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The UFC finalized UFC 101 which will take place at the Wachovia Center in Phiadelphia and former middleweight contender Thales Leites has fallen from the number one contender to a preliminary fighter matched up against journeyman UFC fighter Alessio Sakara.
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Mr. Po-Yang Chung, a Humboldt State alumnus, made a significant donation to the HSU Library for the purchase of books relating to entrepreneurship. "My original program of study was in Fisheries Management," said Mr. Chung, "but who would have guessed that my years at Humboldt would prepare me for my role as an entrepreneur?"
The co-founder of the Asian Pacific Division of DHL Worldwide Express, Mr. Chung now is retired from his executive position at DHL. Additional gifts to Humboldt State University include the 1990 establishment of the Watson Lecture Series on Business Ethics in honor of Professor Frank Watson, of whom he said, "his class was the compass that I would turn to in my entrepreneurial growth." This series was renamed the Chung-Watson Lecture Series on Business Ethics in 2005 after Mr. Chung was recognized as an HSU Distinguished Alumnus. He is an accomplished painter, and one of his paintings, Colorful Clouds Spread on Mountains, 2004, hangs in the HSU Library.


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Reprinted from IAntiques.com Social Network Tips on Dating Cameos Posted by Daye Salander May 7, 2012 5:52:04 In order to even begin to date a cameo, you will need a jewelers loupe. Study the piece under the loop carefully. First off, determine whether it is hand carved or machine made. Lasers are now used to create cameos. If the cameo has a snowy appearance to it, it is machine made. Next, try to determine what the cameo is made from. Shell was one of the most popular materials used after 1805. Poured glass cameos would have been considered late Victorian into the early 1900s. Coral first appeared as cameos in the mid-1800s. Imitation cameos were produced as early as the mid 1700s. They were excellent imitations of classical subjects and portraits of royalty or important figures of the day. As a note, these cameos were known as Tassie cameos. The design can also tell a lot about the date of the piece. Floral motifs first became popular during the Victorian Era. Women that were Roman looking with long straight noses and often Roman attire could indicate a date prior to 1850. Shorter and upturned noses would mostly likely be the late 1800s and later. Upswept curls often indicate the 1800s and short curls, the 1900s.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Innovative app developers Small Planet Digital have partnered with John Solimine, of Spike Press, and Andy Hullinger to create Dragon Brush, an irresistible, interactive storybook for iPhone and iPad, based on a Chinese folktale.
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With narration by Matt Berninger and music by Aaron & Bryce Dessner—from the acclaimed band, The National—Dragon Brush follows the adventures of Bing-Wen, a young boy who loves to paint. When given a magical brush that makes drawings come to life, Bing-Wen must use his art and his wits to outsmart the greedy Emperor.
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"I'm really happy to be a part of Dragon Brush," remarked Matt Berninger of The National. "It was a chance to work with some old friends, including John Solimine and the folks at Small Planet. This story has all my favorite things: waterfalls, magical dragons, and the sound of my own voice."
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The National formed in 1999 and currently live in Brooklyn, NY. Their fifth album, 'High Violet,' is The National's most critically acclaimed and fastest-selling album to date. Released in May 2010, it debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200, and prompted the New York Times to claim "The National is in a league of its own."
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That's not what I learned. A healthy margin for a whole sale mark up is 100% of costs. A retailer in turn will want to sell a tee with a 100% markup of the wholesale price. Also, this is the lowest price you should charge not suggested price.Some basics on pricing. Someone mentioned $6 is the average price people pay for tees. This isn't necessarily true but it should be your goal to get as close to six as possible if you don't want to be an online only brand forever. Our near term goal is to get a finished tee down to $6.40.WTF?
Online >>> only 2 x Cost = Lowest price or 2 x $6.40 = $12.80 per tee
Wholesale price is the same as your online price (or higher) but basically shouldn't be below $12.80 (in this example).
