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Album: Gone Again
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Lupe Fiasco was at the Boston House of Blues on Wednesday night. Lupe kicked and pushed through his 90-minute set - never coasting. The Chicago-born rapper comes to the stage with such energy, his set is a non-stop aerobic workout, and the fans in the house were no strangers to his music. For example, during a few verses of "Go Go Gadget Flow," Lupe leaned close to the crowd, and went head-to-head with a fan who mouthed every lyric at full speed. Quite impressive. Lupe is currently hitting venues across the country to promote his new album, Lasers.
There were a handful of college students in the front row and they shared their thoughts on Lupe Fiasco and his music. Kevin from Billerica said, "I saw Lupe a couple years ago with Kanye West. I've been waiting for him to come back, because he's unreal. He's the best rapper and I love listening to him." James added, "All his beats are sick. His lyrics are sick. Everything has meaning. He's a great musician." And close to him was Dan, "Lupe Fiasco is easily the best rapper alive. If Lasers is anything like The Cool, it's going to be the best CD I've ever heard."
Brenden and Brenden are roommates at Umass Lowell. One of them stated, "Lupe is amazing. I've listened to all the mixtapes and CDs - all the way back from A Rhyming Ape. I can't wait for the new one to drop." The other one continued, "Ever since Food & Liquor came out, I've been obsessed with Lupe. He's by far one of the top 5 artists out there. Everything he's doing is great. He's got a message in every word he spits – it's got meaning behind it and that's cool."
Army fatigues, a black shirt and black shoes were the uniform for Lupe Fiasco's Steppin Lasers Tour, he even asked fans to wear these items to the show via Twitter. Those who obliged were invited on stage for the final song, "Daydreamin". 8 or so lucky Bostonians enjoyed 'performing' alongside the rapper for a hilarious closer.
You might remember that Hewlett Packard commercial for Summit on the Summit, where a team climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to fight the global clean water crisis. Lupe Fiasco made the climb earlier this year. Check out video clips, tweets and stats from his adventure.
Decatur, Atlanta was in the house, in the form of hip-hop newcomer, B.O.B. I usually just list the support at the end of a review, but B.O.B showed us a little something different that night. There are so many layers to this artist, he moved effortlessly through a handful of personas – picking up a guitar, rapping a cappella…never losing the audience's attention. He's a promising new artist, bringing quality back to the hip-hop game. Thank you.
Lupe is on Twitter and you can follow him here: http://twitter.com/LupeFiasco
B.O.B is on Twitter also. Follow him here: http://twitter.com/bobatl
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Trees and sidewalks are another area of accomplishment. DeCelles established the Sidewalk Division, whose attentive maintenance of the nearly 500 miles of sidewalk has helped reduce liability issues. In addition, his crews maintain 17,000 trees, including an average of 300 new plantings each year.
Stuart Moring, PE, Director of public works, Roswell, Ga.
When Roswell's transportation director left in April 2006, Moring was asked to take over the position, in addition to his regular duties as director of public works. Growth in Roswell and other cities in the region had led to loss of several key staff, and eroding morale.
To reverse the downslide, Moring worked to keep staff informed, involve them in strategic planning, and applaud them for above-and-beyond efforts.
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Other departments and municipalities frequently turn to Moring for guidance. For example, he's been asked to help out with designing a major sewer expansion in Albany, Ga., as well as managing the merger of two large water distribution systems in Kentucky.
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William Pugh, Public works director. Tacoma, Wash.
Tacoma's downtown core and supporting infrastructure needed some serious sprucing up.
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"Our citizens and leaders understand and embrace the broader definition of 'environment'—what makes someone call a place home, how it includes people, businesses, culture, and history, as well as our natural systems," he says.
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Without a healthy fleet, any public works department will be brought to a screeching halt.
Johnson realized this when he implemented a program in Leawood's Fleet Maintenance Division that developed a vehicle replacement policy and list for all city vehicles. By meeting once a year to review the fleet program for each department and discuss anticipated needs, price changes, and other concerns, Johnson, his department's fleet manager, and other city managers keep costs manageable and avoid surprises.
"We forecast costs five to six years out, which helps maintain a somewhat level annual expense," he says. "This also allows the city to get the most effective service life out of vehicles before replacement."
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London's sewer system had been crumbling for decades. While constituents and elected officials recognized the need to upgrade the infrastructure, getting the necessary funding would require significant rate increases. Steblin and his team successfully lobbied to make it happen.
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The United Kingdom's Shakeaway milk shake bar arrived in San Diego with two franchise locations in La Jolla and Pacific Beach this summer. With over 180 flavours to mix and match, Shakeaway offers patrons endless options to create the milk shake of their dreams or try one of Shakeaway's unique combinations. From Skittle Sours to Kinder Bueno, there is a little bit of everything for everybody.
Despite the selection, Shakeaway falls short of a quality product which are priced at $4.99 for a regular and $5.99 for a large both of which are a vanilla ice cream based shake with your choice of one mix-in. Nine out of ten, you probably want more than one mix-in which are an additional $1.49 and if thick shakes are your favorite then add another $0.69 and soon enough you will be sipping a $7+ shake made of standard ice cream and a stomach ache of regret.
The problem is that at $7 or even $6 a pop, one's expectations hope for quality ingredients and a memorable experience instead of a sweet cold shake that is reminiscent of a generic brand ice cream thrown in a blender with your kid's leftover Halloween candy.
Fruit smoothies are the alternative served up hoping to entice the health-minded customers as well as those looking for a milky treat. In case patrons need a salty nibble to balance out the sweet, fries are also offered at the establishment. Seemingly a perfect pairing (think Wendy's fries and Frosty), Shakeaway's fries look delectable and taste like they fries baked up from a frozen Ore-Ida potatoes. Although, there's nothing wrong with baking rather than frying the potatoes, there is something wrong with fries that aren't at all crispy on the outside.
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Facebook is following you around the Web. You knew that, right?
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"They imagined an electronic funds transfer system, or EFTS—a system that looks strikingly similar to the debit card system we all use today."
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The company now plans to open an A.I. lab in Paris, its third such office around the world.
