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I will step up my efforts with SHRM, local and national, to improve the HR community and help increase collaboration among members.
Sounds a little like a scout pledge, doesn't it?
This was one of the goals I articulated last year for the Creative Chaos Consultant's "Put Up Or Shut Up" challenge (more on that challenge coming soon). So, during fall conference season, it was reasonably imperative for me to attend my state SHRM conference. Wasn't it?
In making my fall conference plans, I discovered that Ohio's state SHRM was being held in Sandusky, Ohio, which is actually a tiny bit closer to my home than Grand Rapids, Michigan, site of the Michigan SHRM conference. I could easily and cheaply travel by car to attend either – but attending both was not in my budget or interest. Looking at the sessions offered became the deal maker. Here were two of my actual choices, one from Michigan and one from Ohio:
Employer CONTROL versus USING social media? Should I learn how to help HR grow up and move forward, or listen to tired practitioners cling to archaic and outdated concepts? Michigan's choices all seemed to encompass the latter. I chose Ohio, and I was treated to informative, innovative, and thoughtful sessions. As Steve Browne, Program Director for the 2010 Ohio Conference said at the beginning of one session, "if you are here just to get re-certification credits, let me ask you one question: WHY?"
I want so much to support my local and state organization, but not at the expense of my personal development. Next year, I'll be going back to Ohio.
If you had a choice, which SHRM state or local would you choose to invest in?

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Hi, I've installed utawarerumono on Vista but for some reason the game works extremely fast, both the start menu (the flames in the background) and the game itself (the characters move instantly).
I think the problem is Vista because with my previous pc (with xp) I hadn't any problem.
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Don't be afraid to take risks. If there was ever a point in time that I said, "No, I don't know enough, I'm not ready, I can't," I would have missed out on the next experience. It is all about the chain of experiences. Each one has enabled the next one. In totality, they have given me such a rich grouping of skills that I draw from every day. You can learn whatever it is you have to learn. You find the experts and the people who are going to support you.
Never give up. In those times I've had where I think, "There is no way that I can do this," I step back and find the people who have lived through valuable experiences and I get the answers.
You can get past whatever barrier you have in your mind. Just step back and get the big picture to find the answers. The answers always come.
I have always had to know how to adapt to change. It starts with you. You can't find the answers on the outside. You have to know yourself, take care of yourself and find ways to validate what you do. When you start looking for validation of who you are or of your accomplishments from people on the outside, you will always be searching for something you will never find.
I have a lot of humility in my life. A lot of things have brought me to my knees. When those things happen, I realize how much I should give back to those who have given me so much. I think how much I owe to the ones who are coming up behind me. There is accountability and responsibility with what I have today. There is a purpose, and that purpose is to give back.


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This is a wonderful, mint-condition, Walt Disney, Peter Pan 50th Anniversary pin featuring Peter Pan and Captain Hook as pin on pin elements, along with Tinker Bell, Wendy, John & Michael flying above, all surrounded by pixie dust in gold. This pin measures approximately 1 5/8" x 1 1/2."
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(most of) all the case-mod competitions i've found is about aircooling... but what about us watercooling guys? Is there or has there been any case-mod competitions for watercoolers only?
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I have started writing this post about a million times, and stopped each time, trying to figure out how to talk about this mega-huge thing that's happening in my life in t – 1 month.
Basically, I have some news. I'm moving. To Boston. WITHOUT my husband-person.
(To start a new job with Boston Public Schools as an Online Learning Specialist.)
And this is scary.
This Post: An Explanation
Deciding how to communicate this to whomever might happen upon my website and then happen upon my blog was difficult, because my audience is so varied. I know a few close friends will read it (because I'll post it on FB) — most of them already know that I'm moving, why I'm moving, etc. It's also possible that my new boss will happen across this post. I hope she knows it's the moving that's scary, not the prospect of working with her (she's awesome). It's possible future employers will read it and think "this girl is crazy pants." It's possible that audiences I've not even imagined will read it. See, since this is a professional space, it really complicates the whole "blogging about my feelings" thing. And I have the feelings, folks. Lots of them.
So I thought about it a little bit, and decided to go ahead and just stinkin' say it, because I don't really want to be part of a professional world that isn't willing to see me as a whole human being, put together messily and with little attention to logic or reason. Being a human is messy. Being an adult human is messier. It's just that the tiny humans wear their messes on their shirts, and the adult humans squirrel away their messes in their brains. Well, consider this post the unloading of my brain-mess. Because finishing up a PhD has left no room inside my brain for my brain-mess, and because I don't think squirreling anything away is healthy.
Why I'm Moving to Boston
Ha! I like how the header implies that this is an explainable thing. "I'm moving to Boston, because _____." Like those sentences you filled in on worksheets when you were learning about compound sentences and conjunctions.
Basically I'm moving to Boston because BPS offered me a super cool job that lets me do a bunch of stuff that I love doing. That "bunch of stuff that I love doing" includes:
- Working with teachers to think about how to improve their practice
- Working with teachers to help them integrate tech into their practice
- Developing professional development resources for teachers
- Working on a team of people who care about teachers and teacher learning
- Making online things that help people learn
- Thinking about online learning and how people learn in hybrid (online/f2f) settings
- Thinking about how teachers learn in the midst of being teachers
You know, all that cool stuff. So really, it's that simple. I accidentally (seriously, it was sort of an accident) landed myself a job doing exactly what I want to do at the oldest school district in the country. I get to acquire PD development experience and urban education experience while honing my skills and knowledge in #edtech. #winning.
See, in my dissertation study, sort of unintentionally, I wound up examining how PD structures impact digital integration. In the process, I discovered that I really, really, REALLY like thinking about PD and about how to improve teachers' experiences as teachers and lifelong learners. I realized I kind of wanted to help schools design "good PD" (ftr, still deciding what I think that is). I realized I could do this in multiple contexts: either at the university level as a researcher, or at the k-12 level working with a district. I realized that this latter option was actually an option, which had never occurred to me before. And it sounded kinda… awesome.
Why it's Kinda Weird
I always thought I'd be a professor. I had a PLAN, people — since undergrad. Get degree, be teacher for 3 years, earn master's, get PhD, be professor, teach methods courses, get tenure, publish lots of things, etc., etc. So when I announced to my friends and family that I was going to move to Boston to work with a school district, some people were a little surprised.
This is because I had told everyone forever that I wanted to work at a R1 institution doing professory-type things. Conducting research with teams of graduate students and undergrads. Applying for grants. Leading future teachers to classroom excellence. Teaching research methods courses. To a large extent, I do still want that. This still sounds like a fantastic future to me.
Why I'm Doing this Anyway
The past few months of writing my dissertation have made me want to run screaming from the academy. I hear this is normal.
But beyond that (because that's not enough of a reason to leave), I would like to gain some practical experience doing the thing I research. If I eventually choose to go back to academia, I'll be armed with some experience as a PD professional at the k-12 level. Also, I'm almost done with this beast of a dissertation, and continuing to wallow in it for one more year while I do the academic job market dance makes me want to crawl under a table and cry for a while. A long while.
Furthermore, a career in k-12 education does not mean a career void of research, problem-solving, and publishing. A number of my favorite academic minds aren't in the academy, but left it to return to the classroom or to work as administrators. These individuals attend the same conferences I attend, write for academic and practitioner journals, and are extremely tapped into the lives of the classroom simply due to the nature of their work. They maintain a foot in both worlds, even though it might not seem like it. In the words of one teacher-PhD:
I often feel like the world looks at this choice we've made as some sort of failing condition. Once in a while I get a student asking me, carefully, why I'm not teaching college if I've got my doctorate. The assumption often seems that it's because I couldn't make it as an academic so now I'm stuck teaching high school.
I do not know where I will end up after this year. Because my partner is still looking for a job and because I'm not yet sure what this new adventure holds in store, I might stay in Boston, I might look for an academic position, or I might seek out administrative certifications. But I do not subscribe to the notion that just because I'm in k-12, I cannot contribute to the scholarly community. That only the life of an academic at an R1 institution will allow me to question, shape, and change education writ large.
NOT Why I'm Moving to Boston
And for clarity's sake, here are a few reasons that are NOT reasons why I am moving to Boston:
- Because I am getting divorced. (Seriously, why is this the first place people's heads go when I tell them my partner is not joining me? He's employed here, people. And if you've ever met my husband, you can imagine what he would be like unemployed. Not okay. We're fine, and we'll be fine. Get over it.)
- Because I run. Would I like to qualify for the Boston Marathon? Sure. Am I going to any time in the next 5 years? Hella no. Is Boston a runner's paradise? Definitely. But no, I don't base major life decisions on my hobbies.
- Because I hate academia. That's just stupid. I've spent 6 years of my 7-year career in academia. I've been happy. I'm sure my career, in whatever form it takes, will continue to interact and intersect with post-secondary institutions.
- Because of the sports. I really can't stand the Patriots. I can handle the Red Sox and am indifferent to the Bruins and Celtics.
- Because I've always wanted to live in the city. I come from the cornfields, and a dream of many cornfield-dwellers is to move to a big city. This actually terrifies me a little bit, I have to be honest. I've never done well with big transitions, and this is the biggest yet.
- Because I love lobster. Though I do love lobster.
- Or clams… or oysters… Though I love those too. Actually if I'm being honest, the food might have been a motivator…
Dang it, now I'm hungry. And on that note, it's just about dinnertime here in Michigan, and I have one more month at home with my husband and puppy to enjoy our evening dinners and chill time, so I'm going to peace out. I hope this sheds some light on why I'm moving to Boston, and why it's scary, but also pretty awesome.


