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Federal workers owe billions in back taxes
Two percent of the president's staff, 3% of the Senate staff and 4.2% of the House staff are among the 279,000 U.S. government employees who owe the IRS a cumulative $3.4 billion.
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President Barack Obama has preached that all Americans should pay their fair share in taxes, but a government report finds that tens of thousands of federal employees -- from staffers in Congress to those in federal agencies and even Obama's executive office -- collectively owe the government billions in back taxes.
Data from the Internal Revenue Service show that more than 279,000 federal employees and retirees owed $3.4 billion in back income taxes as of Sept. 30, 2010.
The data includes 467 employees of the House of Representatives, or about 4.2% of the workforce, who owed more than $8.5 million. In the Senate, 217 employees, or about 3% of the workforce, owed $2.13 million.
Obama's staff was not immune, either, with 36 people in Obama's executive office of nearly 1,800 workers -- about 2% -- owing the government a total of $833,970 in back taxes.
Obama used part of his State of the Union address Tuesday night to promote economic fairness, arguing for changes in the tax code that would create a minimum tax rate of at least 30% on anyone making more than $1 million. The finances of one of his chief Republican rivals, Mitt Romney, have come under close scrutiny. Romney, like many millionaires, gets most of his income came from investments, so is taxed at a lower rate.
The IRS report attracted the attention of Republicans, who said it undercut the president's argument on taxes. "If Obama wants people to pay their 'fair share,' perhaps he should start with his own staff," tweeted Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
White House officials noted that the delinquency rate among executive office staff had fallen from nearly 3% in 2008. In 2009, 41 employees in the president's executive office, representing about 2.3% of its workforce, owed a total of about $830,000.
White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said the annual report was released by the IRS because there is a "high standard for government employees."
"Though the report shows that fewer executive office employees owe taxes than in the last year of the previous administration and we expect all employees to pay their taxes in full, more needs to be done to ensure compliance, and the president has asked his team to work on this issue," Brundage said.
Overall, the total amount owed is up slightly from September 2009, when more than 282,000 federal workers owed $3.3 billion in taxes.
The report does not offer specific explanations for the delinquencies. Many people who owe back taxes file returns but cannot pay the full amount when their taxes are due, said Anthony Burke, an IRS spokesman. Others may be disputing their bills, may have filed jointly with a spouse who owes taxes or may have had their tax bills increased by an audit and cannot pay the higher amount.
The statistics on federal employees do not include those who are on payment plans.
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Among Cabinet agencies, the departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development had the highest delinquency rates, at nearly 4%. The Treasury Department had the lowest delinquency rate, at nearly 1%.
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How come someone always comes to the defense of union/government workers? What bothers me is that the president and congress (both parties) always talk about cutting payments to older retired people but never discuss changing the government's 25 ot 30 year retirement plan with great benefits. The only way to make it fair is put everyone on SS including congress! They'd fix the issues then. I know the liberals that work for the government will complain that this is unfair but why? Why should taxpayers without a retirement plan, fund one for the people they pay in most case better than they make themselves.
Backgrounds and credit checks are required in the "private" sector, and may preclude one from a career or advancement, in some cases lead to termination. We should demand more of those placed in the positions of "trust" overseeing the daily affairs of all the people of this Country!
Quoting Chaucer, "....if they are foul in whom we trust, no wonder that the common man should rust..." They need to pay all of their taxes including back taxes with penalty & interest by April 15th or loose their positions and allow those more ethical & deserving to take over! A large, corrupt federal government vaunts itself and leads its people with tyranny!
Who are these "lucky" Federal workers? I pay taxes every year and boy have they been increasing. This year I will pay about 33% and by the way if I don't keep current with my $900.00 per month student and parent loan payments, I will be fired!
IRS do your freaking job and go after these Federal deadbeats!
Obama is not responsible for everyones behavior! Just ask Wesley Snipes! Oh he's in jail you gotta wait. Many Tea Party people don't pay taxes either and the list goes on. Personal responsibility comes independent of party affiliation. When found out suffer personal conquences!
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Ernest sent me a link to this Education Week story about weighted student funding. He asked, "What if funding was differentiated based on need and really allowed for the dollars to follow the students? It seems several school districts are already trying this."
Georgia does use a weighting system in its funding formula. Under Georgia's system, weights are reflected as a percentage of the base. While the "average student" gets an allocation of 1.0, an English learner might get an allocation of 1.2.
But the state has never analyzed its weighting in a framework of academic achievement. Is the extra money allotted for students with special needs sufficient to assure academic success? Are we allotting enough to educate children from poor households to a standard of some sort?
The Governor's Education Finance Task Force created by Sonny Perdue in 2004 was supposed to develop a cost model that would provide the true price of "an excellent education." The task force held more than 75 public meetings and discussions with 105 school systems. Yet, it did not make any recommendations on how much it would cost to educate Georgia students to the standard of excellence sought by Perdue.
The reason was that excellence costs more than anyone in Georgia is willing to spend.
In fact, the successor to the Perdue task force is the new Nathan Deal task force, which accepted from the start that excellence may be an unrealistic goal. The current task force led by lawmakers Fran Millar from the Senate and Brooks Coleman from the House is the sixth such assemblage to take a stab at fixing school funding.
At one of its first meetings last year, the task force heard from outgoing House Budget Office director John Brown, who said, "We are not going to come up with a formula that reaches for excellence. We are not putting an orchestra in every school. We are going to create a formula so that every school system has enough money to get the basic job done."
But we don't actually know what it costs to get the basic job done for the average Georgia student, never mind the student who brings special needs to the equation.
In theory, the state funding formula, which was adopted in 1985, sends enough money to communities so that they can — with a small local tax supplement — provide an adequate basic education to students. In reality, the state formula is outdated, grossly underestimating the cost of textbooks, facilities maintenance and student transportation. It doesn't address technology needs at all. To attract teachers, virtually all systems augment the state wage.
Historically, the state had paid about 60 to 55 percent percent of real costs of education while local communities paid 40 percent. Today, the state is only footing 38 percent of the education tab in Georgia. (It's important to note that one percentage point represents well over a hundred million dollars.)
