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NBT Interview: School Days
with Mary Catherine Ball
Anne Arundel Community College President Martha Smith
The school bus rumbled past my corner this morning, gathering groggy kids and awakening school days' memories. From five to 85 and then some, Baysiders are returning to school this week. The crispness of early fall that's suddenly touched Chesapeake Country is a sure sign that it's school time once again.
But many students are not waiting at bus stops or climbing those looming black steps up into yellow buses. They are rolling out of bed, sliding into cars and speeding over the Severn River Bridge to early morning, noon or night classes at one of Maryland's 16 community colleges.
Of those, Anne Arundel Community College is one of the biggest - it's our state's largest single campus community college - and one of the most successful at matching education with real life.
Driving through the main entrance gate at the college, even sleepy, early morning students can't miss the billowing banners proclaiming 'Students First.'
I still remember those signs, five years later, as I remember the seemingly endless drive to Arnold during morning and evening rush hours.
Now, I'm looking ahead to my final semester at the University of Maryland at College Park. I'm driving farther and remembering, with some nostalgia, the good things at Anne Arundel Community College: small classrooms, caring teachers and fellow students who instantly became friends.
While I was settling into the college routine as a freshman, another new person was arriving at Anne Arundel Community College. In the fall of 1994, Martha Smith walked onto the Arnold campus and into her role as president. Smith was the first woman to be hired into the top job at any of Maryland's community colleges.
Acceptance for Anne Arundel Community College's first woman president wasn't immediate, explained a long-time college administrator. "In the old days, in the college administration, you had to be a man, be Italian and play golf."
But Smith's dedication and effectiveness, her friendliness and decency won out. "Marty" has become a popular first-name president and a familiar face on campus. She not only opens her door to students but also shows up at the darndest times and places.
I showed up at her office last week, as schools across Maryland and the nation were readying to receive students. Maybe I wanted to remind myself of the hopes and dreams I'd pinned on this five-year journey into my future as an educated, job-ready woman.
"Isn't it ever going to end?" I've asked myself more than a few times during those years. My mother's asked the same question.
I hope it's never going to end, Smith told me. Learning is a lifelong process. Somehow her words made me glad, even after all these years.
Q The first day of school is as exciting for a freshman as for a first grader. What's in store for freshmen heading to Anne Arundel Community College this fall?
A Quality, quality, quality.
In all their courses. they have excellent, caring faculty members to look forward to. Unlike other segments of higher education, our focus is teaching. Our faculty do scholarship and research, but their primary job is instruction. That's how they're promoted; that's how they're hired; that's how they're evaluated; that's what turns them on. They're highly credentialed and they're in the classroom.
We don't have graduate assistants, but we have Ph.D.s in the classroom who are here because they like it and want to interact with students. I can't tell you how many times a week I'll get a letter or phone call from a student who says that a professor turned his or her life around by showing a little extra special attention. That's what all our students have to look forward to: quality education and top-notch faculty.
We've always said we're a teaching institution, but more and more we're shifting that to learning institution.
Q Tell us about a professor who stands out in your mind as exemplifying the "Students First" policy you set at this college.
A There are so many here.
To name just one: Professor Tyrone Powers, a criminal justice teacher and former member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is one of our newer faculty. His idea is that all students can succeed if you meet them where they are and help them reach success.
When I think about the letters I get about Tyrone, that's what they are about. The kind that come in with this history or complex of failure and then hear somebody say, 'Okay let's do it. You can make this happen.'
For many people that's a good experience. Someone with a prestigious title is really paying attention to you, saying you can do this.
I saw this sign outside of a church a year ago, and it stayed in my mind. 'Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.' All of these people are fighting a really hard battle - some in more than one area - so it's not easy to come here and be successful, especially those with kids, ill parents, ill spouses. Everyone is fighting a hard battle, but they are committed. Our students are phenomenal.
Q How 'phenomenal' are your students?
A We track the grade point averages of our students who transfer to four-year colleges and universities. On average, more Anne Arundel Community College students transfer than any other community college students in the state. Those students achieve on average higher than students who started at those four-year institutions as freshmen. We're sending them very prepared into their junior years.
People are shocked when they hear that. Why should they be? We have smaller classrooms and credentialed, qualified, committed teachers in the classroom. The outcome is that you are going to be ready for that transfer experience.
Q I began college here in the summer of 1994. What's new that I missed?
A How about two beautiful new buildings, the Florestano Allied Health and Public Services building and Cade Center for Fine Arts? There are also a lot of computer labs, all networked.
You would also find our Student Success course, ACA100. It's provided to give you the scoop on what you need to know and what you need to do to prepare yourself to be successful: people, resources, time management skills, organizational skills, how to study and basic absolutely essential information and skills that you need to be successful. It's required of full time students. We piloted it last year, and it was very successful.
What I love about it is that everybody is teaching it: Administrators are teaching it; faculty are teaching it. Faculty are learning from each other. Administrators are learning from faculty. It's a wonderful experience.
Q Anything else?
