniting the sovereign and the people.

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