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Executive Team
Kim Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
Dynamic, dedicated, and driven, Kim Nelson's sales record speaks for itself. With more than 25 years' experience as an award-winning sales executive, Kim has demonstrated phenomenal success driving billion-dollar sales growth and is a veritable leader at improving sales team performance. Kim's work ethic is highly regarded, and she is known by clients and business partners for her loyalty, tenacity, and unstoppable drive to succeed.
Kim has been named a "Phenomenon" by one of the nation's top speakers and sales trainers, 24-year industry veteran Doug Smith. After more than two decades of serving the mortgage industry and reaching annual production volume exceeding 1 billion, Kim's dream of owning her own business came to fruition in 2008 when she launched BankSouth Mortgage.
Since inception, BankSouth Mortgage has achieved over 1 billion in annual production volume and has earned the #1 spot for purchase market share and new construction purchase market share in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the country. In addition, the company has consistently been recognized as an Atlanta Business Chronicle's Best Places to Work. With nine offices throughout Georgia, BankSouth Mortgage continues to grow and thrive.
In 2016, Nelson expanded her role and was named the Atlanta Market President of BankSouth. In this role, she is charged with running the bank's Atlanta operations and strategically enhancing opportunities for relationship optimization between the bank and mortgage company. She was also recently named a 2016 "Woman Who Means Business" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for making a difference in her community, trail blazing for others, and leaving a mark on business in Atlanta. Kim continuously demonstrates unmatched vision, determination, and leadership and is a role model to the BankSouth family for her constant pursuit of excellence.
Nelson and her husband of 29 years have two children and reside in Buckhead.
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David Holmes
Chief Operating Officer
A team player with over 20 years of proven professional success in the Atlanta mortgage banking industry, David has held senior level management and executive positions in risk management, secondary marketing, operations, project management, and production. He began his leadership career at Premier Lending Corporation and credits his success to the talented teams of staff and senior managers he has had the opportunity to work with throughout his career.
David is an Atlanta native, and outside of work, he can be found spending time with his wife Sara and their two daughters. He also enjoys reading and traveling.
Greg Hart
Senior Vice President, Retail Production
Greg Hart entered the mortgage industry in 1999 where he began his career as a financial analyst in the commercial loan serving industry. He then transitioned into residential lending in 2002. In 2005, Greg was named one of the top 200 residential loan officers in the nation by Mortgage Originator Magazine. He became a producing production manager in 2006 and most recently was the producing branch manager in Atlanta for 3 offices of a nationally recognized mortgage company. In addition, he holds the Mortgage Banker Association's Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) Designation, the highest professional designation available for a residential mortgage banker. Greg's innate talents of problem solving, creativity, and leadership coupled with his level of experience and expertise allow him to successfully and dynamically lead the loan production department of BankSouth Mortgage.
Greg is a graduate of Emory University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. He is married to his beautiful wife, Kelly, and has three wonderful children, Lilly, Russell, and Gregory.
Doug Rounds
Senior Vice President Closing/Post Closing/Disclosure Review
Focus and dedication to getting the job done are just two defining characteristics that have been key components in Doug's mortgage career. Beginning as a processor (to Kim Nelson) in 1988 was the first step in becoming a successful Mortgage Bankers of Georgia Loan Originator Gold Award winner year after year for both volume and units. Joining BankSouth Mortgage in January 2009 as a Mortgage Loan Originator, Doug originated loans until his transition from production to operations in the fall of 2011.
As BankSouth Mortgage's SVP of the Disclosure Review, Closing and Post-Closing departments, Doug immediately manages 20+ staff members dedicated to insure a smooth, friendly, proficient and profitable experience (from Initial Disclosures to the delivery of Final Documents), to both internal and external customers alike.
Doug is an Atlanta native, has served on a couple of different HOA boards, served 6 years in the Georgia Air National Guard and currently resides in Atlanta's West Midtown.
Angela Bauknecht
Senior Vice President, Operations Manager
To keep its internal wheels in motion and the trains running on time, BankSouth Mortgage relies on Angela Bauknecht, its senior vice president and operations manager. Angela possesses more than 20 years of mortgage lending and operations experience, including one of her first position as a loan processor for Sun America Mortgage. As BankSouth Mortgage's operations manager, Angela oversees BankSouth Mortgage's operations staff of 50+ individuals, including loan processors, underwriters and underwriting liaisons, and set-up assistants. Angela is also responsible for staffing, training, and productivity.
Prior to her tenure at BankSouth Mortgage, Angela served as the regional operations manager for SunTrust Mortgage, where she managed SunTrust Atlanta retail operations staff across multiple office locations. While at SunTrust, Angela also managed the processing of an average of 500 loans for approximately $140 million per month, consistently remaining in the top five of 20+ divisions for productivity. During her career, Angela has also held additional positions in operations and processing at SunTrust, as well as at Sun America Mortgage, which was purchased by SunTrust in 2003 and officially changed its name in 2007.
Angela is graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she earned her bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in real estate and minors in mathematics and psychology. Angela and her husband, Garth, live in Marietta and have two grown children, one finishing college and one finishing gradute school.
Mike Sleeth
Chief Accounting Officer
Mike Sleeth is the man at the financial helm of BankSouth Mortgage. As CAO, Mike is responsible for BankSouth Mortgage's financial reporting/auditing, loan operations, and loan servicing. Mike brings more than 40 years of financial management experience, beginning his career locally as vice president and controller of Decatur Federal Saving & Loan Association. Since then, Mike has been entrusted with managing the financial health and direction of banks and mortgage companies throughout the Southeast.
Prior to his tenure at BankSouth Mortgage, Mike served as chief financial officer for a number of financial institutions, including Embassy National Bank, Alpha Bank & Trust, BancMortgage Financial Corp., Premier Lending Corp./Premier Bank, and Mt. Vernon Savings Bank.
Mike is also a certified public accountant and serves as an instructor for the Institute of Financial Education for Thrift Institutions. He is also a past president of the Atlanta chapter of the Financial Managers Forum of Financial Institutions and has been involved in his community as past presidents of the Rotary Club of Alpharetta and the Hartridge Swim and Tennis Association.
Jim Bedsole
Chief Compliance Officer
Jim Bedsole has over thirty years of experience in managing bank risk, regulatory compliance, auditing, security, and corporate governance with both regional and community banks. He was an early pioneer in the use of Internet resources for effective compliance management and in Internet banking compliance requirements.
Jim is a 1986 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. He is also a graduate of the ABA National Graduate School of Compliance Management. He is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, Certified Bank Auditor, Certified Financial Services Auditor & Certified Anti-Money Laundering & Fraud Professional. Jim is a frequent speaker on the topics of compliance, risk management, consumer protection regulations, auditing, and Internet banking regulation. He is the Chairman of the Georgia Bankers Association Compliance Committee and Vice Chairman of the GBA Compliance School Board. He also currently serves on the faculty of the GBA Compliance School.