A Also, there are two initiatives. One is the Maryland Community College Teleconsortium. The community colleges - there are 16 of them in the state - are adding courses to the pot. Students here or in other states or in the world will be able to enroll in Maryland community college courses and get a degree.
Another effort is Maryland Online, which is being spurred on by University of Maryland University College because they have tremendous online distance learning courses in the upper division. We're trying to figure out how we can connect so that students can utilize our college for lower division courses.
People will be able to have access to virtual degrees.
Q Let's go further back in time. How is the experience of today's freshman different from when you or even my mother started college?
A In 1966, I entered Slippery Rock College, in Pennsylvania, as a freshman. When I started out, the student population was 18 years old and had some diversity of racial and ethnic background, but everyone was focused on college. When I was there; I thought, 'This is college, this is what I'm about, this is what I'm going to worry about.'
There is much more diversity among the student body now, and not just racial or ethnic diversity, but diversity of life experience. Now students have jobs, family, kids, parents and community service. Their lives are very packed.
Life is moving so fast that students nowadays take a course and get ready to move on when they've got to come back and learn something that's been added on. You find people who are finding this lifelong learning thing and coming back for credentials.
Lots of people are coming back who have already kind of done it. Nationally, 25 percent of all community college students already have baccalaureates, 14 percent have masters and nine percent have doctorates.
Q The community college movement is over 50 years old now. Over that half century, what have our community colleges promised their students?
A We started community colleges as the people's college, so everyone in this country would have access to higher education. That leads to the open-door concept which is unique to community colleges. The larger community college movement has been driven by these mandates.
We must constantly be aware that what we're doing is because of our mission as a community college, which is to provide quality higher education that is accessible, affordable and responsive to the needs of our community. The mission drives everything we do.
I am proud of our board of trustees because they set the direction and the vision, and these are right in front of us all the time. They are always asking questions about initiatives we want to do and how we spend our resources. How does it advance our mission?
Approaching a new decade and century and the new millennium, we hear these types of words: the age of the knowledge-worker in a knowledge-based economy, the information age, the era of lifelong learning. Imagine how powerful that is for people in an institution whose mission involves just those values.
Q Anne Arundel Community College began in 1961. How many lives has the college touched in 38 years?
A Part of your question is easy to answer because we've just been looking at our records. We verified 18,000 records of graduation at the college. One of the really wonderful things we found is that 16,000 of those 18,000 students still live in the county. That is a very powerful point in terms of enriching this county, our return on the investment.
In any given year, there are between 40,000 and 50,000 individuals who come to the college for some kind of educational experience. We will have about 18,000 students registered in our credit courses and almost 30,000 individuals registered in the continuing education, lifelong learning and work force development courses.
It is estimated, as well, that we will have 8,000 to 10,000 other individuals on campus for athletic events, cultural events and community events.
Every year, over 10 percent of the county's population is getting touched by our college.
Q People attend community college for many different reasons. Is preparing for a job so hard a master that no one comes to college nowadays for the intellectual fun of learning?
A Truth be known, for decades people have pursued education - whether it is a Ph.D., M.D. or J.D. - for an occupational check. Even so, people have learned for fun, for their own self-actualization. Learning does just that.
The student experience at Anne Arundel Community College is not just technical learning; it's not a technical school; it's not just vocation oriented. Look at our general education: critical thinking, aesthetic development and the love of learning.
The most important thing we can do for our students is help them learn how to learn how to learn how to learn. That's what it's all about - and to really enjoy that because once you have a passion for it or know how to do it, you'll have fun with it.
Q If you get a student who's missed out on this love of learning, do you think Anne Arundel Community College can revive it?
A We do that everyday. Because people have experienced education in some other context and not liked it, not been successful.
Here, there is nothing like success. Once you're successful you say, 'This is cool, I'm hooked,' and you start having fun and loving learning.
Half - and I'm not being exact here - of those 18,000 people come into this and say 'I hate learning, I've not been successful at it, I'm scared to death of it.'
You know what? That attitude is changed by little steps of success. Our faculty knows how to do it. A little bit and a little bit more and they're hooked.
Q How are you reaching younger people who are at a crossroads after high school?
A For one thing, we make major efforts with intervention and tracking systems. All of our testing and admissions staff are into high schools now. We have increased the number of times and the amount of time that we actually go to the high schools. We talk with students, and if they're interested, we register them and even take their initial aid applications.
Our advisors move around from high school to high school. Being there in the high school and having someone look you in the eye and say, 'These are the programs we have,' works.
Q You've reported a four percent increase in "diversity" since you came to the college in 1994. How has that been achieved?
A We have lots of efforts now promoting access to higher education to under-served people. We've got minority advisors and counselors who go out and really try to network with younger Anne Arundel County students to show that we now have a critical mass here so you really can feel comfortable. We really do welcome diversity.
Even as I say that, I know we've looked at the programs and said we really need to do more.
We're trying really hard to increase the diversity of our work force, particularly our faculty. We're trying to create an environment, and I mean that on all levels, so our student programming reflects diversity, our performers and lecturers reflect diversity and when you walk around the halls you see diversity in the pictures.
