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4. Ask a man out (Never had to and now I am married!)
5. Send a thoughtful thank-you note
6. Listen to a friend in need
7. Ask for help
8. Effectively end an unhealthy relationship [romantic or platonic in nature]
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12. Forget pleasing him, by 30 a woman should be able to tell her man exactly how to please her
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18. Create a budget
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits quietly in thought on a tan, plush chair positioned in the center of a secluded conference room at Hammerhead, the television production studio he owns just outside Mooresville, N.C. His arms are folded across his chest, concealing the sponsor logos splashed across the front of his gray hoodie. His legs, covered in jeans, are extended in front him. He is relaxed.
His demeanor on this warm January morning is easy, jovial. He cuts up with NASCAR president Mike Helton via text message and compliments a friend's attire. He even shows up early. He knows why he's there, but asks anyway.
The room is dark, save for the glare of the spotlight on Junior's face. He stares blankly at the floor, down and to his right, negotiating in his mind the best way to approach the 10th year of questions about his father's death.
The memories of Feb. 18, 2001, are foggy, erratic and spotty. Nothing especially stands out about the days leading up to the 43rd Daytona 500, either, though Junior figures it's fair to say the father-son relationship was better than ever. He doesn't recall any special excitement coming to the white flag in second position behind his teammate and in front of his dad. It was 10 years ago, after all.
He does remember distinctly, though, a conversation before the race. Dale Earnhardt walked into the transporter and reminded Junior that they had the horses to win the thing and that they needed to work together to get it done. Junior remembers scoffing at the notion. He wasn't there to help others. He was there to win for himself. Period.
Big E and Michael Waltrip, though, had the same agenda, Junior said. They planned to collectively spank the field for 498 miles and then sort it out amongst themselves when the checkers were in the air. That plan materialized, as the trio ran 1-2-3 on the final lap.
There is a prevailing sentiment that Dale Earnhardt was blocking the competition to benefit Junior and Waltrip. That sentiment is wrong.
"If his car developed a run good enough to pass for the lead, he would have done it," Junior said after a long pause. "He knew that me and Michael were going to work together and that we'd be hard to pass.
"Also, yeah, he owned them cars, so maybe he was a little reluctant to pass us because of that. But blocking? No. If he was blocking for anybody, he was blocking for himself. But not for me, not for Michael."
Junior saw the black No. 3 car wreck in the rearview mirror and thought nothing of it. He was disappointed that they wouldn't finish 1-2-3, but in the moment he was far more concerned that he wasn't leading the race. To come that close to winning the Daytona 500 after months of preparation and planning, two weeks at the track and four intense hours of racing was deflating.
He parked on pit lane after finishing second and was shuttled off to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach. It was there that he saw his father. That is when he learned his dad had died.
Roll on
Past that, Junior will not discuss specific details and emotions from that day any longer. Doing so now, he says, is distasteful and makes him look foolish and does his father no service. Not only is it uncomfortable for him, but he says it is self-righteous and self-serving. In the past he has described his personal feelings openly and has no desire to relive them now.
He won't take credit for the emotional weight he bore in the aftermath, for being a crutch for millions of his dad's fans. He gets frustrated at the notion that he deserves any.
"What happened, happened," Junior said. "Dang, man, everyone needs to get over it. It's the way of the world. It's what we're dealt. It's the way it is. Ain't nothing you can do about it. You've gotta keep working, gotta keep moving. You've got a life of your own. This thing keeps going. You have to get your ass in gear, trying to make the best with what you've got, with your life, trying to make the best of your life."
Junior's ability to carry on is rooted in a comment from his stepmother, Teresa Earnhardt, in the days immediately following Dale's death.
"Teresa said something one day that really struck me; I'll never forget it," he said. "She said we can't be selfish and be sad because we're missing that person. Her point was, it's selfish for us to miss that person in our lives, as if they belong to us solely.
"There's a lot of people obviously sad and mourning, and we should be happy he was a part of our lives, we had that opportunity to be a part of their lives. That's the way I always thought about it. I was like, man, you're right, that is so life. I should be thankful I was a part of his life. I shouldn't be selfishly mourning the fact that he's not a part of mine anymore. I thought that was a good way to look at it."