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I loved Wonder Woman when I was a little girl! I used to have the "Under-Roos" and I thought they were my costume. I even had a real Wonder Woman costume when I got a little older for trick-or-treating. Recently a friend of mine asked for my help in throwing a Super Hero party for her daughter who is turning four. She will be Wonder
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The intersection of Harrison Avenue and Indian Hill Boulevard in Claremont is finishing up a revamp. The turn lane west, accessible from southbound Indian Hill, is being closed off and converted into green space. A year or two ago, the turn lane east, accessible from northbound Indian Hill, was closed off for the same purpose.
I don't know if these were good ideas from a traffic flow standpoint, but City Hall must think so. At any rate, the porkchop-shaped green space on the east side is nice, albeit small, and probably welcome to pedestrians.
There's a bench, a water fountain, grass, a sidewalk, mature trees that were part of the previous median and parkway, and a sculpture. Presumably similar amenities will be part of the new west side work.
By the way, the horse sculpture on the eastside green space was recently returned to sculptor Barbara Beretich and a new piece put in. It's titled "Patricia," perhaps impishly (um, unless it's a good likeness?), and it's by Christina Cassaro.
One reader calls it "a weird white plastic thingy." What can i say? I like it. (And it's probably not plastic, although i didn't handle it to find out.)
The view in the second photo is on the east side of Indian Hill, looking northwest, with "Patricia" in the foreground and the construction work on the west side in the background.


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Every morning, I get a summary of SUNY news, and the big story yesterday was this: "Aspiring teachers will have to be near the top of their class and pass an entrance exam to attend a State University of New York program under tougher college admission requirements announced Monday.
"The changes, announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, were approved by the SUNY Board of Trustees last week as a way to standardize admissions across SUNY teacher preparation programs. They were among recommendations of the New NY Education Reform Commission, an expert panel assembled by Cuomo last year to find ways to improve schools.
Maybe I'm biased – my wife is a teacher – but the sense I was getting from the state that the teachers we currently have, to use a term my wife hates, SUCK. I'm not convinced that higher academic proficiency will mean greater teaching skills, but that'll be calculated down the road, I suppose.
Meanwhile, I'm helping the Daughter with her Common Core fourth grade math, and more than occasionally, it'll use terms I don't understand. "Expanded version" of 102,304? OH, 100,000+2,000=300+4. That's not a term I remember from when I went to schools, back in the day of the quill pens. Ofttimes, *I* find homework EXHAUSTING.
Here's an interesting thing from BoingBoing:
"The MPAA, RIAA, and America's major ISPs have teamed up to produce a stilted, propagandistic copyright curriculum for California's public schools. The material does not mention fair use at all (it's not "age appropriate," apparently) and suggests that you may not build on others' ideas without explicit permission, something that is both legally and morally nonsensical." One can get better teachers – maybe – but if they are going to teach nonsense like this…


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HARRISBURG (Sept. 25, 2006) Washington County attorney Brian Gorman has received an Everyday Leader Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA).
Brian is exceedingly conscientious in his role of public defender and invests significant time and effort to the Washington County Drug Treatment Court, said PBA President Kenneth J. Horoho Jr., who presented the award to Gorman during a Washington County Bar Association board meeting today. The treatment court is on its way to becoming one of the best in our state, and Brian is a core contributor to its success. His peers praise Brian for his ability to maintain the fine line between justice and compassion.
Gorman is currently chairing the committee responsible for implementing sanction and incentive changes within the treatment court.
Gormans support of the Washington County Bar Association (WCBA) is exemplary. He chaired the associations pro bono and lawyer referral service committees. Last year, he was instrumental in co-founding the associations criminal law section and is currently serving as the sections vice president. In 2004, he was president of the WCBA Young Lawyers Division. Earlier this year, he was elected to the board of trustees of the Washington County Bar Foundation.
In addition to his current work as an assistant public defender, Gorman is a partner at the law firm of Chunko, Pangburn, Francis and Gorman L.L.C.
His previous public service included work as a staff attorney for Southwestern Pennsylvania Legal Services and as an assistant public defender in Crawford County.
He is a member of the Rotary Club of Washington, receiving its 2004-05 Club Service Award. For the past three years, he has been editor of the clubs weekly newsletter.
Gorman holds degrees from Washington and Jefferson College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
The Everyday Leader Award is given to individuals who go above and beyond, sharing their time and talent to help and support others, said Horoho. These unsung heroes work hard each and every day performing good works, not for personal gain or recognition, but for the right reasonsto improve the places they call home and to better Pennsylvanias legal system. Brian Gorman is one of these everyday leaders and is deserving of this award in gratitude for his contributions to Washington County.
Founded in 1895, the Pennsylvania Bar Association exists to promote justice, professional excellence and respect of the law; improve public understanding of the legal system; facilitate access to legal services; and serve the 29,000 lawyers who are members of the association.