Jim previously served as co-chair of the ABA Enterprise Risk Management Working Group for Community Banks and on the ABA Risk Management Forum Advisory Committee. He is a former chairman of the SC Bankers Association Compliance and Regulatory Committee and former chairman of the SC Bankers Association Disaster Recovery Committee. He has served on the faculty of the ABA National Compliance School and the NC School of Banking. He is a "BOL Guru" with BankersOnline.com, providing expert services to bankers throughout the country. He has authored articles appearing in both regional and national publications, including ABA Bank Compliance Magazine, Palmetto Banker and numerous Internet web sites. He is also an active private pilot with an instrument rating.


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NEW DELHI, Feb 8 - A first-time visitor to New Delhi might think Indians are addicted to coffee. There are at least 10 coffee shops in Connaught Place, the city's financial and commercial hub, most within sight of each other and doing well.
But if somebody wanted to enjoy a cup of tea at a similar sort of cafe devoted to tea they'd be out of luck, even in the world's second-largest tea producer — and a country where people drink nearly eight times more tea than coffee each year.
The lack of a single national franchise centred on tea, known in India as chai and served in a glass, has come into especially sharp focus now that coffee giant Starbucks is poised to make its entry into India.
"You can find nice coffee anywhere, but finding a perfect cup of chai outside is really tough," said Smiti Singh, a Bangalore-based software engineer, who drinks at least four cups of tea a day.
Vriti Malik, a marketing professional in New Delhi, spends 1,400 rupees on coffee a week and wouldn't mind spending the same on tea, but the flavour just doesn't measure up.
"If it is good chai, I would not mind spending money," she said. "I would like to see a lot of different flavours of tea, and healthy stuff like green tea."
No matter what people say, much of the problem is image.
There are numerous tea vendors who set up shop under a tree or on the streets in India, but the quality of chai they offer for five rupees (10 cents) is often suspect. India's growing urban middle-class would rather pay a few extra rupees for the clean, posh settings offered by coffee shops.
In addition, selling tea has been traditionally considered a down-market job. Coffee shops, on the other hand, have always been associated with a Western, fashionable lifestyle.
Young, urban Indians have embraced the coffee culture, where home-grown brand Café Coffee Day is the biggest player, followed by Italy's Lavazza.
In January, Starbucks announced plans to enter the competitive market with 50 outlets by year-end through a tie-up with Tata Group, the country's biggest business house.
While these cafes, including Starbucks, do offer chai on the menu, none of them caters exclusively to tea lovers.
Now, though, a new wave of educated entrepreneurs hopes to capitalise on this gap, keeping the essence of Indian chai but offering a modern setting.
When 36-year-old Harvard graduate Amuleek Singh Bijral decided to quit his job and open tea shops, people were perplexed.
"Selling chai is considered the last way of earning your livelihood," he said. "But the fact of the matter is that tea is a very large business in India."
Bijral opened a tea retail chain in Bangalore called Chai Point in 2010. While roadside tea stalls offer just masala chai, tea brewed with spices and herbs, the former engineer offers a variety including lemon tea and green tea.
He also is trying to promote tea as a healthy drink rich in antioxidants, which can boost the immune system.
"People were grateful that we were giving them a clean glass of chai in an affordable and very hygienic setting," said Bijral, who says he sold his millionth cup of tea in January and is set to open an outlet in New Delhi next month.
Ankit Bohra also ventured into the tea business last year, after submitting tea cafes as a business idea while an MBA student in Mumbai. He subsequently put the idea into practice by founding Tapri, a shop in the western city of Jaipur that sells 40 kinds of tea.
"Consumers are looking for a change," he said. "They have been having coffee at coffee shops for so long, that they were yearning for a new concept."
Bohra, who says his idea has already been copied by other start-ups in Jaipur, plans to open another Tapri outlet soon.
Both Chai Point and Tapri have tried to steer away from setting up as upscale cafés. A glass of tea costs less than one-fifth the cost of a cappuccino at coffee shops.
While there are a handful of upscale tea restaurants such as Infinitea in Bangalore, which says it tries to lure patrons with a "refined palate", they haven't sprung up across the country.
"In India, the perception is that you need not pay that high for chai," said Bijral, who said he was sure his no-frills cafe would be a hit.
Bohra agreed that chai should stay close to its roots.
"Chai is a common man's drink," he said. "The moment you start sophisticating it, it loses the essence of chai."
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The health-care law is back on track now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld its constitutionality. To be clear, my values tell me that we as a society have a moral obligation to treat sick people no matter who they are or where they come from, and that it is wrong to force people to choose between paying the electric bill or going to the doctor. Yet a larger debate looms here: Can one law really solve the problem of millions of people?
We humans like to keep things simple and streamlined. It is comforting for us when we know if someone is a Democrat or a Republican, religious or secular, rich or poor and so on. We find it disconcerting when we are unable to check the correct boxes next to a person's name. This desire for predictability and simplicity has caused us to seek overarching ideas that explain a multitude of phenomena.


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PHOENIX (Reuters) - A homeless man was arrested after running onto the tarmac just after a Southwest Airlines plane landed at the Phoenix airport, police said on Thursday.
Robert Bump, 49, hit the plane with his hand before being taken into custody on the taxiway at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, said Officer James Holmes, a Phoenix police spokesman.
"He slapped the engine with his hand," Holmes said. "He really didn't do any damage."
The man had a history of alcohol-related arrests and authorities believe he may have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the arrest, Holmes said.
Airport officials told police they saw Bump climb the fence at the airport, run onto the tarmac and taxiway and approach the Southwest Airlines plane as it stopped en route to the terminal, Holmes said.
The pilot was advised of the approaching man and turned off the aircraft's engines, Holmes said.
Bump was quickly apprehended, police said. He was booked on suspicion of entering a restricted area.
This was not the only incident involving unauthorized access to an airport facility this week. On Wednesday, an individual crossed a fence and made his way across two runways at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport, authorities said on Thursday.
In a statement, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates area airports, said it was investigating the incident.
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In February 2011 Golden Agri Resources, Indonesia's largest producer of palm oil, launched an ambitious Forest Conservation Policy. After years of campaigning by Greenpeace and pressure from some of the largest buyers of palm oil for consumer products, like Nestle and Unilever, the plantation company took the important decision to be the first of Indonesia's large palm oil producers to address the deforestation that its operations were causing.
Peat Swamp Forest in Sumatra © Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace
Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) made a strong commitment to have a no deforestation footprint and to protect High Carbon Stock forests (HCS). Today GAR explained what this means in practice and how they will protect the forests in their estates .
Most so-called progressive companies, often members of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), only protect forests with High Conservation Values (HCV) in their concessions. In addition to many HCV assessments being poorly conducted, companies also do not have to protect all forest in their concessions, only primary forests, or for example areas where certain rare species live or those with social importance. For example, if a company had a 15,000 hectare concession, half of which was covered with forest, they would maybe only have to agree to protect 3,000 hectares. I use the word 'agree' because the RSPO is only a voluntary commitment. Most forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, where the majority of Indonesia's oil palm expansion has been taking place, are not primary forests any more after years of (often illegal) logging and other disturbance. The conversion of these degraded or secondary forests to plantations still causes huge greenhouse gas emissions, exacerbating climate change.
