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Yesterday I wrote a speech for David Cameron to give to the Tory conference next week.
People, including several Tories, were very kind about it, which is always gratifying. I wrote as if I were trying to convince me, so it's nice to know that this old trick can still produce an interesting result.
I was asked whether, if Cameron could give such a speech, I felt comfortable putting it in the public domain. I mean, why give the Tories a good idea?
One of the worst mistakes in politics is to underestimate your opponents. I don't just mean by assuming they are stupid, but assuming they are mendacious, incapable of change, or motivated by malice. (If I'm honest, the latter facet of our politics is one of the more unpleasant aspects of the Labour political style).
I think it's good to sympathise with those you disagree with, occasionally*.
At the same time, I think David Cameron's specific problem is I don't think he could give the speech I wrote, at least not credibly.
This is because David Cameron has repeatedly had the opportunity to revive the centre-left of the Conservative party. He did not, in any meaningful sense, take that chance, as Tim Bale has argued in the Guardian and the IPPR.
Instead Cameron substituted political slogans for an actual political argument. Looking though the history of Cameron's leadership, you can find a series of more or less attractive slogans (Big Society, Progressive Conservatism, Vote blue, Go green and liberal conservatism all spring to mind).
But within this multitude of slogans, there existed only one powerful political idea – "progressive ends, Conservative means", which itself ended up being used to cloak whatever every type of Conservatives wanted to do anyway.
This was because if conservative means produce progressive ends, who can argue against the proposition that even more conservative means are not more progressive still?
Rather than substantively moving towards the electorate, you've just pulled a rhetorical trick that allows you to say you're doing so while sticking with what you wanted to do anyway.
In opposition, this has advantages. Everyone stays united, internal tensions can be resolved by demands for loyalty, and you can be all things to all people, more or less.
In government, this lack of a political argument becomes increasingly exposed. You end up trading tactically, looking for short-term advantages to press home.
Of course, since David Cameron hadn't made a difficult argument (or indeed any argument) to his party in opposition, the electorate in their wisdom, gave him a chance to do it in government.
Initially, the very fact of coalition meant that a governing project had to be imposed on the party and beyond – 'together, in the national interest' or as a wag might now put it 'one nation'.
But in response, instead of becoming the Liberal conservative he could have been, Cameron has increasingly become a Conservative restrained by liberals – something no-one really wants.
In opposition, David Cameron's conservatism was something in which anyone could read what they wished. In government, it became something in which they could see all they disliked. In both responses we see a certain vacuity.
Can the Prime Minister turn this round? Perhaps.
He's a smart man, and trying to move beyond our current political debate about recession and onto a harder edged focus on what it actually takes to achieve national renewal may still be within his grasp.
But to do so, he has to break out of the chains his previous prevarications have bound him in. He has to find a way of breaking with the Tory right on some issues, breaking the Liberal Democrats on others, while forging an alliance with each on his own, new terms.
That is hard, and risky and does not seem like the tactical Cameron we have seen over the last five years.
I'd quite like him to do it though. For two reasons. First, I genuinely think two years of liberal conservatism would be better for the country than whatever it is we've got now.
Second, it would raise the bar of political debate. Labour would find a long-termist, self-sacrificing liberal conservatism much harder to take down with easy hits.
Speaking of which, there's a lesson for all oppositions here, though I don't expect anyone will want to consider it now.
A good political slogan into which anyone can read what they wish is an achievement. It unites the party, keeps problems distant. It is not, however, necessarily a political argument. It may just be a clever way to disguise the lack of one.
How can you tell? Two ways. First, do you discover that everyone can credibly project upon your slogan their own purposes and policies? Second, when your slogan is examined, does it dissolve into statements of aimless vacuity or tactical advantage?
Of course, that's a governing problem.
For oppositions, those are the good kinds of problems.
*Maybe this is the early influence of Vico's New Science, which has always fascinated me with the suggestion of the need to place yourself in the worldview of you wish to study if you are to understand the development of society.


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If you watched the unfortunate Blue Jackets loss to the Penguins Monday night, you may have missed the excitement in Cleveland...and I don't mean the Indians 4-3 win over Kansas City.
The game was interrupted briefly in the first inning, when a squirrel made its way onto the field and ran from the outfield to the infield. At one point he ran towards Tribe first baseman Nick Swisher who put his glove down, as if he were fielding a ground ball, but the squirrel made a turn and ran into the outfield. Once he was out of harms way, the game resumed. Here's the video, from MLB.com of unusual delay.


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New wave ... Japanese surfer Taki Abe, right, who stars in Bondi Tsunami, and the film's producer, Anthony Lucas-Smith, in Sydney this week. Photo: Kate Geraghty
The DVDs will be packed. So will the digital projector and a strip of red carpet. Then the old EK Holden will head west this weekend.
Launching a new Australian film, made by maxing out a dozen credit cards, will take its makers to 50 centres around the country in the coming months.
And what audiences in Cobar, Sawtell, Toowoomba, Geelong and Launceston make of a music video-style road movie about four punked-up Japanese surfers in Australia will be part of the fun.
First-time feature director Rachael Lucas describes Bondi Tsunami as a surfing catalogue come to life. "It will be quite a hoot going to all these country towns and seeing how the locals react to this movie," she says.
Lucas wanted to make the film after seeing the Japanese entrants in the Bondi Tsunami surf festival at Bondi. She wrote a script that follows two surfing friends, Shark and Yuto, on a trip up the coast.
"The artistic combination of Australia and Japan appealed," she says. "Taking photos at the festival of all these Japanese surfers with their bleached blond hair against the blue sky, I thought they looked stunning.
"I just knew that against the Australian landscapes like the sugar cane and the desert, I was going to get some stunning visual images with a Japanese cast."
Lucas is hoping audiences in both countries will enjoy a film she describes as beautiful, artistic, strange and unconventional.
"Australian films are traditionally about people searching for their identity, and Japanese films - contemporary ones, anyway - have a similar theme."
