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beauty review: billion dollar brows;

The beauty world’s obsession with eyebrows was one of the more perplexing trends of 2015. Suddenly, information pills brows were everywhere: threading, shaping, tinting, highlighting. It makes sense, of course, as a good brow stands out and brings definition to your face – but I’m pretty sure we’ve always had them. What was so special about now?

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Now, I know I approach this issue from a relatively advantaged position. That I have, if you will, eyebrow privilege. I have mentioned before that I was blessed with good brows, and so it was that up until about three weeks ago I’d never owned a piece of eyebrow makeup. Not as much as a pencil. But then, just before Christmas, I was getting my regular eyebrow wax at a certain premium high street beauty counter, when my usual therapist said the fateful words:

“Oh, you’ve still got a wee sparse patch there.”

So Billion Dollar Brows entered my life at an extremely fateful time. The other reason for which being that the samples thief was coming home for Christmas and she is, in her own words, “obsessed with eyebrows”.

Billion Dollar Brows is, as the name suggests, a US brand which arrived in the UK just before Christmas. The company describes itself as “the only cosmetics company dedicated exclusively to eyebrows” and makes a wide range of pencils, powders, tools and accessories. I was sent a ‘Best Sellers Kit’* (£49.50) containing four key products, as well as the 60 Seconds to Beautiful Brows* (£24) powder and brush. Both of these, plus a number of other Billion Dollar Brows products, are available in Boots stores and online.

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The Best Sellers Kit contains everything that even a total novice like myself needs to get great brows, step-by-step. As I have a fringe at the moment I even went as far as sweeping it back so I can demonstrate to you, despite the fact it left me with a big moon face. You’re welcome.

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First up is the Universal Brow Pencil, which Billion Dollar Brows claims will “work beautifully with most skin tones and hair colours”. This looks like a warm, tawny brown in the packaging, but my eyebrow hairs are almost black and it looked like it was made for me. Witchcraft, clearly. This is a mechanical pencil which never needs sharpening, and it comes with a little twisty brush on the end for blending purposes.

The next step is to use the double-ended Brow Duo Pencil to highlight under the brow bone and conceal any pesky blemishes (like that spot I seem to have developed between my brows). This can be blended with the Smudge Brush, before you use the clear Brow Gel to lock your look into place. Simples.

And here’s the finished look, with a bit of extra slap on so you can tell it’s me and not my brother (it’s a little touch and go in that one on the bottom right).

Billion Dollar Brows - finished look

I was thrilled with these products: I found them to be really high quality in feel, easy to use and they met a cosmetic need I had no idea I had. I was less clear on the 60 Seconds to Beautiful Brows powder and brush, but that was fine – that kit was destined for a certain person’s suitcase as soon as she clapped eyes on it. She’s been sending me regular selfies via Whatsapp since her return, and has declared the powder “the best she has ever used”. So there’s that.

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I miss that face.

Billion Dollar Brows are giving away three Best Sellers kits to UK residents during this campaign, so if you like the look of the products you can enter via the widget below. Note that this isn’t my giveaway, and your details will be passed to Billion Dollar Brows.

Do you like the look of this brand? What are your favourite eyebrow products?

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DISCLAIMER: This post contains a PR sample, but all opinions are my own and unbiased. See my full disclosure policy.

  • Kitty Wood

    I too am blessed with naturally good eyebrows, but as I am quite fair I keep debating colouring them in more, thanks for this!

    • Ooh, if you pick this up let me know how you get on – I need to know how “universal” that universal brow pencil really is!

  • rachelle renée

    NICE BROWS, BABE. A few years ago I saw a photo of me and some friends and wondered where my eyebrows went, as they aren’t normally missing. This year I started using a pencil, out of sheer curiosity, and I love it. Not a necessity, but it makes a difference if you’re putting on eye make-up.

    • What’s your favourite brand my love? x

      • rachelle renée

        I started using Tarte’s Brow Architect and I love that it comes with a spouli/comb and then I tried Kat Von D’s Tattoo Brow. I like both, but the Tattoo Brow is for some oooomph, not serious definition. At least for how it goes on my skin. I’ll need to give BDB a try though!

  • trona

    these look lovely! my eyebrows are definitely my most neglected feature but when I can be bothered I love UD brow beater.

    • And I love UD, so I may well look into that for my next purchase..! x

  • deridere

    How have I never heard of this brand before you blogged about it? I tend to use Diorshow Brown Styler (another universal brow pencil) and I quite love it. I’ve tried powders and waxes but always come back to the pencil. I think I got some powder kit or other from Anastasia. My cousin swears by a brow stain/gel/pomade she gets from Ulta:

    • It’s from your side of the Atlantic, so you are under a duty to know everything about it! haha x


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If fructose is a villain, what about juice?

April 22, 2009 |  5:47 pm

Juice All this endless chatter about high-fructose corn syrup, to the point where regular old sugar -- once reviled as unhealthful -- is even making a comeback.

Why so much focus on high-fructose corn syrup in particular? I can see that the way we shove sugar into pretty much everything is bad news, but the focus on this sweetener confuses me a little.

Perhaps there's good reason to focus on fructose. A new study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that fructose may exert different physiological effects on the body from another small sugar, glucose -- and not good-sounding ones.

In the 10-week study, 32 overweight people were assigned to one of two groups -- one receiving a glucose-sweetened drink to consume, the other a fructose-sweetened drink. The drink constituted about 25% of the calories the people needed.

At the end of the 10-week period, both groups had gained weight, but those who'd drunk the fructose drink had gained more visceral fat -- fat tucked around internal organs. They also had decreased insulin-sensitivity, higher fasting blood glucose and blood insulin levels -- and other changes in blood fats.

The bottom line was that fructose, more than glucose, seemed to promote a set of unhealthful bodily changes correlated with a higher risk for diabetes and heart disease.

This may seem to point a damning finger at high fructose corn syrup. But doesn't it, more logically, point a finger at juice, and at fruit? (A disclaimer: I like fruit.)

