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Exposing a Pandora Article That Reads Like a Press Release
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here's my advice for the day: Don't deal with people who work in corporate communications at big companies.
VPs of Communications. VPs of Media Relations. VPs of Public Relations. And if they hold the title of "director" or "manager" of any of these things, even worse.
Nine-point-nine times out of ten you'll find yourself dealing with trained monkeys. If you can't get to a real executive, don't settle for these cats because they'll do nothing but waste your time.
If you've ever cold called from the trading floor, you've probably heard the term -- and please pardon my French here, but I didn't make this up -- Don't pitch the bitch.The following YouTube video is NSFW (Not Suitable For Work) or your kids! ... Back when I cold called Fortune 1000 firms and recent IPOs in a sales job, I probably heard that a dozen times a day. Speak to the decision makers. Not secretaries. As horribly sexist as Don't pitch the ... sounds, it didn't matter to the team leader if the gatekeeper was female or male. You just didn't talk to that person. As it turns out that's good advice. Because it's the gatekeeper's job to keep you away from the people who will actually cut through the crap and shoot straight. But that doesn't mean you ignore these gatekeepers. I knew some great salespeople who used them, unwittingly, to their advantage. By a similar token, as an investor, you must consider the existence of PR people. Because so much of the information that comes from a company -- directly or via third parties -- comes from the office of corporate communications or some offshoot of it. And things are, quite often, not exactly as they seem or as the PR department crafts them.
I got shackles on my wristsWhich leads me to a little story of how, sadly, Pandora (P) has gone so horribly corporate that I'm to the point where I don't even want to write about the company anymore. However, in this case, I have no choice because I must expose something that transpired this week.
Soon I'll slip and I'll be gone
Chain me in a box in the river
And rising in the sun
Trust none of what you hear
And less of what you see
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be
-Bruce Springsteen, "Magic"
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DJE Promotes VanderMolen to 'Activate' Edelman Holding Company
Daniel J. Edelman Inc (DJE) announced this morning that it has promoted Alan VanderMolen to vice chairman of the Edelman holding company. The move is an effort to build on the business' holding company model with PR as the focus.
Looking back, Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman and executive chairman of DJE, points out that "DJE was the original name of the company." Over the years, Edelman has come to the forefront. Now, the company wants to diversify. Doing that requires "activating the holding company."
"We want to make it clear to the marketplace that we want to compete with Omnicom, et. al. But they put at their center their advertising business and we put PR at the center," said Edelman.
"We're unique in being a PR-centered holding company. We're an example for all the rest," Edelman added.

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Microbes in a Tar Pit
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Microdroplets of water in a natural asphalt lake are home to active microbial life, a study shows.
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Fossilized structures suggest that mat-forming microbes have been around for almost 3.5 billion years.
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Researchers show that symbiotic bacteria can help hyenas communicate with one another.
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Researchers contend that contamination is behind recent suggestions that Antarctica's largest subglacial lake harbors complex life such as crustaceans and fish.
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DNA and RNA sequences from Lake Vostok below the Antarctic glacier reveal thousands of bacteria species, including some commonly found in fish digestive systems.
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Researchers have found evidence of microbial life in samples taken from a lake hidden beneath 800 meters of Antarctic ice, but it's not yet clear how the bacteria survive.
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The hard road to building the web…
Filed under: Conversation, New technology, New Web Creations, Thirdsector Systems, Web services
Every web designer and publisher has clients who believe that '…we email it in and it appears on our web site'. If you have someone in your department, setting or business who believes this we think it is a compliment to your design and build skills, as well as the back office processes that deal with new content, images, films and functionality.
Mix Online have produced a great poster which explains all the functions and processes, no matter how lightly touched upon even in small design houses, which must be undertaken to create the simplest functioning web page.
Mix Online believe that…
Designing, building and launching websites is real hard work — but our profession is seriously misunderstood. To help explain the process, we drew you a picture. A really big picture…
…and this is what they have done. You can view the design and build web process they have created on this web page. You can use the links on the page to dive deeply into the image and explore the functions of design and creation that go into building your web site. (View deep zoom).
Our own development process at Thirdsectorweb.co.uk can be found in narrative form, on this web page. Our systems are designed to support remote clients with all the services needed to launch simple, magazine style web sites, to more complex blog driven, gallery supported, e-commerce and information gathering web pages.
Our simpler, less sequentially staged process none the less includes all the elements found in the Mix Online illustration – in small design houses fewer people wear more hats.
It's still hard work though, whatever the content, time frame or functionality desired.
Happy New Year for 2013 from all at Thirdsectorweb.co.uk
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Lessons in iPad
Filed under: Apple, Conversation, New technology, New Web Creations, Web services
Apple have just released a set of illustrative tutorials that are designed to show you how slick and intuitive it is to use your forthcoming iPad.
We don't care what the nay-sayers are up to – we think the iPad is an innovative and user friendly way to get web information. We did feature a test run for the iPad in a recent blog entry.
It isn't designed to be a mass data engine, a gigantic generator of codes and complex graphics. It isn't meant replace, at the moment, all the kit that is sitting on your desk at present.
Writing this piece we are facing three screens, two printers and assorted speakers, cables and external storage devices.
But if you want a fast, portable web reader with communication facilities then the iPad will, if you are like us, be a key purchase for us this year.
There are alternatives available already – like the Archos 9 netbook – a small, slick mobile solution. But does it have the wow factor that Apple offer?
You will probably need the Safari browser to get the best from your iPad tutorial experience. You can get it here.
You can visit the home page of Third Sector Web here.
Opera 10 available for Windows
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Opera 10 is now available for free download for Windows users. The previous release candidate had mixed ability to display graphics during the development phase, but this new version is fast, crisp and with some useful features.
The 'turbo' function means that if you are connected to the internet, you can boost your browser speed by enabling the turbo function, which triggers the browser to auto-compress web pages.
This is an ideal browser for the traveler in a wifi-cafe or using a lower speed hotel connection. Simply turn off the turbo function, using the control on the bottom left of the browser, when you reconnect to a high speed service.
The 'speed dial' function, which we always liked, has been upgraded. Offering you the chance to see a grid presentation of page snapshots for your most used web sites or sites you are currently working on. You can display from 4 to 25 for quick access depending on your screen size.
Opera are claiming a 40% increase in browsing speed for this version, with the addition of web integration for your web mail service included. You can configure Opera to open your compose page when you click on an email address or click 'Send by Mail'.
You can see the new list of functions in Opera 10 on the Opera features page. You can download the new version, for free, on the Opera download page.
Regular visitors to this blog will know that we like Opera as a safe, secure and speedy browser alternative. The new features, particularly the addition of 'turbo' browsing and extension of 'speed dial' make it even more attractive.