Many recent Australian films are like stage plays, Lucas says, and she wanted to use the techniques of music videos. "We wanted it to be accessible without language so people could watch it maybe with the sound down."
The self-financed film cost $150,000 and features real Japanese surfers, including Taki Abe, as actors.
Shot with a digital camera, Bondi Tsunami is half in English, half in Japanese.
"We went through the conventional funding bodies," says Anthony Lucas-Smith, Lucas's brother-in-law and the film's producer. "Basically everywhere we tried, we didn't fit the criteria."
Lucas-Smith is also the sound recordist, surfs in the film and is now the projectionist.
"It's the first Australian film that shows the Japanese as cool global citizens," he says.
The world premiere is in Cobar - which features in the film - next Friday. The dress code is Hawaiian beachwear.
"We're taking a red carpet," says Lucas-Smith of their Leyland Brothers-style trip. "We've got one of our cast members - sometimes the others will join us - and props. It's like a travelling show. We'll have a premiere in each country town."
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian writer Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, is an admitted short-story addict who has garnered international praise for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada.
She became the second Canadian-born writer to win the prize, although she is the first winner with a distinctly Canadian identity. Saul Bellow, who won the award in 1976, was born in Quebec, but raised in Chicago and is widely considered an American writer.
The 82-year-old Munro, who won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and was often mentioned as a Nobel contender, stands out in a literary world that tends to reward novels.
She told the Wall Street Journal in 2009, after winning the Man Booker prize, that she used to attempt to write novels but "didn't get anywhere."
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In addition to the Man Booker, she has won the Giller Prize - Canada's most high-profile literary award - twice, and has won Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction three times.
In 2009 she removed her collection "Too Much Happiness" from Giller consideration, saying she wanted to give younger, less-established authors an opportunity. Continued...


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The financial market maybe in shambles but the Green Technology sector should cheer up with this new report from KPMG (a US audit, tax and advisory firm) stating that the venture capital community is expected to invest more in green next year.
In KPMG's poll of 301 venture capitalists (VCs), corporate executives, entrepreneurs and bankers, 91% said they expect investments to rise next year, with 50% even stating an increase of 20% or more compared to the 2008 levels, while 34% expect investment levels to increase 10%-19%.
Around 76% says the investment level next year will be the same as this year. The type of investments will also be more diversified with 15% expecting more VC funding in energy storage (fuel cells, batteries…), 14% each in clean coal and wind, 11% in alternative fuels, and 10% in solar.
The report also noted that among clean air energy source, the most dominant in the next 20 years will be solar (39%), nuclear (27%), and wind (18%). I truly did not expect nuclear in the list but I guess VCs know more about what's happening in that area.
US geography-wise, 60% expect greentech investments to center in the West, followed by Southwest region (14%), Midwest (13%), Northwest (9%) and Southeast (4%). Outside the US and excluding China and India, 28% of VCs polled expect more investment opportunities in Brazil and 27% in Israel. Russia (11%) and South Korea (10%) were the only countries with double-digit response rates.


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Unlike the leisurely treatment of one alleged example in the past, particular attention will be paid to ministerial affairs involving partners from a Muslim country.
Contrary to the position in the US or the UK, the standard practice in Australia has been to argue that politicians' extra-marital affairs should not be reported in the media or raised in Parliament. The only exception is where there is an adverse impact on a politician's ability to perform his or her public duties.
Journalists have generally been reluctant to accept that any adverse consequences occur. After all, politicians are not alone in breaking their marital vows.
Nevertheless, it can be argued that the media have sometimes been too tolerant. Several male politicians in Canberra are notorious for harassing young women who work in Parliament House. Yet their behaviour has basically been swept under the carpet.
Crean attracted criticism within Labor for calling on Evans and Kernot to come clean. But he was on strong ground - at least in Evans's case, where Crean said there could never be any justification for lying to Parliament.
On Thursday, Evans effectively confirmed that he had misled Parliament in denying the affair in 1998. He justified the lie on the grounds that had a right to protect his privacy. But he could have done this without lying.
If politicians want to maintain the trust of the electorate, they should not lie to Parliament. Evans was not a trivial figure. He spent many years as Foreign Minister. The public is now entitled to wonder now whether Evans told the truth about more important matters than whether he was committing adultery with Kernot.
Instead of lying in this instance, he could have resorted to the old formula of refusing to dignify the questions with an answer.
Like most journalists, Australian security organisations have usually taken a fairly relaxed attitude to allegations about sexual affairs. Two years ago, an Australian Army intelligence officer gave intelligence authorities formal notification of what he believed was an example of potentially compromising behaviour by a Labor politician (not Evans).
According to the allegation, the politician had conducted an affair with an Indonesian woman whose uncle was head of the Indonesian intelligence service.
At the time, the politician was a minister who had official contact with Indonesia during the Soeharto dictatorship. The politician is no longer in a position of influence and the alleged affair has ended, which may explain why the intelligence authorities did not appear to put a huge effort into pursuing the matter. But similar allegations in future are likely to attract far more interest.
Even before September 11, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation agreed to undertake a trial of US polygraph tests designed to see if its staff lie when asked about their sex lives, finances and political sympathies.
On June 25, the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, signed a new, legally binding, pact with the US to protect classified information. Although no details were spelled out in the pact, the US wants Australian officials who have access to highly classified US intelligence material to be subjected to the same polygraph tests that routinely apply to American officials.
The rationale is that ministers leave themselves open to blackmail.
The Australian public is unlikely to accept that security officials should be able to march into Parliament House and hook ministers up to a polygraph machine to check whether they curl up with more than a copy of Hansard at night in their lonely Canberra digs.
But Crean has ensured that glib distinctions between private and public affairs will be much harder to maintain in future.
The US Ambassador, Thomas Schieffer, last week accused Australians of being too complacent about the prospect of a terrorist attack. Just what more Australians are supposed to do - apart from quiver in their beds at night - is unclear.
The Ambassador also said he was satisfied that two Australians being kept in cells at a US military base in Cuba, David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib, "are involved in terrorism".
