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Foreign Minister supports OGP membership, process to get a move on
Foreign Minister Senator Carr in principle supports Australia joining the Open Government Partnership. Contrary to what the Attorney General's Department said a few days previously there is an interdepartmental committee of officials working on this with, ahem, AG's in the chair. And Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Secretary Peter Varghese says DFAT will be taking to the committee's next meeting a view that the process be concluded as soon as possible because "we should have an open and fast government initiative and not just an open government initiative."
These snippets drawn from answers to questions when Senator Faulkner raised the matter with the Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator Carr and departmental officials during DFAT estimates hearings last week, the senator having shone some light on the process earlier in sessions with AG's and PM&C.
It also emerged that not only does the government have an unanswered August 2011 letter from Hillary Clinton inviting us to join, but another dated 16 January 2013 from the United Kingdom's Minister for the Cabinet Office. And the communique issued after the recent Australia-UK Ministerial Meeting in Perth on 18 January includes this reference: 'Australia values the leadership shown by the United Kingdom and others in the establishment of the Open Government Partnership, which Australia is currently considering joining'. (I missed that one.)
The Interdepartmental Committee met most recently in January.
Richard Rowe, First Assistant Secretary, International Organisations and Legal Division, and Senior Legal Adviser tried bravely to explain the process was taking time "because this is a relatively new initiative." More likely it slipped between stools for ages, then minister Brendan O'Connor killed it for some unknown reason prior to President Obama's visit in November 2011, and the OGP cause lacked a forceful champion to keep things going when the Attorney General twigged in May last year, nine months after the matter was officially raised with us by the US Government.
As to why DFAT recently couldn't find anything relevant to consideration of the arguments for and against Australia joining, in response to my FOI application, just another mystery of (FOI) life, I suppose.
I'm looking forward to an OGP announcement soon-and some big thinking about how the government might proceed in partnership with civil society and what a national action plan might encompass.
Hansard extracts below for those interested in the detail.
Senator FAULKNER: I wanted to ask some questions, having been referred to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in other estimates committees including by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Attorney-General's Department, in relation to Australia joining the Open Government Partnership. Could I begin by asking the minister or officials to confirm that the Secretary of State, Secretary Clinton, wrote to Australia in August 2011 inviting our country to join the Open Government Partnership?
Senator Bob Carr: I support in principle Australia joining the Open Government Partnership. It is under active consideration by the government. The Attorney-General's Department is coordinating this process. I might ask Richard Rowe to provide further information.
Senator FAULKNER: Thank you, Minister, and perhaps Mr Rowe could begin by just confirming the communication that Australia received from the US Secretary of State in August 2011.
Mr R Rowe : Yes, there have been communications that have been sent to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in relation to the Open Government Partnership and, as the minister has just said, Australia takes, in principle, a very positive, supportive approach to this initiative. We have, at officials level, been participating in the interdepartmental committee which has been led by the Attorney-General's Department, which has been considering how to develop a coordinated, whole-of-government approach. As you may be aware, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has now put forward a proposal about how Australia's membership of and contribution to the Open Government Partnership might be pursued. That has just recently been circulated. We are going to consider that in the IDC. The point that I would like to emphasise, though, is that we have certainly been very actively involved in the working group in support of the initiative.
Senator FAULKNER: Well, that is helpful and I appreciate that information, but what I was actually asking was: can you confirm that the United States Secretary of State wrote, in August 2011, inviting Australia to join the Open Government Partnership? I do appreciate that background but my first question was: could you just confirm that for me please?
Mr R Rowe : I can confirm that I am aware that such a letter was sent by the Secretary of State, yes.
Senator FAULKNER: I appreciate that; thank you. In the information that you provided then you used not 'that communication' but the plural 'communications'. Have there been other communications from Secretary Clinton, and if so, when?
Mr Rowe : I am not aware of any other communication by the former US Secretary of State. There has been another communication, though, to the minister very recently—last month—from the United Kingdom's Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Senator FAULKNER: What was the date of that minister's communication?
Mr Rowe : 16 January 2013.
Senator FAULKNER: I am going to ask you, Minister, if you can facilitate the tabling of the Secretary of State's letter of August 2011, and I am going to ask you if you could also now facilitate the tabling of the UK minister's letter. I will come back to that. But perhaps before we do that, Mr Rowe, are you able to inform the committee what the substance of the UK minister's letter was? Was that also a letter encouraging Australia to get involved?
Mr Rowe : Yes, it was. And, of course, there was a very positive reference, I would point out, in the AUKMIN communiqué to 'Australia values the leadership shown by the United Kingdom and others in the establishment of the Open Government Partnership, which Australia is currently considering joining'.
Senator FAULKNER: Yes, that is true, and I was going to get that. It is positive, and I appreciate that, and I am positive that the government is positive. But I am not positive about how long it is taking for us to get our act together on this issue. The Secretary of State wrote in August 2011. Has that letter been responded to and, if so, when and by whom?
Mr Rowe : No, Senator, that letter has not been responded to.
Senator FAULKNER: That is still in the in-tray, is it?
Mr Rowe : That is, but can I explain why?
Senator FAULKNER: Sure.
Mr Rowe : It is because this is a relatively new initiative. It is a whole-of-government initiative. DFAT is not the lead coordinator on this. There is a process that has been launched by another agency, which we have been party to, and we have been actively involved. So the reply has been held pending the identification of a coordinated, whole-of-government response.
Senator FAULKNER: Yes, but while Australia has been doing all that terribly valuable work, how many other nations of the world have signed up?
Mr Rowe : At the moment, 34 countries have joined the initiative, and 21 have indicated their intention to join.
Senator FAULKNER: I do not think those figures are up-to-date, and I would commend you to the evidence given in the Attorney-General's Department on this issue. So there has been no response to the US Secretary of State's letter of August 2011, and I assume the UK minister's letter is still in the in-tray too, as it was only received on 16 January this year. It has not been responded to, but you made the point about what occurred at AUKMIN, and I appreciate that. That is the only response at this stage, is it?
Mr Rowe : The letters have not been responded to for the reasons that I have said: that we have been waiting to develop a whole-of-government position so that we are in a position to, you might say, prepare a draft reply for the minister's consideration to formally respond to those letters. We have not been in that position up until recently because of the interdepartmental process.