Speed image by konr4d – stock.xchng
You can visit the home page of Third Sector Web here.
Google image search maturing nicely…
Filed under: Conversation, Search engines, Web services
Having recently begun to offer 'face' image searching, Google have further updated their image search to include searches in the following categories….clip art and line drawings are added to the photo search ability.
Google says…'all of these options can be selected from the "Any content" drop down in the blue title bar on any search results page, or by selecting one of the "Content types" on the Advanced Image Search page.'
You can see the original Google blog announcement here.
The Third Sector Web home page is here.
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New regional office for Thirdsectorweb
Filed under: Conversation, Green computing, Thirdsector Systems, Web services
The Thirdsector team have been busy installing cabling, desks and communication systems in our new regional office this week – we now have a loft space in Cambridge, U.K. to support our clients and a growing number of supply partners in the Midlands and East Anglia.
Our web coding and creative team will now all be based in Cambridge, in an attempt to speed up turn-round times for projects and to ensure that any copy we receive is actioned for client sites as soon as possible.
Our mission – to integrate web, print and broadcast TV into a single solution for our clients.
Our new facility will help us to achieve that aim.
Our sister trading styles Dolphin book sellers and Dolphin book box will also have a presence on site.
We now have immediate access to spot bulk storage facilities, which will help our partnership to better deliver our large book orders, library and nursery refits and any returns required from our customers.
If you are in the eastern region and have a need for our web or communication solutions – the team will be happy to meet with you too.
Our location and messaging services can be found on our contact us page.
You can also see our full range of services on our partnership page at SmithMartin LLP.
You can visit the Third Sector Web home page here.
Letting go in marketing, client and partnership relations…
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
We are all emersed in blogs, code, newsfeeds and Friday ftp fatigue – as any IT or web services provider should be.
Circulating round the office this week was an article from the Wall Street Journal, detailing a new report on the reluctance to take up 'Web 2.0′ marketing tools in the wider business community
Although this work by academics Salvatore Parise, Patricia J. Guinan and Bruce D. Weinberg can conjure images of immaculately suited Wall Street executives, pondering the failure of the banking system perhaps – there is a real message in the article about how charity managers and service/education organisations can engage with their community of interest.
'Let go' seems to be the message.
Embrace and intertwine a weave of web mail, weblog, wiki and social networking solutions to engage in a dialogue with your community of choice. If millions of your potential service users can embrace Facebook, why shouldn't they have a dialogue with you about your service.
Your organisational blog can offer, not only news and updates, but also an opportunity, if well structured, to elicit feedback from service users too.
This could be scary…we don't necessarily recommend entering Second Life, as the article offers as a solution to finding new customers for your service, but a more expressive way of having a conversation with your audience can only benefit everyone.
You can see the original Wall Street Journal post here.
It's hard work to develop and implement a Web 2.0 strategy – we have in our small way at Thirdsectorweb the infrastructure, the technology and the knowledge – which still did not stop some quiet irony as we espoused a wonderfully hypothetical Web 2.0 engagement framework for our clients in the heat of conversation.
Still, we take the Franklin D. Roosevelt of such activity – '…happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort'.
We soldier on with undiminished passion for our partnership vision.
(Interests expressed: Thirdsectorweb is a provider of web design, hosting and communication solutions to the public, charitable, education and childcare markets in the U.K.)
You can visit the Thirdsectorweb home page here.
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The stuff we really like – tools and tweaks tested by time
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations
We are always (they're banging on again at Thirdsectorweb….) shouting about Open Source software in the office. We like it because it fits with a collaborative, best value, developing reflective practice business model that we are always trying to get behind in the partnership. Not everything we use is Open Source, but here are some tools that have impacted on our work.
Everybody blogs lists these days..after a quick intellectual whip round the office, here's ours.
Open Office – the production suite and office saviour in software form. Yes we know it's a chunky download and sometimes takes forever to load, but the effective integration of the suite, the ability to crop, cut and paste and alter stuff across the piece leaves other office bundles behind. Great extensions for increasing functionality too. Get the latest version today.
Thunderbird – we haven't got a laptop without it. With different email addresses across domains for our business offerings, as a distributed remote partnership we reckon we would be lost without it. Lets us sort incoming mail easily, offers immediate access to bulk password management and is generally our email client of choice. Check it out, we know you'll like it.
BlogDesk – if you post to a weblog this is a very small footprint, lightweight addition to your blogging toolkit. We like the way it spellchecks your potential post, has simple and clear post layout tools and scarpers through the managed upload process. The only minor criticism, some people felt, was that adding tags to posts can be a bit cumbersome.
Paint.NET – a really useful image manipulation, resizer and text overlay machine. (Haven't seen it described that way before, but that's how we use it). Think image, think Paint.NET.
Flock – lost in a sea of rss feeds and image stock sites, then Flock is our browser of choice for image and web development information sources. Its newsfeed capability works well, you can find and review images and keep in touch with your social networks all at the same time. You can also export your favourites easily and quickly to a desktop file. In our traffic heavy web zone – we thought this was a killer function. (…and you can post to your blog from the browser too).
Pixie – for colour blind web designers. I am shocked but can say no more.
Songbird – everyone needs a bit of music at the desk to close out the white noise of web chatter sometime. Haven't taken this new version for a full run yet, but the alpha versions onward were a great looking alternative to other more invasive tune types. Vers. 1.0.0 now available as a XP/Vista download.
What are your favourites?
You can visit the Third Sector Web home page here.
Hakia – a librarians search engine
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
A new beta search engine '…brings search results from credible sites recommended by librarians'.
An interesting search engine which offers a nicely presented, plain tabbed interface for all results, credible sites, news and images. There is also a 'meet others' tab to explore Hakia's social networking capability.
Hakia galleries offer A to Z listings of everything from actors to cities, countries and television shows. As a research tool this aspect of Hakia is for our team, its most useful function.
You can read about Hakia's semantic web approach to search on the Hakia blog.
Hakia organises information in an intuitive way, with its 'credible' pages offering a well defined and clear breadth of content for the serious researcher. It isn't Google, but could become your 'quiet' project information source by stealth, we reckon.
Other search engines we have featured on this blog – Cuil, Opera and Google.
Visit the Third Sector Web home page.
New server transfers…
Filed under: Conversation, Thirdsector Systems, Web services
We are having our webmail functions transferred to new servers from midnight on Friday (4th September 2008).
This means that access may be down for a few minutes, with some delayed response times for a couple of hours following.
Improving service levels from the Thirdsector team.
See our home page at Thirdsector Web here.
Directed Edge – a new take on 'pedia' searches…
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Directed Edge isn't a totally new resource any more, but we have been using it for research purposes and find the depth, clarity and subtlety of the results very good indeed.
