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Clare Valley Toyota – Finance & Insurance
380 Main North Rd
Clare SA 5453
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Finance & Insurance Opening Hours
Monday – Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
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Finance & Insurance
We are here to help you protect your investment by offering a comprehensive range of products to suit your needs, whether that be for a new or used vehicle, private or business or for a fleet purchase.
Personal Finance
If you are looking to purchase a new or used motor vehicle that will be driven predominantly for personal, domestic or household use, a Toyota Financial Services Personal Vehicle Loan is a flexible way to get into the car you want today.
Business Finance
A Business Vehicle Loan is a flexible commercial loan designed for sole traders, partnerships and companies that are looking to finance a vehicle used primarily for business purposes. Your business owns the vehicle and we take a mortgage over it, so it remains an asset of your business.
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Long gone are the days of one-size-fits-all car loans. With Toyota Finance, you can now use your Credit Score and other relevant criteria to secure an interest rate that's tailored to you unique circumstances.
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Toyota Insurance has you covered
With so many providers offering complicated policies, insurance can be a foggy issue. But now the choice is clear. Toyota Insurance is designed for your Toyota by the people who know it best. It just makes sense. And you know you can count on the quality and value you've come to expect as a Toyota owner. From car insurance, to finance protection insurance, to finance gap insurance to extended warranty insurance, the choice is clear.
Motor Vehicle Insurance
If anything happens to your Toyota you'll want to know you're in safe hands. You can trust the experts at Toyota Insurance to get you back on the road in no time. Plus, we give you the reassurance that repairs will be done using Toyota Genuine Parts made specifically to fit your Toyota.
Key benefits include:
- Replacement with a new Toyota after a total loss.
- Quality repairs with Toyota Genuine Parts.
- Lifetime Repair Guarantee.
To find out more download the Motor Vehicle Insurance Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and the Financial Services Guide (FSG).
Finance Protection Insurance
If you're off work for a length of time due to illness or accidental injury, or following involuntary redundancy, our Finance Protection Insurance policy is designed to help. It assists you in meeting your finance contract repayments up to the maximum cover amount you've chosen1.
Depending upon your circumstances, Finance Protection Insurance can help you to1:
- Make your vehicle repayments
- Reduce your financial burden
- Keep your vehicle; or
- Return your vehicle to exit your loan
To find out more download the Finance Protection Insurance Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and the Financial Services Guide (FSG).
Finance Gap Insurance
If your car is written off as the result of an accident or theft, there may be a gap between the amount your comprehensive insurer pays you and the outstanding balance on your vehicle finance contract. You could also be up for extra costs when you buy a replacement vehicle. That's where Finance Gap Insurance comes in.
Key benefits include:
- Receive up to $30,000 for gap payments.
- Provides financial support that can assist you to purchase a replacement vehicle.
To find out more download the Finance Gap Insurance Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and the Financial Services Guide (FSG).
Factory Approved Extended Warranty Insurance
Factory Approved Extended Warranty Insurance covers the repair or replacement of any Toyota component defective in materials or workmanship under normal operation and use. Plus, all repairs will be performed using only Toyota Genuine Parts. Any parts and accessories purchased will also be covered for the remaining period of cover.
Is my Toyota Eligible?
Factory Approved Extended Warranty insurance is exclusively available for Toyota pre-owned vehicles that do not have "Toyota Warranty Advantage" and can be purchased whilst the vehicle is still within the Toyota new vehicle warranty period. You can also purchase Factory Approved Extended Warranty insurance when purchasing a Toyota pre-owned vehicle from a Toyota Dealer, provided the vehicle is less than 8 years old, travelled less than 120,000km and is not covered by "Toyota Warranty Advantage".
To find out more download the Factory Approved Extended Warranty Insurance Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and the Financial Services Guide (FSG).
Toyota Access
Toyota Access is an easy and flexible way to put you in complete control when you're buying a new car. The great thing about Toyota Access is it enables you to choose the car you really want today and still keep your options open tomorrow.
Whatever stage you're at in life – going off to university, starting out on a career, settling down with a family or getting your life back as the kids leave home – you can have confidence about what's ahead. Toyota Access puts you in the driver's seat with flexibility and assurance.
You control the details
Toyota Access takes the worry out of buying a car and provides great reassurance because Toyota guarantees the future value of the car.
The Guaranteed Future Value [T14] is the minimum value
of your New Toyota at the end of the loan term and is the amount Toyota Finance will pay you and be put against your final payment should you decide to return your car at the end of the term.
And, because Toyota Access comes with low monthly repayments and a short loan period, you can upgrade to any New Toyota without worry or hassle [T16].
At the time of purchase
- Select your new Toyota.
- Nominate the deposit you'd like to pay if any.
- Choose your term and number of kilometres you expect to travel over the term.
- Toyota Finance will calculate the Guaranteed Future Value [T14] of your new Toyota.
- Toyota Finance will then calculate your monthly repayments, with a final payment equal to your Guaranteed Future Value [T14].
Tailor your own affordable package
Once you've chosen the vehicle you want, simply tell us if you'd like to pay a deposit (if so how much) and how long
you'd like the agreement to last for. Then you tell us the amount of kilometres you expect to do and based on this, we will work out the Guaranteed Future Value [T14] of the car. So you know exactly where you stand and can confidently plan your budget, way ahead.
We'll then put together an affordable monthly payment schedule. Obviously, the more deposit you pay the less the repayments will be. The shorter your loan term is, the sooner you can trade up, or down, to a new Toyota model.
You decide what to do next
At the end of the agreement, you are still in control. You can decide whether to: Trade in or sell your Toyota – use the trade-in value or sale price to pay the remaining balance of your account. Keep your Toyota – simply pay the outstanding balance (including the final payment). We can help you refinance the balance if you don't have the cash on hand (conditions apply). Return your Toyota – we'll pay you the Guaranteed Future Value [T14] we agreed at the start of your term and put it against the remaining balance owing on your account (subject to Fair Wear and Tear conditions and agreed kilometres being met).
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1Terms and conditions apply. This advice is general in nature and does not take into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. Before making a decision to purchase any of the insurance products you should consider the appropriateness of the advice taking into account your own objectives, financial situation and needs and refer to the current PDS for the relevant product available from participating Dealers, via our website at toyotainsurance.com.au or by calling 137 200. Toyota Insurance purchased in a dealership or via the Toyota Insurance National Customer Solutions Centre is issued by Toyota Finance Australia Limited (TFAL) ABN 48 002 435 181, AFSL and Australian Credit Licence 392536. The insurer is Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Company Australia Pty Ltd ABN 11 132 524 282, AFSL 443540 (Adica). If Toyota Insurance is purchased online, the issuer and insurer is Adica. Our warranty insurance policies do not change or take away your rights under the Australian Consumer Law. Your right to claim under our warranty insurance policies for the benefits covered is in addition to other rights and remedies you have under the law in relation to your vehicle. However, you can choose to make a claim under any of our warranty insurance policies even if you have rights under the law.
The information on this website is of a general nature and for information only. Nothing on this website constitutes or should be considered to constitute legal, taxation or financial advice. Before making a decision about any of the products and services featured on this website, you should consult with your own independent legal, taxation and financial advisors, who can advise you about your personal circumstances.