Q What does diversity mean to you? Are you including gender differences, religious preferences and other factors?
A There is a diversity team that is charged with putting together a comprehensive view of how we really infuse diversity throughout our entire organization. They defined it in concrete terms but more expansive terms than race and ethnicity. They included ability, appearance, sexual orientation and more.
Q Anne Arundel County and Southern Maryland have a rich and very separate black culture all of their own. How does the college bridge the divide?
A In Anne Arundel County, about 18 and a half percent are a racial minority. Our racial breakdown is 17.6 percent minority, up from 13.8 percent five years ago.
Most colleges just try to reflect their community. We say, 'No, no, no.' Let's serve the typically underserved. Our minority recruiters and other minority faculty and staff serve as liaisons. We have a community advisory council on diversity that meets once a semester. We have representatives from the community. We try to get all of the different cultural and racial and ethnic groups represented.. They advise us. They say be in the churches, be at this festival, be at that celebration. Be sure that you have purchasing contracts with minority vendors. We make those connections.
Q When this year's freshmen graduate with their associate's degrees from Anne Arundel Community College, what next steps will they take?
A We have over 30 different articulation agreements with four-year colleges and universities. For a couple of those - University of Maryland University College and the College of Notre Dame - students who enroll with us are concurrently signing up with them.
People keep saying we should be a four-year college, but we're not going to give up our mission. If we're doing our job right, we should be able to provide you with access to a four-year degree.
Q What's the next step? Do you think their education is going to help all these students get jobs?
A We did a plan four years ago. We looked at what was happening in the world, in our country, in our state, in our county, in our community. We looked at what's going to be happening in the next 10 years. That's why we have a vision.
Anne Arundel Community College is a premier learning community where students and graduates are among the best prepared workers of the world. That is our aspiration.
Why? Because they have to be able to compete with the best prepared citizens and workers of the world. This whole global community and work place that we have is a new element. What we learned is that 95 percent of all new jobs in the new decade will require some post-secondary education.
If you think that you are not going to continue education after high school, let's talk about it, because you don't have that decision to make.
Q You seem so excited about all you have accomplished here. What brought you to education?
A I'll go back to my family and my upbringing. My mom instilled in us that we are all about caring for people and helping other people grow. That's what it's all about.
I started out as a chemistry major at Slippery Rock. I planned to be a rich and famous chemist. I actually graduated with a degree in chemistry. My first semester out, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Hawaii. I thought, 'This is the most meaningless work I've ever done in my life. I really want to be around people.'
I had had such a great experience as an undergraduate. I said 'I would love to be a dean of students. That whole profession is about helping people discover who they are and who they can be.'
The community college environment is an extension of that philosophy.
I was a dean of students at a small private college in Minnesota for four years and at the University of Hawaii for four years.
I discovered community colleges in Hawaii, where I had the best job in the world. I worked for the College of Continuing Education. There are community colleges on the outer islands, Hawaii, Maui and the Big Island. The university got this idea to develop and offer upper division courses at the community colleges. I got put in charge of that program. It was called Hawaii Open Program. I got to go to the community college on a regular basis and work with their faculty. It was great. We had several hundred courses when I left.
I came to Maryland in 1982 as dean of students at Dundalk Community College up in Baltimore County.
Q You're the first president at Anne Arundel Community College to be a woman. Is this a success for you? Is it a success for all women?
A What I've really appreciated is that more and more women are in leadership roles, period: corporate, non-profit and government. Look around at our county now. I think it is very different than it was five years ago. Janet Owens is the county executive. Carol Parham is the superintendent of schools.
Our success is recognizing the tremendous resource we have in people, whether they're black or women. Let's maximize the wonderful rich diversity of leadership we have with everything that counts.
Q As an administrator, you spend your time in an office, away from the students. How do you keep in touch with them?
A That's probably one of my biggest challenges. I meet regularly with the student president. That student is on a number of committees. I have an advisory group and try to make it to each of their meetings. I have open office hours.
I guess I really kind of seek students out and make a little connection. Or someone will introduce me. Students are really free to come in to see me, and we have these cards about suggesting ideas. It's not just during open office hours.
Q With so much on your plate as president of the college, how did you find the time to work with United Way, especially becoming the county's campaign chair this year?
A I knew I'd do it sometime. I did it this year primarily because a colleague, Rick Morgan, former director of Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corporation, asked me to. The college works very closely with the corporation and Rick was a member of the Anne Arundel Community College Foundation.
I've met a whole different group of people - the United Way staff and some of the volunteers - who are fantastic. I really have thoroughly enjoyed meeting a whole new cast of players. It's good to be reminded of other aspects of our community. The people are needy and needing some kind of help. It's added another track in my life.
Q Do you have any time left over for play?
A Having just turned 50, I'm not quite the rigorous outdoors person that I used to be. But I love to hike, canoe and camp. The most I've been doing is canoeing in the Mayo Beach area. I haven't done half of what I've wanted to do.
I have dogs, all mutts. Never in my life have I had a pure bred.
I go antiquing. I do like to go to the ocean. I like to go to Cape Cod. I like to spend time in Maine whenever I get a chance.
