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The oughts and ought nots we acknowledge to exist and which are at the heart of our moral sentiment seem to point to a power outside of us to which we are answerable. It is difficult--perhaps even impossible--to explain this sense without tracing it back to some transcendent lawgiver: God.Â
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - In this series of "converging and convincing" proofs of God, we founded our proofs on human experience-of desire, of truth, of contingency. We used the insights of St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas as our guides in developing these proofs. These sorts of proofs are called a posteriori proofs because they work backwards from experience to God.Â
Then we looked at St. Anselm's ontological argument, which moved from thought of God to existence of God. This proof did not work from experience, but rather from concept to reality, and so it is called an a priori proof.Â
Finally, we looked at what might be called introspective proofs--the proof from mysticism, and the proof from an internal assessment of the human condition. St. John of the Cross and Blaise Pascal were our guides.
Now we turn back to another a posteriori proof. This one starts from the experience we have of moral duty. This is the well-nigh universal experience: there are at least some acts that, irrespective of conventional morality, come attached with an ought or an ought not.Â
To a certain degree, in a world of rampant relativism, this proof loses some of its force as the conventional relativism (currently, the majority report) seems to poison the well of conscience and of duty. Yet even in this most relativistic and pluralistic of worlds, there are still some acts that virtually all seem to agree have an ought or an ought not attached to them.Â
Rape, adultery, murder, pedophilia, cruelty to animals come with ought nots attached. Most still think that rearing one's children, taking care of one's parents when they are old, and rendering aid to someone in need have oughts attached to them.Â
Some--we may call them the "Flat-earthers" of morality--still maintain that even these ought and ought nots are the result of convention or emotivism, or should be the matter of utilitarian calculation. But that, to put it mildly, does not seem a very satisfying description of the moral sense. To put it less mildly, it is plain wrong.
At least at its most basic, the moral sense seems to transcend convention, emotions, and even utility. In the words of George Eliot, the sense of duty has something "peremptory and absolute" about it. Those are the words of transcendence.
As Aidan Nichols puts it in his A Grammar of Consent in his understated English way:Â "We do not feel happy with the idea that values change be changed at will, although were we purely their creators we could in principle change them quite as legitimately and as often as we change our clothes."Â The experience of oughts and ought nots, he says elsewhere more forthrightly, "has an irruptive quality about it: it breaks in on us from without."
The proof of God based upon the felt existence of moral duty can be looked at from two angles.Â
First, one can look at this proof beginning from the internal sense of duty and use the illative sense to come to the conclusion that the existence of God is the best explanation for moral duty's existence.Â
Second, one can look at this proof by showing that without God, there can be no such thing as morality; in other words, the existence of God is the best support for morality.
The oughts and ought nots we acknowledge to exist and which are at the heart of our moral sentiment seem to point to a power outside of us to which we are answerable. It is difficult-perhaps even impossible-to explain this sense without tracing it back to some transcendent lawgiver: God.Â
"On this view," notes Aidan Nichols, "divine transcendence lies at the heart of our moral awareness, grounds our sense of obligation, and justifies that sense before the bar of reason, preventing it from being a mere unintelligibility in experience, a pure surd."
Immanuel Kant recognized the intimate relationship between morals and God. In fact, because (for complex reasons we won't go into here) he rejected most traditional proofs of God, he found it particularly important to emphasize the link between morals and God.Â
Kant famously stated towards the end of his Critique of Practical Reason: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."Â The moral law, then, shared a certain sublimity, a certain grandeur, which, like the stars, betokened a Creator.
For Kant, morality, which is at heart the life of reason, was essential for human fulfillment, for justice. And yet the idealist Kant was grounded enough to know--even though he only twice left his city of Königsberg--that though we strive mightily for it, justice seem impossible of fulfillment in this life. Justice is simply unachievable. In fact, often (one need only look at the history of Communism) one falls into injustice trying to achieve justice.
Yet, as Kant famously stated, "if justice goes, there is no longer any value in man living on earth."Â Without justice, there is no meaning to life.
If justice is the demand of moral duty and this is the most rational act and fulfilling act for man, but justice is unachievable, then it seems that we cannot achieve the very thing for which we exist.
In Kant's view, to resolve this paradox, one had to affirm the existence of God.
As Aidan Nichols put the quandary that Kant confronted and whose resolution required the thesis "God exists" to be true: "Either God is or we must dismiss the call to total ethical righteousness, the sense of the sovereignty of the good, as a joke played on us by an unwitting cosmos."
If there is no God, if there is no sense of awe when we look at the stars above and the moral law within, then the stars above and the moral law within are laughing at the cruel joke played upon us.
Our deeply felt need for justice founded on moral truth and reason's mighty suggestion that God exists or (if God does not exist) morality is grounded in a fundamental absurdity guide us into the threshold of faith.Â
As Pope Benedict XVI has expressed this insight: it is in Jesus that we learn "there is a God, and God can create justice in a way that we cannot conceive, yet we can begin to grasp it through faith. . . . Yes, there is a resurrection of the flesh. There is justice. There is an 'undoing' of past suffering, reparation that set things aright." (Spe salvi, 43).
George Eliot, whom we quoted earlier in this article in part, could not connect the dots. She saw the "dot" of moral duty, but was blind to the connection it had to the "dots" of God and eternal life. As she supposedly told Frederic W. H. Myers in a rainy May evening at the Fellows' Garden of Trinity College in Cambridge: "God, Immortality, Duty . . . how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third."