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In a speech today in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet "needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly." This, according to Kerry, is necessary even for "a technology founded on freedom."
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"The public should take notice," Sethi, of the ACLU, told Motherboard. "These programs may be coming to a theater near you."
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A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials must sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from saying almost anything about the technology.
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Turning players of all ages onto the game of golf is shooting up the mission leaderboard at Pine View Golf Course.
The new management has put a premium on providing lessons in a stress-free zone for beginner men and women, high-handicappers and kids ages seven to 16.
"Whether you have never swung a club in your life, or are looking to explore your golfing potential, we offer a wide range of camps for kids and lessons that have created for any age, ability level and budget," said Pine View's Glen Costello.
"When we show students the basics of the game, it's like constructing a house. We start by creating a solid foundation and build from there."
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Asus gets sued by Hasbro over the Transformer Prime's name
Wishing for another lawsuit to pop up in the mobile world? It's your lucky day! This time, Asus has been sued. Thankfully though, not by Apple, and not for patent infringement.
The company suing is Hasbro, which you may have heard of because it makes toys (and licenses truckloads of well known game brands to companies such as EA, but also apparently is into digital entertainment). Hasbro, of course, is the parent of the famous Transformers series (and movie franchise). Furthermore, the protagonist of both the animated series as well as the film series is called Optimus Prime.
It is then quite easy to figure out that Hasbro's beef is with the recently-announced Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet's name.
If you're wondering why Hasbro hasn't sued over the original Transformer, perhaps that would have been easily overthrown by Asus – after all, it is a common word. But Transformer and Prime, in the same brand? That must have been too much for Hasbro.
That said, it's really unlikely that anyone would confuse a toy with a tablet, even one that transforms into a netbook if you want it to. On the other hand, Asus did use some of the brand recognition already established by the toys (and franchises) to drive interest for its new tablet.
So this will be an interesting one. What will prevail? The differing fields in which the companies operate, or the (uncanny) similarity between the brands? We'll just have to wait and see.
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Who's going to be the next pope? We know, more or less, who the cardinals are most likely to pick once the conclave gets rolling tomorrow. But there's another question that should be asked as we watch the Vatican for white smoke: who do lay Catholics and victims of sexual abuse by the church want for pope?
There's more than one way to dissect a papal election process of course, but as the sex abuse scandal still rightly casts a deep shadow over the church, there are two ways the new pope might try to "fix" the church: with a revised papal media presence, and with systematic reform in church leadership. According to at least some advocates, the cardinals are paying way too much attention to the former, and sweeping reform under the rug.
An advocacy group for survivors of sexual abuse named their "Dirty Dozen" of leading contenders last week. The list of papabiles names cardinals deemed unfit for the job because of their ties to the sex abuse scandal and has a fair amount of overlap with others in circulation, including one I compiled this week for Slate.
SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)'s executive director, David Clohessy, told me via email that some of the cardinals on the list might surprise Catholics, as they're widely promoted as "reformers" in the church. Take, for example, Cardinal O'Malley of the United States, who has listed addressing the abuse scandal among his priorities for the next pope. But O'Malley, who is considered a "reformer" on the issue by some (including some survivors) for his "zero tolerance" stance towards child abuse in the Catholic church, has also shown "stunning" leniency toward some abusers under his watch. Many extant examples of church "reform" don't actually address the problem, SNAP says. Clohessy says that the abuse within the church has gone on for centuries, adding, "It's going on now. And it won't be reversed in a few years. Because of this, SNAP advocates for victims to report abuse to "secular" authorities, indicating their lack of faith in the church's current ability to address abuse cases internally.
Here are SNAP's "Dirty Dozen":
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, Norberto Rivera of Mexico, Marc Ouellet of Canada, Peter Turkson of Ghana, George Pell of Australia, Tarcisio Bertone of Italy, Angelo Scola of Italy, Leonardo Sandri of Argentina, Dominik Duka of the Czech Republic, Sean O'Malley of the United States, Timothy Dolan of the United States, and Donald Wuerl of the United States.
SNAP has also said they're rejecting all "Curia" candidates for the papacy, which essentially means anyone who works in administration at the Vatican. Unsurprisingly, their list of more acceptable candidates is quite short. The group released a companion list of the "least worst" candidates for pope on Thursday.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Phillipines and Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria have shown up on other papibile lists. A third candidate on the list is an outsider because he's not a cardinal. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Ireland is not without popular support although his outspoken advocacy for church reform in the face of the abuse scandal probably hasn't endeared him to the Vatican.
SNAP has detailed the criteria for their "dirty dozen" selections on their site. Cardinals made the list for actions and words seen as harmful to victims or for impeding efforts for meaningful church reform. As I flagged previously, multiple candidates for pope have at least partially blamed child abuse on homosexuality (as has the church-commissioned John Jay Report on "The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests.")
Some American cardinals, like Timothy Dolan, have been deposed and questioned on their knowledge of sex abuse scandals in their current or former diocese. While SNAP has so far been the most outspoken group on the sex abuse scandal since Benedict XVI's resignation, CBS News notes that a number of victim advocacy groups around the world have released similar statements criticizing candidates and 115 cardinals voting in the papal elections. But the effect of the abuse scandal on cardinal participation in the conclave has been minimal: Only Cardinal Kieth O'Brien has recused himself, after stepping down as Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh last week.
So what does the Vatican think of SNAP's list? Well. According to the National Catholic Reporter, when Thomas Rosica, English-language spokesperson for the Vatican, was questioned about the "dirty dozen" at a press briefing on Wednesday, he told reporters, "We are well aware of the positions of SNAP… but it really isn't up to SNAP to determine who should participate or not in the conclave."
The tension between the Vatican leadership and advocacy groups like SNAP is worth noting; it highlights the combative way the Vatican has treated the scandal all along. But it didn't have to be this way…at least once the abuse and cover-up was finally made public. While the Vatican and conservative Catholic groups like the Catholic League have been dismissive or even hostile toward SNAP, American Catholics are unhappy with the church's handling of the sex abuse scandal. According to Pew, just 33% of Catholics in the US think Benedict XVI did an "excellent or good" job responding to abuse. And in a follow-up survey, 34% of American Catholics thought the sex abuse scandal was the most important issue facing the church as it elects a new pope. The juxtaposition of significant concern on the issue in the laity with the Vatican's seemingly eternal hope that the scandal will fade from the public eye without deeper reform reflects a precarious disconnect that serves no one well.