Last year, three friends and I went to Las Vegas. We spent two days there and then we rented a car and drove west and ended up in San Francisco. This summer, I spent almost a week in Montreal and Quebec. The week before last, we had our annual family reunion. My sister and my brother and their families come to Maryland, and we play for a few days.
Q Students are constantly asked to rank the things in their life. How would you rank the things in your life?
A My job is close to the top. But it doesn't outpace my family: my brother and sister and their families and the commitment we make especially as we get older to try and connect. That's become increasingly important to me.
The job is right with family because of the energy I get out of it. There's nothing like work to add to a meaningful life.
Q Out of the office, where does your life find a home?
A I live in Glen Burnie. I was on my way to the south of the county and never made it. South County is more like where I used to live in Harford County. My first summer here, I spent a lot of time scoping out Anne Arundel County. I kept saying, 'I think I'm going to end up in South County.' Then my job started and I didn't have time to look. I found a nice place in Glen Burnie and have not moved from there.
Q When you fall asleep at night, what might cross your mind as the best thing that happened during the day?
A On Saturday I got to be part of the graduation ceremony for the physician assistants. This is our second graduating class: 12 students who worked their butts off.
One of the requirements is to have a baccalaureate degree. We are one of the few community colleges in the nation to offer this certification. It's a direct response to community needs. It's a feather in our cap, but mostly it's a feather in their cap.
Graduation ceremonies are wonderful. You see students first, students' successes. We're there; they're there; their families are there; their friends are there. They are bursting and so are we.
Graduations always are peak experiences.
Q You have the attention of New Bay Times readers everywhere. What do you want to tell them?
A I really would like to thank the community. An organization cannot do what we're doing without the community being there and supporting us. The support of the county government and the business community is, in my opinion, unparalleled in this state.
This is a wonderful community, and they deserve the very best. That is what we're trying to give for the 21st century and beyond.
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Volume VII Number 35
September 2-8, 1999
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By Amanda Linette Meder Psychic Medium
When it comes to interacting in the Spirit World, things can get confusing.
Between guardian angels, ascended masters and spirit guides, it can be hard to know what each 'type' of Spirit does and how you can benefit with connecting with one over the other.
On top of that, each person has a variety of different intuitive abilities which they can use to connect with those in Spirit. Some of us are feelers, some of us are hearers, and some of us connect with Spirit using external cues in the world around us.
When you first come to working with the Spirit world, it can not only be difficult to decide who to connect with, but to know how to connect with them.
There are 6 different types of Spirit who you can connect with while still on earth in the physical world and each group, has a different job and plays a different role in your life.
The 6 Types of Spirits
Guardian Angels
Individuals in Spirit who have primarily resided in the Spiritual realm. Since they have mostly resided in the Spirit realm, they can provide an alternative perspective that is different from that of those who have lived in the physical world. They often help us see overarching purposes, interconnectedness and are highly supportive of anything that activates and lifts up our Spiritual self.
Those in Spirit who have overarching expertise and areas of focus for bettering both the world of Spirit and the physical world. They help can help large groups of people, where guardian Angels are specifically supportive for you. They too, have primarily been Spirit before.
Spirit Guides
They have primarily existed on this Earth in physical form, before transitioning to assisting you in Spirit. One person can have many Guides with all with different specialities, who all generally have a similar soul purpose to the person on earth that they primarily watch over. They are not within your human soul group, such as ancestors and Loved Ones, are and therefore can act as unbiased guides and mentors to you.
Ascended Masters
These are Spirit Guides who were once alive on Earth, have lived many lives, have learned all of their lessons on Earth and are now acting as a high vibrational Guides for certain lessons and situations which you may need assistance with on Earth. Ascended Masters tend to look out for large groups of people, where Spirit Guides are generally designated to one individual or family at a time.
Deceased Loved Ones
Deceased loved ones are different from Spirit Guides in that they are in your soul group and immediate social group during this lifetime that you are experiencing on Earth now. Deceased Loved Ones are those in Spirit who know you personally from the physical world, including animal friends as pets.
Elemental Spirits
These are Spiritual Beings currently living primarily in the physical realm, and include fairies, gnomes, plant spirits and crystal spirits. They are our closest living relatives in the physical world who primarily occupy wild places such as forests, oceans, lakes, meadows and mountains - compared to all other groups, who connect with you from the Spiritual world.
There are the 6 groups of Spirits that are open for you to connect with. With so many groups, it is understandable why it can sometimes be difficult to tell them apart! On top of that, each group, has a different style and method of communication with those on Earth, which means that learning more about each group of Spirits can help you decide what is the best way for you to connect with them to get the best results.
To assist you in sorting out the best way to connect with your Guides, Angels and Loved Ones, and to help you sort out the who is who in the Spirit World, please check out the categories on the blog to learn about each group -
Angels - Spirit Guides - Loved Ones
- Amanda

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For a few of years I've been haunted by a story arc from The New Titans dubbed "The Titans Hunt." Since my original reading of the storyline in 1990, it's lived in my mind as one of the greatest Teen Titan stories ever told. For a couple of years now I've wanted to revisit the story, but haven't been willing to invest in the floppies knowing I already had them sitting in a long box 3,000 miles away. On a recent trip to my childhood home, I decided to crack open that box, pull out a big chunk of nostalgia, and pack it all in my luggage (I had to steal a second suitcase from my parents because I ended up taking 15 pounds of comics back with me).