Senator FAULKNER: Could the two letters from the Secretary of State and the UK minister be tabled and provided?
Senator Bob Carr: Indeed, yes.
Senator FAULKNER: I appreciate that. Thank you very much for that. That will be helpful. Would we have to do that this afternoon?
Senator Bob Carr: Yes, in a New York minute.
Senator FAULKNER: Good. Would you like to define your understanding of a New York minute?
Senator Bob Carr: I think, through the force of telepathic power, the letters are winging their way to towards this building now, even as I complete the sentence. In fact I can confirm that they have just arrived.
Senator FAULKNER: You said, Mr Rowe, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is serving on an IDC. What sort of level of representation does your department have on the IDC?
Mr Rowe : The IDC has met several times. The representation has been, my understanding is, at director level in the department. I personally have not attended. I would have to seek further information on the level of representation both by our department and by other departments.
Senator FAULKNER: You could take that on notice. You said the IDC met several times. Is the Attorney-General's Department the lead agency? Is that your understanding?
Mr Rowe : That is correct. They chair the IDC.
Senator FAULKNER: Do you have available to you, and I appreciate you may not, a record of the meetings of the IDC?
Mr Rowe : No I do not.
Senator FAULKNER: Do you have a record of the dates, times, places and attendance?
Mr Rowe : No I do not. I would have to get that information. I can inform you that to my knowledge the IDC met most recently in January. That was the most recent meeting.
Senator FAULKNER: If you could take that on notice, I would appreciate it. That would be helpful to understand. I heard the minister's positive statement, which I very much appreciate. I know that other ministers in the government have expressed similar positive sentiments to Australia joining the OGP. Do you think there would be any resource implications for DFAT if were to do so? I do not know if that is best directed to you, Mr Rowe?
Mr Rowe : As you are very familiar with the mandate and scope of the proposed partnership, we in DFAT, I would suggest, have a contribution that we can make but, given the breadth of scope and the focus of the partnership, it would not be the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that would have the capacity to carry the coordination and involvement in a whole-of-government sense in the partnership. That is why there has been consideration in the IDC to the possible lead role that the Information Commissioner's office might play. I am sure you are aware of the response that the Information Commissioner has made in relation to that aspect in the letter that he has sent to agencies. I understand it has been referred to in estimates hearings this week.
Senator FAULKNER: The tabled letter from Secretary of State Clinton is certainly not an original letter, is it? Is there any reason?
Mr Rowe : It is not the original, no.
Senator FAULKNER: Why is that?
Mr Rowe : This is the copy I have. I do not have the original with me.
Senator FAULKNER: No, but someone has gone to the trouble of providing the letter, which is very much appreciated. I certainly appreciate it. The one from the UK Cabinet Office is a photocopy of an original. The copy of the Secretary of State's letter is just retyped. You can assure me that the substance is the same, can you? I just wondered why it would be retyped when someone has gone to the trouble, which I really appreciate, of preparing to have the letters tabled, or at least having them available for tabling if a senator asked. I am just interested. I am not suggesting there is a conspiracy. I do not believe there is but I just wonder why anyone would do that.
Mr Rowe : Let me assure you, senator, that there is no conspiracy.
Senator FAULKNER: I knew that.
Mr Rowe : This is the form of the letter which I have with me. It is the only version I have seen. If you wish, we can check to see if there is some other version but, subject to double checking that, if there is another version I have no doubt that the text is entirely consistent.
Senator FAULKNER: Well, there is no way in the world that the Secretary of State has sent a letter not on letterhead, not signed and appears to have been retyped. I think it is unlikely that that is the letter Secretary Clinton sent. However, if the content is the same that is fine.
Mr Rowe : It depends on how the letter was transmitted. I would have to check but it may have been transmitted electronically in which case it was like this and therefore did not have the seal of the Secretary of State, for example, or an original signature.
Senator FAULKNER: It would be doubtful if it was like that, but anyway. Of course, it may have been transmitted electronically, as you say. After all, the letter has asked Australia to be part of the launch of the OGP on 20 September 2011. Minister, would you agree that it is a long time between drinks?
Senator Bob Carr: It seems a long time.
Senator FAULKNER: It does. Is someone able to say—I do not like asking questions that might be considered hypothetical or predictive in nature—whether we have a target date to conclude the internal processes of government and signing up, given the positive statement of Minister Carr, which I very much appreciate. I know other ministers in correspondence have shared these same positive sentiments. What are we planning for?
Mr Rowe : If I can comment as an official of Foreign Affairs and Trade, we are ready to proceed as expeditiously as possible on this matter.
Senator FAULKNER: But you might have been ready to proceed expeditiously since, for all I know, 2011 because nothing has happened since then. It might have been many things; expeditious it has not been.
Mr Rowe : Can I just recall that there is an interagency process which we are not leading which brings all the relevant agencies together. In terms of you might say bringing this to the pointy end of actually proceeding, I think it must be through that process, and as I understand it the chair of that process will be taking it forward.
Senator FAULKNER: I appreciate that. I have learned more about the interagency process from you that I heard from the lead agency, so I appreciate that. You appear to know more about what is happening with the IDC than the Department of the Attorney-General. I appreciate the information you have provided and that is why I have asked you to take this information on notice and I am not going to place a question on notice at this stage to the Attorney-General's Department. They do not appear to be the answer these sorts of questions. I wonder if you are able to assist us in terms of when Australia, given the clear intention that has been indicated, including today, by Minister Carr of support for the initiative and the intention to join the initiative, on whether there is any firm plan about timing. You may not be able to help me. I know you are not the lead agency; there is no need to qualify that again. I have got that on board and I understand it and accept it. Nevertheless, I assume that when an answer goes to the Secretary of State it will probably go from Senator Carr, won't it?
Mr Rowe : That is correct. I would suggest that the next steps would be for recommendations to be put forward in a formal sense to the government. That would seem to me to be the next step in the process.
Mr Varghese : May I suggest that at the next meeting of this committee we reiterate the need to conclude the process as soon as possible, because clearly it has taken a long time and perhaps we should have an open and fast government initiative and not just an open government initiative.