Despite George Eliot's personal desire, stemming from the demons that haunted her, to see morality independent from God and immortality, it seems that without God morality collapses. Is there any doubt that our current moral relativism is founded on atheist premises?Â
As George Eliot's contemporary and fellow writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, put it in his Brothers Karamazov in the words of Ivan Fyodorovitch: "For every individual . . . who does not believe in God or immortality, the moral law of nature must immediately be changed into the exact contrary of the former religious law, and that egoism, even to crime, must become not only lawful but even recognized as the inevitable, the most rational, even honorable outcome of his position."Â Yes, if God and immortality do not exist, then everything is permissible where unprevented by power.
Recently, Pope Benedict XVI has addressed the problem of moral relativism. As we might expect, he comes in on the side of Dostoevsky and against Eliot. "If there is no God, then there is also no moral law." If there is no God, then "[e]veryone comes up with his moral order, in accordance with his own ideas and tendencies."
Implicit in the very notion of the natural moral law is the existence of a divine legislator, the author of man's human nature. Why shouldn't reason make it explicit? Implicit in the very notion of justice is the desire to see it come. Why shouldn't faith--faith in God and faith in the Resurrection and Final Judgment--make it real?
God, Immortality, Duty . . . how necessary the first, how perfectly fitting with our deepest desire for justice the second, and, for this reason, how peremptory and absolute the third.
Our best guide in this regard is the righteous Gentile Job: "With the hearing of the ear, I have heard you" in the peremptory demands of the moral law. "But now my eye sees you" with the eye of reason which tells me that the moral law requires a divine legislator, God.
Therefore let us come to God in the response of faith: "Wherefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes." (Job 42:5-6) Then, and only then, life begins anew and life begins to make sense. The stars above us, and the moral law within us, give us comfort as they testify to the God who made us and who humbled himself, even to the extent of suffering death on the Cross.
Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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On Dec. 3, MTV announced the launch of "A Thin Line," a multi-year initiative aimed at stopping the spread of abuse through sexting, cyberbullying and digital dating. MTV says that the goal of the initiative is to empower America's youth to identify, respond to and block the spread of the various forms of digital harassment. While MTV's program deserves an honorable mention, the network misses the mark by ignoring its complicity in glorifying mores associated with sexting, bullying, and dating abuse, failing to promote the family, and failing to enlist religious leaders.
"A Thin Line" rolled out the same week MTV and The Associated Press released a report citing the full scope of digital abuse by teens and young adults. According to the study, 50 percent of 14-to-24-year-olds have been the target of some form of digital abuse, 30 percent have sent or received nude photos of other young people on their cell phones or online and 12 percent of those who have sexted have contemplated suicide, a rate four times higher than that found among those who have refrained.
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Urine specific gravity is a laboratory test that measures the concentration of all chemical particles in the urine.
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After you provide a urine sample, it is tested right away. The health care provider uses a dipstick made with a color-sensitive pad. The color the dipstick changes to will tell the provider the specific gravity of your urine. The dipstick test gives only a rough result. For a more accurate result, your health care provider may send your urine sample to a lab.
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This test helps evaluate your body's water balance and urine concentration.
This test helps check your body's water balance and urine concentration.
Osmolality is a more specific test for urine concentration. The specific gravity test is easier and more convenient, and is usually part of a routine urinalysis. As such, the osmolality test may not be needed.
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LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray says he would fancy a match against 16-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams.
After being challenged by a fan on Twitter to take on Williams, Murray said in his column for BBC Sport that such a matchup could create interest among tennis fans.
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There have been several high profile matches between stars from the men and women's game. The most famous of them was held in 1973, with Billie Jean King humbling Bobby Riggs in straight sets.
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USA Judo is pleased to announce that 20 athletes will be competing at the British Open, Dec. 3-4 in West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Highlighting the list are 1992 Olympian Valerie Gotay (Temecula, Calif./57kg) who won the silver medal at the 2004 British Open and Ryan Reser (Colorado Springs, Colo./73kg) who won gold at the 2001 event.
Gotay and Reser are just two members of the 2005 World Championships Team competing at the British Open. Other World Team members include Dariusz Mikolajczak (Brooklyn, N.Y./90kg) and Molly O'Rourke (El Cerrito, Calif./78kg).
Grace Jividen (Littleton, Colo.), 1992 Olympian, and Dan Doyle (Spring Valley, Ohio), head coach of the Renshuden Judo Academy, are serving as coaches for the event.
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Specific Information for Lesley Students with DisabilitiesLesley University is committed to the full participation of its students in all of its programs. In addition to this long-standing Lesley philosophy, students with disabilities have specific legal rights guaranteed by the ADA Amendment Act of 2008, a civil rights law enacted to protect individuals from discrimination on the basis of disability. Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of public accommodations, such as universities. The following is a summary of Lesley University's policies and procedures for students with disabilities seeking reasonable modifications under the ADA (sometimes colloquially termed and referred to by Lesley as "reasonable accommodations").
An essential component of Title III of the ADA is the right of a qualified individual with a disability to a reasonable modification of policies where necessary to afford such individual an equal benefit. The process for obtaining a reasonable modification is an interactive one that begins with the student's request for a change in the usual manner in which things are done. In the context of reasonable modifications, Disability Services may ask for documentation concerning an individual's disability and/or the need for modifications, if such documentation is necessary (e.g., manifestation of an individual's disability is not readily apparent), is reasonable, and limited to the need for the modification requested. While not always necessary, documentation may come from a physician, clinician, or other provider and may set forth recommended modifications.
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Protecting our remaining wild landscapes is critical but we need to make sure people can also access and experience these places. Wilderness is supposed to be protected for people, not from people.
Interior Secretary Jewell confirmed today the release of a detailed plan for the long term health of California desert lands.
