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	Hybrid (Cash Balance) Pension Plans
		A 1998 survey by the Society of Actuaries found that in cash balance conversions, the average benefit reduction for an older employee was 70% to 85% of one year's wages, but younger workers saw a benefit increase of 10% to 40% of one year's wages.
		It would require employers that convert to cash balance plans to allow employees who are at least age 40 or have at least 10 years of service the choice to remain under their traditional pension formula until retirement instead of switching to cash balance.
		It would not apply unless the participant was entitled to a subsidized early retirement benefit under the terms of the old plan formula at the time the participant took his or her benefit under the converted plan (whether the participant first qualified for the subsidized early retirement benefit before or after the conversion).
	www.aarp.org /research/press-center/testimony/cash_balance (4278 words)

	Test apparatus for obtaining impedance settings for hybrid balance networks - Patent 4096361
		Hybrid networks are commonly used in bidirectional signal transmission systems to couple signals from a bidirectional transmission path to incoming and outgoing unidirectional transmission paths, a typical example being in coupling a 2-wire telephone bidirectional transmission cable to a 4-wire telephone transmission arrangement including two unidirectional cables.
		Impedance settings for adjusting a balance network having a plurality of adjustable impedance elements are obtained by employing a hybrid network to which a bidirectional cable to be matched is to be connected in conjunction with at least first and second automatically adjustable impedance balance networks in a prescribed circuit relationship.
		One such balance network is of a type employed to balance a hybrid network intended to be connected to a bidirectional telephone cable of the loaded type.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4096361.html (5298 words)

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		A 1998 survey by the Society of Actuaries found that in cash balance conversions, the average benefit reduction for an older employee was 70% to 85% of one year's wages, but younger workers saw a benefit increase of 10% to 40% of one year's wages.
		It would require employers that convert to cash balance plans to allow employees who are at least age 40 or have at least 10 years of service the choice to remain under their traditional pension formula until retirement instead of switching to cash balance.
		It would not apply unless the participant was entitled to a subsidized early retirement benefit under the terms of the old plan formula at the time the participant took his or her benefit under the converted plan (whether the participant first qualified for the subsidized early retirement benefit before or after the conversion).
	www.leflaw.com /index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=771 (4215 words)

	Living with a Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid and what we really need from a car
		Hybrid car owners quickly learn that the paradigm of most discussions about cars is all about power and speed and not what is good for all of us.
		The current crop of hybrid cars can't pull much, but the idea of locomotives on tires is more important that the small task of taking the hybrid car concept and scaling it to the size of a taxi cab, a school bus or an 18-wheeler.
		Balance is a tern often abused in car magazines to represent good suspensions buy in most gas cars there is really little balance.
	www.acarplace.com /cars/hybrid-prius.html (3885 words)

	AFT - Publications and Reports - AFT On Campus - 2003 - October - Technology
		Further, the multiple modalities of hybrids enable faculty to utilize a greater variety of educational approaches, to better address a diversity of student learning styles, and provide students a wider range of ways in which to participate.
		Hybrids, however, allow for the kinds of phenomenological experience that balance the fully online components, enabling faculty and students to speak their ideas, to hear concepts explained, and to interpret eye contact, facial expressions, and body language.
		Hybrids allow for both the reflectiveness of asynchronous communication and the immediacy of spoken communication.
	www.aft.org /pubs-reports/on_campus/2003/oct/technology.htm (761 words)

	Prem Magnetics, Inc. - Single Hybrid Transformers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hybrid transformers are used to convert a bi-directional 2 wire signal into one way 4 wire signals which may then be amplified and sent by various means of transmission over long distances.
		Prem offers a line of low profile hybrid transformers for use with (SPT-176, SPT-177, SPT-182, SPT-183, and SPT-2110) or without (SPT-060, SPT-180 and SPT-181) DC current applied to the primary.
		With the exception of the SPT-060, all of Prem's hybrid transformers are UL recognized components.
	www.premmag.com /SPT-177.htm (103 words)