Despite the papal election's singular ability to drive media attention to the problems facing church leadership, Clohessy cautioned Catholics and observers to "avoid the tempting assumption that somehow, magically, the next pope will do more to safeguard kids. "No one man caused this crisis," he said, "No one man, not even a pope, can quickly fix it."
Abby Ohlheiser writes for Slate's newsblog, The Slatest. Her work has appeared in The New Humanist, Slate, The Revealer, Religion & Politics, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
Also on the conclave, by Abby Ohlheiser:
"Secret Ballot For New Pope will Begin Tuesday," March 8, 2013, Slate
"Who Will Be the Next Pope? Probably One of These Guys," March 5, 2013, Slate
"The Cardinals Spent Most of Their Pre-Conclave meeting Taking an Oath of Secrecy," March 4, 2013


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To the conspiracy theorists, like I said earlier, please give Rwanda and Rwandans a break. Their struggle to liberate their country and build a society founded on the unity of all Rwandans may have gone through challenging times, but the story about the new Rwanda characterised by the dignity restored to all, the shared destiny binding all the Rwandans to work hard for their prosperity is recognised and appreciated by many the world over.
If that is what frustrates the conspiracy theorists, they can as well abandon the project because it will never get them anywhere.
The resilience built out of facing the challenges and the adherence to the correct ideological line put in place by the current leadership under President Paul Kagame is a guarantee for Rwanda to continue on the path to sustainable development.
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First, a little about the sample web service. I created a simple web service to return an array of type "Car". Here is a class diagram of "Car" as well as the web service end point interface and the implementation.
If you drag the web service method "getCars" onto a table, you'll get a table looking like this.
As you can see, the dataprovider was created from the high-level attributes of Car; body, engine, frame and model. This is really all the code that does the data provider can do to guess at what to show. But, suppose you really wanted to show the "engine" attributes in the table? Here's how to do it.
First, drag and drop an "Object Array Data Provider" onto the designer. This should create "objectArrayDataProvider1" in the Outline window.
public void init() {
// Perform application initialization that must complete
// \*after\* managed components are initialized
// TODO - add your own initialization code here
\* We need to build an Array from the subparts of the car to use in the dataprovider
ArrayList engines = new ArrayList();
try {
boolean moreRows = myWebServiceGetCars1.cursorFirst();
RowKey currentRowKey = null;
FieldKey engineKey = myWebServiceGetCars1.getFieldKey("engine");
while(moreRows) {
currentRowKey = myWebServiceGetCars1.getCursorRow();
Engine currentEngine = (Engine)myWebServiceGetCars1.getValue(engineKey, currentRowKey);
moreRows = myWebServiceGetCars1.cursorNext();
} catch (DataProviderException dpe) {
error("DataProviderException=" + dpe);
this.objectArrayDataProvider1.setArray((Engine [])engines.toArray(new Engine [0]));
You could just call the web service to get the "Car" array and go through and build the Array. You will, however, be making another call across the wire which can be expensive. The web service data provider is created in the "_init" method called in the first part of "init". When the web service data provider is created, it tries to make a call to the web service to fill in the data.
Now we need to add an "engine" property to the "Page1" of type Engine. This will allow us to point our new Object Array Data Provider to it. Add a property to Page1 by drilling down in the Project window
Next, select the table, right-click and select "Bind to Data". From the "Get From Data:" dropdown, select "objectArrayDataProvider1" and press the "Apply" button. You should see something like this.
That's it! You've not successfully created a new data provider and used a different set of values in the web service return to populate the table.


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STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State looked to its bench for a spark Thursday night.
Shamia Robinson delivered that spark. Robinson posted her first career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Bulldogs rallied past Jacksonville State 69-54 in a women's basketball game played at the Humphrey Coliseum.
"Preparing for the game, I thought this was my time to get back on the court. This is what I do best, play ball," Robinson said. "I expected to not get much playing time coming off an injury, but I knew that I would give it my all if I went into the game."
MSU (6-5) battled past a sluggish first half, falling down by as many as 12 points. The Bulldogs used an 11-0 run in the second half to take control of the game. The victory was MSU's fifth straight at home.
"We didn't do a good job controlling the tip and the first half just went from there," MSU head coach Vic Schaefer said. "We were not ready to play when the lights came on and I will take the responsibility for that. I will never complain about our skill set. However, I want to always respect the game and play the game with pride."
In the second half, the Bulldogs received a spark from both Robinson and Brittany Young. Robinson had a personal-best 17 points and added 10 rebounds in 19 minutes of action. Young added a career-high six points and matched her MSU high with five rebounds in 17 minutes of play. The Bulldogs got a combined total of 121 minutes from the bench.
"We are going to play the players that work the hardest," Schaefer said. "Shamia and Brittany have worked hard and took advantage of their opportunities tonight."
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MSU forced a season-high 35 turnovers on the defensive end. The Bulldogs also collected a season-high 17 steals.
Jacksonvile State (0-12) held the better of the competition for most of the first half. The Gamecocks built an early 12-2 lead as the hosts failed to maintain the energy level of the guests.
The Gamecocks stretched the lead to as many as 12 midway through the first half. A jumper by JSU's Destany Mclin ran the advantage to 23-11 with 8:03 left in the half.
The Bulldogs closed within four on two free throws by Carnecia Williams. A 3-point basket by MSU's Darriel Gaynor tied the game at 24 with 3:54 left before halftime. The Bulldogs eventually scored nine straight points and took a 30-24 lead.
MSU forced 19 first-half turnovers and led 32-28 at halftime.
In the second half, the Gamecocks trimmed the lead to three before MSU took control with a 9-2 run. A layup by Katia May placed the Maroon and White on top 43-33 with 13:23 left before halftime.