According to Ed Week, other districts have embraced more realistic weighted funding formulas, including Boston:
Under Boston's system, a low-income English-language learner in 6th grade—student A in this example—would generate fewer funding dollars than a 4th grader with autism, or student B.
But reallocating resources through weighted student funding meant that about 45,000 students were in schools that ended up making smaller cuts or even gaining in funding, despite the overall budget shortfall. Other schools in Boston experienced real decreases in funding or saw their budgets remain the same this school year, based on enrollment and the makeup of their student bodies.
In moving to a "weighted student-funding formula," Boston joins other districts, such as Baltimore, Denver, Rochester, N.Y., and New York City, that believe this method better serves student needs and creates more transparency and fairness in district finances. And in a time of tight budgets, some also say this funding method creates a process where cuts can be managed around an individual school's needs, instead of coming by decree from the central office.
"The benefit is you have a single way of allocating resources across the district regardless of the type of school you're in," said John McDonough, Boston's chief financial officer. That leads to a significantly more rational way of responding to budget concerns, he said.
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July 25th, 2012
5:43 am
My child attended a very small private school. All of her class mates graduated and aprox 76% of her graduating class attended college and most have graduated. All this at a cost of aprox. one tenth the cost to educate a public school student. Get the Federal government out of our schools! PS.,None of the youth were ever incarcerated and none of the girls got pregnant. Go figure!!!
July 25th, 2012
6:15 am
[...] Funding education excellence is a long way off in Georgia and getting farther awayAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Ernest sent me a link to this Education Week story about weighted student funding. He asked, "What if funding was differentiated based on need and really allowed for the dollars to follow the students? It seems several school districts are already … [...]
July 25th, 2012
6:35 am
Wouldn't weighting encourage schools to over-label students just to get the money? We have enough "disorders" out there.
July 25th, 2012
6:45 am
Stop dumbing down the curriculum to the lowest common denominator. Set high standards, keep the standards, teach, stop baby sitting. If a kid doesn't want to learn, kick them out. At some point this BS has to stop! No one can discipline a child any more. No one can fail a child any more. This is garbage. Reward success, and stop rewarding mediocrity, otherwise we are doomed. Make it cool to be smart and not-cool to be an idiot. Stop this romance with football and basketball. Start a romance with science and math. It can be done. My sister-in-law teaches math in a low income school. She has a robot building club that has 15-20 kids that are JAZZED about the competition with other clubs….it can be done, but we, as a culture have to stop giving awards to the mediocre. In other words, it's not the money.
July 25th, 2012
7:12 am
Would this mean that schools located in more affluent areas and those with lower special needs populations would receive less money for operations? Could this be a start of a voucher program? I have a lot of questions about this.
July 25th, 2012
7:17 am
I worked as a public school business official for 24 years and retired in 2002. When I think back on all the state efforts to fund public education and the last one, QBE, in particular, it always came down to the total dollars the legislator and Governor were willing to allocate, regardless of the proven needs of students in all categories throughout the state. QBE has turned out to be a convoluted and failed attempt to send adequate money where student needs have been identified. Rather than looking at the total needs and funding them, based on student counts by category, it has always turned out to be a top-down allocation, with kids always coming up short. In the present environment in Atlanta, this won't change. When I contact legislators these days about sending adequate money based on the QBE law, they simply don't reply. It's very sad.
July 25th, 2012
7:19 am
for someone who yaps so much about the evils of education, Fran doesn't seem to actually do much to push the ball forward.
July 25th, 2012
7:23 am
A correction to my previous post: Should be "legislature and governor"
July 25th, 2012
7:24 am
I cringe every time someone brings up how they do it up north or out west. one of the major problems we have here is wannabe yankee idiots.
the legislature is the same group of people who hired Steve Portch and actually bought his line quarter to semester conversion could occur and actually save the state money. and why we now have stupid names like State University @ or State College and University
July 25th, 2012
7:35 am
why does it cost more to educate a poor kid than a rich kid?
July 25th, 2012
7:41 am
If funding was the problem, we would be at the top of the heap in international test scoring comparisons.
Show me where all the lottery money has been spent, and where the ORIGINAL education budget has gone (that the lottery was supposed to supplement, not replace) and then we'll talk about funds for education.
July 25th, 2012
7:43 am
Don't forget to include Title I federal funds that follow the free and reduced students. These are large sums of money awarded to districts and sometimes individual schools because of the number of poor students to create a more level playing field. In most cases, these funds could be used to benefit more classrooms and less as a jobs program for district level supervisors. AJC could look into how these monies are spent; it is public record.
July 25th, 2012
7:47 am
"Today, the state is only footing 38 percent of the education tab in Georgia."
That quote deserves to be on broadcasted across the state. A billboard at every major interstate entering GA should have that quote posted for all to see.
We need more honest appraisals like this one. I would love to hear Gov. Deal, Jan Jones, Chip Rogers, Fran Millar, and others take on this article.
Maureen, you have the power to hold their feet to the fire on educational spending. Don't let them pull away with rhetoric and half truths.
July 25th, 2012
7:49 am
We can no longer afford to fund special needs and "English as a 2nd language" students. There is no money left over to address the needs of the young people who will be expected in their adult lives to support the kids who are now getting the lion's share of our resources.
July 25th, 2012
7:53 am
@Jeff: Stop with the rhetoric. We've not "thrown money" at GA students for over 8 years.
July 25th, 2012
7:53 am
Cut the fat. Many times it is less about what we spend than about how we spend it. Hint: we have too many administrators.
July 25th, 2012
7:57 am
@HoneyFern: That may be true for metro districts, but it isn't true for many rural districts.
We need to stop viewing education in GA through the "metro Atlanta" lens.
July 25th, 2012
8:04 am
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July 25th, 2012
7:24 am
"One of the major problems we have here is" an unwillingness, for whatever reason, to look at what is working, or not working in other locales. We all can learn from the mistakes and successes of others but there seems to be a common thread when it comes to political decision-making in this state. From transportation issues to education, if a "yankee" did it, it is not worth studying nor implementing.