His entire life, Junior wanted nothing more than to hold his father's attention and make him proud, be it through good grades as a kid, defiance as a teen or fast laps as a young man.
"I think, like all kids, he wanted Dad to be proud of the things he did in school, sports, etc.," said Kelley Earnhardt, Junior's sister. "Because our dad traveled a ton and wasn't always home to be a part of school and sports activities, it probably made that desire stronger than most.
"When Dale started racing, he particularly wanted to make Dad proud. After all, our dad was a winner and champion while we were growing up. [Junior] wanted to win like him for that pat on the back to say, 'You did a good job.'"
Never has the want to make his dad proud been stronger than it is right now.
"Death is a weird thing," Junior said, his demeanor slightly more animated. "When you have parents, you want to do things that honor them and make them proud. I'm sure it's the same whether you lost your parent at 25 or 45.
"When they die, the responsibility to do right by them and honor them becomes more important to you, because they're not here to tell you, 'Hey man, don't be doing that' or 'Yeah, you're making me proud or you're not.' So you do things to make them proud. And I'm sure -- 100 damn percent -- my father would not want me discussing this 10 years later."
There are certain things Dale Jr. doesn't mind talking about. He laughs now at how his dad ran the show -- every show. For example, if you flew on his plane, he told you where you were sitting -- all of you. If you came to his party, he set the tone. No questions asked. Junior loves telling stories about his dad cutting it up at lake parties with Neil Bonnet, Tim Richmond and Ricky Rudd. They would make T-shirts with goofy sayings on them and pass them out to partygoers. Then they'd raise an ample amount of hell.
But when it comes to the details of the day his father died, Junior is done.
"It's too personal," he said. "It doesn't make me sad. It doesn't make me upset. I just feel like I'm taking advantage of him in some way, and I don't want to do that."
Mutual respect
In fact, the last thing Dale Jr. wants anyone, especially his dad's fans, to think is that he would ever take advantage of his father. Dale Earnhardt fans, Junior says, remain the most loyal, tightest group the sport has ever seen. The connection between them and Big E was very real and very honest and, Junior says, built on mutual respect, timing, circumstance and innate coincidences between the respective upbringings of the Man in Black and his legion.
It's simple, really. Dale was one of them.
"It was as if he could have lived in their neighborhood," Junior said, choosing his words carefully. "He could have worked in the town where they worked. Or it was as if he was a guy they saw at the gas station on the way to work, getting their coffee to go. It was a unique, tight bond that they felt with him. And he felt the same."
Kelley agreed, adding that her father paid special attention to that relationship.
"I think my dad's fans see him as a man's man," Kelley said. "He was like them, in terms of growing up blue collar and working for what he wanted, sacrificing for what he wanted to achieve. He was simply awesome, in all terms. He had a heart of gold, a heart of passion for what he did, and he did it well. He was personable and devoted a lot of attention to the fans who he felt made it possible for him to achieve success and be the best."
Dale Earnhardt was raised in the quaint southern mill town of Kannapolis, N.C., where the Cannon textile mill was king and hard work was a way of life. The people of Kannapolis called themselves "lint heads." Dale's father, Ralph Earnhardt, worked in that mill but ultimately quit to go racing and muscle self-built cars around countless rundown little tracks to keep food on the table. He was Dale's hero, and Dale inherited the same tough-love, no-frills approach to things.
By ninth grade Dale had had enough of school and dropped out. He was raw as sashimi but knew what he wanted and was unwilling to compromise in the quest to get it. He built a legend on will, determination and the unyielding desire to turn passion into profession.
Even when he was trolling around on "Sunday Money," his yacht, his fans still saw that lint head from Kannapolis.
"The person he became, the person he was, was very easy to respect and appreciate his morals, and he was very easy to cheer for because he was successful all the time," Junior said. "All these little things that were circumstantial, that made him this perfect, for lack of a better word, role model. It was just perfect, the way it worked out."
