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Title: Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership, 2nd Edition

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The Change Leader?s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization?s Transformation, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 9780470648087 & 9780470648063

Topic/Genre: Leadership and Change/Transformation

Publication Date: Second Editions: October 2010

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Linda Ackerman Anderson is a cofounder of Being First, Inc., a change leadership and transformational change consulting and training firm in Durango, Colorado. She specializes in facilitating transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses, government, and the military. Linda has spoken about conscious transformation at national and international conferences, and is known as a thought leader and inspiring model of her message. During the past twenty-five years, her practice has focused on change strategy development for major change efforts using Being First?s renown nine-phase Change Process Model. She and her partner have established themselves as thought leaders in leading transformation and changing organizational mindset and culture. She is currently developing a leadership curriculum called ?Women as Leaders of Change.?

Ms. Ackerman Anderson?s client list includes the Canadian Government, Intel, Shell, The Nature Conservancy, DTE Energy, US West, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Gas and Electric, Kaiser Permanente, several Bell System operating companies, the U.S. Army and Navy, and Honeywell.

In 2002, Ms. Ackerman Anderson, along with Dean Anderson, wrote Beyond Change Management: Advanced Strategies for Today?s Transformational Leaders and The Change Leader?s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization?s Transformation. She led the development of the landmark work, the Change Process Guidebook, a methodology featuring the Change Process Model and its supporting tools. The Guidebook has been called the most comprehensive, pragmatic and user-friendly resource for organizations undergoing transformational and transitional change in the world. She has also published several articles, including ?Awake at the Wheel: Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious Change Leadership? and ?Development, Transition or Transformation: Bringing Change Leadership into the 21^st Century?.

Ms. Ackerman Anderson was a founding leader of the field of Organization Transformation. She received her M.A. from Columbia University?s Teachers College and her B.A. degree from Boston University.

Speaking Topics

Conscious Change Leadership: Mastering the Six Pillars Required to Succeed at Transformation

Our thirty years of action research has surfaced six requirements leaders need to master to succeed in transforming their organizations for the realities of today?s business environment. These six foundations comprise an advanced approach to transformation: Conscious Change Leadership. Beyond change management, and even beyond change leadership, transformation demands more of leaders?to be proactive, aware of a broader set of organizational and human dynamics, inclusive, and able to design and lead the process of transformation in co-creative ways. This session describes the six pillars of Conscious Change Leadership and provides pragmatic tools and strategies to succeed at each. Conscious Change Leadership is not a quick-fix approach; it is a serious reinvention of leadership for leaders who already recognize that past practices will not get us where our organizations need to go. Leaders must develop themselves so they can do what is truly needed and model it in the organization. If you want breakthrough results, stepping out of the box into Conscious Change Leadership is your gateway.

Leading Transformation: Navigating Your Way to the Future

Transformational change has become the predominant type of change challenging organizations today. It is the least understood, and by far, the hardest to navigate successfully. This presentation defines transformational change, highlighting its unique requirements, and explores how leaders need to transform their traditional practices to be successful in their changing reality. We will present the three essential areas requiring leadership attention from the beginning, the need for a change process roadmap, and how to set up change infrastructures fit for transformation. We will discuss the predictable people dynamics that make the ride so challenging, and how to prepare the organization for the roller coaster of transformation so that people can more consciously expect its complexity, respond rapidly, and succeed at it.

Master the Human Dynamics of Change

One of the most common complaints we hear from leaders of changing organizations is that their people are resistant, confused, and slowing down progress. Why is it so hard to get your people mobilized behind the changes your organization needs to succeed? Why aren?t your managers taking the ball and running with it? This keynote provides you with much-needed understanding about the importance of mastering the people dynamics of change. It offers pragmatic strategies to set up your changes so your people will actually understand your new directions, support the work, and want to give their all to succeed. Explore what threatens and produces resistance, and how to turn people?s resistance into commitment. Learn how to design your changes to meet people?s six core needs and strategies to help them excel while working through their natural reactions to change.

This session shows you how to accelerate your change by planning with a people-savvy head and responding to your people with an open heart. The program is interactive, inspirational and personal, and will mobilize your understanding and enthusiasm for aligning your workforce?and yourself!?behind the change results you seek.