The Senate resolution "recognizes and commends the extraordinary work of the individuals and organizations involved in building and maintaining the National Wilderness Preservation System; and is grateful for wilderness, a tremendous asset the United States continues to preserve as a gift
Next week, Americans across the country will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the country's most effective conservation laws, the Wilderness Act. Signed by President Johnson on September 3, 1964, the Act was a h
Wilderness Society applauds House for moving beyond 'gridlock' but says new amendments lead legislation astray
The following statement can be attributed to Chase Huntley, senior government relation director for The Wilderness Society. Chase was invited to testify before the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on H.R. 596 and H.R. 1363.
The first is the "Advancing Conservation and Education Act of 2014," from Rep. Rob Bishop (Utah) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (Oregon), which would expedite transfers of land between states and federal agencies.


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DELAWARE, Ohio — Gayle Paul buried her face in her hands and sobbed when her daughter Mary Kathryn "Katy" Paul was sentenced yesterday to 4 1/2 years in prison for killing Bob Lennon, a St. Francis DeSales teacher.
Across the courtroom, Lennon's family, friends, co-workers and students slumped in their seats.
The sentence, a year and a half shy of the maximum six years, pleased no one.
"I think she'll be let out early," said Lennon's sister Jeanne, who had asked for the maximum prison time. "And I think the state of Ohio just told cyclists to stay off the road because they're not safe here."
Paul, a diabetic with severe medical problems, pleaded guilty in December to involuntary manslaughter and fleeing the scene of an accident. She admitted hitting Lennon on Sept. 15 as he rode his bike on a rural Delaware County road.
Paul, 36, did not stop after she struck Lennon. His body was found in a soybean field along Miller-Paul Road that morning, not far from where Paul lives with her parents. Paul told investigators she didn't know what she'd hit, because she wasn't wearing her glasses. She has both blurred and double vision because of diabetes. One of her legs has been amputated, and she is at risk of losing the other, her attorney, Michael Hoague, said yesterday.
"Incarceration could very well be life-threatening to her," Hoague said. "I know there are some who are not concerned with that, but this is not a capital case."
State law allows Paul to ask a judge to let her out of prison after six months.
Lennon, 64, taught science and coached cross country at DeSales High School for more than 40 years and was an avid cyclist. Visiting Judge John W. Kessler said he received more than 100 letters from former students or others who knew Lennon advocating for the harshest prison term the law would allow.
Kessler said a pre-sentence investigation found that Paul is not likely to drive again, but he ordered her license suspended for life as part of her sentence. The judge said Paul should have stopped and should have come forward sooner about the wreck.
Kessler said he saw photos of her car and its shattered windshield, and Paul had to have known she hit something significant.
"There's simply no mistaking that a substantial impact had occurred," he said.
Paul initially told friends that a log had fallen off a truck and into her car, and she told her father that she thought she'd hit a deer or a mailbox.
After news reports surfaced about Lennon's death, her father, Jerry, contacted a Delaware County deputy sheriff. The county prosecutor's office asked that a visiting judge and special prosecutor be appointed to Paul's case because Jerry Paul is a trustee in Delaware County's Harlem Township.
Before yesterday's hearing in Common Pleas Court, teenagers wearing DeSales letterman's coats and track jackets hugged one another and cried.
Annie Kobermann, a co-captain on the DeSales cross-country team, said Lennon's absence has left a void at the school.
"She left our coach in a ditch," Kobermann said. "To not have him be there — it's awful."
Kobermann, DeSales Principal Dan Garrick and several members of Lennon's family testified during Paul's sentencing hearing yesterday. "He had been looking forward to a lot of things," said Lennon's brother John. "All of a sudden, bang! That was just taken from him."
Sister Beth Kraft described Bob Lennon as generous with his time and money and said Paul had no excuse for not stopping and for not coming forward sooner.
"She knew she did something wrong," Kraft said. "He was just left to die."
Lennon's nephew Matthew O'Kane said that Paul should never have been behind the wheel, knowing she couldn't see. "That's equivalent to waving a gun around a crowded room," he said.
O'Kane said Paul sent a letter to Lennon's family outlining her goals for her life and explaining how prison time would take those dreams away. "The only person she's been concerned about is herself," he said.
Jerry Paul said he hoped that the sentence would bring some peace to Lennon's family.
"This has been a tragic chapter in the lives of two good families," he said. "The fact is she made a mistake. She made a terrible mistake. ... We're accepting what's been sent down to us, and we'll move forward as a family."


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Kenneth Ropelle
NORWAY – Kenneth "Buzz" Ropelle, 83, of Norway, died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at his home.
He was born in Norway on June 30, 1929, son of the late Andrew and Theresa (Rosatti) Ropelle.
Buzz worked for Angeli's Grocery Store in Iron River and worked for the city of Norway for many years.
He enjoyed telling stories and feeding the wildlife, especially the birds.
Ken was a very generous man and will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
Buzz is survived by his daughter, Sharon Kazianka of Iron Mountain; son, Dean Prudhomme of Elkhart, Ind.; sister, Lorraine Saigh of Iron River; and many dear nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his sisters, Eleanor VanArt and Beatrice Willihnganz; and his brother, David Ropelle.
Family will greet friends on Saturday, April 20 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at St. Barbara Catholic Church in Vulcan.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the church with Fr. Timothy Ekaitis presiding.
Condolences to the family of Ken may be expressed online at www.ortmanfuneralhome.com.
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April 2014
The 432nd Session of the General Assembly of Maryland convened at noon on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 and adjourned sine die (the last day of the legislature)
at midnight on Monday, April 7, 2014.
More than 2600 bills along with the State's annual capital and operating budgets were considered during the ninety day session. The following report highlights
key measures tracked by the department including the agency's budget, departmental legislation, priority bills of the Administration and other measures that involve
areas of law under the agency's jurisdiction.
The Office of Government Affairs is pleased to provide this end of session report and would like to thank our agency staff for their hard work during the session.