If so, it's about time they were charged with a crime instead of being locked up for months without access to lawyers.
Unfortunately, the standard of proof which satisfies US officials like Schieffer often seems to have little basis in fact. Only last week, US officials claimed their aircraft had been responding to an attack from anti-aircraft artillery when they killed 40 villagers at a wedding feast. Not a jot of evidence has been produced to substantiate this claim.
Similarly, problems apply to Schieffer's claim of Hicks and Habib being involved in terrorism. If evidence exists that they have engaged in terrorist acts, they should be put on trial in the US courts. If not, they should be sent back to Australia.
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Many foundation web sites include information on the indirect cost rate allowed on proposals. If this information is not readily available, the Office for Sponsored Programs now has information on their website on overhead rates for many non-federal sponsors: http://osp.fad.harvard.edu/content/fa-cost-rates-non-federal-sponsors
In addition, OSP has a searchable database which returns both the highest and lowest indirect cost rate received from each non-federal sponsor by school in the past three years:http://osp.fad.harvard.edu/non-federal-sponsors-rates
If the foundation does not specify an indirect cost rate and no further information can be found, the Kennedy School recommends using a 20% indirect cost rate.
Does HKS have minimum indirect cost requirements for sponsored proposals, and what if a sponsor will not allow those costs?
Facilities and Administrative costs (also F&A, Indirect Costs, or Overhead) are actual expenses incurred by the institution that cannot be directly and specifically allocated to an individual grant or contract with a high degree of accuracy. When external sponsors cap the OH recovery rate they will allow in their sponsored proposals, HKS policy requires an internal agreement to reconcile this overhead under-recovery. In all such agreements, the School must ensure it is making conscious, informed decisions about when and under what circumstances subsidies (if any) are provided.
HKS policy requires that proposals which do not include the normally required minimum indirect cost rate of 20% compensate for the overhead "shortfall" through one of the methods described below. The overhead shortfall compensation method must be confirmed at the proposal stage, and is managed as part of the Dean's Approval Process for Sponsored Proposals by the HKS Research Administration Office.
Overhead shortfalls may be reconciled by one or more of the following methods:
Center/Program unrestricted funds offset by grant direct costs:refers to Center/Program funds that are freed up by grant direct costs. In these cases, Centers are held harmless as the grant has covered expenses normally covered by the Center. All such expenses need to be allowable, allocable and appropriate to include in the grant.
Other Center/Program funds:refers to Center/Program funds (e.g., unrestricted) that subsidize the overhead shortfall independent of any direct connection to the grant budget.
Grant direct costs directly credit HKS core budget:refers to allowable and allocable expenses charged to grants to offset fixed costs the School's budget would otherwise bear. In most cases, such charges are limited to faculty term time salary and benefits, faculty assistant salary and benefits, or faculty/FA office rent.
Overhead Shortfall Waiver:refers to approval by the Academic Dean to waive all or part of the overhead shortfall. In reviewing these requests, the Academic Dean will in most cases give relatively greater weight (and preference) to the following factors:
Other factors are given due consideration, including:
The Academic Dean will look first to Centers to subsidize all or part of an overhead shortfall through methods 1-3 above, before approving a waiver. All overhead shortfall agreements will be documented at the proposal stage by the RAO and included in the permanent file.
Who is Authorized to Sign Documents Related to Proposals and Awards?
Only certain officers in the Office for Sponsored Programs have the legal authority to sign documents relating to proposals and awards on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Principal investigators are not authorized to sign sponsored award documents nor does the PI's signature signify Harvard's acceptance of the terms and conditions of any award. OSP staff and the PI review the award and OSP negotiates any terms that are not acceptable to the PI, the School, or Harvard before signing to accept the award on behalf of the University. While in some cases a principal investigator's signature may be required on a sponsored research award document, such documents are also required by University policy to be co-signed by an authorized signatory of the University.
Please forward all award letters to the Research Administration Office upon receipt.
Can I charge expenses to a project before an official award is made or before OSP completes its negotiations on an award?
Yes, an At-Risk Accountallows OSP to establish an account string before an official award has been made or before OSP completes its negotiations on an award. This kind of account is requested with the understanding that the award is very likely and/or the negotiations will eventually be successful. It also helps the accounting situation by eliminating the need for journals, as the account string remains the same when the award is finalized.
An At-Risk Account Request can only be completed if a proposal has been processed.
How do I create an At-Risk Account?
At-Risk Account requests are created in GMAS by going to the segment home page for a submitted proposal and clicking the create requestbutton at the top of the page.
Then click internal requestand you will see an option for At-Risk Accounts. Please note that you will need to submit evidence that the proposal is likely to be funded (e.g., an award document or an email from a program officer that an award is forthcoming).
All At-Risk Account requests are approved by Nancy Guisinger, HKS Controller.
The Center/Program requesting the At-Risk Account assumes responsibility for expenses that have been incurred in the event that an award is not made or accepted, or if certain expenditures are unallowable under the terms of an award.
What is the process for requesting a no-cost extension of a sponsored project?
If additional time is required to complete work on a sponsored project, a no-cost extension must be requested from the sponsor. The standard procedure for requesting a no-cost extension is to send a letter (or email) to the sponsor, explaining the need for additional time and requesting a new end date. No-cost extension requests are submitted in GMAS by going to the segment home page for an award and clicking the "create request" button at the top of the page. Then click "changes to existing segment" and you will see an option to select "no-cost extension." Note that you will be asked whether it is a retroactive request and if the request has already been submitted to the sponsor (and in some cases the approval will have been received as well), you should select "yes." Only if OSP needs to submit the no-cost extension request to the sponsor should "no" be selected.
What is the Faculty Committee on Projects and Proposals (FCOPP)?
FCOPP, composed of senior members of the HKS faculty, was established by the Dean to provide oversight of proposals and projects to minimize risks to the School and to the University. The Committee's recommendations are strictly advisory to the Dean and the Academic Dean. Ultimately, it is the Dean who decides whether proposals receive Kennedy School approval. The Committee focuses exclusively on the flow of new, renewed, and significantly amended projects, not the stock of existing ones, except when special problems or circumstances indicate the wisdom of doing otherwise (e.g., by request of the Dean).
