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The BBC has apologised "unreservedly" to the family of one of its journalists, who is believed to have taken his own life after his complaints of sexual harassment were ignored.
The Corporation admitted that it failed to help Russell Joslin and its treatment of him was "just not good enough".
The 50-year-old, who was suffering from work-related stress, apparently suffocated himself in a psychiatric hospital in Warwick last October. Three days earlier he had walked in front of a bus in Kenilworth, receiving minor injuries. Mr Joslin's family said the BBC "could have and should have done more" to help him.
"It is possible Russell might still be alive if the BBC system had proactively handled his complaints with more competence, openness and humanity," said his brother-in-law, Dan Barnard.
Yesterday, the BBC released an internal report into its handling of Mr Joslin's allegations of sexual harassment by a female colleague and said it had set up an anti-bullying helpline.
The document, written by a former BBC human resources executive, Lesley Granger, was published on the eve of today's strike by BBC staff over bullying, harassment, excessive workloads and compulsory redundancies. The broadcaster is cutting 2,000 jobs as part of its "Delivering Quality First" plan. The 12-hour walkout by members of the National Union of Journalists and the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) is expected to disrupt TV and radio schedules. Ms Granger's report into Mr Joslin's death comes as the BBC conducts a major probe, led by barrister Dinah Rose, into bullying and sexual harassment. The inquiry, ordered after the Jimmy Savile scandal, has already received multiple allegations against staff. One senior executive is the subject of more than 20 bullying claims, being treated as a special category by the Rose review.
Mr Joslin, a reporter at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, complained on six occasions that he was being victimised and sexually harassed by a senior colleague. Last year, his father Peter Joslin, former chief constable of Warwickshire Police, urged the BBC to open an inquiry into his son's death, complaining that there had been "plenty of opportunities" for managers to intervene but "nothing had been done to help him".
Last night, the BBC said it was "determined to learn lessons" from the case. "Disappointingly, the report refers to behaviour which falls below the high standards we expect of all those who work for the BBC," it added.
The Corporation will set up a confidential helpline for workers who are worried about harassment or bullying but do not feel able to raise their concerns with managers or human resources staff. The helpline will be run by an independent body.
Meanwhile, it emerged last night that an employee of the BBC's investigative programme Panorama has been suspended after accusations that a producer attempted to bribe a security consultant for information.
The programme, which was due to air on Monday, has been postponed. The Corporation said it was "reviewing the facts".
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The "snow siege" of Jerusalem is a God's direct response to the recent jailing of yeshiva students who refused to accept draft orders to report for duty in the IDF, claimed Kabbalistic Rabbi Yaakov Addas Sunday.
"There is a general principle that when there is an evil decree, such as a tsunami, everyone must do some soul searching" he told the Kikar HaShabbat Haredi website.
"No one dies because of others, but this is done by God to awaken the world" he explained. "The same thing applies here. Everyone goes through his own soul searching, am I not going to get into that, but besides that, there is a public decree for which the public must do some soul searching."
He said "it all fits in" when connecting the dots between the storm and arresting yeshiva students for not reporting for military duty.
"Putting yeshiva students in jail was a public sin based on an evil decree, and this whole business [the storm]" is a response," the rabbi concluded.
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And when there is a heatwave, it is God's direct response to the recent jailing of yeshiva students.
It is nice to know that this Rabbi has a direct line to God's plans.
Too bad. I've heard such ignorance from other religions, but a rabbi? Get a clue, rabbi.
Wow is this rabbi a moron or what!!!
No matter how inconvenient, that storm was a blessing which provided clean water reserves for Israel. If Hashem sent us this blessing because we put a few lazy men in jail, then He approves that law.
They are very far from being lazy! they study, they do lots of public service works etc.They are refusing to: a] join an army that throws Loyal Jewish citizens from their homes for the sake of terrorist demands; b] refuse to join an army that uses its wiles to distance Jews from kashrut, prayer etc push them out of religious practice; c] be accomplices to a repeat of the tragic disastrous mistake that Bar-Koziba made which lost his once invincible army to lose it all & bring the cruel deaths of millions of Jews & the great diaspora.