By testifying at bill hearings, providing their professional analysis and sharing their subject matter expertise on issues before the General Assembly, the department
was able to fulfill its duties on behalf of the citizens of Maryland.
The 90 Day Report published by the Department of Legislative Services was used in providing much of the summary information on the bills included in this report.
Additional information can be found on the Maryland General Assembly website.
The 2014 legislative session report is organized in the following sections:
Fiscal Year 2015 summary
Included in the Operating Budget bill was the Supplemental Budget which was released on April 1, 2014. The Supplemental Budget included:
Supplemental Budget #1 also included Fiscal Year 2014 adjustments:
The Operating Budget bill included statewide reductions for:
The current adopted appropriation for DLLR, not including the statewide reductions, is $376.7 million.
The Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2014 (Senate Bill 172) included several modifications (detailed below) that are relevant to
Adult Education: The State provides funding for adult education services, including classes on basic skills in reading, writing, and
math, or learning to speak and understand the English language. Grants also assist adults to prepare to earn a high school diploma through the general education
development tests or the National External Diploma Program. The State budget includes $8.4 million for adult education programs in fiscal 2015.
Horse Racing Impact Aid: Horse racing impact aid consists of grants to counties and municipalities that contain or are located close to
thoroughbred tracks. Grant funding is derived in part from the collection of the tax on horse race wagering. The amounts granted to each jurisdiction are mandated by
statute and are largely based on the number of racing days held each year. In the past few years, revenues have been insufficient to fulfill the expected allocation
to each jurisdiction and to the other mandated uses. The BRFA of 2013 requires the Comptroller, in any fiscal year that revenues to the horse racing special fund are
not sufficient to fully fund local impact aid, to proportionately reduce the amount of grants required to be paid. Fiscal 2015 funding totals $73,000.
Video Lottery Terminal Local Impact Grants: From the proceeds generated by video lottery terminals (VLT) at video lottery facilities in
the State, 5.5% is distributed to local governments in which a video lottery facility is operating. Of this amount, 18% would go for 20 years (starting in fiscal 2012
and ending in fiscal 2032) to Baltimore City through the Pimlico Community Development Authority and to Prince George's County for the community surrounding Rosecroft
($1 million annually), except that the 18% dedication does not apply to facilities located in Allegany, Cecil, and Worcester counties upon issuance of the Baltimore
City license. Furthermore, under the BRFA of 2014, Senate Bill 172, for fiscal 2015 through 2019, $500,000 of the 18% dedication is distributed to communities within
three miles of Laurel Race Course, resulting in $89,300 for Howard County and an additional $357,100 for Anne Arundel County and $53,600 for Laurel in each of these
five fiscal years. Upon issuance of a Prince George's County license, 5% of table game revenues will be distributed to local jurisdictions where a video lottery
facility is located. VLT local impact grants total $39.1 million in fiscal 2015, an increase of $7.5 million, or 23.9%.
House Bill 6 - Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Guaranty Fund - Claims (Ch. 211) This departmental bill increases the maximum claim
amount against the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund - from $5,000 to $7,500 - for which the Maryland Home Improvement Commission (MHIC) may issue a proposed order
without a hearing. The bill also increases the length of time - from 30 days to 60 days - that a contractor has to reimburse the fund for claims paid by the fund
on the contractor's behalf. The bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
House Bill 13 - Office of Cemetery Oversight - Perpetual Care Trust Funds & Preneed Trust Accounts - Regulation (Ch.81) This departmental bill
clarifies that realized capital gains are not income of a perpetual care trust fund and must instead be deposited into the trust fund as principal. A trustee of a
perpetual care trust fund may not make a loan or direct or indirect investment of any kind in buildings or structures appurtenant to any real property of a cemetery.
Prohibitions on the use of funds from preneed trust accounts are established and mirror those already in place for perpetual care trust funds. Specified distributions
of funds from preneed trust accounts are required to include a prorated proportional share of capital gains attributable to those funds. The bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
House Bill 467 - Labor and Employment - Employment of Minors (Ch. 100) This bill repeals the authorization under which the Commissioner of Labor
and Industry or a county superintendent of schools may issue a work permit to a minor. The bill instead enables a parent or guardian of a minor to apply online to the
commission for a minor's work permit. The effective date is October 1, 2014.
Senate Bill 54 - Labor and Employment - Maryland Apprenticeship Training Council (Ch. 120) This departmental bill specifies that the duties of the
Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council (MATC) must be consistent with the approval of the Division of Labor and Industry (DLI) within DLLR. Apprenticeship or
on-the-job training programs and reciprocity agreements with other state or U.S. apprenticeship and training councils must be jointly approved by MATC and DLI. If
MATC and DLI disagree on any of MATC's duties and responsibilities, the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation must issue a final decision after hearing from
both parties. The bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
Senate Bill 130 - Workers Compensation Commission - Reports of Accidental Injury or Disability - Electronic Sharing (Ch. 38) This departmental
bill repeals the requirement that an employer send to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry a copy of each report of a workplace accident or injury that the employer
is also required to send to the Workers' Compensation Commission (WCC) or submits to the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund (IWIF). The bill also repeals the requirement
that WCC report to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry whenever WCC believes that there has been an excessive or a high rate of industrial injuries associated with
an employer or industry. Instead, WCC must provide the Commissioner of Labor and Industry with electronic access to the data contained in the accidental personal injury
or occupational disease reports filed with WCC. The bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
House Bill 1417 - Unemployment Insurance - Work Sharing (Ch. 251) This departmental bill makes numerous changes to the existing work-sharing
unemployment insurance (UI) program administered by the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation (DLLR) by (1) altering eligibility for the program; (2)
requiring employers to meet specified criteria; and (3) implementing changes required under recently enacted federal law. The bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
Program Evaluation (Sunset Review)
The Maryland Program Evaluation Act, enacted in 1978, is used by the General Assembly as a mechanism to monitor and evaluate approximately 70 regulatory boards,
commissions, and other agencies of the Executive Branch of State government. This law requires the Department of Legislative Services (DLS) periodically to undertake
the evaluations according to a statutorily based schedule. These evaluations are more commonly known as "sunset review" because the agencies subject to review are
usually also subject to termination ("sunset") unless legislation is enacted to reauthorize them. The methodology for conducting the evaluations by DLS involves an
extensive evaluation process by DLS staff. The goals of the process have evolved to reflect the General Assembly's interest in identifying the strengths and weaknesses
of the various regulatory entities that are subject to program evaluation and addressing through legislation appropriate issues relating to the structure, performance,
and practices of the agencies.
