text: Share: Comments Print September 10, 2012 at 5:00 PM Children's Alliance endorses marijuana legalization initiative Posted by Jonathan Martin The marijuana legalization initiative on the fall ballot got an unexpected vote of confidence Monday from a prominent child-advocacy group and an expected vote of disapproval from a group of substance-abuse providers. The Children's Alliance, a Seattle nonprofit whose members include major social services agencies, endorsed Initiative 502 in an effort to address the racially disproportionate impacts of current marijuana laws, said Jon Gould, the Alliance's deputy director. Marijuana usage is similar between whites and African-Americans, but blacks are three times as likely to be arrested, charged and convicted of marijuana-related crimes, said Gould. Children "end up paying a terrible price for the disproportionate enforcement" when their parents' criminal records hinder their ability to get jobs, public housing or federal student aid, such as Pell grants, he said. "The status quo is not working for children, particularly children of color. Public policy ought to move us further toward racial equity and justice, and Initiative 502 is one step forward to that," said Gould. I-502, the first marijuana-related initiative on the statewide ballot in 14 years, would allow and heavily tax sales of up to one ounce of marijuana from state-licensed pot stores to people ages 21 and over, and would also stiffen driving-under-the-influence laws related to marijuana. Gould and Children's Alliance board member Don Scaramastra acknowledged that the endorsement might be controversial; some opponents of the initiative contend that legalized marijuana will lead to more use by minors. That was the reason cited by the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention; it officially came out against I-502 Monday. Marijuana use is the top reason that teens enter treatment in Washington, and students carrying a D average were four times more likely to have used pot in the past year than students with an A average, according to the group's statement. "Alcohol is currently highly regulated, yet is the #1 drug used by Washington youth," according to the group's statement. "Youth typically get adults to buy them alcohol from stores and would do the same with marijuana under I‐502." Scaramastra noted that I-502 would continue marijuana possession laws for people under 21. "The law does not make marijuana use okay for minors," said Scaramastra, a Seattle attorney. But weighed against the consequences of what Scaramastra views as disparities in enforcement of marijuana laws, he decided to vote to endorse I-502. The Children's Alliance, founded in 1984, is an active force in Olympia lobbying for a children's social safety net, including on health, nutrition and child welfare issues. Recently, it prioritized issues related to racial equity, and the group has considered taking a stand on I-502 since April, Gould said. Gould said the estimated $560 million a year in new tax revenue generated by I-502 was not a factor in the Alliance's endorsement. He said the Alliance believes that marijuana usage by teens can be tamped down by prevention strategies, such as those that reduced tobacco use by kids. "From that, we concluded that appropriate public messages and limits on advertising, as well as other interventions, can reduce teen use without criminalizing adult behavior." Comments | More in homepage, Marijuana, Politics Northwest | Topics: initiative 502, marijuana


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This Latest in Beauty box is more in keeping with the ones you'll be familiar with such as Glossybox and Boudoir Prive. A slightly fancier box with larger samples in, this is due to become a themed box to be released six times a year, this one being the first and themed around the Cosmetic Executive Women's 2011 Beauty Insiders Choice Winners.
For only £4.95, the amount received in this box is great, this one features: a trial sized Bastite, Balance Me Body Wash, Clarins Multi-Active Cream and Nivea for Men Gel. In sachet sized you get a Dr.Organic Skin Lotion and a Lanolips.
I'm excited to try these products as I'm only tried the Bastite before (who hasn't!?) although I must say I'm completely confused about the inclusion of the Nivea for Men product, since it's from an awards voted for by a group of Women and the box is clearly aimed at women. Random. That's my only complaint though.
Again, the Latest in Beauty box features lots of well known products, which is great. The benefit of boxes such as Glossybox and Boudoir Prive feature more of a mix of known and little known brands, which to many will be the main appeal. However, if like me your a beauty blogger beginner, Latest in Beauty will offer you the chance to try products you've heard about but not necessarily tried yet.
I can't wait to try the Balance Me Shower Gel and Lanolips the most, as I've heard great things about these two products. Watch this space for reviews of my favourite samples, coming soon. Read the post before this one to find out about the marvellous Free Samples box from Latest in Beauty for only £1 a month!
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Despite my frugal nature, I race to purchase any new serum, spray, or cream that lands on store shelves, desperately hoping that my hay-like locks will turn into silky strands within the matter of a few days. Because of that, I've tested a lot of products, but sadly, not all of them work.
At this point, I don't know which is worse — my dry, lifeless head of hair, or the fact that I've spent so much money in vain! Can any of my frizzy haired friends relate?
Over the past few weeks, I've read a lot about hair, and thankfully, I've learned that you don't have to spend a ton of money on salon deep conditioning treatments or expensive products to get fantastic results. In fact, the more I practice healthy hair care, the better shape my tresses are in the long run. Oh how I wish I had learned this sooner!
Instead of mourning my mistakes, I'm sharing 7 of the best frizzy hair tips that have worked for me, so you can stop wasting all that money and finally fall in love with your hair again too.
1. Don't Wash it Everyday
I know, I know, you're probably thinking, "ewww, I could never do that!", but the truth is, washing your hair every single day strips those strands of their natural oils, resulting in a dry, frizzy mess that is pretty hard to avoid.
Thankfully, my hair does just fine with an every other day washing regimen, but if yours still feels super oily the next day, you might want to try this Dry Shampoo from Living Well Spending Less. It can get you through a few more days without washes, and costs just pennies to make!
2. Lay Off the Heat
As a girl with wavy hair that doesn't necessarily dry correctly {aka flips every which way!}, I'm a big proponent of the blow dryer and the flat iron. I know……the constant heat is damaging my hair and is so bad!
When you have a day completely at home, let your hair air dry and just do it's thing. It might scare the UPS man every once in a while, but you're sure to notice a big difference without applying so much heat and pressure to your hair. If you do decide to give it some heat, make sure you use a protectant spray first, AND follow tip #3!
3. Fully Blow-Dry Your Hair
Have you ever blow-dried your hair, straightened it, then returned to the mirror a couple hours later to see your efforts completely wasted? It's not solely a result of humidity — though that does play a part. It's actually because you haven't dried your hair fully during the initial blow-dry!
My hair is quite thick, and takes forever to get to a final dry, so I know I'm always skipping ahead to the next step and cutting corners when I can. But it is worth taking the extra effort to make sure your hair is completely dry without any hint of dampness before moving on. Your final style will be much better for it!
4. Switch Shampoos
I've tried just about as many shampoos as I have anti-frizz products, and I'm a big believer that no one shampoo will work exclusively forever. I really don't have any science to back this up, I just know that for my hair, if I go too long with the same shampoo, my hair will start to dry out again, and almost become immune to that product.
Right now I'm using Dove Pure Care Dry Oil Shampoo and Conditioner, and I'm loving it. My hair felt so soft after just one wash, and it just goes to show that you don't have to invest in expensive formulas to get the same, maybe even better results!
5. Get a Regular Trim
Because of the huge expense of salon appointments {at least at the good places!}, I used to schedule them about every 6 months and actually get away with it. However, my hair becomes even more damaged as a result of waiting so long.
Scheduling a regular trim every few months gets rid of all that damage and creates a head of healthy looking hair. But if you can't afford more frequent appointments, just make sure they do more than a trim when you go. Have your stylist cut a good 3, maybe 4 inches off so the split ends don't have a chance to create even more problems.
6. Use a Moisterizing and Protective Oil
My hair always feels so smooth and silky after my hair appointments, so I finally asked my hair stylist why. She told me it was the oil she put on my hair before she styled it. I was confused at first, because I thought my hair would be too oily, but it's really not!
I was excited to try it myself with Dove's Pure Care Dry Oil Nourishing Treatment that works right along with shampoo and conditioner line. It's the first time I've ever used one, but I've been so impressed! It absorbs really quickly, and leaves my hair feeling silky, not weighed down.
7. Be Careful with that Towel
Towels do nothing but stir up trouble for dry and frizzy hair, especially if you wrap them all turban-like or rub your hair dry. I know my hair always holds a ton of water, but I try to squeeze as much as I can out in the shower, and then lightly pat my hair with the towel to dry it a little bit more.
I've heard that a microfiber towel is supposed to be more absorbent and create less frizz, but I'm still deciding whether or not to splurge. Let me know in the comments if you've tried it!
I did a test to see if practicing these tips gave me less frizzy, less dry, and an overall healthy head of hair. I think they worked!
Here's my transformation after 4 weeks {and yes, I did get a trim too}:
Not a HUGE difference, but my hair definitely feels a lot healthier, and I notice it does look a little bit smoother too. Overall, I'm very happy with the change!