Junior idolized his father much like any other Dale Earnhardt fan did. He marveled at the man behind the wheel, the grit. The difference for Junior was the hero walked through his family's front door hours after he had conquered his nemeses.
"My favorite memory is probably The Winston in '87," Junior said of his father's epic duel with Bill Elliott in the all-star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "I was there in condos in Turn 1, and I see the videos today. I realized it a little bit then, but I realize it more today how hard he had to try to win that race. Bill's car was so much faster. To be honest, a couple of the guys were just a bit quicker than dad, and he drove dirty. But he had to try so hard. I couldn't believe it.
"I've never in my life seen will and determination like that, and I probably never ... I mean, it's rare. That's one of those times that I look back and I'm like, man, there's no way he belonged in Victory Lane, there's no way he should have been able to win that race, but somehow he did. Bill had been blowing everybody away, and once Dad got that lead, man, he wasn't going to give it up at all costs."
Walk the line
That story sums up why no one ever had to question Dale Earnhardt's gumption. It was right out there in the open for the world to see in every lap he turned. He oozed it. Junior's personality is far more reserved, leading some folks to question his dedication.
Crew chief Steve Letarte is not one of those people. During the offseason, team owner Rick Hendrick made a drastic personnel move, sending three of his four crew chiefs to work with new drivers. Letarte, who had directed Jeff Gordon's No. 24 team since 2005, moved to Junior's 88.
"I judge him on a first-hand basis -- not on stories I've heard, not on stories you read in the media," Letarte said. "He's a true competitor, with a huge fire to compete and do so successfully. He's done everything I've asked. When I ask him to be somewhere, he's early. When I ask him about the car, he's focused.
That's one thing that frustrates me is to hear people today say I don't have passion, my heart's not in it. Man, what the hell? ... My heart's in it. I gave my heart to this sport a long damn time ago.
"-- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
"He is extremely intelligent, very smart and has a great personality. But he doesn't communicate as openly as I do. My wife says, 'That must be a great conversation. You talk a lot, and he listens a lot.' And he handles the pressure of the [Earnhardt] name better than anyone could imagine."
Junior isn't his father, never claimed to be. He says he feels no pressure there. From his perspective, he rarely faces unfair comparisons from fans, and when he does they aren't bothersome. What does bother him is the presumption that he doesn't care or his heart isn't in it anymore. Just because he doesn't wear it on his sleeve, he says, folks tend to get the wrong impression at times.
"That's one thing that frustrates me is to hear people today say I don't have passion, my heart's not in it. Man, what the hell? You can't go to 38 races in 42 weeks with your heart out of it. I'm gonna tell you that right now, you can't do it!" Junior said. "It'd be obvious. My heart's in it. I gave my heart to this sport a long damn time ago."
He does admit his demeanor has noticeably softened since his father died. He's not as cheery, not as happy or wild. Part of that is simple maturation and greater focus on the job. He says looks back at videos of himself periodically from the old Busch Series days, when he was winning often and living fast. He can't believe his glee. He'd shake his fist at the camera, scream at it, cut up, completely out of his mind to take the green flag.
He misses that kid, the genuine energy. With age, that fades away and is replaced by a greater understanding of the importance of the job. But that guy may still be in there somewhere.
"I think I was probably just overly excited because it was going a million times better than I thought," he said. "If I was to start winning races, I think that guy would probably come right back. I'm totally committed to being in this sport -- obviously an event like that can change your perspective on things, and it changed my personality. If you look at the videos from '98, '99 and look at the video after that, I'm not the same person."
Given what he's experienced, it's hard to believe anyone would be the same.
"I hate to keep going back to this, but I ain't seen one guy go through a situation like that and not come out different in his disposition," Junior said. "But I still love the sport, and I'd do anything for it. If I could do anything right now to make it better, that's what I'd be doing."
Fresh perspective
Whether your folks are here physically or not, they tend to keep you straight. The influence they have on your life never stops. These days Junior tries to use his father's passion and life lessons in positive ways.
He hears his old man's advice more in his personal life than his professional one. They rarely talked racing. The advice Big E gave Junior about wheeling a race car was minimal. But with real-life stuff -- girls, buddies, relationships, financial advice -- he thinks all the time about what his dad would say.