Online (with pricing power)/ consignment deal/ retail deal >>> 4 x Cost = lowest consignment and/ or retail price or
4 x $6.50 = $25.60 per tee
So lowest price is 2 x Cost but the closer to 4 x Cost is the goal.
price should be consistent to the market on all fronts. if tees go for $25-$35 then that should be your retail price on your site.
wholesale price should also be consistent to the market....if tees normally wholesale for $12-15, then so should yours.
you do not want to under-sell your potential dealers!
and you do not want to devalue your product in the market.


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You can make a ton of money a week just doing tanks but in my area the tankers are known as the N*****s of the plumbing fraternity.
Insulation didn't beef up in tanks until the FVIR system came along with it. Wholesalers bought literally a million extra tanks the year before FVIR came in just to avoid it as long as possible.
NH you're familiar with tankless if you're using the Buderus GB142 with a Priority circuit for DHW so don't shame tankless.
Show me a tank capable of producing 250 gals per hour?
And you Combi criers.....radiant despite it's real efficiency and comfort will always be backseat to FA till people give up CA/C. Paying for Ducts and tubes isn't rational in a less than luxury house.
And as to Market penetration it comes with Marketing. Tankless had it so easy coming ashore in CA they have no idea how to market to the rest of America. I deal daily with Noritz, Takagi, Rinnai, Navien, Eternal, Rheem/ECO, Bosch and most of their RSM's and Mfrs Reps are clueless.
I reinstall 100's of units a year installed by DIYers, handyman and, yes, fellow licensed Master Journeyman Plumbers who miss or screw up important installation requirements.
New rules or ideas have never been welcomed into plumbing; FVIR omg no, indoor plumbing, Mr Rudd's Water Heater,
When you started installing tanks there were no 7 head human car washes flowing 17.5-22 GPM. New Technology.......I was installing tankless Burkay coil units in 1979 in conjunction with 300 gal storage to produce huge gph.
Cold water sandwiches can be overcome by about 3-4 methods every plumber should know or have been taught (I know them and there ain't no big red "S" on my chest).
In Japan in new building the water heater is universally piped and actually moves with the homeowner from residence to residence as they buy/sell their units. Except for the initial piping, plumbers are cut out of the loop there after in dealing with moving or replacement of water heater.
Jist is get familiar with the future. Feedback improvements to Mfrs and maybe, just maybe you'll stay in Plumbing or Fittings and not lose your way preaching the old tyme religion.
Yesterday ain't tomorrow and it sure as heck ain't next week.
Jim DeBruycker
Important note - I'm not a pro
Retired Defense Industry Engineer; Schluter 2.5-day Workshop Completed 2013, 2014
My indirect is rated for 907 first-hour 140F gallons, but it takes a 500KBTU/H burner to deliver that. It'll deliver 267 first hour gallons with a 200K burner behind it, but my design day heat load is under 30K, and a 200K burner would make absolutely NO sense, even a 100K burner is 3x oversized, and would only deliver ~150 first-hours gallons.
But using a tankless as a boiler, and the indirect as a buffer, the tankless will modulate to match the load for the DHW, and it's average output under heating loads is less than 1.5x oversized, with decent minimum-burn times to keep the efficiency from falling off a cliff. I won't be filling a 100 gallon spa with 115F water with this system in the dead of winter, but with the extra kick from drainwater heat recovery I can run showers continuously, even under more-severe-than-design-day heat loads and never run cold.
This adds a cost you're ignoring. Also a BTU return loss in your recovery calculation.
These system are most efficient when gravity designed.
Manly men plumbers hate them as they constantly whine that graywater will eventually contaminate freshwater in these systems while these systems are U/L and UPC listed.
Just as out friend nashua is so opposed to tankless 50+ year ago he would have raged against copper vs. galvanized pipe.
Tankless isn't perfect but improved and lowered in cost and designed in from the beginning it will eventually replace tanks.
Ever visited a flooded basement to see a tanks damage? And nash, admit it 2nd line recircs are beautiful but they waste energy magnificently. The real basis of tankless problems for Mfrs coming is ashore is the Americans who want 4-6-8-17 GPM hot water flow rates. NO WHERE IN THE WORLD BUT AMERICA DO YOU SEE THIS HIGH A FLOW DEMAND.