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Baby Berolzheimer!
Henry Francis decided to join us a few weeks early, taking us all by surprise! He was born on Sunday, 11/17 at 7:08p, weighed 6 pounds, 13 oz, and is 19.5 inches long. Mom and baby are healthy and happy. See below for a few pics of Kate &...
Traded the Bay Bridge for the Golden Gate Bridge
We've just made the move to Ross, CA in gorgeous Marin county and are loving it! Our son Lee, 4, is already asking for a treehouse in the backyard redwood. We'd love to get together if you're in the area. I've recently started work at the Legion of Honor...
Fritz Maytag: My Post-Deerfield Days
Fritz Maytag catches us up on his stellar last 58 years: A short note about my post-Deerfield days. As Wittgenstein said "I have had a wonderful life." I graduated from Stanford, and did post-graduate studies there for several years in the Japanese language, which lead nowhere except to occasional...
Getting a PhD and entering the startup world
Finishing up with a PhD in Biostatistics at Harvard, I am moving to the Bay Area to start a full time job at 23andMe while moonlighting as a co-founder/CTO of a sexual health technology startup called SQ (www.SQgenius.com). My partner and I also bought our first house in Napa...
Jagosan at Disney
I am enjoying being a parent of two crazy kids, ages 4 and 6, while keeping up with my job at Disney Interactive. I am loving surfing the Central Coast of CA from my perch in Capitola. Please give us a shout out if anyone is in the area!...
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Harry Ashforth is currently living in San Francisco working in commercial real estate. Harry Ashforth Class of 2005
Launched A New Start-Up
Launched a new start-up that will revolutionize how patients monitor and pay their medical bills online. The start up is called iQCoPay, we've got a great video that explains exactly what we do. At the same time I continue to volunteer for the Monterey Bay Search Dogs where I...
'64 Update
Still living in San Rafael, CA with my wife Ellen, retired June 1, 2013, closed all stores but one and my brother is running that store with a little of my help. Looking forward to relaxing, golfing, traveling, and seeing grandchildren. Looking forward to seeing all of the classmates...
Welcome Devlin Grace
While the news is a bit overdue, Jonathan, Jasper and I were excited to welcome Devlin Grace Gruhl to our family on September 10, 2012. Big brother Jasper is a big fan, although has asked me to take Devlin back to the hospital a couple of times when her...
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Cheryl and I moved to the Northwest 2 years ago when I was recruited to join Nautilus Inc. as CEO. Nautilus is one of the leading marketers of exercise equipment (our brands are Bowflex, Nautilus, and Schwinn). I am enjoying working for a company whose products can make such...
New Baby Girl
My wife Denise and I had a baby girl, Addison Claudia Yeh, New Year's Eve 2012, just in time for the tax deduction! Yong Yeh Class of 1997
'96 Update
I thought classmates might get a kick out of the fact that my twins, Lincoln and Ella, are heading to an elementary school next year headed by none other than Joe Harvey, who taught math and coached crew during our tenure. If he can whip miscreants like Andy Sweetland...
87s at Alta
Mother Nature was kind enough to provide fresh snow for Andy Bonanno, Larry Kilroy, and me during our annual trip to Alta in March. Jon Murchinson Class of 1987
Reconnecting in Class of '85
Hey, folks. I'm doing a Ph.D. in Film & Media at Berkeley, and Ted Ullyot graciously hosted a group of my students for a visit to Facebook. It was an incredible trip to an amazing place and a DA meet-up after a long break. Thanks, Ted! George Larkin Class...
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So I'm taking a mid-day lunch break from skiing with my kids at Northstar, and who walks by? Woody Thompson. Awesome impromptu DA'85 reunion. Doing our best to be worthy. Ted Ullyot Class of 1985


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For lovers with a penchant for old architecture, affordable renovation spaces, and a mix of Southern grace, mystery, and heat, Bay St. Louis is like a blank canvas at the junction of march, river, and Gulf of Mexico beach. Five years ago this town (population 7,538) was put to the test when Hurricane Katrina ripped through the heart of the city. But the community rallied, rebuilt, and has regained its artsy, quirky independence. On a given morning in Mockingbird Cafe-the town's gathering place/coffee shop/yoga studio-conversations range from local author Ellis Anderson's new book, Under Surge, Under Siege, her firsthand account of the hurricane, to plans for a new downtown marina and renovations at the Depot District.
Outside the cafe, quiet streets lined with century-old Craftsman bungalows make a grid and lead toward the long beach (called The Beach) on the town's southeast corner. And although the Gulf oil spill has residents concerned, the town is taking it day by day.Your view is: St. Louis Bay-marshland to the north and open bay to the south, east, and west. Your Main Street has: a new library, an artist co-op (Artists at 220 Main), Maggie May's art gallery, a fine-dining seafood and steak restaurant, The Buttercup on Second Street for breakfast and lunch, Earth Path Yoga, and the recently remodeled Central Hall for art, antiques, and retail shops.Your best beach is: right at the end of Main Street. Take the bike/walk path along the wide, sandy beach for three miles from Washington Avenue American Legion Pier in town to the Garfield Ladner Pier in Waveland.
On the weekend you might: drive the empty Highway 90 across the Rigolets wetlands into New Orleans for a jazz show and a night at the House on Bayou Road. Your favorite bar/restaurant could be: The Mockingbird Cafe, a coffee house and restaurant-think burgers, paninis, and salads-with a pub at night.Your neighbors are: a mix of retirees, vacation-home owners from New Orleans, and families who bike or walk across the new Bay St. Louis Bridge to Pass Christian to fish from the pier. Visiting Bay St. Louis: Stay a week; Ellis Anderson's The Webb School has a 1,200-square foot rental with high ceilings, a kitchen, back deck, and front porch. Rates start at $600 a week; 228/493-2107 or vrbo.com/218850. Stay a month; Historic downtown cottage with two bedrooms, one bath, $2,750 a month; 228/466-4405 or vrbo.com/262370.


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Drake finishes his OVO Sound DJ set with a brand new solo track: "4PM in Calabasas."
Drake delivered a memorable episode of OVO Sound Radio on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio on Saturday. Along with a collaboration with Gucci Mane and Justin Bieber's "One Dance" remix, the Canadian superstar decided to get a lot of bars off his chest. The Canadian superstar brought it back to straight lyrics, on the vicious "4pm In Calabasas."
"All the sudden I got people showing how much they truly resent me. They whole demeanor just spells envy, they tryin to tempt me," raps Drake on the aggressive track. "All you sub-promoters are jankee, we established like the Yankees. This whole f_ckin game thank us."
Produced by Vinylz, Frank Dukes, and Allen Ritter, listen to "4pm In Calabasas" below.(Radio Rip)


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Hleb still uncertain about move
Belarus and Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb has revealed that there has been no agreement as to whether he leaves the Emirates Stadium yet; despite the interests of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Hleb's future has been up in the air for the whole summer so far and his agent continues to look for a move.
âI have not signed with Bayern, Barcelona or any other club,â the 27-year-old was quoted as saying on German website Focus Online.
âThere is a lot of speculation and talk. I will now rest and spend some time with my friend and representative Niki Spilevski while I think further about my future.â