If left alone, these forests could regenerate into rainforests full of life, again capable of providing habitat for a huge diversity of plants and animals. I have been in meetings where I would show images of bulldozers trashing rich and beautiful rainforests, and the plantation companies would ask: "is it a primary forest or an HCV? No, OK, than we can clear it." Unfortunately that's the logic of the RSPO, and it will not save Indonesia's rainforests or curb the massive amount of emissions from deforestation.
So, why is what GAR doing so different?
GAR has made a commitment to a no deforestation footprint: no more conversion of forests into oil palm plantations, including the degraded or secondary forests that are inside their concessions. The question then is how to define forest areas for protection? When is a forest so disturbed that it will not regenerate if left undisturbed? In other words, which areas are so degraded that they can be converted into an oil palm plantation without a great impact to the climate or biodiversity? To identify these areas, the High Carbon Stock approach has been developed: the HCS areas are forests which store a lot of carbon that would be released if converted into a plantation and contain biodiversity values. GAR, together with The Forest Trust and Greenpeace, has developed a methodology to separate vegetation into different levels and measure the amount of carbon being stored in different vegetation types.
On the basis of this vegetation classification a clear distinction can be made between regenerating forests and young trees and shrubs. The next step was to devise a process and develop a plan for protection of these areas. Crucial to this process is the role of local communities and governments.
Local communities need to be fully involved in the identification of areas that should be protected. Forest conservation and development need to go hand in hand, and the Forest Conservation policy aims to provide livelihoods to local communities while protecting forested areas.
Another challenge is the support from local governments. While there are no adequate laws and regulations that protect forests and peatlands in Indonesia, local governments need to be convinced to support these voluntary initiatives. Meanwhile, it is crucial that the government of Indonesia strengthens its laws and enforcement measures to protect forests, and extends the current moratorium on concessions in forested areas.
This initiative is critical for breaking the link between palm oil and deforestation. Now the rest of the industry, including the RSPO and its members need to follow GAR's lead. If the palm oil industry seriously wants to erase the bad reputation it has acquired among consumers and financial institutions, it needs to become clear which plantation companies are truly committed to protecting Indonesia's remaining forests, and which will continue the destructive practices that have unfortunately given the industry such a bad name.
Bustar Maitar is Head of Greenpeace South East Asia's Indonesia Forest Campaign
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Naming X, a global online competition launches 30 April 2010
30 April 2010
2010 celebrates the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto and marks the 1st anniversary of Venetia Burney Phair, the most influential 11 year-old in the history of astronomy who, died on 30th April 2009, aged 90. Venetia was a young schoolgirl living in Oxford, England in 1930, when she came up with the name Pluto for the newly discovered Planet X.
In the only documentary about Venetia's story made by Father Films and entitled Naming Pluto, Venetia recalls the moment she came up with the name. "My grandfather opened the paper and in it he read that a new planet had been discovered. He wondered what it should be called. We all wondered then I said, 'Why not call it Pluto'. And the whole thing stemmed from that."
As a tribute to Venetia's extraordinary contribution and to its young discoverer, the American Clyde Tombaugh, Space Renaissance Education Chapter, in collaboration with Father Films, announce the launch of Naming X, a global online competition, to find the next influential student or school group with the creative and scientific talent to suggest a suitable name for a minor planet and a reason why. The Committee for Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the International Astronomical Union, the body responsible for the naming of minor planets and comets, is supporting this educational initiative and will consider the winning names for the naming of minor planets.
"We have a first class judging panel and with the support of CSBN we are very excited to see the results of an inspired global think tank. We may even repeat history," say organisers Thilina Heenatigala and Ginita Jimenez.
Judges for Naming X include Canadian astronomer and comet discoverer David Levy, Professor Ian Morison of Gresham University, who holds the oldest chair of Astronomy in the world also held by Christopher Wren and Marc W. Buie, collaborator on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and staff scientist at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organisations in the United States. Educators, Carolina Odman, Julia Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Ivey-Duensing and Joan Chamberlin will also assist.
Applicants can only apply online and must follow the competition's guidelines very carefully. For full terms and conditions and winning prizes visit: http://venetiaburneyphair.blogspot.com/p/competition.html
Naming X closes on 30 May 2010 and winning names will be announced around 14 June 2010.
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Author: Jim Carroll, Chairman, BBH London
Memories light the corners of my mind
Misty,water colored memories
Of the way we were.
~ Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were
I attended the Damien Hirst show at the Tate Modern. Flies and fags, butterflies and bling, spin and spots, drugs and death… There. You don't need to see it now.
I walked away somewhat hollow. I felt a pang of guilt and recognition. Guilt because Hirst was in many ways the adman's artist. Art that came with a nudge, a wink and a knowing punchline. Art as quick hit, shiny bright, paper thin. Recognition because, yes, that was Britain in the '90s. Spin doctors and Spice Girls, boy bands and man bags, heroin chic and Shabba Ranks, lads and Loaded, puffas and Prozac, Wonderbra and Wonderwall, alcopops and Posh & Becks. Fool Britannia…. There was no god, no beauty, no other. Just money and death and irony. Things could only get worse…
I'm not sure I blame Damien Hirst. I suspect he's a very good artist. He was very effectively holding a mirror up to us and our values. Or lack of them. And I suspect each generation gets the art it deserves. Flies and fags was maybe all we were good for in the '90s.
Don't you also think that we get the advertising we deserve? As an Agency, as a Client, as a culture ? When we hark back to a golden hued, bygone age of celestial communication, are we not condemning our own failure to create greatness now? When the disappointed Client fires the disappointing Agency, isn't he or she shirking personal responsibility? When we rail against cruel fate and happenstance, when we bemoan the recession, or reach for the blame gun, shouldn't we be looking in the mirror first?
I believe in commercial karma. That, broadly speaking, in advertising as in life, we reap what we sow. That what goes around comes around. Not for some spiritual, counter cultural, gaia-type reason. But because, though it seems trite to say it, in the long run, smart, open minded Clients, working with intelligent, lateral Agencies, for honest, worthwhile brands, will make better, more effective work. And vice versa.
I guess I have witnessed exceptions to this. The craven creative, the malevolent marketing director, the bullying business director have on occasion won the day. But overall in my experience fakes are found out, charlatans are shopped. Good prevails.
Instant karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
~ John Lennon, Instant Karma
Of course in the past one had to wait for hubris to be followed by inevitable nemesis. Nowadays the social web has created a kind of instant karma. Because the courtroom of public opinion is so immediate and all seeing. It shines an unforgiving,instantaneous light on the ill conceived and poorly executed. It likewise rewards the virtuous with currency and value.
I had always believed that Corporate Social Responsibility was exactly that: a responsibility that a business owed to the communities it served. I wasn't so enamoured of more fashionable phrases like social investment because I didn't feel ethics needed commercial justification. And I wasn't convinced CSR had a role in marketing or brand.