For the contest, the Bulldogs hit 24 of 65 shots from the field (36.9 percent), 2 of 9 shots from 3-point range (22.2 percent) and 19 of 31 shots from the foul line (61.3 percent). The Gamecocks hit 19 of 54 shots from the field (35.2 percent), 1 of 8 shots from 3-point range (12.5 percent) and 15 of 26 shots from the foul line (57.7 percent).
Jacksonville State held a 45-43 rebounding advantage. The Bulldogs had nine assists and 22 turnovers, while the Gamecocks had eight assists and 35 turnovers.
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Gourmet Baby – Apricot Cherry Cobbler
- 2 cans halved apricots in fruit juice
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- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 /2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup infant oatmeal
Combine all ingredients in food processor and puree for 45 seconds until smooth. Enjoy!
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- Global crisis to drag down African growth
- IMF presses advanced economies to live up to aid promises
- Recommends that stalled global trade talks be resumed
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), worried that economic gains in Africa will slip away because of the global downturn, is pressing advanced countries to honor, and even scale up, aid commitments and called for a revival of stalled world trade negotiations.
The IMF released its assessment of the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on Africa on the eve of a major conference March 10–11 in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam about Africa's future.
The downturn in global growth, the decline in most commodity prices, and tighter credit have significantly worsened the economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa, the IMF assessment said. "Risks are rising and how long the crisis will last is uncertain. Policymakers must walk a tightrope between not aggravating the shock in aggregate demand on the one side, while protecting hard-won gains in economic fundamentals on the other."
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Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa had enjoyed robust economic growth in recent years that strengthened their balance sheets. Sound economic policies were an important factor, as was the favorable external environment and increased external support in the form of debt relief and higher inflows.
But the food and fuel price shocks of 2007–08 that preceded the current global financial crisis weakened the external position of net importers of food and fuel, caused inflation to accelerate, and dampened growth prospects. The global financial crisis greatly compounds the policy challenges confronting the region as it strives to consolidate its economic gains and meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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• Frontier and emerging markets. Through their financial links with other regions in the world, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya were hit first, suffering falling equity markets, capital flow reversals, and pressures on exchange rates. Ghana and Kenya had to postpone planned borrowing, and in South Africa and Nigeria external financing for corporations and banks is becoming scarce.
• Across Africa. The global slowdown in economic activity has pushed commodity prices down, with negative effects on export earnings and the external current account, fiscal revenues, and household incomes. Commodity exporters face a major terms of trade deterioration. IMF research shows that in the past a 1 percentage point slowdown in global growth has led to an estimated ½ percentage point slowdown in sub-Saharan Africa. The effects may be more pronounced this time because the tightening of global credit compounds the impact of the slowdown, exacerbating risks for trade finance and other capital flows.
• Fragile states whose political and social situation is inherently vulnerable. Countries like Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, and Liberia are dependent on very concessional financing that may well be affected.
The IMF said any policy response must take into account the impact on the poor and seek to incorporate social safety nets. Countries that do not have debt sustainability and financing constraints may have some scope for fiscal easing.
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But it is also clear that countries would depend critically on donors honoring their aid commitments, and even increasing aid levels, despite new competing demands on their own budgets. The IMF itself is moving fast to increase financial support to affected countries, step up technical assistance, and reinforce the policy dialogue with its African members.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in Tanzania to attend conference, speaks at University of Dar es Salaam March 9 (photo: Stephen Jaffe/IMF)
The IMF said that current financing constraints make it even more important for donors to ensure, in keeping with the Paris Declaration, that aid is predictable, transparent, and aligned with the policy priorities of the recipients. Aid would be particularly useful now as fiscal pressures are building up, to prevent undue compression of investment budgets and make it possible to maintain the scope and size of social safety nets. Although many donor countries face problems of their own, aid flows are still a relatively small share of their budgets and can be accommodated even with the new competing demands.
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The IMF said stalled global trade talks need to be resumed to stimulate global growth and welfare. Successful conclusion of the Doha Round would help to better integrate developing countries, including those in Africa, into the global trading system, which would spur global and regional growth and facilitate African attainment of the MDGs.
Temptations to respond to weakening balance of payments positions with protectionist measures need to be avoided. Less global trade would likely harm all countries.
How the IMF is helping
• The IMF increased its financial support to African countries during last year's food and fuel price crisis and remains a catalyst for critically needed donor support.
• Its lending window known as the Exogenous Shocks Facility was modified in September 2008 to provide assistance more quickly and in larger amounts to low-income countries dealing with exogenous shocks. Malawi was the first country to benefit from this facility, and since then Comoros, Senegal, and most recently Ethiopia have accessed the facility. The IMF has also increased access to the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility for a number of countries.
• To meet the diverse and evolving needs of low-income countries, the IMF is considering further major reforms of the architecture of its financing facilities, higher access limits to Fund resources, and additional concessional assistance, as well as more flexibility to finance infrastructure projects and other critical investments.
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12-11246 Roy (Bankr. D. Kan. Sep. 24, 2013) Doc. # 39
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SIGNED this 24th day of September, 2013.
Case No. 12-11246
Chapter 7
The "right to receive" an earned income tax credit under § 32 of the Internal
Revenue Code or KAN. STAT. ANN. § 79-32,205 (2012 Supp.) was declared exempt for
Kansas bankruptcy debtors with the enactment of KAN. STAT. ANN. § 60-2315 (2012
Supp.) in 2011. This seemingly straightforward exemption provision, enacted to
preserve this tax attribute for the benefit of low income, working people with children
or other dependents, has drawn numerous challenges on multifaceted grounds from
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chapter 7 trustees in this District. Unlike the cases in which the trustees have
mounted constitutional challenges to the Kansas exemption statute, the trustee in this
case seeks to limit the exemption by requiring the debtors to apply some of it to their
prepetition tax liability. But because the statute expressly exempts the debtors' right
to receive the credit "not to exceed" its maximum amount, and because Kansas law has
long prohibited creditors from marshaling a debtor's assets in ways that would impair
the debtor's exemptions, this part of the trustee's motion for turnover must be denied.