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Good morning! Fake winter continues. A sharp reader named Chris wrote yesterday to say I have dishonored meteorologists everywhere by suggesting that their standard for spring was the same as the astronomers' standard, March 20. I presented March 1 as the "Vielkind Standard," only to learn — mind you, I did no research on this yesterday — that March 1 is, in fact, the beginning of meteorological spring. Well then. Apologies. The point is it's warm out, and that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at the Capitol today for a cabinet meeting just after noon. Here are today's headlines…
Sales tax revenues ticked upward around the state, helped in part by purchases related to tropical storms. (AP)
Trade show executives questioned whether anyone would be interested in attending a convention held at the Aqueduct site in Queens, at a facility Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing, more than a 60-minute subway ride from Times Square. (NYT)
Good government groups say New York needs to more tightly regulate independent expenditures in political campaigns, which on the national scene account for most of the barrage of negative ads. (TU)
A study by MapLight showed New Yorkers shelled out $13.3 million for Super PACs in 2011. (NYP)
Since taking office, DiNapoli has raised 1/4 of his political contributions from labor unions. He says it's not a problem. (DN)
But DiNapoli has been one of the staunchest defenders of the union line in Albany of late, as a profile by David Freedlander makes quite clear. (NYO)
In an Op/Ed today, DiNapoli again argued against Cuomo's proposal for a new pension tier: What worries me, as the fiduciary of the fund and as the state's chief fiscal officer, is that the 401(k)-style plan being presented to employees as a "choice" is, in fact, a false choice. By making the proposed defined-benefit plan less attractive and allowing the employee contribution to the 401(k)-style plan to be optional, employees would almost surely be steered toward choosing the latter plan.//The result is that many younger people, whose retirement date is decades in the future, will undermine their long-term retirement security by making the decision not to contribute and thereby fail to properly plan for their retirement. Playing catchup just doesn't work. (DN)
Federal judges in Brooklyn will hear a challenge to redistricting on Monday. (NYT)
A state judge in Tompkins County ruled municipalities can ban hydrofracking within their boundaries. (GNS)
Josh Benson on redistricting: But in softening his public position, Cuomo is unmistakably laying the groundwork for the possibility of a cop-out that he can sell as something else. Perhaps he will sign the lines with a show of great reluctance, while also announcing he has secured a promise from the legislature for a constitutional amendment to ensure an independent redistricting process in a decade. (CapNY)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has taken up the mantle of Wall Street defender from her senior partner Chuck Schumer, Reid Pillifant writes. (CapNY)
A look at Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, still sheepish about his newfound prominence. (Forward)
Wendy Long is close to announcing a Republican bid against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. (C&S)
Assemblywoman Grace Meng, D-Queens, says she was referred to as "la china" when ordering food at a Boston Market. (DN)
Some principals in the Hudson Valley oppose the state's new rubric for teacher evaluations. (Journal News)
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Long Island is "the center of the state's prescription drug epidemic." (Newsday)
New York is setting up a special revolving loan fund to help MWBEs. (TU)
The Court of Appeals ruled Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano didn't have the authority to fire nine tax appeals commissioners when he took office. (Newsday)
State Senate Republicans have hired Susan Ralston, a consultant with ties to Jack Abramoff. (C&S)
And here are some national headlines…
Barack Obama will propose lowering the nation's corporate tax rate to 28 percent as part of an overhaul of the tax code. (WP)
Who are the gazillionaires fueling these super PACs, anyway? (WP/NYT)
Arizona and Michigan are the next battlegrounds in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. (WP)
A televised debate tonight will be crucial for Rick Santorum. (Politico)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie proposed a budget that cut taxes and increased spending on social programs. (NYT)


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By Steve Outing
SaveTheNews.org's first big public meeting of journalists and community members (September 16) — strategically planned for the U.S. city at ground zero for the "News Crisis," Denver — was clearly a success in sounding the alarm about the decline of serious public-interest journalism. Six months ago, the city lost one of its two major daily newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News, and other newspapers and traditional media outlets in metro Denver and around the state have suffered severe cuts. The result: important stories not told, an environment ripe for abuse by less-closely monitored public officials and business leaders, and a less-informed citizenry.
The SaveTheNews event attracted a capacity crowd of about 200 people who filled the bottom floor of the Colorado History Museum just south of the State Capitol Building. While the abundance of laid-off journalists in the room (many once employed by the Rocky) were looking for answers to the question of how to fund public-interest reporting — and thus continue making a livelihood from doing journalism — the room also included a large contingent of community members alarmed by the Rocky's demise and wondering where (and if) they will get news about the most important things going on in their hometown in the future, if things keep getting worse.
The event included 14 small-table discussions on a variety of sub-topics, which preceded a general panel discussion featuring former Rocky Mountain News editor and publisher John Temple and other local luminaries. At the discussion tables, facilitators (including me) warmed up the attendees with intense exchanges about how to tackle the various facets of the problem. It was our job to ask questions and listen, not to lecture on what we know or believe.
I was assigned as the facilitator of the "Commercial News Models: Where will we get our news?" table, and interest in that topic outnumbered the chairs available. Our standing-room-only group was animated and opinionated, and not of one mind when it came to solutions. And even though the journalists around the table outnumbered the non-journalists, the community members, I think, gave we journalists some hope that the issue of sustainability of public-interest news reporting is beginning to resonate outside of the media cognoscenti and news-industry working stiffs.
Susan, who described herself as a bureaucrat who prefers staying out of the headlines, said that her life is not complete with the Rocky Mountain News no longer available to read each day. But it is, she said, forcing this middle-aged woman to adapt to keeping up with the news by using the Internet. Paula, an attorney for a utility company, explained her presence as simply being concerned by the decline in the amount and quality of in-depth news that the Rocky's failure represents. She worried that the loss of newspapers, which traditionally have shouldered the heaviest burden for public-interest reporting, might also mean a decline in continued availability of quality, balanced, free news on the Internet, and the resulting impact on our democracy.
But, as you might expect given the table's media-geeky topic of news business models, it was the current, laid-off, and retired journalists and publishers who had the strongest opinions about how to save journalism. I'd say that most of them recognized that resurrecting printed newspapers to their former glory was a lost cause, and that adapting to the digital environment and an audience increasingly comfortable with digital media consumption was the difficult task at hand.
I don't want to over-generalize with a small group, but I did pick up a split among preferred solutions for funding journalism by age group. Jake, an experienced, middle-age journalist, suggested that there's already a working model for supporting paid content online: iTunes. He meant that millions of people have demonstrated willingness to purchase digital content in the form of songs, and Apple (a computer company) has grabbed a large chunk of the music business. So, Jake reasoned, news consumers paying, say, a dime for a story they liked, or ponying up for a $5-a-month subscription for access to everything on a news site, might work. He liked the analogy of McDonald's, the burger chain, offering a la carte items as well as package meals.
Representing the younger demographic was Betsy, a writer in her 20s just starting out in journalism, who worries about there being business models for news that can support paying for her efforts. She found the idea of forcing online users to pay for news content "troubling," because for so many years Internet users have come to accept that free is the price of most content online, and changing their minds to accept paying for news on the web is likely to fail. She would prefer to see non-profit models and possibly endowments come to the rescue, filling the void of in-depth reporting left by newspapers' decline.
Also trashing the pay-for-online content model, especially micropayments, was Michael, also in his 20s. His observation: It's foolish to charge online per article, because it cuts off sharing of content with friends. He envisioned a father admonishing his daughter for reading too much news, because the monthly content bill was getting too high. That's a powerful argument not heard enough: Paid online general news could lead to a younger generation being largely news illiterate.
(If I may interject my own opinion, I'm more inclined to listen to the Betsy and Michaels of the world, because they better understand their peers' media behavior and spending habits — or lack thereof. For every 50-year-old who pines for the feel and experience of the printed newspaper over digital consumption of news bits, I say: But you don't matter nearly as much as the 25-year-old who will be a news consumer for a much longer time and support the news entities of the future. … And by the way, I'm 52, though with media habits more typical of someone 25.)
More of a middle ground was taken by other members of the table. Watt, a retired newspaperman who started reporting in 1948, suggested that sending him just what he wants is a more suitable model in today's world for publishers who want readers to pay. With the printed Rocky Mountain News, Watt got the whole package, including the columnists he disliked. A personalized digital delivery of news, which included topics of his choosing but allowed him to make that pesky columnist invisible, might be more palatable as a paid service.
Others around the table pointed to aggregating news from many sources and packaging it in a way that's most convenient and useful to consumers also is a way to provide value that online users will pay for.
Bob, an experienced journalist and consultant in his 50s, currently starting up an experimental online local-news service covering Boulder, attended the event hoping to discover a business model for his small news enterprise operating with minimal staff (one person) and a network of contributors. He's pondering whether his fledgling media business should go the for- or non-profit route. A possibility often mentioned for the new wave of tiny news organizations building up to fill the holes left by declining newspapers is user donations, a la public radio and television stations (and/or utilizing network donation systems that allow online users to voluntarily support multiple favorite websites). Yet Bob admitted that though he regularly listens to Denver public radio station KCFR and BBC News, he does not give them money.
Bob is leaning toward a for-profit model.
Don, a former Denver Post editor who made a career move to a trade-press company, was among those looking to think further outside the box. Perhaps one way to get more and better news coverage is to get other types of companies to hire journalists. Examples might be Comcast or Qwest, communications providers that feed news (and every other kind of data) to their customers over their networks. Beyond the obvious conflict-of-interest issue with, say, Comcast-employed journalists perhaps not being free to report objectively on the company that pays them, such enterprises could develop news side businesses that complement the core business while opening up new revenue opportunities, and serving their customers who are receiving lesser-quality news via their digital pipes due to newspapers' meltdown.
Don pointed to the success of the Poynter Institute, a non-profit teaching and research facility for journalists, in hiring popular media blogger Jim Romenesko, who brought the Poynter website significant growth that in turn brought attention to Poynter's other services and content. The Institute's mission is to train journalism's new leaders and bring news people up to speed on the latest technology and techniques. But hiring a popular star journalist served the mission, even if it strayed outside the core "business" of Poynter. Perhaps that model can be perpetuated, Don suggested.
While the ideas and conversation around our table were diverse and there was not agreement on a "solution" to the news crisis, I did pick up a couple common themes:
1. We should all be concerned about news consumption by young people, and not develop a new media landscape that will leave them with limited access to news about the important issues of the day. Recognizing that their generation has different media-usage habits and beliefs that are different than their parents' generation, for the sake of a well-informed citizenry and the democratic process, however we solve the news problem must include a game plan to give access to public-interest news and information to the largest number of people possible.
2. There is no one "silver-bullet" solution to paying for quality, in-depth public-interest journalism to be conducted when the old media business models are broken. It will take experimentation, the deployment of multiple revenue models, and cooperation among many parties to provide tools and business assistance to all who will make up the local news ecosystem of the future — whether new news entities or old-media enterprises reinvented to succeed in the digital age.
(Related: Denver public radio station KCFR produced a report on the SaveTheNews.org event, by reporter Megan Verlee. Click here for the audio file download.)
(Also, here's a PDF handout I gave to attendees discussing various revenue opportunities and strategies for news enterprises.)