This session, legislation extended the evaluation and termination dates of the following regulatory agencies. Some of these bills also contain substantive changes
in an agency's powers and duties, which are discussed in the appropriate subject area parts of this 90 Day Report.
Senate Bill 292 State Board of Stationary Engineers - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
(Ch. 51) Extends the termination date for the State Board of Stationary Engineers by 10 years to July 1, 2024, and requires a preliminary evaluation of the
board by December 15, 2021. This bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
Senate Bill 297 State Board of Individual Tax Preparers - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
(Ch. 53) Extends the termination date for the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers by 10 years to July 1, 2026, and requires a preliminary evaluation of
the board by December 15, 2023. The board must submit a report to the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee and the House Economic Matters
Committee by October 1, 2015, that (1) provides an update on the board's expenditures and special fund balance and (2) includes any recommendations for legislative
changes necessary to provide any additional authority the board needs to address complaints alleging the unregistered provision of individual tax preparation services.
This bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
Senate Bill 293/House Bill 257 Elevator Safety Review Board and Division of Labor and Industry - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Extend the
termination date for the Elevator Safety Review Board by five years to July 1, 2019, and require a preliminary evaluation of the board by December 15, 2016. The bills
also remove a sunset provision related primarily to mediation and arbitration of labor disputes by the Division of Labor and Industry within DLLR. This bill takes
effect June 30, 2014.
House Bill 511 State Board of Foresters - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Extends the termination date for the State Board of Foresters
by 10 years to July 1, 2025, and requires a preliminary evaluation of the board by December 15, 2022. This bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
Senate Bill 527/House Bill 988 Extend the termination date for the Maryland Horse Racing Act by 10 years to July 1, 2024 and require a preliminary
evaluation of the Maryland Racing Commission, the Maryland-Bred Race Fund Advisory Committee, and the Standardbred Race Fund Advisory Committee under the Maryland
Program Evaluation Act to be conducted by December 15, 2021. This bill shall take effect July 1, 2014.
House Bill 295 - Maryland Minimum Wage Act of 2014
This Administration bill requires employers in the State, as of January 1, 2015, to pay the greater of the federal minimum wage or a State minimum wage of $8.20 per
hour to employees subject to federal or State minimum wage requirements. The bill provides for subsequent annual increases in the State's minimum wage through January 1,
2017, and allows an exception for employers of amusement or recreational establishments under specified conditions.
The bill also expands the application of the Maryland Wage and Hour Law to an additional industry and class of workers, changes overtime laws for various industries,
alters the tip credit that employers can apply against the direct wages paid to tipped employees, and provides for liquidated damages to be awarded under specified
circumstances to employees who are paid less than the minimum wage. The bill takes effect July 1, 2014.
EARN Maryland
EARN Maryland is the O'Malley-Brown Administration's workforce and economic development initiative focused on helping more Marylanders obtain the demand-driven
skills needed to compete in the 21st Century economy. The initiative, now in its second year, is earning national recognition for its early success. EARN is helping
to prepare Maryland's workforce through industry-designed training aimed at closing the skills gap. Key industry sectors include cyber technology, construction,
hospitality and manufacturing.
By funding workforce training collaborations between businesses, educators, workforce entities, local governments, and non-profits, EARN is helping Maryland's
working families master the skills necessary for employment advancement in sustainable jobs. Mentioned above under the budget section, House Bill 170, the Operating
Budget, passed this session, includes $4,500,000 for EARN Maryland.
For more information about DLLR's legislative agenda, please contact the
Jay Hutchins, Senior Advisor and Director of Government
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Curated by Barbara Fischer
Details: The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by London-based artist Janice Kerbel. Born in 1969 in Toronto, Kerbel undertook her undergraduate studies at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design before moving to London, England, in 1995, where she completed an MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmith's College at the University of London. This will be the first solo exhibition by the internationally renowned artist in Toronto in over fifteen years.
When: Nov. 16 – Dec. 21
Where: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House
Opening reception: Thurs, Nov. 15 from 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Conversation between the artist and curator: Sat, Nov. 17 at 3:00 pm
Janice Kerbel came to international attention for her interests in the logic of systems and the way they generate actions and repercussions. Drawn as much to familiar narrative formats, such as radio plays or detective stories, as to maps, statistical renderings, and scientific diagrams, Kerbel's work tends to toy with the viewers' attention, enfolding it in scenarios that are as plausible as they are unreal and purely imaginative propositions. One of her most well-known early works, Bank Job (1999), presents apparently classified documents (photographs, blueprints, time-tables, maps and notations), concerning a certain bank located at 15 Lombard Street, London. Detailed instructions describe the bank's monitoring system, foreseen diversions, getaway routes, as well as directions to a hideout in Spain—as if to enable a bank robbery.
