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thanks for the VERY timely article. I have had my 'dream job' for 18 months … and now the gloss is starting to wear off because I spend less and less of my day doing what I love and more and more time managing/hand-holding internal clients. Listing the signs of burnout is so helpful! Part of my problem is that I get all this 'external praise' for doing the things that lead to burnout! Lots of times people talk about my work ethic and how quickly I get things done – but inside I feel empty. This article reminds me that I need to pursue what satisfies ME, not always what satisfies OTHERS – I need to work on the balance aspect.
Thanks again for the great article.
Thanks for these important reminders that letting work consume your life can have serious consequences. My husband and I run a small business together, which we thought was a challenge on its own. Then we added a child to the mix a year and a half ago and found out was challenging really was. Suddenly, you place yourself even lower on your own priority list.
We've faced some struggles with work-family balance, and we still work late at night, but we've made some changes too. We make sure now that we're both home for dinner with our daughter and that we always have some fun weekend family time. Having a child certainly helps to put things in perspective.
Here's hoping we can unplug on our upcoming vacation – our first real vacation in several years.
I really wish I'd read this about a year ago. Some of the bulleted items that indicate burnout really hit home (though none of the more sever ones).
"Displacement of conflict (the person does not realize the root cause of the distress)" Check.
"Behavioral changes become more visible to others." Check.
Fortunately, I got out of that job. Which I loved at first. Guess I got bored.
Good stuff.
Thanks for this article. Avoiding burn-out can be fun.
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Excellent article, spoken from the heart. I've felt that way before. I had a job that paid well with good benefits, and I wanted to cry every day while driving to work. Although I had the job for 7 years, one day I just told them I wasn't coming back, and became a travelling photographer for the next few years. Eventually I became burned out on that as well, except I was a lot poorer.:)
Boy do I know what you're talking about here… Thanks so much for helping me identify the signs of burnout. I think I'm experiencing a lot of them right now, to be honest, and you have reminded me to take a step back and relax a bit.
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Great article, i had my own burnout at the start of 2006 which is no wonder as I was running 4 different businesses and trying to do everything myself. I think people see the internet as being easier and automated but the truth is that you can suffer from overload online much easier than offline. Best advice you have given is to take a step back and relax take some time off.
Automate what you can online and if you are needed do the task and take a minutes break the world wont end without you being online.
When trying to find a balance between my work and my personal life, I always try to remember that no one lying on their death bed ever said, "I wish I spent more time working.
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Was simply leaving the laptop in the office a few nights a week.
It was tough, but it's made a BIG difference!
The topic of burnout is not discussed very often and definitely not in such detail. I guess the younger generation od professionals simply brushes it under the carpet and pretends to move on when they should rather learn to deal with it.
Part of my problem is that I get all this "˜external praise' for doing the things that lead to burnout! Lots of times people talk about my work ethic and how quickly I get things done — but inside I feel empty.
d4kc brings up something that was a real trigger for me in my own experience with burnout. Getting things done is good. Getting things done in a timely matter is good. Getting things done too quickly, and consistently means that you're probably not focused and jumping around from one thing to the next. It likely means that you're being interrupted regularly by small fires that need to be put out and that break your train of thought in solving problems – in other words "context shifting".
You can think of "context shifting" like switching from one application on the computer to another – each time you have to load up a new set of rules and information before you can do anything. This means you lose focus, and once lost, can be really hard to get back.
The question to always ask yourself is simply: "Does it need to be done right this second or can this wait until this afternoon or tomorrow?"
Wonderful article. I am still in the midst of trying to get over burnout after getting my graduate degree and being unable to find steady work. I found it to be really inspiring, hopeful and I'm looking forward to emerging on the other side a stronger person.
For the past 6 months or so I have been noticing a real lack of disconnect. I wake in the morning and check email first thing before anyone wakes up. I put the kids to sleep and get back on after having worked all day. Burnout happened months ago but I pushed through it not recognizing what was going on.
I really appreciated this article as it made me pause and take inventory. It is summertime and I am motivated to spend time with the kids at the pool and beach more than ever. Thank you for your insight.
Marcus – I was more of less in the same situation – before I realized that I was burnt out I was checking email at crazy hours and working long into the night and brushed the symptoms aside which I really should have just stopped and took a long hard look at what was causing them. Hindsight is 20/20 but the article has done it's job if it's helped you even if only in a small way.
Enjoy your summer and keep making time for yourself and your family so you can find the balance that works for you.
I particularly appreciated the part "Rely on a good process." For a person that often walks the line of burnout running a web agency it is refreshing to hear others speak up about this and push back. Thanks for the tip on the email usage Franckg. I changed my email to only send receive every 30 minutes and that was a huge help so I can only imagine that increasing this will help more.
Although, it was written a bit late. haha
About 3 months ago I quit my 6 year design/front end development career and started going back to school for something entirely unrelated to design, media, development, and the web in general. I cant take the industry anymore. Now it's just a super-selective (almost hobbiest style) freelance gig for me.
Thank you for the article. I am from Bratislava, Slovakia and have absoluely nothing to do with any kind of design.
But I am burned out, just browsing the Internet to see what the hell is wrong with me as I am sooo tired, frustrated and have no interest in anything. We are having a great business month at work and I cannot care less, eventhough it is my team who brought the business in. I find it difficult to even talk, my husband does not understands what is going on and I do not feel like talking about it.
But I obviously have to do something about it and I will take in your advice. I am glad I read the article.
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Heck, that's a brilliant article. I've never seen something like this targetted at web guys before but by the same token I've read we're amongst the most vulnerable to burnout, alongside doctors and the like. Now hitting my 30s I'm seeing these troubles first hand. My daily dose of Escitalopram keeps me engaged in my work where previously I had a spell where I just wasn't interested and took time off with depression. Playing a game to give my life a meaning shouldn't be an actual life and death situation. When burnout arrives it's like a sense of self presevation kicking in, like your body understands that it's just playing a game and wants to move you out of harms way in the name of genuine self-preservation. You finish up sort of intentionally behaving in conflict with your own values and aims which makes the whole situation pretty darn rubbish to stomach.
'A little is dangerous' and 'planning fallacy' are the twin banes of the web developer. Tasks come to you with an expectation, usually very much below the mark because an inexperienced technician will not see the full complexity of the task in hand, and won't be ready to recognise their own inexperience. Couple this with the fact that an experienced techician will have a better idea but generally underestimates anyway 'planning fallacy' and you finish up hurtling into the abyss. The end result being unattainable goals and a sense of personal failure when deadlines are missed that drives a developer to do their absolute best and put matters straight. That absolute best is not something that somebody can keep doing for any length of time. If I was to offer advice, it would be to learn to let people know you care when things run over, try to sort it out without overexerting yourself, but never panic and imagine your career or reputation is on the line.
This is the first article I've seen where there's an understanding that a vocational techy can't really change roles. If I was sweeping floors I'd go tend bar instead but I've put a real investment into my career and want to keep it moving. Thanks for some good reading.