[T14] Guaranteed Future Value is the minimum value of your new Toyota at the end of your finance contract, as determined by Toyota Finance. If you decide to return your car to Toyota at the end of the term of your finance contract, Toyota Finance will pay you the Guaranteed Future Value (subject to Fair Wear and Tear and agreed kilometres requirements being complied with). This amount will be applied to your finance contract to satisfy your final balloon payment obligation. The information provided is general in nature. You should seek your own financial advice to determine whether Toyota Access is appropriate for your individual circumstances. Terms and conditions, fees and charges apply. Toyota Access Guaranteed Future Value (GFV) products are available to approved customers of Toyota Finance a division of Toyota Finance Australia Limited ABN 48 002 435 181, Australian Credit Licence 392536. Toyota Access available at selected Toyota Dealers only. [T16] Lower monthly repayments compared to similar term with no Guaranteed Future Value (GFV) or equivalent balloon final payment. Total interest charges will be higher if a GFV or balloon final payment is selected. Toyota Finance is a division of Toyota Finance Australia Limited ABN 48 002 435 181, AFSL and Australian Credit Licence 392536.


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The NEA Higher Education Advocate April 2008
Digital Immigrants
Has the digital age left the nation's professoriate in the dust? Our students, writes the author of this issue's Thriving in Academe, have grown up in a digital world. The language of computers, video games, and the Internet is their first language. Most professors are trying to pick up this second language on the run. Will we be forever out of touch? Don't despair! Lighten up! Help is on the way!
Inside this Issue:
...About a recent survey that finds community colleges will need to reach out to their incoming students earlier and more aggressively if they want to retain a higher percentage of their students.
In February, I traveled to Cheyenne, Wyoming, with NEA Organizational Specialist Phadra Williams, to meet with leaders and staff of the Wyoming Education Association (WEA) and plan a membership recruitment and engagement campaign for the coming year.
The NEA-supported international federation of unions celebrates 15 years of championing the universal right to education.
UCLA's annual survey of freshmen attending the nation's four-year colleges and universities finds the quality of education continues to be an important value.
House and Senate education committees have held hearings in recent weeks to monitor issues relating to student loan availability in light of current woes affecting the banking industry.
Education Support Professionals at Nebraska's Central Community College have won two union certification elections since the first of the year.
This section is intended to promote ever more effective teaching and learning in higher education through dialogue among colleagues.
The nation's colleges and universities and the systems they are part of employed 3.54 million people in the fall of 2006.
Are advanced placement courses legitimate college courses?
Serving a local of almost 1800 members, comprising academic and support professionals, ranging from physicians to administrative assistants to Web developers and more than 100 other staff classifications, has proven to be a challenge.

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From the Heart
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
I was beyond tickled when I received this beautiful photo, a gift from my very talented and lovely salon team.
The playful spirit captured in this image highlights their infallible charm.
Their smiles are genuine. Their thoughtfulness, sincere.
Lucky for me, or rather, we...these gals are the source of our strength and the heart of our business.
Thank you, ladies! It's a pleasure to have you on our team!
Yours truly, Amy


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A lot of Green and some Cardinal Red
Bisons.com is at the impressive Wild World of Sports Complex (30+ fields) at Disney for the Mets game against the Atlanta Braves today.
A great crowd of about 10,000 is on hand for St. Patty's Day at the ballpark. The Mets and Braves players are sporting special green caps and shamrocks have been painted on the infield dirt at second, short and behind the second base bag. Of course, the crowd has followed suit with plenty of green apparel.
With Johan Santana back at Tradition Field, the Mets are going with lefty Jonathan Niese today. One of the pitchers in the mix for the back-end of New York's rotation, Niese has had the exact same pitching line in each of his first two spring starts: 2.0IP, 2H, 2R, 2BB, 2K.
The ceremonial first pitch went to Florida-native and Arizona Cardinals WR Anquan Boldin. Boldin was Florida's High School Mr. Football in 1998 and attended Florida State University.
Boldin got a big hand for his pitch, but it paled in comparison to the one received by his mound escort…Goofy!
-Brad Bisbing
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I was sad to see the Jays didn't get the Buffalo AAA affiliate this year. The Blue Jays actually playing some regular season games in Orlando last year against Tampa. They didn't work out too well for Toronto. Tampa had a good team last year.


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Money will be a big story leading into Election Day – so much so that the Associated Press Managing Editors association decided to make tracking election spending this year's APME national reporting project.
APME kicked off the project in July and August with five free webinars on campaign finance by The Associated Press and the Sunlight Foundation that attracted dozens of reporters and editors from across the country. Now we are entering the next phase of the project, and we need your help. We are gathering examples uncovered by APME member newspapers following the money that special interests are spending to try to sway voters, particularly outside spending on TV ads due in part to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
It's easy to contribute: When you run a story about interest groups funding TV ads and other election activities in your area, e-mail a copy to AP reporter Sharon Theimer at firstname.lastname@example.com. Your stories will be posted here. We will be accepting contributions through Election Day.
Here are some of the stories that have been submitted:
RICHMOND (VA.) TIMES-DISPATCH: Perriello, Hurt banking funds for homestretch
The major-party candidates duking it out in the 5th congressional district reported six-figure fundraising for the most recent campaign finance reporting period. Republican state Sen. Robert Hurt outraised his Democrat rival Rep. Tom Perriello in the third quarter, which ran July 1 to Sept. 30, by taking in his largest amount yet. Perriello's campaign said it will report having raised $810,000 in that time frame, giving him $1.3 million on hand in the final stretch of the contest, which is one of the closest watched races in the country.
RICHMOND (VA.) TIMES-DISPATCH: Congressional races flush with cash in Va.
National special-interest groups and political committees have poured millions of dollars into three of Virginia's most competitive congressional races, underscoring the high stakes in the Nov. 2 election. In the 5th District, 19 outside groups have spent $3.2 million on the contest, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, who won his seat in 2008 by just 727 votes, is trying to fight off a challenge by Republican state Sen. Robert Hurt. In the 2nd District, six groups have spent $1.2 million.
The Middletown Press, Middletown, Conn.: Conn. firms say they could have handled the demands of campaign videos
While millions of dollars are being spent this election season on out-of-state companies' campaign videos for Connecticut candidates, several production companies here at home say they could have done the job too.But most aren't getting asked.
The Middletown Press, Middletown, Conn.: McMahon, Malloy, Foley and Bluementhal spend millions on out-of-state companies
With Nov. 2 fast approaching, the Connecticut television market is being flooded with campaign ads essentially making the same marketing pitch: candidates from both major parties shaking hands with workers, smiling for the camera, criticizing their opponents, and talking about jobs. It's a dominant issue during a time when the state is facing a $3.5 billion deficit and the country as a whole is still struggling through a recession. The issue of jobs is a core message for all local candidates, who have spent a majority of their money – both personally funded and raised – outsourcing to top-notch production companies that perform work exclusively for either Democrats or Republicans.
The Columbus Dispatch: Court ruling boon to Portman campaign
WASHINGTON - Before a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in January, the most Cincinnati billionaire Carl Lindner could directly contribute to Senate candidate Rob Portman was $4,800. But because of a decision opening campaigns to corporate contributions, Lindner's American Financial Group was able to give 83 times that amount, $400,000, to a group backing the Republican's campaign - although the group says Lindner's cash wasn't specifically earmarked for pro-Portman efforts. This is perhaps the best example to date of a big-dollar impact in Ohio stemming from the high court's "Citizens United" campaign-finance decision, which cleared the way for corporations and labor unions to spend money advocating for the election or defeat of specific candidates.