More recently, Janice Kerbel has turned her attention to the affective elements of systems of communication as they become visible when freed from their normal function and practical constraints. A series of large typographic works titled Remarkable (2006) use the antiquated form of the broadside to announce characters out of an imagined sideshow—the contortionist, the shyest person in the world, and the regurgitating lady. Separated from their functionality, these near obsolescent signifying systems still induce a sense of anticipation, a sensory excitement or desire in relation toward an event, while bringing into focus the very forms and means by which such desires are produced.
The two works presented in her exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery close in on her ongoing interest in "the question of visibility", in trying to find or show the form for things that otherwise can't be seen. Titled Pre, the exhibition includes an audio recording evoking the kind of speculation and analysis commonly preceding an impending baseball game. Kerbel has worked with the past 100 years of baseball statistics to construct a mathematically 'average' game, to play with what is widely considered the most quantified and statistically exploited sport in the world. Pregame represents the first part of this major, ongoing project that will eventually encompass a complete, play-by-play single-voice announcement of the full sequence of nine innings of a carefully scripted, but unplayed, baseball game. The work allows for a scrutiny of the performance of language, the tenor of hope and disappointment, anticipation and distraction.
Kerbel's exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery will also feature Cue, 2012, a series of 36 silkscreen prints which chronicle a sequence of theatrical light events. Growing out of on an earlier work titled Kill the Workers!, 2011, the sequence of prints employ the language of theatrical lighting as it would be used to illuminate a narrative, one which here is destined to draw attention to the shapes themselves. At times referring to things in the real (ie. door, window), at other times acting symbolically (ie. moonlight), the dynamics of the formal language across the sequence of 18" x 18" squares may also be seen to enact the language of modernist abstraction in black & white, and evokes the dynamic pictorial designs of Russian constructivist art and its utopian aspirations. The shapes of the light, and the material format of the prints, highlight the ways in which the blacks move from the most transparent – and thereby closest to light, or white – to an almost opaque, black tone, while also evoking a sense of movement through stillness. Together, these works demonstrate Kerbel's playful and acute attention to language, to both historical and contemporary cultural systems of visual and auditory representation. Ultimately, they illuminate how these in turn mobilize and act upon the viewer, listener, and reader of her work.
Biographical Notes
Janice Kerbel was born in 1969 in Toronto. She completed her BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, and an MA at Goldsmiths College at the University of London). She has held teaching positions at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and Goldsmiths College, where she currently teaches. Kerbel's work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at The Arts Club of Chicago, Art Now Tate Britain (London), the Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe), Chisenhale Gallery (London), the Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), and Moderna Musset (Stockholm), among many others. Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions across North America and Europe, such as in Kolnischer Kunstverein (Cologne), the Bucharest Biennial 5, British Art Show 6 (Newcastle), ICA (London), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), de Appel (Amsterdam), Musee des beaux-arts (Montreal), and Biennale de Montreal, among many others. She was a Sobey Art Award finalist in 2006 and received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 2011. She is represented in Canada by Catriona Jeffries Gallery (Vancouver), and in Europe by greengrassi (London, UK), Galerie Karin Guenther (Hamburg), and i8 Gallery (Reykjavik). Janice Kerbel lives and works in London (UK).


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There are no words for the idiocy contained in this article.
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There are no words for the idiocy contained in this article.
Never mind that he hasn't shown close to the brilliance that Robert Griffin III has displayed while carrying a flawed Redskins team.
I stopped reading after that sentence.
I know, I have read it, don't know what he expected us to do..... sit here and cry about losing Peyton. He is gone and Andrew is in. How would you feel if you were Luck and everyone was still talking about Peyton?
I'm not overstating things at all when I say that is the worst column I've ever read.
smart move
What a pile of garbage. I'm angry at that douche.
So we're bandwagon fans because we stuck with the Colts and their rookie quarterback, as opposed to rooting for our old HOF QB on another team?
That's the most twisted, illogical thing I've ever seen.
Who would dare hire a Bleacher Report writer? Much less one who is trying to play the Vic Ketchman card.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
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All about the page hits. This is what sports media's becoming, and ESPN started it.
The best part is calling a 110 year old St. Elmo's Steakhouse "Peyton's place"
Honestly, you need to read the whole thing.
Colts Authority Fire Joe Morgan'd it. Give them clicks, they actually deserve them
He already deleted my comment. What a tool.
His response to someone calling it the laziest reporting he had ever seen: "It's actually one of the best things you've likely ever read."
Yeah this is good.
Last edited by Trader Joe; 11-30-2012 at 05:27 PM.
The guy's past articles are about Matt Schaub being better than Peyton and Brady, comparing JJ Watt to Justin Bieber, how Jeremy Lin should stop deferring to James Harden, another JJ Watt Justin Bieber "article." And that's just in the last month.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
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Man, reading the guy's replies in the comments makes it pretty clear he's just a complete dbag. I don't know why an employer would tolerate it.
That is the dumbest sports story I have ever read in my 47 years. I feel I wasted 2 minutes of my time I will never get back.
Very illogical article and totally stupid.
Btw, why does a guy who writes for a Houston publication hate a up-and-coming star quarterback who *went* to high school in Houston??? If some kid from my hometown became the most highly respected prospect in decades, he would be the toast of the entire town. And this guy is absolutely slamming him.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
As a Texans fan, he probably gleefully thought that the Colts would be out of the way and irrelevant once Manning left. But now Luck is good, the Colts are winning, and the reality has hit the rest of the AFC South that they are going to have to deal with him for the next 13 or so years. Houston will take the division this year, but the South crown will return to its rightful owner soon enough.
I changed the thread title. Any further baiting like that will result in an infraction.
Skip Bayless:
"Derek Fisher will prove to be a much better NBA head coach than Steve Kerr."
"The Houston Texans will forever regret it if they do not take Johnny Manziel with the No. 1 overall pick. He will haunt them."
"You bet I'd take Tebow late in games over ARodg."