The "Titans Hunt" story arc runs from issue 71 through 84, but the fallout from the events in "Titans Hunt" ripple well beyond issue 100. In the letter section of issue 71 editor Jonathan Peterson promised to "shake things up" as the title had fallen into a rut. Working with longtime Titans writer Marv Wolfman and penciler Tom Grummett little time is wasted turning the Titans inside out like a baboon through a Brundle telepod. By the end of the first five issues in the arc most of the Titans are captured by the Wildebeest Society for a mysterious experiment, Aqualad's in a coma, Titans Tower has been demolished, Jericho is revealed to be a traitor, and some b-list Titans are "dead" (I run the tally at the very end of this post).
Wolfman doesn't hold back when it comes to putting these beloved characters (many of whom he created) through the grinder. Peterson definitely got his wish by the end of the storyline with most of the core members who'd been on the roster for more than a decade out of commission.
The storyline was successful in re-energizing the series by planting seeds for dozens of storylines that would play out over the next three dozen issues. It ends with a Riddler's costume worth of question marks hanging in the air. How long will Cyborg stay a vegetable? Is Raven really dead? What's going on with Steve Dayton? How will the inevitable battle between Donna Troy and her son play-out? Will Pantha be a good mother for Baby Wildebeest? STAR Labs honestly has no experience dealing with Atlantean biology? Is the Terra from the future the same Terra that betrayed the Titans and accidentally killed herself under a mountain of earth way back in 1984?


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(Reuters) - The shooter who critically wounded a man in a crowded shopping mall in Memphis, Tennessee, was still at large on Friday, police said.
The 22-year-old man shot at Oak Court Mall on Thursday was taken to a hospital, where his condition on Friday was listed as stable, the Memphis Police Department said in a statement.
"The suspect responsible for the shooting remains at large," the statement said.
The police statement gave no motive for the shooting.
Memphis' WMC-TV reported that police searched the mall for the suspect as frightened employees and customers hid inside stores. The station said four men were arguing and one of them shot a fifth man.
Four teenagers who were with the wounded man at the mall fled in a white Lincoln Town Car that was later stopped by police, the statement said. Police said they are not suspects in the shooting but were arrested after two handguns stolen from outside Memphis were found in the car.
A 19-year-old woman and two 17-year-old boys were charged with theft and firearms violations. The male driver, also 17, was charged with driving without a license, the statement said.
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What's better, a loan or a credit card? There are thousands of financial products offering credit, but how should you choose?
- Calculating the savings – work out how much interest you will pay
- Why a 0% balance transfer credit card may be a better choice – avoid paying interest on card debt for over three years
- Why a loan may be better – the interest on loans tends to be cheaper than on cards
Compare balance transfer credit cards
Find a credit card to transfer your debt to for the cheapest price.Compare credit cards
We take a closer look at low-interest loans and 0% balance transfer cards to find what the best way to clear credit card debt.
Calculating the savings
If you have debt on a credit card enter your details in our calculator to work out what you could save:
For instance, if you're looking to transfer £3,000 to a loan charging you a flat 5% interest rate over a 3 year (36 month) term, you will pay roughly £237 in interest.
Compare that to a 0% balance transfer card offering you 24 months 0% on your balance. Say you transfer across £3,000 of debt, you first pay a fee. Let's say that's 3%, so you'd be paying £90 to transfer.
Then let's say you pay off £2,000 over the next two years, leaving you with £1,000 of balance. Your rate will then revert to something more typical, like 19.99% say. If you then paid off the remainder over the next 12 months you would have paid around £111 in interest.
Finally, add the original fee and you have a total charge of £201 to clear your £3,000 debt over 36 months. So in this example, using a 24 month balance transfer deal would be £36 cheaper, even after the rate reverted and including the upfront balance transfer fee.
Of course all the different combinations change things. If you could pay your debt off even sooner, say within the 24 months offered in our example as a 0% balance transfer period, then the card would be far cheaper.
Conversely, if you got behind on your payments, could only cover a smaller amount each month, and had a greater balance than £1,000 after the first 24 months, then the odds are that a loan would be cheaper.
Why a 0% balance transfer credit card may be a better choice
A balance transfer card is designed to take your existing debt and move it to a 0% period. Don't be fooled – you will still pay a balance transfer fee of typically between 2% and 3%, but if that's less than you're currently paying in interest your should definitely consider it.
One of the main reasons people are attracted to 0% balance transfer credit cards is the flexibility they offer when it comes to spreading the repayments.
Whilst a loan requires to pay a fixed amount per month throughout its duration – with severe penalties if you fall behind – a credit card gives you the flexibility to increase and decrease your repayments.