The creative industry is a tough business and it will always be a tough way to make a living. That said, I probably speak for most of us in saying that, "I wouldn't have it any other way". I love my job and a periodic creative meltdown is not something that frightens me … In fact, I've come to embrace it. There is no point in fighting the inevitable, especially when it gives me the best reason I can ask for to take a vacation.
Just plan for it and if you are the type who likes to "recharge" on vacation, notify your clients well ahead of time and get an iPhone to track "fires". I recently disappeared for two weeks and saved three jobs with a few emails. It's that easy to enjoy time off.
A very nice article. But do people realize that they are on their way to a burnout? Burnout is not a depression, but in some aspects comparable. If you are depressed you can´t just think: "Yes, I´m feeling down, but that´s only because I have a depression. So nothing to worry about. I just have to wait until the depression is over." Depressive thoughts feel real. One beleves at that moment that this depressive reasoning reflects the truth.
If I no longer enjoy my work and are fed up with it, it probably wouldn´t come into my mind that this is just because I´m getting a burnout. Being tired from too much work and knowing that ones has to take a good rest, is not a sign of a burnout. I think it´s a mental thing. And one cannot be 2 persons at the same time. One person that is living a burnout and another one that watches the first person like a doctor and tells him what to do and how to better his behavior.
Thank you so much for this article. I've lost count of the number of occasions over the years, where I've felt like wanting to run away from everything. I wonder how many of us have been ignoring the signs? A lot of us are feeling pressured into getting work done, in order to retain clients. In a recession, the fear of being out of work raises the pressure even more. I've bookmarked this one for future reference.
Oddly enough, I had a teacher who would take on huge contracts, work non-stop for a few months to the point of burnout, and then take a few weeks off.
Having gone through a burnout myself back in 2001, it's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. The smallest tasks seem like a mountain. Never again. Exercise, take time off, learn to say no. I've started martial arts, and the extreme workouts have not just helped against burnout but give me more energy, less sicks day and a clearer mind. Eating well is also important. Your body is a machine and needs to be taken care of the same way you would car for your automobile or computer.
Wow, this article is exactly what I needed a couple of years ago. I had massive burnout, it was literally killing me. I got out of the company I was in then thinking that would solve it. All it did was lead to burnout in another environment.
Luckily I was able to get things under control, even though it's a constant struggle to keep from falling into bad habits that can lead to burnout. The biggest help for me was to set very strict boundaries. When it's me time or family time, client phone calls do not get answered, period. It's amazing to me that today's culture has become such that clients expect you to be there for them 24/7. I even went through a period without a cell phone and the world kept turning and I was happier.
Today's culture, especially in the U.S., seems to think that anything less than the type of intense work that leads to burnout is laziness. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Thanks for the article. It's a very important subject matter and you handled it very well.
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Neurofeedback or brain training is a great way to decrease stress and increase creativity. My friend told me about it who was addicted to her Blackberry. She was finally able to relax again in the evening and on weekends. I tried it and it helped tremendously with writer's block and creativity.
The article is well written for the most part; however, I disagree with the author's comment regarding career change being rarely a realistic option. Sometimes career change is a solution for those who may have exhausted all other alternatives connected to relieving his/her symptoms of burn out. I am certain that most of us know people (if not ourselves) who have changed careers up to three or four times before finding the one that aligned with their personal values and goals.
Though career change may seem tough in the beginning, there are plenty of support services out there to help with the transition. Also, in light of the current state of our economy, more Americans are using the effects of the recession as a means to pursue their passion or to find purpose, considering that job security is also a concept of the past.
From experience, a good rule of thumb for anyone considering career change as a solution to burn out would be to measure his/her personal values and beliefs against the values and mission statement of the company to which he/she is applying. Sometimes a misalignment between employee and employer (company culture) may contribute to burnout down the road.


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Do right and wrong exist?
I'm curious about objective right and wrong. If you believe in God, this is a no-brainer. Some things are wrong, some things are right, simply because God says so and He knows. But if you don't believe in God, can you still believe in objective morality? I personally don't think you can. I mean, what do you base it off of? How do you find out what's objectively right or wrong? (By objective I mean "existing independent of thought or an observer as part of reality." from dictionary.com)
Sure, there's subjective morality. Any idea of right or wrong come up with by a human is by definition subjective. That's all well and good. Problem is that it only applies to people who believe in it and it gives them no authority to proclaim anything as "what we should be doing." Very often everybody disagrees with each other and we don't get anywhere. (Just look at Congress for an example of this.)
Maybe you disagree with me and you think there is objective morality but no God. That's fine. I would like to ask you to answer a question for me though. Let's pick an easy one. Why is rape objectively wrong? Don't misunderstand me, I can't think of a single instance where rape wouldn't be wrong. I believe very strongly that sexual abuse is one of the greatest evils in the world. Why is it evil? If you can answer me without using a God-based or subjective argument, I'll concede the point.
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EthanMar 2 2013: It seems to me that it is easy to point out why an absence of objective morality would be wrong. In essence, that would be the same as saying "As long as you believe you are right, you are right". So if Hitler believes genocide was justified, it would be justified to a moral relativist. No sane person could accept such an immoral doctrine without first being brainwashed with propaganda.
But you are right in pointing out that it is hard to identify why there might be objective morality. After all, without the totalitarian solution of God, why should I trouble myself with moral concerns? If you cite the Golden Rule, I can thus reply: why should I care about reciprocity? What is it about reciprocity that makes it an objective quality? Is it due to the benefits that come from reciprocating acts of kindness, and the survival of the human race? In that case, it would seem to me that morality is highly hypocritical since it is built on the foundations of cost-benefit analysis rather than pure morality. Food for thought.
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EthanMar 2 2013: This is interesting indeed. while the statement is an attempt to be morally objective, it is still morally subjective, right? Because anyone can define their own set of moral axioms, as we have been looking at Hitler. So. Forget about moral nihilism. What about you? Do you think it is a good idea to strive for moral objectivity?
