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• House Bill Would Create External Ombuds for SEC

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  Earlier this month, the House Financial Services Committee approved H. 3817, which would reform the Securities and Exchange Commission and strengthen its powers to protect investors and to regulate the securities markets. A late amendment by Kevin McCarthy (R-CA22) to the bill would create an Ombuds position ...
  21 hours ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Ohio State University Trustees Approve Faculty Ombuds Program

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  At a meeting on October 29, the OSU Board of Trustees approved a proposal from the University Senate for a part-time faculty Ombudsperson. The current faculty senate chair said that a search for the Ombuds will be completed in the next six weeks so that the person will be in place for Winter Quarter. Only senior or ...
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• Cheesecake Factory Agrees to Ombuds Program in Settlement with EEOC

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a settlement with Cheesecake Factory, Inc., a nationwide restaurant chain, arising out of charges that six male employees were subjected to repeated sexual harassment at an Arizona restaurant. In addition to a monetary settlement and other measures, the ...
  3 days ago

• Northwestern University Approves Faculty Ombuds Program

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  The private research university in Evanston, IL has approved an Ombuds program that is markedly different that the model adopted by peer institutions. Instead of a single office with a full-time professional Ombuds serving the entire campus community, Northwestern will have a network of volunteer faculty Ombuds ...
  4 days ago

• Progressive White Paper on Education Calls for Nationwide College Customer Ombuds Program

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank, has released a white paper on accountability in higher education, "Putting the Customer First in College." The author, Louis Soares, argues that the Department of Education should create a central Office of Consumer Protection in Higher Education. Most of ...
  4 days ago

• Law Society Equity Ombuds Assist Canadian Legal Professional

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  Many Canadian law societies, which regulate the profession in the public interest, have added an Ombuds service to assist lawyers, law students and legal support staff who want help resolving complaints of discrimination or harassment. According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, law society Equity Ombuds are usually an ...
  5 days ago

• Update: Jury Returns Verdict for University of Washington in Rape Case

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  The jury hearing the civil case against UW arising out of an alleged rape of a student by a football player has returned a verdict for the defendants. According to the Seattle Times, the jury found UW not liable on the narrow reasoning that the plaintiffs educational opportunities had not been sufficiently harmed ...
  6 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Post-Bubble: “Good” News is “Bad” News?

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 437
  In a recent Barron’s article, Randall Forsyth shares Michael Kahn’s (Barron’s technical analyst) view that the market, on the basis of numerous indicators is showing signs of strain, of topping. Michael Kahn, Barrons.com’s own technical guru, thinks the seven-month-long advance now is showing signs of ...
  1 week ago

• Grinnell College Considering Ombuds Office

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  The Faculty Executive Committee at Grinnell has formed an ad hoc task force to consider whether the College should create an Ombuds program. The Ombuds Committee was recommended by a committee charged with reviewing governance issues, which was prompted in part by a personnel matter in Student Affairs. The Ombuds ...
  1 week ago

• Both Health Care Reform Bills Would Create Ombuds Program

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  Progressive blogger Jon Walker observes that both versions of the House and Senate health care reform legislation would create a new health care Ombudsman program to help people deal with insurance companies. In the Senate Finance Committee bill, people would only be allowed to seek help from the Ombuds if their ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  2 weeks ago

• US Patent Office Seeks Input on Ombuds Program

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 132
  The US Patent and Trademark Office has invited public comment on a proposed Ombudsman Pilot Program. The external Ombuds program is intended to create a direct-line of communication for applicants who believe that their applications are being improperly examined. Peggy Focarino, Acting Commissioner for Patents at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  3 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  3 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  3 weeks ago

• Syntex Management Systems, Inc. Joins Other Thought Leaders in Headlining the National Safety Council 2009 Executive Edge Track

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 519
  HOUSTON, Oct. 23, 2009 — Joe Stough, Founder and Executive Vice President of Product Strategy for Syntex, joins an elite group of thought leaders in the industry to partake in the all-new Executive Edge Track at the NSC 2009 Congress & Expo. The Executive Edge Management track was developed to meaningfully and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Web 2.0 Summit: Our photo gallery of the top moments

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Follow The Leader: Index of Leading Economic Indicators September 2009

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 168
  Today’s results of the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators showed another significant monthly increase climbing 1.0% compared to August bringing the annual increase to 2.88% and leaving the index at a level of 103.5. On the face of it this is clearly a Bullish “Green Shoots” development as this ...
  3 weeks ago

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