Sucrose -- regular sugar from cane or beets -- is 50% fructose and 50% glucose when it's broken down into its two building blocks. Plenty of fructose there -- not much more, in fact, than what's present in high-fructose corn syrup, which contains about 55%, already as free fructose. So unless there's something physiological that happens before the sucrose is broken down -- which could be so -- it doesn't seem there would be much difference. (Though as we all know, 5% more of something can sometimes make a difference if it's 5% more consistently, day in and day out.)

Maybe what's more important is the increasing presence of sweeteners added to processed foods of all kinds, and not the precise sweetener that's used.

And somehow, amid all this talk of devil sodas, juices -- which some people chug like crazy, because after all, they're healthful -- get a relative pass. Isn't juice loaded with fructose? What part does it play in our diabetes rates?

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Puerto Rico’s Governor Calls on U.S. to allow bankruptcy of island
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Puerto Rico’s Governor Calls on U.S. to allow bankruptcy of island

Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis has been fomenting for a while now, with a debt exceeding $70 billion and an unemployment rate of 12.4 percent.

Despite repeated reassurances that he would lead the island through the crisis, the most assertive of which was offered in June, when he appointed a commission of leaders to develop a plan for dealing with the debt burden, Governor García has made little, if any, progress, and announced recently that the island will likely default on the next round of debt payments due at the beginning of the new year.

Sickly finances

The island owes more than $900 million worth of bond payments by January 1. If it does not make the payment–and it is expected the government will not, as Governor García says it has run out of money–it will be the biggest default in the island’s history.

García told members of U.S. Congress on Wednesday that if he has to choose between paying the bill and paying the salaries of Puerto Rican employees, he will choose the latter. “It’s that simple,” he said, adding, “They will have to go to court to force me to do the opposite.”

Given the dire financial straits in which the island finds itself, it’s likely Governor García will have to make that choice. The populist line played well on the island, where García will run for reelection in 2016.

“A distress call”

Governor García, joined by Puerto Rican mayors and other legislators, as well as mainland Puerto Ricans who hold office, also asked Congress to adjust existing regulations that prevent the island from exercising bankruptcy as a crisis management option.

Governor García wants to be able to declare bankruptcy, but under present legislation, is prohibited from doing so. “This is a distress call to Congress, from a ship of 3.5 million American citizens,” he declared. “We are not asking for a bailout,” he said. “We are asking for the tools to do the job.”

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Little Monsters and Zombie Beginnings

I don't think I'm putting anymore up in my etsy shop this week just because you have to pay extra money to list things and I don't want to get too out of hand and not be able to keep track of everything.

But here is a piece that I worked on mostly last month:

I also have a little boy monster and I'm not sure what I want to do with them yet. Maybe journal covers? Who knows!

Also working on my Zombie apocalypse self portrait for the remainder of the week:
Mmmm no arm! Probably going to change my cat's face as well heh.

Also the computer I am writing this on sucks some major pickles. So the images are really distorted...
BUT I am getting Easter Candy tomorrow so Hooray for me :3

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Etsy n00b

I have the week off from work and have decided to start posting some items on Etsy. It's slow goings, but I guess I'm being a perfectionist about the photography.

I had some help from @craftychick101. She has a neat Etsy shop too. I was going to buy some bangles from her but her shop just closed for vacation...gahhh!

But people like her is why I love Twitter. People respond so fast and are so super nice on it!

Here are a quick look at the items for sale:
Check out my Etsy shop here:

The only artwork I have been working on is a picture of myself in the Zombie apocolypse but I haven't been able to keep myself focused enough to finish it. My sights are set on making some moolah right now!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Photography Time with my Mini Journals

Too lazy to write the blog, instead I vlogged for your viewing pleasure:

Friday, March 12, 2010

I Disappeared Once More

Pretty much been getting into a lot of trouble lately.
Got into another car accident during a snow storm in February.
The horn died about a couple of weeks ago.
A fuse blew on Monday leaving it stuck in park.
And finally today, the battery died while I'm in a parking lot.
Oh by the way I'm super sick.

But I have been doing some art lately in more of the crafts category. A friend and I went to a book making seminar. Both of us are struggling designers who graduated from the same school.

So, when I get a little extra money, I'll be setting up a new online shop and selling some handmade journals.

I also made some Lady Gaga Valentine's in February but do to my other accident I wasn't able to finish them on time for Valentine's day. However I still do have the Vectors...maybe I can turn them into e-cards or something, I'll figure it out later.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Dirt, No Problem

Housecleaning is not one of my strong suits. I do it because I have to, which is probably what most would say. I have no problem walking around outside, so when a little of the outside winds up on my floor, it doesn’t bother me. My motto is—if you don’t like dirt on the bottom of your feet, wear shoes. My other motto is—if you don’t call before you come over, don’t expect a clean house. I do have a life, you know.
You will not catch me sweeping and mopping my garage like my younger sister does, and you won’t find her stepping over dirt like I do. Basic things in my house have to be clean—the kitchen and bathrooms. My dishes and laundry are usually done, though a laundry basket of clean clothes always resides on my closet floor, and I run my dishwasher every other day.
Remember the book a few years back, Life’s Too Short to Fold Your Underwear? Wish I’d thought of writing it. Perhaps my husband and son could write one entitled Life’s Too Short to Put Your Clothes in the Hamper: Why I drop my dirty clothes on the floor beside the hamper.
But I digress.
I guess I hate to clean because it’s a needless waste of time that will be repeated in a few days, weeks, or whenever. I could spend that time doing something else—anything else. Jesus once said he was going to his Father who would prepare a place for us, a mansion. Wonder if there’ll be maid service provided?
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I wrapped and packed the placemats for Josh's mom without taking a picture of them - oops!  I guess you'll just have to believe me when I say they were works of art.  Collectively, they were the Mona Lisa of placemats.

However, I did take a picture of my workspace post-Christmas-projects:

I've become messy!  For Christmas, I want little elves to come tidy up and organize my fabric scraps.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Projects Galore

I've been working on Christmas gifts for people pretty non-stop these past couple weeks while Josh is on night float again.  I don't think any of the recipients know about the blog, so I'll put up some pictures!