The trustee's other two concerns, whether the debtors' attorney's fee assignment
should be prorated between the federal and state income tax refunds, and whether the
trustee can recover the $5.45 remaining in the debtors' bank account on the petition
date are resolved as follows. There is no reason why an attorney's form of assignment
cannot specify from which refund his or her fees will be collected. When the assignment
doesn't specify, however, prorating the assigned fee between the two refunds is
workable and makes sense. As to the aggregation of small assets, in this case $5.45 is
simply not an economically feasible amount of money to recover in the face of any
material resistance and should be abandoned. The balance of the trustee's motion for
turnover must therefore be denied.1
The Roys filed this case on May 14, 2012. Their 2012 federal and state income
tax returns indicate that they're entitled to receive a federal refund of $5,205 and a
1 Dkt. 26.
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state refund of $369. Their federal earned income credit (EIC) amounted to $1,600 and
their state EIC $288. They readily agreed to hand over to the trustee the estate's share
of their refunds, 135/366 or 36.88525% of their refunds, after reducing the full federal
refund by the $181 attorney's fee assignment and after deducting the entire amount
of their EIC. The trustee, however, demands not only that the debtors prorate their
attorney's fee assignment between the federal and state refunds, but also that their
EIC be reduced to bear its proportionate "burden" of both the fees and any federal or
state income tax the debtors owed. These debtors owed no federal tax, but owed state
tax of $890.
We begin with the adjustment upon which all parties (including the Court)
agree. The Roys filed this case on the 135th day of 2012; accordingly, 135/366 or
36.88525% of the refunds, after deduction of attorney's fees, is property of the estate.2
The debtors' methodology is the simplest and, therefore, a good place to begin. The
Roys received a federal refund of $5,205. They deducted their lawyer's $181 fee
assignment and all of their $1,600 EIC, leaving $3,424. Of that amount, 36.88525% is
property of the estate, or $1,262.95. They received a state refund of $369 from which
they deducted their EIC of $288, leaving $81. The estate's share of that is $29.88.
Table 1: Debtors' Calculations
Federal Refund State Refund
Refund $5,205.00 $369.00
2 See In re Barowsky, 946 F.2d 1516 (10th Cir. 1991).
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Assignment $(181.00) $0.00
Net Refund $3,424.00 $81.00
Due to Estate $1,262.95 $29.88
The trustee's calculations are more intricate. First, he would allocate the
debtors' attorney fee assignment between the federal and state refunds. The debtors'
total refund being $5,574, the federal portion makes up 93.4% of the total and the state
portion makes up 6.6%. The trustee then allocates the fee secured by the assignment,
$181, proportionately, deducting $169.02 from the federal refund and $11.98 from the
state refund. This leaves $5,035.98 of the federal refund and $857.02 of the state
refund for further adjustment.
Then the trustee suggests that the proportion of the EIC to the gross amount of
the refund on each return be determined so that the amount of tax "paid" by the credit
can be determined. What remains after deducting that pro rata payment is, according
to the trustee, the extent of the debtors' EIC exemption. The debtors' contrary view is
that after the attorneys fees are deducted, and after the entire EIC amount is
subtracted from that remainder, 135/366 or 36.88525% of what is left is property of the
The trustee's proposed calculations are below.
Table 2: Trustee's Calculations--Federal
S Federal Refund $5,205.00
T Fee Assignment $(169.02)
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U Refund net of fee assignment $5,035.98
V Federal EIC $1,600.00
W Proportion of EIC to gross refund 30.74%
X Exemptable portion of EIC [U x W] $1,548.04
Y Net federal refund [U - X] $3,487.94
Z Estate portion [Y x 36.88525%] $1,286.53
So as to the federal refund, the trustee would reduce the exemption by about $52
and increase the estate's share of the refund by some $23. This effectively requires the
EIC to bear a portion of the debtor's attorneys fee assignment, but because the debtor
owed no federal income tax, the trustee would not reduce the debtor's share of the EIC
any further.
The trustee's treatment of the debtor's state tax refund is significantly different
because the debtor did owe state income tax and was entitled to other, non-refundable
credits. Thus, the trustee allocates some portion of the refundable state EIC to the
payment of state income tax, limiting the amount of the EIC that these debtors would
be permitted to retain as exempt. That calculation is as follows:
Table 3: Trustee's Calculations--State
R State refund $ 369.00
S Total state credits $ 1,259.00
T Fee assignment $ 11.98
U Refund net of fee $ 357.02
V State EIC $ 288.00
W Proportion of EIC to total credits 22.88%
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X Exemptable portion of EIC [U x W] $ 81.69
Y Net state refund [U - X] $ 275.33
Z Estate's portion [Y x 36.88525%] $ 101.56
Summarizing the above, the trustee believes the estate is entitled to $1,286.53
of the federal refund and $101.56 of the state refund, while the debtors say they are
only obligated to pay $1,262.95 and $29.88 respectively.
The trustee also contends that the estate should receive turnover of the $5.45
remaining in the debtors' bank account on the date of filing while the debtors argue
that this amount is burdensome to administer and should be abandoned. There is no
dispute that the balance in the debtor's bank account on the petition date was $5.45.
Some might be tempted to dismiss the controversies raised here as too petty to
dignify serious consideration, but while the numbers are small, the issues are not.
Giving appropriate effect to the benevolent purposes of the earned income tax credit
and the state's exemption, both of which were intended to benefit working families who
earn less than $60,000 a year, approximately $12,000 below the median income of a
Kansas family of four,4 is vital to one of the core purposes of bankruptcy courts – to
provide debtors a fresh start in their post-bankruptcy lives.
3 A motion for turnover of property of the estate is a core proceeding under 28
U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(E) over which this Court has subject matter jurisdiction under 28
U.S.C. § 157(b)(1) and §1334.
4 http://www.justice.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/20130501/meanstesting.htm, viewed
August 19, 2013.