Building Your Organization?s Change Capability: Making the Strategic Decision to Succeed at Enterprise Transformation

The complexity, urgency, and magnitude of change have outpaced most organizations? skills at leading and implementing it. The costs of poor change leadership is too high to ignore. The solution is simple. We must build enterprise capability to ensure success in mission-critical changes. That capability takes the form of leading change as a strategic discipline. All organizations employ strategic disciplines and standard practices around key functions?finance, marketing, sales, HR, IT, etc., but overlook this crucial approach when leading change. The five strategic disciplines for change include the Enterprise Change Agenda, using one common change process methodology, establishing change infrastructures, a Change Center of Excellence, and the Strategic Change Office. This presentation is an information-packed session that will alter the way leaders think about leading change at the enterprise level. It will call them into taking proactive steps to ensure that they can succeed all of the organization?s change efforts.

Avoiding the Predictable Mistakes in Leading Change ? or ? Ten Critical Actions to Support the Success of Mission-Critical Changes (Note: This program can be framed as a Risk Assessment on known mistakes in leading change, or as a recommendation of the ten critical actions that leaders can take to consciously support their success in change. The topics are the same, but the positioning is unique to each version.)

In this thought-provoking session for executives, change sponsors, change leaders, and consultants, Ms. Ackerman Anderson shares 35 years of experience on why more than 60% of all change efforts fail and how to avoid the most commonly made mistakes, or, how to proactively set up your change efforts for success from the beginning. No matter what the industry or type of change, audiences will walk away with insights on how to rethink the type of leadership, strategies, and infrastructures they use to drive their most critical change efforts. The recommendations include proven best practices, approaches, and pragmatic tools.

Being the Change: The Change Leader?s Most Potent Strategy for Leading Transformation

When an organization undergoes transformation, its leaders?at all levels?are its most critical catalyst for the changes required. Transformational change demands deep personal change, affecting the leaders? mindsets and behavior. Most leaders pursue the knowledge and skills to lead the change, and inadvertently leave out the personal development that enables them to understand the nature of transformation, the power that their mindsets have over their success, and the requirement that they walk the talk they are asking of the organization. Leaders must become models of the transformation? ?being the change.? This presentation explores the requirements and predictable dynamics of addressing leaders? personal change as central to their capacity to successfully lead the transformations of their organizations in the 21^st Century.

Women as Leaders of Change: Women Have What Organization?s Need to?Succeed?at Change

With change rampant in organizations, executives are scrambling to improve their track record in leading change successfully. What?s so often missing, especially in transformational change, are leaders skilled in a host of advanced human competencies?clear strategy, a flexible process roadmap, authentic relationships, emotional maturity, personal courage to model new ways of being, and a community of motivated supporters. Women are naturals at these competencies!

This presentation clarifies what leading transformational change requires and explores why project management and command and control approaches don?t suffice. It features the innate competencies women possess that make them naturally proficient at leading transformation. These natural inclinations of women are needed to plan for and produce results from change, in partnership with the action-oriented talents of men. Discover these competencies in yourself and learn how to apply them to successfully lead your organization through its change efforts.

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Streetlights Draw Insects at Ground Level

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More insects, including many carnivores and scavengers, hang out under streetlights than between them, even during the day. Christopher Intagliata reports

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You've probably seen clouds of insects swirling round a streetlamp at night. But something you may not have noticed is that streetlights attract bugs to the ground below them, too?especially carnivorous bugs, like beetles. So says a study in the journal Biology Letters by researchers at the University of Exeter. Thomas W. Davies, Jonathan Bennie and Kevin J. Gaston,"Street lighting changes the composition of invertebrate communities"]

The researchers set up 28 traps in the grass below and between streetlamps in the English town of Helston, in Cornwall. They collected captured insects at dawn and dusk over three days, and ended up with nearly 1,200 specimens. Turns out, more bugs hung out under the lights than between them. And that was true at night and day?suggesting that streetlights permanently upped the value of the buggy real estate below them.

The researchers also found greater numbers of predators and scavengers under the lamps?like ground beetles, harvestmen and ants?because it may be easier to hunt for prey with the help of a spotlight.

With artificial lighting increasing globally at 6 percent a year, the authors say there's a chance light pollution could shake up food webs in unforeseen ways. Call it a bug in the system.