Now I have been persuaded that ethics are more than a responsibility. They are fundamental to a brand's sustainability in a transparent, socialised world. Because increasingly consumers are unwilling to buy good products from bad people. Because in a world of commercial karma only the good Clients, good admen and good brands can win.


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Users, uses and production of gender statistics: an overview
What are gender statistics
Users and uses of gender statistics
Production of gender statistics
A guide to the present manual
Bringing gender issues into statistics
Educational participation
Schooling environment
Outcome of formal education
Non-formal adult education and training
Scientific and technological knowledge
Labour force participation
Employment conditions
Access to productve resources in agriculture
Reconciliation of work and family life
Child work
Household-level income / consumption poverty
Inequality in intrahousehold allocation of resources
Economic autonomy of women
Environmental aspects with gender-differentiated impacts
Involvement of women and men in preserving the environment
Food Security
Food access
Food utilization
Power and decision-making
Politics and governance
The judiciary
The private sector
The media
Population, households and families
Demographic composition of population
Formation and dissolution of unions
Fertility and contraceptive use
Living arrangements
Health and nutrition of children
Maternal health
Mortality and causes of death
HIV and AIDS
Health risk factors related to life style
Migration, displaced persons and refugees
Internal migration
International migration
Refugees and internally displaced persons
Violence against women
Physical and sexual violence against women
Female genital mutilation
Human trafficking
Integrating a gender perspective into data collection
Population and housing census
Agricultural censuses and surveys
Labour force survey
Time use surveys
Surveys on violence against women
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Background: Existing manuals and training resources on gender statistics
The development of methodological materials on gender statistics has a rather short history. Compared to other types of statistics, few manuals and training resources have been dedicated to the development of gender statistics. The United Nations Statistics Division led many of the technical developments in the field of gender statistics, mainly during the period from 1975 to 1995, before the Fourth World Conference on Women (United Nations, Economic and Social Council, 2010). The Division provided leadership in the production of technical materials and the compilation of statistics on women and men. Although the materials and statistical databases have always focused on gender, most often the guidelines produced included only the word "women" in the title. The work covered three major domains: (a) improving concepts and methods for gender statistics, with a special focus on statistics on work; (b) compiling gender indicators and developing gender statistical databases; and (c) using household surveys to improve gender statistics and indicators (see the reference list at the end of this chapter for the list of publications).
The Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, in 1995, is still considered the most comprehensive set of guidelines for the development of gender statistics at all levels, national, regional and global (United Nations, Economic and Social Council, 2010). After Beijing, many global and regional agencies embarked on producing technical materials on gender statistics. However, only a small number of manuals comprehensively covered the production and analysis of gender statistics. Soon after Beijing and as a result of years of training in gender statistics provided by international agencies to developing countries, two comprehensive manuals were developed. The first manual, entitled
Engendering Statistics: A Tool for Change,
was published by Statistics Sweden in 1996. This manual was the first to use as a framework the gender statistics production process and to draw attention to the importance of gender mainstreaming at all stages of data production. It highlighted the importance of gender issues as well as conceptual and measurement issues in developing adequate gender statistics in all statistical fields and the importance of user-producer cooperation in developing a comprehensive programme on gender statistics. The second manual, entitled
Handbook for Producing National Statistical Reports on Women and Men,
was published by the United Nations, in 1997. This manual provided guidance in producing gender-focused analytical publications and integrated data analysis and data presentation for a series of subject-matter topics related to gender. Following this model, national statistical offices from many countries around the world have produced publications on women and men.
After Beijing, a great deal of the work on gender statistics developed by global and regional agencies has focused on producing gender indicators, perhaps for two reasons. First, there has been a need to monitor, at the global and regional levels, countries' progress in achieving gender equality goals. This development should also be seen in the broader context of producing indicators for measuring progress in human development following the adoption of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development in 1995 and, later, progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the 2000s. Second, at the national level, there has been an increase in demand at the national level for gender statistics and indicators with a view to supporting policymaking and measuring the gender-related achievements of development projects, including the participation of women and men in such projects. Gender indicators on input, project participation and project output have been the focus of many agencies involved with development projects. As a result, a great deal of effort has been put into the compilation and dissemination of gender statistics and indicators and methodological work on the calculation of indicators. Although limitations due to poor data quality and the limitations of indicators themselves in measuring progress have most of the time been acknowledged, little attention has been paid to how the basic data needed to calculate indicators are produced or how the coverage of gender issues in data collection can be improved in national statistical offices. The products of the dissemination of gender statistics and indicators have diversified recently and include the use of such platforms as Gender Info 2007, developed by the United Nations, and the Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Furthermore, most recent guidelines and manuals on data collection developed by specialized agencies of the United Nations and other international agencies in their specific fields of interest tend to incorporate a gender perspective. Examples include
Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
(United Nations, 2008); the World Bank manual
Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from 15 years of the Living Standards Measurement Study
(Grosh and Glewwe, 2000); the FAO guidelines entitled "Agricultural Censuses and Gender Considerations: Concept and Methodology" (2001) and
A System of Integrated Agricultural Censuses and Surveys (2007);
the methodological papers on gender and labour statistics developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO); and the Eurostat guidelines on living conditions surveys. Some agencies have also been involved in an active process of gender mainstreaming in data collection in some countries. For example, regional offices of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the former United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and FAO have worked with developing countries in Asia and Africa to integrate a gender perspective in data collection in censuses and surveys (UNFPA, Country Technical Services Team for South and West Asia, 2004; FAO, Regional Office for Africa, 2005). A more recent effort by UNFPA, in collaboration with United Nations Statistics Division and United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has been focused on the analysis of census data with a gender perspective. (UNFPA, Technical Division, 2014).
The integration of a gender perspective in some other data collection manuals has been driven by a close link between the subject matter of data collection and issues of gender inequality or issues specific to women. Examples include the methodological work on time-use surveys by the United Nations, Eurostat and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); the measurement of maternal mortality through censuses and surveys by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations and academic groups; and the development of violence against women surveys by WHO, the United Nations, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UNECE.
Methodological work has rarely focused on the use of gender statistics in analytical background reports for policymaking. Nonetheless, two good examples of publications that do address integrating a gender perspective in data analysis for policymaking are the World Bank Publication
A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies,
Core Techniques and Cross-cutting Issues
(Klugman, 2002), especially the chapter on gender (Bamberger and others, 2002), and
Population Situation Analysis: A Conceptual and Methodological Guide
(UNFPA Technical Division, 2010).
The most up-to-date comprehensive manual on gender statistics is the manual entitled "Developing gender statistics: a practical tool". (UNECE and World Bank Institute, 2010) The manual is addressed primarily to statisticians in countries with developed statistical systems and focuses in great detail on gender statistics in selected areas of concern. Some of the areas covered introduce new emerging topics in gender statistics, such as entrepreneurship, access to assets and social exclusion. Compared to previous methodological work on gender statistics, two other novel elements stand out. First, the manual is complemented by multimedia presentations on gender statistics, available online, which can be used as training tools. Second, the manual dedicates an entire chapter to discussing, from an organizational and financial point of view, specific steps and actions for starting a new, or strengthening an existing, gender statistics programme.