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		Other hybrid loans may start with a fixed interest rate for several years, and then later change to another (usually higher) fixed interest rate for the remainder of the loan term.
		Lenders frequently charge a lower introductory interest rate for hybrid loans vs. a traditional fixed-rate mortgage, which makes hybrid loans attractive to homeowners who desire the stability of a fixed-rate, but only plan to stay in their properties for a short time.
		As with some hybrid loans, balloon loans may be attractive to homeowners who do not plan to stay in their house more than a short period of time.
	www.brucebudde.com /content/article.html/38929 (806 words)

	Perspective: Proposal to break cash balance logjam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The second issue that arises in cash balance conversions relates to what is commonly referred to as a “wear-away.” This loosely defined concept generally refers to a situation in which a plan participant’s benefit under a new formula is lower than the benefit that must be preserved – his accrued benefit under the prior formula.
		For example, a common enhancement is to increase opening balances for employees at or near early retirement age to reflect the value of the early retirement subsidy in the prior formula.
		Prohibiting wear-aways ”) and a reasonable estimate of the balance that a participant would have had if he had always participated in the cash balance plan would not be age discriminatory, as long as all employees were given the greater of the two balances on a uniform basis.
	www.mercerhr.com /referencecontent.jhtml?idContent=1187840 (4229 words)

	How Hybrids Work - Drive Clean Only - Sierra Club
		In the case of hybrid cars, the two power sources are gasoline and electric power, the latter supplied by batteries.
		Hybrid cars are in fact a compromise — albeit a very good one — between conventional gas-powered cars which produce significant pollution, and electric cars, which produces almost no pollution but which have only a limited range between charges and are slow to recharge.
		The hybrid car uses a much smaller, and therefore more efficient gasoline engine, which is complemented by an electric motor.
	www.sierraclub.org /roadtrip/drivecleanonly/hybrid.asp (440 words)

	U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Retirement Security: Cash Balance and Hybrid
		Cash balance plans are defined benefit plans that combine the advantages of a 401(k) plan with those of a traditional pension plan.
		Cash balance plans are part of a group of plans referred to as "hybrid plans." An employer may choose to implement a new cash balance plan, but a significant number of cash balance plans have arisen from conversions.
		The U.S. Chamber believes that cash balance and other hybrid plans are not inherently discriminatory on the basis of age and works to preserve this form of benefit for workers.
	www.uschamber.com /issues/index/retirementpension/cashbalance.htm (874 words)

	What is a Pension Equity Plan?
		Hybrid plans began to emerge in the late 1980s with the introduction of cash balance plans.
		Hybrid plans generally specify contributions to an account (or balance) like a defined contribution plan, but guarantee final benefits like a defined benefit plan.
		While hybrid plans are designed to allow workers to know the value of their retirement benefits at any time, and to have easy access to the lump-sum value of those benefits should they leave their employer, receipt of retirement benefits prior to retirement age can have adverse tax consequences.
	www.bls.gov /opub/cwc/cm20031016ar01p1.htm (2471 words)

	Watson Wyatt - Insider
		Ruling against a cash balance plan's method of determining lump sums and reversing an earlier district court decision, two federal courts of appeal have held that lump sum distributions cannot be determined simply by reference to the cash balance account.
		Cash balance pension plans typically define benefits in terms of a lump sum rather than as an annuity for life.
		Applying IRS regulations—which were designed to protect participants in traditional pension plans rather than cash balance or hybrid plans—would mean projecting the cash balance account to normal retirement age at the plan's interest crediting rate, and then discounting that amount back to the date of distribution at the statutory interest rate.
	www.watsonwyatt.com /us/pubs/insider/showarticle.asp?ArticleID=7485 (679 words)

	IMF Manual on Fiscal Transparency - Chapter III. Open Budget Preparation, Execution, and Reporting (continued)
		A fully consolidated public sector balance would in principle have the potential to capture many quasi-fiscal activities wherever they are conducted, and to present a more accurate measure of fiscal activity and the macroeconomic impact of government.
		In such cases the balance of the nonfinancial public sector should be reported, calculated by adding the net balance of public enterprises to government revenue or expenditure.
		The overall balance of the nonfinancial public sector should be presented alongside the overall balance of general government.
	www.imf.org /external/np/fad/trans/manual/sec03c.htm (2854 words)