A prototype service from Directed Edge a company involved in developing recommendation engines for social and e-commerce networks.
The 'Wikipedia' search tool is a demonstration of their technology. We think it stands up pretty well as a distinctive service too. Helping to draw users to their site and to show how it can work for your data.
(We don't have shares in Directed Edge …honest)
See a Directed Edge search result for Microsoft here. We like the core information, but also the useful links to other articles, people and additional resources.
We think it can provide a great jumping off point for a web research or writing project.
You can visit the Thirdsectorweb home page here….


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By Maurizio Morisio
Software professionals know how hard it is to manage successfully a project, and how easy it is to overrun budget or deadlines or not to meet customer expectations. In the late '80s and early '90s, the answer to these problems was, "Do more"—more process, more documentation. This approach has never been very popular among developers, who are more interested in developing code. Also, the usual problems continued to appear.
Since the late '90s, the approach advocated by the agile movement has been, "Do less." Or maybe, "Do smarter," using fewer documents and more automation. Smarter requirements, such as interaction with the customers and test cases, instead of requirement documents. Automated test cases, instead of test documents. Smarter, continuous quality assurance such as pair programming and test driven development. Smarter design with simple designs and refactoring and continuous integration, instead of design documents and integration plans.
I've gathered several articles that show evidence of how the agile approach works, what its results are, and how practitioners can use it. Two of these articles, from IEEE Software magazine, will be available for free on Computing Now throughout June. "Tests and Requirements, Requirements and Tests: A Möbius Strip," by Robert C. Martin and Grigori Melnik, is an introduction to FIT tables, a technique to define test cases as requirements (or requirements as test cases). "Agile Requirements Engineering Practices: An Empirical Study," by Lan Cao and Balasubramaniam Ramesh, provides an analysis of agile requirements engineering approaches, all based on an iterative discovery approach and intense communication between developers and customers. A third free article, from IT Professional, gives an overview of agile software development.
I've also provided links to several other agile-themed articles from IEEE Software and Computer. This figure provides a guide to reading these articles.
Maurizio Morisio is an associate professor in the Department of Automation and Computer Science, Politecnico di Torino. He's IEEE Software's associate editor in chief for online initiatives. Contact him at maurizio dot morisio at polito dot it.
Tests and Requirements, Requirements and Tests: A Möbius StripBy Robert C. Martin and Grigori Melnik
From the January/February 2008 issue of IEEE Software
Surprisingly, to some people, one of the most effective ways of testing requirements is with test cases very much like those for testing the completed system. — Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
When Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg wrote this statement, they were asserting that writing tests is an effective way to test requirements' completeness and accuracy. They also suggest writing these tests when gathering, analyzing, and verifying requirements—long before those requirements are coded.
Agile Requirements Engineering Practices: An Empirical StudyBy Lan Cao and Balasubramaniam Ramesh
From the January/February 2008 issue of IEEE Software
The rapidly changing business environment in which most organizations operate is challenging traditional requirements-engineering (RE) approaches. Software development organizations often must deal with requirements that tend to evolve quickly and become obsolete even before project completion. Rapid changes in competitive threats, stakeholder preferences, development technology, and time-to-market pressures make prespecified requirements inappropriate.
Agile Software Development: Ad Hoc Practices or Sound Principles?By Lan Cao and Balasubramaniam Ramesh
From the March/April 2007 issue of IT Professional
Agile software development challenges traditional software development approaches. Rapidly changing environments characterized by evolving requirements and tight schedules require software developers to take an agile approach. Most software development organizations must deal with quickly evolving requirements that tend to become obsolete even before project completion. Constant changes in competitive threats, stakeholder preferences, and software development technology, as well as time-to-market pressures, severely challenge system development using traditional plan-based approaches.A group of agile methods that seeks to address this changing context has gained a lot of attention ("Get Ready for Agile Methods, with Care," B.Boehm, Computer, vol. 35, no. 1, 2002, pp. 64–69). These methods include practices such as short iterations, frequent releases, simple and emerging design, peer review, and on-site customer participation.
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Overview of Debug Standardization ActivitiesBy Bart Vermeulen, Rolf Kühnis, Jeff Rearick, Neal Stollon, and Gary Swoboda
From the May/June 2008 issue of IEEE Design & Test of Computers
Over the past decade, the semiconductor industry has seen a significant increase in the complexity of embedded systems. Multiple heterogeneous processor cores are now on a single die, together with hard-wired accelerators and dedicated or general-purpose I/O peripherals. The code size of the software that runs on these embedded processors is also increasing dramatically. As a consequence, a new combination of embedded hardware and software often must be debugged. Because of the many different components that make up an embedded system, debugging has become a multidisciplinary problem, requiring detailed knowledge of system hardware, embedded software, and debug equipment and tools. Each of these components requires its own expertise, making it vital that all components fit together seamlessly.
From the May–June 2008 issue of IEEE Micro
Continuing the long-term trend of increasing integration, the number of cores per chip is projected to increase with each successive technology generation. These chips yield increasingly powerful systems with reduced cost and improved efficiency. At the same time, general-purpose computing is moving off desktops and onto diverse devices such as cell phones, digital entertainment centers, and data-center servers. These computers must have the key features of today's general-purpose systems (high performance and programmability) while satisfying increasingly diverse and stringent cost, power, and real-time performance constraints.
Using VR for Human Development in AfricaBy Dave Lockwood and Erik Kruger
From the May/June 2008 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Most VR practitioners probably don't think of Africa as being at the forefront of technology innovation. Some might even regard Africa as an exotic holiday destination; to others, it's a continent characterized by poverty and hunger, to be avoided. Within this context, what role, if any, can VR play in human development in Africa?
Hand-Gesture Computing for the Hearing and Speech ImpairedBy Gaurav Pradhan, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, and Chuanjun Li
From the April–June 2008 issue of IEEE MultiMedia
Humans communicate with each other using speech, hand gestures, facial expressions, and sign language. It seems natural to use the same type of interactions when communicating with computers. This becomes all the more important for humans challenged with hearing and speech impairments. For example, several applications in education and entertainment—such as interactive learning modules, lecture presentations, and 3D games—have speech input-and-output capabilities. Speech- and hearing-impaired humans require real-time sign language gesture recognition and generation to use these applications.
The PlayStation 3 for High-Performance Scientific ComputingBy Jakub Kurzak, Alfredo Buttari, Piotr Luszczek, and Jack Dongarra
From the May/June 2008 issue of Computing in Science & Engineering
The heart of the Sony PlayStation 3—the Cell processor—wasn't originally intended for scientific number crunching, just as the PlayStation 3 itself wasn't meant primarily to serve such purposes. Yet, both these items could impact the high-performance computing world in significant ways. This introductory article takes a closer look at their potential to do so; an extended version of it is published as a University of Tennessee technical report.