I'd love to hear what sort of tips you use to prevent and manage dry and frizzy hair. Have you tried any home remedies, new shampoos, or moisturizing oils?
How do you manage your frizzy hair?
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According to recent studies, 5 percent of all motor vehicle fatalities are clearly caused by automobile maintenance neglect.
The cooling system should be completely flushed and refilled about every 24 months. The level, condition, and concentration of coolant should be checked. (A 50/50 mix of anti-freeze and water is usually recommended.)
Never remove the radiator cap until the engine has thoroughly cooled. The tightness and condition of drive belts, clamps and hoses should be checked by a pro.
Change your oil and oil filter as specified in your manual, or more often (every 3,000 miles) if you make frequent short jaunts, extended trips with lots of luggage or tow a trailer.
Replace other filters (air, fuel, PCV, etc.) as recommended, or more often in dusty conditions. Get engine drivability problems (hard stops, rough idling, stalling, diminished power, etc.) corrected at a good shop.
A dirty windshield causes eye fatigue and can pose a safety hazard. Replace worn blades and get plenty of windshield washer solvent.
Have your tires rotated about every 5,000 miles. Check tire pressures once a month; let the tires cool down first. Don't forget your spare and be sure your jack is in good condition.
Check your owner's manual to find out what fuel octane rating your car's engine needs then buy it.
Keep your tires inflated to the proper levels. Under-inflated tires make it harder for your car to move down the road, which means your engine uses more fuel to maintain speed.
Lighten the load. Heavier vehicles use more fuel, so clean out unnecessary weight in the passenger compartment or trunk before you hit the road.
Use the A/C sparingly. The air conditioner puts extra load on the engine forcing more fuel to be used.
Keep your windows closed. Wide-open windows, especially at highway speeds, increase aerodynamic drag and the result is up to a 10% decrease in fuel economy.
Avoid long idling. If you anticipate being stopped for more than one minute, shut off the car. Contrary to popular belief, restarting the car uses less fuel than letting it idle.
Stay within posted speed limits. The faster you drive, the more fuel you use. For example, driving at 65 miles per hour (mph) rather than 55 mph, increases fuel consumption by 20 percent.
Use cruise control. Using cruise control on highway trips can help you maintain a constant speed and, in most cases, reduce your fuel consumption.
Keep your engine tuned. A fouled spark plug or plugged/restricted fuel injector can reduce fuel efficiency as much as 30 percent.
Inspect the engine's belts regularly. Look for cracks or missing sections or segments. Worn belts will affect the engine performance.
Have the fuel filter changed every 10,000 miles to prevent rust, dirt and other impurities from entering the fuel system.
Change the transmission fluid and filter every 15,000 to 18,000 miles. This will protect the precision-crafted components of the transmission/transaxle.
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Taric counters AD assassins like Qiyana
Hello, Boards. It's come to my attention that there is a new AD assassin, perhaps the most hated class in League of Legends, that will release in patch 9.13. I have already seen the salt flowing freely, and I am sympathetic to your frustrations. I'm KnightsKemplar, with the Church of Targon. Could you spare a few minutes to hear about our Lord and Savior, Taric? "I'm skeptical," I imagine some of you are thinking. "That champ has never been popular." Well, kids, it's June, aka Pride Month. There's no better time to try out the best gay brick wall in League of Legends. So settle in and grab a cold beverage while I explain the tenets of our faith. AD assassins are very good at killing squishy targets. In the current meta, you might think that the only counter to this is to blow them up faster. What wrongheaded thinking that is! There are several champions that will help you channel the brick wall within yourself, such as Malphite and Ornn. Those champions are great, and I will let people who love them tell you why you should play them, too. But today, I'd like to talk to you about Taric, the true Messiah who will rescue us all from AD assassins. While other champions can become brick walls, Taric is one of the few that can help his carries adopt some brick wallish characteristics, as well. Did you know that his W, bastion, gives armor to the person he links with? No? Well, now you do! It's a shield that *also* gives armor to your squishy little friends! What a majestic ability to help you wallop the AD scoundrels of Summoner's Rift! All you have to do is stack armor and link with your squishy friends to save them from a terrible fate! "But KnightsKemplar," I hear you protest, "only fools have all AD comps. I can't wait to stomp the Zed/Yasuo players, but what about mages?" Worry not, my children! There are two excellent support items that give you armor *and* MR. Just build a Zeke's Convergence or a Locket of the Iron Solari, both of which will help you peel for whichever squishy friend needs it most! Are the shields and armor not enough to shut down the enemy? Not to worry! Taric's Q can heal so much that it will leave the enemy assassin typing "WhY dOeS mY uLtI sUdDeNlY dO nO dAmAge?!?11?11!!" And on top of that, your ulti can make friends invulnerable after a short delay of 2.5 seconds! Zed, arguably the most hated AD assassin, needs a full 3 seconds for his ult to deal its damage! What an amazingly unfair interaction! You've always suspected that Zed players have no brains, so prove it by watching them bang their heads against the wall over and over again whilst they wonder aloud at their own impotence! Now, there are two critical downsides to playing Taric. The first downside is that you are a squishy enchanter during laning phase. It takes time and money to become a beefy bastion of courage! So you'll have a hard time against mage supports. These minions of darkness will harass you out of lane and murder your poor, squishy allies. Be very cautious playing Taric into Lux and Yuumi (and maybe bring MR runes instead of armor. I know, it's sad, but sometimes you need to sacrifice your armor stacking to survive). The other downside is that Taric takes skill to play effectively. You must practice your spell weaving to take full advantage of your passive. You must learn to time your ult so that it activates before your team gets aced. You must learn to aim your stun to shut off escape routes so you can bash the dastardly rogues threatening your backline. You need practice! That's why I'm here 2+ weeks before the release of Qiyana! Don't wait – now is the time to hone your brick wall skills. In two weeks, you want to be ready to taunt your enemy in all chat as they run circles around you and fail to do meaningful damage! You don't need to keep up with mobility creep if they can't hurt you *or* your allies. I will be right here for any questions you might have about the faith, and I call upon the rest of the Church of Targon to assist me in answering your questions. Please, consider saving your allies from the threat of AD assassins *today.* Time is short – their salvation and your lp are both on the line. These are difficult times, and you can't count on someone else to save you from Qiyana, Zed, and their ilk. Thanks for reading, and I know you'll make the right decision.
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Easy Like (Easter) Sunday Morning
Keep it easy this holiday weekend with some super simple Easter Sunday cinnamon rolls. Upgrade some ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls with pretty pastel frosting and aromatic sprinkles. (Even if you don't celebrate Easter, these are highly recommended Sunday brunch fare.)
A co-worker brought in doughnuts for St. Patrick's Day and I snagged one covered in chocolate frosting figuring it was cream filled. To my surprise it was a cinnamon roll! Truth be told the roll was a little lackluster, but the idea stuck with me. I picked up some fancy organic varieties of cinnamon rolls in a tube and canned frosting (to make myself feel a little better about not making anything from scratch) and whipped these up one sunny Saturday afternoon.
- 1 tube ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls
- 1 tub pre-made frosting
- red & yellow food coloring
- zest from one lemon
- dried lavender
- Bake the cinnamon rolls according to package instructions.
- While they are baking, separate the tub of frosting into two bowls
- Add 2-3 drops red food coloring to one of the bowls of frosting, until desired pink color is reached.
- Add 2-3 drops yellow food coloring to the other bowl of frosting, until desired yellow color is reached.
- When cinnamon rolls are finished baking, remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before frosting.
- Sprinkle dried lavender on any rolls with pink frosting and lemon zest on any with yellow frosting.
- Enjoy!
If you've got little ones, frosting and sprinkling these yummy treats are the perfect job to keep them entertained while you get any other dishes ready for brunch.
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Here's what the cast of ''Friends'' is up to this week. Perry nearly sobs over the finale, and Cox gets animated over Cartoon Network idea
OVER AND DUNN Snarky Chandler reduced to tears? Believe it or not, that was Matthew Perry on the night the "Friends" finale taped in January. "I didn't cry, but I felt like I was about to for like seven hours," Perry told the New York Daily News. "There was a sweet moment where my girlfriend [fashion student Rachel Dunn] and I went for a walk on the stage. No one was there. We just held hands and walked around. It was sweet."
Could Perry have been crying because he thinks his career has peaked? "None of us will probably be involved in anything as successful as 'Friends' again," he told the Daily News. "That's something we just have to deal with." Nonetheless, he says, "If I never work again, that's not crashing and burning — that's called already making your mark. And, without the safety net of the show to go back to, I guess we'll all be a little more careful picking movies!"