"Manti Te'o: the next Ray Lewis."
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
TJ is a master baiter...
* Most Humorous Poster Nominee (2004, 2005, 2010)
* Off Topic Post of the Year Winner (2009)
* Off Topic Thread of the Year Nominee (2010)
Formerly a naturallystoned, badinfluence...
Ha Ha Natston, I see what you did there.
You sir are a cunning linguist...
...or typist I should say, yes a cunning typist.
Wow so this idiot couldn't take the heat I guess.... where did the comments section go??
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....


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Skip to comments.Boy Scouts propose lifting ban on openly gay Scouts, but not leaders
Posted on 04/19/2013 12:01:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Also breaking today: This is a proposal that would go from the executive council to the Boy Scouts of America voting members in May, , and if approved, go into effect in January 2014:
The Boy Scouts of America would no longer deny membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation, but would maintain its ban on openly gay adult leaders under a proposal it is considering, the group said Friday…
"If approved, the resolution would mean that 'no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.' The BSA will maintain the current membership policy for all adults," Boy Scouts public relations director Deron Smith said.
The Boys Scouts have been considering a change in the longstanding policy against allowing openly gay members. In February, the Boy Scouts' national executive board postponed a vote on lifting its outright ban on openly gay Scouts and troop leaders and ordered a survey of its members on the issue.
The Boy Scouts have been mulling a version of this proposal for a while, but the parameters changed in response to a survey it commissioned of members:
Earlier, the BSA had indicated it might give local Scout units the option of admitting gays as both youth members and adult leaders, or continuing to exclude them
The BSA said Friday it changed course due in part to results of surveys sent out this year to members of the scouting community.
The survey, according to CNN, showed a generational split with older leaders preferring the exclusion policy and younger parents and teenagers favoring lifting the ban. More from ABC on the survey:
Gay-rights groups have demanded a complete lifting of the ban, while some churches and conservative groups want it maintained in its entirety, raising the likelihood that the new proposal will draw continued criticism from both sides.
Indeed, the BSA, in making its announcement, estimated that easing the ban on gay adults could cause widespread defections that cost the organization 100,000 to 350,000 members.
The review, said a BSA statement, "created an outpouring of feedback" from 200,000 respondents, some supporting the exclusion policy and others favoring a change.
"While perspectives and opinions vary significantly, parents, adults in the Scouting community and teens alike tend to agree that youth should not be denied the benefits of Scouting," the statement said.
a step in the right direction for the homostapo
The homos aren't going to be happy until they can infiltrate homo recruiters into the Boy Scouts.
If they do this credibility will be gone.
OK then, that'll do it for me and my son. You can't teach God and accept homosexuality at the same time. Enough. BSA can kiss my A$$.
Thanks for posting this article.
I agree... finally a decision that makes logical sense.
Besides, the experience of Boy Scouting helps one grow out of certain 'childhood' influences.
of all the problem this country faces and is facing, fast and furious, Libya, debt, spending, inflation on the horizon , Egypt, Syria, unemployment, foreclosures to name a few and even issues as to why the white house is closed and yet there are still concerts, parties and dinners, with her family still living there which we pay for .
They already have plenty. We had one in Alaska of all places. Dude was flamin. 38 living with mommy, never married and didn't date because the "boys" were his life.
If the scouts allow this then people need to organize and pull their kids out en masse.
We used to have bed-wetters, and mama's boys in our troop, and members of various religions (or none at all).
We didn't discriminate against them. Like the rest of us, they learned to become true Boy Scouts, or they quit.
There are many more children today that consider themselves 'gay', so it is an issue that has to be dealt with.
Gee, I thought I said that. You do know you have to stand up, don't you?
I guess "boy" scouts would take on a whole new meaning.
Despicable scum - out of their minds. Who the hell would want a normal son sharing a tent with a pansey???
Americans have become so damn GUTLESS and submissive.
The problem is they will demand the Scouts accommodate them.
I would have no problem if they were gay and fulfilled all the requirements, but experience has shown time and time again, once you allow gays in, they will fundamentally transform an organization and lower its' standards.
Sure, because time and time again the concept of "the slippery slope" has proven itself a fallacy...
Oh the art of compromise!
I always thought the real battleground was in regard to leaders not scouts themselves. So this is better than I had feared.
sign the petition
Do you really believe that the gaystapo will settle for Sink or Swim? If you do not cater to the homosexuals' every need, you will be called homophobic, a hater, a bully—and that's just the boy that shares his tent! The adult leadership will be warned that anything that the gaystapo could misconstrue as unwelcoming to the homo child will end your career as a scout leader.
This isn't about acceptance and equality. Never has been.
Eagle Scout is a good thing to have on a college app, but any parent who leaves their son in scouting after this passes is simply unfit.
You don't appease evil. Ever.
"The policy is incoherent," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. "The proposal says, in essence, that homosexuality is morally acceptable until a boy turns 18 then, when he comes of age, he's removed from the Scouts."
The gays don't want to be just accepted, they want to be celebrated.
Not so easy.
Once you accept gay youths, it's not sink or swim.
It's accomodate......
This will get voted down unless the vote is stacked. The methodology used by the Executive Committee on this is really suspect and the choice of Harris polling is suspect.
Yep and just wait till a "gay scout" gets ejected for inappropriate behavior like making a pass at a fellow scout? I've seen this thing in churches where an open "bisexual" girl was allowed to influence another girl. There is absolutely no good reason to allow open homosexuals into scouting because they will not stop till it is transformed.
Applies to all boys fairly.
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake
and morally straight.
I agree it is not good. Just better than I feared. To your point being a scout is different than being a leader so I see no problem excluding gays from being leaders. So I don't agree on that one in short term. I do agree with you we may different situation 5 years form now.
