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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2006 A new system coming in 2008 to the Army and Air Force will integrate pay and personnel and make life easier for servicemembers everywhere, the general in charge of the system's deployment said.
The Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, or DIMHRS, integrates the two services' pay and personnel systems into one Web-based system, Army Maj. Gen. Carlos "Butch" Pair, the defense business systems acquisition executive in the Business Transformation Agency, said in an interview.
"DIMHRS is an enterprise solution, really a revolution in how the military is approaching pay and personnel," Pair said. "It's really more than an acronym; it's a solution for the future."
The unique advantage of DIMHRS is that it will be Web-based, accessible from anywhere with a Common Access Card, and will be a one-stop shop for servicemembers with pay and personnel issues, Pair said. Servicemembers will be able to view their entire record, and even make certain changes themselves. "We know that many of our young soldiers today and airmen certainly understand how to self-service on the Web," he said.
Army and Air Force commands also will have access to the system to resolve any issues the troops can't handle themselves, Pair said. This will be especially helpful in today's joint environment, where troops from different services fight alongside each other and often aren't near personnel or finance support, he said.
"It's conceivable today that if you're an airman in an Army task force, you might have to get in a Humvee and travel 30 or 40 kilometers to find a personnel service unit to support you," he said. "Under DIMHRS, that won't happen."
The Army will launch DIMHRS in March 2008, followed by the Air Force later that summer, Pair said. The Navy and Marine Corps have not yet decided whether to use DIMHRS, but whatever system they select will have to be compatible with DIMHRS, creating a seamless partnership across the military, he said.
When DIMHRS is launched, it will include a requirement that servicemembers can go to any military installation and get their pay or personnel issues resolved, Pair said. "It's about providing and serving our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines with the very best possible service that they can get," he said.
The Army and Air Force will start teaching DIMHRS at their personnel and finance schools in 2007, Pair said. When the system is launched in 2008, the active, Guard and reserve components of the Army and Air Force will all be included at the same time, he said.
The concept for DIMHRS was first developed about 10 years ago, when pay and personnel problems arose in the first Gulf War, Pair said. The system has been developed over the years to solve problems such as a lag in pay when reservists or Guardsmen are activated or pay inaccuracies for active-duty troops, he said.
This new system is long overdue, because the individual systems the services have are outdated and don't work well together, Pair said. The Army alone has more than 70 different systems, he said, which haven't been refreshed in a long time.
"Here we are in the year 2006 and about to be 2007, and it's just time to realize some savings that new types of software and solutions out there can provide," he said. "It's to solve problems; it's to provide better service and more accuracy to the servicemembers."
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Gah! What to watch tonight? There's a 7-minute X-Men preview on FOX, a new True Life on MTV, a That 70's Show retrospective, and most importantly a handful of season finales including Smallville and My Name Is Earl. And of course, the finale of my favorite comedy on TV. I'm sure I don't have to tell you which one it is. It's been one of the biggest success stories of the year. People are calling it the funniest show on television. Its star has even branched out from TV to movies. The show that I'm talking about is, of course, Eve. On tonight's season finale Shelly's (played by Eve) mother Beverly finally reveals to Yusef that she is pregnant with his child. Meanwhile, Janie discovers that Rita is secretly throwing Botox parties at the store! Oh that Rita! She's incorrigible! Be sure to tune into the UPN tonight for the season finale that everybody will be talking about tomorrow!
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(The Huffington Post)-Add an indoor skydiving facility to the list of places that have banned Justin Bieber.
Las Vegas Indoor Skydiving has confirmed that Bieber is banned for life after he used the facility and then backed out of the payment deal he arranged with the company.
Sources told E! News that Bieber and six others arrived mere minutes before closing, and when the 20-year-old pop star was approached about payment he was apparently given the option of shelling out $1,600 for himself and his crew, or posting a shout-out to the facility and a photo of himself mid-flight to his Instagram account.
Bieber reportedly agreed to post a photo as payment, but the company never got their $1,600 worth of publicity, as an insider told E! that Bieber "actually faked like he was posting something, per the agreement, but never did."
In addition to allegedly not paying up, the group apparently didn't bother to tip the staff either. A source also told the website the group was "a disrespectful bunch," and added that Bieber wasn't very friendly and seemed "very disconnected from reality."
Earlier this year, a club manager in Vienna told the press that Bieber was not welcome at Passage, after the singer's bodyguards allegedly smashed fans' cameras, as well as destroyed the cellphones of other patrons.
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The Loop: Ghost prank, bear attacks and wild antelopes
On this episode of The Loop, I talk about a guy who clearly doesn't like his own bed.
After a few years, most couples find creative ways to wake each other up but this guy takes it way to far. Perfectly far. He builds a fake ghost that looks like it's coming out of a TV.
Let's just say his idea to wake his girlfriend was effective.
I also take a look at a news report that was trying to be helpful but ended up being comical. Let's put it this way: If you follow this lady's advice, you'll be dinner.
Finally, an antelope ('lopes if you're cool) found a great hiding spot: The front seat of a Toyota. The problem? There was a window in the way.