First, I made Josh's grandma a purse like the one I carry from Elizabeth Hartman's Margaret Bag pattern:

Josh said, "It's so awesomely old lady!"

Second, Josh and I made a jewelry box for our older niece:

Josh did most of the work on this one.  I stained it, but he added all the fanciness.

Third, I'm making stuffed animals for our baby niece.  I've made a bird so far, and I sewed insulated batting into the inside so it crinkles when you squeeze it (babies dig crinkling, don't they?).  I'm also going to make her a fish with a rattle inside.

Lastly, I'm making placemats for Josh's mom.  Basically, I'm making 6 tiny quilts.  I've just got to bind them now and then I'll be done and I'll put up a picture!  The quilts for Josh's cousins have been bumped to birthday presents - one in January and one in March.  That will be much more doable!

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Zoo Lights

Josh and I went to Zoo Lights with our residency bff, Denise, on Sunday.  The Oregon Zoo makes beautiful displays all over the grounds.  For instance, a safari scene complete with light-alligators opening their mouths and a light-bird swooping into a light-river to pick up a light-fish.  It is pretty spectacular.  I mention this experience for two reasons:

1. Among all the animals made of lights that you would expect to find at the zoo, there was a light-triceratops and also a light-stegosaurus being attacked by light-raptors.  What?  And a light-unicorn, with a beard.  Whaaaat?

2.  We rode the steam engine.  Not the new-fangled zoo train, but the old steam engine that they only bring out for special occasions.  Why is this so exciting to me (aside from the fact that steam engines are cool)?  My grandpa helped build the Oregon Zoo Steam Engine back in the day.  I feel pretty important having that as a part of my family history.  My roots are deep in this city, and I like them here.

This is an old picture, we don't have any snow yet!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Cowboys and Indians

While in Tulsa last week, I met FIVE babies.  FIVE babies have been born in the five months since we've moved.  I was able to deliver quilts to two of those babies, the others having already received them, while we were there.  Josh's good friend from high school (and my friend too!) had twin boys 3 months ago, and we got to meet them.
About a month ago, I was looking through the fabric store (aka: my mom's extensive stash) and had a stroke of inspiration for these little boys!  Cowboys and Indians!  Twins don't want to be exactly alike, right?  But this way, they still go together.
Here are the finished products:

The first has cowboy boot and bandana fabric and the second is covered in little teepees.  I used the same wood print flannel backing for both of them:

I need to get started on two more quilts I want to send to Josh's cousins for Christmas.  They may end up being belated Christmas gifts, or maybe birthday presents, because Christmas is coming so fast!  I have lots of projects in mind for people, and I'll try to post them as I go along.  I hope I can get everything done!


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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Hello there! Sorry I didn't make it back here yesterday. I got into Schindler's List last night and couldn't tear myself away. This card was made with the SAB set Madison Avenue. It's not really a set that I would gravitate towards, but our Stampin' Success magazine had a card made with this set that I really liked. I adapted it from a square card to a traditional size and added a few more embellishments-imagine that! I used a Whisper White base and then ran a separate Whisper White square through the Big Shot using the SAB Vine Street Embossing Folder. I used a separate piece so I could wrap the ribbon around it. The ribbon along with the button are paired up as another SAB selection-Sycamore Street Button & Ribbon Pack. I stamped the top of the card with the leaf image in Pool Party, using the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line it up seamlessly. I did the same with the border along the bottom, using Summer Starfruit and Calpyso Coral. FYI, I started with a Summer Starfruit base and stamped the leaf image at the top in the same ink. I don't recommend Summer Starfruit on Summer Starfruit-it's kinda putrid!

I stamped the sentiment in Island Indigo with Fabulous Phrases, punched it out with the Word Window Punch and flagged the end. I tucked it under a Calypso Coral circle stamped with the same ink and punched with the 1 1/4" Circle Punch. I popped it up with Dimensionals on top of a Pool Party scallop made with the 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punch. I added some sweet little dots with a White Gel Pen. I used the SAB DSP Sycamore Street for the flags and attached them under the scallop. I finished the flower off with a Summer Starfruit center made with the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and a Rhinestone Jewel. Finally, I threaded the button with Calypso Coral Baker's Twine and attached it with a Glue Dot. I love the Vine Street Embossing Folder and how it coordinates so perfectly with this set.

If you were like me and kind of overlooked this set, I hope this card helps you see some possibilities for it along with the folder. I'll have another SAB card for you tomorrow-I promise!-using the Bloomin' Marvelous set. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

#16 baby faith hope

i don't know how many of you all read my everyday lauren blog, but if you do, you will see a link on the sidebar to baby faith hope's blog. baby faith is a little baby that was born with anencephaly. most babies with this disorder only live a few hours, if that long. baby faith lived 93 days. that's 13 weeks and 2 days. she went to be with jesus on saturday night.
i think it's really a sad thing that so many babies aren't given the chance to live and their mommies terminate the pregnacy. so many doctors deem them "incompatable with life". but baby faith's mommy says on her blog that faith, "is totally conscious and is as responsive as any "normal" baby. She is very sensitive to touch (especially when it's cold!) and can definitely hear. She smiles, cooes, cries, and is a feisty little girl ;) She knows what she likes and dislikes and she'll let you know it --she has her own little personality that we just can't get enough of. We have been shocked by her development... from day 1 she was smiling and saying baby words ("boo" "gee" "happen"... too funny). She could lift her own head from birth and when she sat up on her own at 5 days old, needless to say, we were quite amazed". i'm sorry, but does this baby seem "incompatable with life" to you? yes, she only lived 93 days...but she LIVED 93 days. she breathed on her own. she had a feeding tube, but only because of a facial deformaty that prevented her from being able to suck on a bottle long enough to eat enough.
myah, baby faith's mom, kept a blog of everything faith did in her 93 days of life. pictures, videos. i highly encourage you to watch them. and next time you think a baby is "incompatable with life"....think about baby faith hope.

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Jayme & Kevin. Edmonton Faculty Club Wedding.