Do people really need the 5-7 head human carwashes?
And your 50gal gas tank it's more or less standard first hour delivery is 83 GPH. Flow more than 2 heads at 2.5GPM and you don't have much shower time. I love you folks with your 6 min shower.......ever had a teenager or two?
No 100-125 gal or less residential tank will produce 240-268 GPH. Don't muddy the waters comparing apples to pomegranates.
Also you're going to have to temper that production at anything above 125F as you can't legally deliver residential hot water over that temp.
And fess up on that Buderus if it's a GB142 or such that's a $4000 equipment cost you seem to overlook although the indirect does help wring cost out of the whole set up.
A indirect can never be confused with a tankless as being the same.
Get the meaning of the word tankless? It means less tank.
An indirect water heater is a storage vessel with an indirect means such as a coil or tank-in-tank that heats the water indirectly from an external source, such as a boiler.
Tankless holds no appreciable measurable stored water and have their own burners, heating as used.
Certainly as indirect tanks dump their water and depending on the BTU input of the indirect heat source, it can approach near instananious heating of DHW based on flow and input, but still not entirely the same.
No confusing the 2
You all keep sticking your heads up your arse and relying on cheap NG and Petroleum prices (under $12 for propane) and by the time you realize what hit you you'll be Arab Camel dung.
And by God , thank God, in America we have the right to be just as stupid as we like.
Boiler + indirect vs. standalone tanks is more like apples vs. pears. If there's a pomegranate in the mix of choices it's the tankless, not the indirect. The near-zero thermal mass & inherent short cycling of the tankless make it distinct from the others.
But you correctly state the obvious when you assert that no conventional standalone tank delivers 250 first-hour gallons (which takes ~150kbtus of storage + burner-output to pull off.) IIRC there's at least one condensing tank that can deliver it though (at a price.)
And the boiler + indirect is usually the net efficiency winner, since tankless units never actually meet their EF numbers in residential apps (due to the effects of short cycling on low volume draws). High mass boilers may have lower-than tankless summertime HW heating efficiency, but during the heating season it's right up there, and increases the AFUE of the boiler by a significant amount if properly designed & controlled. Low mass boilers (and tankless units configured as boilers) will beat standalone tankless units on efficiency for just DHW when coupled with an indirect, in most residential apps since they can't short-cycle, and have extremely low standby losses compared to standalone tanks.
Since you seem concerned about the equipment cost factores, calculate this: Using a cheap ~82-84% efficiency Takagi instead of a Buderus as a boiler, with a ~$1000 reverse-indirect acting as a heating system buffer & hotwater heater it'll meet-or-beat condensing tankless real-world efficiency(!) at hot-water heating for less than the in-the-crate cost of a condensing tankless (or a Buderus without the indirect).
BTW: Who the hell really NEEDS 250 first-hour gallons in a residence, anyway? Lessee, the teenager is taking an endless shower while mi esposa is fillin' the soaking tub, and I want to clean up... I s'pose it's theoretically possible. But 250gallons/hr is like having two full showers going for that full hour. I might be able to pull that off with my system AND heat the house at the same time due to the drainwater heat recovery returns, but probably not in tub filling without tweaking the primary loop flow in the system, and even then it'd be marginal- at highest modulation you only get ~150KBTU/hr out of a Takagi T-KD20. But with the kickback from drainwater heat recovery, at full flow in a dual shower condition it's apparent-output would be over 200K.
Also, you don't need expensive radiant for radiation to pull off an efficient combi design- coils in air handlers are easily up to the task. (Indeed that's my "hail mary" second stage heat for extended design-day heat load periods &/or setback recovery on my staple-up.) There are many ways to slice the combi-apple without spittin' pomegranate seeds.
Where I live, you are required to have a tempering valve on the output of the WH. Now, that doesn't say where you have to have it adjusted, just that you must have one. Unless changed, they normally come set at 119-120 degrees. I run my tank at 140, but have the boiler set to allow it to cool off more before it rewarms it. Often, with no use, it may not need to fire for a day. Adds to the efficency, especially in the summertime.