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Brown algae give a boost to batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are typically made with conductive carbon electrodes, but with the use of silicon instead of carbon their capacity could be dramatically increased. The stumbling block has been that silicon-based electrodes tend to degrade quickly. But that has now been overcome thanks to an unlikely source – brown algae, which include giant kelp.
Igor Kovalenko of the Georgia Institute of Technology and colleagues have shown that electrodes made from silicon nanopowder and alginate – a natural polysaccharide obtained from brown algae – makes for a stable battery that has eight times the capacity of state-of-the-art graphitic electrodes. Alginate also has the advantage of being cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the plastics used instead in current technologies. The increased lifetime is a really remarkable improvement that would will undoubtedly by welcomed by anyone with a laptop computer.
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ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia swimmers Chase Kalisz, Melanie Margalis and Olivia Smoliga have earned Southeastern Conference weekly honors, according to an announcement by the league office on Tuesday.
Kalisz and Margalis were chosen as the SEC Swimmers of the Week, while Smoliga was picked as the SEC Female Freshman of the Week.
Kalisz won three individual events -- all with the top times in the country -- during Georgia's meet at Florida. The sophomore from Bel Air, Md., claimed the 200 butterfly in 1:43.55, the 200 breaststroke in 1:57.20 and the 200 individual medley in 1:45.23. All three of those times rank No. 1 in the nation and are NCAA provisional qualifying times. Kalisz is also No. 1 in the country in the 400 individual medley and holds a B-cut time in the event.
Margalis won two individual events and was on a victorious relay against the Lady Gators. A senior from Clearwater, Fla., she won the 200 freestyle in 1:46.92 and the 200 individual medley in 1:57.88. Both times were B cuts and rank first in the SEC, plus she is No. 2 in the country in the 200 individual medley and No. 4 in the 200 freestyle. She also swam the second leg of the 200 medley relay that won in 1:39.80 (second-best in the country) and she came in second in the 200 backstroke in 1:56.35. Margalis previously posted B cuts in the 100 and 500 freestyle, the 100 and 200 backstroke, and the 200 breaststroke. Nationally, she is No. 5 in the 200 backstroke, No. 8 in the 100 freestyle and the 200 breaststroke, and No. 9 in the 500 freestyle.
Smoliga led off two victorious relays, helping the 200 medley relay win in 1:39.80 and the 400 freestyle relay win in 3:22.17. The 200 medley relay time ranks second nationally and the 400 freestyle relay is No. 7. A freshman from Glenview, Ill., Smoliga came in second individually in the 100 freestyle (49.77) and the 100 backstroke (54.43), both marks ranking fourth in the SEC. Her 100 backstroke effort lowered her NCAA provisional qualifying time while her 100 freestyle time ranks ninth nationally.
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In case you missed it or simply weren't aware, Fox launched it's new 24/7 sports network on Saturday, titled Fox Sports 1. It's claimed to be carried on all major cable providers, so chances are it's available to you. This network is clearly Fox's attempt to challenge ESPN and steal viewership. A bold initiative since ESPN is seemingly bigger than the sports world itself, but kudos to Fox for actually trying. It will most likely never dethrone the king, but if they can get solid ratings, then that's probably all they care about. I decided to take an hour and watch Fox Sports 1's Sportscenter equivalent, Fox Sports Live. Here are my quick thoughts on the show:
After a video package we're introduced to Charissa Thompson, who will be the host of FSL (Fox Sports Live), and right off the bat we have our first difference from Sportscenter. Thompson is not an anchor, but a host. Interesting. She explains that the show has 3 parts:
1. The Big Board - A large wall covered with scores from MLB and the NFL.
2. The Panel - A group of former professional athletes sitting discussion style (ala Sports Reporters), who will discuss big topics. More on this later.
3. The Anchor Desk - Where the anchors sit. Again, more on this later.
The Graphics
Nothing out of the ordinary here. We get a bottom line of scrolling scores just like on ESPN, however the bottom right hand corner is used to promote upcoming shows on the network. One glaring difference is that there is no 'upcoming segments' scroller on FSL. Instead, on the right side bar we get various news bites, along with preseason college rankings, fantasy football rankings, etc. I don't really like this, as I feel the 'upcoming segments' scroller that ESPN uses is really great. It gives you an opportunity to see if something's coming up that you want to stick around for, or if it's a lot of stuff you simply don't care about. I get that they can't be a mirror image of ESPN, but this would be a nice feature to have.
The Anchors
When we get to the anchor desk we find Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole. Apparently these two co-hosted Sportscentre (no that's not spelled wrong) in Canada for quite some time, and both decided to jump ship to Fox Sports 1. Will these two be the only anchors? Not sure, have to wait and see I guess. I really liked these two a lot. In fact when the show was over, I had no problem saying that I liked both of them more than any anchor on Sportscenter. There was some forced comedy, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at some of it. They're both kind of goofballs, but they did a good job with the highlights, so it worked well.