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WATCH: When desi songs made it to Hollywood
Apart from some Borat-style wisecracks and sequences, the video also features British-Indian musician Panjabi MC's hugely popular song Mundeya Tu Bach Ke Rahi that we first heard in Kaizad Gustad's Boom starring Katrina Kaif.
We decided to look at other cases where Indian songs were used in Hollywood films.
Take a look.
Chhamma chhamma in Moulin Rouge
That's some way of recreating the song that featured in Bollywood's China Gate and had a Urmila Matondkar in an exotic headgear dancing to the song.
Image: Chhamma chhamma in Moulin Rouge
Chhaiyya chaiyya in Inside Man
The superhit song was first used in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se as Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora Khan danced atop a train.
Image: Chhaiyya chaiyya in Inside Man
Bombay theme in Lord Of War
Set to the background of Cage's monologue, the music provides reflective serenity to the scene.
Image: Bombay theme in Lord Of War
Swasme in The Accidental Husband
Uma Thurman-starrer The Accidental Husband features Tamil song Swasme from the film Thenali that released in 2000.
Sung by SP Balasubrahmanyam and Sadhana Sargam, the song serves as a backdrop while Uma Thurman is falling for the dishy Jeffrey Dean Morgan and the loved-up couple can't take their eyes off each other even though Thurman's character is at work.
Image: Swasme in The Accidental Husband


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Hey, I have an UT rash Raikou, interested in your shiny dratini and riolu.
Hey, I have an UT rash Raikou, interested in your shiny dratini and riolu.
if you want i can trade you a crobat lvl 100 shiny fully trained in emerald and traded in heart gold from the pal park.i want your ALAMOS darkrai.my code in heart gold is:
4770 2642 0471
i also have a timid nature suicune.if you wanna trade tell what you can give me.
Sorry for the confusion. I will be removing Rash Raikou from my wants.
For example, I traded 3 Shinies for the Darkrai. (No joke.) -.-
Platinum FC: 5242 0559 2182
White FC: 3095 6927 2410
Visit me at my 4th Gen Trade Shop!
Spoiler:- wants:
Male Egg Move Pokemon
ok no problem.do you want any other pokemon?
Hey if i help u send pokemon to your 5th Gen. game can i have the shiny Elekid?
I have a plenty of wish evees and belly drum, dragon dance, dracometeor charmanders.But i have to know if the elekid is 5th or 4th gen anyways i can trade any of those and if u need it a specific nature or boy or girl.
Opps i forgot u want all male.
Hello sentiment I was woundering if your interested in my palkia. Here is its info
Palkia / Nickname: Palkina / ID: 61759 / timid nature / lvl 89 / cured of pokerus / Stats: 293-226-210-300-255-267 / Moves: Draco Meteor 5/5 - Dragon Claw 15/15 - Water Pulse 20/20 - Spacial Rend 6/6 / Ribbons: Effort Ribbon - Sinnoh Champ Ribbon - Cool Ribbon
I would be interested in a shiny togepi modest nature with the ability serene grace.
Could aslo offer a UT SMR2010 Jirachi (with its berry) for a shiny modest togepi with serene grace + a shiny adamant dratini or shiny modest lapras. Here is the Jirachi's info (I got this event myself so I guarantee its 100% legit).
OT: SMR2010 / ID: 06260 / Nature: Bashful / Location: Pokemon Event / Apparently had a fateful encounter at Lv. 5. / Stats: 26-15-15-16-17-16 / Ability: Serene Grace / IV's: 25-9-9-25-25-9 / Moves: Wish 10/10 - Confusion 25/25 - Rest 10/10 - Draco Meteor 5/5 / Ribbons: Classic Ribbon
Last edited by spanton; 6th June 2011 at 10:58 PM.
Platinum FC: 5242 0559 2182
White FC: 3095 6927 2410
Visit me at my 4th Gen Trade Shop!
Spoiler:- wants:
Male Egg Move Pokemon
Interested in the following -
- Bronzor, Brave, lvl 1 UT
- Bulbasaur, Calm, lvl 1 UT
- Dratini, Mild, lvl 1 UT
- Elekid, Mild, lvl 1 UT
- Houndour, Hasty, lvl 1 UT
- Onix, Sassy, lvl 1 UT
- Riolu, Lonely, lvl 1 UT
- Skarmory, Impish, lvl 1 UT
- Togepi, Calm, lvl 1 UT (Serene Grace)
Offers, as always are @ my shop
I Quit SPPf (for the time being)
Had a blast, cheers
HI I am interested in your :
Birth Island Deoxys, lvl 30 UT
Michina Arceus, Sassy, lvl 100 UT
check my shop out for anything you'd like
Diamond 3180-9523-3867
Check out Zoe95's EVENT SHOP
Hello I have a UT Jolly Groudon which i would like to trade for some RNG pokemon just 2 a shiny Baltoy and a shiny Bellsprout.I think it is a nice little deal.
hello do you still have the shiny riolu and/or skarmory?
i would be willing to trade a lv4 shiny cubone UT and a lv 20 shiny roselia UT


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FREEPORT — A fire that started Sunday morning in a garage and spread to a camper trailer also damaged a nearby three-bedroom home on Fernald Road in Freeport.
Fire Chief Darrel Fournier said the cause of the blaze remains under investigation but added that an electric heater in the garage at 92 Fernald Road may have started it. There was also an electric heater operating in the camper.
By the time firefighters arrived at 8:30 a.m., the garage and trailer were engulfed in flames, Fournier said. Strong gusts of wind blew the flames toward the residence, a manufactured home. Fournier said the fire damaged the kitchen but did not spread to other parts of the home.
The home's owner and his adult son, who also was living in the camper trailer, escaped without injuries. They were able to return to their home on Sunday night. Total damage to the property was estimated at about $130,000.
The Brunswick, Yarmouth, Durham and Pownal fire departments helped Freeport fight the blaze.
Sunday's fire was the sixth fire in Freeport since November. Fournier said those fires were caused by food left on stoves and malfunctioning electrical equipment in the homes.