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Jayme & Kevin’s wedding day was perfect from beginning to end…from the first look to the reception at Edmonton Faculty Club. It was a beautiful early summer day with just enough warmth,  just enough clouds and whole lot of pretty light and colours. These two are a great couple and an amazing match. The day flowed in such a relaxed and fun manner all thanks to their personalities and the way they are together.

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Jayme & Kevin decided to do a first look.  I know excited they were to see each other that morning and it was so magical to be a part of that intimate moment.

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Love Jayme’s beautiful smile in this shot! She is beyond stunning!bride's veil blows in the winds as she laughs

Jayme & Kevin. Such a perfect match!bride and groom embrace with river valley in the background

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The ceremony and reception were held at the lovely Edmonton Faculty Club. One of my favourite places to photograph weddings. There is beautiful light in from big windows and a lovely fireplace where the bride and groom said their vows. This ceremony was really sweet especially when the couple told each other (and their guests) what their favourite things about the other was.

Ceremony in front of fireplace at Edmonton Faculty Club

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Take a look at this gorgeous couple’s fall engagement session!

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What are educational standards?

Educational standards define the knowledge and skills students should have at each grade level.  California first adopted a set of standards in 1997 and then adopted the Common Core Standards in 2010.  Standards should not be confused with curriculum. Standards are a list of skills and knowledge and curriculum is a defined plan for what will be taught in a course or series of courses.

How are Common Core Standards different than the 1997 California standards?

The 1997 standards were unique to California and were so extensive that they were impossible to teach with fidelity.  The Common Core Standards have been adopted by most states and while they are not perfect, they are clearer and more concise.  These standards are evidence-based, aligned with other top-performing countries, and are more realistic and practical for the classroom.  Common Core Standards are rigorous and emphasize depth of instruction, application of knowledge and real world problem solving.  View Laurie Kimbrel’s Superintendent profile, images, blog, news & more! Get everything Laurie Kimbrel straight from the latest Laurie Kimbrel news to a full collection of photos, facts, and a complete biography.

How will schools need to change curriculum change in response to Common Core?

Teachers must now use the Mathematics and English Language Arts Common Core Standards as the basis for the development of curriculum. Simply teaching to the 1997 standards will not prepare students for college, career or the new assessment system. One way that many district go about the task of curriculum development is to have teachers use the Common Core Standards and their own expertise to develop lists essential knowledge and skills that students must master at a grade level or within a course.   After the essential knowledge and skills are identified, teachers can work together to plan how student achievement will be measured in the classroom and finally, the activities that are most likely result in mastery of the essential knowledge.   Curriculum development is a complex process and teachers must be given adequate time to work in collaborative groups. Finally, teachers must agree to teach the curriculum developed by their team. Teachers cannot be independent contractors who make individual decisions about what to cover.

What is different in Common Core in English and literacy skills?

The Common Core includes several shifts from the previous standards, including:

There will be a significant increase in the amount of informational text within courses. In fact, the amount of non-fiction text should increase to about 80% of a student’s reading in high school.   Literature remains important, but it is not the sole focus.

Student engagement in rich and rigorous evidence-based conversation about the texts they read. Students must be able to read complex material and use the information to formulate conclusions, arguments and answers to questions.

Emphasis on the use of evidence from sources to inform or make an argument. Students must be able to incorporate evidence from multiple sources in order to build a case for a solution to a problem or an answer to a question.

Focus on constantly building vocabulary that is used across grades and courses. Academic vocabulary should be built from an early grade. Familiar concepts return at later grades with increasing complexity and rigor.

What is different in Common Core in Mathematics?

There are also shifts in the area of mathematics which include:

Deeper instruction in essential skills. Students will need both fluency in basic skills as well as the ability to understand how the given concept works and how it is used.

Connection of learning across grades to build on ideas previously learned. Students will be exposed to concepts in early grades and then again in later grades with increasing complexity and depth.

Building understanding of the ideas behind the math as opposed to “just getting the answer right”.

Application of math to real world problems.

How will state testing change to measure Common Core?

With the implementation of Common Core, our students will no longer take the paper and pencil, multiple-choice STAR tests.  The new testing system will be computerized and adaptive, which means that all tests will be taken on a computer or tablet, and the test will automatically adjust to the skill level of the student.  The types of questions on the new tests, which will start in 2014, are also quite different:

Selected-response items – resemble a traditional multiple choice question.

Technology-enhanced items – capitalize on the computerized test to collect evidence through a non-traditional response type, such as editing text or drawing an object.

Constructed-response items – prompt students to produce a text or numerical response to a question.

Performance tasks – measure a student’s ability to integrate knowledge and skills across multiple standards–a key component of college and career readiness.  Performance tasks will be used to better measure capacities such as depth of understanding, research skills, and complex analysis, which cannot be adequately assessed with selected- or constructed-response items.

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  • About Laurie Kimbrel

    The current project manager for the Atlanta K-12 Design Challenge, Laurie Kimbrel is an educator with many years’ experience. Before undertaking this position in 2015, Kimbrel served as Superintendent of the Tamalpais Union High School District in Larkspur, California, where she oversaw 4,200 students, 435 staff members, and managed a $63 million budget. Among other achievements under Laurie Kimbrel’s tenure, the district implemented a leadership model that formed Professional Learning Communities designed to augment teacher effectiveness through shared assessment data.

    Kimbrel holds a bachelor of science in music and business from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She also received a master of science in special education from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, and completed her education with leadership-based doctoral studies at Loyola University in Chicago.

    Dedicated to her community, Laurie Kimbrel is a hospice volunteer and works with nonprofits aimed at ensuring every child has access to great teachers and schools. She is also passionate about education reform and champions efforts to bring about effective hiring practices in schools.