How Highlights are Handled
Nothing crazy here. You've seen it all before. One of the anchors talks over the highlights and that's pretty much that. One thing I did notice is that a lot of the highlights were QUICK. I often felt like I didn't get enough highlights of a game to really understand what happened. Another note I made was that there was a decent amount of UFC coverage during this show. This was clearly because Fox Sports 1 actually was the network airing the event, so I understand that. I also had to keep telling myself that it's the FIRST show. There's no doubt things will get smoother.
The Panel
Throughout the show, the anchors would throw it over to the Panel, and Thompson would ask them a question. The panel included Donovan McNabb, Andy Roddick, Ephraim Salaam and Gary Payton. I honestly hated this. The first question asked of them was whether they thought it was ok for Stephen Strasburg to throw at batters like he did that night. It's not a bad question, but why do I care what two football players, a basketball player and a tennis player think about this? You need to have baseball representation for that question, it's just common sense. In fairness to FSL, they did bring in Gabe Kaplar later in the show to speak about the Dodgers, but why not have him there from the start? ESPN would have at least threw this question over to the Baseball Tonight crew. Maybe this will change in the future, but I don't think we're going to get away from hearing former athletes comment on sports other than their own.
The 1
This is FSL's equivalent to Sportscenter's Top 10. There are only 5 plays, but the main difference is that the fan's vote on Twitter using the #The1. I like this concept a lot because it gets the fan's involved, which is a no-brainer. I think they should extend it to 10, which perhaps they will in the future.
The #Buzzer
In this segment we are shown videos and pictures from around the sports world. I'm not really sure if these are supposed to be funny, or just something we wouldn't normally see on the show. I guess it's fine.
Best Person in Sports
They highlighted a boy who was riding his bike to all 30 MLB stadiums to raise money for the hearing impaired. It was a nice segment.
This segment was short and ended the show, but it basically served to point out mistakes the anchors made on the show. Onrait and O'Toole did this segment on their previous network. Kind of random, but I didn't have a problem with it either. Will serve more or less as a comedy segment.
The Verdict
Right off the bat, it's apparent that FSL will not be a Sportscenter killer. But then again, Fox Sports 1 will not be an ESPN killer, so there's nothing wrong with that. While there were some bumps along the way, such as segments that felt forced, along with a panel that didn't have proper representation relating to the topics being discussed, there was certainly a lot to like. The anchors were great. They have really good chemistry from working together previously, and that's something to be excited about. The quality of the highlights was right on par, as well as the overall production of the show. My opinion is that if you really dislike the way ESPN does things on Sportscenter, Fox Sports Live is definitely worth a look.


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Donald Trump can't help himself. Nor can we.
The "worse" he gets, it seems, the better we like it. Watching Trump is so deliciously awful, we don't hang on every word. We hang on the edge of our seats. What ever will this man say next?
Trump's list of quotables is long, but two stand out.
First, it was the Mexicans who, Trump said, come here illegally to deal drugs and rape — "and some, I assume, are good people," he added.
So much for the argument that having more people armed in public places will result in fewer gun deaths.
One of the three people killed recently by a Las Vegas couple, Jerad and Amanda Miller, was an armed civilian, Joseph Wilcox. Two police officers who were also killed, Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck, were ambushed while having lunch. Seated in a booth, they had no chance to defend themselves, according to witnesses.
The exchange of five Guantanamo detainees for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has reminded us of three unpleasant facts of life: The United States does negotiate with terrorists; the president will circumvent laws as circumstances require; Republicans and Democrats will be summarily outraged as party affiliations seem to require.
With The New York Times' sudden dismissal of Executive Editor Jill Abramson and Karl Rove's suggestion that Hillary Clinton might have brain damage, the curtain opened on a new theater in an old war.
The targeting of these two powerful, accomplished women — albeit under different circumstances — may prove more predictive of the presidential election (assuming Clinton runs) than any other single factor. This is because women, who vote in greater numbers than men, have been reminded of how their sex is treated in a world that still favors men.
Former president George W. Bush once said, rather proudly, that he didn't read newspapers.
President Obama, a confirmed newsie, has claimed to read the major papers, perhaps to learn what's going on in his own administration.
Latest to the list of presidential discoveries, thanks to the dailies, is the horrific news that the Department of Veterans Affairs has kept secret lists of veterans waiting for treatment. Some have died during the wait.
When my neighbor gleefully reported that Bill Maher had dedicated a searing monologue to me for a column I wrote about the Donald Sterling/Cliven Bundy rants, my first thought was, Nah. If I tussled with everybody who tossed a brick through the window, I'd never get the draperies hung.
My second thought was about something my father said to a drunk who was looking for a fight: "I'm too old to fight," my dad said, peering over his half-moon glasses. "But I'd be glad to step outside and kill you."
When Lady Justice takes a count of bleeding hearts outside the execution chamber, she won't find mine among them.
I am no passionate opponent of the death penalty. I am rather a dispassionate objector to the premise that taking another's life, no matter how undeserving he or she may be to draw another breath, brings anything resembling justice to a society too in love with revenge.
Say what you will, but you'd best check for recording devices. Alternatively, you might check your thoughts.