"Dale has matured into a business man over the last 10 years," Kelley said. "His personality has mellowed from those days of partying and having a good time to now. I think that happens with most people that age from 26 to 36.
"He still enjoys the good times but appreciates them in a different way than 10 years ago. He's more involved in decisions about his career, life and future in a more strategic manner than 10 years ago."
When Hendrick made that decision to shuffle his crew chiefs, Earnhardt got a new address -- the same building that houses five-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson. It has already had an impact.
"Those guys in that shop are all about business," Junior said, shifting forward in his seat. "They're used to winning. They like to win. They want to keep winning. I like that pressure, and that sense of entitlement to victory. I used to feel that way, like I belonged in Victory Lane. The last couple years, I ain't been able to feel that way."
Since joining Hendrick Motorsports before the 2008 season, Junior has one victory and one Chase appearance (2008).
"He's a very successful race car driver -- 18 wins at the highest level," Letarte said. "That's elite company. That's a very small group of guys. Is he Jeff Gordon or Jimmie Johnson? No. But he's a proven winner. Success for this venture comes in steps. We need to get him relevant again, week in and
week out. That's harder than it looks, but I'll be disappointed if we don't."
Junior added, "When I go in there and I look at them guys, I can tell they're like, 'Man, you better be ready to get on it.' They look at you like, 'You better carry your load.' I like it. Makes me feel like it's gonna inspire me and motivate me. I feel like, this is gonna be good. I look at it as a real great opportunity to turn things around for me."
Marty Smith is a contributor to ESPN's NASCAR coverage. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Santorum thinks he has an advantage in the presidential race because a dog once pissed on him, or something. Hey, I have to pick-up dog poop every day, I'm as good as elected!
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We often end up focusing on and chasing the conditions we think will make us happy instead of zeroing in happiness, or freedom, itself. What is happiness or love? Where is it? Is it in some future moment? In some more glamorous, accomplished, together person? Is it in a golden past before the fall from Eden, before the break up, the move, the death? Is it once you get the perfect relationship, job, once you are pregnant, once you get your dream house, have achieved financial security, get healthy and fit?
Our minds are wanting machines. Don't expect them to change. Our brains evolved in the context of scarcity to want more, more, more.
Let's say, just imagine, that all the ducks that will make you happy, they all lined up. Your health is fabulous, you feel beautiful and strong, you're completely in love with the perfect mate who's totally in love with you, your career or path is blossoming and fulfilling, everyone agrees you are awesome and loves you, you have the car, the house, the wealth, respect. How would you feel in that moment, admiring your neat little ducks? How long would you be happy for? Would you really be relaxed or would you be wondering how in the world you are going to keep everything the way it is? How will you make sure your partner sticks around, no one steals your beautiful belongings, your beauty is preserved forever, you keep pleasing and impressing everyone? How long would that last before you noticed something wasn't quite right? How long before you have a fight about how to load the dishwasher, how long before the dog pukes on your priceless rug?
We are naturally uneasy with a happiness based on conditions because we know, deep down, everything changes. We are all to familiar with uncertainty and impermanence. Nevertheless we chase these things as though they will give us permanent security and happiness.
It's not that you shouldn't choose pleasant and supportive conditions in your life- choose wisely and be kind to yourself- but don't kid yourself that you can somehow avoid the suffering that is part of life. That you alone will be exempt from sickness, old age, loss, death. If only you could figure out the right formula- if only you tried hard enough- if only you improved your messed up self. This is the lie we all tell ourselves: I'll be happy if only __________.
Though I have achieved the desired conditions before- talked my way out of that speeding ticket, had my crush profess his love, got into the right school, got the best apartment- I have seen the storm of wanting abate, but only for a bit. Soon it is raining need again. And though I have seen this cycle and felt the emptiness of the quest, seen the hamster wheel for what it is I still chase. Again and again I find I have wandered from the path. I am determined that this or that condition will make me happy instead of wanting happiness itself (instead of being happy in the now!)*
It is not just any kind of happiness I want. When I sit still and ask, "What do I really want? What is my deepest intention?" I don't just want the pleasures of the good life- the home, the delectables, the vacations. I want to be OK, to be at peace, no matter what. I want to be open-hearted and full of love in the moment I take my last breath, in the midst of great physical pain or personal loss, or blame or ill-repute. Just as I want to stay open, vividly present and alive in the midst of great love, staggering beauty, melting chocolate, awkward exits and brushing my teeth.