Senator FAULKNER: Perhaps not fast but perhaps quicker than we have managed to date. After all, the then Attorney-General, Ms Roxon, indicated in a letter that has been made public under FOI processes, a letter to Professor McMillan, the Australian Information Commissioner, that she had written to the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy proposing that Australia join the OGP on 27 June last year. So you could confirm, Mr Rowe, that the Attorney-General did write sometime before 27 June 2012 proposing that course of action.
Mr Rowe : Correct.
Senator FAULKNER: Okay. Thank you for the information you have provided. Thank you, Minister, for indicating your support for the proposal and thank you, Secretary, for indicating to the committee your view that it would be possible to move that something slightly faster than a snail's pace on this issue. I appreciate that.
CHAIR: Is it the wish of the committee that the document that has been circulated be part of the proceedings? There being no objection, it is so ordered
Labels: Open Government Partnership
Craig Thomler 2:58 pm
It demonstrates how open government leadership within the current government has been eroded and the speed of Australia's bureaucracy compared to the 58 countries that are members of the OGP.
What would be interesting at this stage would be the comments of opposition spokespeople on whether they support open government and membership of this initiative moving forward.
Peter Timmins 7:48 pm
Thanks.The Opposition hasn't said much (anything?) on topic, but needs to come or be nrought to the party. As does civil society when government-this or the next- reaches out. We live in hope..
Why are they wasting time retyping letters from Ms Clinton? Has the photocopier budget fallen through the floor as well?
Peter Timmins 12:09 pm
With Senator Faulkner on the job, you can rest easy.
OAIC squeezed-make that throttled
Same old, same old in South Australia
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We're Seven!
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Something has always left me uneasy about the 'tie' feature in perl, and I've been trying to reconcile it with my evolving view of programmer-system productivity.
To productively use a feature, like multi-process append to the same file, you have to understand the underlying performance and reliability behavior. Append is going to work great for 50 apache processes appending lines to a common log file without locking, but not for 2 processes appending 25k chunks to the same file, since they'll get corrupted. If you understand how unix's write-with-append semantics work you can get away with very fast updates to lots of little files without paying any locking penalties (twitter should probably have done something like this).
Similarly, when you see %foo in perl, you instantly know the perf footprint. It's an in-memory hash, it's going to be fast, and you won't get into trouble unless you find a corner like making a zillion hashes-of-hashes and then discover that there's a 200-300 byte overhead for each one.
But tie destroys your knowledge of how the hash works. The perf characteristics become completely different. A simple-minded approach to build a search keyword index with a hash-of-lists which might work acceptibly well with in-memory hashes suddenly becomes a disaster when you tie it to berkeley-db. Because you're not using an in-memory hash anymore, you're using a disguised call to berkeley-db.
I don't think the syntactic sugar win for the notiational convienence trumps the potential confusion to those who will view the code later, or even the confusingly overloaded semantics for the original programmer. I'd rather just know that %foo is an in-memory perl hash, and if I'm going to stuff something in a berkeley-db it's going to be with an explicit API.
As an aside, when I say 'productive', I'm trying to envision the entire life of the code and the product. Not just getting it written and working, but the lifetime maintanence load of the code, will people in ops need to monkey the system to keep it healthy, have pitfalls been left for new programmers inheriting the code, will it gracefully scale, degrade, and so on.
This is related to an evolving philosophy of programmer-system productivity that I've been developing, which I plan to write more about later.
That exact same criticism is true of operator overloading in other languages. In Python it's common to overload the  operator, which can make any object use the same syntax as Python dictionaries. Of course, that means that when you see  you can't assume dictionary performance without knowing what data structure it is that you're actually using.
Thinking back over my tie() uses, I've come to realize that it's only in very specific low-volume situations that just aren't performance critical.
When I'm dealing with something where performance is a concern, I'm generally using a more specific interface than tie().
But Simon is right, too. This is a problem with abstractions in general and operator overloading specifically. When someone hands you an object in Perl, you really have no idea how it's doing things under the hood (and you're not supposed to--in theory) unless you wrote it. That works perfect well until it doesn't.
Yeah, the 'ideal' is that you don't care about how it works.
But of course you must...since any library or object class is an engineering component, in order to take one off the shelf and use in a particular application, you need to know the engineering specs on the thing.
What's the call latency... what could make it get slow... what's the memory footprint... are there cases where it can return unexpected values or hang... does it use a lot of cpu or a little?
For data structures, you want to know memory footprint, access times, traversal times. For other calls, you want to know how many you can do per second, and if there are irregularities (like a thumbnail function that can do 1000/sec usually but degrades to only 1/sec if it sees a funny jpg).
A huge part of what makes programming challenging is working around performance issues. This used to be standard programming instruction, because the machines were more limited in the past. You learned to do qsort instead of writing a bubble sort because you had to, in your limited cpu world.
Now libraries are chock-full of qsort like goodies, and the machine is fast enough to gloss over all kinds of stuff. But when your app outgrows its memory or the confines of a single machine, you're not working on app logic details, you're dealing with performance issues imposed by resource constraints.
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The Men and Women in World War II
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PRICE, THOMAS J.
Pfc. Thomas J. Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Price. Wife is the former Jessie Lee Fred. Attended Corsicana High School. Entered the Marines Dec., 1943, serving in the South Pacific and is now on duty at Okinawa.
Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery, Retreat, Navarro Co., TX
s/o William Franklin Price & Etta (Shugart/Shuggard) Price
PRICE, CLIFFORD O.
Cpl. Clifford O. Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Price, attended Corsicana High School. Entered the Marines in 1942, training at San Diego, Calif. Served in South Pacific. Was wounded in the Solomons and on Iwo Jima in 1945. Has Pres. Citation.
PRIDDY, EARL B.
Pvt. Earl B. Priddy, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jim Priddy, attended Dawson Schools. Wife is the former Maudine L. Ivie. Entered the Army in 1945, training at Camp Hood, Tex., where he is now on duty.
PRINCE, JAMES A.
MAA James A. Prince, son of Mr. Ollie Prince, graduate of Corsicana High School. Entered the Merchant Marines in 1944, training at St. Petersburg, Fla. Served in Australia, New Guinea, Bougainville, Biak, New Caledonia and Philippines. Now on duty in the Pacific. Has Philippine Liberation Bar, Pacific, Atlantic and Combat Bars.
PRINCE, ELBERT O.