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The Council for the Advancement of Girls is very excited about our upcoming 3rd Annual L4C Conference! The conference is on October 31st, 2015 from 9am to 3:30pm. This is a "by girls, for girls" event and free to all participants. For more information about the day, see 3rd Annual L4C Conference.
If you haven't already, please register for the conference here.
We are very excited to see all of you in a few short weeks!


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I have backed myself into a corner, yet again.
Over thought.
Over worried.
Then I sat back and realized how silly are my worries.Completely, utterly, and alarmingly time consuming, crash inducing, and motivation killing is what they are.
Now that they are dead (evil cackle), I am determined not to befriend one anew.
Take this blog, for instance.
I started writing and felt an insane amount of happiness, but then … du du duuuuuh, I started worrying. Am I supposed to be creating tutorials, sharing crazy amounts of pictures from my everyday life, and keeping readers interested with a consistent outpouring of witty writings and thoughtful thoughts???
Dead in the water.
Not one post since that fateful day of overwhelming worriedness. Not one.
So is that why I am doing this? That's what I had to ask myself. If I don't tutorialize on the daily or weekly, maybe that's not my thing. If I'm not attempting to capture every life moment with a pic, then it would be a lie to try. Maybe, just maybe, I created this blog as a creative outlet. Just words, with an image or two thrown in. My little space on the internet to get cozy and chat with whomever might be reading this, if anybody. And if it's sent out to the void and never read, I will still be happy having shared. Period.
Not worrying about readers, followers, or naysayers is one of the best feelings e.v.e.r 🙂
I recently read a post by a friend of mine titled "Is blogging really worth it?" I didn't comment there, worry and I were still REALLY CLOSE, and I chickened out. A comment people! That was the freakishly high amount of self-distrust that I was having. So, anyways, it did get me thinking on what I had already been thinking on – namely the above stated doubts. That's when I had to sit and ponder the existence and purpose of blogs. Mine in particular.
So, there you have it.
I will write.
That's it.
Sometimes it will be about my fledgling business, sometimes maybe just a couple of words about the craziness that is parenting a la solo me, and maybe, occasionally I'll feel like sharing some pics, recipes, or other tidbits of inspiration. Whatevs 🙂
Like I always say … BECAUSE I CAN.
I wish you the most worry free day of your life!