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text: content LE Magazine September 2003 The White House Urges Greater Omega-3 Consumption It took seven years of intensive litigation to force the FDA to recognize the value of fish oil. There are too many new compounds that may prevent and treat disease to allow a central bureaucracy with a proven track record of failure to continue making life and death decisions for the American public. Until recently, it was a criminal offense to promote omega-3 fatty acids to reduce cardiovascular disease risk. Now the White House is encouraging the FDA and other Federal agencies to do more to enlighten consumers about the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids and the dangers of trans fatty acids. The invariable question is, will future Presidential administrations encourage Americans to follow health concepts that the FDA is suppressing today? Are scientific pioneers sitting in American prisons whose original ideas will later show to be medically correct? A free market solutionThe consequences of not reining in the FDA's police powers are premature death for almost everyone reading this column. An alternative we have long advocated is for the FDA to state its opinion about any food, drug, nutrient, hormone or medical device on its website (www.fda.gov), but not have the power to arbitrarily shut down and imprison those with novel concepts that have not yet been FDA approved. Consumers who want government "protection" could insist on only using FDA-approved products, while those who want to be more aggressive could experiment with products that would specifically state on their labels: "Not Approved By The FDA." This free choice system would release the creative energies of physician-scientists whose new ideas are presently silenced by fear of FDA persecution. We believe the result of this greater freedom would be a marvelous medical renaissance. The FDA survives because of an apathetic American public who has grown so used to government incompetence that they feel little can be done to change it. The Life Extension Foundation, on the other hand, has proven that positive changes can occur at the Federal level if enough citizens speak up. As a member of The Life Extension Foundation, you belong to an elite group who possess the knowledge to differentiate scientific authenticity from the political hyperbole long espoused by the FDA. For longer life, William Faloon. Trans Fats Are Everywhere! Trans fatty acids are found in vegetable oils that are hydrogenated or partly hydrogenated. Hydrogenation is an industrial process, which is used to convert liquid cooking oils into semi-solid fats. The process alters the characteristics of the fat such that they are more suitable for use in large-scale food manufacture. These hydrogenated oils are found in many processed foods and baked goods, making them almost impossible to avoid. Trans fatty acids act as artery-clogging saturated fats in the body. Avoiding trans fats may be difficult for the average consumer because the amount of trans fat in foods is not identified on their labels. It is included however in the total fat reported. The french fries, fried chicken and doughnuts from fast food outlets all contain high levels of trans fat. Trans fat is found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies and many other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated fats. Foods that can have lots of hidden trans fat: Fast food: Most fast-food and family-style chain restaurants cook fries, chicken and other deep-fried foods in partially hydrogenated oil, which often comes in a solid block that's melted in the fryer. They also slather margarine—which is trans fat—on griddles for pancakes and grilled sandwiches. To get an idea of how much trans fat is in fast food, consider a KFC Original Recipe chicken dinner. It has 7 grams of trans fat, mostly from the chicken and biscuit. Even if the chains use some of the newer liquid, non-trans oils for frying, fries are sometimes par-fried in trans fat before they are shipped to the restaurants. Baked goods: This is the heaviest trans fat territory. Most mass-produced convenience and commercial bakery goods like cookies and cakes have plenty of trans fat. Cakes and shortening-based frostings from supermarket bakeries are particularly trans-heavy. So are doughnuts, which can contain shortening in the dough and also be cooked in trans fat. Generally, the higher quality the baked good, the less trans fat, because more butter is used. Chips and crackers: To keep them crisp, manufacturers pump crackers full of shortening. Even crackers labeled "reduced fat" can still have trans fat. Watch for anything fried, like potato chips and corn chips, as well as "buttery" crackers. Spreads, sauces and mixes: Margarine can be pure trans fat. As a general rule, the softer the margarine, the less artery-clogging fat it contains. There are some trans-fat-free spreads on the market and increasingly are labeled as such. Watch out for high trans-fat levels in nondairy creamers and flavored coffees, as well as in ready-made dips, including some bean dips, whipped toppings, gravy mixes and products like Hamburger Helper. Cake, biscuit and cornmeal mixes can have several grams of trans fat per serving. Unexpected places: Breakfast cereals, breakfast bars, some energy bars, tortillas, microwave popcorn, fish sticks or other breaded frozen foods all can contain trans fat. So can some puddings and peanut butters, where it is used to give a creamier consistency. Frozen foods like pot pies, frozen pizzas and other entrees, even if labeled as lower in fat, are often made with trans fat. Very high levels can be found in packaged instant noodles like ramen and soup cups.13 To uncover the trans fat in food, try the following steps: Method 1: Check the ingredients list for partially hydrogenated oil of any kind. These oils contain trans fats. The closer to the top of the list, the more trans fat. Check commercial baked goods (such as crackers and cookies), frozen foods and margarine, especially stick. Method 2: Check the Nutrition Facts label to see if the product lists total, saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. If it does, you can figure the grams of trans fat. Here's how: Add the grams of fat listed under saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and mono-unsaturated fat. Subtract this amount from the grams of total fat. The remainder, if any, is the grams of trans fat. According to the Dutch research, trans fat in the diet can cause even more health problems than saturated fats. Using a "cross over" design in which healthy subjects ate a diet containing trans fat or saturated fat for four weeks and then switched to the opposite diet for four weeks, several cardiovascular events were affected. When the subjects ate the trans diet their blood vessels dilated 29% less efficiently, and blood levels of HDL or "good cholesterol" was lowered by 20% compared to when subjects ate the diet rich in saturated fats. Trans fat has also been shown in other studies to raise the levels of LDL or "bad cholesterol" and may also increase total serum cholesterol.14 Trans fatty acids can damage arteries as much as saturated fats or even more and is associated with a higher risk of heart disease. Studies have demonstrated that while both trans fats and saturated fats have a comparable effect on increasing low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, only trans fats lower levels of good high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, thereby making them potentially much more damaging than saturated fats.15 References 1. Garcia-Closas R, et al. Fish consumption, omega-3 fatty acids and the Mediterranean diet. Eur J Clin Nutr 1993 Sep;47 Suppl 1:S85-90. 2. Iso H, et al. Intake of fish and omega-3 fatty acids and risk of stroke in women. JAMA 2001 Jan 17;285(3):304-12. 3. Konard RJ, et al. Eicosapentaenoic acid (C20:5) augments glucose-induced insulin secretion from beta-TC3 insulinoma cells. Pancreas 1996 Oct;13(3):253-8. 4. Tsuda H; et al. Demonstration of organotropic effects of chemopreventive agents in multiorgan carcinogenesis models. IARC Sci Publ (FRANCE) 1996, (139) p143-50. 5. Lai PB, et al. Cell cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells exposed to eicosapentaenoic acid in vitro. Br J Cancer 1996 Nov;74(9):1375-83. 6. Das UN. Essential fatty acid metabolism in patients with essential hypertension, diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 1995 Jun;52(6):387-91. 7. Thorngren M, et al. Effects of 11-week increases in dietary eicosapentaenoic acid on bleeding time, lipids and platelet aggregation. Lancet (England) Nov 28 1981, 2 (8257) p1190-3. 8. Okuda Y, et al. Long-term effects of eicosapentaenoic acid on diabetic peripheral neuropathy and serum lipids in patients with type II diabetes mellitus. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications (USA), 1996, Sep-Oct;10(5):280-7. 9. Sinclair AJ, et al. Marine lipids: overview news insights and lipid composition of Lyprinol. Allerg Immunol (Paris) 2000 Sep;32(7):261-71. 10. Yam D, et al. The effect of omega-3 fatty acids on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Harefuah 2001 Dec;140(12):1156-8, 1230. 11. Connor WE. n-3 Fatty acids from fish and fish oil: panacea or nostrum? Am J Clin Nutr 2001 Oct;74(4):415-6. 12. Dyerberg J, Bang HO. A hypothesis on the development of acute myocardial infarction in Greenlanders. Scand J Clin Lab Invest Suppl 1982;161:7-13. 13. www.healthy.net/asp/templates/news.asp?Id=5713. 14. de Roos NM, et al. Replacement of dietary saturated fatty acids by trans fatty acids lowers serum HDL cholesterol and impairs endothelial function in healthy men and women. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2001 Jul;21(7):1233-7. 15. Oomen CM, et al. Association between trans fatty acid intake and 10-year risk of coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Elderly Study: a prospective population-based study. Lancet 2001 Mar 10;357(9258):746-51.