?Christopher Intagliata

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FOR KIDS: How creativity powers science

Some of the best ideas come not from poring over the facts but from a walk in the woods

Web edition : Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Ask most people to identify a creative person, and they?ll probably describe an artist ? Picasso, Shakespeare or even Lady Gaga.

But what about a Nobel prize?winning chemist? Or a team of engineers that figures out how to make a car engine operate more efficiently? Creativity, it turns out, is not only the domain of painters, singers and playwrights, says Robert DeHaan, a retired Emory University cell biologist who now studies how to teach creative thinking.

?Creativity is the creation of an idea or object that is both novel and useful,? he explains. ?Creativity is a new idea that has value in solving a problem, or an object that is new or useful.? And its at the heart of good science.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?How creativity powers science

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Choosing Childcare | Early Years Sign Factory

Sharing the care of your child is a very big step. Research studies have consistently found that the early years of life are critical to the emotional, physical ,social and intellectual development of a child. Therefore choosing a suitable type of childcare can be a daunting experience, particularly for first time parents.CanavanByrne with SafeHands are the adjudicators of the Maternity and Infant Cr?che of the Year Award. They explain ?75% of brain growth happens in the early years and therefore the quality of the early learning environment can impact on a child?s quality of life, their development and their future. Play has a huge role in developing children?s skills and laying the foundation for happy and competent adults?

Parents in Ireland have a wide variety of options available to them. The type of childcare arrangement you choose will obviously depend on your needs and what is available in your community. Working parents may require all-day care to facilitate their working hours. Families where one parent works at home may choose a pre-school setting for three hours daily. Whatever option you choose it should be convenient, affordable and most importantly provide a quality experience for both child and parent. The term commonly used to describe this sector is Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) which indicates that a ?child?s? care and general welfare is intertwined with learning and development?

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Type of Service

The Cr?che or Nursery may provide care from children from 3 months upwards. This? type of facility is generally open long hours to suit the working parents and can combine a range of options for parents including full-time, part-time and afterschool care. Cr?ches and nurseries usually offer a planned pre-school learning programme within the day.

The Pre-School/Playgroup usually operates for approximately 3 ? 3.5 hours per day for children from 2.5 ? 6 years. It offers a planned play and learning environment. Some pre-schools follow a specific curriculum approach such as Montessori, High/Scope and Steiner. A pre-school that uses Irish as a medium is known as a na?onra.

A childminder is someone who offers childcare in their own home. They provide a home-from-home environment. Some childminders offer a wrap-a-round service i.e drop-off or collection from school.

An au pair is employed as a live-in nanny? and can look after children of any age.

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Regulations

In Ireland Cr?ches, Nurseries and pre-schools are regulated by the Childcare Pre-school Services Regulations 2006 .This means that services are open to annual? inspections by the HSE. ??These regulations also cover Childminders who care for more than three children. Au pairs, nannies, school-age childcare and childminders who care for three children or less are not regulated.

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Top Tips for Choosing Childcare

CanavanByrne and SafeHands provide the following tips in choosing childcare:.

• Do your research: Your local city and county childcare committee is an excellent source of information on services in your area. Also ask your friends and colleagues for recommendations

• Do an initial telephone interview: Find out the basics about the service first ? age range catered for, opening hours, curriculum, activities, staff qualifications, food & nutrition etc

• Visit the Service: A visit to the service is an excellent way to assess if your child?s needs will be met. Prepare a list of questions in advance. You should expect a warm welcome, a tour, an explanation of the fees, an introduction to the main policies (eg, behaviour management, illness, hygiene, healthy eating, TV usage, security, accident prevention), an introduction to the curriculum and an overview of the daily routine.

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Recognising a Quality Service

A good quality service will supply you with lots of information without even asking.

The Environment

According to our adjudicators good quality services will have a spacious and well equipped indoor and outdoor space with an emphasis on child safety. There should be evidence of children?s creative work throughout the building. Is artwork displayed at eye level? ?The environment should provide opportunities for all types of play from messy art to quiet activities.

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Interactions

Positive interactions between staff and the children is undoubtedly one of the most crucial factors. There should be warm and inviting atmosphere. Are children relaxed and happy?