  • Education & Publications

    Loyola University Chicago - Doctorate, Curriculum & Instruction

    National Louis University, Certificate of Advanced Study, Educational Leadership

    Dominican University, Master of Science, Special Education

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    It's a Man's World: How to Achieve Success as a Woman in High School District, AASA Women in Leadership Conference, 2013

    How to Run a Clean Construction Program, California School Board Convention, 2012

    A Transition Success Story: California School Boards Association Conference, 2009

    Program Growth and High Achievement: College Board National Conference, 2008

    Building Leadership Capacity through Effective Staffing Planning, Illinois Association of Personnel Administrators Conference, 2008

    Improving Student Achievement: Illinois NCLB Conference, 2007

    Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations: Lake County Personnel Administrators Conference, 2007

    The Impact of Proactive Classroom Management, Doctoral Dissertation, Loyola University, 2002

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December 13th, 2013

Prof. S.I. Strong recently traveled to Ramallah in the West Bank to conduct capacity training with the International Chamber of Commerce Palestine. The training program, which is staffed by academics, arbitrators and practitioners from around the world, is associated with

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Compton Mayor Aja Brown has announced that tennis legends and entrepreneurs Venus and Serena Williams will be returning to the city of Compton as honorees at the 2016 Healthy Compton Community Festival.  Taking place on Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the MLK Transit Center Plaza, the Healthy Compton Community Festival will feature free celebrity workouts, sports clinics, health screenings, cooking demos, giveaways and surprise guests.  For more information and to register as a participant or a vendor, please visit www.comptoncity.org/2016hrcfestival.asp.

In a joint statement Venus and Serena Williams said, “We are so excited to return to Compton for Mayor Aja Brown’s Healthy Compton Community Festival. Compton will always be our home and we can’t wait to spend the day with the community at this inspiring event.”

"The Healthy Compton initiative is an ongoing effort to promote health and wellness in the Compton community,” said Brown.  “I’m so excited to be able to welcome home Venus and Serena Williams back to Compton for this year’s festival. The Williams sisters are tennis superstars and champions on and off the court. They continue to be role models for millions of young people around the world and they got their start right here in Compton. The Healthy Compton Initiative is all about motivating Compton residents to lead healthier lives and be the best person they can while having fun and this year we have a spectacular event planned with the Williams sisters and other surprise guests.”

 Brown’s Healthy Compton Initiative is a community-based comprehensive approach to educating, empowering, and equipping Compton residents to lead healthier lives through the experience of healthy outcomes. Mayor Brown, along with a host of health and wellness partners throughout the City of Compton and surrounding communities are focused on enabling residents to build healthy habits. The Initiative is a result of Mayor’s Brown’s leadership and a grassroots community effort with local residents, business owners and stakeholders working together over the past three years.

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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Measuring Return on Legal Marketing Investment: Tracing the History of Client Origin – Where Do Clients Come From?

Over the past few weeks, we have blogged about the problems law firms have in measuring the return on their marketing investments. As we have discussed, much of this is due to the lack of viable data to analyze, faulty assumptions that law firms make and some inherent problems with current ROI models.

Today however, I would like to discuss a methodology that, we believe offers real promise for providing law firms with the information they need to make good decisions. That methodology is called History of Client Origin (HCO).

HCO is a proprietary methodology through which the genesis of every new client is traced. In most cases, such new clients are the result of multiple exposures to a variety of marketing vehicles and/or individual interactions. Such individual interactions include those a client may have had with family, friends or colleagues; firm attorneys; and/or other past or current clients of the firm.

Utilization of such an approach allows one to ascertain marketing ROI and related metrics in a much more holistic manner, including for those types of scenarios where ROI is or has not been typically measured. Some examples of these include:
  • Results from non-direct activities (e.g., brochures, web sites, etc.
  • Situations in which clients have been exposed to the firm via more than one medium
  • Situations in which clients come to the firm through word-of-mouth

Further, the HCO methodology incorporates one of the major expenses usually not tracked by traditional ROI approaches -- time. For many law practices, the investment of attorney time represents one of, if not the single largest marketing-related expense. By capturing this data, legal marketers are able to ascertain the best use of the firm's human resources.

HCO also enables law firms to compare the effects of not just one marketing vehicle to another, but also of personal networking to traditional marketing.

Because HCO traces the origin of every firm client, the ROI metrics obtained are much richer. For example, a single exposure to an ad, an article or a firm attorney may have contributed in part to the obtaining of a particular client, who in turn contributed to the obtaining of additional clients and so forth -- sometimes through several generations. By measuring the marketing ROI through such a prism, law firms gain a clearer understanding of how the marketing and business development phenomena are exponential in nature, and thus which tools (or combinations thereof) work over the short and/or the long term.

Next week, we will discuss how various marketing and business development tools work together and how HCO accounts for this phenomenon. This is especially useful when new clients have been exposed to multiple media or individuals (i.e., touch points).

In the meantime, if you have some thoughts regarding the means by which law firms track their marketing ROI, please join the conversation right here.  We are eager to hear from you.

Next Week:  Tracking Clients through Multiple Exposures.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Same-Sex Marriages Before Supreme Court

From the Huffington Post:

Next month, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases concerning same-sex marriage. What are the legal issues?

United States v. Windsor (regarding DOMA)

In United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) signed into law in 1996 by President Clinton. Section 3 of DOMA provides that the word "marriage," as used in any federal law or regulation, means only a union of a man and a woman. This includes laws that govern veterans' benefits, tax adjustments, Social Security, and many other benefits.

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Friday, May 7, 2010

April Unemployment Numbers

Hiring The Department of Labor released its April employment numbers and they were generally better than expected.  Approximately 290,000 jobs were added--much more than we've seen in years and, after some upward adjustments for previous months, this represents the fourth straight month of job growth.  The unemployment rate actually went up 0.2% to 9.9%, but this actually represented some perceived strength in the job market as part of that increase was due to a large number of people who had dropped out of the job market searching for jobs once again.