FCOPP consideration is not a substitute for the standard HKS review and approval process; rather, it is another step in that process, to be deployed only in certain circumstances. The FCOPP chair, working in consultation with the Associate Dean for Research, and individual, selected Committee members, will identify those proposals that may require additional review. At this stage, attention is given to at least five characteristics, any one of which might indicate that the full Committee should undertake a review:
In its reviews of projects, FCOPP addresses three key issues:
How will I know if a proposal requires FCOPP review?
Based on the FCOPP scope and standards, the Research Administration Office will review all proposals submitted through the Dean's Approval process to determine whether FCOPP review is required. In most cases, proposals in question will be given expedited review and will not require consideration by the full committee. The RAO will consult with principal investigators and their staff if further information is required, and will notify PIs of expedited approval or the need for full committee review. All efforts will be made to ensure that the review process does not adversely affect the timing of proposal submissions.
Click here for the: Faculty Committee on Projects and Proposals Scope, Standards, and Procedures (pdf)
What is the Policy on the Use of the Harvard and Kennedy School Names and Insignias?
Harvard University has strict regulations regarding the use of the Harvard names and Insignias. A proposed new activity can only be labeled as "the Harvard Program on X" or anything similar under certain specific circumstances and only with advance permission of the Provost. Similarly, a proposed new activity can be labeled "the John F. Kennedy School of Government Program on Y" only with advance permission of the Academic Dean. This policy applies to use of the Harvard/Kennedy School names and insignias both in print and on the web.
Please direct all inquires on the use of Harvard and/or Kennedy School names to Matthew Alper.
For the complete policy, please see the Provost's Guidelines on the Use of Harvard Names and Insignias.
What is the Policy Governing Commercial Activities?
Proposed partnerships with an outside entity and other similar arrangements involving a substantial commercial element must be approved in advance by the Provost or President, and in some cases, the Corporation. The Provost's Principles Governing Commercial Activities are directed principally at proposed partnerships with for-profit entities and not-for-profit entities that involve a substantial commercial element. The principles also apply when a unit of the University proposes to undertake activities on its own that incorporate a commercial element, such as soliciting commercial sponsorship of an academic conference or including commercial advertising in a University publication.
Please direct all inquiries on the Principles Governing Commercial Activities to Matthew Alper.
For the complete policy, please see the Provost's Guidelines on Commercial Activities.
What is the difference between a sponsored project and a gift?
Research that is funded by external sources falls into one of two categories: one is sponsored research. The other is research supported by gift money. The distinction between the two is important because different guidelines and different roles and responsibilities apply to the different categories. Sponsored projects must have a principal investigator and proposals must be approved and submitted by the Office for Sponsored Programs. Harvard's Recording Secretary's Office, the HKS Office of Alumni Relations an Resource Development, and the HKS Gifts Proposal Advisory Committee manage the review and approval of gift funds.
If one or more of the following criteria applies, the award is normally considered a sponsored project and must be processed through the HKS Dean's Approval and OSP channels:
The Office for Sponsored Programs uses the following criteria when determining whether an award is a sponsored project or a gift:
What is the Gifts Proposal Advisory Committee (GPAC)?
The Gifts Proposal Advisory Committee (GPAC) oversees the institutional review, approval, and processing of certain categories of new restricted gifts at HKS. GPAC is advisory to the Dean, Academic Dean, and Executive Dean, and is comprised of senior representatives of the HKS Financial Services (OFS), Alumni Relations and Resource Development (ARRD), Research Administration (RAO), Academic Dean, and Dean's Offices. It seeks to ensure that new initiatives advance the School's mission with a clear understanding of the associated costs and benefits. GPAC will also engage the standing HKS Faculty Committee on Projects and Proposals (FCOPP) for a subset of new gift proposals requiring additional review and discussion. The GPAC focus on coordinated advance review of selected new gift proposals mirrors in many ways the standard policies and procedures already in place for the review and approval of new sponsored program proposals (grants and contracts) at HKS and at Harvard University.
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There is now about $500 billion tied up in superannuation funds and the 9 per cent superannuation guarantee adds a further $30 billion each year. The cost of managing these funds each year ranges from about 0.4 to 3 per cent of the value of the funds, with a weighted average cost of about 1 per cent.
On the assumption that the average fund enjoys a long-term return of 6 per cent, this means 20 per cent of the annual returns of the funds ends up in the pockets of the operators who manage, advise and market the funds.
This rake-off amounts to about $5 billion a year. By comparison, the Tax Office collects about $120 billion a year on running costs of about $2 billion a year.
According to Ian McAuley, who advises the Australian Consumers Association, this means an average employee with 45 years' unbroken service, whose 9 per cent superannuation guarantee has been invested in a fund with an inflation-adjusted return of 6 per cent, ends up with a with a gross accumulation on retirement of $507,000, of which $120,000 ends up with the fund managers and their advisers.
So what do the superannuants get for their substantial fees? Not much, based on this week's report by the ACA and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Their survey found that 51 per cent of the advice given to superannuants was rated borderline to very poor and only 2 per cent was rated very good.
There is a wide disparity in fund performance. Company and government funds operated on behalf of their employees, and industry (union) funds that until recently were closed, operate on expenses of about 0.4 per cent, compared to about 1.5 per cent for wholesale and retail funds, which have to compete for members.
Funds in the first group also tend to perform better than the wholesale and retail funds over the longer term.
The wholesale and retail funds perform more poorly and have higher costs because they are under pressure to perform well in the short term to gain and retain clients, and, unlike the company, government and industry funds, they have marketing expenses associated with winning new clients.
Competition between funds based on performance is simply an expensive "beauty contest". On the assumption that financial markets are not corrupt, and that information affecting share price is equally available, fund managers can't outperform the market over the long haul.
The information that will have the biggest impact on future share prices is that which is not known yet. In other words, it is a gamble, albeit one that requires more skill than buying a lottery ticket.