Now, I started a whole bunch of comments when I threw in an indirect. I know it isn't a tankless. But, I was responding to a comment that said you can't get a tank to provide 250 gallons the first hour. To that comment, BS! There are lots of tanks that can do that. Now, is it reasonable or economical, that's another story altogether. But, with a decent sized indirect tank (mine's 60-gallons) vs a typical tankless, you can get UNRESTRICTED FLOW at all locations at full output temperature that would take a VERY large tankless system, especially where I live in the winter. I can be filling the tub, washing clothes, running the dishwasher, and have someone washing hands, etc. all at the same time and have full use of the hot water. I've measured my inlet water at 33-degrees in the deep of winter. So, depending on your circumstances, there are good reasons to avoid a tankless. Now, again, lifestyle comes into play here, and I'm not going to comment on that and about how spoiled we are. Also note one of the comments on tank verses tankless are the standby losses. The tank I have is rated at less than 1/2-degree per hour of loss. So, if the power was off for a day, it still may not trigger the boiler to come on, if it could. If you were quick, you could probably get a few days worth or hot showers out of it without power. Try that with your tankless! A normal gas-fired tank would lose a lot more, but it's still not horrible. Fired by a mod-con, my system is rated at 94%. Since it modulates, and it is sized to be able to provide about 1/3 the normal design day needs at low end, it can run at barely 'idle', but ramp up to what's needed on a cold day, or to reheat the tank. Not all mod-cons have as large a modulation range. The tank is SS, and should outlive me. Expect the boiler will need replacing before the tank, but the guts are SS on it, too.
If you have a boiler and aren't using an indirect, I don't think you're being very efficient. If you live where the incoming water doesn't get really cold, a tankless has some benefit. If you don't want to put up with variable water temperatures, no hot on a low flow use, or need a high flow rate, then avoid a tankless. It can be set up to overcome that, but it gets more complicated, and a boiler may be a better choice. Ganging tankless units to get high flow is quite expensive in both the infrastructure (large gas lines) and available combustion air and flues. In some places, your no-use gas charge is based on possible demand, so you're paying more for gas, even when you aren't using any.
So, pick your poison, understand the benefits and limitations of the choices and make an informed decision. My energy use compared to my neighbors is about 1/3 less, and is without compromises they have. People can shower one-after-the-other all day.
A boiler is going to require less service than a tankless system since it is using less 'fresh', mineral laden water, so there'd be little scale. An indirect doesn't see high enough temperatures at the heat exchanger to precipitate out any amount of mineral deposits, so efficiency should stay reasonably constant. On a tankless, the goal is to heat the potable water very fast, and you'll get the mineral deposits (unless you also have a softener).
No one system is 'best' for everyone. Pick the best for your circumstances. To exclaim only one choice is viable is not taking into the whole account of use patterns, volumes required, existing equipment, tolerance for restrictions, and amount of money you wish to spend. Energy costs here may approach many other country's, but only if the tax rates go up. It costs the Europeans about the same for gas as here, but their taxes are MUCH more. There should be a move to make things more efficient. This is a good thing, but you have to weigh the costs/benefits. We could all drive mopeds and get 70mpg, but it just wouldn't be the same...not one answer is best for all.
Jim DeBruycker
Important note - I'm not a pro
Retired Defense Industry Engineer; Schluter 2.5-day Workshop Completed 2013, 2014
Wow did this take a derailment off course of the title post (Navien)
It depends on where you live.
"The standards apply to every owner-occupied or rented dwelling, dwelling unit, mobile dwelling unit or rooming house unit in Massachusetts which is used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating. Dwelling unit shall also mean a condominium unit. These regulations have the force of law. Local boards of health have the primary responsibility for their enforcement."