The past few days have provided a cornucopia of reprehensible statements, reactions to which tell us as much about our country as the comments do about the speakers. Within those reactions, one finds cause for both concern and consolation.
The word is out that Chelsea Clinton is with child, making the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination a soon-to-be grandmother.
The headlines were inevitable — "Grandma Hillary" — followed by the similarly crucial question: Will being a grandmother help or hurt Hillary Clinton's chances in the 2016 election?
Note: We do not yet have another Clinton presidential candidacy, but we may as well have. She's running in the American mind if not in fact.
One approaches the race fray with trepidation, but here we go, tippy-toe.
The race cards have been flying so fast and furious lately, one can hardly tell the kings from the queens.
After writing close to 3,000 columns, I've learned that people sometimes read what they're looking for, often as a result of a headline, rather than what I wrote.
The same is true of the spoken word. What did she just say?
Listener 1: "She said all Southerners are stupid."
Listener 2: "No, she didn't. She was saying that whenever political operatives or the media need to show someone who is confused or clueless, they always find somebody with a Southern accent. Parker's been writing about this for years. Besides, she is a Southerner."
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Carter was the president of his fraternity, the Stag Club; a member of Tri-Beta (Biology Honorary), Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honorary), Lambda Sigma (Sophomore Honorary), and ODK, the junior-senior honorary. He also served on Student Senate.
Last summer, Carter spent two months interning in a hospital in Munich, Germany, where he worked in the gastroenterology department on a project that was "aimed toward correlating obesity and diet with the severity of chronic esophageal inflammation and Barrett's Esophagus." Carter found the internship by e-mailing research hospitals in Germany and asking if they were able to accept interns.
His internship in Germany is not the only travel experience Carter has had. In the summer of 2012, he traveled for two months in Europe. Carter explains: "In the United Kingdom and Germany I distributed surveys for my senior seminar in Political Science. This project was entitled 'Which Factors Most Influence Europeans' Opinions on the United States?' and the survey tested four different variables that were hypothesized to have an effect on these opinions. The research was successful and I was invited to present my paper at the Midwest Political Science Association's annual conference in Chicago, Illinois."
Before coming to Muskingum, Carter says, he "did not realize that so many international opportunities or leadership positions existed here.
Matt Mayforth ('12) teaches in Austria as Fulbright recipient
Muskingum University senior Matt Mayforth will be spending a second year in Braunau am Inn, Austria, as an English Teaching Assistant scholarship through the 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946, is the largest American international exchange program and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition offers opportunities for students and young professionals to teach in elementary and secondary schools worldwide, and to undertake international graduate study and advanced research. The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture is underwriting Mayforth's Fulbright support.
As a student, Mayforth has studied abroad at Muskingum's partner universities in both Passau, Germany, and Toledo, Spain. On campus, Mayforth was involved in the German Club and Phi Sigma Iota, the international foreign language honor society. In addition, he was a resident of the university's German House, and also actively engaged with both German- and Spanish-speaking students who have travelled to Muskingum from abroad.
Karen DeBaldo ('13) received the Dr. Henry Ward Church Scholarship while at Muskingum, the highest honor granted by Phi Sigma Iota, the international foreign language honor society. DeBaldo, a German and education major, wass the second student at Muskingum to earn the Church scholarship, which is granted to only one student in the United States.
During her career at Muskingum, DeBaldo amassed a long list of academic achievements and honors. In April, she was selected to present a paper at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. In 2010, DeBaldo received Muskingum's Mary E. Sharp Award for Excellence in German. In 2011, she was inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, as well as Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and largest honor society dedicated to excellence in all academic pursuits. In 2013, DeBaldo received a scholarship to attend the Ohio Foreign Language Association Conference in Columbus, where she attended conferences related to her interest in teaching German. In both 2010 and 2012, she studied at Passau University in Germany, in both a semester-long program and a summer language immersion program.
At Muskingum, DeBaldo was involved in the German Club and the university's Phi Sigma Iota chapter. In addition, she was a resident of the university's German House and was actively engaged with both German- and Spanish-speaking students who have travelled to Muskingum from abroad.
Ryan Bobst ('07) earned a Master's of Education in College Student Personnel in Higher Education at Ohio University-Athens. In his two-year graduate program he opted for an emphasis on International Education, becoming involved with Study Abroad, International Admissions, and International Student Services. Ryan now works for the University of San Diego School of Law as an Assistant Director for Graduate and International Programs. He majored in International Affairs and German at Muskingum. He was a participant in the German Club and worked as a Student Assistant for the Coordinator of International Student Services.
Jennica Magers ('06) graduated from Bowling Green State University with a MA in German. She spent her first year as a graduate student in Salzburg, Austria, as a student teacher. Jennica was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2008-2009 in Vienna, Austria. While at Muskingum, Jennica majored in German and International Affairs. She spent a year at Passau University, Germany in 2004-5.