Purpose and audience of the present manual
The purpose of the present manual is to provide the methodological and analytical information necessary to improving the availability, quality and use of gender statistics in countries with less developed statistical systems. The approach and structure of the manual are based on the concept of gender mainstreaming in national statistics. As explained earlier in this chapter, mainstreaming a gender perspective in statistics means ensuring that gender issues and gender-based biases are systematically taken into account, in the production of all official statistics and at all stages of data production. This strategic process ensures (a) that national statistical systems regularly collect, analyse and disseminate data that address relevant gender issues; (b) that gender-sensitive concepts and methods are used in data collection in all statistical fields; and (c) that the presentation and dissemination of gender statistics aim to reach a wide range of users, including policymakers, advocates, researchers and analysts whose primary concerns are not necessarily focused on gender.
In the more developed regions, gender is already mainstreamed in the production of many national statistical systems and the quality of gender statistics is ensured by way of overall quality frameworks for statistics. However, in the less developed regions, many countries are still struggling to produce, on a regular basis, quality data that can be used to tackle relevant gender issues. This manual addresses the latter. Since the manual
Engendering Statistics: A Tool for Change
(Hedman, Perucci and Sundström) produced by Statistics Sweden in 1996 pointed out the importance of gender mainstreaming in national statistical systems, the issue has been addressed only briefly, primarily in United Nations materials and publications such as the gender and statistics briefing notes produced by the United Nations Statistics Division (United Nations, 2001), the manual entitled
ender mainstreaming: an overview
produced by the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues of the Department of Economics and Social Affairs of the Secretariat (United Nations, 2002) and, more recently, the publication
The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
(United Nations, 2006). The aim of the present manual, therefore, is to fulfil an as yet unmet need for more guidance on how to build bridges between gender issues, gender statistics and sources of data; how to improve data quality by incorporating a gender perspective in data collection programmes; and how to ensure a wider audience by improving the presentation of gender statistics and their dissemination in regular publications.
The present manual is targeted primarily at statisticians working in less developed national statistical systems and can be used as resource material for training in gender statistics. The following three chapters of the manual should help statisticians: (a) to improve the coverage of gender issues in statistics, as well as the quality of statistics, on a wide range of topics (see chapter II); (b) to incorporate a gender perspective into the design of surveys and censuses, by taking into account gender issues and gender bias in measurement (see chapter III); and (c) to improve data analysis and data presentation and to deliver gender statistics in a format that is easy to use by policymakers and planners (see chapter IV). The manual may also be useful for data users who wish to be able to interpret statistics correctly and to understand the problems involved in the production of gender statistics and therefore have a more efficient dialogue with data producers.
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Why not create sub-forums in the Fans section? No offense, but it's so unorganized and hard to navigate. I'd say it's also one of the most active areas of the forum, and because of this, old topics are bumped down and ignored, while the same/similar topics are made again and again.
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Okay, so admittedly, this recipe was born solely from the fact that my husband was bugging me to use the big ol load of kale I got at the store on Monday and had yet to cook. So, I did a little once over of what we had in the fridge and then mentally recalled my Pepper Sautéed Kale & Veggies Quinoa Bowl and just went for it (although I was totally not in a cumin mood, so I changed this one up to be more Italian).
Before we get started: Oh. my. goodness. I learned that you can make quinoa in the RICE COOKER! Hellllllllo. I totally would have made wayyyyy more quinoa before now (which, for the record, I call the stuff Queen-waa and even though I know that's wrong, I think I'm gonna keep my way – hehe)! Apparently though, I'm not the only one who has trouble with it…
Okay, sorry for that tangent.
On to the recipe! (By the way, I post most of the recipe pics at the end of the post… most of us just want to get to the recipe, but if you are into gawking at food, then I have included the pics just for you!)
Italian Veggie & Kale Quinoa Bowl
A little tip: As you chop and slice, combine ingredients that will go in the pan at the same time into the same prep-bowl. Bowl 1: carrots and tomatoes. Bowl 2: squash, zucchini, green onions. Bowl 3: mushrooms. Bowl 4: kale.
- 1 carrot, cut into 2-3 inch strips
- 2 handfuls of salad tomatoes, halved
- 1 squash, sliced
- 1 zucchini, sliced
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 5 mushrooms, sliced
- 3-4 "stalks" of kale, cut off stems, and coarsely chopped
- 1 can fire roasted diced tomatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 Tbsp Ana's Herbs (or other Italian seasoning mix whose ingredients compare)
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup quinoa, cooked
- Cook the quinoa if you have yet to do so.
- Bring four cups of water to a boil and then turn down to low. (You'll need this in a minute to blanch the kale.)
- Heat a pan with the olive oil and saute the garlic for a minute or two then add in the Ana's Herbs and allow to saute for several more minutes (this sorta "reactivates" the dried herbs). Add more oil to keep the herbs from burning if necessary.
- Add in the fire roasted diced tomatoes, mix together with herbs and let cook for three minutes.
- Add in the carrots and tomatoes and let them cook for three minutes.
- Add in the squash, zucchini, and green onions and let them cook for three minutes. {Ya seeing a pattern here yet? Hehe!}
- Add in the mushrooms and let them cook for… yep, three minutes!
- When you add in the mushrooms, pour the kale into the hot water and allow it to blanch while the mushrooms cook. No longer than three minutes!
- When the mushrooms are finished move the pan off of the heat, strain the kale, and combine it with the veggie mixture in the pan.
- Serve it over the quinoa as soon as you can because kale is at it's best (and prettiest) when it is still bright green!
For the record: my husband said "Wow this is gooooood." at least 7 times, which is the biblical number of perfection, so I'm going to deem this recipe a success!
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CIO Decisions 2006: 100% security just an illusion
When it comes to buying and implementing security systems, it's all about determining your risk level. Even then, CIOs have to surrender the notion they can foresee and prevent all threats.
What does the parent of a perfect teenager have in common with a CIO who has a perfectly secure data center? They're both delusional.
Just like a parent in denial, a CIO sometimes has to learn the hard way, with news delivered in the middle of the night.
"People are a little more confident than they should be," Phillips said. "They think they're secure until something happens. There's an illusion of security."
When it comes to security, the first thing CIOs have to learn is that no security policy and system can be perfect. However, it is possible to sleep at night knowing your system is "good enough," Phillips said.
When is enough enough?
You can't eliminate risk entirely, but you can lessen your vulnerability. Look at it this way: you lock the door to your house. It's reasonably secured. You could add a few more deadbolts to the door or maybe a second, locked screen door. Then your house would have more security, but in most neighborhoods a simple lock is good enough.
Understand, however, that if you're asking yourself if you have enough security, enough is a relative term and "comes in many flavors and shifts constantly," Phillips said. What's enough for you may not be enough for another organization.
The key to making sure you have enough security is conducting a thorough risk assessment. That process differs depending on size of company, vertical industry and types of data contained in the system, Phillips said.