Northeast Miss. Daily Journal (Tupelo): State's 1st District race to see a wealth of financing
Take your home phone off the hook or stock up on movies to watch between now and the Nov. 2 general election, experts suggest.
Political campaigning moves into its peak season. Computerized calls from celebrities, pro or con about candidates.
Massive television advertising. Fliers filling the mailbox. "Expect robo-calls, all kinds of mailers, tons of stuff," predicted Tim Sahd, who keeps track of U.S. House races for National Journal's The Hotline out of the nation's capital. Pam Johnson of Brandon, who has been involved with Mississippi campaigns through the years, agreed. "Unfortunately, we can expect outrageous spending by special interest groups this year," she said. "That means there will be a huge chorus of messages – some true, some not so much – paid for by who knows whom."
Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Owens far outraises Doheny, Hoffman
Incumbent Congressman Bill Owens far outraised his two Republican opponents during the last fundraising cycle. According to the pre-primary reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Owens, D-Plattsburgh, raised $126,683.28 between July 1 and Aug. 25, ending the period with $599,805.87 in cash on hand.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Murphy has money lead on Gibson
Both Scott Murphy and Chris Gibson's campaigns say they have reason to cheer about their latest campaign finance filings. Murphy outraised Gibson by nearly $65,000 from July 1 to Aug. 25 and now has a lead of about $900,000 in cash on hand. However, Gibson's campaign says he raised more from individuals, more from within the state and district, and more than any other challenger for a New York congressional seat.
The state's powerful teachers union has given $500,000 to political action committees that contributed to an effort to attack Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne. The ads refer to Byrne as a liberal trial lawyer and are paid for by True Republican PAC of Linden.
True Republican PAC, according to a review of campaign finance documents filed with the Alabama secretary of state's office, has received most of its funding from PACs heavily funded by the Alabama Education Association.
Montgomery Advertiser: Reports show why PAC-to-PAC transfer ban needed, Byrne says
Before Friday, campaign finance reports showed that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne received money from four political action committees on the same day that those PACs received money from gambling interests. But the Alabama Nursing Home Association amended those four reports to show that Byrne, who has said he adamantly opposes gambling, received his money before gambling interests gave to the four PACs. Marty Sullivan, director of communications and policy for Byrne, said the situation shows the need for campaign finance reform in Alabama. Other Republicans and Democrats, including House Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, have called for a ban on the transfer of money between political action committees.
Montgomery Advertiser: $1M ad buy had some hopefuls worried
It may have wound up being much ado about nothing, but the combination of the state laws that make it easy to conceal where political action committee funds originally came from and a mysterious $1 million fund had candidates worried earlier this week. Before the mysterious New Sons of Liberty group announced it had decided not to go ahead with a proposed $1 million ad buy concerning Alabama's gubernatorial campaign, candidates on both sides of the aisle had expressed concern about the out of state group and its intentions.
Politicos wanted to know whom the group was targeting and widespread rumors had been circulating for two weeks.
Here are questions we hope your contributions and the national story will answer:
APME member newspapers will be covering every contested state, House and Senate race in the country, and ourgoal is to use what they are seeing toprovide readers with a collective picture of election spending more comprehensive than they can find anywhere else. We hope you will take part.If you have any questions, please contact APME Secretary Bob Heisse at email@example.com (814) 231-4640 or AP reporter Sharon Theimer at email@example.com or (202) 641-9466.APME member newspapers are also invited to join a special listserv focusing on campaign finance coverage and the reporting project. Please contact Sharon if you would like to join. Thank you for your help.
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Tagged: 2002 World Series
Obstructions and Umpire Decisions and Unbearable Game Conclusions, Oh My!!
So, a Trip-Off Obstruction, eh? That's certainly, well, something. One might even say it sets a new standard…well…a new standard for post season game win oddities at any rate.
Look, for the record I think the obstruction call was the correct, by the rules call. Would Allen Craig have scored if he hadn't tripped over Will Middlebrooks? Yes. Was Middlebrooks in the path of the runner, limbs flailing as he was trying to get up? Yes. Does intention ever have anything to do with an obstruction or interference call? No. But I don't particularly want to rehash the whole thing here. As ever, this isn't that kind of blog. I've read several fascinating in depth analyses of the play, the subsequent call and the intricacies of MLB's rulebook on other blogs and news sites. There is no way I could possibly handle it any better than my peers and betters, so I see little point in being redundant by even trying.
Something that interests me more, if only for the fact that I haven't seen anyone discussing it, is why, to the fan, we're all so disappointed by the call even if we happen to agree with it. I mean, I agree with the call but I finished that game feeling decidedly blah and I'm kind of a stats and rules nerd. *pauses briefly to pelt her husband with a pillow for scoffing at the 'kind of' part of that phrase* I think it boils down to this: in baseball, we love our oddities. We adore firsts, onlies, one of the fews and near misses. We keep more detailed and incredibly situation specific stats that any other sport. We adore rules and technicalities and we absolutely live to argue. But even the most geeky, nerdy and pedantic among us backs all of that up with an intense passion. Seriously. Go watch reruns of the last season of Clubhouse Confidential if you don't believe me. As proof goes, watching Bill James unexpectedly go completely fanboy over some of his player exceptions to sabermetric stats and seeing Brian Kenny initially flabbergasted and then unable to keep from joining in, is pretty much incontrovertible.
So, as I was saying…we love rules and technicalities, but do we want to see a game won on a technicality no matter how correct the call? No, absolutely not. Even in an average, regular season game a conclusion that passion and skill free would be kind of a letdown. And this is the World Series, a meeting of the best of the absolute best that both leagues have to offer. I mean, we all understand that every single World Series game can't be the stuff of legends – we've all seen our share of dull and uninspired post season play. But so much about the World Series is frequently epic that we have certain expectations as fans. I mean, Doc's no hitter. Gibby's straight from the comic books walk off homerun. That absolutely amazing extra innings come back, re-come back, come back again, extravaganza of a Cardinals/Rangers game six. The Angels coming back from certain defeat in game six to win the whole thing in game sev…what? Did I ever promise any of you I wouldn't Angels' fangirl in these electronic pages? No. Exactly! Quite the opposite, in fact. 😉
In this excitement filled environment, in which history has taught us to expect magnificent feats of baseball derring-do, anything less than a heated, closely contested match is already a serious letdown. So a strange fine print rules-based victory is especially anticlimactic…probably even for Cardinals' fans, though they'll still happily take it as they should. Now, does any of that mean that the umpires should have called the play differently? Well, should a World Series team slaughtering their opponents 12 to 0 in the 6th inning let the other guys score a little so that the fans get a more exciting game? Of course not, that would be beyond ridiculous…and so would be the umpires calling that play any differently just because it's the World Series. Yes, it's unsatisfying…so do the same thing you'd be doing if the scenario were any other unsatisfying conclusion to a World Series game – or any other game for that matter – and hope that the next one is better.