NYC moves TEN TIMES the population during rush hours but how they do it, mass transit, road construction that utilizes over/under passes instead of cheaper traffic lights, etc. are not politically savory.
In education, the same thing is happening. Local pundits decry our education system compared to other states' results (I won't get into the way the comparisons are being made, that's another problem) but then refuse to look at what is working in those states.
Do you see a disconnect?
July 25th, 2012
8:10 am
Laurie………My son is in special ed for a speech delay and your type of thinking(if you want to call it that) is why I'm a former Republican. Chip Rogers and his gang want to trash my son.Chip needs to learn how to manage his own finances and get out of office.
July 25th, 2012
8:20 am
Isnt it a fact that the money isnt reaching the classroom most of the time anyway. The bloated warthog that is the Dekalb school system is probably one of the poster children for why the state doesnt want to dole out funds. Too many ppl with way-too high salaries on North Decatur Road.
July 25th, 2012
8:27 am
@Fred in DeKalb, 7:12 am
"Could this be a start of a voucher program?"
Thank you for posing this vital, astute question for the public to ponder, Fred.
I would urge the public to ponder that question quite seriously, and to pay very close attention to how this process will unfold in the coming months. Also, I would urge the public to watch closely the positions that Georgia's Senate and House Education Committees will take, in regard to this undertaking of establishing the cost for an education for each pupil in Georgia.
Be aware that state Sen. Fran Millar (mentioned above) is Chair of the Senate Education Committee and that state Rep. Brooks Coleman (also mentioned above), who was a co-sponsor of HR 1162 – the bill which established Georgia's amendment to the Constitution being voted on in November which would allow the state to assign charter schools over local jurisdiction – is Chair of the House Education Committee. (State Sen. Chip Rogers, a strong proponent for vouchers in Georgia, sponsored the equivalent of HR 1162 in the Senate.)
Also, the public should question, in depth, WHY the following is happening in Georgia:
"Historically, the state had paid about 60 to 55 percent percent of real costs of education while local communities paid 40 percent. Today, the state is only footing 38 percent of the education tab in Georgia. (It's important to note that one percentage point represents well over a hundred million dollars.)"
July 25th, 2012
8:28 am
Here we go again… the mantra of the Educrats: "SPEND MORE MONEY!"
We already spend more money on education than anybody else in the world. The problem isn't that we don't spend enough, the problem is that what we do spend is WASTED by a massive government+government employee union bureaucracy that's interested in featherbedding for itself as opposed to actually doing what it's begin paid for.
July 25th, 2012
8:31 am
Cut the fat! We have "assistants to the assistant", forced seminars (costly) on everything from diversity (buzzword for lets pay for more feel-good mess) to proper recation to disruptive students. Give the classrooms back to the teachers, get rid of the bad ones and put discipline back into the classroom. Teachers and systems would get sued blind now, but our old coach had a way of giving the occasional "love-tap" and amazingly discipline was restored. If not, get rid of the troublemakers. Look at any school budget, and see all the legal jargon…….
July 25th, 2012
8:44 am
We're funding more and more of education at the local level – and now they're asking us to vote for "just one cent" so that we can take up the slack from the state on transportation spending? Who thinks that's where it will end up?
July 25th, 2012
8:45 am
"excellence costs more than anyone in Georgia is willing to spend"
That's true. Our politicians would much rather spend our tax dollars on their pet pork projects and improvements to their personal estates.
July 25th, 2012
8:49 am
seabeau….how many kids in your child's small private school didn't speak english, had grandparents raising them because dad disappeared and mom is a drug addict, lived in temporary homes (i.e homeless shelters), had families living below the poverty level, had parents that hung up the phone the minute the teacher announced who she/he was, never showed for parent conferences, had serious discipline problems, couldn't read, moved 2-3 times every year, came to school just to deal their drugs or because the probation officer said jail or school, had serious handicaps, etc.
I think probably none….use some common sense please. There's no way around it…kids with these kinds of problem do not get educated on the cheap-cheap. Kids who's parents do half the work of school are a piece of cake (well comparatively speaking) to educate.
July 25th, 2012
8:56 am
As Maureen points out, we already have a weighted formula, and as teacher salaries account for the vast majority of costs associated with education, the formula isn't as outdated as one might think. In fact, I think if you asked local school districts – in a room of truth – if they'd rather have the current formula fully funded, or have the current group of elected officials rewrite a new formula, they'd say thanks very much, we'll take our QBE. I'm not sure why the weighted formula is mentioned in the post, as it seems to be just a chance to rehash the 38% story (which is a flawed number as it was taken at the height of federal stimulus).
July 25th, 2012
9:12 am
Fran Millar has already publicly stated his education funding proposals — Cut teacher pay and raise local millage rates.
So nice to have such bold, innovative "leadership" here in Georgia, huh?
@Jeff- The lottery provided funding for preK, the HOPE scholarship, and certain technology-related expenses. It has NEVER been used to fund any aspect of the k12 budget. Please get your facts straight before posting your next angry rant.
July 25th, 2012
9:31 am
Laurie earth is now a dumber place to live because of that statement…..furthermore teachers are fed up taking the blame for the ills of the profession….politicians are cutting their pay yet raising their responsibilities,yet have minimal input on policy
July 25th, 2012
9:33 am
Every study done shows that there is no correllation between funding and educational quality. Washington DC spends more money than any school district in the nation and they have the worst performance. The problems are stuctural, and more money will just mean more failed structure. The govenrment monopoly must end and the socialistic taxpayer funding mechanism must end as well. There will never be any accountability or true service to the customer until the customer is paying and they can take their money and walk when they have been failed by the educational establishment. It is this relationship that makes everything else in the private sector work so well.
July 25th, 2012
9:36 am
Georgia's new education mantra, as endorsed by our elected leaders: "We'll give you the basics, but if you want excellence you'll have to go elsewhere."
July 25th, 2012
9:39 am
Maybe if we quit giving our tax money away to corporations for the promise of jobs and put it back into education , we might be able to fully fund QBE instead of less than 38% of it.