From the May/June 2008 issue of IEEE Internet Computing
Have you ever worked on an integration project with a developer who possesses seemingly limitless knowledge, wisdom, and experience with the various systems and techniques required? We've all heard of — and might even know — individuals from various professions who are considered to be exceptional at what they do. Whether they're athletes, actors, mechanics, or software developers who focus on integration, such people all possess extensive vocabularies. Here, the term "vocabulary" refers not to spoken or written words, but more abstractly to the tools, tactics, and techniques pertinent to each profession. Top basketball players know multiple ways to help their teams with scoring, passing, and defense, and they can adapt their games as needed. Virtuoso musicians are skilled at multiple instruments, styles, and techniques. Seasoned integration developers tend to be knowledgeable in a variety of technical areas, not only because they're exposed to many technologies over time but also because they often face project pressures of getting disparate systems to work together.
From the Office Document Format BattlefieldBy Jirka Kosek
From the May/June 2008 issue of IT Professional
If you regularly use an office application suite, you might have noticed changes over the past few years in the default formats for saving documents. From the user perspective, this isn't all that important—at least until you have problems opening a document from another system—but those small changes to the file extensions of office documents actually represent substantial changes to the underlying document representations. These changes are the result of a big movement in the IT industry. Indeed, it's a movement that could have a very interesting impact on how we handle digital content.
Recent versions of office suites are using new XML-based formats. OpenOffice.org and GoogleDocs, for example, use the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft Office 2007 uses Office Open XML (OOXML). Both formats have now been accepted as international standards; this article outlines the history of the process that has left us with two functionally similar, but not fully compatible document formats.
From the May/June 2008 issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems
The field of computer science is in a struggle to define its core in a ubiquitous—computing world where pervasive computer use and end-user programming give us cause to question some basic assumptions of our paradigms. In AI, however, our intellectual challenges remain largely unchanged. The quest to understand intelligence, whether by cognitive emulation or engineering fiat, remains one of the true frontiers available to modern science. Despite increasingly powerful computers, robots' growing capabilities, and the development of new and better methods for combining information, the quest for intelligence continues to elude us. The need remains constant for creative leaders who will take us into new AI paradigms or find ways to innovate in those paradigms we're already exploring.
Camera Phones: A Snapshot of Research and ApplicationsBy Franklin Reynolds
From the April–June 2008 issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing
Once considered science fiction, mobile phones with digital cameras are now inexpensive, widely available, and very popular. Significantly more camera phones are sold each year than dedicated digital cameras. According to Strategy Analytics, it's likely that over one billion camera phones were sold last year (see http://ce.tekrati.com/research/9039/). Surprisingly, the tremendous popularity of camera phones has caused little controversy. A few companies and institutions have banned camera phones owing to security concerns, and there has been some abuse of personal privacy, but for the most part, there has been worldwide acceptance of this new technology.
Digital Rights Management and Individualized PricingBy Michael Lesk
From the May/June 2008 issue of IEEE Security & Privacy
Why do online music stores sell to each customer at the same price? Scholars such as Andrew Odlyzko and Wendy Seltzer have both commented on the possibility that digital rights management could enable price discrimination, selling to different customers at different prices. Yet, several years later, it still hasn't happened. Why not?
From the May 2008 issue of Computer
I rarely see these things coming. I am usually so focused on the moment that the first sign slips past me, like an energetic puppy dashing out the screen door. They usually occur at a reception of some sort that is meant to promote the fortunes of the institution that employs me. We are in a large room. Music is playing in the background. I am standing in a small circle of people, shaking hands, offering greetings, and saying how pleased I am that so many people have come this evening.
At some point, someone will lean into the circle and announce in a fairly pleasant way that they have a story to tell. As one who always appreciates a good story, I turn my attention to the speaker, forgetting that this is the first step down that road paved with good intentions.
Ultra Low-Cost PCs Redraw the OS WarsBy Greg Goth
From the June 2008 issue of IEEE Distributed Systems Online
The Single-Era Conjecture. That's the name San Jose State University professor and technology author Randall Stross has given Microsoft's thus-far thwarted attempts to buy Yahoo and the less-than-enthusiastic reception greeting its Vista operating system. In a recent New York Times column (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/technology/18digi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin), Stross explains the Single-Era Conjecture as "the invisible law that makes it impossible for a company in the computer business to enjoy pre-eminence that spans two technological eras."


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Facebook's Instagram Catches Hell From Users (Update2)
(Updated from 3:02 p.m. EST to add Instagram's expanded response in the sixth paragraph.)
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Facebook (FB), known for upsetting users with constant changes to its policies, has another headache to deal with.
Instagram, the photo-sharing site acquired by Facebook this year, plans to change its terms of service Jan. 16 and allow photos to be used in advertisements on Instagram and potentially on Facebook. The person who took the photos wouldn't receive compensation for what amounts to their property, while Instagram and Facebook would.
Instagram users are justifiably outraged, and some have deleted their accounts.Under the heading "Rights," Instagram's new privacy policy says: "To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you." Instagram, in response, tweeted: "We've heard you that the updates to our Privacy Policy & Terms of Service are raising a lot of questions. We'll have more to share very soon." The company posted an update on its blog, saying that the changes are being misinterpreted, and is working on updating the language to make sure it is clear. Instagram also noted that its users own the photos, not Instagram itself. "I always want you to feel comfortable sharing your photos on Instagram and we will always work hard to foster and respect our community and go out of our way to support its rights," wrote Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram. Many are up in arms over the terms of service change, as privacy on the web enters a different dimension. I did an informal poll on Facebook and Twitter regarding the privacy changes, and 75% of those surveyed on Twitter said they would delete their accounts, had already done so or would do so if the terms weren't changed back. The results on TheStreet's Facebook page showed a similar result. Celebrities have already taken to voicing their displeasure. Tiffani Amber Thiessen of Saved By the Bell fame tweeted she'll be deleting her account. "Really sad to have to end my luv 4 @instagram. Will be deleting my account due 2 their ridiculous new terms," Thiessen wrote. Other companies may benefit, including Yahoo's (YHOO) Flickr, which recently went through a significant update and redesign. Interested in more on Facebook? See TheStreet Ratings' report card for this stock. -- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Commodity_Bull
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The bright rose-petal pink color is the enticement to enjoy this fresh and fruity, dry Rosé. Summer strawberry, cherry and citrus blossom aromas and flavors create a generous fruit nose and palate with a refreshing lift.