Students are always finding new ways to get around a secure system, Young said, even though in some cases there are eight to 10 layers of security aimed at preventing breaches. From his viewpoint, Young figures he can never be 100% secure, given the rapid-fire rate that technology changes.
"There are always vulnerabilities," he said. "You do an MS upgrade and something comes up. The simple thing of a password -- people are sticking their passwords on sticky notes on their computers; VPs are giving them to their secretaries."
Accepting that it's OK to be "good enough" is a first step. After that, Phillips recommends the following risk-based approach:
- Start fresh: Go back into your organization and make sure everyone is on the same page as to what should be protected and why. Define a level of importance to the business.
- Evaluate and order critical assets. What are your organization's critical success factors? What are the critical assets required for success?
- Estimate your vulnerability level. Consider external and internal threats and estimate the probability of loss.
- Determine the best way to secure each asset.
- Determine how much resources will be spent based on the value of the assets.
"You decide your risk profile," Phillips said. "No matter how you cut it, [it's essentially] a roll of the dice. There's no perfect solution. Sometimes you just have to say, 'it's a risk we'll have to take.'"
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- Southern Arizona's Biosphere 2 is three glass-enclosed acres of ocean, mangrove swamp, savannah, rainforest and coastal desert.
Biosphere 2: Man-Made Wonder
The world's largest living science center is a half-hour north of Tucson.
Between 1987 and 1994, the $200-million Biosphere 2 structure with its two "lungs" and Energy Center was constructed on 40 rolling meadow acres west of the Santa Catalina Mountains and a half-hour north of Tuscon, in the town of Oracle.
Glimmering in the Arizona sunshine, Biosphere 2 was built to accommodate closed life systems research relevant to space exploration. Not too far-flung a notion, given the fact that Russia had just completed 10 missions in the smaller Bios-3 and that NASA tears through an average of $15.8 billion annually.
The brainchild of systems ecologist and engineer J.P. Allen, Biosphere 2 encloses over three acres within a 91-foot steel-framed glass pyramid. The heavily instrumented laboratory is equipped with 2,000 electronic digital data collection stations situated throughout five recreated biomes – ocean, mangrove swamp, savannah, rainforest and coastal desert. The facility was initially stocked with over 3,000 species, including food sources intended to sustain the crew.
The highly publicized, privately funded Mission 1 locked a crew of eight scientists behind glass in 1991 where they, for the most part, remained for two years. (A crew member was released for an hour for emergency medical attention when she sliced off the top of her finger in a thresher.)
Discover magazine claimed that it was "the most exciting scientific project undertaken in the U.S. since President Kennedy launched us toward the Moon." And it was. But that didn't deter naysayers from inflating the few unforeseen problems that arose.
When 1993 rolled around and the crew members were released, the media had deemed the experiment a failure due to a highly rare "El Nino" induced cloud cover that persisted for much of the second year, contributing towards increased carbon dioxide levels. Diminished oxygen left the crew lethargic and agitated while the high levels of CO2 killed off some of the crops.
As a scientific research experiment, it had always been assumed that the lessons learned from Mission 1 would be addressed in subsequent missions. However, there was never to be another completed mission. In March of 1994, Bass partnered with Columbia University to launch Mission 2, but by September the mission had been aborted due to a managerial dispute.
Since then, no closed life system research has been conducted at the facility that Time-Life Books recently identified as one of 50 must-sees in its Life Wonders of the World.
The University of Arizona now operates the facility as a global ecology laboratory focused on climate change research, and guided tours are conducted daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Because the cost of admission supports scientific academic research, half of the $20 tour fee qualifies as a tax-deductible charitable contribution.


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Many Phillies alumni reunite in Spring Training
Numerous Phillies alumni stopped by Spring Training this year at Bright House Field. Among the group were Darren Daulton, Pedro Feliz, So Taguchi, Jim Bunning, Greg Luzinski, John Kruk and Mitch Williams. Jim Fregosi, special assistant to the GM for the Braves and a resident of nearby Tarpon Springs, Fla., scouted a lot of games in Clearwater. Lee Thomas, in a similar role with Baltimore, was at one game.
Participating in tossing the ceremonial first pitches were Lee Elia, Rob Ducey, Sixto Lezcano, Larry Christenson and Dave Cash.
The Amaro family received all kinds of honors in January. Ruben Amaro Sr. and Ruben Amaro Jr. were inducted into the Latin American International Hall of Fame in Laredo, Texas.
Santos Amaro, father of Ruben Sr. and grandfather of Ruben Jr., was inducted posthumously by the Veterans Committee into the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame at Casa de Campo, Dominica Republic. Santos, who was born in Cuba, played and managed in both Cuba and Mexico. He was previously honored by the Hall of Fames in both countries.
The same night Santos was honored, Cookie Rojas was inducted into the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame. Cookie and Ruben Sr. were teammates on the Phillies.
Phil Bradley will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in April in Springfield, Mo., and Jeff Cooper will be inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame on May 15. In June, Rob Ducey will be among the 2013 class that is entering the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in Toronto.
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"The Mouth That Roared," by Dallas Green and Alan Maimon; foreword by Jayson Stark; Triumph Books; May 1, 2013.
"Philadelphia's Top 50 Baseball Players," by Rich Westcott; foreword by Dallas Green; University of Nebraska Press; April 2013.
"Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium," by Rich Westcott; Arcadia Publishing; currently available.
"View from the Booth," by Chris Wheeler; Camino Press; April 2013.
"This Date In Philadelphia Phillies History," by Skip Clayton and Don Bostrom; Camino Press; spring 2013. Originally published in 1978 by Allen Lewis and Larry Shenk; Stein & Day.
"The Phillies Experience: A Year-by-Year Chronicle of the Philadelphia Phillies," by Tyler Kepner; MVP Books; May 2013.
"Game of My Life Philadelphia Phillies, by Bob Gordon; Sports Publishing; April 2013.
"Almost A Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies," by William Kashatus; University of Pennsylvania Press; April 2013.
"More Than Beards, Bellies and Biceps," by Bob Gordon, Tom Burgoyne and Larry Andersen; Sports Publishing; June 2013.
Saying Good-bye
Brad Lidge, Kevin Millwood and Brian Schneider have all retired from the game. Bobby Abreu had hoped to play again, but when Spring Training ended, he was still searching for a job.
Millwood tossed the last no-hitter at Veterans Stadium 10 years ago, come April 27.
Tim McCarver is retiring from broadcasting for FOX at the end of the season. He's broadcast 23 World Series, a record.
Bill Dancy is the Minor League field coordinator for the Detroit Tigers. ... Paul Quantrill is back with the Toronto Blue Jays as a special assistant. ... Richie Hebner is back in the game as a hitting coach for New Hampshire (Blue Jays, Double-A). .. Bobby Thigpen is the new bullpen coach for the White Sox . ... Greg Gross is the hitting coach with Reno (D-backs, Triple-A).