S/Sgt. Elbert O. Prince, son of Mr. Ollie Prince, attended Corsicana High School. Entered the Army in 1943, training in Tank Destroyers at Camp Hood, Tex. Served in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Now on duty at Camp Campbell, Ky. Two Major Battles.
PRINCE, JESTER D.
Pvt. Jester D. Prince, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Prince, attended Corsicana High School. Entered service in 1945, training in the Army at Camp Hood, Tex., where he is now on duty.
PRINE, JAMES RAYMOND
Ph. M. 3/C James Raymond Prine, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Prine. Graduate of Corsicana High School. Entered the Navy in 1943, training at San Diego, Calif. Is now on duty at Camp LeJeune, N. Carolina.
PRITCHETT, ODIE M.
Cpl. Odie M. Pritchett, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Pritchett, graduate of Mildred School. Entered the Army in 1942, training at Camp Callan, Chaffey Jr. College, Ontario, Calif., and Camp Bowie. Served in Panama, and Hawaii. Was killed in action in 1945. Has Marksmanship Medal and Good Conduct Medal.
Odie Morris Pritchett Eureka Cemetery
PRITCHETT, OCIE M.
Pvt. Ocie M. Prtichett, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Pritchett, attended Mildred Schools. Wife is the former Alpha Earle Young. Entered the Army in 1945, training at Camp Hood, where he is now on duty.
Ocie Marthel Pritchett
PRITCHETT, FRANKIE C.
Pfc. Frankie C. Pritchett, brother of Mrs. G. G. Jamison, entered the Army April, 1944, training at Camp Wolters and Camp Robinson, Little Rock, Ark. Served in Italy where he is now on duty.
Frank Clarence Pritchett
PREWITT, ESTUS BILL
Pfc. Estus Bill Prewitt, son of Mrs. D. W. Prewitt, Corsicana, attended Corsicana Schools, husband of the former Miss Clareed Carter. Entered service, 1940, trained with 133rd Field Artillery at Camp Bowie, Brownwood. Has served in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, discharged. Has Purple Heart.
PREWITT, LAMAR LEE
S 2/C Lamar Lee Prewitt, son of Mrs. D. W. Prewitt, Corsicana, attended Corsicana Schools. Entered service, 1942, trained with Navy at Great Lakes, Ill. Has served in North Africa before being discharged.
PRYOR, EARL C.
Pfc. Earl C. Pryor, son of Mr. W. W. Pryor, Corsicana, attended Pursley School. Entered service, 1940, trained with Medical Attachment of Infantry at Ft. Sam Houston and Camp McCoy. Has served in Ireland, England, Germany, Belgium and now on duty in France. Wounded at St. Lo, 1944, Rheims, 1944 and Germany 1944, has 3 Battle Stars, Purple Heart with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Combat Infantry Badge and Medical Badge.
PRYOR, RAYMOND
S/Sgt. Raymond Pryor, son of Mr. W. W. Pryor, Corsicana, attended Pursley School and Draughon's Business College, Dallas. Entered service, 1940, trained with Field Artillery at Camp Bowie, Camp Blanding and Camp Edwards. Has served in France, Italy, Germany, Australia, French Algiers, and French Morocco. Has good Conduct Ribbon and 5 Battle Stars.
PUCKETT, VERNON F.
MM 1/C Vernon F. Puckett, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Puckett, Corsicana. Entered Navy in 1923, trained at San Diego and in Submarine School at New Haven, Conn. Has served in both Pacific and Atlantic. Was aboard "Panay" when it was sunk by Japanese. Was taken prisoner by the Japanese, now declared dead.
PUCKETT, J. C.
Pfc. J. C. Puckett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Puckett, Corsicana, graduate of Corsicana High School. Entered Marines in 1942, trained at San Diego and Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Now on duty at Iwo Jima with 4th Marine Division.
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PUGH, BILLY R.
S 2/C Billy R. Pugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Pugh, Corsicana, graduate of Corsicana High School and University of Texas. Entered service, 1945, trained with Navy at San Diego where he is now on duty.
PUGH, ROBERT L.
Sgt. Robert L. Pugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Pugh, graduate of Corsicana High School, State University. Entered service, 1942, trained with Army Air Corps at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Madison, Wisconsin Radio School. Has served in New Caledonia, and now on duty in the Southwest Pacific.
Robert Lynn Pugh - (Sep 19, 1923 - Feb 25, 2009
PULLEY, THOMAS O.
S/Sgt. Thomas O. Pulley, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Pulley, husband of the former Miss Lottie L. Reed, Kerens, graduate of Kerens High School. Entered Air Corps, 1942, trained at Ellington Field and Congaree Field, S.C. Has engaged in ETO, now on duty in Germany. Awarded Presidential Citation other Citations, 3 Bronze Stars, and Oak Leaf Cluster.
PULLIN, CHARLES T.
Pfc. Charles T. Pullin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Pullin, Dawson, graduate of Dawson High School. Entered service in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and now on duty in France. Awarded the Bronze Star.
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Most drivers have a slow cooker in their cabs. If you don't you may want to think about investing in one. We posted about slow cookers in this blog from a few months ago: http://www.globaltransportinc.com/blog/post/simple-cooking-simply-awesome With the cold weather upon us, we figured we'd share one of our favorite recipes for beef stew that you can cook in your slow cooker.
Slow Cooker Beef Stew that you can make at home or in your truck!
1. Place beef in a large bowl and season with ½ teaspoon each salt and pepper. Add flour and toss to coat. Shake off excess flour back into the bowl and reserve.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add about a third of the beef to the pan. Cook until brown on all sides, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a 6-quart slow cooker. Add 1 tablespoon oil to the pan and cook the remaining beef in 2 more batches, adjusting the heat as needed. Transfer to the slow cooker.
3. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and onion to the pan. Cook on medium heat, stirring, until soft, about 8 minutes. Add the onion to the slow cooker along with potatoes and carrots. Add wine to the pan and scrape up any browned bits. Pour into the slow cooker.
4. Whisk broth, tomato paste, thyme, bay leaf and the remaining ½ teaspoon each salt and pepper into the flour left in the bowl. Pour over the stew ingredients and stir well.
5. Cover the slow cooker and cook on High for 4 hours or on Low for 7½ hours. Serve the stew sprinkled with parsley, if desired.