Of course, I can tell you one positive outcome of the obstruction call…no one's continuing to beat a dead horse over that overturned call at second now, are they? 😉
I-5 Bias: The 2013 Season's End Edition
Welcome to I-5 Bias: the 2013 Season's End Edition! This is the latest in what continues to be a fun, occasional, throughout the season collaboration between this Angels blogger and Matt Lowry of Dodger Familia Thoughts, a great Dodgers blogger and friend of this blog. Matt and I were originally inspired to start this column by the huge shift in attention the AL and NL West have enjoyed. Between tough competitions down to the October wire, prominent postseason performances and some pretty loud player acquisitions, the AL and NL West, and frequently my Angels and his Dodgers specifically, have been big, big news. So we thought that we would share our perspective on these two Freeway Series rivals, to entertain, inform and, hey, to spark conversation and debate. Why not! East Coast bias? No, forget that. From now on it's I-5 bias instead!
Understandably, I almost didn't want to do this edition, given the Angels sad, sad finish. But I would be a poor sport indeed if I didn't continue in light of my fellow blogger's team's huge success. So, *mumbles* Congratulations Dodgers and good luck. Angels, kindly get it together this offseason – pretty please! And hopefully the next postseason will have more of a both ends of the I-5 vibe – not that a Freeway Series with Vin Scully announcing and the Angels ultimately victorious – naturally! – isn't a bucket list level dream of mine or anything…nope, not at all. *nods* But I digress…
For this edition, we have posed six questions prompted by our teams' final season records and the ensuing fan and media commentary, to be answered on both of our blogs. We hope you enjoy this freeway collaboration and, hey, if anyone has any burning questions for future editions (yes, even snotty ones), please ask away:
The Dodgers and the Angels both had abysmal starts to their seasons. But by the end of June, the Dodgers started to turn things completely around. What are your thoughts on the Dodgers comeback/why do you think they were able to turn their season around?
Matt says: It's amazing to think about what the Dodgers did. At the begining a lot of things were going completely wrong. Injuries, Leaving runners on base, Errors, Mismanagement, I mean whatever you thought of it happened with the Dodgers. When they went on that run It was unbelieveable run and took first place, There was a feeling that this team could do something special. How they were able to turn it around? Honestly there was a number of things. Everyone started to trust one another, In an Interview before the Blue Jays Series Adrian Gonzalez and AJ Ellis said that everyone on that team started to trust each other. Taking a few pitches and not over do things knowing the next guy behing them. Anotheher was the pitching started to get better. If you look at the Dodgers Statisiticly pitching it started with their top two starting pitchers in Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw. In the 2nd half both are a world better with low ERA's and great win-loss records so there was no doubt that they would get it together. The rest of the staff on the other hand really went on to shock me. Ricky Nolasco was really getting it together, Hyun Jin Ryu continued his success, and the Bullpen as a whole managed to get better and the addition of Brian Wilson made it better as well. Let's also not forget about Yasiel Puig! I think he was the huge spark that the Dodgers needed with his play.
Kristen says: I think it was as close to a perfect storm of good as a team can get – things started clicking for the Dodgers when Yasiel Puig debuted right as key players started coming off the DL. This is, perhaps, an oversimplified explanation for a pretty epic comeback, but that's all I've got and, really, it's no worse than Vin's Magic Castle explanation. 😉
And what are your thoughts on the Angels continually frustrating season/why do you think they weren't able to turn their season around?
Kristen says: Frustrating doesn't even begin to cover it. Trust me, I watched something like 145 of 162. Seriously. There are a lot of things that went wrong – injuries, veterans failing to perform, an on again/off again offense – but I think that the worst thing, the truly irreparable nail in the coffin, was pitching. This is a team that had relied on stellar pitching for the last string of seasons and they went into 2013 without a true starting rotation and no improvements to speak of in a shaky bullpen. Then injuries and aging arms made the pitching situation even worse and the powers that be failed to make any moves that constituted so much as a legitimate patch before the trade deadline – not that they really had a lot of funds to make such a thing possible by that point in the season.
Matt says: The Angels were a team I thought would also get it together in the 2nd half of the season. They had the offensive fire power, Pujols, Trout, and Kendrick was doing their thing, Josh Hamilton was starting to come around but ultimately the Angels couldn't get it done. You had the injury to Albert that put himout for the rest of the season and inconsistant play it just wasn't good all around. I think what hurt the Angels was the inconsistant ball play. The inability to really put something together to make a run hurt them. In the AL West you can't afford to lose series against the A's and Rangers and expect to make up ground. Droping games against Seattle and Houston didn't help at all either. I believe the Angels needed to get it together consistantly and didn't.
With postseason baseball coming for the Dodgers what is their biggest strength and weakness? How far do you think they can go?
Matt says: Their biggest strength will be pitching. I always preach that pitching will win you championships. Look at the Giants in 2010-2012 and look at the Phillies 2008-2009. Both had a great pitching staff that lifted them to World Series appaerances/Championships. That's what the Dodgers needed and they tackled it well the Dodgers pitching staff is getting it done at the right time and when it's really needed. Kershaw and Greinke in game one and two is scary enough and the bullpen has been lights out. As far as their weakness I do believe it's their health. Dodgers for some reason have this issue with staying healthy and that tend to hurt them a lot. Right now L.A. have Matt Kemp out for the season with a ankle injury and the status of Andre Ethier is really up in the air right now. This team must stay healthy in order to really make an impact. I do believe the Dodgers can go far. It's going to be difficult because they have a lot of good teams to pan up against and will be on the road. I think the Dodgers can make it to the World Series due to their pitching and talent.
Kristen says: I think pitching is the Dodgers biggest strength and an on again, off again offense is potentially their biggest liability. They sure aren't hitting right now but even the last few games leading up to the postseason aren't always an indication of play come October. If the Dodgers start hitting again, they could go pretty far.
What, if anything, do you think the season fallout will be in the Angels organization? Is there anything this team can do to get back on track for 2014?
Kristen says: I feel like Sadusky in National Treasure, "Someone's got to go to prison, Ben." I don't know or even really want to predict who is going to leave but it's certain that someone, and probably several someones, will. There are rumors flying far and wide about Jerry Dipoto and Mike Scioscia. On the one hand, if you take injuries out of the equation, Jerry Dipoto is responsible for the pitching situation – he dismantled the old starting rotation to build this one. One the other hand, Scioscia has managed four teams that failed to make the post season in a row, two of them with losing records…and don't think we haven't noticed that this is the first season Arte Moreno has failed to respond to questions over Sosh's future with with instant unwavering support. So is it one or both of these guys or will it be a massive player shift? Or, D, some of all of the above? Personally, I'd like the fallout to be enough player movement to get an actual starting rotation going into 2014 without throwing all babies out with the bathwater to accomplish it. But I learned a long time again that I don't think like a team owner, especially not this team owner, so I doubt it will be that.
Matt says: I don't think much will happen in the Angels Organization really but ig I had to pick I do believe the Angels will let go Jerry Dipoto. He has made splash signings with Albert Puljos, CJ Wilson, and Josh Hamilton but really nothing much has come out of it. He also failed to get the Angels true help which was to upgrade the pitching staff. I do believe that there is something that this team can do to turn it around in 2014 and that's to get pitching help. They have the offensive firepower and enough of it but now is the time to really lock down on pitching if they want to make an impact in the AL West.
After winning the NL West the Dodgers came out of their clubhouse and celebrated in the Diamondbacks pool in the outfield. This was controversial and commentators have expressed differing opinions on the matter. What is your take on the celebration?