By the way every normal civilised country gives the option of deferral from draft for reasons of religious belief or conscience. Also no one makes any noise about the tens of thousands of non-religious men who avoid the draft & they don;t get thrown in jail either!!!!
Water is truly needed & the rains came late. BUT along with it being said that rain/snow is a blessing we also know that when it comes in a form that causes death & or much damage it is in the aspect of what is said in Torah of the waters of the Deluge of Noahh (Genesis 7:18) "Vayigberu hamayim". Water changed from "hhesed"(charity/grace) to "gvuroth" (judgment). The rains that preceded this snow got to be too much already, most ran off to the sewers with the topsoil, homes, businesses, streets trees etc were damaged, people were injured & died, the heavy snow added to that damage & casualties as well. It was too much of a good thing too much at once, was no longer a good blessing.
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Metrodog received a $35,000 small business loan conditioned on a 20 percent cash injection from the owners and that they have a secondary source of income. As a result, both owners maintain their day jobs and have an employee run the business during the day. The partners take turns working nights and weekends.
"We have no life. It's tough, but time has flown by," Adkins said. "The challenge is learning to manage your time and juggle 60 balls in the air at once."
Adkins has worked in retail since he was in college and has had to adjust to being the ultimate decision maker. Regardless of what type of store he's worked in, some concepts carry over, he said, such as customer service.
Location is another. There are several boutique pet stores in Austin, but Metrodog is the only one in Northwest Austin.
The Domain had been looking for a pet store, Adkins said. The location was a good fit for Metrodog because the clientele in the area is who the owners were targeting — dual-income households with no children.
"Metrodog is a unique, local business that made sense for the pet-friendly environment we have fostered at The Domain," said Lauren Krumlauf, area director of marketing for The Domain. "We strive to incorporate what is important to Austin as a city into our center and especially into the retail mix, and pets are certainly high on the list."
While Adkins tries to select unique items not available elsewhere in Austin and to buy from local distributors, Metrodog's owners have learned they must also understand pet owners' seasonal and holiday buying habits. For example, they've learned that clothes don't move in the summer, that people love to spoil their pets with treats and toys during the Christmas holidays, and that sales in January don't slow down as they do in other retail sectors.
To help promote local pet-related businesses, Metrodog holds trunk shows where vendors can set up tables and engage with store customers. The events bring the vendors' customers into the store.
Metrodog also hosts doggie birthday parties and ice cream socials, with food supplied by local dog bakeries.
Metrodog's owners believe in supporting local businesses and in giving back to the community. They host a monthly happy hour called Mutts and Martinis, with a portion of the sales each time going to a different local nonprofit.
"One of the reasons they are so successful is because they have a creative way of engaging with customers and the community," Starr said. "They make it a super fun environment for shoppers."
For example, Adkins and Stowell employ their dogs — a border collie named Sophie and a pug named Jack — to greet customers. And they engage with customers using social media, which Adkins said has been the best form of marketing for them.
"Customers like that you interact with them and listen to their suggestions," he said, noting that the strangest product request was a Doggie Bjorn pet carrier.
Metrodog posts photos of new products on the store's Facebook page, which usually prompt calls and Facebook comments almost immediately from customers asking them to put the item on hold for them. Customer service has paid off for the store because Adkins said that a lot of customers have come to them by referral.
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Jun 19, 2013, 12:48 PM EST
On the surface, Tuesday's announcement by International Speedway Corp., promising a palatial $400 million makeover of Daytona International Speedway sounded great.
But the fact the track will have 46,000 less seats once the project is completed in 2016 — a decrease of more than 30,000 from its current capacity of 147,000 — has caused at least one writer to ponder the future of NASCAR and other forms of motorsports.