Perry, who's been everywhere over the past couple of weeks promoting Friday's release of his movie sequel "The Whole Ten Yards," made one surprise stop at the New York studio of TV's "Extra," where he met ABC's new "Bachelor" star Jesse Palmer and sang for him an impromptu musical tribute, accompanying himself on ukulele. "He's the Bach'lor/He's gotta pick a girl," croaked Perry. Hey, Matthew, don't quit your day job — oops, too late.
'SQUIRREL', INTERRUPTED Courteney Cox and David Arquette have a production in development, and we don't mean their baby, due in July. According to Arquette, the kid-minded couple and producers of decorating show "Mix It Up" are adding a new show to their roster, a family-oriented cartoon. While promoting his new movie "Never Die Alone," Arquette told EW.com about the project. "We've been developing a bunch of things," he said, most notably, "a kid's show. It's not just for kids anymore; it's like 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' it's for the whole family. It's on Cartoon Network, and it's called 'The Dirt Squirrel.' And it's about a crime fighting, martial-arts squirrel. I'm not sure if he's a gray squirrel or a brown squirrel, but it's a flying squirrel. We don't have animators quite yet. It's mixed media, so there will be some on-camera stuff. But it's for Cartoon Network, so it's 80 percent cartoons." No word on whether the character will have a pal who's a slow-witted moose.
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Bill Yoast, the former high school football coach who was portrayed in the 2000 film "Remember the Titans," died Thursday, The Washington Post reported. He was 94.
Yoast died at an assisted living facility in Springfield, Virginia, his daughter, Dee Dee Fox, confirmed. No cause of death was provided, the newspaper reported.
Alexandria City Public Schools also confirmed Yoast's death in a news release.
Yoast coached at T.C. Williams High in Alexandria from 1971 to 1996 as the football team's defensive coordinator. Head coach Herman Boone, the first black high school football coach in the district, led the team in 1971 to an undefeated season and a state championship.
The team's story was the inspiration behind "Remember the Titans," in which Denzel Washington played Boone and Will Patton played Yoast.
Yoast was the head football coach at all-white Francis Hammond High School, but in 1971 the Alexandria school district consolidated its three high schools, sending the upperclassmen to T.C. Williams and converting Hammond and George Washington into junior high schools, the Post reported.
Boone and Yoast "put aside personal pride and pulled together to solidify a diverse coaching staff and team into the most successful team in the state in 1971," the school district said in its release.
"No doubt, the beginning of our relationship was rocky," Boone, who coached the Titans from 1971 to 1979, told the Post in a telephone interview. "I didn't know Yoast. Yoast didn't know me. I knew that Hammond had no black athletes and I didn't know if coach Yoast had anything to do with that. But we got to (training camp) and became roommates and found a way to talk to one another.
"I think that's the formula for race relations throughout the world. People have to learn to talk to one another. You have to learn to talk to that individual, and when you talk to that individual, you learn to trust that individual, and that's the greatest gift God gave to man."
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AOL Instant Messenger launched without fanfare in May of 1997, the brainchild of developers Barry Appelman, Eric Bosco and Jerry Harris. In a 2014 history of the text-messaging platform that appeared in Mashable, AIM was released without the permission of higher-ups, and was offered free to subscribers -- unlike other services fee-happy AOL always charged for. Those days of casual chatting officially end Dec. 15, 2017, although innovations by Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Facebook made it obsolete long ago.
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Hollywood Should Be the Ones Saying "I can do that"
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Diversity is something that Hollywood and record companies have been trying to institutionalize for quite some time now. There have been some strides in this, from black artists like Beyoncé winning well-deserved Grammies, to people like Aziz Ansari and Mindy Kaling, Indian comedians getting their own television series. Even though it is clear that pop culture and media are trying their best to incorporate diversity, they are still lagging behind. This year, no black actors were nominated for any Oscar awards. Beyoncé was frowned upon by numerous people for her Super Bowl performance because it saluted black lives everywhere. No Asian actor has won an Oscar or any Academy Awards for God knows how long. But there is one place that is surging ahead in the quest for diversity on the stage. That place is the "Great White Way." In the past year alone, Broadway has been as diversified as ever. The musical "Allegiance," taking place in Japan, came out featuring George Takei and Lea Salonga, as well as a mainly Asian cast. Lin Manuel-Miranda's "Hamilton" has recently hit the stage, featuring a mainly African American and Latino cast while providing a fresh take on one of our country's founding fathers. "The Color Purple," based on the popular novel and movie, has found its way back to Broadway this year with actresses like Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo in the starring roles.
Even deaf actors are starting to get the chance to perform more often and diversify the stage. The deaf Wests version of the contemporary German musical "Spring Awakening" with music composed by Duncan Sheik came to Broadway this season. The cast was composed of half deaf and half speaking actors, and sign language was incorporated into the choreography for the show, making it all the better. The show's cast included Marlee Matlin, the only deaf actor to ever win an acting Oscar, for her role in "Children of a Lesser God" (1986).
It is not just new shows written for ethnic casts that are making way for all actors, but also the old shows with new twists. This past year in Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, Laura Osnes was later replaced by black actress Keke Palmer. And "My Fair Lady" is trying to revive itself on Broadway next season, and there have been rumors from the producers of potentially having someone from a minority race star as Eliza Doolittle. It is very important for people, especially children, to see such traditionally white roles be played by someone of a different race, or even just seeing children of minority races on the stage. There has never been a minority actress playing Annie, but in the new musical sensations "School of Rock" and "Matilda," the students in the cast are made up of children from numerous ethnic backgrounds.
Now even though it is evident that Broadway has certainly made some great strides for diversity on the stage, of course they are nowhere near perfect. The amount of Caucasian actors compared to minorities occupying the stage is immense. Especially when it comes to Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indian actors. It seems that the only roles occupied by actors of these race are when it is necessary. Now there are more growing roles that are typically played by actors of said minority races, such as Gary and Christmas Eve in "Avenue Q" that has been playing at the New World Stages for the past year. So, even with such strides for diversity, some minority presences are still lacking on Broadway.
In 2014, "Aladdin" opened on Broadway. The cast included a black performer named James Monroe Iglehart who ended up receiving a Tony award for his performance as the Genie. The cast also included Adam Jacobs as Aladdin, Courtney Reed as Princess Jasmine, Jonathan Freemen as Jafar, and Clifton Davis as the Sultan. As the majority of people know, the story of Aladdin takes place in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah. So why did none of the stars come from a Middle-Eastern descent? Courtney Reed is of mixed ethnicity, and in a recent interview with Vanity Fair she said "It's tricky in this business, because when you're someone who's mixed ethnicity, they have a hard time putting you in certain categories, because maybe you're not Latin enough, or white enough." It is fundamentally wrong for minority actors to be judged by how much they could pull of being white, or Latino, just to get a role.
Despite some challenges, Broadway has made such tremendous improvements in the past few years about allowing more minority group actors"to have [their] names be synonymous with being on the top." Hollywood and pop culture need take a page out of Broadway's book of featuring diversity and tolerance in the spotlight.


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German Approach
The time allotted to making a decision should not be dictated by external pressure, but rather by the internal rhythm of the decision-making process.
American Approach
It is quite often better to make a suboptimal decision quickly, than to make a better decision too slow or too late. Subptimal decisions can be corrected.
German View
The American tendency to move fast in order to achieve results can become a source of confusion for Germans. They often have difficulty identifying a clear logic behind the actions taken.
What Americans would term rapid response coupled with a high level of flexibility, their German colleagues would call "Aktionismus" (actionism) or nervous movement without or at the expense of thought-through action.
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Germans take too long to make decisions. It is difficult to understand why they risk angering the customer (internal or external).
German decision making can appear rigid, and in conflict with the purpose of the decision. As if the process were more important than the decision itself. For Americans, a decision making process is a contradiction in terms. People, not processes, make decisions.
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Your operating assumption should be that you have less time at your disposal to make a good decision. Your decision making speed should be based on the time needs of whoever benefits from your decision, whoever is the receiver of your decision-making deliverable.
Advice to Americans
Be guarded against the cliché that Germans are slow in deciding. Their decisions tend to be further-reaching than the American approach. German colleagues or team leads will allow you more time to make a decision, provided your approach is methodical.
Use the additional time wisely. However, when you perceive the need to decide quickly, inform your German colleagues a.) why this is so, and b.) how a quick decision, if later proven to be suboptimal, can be corrected.


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CAN and CANopen (DS402)
Standardized device parameter access
CETONI devices are connected via the CAN bus and use the CANopen protocol for standardized access to all device parameters. Many PLC controllers, such as the devices from Beckhoff, B&R or WAGO, already have CANopen interfaces for direct connection of our devices or can be extended by CANopen capabilities via Bus Couplers.