There is no need to demonize desires, to choose to be hungry and cold and friendless. Do make decisions that are kind to you and the earth and everyone else. Loving-Kindness is a cause of true happiness. Also, notice the cravings, the compulsions and, instead of automatically pursuing, pause and investigate. In The Red Thread of Desire, Adyashanti points out how all our desires are really the desire for freedom. Why do you need the promotion? Ultimately it is so you can be relaxed, at peace, open.** I would say investigate again but it might sound too cerebral- this is a different kind of knowing, before and beyond language- so I'll say, feel into the root of desire, into its birthplace and find your own deepest longing for truth.
"Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure." ~ Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks)
United with your true longing you have the momentum to break free of patterns, to let go of the distractions and busyness and victimhood and agenda, and engage passionately with what is. Not later today or next year, but in the only place you will ever find what you are looking for, in that shimmering, infinite now.
When you get lost, inquire into to your deepest intention, that compass that always points home. Keep coming back to that question, "What do I really want?" and find what authentically moves in you. Don't come from the top down, imposing ideas about what you should want. Instead, get quiet, ask the question and listen. If it arises out of that vast silence within, you will trust it more than the wisest advice or teaching. As Sharon Salzberg says, faith is trusting your own deepest experience
* "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." – Guillaume Apollinaire
** I'm not saying we all want "enlightenment" because, to me, that word is confusing, laden with baggage and atop a towering and distant peak- not for mere messy mortals like myself. I prefer how Michael Singer puts it- we all just want to be OK.


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Today, I would like to visit two more thoughts on the Big One
I. The first concerns both the recent "Big One"–the discovery of a single factor within the Big Five Personality factors–and the other "big one"–Effortful Control. Are these two conflicting ideas? Compatible ideas? The same idea in different labels?
My reading of it is that they are separate ideas, not necessarily conflicting, and perhaps compatible in ways that might be surprising. The Big-One, as noted in an earlier blog, was found through factor analysis of the Big Five factors. High scorers on the One do well on what might be thought of as the positive side of all five Big Five factors. That is, they rate high as extraverted, conscientious, agreeable, open-minded and emotionally stable, and this is believed to go together as a general factor of personality or gfp. The gfp, in turn, is believed to predict that employers will rate performance more highly in those with a high gfp, and peers will rate them as more likeable. (So far, there doesn't seem to be a term for those who rate as introverted, unconscientious, disagreeable, closed-minded and emotionally unstable, but "loser" doesn't sound too far off!)
The point is, high gfp defines fairly specific behaviors–actions that the owner could be predicted to display in most circumstances. Effortful control–also a single factor and thus a "big one", is trickier. Let me repeat a definition from an earlier blog. "Effortful control as a temperamental dimension in itself…refers to superordinate self-regulatory systems that can assert control over…other temperament systems, so that an analogy to "effort" or "will" is appropriate.". In the factor analysis that produced effortful control as a single factor, there were two other factors, one related to extraversion and the other to a generally negative state including fear, anger and sadness. Effortful control was seen as exerting control over the other two factors, rather than blending with them. You can imagine someone with high effortful control, but also high fear, anger, etc. learning to get some control over being driven by these emotions, or at at least the expression of them, where someone with low effortful control might just be a blobby mess in this area.
So, how does this relate to the Big Five and the Big One? As far as I know, no one has examined this, so we are left to our imaginations. Certainly nothing in the Big Five and therefore the Big One suggests a role for will power. We might guess that someone high in conscientiousness, might be exerting effortful control to maintain this, but then again, if it is virtually a natural, unlearned behavior–if it just feels good to be conscientious–then perhaps effort is irrelevant.