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The Attorney's Fee Assignment Adjustment
In a prior set of cases, I have held that when debtors validly assign a portion of
their tax refunds to their attorneys for fees incurred in filing their cases in this
division, the assigned amount should be deducted before the familiar proportional pre-
and postpetition allocation is made under the Barowsky case.5 This case poses the
novel question whether the attorney's fee should be prorated between the two refunds
(state and federal). Neither party provided any case law to support their positions and
my independent review yields none, leading me to conclude that the practicalities of
this question have either prevented its being presented to other courts or if it has been,
the matter has been decided from the bench. There is nothing inherently objectionable
about requiring debtors to allocate fee assignments between the gross cash amounts
the debtors receive on account of their state and federal refunds, particularly when the
assignment is silent with respect to apportioning the fees among those refunds and the
assignment is of the debtors' "income tax refunds."6 The Court will allocate the $181
5 In re Barowsky, 946 F.2d 1516 (10th Cir. 1991) (that portion of income tax
refund attributable to the prepetition portion of taxable year is property of theestate); See Redmond v. Carson (In re Carson), 374 B.R. 247 (10th Cir. BAP 2007)
(an assigned flat-fee retainer may be deducted from the entire tax refund before thepre- and post-petition allocation of the tax refund.); In re Hunter, 2011 WL 1749933
(Bankr. D. Kan. May 5, 2011) (Debtors' assignment of prepetition portion of incometax refunds to their bankruptcy attorney as a flat fee retainer for filing theirchapter 7 case is enforceable and results in attorney's fees being deducted from theestate's prorated share of the refund and not enforced from the post-petition portionof the refund.).
6 Ex. 2. Emphasis added. Cf. Hunter, supra at note 4, where the assignment
was expressly limited to the prepetition portion, or the estate's share, of the taxrefund.
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attorney's fee between the federal refund and state refund as advocated by the trustee.
Burdening the Earned Income Credit
As with the attorney's fee apportionment issue, there are no cases that directly
address the trustee's argument that when the debtors owe tax to which the EIC would
be applied, the portion of the debtors' refund that can be attributed to the credit should
be reduced to force the pro rata application of a portion of the credit to the tax paid.
The trustee's view is that permitting the debtors to retain all of their EIC when, in fact,
some portion of the taxes they pay should be attributed to it effectively places the
burden of paying the debtors' taxes on the creditors by diminishing the estate.
In In re Earned Income Tax Credit Exemption Constitutional Challenge Cases,
I made the following comments about the nature and purpose of the earned income
The EIC is a refundable tax credit. As the Tenth Circuit noted in
In re Montgomery, an individual's tax credits are applied to tax owed fora taxable year and if they exceed the amount of tax owed, they areconsidered an overpayment that is refunded. So, whether an individualhas actually paid in withholdings or not, she is entitled to receive theexcess credit as if she had. The EIC "was enacted to reduce the
disincentive to work caused by the imposition of Social Security taxes onearned income (welfare payments are not similarly taxed), to stimulatethe economy by funneling funds to persons likely to spend the moneyimmediately, and to provide relief for low-income families hurt by risingfood and energy prices." As the Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panelhas noted, "the EIC benefits low-income married couples and heads ofhouseholds with qualifying dependent children." The state's EIC iscomputed as a percentage of the federal EIC, currently set at 18 per cent.7
7 In re Earned Income Tax Credit Exemption Constitutional
Challenge Cases, 477 B.R. 791, 796-97 (Bankr. D. Kan. 2012). See KAN. STAT. ANN. §
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In support of his position here, the trustee cites several cases that support the
general proposition that the EIC can be apportioned. In In re Montgomery, which the
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decided before the legislature enacted KAN. STAT. ANN.
§ 60-2315, the Circuit held that the prepetition portion of a Kansas debtor's EIC was
property of the bankruptcy estate and subject to the same proration required under
Barowsky as the rest of the tax refund.8 Later in In re Borgman, the Tenth Circuit
held that a Colorado statute exempting the "full amount of any . . . tax refund
attributed to an earned income tax credit or a child tax credit" does not permit the
debtor to retain the portion of his refund that is attributable to the child tax credit
(different from the EIC) because, unlike the EIC, that credit is not refundable under
I.R.C. § 6401.9 In that case, the debtors had no EIC, only the child tax credit and
overpayments.10 The Circuit affirmed the holdings of both Colorado bankruptcy judges
who had concluded that because the child tax credit was not refundable, it could not
make up any part of the refund.11 Holding otherwise would effectively force the
exemption of non-refundable overpayments that are not otherwise exempt under
Colorado law. Borgman bars the exemption of non-refundable elements of a tax refund
8 224 F.3d 1193, 1195 (10th Cir. 2000).
9 698 F.3d 1255, 1258 (10th Cir. 2012).
10 Id. at 1258-59. The Borgman opinion addressed the identical issue in two
separate bankruptcy cases (Borgman and Dunckley) – whether the nonrefundableportion of the federal child tax credit could be exempted under Colorado law.
11 Id. at 1261.
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because there is nothing in the debtor's hands to exempt.12 The converse of this rule
may be that a debtor can only exempt what is attributable to the exempt elements of
the refund, requiring the proration the trustee advocates in the Roys' case to determine
what precisely is attributable to the credit.
But in In re Westby, Judge Karlin refused to permit an allocation of the EIC into
pre- and postpetition portions.13 She correctly held that the Barowsky proration did not
apply to the EIC because the EIC is exempt, noting that "Senate Bill No. 12 explicitly
exempts the "maximum credit" for "one tax year." Therefore, a pro rata division would
not be appropriate, because Senate Bill No. 12 exempts the property from the estate
entirely."14 That reasoning disposes of the point here, too. Because the entire EIC is
exempt, it should not be burdened with paying the debtor's tax bill. This conclusion is
buttressed by the long-held Kansas view that exemptions are to be liberally construed
in favor of the debtor.15
Another facet of Kansas exemption law also undercuts the trustee's argument.
The Kansas Supreme Court has historically rejected creditors' efforts to marshal a
debtor's assets in a way that would invade their homestead exemption, instead holding
12 Id. at 1262.
13 473 B.R. 392 (Bankr. D. Kan. 2012), aff'd 486 B.R. 509 (10th Cir. BAP 2013),
appeal dismissed, Williamson v. Westby (In re Westby), Case No. 13-3044 (10th Cir.