"Hot Water Facilities
Facilities for the heating of water must be provided (i.e. supplied and paid for) and kept in good working order by the owner. The owner must supply hot water in sufficient quantity and pressure to satisfy the normal use of all plumbing fixtures which generally require hot water to function properly. The temperature of the hot water is not to exceed 130° Fahrenheit (54° Celsius) nor fall below 110° Fahrenheit (43° Celsius). Under certain leases, an occupant may be required to provide the fuel for the heating of the water. [410.190]"
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Samuel James Witwicky
The majority of people have no need for a boiler installation, so what are those people supposed to so? I have a forced hot air system, so I use a furnace for heat. That leaves a tank or tankless for domestic hot water.
You also forget to mention the installed retrofit retail cost of a modulating boiler, vent system and indirect tank. A tank type water heater is way less expensive than that setup. A tankless water heater will also be less expensive.
Note that my tankless works fine during power outages.
Samuel James Witwicky
Hey, jadnashua- I don't care WHAT your boiler is rated, it's giving you nowhere near 94% when heating the indirect:
Indirects don't stratify enough to give you 100F return water to the boiler from the heat exchanger coil in the indirect if you're running normal DHW temps. If you're letting the indirect drop as low as 120F you might hit 90% combustion efficiency at the beginning of a burn not more. By the time it's back up to 140F it's more like ~85%. (And that's just raw combustion efficiency at the boiler's heat exchanger, where 10-15% of the energy has gone up the flue, not total thermal efficiency of the hot water heating system, which is boiler, indirect, & plumbing-insulation dependent. You WILL have other losses.)
Condensing tankless units run higher efficiencies because the incoming water is typically well-under 70F, but they give up a lot in short-cycling. In real-world use they're similar to mod-cons with indirects kept at lower storage temps like yours.
But the rest of the arguments you're making ring true. If you got 150K+ output at the boiler and an indirect that can use it, you can indeed get your 250 first/second/third hour gallons out of it. (For what, we'll never know! ;-) )
Last edited by Terry; 04-28-2013 at 05:45 PM.
Good points Dana,
All similar for the folks that install modcons on baseboard or whatever and run the temps right up to 180 all heating season with elevated return temps.
They could have saved money and put in a less expensive boiler and achieve near equal efficiencies.


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Making the Most of a Disappointing Retirement Nest Egg
Retiring with less money than you had anticipated
Someone close to me recently learned she'll need to live on far less money than she ever imagined during retirement. Alas, she's reached retirement age, and she's ready. This lady isn't going to prolong her full-time working life another day.
I wish, I wish, I wish.
I wish she'd saved more money when she was working. I wished she'd started investing when she started her career, or very soon thereafter, so she could take advantage of the benefits of compounding. I wish she'd created a diversified, personalized investing plan and ignored the advice of amateur investors.
Young investors, you can learn from her mistakes.
Retirees and almost-retirees who find yourselves in the same boat as my loved one, I'm going to share some of the advice I shared with her.
Stay invested. Actually, this is good advice for all retirees. Though your investing allocation will change when you retire, resist the urge to cash everything out. Let your money keep working for you. A retirement adviser can help you develop a long-term investing plan for your retirement years.
Get a part-time job. There are benefits beyond the extra money:
Of course, the extra income will also be helpful.
Become a budgeter. If you're trying to live within limited means, especially if you're used to spending more, a budget will really help. Create a list of all your expenses, and figure out the amount you'll spend per month on each item.
Turn frugality into a hobby. You don't have to be a professional coupon clipper, but you can approach frugality as a game you're trying to win. Search the Internet for the best deals before you make purchases. And remember the cardinal rule of bargain shopping: It's only a good deal if you need it.
Develop some hobbies that are frugal. Try gardening, landscaping, writing, drawing, or knitting. You may even be able to sell your services or the things you make.
Get into cooking. You have to eat anyway, right? And when you're cooking, you aren't eating at restaurants, which is expensive. As a bonus, cooking will allow you to eat a healthier diet than people who dine out more often, and that could reduce your healthcare costs.
Skip the travel and explore your city or town. Many areas have deeply discounted rates on tourist attractions for locals, so explore areas around you that you might have missed while you were working.