But, lets try an opposite extreme. Might a highly successful serial killer have our basic loser profile–low in all parts of the Big Five/Big One (except perhaps conscientiousness), certainly not agreeable, probably not truly extraverted or open-minded or (by the standards most of us use–emotionally stable) and yet be high in effortful control? Even in granting conscientiousness, it would be in the sense of being methodical about planning and details. If you are a fan of legal/police/CSI/whodunit stories, you know that some serial killers are described as highly organized and meticulous, and successful, as well, for long periods of time.
The general findings about high effortful control are that it predicts, from early childhood onward, positive development and stability, but if it is truly an independent factor, it seems possible that it could occasionally be found in persons lacking most of the other civilizing factors–and therefore, that serial murderers and the Adolf Hitlers of the world, might be surprisingly high on this factor. (Your comments would be very welcome here!)
II. With respect to the Big Five/Big One, a recent comment from Lars, on the Big-One raised interesting points. He noted "Hm, this one-factor solution seems also a bit scary. I imagine employers testing candidates for desirability of personality. This is especially problematic if much of this factor its genetic and therefore people can only to some degree influence them. It also contradicts the idea that we need people of diverse personalities for a functioning society. The one factor theory would lead to more conformity."
Interestingly, a blogger at www.nickyee.com/ponder/big5.html commented in 2005 (before the Big-One was disseminated), that there was a high degree of intercorrelation between each of the Big Five factors, suggesting that "the Big Five is inherently measuring something else that is common to all five factors." We now know that this is so, given the findings on the Big-One. However this author has his own explanation for this. Given that the Big Five was built by looking at the many thousands of descriptive words for humans, as given in our dictionaries, he suggests that "the way we describe other people is laden with (cultural) assumptions of what is good or bad behavior. It is better to be "friendly" than "aloof", better to be"organized" rather than "messy" and the Big Five begins to appear to be one big survey with just one question–are you a good or bad person?" He asks "Has personality psychology become a glorified way of deciding who does and doesn't fit in society?"
It is certainly true that the Big-Five/Big-One expects the best people to be Extraverted, Conscientious, Agreeable, Open-Minded and Emotionally Stable. That casts a serious shadow on preferences in the MBTI for Introverson, Sensing, Thinking and Perceiving. While there may be good reasons in a particular position for ruling out any one of these preferences, it really is alarming to think of a world in which, for example, there is no room for the sometimes stubborn, sometimes disagreeable –but sometimes absolutely right–T.
Finally the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V (the fifth edition and a 10 year work in progress) will debut in June of 2013, and in its current form is proposing to use* a "series of six personality "trait domains" that are based on the widely used Five Factor Model of Personality", as one part of the process of diagnosing Personality Disorders. Whether this will really happen, and how closely the trait domains will really resemble the Big Five remains to be seen, but it could become one more cultural tool to shape the "good person" model.
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H.R. 985, the "Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017," is currently before the House Judiciary Committee. It would eviscerate class actions in many important ways. In a letter to the Committee, the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center — joined by the Washington Lawyers' Committee and 36 other disability rights organizations — explained how devastating it would be to cases that improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Baltimore County must pay more than $780,000 to a former longtime county sanitarian who said she was forced into retirement when supervisors refused to accommodate her disability, a federal jury decided.
Dianne Van Rossum sued the county for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, saying she was not allowed to move to another office when she had a severe reaction to chemical odors emanating from new paint and carpeting in the Jefferson Building, a county office space in Towson. The jury returned the verdict this week in U.S. District Court. It awarded $530,053 for economic damages and $250,000 for pain and suffering.
"I hope this case just sends a message," said Van Rossum, who worked for the county's environmental department from 1980 to 2010. "The jury obviously agreed that my rights were violated."
WASHINGTON, DC – While pregnant with her second child, Melikt Mengiste, a District of Columbia resident of Ethiopian origin, was denied housing by the 1901-07 15th Street, N.W., Cooperative Association (the "Cooperative"). Despite being pre-approved for housing by the property management company and complying with all of the application requirements, including producing additional documentation outside of the usual process, the Cooperative and its president denied Ms. Mengiste an interview and ultimately, the opportunity to move into a unit of suitable size for her growing family.