Mar. 29, 2013)
14 Id. at 421.
15 Hodes v. Jenkins (In re Hodes), 308 B.R. 61, 65 (10th Cir. BAP 2004);
Nohinek v. Logsdon, 6 Kan. App. 2d 342, 344, 628 P. 2d 257 (1981).
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that nonexempt assets must first be liquidated to pay lienholders' and general
creditors' debts. In the 1877 case Colby v. Crocker, creditors of Crocker's probate estate
brought an equitable marshaling action against the estate and its secured creditors,
asking to apply the deceased's assets to the payment of his debts in a way most
advantageous to them.16 None of these creditors held liens or other security. One of the
defendants held a mortgage on two tracts of real property, one of which was Crocker's
homestead, occupied by his widow and children. Colby sought to force the mortgage
holder to first realize on the homestead before selling the other encumbered property
in an effort to free up nonexempt assets for the general creditors. The Kansas Supreme
Court affirmed the district court's order denying the petition. It noted that the
equitable doctrine of marshaling requires a person with a lien on two or more funds,
one of which another person claims a lien, to satisfy his debt first from the property on
which the other person has no claim, even where the funds are of differing character
(i.e. real estate and personal property). But the court also noted that –
. . . this rule has its exceptions and limitations. Judge Story says, that "itis never applied except where it can be done without injustice to thecreditor, or other party in interest having title to the double fund, andalso without injustice to the common debtor. Nor is it applied in favor ofpersons who are not common creditors of the same common debtor, exceptupon some special equity."17
The court then addressed the widow's "special equity," noting that "by our
constitution and statutes the most sedulous care has been manifested to secure the
16 17 Kan. 527 (1877).
17 Id. at 530.
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homestead of the debtor and to his wife and family, as against all debts not expressly
charged upon it."18 The court added that "the homestead is something toward which
the eye of the creditor need never be turned. It is an element which may never enter
into his calculations in his efforts to collect his debt."19 Thus, unless Colby's claim was
premised on one of the debts excepted from the homestead exemption, the rights of the
widow and her family constituted a superior equity to his and the petition to marshal
could not be granted. Cited for this proposition over the ensuing 140 years, this case
remains good law today and has been cited in Kansas and elsewhere in favor of the
proposition that creditors may not force the liquidation of a debtor's homestead to
liquidate one creditor's lien when that creditor has a lien on the debtor's nonexempt
property as well.20
In Meyer v. United States, the Supreme Court held that where New York had
enacted an exemption for the proceeds of life insurance, and where its courts refused
to marshal assets to diminish those rights, requiring the I.R.S. to first enforce its tax
lien on the death benefits to the prejudice of the survivor beneficiaries would
18 Id. at 531.
19 Id., quoting Monroe v. May, Weil & Co., 9 Kan. 466, 476, 1872 WL 650
20 See In re Fox, 2000 WL 33287982 at *12 (Bankr. D. Kan. Aug. 4, 2000);
LaRue v. Gilbert, 18 Kan. 220 (1877); Frick Company v. Ketels, 42 Kan. 527, 22 P.
580 (1889); Prudential Ins. Co. Of America v. Clark, 122 Kan. 109, 251 P. 199 (1926)
(Homestead rights are superior, both in law and in equity, to the rights of generalcreditors); In re Chadwick, 114 B.R. 663 (Bankr. W.D. Mo. 1990) (applying Kansaslaw, marshaling of assets is not available where exempt property is sought to bemarshaled); Krueger v. Central Lumber Co., 56 S.D. 626, 230 N.W. 243 (1930).
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undermine that benevolent policy of the exemption.21 The same rule should apply in
this case. Forcing the proration the trustee seeks effectively calls upon the Roys to
apply their exempt asset, the EIC portion of the refund, to the payment of a debt on
par with their nonexempt assets. Under the rule in Meyer, and, by analogy, the rule
in Colby v. Crocker, the trustee should not be permitted to marshal the debtor's exempt
assets by requiring the EIC portion of the refund to bear some part of their tax
Finally, the trustee argues that it is unfair for the debtors to retain their entire
EIC while the unsecured creditors' share has already been diminished by the taxing
authority's deducting the tax owed from the refund. This is no more "unfair" than the
priority scheme of the Bankruptcy Code is. Income tax claims are typically paid before
the claims of unsecured creditors under § 507(a)(8). So even if the debtors somehow
managed to file their return but avoid application of their overpayment to their taxes,
the taxing authority would have a priority claim that would be paid before any
distribution to the unsecured creditors.
But this conclusion does not end the "proration" discussion because the trustee
also seeks to prorate the attorney's fee assignment against the EIC's portion of the
refunds. As previously held in this Circuit, fee assignments should be deducted from
the tax refund before it is apportioned between the pre and post-petition periods.22 This
21 375 U.S. 233, 239-240, 84 S.Ct. 318, 11 L.Ed. 2d 293 (1963).
22 Redmond v. Carson (In re Carson), 374 B.R. 247 (10th Cir. BAP 2007).
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alone effectuates some form of proration of the fee among the refund's elements. To the
extent that this proration impairs the EIC exemption, that impairment does not offend
Colby or Meyer because the debtors' assignment of their refund to their lawyer was
consensual. In doing that, they waived their exemption on that portion of the EIC in
the same way a consensual mortgagor waives his or her homestead exemption when
she mortgages it.
Therefore, the trustee's motion for turnover of the tax refunds should be granted
as follows:
Federal refund $5,205.00 State refund $369.00
Less fee assignment $(169.02) Less fee assignment $(11.98)
Less EIC $(1,600.00) Less EIC $(288.00)
Remainder $3,435.98 Remainder $69.02
Estate's share (36.88525%) $1,267.37 Estate's Share $25.46
Small Assets and Aggregation
Finally, the debtors resist the trustee's motion to turnover the $5.45 balance in
the debtors' bank account on the filing date. The debtors argue that this asset is simply
too small to effectively administer and should instead be abandoned. The trustee
replies that consumers' bankruptcy estates are frequently composed of multiple small
assets that the trustee has discretion, if not a duty, to accumulate for the benefit of the
creditors even when those assets would not, standing alone, warrant administration.