Nandin Ganbold ('05) graduated summa cum laude in Business, International Business, Economics and German. She studied in Germany at the University of Deggendorf (2003-2004). Nandin also completed an internship in the Quality Management department of Medtronic Sofamor Danek Deggendorf GmbH, a German division of a company headquartered in Memphis, TN that makes spinal implants. Nandin lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
David Hurtuk ('03), was German, International Business, Business and Economics major, works as a Vice President for PNC Bank in Cleveland, OH.
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A reality star from Alaska visited Kugluktuk, a small Inuit community in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, this week talking about suicide.
Ariel Tweto grew up in a small Inuit community of Unalakleet.
She was featured in the Discovery Channel's "Flying Wild Alaska" and is now living in Los Angeles pursuing an acting career.
Tweto has had friends who died by suicide.
Now she is working to help youth see there are alternatives to suicide.
"I have a platform now since our show," Tweto said. "I owe it to people to bring awareness to suicide 'cause I know it's gonna happen again in Unalakleet. It could be one of my cousins, it could be one of my close friends... and I'm not gonna just sit here anymore and wait for it to happen."
Tweto's idea is to let youth in small communities know that they can attend universities and become doctors, lawyers or actors.
She said sometimes youth get stuck in a bubble and forget there is a whole big world outside of their community.
Tweto calls her prevention workshop the "Popping Bubbles" tour.
She was invited to Kugluktuk by the Society for Building a Healthier Kugluktuk and the Kugluktuk Radio Society.
"Ariel is a big inspiration to the youth here in Kugluktuk," said Donna Pangun, one of Healthy Kugluktuk's Cultural Support Advisors. "Her happiness and love of life really catches on ... she's just a lot of fun but she has a powerful message to share, a message that won't easily be forgotten."
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez got everyone riled up when Gomez was photographed wearing a diamond ring on her engagement finger on Wednesday. And man, Justin Bieber fans are good. Because I'm pretty sure no one else would've noticed the ring in this photograph. These guys must study every picture of Justin like it's a Where's Waldo cartoon.
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Ironically, Justin and Selena are hanging out in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to celebrate a wedding. Gomez is serving a bridesmaid in her friend Shannon Larossi's wedding. Larossi is a costume designer and she and Gomez met on the Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place. I almost forget Selena Gomez was a Disney kid. Probably because she doesn't have a drug addiction and/or hasn't dated Wilmer Valderrama (yet).
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A key issue for credit unions this week, and through May 28, is the NCUA's risk-based capital (RBC) proposal. While NCUA has a calculator to help credit unions determine how the proposal would affect their net worth, CUNA's policy analysis team has loaded a new and improved version of the risk-based capital calculator to their website. The new CUNA calculator allows you to gauge the impact of the proposal over time by evaluating changes to a credit union's risk assets and ratio-numerator values, along with simulation of various risk-weighting options; and it will give credit unions the ability to realistically assess the impact of future balance sheet growth and earnings assumptions. Your credit union data will automatically be loaded into the calculator, which will eliminate the need to re-enter all of your information.
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Yes, April is Project Zip Code Month, and all 35 Cornerstone chapters are urged to participate by visiting the Project Zip Code website and installing the 14.0 software.
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The Arkansas General Assembly recently finished its 2014 session, which addressed departmental budgets for all state agencies. In this session, only budget items can be filed unless a 2/3 majority vote of each house is obtained to introduce a non-budget item. While some political ads have been running on television and some candidates have been on the campaign trail, the real push will start within the next few weeks leading up to the Arkansas primary on May 20.
The South Central Chapter of Credit Unions will host their first Reality Fair, Monday evening, April 7, in Malvern. A Reality Fair gives high school students a realistic view of the financial life of an adult. During the fair, participants are given an identity, a job, an education level, and family responsibilities; and they are asked to make financial decisions as they move through a series of life-experience booths.
As the first chapter to host a Reality Fair in the state of Arkansas, chapter leaders wrote a grant application to the Cornerstone Credit Union League Foundation to purchase the Reality Fair for use in schools and events.
Rep. Anne Clemmer, candidate for U.S. representative in the 2nd Congressional District, the seat being vacated by Rep. Tim Griffin, has been invited to attend. As a friend of credit unions, Cornerstone supports Clemmer's bid for this open seat.
Along with activity in the Legislature, Oklahomans are beginning to see some real buzz in the run-up to the filing period (April 9-11) for federal, state, legislative, and county offices.
According to new Credit Union Association of Oklahoma President Nate Webb, "One of the big topics of conversation continues to be the number of members announcing a decision to retire or not seek re-election. The latest domino to fall is House Speaker Pro-tem Mike Jackson (R-Enid). Jackson was the heir-apparent to the speakership but was upset by Representative Jeff Hickman (R-Fairview)."
To date, 10 senators are term limited, retiring, or running for other offices. In the House, the number of seats up for grabs is 19, and that number could grow before the end of the filing period. Webb adds that many Democrats are dropping out because they feel they aren't relevant in the Oklahoma legislature anymore.
Committee work is currently dominating Oklahoma's legislative chambers, as bills originating in one chamber have been sent to the other chamber for consideration. Some of the bills still under review include:
HB2506. Assigned to the Senate Judiciary, we support this bill, which revises small claims procedure to benefit financial institutions.