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Curriculum

Good services will provide a broad range of activities, planned according to needs of individual children. There should be a good combination of child led and adult chosen activities. Parents should watch out to see if the Aistear themes are being used in the services they visit. Aistear (meaning journey) was introduced as a National Early Childhood Curriculum Framework in 2009. It describes learning and development as four interconnecting themes ? Well-being, Identity & Belonging, Communicating and Exploring & Thinking. According to our adjudicators high quality services will support children?s learning across these themes.

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Parental Involvement

Another hallmark of quality is a service that works in partnership with parents. What arrangements are in place to share information with you? How can you become involved in your child?s learning?? Does the service respect your child?s likes/dislikes? Does the service want to find out as much information as possible about you and your child. Remember a true partnership involved the childcare practitioner, the parent and the child.

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Staff Training

You should expect that the staff caring for your child is skilled and competent. They should have a minimum of a Fetac Level 5 qualification and be encouraged to continue their professional development. Staff should also be trained in manual handling, first aid and child protection. They should be Garda vetted and have references. Don?t be afraid to ask for evidence of qualifications and training. .

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Funding Support for Parents

The good news for parents is that all children are now are entitled to one year free pre-school in the year ?prior to entering primary school. This initiative, funded by the government makes early education accessible to all children. Interested parents should talk to their local childcare service about this or contact the local childcare committee. Families on social welfare or low incomes may also be eligible for subvention which is a subsidised place. These part-funded places cover all age ranges and are only available in community (not-for-profit) centres at the moment. If you are attending a VEC or FAS scheme you may be eligible for? CETS ? this is? a Childcare Employment and Training Support Scheme providing free childcare places for trainees.

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Raising the Bar

Most pre-school services are subject to HSE inspections. CanavanByrne and SafeHands recommend to service providers to display the HSE inspection reports so that parents can access them and ask questions if necessary. These reports list the areas of compliance and non-compliance in areas such as staff/ child ratios, health safety and hygiene, the programme of activities and food and nutrition. Many services work very hard to go beyond the statutory requirements of the inspectors and engage in quality assurance programmes. Such programmes are run by the national voluntary agencies that represent nurseries, cr?ches, preschools and childminders including the National Children?s Nurseries Association, the Irish Pre-schools Association and Childminding Ireland.

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Facebook has its eyes on Face.com, reports say

By msnbc.com staff

There's nothing like an acquisition to?distract investors?from your falling stock price.?

Reports in the tech press Tuesday said that Facebook, whose stock is still reeling from the aftershocks of a bungled IPO, is looking to acquire Israel-based face recognition technology company Face.com for around $80 million to $100 million.

The Los Angeles Times reported that rumors of the deal for the startup surfaced in the Israeli press and then were quickly picked up by tech reporters. Several of the reports said that when they contacted Face.com CEO Gil Hirsch, he responded by saying he had no news to share.

Shares of Facebook (FB) were down about 7 percent on Tuesday to just below $30 on a day when most market indices were higher. It was the first time since Facebook's debut on May 18?that its shares dipped below $30,?putting the shares about?21 percent below the IPO price of?$38 a share.?It was also the first time that Facebook?options began trading.?

Facebook options began trading today on a bearish note. What does this indicate about the stock's future? The FMHR traders weigh in with the play.

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Celebrity chef Ramsay injured in charity soccer match

Twitter is kind of going nuts over Gordon Ramsay right now ? I guess when you?re a TV personality who?s famous for profane kitchen rants, you don?t get a whole lot of sympathy when you?re injured in a soccer match. Ramsay was participating in the Soccer Aid celebrities-vs.-pros match at Old Trafford when he was crushed by Manchester United striker Teddy Sheringham.

Even after the tackle Sheringham was oblivious to Ramsay?s injury ? patting him on the back as the chef lay in agony on the grass.

World-famous TV chef Ramsay, who once had a trial with Rangers, had to be given oxygen on the pitch before he was taken off by medics after Sheringham tackled him from behind at the match, held at Old Trafford to raise funds for Unicef.

Following the tackle, Ramsay was taken to hospital for further treatment but was released later in the evening.

Ramsay fans wasted no time updating his Wikipedia page.

Closer view here.

Will Ferrell, Edward Norton, Woody Harrelson, Mike Myers and James McEvoy were also among those who participated on the celebrities and ex-professionals team, who played against the all-England team.