John Mayard Keynes, who was responsible for investments for Kings College, Cambridge, said in his 1938 report on the college's finances: "The management of stock exchange investment of any kind is a low pursuit, having little social value and partaking (at its best) of the nature of a game of skill, from which it is good that most members of society are free."
In a comment on the ASIC-ACA report to industry representatives, Ian McAuley pointed out that the industry is "structurally corrupt" in that, for the most part, the people who are advising superannuants are really "sellers" of financial products rather than "advisers".
The Howard Government obviously has given no real thought to the issue of national savings and retirement incomes apart from looking at regulations that will undermine the viability of industry funds by forcing them to compete for their members, thereby increasing their expenses.
The Government pretends to have a serious interest in increasing national savings. Yet there are more efficient, more equitable and more ethical ways to lift savings than through the superannuation guarantee - ways that would have the bonus of boosting the funds available for national infrastructure, which will contribute far more to national growth than gambling on the global share market.
Staff columnist Kenneth Davidson is co-editor of Dissent magazine.
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So get how complicated this is. In lieu of an April Fool's joke in the Anthology this month, I'm posting a transcript of someone else's April Fool's joke. This is the April 1st, 1994 edition of Larry King Live -- the day that Larry went on vacation, and invited a certain green co-host to fill his suspenders for the day...
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In Detroit, Mich., a prison has been transformed into galleries and studios. In Kassel, Germany, a hostel is no longer hostile. In Salem, Mass., an old jail has been turned into luxury condos. There has even been talk of a condo conversion for Sing Sing—place of Willie Sutton's escape and, along with Alcatraz, San Quentin, and Folsom, one of the nation's most iconic slammers.
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Recently, I was researching how market insights professionals can enhance their internal position and have a greater influence on their companies' strategies (for an upcoming Forrester Leadership Board exclusive research report). As part of the research, I spoke with leaders at the market insights and CMO levels to get their views on how market insights professionals can succeed, build internal awareness and reputations and be able to more effectively influence the company's direction and strategies.
As I spoke to these leaders, I kept hearing things I had read years ago from a beat-up 10-cent book I found at the local flea market. That book was Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It was published back in 1937, which was right about the time George Gallup (of Gallup Poll fame) founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, part of the growing tide of companies doing this new thing called market research.
For those who are not acquainted with Dale Carnegie's book, it provides advice on how to make people like you, win them to your way of thinking and change them (without giving offense or arousing resentment). It even provides rules for making your home life happier! Salespeople swear by this book and I have to say that it's been a great guide for me (and provided an amazing ROI on my 10-cent investment).
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One of the reasons I enjoy working at Forrester is the unique opportunity to turn data into actionable insights that tech marketers can use to drive more revenue for their companies by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing.
Based on this data and our work with clients, five simple but powerful guiding principles have emerged around targeting, marketing vehicles, content strategy, and messaging that all tech marketers can apply. Over the next five weeks, I'll be sharing them with you via this blog, one per week on Tuesday mornings, starting today.
Guiding Principle Number One: Targeting
We all know that high-consideration technology purchases at medium and large enterprises involve multiple stakeholders. However, all too often, marketers and/or sales associate a disproportionate amount of influence to one or two particular influencers; for example, the CIO or line of business (LOB) professional. The reality is that no one influencer has more than 30% of the total power through the purchase process. You must ensure that you are allocating your marketing programs proportionally across all of the appropriate influencers and that you don't get fixated on simply engaging one or two influencers, thinking that they control all of the necessary power.
So, the next time you are deciding whom to target, remember the 30% rule — it will serve you well.


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Risk prediction is challenging in chronic interstitial lung disease (ILD) because of heterogeneity in disease-specific and patient-specific variables. Our objective was to determine whether mortality is accurately predicted in patients with chronic ILD using the GAP model, a clinical prediction model based on sex, age, and lung physiology, that was previously validated in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (n = 307), chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (n = 206), connective tissue disease-associated ILD (n = 281), idiopathic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (n = 45), or unclassifiable ILD (n = 173) were selected from an ongoing database (N = 1,012). Performance of the previously validated GAP model was compared with novel prediction models in each ILD subtype and the combined cohort. Patients with follow-up pulmonary function data were used for longitudinal model validation.
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The BMW 5-Series (E39 chassis) was introduced in the United States as a 1997 model year car and lasted until the 2004 when the E60 chassis was released. The United States saw several variations including the 525i, 528i, 530i and 540i. -- View the E39 Wiki
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Holiday priced Diagnostic scanners with features
So, it's holiday season and I know there must be some good deals on diagnostic scanners that have some good features. I've seen some of the super basic scanners that are dirt cheap ($25) that read diagnostic trouble codes and clear them and that's cool and certainly worth the low price. However, I'd be more interested in getting something that reads live data in addition to the basics, and freeze frame at a minimum. And I'd like to find some deals on these (not interested in spending hundreds of dollars).
So, I did a little searching and found 3 low priced handhelds that have some more advanced features:
Actron CP9180 AutoScanner Plus Diagnostic Code Scanner with Live, Record and Playback Data Capability and O2 Monitor Test for OBDII Vehicles
Product Features
Bilingual diagnostic code scanner easily retrieves trouble codes from your vehicle's computer to diagnose problems
Compatible with all OBD II-compliant vehicles from 1996 to the present
Large easy-to-read LCD screen displays DTCs and their descriptions
Fully updateable via the Internet, so it will work with future vehicle models
TrueLink Technology assures a fast and accurate diagnostic output
List Price: $282.99
Price: $106.21 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Equus 3130 Innova Diagnostic Code Scanner with Live, Record and Playback Data Capability for OBDII Vehicles
Product Features
Retrieves diagnostic trouble codes and definitions (in English, Spanish, or French) from your vehicle's computer to help diagnose problems
Reads check engine light warnings on 1996 and newer vehicles through any OBDII protocol, including CAN (Controller Area Network)
Views, records, and plays back live data as well as freeze frame data
Features built-in memory to store codes, even when reader is unplugged
Unique patented all-in-one screen display and LED display
List Price: $346.80
Price: $126.00 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping
Autel MaxiScan MS409 OBD-II/EOBD Scanner
Product Features
Retrieves generic and manufacturer specific Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC), features built-in OBD-II DTC lookup library and software is upgradeable via Internet
Features large easy-to-read backlit LCD screen, a multilingual menu and DTC definitions and memory/battery backup for off-vehicle data review and analysis
Views freeze frame data, displays monitor and I/M readiness status, turns off Check Engine Light (MIL); clears codes and resets monitors
Supports the CAN (Controller Area Network) protols and all other current OBD-II protocols
Works with all OBD-II/EOBD compliant U.S., European and Asian vehicles (OBD-II is standard on all cars sold in U.S. post-1996)
List Price: $114.99
Price: $58.64 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
I found these 3 tools on Amazon and these are truly low prices for what they claim to be capable of, with free shipping!