	STMicroelectronics \| TS5070/5071 COMBO II PROGRAM AND HYBRID BALANCE WITH MONOLITHIC SLICS
		The internal hybrid balance filter is designed in order to replicate the echo path, and thus to cancel it.
		The "balancing" network, ZA and ZB is used by the SLIC to balance the 2-wire/4-wire conversion.
		This routine tests all the combinations of the Hybrid Balance Filter and selects the one which is the closest to the echo path, and then provides the three bytes to be programmed into the three Hybrid Balance registers.
	www.st.com /stonline/products/literature/an/1706.htm (3012 words)

	As pensions fade, some firms try hybrid plans \| csmonitor.com
		But hybrid plans, which combine several pension features with new flexibility, could offer workers a stable retirement.
		Under a cash- balance plan, the extra money at a young age means workers can be more mobile without suffering financially.
		The problem is that long-time employees in traditional pension plans figure that they have an implicit bargain with their firms for a level of pensions higher than they've legally earned.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1025/p14s03-wmgn.htm (1053 words)

	CSD October 1999 Feature: Echo Cancellation for VoIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term hybrid balance refers to the ratio (expressed in dB) of the signal being sent to the telephone to the apparent (reflected) signal due to imperfect subtraction.
		In these situations, fixed hybrid balance with loop segregation generally provides unacceptable performance and echo cancellation at the line-card level or network echo cancellation is required.
		The improvement that would be achieved by doing adaptive hybrid balance at a line-card level would not provide a noticeable increase in average modem connect speed in situations where loop segregation and careful network engineering already reduces the echo path to -20 dB.
	www.commsdesign.com /main/1999/10/9910feat4.htm (3320 words)

	Benefitsblog: Cash Balance Plans Archives
		It would hold all 1,200 plus hybrid pension plans, regardless of whether adopted as new plans or through conversion from traditional plans, to be in violation of the pension age discrimination laws.
		The conclusion that all hybrid plan designs are inherently age discriminatory begs the question why the Internal Revenue Service issued favorable determination letters for fifteen years blessing hybrid plan designs and issued proposed regulations providing that the cash balance plan design is not inherently age discriminatory.
		If cash balance plans are not an option, firms my terminate their defined benefit plans and have no new plan, they might terminate their defined benefit plans and establish a new defined contribution plan, or they may retain the current plan but change the benefit formulas to reduce or eliminate the early retirement subsidies.
	www.benefitscounsel.com /archives/cat_cash_balance_plans.html (17248 words)

	Report of the Working Group Studying the Trend in the Defined Benefit Market to Hybrid Plans
		This is one reason why cash balance plans are said to fit the goals of employees who expect to move from job to job rather than staying with one employer for most of their career.
		The group decided that as long as a balance of perspectives was heard by the end of the study period, it is less important as to the order of witness presentations.
		Uberti commented that it is appropriate that the group hears a balance of perspectives and that Kodak’s implementation of the conversion, which Professor Stein alluded to in his prepared testimony, appears to be a model for how to do a fair conversion.
	www.dol.gov /ebsa/publications/cbalinfo.htm (10222 words)

	USATODAY.com - As more companies adopt cash-balance plans, what you need to know (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It could encourage more companies to shift to the cash-balance type of plan, a hybrid that mixes features of a traditional pension and a 401(k).
		That rate may be either a fixed amount or a variable rate tied to a benchmark, such as the one-year Treasury bill.
		When you leave your job or retire, you can take your balance in a lump sum and roll it into an individual retirement account.
	www.usatoday.com /money/perfi/columnist/block/2006-08-07-hybrid_x.htm (861 words)

	JPS Communications
		Balanced or unbalanced 600 ohms or 10k ohms.
		The RTU-250 uses a unique adaptive hybrid to convert the four-wire audio from the transmitter and receiver to two-wire audio for the phone line.
		This hybrid represents a true technological breakthrough to the problem of interfacing a radio to a telephone system.
	www.antennasystems.com /JPS_Radio.html (2543 words)