Matt says: Well I maybe in the majority that actaully don't have an issue with this. I honestly think the Diamondbacks and media are making a huge deal out of it than we are or the Dodgers. If anything it started with them saying that the Dodgers couldn't comeback out to celebrate which puzzles me. It was all done when everyone was out of the stadium and Los Angeles didn't mean any harm over it at all. I understand the sportsmanship and classiness of celebrating but lets not forget when the Dbacks clinched they went swiming in their pool in 2011. It's really no issue at all really and I think it's bigger deal to Arizona than anyone else.
Kristen says: On the one hand, I think the DBacks telling the Dodgers not to come back out of the Clubhouse to celebrate on their field was out of line and contrary to baseball tradition. So, if the Dodgers had just come out of the Clubhouse and celebrated on the field, I wouldn't have any objections. But come on Dodgers, you can't tell me that a large part of your motivation to celebrate specifically by jumping in the DBacks' pool wasn't sticking it to a division rival with whom you have bad blood and have brawled this season, knowing that such an action would really piss them off. While that is certainly an understandable, human motivation it isn't exactly a classy one. So, do I think the Dodgers are evil? No. But they sure aren't winning any kudos for sportsmanship this season. Of course, did they actually set out to? Probably not.
So, baseball fan boys and girls, what does the 2013 season have to teach us about pre-season media hype?
Kristen says: Well, both the Dodgers and the Angels were heavily hyped to go all the way. The Angels…yeah, 'nuff said. *sigh* While the Dodgers have made it to the post season in style for sure…but with significant help from guys who weren't even on the team when the predictions were made. Look, an MLB season is too long and complicated to ever listen to the preseason predictions with anything more than the kind of interest a diehard baseball fan shows any MLB news when there are no live games on yet and a 'that's nice'.
Matt says: I think it taught us something very valuable. Baseball isn't played on paper. If you were to tell me the Giants, Angels, Nationals and Blue Jays wouldn't even come close to playoff contention then I would think you're crazy. This season basically showed us a lot when it comes to pre-season media hype. The Dodgers and Angels got off to bad starts but the Dodgers managed to get it together in the second half of the season and the Angels struggled which was disapointing to see. I think we will all be more careful when we take a look at things in the pre-season but this was another example of how anything can happen in baseball.
Get to Know Your Bloggers Bonus Question: Do you have any favorite memories and moments from the MLB Postseason?
Matt says: Well I do have a few memories and moments from the MLB Postseason. The Dodgers sweeping the Cardnials in 2009 is one that sticksout because St Louis was a heavy favorite and it really shocked a lot of us when the Dodgers swept them out of the playoffs. Another was the Cardinals/Rangers World Series. It was sad to see Texas lose it when they had two chances at winning it but amazing to see the Cards win it thanks to David Freese heroics but I think my favorite has to be the Red Sox and Yankees 2004 Series where the Yankees were up 3-0 in the series and was bound to win the series only for the Sox to pulloff an amazing comeback to win the ALCS which was crazy to see. I hope to see some this postseason as well that we can talk about for years to come.
Kristen says: You all know what I'm going to say here, right? 'Erstad says he's got it. Erstad makes the catch!'…except, favorite memory though that was, I wasn't strictly back to being a baseball fan in 2002. I was a bitter, bitter lady over the strike, and I'd been raised a Dodgers fan, after all. No, I wouldn't come back to baseball until I fell head over heels in love with the Angels about three seasons after the 2002 series. Sad, but true. But I do remember when they won. My grandfather was a lifelong Angels fan going back to the Minor League PCL days, but he passed away in 1990 and missed the team's truly good years. It's maudlin, but I remember catching the end of game 7 on TV and wishing that somehow he knew, as you do.
Now, with my odd mixed fan base baseball background, I also have vivid warm fuzzies over 1988, and that first Saturday game, building the Lego castle of the weekend all along the den floor with my sister while we watched the World Series. Memories of Vin Scully's, 'And look who's coming up…' and just knowing who I was going to see when I put down the Legos and looked up at the screen, because Kirk Gibson was my hero, so of course he would come in at just the right moment to win the game like it was some sort of fairy tale.
Ah childhood! But I guess that's part of why I really get into doing this whole I-5 Bias thing, even when my team blows so many goats for the season that they actually made me momentarily happy the regular season has ended. Oh well, here's looking forward to 2014 and hopefully less drama and more editions of I-5 Bias where I get to brag about my guys. Cheers!


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 28, 2012) – Two-time world champion Summer Ross will lead a group of U.S. beach volleyball teams this week at the FIVB SWATCH Junior (under-21) World Championships in Halifax, Canada.
Ross (San Diego, Calif.), who won both the FIVB youth and junior titles in 2010, will pair with Sara Hughes (Costa Mesa, Calif.) as the U.S. No. 1 women's team and will go straight into the main draw.
The No. 2 U.S. women's team of Kirby Burnham (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Jace Pardon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) is on the waiting list to compete if a team from another country cannot participate.
In the men's bracket, Alex Jones (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kyle Stevenson (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) will be the No. 1 team.
The No. 2 team of Weston Carico (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Parker Kalmbach (Coto de Caza, Calif.) are on the waiting list and must hope that several teams don't make it to Halifax.
Ross won the 2010 FIVB youth world championships with partner Jane Croson. A month later, she won the 2010 junior world championships with Tara Roenicke
Since 2010, she played her freshman indoor season at the University of Washington, and then transferred to Pepperdine where she played sand volleyball. Ross and partner Caitlin Racich won the inaugural AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball National Championships in May of 2012.
Hughes competed in the 2011 FIVB beach youth world championships and finished tied for ninth with partner Justine Wong-Orantes. Racich competed in the 2011 beach volleyball junior world championships, but did not advance from the qualifying bracket.
Burnham and Pardon have not competed in an international tournament. Burnham plays sand volleyball for the University of Southern California while Pardon plays for Florida State.
Jones and Stevenson both play indoors for Cal State Northridge. Stevenson played in the 2009 youth world championship with Kalmbach. The pair finished tied for 19th.
Anjinho Eduardo Bacil will go as the team's coach while Ali Wood Lamberson will serve as team leader.
The world championship event will be held through Sunday (Sept. 2) at the purpose-built beach volleyball complex on the Salter Lot of the Halifax Waterfront. This is the not only the second time in the event's 12-year history that it is being held in North America, but also the second straight year in Halifax.
Gathered in Halifax for this year's event are 81 teams (41 men and 40 women) from 34 countries. With 32 teams in each gender qualified into their respective main draws, the additional teams for each gender are reserve teams – if needed – to complete the respective 32-team fields. This is the first time in event history that a 32-team main draw field is being used for the competition.
The 32 teams will be divided into eight four-team pools for round-robin play of three matches per team. The women will begin with two rounds on Wednesday and one on Thursday, while the men will have two rounds on Thursday and one on Friday.
The top three teams in each pool (24 total) will advance to the single-elimination bracket phase of the tournament. The women will begin their single elimination phase with two rounds on Friday followed by the women's quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday. Men will play their first elimination round on Friday, followed by the second round and quarterfinals on Saturday and the semifinals on Sunday morning.
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For These Students, a Very Different Spring Break
March 25 issue feature on service over vacation.
For a small but increasing number of faithful Catholic students, spring break is coming to mean much more than time off: It is a time for generosity and self-denial.
Students at such schools as Christendom College, Ave Maria University, Catholic University of America and the University of Dallas are going not to Fort Lauderdale but the Dominican Republic, not to Daytona but the Bronx.