A former Baltimore County employee who was forced into retirement when the County refused to accommodate her disability won a $780,053 jury verdict in the US District Court for the District of Maryland on January 30.
Plaintiff Dianne Van Rossum worked for Baltimore County as a Sanitarian for the Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management for 29 years and 9 months. She was forced to retire on April 22, 2010 when the County withdrew the accommodations it had previously provided to her to alleviate the disabling reactions she had to chemicals in her newly renovated office space.
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NEW YORK, NY – Sweetgreen, Inc. has reached an agreement with customers Tajuan Farmer and Mika Pyyhkala to make its online ordering portal and mobile application accessible to talking screen readers used by the blind. On March 22, 2016, Plaintiffs, represented by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York alleging that the online portal and mobile application, where customers can place and customize salad orders for pick-up at their nearest Sweetgreen location, was not fully accessible to the blind. Plaintiffs, both blind and who use screen readers, alleged that they were not able to place orders independently. Sweetgreen worked cooperatively with the Plaintiffs to reach a settlement agreement whereby Sweetgreen will remedy these accessibility barriers by March 31, 2017 to conform to, at minimum, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Level A and AA Success Criteria ("WCAG2.0AA"), and to maintain accessibility. The settlement agreement also identifies a mechanism for providing feedback concerning any accessibility issues encountered after March 31st on either the website or mobile application, and requires web accessibility training for Sweetgreen's IT staff.
WASHINGTON, DC – Jody TallBear, a well-respected Native American employee of the Department of Energy, brought suit yesterday to challenge retaliation she experienced when she sought to address a work environment hostile to Native Americans. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and raises claims of race and national origin discrimination, a hostile work environment, and retaliation.


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Homeland security chief Tom Ridge has been tapping into the collective wisdom of the think tank community of late as he works to bring the new Department of Homeland Security into being.
Ridge stopped by the Center for the Study of the Presidency before the holidays for a nearly two-hour advice fest with about 20 representatives of Washington's ideas factories. The group plans to meet roughly every six weeks for the foreseeable future.
"We sensed they were on overload from the think tanks," said Gilbert A. Robinson, CSP's counselor. So "we made a proposal to them. We said we'll have a homeland security roundtable, and if the governor [Ridge] opens it and we get participation from other top deputies at future meetings, we'll try to get all the think tanks together."
"They seized it with alacrity, said it would help them organize things and put them in an orderly context," Robinson said. Among those joining Ridge at the CSP conference: Arnaud de Borchgrave from the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Ellen Laipson, the Henry L. Stimson Center; John O. Marsh Jr., the National Center for Technology and Law; Jessica Tuchman Mathews, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Robert C. Orr, the Council on Foreign Relations; and Michael Scardaville, the Heritage Foundation. ANSER, Rand Corp., the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the George C. Marshall Institute and several other policy organizations were also represented. CSP President David M. Abshire chaired the meeting.
Ridge took copious notes on pocket note cards and stayed 30 minutes after the meeting's designated end, according to Robinson. He also asked participants to follow up by sending him a one- or two-page summary of their work.
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Friday 24 April 1964
It was Friday, under the sign of Taurus. The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic).
Famous people born on this day include Cedric the Entertainer and Witold Smorawinski.
In that special week of April people in US were listening to Can't Buy Me Love by The Beatles.
The Horror of Party Beach, directed by Del Tenney, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1964
while The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carré was one of the best selling books.
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- Saint Alexander (died 178)
- Genocide Remembrance Day in Armenia.
- Republic Day in The Gambia (1970).
- Newman's Day.
- 24-Hour Comics Day.
- Saint Maria-Euphrasia Pelletier (d.1868)
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- Witold Smorawinski: Polish musician.
- Mark Moogalian: French-born American teacher (Sorbonne University), musician, painter (cyber art), and sculptor.
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- Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon removes all restrictions on ownership of gold certificates.
- The Swedish warship ''Vasa'', sunk in 1628, is raised from the waters of Stockholm harbor.