	EBN April 1, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Benefit pros are reluctant to invite scrutiny during a period of controversy, even when their company’s conversion to the hybrid plans has been successful in the eyes of its employees.
		Noting that many employers “grandfather” their employees near retirement when converting to cash balance, Metras argued that employers in general are not cavalier with their employees’ pension plans.
		Those close to retirement, Miklatek recalls, were afraid of losing their benefit accrual that under the old formula would double or triple once they had reached the “rule of 85”: a combination of an employee’s age with his or her years of service.
	www.benefitnews.com /subscriber/00_04_15/retire1.htm (1660 words)

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		c) The loss that older employees experience in some cash balance conversions is especially profound in companies that had previously invested the most in promoting their traditional pension plan to employees as a valuable component of the employees’ compensation, encouraging employees to build careers in reliance on what they viewed as a retirement income promise.
		The great majority of cash balance plans (95%, in one survey) are created by amendment to – conversion of – traditional pension plans, which typically are overfunded at the time of the conversion.
		She commented that some companies, who are concerned with what their employees might do, have placed limits on the percentage of the account balances that may be withdrawn and in some instances have tied it to age at time of distribution.
	www.dol.gov /ebsa/adcoun/cbalinfo.htm (11812 words)

	diyAudio Forums - KGB- DC Coupled Hybrid Balance OTL/OCL HeadAmp
		First I must warn you that I am not a friend of hybrid designs so I can't add so much help with your chosen circuit but I am intrigued why you want to build such a complicated design so I would be intrested to hear your answers to some questions I have.
		Becouse it's DC coupled balance amp, from input to output, and that is what I like (although one might see a servo opamps as capacitor), and except topology from Kaneda (also hybrid, totem-pole SE output, I think) is the only one I have found out so far.
		You don't need to build a hybrid amp to make it DC coupled and balanced if that is what you want, It is more of a challenge to do this using only tubes, it has been done many times before but you need to look up how they built DC coupled instrumentation amps with tubes.
	www.diyaudio.com /forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&threadid=73324 (945 words)

	Definition: hybrid balance
		hybrid balance: An expression of the degree of electrical symmetry between two impedances connected to two conjugate sides of a hybrid set or resistance hybrid.
		Note 1: Hybrid balance is usually expressed in dB.
		Note 2: If the respective impedances of the branches of the hybrid that are connected to the conjugate sides of the hybrid are known, hybrid balance may be computed by the formula for return loss.
	www.atis.org /tg2k/_hybrid_balance.html (106 words)

	theWatt: Energy News and Discussion - Dust-To-Dust Energy Balance Of Hybrid Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hybrid technology is a threat to the status quo.
		However, hybrids are the much more efficient vehicles to drive and operate and this report seems to try to obscure this fact.
		Alot of hybrid owners need to stop lashing out defensively and start thinking about wether they are trying to make a statement or try to help the planet that gave them a home.
	www.thewatt.com /article-1070-nested-1-0.html (7781 words)

	Outdoor Edge Knives: Outdoor Edge Hybrid Hunter Knife, OE-HH20N (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Outdoor Edge Hybrid Hunter Knife was designed by custom knife maker Neil Blackwood.
		The Hybrid Hunter has a non slip fl rubberized grip and a lanyard hole.
		The Outdoor Edge Hybrid Hunter Knife is 8 1/4" overall, and weighs 4.0 ounces.
	www.knivesplus.com /outdoor-edge-hybrid-hunter-oe-hh20n.html (155 words)

	Wireless Rural Telephony PTEL Question and Answers
		Check the hybrid balance setting on the terminal and subscriber units, see alignment section for further details on running this test.
		Correctly setting the hybrid balance also may improve the audio quality of the system.
		This is caused by one of the units having the Hybrid Balance test enabled.
	www.telemobile.com /tm-7ptel_q_and_a.htm (2130 words)

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