This year, Christendom's director of missions, Mike Brown, reports that 16% of its students, 58 in all, will spend their break doing mission work in the Dominican Republic, assisting the Missionary Servants of the Poor of the Third World in Peru, and helping the homeless with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in the Bronx.
"Every year, I am impressed with the generosity of our students," said Brown, who teaches philosophy at the college. Students sent to the Bronx will replace windows at a homeless shelter and accompany individual friars to minister to the homeless on the streets. In Peru, they will do catechesis with the children in dozens of mountain villages. In the Dominican Republic, the students will do a physical project by day and host Bible study for children in the evenings.
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"There is a retreat atmosphere," said Brown, with time set aside daily for Mass, prayer and reflection. Only a small element of sightseeing is provided: In New York, for example, there will be time to see Broadway shows.
Brown confirms that a significant number of students find the experience to be "life changing."
"They find Christ in the poor," he said. "They return with a commitment to find a way to serve in their career and in volunteering."
Ben Scrivener, a third-year political science major at Christendom who hails from Davidsonville, Md., spent last year's spring break in the Dominican Republic. He said the week was "life changing."
To pay for his first trip, he raised about $1,500 — a third of that from his home parish, Holy Family, and the rest by means of 30 appeal letters he sent out to family and friends.
Scrivener was part of a contingent of 25 from Christendom sent to Banica, a Dominican town on the Haitian border, where the Arlington, Va., Diocese has maintained a mission for 20 years, supported by the Medical Missionaries, a Virginia-based lay group.
Along with a medical clinic, the diocesan mission to the region has built a school, and it was here the Christendom team labored for five days, under a very hot sun, upgrading the outdoor kitchen with a concrete table. "As well, we repaired fences and built latrines," said Scrivener. On the weekend and after work, they "hung out" with local families — which is where the life changes came into play.
"The families all work very hard, and they don't earn very much. They don't possess very much at all in the way of material things," said Scrivener. "They are very smart in how they use what they have — and also very generous. That's what hit me, and it took a couple of days: that I want to live my life in a way that isn't all about material things; that I want to put myself in a position always to help others."
While there, Scrivener met a Christendom graduate who was finishing an eight-month work stint in the Dominican Republic arranged by the college. Scrivener hopes to be able to duplicate that.
Scrivener plans to go on another trip next year, but this year he could not raise the needed funds.
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Interest in mission work is growing at The Catholic University of America as well, according to Liz Skora, a third-year media studies and psychology major. "They are so popular we've just gone from one trip to two each spring break." This year groups of 20 students will travel to Jamaica and Costa Rica.
Skora went to Costa Rica on an end-of-year mission trip. The work included maintenance and repair jobs on the parish church and trips to neighboring villages to share the faith with young children. "They surprised us with how well informed they were. They are so impoverished in the material sense, but they experience their faith on a deeper level. Faith and family is everything for them."
Skora returned from Costa Rica with a desire to simplify her life and to do a year of service after graduation. "I definitely feel we made an impact in the short time we were there. I want to see what difference we can make over a year."
Ave Maria University in Florida maintained a mission program during spring break until last year, says Megan Vilardi, a student who also works in the campus-ministry office. Vilardi is planning to go into youth ministry, but is now considering combining that with mission work. This year she organized a mission club that will carry on the tradition by sending 10 students to northern Florida to work with Habitat for Humanity.
Last year, Vilardi spent her break in Nicaragua, helping at a Managua orphanage on top of the capital city's largest trash heap. "It shocked me — how they lived," she said. "But it changed my life when they showed me the love of Christ. They had nothing, but they were giving everything back. You don't need money or possessions to live in good relations with one another."
Catholic students at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln have the mission bug, too. Thanks to the organizational efforts of the Newman Center and St. Thomas Aquinas Church, they can choose from seven domestic destinations, ranging from New York City to the nearby Winnebago Tribe. While overseas trips cost students between $1,000 and $2,000, Nebraska students need to raise only $130 to $180 each.
Sixteen students from the University of Dallas will venture to Joplin, Mo., to help the victims of last year's tornado during their spring break. Before they go, students will get crash courses on the social teachings of the Church and on conflict resolution, said missions director Denise Phillips. They will also be asked to reflect on what they might learn from the people they will be helping.
"When they are there," said Phillips, "each night we will give them a theme and ask them to journal on it."
"What happens is there is a conversion of the heart," she added. She recalled one student commenting, after one recent spring break volunteering with Mexican workers, "I thought immigration was a political issue. But these are human beings."
Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.


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Opening day is supposed to bring a sense of optimism. The return of spring…the return of baseball…hot dogs…fresh cut grass…and everybody is tied for first place. Four Oriole long balls and 9 runs later, the air is slipping from the balloon a little bit. This is the one team in the division that we have a chance of leap-frogging out of the cellar this season. We can live with one ugly loss. Heck we are Devil Rays fans…we can live with a LOT of ugly losses. However, we don't need the team to be struck with the injury bug this season. The talent is there, but the team is not deep, especially in the pitching department. That being said…for all the bad that happened on opening day, that which should concern us the most is loss of two players to injuries right off the bat. SS Julio Lugo went down with a strained oblique and backup SS Luis Ordaz aggravated a knee injury suffered during spring training. Lugo's is not considered serious and is listed as Day-to-day. Ordaz, on the other hand has already been placed on the 15-day DL and is scheduled to have an MRI today.
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A Joint Enforcement and Educational Effort in the Agricultural and Garment Industries
California Department of Industrial Relations
John C. Duncan, Director
Jose Millan, Labor Commissioner
The Targeted Industries Partnership Program (TIPP) began operating as a pilot project in 1992, on recommendation from Governor Wilson's Farm Worker Services Coordinating Council, to address labor law issues in the agriculture industry and soon thereafter in the garment industry. Given its success over the years, the Governor authorized 24 additional positions for the unit in 1996 and provided a permanent source of funding. In 1997, the Governor authorized additional funding to expand TIPP education and enforcement activities into the restaurant industry, where violations of laws including minimum wage, mandatory workers' compensation insurance coverage, overtime, and record keeping are also evident.
TIPP education and enforcement efforts are intended to enhance fair business competition by targeting non-compliant employers who, through violation of labor, tax and safety and health laws, create an unfair competitive advantage for themselves at the peril of law-abiding employers and workers employed in the targeted industries. At the helm of TIPP is the Department of Industrial Relations/Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) which partners with Cal/OSHA, the Employment Development Department (EDD) and the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), as well as with other state and local agencies, which share resources and information in their targeted education and enforcement activities.
In 1997, TIPP increased enforcement efforts in both the garment and agriculture industries. The combined DLSE and USDOL inspections totaled 1,781 in 1997, compared to 1,237 inspections in 1996, and TIPP recovered $1,869,168 in wages for garment and agricultural workers in 1997. In the five year period from 1993 through 1997 there were a total of 6,239 workplace inspections, 4,986 civil citations and 319 criminal citations issued.
In the Garment Industry, TIPP targeted the worst violators in an effort to create a level playing field for law-abiding employers. In 1997, TIPP targeted the employers in the underground economy and DLSE issued 192 cash pay citations in the garment industry. Furthermore, DLSE issued 47 minimum wage citations. Inspections increased to 1,326 in 1997, almost double that of 1996. The total garment citations issued in 1997 was increased to 1,189 from 868 in 1996. Penalties collected in 1997 totaled $1,257,337.