The 2013 vintage will be remembered for its very low rainfall and a warm early spring. The summer was warm but not too hot and September and October brought near perfect harvest weather. Harvest was on schedule to be very early but cool August nights lengthened the ripening and harvest began on August 15th, about 10 days earlier than normal. The pace of harvest was steady with virtually no break between early and late varieties. Two brief mid September rains had no serious impact and winemakers were delighted by the quality and quantity of the grapes. Robert Mondavi Winery Vineyard Manager, Matt Ashby remarked that 2013 had "great weather and good yields."


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Kansas City Question 1: Tax Levy Renewal (April 2013)
A Kansas City Question 1: Tax Levy Renewal question was overwhelmingly approved on the April 2, 2013 election ballot in Cass, Platte and Clay Counties, which are in Missouri.
This measure authorized Kansas City to renew a property tax levy of 2.2 mills ($2.2 per $1,000 of assessed valuation) for nine years in order to fund different health and emergency medical services in the city.[1]This tax currently yields $15 million per year in revenue.[2]
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|Shall the City of Kansas City, Missouri be authorized to renew the current tax levy of 22 cents per $100.00 assessed valuation dedicated to ambulance services, emergency medical services, hospital and public health purposes for a period of nine years with the additional revenues to continue to be distributed as follows: the revenue derived from 3 1/2 cents of the levy to ambulance services, the revenue derived from 3 1/2 cents of the levy to non-for-profit neighborhood health centers, and the revenue derived from 15 cents of the levy to Truman Medical Center?
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Kass: Change Is What We Need
This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver on Aug. 8 at 8:59 a.m. EDT.
World leaders face a choice of truly historic proportions. They can follow one of two paths. The first path would require them to finally admit their prior policy errors and embark upon comprehensive reform of all of the fiscal policies that affect the economy -- energy, education, tax, business regulation, technology and science policy and industrial policy -- in order to give their economies a chance to grow through productive investments. (By the way, these investments and policies would also have the side benefit of improving the quality of human life.) This path would also require central bank discipline on the long-lost Paul Volcker model. Or they can stay on their current path and continue to monetize their debts in the hope that future generations will be able to repay them with deflated currencies and the markets won't abandon them. The choice is clear. The question is whether leaders will have the courage to make the right one, and their citizens the fortitude to stand behind them.There is nothing revelatory in the Standard & Poor's downgrade, which puts us in a tie with Belgium, as it is largely symbolic. The downgrade reflects known facts. There is plenty to be critical of, however, in the manner and composition of S&P's decision, and I suspect that will be the subject of a lot of commentary in the week ahead.
-- Michael Lewitt, El Mundo (Aug. 8, 2011)
The optimistic view is that we will see renewed leadership under the current period of crisis. Rather than being seen as a continuing political football of partisanship, the S&P downgrade (when coupled with the stock market swoon) could become a catalyst for change -- a clarion and wake-up call for both parties to address our country's fiscal imbalances. (This subject was a prime topic on The Edge last week.) Indeed, investors could grow more constructive that a November select committee meeting of Republicans and Democrats will now be galvanized into finding another $1.5 trillion in new deficit reductions, providing the opportunity for a "grand bargain" by finally addressing tax reform, Medicare, Medicade and Social Security (importantly in an up-or-down vote.)There are other reasons why there may not be a sustained risk-off reaction:
- S&P's downgrade move was previously telegraphed. Most market participants expected the move in light of earlier warnings by S&P and the disappointingly modest size of the deficit reduction that was the outgrowth of last Monday's budget compromise.
- Other ratings agencies are staying put. Moody's and Fitch have maintained their AAA rating for the U.S.
- Risk weightings are unchanged. The move will not affect the risk-weighting of Treasury assets held by banks.
- Banks have ample liquidity. Our financial institutions can readily absorb any short-term funding disruptions.
- Sentiment is already poor. Investor expectations are already low.
- Investors are on the defensive. Hedge funds are sitting on their hands, and, as I have observed, so are individual investors -- and both classes of market participants have de-risked, so margin calls are not really coming into play.
- A precedent had been set. History shows (e.g., Japan) that an S&P downgrade has a negligible impact on the economy and markets.
- S&P has lost some of its influence and much of its credibility. A $2 trillion mathematical miscue , the political spin associated with the downgrade and the change in the assumption regarding the Bush-era tax cuts further strain and undermine the ratings agency's move.
- S&P's move was discounted. Just as the debt ceiling compromise last Monday was obviously already priced into the US stock market (as the market failed to rally) - so is it possible that much of the US debt downgrade has already been incorporated in share prices (and might not decline much further).
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The 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination on CBS News won't include the recollections of its longtime anchor Dan Rather, further proof of the lingering bitterness following Rather's messy exit and subsequent lawsuit against the network.
Rather helped organize CBS' plans for President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on AXS-TV, he's one of the few reporters on the story that day who's still active in journalism.
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Rapid City, SD—U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) today spoke about the legacy of the late Judge Andrew Bogue during a ceremony naming the Rapid City federal building in his honor. Johnson introduced legislation in the Senate to designate the building the ''Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and United States Courthouse.''
"This is a fitting tribute to a man who served our nation in World War II and Korea before being named to the bench and becoming one of the greatest legal minds in our state," said Johnson. "I knew Judge Bogue for many years, and I'm honored to be on hand as the Rapid City federal building is named in his memory."
Bogue was a native of Yankton and alum of State College in Brookings and the University of South Dakota Law School. He was appointed to be a judge in United States District Court for the State of South Dakota in 1970 by President Richard Nixon and served until he passed away in 2009 at the age of 90.
In 2010, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Johnson's legislation to name the federal building located at 515 9th Street in Rapid City after late federal court judge.
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Today's ceremony was part of a series of events Johnson is holding across South Dakota during the Congressional District Work Period. Johnson has already visited many communities, including Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Howard, Pierre, Ft. Pierre, Huron and Cheyenne River. He will continue traveling across the state throughout the work period.
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Getting Drunk In Diapers
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Posted 25 April 2010 - 01:41 PM
I got drunk with a girl not long ago and she kept having to get up. In my head I was thinking, "if only you were in diapers..."
what a dream that would be.
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Posted 25 April 2010 - 04:47 PM
Frances was almost 19. She started drinking from the moment we reached the party. What ended the party for me was that our dorm floor RA came to tell me Frances was very drunk to the point she had wet herself. Helping her stumble the couple of blocks to our dorm I had to stop and hold her hair while she puked on the curb.
It was all I could do to help Frances to bed. Since mine had a waterproof sheet I put her there. I took off her shoes and jeans. As I was remaking her bed with my spare waterproof sheet I could tell Frances was wetting again. Somehow I managed to get her soaked panties off and replace those with an Attends.