When I told my loved one I planned to write this post based on our conversations, she recommended I offer one piece of advice from her: Change your expectations so you're able to enjoy retirement rather than wishing or hoping for more luxury. Allow yourself to be happy with less if less is what you have.
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The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill [3] that President Obama will sign today should not be called "financial reform." Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. And while the bill claims to crack down on excesses on Wall Street, its harshest impact will likely be on Main Street businesses that had nothing to do with the meltdown.
A front-page Wall Street Journal article [4] this week noted that "far from Wall Street, President Barack Obama's financial regulatory overhaul... will leave tracks across the wide-open landscape of American industry." The Journal notes that "the bill will touch storefront check cashiers, city governments, [and] small manufacturers."
But one thing it will leave totally untouched is the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which new research by Congress's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and other bodies shows was even more of a prime factor in the subprime boom than originally assumed. The Federal Housing Finance Agency now reports that Fannie and Freddie purchased 40 percent of all private-label subprime securities in 2003 and 2004. Indeed, according to Edward Pinto [5], housing scholar and Fannie's former chief credit officer, millions of mortgages to borrowers with credit scores of less than 660, considered by prominent researchers to be the dividing line for subprime loans, had been labeled by Fannie and Freddie as prime going back as early as 1993.
Rather than wait for Congress's own Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to issue its report in December to examine the role of the GSEs and other causes, Congress passed a bill that will not prevent future bubbles and imposes untold costs that will put the country in danger of slipping back into a recession.
New collateral requirements on derivatives could cost U.S. companies as much as $1 trillion in lost capital and liquidity, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association [6]. And as the WSJpiece notes, these costs would hit not just big banks, but farmers who use derivatives to hedge the price of their crops and fuel for their tractor. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could also hit retailers that issue credit tangentially related to their business, such as small stores that offer layaway plans.
On the other side of the retail ledger, some of the biggest retailers also got an unjustified mandated benefit with the Durbin amendment that puts price controls on the interchange fees they pay to process credit cards. This corporate welfare for fat cat merchants will mean [7] higher costs to consumers, community banks, and credit unions.
In addition, the bill contains provisions that will empower special interests at the expense of ordinary shareholders and that may exceed the limits of the U.S. Constitution. The bill's "orderly liquidation" authority will allow the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department not only to bail out firms whose failure is deemed to be a threat to "financial stability," but to actually seize firms [8] that are not even asking for a bailout.
The "proxy access" provisions [9] would override longstanding state rules in corporate director elections and force companies and their shareholders to subsidize director elections of special-interest shareholders -- such as unions, environmentalists and others. This would give progressive groups leverage to cut deals with management to push through agenda items, such as the "card check" abolition of secret ballots in labor elections and carbon cap-and-tax reductions, that they can't get through the halls of Congress.
The silver lining is that the more people found out about the potential unintended consequences of this bill, the less popular it became. The bill cleared cloture with the bare minimum 60 votes that it needed. In the House, almost all Republicans, as well as 19 Democrats, voted no on the final bill.
Brown's vote was certainly disappointing to those who supported him and expected him, if not to be conservative on every issue, at least to be one who doesn't go along with phony big-government reform. But other ostensible conservatives in safe seats who would eventually vote against the bill also share much of the blame for smoothing passage. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) became the media's favorite Republicans in the spring by constantly making comments to the effect that they agreed with "90 percent" of the bill, and it would take just "5 minutes" for the parties to resolve their differences.
Their soft-pedaling of the disagreements, rather than sounding the alarm about the bill's flaws, made the parties' differences seem trivial and gave red-state Democrats, as well as Brown and the "Maine sisters," cover to offer their support. In the end, both Corker and Gregg would become more vocal in their criticisms -- Gregg gave a particularly impassioned floor speech [10] last week calling the derivatives rules "simply a punitive exercise" that will "make it harder for Americans to be competitive" -- but the damage of their playing to the cameras had already been done.