The neMESYS Firmware Specification provides detailed information about access to the device parameters via CANopen and how to control the pump with your Beckhoff or WAGO PLC.
All our pumps have CAN and RS232 interfaces. The PLCs from Beckhoff, B&R or WAGO already have CANopen interfaces and can therefore be connected directly to the CAN interface of the neMESYS pumps.
With the appropriate adapter cable you simply connect your CETONI devices to the CAN bus of your controller. The 24V for the power supply of the CETONI devices can be connected via the two cable strands.


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So I woke up the other day and the server was making a LOT of noise. My first thought was that it was a fan going out [still think it is actually], so I tried 'fmadm faulty'. I was hoping to see something telling me which of the 8 fans were dying. Instead, I see that I was in the midst of a zpool failure.
Checking 'zpool status' I was able to verify that one of the disks had died. I'm running raid-z2, so it isn't like it was a hectic problem to solve... but I learned long ago it is better to fix it now than to wait until a couple more die.
Normally, you would have to go buy a replacement disk. Luckily for me, this Asus box never did recognize the last 3 drive bays. Counting across (there are 10 hot-swap SATAII drives -- want to make sure to pop the right one) I took a guess which one was failing and which ones were not currently in use. Luckily I was right.
Now, the "new" drive already had data on it because it used to be part of the root mirror before I upgraded them to larger drives. That being said, I was a little confused when the new drive wasn't being recognized.
this page which helped dramatically. 'cfgadm' showed that drive '6/0' was not configured. I ran 'cfgadm -c configure sata6/0'. It now showed up, but it said it was 'unavail' and 'corrupted data'. 'zpool online' didn't work because of those errors. Finally, I managed to get it to start working with 'zpool replace -f data c6t0d0'. It took quite awhile for it to finally finish. 'fmadm faulty' still showed the fault but I was able to fix that with the zpool clear that it recommended.
I'm thinking I should hook up one of my woot-off lights to flash whenever fmadm faulty shows a failure...
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09 February 2010
GXT: BorderLayout inside TabPanel
demo code directly from the site and put it verbatim inside a tab.
Since the post never showed up in the forum, I can't answer it myself so others know how to fix the problem... so it'll go here.
The BorderLayout code does the following:
Normally this would be fine. However, when embedded within the TabPanel, I had used the following line from the Tab demo:
Since the post never showed up in the forum, I can't answer it myself so others know how to fix the problem... so it'll go here.
The BorderLayout code does the following:
Size size = target.getStyleSize();
int h = size.height;
b.y = h - totalHeight + m.top;
Normally this would be fine. However, when embedded within the TabPanel, I had used the following line from the Tab demo:
setAutoHeight(true);This is actually what was causing the problem. With this set to true, the surrounding div didn't have an explicit height set and so was setting the y coordinate of the South region to 0-188+10. Removing that one line caused everything to layout as expected.
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05 February 2010
Oracle Kills Off Project Darkstar
Well, as we all expected, Oracle is not taking any time in ruining the Java platform. The latest on the chopping block? Project Darkstar. There goes at least 3 projects I had planned.
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I had a post up over on the Kuretake blog for a project for March, which is National Reading Month. So we were asked to create bookmarks. These are mine. I printed free images of little "Reading Fairies" and colored them in. I used my regular Zig Markers.
You can see more detail on the close-ups. I wanted to color to be subtle so I took a piece of a clear package that embellishments come in and used it for my "color tray". I just scribbled a circle of each color as I was using it on the package and then dipped the waterbrush into it. That way I could totally control the color and shading.
I found the little boy fairy first, then later found the girl and did one with ehr as well! They're so cute!!!
Here you can see the detail on her. I used really pastel colors on these. I only added minimal embellies also!
These wre really fun to do, I plan on doing more watercoloring this way! One of my favorite things to do growing up was to color, so this just reminds me of being a kid again!!!
Products used:
WorldWin Treasures cardstock
Kuretake Zig Writers (various colors)
Kuretake Zig Waterbrush
Prima blooms
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Following the success of Go the F**k to Sleep, Confessions of a Scary Mommy, and Ketchup Is a Vegetable, a collection of funny, warm, and charmingly profane tales from the frontlines of parenthood by the author of the popular Baby Sideburns blog.
Once upon a time you and your partner had a perfect life: dinners out, weekend mornings cuddling in bed, brunch with friends. Then you gave birth to a poop machine (or two). Now, it's all about the pediatrician, breast pumps, princess dresses, and minivans. And discovering that your pride and joy is actually a little A-hole.
When your son wakes you up at 3:00 A.M. because he wants to watch Caillou, he's an a-hole. When your daughter outlines every corner of your living room with a purple crayon, she's an a-hole. When your rug rats purposely paint the kitchen ceiling with their smoothies, they're a-holes. At times like these, it's only natural to want to kill them (or yourself). But it's against the law (and there's the suicide hotline). Plus, there's that whole loving them more than anything in the whole world thing.
In I Heart My Little A-Holes, Karen Alpert shares hilarious stories, lists, and deep thoughts on the joys and horrors of raising children. Accompanied by cheery illustrations and photos I Heart My Little A-Holes will make you laugh so hard you'll wish you were wearing a diaper.
KIDS SUCK. YUP, I JUST said that. What'd you think the first words of a book called I Heart My Little A-Holes were gonna be? Kids are awesome? Well, they're awesome too. For like a bazillion reasons. In fact, I LOVE kids. But this book isn't about that. If you want to hear alllllll the good shit about kids, go to Facebook or Pinterest where 99.99999999% of the stuff you see is all hunky-dory and smiling kiddos and unicorns and rainbows and perfect shit like that. If you want to hear some hilarious stories about the honest, messy, scary, shocking, brutal side of parenting, I'll give it to you no-holds-barred.
I'm Karen Alpert. A totally lame, ponytail-wearing stay-at-home-mom who likes to wear fat pants and drink Hershey's syrup straight out of the bottle while I'm cooking dinner. And by cooking I mean heating up chicken nuggets in the microwave. I'm married to a guy named Greg, the love of my life, who farts way too much and eats too loudly until I give him subtle dirty looks. And we have two rug rats. Zoey is four and a half. And Holden is just over two. They both F'ing rock and I love them to pieces, but they also do a lot of shit that drives me crazy and makes me want to stab my eardrums out with an ice pick on a daily hourly minutely basis. Like right now as I type this, Holden is whacking the refrigerator with a plastic golf club over and over and over again. Agggghh, WHYYYY?!
A few years ago I started this blog called Baby Sideburns. I had a lot to vent about. Plus, I didn't want to be like the only mom in the whole wide world who didn't have a blog. My first post was about the time my infant daughter shat her brains out in the library and I forgot the diaper bag. Yes, shat is the past tense of shit. I checked Webster's. I shit you not. And now that I typed that, I shat you not.
So I started writing my blog, and guess what. My mommy friends liked it! They were like holy shit, I'm not the only one who thinks raising kids is like crazy hard and sucks sometimes. And then some of their friends started reading my blog too. And then some strangers. Until the whole world was reading it. Well, not the whole world, but a lot of people. So I decided to write this book. I apologize if there are any grease/chocolate/poop stains on it. Taking care of two rug rats and writing a book at the same time is no easy task.
But despite the stains, apparently I did a good job. Readers are loving it and telling me it makes them laugh until they pee in their pants a little. At least that's what they're saying. I didn't actually check their pants to see. But if you believe them, you might want to put on a diaper before you go any further. Or read this book on the toilet.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot (total lie), it's also been a bestseller on Amazon and it made the New York Times bestseller list the first week it was out. I'm still waiting to get an e-mail telling me that was a typo. Until then I'm wearing that badge proudly, which basically means whenever I walk into a Starbucks, I shout loudly, "I'm a New York Times bestselling author!" and people look at me like I'm insane. Which I am a little, so I guess that's okay.
But I digress. I'm like the world's best digresser ever. Woo-hoooo, I'm good at something! Anyway, I hope you read this and laugh your ass off (literally if your ass is as big as mine) and relate to some of it. That way I'll know I'm not the only one who thinks about killing her kids on a daily basis. Not really. But kinda.
SO YOU'VE JUST WALKED INTO the mega-ginormous, totally intimidating baby store for the first time ever and one of the employees (who either had a lobotomy or needs one) hands you this little booklet that has a list of allllllllllll the shit you're going to need for the upcoming arrival of your little poop machine.
And that's where the fun begins. And by fun I mean the crazy torture of going up and down each and every aisle, trying to figure out whether you need F'ing nipple shields or Butt paste. The correct answer is yes and yes.