These are all ingredients that you can prep and freeze in advance. You can also prep them and keep them in a cooler for a couple hours until you're ready to throw them into your slow cooker on the truck. Beef stew is a great way to stay warm in the winter, especially in your truck. And it's delicious!


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This study aimed to evaluate if adding alvimopan to an enhanced recovery pathway reduces length of stay.
Patients undergoing colorectal resection or ostomy reversal for the year before and after the introduction of alvimopan were evaluated.
This study was conducted at a single academic medical center.
Patients undergoing elective colorectal resection (517) or ostomy reversal (148) were included.
The primary outcomes measured were length of stay and prolonged length of stay defined as >75th percentile for each procedure.
Two hundred eighty-six patients (45%) received alvimopan. Alvimopan and no-alvimopan groups had similar demographics, comorbidities, operative indication, and case mix. In the alvimopan group, more of the colorectal resections were laparoscopic (87% vs 79%, p = 0.015). Length of stay was reduced with alvimopan (6.2 vs 4.9 days, p = 0.003), and this effect persisted when controlling for procedure type, approach, and ASA class (decreased length of stay by 1.0 day, p = 0.014). The alvimopan group had lower risk of prolonged length of stay (14.7% vs 23.1%, p = 0.007) and ileus (10.8% vs 16.2%, p = 0.05). On multivariable analysis, no alvimopan use (OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.2-2.7), ASA ≥3 (OR, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.3-3.1), and history of cardiac surgery (OR, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.2-6.5) were significant predictors of prolonged length of stay. Alvimopan use was associated with a lower risk of infectious complications other than surgical site infection (2.8% vs 6.7%, p = 0.025), and did not increase risk of any adverse outcomes. The addition of alvimopan to the protocol resulted in cost savings of $708.39 per patient.
Data collected from a single center limit external validity.
The introduction of alvimopan to a postoperative protocol following elective colorectal resection or ostomy reversal significantly reduces length of stay and is associated with cost savings even within an enhanced recovery protocol. See Video Abstract at http://links.lww.com/DCR/A911.


Splendid food in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Back in the day, before people from all across the world moved into the islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, people lived in tribes and were mostly hunters. Hence no particular cuisine was followed. Sea food like crabs, prawns, lobsters, fish etc were very popular and still continue to remain popular. When people started to move in to the islands, they brought in the cuisine from their respective lands. Hence the islands have now become the melting pot of several different cuisines.
Indian cuisine is a little more prominent as compared to others. The influence of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Christian religions can be seen very prominently in the food. The impact can be seen in the spicy yet very tasty cuisine in the Andamans. However majority of the population of the islands of Nicobar still lives in the jungles. They belong to several different tribes and to this day they follow very old customs, even in food habits.
The tribes which live here still depend heavily on the food that they manage to gather from the forests. Their diet involves just about everything that they can find, from roots, honey and fishes to wild pig and turtles. The tribes in Nicobar continue to carry on cooking methods from the olden days. They aren't comfortable with experimenting new sources and methods of food.
The islands in general are very popular for the exquisite sea food that they produce. One can easily find the influence of Thailand and Burma in the style of cooking. Although sea food is very widely available everywhere, it does remain a little on the expensive side. However it is worth it. Every single island has something unique to offer. Food that you get on the road side fits well into the pocket.
If you are a couple looking for a beautiful getaway then this is the place to be. They organize candlelit dinners on the beach and provide the ultimate romantic experience. Even if you are a big group of people, you can enjoy just the same. The menu offers a wide range of food and they also offer daily specials. The menu also features drinks to complement the food.
This restaurant is located not very far from Sitapur Beach. The restaurant is small but offers a wide range of dishes which are very affordable. It mostly specializes in sea food. This place is very well for its grilled fish. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the place offers something for everyone.
In a place which is well known for sea food, Icy Spicy comes as a relief for vegetarians. Placed in a basement in the area of Junglighat, it offers Indian, Italian and Chinese cuisines. If you have a sweet tooth then all of your cravings will be satisfied here as the restaurant offers Indian sweets (they are famous for their motichoor laddoos). Also on the menu are Indian chats and mocktails.
This is a cozy little place is located near the Vijay Nagar Beach. Though it is named a bakery, it is a lot more than that. The place offers Chinese, Italian, Continental, Indian and Mexican cuisine. Like most of the places here, the German Bakery is also well known for its sea food. It offers sea food sizzlers, lobsters, butter fish tandoori and more at a very reasonable price. It is a big hit among tourists.
Havelock Island has a number of restaurants which largely offer a non – vegetarian cuisine but Fat Martin is a vegetarian restaurant. The place is especially known for its breakfast fare. Every dish has its own personalized twist. A big hit among the foreigners are the dosas and banana and coconut pancakes. A dessert on the menu "Hello to the queen" stands out. However there are only three tables at the place and hence it has to be shared with others.
The place is located near the Aberdeen Bazaar and is a perfect place to stop by for a munch after shopping in the bazaar. It only offers vegetarian dishes and is especially known for its south Indian fare. It is almost always full irrespective of what time of the day you go in and this says a lot about the food being served. The crisp dosas served here are very easy on the pocket.
The décor of the restaurant is very inviting with its polished bamboo interiors and thatched roof. It also has seating on the deck and makes for a romantic setting. You can pick from the very lavish seafood platter. They also offer pasta which is handmade and also BBQ fish which can be accompanied with a very delicious olive and cheese naan. You can watch people working on the food in their glasses in kitchen.
This restaurant offers splendid seafood. You can select from the beautiful display of crab, tiger prawns, red snapper etc which then gets barbecued, cooked or grilled as per your wishes. It is served with some rice, chips and a Kingfisher. It also has a second branch which is far cheaper than this one. The second branch is actually more of a shack than a restaurant which is located near the water. Nonetheless it still offers the same kind of taste that you find in the restaurant. If you are a foodie and would like to try out something new and different then the islands of Andaman and Nicobar is the place to be. With cuisines from all across the world you are bound to find something you love.


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Michigan chat recap: What happened to Don Brown's defense at OSU?
Nick Baumgardner answered your questions on Michigan Wolverines football and basketball, recruiting and more.