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I've deposited cameras in the following States/Cities last week, Some of which have already been found:
- Denver
- Fort Collins
- Estes Park
- Boulder
- Kimball
- Scottsbluff
South Dakota:
- Rapid City
- Deadwood
- Crazy Horse
- Mount Rushmore
- Gillette
- Casper
- Cheyenne
- Douglas
If you found one please let me know, And thank you to those who have already contacted me!
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Ken MacLeod
Adult Fiction MACLEOD
Summary: A Tale of Humans In a Universe of Ubiquitous Alien Life Intelligence, it turns out, is rare--on planetary surfaces. It thrives everywhere else, from the Oort-cloud fringes of star systems to the magma furnaces beneath planetary crusts. And among the most powerful of the galaxy's intelligences, there are profound differences of opinion about how to deal with surface life-forms such as human beings. For, untold light years from Earth, the powers that rule the universe have been, for millennia, plucking humans (and other intelligent beings) from Earth and forcibly resettling them in a number of star systems close to one another, leaving them to develop on their own. A few generations ago, a small cadre of humans from Earth's 21st century arrived in this "Second Sphere" on their own power--the first humans ever to do so. Their descendants have formed the "Cosmonaut" class that dominates Mingulay. Now, two hundred years later, Gregor Cairns and a small group of associates have rediscovered faster-than-light travel and traveled to the star system next door. They're determined to find more of the original, mysteriously long-lived cosmonauts. They want answers. And for those answers, they intend to interrogate the gods.
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Fled 21st century Earth into space.
Grigory Volkov
Gregor Cairns
Matt's 23rd century descendant.


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When Rep. Jan Schakowsky was elected to Congress in 1998, she called on an old pal.
"I immediately turned to Hedy Ratner and the Women's Business Development Center for help and advice," Schakowsky says. "They became invaluable to me."
Schakowsky and Ratner met in the '80s when both were fighting for approval of the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois (which remains unratified).
In 1986, Ratner and fellow activist Carol Dougal founded the Chicago-based center (wbdc.org), an organization that provides services and programs to encourage women's business ownership across the country. They started as a staff of two, at a time when fewer than 10 percent of businesses in the United States were owned by women."When we began, there was absolutely no credibility given to women's business ownership," Ratner says. "People saw women in business as a hobby, something you did in your spare time."
Unless you were Mary Kay Ash, the cosmetics magnate and one of the few women business owners with any name recognition at the time.
"She was a guest at our annual conference 20 years ago," Ratner recalls.
Ratner and Dougal have formally bid their organization farewell, having stepped aside as co-directors of WBDC this month. They've handed the reins to Emilia DiMenco, 59, the group's chief operating officer since 2010.
Ratner will remain on the center's board of directors and will continue to advocate and consult on minority women-owned business issues for WBDC. Dougal is retiring, but she will also remain on the board.
The pioneering duo leaves the world of women's entrepreneurship in far different shape than they found it.
Today, women own 8.6 million businesses in the U.S., which generate more than $1.3 trillion in revenue and employ close to 7.8 million people, according to a 2013 "State of Women-Owned Businesses" report commissioned by American Express.
And those who know Ratner, 72, and Dougal, 74, are quick to credit them for much of that progress.
"Carol and Hedy have changed the national landscape," says Schakowsky, a Democrat who represents Illinois' 9th District. "They have advised business groups and public officials at all levels about ways to help women. They know that small business is the engine of our economy, and with their help, women are increasingly leading the way."
"There wasn't even a landscape that included women," says WBDC board member Laurel Bellows, who just completed her term as president of the American Bar Association. "There was no picture that included women in business in any way when Hedy and Carol began."
"The WBDC has provided tens of thousands of women — maybe more — with practical skills and advice for decades," says Alison Chung, founder of TeamWerks, a Chicago-based computer forensics firm. "I am one of those women who has been one of the beneficiaries of their services. Hedy and Carol are simply selfless in the way they devote themselves to all of us, giving endlessly without ever expecting anything back, except, perhaps, our happiness and success."
The center, at 8 S. Michigan Ave., has a staff of 24 full-time employees and consultants and a board of directors that includes such power players as financial analyst Terry Savage, as well as executives from Microsoft, ComEd and United Airlines, among others.
Bellows, principal of The Bellows Law Group in Chicago, offers a laundry list of values she picked up from Ratner and Dougal.
"Persistence, impatience, perseverance and the value of making noise and building relationships," she says. "And persistence."
Chung says the duo founded more than an organization.
"Hedy and Carol wove a women's community," she says. "They knew the rhythms leading up to transitions for business owners — the clarity, confusion, ups and downs. They drew us close together, so we would help one another. They saw us grow up, sometimes move away and embark on our personal and professional transitions.
"They were masters of our transitions, and now they meet their own."


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Reporting Terrorism, the Iraq Conflict and the Middle East
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'Sincere Effort' Being Made to Tell the Whole Iraq Story, Panelists Say
By Elizabeth Hurley, programs coordinator, Newseum
For news organizations, "the Iraq War can be exemplified in the catch-up it has had to do," said Donatella Lorch, former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and Newsweek, at a panel discussion sponsored by the Newseum and the National Press Club March 22.
Catching up has meant learning geography, new names, culture, religion and politics and hiring and training Iraqis – both Sunni and Shiite – to cover stories. But because violence limits where Western journalists can go in Iraq, "we're seeing Iraq through a very narrow prism," Lorch said.
Lorch joined Howard La Franchi, foreign affairs writer and diplomatic correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor; Judith Kipper, adviser for Middle East programs, Council on Foreign Relations; and Shibley Telhami, Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, for the program "Reporting Terrorism, Iraq and the Middle East" at the National Press Club. Susan Bennett, deputy director of the Newseum, moderated the discussion.
Kipper blamed a lag in reporting on Iraq on the early policy of embedding journalists with U.S. troops. She said that by getting news from journalists traveling with the troops, Americans saw a narrow view that focused on the "magnificent fighting machine that the American military is" and "the American media … never bothered to look on the side of the road … to see what was happening to the Iraqis."
La Franchi disagreed, noting that when he was in Iraq, "I spent a lot of time with the Iraqi people to tell their story as best I could." He said he tried to explain religious and culture differences by focusing stories on individuals. "Although [journalists] may not always understand as deeply as the experts, I think there is a sincere effort."
But, he said, Americans are so polarized that no matter what he wrote, he received e-mails from readers accusing him of both overemphasizing the positive and reporting only the bad news.