With that said, man did we buy a lot of crap for baby #1. Baby #2, on the other hand, got all hand-me-downs. Yup, every single little thing. Well, not the diapers, but just because we use disposables. I don't care how good cloth diapers are for the environment, there ain't no way I'm putting poop into my washing machine. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Except for the fact that you're putting poop into your washing machine. But I digress.
So here goes. A bunch of shit I bought when I was having a baby that I now know was a total waste:
1. A fancy bedding set
Like two seconds after you tear open your fancy bedding package a BabyCenter e-mail appears in your in-box. Ding! Bumpers killed nine million babies last year (FYI, I like to exaggerate, it was only like seven million). Okay then, no problemo, you just won't use the bumpers. And then you're reading your What to Expect book and it tells you what to expect in the first year: expect your baby to die if you put a blanket in his crib. Okay then, you'll just throw the quilt on the back of the nursing chair for decoration, which totally doesn't work because then your head is all shoved forward when you sit in the chair. So basically you've just spent a bazillion dollars on a single fitted crib sheet. A single sheet that is about to be destroyed when your newborn poops his brains out the first night home from the hospital. And I don't care how much Shout you use, that shit stain ain't coming out. So you have two choices: (a) don't buy the totally adorable bedding set to begin with, or (b) buy a set with a lovely brown amoeba pattern all over it so the shit stains blend in.
2. Clothes that go over a newborn's head
Have you ever tried to put clothes on a newborn? F'ing impossible. You're all like my new baby has a really strong neck until you're pulling that really cute onesie over her head to take her home from the hospital and suddenly her neck is like Jell-O and her head falls off and you're screaming,
NURSE, NURSE!, and she's walking in all cool and collected like they see this shit all the time. Well, at least that cute leopard-print onesie with the Burberry trim is soooo adorable maybe no one will notice that your child is headless.
3. A wipes warmer
Yeahhh, that's what you want to do, let baby get used to having his royal ass cleaned with a wipe that's been heated to the perfect temperature. 'Cause then do you know what happens? You're out in public, trying to change his diaper, and he throws a conniption because your wipes in the diaper bag are freezing and his ass has turned into a total pussy (wait, that's not right). Besides, do you think someone like the Fonz had warm wipes when he was a tike (tyke?)? No way, no how. Because people who have warm wipes as infants turn into douche bags. No, I don't have any examples, but it seems pretty damn obvious. So unless your mum is Kate F'ing Middleton, no one's heating your stupid wipes.
4. Shoes for your newborn
Newsflash: babies can't walk. Plus, if you stare really hard at your baby's feet you can literally see them growing, kind of like how if you stare really hard at a clock without blinking you can see the minute hand moving. So basically putting a newborn's growing feet in shoes is akin to Chinese foot binding. Yes, I know those two-inch Air Jordans are like the cutest things in the whole wide world but maybe I forgot to mention, BABIES CAN'T WALK much less dunk a basketball. Except maybe those roller-skating Evian babies.
5. Expensive baby clothes
This one's pretty much the same as the last part of #1. Just buy a lot of cheap shit from Tarjay or, once again, buy everything with a brown amoeba pattern on it.
6. A fancy stroller
If you're the kind of person who bought your house outright without a mortgage, I hate you. Wait, no, that's not what I meant to say. If you're that kind of person, by all means, buy a fancy-delancy stroller. I remember standing in the middle of a high-end toy store while a woman half my size demonstrated the Bugabooger to me.
Push this button, then this one and voilà it's so compact it fits in the palm of your hand. And then I remember this. Standing in the middle of the F'ing parking lot at Babies
R Us and I couldn't get my damn fancy stroller to collapse because it had like nine thousand doodads and buttons and levers and thingamajigs. These days I'm like just give me a simple umbrella stroller, and if I want something fancier I'll buy it for half the price on Craigslist. You know, in case I decide to chuck it across the parking lot and then drive over it with my minivan.
7. A baby bathtub
Guess what, your house already came with one. WHAT?! The Realtor didn't tell you?!! Hello, brainiac, it's called a sink. But wait, my sink doesn't look like a cute whale or a duck! No, it doesn't. But it also doesn't cost an extra $30. Or come in a weird-ass shape that doesn't fit in any logical place in your bathroom. And guess what, your kiddo's not thinking,
It's not fair. Javier down the street has a bathtub that looks like a turtle and I don't. All he's thinking is,
Aggghhh, who the fuck is pouring goddamn water on my head?! I'm gonna scream as loud as humanly possible until they stop!
8. Car seats
I mean, WTF is it with everyone getting these things?! Nahhhh, just kidding. Seriously, I'm kidding. Awww, shit, how many people just read this and stopped reading because they hate me now? Definitely buy a car seat.
9. The Bumbo seat
There are all these companies out there that make stupid products to help your kid hit some milestone they're gonna hit anyway, like the Bumbo. In case you don't know, this is a little seat that props your kid up before he can actually sit up on his own. You're gonna hear all these jackasses, I mean really nice moms, say that their kiddo wasn't sitting up and then she got him the Bumbo and whatta you know, two weeks later the kid was sitting up. All because of this magic chair. Ennhhh, wrong. Your kid is sitting up now because he's two weeks older. Not because you forced him to use his Bumbo and work his muscles into a damn six-pack. Who do you think you are, Jillian Michaels?
10. Pee-pee Teepees
FYI, Pee-pee Teepees are just a cute present people buy because their gift came to only $15 and they needed a $5 item to make it expensive enough. Oh, and they're always people who never had a boy so they have no idea that Pee-pee Teepees don't stay on, but of course, you never realize it's fallen off until your kid starts spraying you with urine and some of it gets in your mouth.
Are you F'ing kidding me? You wake up screaming at three fifteen in the morning and need to be rocked back to sleep for like thirty minutes, but you can fall asleep in Downward Dog or whatever the F yoga pose this is right before lunch? Kid, you're cute, but you suck.
HOW DID YOU FIND OUT you were preggers? Most people pee on a stick and wait for it to show two blue lines, but the second blue line has to be as dark or darker than the first, and the longer you stare at it the more you wonder whether it really is darker or whether your mind is just playing tricks on you. That's the way I found out the first time, when I was preggers with Zoey. But not the second.
There I was, standing in my closet, when suddenly I noticed something. That's weird, my boobs are leaking. Got milk? Yup! All I needed now were some Oreo cookies. I know you're probably thinking,
Big whoop, my boobs gushed like Old Faithful when I was breast-feeding. But here's the thing. I had stopped breast-feeding Zoey over eight months ago. Eight months!!! So why the hell were my nipples leaking?
As I was standing there, staring at my leaky boobs, wondering whether I needed to call an F'ing plumber, I had a guess about what might be going on. And then four positive pregnancy tests later, I was positive. Yup, I was preggers.


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The IRSAC Wage & Investment Subgroup (hereafter "Subgroup") is comprised of a diverse group of tax professionals, including three certified public accountants, two enrolled agents, an attorney, and a national tax director of a large retired-person organization. This group brings a broad range of experience and perspective from both tax preparers' and taxpayers' views, and includes unique experience in the issues faced by many W&I taxpayers. We have been honored to serve on the IRS Advisory Council and appreciate the opportunity to submit this report.
The Subgroup would like to thank W&I Commissioner Richard Byrd for his recognition of the value of the Subgroup as an integral part of his leadership team. Commissioner Byrd and the W&I senior leadership team met extensively with the Subgroup in August 2009. The Subgroup has had the privilege of working with the professionals within the W&I Division of the IRS and found them to be extremely helpful in providing the information, resources, and IRS personnel necessary to develop our report. The Subgroup has researched and is reporting on the following four issues.
- Tax Professionals Visiting Taxpayer Assistance Centers for Assistance - Tax Professionals routinely visit IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TAC) for services that can be provided more efficiently via Internet, telephone, or mail (e.g. tax return transcripts, tax forms & publications, delivery of payments & returns). This diverts TAC resources from serving individual taxpayers seeking face-to-face assistance who may not have access to other options. Overall capacity to service taxpayers is dependent on available resources (on-site staffing). As a result, wait times for service fluctuate and are often difficult to control.
- Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs) - Publication 590 discusses personal savings plans that provide tax advantages for setting aside money for retirement. The publication is over 100 pages and covers a wide range of information regarding IRAs (traditional, Roth, and SIMPLE) and outlines penalties and additional taxes that may apply when the rules are not followed. The IRS has made every effort to include all necessary information in an easy-to-use format. However, in-depth research into the Publication's audience, including what IRA information taxpayers want and when they want it, has not been captured.