In Wednesday's AutoWeek.com column titled "Daytona International Speedway cutting 45,000 seats; is this a sign motorsports is doomed?", respected veteran automotive writer Steven Cole Smith suggests while some of the luster and popularity of auto racing has waned in recent years, Tuesday's news out of Daytona does not mean Tony Stewart or Dale Earnhardt Jr. will soon be working changing oil at Jiffy Lube.
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"Is motorsports doomed? No. Has it peaked? Probably. Has Has baseball peaked? Golf? Football? Basketball? Tennis? Probably. Because any live, pay-to-attend sport faces the same challenge racing does: There are other things to spend your money on, and when you can buy a 46-inch HDTV at Walmart for $358, there's an overwhelming temptation to sit at home and watch the increasingly high-tech TV coverage."
Smith asked DIS president Joie Chitwood III whether the elimination of the track's "Superstretch" — the 45,000-seat grandstand on Daytona's backstretch — and the precipitous drop in overall capacity is a bad sign about the future for NASCAR and motorsports as a whole.
To his credit, Chitwood answered honestly and fairly. He understands that it's a different world today than when DIS opened in 1959. While Chitwood used the example of how things have changed in Central Florida over the last half-century, his take can be applied to the country, if not the world, as a whole.
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrateg...
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water,...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device exp...
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High-performing enterprise Software Quality Assurance (SQA) teams validate systems that are ready for use - getting most actively involved as components integrate and form complete systems. These teams catch and report on defects, making sure the customer gets the best software possible. SQA teams have leveraged automation and virtualization to execute more thorough testing in less time - bringing Dev and Ops together, ensuring production readiness. Does the emergence of DevOps mean the end of E...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series dat...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. Acco...
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SYS-CON Media announced that Centrify, a provider of unified identity management across cloud, mobile and data center environments that delivers single sign-on (SSO) for users and a simplified identity infrastructure for IT, has launched an ad campaign on Cloud Computing Journal. The ads focus on security: how an organization can successfully control privilege for all of the organization's identities to mitigate identity-related risk without slowing down the business, and how Centrify provides ...
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SAP is delivering break-through innovation combined with fantastic user experience powered by the market-leading in-memory technology, SAP HANA. In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce, SAP, discussed how SAP and partners provide cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as well as real-time Big Data offerings that help companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP launched an application challenge to award the most innovative SAP HANA and SAP HANA...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Ar...
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by Chris Barylick
March 31st, 2006
Sometimes I wonder if an entire decade was essentially wasted. Growing up during the 1980's, my parents would take my sister and I roller-skating on the weekends, the general belief holding that this probably beat spending hours in front of the television ingesting a breakfast loaded with circles. It was there that I discovered some of the best video games I'd ever play.
New for their time, simple to play and just plain fun at 25 cents a pop, games like the original Gauntlet, Spy Hunter, Centipede, Dig-Dug, Dragon's Lair and half a dozen others kept me wanting more. Factor in bubble gum 80's love and power ballads, and things got just that much better.
The thing that stuck with me about these games turned out to be the simplicity of them. With almost no learning curve, the game was accessible to anyone who wanted to play. And amidst the arcade greats stood Robotron, one of the first move-and-fire video games that would help bring about later classics of its genre such as Smash TV, and influence almost every first person shooter/strategic strafing game to come.
Classics never die, they're simply resurrected in a different form that sometimes holds extremely true to their roots. Ultratron, a shareware video game by PuppyGames fits into this category. A faithful recreation at its best, Ultratron retains everything that made the 80's classics great between its flashing lights, excellent sound, wide variety of power-ups and increasingly challenging gameplay.
While it's one thing to create a video game in which the player simply shoots everything that moves, Ultratron hearkens back to the idea of tactics on two fronts. First, the player must dodge and fire as needed, avoiding the largest bodies of enemy droids while having enough room to maneuver if needed. Secondly, the player must select the power-ups that match their play style. Power-ups, when shot, will transform into different kinds of power-ups and the player must quickly weigh the decision as to what they need at any given moment, be it additional shields, an automatic weapon, bonus points or for the screen to be temporarily cleared of enemies.