Republicans also should have insisted on Fannie and Freddie reform from the beginning as a precondition to negotiation on any bill. The bill's lack of action on the GSEs became a valuable talking point in the end in communicating to the public that this bill was anything but "reform." Given Dodd and Frank's allegiance to the GSEs, insistence on action from the beginning may have stopped the bill in its tracks.
As a result of the growing skepticism of the bill, a few of the most horrific provisions publicized by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other free-market groups -- such as those that would have hurt angel investors and ensnared manufacturers [11] in the definition of "financial companies" -- were dropped. And one genuinely pro-growth reform was adopted.
That measure, which was added over Chairman Dodd and Chairman Frank's objections, helps fix costly and counterproductive provisions of the last "financial reform": the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This provision will permanently exempt smaller public companies -- those with market valuations of $75 million or less -- from the law's section 404(b), the mandate of an audit of a company's "internal controls." This requirement and the rest of Sarbox did nothing to stop the accounting schemes at companies like Lehman Brothers and Countrywide, but instead frustrated honest entrepreneurs with audits of trivial items like possession of office keys and number of letters in employee passwords, and cost the U.S. economy $35 billion a year. (I wrote about Sarbanes-Oxley's burdens and lack of investor benefits in my paper, "SOXing it to the Little Guy [12].")
Thanks to this relief, many smaller companies should once again be able to afford the cost of going public and get the financing they need to grow into the next Microsoft, Facebook or Google. That is, if they don't get strangled by the other mounds of red tape in this bill.
In this bill, much arbitrary power is delegated to an army of new regulators. In the end, it was heartening that many informed citizens and their lawmakers did their own due diligence on this bill, and weren't stampeded into supporting a measure labeled as "getting Wall Street." They will need to continue this scrutiny in examining the mounds of regulations to be implemented under the bill's authority.
[1] http://cei.org/expert/john-berlau
[2] http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/21/obamas-latest-monstrosity
[3] http://libertycentral.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/dodd-frank.pdf
[4] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704258604575361182317501188.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0
[5] http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/pinto_testimony.pdf
[6] http://www.isda.org/media/press/2010/press062910.html
[7] http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/536821/201006091838/Fat-Cats-Feed-On-Durbins-Fee-Change.aspx
[8] http://biggovernment.com/jberlau/2010/05/11/dodds-bank-bill-worse-than-obamacare-its-the-nationalization-stupid/
[9] http://biggovernment.com/jberlau/2010/03/01/proxy-access-the-obama-dodd-alinsky-shareholder-jujitsu/
[10] http://gregg.senate.gov/news/statements/statement/?id=1a84a368-99fb-49f0-98a2-d97f5e02da3b
[11] http://biggovernment.com/jberlau/2010/05/21/dodd-bank-bill-brown-folds-but-vitters-not-everythings-a-bank-amendment-passes/
[12] http://cei.org/studies-point/soxing-it-little-guy


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Joining the Babysitter's Club
I officially, for the first time in ten whole years as a parent, lined up babysitters for my kids next weekend. And yes, I said babysitters. With four kids, I figure maybe there might need to be backup. Also that will make it fun for everyone, right? The kids get TWO new big people to play with and the new big people watching my precious brood can be friends and keep each other company. One can tend to injuries while the other dials 9-1-1. Things like that.
As long as everyone's happy and alive, I won't worry. As much.
All these years we've only left our kids with family, and as I think of it, only the grandparents. But next weekend is my Listen To Your Mother show and everyone we know that could watch our kids (the grandparents) will be in the audience. I'm so thankful that the new church we're attending has eager babysitting candidates. We are good to go!
Only, what do you pay babysitters these days? Especially two at a time? Is there a standard hourly rate? It will be for about 3 hours. I want to pay handsomely, too, a) because I like to say the word "handsomely" and b) this night is crazy important to me and I am THAT MUCH appreciative, you know?
I will also be sure to have pizza and tons of snacks on hand so no one will die of starvation or boredom.
Stephanie is Mom to three boys & a girl in Valparaiso, IN and blogs daily at Adventures In Babywearing . Follow her on Twitter- she's babysteph .


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