July 25th, 2012
9:40 am
Many points above are good especially the increase in discipline and setting higher acceptable standards. If a kid is a discipline problem, set up boot camps for them to attend. Setting a mean, lean schedule w/o distractions will focus them. Parents would not have a say unless they get involved…if you're going to be an absentee parent then…. The higher standards need to spell out responsibilities and expectations. The goal of going to college should be non negotiable. Only which college is negotiable. By college, I also include trade and technical schools.
July 25th, 2012
9:40 am
Pay for the education when they are young or pay for the incarceration when they are grown. We spend three times as much on prisons as we do on education.
If we are truly to fix the problem we need a birth to 25 policy that educates parents and children. We can't continue to try and fix students when they begin school after they have spent 5 years with no support. Some of the most developmental years are spent at home before school, 0-5 years old. We can't ignore the true problems that plague the chronic underperfomers. It is like climbing everast with sandles and a rope in the dead of winter.
For those that don't truly understand what is happening with the money that is allocated you need to do a little reading and figure it out. The state has cut over 2.2 billion dollars from the budget and local systems can't make up that kind of difference even by half. The system that I am in has a limited BOE and spends 85% on employee salaries. The other 15% goes to buildings, lights, other bills and to fund the BOE operations. I agree Dekalb and Fulton are wasteful but the rest of the state has been cut to the bone. As for the race to the top funds, out of 400 million dollars the state kept halft and the rest was divide. This money is being spent to implement a new evaluation system and to administer the funds. IT IS NOT BEING SPENT AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL AND DIRECTLY IMPACTING STUDENTS. IT IS CREATING ANOTHER LAYER OF PAPERWORK AND OVER BURDEND TEACHERS AND AMINISTRATORS. If our republican controled house of representatives were true conservative republicans they would have told the feds to keep the money as it is a waste.
July 25th, 2012
9:42 am
Finally, let the politicians stop giving education lip service. Set up a system for all..no vouchers or state paid escape from public schools. If a person wants a private school, let them pay for it themselves. Correct the problems.
July 25th, 2012
9:51 am
For the sizable cabal on this blog assigned teacher union talking points to endlessly repeat—taxpayers can never pay enough, and the funding pie can never be lopsided enough in favor of Special Educ and other areas requiring staffing bloat.
And any talk of accountability, innovation, education reform or parental choice can never be reviled or second-guessed enough.
July 25th, 2012
10:04 am
It is time for vouchers. Let the people decide which schools to send their kids to. Good schools will thrive and bad schools will wither and fold. Competition would do wonders in cleaning up the mess our politicians have created with the schools in this state. The educrats will fight vouchers tooth and nail because the the last thing they want is to give power to the people.
July 25th, 2012
10:08 am
Maureen, I suggest you wait until we are done our work before making a judgement. Most superintendents do not have a problem with our basic formula. It needs to be revised to meet current and future needs (like technology) and applied with consistency for budget purposes. I look forward to your evaluation when we are finished.
July 25th, 2012
10:08 am
Fran Millar is heading the education funding task force! Talk about a wolf in the henhouse. I can already guess his recommendations. Quality public education will not occur in Georgia and Georgia will continue its rapid march to 50th in virtually every category.
July 25th, 2012
10:15 am
One of the main purposes of state government is to provide for the education of its citizens. "You get what you pay for" in most areas, and that is certainly true in education. The purpose of education is not profit.
It is my opinion that many of Georgia's educational policies, as determined in large part through Georgia's Legislature, are being influenced by national forces, outside of Georgia. However, this situation can change, in the future, through the public's growing awareness of this and through their voting power.
Please read the link below, in full, to understand part of the reason that I hold the opinion that I do, in this regard. Thank you.
July 25th, 2012
10:15 am
Excellence starts with parents.
July 25th, 2012
10:19 am
The link I provided at 10:15 am, above, was lifted from the following link, entitled, "How ALEC is quietly influencing educational reform":
July 25th, 2012
10:19 am
@Senator Millar:
When will your work be "done"? Do you dispute the reports that the state is now funding only 38% of the education budget? Wouldn't you agree that this represents a failure at the state level?
I respect that you're brave enough to come here and post, but how about some real answers to tough questions, rather than simple talking points about how this is all a work in progress. You and your colleagues at the capitol have failed the children of this state for more than a decade. You have demanded accountability from those of us on the front lines of education. How about a little accountability for you and our other legislators?
July 25th, 2012
10:20 am
Correction: Link entitled: "How ALEC is quietly influencing educational reform in Georgia."
July 25th, 2012
10:21 am
Once Again
July 25th, 2012
9:33 am
"…private sector works so well."
Like the recession we are drowning in, right, got it. Worked perfectly! Lehman Bros', et al greed has pulled us all down. I did not invest with them but am affected by them.
July 25th, 2012
10:22 am
You want to spend more on education, I want to spend less, so we have stalemate. Soon I will be exempt from paying the school portion of my property tax, so I suspect my interest in this matter will end. My only observation is this: Public education is more about full employment for school teachers than it is about educating the young. I suggest a 10% across the board pay cut for all school employees in DeKalb county, to balance the budget.
July 25th, 2012
10:28 am
All I am sure of is that if they go to a weighted formula, the "average kid" weight will be far, far les than it is now. In fact, across the board, the amount allotted to public education by the legislature will be much lower than it is now. It will "magically" be whatever balances the budget–whatever is left over after the sweet deals, special projects, and other such that benefits the powerful.
You see, folks, we've been sold a bill of goods. The legislators have picked up on the cry for "local control" and they have continued to sell it and fund it that way. You want local control? they say. Then YOU fund your local schools!
When I started teaching in 1973, we didn't have computers or even air conditioners. We had a big old room and I was given the responsibility to teach the students, discipline the students, collaborate with the parents, and make it work. Now, I didn't teach in an affluent area. In fact, I only had one child who had both parents graduate from high school! The average attainment for my children's parents was 8th grade for dads and 10th grade for moms. All but one child qualified for free lunch. Many of my students had no indoor bathroom, and most had never been outside the county. However, my principal and my superintendent supported my efforts. My students' parents supported my efforts. My children had ALL been parented. Problems were handled by me and the parents–no adversarial conditions! My pay? $6900!