May 7, 2010 in Government Reports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

EBRI: Recession Hits Employment-Based Health Coverage

Ebri Paul Fronstin (Employee Benefit Research Institute) has just posted on SSRN the report The Impact of the Recession on Employment-Based Health Coverage (EBRI Issue Brief, No. 342, May 2010). Not surprisingly, the recession has significantly reduced employee access to employment-based health insurance, both because fewer Americans are employed and because employers are dropping coverage.  Moreover, even for workers lucky enough to have coverage, benefits are down and costs are up.  Here's the abstract:

This paper examines changes in health coverage among workers during the recession that started in December 2007. Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation are used to examine health coverage prior to the recession, and as recently as July 2009. Monthly changes are examined for 2007 and May 2008-July 2009, with emphasis on changes that occurred between September 2007 and April 2009. Health coverage through the work place is by far the most common source of health insurance among the population under age 65. In 2008, 160.6 million individuals under age 65, or 61.1 percent of that population, were covered by employment-based health benefits. Fifteen percent were covered by Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 6.3 percent purchased coverage directly from an insurer, and about 3 percent were covered by Medicare or Tricare/CHAMPVA. Nearly 17.5 percent were uninsured. Since the recession started in December 2007, the uninsured have grown. The unemployment rate was as low as 4.4 percent in May 2007, but by July 2009 it had reached 9.4 percent. The percentage of the nonelderly population with employment-based coverage was 61.3 percent in May 2007, and by July 2009 it was down to 58.2 percent. The uninsured rate was 12.3 percent in May 2007, and by July 2009 it was up to 16.4 percent. Between December 2007-May 2008, the percentage of workers with coverage in their own name (the policyholder) fell from 60.4 percent to 56.8 percent. The period between May 2008-July 2009 shows a continuing decline in the percentage of workers with employment-based coverage in their own name, falling to 55.9 percent. The benefits that are being offered have also changed. Deductibles, copayments for office visits, and prescription drug copayments have been increasing. In general, workers least likely to have employment-based coverage at the beginning of the recession were more likely than other workers to experience a decline in the percentage with such coverage one year later. Younger workers were more likely to lose coverage than older workers. Hispanic workers were more likely to lose coverage than whites or blacks. Part-time workers were more likely than full-time workers to have lost employment-based coverage. The percentage of workers with own name employment-based coverage declined the most among those employed by for-profit private-sector employers and those employed by the federal government. Workers with the lowest earnings were the least likely to have employment-based coverage in their own name and experienced the largest decline in coverage.

May 7, 2010 in Labor and Employment News, Pension and Benefits | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Wiedenbeck on ERISA: Principles of Employee Benefit Law

Wiedenbeckp4 Peter J. Wiedenbeck (Washington University) has published: ERISA: Principles of Employee Benefit Law (Oxford University Press, 2010).

More information is available at the TaxProf Blog.

May 7, 2010 in Book Club, Pension and Benefits | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Recently Published Scholarship: Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

Volume 31, Number 3, Spring 2010

Objectionable Work

  • Introduction to Objectionable Work, p. xi.
  • Tadishi Hanami, Conscientious Objection in Japan, p. 441.
  • Rolf Wank, Objectionable Work in Germany, p. 455.
  • Amir Paz-Fuchs, Objectionable Work in Israel, p. 471.
  • Esther Sanchez, Conscientious Objection in the Workplace:  Some Reflections Based on Spanish Jurisprudence, p. 487.
  • Matthew W. Finkin, An Employee's Right Not to Obey Orders in the United States, p. 497.
  • Roger Cotterrell, Conscientious Objection to Assigned Work Tasks:  A Comment on Relations of Law and Culture, p. 511.
  • Brian Langille, Imagining Post 'Geneva Consensus' Labor Law for Post 'Washington Consensus' Development, p. 523.
  • Anne Trebilcock, Putting the Record Straight About International Labor Standard Setting, p. 553.
  • Jorge Luis Silva Mendez, Are Common Perceptions on Termination Cases in Mexico Supported by Empirical Data? p. 571.
  • Renee-Claude Drouin, Promoting Fundamental Labor Rights Through International Framework Agreements:  Practical Outcomes and Present Challenges, p. 591.

May 6, 2010 in International & Comparative L.E.L., Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Managing your Online Identity

361px-BigRedSmile_A_new_Computer.svgWe've posted frequently about employer use of online information to make employment decisions (here most recently), and apropos of that, I recently ran across this primer on how to Establish and Maintain Your Online Identity on Lifehacker, another of those geeky tech-ish blogs I like to read instead of doing real work. Essentially, it's a guide on how to make yourself known, primarily. This may seem to be the opposite advice that our posts usually send, but bear with me a minute. People have to exercise good judgment about the content they post, most importantly and that is consistent with what we often caution, but the answer may not necessarily be to have no online presence at all. Having an online presence that a person can control may enhance that person's ability to exercise that good judgment, and also may enhance that person's ability to keep information they do not want to be easily found private.

Here's the logic. By going through the work to set up the steps that are recommended, one of which is for people to use their own names and link between various sites they control, people may get more in the habit of thinking about what they post as essentially public, not private. Additionally, the more established an online identity is with your real name, and the more links to a central site, the more likely that those controllable sites will be what predominates the results of an online search of your name given the way that search engines work.

And although this isn't covered, maybe a person who wants to stay more anonymous can be careful not to use a real name on anything, but instead a psuedonymous username (probably safest to use something that is clearly not a real person's name), that is not linked easily to their real name for things they want to be sure an employer could not find.

So why not simply avoid the whole thing and not ever sign up for any social media or other internet-type thing? I think there are a couple of problems with that, at least for some contexts. First, for at least some jobs, employers may expect people applying to have some kind of online presence, and not having one may be seen as unusual. Second, not signing up for anything doesn't necessarily mean that information about you, true or false, actually about you or not, cannot be discovered online. For example, I recently did a search of my name at one site that purports to aggregate information about people from public sources. It said that I lived with my parents, who were incorrectly identified as my actual father and my brother with the wrong age. That same source also listed my name in connection with my current address, but incorrectly identified my homeowner and familial status as well as the value of the home I live in. That doesn't even consider the people I share a name with that I might be confused with by someone searching for information about me.

Lots to keep in mind when you think about what employers are searching when they make employment decisions.

May 6, 2010 in Workplace Trends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Kramer on Heterosexuality and Military Service

Kramer Zach Kramer (currently at Penn State, on his way to Arizona State) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming piece in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy: Heterosexuality and Military Service.