- Use of the Interactive Tax Law Tool on IRS.gov by Taxpayers - In FY 2008, IRS received 4.6M telephone calls from taxpayers who were seeking tax law information for completing their federal tax return. Studies show that one of the most cost-effective channels to deliver information is over the Internet. Customer Online Decision Support Release 2—which has been renamed Interactive Tax Assistant (ITA)—will allow taxpayers to use an interactive on-line question and answer tool to resolve their individual tax law inquiry. We want to ensure that the ITA interface on IRS.gov is user friendly so taxpayers are willing to use the tool.
- Automated Collection Systems (ACS) Telephone Navigation - The primary method customers use to contact ACS is through their toll-free telephone number. W&I ACS handles over two million calls annually. ACS conducts customer satisfaction surveys on a random sampling of these contacts at their conclusion. The results of these surveys are used to measure the overall ACS customer satisfaction. While the overall ACS customer satisfaction is high, two questions regarding telephone navigation consistently receive high dissatisfaction scores. These questions are related to the ease of understanding the automated self-service menus and instructions, as well as the time it takes to get through to the IRS.
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IRSAC was asked to assist the IRS in dealing with tax professionals who routinely visit IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) for services that can be provided more efficiently via the Internet, telephone, or mail (e.g. tax return transcripts, tax forms & publications, delivery of payments & filing of returns).
The IRS believes that professionals routinely visit IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TAC) for services that can be provided more efficiently via the Internet, telephone, or mail (e.g. tax return transcripts, tax forms & publications, delivery of payments & filing of returns). The use of the TACs by professionals diverts TAC resources from serving individual taxpayers seeking face-to-face assistance who may not have access to other options. Overall capacity to service taxpayers is dependent on available resources (on-site staffing). As a result, wait times for service fluctuate and are often difficult to control.
TACs see an increase in customer traffic from taxpayers during the filing season, with a corresponding increase in practitioner visits during the April 15th and October 15th filing due dates. Tax professionals use the TACs during this time to submit multiple returns, extensions and payments. This diverts employee resources from being able to assist individuals needing return preparation or other services.
The IRS does not track practitioner visits; however, they locally make arrangements for filing bulk returns on or around the dates mentioned in TACs that traditionally experience increased volumes.
A Customer Satisfaction Survey is distributed at the TACs through use of a survey card; however, the card does not identify the customer as a tax professional and does not ask why they are using the TACs instead of other available services.
Our informal contacts with one TAC and with several practitioner groups indicate that the use of TACs by tax professionals might no longer be a major concern due to increased use of the e-services and the Practitioner Priority Service (sometimes referred to as the Practitioner Hotline). The Subgroup recently visited a TAC to observe its processes. Our discussion with the manager confirmed that tax professionals using TACs might not be an issue for all TACs. The downtown TAC that the Subgroup visited does not see as many professionals as does a nearby suburban location with better parking.
The usage of the Practitioner Priority Service by professionals is increasing. The best measure of usage is summarized by the number of calls answered. From fiscal year 2006 to 2008 calls answered increased by 28%, from 992,724 to 1,267,191. Through May 16, 2009, calls totaled 799,736. Satisfaction with the Practitioner Priority Service has been very high based on surveys completed by users.
The IRS Web site, IRS.gov, lists "Contact My Local Office" as an IRS resource for both individuals and tax professionals. The information provided is the same for both types of users.
The IRS' Nationwide Tax Forums are attended by thousands of practitioners annually. Past presentations have covered tools available to resolve issues, but have not strongly discouraged using the TACs. A 2008 presentation entitled "IRS Services: File, Pay, and More" highlighted services available at TACs such as transcripts, payments, account/adjustments, and W-7/ITIN. The presentation suggested using e-services first, but did not discourage use of the TACs. We reviewed the types of issues handled at the Case Resolution Rooms at the Nationwide Tax Forums. The majority of the cases involved complicated issues more likely to require in-person contact. A very small percentage consisted of routine requests such as transcript requests and account inquiries. This indicates that the requests for in-person assistance by tax professionals were appropriate.
- Determine if practitioner use of the TACs is still an ongoing problem based on actual visits by inserting two questions into the survey card: A) Is the customer a tax professional? B) If a professional, what is the purpose of the visit to the TAC?
- Distinguish the "Contact My Local Office" page in the Tax Professionals Section from the similar page in the Individual Section by emphasizing the advantages of using services available through the Web site and through the Practitioner Priority Line and outline the services available.
- Conduct a presentation at the IRS Nationwide Tax Forums on a topic such as "We'll miss you, but we really don't need to see you." The presentation should cover specific examples of the issues that practitioners bring to the TACs and provide better ways to resolve them.
- Continue to promote e-services and the Practitioner Priority Line in e-News for Tax Professionals and in meetings with practitioner groups.
- Provide Publication 4389, "e-Services Brochure," to tax professionals visiting TACs and develop a tax professional brochure with all of the available services that can be obtained through IRS.gov.
- Display notices at TACs that specifically provide tax professionals with alternative resources available on IRS.gov.
- Schedule problem-solving days (Solution Saturday is currently in place. One is scheduled for November 7, 2009, at five different locations). Consider expanding Solution Saturday to every TAC and on additional days throughout the year.
ISSUE TWO: PUBLICATION 590, "INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENTS (IRAs)"
Executive Summary
IRSAC was asked to assist the IRS in reviewing Publication 590, "Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs)" for clarity and ease of use. An August 2008 GAO report found the publication complex with respect to the requirements for distribution rules and explanations for the calculations used. Additionally, the W&I division wants to determine who requests the publication. W&I is concerned the publication is too long and should be shortened.
Publication 590 discusses personal savings plans that provide tax advantages for setting aside money for retirement. The publication is over 100 pages and covers a wide range of information regarding IRAs (Traditional, Roth, and SIMPLE), Disaster-Related Relief and Retirement Savings Contributions Credits (Saver's Credit). The publication explains the rules for setting up an IRA, Roth or SIMPLE plan, contributing to it, transferring money or property to and from it, handling an inherited IRA, receiving distributions and taking a credit for contributions to such plans. It also outlines penalties and additional taxes that may apply when the rules are not followed.
The IRS has made every effort to include all necessary information in an easy to-read format. However, there is too much ambiguity in the current text. Some minor information, such as "When can a traditional IRA be set up?" does not need to be a separate section, and could be incorporated into the discussion of "Where you can open an account?" or "When you can contribute?" Other information is unnecessary or confusing. For example, page 4 of the 2008 Publication 590 tells the taxpayer not to report IRA interest as tax-exempt interest. This begs the question – where do you report it? The text does not say that the taxpayer does not report it at all, of course. This could be incorporated into a discussion of deferral.
The tax rules on this topic are complex, which makes the publication difficult to read, even as you try to simplify this publication. Many third parties have developed helpful tools that are referenced by many professionals including financial planners, pension companies, tax professionals and accountants. We have provided multiple well-done examples to the IRS team working on Publication 590. The 2008 Publication 590 says property cannot be contributed, but continually references property as a contribution throughout the 2008 publication (pages 12, 25, 26, 27, 49, 53, etc.). In-depth research into the publication's audience, including what IRA information taxpayers want and when they want it, has not yet been captured.
- Incorporate more tables, text charts and flow charts that show comparisons between Traditional, Roth and other IRA plans.
- Create a flow chart which could be particularly helpful in the area, "When you Must Withdraw Assets" for owners, spouses, designation beneficiary and beneficiaries who are not individuals.
- Develop a web-based "Required Minimum Distribution" calculator to eliminate the complication of multiple reference charts each with important requirements, as well as the potential of significant confusion of 70½-year-old taxpayers with multiple IRAs.
- Solicit feedback from professional groups who work with the publication. We believe the publication is more widely used by professionals seeking IRS information, especially those in the pension, benefits and investment fields. A list of some of these professional organizations was provided to the appropriate IRS personnel. Additionally, many of these organizations train and test new professionals in these fields, and Publication 590 is used in this learning environment. Feedback from members in these groups and, especially, students who use the publication to study IRA areas could help identify especially tough or unclear topics for the IRS to review for clarity in Publication 590.
- Develop a feedback mechanism via the Internet and IRS.gov from Publication 590 users, especially those with lingering questions. This could help the IRS identify ambiguous areas of Publication 590 needing review and clarification.
- Delete the "What's New" sections in each subsection (Traditional, Roth, SIMPLE, etc.). Eliminate duplication of text, especially since it is noted in the appropriate text within the subsections. Consider including "What's New" before the text identifying new content to highlight that the item is new within each section.
- Develop a repeated grouping of "who, what, when and how" within the subsections.