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Coroner: Gunman in Indiana standoff from Texas

VALPARAISO, Ind.?A Texas man who took hostages in a northwestern Indiana realty office and held police at bay for several hours suffered three gunshot wounds before dying, likely from two different weapons, a coroner said Saturday.

Roy L. Ferguson, 48, of Fulshear, Texas, died at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Porter County Coroner Chuck Harris said. That was two hours after the end of the nearly seven-hour standoff at Prudential Executive Group Real Estate office in Valparaiso, about 40 miles southeast of Chicago.

"The likelihood of all three gunshot wounds coming from the same weapon is not good," Harris said. He said that wouldn't be confirmed until an autopsy is performed. It had not yet been scheduled because of Memorial Day weekend.

Valparaiso Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Grennes said Saturday that Ferguson had only one firearm?a handgun. Grennes also said the SWAT officers who rushed inside the office after hearing gunshots at 4:30 p.m. did not fire on Ferguson, but officers exchanged gunfire with Ferguson when the standoff started.

Asked Saturday if police had shot Ferguson, Grennes said, "It's under investigation."

Police received a 911 call around 10 a.m. Friday reporting a man with a gun had entered the brokerage office, Grennes said.

There were fewer than 10 people in the building when the incident began, he said.

One of them was accountant Carolyn Biesen. She was in her office when she heard a commotion near the front desk. Biesen walked out, saw a man standing over her injured co-worker on the ground and yelled at him to leave.

"That's when he pulled his gun out?and pointed it in the air," she told The Associated Press late Friday, several hours after she and several other people were taken hostage.

Biesen, 51, retreated back into her office, locked herself in, shoved a file cabinet in front of the door and called 911. Curled up under her desk, she heard two gunshots, then several more in rapid succession.

Ferguson, police said later, was looking for someone he believed owed him money when he went into the Prudential Executive Group Real Estate office in Valparaiso on Friday morning.

Valparaiso Police Chief Michael Brickner said officers believe Ferguson shot himself twice in the head before SWAT members broke windows and stormed inside less than two hours after the last two hostages had been released unharmed.

"He has some history here," Brickner said of Ferguson.

An ambulance rushed Ferguson to a hospital, where he died, police said.

No hostages reported being shot, though Grennes said one person who was struck in the head was treated and released from a hospital.

Another witness, Randy Baker, said he was in an adjacent parking lot shoveling asphalt when an officer wielding a pistol suddenly ran by and asked if he'd seen or heard anything about a gun. When Baker said he hadn't, the officer approached the building.

Seconds later, the officer began rapidly firing at least half a dozen times, said Baker, who took cover behind his work truck. He said he saw a woman in the Prudential window cowering under an office desk.

"That's what really scared me," Baker said. "And I ran out of there fast."

Mack Elliott, an agent at the brokerage, wasn't in the office Friday but said he spoke with agents who were present. He believes the incident stemmed from a dispute over a real estate transaction.

Biesen, the accountant, said she didn't believe the gunman intended to hurt her.

"If he wanted to, he could have come right into the office?maybe shooting through the door," she said.

Biesen spoke Friday night from her home, where several dozen family members and friends gathered after she had made it out unharmed. Despite the trauma, she said she felt sorry for the gunman, noting he could have decided to surrender after all the hostages were released.

"It's very sad," she said.

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Associated Press writer Ken Kusmer contributed to this report from Indianapolis.

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Africa: Kwani? Manuscript Project Announces Literary Prize

?To celebrate the African novel and its adaptability and resilience, Kwani Trust announces a one-off new literary prize for African writing. The Kwani? Manuscript Project calls for the submission of unpublished fiction manuscripts from African writers across the continent and in the Diaspora,? Nana reports.

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Elderly couple dead in Ottawa-area fire | Canada - London Free Press

An elderly husband and wife are dead after fire broke out at an Ottawa-area retirement home Friday night.

Emergency officials in Hawkesbury, Ont., responded to the blaze at the Place Mont-Roc around 9:30 p.m.

The home to 90 residents was evacuated, but Anne-Marie Bonin, 84, and Jean-Paul Bonin, 87, were caught inside and died.

No other residents were injured in the fire.

Some of the residents were taken to hospital for precautionary measures, and more than 30 others - those not sent home with family members - were taken to a nearby retirement home.