The Actron CP9180 seems to be the best deal for what I am looking for (live data and O2 monitor test as well as all the other basic functions) for just over $100 and free shipping. But the Innova is only $20 more and has all of this also (and I recognize the brand and have used their less powerful handheld at O'Reilley Auto many times). The Autel has freeze frame but not live but is extremely inexpensive at less than $60.
Anybody seen any other great deals on diagnostic tools with extra features such as these?
Anyone use(d) either of the above or another one and willing to provide some personal feedback on them?
Thanks for any other "leads" on holiday special pricing and also on any "reviews" you folks may provide. :buttrock
LaCrosse, I hope you don't mind I quoted your post from the cheap scanner thread here because this find is better than the 3 that I have above!!!! Live data readouts for $50.... NICE!
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While perhaps not as flashy in appearance as some of his terrier relatives, the Border Terrier is still all terrier, living life with great gusto, whether he's out and about with the people he loves or digging a hole in the flowerbed. The look of a mud-brown Border is more scruffy than tailored, but that only increases his charm.
Frankly, it's a bit of a surprise the Border Terrier isn't more popular than he is, given that he's one of the healthier of the purebred dogs, is less driven to dig and hunt than many other terriers, and he's actually fairly flexible about how much exercise he gets. He's robust, sturdy and good with children – one of the best contenders for a family pet among all the fiery little terriers.
The Border Terrier may be small -- 15 pounds or less -- but he's neither tiny nor fragile. He'll happily roughhouse with the kids and is active and athletic enough to keep up with anyone, but not so frenetic that he'll be bouncing off the walls if not constantly exercised. Flashy and stylish he's not, but he's an honest dog who'll still do an honest day's work if given the chance, which is why he's one of the few terriers well-represented at canine competitions such as agility.
He'll still try for a rat if he can: Border Terriers hold more American Kennel Club Earthdog titles than any other breed. Border owners also compete with their dogs in obedience, agility and the show ring. If you want him to make being a companion his career, be sure to give him the opportunity to get out and run, smell, walk and play a couple of times a day – behind a fence or on a leash, though, because while he may not be flashy, he's definitely fast, and the world is full of chaseable creatures like squirrels and neighborhood cats.
The Border Terrier's rough coat sheds, but it can be minimized with weekly brushing or combing, and occasional trips to a professional groomer. These dogs are "hand-stripped" for a proper terrier look for the show ring, a labor-intensive task that involves pulling out the dead coat a little bit at a time using a special tool. It's usually more practical to have the dogs regularly clipped for neatness.
Border Terriers are people-oriented dogs and are liable to make a lot of noise and a big mess if left too much to their own devices. That's one of the reasons they can't live in the backyard. A Border Terrier needs to live indoors as a member of the family, or he's likely to turn into a noisy, destructive and very unhappy little dog.
Border Terriers are relatively healthy for a purebred dog. In the hope of controlling the genetic diseases that already affect the breed and prevent any new ones from emerging, the Border Terrier Club of America participates in a program operated by the Canine Health Information Center (CHIC).
CHIC requires that breeders test all their breeding dogs for heart, eye, hip and knee diseases that are prevalent in the breed, and recommends that all puppies have a cardiac examination prior to being placed in their new homes.
The most serious breed-specific health problem affecting the Border Terrier is canine epileptoid cramping syndrome (CECS), a seizure-like disorder sometimes confused with epilepsy, for which there is currently no genetic screening test. A number of studies are underway attempting to develop one, so if your dog is diagnosed with CECS, visit the Border Terrier CECS site and find out how he can be part of an ongoing research project.
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The rise of the USC women's soccer program to national prominence can be tied to the efforts of head coach Jim Millinder, who now enters his 11th season with the Trojans.
During Millinder's reign at USC, he has guided the Women of Troy to a 125-65-16 (.646) record, including the 1998 Pacific-10 Conference championship and seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
The Trojans reached the NCAA Second Round for the fourth time last season, finishing off the year with a 13-6-2 overall record and taking third in the Pac-10. Part of that 2005 success was due to Millinder's blue-chip class of 11 freshmen, who were tabbed as top recruiting class in the nation. Highlighted by two United States U-19 National Team players (Amy Rodriguez and Meagan Holmes) and seven other players rated in the nation's top 100 recruits. That class, coupled with experience returners, yanked the Trojan program out of a 9-9-1 season in 2004 and back into the NCAA Tournament realm, where the Women of Troy expect to remain a postseason force.
The 2003 Women of Troy finished 9-8-4 overall and tied for third place in the Pac-10 with a 5-3-1 mark. In 2002, the team went 11-8-3 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 5-4 record in Pac-10 play, good for a fourth-place finish.
The 2001 squad reached the first round of the NCAA Tournament and finished with a 10-7-2 record. USC finished fourth in the Pac-10 with a 5-3-1 mark and recorded 14 wins for the fifth straight year with a 14-6-2 record in 2000, reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
The 1999 squad, 14-6 overall, finished second in the Pac-10 at 7-2.