Robotic laser combat in PuppyGames' "Ultratron".
True, this may not be the most original thing in the known universe, but PuppyGames has done its job well and made for an interesting game that's fun to hack around with for almost any given point in time. A terrific game structure makes the game increasingly challenging as time goes by so the nigh-masochistic thrill of thinking you're terrific at a game, then finding that the computer just got ten times better in the space of a single level change and you have to completely rethink your tactics remains.
Ultratron is available for a $9.95 registration fee and requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later to run. The game is also available in Windows and Linux version. The game is a 4.3 megabyte download which expands to 5.2 megabytes when decompressed.
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Catalytic Selective Synthesis
Article first published online: 25 SEP 2012
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201787
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume 51, Issue 44, pages 10954–10990, October 29, 2012
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Mahatthananchai, J., Dumas, A. M. and Bode, J. W. (2012), Catalytic Selective Synthesis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51: 10954–10990. doi: 10.1002/anie.201201787
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Complete control of the product of a catalytic reaction can be achieved on the basis of catalyst structure, even when the reaction conditions are nearly identical. Catalyst-controlled selectivity is well established for enantioselective catalysis but less formulated for catalytic regio-, chemo-, or product-selective reactions. This Review describes selective transformations of the same starting materials into two or more different products simply by the choice of catalyst. By collecting and highlighting examples of selective catalysis, we hope that the field will be encouraged by the progress that has been made while bringing attention to unmet needs in the design and mechanistic understanding of selective catalysts.


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Hello folks,
I had previously listed my car for sale here, eventually placing it on consignment at Park Place in Bellevue (for a few days) and a family member expressed an interested in purchasing it from me. I pulled the consignment and have kept the car, but the situation isn't working out so it's for sale again here.
I have decided to sell my 2008 E92 328i Coupe. I am the second owner, having purchased it in California as a Certified Pre-Owned BMW from Niello BMW. I have owned the car since April 2011 and it is a fantastic BMW, but my needs have changed, so it offered for sale here. I am a non-smoking middle aged guy and it's been driven carefully and maintained professionally. It's also been garage kept and tastefully modified, while also having track use or abuse of any type.
Since I'm not allowed to post links, please PM me for a link to the photo album if you are seriously interested. Thank you.
Here are the factory BMW specs:
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OEM BMW Sunglass Holder (above drivers window, replaces handle which is also included)
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OEM Alarm Upgrade (installed by dealer)
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Black Grille Surround (like 335is model)
DiMisa Exhaust Tips (brushed aluminum, angled tips)
Professionally Coded for Speed Readout and Folding Mirrors w/keyfob
TR Motorsports grey lightweight alloy wheels (stock, staggered fitment, hub-centric for perfect fit)
Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus all season performance tires (stock sizes)
Cool Carbon Brake Pads (rears just installed w/ new rotors, fronts NIB)
Recently Serviced, including brake flush, filters, new battery
The car is in fantastic condition, with a perfect interior and excellent exterior (looks almost new). No accidents, clean CarFax, and only had two drivers it's entire life. It is covered by the remaining BMW Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) warranty, which stays with the car, until April 2014! There are absolutely no issues or problems of any type - just drive and enjoy this one. ** Current mileage is 33,000
Without any upgrades, these sell at BMW as CPO vehicles for $26-30k, but mine is priced to sell quickly at only $24,995 *** SOLD ***. I am a private party, so I don't offer financing or accept trades, sorry.
You will not be disappointed with this car!
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After a series of life-changing experiences abroad, Kito returned home to Australia in 2008 and began to focus on cultivating the ideas which had been germinated through her travels into her own unique sound. The amalgamation of these efforts eventually gave rise to her seminal work What If, which along with Cold on the B-side was immediately recognized and released by Skream, one of Dubstep's figureheads, on his own label Disfigured Dubz in 2009.
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