HB2620. We support the bill, which is a property rights act, currently in the Senate General Government Committee. The bill would protect lienholders from paying fines and fees to municipalities on vacated property, as long as the property is maintained properly and doesn't pose a threat to property values in the surrounding area. We don't want to see it become a convenient revenue stream for municipalities or that any markup language would apply to a house that's been foreclosed on and sits empty but not abandoned.
SB0582. This bill is undergoing final markup language for the bill's author. We support this bill, which revises Title 42 to tighten the time frame in which lienholders must be notified.
SB2837. This bill, which we support and currently resides in the hands of the House Judiciary Committee, addresses the issue of "patent trolls." Slight modifications have been made to the original bill, but those are negligible and should not impact its overall intent.
The Texas House Committee on Business and Industry met Thursday, March 27, and opened the floor to leaders from state agencies, the bank community, credit card processors, retailers' associations, and credit unions. As a key representative of the financial institution industry in Texas, the committee invited the Texas Credit Union Association to testify. On our behalf, Gary Davis, president of Chocolate Bayou Community Federal Credit Union, testified about the effects of data breaches on credit unions, including reissuance costs, fraud losses, and erosion of the public trust.
Davis reported that, so far, his credit union has "replaced around 500 debit cards at $6.05 per card, which includes the cost of making the card, processing, and mailing it to accountholders. But that cost reflects only a portion of the impact felt by consumers and financial institutions when a breach occurs."
Davis testified specifically about the Target, Nieman Marcus, and similar data breaches. "Simply complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard," he said, "could have prevented the millions of dollars that financial institutions had to spend on new cards; the tremendous amount of time that credit union employees spent addressing the breach with our members; the untold fraud losses yet to come; and the massive inconvenience and cost to our members who had to reestablish all of the automatic payments that were set to their debit or credit cards so their bills could be paid."
Winding down his comments, Davis requested that legislation be passed to greater protect the citizens of Texas by taking steps toward these actions:
Davis stated that next year, the EMV chip card technology will be rolled out, and new cards will need to be reissued at between $4 and $9 per card. Chairman Oliveira asked whether or not this charge would be passed on to consumers, and Davis replied that they would not.
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The leader of the University of Louisiana System said Monday he's asked the state's top higher education board to scrap its method for divvying up dollars among Louisiana's public colleges, saying the formula is inappropriate to use with budget cuts.
UL System President Randy Moffett said the performance-based formula devised by the Board of Regents was designed when state funding for higher education was increasing, to create incentives for campuses to improve their performance. He said it wasn't designed to strip funding from schools.
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Pogo had the business wisdom decades ago.
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Tom Rieger, a Senior Practice Expert for Gallup, once wrote that "The greatest threat to an organization's success is not always the competition. Often, it is what a company does to itself. "
Rieger, who has spend years researching barriers within companies says that obstacles begin with a narrowing of focus, which leads to the first level of bureaucracy, parochialism.
"Parochialism exists when managers and departments begin to view the world through the filter of their own little silo, and build walls make of rules and policies to protect their turf."
As businesses grow and become more complex, the second level of bureaucracy is reached: territorialism. While parochialism is about protecting a department from outsiders, territorialism is about controlling those inside the silo.
"The third and final level of bureaucracy is empire building, which is a response to perceived threats to a department's ability to be self-sufficient. These barriers cost organizations a fortune in inefficiency, turnover, waste, and demoralization."
Innovation is about creating value.
One of smartest ways to create value is to identify those barriers that are inhibiting ideas from flowing within and beyond silos.
Rieger suggests a simple, but effective way to begin: A Rules Audit.
What rules in your organization are obstacles in disguise? "Some rules have nothing to do with customer engagement, a better workplace, limited risk or liability or avoiding catastrophes—they exist to make life easier for a small part of the organization without any regard for other more important factors.
Begin by identifying the rules that are hinder rather than help. For example, one company had a rule that denied rental car expenses if the receipt showed that the renter used the car for fewer than 50 miles. So employees would just drive around the airport until they hit the 50 mile mark.
Here are six steps recommended by Rieger.
1. Identify the need that the rule is supposed to fulfill, and evaluate the validity of that need.
2. Assess ownership of the rule.
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5. Establish the type of rule it is and the type it should be.
6. Adjust and communicate.
At Inotivity, this process is often the first step to also identifying conventions that are barriers to creating and evaluating new ideas.
Thanks Pogo. (Walt Kelly)
Click below for Tom Rieger's Change This Manifesto on how to do a rules audit.


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(Just a word of warning: this one does kind of wander a bit as I ramble on in my caffeine-addled haze. That's why it's a blog post and not an editorial. But I am very interested in comments on this, and since it's so long, I'm going to put the "more" in early.)
Follow up:
I've got one of those "hurry up and wait" jobs so prevalent in the IT industry. Thus, some days - especially days like this in the DC area, where probably at least half the office is avoiding snow - I'm left to surf the web, futilely trying to stave off boredom while waiting just in case someone needs me to fix something.