The 1998 Women of Troy made the first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history. That team went 14-7-1 overall and 7-2 in the Pac-10, winning its final seven conference games to earn a three-way tie for the title and the automatic bid to the NCAAs. Millinder was named the 1998 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, his second such honor in three seasons, and the Long Beach Press-Telegram's Area Coach of the Year award.
The 1997 squad went 16-3-1 (a school record for wins) and 7-2 in the Pac-10 for second place. Millinder was named 1997 West Region Coach of the Year by both NSCAA/Umbro and Soccer Buzz for his team's efforts. Midway through the season (and only 1 1/2 years into his tenure), Millinder became USC's winningest head coach with his 22nd win, surpassing former coach Karen Stanley, who had 21 wins in three seasons.
He was named 1996 Pac-10 Coach of the Year as his first USC squad went 15-5 overall and 4-3 in the Pac-10 for a fourth-place tie.
Millinder, 45, a former top professional player who has more than 20 years of coaching experience, was named USC's head coach in May of 1996.
Prior to coming to USC, Millinder guided Loyola Marymount -- like USC, a program that began in 1993 -- for two seasons (1994-95) to an 8-27-4 record (one tie was against USC), but his squads proved to be very competitive as the Lions posted wins over three top 20 teams (including No. 8 Santa Clara in 1994) and lost 15 of its matches by just one goal. The 1995 Lions won the Discoverer's Day Shootout in Hawai`i.
He was the women's head coach at El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., for four seasons (1990-93), winning the California junior college state championship in 1990. His 1993 squad was the Southern California J.C. finalist, while his 1991 and 1992 teams were semifinalists. He posted a 66-8-16 mark.
He took on the additional duty of the men's head coach at El Camino for two seasons (1992-93) and guided the Warriors to the 1992 California state title. His 1993 team also made the state playoffs. He was 43-9-17.
Millinder spent the previous 12 seasons (1978-89) as an assistant coach for El Camino's men's and women's programs, which combined won six state crowns during that time. He served as the interim head coach for El Camino's 1987 state champion men's squad.
He also was the head coach for the 1992 U.S. amateur championship Ajax women's club team and the 1993 U.S. amateur titlist Cal-South men's state senior team. He was the head coach of the Cal-South Under-16 girls Olympic Development team and the Director of Coaching for the Mission Viejo Soccer Club from 1995-96. He also served on the Amateur Athletic Foundation's coaching staff for four years (1990-93). In 1994, he received his National A License from the U.S. Soccer Federation. He served as an ambassador to the U.S. soccer team at the 1994 World Cup.
He played professional soccer for eight years and competed with such legends as Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johann Cruyff. He was a midfielder on the North American Soccer League's New York Cosmos (1978), Los Angeles Aztecs (1979), Tulsa Roughnecks (1980) and Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1981-82). From 1983 to 1985, he played for the Oklahoma City Slickers of the American Soccer League (he was a two-time all-star) and the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Millinder was a member of various U.S. National teams from 1978-82, and the U.S. Junior National (Under-21) team in 1976. He appeared in 25 international matches.
He earned his A.A. degree from El Camino in 1991, then a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1993 from Cal State Dominguez Hills. He starred in soccer and football at North Torrance High, then earned J.C. All-American honors at El Camino in 1977.
Millinder was born on Nov. 27, 1958. He and his wife, Carol, have two sons, Austin, 11, and Jacob, 6.


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#1 Feb 5, 2013
What were your favorite places to go in Indy when you were growing up?
#2 Feb 5, 2013
There are so many. But did anyone cruise Steak n Shake..?
#3 Feb 5, 2013
We did, but on the south side. Which one are you talking about?
#4 Feb 5, 2013
Does anyone remember Dino's Drive-In on Southeastern Ave?
#5 Feb 5, 2013
10th Street. Around 10th and Rural/Michigan Streets. Do you remember the 10th Street Prostitutes in the late 50's/60's, All American?
#6 Feb 5, 2013
Watching the Pacers(Billy Keller) at the Coliseum.
#7 Feb 5, 2013
Sorry, not quite old enough for that. Hey! Is this Moe?
#8 Feb 5, 2013
I use to love going to Riverside Amusement Park. It was in a black neighborhood, but they would not let blacks in. It was so funny driving in and makin faces at the rejected blackest when I was a kid. It was cool that the owner closed the place rather Than integrated!
#9 Feb 5, 2013
Not one was black or a crack hoe!
#10 Feb 5, 2013
Yes. Southside. It was like a triangle of places to cruise on 31, but I can't remember the other places. What did you drive? Remember Al Green's? And the tenderloins. The drive-in theater on Shadeland right by the railroad tracks. And then the Carlyle indoor was built.
#11 Feb 5, 2013
And the TeePee at 38th and Fall Creek.
#12 Feb 5, 2013
We used to go between Dino's and Steak and Shake. Then drive up and down East St for a while, then back to Dino's. Man, the trouble the cops gave us was unbelievable, but I bet they would give their left arm if that was all they had to worry about today. In 1985 I was driving a 1978 Malibu that I had bought when I was 14. We spent 2 years and every penny I made on it. I wish I could get back every night I spent putting new transmissions in it!
#13 Feb 5, 2013
Lol....I had a 68 Barracuda with a hemi. I worked my tail off at McDonalds, weekends for 1.05 an hour to buy gas.
#14 Feb 5, 2013
I use to like to cruze the Art Theater and some of the video booths around town.
There was the kind of love you could mop up with a bucket.
Remember the hole in the wall?
#15 Feb 5, 2013
Good ole american hoes for sure.
#16 Feb 5, 2013
Is this short for ho mo ? YOu see many of the slick halls of the gay establilaries when you were young?
#17 Feb 6, 2013
I do! I met a lot of important people and established many political connections in this manner at those establishments. Good times!! No one would thump you on the head for an attempt at getting some love when you got the fever!!! A man could garner respect just by having a good head on his shoulders. And,it was so easy to get ahead back then!!
Those were the days!
I miss those places so much.