Telhami said he saw a problem in the terminology that news organizations use to report on Iraq. "We speak of the Iraqi government as if it's really in command. We speak of the prime minister; we speak of elected officials, but in fact we really have a collapsed state … where most of the authority on the street is non-state authority."
Journalists report about sectarian violence, but Americans should understand that "sectarianism is more the consequence of anarchy, not the cause of it," Telhami said.
The chaos and violence in Iraq have made it difficult for journalists to broaden stories beyond the frequent bombings and body counts, panelists said. But Kipper says violence is the story in Iraq. "When you read about the bomb here and the bodies there …that is what's happening. We don't want to know about it. It's carnage, but this is the story."
Lorch noted that the danger that journalists face is being borne by Iraqis – civilians and journalists. "The vast majority of journalists who have been killed in Iraq are Iraqi," Lorch said. "Many Iraqis don't want their names on stories; they don't want to be connected to an American organization … but they are the heroes because Americans couldn't do their job without them."
La Franchi said that he wanted to acknowledge his translator, an Iraqi he described as being dedicated to the job he took partly to support his family and partly because he believed he was helping Iraq. After La Franchi left Iraq, his translator was killed during the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll, also working for the Monitor.
Telling the full story in Iraq is important because what happens in Iraq reverberates throughout the region and the world. "The war has had consequences far beyond Iraq itself," Telhami said.
It's essential for Americans to understand world issues, Kipper said. "Let us as Americans not be afraid of what we don't know, but let us try to understand what we don't know."


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Anchiceratops (Anchiceratops ornatus)
(pronounced anky-sair-a-tops)
Meaning: near horn face (originally thought to be closely related to the Centrosaurus)
Type: dinosaur, ceratopsian
Diet: herbivorous
Period: late Cretaceous
Location: Alberta, Canada
Length: 4.5-6m (15-20ft)
Height: 2.6m (9ft)
Weight: 2470kg (5400lb)
Dinosaurs: 239
Wow! I've only done two posts here, and already I have three followers (one admittedly myself on my main blog), and several likes and reblogs on the two pictures I've put up. Time I got my slack A into G, and started posting a bit more often (though not necessarily daily). Sorry folks! I will try to do better!
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Coelophysis (Coelophysis bauri)
(pronounced see-lo-fie-sis)
Meaning: hollow form (in reference to its light, hollow bones)
Type: dinosaur, therapod
Diet: carnivorous
Period: late Triassic
Location: New Mexico, USA
Length: 2.5-3m (8-10ft)
Height: unknown
Weight: up to 45kg (100 lb)
Dinosaurs: 68-71
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(pronounced min-mee)
Meaning: (named after Minmi Crossing, Australia, where it was found)
Type: dinosaur, ankylosaur
Diet: herbivorous
Period: early Cretaceous
Location: Queensland, Australia
Length: 3m (10ft)
Height: 0.9m (3ft)
Weight: unknown
Dinosaurs: 188


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(I wrote this awhile ago...)
My dad is in town for the next three weeks. It's a special treat as he lives in Mexico and I usually only get to see him once or twice a year. We've been out and about showing him our incredibly beautiful and supportive community.
The first night in town we came straight from the airport (1 1/2 hours away) to a benefit party at the local pub. Several weeks ago someone lost control of their car and went over a cliff. He's recovering, but the hospital bills are stacking up. So, there was a great benefit party to raise money at the local pub. The music started at 6:00 and featured wonderful local musicians like Terry Hunt, Brad Pinkerton, Leah Larsen, and even Laura Love. Later in the evening there was great jazz, and my favorite was Eva Ashford - what a voice! Besides getting donations for dinner and music, there was a raffle for so many wonderful things by local businesses and artists. We not only had a great time, but even won a $50 gift certificate to the local health food store in the raffle. It seemed like there was a lot of people there with their checkbook in hand, so I hope they raised a lot of money and best wishes to the whole family in this healing process.
Last night, however, was not so great. Our plan was to go to the Winthrop Brewery, however, when we showed up it was closed. We wandered around town and finally settled for another restaurant... It's been years since I have eaten in a restaurant like this. All the appetizers were fried breads and cheeses, the "butter" came in plastic tubes as well as all the dressings. The vegetables served with dinner were frozen, and I don't want to think of the trans fats that were probably present in the food. As I was trying to eat the meal I thought, "If I was into telling people what not to eat, I would send them here as a great example."
The reason we had gone all the way to Winthrop (It's about ten miles from us and we try not to drive that far), is because a friend had told us of a short little hike to see some beavers. Of course, about ten minutes into the hike my stomach/guts seize up. After it lets up I realize I have to go... NOW. So, I grabbed some mullein leaves and headed for the bushes without a moment to spare. After several trips I felt pretty cleaned out, weak, but not longer cramping.
It's been a long time since food has made me that sick. I am not sure if it was due to something in the food or due to the fact I am not used to eating that kind of food. Whatever it is, I will definitely not be returning to that place.
As we walked back to the car I became aware that my arm was itchy. I looked down to see a rash quickly developing...hmmm was there poison ivy in those bushes? I frantically looked around my purse and pulled out a wormwood tincture. I always carry wormwood with me - ironically for food poisoning (it became a must after traveling in Mexico). My protocol is to preferably to let my system run it's course, and I only use it if things become unbearable. Since my body had taken care of itself in the intestinal arena, I was grabbing the wormwood for my possible poison ivy rash. The whole ride home I kept dropping more of the tincture on my arm.
So, I have to tell you this was not my favorite evening, although it did have it's ups. It's great to have my dad around, great to see Beavers in action and I do love going to dinner. However, between having to duck in the bushes to relieve my bowls, and dealing with nasty rashes - it was not my favorite.
So, I kept putting the wormwood on my arm and by the time I got home the rash was disappearing visibly and the itch was going away. I am not sure that poison ivy would retreat that quickly, but whatever it was the wormwood helped.
By coincidence I had several bags of plants at home from ancestreeherbals.com waiting to be processed. So the rest of the night I made alcohol and oil extracts of wormwood, mugwort, and bee balm with a renewed sense of gratitude for all the many gifts plants give us.
Besides being friends with plants, I love being an herbalist because there is a security in being able to take care of yourself. Whether it's knowing which plant can help you out as toilet paper, or take care of your rash, it feels good to know there is so much support in the community around me.


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Python instance descriptors: when class descriptors aren't dynamic enough
Python descriptors are great for customizing access to attributes on a class or instance. They are a big win for tasks like mapping Python objects to data from non-Python sources (such as SQL), since mapped attributes will need to be encoded/decoded and connected to other attributes in some way.
Below is a very simple descriptor; as you can see, accessing it from both the class and the instance invoke the descriptor protocol:
class Test(object):
class Descriptor(object):
def __get__(self, instance, owner):
return "Hello, world."
>>> Test.x = Descriptor()
>>> Test.x
'Hello, world.'
>>> test = Test()
>>> test.x
'Hello, world.'