- Create a frequent errors section, to address common errors often reported on tax returns and/or provide an IRA checklist for taxpayers to review before submitting returns.
- Introduce more plain language, e.g. instead of "set up" an IRA, which sounds hard and vague, use "open an IRA account" instead. Clarify the definition of "Active Participant."
- Include the very special interest sections (veterans, disaster areas, volunteer firefighters, etc.) in an appendix in the back of Publication 590, to keep the text focused on the majority of situations.
- Provide better clarification on whether property can or cannot be contributed.
- Clarify the text on recharacterizations on page 30 of the 2008 Publication 590, which is especially confusing.
Executive Summary
IRSAC was asked to make recommendations on how the IRS can design the Interactive Tax Law Assistant/Customer Online Decision Support Release 2, now called Interactive Tax Assistant (hereafter "ITA"), interface to be more user-friendly. Additionally, IRS asked IRSAC to assist the IRS by studying and researching other interactive online tools and identifying ways IRS can ensure the tools it is creating will be easy for taxpayers to use.
Interactive Tax Law Assistant is an interactive tool used by IRS assistors on the toll-free Customer Assistance Service telephone lines and the assistors at the Tax Assistance Centers to provide taxpayers with answers to some tax questions. This tool is currently available only to IRS employees. The IRS is working with outside contractors to develop ITA for use by taxpayers and representatives. The goal is a publicly-available, interactive program of tax law questions and answers and decision trees in plain English to direct the public to the web as an alternative to calling the IRS. The desired result is better-educated taxpayers leading to increased compliance. It may be difficult to measure the positive effect of this tool.
There are currently 114 Tax Law Categories (TLCs) available to IRS telephone assistors. IRSAC provided a list of recommended TLCs to be included in the initial public rollout of ITA based on IRSAC member experience. Members of the W&I sub-group met with members of the project team at each of its 2009 meetings.
The initial process to launch TLCs on ITA involves:
- selecting the first group of TLCs to convert;
- converting the TLCs to plain language;
- reviewing the program by IRS subject matter experts;
- reviewing by IRS for policy, procedures and guidance; and
- testing by a small group of practitioners.
ITA is similar to an IRS online tool called Tax Trails, which is currently available to the public on IRS.gov. ITA is different from Tax Trails because of the interactive nature of questioning to assist a taxpayer with tax law questions. There are currently 37 questions/topics (links) on Tax Trails. Some of the Tax Trail links pose one or more questions that must be answered yes or no. Many of the Tax Trail links provide a list of suggested IRS publications, form instructions, "Tax Topics," or other parts of IRS.gov, not to interactive questions and answers. When a TLC is available on ITA, the Tax Trail link will be removed.
- Change the language on the ITA home page to "Get Answers to Some of the Most Frequently Asked Tax Law Questions."
- Promote ITA as a valuable taxpayer tool.
- Mark all answers with an "accurate as of (date)" so that the user knows that the information is accurate and current.
- Link all answers to the appropriate section of the most specific IRS publication where the taxpayer can obtain more information.
- Replace all words not in common usage, such as "abode" with the more common word, "home."
- Include "do not know" or "unsure" as an additional choice in addition to "yes" or "no" where appropriate, and provide a link to explanatory information so that the user can answer "yes" or "no."
- Provide the taxpayer with alternatives to finding the answer where ITA cannot determine the correct answer.
- Provide a "back" or previous link on every screen allowing the user to go back to the previous screen.
- Provide the ability to print the questions asked and the answers given that were used to determine the final outcome, the printout date and the ability to save as a PDF document.
- Introduce the ITA tool with a statement such as, "These questions are the same questions you would be asked if you called an IRS telephone assistor."
- Consider converting the interactive Tax Trails TLCs to the ITA format early in the process, as these topics are already in plain English and have been vetted by IRS subject matter experts.
- Review the TLCs currently in the development stage to use the language in the existing Tax Trail TLC for appropriate language.
- Make dedicated computer terminals with printers connected to ITA available at Taxpayer Assistance Centers, libraries and, possibly, kiosks in shopping malls.
- List Publication 17 as a referral source wherever referral sources are listed.
- List information (points) as bullets rather than in a paragraph layout.
- Move the dropdown menu with the answer choices to the left side of each screen to line up with the "Continue" – "Review" – "Start Over" links.
- Add a "Start New Topic" link at the bottom of each screen.
- BOLD the answers on the "Review Answers" page and the printout.
- Move the "Print" option to just below the last answer.
- Move the Survey questions to just below the "Print" option.
- Provide links to all words requiring definitions.
- Provide a statement above the print link that if a taxpayer uses ITA and retains a copy of the questions and answers, relief from penalties would be available if the answers accurately reflect the facts of the taxpayer's situation.
Executive Summary
The W&I Division of the IRS has asked IRSAC to provide recommendations to improve the efficiency of the Automated Collection Systems (ACS) toll-free telephone service. Research shows overall high satisfaction, but pockets of dissatisfaction relating to ease of understanding, complexity of the system, and wait time persist. IRSAC believes the recommendations below may help ameliorate these problems.
The IRS toll-free numbers (1-800-829-1040 and ACS-specific numbers such as 1-800-829-3903, -0115, and others) are the primary entry points for customers to contact the collection function housed in the Automated Collection System (ACS). The ACS system handles over two million calls annually. Of these, 82% wind up being routed to a live agent and 14% result in hanging up before completion. Only 4% of the calls result in the caller's obtaining the requested information electronically and without agent assistance. The telephone script includes six options: payoff amount, obtain a credit or payment received, obtain balance due, obtain a debit or amount charged, PIN maintenance, and obtain a transcript. Of these, 64% of calls request the balance due, 16% request a debit review, 12% payoff, 4% transcript, 3% information on credits, and 1% PIN maintenance.
In the Balance Due module, 25% of calls fail because of account restrictions (e.g., manual computations may be necessary) and 10% fail because customers have delinquent returns. In this module, 90% cannot be or are not completed and are, therefore, routed to a live agent.
ACS customer satisfaction surveys (based on random sampling of these contacts at their conclusion), while showing overall high customer satisfaction, also reveal that customers consistently register high dissatisfaction responses on (1) the ease of understanding the automated self-service menus, (2) complexity of instructions, and (3) the wait time to get through to the IRS.
The W&I Division of IRS expressed the desire to improve service by providing more user-friendly modules to improve its success rate on call completions. To assist W&I, IRSAC makes the following recommendations.
- State the expected wait time at the start of the call, and then state the six available services (modules).
- Redirect the caller to a dedicated telephone number (or "touch 1 to transfer") if the call pertains to Voice Balance inquiry (64% of calls). State the dedicated number when the switch is made. Use the same technique for other modules if research reveals this would result in faster service.
- Replace the hold music with wait-time information callers will need to improve the efficiency of the call, such as: redirecting callers to IRS.gov, information on offers in compromise, phishing warnings, paying taxes with credit cards or EFTPS, and the basics of financial information for an installment agreement.
- Provide callers with a confirmation number, so that they can speak with the same agent on the next call (if necessary) on the same topic. Save more of the caller's information that is provided during the first call so the information can be used if the caller is transferred elsewhere within the IRS telephone response system.
- For "automated installment agreement" calls, save the caller's input for 5 business days, and provide a confirmation number or tie-in to the social security number for easy access and to ensure the caller who uses this automated installment agreement system achieves the same result as a call to a live agent. Provide this caller with a choice to "start new" or "resume last session."
- Implement the "My IRS Account" rollout on the web, which would address the 64% of calls that pertain to balances due.
- Create a paper tri-fold stuffer (to be mailed with the first collection notice) that is function-specific and includes the ACS applications available to the caller. Each face of the tri-fold document could feature a different ACS option, emphasizing the electronic options. Most importantly, stress the user-friendliness of the Forms 433-A "Collection Information Statement for Wage Earners and Self-Employed Individuals," 433-F "Collection Information Statement," and 433-B "Collection Information Statement for Business" on IRS.gov, and the time that pre-completion of these forms could save the caller.


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It's hard to make pan-fried pork mince look good. But I think that's its only downside. It's so tasty, cheap and you can pick up extra-lean packs, which make you feel pretty saintly.
Having said that, when I whooped "isn't pork mince great?!" Thomas thought about it quite seriously, and replied "mm…well, it's not in my top five types of meat." But I know him well enough, and I recognised his expression of concentration, to know that he was struggling to rank 'rib eye steak, leg of venison, fillet of beef…' in his head.