The only condition is that you maintain your minimum repayments, although it's also worth noting that if you don't clear the balance on a 0% balance transfer card by the end of the balance transfer period you'll pay a huge interest rate.
Furthermore, if you miss any minimum repayments you could end up losing your 0% balance transfer deal altogether.
However the main attraction of a balance transfer card is that it allows you to pay off your debt in peace, so you should always aim to pay more than the minimum repayments anyway.
Finally, remember that the 'card' bit of your balance transfer credit card isn't important – clearing the debt is. The last thing you should be doing is spending on a 0% balance transfer card.
Take a look at all the latest cards on our 0% balance transfer credit card table.
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Why a loan may be better
The single biggest advantage loans have over credit cards is the rate. The interest rates on loans tends to be significantly lower than credit cards, plain and simple.
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Mr. Raynsford: The right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon, who was formerly a Housing Minister, has much experience in the matter. His proposal is most interesting, and follows lines that we are considering. It was one of the recommendations of the policy action team investigating the problem of unpopular housing and, as the right hon. Gentleman said, it was proposed in the Green Paper on housing, which received a positive response in consultation.
The provision would, in defined circumstances, enable a local housing authority to make an allocation that is not a secure tenancy. For example, that might be appropriate where house prices were not affordable to modestly paid key workers, who could be offered a short-term tenancy to enable them to save for a deposit or to establish roots in the area prior to buying a house. It would be possible, too, for similar arrangements to be used as a weapon in low-demand areas where there is unpopular housing. An authority might want to offer short-term tenancies in anticipation of the eventual redevelopment of an area, or to attract to a locality people who would not normally live there but who would bring greater economic prosperity.
As the right hon. Gentleman correctly anticipated, we are attracted to the principles underlying the proposal but we cannot accept it as it would add to the existing complexity of the tenure structure. We do not want to do that without considering the full panoply of housing legislation that relates to tenancies in the public sector and those that affect registered social and other landlords. The hon. Member for Eastbourne is not enamoured of the word ``holistic'' so I shall say that the issue must be considered in the round.
It may be possible to bring together the principal tenancies offered by registered social landlords and local authorities into a single tenure for the social housing sector. It would be sensible to do that as a considered and comprehensive package, rather than by introducing one step now and having to make subsequent alterations and amendments.
The proposal is welcome and we support its intention. We will further consider how it can be advanced in the context of other tenures to ensure that the right, long-term mix of tenures is available. On that basis, I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will withdraw the new clause.
Mr. Curry: I anticipated the Minister's words but I want to query the need to
The Minister referred to what could best be described as the codification of tenancy, which would be a helpful tool for regeneration, and to allowing people to find a first foot on the housing ladder in areas where housing is scarce or to help community building where housing is over-plentiful. It would therefore be a pity to wait for a future Bill, under whichever Government's auspices, which may have no immediate prospect of consideration.
I shall withdraw the new clause, because I realise that the geo-political forces are weighed against me. However I hope that the Minister will say when
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Mr. Raynsford: I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that
Mr. Curry: I have two reflections. One is that ``reasonably'' is a wonderfully accommodating word: we cannot define it because it would then lose its wonderfully accommodating nature. Secondly, I recall the Minister wanting to deal urgently with the licensing of houses in multiple occupation and with commonhold five years ago at the time of the 1996 Act, but those elements of the panoply have not been pulled together with the urgency anticipated at the time of the Minister's utterances.
I shall not press the new clause to the vote. The Minister has said that legislation will occur at some stage if he is still the Minister with responsibility for housingit is rather like the second coming. We all hope that it will happen in the end and that we shall be on the right side of it when it does. It may fall to others to implement the necessary measures. We have had a useful debate and we have all agreed that it would be a jolly good idea if anyone gets round to it. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.
Motion and clause, by leave, withdrawn.
Mr. Raynsford: On a point of order, Mr. Stevenson. We are approaching the end of our proceedings, so I want to make the few remarks that are customary when we are not so pressured to finish at a particular time.
We have had three extremely useful and productive weeksmercifully short by comparison with my experience of previous Committees, which went on for months rather than weeks. Our debates have been intensive and productive. We have ranged over several important issues that affect virtually every member of our societyhome owners, prospective home owners, people seeking accommodation through a local authority or registered social landlord, people exposed to the miseries of homelessness or racial harassment and so forth.
We have ranged wide geographically. We have had a brief excursion in the Yorkshire dales, visiting the cat-loving cottagers who are the neighbours of the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon. We have discovered that some members of the Committee have extraordinary connections with Bradford, and we eventually reached the faded splendours of the south coast. I also noticed that the right hon. Gentleman used his time productively to make a small paper boatperhaps to evoke the delights of south-coast resorts such as Eastbourne.
We have considered a significant number of amendments with varying impacts and we have incorporated a number of changes into the Bill. That is exactly what a Committee should doscrutinise a Bill and make it better. A number of those changes have resulted from specific points and concerns raised by hon. Members on both sides of the Committee. I am extremely grateful to them for the way in which they have tabled their amendments and contributed constructively to the process of improving the Bill.