However, in order to add descriptors to an object, they must be added to the object's class. Descriptors added to an instance do not invoke the descriptor protocol:
>>> test.y = Descriptor()
>>> test.y
<__main__.Descriptor object at 0x16fe810>
This means that creating an instance with dynamic (determined at runtime) descriptors requires either the heavy-handed approach of generating a class just for that object (since adding descriptors to its class will add them to all other instances of the class), or the ad-hoc approach of redefining
setattr behavior (essentially re-implementing your own descriptor protocol).
It turns out the latter approach is not as messy as it first sounds. Below is a class that enables "instance descriptors":
class InstanceDescriptorMixin(object):
def __getattribute__(self, name):
value = object.__getattribute__(self, name)
if hasattr(value, '__get__'):
value = value.__get__(self, self.__class__)
return value
def __setattr__(self, name, value):
obj = object.__getattribute__(self, name)
except AttributeError:
if hasattr(obj, '__set__'):
return obj.__set__(self, value)
return object.__setattr__(self, name, value)
class Test(InstanceDescriptorMixin):
>>> test = Test()
>>> test.z = Descriptor()
>>> test.z
'Hello, world.'


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Costco Wholesale CEO Craig Jelinek told President Obama over the weekend that he supports efforts to compromise with Congress before the end of the year in a way that avoids tax increases on the middle class.
With more than 115,000 U.S. workers and small-business customers employing thousands of workers who have "borne the brunt of the recession," Jelinek said in a rare Costco news release that he told the president it would be "a particular burden on those working families to face higher income taxes."
"I encouraged the president to continue working with congressional leadership to find a balanced solution to the deficit that will avoid middle-class tax increases," he said in the release.
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Crowds did not gather in twittering clumps along Music Row nor did local saloons and coffee shops buzz with anticipation when the youthful and pop-oriented Nitty Gritty Dirt Band came to Nashville in 1971 to record with some of country music's most-esteemed old masters.
"The talk on Music Row was kind of less than excited," recalls
Dirt Band guitarist Jeff Hanna, then a lad of 24, "because the [country] acts that were [to be] on the record were kind of
out of favor with radio and the current record machinery. ... A better way to put it is that there was a lot of head scratching
on Music Row."
Before the head scratching stopped, the Dirt Band had achieved musical history. Recording at Woodland
Sound Studios (off Music Row) from Aug. 6-11, this quirky assemblage of West Coast and down home players created Will the
Circle Be Unbroken, an ornately packaged, three-vinyl-disc album that introduced such seminal performers as Mother Maybelle Carter, Roy Acuff, Earl
Scruggs, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson
and Vassar Clements to a new generation of fans.
"Our view of the folks on that record," says Hanna, "was that they
were absolute heroes. It was Mount Rushmore for us."
Capitol Records has just released in a two-CD set the 30th anniversary
edition of the album. It offers a total of 42 cuts, including four previously unavailable tracks of music and in-studio conversation.
The original album came out in late 1972 and was certified gold (for the shipment of 500,000 units) in May 1973. It also earned
two Grammy nominations. The album was first released on CD in 1986.
Hanna credits revered guitarist and songwriter
Merle Travis with smoothing the way with the locals. "When we got in the studio that first day," Hanna explains, "the first
sessions we did were with Merle. That was great for us, because Merle was the one act on the Circle record that we
had actually worked with before. Back when we were a jug band, back in about '67, we had opened for Merle in a club in L.A.
for about four days. So the comfort level with him was there from the get-go. It was good for us because we were all just
shaking in our boots. It was, as I've described it before, kind of a combination of adrenaline, fear and joy."
was initally skeptical of the undertaking, Hanna says. "Wesley Rose, at Acuff-Rose Music, had set up a meeting [with Acuff].
I think that Roy was pretty unimpressed. I think he thought that we were going to do something weird with his music -- like
bring in a stack of Marshall amps and a wah-wah pedal. When we left the meeting, we didn't feel that it had gone particularly
well. We were on our best behavior, but he looked at us and we were these freaks from the West Coast.
"Then he showed
up at the studio a couple of days later, and we played him the tracks we had done with Merle -- I think 'Nine Pound Hammer'
and 'I Am a Pilgrim' -- and he basically said, 'Well, that ain't nothin' but country. Let's make some more.' It was kind of
like, 'I'll be here tomorrow morning, ready to sing at 10.' He sort of threw down the gauntlet and said, 'You'd better be
ready too.'"
The Dirt Band had hoped to have Bill Monroe on the project, according
to Hanna. But that never worked out. "It was never totally clear to me why he chose not to do it," Hanna muses, "although
I heard that he didn't think his fans would understand and that he was just leery of what we were going to do with the music."
one-time sideman, the feisty Jimmy Martin, was heavily involved in shaping the album. "I'm really glad that we got Jimmy,"
says Hanna. "I think his contribution to that record was really phenomenal. Music needs people who have personalities, and
they gave Jimmy an extra plateload. ... He was sort of our taskmaster. He had us out to the house and gave us a quick course
on being Sunny Mountain Boys [the name of Martin's band]. We rehearsed with him a couple of days. He guided us through how
to sing those harmonies right."
Watson's presence on the album was another "real serious high point," Hanna notes.
"We were all huge Doc Watson fans. We all tried to learn how to play 'Black Mountain Rag' when we were little folk puppies.
Of course, only one or two of us could, but we tried really hard."
William McEuen, the Dirt Band's manager and brother
of its banjoist, John McEuen, produced Circle. Although McEuen had songs in mind for the band to cut, Hanna says the
other artists picked their own tunes. "Most of them brought in the stuff they really loved or wrote or whatever -- music that
was familiar to them. Which was great for us. There was no A&R [artist and repertoire] gig on that record. ... It was pretty
simple. We didn't pore over thousands of songs and wonder how they'd test at radio."
Hanna says that Clements and bass
player Junior Huskey did a lot to make the younger and older players feel at ease with each other. "The music was great and,
of course, we were having a ball. Every day was like Christmas."
In spite of the fact that the Dirt Band spent a week
jamming and communing with country legends, they were not invited to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, which has since become
a common promotional and honorific ploy. "I don't think we played on the Opry until the '80s," Hanna says.
Once Circle
was recorded, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band returned to touring the country-rock circuit. "The album came out several months
later," Hanna recounts. "The reviews were great, but there was no marketing." United Artists, the band's label at the time,
did release the single "I Saw the Light" to country radio. Featuring the band with Roy Acuff, the single stayed on the charts
for six weeks, but rose only to No. 58.
"The album had no impact on the pop charts," Hanna continues, "which was kind
of where we lived in those days. There were no rock or alternative charts. So we didn't feel the impact. There was no giant
spike in sales on this record. We sold the albums 25,000 at a time. Slowly."
United Artists had given the band $22,000
to record the album, but the big expense was manufacturing. "[T]he packaging itself cost as much as a Volkswagen," Hanna jokes.
"So the label was like, 'We're only going to make 25,000 of these at a time because they're so expensive. ... I don't think
they understood that people really wanted them. [Fans] would buy them as fast as they would print them. Finally, we came to
an impasse at the end of '76, and [the label] just took the record off the market. ... That was a drag for us, obviously.