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San Jose police put out a call for assistance Monday evening after a black 2013 Audi S5 coupe with the key left in the ignition was stolen. The car was equipped with the LoJack stolen vehicle recovery system, but the owner had also left an iPhone with a "Find My Phone" tracking app inside the glove compartment.
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Friend and foe alike offered praise for Attorney General Mike Moore last week, as one of Mississippi's hardest working elected officials announced he would not seek re-election and would not run for governor.
Moore is going home, so to speak, to spend time with his family, and we suspect, prepare for his next big thing: a race for the U.S. Senate in 2006 or 2008.
But, time will tell on that.
Moore's announcement should have come as a surprise, but didn't. Speculation has swirled around the attorney general with a variety of scenarios about what he might do politically this year analyzed by professional and armchair pundits alike. And one of those options was not to run.
The race to replace Moore should be spirited and intense with viable Republican and Democratic candidates vying for the job. And as we consider a replacement important questions should be asked. After all, as effective as the attorney general has been, and he has been a successful and popular AG, Moore's activism demands critical assessment.
For example, while Moore's lawsuit against so-called Big Tobacco led to a financial windfall for the state, the outrageous compensation for private attorneys involved in the case remains a troubling concern.
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Taxes and Corporate Policies: Evidence F rom a Quasi Natural Experiment The Journal of Finance. Craig Doidge Alexander Dyck Rotman School of Management University of Toronto. Motivation.
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Two challenges to this line of thinking:
"The big open challenge in corporate finance is to produce evidence on how taxes affect market values and thus optimal financing decisions." –Fama (2010)
Rare time series evidence, with identification
Unit holders
Buy units
Cash to trust
Buy internal debt and equity
Operating company
Outside (3rd party) debt
"A Conservative government will... Stop the Liberal attack on retirement savings and preserve income trusts by not imposing any new taxes on them"–Conservative party platform, Jan 31, 2006
– Jim Flaherty, Finance Minister
"In the final hour before markets closed, a group of bureaucrats were glued to their computer screens, scanning stocks for any telltale signs that word had leaked out... the markets never suspected a thing…"– The G&M, Nov 2, 2006
Capital flows to trust sector
Fig 2 Value of trusts that left trust market after TFP
Pre TFP
Post TFP
Do Corporate policies mitigate the impact of taxes?
Cross sectional regressions of the abnormal return on the announcement,
Dependent variable
Average value drop = 0.1528
Prospective tax shields mitigate the impact of the tax change
4.6% of firm value
Recent study: 3.5%,Van Binsbergen, Graham, and Yang (2010)
Tax clienteles are priced
Taking into account personal taxes reduces (but does not eliminate) the value of tax shields
Average value of tax shields is 3.8%
Tax shields are worth more when marginal investor has lower TP
No taxadvantage to debt, predictlowerleverage
Stronger identification in Leverage Regressions evidence
Industry fixed effects
Year fixed effects
Other controls
Focus on dummy variable, whether firm was a trust at time of TFPWhat we find? #4: Significant build-up of tax shields post-TFP (Table V)
Trust Book Leverage relative to corporates
Annual change in leverage of trusts relative to corporates of 1.5% per year with full controls. Over 4 year transition periodimplies 6% increase in leverage.
Within trusts, firms that had highest leverage at time of TFP lower change in leverage.
Difference between payout/assets of trusts and corporates
Difference between cash/assets by trusts and corporates
Taxincentives affect likelihood of beingacquirer and target
Concern evidence : Anticipation thatcostlycorporatepolicieswouldbeadjustedpost-TFP may have affectedmarketresponse
Only important if different cross-sectionally
Robust to controls for anticipated change in investment, takeoverintensity, governance,
Use equityvalue, errors-in-variablesLots of robustnesschecks (Table VIII)
Event-study tests
Time series tests
Use truediff-in-diffspecification, similarresults
Constant sample
Exploit unanticipated event, with differential impact on affected and unaffected group, can identify impact of taxes on corporate policies by also looking at time series of changes
Collectively, suggests significant impact of taxes on value and corporate policies
Tradeoffscan be significant and involve many policies
Craig Doidge
Alexander Dyck