I am also grateful to the various bodies that advised us and gave us the benefit of their experience on a range of housing issues. I should like to thank all members of the Committee for the constructive and good-humoured tenor of our proceedings. In particular, I should like to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Ainsworth), who started the Committee as a Whip and now joins me as a Minister; my hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster, North (Mr. Hughes), his successor as Whip, who has ensured that we completed our proceedings on time; and my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (Mr. Hope), who has to carry out the generally thankless task of a Parliamentary Private Secretary, which he has done with his customary skill and enthusiasm.
I should like to extend my thanks to all the officials who have helped enormously with the preparations of briefs and information, to the police who have ensured our security, to the Hansard staff who, as always, have provided an extraordinarily accurate representation of our remarks, including language from the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon that I am sure has appeared in Hansard for the first time. I should like to thank the Clerk for advising you, Mr. Stevenson, and Mr. Gale, your co-Chairman, in such a way as to ensure the expeditious handling of our proceedings. Above all, I should like to thank you, and Mr. Gale in his absence, for the way in which you have presided over the Committee.
This has been a good-natured Committee. It has dealt with difficult and sometimes controversial issues in a constructive and good-humoured style. That owes an enormous amount to the way in which the Committee has been chaired. You, Mr. Stevenson, and your co-Chairman Mr. Gale, have enlivened us with some humorous insight. You have always made sure that we kept strictly in order. You have not allowed us to stray too far into the unforeseen byways of political controversy and you have kept a good pace that has ensured that we shall complete our proceedings on time. I am grateful to you and I hope that you have an enjoyable weekend's rest after three weeks of arduous activity in this Committee.
Mr. Waterson: Further to that point of order, Mr. Stevenson. I associate myself with almost everything that the Minister has said. I should like to be able to ascribe to you and your co-Chairman the fact that we are finishing at five o'clock today, but it has nothing to do with either of you. It is the programme resolution.
On the whole, we have had a good-natured Committee, even if we have moved at a brisk pace at bayonet point. I thank you and your co-Chairman for your kind, indulgent and efficient chairing of our proceedings, Mr. Stevenson. I should also like to thank the officials, the staff and all those who make our proceedings run relatively smoothly, the Hansard writers and so on. I should like to thank all the members of the Committee. Just about every member has contributed to the proceedings, some more than others. I should particularly like to thank my right hon. and hon. Friends for their hard work on the Committee. The Minister referred to the model boat that my right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon made. The Minister should have a care, as that is just the sort of example of the long-term therapy that most Housing Ministers engage in after any time in that thankless office. I also thank those who provided helpful briefings and draft amendments.
It has been an exciting Committee at times, despite an unprepossessing start, as it were. We had the alarums and excursions of the new heir to the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake). We have discovered some interesting facts. For example, as a child, the Minister spent some time living in a caravan in Bradford, but that was under a previous Labour Government, so we should not be surprised.
Even in this relatively peaceful and quiet backwater, the ripples of great events have sometimes been felt. In Committee, the hon. Member for Coventry, North-East was deservedly promoted from Whip to a ministerial post. The hon. Member for Doncaster, North became the Whip, and we welcome that. All that happened as a result of the understandable wish of the right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) to leave public office and spend more time with his lawyers.
I thank everyone concerned, particularly you, Mr. Stevenson, and your co-Chairman, for a generally harmonious Committee.
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I've got a few questions on logging/tracing in a medium sized system.
In the past I only logged errors and I've used either System.Diagnostics, or written to a error table in a db.
But as my system grows, I'm finding that it would be alot nicer if I could enable tracing on a user so I could
see what happens before and after the errors arise.
I've decided to go with NLog, since I've found it to be simple and fast...as well as the config files are pretty simple.
I'm curious to see how others implement logging,
Basically I would like to know how you determine what would be a Trace, Debug, or Info statement? Are there any rules that you use to determine this, or is it completely arbitrary?
Also would you put trace statements at the UI level, the component level, or both?
We have the following.
User front end - Logging
Loading System - Logging,Asserted
Core system - Asserted
User front end typically deals with error checking, form validation all the boring stuff. So you throw requests back at the user to validate data, or update fields. Also telling them not to press that.
Saving and loading data, is a combination of logging and asserts. If an error occurs at this level its a design problem and no amount of logging is going to help the user.
Core system. Typically if anything happens here its a major design flaw and requires fixing. Nothing the user can do about it, we assert get a memory dump and fix the issue. As close to the error the problem occurred.
For .NET the $29 Kellerman Logger is great.
Josh in Jersey
The other thing we discovered, that may be of some help to you. Is to filter absolutely all user input via a single input area. So instead of having event handlers scatter all around the place, we had all the event handlers calling a single HUGE case statement similar to how window handles window messages.
The advantage of this technique, is you can record absolutely all the users input keys and mouse movements and replay them perfectly in real time for re-tracing a bug that has happened to the system.
This should allow you to re-wind, or fast-forward the users interaction with the application to duplicate the exact cause of the problem.
Most of the time, your not interested in the current state of the program but 2-3 actions before. Then you step through with the debugger, find the problem could of been interpolation or float overflow you had no idea about.