Gene Garber was in the Atlanta Braves' camp for two weeks for the third straight year as a guest instructor. When asked about making road trips, he responded, "Relievers always went on the trips." When told that Mike Schmidt is a guest instructor with the Phillies and doesn't go on the road, Garber replied, "That's because he has 'HOF' behind his name."
Did You Know
Larry Bowa wore the Phillies uniform for more years than anyone in franchise history, 25. He was a player (1970-81), coach ('88-96) and manager (2001-04).
Second to the Sacramento, Calif., native is another product of that city, John Vukovich, who spent 24 years in a Phillies uniform.


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MIT Showcases Talent at US Rowing Club National ChampionshipAugust 06, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT rowing program saw six current student-athletes, two incoming freshmen, and one alumna compete at the 2010 US Rowing Club National Championship held July 14-18 in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Kate Hoff '08, Richard Suarez '11, Lucas Goodman '11, Ben Potash '14, and Andrew Schlaepfer '14 earned medals while Lauren Ayers '13, Meghan Dow '12, Katie Everett '12, and Clare Flanagan '11 turned in solid performances.
MIT Finishes 11th in Directors' Cup RankingsJuly 21, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Coming on the heels of one of the most successful campaigns in Institute history, MIT placed 11th among all Division III schools in the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) annual Learfield Sports Directors' Cup. This was the highest ranking for the Engineers in the 14-year history of the program and the first time they were the best performers in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).
Lucas Goodman Invited to USRowing Pre-Elite CampMay 21, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. MIT heavyweight oarsman Lucas Goodman is one of 14 collegiate rowers to be invited to the 2010 USRowing Mens Pre-Elite Camp to be held in Oklahoma City, Okla. this summer. Sponsored by the sports national governing body, the USRowing pre-elite is focused on developing athletes for the United States Under-23 and Senior National Teams.
MIT Crew Set to Compete in Final Home Races of SeasonApril 30, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. On Saturday, May 1, MITs four crew teams will take to the Charles River for a full morning of racing, marking the only time this semester that all teams will be competing at home on one day.
Tech Heavies Finish Second at Compton CupApril 19, 2010CAMBRIDGE, Mass. For the second year in a row the MIT mens varsity heavyweight crew finished second to Harvard University in the Compton Cup. Unlike last years race, which was rowed on placid Lake Carnegie in beautiful weather, this years edition took place in typical early spring conditions in Boston: cold, rainy, and windy.
Heavyweight Men Finish Fall Season and Look Forward to Winter Training in FloridaNovember 17, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Having graduated most of its varsity boat last June, the mission for MITs heavyweight crew this fall was to develop new oarsmen, to learn how to race and to establish a team identity. The crew made progress toward these goals this fall, though the learning process included some ups and downs.
2009 Heavies Win Rusty Callow AwardOctober 22, 2009CAMBRIDGE, Mass. MITs 2009 varsity heavyweight crew received the Russell S. Callow Memorial Award, which is presented each year by the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) to the crew that, in the previous racing season, best personified the virtues of spirit, courage and unity.


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It is always a depressing experience to read a comment thread having anything to do with feminism and find out what professional and amateur misogynists think feminism consists of. For example, our newish troll curmudgeon:
Meanwhile, the historical arc of feminist argumentation on the Internet has reached its bimodal zenith with…the argument that any woman who believes that being spoken to by a man seeking consensual sex is not an objectifying act is pro rape.
The reference, as Mr. Mudgeon confirmed later, is to the Rebecca Watson elevator incident that revealed Richard Dawkins to be a world-class concern troll. Dawkins's apologists have generally distorted Watson's unassailable argument beyond any possible recognition, but rarely in this purely dishonest a form. Let us compare the troll summary…
any woman who believes that being spoken to by a man seeking consensual sex is not an objectifying act is pro rape.
…with a summary that actually attempts to bear some resemblance to what Watson actually said, with the crucial differences highlighted:
Being hit on by someone following you into an elevator late at night in the immediate aftermath of giving a talk in which you explain how you've been affected by the tendency of men in the skeptic movement to view women as sexual objects regardless of the context is creepy and inappropriate.
Note also that there is no suggestion that "seeking consensual sex" is wrong in any context, and also no argument that what happened to her was "rape." You're welcome!


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Two for one for the old school The matching gifts program of the Haskins & Sells Foundation is off to a rousing start. During the first four months of its operation, starting in March of this year, the Foundation has sent checks totaling $21,036 to match 289 gifts of the same amount sent to colleges and universities by H&S people. The Foundation was established in 1928 with the stated purpose of "furthering accounting education in the United States." In recent years the American Alumni Council has been assisting a great many colleges and universities in fund raising through appeals to their alumni. Each year the council assists the institutions of learning by printing a list of employers that are pledged to match the gifts of their employees, within certain limits, to the participating schools. Many colleges enclose the list with their annual fund appeal to alumni. Since last March, H&S has joined that list of employers, most of them nationally known. At the time the Foundation's matching giftsprogramwasannouncedonMarch8, 1972, Managing Partner Michael N. Chetkovich said in a message to all H&S personnel: "The matching gifts program offers such a wide range of choice for individuals who want to give financial support to higher education that we expect that there will be broad participation by the people of Haskins & Sells." The rules of our Firm's matching program provide, in general, that all active and retired fulltime employees and partners are eligible to participate. Eligible recipient schools include graduate and baccalaureate degree-granting colleges and universities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico that have tax exempt status. Eligible contributors need not have attended the recipient school. The Foundation matches an employee's total contributions up to a maximum of $500 per person each calendar year. The minimum contribution eligible for matching is $25. Moral: double your money this coming gift-giving season by sending $25 or more to your favorite college. From your office, obtain a matching gift form and include it with your check. The Haskins & Sells Foundation will do the rest. • S€EME So what else is new, Bruce? [The following item is reprinted from The Ledger, newsletter of the Los Angeles office of H&S.] When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not you're not. The latter seemed to be the case for H&S staff accountant Bruce Henry, on June 29, 1972. Having released all assistants on the 28th, Bruce was alone, completing the audit of a branch of a local bank. He should have known he was in for a bad day while reviewing working papers on statistical sampling. Evaluating errors in the population was enough to give any statistical sampling expert a migraine headache. Bruce, rather quickly, forgot his accounting problems when a sawed-off shotgun was placed six inches from his head. He was ordered to move from his desk, abruptly rammed against a wall and ordered not to move. As the robbery progressed, Bruce, being an auditor at heart, made discreet observations (without inquiries). Still shaking after the police and FBI investigations, Bruce managed his way to the H&S softball game against Seidman & Seidman. The day appeared to be taking a turn for the better when, Bruce reports, he "accidentally" hit the ball into deep left center for a triple. All illusions were shattered as, sliding into third base, he tore his knee-requiring stitches-and re-injured the ligaments in his back which had been torn in a game three weeks earlier To top the day off, waiting in the mail when Bruce finally arrived home was a