What was different? Everything.
July 25th, 2012
10:50 am
Data from the link I provided at 10:19 am:
Public Non-Charter Students Score Higher Than Charter Students On Average. From average scale scores compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics:
2009 public school national average scale scores
Mathematics, grade 4
231 (Charter)
239 (Non-charter)
Reading, grade 8 (Error, I believe; this should have been typed "grade 4.")
212 (Charter)
220 (Non-charter)
Mathematics, grade 8
275 (Charter)
282 (Non-charter)
Reading, grade 8
257 (Charter)
262 (Non-charter)
[National Center for Education Statistics, accessed 10/25/11; screenshots of data here]
July 25th, 2012
10:52 am
@Fran Millar:
With all due respect, when it comes to traditional public schools our Maureen has never met an anti-reform argument she didn't like. At least not in memory.
And her newspaper isn't coy about its Democrat Party alliance.
So why further distract yourself from finding solutions to Georgia's education problems? Look to nearby Louisiana for innovations—and the public-spirited resolve to carry them out.


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New London - Tyler Latham was in an inside lane for the 300-meter sprint Saturday afternoon.
Orrin Parke, his counterpart from New London High School, was on the outside, which meant that because of the staggered start, it looked like Parke was ahead for much of the race.
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Latham won in 36.96 seconds, edging Parke, who tried to lean his body over the finish line ahead of Latham. Parke's time was 37.12.
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I used to live in a large group house in DC and every year we would throw a massive Halloween party. We would usually have between 150-200 people show up at this party. So yea. We needed a lot of booze.
One of the housemates was always on Jello shot duty. We'd make a few hundred of them and they were always a big hit.
While it's pretty quick to mix some booze with some Jello and get a really tasty shot, sometimes you may want to class it up a bit.
When that times comes, ditch the plastic cups, put aside the box mix, and make these suckers.
Lemon Drop Jelly Shots
- Lemon Syrup:
- 4 large lemons, cut into eighths
- 2 Cups water
- 1 1/2 Cups sugar
- Shots:
- 2 Cups lemon Syrup (you may have some left over)
- 1/2 Cup water
- 4 envelopes gelatin (1 ounce)
- 1/2 Cup Triple Sec or Cointreau
- 1 1/2 Cups vodka
- Large raw sugar for garnish
1) For syrup, cut lemons into eighths and add to a medium pot along with sugar and water. Put over medium heat.
2) As syrup heats, stir regularly and mash the lemons to get out juice and oils from the rind.
3) Once simmering, stir for 5 minutes and then remove from heat to cool a bit.
4) Strain to remove any lemon pieces.
5) Add water to measured amount of syrup and sprinkle gelatin over the top.
6) Heat mixture over low heat and stir to dissolve gelatin. It might take 5-10 minutes to get it all dissolved.
7) Remove from heat and add in booze.
8) Pour into an 8x8 dish and refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
9) Cut into cubes with a sharp, hot knife (run it under hot water).
10) Serve cubes sprinkled with raw sugar.
Adapted from the Jelly Shot Test Kitchen.
A Lemon Syrup
Most of the bitter-sweet flavor in these jelly shots comes from a strong lemon syrup. The basics are pretty simple. Just lemons and sugar!
Cut your lemons into eighths and add them to a medium pot with the sugar. Add the water and put this over medium heat.
As this gets hot and cooks, use a large spoon or something to mush the lemons down. Try to press out the juice.
If you're wondering why you can't just juice the lemons and add the juice it's because there is tons of wonderful lemon flavor in the rind. As they get hot, they'll release all sorts of awesome lemon oils that will make your syrup way more flavorful.
So bring this syrup to a simmer, mashing the lemons the whole time, and let it simmer for about five minutes.
You should see something like this!
Your syrup is done now. I recommend straining it just to get out any lemon bits and then you can immediately use it in your shots!
The Shots!
Instead of Jello, we're using straight gelatin for these guys. This results in a really firm jelly that tastes exactly like what you put in it.
Oh. And you'll need some booze!
Mix the syrup with some water and sprinkle the gelatin over the liquid. Let this sit for a few minutes and the gelatin should start to dissolve.
You'll need to heat this up ultimately to dissolve all the gelatin. So you can either mix it in a pot over low heat, or mix it in a metal bowl and put the bowl over some simmering water (double boiler) to slowly heat the mixer.
I did it the second way just because I was worried about burning the sugar. You can do it either way though if you're careful.
Note that this is a lot of gelatin. It might take you 5-10 minutes of stirring as the liquid gets hot before all of it is dissolved. Take your time. There's no rush.
Once all the gelatin is dissolved, pull the jelly mixture off the heat and add your booze!
Important note: Don't continue to cook or heat the mixture after you add the liquor. Alcohol evaporates really quickly and if you continue to heat it you'll lose all the punch in the shots!
Once everything is mixed together, you should have this beautiful shimmering liquid that will smell like an alcoholic lemonade stand.
Pour this into an 8×8 dish and stick it in the fridge for at least 6 hours. That was enough to get mine to set completely. Ideally you can do overnight, but 6 hours should do the trick.
When cutting the squares, the easiest way to do it is to run your knife under hot water and then it should slice right through the jelly.
You could obviously make these as big or small as you want, but I found that a 5×5 cut, yielding 25 cubes, was a perfect size.
I scooped these into some individual mini-cupcake tins and sprinkled them with a good amount of raw sugar.
The shots themselves are pretty tart and lemony (which is good) so the sugar helps cut that a bit.
If you're curious, I did the math and each of these shots has about 2/3 of an ounce of booze in it. So if you eat three or four of these, it's basically like having a martini. And you could eat a few of these way faster than you could drink a martini.
So be careful!
But yea. They are tasty and perfect on a hot summer day!


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The Craft Apartment is a charming two bedroom Amsterdam apartment that can accommodate six guests, located in the Central Canal Belt in the heart of the city. Whites and earth tones dominate the space creating a welcoming home away from home....