Family members wishing to know more about the status of a resident family member can call the Prescott-Russell Residence at 613-632-2755.

The cause of the fire is still unknown and is being investigated.

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Mexico: #YoSoy132, The Beginning of the Mexican Spring?

On Friday, May 11 the presidential candidate of the?Institutional Revolutionary Party?(PRI) Enrique Pe?a Nieto, attended an open forum with students from the Iberoamericana University. The meeting was marked with protests from the students who rebuked the candidate in several occasions.

A month had passed on that Friday since the official political campaigns?for Mexico's?Presidency?took off. Such election, up until then, didn't generate any interest among the electorate, mainly because people perceived the top candidate was invincible. (...)

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Obama should attack what Bain and JPMorgan have in common

Rather than lobbing generalized? attacks at Mitt Romney and American business, Obama should attack a particular kind of capitalism that Romney and JPMorgan both practice: using other peoples? money to make big bets which, if they go wrong, can wreak havoc on the economy.

By Robert Reich,?Guest blogger / May 24, 2012

President Barack Obama waves as he board Air Force One before his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, May, 23, 2012. Reich argues that Obama should draw the link between the risky financial practices of Bain Capital and JPMorgan.

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I wish President Obama would draw the obvious connection between Bain Capital and JPMorgan Chase.

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Robert is chancellor?s professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Clinton. Time Magazine?named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including ?The Work of Nations,? his latest best-seller ?Aftershock: The Next Economy and America?s Future," and a new?e-book, ?Beyond Outrage.??He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.

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That way his so-called ?attack? on private equity is neither a personal attack on Mitt Romney nor a generalized attack on American business.

It?s an attack on a particular kind of capitalism that Romney and JPMorgan both practice: Using other peoples? money to make big bets which, if they go wrong, can wreak havoc on the economy.

It?s the substitution of casino capitalism for real capitalism, the dominance of the betting parlor over the real business of America, financial innovation rather than product innovation.

It?s been terrible for the American economy and for our democracy.

It?s also why Obama has to come out swinging about JPMorgan. The JPMorgan Chase debacle would have been prevented if the Volcker Rule were sufficiently strict, prohibiting banks from using commercial deposits to make bets except very specific offsetting bets (hedges) on narrow classes of trades.

But Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan have been lobbying like mad to loosen the Volcker Rule and widen that exception to include the very kind of reckless bets JPMorgan made. And they?re still at it, as evidenced by Dimon?s current claim that the rule that eventually emerges would allow those bets.

As a practical matter, the Volcker Rule is hopeless. It was intended to be Glass-Steagall lite ? a more nuanced version of the original Depression-era law that separated commercial from investment banking. But JPMorgan has proven that any nuance ? any exception ? will be stretched beyond recognition by the big banks.

So much money can be made when these bets turn out well that the big banks will stop at nothing to keep the spigot open.

There?s no alternative but to resurrect Glass-Steagall as a whole. Even then, the biggest banks are still too big to fail or to regulate. We also need to heed the recent advice of the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve, and break them up.

At the same time, there?s no point to the ?carried interest? loophole that allows private-equity managers like Mitt Romney to treat their incomes as capital gains, taxed at only 15 percent, when they?ve risked no money of their own.

If private equity were good for America it wouldn?t need this or the other tax preference it depends on, elevating debt over equity. But the private equity industry has huge political clout, which is why these tax preferences remain.

Get it? Bain Capital and JPMorgan are parts of the same problem. The President should be leading the charge against both.

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VH1 is bringing a southern-fried tale of struggle, love and temptation to Atlanta, Georgia with an all new season of ?Love & Hip Hop.? Premiering June 18 at 8PM, VH1?s docu-soap ?Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta? proves love, music and the game know no boundaries. The all new cast includes (L-R) talented songbird K Michelle, [...]

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Girls Write Out: Friendship

This week, we received a very kind letter on Smitten and how it reminded one reader to invest more in her friend relationships. ?I think that's a lesson everyone needs here and again. ?Friendships take work at first. ?When Colleen and I met, our connection online was instant, but we edited back and forth for each other for years. ?We invested in each other. ?We made a commitment that YOUR publishing is as important as MY publishing.