What the record company wanted to do at that time was to eliminate one of the discs and turn it into a bi-fold record. Our
position was, 'You can't just fillet this thing. It would be like Will The Circle Be Unbroken's Greatest Hits.'"
contends the album "had a lot of impact" on other musicians. "I rarely met a musician," he says, "who didn't have a copy of
that album. Later on, I started talking to 'civilians' who said they all had it. It was a particularly popular item in college
dorms. I spoke to a guy last week who said, 'Yeah, in my dorm people would have the Circle album and Led Zeppelin right
next to it.' So it wasn't just about bluegrass. It was what kids wanted to hear at that point. It was kind of an underground
The wealth of stylists who came together those six days in August 30 years ago still causes Hanna to marvel.
"The Circle album to a lot of people is a bluegrass record. But just from the standpoint of a guitar player, which
is my general role, having Mother Maybelle Carter, who invented an entire style of guitar, 'the Carter scratch,' Merle Travis,
who invented 'Travis picking,' and Doc Watson, who was probably the most influential flatpicker ever to pick up an acoustic
guitar, all on one record was just mind-boggling. It was Hall of Fame time."
Those long ago sessions spun friendships,
Hanna says, that have continued to this day. Long close to Scruggs, the band also remained on warm terms with Acuff. Although
they hadn't even heard of Clements until they began recording with him, he later toured with the band "for a couple of years,"
and two of the members played on his most recent album. Scruggs, Acuff and Martin returned to do guest spots on the Dirt Band's
1989 sequel collection, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2.
Hanna says the band still does songs from Circle
in its stage show and will probably do more now that the album is being spotlighted again. He rejoices that banjoist John
McEuen has re-joined the band after an absence of 15 years and is helping bring back the sound the group created during the
Circle sessions.
"I'm glad the climate out there is the way it is for this kind of music," Hanna concludes.
"It's great that people are rediscovering it."


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The season ended for the Owen County High School Lady Rebels but not before they kept an impressive streak alive.
Owen County opened up play last week in the 31st District tournament.
The Lady Rebels hadn't lost their first game of the event since they joined the 31st District in 2005-2006.
The last time they did not win their opening round contest was back on March 3, 2005, when they lost to Scott County in the 32nd District tournament at Williamstown.
The fourth-grade Rebels participated in the NCKC Tournament on Feb. 22 at Gallatin County. The team finished second overall. The Rebels defeated Carroll County and Grant County to reach the finals before falling to Walton-Verona.
The week began with a close win and then ended with a close defeat but in between, the Owen County High School boys basketball team was part of a meaningful blowout.
The Runnin' Rebels began last week with a pair of home games. The first was an NCKC contest with Williamstown High School on Senior Night.
The second was a district showdown with the top seed in the upcoming 31st District tournament on the line.
Before warming up for the Feb. 18 contest with the Demons, Owen County fans had a chance to say thank you to five Rebel seniors.
• The tournament began Monday night when Carroll County High School took on Eminence in the opening round game. The winner will play Owen County tonight (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. at Carroll County.
• The championship game will be on Friday night in Carrollton at 7 p.m.
• Owen County is the two-time defending champion and has won three of the last five titles.
• Gallatin County is the last team to win three-straight district titles between 2006 and 2008.
• Owen County opened the tournament Monday night as they took on Eminence. The winner played Gallatin County Tuesday night.
• The championship game will be played on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
• Gallatin County is the defending champion. They knocked off Owen County 43-36 in last year's championship game.
• Before last year, Owen County had won five-straight district titles.
The regular season wrapped up for the Owen County Lady Rebels. The team played three games last week to prepare for the 31st District Tournament.
The girls began the week by hitting the road to taken on Walton-Verona High School on Feb. 17.
The Lady Bearcats raced out to an 18-3 lead at the end of the first quarter and never looked back as they cruised to the 65-20 win.
A.J. Gravely led the Lady Rebels by scoring 9 points. Kaylee Miller tossed in 4; Molly Gamble, 3; and Debbie Farrar and Kendrah Ashby each finished with 2 points.
Owen County High School Head Boys Basketball Coach Devin Duvall likes to spend the last few games of the season to get his team tournament ready.
The last three game stretch was that preparation.
Owen County hosted North Oldham High School last week before playing both Anderson County and South Oldham high schools on the road.
South Oldham is the defending Eighth Region champion while Anderson County High School reached the semifinals of the Eighth Region tournament. The Bearcats advanced by defeating the Rebels 50-47 in the quarterfinals.
A long season for the Owen County High School Lady Rebels is coming to a close. Lady Rebels are gearing up for their final two homes games of the 2013-2014 campaign.
The team played a road contest last week in Taylorsville against Spencer County High School. Owen County was able to score its most points of the season but unfortunately it would not be enough. The Lady Bears would defeat the Lady Rebels 71-51 to pick up their fifth win of the season and keeping Owen County winless.
There is no place like home and for the Owen County High School Rebels, nothing has been truer this season.
Owen County hosted a pair of games this week and won both of them to improve to a perfect 5-0 on their home court.
The first came on Feb. 6 as the team welcomed Walton-Verona to Owenton. The game had a different feel to it due to an electrical problem that caused the scoreboards not to work. As a result, the score and the time were both kept at the scorer's table by hand.
If not for bad luck, the Owen County High School Lady Rebels would have no luck at all.
The team hosted Oldham County Friday night in Owenton.
After falling behind early, the Lady Rebels rallied to cut the deficit to 14-7 with just seconds left in the opening quarter.
Instead of carrying some positive feelings into the second quarter it proved to be just enough time for the Lady Colonels. Oldham County caught the inbounds pass and launched a heave from 70 feet at the buzzer that hit nothing but net to push the lead to 17-7.
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Volkswagen Announces $17 Million Expansion
Volkswagen Chattanooga announced Wednesday that it has begun construction activities on an extension of the assembly shop parts warehouse at its Tennessee factory.
The warehouse extension, scheduled to be operational by August 2014, will add 198,400 square feet to the existing 104,600 square feet. The total warehouse space in the plant will now be 303,000 square feet.
"By extending our warehousing capacity inside the plant, we are streamlining our logistics operations, making the production of the Passat even more efficient," said Frank Fischer, CEO and Chairman of Volkswagen Chattanooga. "These kinds of continuous improvement processes are an indication of the maturation of this facility and a testament to the standard of excellence of our team."
By extending the current warehouse building in the assembly shop, Volkswagen will eliminate the need for two current external staging warehouses. This project solely affects production of the Passat.
The expansion represents an investment of $17.7 million dollars and will add 14 dock doors for parts delivery with the option to expand that by an additional 20 loading docks in future.
The project's construction partner is Gray Construction.
Volkswagen Chattanooga produces the Passat for North America, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Arabian Gulf Coast Countries.