In the Agricultural Industry, TIPP conducted 455 inspections, issued 34 cash pay citations and 31 minimum wage citations. A total of $122,376 penalties were collected.
During the calendar year 1997, DLSE and the USDOL collected $1,457,234 in wages on behalf of garment workers, and $411,934 on behalf of farm workers.
In the five year period between fiscal years 1993-94 to 1997-98, TIPP has reaped $42.4 million in benefits to California.
What is TIPP?
TIPP is the acronym for the Targeted Industries Partnership Program, which combines and coordinates resources from federal, state, and local agencies to enforce labor laws and educate employers and employees about those laws. TIPP currently targets the garment manufacturing, restaurant and agricultural industries, which have long histories of labor law, employment tax, and safety and health violations. TIPP's four lead agencies the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE), the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), the California Employment Development Department (EDD), and the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (USDOL) develop TIPP's agenda and recruit and coordinate other state and local agencies to participate in that agenda. TIPP has coordinated up to twelve agencies in a single enforcement action. TIPP is now an ongoing program coordinating state, federal, and local agencies in garment manufacturing, agriculture, restaurants, and other industries that the agencies jointly select.
TIPP's Beginnings and Growth
Emanating from Governor Wilson's Farm Worker Services Coordinating Council, TIPP began operating in November 1992, as a joint enforcement and educational outreach program, with the charge of bringing about compliance with state and federal labor laws to the garment manufacturing and agricultural industries. Its three founding agencies were DLSE, EDD and USDOL. In 1996, DLSE received an augmentation in its baseline budget to continue to fund the TIPP program through fiscal year 1997/98. Additionally, in recognition of its innovative use of state, local, and federal resources to accomplish its objectives, TIPP was the recipient of the Innovations Award, bestowed upon it by the Council of State Governments in 1996.
The TIPP Philosophy
Due to last year's budget augmentation, TIPP can be more effective in deterring violations through prevention, specifically through aggressive educational outreach efforts to various industries. TIPP is designed to enforce existing laws more effectively and efficiently by sharing the resources of those governmental agencies that have an enforcement or educational mission in the targeted industries. For example, rather than performing multiple, uncoordinated investigations, one agency may perform an audit and share the results with other TIPP agencies, preserving taxpayer dollars and reducing unnecessary, redundant governmental intrusion.
The TIPP Mission
TIPP seeks to effectively target the underground economy and enhance fair business competition. TIPP works to improve workers' lives by eliminating the unfair competitive advantage noncompliant employers create for themselves by evading labor, employment tax, and safety and health laws. To accomplish these goals, TIPP seeks to achieve compliance with those laws by employers in the targeted industries by leveraging the remedies of each participating agency to maximize their effectiveness. For example, a garment manufacturer must be registered with DLSE before he or she can operate legally, but the applicant must first demonstrate that he or she does not have an outstanding wage assessment, unpaid civil penalty, or an employment tax liability, among other criteria. Under the TIPP program, an applicant who, for example, owes back wages under a USDOL assessment, will not be issued a state license or be allowed to operate unless he or she arranges to pay the back wages owed under the federal assessment.
The TIPP Organization
TIPP is jointly administered by state agency representatives from DLSE, Cal/OSHA, EDD and USDOL. In order to coordinate agencies with different regulations, laws, and protocols, TIPP vested considerable day-to-day operational authority with statewide coordinators and experienced supervising investigators from both DLSE and USDOL. The coordinators plan specific focused enforcement actions, provide a centralized and reliable system of communication and rapidly resolve differences between agencies.
The state coordinators are responsible to the Planning Group which consists of senior managers from DLSE, Cal/OSHA, EDD and USDOL. The Planning Group meets regularly to review the overall effectiveness of TIPP and considers ideas solicited from the public in TIPP's educational outreach forums.
TIPP provides joint training sessions for investigators from the principal participating agencies and encourages investigators from one agency to support others by interviewing or providing translation services when the enforcement action warrants. As investigators learn the laws enforced by the other agencies, they can spot violations and make the appropriate referral.
TIPP Constituencies
TIPP serves three constituencies law-abiding employers, employees, and taxpayers and stresses that the interests of these constituencies need not be mutually exclusive. This belief continues to affect each of TIPP's actions. Taxpayers desiring minimum safety and health standards are relieved from repeatedly paying for enforcement actions because of the coordinating efforts of the participating agencies. For example, rather than having agencies perform multiple, independent investigations of a business (as was the case in the past), TIPP assigns a single agency to perform an investigation and shares the results with its participating agencies. TIPP has also dramatically reduced taxpayer liability through its effective enforcement of workers' compensation insurance requirements, because taxpayers are liable for industrial injuries or illnesses that occur when an employer is uninsured.
TIPP promotes educational programs for employers relating to labor, safety and health laws, and helps employers to avoid liability arising from unintentional violations.
TIPP has recovered millions of dollars in earned and unpaid wages for California's poorest workers. TIPP has also helped ensure that these employees work in a safer environment, know their rights under the law and are familiar with the various agencies that enforce applicable regulations.
TIPP Enforcement Actions
TIPP conducts unannounced "sweeps" which coordinate a large number of agencies and their agents in a concentrated enforcement action in a specified region. The sweeps require extensive planning and cross-training of employees from various jurisdictions. TIPP investigators also conduct inspections pursuant to individual employee complaints at specific businesses on an ongoing basis. Both the sweeps and the individual inspections cover wage and hour issues, occupational safety and health, housing conditions, child labor, employment tax, field sanitation requirements, and workers' compensation insurance coverage.
An innovation that began in 1997 was the adoption of more frequent "sweeps," consisting of smaller, more mobile teams. This approach has allowed teams of TIPP investigators to maximize its enforcement presence and to conduct more field inspections as a result.
TIPP Educational Outreach Efforts
From the beginning, TIPP recognized that effective enforcement depends on effective education of both employers and employees. In pursuit of this goal, TIPP has initiated the following:
The American Chinese Garment Contractors Association of Southern California;
Garment Contractors Association of Southern California;
Korean American Garment Industry Association; and
The Northern California Chinese Garment Contractors Association.
These Associations cooperate in concert with governmental agencies, including DLSE and USDOL, to achieve a higher level of compliance with labor standards. In addition, they frequently conduct educational seminars for their membership.
TIPP distributes two booklets that it developed for employers in its first yearA Summary of Some Basic California and Federal Employment Requirements for Agricultural Employers and A Summary of Some Basic California and Federal Employment Requirements for Garment Industry Employers, which is now available in five languages, Spanish, Korean, Thai, Chinese and English.
Participating agencies provide a variety of materials not specifically developed for TIPP, but which TIPP may distribute. For example, DLSE publishes the Study Guide to Laws and Regulations Affecting California Farm Labor Contractors as part of its licensing program for farm labor contractors. The Guide summarizes farm labor laws and regulations (including many federal standards) and provides a glossary and a directory of important telephone numbers. DLSE also produced a pocket size Workers' Rights booklet in the five languages listed above, and a Labor Standards and Regulations brochure exclusively designed for eating and drinking establishments. Presently an outreach video is in production. The video will highlight aspects of employer compliance with labor laws and will include footage of actual workplace inspections. Cal/OSHA publishes many helpful materials, especially relating to the written Injury and Illness Prevention Program, a program required of all California employers. EDD provides copies of its Employers' Guide and the Department of Labor provides reprints of federal labor laws and regulations.