(My stuff doesn't break, but my users do screw things up.)
Today I was doing my rounds of the various Gawker sites - ones like Kotaku, Wonkette, Gizmodo, the such. I've got other things I probably should be doing - writing the lore for a fantasy game I'm helping a coworker with, for instance, or writing my end of year fantasy football blog since I've burned out on it - but let's face it: I'm a lazy, lazy man.
Heck, I paid my bills before I got to any of that!
(10 months and 13 days until my lasik is paid off. Hooah.)
While surfing those blogs I found an interesting post from a few days ago on Gawker. I don't always read Gawker, as it's NYC-centric and criminy, I've only been to the city once, but found it linked off Kotaku.
It's entitled: "I'm not offended, I'm just bored: Why gaming journalism should stop treating women like meat."
And I realized I hadn't thought about that too much.
Despite my regular visits to Kotaku - and, obviously, my work HERE, after all - I really don't surf a lot of gaming websites except on specific missions. I get issues of "Games for Window" magazine and "Game Informer" at home. I never subscribed to the former, but it follows me around, and the latter I got after trading in some games and can never seem to get rid of, either. I typically glance through them, see if there's anything I really give a damn about, but usually there isn't - or there's just things I want to make fun of them for.
I guess that I'm lucky, in a way, since I write for a site run by a woman, with many women on staff and one that's never treated women like anything other than the die-hard gamers that write for GamersInfo are.
I realized, though, after reading that, how some of my perceptions are formed when I'm reading some game sites. I get embarrassed by the fixation on women that some magazines and websites tend to have.
Now, don't get me wrong: I like me some pretty ladies. Heck, I really like me some pretty ladies. And I've got nothing wrong with sex in video games, if done right.
I do get embarrassed when I'm trying to thumb through Game Informer and there's a huge close-up of Lara Croft's chest on the page. HEY LOOK GUYS. I do get embarrassed when on the site that I'm reading it's plugging "the hottest women in gaming" or "babe of the day" or whatever.
I don't think it's as bad nowadays as it used to be, but Nick Douglas (the writer of the piece) does have a good point: whenever the publications take on women in gaming, they typically go after the best looking ones they find.
Compare, for instance, in GI's (and I'm not singling them out, honestly, but they happen to be the last magazine I looked through) page o' photographs that they have at the front of ech issue, showing gaming industry types, well, uh, "doing stuff". Look at the women involved, and compare not just how many there are compared to men (a very low percentage) but how many of the guys are - let's say - more "average" looking than the usually rather attractive women.
(That can be hard for a guy to figure out, I've noticed. So hand it to your girlfriend or wife or whomever for her to decide.)
I don't think that game journalists, though, can really be completely scandalized or singled out on this until games, themselves, get better at it. Let's not even get into games like the Dead Or Alive extreme volleyball whatever, or even fantasy games where the improbably proportioned women seem to wear armor that exposes as much as it covers.
In fact, let's use a "good" game in terms of this: Mass Effect.
If you haven't played or heard of Mass Effect I'd have to wonder why you're reading this. In short, you can play as a female or male. Either way, there are two romance subplots that you can explore in this roleplaying game - one with a member of the opposite sex of your race, and one with an alien whose race has only one sex (but it's quite obviously female).
In other words, you can have a heterosexual relationship, rewarded with a bit of cheesecake (I haven't seen or heard what you see with the female captain/male human pairing, but I'll comment on the opposite in a second), or a lesbian relationship. The desires that some people have to see a male-male relationship (be it gay men, or women who like that kind of thing, or whatever) isn't available.
The thing is: it's just silly. When I played through the game I played as a male captain because, well, I'm a guy, and that's who I identify with. (Whether or not the male argument of "I play a female character 'cause if I have to look at someone's ass all day..." for playing female characters is sexist or degrading in and of itself is probably an argument for another blog entry, and one that I'd look at later maybe if I wasn't so lazy - but if you want to bring it up in your comments, go ahead.)
When I realized at one point that my actions had doomed the romantic subplot with the female human, I reloaded my game and made different decisions. I did this because I wanted to explore that subplot and I didn't like, really, how the alien was brought into the equation: to me, it felt a bit tacked on and cheesy. It felt like a ploy, really, since out of your whole group there are only two women that aren't in full environmental armor and the lead-ups to the alien were even cheesier than the relationship with the female human.
At points during the game I imagined the choices the captain would've had with some of the other NPCs and would've found them less tacked-on than the one in there.
I hit the "sex scene" (not that you see any actual SEX, despite what some columnists think) while playing one night with my brother's fiancee in the room. We both laughed at the scene - it felt kind of tacked in there, the dialogue was cheesy (I keep using that word, I know) and honestly - I didn't feel like I needed that. If I want to look at computer generated naked women, I'm fairly certain that a few minutes with Google will give me more than enough.
Look at other games with a very strong story to them that don't feel the need to add sex: Bioshock, for one, has a great storyline and no sex in it, really, though some of the small touches touch on it, briefly, and make a more emotional impression than a witty quote about sex being like push-ups in Mass Effect.