The trustee's statutory powers and duties prescribed by the Code shed some
light on this without exactly defining the boundaries of a trustee's discretion. Sections
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541 and 542 make clear that the trustee may recover any property that the debtor has
or was entitled to receive on the petition date.23 In fact, § 704 directs the trustee to
"collect and reduce to money the property of the estate . . ."24 The trustee uses the
turnover power of § 542 to execute this duty. But if the trustee concludes that the
property is "burdensome to the estate" or "of inconsequential value and benefit to the
estate," it can be abandoned.25 Any party in interest may ask the court to order the
trustee to abandon such property.26 In addition to these Code provisions, several
Bankruptcy Rules also facilitate the administration of small asset cases.27 The debtors
here argue that, given the trustee's necessary costs incurred in recovering $5.45,
expenses that cannot help but exceed that amount, $5.45 is indeed inconsequential and
too burdensome for the estate to administer.
A few courts have addressed how far a trustee should go to recover an asset in
the context of objections to the trustees' attorneys fees incurred in litigation that
proved unsuccessful or excessive. Even though the context of those cases is different,
it is hard to argue with their foundational principle: that no trustee has a duty to
23 11 U.S.C. § 541 and § 542.
24 11 U.S.C. § 704(a)(1).
25 11 U.S.C. § 554(a).
26 11 U.S.C. § 554(b); Fed. R. Bankr. P. 6007(b).
27 See Fed. R.Bank. P. 6004(d) permitting the expedited sale of all nonexempt
assets of an estate where they have an aggregate gross value of $2,500 or less. D.
Kan. L.B.R. 6007.1 permits the trustee to file a blanket abandonment as part of a"report of no distribution" in a no asset case.
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"collect an asset . . . if the cost of collection would exceed the value of the asset."28 In
general, trustees should abandon property from which the estate can expect only a
small benefit because expeditious reduction of the debtor's property for money for
distribution to creditors is the goal of a bankruptcy case.29 But a trustee's discretion is
not unlimited. For instance, courts have forbidden trustees to abandon hazardous or
polluted property without making provisions to mitigate its environmental or other
In connection with the "small asset" problem, a former bankruptcy judge sitting
in this division has declined to hold that there is a baseline value of assets that
trustees should administer. In In re Doughman, the debtors resisted the trustee's
motion to turnover bank balances totaling less than $1,500.31 They argued in part that
there should be a $1,500 asset floor in consumers' estates and that trustees should
simply be required to abandon estates of lesser amount. Judge Pearson held that doing
so would amount to judicial legislation of an exemption. Instead, he stated, "the
trustees make the decision about administration of estate assets and presumably, have
28 Matter of Taxman Clothing Co., 49 F.3d 310, 315 (7th Cir. 1995) (noting
trustee's duty to maximize the value of net assets).
29 In re Beker Industries Corporation, 64 B.R. 900, 908 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.
1986), rev'd on other grounds, 89 B.R. 336 (S.D.N.Y. 1988).
30 See Midlantic Nat. Bank v. New Jersey Dep't of Envtl. Prot., 474 U.S. 494,
106 S. Ct. 755, 88 L. Ed. 2d 859 (1986).
31 263 B.R. 905 (Bankr. D. Kan. 1999).
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discretion to decline to administer small estates."32 He reminded the parties that
trustees shouldn't be "encouraged" to administer assets when it appears from the
outset that little or no distribution will result.33
But $5.45 is a long way from $1,500. Were it the only asset, a $5 account balance
would doubtless warrant abandonment. But it doesn't stand alone here. The trustee's
January interim report indicates that the estate had net value of $104.51 plus the
then-undetermined value of the income tax refunds.34 As noted above, we know that
those are approximately $1,290. The total claims filed in this case are less than
$11,651, and several of them are filed as secured, meaning that the unsecured creditors
could recover more than a 10% dividend before administrative expenses. While this is
not a staggering dividend, it is not "inconsequential." But $5.45 is.
Trustees not only have the duty to conserve an estate's net assets, but also to
maximize their value by weighing whether the cost of recovery will outstrip the value
recovered. In Matter of Taxman Clothing, Inc., 35 the Seventh Circuit concluded that an
attorney's fee award was unreasonable because the trustee's attorney pursued the
matter long after it had become "reasonably obvious" that the litigation would cost
32 Id. at 909.
33 Id.
34 Dkt. 25. The Court observes that the $104.51 net value listed in the report
is for the non-exempt portion of earned wages. The trustee ascribes no net value tothe account balances in the Ark Valley Credit Union.
35 49 F.3d 310 (7th Cir. 1995).
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more than it was likely to net the estate.36 Judge Posner noted that a trustee's
fiduciary duty of care "is not merely care, diligence, and skill in the prosecution of the
estate's claims. It is also care, diligence, and skill in deciding which claims to
prosecute, and how far."37
On the facts before me, $5.45 is "inconsequential" because I can conceive of no
method of recovering it, short of the debtors' voluntarily ponying it up, that would not
cost more than it is worth to recover. I cannot say generally how much is too little or
enough to administer, but "I know it when I see it."38 This small amount of money is
not enough to warrant recovery or administration in these circumstances so the
trustee's motion to turnover $5.45 is denied.
The Trustee's Motion for turnover is granted in part and denied in part as
follows. That part of the motion requesting turnover of the debtors' 2012 income tax
refunds is GRANTED. The debtors shall turnover $1,267.37 from their federal refund
and $25.46 from their state refund, for a total of $1,292.83. The balance of the trustee's
36 Id. at 315.
37 Id.
38 With apologies to Justice Stewart who coined this phrase in connection
with defining obscenity, see Jacobellis v. State of Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, 197 (1964)
(Stewart, J., concurring) ("But I know it when I see it, and the motion pictureinvolved in this case is not that.").
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motion is DENIED.39
# # #
39 Apparently, no disagreement remains between the parties with respect to
the trustee's motion for turnover of earned wages or their amount; that portion ofthe turnover motion has not been briefed and debtors concede non-exemptprepetition wages of $104.51 are subject to turnover. See Dkt. 34, ¶ 9. The trustee's
turnover motion is granted to this extent with respect to earned wages.
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