Michigan chat recap: What happened to Don Brown's defense at OSU? Nick Baumgardner answered your questions on Michigan Wolverines football and basketball, recruiting and more. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2018/12/12/michigan-football-basketball-live-chat/2276277002/
Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 p.m. ET Dec. 12, 2018 | Updated 1:32 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2018
Big Ten basketball power rankings: Michigan and Michigan State are 1-2
A lot has changed since our preseason rankings, as actual basketball games have been played, including conference games. Free Press writers Orion Sang, Nick Baumgardner and Chris Solari rank the Big Ten, from 14 to 1. Let's take a look ... (stats as of Dec. 12) Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
No. 14: Illinois Fighting Illini (3-7, 0-2 Big Ten). Sophomore guard Trent Frazier is averaging a team-best 14.3 points and 3.2 assists with 40 percent 3-point shooting (22-for-55). Brian Spurlock, USA TODAY Sports
No. 13: Rutgers Scarlet Knights (5-4, 0-2). Junior forward Eugene Omoruyi is collecting 15.8 points and 9.2 rebounds. Vincent Carchietta, USA TODAY Sports
No. 12: Penn State Nittany Lions (5-4, 0-2). Junior forward Lamar Stevens is averaging a team-high 20.1 points and 8.9 rebounds. Matthew OHaren, USA TODAY Sports
No. 11: Northwestern Wildcats (7-3, 0-2). Senior forward Vic Law is posting 18.5 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game, and shooting 41.8 percent from 3-point range (23-for-55). Nam Y. Huh, AP
No. 10: Minnesota Golden Gophers (9-2, 1-1). Senior forward Jordan Murphy averages 14.9 points and 12.6 rebounds. Bruce Kluckhohn, AP
No. 9: Iowa Hawkeyes (7-2, 0-2). Junior forward Tyler Cook leads the team in scoring average (16.6 points) and rebounds (8.4). Rey Del Rio, Getty Images
No. 8: Maryland Terrapins (9-2, 1-1). Sophomore forward Bruno Fernando averages 13.7 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.5 blocks, and is shooting 69.8 percent from the floor. Michael Hickey, Getty Images
No. 7: Nebraska Cornhuskers (8-2, 1-1). Senior guard James Palmer Jr. is scoring 18.7 points per game. Steven Branscombe, Getty Images
No. 6: Purdue Boilermakers (6-4, 1-1). Junior guard Carsen Edwards leads the Big Ten in scoring at 25.5 points per game, and hands out 3.8 assists. He is shooting 39.4 percent from long range (39-for-99). Brian Spurlock, USA TODAY Sports
No. 5: Indiana Hoosiers (8-2, 2-0). Freshman guard Romeo Langford is scoring 18.2 points per game and dishing 2.3 assists. Rob Kinnan, USA TODAY Sports
No. 4: Ohio State Buckeyes (8-1, 2-0). Sophomore forward Kaleb Wesson is averaging a team-best 14.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals. Kyle Robertson, TNS
No. 3: Wisconsin Badgers (8-2, 2-0). Senior forward Ethan Happ is averaging 19.3 points, 10.8 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.6 blocks. Dylan Buell, Getty Images
No. 2: Michigan State Spartans (8-2, 2-0). Junior guard Cassius Winston is scoring 16.1 points, dishing 7.5 assists, collecting 1.3 steals, and shooting 39.3 percent on 3-pointers (24-for-61). Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports
No. 1: Michigan Wolverines (10-0, 2-0). Sophomore guard Jordan Poole is averaging 13.3 points on 51.1 percent shooting from the floor and 46.9 percent shooting from distance (23-for-49). Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports
Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown watches replay on the screen during the first half against Ohio State at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018.(Photo: Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press)
Welcome to our Michigan Wolverines live chat recap from Free Press sports writer Nick Baumgardner on Thursday at noon.
Nick answered your questions on Wolverines football and basketball, recruiting and more.
Thank you, as always, for your interest and participation.
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The rising popularity of consumer-grade, electric vehicles has forced a global discussion about the sustainability of vehicles powered by fossil fuels. New electric vehicles, like the Tesla Model 3 and BMW i8, have shown the world that sustainability and style don't require a compromise. Now, the construction industry hopes to prove that electric construction vehicles can maintain durability and power while reducing emissions by as much as 95 percent.
In part one, the Denver contractor lawyers at Cotney Construction Law introduced electric construction vehicles and explored the "Electric Site," an emission-free quarry project being spearheaded by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and Skanska. Now, we will continue to examine the Electric Site and take a look at constraints and challenges facing this technology.
The Electric Site is only one project, so it will take years to develop enough data to prove the efficacy of electric construction vehicles, but Volvo CE's outlook on the project is immensely positive so far. The manufacturer is confident that data collected from the Electric Site will be quantifiable for use with future projects. By scaling data collected from the Electric Site, researchers and construction professionals will be able to plan for other types of projects beyond those currently taking place in the emission-free Vikan Kross quarry.
Although the success of Electric Site is readily apparent, construction professionals may still face challenges when utilizing electric construction vehicles. One of the most vital constraints facing this technology is battery life. Current batteries are underperforming, which results in slowed construction and time setbacks. Fortunately, Volvo CE claims that their machines will soon be equipped with batteries that provide sufficient power for day-long operations.
Another constraint is the lofty, financial barrier of entry for implementing these new technologies. The cost of replacing all traditional construction vehicles with electric alternatives is simply unfeasible. However, as these technologies are developed and the cost of research and development decreases, more and more building firms will gain access to these sustainable technologies.


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Platform set for railway stations facelift
The Indian Railways will revive its ambitious programme of modernising railway stations through public private participation (PPP) route. Every new incumbent at the Rail Bhavan since the past five terms has not been able to achieve the feat and none have been successful in bringing the proposed project even to the drawing board stage.
In the Rail Budget for 2012, the then Railways Minister, Dinesh Trivedi mooted the same plan but it met with little success. The present incumbent Pawan Kumar Bansal, in his recently held press conference, reiterated that a Railway Stations Development Corporation will be launched to renovate and redevelop five railway stations as pilot project.
"We have identified five stations and those will be modernised as a part of the pilot project, we will start the process afresh," Railway Board Chairman, Vinay Mittal told Express.
According to the plan, the five railway stations that will see redevelopment include Pune, Chandigarh, Bijwasan in Delhi, Habibganj in Bhopal and Amritsar.
The proposed corporation will be a special purpose vehicle (SPV) with equity participation of Ircon International Limited, a government company under the Ministry of Railways and Rail Land Development Authority, a statutory authority under the Ministry of Indian Railways.