Here is the abstract:

The military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy (DADT) is based on a faulty understanding of the relationship between heterosexuality and military service. DADT is built around the idea that because gay sex disrupts unit cohesion, lesbians and gay men cannot be allowed to serve openly in the military. The policy rests on the idea that gay sex is more harmful to military effectiveness than other kinds of sexual conduct. Yet the military regulates a wide range of heterosexual sexual conduct—from blanket rules against sexual conduct altogether, to criminal laws targeting specific sexual acts and relationships, such as sodomy, adultery, fraternization, and a short-lived criminal law against pregnancy—and these regulations are all designed to protect unit cohesion. This Essay argues that DADT’s focus on homosexuality is misplaced. What the military thinks of as a problem with homosexuality is really a problem with sexual conduct in general.

Interesting and timely piece by Zach, especially given the possibility of imminent Congressional action on DADT. Check it out.

May 6, 2010 in Employment Discrimination, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

House HELP Subcommittee Hearing on ADEA Amendment to Fix Gross

CongressThe House Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held hearings today on H.R. 3721, Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. From the committee's web posting,

The legislation would restore civil rights protections for older workers stripped away by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 decision, Gross v. FBL Financial. In Gross, the Supreme Court overturned well-established precedent – making it harder for older workers facing age discrimination to enforce their rights.

H.R. 3721 corrects the unnecessary lawmaking of the Supreme Court.  H.R. 3721 overturns Gross and restores the law to what it was prior to the decision, by allowing older workers to prove age discrimination by showing that age was a motivating factor in the decisions made by their employer, but not necessarily the sole factor.

Protections against age discrimination are especially important to workers who may be facing layoffs in an uncertain economic climate. The court’s ruling specifically means that victims of age discrimination face a higher legal burden of proof than those alleging race, sex, national origin or religious discrimination.

Testifying were Gail Aldrich (AARP), Eric Dreiband (former GC of EEOC), Michael Foreman (Penn St.), and Jack Gross, the plaintiff in Gross v. FBL Financial Services. See here for links to the testimony, pictures, and the archived webcast.

May 5, 2010 in Beltway Developments | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

DOL Releases Online Disability Law Advisor

Dol The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today announced the availability of a new tool to help employers ensure their employment policies and practices do not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities.

The interactive, online Disability Nondiscrimination Law Advisor helps employers determine which federal disability nondiscrimination laws apply to their business or organization and their responsibilities under them.  To do this, it asks users to answer a few relevant questions and then generates a customized list of federal disability nondiscrimination laws that likely apply, along with information about employers’ responsibilities under each of them.

The Disability Nondiscrimination Advisor is one of a series of elaws (Employment Laws Assistance for Workers and Small Businesses) Advisors developed by DOL to help employers and employees understand federal employment laws.

May 5, 2010 in Disability | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Monday, May 3, 2010

Graduate Students To Be Considered Employees Under the NLRA Again?

UAW In what may be a precursor to the first Obama NLRB reversal of a Bush Board rule, the UAW recently presented NYU with a petition to have the school voluntarily recognize the union as the representative of over 1,000 research and teaching assistants.  NYU has indicated that it will not recognize the union--not surprising given the school's 2004 victory before the NLRB in having grad students declared as students, rather than statutory employees.  The UAW has promised to petition the NLRB for an election if NYU doesn't recognize the union--also not a surprise given the new Democratic majority on the NLRB.

I'd predict a reversal of the 2004 NYU case, but that's probably akin to shooting fish in a barrel.  Of more interest is how the Board will approach the case.  I always found the 2004 Board's refusal to use agency common- aw perplexing given the Supreme Court jurisprudence in this area, so a return to the previously established approach to determining employee status could have a more far-reaching effect than the organization of grad students (although it was never clear how serious the 2004 Board was about this point, aside from its use in the NYU case).

Stay tuned.

May 3, 2010 in Labor Law | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Walsh Appointed Chairman of MSPB Special Panel on Appeals

Walsh1 For the benefit of the MSPB fanatics who read this blog, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last week approved Dennis Walsh's nomination to be Chairman of the Special Panel on Appeals by voice vote.

The Chairman of the Special Panel on Appeals is a part-time position created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.  In the event the EEOC and the MSPB issue conflicting decisions on "mixed" cases that involve both merit systems and anti-discrimination principles, the Chairman convenes a panel comprised of himself, a Member of the MSPB and a Member of the EEOC to resolve the conflict and decide the case.

The Chairman is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, for a 6-year term.

Congrats to Dennis, who is also the Deputy General Counsel at the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

May 3, 2010 in Beltway Developments, Public Employment Law | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Recently Published Scholarship

  • Deborah Thompson Eisenberg, Shattering the Equal Pay Act's Glass Ceiling, 63 SMU L. Rev. 17 (2010).
  • Frank J. Menetrez, Employee Status and the Concept of Control in Federal Employment Discrimination Law, 63 SMU L. Rev. 137 (2010).
  • Sandra Sperino, Judicial Preemption of Punitive Damages, 78 U. Cin. L. Rev. 227 (2009).
  • Sonia Goltz, Roger Reinsch, & Joel Tuoriniemi, University Women's Experiences in Bringing Second Generation Sex Discrimination Claims: Further Support for Adoption of a Structural Approach, 18 Tex. J. Women & L. 145 (2009).
  • Gina M. Cook, When the Duty to Provide a Reasonable Accommodation Seems Unreasonable: Accommodating and Managing Employees with Episodic Impairments or Impairments in Remission Under the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, 32 N.C, Central L. Rev. 1 (2009).
  • JoAnn M. Dodson, The Seventh Circuit Holds that Oral Employee Complaints Are Not Protected Activity Under FLSA, 63 SMU L. Rev. 237 (2010).
  • Evan Sauer, The ADA Amendments Act of 2008: The Mitigating Measures Issue, No Longer a Catch-22, 36 Ohio N. U. L. Rev. 215 (2010).