150 Per Night
Royal House on Dam Square 18th century
Amsterdam, Netherlands Vacation Rentals
Luxurious single family house near Dam Square. 1st floor - bedroom, bathroom - Jacuzzi, shower and wc 2nd floor - bedroom, kitchen and dining room 3rd floor - bedroom, wc, terrace...
500 Per Night
Amsterdam Apartments
Amsterdam, Netherlands Vacation Rentals
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$125 Per Night
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$125 Per Night
Korenbloemen studio apartment
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Canal apartment in the historic centre of Amsterdam near Nieuwmarkt and Rembrandtplein with everything of interest within a one mile radius. Fully equipped for two with everything you can think of for a comfortable and relaxed stay....
Special Discounted Rates from 110 Per Night
Simply Amsterdam Apartments
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Simply Amsterdam Apartments offers unique quality apartments and canal houses (and also a houseboat) in Amsterdam for daily, weekly or monthly rental. Stay in a historic house in the Amsterdam canal area....
$122 - 250
North Church Prinsengracht Living
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North Church Prinsengracht Living is waiting for you with a warm welcome....
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Contrast Deluxe
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$56 Per Night
Damrak 2d
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$57 Per Night
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From 75 Per Night/Room
DBs B&B in the heart of the Jordaan
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Starting at 118 Per Night
charming bed & breakfast rooms centre Amsterdam
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85 Per Night
At Home Away From Home, guest house in city centre
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Eric B&B
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Marcel's Creative Exchange - Leidseplein Amsterdam
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Designer and graphic artist Marcel van Woerkom rents out rooms in his lovingly restored and self-designed home in the old center of Amsterdam, Leidseplein canal ring. marcelamsterdam.nl...
Starting at 150 Per Night
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Rates from 105 Per Night
Amsterdam Heren bed and breakfast
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'Home away from home' as most of our guests say. This Amsterdam city center B&B in canal area, near Dam square, Museums and central station is truly a quiet retreat. Yet near all tourist attractions, All the home comforts as well as many extra's....
Rates from 105 Per Night
Hostel Cosmos Amsterdam
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Starting at 9 Per Night
Hotel Verdi
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$50 Per Night
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HTC has revealed its newest smartphone the One Max featuring a 5.9-inch screen and fingerprint sensor technology. A larger iteration of its lead design, the One Max houses a nearly edge-to-edge 1080p screen along with the same 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor used in the One. The fingerprint scanner on the back unlocks the phone and can be programmed for up to three fingers which immediately launch three separate apps without the need to unlock or go to the home screen. Available in 16GB or 32GB, the phone also allows for up to 64GB extra memory via a microSD card slot found under the rear cover. The HTC One Max launches in Asia and Europe in October, with a U.S. release following shortly after.
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Video shot by a Virginia mom during her family's recent visit to the Smithsonian's National Zoo in D.C. is sure to touch your heart. Jennifer Bittner tells FOX 5 her 7-year-old son, who has Asperger's Syndrome, found an unexpected playmate inside the zoo's sea lion exhibit.
Bittner says she and her family were the only ones inside the sea lion exhibit last Sunday morning. They arrived early before the rest of the crowds.
In the video, her son Alex is seen running back and forth in front of the aquarium's giant window as a sea lion named Sophie closely follows him. Bittner was rolling during the whole thing, as the sea lion followed her son as he ran from right to left-- and stopped when he stopped.
In an email, Bittner told FOX 5 the two played happily for several minutes.
"It was amazing to witness the connection that the beautiful creature and my son seemed to share," she wrote. "He sometimes has trouble interacting and playing with children his own age, but he and the Sea Lion seemed perfectly in sync."
She says watching them play was an incredible experience, and from the sound of things, Alex felt the same way.
"This is the best thing of my life!" the little boy is heard saying in the video, which is posted on YouTube.
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'Kahaani' is a taut thriller, which forces the viewer to stay glued to the screen while the protagonist, supposedly, searches for her missing husband. While the film introduced Nawazuddin Siddiqui (He played the tough-as-nails IB officer Khan) to the mainstream audience, it was Vidya Balan who stood tall and once again earned the respect of the hero-worshiping audience, with a power-packed performance. Also, set in Kolkata, the milieu, notably, was a character in itself.
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I like this & it is what I call "comfort food", a welcome taste when camping.
Berry Camping Cake
Photo: Thayer Allyson Gowdy
Time: 1 1/2 hours. Any berry or berry combination works in this cake, which has a dry, crumbly topping that combines with the berry juices for a rich, sweet treat. You'll need a 12-in. (6-qt.) camp Dutch oven (with feet). Pack the frozen berries in a cooler and make this on the first night of camping, before they thaw completely.
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 466
- Calories from fat: 31%
- Protein: 4.7g
- Fat: 16g
- Saturated fat: 9.6g
- Carbohydrate: 79g
- Fiber: 3.5g
- Sodium: 537mg
- Cholesterol: 41mg
- 3 3/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 cup butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 50 ounces frozen strawberries (unsweetened) or other berries*
- 1. At home: In a food processor, pulse together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and baking powder. Add butter; pulse until mixture is very fine. Add sugar and pulse to combine. Transfer to a large resealable bag and chill until ready to use, up to 2 days.
- 2. At campsite: Ignite 40 briquets on the firegrate of a clean charcoal grill or firepit and let burn until just covered with a fine layer of ash. Using tongs, arrange 20 coals into a 12-in. ring; push remaining coals aside.
- 3. Put strawberries in a 12-in. footed (camp) Dutch oven. Spoon half the flour mixture evenly over strawberries, cover pot, and set in the ring of coals. Arrange remaining 20 ash-covered coals in a single layer on top of Dutch oven lid.
- 4. Arrange another ring of 20 fresh, unlit coals around and touching the hot coals at the base of oven (these will ignite and provide a second burst of heat later).
- 5. Cook cake about 20 minutes (do not cover grill or firepit). With tongs, push coals away from lid handle, remove lid (keeping coals on top), and spoon on remaining flour mixture. Replace lid and top evenly with the second batch of newly ash-covered coals from around the pot.