"The chairman-cum-managing director for the proposed corporation has already been identified and the process of formalising the corporation, its finer mandate has already been put in place so that the corporation can start its work," a senior Railway official said requesting anonymity.
The corporation will look at how investments can be brought in for the development of railway stations across the country, which if not through the PPP route could also taken up by sponsors who could invest for development of those railway stations that are in dire need of a face lift.
The corporation, sources said, would also look at ways of revenue maximisation from non-core business of the Indian Railways.
The Railways had earlier shortlisted 35 such stations for renovation and redevelopment but the project had to be shelved after a particular company had cornered 34 of the tenders for modernisation, the official informed.
The Indian Railways has over 7,500 stations across the country. Over 11,000 passenger trains and over 6,000 goods trains crisscross the nation every day.
Sources said, once the stations are modernised they will have the potential of generating crores by way of non-core revenues. "At present, we are not fully harnessing the revenue generating potential of the Indian railway station, while the Delhi Airport alone generates Rs 100 crore per annum by way of advertising revenues and the railway stations put together are not even a fraction of that," he added.
http://newindianexpress.com/business/news/article1354898.ece
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I've done this kata a couple of times before, but recently when I did it again with my team, we took and we discussed a totally different approach and I want to share some of its aspects.
Let's start with the testing aspect.
Either I just automated the execution and evaluation of the characterization tests or I implemented the unit tests. In the latter case, I read scrupulously the requirements and I added the unit tests one by one. If I found a bug in the implementation, I fixed it or documented it depending on the discussion I had with my partner. In my opinion, it's not evident what you should do in such a situation. Probably the buggy behaviour is acceptable because possibly your clients take that buggy output granted/by-design and you'd actually break their flow in case you fixed the bug you identified. Such cases happen to us in real life too, especially when we are maintaining long-lived products.
Let's see step by step how we implemented the Gilded Rose kata!
While the quality of normal items decreases over time, Aged Brie's increases and not even with the same speed. This means we cannot simply reuse Item::updateQuality. At this point, we implemented the behaviour right there in the processItem method. If you have a deeper look, although the tests pass, the implementation is not completely in line with what the specs say. Or maybe the specs are not so well written. Who knows? This time, I decided to stay with the already existing behaviour.
For non-special items, the behaviour is completely encapsulated in the Item class. For Sulfuras and Aged Brie, the behaviour is in the GildedRose::processItem function. It seems quite obvious that this is not optimal, and it'd be good to have all the different behaviours implemented in the Item class.
My colleague who organized the dojo presented us another idea suited for this kind of problems. Hide the changing implementation details in another class, thus we don't have to transform Item into a common parent. We don't even have to change how the Items are instantiated. It sounded good enough for us. Here it comes.
So while Item is still is still instantiated the same way with a name, a quality and a sellIn date, it's internal structure changes. Yes, the size of your class changes and your clients will have to recompile, but I think this is less and less issue these days. On the other hand, they will not have to change their code, because you only modified your internal structure at this point.
Then the Item::updateQuality() and Item::updateSellIn() will delegate the work to Update class' corresponding methods.
In order not to violate the Liskov principle, we shall not use inheritance. In this use case, derived classes would not extend the base class' behaviour they would simply alter it, which goes against our principles.
I went through many iterations and commits before the Updater class actually reached this point and I had to tackle one serious bug that I'll cover in more details in another blog post.
You might have noticed that up until this step, my big if-else was just growing in GildedRose::processItem which was not necessary, but I didn't want to touch in. Instead, I remove it completely now. As such, the whole function will be only two lines long.
We are done with the bigger part of the refactoring as well as with the implementation of the new feature. Let's look for other refactorings to do.
The GildedRose class seems quite fine, but in fact, I don't think we need processItem. It shouldn't know which two functions of an Item have to be invoked and it shouldn't know the order of the invocation either. GildedRose::updateQuality seems to be a very bad name.
Once it was done, I decided to clean up the GildedRose.h in a sense that I moved every class definition to its own header and the implementation to the corresponding source files. Up to this point, it was convenient to work in one file, but it's time to move things where they belong to. It will give us the possibility to make some further refactorings, after we can use includes and forward declarations properly.
I've worked on the Gilded Rose kata a couple of times, and even though it was a bit different every time, this was far the most interesting occasion.
Delegate to another class (hierarchy) the work, so that you don't have to make your client facing a new class hierarchy instead of the one single class he used to have. As such, I could keep the instantiation the same all the time. I didn't have to change the existing tests.
I used the idea behind abstraction by branch. The new code was used for the parts I already finished refactoring/reimplement, while I didn't touch the old code at all. In the end, I could remove all the old code at once. This seems indeed quite same for implementing bigger migrations or to conduct massive refactorings.
I'd encourage you to do the Gilded Rose kata and to document how it went.


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Someday, you're going to die.
Thankfully, it probably won't be at the hands of some enormous gladiator with a mace and a pet lion, but no matter how you go, take a minute right now to imagine what will happen next if you leave a spouse behind.
If you're a confident DIY investor, with a system you're happy with and finances firmly in the black, you've done right by yourself and your family in life, but you've created a system that your spouse might not be able to maintain.
Efficient partners divvy up the work that goes into running a household, it's true, but most families only have one money nerd.
Either by choice or by necessity, one spouse builds the spreadsheets, checks the statements, and rebalances the investments, while the other…does not. Not as often, anyway, and while it's easy enough to take over laundry or car maintenance, taking over the finances after years of low participation will leave your spouse vulnerable to confusion, fear, and indecision.
You see, it's all well and good for you to stress-test your finances, but you're not the one who's going to experience the stress, are you?
If your spouse passes away before you, you'll have the experience and knowledge to deal with the financial side of things, even in your grief. But if you die first, your spouse probably won't have the confidence to flip the autopilot switch on your money.
In those first few months after you die, your spouse will be faced with too many decisions to count, and so many little but necessary tasks that the big job of figuring out what the new financial picture looks like starts to seem overwhelming, especially for someone who hasn't been in the driver's seat for a long time.
Let's use my husband as an example, and pretend that A) we're retired and comfortable, and B) he has a longer life-expectancy than I do.