May 3, 2010 in Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Post-Ricci Black New Haven Firefighter Case Dismissed

Gavel The district court in Connecticut recently dismissed the Briscoe lawsuit that followed the landmark Ricci employment discrimination lawsuit.  No opinion yet, but WTNH in New Haven has this story:

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a black firefighter against New Haven over a 2003 promotion exam that was the subject of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June.

Firefighter Michael Briscoe alleged he was unfairly denied a chance for promotion to lieutenant because the city wrongly gave more weight to the test's written part than the oral section.

Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. dismissed Briscoe's lawsuit Wednesday, saying he would issue his reasons in a subsequent opinion.
Having not seen the court's reasoning, it would be premature to comment, but I would not be surprised to see if the decision does not give us some clue to how lower courts might interpret the controversial Ricci decision.

I didn't see anything on the blog about it, but I might have missed it.  I just thought that I would pass this along.  I hope all is well!

Hat Tip: Allen Kamp and Joe Seiner

May 3, 2010 in Employment Discrimination | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

A McCormick 2-Fer

Mcc Marcia L. McCormick (St. Louis U.) has been busy.  She has just posted two articles on SSRN.  The first is Regulatory Adjudication.  I hope the folks working on regs for the financial services industry read it and take good notes.  Here's the abstract:

Calls for increased regulation are flying fast and furious these days. We use regulation in the United States to prevent harm that various kinds of activities might cause and also to create positive external benefits that those activities could yield, but might not without incentives. Most regulatory programs in the United States provide a blend of measures designed to create these positive external benefits, promote good practices in the industry, prevent harms, and provide those harmed with remedies. At a time in which we contemplate new ways to regulate to deal with the crises of the day and prevent the crises of tomorrow, this article seeks to explore one piece of the regulatory solution: adjudication. Adjudication is used both to deter harmful behavior and to remedy harmful behavior engaged in. And it is used in a variety of contexts.

To explore how we might construct agencies with greater adjudicatory power, I will use the regulation of equal employment opportunity as a case study. This article explains the weaknesses of the current system to enforce the anti-discrimination laws and outlines a proposal for what an adjudicative agency designed to maximize the benefits from an agency perspective would look like. The paper goes on to analyze the limits article III may place on the structure of adjudicating agencies and ways those limits might be overcome.

Her second article, Back to Color Blindness: Recent Developments in Race Discrimination Law in the United States, is forthcoming in Revue des Affaires Europeennes.  Here's the abstract:

The United States has a long and somewhat conflicted history of espousing egalitarian values and yet tolerating a certain level of subordination of particular groups to a greater or lesser extent at the same time. Like many countries, it struggles with reconciling the goals of equality, pluralism, and liberty, and the balance has been struck differently at different times. In the current wave of such efforts, the Supreme Court is marking an increasingly formalist approach to the question of discrimination, while Congress appears to be pushing a slightly more substantive approach to discrimination. This short paper analyzes the Court’s recent decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, which appears to fall into the formalist category, but actually may not. The decision may not have been color blind or formalist at all. The City’s explanation that it rejected the results of the promotional test because it feared a disparate impact suit was not race per se. Moreover, applicants who would have been promoted had the results been used included applicants from all backgrounds, and the pool of those who would get a second chance at promotion if the list were discarded also included members from all backgrounds. Thus, there was no formal separation on the basis of race. This and other doctrinal problems created by the decision are analyzed.

May 2, 2010 in Beltway Developments, Employment Discrimination, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Dept of Labor Goes Off the Grid

This morning, when I tried to go to, I got the message "Authentication Required: Enter name and password for"  Does anyone have any idea what this is all about?

May 2, 2010 in Wage & Hour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)


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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Another notable House vote continues federal reform momentum

As reported in this AP piece, which is somewhat inaccurately headlined "House Votes to Allow Marijuana-Related Banking," last night brought another notable vote from the GOP-lead House of representatives concerning federal regulatory rules surrounding federal pot prohibition.  Here are the (somewhat complicated) details of the latest notable vote:

The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of medical marijuana. The 236-186 vote rejected a move by Rep. John Fleming, R-La., to block the Treasury Department from implementing guidance it issued in February telling banks how to report on their dealings with marijuana-related businesses without running afoul of federal money-laundering laws.

Marijuana dealing is still against federal law, so banks who do business with marijuana dispensaries could be accused of helping them launder their money. Federal money laundering convictions can mean decades in prison.

The Treasury guidance was intended to give banks confidence that they can deal with marijuana businesses in states where they're legal. Many banks are still reluctant to do so. That has forced many marijuana operations to stockpile cash, a situation that shop owners say is dangerous.

"They are operating just in cash, which creates its own potential for crime, robbery, assault and battery," said Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., whose state has legalized recreational pot use. "You cannot track the money. There is skimming and tax evasion. So the guidance by the Justice Department and the guidance by the Treasury Department is to bring this out into the open."

The vote is largely symbolic since Treasury already had gone ahead with the guidance, but it demonstrates a loosening of anti-marijuana sentiment on Capitol Hill. "Whereas the federal government once stood in the way of marijuana reform at every opportunity, the changing politics of this issue are such that more politicians are now working to accommodate popular state laws so that they can be implemented effectively," said marijuana advocate Tom Angell.

A coalition of 46 mostly GOP moderates and libertarian-tilting Republicans joined with all but seven Democrats to beat back Fleming's attempt to block the Treasury guidance.

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"Solely" is certainly the operative word in the amendment, but the vote is very encouraging nonetheless.

Posted by: Ryan Agnew | Jul 17, 2014 11:26:12 PM

excellent article and very good points.

Posted by: rama | Jul 18, 2014 12:06:50 AM

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Cisco Sues Apple Over "I-Phone" Trademark

Here is the complaint filed in the Cisco Systems trademark infringement lawsuit filed against Apple Inc. Wednesday. Apple's Steve Jobs had just introduced Apple's new "I-Phone" when Cisco Systems announced the suit. Cisco Systems alleges that it has been in talks with Apple for some six years over Apple's planned use of the name "I-Phone", which it claims is "“deceptively and confusingly similar to Cisco’s long-standing trademark” for its device.

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