Video games aren't alone in this regard; look at movies, and the often gratuitous sex scenes in some of them. I feel like (and this is just me, obviously) this trend is correcting itself in Hollywood, to some degree: I watched four movies this weekend, and only one of them had anything approaching a gratuitous sex scene. (A History of Violence had sex, but not gratuitous, in my open; The Kingdom and Children of Men had no sex scenes. Shoot 'Em Up was the closest to having one, but everything about that movie was silly and gratuitous, so I'd hesitate to fully call it that.)
I guess what it comes down to is that the gaming industry - and here I'm talking about game developers, gamers, and game journalists - are reaching a point in the span of the art of the game where we cannot take for granted assumptions and stereotypes from previous eras of gaming.
Nintendo brought gaming to a whole generation. Playstation brought gaming into a more socially acceptable light amongst yougn people. The Wii is breaking down barriers of all sorts with gaming.
Using "outdated misogynistic material" (as Nick Douglas in the Gawker article puts it) to pander to "straight young males" simply reinforces negative stereotypes and can do nothing but hurt the overall industry.
We're at a time now when men and women should bring developers and journalists to task for games and coverage that exploits these negative stereotypes. Journalists should call out games that rely on T&A to cover up poor stories or bad gameplay, and gamers should make it a point to consider what gaming journalists are making THEM look like when they read their publication.
If you want video game porn, then by all means, go for it. There's not a lack of it out there. That's fine. But don't shove it down my throat when all I want is real coverage, and don't force me to endure it to play your game.
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In the end, they're all in it to make money, and sex still sells. I wish that journalists would call people out on that, but most don't care. If you do, you're considered uptight. Things are slowly changing, maybe in 30 years or so it won't be as bad or as obvious :p
Although Soul Calibur IV makes Lara look flatchested.
In the end, they're all in it to make money, and sex still sells. I wish that journalists would call people out on that, but most don't care. If you do, you're considered uptight. Things are slowly changing, maybe in 30 years or so it won't be as bad or as obvious :p
Although Soul Calibur IV makes Lara look flatchested.
And to be honest, I'd much rather see a sex scene in a movie than a bunch of gratuitous violence. Give me History of Violence (and the emotional context of the sex) any day to say...Hostel.
Games in general don't contain any contextual sex. The relationship for the woman with the man in Mass Effect is an emotional support role. The MAN ensures this. I haven't played the woman/woman version. I'll have to see what I think of the other.
But there was only ONE choice of male and he's a pretty stand-up guy. So your choice was stand-up guy or no guy.
With me, "outdated misogynistic material" isn't an issue. But the crap pulled over Jade in that link above? That will always be.
One of the funny things - I like how he mentions Kotaku on there, when in the article I was referring to (which is obviously biased towards its own family of blogs) lists Kotaku as one that tries not to be sexist.
I am one of those crossdressers you mention. I do it as much for the eye candy as for the admiration of a tough lady.
That said, it really peeved me when all her armor is SKIN tight. I just don't understand, armour isn't and shouldn't be clingy. I can put her in that stuff when no one is looking...
I actually mentioned something about this on the game's forum. I posted that chainmail shouldn't look like a tight sweater. I was flamed by men and women both for not embracing a "fantasy" concept.
Just my two cents on sexism.
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By jaredmoshe | Jared Moshé's Blog December 20, 2005 at 11:22AM
So this entire illegally listening to citizens conversations could have broken before the election? Yes according to the LA Times. Too bad the NY Times couldn't have done their jobs rather than bowing to adminstration pressure - we are a republic here, remember?
"People Should Not Be Afraid Of Their Governments. Governments Should Be Afraid Of Their People" - Read it. Don't just wait to see it.
Or as Eric Alterman writes much better than I could:
It's a big moment now for all of us. If you've been keeping score at home, the incumbent president of the United States has announced that he can do anything he wants to anyone at any time, the laws be damned, all in the cause of protecting us from his own fears. He has infantilized the nation. (At the Republican convention, I heard Andy Card explain to a delegation that the president looked upon the nation the way "we all" would look upon our young children. He was dead serious and now, more than ever, I think it's the most frightening thing I've ever heard from, a public official.) It is a big moment now because it's time for us to decide if we're Americans or not. This is a country for grown-ups who take governing themselves seriously.
If we're Americans, we realize that the president is but our employee. He works for us. He takes an oath to abide by the immutable principles of a Constitution that begins with the three magnificent words, "We, The People." If we're Americans, we realize that there is not a system of "our" rights and "their" rights. Every abridgement -- potential or actual -- of someone's civil liberties is an attack on them all. If we're Americans, we realize that there is more to the country than its economy, that there is more to the system than its military. The Eastern bloc people didn't shake off the petrification of the Soviet bloc just because they wanted blue jeans and the Beatles. They wanted Jefferson and Madison, too, and all the raucous, unruly freedom that came after them. It is a big moment because it is one of those moments that forces on us the fundamental question that a wise old teacher of mine once said was at the heart of the American experiment:
Do we govern or are we governed?