She slept late and woke up with a killer hangover. What surprised me was that she was not shocked to find she was wearing a wet diaper. After a couple of cups of strong coffee, Frances managed to get up. She removed her diaper and went down the hall to take a shower. Then we talked. Frances had volunteered to share with me because of her own bedwetting problems. Back during her junior year of high school she had been suspended a week for drinking at a dance. Her mother, an actual alcoholic, let Frances drink as much as she wanted, but would diaper her for bed when Frances was drunk.
For the next 4 years Frances and I lived together. She bought well over half the Attends we needed although she did not wear one every night. After that first kegger we both always went to parties diapered. I lost track of how often Frances soaked her Attends while drinking. That must have happened 4 or more times a month.
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Posted 25 April 2010 - 05:10 PM
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become old. Why rush to end life when happiness is in the blissfulness of childhood innocence."
"We all die, the goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Tom Stoppard
Posted 25 April 2010 - 05:20 PM
being tired has almost the same effect on me as being drunk
Posted 25 April 2010 - 06:37 PM
love the story angela wish i could be as open with my diapers as you are or the experiences .Very cool don is a lucky guy take care and hugs !!!
Thank you, Adorable Aleyxsis!
You can be sure I will remind Daddy Don he is so lucky to have met me! Still, I do have my moments. If in doubt, read my topic about Reckoning Day from last Sunday! I admit I deserved that spanking.
Back when Frances and I were still in pre-law she invited me to her parents' home many times. Her mother told me that in middle and high school Frances volunteered at a pre-school and at a pediatric clinic. Frances also was part of a peer group hosted by her urologist. That was similar to a support group my family joined.
Frances went to a different law school. We are still good friends and participated in each others weddings. While in law school both Frances and I were fairly active in The Simon Foundation, but she stopped being so open about incontinence while she was taking her bar exams. She knows about my use of AB to cope, but has not done so herself.
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Posted 25 April 2010 - 11:20 PM
Meaning if I'm drunk and there is a wall nearby, I will do everything in my power to hug that wall with my life.
I've done all sorts of things drunk.
Nothing involving diapers though. I feel my diapers are my business, and being drunk doesn't lessen that belief.
Sure, I could like expose myself and show people the insides of my used diapers, but why?? I wouldn't get anything out of it.
So I can;t say I've done anything wild in diapers.
I did pass out in the middle of the road once.
Posted 25 April 2010 - 11:41 PM
i like to make people laugh.
i've never said anything drunk or done anything drunk i regretted the next day.
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Posted 26 April 2010 - 04:28 AM
Posted 26 April 2010 - 07:35 PM
I always remember the next day what I did or said the night before and have never felt inclined to purposely out myself or be anything of an exhibitionist where the diapers are concerned.
Posted 27 April 2010 - 01:37 AM
Shortly after that I passed out, but according to my b/f he cleaned up and carried me out to the car (he had not been drinking at all) and drove me home. Somewhere in there I completely wet myself (was not wearing a diaper), and threw up a few more times.
I woke up the next morning completely clean (he had giving me a bath.. which I remember nothing of) and diapered in 2 Bambinos... which were wet.
I seriously thought he was going to dump me on the spot.. instead he called my job and told them I was sick, made me coffee, changed my diaper, and snuggled me all morning.
I suppose this story started as a "well I wish I was wearing a diaper" but it kind of turned into me bragging about my
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 01:08 PM
Ever get drunk in diapers with a girl? What was it like?
I got drunk with a girl not long ago and she kept having to get up. In my head I was thinking, "if only you were in diapers..."
what a dream that would be.
If you only had a brain...
Posted 27 April 2010 - 02:48 PM
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Oak Park Leisure Centre
Swimming pool timetable
- Oak Park Autumn Term Pool Programme from 1st September 2014(excel)
- Oak Park Autumn Term Pool Programme from 1st September 2014 (pdf)
- Oak Park Christmas 2014 Pool Programme
- Oak Park Winter Term Pool Programme from 5 January 2015 (excel)
- Oak Park Winter Term Pool Programme from 5 January 2015 (pdf)
Oak Park Leisure Centre
Oak Park Leisure Centre is our busiest centre, offering a full range of both indoor and outdoor sports. The building is accessible to wheelchair users with toilets suitable for people in wheelchairs. The pool is accessible, please ask for assistance with the hoist.
We offer a wide range of activities and facilities including:
- Mint Condition
- Fitzone children's gym
- Atlantis lessons
- Adult swimming lessons
- Pool parties
- Activities programme
- Synthetic all weather pitch
- Outdoor bowling green
- Sports pitches
- Badminton hall
- Sports halls x 2
- Squash courts
- Vending area
Swimming offers
As part of the BBC and the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) Big Splash, Swimming Offers is an online marketing campaign to encourage more people to swim more often, swimmingoffers.org is a website which has been launched to enable you to locate your nearest pool and provide you with a choice of discounted swimming offers.
Visit www.swimmingoffers.org to download a voucher, go for a swim and enjoy the great savings whether you want to get fit, loose weight or just want to have fun with family and friends.
Sport 4 All Holiday Camps
- Fun packed sports based holiday camps for children aged 8-14 years old at Oak Park Leisure Centre and Bloxwich Leisure Centres.
Our provision for disability at centre:
- Disabled access
- Disabled changing facilities
- Disabled toilets
- Disabled hoist
- Disabled parking
- Introduction loop
Swimming pool programmes and prices
Please note: Administration services end up to one hour before stated closing times
Centre opening hours
Please view the pool programme for swimming session times
- Monday to Friday: 8am - 10pm
- Saturday: 8am - 6pm
- Sunday: 8am - 7pm
- View Mint Condition opening hours
Contact us
Centre Manager
Lichfield Road
Walsall Wood
Telephone 01543 452849
Fax 01543 452848
This page was last updated on 09 December 2014


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One would think that if a bunch of FBI operatives were to devise a plan to cheat on a key intelligence exam, they might be a little more creative and a lot less obvious about it than the group of agents who recently drew attention to themselves with their middle-school tactics during a round of required testing. —KA
The Office of the Inspector General was called in to investigate after 200 workers passed the test in under 20 minutes.
After interviewing staff in a number of field offices, investigators found people taking the exam had conferred, and that direct cheating had been employed.
In one field office, staff had exploited a lack of computer security to call up the answers to the test.
In another office, of 11 workers interviewed, three supervisors and four agents said they had used answer sheets for the exam. Some tried to justify the usage on the basis that these were "notes".
They also found that tutors were "training to the test", indicating which part of lessons would be on the exam by stamping their feet loudly during the relevant sections.
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New Emergency Training Center at NWACC Trains Health Pros
by Chris Bahn
Posted 1/28/2013 12:00 am
Omar Carrillo has seen the work EMS crews do through his job as a firefighter in Rogers. He understands the demands placed on first responders and knows nothing can replace on-the-job-training when dealing with emergencies.