- 6. Bake until topping is golden brown and strawberry juices are bubbling to the surface, 15 to 25 minutes more. Let cool at least 20 minutes before eating.
- *If using berries other than strawberries, mix with an extra 1/4 cup sugar when putting them in the Dutch oven.
- Note: Nutritional analysis is per serving.
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This European Style Travel Organizer is made of canvas with a genuine leather trim, perfect to take on your next vacation!
Never lacking in storage room, this Travel Pouch has three main compartments that each have a zippered closure. There are also two pocket on the flap of the organizer, one that is open and one that has a zippered closure. There are also two pockets on the side of the pouch that both have a hook and loop closure.
This organizer can be carried with its grab handle or on your shoulder with the detachable shoulder straps. There are also belt loops so you could wear it on your belt as well. This organizer is a must have for your next vacation!
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Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Report
2012 Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Report
Residential mortgage guaranty insurance provides protection to lenders against default by borrowers who initially have less than 20 percent equity interest in the mortgaged property. This form of insurance is designed to stimulate home ownership by giving consumers with lower down payments access to credit. Generally, lenders require mortgage guaranty insurance for loans exceeding 80 percent of the value of a home.
2012 Mortgage Guaranty Report
- This year's residential mortgage guaranty report reveals that the impact of the housing crisis on residential mortgage insurers continued into 2012, with incurred losses again exceeding premium. Insurers paid out over $93 million in 2012, the third largest annual payments since the DIFP began collecting such data over 30 years ago. However, much of this amount represents payments for losses that occurred in prior years. The amount of incurred losses, or the amount that insurers expect to eventually pay out on claims that occurred in a year, increased between 2011 and 2012.
- Paid losses in Missouri declined slightly over the prior year, but were still at the third highest level in over 30 years since the DIFP began collecting data. In 2012, insurers paid out over $93 million to cover residential loan defaults. Nationally, these same insurers paid losses totaling $6.9 billion, an amount that excludes payments from insurers that do not operate in Missouri.
- Mortgage guaranty insurers incurred net losses for the sixth year in a row. In 2008, insurers incurred losses of $173.1 million, equal to 152.2 percent of premium earned in that year. This percentage declined to 145.7 percent in 2009, 107.7 percent in 2010, but increased to 123.5 percent in 2011. In 2012, this percentage again declined to 102.3 percent. Incurred losses in part represent insurers expectations of how much they will eventually pay out on claims incurred during a year. The amount of claim reserves, or money insurers set aside to cover such claims, declined by $22 million from the prior year. National loss ratios for these insurers declined from 228.7 percent in 2008 to 142.7 percent in 2012.
- Industrywide in 2008, contingency reserves were reduced for the first time since 1983. Such reserves declined again in both 2009 and 2010, but increased in 2011. In 2012, the contingency reserves once again declined. Contingency reserves are special reserves that mortgage guaranty insurers are required to maintain by statute. They are equal to 50 percent of premium, and must be maintained for 10 years, but may be used to cover losses in excess of 35 percent of premium in a given year. Contingency reserves covering Missouri losses in 2008 declined by a modest $29.1 million, but more substantially in 2009 ($67.2 million) and 2010 ($55.6 million). In 2011, contingency reserves increased by almost 3 million. In 2012, contingency reserves declined by $7.7 million.
- The housing crisis has also contracted the market for mortgage guaranty insurance, as evidenced by premium. In 2008, mortgage guarantee premiums peaked at $113.6 million, but declined to $70 million in 2012.
This report was compiled using information submitted by the insurance companies. While every effort is made to ensure accurate data, the accuracy of this report is dependent on each company's data. Any questions about this report should be directed to the Statistics Section, Missouri DIFP, P.O. Box 690, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0690.
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Storify — the curation service used by many journalists telling stories from social media — has a deal with iPhone/iPad app Tweetbot to make it easier to create Storify stories from your mobile device. (Unfortunately, it can only do whole conversations, as defined by Twitter's reply mechanisms. You have to go to Storify's site or iPad app to add or subtract other tweets or context.)
Ello is the new anti-Facebook social network du jour (remember Crabgrass? Diaspora?) that's attracting attention for its strong stance against advertising and advertising-related data harvesting as a business model. Will it actually be a success? Ben Thompson says no and, in the process of explaining his argument for why not, outlines some Business Model 101 that also applies to news and news-y startups:
I like companies that are incentivized to make and keep me happy:
— My favorite business model is a subscription: I pay every month for a piece of software or a service, which means the software or service provider is always under pressure to earn my money
— Advertising is actually not far off from a subscription-style service: while in a very narrow view the adage "you're the product that's being bought and sold" is certainly true, the reality is that the Google and Facebooks of the world are arguably even more incentivized to make sure the user experience is great. After all, the value they offer has to be sufficient to overcome the negative effects of advertising (and in some case, particularly Google search, there are times when advertising is actually additive to the user experience)
Up-front payments can go either way:
— I'm a fan of up-front payments if the developer has plans to release new versions of the software that require me to pay to upgrade. This sort of business is similar to high-margin hardware: not only must this developer offer something very compelling to earn my up-front payment, they must also deliver something of quality to ensure I'm willing to pay for versions two, three, and four
On the other hand, if the developer will never charge for upgrades, then I think this business model isn't consumer friendly at all. A developer of such an app is incentivized to garner as many up-front payments as possible with no regard for existing customers
— "Unlock"-type schemes are the worse. These can be products where you need to pay for features or assistance to accomplish some given task (free-to-play definitely falls in this category). Developers who use these schemes are incentivized to make the experience of their product frustrating so that I might be willing to pay to avoid the frustration. But, once I pay, there is no incentive to keep me happy
News companies are, generally speaking, both blessed and cursed with the first two models Thompson outlines — blessed because of the promise of ongoing revenue and an alignment of incentives between user and producer; cursed because it means that, unlike most other people playing in the modern app economy, they have to keep earning users' business every day, with all the cost structure issues that implies.
A subscription to De Correspondent costs €60 ($76) annually, and Pfauth wrote that about 60 percent of the site's original 18,933 funders have already renewed their subscriptions. As of Sept. 23, De Correspondent had 37,057 members — multiply that by the €60 cost of a membership and you get €2.2 million ($2.77 million). It says it's received 4.5 million unique visitors in its first year. (Including two from North Korea!)