#18 Feb 6, 2013
I do. Those cats that hung around Dino's were crazy. Wild eyed boys that didn't have much to say. Lots of memories. One time this chick who was cool,she was red hot--I mean she was steaming-was dancing and shaking all that she got and then she got up and slapped my buddy Johnny in the face,we just fell about the place. If that chick don't wanna know forget her!
Yeah,I loved Dino's. Friday night everyone was dressed to kill.
The drink would flow and blood will spill
And if the boys wanted to fight, you'd better let them!
I also remember that jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song.
Good times!!
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#19 Feb 6, 2013
Lindner's Ice Cream at 10th and Post??
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#20 Feb 6, 2013
By the time I was driving and getting around some, nobody was really going to Al Green's. It was still open, but I was only there a couple of times. The tenderloins were awesome! We spent a huge amount of time just hanging out at a couple of gas stations on the southeast side.
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It isn't just the Daily News. The New York Times' Peter Baker and Adam Nagourney write under the header "In a Volatile Time, Obama Strikes a New Tone for Crisis":
Americans saw not the fiery and inspirational speaker who riveted the nation in his address to Congress last month, or the conversational president who warmly engaged Americans in talks across the country, or even the jaunty and jokey president who turned up on Jay Leno.
Instead, in his second prime-time news conference from the White House, it was Barack Obama the lecturer, a familiar character from early in the campaign. Placid and unsmiling, he was the professor in chief, offering familiar arguments in long paragraphs — often introduced with the phrase, "as I said before" — sounding like the teacher speaking in the stillness of a classroom where students are restlessly waiting for the ring of the bell.
Got that? Baker and Nagourney were bored out of their minds. Where were the jokes? The yelling? The seal bouncing a beach ball on its nose? All of this policy crap is just so dull.
But Baker and Nagourney weren't done:
Mr. Obama showed little emotion. He rarely cracked a joke or raised his voice. ... his voice sounded calm and unbothered... To a certain extent, Mr. Obama's demeanor could have been calculated ... The only time he seemed irritated ... perhaps his only joke of the night ... This was Mr. Obama as more enervating than energizing.
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Attention Lazy Dog Owners & all potential Lazy Dog Owners!!!!!!!
Have you always wanted a dog, but just didn't like all the activity that goes with one?
Have you always wanted a furry companion to sit with you on the couch & watch TV, especially football?
Have you always wanted to be adored by a pair of big brown eyes, but didn't want to do all that 'dog park' stuff?
Well it is your lucky day!!!! My name is Sarah Jane & the two highlights of my day are chewing my bone & laying on the couch! Sometimes I go all out & even chew my bone WHILE I am sitting on the couch! I am a boxer/shepherd mix who is approximately 4/5 yrs old & I will admit ..... I am a lazy dog! I do have my spunky outburst every once in a while, but they only last about 5-10 minutes tops. I do like to spin in circles, but then I just want to lay around after that. My foster mom says I am the easiest, least stressful dog she has ever had! She loves me very much, especially since I am so easy to live with, but she feels like I deserve a family to call my own! The only thing I will ask of my future family is if they introduce me to new dogs, they need to do it slowly. I get a little nervous around new dogs & I will look to you to make sure it is ok. But once I know who my family is, I am a fun-loving, lounging dog. I love kids too!!!! There are three boys here ages 12 to 3 & I love them & they love me! So start your new year out right - with a couch buddy! Plus I would love to be in my new forever home by the end of January. That way I can get a good seat for The Superbowl! I love to watch football!
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Good with: People, loves the boys!!! Medium to large dogs - if introduced SLOWLY!!!!
Forever Family Requirements: Strong leadership, patience, a 'at home' kind of family
Sarah Jane is the PERFECT family dog!!!! She is mellow, yet playful; loving, but not needy & gets along w/ other dogs - if introduced slowly & properly. I think Sarah's perfect family would be someone who has a fenced in yard & would be content with keeping her at home. Sarah would not be a good dog to take out & about - she does get along with other dogs, but she has to be introduced to them slowly - that is a necessity! She will look to her 'person' for guidance as to what is ok & what is not ok. That means she needs a confidant leader who will take the lead. She really just wants to be loved on! She is content laying on the couch/bed & munching down on her bone! She loves to chew her Nyla bones. She is completely house trained & crate trained & she is not a barker at all! Everyone that Sarah Jane has met since coming to my house always leaves saying 'what a great dog'. I know Sarah is not a boxer - I think she might have some German Shepherd in her, but that in no way means she wouldn't be a wonderful addition to the right family! Sarah has been in the rescue a while but that doesn't mean she isn't a good dog. Sometimes it takes a while to find out what a dog is good with & what they are not good with. Like I said, Sarah Jane is not a 'dog park' kind of dog & she just needs a family that will accept her & love her for the type of dog she is - not one that feels they need to 'change' her or put her in uncomfortable situations - just to see if they can 'help her'. Sarah is perfect the way she is & if she sounds like your kind of 'couch potato, snuggling' dog - please submit an application! Thank you!
Sarah here! I had a great weekend at the Pet Fest here in Charleston, SC. There were three of us BRBR girls at this event and everyone loved us! I still don't have my forever family, even though I was hoping you would come to the event and fall in love with me! We had a great time anyway, though. There were tons of people…lots of kids! Yum, I love to kiss the kids! There were lots of dogs there, too. I wasn't too sure about some of them, but my foster mom kept me close and told me it was okay.
I am getting so much better at responding to the simple commands! I'm also getting much, much better at walking pretty on the leash. Mom says the first few minutes of our walk are the toughest and she has to remind me that she is in charge, but after that I settle down and enjoy it.
I had a dream the other night that you had finally found me and fallen in love with me! You filled out your application, had an A+ home visit, and brought me home to a new, warm bed, lots of toys, and yummy treats! Not to mention your lap to cuddle on while you watch TV, a big fenced yard to run around in, and maybe even some kids to love on! It was the best dream!
Will you make that dream come true, please? I am so eager to meet you! I just know it will be love at first sight!! I'll go on and tell the sweet ladies at BRBR to be looking for your application so that we can be a family real soon!!! ~~Woof!~~
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