Northwest Arkansas Community College is getting closer to replicating the experience, however. Among the features of the Bentonville college's new $14.2 million Center for Health Professions building is lab space set up to simulate being in the back of an ambulance. It's valuable experience for students like Carrillo.
"It's not completely realistic, but this is one step closer right here. The closer you can get to realistic training, the better off you are," said the 24-year-old Carrillo, who is seeking certification through the paramedic program at NWACC. "It's pretty impressive."
NWACC officials think there is much to like about the 83,000-SF center, which opened this semester. Not only is there an ambulance simulator, the three-story facility is home to 11 labs, including an emergency room and intensive care unit.
Washington Regional Medical Center of Fayetteville donated $250,000 to help with the cost of a nursing simulation lab. Nursing students can practice on mannequins that offer 100 different scenarios they might face when treating a real patient.
Steve Percival, vice president of human resources at Washington Regional, said NWACC has produced quality health care workers but should improve training due to the new center. He likened the lab experience to future pilots learning from a flight simulator.
"The more realistic you can make the learning experience, the less of the knowledge gap you'll have when it comes to walking into a patient room," Percival said. "You don't learn how to fly from a book. Who would fly with a pilot whose only experience is reading? This really is no different."
Training for students in nursing, respiratory therapy, physical therapist assistant, paramedic, emergency medical technician, fire science, certified nurse assistant and patient care assistant programs is much more realistic. And students are able to work in a collaborative work environment.
For example, first responders in training can work with paramedic and EMT students, like Carrillo, on how they might handle a simulated crash. They'll then practice how they would handle the transfer of a patient to the hospital where nursing students are on hand to care for the victim.
"It will better prepare our students for the world they'll see when they leave Northwest Arkansas Community College," Mary Ross, dean of health professions at NWACC, said. "They'll know what it's like to work as part of a team. There are a multitude of situations we can put our students in through the simulations. We can make sure the first encounter they have with an ICU setting or the scene of an accident is not with a real patient."
Another benefit of the new center is it offers the ability to grow health professions at NWACC. When construction began two years ago 1,100 students were enrolled in courses related to health care. Today that number has grown to 1,600.
Crafton Tull of Oklahoma City designed the building and Nabholz Construction Services of Conway built it. An unfinished part of the building leaves room to grow, Ross said. The school is evaluating new programs and courses to offer as it works toward 2,000 students, he said.
Ross said NWACC's physical therapy assistant program has for the last 13 years produced a 100 percent pass rate for students seeking certification in that area. Now the center provides room to expand that program beyond the 14 students currently enrolled.
"We want to provide the community with a health care worker that is in demand, regardless of what the demand is," Ross said. "We have the programs we do now because those were the needs in the community. If those dynamics change, we want to be positioned so that we can rapidly respond to the needs of the community."
NWACC President Becky Paneitz, who plans to retire at the end of June, told those gathered for a Jan. 18 grand opening ceremony that an estimated 95 percent of program students remain in northwest Arkansas after graduation.
That should be good news for the future of health care in the area. With five hospitals in Benton and Washington counties, there are jobs to fill.
"We are thrilled at the many opportunities this new center will provide our current students and generations of students to come," Paneitz said. "Ultimately, the new center will enhance our ability to educate and prepare those seeking a career in the health professions. That's a positive development for our students and for the patients who will be served by these well-trained professionals. Ultimately, it's good for our whole community."


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Laughter Yoga With Beautiful Kook Dr. Kataria
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When Indian physician Dr. Madan Kataria learned that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter, he developed (and has since crusaded the spread of) Laughter Yoga, a "life changing experience [that] combines laughter exercises with yoga breathing which brings more oxygen to the body and brain making one feel more energetic and healthy."
Whether or not you think it's a crock is no matter. Dr. Kataria -- the most literal "Dr. Feelgood" we've ever seen -- is merely trying to spread some laughter, and has thankfully taken to our blessed YouTubes to demonstrate several "laughter techniques" exercised within the practice of Laughter Yoga.
...In front of a green screen. Interspersed with footage of his clients. With "laughter" misspelled repeatedly. YES.
We may have no idea what these videos "are," per se, but one thing's for sure: We. Love. This. Man.
- "Bird" Laughter
in which you flap your wings "like a chicken"
- "No Money" Laughter
in which you are flat-ass broke
- "Royalty" Laughter
in which you are a princess
- "Mental Floss" Laughter
in which your "floss your mind" (WHATTTT???)
- "Appreciation" Laughter
in which you do "The Fonz"
- "Mobile Phone" Laughter
in which you pretend to be told a joke...on your phone (why?)
- "Forgiveness" Laughter (or "The Ear Tug")
in which you tug your earlobes, all Asperger's-y
- "Motorbike" Laughter
in which you start a bike or lawn mower
- "Laughter Cream" Laughter
in which you apply moisturizer
- "Crying" Laughter
in which you are happy and sad
- "Lion" Laughter
in which you are a crazy, crazy lion
- "Naughty-Naughty" Laughter
in which you wag your finger
- "Hot Soup" Laughter
in which you burn your tongue
- "Credit Card Bill" Laughter
in which you overspend, and it's funny
- "Laugher Center (In Your Brain)" Laughter
in which you "tickle your brain" (again, WHATTTT?)
- "Milkshake" Laughter
in which you drink your milkshake
- "Laughter For No Reason" Laughter (self-explanatory)
- "Calcutta" Laughter
(...we won't even try)
- link:// Laughter Yoga on YouTube
- link:// Laughter Yoga (official site)
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That's amazing videos!! I do yoga daily. Yoga is the best way to reduce health problems. It creates an inner peace and keep away negative emotions like anger and anxiety. It works miraculously but I never did laughter yoga, I would love to give it a try.
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Effects of emotional & verbal abuse
Robin T. is typical of many people who find themselves on the receiving end of abuse - capable, self-assured and vulnerable to being blindsided.
Robin considers herself an easy-going woman, but she says she became "a nervous wreck" working as a secretary in a small office in upstate New York and turned to antidepressants for relief.
"I had an eye twitch, my eating habits became very poor, my sleeping was terrible. I had very severe asthmatic episodes. A lot of it was stress. By the time I got home, I was wound tighter than a drum, I just wanted to be left alone."
Her boss, she says, was condescending and cruel... His cruelty had long-term consequences for Robin. "I got to a point where I started to question my ability", she says. "Intellectually, you know not to let it make you feel bad, but you start to believe it. I felt humiliated. I was angry at myself: 'What have you done with your life that you're working for a person like this?'.."
For two years, Rosemary C. withstood her boss's insulting behavior. Now he was screamimg at her again, blowing up when he pointed out work he hadn't acknowledged she had done. That, she recalls, set him off like never before.