To try and incentivize members to renew their subscriptions, De Correspondent put together two reports detailing the site's finances and also the impact of its journalism in the past year. (They're both in Dutch.)
About 53 percent of every €60 membership was spent on salaries for De Correspondent's 15 full-time staffers and its network of freelancers. The next largest expenditure: taxes, accounting for 17.4 percent of its costs.
The level of detail De Correspondent provides its members in explaining how it spends their money and the projects it undertakes — one of the site's journalists, for example, wrote a book that originated with stories written for the site and that De Correspondent published — is part of its philosophy for what a crowdfunded news organization should look like. Pfauth summarized that philosophy on Medium:
1. Explain how you spend your members' money;
2. Encourage journalists to work together with members;
3. Your members are your best ambassadors;
4. Reach out to people who already like you;
5. Think beyond your platform when it comes to publishing your stories.
The Guardian has a new setup for its liveblogs that aims to fix some of their eternal problems — chief among them that they're great for in-the-moment following along, but cryptic and unnavigable after the fact:
Paul Owen, who is responsible for the Guardian's UK live blogs, said: "Once live blogs have been going for more than an hour or two, it becomes difficult for a new reader to start reading; by that point the live blog has often become rather long and unwieldy.
"For a while we have asked the live bloggers to periodically add bullet-point summaries of key events – say at the beginning of the blog, half way through the day, and when wrapping up. But these only really help if the new reader starts reading the blog soon after a summary has been published.
"So we hope pulling up key events into a clickable list at the top or top left of each live blog will now help readers navigate through a live blog at whatever point they choose to join it. Summaries will remain too, though."
You can see an example of the new look here. I rather like it; the commenters under that post don't.
Capital New York give us a look at The New York Times' native advertising business in a profile of Meredith Kopit Levien, its executive vice president for advertising, and it appears to be growing. Since launching earlier this year, it's struck deals with 32 different brands — from Netflix to Thomson Reuters — to create ads that cost from $25,000 to more than $200,000 just to create.And the Times' in-house content studio, T Brand Studio, is up to a staff of 16 — up from nine when my colleague Justin Ellis wrote about the Times' approach native advertising in June.
The build up of the Times' native advertising capacity is part of a larger overhaul of its advertising department that began when Levien took over as the executive vice president for advertising in July 2013. She's replaced about one-third of the current staff with new hires, bringing on more than 80 staffers. Of those who left, about half were offered buyouts or early retirement, "a move that some interpreted as a way of nudging older employees out the door," Capital writes.
Print continues to generate most of the Times' advertising revenue, but with its continued emphasis on native and digital advertising, especially video, Levian said she's optimistic: "We're certainly not going to put up a victory banner yet, but we are beginning to find our way into what feels like a sustainable path toward growing the digital business."
We've shared before about efforts at The Guardian and The New York Times to get faster, and now we've got a new slide deck from Times developer Eitan Koningsburg on the sometimes counterintuitive things they've done to speed up NYTimes.com (including the earlier [thanks, Allen] strange-sounding-to-me use of an intentional blocking script to load ads better):
The current mantra in performance thinking is "Tools not Rules." The premise is simple: The path to faster websites is not only about fast requests, but how they interact with paints, animations, and script execution. But tools are only part of the solution. What The New York Times discovered is that performance is about truly understanding your product and users, and the sum total of your site. Following this approach can lead to surprising results.
The New York Times underwent a major redesign that involved a rewrite of the entire technology stack. The Product team not only bought into the idea that performance should be a goal, but mandated that it be part of the product's success. While we implemented many of the community's best practices, our biggest wins were a little surprising, and at first glance, counter to community best practices. Front-end software architect Eitan Koningsburg covers those changes, what worked, what didn't, and how we got there.
|Wearables could make the "glance" a new subatomic unit of news
"The audience wants to go faster. This can't be solved with responsive design; it demands an original approach, certainly at the start."
|Designer or journalist: Who shapes the news you read in your favorite apps?
A new study looks at how engineers and designers from companies like Storify, Zite, and Google News see their work as similar — and different — from traditional journalism.
|Ken Doctor: Guardian Space & Guardian Membership, playing the physical/digital continuum
The Guardian is making its biggest bet on memberships and events by renovating a 30,000 square foot space to host live activities in the heart of London.


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The annual holiday shopping survey from the University of St. Thomas is out, and researchers say people are not only eager to share what they plan to buy, they're also talking about how much they will spend.
The school has been conducting its survey for 12 years, consistently listing the Mall of America as the top shopping destination. This year, it's No. 1 again.
According to the survey, Twin Cities households will spend an average of $837 this year, up 3 percent from last year and 19 percent from the year before. That total is a 31 percent increase from the peak of the recession in 2009.
"As long as shoppers are feeling good about themselves and confident about the future, they tend to spend a lot more," David Brennan said.
So, what are the hottest items? Twin Cities shoppers say they're going for gift cards, followed by clothing, cash, books and toys.
In light of this year's short shopping season, stores are speeding up their sales promotions. According to the survey, shoppers have already begun their buying, with 21 percent telling St. Thomas researchers they are already done.
About one third of shoppers also say they plan to make their purchases online. Target.com is the No. 1 go-to site, according to the survey.
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I agree with Rob Simmons views about our drone program, "Nation of Drones," (Feb. 13). I also have serious issues with its lack of due process. However, Rob Simmons isn't the right person to be a spokesperson. He had no problems with the Bush administration and its torture program, or its spying on American citizens without approval from the same FISA Court that he faults Obama from not using. He questions the Justice Department memos that approved the drone program but had no problems with the Justice Department and the John Yoo memos that approved torture under the Bush administration.
His opinion article smells more like partisan politics than any true conviction. I suggest an Internet search on "Rob Simmons views on torture."
Passengers aboard the Carnival cruise ship Triumph shared their tales of a vacation-turned-nightmare. Have their stories made you think twice about a similar vacation?
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