He doesn't have much to do with the month-to-month and year-to-year minutiae of bill payments, savings plans, and investing, although he's aware of our general direction at any given moment.
He's a smart and capable guy, but if 67-year-old me up and died on him, he'd be very tempted to walk into the nearest bank, drop my will and death certificate on the desk, and say "you handle it".
While a lot of these small tasks can be made easier with some planning on both our parts, the very last thing I would want for him is pressure to make decisions just like I would in the midst of all that busy-work and grief.
I'd hate to see him in the position that I've seen so many grieving spouses: in the desk across from the bank representative two weeks after the funeral, putting it all into the XYV Monthly Income Fund with a MER of 2.63% because he just doesn't have the mental energy to withstand the sales pitch.
But: I'll be dead. My opinion won't matter anymore, and if he doesn't feel up to taking over "just like I would", and wants to hand everything over to someone else so he can concentrate on doing whatever it is he wants to do, so be it.
I would want it to be a reasonably informed decision, though, which is why our disaster plan – no matter how comfortable we get – will always include a life insurance policy or jointly held cash reserve to specifically buy time for him to think.
Said plan also includes joint bank accounts, updated password lists, and – hard for this spreadsheet lover to do, but necessary – he rebalances our investments every other time the calendar tells us to.
I don't believe there's any way to truly prepare for the death of a partner. What I do believe is that – financially speaking – there are habits you can put into place now, and specific arrangements you can make that will take at least some of the burden from your spouse in those first few months when it seems that everything has changed.
Sandi Martin is an ex-banker who left the dark side to start Spring Personal Finance, a one woman fee only financial planning practice based in Gravenhurst, Ontario. She and her husband have three kids under five, none of whom are learning the words to "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank" quickly enough. She takes her clients seriously, but not much else.
It's okay though. I'm going to stay alive long enough to download my memories into a computer. I won't quite be immortal, but close enough.
Emoticon. I blame your imminent departure.
Sandi, don't you think that is a little too much inside information here? Didn't improve my day and I don't even know him/her.
So true. Last year my Mom died and Dad went through all of this. At least they had a financial planner who handled their investments (a trusted one)and who rebalanced the portfolio, etc. But he did have to learn to pay the bills, etc. (as well as learn how to cook, do laundry, and other things). He rose to the challenge very well (at the age of 89!). He died last week at age 90 and I'm dealing with it all now.
Last year, when Mom died, we realized my husband is a carbon copy of Dad. Doesn't pay bills, hasn't filled out a tax return in 35 years, doesn't cook, had to ask me how to get money out of the ATM and asked which machine is the washing machine (I wish I were joking). So we're both going to work on bringing him up to speed in case something happens to me (I'm in my 50s so I hope to live decades more, but who knows).
Hey! There you are, in your new blog home. I like it!
You definitely need to get the non-financial spouse involved — including actually making trades, etc. It also helps to have as simple a financial plan as possible. I'm slowly building up to a spreadsheet that tells me what to do in all situations I can foresee.
"some enormous gladiator with a mace and a pet lion" – you are having solid sleep. I want dreams like that.
Wouldn't your last pay stub tell him more or less?
This stuff seems much easier for the married, and especially the only-once-married which I guess is the minority these days.
I was thinking specifically of OAS and CPP in my post-retirement imaginary scenario, so the paycheque probably wouldn't enter into it.
These very thoughts have occurred to me, but my wife comes from a culture where people are very uncomfortable speaking about death. Plus, she really, really isn't interested in investing.
I guess it's up to me to leave written instructions for her to follow. Best case scenario, at least one of our kids takes an interest in finances, and is old enough by then to be able to help her out.
On a related note, I'm actively encouraging my parents to simplify their investments, and as much as possible, to unify them in only one or two accounts at most.
Your spouse may not be around to look after your finances when you pass away, so it's important to get your children involved as well. It's a good idea to have a list of accounts, so they don't have to go digging through your paperwork. Also, don't put your will in your safety deposit box – it will be a pain to retrieve.
I'm more worried about a surviving spouse whose own day-to-day finances are affected. Wills can be retrieved from a SDB pretty easily. The policy at most banks is to allow just the will to be removed by someone likely to be an estate representative.
Great post Sandi. Pretty much EVERY family will face this scenario at some point.
2. Keep your "financially challenged" (best term I could come up with after 3 hours sleep) partner advised of what's going on, especially if you're doing things with his/her accounts. Have a "state-of-the-union" meeting on a regular basis. Don't worry if they don't catch everything you're saying. Just have these meetings regularly and consistently. Some stuff will sink in each time, and over time, a fair bit will sink in by osmosis.
3. Have a trusted financial advisor who can help fill the void, at least on a temporary basis. Your partner needs someone they can *confidently* turn to for help in your absence. It could be a professional, it could be an experienced and helpful family member or friend.
4. Have a written financial plan, discuss the plan with your partner (at least the highlights), and let him/her know where it is kept so he/she can take it to the trusted advisor and have them continue to maintain the plan, or review and update it as needed.
I like that strategy. No surprise there, eh?
This is great advice for those who have a spouse. I would love to hear what you suggest for those of us who don't and may or may not have any children.
My advice would be almost the same, May – keeping an updated list of accounts, passwords, and all of the other information that you typically keep in your head or in various files or notes is a good exercise for you to go through so you can communicate that information (or how to find that information) to your power of attorney in case you get ill and can't take care of your financial life yourself for a time.
My brother and I are co-executors for my dad, who passed away after a lingering cognitive and cardiac illness at 86. My brother is too busy at work (demanding job) and I recently retired (and my wife is a CPA) so I've been handling the day-to-day details.
To make matters more challenging, my dad was a hoarder, we are still finding tax returns and cancelled cheques from the 1970s. Dad was a builder with multiple properties (3 at death), modest savings. We are finding cheques where he loaned neighbours and family money thousands of dollars over the years, and VISA bills with hundreds of dollars of charity lottery tickets in some months. He was taken advantage of by acquaintances and charity fund-raising firms. He kept every savings bond receipt and life insurance policy, including those cancelled or expired 3 decades ago – they all have to be investigated. It's a nightmare.
If you're going to be an executor for your parents, talk to them early when they are competent to help you organize your future responsibilities. Though (youngly) retired, my wife and I are both in the process of doing the organization one of us will need in the future.


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