"Let me tell you something", he raged. He stood close to Rosemary and pointed his finger in her face. "I'm the boss around here".
"I finally blew up, because I'd held it in for two years", Rosemay says, still shaken a year later. "I said: 'Who do you think you are talking to in that tone of voice? Don't you ever raise your finger in my face again. I'm not an animal in the street. You will talk to me with respect, or don't talk to me at all".
"...I realized I should never allow anyone to speak to me in a disrespectful way. When you're down and out, you don't see that."
Abbe, a 50-year-old radiology technician, developped headaches, backaches and nausea as a result of being bullied by her co-workers, a phenomenon known as "mobbing".
Abbe's colleagues accused her of being lazy and refused to help her when she asked for assistance... When Abbe appealed to her boss, she says, he told her to "stop causing trouble".
She became so anxious and depressed that she required medication. "I was constantly seeing the doctor about psychological symptoms and the psychologist about mental health problems", she says... "I felt paralyzed, almost out of control, like everything was coming at me and I didn't know how to defend myself. I lost all interest in doing things that I generally enjoyed... I had no ability to clean or keep after things. I was becoming forgetful. I had no ambition."
Source: NY Daily News, April 5 2004
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US House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leaders requested a meeting with US Sec. of Energy Ernest J. Moniz and other appropriate officials concerning management of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve as the summer driving season approaches.
US Energy Information Administration data show the US has stockpiled more US-produced crude oil than at any time since the Great Depression from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in tight oil formations, Committee Chairman Fred Upton (Mich.) and five other members of the majority said in a May 12 letter to Moniz.
DOE's Mar. 12 announcement that it would draw down and sell 5 million bbl of SPR crude over 30 days marked the first time this authority under the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act has been used, the lawmakers noted. The department's May 2 announcement that it would create the first federal regional gasoline reserves (OGJ Online, May 5, 2014) also was a departure from current SPR use, they added.
They said DOE's fiscal 2015 budget request of $205 million for the reserve addresses "several major, yet deferred, maintenance activities."
These included oil degasification operations; restoration of SPR's maximum drawdown capability (which had declined from a designed 4.4 million b/d designed rate to 4.25 million b/d at the time the proposed budget was released); and "efforts to reverse diminished cavern capacity due to cavern creep, a geological force that causes caverns to close overtime, thereby decreasing space to store oil," the letter said.
They asked that DOE officials from its Fossil Energy Office, SPR Project Management Office, and management and operations contractor staff meet with the House committee's staff by May 27 to discuss the test sale, creation of the Northeastern regional gasoline reserves, projected life cycle of SPR sites and infrastructure, and DOE's assessment of the reserve's current fuel mix and whether existing drawdown guidelines are appropriate.
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (Pa.) and Vice-Chairman Michael C. Burgess (Tex.), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (Ky.), Committee Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (Tex.), and Committee Vice-Chairman Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) signed the letter in addition to Upton.
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"Population must increase rapidly, more rapidly than in former times, and ere
long the most
valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.
No community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms."
President Abraham Lincoln
Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - September 30, 1859
Here is an excellent link of places to buy vermiculite, sorted
by location: Where
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This is a very good on-line calculator to help one determine how much soil is needed to fill a raised bed. Just input the dimensions of your raised bed and it calculates the amount of soil amendments needed to fill the bed: Soil Calculator from Gardener's Supply Company
One of the questions gardeners always seem to have is when is the right time to start their plants. This is mostly determined by their last frost free date in the spring or their first frost date in the fall. It is important to know this as it determines when you should plant or start seeds of your favorite vegetables. Most seed packets will list the best time to either start seeds indoors or when to plant them out into the garden based on these dates. Getting accurate frost free dates from the Internet is somewhat problematic. I did a quick search and found nearly as much inaccurate as accurate information. Here are two excellent sources of good frost free dates for the U.S. The simplest one to use is from the Victory Seed Company, found here: Frost Date Selector Page – Victory Seed Company you first select your state, then your nearest city. This should work fine for most gardeners. There is also another good source from the National Climate Data Center (NOAA) for those who want a little more in-depth information. The PDF can be viewed and downloaded from here: Frost/Freeze Data for the U.S.
Using this source one can find the date and probability levels of the last 36, 32, and 28 degrees for a particular city based on climatological data from 1971-2000. To be very conservative, I would recommend that the 36 degree threshold be used (frost can still form at the surface even with temperatures above 32 degrees) along with the 50 % probability level. As an added margin of safety I would add 7 days to this date. As an example in Indiana at the "INDIANAPOLIS INTL AP" location the date of the last 36 degree day with a 50 % probability is April 29th. Adding 7 days to this gives you May 6th. In my experience, this date seems about right to me for in Central Indiana. To be extra safe, one can also use the 10% probability date without adding any days. For fall gardening I would use the first frost date (also using the 36 degree threshold with the 50% probability date), but I would not add any days to this date because most frost tolerant fall grown plants are almost fully mature by then and can withstand most frosts and light freezes.
Here are a few of my recommended "Can't Miss" vegetable varieties:
Broccoli: Packman
Cabbage: Golden Acre
Cauliflower: Snow Crown (better in Fall)
Cucumber: Diva
Green Bean, Bush: Derby
Lettuce: Sierra (hard to find), Green Towers, Green Ice (better in spring), Salad Bowl (better in spring), Nevada, Buttercrunch (better in spring/early summer)
Onion: Candy (recommend buying transplants and getting them in the ground in very early spring)
Shelling Pea: Mr. Big (spring only)
Sweet Pepper: Sweet Banana
Hot Pepper: Super Chili, Hungarian Wax (Hot Banana)
Potato: Yukon Gold
No!!! Do not use any type of pressure treated wood or creosote railroad ties for your vegetable garden raised beds. They will leach out chemicals into the soil. Raised beds can be constructed using ordinary pine or rot resistant wood such as cedar. Ordinary pine is a good inexpensive wood to use, but will not last as long as other rot resistant kinds. Raised beds can also be constructed with bricks, concrete blocks, or composite plastic lumber. Prefabricated raised bed kits are also available for purchase from many garden supply companies. My personal preference is to use inexpensive pine boards, which will rot and last no more than 4 to 5 years.
There is no "easy" way to do this. Perennial
grass growing
in raised beds should be dug/pulled up from the roots. I found the best
time to do this is in the early spring just before planting time. I mostly
use a hand trowel for this job. If you do a good enough job of removing
the grass in the spring, you should not have a big problem with grass the rest
of the growing season. Other weeds in the beds should be removed by hand
as they come up. Five or ten minutes a day pulling weeds will a go a long
way to a generally weed free garden. Mulching your beds after planting
will also help keep weeds in check.
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