You say "System.Diagnostics" so I am going to assume you are running ASP.Net/IIS.
In which case, for finding what a user did (like page paths), you already have some logging in IIS. It won't give you debug type information, but it gives you a fair bit. You just have to sort through it yourself. (Querystrings help a lot as you can see them.)
I forgot my posting name.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Someone already asked exacty this question here: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?dotnet.12.427471.5
Entity : Since all of the software I create is used in house, my main purpose for the logging is the ability to do what you mention in your second post,although not quite as detailed as mouse/key strokes...basically I want to be able to enable tracing on a user and have everything that the user does get logged...the only time the user knows about the logging is when there is a message >=WARN, which in that case they are presented with a dialog.
I forgot my name: Actually I just meant System.Diagnostics to write to the windows event log. I mostly write Winforms but some of our apps are web based so looking at the IIS logs are a good idea.
Christopher : That post is almost what I was looking for. The only thing is that Nlog has a TRACE element, which is below DEBUG. As I mentioned above; I want to be able to turn on tracing and get a play-by-play of what the user is doing. What are the recommended methods for enabling something like this. Should I be putting TRACEs in every method in the UI and before calling a component methods, or should the components be responsible for doing their own logging.
What I was leaning toward was putting DEBUGs at the UI level that indicates what is being done at the lower levels, and using TRACE at the lower level.
The problem with that is when I enable logging of TRACE or greater I will end up with duplicates.
MainForm Saving file - DEBUG
Fileobj Saving file - TRACE
Fileobj Saved -TRACE
MainForm Saved -DEBUG
We recently switched to the microsoft application block for logging. (I would only suggest this if your application really needs it.) In our case we were already using WMI, event logs, log files, and storing audit trails in the database so it made sense consolodate the functionality. The application block made for a nice refactor.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
> TRACE and DEBUG
In ASP.NET I think that trace messages are always included in the build (and may be enabled via a configuration switch), whereas debug messages exist in debug builds (and may be enabled via a configuration switch) but don't exist at all in release builds.
Aside from that "debug" and "trace" are more-or-less synonymous. Some code bases have several levels of debug or trace, and the ability to enable different levels of verbosity in different modules.
> The problem with that is when I enable logging of TRACE or greater I will end up with duplicates.
I don't see that as a problem: for example if I were trying to debug a failure then I would want to know whether it failed in the UI or in the lower level, and so I want messages like that from each and every level.
In our enterprise asp.net app we use nlog very successfully. It is very fast, can write to logfiles (each day one file), supports highly customised layouts including the user identity as we use windows auth.
All critical errors are also written to windows event log, where the infrastructure team has automated monitoring tools to raise alarm if needed.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
We use Log4Net
Trace levels:
Error - Critical Error
Warning - Recoverable Warning
Info - Method entry/exit
Debug - Method parameters, traces in the method body
Christophe Keller
Thursday, August 30, 2007
You might also want to take a look at our logging tool SmartInspect. SmartInspect supports so-called sessions in addition to traditional log levels. Sessions can be used to control the logging of specific application modules, classes or user sessions. SmartInspect additionally has a powerful viewer application for real-time monitoring, filtering and processing of log data:
Dennis Gurock
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Here's another perspective: Log Everything All the Time. More at http://highscalability.com/log-everything-all-time .
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Twenty-nine of Chicago's 50 aldermen have Twitter accounts. RedEye got the skinny from four of the more prolific tweeters in our fair city's legislative body.
Ald. Joe Moreno (1st)
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Tweets: More than 2,900
Followers: More than 2,000
Joined: April 9, 2010
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Tohsang City Hotel
251 Palochai Road, A. Muang 34000, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
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GPS Coordinates: 15° 13.960' N – 104° 50.701' E
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Good Value Hotel
Free airport transfers, very attentive staff, great inclusive breakfast, nice rooms with soft bed, good value.
A little out of town which is a problem given the lack of taxis and tuk tuks in the area. Wifi internet was expensive.
A clean city hotel, that's all
The hotel itself is at the edge of the city center, clean and friendly staffs; but not everyone of them can speak English. The city has nothing really interesting, the National Museum closed on Mon and Tue. The Outdoor Museum is very tiny but far. I ...
Toshang December 207
This is the second time I have stayed at the Toshang and like the first I had an enjoyable stay. I would recommend the hotel and look forward to staying there next time.
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Thanks to the wonderful folks who supported the pawpledge stand today, all the muffins crafted by The Garden Slug were sold out as of noon!
However, we"ll have a new batch out tomorrow, ie, Sunday 14 June. Same place as per the blogpost above.. If you're planning on visiting the uber popular PC show at Suntec city, swing by and say Hi to Fiona, Pauline, Bec and Lynn. See ye~ 🙂


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Rafa van der Vaart, Tom Huddlestone and William Gallas give their views on the 3-3 draw against Arsenal on Spurs TV Online/App.
And we've a special guest who was also down the tunnel post-match on Wednesday night - Radio One DJ and huge Spurs fan Nihal.
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