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- Start of Business
- Schools Assistance Amendment Bill 2011
- Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
- Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 6) Bill 2011
- Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011
National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Bill 2011
- Second Reading
- Consideration in Detail
- Third Reading
- Military Justice (Interim Measures) Amendment Bill 2011
- Boyd-Turner, Ms Jan
- Tasmanian Football
- Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme
- Syria
- Live Animal Exports
- Military Working Dogs
- Barker, Mr Michael
- Road Transport Industry
- Kerr, Mr Graham
- St George Illawarra Dragons
Occupational Health and Safety
(Abbott, Tony, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
(O'Neill, Deb, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
Foreign Affairs
(Bishop, Julie, MP, Rudd, Kevin, MP)
(Perrett, Graham, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
Carbon Pricing
(Pyne, Christopher, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Mitchell, Rob, MP, Bowen, Chris, MP)
Carbon Pricing
(Truss, Warren, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
Workplace Relations
(Neumann, Shayne, MP, Crean, Simon, MP)
Carbon Pricing
(Tehan, Dan, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
Native Title
(Katter, Bob, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
Paid Parental Leave
(Vamvakinou, Maria, MP, Macklin, Jenny, MP)
Carbon Pricing
(Chester, Darren, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
(Burke, Anna, MP, Roxon, Nicola, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Morrison, Scott, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
Australian Natural Disasters
(Livermore, Kirsten, MP, McClelland, Robert, MP)
Asylum Seekers
(Markus, Louise, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
(Champion, Nick, MP, Garrett, Peter, MP)
Border Protection
(Keenan, Michael, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP)
Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement
(Lyons, Geoff, MP, Emerson, Craig, MP)
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Amendment Bill 2011
- Product Stewardship Bill 2011
- Combating the Financing of People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2011
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy (Collection) Bill 2011
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2011 Measures No. 1) Bill 2011, Aged Care Amendment Bill 2011, Customs Amendment (Export Controls and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2011, Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (MRCA Supplement) Bill 2011
- Customs Amendment (Serious Drugs Detection) Bill 2011
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Election Commitments and Other Measures) Bill 2011
- Higher Education Support Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2011
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2011, Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Oil Transfers) Bill 2011
- Military Justice (Interim Measures) Amendment Bill 2011
- Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Amendment (Registration of Foreign Proceeds of Crime Orders) Bill 2011
- Scott, Bruce, MP
- Foreign Investment
- Mining
- Valedictory
- Disability
- Kids of Macarthur Health Foundation
- Macartney, Ms Tess, Atkin, Ms Anne
- National Broadband Network
- International Development Assistance
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Moreton Electorate: Muslim Community
- High-Speed Rail
- Lyne Electorate: Floods
Main Committee
- Start of Business
- Cowper Electorate: Floods
- Rotary Club of West Torrens
- Latrobe Valley Airport
- Primary Industry Centre for Science Education
- Taylor, Mr John
- Robertson Electorate: Five Lands Walk
- Egypt
- Shortland Electorate: Youth at Risk Program
- Longman Electorate: Shekinah Centre
- Lindsay Electorate: St Mary's Public School
- Product Stewardship Bill 2011
Higher Education Support Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2011
Second Reading
- Ellis, Kate, MP
- Ley, Sussan, MP
- Thomson, Craig, MP
- Hawke, Alex, MP
- Stone, Dr Sharman, MP
- Secker, Patrick, MP
- Cheeseman, Darren, MP
- Marino, Nola, MP
- Neumann, Shayne, MP
- Gambaro, Teresa, MP
- Billson, Bruce, MP
- Billson, Bruce, MP
- Ciobo, Steven, MP
- Tehan, Dan, MP
- Wyatt, Ken, MP
- Andrews, Karen, MP
- Slipper, Peter, MP
- Ellis, Kate, MP
- Second Reading
After-Hours Medical Services (Question No. 120)
(Southcott, Dr Andrew, MP, Roxon, Nicola, MP)
Ministers: Staff, Capital Works and Acquisitions (Question Nos 241 and 255)
(Briggs, Jamie, MP, Rudd, Kevin, MP)
Computers in Schools (Question No. 320)
(Randall, Don, MP, Garrett, Peter, MP)
Imports: Narcotic, Psychotropic and Precursor Substances (Question No. 323)
(Fletcher, Paul, MP, Roxon, Nicola, MP)
- After-Hours Medical Services (Question No. 120)
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Mr MELHAM (Banks) (12:06): The National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Bill 2011 is about protecting Australians from unfair treatment in relation to credit card debt and helping them deal effectively with the banking system. It fulfils an election commitment by the government to assist in empowering consumers. The bill, firstly, seeks to regulate the circumstances in which borrowers go over their credit card limit and to abolish fees when they do so, except where the consumer has provided informed consent to opt in. At the moment, credit card providers usually allow credit card holders to spend over their limit and charge the cardholder an over the limit fee, which currently stands at about $225 per annum. The proposed reforms will allow consumers to go 10 per cent over the limit at the discretion of the lender and abolish the fee when the consumer does so. This discretion is important so that the lender can honour a critical payment, such as for an electricity bill. Consumers will be able to opt out of this default buffer or ask the lender for a larger buffer, depending on their individual circumstances.
Second, the bill seeks to ban unsolicited invitations to extend credit limits on credit cards. Unsolicited credit card limit extension offers can result in consumers ending up with much higher credit limits where they may only be able to repay the credit debt over a long period of time. This legislation will ban unsolicited extension offers from being sent to credit card holders unless they have previously given the organisation permission to send them.
Third, the bill seeks to require credit card providers to allocate payments to higher interest-bearing debts first. Currently, when consumers make repayments on debt the lenders automatically apply that repayment to the part of the debt on which the lowest rate of interest is charged. This bill reverses that so the repayments are applied to the higher interest-bearing debt first.
Fourth, the bill seeks to ensure that credit card application forms include a clear summary of key account features. This will ensure that consumers have the information about the key features up-front and hopefully these will be easily understood. It is anticipated that the facts sheet will include the interest rate on purchases, cash advances, promotional offers and other relevant fees.
Fifth, the bill seeks to require home loan lenders to give potential home loan borrowers a key facts sheet in order for the borrower to compare various home loans. This measure means that lenders must set out the costs of their standard home loans in a consistent and clear manner on a single page. In consumer testing of this proposal consumers found it extremely helpful and, because it was standardised across lenders, that it provided an easy comparison of home loan products.
This bill was sent to the House Standing Committee on Economics on 11 May this year. The committee recommended that the bill be adopted with one amendment. That amendment relates to the commencement date for clause 2—the key facts sheet for home loans. The committee recommended that the commencement date be amended to 1 January 2012 to allow banks more time to implement the reforms. The original date for implementation was 1 September 2011. This was confirmed by Treasury at the public hearing. The committee report noted, on page 13:
As with many reforms, there may be some teething issues and the committee would like to see some flexibility with enforcement in the early weeks. This would be especially so, given the traditionally high volume of credit transactions at the end of each calendar year.
The committee chair, the member for Dobell, Craig Thomson, noted in his foreword to the report:
The most important reform concerns unsolicited credit limit increase offers to individuals. The committee heard consistent evidence during the inquiry that the aggressive marketing by banks of limit increases was a key reason why some consumers have credit problems
The transcript of the public hearing, held on 25 May, is very interesting reading. Of particular significance was the evidence given by National Legal Aid and the Consumer Credit Legal Centre on the amount of work they do in representing people who are in debt because of credit cards. Mr Andrew Crockett, the chair of National Legal Aid, stated on page 24 of the transcript:
There was research done by the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales in 2006 in a number of disadvantaged areas in New South Wales and they found a very high incidence of legal events in people's lives. And 55 per cent of the events reported by respondents to that survey concerned consumer credit and debt issues. Similarly, in a more recent survey of legal needs in Australia commissioned by National Legal Aid, while we are still awaiting the final report of that survey, in the preliminary results, for the ACT anyway, we find about 26 per cent of reported legal events in people's lives relate to consumer and credit debt issues.
In essence, of the participants in the survey referred to, 55 per cent of the events were about credit card debt issues. We are all aware in this House of constituents who come to us for assistance when they are simply overwhelmed by the situation in which they find themselves because of credit card debt. Mr Coorey, a solicitor with National Legal Aid, went on to say that credit card debt is one of the most significant issues facing their more disadvantaged clients. He stated that economically and socially disadvantaged clients are more likely to end up in debt because of unsolicited credit card limit increases.
Later on in the hearing, during an interchange between Mr Brading from Wesley Community Legal Service and the member for Moncrieff—page 28 of the transcript—Mr Ciobo posed the question:
Are you saying that the most profitable group for a lender are those people who cannot afford to pay back the full balance every month? Is that what I am hearing from you?
Mr Brading replied: 'Correct.'
It is those people who are desperate to use their credit card and then find themselves only able to pay back the interest who enter into an almost unwinnable cycle of debt. Many people are in a position to pay off their credit card monthly, so the banks receive no interest from them. As Mr Brading said, it is those in the community who are in the most difficult financial circumstances that the banks benefit from, as they pay interest.
Ms Bond from the Consumer Action Law Centre provided an example—on page 29 of the transcript—of how this would occur. She said:
It is not that people get in trouble and then go out and get a credit card, but they start to get into trouble and perhaps they get a limit increase offer. Their mortgage is overdue and they have the offer, and so sometimes they accept these limit increases when they are in trouble, but it really is a combination of life events and the ease of use of credit and of increases when they are in trouble already.
The legislation before the House today also delivers on the government's commitment to introducing a compulsory one-page facts sheet for new home loan customers. There is no doubt that a home loan borrower is now faced with a bewildering array of choices when it comes to deciding the most appropriate home loan package. This is hardly made easier by the complexity of the materials provided by home loan lenders. Through the introduction of the facts sheet, the borrower will be in a better position to make an informed decision based on a side-by-side comparison. We know that choosing the best package for a home loan is one of the most important decisions that any of us can make. A mistake of half of one per cent can cost thousands of dollars, even tens of thousands, over the period of the loan. It is crucial that we have the information we need to make an informed decision presented in a format that allows easy comparison.
The explanatory memorandum provides some detail of what this facts sheet will provide, in part 3-2A. The terms of a home loan and types of contracts are usually regulated by the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009. The proposed key facts sheet for standard home loans will contain information and will comply with the regulations under the act. It is proposed that the key facts sheet will be prescribed by the regulations.
Chapter 2, item 2.11 of the explanatory memorandum outlines the summary of information to be provided by the facts sheet: the interest rate; the all-in rate—that is, the total cost including interest plus fees; the total cost of the home loan; particular product features; fees; and an explanation of how monthly payments will be affected if interest rates increase. With this simple facts sheet, home loan borrowers will be able to make a simple, straightforward comparison of the various options available to them.
What I find particularly pleasing about this legislation is that it comes from a COAG agreement. This is what good governance is about—states and territories working together with the Commonwealth to ensure equitable outcomes for all Australians, regardless of which state or territory they live in. I commend the bill to the House.