confirmation (2nd request] from Uncle Sam reminding him he was needed in Death Valley for two weeks of summer camp, an honor due to his outstanding performance during his two years of active duty. To make one thing perfectly clear, as Bruce said, "The day could have been worse- H&S did win the softball game'.' • Palm Beach glamour kitty Imagine an H&S partner's being upstaged and out-publicized by his seven-year-old daughter's cat. It happened in Florida recently to Jack Von Funk, who transferred last year from Miami to open our Palm Beach office. Jack's daughter is named Cara; her cat, a slow moving, not too bright male Siamese, is named Dum Dum. Cara loves Dum Dum as only a young mistress her age can. This past spring Cara learned about the All-American Glamour Kitty Contest sponsored by the makers of Kitty Pan Cat Absorbent, and she pestered her mother into getting the contest rules and the sponsor's address. Then Cara wrote a contest letter describing her plump Siamese as "healthy, looks like a tiger, eats lizards, takes sand baths, catches snakes, has sparkly eyes, purrs good, has cute legs, likes other cats, has a good face, good noise, good paws, is sneaky, lively, funny, cute, gentle, loving," amongst other things. To the Von Funk family's amazement, word came in late April that Dum Dum was chosen as a semi-finalist in the national contest, which would be decided early in June in Miami Beach. This made big news in the Palm Beach Post. which ran several prominent stories with large photos showing Cara beaming on her pet.Then Dum Dum was selected as one of the nine national finalists, and life really changed for the Von Funk family. Amid the congratulatory letters and phone calls they tried (hopelessly) to train their most famous member for the talent contest, but found that Dum Dum could hardly be taught to jump over a fly swatter. Climbing a pole? Forget it. Jo Von Funk, Cara's mother, was quoted in the Post: "If they ask Dum to play dead, we're in." For the cat fashion parade they chose a red night shirt and a tasseled blue striped nightcap. "The sponsor said to pick a costume that best fits your cat, and for old Dum that could only mean pajamas," Jo told the newspaper. To put pep in his step, the cat's diet was switched to the best chopped chicken liver. "Pet Goes From Scraps to Riches," the Post declared. A Palm Beach bank with a sign that it changes every few days first put up: 26
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H&S Reports, Vol. 09, (1972 autumn), p. 26-29
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|Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte; Photographs by Roy Stevens
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Rowed with the third varsity eight all season and twice with the comination fours ... Helped the open four finish fourth at the IRA National Championships ... Defeated Yale in combination fours race at the H-Y Regatta ... Finished third with the third varsity eight at the EARC Sprints ... Aided the third varsity eight go 5-1 in dual competition ... Helped in wins against Boston University, Navy and Penn, Princeton, and Cornell.
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This is not a joke: The state of California, in the course of disbursing funds for an important program, has sent checks to Orange County and the city of Camarillo for exactly one penny.
Yes, the state budget is that bad.
Exactly what happened is detailed on the blog of the California State Association of Counties. The checks are due local governments under the Williamson Act, which provides incentives to encourage land owners to preserve property for agricultural uses, instead of developing it. The program funding these incentives had been worth about $38 million -- until last summer's budget, when, as a money-saving measure, it was reduced to $1,000 via the governor's line-item veto.
Eliminating the program would have been more difficult than stripping down to virtually nothing, I'm told.
So instead of dividing up $38 million among local governments that give out the incentives, the state divided up $1,000. Twenty-two counties received checks for less than $10. And Orange County and Camarillo (which don't have much agricultural land enrolled under the Williamson Act) get their penny.
If this all sounds strange, it isn't. This is the new normal in a state of persistent budget deficits.


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The following is not the plot to an upcoming Bond film: Russian bootstrap billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich announced that his construction company, Infrastruktura, would spend $160 million on the world's largest drill. The drill, five meters wider than the current champ, built by the same German concern, Herrenknecht, would be used to improve the grounds around the Black Sea resort of Sochi, site of 2014 Olympics and favorite hangout of both Stalin and Putin. The company says it will not be used to drill a subterranean roadway from Far Eastern Russia to Alaska. Not yet, at least.
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There was speculation the soccer boss may have bought the machine in league with Putin in the hope of gaining approval from America for a plan both men are said to have long savoured—building a tunnel from the frozen wastes of the Russian region of which Abramovich is governor, Chukotka, to Alaska beneath the Bering Strait.
A spokesman for Infrastruktura dispelled the rumor, saying:"This drill project is unconnected to any plans in [Chukotka]. The drill will be used in Moscow, Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and other [err, unnamed] Russian cities."
But then he added: "Before building a tunnel between [Chukotka] and Alaska, there should be a road built between Anadyr, the capital of Chutotka, and the rest of Russia."
So, like, once the road is built...what? Presumably the spokesman then only put his pinky in his mouth and began to laugh diabolically. [Daily Mail]


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Mark Garcia June 06, 2014
On June 20th, the WORLD'S LARGEST SWIM LESSON, takes place all over the country, anywhere there is water. The purpose is to raise awareness of the importance for swimming lessons for children aged 1-14.
WHY? Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children under age 14. Drownings don't all happen in pools, but one trend emerges consistently, children with poor swimming skills drown more often. Swim Lessons improve the odds tremendously for kids.
WHAT? The World's Largest Swim Lesson is a simultaneous swim lesson taking place in more than 25 countries, at hundreds of swim facilities, most of which are in North America.
Last year, the WLSL set the Guinness World's Record for the most participants in a swim lesson, with nearly 25,000 children and adults, all taking a swim lesson at the same time. This was the fourth year in a row that the WLSL has broken the record, earning the title of 'World's Largest Swim Lesson'; will 2014 be the fifth year that the record is broken?
A simple, beginner's lesson plan, developed by a team of water safety experts will be used by all participating facilities. To qualify the WLSL for the World Record, all locations use the same swim lesson plan, and have at least 25 participants.
The WLSL is supported by a coalition of advocates for water safety and swim training organizations. Rowdy Gaines and Janet Evans, US Olympic gold medal swimmers, lend their star power to help promote the event.
HOW? To participate in the WLSL, and be a part of a Guinness World Record (wouldn't your child love to be a Guinness World Record Holder?!?), just find a local pool that is hosting the event, and be ready for the swim lesson, which takes place on June 20th, 2014 at 11am EST, 8am PST, 3pm GMT.
If none of the locations is close to you - use your own pool to join the event! The last day to register a pool location for the 2014 WLSL is today! (June 6) Check the website for resources on hosting your own WLSL event location.
Parents understand the importance of bike helmets and car seats. Teaching children how to swim is just as important, and in addition, is an life skill that no one should be deprived the pleasures and benefits.
Children should be taught to swim at the start of every swim season, from the time they are old enough to walk, until they develop strong swimming skills - which don't usually develop well until age 5 or 6. Annual swim lessons (6-12 sessions) should continue, every year for at least 5-7 years of a child's early life.
The World's Largest Swim Lesson is a fun way to kick off summer, and a great way to evaluate your child's swimming skills early in the season. It's also an easy way to connect with local swim instructors, swim teams and training organizations, to sign up for a series of swim lessons.
You didn't think just one swim lesson would be enough, did you?