Photo: (l-r) Ulfert Stier, General Manager, Logistics; Frank Fischer, CEO and Chairman, Volkswagen Chattanooga; David Calfee, Manager, Plant Construction; Heinrich Keulmann, General Manager, Plant Engineering.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A measure of prices that producers receive for their goods and services was unchanged in August, the latest sign that inflation is in check.
The Labor Department says that wholesale gas prices fell 1.4 percent last month and food costs dropped 0.5 percent. Those declines offset higher prices for transportation and shipping services.
The producer price index rose just 1.8 percent last month from a year earlier. The index measures price changes before they reach the consumer.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Optimism among chief executives at the largest U.S. companies fell in the July-September quarter after reaching a two-year high in the previous quarter.
The Business Roundtable says that its CEO outlook index fell to 86.4 in the third quarter, down from 95.4 in the April-June period.
Fewer CEOs expect to hire in the next six months: Just 34 percent plan to add jobs, down from 43 percent. And only 39 percent plan to boost their capital spending, down from 44 percent.
Nearly three-quarters of the chief executives expect higher sales, the same as in the second quarter.
Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T and chairman of the Roundtable, blamed the decline of the index on Congress' failure to extend temporary tax breaks that encourage research and development and investment spending.
ATLANTA (AP) -- UPS plans to hire up to 95,000 seasonal workers to help with package deliveries during the busy holiday season.
The Atlanta company said Tuesday that the positions will include package sorters, loaders, delivery helpers and drivers.
Since last year's holiday season, UPS has implemented several measures to help prepare for this year's onslaught of deliveries. This includes making improvements to schedule planning, installing temporary mobile sorting and delivery centers and adding thousands of new or leased delivery vehicles, trailers, aircraft and portable loading aids. It's also adding operating days and shifts.
Last year, a last-minute surge in holiday shipments drove up the shipper's costs and hurt its profits.
United Parcel Service Inc. said that the seasonal jobs have long served as an entry point for permanent employment.
DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors is adding 750 workers to a Missouri factory in anticipation of high demand for two new small pickup trucks.
GM wants to add a third shift to its plant in Wentzville near St. Louis by the end of March. The factory now employs 2,600 people who make the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups as well as full-sized vans.
Alan Batey, GM's North America president, says dealers already have ordered 30,000 pickups and 97,000 people have configured and built them on a GM website. Both are signs of strong demand.
GM is building the trucks and plans to start shipping them to dealers soon. Small pickups have declined in popularity, but Batey is confident people will buy the GM models for their hauling ability, gas mileage and price.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee has determined that the government's auto safety agency should have discovered General Motors' faulty ignition switches seven years before the company recalled 2.6 million cars to fix the deadly problem.
The report issued Tuesday by Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee raises serious questions about the agency's ability to keep the public safe as cars become more complex.
The report says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration misunderstood how vehicles worked, lacked accountability and failed to share information.
A Senate panel is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on the issue.
At least 19 people died in crashes caused by the switches in GM small cars. The company acknowledged knowing about the problem for at least a decade, but it didn't recall the cars until February.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York regulators have begun investigating short-term, high-interest loans secured by borrowers' homes or other real estate to determine if they violate state laws against predatory lending.
The Department of Financial Services says Tuesday it has issued subpoenas for information from nine companies involved in so-called "hard money lending."
Under the deals, a borrower's ability to repay typically is unexamined and loans may be structured with an expectation of foreclosing on property.
Superintendent Ben Lawsky says such "loan to own" schemes are unconscionable.
Regulators are investigating whether the companies intentionally set onerous terms with high interest rates, large upfront fees and big balloon payments.
They are also examining complaints some borrowers are required to sign deeds when obtaining loans, permitting lenders to take property when one payment is missed.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to contaminate drinking water at one site in western Pennsylvania.
The Department of Energy report was released Monday. It marks the first time an energy company allowed independent monitoring of a drilling site during the fracking process and for 18 months afterward.
Resarchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas stayed about 5,000 feet below drinking water supplies.
A separate study published this week by different researchers examined drilling sites in Pennsylvania and Texas using other methods. It found that faulty well construction can cause pollution, but not fracking itself.
The Energy Department study monitored six wells at one site. Other drilling locations could behave differently.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA is a giant step closer to launching Americans again from U.S. soil.
On Tuesday, NASA will announce which one or two private companies wins the right to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. The deal will end NASA's expensive reliance on Russian crew transport.
NASA officials will make the long-awaited announcement at Kennedy Space Center, next door to where the launches should occur in a few years.
The contenders include SpaceX of California, already delivering space station cargo; Sierra Nevada Corp., which is developing a mini-shuttle in Colorado; and Boeing, which would assemble its crew capsules at Kennedy.
NASA astronauts have been riding Russian rockets ever since the shuttles retired in 2011. The latest pricetag is $71 million per seat.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For the first time, California's Department of Motor Vehicles knows how many self-driving cars are traveling public roads.
The agency is issuing permits Tuesday that let three companies test 29 vehicles on highways and in neighborhoods -- with a human "safety driver" behind the wheel, in case the onboard computers make a bad decision.
With 25 vehicles, Google's souped-up Lexus SUVs are the biggest fleet. Mercedes and VW have two vehicles each.
Self-driving cars already have gone hundreds of thousands of miles in California.
They did because there was no law saying they couldn't.
The Legislature eventually decided to regulate the emerging technology, which navigates using sophisticated sensors and detailed maps.
Over the past year, the DMV wrote testing rules that require driver training and the reporting of incidents.
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Starting next month, America's remaining tobacco growers will be totally exposed to the laws of supply and demand.
The very last buyout checks go out in October to about 425,000 tobacco farmers and landowners. They're the last holdovers from a price-support and quota system that had guaranteed minimum prices for most of the 20th century, sustaining a way of life that began 400 years ago in Virginia.
Cigarette makers will have paid $10 billion to compensate growers for surrendering their quotas. Growers got another $5 billion from the companies as part of their 1998 settlement of state lawsuits over smoking-related health care costs.
When the last checks are cashed, surviving growers will be on their own, forced to find profits in a tremendously competitive global market.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Captain Citrus, the mascot of the Florida Department of Citrus, is getting a makeover.
Captain Citrus was born in 2011 as a big, fat talking orange wearing a green cape. Now he's being transformed into a buff Marvel Comics superhero who will fight evil alongside the likes of Captain America.
The citrus agency paid $1 million to Marvel Comics to create the new character in hopes of bolstering orange juice's reputation as a healthy and wholesome drink. It comes as Americans are drinking less juice and the industry is being threatened by an incurable bacterial disease called citrus greening.
The new and muscular Captain Citrus will appear with Marvel's popular Avengers characters in a series of custom comic books, some of which will be distributed to kids in schools.
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The end of Midnighter. January's solicits seem to suggest that Midnighter goes rogue. Does this make anyone else nervous?
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That said, it should be no surprise that adidas collaborated with the G.O.O.D. Music princess, Teyana Taylor. She just announced her adidas collab with this teaser photo. The shoe is looking good so far, and unique! I'm sure that's something the female sneaker fiends can appreciate.
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Interesting can't wait to see more pics