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One of these days, Congress needs to raise the federal debt limit. As of Nov. 3, the debt subject to limit was $11,978 billion--and the limit is $12,104 billion. With the Treasury needing to borrow $26 billion per week to finance this fiscal year's deficit, time is clearly running out.
Raising the debt limit is always contentious. Members of the party opposite the president always demagogue the issue--and just as predictably switch gears when a president of their party is in the White House. For example, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., had these choice words about an increase in the debt limit in 2006, when a Republican was president:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren."
Obama even voted against raising the debt limit that day. But in a few weeks, he will be begging his former colleagues to pretty please vote for a debt limit increase lest the government run out of cash and grind to a halt.
To make the medicine go down a little more easily, some congressmen and senators are hoping to attach an amendment to the debt limit legislation that would establish yet another commission to study the deficit and make recommendations for reducing it. We've had a number of such things in the past. Here are a few off the top of my head:
Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commission), 1947-1949; President's Commission on Budget Concepts, 1967; National Commission on Social Security Reform (Greenspan Commission), 1981-1983; President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission), 1982-1984; President's Commission on Privatization, 1987-1988; National Economic Commission, 1987-1989; Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform (Kerrey-Danforth Commission), 1993-1995; President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting, 1997-1999; U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, 1998-2000; President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, 2001; President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, 2005.
In addition, there have been any number of ad hoc working groups in the administration and on Capitol Hill, plus innumerable studies by the Congressional Budget Office, Government Accountability Office and other governmental bodies on the problems of debt/deficits/entitlements/taxes that would fill a small library. For decades the CBO has regularly published a convenient list of options for reducing deficits that have been ignored just as regularly.
Although some commissions had a modest impact, for the most part they were forgotten the day after their report was issued. The exceptions were those that involved recommendations the administration could implement without legislative action or those where there was a clear consensus for action that just required a bit of cover and direction. The Greenspan Commission on Social Security, for example, was up against a hard deadline for fixing a specific problem that forced legislative action.
Those proposing another commission are hopeful that this one will be different by making it similar to the various Base Realignment and Closure Commissions that recommended closure of military bases that were no longer needed. Their key feature was that the president had to approve or disapprove the recommendations as a package and they were implemented automatically unless both houses of Congress passed a resolution of disapproval.
The new budget commission's recommendations would not be implemented automatically, but would be guaranteed an up-or-down vote on the package as a whole. This is important because budget deals necessarily involve trade-offs. If the commission members don't believe any deals they make will be honored they have no incentive to do anything except posture.
For this reason, I also think Congress should avoid even allowing deficit-neutral amendments to the package. First, it's too easy to pay for real spending increases with phony-baloney savings. Second, if amendments are allowed it will be harder for the commission to make trade-offs if those deals are potentially expendable. And third, it could easily lead extraneous issues to be raised that are potential deal-breakers.
I think the commission could be strengthened in a number of ways. The biggest problem is that it would largely be composed of members of Congress. In theory, this gives members a stake in the outcome. But in fact, their presence virtually ensures failure.
First of all, members of Congress don't have the time to devote to a budget commission on top of their day jobs. Second, it is unrealistic to believe that they are ever going to support actions that harm their primary constituency. For example, no farm state representative is ever going to support sharp cuts in agricultural subsidies.
In my opinion, the commission should have no members of Congress at all among its members. Former politicians with no further political ambitions would be far better suited to the task. They can speak the truth in a way no sitting member can about things like putting higher taxes on the table as part of a deficit reduction package.
The chairs of such a commission are absolutely critical to its success. (Bipartisan co-chairs are probably unavoidable.) As a practical matter, they are going to be its public face and its driving force. Weak chairs or those not absolutely committed to a successful outcome--which doesn't mean just issuing a report, but seeing the package enacted into law--will doom the venture out of the box. I think former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush would be ideal since they both enacted meaningful deficit reduction legislation.
Having a good quality staff is also critical. Too often these commissions try to operate on the cheap with detailed staff from federal departments. Congress needs to appropriate adequate funds to hire good quality staff and consultants and give them access to all the resources they need to do their jobs. I would suggest hiring a former Congressional Budget Office director to be the chief of staff. They know the issues and the political problems inherent of crafting proposals for congressional consumption.
One thing to be avoided, in my opinion, is public hearings. They are just a waste of time. The idea that average people have worthwhile ideas about cutting the deficit that no one has thought of before or rise above the level of cutting foreign aid and pork is a myth. However, I think the commission might usefully invest in a good pollster to gauge the political toxicity of some ideas before putting them forward.
One idea the commission might get some mileage out of is allowing the discounted present value of some entitlement program changes to be counted toward deficit reduction now. For example, an increase in the retirement age would need to be phased in over a period of decades and will save real money, but not for a long time in cash-flow terms. This tends to put such an idea off the agenda when deficit reduction is discussed because there is always a premium on near-term savings. If some portion of out-year savings can be counted immediately then it will make programmatic changes in entitlements much easier to enact.
Finally, I think Congress needs a substantial debate on the scope and necessity of significant deficit reduction in advance of creating a commission. In this respect, I think the enabling legislation needs to spell out, in a broad way, what the deficit reduction package should contain. It's not enough to just say that all options are on the table.
I believe that a deficit reduction target should be specified--$X trillion over 10 years with, say, a third coming from higher revenues, a third from entitlements and a third from discretionary spending. In particular, unless Congress commits itself in advance to raising taxes then I think the whole exercise will be for naught because that will be the toughest nut to crack.
It's unrealistic to think that a budget commission is going to find some painless way of reducing benefits and raising taxes--taking real dollars out of people's pockets. If Congress acknowledges this fact up front then I think there is a much better chance that the commission will be able to come up with the best ways of doing so.
For all the hand-wringing about the deficit, especially among Republicans who didn't give a damn when they were in power, I don't think Congress is yet to the point where it is ready to grapple seriously with it. That will only happen when the American people are suffering from problems that can plausibly be traced directly to the deficit. At that point, deficit reduction will have mass support because whatever pain it involves will be seen as less than that caused by inflation and high interest rates.
We may not be that far from the point at which those factors begin to have political importance. It's a certainty that both inflation and interest rates will rise from where they are now--just getting back to historical rates will involve a significant increase from current levels. By the time the budget commission finishes its work in a year or so the political climate may be quite different than it is today.
Bruce Bartlett is a former Treasury Department economist and the author of Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action and Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. His new book is The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward. He writes a weekly column for Forbes.com.
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FIBA World Cup preview - two horse race this year?
In-Play trader Maciej Bogdanski offers his thoughts on the FIBA World Cup
Less than a month left to the FIBA World Cup Spain 2014, the biggest international event in the basketball world.
Let's have a look at the favourites and teams most fancied by punters.
USA, usual suspects to win gold, now 9/20 from 4/11, look very strong as always. Despite some withdrawals due to injuries, experienced coach Mike Krzyzewski will do everything to make sure that the NBA pack, led by Kevin Durant of Oklahoma City Thunder, will defend the title they won in 2010 in Turkey.
This young American team (average age - 24) is the most popular choice among punters so far.
Hosts Spain are second favourites at @2/1. Their experienced squad is a deadly mix of top European teams and NBA players with star player, Pau Gasol (Chicago Bulls) available for international selection after missing last year's European Championship due to injury.
The Spaniards are 2/5 favourite to win their group (against Egypt, France, Iran, Brazil and Serbia). USA's and Spain's paths will not cross earlier than the final game - both teams were seeded in the group draw.
So, you might think that it will be a two horse race this year. You can not be more wrong!
France, reigning European Champions, bring no less than 6 NBA players to the tournament, and are fancied by punters to win the World Cup @33/1 and also to win Group A @11/2 (second favourites to Spain). France's odds drifted from 28/1 and 5/1 respectively after withdrawal of their leader, Tony Parker (LA Lakers) who takes summer off international duty.
Greece - runners up in World Cup 2006 - bring most of their best players from the top European teams (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Olympiakos, Panathinaikos).
They are 33/1 to win gold and 5/4 favourites to win Group B against Argentina, Croatia, Philippines, Senegal and Puerto Rico.
After rather disappointing seasons in the football and volleyball at international level this year, all eyes in Brazil are on the national basketball team! After injury plagued them last year, all their best players are available for Spain 2014.
Brazil are one of most experienced teams in the tournament - average age over 29. They are priced up at 33/1 to win the tournament and 6/1 (behind Spain and France) to win Group A. The opening day fixture France v Brazil looks very tasty for basketball fans.
Brazil's arch rivals, Argentina, are 40/1 to win the tournament. They are considered the main threat to Greece to finish on the top of Group B (Greece - 5/4, Argentina - 11/8).
The team suffered a big blow at the beginning of August - veteran leader Manu Ginobili (SA Spurs) became unavailable to selection due to injury. Despite that, the Argentine team will be very dangerous - NBA and Spanish ACB League players supported by domestic league talent can always mix up, not only at the group stage.
Another team widely regarded to be a "dark horse" this year is Lithuania. Last year's European Championship runners-up, their team is loaded with experience from top European clubs and are 8/11 favourite to win Group D and 40/1 to win 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
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