I seriously question whether a boy of 10, 12, or younger could know his sexual orientation. Do children really need to be sexualized so young?
Scoute Ping
If this happens, scouting is over.
All the sudden the BSA will condone the sin of sodomy? If they go through with this garbage, stick a fork in them, they are done. God does not change his views on sin, and you can not be a sodomite and be living your life according to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
On my honor I will do my best
to do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout law;
to help other people at all times;
to keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight
RE: If this happens, scouting is over.
Not really, someone else will form a more CONSERVATIVE and COURAGEOUS alternative.
More? Maybe. Many? Absolutely not.
Just because the media crow from the rooftops every time they find one doesn't mean there is an epidemic.
My college newspaper tried really hard to make it look like there were mass demonstrations all the time. Except when you happened by a few of these "events" to find the same three idiots actively participating in every one with normal college traffic included to make it look like a mass event.
Part of the left's power is convincing people like you there is even an issue to be considered.
I won't.
I won't.
How do "children" end up somehow declaring that they are "gay"? Did someone coach them or coerce them to declare themselves "gay"? How would an 8-14 yr old boy ever recognize that they are gay? Do they start committing sodomy as young minors and if so with whom? Or most likely there are homosexual pedophiles who sexually assult young boys and in the process coerce them to homosexual lifestyle?
I ask these questions, because I think that most stories of "children or early teens" who somehow declare themselves to be "gay" are in fact, coached & coerced to say that. I was in Boy Scouts for 6 years (as well as Cub Scouts) and in fact we all went nude swimming on Boy Scout swim night at the Univ of Wis-Stout swimming pool. The issue of "gay" was never and I mean never considered to be any issue or even recognition of gay. We had multiple overnight camp-outs with not even a hint of homosexual behavior. I think that stories of so-called "gay" children or early teens are in fact a bunch of lies being perpetuated by the adult gays & perverts to make it appear as if being a homo pervert is overwhelmingly widespread.
And from Romans 1:18-32, we know that homosexuality & lesbian lifestyle are unnatural and the lowest form of reprobate, devian behavior & outright rebellion against God.
"The problem is they will demand the Scouts accommodate them."
Yup. And the first time a parent refuses to let their son tent with a teenage homosexual unsupervised, there will be a lawsuit.
First, form your own boy scouting group that allows homosexuals in. They have the right of Free Association, just as the Boy Scouts of America do.
Second, this is defacto admittance of homosexual leaders. If you allow a youth "homosexual" in, who then goes on to become an Eagle Scout, how do you deny him a leadership position or a position as a counselor when he's 19?
The BSA just needs to say "no", keep the existing policy in place and let the liberals make up their own group. Let them walk.
If the vast majority of Christian faiths that actually sponsor the scouts protested this decision it would never happen. I know for a fact that my church will dissolve their association with the BSA if this goes through. And that will be sad because we have sponsored a Boy Scout Troup for years. And thousands more will do the same all over the country. But plain and simple you can not go against your faith in matters of morality and there will be no homosexuals admitted. It's impossible. It is the exact same thing as Obamagabe saying Catholic organizations have to provide abortion inducing drugs in their insurance plans. Ain't gonna happen. Obama wants to destroy the Christian faith in this country and any organization that anything to do with Christianity. Can you imagine this BS happening if GW Bush were still president, or for that matter any republican. Having Barry Bathhouse in the White House is the reason that not a day goes by that you do not hear something about sodomy being legalized in America. Perverts take up for their own. Google Larry Sinclair and find out all you want to know about Barry Bathhouse.
Thank you for your response.
My comment was based on the experience of seeing Boy Scouts turn (momma's boys, bed-wetters, homos) into men.
Of course, there was the one 'potential' Eagle Scout that had managed to stay a homosexual, so your concerns are valid.
Do I have to raise my hand too ?
Only if we can take America back from the Communists and Homosexuals (i.e. the Obama Administration, the Congress , and the Senate).
Part of the left's power is convincing people like 'them' that they are gay. And there are MORE of them being RAISED as gay, or CONVINCED by media influence that they are gay, than there were when I was a boy.
I agree that the actual 'amount' of occurrences of 'gay' boys entering Scouts may not be on an epidemic scale, but it most definitely is an issue that has to be dealt with. That is just an OBVIOUS FACT based on the fact that there have been lawsuits and the Boy Scout Leadership is addressing the issue in the public venue.
I'd answer your questions, but you seemed to do a good job answering them yourself, and I think we are pretty much in total agreement.
That sounds like a nice touch. :)
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Dell May Not Fare Any Better as a Private Company
Michael Dell and his partners at Silver Lake are extolling the virtues of a leveraged buyout, even as several big shareholders grumble about the price. But here's the real dirty secret of this deal, and indeed most LBOs: They don't make a real difference.
The argument behind taking companies private is that the company will have more breathing room to turn itself around if it's out of the glare of the public markets. But an important new study contradicts that supposition, Mark Hulbert said this morning on the Markets Hub.
The LBO argument for years was compelling, said Hulbert. But the new study, in which the authors looked at confidential tax data, "is a serious blow" to the LBO rationale.
From Mark's column:
A fascinating recent study found no evidence that public companies undergoing LBOs do any better, on average, after going private.
Of course, these LBOs on average didn't suffer a significant diminution in operating performance either. Might that be seen as something of a victory, since companies undergoing an LBO might be suffering at the time they go private — as indeed some consider Dell to be right now?
( Jonathan) Cohn, in an interview, discounted this possibility. He and his co-authors studied LBO performance in a number of different ways — including comparing each of the LBOs they studied to a control group of companies that did not go private. They found no significant difference in the operating performance of comparable companies that stayed public and companies that underwent LBOs.
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