As I got more kids, I became less reliable. ? (We met when I had two -- now I have four and my youngest is 11.) ?Colleen got busier publishing a bajillion books a year. ?LOL ?But the friendship stands because of its solid foundation in God. ?I know her heart. ?She knows mine. ?Even though we are totally different animals.?I used to say Colleen is a Golden Retriever and I am a Siamese Cat (and I don't even LIKE cats, so that tells you something!)

The investment and foundation of friendship is so important. ?A relationship is a living, breathing thing. It takes time, commitment and love.

Friends always seem to have something in them that you don't possess and you honor this part of them. ?For me, in Colleen it's her endurance and her ability to go on when I would have long since given up. ?

?In Denise, it's her organization and the way her mind works. ?It's so linear and beautiful and I wish for one day I could run my life like she runs hers. ?She'd be a Beagle.

With Diann, it's her strength of character. ?There are so many days I want to wimp out and give up on success. ?Then, I look to Diann who is always happy even when she's complaining about chemo, she's funny. ?If she were an animal, she'd be a Labradoodle.

In Cheryl, it's her compassion. ?She has so much compassion on those who are in dire straights. ?She has walked some tough roads and because of it, she can empathize and help people through really dark times. ?She'd be a St. Bernard in a rescue.

So what do your friends possess in spades that you'd like more of in yourself? ?What have you dont to invest in your relationships lately?

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Hey, Connection Isn't Always Easy | Parenting Course | Parent ...

re?la?tion?ship [ri-ley-shuhn-ship] noun

1. a connection, association, or involvement.

2. connection between persons by blood or marriage.

3. an emotional or other connection between people.

4. a sexual involvement; affair.

Being a mother, wife, lover, woman, friend? sometimes it?s hard. Maybe it?s just that by definition relationships are hard. Look above. The word connection is used in three of the four explanations of relationship and hey, connection isn?t always easy.

I opened the Bible on a day years ago when life and my relationships were getting the better of me. I was down and looking for some encouragement. I love to open certain books (the Bible being one of my favorites to do this with) to a random page and let where ever my finger falls speak to me. The words on which I land almost always knock me off my feet with the wisdom they hold. A word, passage or an entire page; on this day the message for me was contained in a single word.

?Ephphatha!? (which means, ?Be opened!?). Mark 7:34

This single word spoke volumes to my heart. I was on a family vacation with my husband and four young kids. The saying ?where ever you go, there you are? could not more accurately describe my state of mind. Here I was with the ones I loved on an island off the coast of Georgia, near paradise, and yet my heart was heavy. I remember struggling at the time with balance. Questions about who I was a woman verse who I was as a wife and mother were stirring inside me.

Hmmm. Ephphatha. The morning after finding my word (and still not being exactly sure why) I rose early to take a walk. The word I had unearthed was working on me. What was this word and what key towards balance did it hold for me?

And then there on my walk, I saw it. The answers to my questions.

It was standing there in the form of a great, big, old majestic tree. Beautiful, stretched out in all it?s glory, but so alone.

It was then it hit me. I walked home, grabbed a piece of scrap paper and wrote down this poem.

Ephphatha (be opened)

A solitary oak left to grow alone.

Beautiful, symmetrical and glorious to behold, standing strong

in stark contrast to the wide open field around it,

where sunlight and water abound for it?s pleasures alone.

Open, yes, but to whom or what?

To itself and those that walk by to gaze upon it and admire?

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But growing in connection with others,

interwoven and entwined, forced to bend and reach,

stretching out crocked limbs in search of light.

This makes an interesting tree.

Proximity necessitating flow, one in relationship to the other,

where light and water are shared and each delights in the beauty of the other.

Therein is the meaning. Therein the open heart.

Ephphatha.

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If this day finds you with a heavy heart or if you are feeling the strain of relationship, may this poem bring you peace of mind for the journey. Write to me below and tell me what is stirring in your mama heart. Open a book and let me know where your finger falls and what truth this holds for you.

Suzanne Tucker, aka Zen Mommy?hopes if you liked this article you will?subscribe?and/or join other mindful mamas?here. To keep the lights on, Suzanne runs a?holistic health center?in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband Shawn. She is passionate about the connection we are and to that end offers?Infant Massage, parent coaching and?YogaParenting.

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