Finally, the law requires employers to display several posters describing employee rights in the workplace. For example, the state requires that the Industrial Welfare Commission Orders, which detail basic wages, hours, and working conditions for employees, be posted in every place of employment where workers can read it easily. Other required postings relate to safety and health, minimum wage, workers' compensation insurance coverage, as well as agricultural pesticide warnings and housing requirements. Checking for these postings is an integral part of every TIPP enforcement action, whether it is a sweep or an inspection arising from an individual's complaint.
The Farmworker Hotline is 1-800-733-3899. TIPP recognized that farmworkers, who often labor in fields remote from governmental agencies, needed special accommodation for their grievances. Consequently, TIPP developed a toll-free telephone hotline staffed by bilingual professionals to receive farmworker questions and complaints.
The Garment Hotline is 1-800-803-6650. It soon became apparent to the program coordinators that a statewide hotline for the garment industry was also necessary so that employees and employers could report suspected violations to TIPP. In 1996, a garment hotline was established.
The TIPP Partnership Web
TIPP has also begun to develop partnerships with agencies that do not
participate directly in TIPP enforcement or education efforts. TIPP shares information with other
agencies pursuant to formal Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs). TIPP has developed MOUs with
the Internal Revenue Service and the State Franchise Tax Board. TIPP has also developed
similar MOUs with labor agencies in other states that have similar agricultural and garment
manufacturing industries.
Augmentation for State fiscal year 1996-97 funded expansion of DIR's efforts in the TIPP program. Aimed at enforcing employment laws in the garment manufacturing industry, it added 24 additional staff to the enforcement program. Most of these new positions for the expanded TIPP Unit are located in Southern California, primarily in the Los Angeles and Santa Ana DLSE offices.
The USDOL hired new investigators in the State of California, with most of those positions located in Southern California. The majority of these new positions were intended to increase the number of bilingual investigators, particularly in the Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean and Hispanic language areas. Having such capabilities enhanced education/outreach and investigative efforts in the garment and agriculture industries. A new district office in West Covina opened with field offices in Ontario and Long Beach.
On November 3, 1997, DLSE opened a sub-office of the Licensing & Registration Unit in Los Angeles at 107 South Broadway, Room 5029. This office will serve as a liaison to the garment community in Southern California to facilitate the processing of garment manufacturing applications, to advise applicants on registration requirements and to check on the status of the applications that have been submitted to DLSE Licensing headquarters office in San Francisco. This office has bilingual staff to offer assistance to applicants who speak Spanish, Chinese or Korean.
In December 1997, the DLSE Licensing & Registration Unit started producing and issuing the garment registrations on non-copyable paper. The original registration is printed on special security paper that indicates "VOID" when illegally reproduced. This serves to reduce the use of fraudulent registrations that the Division has found to be a problem in the industry.
Finally, in order to test an individual's knowledge of wage and hour issues and safety
and health practices in the garment industry, the Licensing Unit introduced a new garment exam
in three versions and in five languages. This will help assure that only individuals who possess
the appropriate character, competence and responsibility are issued garment manufacturing
registration certificates.
Many employees are recent immigrants, without access to information concerning their rights as workers, or to the enforcement agencies that exist to assist them with their wage and hour problems.
Many businesses that violate the laws do so out of ignorance of their responsibilities as employers. As part of TIPP's educational effort, it is standard operating procedure that after each inspection all the TIPP partners participate in a "closing" conference with the employer to disclose the findings of the inspection and answer any questions they may have regarding the laws that TIPP enforces. Also, in the course of the inspection, TIPP investigators routinely interview the workers to ascertain if the employer is complying with the wage, safety and health laws and to answer any questions that they may have.
In an effort to avoid duplication of effort and to streamline the inspection process, TIPP has developed an Information Fact Sheet that is provided to the garment industry employer upon initial contact. The Information Sheet provides information on each of the TIPP agencies and enumerates the various documents that the employer is required to produce for inspection. A similar Information Fact Sheet has been developed for use in the agricultural industry. In addition, agricultural and garment employers are now provided with a postcard at the conclusion of the inspection soliciting an evaluation of the process and personnel.
An inspection report has also been developed to facilitate the concise gathering of information needed by the various TIPP agencies. This allows a single investigator to make the inspection and serves to economize the employer's time.
One of DLSE's major goals is to identify ways that TIPP can be more effective in deterring violations through improved detection and enforcement. To this end some of the following procedures to combat illegal activities have been implemented:
One of the more disturbing situations encountered in the garment industry in Southern California is the ability of some businesses that are cited to close down and open under a new name across town. Such businesses are prime targets under the TIPP program for criminal prosecution, inasmuch as their actions present a willful disregard of the labor laws regulating the garment industry. Only swift, effective criminal prosecution can serve as a deterrent to their continuing violations.
TIPP's success in the agricultural industry points to the overall decrease in the number of firms in violation.
Under the current staffing augmentation and through closer coordination with
local governmental authorities, TIPP can more easily detect and keep track of businesses that
have been cited, who have closed down and have then re-opened elsewhere. Additionally, as a
result of increased staffing, it will become easier to subject these businesses to criminal prosecution.
In 1997, TIPP increased enforcement efforts in both the garment and agriculture industries. The combined DLSE and USDOL inspections totaled 1,781 in 1997, compared to 1,237 inspections in 1996, and TIPP recovered $1,869,168 in wages for garment and agricultural workers in 1997. In the five year period from 1993 through 1997 there were a total of 6,239 workplace inspections, 4,986 civil citations and 319 criminal citations issued.
In the Garment Industry, TIPP targeted the worst violators in an effort to create a level playing field for law-abiding employers. In 1997, TIPP targeted the employers in the underground economy and DLSE issued 192 cash pay citations in the garment industry. Furthermore, DLSE issued 47 minimum wage citations. Inspections increased to 1,326 in 1997, almost double that of 1996. The total garment citations issued in 1997 was increased to 1,189 from 868 in 1996. Penalties collected in 1997 totaled $1,257,337.
In the Agricultural Industry, TIPP conducted 455 inspections, issued 34 cash pay citations and 31 minimum wage citations. A total of $122,376 penalties were collected.
During the calendar year 1997, DLSE and the U.S. Department of Labor collected $1,457,234 in wages on behalf of garment workers, and $411,934 on behalf of farm workers.
In the five year period between fiscal years 1993-94 to 1997-98, TIPP has reaped $42.4 million in benefits to California.
Garment Manufacturing
|Child Labor
|Workers' Comp
|Cash Pay
Combined data from DLSE and USDOL
|Child Labor
|Workers' Comp
|Cash Pay
Combined data from DLSE and USDOL
Violations Cited
Penalties Proposed
Garment Manufacturing
Violations Cited
Penalties Proposed
Employment Development Department
Garment Industry Investigation * Data
|Joint Investigations
|Payroll Tax Referrals
|Completed Payroll Tax Audits
|Total Assessments
|$ 1, 141,785
|EDD Average Assessment
|$ 30,859
|Previously Unreported Employees
|Previously Unreported Wages
|$9, 368,640
*EDD participates in joint investigations when there is a likelihood of substantial amounts of unreported wages.


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