Eating rib eye steak, leg of venison and fillet of beef every night would not only be phenomenally expensive, but would surely encourage the early onset of gout. So, when you're looking to switch it up, this is a very quick and quite cheap meal which is very easy to scale up if others come over. Enjoyably salty, with some lovely, big flavours. Perfect for a mid-week dinner.
Recipe: Spicy Thai Pork, serves 1 (easily scalable)
75g rice (I used Basmati, but a sticky sushi rice is best for eating with your hands)
Splash of oil
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
3 green chillies, sliced
200g pork mince
1 tbsp of fish sauce
1 tsp of soy sauce
To Serve
Lime, a big wedge
Coriander, roughly chopped
Baby Cos Lettuce, leaves torn off
Optional crispy fried shallots (I have a lovely tub from Longdan Chinese)
Optional peanuts, crushed with a rolling pin
Optional mint, roughly chopped
Optional sesame seeds
1. Cook the rice as per instructions on the packet.
2. Heat the oil in a frying pan, and gently fry the garlic and chillies. Add the pork mince. Use a wooden spoon to roughly break it up pork mince, and move it around the pan, so that it cooks all over.
3. After 3-4 minutes of cooking, add the fish sauce and soy. Stir in the pan for 30 seconds so the meat is coated in the juices.
4. Use a slotted spoon to take the pork from the pan, put in a serving bowl and generously garnish with the coriander/mint/crispy-fried shallots/peanuts/sesame seeds/lime
5. Put the cooked rice in rice bowls, and serve with any other condiments you fancy (I had some leftover Sarah Raven chilli tomato jam – a superb recipe!), and also the lettuce leaves.
6. Use the lettuce leaf as a vehicle. Put in a spoonful of the pork, a spoonful of the rice, and a blob of whatever condiment you fancy into the lettuce leaf, and merrily shovel it into your mouth.


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Rachel + Jared Wedding Day
Rachel and Jared's wedding weekend started out at sunset, at the top of Camp Chen-A-Wanda. Rachel and her family selected the location since Rachel and her sister spent summertime there when they were younger. A blustery fall day was filled with morning activities around the camp.
In the early evening all the guests gathered on the shores of Fiddle Lake amidst a ten second spritz of rain as the setting sun shined through upon the ceremony entrance. There was not a moment of idleness until their sparkler sendoff in the wee hours of Sunday morning.


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Although the Samsung #GalaxyS5 is one of the top Android smartphones out in the market today with a powerful hardware configuration it is still not immune from a variety of problems. One such problem that you may encounter with the device is the #S5 freezing issues. This is characterized by your phone freezing or not responding to your touch input when using certain apps. While this problem is mostly caused by a glitch in the software there are some cases where the phone hardware is the cause.
In this latest installment of our troubleshooting series we have selected six problems sent to us by our readers seeking our assistance. We will come up with a solution to each of the problems which we hope will lead to a resolution.
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S5 Freezes After Upgrading To Lollipop
Problem: When I turn on device from the lock screen (cm locker) it takes time to load up. Once loaded up it freezes, won't let exit out of whatever app I'm using. While watching videos and i rewind/fast forward the video freezes, sound is coming from my device, the status bar is moving, as if the video is playing, but the screen is frozen. This all started after I upgraded to the lollipop that was recently automatically updated on my phone. Before that, while using the kit kat my phone is just fine.
Solution: If your phone worked perfectly fine when it was running on KitKat but then manifests the freezing issues immediately after you upgraded to Lollipop then the upgrade may be causing this to happen. In most cases when issues occur after a major software upgrade the problem is caused by old system software data that has not been completely removed. This means that your phone may still have some data leftover from the KitKat version which is now causing a conflict with the Lollipop version.
To resolve this issue you should back up your phone data then do a factory reset.
S5 Freezes When Display Gets Wet
Problem: I work in the heat (inside) in sales and always on the phone. EVERY time I answer the phone, sweat from my face is left on the screen. I have to wipe it clean each and every time. Once the call ends, I can't search, move the screen at all. It will freeze up or starts doing its own think, like moving / calling people from the contact or call list. PLEASE HELP!
Solution: This problem is most likely caused by your sweat coming in contact with the display. Even if you wipe it clean there may still be some moisture left on the display which causes your phone to seem to freeze or randomly open certain functions on your device. I suggest wiping your phone using a microfiber cloth each time you end a call since this absorbs the most liquid and will not scratch your display.
Alternatively, you should also try to make your immediate surrounding cool so as to minimize your perspiration when on a call.
S5 Freezes After Getting Moisture
Problem: I have my Samsung S5. When I wake up my phone is wet with moist of the aircon. But I did not give attention on that because still working.. And I thought not get wet inside.. And later on my phone get die while I'm using it.. And it open again but just in logo of Samsung.. And I can't use it because it freeze.. I try to open again.. But still again and again and. but now it goes to pin code but I can't touch or put pin code because it freeze. So I need to take out charger in order to turn off.. Can u help me what should I do? is there anything i can do to make it work? Thank you.
Solution: What you need to do first is to completely dry your phone since it appears there may be moisture inside it. You need to take out the battery, SIM card, and microSD card if your phone has one. Bury your phone in a bowl full of rice for at least 48 hours. The rice acts as an absorbent and will absorb the moisture from your phone. Alternatively, if you have a couple of packets of silica gel available you can place this in a jar with your phone then cover the jar.
Once the 48 hours have passed take out your phone then reinsert the SIM card, microSD and battery. Turn on your phone. If everything goes well you should be able to use your phone now without any issues.
To prevent this issue from happening again make sure that the aircon is set in such a way that it does not cause moisture in the room. You should raise its temperature the next time.
S5 Freezes When MicroSD Card Is Inserted
Problem: Every time I put an sd card into the phone, it freezes, shuts down and gets stuck on a restart loop. I've bought a brand new Samsung sd card hoping it might be a fault with the old one but the same thing happened.
Solution: If the issue does not occur when your phone does not have a microSD card installed then the card may be triggering the problem. You did a good job in replacing the microSD card to isolate if it was the cause of the problem. Unfortunately in this case, the issue still persists with the new microSD. One other thing that you should also do is to insert your microSD card and the new Samsung card you bought to another phone and see if a problem occurs with this other phone. This way you can further verify if the problem is with the microSD card or not.
Once you have isolated the microSD card the next step is to check the microSD card slot of your phone. It may be a little difficult to inspect but what you should only look out for is if the contacts are deformed or if there is any dirt or lint present. If the contacts are deformed then you should bring your phone to an authorized service center. If you spot any dirt or lint then you can clean this out using compressed air or a toothpick.
If the microSD card slot of your phone appears to be normal then the next step is to check if the phone software is causing this problem. To do this you need to back up your phone data then do a factory reset. Once the factory reset has finished insert your microSD card then check if the issue still occurs.
If the problem remains then I suggest you bring your phone to an authorized service center for further checking as this may already be a hardware related issue.
S5 Freezes After Lollipop Update
Problem: Recently I was pushed the most recent Lollipop update. Overall phone performs well and it helps in certain cases (camera, organization, etc.). However, the phone locks periodically (every 4-6 hours). When it locks it no longer charges, the screen freezes (usually on lock page or home screen as I was not using it) and I can't do anything but a soft reset and remove battery. I've done a backup and done factory reset (through menu path) – and it has not helped. Very annoying. AT&T chat has been useless – and it is not a hardware issue (since phone was fine until last week). Thanks for any insight.
Solution: It is very likely that the software upgrade is causing this problem. In most cases though, a factory reset will resolve this issue which in this case it hasn't. Try doing another round of factory reset but this time do it using the hardware keys. Make sure to back up your data before doing this procedure. After the factory reset do not install any apps just yet. Observe your phone for a day or two and see if it freezes. If it doesn't freeze then the problem may be caused by an app that you installed. You will need to find out what app is causing the problem through a trial and error method. You can do this by installing an app one at a time. After every app installation observe your phone if the problem still occurs. This procedure may take some time to finish but it is the most thorough an accurate way to pinpoint the root cause of the problem.
S5 Freezes When Keyboard Is Used
Problem: Hi, Earlier this week I faced an issue whenever I opened any app that needed to use my keyboard, the screen would freeze. It would stay frozen for a good 5 mins. Being frustated I would press the home button, that was also unresponsive. I did a soft reset, and cleared out the phone's cache, but nothing helped. I ended up having to do a hard reset. Is there anyway you can help me out just in case this happens again? Thanks
Solution: It's good to know that the factory reset helped resolve the issue. If the problem occurs again you should try clearing the cache and data of the keyboard app as this may be the cause of your phone freezing. Keeping your software up to date by checking if there are any new updates is also one way of preventing this issue from occurring again. The updates usually comes with improvements and bug fixes that might address this particular issue.
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